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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The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana annually invites submissions for its prize competition for the best undergraduate and graduate student papers on historic or contemporary communal groups, intentional communities and utopias. Submissions may come from any academic discipline and should be focused on a topic clearly related to contemporary or historic communal groups
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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
20th Cambridge Heritage Symposium Cooking Identities & Tasting Memories: The heritage of food McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge May 10-11, 2019 In addition to its necessity for life, food serves as an unparalleled means through which to study the formation of identity within and between sociocultural groups. The embodied practices associated with cooking