CONFERENCES
The Art of Time
Banff Centre, October 12–15, 2017
Depictions of Time from Ancient Greece to the Modern and
Contemporary have largely been informed by studies in anthropology,
narratology, phenomenology, and philosophy. The writings of Plato, Aristotle,
Augustine, Bergson, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Gell have shaped the images
of time from its portrayal on art objects to its representation in new media.
This panel seeks to explore the relationship between Art and Time and encourage
an interdisciplinary dialogue on the meaning and function of Time in Art.
Proposals for papers should be sent directly to the session
chair (samantha.chang@mail.utoronto.ca)
Submission deadline: May 12, 2017
International
Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
The 4th Annual International Conference on Ethnic and
Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding seeks to inspire and coordinate
a global effort to humanize humanity by providing a platform and an opportunity
for a pluridisciplinary, scholarly, and meaningful discussion on how to live
together in peace and harmony, especially in ethnically, racially, or
religiously divided societies and countries. Through this pluridisciplinary
scholarly encounter, the conference hopes to stimulate inquiries and research
studies that draw on knowledge, expertise, methods, and findings from multiple
disciplines to address a broad range of problems that inhibit the ability of
humans to live together in peace and harmony in different societies and
countries, and at different times and in different or similar situations.
Abstract Submission Deadline is Friday, June 9, 2017.
Contact Email: icerm@icermediation.org
Our Everyday Planet,
or The Banality of Environmental Evil
Please consider submitting a proposal for the
"seminar" that we will be hosting at this year's meeting of the
Association for the Study of Arts of the Present. The conference will take
place 26-28 October in Oakland, CA.
This seminar proposes to return to the question of the
everyday as a way of understanding how quotidian decisions and experiences
accrue to form our current climate culture. A vast body of work emerged after
WWII that explored the concept of the “everyday” in order to understand how
culture reinforced the politics of fascism, and examined how unexceptional
small-scale experiences connected to large-scale social change. What are the
nuts and bolts of world-making? Does the everyday establish a presentism that
is counter to the long-term mindfulness necessary for environmental action? How
is environmental thinking bounded by banal conflicts, by clichés, or by
material limitations? How are environmental decisions tied into issues of
xenophobia and nationalism? We hope that participants will interpret the
categories of literature, art, and performance broadly to include everyday
utterances, actions, and images that populate the landscape of environmental
thought. Collaborative seminars will be capped at 15 participants, who will
submit brief (5-7 pages) position papers to be circulated and read before the
conference. Please submit a 250-300 word summary of your topic to our email
addresses below by May 15, 2017.
Contact Email: woodru56@msu.edu
URL: http://asap9.org/
2017 PAMLA Conference
Chaminade University of Honolulu; November 10-12, 2017
The PAMLA 2017 CFP list of over 120 approved sessions and
our online paper proposal system are now available: http://pamla.org/2017/topic-areas.
There are more than 120 approved sessions. You may submit to
more than one session, but may only deliver one paper at the conference itself.
Please make your proposal via our online proposal system by May 21, 2017.
Contact Email: svonkin@netzero.com
18th Annual
Conference in African American History
October 18-20, 2017, University of Memphis
We invite graduate and undergraduate students at all levels
to submit proposals. We welcome the submission of individual papers,
undergraduate posters, complete sessions, workshops, and roundtables on
interdisciplinary topics relating to the scholarship and teaching of the
history of black people throughout the African Diaspora. We hope to represent a
broad range of disciplinary and methodological approaches.
The deadline for proposals is September 1st, 2017.
Contact Email: gaaah.memphis@gmail.com
Toward Decolonial
Feminisms: A Conference Inspired by the Work of María Lugones
This conference is an invitation to think with the work of
philosopher, activist, and popular educator, María Lugones. Lugones’s work has been instrumental in
calling attention to multiple worlds of sense, to the importance of coalitional
emancipatory engagements, and to practice-based theorizing. Through her analysis of what she labels “the
coloniality of gender” she has underscored the importance of the mutual
engagement of feminist and decolonial theorizing in order to understand systems
of oppression as complex interactions of economic, racializing, and gendering
systems.
