I recently received this email and while I have little talent or knowledge in these areas I know some of you do...so I thought I'd pass the info along.
Good Luck and make us proud!
-----Original Message-----
From: Popular Culture & American Culture Associations/H-Net Discussion list [mailto:H-PCAACA@H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of James Brian Wagaman
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:54 PM
To:
H-PCAACA@H-NET.MSU.EDUSubject: CFP: Motorcycling Culture (12/1/06; SW/TC PCA/ACA, 2/14/07-2/17/07)
Call For Papers:
MOTORCYCLING CULTURE
Annual Meeting of the PCA/ACA Southwest/Texas
February 14-17, 2007 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Popular Culture Association and American Culture
Associations are holding a series of panels at the next
annual meeting of these groups to be held April 4-7, 2007
in Boston, Massachusetts at the beautiful Boston Marriott
Copley Place.
Papers and presentations are requested on motorcycling
and its impact on American and other societies and cultures.
Suggested topics include:
* Riders' narratives or descriptions of the ride
* The motorcycle as art, poetry, or agency
* Rituals, norms, customs, or influences in motorcycle culture
* The biker as subaltern or as "other"
* Movies, films, or other images of motorcyclists
* Analyses of media, consumer capitalist, corporate, or other
power structures in relation to motorcycling culture or popular myth
* Biographical analyses of noteworthy motorcyclists and their
influence upon myth, culture, or cultural capital
* Racial, ethnic, gendered, class, or demographic aspects
of motorcycling culture
* Other literary, anthropological, geographical, historical,
sociological, or psychological perspectives of motorcycling culture
Please respond to the Area Co-chair listed below with
a biographical statement and an abstract of 150 words by
December 1, 2006. Since responders may be assigned to
presentations, completed papers should also be sent to
the Chair for review, not later than
March 15, 2007.
Basic information about the conference can be found at:
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/ Paul Nagy
Clovis Community College
Clovis New Mexico
E-mail:
paul.nagy.@clovis.edu (505)769-4908
Sally Sanchez
SW/TX PCA/ACA Program Coordinator
PO Box 34414
Houston, TX 77234-4414
SW/TX PCA/ACA 2007 Conference
February 14-17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
