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April 25, 2005
ICFA26 - Dale Knickerbocker on the IF Division
First, as a rookie Div Head (International Fantastic), I’d like to thank the officers and other Div Heads for their advice and support defore and during ICFA. It was challenging, exhausting, but mostly FUN!
The first thing that called my attention as I looked at the list of IF participants was that the number of first-timers and veterans was almost even—which I consider a healthy sign. Hopefully, we convinced the newbies that returning is always a good idea. I was especially encouraged by the quality of papers given by first-time grad student attendees (thanks Hiroko, Miri, Shannon, Stephanie).
The variety of topics was even more mind-blowing (to stop just sort of bizarre) than ever, running from Brazilianizing Tolkein to werewolves and shapeshifters in anime and manga to Cuban Horror to Eastern yogic influences on Philip K. Dick to the transreal in early Protestant mysticism (yes, you read it correctly) to genetic memory and hermaphroditism. Dizzying to read, isn’t it?
It was also a truly international ICFA, with IF participants coming from as far away as Finland, Sweden, Germany, Japan, France—not to mention even more exotic places such as Southern California and South Florida.
I would like to thank the participants in the panel session on U.S literary “imperialism” in Western Europe and the difficulties faced by European authors in publishing and selling their work: ICFA veterans Lokke Heiss, Gideon Haberkorn, and David Dickens; (the ubiquitous) Stefan Ekman, and authors Niklas Krog and Irma Hirsjarvi. And moreso the hearty souls who got up at 8:30 on Saturday to attend. Panelists took loose threads of topics (brainstormed by e-mail) and weaved them into an edifying discussion. I know I learned much.
And of course thanks to the core group of friends I look forward to seeing each year, even if you haven’t been mentioned specifically, we certainly don’t take you for granted.
Two items of business:
1)PLEASE BE THINKING OF TOPICS FOR A PANEL FOR NEXT YEAR AND
2) LET’S SEE IF WE CAN ALSO COME UP WITH AN IF ROUND TABLE:
We would need a text accessible and interesting to the wide variety of research interests represented in IF—preferrably related to the visual arts.
I’m already taking suggestions…
Thanks again to all, and see you next year.
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ICFA26 - Chip Sullivan reports
The Children's/Young Adult Literature Panel, "The Lion and the Unicorn Special Issue on YA Science Fiction," drew a good crowd on Thursday morning. Mary Harris Russell (moderator), Brian Attebery, Mike Levy, and Chip Sullivan discussed the idea of YA science fiction as a sub-genre, referring to the essays in The Lion and the Unicorn 28.2 (2004) for examples, and then engaged members of the audience in a lively discussion of YA SF in general, with those in the audience and on the panel commenting on their own early reading. The panel proved that the topic of YA SF is one that could certainly stand more critical attention.
Don Palumbo and Chip Sullivan discussed their series with McFarland Press at "Publishing Opportunities" on Thursday afternoon. The series, "Critical Explorations in Science Ficxtion and Fantasy" is fairly new, with three books contracted thus far, and Palumbo and Sullivan are seeking viable proposals. For additoional information, e-mail Don Palumbo (enpalumbo AT earthlink.net) for proposals that deal with science fiction, film, art, or popular culture, and Chip Sullivan (SullivanC AT mail.ecu.edu) for proposals that deal with fantasy, mythology, or folklore.
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April 13, 2005
ICFA 26 - Cultural Identities Caucus Meeting
Cultural Identities Caucus Meeting
Ten people attended this year's meeting, and our discussion led me to realize that in the last year, Anita and I who are the co-moderators of the Caucus did not do a good enough job of continuing to get information out about this group and our purpose. So let me quote a bit from the CIC page on the IAFA web site: "Whether we believe in identities or deconstruct them, we live our lives within the politics of gender, race, class and sexual orientation. Our IAFA lives are no exception. In our environment, in the books we read and in the films we watch (whether we close our eyes to or open them up for such occurrences), we continuously come across questions of identities and politics in such varied texts as SF/F novels, horror films, comic books, and the LOTR visual adaptations. The Cultural Identities caucus is intended to add to the existing caucuses and divisions rather than to compete with them, to help those interested in writing on these issues to find a place, and to invite more participants into our already fantastic family."