Deadline: November 15, 2017
Stardom, Celebrity
and Fandom Conference
Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas) November
10-11, 2017
The conference organizers are seeking contributions that
explore various realities associated with living in the limelight and/or
admiring those who do, insightful analyses of individual stars and/or
celebrities, and in-depth analyses of intriguing media offerings that examine
and represent stardom, celebrity and/or fandom, during any historical era.
We encourage submissions from scholars, educators, and
students at all levels, and from disciplines including art, communication,
cultural studies, film and video studies, history, journalism, LGBTQ studies,
media studies, music, political science, popular culture, sociology, television
studies, and women’s studies, among others.
Decisions regarding the status of submitted proposals will
be made and communicated as quickly as possible following the submission
deadline, and certainly no later than August 15, 2017. For specific inquiries
prior to submitting a proposal, please contact Dr. Hart at your convenience by
e-mail (k.hart@tcu.edu).
SAMLA 89: High
Art/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture
November 3-5, 2017, Atlanta, Georgia
Browse through the special sessions here: https://samla.memberclicks.net/samla-89-cfps
Authority &
Transgression
27-28 October, 2017 at UC Berkeley
Ours is a particularly relevant time to think about
authority and transgression in all of their given and potential forms.
Politically, in local communities and globally, authority is undergoing a
transformation, becoming less legitimate while at the same time becoming more
powerful and violent. We are particularly interested in papers that address
questions of authority and transgression outside of a strictly political realm.
How can literature, film, painting, music, sculpture, dance, etc. offer
alternative ways of thinking about authority and transgression? What does it
mean to call an image or a text authoritative? In what ways has art been used
and abused for authoritative and/or transgressive ends? In terms of spiritual
life, while it is easy to find examples of authority gone awry, which forms of
spiritual or theological authority maintain their vital presence and fulfill
the old Greek sense of authority as ‘that which proceeds from the essence of
the matter’?
Please submit proposals to editors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca by
31 July, 2017.
Sacrifice, Consumption, and the Public Good
Today, in the face
of challenges of climate change and global poverty, individuals are often asked
to make sacrifices in their private lives in order to advance the public good.
Within American culture, however, the values of self-care and consumerism can
be in tension with those of sacrifice for and service to the public good. And
even if an individual makes such sacrifices, she/he might feel that such sacrifices
are trivial compared to the magnitude of the problems – leading then to apathy
and a prioritization of self-care and consumerism.
At its 2017 annual
meeting, the Society for Values in Higher Education invites presentations and
panels on the theme of sacrifice – in particular, the tension between sacrifice
and consumption vis-a-vis the public good, what de Tocqueville styled “interest
rightly understood.”
Deadline: May 15
Contact Email: bain-selbo@svhe.org
South-South II:
Materiality and Embodiment in Greater Asia and Africa
October 27-28, 2017, Columbia University, New York
This conference thus poses two primary questions. First, how
can African and Asian concepts and archives be used to reframe discourses on
materiality and embodiment in the Global South? Second, what new optics of
research do historical and historiographical questions about materiality and
embodiment within the geographies of Greater Asia and Africa enable? Between
these framing questions, many more emerge: how does the study of material
culture intersect with processes of both circulation and embeddedness? How do
materials themselves structure political economies? What are the ways, if any,
of recovering histories of materials without the histories of humans? What
purposes do materials serve in therapeutics, and how do they shape wellbeing -
whether biomedical, physiological, psychological, political, religious, or
otherwise? Where does the line between human and material blur, and in what
ways can materiality be understood as an extension of embodiment or personhood?
Abstract and CV due on 1 June 2017
Contact email: southsouthconference@gmail.com
Look for updates on: http://cih.columbia.edu/south-south-ii/
Comics and Graphic
Novels
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
is seeking paper proposals on comics and graphic novels for its fall conference
to be held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on October 27-28, 2017.
A wide range of topics will be considered; however, in an
effort to best serve the medium and culture that make up comics, applicants are
encouraged to deal with comics in a theoretical framework. Papers that
demonstrate the role of comics in the broader cultural and critical discussion
are preferred. Applicants should feel welcome to submit papers on the role of
mainstream comics, independent comics, webcomics, strip comics, and underground
comix.
