CONFERENCES
Guilty Pleasures and
Confessional Spaces: Storytelling and the Digital Dionysus
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, March 31 – April 1,
2017
This conference seeks to interrogate the implicit and
explicit relationships between the crimes we commit, the structures we violate,
and the stories we tell. Specifically, we intend to investigate the notion of
space—both imaginary and concretely defined—and the role it plays in shaping
contemporary discourses of pleasure and punishment. Additionally, this
conference will engage with these discourses in the age of information. How
does this liminal space—an online bacchanalia of obscured identities, open
transgression of social and cultural norms, and hidden impulses writ large—function
as a construct that facilitates unique and revolutionary means of seeing and
communicating on a global level?
Please send a 500 word abstract along with a brief
biographical statement, in a separate document, to csconference.unm@gmail.com
by January 27, 2017.
Contact Email:
jwilby@unm.edu
Defining Agency,
Performing Power
March 25-26th, 2017 -- University of Pittsburgh
Issues such as the refugee crisis, relations between EU
member and non-member states, and ongoing tensions related to political,
economic, and social instability represent sources of division in Eastern
Europe and Central Asia. These issues have encouraged new discussions not only
of the definition - and redefinition - of geopolitical and physical borders,
but also cultural, social, ethnic, linguistic, and religious divides. This
year’s conference centers on topics of agency and power in the expression of
physical and symbolic borders.
Deadline: Monday, January 23rd
Email: info.goseca@gmail.com
American Ethnological
Society Annual Spring Meeting 2017
Stanford University, March 30-April 1, 2017
We look forward to seeing you at AES 2017 this coming
spring. Pondering an idea or a nasty notion that you’d like to showcase? Some
folks you’d like to bring together for a panel or a roundtable? We’ve got a
terrific lineup of keynote speakers—Didier Fassin, Deborah Thomas, and Hugh
Gusterson—as well as attractive below-market rates for accommodations. Graduate
student presentations are warmly welcomed! More information can be found at http://aesonline.org/meetings/spring-conference/
Deadline: January 20
Contact Jianghong An at aesconf2017@gmail.com
International
Conference on Food Culture
Food is something we all consumer every day; however, food
is more than that. Food is also a sign of distinctive culture and religious
observance, as well as sign of a lifestyle and cultural identity. For example,
kosher food for religious Jews or halal food for religious Muslims represents a
sign of their religiosity and religious identity. In addition, food is cultural
for different countries eat different food and food has thus become a part of
cultural diplomacy. Therefore, in more multicultural societies of the West
Chinese, Indian, Pakistani and other world foods became part of everyday lives
of the people who may not know much about the country the food is coming from
nor they have ever visited that country, but they do like the food and thus
learn about the country and its customs.
Submissions of abstracts (up to 500 words) with an email
contact should be sent to Dr Martina Topić
(martina@socialsciencesandhumanities.com) by 15 February 2017 to
martina@socialsciencesandhumanities.com or abstracts can be submitted via
conference website.
Female Leadership in
Academia
We aim to address this gap and promote female leadership in
academia, but we also wish to emphasize specifically feminist leadership as a
means to address feminist issues in academia, such as social justice,
inclusivity, diversity, and intersectionality. Inspired by the most recent
Coalitional Feminism in Action panel from the 2016 Women in German annual meeting,
which focused on the WiG Herstory project, our panel endeavors to continue and
initiate conversations about the value of institutional memory and the
continuities fostered through sustained dialogue in order to improve leadership
practices of current and future academic leaders.
For this interactive and collaborative panel, we invite
short contributions of approximately 8-10 minutes that address different kinds
of leadership in academia, from mentoring of and by graduate students and
junior and mid-career level faculty, to more formally-recognized leadership
positions at higher levels.
Interested contributors should send abstracts of 200 words
or fewer along with a short CV to Elisabeth Krimmer and Melissa Sheedy by March
1st, 2017.
Feminisms and
Rhetorics 2017
The Department of English, together with Program in Women
and Gender Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences, and University Libraries
at the University of Dayton (UD) invite proposals for the Eleventh Biennial
Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference to be held at UD October 4-7, 2017.
