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October 21st-23rd, 2004
Keynote Speakers: Michael Moon and Jim Provenzano
Deadline: September 6, 2004

Discussions of audience, intention, and appropriateness often center on a distinction between the adult and the child. While this distinction is strictly policed, it is not easily defined nor exactly clear. Children's and adults' cultures intertwine with one another daily through literature, art, video games, music, film, and numerous other cultural devices. The purpose of this conference is not to define the intersections of children and adults, but rather to explore what occurs within "cultures" or "cultural" media when children and adults converge, whether as participants, consumers or producers.

Possible paper topics are (though not limited to):

• 'Cultural' media and their effects on the various definitions of childhood
• The audience of children's literature
• The rise of the child through literature, art, science, film, gaming
• Children's popular culture and its adult inhabitants
• Adults' popular culture and its child inhabitants
• Critical approaches to perspectives of youth culture
• Children and race, class, sexuality, and non-normative sexualities
• Commercialization and children's culture
• Transmissions of knowledge between children and adults

We invite papers and/or presentations that investigate these notions from a variety of perspectives, including American and British literature and culture, Film and Media studies, History, Romance Languages, German and Slavic Languages, Anthropology, Sociology, Fine Arts, Architecture,
Music, Art and Art History, and Political Science.

The deadline for proposals is September 6, 2004. Proposals must include your name, e-mail address, mailing address, telephone number, institutional affiliation, technology requests, presentation title, and 300-word abstract. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Please submit your proposals to:

Aaron Talbot, EGO Co-President
Department of English
4008 Turlington Hall
PO Box 117310
Gainesville, FL 32611-7310

Electronic submissions are preferred, but not required. Please send electronic submissions via plain-text email. In other words, copy-and-paste your abstract into your email client and send it that way. Panel proposals are also welcomed and encouraged.

For any further information contact EGO Co-Presidents Aaron Talbot at atalbot@english.ufl.edu or Cathlena Martin at cathlena@ufl.edu.