Calls for Papers, Workshops, and Resources
October 7, 2016

CONFERENCES

Global Carework Summit
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146754/cfp-global-carework-summit-june-1-3-2017-umass-lowell
The Carework Network is organizing a three-day conference to bring together carework researchers from across disciplines and across the globe. June 1-3, 2017 UMass Lowell
The Carework Network is an international organization of scholars and advocates who focus on the caring work of individuals, families, communities, paid caregivers, social service agencies and state bureaucracies. Care needs are shifting globally with changing demographics, disability movements, and climate change driven environmental crises. The Carework Network welcomes submissions from all academic disciplines, advocacy and non-profit organizations, and public and private sector organizations.
deadline: December 1, 2016.
Questions about the Global Summit may be directed to carework.network@gmail.com


Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference on the Harlem Renaissance
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146708/mid-atlantic-regional-conference-harlem-renaissance
ANNANDALE, VIRGINIA, APRIL 28 - 30, 2017
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s took place in cities across the United States, as African Americans migrated to new communities, asserted themselves through political and social activism, and created a cultural Renaissance in literature and the arts. The Potomac River Region – the home of Duke Ellington and Howard University, and where Langston Hughes first gained notice – was a major site of the Renaissance as communities in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland shared in Washington’s redefinition of Black life and culture in the early 20th century.
The theme for the conference is “’The Negro Speaks of Rivers:’ The Potomac River Region and African-American Culture.” The focus for presentations will center on how the Potomac River Region (Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland) was affected by the Harlem Renaissance and how the Harlem Renaissance was affected by the Potomac River Region in terms of political thought, visual art, poetry, prose, dramatic arts, history, music, dance, and popular culture.
Proposals or abstracts should be submitted no later than January 31, 2017
URL:  http://blogs.nvcc.edu/harlem/


Undisciplined Readings: Rethinking Practices and Methods
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146491/cfp-undisciplined-readings-rethinking-practices-and-methods
March 17-18th, 2017, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Reading practices, in many ways, form the basis of our discipline. However we often take them for granted, or remain unreflective about their consequences. Whether it is our close reading methodology or more broadly the perspective we adopt, ways of reading require renewed attention and scrutiny. This conference seeks to explore reading practices at their most basic level, as well as in their most developed states, which may define entire fields; it also aims to highlight crucial differences between these practices, which are often neglected. Critical race or feminist methodologies, for example, seek not only to draw our attention to certain texts, but also to transform the reading experience itself.
Submission deadline: November 22nd, 2016
Contact Email:  cliff2017@umich.edu


Teaching Matters: Engaging Students, Empowering Educators
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146462/cfp-teaching-matters-engaging-students-empowering-educators
March 3-4, 2017
Presentations/discussions will focus on innovative and creative pedagogical methods, approaches to various texts and/or concepts, and theories. The conference is open to all of those who have a passion for pedagogy; conference presentations are designed so that educators can share ideas and strategies that promote student success, student engagement, and active learning.
All proposals are due January 4, 2017.
Contact Email:  ejohnson@gordonstate.edu
URL:  http://www.gordonstate.edu/teachingmatters/home


Black/White Intimacies: Reimagining History, the South, and the Western Hemisphere
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146501/cfp-blackwhite-intimacies-reimagining-history-south-and-western
Symposium organizers seek paper proposals from emerging and established scholars whose work engages aspects of interracial intimacy within an American context. The aim of this symposium is to interrogate the ways in which Americans expressed intimacies across racial lines amid the phenomena of New World cross-cultural contact, the transatlantic slave trade and onwards into the 20th century.  What were the limitations of interracial intimacies and how might people have addressed those limitations in various settings – domestic spheres, legal systems, religious spaces, classrooms?  If people across races and cultures lived, ate, slept, and traveled together, what were the implications for cultural understanding—or lack thereof?  What was interracial intimacy and how might expressions of such intimate contact look different given the features of race, gender, and class? We welcome papers that address any era of American cultural history, and we are particularly interested in perspectives that examine time periods before the 20th century.
If interested, please email a one-page CV and 250-word abstract to symposium organizers: Andy Crank (jacrank@ua.edu), Trudier Harris (tharris13@ua.edu), and Cassander Smith (clsmith17@ua.edu). The deadline for submissions has been extended to Nov. 1, 2016.


