CfP: Queer Pop Culture at PopCAANZ, Sydney, Australia

The First Annual Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)
will be held June 30, July 1, 2 at the VIBE Hotel in Sydney, Australia.

This interdisciplinary and transnational conference is accepting proposals on ALL
aspects of popular culture. We are seeking a strong representative presence for the
study of Queer Popular Culture at this conference. Graphic novels, comics, popular
romance, television, film and internet are only some aspects of the study of queer
popular culture.Creative work is also accepted. Proposals for panels are welcome.

We will also be holding a postgraduate poster evening. All postgrads and undergrads
(provided they are working with the guidance of a trained scholar) interested in
presenting their would-be or current research are invited to submit an abstract. Please
mark your submissions: Poster Session.

Abstracts (300 words max.) should be sent as e-mail attachments to  s.habib ATuws.edu.au 
The deadline for submissions is 30th December, 2009. Please include your name,
affiliation, mailing and e-mail address, and the title of your presentation. E-mails
should be entitled: PopCanz Conference. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within
one week, please resend your submission. Accepted presenters will be notified via e-mail
in January 2010.

A selection of papers from the conference will be solicited for publication.

Additional information is available on the PopCanz blogsite: http://popcanz.blogspot.com/

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