<p>The&nbsp;Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Race and Ethnicity&nbsp;area&nbsp;welcomes paper submissions from graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, and independent researchers of popular culture. NEPCA’s 2022 fall, virtual conference will be held October 20 – October 22, 2022. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2022.   We encourage panel proposals, as well as individual submissions.&nbsp;&nbsp; Papers are generally 15-20 &hellip; <a href="http

<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic of Romance/Popular Romance Fiction for its annual conference.&nbsp; NEPCA’s 2022 fall, virtual conference will be held Thursday, October 20 – Saturday, October 22, 2022. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2022.   We welcome a wide variety of papers related to romance &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/06/07/cfp-romance-popular-fiction/" class="more-link">Continue

<p>The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2022 Northeast Popular &amp; American Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2022 virtual annual conference will be held online from Thursday, October 20-Saturday, October 22, 2022. Abstracts are due by August 1, 2022 and can be submitted here. &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/06/02/cfp-literature-and-popular-culture/" class="more-link">Contin

<p>Thursday, October 20-Saturday, October 22, 2022 (Virtual) Proposal due: August 1, 2022 Papers for the Politics, Civic Life and Culture area of NEPCA explore the role of political actors, institutions, ideology, rhetoric, and satire in popular culture. Topics and themes may be drawn from all policy domains – both foreign and domestic. 2022 Special topics &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/05/10/cfp-politics-civic-life-and-pop-culture-area-for-nepca2022/" class="more-

<p>The 2022 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as another virtual conference from Thursday, October 20-Saturday, October 22 in a similar structure to last year (Thursday evening, Friday late afternoon, Saturday morning). We all want to be back together again face-to-face but without a campus to host us, we &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2022/04/06/nepca-2022-virtual-conference-cfp/" class="more-link">Continue reading

<p>Who Was that Masked Woman: Representations of Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in Popular Media from Reconstruction to the Great Depression NEPCA is sharing this CFP that we thought our membership might be interested in. For more information, contact: Gregory Bray, brayg@newpaltz.edu Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2021 We invite chapter proposals for a collection of critical essays &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/11/03/cfp-who-was-that-masked-woman/" class="m

<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic of Digital Media and Gaming Culture for its annual conference, occurring online from 21 October through 23 October 2021. In this area, we welcome a wide variety of papers on the subjects of digital media and/or gaming, both fields loosely defined. Submissions &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/06/08/nepca2021-digital-media-and-gaming-culture-area-cfp/" class="more-link

<p>The Performance Studies content area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association is now welcoming submissions for our virtual Fall conference! The conference will be held Thursday, Oct. 21 – Saturday, Oct. 23. We invite the community to submit proposals for this year’s conference in the Performance Studies content area. (For a full list of content &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/05/11/cfp-performance-studies-for-nepca2021/" class="more-link">Continue re

<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Race and Ethnicity area welcomes paper submissions from graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, and independent researchers of popular culture. NEPCA’s 2021 fall, virtual conference will be held Thursday October 21 – Saturday October 23, 2021. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2021.   We encourage panel proposals, as well as, individual submissions.&nbsp; Papers are &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/202

<p>2021 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Virtual ConferenceThursday, October 21-Saturday, October 23, 2021Proposal due: August 1, 2021 Papers for the Politics, Civic Life and Culture area of NEPCA explore the role of political actors, institutions, ideology, rhetoric, and satire in popular culture. Topics and themes may be drawn from all policy domains – both foreign &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/04/22/cfp-politics-civic-life-and-pop-culture-area-for-

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic of Romance/Popular Romance Fiction for its annual conference. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We welcome a wide variety of papers related to romance and popular romance fiction. Possible approaches can include narrative analysis of the romance genre, issues of representation

<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Classrooms, Libraries, and the Academy area welcomes paper submissions from librarians, archivists, curators, graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, patrons, and independent researchers of popular culture and information settings of all types. NEPCA’s 2021 fall,virtual conference will be held Thursday October 21 &#8211; Saturday October 23, 2021. The deadline for proposals &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2

<p>The 2021 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as another virtual conference from Thursday, October 21-Saturday, October 23 in a similar structure to last year (Thursday evening, Friday late afternoon, Saturday morning). We all want to be back together again face-to-face but without a clear sense of how the &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2021/02/02/2021-nepca-conference-goes-virtual/" class="more-link">Continue readin

<p>Greetings NEPCA Community, We hope this message finds you as well as can be, given all the things that are going on in the world right now on so many levels. We have recently been informed that our campus destination for our Annual Conference will not be able to host us in the fall as &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/06/12/nepca2020-conference-update/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">#NEPCA2020 Conference Update</span></a></p>

<p>The CFP for the Northeast Popular Culture Associate Annual Conference for 2020 has been extended.  We will be accepting admissions until June 15. This year&#8217;s conference will either be hybrid (some sessions online and some face-to-face) or entirely virtual. We&#8217;re dependent upon what the host institution decides and their announcement will come in early June.  &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/05/25/extended-call-for-nepca2020/" class="more-link">Continue

<p>Call for Papers for Film and History area for the 2020 Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) annual conference scheduled for Friday, October 23 – Saturday, October 24 at the Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire. Dr. Carol Mitchell; Area Chair of Film and History Email: cmitchel@springfieldcollege.edu  Call for Papers: Film and History. The &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/05/09/nepca2020-cfp-film-and-history/" class="more

<p>The current COVID-19 global pandemic has changed life for all of us, both here and in other countries. The extent of that change may vary based on our professions, financial status, locations, health, and a variety of other factors. Yet, it seems clear that the pandemic has had a profound effect on all aspects of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/05/06/nepca-cfp-covid-19-and-popular-culture/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">#NEPC

<p>Greetings members, I write to you today to provide you with an update about NEPCA and our plans for the fall.  Our goal is to be transparent about how we are moving forward and let you know that we&#8217;re trying o make the best decisions in a process where we don&#8217;t know how things will &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/04/11/nepca2020-conference-the-pandemic/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">#NEPCA2020 Conference &amp; th

<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic of Fantasy and Science Fiction for its fall conference to be held Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH, on Friday, October 23, and Saturday, October 24, 2020. This conference marks the introduction to the Fantasy and Science Fiction area, which is &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/03/26/cfp-fantasy-and-science-fiction-area-nepca2020/" class="more-link">

<p>Why Disney Studies? Before I moved to New England and discovered NEPCA, I once asked the PCA/ACA about having a Disney Studies area for their national conference. I was told (and I paraphrase loosely) that Disney transcended too many areas to be its own standalone area. That, in my argument, is precisely WHY we need &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2020/03/20/cfp-disney-studies-at-nepca2020/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">CFP: Disn