MAPACA Newsletter - July 2025
This is the July 2025 MAPACA Newsletter.
In this newsletter, we have:
Summer Virtual Symposium registration information and July 10 deadline
Our CFP for the 2025 MAPACA Annual Conference in November
Important dates
Summer Virtual Symposium registration information and July 10 deadline
The MAPCA 2025 Summer Virtual Symposium, an online event open to all our participants, will take place on July 20, 2025.
Registration for the 2025 virtual symposium will close July 10. Registration is required to participate in the symposium. Unfortunately, anyone not registered by the close of registration will be removed from the program, so register today! If you did not submit a proposal, but would still like to join us, an Attendee Registration option will be available after July 10 for non-presenters.
For more information and to register, visit mapaca.net. To view the virtual symposium schedule, click this link and login with your MAPACA account.
MAPACA 2025 Annual Conference CFP
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA)
2025 Annual Conference
November 6-8, 2025
Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse
Philadelphia, PA
Call for proposals:
Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Philadelphia, PA. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.
Proposals should take the form of 300-word abstracts, and may only be submitted to one appropriate area. For a list of areas and area chair contact information, visit the Areas page on our website. General questions can be directed to mapaca@mapaca.net. The deadline for submission is July 31, 2025.
MAPACA’s participants are comprised of college and university faculty, independent scholars and artists, and graduate and undergraduate students. MAPACA is an inclusive professional organization dedicated to the study of popular and American culture in all their multidisciplinary manifestations. It is a regional division of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association, which, in the words of Popular Culture Association founder Ray Browne, is a “multi-disciplinary association interested in new approaches to the expressions, mass media and all other phenomena of everyday life.”
For more information, and to login and submit a proposal, visit mapaca.net.
Important dates
Now - July 10, 2025 - Registration for Virtual Symposium
July 20, 2025 - Summer Virtual Symposium
Now - July 31, 2025 - Deadline for submissions to the 2025 MAPACA Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA
November 6-8, 2025 - MAPACA Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA
