Calls for papers


Foodways: Call for Papers from Folklore Forum

Folklore Forum is seeking articles for its upcoming issue on foodways. By building rituals and ideologies around the consumption, production, and preservation of food, many cultures establish and express unique systems of belief and other social distinctions. The choice of what to eat (or not to eat) is an integral part of both forming and maintaining an individual and group identity.

In this issue, we seek to present examples of foodways that are relevant to the study of folklore and folklife. Folklore Forum invites proposals that consider, but are not limited to, the following suggestions:

* Methods of Food Production & Collection (farming, gardening, bee keeping)
* Foods as a Means to Communicate Gender, Identity, Emotion
* Methods of Preservation (canning, jarring, freezing)
* Food Movements (Slow Food Movement, Organic/Sustainable Food Movement)
* Methods of Consumption (cooking, setting the table, restaurants)
* Food and Education (”learning” food, acquiring a taste)
* Acted Foodways (festivals, celebrations, observations, tastings?)
* Foodways and Religion (taboos, traditional, non-traditional, history)
* Food and the Formation of Identity (national, cultural, ethnic)
* Food and the Perception of “The Other”
* Food and Family
* Manners
* Food Lore Regarding a Specific Food
* Food “Clubs”
* Immigration and Foodways
* Food as Art

The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2009. For submission guidelines, please see: http://folkloreforum.net/submissions/
Editors can be contacted at folkpub@indiana.edu.




We are happy to announce the 2008-2009 collaborative conference between the Indiana University Folklore & Ethnomusicology Student Associations and The Ohio State University Folklore Student Association. This conference aims to create a space for graduate and undergraduate students to share their research in folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, material culture, performance studies, and related disciplines, as it relates to the study of academic and vernacular interpretation of everyday life.

"Public and Private"

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
March 27-28, 2009

This year's conference seeks to explore the following questions:
(1) How do we negotiate notions of public and private in our work?

(2) What are we learning, and what can we teach others, about this seeming dichotomy?

(3) How might we think beyond sectors and consider public and private in light of our
fieldwork, field notes, presentations, and as emerging in our research of expressive forms?

We are seeking papers and posters that engage the following topics
as they relate to the theme of "Public and Private":

Identities
Sectors
Spaces
Boundaries
Traditions
Histories
Memories
Narratives
Performances

We also welcome submissions of papers and posters on other topics.

The conference will have three opportunities for participation: paper presentations, poster sessions, and a discussion forum for all attendees. We will be accepting 250-word abstracts for 15-minute papers and poster presentations. We highly encourage poster submissions, particularly for research projects in progress, as there will be opportunities for active dialogue. Abstracts must be submitted by February 1, 2008. Please email submissions to iu.osu.conf@gmail.com. Please see the IU FSA website for details on submissions: www.indiana.edu/~folksa.
The discussion forum will allow all attendees to engage with enduring issues in our fields and to consider how those issues have emerged in their own research. Conference attendees are encouraged to submit three issues that have emerged in their own research for inclusion in developing this forum. Come join this important conversation. Remember, together we are shaping the future of our fields!

For more information on the details of the conference (lodging, location, etc.) visit
www.iub.edu/~folksa in the coming months.
Please register for the conference by February 28, 2008!



In Visible Culture, Issue 14, Aesthetes and Eaters - Food and Artistry Guest Editors: Alexandra Alisauskas and Paula Pinto Deadline for completed papers and manuscripts: December 15, 2008 Submissions and inquiries should be sent, via email, to aalisaus@mail.rochester.edu.



The peer-reviewed, electronic journal In Visible Culture invites papers and projects that explore the role of food in art and food as an art form. This hastwo main implications: a reconsideration of the non-visual senses in art spectatorship and a bringing together of the phenomenological and social in various forms of aesthetic experience.



The 2006 Dokumenta art fair in Kassel, Germany included Ferran Adria head chef of the experimental restaurant El Bulli in its roster of artists. Such an inclusion speaks to the ultimate confluence of concerns in both the art world and the world of cuisine - namely the paramount role of food beyond its biological function. This event specifically highlighted the role of food as a mediator in aesthetic experience.



Whether recent instantiations, such as Rikrit Tiravinija's gallery feasts, or historical practices such as Daniel Spoerri's EatGallery, Gordon Matta-Clarks Food Restaurant, or Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, the use of food in artistic practices has had various symbolic, cultural and aesthetic resonances.

