CONFERENCES
Geniuses, Addicts,
and Scribbling Women: Depicting Writers in Lit & Film
NeMLA,
Apr 12-15 2018, Pittsburgh, PA
This
panel seeks papers that vigorously examine “the push toward visibility” of
writers and/or the writing life, particularly in terms of gender and/or gender
performance and its intersection with creativity. To what extent can we
contextualize depictions of writers (fictional or real) that exist in popular
culture? In what ways are those depictions dependent upon gender and/or gender
performance in traditional, subversive, or innovative ways? And what about the
real writer behind the depictions? What can we say about the relationship
between the real and the mimetic?
All
approaches, interpretations, and time periods are welcome. Please submit a
250-word abstract through the NeMLA submission system. The link for submissions
is https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17106.
Proposals
are due by Sept. 30, 2017.
Contact
Email: cjcravens@umes.edu
Tales of the
Border: Migration Narratives and Border Studies in the Trump Era
NeMLA,
Apr 12-15 2018, Pittsburgh, PA
Donald
Trump's election as President of the United States on an openly anti-immigrant,
and indeed anti-Mexican, platform constitutes a challenge for the field of
border studies: What is border culture when the leader of the most powerful
country in the world insists on closing the border? This panel aims to map the
current state of the discourse(s) on and from the U.S.-Mexico border, including
literature, film, journalism, and music. Papers in English and Spanish will be
considered.
Please
submit a 300-word abstract and brief biographical statement by September 30,
2017 directly through NeMLA's system: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17035.
Contact
Email: rponcecordero@keene.edu
Association for Asian
Studies 2018 Panel on Transformative Representations
Washington,
D.C., March 22-25
We
are looking for additional participants to round out a panel that explores the
manner in which representations of ethnicity and gender shaped immigration
policies from ancient to contemporary times in any geographical region. Our working title is "Transformative
Representations: Ethnicity, Gender, and
Immigration Policies." One paper
will analyze the intersection between nineteenth-century portrayals of Chinese
and Japanese immigrants and exclusionist legislations in the U.S.
The other paper will look at how the geopolitics of the Cold War and
national discussions on immigration in the U.S., Canada, and Australia
influenced policies toward refugees from Vietnam.
Please
email an abstract and a brief CV to Constance Chen, Associate Professor of
History at Loyola Marymount University (cchen@lmu.edu)
and Lisa Tran, Professor of History at CSU Fullerton (lisatran@fullerton.edu) by Friday,
July 28th.
Real and Imagined
Borders: People, Place, Time
The
International Graduate Historical Studies Conference (IGHSC) will host
"Real and Imagined Borders: People, Place, Time" at Central Michigan
University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, April 6 - 7, 2018.
We
invite students from across the social sciences and the humanities to submit
proposals for papers or panels that adopt an interdisciplinary or transnational
approach, but we are also seeking papers or panels that approach historical
topics in more traditional ways. All
submissions must be based on original research.
In keeping with the theme of the conference, individual papers will be
organized into panels that cross spatial, temporal, and disciplinary
boundaries.
Send
abstract (250-350 words) and a short curriculum vita as an attachment to
histconf@cmich.edu. Preference will be
given to papers and panels received during the early submission period which
ends December 17, 2017.
Contact
Email: histconf@cmich.edu
Real and Imagined
Borders: People, Place, Time
Central
Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, April 6 - 7, 2018
We
invite students from across the social sciences and the humanities to submit
proposals for papers or panels that adopt an interdisciplinary or transnational
approach, but we are also seeking papers or panels that approach historical
topics in more traditional ways. All
submissions must be based on original research.
In keeping with the theme of the conference, individual papers will be organized
into panels that cross spatial, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries.
Send
abstract (250-350 words) and a short curriculum vita as an attachment to
histconf@cmich.edu. Preference will be
given to papers and panels received during the early submission period which
ends December 17, 2017.
Contact
Email: histconf@cmich.edu
New Voices
2017-18: Art and Movement
University
of Birmingham, 11 January 2018
New
Voices Art and Movement will give postgraduate and doctoral researchers an
opportunity to discuss the topic of art and movement and to address persistent
historical, contextual, and conceptual questions. How did art participate in or
resist the creation of our globalised world, and how has that system impacted
the creation and reception of art? How can the development of systems and
networks for the circulation of art be traced historically? What can the
movement of art tell us about specific works of art or cultural, political,
economic and social contexts? In what way does the form of an object reflect
its movements or movability? How and why has movement been represented through
the ages?
