We are pleased to invite panel and/or individual paper proposals for the 6th Annual Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference. All topics and proposals are welcome, particularly those treating cultural productions within and/or about the Oceanic region.

Abstracts/Proposals for individual papers or 3-4 paper panels are due March 31, 2012. Direct abstracts and proposals to Cheryl Edelson cedelson@chaminade.edu.

Possible topics for panels and individual papers include but are not limited to the following areas:

Oceanic/Pacific Culture and Literature
Japanese Popular Culture
Film Studies
Hawai‘i and the American West
Adaptation
Television Studies
African-American Studies
Poetry and Poetics
Exotica/Hawaiiana
Children’s/Young Adult Popular Literature
Religion and Popular Culture
Philosophy and Popular Culture
Indigenous Literatures
Surf Culture