CONFERENCES
Exploring the Edges,
Pushing the Boundaries
September 21-23, 2017 | University of North Texas
Digital Frontiers is an annual conference that explores
advances and research in humanities and cultural memory through the lenses of
digital scholarship, technology, and multidisciplinary discourse. The
conference recognizes creativity and collaboration across academic subjects by
bringing together researchers, students, librarians, archivists, genealogists,
historians, information and technology professionals, and scientists.
The theme for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference is
Exploring the Edges, Pushing the Boundaries. The conference’s vision is to
examine research and projects involving new or newly-applied technologies,
concepts, processes, and methodologies; to highlight innovations, insights and
emerging areas of research; to reach out to new audiences and communities,
especially the underserved; to probe into efforts, both mainstream and on the
margins, to achieve social justice via digital humanities resistance to the
status quo; and to showcase practical applications of openly available tools and
resources that foster investigations that may have been impossible or deemed
unanswerable in the past.
The deadline for submissions is April 28, 2017.
Please email digitalfrontiers@unt.edu if
you have questions.
Present Past: Time,
Memory, and the Negotiation of Historical Justice
December 7-9, 2017, Columbia University, New York City
In considering the politics and policies of commemorating
the past, this conference probes how public discourses about memory change over
time. Papers that explore how the past is known, interpreted, conceptualized,
or articulated, and how such representations evolve with the passage of time,
are welcome. How has the passage of time changed the way memories of historical
violence, atrocity and genocide are represented in the public sphere? In what
ways do political, social and cultural forces influence, appropriate, or stifle
these memories in different ways as the original event recedes into the more
distant past? This conference thus seeks papers that explore the ways in which
communities negotiate narrativization of the past over time, and what the
implications of such changes in public discourses of memory suggest in terms of
present and future political realities, conflict transformation and atrocity
prevention, and the role that history itself has in shaping or re-shaping the
ways in which individuals and groups relate to the past and future.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is May 15
Contact Email: al223@columbia.edu
Fandom and Neomedia Studies
Fandom for us
includes all aspects of being a fan, ranging from being a passive audience
member to producing one’s own parafictive or interfictive creations. Neomedia
includes both new media as it is customarily defined as well as new ways of
using and conceptualizing traditional media.
We welcome
contributions from all disciplines and from all levels of academic achievement
as we value the intersection of fandom and academia. Our conference is thus
unique in its blend of traditional and modern elements. Submissions are welcome
from professors, students, independent researchers, and industry professionals.
Topics may come from anime, manga, science fiction, television series, movies,
radio, performing arts, or any other popular culture phenomenon and their
respective fandom groups.
Abstracts of no more
than 500 words must be submitted by 30 April 2017.
Contact Email: FANSConference@gmail.com
Graduate Student
Conference on Power and Struggle
University of Alabama, September 22 – 23, 2017
The Power and Struggle Conference encourages graduate
students to submit proposals that engage the conference theme by examining
power relations in all historical fields and time periods. The theme addresses
new approaches of historical analysis that focus on the relationship between
struggle and power, especially people who struggled to break, transform, or
reclaim the boundaries constructed by those in power. The Conference seeks
proposals employing innovative approaches, interdisciplinary methods,
comparative perspectives, and multi-archival research bases.
The deadline for proposal submission is April 25, 2017
For more information please email the committee at ghaconference@gmail.com.
Rethinking the
Afropolitan: The Ethics of Black Atlantic Masculinities on Display
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, Friday, October
20th and Saturday October 21st, 2017
A 21st century term, “Afropolitan,” already is charged with
contested meanings. Celebrated by some as the pinnacle of African modernities,
others see the Afropolitan as glorified consumers or objects of globalization
and capitalization. However, most discussions of Afropolitans have occurred in
relation to the arts, literature, and fashion and almost exclusively in
relation to Africans in Western cities or Westernized enclaves in Africa in the
present. A historicized approach to the concept of the Afropolitan raises new
questions about how scholars and activists read race, gender, identity, and
ethics in images and texts. While this workshop aims to examine the
intersections of gender, race, and visual culture, in the Atlantic world, from
the sixteenth century to the present, we will consider proposals that also
de-center the Atlantic by treating similar themes in or in relation to other
regions such as the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean, or Pacific Ocean worlds.
Please submit a title, 250-word abstract, and 2-page CV by
April 1, 2017 to afropolitan@holycross.edu.
Religion Race and
Contested Globalisation
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/168679/religion-race-and-contested-globalisation
June 28th to 30th, Howard University Washington DC
As western and westernizing nations have experienced
increased socio-cultural diversification, intersectionality, and competition
(within and across borders), this has been accompanied by an intensification of
domestic and international conflict.