Crossing Borders, Challenging Boundaries
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/144810/ann-2nd-call-papers-%E2%80%9Ccrossing-borders-challenging-boundaries%E2%80%9D
The International Graduate Historical Studies Conference (IGHSC) will host “Crossing Borders, Challenging Boundaries” at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, March 31-April 1, 2017.
We invite graduate students from across the social sciences and the humanities to submit proposals for papers or panels that adopt an interdisciplinary or transnational approach but we are also seeking papers or panels that approach historical topics in more traditional ways. All submissions must be based on original research.
Send abstract (250-350 words) and a short curriculum vita as an attachment to histconf@cmich.edu. Preference will be given to papers and panels received during the early submission period which ends December 19, 2016.
Contact Email: histconf@cmich.edu


Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic World
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145270/call-conference-proposals-transforming-public-history-charleston
Workshop Day: June 14, 2017
The conference will include workshops, roundtables, panels, and individual papers from public history professionals, scholars, educators, librarians, and artists that address issues surrounding the interpretation, preservation, memorialization, commemoration, and public application of major themes in local, regional, and Atlantic World history. The conference will particularly highlight speakers and topics relevant to transforming practices of interpreting the history of slavery and its race and class legacies in Charleston and historically interconnected local, regional, and international sites.
DEADLINE: November 1, 2016
Contact Email:  battlemp@cofc.edu
URL:  http://claw.cofc.edu/conferences/2017-conference/


Comics Arts Conference WonderCon
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145435/comics-arts-conference-wondercon
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a metting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 31-April 2, 2017.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historians to engage in discussion of the comics medium in a forum that includes the public.  Proposals are due 12/1/16.  Our submission form is available at www.surveymonkey.com/s/BZ8XV9N.  For more information, please contact comicsartsconference@gmail.com, or see our website at comicsartsconference.wp.txstate.edu.


Remembering and Being Remembered: Monuments, Memorials, and Legacies
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145496/cfp-remembering-and-being-remembered-monuments-memorials-and
March 2-4, 2017 Magnolia Hotel - Omaha, Nebraska
Monuments, memorials, and legacies encompass the multiple ways in which individuals and societies remember their past and strive to be remembered, from the monumental complex of Stonehenge to the era of Twitter and Snapchat. Does our present shape the way we remember and memorialize the past or is it rather the memory of our past that influences our behavior today? The conference aims to bring together scholars exploring various aspects of how oral and written stories, memorials, monuments, and museums present answers to the eternal human need to remember the past and leave a mark not to be forgotten.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: November 4, 2016
Contact Email:  mvhc.coordinator@gmail.com
URL:  http://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/history/news-and-events/mvhc.php


Creating Global Change: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Women's and Gender Studies
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/144412/creating-global-change-interdisciplinary-conference-womens-and
Thursday, March 23 – Saturday, March 25, 2017, Middle Tennessee State University Campus, Murfreesboro, TN
We invite individual or panel proposals for presentations on any topic on women’s, gender, and sexuality issues and debates from scholars, activists, non-profit professionals, and graduate students in all scholarly fields and disciplines, including the humanities, sciences, social sciences, education, arts, design, business, law, health and sports.  We are especially interested in presentations that provide feminist perspectives on the influence of women’s, gender, and sexuality movements on gendered existence, global and social justice, and institutional transformation.
Proposals Due: December 15, 2016
Contact Email:  womenstu@mtsu.edu
URL: http://www.mtsu.edu/womenstu/conference


Chicana/o Literature/Film/Culture
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145937/cfp-swtx-paca-2017-conference-chicanao-literaturefilmculture
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 38th annual SWPACA conference.  One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels.  For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/. Panels and individual papers on all aspects of Chicana and Chicano culture are encouraged for our 2017 conference. The “Chicano/a Literature, Film, and Culture” area tends to be both multicultural and interdisciplinary, and panels and individual papers may explore any issues relevant to Chicana/Chicano cultural studies.
Proposal submission deadline: November 1, 2016
Contact Email:  jehanette@gmail.com


Race + IP
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146176/race-ip
We cordially invite you to submit abstracts to Race + IP, which will be held at Boston College from April 20 - 22, 2017.
Race + IP is an opportunity to participate in rapidly developing conversations around the topics of race and intellectual property. The conference will feature five plenary sessions which develop and engage the subfield of critical race IP, concurrent sessions with scholars across disciplines conducting multimethodological research, roundtable discussions on special topics related to race and intellectual property (e.g. the intersections of social media, algorithmic culture, and racial justice), and a special presentation by Chinatown Dance Rock band, The Slants. Accepted participants will be invited to participate in these and other conference events, including a Saturday evening dance party cocktail reception.
Contact Email:  anjali.s.vats@gmail.com
URL: http://raceipconference.org


Radical Humanities: The Radical Tradition in the Humanities
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145106/radical-humanities-radical-tradition-humanities
From March 21-24, 2017, the Humanities Division at Essex County College will host its Fifth Annual Humanities Conference, "Radical Humanities: The Radical Tradition in the Humanities." Although the idea of radicalism can, in some ways, seem antithetical to our understanding of "tradition," this conference will, in part, examine the roots and patterns of radical thought in humanities discourse (including literature, philosophy, art, music, theater, dance, media, architecture, and design) as well as explore works, ideas, and movements that may be seen as radical or revolutionary.
Please be sure to include the following: full name, university affiliation, contact information (e‐mail and phone) and the title of your abstract to the conference co-chairs:  Prof. Jennifer Wager (wager@essex.edu) and Prof. Rebecca Williams (wrebecca@essex.edu) by Wednesday, November 30, 2016.
URL:  http://ecchumanitiesconference2017.blogspot.com/


Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/144632/lives-outside-lines-gender-and-genre-americas
May 15-17, 2017, Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto
We invite proposals for the third biennial meeting of IABA Americas that will be held at the Centre for Feminist Research in Toronto with support from the US Fulbright Program. The conference will explore the multiple lines that gendered lives in the Americas cross, both physical boundaries and intangible crossings. The conference is dedicated to the celebration of the scholarship of Marlene Kadar, a Canadian theorist and critic whose contributions have dramatically changed the field by pushing the conceptual boundaries of what constitutes life writing and expanding its interdisciplinary methods of study.
Please send 300-word abstracts with brief biographical statements as email attachments to the convenors: Eva C. Karpinski, York University [evakarp@yorku.ca] and Ricia Anne Chansky, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez [ricia.chansky@upr.edu] by October 31, 2016.
URL: http://www.iaba-americas.org


The Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop on Afro-Latin American Studies
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/144852/mark-claster-mamolen-dissertation-workshop-afro-latin-american
The Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, invites graduate students working on dissertations related to Afro-Latin American studies to submit a proposal to the annual Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop on Afro-Latin American Studies. Doctoral students at universities anywhere in the world, who are at the dissertation writing stage, from any discipline, are invited to submit an application. Previous applicants who were not selected before are welcome to reapply. The only condition is that their dissertations deal with Afro-Latin American topics broadly defined, covering any time period, from colonial times to the present.
Materials should be sent electronically to ALARI@fas.harvard.edu (please write “Dissertation Workshop” in the subject) by January 15, 2017.
Contact Email:  ALARI@FAS.HARVARD.EDU
URL: http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/research-projects/projects/mark-claster-mamolen-dissertation-workshop-afro-latin-american-studies


Humanities Education and Research Association
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/147147/humanities-education-and-research-association
1-4 March 2017  San Diego, CA
Creative presentations, readings, and exhibitions are also welcomed. Submissions are encouraged from educators at all levels (including advanced graduate students) as well as all those with an interest in the arts and humanities.
Proposals for papers, panels, or workshops (150-200 words) must be submitted through the conference web portal on the HERA website at www.h-e-r-a.org.
Deadline for submission: no later than January 10, 2017
Contact Email:  mgreen@sfsu.edu



PUBLISHING 

Transgender Studies Quarterly
http://lgbt.arizona.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly
Transgender Studies Quarterly has calls for papers for two special issues: “Transgender and Psychoanalysis” (https://lgbt.arizona.edu/content/tsq-cfp-44) and “The Surgery Issue” (https://lgbt.arizona.edu/content/tsq-cfp-52).


Encyclopedia of Trends, Problems, and Perspectives
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/147278/looking-chapter-length-contributions-violence-american-society
I am looking for chapter-length contributions to Violence in American Society: An Encyclopedia of Trends, Problems, and Perspectives. Contributions will focus on the historical, cultural, and mediated aspects of various violent events and crimes, including specific entries on gun violence, sexual assault, political protest, police violence, and other key themes in American history. If you are interested in contributing, please send an email with your research interests.
Contact Email: cjrichardson@yhc.edu


War and the Urban Context
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/147251/cfp-war-and-urban-context%E2%80%9D
Scenes of Aleppo’s war-torn streets may be shocking to the world’s majority urban population, but such destruction would be familiar to urban dwellers as early as the third millennium BCE.  While war is often narrated as a clash of empires, nation-states, and ‘civilizations,’ cities have been the strategic targets of military campaigns, to be conquered, destroyed, or occupied.  Cities have likewise been shaped by war, through the transformation of urban space for the purposes of military production, the post-conflict reconstruction of streets, buildings, and public space, as well as sites for remembering the costs of war.  This conference seeks to understand this critical intersection between war and urban society, culture, and the built environment, and welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship on the subject.
Proposals (around 300 words) and a short CV should be sent to Tim Keogh (tkeogh@qcc.cuny.edu) and Sarah Danielsson (sdanielsson@gc.cuny.edu) no later than December 15, 2016. A selection of submissions will also be assembled into an edited volume to be published in 2018.


