CONFERENCES
National Council on Public History 2018
Annual Meeting Call for Proposals
NCPH Annual
Meeting – Las Vegas, Nevada, April 18-21, 2018 Public historians want our work
to matter. We use our skills at uncovering, sharing, facilitating, and
collaborating to advance a vision of a rich, variegated collective past that
contributes to shared interests in the present. For decade, “community” has
been our catchphrase and our aspiration. How does our field’s longstanding embrace
of the collective stand up in a time of divineness? Do our commitments to
individual agency, group identity, social justice, and civic engagement
reinforce or strain against each other? In drawing lines between past and
present, delineating distinctive communities, and underlining the contributions
of overlooked actors, how can public history bring us together and when does it
pull us apart?
Proposals
are due by 11:59 PM local time on July 15, 2017.
Contact
Email: ncph@iupui.edu
“Let me entertain you!”
Entertainment
comes in many forms and is as varied as the people who enjoy being
entertained. It has evolved over time as
ideas of what we find "entertaining" have evolved. The Roman theater, Punch & Judy puppets,
traveling minstrels and dancing bears may have entertained in the past. Today, we may spend our leisure time at the
movies, the ballet, a rock concert, the symphony, the circus or a monster truck
rally. Entertainment is the theme for the March 16, 2018 Ephemera Society of
America (ESA) Conference, in Greenwich, Connecticut. The conference will focus
on the wealth of ephemera - broadsides, posters, invitations, tickets,
handbills, programs, menus, advertisements, etc.- generated to publicize,
document and comment on the entertainment world.
Proposals
must be submitted by July 1, 2017 to Barbara Loe, Ephemera 38 Conference Chair,
by e-mail at bjloe@earthlink.net or
by post to Barbara Loe, Ephemera Society of America, Inc., P.O. Box 95,
Cazenovia, NY 13035-0095.
International Federation for Research in
Women's History 2018 Conference
The 12th
Conference of the International Federation for Research on Women’s History/
Federation Internationale Pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes
(IFRWH/FIRHF) will be held August 9-12, 2018 at Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, BC, Unceded Coast Salish Territory-Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and
Musqueam Nations.
The theme,
“Transnationalisms, Transgressions, Translations: Conversations and
Controversies,” probes the meanings of boundaries and frameworks, narratives
and epistemologies, analytic terms and foundational categories, global,
national and local understandings, interactions and power relations across time
and space. We are open to proposals for complete panels (chair, commentator,
three papers) as well as individual papers, roundtables, conversations,
workshops, and non-traditional forms of presentation.
Deadline:
July 1
Contact
Email: ifrwh18@gmail.com
Technologies of Frankenstein
7 - 9 March
2018, Hoboken, NJ
The 200th
anniversary year of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Or, The
Modern Prometheus has drawn worldwide interest in revisiting the novel’s
themes. What were those themes and what is their value to us in the early
twenty-first century?
Mary Shelley
was rather vague as to how Victor, a young medical student, managed to
reanimate a person cobbled together from parts of corpses. Partly as a result of this technical gap, and
partly as a result of many other features of the novel, Frankenstein continues
to inspire discourse in scholarly, popular, and creative culture about the
Monstrous, the Outsider, the Other, and scientific ethics. This conference will
examine such connections in our thinking about humanism and techno-science from
the novel’s publication to the present. We construe broadly the intersecting
themes of humanism, technology, and science and we welcome proposals from all
fields of study for presentations that add a twenty-first century perspective
to Frankenstein.
Submit
abstracts of 300 words and brief CV by 15 October 2017 to Michael Geselowitz (mgeselowitz@ieee.org) and Robin
Hammerman (rhammerm@stevens.edu).
The Many Fourteenth Amendments
On the 150th
Anniversary of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Department of
History at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida, invites scholars
to join a research symposium on the causes, consequences, and living legacies
of this revolutionary amendment. The conference will open on Thursday March 1,
2018 and four subsequent panels will be dedicated to different elements of the
Fourteenth Amendment. It will conclude on March 3, 2018 with a roundtable
discussion among the chairs of each panel. We solicit individual papers that
will be appropriate for one of the following panels: Panel 1: Making a New
Constitution
Panel 2:
Capitalism, Corporatism, and Conservatism
Panel 3:
Birthright Citizenship and Immigration in a Globalized America
Panel 4:
Equal Protection and Civil Rights
Applicants
should e-mail their proposals to amendmentconference@gmail.com by September 15,
2017. All questions or inquiries should be sent to amendmentconference@gmail.com
Southern Studies Conference at Auburn
University Montgomery
SOUTHERN
STUDIES CONFERENCE at Auburn University Montgomery—9-10 February 2018. Now in
its tenth year, the AUM College of Arts and Sciences invites panel and paper
proposals on any aspect of Southern history from Civil War to Civil Rights,
from dueling to NASCAR, from King Cotton to corn whiskey. Registrants to the
conference will also be able to enjoy a variety of peer-reviewed panels and
exhibits on southern topics representing all of the liberal arts disciplines.
