CONFERENCES
Revolution/Revelation
in Theatre and Performanc
Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference,
Boston, 2018
The literal meaning of “apocalypse” is “uncovering”—that is,
to reveal. As we watch the resistance revolution grow in the United States, the
Religion and Theatre focus group will explore the idea of revelation as a
prelude to, catalyst for, and result of revolution, whether that be of
apocalyptic or more socially progressive proportions. For the 2018 conference
in Boston, we seek individual papers and panel ideas on the concept of
revelation. How has revelation spurred change in different epochs? What is the
correlation between revolution and revelation? What conditions are necessary for
revolutionary revelation? How do we perform revelation? How have theatre and
the performing arts played significant social roles in the proclamation of the
revelationary/revolutionary?
Submit an individual paper abstract
to Religion and Theatre Focus Group conference planner Alicia
Corts of 250-300 words by September 30th(alicia.corts@saintleo.edu)
Submit a panel proposal to the ATHE conference website by
November 1, and list “Religion and Theatre” as your sponsoring focus group.
Contact Email: alicia.corts@saintleo.edu
URL: http://www.athe.org
Bodies of Knowledge Symposium
The next Bodies of
Knowledge Symposium will take place at USC Upstate on Apr 9-11, 2018, marking
the ten-year anniversary of a cultural event originally conceptualized as a
response to physical and rhetorical violence against LGBTQ+ people in the
Upstate of South Carolina and, more broadly, the southeastern U.S. The hope in
creating this event a decade ago was to change the conversation about queerness
in this region and thereby to make a better world for LGBTQ+ people. In the current
historical moment, this utopic critical and activist work remains urgent.
Drawing loosely on the work of late queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz to
critically reimagine queerness as the “not yet here,” conference organizers
call for papers or panel proposals on building better worlds and imagining
queer futures in truly trying times. We are especially interested in centering
the work of queer people of color in these world-building projects. We are also
interested in taking this opportunity to engage with a wide range of methodologies
(both theoretical and practical) for advocacy, justice, and empowerment within
the present.
Please send 200-word
abstracts to Dr. Lisa Johnson (mjohnson@uscupstate.edu) by Nov. 1, 2017.
TRANS(form)ing Queer
University of
Maryland—College Park, April 13, 2018
The symposium will
be a daylong series of conversations about the history, present, and future of
trans and queer studies, bringing together scholars and artists whose work
stands at the intersection of both. By placing “transness” at the center of the
DC Queer Studies Symposium, we invite scholars to illuminate the historical
convergences and divergences between queer and trans studies as they have been
constituted within academia and through activist and artistic work that has
centered the material urgency of queer and trans, especially queer and trans of
color life. Although trans studies arguably emerges out of questions central to
queer theory, we must also understand the gaps within queer studies that led to
the urgency of trans studies to establish itself as a separate field.
Please submit 250-word paper abstract, panelist bio, and
1-2page CV by December 1, 2017 to DCQS@umd.edu.
The Senses and Spaces of Death, Dying and Remembering
Leeds, UK, 27-28
March 2018
Bringing together,
artists, academics and professionals working in a range of services relating to
end of life, this conference will consider how space plays a role in practices
of remembrance in the past and present, and in different cultures across the world.
Through talks, performances and opportunities for discussion, we’ll think about
being in a particular place might help us remember those we have lost, what
emotions spaces bring about, and how we engage with places to keep their
memories alive.
For full
details see: https://livingwithdying.leeds.ac.uk/conference/
Contact Email: j.m.hammett@leeds.ac.uk
Deadline for
abstracts: 30th November 2017
Temporal Belongings
International Conference
Research on the role
of time in social life has rejected the notion of time as an inert container in
favour of a more complex and contested field of interactive relations (e.g. Sharma
2017, Birth 2014, Huebener 2016). Here time arises from relationships between actors,
both human and non-human. Indeed some theorists such as Bruno Latour go as far as
to claim that “time is not in itself a primary phenomenon. Time passes or not
depending on the alignment of other entities” (2005, 178). The Temporal Belongings
network has sought to build on this framework by paying attention to how time
is made through relations, but also, and most importantly, to the ways that
relations themselves happen through the organisation, conceptualisation and
experience of time. The aim of this conference is to share current research on
the social nature of time and to collaboratively reflect on key issues,
problems and methodological approaches.