Our conference theme, Rhetorics, Rights, (R)evolutions,
draws attention to the significance of our field, of history, and of rhetorical
practices at a time in which human rights - especially among women and people
of color - are threatened on a daily basis. Meanwhile, civic discourses and
public forms of democratic deliberation are in a state of upheaval as arguments
based on reasoning and evidence matter little in the face of might-makes-right
ideological triggers.
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2017
Emotional Publics and
Political Feelings in Participatory Media
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6 July 2017
Much of the articulation of political subjectivity in
everyday media, in the form of audience call-ins, micro-blogs, or tweets and
social networking, is pervaded with emotion. These spaces, usually not regarded
as political, involve affective participation more often than ‘rational’
debate. This affective participation bears tremendous significance as the
routine political talk that sustains democracies. We therefore encourage
workshop papers to focus on participatory media as a cultural space that
mediatises emotions in these acts of everyday politics. The acknowledgement
that communities are bound together by emotional ties and emotional
vocabularies compels us to consider at what point these communities can be said
to constitute ‘publics.’
Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2017
Contact Email:
politicalfeelingsworkshop@gmail.com
Indigenous Discovery
and Exploration History
A Thematic Panel and Call for Articles
Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of
Discoveries, Milwaukee, WI, 22-23 September, 2017
This thematic panel seeks to deepen scholarship on
non-European, non-Western accounts of discovery and exploration while focusing
on how Indigenous peoples discovered and explored other parts of the globe.
Indigenous peoples across the world undertook voyages of discovery and
exploration that sometimes resulted in settlement and the intermingling of
different peoples and cultures. Contributions to this panel will critically
examine the process, experience, and outcomes of voyages undertaken by
Indigenous peoples before, during, and after the European era of ‘discovery’,
from circumpolar travel by peoples such as the Innu, and the arduous travels of
the Inca to Europe during the Spanish colonial era, to the Indigenous
inhabitants of Africa and their migration to Australia.
Proposals for 20-minute presentations concerning any
Indigenous people and relating to any geographic context and period are
invited. Papers accepted for this thematic panel will subsequently be developed
into article-length manuscripts that will undergo peer review and form a
thematic issue of Terrae Incognitae devoted to Indigenous perspectives on
discovery and exploration.
Please send proposals of up to 250 words to Dr. Lauren Beck
(lbeck@mta.ca), editor of Terrae Incognitae, by 3 February, 2017
Transatlantic Studies
Association Annual Conference
University College Cork, Ireland, 10‐12 July 2017
Established in 2002, the TSA is a broad network of scholars
who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in
political, economic, cultural, historical, environmental, literary, and
IR/security studies. All
transatlantic-‐themed paper and panel proposals from these and related
disciplines are welcome.
Deadline for panel and paper proposals: 3 February 2017
Contact Email:
tsacork2017@gmail.com
Belonging between
scholarship and artistic practice: Changing Social Connections in Time and
Space
Montréal, Québec Canada, November 2-5, 2017
We invite you to submit panels and papers related to migration/immigration and
mobility for the forthcoming SSHA conference on “Changing Social Connections in
Time and Space.” We encourage
submissions on all aspects of social science history. Submission of complete
sessions and interdisciplinary panels are especially welcome.
The Migration Network is one of the largest and most active
networks at the SSHA. This year’s theme, focusing on changing social
connections across time and space, offers especially rich opportunities for
migration scholars.
Submission Deadline: March 3, 2017
Contact Email: reederls@missouri.edu
World
Multidisciplinary Art Symposium
The "World Multidisciplinary Art Symposium - WMAS
2017" will be held in in Prague (Czech Republic) during 19-23 June 2017.
Topics of WMAS are mainly - Fine Arts, Contemporary and
Visual Arts, Performance Arts, Applied Arts, Decorative Arts, Art History, and
others. The studies related with the following themes are welcome:
Painting, Sculpture, Music, Theatre & Stage, Cinema,
Photography, Videography, Animation, Cinematography, Urban Art, Architecture
& Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Fashion/Furnishings Design,
Interior Design, Communication& Design, Art & Media, Art & Society,
Internet & Art, Computer& Art, Decorative Art, Handicrafts, Culinary
Arts & Gastronomy, Textile, Ceramics, etc. And, of course History of Arts
(Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-classicism, Romanticism, Realism,
Impressionism, Pointillism and Post-Impressionism, Symbolism and Art Noveau,
Modern Art - Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Modern and Contemporary
- Pop-Art, Minimalism and Post-Modernism, ...).
