Just a quick post to make sure all my Maryland and DC area LotR fen knew about the trilogy showing at the new Montgomery Cinema & Drafthouse this Sunday--info here. Get your ticket here and come geek out with us.
Hey there--I'm working on revising my paper "The Traffic in Hobbits" and I have an abstract that's good to go, though the reading paper will need to be a third the size of the 23 page draft and I'll still need to cull it. None of the calls for papers I see there seem geared for a gender and queer theory reading of the text and film only and I'd be hard pressed to repackage it to fit the ones there. There was someone running a session you suggested I send it to and I can't remember who--are they running a session such a paper would fit into?
Sorry for the lack of reply--I got absolutely swamped when we got back from DC. I swear work multiplies fast when I go out of town.
The deadline is just past, but I know people were worried about lack of attendance, so it's worth dropping a line anyway.
The calls are very generic for this conference--they're more genre foci in terms of the divisions than calls. The themes change every year, but you do not have to present on the theme, and I mostly don't. A division puts together anywhere from 5-15 sessions, working with the proposals that come in. We really cannot afford to be very specific (sometimes members put out a specific call for a specific paper session, and then submit a proposal that includes three papers that they've solicited, but that's a whole different situation).
If you're working on an analysis of text and film, you could send either to the Fantastic in English OR the Film and Media division (I had somehow thought you had fan fic involved, in which case it would go to Communities and Culture in the Fantastic, the division I present most in).
Given your length issues (it's always hard paring down an existing paper), I'd suggest going for EITHER the film OR the text, which means one of two divisons above, if that makes sense. You get 15-20 minutes to read, which means that you can read about 9 pages, tops.
Yes, I try never to make a conference paper longer than 9 pages, so as to never push limits and make your audience squirm. It's a really well-structured paper (pats myself on the head) divided in sections that can be lifted out entirely, so it won't be too hard to pair down. And yes, probably best to stick to the text, since I wrote it before the film RoTK came out and would need to revise and develop that section accordingly. Thanks for the suggestions!
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The deadline is just past, but I know people were worried about lack of attendance, so it's worth dropping a line anyway.
The calls are very generic for this conference--they're more genre foci in terms of the divisions than calls. The themes change every year, but you do not have to present on the theme, and I mostly don't. A division puts together anywhere from 5-15 sessions, working with the proposals that come in. We really cannot afford to be very specific (sometimes members put out a specific call for a specific paper session, and then submit a proposal that includes three papers that they've solicited, but that's a whole different situation).
If you're working on an analysis of text and film, you could send either to the Fantastic in English OR the Film and Media division (I had somehow thought you had fan fic involved, in which case it would go to Communities and Culture in the Fantastic, the division I present most in).
Given your length issues (it's always hard paring down an existing paper), I'd suggest going for EITHER the film OR the text, which means one of two divisons above, if that makes sense. You get 15-20 minutes to read, which means that you can read about 9 pages, tops.
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