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PCA/ACA Positions
<p>Nominations are solicited for two elected positions in the PCA/ACA Position #1: Seeking nominations for a Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion. Candidates must demonstrate a strong interest in providing leadership in the diversification of the PCA/ACA. They must also possess experience in providing leadership for diversity and inclusion practices. Finally, candidates must demonstrate a … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/28/pcaaca-positions/" class="more-link
Jan 28, 20161 min read
Yale Journal of Music and Religion
<p>The Yale Journal of Music & Religion (YJMR) announces the upcoming March 2016 publication of Vol. 2, No. 1, a general issue with articles on 17th-century Christian–Muslim dialogue over Davidic Psalms, the congregational masses of James MacMillan, and the Methodist hymn “And Can It Be.” YJMR is inviting papers for • Vol. 2, No. 2, a themed issue on … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/28/yale-journal-of-music-and-religion/" class="more-link">Continue rea
Jan 28, 20161 min read
Digital America CFP
<p>Digital America is now accepting submissions for Issue No. 7. We are looking for critical essays, film, artwork, design, reviews, and process pieces that question, analyze, and/or hack the tools of digital culture. We are also interested in work that explores how new behaviors and new, global networks of power and influence are shaping American … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/27/digital-america-cfp/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reade
Jan 27, 20161 min read
Public Humanities Fellowship – New York Council for the Humanities
<p>The New York Council for the Humanities and its seven partner universities announce the call for applicants for the 2016-2017 Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship. The Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship was developed by the New York Council for the Humanities in partnership with seven New York research universities to bring humanities scholarship into the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/25/public-humanities-fellowship-new-york-council-for-t
Jan 25, 20163 min read
Columbia University IRAAS Summer Institute: “The Many Worlds of Black New York”
<p>The Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) is now accepting applications for its 2016 Summer Teachers and Scholars Institute (STSI). Convening for one week between Monday 11 and Friday July 16, this year’s STSI is themed “The Many Worlds of Black New York” and will focus on the history, cultures, and institutions … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/24/columbia-university-iraas-summer-institute-the-many-worlds-of-black-new-yo
Jan 24, 20161 min read
Scholar-in-Residence, Portage Route Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
<p>The Portage Route Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation invites applications from student scholars to its Scholar-In-Residence fellowship program designed to encourage use of the William P. Sherman Library and Archives in Great Falls, Montana. A $3000 stipend will be granted to a student researcher who articulates a research topic suitable for … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/21/scholar-in-residence-portage-route-chapter-of-the-lewis-and-clar
Jan 21, 20162 min read
2016 Dixon Ryan Fox Manuscript Prize – Call for Submissions
<p>The Dixon Ryan Fox Prize is presented each year to the best unpublished, book-length monograph dealing with some aspect of the history of New York State. The New York State Historical Association named the award for its former president Dixon Ryan Fox in 1997 to recognize his contributions to New York state history. The prize consists … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/21/2016-dixon-ryan-fox-manuscript-prize-call-for-submissions/" class="more-link">Continue readi
Jan 21, 20161 min read
2016 Summer Repository Research Fellowship
<p>The Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study is now accepting applications for its 2016 Summer Repository Research Fellowship. In partnership with repositories on the IU Bloomington campus and supported by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the program funds a short-term fellowship for a faculty member or community scholar to conduct in-depth research … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/20/2016-summer-repository-research-fellowship/" class="more-l
Jan 20, 20162 min read
IHS Conference & Research Grant
<p>Is there an important conference coming up in over the next few months that you’d like to present your latest research and receive critical feedback as well as add to your CV but don’t have the financial resources to attend? Then look into the Conference & Research Grant from the Institute for Humane Studies. This … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/20/ihs-conference-research-grant/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">IHS Confe
Jan 20, 20161 min read
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
<p>Laborers, Servants, and Schools: Aspirations of Mobility and the Reproduction of Inequality in Boston, 1880-1940 Comment: John McClymer, Assumption College This paper traces the shift in the central site of preparation for work from informal on-the-job training in the late 19th century to formal schooling by the 1930s, using the city of Boston to illustrate … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/19/boston-immigration-and-urban-history-seminar/" class="more-link">Cont
Jan 19, 20161 min read
Columbia University Libraries Research Awards — Applications Due Feb. 29