Please
submit abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20-minute papers along with a
150-word biographical note to artmovement2018@gmail.com by 4
September 2017. The submission of abstracts is open to postgraduate
researchers (master’s and doctoral) of all related disciplines; attendance is
open to all. For more details, see: www.forarthistory.org.uk,
Please
address any questions to: artmovement2018@gmail.com
1977-2017: The IWY
National Women’s Conference In Retrospect
November
5-7, 2017 at the University of Houston
The
conference aims to engage a fresh conversation about U.S. politics and society
in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Issues debated at the Houston
Conference have dominated American culture since: LGBTQ and racial civil
rights; family planning and reproductive health; immigration and civil justice;
access to education and childcare; welfare and government spending; poverty and
wealth distribution; environmentalism; foreign policy priorities; globalization
and a shifting workforce; and gender neutrality and protection in law.
Likewise, we seek papers that engage these broad currents.
The
submission deadline is Submission deadline: August 10, 2017. Applicants can
submit applications as one PDF at: houstoncon17@gmail.com
For questions, please contact Nancy Beck Young: nyoung@central.uh.edu, or Leandra Zarnow: lrzarnow@central.uh.edu.
For questions, please contact Nancy Beck Young: nyoung@central.uh.edu, or Leandra Zarnow: lrzarnow@central.uh.edu.
2019 OAH Annual
Meeting, Philadelphia
Philadelphia,
April 4-6, 2019
The
program committee encourages proposals focusing on research, teaching, and
public education that address our theme as creatively and as broadly as
possible. Our theme opens up opportunities for scholars working across a
variety of temporal, geographical, thematic, and topical areas in colonial
North American and U.S. history. We are interested in proposals that probe the
theme within the traditional fields of economic, political, diplomatic,
intellectual, and cultural history; the established fields of urban, race,
ethnic, labor, and women's/gender history as well as southern, Appalachian, and
western history; and the rapidly expanding fields of sexuality, LBGT, and queer
history; environmental and public history; carceral state studies; and
transnational and global studies across all fields, topics, and thematic
emphases.
Submissions
will be accepted between November 27, 2017 and January 12, 2018.
Contact
Email: meetings@oah.org
Whitewashing and
Racebending: Diversity in Literature and Popular Culture
NeMLA,
Apr 12-15 2018, Pittsburgh, PA
How
has it been progressive or restrictive to change the race or ethnicity of a
character in adaptations of literature and other texts? How do such choices in
character design and casting increase diversity? How do such choices perpetuate
problematic legacies from the source material? Examples may include stage,
film, and fan productions of novels, plays, and comics.
This
year saw whitewashing of Asian characters from comics, as in Doctor
Strange and Ghost in the Shell, as well as missed
opportunities to re-cast Danny Rand in Netflix’s adaptation of Iron
Fist and expunge the white savior narrative that has plagued that
kung-fu comic. This panel will examine diversity beyond these adaptations of
comics and consider whether and how popular culture in general addresses
limited diversity in literature, especially in casting choices for adaptations,
and what makes such adaptations effective or ineffective in addressing such
real-life problems.
Please
submit 300-word abstracts and brief biographical statements by September 30, 2017 directly
through NeMLA's system: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16951.
Contact
Email: rponcecordero@keene.edu
Thinking of
Difference: Critical Approaches to Narratives of the Non-human
Proposed
panel for NeMLA 2018 (Pittsburgh, PA)
This
panel seeks to investigate particular narrative strategies of describing the
non-human experience in literature, drama, philosophy, and art throughout the
ages (not simply the 21st century). Papers for this panel are invited to
reflect the following questions: how are ideas of the non-human transmitted in
literature, art, and other media and how can we assess them? What trends, novel
methods, gaps, or fallbacks are present as humans attempt to understand the
other? Further, how do narrative strategies across media or time periods
compare or contrast?
Please
submit papers by Sept. 30th to the submission portal on NeMLA's Website: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html
Contact
Email: forj15@yorku.ca
Alternative
Careers for PhDs in the Humanities
Ohio
State University, September 8-9, 2017
In
the wake of recent and widespread discussions on alternative PhDs, this
interdisciplinary conference seeks to address the different opportunities and
initiatives available for PhD students in the humanities for careers in
non-academic contexts. The aim is to bring together a wide audience, including
scholars, students currently writing their dissertations, as well as PhDs
working in non-academic positions, to discuss the different possibilities,
challenges, constraints, experiments, resources, types of research—both the
successes and failures—of conducting research and writing dissertations in
relation to non-academic contexts (NGOs, local government, publishing, social
and cultural organizations, educational outreach, the private sector, activism
and participatory research, and so on).
