CONFERENCES
Working Class Studies
Association 2017 Conference
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, May 31 - June 3,
2017
Our conference theme, “Class Struggle: Race, Gender, and
Revolution,” seeks to take stock of the legacy, present, and future
possibilities of the idea of “class struggle.” We invite proposals for
individual papers, panels, plenary sessions, or cultural events that will
investigate the myriad ways in which the working classes can fight for
emancipation. In particular, the program committee seeks proposals that offer
creative interrogations of the very concepts of
“working class” and “class struggle” in today’s moment of global
capitalism and the consequent disarticulation of traditional notions of the
working class. What does working class mean in an era of deindustrialization,
precarious work, and predatory capital mobility? What new sites of
working-class struggle can come to the fore with the weakening of trade unions
and the erosion of the shop-floor and public space as places of working-class
organization and contestation?
Proposals for papers, presentations, and sessions are
welcome until February 20, 2017.
Contact Email:
wcsa2017@gmail.com
Southern Writers,
Southern Writing Graduate Conference
The 23nd Annual Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference
(SWSW) is a University of Mississippi Graduate Student conference featuring
both critical submissions (seminar papers, articles, works in progress)
exploring Southern literature/culture and creative submissions (poetry, short
stories, or novel excerpts) exploring Southern themes/settings. Accepted
submissions will be presented in Oxford, Mississippi, 20-22 July 2017.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, 21 April 2017.
Contact Email:
swswgradconference@gmail.com
Historicizing Forms
and Spaces of Refuge
The MLA History and Literature Forum invites proposals for a
guaranteed panel at the 2018 MLA Convention in New York City (January 4-7,
2018). We are seeking historically-situated papers on how literary forms
construct, influence, and are influenced by spaces of refuge, asylum,
sanctuary, and migration. While recent public attention has turned toward
humanitarian crises that have resulted in forced displacement, as well as
debates about the legalities and moral consequences of documenting and
registering immigrants, we welcome essays from a range of times and places, not
limited to the United States or Britain in the present moment. Refuge may be
broadly construed as imaginary or real, temporary or permanent, bounded or
unbounded, even “in transit.” Literary forms may include, but are not limited
to essays, life writing, graphic novels, historical documents, contemporary or
historical performance, or traditional literary genres such as the novel and
poetry.
300 word abstracts and brief CV by March 5, 2017 to
Marguerite Helen Helmers (helmers@uwosh.edu).
Convention of the
Media Ecology Association
Media Ecology is a wide tent whose history, perspectives and
scholarly interests incorporate a broad array of academic and professional
disciplines focusing on “the study of media environments and the idea that
technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play
a leading role in human affairs” (Lance Strate, 1999). This interdisciplinary
approach towards the exploration of media as environments fosters a rich
discourse of investigation, and each MEA convention provides a unique
opportunity for academics and professionals to come together in a relaxed,
convivial and intimate environment that encourages deep conversations alongside
activities that encourage friendship and fun. The theme for the 18th annual MEA
Convention is Technology, Spirituality, Ecology.
deadline: February 28, 2017
Please submit all papers, panels, and proposals to the
convention coordinator, Lori Erokan at le6@stmarys-ca.edu
Isom Student Gender
Conference ~ “In/Visibility,”
The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies is
pleased to announce its 17th Annual Isom Student Gender Conference (ISGC) in
the spring of 2017. The ISGC is scheduled for Wednesday, March 29th through
Friday, March 31ston the campus of The University of Mississippi in Oxford,
Mississippi. We invite particip ants
to question notions of “visibility” in their disciplines of study, society, and
personal experience. What aspects of gender and sexuality are rendered
invisible or perceived as being unspeakable in our communities, both public and
private? What forces combine to make certain experiences, or citizens, or
perspectives invisible? What means of
resistance have been invented to combat such forces of erasure? All these questions inform our theme of
In/Visible.
Please submit a three hundred word abstract by February
17th, 2017
Contact Email: isomctr@olemiss.edu
The 9/11 Legacy: “History is Not Was, History Is”
This conference to
be held at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum on the former World
Trade Center site will explore the broader legacy of 9/11. We seek panel and
paper proposals – both traditional and novel, empirical and conceptual – that
consider the myriad ways that the events of September 11, 2001, continue to
inform the past, the present and the future: both in the United States and
around the world.
We welcome proposals
that consider the ways in which, to quote Mark Redfield in The Rhetoric of
Terror, a “new history begins here at this calendrical ground zero.”
