CFP: Festivals & Faires (11/15/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

full name / name of organization: 
Leslie Fife
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Festivals & Faires
  CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  The Festivals & Faires area
  of the Popular Culture Association invites
  abstracts for the next annual meeting:
   
  APRIL 4 - 7, 2007
  BOSTON, MA
  Boston Marriott Copley Place
   
  In this inaugural year of the "Festivals & Faires" area
  of the Popular Culture Association, submissions are
  welcome on any festival or faire—modern or historical.
  Specific areas of interest for this year's panels include,
  but are not limited to:
   
  --Financial aspects of festival/faire culture (particularly
  in contemporary U.S. culture)
  --Theorists' whose work influences the study of
  festival/faire culture (exploration and application
  of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, Richard Schechner,
  Diana Taylor, and Victor Turner with regards to
  festivals and faires is of particular interest.
  Suggestions of other theorists are readily welcomed!)
  --Contemporary American Renaissance Festivals & Faires
  --Festivals & Faires from outside of Europe and
  North America
   
  Deadline for submission of a 250-word abstract is:
   
  15 November 2006
   
  Inquiries about possible papers or proposals for sessions
  are also welcomed and encouraged.
   
  If your paper is accepted, you will receive an acceptance
  letter, registration information, the information you'll need
  to join the PCA/ACA, and the room reservation information.
     
  Address abstracts, inquiries, or proposals to:
   
  Dr. Kimberly Tony Korol
   
  E-mail:
  DrKimberlyTKorol_at_aol.com
   
  Regular Post:
  3501 Gordon Avenue
  Fort Worth, TX 76110
   
  For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go to:
http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca
                 
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