Please
send a one page proposal (250-300 words) along with a one page bio to
csalternativephds@gmail.com by August 15, 2017
Contact
Email: csalternativephds@gmail.com
Alternative
Beginnings: Towards an-Other history of immersive arts and technologies
New
Media Caucus Sponsored panel CAA 2018,
Los
Angeles, February 21-24, 2018
Currently,
the critical history of immersive technology tends to focus on a) genealogies
of increasingly sophisticated systems of display that impact the affective
senses of the individual viewer and b) the recasting of the Eurocentric art
historical canon as providing instances of immersive experience, thereby
extending the definition of technology. While the above are interesting
approaches, we want to bring in more examples that further expand the field of
study. This panel seeks to explore alternative pathways to contextualize our
current obsession with virtual environments and to question our conceptions of
what counts as immersive technologies. We seek presentations that explore
suppressed, neglected and forgotten histories, alternative conceptualizations
of immersive technologies that break with the Eurocentric canon as well as
contemporary expressions that address such gaps through new media practices.
Send
an abstract of your paper/project (i.e. performance, art project, etc…) to both
session chairs: Matilda Aslizadeh (maslizadeh@ecuad.ca)
and Gabriela Aceves (gacevess@sfu.ca)
by August 14, 2017.
29th Annual Cheikh
Anta Diop International Conference in Philadelphia
Friday
and Saturday, October 21 and 22, 2016
"Afrocentricity
in Visionary Conversations with African/Black Radical Intellectualism and
Afro-Futurism"
This
year’s conference welcomes papers that explore the traditions and praxis of
Afrocentric thought with a particular innovation based on the paradigm’s
visionary conversations with sources from the broad inheritance of
African/Black radical intellectualism and contemporary Pan-African frameworks
of Afro-futurism. As the
conceptualization of African freedom will never become stagnant, this year’s
conference solicits cutting-edge and future-building idea formation to help
order responses to the present condition of African people, saturated with the
culture’s tools of victorious consciousness and preservationist acuity.
Formal,
250-word ABSTRACTS are due by August 1, 2017
Contact
Email: info@diopianinstitute.org
American Models:
Authoring the Official World(s) of the United States
NeMLA
12-15 Apr 2018 Pittsburgh, PA
Since
its founding, the ambition to live up to an “American ideal” has animated the
United States’ political and cultural imaginaries. From the “Documents of
Freedom” through to the present, writers and intellectuals have investigated,
imagined, and inveighed the complex contours of a commitment to political
freedom and the ever-expanding boundaries of democratic participation. This
panel seeks to explore the idea of models and modeling in relation to an American
ideal. How does this ideal produce and reproduce itself? How do literature and
rhetoric author and authorize an “official” United States? What is the status
of “unofficial” worlds in these spaces? What connection do physical models
(scale, miniature, or planned) have to the worlds they depict? How does the
American imagination animate intellectual and critical “worlds” and spaces?
Please
submit your 300-word paper abstract through the online
system here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16831.
Abstracts cannot be accepted if emailed directly.
Paper and submission guidelines may be found here: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/callforpapers/submit.html.
Deadline
for submissions is September 30, 2017.
If
you have any questions, please contact Emily Simon (emily_simon@brown.edu) and Stephen
Marsh (stephen_marsh@brown.edu).
Ann Radcliffe
Academic Conference at StokerCon 2018
March
1 – 4, 2018, Biltmore Hotel, Providence,
Rhode Island
The
Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference co-chairs invite all interested scholars and
academics to submit presentation abstracts related to horror studies for
consideration to be presented at the Third Annual StokerCon, March 1 - 4, 2018
held at the historic Biltmore Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island (see: http://www.providencebiltmore.com/)
.
The
inaugural Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference in 2017 was a tremendous success
and saw many presentations covering various aspects of horror studies. It is
the goal with the second conference to continue the dialogue of academic
analysis of horror. Hence we are looking for completed research or
work-in-progress projects that can be presented to with the intent to expand
the scholarship on various facets of horror.
Please
send a 250 – 300 word abstract on your intended topic, a preliminary
bibliography and your CV to AnnRadCon@gmail.com
by November 27, 2017.
Real and Imagined
Borders: People, Place, Time
Central
Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, April 6 - 7, 2018.
We
invite students from across the social sciences and the humanities to submit
proposals for papers or panels that adopt an interdisciplinary or transnational
approach, but we are also seeking papers or panels that approach historical
topics in more traditional ways. All
submissions must be based on original research.