Please send an
abstract of no more than 300 words and CV to the conference organizers at
2017conference@911memorial.org by April 1, 2017.
On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational
Perspectives
The symposium “On
the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives,” which will take
place at the University of California, Santa Barbara 4-5 May 2017, aims to
trace the articulations of transnational Black solidarities and struggles for
Black lives in the European context by foregrounding less explored paradigms of
Black formations, creations, improvisations and Black struggles throughout
Europe and beyond, putting a focus on the multiplicities of what has become
taken for granted in contemporary discussions of “Black Europe.” With the aim
of dismantling the homogeneity of the Black transnational experience in
European contexts while simultaneously attending to how the various struggles
for Black lives unfold, we will engage with lived experiences of Blackness and
Black political struggles in various European contexts and geopolitical
dynamics. Further, the symposium will interrogate the power relations at work
within academic scholarship that determines what becomes monolithically referred
to as “Black Europe.”
Deadline: March 1
Contact Email: blacknessmatterseurope@gmail.com
History, Memory, Identity
April 8, 2017, Lanham,
MD
The Diyanet Islamic
Research Institute at Diyanet Center of America (DCA), in cooperation with the
Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University,
invites applications for a colloquium focusing on history, memory, and identity
in the Islamicate World. The colloquium aims to bring together graduate
students from all branches of social sciences and humanities to foster further
exchange of ideas and research, building networks among researchers from
multiple disciplines. To further the conversation among increasingly specialized
and differentiated research interests in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies,
the 2017 inaugural meeting will address three broad themes: history, memory,
and identity. Graduate students who are engaged in innovative research with
interdisciplinary perspectives are particularly encouraged to apply.
Abstract Deadline (200-300 words) : February 24, 2017
Contact Email: info@diyanetinstitute.org
NWSA Lesbian Caucus
The Lesbian Caucus
of the National Women’s Studies Association invites complete panel, workshop,
or roundtable format submissions (not individual submissions) for a guaranteed caucus
sponsored session to be held November 16-19, 2017 at the annual conference.
Some topics for
complete panel, workshop, or roundtable submissions might include:
*Interplay of race
and sexuality in the Movement for Black Lives
*Lesbian issues and
actions within/beyond/around the Black Lives Matter Movement
*Historical erasures
of revolutionary lesbians of color, 40 years after Combahee
*prior and current
precarities and illegibilities experienced by revolutionary lesbian theorists and
activists within and beyond the academy, 40 years after Combahee
*Revolutionary
lesbian of color modalities and movements of transformative resistance: then,
now, and in the intervening years
Please direct your
questions and complete proposals to the NWSA Lesbian Caucus sponsored session
organizer, Julie Moreau (juliemoreau@wustl.edu), and the Lesbian Caucus chair,
Jaime Cantrell (jaimec@olemiss.edu), no later than 5pm on February 15th, 2017.
Tools of Transgression: Diverse Methodologies in
Comparative Methodologies
UC Davis Department
of Comparative Literature, October 6th and 7th, 2017
This conference
invites proposals that explore innovative comparative research methodologies
and teaching practices. We aim to understand the shifts and developments of
methodological tools in the context of the widening definitions of the term
comparative. This focus emphasizes the ongoing evolution of the field in an
increasingly globalized academic climate and underlines self-reflection as a
foundational element of modern scholarship. Specifically, we seek to answer the
following questions: Do certain methodological approaches (Translation Studies,
Post humanism, affect theory, digital humanities, etc.) create new
opportunities to connect and compare previously unrelated texts? In our
research and teaching, how do we select, adapt, or merge interpretive tools in
an environment that asks us to think of comparison globally? Can we coherently
explain the discontinuities invoked by a transcultural approach to literature?
How do these methodologies demonstrate the developing boundaries in current
research? For us and for our students, what is to be gained or lost in the
process of redefining traditional canons or approaches to area studies?
300 word abstracts should be sent to Samantha Erigio,
Nicholas Talbott, and Tori White at nstalbott@ucdavis.edu by
March 30th, 2017.
Movement and
(Im)mobility: Writing as Cartography - Graduate Conference
Brooklyn College, May 6, 2017
This conference seeks to interrogate who or what is allowed
to navigate space, and for what purposes. We are confronted with an idea of the
world as immensely mobile, but what or who remains immobile in moments when
people, capital, and ideas move rapidly across fixed or imaginary borders? Who
or what is responsible for regulating movement? What happens when subjects have
power over their own mobility? How does physical (im)mobility relate to social,
cultural, political, and economic mobility? Presenters are encouraged to act as
cartographers, and use literary works to establish a framework for analyzing
the impact of the (im)mobility of living things, commodities, and information.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to bcgradconference@gmail.com by
March 1, 2017.