Deadline: March 10, 2017
The Stories We Tell:
Forceful Discourse(s) and The Veracity of Narrative(s)
University of California, Merced, California, April 22nd
2017
This conference seeks to expand our existing perspectives
and practices, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, to illuminate a wider
view of what can be discussed with rigor beyond what we currently consider
critical scholarship and who or what can participate in it. We question what
counts as narrative, the devices and structures that legitimate it, and who
decides what stories we are allowed to tell. How do we engage with the stories
that are already told, and how might we mitigate lost narratives or narratives
that have never been told? How do we speak from an Archive of erasure? What
archival gaps remain to be populated with these abandoned voices? How do we
challenge narratives that speak falsely? Considering the Anthropocene and the
retroactive erasure it has wrought, can we find alternative post-human
narratives to tell more truth than we ourselves may be comfortable facing or
want to understand?
The deadline to submit a proposal is February 17th 2017
Contact Email:
ihgradconference@ucmerced.edu
1967: The Search for
Peace
April 28-29, 2017, Lubbock, Texas
The Vietnam Center and Archive and the newly-created
Institute for Peace & Conflict (IPAC) at Texas Tech University are pleased
to announce a conference focused on the year 1967 and the search for peace in
Vietnam. We hope and expect in this conference to approach the events of 1967
in the broadest possible manner by hosting presentations not only on the
antiwar and peace movements at home and abroad, but also on efforts to end the
conflict through international diplomacy as well as military and diplomatic
means in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Proposal submission deadline is February 15, 2017
Contact Email: justin.hart@ttu.edu
Queer Pedagogies of
Dissent in the Age of Empire, Homonationalism, and Social Protest
This is a call for papers for a proposed panel for the
American Studies Association (ASA)'s 2017 Meeting:
https://www.theasa.net/annual-meeting.
This panel seeks to explore how counter-cultural queer
movements, tactics, and pedagogies of dissent, as exemplified in BLM Toronto’s
interruption of Pride and BLM San Francisco’s boycott of the parade, resist
discourses of a sexual-national exceptionalism and reject homonationalist
arguments that the North American nation is now culturally exceptional in its
progressivity and compassion because of the benevolent elevation of formerly
marginalized homosexual subjects. As we have seen, there is still much we can
learn from a clamorous politics of radical queer protest that reclaims
dispossessed spaces and seeks to expose racial-sexual-gender modes of exclusion
operating clandestinely within LGBTQ politics. What pedagogical lessons or
cultural insight, then, may radical queer protest bring forth?
History of Education
Society 2017 Annual Meeting
Little Rock, Arkansas Nov. 1-5, 2017
The Program Committee for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the
History of Education Society invites proposals on all topics related to the
history of education, in any period or setting. The Committee defines education
broadly to include all institutions of socialization—mass media, voluntary
organizations, and so on—as well as schools; universities; learned and/or
scientific societies; libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions;
vocational and/or corporate training enterprises; after-school and out-of-school
learning environments; international organizations; and technology-mediated
systems of education. We invite proposals for individual papers, complete paper
sessions, panel discussions, or workshops.
Proposals are due on or before Sunday, March 15, 2017
Contact Email:
ktolley@ndnu.edu
Milestones, Markers,
and Moments: Turning Points in American Experience and Tradition
This year, Eastern American Studies Association, in
partnership with the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association and the incipient
Society of Americanists, a coalition of persons and organizations devoted to
the study of American culture, invites proposals for papers, panels, forums,
and workshops related to the broad theme of turning points in American history,
folklife, education, cultural conservation, heritage, and society. The program
committee is particularly interested in examples of public memory and
memorialization that have played notable roles in American culture and its
global reach. Closer to the present, we also invite analyses of the
presidential election of 2016 as a milestone event, already distinguished
historically by the first woman to run for president as candidate of a major party.
