Presenting A Paper

[mik3cap]

If I were going to present a paper at the popular culture conference in Boston next year, what topic area should I present on? What do you think I know stuff about? I have a week to submit an abstract.

This is the conference - and the program contains 2006 presentations.

Areas I'm generally knowledgeable in: myths, the occult, comic books (artists and writers), role-playing (live and tabletop), computer science


► Adaptation
► Advertising
► American Art & Architecture
► American Indian Literatures & Cultures
► Appalachian Studies
► Arthurian Legend
► Automobile Culture
► Biography
► Black Music Culture
► Body & Physical Difference
► Business Culture / Corporate Culture
► Chicana / Chicano Culture: Lit/Film/Theory
► Children's Television
► Circuses & Circus Culture
► Civil War (U.S.) & Reconstruction
► Collegiate Culture: Higher Ed & Pedagogy
► Politics, Law, & Popular Culture (PCA)
► Comedy & Humor
► Conspiracy Theory/Claims for the Paranormal
► Digital Games
► Dime Novels, Pulps, & Juvenile Series
► Documentary
► Ecology & Culture
► Electronic Communication & Culture
► Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer Identity
► Festivals & Faires
► Film Adaptation (PCA)
► Film & History
► Gay & Lesbian Studies
► German Culture
► Gothic Culture
► Health & Disease in Popular Culture
► Heinlein Studies
► Horror (Fiction/Film/Culture)
► Internet Culture
► Libraries, Archives, & Pop. Cult. Research
► Literature & the Visual Arts
► Local Culture of Boston
► Material Culture
► Medieval Popular Culture
► Memory & Representation
► Midwest Culture
► Motorcycling Culture & Myth
► Music (PCA)
► Mystery & Detective Fiction
► Mythology in Contemporary Culture
► Politics in a Mediated World (ACA)
► Popular Culture in the Age of T. Roosevelt
► Romance
► Science Fiction/Fantasy
► Sea Literature
► Seniors & Aging in Popular Culture
► Shakespeare on Film & Television
► Southern Literature & Culture
► Sports
► Stephen King
► Tarot
► Technical Communication
► Television
► Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film
► World Fairs & Expositions
► World Wars I & II

Comments

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

What the heck conference is this? (Also, "digital games"... hmmm...)

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

It's an open conference on popular culture, not restricted to academics or industry. I figured it might pique your interest! I'm sure it'll be a hoot.

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

Okay, but what conference is it?

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

There's a link in the previous post

The gears are turning...

[gunthersdncemix.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! I totally have to try and go to this, I might be able to present too, hmm...

[griffytime.livejournal.com]

FOOD-Sausage-Pizza-ItalianTraditionalMeals-FoodCritique

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm really qualified to give a true food critique.

Reading/owning 5,000 comics qualifies me for comics. Playing, writing and running RPGs for 15 years qualifies me there. BS degree in CS. I was probably stretching it with mythology and the occult, but I've absorbed a lot of info on the subjects, I'm at least generally familiar.