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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
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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
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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
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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. Â 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
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Weather Update
<p>Good news! The rainy weather is clearing and both Friday and Saturday look good. Current forecast for the area is: Friday:Â Â Â Â Sun, High 61 degrees F; Low 39 (Celsius: 16/about 4) Saturday:Â Â Sun, High 66 degrees F; Low 56 (Celsius: 19/12) </p>
Oct 26, 20171 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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;Â 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
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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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Some Rooms Available Saturday Night
<p>The Campus Center Hotel advises they have a small number of hotel rooms available for Saturday night of the NEPCA conference. You can book one by calling them directly: 877-822-2110. Friday night is currently booked solid, but you could check for cancellations. Otherwise, check this site for other lodging options.</p>
Sep 21, 20171 min read
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PCAACA Deadline
<p>Deadline for submitting your 2018 conference proposal: 1 October 2017 Â We at the PCA hope your summer went well and that your school year, for those of you teaching, learning, or parenting right now, has begun splendidly. As October approaches, so does the deadline to propose your abstract for next year’s Popular Culture Association … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/09/20/pcaaca-deadline/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">P
Sep 20, 20171 min read
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CFP: Articles on Black Womanhood
<p>Open Cultural Studies Peer-Reviewed Journal by De Gruyter Open CFP: Black Womanhood in Popular Culture Editors: Dr Katharina Gerund (Erlangen/Nürnberg); Dr Stefanie Schäfer (Jena) contemporary popular culture, black womanhood frequently takes centre stage. It occupies an increasingly central place and articulates new and renewed dimensions, prompting questions about the status of black women in the cultural … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/09/08/cfp-articles-on-bl
Sep 8, 20172 min read
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CFP: American Humor
<p>Studies in American Humor (StAH), a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), has published scholarly critical essays, review essays, and book reviews on all aspects of American humor since 1974.  The premier journal for scholarship on humor, StAH addresses a wide spectrum of American humor, past and present. As a service to … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/09/07/cfp-american-humor/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader
Sep 7, 20172 min read
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