Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Cycles of Awe - Venue Research

One venue I have chosen is the 100 Dubliners Conference. Below the readmore you can see the research I've put into picking this venue for my final paper. I may have to revise my paper to keep to the topic (if my proposal is accepted) but because my paper is long enough for this venue and the potential children's venues I'm still researching, I think the editing would be simple enough so my paper could be split to work for both.
100 Dubliners
  1. Venue Research and Reading Report: In preparation for submitting to 100 Dubliners, I read the synopsis and suggested topics listed here. Of all that I have searched, I couldn't find any abstract to previous conferences done like this. As I looked at their publications, I couldn't get a preview or guess at article length.
  2. Venue Title and Sponsoring Organization: 100 Dubliners is sponsored by The Institute of English Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London) and it holds a variety of conferences.
  3. Call for Papers and Dates: The call for proposals was April 1st and I submitted my proposal before that deadline. If I am accepted, the conference will be held on October 31st and November 1st 2014.
  4. Topic: My topic could slide under the "new readings" category, but the conference invites papers on any topic related to Dubliners. Though my paper is not exclusively on this book, I can revise as needed to focus on the cycle of awe the characters in Dubliners experience rather than a full analysis of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Pan. Publications by the same sponsor include The Reception of James Joyce in Europe where a collection of essays were gathered on Joyce's work. They were looking to see how Joyce's influence has spread internationally and how the work has been received. My topic sheds new light on how to read Joyce's work in terms of awe.
  5. Length: No length is indicated, but most conferences will have speakers for 15-20 minutes, which means around ten pages. Some conference papers I found were up to fifteen however like this conference paper.
  6. Formatting: Again, didn't find any guidelines for this conference specifically. But I did search through journals published by the same sponsor (the free previews were limited) and found this one article about James Joyce. The format looks to be in MLA with their citations. They have footnotes which I do have in my paper as well.
  7. Tone & Rhetorical Approach: Based on the journals and conferences I've read by the same sponsor (using this free online database), the audience is informed and tone scholarly. In a conference talk on Material Cultures Conference, Wim Van Mierlo talks of Harold Bloom and refers to his "Six Revisionary Ratios" without defining what those are explicitly. There is a clear thesis and limited use of first person.
  8. Social Media and Mentions: The hashtag #100Dubliners on Twitter has several people mentioning the conference because it is a call for papers. Accounts such as James Joyce Center and Birkbeck: English promote calls for papers. The account Joyceana has several posts concerning James Joyce, so they could be willing to discuss the conference (which they also tweeted about to promote it). There are a lot of websites that feature links to the same page (link under number 1) to promote the conference without really generating discussion. I mentioned in the Google+ James Joyce community and on Twitter my interest in the conference with the same hashtag.

The Journal of Children's Literature is more of an informal journal that may require a lot more editing of my paper if I submit to them, but I'm keeping them in mind. I will be further researching the venues +victoria addis was so kind to suggest in this discussion. Then I will have multiple outlets for the research I've done.

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