Race and Medicine
We are looking for a panelist for a panel on race and
medicine at the 2018 AHA. Our panel explores how the inclusion of
race in an intersectional historical analysis provides new perspectives on and
new insights in familiar topics in the history of medicine. One talk is on the
role of race in the medicalization of intersex in mid-20th century America, the
other on African-American doctors and eugenics. Please send a short
description of your talk to s.eder@berkeley.edu by Thursday
February 9. The deadline for panel submission is February 15.
Innovation and
Activism in American Women's Writing
This call for papers is for a panel proposed for the
American Studies Association annual meeting in Chicago in November 2017. The
panel focuses on writing by American women who have sought to critique and
transform their communities, countries, cultures, identities, or aesthetics.
Welcomed are papers that: examine how women’s writing questions, resists,
subverts, or revises traditional gender roles; explore the inevitable
connections between aesthetic forms and political, social, cultural, and/or
historical contexts; address the intersections of gender, race, religion,
class, ethnicity, ability, and sexual orientation for how they shape human
experience and understanding.
If you’re interested in proposing a paper for the panel,
please email your paper abstract and title (up to 300 words) and a biographical
paragraph (include your affiliation, city, state, country and email address) to
boydj@fdu.edu. Proposals due by February 25th.
The Work of
Imagining: Art in the Age of “Apocalypse”
What are the ways art, performance, theory, discourse,
argument, and community-building might shift and expand our political and
social imaginations? How can certain
forms of creativity, sociality, and introspection help us survive our ongoing
“apocalypse”? We call on artists, performers, political thinkers, organizers,
intellectuals, and community members to contribute to this multimedia and
multi-disciplinary performance. We especially invite submissions from NYC-based
organizations and individuals.
Deadline for submission is February 28, 2017
Contact Email:
undergroundstudiesnyc@gmail.com
Symbiosis Conference
University at Buffalo, Amherst, New York, Thursday 6th to
Sunday 9th July, 2017
The editors of Symbiosis, the Conference Directors, and
Daemen College’s and the University at Buffalo’s Departments of English invite
proposals for panels and individual papers of twenty-minute length, which
engage a wide variety of transatlantic and/or transnational topics in the
literatures and cultural histories of the Atlantic world. Especially welcome
are presentations on the conference theme, Returns and Revisions: the eastward
counterflow from New World to Old and revisionary literary texts and views on
the discipline of Transatlantic Studies. Submissions are actively encouraged
from all scholars and students of literary and cultural history and
representation from every period from the earliest settlement right through to
the present, including indigenous responses to imperial discourses.
Please submit 200–300 word abstracts with academic
affiliation and contact details in Microsoft Word attachments by 3rd March,
2017.
Contact Email:
bramen@buffalo.edu
Spaces of
Confrontation: III International Conference in Transatlantic Studies
May 12th-13th 2017, Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard
Is the very history of Transatlantic interactions one of
conflicting and conflicted cartographical reasons? To what extent is the
Transatlantic triangulation of nation, language, territory, and culture as
arbitrarily violent as its nationalistic identification? Is the history of
Atlantic transnational interactions best understood as the progressive
globalization of peoples, resources, and ideas or as its catastrophic
dispersion in opposing local narratives? What are the effects of competition,
debate, strife, war, and how are they instrumentalized to construct, breach,
and rebuild interpretive and political communities? What are the institutions
that regulate, enable, and promote confrontation?
We encourage contributions from all across the humanities
and social sciences disciplines including, but not restricted to literary and
cultural studies, sociolinguistics and cognitive sociolinguistics,
communications, race studies, gender studies, visual and environmental studies,
social studies, philosophy and intellectual history, etc.
Abstracts must be submitted to
transatlanticstudies2017@gmail.com before February 27th, 2017
Contact Email: transatlanticstudies2017@gmail.com
Trump's America
Conference
5-6 May 2017, Dublin Ireland
This conference will examine the political and cultural
significance of Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States, and
consider the first 100 days of his administration.
