CONFERENCES
H2O: Life and Death
15
& 16 September, 2017, University of Adelaide (Australia)
Waters
are contested entities that are currently at the centre of most scientific
discussions about sustainability. Discourse around water management underlines
both the serious absence and devastating overabundance of water: rising sea
levels compete against desertification; hurricanes and floods follow periods of
prolonged drought. We are interested in
examining water as a simultaneously scientific and symbolic, material and
imaginary, practical and aesthetic medium within lived communities. By
exploring waters, and how their absence or presence shapes our sense of
identity and belonging, this conference aims to question and potentially
challenge our cultural construction and representation of water in order to
reimagine how we might relate to waters. We are particularly interested in how
art responds to the precarity and injustice arising from water distribution and
use; and how we can navigate growing discrepancies in the impacts of watery
‘disasters’.
Please
send a 200 word abstract along with a short biography to Camille.Rouliere@adelaide.edu.au before May
16, 2017.
2017 Midwest Popular Culture
Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference
The
2017 Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association
conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch from
Wednesday-Sunday October 18-22.
Proposal
deadline: April 30
Submit
proposals here: http://submissions.mpcaaca.org/
Subject
areas: http://mpcaaca.org/areas/
Social Practice of Human Rights
Conference
SPHR 2017 explores challenges to advocacy
posed by racism, xenophobia, other forms of extremism, and what Pope Francis
has termed “the globalization of indifference.” The plenaries focus on the need
for new strategies to confront three interconnected human rights challenges
that have taken on alarming dimensions: conflict and the challenge of peace,
forced migration, and modern-day slavery.
We
invite proposals from scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and advocates on a
broad array of human rights topics. The Center welcomes both theoretical and
applied research proposals that capture important trends in human rights
scholarship and research. We encourage the submission of individual papers,
complete panels, roundtables, workshops and practitioner presentations, as well
as interdisciplinary and scholar-practitioner collaborations.
Deadline
for submissions: March 31, 2017
Contact
Email: hrc@udayton.edu
Philosophy
of Communication Conference
Duquesne University – Pittsburgh, PA, June 5–7, 2017
The theme for this year’s conference centers on the
Catholic Intellectual Tradition with keynote speakers addressing four content
areas: (1) Philosophy of Communication and Narrative Ground, (2) Philosophy of
Communication, History, and Institutions, (3) Philosophy of Communication and
Community, and (4) Philosophy of Communication, Culture, and Mission.
Send all submissions to cec@duq.edu by April 15,
2017.
Contact
Email: cec@duq.edu
Creating
Historical Knowledge Socially
26-28 October 2017, Washington DC
This event seeks to assess through international
dialogue the state-of-the-art in the use of community-sourcing, crowdsourcing,
citizen science and other public-based collaborative approaches to create
historical knowledge. The development of dynamic internet-based technologies
has allowed researchers not only to share their work with broader audiences,
but to involve publics in the processes of knowledge creation. This event is
intended as an opportunity to reflect upon the impact of collective knowledge
creation on conceptions of history, historical methodology, and Quellenkritik
and to think about how citizen science might change the discipline of history
and the knowledge it produces.
This event will focus on the methodological and
theoretical implications of citizen science for historical scholarship, and it
will also explore how approaches, systems, and standards to include citizen
scholars in research can be designed and implemented to ensure quality of data,
accuracy of results, and inclusivity of perspective.
Please submit proposals by April 7, 2017
For further information regarding format and concept
of the event please contact Dr. Matthew Hiebert (hiebert@ghi-dc.org).
Activists
Scholarship in Human Rights
Wednesday 28th June 2017, University of London
This conference aims to facilitate a productive
exchange between scholars and activists, working within the broad
interdisciplinary field of human rights, on the epistemological, methodological
and ethical challenges in activist scholarship.
Activist scholarship can be broadly defined as
politically engaged scholarship which aims at furthering social justice. It is
constituted by a ‘shared commitment to basic principles of social justice that
is attentive to inequalities of race, gender, class and sexuality and aligned
with struggles to confront and eliminate them’ (Hale, 2008). Offering a new
form of knowledge production, activist scholarship attempts to bridge the
divide between theory and practice and researcher and the researched subject.
This is reflected in its diverse methodological approaches which emphasize
direct engagement with the research participants at each phase of the research
from research design to data collection and dissemination. In that sense,
activist scholarship radically questions what is deemed valid or legitimate
scholarship emphasizing the significance of knowledge produced by communities
and social movements.
