The Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies has announced the third annual International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference, themed Who Owns This? Communities, Heritage, and Preservation. This hybrid conference will return to Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina,
The Design History Forum at Drexel University invites papers for its inaugural Undergraduate Symposium in Material Culture Studies (USMCS) to be held via Zoom on Saturday, March 12th, 2022. Proposals are due by November 20, 2021.
Media studies scholar Carmel Cedro is calling for chapter abstracts for a new edited collection, to be part of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies series. 300-word abstracts, including a title and short biography, are due by December 17th, 2021.
Missouri Folklore Society held its annual meeting virtually November 3 – 5. In order to accommodate the diverse needs of its membership and other audiences, the MFS 2021 Annual Meeting was made available online, starting with both “at will” sessions and “synchronous
The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, will present “The Culture of America: A Cross-Country Visit with the 2021 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows,” on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at
The Baltimore American Indian Center and Baltimore Center Stage will co-host a virtual launch and community celebration for several first-of-their-kind guides to Indigenous Baltimore which focus on the twentieth century and East Baltimore’s Historic American Indian “Reservation.” These free, public resources include
The popularity of the Netflix Series The Chair seems to be tied to its hyperbolic depictions of faintly legitimate power struggles that circulate on contemporary college campuses. But in focusing on the slapstick character Bill Dobson (male, white, hopelessly romantic), the narrative offers a
The Age of Enlightenment saw the emergence and development of science fiction as a way of imagining different futures and of making sense of the world and humanity through scientific and technological advances. This macro genre not only explores imagined (dys/u)topias but
Contemporary popular culture texts increasingly showcase representations of girls and young women in a myriad of ways. There are common tropes that we as audiences have come to expect in stories of girlhood, which usually concern navigating friendships, self-discovery, familial drama, teenage
The Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality (Humboldt University, Berlin), the Kinsey Institute (Indiana University, Bloomington), and the Wilzig Erotic Art Museum (WEAM, Miami) are hosting “Exhibitionism: Sexuality at the Museum” an online conference which will bring together researchers, museum
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