Deadline: January 23
Contact Email:
jrh36@psu.edu
International
Conference on Religion, Culture and Politics: Re-thinking Secularisation Theory
Religion is often discussed through the eyes of the
secularisation theory; however, there is no agreement on what secularisation
is, or to what extent religion is present in our lives even though religion is
as influential as ever. Whether we understand secularisation as a decline of
religious beliefs, privatization of religion, or as differentiation of the
secular spheres and emancipation (Casanova 2006; Berger 2001), we still have to
ask ourselves to what extent religion shapes our present lives. Is religion
then still influencing our lifestyle and choices we make? To what extent is
religion influencing and shaping our everyday lives? What is the connection
between religion and politics? Has multiculturalism failed? Has the
secularization theory failed, and how do we move forward?
Submissions of abstracts (up to 500 words) with an email
contact should be sent to Dr Martina Topić
(martina@socialsciencesandhumanities.com) by 15 February 2017 to
martina@socialsciencesandhumanities.com or uploaded directly via the conference
website http://www.socialsciencesandhumanities.com/international-conference-on-religion-culture-and-politics-re-thinking-secularisation-theory/
Virginia Humanities
Conference
April 7-8, 2017
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. VHC 2017 will examine how and what kinds of
knowledge the humanities produce that existing structures cannot bear; how and
why approaches to this unbearableness that are grounded in the humanities are
met with resistance; and, finally, how we in the humanities value, make use of,
and respond to contemporary, and sometimes unbearable, issues.
Deadline for submission is February 15, 2017
email: vhc@su.edu
Historians Without
Borders, History Without Limits
The University of California: Davis History Department and
Graduate Student Association invites proposal submissions for its second annual
graduate student conference to be held May 19-21, 2017 at the University of
California: Davis.
With this conference, we hope to explore how history is
made, used, preserved, and accessed through a wide variety of mediums and
disciplines around the world and over time. We are particularly interested in
how historical study is a useful tool to unite other humanities and social
sciences disciplines in innovative ways.
Deadline: Feb. 10
Contact Email: lcabrams@ucdavis.edu
2017 Texas Conference
on Digital Libraries
Austin, TX, May 23, 2017 – May 25, 2017
TCDL addresses a wide range of topics including the
creation, promotion, preservation, and management of digital projects and
assets, as well as the software and applications that drive the digital library
world. Through a blend of interactive presentations, engaging speakers, and
informative workshops, TCDL 2017 will be a great place to network and
experience the latest in all things digital.
Proposal deadline: February 3, 2017
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
International
Education, Educational Rights and Pedagogy
The aim of this Special Issue of International Education
Journal: Comparative Perspectives is to facilitate further discussions on
inclusive, culturally competent and accountable teaching in an unstable and
frequently vexed geopolitical space. We believe that sharing approaches to
teaching international students with respect to cultural diversity, equality,
and cross-cultural applicability of concepts, methodologies and social issues,
can and should be explored.
Please send 300-word abstracts and a 100-word biography
including your contact and affiliation details to all three guest editors by
1st of March 2017
The journal style guidelines, peer review policies and other
relevant information can be viewed here: http://openjournals.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/IEJ/about
Contact Email: maja.milatovic@anucollege.edu.au
Neoliberalism and
Popular Culture
This issue of The Journal of Popular Culture will focus on
how neoliberalism shapes – and is shaped by – popular culture. It will survey the myriad of ways in which
popular culture reflects, refines, or refutes the tenets of this social
framework. For instance, how do single-shooter video games affirm, or
challenge, neoliberalism? Or, does the proliferation of streaming media content
influence the trajectory of these values? This issue will also consider how
critical responses to popular culture frequently harbor neoliberal tendencies.
Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, for example, can be read as (at least
partially) complicit. Importantly, the scope of this issue will not be confined
to Western nations. The guiding principles of neoliberalism underpin countless
seismic shifts, from Chile to China.
The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2017
Contact Email: MJBlouin@milligan.edu
Re-viewing Digital
Technologies and Art History
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
By raising awareness of the importance of integrating
technology into intellectual work, The Journal of Interactive Technology and
Pedagogy (JITP) promotes fluency in computational tools and analytical
techniques and enhances our understanding of the role that new technologies
play across different disciplines. This special issue focuses on digital art
history (DAH), an emerging subfield of art history that considers how new
technological tools have led to new strategies in teaching, research,
conservation, and curation.
