CFP: Children's/YA Literature and Popular Culture (11/1/03; SW/TX
PCA/ACA, 4/7/04-4/10/04)
Call for Papers on Children's and YA Literature and popular culture –
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference
The Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association will be sponsoring a combined session on Children's/Young
Adult Literature and Popular Culture at the 25th Annual meeting to be
held April 7-10, 2004, at the San Antonio Marriott River Center in San
Antonio, TX. This year we will be co joined with the National Popular
Culture Association Conference. For further details regarding the
conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.)
please visit the developing website: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~swpca
Note: Although the Conference web site and poster list Children's
Literature and YA Literature as separate Areas with separate Area
Chairs, the two areas have had to be combined due to the necessity of
the YA Chair having to pull out of the conference. Please direct all
abstracts for Children's and YA areas to the Children's
Literature/Culture Area Chair: Diana Dominguez –
gypsy-scholar@worldnet.att.net
Any aspect of Children's/YA Literature (traditional, fairy tale, or
contemporary) and/or Children's/YA popular culture issues – television,
comics, films, toys, music, gender role models, fashion – will be
reviewed for acceptance. Please provide an abstract of no more than 500
words no later than 1 November 2003 for review. Although I will accept
abstracts up until 25 November 2003, I cannot guarantee that you will be
placed in this year's conference.
As this is a Popular Culture conference, presentations that go beyond
the traditional paper-reading format are HIGHLY encouraged: discussion
sessions, performance sessions, "show and tell" presentations, audience
participation sessions, and roundtable sessions are some examples. In
addition to the sessions put together based on submissions, I will be
offering a general discussion session during which all Children's/YA
participants (and general public) can gather to discuss and share
favorite or inspirational Children's/YA influences: what made the
greatest impact on you as a child, and are there any stories,
characters, or other Children's/YA cultural icons that still influence
you today or have stood the test of time. This became one of the
favorite sessions of the Children's/YA area last year, and I would like
to repeat the experience.
Presentations will be limited to no more than 20 minutes. Please adhere
to this limitation since we are always on a tight time constraint and
everyone deserves a chance to be heard. Please also send any
Audio/Visual requests with abstracts. The conference can only supply
the following: Cassette/CD player, Overhead projector/screen, TV/VCR
combo (DVD players are limited to Film Area presentations), and Slide
Project/Screen (presenter MUST bring own slide carousel).
Please direct abstracts or any questions to:
Diana Dominguez
Area Chair: Children's/YA Literature and Popular Culture
Electronic submissions highly preferred: gypsy-scholar@worldnet.att.net
Physical address:
4968 Las Cruces Court
Brownsville, Texas 78526
(Please DO NOT send correspondence to Texas Tech in Lubbock, as I am no
longer there, although I am still officially affiliated with the
University)
Please be aware that the e-mail listed on web site and on poster is only
an alternate e-mail address, which is not as reliable as the preferred
e-mail listed above.
Cheers,
Diana Dominguez
Area Chair
gypsy-scholar@worldnet.att.net
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