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Journal of Sport History Seeks Book Reviewers
<p>The Journal of Sport History is seeking to expand its pool of scholars for book reviews. The Journal of Sport History, which is published three times a year, includes approximately 30 book reviews per issue. We invite interested reviewers to send a brief message to Book Review Editor Jerry Gems at grgems@noctrl.edu that includes a … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/11/05/journal-of-sport-history-seeks-book-reviewers/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="
Nov 5, 20151 min read
Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship program
<p>The Wolfsonian-Florida International University is a museum and research center that promotes the examination of modern visual and material culture. The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design of the period 1885-1945. The collection includes works on paper (including posters, prints and … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/11/02/wolfsonian-fiu-fellowship-program/"
Nov 2, 20151 min read
Book Review: The News Sorority
<p>The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour—and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News. By Sheila Weller. New York: Penguin Press, 2014. It should come as no surprise that people who seem warm, friendly, strong, confident, courageous, and even admirable on the television screen are—in their lives off the set—often … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/11/01/book-review-the-news-sorority/" class="more-link">Continue read
Nov 1, 20154 min read
Teaching with Tension: Race, Resistance, and Reality in the Classroom
<p>CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A PROPOSED EDITED COLLECTION. We are seeking submissions for a collection of essays titled Teaching with Tension: Race, Resistance, and Reality in the Classroom. This edited volume addresses the extent to which attitudes about race, impacted by our current political environment, have produced pedagogical challenges for professors in the humanities who … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/29/teaching-with-tension-race-resistance-and-reality-
Oct 29, 20152 min read
ROLE-PLAYING THE QUEER – LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS IN RPGS
<p>It’s no secret that role-playing games allow players to experience the world (or another world) through the eyes of any number of characters. Players can “try on” various personas and see how the other half lives, so to speak. But what does it mean when players take on a marginalized identity in the game? Are there … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/28/role-playing-the-queer-lgbtq-characters-in-rpgs/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-
Oct 28, 20151 min read
Call for Contributors to Atlantic World Encyclopedia
<p>Contributors are sought for Encyclopedia of The Atlantic World, 1400-1900: Europe, Africa, and the Americas in An Age of Exploration, Trade, and Empires, a two-volume work to be edited by David Head, of Spring Hill College, and published by ABC-CLIO. Designed to introduce the field to high school and college students, the work features 220 … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/28/call-for-contributors-to-atlantic-world-encyclopedia/" class="more-link">Continue readi
Oct 28, 20151 min read
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels
<p>War has long been a central issue in graphic novels. Based on real wars, conflicts, and rebellions, graphic novels by such emerging or already established authors as David Axe, Garth Ennis, Archie Goodwin, Larry Hama, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Doug Murray, George Pratt, Joe Sacco, Marjane Satrapi, and Art Spiegelman tackle the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/28/cultures-of-war-in-graphic-novels/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="
Oct 28, 20152 min read
Call for Authors: Research Starter Articles (Phase 8)
<p>Culture and History (American and World) Healthcare and Science Religion (American and World) We are now at Phase 8 (8th assignment project) of Research Starters—topics designed to assist students during the key exploratory phase at the beginning of a research project. Written as an overview, articles should provide general but key information relative to an … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/27/call-for-authors-research-starter-articles-phase-8/" class="more-lin
Oct 27, 20152 min read
CFP 2016 Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies
<p>Conceptions of the Past, Present, and Future in Cultural Studies The Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies April 1-3, 2016 Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH Theories about the concept of time have challenged the way we see and experience the world around us, and time pervades every research project imaginable. Yet … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/27/cfp-2016-ray-browne-conference-on-cultural-and-critical-studies/" class="more-lin
Oct 27, 20152 min read
Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant Program
<p>Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the library’s research collections. Up to $3,500 is available per award. Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings of the Department of Rare Books and … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/27/friends-of-the-princeton-university-library-research-grant-program/"
Oct 27, 20151 min read
Weatherhead Initiative at Harvard
<p>The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the encompassing study of global history. We seek to organize a community of scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny of developments that have unfolded across national, regional, and continental boundaries and who … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/25/weatherhead-initiative-at-harvard/" class=
Oct 25, 20152 min read
Sport History Conference
<p>North American Society for Sport History Forty-Fourth Annual Convention, May 27-30, 2016 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA <a href="http://www.nassh.org/NASSH/content/nassh-2016-call-papers" rel="nofollow">http://www.nassh.org/NASSH/content/nassh-2016-call-papers</a> The 44th annual convention of the North American Society for Sport History will be held at The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, fromMay 27-30, 2016. The Program Committ
Oct 23, 20153 min read
Radical History Review Seeks Articles on Tourism
<p>Unpacking Tourism Issue number 129 (Fall 2017) Abstract Deadline: January 15, 2016 Issue editors: Daniel Bender (University of Toronto), Steven Fabian (State University of New York at Fredonia), Jason Ruiz (University of Notre Dame), Daniel Walkowitz (New York University) This issue of the Radical History Review will explore radical approaches to the study of tourism. As Hal Rothman has argued, tourism economies … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/23/radical-h
Oct 23, 20153 min read
In Time for the World Series!
