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2005 Conference Information

Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association annual conference
Friday-Sunday, October 14-16, 2005
Westin St. Louis
811 Spruce St.
St. Louis MO 63102
314-621-2000, fax 314-552-5700
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Send paper, abstract, or proposal to the appropriate Area Chair.
Deadline for receipt is April 30, 2005.
For each person presenting, please include the following with your proposal:

Name

Affiliation

Postal address

Telephone number

E-mail address

Note: Indicate any information that you do not want published in the program schedule. A preliminary version of the schedule will be posted on our Web site. The final version will be distributed in hard copy at the conference.
Please plan to attend the entire conference. If you absolutely, positively cannot attend the entire conference and need your presentation scheduled on a specific day, you must let us know when you submit your proposal. Panels will run 2:30-7:30 Friday, 8:30-6:15 Saturday, and 8:00-1:00 Sunday. Special events will include a reception on Friday and a luncheon and speaker on Saturday. These events, plus continental breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, will be free for conference registrants.
The only audio-visual equipment available from the Association will be a DVD player, and you must ask for it at the time you submit your proposal. A DVD player can play audio, video, and still images.
If you wish your presentation to be listed as Midwest American Culture Association (rather than Midwest Popular Culture Association), please include this request with your proposal.
All participants must be members of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association. Membership is $40 for students with ID, retirees, and unemployed, and $60 for all others. Membership is for the calendar year through December 2005. To join the MPCA/MACA, you may pay with your conference registration fee, or you may send a separate check at any time to Gary Burns, Communication, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL 60115. Make check payable to Northern Illinois University. A membership form may be printed here. If we do not receive your membership fee postmarked by September 15, 2005, you will be subject to a $15 late fee if you attend the conference.
All participants must register for the conference. Registration is $70 for students with ID, retirees, and unemployed, and $90 for all others. There will be a $15 late fee for registration on-site or postmarked after September 15, 2005. (This fee is waived for residents of countries other than the USA or Canada.) Payment on-site will be by cash or check only (no credit cards). To preregister, send a check any time to Gary Burns, Communication, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL 60115. Make check payable to Northern Illinois University. A registration-membership form may be printed here.
The hotel or the Association will send you a room registration form if your proposal is accepted. Please stay at the conference hotel so that we may meet our contractual obligation. The conference hotel is the best deal we could find on a good hotel with a good location.
Unfortunately, MPCA/MACA is not able to provide financial assistance to participants to defray costs of transportation, lodging, meals, registration, or any other expense.
The conference program will be posted on our website as soon as it is finished (probably sometime in July 2005).
Cancellation policy: If you submit a proposal (or if you accept an invitation to appear on a panel), you are promising to attend the conference if your proposal is accepted and you are promising to pay the conference registration fee, the Association membership fee, and a late fee of $15 if applicable. If your proposal is accepted and you do not attend the conference, it is expected that you will

Notify all members of your panel, your area chair, and the MPCA/MACA Executive Secretary (Gary Burns) of your cancellation

Provide such notification as early as possible

Arrange to have your paper distributed at the panel

Arrange for somebody else to carry out any other duties you may have

and Pay your membership and registration fees (plus late fee if applicable).

If conditions 1-5 are met, you may file a written request, after the conference, for a refund of half your registration fee. For coauthored papers, all authors are welcome and encouraged to attend, but only one author is required to attend.