UPDATE for Southwest Ranching!
This is the final call for papers for the 24th Annual Conference of
the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association that will take place February 12-15, 2003 in Albuquerque,
New Mexico at the Hilton where we met last year. I STILL HAVE ROOM
FOR PAPERS in the Southwest Ranching section but I need to hear from
you immediately. The deadline is Dec. 31, 2002.
Please contact me immediately, providing a 150-word abstract of your
project and an effective two-part title (as in "Water Wars in the
West: Cowboy Culture vs. Urban Transplant"). [General topic: Specific
focus]
Please provide me with a complete signature file at the end of the
message---mailing address, phone, fax, e-mail. This information will
help a lot and will facilitate proper communication--and decrease the
number of e-mails you will send/receive.
I invite thoughtful, contentious, nostalgic, witty, etc. 15-20 minute
presentations on topics ranging from broadly theoretical to detailed
analyses of quite specific "texts" having to do with such topics as
(for example) the following:
-- 1. What are the the most pressing and significant issues at the heart of the business of ranching and agriculture in the Southwest U.S.?2. What are the groundwater and surface water resources and issues in the greater Southwest and how can conflicting claims be resolved to protect limited water resources now and in the future?
3. How are those issues treated on the ground, in literature and art, in various communities, in various organizations, in and by government and its various agencies, in folklore, in sciences such as geology, botany, hydrology, anthropology, archaeology, food studies, etc.
4. What are or should be our culture's goals for ranching and agriculture and where do these goals originate?
5. How are attitudes toward agriculture, ranching, recreation, and other (conflicting?) land uses formed, expressed, defined, managed? Consider, for example, preservation of pristine "wilderness" vs. exploitation as in "wise use."
6. What do our festive celebrations and enactments of ranching and agriculture such as the rodeo, the historical wild west shows, western movies, and TV shows, and art exhibits reveal of our cultural attitudes toward the land, our use of it, our preservation of it, our exploitation of it?
7. What can organizations such as The Quivira Coalition, The Sierra Club, the Automobile Club, etc. contribute to redefining cultural attitudes and cultural practices?
8. What can rhetorical and literary analyses of rhetorical and artistic performances (literature, art, etc.) contribute to cultural analysis and "reformation"?
What do I need from you? If you are interested in presenting a paper at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, then I need to receive the following via mail or e-mail no later than November 4, 2002:
1) A 100 - 300 word paper proposal 2) A brief biographical sketch
I'll make final decisions no later than December 20, 2002.
Here are the deadlines I'm working under:
10 December: Head Counts program coordinator
20 December: Final Deadline for Participant Acceptance
31 December Panels to program coordinator for scheduling. See guidelines below.
3 January: Ultimate Date for Registration PAYMENT DUE for ALL PARTICIPANTS (Use the following links to access website to PAY FEES and register): 1) http://www2.h net.msu.edu/~swpca/
2) http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/%7Eswpca/swpca02.html
Please e-mail your proposals to: tchumphrey@csupomona.edu (include all information in text of the e-mail)
Theodore C. Humphrey 9858 Via Esperanza Alta Loma, CA 91737
My phone number is 909-987-2363.
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