ICFA 16 CALL FOR PAPERS

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_________________________________________________________CALL FOR PAPERS
The Sixteenth International Conference 
on the Fantastic in the Arts

March 22-26, 1995
(3:00 PM Wednesday to noon Sunday)
Fort Lauderdale Airport Hilton, Dania, Florida

Guest of Honor: Joe Haldeman
Guest Scholar: Peter Hunt
Guest Author: Pat Cadigan
Permanent Special Guest: Brian Aldiss
And Many Other Special Guests To Be Announced

Sponsored by the International Association for 
the Fantastic in the Arts, with support from
Broward Community College, Florida Atlantic 
University, and the University of South Florida.

The Deadline for Proposing Papers is October 15, 1994.

Seeking proposals for papers and other presentations on ALL
ASPECTS* of the fantastic in English, American, and Commonwealth
literature, comparative and other national literatures, drama, art,
cinema, television, science fiction, fantasy, horror, music,
philosophy, sociology, political science, the sciences, psychology,
religion, and interdisciplinary areas. *PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS ON THE FANTASTIC
IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ARE ESPECIALLY WELCOMED BY ALL
DIVISIONS IN 1995.

Concerning all submissions: In order to be considered for the 1995
program, your proposal to (1) read a paper, (2) recruit and chair
a paper session, or (3) organize and chair a panel discussion must
be postmarked no later than October 15, 1994.  Proposals must be
sent to an appropriate Division Head (addresses below).  Any
audio-visual equipment requirements must be specified in this
initial proposal.

Papers: Paper-reading sessions consist of 2 or 3 papers.  Each
paper should be approximately 2,000-2,500 words in length and
require no more than twenty minutes' reading time.  Paper proposals
must be at least 250 words in length and must demonstrate a clear
thesis or analytical statement, a coherent argument, a knowledge of
scholarship in the fantastic, and relevance to current study of the
fantastic.  Any proposal judged weak or unclear will be returned
with suggestions for revision; abstracts revised and resubmitted by
October 15 will be reconsidered.

Panel Discussions: Panels are organized around a specific theme and
may contain three to six participants.  A formal introduction by
the panel chair and closing remarks by the chair are encouraged. 
Panels will be scheduled in ninety-minute sessions to allow time
for discussion.  Panel proposals should follow the same format as
paper proposals (see above) and should include a list of proposed
panelists, including addresses and telephone numbers.

Chairing Sessions: Anyone wishing to organize and chair a paper
session or panel discussion must recruit participants by the
October 15 deadline.  Those who have already proposed sessions
should maintain contact with the appropriate Division Head.  All
complete sessions must be proposed to the appropriate Division Head
on the conference session form.  If you wish to organize and chair
a session and do not have a copy of the form, please request one
from a Division Head (addresses below) or from IAFA Vice-President
and Academic Program Coordinator Nicholas Ruddick, Department of
English, University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada S4S OA2;
(E-Mail) ruddick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; (Phone) 306-585-4304; (Fax)
306-585-4780.  You may also volunteer to chair an already-organized
paper session by writing to a Division Head or to Nicholas Ruddick.

Guidelines for Participants: No conference participant may present
more than one paper, nor may a session chair read a paper in his or
her own session.  In addition to presenting a paper, a participant
may also serve either as a session chair or a panelist.  To be
listed in the conference program, participants must join IAFA by
December 31, 1994.  All participants must also preregister for the
conference by March 1, 1995.  Send IAFA membership dues to IAFA
Treasurer Mary Pharr, English Department, Florida Southern College,
Lakeland, FL 33801.  Conference preregistration forms will be sent
to all paid-up IAFA members.

Graduate Student Award: IAFA annually awards a $250.00 prize to the
outstanding paper presented at the conference by a graduate
student.  For further information, contact IAFA Graduate Student
Award Coordinator Roger Schlobin, (till Dec. 1994) 1149 Mulberry
Lane, Apt. 36-A, Greenville, NC 27858-5818; (Phone) 919-321-2640;
(After Jan. 1995) 1915 David Drive, Chesterton, IN 46304-3011
(Phone): 219-926-7368.

Attending Artist Presentations: Artists are invited to submit
appropriate work to be displayed at the conference's Fantastic Art
Exhibit and to propose 30-minute slide or video presentations on
their own work and techniques.  Send representative slides or other
materials by October 15, 1994 to IAFA President C. W. Sullivan III,
English Department, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
27858-4353.  You must attend the conference to exhibit your work.

Queries: Direct queries concerning policies, scheduling, and
non-academic program participation to C. W. Sullivan, address
above.  Direct  queries  concerning  academic  paper  and  panel
proposals to Nicholas Ruddick, address above.

Publication Opportunities: All papers presented at the conference
are considered for publication in Journal of the Fantastic in the
Arts, the IAFA's interdisciplinary quarterly, and in the annual
conference proceedings volume, a critically-acclaimed hardbound
anthology edited by a member of IAFA and published each year by
Greenwood Press.

