CFP: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (SC3), 3-6 June 2010, Flagler College, Saint Augustine, FL
-A +Adeadline: 1 December 2009
Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (www.slayageonline.com) and the Whedon Studies Association solicit your proposal for the fourth Slayage Conference: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (SC4), sponsored by Flagler College. This conference dedicated to the imaginative universe(s) of Joss Whedon—the Jossverse(s) or Whedonverse(s)—will be held on the campus of Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida, June 3-6, 2010. Drs. Tamara and James Wilson of Flagler's Department of English will be local arrangements chairs.
We welcome a proposal of 200-300 words (or an abstract of a completed paper) on any aspect of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Serenity, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Dollhouse, his comics (e.g. Fray, Astonishing X-Men, Runaways, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight), or any element of the work of Whedon and his collaborators. We invite presentations from the perspective of any discipline: literature, history, communications, film and television studies, women's studies, philosophy, religion, linguistics, music, cultural studies, and others. Discussions of the text, the social context, the audience, the producers, the production, and more are all appropriate. For a lengthy but not exhaustive list of possible topics. All proposals/abstracts should demonstrate familiarity with already-published scholarship in the field, which includes over a score of books and, of course, eight years of Slayage.
Papers are limited to a maximum reading time of 20 minutes. Please fill out the Word form to be found on the website at and send as an e-mail attachment. Submissions by undergraduates and graduate students are welcome; however, undergraduate students should provide the name, email, and phone number of a faculty member willing to consult with them (the faculty member does not need to attend). Please submit your proposals to slayage.conference@gmail.com.
If you wish to propose a prearranged, complete session of multiple presenters, fill out (and send as an e-mail attachment, the form to be found HERE.
Proposals must be submitted by December 1, 2009.
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