popular culture

Call for Proposals and Essays

Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?

Last April, Princeton University hosted an unprecedented two-day conference on popular romance fiction and American culture.  Gathering scholars, authors, editors, and bloggers, this interdisciplinary gathering featured panels on romance and history (both political and literary), romance and religion, romance and sexuality, and romance and race; each explored the ways that popular romance fiction has reflected, and also helped shape, American culture from the late 18th century to the present.  

The Festivals & Faires Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes submissions on any festival or faire—modern or historical. Scholars of theatre / theater, drama, performance studies, American studies, popular culture, religion, history, and non-western traditions are encouraged to apply. Since the conference is in St. Louis, any papers relating to festivals and faires in the city or in Missouri or Illinois are greatly appreciated. Other specific areas of interest for this year's panels include, but are not limited to:

1.    Burning Man

2.    Contemporary American Renaissance Festivals & Faires, including performative panels

Call for Papers:   Undead in the West

PCA/ACA National Conference

March 31-April 3, 2010

St. Louis, Missouri

Deadline: December 1, 2009

Co-presenters are being sought for a panel on the "Undead in the West," as part of the Westerns and the West area at the PCAs.

Call for Proposals

Annual Conference of Performance Studies international 
PSi 16 Performing Publics
Toronto, 9-13 June 2010

PSi 16, Performing Publics, will take place in Toronto as part of a collaboration between York University's Faculty of Fine Arts and the Ontario College of Art & Design. The conference will investigate the power of performance to intervene in, reshape, and reinvigorate the public sphere at the beginning of the twenty-first century. We invite proposals that take up notions of "public" in a variety of ways, pointing to the critically generative and fraught aspects of the term as it has been adopted within performance studies.

****  CALL FOR PAPERS **** Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Joint Annual Conference 

St. Louis, Missouri

Call for Papers (Extended): Shirley Jackson

Proposed Collection: Beyond "The Lottery": Critical Approaches to Shirley Jackson

Editor: Matthew B. Prickett, Longwood University

Deadline: October 30, 2009

Beyond "The Lottery" will be a peer-reviewed collection of critical materials examining the life and works of American author Shirley Jackson. The collection will be an opportunity for scholars to draw attention to lesser-known works of Jackson's, and expand on current scholarship in regards to more widely-known works. Ultimately, the collection will provide the author, and her works, with the critical attention that she has been denied until recently.

The Many Caribbean's and the Bicentennial of the Continental Spanish American Independence Movements, Cartagena de Indias, Colom

full name / name of organization: 

International Conference on Caribbean Studies

contact email: 

Spanish Papers figueroa@javeriana.edu.co, English & French hrromero@utpa.edu

cfp categories: 

cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches

ecocriticism_and_environmental_studies

ethnicity_and_national_identity

gender_studies_and_sexuality

international_conferences

theory

IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 
Annual Conference 

Sound, Image, Text

  5 and 6 March 2010 Venue: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Call for Papers Proposals are welcome relating to the above and associated topics in the context of both Irish and international literature for children, children's culture and the culture of childhood: Fiction, graphic novels, picture books, adaptation, film, theatre, audio books, the history of the book, poetry, and publishing. We would also welcome submissions for panels (of 3 papers)

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on Sociology and Folklore in the Fantastic for the 31st annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.   The focus of ICFA 31 is on race and the fantastic, and while papers relating to this theme are welcome, proposals on any topics related to this call will be equally welcome.  The conference will be held in Orlando, Florida, from March 17 - 21, 2010 at the Orlando Marriott Airport Hotel.  Guests of Honor are Nalo Hopkinson and Lawrence Yep, and the Guest Scholar is Takayuki Tatsumi.  For more information and updates about the conference, please visit www.iafa.org. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following topics: How audiences/communiti

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on Hypertexts, New Media, and Convergence in the Fantastic for the 31st annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.   The focus of ICFA 31 is on race and the fantastic, and while papers relating to this theme are welcome, proposals on any topics related to this call will be equally welcome.  The conference will be held in Orlando, Florida, from March 17 - 21, 2010 at the Orlando Marriott Airport Hotel.  Guests of Honor are Nalo Hopkinson and Lawrence Yep, and the Guest Scholar is Takayuki Tatsumi.  For more information and updates about the conference, please visit www.iafa.org. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following topics: The fan

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Theater Alive: Theater, Media, and Survival

The fifth annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for
"Obsolescence," a graduate student conference to be held February
12-14, 2010, in conjunction with the Center for 21st Century Studies
and its research theme for 2009-2011: "Figuring Place and Time."

Call for Submissions   

DASH, Cal State Fullerton's annual literary journal, seeks submissions for its 2010 issue. It is our mission to publish works of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, criticism, and art (as well as hybrid texts) that push the boundaries of short, emphatic expression. We aim to communicate more with less. Waste not, want not. Submit.

Boundaries (push at your own risk): 

Poems

30 lines or less. Submit up to 5.

Fiction, Nonfiction, Criticism

2000 words or less, double-spaced.

Limit: 1 submission per category.

Art

Digital images, 300 dpi.

Email as TIFF attachment.

Submissions are invited for an edited book with the working title On Not Looking:
Essays on Images and Viewers. Contemporary experience presents us with a
contradiction:  while we are at a historical moment when images have never been so
readily available and circulated, we increasingly "don't look" at images. The
collection of essays will explore the myriad ways that not looking at images — as
opposed to not seeing — is manifest in our burgeoning image culture today.
Contributions are sought that address practices and representations of "not looking,"
"turning away," and other manifestations of physical and mental distraction from
material images.