In keeping with the theme of the conference, individual papers will be
organized into panels that cross spatial, temporal, and disciplinary
boundaries.
Send
abstract (250-350 words) and a short curriculum vita as an attachment to histconf@cmich.edu.. Preference will be
given to papers and panels received during the early submission period which
ends December 17, 2017.
The Tableau
Vivant: Across Media, History, and Culture
Columbia
University, New York, 30 November – 2 December 2017
The
Tableau Vivant conference hopes to bring together research that cuts across
media, histories, and cultures, just like the form itself. The phenomenon of
the tableau vivant is anchored in Ancient Greek mythology and mime traditions
and came into being as a liturgical and ceremonial event in the eleventh and
twelfth centuries, first flourishing in the late medieval and early Renaissance
period before seeing a resurgence in nineteenth-century performance culture
after Emma, Lady Hamilton’s famous parlor attitudes inspired a notable passage
in Goethe’s 1808 Wahlverwandtschaften [Elective Affinities].
Please
submit a 300-500 word abstract with 5 key sources and a 150-word bio via email
to Vito Adriaensens, Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor at
Columbia University and Researcher at the Research Centre for Visual Poetics at
the University of Antwerp (va2329@columbia.edu)
by July 30, 2017.
Contact
Email: va2329@columbia.edu
Debt in History
University
of Toronto Scarborough, Canada, 18-19 May 2018
Recent
scholarship has shown the value of reading film and literature economically.
The enormously influential work of David Graeber, Mary Poovey, Margot C. Finn,
Julian Hoppit, Sandford Borins, Audrey Jaffe, Margaret Atwood, and others have
opened up new avenues for thinking about money and the humanities. This
conference aims both to consolidate and to advance criticism in literature,
film, philosophy, and cultural studies by attending to some incarnations of
debt and analyzing their wider implications.
Abstracts
of 250 words (with 50-word biographies) for 20-minute papers are invited on any
aspect of economics and the humanities, as are proposals for panels of three or
four papers on clearly defined themes. Submissions on creative projects that
link research and creative writing and/or performance are warmly encouraged.
Selected proceedings of academic work will be published in a special issue of
the peer-reviewed e-journal Literature
Compass.
Deadline:
August 1
Contact
Email: ue_tom@hotmail.com
PUBLISHING
La Deleuziana 6 -
Milieux of desire
This
special issue aims to engage diverse methodologies and conceptual framework,
such as media studies, performance studies, philosophy, critical race studies,
as well as geography and psychoanalysis to foster debates around the importance
of desiring, desirable, and desired milieu today. By investigating the liminal
space of encounter, the milieux of desire, we aim to open up an
interdisciplinary debate on the spatio-temporal field from which diverse
desiring processes can emerge. As the driving force of becoming otherwise in
the world, desire holds the promise of a newly engendered political
responsibility. As such, the triad of desire—its desiring, desired, and
desirable milieux—is a critical tool to reassess the margins of possibility
left to account for diverse, complex, and multiple ways of desiring being
together in the world.
September
1st: Submission of a 3000-3500 word proposition
Contact
Email: milieuxofdesire@gmail.com
Collections,
Collectors and the Collecting of Knowledge in Education
This
collection will address collections, collectors and the collecting of knowledge
in educational media such as textbooks, primers, atlases, teaching materials
(objects and images, including wall charts and maps), curricula and teachers’
and youth guidebooks. It will explore the objects and structures of material
and digital collections, the aims and motivations of public bodies and private
persons who collect them, and the means by which they are collected, preserved,
archived and disseminated.
Articles
should contain a maximum of 7000 words including references, and should adhere
to the guidelines of the Modern Humanities Research Association (http://www.mhra.org.uk/pdf/MHRA-Style-Guide-3rd-Edn.pdf).
31
October 2017: Title and abstract (max. 300 words)
Contact
Email: collect@gei.de
Breath: Image and
Sound
New
Review of Film and Television Studies seeks contributions for a special issue
on “Breath: Image and Sound.” Contributors are encouraged to consider, among
other topics, the interplay between breath and particular media;
phenomenologies or phenomenalities of breath and air; and breathing in
different affective modes and genres.
Please
send a brief abstract (and direct all inquiries) to guest
editor Jean-Thomas Tremblay (tremblay@uchicago.edu)
by September 15th, 2017. Full essays (below
9,000 words, including references), should they be commissioned, will be due on February
1st, 2018.
