5th Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference

Dr. Franklin T. Wilson from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice will again be hosting 5th Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference: A Cross Disciplinary Exploration. The conference will be held September 23, 24, and 25, 2013 here at Indiana State University and sponsored by the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Each year Dr. Wilson and a group of Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice undergraduate and graduate students coordinate some 18 different organizations, both on campus and off, in preparation for the conference festivities.  With over 100 scheduled attendees, including over 70 paper presenters and 9 featured speakers from more than 28 states and 15 different countries this year’s conference looks to be another great success. As always the conference is open to all Indiana State University faculty and students to attend. The official program should be posted by Mid-August so feel free to provide the conference program to your students and or incorporate conference sessions into your syllabus for the Fall Semester.

September 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 2013.

http://www.indstate.edu/ccj/popcultureconference/

About the Conference

The conference was founded by Dr. Franklin T. Wilson as part of the University of Central Missouri’s Institute of Justice and International Studies Annual Conference and originally entitled “Crime and Popular Culture Conference” in 2008. After being invited to bring the conference to Indiana State University Dr. Wilson renamed the conference the Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference. The conference was held for the first time under its new title at Indiana State University in 2009 where it is currently housed and continues to grow every year.

Dr. Wilson established the conference to encourage an international cross-disciplinary exchange between both academic scholars and practitioners who are engaged in research, teaching, and practices associated with crime, deviance, history, social justice, policy, race studies, women’s studies, and law and their relationship with the media and popular culture. The conference serves as a forum for the dissemination of knowledge associated with these areas of study in an effort to engender further growth of the discipline among students, academicians and practitioners. The conference welcomes quantitative, qualitative and mixed methodology research equally.  With over sixty percent of those attending the conference each year being new Ph.D.’s or Ph.D. students from a variety of fields the conference has become a significant source of scholarly production in a thriving area of research. The conference provides a one of a kind venue for the establishment of scholarly collaborations and scholarly feedback for crime, media, and popular culture researchers that has led to the production of several books and peer reviewed journal articles is such journals as the British Journal of Criminology, Crime, Media, and Culture, Critical Criminology, The French Review, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, Race and Justice, and Theoretical Criminology to mention a few.

Approximate Times

Monday September 23, 2013

• Featured Speakers - University Hall Theater 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
• Panel Sessions - Hulman Memorial Student Union (Dede Activity Center Rooms) 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Tuesday September 24, 2013

• Panel Sessions - Hulman Memorial Student Union (Dede Activity Center Rooms) 9:30 - 1:30 pm
• Featured Speakers - University Hall Theater 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Wednesday September 25, 2013

• Featured Speakers - University Hall Theater 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
• Panel Sessions - Hulman Memorial Student Union (Dede Activity Center Rooms) 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm