Call for Papers—Comedy and Humor Area
Please join us at the Comedy and Humor panels at
Wardman Park Marriot
Wednesday, April 17, to Saturday, April 20, 2019
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Call for Papers—Comedy and Humor Area
We’re seeking paper or panel discussion proposals examining comedy and the nature of humor wherever we find it in popular culture:
Possible topics include (although we’re open to any others you might want to explore) comedy in/and/of:
- pedagogy—we’re particularly interested in this topic as a panel discussion
- media and advertising
- film, literature, television…
- political discourse
- the classics
- social justice and/or comedy as a means of social change
- religion
- consumer culture
- the internet
- globalization
- censorship
- music and/or the visual arts
- cultural boundary crossing
- race and ethnicity
- graphic novels and comics
- the tragic
- gender
- the family
- obscenity and transgression
- historical comedy
Please submit abstracts to the PCA/ACA database by October 1, 2019 to the Area Chair.
Here are the deadlines and dates you need to know for the PCA/ACA national conference in 2019:
1 July Database Opens for Submissions
1 October Registration Opens
1 October Deadline for Paper Proposals
15 November Early Bird Registration Rate Ends
1 December Preliminary Program Available
15 December “Drop Dead”: Participants Not Registered Removed from Program
3 January 2019 Final Program to the Publisher
17-20 April 2019 Washington, D.C.!
Feel free to contact me with any questions:
Peter Seely, Area Chair
Professor and Chair, Communication Arts
Benedictine University
5700 College Road
Lisle, IL 60532