Digital
Technologies, Bodies, and Embodiments
This
special issue of Computers and Composition will examine questions of digital
media, bodies, and embodiments with specific attention to writing studies
itself: how writing composes embodiments and how embodiments compose writing
within and through digital technologies and institutions. We are calling for
scholarship that offers theoretical, methodological, and/or pedagogical work
that contributes to the latest research on, about, with, and between
(dis)connections of digital technologies, bodies, embodiments, and writing in
digital-cultural contexts, texts, and events. Following Computers and
Composition’s emphasis on the use of computers and digital technologies in
teaching and the writing classroom, writing program administration, and writing
research, we are particularly interested in submissions that apply theoretical
methods to the practical dimension of the field.
Proposals
due: October 31, 2017
Contact
Email: ssndvall@memphis.edu
Divination Themes
in Mythopoeic Literature
Special
Issue of Mythlore (Spring 2018)
The
theme of divination is usually expressed in literature as fortune-telling
(astrology, tarot, runes, etc.), oracular pronouncements, or prophecy, and is a
frequent element of mythopoeic literature and its sources, which this special
issue will explore. Papers on specific works and/or the works of specific
authors, including comparative treatments, are particularly welcome, as are
studies of divination in folklore, fairy tale, myth, and medieval literature.
Deadline
August 30, 2017
Contact
Email: augeremily@gmail.com
African Global
Experiences
Africology:
The Journal of Pan African Studies (formerly The Journal of Pan African
Studies; JPAS), a trans-disciplinary on-line peer reviewed scholarly journal
devoted to the intellectual synthesis of research, scholarship and critical
thought on the African experience around the world, is seeking contributions
for a special edition that aims to explore the full scope of the African world.
We are especially seeking to broaden our scope of diasporic African content. To
this end, we are seeking submissions from all disciplinary fields of academic
inquiry, including the arts, humanities and social sciences, interdisciplinary
studies, STEM-related fields (science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics) as well as Africology (i.e., African Diaspora Studies, African
Studies, Africana Studies, African American Studies, Afro-American Studies,
Black Studies, Pan African Studies, etc.).
The
deadline for receiving papers is February 21, 2018.
Contact
Email: flemmint@gvsu.edu
CFP for Edited
Collection on the Material Culture of Writing (Proposal Deadline: Sept. 15)
We
invite proposals for chapter contributions to an edited collection on the
material culture of writing. In particular, we are interested in work on the
nature, histories, and roles of writing objects, read through a material
culture studies (MCS) and consumer research lens. By putting MCS into
conversation with writing and rhetorical studies, this collection aims to
magnify the focus on the material things that sustain writerly acts and identities.
300-500
word proposals due September 15, 2017
Please
direct inquiries and submissions to Cydney Alexis, cydneyalexis@gmail.com, and Hannah
Rule, ruleh@mailbox.sc.edu.
Comics and
Authorship
The
comic, recently legitimized through the graphic novel phenomenon while
remaining anchored in popular culture, can provide unique insights into issues
surrounding authorship. Although comics scholarship has explored
autobiographical comics and the strategies for self-fashioning of individual
canonized comics artists and writers, the complex and mutating concept of comic
book authorship remains by and large overlooked. In this special issue
dedicated to comics, the open-access journal Authorship seeks to specify the
range and potential of the terrain covered by comics and authorship.
Please
send articles (ca. 5000 words) to Maaheen Ahmed (ahmedmaaheen@gmail.com) by 31
August 2017. The issue will be published in December 2017.
Post-Colonial
Nostalgia
The
special issue of the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies “On post-colonial
nostalgia” seeks to explore the relationship between contemporary history and
the melancholy of empire, the specificities of this type of remembering, the
position of who remembers vis-Ã -vis imperial and colonial administrations, and
the modalities of remembrance. “On Post-colonial Nostalgia” contributes to the
field of colonial and post-colonial studies by analyzing the intersections
between the history of empires and the history of the present. The modalities
and purposes of nostalgia confirm the centrality of the relationship between
empires, politics, and everyday life. Nostalgia also represents a continuum in
the history of colonialism and challenges the notions of end of empires.
Decolonization may have ended formal empires, but discursive norms have
continued to wield powerful influence, manifesting themselves in new-old forms
with different longings at different times.
Manuscripts
of c. 5,000 words and following MLA guidelines for formatting should be
submitted by November 1st 2017 according to the Journal’s
guidelines at http://jcpcsonline.com/submissions.html.
Preliminary
ideas and/or complete articles can be submitted to the guest editors at Simon
Lewis, LewisS@cofc.edu; Giusi Russo, grusso@mc3.edu.
