Calls for Papers, Workshops, and Resources
November 29, 2016
CONFERENCES
Seditious Acts: Graduate Students of Color Interrogating the
Neoliberal University
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, April 21-22, 2017
The hostile, sometimes violent, experiences of undergraduate
and graduate students, as well as early career faculty in the neoliberal
university, position the university as a marginalizing space which devalues and
erases historically marginalized bodies. Despite this, marginalized peoples
have crafted survival strategies to transform the university through critical
scholarship, community work, activism, teaching, artmaking practices, and
performance.
This symposium is the result of the protest, scholarship,
and experiences of working-class, first generation, feminist, and queer
graduate students of color at the
University of Minnesota. The symposium is dedicated to centering personal
narrative writing and testimonies to call out to other graduate student
scholar-activist-artists within and outside the academy. It is also a
call/guide to community building/support for those in academia who are impacted
by systemic oppression and share our visions for decolonizing knowledge
production.
Submit individual (300 word description) and/or
collaborative proposals (400 word description) and bio (up to 200 words per
participant) by Friday, January 13, 2017
For more questions, please contact CRES at cresumn@gmail.com.
Sacred Rhetoric
Winebrenner Theological Seminary (Findlay, Ohio) will be
hosting a conference exploring “Sacred Rhetoric” – an interdisciplinary event
devoted to the consideration of discourses of religion, both as it is depicted
in various media formats and how religious practitioners discuss issues within
confessional communities. The conference
will take place from May 31 – June 2, 2017and seeks to bring together specialists
in the fields of communication and religion to examine these matters more
closely.
Please send a brief 300-500 word abstract and a short c.v.
by January 15, 2017
Contact Email: david.barbee@winebrenner.edu
URL: http://www.winebrenner.edu/
Crafting Mosaics: Contextualizing Diversity across Space and
Time
March 4, 2017, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Competing perspectives on diversity continue to shape both
historical scholarship and the environment in which that scholarship is
produced. This conference aims to pair modern debates with historical
approaches to diversity. It will bring together graduate and advanced
undergraduate students from across fields to facilitate a meaningful and
nuanced conversation about the conception, construction, use and misuse of
“diversity” ideas over space and time.
Submission Deadline: December 16, 2016.
Contact Email: anickell@purdue.edu
33rd Annual Conference on the Advancement of Women
The Women's Studies Program and the Conference Program
Committee at Texas Tech University proudly announces a call for papers for the
Annual Conference on The Advancement of Women, which will take place on the
campus of Texas Tech University. We invite presentations that explore the
manifold meanings of movement and change as connected to, created by, and/or
caught up in the presence of women's, gender, and identity issues, in both
contemporary and historical frameworks. Interdisciplinary proposals, as well as
those from the disciplines and specialty subject areas are welcome.
Proposals from professional schools and administrative
offices, as well as those from scholarly areas where women have been
historically under-represented, including mathematics, the agricultural and
natural sciences, and technology and applied sciences, are welcome.
Deadline for submissions: February 24, 2017
email:
womens.studies@ttu.edu
University of Nebraska, Kearney; Friday, March 10, 2017
No Limits 2017 is a Student Research Conference dedicated to
crossing boundaries between disciplines and exploring a wide range of women's
and gender issues. It is open to undergraduate and graduate students throughout
the region and welcomes all student projects related to women and/or gender
issues.
Deadline for submissions is Friday, February 10, 2017
Students interested in presenting their work at the
conference should submit the following information by email to Dr. Linda Van
Ingen at vaningenL1@unk.edu (type
"No Limits” in the subject line)
Northeastern University Graduate History Conference
March 18th-19th 2017
The many layers of world history, ranging from the most
local to the global, have never functioned independently from one another. As
tempting as it is for historians to address their histories in isolated
microcosms, it always remains true that every historical event has
ramifications much wider than its immediate context, and it is this issue that
our conference hopes to address. The conference hopes to explore a wide range
of themes and topics in world history, addressing the many links and
interactions between the global and local scales, and everything in between.
The conference will ask how the currents of the world history narrative are
noticeably affected by even the most local happenings, and how in return the
local narrative can be so heavily influenced by global events.
To be considered, email submissions to nugradconf@gmail.com
by Friday December 16th. For more information about our past conferences,
please visit our website at: http://nuhistorygrads.wordpress.com/conference/.
Contact Email: nugradconf@gmail.com
Philosophy of Communication Conference
Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies,
Duquesne University – Pittsburgh, PA
June 5–7, 2017
The theme for this year’s conference centers on the Catholic
Intellectual Tradition with keynote speakers addressing four content areas: (1)
Philosophy of Communication and Narrative Ground, (2) Philosophy of
Communication, History, and Institutions, (3) Philosophy of Communication and Community,
and (4) Philosophy of Communication, Culture, and Mission
Send all submissions to cec@duq.edu by April 15, 2017
Website: http://www.duq.edu/philofcomm
Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery
June 20 - 24, 2017, Wayne State University
Long associated with steel, car culture, and the music of
Motown, Detroit is also a site of struggle for racial and environmental
justice, against depopulation and “ruin porn,” and for the preservation of
artistic heritage. A nexus of encounters between indigenous nations and the
French fur trade, it became a locus of the Great Migration, “white flight,” and
gentrification. Water-rich on the strait between Lake Huron and Lake Erie,
Detroit and its neighbors struggle against corroded infrastructure and
government corruption. For all those reasons, Detroit is an ideal place to
confer about rust, resistance, and recovery. We invite participants to
interpret the conference theme as broadly as possible and to imagine their work
in terms of content and form.
For additional information and to submit a pre-formed panel
or individual presentation, please visit the conference website at
http://asle2017.clas.wayne.edu
Deadline for submissions is December 12, 2016.
Techniques of the Corporation Conference
May 4-6, 2017, University of Toronto
Techniques of the Corporation will assemble an
interdisciplinary network of established and emerging scholars whose work
contributes to the critical study of the techniques, epistemologies, and
imaginaries of the 20th-century corporation. This conference aims to foster a
timely conversation between Science and Technology Studies (STS) approaches and
the recent histories of capitalism. We treat the corporation in the same way
that historians of science and STS scholars have approached science,
colonialism, and militarism as generative sites for knowledge production,
value-making, and technopolitics. The conference takes as its starting place
North American corporations with the understanding that corporations are
multinational forms with complex transnational histories. Building from the
recent history of capitalism, we attend to the entangled genealogies of
corporations with slavery, exploitation, environmental destruction,
colonialism, and inequality.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words and a CV
to the conference organizers (Justin Douglas, Bretton Fosbrook, Kira Lussier,
and Michelle Murphy) at corporatetechniques@gmail.com by January 13, 2017.
