We would like to thank you once again for your participation in the EUPOP 2013 conference! See you next year!
In the picture (from the left to the right): Jo Pickering, James Campbell, Chris Baumann, Erkki Huhtamo, Pamela Church-Gibson, and Debbie Ging.
There have been some changes in the session programme due to cancellations. You can see the updated programme here.
The city reception on Wednesday, July 31 has been cancelled and replaced by an Intellect book launch Frontiers of Screen History: Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945–2010 at Sirkkala Campus at 17.30.
The registration starts at PharmaCity on Wednesday morning at 10 AM and then moves to Janus lounge at Sirkkala Campus at 2 PM. Please find more information about the conference venue here.
For the information on the conference venue(s), the program that will be taking place there, how to find your way to it, and, more generally, how to get around Turku, please click here.
Programme for EUPOP 2013 has now been published.
Please note that the deadline for the registration is on Monday, July 15, 2013. Fill in the registration form here.
The onsite conference registration opens on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at 10 AM.
Please note that the deadline for the early bird registration fee payment is on Saturday, June 15, 2013. We strongly encourage you to take advantage of it.
For more information, please click here.
We are pleased to announce that 103 abstract proposals have been received in total for the upcoming EUPOP conference. The letters of approval will be sent to each successful applicant separately during the week, starting on May 6th, 2013.
Call for Papers for EUPOP 2013, the PCA Europe annual conference, University of Turku, July 31 – August 2, 2013
Extended Deadline: Monday, April 15th, 2013
Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the second annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), organised by the Popular Culture Association Finland (PCA-Finland) and International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC).
EUPOP 2013 will explore European popular culture in all its various forms. This could include European Film (past and present), Television, Music, Celebrity, The Body, Fashion, New Media, Comics, Popular Literature, Sport, Heritage, and Curation. The special streams will include themes such as Sport, Obesity, Violence, Spirituality, Technology, and Transatlantic Cultural Interaction in the popular culture context.
The extended date for this call is April 15th, 2013. There will be opportunities for networking, publishing, and developing caucus groups within the EPCA. Presenters at EUPOP 2013 will be encouraged to develop their papers for publication in a number of Intellect journals, including the EPCA’s Journal of European Popular Culture. Journal editors will be working closely with strand convenors – a full list of Intellect journals is available at: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/index/.
Papers and Complete Panels for all strands will be subject to peer review. Proposals for individual presentations must not exceed 20 minutes in length, and those for panels – not more than 90 minutes. In the latter case, please provide a short description of the panel along with individual abstracts. Poster presentations and video projections are also warmly welcomed.
Proposals comprising a 300 word abstract, your full name, affiliation, and contact details (as a Word-file attachment, not a PDF) should be submitted to Kari Kallioniemi (eupop2013@gmail.com; the same address is available for general administrative queries) until March 29, 2013. Receipt of proposals will be acknowledged via e-mail.
The conference draft program will be announced at the end of April, 2013, along with the conference registration details.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Russell Reising (Department of English Language and Literature, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA), Professor Erkki Huhtamo (Design Media Arts, UCLA, USA) and Dr. Eva Kingsepp (Stockholm University, Sweden).
NB: Those attending the PCA/ACA 2013 International Conference in Warsaw, please note that there are direct flights from Gdansk, Poland, to Turku: http://wizzair.com/en-GB/Search
The European Popular Culture Association
The European Popular Culture Association (EPCA) promotes the study of popular culture from, in, and about Europe. Popular culture involves a wide range of activities, material forms and audiences. EPCA aims to examine and discuss these different aspects as they relate both to Europe and to Europeans across the globe, whether contemporary or historical.
Kind Regards,
EPCA President, Pamela Church Gibson, p.church-gibson@fashion.arts.ac.uk
Director of Research & Exchange, Graeme Harper, graeme@eupop.org
PCA-Finland Director, Adjunct Professor Kari Kallioniemi, kakallio@utu.fi
IIPC Director, Professor John Richardson, john.richardson@utu.fi
IIPC Coordinator, Kimi Kärki, kierka@utu.fi
Call for Papers for EUPOP 2013, the PCA Europe annual conference, University of Turku, July 31-August 2, 2013.
Call for papers
Deadline: Friday, March 29th, 2013
Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the second annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), organised by the Popular Culture Association Finland (PCA-Finland) and International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC).
EUPOP 2013 will explore European popular culture in all its various forms. This could include European Film (past and present), Television, Music, Celebrity, The Body, Fashion, New Media, Comics, Popular Literature, Sport, Heritage, and Curation. The special streams will include themes such as Sport, Obesity, Violence, Spirituality, Technology, and Transatlantic Cultural Interaction in the popular culture context.
The closing date for this call is March 29th, 2013. There will be opportunities for networking, publishing, and developing caucus groups within the EPCA. Presenters at EUPOP 2013 will be encouraged to develop their papers for publication in a number of Intellect journals, including the EPCA’s Journal of European Popular Culture. Journal editors will be working closely with strand convenors – a full list of Intellect journals is available at: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/index/.
Papers and Complete Panels for all strands will be subject to peer review. Proposals for individual presentations must not exceed 20 minutes in length, and those for panels – not more than 90 minutes. In the latter case, please provide a short description of the panel along with individual abstracts. Poster presentations and video projections are also warmly welcomed.
Proposals comprising a 300 word abstract, your full name, affiliation, and contact details (as a Word-file attachment, not a PDF) should be submitted to Kari Kallioniemi (eupop2013@gmail.com; the same address is available for general administrative queries) until March 29, 2013. Receipt of proposals will be acknowledged via e-mail.
The conference draft program will be announced at the end of April, 2013, along with the conference registration details.
The first confirmed keynote speakers are: Professor Russell Reising (Department of English Language and Literature, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA) and Professor Erkki Huhtamo (Design Media Arts, UCLA, USA).
NB: Those attending the PCA/ACA 2013 International Conference in Warsaw, please note that there are direct flights from Gdansk, Poland, to Turku: http://wizzair.com/en-GB/Search.
The European Popular Culture Association
The European Popular Culture Association (EPCA) promotes the study of popular culture from, in, and about Europe. Popular culture involves a wide range of activities, material forms and audiences. EPCA aims to examine and discuss these different aspects as they relate to both Europe and Europeans across the globe, whether contemporary or historical.
Kind Regards,
EPCA President, Pamela Church Gibson, p.church-gibson@fashion.arts.ac.uk
Director of Research & Exchange, Graeme Harper, graeme@eupop.org
PCA-Finland Director, Adjunct Professor Kari Kallioniemi, kakallio@utu.fi
IIPC Director, Professor John Richardson, john.richardson@utu.fi
IIPC Coordinator, Kimi Kärki, kierka@utu.fi
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