Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors and Collections

La Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association lance un appel à communication intitulé : “Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors and Collections”. Celui-ci nous invite à penser des pratiques d’accumulation dont le neuvième art est coutumier mais qui semblent bizarrement peu étudiés. Nous n’avons en effet mis la main sur aucun travail de recherche consacré à la collection en bande dessinée, et ce qu’il s’agisse d’analyser sa valeur (quel rapport à l’objet livre ?), son organisation (par auteur, série, période ?) ou encore sa circulation (trocs, héritages, pratiques d’achat ?). Nous proposons à nos lecteurs d’indiquer en commentaire des références qui nous auraient échappées et nous contentons d’affirmer que les auteurs ont sur ce point bien plus d’imagination. Harvey Pekar met ainsi largement à l’honneur, dans American Splendor, sa passion de collectionneur alors que Seth traite dans Wimbledon Green avec justesse et ironie de l’avidité de ceux qui n’ont de cesse d’accumuler. Si vous choisissez de travailler sur ces œuvres, il s’agira de le faire avant le 15 décembre.

PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations

Joint Conference

April 20-23, 2011

http://www.swtxpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2010

Conference hotel: Marriott River center San Antonio

Proposals for individual presentations are being accepted for the Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections Area and related topics. We also seek proposals for entire panels as well as roundtable discussions concerning Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, and Collections.

Some areas of consideration include, but are not limited to:

• Collections/Collecting/Collectors/collectibles in popular culture

• Collections in libraries, archives or museums

• Collections/Collecting/Collectibles in Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Personal Collections

• Folk Art Collections and Collectibles

• Collections and collectors in literature, film, theatre

• The history of collecting

• Early American collections and Americana

• Collections of Native American, African American, Asian American, and Latina/o cultures(and others)

• Private or public collections

• The impulse to collect.

• Collecting and political correctness.

• Legal issues regarding collecting/collections.

• The business of collecting – buying and selling, mediating value – the dealer, the picker, the agent.

• The impact of the Internet (including eBay and like sites) on collecting.

• Relationships between collectors and curators.

• Collecting as community activity.

• Collecting as scholarship.

• Collectors’ organizations (car clubs, stamp clubs, costume jewelry collectors’ groups, etc.), their functions, their controversies.

• What is an “authentic” collectible?

• Collecting the immaterial (places, memories, people, websites, words, etc.)

Scholars, artists, curators, and other professionals are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are welcome, with award opportunities for the best graduate papers. Please visit the organization website for more information about this conference. http://www.swtxpca.org. Papers should be approximately 20 minutes long (8-10 pages) and should be original works of scholarship that have not been presented or published elsewhere. Proposals for entire panels should include 3-4 presentations/papers. Roundtables should be approximately 90 minutes long. Please send 200-250 word abstracts for papers, panels, and roundtables, to the Area Chair below, by December 15 2010.

Kathrin Dodds Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors and Collections Area Chair

Kathrin.dodds@ttu.edu

http://www.swtxpca.org

Benoît Berthou

Université Paris 13, LABSIC Directeur de la revue Comicalités. Etudes de culture graphique Rédacteur en chef des Carnets de la bande dessinée

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