CFP: New Voices
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146225/call-papers-new-voices
The New England Quarterly seeks submissions for a special issue featuring original essays by emerging scholars in the field. Successful submissions will engage with and expand the Quarterly's orientation to the history of New England's life and letters as an organic part of the United States and the world.  The editors are especially interested in essays that offer contemporary perspectives on traditional understandings, stimulate new fields of inquiry, and suggest new ways in which local and regional studies can provide a unique lens for understanding global themes.  We welcome submissions by advanced graduate students as well as scholars who are no more than three years beyond receipt of the doctorate.
deadline: March 30, 2017
Contact Email: neq@umb.edu
URL:  http://site.www.umb.edu/neq/


Arcadia journal
http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia
"Arcadia: Online Explorations in Environmental History" is a collaboration of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) and the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH). Arcadia's short environmental histories on specific topics--like how Danube floods created telegraph networks, or how the European Green Belt transformed a zone of death into one of conservation--give researchers a way to share new work with peers and general audiences online.
On how to contribute: http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/contribution


Bodies, Borders, Homes
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/147126/bodies-borders-homes
We live in a world of migratory population flows, resurgent nationalisms, and state-sanctioned violence. The next issue of Rejoinder web journal will explore the theme of bodies and borders in the context of these geopolitical phenomena. We invite submissions that focus on how the relationship between borders and bodies shapes our understandings of selfhood, exile, and home. Writing (including essays, commentary, criticism, fiction, and poetry), and artwork should address these relationships from feminist, queer, and social justice-inspired perspectives. We particularly welcome contributions at the intersection of scholarship and activism. For manuscript preparation details, please see our website at: http://irw.rutgers.edu/about-rejoinder. Rejoinder is published by the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University.  Please send completed written work (2,000-2,500 words max), jpegs of artwork, and short bios to the editor, Sarah Tobias (stobias@rci.rutgers.edu) by December 9, 2016.


Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/147096/association-study-nationalities-conference-columbia-university
This is a call for papers for the 22nd Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, which will take place at Columbia University in New York City, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, on May 4-6, 2017. We welcome paper or panel proposals by faculty and advanced graduate students in history that deal with questions of nationalism, national identity, and ethnicity. Please see the call for papers instructions at nationalities.org for full details. Paper proposals must be submitted by Oct. 27 to both addresses: darel@uottowa.ca and darelasn2017@gmail.com.
Contact Email:  vliulevi@utk.edu
URL:  http://nationalities.org/uploads/documents/ASN17_CFP.pdf


Pornography - Interdisciplinary Perspectives
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145269/pornography-interdisciplinary-perspectives
Pornography is an important phenomenon of human history and needs further research from an interdisciplinary and global perspective. The editor of Pornography — Interdisciplinary Perspectives, which is supposed to provide an extensive and interdisciplinary reader, is looking for contributions from colleagues working in film studies, gender studies, history, legal studies, media studies, philosophy, political sciences, psychology, sociology… to contribute to this important volume. Chapters are supposed to either deal with general or theoretical questions related to pronography or to provide specific case studies from a national or comparative perspective.
Proposals should include a short description that explains the intended focus of the chapter (ca. 300 words) and a short CV. These materials need to be sent to fjacob@qcc.cuny.edu until November 15, 2016.
Contact Email: fjacob@qcc.cuny.edu


Ruin Porn: Essays on the Obsession with Decay
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146203/ruin-porn-essays-obsession-decay
The newly-coined term ‘ruin porn’ provokes both obsession and criticism; signalling the eventual decay to which we will all invariably succumb, contemporary ruins inspire fascination and fear, a furious denial of our collective immortality and a wary flirtation with death. Contemporary ruins such as those found in Detroit and Chernobyl attract thousands of ‘ruin tourists’ or ‘ruin photographers’, many of whom attempt to engage on a meaningful level with the existential threat that these sights arouse. The terrifying beauty that we associate with contemporary ruins appears to be a modern symptom of the post-natural, architectural sublime. This essay collection seeks to produce a dialogue on contemporary ruin, ruin porn, and urban decay.
Interested authors should send abstracts of 350-500 words tosiobhan.lyons@mq.edu.au by November 1, 2016.
Contact Email:  siobhan.lyons@mq.edu.au


Global Carework – call for essays
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146754/cfp-global-carework-summit-june-1-3-2017-umass-lowell
In conjunction with a conference New Solutions seeks high quality manuscripts for a special issue dedicated to understanding work environment and occupational health in relationship to paid carework. In practice, this conceptualization of paid care generally includes those who work in the industries of health care, education and child care, mental health, and social services. Authors who wish to have their papers considered for inclusion in this special issue of New Solutions should submit their proposal as detailed above no later than November 1, 2016.
Questions about the special issue may be directed to carework.network@gmail.com


