This one-day conference/symposium will address the significance of transitory, elusive texts in Britain, Europe and America, including textual artifacts that have eluded traditional categories of print, or have been dismissed as short-lived, disposable, or valueless. To this end, the conference seeks to establish the value of a wide range of ephemera, from pamphlets and pulps, agony columns or matrimonial advertisements to pictorial matter, cards, cartoons, competitions, display advertising and personal ads. Recent decades have witnessed a shift in scholarly interest toward this formerly overlooked print tradition. New digital resources in particular are bringing into view a wide range of printed materials once hidden from the sight of researchers.

Call for Papers: Race and science fiction, SW/TX PCA/ACA

The 2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 30th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 10-13, 2010.

The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on issues of race in science fiction as well as sci-fi film and television. This year our area will be honored with special events, films, guests, and presentations!
Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, or 500 word panel proposals to

Ximena Gallardo
xgallardo@lagcc.cuny.edu

Call for Papers: Science Fiction and Pedagogy, SW/TX PCA/ACA

The 2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 30th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 10-13, 2010.

The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on science fiction and pedagogy. This year our area will be honored with special events, films, guests, and presentations!

Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, or 500 word panel proposals to

Ximena Gallardo
xgallardo@lagcc.cuny.edu

Call for Papers: Conan the Barbarian, SW/TX PCA/ACA

The 20010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 30th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 10-13, 2010.

The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on Conan the Barbarian in fiction or film. This year our area will be honored with special events, films, guests, and presentations!

Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, or 500 word panel proposals to

Ximena Gallardo
xgallardo@lagcc.cuny.edu

Edited collection on women's popular culture in 18C England and representations of 18C England in modern popular culture, to be published by University of Toronto Press.
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Women of Fashion: Popular Culture in the Eighteenth Century and the Eighteenth Century in Popular Culture

Edited by Tiffany Potter (University of British Columbia)

The collection will have three sections: 1) women and eighteenth-century arts (theatre, literature, music, painting); 2) women and eighteenth-century life (fashion, games, courtship, weddings, politics); and 3) modern engagements of eighteenth-century women's culture (in films, historical fiction, art exhibits, web communities, cult groups).

UPDATE: A few additional articles are needed for an edited collection on religion and nineteenth-century American women writers. The original CFP with suggested topics is listed below. However, the editor is particularly interested in receiving chapters that deal with Spiritualism, revivalism, or reform literature (especially related to the Christian Woman's Temperance Union). Also of interest are articles that deal with Catholicism, Judaism, or Mormonism. Studies involving American women's poetry or early nineteenth-century women authors are welcomed too.

One page proposals and one page CVs are due on August 28, 2009.

Visions haunt T. S. Eliot's life as much as his work, and persist even as he revises his critical opinions, religious beliefs and poetic methods. This one-day conference, held in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, explores this exceptional poet and critic through his experience of the mystical within the human, the movement within stillness.

The day will also offer a panel of distinguished poets reading from and talking about Eliot's poetry, and two keynote speakers. Professor Robert Crawford will give the 2009 Warton Lecture and Hugh Haughton, co-editor of the first two volumes of The Letters of T. S. Eliot (forthcoming), will give a talk on Eliot and the use of letters.