CFP - Girls’ Studies/Girls’ Culture
CFP: Girls’ Studies/Girls’ Culture
Deadline: April 30, 2017
The Girls’ Studies/Girls’ Cultures Area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites proposals for the 2017 MPCA/ACA conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency in St. Louis, MO, October 18-22.
We seek proposals for papers and presentations from graduate students, academics, educators, and activists on girls, girlhoods, girls’ cultures, and the media.
Suggested topics include:
- media representations of girls, girlhood, girls’ cultures
- girls as media producers, consumers, and critics
- girls, politics and activism
- girls’ organizations
- girls and work
- girls, play, and princess cultures
- transgender girlhood
- dolls, toys, games
- fashion and cosmetics
- girls, friends, and bullies
- girls, feelings and fantasies
- girlhood, mental illness, and the media
- girlhood, education, and vocational training
- policing girls and girlhood
- girls, music, dance, and the arts
- girls, disabilities, and the body
- shifting definitions of girlhood
- girls, social media, and digital practices
- girls, traditional, digital, and media literacy
- girls, media, and cultural work
- girls, moral panics, and the media
- girls and STEM
- girls and discourses
- rural girls and media
- girls, religion, and popular culture
- girls, intersectionality, and media
- girls and popular culture methodologies
- girls, popular culture, and pedagogy
- girls’ identities and popular culture
Please submit (300-word) abstracts for single papers or full panels (3 to 4 papers max) here: http://submissions.mpcaaca.org by April 30, 2017.
More info about the conference is available here: http://mpcaaca.org/
For questions and queries about the Girls’ Studies/Girls’ Culture Area, please contact Miriam Forman-Brunell: Forman-BrunellM@umkc.edu