From team songs sung after a match to Arthur Honegger’s 1928 “Rugby” symphonic movement; from terrace chants to Neil Hannon’s ‘Duckworth-Lewis Method’ concept album, sport and music have always been inextricably linked. Both produce moments of community, transcendence, and emotional resonance – and both are vital components of the past, present and future of modern […]
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The Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities is awarded in memory of disability studies pioneer and University of Michigan faculty member Tobin Siebers (1953-2015). The prize is awarded yearly for best book-length manuscript on a topic of pressing urgency in this field. Reflecting the work of the scholar the prize commemorates, the competition invites
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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, and the organizers are seeking proposals for panels and presentations. You can find general information about the 2019 conference and any updates here. The organizers will
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Recent years have seen an increased scholarly interest in early modern ideas about civility. Although often associated with urbanity, gentility, or refinement, this conference will explore ideas of civility more broadly, asking how the limits of acceptable behaviour and discourse were defined, enforced, and negotiated in early modern Britain. The meaning of civility in post-Reformation
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David Dalton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and David Ramírez Plascencia (University of Guadalajara) invite abstracts for the edited collection Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement in the Americas, which will be submitted to Brill’s Series, Critical Latin America. This volume focuses on the intersection amid the research on the conformation of digital diasporas and