From our humble beginnings as a one-day student symposium, the Wayne State Popular Culture Conference has evolved to become a multiple day, multiple location event that attracts scholars from all over the world. Although we’re fully virtual again in 2021 due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, we hope to offer a hybrid (partially in-person, partially online) conference experience in Fall 2022, if it is safe to do so.
Check out the links below to see past conference CFPs, programs, and more!
2020: “Hindsight is 20/20: How Popular Culture Writes, Rewrites, and Unwrites History”
2019: “Telling & Retelling Stories: (Re)imagining Popular Culture”
2018: “Pop Culture in/as Speculative Resistance”
2017: “Audiences, Fandoms, and Reception”