September 23, 2004
For Travelers to the US-Important Reminder
Even though we haven't yet passed the deadline for submitting conference proposals, it's never too early to start planning, especially for those IAFA members who are traveling to the US. Be aware that regulations governing travel to the US are changing and this might affect your travel plans.
The details are all located here.
The site lists a number of countries that participate in the visa waiver program (meaning that citizens of these countries do not need to obtain a visa in order to travel to the US. Canada is not listed here, but Canadians are exempt, as they don't require a visa to travel to the US (although you can never have too much info, so check out the site anyway). If your country is not listed, then you do require a visa as well as a passport.
For those whose countries are listed, you'll need to read further to find out more about the requirement to have a machine-readable passport; this requirement is expected to be in place by the time you travel to the conference next March. Obtaining such a passport may take some time, so please do the research now.
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September 08, 2004
For LiveJournal users
Sonia Ana Miller provides the following information for LiveJournal users who want to add the IAFA Newsletter blog to their flist.
For those interested, the IAFA blog is also available on LiveJournal (www.livejournal.com) as a syndicated feed for anyone who wants to add it to their own friends list. Go here, and click on the provided link to add it to your friends list.
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More pics from 2004 Conference
Steve Hooley kindly sends a link to more pictures from ICFA25, including one of David Hartwell's eye-popping shirt (which one, you ask?). Steve also names names.
Thanks, Steve, for sharing your conference memories. Anyone else?
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September 07, 2004
Pics from 2004 Conference
For those of you who might not have seen these pics earlier, Stefan Hall provided a link to a website chock full of pictures from the 2004 Conference. Fond memories for those of you who attended the conference, and a timely reminder for those of who you missed it in 2004 to get working on those proposals.
Stefan's pics are here.
Fiona kindly sent me a couple of pics which I haven't figured out what to do with yet. And of course, if anyone has links to other pages of conference pictures, drop me a line.
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McFarland Press
Publish Your Scholarly Book in McFarland Publishers’ New Series “Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy”
McFarland Publishers is seeking proposals for book-length scholarly volumes to be published in its “Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy” series, a new, soft-cover series devoted to scholarship in science fiction and fantasy in all media to be edited by Donald Palumbo and C.W. Sullivan III.
Proposals should include a prospectus (general description of and justification for the volume), a table of contents, a one-paragraph description of each chapter focusing on thesis and works discussed, a draft of the preface or introduction, at least one sample chapter, a length estimate (75,000-110,000-word projects are preferred), a description of special features (such as photographs or artwork to be included), a proposed deadline for delivery of the completed manuscript, and a curriculum vitae.
Please send proposals that deal primarily with Science Fiction, Film, Art, or Popular Culture Studies to: Donald Palumbo
English Department
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
(enpalumb at earthlink.net)
Please send proposals that deal primarily with Fantasy Literature, Folklore, or Mythology to:
C.W. Sullivan III
English Department
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
(SullivanC at mail.ecu.edu)
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September 06, 2004
Reading Stargate SG-1-Call for Papers
Reading Stargate SG-1 and Beyond: Stan Beeler and Lisa Dickson, eds.
We have secured a contract offer with a publisher and are now soliciting essays for a forthcoming collection focusing on Stargate SG-1 and its spin-off series, Atlantis.
Essay abstracts of 500 words should be forwarded by October 1 2004 to Stan Beeler (stan at unbc.ca) or Lisa Dickson (dicksonl at unbc.ca).
In 1997 the series Stargate SG-1 first aired on American Cable television, initially on Showcase and then in later seasons on the SciFi and Space channels. Through syndication, it has since ventured into broader European markets. Stargate SG-1 has blossomed into a series with a stable market value driven by fierce fan loyalty. Moreover, the series has an eighth season in production and what may be considered the holy grail of any television series, a spin-off (Atlantis) also premiering this summer.
Given the short and brutish lifespan of the average fantasy / Science Fiction series it would seem appropriate to take a critical look at Stargate SG-1 as it enters its eighth season and attempt to discover the source of its staying power. The show's military setting and its dramatization of the American military's relationship with external powers (both Earthly and extra-terrestrial), and its exploration of the ethics of technology, empire, and exploration make an investigation of this series at this point in history evocatively topical.
