Call for Papers about Tarot for the PCA/ACA Conference

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 Washington (27–30 March 2013).

For more information about the conference, go to the conference website here.

Possible topics 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
  
• Playing cards in art history
  

Participants should be prepared to present their work as scholarly research and / or for the benefit of an interested audience of academics. Submissions should include the author's CV, short biography (100-150 words), and abstract (100-250 words). Send these items to me at
Advance queries welcome.

Film Screening: Rakht (Blood) (2004) a Bollywood film starring Bipasha Basu as a Tarot reading widow
Co-sponsored with Indian Culture, Art, & Media (area chair Rekha Menon)

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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.)

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