Proposals should include a 250-word abstract and a brief CV. They can be
emailed to southernstudies@aum.edu. The
deadline is 16 October 2017. For more information, please visit the
conference website: http://www.cas.aum.edu/community-resources/southern-studies-conference
Contagion - First Forum USC Cinema and
Media Studies Graduate Conference
Los Angeles,
CA, October 20th-21st, 2017
First Forum
invites submissions that explore the multiple valences of the term ‘contagion’
in relation to the movements of cinema and media. Embedded in medicalized
discourses of the body, the word has often been negatively associated with the
spread of disease and illness. Even as theories of globalization imagine the
uninterrupted flow of information and commodities, the fear of contagion calls
for the containment of populations and territories. The Ebola virus, the
terrorist, the computer bug, and the zombie alike threaten to breach the
boundaries of the body and the nation. Derived from the Latin con (together with)
and tangere (to touch), the word ‘contagion’ also implies a proximity of
sentiments and sensations. While it may be connected to the risk of
contamination and danger, the term might also open up a zone of empathetic
contact. Taking its etymological potential as a starting point, this conference
seeks out papers that consider the broad implications of the term.
Please email
your submissions and inquiries to firstforumusc@gmail.com by
June 20th, 2017.
Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia
The
“Anthropocene” is the geologic age in which human industrial activity provides
the dominant force shaping the Earth and its environment. As an inquiry, the
Anthropocene serves as a fruitful meeting ground for interdisciplinary
exploration. Researchers interested in technology, science, and the environment
have particularly relevant skills in this regard, taking as they do a highly
contextualized and critical view of technological determinism, and with their
tools for tracing out material and social trends over long stretches of time.
This meeting
will explore the Anthropocene in the setting of Philadelphia and the Delaware
Valley. The meeting will be timed to precede the annual meeting of the Society
for the History of Technology (scheduled in Philadelphia, October 26-29, 2017).
The deadline
for applications is July 15
Contact Email: sgk23@drexel.edu
New Directions in Black Western Studies
Western
History Association Conference
San Diego, 01-04
November 2017
We are
seeking proposals for the 57th Western History Association Conference workshop
and American Studies Special Issue: “New Directions in Black Western Studies.”
Though several
scholarly historical treatments of Blacks in the North American West exist, few
engage with what Black Western Studies means in a contemporary context. Over
the past decade there has been a return to the west in intellectual and
artistic production at a rate not seen since the 1970s. Several critically
acclaimed television series, films, music albums, and literary texts are rooted
firmly in western historical legacies. Likewise, the relationship between
Blackness and western geographical and cultural identity has been explored in
various disciplinary genres. From film, music, literature, and art to theatre,
architecture, and museum studies, These possibilities drive several questions
undergirding this workshop at the 2017 Western History Association. Papers
accepted for the WHA workshop will be vetted for a subsequent special issue of
American Studies (AMSJ) on Black Western Studies.
Abstracts of
no more than 500 words should be emailed to Jeannette Eileen Jones, Kalenda
Eaton, and Michael Johnson at blackwesternstudies2017@gmail.com by 30 June
2017.
Contact
Email: blackwesternstudies2017@gmail.com
375 Years of African American Presence in
Maryland
Bowie State
University, October 19-21, 2017
The year
2017 represents the 375th anniversary of African American presence in Maryland.
