CONFERENCES
Conflicted Bodies: Feminist and Queer
Responses to Militarism and Violence since 1900
Goldsmiths
(University of London), 30th September 2017
How might
logics of militarism, patriarchy and heteronormativity be enmeshed and
interdependent? By the same token, how might feminist, queer and pacifist
politics draw on each other in the struggle for equality and against war? How
do cultural representations in the media, art and literature shape and
normalise such heteronormative practices? In thinking through the potential
tensions and alliances between these ideologies, this conference seeks to
reconsider the relations between gender, sexuality and violence.
Abstracts
due April 30 to chasegsv@gmail.com
Power and Struggle Conference
The GHA
Conference seeks submissions concerning, but not limited to, the following
topics:
Power in
institutions, society, and religion; Struggle in cultural expression, social
relationships, and belief systems; Power in discourse on gender, race, and
class; Struggle against labels in nationalism, ethnicity, sub-culture, or
sexual identity; Power in traditional structures such as politics, diplomacy,
imperialism, and war; Struggle in resistance such as crime, protest,
liberation, and revolution
Single
papers should include a 300-word abstract and a one-page CV of the presenter.
Full-panel proposals will be accepted.
Deadline for
proposal submission is April 25, 2017. Final papers should be submitted to
commentators by September 1, 2017. For
more information please email the committee at ghaconference@gmail.com.
Contact
Email: sacraddock@crimson.ua.edu
OAH Committee on Community Colleges
The
Committee on Community Colleges for the Organization of American Historians is
hosting a teaching-oriented workshop for the 2018 OAH meeting in Sacramento,
California (April 5-8). Since 2009, the
OAH community college workshop at the annual conference provides an opportunity
for community college faculty to meet and explore issues of common interest. The theme for this year’s meeting is “Teaching
in an Era of Partisanship.” All of us
have dealt with partisanship throughout our careers, but the recent election,
advent of fake news, and hardening and broadening of media along partisan lines
has made it increasingly challenging for teachers and professors to deal with
controversial material. Yet, deal with
it we must, since controversy is inherent in teaching meaningful history. We encounter a variety of students across the
country and encourage instructors from a wide range of demographics to submit a
paper.
We are
accepting proposals for papers until May 31, 2017.
Please
forward your 200 to 300-word proposal and CV to: Andrew Barbero: abarbero@pensacolastate.edu
“1977-2017: The IWY National Women’s
Conference In Retrospect”
November
5-7, 2017, University of Houston
This year
marks the 40th Anniversary of the 1977 National Women’s Conference, the domestic
answer to the United Nations’ International Women’s Year initiative. During a
three day conference, November 5-7, we aim to take stock of this momentous feat
as well as consider the separate concerns articulated at a “pro-family”
counter-convention held in Houston simultaneously. A scholarly academic
symposium will coincide with a delegate and observer reunion. Commemorative
activities will occur simultaneous to academic sessions and begin the prior
weekend. In holding two events at once, we seek a cross-pollination of ideas
and action, bringing together academics and activists, current and lifetime
students and teachers, and those that remember being there alongside those who
seek to carry the torch forward.
Submission
deadline: July 15, 2017
Contact
Email: nyoung@central.uh.edu
Peace & Justice Studies Association:
“Moving...From Civil Rights to Human Rights"
October
25-29, 2017, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
As peace
scholars, educators, and activists, we are challenged with a new reality. We
must make a response. We must build a movement embracing the values and
principles of justice and peace-building.
We invite
proposals from graduate, undergraduate, professional scholars, educators, and
activists on all topics related to peace, justice, human rights, civil rights,
and building a new movement to challenge our culture. At this year’s
conference, we invite you to explore methods and strategies that not only
address the challenging attributes of our relationships and our world, but also
showcase the success of visionary projects and movements that have built new
ways of being and doing (that is, building the world we want) from the
interpersonal to the global. In our emphasis on justice and peace, we
especially encourage submissions and participation from individuals and
communities whose voice historically has been marginalized.
Early Bird
Registration Rates & Proposal Submission Deadline: June 1, 2017.
Contact
Email: Info@peacejusticestudies.org
Vital
Constitutions - Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference - Department of Art
History
October 13-14, 2017, Rice University |
Houston, Texas
Rice
University’s Department of Art History is delighted to introduce its inaugural
graduate conference, Vital Constitutions, which seeks to problematize the
nature of “health.” All living forms—from biological to social bodies—realize
unique ways to survive and at times thrive in tenuous and hostile environments.
