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Book Your Room Early!
<p>Attention Early Birds! If you know that you are attending NEPCA’s fall conference the weekend of October 25-26, twenty rooms have been reserved at Best Western Plus Windjammer Inn, 1076 Williston Rd., South Burlington, VT. This motel is just 2.8 miles from St. Michael’s College and is accessed by exiting I-89 Exit 14 East. The … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/06/07/book-your-room-early/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Boo
Jun 7, 20131 min read
CALL FOR AUTHORS: Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives
<p>This comprehensive project will be published by SAGE Reference and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and services. The General Editor, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, is Dr. Scott C. Martin, Bowling Green State University. Alcohol is currently making assignments with a deadline of August 16, 2013. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/06/04/call-for-authors-alcohol
Jun 4, 20131 min read
Call for Authors: SF Television Reference Books
<p>The Encyclopedia of Women in Science Fiction Television seeks contributors for a planned volume written by a single author or pair of authors. Authors interested in writing one of the three volumes should submit a proposal including: 1) A brief statement of interest (what about this volume, in particular, appeals to you?); 2) A tentative list of entries, with some … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/05/26/call-for-authors-sf-television-reference-books/" class="more
May 26, 20131 min read
Urban Music in Toronto Conference
<p>The York University History Department in partnership with the Harriet Tubman Institute, presents “Performing Diaspora: The History of Urban Music in Toronto.” This public history initiative is a full-day conference that is intended to examine the history of Toronto Hip Hop and the contributions of African Canadians in particular, as well as the contributions of of other Canadian Hip Hop forms … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/05/26/urban-music-in-toron
May 26, 20131 min read
Exhibit on Brook Farm
<p>An exhibit on Brook Farm is now on display in Boston. It is titled “Beyond Utopia: 5,000 Years at Brook Farm” and runs through June 15, 2013 at the City Archaeology Laboratory, 201 Rivermoor Street Boston, Massachusetts 02132. You can call 617-635-3097 for more details.</p>
May 19, 20131 min read
PCA/ACA Writers’ Workshop
<p>PCA/ACA Summer Writers’ Workshop New York University 16-23 June 2013 Join PCA/ACA for summer in New York! Take part in our first writers’ workshop, an intensive weeklong experience where you can begin a new project or develop a work in progress. For more information, visit the website </p>
May 19, 20131 min read
Music Conference in Strasbourg
<p>International Conference 7-8 June 2013 University of Strasbourg Organizers : ASPM / IASPM-bfe / SEARCH / Volume ! the French journal of Popular Music Studies “Changing the Tune : Popular Music and Politics in the XXIst Century. From the Fall of Communism to the Arab Spring” Program, registration, practical information : <a href="http://volume.revues.org/3305 " rel="nofollow">http://volume.revues.org/3305 </a> or http://volume.revues.org/3444 Keynote speakers
May 14, 20131 min read
Providence College Seeks Adjunct
<p>Providence College’s baccalaureate program in Health Policy and Management seeks an adjunct faculty member to fill a one semester sabbatical replacement faculty position beginning in January 2014. The successful candidate will teach three sections of the program’s required course in policy analysis and an elective course in an area of the candidate’s expertise. Candidates must … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/05/07/providence-college-seeks-adjunct/" cl
May 7, 20131 min read
Former NEPCA President Honored
<p>Our dear friend, former NEPCA president, and current Executive Council member Carol Mitchell has had a host of exciting things happen. Carol is the new chair for New England Studies for the national PCA/ACA replacing our compadre Peter Holloran, who has struggled with health isssues. (Please join me in wishing Peter better days ahead.) Carol has also just … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/05/02/former-nepca-president-honored/" class="more-link">Continue reading <sp
May 2, 20131 min read
Update from the PCA/ACA–May Newsletter
<p>Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association May Update 1 May 2013 NOTE: These links won’t work from here. Go to http://pcaaca.org/ for live links. SUBJECT: May Update from the PCA/ACA Greetings from the PCA/ACA! Spring has sprung, and though the 2013 conference has just passed, we’re already gearing up for the 2014 meeting in … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/05/02/update-from-the-pcaaca-may-newsletter/" class="more-link">Conti
