#mapaca

[michithemotherkoi]

I made this for my mother for Mother's Day.

[jazzymbf]

Really wishing I was headed to Mapaca today. As exhausting and stressful as it is to go to it’s one of my favorite events of the year. And I was looking forward to whatever prank these kids had planned. #scnj4h #mapaca #mapacajubilee https://www.instagram.com/p/B_VKDkzpD85/?igshid=15b6txgq5jn3p

[imaddictedtosp]

The City of Brotherly Love #Philly #MAPACA (at Sonesta Philadelphia Downtown Rittenhouse Square)

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War Studies Area - MAPACA 2017

War Studies Area – MAPACA 2017

updated:  Tuesday, June 27, 2017 – 11:57am MAPACA / Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, War Studies Area deadline for submissions:  Thursday, June 29, 2017

2017 Conference of   Mid-Atlantic Popular / American Culture Association (MAP/ACA)

MAPACA War Studies Area

Thursday, November 9 — Saturday, November 11, 2017 Sonesta Philadelphia Downtown Philadelphia,…

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Children and Childhood Studies Area, MAPACA 2017

Children and Childhood Studies Area, MAPACA 2017

updated:  Saturday, June 24, 2017 – 12:21pm Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association deadline for submissions:  Friday, June 30, 2017

Children and Childhood Studies (CCS) focuses on the societal, cultural, and political forces that shape the lives of children and the concept of childhood contemporaneously and throughout history. CCS research may originate in any…

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[cleverclock]

The only problem with popular culture conferences is that they remind you of all the books and things you love, but then make it difficult to find time to revisit them. Well, that and all the spoilers.

[midatlanticpopculture]

MAPACA deadline is tomorrow! Get those abstracts in!!!

[sothinky]

misqueue replied to your post “callie-quite-contrary replied to your post “Our Glee panel went well!...”

Oh, sounds v fun & interesting! The playfulness of how we do meta in fandom--how the space is largely safe to think out loud, revise, & explore communally, is such a good. <3 Would love to have seen all the Glee presentations! :)

Yes, and so the writing we do isn't exactly academic--we cite all kinds of things (like turkey symbolism, lol), and sometimes we write "essays" as a group (through our notes we end up creating an essay-like, albeit fragmented Thing). What we value out here, I think, is kind of different—what matters isn't the quality, necessarily, of the writing, or how developed it is . . . What matters is the contribution, that it's new, that it's timely. And then there's the larger aspect of it being creative and FUN.

Those are all things writing educators try to teach, tbh. But it doesn't quite work out, for lots of reasons, some of which are kind of obvious, like the artificial quality of a classroom, or the way we can't get an entire class to be suddenly obsessed with a text we're examining, you know? But it's like the holy grail, to create real community there :)