PAC is an annual academic conference that takes place in Atlanta Georgia during Dragon*Con every year for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books; manga; graphic novels; anime; gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage the engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based in scholarly research.

Thanks to a grant by the Alabama Humanities Alliance partnering with the College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Art and Art History we are bringing a small version of our full size conference to UAB. 

We invite students and faculty to submit abstracts and panel proposals for 15-20 minute presentations. A broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives is being sought, including, but not limited to, proposals pertaining to literary and art criticism, philosophy, linguistics, history, communications, law, pedagogy, and natural and social sciences. Some examples of appropriate subjects include: discussions of the nature of the comics medium; the science of a particular franchise; how to utilize pop culture in the classroom; analyses of particular works or authors; cross-cultural and cross-medium comparisons; etc.