<p>Screening New England: 100 Years of Regional Moving Image History 17th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium Thursday, July 21 – Saturday, July 23, 2016 Proposals Due: April 19, 2016 The rich amateur and non-theatrical moving image history of New England will be the focus of the 2016 Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium. In commemoration &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/04/16/screening-new-england-conference/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span

<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association is seeking papers on the topic of digital media for its annual fall conference to be held on the campus of Keene State College in Keene, NH. On October 21-22nd, 2016.  NEPCA prides itself on holding conferences which emphasize sharing ideas in a non-competitive and supportive environment. We welcome proposals &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/04/15/nepca-cfp-digital-media/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span

<p>October 13-16, 2016 Rowan University Glassboro, NJ &nbsp; “Alternate Worlds” <a href="http://litfilm.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://litfilm.blogspot.com/</a> &nbsp; Every work of fiction in every medium presents a world distinct from our own. Adaptations in particular can be defined in terms of their worlds, which provide alternatives to both the world of their audience and the world of their source texts. And some &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/04/12/lite

<p>&nbsp; Dublin, 6–7th July 2016 Venue: The National Library of Ireland. &nbsp; The relationship between Ireland and Great Britain has a long and complex history. One key dimension has been the connections and interactions between the various media of communication – print and electronic – which have mediated this relationship. This conference seeks to address &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/04/11/shared-histories-media-connections-between-britain-and-ireland/" cla

<p>The Newberry Library Scholl Center for American History and Culture Call for Proposals for the 2016-2017 academic year is now open The Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture promotes research and teaching through the use of the Newberry’s rich collections in American history, literature, and culture. Our programs include an annual series of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/27/newberry-seminars/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span cl

<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association is seeking papers on popular and American culture, broadly construed, for its annual fall conference to be held on Friday October 21 and Saturday October 22, 2016, on the campus of Keene State College in Keene, NH. NEPCA prides itself on holding conferences that emphasize sharing ideas in a non-competitive &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/24/nepca-2nd-cfp/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen

<p>Friday 9th September – Sunday 11th September 2016 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom “With great power, comes great irresponsibility…” – Deadpool In the twenty-first century, the Superhero now holds an unparalleled position within pop culture. Having vastly expanded beyond its birth medium of comic books to what is a fierce and pervasive presence in multiple &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/21/british-conferences-on-superheroes-fear-horror-terror/" class

<p>On October 6 and 7 of 2017, Goodwin College will host a special conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the original broadcast of Roots. Goodwin College houses a significant repository of Alex Haley’s writings, and it is committed to promoting dialogue about social justice and opportunity for all. We welcome 250-word proposals for conference &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/21/roots-40th-anniversary-conference-in-east-hartford/" class="more-link">Continue re

<p>The Sport and Society conference is a distinctive, intimate and affordable three-day event that provides opportunities for sports academics and professionals working in sports-related fields to network and share their expertise about sports.The 2016 conference will be held on May 23-25, 2016. The theme of the fourth Sport and Society conference is &#8220;The Business of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/15/sport-and-society-conference/" class="more-link">Continu

<p>Call for Papers – Northeast Studies The 2016 Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference will be held in Keene, New Hampshire from October 21-22.  Northeast Studies invites presentations on any aspect of New York or New England culture, including film, literature, politics, music, entertainment, and casinos. Possible topics of interest include: Entertainers/ entertainment such as Matt &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/07/northeast-studies-area-of-the-northe

<p>Friday 9th September – Sunday 11th September 2016 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Fear, Horror and Terror can be seen as the defining experiences and political tools of modernity, shaping public spaces, discourse, and popular culture. This is the era of the ‘War on Terror’, in which terror is politically, culturally, even racially defined. We &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/05/fear-horror-and-terror/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="s

<p>June 17 &#8211; 23 in Oslo, Norway At Pride House: <a href="http://www.oslopride.no/hjem/program-2016/pride-house-2016/" rel="nofollow">http://www.oslopride.no/hjem/program-2016/pride-house-2016/</a> Deadline for paper proposals: 20 march 2016 The International Society for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS) invites researchers and students to submit paper proposals to a multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual and multi-cultural Queer Studies Seminar that will take pla

<p>Registration is now available for the Sultans of Swing Conference to be held on the campus of Wright State University in Dayton, OH onApril 14 &amp; 15, 2016. A full schedule of papers examining the intersections of baseball, jazz, and short fiction and conference registration are available atwww.wright.edu/baseball. The conference schedule features keynote and plenary &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/02/sultans-of-swing-100-years-of-baseball-jazz-and-short-fic

<p>&#8216;68 + Global Cinema Modern Languages Association &#8211; Annual Convention Philadelphia, PA &#8211; January 5 &#8211; 8, 2017 This call for papers is for a guaranteed session on 1968 and Global Cinema, which has been approved for sponsorship by the MLA Executive Committee on Visual Arts and Culture. Please submit a 250-word abstract and a &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/28/mla-panel-onglobal-cinema-and-1968/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span clas

<p>The section on Politics, Civic Life, and Culture for the 2016 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) conference is now accepting paper proposals from faculty and graduate students. This year, NEPCA&#8217;s annual fall conference will be held on the campus of Keene State University in Keene, NH during the weekend of October 21-22, 2016. For more &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/24/politics-civic-life-and-culture-cfp-for-nepca/" class="more-link">Continue

<p>We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions on sound and msuic in relation to the moving image. Media thinkers, film scholars, ludomusicologists, game designers, art historians, performance theorists, composers, installation artists, filmmakers, sound practitioners, multimedia semioticians, philosophers of perception –– we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted abstracts will &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016

<p>Liverpool Hope University June 28th-29th 2016 The Popular Culture research group at Liverpool Hope University welcome papers from academics and graduate students for its sixth annual international conference, &#8216;Theorising the Popular&#8217;. Its aim is to demonstrate the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their academic relationship with and within ‘traditional’ &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/14/theorising-th

<p>The University of New Mexico invites student athletes, athletic administrators, faculty members, undergraduate and graduate students to participate in The UNM Symposium on College Athletics.  The event will be held in THE PIT – UNM’s historic arena – on April 12, 2016.  The symposium aims to facilitate dialogue about college athletics by bringing together all types &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/13/call-for-papers-the-unm-symposium-on-college-athletics/" clas

<p>Cornell University September 29 to October 1, 2016 In 2014, Cornell’s History of Capitalism Initiative hosted a conference on the “Histories of American Capitalism” to showcase the deep connection between traditional subfields of social history (race, gender, sexuality and class) and the new history of capitalism. Building on the success of that conference and on &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/08/cfp-histories-of-capitalism-2-0/" class="more-link">Continue re

<p>The American Antiquarian Society’s 2016 Center for Historic American Visual Culture Summer Seminar will run from July 11-16, on the topic “Seeing Nature: The Environment in American Visual Culture to 1900.” The seminar will be led by Kathryn Morse, Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, and Jon Coleman, Professor of History at &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/02/05/aas-2016-summer-institute/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span