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It is an academic conference in which lecturers, professors, authors, editors and scholars of all stripes meet to give papers and sit on discussion panels.
Both Steven Erikson and Ian C Esslemont are regular attendees.
It would be great to have Malazan papers being presented in the conference, so if anyone here is interested I have posted the information below.
Even if you are not interested, if you know anyone who might be interested, could you please let them know about the conference.
March 16-20, 2016 at the Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel
The deadline for submitting proposals is October 31.
Guest of Honor:
Holly Black
Guest of Honor:
Terri Windling
Guest Scholar:
Cristina Bacchilega
Special Guest Emeritus:
Brian Aldiss
Please join us for ICFA 37, March 16-20, 2016, when our theme will be “Wonder Tales.” Folklorists often use this term to refer to the stories commonly known as “fairy tales” due to the genre’s emphasis on the marvelous and its invocation of wonder, but what is wonder and where can it be found? Many events, characters, or objects generate a response of wonder—transformations and resurrections— but wonder also may be generated in technological advances and from the “sense of wonder” in science fiction. Papers might explore wonder tales and their modern incarnations, readers’ responses of wonder to fantastic texts, uses of wonder within fantastic texts, how wonder is invoked across mediums and genres, and the relationship between wondering (marveling) and wondering (questioning).We welcome papers on the work of our guests: Guest of Honor Terri Windling (author and editor, winner of nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Solstice Award), Guest of Honor Holly Black (author of The Spiderwick Chronicles, and winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in Children's Literature and a Newberry Honor book for Doll Bones), and Guest Scholar Cristina Bacchilega (author of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies and Fairy Tales Transformed: 21st-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder). We also welcome proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media. The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2015. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, and graduate students.
Join us in Orlando in 2016. We will add your intellectual and creative distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
More information forthcoming at www.iafa.org
For more information on the IAFA and its conference, the ICFA, see http://www.fantastic-arts.org/. To submit a proposal, go to http://www.fantastic...a-submissions/.
To contact the Division Heads for help with submissions, go to http://www.fantastic...division-heads.
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