[ecrea] CFP: Popular Print Cultures

>Call for Papers and Presentations
>Continuities and Innovations: Popular Print Cultures ­ Past and
>Present, Local and Global
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
>27-30 August 2008
>
>Papers and presentations are invited for any aspect of the conference
>theme. Proposals should be 200 to 300 words in length and clearly state
>the central theme or argument, the kind of popular print or related
>media to be considered, and its social and cultural location in time
>and place.
>             Please indicate any equipment requirements (data projector;
>conference computer; overhead projector; video or dvd player; audio
>player, etc). A brief resumé should accompany each proposal, stating
>the proposers name, address, contact information, and relevant
>academic, professional, or personal background and knowledge of form of
>popular print culture discussed.
>             Send proposals and resumés by email as pasted-in documents
>or attachments in an up-to-date format to: (popprint /at/ ualberta.ca)
>             Or mail hard copies to: Popprint, Kirsten MacLeod,
>Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta,
>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E5. Questions to either address.
>             Deadline for proposals is 30 May 2008. But space on the
>program is limited, and proposals will be considered on a first-come,
>first-accommodated basis.
>
>This conference and popular arts festival consider what most people
>read, here and elsewhere, now and in the past. Popular print
>characteristically includes both words and images, and is intertwined
>with music and performance. In these forms it has been and continues to
>be one of the most powerful cultural forces in history, morphing into
>new media and new technologies, from the phonograph record through
>radio, film, and television to video games and the internet.
>             Popular print culture is now a global phenomenon, with
>striking similarities in what most people read, anywhere. Yet there are
>also striking local differences, inflections, and variations in what
>most people read, here or elsewhere. Continuities and Innovations
>will bring together all those interested in popular print
>culture--readers and writers, publishers and fans, librarians and
>collectors, teachers and students, and of course researchers in many
>academic disciplines.
>             Proposals are invited from all of these groups, directly
>addressing the conference theme, or taking up any aspect of Popular
>Print Cultures, Past and Present, Local and Global. Topics can include
>relations between popular print and other media, between popular and
>high literatures, between words and images, between words and music,
>between past and present forms, and so on. Presentations may be from
>writers, readers, publishers, teachers, students, distributors,
>sellers, librarians, illustrators, opponents, promoters, adapters to
>other media, fans, collectors, et al. Papers and presentations can be
>on any relevant topicreading popular print and creating it, writing it
>and illustrating it, publishing it and selling it, counteracting it or
>transforming it, adapting it and influencing it, censoring it and
>living it, and more. Participants may consider popular print and
>politics, religion, sexuality, class, ethnicity, race, nationality,
>or any other theme.
>             Google Edmonton Alberta and University of Alberta for
>information on the venue. Program and other information, including
>travel and accommodation details, regularly updated, will be available
>on the conference website: www.arts.ualberta.ca/popprint
>
>
>
>
>-- Gary Kelly FRSC
>University Professor
>Department of English and Film Studies
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, AB
>T6G 2E5
>Canada
>(780) 492-0561
>(gkelly /at/ ualberta.ca)

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