[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Motorcycling Culture and Myth PCA/ACA 2007

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call For Papers:

MOTORCYCLING CULTURE AND MYTH, PCA/ACA, April 4-7, 2007

The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Associations are
holding a series of panels at the next annual meeting of these groups to
be held April 4-7, 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts at the beautiful Boston
Marriott Copley Place.


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 or myth


Please respond to the Area Co-chairs listed below with a biographical
statement and an abstract of 150 words by November 1, 2006. Since
responders may be assigned to presentations, completed papers should
also be sent to the Co-Chairs, to be forwarded for review, not later
than March 15, 2007.

Basic information about the conference can be found at
http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/

Gary L. Kieffner
Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso
E-mail: Kieffner at utep.edu

or

Suzanne Ferriss
Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University
Telephone: 954-262-8219
E-mail: ferriss at nova.edu