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Folklore and Popular Culture Area
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Call for Papers

Abstracts and panel proposals are now being accepted by the Folklore and Popular Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association for possible inclusion at the 2008 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference in San Francisco, CA. The conference will be held at the San Francisco Marriott, March 19-22, 2008. For more information about the conference, please visit www.pcaaca.org

We are looking for single paper abstracts and panel proposals on the connections and intersections between folklore and popular culture. Possible themes for papers/panels include but are not restricted to:

Folk Performances
Cultural Landscapes
Queer Studies in Folklore
Latino/Latina Studies in Folklore
Holidays and Celebrations
Folklore and Youth Culture
Folklore and Technology
Material Culture
Museums/Sites and Heritage Tourism
Folk Art
Folk Medicine
Folklore and Social Change
Nostalgia and Heritage
Foodways
The influence of folklore on any historical events, people and/or eras in movies, television and popular fiction.
Folklore in/and/as Popular Culture
Folk Religion and Belief
The difference between oral and literary sources of tradition
Gender in Folklore
Folklore and Scripture
Folklore and Epic
Illustrators/Illustration of folklore
Analogies between folklore and film
Symbolism in folklore

Potential participants do not need to be members to submit proposals; however, membership in either PCA or ACA and registration for the conference are required in order to present. The deadline for conference registration is January 1, 2008.

Plese send (100-250 words) paper abstracts, panel proposals (4 speakers and/or discussion panels of 3-4 participants--include title of panel and individual papers) by November 1, 2007 to Elisabeth Nixon, Ph.D., Folklore and Popular Culture Area Chair, by email to: nixone@franklin.edu.

Please remember to provide your contact information (name, affiliation, preferred mailing address, phone numbers, and email address) as well.

Paper acceptance obligates participants to present the paper at the conference. Multiple submissions to different areas are not allowed. Please note that you must be present at the conference to read your own paper.

Please also note that the PCA/ACA regulations limit participants to one paper presentation. Therefore, if you are interested in presenting in the Folklore and Popular Culture Area, please do not submit an abstract to another area. If you would like more information about PCA and ACA, consult our Web site, via link listed below. Visit the Call for Papers Web site at www.pcaaca.org

Letters of acceptance will be sent via email, unless a hardcopy is requested.

Call For Submissions

The Patrick B. Mullen Prize

This is a $200 cash award for the best OSU folklore graduate student paper.

Eligible papers:

Must be written by current OSU folklore graduate students.
Must have been written within the last 12 months.
Eligible submissions include papers/essays

written for a class
presented for conferences or publication
may be part of a dissertation or thesis chapters
may be written specifically for the Mullen Prize

Must not have been previously published.
Only one paper submission per student.
The student must not have been a previous recipient of the Mullen Prize.

Format:

Submissions should be on 8.5 x 11 white paper
Paperclip your pages together; do not staple
Submit one copy only of your paper
The submission should have a title page that includes:

your name
title of the paper
a sentence describing what the paper was originally written for
today's date

Do Not include your name on any of the other pages All pages (excluding the title page) should include a header that lists the title of the paper and the page number

Papers should be submitted to the Center for Folklore Studies offices, Dulles 308, no later than 2:00 pm on May 1.

Center for Folklore Studies