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Georgia State University, March 23-25, 2017
Please submit a 300 word abstract to mpiorko1@gsu.edu, along
with your CV.
The deadline for submission is January 10, 2017
“Hope and Fear”: Interdisciplinary Conference in the
Humanities
Our social, political, and religious climate has been
dominated recently by a mood of collective fear, regarding everything from
economic anxiety, the outbreak of new and frightening diseases, mass shootings,
social tension and violence between law enforcement and communities of color,
environmental and technological dangers, and the threat of terrorism both
foreign and domestic. Where is there
room for hope in such times of uncertainty and fear? Indeed, what would hope look like? What might the interplay be between hope and
fear as we reflect on the past, present, and future not only of this country,
but of humanity as a whole? How might
respect and compassion overcome division and mistrust in our discourse and
interactions? What do the various disciplines of the humanities have to offer
on the subjects of hope and fear, both in our own time as well as for all time?
Please send an abstract (no more than 300 words) and CV to
humanities@carroll.edu by January 6, 2017.
Conference on Women in Higher Ed
The Women's Studies Program at Texas Tech University proudly
announces a call for proposals for the 33rd Annual Conference on the
Advancement of Women, which will take place on the campus, April 21, 2017. We
invite papers and panel proposals that explore the manifold meanings of
movement and change as connected to, created by, and/or caught up in the
presence of women's, gender, and identity issues, in both contemporary and
historical frameworks. Interdisciplinary proposals, as well as those from
disciplines and specialty subject areas are also encouraged to submit. Submit
an 250-word abstract including the proposal title, name, affiliation and
contact information for all author(s) on or before February 24, 2017.
Contact Email: womens.studies@ttu.edu
English Graduate Organization (EGO) Interdisciplinary Conference
The 2017 English Graduate Organization (EGO)
Interdisciplinary Conference is in collaboration with Popular Culture
Methodologies (PCM), a new graduate organization in IUP’s English Department.
The conference theme is “Cultural Shifts” in Popular Culture. Cultural shifts
modify a society through development, invention, discovery, resistance, and
revolution. History reveals that such activities energize creative and critical
responses as well as changes in disciplinary curricula. This year’s EGO/PCM
Conference creates an inter- and trans-disciplinary space to share diverse
perspectives on the ways cultural shifts affect, and are affected by,
representations in Popular Culture. We invite presentations exploring a wide
range of topics in contemporary Popular Culture Studies that address
representations of cultural shifts on global, national, statewide, regional, or
individual subject scales.
The deadline to submit a proposal is December 22, 2016
Contact Email: egopcmconference2017@gmail.com
History, Memory, and Justice
The philosophy program at Florida Gulf Coast University
invites submissions for our upcoming conference entitled "History, Memory,
and Justice" to be held on March 24th and 25th, 2017 in Fort Myers, FL.
This conference aims to explore the meaning that history and memory have in the
context of human life and, in particular, what it means to remember devastating
acts of human violence in a meaningful and responsible way. To address these
difficult questions, we welcome papers from a number of diverse philosophical
starting points (e.g., hermeneutics, phenomenology, ethical theory, legal
theory, the history of philosophy, critical theory, etc) and from social
scientists in related discplines involved in related inquiries.
Abstract submissions are due by December 15, 2016.
Contact Email: cculbertson@fgcu.edu
An Ending of Sorts: Disappearance and Disenchantment in
Modernity
The Graduate Students of the Humanities Center of Johns
Hopkins University are pleased to announce a conference to be held on March 3
and 4, 2017.
What does it mean for a thing to come to its end? What marks
the passage from being from non-being? What persists beyond erasure? Beneath
these ontological questions lie even more intricate epistemological knots—by
which channels are things or ideas even legible or detectable in the world?
People, institutions, and ideas can and do disappear, or transform in unrecognizable
ways. The loss of objects or sensibilities and the endeavor to recover,
rehabilitate, or document, is widely explored in psychoanalysis, literature,
art, and philosophy. These engagements register a more generalized kind of
disappearance that alters or even constitutes our experience of the world.
In the interdisciplinary spirit of the Humanities Center, we
invite papers from literature and the arts, philosophy and critical theory,
anthropology and sociology, and any other relevant field that take up questions
of disappearance, loss, and disenchantment, as well as those that consider the
scholar's role in the recuperation or preservation of the object of inquiry.
Abstracts of up to 350 words for a 20 minute presentation
should be submitted to disappearancehc2017@gmail.com by December 16, 2016.
Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Thought
A Call for papers for the fourteenth issue of "FORMA.
Revista d'Estudis Comparatius. Art, Literatura i Pensament" (Journal of
Comparative Studies. Art, Literature and Thought) started on September 1st
2016. The CFP is open and addressed to scholars, PhD students or any researcher
holding at least a BA degree. We welcome submissions of book reviews or
academic articles in English, Spanish, Catalan, French, or Italian. You can
find all of the information as well as the required editorial guidelines on http://www.upf.edu/forma/en/.
Submissions may be sent to our mail: revista.forma@upf.edu.
The Underground Railroad in Northeastern North Carolina
As part of the museum’s 50th anniversary, a symposium on the
Underground Railroad is being held at the Museum of the Albemarle, October 6-8,
2017. The symposium will explore issues
surrounding the role played by the Albemarle region as well as delving into
broader, national events and personalities.
The subject of the Underground Railroad is underrepresented in academic
scholarship about North Carolina, and the museum is seeking to increase the
body of research particularly on those subjects closely associated with the
Albemarle region. Graduate and undergraduate students in history and related
fields are encouraged to pursue original research on a topic of their choice
linked to the Underground Railroad and northeastern North Carolina.
The museum will accept papers until June 1, 2017
Contact Email:
bill.mccrea@ncdcr.gov
Imagined Forms: Models and Material Culture
November 17-18, 2017, Hagley Museum and Library, Delaware
“Imagined Forms: Modeling and Material Culture” inaugurates
a biennial conference series sponsored by the Center for Material Culture
Studies at the University of Delaware. We invite submissions from all
disciplines—including art and architecture, art history, comparative
literature, digital humanities, English, history, history of science, and media
studies—that critically investigate the function and form of models, the
materials and methods of simulation and representation, questions of scale and
perception, experiment and presentation, and the limits of modeling.