Psychedelics and
Radicalism
We
would like to encourage submission of articles for a special issue on
psychedelics in the context of radicalism. LSD, mescaline, psilocybin and
peyote in particular have played varied and important roles in countercultural
movements over the past century. This issue of JSR will be dedicated to the
investigation of the political and cultural role(s) played by psychedelics, and
the degree to which their use may be deemed radical, and in what contexts.
Subjects may include well-known figures like Timothy Leary or Terence McKenna,
or less well known figures, groups, movements, or communities. Historical,
sociological, anthropological, and literary approaches all are encouraged.
Send
queries or completed articles to the editors at jsr@msu.edu by January
15, 2018. Our Call for Papers is always current at https://msu.edu/~jsr/. See http://msupress.org/journals/jsr/ for
more information.
Contact
Email: jsr@msu.edu
Evental
Aesthetics: Open Call - Aesthetic Inquiries 4
Evental
Aesthetics is an independent, double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to
philosophical and aesthetic intersections. The journal is open-access, and
there are no publication fees. The Editors seek submissions for an unthemed
issue in late 2017. Esthetic Inquiries 4 will be devoted to philosophical
matters pertaining to any aesthetic practice or experience, including but not
limited to art and everyday aesthetics.
We
welcome articles (4,000-8,000 words) and Collisions (1,000-2,500 words).
Collisions are brief responses to aesthetic experiences that raise
philosophical questions, pointing the way towards suggestive discussions. We're
also seeking proposals for Collisions with academic books (EA’s version of book
reviews).
Contact
Email: eventalaesthetics@gmail.com
Call for Research
Notes
BC
Studies invites work that recognizes knowledge practices developed through
research within different disciplinary, social and political contexts. We
encourage submissions about the ways people are doing research; about research
alliances and engagements, ethical and theoretical considerations.
We
welcome submissions from emerging and established scholars in all disciplines
working in or on British Columbia. Research Notes are six to ten pages (3000 -
5000 words) although shorter and longer submissions are considered.
All
submissions go through a double-blind, peer-review process including:
soundworks & photo essays.
Contact
Email: info@bcstudies.com
Special Issue on
Native American Narratives in a Global Context
This
issue seeks to explore this new direction of Indigenous Studies, focusing on
the significance of Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous North
American narratives in a global arena. We invite work that engages with
historical or cultural narratives, spanning literature, art, film, or other
modes of cultural production. Bringing together scholars researching Native American
narratives in relation to diverse geographical and historical contexts, we hope
to interrogate questions surrounding what comparative indigenous studies might
look like and what potential it holds for transnational exchange on a global
scale.
Abstracts
(up to 300 words) and brief author CV to be sent to Guest Editors: Rebecca
Macklin, University of Leeds( r.macklin@leeds.ac.uk)
and Eman Ghanayem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign( ghanaye2@illinois.edu) by 1st October
2017.
URL:
https://www.academia.edu/33661948/Call_for_Papers_Native_American_Narratives_in_a_Global_Context
Negotiating Belief
in Health and Social Care
Special
Issue with the Int J of Human Rights in Healthcare
Religion
and belief, either as identities or concepts, have been explored by many
contemporary theorists and researchers. By and large, researchers in the 21st
century have agreed that religion never went away, as per Berger’s and Bruce’s
arguments, but rather changed; the way people believe and engage with their
religious or nonreligious faith is different. Nevertheless, and as religion
privatised until more recent years, while more secular ideas were present in
the public sphere, professional practitioners found themselves in a position in
which they lack appropriate language and skills to engage with religion, belief
and spiritual identities of service users. This special issue, therefore, seeks
contributions from scholars and practitioners to report on contemporary
approaches to religion, belief, and spirituality in policy and practice. This
special issue will provide evidence and critical intersectional analysis about
specific issues related to religion, belief, nonbelief, and spirituality
specifically pertaining to health and social care.
Manuscripts
should be between 3,000 and 6,500 words and must be received by 15th September
2017 via the online submission system Scholar One Manuscripts: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijhrh.
Contact
Email: p.pentaris@gre.ac.uk
From Digital to
Print (Special Issue) -- Textshop Experiments
At
the 2005 annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Gregory L. Ulmer reminded conference-goers of the importance of
understanding our relationships to writing and print, the apparatus from which
our identities, perspectives, theories and practices emerge. Over the course of thirty years and eight
books, Ulmer has called for us not only to be aware of the emerging apparatus
he dubbed “electracy” but also to help invent and shape it.
