CONFERENCES
Media, Resistance and
Justice, Union for Democratic Communication Conference
May 10-13, 2018, Loyola University Chicago
This conference seeks to traverse the intersections of
Media, Resistance, and Justice through presentations and conversations that
offer insights and suggestions for advancing and securing a more democratic,
just society.
The Union for Democratic Communication 2018 conference
invites contributions on Media, Resistance, and Justice that address our
contemporary crises and the rise of state and non-state right wing attacks. In
particular, we invite contributions that highlight the means and methods for
active resistance, democratic communication, and the promotion of social
justice. New and established scholars, graduate students, activists, and media
creators are encouraged to submit proposals.
Deadline for Submissions: 15 October 2017
Contact Email: udc.steering@gmail.com
African-American
Literature at the College English Association Conference
April 2018, St. Petersburg, FL
Each year, the College English Association offers a dynamic
range of panels related to African-American literature and culture. As we
consider the conference theme of “Bridges,” scholars and teachers alike are
encouraged to probe, among other interests, 1) the thematic and/or theoretical
bridges that link texts across time and across the diaspora, 2) the ideological
bridges of African-American cultural movements such as the Harlem Renaissance
and Black Arts Movement, 3) the transatlantic bridges connecting, for instance,
African-American literature with that of European modernism, as well as 4) the
interdisciplinary bridges between English, sociology, psychology, and political
science that inform our understanding of African-American texts and their
overall representation of the African-American condition.
The submission period for the 2018 CEA conference is
between August 15 and November 1, 2017. For more information on how to
submit, please see the full CFP at http://www.cea-web.org. Note
also that all presenters at the conference must become members of CEA by
January 1, 2018. If you have additional questions or concerns about CEA or the
conference in general, please contact us at cea.english@gmail.com. For specific
inquiries regarding the African-American literature call, please contact the
Special Topics Chair, Christopher Allen Varlack, at cvarlack@umbc.edu.
“Rewrit[ing] the
American Literary Landscape”: Immigrant American Women Writers across the
Diaspora and Tales of Black Metropolitan Life
In the introduction to her 2002 text, Rereading the Harlem
Renaissance, Sharon Lynette Jones, Professor of English at Wright State
University, calls attention to the influx of immigrants into the Black
metropolis with “blacks from Africa, the Caribbean, and other regions of the
United States migrat[ing] to Harlem in search of the American Dream of economic
prosperity and equality, often to find that the dream was elusive” (2). Despite
being faced with a tense racial climate that limited the social, economic, and
political opportunities afforded ethnic minorities, however, the nation’s
arriving immigrants fundamentally transformed cities nationwide into epicenters
of unprecedented artistic and cultural growth that forever shaped not only the
literary landscape but the very notion of what constitutes the American
identity. Eager to explore these critical issues in the works of a diverse
range of American women writers, the Society for the Study of American Women
Writers is pleased to invite proposals for a SSAWW-sponsored panel to be held
at the College Language Association Convention in Chicago from April 4 to 7,
2018.
The deadline for proposals this year will be September 8,
2017
Contact Email: ssaww.vpdevelopment@gmail.com
Bodies Politic:
Utopian World-making between Carnality and Corporeality
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/191242/nemla-2018-bodies-politic-utopian-world-making-between-carnality
Description: How do we embody utopia in 2018? Which modes of
embodiment can be written into utopian projects, and which bodily disciplines
must be excluded? How can we ground utopian aspirations in the body without
yielding to the self-authoring politics of what Elizabeth A. Povinelli has
called the “autological subject?” This seminar addresses the challenge of a
utopia become flesh in the contemporary moment by orienting discussions of bodily
practices, performances and representations towards visions of utopian
collectivity
Deadline: September 30, 2017
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact
us at emy2110@columbia.edu or abp2151@columbia.edu.
URL: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17128
URL: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17128
Hearing Silences
14th Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate
Conference, November 18, 2017
Masters and doctoral graduate students in any field of
historical study are invited to submit proposals to present individual research
papers at Loyola’s Fourteenth Annual History Graduate Student Conference. In
keeping with this year’s theme, Hearing Silences, we solicit presentations that
address gaps in the historical record, especially those related to marginalized
subjects. We welcome original research on any topic of historical interest, but
we encourage presenters to consider the ways in which historical silences
hinder, motivate, or inform their
scholarship. Potential frameworks may include, but are not limited to:
borderlands and transnational studies, urban history, gender history, and
public history.
deadline: September 22
Contact Email: HGSA@luc.edu
URL: http://luc.edu/history/graduate/conference_test.shtml;
https://loyolahistoryconference.wordpress.com/
Spaces of Hope and Desperation in Science Fiction
NEMLA 2018
Pittsburgh, PA, April 12- 15 2018
Science fiction both
imagines a dystopian, lost, dark space signaling what may happen while, with
the very same gesture, pinpointing ways to create possibility of other perceptions,
other spaces of hope.
