MEXICO MEETING DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 30 JUNE! (Meeting is 18-20 October, 2001) The deadline for proposals for the Mexico meeting of PCA has been extended to 30 June, 2001--the end of this month. We are delighted with the quality of the papers proposed so far, but Paul Rich of the Universidad de las Americas (UDLA) has all kinds of social and meal events planned under the tent of registration--to include a visit to the Volkswagon plant where ALL of the Volkswagons you see in the US are made. (The tour will be followed by a reception hosted by the German Ambassador. There are a number of such eye-opening events with transportation, food, and drink thrown in; it will give folks a wonderful chance to see the economic potential of NAFTA.) We now have planned a series of poetry readings and and a film festival with filmmakers introducing and discussing their works. Paul Rich is asking for innovative presentation formats and demanding fewer speakers per panel--a noble objective for us all! In any case, please reconsider the meeting and send a proposal to the appropriate Area Chair. (Full list is on the Mexico web site: www.udlap.mx/congress) When all else fails, write to Peter Rollins, the Program Chair for PCA, at [log in to unmask] For your convenience, here is an abbreviated list: Areas and Area Chair contacts: Globalization of Culture: Ray Browne at [log in to unmask] US Census and Implications: M.R. Dressman at [log in to unmask] Tourism and Travel Culture: Douglas Noverr at [log in to unmask] TESL/ESL: L. Aglada [log in to unmask] Gender and Gender Roles: L. Amador [log in to unmask] Food and Culture: Jane Creighton at [log in to unmask] Death and Culture: Gary Collison at [log in to unmask] Leaders: Charismatic Leaders in Fiction and Film Joanne Gass at [log in to unmask] Fidel Castro: Early and Late Careers ....Pending..contact Peter Rollins International Technical Communications: Michael Goss at [log in to unmask] International Marketing Communications: Thomas Volek at [log in to unmask] Comics and Fotonovelas: Jeff Williams at [log in to unmask] Photography: T.F. Morrissey [log in to unmask] Drug Wars: Bernard Attias at [log in to unmask] Chicano Culture: Literature, Film, Theory: Scott Baugh at [log in to unmask] World History--The Holocaust: Larry Wilcox at [log in to unmask] City, City Planning, and City Lives: M. Levine [log in to unmask] Mexico:Pre-Columbian Sites and Their Educational Potential: Ray Hall [log in to unmask] Mexico as a Subject for Debate in the US: 1820-1861 Lyon Rathbun at [log in to unmask] 20th Century Mexico Joe Stout at [log in to unmask] Mexican and Latin American Images of the US John Bratzel and Gary Hoppenstand at [log in to unmask] U.S. images of Mexico and Latin America Bob Beattie at [log in to unmask] Nicaragua: Bruce Campbell at [log in to unmask] Superrealism and Garcia Marquez: MK Schoenecke at [log in to unmask] Orality/Performance in Women Writers: [log in to unmask] Film & History: James Yates at [log in to unmask] Literature to Film: Anita Howard at [log in to unmask] Westerns: Fiction and Film: Paul Varner at [log in to unmask] D.H. Lawrence in North America: H.Witemeyer at [log in to unmask] The Beat Movement and Mexico: D. Camichael [log in to unmask] Socialist Realism as Artistic Style: F. Paredo [log in to unmask] Latin American and Cuban Films and Filmmakers: [log in to unmask] Latin Am. Soap Operas/Telenovelas: J. Hayward at [log in to unmask] Video Poetry: [log in to unmask] Music: Steve Buggie at [log in to unmask] Dance and Culture: Elizabeth Fine at [log in to unmask] Art and Architecture David Sokol at [log in to unmask] Computers: Computers and Digital Culture: Pat Steed at [log in to unmask] Distance Learning and the Internet Classroom: Ken Dvorak at [log in to unmask] ____________________________________________ Message submitted by Peter Rollins [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu