Southwest Popular & American Culture Conference - Pedagogy & Popular Culture
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!
Kurt Depner, Area Chair
Pedagogy & Popular Culture
Southwest Popular & American Culture Conference
kudepner@nmsu.edu