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One of Our Graduate Prize Winners
<p>Here’s a picture of Eren Odabasi,the winner of the 2016 Carol Mitchell Prize for Best Graduate Student paper. Alas, Nova Seals, our Amos St. Germain Prize winner got away from the podium before I could snap her picture. Each year NEPCA honors two graduate students for excellence at the previous year’s conference. Maybe your picture … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/03/one-of-our-graduate-prize-winners/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class=
Nov 3, 20171 min read
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: H-Sport Teaching Initiative – Syllabi and Assignments
<p>H-SPORT is currently seeking contributions for our Teaching Initiative project. Presently, we are looking for syllabi and assignments that focus on media, literature, philosophy, law, policy, management, sociology, and history of sport. Because we are an interdisciplinary list other categories in the sport-teaching field are also welcome. Our goal with the Teaching Initiative project is to offer a … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/03/call-for-contributions-h-spo
Nov 3, 20172 min read
Meet NEPCA’s New President
<p>Meet Marty Norden from the UMass Amherst Department of Communications. After the superb job Marty did with our 2017 conference he was unanimously elected as NEPCA’s president for 2017-18.</p>
Nov 2, 20171 min read
Scenes From the 2017 Conference: I
<p>Scenes from NEPCA 2017. This is the day after when your faithful Executive Secretary took Krisha (Sukrittaya Jukping) to see the house and statue of one of her heroines: Sojourner Truth. She was thrilled. Seems like the least I could do for one who had traveled 46 hours (!!!) from Thailand to take part in … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/01/2684/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Scenes From the 2017 Conference: I</span><
Nov 1, 20171 min read
Review: 2016 Rollins Book Prize Winner
<p>Hollywood Riots: Violent Crowds and Progressive Politics in American Film (2016). By Doug Dibbern. I.B. Tauris, 205 pp. A few years before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) conducted its witch-hunt to ferret out alleged communists in the Hollywood film industry—it held hearings in 1947 and 1951—there had been violent, racially-motivated disturbances in Los … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/11/01/review-2016-rollins-book-prize-winner/" class="more
Nov 1, 20173 min read
NEPCA a Roaring Success
<p>Our annual conference, this year held at UMass Amherst, has just concluded and it was a huge success! There were the usual things that happen at every conference, everywhere: some technology wobbles, no-shows, etc. but the biggest problem was a pleasant one: so many superb papers that one couldn’t possibly hear them all! Congratulations to … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/10/30/nepca-a-roaring-success/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-
Oct 30, 20171 min read
Book Review: Bone Rooms
<p>Redman, Samuel. Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism in Human Prehistory to Museums. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 373. $29.95 Samuel Redman’s new monograph explores an interesting topic: the history and cultural significance of the vast collections of human skeletons that flooded museums and public fairs in the later nineteenth and early twentieth … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/10/30/book-review-bone-rooms/" class="more-link">Continue readi
Oct 30, 20174 min read
Book Review: Sports, Legend, and Immortality
<p>Legends Never Die: Athletes and Their Afterlives in Modern America. By Richard Ian Kimball. Syracuse University Press, 2017. On July 4, 1939, New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig bade farewell in a speech that has found its way into the pantheon of American history’s most famous orations. When Gehrig told a Yankee Stadium … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/10/30/book-review-sports-legend-and-immortality/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="
Oct 30, 20173 min read
Weather Update
<p>Good news! The rainy weather is clearing and both Friday and Saturday look good. Current forecast for the area is: Friday: Sun, High 61 degrees F; Low 39 (Celsius: 16/about 4) Saturday: Sun, High 66 degrees F; Low 56 (Celsius: 19/12) </p>
Oct 26, 20171 min read
ONE WEEK UNTIL NEPCA
<p>T minus 7 days and counting folks. NEPCA’s fall conference launches next Friday. For those coming from out of the region, the preliminary weather forecast cals fro mild weather. but don’t trust it this far in advance. Check the forecast as the date draws nearer and plan your wardrobe accordingly. It’s never a bad idea … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/10/20/one-week-until-nepca/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">
Oct 20, 20171 min read
Attention Graduate Students Presenting at NEPCA
<p>NEPCA awards two cash prizes for best graduate student papers at its annual conferences. If you are presenting this October and your paper goes well, consider entering this competition. The rules: Only your panel chair can nominate a paper. If you’d like to compete, approach your chair and ask that individual to nominate your paper. At … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/10/16/attention-graduate-students-presenting-at-nepca/" class="more-link">Continue reading
Oct 16, 20171 min read
Publishing Opportunity for Grad Students
<p>Olympika, The International Journal of Olympic Studies invites graduate students to write journal article reviews for Olympika’s up coming issue. This is a great opportunity to earn a published writing credit through a brief review of a recently published journal article related to the Olympics. Please visit www.uwo.ca/olympic/publications/journal_review_instructions.html for more information. If interested, please contact Jared Walters for further … <a href="https:
Oct 12, 20171 min read
Three Weeks To Go!
