Southwest Popular & American Culture Conference - Pedagogy & Popular Culture

Kurt Depner (they/them) Announcement
Location
New Mexico, United States
Subject Fields
Composition & Rhetoric, Digital Humanities, Humanities, Popular Culture Studies, Teaching and Learning

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 43rd 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/

 

We encourage and welcome all topics involving pedagogy and/or curriculum development; some suggestions for possible papers or panels are listed below:

  • Combining unusual disciplines in Writing Across the Curriculum courses

  • Utilizing new media technologies

  • Multimodal learning

  • Discussing the benefits and challenges of online teaching; best practice presentations are gleefully welcome!

  • Integrating popular television, films, novels, graphic novels, or music for meaningful classroom lesson planning

  • Teaching games and game theory

  • Utilizing social networking tools in the classroom

  • Using Wikis or Blogs in the classroom

  • Teaching with podcasts and videocasts

  • Editing family letters and/or journals in student projects

  • Promoting active learning by co-opting structures typically associated with webpages

  • Integrating service learning with traditional curricula

  • Constructing student projects as museum exhibits

  • Challenging standard pedagogical assumptions

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

 

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/

 

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.   

 

The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2021.   

 

SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due January 1, 2022.  SWPACA also offers travel fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students. For more information, visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/

 

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

 

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 Pedagogy & Popular Culture area, please contact its Area Chair, Kurt Depner, New Mexico State University, at kudepner@nmsu.edu. If you have general questions about the conference, please contact us at support@southwestpca.org, and a member of the executive team will get back to you.

 

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Contact Information

Kurt Depner, Area Chair

Pedagogy & Popular Culture

Southwest Popular & American Culture Conference

kudepner@nmsu.edu

Contact Email
kudepner@nmsu.edu