Since the arrival of the first captives from Africa in 1642, people of African
descent have contributed significantly to the shaping of Maryland’s culture,
economy, and institutions. The organizers of this conference invite panels and
individual papers addressing any aspect of the history, culture, and
experiences of African Americans in Maryland for presentation at the inaugural
conference of the Bowie State University Humanities Initiative at Bowie State
University. Please submit individual paper proposals (c.300 words), panel
proposals (c. 500 words) and a brief CV (2pp. maximum) for each presenter by
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Contact
Email: Humanities@bowiestate.edu
Race Conference
Monmouth
University, November 9 to Saturday, November 11, 2017
The purpose
of this conference is to examine the different categories of leadership, the
strategies of leaders, and the roles and achievements of leaders in various
areas of human civilization including (but not limited to) politics, religion,
education, culture, law, military, and medicine while contemplating issues
related to race and gender. Conversations about leadership in history and
global societies invariably always lead us to contemplate issues related to
race and gender. We are particularly interested in papers related to women in
leadership, “race leadership” in the African American tradition, race,
ethnicity and reconciliation in African nations and papers that explore
leadership in history and global societies more generally. We welcome
individual papers or panel proposals that address these topics or other aspects
of race, gender, and leadership from historical, anthropological, sociological,
legal, cultural, and political, perspectives. Papers related to the topic of
race more generally are also welcome. This conference is both interdisciplinary
and multidisciplinary in scope and we invite scholars from various disciplines
as well as those with expertise in interdisciplinary fields of knowledge such
as gender studies and race studies.
Send a
150-word abstract and title for each paper, one page curriculum vitae for each
participant, and contact information for each presenter by July 15, 2017 to
Hettie V. Williams and Julius Adekunle at: muraceconference@monmouth.edu.
Disability Studies and Postcolonial
Literary Space
The metaphor
of “disabled identity” is frequently employed for the marginalized categories
dwelling in these “liminal spaces;” however the materiality and phenomenology
of being disabled and dependent in these tangible spaces relatively remains
neglected in the postcolonial criticism. With an aim to remap disability in the
postcolonial space as a crucial and integral identity-category, some example of
questions that this panel is looking to find answers on, but not limited to,
are: How is 'disability' as an identity negotiated and performed in the
private/public, urban/domestic or the ‘liminal’ spaces of postcolonial
literature? How do social-spaces reproduce the geographies of disability? How
does the representation of disability challenge the postcolonial 'Self/Other'
dichotomy? Are disabled characters included in the postcolonial ‘imagined
community’? What boundaries do postcolonial authors merge or create in
representing the disabled characters on the map of postcolonial literature? How
are subjectivities of disabled population negotiated in the space and dynamics
of the power-relations of the postcolonial sphere? How does disability permeate
the postcolonial fiction- is it just used as a ‘Narrative Prosthesis’ as argued
by Mitchell and Snyder or does it reflect beyond the metaphorical terrain of
impairment?
Please
submit a 300-350 word abstract by September 30, 2017
Contact
Email: shubhang@buffalo.edu
Working Class Culture
The Working
Class Culture area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
invites you to participate in the annual MAPACA conference. This year’s
conference will be in Philadelphia, Nov. 8-11, 2017. Papers in the Working
Class Culture area include representations of the working class in all areas of
culture, including but not limited to art, literature, film, and the media.
Single
papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome. Proposals should take the form of 300-word
abstracts. The deadline for submission is June 30, 2017.
Please
direct any questions about the Working Class Culture to area chair Mary Lou
Nemanic through the MAPACA website, https://mapaca.net/.
Contact
Email: mun1@psu.edu
Interdisciplinary & International
Conference on Feminist & Gender studies in a global perspective
Namaste
Educational Academy, Pondicherry, India
The aim of
this conference is to re-view and re-frame these and related questions from a
wide range of disciplinary and multidisciplinary fields, such as literature,
philosophy, history, sociology and so on. The conference organizers seek papers
from scholars exploring various subjects, including (but not limited to) the
following: Academic institutions and Work places; Body politics, masculinity
and sexuality studies; Civil society and Human rights;
Diaspora/transnationalism and Translation; Feminist and Gender
theories/Methodologies for a global world; Indigenous/Aboriginal/Subaltern
narratives; Feminist historiographies; Literature, art, media, Popular art and
Consumerism; Neoliberalism, feminism and gender; Social movements, Women’s
writing and Political activism
Contact
Email: namasteeducationalacademy@gmail.com
Slavery, Memory and Literature
Paris,
October 18-19, 2017
Over the
last 3 decades, slavery and its social and cultural legacies has been an
important subject of commemoration, scholarship and artistic exploration as
well as a site of public debate. In this workshop, we engage this question from
the vantage point of literature, understood in the broadest sense as textual,
visual or cinematic depictions of slavery across genres ranging from memoirs,
diaries and travel literature to novels, documentaries and feature films. We
ask how, at different moments, ‘literature’ has contributed to the transmission
(or the repression) of the memory of slavery.
