UPDATE: Popular Culture (12/1; SW/TX PCA/ACA, 2/9-2/12)

From: RollinsPC@aol.com
Date: Mon Nov 15 1999 - 15:34:05 EST


Dear Area Chairs and friends,

    This year, there are three $100 prize competitions at our conference
which you should bring to the attention of participating GRADUATE STUDENTS.

    The Rollins Award is for the best Popular Culture Paper.

    The Schoenecke Award is for the best American Culture Association Paper

    The Cox Award is for the best paper on the image of women.

All three competitions are described on the web site for the meeting,

    http://www2.okstate.edu/swpca/

Be there!

Peter C. Rollins
Program Chair, SW/Texas PCA/ACA Meeting
    (February 9-12, 2000)
Popular Culture Center
Rt 3 Box 80
Cleveland, Oklahoma 74020
(918)243-7637 and fax 5995

   Special events and persons to attend:

    Credit option from U of New Mexico via Extension (505)277-1154
        Graduate credit of 1 or 2 hours: American Studies 520
          Undergrad credit of 1 or 2 hours: American Studies 320

    (Details at web site: credit involves readings, sessions, and a log.)
          These are transferrable hours of credit and will come in handy
            for graduate students. Anyone delivering a paper will be
               given special credit for that written exercise as part of the
                credit work.
    
    For details, forms, etc. call Theresa Bernal at 505.277.1154 or send
            Theresa an e-mail at ThBernal@unm.edu

    Events:
        Homage to Américo Paredes, Chicano Writer and Folklorist (d. 1999).
        Free trips to Isleta Casino Gambling Palace
        Historic Oldtown Self-Guided Tour (by foot)
        Presidential Film Contest Final Screenings

    Persons:
        Founders of our national movement
            Ray Browne and Pat Browne
            Marshall Fishwick
        Robert Thompson, President of the Popular Culture Association
        Tim Scheurer, President of the American Culture Association
            Jim Welsh, Editor, Literature/Film Quarterly
            and John Tibbetts, Associate Editor of Literature/Film Quarterly
        Paul Rich, Universidad de las Americas (Cholula-Puebla, Mexico)
        Sherrie A. Inness, author of _Eating Ethnic: Thoughts on American
            Women and Ethnic Food_.
        Rick Wallach Of the Cormac McCarthy Society
             

    
   Organization's Web site with lots of data is below. We are asking
everybody
        to register by e-mail, using the template on the web site. Send a
full
            template to Peter Rollins and the appropriate registration fee to
                M.K. Schoenecke.

     http://www2.okstate.edu/swpca

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