The Renaissance Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Memorial Day Weekend, May 28-30, 2004

Call for Papers

Deadline for proposals extended to October 31st.

To see the SCBtVS Board, go here.

Go here to see the CFP on the UPenn CFP Site.

The CFP will go out to all subscribers of Slayage and to anyone who has written us concerning the conference and be posted on the University of Pennsylvania's CFP's page and through other websites and lists.


David Lavery and Rhonda Wilcox, co-editors of Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, solicit your proposal for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University. Visit the in-development conference website at http://www.slayage.tv/conference/.

We welcome a 250-word proposal or a completed paper on any aspect of BtVS or Angel from the perspective of any discipline--literature, history, communications, film and television studies, women's studies, religion, philosophy, linguistics, rhetoric, music, cultural studies, and others. We invite discussions of the text, the social context, the audience, the producers, the production, and more. For a lengthy but not exhaustive list of possible topics, see below and/or examine the in-development Encyclopedia of Buffy Studies at http://www.slayage.tv/EBS/.

All proposals/essays must exhibit strong familiarity with already published scholarship--in Fighting the Forces, in Reading the Vampire Slayer, in Buffy and Philosophy, in Slayage, etc. Papers are limited to a maximum reading time of 20 minutes. Send proposal/essay title, abstract of 200-250 words, and requests for audiovisual equipment (VCR/monitor, overhead projector, and slide projector only) along with contact information: Institutional affiliation (or notation that you are an independent scholar), email address, snail mail address, telephone number. Submissions by undergraduate and graduate students are accepted; however, students (except for doctoral students) must submit a sponsoring faculty member's phone number and email address. Go to http://www.slayage.tv/conference/proposals.htm.

Or you may submit your proposal or paper as an email attachment in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. (You may wish to copy the abstract into the body of the email message as well.) Submit simultaneously to both David Lavery at david.lavery@gmail.com and Rhonda Wilcox at rhonda_w@gdn.edu. If you wish to propose a pre-arranged, complete session, please contact both David Lavery and Rhonda Wilcox at the above email addresses.

Deadline for proposals extended to October 31st.

 

Some Possible Topics

Adam

advertising/marketing BtVS/Angel

ancillary texts (comics, novels, Watcher's Guides, The Monster Book, unofficial guides, etc.)

Angel (character in BtVS)

Angel as a spinoff

Angel Investigations

Anya/Anyanka

Beast, The

Big Bads

books & libraries in BtVS & Angel

Bringers

BtVS & Angel abroad (in France, in New Zealand, etc.)

BtVS & UPN

BtVS video game

BtVS/Angel & television scheduling

BtVS/Angel & the American television industry

BtVS/Angel & the critics

BtVS/Angel & the WB

BtVS/Angel & TV auterism

BtVS/Angel “previously on”

BtVS/Angel and law

BtVS/Angel and postmodernism

BtVS/Angel and Quality TV

BtVS/Angel and religion

BtVS/Angel credit sequences

BtVS/Angel directors

BtVS/Angel fan communities

BtVS/Angel in the media

BtVS/Angel influences

BtVS/Angel merchandise

BtVS/Angel on the web

BtVS/Angel scholarship

BtVS/Angel writers

BtVS’ & Angel’s’ audience

Buffy studies

Buffy the animated series

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie)

Buffyverse, the

Caleb

Calendar, Jenny

Chase, Cordelia

Chosen One, The

Clem

Columbine & BtVS

Connor

Contner, James A.

crossovers

D’hoffryn

Dark Willow

Darla

demographics

demons, monsters, villains

doubling

Doyle

dreams in BtVS/Angel

Drusilla

Englishness

episodes

Espenson, Jane

estrangement

Faith

fan fiction

fight scenes

Finn, Riley

First Evil, The

First Slayer, The

Fray

Fred

Fury, David

Gem of Amarra, The

gender

genre

Giles, Rupert

Glory

Glory’s minions

Greenwalt, David

Groosalugg

Grossman, David

Guardians, The

Gunn

Harris, Xander

Hellmouth, The

Holtz

humor in BtVS/Angel

Hyperion, The

individual episodes

Initiative, The

intertextuality

Irishness

Jasmine

Jheira

Kendall, Harmony

Kendra

Kennedy

Knights of Byzantium

Kralik, Jeffrey

language

law & BtVS, Angel

Levinson, Jonathan

Locksley, Det. Kate

Lorne

Los Angeles, CA

magic

Master, The

McDonald. Lindsey

Meers, Warren

Minear, Tim

minor characters on BtVS/Angel

MOO

Morgan, Lilah

music

Noxon, Marti

“Once More with Feeling”

Oracles, The

Oz

Petrie, Douglas

pop culture references

Powers That Be, The

Pylea

Raiden, Gwen

Rayne, Ethan

Ripper

role models

romance

Rosenberg, Willow

Scourge, The

Scythe, The

Seal of Danzithar, The

Seasons 1-7

self-referentiality

Senior Partners, The

Shadow Men, The

Shanshu Prophecy

SITS (Slayers in Training)

slash fan fiction

slayer line, the

Snyder, Principal

Solomon, David

special effects

Spike

story arcs

subplots

subtexts

Summers, Buffy

Summers, Dawn

Summers, Joyce

Sunnydale, CA

Tara

Travers, Quentin

Trick, Mr.

Troika, the

Turok-Han

unreleased pilot of BtVS

Vamp Willow

vampire mythology

Walsh, Professor

Watchers/the Watchers Council

Wells, Andrew

Wesley Wyndham-Price

Whedon, Joss

Wilkins, Mayor Richard

witchcraft/Wicca

Wolfram & Hart

Wood, Principal

 

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