Abstracts should be
submitted online here by the 17th of November 2017.
Send any queries to temporalbelongings@gmail.com.
On the Margins
University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Department of History | March 9-10, 2018
The University of
Nebraska-Lincoln History Graduate Students Association invites all graduate
students to participate in the Fourteenth Annual James A. Rawley Conference in
the Humanities. Every space – political, social, cultural, virtual, material,
or physical – has margins. This conference is designed to interpret the concept
of ‘the margin’ broadly. Therefore,
submissions are encouraged which address these ideas in any way. Potential
projects might explore the marginalia of manuscripts, socially marginalized
populations, minority (or perceived minority) political, social, or cultural
groups, counter-cultural movements, or digital spaces. Papers might also
address the margins of traditional academia through digital humanities work,
alternative-academic avenues, or other methodologies and perspectives. Please
do not find these suggestions to be limiting – submissions are encouraged to
push the concept of ‘the margin’ as fits the applicant’s research.
Submission Deadline:
December 15, 2017
Contact Email: hgsa.rawley@gmail.com
Western Association of Women Historians 50th Annual
Conference
The Western
Association of Women Historians (WAWH) invites proposals for panels,
roundtables, posters, workshops, and individual presentations in all fields,
regions, and periods of history for its 50th Annual Meeting to be held at the
UC Davis Conference Center, Davis, CA, April 26-28, 2018.
Proposals are due on
October 15, 2017
Contact Email: conferenceprogram@wawh.org
FRACTURED PARADIGMS: RETHINKING THE STUDY OF AMERICAN
JEWS
National Museum of
American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA, June 17-19, 2018
The 2018 Biennial
Scholars’ Conference on American Jewish History offers an occasion to reflect
on the state of our field. Which narratives, temporal frameworks, and spatial boundaries
serve as its controlling paradigms? How and why have these paradigms
experienced fracture, disruption, or revision? And, finally, which paradigms
deserve to be abandoned? We seek nothing less than a critical rethinking of our
field. We invite scholars to enter into debate as they engage in meaningful and
respectful ways with the terms of the field of American Jewish Studies and the
new paradigms that might guide it into its next several decades. In these
efforts, we particularly seek contributions from scholars engaged in
transnational research and those who study non-American Jewish communities, as
well as scholars working in a variety of disciplines.
Deadline: email
proposals to AJHSBiennial2018@gmail.com by November 1, 2017
Environmental Humanities in Historical Perspective
The Ohio State
University Department of Classics, in collaboration with OSU’s Discovery Theme
for Environmental Humanities and the Humanities Institute, is proud to announce
its 15th annual graduate student colloquium.
A sense of urgency
characterizes contemporary discussions about ecological welfare and
anthropogenic effects on the non-human environment. At the core of this
discourse lie questions with a long history of artistic, philosophical,
political and religious expression. The proper management of space and
resources, the negotiation of shifting boundaries between the “human” and
“natural” worlds (however one chooses to define these categories), as well as
the contemplation of humanity’s place among the living and nonliving
co-inhabitants of Earth are all pursuits basic to human survival and
livelihood. Moreover, the ways earlier generations found to represent the
natural world they experienced and their human community's place within it have
shaped the way we think and talk about such matters today.
Contact Email: osuclassics2018@gmail.com
Abstracts should be
submitted no later than November 15th, 2017.
Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice
The conference
organizers seek proposals for papers and/or panels that examine the economic
and social challenges facing nonmetropolitan, vulnerable communities from a
variety of perspectives. Social and political unease surrounding wide
differences in regional economic performance has troubled Americans for more
than a generation. While geographic variation in economic growth is not new, it
appears more pronounced today than in the recent past. Recent research suggests
that many of these places are at increased risk of job loss, population
decline, and associated social problems as these trends accelerate in the coming
years. Additionally, political turbulence during the 2016 election cycle has
led to increased policy interest in the nonmetropolitan settings where these
difficulties are most acute. These challenges call for extended scholarly
research with a policy or applied focus.