Reevaluating the Black Experience in Higher Education in Africa and the United States:  Struggles, Survival, and Successes
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/147067/call-papers-edited-book-education-blacks-africa-and-united
Reevaluating the Black Experience in Higher Education is a multidisciplinary and comparative study of higher education in post-colonial Africa and post-civil rights United States. It seeks to capture the often forgotten educational challenges that continue to shape the educational experience of blacks in Africa and the United States. The 1960s was a period of hopes and expectations in Africa and the United States. It was a period of decolonization and civil rights movements and thus there was a revolution of rising expectations on the part of Africans and African Americans. Nowhere was this anticipation more evident and pronounced than in the people’s desire to obtain higher education degrees. Access to education was elitist during the colonial period in Africa and pre-civil rights era in the United States. In Africa, due to cost considerations and the desire to maintain ‘high academic standards,’ European colonial governments made little investments in expanding educational facilities and curriculum in their colonies to accommodate rising demand. In the United States, discriminatory laws and practices limited entrance and retention of blacks in many colleges and universities.  The goal of this book is to capture the remarkable efforts by blacks in both areas to overcome the limitations imposed on them by the prevailing exploitative system, the resilience they displayed, the successes recorded, and the possibilities that lie ahead.
Send a 300-word abstract of your proposed paper to ogechi.anyanwu@eku.edu on December 30, 2016.


Photography and the Histories of Working Peoples and Laboring Lives
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/147054/photography-and-histories-working-peoples-and-laboring-lives
This issue explores the potential of photography as a medium that enables new and radical approaches to historicizing the study of labor, laboring lives, and working peoples, locally, transnationally, and globally. It seeks to showcase methodologically generative research that builds upon the recent boom in theoretical work in the fields of visual cultural studies and photography, and how insights from these fields can be harnessed to reinvigorate historical studies of working lives and ordinary people.
The editors invite submissions from scholars working on any period and world region/s. We are especially interested in methodologically generative studies that draw upon photographic archives of working peoples and build upon the recent boom in theoretical work in visual culture studies and photography. Preliminary inquiries can be sent to the editors Kevin Coleman <Kevin.Coleman@utoronto.ca>,  Jayeeta Sharma <js288uk@gmail.com>, and Daniel James.
Abstract Deadline: February 1, 2017


Transnational Perspectives of Sexual and Reproductive Rights
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146950/cfp-transnational-perspectives-sexual-and-reproductive-rights
This book interrogates the politics of sexual and reproductive rights from a transnational feminist perspective. Taking an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and transnational approach, the collection of work will provide the reader with a nuanced and in depth understanding of the role that globalization has played in women’s sexual and reproductive lives in the 21st century. The included chapters will focus on women’s sexual and reproductive health experiences around the globe and explore various themes and issues that impact the sexual and reproductive lives of gendered bodies. Interactions between globalization, feminism, and sexual and reproductive rights will be explored within human rights and transnational women’s health paradigms.
Writers working on any of these or similar themes are invited to submit a proposed chapter title, a 500-word abstract, 100-word biography, and contact details in MS Word to Tanya Bakhru (Tanya.Bakhru@sjsu.edu<mailto:Tanya.Bakhru@sjsu.edu>) on or before October 20, 2016.


Call for papers : antiAtlas Journal n°03 – Fragile Borders : states, borders and violence
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146909/call-papers-antiatlas-journal-n%C2%B003-%E2%80%93-fragile-borders-states
This issue of the AntiAtlas Journal will focus on borders affected by the violence of armed conflicts (« rebellions », « terrorism », « post-conflict », in conjunction with « conflict zones »…). Locally, the State is challenged in its monopoly of power to exert violence or delegate this power by armed groups who claim new, religious borders to redefine theocratic spaces, or cultural affinities, to substitute the existing national territory with territories that would be more or less autonomous.
Sending of proposals, 1 November 2016
Contact Email:  Thomas.Cantens@wcoomd.org
URL:  http://www.antiatlas-journal.net/calls-for-papers/


Special Issue On Gender And Settler Colonialism
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146872/call-papers-special-issue-gender-and-settler-colonialism
We are seeking essays of about 5000-7000 words for a special issue of Settler Colonial Studies focused on gender.  We are interested in individual readings of settler texts through a gendered lens, in historical or cultural studies treatments of settlers and gender, or in more theoretical pieces that examine gender and settler colonialism.  We are especially interested in pieces that read masculinity, liminal/trans gendered states, or genders in comparison, or that analyze gender in a new way.
Please contact Rebecca Weaver-Hightower at rwh@und.edu by October 28 to send an abstract of 250 words for consideration.  Full essays would be due by November 30.


Illness Narratives, Networked Subjects, and Intimate Publics
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146620/cfp-illness-narratives-networked-subjects-and-intimate-publics
Illness, injury, dying, and death have been recent sites of scholarly investigation in fields like feminist critical theory, STS, and medical anthropology (Braidotti 2013, Fassin 2007, Jain 2006, Mialet 2012, Serlin 2010). Through the production and circulation of personal narratives about experiences with pain and loss, new publics are created while networked subjectivities are negotiated. Complex publics and subjectivities form through encounters between patients and caregivers, among networks of mourners, and through subjects who trade paradigms for “how best to live on, considering” (Berlant 2011). Given the complex, relational aspects of illness, injury, dying, and death, submissions might take inspiration from a range of voices, including those in feminist work on affect and embodied care
Titles and abstracts for submissions must be received by November 30, 2016
Contact Email: illnessnarrativescfp@gmail.com
URL: http://catalystjournal.org/ojs/index.php/catalyst/announcement/view/4