The discussion at the meeting this year focused on how members can develop and submit not only individual proposals, but also session proposals, theory roundtable readings, and panel discussion proposals, as well as "theme" proposals for the conference. We worked on developing the proposal for a "Queer and Gender" Theme that was submitted to the Board this year, and discussed a future proposal for a "Race and Ethnicity" Theme to be developed in future years. If you are interested in working on either of these proposals, or have questions or other ideas, feel free to contact one of the two moderators listed below.
Anita Nicholson
anita.nicholson AT villanova.edu
Robin Reid
Robin_Reid AT tamu-commerce.edu
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ICFA 26 - Women in SF and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia
Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia
Greenwood Press
This information is not the formal/final call which will be distributed starting in June. I would like to thank Farah Mendlesohn who found me a space to do some preliminary work at one of the two conferences from whose membership I expect to find many of my contributors. At this point, I am soliciting early input, regarding possible contributors, and suggestions for entries and topics. I signed the contract with Greenwood in January, and the completion date is January 2007.
This project will produce the first general reference work focusing on women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy. Projected length: 350,000 words.
The focus will be primarily on work in English from the 19th century to the present, covering fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, music and poetry. Background entries will draw on existing international scholarship on feminism, women writers and fantastic genres to cover major writers in other languages and national traditions. Background entries will also address fantasy by and about women from the Middle Ages through the 1800's. Entries on how the topics of "women" and "gender" have been dealt with by male writers and artists in science fiction and fantasy will also be included.
I wish to solicit contributions from scholars in the following fields: communications and media studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, film and television studies, gender studies, history, literature, media studies, multicultural studies, sociology, and women's studies. Scholars in other fields working with the fantastic are also encouraged to participate.
Vol. I will consist of thematic essays providing socio-historical context, analysis, and background information on key themes that cross genre boundaries. Two possible schemas are being considered for this volume. The final editorial choice will depend to some extent on the scholarship of the chosen contributors. One approach is chronological but multi-genre essays. An alternate approach would be to focus on a single genre per essay, with each essay covering a given historical period.
Vol. II will consist of the A-to-Z component. Alphabetically organized entries will focus narrowly on key figures and issues. Entry categories, which can apply to any of the media covered by the work, will include (but are not limited to): single entries on significant writers/artists/composers (primarily women but some men); group and background entries on a range of writers/artists/composers not covered in single entries; and single and group entries on characters and character types, genres, historical periods, national traditions, and major themes.
If you have suggestions for themes for essays or entries in any of the genres, please send on a brief statement/rationale (1-2 paragraphs). If you are interested in applying to be a contributor, please send a short statement of research interests and a brief c.v. to:
Robin Reid
Dept. of Literature & Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce TX 75429
Email: wsffencyclopedia AT yahoo.com
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ICFA26 - Report from Robin Reid
Consumed with guilt over past years of promising Chrissie my con report and never following through, I swore that I would do this the *first* thing when I got back! I thoroughly enjoyed this year's conference. In the following paragraphs, I focus more on specific sessions I participated in or attended, but can say, in general, that the major events I attended were as intriguing and wide-ranging as usual.
Panel: Beyond Lord of the Rings: I have enjoyed moderating panel discussions on The Lord of the Rings, book and film. I would like to thank this year's panel, Charles W. Nelson, Elizabeth Whittingham, Don Riggs, and Tom Shippey, did an excellent job of speaking to many of the major issues regarding Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's book. The question of what changes are necessary when moving from book to film, what changes are most controversial or could be challenged, and what effect(s) this popular film will have on the reception of Tolkien's (also controversial for some years!) novel were covered. At this point, I would encourage anyone interested to consider presenting a paper developing these general points in more detail and plan to send out specific calls and organize paper sessions in future years since I remain a major fan of both book and film!
