CFP: Popular Westerns and Westerns from Hollywood (7/1/03; 10/9/03-10/12/03)

From: Paul Varner (Paul.varner@oc.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 17:22:13 EST


The Best Kept Secret Among Academic Conferences

Come to Puebla, Mexico next October.

CALL FOR PAPERS

WESTERNS:

MOVIES AND PAPERBACK NOVELS

Topics might include John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Zane Grey, Louis
L'Amour, Max Brand, Clarence Mulford, Pulp Westerns, John Ford, Silent
Film Westerns, Feminist, Structuralist, Cultural, Historicist, and other
new critical perspectives on Westerns. Papers may be read in English or
Spanish. Papers and Proposals in other languages must provide English
translations.

The International Colloquium for Vernacular, Hispanic, Historical,
American and Folklore Studies and The North South Colloquium
<http://www.ipsonet.org/page.cgi?i=3Dconf-dir-mx#nsc>

Puebla, Mexico

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
October 9, 10, 11, 12, 2003.

A major host will be the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of
the Autonomous University of Puebla, along with the Vernacular Society,
the various popular and American culture associations, and other
academic groups. Other topics include
<http://www.ipsonet.org/vernacular/panels-topics.html> anthropology,
sociology, archaeology, gender, tourism and travel, Central America,
communication, computing, culture wars, photography, psychology, Chicano
and Chicana issues, Mexican History, art and architecture, the drug
problem, linguistics, folklore, poetry and literature readings, music
and performance, dance, film and television, food, computers, education,
urban issues. Affiliated organizations include the Popular and American
Culture Associations and their regional associations, Phi Beta Delta
International, Blue Key International, the Mexican Caribbean Studies
Association, Pan-American Vernacular Society, Lexington Press,
Blackwell's Publishers.

Proposals should include a one-page abstract and should be sent by July
1, 2003 to:

Paul Varner

Department of language and Literature

Oklahoma Christian University

PO Box 11000

Oklahoma City, OK 73136-1100

              Email: paul.varner@oc.edu

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