Northeast Pop Culture Conference 2019 CFP

Apologies for cross posting!

I wanted to inform the list that the NEPCA conference destination has been
announced for November 15-16th in Portsmouth, New Hampshire at the Sheraton
Portsmouth Harborside Hotel.  We're looking forward to a great conference
and have opened up the call for papers
<https://nepca.blog/2019/02/06/2019-nepca-conference-call-for-papers/>.

We have been a well-attended conference for years that offers a welcoming,
encouraging and (reasonably) affordable event for graduate students,
independent scholars, and scholars of all experience to present their
current and forthcoming research.

Our areas for proposals include:  American Literature and Fiction, Belief,
Celebrity and Fan Studies, Celtic Studies, Comics and Graphic Novels, Crime
in Fact and Fiction, Dance, Digital Media and Gaming Culture,  Fantasy and
Science Fiction, Fashion and Body Image, Film & History, Food, Foodways and
Culture, Genders, Sex and Sexualities, Global Cultures, Health, Disease and
Popular Culture, History and Uses of the Past, Humor, Labor Studies,
Libraries, Archives, Collecting & Publishing, Marketing and Advertising,
Monsters and the Monstrous, Music, New England Studies, Philosophy and
Popular Culture, Politics, Civic Life and Popular Culture, Psychology and
Popular Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Romance/Popular Romance Fiction,
Science and Technology, Sports, Storytelling: Constructing Oral and Written
Narratives, Teaching and Popular Culture, Television, Travel, Urban
Studies, War, Peace and Culture, World Literature.

You can find descriptions of these categories on our website
<https://nepca.blog/short-summary-of-nepca-areas/> and also, if none of
these fit perfectly, you can contact me for advice on where to submit.

Please submit your proposal via the online form:
https://goo.gl/forms/QdMp1Ov9bUKYTSin1  Both proposals for individual
papers and complete panels will be considered. The deadline for proposals
is June 1, 2019.

Updates about the conference can be found at our website
<https://nepca.blog/conference/> or you can sign up for our blog for
regular updates.

If you have questions about the conference in general, please reach out to
me, Lance Eaton, [email protected].  Questions related to
specific areas should be directed to the area chairs on the link above.

Good tidings,
Lance

Lance Eaton
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