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Star Trek and History Needs Sharper Focus
<p>Star Trek and History. Edited by Nancy R. Reagin. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2014. Confession: I haven’t watched television since 2005, the year Star Trek Enterprise was canceled. I didn’t even like that show very much, but here’s my second confession: “My name is Rob and I’m a Trekker.” (That’s “Trekker,” a fanboy status that’s quite … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/26/star-trek-and-history-needs-sharper-fo
Aug 26, 20153 min read
Kentucky Historical Society Short-Term Fellowships, Fall 2015
<p>The Kentucky Historical Society scholarly research fellowship program encourages and promotes advanced study and research in KHS collections on all aspects of Kentucky-related local, regional, national and transnational history. Fellowships support visits to KHS within one year of the award and are designed to assist researchers with travel and living expenses while using the KHS … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/26/kentucky-historical-society-short-term-fellows
Aug 26, 20151 min read
Jewish Sports in/and the Metropolis
<p>Conference: “Jewish Sports in/and the Metropolis“ Vienna, Austria , March 14.-15, 2016 Organized by the University of Applied Arts Vienna / University of Vienna. This conference addresses the history and importance of Jewish sports in different major European cities. Beginning with the establishment of sports as part of mass culture after the Great War, the main … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/26/jewish-sports-inand-the-metropolis/" class="more-link">Continue
Aug 26, 20152 min read
CFP Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg
<p>Collection title: Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg Editors: Adrian Schober and Debbie Olson Children are an almost essential feature of the landscape in the films of Steven Spielberg: from the alien-abducted Barry in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Elliott and his unearthly alter-ego in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), to the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/20/cfp-children-in-the-films-of-steven-spielberg/" class="more-link">Continue
Aug 20, 20151 min read
LODGING UPDATE FOR FALL CONFERENCE
<p>The Website has been updated as of August 18 re: available lodging in the New London area. Local arrangements chair Kate Turcotte is looking further afield for more options. These will be posted as soon as they become available. Book early if you want to be in or immediately adjacent to New London. Keep checking … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/18/lodging-update-for-fall-conference/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">LODGING UP
Aug 18, 20151 min read
College Movies CFP for Edited Collection
<p>Movies about college have been a staple of American cinema since the silent era. Films like Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman and Buster Keaton’s Collegeengaged popular ideas about the culture of campus life as it evolved throughout the 1920s, while also setting precedents for future cinematic representations of the college experience. Benchmark films of the genre … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/18/college-movies-cfp-for-edited-collection/" class="more
Aug 18, 20152 min read
Game of Thrones Book Collection Seeks Papers
<p>This is a call for original essays for The Game of Thrones versus History, an academic-trade title to be published by Wiley-Blackwell in April 2017 to coincide with the start of the seventh season of HBO’s highly successful series. The book will comprise a collection of essays by historians who explain the factual roots of … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/18/game-of-thrones-book-collection-seeks-papers/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="scr
Aug 18, 20151 min read
3rd International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology Vienna (Austria) 10-17 July 2016
<p> THE SOCIOLOGY OF VIDEO GAMING Video games are today depicted as an evident leisure activity. Yet, the legitimization of this hobby has undertaken a chaotic track. Playing video games has, in fact, transformed from a marginal and isolated activity to a global and mainstream pastime. A few countries have sparked national surveys about … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/18/3rd-international-sociological-association-forum-of-sociology-vienna-austria-10-
Aug 18, 20152 min read
Bard Graduate Center Research Fellowship
<p>Bard Graduate Center invites scholars from university, museum, and independent backgrounds with a PhD or equivalent professional experience to apply for funded research fellowships, to be held during the 2016-2017 academic year. The fellowships are intended to fund collections-based research at Bard Graduate Center or elsewhere in New York, as well as writing or reading … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/14/bard-graduate-center-research-fellowship/" class="more-l
Aug 14, 20152 min read
Wrestling with Identity: Nation, Race, and Culture in Professional Wrestling
<p>Call for Chapters: Edited Volume on Professional Wrestling (Tentative Title: Wrestling with Identity: Nation, Race, and Culture in Professional Wrestling) We are seeking contributors to our project, an edited volume of essays examining various aspects of professional wrestling and its relationship to other themes (nationalism, gender, race, etc.). The scope is broad and open, and … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/14/wrestling-with-identity-nation-race-and-cultur