Poetic Words in the 21st Century Neoliberal City
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146762/poetic-words-21st-century-neoliberal-city
Which alternatives to the capitalist and neoliberal status quo is the poetic word involved in constructing, by participating in expression, response, spatial occupation or collective organisation? Conversely, in what ways has poetry in public spaces become a tool for readying urban spaces for gentrification? Which strategies do poets and cultural organizers employ to resist such a re-signification of poetry by those in power, and to defend and recuperate the poetic word as processes that practice radical democracy and are committed to social, political and spatial justice? We invite essay proposals that explore the ways in which poetic words engage with the material and the immaterial in the contemporary urban world, marked by spatial injustice (in lines with Edward Soja’s “thirdspace”), racism, sexism and the related phenomena of segregation, marginalization, gentrification, or deliberate decay.
Please send your 3-4 page proposal (max. 1100 words, MLA style) to ashea@cca.edu, ikressner@albany.edu, c.grabner@lancaster.ac.uk by October 31, 2016.


Visual Cultures of Race and Animality
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146331/image-text-themed-issue-visual-cultures-race-and-animality
The human/animal question has surfaced within the Humanities with a sense of urgency. The themed issue of Image & Text on "Visual Cultures of Race and Animality" aims to develop this multi and inter-disciplinary interest from transnational and/ or African vantage points. The themed issue will call attention to how, and with what effects, race and animality emerge in the politics of visualities, 'origins', alterities, geographies, embodiments, technologies of control, violence, and migrations. We call for papers concerned with visual cultures, broadly conceived, that draw from, but are not limited to, the following areas of interest: critical race studies, indigenous knowledges, queer, trans*, and crip perspectives, biopolitics, deconstruction, feminist and ecocritical epistemologies, Deleuzian perspectives, the medical humanities, science and technology studies, and the environmental and digital humanities.
Contact Email:  benita.derobillard@wits.ac.za
URL: http://www.imageandtext.up.ac.za
(No deadline listed)


Gender and Empire
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146477/cfp-gender-and-empire-journal-world-history
The Journal of World History seeks submissions on the topic of Gender and Empire. The range of research topics has also expanded considerably from literal intersections between gender and empire, as seen in policing prostitution and anti-miscegenation laws, to other less literal but no less body-saturated nanny/child relations; transnational foodways; and automobility to name a few. Regardless of foci, these approaches investigate formations of embodied race and gender identities as central to the ideology of imperialism as well as to the daily functioning of colonialism on the ground, with special attention to how the latter undercut the former. This special issue aims for broad coverage of a diverse array of empires and topics in the period 1750-1950.
Abstract Deadline: December 1, 2016
Contact Email:  trizzo@unca.edu
URL: https://history.unca.edu/faces/tracey-rizzo-phd


Neo-Nationalism and Usable Pasts
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146493/deadline-extended-postcolonial-interventions-vol-ii-issue-1-call
Vol. II, Issue 1 of Postcolonial Interventions would focus on all such issues and more by exploring both the threat of religious fundamentalism and neo-nationalism and the potentialities of usable pasts in the constructions of selfhood and communities.
Submissions should be sent to the postcolonialinterventions@gmail.com by 30th October, 2016.


The Language of Humor: Jokes, Caricatures, Slapstick
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145815/language-humor-jokes-caricatures-slapstick
You are cordially invited to submit a proposal for a new humor research book (an edited collection), which focuses on the language of humor in three humor categories: jokes, caricatures and slapstick. The importance of this collection is that it focuses on three areas in the study of humor, each different from the others in its language of humor.
November 15th 2016 Submission of a proposal (abstract) – about 300 words.
For more information or questions please contact the book editor: ariesover@gmail.com


Edited Collection on Transgressive Women in Global Speculative Fiction, Film, and Digital Media
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145340/cfp-edited-collection-transgressive-women-global-speculative
The interconnection of speculative fiction, transgressions against social norms, gender studies, and global perspectives is compelling because speculative fiction allows for a unique approach to social critiques. The worlds that are created in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dystopian futures allow the genre to explore new or imaginative societies, detached from existing or historical social structures. Such an environment of speculation has led many authors to utilize the genre to comment on women's concerns. Many of these works have, understandably been extensively critically examined.
Having received strong interest in the collection from Gylphi Press, we invite abstracts of 400-500 words [excluding sources cited], along with a CV and tentative list of sources, to both valerie.guyant@msun.edu and ahokg@uwec.edu.edu by December 31, 2016.


