University of South Australia The Hawke Centre
Global Buffy & Local Identities
Adelaide, South Australia July 22, 2003
University of South Australia, City East Campus, Brookman Hall
Call for Papers
Staking a Claim: Global Buffy and Local Identities
Hosted by The Hawke Research Institute, and the University of South
Australia, will be an international symposium exploring the global reach of
the Buffy phenomenon from the perspectives of academics, fans and industry.
Why has Buffy inspired such a passionate reaction from both the audience
and scholars? Can Buffy fandom and Buffy scholarship be separated?
Confirmed presenters include:
Professor Rhonda Wilcox (Division of Humanities, Gordon College, Georgia)
and Professor David Lavery (English Department, Middle Tennessee State
University), co-editors of Fighting the Forces: What=92s at stake in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer and Slayage: the Online International Journal of Buffy
Studies.
Dr Catherine Driscoll, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the
University of Sydney, author of Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular
Culture and Culture Theory and a forthcoming book on Buffy the Vampire
Slayer.
Dr Sue Turnbull, School of Communication, Arts & Critical Inquiry at La
Trobe University has published extensively in the areas of audience
research, television formats and the representation of crime, and was
co-editor of Tomorrow Never Knows: Soap on Australian Television.
Dr Vanessa Knights, Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
Dr Geraldine Bloustien, School of Communication Information and New Media,
University of South Australia, author of Girl-Making: a Cross-cultural
Ethnography of Growing up Female.
David Franken, Program Director, Channel 7 Brisbane.
Call for papers:
The symposium committee also invites proposals for individual papers from
established and emerging scholars, industry participants and fans. Papers
will be presented at a series of afternoon parallel sessions. Possible
themes for papers are wide-ranging but should fit into one of three broad
areas:
=B7 the Buffy texts - meaning, analysis and interpretation
=B7 the Buffy audience - fan cultures, reception and production
=B7 the Buffy =91industry=92 - media policy and delivery systems,
merchandising etc.
Proposals (of no more than 250 words) should be directed via e-mail to the
Organising Committee at buffy@unisa.edu.au.
Be Quick! Submissions deadline =96 April 30, 2003
For general information about the symposium please refer email to:
Gerry Bloustien (symposium convenor) gerry.bloustien@unisa.edu.au,
or Michelle Wauchope (symposium secretary) michelle.wauchope@unisa.edu.au
or visit our symposium website at: http://www.com.unisa.edu.au/buffy
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