Call for Papers
Food and Culture Area
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American
Culture Association Regional Conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico February 12-15, 2003
The 24th Annual Conference of the Southwest/Texas
Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association will take place February 12-15, 2003 in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. The SW/Texas PCA/ACA accepts
scholarly papers from academics, students, and
professionals for presentation. The PCA's mission is
"to promote an innovative and nontraditional academic
movement in Humanities and Social Sciences, to provide
an outlet for scholars, writers, and others interested
in the popular culture, to share ideas in a
professional atmosphere, and to have papers presented
at meetings." The atmosphere is professional, but
relaxed. Although this is a regional conference,
scholars and food enthusiasts from around the world
have attended in past years.
Presentations can be on any aspect of the study of
food and culture. Topics of interest from past
conferences include:
--fast food
-- food science
-- food advertising
-- nutrition
-- diets
-- eating disorders
-- food and film
-- consumer habits
-- kids and food
-- cereal/breakfast foods
-- cookbooks and menus
-- ethnic foods
-- foodways
-- food, gender, and the body
-- ethnographic approaches to food culture
-- restaurant/diner culture
-- food magazines and t.v. shows
-- organic and natural foods
-- regional foods
-- the slowfood movement
Please send a brief biographical sketch and abstract
outlining your possible presentation by November 15,
2002 to: Lynn Houston, lhouston@selu.edu, Southeastern
Louisiana Univ., English Dpt., SLU 861, Hammond, LA,
70402, Tel.: (985) 549-3106, Fax: (504)549-5021.
Please forward this email to any interested parties.
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