Forthcoming ARPF conferences: (in date order)

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ARE YOU BUYING WHAT WE’RE SELLING?

A conference hosted by Edge Hill University and the Association For Research in Popular Fictions

 Dean Walters Building Liverpool John Moores University 23rd February 2008

Advertising is changing and the tried and tested approaches are no longer as effective as they once were. Will consumer culture continue to dominate and how will the changes in advertising allow consumers to mediate lifestyles and style cultures choices? This colloquium seeks to explore and discuss some of the contemporary debates about the future of advertising. We are seeking papers from academics and postgraduates on technology and advertising, advertising narratives, celebrity endorsement, advertising and the ipod generation, no copy culture, teaching advertising histories.

 Please send an abstract of 250 words by 9.01.08 to Michelle Gledhill, Edge Hill University, St Helens Rd, Ormskirk, L39 4QP E-mail Gledhilm@edgehill.ac.uk

Faerie

Saturday 8^th March 2008

Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University

The Supernatural in Popular Narrative Colloquia Series

Call for Papers: We welcome papers considering popular fiction across any media (film, television, graphic novel, radio, print, narrative art) historical period and genre.  Topics for this conference might include, but are not limited to, fantasy and romantic literature, symbolic landscapes, archetypal characters, entrapment, gypsy lore, youth and beauty, glamour, Renaissance Studies,  Victorian fantasy, Children’s Literature, Shakespeare, the Snow Queen, the feast, stories from other lands and worlds, folklore, Charles Perrault, genies, temptation, the hidden folk: Dwarves,  Elves, Selkies, Pixies, Brownies, Hobgoblins, Gnomes, Sylphs, Elementals, Leprechauns,  Sprites, amorality, honour, giftgiving, wishes, eroticism, pathways, oaths and favours, fairy queens, Daoine Sidhe, Arthurian legend, the Wildhunt, enchantment, Elphame, Changelings, Tir na nog, the Seelie Courts, pathways, the old faith, illustration, interdiction. Deadline 31^st Jan 2008

Please contact: Nickianne Moody, convenor for ARPF, Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building, St James Road, Liverpool L1 7BR UK
E-mail N.A.Moody@ljmu.ac.uk        Fax: +44 (0)151 643 1980
Calls for specific panels will be announced via the ARPF website www.arpf.org.uk

Menagerie

Call for Papers: We welcome papers considering popular fiction across any media (film, television, graphic novel, radio, print, narrative art) historical period and genre.  Topics for this conference might include, but are not limited to, supernatural creatures, mythology, folktale, daemons, animation, travellers’ tales, totem animals, Shaman, magical husbandry, werewolves and shapechangers, dragons and wyrms, seamonsters, familiars, giants, trolls, forests and cities, fantastic ecologies, bestiaries, poachers, collectors and hunters.  Deadline 1^st March 2008

Please contact: Nickianne Moody, convenor for ARPF, Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building, St James Road, Liverpool L1 7BR UK
E-mail N.A.Moody@ljmu.ac.uk        Fax: +44 (0)151 643 1980
Calls for specific panels will be announced via the ARPF website www.arpf.org.uk

Undead

Call for Papers: We welcome papers considering popular fiction across any media (film, television, graphic novel, radio, print, narrative art) historical period and genre.  Topics for this conference might include, but are not limited to: necromancy, vampires, ghouls, zombies, Egyptian mythology, ghost stories, Victorian horror fiction, contemporary gothic, folksong, ancestry and heritage, perpetual youth, decay, thresholds, romance, special effects, hesitation and anxiety, revenants, spectral hauntings, poltergeists, séance, mediumship, spirit guides, the afterlife, the underworld  Deadline 1^st June 2008

Please contact: Nickianne Moody, convenor for ARPF, Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building, St James Road, Liverpool L1 7BR UK
E-mail N.A.Moody@ljmu.ac.uk        Fax: +44 (0)151 643 1980
Calls for specific panels will be announced via the ARPF website www.arpf.org.uk

