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Last Update: Motorcycle Culture and Life
| Location: | New Mexico, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2006-12-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2006-11-16 |
| Announcement ID: |
153802 |
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Call For Papers:
MOTORCYCLING CULTURE
Annual Meeting of the PCA/ACA Southwest/Texas
February 14-17, 2007 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Papers and presentations are requested on motorcycling
and its impact on American and other societies and cultures.
Suggested topics include:
* Riders' narratives or descriptions of the ride
* The motorcycle as art, poetry, or agency
* Rituals, norms, customs, or influences in motorcycle culture
* The biker as subaltern or as "other"
* Movies, films, or other images of motorcyclists
* Analyses of media, consumer capitalist, corporate, or other
power structures in relation to motorcycling culture or popular myth
* Biographical analyses of noteworthy motorcyclists and their
influence upon myth, culture, or cultural capital
* Racial, ethnic, gendered, class, or demographic aspects
of motorcycling culture
* Other literary, anthropological, geographical, historical,
sociological, or psychological perspectives of motorcycling culture
Please respond to the Area Co-chair listed below with
a biographical statement and an abstract of 150 words by
December 1, 2006. Since responders may be assigned to
presentations, completed papers should also be sent to
the Chair for review, not later than
March 15, 2007.
Basic information about the conference can be found at:
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/
Paul Nagy
Clovis Community College
Clovis New Mexico
E-mail: paul.nagy.@clovis.edu
(505)769-4908
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