Submission deadline for full manuscripts May 15th, 2017
please contact us with any questions at editors@jitpedagogy.org
Race and Yoga
Mainstream narratives about yoga in the U.S. often describe
how the practice promotes physical and spiritual wellbeing. But, yoga
practitioners and scholars rarely question who has had access to the practice
since its arrival in North America, and thereby its purportedly healing and
liberatory properties. Relatedly, they fail to critically interrogate the
representation of the prototypical yogi in contemporary America: upper and
middle-class white persons, particularly white women.
Race and Yoga journal invites the submission of
well-researched, clearly-written manuscripts.
Deadline for issue 2: March 15, 2017
For any questions or comments, please contact: raceandyoga@gmail.com
Special Issue on
Transnationalism
Transnational identity may be seen to be richly constitutive
of complex linkages that challenge and complicate certain fundamental binaries
that characterize nation-states, such as assimilation and multiculturalism,
citizens and immigrants, the indigenous and the foreign, to name a few obvious
and compelling constructs. Indeed it would not be inaccurate to argue that
transnationalism might be the new mode of being evolving out of the crucible of
twenty first century challenges to twentieth century nations, national
boundaries, and hyper-insular allegiances disguised as citizenship. Transnationalism is the historical force
designing the twenty first century.
To this end, for this special issue, we invite thoughtful
critical essays, creative pieces, and photography or other visual art engaged
with (but not limited to) the following topics, all of which invite
contributors to explore the complex experience of transnationalism from a
humanities perspective
Submissions Deadline: Friday, March 3, 2017. Please send
submissions and queries about additional topics to Sharon Carson at sharon.carson@und.edu.
GENDERING
(IN)SECURITY IN CONTEMPORARY STATES OF EXCEPTION
This is an initial call for abstracts for a special issue of
Third World Thematics which will examine the gendered effects of the
insecurities produced by contemporary hegemonic discourses and forms of
security and securitisation. The special issue proposes to move the research
agenda of feminist security studies beyond the war/peace; security/economy
binaries, by focusing on the state of exception which is arguably the dominant
paradigm in contemporary politics in both military and economic matters. For accepted
abstracts, full articles of 6-8000 words in length to be submitted to the
editors by 30 April 2017.
Contact Email: np39@soas.ac.uk
URL: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/pgas/third-world-thematics-gender-insecurity-call-for-papers
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
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
FUNDING
FELLOWSHIP FOR
HISTORICAL DIALOGUE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
The AHDA fellowship allows participants to come to spend the
fall semester of the academic year at Columbia University in New York City.
This comprehensive program provides fellows with the opportunity to hone
practical skills in fundraising, advocacy and leadership; to develop a deeper
understanding of and engagement with the past; and to foster mutually
beneficial relationships with their peers and with international and non-profit
organizations based in New York and Washington, D.C.
During the fellowship participants design a project that
addresses some aspect of a history of gross human rights violations in their
society, country and/or region. Projects can take a range of forms (films,
publications, curricula, reports, meetings/proceedings), with the aim of
implementing them when fellows return to their home communities.
Deadline: January 31st, 2017
For questions about the program, please email ahda@columbia.edu.
Ina Dillard Russell
Library Research Grants
Ina Dillard Russell Library, Georgia College (Milledgeville,
GA) offers short-term Library Research Grants every year to scholars and
students whose work would benefit from access to materials in Ina Dillard
Russell Library’s Special Collections. Strengths of the collections include Milledgeville/Baldwin
County history and culture, (local/regional) women’s history, Georgia College
& State University history, the papers of the internationally renowned
author Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, U. S. Representative Carl Vinson and U.
S. Senator Paul Coverdell. For more information about Special Collections or
the grant, please visit: http://libguides.gcsu.edu/c.php?g=388927&p=2641633
Deadline: February 17
Contact Email: nancy.davisbray@gcsu.edu
Friends of the
Princeton University Library Research Grant Program
Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library
offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the
research collections. These Library Research Grants, which have a value of up
to $4,000 plus transportation costs, are meant to help defray expenses incurred
in traveling to and residing in Princeton during the tenure of the grant. The
length of the grant will depend on the applicant’s research proposal, but is
ordinarily up to one month. Library Research Grants awarded in this academic
year are tenable from May 2017 to April 2018, and the deadline for applications
is January 31, 2017.
