CFP - BSG (deadline Oct 10, just rec'd, sorry)
These are neat ideas for the kinds of papers any fan would want to read, or write, in any fandom. BSG isn't among mine, and I only just saw this (with deadline asap). Still, someone may like:
Call for Papers - Investigating Battlestar Galactica: Flesh, Spirit, and Steel
Since its inception as a miniseries in 2003, Battlestar Galactica has been a critical and popular science fiction success, garnering media attention and honors such as the prestigious Peabody Award and accolades from the American Film Institute (AFI). The series' storytelling, technical craft, and acting have created a dense, powerful text rich for interpretation.
This is a call for papers for an anthology, Investigating Battlestar Galactica: Flesh, Spirit, and Steel, published by IB Tauris Books, and to be edited by Roz Kaveney and Jennifer Stoy. Its target audience is a "smart pop" or basic undergraduate audience. Theory-driven papers are welcome; however, the format is aimed at a less footnoted/endnoted style with more close reading and textual-based criticism.
We are looking for paper proposals, as essays may be given leeway to include season four in early 2008. The proposal should be 250-750 words, and emailed to both editors (contact information and due dates listed below).
Topics in particular that the editors would like to see abstracts on:
+ The series' place in televisual SF history, both in relation to its own original incarnation, to the various SF subgenres it engages with, including military SF, the engagement of SF with religion and the sublime, and SF's games with identity and "what it means to be human."
+ Relatedly, the reversal of prototypical genre tropes; ie, the agency of women in the series, Lee Adama's place as semi-"ornament" for far more active female characters, Bill Adama's sentimentality compared to Laura Roslin's ruthless realpolitik, and so forth.
+ The series as contemporary political allegory, and its commentary on American political topics such as the Iraq War, the War on Terror, 9/11, et cetera.
+ The use of allegory and referentiality in the series in general, or a particular use of referentiality that catches the essayist's eye (for example, the use of Mormon/LDS theology, the musical references from "our" world, et alia.)
+ Feminist readings of many of the series' themes and leitmotifs, such as "downloading."
+ The online fandom surrounding the series; in particular, the relative prominence of female/female slash versus male/male.
+ Various character-focused essay from theoretical points of view; a gender studies essay on the character of Starbuck would most certainly be welcome.
Please note these topics are only suggestions, and that the editors will accept abstracts/proposals on
other subjects relating to the reimagined Galactica.
Submit your proposal/abstract, along with biographical information, to Roz Kaveney (rkaveney@googlemail.com)
and Jennifer Stoy (jenniferoksana@yahoo.com) by OCTOBER 10, 2007. Responses will be given by November
1, 2007.
Call for Papers - Investigating Battlestar Galactica: Flesh, Spirit, and Steel
Since its inception as a miniseries in 2003, Battlestar Galactica has been a critical and popular science fiction success, garnering media attention and honors such as the prestigious Peabody Award and accolades from the American Film Institute (AFI). The series' storytelling, technical craft, and acting have created a dense, powerful text rich for interpretation.
This is a call for papers for an anthology, Investigating Battlestar Galactica: Flesh, Spirit, and Steel, published by IB Tauris Books, and to be edited by Roz Kaveney and Jennifer Stoy. Its target audience is a "smart pop" or basic undergraduate audience. Theory-driven papers are welcome; however, the format is aimed at a less footnoted/endnoted style with more close reading and textual-based criticism.
We are looking for paper proposals, as essays may be given leeway to include season four in early 2008. The proposal should be 250-750 words, and emailed to both editors (contact information and due dates listed below).
Topics in particular that the editors would like to see abstracts on:
+ The series' place in televisual SF history, both in relation to its own original incarnation, to the various SF subgenres it engages with, including military SF, the engagement of SF with religion and the sublime, and SF's games with identity and "what it means to be human."
+ Relatedly, the reversal of prototypical genre tropes; ie, the agency of women in the series, Lee Adama's place as semi-"ornament" for far more active female characters, Bill Adama's sentimentality compared to Laura Roslin's ruthless realpolitik, and so forth.
+ The series as contemporary political allegory, and its commentary on American political topics such as the Iraq War, the War on Terror, 9/11, et cetera.
+ The use of allegory and referentiality in the series in general, or a particular use of referentiality that catches the essayist's eye (for example, the use of Mormon/LDS theology, the musical references from "our" world, et alia.)
+ Feminist readings of many of the series' themes and leitmotifs, such as "downloading."
+ The online fandom surrounding the series; in particular, the relative prominence of female/female slash versus male/male.
+ Various character-focused essay from theoretical points of view; a gender studies essay on the character of Starbuck would most certainly be welcome.
Please note these topics are only suggestions, and that the editors will accept abstracts/proposals on
other subjects relating to the reimagined Galactica.
Submit your proposal/abstract, along with biographical information, to Roz Kaveney (rkaveney@googlemail.com)
and Jennifer Stoy (jenniferoksana@yahoo.com) by OCTOBER 10, 2007. Responses will be given by November
1, 2007.