This panel aims to
consider speculative/science fiction’s spatial imagination vis-à-vis hope and
despair. Topics may include the kinds of dystopian spaces SF proposes, space
and its spatial representation, gendered spaces within the SF genre,
environment and its future imagined by SF, and the representation of the
instability or hope. All forms of SF , including short stories, novels, films,
anime, manga, novels and TV shows are welcome.
Deadline for
submission: September 30, 2017
Contact Email: esendur1@binghamton.edu
Material Culture and
the Built Environment
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association, February
7-10, 2018, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Material Culture and the Built Environment area explores
various ways that we shape and are shaped by man-made environments and objects.
Presentations in this area may address any type of architecture or material
good. This includes, but is not limited to, the impact of environmental
conditions or cultural developments (including social, ideological, political,
or technological) on the design of spaces (buildings or landscapes) or
products. Topics from any time period or culture are welcomed. Those relating
to the U.S. Southwest (architecture in particular) are especially desired, as
there is an opportunity for papers in this subcategory to be published in a
future issue of the Journal of the Southwest.
All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s
database at http://conference2018.southwestpca.org/
The deadline for submissions is October 22, 2017.
Contact Email: lschrenk@email.arizona.edu
Fake News and
Weaponized Defamation: Global Perspectives
The notion of "fake news" has gained great currency
in global popular culture in the wake of contentious social-media imbued
elections in the United States and Europe.
Although often associated with the rise of extremist voices in political
discourse and, specifically, an agenda to "deconstruct" the power of
government, institutional media, and the scientific establishment, fake new is
"new wine in old bottles," a phenomenon that has long historical
roots in government propaganda, jingoistic newspapers, and business-controlled
public relations. In some countries, dissemination of "false news" is
a crime that is used to stifle dissent. "Weaponized defamation"
refers to the increasing invocation, and increasing use, of defamation and
privacy torts by people in power to threaten press investigations, despite laws
protecting responsible or non-reckless reporting.
Papers should have an international or comparative focus
that engages historical, contemporary, or emerging issues relating to face news
or "weaponized defamation."
Abstract Deadline: September 25, 2017
Contact Email: Jimel@SWLaw.edu
Vox Clamantis:
Silencing, Censorship, and the Role of the Intellectual
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, April
12-18, 2018 (Pittsburgh, PA).
This panel aims to interrogate the presence and absence of
authorized voices and silences as well as the processes by which they appear
and disappear alongside the perennial question of who decides what qualifies as
truth (and official history) in the public, private, and intellectual spheres.
Who decides who speaks and who does not? Where does the intellectual’s
responsibility lie? Is intellectual production always already political? Can it
be anything else? What constitutes the role of the intellectual in society
today? Papers in English, Spanish, or French are welcome.
Deadline: September 30, 2017
Full panel description below and at this link: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17137
Abstract submission guidelines: https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/callforpapers/submit.html
Convention information: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
Questions about the panel: st521@nyu.edu
Field Hollers and Freedom
Songs
The 6th Annual Cotton Kingdom/Sweat Equity Symposium and
Cotton Pickers’ Ball, NOVEMBER 9-10, 2017. shall once again take place on the
Mississippi Valley State University campus and da’ House of Khafre. The
Symposium is America’s premier interdisciplinary conference on the Cotton
Kingdom, cotton picking/chopping/distribution, sharecropping, tenant farming
and the significance of cotton to the successes of the world’s economies. This
year’s theme: FIELD HOLLERS AND FREEDOM SONGS will stimulate two days of
performances, discussions and celebration of the historic preservation efforts
that are leading-edge research about America’s foundational values.
A Call for Participation (papers, performances, exhibits,
etc.) is underway to attract the interest of artists, scholars, private
collectors and archivists who may have access to sounds and images of the
antebellum (or post-antebellum) plantation. Organizers are interested in songs
and lyrics that feature cotton production or agriculture (of any form).
Deadline for submissions Friday, October 20, 2017
Contact Email: sade@khafreinc.org
"Food
and..."
