[Discussion] Fwd: CFP: Food and Culture (12/1/05; PCA/ACA, 2/8/06-2/11/06)

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From: "Houston, Lynn" <lmhouston@exchange.csuchico.edu>

Southwest regional conference of the
Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
February 8-11, 2006, Albuquerque, NM

Popular Food Culture: Call for Papers

We seek proposals for papers on cookbooks, celebrity chefs, food television,
cooking shows, eating contests, vegetarianism, and farmer's markets. Papers may
address some of the following or related questions:

*	How do cookbooks and cooking shows help to make consumers aware of
contemporary issues in food culture? How might cookbooks and cooking shows help
us better utilize farmer's markets and small-scale family farms?
*	In what way do cooking shows either reinforce gender stereotypes or resist
them? In what ways do they replicate or reverse class stereotypes?
*	How do contemporary, popular celebrity chefs fight globalization by helping us
to "think globally and eat locally"?
*	Where does the American public's fascination with eating contests come from?
*	What issues of nationalism are caught up in eating contests and media coverage
of them?
*	Is vegetarianism becoming more and more popular? Why?

	For consideration, please send an abstract of 750 words or less describing your
possible presentation. In addition, please include info about yourself:
past/present university positions, publications or description of research, and
contact info. Papers are acceptable in English and Spanish. The proceedings of
this panel will potentially appear in a collection published by a major
scholarly press.

Deadline: 	December 1, 2005

Send to:	Dr. Lynn Marie Houston (email preferred, no attachments)
		EMAIL: lmhouston@csuchico.edu
		English Department
		California State University, Chico
		400 W. First St.
		Chico, CA 95929-0830
		Tel. (530) 898-5165
		Fax (530) 898-4450

Conference web site: 	http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/



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