<p>The NEPCA area, Belief and Popular Culture, welcomes all papers and multimedia presentations that explore the theme of belief and/in popular culture in its several dimensions: folk and popular belief systems; contemporary myths and myth-making; popular belief in history; artifacts and material culture of popular belief systems; belief and media; belief and art, and the intersection &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2019/04/17/cfp-belief-and-popular-culture/" class="more

<p>Thanks to the tireless efforts of  Martin F. Norden and Robert E. Weir; they have produced a book of the conference proceedings of the 2017 NEPCA Conference titled:  Pop Culture Matters: Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association. We are very excited that this has come to fruition and are excited &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2019/04/14/just-released-pop-culture-matters/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-rea

<p>The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will be having its annual conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire this year.  And I&#8217;m looking for interesting and unique proposals around teaching and popular culture.   This area focuses on how to teach popular culture, which may include sharing unique approaches to: Teaching courses focused specifically on “popular culture” Teaching courses &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2019/04/12/cfp-teaching-popular-culture

<p>The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will hold its 2019 conference at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on November 15-16.  The travel studies area of NEPCA invites paper proposals on the subject of travel, broadly conceived.  Paper proposals may include (but are not limited to) analysis and critical perspectives on such &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2019/04/10/cfp-travel-studies/" class="more-link">Continue reading <

<p>Travel / Writing and the Media: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives Edited by Barbara Korte and Anna Sennefelder (University of Freiburg) Travel writing is a flourishing genre with a long history. Since the 1990s, it has been attracting increasing scholarly interest, and its publication output is vast. However, little attention has been paid to the ways in &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2019/04/08/cfp-travel-writing-and-the-media/" class="more-link">Continue rea

<p>New England American Studies Association, Call for Papers 2019:  Representation(s): Image and Reality, Identity and Community Earlier this year, our Reality TV President precipitated a government shutdown over a wall that his own party’s Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called a “metaphor,” the latest in the long line of myths and symbols that have shaped American &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2019/03/18/cfp-representations-image-and-reality-identity-and-commu

<p>Call for Participants:  Center for Jewish History Scholars Working Group 2019-2021:  “Hear Their Cry”: Understanding the Jewish Orphan Experience Do not take advantage of any widow or orphan. If you take advantage and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry (Shemot 22:21-23). While there is extensive scholarship on orphans and on the immigrant experience, the &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2019/03/14/cfp-center-for-jewish-history-scholars-working-group-20

<p>2019 Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Friday, November 15-Saturday, November 16 Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Proposals due 1 June 2019 The Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area of NEPCA invites proposals from scholars of all levels for papers and/or panels that explore any aspect of the role &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2019/03/04/cfp-politics-civic-life-and-pop-culture-area-for-nepca/" class=

<p>As we’re getting ready for our Fall 2019 conference, we’ve put out the Call for Proposals but we’re also looking for a few more volunteers for the following positions. 2019 Program Chair This position is a key position to the successful running of the conference.  The responsibilities include the following: Organizes the conference schedule into &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2019/02/26/call-for-volunteers/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-read

<p>The 2019 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall on Friday, November 15-Saturday, November 16 at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike.  We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2019/02/06/2019-nepca-conference-call-for-papers/" class="mo

<p>We are excited to announce that our annual fall conference will be held Friday, November 15-Saturday, November 16, at the Sheraton Harborside Portsmouth Hotel in Portsmouth, NH.  This is the first in a long while that we have held a conference not on a college campus and while we look to return to a college &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2019/02/04/2019-conference-date-and-location-confirmed/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">2019 C

<p>We&#8217;ve got a lot of ideas about how we want to move forward with NEPCA in the ensuing years and months but before we go in 50 directions, we&#8217;d love to hear more from you about what you would like to see from us.  We sent out a survey a few weeks ago and have &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/12/09/dont-forget-the-survey/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Don&#8217;t Forget the&nbsp;Survey</span></a></p>

<p>Here&#8217;s the late calls-for-papers that might be of interest to our members. Dovetail Labs/Freelance Research Opportunity Media, Technology and New Generations: Representing Millennial Generation and Generation Z VIRAL MEDIA book Disability and the Media: Other Bodies Remembering Ntozake Shange Screening Non-Binary Bodies Voices on the Move: An Anthology of Literature and Art by and about &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/11/23/3381/" class="more-link">Continue

<p>There are some great writing opportunities coming up that we wanted to let you all know about.  These CFPs cover a broad range with deadlines between next week and ongoing.  Let us know if you end up pursuing any of these and the experience (it might help us better determine what CFPs to share forward &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/11/19/upcoming-cfps-of-interest-writing-and-publishing/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Upcomin

<p>We thought it could be useful if we started pooling together some of the CFPs that we&#8217;re coming across to share out in case our members and others are interested.  In this case, we have arranged them by chronological order from when the CFP is due. 21st Annual Women&#8217;s History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/11/16/upcoming-cfps-of-interest-conferences-and-workshops/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="s

<p>NEPCA Commentary   We came across this on Boston-Area Digital Humanities Listserv, which if you&#8217;re not a part of, you really should be.  There&#8217;s lots of great projects being shared there as well as many (free) events and conferences on digital humanities in the greater Boston area. CFP  The idea of interdependence is all around us. &hellip; <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/11/14/cfp-the-horror-of-relations-a-dark-philosophy-of-interdependence-through-film/" cla