CONFERENCE: The Popular Culture Association in the South

C A L L F O R P A P E R S
The Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture
Association in the South's Annual Conference The Sea Turtle Inn, Atlantic
Beach (Jacksonville), Florida To be held October 6-8, 2005. Proposals on
Gender or Body Image (of 150 words), along with any audio-visual
requests of no more than two pieces (tv/vcr, overhead or carousel
projector and screen, DVD Player only), are open to various scholarly
approaches and areas. Complete Panel Proposals also welcome; individual
presentations are limited to 20 minutes. While all topics and
approaches will be considered, we are especially interested in the
following topics:

Women "Buddies" in Literature and Film
"Gender Crimes: Eating and Body Image"
Female/Male Doppelgangers in Literature or Film
"Body Snatching: When the Amber Alert Is Not Enough"Femmes Fatales
and Spider Women in Film/Literature
The Black Body in Literature and FilmWhen Gender Matters: Southern Women Writers
Legacy, Zora Neale Hurston, and a Negro Theater
Gay,Lesbian, Bi-Sexual,Transgendered in Literature
Gender Ambiguity as Comedy
Mike Meyers, Eddie Murphy, and The Fat Phenomena in Film
"Mirrors and the Body in Literature and Film"
The Androgynous Hero/HeroineThe Male Object
Writing Pedophilia: the Pedophile in Literature or Film
Tattoos and Taboos
Writing Abuse: Domestic Violence in Literature
The Automobile and the Sexual Body
The Body and Liminal SpaceCross-Dressing in Literature or Film
Relinguishing the Southern Lady
Gender andViolence
Queer as Folk and/or Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Gendered Spaces
Women behind Bars: Domestic Violence and MurderRe(Visioning) the Male Hero New Plays by and about Women
Masculinity Studies
On Being Woman, On Being Black: Film Portraits
Why a Woman Can/Can't Be President
Redneck Humor: Jeff Foxworthy, and Them Good Ole Boys
"Advertising and the Media: Body Matters"
Children, the Classroom, and Body Image
When the Body Doesn't Know Itself: Tatoos: Piercings, and Other Prickly Matters
"Lock In's," Bar Hipe, and A, Tripe: America's Popular "Meat Market"

Proposal, essay title, complete professional and home address,
telephone/s, e-mail (and designation if you are a graduate student)
should be sent no later than May 15, 2005 to
Area Chair, Linda Rohrer Paige
Department of Literature and Phil.,
P.O. Box 8023, Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA 30460-8023
[or Fax to Area Chair at 912/681-0653].

For entire sessions: send a title and 50-word
description of the session, a title and an abstract of 100 words for
each presentation, and any request for audio-visual equipment (see
above). Iinclude professional, as well as home, contact addresses for
each session participant. Sessions are scheduled in 90-minute blocks.
Because of recent difficulties with persons submitting proposals, but
backing out of attending the conference after the program has been set,
we require a commitment to attend the conference, if accepted. You will
be asked simply to confirm that you have the resources to travel to the
meeting in Jacksonville, and will, barring any unforeseen conflict, be
present for the session in which you are scheduled. PCAS/ACAS is the
largest of the regional Popular Culture and American Culture
Associations, with a collegial, dedicated membership of nearly 400
scholars and interested others from across the nation and abroad.
Membership in the association includes subscriptions to our two
journals, Studies in American Culture and Studies in Popular Culture.
For more information, please visit our website:
http://www.pcasacas.org/.