Call for Papers:

Popular Art, Architecture and Design
New Orleans, April 8-11, 2009

We are now calling for papers in the area of Popular Art, Architecture
and Design for the 2009 National Conference of the Popular Culture
Association and American Culture Association, to be held at the New
Orleans Marriott Hotel (New Orleans, Louisiana) April 8-11, 2009.

Popular Art, Architecture and Design is concerned with the aesthetics of
material culture in the everyday world of the past, present and future.
Scholars from such disciplines as Architecture, Art History, Fine Art,
Industrial Design, and Interior Design are invited to submit proposals.
At previous conferences topics have included World Fairs, architectural
follies, urban image, baseball parks, fashion design, Buckminster
Fuller, urban memory, Disneyland, railroad stations, Frank Lloyd Wright,
literary architecture, shop-houses, mobile homes, folk art, Orientalism,
and the effect of television on the home. It is truly a broad arena!

Please e-mail a cover letter with contact information and 150-word
abstract of your proposed paper to both Dr. Loretta Lorance at
<llorance@ earthlink.net> and Dr. Derham Groves at
<derhamunimelb.edu.au>. NO ATTACHMENTS.

The deadline for abstracts is November 30, 2008.