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Travel Fellowship for Social Welfare or YMCA Archives
<p>Announcing the Clark Chambers Fellowship for travel to use collections in the Social Welfare History Archives or the Kautz Family YMCA Archives at the University of Minnesota. Preference is given to dissertation writers and early-career scholars. Both U.S. and international scholars are invited to apply. Travel fellowship funds may be used for transportation, lodging, meals, … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/30/travel-fellowship-for-social-welfare-or-ymca-archiv
Mar 30, 20161 min read
CCWH Catherine Prelinger Memorial Award 2016
<p>CCWH Catherine Prelinger Memorial Award 2016 The Coordinating Council for Women in History will award $20,000 to a scholar, with a Ph.D. or has advanced to candidacy, who has not followed a traditional academic path of uninterrupted and completed secondary, undergraduate, and graduate degrees leading to a tenure-track faculty position. Although the recipient’s degrees do … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/29/ccwh-catherine-prelinger-memorial-award-2016/" class="m
Mar 29, 20161 min read
NEPCA CFP: Food and Foodways
<p>The Food, Foodways and Culture area of the Northeastern Popular/American Culture Association is inviting paper submissions for its Fall 2016 conference at Keene State College in Keene, NH from October 21-22, 2016. This area explores intersections among food, eating, and popular culture. Possible topics of interest include the following: The history of food and dining … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/28/nepca-cfp-food-and-foodways/" class="more-link">Continue re
Mar 28, 20161 min read
Newberry Seminars
<p>The Newberry Library Scholl Center for American History and Culture Call for Proposals for the 2016-2017 academic year is now open The Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture promotes research and teaching through the use of the Newberry’s rich collections in American history, literature, and culture. Our programs include an annual series of … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/27/newberry-seminars/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span cl
Mar 27, 20161 min read
NEPCA Areas Seeking Paper Proposals
<p>Call for Papers#1: Alfred Hitchcock Northeast Popular/American Culture Association Conference Keene State College, NH October 21-22, 2016 Conference Website Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2016 Good evening. A panel dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic legacy is now forming for the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s 2016 conference. Moderated by Greg Chan from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, the panel … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/25/nepca-are
Mar 25, 20163 min read
NEPCA: 2nd CFP
<p>The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association is seeking papers on popular and American culture, broadly construed, for its annual fall conference to be held on Friday October 21 and Saturday October 22, 2016, on the campus of Keene State College in Keene, NH. NEPCA prides itself on holding conferences that emphasize sharing ideas in a non-competitive … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/24/nepca-2nd-cfp/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen
Mar 24, 20161 min read
Grace Abbott Book Prize
<p>Call for Nominations: 2016 Grace Abbott Book Prize The Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) is pleased to call for nominations for the best book in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in 2015. The award of a plaque and a check for $500 will be made … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/23/grace-abbott-book-prize/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Grace Abbott Book&nb
Mar 23, 20161 min read
CFP: Chapters for the edited volume From Here to Ubiquity: Critical and International Perspectives on Mobile and Ubiquitous Media
<p>What do we mean when we say we live in a world of “ubiquitous media”? The term has been deployed to characterize platforms such as television, social media, and mobile media; systems such as algorithms, apps, and augmented reality; concepts such as commerce and surveillance, and issues such as privacy, politics, and neocolonialism. Phrases like … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/23/cfp-chapters-for-the-edited-volume-from-here-to-ubiquity-critical-and-internationa
Mar 23, 20162 min read
Journal of Homosexuality Ongoing CFP
<p>Now in its 63rd volume year, the Journal of Homosexuality (JH), a landmark international peer-reviewed scholarly journal in sexuality studies, welcomes submissions from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. While the majority of articles published in the JH have traditionally focused on empirically-based social scientific topics, JH welcomes on an ongoing basis submissions from such fields as: art, art history, performing … <a href="https://nepc
Mar 22, 20161 min read
Lenny Bruce, Comedy & the Constitution at Brandeis
<p>The American Studies Program and the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis University are pleased to announce a conference scheduled for October 27-28, 2016, to evaluate the legacy of comedian Lenny Bruce. His corrosive and transgressive satire as well as his boldness in pushing the envelope of the laws of … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/22/lenny-bruce-comedy-the-constitution-at-brandeis/" class="more-link">Continu
Mar 22, 20161 min read
