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Ride/Room Share Bulletin Board
<p>As a courtesy, NEPCA has created a ride/room share bulletin board has been established for the fall conference. NEPCA will post requests and offers from those who accept the conditions established. Click on the Fall Conference tab above and go to “Ride and Room Share Bulletin Board” and review the disclaimer. If you would like … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/08/06/rideroom-share-bulletin-board/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-r
Aug 6, 20131 min read
CALL FOR PAPERS: Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Culture
<p>The “Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Culture” area for the 2014 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association meeting in Chicago, IL invites presentation proposals related to the portrayal of health, illness and health care in the discourses of popular and American culture. Proposals representing perspectives in the humanities and the arts (e.g., film, history, literature, … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/08/06/call-for-papers-med
Aug 6, 20131 min read
2014 PCAACA National Conference
<p>Everything you need to know for the 2014 Conference is now updated and ready to read on the PCA/ACA website: http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/ </p>
Aug 6, 20131 min read
Writers Sought for Collection on “The Thriller”
<p>The book collection Critical Insights: The Thriller is looking for contributors for a collection of essays to be published by the Salem Press. solicited essays should be between 4,000 and 5,000 words in length, and each should be written for the general reader, avoiding specialized academic language or scholarly jargon. Payment for each essay is $250.000 (plus a copy of … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/08/06/writers-sought-for-collection-on-the-thriller/" class="
Aug 6, 20131 min read
Special Issue of Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Seeks Contributors
<p>A special issue of Critical Race and Whiteness Studies seeks papers on the topic of the way in which the marketing practices of humanitarian and development agencies, NGO policy documents, development and relief practices, humanitarian narratives (e.g. documentary film, memoirs, etc), as well as the significant scholarship on of humanitarianism, the specifically racial and gendered formulation of the current uses of … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/08/06/special-i
Aug 6, 20131 min read
Journal Looking for New Perspectives on the ‘Natural’ Order of Things
<p>The interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary journal, Environment, Space,Place (ZETA Books), seeks articles from contributors that make the ‘geographical turn’ in their research by framing, or making thematic, the spatial/placial component of the earthly/worldly phenomena. The journal editors are currently reviewing submissions for the Fall 2013 edition. The journal is published in collaboration with the International Association for the Study of Environment, &h
Aug 6, 20131 min read
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Digital Death collection
<p>A collection of essays on the subject of Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online seeks contributors. . This proposed book, co-edited by Christopher M. Moreman and A. David Lewis, will consist of 12-15 chapters representing a diversity of perspectives and approaches to the subject. Submissions are dought for new writing across a spectrum of fields, including religious studies, theology, media … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/07/22/call-for-submissions-dig
Jul 22, 20131 min read


Greatest Bad Movies a Great Beach Read!
<p>The Greatest Bad Movies of All Time. By Phil Hall. Albany, GA: BearManor Media, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-59393-731-7. Be honest. How much of life is as sinfully delicious as a bad movie review? What could be more fun that making your way through capsules of the alleged hundred worst films of all time? That’s the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/07/16/greatest-bad-movies-a-great-beach-read/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Greate
Jul 16, 20133 min read
Registration for 2014 Conference
<p>Please note: Those who wish to ensure that their names will be confirmed on the advanced program for the fall conference must make certain that all fees arrive to Executive Secretary Rob Weir by August 31. Registrants can still pay in time for the final program after that date, but they will not be listed as confirmed … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/07/15/registration-for-conference/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Registratio
Jul 15, 20131 min read
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<p>Our sister regionaal , the Southwest Texas Popular/American Culture Association has announced a name change to The Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, effective July 1, 2013. It will celebrate this change at its gala 35th annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 19 – 22, 2014. Full conference details can be found at http://southwestpca.org You can also find more details … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/07/09/546/" class="more-link">
Jul 9, 20131 min read
Asian American Encyclopedia
<p>Asian American Society:An Encyclopedia, a new 4-volume reference to be published in 2014 by SAGE Reference in collaboration with the Association for Asian American Studies seeks contributors. Writers must be members of the Association for Asian American Studies to contribute. If you are not currently a member, you are most welcome to join: https://associations.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/aaas/aaas_membership.cgi Members can contact asian@golsonmedia.com for a list of …
Jul 8, 20131 min read
New Biography of Eva Tanguay Deserves to be in the Flood Lights
<p>Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay. By Andrew L. Erdman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4970-9. Perhaps the name Eva Tanguay (1878-1947) rings no bells now, but a century ago familiarity with the “Cyclonic Comedienne” would have conferred considerable cultural capital. She was the most famous vaudeville star of the early … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/07/07/new-biography-of-eva-tanguay-deserves-to-be-in-the-flood-lights/" c
Jul 7, 20133 min read
NEPCA CONFERENCE CFP CLOSED
<p>NEPCA is no longer accepting proposals for its 2013 conference as we are blessed with a full slate. Sorry. Please apply for next year’s conference in Providence, RI. Watch this site for an early CFP in the fall!</p>
Jun 26, 20131 min read