Edited Book on African American Studies
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/144243/call-papers-edited-book-african-american-studies
We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter in an edited book focusing on the African American experience.  The book is titled Reexamining Blackness in America: The African American Experience from Slavery to Liberation and will be published by Eastern Kentucky University Libraries. This book is intended to give both instructors of African American studies and college students a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African American’s cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, religious and philosophical worldviews, etc. The editors welcome scholarly submission from academics and researchers in the field.  Please consult the list of topics below and submit a 300-word abstract of your proposed paper to Gwendolyn Graham, gwen.graham@eku.edu on or before December 1, 2016.


Transnational Literatures, Travel Theory and Transnational Narrative Spaces
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145081/cfp-transnational-literatures-travel-theory-and-transnational
The study of transnational literatures has been on a rising tide in the field of academic research ever since postcolonial studies have started to lack in certain protocols regarding the investigation of contemporary literatures that are more specifically transnational rather than strictly postcolonial. While transnational communities and diasporic cultures are far from being a new sociological phenomenon, the rise of transnationalism today is influenced by the “the scale of intensity and simultaneity of current long- distance, cross-border activities” (Steven Vertovec).
The next issue of the Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, to be published in July 2017, will be dedicated to transnational literatures, travel theory, locality, and identitarian reconstructions in literary works. Cultural approaches, qualitative and quantitative analyses are all welcome.
Deadline proposals (abstract 150 words, 5-7 keywords, bioprofile 150 words): January 15, 2017.
Contact Email:  metacriticjournal@ubbcluj.ro
URL:  http://www.metacriticjournal.com


FUNDING

2017 James W. Scott Regional Research Fellowship
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/144445/deadline-approaching-applications-2017-james-w-scott-regional
The James W. Scott Regional Research Fellowships promote awareness and innovative use of archival collections at Western Washington University, and seek to forward scholarly understandings of the Pacific Northwest. Fellowship funds are awarded in honor of the late Dr. James W. Scott, a founder and first Director of the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, and a noted scholar of the Pacific Northwest region. Up to $1000 funding is offered in 2017 to support significant research using archival holdings at WWU’s Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (CPNWS), a unit of Western Libraries Heritage Resources.
Applications will be reviewed after October 31, 2016
Contact Email:  Ruth.Steele@wwu.edu
URL:  http://library.wwu.edu/hr/fellowships


2017 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship in UCLA Library Special Collections
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/144030/2017-kenneth-karmiole-endowed-research-fellowship-ucla-library
The UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships Program supports the use of special collections materials by visiting scholars and graduate students. Collections that are administered by UCLA Library Special Collections and available for fellowship-supported research include rare books, journals, manuscripts, archives, printed ephemera, photographs and other audiovisual materials, maps, oral history interviews, and other items in the humanities and social sciences; medical, life, and physical sciences; visual and  performing arts; and UCLA history. Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowships enable scholars to pursue research lasting from one to three months in UCLA Library Special Collections. One annual fellowship is awarded in the amount of $5,000.
Applications must be received on or before November 1, 2016.
Contact Email:  lib_lscfellowships@library.ucla.edu
URL:  http://www.library.ucla.edu/special-collections/karmiole-fellowships


2017 UCLA Library Special Collections Short-term Research Fellowships
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/144029/2017-ucla-library-special-collections-short-term-research
The UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships Program supports the use of special collections materials by visiting scholars and UCLA graduate students. Collections that are administered by UCLA Library Special Collections and available for fellowship-supported research include rare books, journals, manuscripts, archives, printed ephemera, photographs and other audiovisual materials, oral history interviews, and other items in the humanities and social sciences; medical, life and physical sciences;  visual and performing arts; and UCLA history.
There are a number of short-term fellowships; visit the URL below for more information. A committee will evaluate the research proposals, and applicants will be notified of the committee’s decision by email on or before December 1, 2016.
Contact Email:  lib_lscfellowships@library.ucla.edu
URL:  http://www.library.ucla.edu/special-collections/short-term-research-fellowships


Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145416/dianne-woest-fellowship-arts-and-humanities
The Historic New Orleans Collection is now accepting applications for the 2016/17 Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities. The fellowship supports scholarly research on the history and culture of Louisiana and the Gulf South. While THNOC resources should play a central role in the proposed research agenda, fellows are also encouraged to explore other research facilities in the Greater New Orleans area. The fellowship carries a stipend of $4,000. Fellows may select their period(s) of residence, but all research must commence and conclude during the specified fellowship term (April 1, 2017, through March 31, 2018).
Applications are due November 1, 2016
Contact Email:  JasonW@hnoc.org
URL:  http://www.hnoc.org/programs/fellowship.html


Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Dissertation Awards
http://iehs.org/online/george-e-pozzetta-dissertation-award/
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society Announces competition for the 2017 George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award. It invites applications from any Ph.D. candidate who will have completed qualifying exams by December 15, 2016, and whose thesis focuses on American immigration, emigration, or ethnic history. The award provides two grants of $1000 each for expenses to be incurred in researching the dissertation. To be considered for the award, all applicants must submit their materials via email to all committee members by December 15, 2016.