This has manifested recently in widespread mobilizations against
immigrants and religious minorities, including in 2016 electoral backlashes in
the U.S. and UK, and similar mobilizations in France, Austria, and Italy. Against this backdrop, and mindful of
increased vulnerability in-general by people of color within these
intersections and collisions, the 2017 Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and
Race will be convened in Washington, DC to focus on “Religion, Race, and
Contested Globalization.”
Please submit 150-250 word abstracts on the above theme or
related subjects by March 15, 2017 to Dr. R. Drew Smith rsmith@pts.edu or Dr. William Ackah
w.ackah@bbk.ac.uk
Full details and to register visit www.religionandrace.org
#QueerAF:
(Re)presenting Gender & Sexuality in History & Cultural Studies
5-6 May 2017, The Ehinger Center, Drew University, Madison,
NJ
#QueerAF is a hashtag used on Twitter and Tumblr by trans,
lesbian, gay, bisexual, androgynous and gender fluid users to celebrate content
that is unapologetically queer, or “queer as fuck.” The use of “AF” in the
title of this conference indicates our interest in exploring the power of
language to form community in a digital space through the assignation of
#QueerAF. Establishing a conference that is “#QueerAF” represents our resistance
to societal politeness by participating in the reclamation of “queer” and
disrupting the heteronormative discourse that terms certain behaviors and
bodies dangerous or degenerate.
The conference theme draws on multiple disciplines and
perspectives on gender and sexuality, inviting challenges to the
heteronormative, cisgender, patriarchal discourse of history. Proposals are
invited for papers on any aspect of Gender & Sexuality across all time
periods and geographical locations. In
particular, this conference will be centering around three major themes:
Historical & Cultural studies, Linguistics & Theory, and Activism &
Media.
Deadline: March 15
Contact Email: hopper@drew.edu
Culture and Identity
Configurations: Reflections on the 21st Century
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, on October 26 and
27, 2017
The symposium is an exceptional opportunity to bring
together diverse perspectives and methodologies that are concerned with
revealing and describing the intricacies and contradictions of contemporary
identity discourses. An underlying methodological diversity is considered a
prime requirement for addressing these complexities and contradictions, as ours
is a time of increasing misapprehension among identity groups. Researchers from
a broad spectrum of disciplines will examine how identity is shaped,
articulated and fostered in language, literature, religion, history, the arts,
film, sociology, etc. The symposium also invites contributions that examine the
role of immigration in forging and transforming contemporary identities.
Deadline: April 15
Contact Email: HOFCULCTR@HOFSTRA.EDU
URL: http://www.hofstra.edu/identitysym
Critical Voices 2017: Memory, Culture, and Identity
http://untgsea.wixsite.com/2017/critical-voices-conference
University of North Texas on Saturday, April 22nd and Sunday, April 23rd
Submit a project or presentation at the sixth annual Critical Voices Conference. This conference, which will host both graduate and undergraduate presenters, is open to all departments in the school of Arts & Sciences, including: English, History, Philosophy, and Religion, as well as Psychology, Sociology, and Political Science.
The 2017 conference theme is “Memory, Culture, and Identity”, and seeks to explore the links between community and the people they create, as well as cultural and individual memory and identity as it evolves over time. We will accept a wide range of presentations within this broader topic.
Submissions are due by March 20, 2017
Critical Voices 2017: Memory, Culture, and Identity
http://untgsea.wixsite.com/2017/critical-voices-conference
University of North Texas on Saturday, April 22nd and Sunday, April 23rd
Submit a project or presentation at the sixth annual Critical Voices Conference. This conference, which will host both graduate and undergraduate presenters, is open to all departments in the school of Arts & Sciences, including: English, History, Philosophy, and Religion, as well as Psychology, Sociology, and Political Science.
The 2017 conference theme is “Memory, Culture, and Identity”, and seeks to explore the links between community and the people they create, as well as cultural and individual memory and identity as it evolves over time. We will accept a wide range of presentations within this broader topic.
Submissions are due by March 20, 2017
For questions please email untgradenglish@gmail.com
The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities
November 2-4, 2017, University
of Central Florida, Orlando
In 2017, we invite
you to join us at the University of Central Florida to explore “The Possible
Worlds of Digital Humanities.” Orlando is known to tourists worldwide for theme
parks that bring to life many imagined worlds and narratives, most of which
reflect back to us dominant discourses and ideologies. Likewise, digital
humanities struggles with building towards a future that is more inclusive and
interdisciplinary. This year, we hope to address the unsolved hard problems and
explore the new opportunities of the digital humanities.