<p>Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective (<a href="http://origins.osu.edu" rel="nofollow">http://origins.osu.edu</a>) is pleased to announce its most recent article: “Top Ten Origins: The World Series:” http://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/top-ten-origins-world-series by Russell Field It’s October, time for that great American pageant: The World Series. The championship series of “America’s pastime” has been played annually since 1903 (with two exceptions i
Oct 22, 20151 min read
CFP: For Olympics Scholars
<p>Olympika, The International Journal of Olympic Studies invites graduate students to write journal article reviews for Olympika’s up coming issue. If interested, please contact Jared Walters for further detail at jwalte27@uwo.ca. </p>
Oct 20, 20151 min read
Eclectic Journal Seeks Contributors
<p>Vertical Exploration: Journal of Pole and Aerial Movement Studies is an interdisciplinary online open access journal focusing on all dimensions of pole dance and aerial movement (silks, lyra, straps, etc). Vertical Exploration welcomes well researched articles from any disciplinary perspectives that explore pole and aerial. Areas of focus include the humanities, social sciences, health sciences, and … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/17/eclectic-journal-seeks-c
Oct 17, 20151 min read
Second CFP – Nationalism and popular culture (edited volume)
<p>Our world is a world of nations. The existence and fundamental importance of nations, national identities, or national boundaries is rarely questioned. Yet, the scholarly literature on nationalism has shown that national communities are socially constructed, that national identities are fluid, and that national boundaries are constantly contested. Clearly, maintaining nations requires a great deal … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/17/second-cfp-nationalism-and-p
Oct 17, 20152 min read
CFP: Star Trek : The Next Generation Anthology
<p>Star Trek: The Next Generation was far more than a simple reboot of Gene Roddenberry’s original sixties television program. A decade after counterculture’s end, the Watergate scandal and American “malaise,” and now in the waning days of the Reagan Administration, the crew of the Enterprise1701-D addressed the “next generation” of social, political, and cultural shifts … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/17/cfp-star-trek-the-next-generation-anthology/" class="more-
Oct 17, 20152 min read
Irish Film on Halloween Available Online
<p>A bi-lingual film about the origins of Halloween has won Best Short Documentary Award at the Underground Film Festival in Cork, Ireland last week-end. <a href="http://www.undergroundshortfilmfestival.com/#!official-selection-2015/c3kj" rel="nofollow">http://www.undergroundshortfilmfestival.com/#!official-selection-2015/c3kj</a> The festival screened 122 films in 15 categories, with entries from 35 countries. The film, Spiorad na Samhna — Spirit of Samhain R
Oct 15, 20151 min read
Comic Arts Conference
<p>The Comics Arts Conference is accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for our meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon in Los Angeles, CA, from 3/25-3/27 2016. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/10/12/comic-arts-conference/" class="more-link">Continue readi
Oct 12, 20151 min read
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