The organizers of the fall 2016 Northeast Popular/American Culture Association conference are seeking papers on popular and American culture, broadly construed, for its annual fall conference to be held on Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22, 2016, on the campus of Keene State College in Keene, NH. NEPCA prides itself on holding conferences that […]
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The CCWH has established a new prize to be awarded from 2016. The Carol Gold Best Article Award is named for longtime member, activist and scholar, Carol Gold whose life and work exemplify the dual mission of the CCWH—to promote women’s history and to support women in the historical profession. Gold has written extensively on early modern European
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Call for Papers: Special Issue: The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies Edited by Chih-ming Wang (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Fang Cho (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio) The rise of China, both as a palpable geopolitical force and a contested discursive formation, has centrally occupied US global imaginaries in the most recent decade: from
The Nevada Historical Society invites abstracts for their conference: “Don’t Fence Me In: Frontierism and the American West.” This year’s theme includes topics such as: geography, western history, mining, people and politics, communities, and Native Americans. The organizers invite and encourage papers related to any aspect of Nevada history, the Great Basin, or the West.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society invites submissions for a special issue titled “Displacement,” slated for publication in spring 2018. The current refugee crisis gives new urgency to questions of gendered displacement. The United Nations’ most recent statistics place the number of registered Syrian refugees at 4.7 million, 50.7 percent of whom are women and over
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