deadline for submissions: April 15, 2024 full name / name of organization: Southwest Popular/American Culture Association contact email: Georgejsieg@gmail.com Call for Papers ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 2024 SWPACA Summer Salon June 20-22, 2024 Virtual Conference https://www.southwestpca.org Submissions open on March 25, 2024 Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2024 Proposals for … Continue reading CFP – Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at ONLINE VIRTUAL Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Summer Salon, June 20-22, 2024
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CFP: Digital Media and Gaming Culture – NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024
The 2024 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning at Nichols College, Dudley, … Continue reading CFP: Digital Media and Gaming Culture – NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024
CFP: Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture – NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 3 – 5, 2024, and in person at Nichols College, MA. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Friday … Continue reading CFP: Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture – NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024
CFP: Preternatural in Popular Culture – NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024
Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association2024 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture AssociationNichols College (Dudley, MA) and Zoom, 3-5 October 2024 Proposals due by 15 June 2024 The Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) invites submissions under the general theme of the Preternatural … Continue reading CFP: Preternatural in Popular Culture – NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024
CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2024 Contact email: angela.whyland6@gmail.com The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 3 – 5, 2024, and in person at Nichols College, MA. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place … Continue reading CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024
Conference Keynote: Bill Oakley at #NEPCA2023
This year, we are ecstatic to announce that our Keynote Speaker for the 2023 NEPCA Annual Conference is Bill Oakley. This event will happen on the evening of Friday, October 13, 2023. Bill Oakley is a former show-runner, executive producer and head writer of “The Simpsons,” best known for writing the much-memed “Steamed Hams” segment. He has … Continue reading Conference Keynote: Bill Oakley at #NEPCA2023
Book Review: Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies that Made It by Jason Bailey
Bailey, Jason. Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies that Made It. Abrams Books, 2022. In Fun City Cinema, Jason Bailey argues that the films made in New York City are invariably shaped by the character of the city itself and reflect the history, tensions and achievements of New York and New Yorkers … Continue reading Book Review: Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies that Made It by Jason Bailey
Book Review: Tragedy Plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy by Philip Scepanski
Scepanski, Philip. Tragedy Plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. Philip Scepanski’s truly excellent new book examines the myriad of ways that television comedy addresses national tragedies through humor resulting in opportunities to define and redefine the boundaries of American identity by breaking taboos and identifying what is acceptable … Continue reading Book Review: Tragedy Plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy by Philip Scepanski
Book Review: Enter Sandwich: Some Kind of Vegan Cooking with No Connection to Metallica by Automne Zingg and Joshua Ploeg
Zingg, Automne and Joshua Ploeg. Enter Sandwich: Some Kind of Vegan Cooking with No Connection to Metallica. Portland, OR: Microcosm Publishing, 2022. Enter Sandwich is not simply a cookbook. It’s a celebration of all of the fun, enjoyable and unexpected ways that seemingly unconnected currents of pop culture can intersect. After several difficult years rent … Continue reading Book Review: Enter Sandwich: Some Kind of Vegan Cooking with No Connection to Metallica by Automne Zingg and Joshua Ploeg
CFP: Romance/Popular Romance Fiction – Northeast Popular and American Culture Association Fall Conference 2023
NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 12 to October 14, 2023AREA: ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTIONDeadline: August 1, 2023 The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic of Romance/Popular Romance Fiction for its annual conference. NEPCA’s 2023 fall conference will be held Thursday October 12 – Saturday October 14, 2023. The deadline … Continue reading CFP: Romance/Popular Romance Fiction – Northeast Popular and American Culture Association Fall Conference 2023
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