Friday, March 22, 2013

Romance at the PCA/ACA Conference


This is some of what's coming up at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association's conference (27-30 March). I found the programme a little confusing this year and I'm not sure if I've missed a couple of sessions. Maybe they're numbered differently?

Romance I: Fifty Shades of Scholarship
Romance II: Authors, Characters, Readers:  What’s Changed? What’s Changing? What’s Stuck?   
Romance III: Publishing, Texts, and Authorship
Romance IV: Across the Media: Iconic Moments, Cultural Narratives, and Real-Life Love
Romance V - Special Session: A Natural History of the Romance Novel Tenth Anniversary Roundtable: Pamela Regis and the Rebooting of Popular Romance Studies

Pamela Regis - In this presentation I will reconsider our shared work—to understand the genre itself and the texts that comprise it—from the temporal vantage point provided by the decade that has passed since the publication of my account of the genre in A Natural History of the Romance Novel. My focus will be on the state of our work on the American romance novel, and the challenges that face us.


Romance VI: Paranormal Romance   
Romance VII: Problem Texts and Questions of Ethics   
Romance VIII: Homosociality, Homoeroticism, and Bisexual Desire
Romance IX: African American / Black Romance
Romance X: Romance at the Boundaries: Race, Place and Translation
Romance XI: Romance Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, Critique
Romance XII: Open Forum: Where are We, Now, in Popular
Romance Studies?


Romance XIV: Vampire / Romance Joint Round Table


Romance XVI: After Fifty Shades of Grey: Kink and Romance
Perspectives

Vampire in Literature, Culture, and Film VIII: Paranormal and Romance

Vampire ROUNDTABLE V: Walking the Line Between Paranormal and Romance: A Roundtable Inquiry into the Heart of Paranormal Romance

Fan Culture and Theory: Uneasy Pleasures: Ethics of Studies/Fan Studies Scholarship

3 comments:

  1. Could you give an idea of which panels are on which days? I couldn't go this year because of a work commitment on March 29, but I'm wondering if I could go for the day on Saturday. (Probably crazy thinking.) Some of these panel look very interesting.

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  2. I think it's as follows:

    27th March

    • XVI: After Fifty Shades of Grey: Kink and Perspectives - 04:45 PM

    28th March

    • I: Fifty Shades of Scholarship - 08:00 AM
    • II: Authors, Characters, Readers: What’s Changed? What’s
    Changing? What’s Stuck? - 09:45 AM
    • III: Publishing, Texts, and Authorship - 11:30 AM
    • IV: Across the Media: Iconic Moments, Cultural Narratives, and
    Real-Life Love - 01:15 PM

    29th March

    • V - Special Session: A Natural History of the Novel Tenth Anniversary Roundtable: Pamela Regis and the Rebooting of Popular Romance Studies - 08:00 AM
    • VI: Paranormal Romance - 09:45 AM
    • VII: Problem Texts and Questions of Ethics - 11:30 AM
    • VIII: Homosociality, Homoeroticism, and Bisexual Desire - 01:15 PM
    • Vampire in Literature, Culture, and Film VIII: Paranormal and Romance - 01:15 PM
    • IX: African American / Black Romance - 03:00 PM

    30th March

    • X: Romance at the Boundaries: Race, Place and Translation - 08:00 AM
    • XI: Romance Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, Critique - 09:45 AM
    • Fan Culture and Theory: Uneasy Pleasures: Ethics of Studies
    Fan Studies Scholarship - 11:30 AM
    • XII: Open Forum: Where are We, Now, in Popular Romance Studies? - 01:15 PM
    • XIV: Vampire / Romance Joint Round Table - 03:00 PM The same time and place is given for Vampire ROUNDTABLE V: Walking the Line Between Paranormal and Romance: A Roundtable Inquiry into the Heart of Paranormal Romance

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  3. I've now added links to abstracts for all of the papers which have them. Hopefully they'll be some consolation to those of us who can't be there.

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