Contact Email: pulgrant@princeton.edu
Goizueta Foundation
Graduate Fellowships
The Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program provides
assistance to doctoral students who wish to use the research resources
available in the University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) in support
of dissertation research. The goal of the Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowships
is to engage emerging scholars with the materials available in the CHC and thus
contribute to the larger body of scholarship in Cuban, American, Latin@,
hemispheric, and international studies.
All application materials must be received by Wednesday,
February 1, 2017
Contact Email: chc@miami.edu
Short-term Library
Research Grants
Ina Dillard Russell Library offers short-term Library
Research Grants every year to scholars and students whose work would benefit
from access to materials in Ina Dillard Russell Library’s Special Collections.
Strengths of the collections include Milledgeville/Baldwin County history and
culture, (local/regional) women’s history, Georgia College & State
University history, the papers of the internationally renowned author Flannery
O’Connor, Alice Walker, U. S. Representative Carl Vinson and U. S. Senator Paul
Coverdell. For more information about Special Collections, visit the main
Special Collections page.
Grants are awarded to students and scholars pursuing
significant research that requires on-site use of materials housed in Russell
Library’s Special Collections. These grants, which have a value of up to $1500,
are intended to provide support for travel and living expenses during the
tenure of the grant. Library Research Grants awarded in March 2017 will require
that research be conducted between April 2017 and May 2018. Deadline for applications is Feb. 17.
Schlesinger Library
Grants
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
invites applicants for a variety of research grants.
The library’s special collections document over two
centuries of United States history, from abolition to transgender rights. Manuscripts,
books, periodicals, audiovisual material, photographs, and other objects make
up the collections. Applications will be evaluated on the significance of the
research and the project’s potential contribution to the advancement of
knowledge, along with its creativity in drawing on the library’s collections.
The awards may be used to cover travel and living expenses, scanning, and other
incidental research expenses, but not for the purchase of durable equipment or
travel to other research sites.
Applications must be received by Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Contact Email: slgrants@radcliffe.harvard.edu
Fellowships
"Digital Humanities"
he German Literature Archive Marbach, the Klassik Stiftung
Weimar, and the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel collect, preserve, and provide
access to more than 500 years of German and European cultural history. The
three institutions are calling for applications for several fellowships in the
field of Digital Humanities, ideally lasting six months (at least three). The
programme is open to all disciplines and is directed towards young scholars
(graduates at Master level) from Germany and abroad. Applicants must be working
on a project linked to the interests and collections of at least one of the
three institutions and make use of methods and techniques from the Digital
Humanities (e.g. Markup Methods for Electronic Editions, Stylometry, Topic
Modelling, Visualisation). Prior to the application it is recommended to
contact the respective collection department for further information on the
holdings of interest.
Application deadline: January 15 or July 15
Balch Institute
fellowships
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania will award two
one-month Balch Institute fellowships to enable research on topics related to
the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States and/or American
cultural, social, political, or economic history post-1875. HSP will also award
one Albert M. Greenfield fellowship for research in 20th-century history. The
fellowships support one month of residency in Philadelphia during the 2017–2018
academic year. Past Balch fellows have done research on immigrant children,
Italian American fascism, German Americans in the Civil War, Pan-Americanism, African
American women’s political activism, and much more.
Deadline for receipt of applications is March 1, 2017,
Contact Email: clarocco@hsp.org
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
Italian Diaspora
Studies Summer Seminar
This three-week summer program at the University of Calabria
(Arcavacata di Rende) is now in its third edition. The Seminar takes place June
12–30, 2017 and is designed to introduce participants (doctoral students and
professors) to cultural studies of the Italian Diaspora from a variety of
academic perspectives and to foster development of individual projects
responding to the materials covered in the series of seminars in literature,
film, and the social sciences. All participants will engage in a special
research project.
Application Deadline: February 24, 2017
Contact Email: qc_calandra@qc.cuny.edu
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.
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.
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