Call for Papers on True Blood.
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intrikate88Since I know some of you are fans of True Blood, and I know most of you are delighted to write meta, I just wanted to make everyone aware of two calls for papers going out. Both can be found in the UPenn CFP database and I'll paste the actual postings here. This would be an excellent opportunity for presenting, adding a nice academic entry on your resume, and fangirling liek woah!
True Blood & Philosophy Call For Abstracts; 9-28-09
full name / name of organization: Rebecca Housel, PhD, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
contact email: rebecca.housel@gmail.com
cfp categories: american cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches film_and_television gender_studies_and_sexuality popular_culture twentieth_century_and_beyond
Call for Abstracts True Blood and Philosophy
Edited by George A. Dunn and Rebecca Housel
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Please circulate and post widely. Apologies for Cross-posting.
To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please contact the Series Editor, William Irwin, at wtirwin@kings.edu.
Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader. Contributors of accepted essays will receive an honorarium.
Possible themes and topics might include, but are not limited to, the following: Is it Unethical to Read Minds?; Thus Spoke Maryann: Nietzsche’s Dionysus and Maenad Madness; Form and Matter: The Metaphysics of Shape Shifting; The Varieties of Friendship in True Blood; Godric’s Suicide: Justified or Not?; “True Blood” Meets Nutritional Needs But Doesn’t Satisfy Hunger: The Ethics and Phenomenology of Eating; It’s a Dog’s Life: The Phenomenology of Shape Shifting; A Freudian Analysis of Vampirism: Libidos Gone Wild; Is Immortality Worth Having?; Vampires, Werewolves, Shape Shifters and Personhood; Lettie Mae’s Exorcism: Can Deception Be Justified If It Serves a Good End?; The Sacrifice of Godric: A Girardian Analysis; Suffering and Desire on True Blood: A Buddhist Analysis; Frankfort’s Persons, Wantons and Vampires; Sex, Objectification and (Literally) Eating Your Partner; V-Juice and Psychotropic Drugs: Can Mind-Altering Substances Disclose Higher Dimensions of Reality?; Jason Stackhouse and the Search for Meaning and Purpose in Life; Personal Identity: If You Lose Your Humanity, Are You Still the Same Individual?; Godric and Eric, Bill and Jessica: The Responsibility of a Maker; “Coming Out of the Coffin” and “Coming Out of the Closet”: Is the Comparison Valid?; Godric’s Hope that Vampires Can Evolve: Moral Evolution and the “Expanding Circle”; Mindreading: Ability or Disability?; The Path of Excess: Georg Bataille and Maryann; Hedonism in True Blood: Is Pleasure the Good?; Vampire Assimilation and Identity Politics; “God Does Not Punish; God Forgives”: Do Sookie and Reverend Newlin Believe in the Same God?; “There’s a Purpose for Everything God Creates”: The Faith of Adele (Gran) Stackhouse; Sookie Stackhouse and Female Empowerment; Vampires and Speciesism: Who Gets to Have Rights?; “It’s Magic That Keeps Us Alive”: Naturalistic versus Supernatural Explanations; “The Fellowship of the Sun Only Rose Because We Didn’t”: Causes of Quarrel According Godric and Hobbes; “Evil” and the Politics of Intolerance; The Ethics of Vengeance and Forgiveness; Can Humans and Vampires Be Parties to the Same Social Contract?; Glamours, Maenadic Frenzies and Free Will; Social Hierarchies in the Supernatural World; Understanding Evil: Dualism, Privation and/or Projection; Scapegoating Violence and Social Solidarity; Loyalty to One’s Maker: Virtue or Relinquishment of Autonomy?; True Blood versus Twilight: Is Sex Dangerous or is Sexual Repression the Real Problem?; Is Prejudice Against Vampires Justified? Submission Guidelines: 1. Submission deadline for abstracts (100-500 words) and CV’s: September 28, 2009 2. Submission deadline for first drafts of accepted papers: November 23, 2009 3. Submission deadline for finals drafts accepted papers: December 31, 2009 Kindly submit abstract (with or without Word attachment) and CV by email to: Rebecca Housel (rebecca.housel@gmail.com)
CFP True Blood (March 31-April 3, 2010)
full name / name of organization: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
contact email: mfindley@vtc.edu
cfp categories: film_and_television graduate_conferences popular_culture
The vampire in Literature, Culture and Film area of the PCA/ACA is soliciting papers and/or presentations on any aspect of the HBO series True Blood or the Sookie Stackhouse series of novels by Charlaine Harris. To have your proposal considered for presentation, please send a 250-350 word abstract by December 15, 2009, complete with your name, affiliation, and contact information to either: Mary Findley Vermont Technical College mfindley@vtc.edu OR Patrick McAleer Indiana University of Pennsylvania mcaleer_p@yahoo.com
All presenters must be (or become) members of the PCA or ACA and must register for the conference. Membership and registration information will be sent upon presentation acceptance. Please note that paper acceptance obligates participants to present the paper at the conference. Additionally, as per PCA/ACA guidelines, multiple submissions to different areas are not allowed (although you can present a paper and participate as a round-table speaker), and you must be present at the conference to read your own paper.
