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Oneida versus the Moralists: A Review of The Ministers’ War
<p>The Ministers’ War: John W. Mears, the Oneida Community, and the Crusade for Public Morality. By Michael Doyle. Syracuse University Press. 2018. Antebellum activism is often refracted through an abolitionist lens, though few Northern evangelicals compartmentalized reform. Protestant ministers spearheading change could be found among any of a number of reform groups. In this … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/04/12/oneida-versus-the-moralists-a-review-of-the-minist
Apr 12, 20183 min read
The Knickerbocker Myth—Review
<p>Knickerbocker: The Myth Behind New York. By Elizabeth L. Bradley. Rutgers University Press, 2009, 151+ pp. In his 1963 breakthrough novel Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. coined the term granfalloon to describe hollow collectives to which one accidentally belongs. For instance, if you live in California you are a “Californian” until the day … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/04/09/the-knickerbocker-myth-review/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span clas
Apr 9, 20183 min read
Poetics and Politics of Video Games CFP
<p>For its thirtieth issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the poetics and politics of video games. 20 years ago Janet H. Murray’s Hamlet on the Holodeck and Espen Aarseth’s Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature began a conversation to theorize the aesthetics of video games. Since these foundational texts, game studies has … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/04/08/poetics-and
Apr 8, 20183 min read
Deadline Approaching for PCA Summer Grants
<p>It’s not too late to submit your application for the PCA-BGSU Summer Research Institute, June 3-8. There are still a few places remaining. Visit the PCA website for details and application materials. pcaaca.org/summer-research-institute-bgsu Questions? Contact Lynn Bartholome at lbartholome@monroecc.edu. Don’t miss the opportunity of a lifetime! The application deadline is April 14.</p>
Apr 6, 20181 min read
World war One Symposium
<p>Armistice & Aftermath: A World War One Symposium Sept. 28-29, 2018 at Michigan Technological University, Houghton MI Call For Papers Armistice Day 2018 marks the centenary end of World War I. This symposium explores the conditions and impacts of the “Great War,” as experienced during and afterwards, with a special focus on the perspective from the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/03/30/world-war-one-symposium/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="s
Mar 30, 20183 min read
Black Radicalism Conference
<p>New York City April 14-15 Details found here: http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/black-radicalism-in-the-united-states/ </p>
Mar 30, 20181 min read
CFP: Sports and Sexual Violation
<p>CFP: “The Psychology and History of Sexual Violation in Sport and Its Condemnation” by Bob Lentz Journal: Clio’s Psyche, Fall 2018 Special Feature Issue Due Date: April 30, 2018 Why has sexual violation by powerful men in sport (recently gymnastics, previously hockey)—covered up, denied, suppressed, and repressed for so long—become a powerful theme in the American media since the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/03/28/cfp-sports-and-sexual-violation/" class="more-
Mar 28, 20182 min read
PCA Governing Board Election Results
<p>Results of the 2018 PCA Governing Board Election Vice President for Area Chairs and Programming: David Silverman Vice President for Awards: Sue Matheson Governing Board Members At Large: Brenda Boudreau Ashley Donnelly Elizabeth Downey Helen Lewis</p>
Mar 21, 20181 min read
CFP: Corporeal Media
<p>CFP: Corporeal Media Edited by Anne Pasek & Radha S. Hegde Commentary & Criticism Feminist Media Studies It is time for feminist media studies to refocus its attention on the body. Bodies matter in the ways in which they are differentiated, valued, shared, disrupted, erased and spectacularized. In the current geopolitical and technologized context, the … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/03/20/cfp-corporeal-media/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span cla
Mar 20, 20182 min read
We All Love Frank(enstein) at NEPCA
<p>Frankenstein 1818 to 2018: 200 Years of Mad Scientists and Monsters (Final Call for Papers) A Special Session of the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts 19-20 October 2018 Proposals due 1 June 2018 In this panel, the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/03/12/we-all-love-frankenstein-at-nepca/" class="m
Mar 12, 20182 min read
CFP: The Fantastic for NEPCA
<p>Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area Eleventh-Anniversary and Farewell Sessions 2018 Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA) Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts 19-20 October 2018 Proposals due 1 June 2018 Formed in 2008, the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area will hold its eleventh-anniversary and farewell sessions in … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/03/12/
