CONFERENCES
The Reuse of Film and
Photographic Images in Postcolonial Southeast Asia
This symposium will explore the ways in which colonial and
postcolonial film and photographic archives have been rearticulated within a
range of Southeast Asian political and aesthetic contexts. How have artists and
filmmakers sought to subvert existing power relations through the use of
colonial images? To what extent have archival materials and technologies
allowed for an investigation into the emancipatory potential of the lens? How
have these techniques been utilised by diasporic populations? Though preference
will be given to submissions which focus on Southeast Asia, we also welcome
papers that draw comparisons with other postcolonial contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 17th February 2017
Arts of the Present
October 26-28, 2017, University of California, Berkeley
ASAP/9 invites proposals from scholars and artists
addressing the contemporary arts in all their forms since the 1960s—literary,
visual, performing, musical, cinematic, design, and digital. We are interested
in work across disciplines and media that examine the formal, cultural, social,
and political dimensions of the arts today. Participants are encouraged to
think as broadly and imaginatively as possible about the intersections between
and among the contemporary arts and their institutions, economies, policies,
and traditions. Proposals may focus on individual artists, writers, designers,
composers, or performers; they may consider artistic movements, collectives,
and local scenes, including those online, or underground; they may discuss any
theoretical, intellectual, or aesthetic formation that figures in the world of
the arts as we know them now.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2017
Email: asap9berkeley@gmail.com
Converging
Narratives: Besieged and Transgressive Bodies
March 31 and April 1, 2017, Chicago, IL
The interdisciplinary graduate student conference,
“Converging Narratives: Besieged and Transgressive Bodies,” will focus on the
motif of the body, bodily experiences, and representations of the politicized
body in literature and visual arts. Regardless of how they are conceived – as
suffering flesh and psyche or embodied subjectivities and collectives – bodies
remain the locus and subjects of theory, action, affect, and art. In the
context of our technological age, it seems that bodies should be brought
together and yet fissures in this rapprochement are continuously revealed. This
affects considerations of how bodies of all types are represented, theorized,
studied, and transformed in a period of transition.
Deadline: Jan. 30
Contact Email:
heidis@uic.edu
Gendered Perspectives
of Everyday Violence: Persistence, Resistance,
and Healing
Florida Atlantic University, April 7th, 2017
We invite paper abstracts, complete panel, and roundtable
proposals on all work pertaining to women and gender issues. We especially
encourage those that engage the conference theme to discuss feminism in
relation to regional/national social movements and change.
Submissions are due February 20, 2017.
Please e-mail abstracts to Lauren Brown at FGSA.faufeminists@gmail.com
or any questions/requests for full CFP can be directed to Lauren Brown at
laurenbrown2015@fau.edu
Large-Scale Violence
and Its Aftermath
Kean University | June 25-29, 2017
Large-Scale Violence and Its Aftermaths is a Summer
Institute comprising a two-day conference focusing on the United States (June
25-26), followed by half-day working groups over three days on other societies
around the world for comparison (June 27-29). It 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.
deadline: Feb. 28
Contact Email:
kwhigham@kean.edu
Theorizing Harm
Boston, Massachusetts, August 30 – September 2, 2017
We ask how harm is re/defined by the systems it is part of.
In Mary Douglas’ theorization of pollution, she claims that, “where there is
dirt, there is system: […] a set of ordered relations and a contravention of
that order” (1988: 36). Harm is also a contravention of order. What
characterizes these orders and their infringement? How are definitions of harm
challenged and what is being challenged, exactly? How do different metrics,
modes of management, regimes of perceptibility, systems of power, and
accountability co-define harm? What are the spatialities and temporalities of
harm, and how do they co-construct harm? In short, what is harm and why? The
answers will depend on their cases, but we hold that despite differences, there
are unifying characteristics. We seek to explore these through a collection of
papers that explicitly theorize harm.
Submit an abstract of 250 words to Beza Merid
(merid@usc.edu) and Max Liboiron (mliboiron@mun.ca) by February 15th
Contact Email:
mliboiron@mun.ca
The Unbearable
Humanities
The 2017 Virginia Humanities Conference at Shenandoah
University invites proposals for papers, panel sessions, and performances that
investigate any aspect of unbearableness within the humanities. This conference
seeks to explore the concept of the unbearable—that which cannot be endured or
tolerated—with scholars, activists, and students from a wide variety of
disciplines and institutions.
Deadline for submission is February 15, 2017.
Contact Email:
vhc@su.edu
International
Graduate Historical Studies Conference
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.
In keeping with the theme of the conference, individual papers will be
organized into panels that cross spatial, temporal, and disciplinary
boundaries.
The final deadline for abstract submission is February 8,
2017
Contact Email:
histconf@cmich.edu
Visual Identities
The Center for the Arts & Religion at the Graduate
Theological Union in Berkeley, California invites submissions for a graduate
student conference on cross cultural interactions in the visual arts. The
papers can have a broad temporal and geographic span and can range from
antiquity to the present. Preference will be given to papers that deal with the
ways in which artists, patrons, and audiences communicate across theological
and denominational divides of different faith traditions. The conference will be
held on March 10, 2017.
The deadline for abstract submission is January 30, 2017
Contact Email:
rschroeder@psr.edu
Cross-Currents:
Finding Fluidity in Identity, Discipline, and Media
Saturday, April 8, 2017 Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Inspired by evolving definitions of the humanities, the
Duquesne University English Graduate Conference seeks papers from graduate and
upper-level undergraduate students on fluidity in identity, discipline, and
media. How does the rise of the digital humanities and interdisciplinarity
create new frameworks for defining, explaining, and challenging traditional
conceptions of discipline, text, and methodologies? How does fluidity between
binarisms in media, identity, and discipline enrich scholarship? We invite
submissions for panels, papers, posters, and other media presentations that
explore exchange across demarcations in all periods and disciplines and embody
academic fluidity.