Submissions
Deadline: April 7, 2017
Ecocritical Approaches to Comics and Graphic Novels
Requesting proposals
for papers that examine comics and graphic novels considering any aspect of
ecocriticism for a special session at the 2018 MLA Conference.
Please send 250-word
abstracts and bio by March 15 to Juan Meneses (juan.meneses@uncc.edu)
In-Between Empires: Trans-imperial History in a Global
Age
Freie Universität Berlin, September 15-16, 2017
Imperial history has been booming for quite a while. Along
the way, innovative approaches such as post-colonial history, global history,
or new imperial history have provided us with thrilling insights into the
omnipresence and the everydayness of the human experience of empires. Amidst
all this diversity, many studies have focussed on entanglements between
colonies and metropoles, but much less is known about trans-imperial dimensions
of the game. On an empirical basis, inter-imperial perspectives, which compare
several empires or consider competition between them, have become more
important lately. Yet, such studies are scattered and this kind of research
remains in its infancy. We still lack an overarching theoretical-methodological
framework with which to address the spaces in-between empires. In other words:
whereas national history has been transnationalized in the past decades, the
same does not hold true for the history of empires. Thus, we would like to
address the current state of research and at the same time ask how a future
trans-imperial history could look.
Please submit abstracts (250-300 words) by March 15
Contact Email: hedinger.daniel@gmail.com
Artist-Audience Collaboration
Jan 4-7, 2018; NYC
Works of literature,
the visual arts, drama, dance, and music have long been addressed to readers,
viewers, and listeners, both real and imagined. Whether implicit or explicit,
the ways artists address, court, and affect their audiences are crucial to
understanding their work. But while traditional ideas about audience often
denote passive reception or disinterested judgment, certain artistic forms
recast the observer as an active participant and/or collaborator in the
construction of the art object’s meaning. This proposed panel for the MLA 2018
convention will attend to such exchanges with focus on the ways in which modern
and postmodern art enjoins our attention to the contours of the artist-audience
relationship by encouraging interaction, participation, and/or collaboration.
Please submit
250-word abstracts, CV, and A/V needs by March 15, 2017 to the panel
co-organizers: Alexandra Gold (agold25@bu.edu) and Frank Capogna (f.capogna@northeastern.edu).
Echoes of Fascism in Contemporary Culture, Society and
Politics
SUSSEX CENTRE FOR
CULTURAL STUDIES
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
FRIDAY MAY 26TH 2017
Within the past
year, we have witnessed a number of alarming social and political developments
in the UK but also globally. The success of the Brexit campaign in the UK, the
election of Donald Trump in the USA and his recent imposition of a travel ban,
have all been dependent on racially charged ideologies, and accompanied by a
notable rise in racist, misogynist, and homophobic attacks in the UK and in
other Western countries, as the Far Right mobilises and becomes more
legitimated. The conference will provide an opportunity to consider the
historical backdrop of contemporary conservative movements. Parallels have
frequently been drawn in the media between, for example, 1930s German fascism
and the contemporary political and social landscape.
Deadline for submissions:
March 15th 2017
Contact Email: sccsconferences@sussex.ac.uk
Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities 2017:
The cultural value of collections and the creative economy
Monday, 27th -
Wednesday 29th November 2017, Manchester
In today’s uncertain
political and economic climate the ability to demonstrate why heritage and
culture matter – and to whom - has never been more important or relevant. The
ways in which we gather, measure and present evidence of cultural value and
impact has attracted increasing attention in recent years, as emphasis has led
to a stronger focus on the experience of individuals and of communities.
Archives, libraries, museums and heritage organisations across the UK and
further afield have played a leading role in this movement. They have actively
looked to examine, capture and measure the wider social, cultural and economic
impact of their collections, and to engage more effectively with a wider variety
of audiences. Work in this area continues to evolve, as does the need for new
and better ways of evidencing value and impact through continuing research and
the effective sharing of experiences within and between sectors. DCDC17 will
consider how, by working collaboratively through networks of inter and
crossdisciplinary initiatives, we can continue to improve and develop
methodologies in order to build a strong evidence base to demonstrate the
cultural value of collections and their contribution to the creative economy.
All abstracts should
be submitted to both Melanie Cheung (melanie.cheung@rluk.ac.uk) and Laura Tompkins (Laura.Tompkins@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk) by Sunday 30 April.
Heritage, Art, Memory, and Agency
3- 5 November 2017,
Amsterdam
This conference will
explore the relationship between contemporary and historical archaeology and
cultural memory narratives. We will take an interdisciplinary approach to
artefacts and people, examining the agency of art, and how humans, material
culture, and non-human actors interact to form identities, and to create,
perpetuate, and or challenge social hierarchies, taboos, and a sense of place.