The deadline for applications is June 1, 2017
Website: https://nepca.blog/2017-conference/
Contact Email: zackkruse@gmail.com
PUBLISHING
Lively Words
The title of this special issue of College Literature draws inspiration from Gertrude Stein’s “lively
words,” a style of experimental writing that has been influential for many
queer and feminist experimental writers. The essays in this special issue will
reconsider the “liveliness” of experimental writing in the twentieth and
twenty-first century—not only how experimental poetics disrupt codified
practices of reading, but also how experimental writers conceive of the
relationship between their words and the social world more broadly. How does
experimental writing engender political liveliness among readers, publics, and
counterpublics, and what methodologies are required to understand this vital
relationship between the poetics and politics of experimental writing?
Thus, this special issue of College Literature seeks to
understand what, precisely, experimental writing has to offer contemporary
literary studies and, in turn, how literary studies can newly appraise the
social and historical significance of experimental writing in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries
Submit CV and 500-word proposals for essays between
8,000-10,000 words to tyler.bradway@cortland.edu by July 1, 2017
Foodways in the South
The Southern Quarterly invites submissions for a special
issue on foodways in the South. We are interested in interdisciplinary
scholarly articles, unpublished archival materials, and photo essays that
examine how food and drink, and the culture, literature, and practices
surrounding them, express the ethos of the South. We are looking for articles
that encompass a broad chronology from the 16th to 21st centuries. Some topics
that would fit this issue include foodways in the Global South, food justice
initiatives, food and intersectional feminism, LGBTQ issues surrounding food or
drink, Southern chefs or cookbooks, Southern restaurants or cafes, food
festivals, regional drinkways, ethnographies, literary theory, critical race
theory, food and the environment, public health, and dietetics. This is not an
exclusive list. We would be interested in seeing other topics related to the
theme as well.
Manuscripts should be submitted by December 1, 2017
Contact Email: diane.ross@usm.edu
Contemporary Muslim Women's Voices (special issue of gender forum)
In Emails from
Scheherazad, Mohja Kahf writes back to post-9/11 neo-Orientalist
epistemologies, informing Western discourses on Muslim, especially veiled,
women: “Yes, I speak English/Yes, I carry explosives/They’re called words/And
if you don’t get up/Off your assumptions/They’re going to blow you away” (35).
Similarly, other writers work towards decolonizing Muslim women’s bodies,
whilst stressing piety as a lived experience. Still others are turning to and
‘Islamizing’ youth culture genres like young adult fiction, romance, fantasy
and urban fiction. Arguably, contemporary Muslim female writers, artists and
cultural producers, from Islamicate to diasporic contexts, agitate against a
reductive identitarian logic of ‘the’ Muslim woman sustained by Western
representational regimes, Islamist fundamentalisms as well as some secular
feminist positions. In the light of a sheer multiplicity of emergent voices, we
would like to invite essays focussing on contemporary cultural production by
(and on) Muslim women.
Abstracts of no more
than 300 words and a brief biography should be submitted by June 15, 2017.
Contact Email: gender-forum@uni-koeln.de
Haunt Journal of Art
Vol. 4
Haunt Journal of Art is a graduate student-run,
peer-reviewed, open access journal from the Department of Art at the University
of California, Irvine. We believe speculative and innovative art writing
practices are paramount to the development of radical thinking and
imagination.Ours is a commitment to providing a platform for new textual forms
and strategies wherein the production of writing and art may serve one another.
For our fourth volume, we ask: what kind of critical and
polemical interventions can poetics make on how we speak of and engage artistic
production? How can an oscillation between the visible and the invisible,
between transparency and obscurity, bring clarity to our perceptual limitations
as observers, creators, and thinkers? We invite subversive experimentations and
poetic meditations that unearth sites of inquiry which blur the boundaries
between language, image, and criticism.
Please email submissions or inquiries to hauntjournal@uci.edu by May 7, 2017.
Blog Articles on Contemporary Social Movements and
Conflicts for Zapruder World
The aim of Zapruder
World is to create a wide arena in which to exchange critical knowledge based
on both individual research and collective elaboration. The journal focuses on
social conflict, paying particular attention to conflicts as movements rather
than focusing on their resolutions, so as to better connect the history of
social conflicts with current transnational cycles of protest. Our journal now
has three published volumes with two more in development. At this stage,
however, we wanted to expand our content as well as our readership.
