"Technology and the Home" sessions of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American
Culture Association  invite submissions for the Nov. 1-3, 2002 conference in
Pittsburgh, PA. "Technology and the Home" seeks papers that explore the
various interactions between the two from all time periods and all
disciplines. The discussion may focus on real or imagined or speculative
homes and technology. Appropriate topics include but are not limited to:
appliances, air conditioning, automobiles, building materials,
communications, computers, construction, decorating, entertaining, flooring,
hearth, hvac systems, insulation, kitchens, laundries, lighting, pets, pest
control, preservation, recreation, sanitation, security, and television.
Basically, anything is appropriate as long as it deals with living space and
technology.

The titles of some papers presented during previous conferences are: "TV
Houses" -- "Technology: A Social Placebo" -- "What's Cooking in the New
Millennium: Hypertextual Kitchens" -- "Women and the Modernization of the
Greek Interior: Architektoniki 1970-72" -- " (Almost) as Advertised in House
Beautiful: The Dymaxion Kitchen" -- "From Princess to Coquette: The Changing
Role of the Telephone in the Postwar American Home" -- "The Air-Conditioned
Life" -- "Cars, Mini Vans, and Motor Homes: The Domestication of
Mobility" -- "On and Off the Grid" -- "Homework: The Happy Housewife and the
Working Woman - A Lady and Her Sewing Machine" -- "A Light in Every Room:
Artificial Domestic Lighting in the 19th Century" -- "Let There Be Light" --
"A Prophet Without Honor: House Beautiful and the Climate Control
Project" -- "Lincrusta: The History and Art of Mass Produced Wall Covering."

Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2002. Send 1-page proposal and CV to:
Loretta  Lorance, CUNY Graduate Center, PO Box 461, Inwood Station, NY, NY
10034-0461. For more information about MAPACA, including other session
topics, please go to:
< www.ncc.edu/users/ash2/gazettehome.html >.

Inquiries only via email, no email submissions accepted. And, for those last
minute proposals, please remember that Fed Ex does not deliver to a PO Box.

Apologies for cross posting.
Loretta Lorance

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