Contact Email:
catherine.carey@ucd.ie
Pippi to Ripley 4:
Sex and Gender in Children’s Literature, Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Comics
Ithaca College, April 21-22, 2017
Pippi to Ripley 4 is an interdisciplinary conference with a
focus on women and gender in imaginative fiction. We invite papers devoted to
fictional characters in all media, including: comics, films, television, and
video games as well as in folklore, mythology, and children's and young adult
literature.
Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2017
Contact Email:
kkittredge@ithaca.edu
Predictability's
Promises: Knowing Futures, Practicing Presents
Our panel seeks to bring together scholars from diverse
fields to explore the ways in which concepts, techniques, and practices of
‘predictability’ are constituted. Panelists in this session may address, but
are not limited to, some of the following questions: • How is ‘predictability’ defined in the
context under study? What is the history of ‘predictability’ as a concept in
this context? • Using what conceptual frameworks, tools, and techniques is
‘predictability’ constituted? What epistemic space do these tools and
frameworks give rise to? • How is ‘time’ constituted in the various sciences of
predictability? • How is uncertainty brought into the realm of the calculable
or measurable? • For what reasons, and for whom, has ‘predictability’ come to
matter in different contexts?
Abstracts must be submitted no later than March 1, 2017.
Submission information can be found at
http://www.4sonline.org/meeting, Panel #65.
Dynamics of Global
Inequality: New Thinking in Global Affairs
Many global affairs conferences and curricula continue to
operate along traditional lines and question whether the circumstances of
identity, gender, race or sexuality are even relevant to global affairs. With
its annual conference, the Student Association of Global Affairs seeks to
broaden this debate and provide a space for students to deconstruct traditional
narratives within international relations and global affairs by exploring these
new fields and how they can inform theory, analysis, practice, and methodology:
Why do we need to take these issues into account? How can they shape our
thinking both at domestic and global levels?
Deadline: February 15, 2017
Contact Email:
saga.rutgers@gmail.com
The Room where it
Happens: On the Agency of Interior Spaces, The Harvard Art Museums
October 13-14, 2017
This symposium, held in conjunction with the Harvard Art
Museum’s forthcoming exhibition, The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in
Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820, seeks papers that investigate spaces of
artistic, artisanal and intellectual production throughout global history. From
artist’s studios to experimental laboratories, from offices to political
chambers, rooms and their contents have long impacted history and transformed
their inhabitants. We invite case studies that address questions like the
following: How might an assemblage of objects within a given space intersect or
clash with ideological narratives? How have secret or privileged rooms, or
rooms to which access is limited, served to obfuscate and facilitate the generation
and dissemination of ideas? As historians and critics, how should we interpret
and recreate such spaces—many of which no longer exist?
To apply, please submit a 300-word abstract and two-page CV
to laura_igoe@harvard.edu by April 15, 2017.
Contact Email:
laura_igoe@harvard.edu
Imagined Forms:
Models and Material Culture
The symposium will take place November 17-18, 2017, and is
hosted by the Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware.
“Imagined Forms: Modeling and Material Culture” inaugurates
a biennial conference series sponsored by the Center for Material Culture
Studies at the University of Delaware. We invite submissions from all disciplines—including
art and architecture, art history, comparative literature, digital humanities,
English, history, history of science, and media studies—that critically
investigate the function and form of models, the materials and methods of
simulation and representation, questions of scale and perception, experiment
and presentation, and the limits of modeling.
Please send abstracts of max. 300 words, with a brief CV of
no more than two pages, by February 15, 2017 to materialculture@udel.edu.
For information see http://www.materialculture.udel.edu/
Understanding Our Gun
Culture Conference
The goal of this conference is to gain insight about the
complex issues associated with the widespread availability and use of guns in
American society. In order to enhance the discussion, we are seeking to
understand the issues through evidence-based presentations from a variety of
academic disciplines. Both theoretical and practical considerations are
welcome. While some presentations may address practical solutions for enhancing
gun safety or minimizing gun violence, the main focus should be upon understanding
the issue rather than advocating for particular viewpoints.
The conference will be held at Ashland University in
Ashland, Ohio March 31 - April 1 2017.
Contact Email:
kchartie@ashland.edu
Women's History in
the Digital World Conference 2017
Maynooth University, Ireland, on 6-7 July 2017.
The Women's History in the Digital World conference brings
together historians, archivists, curators, digital humanists and more to present
on their work, network and collaborate on current and future projects at the
intersection of women's history and digital scholarship. If you would like to
propose a paper reflecting your current research, teaching, curation or
technical development of women's history please follow the guidelines below.
