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CALL FOR PAPERS: Technology and the Home Sessions, a permanent area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Annual Conference. Technology and the Home seeks papers that explore various interactions between the technology and the domestic environment. The discussion may focus on real or imagined or speculative homes and technology. There is no limit on the time frame nor upon the methodology. Previous papers include: "Computing Technologies in the Home: Future Opportunities and Challenges"; “Technical Innovation and Domestic Display in Late Republican Rome”; “‘Humor’ in Home Technology”; “The Yeoman Oven Mitt”; “Burn, Baby Burn (Kitchen Inferno): New Images of Domesticity in Contemporary Art”: “The Air-Conditioned Life”; "Dysfunctional Household"; “Dymaxion Redux: Rem Koolhaas Cribs Bucky Fuller”; “Happiness Minutes: Technology and the Psychology of the Home”; “TV Houses”; “Technology: A Social Placebo”; "Ties Home: Early Iron Construction and Identity"; "Showing Off: The Billiard Room in Nineteenth-Century France”; and “Tools for the Making of a Happy Home”. Appropriate topics include but are not limited to: appliances, automobiles, building materials, communications, computers, construction, entertaining, flooring, furniture, health, hearth, hvac systems, insulation, kitchens, laundries, lighting, mobility, pets, preservation, recreation, sanitation, security, television, and wall/window/floor treatments. The 18th Annual Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association’s 2007 conference is from November 2-4, 2007 at the Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, PA. Registration fees apply. For more information, go to < www.mapacagazette.net >. Deadline for proposals: July 1, 2007 Send 1-page proposal, CV & AV needs to: Loretta Lorance [log in to unmask] or School of Visual Arts P.O. Box 461 Inwood Station New York, NY 10034-0461 Apologies for cross-postin