CFP SWTX PCA ACA American Studies

Kenneth Nolley <[email protected]>
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From: Haven, Lisa <[email protected]>

Call for Papers: American Studies Area
34th Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture
Association Conference, “Celebrating Popular/American Culture(s) in a
Global Context,” February 13-16, 2013
Albuquerque, NM
http://www.swtxpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 16, 2012

Conference hotel:
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
300 Tijeras Avenue NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Further conference details are available at http://www.swtxpca.org

Panels are now being formed in the American Studies area. Scholars,
researchers, professionals, teachers, graduate students and others
interested in this area are encouraged to submit an abstract. Graduate
students are especially encouraged and will be assisted in accessing any
and all award opportunities the conference and/or associations provide.
The full list of awards for graduate students can be found at
http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/48.html.

American Studies is a broad area and one that MUST be interdisciplinary.
While the area is one that should be centered in the cultures of the
Americas, especially the United States, a particularly vibrant area of
inquiry is increasingly found in the transnational, intra-­­national and
global considerations of these cultures. Topics offering multiple
perspectives in this vein on the American Southwest are especially welcome.
Listed below are several possible topics, however, these should not be
considered either prescriptive or limiting in regards to your creativity in
this area.

•      Empire and Conquest in 21st century America
•      American Remnants and Ruins
•      The International Metaphor of the Western Frontier
•      21st-Century Post-­­Borderlands
•       Domestic Racial and Post-Racial Ideologies
•      American Popular Culture and the Crisis of the Subprime
•      America’s Role in Trans-national Bio-politics
•      American Advertising and Nationalism
•      American Freethinkers
•      The Role of Humor in American Identity
•      The Trouble with Citizenship: Community, Resistance, Migration
•      American Studies in the Classroom/Inter-American Studies outside the
US

Email 250-­­word abstracts for individual presentations or 500-­­word
abstracts for panel proposals to Area Chair Lisa Haven (English Department,
Ohio University Zanesville) at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> AND
submit your proposal directly into the database at
http://conference2013.swtxpca.org/. It will have to be submitted there
eventually anyway. Upon acceptance, all presenters must register by
December 31, 2012.

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Lisa Haven
Area Chair: American Studies [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Ohio University Zanesville
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