We welcome papers
discussing ethics, responsibility and professionalism in archaeology, memory
and heritage politics, transmission and engagement with art and cultural
heritage, and any other themes that help us explore how heritage, art, memory
and agency impact societal actualities as well as how archaeological research
can be a force for societal change.
The call for papers
will close on 31st March 2017
Contact Email: n.a.munawar@uva.nl
International Conference on Humanities, Social Sciences
and Sustainability
We are pleased to
welcome you to the International Conference on Humanities, Social Sciences and
Sustainability (IXSUS 2017) held Monday and Tuesday, October 30-31, 2017 at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu. With
the theme of ‘Resilience’ the conference will promote a critical understanding
of the innovative and organic approaches from the humanities and social
sciences toward sustainability. Our shared biosphere and rapid globalization
ensure no country is immune from another’s problems and risks, which means a
collective and multidisciplinary approach is essential for integrating
environmental and cultural sustainability.
We welcome
submission of 250 words in English by Friday, July 28, 2017.
Contact Email: secretariat@intesda.org
Postcolonialism in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Wednesday 17th May
2017, University of Birmingham
The ‘Postcolonialism
in Interdisciplinary Perspective’ conference will create a platform for
postgraduate students to discuss emerging concerns within Postcolonial Studies
across a range of geographic and disciplinary boundaries, including Area
Studies, History, Literature and Cultural Studies.
This one-day event,
which will be hosted at the University of Birmingham, will provide
postgraduates with an interdisciplinary forum for networking, collaboration and
information exchange, as well as an opportunity to share and receive feedback
on current research in a friendly setting. It will also provide postgraduates
with the opportunity to become aware of state-of-the-art research by experts in
their field and to orient their own work within this context.
Deadline: March 15
Please contact
the Postcolonial Midlands Team at postcolonialmidlands@gmail.com
PUBLISHING
Media, Identity, and
Online Communities in a Changing Arab World
This special issue will examine the role of new media in the
construction of online communities in the Arab world. It is important to understand
how user-generated content empowers these new publics and the novel communities
established by user comments on social media and news websites. Specifically, there is a need to research
these online communities and their perceptions of the role of user-generated
content to contribute to politics, and potentially engage other citizens in the
public debate. For these reasons, this
special issue seeks to answer the following questions: What characterizes these
online users’ communities? What are their motivations? How do they perceive the role of news
websites’ commenting functions in promoting political engagement? The editors
welcome contributions that are theoretically informed and empirically rigorous,
employing qualitative and/or quantitative research methods.
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 25, 2016
Contact Email: tiproject@dohainstitute.edu.qa
Food
and Urbanism
The focus of this special issue of
the Journal of Urbanism is to explore and extend our knowledge and
understanding of the ways that food and urbanism interconnect in diverse
urbanism contexts worldwide. We call for papers that explore, generally through
a primary research focus, the ways that food influences placemaking and can help
or hinder sustainable urbanism outcomes. The aim is to add to the body of
knowledge about food and urbanism with a view to advancing both conceptual and
theoretical frameworks and showcasing specific applied research findings. We
welcome papers concentrating on (but not limited to) a range of urbanism scales
that might extend from the domestic to the region, a diversity of food centred
research sites, and in relation to any aspect or aspects of the food system
from production, through distribution, exchange, consumption, and 'waste'.
Deadline for final paper submission:
September 1, 2017
Contact Email: matthew.hardy@princes-foundation.org
Dealing
with the Past: Mapping the Edges of "Historical Dialogue"
The Forum Kritika on Historical
Dialogue seeks to map the edges of the field, to disentangle the different
readings of the expression “historical dialogue” along disciplinary, regional,
religious, ethnic and class lines, to name but a few. While these questions are
relevant for the term “historical dialogue” in and of itself, they have emerged
in productive and compelling ways as a result of the digital humanities,
“Mapping Historical Dialogues Project” (MHDP), developed at Columbia
University, and part of the Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network.
The objective of this digital project is to map existing stakeholders who are
engaged in historical dialogue and who use historical narrative to respond to
drivers of conflict or as a means of conflict transformation. The project thus
seeks to describe the impact that the memory of sectarian and national violence
has on contemporary politics, to establish the norms of historical dialogue,
and to explore how this knowledge facilitates work towards conflict
transformation, reconciliation, peacebuilding, and democracy promotion,
particularly in post-conflict countries.
full articles due June 30, 2017
Contact Email: al223@columbia.edu
Collection on Undocumented Youth
Because undocumented
young people are part of our classrooms and communities, this book considers
how scholarship in rhetoric and composition can respond to the continuing
precarities of this population. Expanding on the work that has been done in
relation to migrant literacies and positionalities, this collection seeks to
more directly put these strands into conversation through a focus on
undocumented youth, with new work that encompasses activism, policy analysis,
post- and de-colonial critique, transnationalism, and others. This collection
will be the first of its kind to bring together work on undocumented youth
within the discipline of rhetoric and composition. The book will also feature
writing by undocumented college students, as their voices are of utmost
importance in this sociohistorical moment.