Aug 14, 20151 min read
Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Fellowship
<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. It seeks to organize a community of scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny of developments that have unfolded across national, regional, and continental boundaries and who propose … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/14/weatherhead-initiative-on-global-
Aug 14, 20152 min read
The Dave Abrams and Gene Banning Pan Am Research Grant
<p>The Pan Am Historical Foundation announces the eight annual Dave Abrams and Gene Banning Pan Am Research Grant competition. Up to $1,500 will be awarded to support scholarly research using the Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records held by the University of Miami Libraries’ Special Collections. The grant honors two of Pan Am’s most avid … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/11/the-dave-abrams-and-gene-banning-pan-am-research-grant/" class="more-link">Continue read
Aug 11, 20151 min read
Call for Papers: Philosophy of Play
<p>Reason Papers: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies is soliciting contributions for a Spring 2016 symposium on normative issues in play. The journal invites submissions that explore the nature of play; its developmental importance; and its role in human lives, values, and societies. We are also interested in explorations of the relationship between play and other … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/05/call-for-papers-philosophy-of-play/" class="more-li
Aug 5, 20151 min read
Call for Chapters: Beers, Ciders & Spirits
<p>Beers, Ciders & Spirits: Craft Beverages and Tourism in the U.S. will be edited by Carol Kline, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Appalachian State University Susan L. Slocum, Tourism and Events Management, George Mason University Christina T. Cavaliere, Hospitality and Tourism Management Studies, Stockton University Their volume will showcase the connection between the expanding craft beverage scene … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/05/call-for-chapters-b
Aug 5, 20152 min read
New Issue of Celebrity Culture & Social Inquiry Now Available
<p>The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies has released the July 2015 edition of Celebrity Culture and Social Inquiry as well an edited book Bridging Gaps: Higher Education, Media and Society. This book contains chapters authored by selected delegates at the inaugural CMCS international conference series that was held in Toronto in May. Published by WaterHill Publishing, the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/05/new-issue-of-celebrity-culture-social-inquiry-now-a
Aug 5, 20151 min read
Sports and Violence Conference
<p>The Sports and Violence Conference will be held on March 19, 2016 on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. Paper and panel proposals are being solicited that engage the conference theme. Papers may vary across disciplines and emphasize either practical or theoretical considerations. We also welcome proposals that engage one or more sphere … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/05/sports-and-violence-conference/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span c
Aug 5, 20151 min read
Call for Proposals: Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Music Studies
<p>The overall goal of the Oxford Handbook series is to “advance an original conception of a given field through a definitive set of essays.” This entry in the Handbook series will aspire to be definitive not in terms of being exhaustive or solely authoritative, but rather, in terms of providing a snapshot of Hip Hop … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/08/05/call-for-proposals-oxford-handbook-of-hip-hop-music-studies/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="scr
Aug 5, 20152 min read
New Journal: The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies
<p>The International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS) is pleased to announce the creation of a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies. The journal will be published bi-annually beginning in Spring 2016 and will be available on the IARHS’ website, Robin Hood Scholars: IARHS on the Web: … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/07/31/new-journal-the-bulletin-of-the-international-association-for-rob
Jul 31, 20151 min read
CFP: Essay anthology, “The Mignolaverse: Hellboy and the Comics Art of Mike Mignola
<p>Sean Guynes is currently editing a collection of essays for Sequart entitled The Mignolaverse: Hellboy and the Comics Art of Mike Mignola. Below you will find the CFP. Though he already has a number of essays and is in the editing process, he seeks to add some more breadth to the collection. He hopes to solicit several more essays of … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/07/31/cfp-essay-anthology-the-mignolaverse-hellboy-and-the-comics-art-of-mike-mignola/" class="more
Jul 31, 20151 min read
Rethinking Marilyn Monroe
<p>Call for Panelists: Western Association of Women Historians, Denver, CO, May 12-14, 2016 Panel: “Rethinking Marilyn Monroe” This panel will reexamine Marilyn Monroe as a major historical and pop cultural figure. Papers should explore Monroe from new perspectives, challenging common assumptions and making us question what we think we know about this emblem of mid-century womanhood … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/07/31/rethinking-marilyn-monroe/" class="more-link">
Jul 31, 20151 min read
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