Mar 12, 20182 min read
Monsters and Medievalism CFP
<p>Sponsored by The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture for the Medieval & Renaissance Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association 29th Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland 8-10 November 2018 Proposals due by 30 June … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/03/09/monsters-and-medievalism-cfp/" class="more
Mar 9, 20184 min read
CFP for Book on Soccer
<p>As the most popular mass spectator sport across the world, soccer generates key moments of significance on and off the field, encapsulated in events that create metaphors and memories, with wider social, cultural, psychological, political, commercial and aesthetic implications. Since its inception as a modern game, the history of soccer is replete with events that … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/03/09/cfp-for-book-on-soccer/" class="more-link">Continue reading <s
Mar 9, 20182 min read
Pat Thomas Book Tour
<p>Author Pat Thomas Book Tour Continues in Support of Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary Heading to East Coast and Midwest This Month and Next Book tour including stops in New York City with Paul Krassner (editor of The Realist) and Chicago with Bill Ayers (controversial leader of the Weather Underground) & Nancy Kurshan(co-founder of the Yippies). LOS ANGELES, CA (WEDNESDAY MARCH 7, 2018) 2018 … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/03/08/pat-thomas-b
Mar 8, 20183 min read
Call for Papers: Media Literacy Conference
<p>Northeast Regional Media Literacy Conference 2018 The Northeast Regional Media Literacy Conference (NRMLC) invites session proposals from media literacy practitioners related to critical media literacy. Sessions will be interactive, media-driven, digitally-designed, engaging, and inspiring. The goals for the 2018 conference are: to generate new strategies in media observation, analysis, and learning; to pose solutions to … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/03/07/call
Mar 7, 20181 min read
Sharing NEPCA Members’ Scholarship & Endeavors
<p>Greetings NEPCA Community, We recently realized that we could be doing more to promote and cross-pollinate the research that our members are doing every year. We are regularly impressed with the different articles, books, blogs, and other academic (and creative) content that you regularly put out there and we want to make sure the rest … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/02/26/sharing-nepca-members-scholarship-endeavors/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span cla
Feb 26, 20182 min read
PCA Nominations
<p>Reminder: The PCA nominations committee extends its call for nominations for the 2018 PCA Elections. Nominations are solicited for six elected positions in the PCA/ACA: Vice President for Awards Vice President for Area Chairs At-Large Member of the Governing Board At-Large Member of the Governing Board At-Large Member of the Governing Board At-Large Member of the Governing Board Position #1: Vice President for … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/02/17/pca-nominations
Feb 17, 20182 min read
Sports and Resistance CFP
<p>Callaloo invites complete submissions for a special issue devoted to the interdisciplinary examination of sports guest edited by Eric Henderson (Stratagem Entertainment), Miya Knights (Middleton-On-Sea, UK), John McCluskey, Jr. (Indiana University), and Pellom McDaniels III (Emory University). Project Description It should come as no surprise that someone like Colin Kaepernick has emerged from the age of … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/02/17/sports-and-resistance
Feb 17, 20182 min read
Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts: Book Review
<p>Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World. ByChristopher De Hamel. New York: Penguin Press, 2017. Christopher de Hamel’s love letter to medieval manuscripts celebrates every component of the medieval book: the beauty and craftsmanship of each hand-written page, the passion and tireless dedication of the scribes, the romantic interiors of modern archives … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/02/15/meetings-with-remarkable-manuscripts-
Feb 15, 20184 min read
Animals and the Left CFP
<p>One-Day Workshop, NYU Animal Studies 29 June 2018, New York City Organisers: Sunaura Taylor (NYU), Troy Vettese (NYU), and Alyssa Battistoni (Yale) In 1917 Rosa Luxemburg wrote to a friend from her prison cell in Breslau: The hide of a buffalo is proverbial for its toughness and thickness, but this tough skin had been broken. … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2018/02/14/animals-and-the-left-cfp/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Animal
Feb 14, 20182 min read
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