<p>Mark your calendars now. NEPCA will meet at Providence College (Providence, RI) on October 24-24, 2014. We have just gotten word that Colby-Sawyer College has agreed to host the 2015 conference on October 30-31, 2015. Colby-Sawyer is located in the charming  town of  New London, New Hampshire and is in the Lake Sunapee region. NEPCA will &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2014/04/21/nepca-looks-to-the-future/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader

<p>Attending NEPCA&#8217;s fall conference in Providence, RI. You can book your hotel early. We have a block of rooms reserved at the Comfort Inn, 2 George Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860. This hotel is located just 8 minutes (by car) from the conference, which will be held on the campus of Providence College. And you can&#8217;t beat the &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2014/04/09/book-early-for-nepca/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Book

<p>Volume 32.1 of Clues: A Journal of Detection (2014)—a theme issue on Tana French and Irish crime fiction—has been published. It also includes a tribute by Nancy Ellen Talburt to the late Pat Browne, the founding editor of Clues. Link to the issue: <a href="http://mcfarland.metapress.com/content/k774480682m8/?sortorder=asc" rel="nofollow">http://mcfarland.metapress.com/content/k774480682m8/?sortorder=asc</a></p>

<p>NEPCA member Ann M. Axtmann has just published Indians and Wannabes: Native American Powwow Dancing in the Northeast and Beyond. It was published by the University Press of Florida and, if ordered before May 2, is available at a discount. Click the UPF link to access the book and order information.</p>

<p>Nomos Journal (NJ) is an online journal engaging the intersection between religion and popular culture. NJ considers brief academic articles (1500-3000 words) that explore this intersection, but is unique in that it also accepts submissions of poetry, artwork, photography, and reflective essays. The journal maintains the understanding that some of the best explorations of these cultural dimensions take place &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2014/03/21/online-religionpo

<p>NEPCA is pleased to announce that Lisa Silvestri of the University of Iowa  has won the 2013 Graduate Student Paper Prize for &#8220;Social Media at War: Shining Happy People Holding Guns,&#8221; a work she delivered in October at NEPCA&#8217;s 2013 conference at St.Michael&#8217;s College in Vermont. A cash prize is on its way to Ms. Silvestri and a certificate &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2014/03/21/lisa-silvestri-wins-graduate-student-prize/" class="more-link">C

<p>BOSS: The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies is an open access academic journal that publishes peer-reviewed essays pertaining to Bruce Springsteen. The first edition of BOSS will be published in June, 2014 and the editors are currently soliciting papers for the second edition. BOSS provides a scholarly space for Springsteen Studies in the contemporary academy by publishing articles that examine &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2014/03/21/springsteen-journa

<p>Clues: A Journal of Detection  announces it will devote a special issue to the work of Patricia Highsmith. The guest editor is Fiona Peters (Bath Spa University, UK). 2015 marks the twentieth anniversary of Patricia Highsmith’s death, and a themed issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection will concentrate on her developing reputation as an important twentieth-century &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2014/03/18/patricia-highsmith-special-issue-seeks-contributors/" class="m

<p>The following decisions were made at NEPCA’s Executive Council meeting on October 25, 2013. &nbsp; 1. The Council voted to hold the 2014 meeting at Providence College. Bob Hackey will serve as program chair for the conference. &nbsp; 2.  Tim Madigan was thanked for his service as NEPCA president. He now becomes a one-year member &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2014/03/09/executive-council-meeting-note-call-for-commentary/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span clas

<p>Utopian Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the Society for Utopian Studies, seeks essays for a special issue on utopian foodways, broadly conceived.  Essays which employ or revise theories of utopia and/or food practices of the last decade are especially welcome. Topics might include, but are not limited to: •       Food in intentional &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2014/02/05/call-for-papers-food-and-utopia/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="sc

<p>THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES OF TURKEY <a href="http://www.asat-jast.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.asat-jast.org</a>, a biannual journal established in 1995, publishes cutting-edge articles in various aspects of American and comparative studies.  Recent issues can be accessed on the website by logging in using the user name L_Raw, password 12345, then going to Jast/Issues. The Journal publishes full-length articles (5000-7000 words), as &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.

<p>From Text to Screen: Spinning Words into Film in the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Genres seeks contributors for chapters of an edited collection themed on the  translation of pre-existing works (plays, novels, short stories) to the big screen.  How do filmmakers take a work – especially one that existed in a different cultural and historical time – and translate it for contemporary &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2014/01/31/text-to-screen-seeks-contributors/" class="mo

<p>FIRST GENERATION: AFRICAN-AMERICAN BASEBALL PLAYERS AND AMERICAN SOCIETY Rob Weir   The list is easy to find–the first African-American players for each of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) teams. Some of the names are instantly recognizable–Ernie Banks, Larry Doby, Elston Howard and, of course, Jackie Robinson. Others–such as Tom Alston, Carlos Paula, and Bob Trice–are little &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/12/13/teaching-idea-teaching-black-baseball/" class="more-l