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January 21, 2007
IAFA 2007 Election
Members in good standing of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts are automatically subscribed to a members-only list (iafa-members). This list is used to conduct IAFA business that affects only the current members of the association, including the election of officers to the Executive Board.
The current President and First Vice President of IAFA complete their terms of service immediately following this year's conference in March, to be replaced by a new President and First Vice President. Recently, statements by the candidates for these positions were circulated on the members-only list and posted to the Newsletter blog.
Within the next day or so, all members in good standing should receive a ballot, sent to the iafa-members list. This ballot provides instructions for returning your ballot with your vote for these positions. The candidates are
for President: Farah Mendlesohn
ror 1VP: Donald Palumbo and Christine Mains
IAFA members have the option of choosing from among the candidates listed, or writing in the name of another IAFA member who meets the eligibility for the position, or of indicating their refusal to vote for the candidates offered.
The deadline for submitting the ballot is February 15, 2007.
Questions regarding the technical issues of participating in the election, including not receiving the ballot through the members-only list, should be directed to Len Hatfield at Len.Hatfield AT vt.edu. More general concerns about the elections process should be directed to the Immediate Past President as chair of the Elections Committee, who is Bill Senior at wsenior AT broward.edu.
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January 14, 2007
ICFA 28 Grad Paper Award
A reminder for all graduate students who will be presenting at IAFA in March, 2007.
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts is pleased to continue its annual award and stipend to the graduate student submitting the outstanding paper at the Association’s 2007 Conference, to be held at the Fort Lauderdale Airport Hilton, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 14-18, 2007. The award, and a cheque for $250, will be presented to the winner at the Awards Banquet on Saturday evening.
Deadline: February 1, 2007
CRITERIA & INSTRUCTIONS
1. The student will have had a paper accepted for presentation at the Conference. The paper submitted for the competition should be essentially the same as that presented at the conference. The maximum length for entries is 3500 words (about 2 pages over the recommended reading length of 8-9 pages). Students should be aware that funds are limited and that only one award will be given. The paper selected will be published in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and therefore must not have been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Please note that acceptance of a paper for the Conference does not guarantee an award.
2. It is the responsibility of the student to send a copy of the paper by 1 February 2007 to the IAFA Student-Support Committee’s Chair, as well as a copy of the letter of acceptance and verification of student status. Submissions may be in WordPerfect, MSWord or rich text format (rtf) files, sent as e-mail attachments to Robin Anne Reid, at:
Robin_Reid AT tamu-commerce.edu
Support documents may be sent as attached files to the same address or sent by mail to:
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429
3. The committee is looking for good writing: clear, coherent, and interesting. Essays should be solidly grounded in scholarly tradition, showing awareness of previous studies and of historical contexts. Essays may use any suitable method of analysis, including historical and sociological approaches as well as those which originate in literary theory. Judges tend to value the ability to examine materials from a theoretical perspective without simply plugging in a particular critical method. Essays should give a clear idea of the critical/theoretical framework within which the discussion will be situated, as well as identify primary and secondary texts for the discussion.
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ICFA28 Program on the Website
A nearly-final working draft of the program for ICFA 28, to be held March 14-18, 2007 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been uploaded to the website at www.iafa.org.
We still need some details filled in, and because it is a work-in-progress, there will likely be some changes before the deadline for heading to the printer. And of course things will change even after that deadline, with the inevitable late cancellations.
Please be sure to check your own information for possible errors in spelling your name, affiliation, paper title, etc. If there are any concerns, contact your division head and Farah, VP in charge of scheduling the program, at farah.sf AT gmail DOT com.
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