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CFP The Frankenstein Story in Children’s and Young Adult Culture Friend or Fiend?
<p>A Special Session of the Children’s and YA Literature and Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association Sponsored by Frankenstein and the Fantastic, an outreach effort of the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association For the 2018 Annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association meeting in Indianapolis, … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/09/04/cfp-the-frankenstein-story-in-childrens
Sep 4, 20172 min read
TEN DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER
<p>A REMINDER TO ALL WHOSE PAPERS HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED: There are just ten days left to register for NEPCA’s fall conference. Please do so immediately. We have a very long waiting list of presenters that we will begin to call upon for those whose conference fees are not paid by the end of the day … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/08/21/ten-days-left-to-register/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">TEN DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER</sp
Aug 21, 20171 min read
New England Studies at the PCA
<p>CALL FOR PAPERS The 2018 Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, 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 region, e.g. … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/08/21/new-england-studies-at-the-pca/" class="mor
Aug 21, 20172 min read
Registration Due in Two Weeks!
<p>PLEASE REGISTER NOW FOR THE FALL NEPCA CONFERENCE Due to extraordinarily high demand, NEPCA requests that you be diligent in registering for the conference before September 1. We cannot guarantee your slot after that day and will begin withdrawing invites and soliciting replacements from the wait list. Normally we’d be much much lenient about the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/08/16/registration-due-in-two-weeks/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span c
Aug 16, 20171 min read
Information Clearing House
<p>Looking for information on upcoming conferences in your area, across the country, or abroad. Check out the H-Net announcements board for this and other opportunities.</p>
Aug 15, 20171 min read
Racism and Discrimination in Sports
<p>What is it about culture and society that creates an environment in which an athlete is able to excel or fail in his/her respective sport? Which factors, such as racism, discrimination, financial advantage or hardship, propel or hinder an athlete’s achievements? This volume seeks to explore how the world of sports is often a microcosm … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/08/15/racism-and-discrimination-in-sports/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen
Aug 15, 20171 min read
Sports History Anthology
<p>Routledge Books has requested a proposal for a sports media history anthology. The book will cover all periods and all forms of media and will serve as a standard reference for students, academics, and other interested professionals. The book will focus on the interplay of sports, media, and global culture at various points of history, … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/08/15/sports-history-anthology/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-
Aug 15, 20171 min read
IMPORTANT INFORMATION re: NEPCA CONFERENCE
<p>If you have applied to give a paper for the fall NEPCA conference, you should have received notification by now. PLEASE CHECK TO MAKE SURE THIS MESSAGE WASN’T INTERCEPTED BY YOUR SPAM FILTER. If you, for some reason, have not received notification, please contact Marty Norden immediately: norden@comm.umass.edu Reminder: PRESENTERS WHO DO NOT REGISTER BY SEPTEMBER … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/07/05/important-information-re-nepca-conference/" class="more-l
Jul 5, 20171 min read
Acceptances To Be Sent Soon
<p>We ask those of you who have sent proposals to bear with us just a little longer. We had a record number of submissions and are in the final stages of fashioning panels and making cuts. We will have to be much more selective this year due to space limitations. If your paper hasn’t been … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/06/20/acceptances-to-be-sent-soon/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Acceptances To Be Sent Soon</span
Jun 20, 20171 min read
Book Review: Young Radicals
<p>YOUNG RADICALS: IN THE WAR FOR AMERICAN IDEALS (2017) Jeremy McCarter Random House, 340 pages. I didn’t like this book; I adored it! It is so well written that it reads like novel. Among the unorthodox things Jeremy McCarter has done is pen it in the present tense. Another is to make its major … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/06/19/book-review-young-radicals/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Book Review: Young Radicals</s
Jun 19, 20174 min read
United States of Absurdity: Mine It, but Don’t Assign It
<p>THE UNITED STATES OF ABSURDITY: UNTOLD STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds Ten Speed Press, 2017, 144 pages The United States of Absurdity is a mix of the rapid-fire wit and non-sequiturs of Car Talk, the bad boy flippancy of Howard Stern, and offbeat history. Its authors, Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds, … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/06/03/united-states-of-absurdity-mine-it-but-dont-assign-it/" class="more-link">Continue reading <s
Jun 3, 20174 min read
NEPCA Fall Proposals are Closed
<p> The deadline for submitting a proposal for the fall conference has passed. We had a record number of submissions this year and will only solicit papers to round out panels where necessary. Thanks to all for submitting and please don’t be discouraged if your paper can’t be accommodated this year. You will hear from … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/06/02/nepca-fall-proposals-are-closed/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reade
Jun 2, 20171 min read
NEPCA PAPER DEADLINE
<p> A reminder to all that the deadline for submitting proposals for NEPCA’s fall conference at UMass Amherst is June 1.</p>
May 18, 20171 min read
Revised Edition of the Historical Dictionary of New England
<p> Longtime NEPCA member and former president Peter C. Holloran (Worcester State University) has published a revised and expanded second edition of Historical Dictionary of New England (Rowman & Littlefield).</p>
May 13, 20171 min read
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? Book Review
<p>WAS AMERICA FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN NATION? (Revised Edition, 2016) By John Fea Westminster John Knox Press, 324 pages For tens of millions of Americans, there’s no need to pose the question raised in the title of John Fea’s monograph. Most self-identified evangelicals adamantly insist that it was, and humanists and political progressives … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/05/05/was-america-founded-as-a-christian-nation-book-review/" class="more-link">
May 5, 20174 min read
Oxford Symposia
<p>We are pleased to invite you and your institution to participate in in the 5th International OXFORD SYMPOSIUM ON POPULATION, MIGRATION, AND THE ENVIRONMENT. The summer session will be held 3 and 4 August 2017 at St Anne’s College, Oxford, U.K. Alternately, you may prefer to attend the 6th International meeting that takes place 7 and … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/05/05/oxford-symposium/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Oxford
May 5, 20171 min read
Book on Yoga and Popular Culture Seeks Contributors
<p>Yoga in Popular Culture (edited collection) Seeking contributors for an edited volume on yoga in popular culture. This book is envisioned as a cross-disciplinary collection of scholarly work on yoga, with essays that explore the ways that yoga has reflected and changed popular culture in the West. Yoga is experiencing its third “boom” … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/05/04/book-on-yoga-and-popular-culture-seeks-contributors/" class="more-link">Continue reading
May 4, 20172 min read
Cultural Studies Newsletter
<p>Here’s a link for Intellect’s latest newsletter that will inform you of new cultural studies books and journals.</p>
Apr 19, 20171 min read
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Last Indian War?
<p>Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI. By David Grann, Doubleday, 2017, 352 pp. History books tell us that the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre and the slaughter of at least 150 Indians* was the final episode in the wars between Native Americans and whites. Perhaps we should … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/04/11/killers-of-the-flower-moon-the-last-indian-war/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Killer
Apr 11, 20173 min read
What if Vietnam is Who We Are?
<p>American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. By Christian G. Appy, Penguin, 2016. Nations seldom exit wars as they entered them. In an important new book, University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Chris Appy argues that, though the Vietnam War ended thirty-two years ago, the United States continues to struggle with its results. He … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2017/04/03/what-if-vietnam-is-who-we-are/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span
Apr 3, 20174 min read
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