Zapruder World welcomes ZapLab short article proposals
and submissions from academics, independent scholars, and progressive activists
on topics pertaining to contemporary socio-political movements and/or
conflicts. If you are interested in becoming a contributor to ZapLab, please
visit our Submission Guidelines section.
Contact Email: zaplab-submission@zapruderworld.org
Food Transformations:
Eating and Wasting in the Anthropocene
Food in the 21st century would be unrecognizable to our
great grandparents. Canadian ecocritic Susie O’Brien has recently explained in
an interview in ARIEL that “food is a rich site through which to think about a
number of things: environment, colonialism, culture, affect, subjectivity,
among others.” There is an urgency to theorizing about food, especially given
the fact that hunger is seriously at odds with the promises of industrial
agriculture. Indeed, according to Vandana Shiva, “industrial agriculture has
not produced more food. It has destroyed diverse sources of food, and it has stolen
food from other species to bring larger quantities of specific commodities to
the market, using huge quantities of fossil fuels and water and toxic chemicals
in the process.”
What the Forum Kritika on Food Transformations seeks are
theoretical understandings of literary food within the context of 21st century
topics surrounding food.
Please send essays in the form of a Word document attachment
to Dr. Simon C. Estok (estok@skku.edu;
cc: kk.soh@ateneo.edu; subject:
Food Transformations) by Oct. 15, 2017.
Africa and the World:
The Continent in Global History
Contributors are invited for a new book project titled,
“Africa and the World: The Continent in Global History” (3 volumes),
commissioned by ABC-CLIO, a major US publisher of reference academic books.
Editor, Saheed Aderinto. This three-volume book would have around 900,000 words
and 500 alphabetically arranged entries of 1000 to 2500 words each. Topics to
be covered include but not limited to the slave trade, exploration,
colonization, African contributions to world civilization, global science, art,
and culture, and other subjects on Africa’s relationship with the rest of the
world. If you are interested in contributing to this project, send your CV to
Saheed Aderinto (aderintosaheed@yahoo.co.uk).
Managing Women's
Health
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/176797/cfp-managing-womens-health-remedia-series
Healthcare issues that primarily concern women have a long
and fraught history of being grouped diagnostically and financially outside
traditional structures of healthcare provision. Recently, the medical,
financial and commercial management of women’s bodies has been debated with
renewed vigor. The Remedia series on the history of ‘Managing Women’s Health’
seeks to illuminate current debates.
We intend this series to range widely, from inequalities of
healthcare funding to the ways in which medical products are marketed to women.
Pieces might consider gendered diagnoses, healthcare funding for women’s
health, women’s health activism, the availability of contraception, aging and
menopause, female stereotyped care roles, patient etiquette and the language
used to describe women's bodies.
We welcome papers from colleagues working in history,
history of medicine and science, anthropology, women and gender studies, and
elsewhere in the humanities. There are no restrictions to particular
geographical locations or historical time periods.
If you are interested in contributing to REMEDIA for this
themed series or to showcase your research on another subject, please send an
email to Lisa Haushofer and Kate Womersley at remedianetwork@gmail.com with a
brief pitch of up to 200 words outlining your proposed topic no later than June
1st 2017.
Sexual and
reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in humanitarian crises http://www.rhmjournal.org.uk/journal/call-papers/#sthash.f05gwfsx.dpuf
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: May 15, 2017
Submit at http://www.edmgr.com/zrhm/default.aspx
Archive/Anarchive/Counter-Archive
Charles Merewether has pointed out that the archive in the
modern era – official or personal – has “become the most significant means by
which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. The
archive has thus emerged as a key site of inquiry in such fields as
anthropology, critical theory, history, and, especially, recent art”
(Merewether 2006). Theorizations of the archive that have come from feminist
and queer scholars most recently have provoked a reconsideration of the
authority given the archive and of what the archive contains—the archive is
both a contested site and a medium, and, in some cases an artwork (Simone
Osthoff, 2009). Archive/Anarchive/Counter-Archive will locate new solidarities
in these diverse approaches to history, archives and their activation. We seek
critical speculations, scholarly essays and creative projects that engage with
the changing nature of history in the age of the post-digital archive. This
issue of Public: Art/Culture/Ideas will seek to learn from these new configurations.
