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CFP: “HEROES IN POPULAR CULTURE” MPCA/ACA Conference

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The 2015 Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association conference will be held at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza from Thursday-Sunday, October 1-4. The conference welcomes papers covering any topic relating to heroes and/or prevailing notions of heroism as they present themselves in popular culture. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Superheroes and action […]

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Call for Book Chapters: Pedagogy of Environmental Communication

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Call for Book Chapters:  Pedagogy of Environmental Communication Co-Editors: Tema Milstein (University of New Mexico), Mairi Pileggi (Dominican University of California), Eric Morgan (New Mexico State University) The editors of an upcoming volume are seeking chapter and assignment/activity submissions for an edited book on the scholarship of innovative and effective teaching and learning in environmental

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Call for Submissions: Mirror on the Veil

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Dr. Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi, Assistant Professor of General Studies at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, is collecting narratives on experiences with hijab/veiling and is seeking stories/personal essays from a variety of viewpoints for an anthology on this topic. She would like to collect writing from the following perspectives: Muslim women who wear hijab and Muslim women

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CFP: Second Annual Meeting of the Southwest Seminar on Colonial Latin America

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Call for Proposals: Second Annual Meeting of the Southwest Seminar on Colonial Latin America Interethnic Relations: New Approaches to Old Debates San Marcos, Texas, October 22-24, 2015 The Coordinating Committee of the Southwest Seminar on Colonial Latin America invites proposals for its second annual meeting, to be held at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas,

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CFP: Blackness and Disability, Special Issue of African American Review

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In 2006, the late Christopher M. Bell lamented “the failure of Disability Studies to engage issues of race and ethnicity in a substantive capacity.” In recent years, scholars like Michelle Jarman, Jennifer James, Cynthia Wu, Nirmalla Ervelles, and Terry Rowden have filled this lacuna with essays and books of their own. Though it may no

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