Call for Papers:

The American Civil War and Reconstruction

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

National Conference  2014

April 16-19, 2014

Marriott Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile

Chicago, Illinois

The Civil War and Reconstruction Area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association is calling for papers on the American Civil War and Reconstruction for its national meeting, April 16-19, 2014 (Wednesday through Saturday) at theMarriott Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile.  Papers are welcome from a range of disciplines, and may explore any topic or “reading” of the War.  Past presentations have included such diverse subject areas as literature, photography, art, newspapers and journalistic history, counterfactual history, battle reenactments, music, politics, battle narratives, guerilla warfare, film, historiographical issues, women’s narratives, war games, secession politics, African-Americans at war, modern pop culture, memory and memorializing, battlefield preservation, and material culture.  Suggested special topics for this year could include slavery and politics, Northern intellectuals at war, Lincoln and the Spielberg film, military politics, The 150^th Commemoration and the Politics of Commemoration, and the cultural legacy of the War.

Acceptance of your paper obligates you to appear and make an oral presentation of your paper.  Sessions run for ninety minutes, and each presenter receives fifteen minutes, depending on the number of papers in each panel.  Please plan to stay within this time limit.  Graduate students are welcome to submit proposals.  Whole panel proposals are also welcome

Please send an abstract of 100-250 words to:

Dr. Randal Allred,

Department of English,

Brigham Young University Hawaii,

55-220 Kulanui St.,

Laie, HI 96762

randal.allred@byuh.edu

phone (808) 675-3633, and fax (808) 675-3662.

Please include in your proposal your address, school affiliation, e-mail, and telephone number.

Also, please submit your proposal online at  http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/proposing-a-presentation-at-the-conference/

Deadline for submissions is November 1, 2013. For more information, go to http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/