[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Teaching Material Culture (3/1/07; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Teaching Material Culture

The editors of transFormations seek articles (5,000 – 10,000 words) and
media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. – 3,000
to 5,000 words) that explore the significance and uses of material
culture in a variety of pedagogical—from the classroom to the museum--
and disciplinary contexts--literature, women’s and gender studies,
anthropology, folklore, history, psychology, sociology, art,
photography, geography, religion, working-class studies, ethnic studies,
cultural studies, science, and others. Essays should raise questions
concerning, for example, authenticity, art, craft, tradition, community,
or authority in relationship to the teaching of material culture
Multidisciplinary approaches that focus on--or include--discussions of
non-Western cultures are especially encouraged. Autobiographical
criticism, narrative scholarship, photo-essays, and experimental work
are welcome.

Topics might include: teaching material culture in higher education;
museums and the appropriation and transformation of material culture;
gender and technology; the politics and pedagogy of the archive;
material culture and folklore; artifacts and identities; material
culture and family/domesticity; food rituals/celebrations; the
transmission of material culture in diasporic communities; history and
interpretation of public spaces; intersections and manifestations of
identities; clothes, costumes, fashion, and body politics; religious
practices; music and performance; practices and politics of
memorializing; the material construction of public events; make-overs
and reality television; class and taste; globalization, tourism, and
transnationalism.

Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.)  and a 250-word abstract to:
Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey
City University, Grossnickle Hall Room 303, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard,
Jersey City, NJ 07305, USA OR email submissions and inquiries to:
transformations at njcu.edu. Email submissions should be sent as
attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines go
to www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.


DEADLINE: 1 March 2007

Edvige Giunta
Editor, Transformations
Department of English
New Jersey City University
2039 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ 07305
USA

201-200-3086 (English Department)
201-200-3071 (Transformations)
201-200-3051 (Fax, Transformations)

egiunta at njcu.edu

http://web.njcu.edu/sites/faculty/egiunta/
http://www.njcu.edu/Assoc/transformations

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