[Dragon*Con Academics] UPDATED CFP: This Year's Conference

[Matt Brown]

UPDATE
Call for Participation / Call for Abstracts

Institute for Comics Studies
Comic Book Convention Conference Series

DRAGON*CON 3rd ANNUAL COMICS & POPULAR ARTS CONFERENCE

Atlanta, Georgia September 3-6, 2010

The Institute for Comic Studies and Dragon*Con present their third
annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular
arts. The conference will take place at Dragon*Con, the largest multi-
media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and
fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the US.
For more info on Dragon*Con, visit http://dragoncon.org/

Please submit a proposal abstract for a 15/20-minute presentation that
engages in substantial scholarly examinations of comic books, manga,
graphic novels, anime, science/speculative fiction, fantasy, or other
parts of popular culture. A broad range of disciplinary and
theoretical perspectives is being sought, including literary and art
criticism, philosophy, linguistics, history, and communication.
Proposals may range from discussions of the nature of the comics
medium, analyses of particular works and authors, discussions of the
visual language of comics, comics pedagogy, cross-cultural and cross-
medium comparisons, and more.

This year, we're especially interested in proposals dealing with

* Anime and Manga
* Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series
* Stargate
* MMORPG’s
* Paranormal SF (e.g., Lost, X-Files, Fringe, etc.)
* Post-Apocalyptic Studies

Though we're open to any topics relevant to the study of comics and
the popular arts.

This conference at Dragon*Con represents the Institute for Comics
Studies' mission to promote the study, understanding, and cultural
legitimacy of comics and to support the discussion and dissemination
of this study and understanding via public venues.

100 to 200 word proposals due: May 30, 2010

Please submit your proposals at:
http://www.hsu.edu/form.aspx?ekfrm=40054

More information at:
http://www.utdallas.edu/~mattbrown/DragonCon.html

Send any questions to: thehan...@gmail.com

Participants must register for the convention. Information can be
found here:

http://dragoncon.org/members.php#DC_Memb

Prospective participants are encouraged to submit a guest application
in advance at the following address:

http://dragoncon.org/dc_guest_app.php

Acceptance to the academic conference is no guarantee of "guest"
status at the convention (and indeed, it is very unlikely).

Matt Brown, Ph.D.
Dragon*Con Academics Chair
thehan...@gmail.com
www.instituteforcomicsstudies.org

Assistant Professor, School of Arts & Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas

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