True Blood & Philosophy Call For Abstracts; 9-28-09
full name / name of organization: Rebecca Housel, PhD, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
contact email: rebecca.housel@gmail.com
cfp categories: american cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches film_and_television gender_studies_and_sexuality popular_culture twentieth_century_and_beyond
Call for Abstracts True Blood and Philosophy
Edited by George A. Dunn and Rebecca Housel
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Please circulate and post widely. Apologies for Cross-posting.
To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please contact the Series Editor, William Irwin, at wtirwin@kings.edu.
Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader. Contributors of accepted essays will receive an honorarium.
Possible themes and topics might include, but are not limited to, the following: Is it Unethical to Read Minds?; Thus Spoke Maryann: Nietzsche’s Dionysus and Maenad Madness; Form and Matter: The Metaphysics of Shape Shifting; The Varieties of Friendship in True Blood; Godric’s Suicide: Justified or Not?; “True Blood” Meets Nutritional Needs But Doesn’t Satisfy Hunger: The Ethics and Phenomenology of Eating; It’s a Dog’s Life: The Phenomenology of Shape Shifting; A Freudian Analysis of Vampirism: Libidos Gone Wild; Is Immortality Worth Having?; Vampires, Werewolves, Shape Shifters and Personhood; Lettie Mae’s Exorcism: Can Deception Be Justified If It Serves a Good End?; The Sacrifice of Godric: A Girardian Analysis; Suffering and Desire on True Blood: A Buddhist Analysis; Frankfort’s Persons, Wantons and Vampires; Sex, Objectification and (Literally) Eating Your Partner; V-Juice and Psychotropic Drugs: Can Mind-Altering Substances Disclose Higher Dimensions of Reality?; Jason Stackhouse and the Search for Meaning and Purpose in Life; Personal Identity: If You Lose Your Humanity, Are You Still the Same Individual?; Godric and Eric, Bill and Jessica: The Responsibility of a Maker; “Coming Out of the Coffin” and “Coming Out of the Closet”: Is the Comparison Valid?; Godric’s Hope that Vampires Can Evolve: Moral Evolution and the “Expanding Circle”; Mindreading: Ability or Disability?; The Path of Excess: Georg Bataille and Maryann; Hedonism in True Blood: Is Pleasure the Good?; Vampire Assimilation and Identity Politics; “God Does Not Punish; God Forgives”: Do Sookie and Reverend Newlin Believe in the Same God?; “There’s a Purpose for Everything God Creates”: The Faith of Adele (Gran) Stackhouse; Sookie Stackhouse and Female Empowerment; Vampires and Speciesism: Who Gets to Have Rights?; “It’s Magic That Keeps Us Alive”: Naturalistic versus Supernatural Explanations; “The Fellowship of the Sun Only Rose Because We Didn’t”: Causes of Quarrel According Godric and Hobbes; “Evil” and the Politics of Intolerance; The Ethics of Vengeance and Forgiveness; Can Humans and Vampires Be Parties to the Same Social Contract?; Glamours, Maenadic Frenzies and Free Will; Social Hierarchies in the Supernatural World; Understanding Evil: Dualism, Privation and/or Projection; Scapegoating Violence and Social Solidarity; Loyalty to One’s Maker: Virtue or Relinquishment of Autonomy?; True Blood versus Twilight: Is Sex Dangerous or is Sexual Repression the Real Problem?; Is Prejudice Against Vampires Justified? Submission Guidelines: 1. Submission deadline for abstracts (100-500 words) and CV’s: September 28, 2009 2. Submission deadline for first drafts of accepted papers: November 23, 2009 3. Submission deadline for finals drafts accepted papers: December 31, 2009 Kindly submit abstract (with or without Word attachment) and CV by email to: Rebecca Housel (rebecca.housel@gmail.com)
CFP True Blood (March 31-April 3, 2010)
full name / name of organization: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
contact email: mfindley@vtc.edu
cfp categories: film_and_television graduate_conferences popular_culture
The vampire in Literature, Culture and Film area of the PCA/ACA is soliciting papers and/or presentations on any aspect of the HBO series True Blood or the Sookie Stackhouse series of novels by Charlaine Harris. To have your proposal considered for presentation, please send a 250-350 word abstract by December 15, 2009, complete with your name, affiliation, and contact information to either: Mary Findley Vermont Technical College mfindley@vtc.edu OR Patrick McAleer Indiana University of Pennsylvania mcaleer_p@yahoo.com
All presenters must be (or become) members of the PCA or ACA and must register for the conference. Membership and registration information will be sent upon presentation acceptance. Please note that paper acceptance obligates participants to present the paper at the conference. Additionally, as per PCA/ACA guidelines, multiple submissions to different areas are not allowed (although you can present a paper and participate as a round-table speaker), and you must be present at the conference to read your own paper.