Of special
interest is the ways in which the politics of remembrance and forgetting reinforce
and challenge global relationships shaped by colonialism. This entails looking
at the role of cultural memory in the formation of diasporic identities (Paul
Lovejoy et al. 2008, Paul Gilroy 1993, Alan Rice 2010), the way in which
different histories and practices of memory and memory politics around the
Atlantic interact and clash (Araujo 2015, Elisa Bordin and Anna Scacchi 2015)
and of the role of memorialization in contemporary Africa (Bayo Holsey 2008,
Mitch Kachun 2006, Rosalind Shaw 2002).
Please send
100-200 word abstracts for 20 min. papers to madsbaggesgaard@cc.au.dk no
later than August 1, 2017 along with a short biographical note.
PUBLISHING
Prince and the Minneapolis Sound
Although
this edited book will consist mainly of scholarly articles, we welcome opinion
pieces, interviews of appropriate figures, reflections, poems, and the like. In
addition to papers specifically about Prince, writers are also encouraged to
consider, but of course not limit themselves to, other figures and topics such
as Andre Cymone, Sheila E., Dez Dickerson, Morris Day, Morris Day and The Time,
Flyte Time, The Family, Vanity, Vanity 6, Apollonia 6, Jimmy Jam, and Terry
Lewis, Jesse Johnson, The Original 7ven, Prince and the Revolution, The
Revolution, Prince’s impact on Mint Condition, Jill Jones, Joni Mitchell and
her impact on Prince, The Minneapolis Sound, Carmen Electra, Tamar, The John
Nelson Trio, Stokely of Mint Condition, and Prince and the New Power
Generation.
To be
considered for this edited book, prospective authors must submit an abstract of
no more than 300 words by August 7, 2017 via email to both coeditors Judson L.
Jeffries, PhD, Professor of African American and African Studies (Jeffries.70@osu.edu) at The Ohio
State University and Shannon Cochran, PhD, Associate Professor of
Interdisciplinary Studies and English at Clayton State University in Georgia
(ShannonCochran@clayton.edu).
Breakingout of the Box: Critical Essays on
the Cult TV Show Supernatural
Throughout
its twelve-year run (to date), Supernatural
has revelled in breaking out of the limitations usually implied by a television
show, breaking out of the box in numerous ways. Acknowledging the popularity of
the meta-play in the show, current showrunner Andrew Dabb promised the most
meta-finale ever for the season twelve finale. Despite its horror trappings, Supernatural has been decidedly
postmodern in its liberal use of pastiche, meta, intertextuality, and generic
slippage. This collection is interested in exploring the ways Supernatural breaks
boundaries.
Proposals of
300-500 words should be submitted to Lisa Macklem (lmacklem1@gmail.com) or Dominick Grace (dgrace2@uwo.ca) by October 1 2017.
Gentrification and Cultural Heritage
Special
issue of Change over Time.
The term
gentrification is used to describe both a process and outcome of physical,
socioeconomic, and demographic neighborhood change. Its association with the
displacement of low-income households by wealthier ones has overshadowed more
nuanced understandings of the relationship between the historic built
environment, conservation, and gentrification. This issue seeks to address this
under-examined intersection. We welcome contributions from US and international
contexts on a range of topics: researching and documenting place-based
gentrification in historic contexts; exploring rural, urban, and suburban
gentrification and conservation dynamics; equity issues related to changing
historic areas; and solutions for managing neighborhood change in historic
areas. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, case studies,
theoretical explorations, and evaluations of current practices or policy
programs.
Abstracts of
200-300 words are due 1 July 2017.