Abstracts 250 words: June 1st, 2017
Contact Email: public@yorku.ca
FUNDING
Jews in the Americas:
A Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Florida
The Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish History and the Isser
and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida are pleased to invite
applications for short-term research fellowships during the 2017-2018 academic
year. Researchers studying different aspects of the Jewish experience in Latin
America, the Caribbean, and the southern regions of the United States from the
sixteenth century until present day will have the opportunity to spend a
maximum period of a month researching in the Price Library. Preference will be
given to advanced graduate students and recent PhDs. We ask applicants to study
the Price Library collections and the other UF collections they may want to use
during their researchhttp://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/.
Deadline of application: June 15, 2017
Contact Email: ncaputo@ufl.edu
Patrick Riordan
Memorial Research Award in Florida Studies
The University of South Florida Libraries’ Florida Studies
Center in Tampa, FL, invites applications from graduate students for a
month-long, in-residence research project. The Patrick Riordan Memorial
Research Award offers $2,500 to an M.A. student or Ph.D. candidate engaged in
research on a Florida studies topic.
The deadline is June 9th
Contact Email: mtknight@usf.edu
FHHS/JHBS John C.
Burnham Early Career Award
Guidelines for the award: Unpublished manuscripts in English
dealing with any aspect of the history of the human sciences. The paper should
meet the publishing guidelines of the JHBS. Eligible scholars are those who do
not hold tenured university positions (or equivalent) and are not more than
seven years beyond the Ph.D. Graduate students and independent scholars are
encouraged to submit. Manuscripts may be re-submitted for the prize, as long as
they have not been published or submitted to another journal and the submitting
scholar is still in early career. The manuscript cannot be submitted to any
other journal and still qualify for this award.
Deadline: June 30
Contact Email: eherman@uoregon.edu
RESOURCES
Archives of Lesbian
Oral Testimony (ALOT)
Bridging The Gap is a new research initiative of the
Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony that explores how digital technologies can
help to better connect online archives with the people who use them.
It's our aim to remain connected and relevant to the broader
lesbian, queer, and Two Spirit community by making it possible for ALOT users
to engage more directly with us. We want you to become part of our movement by
contributing to our collection of interviews. Two Spirit, lesbian, and queer
experience is easily erased from history, and we need your help to document and
preserve your experiences.
To take part in this research project, users can contribute
to the site and upload an oral history interview they’ve created. To help users
like yourself, we’ve created loads of how-to information and resources that can
be found on our blog, including a video that details how to upload your
interview, and a post that explains how to conduct an oral history interview.
Users can also now help us make our material more searchable by adding tags to
interviews already in our collection and the interviews you upload, and by “rating”
interviews for interest and popularity. We hope to make ALOT relevant,
meaningful, and useful to diverse peoples around the world.
email: alot-contact@sfu.edu
The Digital Colored
American Magazine
Edited in its early years by Pauline Hopkins and later by
associates of Booker T. Washington, The Colored American Magazine (1900-1909)
was among the most important early twentieth-century American periodicals and
among the first general magazines to address itself to a middle-class African
American readership.
The Digital Colored American Magazine aims to make freely
available reliably text-searchable, full-color reproductions of all extant unbound
issues of this important periodical, with scholarly commentary on selected
issues by Eurie Dahn, John Cullen Gruesser, Alisha Knight, JoAnn Pavletich,
Brian Sweeney, and others. In addition to downloadable full-color reproductions
of 35 issues (so far) the site will also feature scholarly commentary on
selected issues and other resources. Our
"About" page offers a fuller explanation of the impetus and aims of
this project, as well as outlines the significant work that remains to be done.
WORKSHOPS
Large-Scale Violence
and Its Aftermaths Summer Institute
Kean University | June 25-29, 2017
Participants of the summer institute will explore tested and
contested means of dealing with collective violence and atrocities against
vulnerable communities, including crimes against humanity, war crimes and
genocide. Non-state, civil-society alternatives that could secure and/or
transform future societies will also be examined.
Contact Info: Brandon Moye, moyeb@kean.eduFor more
information and to register, visit http://grad.kean.edu/mahgs-conference
Early-Bird Registration Fees available through May 15, 2017.
