Animals & Culture area at Northeast Popular Culture Association (Northeast Popular Culture Association, 2024 Hybrid Conference)
Hybrid - online & Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts.
Organization: Northeast Popular Culture Association
Event: Northeast Popular Culture Association, 2024 Hybrid Conference
Animals and Culture (an aspect of Northeast Popular Culture Association)
Current Chair: Kimberly Poppiti, St. Joseph’s University, kpoppiti@sjny.edu
This area explores the complex and multifaceted intersections between animals, animal representations, society and popular culture. Animal symbolism has appeared in human culture since the earliest cave paintings, and feature?s significantly throughout popular culture. In many cases, humans are more likely to interact with visual and material animals than actual animals their living counterparts. These mediated representations have been found to influence, not always positively, how living animals are perceived and treated. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, and possible topics could include (but are not limited to):
Animals as companions to humans ?
Therapy animals
Animals in literature?, art and other media
Wildlife genre and documentary
Symbols and caricatures
Celebrity animals and animal performers, including presentation on Facebook pages and YouTube channels
Commodification of animals
Animals in advertising, branding, and commercial franchises
News coverage of animals and animal issues
Animal photography
Animal memorialization
The Animals & Cultur area is part of the 2024 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA), which will host its annual conference this fall as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts.
Animals and Culture (Northeast Popular Culture Association - NEPCA)
Current Chair: Kimberly Poppiti, St. Joseph’s University, kpoppiti@sjny.edu
This area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association explores the complex and multifaceted intersections between animals, animal representations, society and popular culture. Animal symbolism has appeared in human culture since the earliest cave paintings, and feature?s significantly throughout popular culture. In many cases, humans are more likely to interact with visual and material animals than actual animals their living counterparts. These mediated representations have been found to influence, not always positively, how living animals are perceived and treated. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, and possible topics could include (but are not limited to):
Animals as companions to humans ?
Therapy animals
Animals in literature?, art and other media
Wildlife genre and documentary
Symbols and caricatures
Celebrity animals and animal performers, including presentation on Facebook pages and YouTube channels
Commodification of animals
Animals in advertising, branding, and commercial franchises
News coverage of animals and animal issues
Animal photography
Animal memorialization
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts.
NEPCA prides itself on holding conferences that emphasize sharing ideas in a non-competitive and supportive environment. We welcome proposals from graduate students, independent scholars, disciplinary professionals, junior faculty, and senior scholars. NEPCA conferences offer intimate and nurturing sessions in which new ideas and works-in-progress can be aired, as well as completed projects.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING!
Submissions accepted through end of day on June 15, 2024.
For more info or with questions, contact: kpoppiti@sjny.edu
Kimberly Poppiti