March 29-31, 2018, Humanities Center at Texas Tech
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech University (Lubbock,
Texas) is happy to announce a call for papers for our first Annual Conference
in the Humanities. The conference topic
each year aligns with the Center’s annual theme, which for 2017-2018 is “Food
and …”. Ways into the "what" following
the ellipsis in "Food and..." may fall into myriad categories:
culture, literature, politics, environment, technology, health, malnutrition,
access, education, inequities, media representations, depictions in fine art,
sustainability, ecology(s), local food, translation, small scale agriculture,
agribusiness, taboo, packaging, eating disorders, marketing, terroir, and
gastronomy.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted to
humanitiescenter@ttu.edu by October 15, 2017 with all documents contained in a
single PDF
Contact Email: humanitiescenter@ttu.edu
Visual Pedagogies
International Association for Visual Culture, September 13 -
15, 2018, UCL Institute of Education, London
Can we teach what we see? Can we see what we teach? How is
the world changed, reaffirmed, or progressed through the visual? How does it
slip back? What impact can thoughtful uses of images in teaching, scholarship,
artistic, and political practice have on the future, as well as on the telling
of history? How can we as scholars, practitioners, educators, and concerned
citizens of the world see ourselves as teachers of and through the visual,
whatever our context? The International Association for Visual Culture welcomes
papers and creative proposals that address the issues of visual pedagogies from
different starting points.
Please direct all submission in PDF format to GreetingsIAVC@gmail.com by
the November 30, 2017 deadline.
Contact Email: GreetingsIAVC@gmail.com
Asian Popular Culture
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, September 22-24, 2017
Science fiction gives us free rein to imagine a different
world, giving us insight into what in our own world has become naturalized and
allowing us the space to question the potentials of technologically enhanced
futures. The questions provoked by science fiction strategies and forms often
provide insights to imagine our world in a different light. Science fiction has
always been central to the popular culture globally, but particularly in Japan.
It is the key narrative form found in anime, manga, gaming, and fan works. We encourage papers that
analyze science fiction tactics, themes, and narratives regarding the way the
geo-political, geo-economic climatic situation has been reflected, criticized,
and made hypothetical through futuristic utopian/dystopian narratives in anime,
manga, design, illustration, literature, film, and gaming.
Please send 250 word proposals to mechademia@mcad.edu by September 1,
2017. In your email memo field, state: mechademia_2017_submission
Interior Provocations
- Interiors without Architecture
February 3, 2018, The second annual Pratt Interior
Provocations symposium, Interiors without Architecture, seeks papers addressing
the broad cultural, historical, and theoretical implications of interiors
beyond their conventionally defined architectural boundaries, and not limited
by interior design’s traditional associations with decoration, taste, and
social status. This conference encourages provocative and boundary-expanding
proposals from design practitioners, historians, and theorists addressing, for
example, the implications of interior design expertise applied to
prefabricated, reused enclosures not originally intended for human occupation;
interiors composed by natural geography; interior environments created for
literature, film, stage and virtual reality; interiors constructed within
external urban surroundings; mobile interiors, inhabitable art; infrastructural
interiors; interior landscapes; adaptive reuse and interiors; and interiors on
and for display, including period rooms, model rooms, dioramas, and store
display windows.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a
2-page cv to interiorprovocations@gmail.com
by October 15, 2017.
Proletarian
Aesthetics Seminar
Part of the American Comparative Literature Association
Conference, March 29-April 1, 2018, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA)
The 1920s and 30s witnessed the rise of an international
proletarian movement in literature and the arts that sought to revise and
revolutionize bourgeois art forms. Working in parallel to political parties and
activities of various kinds, the writers associated with the proletarian
movement often found themselves restrained by bourgeois art forms and reception
models with their embedded notions of individualism and liberalism. This
struggle between a new revolutionizing aesthetics and the inherited limitations
of the 19th century realist/naturalist novel can be detected in the works of
writers situated in different parts of the world, marking a transnational space
of contestation stretching far beyond old Europe and the emerging Soviet Union.
This seminar proposes to re-examine the proletarian novel and by extension the
committed tradition of the 20s and 30s beyond the confines of national
literatures emphasizing the international context of this movement.
deadline: August 31, 2017
email: Hunter Bivens (abivens@ucsc.edu),
Anna Björk Einarsdottir (abeinarsdottir@ucdavis.edu)
Rendering (the)
Visible III: liquidity
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/190855/rendering-visible-iii-liquidity
Atlanta, February 8-10, 2018
Since the early 2000s, the idea of “liquidity” has been
mobilized in discourses ranging from social theory to aesthetics, from
informatics to architecture, to describe a new relationship with the networked
environments of life within global capital. More specifically, within the study
of moving image culture, we have seen an increasing turn toward affective
relations, plasticity, resonances and flows, whereby images and sounds—no
longer grounded in an analogical relation to the real—are seen variously as
malleable, untethered, “viral,” or fluid.
The graduate program in Moving Image Studies at Georgia
State University has, over the past several years, been exploring some of the
implications of these ideas, specifically in relation to race, via our research
group “liquid blackness.” Now, however, we wish to explore the ways in which
the concept of liquidity might begin to chart new ways to understand the
image’s relation to space, sensoriality, and digitality, as well as to develop
an aesthetic sensibility attuned to the political ontology of motion, form,
matter, and noise.
Submit paper proposals (300–500 words), including 3-5
bibliographical sources and a brief biography by 20 October 2017.