We are soliciting essays that will provide critical analyses of the program as both film/text and cultural phenomenon. Essays should be scholarly but should be accessible to a well-educated, well-informed lay readership. We envision the following general categories:
Textual/Film Studies, or Firepower and "Peaceful Explorers": close readings of particular, exemplary episodes, and contextualizing essays focusing on the broader strokes of recurring motifs, themes or cinematic elements and practices.
Internationalism, or Stargate SG-1 and "Foreign" policy: Like many programs in its genre, Stargate SG-1 is set in the USA and filmed in Canada. Also, the program addresses the issue of the American relationship to both Earthly and alien "Others." In addition to essays focusing on issues relating to cross-border production and marketing, this chapter may include articles exploring the mapping of the American point-of-view onto "alien" spaces, including the Canadian landscape, and the translation /modification /reflection of that point-of-view within both the mise-en-scene and in the series' international contexts, through, for example, non-English versions of DVDs, European marketing practices, and so on.
Cultural Studies: Stargate SG-1: What are the causes, effects and social contexts of this low key, yet persistent phenomenon? Essays may focus on such issues as fan culture (for instance, the "Save Daniel Jackson Campaign,"); convention culture; the ideology and politics of reception (who is watching and why?), and so on.
Poaching: Fan Productions: essays focusing on the phenomenon of Stargate SG-1 fan fiction, vids, and artwork may include: traditional textual studies; general discussions of such issues as the politics and legality of "poaching" intellectual property (to use Henry Jenkins' much-quoted term); investigations of the relationship between "canon" and "fanon," the use and
abuse of generic conventions, and so on.
Epilogue: The Future: As Stargate SG-1 moves into its eighth season and its spin-off, Atlantis, is set to premier in the USA and Europe, this is an opportune moment to evaluate the history of the Stargate SG-1 phenomenon and to speculate on its future. Essays in this chapter may focus on Atlantis exclusively, or conduct comparative discussions of the original series, its parent film, and its television offspring.
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Star Trek Franchise Effect-Call for Papers
The Star Trek Franchise Effect: Cultural Reception and Interpretation
The Star Trek franchise and associated cultural phenomena, a volume to be edited by Lincoln Geraghty.
Having received preliminary interest from an international publisher I would like to invite chapter proposals for an edited volume on the Star Trek television and movie franchise and related cultural phenomena, including fan groups, fan affection, novels, games, toys and merchandise, conventions, the Las Vegas Experience, world Exhibition tours, political resonances, mythic and religious inspirations, cultural impact, global fandom, the Internet, science fiction tradition, the television industry, the animated series, cult stardom, music, Paramount franchise branding and advertising.
Intended as a broadly interdisciplinary volume on the series and films of the Star Trek franchise, this book aims at a wide audience including students, academics and interested fans in the areas of film studies, television studies, sociology, communications, anthropology, American studies, philosophy, media and cultural studies, race and gender studies, English, politics, history, and other related disciplines. This collection will provide a multidisciplinary perspective addressing the full range of Star Trek cultural production and will not resemble any volumes analysing Star Trek currently in the marketplace. Because the five television series and ten feature films are the principal avenue of dissemination, it is expected that contributions will reflect familiarity with the entire franchise. Contributions that examine the overall impact of an entire series or compare two or more are particularly welcome, as are those contributions that examine the film franchise in its industrial and cultural context. Star Trek: Enterprise, having recently survived cancellation, is also a focus; contributions dealing with Star Trek: Enterprise and its place within the franchise, including fans, merchandise, new media practices, are also welcome.
Previous volumes on Star Trek have tended to look exclusively at either the series or fans, and often ignore the differential nature of the films and relevant merchandising of Paramount's senior franchise. This volume will attempt to gather those strands of Star Trek together and analyse them within the context of a media product that has lasted 40 years in a global television market. Publication of this volume would coincide with the 40th anniversary of the series.
Please send abstracts of 500 words and a short CV as email attachment (word format) to Lincoln Geraghty (aax1ggg1 at nottingham.ac.uk).
Deadline: 1st November 2004.
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So You Want to Contribute?
Maybe you've got something to share with other IAFA members -- a story about ICFA or another conference you've attended, a brief review of a book or website you think would be of interest, some cool stuff going on in your personal or professional life you want to share with ICFA friends -- just send me the content and I'll post it here.
Once the bugs are ironed out and the site is running smoothly, I'd like to expand the editorial team; if you've got the time and, preferably, some posting experience with Blogger, LiveJournal, or something similar, let me know.
Better yet, you've got some experience blogging or using Movable Type or playing around with coding, and you can help me fix the wonky stuff. I'd really, really, really love to hear from you.
Contact the Editor by emailing cemains at shaw.ca.
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The Utopian Fantastic
The Utopian Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twentieth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) is now available from Greenwood Press. Edited by Martha Bartter, it contains contributions from Roger Schlobin, Donald Morse, Jeanne Beckwith, Robin Anne Reid, Kelly Searsmith, and others. The ISBN: 0-313-31635-X.
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September 05, 2004
Another 2004 Conference Report
by Don Riggs:
This was possibly my favorite ICFA yet. I was involved in two back-to-back panel discussions of Tolkien; the first, on Teaching Tolkien (which I chaired), exposed me to some very good and very different approaches to teaching Tolkien on the university level, with specific course materials in handouts from Chuck Nelson and Faye Ringel. The second, much better attended (and admittedly with much broader interest) was the panel discussion on Tolkien's novels vs. Jackson's films I MEAN novels AND films. The discussion was intense, dedicated, varied in p.o.v. and featured the best sound bite (for me) from the whole conference. It was from Edward James, and was the opening comment for the whole panel discussion: "I have five words to say: the Scouring of the Shire."
As a result of the last panel, I got to see and discuss Tolkien issues frequently with Liz Whittingham, Lori Lipoma, and Edward James in particular, and others at times as well, throughout the conference. However, I also had some very valuable input on Frankenstein films from that session (I am writing the Frankenstein Monsters article for the Westfahl Encyclopedia), and was overcome with the riches (no embarrassment!) of TWO sessions on Anime, both of which dealt wholly or in part with Hayao Miyazaki!
Hats off to Stefan Hall for organizing the Grad Student Mentoring program. He paired me up with Australian Magical Realism writer Glenda Guest, with whom I had many interesting and fruitful -- to me, and hopefully equally so to her -- encounters.
The one disappointment I had was my inability to go to more of the writers' readings -- the conference was so fully scheduled, that I found my academic needs, as in the need to attend the Frankenstein movies session and the anime sessions (I am the faculty sponsor of Drexel's anime club), not to mention the four sessions I was involved in, whether giving a paper, chairing a panel, being a member of a panel, or reading my own poems (surrounded by the truly impressive Marilyn Jurich, Joe Haldeman, and Dave Lunde), that I had little flexibility to go to other sessions I might have wanted to.
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A Second 2004 Conference Report
By Regina Cross:
In case none of my co-conspirators writes, I feel a certain responsibility to put our story in the newsletter. Hopefully, someone got a pic of the See-No-Evil, etc. bit onstage.
Wednesday night at the opening reception, Don Morse announced a quiz, written by Brian Aldiss, which would help fund a special award to Bob Collins at the Saturday banquet for his history of service. We distinctly remembered hearing Don say something about probably needing to ask around for some of the answers, so Kathy Davis, Stefan Ekman (he of the Malfoy-clone looks), Sharon Emmerichs and I decided to help each other out.
Between my free internet access (thanks to Wyndham ByRequest), Sharon's willingness to schmooze with and be goosed by Brian, Kathy's quick thinking and Stefan's long-distance call to Sweden to look up our last answer, we managed to find all the correct answers, only spending about 4 1/2-5 hours working on the darn thing. We figured any ties would be drawn from randomly, so we'd have 4 chances out of however many, and quite probably end up splitting the $100.
We were wrong. Late Saturday afternoon, as Sharon and I were desperately trying to get anyone in the hotel to let us order some food, Brian comes up to us in the bar with a conundrum he found himself in. It seemed that four people had exactly the same score on the quiz, what do you know? We confessed, figuring that the easy answer for him would be to just let us split the prize as we had intended....but NO! There was going to be a "shoot out" at the banquet, where the four of us would have to think on our feet.
But there was one problem beyond the intimidation of public performance--none of us were planning on attending the banquet. Three of the four of us are graduate students looking forward to spending considerably less than $35 on a meal (no, it was not free, as Brian intimated at the "award" ceremony). The fourth had an incredibly early flight to catch Sunday morning. After some serious guilt-work by Brian, we agreed that we would do our best to make it back to the hotel by 10 to accept our fates.
