Popular Art, Architecture and Design
We are now calling for papers in the area of Popular Art, Architecture and Design for the 2009 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, to be held at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel (New Orleans, Louisiana) April 8-11, 2009.
Popular Art, Architecture and Design is concerned with the aesthetics of material culture in the everyday world of the past, present and future. Scholars from such disciplines as Architecture, Art History, Fine Art, Industrial Design, and Interior Design are invited to submit proposals. At previous conferences topics have included World Fairs, architectural follies, urban image, baseball parks, fashion design, Buckminster Fuller, urban memory, Disneyland, railroad stations, Frank Lloyd Wright, literary architecture, shop-houses, mobile homes, folk art, Orientalism, and the effect of television on the home. It is truly a broad arena!
Please e-mail a cover letter with contact information and 150-word abstract of your proposed paper to both Dr. Loretta Lorance and Dr. Derham Groves . No Attachments. The deadline for abstracts is November 30, 2008.
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Dr Alice Gorman
Department of Archaeology
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001
Mobile: 0428 450 418
http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/archaeology/staff/gorman.php
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