We
invite individual paper, panel and roundtable proposals to be submitted
to hrc@sas.ac.uk by
17th April 2017.
URL:
http://hrc.sas.ac.uk
Mid-America Conference on
Hispanic Literatures
October
26-28, 2017 in St. Louis, MO
The
organizing committee seeks proposals for individual presentations and special
sessions on any aspect of the literatures and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula
or Latin America, written in Spanish, English or Portuguese. Panels or
individual proposals related to the conference theme, New Cartographies in
Iberian and Latin American Studies are especially encouraged.
We
welcome alternatives to the traditional format of three to four papers:
roundtables, workshops, lightning talks, workshops, pecha kucha, etc. Please
note that we discourage panels from groups of scholars coming from the same
institution.
Send
panel proposals and 250-word abstracts for individual papers by March 31, 2017
to: machl@wustl.edu.
Radicalism
and the University
The School of Philosophy and Art History (SPAH) at
the University of Essex would like to invite you to participate in an
interdisciplinary conference on the timely subject of radicalism and what role,
if any, the institution of the University has to play in it.
Topics
of Interest include, but are not limited to:
- The
marketization / commodification of radicalism by the University.
- The
antagonism (or lack thereof) between the University and government policy.
- The
difference or similarity between radical left and right wing political
movements.
-
Contemporary practices in philosophy, politics, aesthetics, etc. that can be
called radical
- If
radicalism is a realistic project/promise for academia to pursue.
- What
effect, if any, these questions pose to the University as a political space.
- Does
Art have radical potential as institutional criticism?
-What
does radical art practice look like?
The
deadline to submit an abstract is April 14th, 2017.
Contact
Email: cr16174@essex.ac.uk
Book History and Digital
Humanities
Sept
22-24, UW-Madison
Often
celebrated and criticized as the next big thing in humanist research and
teaching, “the digital humanities” get a lot of press for shaking up the way
things are done. But is “dh” a continuation of some of the most “traditional”
scholarly work in the humanities: bibliography, textual criticism, and book
history? This conference, convened by the Center for the History of Print and
Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, aims to study how digital
humanities grows out book history, how “bh” and “dh” continue to be mutually
informative and generative, and how also they contradict each other.
This
conference is an occasion to think broadly and provocatively about fields and
formats – to trace these genealogies and debate their meaning, to think about
what difference it makes to position the hand written or printed word on a
continuum with digital inscription rather than insisting the latter is a clean
break from the former, and to broaden views about whose labor – intellectual
and physical – makes all kinds of reading, writing, and scholarship possible.
Deadline:
April 15
Contact
Email: printculture@slis.wisc.edu
Queer
Subjects and the Contemporary United States
Queen Mary, University of London, 5th August 2017,
9am-6pm
Recent upheaval from the Trump administration’s
policy-making in the United States has seen the lives of queer subjects
radically altered. This has included numerous executive orders that seek to
curtail the power and agency of certain groups based on race, disability, gender,
and sexuality particularly. Such identity distinctions are being made through
an increasingly nationalist, and therefore heteronormative, lens which lends
itself to the supremacy of ideals that support hegemonic cultural discourse.
This one-day colloquium aims to highlight queer
subjectivities in the contemporary context of the United States, and seeks to
uncover modes of resistance and ways in which the queer subject can lay claim
to public and private spaces within both the nation-state and its outward
global effects. We invite considerations, especially interdisciplinary, from
the fields of American Studies, Literary Studies, Queer Theory, Memory Studies
and Critical Race Theory among many others.
Abstracts
of 300 words and a short bio are due by 15th May 2017.
Contact
Email: c.clark@uea.ac.uk
The United Nations and Decolonization
after World War II
Tulane
University, on June 8-9
In
current debates about the origins of the United Nations (UN), is commonly
understood that the organization was conceived as an instrument for the defense
of the colonial powers’ interests. Guided by colonial paternalism, the UN
established a distinction between “non-self-governing territories”, which were
entitled solely to self-government, and the “trusteeship system”, which
intended to conduct the colonies to independence. While the UN Charter
stipulated that the colonial powers had to transmit technical and statistical
information in respect to the conditions in the non-self-governing territories,
it only established mechanisms for international supervision concerning the
territories placed under the trusteeship system.
Recent
work exploring this dynamic has increased our understanding of both the
achievements and the limits of the UN support for the independence of colonized
territories. In an effort to expand this work and promote dialogue between
scholars exploring the subject, we invite participants to a conference
organized around the topic of the UN involvement in struggles for independence
after World War II.
