CFP: African American/ Black Studies area 2018 SWPCA

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

39th Annual Conference, February 7-10, 2018

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org  

Proposal submission extended deadline: November 15, 2017

Proposals for both panels and individual papers are now being accepted for the 39th annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference, Feb 7-10, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  International submissions are welcome.

The African American / Black Studies area of the conference welcomes proposals regarding any aspect of African American or African life, culture, performance, literature, media, history, law, politics, economics, education, health care, art, religion, social sciences, business, representations in popular culture, music, the diaspora, or any other issues relevant to African American/Black Studies and culture.

Paper presentations should be 15 minutes long.

For individual presentations, submit a proposal with the following items:

• ·  a 250-word abstract
• ·  current curriculum vitae;
• ·  working bibliography for your paper

All applicants must enter their own information and proposals into the conference database (including panel-proposal members).

Proposals for panels of 3-4 presenters are also welcome. To propose a panel, submit the following:

• panel title;
• name of proposed panel chair;
• names of all proposed panel presenters;
• titles and abstracts of each paper (each on a separate proposal form)

Submit all proposals to: http://conference.southwestpca.org/

Extended Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2017.

Please send any inquiries to area chair Debbie Olson, olsond@moval.edu

The Southwest PCA/ACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories; see http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/

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

We look forward to your submissions!