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[	Tags	|	angel, anne, buffy, buffyology, firefly, serenity, slayage conference, the bigtime, whedon comics, whedonverses	]
[	mood	|	optimistic	]
[	music	|	Walk through the Fire	]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (SC3)

Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, USA

June 5-8, 2008

Rhonda Wilcox and David Lavery, co-editors of Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayageonline.com), solicit your proposal for the third Slayage Conference: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (SC3), sponsored by Henderson State University. This conference dedicated to the imaginative universe(s) of Joss Whedon--the Jossverse or Whedonverse(s)--will be held on the campus of Henderson State in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, June 5-8, 2008. Dr. Kevin Durand, Associate Professor of Philosophy at HSU, will be the local arrangements chair. Confirmed keynoters include the well-known film scholar (and teacher of Joss Whedon) Jeanine Basinger and Matthew Pateman, author of The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and winner of the 2006 Mr. Pointy Award for best book in Buffy Studies).
 

We welcome proposals of 200-300 words (or an abstract of a completed paper) on any aspect of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Serenity, his comics (e.g. Fray, Astonishing X-Men, 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, see http://slayageonline.com/S3/topics.doc. All proposals/abstracts should demonstrate familiarity with already-published scholarship in the field, which includes over a score of books, hundreds of articles, and, of course, six years of Slayage.
 

Papers are limited to a maximum reading time of 20 minutes. All rooms at the conference site are fully equipped; presenters may use DVDs, Power Point, or the Internet in their talks. Please fill out the Word form to be found at http://slayageonline.com/S3/SC3_Proposal_Form.doc 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 pre-arranged, complete session of multiple presenters, fill out (and send as an e-mail attachment, the form to be found at http://slayageonline.com/S3/SC3_Session_Proposal_Form.doc.
 

Proposals must be submitted by November 30, 2007.

darklingdawns

This is essay is unfortuately delayed. Date for posting is unknown as yet, since all of my notes on this have been wiped out. Probably late August or early September, depending upon workload, although I'm hopeful it will be sooner.

Thank you for your understanding!