Redefining Suburban Studies will examine the evolving suburban context of American life. Papers exploring various components of the suburban experience are invited from a wide range of disciplines including the social sciences and humanities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- The Built Environment: Homes/Housing; Architecture/Aesthetics; Main
Street/Malls/Big Boxes
- Planning/Development; Public/Private Space; Transportation/Mass Transit
- History/Social Change; Race/Ethnicity; Internal Migration/New Immigrants
- Community Formation; Family Life; Children
- Economics/Labor
- Health in the Suburban Environment
- Recreation/Leisure; High/Popular Culture
- Myths and Images of the Suburbs in the Mass Media -- Movies, Television,
- Photography
- Representations of the Suburbs in Literature, the Arts and Popular Culture
- Research: Resources/Communications/Information Systems
- Terminology: Bourgeois Utopia; Crabgrass Frontier; Technoburb; Edge City
Proposals for presentations, lecture/demonstrations, panels, round-tables and workshops are also welcomed. A letter of intent, a three to five page abstract and a curriculum vitae should be sent by September 30, 2000.
Papers and proposals will be accepted on the basis of abstracts submitted. Acceptances will be sent by Oct. 30, 2000 The deadline for completed papers in [duplicate] is February 15, 2001. Previously published material should not be submitted. Presentation time for papers, lectures, lecture/deomonstrations and workshops is limited to 20 minutes. [Papers should be limited to 8-10 typed, double-spaced pages]. Selected papers will be published.
Conference Co-Directors:
DANIEL R. RUBEY BARBARA KELLY, Curator
Dean of Library and Information Services L.I.Studies Institute
Tel:[516] 463-5940 Tel: [516] 463-6409
E-mail: libaddrr@hofstra.edu libspbmk@hofstra.edu
Conference Coordinators
DEBORAH LOM RICHARD PIORECK
E-mail: culdsl@hofstra.edu culrjp@hofstra.edu
HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER [HCC]
200 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549-2000
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