CFP Good Omens (10/31/2019; SWPACA 2/19-22/2020)

Good Omens--Conference Presentation
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/09/20/good-omens-conference-presentation


deadline for submissions: October 31, 2019

full name / name of organization: Mandy Taylor/Southwest Popular/American Culture Association

contact email: mjhtaylor@gmail.com


This is a one-time special area for the 2020 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference.

Conference is in Albquerque, New Mexico, February 19-22, 2020.

The Area Chair for Good Omens welcomes and considers any and all proposals related to the book, the series, or both. Proposals are especially encouraged on the following topics:

• Examining the adaptation from book to series. What’s inferred from the text but not explicit (eg, the use of Queen), what is highlighted, what is excluded.
• Performance studies; eg, influence of previous roles or Michael Sheen’s (Aziraphale) contention that fanfic informed his interactions with Crowley (David Tennant); casting choices
• Platform: Do streaming platforms offer greater opportunities? Would it have been released on broadcast or cable?
• ”Ineffable Husbands”: Queer readings of Crowley/Aziraphale
• Gender presentation: eg, Pollution, God, Crowley as Nanny, etc.
• Names/naming: how and why names matter (book or series) (eg, Dog, Adam, Crawley to Crowley, Sister Loquacious)
• The theology of Good Omens: interpretation, satirization, prophets/prophecy, angels/demons
• Reception, including the ill-fated petition to Netflix
• Collaboration (Gaiman/Pratchett; Crowley/Aziraphale, BBC/Amazon)
• Portrayals of Britishness: Crowley/Aziraphale, the Them, etc as “quintessential” or stereotypical; Easter eggs (eg, Who references, Python-esque opening titles
• The power of imagination as seen in the book/series
• Power dynamics in the book/series: e.g. heaven vs. hell, adults vs. kids, humans vs. supernatural beings, etc.
• Fandom: differences/intersections/contentions between book and series fans
• Implications of shifting the time in the book from the early 90s to contemporary times
• Series as tribute to Pratchett (per interviews with Gaiman)
• Rise in apocalyptic texts: How does Good Omens speak to our current times/fascination with/need for apocalyptic texts? What does it offer?
• Literary influences on Good Omens
• Cinematic/filmic influences on the small-screen adaptation

For proposal submissions, visit https://southwestpca.org and select the Conference drop-down menu. Proposals should be submitted directly to the Conference system. Submit any questions to Mandy Taylor at mjhtaylor@gmail.com.


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CFP DOOM: From the Personal to the Apocalyptic (1/10/2016; Chambersburg, PA 10/27/2016)

DOOM: From the Personal to the Apocalyptic
Announcement published by Michael Cornelius on Monday, August 31, 2015
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/80239/doom-personal-apocalyptic

Type: Conference
Date: February 27, 2016
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Subject Fields: Film and Film History, Humanities, Popular Culture Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Religious Studies and Theology

Wilson College Humanities Conference

DOOM: From the Personal to the Apocalyptic

Saturday, February 27, 2016
10:00am-5:00pm

Held in the Brooks Complex of Wilson College

Chambersburg, PA

sponsored by Wilson’s M.A. in Humanities Program

The theme of this year’s Wilson College Orr Forum is concerned with the apocalypse, both in biblical representation and thought as well as more scientific and climactic concern. This Humanities Conference wishes to extend this theme beyond these global concerns to focus on doom. Always impending, doom encapsulates fears for both humanity and the individual. Doom can be personal and communal, practical and rhetorical, quite real or simply hyperbole.

This conference looks to how the various fields represented by the Humanities explore our own relationship to this impending notion that things will not work out as we hope, or, conversely, that things will work out exactly as we fear. How can we use the Humanities to make sense of how we pessimistically perceive/have perceived our future? How can we use what we study to understand more about our own fears for what is about to come, or how we perceive the possibilities of cataclysm, whether individual or global?

Please feel free to interpret the theme of this conference liberally. Our goal is to bring a group of Humanities scholars from around the region together to articulate and celebrate these always intriguing and confounding questions of time, anticipation, endings, fear, and the manner in which our fields seek to understand any point in-between. Thus whether impending or upon us, singular or global, or even just a megalomaniac in a silver mask and a green cape, we hope to use this conference to explore all relevant aspects of doom.

Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to submit. Undergraduate students may also submit abstracts, but their submission must be sponsored by a current faculty member at their institution. (For more on this, please contact the conference director.)

To submit a presentation, please send an abstract of approximately 200 words to the email address below.

Send abstracts to:
Dr. Michael G. Cornelius
Program Director, MA in Humanities
Director, Wilson College Humanities Conference
mcornelius@wilson.edu
Submit the abstract as either a .doc or .docx file or simply place it into the text of the email itself.

Individual presentations will last no more than 15 minutes; panels of up to 3 individuals may be submitted as well. Each conference participant may submit only one abstract. Abstracts are due by JANUARY 10, 2016.

The conference is sponsored by Wilson’s M.A. in Humanities program, in conjunction with the Orr Forum 2015-16 Lecture and Performance Series.



Contact Info:
Dr. Michael G. Cornelius
Program Director, MA in Humanities
Director, Wilson College Humanities Conference


Contact Email:
mcornelius@wilson.edu