Call for Papers: Atomic Culture

Call for Papers: Atomic Culture

Location:	New Mexico, United States
Call for Papers Deadline:	2002-12-01 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	2002-09-04
Announcement ID:	131178

CALL FOR PAPERS: ATOMIC CULTURE IN THE NUCLEAR AGE

The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites panels and individual papers examining atomic culture for its annual conference to be held February 12-15, 2003 at the Albuquerque Hilton Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Possible areas of consideration include, but are not limited to:

Film

Television

Fiction and science fiction

Music

Radio

Comic books

Trinity

Civil defense

The nuclear physicist as cultural figure

Nuclear tourism

Anti-nuclear movements

Located between Los Alamos and the Trinity Site, Albuquerque offers a unique place to consider cultural manifestations of atomic energy. Participants will have an opportunity to visit the National Atomic Museum.

Please send proposals for panels and individual papers (include a 100 word abstract and a one-page c.v.) by Dec. 1 to the address listed below.

Scott C. Zeman
Assistant Professor of History
Humanities Department
New Mexico Tech
801 Leroy Place
Socorro, New Mexico
Phone: 505.835.5628
Fax: 505.835.5544
Email: szeman@nmt.edu
www.nmt.edu/~szeman
Email: szeman@nmt.edu
Visit the website at http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~swpca/

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