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Call for Papers
CULTURAL HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 46th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation's largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit
https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/
The Cultural Heritage Institutions area solicits proposals from librarians, archivists, curators, graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, independent scholars, and other aficionados (yes! including people who use libraries, archives, and museums!) of popular/American culture and cultural heritage settings of all types. We also encourage proposals for slide shows, video presentations, panels, and roundtables organized around common themes.
Some suggested topics include:
- Histories and profiles of popular culture resources and collections in cultural heritage institutions; a chance to show off what you've got to scholars who might want to use it
- Intellectual freedom or cultural sensitivity issues related to popular culture resources
- Book clubs and reading groups, city- or campus-wide reading programs
- Special exhibits of popular culture resources, outreach programs, etc. of cultural heritage institutions
- Collection and organization of popular culture resources; marketing and ethical issues
- Web 2.0, gaming, semantic web, etc. and their impact on libraries, archives, museums, and digital humanities collections
- The role of public libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in economic hard times and natural disasters
- Oral history projects
- Digital humanities and other digital/data-based projects on popular culture, the Southwest, and other relevant subjects, both those based in cultural heritage institutions and those in academia or other organizations.
We encourage proposals for panels and roundtables organized around common themes.
For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general (including submitting proposals for roundtables and preformed panels), please see the FAQS & Resources tab on
https://swpaca.org/
Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words. Including a brief bio in the body of the proposal form is encouraged, but not required.
For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2024.
Registration and travel information for the conference is available at
https://swpaca.org/albuquerque-conference/ For 2025, we will be returning to the Marriott Albuquerque (2101 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110), which boasts free parking and close proximity to dining, shopping, and other delights.
In addition, please check out the organization's peer-reviewed, scholarly journal,
Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at
https://journaldialogue.org/
If you have any questions about the Cultural Heritage Institutions area, please contact its Area Chair, Dr. Suzanne M. Stauffer, LSU,
stauffer@lsu.edu. If you have general questions about the conference, please contact us at
support@southwestpca.org, and a member of the executive team will get back to you.
This will be a fully in-person conference. If you're looking for an online option to present your work, keep an eye out for details about the 2025 SWPACA Summer Salon, a completely virtual conference to take place in June 2025.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Suzanne M. Stauffer, MLS, PhD (she/her/hers)
Professor Emerita
School of Information Studies
Louisiana State University
stauffer@lsu.edu
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
--T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from The Rock"
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