Vital Constitutions aims to explore the conference title broadly in relation to
structures by which bodies, communities, societies and environments have
adapted, and been sustained, when such structures become precarious. We hope to
challenge claims of normativity by considering how objects, institutions, and
the “natural” environment affect conceptions of vitality. Questions for consideration
include: How have representations of the well, the sick, treatment, and
contagion been visualized? In what ways have discursive languages surrounding
“health” expanded and contracted, and to what societal effect? How do terms
such as “anthropocene,” “global warming,” “climate change,” or “preservation”
impact ecological debates and actions? When and through what methods have
humans placed needs for “health”—be it of the biological or social body—above
all else? How have artists, scientists, activists, grassroots leaders, and
intellectuals grappled with representations and realities of care and
castigation visually and conceptually across time and geography?
Please send
submissions to vitalconstitutions@gmail.com by June
16, 2017.
Current Research in Digital History:
conference and peer-reviewed proceedings
March 17,
2018 — George Mason University, Arlington, VA
The Roy
Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media invites submissions for the first
annual Current Research in Digital History conference. Submissions should offer
historical arguments and interpretations rather than showcase digital projects.
We anticipate that the format of short presentations will provide an
opportunity to make arguments on the basis of ongoing research in larger
projects. Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals. Some travel
funding is available. Presentations will be peer-reviewed and published in an
online publication that accommodates dynamic visualizations and narrative.
Submissions
are due by September 29, 2017.
The
conference website is available at http://crdh.rrchnm.org/.
Papers for consideration and questions about the CFP may be sent to Lincoln Mullen.
Practicing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
in Twenty-First-Century Honors Education
Bowling
Green State University, Wednesday, October 25 - Friday, October 27, 2017
Across the
nation, Honors Programs and Colleges typically demonstrate a marked commitment
to fostering and supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion both in and beyond
the classroom. Yet honors education consistently is critiqued for its lack of
diversity. For instance, admission standards to Honors Programs and Colleges
often significantly limit minoritized student involvement. Even when
minoritized students are admitted to Honors Programs and Colleges, often such
students do not complete an honors education due to lack of academic
preparation, negative internal or/and external perceptions of “a typical honors
student,” lack of support networks, or some other reason that speaks profoundly
to the lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion in twenty-first-century honors
education. Furthermore, an exclusive curriculum like the Great Books tradition
might discourage minoritized student and faculty involvement, and often this
lack of involvement is further exacerbated by inaccessible curriculum design
or/and alienating pedagogical practices. This two-day conference will focus on
specific practices in honors education that are designed to foster diversity,
equity, and inclusion.
Deadline for
submission: 1 June 2017
Contact
Email: kaceef@bgsu.edu
Conflicted Bodies: Feminist and Queer
Responses to Militarism and Violence since 1900
30th
September, 2017, Goldsmiths, University of London
How might
logics of militarism, patriarchy and heteronormativity be enmeshed and
interdependent? By the same token, how might feminist, queer and pacifist
politics draw on each other in the struggle for equality and against war? How
do cultural representations in the media, art and literature shape and
normalise such heteronormative practices? In thinking through the potential
tensions and alliances between these ideologies, this conference seeks to
reconsider the relations between gender, sexuality and violence.
Contact
Email: chasegsv@gmail.com
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? Related topics include the globalization of memory, and with it
the increasing popularity of commemorative memorial practices. 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
Cultures
of Occupation Conference - January 2018
University of Nottingham (UK)
The aim of this three-day conference (January
12-14, 2018), organised through the ERC-funded 'Cultures of Occupation in
Twentieth Century Asia' (COTCA) project, is to bring scholars from a range of
disciplines, backgrounds, and countries together to explore the fundamental
question which drives the COTCA project itself: how does 'foreign occupation'
(broadly defined) shape cultural expression? Although the focus of COTCA is
Asia, we welcome submissions from scholars working on occupation in other parts
of the world, such as the Middle East, Europe, the Pacific, the Americas, etc.
The organisers are particularly interested in comparative or theoretical papers
which will help speak to a wider audience beyond specific cases of
'occupation'.