Please direct queries to movingimagestudies@gmail.com or
contact conference organizers Angelo Restivo, Alessandra Raengo, Ethan Tussey,
or Jennifer Barker.
Spiritualities of
Human Enhancement and Artificial Intelligence
This conference aims to start and deepen interdisciplinary
conversations about human enhancement, artificial intelligence, and
spirituality. We welcome papers by academics working from diverse perspectives,
including scientists and scholars of religion who are willing to analyse the
spiritual implications of issues surrounding human enhancement and artificial
intelligence (even if they ultimately conclude that spirituality is not
relevant to this nexus). Topics may include, but are not limited to, how
artificial intelligence may make spirituality obsolete or augment it, the
challenge of transhumanism for world religions, the religious-ethical
implications of artificial intelligence, faith traditions’ reactions to efforts
to engineer human enhancement, and the opportunities and significant tensions
emerging for religious traditions in light of recent developments in artificial
intelligence research.
Please submit a 400-word abstract of a
paper that can be presented in 20 minutes, along with a current CV to sask.scienceandreligion@gmail.com by
October 16, 2017.
Questions: chrynkow@stmcollege.ca
Locating “Poetry of
Resistance”: Poetry and the Politics of Space
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
April 12-15, 2017 / Pittsburgh, PA
This panel will examine the relationship between the
contemporary poetry community’s call for “poetry of resistance” and the
particular locations or spaces that such poems represent. Papers may examine
how particular locations or spaces define the language of resistance or how
poetic resistance defines particular locations or spaces. How is resistance
defined locally, globally, geographically, environmentally, or personally in
poetry? And how does poetry define the relationship between resistance and
location?
Please submit 250-300 word abstracts to Kirsten Ortega
at kortega@uccs.edu by
September 30, 2017.
PUBLISHING
Social Histories of
Neoliberalism
The Journal of Social History is preparing a special issue
devoted to exploring the history of neoliberalism at the grass-roots, the margins,
and the periphery. “Social Histories of Neoliberalism” will feature articles
revealing the lived experience of recent economic and political transformations
from a variety of ignored locations around the world. We are particularly
interested in articles that use empirically grounded case-studies to illuminate
or challenge accounts of macro-level historical change, or that deploy or
interrogate theoretical categories in innovative ways. And we are very open to
transnational or comparative approaches that seek to unite the study of more
than one geographic location (particularly non-Western locations). But we are
deliberately leaving our terms open and our definitions broad.
Please send a cv and an abstract of no more than 600 words
to Sam Lebovic (slebovic@gmu.edu) by September 1. Articles selected for
inclusion in the volume will be due by March 15, 2018, and will then be sent
out for peer review.
Visions of Black
Womanhood in American Culture
We welcome essays on black women from a wide range of
disciplinary fields related to American cultural studies, but not limited to
media studies, film, art, literature, history, sociology, and music. Possible
topics include, black female sexuality, black motherhood, black women’s beauty
culture, black colorism in print and visual media, black women’s love
relationships, among other topics. These essays should explore the fertile
ground between the figurative and the literal bodies of black women—exploring
the links between our visual history and culture, and the creative ways black
women explore—and have challenged—the weight of coded identities in these
histories. The goal is to create a dynamic issue that teases out the
contemporary undercurrents and subtleties of a full range of black women’s
identities both as a spiritual narrative, and a physical and visual one.
The deadline for submission is December 31, 2017.
Contact Email: ceh@udel.edu
Organic
Machines/Engineered Humans: (Re)Defining Humanity
From E.T.A Hoffmann’s Tales of Hoffmann and Philip K. Dick’s
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep to Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot and Vernor
Vinge's Rainbows End authors have been exploring the human/machine interface
since before the computer age. Today we stand on the threshold to the lab as
the government contemplates microchipping all U.S. military personnel and
Swedish office workers are already implanting themselves for convenience ala
M.T. Anderson's Feed.
The Spring 2018 edition of Interdisciplinary Humanities
wants to consider topics focused on transhumanism, the singularity, and the
arrival of the bio-engineered human/machine interface and what it means for the
humanities as we redefine identity, pedagogy, humanity, class structure,
literature (past, present, and future) and the diversity of our species. We
invite papers in disciplines and areas of study. Multiple disciplines will help
us understand and grapple with how we will redefine identity and the diversity
of our species through the dynamic interplay of humanity and the acceleration
of technology.
Deadline: Nov. 15, 2017
Contact Email: dore.ripley@gmail.com
Voice, Media, and
Technologies of the Sacred
Yale Journal of Music & Religion invites articles
examining voice, media, and technologies of the sacred. Approaching voice
through its sonic and material dimensions, this issue will focus on the
intersections of religion, media, and mediation with the poetics and
infrastructures of sacred voice. Possible topics include continuities and
ruptures between “old” and “new” media in terms of sacred voice; the shaping of
sacred voice through religious conventions, aesthetics, and technologies; media
and voicings of religious subjectivity and authority; institutions and infrastructures
of sacred voice; vocal identity, embodiment, and mediation;
nonhuman/disembodied voices in religious texts and other media; and individual
and congregational voices' roles in religious practice and mediation.
