Asian Popular Culture / The Asian American Experience Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

Elaine Cho Announcement
Location
New Mexico, United States
Subject Fields
Asian American History / Studies, Asian History / Studies, Film and Film History, Literature, Popular Culture Studies

Call for Papers

Asian Popular Culture / The Asian American Experience

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

38th Annual Conference, February 15-18, 2017

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 1, 2016

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 38th annual SWPACA conference.  One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels.  For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/ 

Asian Popular Culture / The Asian American Experience is a subject area that covers a wide variety of topics.  Proposals for individual papers and panels on Asian popular culture or Asian American life and culture are welcome.  The list of topics is suggested, but not limited to:

 

  • Film
  • Literature
  • Fashion
  • Family
  • Food
  • Music
  • Asian American Experience/Identity
  • Transcultural Representations in Asian Pop Culture
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Travel

 

All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at http://conference2017.southwestpca.org/ 

For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at

http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/proposal-submission-faqs-and-tips/ 

Individual proposals for 15 minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words.  Including a brief bio in the body of the proposal form is encouraged, but not required.  

For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.  

SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due December 1.  For more information, visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/

Registration and travel information for the conference is available at http://southwestpca.org/conference/registration/

In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org

If you have any questions about the Asian Popular Culture / The Asian American Experience area, please contact its Area Chair, Elaine Cho, Eastfield College, elainecho@dcccd.edu.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.  

Contact Information

Elaine Cho

Professor of English

Eastfield College (DCCCD)

Contact Email
elainecho@dcccd.edu