Deadline: Feb. 1
Contact Email:
englishgo@duq.edu
Human Rights, Ethics
and Spirituality
The College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ, April 21st and 22nd, 2017
Human Rights and Democracy, Genocide, Gender Equality, Child
labor, Land and Human Rights, Human Rights in the World of Communism, Natural
Law and Natural Rights, The Holocaust, Domestic Violence, Forced Labor and
Trafficking, Targeted Killings and Drones, Morality and Spirituality, Ethical
Pluralism, Virtue Ethics, Categorical Imperative in Kant, Taoist Morality,
Comparative Ethics, Ethics in Hinduism, Buddhist Ethics, Rectification of Names
in Confucianism, Situational Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Ethics of Globalized
World, God and Absolute, Gnosticism and
Mysticism, Dialogues between Christianity and Buddhism, Dialogues between
Christianity and Judaism and Islam, Religious Pluralism, Nihilism Gender and
Spirituality, Feminist and Ecological Spirituality, Ecological Wisdom, Secular
Spirituality, Spiritual Naturalism, Spirituality in Post Modern world, Atheism,
etc.
Contact Email:
chandanachak@gmail.com
Housing Across
Borders: Mexican and U.S. Housing in Perspective
Mexican and U.S. housing markets are traditionally
understood to operate as discrete units, but as these recent crises highlight,
housing markets are intertwined with people and processes beyond local
geographies. We hold that the U.S. and Mexican housing sectors in particular
are connected by the movement of people, money, policies and ideas. Taking into
consideration their shared histories, we propose thinking about the U.S. and
Mexico together to extract lessons from looking at the experiences of both
countries against each other and as a provocation that can lead us to testing
our ideas about what housing and city mean.
This conference explores these connections by putting
practitioners and interdisciplinary scholars of the U.S. and Mexico into
conversation. To this end, the conference will be composed of: two traditional
panels in which scholars share their work in presentation form; two roundtable
discussions dealing with the panel themes; and one roundtable discussion among
planners, developers and practitioners from the San Diego-Tijuana region.
Papers need not deal directly with a comparison between Mexico and the U.S. The
potential for connections and comparisons will be drawn out in roundtables and
in informal discussions during the conference.
Submission Deadline: Feb. 9, 2017
Contact Email:
emilio1@uchicago.edu
Trauma &
Melodrama: Emotions in the Public Sphere
13th Annual Graduate Student Conference in the Department of
Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago
This conference invites varied accounts of how melodramatic
structures make trauma present—to a screen subject, a filmmaker, an audience,
or a national public. How do films and moving-image media deal with critical
issues of nationality, ethnicity, religion, politics, gender, mental health,
war, disease, displacement, and ecological crisis? How and why does emotion
become public in the world, on the screen, and in spectatorial contexts? How do
stylization and performance condition a person’s encounter with the traumatic event,
the camera, and the screen? In particular, how do moving-image media enlist,
transform, or presuppose melodrama as a condition of legibility or opacity?
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: January 30, 2017
Contact Email:
uchicago.cms.gradconf@gmail.com
Critical Juncture:
The Work of Art - Race/Gender/Sexuality/Disability
Critical Juncture is an international conference uniting
those who cross traditional boundaries of academic disciplines. Now in its
fourth year at Emory University, CJ offers an intersectional forum for graduate
students, professors, artists, and activists to present their work and to
advocate for social justice. CJ17: The Work of Art, will explore how art works
to defy, resist, and call attention to the particular injustices produced by
the social construction of Disability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality.
Abstract Deadline is February 3rd
Contact Email:
CriticalJunctureConference@gmail.com
From Abolition to
Black Lives Matter: Past and Present Forms of Transnational Black Resistance
October 26-28, 2017, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
Protests against racial discrimination, inequality, poverty,
and injustice not only pervade (North) American history but span the globe and
cross – oftentimes multiple – borders. Building on the recent transnational
turn in American Studies and de-centering American Studies’ focus on the nation
as the prime focus of analysis, this workshop invites papers that trace the
Atlantic routes/roots (Gilroy), the diasporic and global trajectories, as well
as the movement, circulation, and dissemination of past and present forms and
ideas of black resistance. The conference aims at discussing the transnational
dimension of various forms of resistance that are often embedded in larger
social movements such as the anti-slavery, the anti-lynching, the Civil Rights,
Black Power, Anti-Apartheid, the Global Justice, the Prison Abolition, or the
Black Lives Matter movements. Investigating the transatlantic significance of
these movements, this conference will also address how collective or individual
acts of resistance are articulated and represented in print, performance,
visual art, or other media.
Please send you paper proposal (max. 300 words) and a short
bio (150 words) by January 31, 2017 to sawallis@uni-mainz.de.
Contact Email:
sawallis@uni-mainz.de
Comics and Authorship
The comic, recently legitimized through the graphic novel
phenomenon while remaining anchored in popular culture, can provide unique
insights into issues surrounding authorship. Although comics scholarship has
explored autobiographical comics and the strategies for self-fashioning of
individual canonized comics artists and writers, the complex and mutating
concept of comic book authorship remains by and large overlooked. In this
special issue dedicated to comics, the open-access journal Authorship seeks to
specify the range and potential of the terrain covered by comics and authorship.