The
deadline for application is April 15, 2017.
Email: auroraalmada@yahoo.com.br
Indigenous Studies Area, Call
for Papers: Midwest Popular Culture/ACA Conference
The
Indigenous Studies Area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association seeks panels
and paper abstracts for the annual Midwest Popular Culture Association/American
Culture Association conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the
Arch from Wednesday-Sunday, October 18-22.
Abstracts
may address any aspect of Aboriginal, First Nations, Maori, Sami, and other
Indigenous popular cultures. In addition, the area highly encourages
comparative papers between Indigenous and, say, Asian, Latin American, Pacific
Islander, or African popular cultures.
250
word abstracts may be submitted electronically before or by April 30, 2017 via
the online submission system, http://submissions.mpcaaca.org.
Send
questions and inquiries to the Area Chair, Anthony Adah at adahan@mnstate.edu
PUBLISHING
Women in Politics: An
International Perspective
This
interdisciplinary volume discusses women’s leadership, representation in
parliament, women’s rights, cultural barriers, and democratization process.
Gender inequality remains one of the most important questions and a major
barrier to human development. This interdisciplinary edited collection Women
in Politics: An International Perspective (under contract with
Cambridge Scholars Publishing) focuses on women’s political participation and
activities. The concept of intersectionality is crucial for
this work as an important analytic and methodological tool. This study
contributes to political science, women's studies, feminist philosophy, and
history. Please send your proposals and your CV to Dr. Elena Shabliy shabliy@fas.harvard.edu by March
31.
Contact
Email: shabliy@fas.harvard.edu
CRISES
OF THE LIBERAL ’WEST’
Ever after the idea of “the Western civilization”
was conceived, some intellectuals, politicians, and religious leaders have
spelled doom for it. The “Western world” has been frequently embroiled in
societal, ethical and economic crises, some of the most recent being war on
terrorism, recession, and the influx of refugees. The rise of populist parties
and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the President of the United States have
further fueled narratives of a crisis-ridden West. The themes and narratives of
the Western crisis have been recycled habitually and have often been
accompanied by, or at least addressed, the idea of the West as a globally
triumphant entity with universally applicable values. Currently, it seems, what is at stake is the
“Western” liberal world-order. Recent political changes have created new
challenges for liberal internationalism, and subsequently, crisis rhetoric has
become a commonplace, but also controversial, part of narratives about the
“liberal West” and its survival.
We are calling for articles for an edited volume
focusing specifically on contemporary economic, ethnic, military, political,
socio-cultural, and other crises that have emerged during the last decade,
either in narrated or empirically lived reality. We especially encourage
perspectives from political and social sciences, contemporary history, cultural
studies, international relations, and geopolitics.
Send your abstract, max 350 words to:
jukka.jouhki[at]jyu.fi
Deadline for abstracts: May 23, 2017.
The editors are members of the coordinating team of The
West Network, an international interdisciplinary network of scholars. Visit
us at https://thewestnetwork.org.
WHY
WORLD LITERATURE?
What we look for in this volume is to understand if
‘world’ as a category can be used analytically. A lot of theorization of
‘world’ in world literature mystifies the term and makes it into a descriptive,
flat, essentialist filter that betrays a set of globalized (Euro-American),
institutionalized values. We need a concrete theorising which is able to
critique these values as well as to understand the dynamics of power and
contestation that the interface of the world and the local holds. What is the
meaning of the term world literature for a country that has suffered centuries
of colonial exploitation and hegemony and tries to find autonomy sandwiched now
between the residues of the past and the increasing Americanisation of the
present? We invite articles that engage with the varied polemics in the
contemporary field of ‘world literature’ and give us insightful, enabling and
critical readings of the term and of the field.
Prospective papers should be sent to
editors@sanglap-journal.in by May 15, 2017
Contact
Email: editors@sanglap-journal.in
The
Politics of Boycotts
This issue of the Radical History Review seeks to
contribute historical depth and comparative breadth to recent discussions
around the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in support of
Palestine. Our aim is to create a broad basis for historical and strategic
discussion by exploring a variety of spatio-temporal scales of political action
opened up by boycott campaigns, from visions of global solidarity to hyper
localized social movements, and from the strategic deployment of historical
comparisons to claims of singularity. We recognize that not all boycotts are
progressive, and that as a tactic they have been used by different groups for a
variety of political ends. We therefore welcome studies that challenge conventional
ideas of what a boycott is as well as historical case studies of boycott
campaigns from around the globe such as the eponymous campaign during the Irish
Land War, the abolitionist boycott of sugar, the non-cooperation movement in
colonial India, the anti-Nazi boycott, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the
international cultural and academic boycott of Apartheid South Africa. We seek
studies that would be useful to activists as well as theoretical or comparative
reflections on the present and future of boycotts as a form of nonviolent
political action.