Please send abstracts of max. 300 words, with a brief CV of
no more than two pages, by February 15, 2017 to materialculture@udel.edu.
For information see http://www.materialculture.udel.edu/
and http://www.materialculture.udel.edu/index.php/2016/09/06/call-papers-imagined-forms-modeling-material-culture-november-2017/
International Graduate Historical Studies Conference: Crossing
Borders, Challenging Boundaries
March 31-April 1, 2017, Central Michigan University
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.
Deadline: December 19, 2016
Contact Email:
histconf@cmich.edu
"Parody, Protest, or Performance? Mischief and Humour
in History"
March 31-April 1, 2017, Concordia University, MONTREAL
The comic has taken many forms throughout history: parody,
satire, caricature, slapstick, ridicule, mockery. Mutually reinforcing instead
of mutually exclusive, these manifestations overlap in complex and revealing
ways. Expressed visually, textually, and aurally, the comic can move amongst
the perplexingly obscure, the dreadfully obvious, and the tantalizingly
unexpected. Throughout, its levity can
contain both light and dark shades. Dispersed through both mainstream and
alternative media, it may embody a singular perspective or a collective
sensibility. Humour sustains oral traditions while at the same time rehashing,
recycling and reconfiguring familiar references. It can be a device used to
initiate social and political change or consolidate established authorities.
However, humour is subject to change and to miss this salient point is to
ignore the ebb and flow of history. In what ways, then, is its meaning and
interpretation contingent on time and place?
Please send abstracts of 300 to 400 words to
HIM.conference.concordia@gmail.com by January 6th 2017.
African Literature in the “World”: Reflections on
Lusophone/Hispanophone Literature
June 14–17, 2017, Yale University
The theme selected for African Literature Association 2017
is with a view to draw attention to and cross-examine the current practice of
consigning literatures of the Global South to the category of “world
literature”, a departure from the regional, national and “postcolonial”
framework within which they are typically considered. As scholars of Lusophone and Hispanophone
literatures (studies), the assessment and reassessment of our field vis-a-vis
such shifts in paradigm, is imperative. Given that such shifts have invariably
fostered Eurocentricism extending its reach well into the 21st century,
critical reflections on and engagement with these “new” trends are necessary
for promoting Lusophone and Hispanophone interests and realities in the new “world” within which it must
navigate.
Kindly send proposals comprising the following to the Chairs
of LHCALA (Joanna Boampong or Arthur Hughes) at: jboampong@ug.edu.gh or hughesa@ohio.edu by December 12, 2016:
11th Conference of the European Society for Literature,
Science and the Arts: Empathies
University of Basel, Switzerland, 21-24June, 2017
For a number of years now, empathy has been a central topic
of public and academic debate and research. It is the subject of artistic,
moral and psychological reflections and commands interest from the humanities
and hard sciences alike, often being a driving motor of knowledge production.
It is time to take stock and consider the heterogeneity and complexity of
empathy, the values different societies and cultures have attached to it and
the various approaches that frame its investigations. We especially welcome
abstracts that facilitate discussion of the synchronic (cultural) and
diachronic (historical) diversity and differences in the manifestation of
empathy and address issues of gender, race/enthicity, dis/ability, religion,
law and other categories of analysis.
Deadline: December 10, 2016
email: slsa-eu@unibas.ch
Whither the Caribbean? - Conference in Honour of Stuart Hall
June 1-3, 2017, University of the West Indies
This conference will offer the opportunity to reflect both
on how the Caribbean and Jamaica influenced Stuart Hall’s thought but also on
how we might bring this unorthodox, paradigm-shifting intellectual’s work home
as it were. How can the lens of culture offer alternative approaches to the
study of our postcolonial present? How might cultural studies-inflected
strategies amplify the ability of policy-makers, educators and technocrats to
craft more people-friendly forms of governance? What lessons of negotiating and
thinking about social conflict and its management might be embedded in the life
and practice of this exemplary public intellectual?
Deadline for Submissions - February 1, 2017
Contact Email:
stuarthallconference@gmail.com
Comics and Graphic Narrative Circle at American Literature
Association 2017
The Comics & Graphic Narrative Circle welcomes abstracts
for presentation at two sessions on comics at the 2017 ALA conference in Boston:
Queering Comics History and Transnationalism and American Comics.
Please email an abstract (of no more than 350 words) and a
brief biographical note to Ben Novotny Owen (owen.179@osu.edu) no later than
Jan 27, 2017.
(Re)Reading: Navigating Space|Time|Frontiers
The ninth Graduate Conference in Literature, Politics, and
Aesthetics at Binghamton University invites proposals for papers, panels, and
roundtables regarding reading practices and the fixing of texts into
categories. This conference seeks to interrogate different notions, methods,
theories, and practices of reading. How
does the text prompt us to revise our methods?
How do authors and texts resist simple or neat classification, and what,
if anything, do we do about it? Methods
such as close reading [New Criticism], detached reading [David Damrosch], and
distant reading [Franco Moretti] propose ways of approaching texts — yet what
do these look like in practice? What is
the state of reading (in) academic disciplines [Gayatri Spivak]? Possible proposals are welcome from all
disciplines that rely and reflect on reading as a critical exercise; proposals
may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:The question and
experience of reading becomes more and more urgent as we rethink modes and
practices of reading. How do our current
practices dissolve, shift, or reinforce master narratives of disciplinary
reading? How does the text resist imposition of borders, methods, and
normalization?
Deadline to submit: 22 December 2016
Contact Email: navigatespacetimefrontiers@gmail.com
2017 Midwest Art History Society: "Is there an African
Atlantic?"
The Atlantic Ocean provides Africanist art historians a rich
model of investigation and analysis. Connecting Africa to Europe and the
Americas, the Atlantic maps the flows, circularities, and dislocations of
African arts in and out of diaspora. But it also separates. In the hulls of
slave ships, new worlds were both forged and lost, underscoring a separation
that lives on as today even distinctly black Atlantic scholarship often
includes little space for African ideas and worldviews. Responding to the
inclusion of open panels dedicated separately to both African and
African-American art, this thematic panel seeks contributions that take up
African arts’ indeterminate space in the Atlantic world as both possibility and
pitfall.
