CFP: Beats, Counterculture, & Hipsters area, SWPACA (11/1/2015; 2/10-2/13/2016)

Organizers of the 37th annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference seek paper and panel submissions to its “The Beats, Counterculture, & Hipsters” area.

Topics of interest might include Literature of the Beat Generation, Beat Culture and the Cold War, The Beats in Popular Culture, Women in the Beat Generation, African American Beats, Beat Appropriation of African American Culture, Moral Crisis of the Cold War and the Beat Generation, 1960s Counterculture (Hippies), Countercultural conflicts over race and gender, the Beat Movement and its influence on Popular Culture, Conservative Counterculture(s) of the postwar period, Literary Narratives of Counterculture and Utopianism, and studies on Hipsters in the past and in their current incarnations.

The organizers will accept scholarship as well as creative submissions.

Submit 250-word paper abstracts, or multiple-paper panel proposals (with each abstract on a separate proposal form), online to the area at: http://conference2016.southwestpca.org.  The deadline for proposal submissions is November 1, 2015. Earlier proposals are welcomed and will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Direction questions about the Beats, Counterculture, & Hipsters area to: Dr. Christopher Carmona at christophercarmona@icloud.com.

The conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque Conference Rate Reservations can be made at: http://southwestpca.org/conference/registration/

For more details on the conference, including information about areas of study, graduate student awards, conference travel, or touring Albuquerque and Santa Fe, please visit http://southwestpca.org.

In addition, please check out the organization’s new, peer-reviewed journal: Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy (http://journaldialogue.org).

Since the 1970s, the Southwest PACA has sought to foster interdisciplinary study of popular and American literary, historical, visual, and other cultural and media texts. While its offerings have grown over the years to include areas of international study, the organization still invites scholars and artists to share their perspectives on American life in the diverse region of the Southwest.