All proposals are
due by August 1, 2017
Contact Email: undocumentedcollection@gmail.com
Special Issue of Southern Cultures: Southern Things
We seek 1,500–2,500
word essays related to a specific object that speaks to the many voices and
experiences of southern lives. Those “Southern things” might possess the power
of the canonical, in the form of objects that range from a Charleston single house
to a beignet in New Orleans to a Catawba pot. Southern things, though, might
also be unexpected and revelatory in the sense of a sun-warmed strawberry or a
river-smooth rock or a frayed cardboard church fan. The heart of our enterprise
is that southern identities are tethered to things, some fleeting, some
enduring. Southern things can be affirming or subversive—but most of all they
speak through their very materiality to the intimacy of southern identities.
We will be accepting
submissions for this special issue through April 10, 2017, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/Submit.
Contact Email: hello@southerncultures.org
The Digital Black Atlantic
We position this
volume on the “Digital Black Atlantic” as a transnational one that centers both
digital humanities approaches to the African diaspora and African diasporic
approaches to digital humanities. The geographic sweep of the volume is wide,
including scholarship on African American, Afro-Canadian, Afro-Latinx, Caribbean,
and Black British culture; scholarship examining digital humanities from
countries in Africa and the Caribbean; and transnational approaches that
embrace the affordances of digital humanities to negotiate the challenges of
understanding race, migration, mobility, blackness, and more in transnational
contexts. We are seeking scholarship that blends theory and method while
shedding light on the current debates driving this scholarship.
Deadline for
500-Word Abstracts: April 1, 2017
Please contact
Roopika Risam (rrisam@salemstate.edu)
and/or Kelly Baker Josephs (kjosephs@york.cuny.edu)
with any questions.
Articles
on Radicalism
JSR: Journal for the Study of
Radicalism—a print academic journal published by Michigan State University
Press—announces a call for articles and reviews for our twelfth year of issues.
We are interested in articles on radicalism in a wide range of contexts and
areas, and encourage articles from humanities and social science perspectives.
Our next thematic issues will include anarchism, including
Black Bloc activism, ecological radicalism, animal rights radicalism, and
right-wing forms of radicalism. We are particularly interested in articles on
transnational subjects as well as on lesser-known examples of radicalism, as
well as in articles that include theoretical and methodological considerations.
Send queries or completed articles to the editors at jsr@msu.edu by September
1, 2017
America
Unfinished
USAbroad – Journal of American
History and Politics is pleased to announce its first call for proposals:
papers should discuss the idea of “America Unfinished” from different
perspectives. With this expression, we are pointing to the never-ending process
of social and political reinvention of the American nation. Suitable essays
should engage with the twofold meaning of the term “unfinished”, which recalls
both the lights (the constantly evolving ability of American citizens and
government to reinvent themselves in the face of new historical, national, and
international challenges, keeping the promise for a better future) and shadows
(racism, sexism, social hierarchies, economic inequality; the “end of the
American century”, the post-American world, etc.) of the American nation and
nationalism, based on constantly striving for a more “perfectible” Union.
Abstract deadline: March 30
Contact Email: usabroad@unibo.it
Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality and Social
Justice
This collection
seeks to explore the multiple, variable, and embodied experiences of fat
oppression and fat activisms. Moving beyond an analysis of fat oppression as
singular, this book will aim to unpack the volatility of fat—the mutability of
fat embodiments as they correlate with other embodied subjectivities, and the
threshold where fat begins to be reviled, celebrated, or amended. In addition,
Thickening Fat aims to explore the full range of intersectional and liminal
analyses that push beyond the simple addition of two or more subjectivities,
looking instead at the complex alchemy of layered and unstable markers of
difference and privilege.
Thickening Fat
welcomes but is not limited to scholarly analysis, primary research, critical
personal narrative, and artistic works.
To submit a proposal
for inclusion in this collection, send a 300-500 word abstract, using 12-point
font, double-spaced, and saved in a .doc or .docx Word file. Please also
include a 50-word biography with your submission. Abstracts and bios should be
sent via email to co-editors Jen Rinaldi (Jen.Rinaldi@uoit.ca), May Friedman (may.friedman@ryerson.ca), and Carla Rice (carlar@uoguelph.ca). Abstracts must be received by April 1, 2017 to
be considered.
