45th Annual SWPACA Conference

Join us for our 45th Annual SWPACA Conference

February 21 — 24, 2024, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Submissions are now being accepted for #SWPACA24! The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2023.

Join us for our Summer Salon virtual conference! We are now accepting proposals in over 70+ areas on any topic related to popular and/or American culture.

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About Southwest Popular/American Culture Association

The mission of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) is to promote an innovative and nontraditional academic movement in the humanities and social sciences celebrating America’s cultural heritages, and to increase awareness and improve public perceptions of America’s cultural traditions and diverse populations. We work towards this mission by providing a professional network for scholars, writers, and others interested in popular/American culture via our annual academic conference and through our open-source, peer-reviewed academic journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. Additionally, the SWPACA has a long-standing commitment to supporting the development of new and young academic professionals in the fields of popular and/or American cultural studies through conference travel grants, paper awards, and professional development opportunities.

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