CFP: Death in American Culture Section, Mid-Atlantic Popular/American
Culture Association Annual Conference, Wilmington, DE, Nov. 7-9, 2003.
DEATH IN AMERICAN CULTURE: Papers are welcome on any aspect of American
cultural responses to death. Paper proposals may be from any appropriate
discipline and cover any historical period. General topic areas include but
are not limited to the following:
* Attitudes toward and practices relating to death, including the
medicalization of death, the social construction of death, death in art and
literature, funeral customs, the evolution of the funeral business and the
cemetery, changing attitudes toward the dead body and its disposal, and
burial and mourning practices.
* Memorialization, including the history, iconography, or rhetoric of
gravemarkers and memorials; regional and ethnic practices; and gender,
class, and race in the cemetery and memorialization.
In recent years the Death in American Culture section has included 3-4
panels and a Saturday afternoon tour. Information on the organization and
other CFPs can be found at the MAP/ACA webpage
http://www.siue.edu/~rdonald/mapaca/mapaca.html and the MAP/ACA newsletter
webpage http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/
The 2003 conference will be held at the Wyndham Wilmington Hotel.
Registration fees apply. Send 1-page proposal, brief CV, complete contact
information including email, and AV needs by June 15, 2003 (by regular mail
or email).
Contact information:
Gary Collison
Penn State York
1031 Edgecomb Ave.
York, PA 17403
Phone: 717-771-4029
Fax: 717-771-4022
Email: glc@psu.edu
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