British Conferences on Superheroes + Fear, Horror, Terror
<p>Friday 9th September – Sunday 11th September 2016 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom “With great power, comes great irresponsibility…” – Deadpool In the twenty-first century, the Superhero now holds an unparalleled position within pop culture. Having vastly expanded beyond its birth medium of comic books to what is a fierce and pervasive presence in multiple … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/21/british-conferences-on-superheroes-fear-horror-terror/" class
Mar 21, 20163 min read
Roots 40th Anniversary Conference in East Hartford
<p>On October 6 and 7 of 2017, Goodwin College will host a special conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the original broadcast of Roots. Goodwin College houses a significant repository of Alex Haley’s writings, and it is committed to promoting dialogue about social justice and opportunity for all. We welcome 250-word proposals for conference … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/21/roots-40th-anniversary-conference-in-east-hartford/" class="more-link">Continue re
Mar 21, 20161 min read
CFP: Southern Labor History
<p>Since the mid-1970s only a handful of books on southern labor history have been published. As Alan Draper wrote nearly twenty years ago, “Southern labor history is in ferment.” With Reviving Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power, we will provide evidence that the field is alive and well. This book will be the first … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/20/cfp-southern-labor-history/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">CFP: S
Mar 20, 20163 min read
Journal Watch
<p>Journal Watch identifies scholarly sport-related articles and book reviews published in five languages (English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese) during the last three months. Although we endeavor to include as many publications as possible, we welcome any feedback identifying additional articles and/or publications that should be considered for future Journal Watches. Contributors can be contacted … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/20/journal-watch-2/"
Mar 20, 20161 min read
Spain in Our Hearts: Adam Hochschild’s Call to Remember
<p>Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Adam Hochschild Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 464 pages, 2016 Humankind is often blind to irony, but history is not. I was just pages from finishing Adam Hochschild’s searing look at the Spanish Civil War when I came upon his comment that there was but a … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/16/spain-in-our-hearts-adam-hochschilds-call-to-remember/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class=
Mar 16, 20164 min read
Sport and Society Conference
<p>The Sport and Society conference is a distinctive, intimate and affordable three-day event that provides opportunities for sports academics and professionals working in sports-related fields to network and share their expertise about sports.The 2016 conference will be held on May 23-25, 2016. The theme of the fourth Sport and Society conference is “The Business of … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/15/sport-and-society-conference/" class="more-link">Continu
Mar 15, 20161 min read
Romancing the Zombie: Contributors Sought
<p>Editors Szanter and Richards seek original essays for an edited collection on romance in the zombie genre. This collection is under contract with McFarland Publishers. The 21st century has seen a greater willingness to portray the undead as possible candidates for sexual and romantic partnership as well as engaging with overarching themes of romance and … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/15/romancing-the-zombie-contributors-sought/" class="more-link">Continue rea
Mar 15, 20162 min read
Haunt Journal of Art Seeks Contributions
<p>Haunt Journal of Art seeks to expand how writing and art are in service of one another. As such, we aim to provide a platform for ideas that open up onto unforeseen spaces by disavowing existent rhetorical strategies in order to experiment with form altogether. We thus welcome contributions that strive to playfully efface the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/14/haunt-journal-of-art-seeks-contributions/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-rea
Mar 14, 20161 min read
CFP: Fictions of African Dictatorship
<p>Call for papers for an edited collection: Fictions of African Dictatorship ed. by Charlotte Baker and Hannah Grayson. This book is a new contribution to a growing body of work on dictatorship and its representation. The collection will examine the fictional representation of the African dictator across genres, as well as the dictator’s presentation of his … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/14/cfp-fictions-of-african-dictatorship/" class="more-link">Continue readi
Mar 14, 20161 min read
CFP: World Lit Papers for NEPCA
<p>The World Literature area for the 2016 Northeast Popular/American Culture Association conference is accepting paper proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2016 annual conference will be held from October 21-22, 2016 at Keene State College in Keene, NH. The NEPCA World Literature area welcomes papers that explore both individual works of world literature as … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/03/13/cfp-world-lit-papers-for-nepca/" class="more-link">Cont
Mar 13, 20161 min read
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