TV on Strike a (Sometimes too) Detailed Account
<p>TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War Over the Internet. By Cynthia Littleton. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2013. Lasting an unprecedented 100 days, and grinding TV and film production to a halt on both coasts, the Writers’ Guild strike of the 2007-8 TV season had both immediate and lasting effects on the industry; … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/06/18/tv-on-strike-a-sometimes-too-detailed-account/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class=
Jun 18, 20134 min read


Resurrection City Intrigues and Frustrates
<p>Resurrection City: A Theology of Improvisation. By Peter Goodwin Heltzel. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6759-9. Peter Goodwin Heltzel’s Resurrection City is both a fascinating and frustrating work. Heltzel, an associate professor of theology at the New York Theological Seminary, has an ambitious goal: articulating a progressive theology for … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/06/17/resurrection-city-intrigues-and-f
Jun 17, 20133 min read


The Irish Way: Book Review
<p>The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City. By James R. Barrett. New York: Penguin USA. ISBN: 978-0-312280-7. James Barrett, a history professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana, reminds us that the Irish were “America’s first ethnic group” in the sense that they were the first ”diasporic people” (3), unlike … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/06/16/the-irish-way-book-review/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader
Jun 16, 20133 min read
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<p>The XX ULSTER-AMERICAN HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM for 2014 will meet in two parts. Papers are being accepted for both. Part I: Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut,June 18-21, 2014. Part II: Athens, Georgia, June 25-28, 2014. Since 1976 the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium has met every two years. Its purpose is to encourage scholarly study and public awareness of the historical connections … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/06/13/509/" class="more-link">Continue re
Jun 13, 20131 min read
Cultural Crossings Call for Papers
<p>Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption, and Reception across the Canada-US Border will hold its second international conference at the University of Nottingham, 20-22 June 2014. Keynote Speakers: Charles Acland, Danielle Fuller, and DeNel Rehberg Sedo. Papers are now being solicited. See: http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/nottingham.html</p>
Jun 13, 20131 min read


Barns of New York a Lesson in Material Culture
<p>Barns of New York: Rural Architecture of the Empire State. By Cynthia G. Falk. Ithaca: Cornell Paperbacks, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8014-7780-5. Until the new social history of the 1960s, the field of study known as material culture was relatively underdeveloped and largely confined to archaeology. Then came the popular works of landscape painter/amateur folklorist Eric … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/06/12/barns-of-new-york-a-lesson-in-material-culture/" class="more-l
Jun 12, 20133 min read


Nanni Moretti Films: Review and Classroom Suggestions
<p>We Have a Pope (“Habemus Papem”). Directed by Nanni Moretti. 104 minutes (U.S. release 2012) Sacher Films, Fandango, Le Pacte, joint production. In Italian with subtitles. Nanni Moretti’s 2011 film We Have a Pope, shows the strong feelings that attach to the pope and papacy, and worldly, spiritual, and human aspects of choosing a new pope. Although … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/06/08/nanni-moretti-films-review-and-classroom-suggestions/" class="more-link">Cont
Jun 8, 20134 min read
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