Contact
Email: COTCA2018@nottingham.ac.uk
Ways of Knowing: 6th Annual Graduate
Conference on Religion at Harvard Divinity School
October
26-28, 2017
We seek
papers that explore religious practices and modes of knowing, especially in
relation to this year’s central theme, “Religion and Migration”. We welcome the
use of all sorts of theoretical tools, including discourse analysis, gender
theory, queer theory, race theory, disability theory, postcolonial theory, performance
theory, and ritual theory. Papers may focus on any period, region, tradition,
group, or person. They may address a set of practices, texts, doctrines, or
beliefs. Projects that are primarily sociological, anthropological,
theological, ethical, textual, historical, or philosophical are welcome, as are
projects that draw on multiple disciplines. The central theme for this year’s
conference is “Religion and Migration.”
Proposals
are due by Friday, May 26 through the WOK 2017 Submission Portal: https://goo.gl/forms/GfbstgRvbWc1WHtt1.
Contact
Email: wokconference.harvardsrc@gmail.com
State
Reason/University Thought Conference
UC Irvine, November 2-3, 2017
“State Reason/University Thought” proposes to
bring together disparate considerations of the historical and contemporary role
of higher education in the reason of state. In distinction from many other
contemporary investigations of the university, this event seeks to interrogate
the intensity and complexity of the very relation between the university and
the state; to ask about the university as a social, psychic and historiographic
idea of state consolidation and rationalization.
The impetus for this undertaking comes from
two very different contemporary concerns about the university. Currently, on
the one hand, on every continent there is the discourse of criticism,
increasingly strident and anxious among humanists, of the privatization of the
university: an emptying out of what it was, could have been, or still could be,
in favor of economic interests; the incursion of market rationality into the
fragile autonomy of academic investigation. On the other hand, there is suspicion, formulated in tones ranging from
celebratory to paranoiac, that modes of university-thinking may have always
worked in service of processes and relations of domination implicated in
settler-colonialism, the racializing projects of state and law, the
sedimentation and transparency of white male eurocentric subjectivity, and the
foreclosure of alternative ways of life—traditional or non-normative—as well as
alternative imaginings of the future.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be
sent to universityandstateuci@gmail.com by July 15th, 2017.
The
Politics of Space and the Humanities
15-17 December 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece
The latest socio-cultural and political
developments on both sides of the Atlantic have again placed space at the
center of attention of current scholarship in the Humanities. The relation
between places, people, and geographies as caused by immigration, migration and
refugee flows, demographic changes, war tensions and conflicts, environmental
disasters, urban expansion, and mapping technologies has always been dynamic.
Nowadays, finding ourselves in the midst of change, we need to reconsider the
politicized nature of space, its impact on individuals and the shaping of
identity in a number of contexts within Anglophone literary and artistic
production that open up the Humanities to numerous other disciplines and
spatial interactions.
Deadline: May 31st, 2017.
Contact
Email: trapatz@enl.auth.gr
PUBLISHING
Masculinity
in Women’s Literature
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mr.
Bennett can never match the resourcefulness of his wife in her attempts to
settle their five daughters in life; Edgar Linton in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering
Heights is a caricature of manliness; in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and
Daughters, an only daughter, Molly Gibson, proves to be a better child to her
father than a son, Osborne Hamley, who fails his parents; George Eliot’s The
Mill on the Floss presents Maggie Tulliver as a far stronger, braver and
tougher character than her brother Tom.
This proposed volume aims at exploring how
women writers represent the concept of masculinity in their literary works. How
do they evaluate, challenge, mock, refute and/or regulate masculinity (or the
lack of it)? How do they relate it to femininity? Do they use their
representation of masculinity to contest male writers’ depiction of women and
womanhood?
700-word abstract along with a short bio due
June 18, 2017
Contact
Email: sroye@desu.edu
Edited
collection on Animation and Advertising
Animation and advertising have a shared
history and affinity, and they have a common social and historical context in
modernity. Animators and studios have relied upon regular income from the
advertising industry and seized the creative and technical challenges of this
form of filmmaking. Corporations and advertising agencies have embraced animation
as a way to distinctively embody products, brands, and values, and engage
consumers in factual or affective ways. Animated advertising has expanded
beyond the cinema screen, ranging from early illuminated billboards to new
media ubiquity.
Sharing in the growing interest in and
theorisation of ‘films that work’ (Hediger and Vonderau, 2009), or indeed
‘films that sell’ (Florin, De Klerk and Vonderau, 2016), this book will address
this nexus between advertising and animation to better understand how each has
been fundamental to the other’s development.