Sexual and reproductive health and rights in humanitarian
crises
Through this new
issue, we intend to contribute to the growing global conversation, commitments,
and momentum regarding SRHR in humanitarian settings by taking stock of
progress (or regressions) in this area, building the evidence base, and
widening the discussion to include marginalized and under-represented voices.
We are also broadening the scope of the conversation, moving beyond situations
of acute conflict and crisis to consider SRHR within a wider context of
humanitarian settings, along with different phases of a crisis or recovery
process.
Deadline: 1 May 2017
From Boom Boom to
Malcolm: Representations of Black Male Students in American Popular Culture
This edited collection takes the position that popular
representations of Black male students serve as more than mere sources of
entertainment. In fact, they are representations worthy of critical
exploration. Chapter contributors will question if visual representations truly
offer non-stereotypical representations; analyze the depictions of film and
television characters’ academic and social experiences; examine the
interactions between students, teachers, and school administrators; explore
Black male students in various genres of film; identify the ways current Black
male students interpret their visual representations; centralize the Black male
student voice in social media; and discuss Black male student activism.
April 1, 2017: Proposal Submission Deadline
Contact Email: drheathermoore@gmail.com
Special Issue of NANO: The Anthropocene
The aim of this NANO special issue is to explore what shape
this new humanism is taking and how literature, film, art, philosophy – really
the breadth of the humanities – are responding to the Anthropocene’s
challenges. What does art made for a dying planet look like? Do artists,
intellectuals, and critics see our species as moribund? What moral, ethical,
and political challenges face citizens of the Anthropocene? What stories do we
tell ourselves about civilization’s (inevitable) end? What value or purpose do
such tales have? Can a new humanism save us?
Submission deadline: December 2, 2017
Direct questions to the Special Issue co-editors: Kyle
Wiggins [kwiggins@bu.edu] and Brandon Krieg
[Brandon.Krieg@westminster-mo.edu].
Call for Publication: The Sacrifice of Survival
The editors of
JOSTES are looking for scholarly articles between 5,000 and 8,000 words which
address our theme: “The Sacrifice of Survival.”
We encourage contributors to reflect on English Studies (both
undergraduate and graduate) and themes that reflect the idea of survival,
narrowly or broadly, literally or metaphorically, personally or
professionally. We encourage submissions
from literature (American, British, or other literature written in English),
linguistics, rhetoric, composition, literary theory, pedagogy and the English
classroom, and academia itself.
Submission deadline:
May 15, 2017
Contact Email: southtexasenglishstudies@gmail.com
Engaging Issues of Gender and Equity: Ethical, Political,
Economic and Cultural Considerations
The upcoming issue
of Phylon is devoted to a critical
interdisciplinary examination of issues of gender and equity from various
vantage points—ethical, political, economic and culture. The conceptual
categories of gender and equity come with complexities and varied meanings, and
thus offer a wide range of possibilities of critical engagement and fruitful
discourse. Gender refers essentially to a socially constructed interpretation
of sexual difference that assigns different value, status, roles,
responsibilities, opportunities and access to resources, power, agency,
decision-making, and freedom to women and men, and girls and boys, privileging
men and boys. Ideologies of gender are used to justify these inequalities and
to enshrine them into law, policies and religiously and socially sanctioned
practices. We invite submissions
from across the disciplines and encourage interdisciplinary, comparative and
internationally oriented scholarship.
Papers should be
written in the Chicago Author Date System; be no more than thirty-five
double-space pages and use Times New Roman 12 font. They should be submitted to
the Managing Editor at shunter@cau.edu no later than April 1, 2017
Popular Revolt and the Global Working Class
Journal of
Working-Class Studies Special Issue
Epitomised by
Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and Australia’s hard line on asylum
seekers, we are living in a time of global revolt against establishment systems
of governance. Working-class, poor, and other disenfranchised people are appearing
as both agents and casualties of change.
What can help
explain this moment? Economic precarity, nationalism, protectionist sentiments,
xenophobia, anti-elitist resentment, or a combination of these elements? Who
truly suffers, and who benefits, from times when, as Michael Moore suggested,
the masses throw a ‘human Molotov cocktail’ like Trump at politics-as-usual, or
use the Brexit referendum as a way to send a message? And how is class uniquely
shaping this moment of popular revolt, reaction, and — on a more hopeful note
—potential ‘consciousness raising’ around the intersection of class with issues
like immigration, refugee sanctuary, health care, environmental degradation,
and human rights more generally?