May 2, 20134 min read
Encyclopedia of the Family CFP
<p>This comprehensive project will be published by SAGE Reference and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product available to students via the library’s electronic services. The General Editors, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, are Drs. Lawrence Ganong and Marilyn Coleman, University of Missouri. The deadline for new assignments is … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/04/30/429/" class="more-link">Continue
Apr 30, 20131 min read
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<p>Conference Call for Papers (deadline extended: August 1, 2013) Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI November 15-16, 2013. This conference invites proposals for conference papers that examine issues of equality in the United States of America. While the Equal Rights Amendment will serve as a conduit through which to open dialogues across academic, legal, and public spheres, papers … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/04/30/426/" class="more-link">Continue reading <s
Apr 30, 20131 min read
PCA/ACA Writers’s Workshop
<p>Applications now available, due May 15th PCA/ACA Summer Writers’ Workshop New York University 16-23 June 2013 Join PCA/ACA for summer in New York! Take part in our first writers’ workshop, an intensive weeklong experience where you can begin a new project or develop a work in progress. For more information, visit the website .</p>
Apr 25, 20131 min read
New Issue of the the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
<p>The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture Volume 25, Number 1, /2013 is now available for view at: <a href="http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/wv674856w210/" rel="nofollow">http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/wv674856w210/</a></p>
Apr 21, 20131 min read
New Book on Roger Williams Probes the Question of Liberty
<p>Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul. By John M. Barry. New York: Viking, 2012, ISBN 978-0-312288-3 Since Perry Miller’s path-breaking books in the 1930s, and those of Edmund Morgan from 1958 onward, historians have sought to resurrect Puritanism from the mud of intolerance, joylessness, and bigotry into which post-Salem witchcraft critics … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/04/11/new-book-on-roger-williams-probes-the-question-of-liberty/" class="mo
Apr 11, 20134 min read
NEPCA Conference Papers Now Online
<p>Exciting news! Many of the papers delivered at NEPCA’s 2013 conference in Rochester are now online, thanks to NEPCA President Tim Madigan and his colleagues in the library at St. John Fisher College. You can read these papers at: http://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/nepca</p>
Apr 11, 20131 min read
Chaplin Conference in Italy Issues Call for Papers
<p>A conference titled The Birth of Chaplin’s Little Tramp: A 100th Anniversary Celebration will take place June 26, 27& 28, 2014 Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna, ITALY. Those interested in submitting a proposal should send a 500-word abstract, a short bio and contact information by June 30, 2013 to Kate Guyonvarch: office@charliechaplin.com Please note, this is a 2014 conference. The Website has not yet … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2013/04/11/chaplin-conference-in-i
Apr 11, 20131 min read
Culture & Canada-US Border Conference
<p>The spring Culture and Canada-US Border conference will be held May 24-26 2013 at Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The keynote speakers will be Margaret Noodin, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, and Guillermo Verdecchia. For more details and to register, go to: http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/algoma.html</p>
Apr 11, 20131 min read
Encyclopedia of Social Media & Politics Seeks Contributors
<p>Academic editorial contributors are sought for the Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, a new reference to be published by CQ Press/SAGE Reference in 2013. Contact Lisbeth Rogers, Author Manager for more details, topics, and deadlines: politics@golsonmedia.com</p>
Apr 4, 20131 min read
Film Conference in Kansas
<p>Call for Papers: “Big Screens, Small Screens: Size Matters (in adaptation)” Literature/Film conference to be held 10-12 October 2013 at the Oread Hotel on the campus of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. The deadline for papers is June 1, 2013. Send your 200-word abstracts or inquiries to the co-organizers: John C. Tibbetts: tibbetts@ku.edu Cynthia J. Miller: cynthia_miller@emerson.edu</p>
Apr 4, 20131 min read
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