Please submit a 250-word proposal and a 2-page CV to Matthew
Rarey (mrarey@oberlin.edu) by Friday, December 16. You can access the full
conference info and CFP at https://www.mahsonline.org/conference/.
Women-in-Peril or Final Girls? Representing Women in Gothic
and Horror Cinema
25th – 26th May 2017, University of Kent
This conference seeks to re-engage with these discussions of
gender within Gothic and horror cinema by directly comparing the two. What
relationship does Gothic have to horror – or horror to the Gothic – in respect
to female representation? What makes a Gothic heroine different from (or,
indeed, similar to) female victims/protagonists in horror films? What can we
say about the centrality given to female performance in both these
genres/modes? Where does one draw the line between Gothic and horror in film?
Please submit proposals of 500 words, along with a short
biographical note (250 words) to gothicfeminism2016@gmail.com by 1st February
2017
Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies
March 17-19, 2017, Bowling Green State University
The socially constructed concepts of difference and
coalition shape global approaches to violence, healing, discrimination, and
community building. These two seemingly different concepts appear in global
news media when reports cover stories such as the Black Lives Matter protests,
wherein activists form alliances to confront racial differences. Difference
shapes transnational relationships and determines demographic trends. By
contrast, coalition and community building activism such as the Dakota Access
Pipeline protests have the potential to dismantle foundations and effect
positive change. Critically investigating how difference and coalitions
function enable global citizens and transnational scholars to understand how
identity is constructed, maintained, and categorized hierarchically.
We invite scholarship that addresses how discourses of
difference and strategies of coalition shape our worldview and effect change in
the broadest sense transnational popular cultures, news media, economies,
politics, histories, families, and homes. Submissions are welcome in, but not
limited to, the below listed subject areas.
Abstracts should be submitted no later than December 23,
2016
Contact Email:
raybrowneconf@bgsu.edu
Post45 Graduate Symposium
February 24–25, 2017, University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford
University seek diverse, graduate-level works-in-progress on post-1945 American
literatures & cultures. Works-in-progress may range from conference papers
to articles or dissertation chapter drafts. Following the Post45 faculty
symposium model, all works-in-progress will be pre-circulated; this will allow
participants to consider papers carefully and to generate thoughtful critical
feedback—a benefit often absent in traditional conference formats.
Those interested should submit 250- to 300-word abstracts to
gradpost45@gmail.com by December 15, 2016.
Contact Email:
gradpost45@gmail.com
Comics Arts Conference: Comic-Con International
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word
abstracts for papers, presentations, panels, and poster sessions taking a
critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence)
for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San
Diego, CA, July 20-23, 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 February 1, 2017,
Contact Email:
comicsartsconference@gmail.com
From Trinity to Fukushima and Beyond: New Approaches to 20th
and 21s Century Nuclear Arts
March 10-11, 2016, University of Montreal
This graduate/emerging scholars symposium proposes to
examine some of the productions and mutations of the nuclear arts and cultures
in the 20th and 21 centuries. The primary objective of the symposium is to
establish a transnational network of young researchers and emerging scholars
(MA, doctoral and postdoctoral students, junior scholars) working on the
nuclear arts and nuclear culture in the US, Japan, India, France, UK, Germany,
Australia, South and North Korea, China, Russia and elsewhere. The symposium
also seeks to explore new approaches, theories, and methodologies for the
analysis, interpretation, and reimagining of the global nuclear ecology in the
arts and in popular culture – in particular in the current, post-Fukushima
context when the danger of other nuclear accidents, and of nuclear
proliferation in Asia seems imminent.
Abstracts of 200-250 words, and a 150-word bio should be
sent to the following email address : imaginairenucleaire@gmail.com .The
deadline for submissions is December 15, 2016.
Consumer Identities & Digital Culture
St. John’s University, Queens Campus, March 28, 2017
The Institute for International Communication at St. John’s
University is now accepting submissions for paper presentations at an upcoming
one-day symposium, Consumer Identities and Digital Culture. We seek
transdisciplinary interpretations and critical analyses of consumption and
consumer identity, broadly defined across emerging media and digital
landscapes. This symposium is the first in a planned series of events interrogating
various aspects of consumer identity, using fans as one exemplar and catalyst
for discussion. Panelists will also be invited to participate in the
development of an edited volume.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 20, 2016
Website: http://www.consumeridentities.com
“In/Visibility"
The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies is
pleased to announce its 17th Annual Isom Student Gender Conference (ISGC) in
the spring of 2017. The conference theme is In/Visible. We invite participants
to question notions of “visibility” in their disciplines of study, society, and
personal experience. What aspects of gender and sexuality are rendered
invisible or perceived as being unspeakable in our communities, both public and
private? What forces combine to make certain experiences, or citizens, or
perspectives invisible? What means of
resistance have been invented to combat such forces of erasure? All these questions inform our theme of
In/Visible.
Please submit a three hundred word abstract by February 1st,
2017.
Contact Email:
isomctr@olemiss.edu
Large-Scale Violence and Its Aftermaths
Kean University | June 25-29, 2017
Large-Scale Violence and Its Aftermaths will explore tested
and contested measures of dealing with the global legacies of large-scale,
collective violence and atrocity crimes – including crimes against humanity, war
crimes, and genocide – against vulnerable communities and fueled by terrorist
acts, rogue states, authoritarian regimes, asymmetrical warfare, internal
conflict, and institutionalized discrimination. The Institute’s purpose is
twofold: to clarify the anemic performance by state actors in managing atrocity
and large-scale violence and restoring confidence in social stability and
security; and to consider non-state, civil-society alternatives that, in the
aggregate, could move progressively forward toward securing, if not
transforming, successor societies.
We invite 250-word proposals by January 31 to abstracts@kean.edu
Contact Email: moyeb@kean.edu
URL: http://grad.kean.edu/mahgs-conference
PUBLISHING
Poverty and Sexuality
The Institute for Research at Women at Rutgers University
invites submissions for an edited volume on Poverty and Sexuality. The volume’s
topic may be interpreted broadly, and address the intersection(s) of poverty
and sexuality within local, national, or international contexts. We invite
contributions from scholars and activists. In addition to social scientific
studies and activist-based research and writing, we also welcome
humanities-focused, art, and cultural analyses of the subject. Chapters may
include academic essays up to 8,000 words (including footnotes and
bibliography) or shorter reflections or critical pieces up to 4,000 words
(including footnotes and bibliography).