The deadline for
submissions is March 31, 2017
Contact Email: editorial@workingclassstudiesjournal.com
Queering the Transpacific: Asian American, American and
Asian Queer Studies
In an era of
neo-nationalism and the waning of Pax Americana, Asia ascends and transpacific
tensions rise, evident in both Obama’s Pivot to Asia and Trump’s America First
policies. A post-national Asian/American
studies is thinking more robustly about transpacific relations that pay more
attention to histories of Afro-Asian solidarity and methods of comparison
beyond Asian nationalism and economic relations alone. What this means for queer critique is less
clear, however. Critiques of
homonationalism as well as formulations of queer international studies have
pushed for critical approaches to Western international policy and its racial
and gendered legacies. Queer studies in Asia takes intra-national and regional
approaches that provincialize the West, including questioning the “origin-copy”
relations between US and Asian queer studies; yet, in many Asian academic
contexts, feminist and queer studies are still marginalized and often regarded
as “Western” as a reflection of the Euro-American-centrism or assumed
universalism of feminist and queer studies in the West. Seldom is the transpacific considered as an
historical genealogy and theoretical possibility that cuts across the
aforementioned disciplinary formations.
Potential
contributors should send 250-word abstracts to queer.transpacific@gmail.com by 31 March 2017.
Stranger Things: Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and
Innocence
I am looking for
proposals for chapters for a book on the Netflix series Stranger Things to be
published by McFarland & Company. As the book title suggests, the
overarching theme of the volume is how the series creates, evokes, uses and
exploits the eighties, eighties culture and contemporary nostalgia for both.
Successful proposals will link an aspect of Stranger Things with an eighties
counterpart and explore how the series engages that aspect of Reagan-era
culture.
I will accept
abstracts on a rolling basis up until April 30, 2017
Contact Email: kwetmore@lmu.edu
FUNDING
Marbach Weimar
Wolfenbüttel Research Association research fellowship
The German Literature Archive Marbach, the Klassik Stiftung
Weimar and the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel provide access to more than
500 years of German and European cultural history. One of the MWW’s main aims
is to develop innovative research projects which focus attention on the
extensive collections in the archives, libraries and museums at all three
institutions and thus provide forward-looking impulses for humanities and
cultural studies research. There are currently three joint research projects:
Writer´s Libraries, Politics of the Image, and Text and Frame. Further
information about these projects is available on the MWW website: www.mww-forschung.de/en/research-projects.
Researchers at the doctoral level are eligible
Applications should be submitted in German or English by
31 March 2017.
Contact Email: sonja.asal@mww-forschung.de
Barnard Library
Research Awards
The Barnard Library will award two grants of $2,500 to
researchers using its Archives, Zine Library or Barnard Center for Research on
Women (BCRW) collection.
The purpose of this program is to expand social justice and
feminist research by sharing with activists, artists, independent scholars and
academics the material at Barnard. Undergraduate and graduate students, adjunct
and term faculty, professors, journalists and independent scholars are
encouraged to apply. Jury members will take an intersectional approach to
evaluating applications.
Applications will be accepted through April 1, 2017
Clarke Chambers
Travel Fellowships for Archival Research
Early-career scholars and those working on a dissertation
are encouraged to apply for the Clarke Chambers Travel Fellowship for research
at the Social Welfare History Archives and/or the Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Areas of focus may include, but are not limited to, the non-profit and social
welfare sector, youth studies, physical culture and health and wellness, public
health, American Protestantism, international adoption, and wartime
programs. Proposals to use materials
from both archives are also accepted. Funds may be used for transportation,
lodging, meals, and scanning.
Deadline April 15th.
Contact Email: ande3748@umn.edu
Invention of the Environment in Architecture
With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as part
of the Architecture, Urbanism and Humanities initiative, the CCA will run a
research project to analyze and historicize the ways in which architecture has
constructed our socio-spatial relations with nature since industrialization and
has reinvented the environment through using resources, in causing footprints
and impacts, and by thinking in cycles and systems. The grants will support
original research on specific projects or building materials, on architectural
concepts or techniques, and on topical publications or events that provide
concrete cases for a new history of architecture’s relationship to the
environment.
First, the CCA will invite sixteen shortlisted applicants to
participate in a multiday Mellon Seminar, which will take place in Montreal in
mid-July 2017. Seminar participants will discuss their individual projects and
debate the conceptual terms and the methodological tasks of contending with the
environment through history. All sixteen shortlisted applicants will receive a
stipend to attend the Mellon Seminar. However, following a peer-review process,
only eight applicants will be selected to return for the second phase of the
project, and participate in the Mellon Research Project.