All time periods and global regions are considered. This is a chance to gain
feedback on your work at various stages of development and students, academics,
information and library professionals and independent scholars are all welcome
to apply.
Deadline: 28 Feb. 2017
Contact Email:
WHDW17@NUIM.IE
Postcolonial Studies
Association Convention
University of London, 18-20 September 2017
Harnessing the philosophical scope of the postcolonial
field, our special topic aims to examine the nexus between a ‘neoliberal’
grand-narrative and ‘neocolonial racism’ as a mainstream ideological position
in both the North and South. How are these ongoing developments in the global
North perceived by peoples and communities in the global South? How is the
North/South binary interrogated by the liminal story spaces of illegal
immigrants, temporary workers, refugees and asylum seekers? How might we postulate
an alternative global economy? In what ways could informal citizenship
practices collaborate with radical discourses of ecofeminism, or the
transnational agency of a globalised digital resistance, to pose a concerted
challenge to the reductive hierarchies of neocolonial racism? In what ways
might postcolonial analyses of cultural production account for globalisation
within the current economic and political conjuncture?
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Tuesday, 28th
February 2017.
Contact Email:
psaconference@postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk
Strategies of
Critique XXXI: Out of Time
York University, April 21 - 23, 2017
York University’s Social & Political Thought Graduate
Program is pleased to invite papers and creative works for presentation at its
31st Annual Conference, Strategies of Critique: Out of Time. In a time of flux,
when social conditions dictate a metaphysical shift in the experience of
temporality, it is critical to look around, to survey time itself now. We would
like to take the time to consider how histories are made distant, lost or
silenced, and yet, how they remain as spectres haunting our lives; how our
future is indelibly marked with the characteristics of crisis—whether it is
ecological, economic, political, or otherwise—alongside progress, and how we
can move beyond the horizon of catastrophe. Finally, we would like to take the
opportunity to meditate on the present and on presence, on our temporal
conditions now, how they fall within the space between past and future, and are
unified while being displaced.
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2017
Contact Email: strategiesofcritique@gmail.com
Insecurity in the
Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and Peripateticism
The Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals that
explore "Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and
Peripateticism" for the 2018 MLA in New York City. We are especially interested in those that
examine Language Change in the context ofhow recent political rhetoric
regarding immigration in the US leads to increasing insecurity in educational
settings, especially changes in discourse, pedagogy and programs. Examples
include rising insecurity among classroom educators and their students worried
about their academic status; increased uncertainty among school and university
administrators struggling to maintain and fund programs with intercultural and
international focus; and ongoing anxiety across the educational enterprise as
its constituents become progressively more contingent and more peripatetic.
Indeed, the ever-increasing pace of immigration from around the world,
especially from countries that are underdeveloped, war-torn, or otherwise
afflicted, challenge existing systems that offer refuge and opportunity to our
students, educators, and administrators. Such changes manifest themselves at
every turn of this constant motion, as well as at every moment of uncertainty –
of insecurity – that these constituencies face. Perspectives from multiple
disciplines are encouraged. Please send a 300-word abstract by March 8 to
Augusto Lorenzino galorenz@temple.edu).
Contact Email:
galorenz@temple.edu
Changing Social
Connections in Time and Space
42nd annual meeting of the Social Science History
Association (SSHA)
November 2-5, 2017 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Race/Ethnicity
network of the Social Science History Association welcomes submissions to this
year's conference theme is “Changing Social Connections in Time and
Space.” Papers and panels on topics that
address the conference theme are welcome
More information on SSHA and the conference can be found at
The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 3rd, 2017, and the submission
portal is now open at http://prd.sshaconference.org/people/login. Please note,
all SSHA requires to submit at this point is an abstract. You can find more
information at http://www.ssha.org, including the general Call for Papers.
Contact Email:
jjewell@tamu.edu
PUBLISHING
Digital America Issue
no. 9
Digital America is now accepting submissions for Issue No.
9. We are an online journal that focuses on digital art and culture with an eye
toward the American experience. We are looking for critical essays, film,
artwork, design, and reviews that question, analyze, and/or hack the tools of
digital culture. We are also interested in work that explores how new behaviors
and new, global networks of power and influence are shaping American life. All
submissions should engage American life and digital culture and/or digitization
in some way. We encourage creative responses to these parameters as we
understand the complexities of engaging “America” in a global, networked world.
If you are interested in joining our contributor team, please contact us at
info@digitalamerica.org. Submissions are due by March 1st.