Calls for Fellows-in-Residence, Residencies in Arts, Business, Science, Cultural Preservation and Philanthropy
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/143658/wisc-calls-fellows-residence-residencies-arts-business-science
The Women’s International Study Center (WISC) seeks applicants for residential fellowships at Acequia Madre House in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Attracting travelers from around the world, Santa Fe is known for its art markets, museums, and research and academic institutions. The region has beautiful scenery, year-round outdoor activities and a rich mix of American, Spanish Colonial and Native American history. Acequia Madre House is on a 3.5-acre property in a quiet, historic neighborhood.
Artists, writers, scholars, professionals, innovators and entrepreneurs, as individuals and groups, are encouraged to apply for residencies available throughout the year. WISC seeks proposals aligned with our focus areas, broadly defined, of the arts, sciences, cultural preservation, business and philanthropy, as inspired by the three generations of women who built and lived in Acequia Madre House. Proposals by women are accepted, as are those of anyone working in these areas as they relate directly to the interests and experiences of women
Applications are accepted year-round and reviewed by a distinguished Academic Advisory Committee . However, they are only reviewed twice a year with deadlines of March 15 and November 15.
Contact Email:  info@wisc-amh.org
URL: http://wisc-amh.org/programs/residency-program/


New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Archive
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/144525/new-orleans-jazz-heritage-foundation-archive
The Jazz & Heritage Fellowships are intended for people who have already demonstrated a remarkable capacity to document cultural and artistic aspects of New Orleans and/or Louisiana, through productive scholarship via public presentations, publications, or exhibitions. Applicants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the Jazz & Heritage Archive’s resources by either visiting the Archive or speaking with the Archivists.
Application deadline:     October 31, 2016
Contact Email:  archive@jazzandheritage.org
URL:  http://www.jazzandheritage.org/archive


WORKSHOPS

Summer Seminars with Anthony Appiah, David Harvey, and Michael Taussig
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145889/call-fellows-icsi-2017-summer-seminars-anthony-appiah-david
The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) at the New School for Social Research is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our 2017 Summer Seminars (June 11 - 17, 2017). Advanced graduate students and faculty are eligible to apply. Applications are due December 15, 2016.
ICSI offers advanced graduate students and faculty from around the world the opportunity to spend a week at the New School’s campus in Greenwich Village, working closely with some of the most distinguished thinkers shaping the course of contemporary social inquiry. The Institute is founded on the premise that responding to current and emergent problems requires developing our collective capacities to formulate new and better questions, rather than relying on the application of all too familiar ready-made theories.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until December 15, 2016
URL: http://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/about/


Workshop on Ethnographic Approaches to Race, Racism, and Racialization in China-Africa
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/145437/workshop-ethnographic-approaches-race-racism-and-racialization
On January 13, 2017, we will gather at New York University to move beyond periodic scandals and grapple with the concepts of race, racialization, and racism more broadly within the context of China-Africa or South-South interactions. We invite up-and-coming scholars who are wrestling with these issues, particularly in Chinese-African connections, but also in transnational Afro-Asian, and South-South formations more generally. What we are seeking is not so much completed or polished work, but rather thinkpieces, reflections, and works in progress which evince attempts to think through these issues. We especially welcome scholars who have conducted (or plan to conduct) ethnographic fieldwork or in-depth historical research. The aim of the workshop is to promote a conversation which we hope will both sharpen critical approaches to race in the study of China-Africa, and also contribute to the anthropology of race more broadly.
We welcome pieces that touch on the questions and/or discussion topics above. Please send a short description of your research questions and topic along with a CV to Derek Sheridan (derek_sheridan@brown.edu) and Melissa Lefkowitz (mfl270@nyu.edu). The deadline to apply is Friday, November 18, 2016.


New York Area African Studies Workshop
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/146264/eleventh-greater-new-york-area-african-studies-workshop
The Greater New York Area African History Workshop brings together scholars working on Africa and its worldwide diasporas in the Northeast United States. In past years, this workshop has served as an inviting space where faculty members and graduate students focusing on diverse historical topics can meet in a small, intellectually rigorous, and collegial setting. In April 2017, at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, we are excited to open the workshop to undergraduate students. Previous workshops have encouraged greater collaboration between scholars affiliated with history, African Studies, and Africana departments/programs throughout the region. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their work, find commonalities with other scholars, and learn about new directions in the study of African history.
Please submit a proposal by January 30, 2017 that includes: (1) Your name, affiliation and a paper title; (2) a 250-word abstract; (3) a brief 1-2-page CV; and (4) a 4-5-line paragraph describing your main research interests. Please send proposals to: kbkyiadom@gmail.com. If you have any questions, please contact the organizer, Dr. Kwasi Konadu, at the aforementioned email address.