CFP: Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference (Chaminade University of Honolulu, Hawaii, May 23-24, 2014)

We are pleased to invite panel and/or individual paper proposals for the 7th Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference (Chaminade University of Honolulu, Hawaii, May 23-24, 2014).   All topics and proposals are welcome, particularly those treating cultural productions within and/or about the Oceanic region.

 

 Abstracts/Proposals for individual papers or 3-4 paper panels are due September 1, 2013. Direct abstracts and proposals to Cheryl Edelson [email protected].

 

The Call for Papers is available on the OPCA Blog:

http://oceanicpopularcultureassociation.blogspot.com/

Possible topics for panels and individual papers include but are not limited to the following areas:

 

Oceanic/Pacific Culture and Literature

Japanese Popular Culture

Film Studies

Hawai‘i and the American West

Adaptation

Television Studies

African-American Studies

Poetry and Poetics

Exotica/Hawaiiana

Children’s/Young Adult Popular Literature

Religion and Popular Culture

Philosophy and Popular Culture

Indigenous Literatures

Surf Culture