Contact Email:
info@digitalamerica.org
Meta-Philosophy of
Science
The journal Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287) is currently running
a Special Issue entitled "Meta-Philosophy of Science.”
How should we conceive of science as an historical entity
over time? Is it typically a cumulative, progressive process, as various forms
of scientific realism might suggest? Does it display cyclic developmental
patterns with radical discontinuities, as Kuhn famously argued? Is it just one
thing after another subject to historical contingency and perhaps
methodological anarchy, as Feyerabend appears to have advocated? What
categories are proper and adequate to describe its development? Or is the very
idea of theoretical history of science misguided to begin with?
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2017
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special
Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/metaphilosophysci
Contact Email: michele.cardani@mdpi.com
Alternative Facts:
Making America Question Again in an Era of Donald Trump Politics
Although the use of falsehoods is nothing new within
politics, nor is the critical examination of them—academic and otherwise—the
concerted effort to defend falsehoods in this way is novel, increasing in use
and of growing concern. Indeed, on 2 February 2017, Kellyanne Conway made
headlines once again for her appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Mathews.
Defending President Trump’s suspension of immigration from seven countries with
Muslim-majority populations, Conway stated that “two Iraqis came here to this
country, were radicalized and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green
massacre”—an event that never actually took place.
This volume is meant to explore the establishment of
“alterative facts” as a definitive point of departure among the new political
dimensions within the United States (and abroad). Additionally, this text will
be written for both academia and general audiences, alike—thus accessibility is
important to this end.
Interested authors should send a curriculum vitae and a
250-word chapter proposal/description of what they wish to contribute. Authors
of selected proposals will be notified on 15 March 2017.
All inquires should be sent to me at salvador.jimenez.murguia@gmail.com
Militarism and
Capitalism: The Work and Wages of Violence
The Radical History Review calls for submissions that
examine the intersections of militarism and capitalism. We seek work from a
range of disciplines that think historically about the co-constitution of the
use of military infrastructure, labor, and violence and of capital’s emergence
and ever-expanding need for growth. We approach militarism not only as the
deployment of state-based military forces to wage formally declared wars, but
more broadly as the systematic production of state and extra-state militarized
violence that is tied to the establishment and expansion of markets. This
special issue broadens the frame of analysis beyond seemingly exceptional
states of warfare to consider militarism as a force that produces social
relations and permeates everyday life, often in obscured or unremarkable ways,
in part through its convergence with capitalism.
Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2017
Contact: contactrhr@gmail.com
Constructing Masculinities
This issue will
provide a forum for exchange of the latest research on both historical and
contemporary constructions of masculinity in China, Japan, Korea, India and the
Philippines. We are particularly interested in submissions from the social
sciences and humanities focused on themes such as: Empire, nation and
globalization; gender identity and sexuality; health, body and medicine; and
masculinity in advertising, media, cinema and pop culture.
Deadline: Monday
April 3, 2017
Contact Email: lawoodhouse@usfca.edu
For more information
about Asia Pacific Perspectives, please visit our website: http://www.usfca.edu/center-asia-pacific/perspectives/
State, Religion and Muslims: Between Discrimination and
Protection at the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Levels
We are looking for
contributors to a peer-reviewed edited book on discrimination against and
protection of Muslims in Western countries. The volume seeks to throw light on:
The general legal framework for the prevention and punishment of
discrimination; The national and international legislation giving rise to
discrimination or setting the framework with respect to non-discrimination; Administrative
practices that cause or diminish discrimination Judicial decisions that are
relevant to discrimination against Muslims.
Researchers are
invited to submit a 1-page chapter proposal and a current CV by March 15, 2017.
Contact Email: bahcecik@metu.edu.tr
Liberating Herself: Emancipationist Writing at the Fin de
Siècle
The second half of
the nineteenth century was marked by the emergence of the global women’s
movement. Feminist writer Sarah Grand (1854-1943) is considered to be the first
to have coined the term “New Woman” in 1894 in England. New Woman writers (in
Victorian literature the New Woman novel forms a separate genre) participated
in the feminist debate. Feminism altered the course of literature by
challenging those literary conventions that governed the portrayal of women and
women's experience at the fin de siècle. Feminist texts explicitly
advocated social change and discussed new women’s roles in society. This edited
volume Liberating Herself: Emancipationist Writing at the Fin de Siècle (under
contract with Cambridge Scholars Publishing) welcomes contributions on any
aspect of nineteenth-century literary feminism. Comparative approaches are
welcome. By March 8th, please submit a 250-300 word abstract and
your CV to Dr. Elena Shabliy shabliy@fas.harvard.edu.
