Call for Papers

Asian Popular Culture / Asian American Experiences

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 47th 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/.

Asian Popular Culture / Asian American Experiences is a subject area that covers a wide

variety of topics. Proposals for individual papers and panels on Asian popular culture or

Asian American life and culture are welcome. The list of topics is suggested, but not limited

to:

•Film

•Literature

•Fashion

•Family

•Food

•Music

•Asian American Experience/Identity

•Transcultural Representations in Asian Pop Culture

•Religion

•Politics

•Gender and Sexuality

•Travel

All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at

https://swpaca.org/app.

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 and a brief summary of 100 words or less.

For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view

the above FAQs & Resources link.The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2025.

SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories.

Submissions of accepted full papers are due January 1, 2026. More details are here:

https://swpaca.org/graduate-student-paper-awards/. SWPACA also offers travel fellowships for

undergraduate and graduate students as well as contingent faculty: https://swpaca.org/travel-

awards-students-faculty/.

Registration and travel information for the conference is available at

https://swpaca.org/albuquerque-conference/. For 2026, we will be returning to the Marriott

Albuquerque (2101 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110), which boasts free parking

and close proximity to shopping and dining.

In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The

Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dialogue/.

If you have any questions about the AsianPopular Culture / Asian American Experiences

area, please contact its Area Chair: Jered Mabaquiao, UT Arlington, jcm6944@mavs.uta.edu

If you have general questions about the conference, please contact us at support@swpaca.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 2026 SWPACA Summer Salon, a completely virtual

conference to take place in June 2026.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!