We had a sinking feeling there would be more to it than just some easy question...that Brian would perhaps try to embarrass us for having the gall to do actual research. So we began to plot and plan, eventually coming up with at least 3 or 4 possibilities, including, at one point, having an uninvolved graduate student create a diversion (Thanks again for the offer, Charlie). We settled at last upon the See-No-Evil, Hear-No-Evil, Speak-No-Evil routine, modified with Stefan's "not at liberty to divulge" answer. And it was a darn good thing, too, since Brian gave us a non-existent work for our first try.
To be entirely honest, after two titles that I had no clue on (partly because I'm horrible at remembering names), I was ready to start guessing "Brian Aldiss" on every title. Luckily, Sharon, who was preparing to take her comprehensive exams the second week after the conference, remembered whichever Jonson it was and got us our prize money, which we promptly divided. The whole ordeal led, in turn, to a free round of drinks courtesy of Tom Shippey, a great chat with Tom, Brian and others pre-reception, and a great story to tell.
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Submissions to JFA
JFA Editor Bill Senior passes along the following reminder:
The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts does not publish a conference issue, and IAFA no longer has an agreement for proceedings volumes with Greenwood Press. However, the JFA editors and staff would like to encourage submissions of completed essays, whether based on conference presentations or not. Please send submissions as attached files to Bill Senior at wsenior at broward.edu. Format is flexible, although JFA does use MSWord 6.0 for setup.
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Congratulations, Joe
Joe Sutliff Sanders, recently a daddy, won the Provost's Award for Outstanding Teaching, the university's highest teaching award. Joe reports that he was "in competition with graduate student teachers from all the disciplines, so it's a heady experience. I'm contemplating popping unannounced into randomly selected courses taught by other graduate students and smirking at them."
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2004 Conference Report
By Gideon Haberkorn
Well, first of all, I thank the IAFA for accepting my paper and giving me an excuse to attend the ICFA for the second time.
Excuse? Well, of course I also enjoyed the opportunity to present a paper and have it spark interesting discussions. And I loved listening to all those interesting papers by other people. (Note: If you could do something to reduce the number of interesting papers... Otherwise I have to feel bad most of the time because I'm usually missing at least one other session I should attend simultaneously!)
But mostly I love coming to this conference for three reasons: Sunshine and warm days at the pool (even more of a reason to reduce the number of interesting, must see papers); strawberries for breakfast; and of course the people! This conference feels a lot like a family gathering, and both times I attended everyone made me feel part of that family. This is a wonderful thing, especially if you've come to the US from 'Old Europe', way across the ocean.
After the ICFA, I visited a friend in Atlanta, saw CNN, Stone Mountain, various parts of the city, two universities, two movies, and generally far too much for two days... and nearly bought a two foot long plastic toad. The only thing that prevented me from doing so was the fact that all those books were already taking up all the space in my carry on luggage. And this brings me, in a roundabout way, to my strongest criticism of this year’s conference: Could someone please stop David Hartwell from putting so many great books at reasonable prices into the bookroom? I always leave the conference dragging a suitcase that appears to contain at least one medium sized library. That man has to be stopped. I really needed that plastic toad.
The award for the most memorable moment goes, as fellow grad student Nikoline Thomson so rightly pointed out, to the last evening, when a group of us students were sitting by the pool. Brian Aldiss was wandering the circumference of the pool with a bottle, a happily inebriated satellite, and stopped by us and initiated a group chorus of "That's Amore."
To sum up:
What, then, was good about this conference? The atmosphere. The people. The papers - at least the ones I heard. I think there’s a wonderful balance between papers dealing with the main subject of the conference and other papers. But of course it was especially nice to have a more truly international conference this year.
It was interesting to find that Andy Seeger and I had brought very similar papers, dealing with similar subjects, but using different authors and arguing different points. Perhaps there might be a panel on contemporary German fantasy in this...
What was bad? The weather! No warm days by the pool. And even, on some days, no strawberries for breakfast. I'm very disappointed!
Anyhow, I think Andrea Bell can be very proud of 'her' conference. It was a very fitting 25th for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - a truly international conference.