Please contact editor-in-chief Jeffers Engelhardt about
possible submission topics: jengelhardt@amherst.edu.
Deadline September 1, 2017
Contact Email: yjmr@yale.edu
Entropy: Calls for
Submissions
We are currently and indefinitely open for submissions of
Reviews (collaborative reviews, video reviews, & nontraditional reviews are
welcome), Interviews/Conversations, Discussions/Roundtables, &
Articles/Essays/Notes/Rants/Lists/Writings related to or following into any of
the following categories: Creative Nonfiction, Lyrical Essay, Personal Essay,
Literature, Experimental Writing, Small Presses, Translation, Science Fiction,
Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Games (Video games, board games, computer games),
Science, Digital & Interactive Literature, Travel, the Paranormal, Television,
Film, Music, Food, Culture & Art.
calls for submissions: https://entropymag.org/calls-for-submissions/
Indigeneities:
Territories, Spaces and Conceptual Maps
The 5th issue of On_Culture sets out to make a contribution
to the conceptual (re)construction of the concept of indigeneity. First, the
issue aims at mapping a conceptual array of indigeneities by interrelating the
category with other concepts and categories in the study of culture, such as
imperialism, (post-, de‑)coloniality, autochthony, and
majority/minority, among others. Second, the issue tries to distill more
precise understandings of the territoriality and spatiality that the category
of indigeneity invokes in its different instantiations. The question is not
only what kinds of territoriality and spatiality the use of ‘indigeneity’
conjures up in different historical contexts, but also what territoriality and
spatiality might mean in those contexts.
If you are interested in having a peer reviewed academic
article featured in the next issue, please submit an abstract of 300 words with
the article title and a short biographical note to content@on-culture.org
(subject line “Abstract Submission”) no later than August 31, 2017.
Contact Email: content@on-culture.org
Black Mental He[ART]
in ProudFlesh Journal --Deadline Extended
Black Mental He[ART] is a project inspired by Cliff Notez'
latest film, Vitiligo. The film, directed, written and scored by Cliff is a
short Psychological-Thriller tackling topics like Racism, Media, Self Care and
how they all correlate with Public Health topics like trauma and mental health.
In this issue we want artists to respond to trauma and mental health and how
racism, and media play a role in this. If artist wish to respond directly to
the film please email HipStoryFilms@gmail.com. We encourage writers, directors,
musicians, artists, filmmakers and artists (especially people of color) to
submit work that can relate or expand on this pressing, and often times
overlooked, topic.
Deadline: October 1, 2017
Contact Email: info@hipstory.org
Muddied Waters:
Decomposing the Anthropocene
For its seventh issue, Pivot is calling for papers that not
only critically address the Anthropocene as our current geological epoch but,
in doing so, attend to pertinent questions concerning the social, political,
theoretical, and ecological efficacy of ecocriticism as a framework counter-to
the imperatives of both anthropocentrism and global capitalism. Contributors
may also wish to consider, more specifically, the myriad ways in which the
Anthropocene corresponds to transhistories of indigeneity, imperialism,
colonialism, and systemic inequality.
The deadline for submissions is October 2, 2017.
Authors are requested to submit full articles of 6000–8000 words and
an accompanying abstract of 250 words (maximum) by registering
online at http://pivot.journals.yorku.ca/.
Any questions about submission or online registration can be
addressed to Jacob Bermel, co-editor, at jake.bermel@gmail.com, or the
editorial team at pivot@yorku.ca.
Critical Insights:
Literature of Inequality
This volume will include critical readings of this theme in
texts from any country and of any period; the goal for each chapter is provide
a literary interpretation of one or more texts that draws on our most recent
theoretical tools to illuminate and explicate representations of inequality. Inequality for the purpose of this volume
relates to race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, and ability,
and I particularly welcome studies of texts that address multiple vectors of
inequality. The book will be composed of 14 original essays that present arguments
and critical analysis of text while still remaining accessible to the
readership.
To propose a chapter, please send a 300 to 500-word abstract
(or more than one abstract) and a cv ASAP, or by October 2, 2017. Once I have
confirmed your submission, I can give you information about deadlines and
procedures, but the volume is scheduled to be published during the spring of
2018, so deadlines will be coming up soon.