The volume will be edited by Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood and Dr. Sarah Tobias
(bios below). Please send abstracts of
200 – 300 words accompanied by a C.V. to stobias@rci.rutgers.edu by December
15, 2016. Full text articles should be
ready no later than May 15, 2017.
TRACES Journal #03
TRACES Journal brings together original, cutting-edge
contributions aiming to explore emerging issues in the field of heritage and
museum studies. It focuses on practices that are influenced by different
disciplines while boosting innovative approaches and experimental research
actions. TRACES invites scholars, researchers, artists, educators with the
widest range of backgrounds, specialisation, and perspectives to submit
innovative and critical reflections on the theme of Contested Heritages in
Europe, in the form of short or full papers aimed at illustrating and assessing
creative and reflexive formats, tools and strategies of heritage transmission
with the arts, as building blocks for a new European identity.
Deadline for submissions: January 09, 2017
Contact Email:
infoTRACES@polimi.it
Aspasia Special Theme: Women and Violence
In this issue, Aspasia seeks to explore the ways that
violence has framed and affected the historical experiences of women in
Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. We welcome historians of women and
gender in the region to reflect on the theme of women and violence. How has violence—in all forms and at any
level—affected women’s experiences? How has gender shaped state and/or personal
responses to violence? What were the limits of women’s victimization? How did
the law address abuse against women, and how did it interpret crime committed
by women? What motivated women to participate in or contribute to violent acts?
deadline December 31, 2016
Contact Email: Aspasia.Yearbook@gmail.com
Rethinking Literature - Reconsidering the disciplinary and
textual boundaries of Literature
We invite articles that attempt to look closely at
literature teaching and research in academia while taking into account the
tensions and difficulties aroused by internal and external conflicts and forces
on literary studies. We welcome fresh thinking on existing political,
methodological and ideological challenges confronted by literary studies and on
the unstable and decentralized status of literature as academic discipline. We
invite original reflections on the issues at hand from various disciplinary
perspectives, such as literary criticism, history, education, cultural studies,
media studies, sociology, anthropology, and legal studies, with the aim of
creating a multi-disciplinary heterogeneous volume. We hope that these diverse
points of view will provide a complex innovative framework for rethinking of
literary texts and their function in research and in teaching. In this vein, we
are also interested in articles and essays examining whether there is still
justification for “literature studies” as a distinct academic field in the
post-modernist academic world.
Abstracts due: February 1, 2017
Contact Email: rethinkingliterature22@gmail.com
Teaching students with disabilities
The theme for the Spring 2017 issue of Currents in Teaching
and Learning is “Teaching students with disabilities: concepts, approaches, and
practices.” Issues to address may include, but are not limited to: Theories,
understandings, and concepts of the term itself and who is part of this
population; approaches to and pedagogical paradigms about teaching students
with learning disabilities; and institutional practices, policies, and programs
designed to work with students with disabilities, and their relationship to and
impact on educational practices and needs.
Submissions Deadline: January 1, 2017
Send all inquiries to Editor Martin Fromm or Editorial
Assistant Kayla Beman at currents@worcester.edu. For submission guidelines,
visit our website at www.worcester.edu/currents.
Women in Politics: An International Perspective
Gender inequality remains one of the most important
questions and a major barrier to human development. This interdisciplinary
edited volume Women in Politics: An International Perspective (under contract
with Cambridge Scholars Publishing) focuses on women’s political participation
worldwide. The current international women’s political activism, including
women’s organizations, will be analyzed. Feminist activism and women’s
political representation are not necessarily interrelated factors. Some
developed countries where feminist thought and philosophy are advanced do not
display the satisfactory women’s representation in the political arena. A
multitude of factors should be taken into account when estimating women’s
participation in the international political arena. This study contributes to
political science, women's studies, feminist philosophy, and history. By
January 8th, please submit a 250-300 word abstract and your CV to Dr. Elena
Shabliy shabliy@fas.harvard.edu.
URL: http://complit.fas.harvard.edu/people/elena-shabliy
Subjectivity in Literary Anthropology
We are interested in receiving submission for a book on
Subjectivity in Literary Anthropology. The discussion of this topic emanates
from a discipline which is born in the postmodern period both out of science
and narration (Lyotard). The fact that
data is personnalized and handled by subjects during the data collection and
the recounting process renders objectivity impossible to attain as objecthood.
Subjectivity has permeated anthropological discourse since its inception in the
works of Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski, who collected stories from the
field in Innuit Baffin Island and Trobriand Islands. Those authors had
imprinted their personal flair on the texts through varied processes of
discursive elaboration. Dealing with
subjectivity invites a discussion of partiality and ethnocentrism, which
represent an intrinsic part of completing social science experiments (Fabian;
Spivak; Derrida). Subjectivity is neutralized then through diverse forms of
dialogism and co-participation on equal footing: that is footing, which decentralizes
the active component of time as the chronopolitical divider of men existing in
shared and mutually exclusive epochs and traditions.
Submission deadline: April 31st, 2017.
Contact Email:
subjectivityinanthropology@gmail.com
Migrant Protests and Cosmopolitanism
This Call for Papers concerns the
relevance of migrant protests for the contemporary debates on cosmopolitanism.
The edited volume will aim at a non-totalizing theory of cosmopolitanism and to
a new way of conceiving cosmopolitanism, mainly contestatory and radical, as
emerging from the current migrant resistance.
The envisaged volume aims to analyze
the collective migrant protests in the context of the explosion of political
mobilizations by irregular migrants and pro-migrant activists in the last
decade, with the aim to contribute to the growing body of scholarship on
migrant resistance movements and to consider the implications of these
struggles for a cosmopolitan restructuring of political theory and of the
world. The main method of the volume would consist in a close-reading, from the
perspective of political theories of cosmopolitanism, of discourses produced by
migrant protests movements: manifestos, declarations, websites, and other texts
explaining the necessity of protests and resistance.
Deadline for proposals submission of
500 words abstracts and contact details is January 15, 2017.