Abstract Deadline: September 1, 2017
Contact
Email: contactrhr@gmail.com
Pacific
Northwest Quarterly
Pacific Northwest Quarterly is a scholarly,
peer-reviewed journal of northwest history—the region comprising Alaska,
British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana. Any topic
pertaining to the history of some portion of this region or of the American
West is appropriate, but the editor looks especially for something new in the
way of scholarship or some new analysis of an old topic. Essays that are
strictly anthropological, economic, architectural, or otherwise specialized
will not be considered, nor will pieces that focus on current events, but
interdisciplinary treatments are welcome, and comparative studies particularly
so.
To submit articles: http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/PNQ/Article%20Submissions.html
Contact
Email: pnq@uw.edu
freedom
of expression and feminism issue: fe journal
Where do feminist and LGBTQ tools and practices of
knowledge and communication stand in the crisis of expression? What about feminist
academic and non academic journals? Blogs? What are international, national
and/or transnational feminist tools/ instruments /practices of struggle that
can act against the contemporary crisis of expression in Turkey? Does feminist civil society have any duties?
How far have we fulfilled these duties? How far along shall we go? Is a
feminist academy outside the university possible? How are labor relations
shaped during the crisis of expression? What are experiences, insights and
feminist coping strategies of struggle?
For this special issue, we are not only expecting
papers from law and political sciences but also from humanities, cinema,
journalism etc. Please send us support with your ideas and analysis!
Latest date for sending articles is October 1, 2017.
Contact
Email: fejournal@gmail.com
URL:
http://federgi.com
Fashion,
Dress, and Post-Postmodernism
Scholars have argued that postmodernism is dead and
that we are entering into a new era. A variety of terms have been used to
describe the new condition and dominant trends. These include altermodernism,
automodernity, digimodernism, hypermodernity, performatism, and
post-postmodernism. Morgado[1] links
post-postmodern theory to dress, fashion and appearance by offering these
theoretical connections: mass customization; excessive consumption of fashion
goods mixed with anxiety over environmental impact and personal debt; excessive
or haphazard decorative detail; blurred distinctions between fashion and art;
appearance modes that transcend rigid gender categories; technology and dress;
fashion blogs and the democratizing of fashion reporting; collaborations between
high-end and low-end brands. Our goal with this book is to expand on Morgado’s
work to examine the usefulness and potential of the concept of
post-postmodernism relative to dress and fashion.
Please submit proposals to areilly@hawaii.edu or jblanco@dom.edu no later than September
15, 2017
Watched:
Academic Freedom in the Age of Anti-Intellectualism
Given the most recent election cycle, the current
socio-political climate reflects a growing reality of anti-intellectual
sentiments across the United States. While the digital age has ushered in one
of the greatest eras of access to information, unfortunately there does not
seem to be a subsequent escalation in critically engaged thought across the
U.S. populous. Critical thinking, critical media literacy and intellectualism
in general appear to be declining in social value. In fact, recent studies
indicate that the average person is far less likely to decipher between factual
versus non-factual popular and social news and media. Additionally, even when
fact checking occurs in real-time by accredited research clearinghouses, as
during presidential and vice-presidential debates, masses are extremely likely
to dismiss and defend non-reputable discourse as long as the talking figures
remain likable, charismatic, and/or of high entertainment value.
This call for multi-disciplinary papers,
auto-ethnographic reflections, and interviews ask for submissions that
challenge such assumptions and practices, as well as engage in strategies to
address narratives and outcomes of academic freedom in these social-political
times.
Please send abstracts between 250-300 words for
submissions to srose@uccs.edu by
March 31, 2017.
B(l)ack
Futures - Flat Time in Black Performance
This special issue plays against African American
theater scholar Harry Elam’s discussion of playing the past in the present in
the work of August Wilson (Elam 2005) and current discourses of new materialism
and post-humanity to explore the specificity and malleability of time and
futurity in Black performance. Riffing
off of the past, imperfect and future tenses of black life captured in
transnational and intersectional representations of black performance, the works
in this special issue will move back and forth across time to flatten past and
present performances and forms of black expression that foreshadow and shape black
futures the 21st century. This volume explores black life in the 21st century
in flat-time, or in perpetual suspension, without promise of release or relief,
to understand how the present has been materially and psychically shaped by the
past. We see flat time as a conditional structure of perpetual present that
makes future projections of black performance contingent and vulnerable to
perpetual looping of past experiences of anti-black violence and trauma.
