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CFP: Collecting,
Collectibles, Collectors and Collections
Call for
Paper/Panel Proposals for the 31st Annual Meeting of
the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association Feb 10-13, 2010.
Hyatt Regency Downtown
330 Tijeras Ave. NW,
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 505.842.1234,
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
Proposals
for individual presentations are being accepted for the Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections Area and
related topics. We also seek proposals for entire panels as well as roundtable
discussions concerning Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, and Collections.
Some
areas of consideration include, but are not limited to:
·
Collections/Collecting/Collectors/collectibles in popular culture
·
Collections in libraries, archives or museums
·
Collections/Collecting/Collectibles in Science Fiction and Fantasy
·
Personal Collections
·
Folk Art Collections and Collectibles
·
Collections and collectors in literature, film, theatre
·
The history of collecting
·
Early
American collections and Americana
·
Collections of Native American, African American, Asian American,
and Latina/o cultures(and others)
·
Private or public collections
·
The impulse to collect.
·
Collecting and political correctness.
·
Legal issues regarding collecting/collections.
·
The business of collecting - buying and
selling, mediating value - the dealer, the picker, the agent.
·
The impact of the Internet (including eBay and like sites) on collecting.
·
Relationships between collectors and curators.
·
Collecting as community activity.
·
Collecting as scholarship.
·
Collectors' organizations (car clubs, stamp clubs, costume jewelry
collectors' groups, etc.), their functions, their controversies.
·
What is an "authentic" collectible?
·
Collecting
the immaterial (places, memories, people, websites,
words, etc.)
Scholars,
artists, curators, and other professionals are encouraged to participate.
Graduate students are welcome, with award opportunities for the best graduate
papers. Please visit the organization website for more information about this
conference.
http://www.swtxpca.org
Priority
Registration Deadline 11/1/2009.
Papers
should be approximately 20 minutes long (8-10 pages) and should be original
works of scholarship that have not been presented or published elsewhere.
Proposals for entire panels should include 3-4 presentations/papers.
Roundtables should be approximately 90 minutes long. Please send 200-250 word
abstracts for papers, panels, and roundtables, to the Area Chair below, by December
15 2009:
Send mail submissions to:
Kathrin Dodds
Research & Development
Librarian
Texas Tech University
Libraries
MS 0002
Lubbock, TX 70409
806-742-2300
Kathrin Dodds
Research &
Development Librarian
Project
Management
Texas Tech
University Libraries
Mail Stop 0002
Lubbock, TX
79409
806-742-2300
806-742-0737
[Fax]
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