<p>Call for Papers Date: September 15, 2015 Location: Michigan, United States Subject Fields: Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies, Film and Film History, Popular Culture Studies, American History / Studies, British History / Studies More Middle Ages on Screen? Reconsidering The Reel Middle Ages (A Roundtable) Sponsored by the Virtual Society for the Study of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/09/02/the-reel-middle-ages-a-roundtable-9152015-icms-kalamazoo-0512-1520

<p>Call for Papers: “Satirical Images: Between Sociability, Animosity, and Entertainment” Kathryn Desplanque and Jessica Fripp American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference Pittsburgh, March 31-April 3, 2016 Please email proposals to kathryn.desplanque@duke.edu AND j.fripp@tcu.edu by September 15, 2015 The use of graphic satire proliferated in the eighteenth century, from the caricature and portrait charges of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/09/0

<p>Monsters and the Irish Imagination: Session Sponsored by the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association  For the New England ACIS Regional Conference 20-21 November 2015 University of New Haven West Haven, Connecticut Proposals by 10 September 2015 Following a successful session last year devoted to Bram Stokerís &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/31/monsters-and-the-irish-imagination/" class="m

<p>No Straight Lines: Sexuality and LGBT Identities in Sequence panel of the 2016 MSU Comics Forum seeks papers that contextualize the histories of sexuality in sequential art. The goal of this panel is to provide a snapshot of the complexity and diversity of LGBT identities in comics, in the industry, and among readers/fans. Papers that recover understudied narratives, &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/27/2016-msu-comics-forum-panel-cfp-sexuality-and-lgbt-identiti

<p>Conference: “Jewish Sports in/and the Metropolis“ Vienna, Austria , March 14.-15, 2016  Organized by the University of Applied Arts Vienna / University of Vienna. This conference addresses the history and importance of Jewish sports in different major European cities. Beginning with the establishment of sports as part of mass culture after the Great War, the main &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/26/jewish-sports-inand-the-metropolis/" class="more-link">Continue

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; THE SOCIOLOGY OF VIDEO GAMING Video games are today depicted as an evident leisure activity. Yet, the legitimization of this hobby has undertaken a chaotic track. Playing video games has, in fact, transformed from a marginal and isolated activity to a global and mainstream pastime. A few countries have sparked national surveys about &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/18/3rd-international-sociological-association-forum-of-sociology-vienna-austria-10-

<p>The Sports and Violence Conference will be held on March 19, 2016 on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. Paper and panel proposals are being solicited that engage the conference theme. Papers may vary across disciplines and emphasize either practical or theoretical considerations. We also welcome proposals that engage one or more sphere &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/05/sports-and-violence-conference/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span c

<p>Asian pop music, comics, drama, film, graphic novels; these cultural products are increasingly present transnationally signaling new currents of popular culture and underscoring the interconnected nature of our globalizing world. Within the pan-Asian context, the concepts of “familiar difference” and of a collective Asian identity have catalyzed the fame of East/Southeast Asian singers and TV &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/07/31/franco-asian-connections-and-inte

<p>&nbsp; The World Fairs and Expositions Area, Popular Culture Association (PCA), invites proposals for its 2016 national conference, to be held 21-25 March 2016 in Seattle, Washington. The Area covers all aspects of research on world’s fairs &amp; universal expositions, including theme-specific events such as commemorations, horticultural exhibitions, and biennales. We are particularly interested, because &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/07/31/call-for-papersworld-

<p>The Sixties Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes submissions on any aspect of popular culture from this era. Topics of interest might include, but are not limited to: Film, television, and radio of the era Analysis of influential books/authors or arts/artists Religion and spirituality Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll Music and fashion as &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/07/21/cfp-the-sixties-pca-national-conference/" class="more-link">Continue reading <spa

<p>Fanfiction In Medieval Studies Conference: 51st International Congress in Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 12-15, 2016) Organizer: Anna Wilson Call for papers: Over the past three decades, there has been increasing interest in both Fan Studies and Medieval Studies in the relationship between medieval literary culture and fanfiction (that is, popular, ‘unofficial’, fan-generated fiction writing &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/07/21/call-for-papers-fanfic

<p>Date: July 20, 2015 to September 20, 2015 Location: United Kingdom Subject Fields: British History / Studies, European History / Studies, French History / Studies, German History / Studies, Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies, Military History IMC Leeds 2016 Medieval Equestrianism: Theory and Practice IMC invites paper proposals for thematic sessions on all aspects of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/07/21/imc-leeds-2016-special-sessions-on-medieval-horse/" c

<p>Call for Papers:   Northeast Modern Language Association March 17, 2016 to March 20, 2016 In June 2015, the former Olympic decathlete formerly known as Bruce Jenner unveiled his new trans-identity. Caitlyn Jenner’s first public act was to tweet her Vanity Fair cover, with its headline &#8220;Call me Caitlyn,&#8221; from her new Twitter account. This declarative &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/07/09/call-for-papers-northeast-mla-convention-hartford-ct-march-17-20t

<p>CFP Monster-themed papers for Halloween 2015 conference . REVISED FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS MORE MONSTERS FOR THE EIGHTH-ANNIVERSARY SESSIONS OF THE SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HORROR, AND LEGEND AREA Online at NEPCA Fantastic: <a href="http://nepcafantastic.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://nepcafantastic.blogspot.com</a> 2015 Conference of The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA) Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire Friday 30 October an

<p>CFP:  Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Popular Culture PCA-ACA National Conference (Popular and American Culture Associations) March 21-25 2016 Seattle WA &nbsp; DEADLINE:  October 1, 2015   The &#8220;Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Culture&#8221; area for the 2016 Popular and American Culture Association meeting in Seattle invites proposals related to the portrayal of &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/07/02/medical-humanities-at-pcaaca/" class=

<p>Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference 
Honolulu, HI 
May 27-28, 2016 
Chaminade University of Honolulu &nbsp; Panel and/or individual paper proposals are being accepted for the 8th Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference. All topics and proposals are welcome, particularly those treating cultural production within and/or about the Oceanic region. Abstracts and Proposals for individual papers or 3-4 &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/07/01/oceanic-popu

<p>Work, Class, Labor, and Culture in American Literature: Labor, Art, &amp; Politics in American Literature and Culture This panel welcomes papers focusing on the intersection of labor, art, and politics in American literature and culture. Suggested topics range from African-American work songs to regionalist painters such as Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood to representations &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/05/14/southern-atlantic-modern-language-assn-meeting-dur

<p>The third annual Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Conference will be held in Dallas, TX, on 6 and 7 June 2015. Fandom includes all aspects of being a fan, ranging from being a passive audience member to producing one’s own parafictive or interfictive creations. Neomedia includes both new media as it is customarily defined as &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/04/30/final-announcement-cfp-for-fandom-and-neomedia-studies-fans-conference/" class="more-link">Continue

<p>CFP deadline: 1 May, 2015 The State and US Culture Industries conference June 25-26, 2015 United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney Following recent scholarship (Erin G. Carlston, William J. Maxwell, Timothy Melley) that renews questions of state power, national security, and cultural production, this conference seeks to appraise critically, from a range of disciplinary &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/04/22/conference-in-australia/" class="more-lin

<p>The organizers of the 2015 Northeast Historic Film (NHF) Summer Symposium invite proposals featuring studies of amateur, educational, industrial, and non-theatrical films that examine war and peace. Training and battlefield films, footage from ordnance and gun cameras, medical films, coming home reportage, peace movement films—from the beginning of moving image technology through the present, citizen-soldier-filmmakers &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/04/22/film-s