Intermountain West
Journal of Religious Studies
The Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies,
affiliated with the Religious Studies program at Utah State University, is
seeking article submissions from undergraduate and graduate students. Published
annually, each issue features a variety of topics relating to the academic
study of religion. The Journal is also seeking potential book reviewers.
Students with experience in religious studies or related fields are encouraged
to contact the journal for a current list of books. For the second year
standing, the journal is also seeking cover art submissions. All forms of media
(drawing, painting, sculpture, digital, photography and mixed media) will be
considered for publication.
Articles, book reviews and art submissions should be emailed
to imwjournal@aggiemail.usu.edu
Visit our website: www.imwjournal.com for
more information.
Holding Blackness:
Aesthetics of Suspension
In keeping with our interest in archiving family
resemblances across media and exhibition venues, formats and genres, we welcome
contributions that explore, and expand on, the following ways of understanding
“suspension” as it concerns ethics, aesthetics, temporality, spatiality, and
form, as well as the ontology of the photographic image.
Please send an abstract (maximum 500 words), 5
bibliographical sources, and a short bio to liquidblackness@gsu.edu no later
than February 18, 2017.
Lady Science Series
on Fascism, Gender and Science
Call for submissions and blog posts. We’re accepting
proposals for 4 essays, 1000-1500 words, to be published in May and June. We’re
interested in how fascism intersects with science and gender from any time
period
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/164049/digital-print-special-issue-textshop-experiments
and from any geographical region. These essays will published in syndication
with The New Inquiry. We can offer $50 per essay. Proposal Deadline: March 1
We are currently seeking blog posts by and about women in
science under the current regime. We’re hearing from women scientists across
the country whose work is directly impacted by the new administration's
anti-science policies. Lady Science would like to publish your 1000 word
stories about your scientific work, your concerns about new science policy, and
your resistance actions. Please send finished drafts, along with a short bio to
ladyscienceinfo@gmail.com.
Contact Email:
ladyscienceinfo@gmail.com
From Digital to Print
(Special Issue) -- Textshop Experiments
This issue of Textshop Experiments asks contributors to
respond to Ulmer’s call to interrogate print culture (its works, technologies,
and operations) and respond to Ulmer’s call to participate in the definition
and activities in electracy. This is a
call for scholarship on the history of print, books, literacy, publishing, and
policy from the future. The issue will
publish video essays up to 15 minutes in length and accompanying Author
Statements (which theoretically frame and contextualize their respective
videos) no more than 1000 words.
Contributors will then be asked to contribute full essays (about
5,000-7,000 words) based on these videos.
These essays will be compiled into a printed anthology. Topics should specifically address the
relationship between print and electracy.
Proposals are due May 1, 2017.
Contact Email:
ulmertextshop@gmail.com
Second Generation
African Immigrants: Identity and Transnationalism in the United States
In seeking to redress this dearth of scholarship on this
growing segment of the U.S population, the guest editors of this special issue
of ABD seek articles on the lives and experiences of second generation African
immigrants to provide insight into the intersection of immigrant cultures and
mainstream expectations, as this group seeks to define and redefine being and
becoming American. We are specifically interested in theoretically oriented and
empirically based research that explores issues of racial and ethnic identity,
transnationalism, economic, professional and social attainment.
Prospective authors should submit an Abstract (250-300 words
in length) by February 15, 2017.
Contact Email: kkebede@ewu.edu
Postcolonial
Interventions
The upcoming issue of Postcolonial Interventions invites
papers that will address the heterogeneous multiplicities of the evolving field
of postcolonial studies by taking into account the changing contours of social,
political and economic frameworks of our time while attempting to include new
areas of experience, new sites of negotiation and new forms of solidarities
without disowning the relevant legacies of the past. In other words, away from
the adaptations of The Tempest and the nostalgia of diasporic communities in
the West, let us bring our critical lenses to bear on representations,
regroupings and resistances that punctuate the present - from the enclaves of
Zapatistas to the plight of Rohingyas, the neglected communities in North-East
India, the fundamentalist assassinations in Bangladesh, the victims of Boko
Haram in Nigeria and much else. In an age scarred by regressive nostalgias with
diabolic consequences for the present, let us delve into the chasms that gape
before us and search for a future that will not surrender to despair.
Please send your submissions to
postcolonialinterventions@gmail.com within 7 April, 2017.