Please send articles (ca. 5000 words) to Maaheen Ahmed
(ahmedmaaheen@gmail.com) by 31 July 2017
Queer Citizenship and
Vulnerability: Beyond the Carnal, Against Criminalization and Towards Living—Well
This symposium seeks to explore the interdisciplinary
navigations of queer citizenship, of queer creative spaces, of queer protest
and praxis . How is queer citizenship a renegotiation or a normative
performance of both time and space? Can we embrace the queer child as the
futurity that Kathryn Bond Stockton and Paul Amar suggest? Does this child
require the visibility of the queer in the archive? Can the queer child be
regarded as the ideal citizen of the world, whose appearance defies the mythos
of trickster, nymphet and changeling? How does the contemporary and historical
criminalization of the queer and rendering of the deviant present a carnal
hermeneutic to be recuperated or resisted? What activisms can queer scholarship
and subjectivity embrace and require to live well. How can queer bodies be
regarded as sites that exceed time and space, as queer cartographies of
becoming? How does living well require an erotics of power that requires living
from and through, or against, the flesh?
deadline for submissions: February 5, 2017
FUNDING
James P. Danky Fellowship
In honor of James P. Danky’s long service to print culture
scholarship, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the History of
Print and Digital Culture, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical
Society, is again offering its annual short-term research fellowship.
The Danky Fellowship provides $1000 in funds for one
individual planning a trip to carry out research using the collections of the
Wisconsin Historical Society (please see details of the collections). Grant
money may be used for travel to the WHS, costs of copying pertinent archival
resources, and living expenses while pursuing research here.
Applications are due May 1.
email: printculture@slis.wisc.edu
Residence Grant at
the Center for Urban History
The program includes five one-month residence grants for
young researchers, working on their PhD thesis or preparing them for
publishing, and five two-week residence grants for advanced researchers. The
Center offers place for research, shares access to its library resources, urban
media arсhive, researches, academic contacts and provides an opportunity to
present and discuss the preliminary results of the grantee’s project at the
Center’s Urban seminar or public lectures.
deadline: March 19, 2017
Contact Email:
grants@lvivcenter.org
Gest Research
Fellowships at Haverford College
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections invites
applications for the Gest Fellowship, which supports one month of research in
Haverford's unique collections. These collections include important resources
related to the early history of the Mid-Atlantic region, particularly in the
areas of setter-Native American relations, the abolition movement, and Quaker
faith and practice.
All projects should include religion as a focus; in the
spirit of Margaret Gest's vision, projects should be interdisciplinary and
cross-cultural. Projects engaging with any religion, religious community, or
historical religious practices will be considered. We hope that materials
created through these fellowships advance scholarship and engage with our
collections in unique and creative ways. Fellowships are open to scholars at
any stage in their careers.
Deadline: Feb. 6
Contact Email:
shorowitz@haverford.edu
Tel Aviv University,
Dan David Post-Doctoral Fellowship
The Dan David Foundation Fund for Excellence in Historical
Research at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University,
Israel, will award one post-doctoral fellowship to host a non-Israeli whose
research focuses on women’s history or gender and history.
The one-year fellowships of $30,000 will be awarded for the
2017-2018 academic year. The fellow will
conduct his/her research under the supervision of a senior faculty member from the
School of History at Tel Aviv University (subject to the terms of the
Fund). The fellow will engage in
research connected with his or her area of research and writing. He or she will be expected to reside in the
Tel Aviv area.
Candidates must submit their applications via Email:
schoolofhist@post.tau.ac.il by March, 1,
2017 to the Academic Committee
Libraries Special
Collections Fellowships
The University of Buffalo Humanities Institute, in
collaboration with the UB Libraries, is offering two fellowships – the James
Joyce Fellowship and the Charles D. Abbott Library Fellowship – for visiting
scholars and graduate students working on their dissertations to use the UB
Libraries’ outstanding special collections, which include the Poetry
Collection, University Archives, Rare Books, the Music Library, the Polish
Collection, and the History of Medicine Collection.
The deadline for applications for the 2017/2018 academic
year is January 31, 2017.
email: huminst@buffalo.edu
PUBLISHING
AlterNative Calls for
Papers for 2017
AlterNative is a multidisciplinary, internationally
peer-reviewed journal published continually online as well as in quarterly
print issues. AlterNative presents scholarly research on Indigenous worldviews
and experiences of decolonization from Indigenous perspectives from around the
world.
Articles should range between 5,000 and 7,000 words,
including title, abstract, keywords and references. AlterNative also publishes
short and timely commentaries on critical issues concerning Indigenous peoples.
Commentaries should be between 3,000 and 4,000 words long, including
references, abstract, and keywords. A sample article, sample commentary and
author guidelines, including format and referencing styles, can be found on the
Author Information page on the AlterNative website: http://www.alternative.ac.nz/content/information-authors.
Contact Email:
editors@alternative.ac.nz
The Philosophy of
Forgiveness
Vernon Press invites short book chapter proposals for Volume
III of The Philosophy of Forgiveness series, which will focus on forgiveness in
world religions. Submissions are welcome from any discipline as long as the
chapter contains a clear philosophical approach or component (ethics,
epistemology, metaphysics, etc.). Submissions can be on related issues like
anger, justice, and punishment as long as the topic is appropriately related to
forgiveness.