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The Postmodern Fantastic
Martin Horstkotte, who recently completed his PhD, announces that his dissertation was published in August 2004 by Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, which is located in Trier, Germany. The title is The Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary British Fiction, it is about 224pp., the ISBN is 3-88476-679-1 and the price is a moderate Euro 24,50 which amounts to approximately $29.60.
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Classic & Iconoclastic Alternate History
Edgar L. Chapman announces the publication of CLASSIC AND ICONOCLASTIC ALTERNATE HISTORY SCIENCE FICTION edited by Edgar L.Chapman and Carl B. Yoke, published by Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY; the book came out late in 2003, and contains 14 essays, including two by Edgar, one by Carl Yoke, and essays by Tom Shippey, Martha Bartter, Joe Sanders, William Hardesty, Robert Geary, Karen Hellekson, Steven Kagle, Darren Harris-Fain, Howard Canaan, Olena Saciuk, and Claire-Antoinette Lindenlaub. Treated in the essays are alternate history novels and tales from the time of Chesterton and Murray Leinster to the late 20th century, and including discussions of Ward Moore, Philip K. Dick, Kingsley Amis, Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Robert Silverberg and others. The ISBN # is 0-7734-6799-8.
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Fantastic Literature
David Sandner wants to announce to all IAFA members the publication of a collection that he edited that may be of interest to the IAFA membership. Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader (Praeger, 2004) is now available from Greenwood Press (ISBN: 0-275-98053-7). Writers and critics from the early history of critical scholarship on the fantastic to some of our fellow members of the IAFA are included. Check it out!
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ICFA26 Call for Papers
26th Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Blurring the Boundaries: Transrealism and Other Movements
March 16-20, 2005
Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel
The focus of ICFA-26 is on the Transreal and other movements that encourage and embody the breaking and blurring of the boundaries between genders and genres, between reality and illusion, between the 'real' world and the possible worlds of the imagination. Such movements include the New Wave, Cyberpunk, Steampunk, the Interstitial Arts, Slipstream, the New Weird, and many more. In addition, we look forward to papers focusing on the work of Guest of Honor Rudy Rucker, Guest Scholar Damien Broderick, Special Guest Writer John Kessel, and Special Guest Poet Albert Goldbarth. As always, we also welcome proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media.
The deadline for submission of individual proposals is 15 October 2004.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
In order to be considered for the 2005 program, your proposal to (1) read a paper, (2) recruit and chair a paper session, or (3) organize and chair a panel discussion must be date-stamped no later than October 15, 2004; electronic correspondence is welcome.
Proposals must be sent to the appropriate Division Head (addresses at the IAFA Website).
Be sure to indicate all audio-visual equipment needs in this initial proposal. NOTE: Proposals must include a 500-word abstract and appropriate bibliography indicating the project's scholarly or theoretical context.
Keep checking the association's website for contact information, guest updates, hotel details, membership renewal, and conference registration.
Also available on the website is the Call for Papers in a number of formats; feel free to download it for posting in your departments.
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Theorizing Fan Fiction-Call for Papers
Theorizing Fan Fiction and Fan Communities
Overview
Fan fiction has recently gained increasing visibility in both mass media and academic writing. Although numerous insightful essays have appeared in various venues, no comprehensive essay collection has traced the changes and shifts in fan culture and fan fiction since the groundbreaking works of Henry Jenkins, Camille Bacon-Smith, and Constance Penley of the early 1990s.
This essay collection looks to complement these crucial early explorations into fan fiction by expanding their scope and focus to include such recent phenomena as the Internet (with fan culture revolving around Usenet groups, mailing lists, and blogs); the rapid growth of stories featuring previously taboo subjects such as underage sex, incest, and real person fiction (RPF); and the changing demographics of the fan base. Recent work has also queried the frequently debated and constantly shifting attitudes toward writing and community, as well as more sophisticated self-analysis, in part the result of the increasing presence of academic fans.
We are looking for academic essays geared toward a general readership and particularly welcome personal reflections of readers, writers, and fans. This collection strives to be interdisciplinary, and we especially welcome historical, sociological, and anthropological approaches, as well as English and media studies. Essays may focus on particular fandoms and source texts but should ultimately move beyond the specifics to address larger concerns and experiences relevant to fandom and fan fiction at large. Papers will fit into one of four broad sections: history and terminology; text, writer, reader; forms and genres; and community.