Contact Email: postcolonialinterventions@gmail.com
Women and the
Abolitionist Movement
You are invited to participate in the 'Women and the
Abolitionist Movement' conference hosted by the Department of Library and
Information Services of Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, to
be held in the architectural award-winning Charles Evans Inniss Memorial
Library, located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.
A proceedings publication is planned, involving a
double-blind peer-review process.
Presentations can be face-to-face or virtual.
Please submit proposals, abstracts, papers, posters, or
inquiries by email to kmadden@mec.cuny.edu and aoulanov@mec.cuny.edu.
Contact Email:
kmadden@mec.cuny.edu
Mise-en-scène: The
Journal of Film & Visual Narration
For its upcoming issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film
& Visual Narration (MSJ) currently seeks submissions that encompass the
latest research in film and media studies. Submission categories include
feature articles (6,000-7,000 words); mise-en-scène featurettes (1,000-1,500
words); reviews of films, DVDs, Blu-rays or conferences (1,500-2,500 words);
M.A. or Ph.D. abstracts (250-300 words); interviews (4,000-5,000 words); or
video essays (8-10 minute range).
Contact Email:
MSJ@kpu.ca
FUNDING
Research grants
Starting 2017, small research grants for research at the
Moravian Archives will be available for the first time. The Rev. Vernon H.
Nelson Fund was established in 2011 to provide grants to researchers toward
their expenses related to their research at the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania.
Funding may be given
for research projects using records held by the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem.
Projects will be assessed on the general significance of the proposed research,
the scholarly value, the relevance to Moravian studies, and the likelihood of
timely completion of the proposed research. The full selection criteria are
available on our website. We welcome anyone to apply for a grant through our
website by February 28, 2017.
Contact Info:
Paul Peucker, PhD, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA
Contact Email: info@moravianchurcharchives.org
CLIR/Library of Congress Mellon Fellowship
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is
offering one fellowship award to support original source dissertation research
in the humanities or related social sciences at the Preservation Research and
Testing Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The total award
ranges from $23,500 to $31,000, depending on the length of the project. Fellows
must begin their research between June 1 and September 1, 2017 and end within
12 months of commencing.
Information about the Preservation Research and Testing
Division is available on the Library of Congress website: http://www.loc.gov/preserv/rt/. The
full fellowship description, including instructions for submitting an
application can be found on CLIR’s website: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/preservation.html.
Deadline: February 28, 2017.
email: Contact Email:
mellon@clir.org
Center for Communal
Studies Annual Prizes & Research Travel Grant
The Center for Communal Studies at the University of
Southern Indiana annually invites submissions for its prize competition for the
best undergraduate and graduate student papers on historic or contemporary
communal groups, intentional communities and utopias. Submissions may come from
any academic discipline and should be focused on a topic clearly related to
contemporary or historic communal groups or utopias
Graduate Paper or Thesis or Dissertation Chapter
Author of the best graduate paper or thesis or dissertation
chapter will receive $500. The annual deadline for submission is 1 March. The
prize winner will be announced in April 2017.
Travel Grant
The Center for Communal Studies at the University of
Southern Indiana annually invites applications for a Research Travel Grant to fund
research at the Communal Studies Collection at USI's David L. Rice Library. The
Communal Studies Collection's rich archival materials hold information on over
600 historic and contemporary communal societies, utopias and intentional
communities.
Applications are due annually by 1 May.
Contact Email:
charison@usi.edu
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Oral History Researcher
The HistoryMakers
seeks to hire a full time Oral History Researcher to complete in-depth research
for its video oral history interviews across a wide variety of occupations and
fields (i.e. STEM, law, art, education, music, etc.). The researcher/writer
will be responsible for: Conducting background research on outstanding African
Americans to locate their contact information and biographical information
prior to interviews using the Internet and online resources; researching and
preparing detailed research outlines as well as long, short biographies and
short descriptions in accordance with The HistoryMakers guidelines; organizing
research files and performing data entry using The HistoryMakers FileMaker Pro
database as well as scanning documents and organizing them in archival folders
after the interview is completed.
Deadline: March 31
email: info@thehistorymakers.com
Internship Opportunities
The Henry Ford
(Dearborn, Michigan) announces three graduate internship opportunities for
Summer 2017.
Archival
Internship – American Textile Industry Collection
Conservation
Internship – Battery Collection
Curatorial
Internship – Clothing Collection
For program
information, position descriptions, and application instructions, please visit https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/about/ways-to-get-involved/.
Contact
Email: saigej@thehenryford.org