Abstract due: March 31, 2017
Contact Email:
forgivenessphilosophy@gmail.com
Women's Movements and
the State
We encourage interdisciplinary approaches that deal with
issues of equality, gendered state-building, state violence, and citizenship,
encounters to state power, progress/failures of women's movements, and other
similarly related topics. How do women's movements deal with the state? How do
they negotiate, contest and/or reinforce state structures and agendas? How have
relationships between women's movements and the state and other power
structures changed over time? What impact do women's movements have on state
building? How do women mobilize within and outside existing state structures?
Are women's movements disappearing, or are women's issues simply replaced or
coopted by other interest groups? Do we still need women's movements today?
Please submit your paper (6000 to 10,000 words) in MS Word
format to Susanne.Kranz@zu.ac.ae by March 31, 2017.
Comics and Authorship
The comic, recently legitimized through the graphic novel
phenomenon while remaining anchored in popular culture, can provide unique
insights into issues surrounding authorship. Although comics scholarship has
explored autobiographical comics and the strategies for self-fashioning of
individual canonized comics artists and writers, the complex and protean
concept of comic book authorship remains by and large overlooked. Analyses of
the changing notions of authorship, their contextualization and implications -
aesthetic, political, economic - across different comics genres and formats can
provide answers to key questions. In this special issue dedicated to comics,
the open-access journal Authorship seeks to specify the range and potential of
the terrain covered by comics and authorship.
Please send articles (ca. 5000 words) to Maaheen Ahmed
(ahmedmaaheen@gmail.com) by 31 July 2017.
Food, Words, and
Stories
The first 2017 issue of the academic journal Meridian Critic
invites scholarly articles that explore the universe of food, gastronomy and
cuisine depicted by words, images and texts. Both food and the lack of food
determine the course of human actions and define man’s inner structure. Our
food preferences manifest themselves through numerous consumption practices
that are rooted in cultural beliefs and traditions specific to certain times
and geographic areas. As a culinary strategy, the consumption of food
constantly reorganizes man’s symbolic universe and constructs identities.
Besides the numerous identity markers accompanying our consumption decisions,
our food choices often trigger numerous interpretations that may range from
patriotic statements to forms of social protest. Food consumption may be looked at from a
variety of angles proposed by literature, language and cultural studies.
Deadline for article submission: April 15th, 2017
Contact Email:
evelina.graur@usv.ro
Inter-disciplinary
Political Studies
The free flow of ideas is crucial to ensure the advancement
of knowledge. Recent events, quite different in nature and coming from various
parts of the world, have displayed the extent to which higher education
communities and facilities are under attack. The quality and accessibility of
academic work and instruction are being challenged at different latitudes: they
are threatened by social and political instability of conflict and
post-conflict zones as well as endangered, or at least conditioned, by emerging
legislation on counter-terrorism and counter-radicalization. To a lesser
extent, several contemporary trends in the politics and policy of higher
education are questioning the scholar’s freedom to choose topics and methods of
investigation also in established democracies. Reforms inspired by the new
public management approach, whose intended aim is to promote public
accountability of state funded institutions, are often blamed to have
discouraged or punished the adoption of unconventional approaches and
perspectives.
We welcome conceptual/theoretical as well as empirical
papers, addressing the topic through comparative lenses or single case studies,
using quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Submission of long abstracts (about 1,000 words): 28
February 2017
Contact Email:
editors.idps@gmail.com
The Philosophy of
Forgiveness, Volume III
Vernon Press invites short book chapter proposals for Volume
III of The Philosophy of Forgiveness series, which will focus on forgiveness in
world religions. Submissions are welcome from any discipline as long as the
chapter contains a clear philosophical approach or component (ethics,
epistemology, metaphysics, etc.). Submissions can be on related issues like
anger, justice, and punishment as long as the topic is appropriately related to
forgiveness.
Abstract due: March 31, 2017
Contact Email:
forgivenessphilosophy@gmail.com
Textshop Experiments
-- Call for Papers -- Open Issue
Textshop Experiments is an open access journal that aims to
extend the work of Greg Ulmer and to foster experimental works that invent,
operate in, or analyze the apparatus of Electracy. We welcome innovative and hybrid works in new
media and original scholarship on reading and writing, rhetoric, and culture. The
editors of Textshop Experiments invite submissions via essays and video essays,
reviews, conference reports, and multimodal projects for its forthcoming Open
Issue to be published in May 2017.
The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2017.
Contact Email:
ulmertextshop@gmail.com
Social Media and
Digital Journalism
Vernon Press invites book proposals on the theme of “Social
Media and Digital Journalism” for our book series in Communication and
Journalism. The emergence of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
Reddit and YouTube has had an impact not only in shaping people’s social
habits, but also for communication and journalists’ working practices.
Interactive technologies serve as new platforms for promotion and announcements
and also as new sources for news, leads and contacts, upsetting established
professional practices, inviting controversy and opening up new areas of
academic inquiry.
Speculative Visions
For its twenty-seventh issue, InVisible Culture: An
Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative
works that address the complex and multiple meanings of speculative visions.
For Issue 27, we would like contributors to consider a range of questions
produced by both historical and contemporary science fiction, fantasy, and
horror across all visual media. How are objects transcribed and/or adapted from
one medium to another? How do the limitations and possibilities of a medium
structure works? How have these genres endured over time beyond their originary
forms? How have technological advances altered the literalization of these
imagined worlds? We welcome papers and artworks that further the various
understandings of speculative visions.
Creative works, reviews, and submissions to the journal’s
blog are also welcome.
Please send completed papers (with references following the
guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words
to ivc.rochester@gmail.com by March 1, 2017. Inquiries should be sent to the
same address.