<p>NEPCA’s fall conference convenes in three weeks! Another reminder: If you’ve not booked lodging, you need to do so immediately or local hotels will release rooms and special rates will no longer be available.</p>
Oct 6, 20171 min read
MAKE RESERVATIONS FOR NEPCA LODGING NOW!
<p>This summer NEPCA reserved blocks of rooms at several area hotels and motels. To date, no one has registered at any of those in Hadley. (For out-of-towners, Hadley and Amherst run together and most of these hotels are 1-3 miles from campus.) Part of our deal with the local hotels is that they can release … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/10/05/make-reservations-for-nepca-lodging-now/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">MAKE RESERVAT
Oct 5, 20171 min read
War and Imprisonment Conference
<p>Call for Papers: War and Imprisonment The capture and confinement of human beings has been—and remains—a central feature of warfare and periods of mass violence both within and between nation-states and among non-state actors. Prisoners apprehended and held during times of conflict—whether military or political—have been both blessing and curse to their keepers. While … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/10/05/war-and-imprisonment-conference/" class="more-link"
Oct 5, 20171 min read
MA Historical Society Fellowships
<p>The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer more than forty research fellowships for the academic year 2018-2019. MHS-NEH Long-term Fellowships are made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Society will offer at least two in 2018-2019. (See our ad in the H-Net Jobs Guide or visit our website for details.) The stipend, governed … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/10/04/ma-historical-society-fellowships/" class="more-link">Contin
Oct 4, 20172 min read
Seeking Hosts for the Podcast New Books in Sports
<p>New Books in Sports (<a href="http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/sports/" rel="nofollow">http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/sports/</a>) is currently seeking hosts interested in conducting interviews with authors of new books on sports. Hosting the channel is a good way to bring the work of sports scholars to the attention of large audiences. Interested parties should write Marshall Poe at marshallpoe@gmail.com. New Books in Sports is part of the … <a href="https:
Oct 3, 20171 min read
UCLA Research Grants
<p>The UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships Program supports the use of special collections materials by visiting scholars and UCLA graduate students. Collections that are administered by UCLA Library Special Collections and available for fellowship-supported research include rare books, journals, manuscripts, archives, printed ephemera, photographs and other audiovisual materials, oral history interviews, and other items … <a href="https://nepca.blog/
Oct 3, 20174 min read
New England Studies at the PCAACA
<p>NEW ENGLAND STUDIES — CALL FOR PAPERS The 2017 Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference will be held in Indianapolis, March 28-31, 2018. The New England Studies Area invites presentations on any aspect of New England popular culture: Architecture; Art; Ecology/Environment; Economics; Fashion; Film and Theater, especially films made in New England, and plays set in the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/09/29/new-england-studies-at-the-pcaaca/" c
Sep 29, 20172 min read
Info From the PCAACA
<p>Deadline for submitting your 2018 conference proposal: 1 October 2017 Greetings! Now is the time to finish up your proposal and submit it for PCA 2018. If you haven’t submitted your proposal yet, please do so right away, so you can join us in our return to the midwest next Spring. See you in Indianapolis! … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/09/29/info-from-the-pcaaca/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Info From the PCA
Sep 29, 20171 min read
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