Contact Email: kdrake@scrippscollege.edu
Before
Representation: The Camera as Actor
Before Representation: The Camera as Actor is an edited
collection that aims to lead this conversation by bringing together scholars
from various backgrounds and fields who study photographic technology in
different time periods. By focusing on the camera, this edited volume builds on
current literature to demonstrate the ways in which various types of imaging
technology informs, elicits, and produces specific ways of seeing. Considering
the photograph as a materialization resulting from a type of technology is
often overlooked when thinking about the power of a photograph’s meaning. But
photographs are the result of specific instruments that create powerful image
extractions. A critical examination of camera technology will demonstrate the
ways in which intention and imaginaries are married into facts through the
potent inscription device called the camera.
Please email Amy Cox Hall (acoxhall@amherst.edu) by October 1, 2017
with an extended abstract and brief bio for consideration.
Poverty
The Activist History Review invites proposals for articles
that address the theme of “poverty” to be featured in the September issue.
Today, we see poverty illustrated in a variety of ways.
Sometimes it’s through the euphemistic “working class” Trump voter, the
“undeserving” fast-food worker, the “lazy” SNAP beneficiary, or the “thug.”
We’re taught to see poverty as individual, except for the (white) “working
class,” and as the result of personal failure. Yet American poverty in the 21st
century is entangled with race, class, sex, gender and age. It is at once the
Appalachian Trump voter and the families in Flint; the millennial coping with
student debt and the retiree with dwindling Social Security benefits. The
Activist History Review seeks essays that examine the historical roots of these
expressions of poverty from the Early Modern Period through the present.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words for articles from
1250-2000 words, and should be emailed to William Horne at
horne(dot)activisthistory(at)gmail(dot)com by Friday, August 18th at 11:59 PM.
Please also include a short bio of no more than 100 words.
Contact Email: horne.activisthistory@gmail.com
URL: https://activisthistory.com/2017/07/25/call-for-contributors-for-september-2017-issue-on-poverty/
Migration,
Institutions, and Intimate Lives: New agendas in the history of migration and
gender
Gender & History calls for article abstracts for a
special issue on ‘Migration, Institutions, and Intimate Lives’. The issue of
migration has spread in social sciences since the seventies and has been
gendered quite quickly thanks to pioneering works. Historians have played a
crucial role in the field as well as sociologists and anthropologists. Forty years
later, it is clear that the ‘gender turn’ in migration history has lifted women
from the backroom to the centre stage of short- and long-distance migrations,
and elicited new approaches. New theoretical and methodological views of
gendered paths in migration have challenged the classical view of migration as
emancipation, insisting on the importance of care and domestic roles in
migration.
The production of the special issue will follow a symposium,
to be held at the University of Bristol, UK, on 13 and 14 April 2018 (dates
subject to change), whose participants will be selected on the basis of the
abstracts submitted. Please submit 1-2 page abstracts in English (500 words
maximum) to migrationgenderhistory@gmail.com by 30
September 2017, with ‘GENDER & MIGRATION’ in the subject line. (Limited
funds for the translation of articles written in other languages might be
available).
Emerging Identities
in the Future of Places: Neo-cultures, Place Multi-mediation and
Intersubjectivities
In ‘Placing Media’ we seek to explore how numerous forms of
media practices and technologies (mobile phones, smart screens, screen
projections, etc) adapted and used in the context of our everyday life has
brought with them debates and discussions over their socio-spatial and cultural
implications in our urban context. Placing Media, investigates these
implications of media for rethinking the relationship among users, spaces,
information, as well as interfaces and the impact which these reconfigurations
have upon culture, place experience and identity. Discourses and debates over
socio-cultural and epistemological implications of media practices have begun
to attract attention, since it provides new platforms for communication,
engagement and making sense of urban environments.
Deadline: November 1, 2017
Please, submit proposals as in Word or pdf format document to lakshmi.rajendran@anglia.ac.uk and Delle.Odeleye@anglia.ac.uk.
Contested Terrains:
Cities and the [Im]Possibilities for Transitions to Just Sustainabilities
Recent events have served to remind us of the enormity of
the challenges associated with transitioning towards what Julian Agyeman has
described as just sustainabilities-ensuring a better quality of life for all,
now and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, whilst living within
the limits of supporting ecosystems (1). Three especially important
developments are the United Kingdom's June 2016 vote on Brexit, the November
2016 election of Donald Trump in the United States, and the United States'
withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement in June 2017. All three examples
are remarkable for the degree of conflict that they have sparked. Deliberations
that take place at this critical juncture will reshape society by determining
whether we move towards-or away from-just sustainabilities.
The proximate question that we are seeking to understand in
this book is: "What do Brexit, Trump's election, and the US's withdrawal
from the Paris Agreement mean for global climate change and the [im]possibility
of achieving Sustainable Cities around the world, let alone just ones?" We
are soliciting book chapters containing case studies of contestations
surrounding the transition to just sustainabilities in cities that illustrate
the wide range of conflicts happening around the world that are (re)shaping the
discourse and practice of sustainability physically as well as socially.