Proposals for chapters (7000-8000 words) in
this edited collection should include a chapter title, a brief abstract (400
words), and academic biography (100 words). These should be sent to the editors
Professor Kirsten Thompson (thompski@seattleu.edu)
and Dr Malcolm Cook (m.cook@soton.ac.ul)
before 15th May 2017.
Women in
the Military
The editors of the MCU Journal are looking
for submissions for consideration for an upcoming special issue of the journal
focused on women in the military. The theme is broadly defined, but some
examples of topics and disciplines of interest are listed below. Please feel free to contact the acquisitions
editor if you would like to propose an idea or approach not mentioned.
The journal is peer reviewed, is indexed, and
adheres to the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.). Articles should be 4,000-10,000 words,
including footnotes. Deadline for proposals is May 31, 2017. Drafts and submissions
ready for peer review should be in by July 31, 2017.
Please contact Dr. Alexandra Kindell,
acquisitions editor, at alexandra.kindell@usmcu.edu if
you are interested in participating or have any questions.
Currents
in Teaching and Learning
Currents in Teaching and Learning, a
peer-reviewed electronic journal that fosters exchanges among reflective
teacher-scholars across the disciplines, welcomes submissions for its Fall 2017
and Spring 2018 issues (Volume 10, Numbers 1-2).
We welcome all teaching and learning-related
submissions for the Fall 2017 Issue.The theme for the Spring 2018 issue is
“theories and practices of project-based and problem-based learning.”
Fall 2017 issue: August 15, 2017
Spring 2018 issue: December 1, 2017
Send all inquiries to Editor Martin Fromm or Editorial
Assistant Kayla Beman at currents@worcester.edu.
For submission guidelines, visit our website at www.worcester.edu/currents.
Literary
Atmospherics
A special theme section to be published in
the open-access journal Literary Geographies (literarygeographies.net)
Abstracts (200-250 words) for 5-7,000 word
essays should be emailed to Hsuan L. Hsu (hLhsu@ucdavis.edu)
by 20 June, 2017.
Revisiting
the Revolt of the Black Athlete
In 1967, the Revolt of the Black Athlete, the
appellation given to Civil Rights-Black Power era protests in sports, began in
earnest: heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused induction into the
U.S. military and continued to publically criticized U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War as imperialistic and racist and several groups of black athletes
launched protests against discrimination in sports and society, including a
campaign to raise awareness of black America’s discontent with the continuation
of institutionalized racism by boycotting the 1968 Olympics. Their collective
protest efforts led the media then and a few scholars since to examine the
experience of blacks in sports and the nexus of race and sport in American
society. Collectively, these works suggest that historically black communities
have attempted to use sports to demonstrate that blacks possessed the same
ability as whites, thus improving whites’ images of blacks, and consequently
bettering race relations. Secondly, that protests in sports, especially an
Olympic boycott, contradicted traditional black advancement means of using
sports and thus, was unpopular and lacked the sufficient support to
materialize.
Consequently, this is a call for chapters to
help expand our temporal, ideological, and chronological understandings of the
Revolt of the Black Athlete. In particular, the call seeks articles that
complicate the narrative concerning how black and other minorities have used or
viewed sports during the overlapping Cold War and Civil Rights periods.
Abstract submissions can be submitted to Dr.
Dexter L. Blackman at dexter.blackman@morgan.edu no
later than May 1, 2017. All abstracts are limited to 300 words.
Southern
Quarterly Call for Papers: Gone with the Wind
The Southern Quarterly invites submission of
original essays, 20 to 30 pages, for a special double issue on Replaying Gone
with the Wind: Voices of the New Souths to be edited by Philip C. Kolin. We
would like to receive manuscripts that explore this iconic film in light of
adaptations/parodies; post-South and postmodern readings; responses to the film
from reviewers and famous writers in non-English speaking countries; Southern
foodways; the film and World War II; the ways the film has been translated into
or reinterpreted in other media including music, art, dance, photography;
recasting gender/racial roles; etc. The journal welcomes contributions from a
variety of disciplines, unpublished interviews, and related archival materials.
Submission Deadline: 15 November 2017
Contact
Email: diane.ross@usm.edu
Counterculture
and its margins
Many recent publications have shown both the
usefulness and the ambiguity of both the terms counterculture and
countercultures (Bennett, 2014). Among them, we notice that the vast majority
focuses on the 60s, where counterculture is indivisible from the cultural and
social movements of the time (Roszak, 1969; Rochon, 1979; Heath and Potter,
2005; Dogget, 2007; Larose and Rondeau, 2016). Conversely, several researchers
treat that phenomenon as plural and transhistorical.