Virgins & Divas: Genre Bending In Fantastic Film: I will be teaching a popular culture class using film and television series (episodes only) this spring, so was thrilled to see this session although disappointed that only two of the presenters were able to make it. "Undoing the Maiden: The Female Victim-Hero and Patriarchy in David Fincher's Alien 3" by Ximena Gallardo C. was a fascinating look at gender and genre bending in a controversial film which I was familiar with. I was most intrigued by "Virginal Fears and Wicked Desires in Dario Argento's Suspiria" by Douglas Keesey since I am not familiar with Argento's work. As often happens, there was some wonderful interconnections made between the two presentations in discussion afterwards.
SF Theory Round Table: The discussion of Chapter 1, ahem 2, ahem whichever, of Justine Larbalestier’s The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction was well attended by people who were interested in her blend of historical and linguistic methodology and what she has to say about the development of science fiction as a community, and the perceptions of "women" in the early years of formation in the United States. I would like to thank Len Hatfield and Joan Gordon for so ably training me in this kind of event, and all those who read and attended, and especially those who participated. (And can highly recommend the book for those who haven't had a chance to read it yet!)
Panel: Fan(dom) Methodology: My new area of scholarship, besides film studies, is fandom studies, and this panel was one of the most interesting events for me. Organized and moderated by Eden Lackner, the discussion by Rebecca Bley, Elizabeth Guzik, Karen Hellekson, Barbara Lucas, Cynthia Walker and myself (as a last minute substitute) covered a range of disciplines, methodologies, theories, and even legalities (since I had to learn about Human Subjects Protection on my campus last fall). I am not sure one can even call this a "field" since so many disciplines, potentially, are doing scholarship on "fandom" (sociology, anthropology, communications, media studies, psychology, cultural studies, and more). Since the publication of major monographs by Jenkins, Penley, and Bacon-Smith over a decade ago, the move of fans (and others) to the internet has opened up new questions and issues that have barely begun to be studied although apparently some fans feel they have been "over-studied"!
Fantasy and Fan Fiction: Merging Modes and Genres in Appropriated Texts: This session was one of three devoted to fan studies, embodying a range of disciplinary and theoretical methods for analysis. "'If I Wasn't a (Celebrity)': Alternate Times/Bodies/Realities in Celebrity Fiction and the Search for Identity" by Kristina Busse analyzed a specific genre of fanfiction (boyband). "Embodying the Geek Hierarchy: Media Fanfiction and Theatrical Performance" by Francesca Coppa made an intriguing argument for considering the performative/theatrical model for analyzing media fanfiction which has its origins in the dramatic genre. Finally,"'In Real Time': Role Playing Games and the Inflection of Fantasy in the Everyday" by Louisa Stein considered aspects of fantasy role playing games in different media.
Fantastic Family Film Values: As a fan of fantasy and sf film, I greatly enjoyed this session. The two presentations complemented each other beautifully, and I was impressed by the discussion afterwards. "Devilish Creatures, Communist Rabbits: The Fantastic Child" by Andrew M. Butler covered the construction of children in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, which I know, and another film, which sadly, I do not and so have forgotten the title. The discussion of "Spielberg's The Lost World: Dinosaur Family Values" by Andrew Gordon made some telling and witty points about the best family in that film (the T. Rex) compared to the bad families.
Many Meetings: Identity and Community in The Lord of the Rings Fan Fiction: I have no shame; this session was the one I presented on, with the two friends who are responsible for my entry back in active fandom and my new area of scholarship, Tolkien fandom(s). "'In the Darkness Bind Them': The Dark Erotic in The Lord of the Rings Slash Fiction" by Barbara Lucas examined how the contemporary club culture of BDSM operates in the different genres, Fictional People Slash and Real People Slash. "Bound to Their Fate: Character Drift Between Source Texts and Real People Slash Fiction in The Lord of the Rings" by Eden Lackner continued to develop her on-going analysis of how the source texts (in this case, the other roles played by the actors who played some of the secondary characters in the film) affect the fan fiction writing of those actor-characters in RPS. I used a linguistic methodology to analyze style and gender in my presentation on archives in "Breaking of the Fellowship: Competing Discourses of Archives and Canons in The Lord of the Rings Internet Fandom."