Contact Email: tamara.caraus@icub.unibuc.ro
African Literary History, the Cold
War and “World Literature”
Special issue of Research in African
Literatures
Cold War superpowers rarely
acknowledged that Africa was of anything but marginal interest, even though
political and cultural interventions portray a different picture. Proxy
regimes, coups and counter-coups, hot conflicts and assassination attempts were
the more visible markers of the conflict between the supporters of capitalism
and communism. However, literature and culture were equally marked by the era’s
polarized climate. In fact, American and Soviet political interests spurred a
plethora of publication venues, literary clubs, institutions, awards and prizes
as they attempted to promote ideologically aligned culture. Culture and
advocacy groups overtly or covertly managed and funded by the US and the USSR
operated within most of the newly independent African countries. Non-Aligned
networks (in the aftermath of the 1955 Bandung Conference) tried to resist new
forms of cultural imperialism. In this special issue we invite new perspectives
on African literary history through the prism of the Cold War and its
aftermath.
Prospective contributors should send
their 500 word abstracts by February 28, 2017
Call for Submissions on the
"Unwritten Essay" and Beyond
The Essay Review is a yearly online
journal run out of the University of Iowa, dedicated to providing lively and
surprising criticism of the essay in all its forms. This year, we are
particularly interested in pieces that engage with anything you might consider
“unwritten.” This might include the photo essay, the film essay, sound essays,
essays where white space takes up space, essays in which quiet seems
particularly loud. It’s quite open to interpretation. We’re hoping that essays
on this subject constitute the core of this year’s issue—perhaps half of what
we ultimately run—with the rest left open to anything else under our broad
rubric. While we don’t ordinarily take more than one submission per author, we
are open if you’d like to contribute two, one “on theme” and one not. We’re
also happy to discuss the possibilities with you ahead of your submission.
Our deadline for first drafts is
February 19, 2017, and accepted submissions will receive an honorarium.
Contact Email: lucy-schiller@uiowa.edu
Teaching students with disabilities
The theme for the Spring 2017 issue
of Currents in Teaching and Learning is “Teaching students with disabilities:
concepts, approaches, and practices.” Issues to address may include, but are
not limited to:, Theories, understandings, and concepts of the term itself and
who is part of this population; approaches to and pedagogical paradigms about
teaching students with learning disabilities; and institutional practices,
policies, and programs designed to work with students with disabilities, and
their relationship to and impact on educational practices and needs. We welcome
both individual and group submissions.
Submissions Deadline: January 1, 2017.
Submissions received after this date will be considered on a rolling basis.
Send all inquiries to Editor Martin
Fromm or Editorial Assistant Kayla Beman at currents@worcester.edu. For
submission guidelines, visit our website at www.worcester.edu/currents.
The Ghost in the Cinema Machine:
Contemporary representations of artificial intelligence in science fiction
films, literature and visual arts
Ekphrasis is seeking papers that
address the issue of technology in general and artificial intelligence in
particular and who analyze how these topics are addressed by the contemporary
representations in cinema, literature and visual arts.
To a certain degree Baudrillard’s
premise has proven prophetic: with the rapid advance of technologies the
science fiction universe, once placed in a distant future, was challenged by
the present day realities and the unexpected fulfillment of the technological
utopias.
Some questions are following from
this transformation: Are we witnessing the radical transformation of the sci-fi
genre, or the end the classical “artificial intelligence” trope? Has sci-fi
been reduced to a mere projection/allegory of the “real” world? What is the
future of the genre, after assimilating fantasy (Star Wars), horror, or
dystopia? What is the future of sci-fi narratives in the wake of blockbusters
like Gravity, Tv series such as Black Mirror or Humans or auteur films such as
Her? What is left of the realm of extrapolation?
Deadline for abstracts of up to 300
words: March 30th 2017.
Contact Email: andrei.simut@gmail.com
Circus Space: The Big Top on the Big
Screen
What kinds of circuses have been
represented in film, and to what ends? How have filmmakers through the last 100
years used the circus: as character in its own right, as setting, as a
particular kind of space? What have these filmmakers gained, or lost, by
setting their stories in that particular space, or by utilizing the circus in
other ways? What has that circus space allowed—or forbidden—in character
development, social or cultural critique, visibility of some issue, voice for
social change, or other statements? Have films featuring the circus been more
popular during particular moments in history? Why? And so on.
We are currently accepting proposals
for papers from film historians, theorists and scholars, general historians,
independent scholars and researchers, circus scholars, cultural theorists,
poets… essentially anyone with an interest in the subject. Proposal deadline,
January 31, 2017.
Post-Text Composition: Images,
Selfies, and Emoticons in Classroom and Culture
This edited collection will assert
that we are moving into, if we have not already entered, a post-text period of
composition theory and American culture. Proposals for this collection should
focus on the implications of the post-text movement on composition theory and
classrooms. Ideally, we would like theoretical discussions tying this to other
movements in composition theories, as well as discussions of what this means,
pedagogically, for both online and face-to-face instructors of composition.
We seek abstracts of 250-500 words
for potential chapters about this topic to Drs. Abigail Scheg and Tamara
Girardi at posttextcomposition@gmail.com by January 15, 2017.
Indigenous Interfaces: Spaces, Social
Networks & Indigenous Identities in Latin America
Indigenous Interfaces addresses the
many ways that indigenous communities they have tapped into global markets
through new technologies, especially social media, and have established
transnational connections. It further considers how these communities have used
multiple resources, including funding from international organizations and
international volunteers, to create a niche in cyberspace. The volume will
highlight the ways that indigenous peoples have put globalization at their
behest, ultimately promoting the visibility of indigenous peoples, the economic
viability of their communities and the continuity of our/their traditions. The
volume will break new ground in the field of Indigenous cultural studies by
bringing identity and technology into dialogue in the context of globalization.
Contributions to the volume will examine the many manifestations of these
concepts and will cover ground on many issues.
Please email your proposal (Title,
200-300-word abstract in English or Spanish), and author's CV as electronic
attachment to jgomezme@d.umn.edu by Dec. 15, 2016.