If you have a compelling case study that illustrates an
important contestation surrounding just sustainabilities in cities please
submit an abstract to mary.buchanan@uconn.edu by
31st August 2017.
Contact Email: mary.buchanan@uconn.edu
Resistance in Arts
and Literature: Learning from the Past
We are seeking scholarly essays and “short takes” for a
special issue on “resistance in art and literature.” Resistance is on
everyone’s minds, but at Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the
Philosophy of History, we’re also thinking about history and its lessons. What
can the literature (and art) of political resistance in other times and places
teach us? Can we theorize, taxonomize, or otherwise generalize lessons about political
resistance from individuals’ artistic efforts to intervene in specific
historical moments that are not our own?
We are looking for two types of submissions for this special
issue. Scholarly essays and “Short Takes” (shorter, 1500-2000-word, less formal
essays)
Please send your submission as an email attachment (in Word
or rich text format) to clio@ipfw.edu by
Monday, October 30, 2017.
Racism and
Discrimination in the Sporting World
What is it about culture and society that creates an
environment in which an athlete is able to excel or fail in his/her respective
sport? Which factors, such as racism, discrimination, financial advantage or
hardship, propel or hinder an athlete’s achievements? This volume seeks to
explore how the world of sports is often a microcosm of the real world and the
many ways in which it uniquely reflects cultural and societal issues. Abstracts
are welcomed from all disciplines. Articles should either favor a historicist
approach or be grounded in discourse analysis.
Abstract Due Dates: Preference will be given to abstracts
received by October 15, 2017 and should be no longer than 300 words. Please
also include a brief biographical statement and a CV. The book is going to be
published by Universitas Press in spring 2018 (www.universitaspress.com).
Final manuscripts (no longer than 15,000 words, including Works Cited) should be submitted in MLA style, by December 15, 2017.
Final manuscripts (no longer than 15,000 words, including Works Cited) should be submitted in MLA style, by December 15, 2017.
Send inquires and abstracts to: eangelini1@verizon.net
Passing: Fashion in American
Cities
The idea of ‘passing’ and the issues it raises in relation
to contemporary and historical notions of self-fashioning and identities is of
central importance in a period of political, social and cultural upheaval. The notion of passing also speaks to current
discrimination and civil rights issues, and this conference seeks to examine
the ways dress has been used to ‘pass’, to negotiate, resist and refuse
contemporary prejudice, discrimination and status and beauty ideals. We aim to explore dress, the body and the
idea of ‘becoming’ – in relation to gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class,
with the city as a key locus for attempts to outwit social and cultural mores
through the artful deployment of dress.
We welcome proposals that discuss actual dress, as well as
its visual representation, with focus on the Americas as a diverse geographical
zone in which growing urban centres and mass immigration have hot-housed
conformity and, in turn, its resistance.
Please submit abstracts of 150-200 words in English, along
with a short biography of approximately 100 words to passingconference@gmail.com by 29
September 2017.
Domestic Labor in
Latin American/Latinx Cinema
This is an open call to invite papers for an edited volume
on the filmic representation of female domestic labor in Latin American and
Latinx Cinema. This edited volume proposes to examine both feature and
documentary films that question the marginalization of female domestic workers
by making these women the center of the narratives, their families, and
society. Each article will explore the role of female household workers in
contemporary Latin American or Latinx films analyzing how these figures
transcend their functional roles and become complex subjects that problematize
hierarchical power structures within family and new socioeconomic orders.
Our deadline for abstract submission is October 1st.
However, feel free to let us know as soon as you can if you are interested in
participating in this project.
Creative Dissent:
Culture and Politics of Transformation in the Arab World
A Special Issue for the International Journal of Cultural
Studies
This special issue seeks to examine the relationship between
cultural production and changing socio-politics across the Arab world. The
purpose of this issue is to conceptualize new cultural modes of expression, if
any, and their function in the process of social change. It intends to address
their role and capture the complexity of communication tools utilized to
facilitate, if not hinder, political conversations. Works analyzing the
cultural factor in shaping and echoing politics are limited. There is a growing
need for case studies that advance scholarly analyses of the intricate
relationship between Arab culture and politics.
Proposals should include the author's name and affiliation,
title, an abstract of 250-300 words, and 3 to 5 keywords, and should be sent to
the e-mail address tiproject@dohainstitute.edu.qa no later than October 15,
2017.
Contact Email: eid.mohamed@dohainstitute.edu.qa
The Politics of
Boycotts
This issue of the Radical History Review seeks to contribute
historical depth and comparative breadth to recent discussions around the
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in support of Palestine. Our
aim is to create a broad basis for historical and strategic discussion by
exploring a variety of spatio-temporal scales of political action opened up by
boycott campaigns, from visions of global solidarity to hyper localized social
movements, and from the strategic deployment of historical comparisons to
claims of singularity. We recognize that not all boycotts are progressive, and
that as a tactic they have been used by different groups for a variety of
political ends. We seek studies that would be useful to activists as well as
theoretical or comparative reflections on the present and future of boycotts as
a form of nonviolent political action.
Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2017
Contact Email: contactrhr@gmail.com
Objects in Motion
We invite proposals from academics, museum scholars, and
artists to participate in a new digital publishing initiative supported by
the Terra Foundation for
American Art and the peer-reviewed, open-access journal British Art Studies (BAS), which
is jointly published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC)
and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA). This initiative calls for a series
of interdisciplinary articles and features centered on the broad theme of
“Objects in Motion” to appear in future issues of BAS.
The aim of this series is to explore the physical and
material circumstances by which art is transmitted, displaced, and
recontextualized, creating new markets, audiences, and meanings. We seek
proposals that consider cross-cultural dialogues between Britain and the United
States, focusing on any aspect of visual and material culture produced before
1980.
Inquiries and completed application materials in the form of
PDFs should be sent to journal@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk.
The deadline for applications is 11:59 pm GMT on Friday, September 1,
2017.
FUNDING
Research Fellowships
The University of Michigan Library's Special Collections
Library invites applications for fellowships for research in residence. We will
award as many as three William P. Heidrich Research Fellowships for projects
that require substantial on-site use of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection during
calendar year 2018. The amount of funding awarded will be based on the
individual travel and housing needs of the recipient(s). The fellowships
support travel and living expenses for those those who need that support in
order to be able to use the Labadie collection. It will support research in all
areas covered by the Labadie Collection. All types of research project
proposals will be considered, and no specific credentials are required.
Projects outside the typical academic publication model (e.g. creative or
artistic projects, journalistic publications, non-typical dissemination modes)
are encouraged.
Application deadline: September 15, 2017
Contact Info: heidrichresearchfellowship@umich.edu
AAUW Dissertation
Fellowships
AAUW’s American Fellowships program has been in existence
since 1888, making it the oldest noninstitutional source of graduate funding
for women in the United States. The program provides fellowships for women
pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, conducting postdoctoral
research full time, or preparing research for publication for eight consecutive
weeks.The purpose of the Dissertation Fellowship is to offset a scholar’s
living expenses while she completes her dissertation.
deadline: November 15
2018-19 Fellowship
Competition at The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies awards fellowships on a competitive basis to support
significant research and writing about the Holocaust. We welcome proposals from
domestic and international scholars in all academic disciplines, including but
not limited to: anthropology, archeology, art history, geography, film studies,
German studies, history, Jewish studies, law, literature, material culture,
philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, comparative genocide
studies, and others.
deadline: November 15, 2017
Apply at: https://apply.ushmm.org
Women/Gender/Sexuality,
US and the World
The Department of History at the University of Oregon invites
applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the history of
women, gender, and sexuality, to begin September 16, 2018. We seek an
excellent, innovative scholar whose research is centered on North America
and/or the United States, who can also incorporate transnational or global
perspectives in their teaching. The successful candidate will teach an array of
courses in women’s and gender history at all curricular levels, from
introductory surveys to graduate seminars, and will serve as a resource for
graduate students working on women and gender in a variety of geographical and
chronological fields. Send a c.v., a letter describing research and teaching
interests, a chapter-length writing sample, and three letters of recommendation
to Academic Jobs Online (https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9337).
Candidates must hold the Ph.D. in hand by time of appointment. Priority will be
given to applications received by October 15, 2017, but the position will
remain open until filled.
RESOURCES
Law Undone
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of
On_Culture: The Open Journal in the Study of Culture, Issue #3: "Law
Undone: De-humanizing, Queering, and Dis-abling the Law – Further Arguments for
Law’s Pluralities.” Our third issue features contributions that critically
examine a concept of contemporary law that proves to be problematic within
pluralistic legal contexts. Reevaluating legal discourses and notions of
culture, the articles in this issue deal with categories such as race, class,
gender, sanity, and (dis)ability; these examinations overlap with other
articles theorizing normative humanity or perceived threats to security.
Contact Email: content@on-culture.org
Heidelberg Center for
American Studies: Spring Academy 2018
Heidelberg, Germany, 19-23 March, 2018
The fifteenth HCA Spring Academy on American Culture,
Geography, History, Literature, Politics & Religion will be held from March
19-23, 2017. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites
applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty
international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their
Ph.D. projects.
The HCA Spring Academy will also offer participants the
chance to work closely with experts in their respective fields of study. For
this purpose, workshops held by visiting scholars will take place during this
week. We encourage applications that range broadly across the arts, humanities,
and social sciences and pursue an interdisciplinary approach.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: November 15, 2017
MORE INFORMATION: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de
FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS: springacademy@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
