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CFP: Print Culture and the City [1 September 2003]
March 26th-27th 2004
Department of Art History and Communications Studies
McGill University, Montréal
Conference organizers: Kevin John Bozelka, Danielle Schwartz, Will Straw, Jessica Wurster
The Department of Art History and Communications Studies and The Culture of Cities Project at McGill University invite proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on Print Culture and the City. This conference will seek to stimulate dialogue and debate on the relationship between print culture and urban life. Papers may address a variety of forms of urban print culture: periodicals, newspapers, advertisements, flyers, books, broadsheets, calendars, posters, maps, etc.
Papers are expected to be no more than 20 minutes in duration. An abstract of 300-350 words should be submitted by September 1st. Potential presenters are asked to submit a short biography (2-3 lines) and full contact information with their proposals.
The organizers intend that this conference will allow substantial amounts of time for discussion. Therefore, a limited number of papers will be accepted.
Send abstracts to
Jessica Wurster
Department of Art History and Communications Studies
McGill University
853 Sherbrooke Street W.
Montréal, QC H3A 2T6
Canada
or jessica.wurster@mail.mcgill.ca
posted 4/14/2003
CFP: Rhetorics of Place [August 1, 2003]
Original essays are invited for a collection tentatively entitled "Rhetorics of Place."
The editors of this collection believe that the concept of „place‰ operates at the crossroads of current social, political, economic, and environmental issues. As educators we also believe that the exploration of "place"
provides the opportunity for bridging academic knowledge and students‚ everyday experiences. With this in mind we encourage submissions from a range of disciplines and perspectives in the hopes of developing a reader designed to provide an interdisciplinary overview of the current discussions
concerning "place" for the college classroom.
Possible topics: Exploration and Contestation of Key Terms/Concepts- Ethnographies of Place
- Representations of Place
- Writing Places
- Creating Local Knowledge
- Pedagogy and Place
- Urban Places
- Wild Places
- Place in Film
- Virtual and Imagined Places
- Gender, Class and Race Informed Readings of Place
- Place in Literature
- Global Forces and Local Places
- Social Control of Place/s
- Sacred Place
- Space vs. Place
- Colonial/Postcolonial Place
- Border Places
- Public Places
We are particularly interested in essays that integrate practice and theory.
Please feel free to explore and experiment -- both in form and in content. The deadline for submission is August 1, 2003. Essays should be 12-25 pages, in MLA format.
Please submit essays and proposals electronically to mdbent3@uky.edu
This collection is jointly edited by Michael Benton (Illinois State University), Wes Houp (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), and Melissa Purdue (University of Kentucky).
posted 4/03/2003
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