Radio and Audio Media Area
April 16-19, 2025, NEW ORLEANS
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: NOVEMBER 30, 2024
We invite papers and presentations on all aspects of radio and audio media, including but not limited to: radio and audio media history; radio and audio media programs and content (music, drama, talk, news, public affairs, features, interviews, sports, college, religious, ethnic, community, low-power, pirate, etc.); podcasting (news, public affairs, commentary, audio drama, branded content); new audio media (internet radio, streaming audio, etc.); audio social media (Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, Reddit Talk, etc.); radio literature studies; media representations of radio and audio media; rhetorical research; legal and regulatory policy; economics of radio and audio media; and radio and audio media technology. We welcome U.S., international, or comparative works and media presentations and are catholic regarding method, theory, or approach. Papers or presentations should be planned for no more than fifteen minutes. We encourage you to emphasize audience involvement and elicit stimulating questions and discussion.
Recent papers have included “Radio Adaptations of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca,” Remediating Narrative Experience: The Symbolic Work of Actual Play Podcasts,” and The Viral Orality of Hate: Right-Wing Radio in [Jordan Peele’s] Quiet Part Loud” .
Paper or presentation proposals must include an abstract of 200 words and paper or presentation title, and author’s institutional affiliation and email address. We do not accept undergraduate student submissions. Submit your paper or presentation proposal to: https://www.aievolution.com/pcaaca/
The proposal will include an abstract of 200 words and paper or presentation title, institutional affiliation, and email address. In order to submit a paper or presentation proposal, your PCA membership must be valid for 2024-2025.
Address paper or presentation proposals or inquiries via email to: Matthew Killmeier, PCA/ACA Radio and Audio Media Area Chair, Dept. of Communication and Theatre, Auburn University at Montgomery, mkillmei@aum.edu
November 30, 2024 Deadline for Paper Proposals
December 15, 2024 Travel Grant Applications Due
December 31, 2024 Early Bird Registration Ends for Presenters
January 31, 2025 Regular Registration Ends for Presenters
February 15, 2025 Late Registration Ends for Presenters
*Presenters not registered by Feb. 15 will be dropped from the program.
Contact Information
Matthew Killmeier
Contact Email: mkillmei@aum.edu
Biographies Area
The Biographies Area of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) is soliciting papers for the 2025 conference that examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged. Potential topics might include:
– Biography and entertainment, art, music, theater
– Biography and film
– Biography and criminal justice
– Television programs about biography
– Biography and urban legends
– Biography and folklore
– Biography and literature
– Scholarly Biography
– Controversial Biography
– Psychoanalysis and Biography
– Historical Biography
– Political Biography
– Autobiography
The conference will be held April 16-19, 2025 at the New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes.
Below are some recent titles of presentations in the Biographies Area panels:
·Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll: Celebrity Biography through the Lens of Autopsy
·Will Rogers: American Folk Hero or Elitist Fraud
·Manufacturing “Soupy Sales:” Biographical Insights in the Emergence of a Comic Entertainer
If interested in submitting for the conference, please provide the title and abstract of your presentation.
Please see this link for details and guidelines on submitting to the conference:
https://pcaaca.org/general/custom.asp?page=submissionguidelines
Deadline for Paper Proposals: November 30, 2024.
Please direct any queries to the Biographies Area Chair:
Susie Skarl
Associate Professor/Urban Affairs Librarian
UNLV Libraries
Las Vegas, NV 89154
702-895-2141
susie.skarl@unlv.edu OR susieskarl@gmail.com
Contact Information
Susie Skarl
Associate Professor/Urban Affairs Librarian
susie.skarl@unlv.edu
702-895-2141
Contact Email
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