New Encounters
Between Philosophy and Literature II
"This Special Issue plans to continue and develop the
theme of “New Encounters Between Philosophy and Literature.” The first Special
Issue on this topic brought together ten essays, ranging from texts examining
this topic in Ancient Chinese thought to essays on Benjamin, Fanon, empire,
metaphor, avant-garde poetry, and even The Hunger Games. Although it can be
argued that the tension between philosophy and literature is intrinsically
Western--pace Plato, who mentions the then already “old” quarrel between
philosophy and poetry—it nonetheless provides a productive frame for
questioning such fundamental terms as ”experience,” “reality,” “truth,” and
their different articulations in diverse traditions..."
The manuscript delivery deadline is 1 November 2017.
Tropical Liminal:
Urban Vampires
The vampire and other monstrous beings constitute some of
the most famous myths that continue to haunt contemporary society. This special
issue examines the presence of these beings within cities of the tropics and
sub-tropics – from New Orleans in the deep south of America to Singapore in
South East Asia – and examples from cities of the Caribbean, Latin America,
African, the Pacific and tropical Asia.
Submissions close 1 February 2017
Contact Email:
etropic@jcu.edu.au
Trans-Humanities
- Call for general submissions
Trans-Humanities is an academic journal envisioning a new
horizon for the humanities. The journal is published by the Ewha Institute for
the Humanities (EIH) which has pursued the Humanities Korea (HK) Project since
2007 with its agenda “Trans-Humanities: Reimagining and Reconstructing the
Human Sciences.” Trans-Humanities aims to transcend the limits of the existing
humanities studies as rigid disciplinary research and offer instead an arena
for discussion to generate new humanities discourses that can respond to the
age of trans-boundary culture by supporting researches with interdisciplinary,
convergent, and practical implications.
Email: trans@ewha.ac.kr;
Website: http://eih.ewha.ac.kr
Journal of
Working-Class Studies
The Journal of Working-Class Studies is an online,
open-access peer reviewed journal that supports diverse explorations of
working-class life. It is the journal of the Working-Class Studies Association.
The Working-Class Studies Association aims to develop and promote multiple
forms of scholarship, teaching, and activism related to working-class life and
cultures. We invite submissions that contribute significant knowledge to our
understanding of who the global working class(es) are and have been, as well as
what it means to ‘study’ class, conceptually and as a socio-economic reality.
We especially encourage work that explores how class intersects with other
vectors of identity and experience, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality,
ability, and citizenship status.
blog of the Journal
of the History of Ideas,
JHIBlog welcomes contributions from anyone working in the
field of intellectual history ecumenically conceived. Like our parent journal,
we are committed to encouraging diversity in regional coverage, chronological range,
and methodological approaches. The blog editors seek well-researched short
essays (600-1,500 words) in English that present new research, comment on
scholarly happenings and controversies, and review conferences, events, and
groups of recent publications. We welcome brief proposals from new contributors
via email: blogjhi@gmail.com
URL: https://jhiblog.org/
Making Kin, Part 2
In her essay “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene,
Chthulucene:
Making Kin,” Donna Haraway urges us to revision “kin” and
“kinship” in such a way as to include non-blood relations and nonhumans. “We
need to make kin sym-chthonically, sym-poetically. Who and whatever we are,
we need to make-with—become-with,
compose-with—the earthbound…My purpose is to make kin mean something other/more
than entities tied by ancestry or genealogy.” Issue #5 (like Issue #4) of /Dark
Matter/ will center on writing and artwork that offer ways to embody and/or
enact an expanded vision of kin/kinship. Deadline: March 3, 2017.
Feminist Food
Studies: Exploring Intersectionality
Feminist Food Studies: Exploring Intersectionality aims to
pull together current scholarship that engages with intersectionality, as
theoretical approach, epistemology, methodology, or method, in the emergent
area of feminist food studies. We seek to address questions such as: how might
a feminist, intersectional framework enhance, enliven, and advance food
studies? How might feminist intersectionality inform the movement for food
justice in ways that bring to light the complexities of doing this work
locally, nationally, and internationally?
Feminist Food Studies: Exploring Intersectionality, will
feature papers that highlight current empirical research and feminist
theorizing using an intersectional lens in the emergent area of feminist food
studies. The Edited Collection will be international in scope and thus, we
welcome a range of papers that examine food and intersectionality in all its
complexity, broadly represented through the thematic areas of the
socio–‐cultural, the material and the embodied or corporeal domains.
Deadline for proposals: February 28, 2017
Please submit abstracts to: feministfoodstudies@gmail.com
The Contemporary
The Dandelion editors seek submissions on the theme of THE
CONTEMPORARY for their forthcoming issue.
We seek submissions that address how the social, political
and aesthetic dilemmas that characterize our present are made manifest in the
twenty-first century’s cultural production. For instance, if the contemporary
is the cultural logic of neoliberal capitalism made tangible, then how can its
‘common sense’ be registered, revised, or resisted? Is the contemporary
experienced similarly across the globe, or are its pressure points, modes and
sites of dissent different depending on their location? How might we pull on
the emergency brake?
The journal invites submissions from postgraduate students
and early career scholars that address the theme of the contemporary across the
spectrum of Arts and Humanities research.
Please send all completed submissions to mail@dandelionjournal.org
by 6th February 2017.
