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New York Historical Society Fellowships
<p>The New York Historical Society and Museum is accepting applications for an array of fellowships relating to women’s history. Click here for more information. </p>
May 23, 20151 min read
CFP: Existentialism and Hip Hop: A Book of Essays
<p>This new series will serve as supplemental text for undergraduate and graduate students that have a cultural interest in, critique of, or affinity to hip hop from a philosophical perspective. Professors across disciplines in the humanities and arts will ultimately find this book to seamlessly accompany their primary textbooks. Your essay should have a conversational … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/05/23/cfp-existentialism-and-hip-hop-a-book-of-essays/" class="mo
May 23, 20151 min read
Call for Papers: Alchemy in the Harry Potter novels
<p>In a 1998 interview with The Herald, J.K. Rowling said, “I’ve never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that’s a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I’ve learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. . . . I [had] to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/05/23/call-for-papers-alchemy-in-the-harry-potter-novels/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-t
May 23, 20151 min read
Call for Contributors: Food and Horror on Screen
<p>What’s Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen There is, perhaps, no closer association than the one between food and life – and nearly as close is that between food and quality of life. Old adages tell us that we are what we eat, or more broadly, divide us into two categories: those who live … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/05/23/call-for-contributors-food-and-horror-on-screen/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Call for Contribu
May 23, 20152 min read
Masculinities: Call for Papers
<p>MASCULINITIES Writing from Below calls for submissions for a special themed issue on queer and non-normative masculinities the diversity of masculinities, the disruption of traditional hegemonic heterosexual masculinity, the masculine written and rewritten from below. For more details contact: <a href="mailto:S.Abblitt@latrobe.edu.au">S.Abblitt@latrobe.edu.au</a> or see www.writingfrombelow.org.au</p>
May 15, 20151 min read
Southern Atlantic Modern Language Assn. Meeting–Durham, NC
<p>Work, Class, Labor, and Culture in American Literature: Labor, Art, & Politics in American Literature and Culture This panel welcomes papers focusing on the intersection of labor, art, and politics in American literature and culture. Suggested topics range from African-American work songs to regionalist painters such as Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood to representations … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/05/14/southern-atlantic-modern-language-assn-meeting-dur
May 14, 20151 min read
NEOCA Conference Deadline Approaching
<p>As you finish your spring semester grading and projects, rem ember that there is a June deadline to submit proposals for NEPCA’s fall conference. Please get those proposals to us right away. Use this Website to make a proposal. Click on the “Fall Conference” tab on the top and choose “How to Submit a Proposal.” Other … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/05/08/neoca-conference-deadline-approaching/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span
May 8, 20151 min read
NEPCA Welcomes a New Area Chair
<p>Please welcome Todd Olszewski of Providence College as NEPCA’s new chair for Science & Technology. Todd takes over from Amos St. Germain, who is retiring this summer and moving out of the area. We will miss Amos, but let’s greet Todd and you can help him out by submitting science and technology proposals for our … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/05/08/nepca-welcomes-a-new-area-chair/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-te
May 8, 20151 min read
NEPCA ALERT: Please Doublecheck
<p>If you sent a proposal for NEPCA’s fall conference before April 27, please double check with program chair Kraig Larkin to make sure he has received it. We experienced a few difficulties with the Google form and we certainly don’t wish to miss any submissions. NEPCA apologizes for the glitch and thanks you for making … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/04/30/nepca-alert-please-doublecheck/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-tex
Apr 30, 20151 min read
Final Announcement: CFP for Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Conference
<p>The third annual Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Conference will be held in Dallas, TX, on 6 and 7 June 2015. Fandom includes all aspects of being a fan, ranging from being a passive audience member to producing one’s own parafictive or interfictive creations. Neomedia includes both new media as it is customarily defined as … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/04/30/final-announcement-cfp-for-fandom-and-neomedia-studies-fans-conference/" class="more-link">Continue
Apr 30, 20152 min read
Bob Dylan Was Right; The Times They are a’ Changing