Contact
Email: lucymid@UPENN.EDU
Flash Reason(eon): Finding, Making, and
Experiencing Meanings & Ethics
Textshop
Experiments Special Issue
The theme of
this issue, Flash Reason(eon), takes up Gregory Ulmer’s concept of flash reason
(cf. “Flash Reason”) with an eye toward extending this work at a time when the
fourth estate is becoming consumed with reports of fake news, post-truth arguments,
alternative facts, and other challenges concerning a healthy public sphere. Our
interest in this topic has less to do with ideology and evaluation, and more to
do with developing methods and practices to push back against ideologies that
employ techniques of misinformation and distraction. Contributors are
especially encouraged to submit post-critical work. The special issue will be
loosely designed using a readymade model (a bachelor machine, perhaps), Mad
Magazine, a publication that has been an overt and explicit work of
post-criticism since 1952 (with 540+ issues published to date). We encourage
submissions that take up the task of developing an updated approach to thinking
about prudence and decorum in the middle voice (contemplative, meditative,
reflective judgment) in an age when facts (inartistic proofs) are giving way to
figures (artistic proofs).
Please submit
proposal of 250-500 words via email to the guest editors by Aug. 15, 2017
at flashreasonexperiment@gmail.com.
Hipster Culture: A Reader
Twenty-first
century popular culture has given birth to a peculiar cultural figure: the
hipster. Stereotypically associated with nerd glasses, beards and buns, boho
clothing, and ironic t-shirts, hipsters represent a (post-)postmodern
subculture whose style, aesthetics and activities have increasingly become
mainstream. While the hipster’s roots are frequently traced to the
mid-twentieth century, when the term first emerged in the context of
African-American jazz culture (Anatole Broyard) and the white counterculture
associated with the Beat Generation (Norman Mailer), the contemporary hipster,
emerging at the beginning of the new millennium, owes many of its
characteristics also to 1990s indie culture.
Hipster
Culture: A Reader seeks to fill a research gap by approaching the hipster and
hipster culture from a variety of Cultural Studies perspectives. We also call
for papers that challenge or add to some of the existing paradigms of
‘sociological hipster studies.’
We invite
proposals of ca. 300 – 500 words including a tentative title and a short
biography of the contributor(s). The deadline for abstract submissions is June
30, 2017.
Contact
Email: eric.erbacher@wwu.de
Engaging
the Pastoral: Social, Environmental, and Artistic Critique in Contemporary
Pastoral Literature
How does contemporary literature, film, and
music respond to or grapple with the notion of pastoral? How does this mode
ever-present in western thought find expression in the literature, film, and
music of the twentieth- and twenty-first-centuries? Furthermore, how do
pastoral texts today engage with recent social, cultural, artistic and even
theoretical developments, such as ecocriticism or sound theory? How do authors
utilize the inherent tensions within the mode, the conventions of escape and return,
to express the development of the modern? How do these works demonstrate and
contribute to the development of the ecocritical conscience? Do these works
dialogue with the classical pastoral past and, if so, to what end? This special
issue of Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First- Century Literature seeks to
answer these questions across the French, German, and Spanish-language
literatures.
Abstracts must be submitted by September 15,
2017.
Challenges
and Future Trends of Distance Learning
The current Special Issue provides a focal
point for presenting authoritative references, academically rigorous research,
and case studies in both theoretical and applied research. Its purpose is to
discuss the effective management in state-of-the-art innovative distance
learning.
In detail, this issue intends to disseminate
research and studies in the emerging innovative distance learning environments,
including emerging innovative learning technologies, discussing the effective
interaction between users and innovative distance learning environments,
presenting practical experiences on the design of innovative distance
learning environments, and applications
of the innovative technologies to distance learning system development in
institutions (primary, secondary and higher education).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1
December 2017
Contact
Email: education@mdpi.com
Archival
History News: NEW Online Newsletter is Launching
Archival History News seeks written
submissions for the launch of the Archival History Section’s recurring
newsletter, soon available on the web.
Are you working with a collection that sheds light on the history of the
profession? Have you just made an
archival discovery that you wish to share with the community? Or are you conducting some exciting
historical research at your institution and want to get the word out?
Consider submitting your piece to the
Archival History News! We are soliciting
brief essays, short biographies or remembrances of archivists, book reviews of
archival histories, and longer articles detailing moments in archival
history. Also send copies of archival
photographs (taken before the year 2000) showing the work of archives and
special libraries. The newsletter’s
scope is flexible and first-time submitters are always welcome.
Contact Email: ArchivalHistoryNews@gmail.com
A New
Database and Resource Site: suffrageandthemedia.org
Presenting http://suffrageandthemedia.org, a new
database and resource site created for two purposes: to commemorate this
centennial celebration period of women's suffrage in the United States, and to
provide a resource companion, aimed at a broader range of users, for the
forthcoming special issue of American Journalism, Women's Suffrage and the
Media, scheduled for publication in April 2019. The CFP at http://suffrageandthemedia.submittable.com/submit
is active until July 1.