Cosmopolitanisms,
Race, and Ethnicity
The collection of essays Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and
Ethnicity focuses on the intersection of race, ethnicity, and cosmopolitanism
as conceptualized in contemporary theory and race and ethnicity studies in the
U.S. If the notions of race and ethnicity have been interrogated and discussed
by numerous scholars, it is only recently that the critical gaze has been
turned in the direction of cosmopolitanism. The book will investigate how
contemporary scholars of ethnic and postcolonial studies theorize
cosmopolitanism in the U.S. in an attempt to see it as a notion that could
provide a platform for transcultural human communication and transnational
human solidarity.
Please send complete papers to e.b.luczak@uw.edu.pl or
a.pochmara@uw.edu.pl by July 30, 2017.
Contact Email: e.b.luczak@uw.edu.pl
Contributions to
Gender Studies Reader
I am seeking chapter proposals for an edited reader in
social studies of gender marketed to upper-division students.
Proposals should include 1. a description of the topic of
the chapter; 2. an outline of how the chapter will address the existing
debates, pedagogical problems, and key concepts and standards of measurement of
the topic; and 3. a comment on how the chapter would push or provoke conceptual
constructs in the sociology of gender (e.g., two-sex system, inequality,
cultural identities).
Contact Email: c-wood@northwestern.edu
Humanities and
Religion
Our newspapers, televisions, and social media feeds are
filled daily with stories that involve some aspect of religion and religious
belief. Religious literacy, however, seems sorely lacking at a time when
informed dialog is critical. This issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities invites
papers that consider the role of religion and religious belief within the
Humanities and the public sphere.
Submissions might look at the role of religion and religious
beliefs in constructing identities of gender and sexuality, in shaping public
discourse around political issues, or in informing the creation of new
mythologies in the gaming industry. Examinations of specific religions and
their relationships to topics within the Humanities are also welcome.
Submission and questions should be directed to Dr. Ann Horak abhorak@utep.edu.
History and News in
Hypermedia Space: Global Case Studies
This special issue of The Communication Review will address
issues relating to hypermedia in the production of history and news in
political conflict. Of particular interest is how digital media products and
activities may be testing the boundaries—or exploiting the changes—in popular
conceptions of “news” and “primary source” information. Contributing papers
will address questions related to hypermedia in the production of news reports,
historical narratives, and outcomes in domestic, national, and international
conflict. Of particular interest is how hypermedia products and transactions
may be testing the boundaries-- or exploiting the changes—in traditional
standards of “news” and “primary" evidence.
Contact Email: blout@american.edu
Photography and the
Histories of Working Peoples and Laboring Lives
This issue of Radical
History Review 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.
Abstract Deadline: February 1, 2017
Contact Email:
contactrhr@gmail.com
2017 Northeast
Popular/American Culture Conference
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
announces its first call for paper proposals for its annual conference. The
2017 conference will be held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts
Amherst the weekend of October 27-28, 2017. NEPCA is soliciting proposals
dealing with all aspects of popular culture and American culture, broadly
construed. NEPCA conferences welcome graduate students, junior faculty,
independent researchers, and senior faculty as equals. NEPCA prides itself on
offering intimate and nurturing sessions in which new ideas and
works-in-progress can be aired, as well as completed projects. NEPCA is
dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons, open engagement, and constructive
criticism.
The deadline for applications is June 1, 2017.
Contact Email:
weir.r@comcast.net
Contemporary
Approaches to Political Participation
For a sound and working democratic system, citizen
engagement in politics is of utmost importance. Especially in today’s world
where international politics are interrupted by populist political elites and
authoritarian governments, civic engagement functions as an essential element
of check and balance mechanism in the overall political system. As the
opportunities for political participation increase, participation means and
channels diversify every day.
In this context, political participation research in modern
world is very promising in terms of understanding contemporary debates and key
concepts of political participation. In order to contribute to the scholarship
on political participation with up to date studies, Political Communication Institute
will publish edited volume on the issue in 2017. The volume will be
peer-reviewed and English in full. We welcome papers focusing on various
aspects of the phenomenon of political participation and related subjects.
All abstracts must be submitted latest by March 10th, 2017
via email to Adinda Khaerani (adinda@tasam.org)
The Intimate State:
Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern U.S. History
We are soliciting original history essays—archive-based
research on specific topics, as well as conceptual essays addressing more
abstract questions—regarding gender, sexuality and the state for a new edited
volume. We seek to bring twenty-five years of scholarship on gender, sexuality,
and the family to bear on the history of modern state authority in the United
States (1865 to the present). While the volume will reach back to the
Reconstruction era and value this history as such, we also hope to point toward
a usable past in an uncertain present. These collected essays will aim to
demonstrate that the involvements of government authority in intimate life
warrant greater historical analysis and theorization than they have generated
to date.
Please send an abstract of no more than 750 words, including
references to major sources for the research if archive-based, to Margot
Canaday (mcanaday@princeton.edu), Nancy Cott (ncott@fas.harvard.edu), and
Robert Self (robert_self@brown.edu) by April 10, 2017, along with a one-page
CV.
special edition
'Animal Intersections'
Animal Studies Journal is seeking submissions from scholars
and creative practitioners for a special edition focusing on the themes of the
forthcoming Australasian Animal Studies Association conference ‘Animal
Intersections’ at the University of Adelaide 3-5 July, 2017:
http://animalstudies.org.au/conferences
The journal is interested in papers which address the fractures,
tensions and layers of intersection across human-animal relations, and in
particular for the lives of non-human animals. Papers might engage with the
practices and methods associated with theories of intersectionality in order to
enrich the study of non-human animal lives and their interface with human
society.