<p>Columbia University Libraries/Information Services invites applications from scholars and researchers to its annual program designed to facilitate access to Columbia’s special and distinctive collections, the Libraries Research Awards. (see: http://library.columbia.edu/about/awards/research-awards.html) The Libraries will award ten (10) grants of $2,500 each on a competitive basis to researchers who can demonstrate a compelling need to consult Columbia … <a href="h
Jan 18, 20162 min read
CFP: Circling the Elements Conference: The State(s) of Hip Hop & Rap
<p>Circling The Elements Conference: The State(s) of Hip Hop & Rap April 7-10, 2016 Albany6 State University (Georgia) This conference seeks essays/papers that relate to any aspect of the State of Hip-Hop or any States of Hip Hop both philosophically and/or regionally. Subjects may include, but are not limited to :hip hop Studies and pedagogy, literature, … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/17/cfp-circling-the-elements-conference-the-states-of-hip-hop-rap/" cl
Jan 17, 20161 min read
CALL FOR PAPERS Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal
<p>Special Issue on Histories of Celebrity Guest Editor: Hilary A. Hallett, Columbia University We invite proposals for a special issue of Feminist Media Histories devoted to Histories of Celebrity. This volume will explore celebrity’s relationship to the development of, and contestation over, new ideas about gender and sexuality emerging between the 1850s and the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/17/call-for-papers-feminist-media-histories-an-international
Jan 17, 20161 min read
Fashion Studies Proposal Seeks Outside Reviewers
<p>Pedagogy and Practice. The volume features contributors from disciplines including Africana Studies, Business, English, History, Sociology, Women’s and Gender Studies (among others), outlining a fashion studies interdisciplinary exercise or assignment which they assign in their classrooms (offering background and guidance for instructors about how to best use this exercise, and reflecting on pedagogical best practices … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/16/fashio
Jan 16, 20161 min read
Museological Review Call for Volunteer Reviewers
<p>Museological Review (MR) is an online peer-reviewed journal, published annually, by the community of PhD students of the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. Issue 20 will be a global platform – a microphone – to examine research on museums; their influence and agency, the people who work in them and the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/16/museological-review-call-for-volunteer-reviewers/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="scre
Jan 16, 20162 min read
17th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium
<p> Screening New England: 100 Years of Regional Moving Image History Thursday, July 21 – Saturday, July 23, 2016 CFP: April 19, 2016 The rich amateur and non-theatrical moving image history of New England will be the focus of the 2016 Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium. In commemoration of the Alamo Theatre’s 100 years of cinematic … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/15/17th-annual-northeast-historic-film-summer-symposium/" class="more-link">Continue reading <
Jan 15, 20162 min read
CCWH Book Prize
<p>The CCWH Book Prize in Women’s and Gender History is awarded every two years to the best book published in the field in the previous two years, in either English or French. Books in Canadian history are eligible for the prize. Books in other national fields are also eligible for the prize, provided that their … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/15/ccwh-book-prize/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">CCWH Book Prize</span></a
Jan 15, 20161 min read
CFP: East Coast/West Coast: Friends and Feuds | American Studies Association
<p>The “East Coast/West Coast” rivalry, distinction, feud, or romance is a recurrent theme in American music and popular culture, most famously in hip hop, but also in rock, jazz, and other genres. How does this dynamic play out in other forms of popular culture, politics, and literature? This panel will enlarge on the East Coast/West … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/14/cfp-east-coastwest-coast-friends-and-feuds-american-studies-association/" class="mo
Jan 14, 20161 min read
Pop Culture Workshops at Bowling Green
<p>SPRING 2016 POPULAR CULTURE RESEARCH WORKSHOP AT BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY The PCA/ACA is sponsoring a week-long research workshop conjointly with the Department of Popular Culture, the Ray and Pat Browne Popular Culture Library, and the Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives at Bowling Green State University from Saturday, May 21, 2016 to Friday, May … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/12/pop-culture-workshops-at-bowling-green/" class="more-link">Contin
Jan 12, 20163 min read
CFP: Call For Papers: Yoga Justice / Yoga Violence Conference (Race and Yoga Conference)
<p>Call For Papers: Yoga Justice / Yoga Violence Conference The Race and Yoga Research Working Group at the University of California, Berkeley will host its third annual conference on Friday, April 22, 2016. The theme of the conference is “Yoga Justice / Yoga Violence.” Yoga can be a tool to promote social justice. Yet, … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/01/11/cfp-call-for-papers-yoga-justice-yoga-violence-conference-race-and-yoga-conference/" class="more-link">
Jan 11, 20161 min read
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