This
issue of Textshop Experiments asks contributors to respond to Ulmer’s call to
interrogate print culture (its works, technologies, and operations) and respond
to Ulmer’s call to participate in the definition and activities in electracy. This is a call for scholarship on the history
of print, books, literacy, publishing, and policy from the future. The issue will publish video essays up to 15
minutes in length and accompanying Author Statements (which theoretically frame
and contextualize their respective videos) no more than 1000 words.
Completed
work is due October 1, 2017.
Contact
Email: ulmertextshop@gmail.com
The Tableau
Vivant: Across Media, History, and Culture
Film
and Media Studies, Columbia University’s School of the Arts invites proposals
for a two-day conference on The Tableau Vivant – Across Media, History, and
Culture, to be held in New York from 30 November to 2 December 2017.
Gentrification
around the World: Gentrifiers and the Displaced
The
editors seek contributions that investigate the social, political, and economic
significance of gentrification based on original research that has not been
previously published. Topics, as they relate to gentrification, include but are
not limited to: social class, neoliberal development, im/migration, housing,
race relations, political economy, power dynamics, inequality, displacement,
social segregation, homogenization, urban policy, planning, and design.
Especially sought after are papers in venues outside of Western Europe and the
United States of America, or those that use innovative approaches in any city.
As to methodology, we are looking for contributions that utilize qualitative
approaches in general, and more specifically, those that emphasize ethnographic
and participatory methods. Visual approaches that interrogate the
representation of gentrification in the arts, film, and other mass media,
well-crafted cross-national comparisons, and engaging discussions of
theoretical and practical issues are also welcome.
After
receiving you expression of interest, the editors will require an extended
abstract of 500 words, or more, to be sent to them by email before September 1,
2017
Contact
Email: jkrase@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Transnational
Feminism in/and American Studies
WiN
is an annual, double-blind peer-reviewed online journal of the European
Association for American Studies Women’s Network, facilitating the
dissemination of essays, articles, book reviews, and other scholarly
contributions on women’s and gender issues within the framework of American
Studies. Our first issue will be on Transnational Feminism in/and American
Studies, which was the theme of our 2017 conference. For a detailed description
of this theme, see: http://women.eaas.eu/conferences.html.
We
look forward to your submissions, which can be emailed to us as MS Word
documents: eaaswomensnetwork@gmail.com,
Our
journal website: http://women.eaas.eu/journal.html.
Deadline:
15 August, 2017
URL: http://women.eaas.eu
“Critical
Posthumanism” in Japanese Contexts: An Inquiry into Materiality, Correlationality,
and Animality in Japanese Writing, Art, and Film
This
is a call for papers for the 2018 Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
conference taking place in Washington, D.C. from March 22 to 25.
How
does critical posthumanism translate to and from Japanese discourses, even
before being called “posthumanism” as such? Despite (or perhaps thanks to) its
diversity and complexity, critical posthumanist inquiries into
coorelationaility, materiality, nonhuman animality, and technicity are
gradually spreading across and either explicitly or implicitly informing
literary and filmic forms of analysis. Ultimately, this panel hopes to provide
examples of this inquiry in the analyses of our chosen texts. What we expect to
simultaneously show is the diversity and importance of the projects of critical
posthumanism, in all their horizontalizing complexity, in new contexts that
also broadly insist on the rootedness of the human in its environment and in
its relations with human and nonhuman others.
The
deadline for sending in abstracts is July 24.
Contact
Email: joshtri@yorku.ca
Blackness and
Labor in the Afterlives of Racial Slavery
Special
Issue of International Labor and Working-Class History
Between
the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, the history of labor on a global
scale was shaped by the ambiguities and contradictions accompanying the legal
abolition of Black slavery and the persistence of racialized coercion within
putatively “free” contractual arrangements. Critical Black studies have placed
such questions within the conceptual framework of the “afterlife” of slavery,
defined by authors like Saidiya Hartman (Lose Your Mother, 2008) and Christina
Sharpe (In the Wake, 2016) as a state of continuous vulnerability and
endangerment of Black lives, shaping the present in ways that reflect the
limitations and constraints of “freedom.” The afterlives of slavery, whose
persistence is most evident in the continuously unaddressed demand that “Black
Lives Matter”, also challenge labor scholarship.
Prospective
authors should send, by December 1, 2017, a cover letter (including address,
e-mail details, and institutional affiliation), a two-page CV, and an abstract
not exceeding 500 words.
