[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Motorcycling Culture & Myth (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/7/07-4/10/07)

[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 at El Paso
   Telephone: 915-532-2282
   E-mail: Kieffner at utep.edu

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




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