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

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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