Call for Papers about Tarot for the PCA/ACA Conference
I am looking for papers on all aspects of Tarot for the Tarot area at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference in Chicago (16-17 April 2014). Deadline for proposals 1 November 2013.
For more information about the conference, go to the conference website here.
Possible topics for the Tarot area may include, but are not limited to:
Advance queries welcome.
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I started the Tarot area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) conference in 2005 (San Diego) with the help of James Aubrey, the area chair for Visual and Verbal Culture. The very first paper in the area was Carol Matthews's "At the Market Place of Identity: Tarot Choice and Value Fulfillment." This paper appears in revised form, along with a number of others, in the Tarot in Culture anthology soon to be published by the Association for Tarot Studies (Victoria, Aus.)
Credit: The header picture on this page is a detail from one of the cards of the Rider-Waite Tarot created in 1909 and now available through US Games.
For more information about the conference, go to the conference website here.
Possible topics for the Tarot area may include, but are not limited to:
- Tarot and art history
- Tarot and literature
- Tarot artists, writers, and readers
- Individual decks and their guidebooks
- Tarot in comics, literature, and film (including Rakht and/or other Bollywood films)
- Playing cards in art history
- Tarot and Charles Williams, and/or William Lindsay Gresham, and/or Arthur E. Waite
- Waite's second Tarot deck, the Waite-Trinick deck
Advance queries welcome.
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I started the Tarot area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) conference in 2005 (San Diego) with the help of James Aubrey, the area chair for Visual and Verbal Culture. The very first paper in the area was Carol Matthews's "At the Market Place of Identity: Tarot Choice and Value Fulfillment." This paper appears in revised form, along with a number of others, in the Tarot in Culture anthology soon to be published by the Association for Tarot Studies (Victoria, Aus.)
Credit: The header picture on this page is a detail from one of the cards of the Rider-Waite Tarot created in 1909 and now available through US Games.
