<p>The Media and Cinema Studies program, along with the College of Computing and Digital Media, the English Department, and the Department of American Studies at DePaul University is hosting a one-day celebratory colloquium in honor the fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek on Saturday, May 07, from 9am-6pm. This event will feature roundtable discussions from scholars &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/12/13/star-trek-conference/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span c

<p>&nbsp; We are soliciting manuscripts to be featured in the Museum of Science Fiction’s Journal of Science Fiction (MOSF Journal of Science Fiction,<a href="http://publish.lib.umd.edu/scifi/index" rel="nofollow">http://publish.lib.umd.edu/scifi/index</a>). The inaugural issue will be released in January 2016. The MOSF Journal of Science Fiction is completely Open Access—there are no submission or subscription fees required. We are particularly interested in works &hellip; <

<p>Gene Basset’s Vietnam Sketchbook: A Cartoonist’s Wartime Perspective. By Thom Rooke. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015.  Among the regrets of the passing of the newspaper age is the decline of news illustration. There are some places where digital cameras and video recorders can’t go—inside courtrooms, for instance. Although major metropolitan newspapers still employ sketch artists, &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/12/12/gene-bassets-vietnam-sketchbook/" c

<p>I am seeking two other panelists and a chair for the June 1-4, 2017 Berkshires Conference on Women’s History at Hofstra University. This panel will consider how various forms of imagery (photography, painting, drawing, film, etc) have modified and created new understandings of women. As part of a larger project on the history of purses in American &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/12/11/berkshires-conference-on-womens-history-seeks-panelists-and-chair/" class="more

<p>Participations, The Journal for Audience and Reception Studies has published its latest issue online at <a href="http://www.participations.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.participations.org</a> Current contents include articles on the understanding of Frozen as an eating disorder film, an audience investigation into Breaking Bad viewers, an article discussing how to bridge the gap between commercial and academic research, and several other interesting studies &hellip; <a hr

<p>The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, panels, and poster sessions taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International in San Diego, CA, July 21-24, 2016.  We seek proposals from a broad range &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/12/10/comic-con-cfp/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-re

<p>The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center will host a two-week NEH Summer Institute for college and university teachers in July 2016 on the visual culture of the American Civil War and its aftermath.  Applications to participate will be accepted via mail, e-mail, and our online &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/12/08/visual-culture-of-the-civil-war-seminar/" class="more-link">Continue readin

<p>Possessed: The Material Culture of Ownership Call for Proposals &#8211; 2016 Emerging Scholars Symposium Friday April 22 &#8211; Saturday, April 23, 2016 The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware invites submissions for papers to be given at the 14th Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars held at Winterthur Museum onFriday &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/12/07/winterthur-conference-note-short-deadline/" class="more-lin

<p>This is a friendly reminder of three deadlines which are fast approaching regarding the PCA/ACA 2016 conference in Seattle. 1. Travel Grants, December 8 &#8212; If you haven&#8217;t yet applied for a travel grant, the deadline to do so is December 8.  Check out <a href="http://pcaaca.org/grants" rel="nofollow">http://pcaaca.org/grants</a> for more information. 2. The Award Nomination Deadline approaches, December &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/12/07/pcaaca-deadl

<p>Daisy Turner’s Kin: An African American Family Saga. By Jane Beck. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. According the U.S. census, 96% of all Vermonters are Caucasian and just .05% are African American. Officially it&#8217;s the second whitest state in the Union (after Maine). Jane Beck’s superb new book, Daisy Turner’s Kin, suggests a &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/12/05/daisy-turners-kin-merges-oral-history-griot-traditions-and-professional-history/

<p>Call for Papers: 6th Annual Ravenclaw Conference 2016 Sept 19-23 (during our 6th annual Edinboro Potterfest) Edinboro University We invite submissions from faculty and students on the wide range of USA societal issues raised in the Harry Potter saga.  Paper topics or panel discussion should focus on any of the following: prison issues, death penalty issues, &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/12/02/the-sociology-of-harry-potter/" class="more-link">Continue reading <s

<p>SHCY Outreach Grants 2016 The SHCY will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2016 to projects deemed worthy by the Outreach and Executive Committees of the SHCY. 1. The $500 grants will help defray expenses for speakers, workshops, and other scholarly events fully or partially devoted to the history of children &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/12/01/society-for-the-history-of-children-and-youth-shcy-outreach-grants/" class="more-

<p>The HABS/SAH Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship is a joint program of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) that permits a graduate student architectural historian to work on a 12-week HABS history project during the summer of 2016. The applicant should be pursuing studies in U.S. architectural history or a related field.  The &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/11/25/buildings-survey-fellowship/" class="more-lin

<p>The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) invites applications for its 2016-17 visiting academic fellowships. Over thirty short-term fellowships will be awarded for periods of one to two months. New among our fellowship offerings this year is the Alstott Morgan Fellowship, which, supports research on the history of education in nineteenth-century America, drawing on AAS’s unmatched collection &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/11/24/american-antiquarian-society-fellows

<p>Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired Stagolee, John Henry, and Other Traditional American Folksongs. Richard Polenberg. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015. 304 pp. 978-0-5017-0002-6.  In 1966 Phil Ochs remarked, “Before the days of television and mass media, the folksinger was a traveling newspaper spreading tales through music…. Every newspaper headline is &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/11/21/hear-my-sad-story-book-review/" class="more-link">