<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>From: "Weinstock, Jeffrey A" <<a href="mailto:weins1ja@cmich.edu">weins1ja@cmich.edu</a>><br><br>Paper and panel proposals are sought for the the 31st International<br>Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts which will be held March 17th -<br>21st, 2010 in Orlando, Florida at the Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel.<br><br>The topic of this year's conference is "Race and the Fantastic." Papers<br>related to this topic, as well as to the work of our guests of honor and<br>attending authors, are especially welcome; as always, we also welcome<br>proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on<br>any aspect of the fantastic in any media.<br><br>The guests of honor and guest scholar for 2010 are as follows:<br><br>Guest of Honor: Nalo Hopkinson, award-winning author of Blackheart Man,<br>Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, Skin Folk, The<br>New Moon's Arms; editor/co-editor of Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root:<br>Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Tesseracts 9, and So<br>Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy<br><br>Guest of Honor: Laurence Yep, award-wining author of Sweetwater,<br>Hiroshima, Dragonwings, Child of the Owl, Sea Glass, Dragon Steel, The<br>Rainbow People, Dragon's Gate, Dream Soul, The Junior Thunder Lord;<br>co-editor of American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices<br><br>Guest Scholar: Takayuki Tatsumi, author of Full Metal Apache:<br>Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America, Cyberpunk<br>America, Japanese SF Controversies: 1957-1997; co-editor of Robot Ghosts<br>and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime<br><br>Attending authors and scholars at the 2010 conference will include: Joe<br>Haldeman, Stephen R. Donaldson, Andy Duncan, Candas Jane Dorsey,<br>Kathleen Ann Goonan, Patricia McKillip, Patrick O'Leary, James Morrow,<br>Peter Straub, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.<br><br>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<br><br>In order to be considered for the 2010 program, your proposal to (1)<br>read a paper, (2) recruit and chair a paper session, or (3) organize and<br>chair a panel discussion should be date-stamped no later than October<br>31, 2009; electronic correspondence is welcome. Proposals must be sent<br>to the appropriate Division Head (addresses below). Advise the Division<br>Head if you would like to volunteer to chair a paper session. Proposals<br>must include a 500-word abstract and appropriate bibliography indicating<br>the project's scholarly or theoretical context. Presenters must be<br>members of IAFA at the time of the conference. Be sure to indicate all<br>audio-visual equipment needs in this initial proposal; later A/V<br>requests cannot be guaranteed.<br><br>FANTASTIC IN CHILDREN'S & YOUNG-ADULT'S LITERATURE & ILLUSTRATION<br><br>All aspects of the fantastic in work aimed at children and young adults.<br>Division Head: Amie Rose Rotruck, Hollins University<br>(<a href="mailto:AROTRUCK@GMAIL.COM">AROTRUCK@GMAIL.COM</a>) .<br><br>FANTASTIC LITERATURE IN ENGLISH<br><br>All aspects of the fantastic in British, American and Commonwealth<br>literature. Division Head: Stefan Ekman, Lund University<br>(<a href="mailto:STEFAN.EKMAN@ENGLUND.LU.SE">STEFAN.EKMAN@ENGLUND.LU.SE</a>).<br><br>FANTASTIC IN FILM & MEDIA<br><br>All aspects of the fantastic in television, video, and film. Division<br>Head: Jeffrey Weinstock, Central Michigan University<br>(<a href="mailto:JEFFREY.WEINSTOCK@CMICH.EDU">JEFFREY.WEINSTOCK@CMICH.EDU</a>). Department of English, Central Michigan<br>University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA.<br><br>COMMUNITIES & CULTURES IN THE FANTASTIC [formerly PCVA]<br><br>All aspects of the fantastic in fan cultures and communities, including<br>fan fiction, comics/graphic novels, filking, conventions, hypertexts,<br>viral marketing, RPG. Division Head: Barbara Lucas, VIS, 31225<br>Bainbridge Rd, Suite M, Solon OH 44139 (<a href="mailto:BARBEDWRITING@YAHOO.COM">BARBEDWRITING@YAHOO.COM</a>).<br><br>FANTATIC IN VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS [formerly PCVA]<br><br>All aspects of the fantastic in live drama, music, dance, sculpture,<br>body art, comics/graphic novels, and photography and digital imagery.<br>Division Head: Stefan Hall, Defiance College (<a href="mailto:SHALL@DEFIANCE.EDU">SHALL@DEFIANCE.EDU</a>)<br><br>HORROR LITERATURE<br><br>All aspects of horror in mainstream and popular literature, including<br>literary traditions, aesthetics, psychological constructs, and<br>comparative influences. Division Head: Stephanie Moss, 10032 N. 52nd.<br>Street, Tampa, FL 33517 (<a href="mailto:SMOSS@CAS.USF.EDU">SMOSS@CAS.USF.EDU</a>).<br><br>INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC LITERATURE<br><br>All aspects of the fantastic in international and comparative<br>literature. Division Head: Dale Knickerbocker, Dept. of Foreign<br>Languages, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858<br>(<a href="mailto:KNICKERBOCKERD@MAIL.ECU.EDU">KNICKERBOCKERD@MAIL.ECU.EDU</a>).<br><br>SCIENCE FICTION LITERATURE & THEORY<br><br>All aspects of science fiction literature, history, and theory. Division<br>Head: Sherryl Vint, Dept. of English Literature, Brock University, St.<br>Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1 (<a href="mailto:SVINT@BROCKU.CA">SVINT@BROCKU.CA</a>).<br><br><br>More information and updates are available at the IAFA Web site:<br><a href="http://www.iafa.org">http://www.iafa.org</a>.<br><br>Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Ph.D.<br>Professor of English and Graduate Program Coordinator<br>Associate Editor, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts<br>Central Michigan University<br>100 W. Preston Road, Anspach Hall 205<br>Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859-0001<br>(989) 774-3101<br><a href="mailto:Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu">Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>