Contact
Email: barchiesi.1@osu.edu
Encyclopedia of
Sexism in American Cinema
This
volume takes up the topic of sexism within American Cinema from its early days
of film production to the present. Covering over 400 entries that include
films, producers, directors, actresses, actors, genres, as well as conceptual
and critical interpretations, the breadth and depth of this volume will
generate some highly significant material for both academics and general
audiences alike. The first of its kind—indeed there are no other encyclopedias
that cover this topic anywhere on the market—The Encyclopedia of Sexism in
American Cinema is a timely companion to the ever-growing field of critical
film studies. If you are interested in contributing, please send an email with
the subject line “Sexism in Cinema,” and we will forward the list of entries to
you for your perusal.
The
first deadline for contributor submissions will be 1 December 2017.
Contact
Email: josephine.g.skantz@gmail.com
FUNDING
Fellowships at
re:work
We
welcome candidates from various disciplines including history, anthropology,
law, sociology, political sciences, geography, economics, and area studies.
Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level or senior scholars. We would
like the proposed projects to employ a historical and transregional
perspective. Applications should ideally focus on work / labour in relation to
changing patterns of life course. Possible topic areas are, among others, the
household, loss of work, the relationship between work and non-work, work and
gender, free and unfree labour. We welcome proposals about all regions of the
world and especially those that look at comparisons, conflicts, relations
between different regions. A global history perspective is not required;
keeping an open mind to such ideas, however, is highly desirable.
Application
deadline: 10 September 2017
Email: felicitas.hentschke@asa.hu-berlin.de or
visit the center’s website http://rework.hu-berlin.de/
Huggins-Quarles
Award
Named
for Benjamin Quarles and Nathan Huggins, two outstanding historians of the
African American past, the Huggins-Quarles Award is given annually by the
Organization of American Historians to one or two graduate students of color to
assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the
completion of the PhD dissertation. These awards were established to promote
greater diversity in the historical profession.
Requirements
of Applicants
•
applicant must be ABD
•
applicant must be ALANA (African American, Latino/a, Asian American, Native
American) scholar
•
applicant's dissertation must focus on U.S. history
•
U.S. residency is not required
The
deadline for submissions is December 1, 2017.
Louis Pelzer
Memorial Award
The
Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Committee of the Organization of American
Historians invites candidates for graduate degrees to submit essays for the
Louis Pelzer Memorial Award competition. Essays may deal with any period or
topic in the history of the United States. The winning essay will be published
in the Journal of American History.
The
deadline for submitting an essay for consideration is November 30, 2017.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Assistant
Professor Gender and Women's Studies
The
Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences (IKBSAS) at the University of
British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, invites applications for a tenure-track
appointment in Gender and Women’s Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor.
The position will be held in the Community, Culture and Global Studies
Department and is expected to start on July 1, 2018. To apply for this position
please visit the link -
http://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers-postings/faculty.php
(Job Opening ID# 26836)
We
are seeking candidates with scholarly interest and expertise at the
intersection of Science and Technology Studies and Sexualities. An emphasis in
one or more of the following areas would be an asset: biotechnologies,
including reproductive technologies; biopolitics; genetics; environmental
science; science/biomedicine and sexuality. An interest in working in an
interdisciplinary department consisting of Gender & Women’s Studies,
Anthropology, Indigenous Studies and Human Geography is expected.
The
deadline for applications is October 1, 2017.
RESOURCES
Moving the Social
57
We
would like to inform you of our latest issue, Moving the Social 57 (2017):
Transnational Humanitarian Action: Atlantic and Global Voluntary Activities
from Abolitionism to the NGOs 1800-2000.
Back
issues are available open access from our pages and we welcome manuscripts, as
well as feedback, any time.
Contact
Email: mts@rub.de
Feminist
Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives
Feminist
Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives situates feminist
translation as political activism. Chapters highlight the multiple agendas and
visions of feminist translation and the different political voices and cultural
heritages through which it speaks across times and places, addressing the
question of how both literary and nonliterary discourses migrate and contribute
to local and transnational processes of feminist knowledge building and
political activism. This collection does not pursue a narrow, fixed definition
of feminism that is based solely on (Eurocentric or West-centric) gender
politics.
Available
free online through September 1, 2017.
WORKSHOPS
Workshop in
Transnational Feminism
10-12
May, 2018, Ontario, Canada
Organized
by the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University, this
two-day workshop will bring together scholars from Canada and around the world
to address the methodological and epistemological challenges of writing
transnational feminist histories. While this workshop is open to scholars in
disciplines other than history, proposals from non-historians should indicate
the ways in which their paper addresses questions of women’s activism in the
19thor 20th centuries from an historical perspective.
Deadline
for proposals: 30 September 2017
If
you have any questions, please contact Amanda Ricci, riccia1@mcmaster.ca.
