<p>Click here to get details concerning deadlines, registration, etc. for the April 2014 Popular/American Culture Association annual conference.</p>

<p>Health and Society Undergraduate Research Conference Providence College Providence, RI Abstracts due January 31, 2014 The Health Policy and Management Program at Providence College invites advanced undergraduates to submit paper proposals for our fifth annual undergraduate conference to be held Saturday, April 12, 2014. The subject of this interdisciplinary conference is &#8220;Health and Society,&#8221; and papers from &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/11/20/under

<p>&#8220;Little Data and the Big Picture: What Everyday Literature Can Do for Comparison&#8221; a seminar to be held at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New York University 20-23 March 2014. Abstract deadline: 15 November 2013. Submit a paper proposal at http://www.acla.org/submit (be sure to select &#8220;Little Data&#8230;&#8221; in the Seminar drop-down menu).  Learn more about the meeting and its &#8220;distinctive &hellip; <a href="

<p>The 16th annual conference of the Marxist Reading Group is seeking papers on the theme of &#8220;“Art in Interesting Times. ” The submission deadline is January 10, 2104. The conference ill convene at the University of Florida March 27-29, 2014. The keynote speakers are: Nicholas Brown, Fredric Jameson, and Kim Stanley Robinson. For questions concerning the &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/10/31/marxist-reading-group-cfp-and-conference/" class="more-link">Continue

<p>On November 15-16, Roger Williams University (Bristol, RI) will host a conference on &#8220;The Equal Rights Amendment in the 21st Century. For more information about the conference, and to see the full schedule, please visit the conference website: <a href="http://www.rwu.edu/go/era" rel="nofollow">http://www.rwu.edu/go/era</a></p>

<p>The Society for Military History First Manuscript Prize is awarded annually to an author who has not previously published a scholarly book-length manuscript. The competition is open to scholars whose work blends military history with social, political, economic, and diplomatic history and to authors of studies centering on campaigns, leaders, technology, and doctrine. The winning &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/10/03/military-history-prize/" class="more-link">Con

<p>In conjunction with its 15th anniversary, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum &amp; Research Center presents 17th Century Warfare, Diplomacy, &amp; Society in the American Northeast, a two-day interdisciplinary conference. This conference brings together scholars in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, ethnohistory, geography, literature and Native American studies to examine the complexity of a changing cultural landscape, and the consequences of &hellip; <a href=

<p>The 38th Conference on the Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) will hold its annual conference on the theme of &#8220;Social Movements and World-System Transformation: Prospects and Challenges.&#8221; It will be held at the University of Pittsburgh, April 10-12, 2014. Please submit proposals electronically to Jackie Smith at jwsr@pitt.edu (Please use the subject line PEWS Conference). Submissions should include a paper &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/09/

<p>Anyone attending the fall NEPCA conference who wishes to promote a recent book is welcome to do so. Check the NEPCA policies tab for all details, but the gist is this: 1. You can distribute fliers at your will. Many people make copies of a flier and stack them on a display table in the &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/09/17/do-you-have-a-new-book/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Do You Have a New&nbsp;Book?</span></a></p>

<p>The 35th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts Empire has issued a call for papers for its meeting March 19-23, 2014 at the Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel. The ICFA welcomes papers on any aspect of the fantastic &#8211; broadly defined as including fantasy, science fiction, weird fiction, horror, gothic, and fairy tales &#8211; in Literature, Drama, Film, Music, Video &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/09/12/cfp-for-conference-on-the-fantastic/" clas

<p>The Southwest PACA is currently accepting proposals for paper, panel, round table, and special topic presentations for its 35th annual conference, February 19-22, 2014.  Individual area CFPs can be found at: southwestpca.org Proposals are due: November 1, 2013. Direct all questions to Tamy Burnett, tburnett@southwestpca.org</p>

<p>The &#8220;Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Culture&#8221; area for the 2014 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association meeting in Chicago, IL invites presentation proposals related to the portrayal of health, illness and health care in the discourses of popular and American culture.  Proposals representing perspectives in the humanities and the arts (e.g., film, history, literature, &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/08/06/call-for-papers-med

<p>Everything you need to know for the 2014 Conference is now updated and ready to read on the PCA/ACA website: http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/ &nbsp;</p>

<p>Our sister regionaal , the Southwest Texas Popular/American Culture Association has announced a name change to The Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, effective July 1, 2013. It will celebrate this change at its gala 35th annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 19 &#8211; 22, 2014. Full conference details can be found at http://southwestpca.org You can also find more details &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/07/09/546/" class="more-link">

<p>NEPCA is no longer accepting proposals for its 2013 conference  as we are blessed with a full slate. Sorry. Please apply for next year&#8217;s conference in Providence, RI. Watch this site for an early CFP in the fall!</p>

<p>The XX ULSTER-AMERICAN HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM for 2014 will meet in two parts. Papers are being accepted for both. Part I: Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut,June 18-21, 2014. Part II: Athens, Georgia, June 25-28, 2014. Since 1976 the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium has met every two years. Its purpose is to encourage scholarly study and public awareness of the historical connections &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/06/13/509/" class="more-link">Continue re

<p>Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption, and Reception across the Canada-US Border will hold its second international conference at the University of Nottingham, 20-22 June 2014. Keynote Speakers: Charles Acland, Danielle Fuller, and DeNel Rehberg Sedo. Papers are now being solicited. See: http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/nottingham.html</p>

<p>The York University History Department in partnership with the Harriet Tubman Institute, presents &#8220;Performing Diaspora: The History of Urban Music in Toronto.&#8221; This public history initiative is a full-day conference that is intended to examine the history of Toronto Hip Hop and the contributions of African Canadians in particular, as well as the contributions of of other Canadian Hip Hop forms &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/05/26/urban-music-in-toron

<p>PCA/ACA Summer Writers&#8217; Workshop New York University 16-23 June 2013 Join PCA/ACA for summer in New York!  Take part in our first writers&#8217; workshop, an intensive weeklong experience where you can begin a new project or develop a work in progress.    For more information, visit the website </p>

<p>International Conference 7-8 June 2013 University of Strasbourg Organizers : ASPM / IASPM-bfe / SEARCH / Volume ! the French journal of Popular Music Studies &#8220;Changing the Tune : Popular Music and Politics in the XXIst Century.  From the Fall of Communism to the Arab Spring&#8221; Program, registration, practical information : <a href="http://volume.revues.org/3305 " rel="nofollow">http://volume.revues.org/3305 </a> or  http://volume.revues.org/3444 Keynote speakers