The deadline for submission of proposals is 31 May
2017
Contact
Email: izabella.penier@degruyteropen.com
Social Justice and
Post-Truth Politics
'Post-Truth',
the Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 Word of the Year, relates or denotes
'circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public
opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief'. Brexit, the US elections
and the spread of 'fake news' are just a few examples of a general erosion of
trust in traditional political structures and institutions. In response, new
forms of protest and resistance are emerging against growing social divisions
and politics of exclusion. Evental
Aesthetics seeks submissions that reflect on the notion of 'post-truth' and
social justice.
Submission
and formatting requirements, along with further information on Collisions, are
available at http://eventalaesthetics.net/submissions/.
Contact
Email: eventalaesthetics@gmail.com
FUNDING
Research
Travel Grants, American Heritage Center
The American Heritage Center offers travel grants to
provide support for travel, food and lodging to carry out research using the
AHC's collections.
The Center’s collections support a wide range of
research in political and cultural history and the uses of landscape. Past
grantees have studied topics ranging from western water rights and the
development of urban pedestrian malls to food cultures in the American
borderlands and the cultural resonance of Lassie.
Applications for this summer are due April
14, 2017. Travel
Grants Application (PDF). Information about collections is available
at the AHC website at http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/collections/.
Contact
Email: bridget.burke@wyoming.edu
Fordham-NYPL
Research Fellowships in Jewish Studies
Fordham University’s Jewish Studies Program and the
New York Public Library are delighted to announce joint short-term and mid-term
research fellowships in Jewish Studies for the 2017-2018 academic year. This
joint pilot fellowship program is open to scholars in all fields of Jewish
Studies from outside the New York City metropolitan area seeking to conduct
on-site research in the New York Public Library, especially the Dorot Jewish
Division.
The short-term fellowship will consist of a stipend
of $1,000 per week for a minimum of two and maximum of four weeks. Mid-term
fellowships will be available for Spring semester (January 15, 2018-May 15,
2018), and will offer a stipend of $20,000. A subsidy for travel may be
available. For the duration of the
fellowship, fellows will receive an affiliation with Fordham University. The
successful fellows will give one public presentation and a faculty seminar.
For more information please visit https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes or
email: jewishstudies@fordham.edu
Deadline: April 30
James
P. Danky Fellowship
In honor of James P. Danky's long service to print
culture scholarship, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the
History of Print and Digital Culture, in conjunction with the Wisconsin
Historical Society, is again offering its annual short-term research fellowship
(http://www.wiscprintdigital.org/fellowship/).
Applications are due by May 1.
Contact
Email: printculture@slis.wisc.edu
Graduate
Fellowship for Research in Japan
The KCC Japan Education Exchange Graduate
Fellowships Program was established in 1996 to support qualified graduate
students for research or study in Japan. The purpose of the fellowship is to
support future American educators who will teach more effectively about Japan.
One fellowship of $30,000 will be awarded. Applicants may affiliate
with Kobe College (Kobe Jogakuin) for award year, if selected (but it is not
required).
Completed applications and all supporting materials
must be submitted to the KCC Japan Education Exchange email address: kccjee@comcast.net no later than
April 15th, 2017.
WORKSHOPS
Labour, Rights, and
Mobility
29 October – 5 November 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The international research centre Work and Human Lifecycle
in Global History (re:work) at Humboldt University Berlin and the Universidad
Nacional de San Martin in Buenos Aires will hold a Summer Academy exploring the
historical and contemporary connections between labour, mobility and rights in
a global perspective. The Summer
Academy aims to meet the challenges of a broader discussion on the connections
of labour and rights, avoiding Eurocentric approaches. It allows for studies
that shed light on multiple forms of work and social conflict, including
non-wage labour, as well as on the multiple historical connections between
forms of social and political organization and shared perceptions of justice
and injustice. Finally, the Summer Academy will also consider the ways in
which race, gender, ethnicity and other social markers shaped notions of
justice and injustice in relation to work and labour.
Application deadline: 15 April 2017
Contact Email: felicitas.hentschke@asa.hu-berlin.de