Numerous scholars use the plural form to
account for the variety of personal interpretations of the movement, as well as
the plurality of the social practices that make counterculture a polymorphic
object. In 1978 already, Jules Duchastel showed that counterculture puts
contrasts forward so as to allow everyone to express their individuality.
Monographs on the Québécois and American contexts rightly demonstrate that the
means of appropriation of several social characteristics associated with that
movement (pseudonyms, first names, hairdos, clothing, music, etc.) proceed, at
least in part, from a collective will to oppose their parents and society in
general. In that respect, individuals born during the baby boom wanted to
develop a set of codes and practices to confront canonical institutions.
This book will focus on the sociocultural
configuration that took place in the 60s and 70s, as well as its origins and
heritage.
The proposals, which can be in either French
or English, must be sent to Simon-Pier Labelle-Hogue (simon-pier.labelle-hogue@mail.mcgill.ca)
by April 30, 2017.
History
of Knowledge (Blog)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/174583/call-contributions-history-knowledge-blog
Do you do historical research involving
knowledge as a socially determined product of human beings and activities? If
so, you are involved in the history of knowledge. Whether or not you label
yourself and your work in such terms, we would like to hear from you. We invite
you to share some thoughts about your work on our blog, History of Knowledge.
Blog posts can be about a specific project or
historical phenomenon involving the formation, transmission, circulation, or
translation of knowledge. Or perhaps you would like to discuss a related book.
Or reflect on the broader meaning and potential of the history of knowledge.
Another possibility entails asking what constitutes knowledge as an object of
historiographical, anthropological, or sociological interest in the first place
and the relationship of knowledge to information, beliefs, and culture.
Contact
Email: stoneman@ghi-dc.org
Geospatial
Memory and the City
This special issue is devoted to considering
the potential for collective memory practices to gain insight into the
dimensions of geospatial media from north to south. We invite contributors to
interrogate the existing paradigms of spatial media analysis, as well as both
the practical and theoretical implications of developing methodologies that are
germane to the mediated experience of cities. Above all, this issue is devoted
to furthering the concept of geospatialmemory within critical media studies
broadly defined. By working though existing frameworks to re-examine the role
of spatial environments for the imagination, we aim to develop tools that are
commensurate with critical perspectives on geolocation and meaning-making in
the digital episteme.
Deadline for proposals is June 1st, 2017
Contact
Email: joshuasynenko@trentu.ca
FUNDING
Kimberly
S. Hanger Article Prize
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/174293/2017-lacs-kimberly-s-hanger-article-prize
Latin American and Caribbean Section of the
Southern Historical Association (LACS-SHA)
The 2017 Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize
will be awarded to the best article appearing in 2016 in the fields of Latin
American, Caribbean, American Borderlands and Frontiers, or Atlantic World
history.
Authors must be or become LACS members at the
time of submission. For information on LACS, see: http://www.tnstate.edu/lacs/index.aspx.
Contact
Email: omar.valerio-jimenez@utsa.edu
Deadline: May 15, 2017
World War
II Era Research Travel Grant Program
The Institute on World War II and the Human
Experience, Department of History, Florida State University anticipates
offering at least one $500 travel grant for scholars and graduate students
(ABD) to use the holdings of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience
in 2017-2018. The Institute welcomes specific inquiries regarding our holdings.
Please address them to Professor G. Kurt Piehler, Director, Institute on World
War II and the Human Experience at kpiehler@fsu.edu.
Deadline: May 1
Contact
Email: kpiehler@fsu.edu
URL:
http://ww2.fsu.edu/
Fellowship
in Post-Holocaust American Judaism
The Program in Jewish Studies and the
University of Colorado’s Libraries Special Collections and Archives annually
support a visiting scholar whose research interests take advantage of the
unique resources in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections. The
Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections hold and preserve materials
examining Judaism and the Jewish experience as a religious re-engagement,
social movement, and philosophy of spiritual transformation in America from the
late 1940s to the present. The 2017 fellow will have the opportunity to conduct
research in the following, premier Post-Holocaust American Judaism collections
held at CU Boulder. Fellows will receive $1,500.00* to support their travel and
research in the archives.
Applications for the 2017 competition are due
May 10, 2017.