Contact
Email: suffrage.media@gmail.com
Design
Interventions as ACT
Established in 2009 as the first American
academic publication focusing on Design and Adaptive Reuse, the Int|AR Journal
explores this inherently sustainable practice through multi-faceted
investigations and paradigmatic examples. Encompassing issues of preservation,
conservation, alteration and interventions, each peer-reviewed issue offers
broad but distinct viewpoints on a single topic.
We live in a time characterized by violence,
racism, inequality, supremacy, ignorance.
These actions prompt responses, daily and globally, from Tweets to
boycotts, but also kindness and unintended heroism. In the built environment,
both microscopic and urbanistic, design interventions react to constraints of
nature, clients, budgets, structural limits. What of Intervention as Act? Can
an intervention to an existing structure think? yell? scream? whisper? Can an
intervention to an existing structure prompt performance? engagement? revision?
negation? Can an intervention to an existing structure create sanctuary?
absolve? moralize? redeem? ideate?
appropriate? heal? And what of the building’s original intent? Can an intervention be an act of defiance,
one of division, one of resistance? If Intervention as Act implies a breaking
away, a shift from the status quo, an adaptation to a new context, can that
adaptation bring occupants to ACT?
Abstract Proposals 250 words by August 15,
2017
Contact
Email: intarjournal@risd.edu
Protest
WSQ, Call for Papers: Special Issue
One way of telling the story of feminism is
to tell it as a story of protest: protest against, protest for, protest within.
In this issue, we invite contributors to reflect on the histories, presents,
and futures of protest through a feminist lens.
What counts as protest? What counts as
successful protest? Can feminism be seen as a history of protests, or itself a
kind of protest? What makes a protest feminist? What have been the forms of
protest favored by gender and sexual minorities? In what ways have the historical
acts of protest that are excluded from feminism’s official narratives shaped
the context for protest today? What role do gendered, racialized and ableist
stereotypes play in shaping the image of the iconic protester in any given
protest? Whose bodies are always already terrorists, rather than protestors?
When and how, in protest, do sex, sexiness and sexuality come to the fore? What
is the place of allies and solidarity? In what ways have recent protests not
explicitly on gender issues amplified our understanding of feminism as multiple
(or plural)?
Scholarly articles and inquiries should be
sent to guest issue editors Deepti Misri, Melissa M. Forbis, Elena L. Cohen and
Saadia Toor at WSQProtestIssue@gmail.com.
We will give priority consideration to submissions received by
September 15, 2017.
Postcolonial
Intersections of Mobility and Migration: Asia on the Move
Journal of Mobility Studies is a
peer-reviewed journal publishing cutting-edgeresearch on the processes,
structures, and consequences of the movement of people, resources, and
commodities welcomes papers for a SPECIAL SECTION, titled *Postcolonial
Intersections of Mobility and Migration: Asia on the
Move*. This special section of the journal
seeks contributions from scholars to contribute to broader debates in
postcolonial migrants’ experiences and lifestyles and, en route, reflect on the
importance of
theorizing social position, power relations,
individuals’ identities, and how the analysis contributes to the nexus of
mobilities and migration studies. Scholars interested in submitting an abstract
can access the full call for this special section at http://berghahnbooks.com/journals/_uploads/trans/transfers_cfp_2017.pdf.
Deadline for Abstracts: 01 September 2017
Contact
Email: viola.thimm@uni-hamburg.de
The Poverty of Academia: Exploring the
(Intersectional) Realities of Working Class Academics
Special
issue of The Journal of Working-Class Studies
Educational
attainment is often framed as positive, having the liberatory potential to free
the socio-economically marginalized from their constraints. There is little if
ever any mention of the unchained slavery of debt and low wages that ties
working-class academics to perpetual bondage. Once working class academics
become subsumed into the Ivory Tower, assumptions of class privilege are
immediately attached to their bodies: they are perceived as solidly middle
class. But many individuals within academic settings occupy marginal positions.
This marginalization has led to the creative use and understanding of an
“outsider within” status. This special
issue attempts to uncover the influences of class status (among other axes of
identity) on academics who still occupy this socioeconomically disadvantaged
position. Far too often, these stories exist in siloes of private messages,
listservs, and Facebook groups. This CFP hopes to move these singular stories
of pain and struggle to a forum where the commonalities among these stories as
well as the structural influences sustaining these realities can be
collectively recognized.