DIVISION HEADS & PROPOSED TOPICS
The proposed topics listed below are meant to be suggestive but not
restrictive.  Paper proposals on any aspect of the fantastic are
welcome and should be submitted to an appropriate Division Head. 
Also, all Divisions are seeking papers in the following general
areas: Fantastic Children's Literature, Fantastic Drama,
Theoretical and Critical Approaches to the Fantastic, The Fantastic
in Religion and Mythology, The Fantastic As It Relates to Gender
Issues and Women's Studies, and Humor and the Fantastic.  Paper
proposals in the form of a 250-word abstract must be submitted to
an appropriate Division Head by October 15, 1994.

Fantastic Literature in English Division (EN) [Papers on the
fantastic in British, American and Commonwealth literature]. 
Division Head: Charles W. Nelson, Humanities Dept., Michigan
Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931. Suggested Topics:
Children's Fantasy; The Comedic in Fantasy; Fantasy in
Shakespeare's Plays; The Literature of the Inklings; Medieval
Fantasy; The Fantasy of Oz; Fantasy in British Classics; Fantasy in
Fairy Tale; Arthurian Fantasy; Fantasy of the Supernatural; High
Tech Fantasy; 19th Century Horror Fantasy.

Film, Fine Arts, and Popular Culture Division (FP) [Papers
attentive to the diversity of images and themes of the fantastic in
high and low art and culture].  Division Head: Michael J. Collins,
12 Hansen Ave., Dover, NH 03820.  Suggested Topics: Goya and the
Grotesque; Horror Film in Cultural Context; Children's TV; The
Fantastic in Architecture; Pervasive Tropes of the Fantastic in
Popular Culture; The Death/Endurance of Genre; MTV; The Evolution
of SF Illustration; Video Games; Archetypal Approaches to
Contemporary Comics; The Art of Adaptation: The Film/Comics
Connection; Music in the Cinema of the Fantastic; Death and the
Afterlife in Painting; Transgressive Art; Supernatural Themes in
Non-Supernatural Horror.

Horror Literature Division (HO) [Papers on all aspects of horror in
mainstream and popular literature, including its literary
traditions, aesthetics, psychological constructs, and comparative
influences].  Division Head: Tony Magistrate, English Dept., 315
Old Mill, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0115. (Fax)
802-656-3055.  Suggested Topics: Children's and Young Adult Horror;
Horror and Gender; Intersections Between Horror and Detective
Literatures; Comparing Stephen King and Clive Barker;
Sociopolitical Subtexts in Horror Literature; The Legacy of
Stoker's Dracula; Contemporary Vampire Literature; Conceptions of
Otherness in Horror Literature; Reading Horror-Psychoanalytical
Perspectives; Horror as Transformative Genre; Popular Culture as
Reflected in Contemporary Horror Literature.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Fantastic Division (ID) [Papers
on topics that cross boundaries of genre and language].  Division
Head: Joseph Sanders, 6354 Brooks Blvd., Mentor, OH 44060. 
Suggested Topics: The Fantastic as it Relates to: Childhood;
Computers; Renaissance Thought; Bible/Talmud; Philosophy; Music;
Role-Playing; Computer Games; Illustrations vs. Text; Prosthetics;
Architecture; Landscapes; Vietnam War; AIDS; Hypertext.

International Fantastic Literature Division (IF) [Papers on all
foreign and comparative literature].  Division Head: Allienne
Becker, P.O. Box 152, Lock Haven, PA 17745-0152. (Email)
abecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Suggested Topics: International Children's
Fantasy; Romantic Fantasy; Postmodern Fantasy; Myth, Theme, and
archetype; Fantastic Transformations; German, French, Italian,
Spanish, Latin-American Fantasy; Magic Realism; Kafka; Fantasy in
Eastern European Literature; Fantasy in Medieval Literature;
Borges; Russian Fantasists; Fantastic Foreign Cinema.

Science Fiction Literature Division (SF) [Papers on all aspects of
science fiction literature, history, and theory].  Division Head:
Len Hatfield, Dept, of English, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
24060; (E-mail) hatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Suggested Topics: Joe
Haldeman; Pat Cadigan; Brian Aldiss; Children's SF; Theoretical
Directions and issues in Current SF Studies; Teaching SF & F in the
1990s; Is Science Fiction Finished?; The Internet; Computers and SF
Scholarship; SF and Postmodernism-After Cyberpunk; SF and Social
Speculation; Feminist Renewals of SF & F; Signs of the Other in
SF-Class, Gender and Race.

ALL CONFERENCE REGISTRANTS MUST JOIN IAFA.
1995 IAFA Membership (per person):
Within U.S.A.....................  $45
Outside U.S.A....................  $50

Please make checks payable to IAFA.

ALL FEES MUST BE PAID IN U.S. DOLLARS.  
NON-U.S. DOLLAR CHECKS OR MONEY ORDERS
WILL BE RETURNED TO SENDER. Foreign 
checks must have a computerized routing 
number encoded on the instrument and must
indicate the name of the American bank 
that will serve as a clearinghouse for the 
instrument. Checks or money orders that do 
not meet these requirements will be returned
to the sender.

Mail to:
Mary Pharr, IAFA Treasurer
Department of English
Florida Southern College
Lakeland, FL 33801

Please include your name, academic or professional affiliation,
preferred mailing address, telephone number, and areas of interest.