Martin, Except for the sentence about virtual reality, I think this CFP is straightforward enough. Thanks for the attention, but I didn't write it--I was just passing it along. It came to me from the Penn English CFP listserv. If list members feel it is inappropriate to forward CFPs to this list, they can write to me privately and I promise to desist. If you read to the bottom you will see the prose belongs to Professor Rachwal and Professor Kalaga at the University of Silesia in Sosnoviec, Poland. Also, they invite inquiries. Perhaps you should direct your questions to them. Jon -------------------------------------- Jon Stephen Miller Managing Editor Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Department of English The University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1492 [log in to unmask] (319) 335-0592 ====================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 20:20:57 -0600 (CST) From: Jon Stephen Miller <[log in to unmask]> To: Alcohol and Temperance History Group <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: Viands Wines and Spirits (Poland) (6/15; 9/22-9/23) (fwd) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:58:37 +0100 From: rachwal <[log in to unmask]> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: Viands Wines and Spirits (Poland) (6/15; 9/22-9/23) CALL FOR PAPERS Viands, Wines, and Spirits. Nourishment and (In)Digestion in the Culture of Literacy. 22-23 September 2000, Ustroń, Poland For books are as meats and viands are, some of good, some of evill substance; and yet God in that unapocryphall vision said without exception, Rise, Peter, kill and eat, leaving the choice to each mans discretion. Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholsome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evil. Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concotion; but herein the difference is of bad books ... (John Milton, Areopagitica) A global Macdonaldisation seems to be an actual rather than a virtual reality. The rhetoric of eating and drinking, however, figures as a largely unexplored terrain in cultural and critical studies. We invite scholars from various academic disciplines to engage in the debate on a broad spectrum of issues addressing possibly many aspects of EATING and CONSUMING in contemporary culture. The ways food has become, at least in some regions of the world, a matter of style are equally interesting for us as the ways cultural products have become a matter of taste, sources of intellectual or spiritual nourishment thus, for example, endowing the spirit, the soul, at least with the body of a stomach which selectively memorises what is worth cultural preservation in the body of knowledge and history. We hope that the subject of the conference will inspire many original, controversial, and diverse, though conclusive, thoughts and arguments (not to mention recepies). Please send enquires and/or proposals for papers (early submissions are encouraged) to: Professor Wojciech Kalaga: [log in to unmask] or Professor Tadeusz Rachwal: [log in to unmask] Deadline for submissions is 15 June 2000 University of Silesia Institute of British and American Culture and Literature ul. Zytnia 10 41-205 Sosnowiec Poland tel./fax: +48 32 291 74 17 =============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List [log in to unmask] Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: [log in to unmask] ===============================================