Submission of articles: http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/submit.cgi?context=asj
Submissions are due no later than 31 July, 2017
For further information please contact either: Melissa
Boyde: boyde@uow.edu.au
or Michael Griffiths: mickg@uow.edu.au
Approaches to
Teaching the Work of Edwidge Danticat
The goal of this book is to provide a pedagogical approach
to teach Edwidge Danticat’s collection of works. The project has a twofold
objective. First, it will explore diasporic categories and postcolonial themes
such as gender constructs, cultural nationalism, cultural and communal
identity, problems of location and (dis) location, religious otherness, and the
interplay between history and memory. Secondly, the book will investigate
Danticat’s human rights activism, the immigrant experience, the relationship
between the particular and the universal, and the violence of hegemony and
imperialism in relationship with society, family, and community. We envision
this book to be interdisciplinary and used in undergraduate and graduate
courses. We are particularly interested in the teaching of her major works.
If you would like to contribute a book chapter to this
important project, along with a brief bio, please submit a 300 word abstract by
Tuesday, January 31, 2017, to Celucien Joseph @ celucienjoseph@gmail.com,
Suchismita Banerjee @ banerjeesuchi@gmail.com, and Danny Hoey @
dannyhoeyauthor@gmail.com
Deadline: Tuesday, January 31, 2017
CFP: Toxic Fan
Practices
Contributions are welcome on a variety of topics that
investigate the concept of toxic fan practices and methodological issues
arising such as:
* Online methodologies/ netnographies of
particular fan communities and social media platforms
* Specific case studies of toxic fan cultures
(e.g. Star Trek fans’ responses to gay Sulu or Marvel fans’ reactions to female
Thor)
* Criticism of toxic fans from within fandoms,
intra-fandom conflicts (e.g. Game of Thrones fans condemning and celebrating
scenes of rape)
* Widescale protests and boycotts on social
media (such as #boycottstarwars or #buryyourgays)
* Criticisms of representations of race,
gender, sexuality, etc., in fan cultures
Please send 300 word abstracts to both editors by March 1,
2017: Bridget Kies, bkies@uwm.edu and
William Proctor, bproctor@bournemouth.ac.uk
WORKSHOPS
Trans-Asian
Indigeneity/ Summer Institute
Penn State University invites applicants for its annual
Asian Studies Summer Institute, to be held June 18-24, 2017.
We invite applications from the Humanities, Arts and
Sciences—anthropology, environmental studies, history, political ecology,
geography, art and literature—that examine “Indigeneity” as a protean concept
and lived reality in Asia, Asian America, and Asian diasporic communities
across the globe. We are especially
interested in attending to the concept’s travels between Asian and western
settler societies, or those following the movement’s historical concurrence
with the rise of neoliberal political economy and the onset of massive
anthropogenic environmental change.
Deadline: March 17, 2017
email: verge@psu.edu
Decolonizing
Communicative Praxis with ‘Words that Remake Life’
In this two-part workspace, a collective of
transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary scholars will come together to
deliberate on and practice new modes of communicative praxis in academic
conference/workshops. We will come together to reflect on our collective
experiences of decolonization as critical practice in academic work(shop)spaces
and to think through and implement novel forms of communicative praxis. We seek
to foster meaningful conversations across paradigms and between traditions of
knowledge that ‘politicize and amplify’
knowledge(s). We seek to create space for (a) reclamation projects that
continue to re-define as well as (b) critiques of pervasive forms of “epistemicide;”
those forced destructions of ways of knowing as well as intellectual property
thefts, cognitive and epistemic marginalization(s), and cultural
misappropriations.
Deadline: Feb. 15
Contact Email: ambermurrey-ndewa@live.com
Gender, The State,
and the 1977 International Women's Year Conference
University of Houston-main campus June 12-18, 2017
This NEH Summer Seminar is designed to engage and equip
educators with fresh scholarship, classroom resources, and pedagogy addressing
U.S. politics, economics, and culture from the 1970s to the late twentieth
century. The National Women’s Conference
will be our entry point into broader thematic discussions addressing topics
including the changing workplace and family, political realignment, identity politics,
religious revival, Cold War tensions, social movement organizing,
deindustrialization, and globalization.
In this fast-paced week, we will join in participant driven discussions,
visit local archives and historic sites, and develop curriculum for a variety
of classroom settings. While the history
of this period will be featured and debated, we welcome participants from a
variety of disciplines and teaching backgrounds.
Deadline: March 1
Contact Email:
nyoung@central.uh.edu
York Summer Theory
Institute in Art History
May 22 – 26, 201
The 2017 YSTI investigates the relationships between
visuality, or historically and culturally specific ways of seeing, and
virtuality – the creation of objects and spaces that extend, augment or
transform the ordinary furniture of the visual world, including such notable
technologies as painterly illusion (trompe l’oeil), pictorial perspective,
‘virtuality reality games’ and ‘real-time simulations’.
To apply e-mail hazel.richards@york.ac.uk with a short
statement (max 250 words) setting out how you envisage your attendance
contributing to your research by Friday 14th April 2017.
Islam in Asia:
Traditions and Transformations
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/156053/islam-asia-traditions-and-transformations
This multidisciplinary NEH-supported summer institute will
offer four weeks of context-rich and critical engagement with Islamic
traditions, examining their origins and how they have shaped and been shaped by
the cultures and societies of South and Southeast Asia. The first three weeks
of the program will consider how Islam historically addressed both personal and
social needs in ways that were inseparable from the dynamics of intellectual
exchange, artistic production, social organization and politics. The final week
will examine the complex interplay of Islam and globalization in the context of
contemporary Asia. Participants will receive a stipend of $3300 to help defray
costs.
