Call for Papers: The Image of Class (fwd)

WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:18:41 -0600 (MDT) 

This is a friendly and easy-going conference where papers are publsihed in
preceedings--I recommend it, will hochman


   Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery
 Eighth Annual Conference

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 THE IMAGE OF CLASS
  in Literature, the Media, and Society

 Keynote Speaker:
 Stanley Aronowitz
 (Author of The Jobless Future and The Death and Rebirth of American   
Radicalism)

 March 12 - 14, 1998
 Colorado Springs, Colorado

An interdisciplinary conference exploring the idea and the imagery of   
class -- in literature, film, television, popular culture, history,   
politics, social theory, business, advertising, art, music, education.   
 Papers may address the relevance of class to particular works (novels,   
poems, films, dramas), authors, cultures, nations, or theories. Possible   
approaches and issues would include:
* Class in literary imagery; class and literary style, genre, content,   
theory.
* Class as social structure, an explanatory reference, a form of control.
* Postmodern images of class; class and interpretation; class and power.
* Class as an issue of refinement, special quality, superior value   
("going first class").
* Class in history, comparative structures of class, class and tradition.
* Class in popular culture -- film, television, music, advertising
* The politics of class; class and religion; theories of class.
* Class and race, sex, culture; ethnicity, gender, sexuality, identity.
* Class and the global economy; class and electronic information.
* Images of the working class (unions, organizing), of the privileged   
class (rank, honor).
* Class and the classroom; process and structure in pedagogy
* Class and issues of health, art, business, the environment, the family,   
computers, the media.
* Class and individualist values (equality, freedom, property) in   
literature and theory.
* Other imaginative variations.

An annual conference addressing the role and structure of imagery in   
social life, with a different thematic focus each year.  A Proceedings   
will be published from selected papers presented at the conference.   
 Previous themes have included the Image of Violence, the Image of   
Technology, the Image of Nature, the Image of the Frontier.  Eclectic and   
innovative approaches are encouraged.  See website   
http://meteor.uscolo.edu/sissi

Please submit a one-page abstract, or a panel proposal with abstracts, by   
December 1, 1997. Proposals for organized panels are encouraged. email:   
class@uscolo.edu; fax: (719) 549-2705; mail: CLASS, University of   
 Southern Colorado, Pueblo, CO 8l00l-4901. For further information   
contact Will Wright, Department of Sociology, University of Southern   
Colorado [(719) 549-2538; wright@uscolo.edu] or Steven Kaplan, Department   
of English, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY [(716) 878 6329;   
kaplans@buffalostate.edu].

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