Oceanic Popular
Culture Association Conference "Work
and Play"
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Location: Chaminade University,
Honolulu, HI
May 25-27, 2007
Theorists as diverse as Michael Oakeshott
and Erich Fromm have emphasized the
transformative power of play and warned of
the dangerous consequences of misconstruing
the relationship between leisure and labor
activities. With accelerations in
communications technology such as email,
cell-phones, and text-messaging, our workday
has become unbounded, suffusing leisure time
along with all other aspects of life. While
many contemporary commercials extol the
virtue of devices that allow us to work at
home or on vacation, others exploit the
fantasy of literally throwing one’s pager
into the sea. Have these technologies
granted us more leisure or accomplished an
even more thorough subordination of play to
work? Such concerns are particularly
appropriate for an academic conference
hosted in Hawai‘i, where our primary
industry is for better or worse the labor of
leisure.
The
conference theme of "Work and Play" invites
discussions of labor and leisure as both
discreet and entangled categories.
Prospective presenters may treat images of
work and/or play in literature, film,
television, music, and other media. The
conference theme also accommodates
interpretations of the various forms of
"cultural work" performed by the text(s) at
hand. In addition to offering textual
analyses, presenters are welcome to discuss
cultural practices and traditions that
broadly intersect with the conference theme.
Fees: $125.00
(General Registration) $100.00 (Student Rate)
Non-Participating Guests will be assessed an
additional $35.00
The registration deadline of April 25, 2007
has passed.
Late registrants will be accepted at the above listed "late registration"
rates.
If you require shuttle service to and from
the airport and your hotel (Waikiki
only), please click on the
link to
Roberts Hawaii in order to make a
reservation. Roberts' representatives are at
the airport 24/7. Participants are
responsible for their own airport shuttle
fees.
Roberts
only provides shuttle service between the
airport and Waikiki Hotels.
Vouchers are only valid between
Waikiki and Chaminade University
Six (6) vouchers (three round-trips) will be issued to each participant
and are only valid for the dates of the
conference, and are non-transferable.
Each one-way voucher will have a
pre-determined value of $12.00. Gratuities are
the responsibility of the participant. Each voucher will be filled out
by the University and mailed to the
participant ahead of time, and as such, each participant must re-confirm
with
Dean McGinnis your Hotel and your
mailing address.
