Motorcycling Culture and Myth
Call For Papers: MOTORCYCLING CULTURE AND MYTH, PCA/ACA, Boston, April 11 14, 2012
Papers and presentations are requested on motorcycling and its impact on 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 December 15, 2010. 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, 2011.
Basic information about the conference can be found at http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php
Dr. Lisa Garber
Psychologist
E-mail: garberwwr@earthlink.net
Gary Kieffner
Division of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences
Clovis Community College
Clovis, New Mexico
(208) 297.0641
gary.kieffner@clovis.edu