Food as a

loaded material, and food as a form of representation might thus participate not only in questions about the form of the artwork (a literal dematerialization of the art object through consumption), but the specific role of artworks and artists. It might also present a different form of engagement with the artwork that demands a sensual or social dimension, therefore forcing us to reconsider the traditional role of the spectator in aesthetic experience.



Similarly, food production and the theorization of food preparation as a form of artistry, share with art projects a concern with the role of the (food) object, and its formal components. It might also seek to reinvest the individual's engagement with food and eating as a practice. As such, this journal issue seeks to consider the potential role of food in or as an aesthetic encounter. How might food reformulate or even repudiate typical aesthetic conventions? How might food and food practices aestheticize forms of everyday life? How might the use of food in the aesthetic realm present a reconsideration of the role of the artwork? Submissions in the form of 2,500-6,000 word papers (along with a 500 word abstract), as well as experimental digital projects, are welcome from all disciplines.



Areas of inquiry for submissions may include, but are not limited to, the following topics and questions:



- Premodern uses of food in and as art (Giovanni Archimbaldo, Antonin Careme's food sculptures) - Food as a material or process in the historical avant-garde and the neo-avant-garde (Daniel Spoerri, Piero Manzoni) - The role of food in artistic projects in the 1960s and 1970s (Gordon Matta-Clark, Allan Kaprow's Happenings, Food in Pop Art, Tom Marioni's gallery bar, Fluxus food practices)

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Community, sociality and the role of eating together in aesthetic collectives - The rhetoric of artistry in food preparation (chefs such as Ferran Adria and El Bulli's book and DVD productions; Michael Ruhlman's series of books on cooking and artistry; Escoffier and his cookbooks) - Food and questions of the subject in performance (whether food rituals, or performance art) - Pleasure and food

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potential of critical engagement? - The senses in general as a mode of aesthetic engagement - The space and design of food - the art gallery, the restaurant, or the agricultural sphere; the nature of the dish - Matters of "taste" whether physiological or social - Can food be art?

- Lifestyle, and the aestheticization of life practices through food practices (Slow Food, Locavore movement) - Food production and the conception social movements (artistic or otherwise)







In Visible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book and exhibition reviews (600-1000 word). To submit book or exhibition review proposals please email ivcbookreviews@gmail.com.



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In Visible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to explorations of the material and political dimensions of cultural practices: the means by which cultural objects and communities are produced, the historical contexts in which they emerge, and the regimes of knowledge or modes of social interaction to which they contribute.



http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/




Myth and Fairy Tale Call for Papers
Deadline Extended

Abstract/Proposals by 15 November 2008 Priority Deadline

1 December 2008 Final Deadline

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 30th Annual Conference
Albuquerque, NM February 25-28 2009
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710

Panels now forming on topics related to all areas of myth and fairy tale and their connections to popular culture.

Special Areas of Interest Include:

The Special and Enduring Significance of “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Cinderella,” and “Snow White” in American Popular Culture, Where Fairy Tales and Myth Overlap, Fairy Tale and Advertising, Fairy Tale and Myth in the works of Francesca Lia Block, Fairy Tales and Horror, Fairy Tale and Myth in Film, Revisionist Myth and Fairy Tale, The Works of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Fairytale, Fairy Tale in Contemporary Poetry, Myth in Contemporary Poetry, Fairy Tale and the Contemporary Novel, Myth and the Contemporary Novel, Fairy Tale in the music of Tori Amos, Disney, Barbie and The Fairy Tale, Joseph Campbell, Vladimir Propp, Feminists and The Fairy Tale

Scholars, teachers, professionals, and others interested in Myth And Fairy Tales are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome.

If you wish to form your own Myth or Fairy Tale-focused panel, I would be glad to facilitate your needs (Panels focused on one particular tale are especially encouraged). Also, if your work does not focus on Myth or Fairy Tale but fits within the broad range of areas designated for the upcoming conference on American & Popular culture, I still encourage you to participate. Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues.