<p>As reported on Ars Technica, “This week, Norway’s Ministry of Culture announced its plans to transition completely towards digital radio and turn off FM radio nationwide, according to an English report from Radio.no . The switch-off is scheduled to begin in January 2017, and it would make Norway the first country in the world to ‘decide upon … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/04/22/bob-dylan-was-right-the-times-they-are-a-changing/" class="more-lin
Apr 22, 20151 min read
Bleak Journal Statistics
<p>Are we reaching students through print? Or anyone else? This provocative article raises issues that deserve wider consideration. In this article from the Strait Times, authors Asit K. Biswas And Julian Kirchherr argue that academics should help shape public debate and policy. While Biswas and Kircherrs arguments center on the need for policy-making suggestions by … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/04/22/bleak-journal-statistics/" class="more-link">Continue reading
Apr 22, 20151 min read
Conference in Australia
<p>CFP deadline: 1 May, 2015 The State and US Culture Industries conference June 25-26, 2015 United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney Following recent scholarship (Erin G. Carlston, William J. Maxwell, Timothy Melley) that renews questions of state power, national security, and cultural production, this conference seeks to appraise critically, from a range of disciplinary … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/04/22/conference-in-australia/" class="more-lin
Apr 22, 20151 min read
Film Summer Symposium
<p>The organizers of the 2015 Northeast Historic Film (NHF) Summer Symposium invite proposals featuring studies of amateur, educational, industrial, and non-theatrical films that examine war and peace. Training and battlefield films, footage from ordnance and gun cameras, medical films, coming home reportage, peace movement films—from the beginning of moving image technology through the present, citizen-soldier-filmmakers … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/04/22/film-s
Apr 22, 20152 min read
Zeitgeist Novels for Those Teaching the 1990s
<p>I like to read “period” novels whenever I teach a U.S. history survey course. I unshelf Howells and Twain when I teach the Gilded Age, dust off Steinbeck for the 1930s, and dive into Angelou and Walker to get an African-American perspective. With the semester winding down, I’ve been reading about the 1990s. Recent novels … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/04/21/zeitgeist-novels-for-those-teaching-the-1990s/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-re
Apr 21, 20154 min read
Call for Chapter Proposals: Music and World War II (edited volume)
<p>Music and World War II (edited volume) Edited by Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Pamela Potter Deadline: June 15, 2015 (submission of proposals) The editors are in preliminary negotiations with Ashgate Press for a collection of essays provisionally entitled Music and World War II, envisioned as the inaugural volume for a projected series on Music and … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/04/12/call-for-chapter-proposals-music-and-world-war-ii-edited-volume/" class="more-
Apr 12, 20152 min read
Midwest PCAACA CFP
<p>CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference Thursday–Sunday, 1-4 October 2015 Cincinnati, OH Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Address: 35 West Fifth Street, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, Phone: (513) 421-9100 Submit paper, or abstract (including the title of the presentation) to the Contemporary Studies Area on the Submissions website submissions.mpcaaca.org. Individuals &hell
Mar 20, 20151 min read
Videogames Culture Conference CFP
<p>Videogame Cultures, The Videogame Cultures Project Friday 11th September – Sunday 13th September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: Videogames have probably become one of the most progressive mediums in the 21st century. The videogame genres and sub-genres are rapidly diverging and many concepts are merging with those from other media and … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/03/20/videogames-culture-conference-cfp/" class="more-lin
Mar 20, 20152 min read
National Sporting Library and Museum Fellowships
<p>The John H. Daniels Fellowship supports researchers at the National Sporting Library & Museum (NSLM), in Middleburg, VA, a research library and fine arts museum dedicated to preserving, promoting and sharing the literature, art and culture of equestrian, angling and field sports. History Since 2007, the NSLM has hosted the fellowship program in honor of … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/03/20/1334/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-
Mar 20, 20153 min read
Film & History Conference
<p>CALL FOR PAPERS Journeys Through 1950s and 1960s Television An area of multiple panels for the 2015 Film & History Conference , “Journeys, Detours, Breakdowns,” November 5-8, 2015, Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club, Madison, WI (USA) DEADLINE for abstracts: June 1, 2015. Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are welcome. All proposals must include an abstract … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2015/03/19/film-history-con
Mar 19, 20151 min read
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