FUNDING
Phillips Fund for Native American Research
For research in Native American linguistics and
ethnohistory, focusing on the continental United States and Canada. Given for a
maximum of one year from date of award to cover travel, tapes, and consultants’
fees. Applicants may be graduate students pursuing either a master’s or a
doctoral degree; postdoctoral applicants are also eligible
Deadline: March 1
Contact Email:
LMusumeci@amphilsoc.org
Houghton Library Visiting Fellowships 2017-2018
The collections of Houghton Library touch upon almost every
aspect of the human record, particularly the history and culture of Europe and
North America, and include special concentrations in the history of printing
and of theater. Materials held here
range from medieval manuscripts and early printed books to the working papers
of living writers. Fellows will also have access to collections in Widener
Library as well as to other libraries at the University. Preference is given to scholars whose
research is closely based on materials in Houghton collections, especially when
those materials are unique; fellowships are normally not granted to scholars
who live within commuting distance of the library. Each fellow is expected to be in residence at
Houghton for at least four weeks during the period from July 2017 through June
2018 (these do not have to be consecutive weeks), and each fellow will be expected
to produce a written summary of his/her experience working with the
collections. The stipend for each
fellowship is $3,600.
Contact Email:
duhaime@fas.harvard.edu
One-Semester Mellon Fellowships in Urban Landscape Studies
As part of a program in urban landscape studies funded by
the Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks is offering fellowships for historians
and designers pursuing advanced research in urban landscape topics, both
historic and contemporary. The program
is funded through the Foundation’s initiative in “Architecture, Urbanism, and
the Humanities,” intended to foster the joint contributions that the humanities
and the design and planning disciplines may make to the understanding of the
processes and effects of burgeoning urbanization.
Two fellowships will be offered each fall and spring, and
are available to humanities scholars, landscape architects and urban designers.
Field research funds are also available. The application deadline for the
2017-18 academic year is February 1, 2017.
Contact Email: haffnerj@doaks.org
Robert L. Platzman Research Fellowship at the University of
Chicago Special Collections
The Robert. L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships provide up to
$3,000 to researchers who live more than 100 miles outside of Chicago and who
are workign on projects that require on-site consultation of University of
Chicago Library collections, particularly those that are housed within the
Special Collections Research Center. Support for beginning scholars is a
priority of the program, and special consideration will be given to
applications in the fields of late 19th or early 20th-century physics or
physical chemistry, or to 19th-century classical opera.
Applications for the 2017 season are due by February 17,
2017.
Contact Email: scrcfellowship@uchicago.edu
BMRC 2017 Summer Short-term Fellowship Program Application
Through an international competition, the BMRC offers
1-month residential fellowships in the City of Chicago for its Summer
Short-term Fellowship Program. Generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation since 2009, the Summer Short-term Fellowship Program has engaged
scholars, artists, writers, and public historians from the United States and
Europe to better formulate new historical narratives of Chicago’s past. The
subject areas slated for 2017 are: Gospel Music; Design, Urban Design and
Architecture.
The application process will close on midnight CST on
January 15, 2017
Contact Email: bmrc@uchicago.edu
Graduate Research Fellowship
KCC Japan Education Exchange will award a Graduate
Fellowship to a Ph.D. level student in Asian Studies for the purposes of doing
research in Japan for one year. There are no restrictions as to place of study
in Japan, field of study, or age of the applicant. Preference will go to
candidates who have a record of teaching effectively about Japan or show
promise of doing so in the future, and to candidates who have not yet conducted
dissertation research in Japan.
Applicants must have completed Ph.D. qualifying exams, been
advanced to candidacy, and demonstrate research level Japanese language
competency.
Application deadline is January 9, 2017
Contact Email: kccjee@comcast.net
Unlocking the Medinan Qur'an
19–21 March 2017, Pembroke College, Oxford
Up to three travel bursaries are available for doctoral
scholars to participate in an international workshop on the Medinan Qur’an. The
bursaries involve accommodation and board as well as economy-class travel costs
up to a maximum of 800 British pounds.
Many of the Qur’anic surahs and passages that Islamic and
Western scholars have associated with the Medinan stage of Muhammad’s career
display a distinctive stylistic, thematic, and doctrinal profile, endowing the
hypothesis that they form a discrete layer of the Islamic scripture with at
least prima facie plausibility. The Medinan Qur’an occupies a key position in
the formative history of Islam. It fundamentally shaped later convictions about
the paradigmatic authority of Muhammad; it constitutes the scriptural basis for
Islam’s development into a religion with a strong focus on law; and it is by
and large only in the Medinan surahs that we can detect an incipient
demarcation of the Qur’anic community from Jews and Christians.
Students at any stage of a doctorate in Qur’anic Studies or
a neighbouring discipline are invited to apply for one of the three available
awards.
Contact Email: nicolai.sinai@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Grant from the African American Episcopal Historical
Collection
Travel reimbursement grants are available to individuals who
would like to use the African American Episcopal Historical Collection (AAEHC)
for research. Faculty, graduate
students, undergraduates, independent researchers, and Episcopal clergy and
laypersons are encouraged to apply.
Funds may be used for transportation, meals, lodging, photocopying, and
other research costs. The AAEHC is a joint project of the Historical Society of
the Episcopal Church and the Virginia Theological Seminary. Through documents, institutional records,
oral histories, personal papers, and photographs, the collection documents the
experiences of African American Episcopalians.
Individual collections contain significant references to religious faith
and involvement in the Episcopal Church, particularly at the regional,
diocesan, and local levels.
The application deadline is January 16, 2017. For more information, visit www.vts.edu/aaehc or email AskAAEHC@vts.edu.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives
Fellowship Program
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Archives invites applications for its 2017 fellowship program. In 2017, 5-6
fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers,
graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC
Archives, either in New York or in Jerusalem. Topics in the fields of twentieth
century Jewish history, modern history, social welfare, migration, and
humanitarian assistance will be considered, as well as other areas of academic
research covered in the JDC archival collections (http://archives.jdc.org/).To
identify relevant materials, please visit http://archives.jdc.org/explore-the-archives/using-the-archives.html.
The fellowship awards are $2,500-$5,000.
Please visit
http://archives.jdc.org/about-us/fellowships.html to apply and for further
information.
Deadline for submission: Sunday, January 15, 2017.
Contact Email: archives@jdc.org
Predoctoral Fellowships in Women's History at the New-York
Historical Society
The two recipients of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Predoctoral Fellowship in Women's History should have a strong interest in the
fields of women’s history and public history. They must be currently enrolled
students in good standing in a relevant PhD program in the humanities. The
Predoctoral Fellows will be in residence part time at the New-York Historical
Society's new Center for Women's History, opening March 2017. The positions run
for one academic year, between September 1, 2017 and June 29, 2018, with a
stipend of $15,000 per year.