Deadline:
September 1
Contact
Email: academicpoverty@gmail.com
President Donald Trump and his Political
Discourse: Ramifications of Rhetoric via Twitter
The book, tentatively
entitled President Donald Trump and his Political Discourse: Ramifications of
Rhetoric via Twitter, will demonstrate the ways in which the following areas
have been the subject of President Trump’s tweets: International & U.S.
Relations; Government Affairs; Economies and Financial Markets; Industries;
Media & “Fake News”; and Marginalized Groups
Tangible
effects and post-tweet evidence should be included and explicit. Qualitative-quantitative analyses of these
chapters should focus exclusively on language via Twitter; analytics and
visualization tools for both the text and Twitter trends are encouraged. While the collection will focus primarily on
President Trump’s rhetoric as president, a broader lens may be used to capture
pre-presidential language shifts and/or patterns of tweets.
Chapters
should delve into the psychology of the speaker (or writer, in this case),
which may consider personality traits, socialization, and/or cognitive
performance. The interdisciplinary
approach lends itself to: rhetoric; political rhetoric; political discourse;
leadership studies; psychology; neurolinguistics; computational linguistics;
media; international relations; sociology.
Deadline for
Proposals: June 25, 2017
Interstitial Journal (Politics in the Age
of Trump and Brexit)
In the
modern era and accelerating in the age of Trump and Brexit, interstitiality, or
the space between one boundary and the next, has become an urgent area of
investigation. Existing within and between entities, interstices challenge
conventional understandings of boundedness, inviting us to rethink the space
between objects and ideas as an erupting site of transformation. From this
view, rigid divisions can no longer be taken for granted, whether political (as
in the case of national borders) or scholarly (such as the emphasis on discrete
academic disciplines).
Interstitial:
A Journal of Modern Culture and Events invites authors to submit essays (5,000
to 8,000 words) on the myriad manifestations of interstitiality birthed by
modern events, especially those that resist the regressive politics of the
early 21st Century. Situated within a post-disciplinary academic framework, we
welcome submissions from any field, including political theory, philosophy,
literary studies, law, sociology, and cultural studies. We are especially
interested in works that traverse multiple theoretical trajectories, including
media archaeology, literary criticism, speculative philosophy, critical theory,
game and film studies, posthumanism, new historicism, post-colonialism, and
political aesthetics, among others.
Contact
Email: editors@interstitialjournal.com
Indie
Games in the Digital Age
Traditional mass media and game publishing
models have operated with high barriers to entry and high production costs,
reinforcing capitalist power structures, wherein the richest, most privileged,
most connected and the most culturally, socially and artistically normative
have had the best chance to have their creative works made and exposed to a
wide audience. And because mainstream
board game companies like Mattel and Hasbro, as well as traditional video game
companies such as Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have presided over an
oligarchical system, independent game makers historically have had limited
chances to get their work in front of an audience without directly working with
one of these gatekeepers.
We are interested in contributions that both
expand and problematize this binary by closely examining independent games and
their makers as components of a distinct and emerging culture of production
that often does imagine complexity in the economic, social and cultural
decisions of its makers.
Please submit a 500-word abstract to digitalindiegamesbook@gmail.com by July 1, 2017. If you have any questions, please feel free to
email MJ Clarke at mclarke2@calstatela.edu and/or Cynthia Wang at cwang68@calstatela.edu.
Studies
in American Humor Special Issue
Humor was the original scaffolding upon which
American comic books were built. We have not historically called them “funny
books” for nothing. Today, however, humor-based comics and graphic novels have
been relatively marginalized by both scholars and contemporary readers alike.
The focus of this special issue of Studies in American Humor, ser. 4, 4, no. 2
(October 2018), will be the comic side of comics, the funny that helped make
the funnies. We are looking for essays that discuss graphic humor in
periodicals from historical, thematic, and theoretical perspectives. Special
attention will be given to submissions that privilege sequential storytelling,
as opposed to one-off gag strips, and that engage with the full spirit of the
project (e.g., not using comic titles or scenarios merely as a basis to explore
issues divorced from American humor studies).
Deadline for proposal submissions is July 1,
2017.
Contact
Email: humorfunnies@gmail.com
