Reminder CFP - Domestic Imaginaries: Homes in Film, Literature and Popular Culture
Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L <rb12 <at> TXSTATE.EDU>
2013-06-12 14:09:22 GMT
From: Hollie Price [domesticimaginaries <at> gmail.com]
Dear all,Apologies for cross-posting. This is just a brief reminder about
the Domestic Imaginaries symposium which will take place at the University
of Nottingham on Tuesday 21st January 2014 — please send in your abstracts
and short films by August 1st 2013 (CFP follows below). We have also founded
the Domestic Imaginaries Network: a central hub for research relating to
homes in film, literature and popular culture. We welcome contributions —
including articles, film reviews, multimedia work, conference reports and
information regarding forthcoming events — for the network's blog, which
can be found here: domesticimaginaries.wordpress.com. For queries regarding
the symposium or contributing to the Domestic Imaginaries Network, please
get in touch with Bex Harper and Hollie Price at
domesticimaginaries <at> gmail.com. Best Wishes,Bex and Hollie
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*Domestic Imaginaries: Homes in Film, Literature and Popular Culture
Symposium*
*To be held at The University of Nottingham on Tuesday 21st January 2014*
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Tracey Potts (The University of Nottingham)
Dr James Mansell (The University of Nottingham)
Our ideas of domestic life are irrevocably connected to individual
identity, political situation, nostalgia and nationhood. From the living
room to the hallway to the vegetable patch, these domestic spaces can be
both comforting and constricting, homely and un-homely, visions of the past
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