Application deadline: January 6, 2017
Contact Email:
fellowships@nyhistory.org
Don Kelly Research Collection Fellowship
The Texas A&M University Libraries/Cushing Memorial
Library and Archives and the College of Liberal Arts are proud to announce the
Don Kelly Research Collection Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. The
fellowship covers all aspects of LGBTQ Studies, from history through the visual
arts. Research topics can include, but are not limited to, the following areas,
relative to the LGBTQ communities: pulp fiction, literature, film, protest
movements, culture, art, popular literature, serials, international, Andy
Warhol, Beat Poets, artist books, race, and gender.
For inquiries, please contact Rebecca Hankins at
rhankins@library.tamu.edu or Dr. Francesca Marini at fmarini@library.tamu.edu.
WORKSHOPS
Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) summer 2017
institute
The New School for Social Research, June 11 - 17, 2017
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. In the current landscape in which most of
us work today, there is seldom the time or the opportunity for in-depth exploration
of those modes of inquiry most relevant to our research agendas and developing
projects. We are delighted to announce our 2017 Faculty: K. Anthony Appiah
(Professor of Philosophy and Law, NYU); David Harvey (Distinguished Professor
of Anthropology and Geography, CUNY); and Michael Taussig (Professor of
Anthropology, Columbia University).
Advanced doctoral students and faculty in the humanities and
social sciences are invited to apply to participate as Fellows. Applications
are due December 15, 2016.
Deleuze Studies Conference and Camp
The 10th International Deleuze Studies Conference and Camp,
Taking Flight, speaks to Deleuze and Guattari’s petition to leave bounded
territories and to connect and to create and to “establish a logic of the AND.”
This invitation for anomalous creations and diversifications across and beyond
disciplines ruptures genealogies, totalities, and unifications. It opens up
trajectories of odd, unforeseen–queer–manoeuvres in connection with other
disciplines, but also within Deleuze and Guattari’s own oeuvre. In taking
flight, this conference seeks to open up a set of cross-disciplinary questions,
exploring all those “wild creation[s]” and deterritorializations that emerge in
their encounter with Deleuze-Guattarian philosophy. This conference invites participants to queer
the texts of Deleuze and Guattari, to experiment with new and unusual readings
of their work.
The conference will take place from 19-21 June 2017.
The conference is preceded by a 5 day Deleuze Camp: a series
of intensive workshops and seminars led by leading scholars designed to explore
the intersections of Deleuze and LGBTQ* Studies/Queer Theory.
For information about abstract submission, please visit: https://deleuze2017.wordpress.com/
For inquiries, please contact: DeleuzeStudies2017@wlu.ca
Political Remittances and Political Transnationalism:
Narratives, Political Practices and the Role of the State
Workshop at the University of Oxford, 19-20 June 2017
This workshop seeks to gather an interdisciplinary group of
researchers undertaking innovative research on migrants’ political remittances
and political transnationalism. The question of how political ideas and
practices circulate between migrants and their home country has clearly gained
in relevance with the current increase in worldwide migration and requires
historically sound investigations.
This workshop will provide an open and constructive space to
share results from original empirical research, advance theoretical concepts on
political remittances and transnationalism and discuss methodological
challenges. We anticipate discussions about political remittances and i)
narrative and text analysis, ii) transnational political practices, iii) sense
of identity, iv) the role of the state and v) theoretical approaches. We also
plan a methodological roundtable on ways to study political remittances and
transnationalism. Contributions by political scientists, sociologists,
historians, linguists, and anthropologists are particularly welcome to enhance
comparisons and discussions across disciplines and regional areas.
Please apply with a paper abstract (max. 500 words) and a
short CV by 21 December 2016 addressed to felix.krawatzek@politics.ox.ac.uk and
lea.muller-funk@politics.ox.ac.uk.
RESOURCES
LGBTQ History in Government Documents
This guide was created to supplement a presentation given at
the 2016 Federal Depository Library Conference. That presentation, "We’re
Here, We’re Queer, and We’re in the Public Record: Federal Government Documents
on the LGBT Movement," highlighted a number of primary sources documenting
the U.S. federal government's stance on issues related to the LGBT movement
from the 1800s to the present day. These documents illustrate that, while our
society may not be fully inclusive of LGBT people, our government is much more
open than it was in the past.
This guide lists documents discussed in the presentation,
including links to those that are freely available online. The authors envision
this as a living guide and intend to update it as new relevant resources become
available.
U.C. Berkeley Oral History Center's New Podcast Series
In this historic year for women in politics, the Oral
History Center at U.C. Berkeley has initiated a new project to highlight the
rare and important interviews in our collection of women who, against
tremendous odds, broke through glass ceilings and forged their own path in the
political arena. Titled “From The Outside In: Women In Politics,” this six-part
podcast series charts the political advancement of women in the United States
from suffrage to today. The series is narrated by Emmy Award winning journalist
Belva Davis and can be accessed on SoundCloud and the Oral History Center
website http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/oral-history-center/podcast.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Summer Research Assistantships for Graduate Students
https://www.ushmm.org/research/competitive-academic-programs/fellows-and-scholars/summer-graduate-program
The Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies is pleased to invite applications for the Summer Graduate
Research Assistant Program, designed for students accepted to or currently
enrolled in a master’s degree program or in their first year of a PhD program.
Students who have completed more than one year of doctoral work will not be
considered.
The Mandel Center welcomes applications from students in all academic
disciplines, including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies,
psychology, sociology, geography, and others.
Applications and supporting materials are due by January 1, 2017.
questions: SGRA@ushmm.org
Allen-Berenson Postdoctoral Fellow in Sexuality
Studies
The Women’s,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Brandeis University invites
applications in the field of sexuality studies for its two-year Allen-Berenson
Postdoctoral Fellowship. We welcome candidates in the social sciences and
humanities whose research contributes to an intersectional and
interdisciplinary understanding of gender, race-ethnicity, class and sexuality.
Expertise in studies of violence, masculinity, and/or immigration would be
especially welcome.
The successful
candidate will teach one course each semester and participate in the scholarly
life of the faculty. We expect candidates can teach students the connections
between the most urgent issues confronting the world by employing gender, feminist
and other critical theories. In the second year the candidate will give a
public lecture. Candidates are expected to have completed the Ph.D by August
2017. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of your
scholarly work, and three letters of recommendation via
[https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/8409]. To be considered, applications
should be submitted by December 15, 2016.