Tolkien's Legendarium and his Influences on Gestures and Nostalgia in Fantasy Literature: I've been cribbing liberally from the program information to make sure I have the correct titles and names for events, but as I remember this session, most of the paper titles changed, so my apologies to the presenters since I didn’t make careful notes at the time! Elizabeth Whittingham presented on various versions of Tolkien's "Valaquenta" and how the changes over time reflected a shift in the construction of religion and the Valar. Graham Sleight analyzed what seems to be a key structural element in fantasy, the matching and opposition of explanations of the "magic" as well along with the possible renunciation of it, focusing on a number of fantasy texts. Elizabeth Hoiem discussed dragons in a range of fantasy novels.
The Songs, Heroes and Races of Middle-Earth: This second Tolkien session I attended was interesting in the range of topics. In "Poems/Songs in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" Rebecca Ankeny analyzed the structural and thematic use of poetry and song in the novel. Jennifer Culver, in "Echoes of Dragon Slaying in The Lord of the Rings: Use of Language to Underscore the Heroes in and out of the Fellowship," used a linguistic analysis to see how Tolkien embedded dragons in the language of the novel even though no actual dragon is a characters. And in "Tolkien and the Shifting Value of Race," Joe Sutliff Sanders presented a fascinating discussion of racial constructions in Tolkien that tried to move beyond a too simplistic racist/nonracist binary.
Always Already Written: Fan/Fiction : This final session of fan studies was the most interdisciplinary of all the sessions I attended. In "Fan Fiction and the Gift: Writer, Reader, Text," Karen Hellekson applied anthropological concepts of the "gift economy" to fan fiction writing communities. The presentation by Larisa Mikhaylova, "Righteous, Proper and Good: Engendering Honor in Star Trek and Babylon 5," analyzed cultural and gendered constructions of honor in the two series. And finally, a project to develop an anthropological study, "Fanfiction: An Ethnographic Perspective," was presented by Bryn Neuenschwander and Alyc Helms.
Ed. Note: Robin also reported on her participation in the Cultural Identities Caucus meeting and her initial presentation of her new project, The Encyclopedia of Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy. I decided to move those sections into their own entries so that such important information wouldn't get buried in the midst of all the other cool stuff that Robin had to say.
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April 12, 2005
Study Day at U of Nottingham
Science Fiction(s):
A Study Day on Science Fiction Film, Television, Literature and New Media
University of Nottingham,
Friday, 19th August 2005
We are delighted to announce Will Brooker, Cathy Johnson and Sara Gwenllian-Jones as keynotes speakers at this event, in addition to a presentation by Simon Hollington and Kypros Kyprianou surrounding their cross-disciplinary project, The Invisible Force Field Experiments.
Call for Papers:
While popular representations of science fiction have been granted a certain degree of academic legitimacy in recent years, this study day represents an attempt to rethink the frameworks in which the study of science fiction has been defined generically by industries, audiences and texts. The Science Fiction(s) event seeks to redress the balance in order to examine the crossover of sf spectacularity, and the intermediality of sf's intersection with television, literature and new media.
This one day forum for debate is intended to facilitate an interrogation of the cultural value of these peripheral and multidisciplinary engagements with science fiction(s), seeking to examine how sf space has transmuted into divergent media. Our intention is to look specifically at the extensive crossover potentials that emerge between sf manifestations such as television, literature, DVD and video, as well as gaming and internet community participation.
Possible topics might include but are by no means limited to:
SF Crossing the Generic Divide
Science Fiction/Science Fact
Science Fiction and Science Eventuality
Selling Science Fiction To Infinity and Beyond
Blockbusting SF SFX
Low Budget and Independent SF
Time Travel and Quantum Leaps
Transgressive Hyperbodies
Internet Communities, Fandom and Collecting
Gaming and Console Creativity
Please send proposals of 300 words and a short biographical note by Friday, 29 April 2005 to
Kerry Gough: arxklg1 AT nottingham.ac.uk
Or by post to:
Kerry Gough
Science Fiction(s) Committee
Institute of Film and Television Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD
Further details and a registration form are available at: the website.
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Science Fiction Foundation Awards
A reminder from Michelle Reid about two separate awards run by the Science Fiction Foundation.
First, a reminder that the deadline for the annual SF Foundation Essay Prize is coming up on 31 May 2005.
