PopCRN invites UNE researchers from across the research spectrum to submit to its upcoming conference

“I canna’ change the laws of physics”:  Depictions of Science in Popular Culture

16-17 Oct 2024

Established in 2021 by three researchers in the Faculty of HASSE, PopCRN runs a series of interdisciplinary conferences (14 to date) that examine popular culture phenomena including conferences on romance, sports, James Bond, London, the 1950s and Barbie in popular culture. Each of these has come with a publication opportunity. This includes the upcoming guest editorship of Sport in Society, a Q1 journal. To date we have hosted over 300 academics from around the world, including prominent professors and academics from institutions such as Cornell University, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal College of Art, Brown, and York University. PopCRN provides opportunities for UNE researchers to network and build collaborations with researchers around the world.

Science is arguably our era’s magic, and popular culture allows us to examine the scientific world in ways that can be fantastical, questionable, shocking, or realistic. Science can inform stories, create worlds, set boundaries or expand them. Science appears throughout popular culture, from nature documentaries to dystopian worlds. This conference aims to bring together current research from across the academic disciplines and beyond to reveal the complex relationship popular culture has with science.

Please email abstracts (200 words) to popcrn@une.edu.au by 31st August 2024. Please include your name, affiliation, email address, title of paper, orcid ID (where available), google scholar link (where available) and a short biography (100 words).

Registration is free for all. Please email popcrn@une.edu.au to register.

Submissions welcome from HDR students.