Deadline: April 21
Contact Email: studium@cca.qc.ca
Yale LGBT Studies
Research Fellowship
Scholars from across the country and around the world are
invited to apply for the Yale LGBT Studies Research Fellowship. This fellowship
supports scholars from any field pursuing research in lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, and/or queer studies at Yale University, utilizing the vast
faculty resources, manuscript archives, and library collections available at
Yale. Graduate students conducting dissertation research, independent scholars,
and all faculty are invited to apply. Scholars residing within 100 miles of New
Haven are ineligible.
The fellowship provides an award of $4,000, which is
intended to pay for travel to and from New Haven and act as a living allowance.
The application deadline for the 2017-2018 Fellowship is
April 21, 2017.
If you have any
questions, please email lgbts@yale.edu
Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the
South
To support the study of southern history and promote the use
of the collections housed at the University of Alabama, the Frances S. Summersell
Center for the Study of the South and the University of Alabama Libraries will
offer a total of eight fellowships in the amount of $500 each for researchers
whose projects entail work to be conducted in southern history or southern
studies at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library (http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/),
the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection (http://www.lib.ua.edu/collections/williams/),
or in other University of Alabama collections.
Deadline: March 28, 2017
Any questions about the fellowships may be directed to John
Giggie, Director of the Summersell Center, at jmgiggie@ua.edu or 205.348.1859. More
information about the Summersell Center is available at www.scss.ua.edu, and on our Facebook
page.
Short-term fellowships at the Interdisciplinary Centre
for European Enlightenment Studies
Every year, the
Centre offers research fellowships for the study of the Enlightenment. These
fellowships give young researchers and experienced scholars alike the
opportunity to spend two to three months working in optimal conditions on a
theme broadly related to the field of Enlightenment Studies. Among other
opportunities, fellows will have the possibility to use the Centre’s library
and its numerous primary and secondary sources and to get in touch with experts
in the field of Enlightenment Studies working at the centre. The fellowships
are generously funded by the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Science
and Culture (Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur).
Contact Email: andrea.thiele@izea.uni-halle.de
WORKSHOPS
Summer Arabic Programs
The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at
the American University of Beirut (AUB) is pleased to announce that it will be
offering its intensive summer Arabic programs in Beirut between June 21 and
August 9, 2017. CAMES offers two separate programs:
1. A seven-week program in Arabic language and culture that
is designed for students interested in developing overall proficiency in Arabic
in both its Standard and Lebanese varieties.
2. A seven-week program in Lebanese Arabic (LA) that offers
intensive instruction in LA at the intermediate level.
The application deadline is April 12, 2017
Contact Email: cames@aub.edu.lb
Advocacy and
migration policies
24 – 28 July 2017, Bucharest
The International Summer School ”Advocacy and Migration Policies” is open to
students and professionals working in the field of migration and human rights,
interested to find more about migration from different perspectives, to know
people from this area and to have the opportunity to change ideas and know-how
about migration policies.
The summer school will expose the participants to a selected
core of knowledge on migration, the politics of migration and key-tools to
influence the migration policies. It offers the participants the opportunity to
interact with and benefit from the experience of speakers and specialized
organisations.
Updated information about the summer school will be
available at http://www.summerschool.cdcdi.ro.
30 April 2017 –
deadline for application
Contact Email: office@cdcdi.ro
RESOURCES
Katherine Spilde Papers (Tribal Gaming) Now Available for
Research
Katherine A. Spilde, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist who
specializes in the social, economic, and political impact of casino gaming on
American Indian tribal governments and communities in the United States. Her
papers include materials she collected about Native American gaming and the
greater gaming industry. The materials date from 1789 to 2015, with the bulk of
materials dating from 1995 to 2010. Materials dating from the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries are reproductions of key court opinions and treaties
concerning Native American rights and sovereignty. The majority of the
materials document Native American gaming following the passage of the 1988
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA). The papers detail Native American gaming
enterprises both on and off reservations, the socioeconomic impact of gaming,
and the legislative history of Native American gaming in the United States. The
papers include research and subject files created by Dr. Spilde during her
employment with the National Gambling Impact Study Commission (NGISC), the
National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA), and the Harvard Project on American
Indian Economic Development (HPAIED).
Contact Email: dgs@unlv.nevada.edu
URL: http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/ead/MS_2013-28_Katherine_Spilde.pdf;
https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol
Structuring Equality: A Handbook for Student-Centered
Learning and Teaching Practices
We are very proud to
announce the publication of Structuring Equality: A Handbook to Student-Centered Learning and
Teaching Practices by the Graduate Center (CUNY) Learning Collective and edited
by a team of undergraduate students from throughout the City University of New
York. Published with generous support from the Teagle Foundation, the book
includes essays, lesson plans, and assignments that turn the principles and
theories of engaged, active learning into ways to structure equality in the
classroom and throughout academe.
Full content
accessible through the above URL.
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