Judges for 2005:
Brian Attebery (Idaho State University)
Graham Joyce (World Fantasy Award winner)
Dianne Newell (University of British Columbia)
Essay submissions are invited for the annual Foundation Essay Prize. Authors must be graduate students at the time of submission. The essay, which must be in English, should be between 5000 and 8000 words long and may be on any aspect of science fiction.
Please send your submissions to Dr Michelle Reid in Word format, at michelle AT surguy.net
The winning essay will be published in Foundation; all submissions to the prize will be regarded as submissions to the journal, and will be considered for publication.
Second, the SF Foundation Bursary, which is open to everyone:
A £250 bursary will be awarded by the Science Fiction Foundation to be put towards the cost of a research visit to the SFF Collection at the University of Liverpool. Preference will be given to those not normally resident in Liverpool and its region.
Send a proposal of the planned research (maximum 300 words) to Dr Michelle Reid at michelle AT surguy.net
There is no deadline for applications as proposals will be judged on a case by case basis according to the needs of the applicant and merit of the research. More than one bursary may be awarded per year.
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April 07, 2005
LRA Awards
The Lord Ruthven Assembly presented the following awards at the ICFA 26 Annual Conference:
The award for fiction:
Vamped by David Sosnoski. Free Press, 2004.
The award for nonfiction:
Bram Stocker: A Bibliography by Richard Dalby and William Hughes. Desert Island Press, 2004.
The award for performance:
The Smith College Production of Suzy McKee Charnas' Vampire Dreams. April 2004.
Thanks to Jim Holte for the information.
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April 05, 2005
ICFA 26 - Dell Magazines Award (formerly Asimov's)
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and Asimov's Science Fiction magazine have named Anthony Ha the winner of the 2005 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing for his short story "Around the World." Ha is an undergraduate at Stanford University and a repeat winner from 2004. This is the first time the Dell Magazines Award (formerly the Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing) has had a repeat winner.
First Runner-up for the 2004 award is Eliza Blair from Swarthmore College for her short story, “Friends in Need.”
Second Runner-up is Alice Kim of Stanford University for her short story, “Are You Getting All of This?”
Third Runner-up is Michail Velichansky of the University of Maryland – College park for his short story, “Evelyn.” Velichansky was a runner-up in 2004.
Honorable Mention for 2005 goes to three undergraduate writers: Catherine Krahe of Illinois Wesleyan for her short story, “Undine”; Amelia Beamer of Michigan State University for her short story, “The First Stone,” (Beamer is a repeat finalist from 2004); and Madeleine B. Sheldon-Dante of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her short story, “Astep.”
Ha received $500 for the Asimov award and an expense-paid trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 16-20, where he received the award from Sheila Williams, Editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, during the conference awards banquet. Blair, Kim, Velichansky, Krahe and Beamer also attended the conference and received their awards from Williams during the awards banquet.
Deadline for submissions for the 2006 Dell Magazines Award is January 2, 2006. Submissions should be sent to: Dell Magazines Award, School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler, Tampa, Fla. 33620. For more information or submission guidelines contact Award Administrator Dr. Rick Wilber at the School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler, Tampa, Fla. 33620 at (813) 974-6792 or RWilber AT cas.usf.edu or see the magazine's website at Asimovs.com.
The Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing is co-sponsored by Asimov's Science Fiction magazine and the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and supported by the School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
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Update - CfP Theorizing Fan Fiction
The deadline has been extended to May 15.
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.
Publication details
We do not have a firm book contract yet. However, a publisher has expressed interest in the proposal and has agreed to look at the volume. If the publisher accepts the volume, we anticipate a late 2005 publication date.
Contact
Karen Hellekson, PhD, and Kristina Busse, PhD
* E-mail: theorize@karenhellekson.com
* URL: http://www.karenhellekson.com/theorize/
Deadline
Extended to May 15, 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.
Karen Hellekson
Kristina Busse
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April 02, 2005
Europeans travelling to future ICFAs
Farah Mendlesohn wants to pass along this important information to European members of IAFA who may be travelling to the States, for next year's conference or before:
"Most Europeans, including almost all British citizens, will need a visa to visit America later this year after the US Congress said that there was little chance of postponing a deadline for the introduction of biometric passports."
For full story, go here.
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