1. History and terminology
Factual accounts of history and terminology should be tempered with analysis, perhaps indicating shifts as time passes and as fan fiction moves from hard copy to cyberspace. Traditional zines, fan fiction CDs and
downloads, Usenet, mailing lists, and blogs could be analyzed, perhaps in terms of fandom's response to technological change. Analysis of specific fandoms as well as more general overviews are welcome.
2. Text, writer, reader
The relationship among any of the three elements of the rhetorical situation needs analysis. Academic/fan, reader/writer, process and writing, engagement with source text (such as episode fixes or traumatic events in the canon source), questions of canon, fanon and characterization, and issues of author insertion and identification--these are just a few uneasy relationships that need contextualization. Studies of the process of writing, as opposed to the product, as central are also needed.
3. Forms and genres
Content (romance, hurt/comfort, Mary Sue, slash, het/ship, genfic, episode fixes, alternate universes and realities, mpreg, BDSM, kinkfic, elves, wingfic) and form (real person fiction or slash, role-playing games, songfic, drabbles) should be assessed with a view to reaching a novel conclusion. Possible topics might include partnership versus enemy romance; the notion of slash as an idealized relationship; and challenge fics.
4. Community
New analyses of the fan fiction community generating and consuming the texts that take into account new use of technology are needed. LiveJournal and other online communities, the interaction among writer/beta/audience, fan fiction as gift, strategies to meld the fan fiction community (cons, fic archives), and inculcation of new fans into the fan fiction community all need to be theorized in light of technological change and a concomitant lack of policing. Other possible topics include the identity politics of fandom and the emotional investment of fans into fandom, the texts, and each other.
Details
All fandoms are welcome, as are essays about mediafic, bookfic, comicfic, and RPF. The volume will be geared to academics and students interested in jargon-free, theory-based analyses of media and audience, including, among others, students in English, media studies, and sociology. Personal scholarly essays as well as more traditional academic essays are encouraged.
Preparation
Submit complete essays not more than 7500 words in length (excluding abstract, notes, and works cited). Include an abstract not more than 500 words long that summarizes the argument. Submit files via e-mail in Microsoft Word or .rtf format. Use in-text author-page number citations whenever possible. Use endnotes sparingly for substantive notes. Style according to Chicago 15. If artwork, photographs, or screen shots are included, contact the editors for instructions and copyright release requirements. No simultaneous submissions. We also cannot accept previously published essays. If you have put your essay up on the Internet, we cannot consider it for inclusion.
Contact
Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse
E-mail: theorize@karenhellekson.com
URL: http://www.karenhellekson.com/theorize/
Deadline
April 1, 2005.
Please inform us in advance of your interest in the project and get in contact with us about any questions you might have about possible submission topics. We also encourage early submission to facilitate revision.
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WorldCon 2005-Call for Papers
The Academic Track for the Glasgow Worldcon in 2005 (Interaction) has been given 20 sessions--that's the equivalent of 60 papers or a full conference in itself.
The main theme is Matters of Britain, and as well as the Arthurian narratives, we are interested in all material on legend and folk lore, multiculturalism, balkanisation or anything else that occurs.
As well as the main theme, we welcome papers on all topics, and suggestions for panel discussions.
For more information:
http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/matter.htm
Suggestions to: Farah at fjm3.demon.co.uk.
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IAFA Newsletter Takes a New Form
At the Executive Board meeting held this summer, the Information Co-ordinator (yours truly) once more shared her tale of woe regarding the IAFA Newsletter.
Aside from all the usual problems with putting together a print newsletter (costs, distribution) there's the problem of getting together enough content within a reasonable time frame. Long story short: there just wasn't enough response to my continued pleas for content to justify printing a hardcopy Newsletter. We needed a way to share news in a timely manner without being bound by the need to make up a certain number of pages by a specific deadline.
So the board talked about how we could still communicate important news to IAFA members while furthering the sense of community that marks the annual conference. David Hartwell recommended that we turn to blogging, and ta da! here we are.
Y'all will need to bear with me over the coming weeks as I get a handle on this cool new (to me) technology. The plan is to post updates for the upcoming conference and announcements, both personal and professional, that IAFA members wish to share. After the annual conference, we'll continue to post conference reports and anecdotes (with pics, once I figure out how to do that) and we'll also post information about other sites, conferences, books, whatever of interest.
Ideas, suggestions, comments as always to cemains at shaw dot ca.
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