Magic

Call for Papers: We welcome papers considering popular fiction across any media (film, television, graphic novel, radio, print, narrative art) historical period and genre.  Topics for this conference might include, but are not limited to: witches and wizards, arcane language, alchemy, spells and potions, magical items, journeys & quests, schools and apprenticeships, Children’s Literature, folktales, Renaissance Drama & Literature, Victorian Fantasy, warnings, rules, ethics, craft, urban and rural, balance, magical systems, prestige, healing, sorcery, ritual, trickery & illusion, knowledge, hexes and curses, plant lore. Deadline 1^st August 2008

Please contact: Nickianne Moody, convenor for ARPF, Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building, St James Road, Liverpool L1 7BR UK
E-mail N.A.Moody@ljmu.ac.uk        Fax: +44 (0)151 643 1980
Calls for specific panels will be announced via the ARPF website www.arpf.org.uk

‘The New World Entropy—a conference on Michael Moorcock’

(12/31/07; 6/7/08– 6/8/08) 

A two day conference hosted by The Association for Research into Popular Fictions in association with the University of East Anglia and the University of Hull on Saturday 7^th June – Sunday 8^th June 2008. We welcome 20 minute papers considering Michael Moorcock’s fiction across any media:

Topics for discussion include but are not limited to: 

n      Pluralism

n      Music and fiction

n      …and lesser known writers

n      The Holy Grail

n      Anti-Racism

n      New Worlds

n      Feminism: Angela Carter/Andrea Dworkin

n      Anarchism

n      Myth-making

n      “Fiction” and “Autobiography”

n      …and Psychogeography

n      Political Activism

n      The avant-garde

n      Early Moorcock versus Late Moorcock

n      …and Friends…

 Please send 300 word abstracts or expressions of interest by 31^st December 2007
to: Martyn Colebrook, Department of English, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX and Mark Williams, Department of English, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
e-mail Martyn.Colebrook_at_hull.ac.uk and _at_uea.ac.uk

Twenty First Century Teenager: Media Representation, Theory and Policy

A conference hosted by the Association for Research in Popular Fictions

10^th-12^th July,2008 Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds

TV drama, young adult fiction, music, art, citizenship agenda, documentary, photography, journalism, pedagogy, youth culture, social exclusion, child poverty, curriculum and literacy, sub-culture, new media, disability, teen audiences, magazines/comics, juvenile delinquency, beauty and lifestyle, pop and politics, internet cultures, texting and social ritual, teen nights and street culture, ASBOs and Hoodies, comparative studies.

 Please send an abstract of 200-300 words by December 15th 2007 to Nickianne Moody, Convenor ARPF, MCCA, Liverpool John Moores University, Dean Walters Building, St James Road, Liverpool L1 7BR E-mail N.A.Moody@ljmu.ac.uk Fax 0151 6431980

‘The New World Entropy—a conference on Michael Moorcock’

(12/31/07; 6/7/08– 6/8/08) 

A two day conference hosted by The Association for Research into Popular Fictions in association with the University of East Anglia and the University of Hull on Saturday 7^th June – Sunday 8^th June 2008. We welcome 20 minute papers considering Michael Moorcock’s fiction across any media:

Topics for discussion include but are not limited to: 

n      Pluralism

n      Music and fiction

n      …and lesser known writers

n      The Holy Grail

n      Anti-Racism

n      New Worlds

n      Feminism: Angela Carter/Andrea Dworkin

n      Anarchism

n      Myth-making

n      “Fiction” and “Autobiography”

n      …and Psychogeography

n      Political Activism

n      The avant-garde

n      Early Moorcock versus Late Moorcock

n      …and Friends…

 Please send 300 word abstracts or expressions of interest by 31^st December 2007
to: Martyn Colebrook, Department of English, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX and Mark Williams, Department of English, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
e-mail Martyn.Colebrook_at_hull.ac.uk and _at_uea.ac.uk

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