Conference, April 2009

Popular Art, Architecture and Design

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.