Application deadline: March 1, 2017
Contact Email:
hershocp@eastwestcenter.org
Knowledge in Flight:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Scholar Rescue in North America
Workshop at The New School for Social Research, New York
City, December, 2017
The German Historical Institute, The Leo Baeck Institute and
The New School for Social Research are organizing a workshop on the movement of
scholars from perilous and intellectually-oppressive political situations to
new environments that have allowed them to continue their work or even thrive
in their chosen discipline. The purpose of the Knowledge in Flight Workshop is
to understand the history and contemporary relevance of “scholar rescue”. The
Workshop will explore the topic from a variety of perspectives, including
historical, institutional, financial, geopolitical, and cultural. The Workshop
will also consider a better understanding of the history of scholar rescue and
shed light on today’s refugee crisis.
Please send a short abstract of no more than one page and a
brief c.v. by February 1st, 2017, to Susanne Fabricius at fabricius@ghi-dc.org.
Women and Development
in the Global South
Under a program supported by the Vera R. Campbell
Foundation, SAR invites proposals for an Advanced Seminar that focuses on the
circumstances of women in the developing world and offers paths to concrete,
practical strategies for improving their health, prosperity, and general
well-being. Several of the seminar participants must be women scholars or
scholars/practitioners from the developing world since one of the goals of the
seminar is to foster professional linkages and the sharing of relevant
experiences. Proposals may address global problems or focus on specific
regional questions. Above all, the participants should be committed to
producing practical improvements in the lives of women and workable proposals
likely to achieve that end. Seminars focused on broad policy issues will be
judged according to whether practical implementation measures are included in
the discussion.
The deadline for applications is March 15, 2017.
For questions, please call (505) 954-7201 or email:
seminar[at]sarsf.org
Black Activist New
York
The Columbia University Institute for Research in
African-American Studies (IRAAS) is now accepting applications for its 2017
Summer Teachers and Scholars Institute (STSI). Convening for one week between
Monday July 10 and Friday July 14, 2017.
This year’s lecturers and presenters will include Samuel K. Roberts (STSI
Director),Zaheer Ali, Afua Atta-Mensah, Dante Barry, Ansley Erickson, Crystal
Feimster, Steven Fullwood, Rujeko Hockley, and Minkah Mikalani.
The fee for the STSI is $1,800 and a limited number of
partial fellowships are available.
Deadline: April 2
Please go to
www.columbiastsi.com for more information or contact us at stsi@columbia.edu.
Contact Email: zl2432@columbia.edu
Berlin Program Summer
Workshop
Contention over moments of ‘continuity’ and ‘rupture’ have
fundamentally shaped scholarly debates not only in German Studies but also in a
range of other national historiographies and fields of inquiry. Establishing
narratives of developments have made these concepts indispensable to scholarly
analysis. In history, for example, both terms have proven essential given the
need for periodization. At the same time, they have also often proved
problematic in capturing both complex interactions of ‘strands’ of continuity
and rupture and processes of more evolutionary change. This workshop seeks to
advance critical reflection on these concepts, their usefulness and potential
limits as narrative devices in a broad array of disciplines that intersect with
German Studies, including Anthropology, Art History, Film Studies, Gender
Studies, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology.
Please submit a 250-word abstract and a two-page CV by
February 15, 2017 to bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Contact Email:
bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Histories of
Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives
The Bucerius Young Scholars Forum is a new annual program
designed to bring together a small transatlantic group of ten junior scholars
from Germany, Europe and North America to explore new research and questions in
the history of migration with a particular focus on questions arising from
interlacing the perspectives of migration and knowledge, as these are extremely
thorough and open to current debates. The forum is connected to the Annual
Bucerius Lecture on “Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global
Perspectives”, given and commented on by two prominent figures in the field of
migration studies. Planing with precirculated papers, in the course of two
days, the participants will give short presentations of their individual research projects and -
together with their mentors and peers - engage in discussions on the state of
the research field.
While the focus of the forum will be on historic discourses,
we also want to encourage young scholars working in the fields of social
sciences, political sciences, anthropology, migration and area studies to
apply. The workshop language will be English. The organizers will cover basic
expenses for travel and accommodation. Please send short proposals (750 words
max.) and a one-page CV to Dr. Sarah Beringer (beringer@ghi-dc.org) by February
15, 2017. Successful applicants will be notified by late April 2017.
Archival Summer School in the United States for Historians
The German Historical Institute of Washington is now accepting applicants for an archival training summer school in the United States for doctoral students from Germany and the United States from July 24 to August 2, 2017.
This ten-day summer school prepares Ph.D. students working in various fields of history for their prospective research trips and teaches them practical research skills. Participants will learn how to contact archives, use finding aids, identify important reference tools, and become acquainted with various American research facilities in multiple cities, among them the National Archives and the Library of Congress in Washington and the Newberry Library in Chicago. They will gain insight into how historical sources – both traditional and digital – are acquired, preserved, and made accessible to historians. In addition, they will have the opportunity to connect with their peers, to meet a number of prominent scholars, and to discuss their research with them.
Deadline: January 31
Contact Email: pertilla@ghi-dc.org
RESOURCES
"What Justice
Wants!" Critical Ethnic Studies Journal Special issue (2.2) is available!
In this issue by new editors Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang,
authors reveal salient points of convergence and divergence across different
traditions of conceptualizing justice and social change.
Access the issue’s introduction: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55807861e4b0847ced606181/t/583e3ed8f7e0ab6135358558/1480474329625/CES2.2+Tuck+and+Yang+What+Justice+Wants.pdf
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