Contact
Email: cujewishstudies@colorado.edu
Conference
Travel Grants
While traveling across the country to present
your research at academic conferences is a great way to draw attention to and
get feedback on your work, the cost of a plane ticket and a hotel can be an
inconvenient, if not prohibitive, strain on a tight budget. Fortunately,
financial assistance is available.
To help advance promising research that
studies the concept of a free society, the Institute for Humane Studies offers
a Conference and Research Grant which can provide up to $750 to cover your
travel costs to conferences or research workshops.
Eligible students should be in the humanities
and social sciences, seeking to answer important societal questions using
quantitative or qualitative research to advance freedom, justice, peace, and
prosperity in the modern world.
Contact
Email: Opportunity@theihs.org
Travel to
Collections Proposals--University of Florida
AN INVITATION TO TRAVEL TO OUR REPOSITORY:
Travel grants of up to $2000 will be awarded to undertake research activities
in Special and Area Studies Collections. http://library.ufl.edu/spec/
Proposals are due Friday, April 28, 2017.
Contact
Email: turcotte@ufl.edu
Jamie
Guilbeau and Thelma Guilbeau UL Lafayette Collections Research Grant
To promote the use of collections housed at
the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the Department of History and
Geography is pleased to announce the Jamie Guilbeau and Thelma Guilbeau UL
Lafayette Collections Research Grant in the amount of $2,000 for a researcher
who is NOT a faculty member, staff member, or student at UL Lafayette.
Proposals should indicate promise of publication or reaching a broad audience
in some other form and require work in the collections of the University
Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collections
(http://library.louisiana.edu/collections/university-archives-manuscripts), the
Ernest J. Gaines Center (http://ernestgaines.louisiana.edu/center), the Cajun
and Creole Music Collection (http://library.louisiana.edu/collections/ccmc),
the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum
(http://museum.louisiana.edu/about-the-museum), the Center for Louisiana
Studies (http://cls.louisiana.edu/), or in other UL Lafayette collections. The
grant is intended primarily to defray travel expenses, therefore preference
will be given to researchers beyond commuting distance of UL Lafayette.
Particular consideration will be given to applications that speak broadly to
Louisiana and its history, heritage, cultures, and identities.
The deadline for applications is May 1, 2017.
Contact
Email: docmartin@louisiana.edu
WORKSHOPS
2017
Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
18-22 October 2017, St. Louis, MO
Proposal submission instructions: http://submissions.mpcaaca.org/
Deadline: April 30
Swollen:
Ordinary to Extraordinary Pregnancy and Maternity
Working group at the American Society for
Theatre Research Conference, November 16-19, 2017, Atlanta, GA
Monsters are linked to the female body in
scientific discourse through the question of biological reproduction." The
capacity of the female body to grow, change, and produce new life has been a
simultaneous source of fear and wonder, while incidents of monstrous births and
the opacity of those same bodies drove centuries of speculation about how and
why the process of reproduction could 'fail.' As medical understands of
pregnancy grew, the possibility of non-biological reproduction in the form of
Frankenstein’s monster or Stoker’s vampirism opened new frontiers of
extraordinary bodies to people the popular imagination. Susan Caldwell, in a
different cultural context, refers to the mother goddess in the Hindu Pantheon
as a terrifying mother. The moniker aptly summarizes confusion surrounding the
female body in patriarchal faith systems. Female energy is both revered and
feared.
This working group will begin with the
gathering of full papers from each participant. Rather than simply being about
the discussion of these works, the participants will also work with visual
images and auditory examples of their work that will be compiled into a media
presentation at the time of the conference.
For any specific questions, please contact
the working group conveners at alicia.corts@saintleo.edu, chelsea.phillips@villanova.edu,
and arnab.banerji@lmu.edu.
Advanced
Online Workshop on Oral History Interviewing - Baylor University
Registration is now open for Baylor
University Institute for Oral History's next offering in their series of
advanced online workshops titled "Sharpen Your Skills." This edition
will focus on interviewing and prepare those with a basic understanding of oral
history to enhance their in-depth interview approach with narrators to more
successfully accomplish their research objectives. Topics for this workshop
will include preparing interviewees, cross-cultural interviewing, redirecting
narrators, handling difficult interviewees, and managing the
interviewer-narrator relationship.
This interactive workshop will take place on
May 31, 2017 from 10 am to 1 pm CDT and costs $75.
Contact
Email: stephen_sloan@baylor.edu
