CALL FOR PAPERS:
WESTERN WEATHER; TORNADOES, BLIZZARDS, DROUGHTS,
PREVAILING WINDS, ETC.
The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Associations and American Culture
Associations are holding a series of panels at the next meeting of these
regional groups, February 9-12, 2000 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the
Sheraton Oldtown Hotel. We met there last year and it was a perfect
venue for us with sights, sounds, tastes and museums of the southwest.
Papers wanted on western weather. Everybody talks about it, now it's time
to give it some scholarly attention. How weather affects/is part of
western/southwestern culture, art, collective behavior, etc. This part of
the US is weather central for stormchasers and others who are "seriously
into weather." Any intersections of the weather and culture can be
explored.
Likely topics:
Storm chasing in fact and fiction
Weather in film--movies such as "Twister"
Science Fiction--Sterlin's "Heavy Weather" and other depictions of western
weather
Media coverage of tornadoes, blizzards, etc.
Historic weather events: from the Galveston hurricane to the Del City
tornado
Recent documentaries, PBS, TLC, Discovery Channel, etc. on western
weather.
The Dust Bowl
Regional weather phenomena: blue northers, etc.
Weather forecasting and forecasters
Western weather in art--paintings, photos, weather photographers
Papers treating any aspect of the topic are welcome.
Please respond to the Area Chair
Virginia Bemis vbemis@ashland.edu
Associate Professor of English
Ashland University Ashland, OH 44805
(419) 289-5120
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