Send 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels by 1 December 2008:

Melissa Morphew
Associate Professor of English
Box 2146
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341-2146
Phone # 936-294-1944

eng_smm@shsu.edu



General information and online registration <http://www.swtexaspca.org> (updated regularly)






Call for Papers / Appel Des Textes

Culture & Tradition is published annually by the Folklore Students of Memorial University of Newfoundland. The editors welcome manuscripts on any subjects of interest to folklorists, such as traditional arts, music, foodways, architecture, beliefs, oral literature, cultural psychology, and the structure of regional ethnic, religious, and industrial groups in Canada and internationally. Studies based on fieldwork in Eastern Canada and reviews of relevant books, films, or recordings are appropriate to the journal’s focus. Scholarly articles (submitted where possible both in hard copy and on disk, or via email in either WordPerfect or Microsoft Word) should be 10-20 typed, double-spaced pages and may be accompanied by photographs or drawings (greyscale only, preferably in digital format, and please make sure that your pictures are clear in this format).

Please note that Volume 30 will be switching to Turabian citation format!

Culture & Tradition is also pleased to accept book, web page, video,

CD, and CD ROM reviews of subject matter pertaining to folklore. Information on books available for review, an index of past journal articles and other information about the journal, including current subscription rates, can be found on our web page at http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~culture.

Deadline: July 1 2008

La revue Culture & Tradition est publiée une fois par année par des

étudiants de folklore de l’Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve. Le comité de rédaction accepte les articles traitant d’ethnologie ou de folklore et portant sur des sujets aussi variés que l’art populaire, la musique, l’alimentation, l’architecture, la littérature orale, les coutumes et la structure sociale de groupes régionaux, ethniques et religieux du Canada et du monde. Les comptes rendus de livres, disques et films dans les memes champs d’intérêts seront également bien accueillis. Les textes sur disc ou par courriel (WordPerfect ou Microsoft Word) et sur papier en un (1) exemplaire doivent compter de dix à vingt pages dactylographiées à un interligne et demi. Ils doivent être d’un bon niveau scientifique et peuvent être accompagnés de dessins ou de photographies (les seuls images acceptés seront en échelle de gris, préférablement les photos numériques).

Notez que C & T changera au format de la citation Turabian

Culture & Tradition accepte également de publier des comptes rendus de sites Web, de vidéos, de disques, de cédéroms qui se rapportent au folklore ou à l’ethnologie. La liste des ouvrages disponibles pour recension, l’index des articles publiés par la revue et d’autres informations sont disponibles sut le site Web à http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~culture.

Date limite: 1 Juillet 2008




Annual Conference Announcement
and Call for Papers
April 16-18, 2009
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

On behalf of the Western States Folklore Society, the students and faculty of the Otis College of Art and Design invite you to join us in exploring the theme of "Folklore and Aesthetics," and to exchange ideas on other topics within the field. Scroll down for information about registration, paper presentation, and accommodations.

Registration

Conference registration will begin Thursday evening, April 16. Papers will be presented on Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18. Nonmembers who join the Society at the time of registration are eligible for membership benefits, including reduced registration fees and a subscription to Western Folklore. Registration fees for regular members are $45; for non-members $70. Registration fees for student/retired members are $25; for non-members $40. Please make checks out to the Western States Folklore Society and address them to:

Otis College
LAS Department
9045 Lincoln Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045

Paper presentations

Participants wishing to present a paper must submit by email a short (100-200 word) abstract. Abstracts should be preceded by the following information: paper title, name (last, first), affiliation, email address, any audio-visual equipment you will require, and whether or not you are willing to chair a panel. Presentations may not exceed twenty minutes. We also encourage organized panels. These should consist of four papers lasting no longer than twenty minutes apiece, with ten minutes reserved for questions. All abstracts for such panels should be submitted together. Email abstracts to Heather Joseph-Witham at hwitham@otis.edu.

Registration fees should be postmarked the same day as the abstract submission and should be accompanied by a brief note indicating your name and paper title (non-presenters please indicate “non-presenter”).

All correspondence will be handled electronically unless specifically requested otherwise.

Please check this page again for further information as it develops.

Accommodations

Rooms have been reserved at the Custom Hotel, 8639 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90045 for April 16-19 at the rate of $139.00 for Queen or Double/Double. The hotel is within walking distance of Otis College of Art and Design, where paper presentations will take place. Call the hotel at (310) 258-5708 to make reservations. When booking, specifiy group code WSFS416. The hotel’s Web site address is www.CustomHotel.com.

The hotel will hold rooms at this rate only until March 4th, 2009.