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Popular Culture Associations are again meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the annual conference MARCH 7-10, 2001. The newly renovated Sheraton "Old Town" Hotel will be the conference center and headquarters. Come join the popular culture folks.

Past sessions for Composition & Rhetoric have included papers/panels on:

*INTEGRATING COMPUTERS AND CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM

*RE-IMAGINING RHETORIC
Rhetorical Silence
Borderlands of Tradition and Change: Repositioning Conflict in the College Classroom
America's Red Rock Landscape in American Advertising: Exploring the Commodification of American Identity
Basic Writing and "Remediation" in the News and in the Classroom

*COMPOSITION/RHETORIC AND POPULAR MEDIA
Graffiti on the College Campus: Towards Moral Warfare or Welfare?
MAD and Mikhail Bakhtin: Analyzing Genres in MAD Magazine
Country Music in the Composition Classroom
Hollywood's "Successful" Teachers: Dangerous Minds and The Substitute

*USING POPULAR CULTURE IN THE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM
Scholarly Collaboration: Two Heads are Better than One
Popcorn Pedagogy
(De)composing Authority: Reflections of a Rookie Composition Instructor

Special invited topics (but certainly not all that we're looking for):
Popular Culture Rhetorics
Using Film in the Composition Classroom
The Politics of Creation: Using Frankenstein in the Developmental English Classroom

Albuquerque as A Place
A ride on the Sandia Tram puts you on top of the Sandia Mountains where you can look out over miles of magical landscape. To the west, the Rio Grande shines its way through the cottonwood-lined valley and silhouettes of dormant volcanoes are backlit by fiery red sunsets. As darkness blankets the city, thousands of lights twinkle like diamonds, matching the stars scattered through an expansive and pellucid sky.

Albuquerque is a city full of exciting attractions and events, from the adobe architecture of Historic Old Town, where Albuquerque was founded in 1708, to the Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta and the Isleta gambling palace. The city blends America's prehistory with its future at the Museum of Natural History and Science where a Dynamax Theatre takes visitors back to the Pleistocene era when the volcanoes were hot, hot, hot! Albuquerque has been called the most culturally diverse city in the country.

The Proceedings from the last two years have been placed on CD-ROM; we will repeat this innovation with the 2001 proceedings.

For more details, see the web site http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~swpca.