Proposals and
inquiries should be directed to dgfaulk@bsu.edu
The deadline for
proposals is November 1 2017
Gendering Humanitarian Knowledge: Global Histories of
Compassion from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
Gender history is a
promising way to complexify humanitarian knowledge, by shedding light on the
construction of female and male subjectivities in relation to the sexual
division of relief practices that have been implemented from the mid-nineteenth
century to the present in particular spheres of aid: ambulances, field
hospitals, sanitary trains, refugee camps, dispensaries, maternity hospitals
and children’s colonies. Furthermore, gender history allows us to examine
women’s participation in emergency relief operations in close connection with
the production of what has been called a “situated knowledge” (Haraway, 1998),
which does not represent the hegemonic knowledge represented by the experts,
namely physicians.
We invite scholars
interested in working on the history of humanitarian knowledge from
a gender perspective to submit a proposal that deals with stories of flesh and
blood, which put women’s and men’s humanitarian experiences at their centre, in
order to inscribe their local practices within a global history of compassion
from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
For those who are
interested in participating in this workshop, please submit a 300-word abstract
and a brief CV in English or French by the 31st December, 2017
to genderinghumanitarianknowledge@gmail.com
Media, Resistance, and Justice: The Fight for Humanity
The Union for
Democratic Communication 2018 conference (Loyola University in Chicago, IL)
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.
Contact Email: udc.steering@gmail.com
Deadline for
Submissions: 15 October 2017
Popular Art, Architecture & Design
Popular
Culture/American Culture Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN— March 28 –
March 31
The Popular Art,
Architecture & Design area is concerned with the aesthetics, the history,
and the theory of popular culture in the everyday world of the past, the
present, and the future. Scholars working in a variety of methodologies from
disciplines including Art History, Fine Art, Museum Studies, Architecture, and
Industrial or Interior Design are invited to submit abstracts for papers or
proposals for panels, and papers from graduate students are also welcome.
To submit an
abstract, go to http://ncp.pcaaca.org and follow the instructions for
creating an account and making your submission.
Contact Email: streb@juniata.edu
Please submit a
title and an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short 50-word bio with
contact information by October 1, 2017.
The Anxiety Order
February 24, 2018, Wilson
College, Chambersburg, PA
This conference
looks to how the various fields represented by the Humanities explore our own
relationship to this concept of Anxiety. We are seeking exploratory, critical,
and creative responses to what increasingly feels like a new—and altogether
more anxious—normal. How can we use the Humanities to make sense of what seems
to be fuelling so much of our national (and international) consternation? How
has Anxiety manifested in the past? How does it in the present? What does our
study of text, of art, of ideas, of religion, and of each other tell us about
living in such anxious times?
Contact Email: mcornelius@wilson.edu
Abstracts are due by
JANUARY 15, 2018.
Art as Ethnography/Ethnography as Art
Papers should cover
but are not limited to the following themes:
- the role of the expeditionary artists in constructing anthropological knowledge
- incidental illustrative imagery as found in the archive, e.g. museum accession records, diagrammartic and illustrative images used in online media, curators' drawings etc.
- auto-ethnographical image making and the convergence of Western and non-Western artistic practices (e.g. North American Indian ledger art)
- Modernist artists' visual accounts of ethnographic materials, and Modernist artistic interest in world cultures more broadly
- visual encounters in and through museums and/or exhibitions
- visuial codes and the semiotics of representing others' cultures
- amateur art with ethnographnic content
- ethnographic sketches in fieldnotes: their role in anthropological knowledge and their artistic merit
- didactic illustrations with ethnographic content (e.g. textbooks, marketing, publicity, leaflets and posters)
- drawing elicitation as anthropological method, and the study of local visual idioms through graphic arts
Informal enquiries
may be made to admin@therai.org.uk
Deadline: 8 January
2018
Conceptualizing Sacred Space(s): Perspectives from the
Study of Culture
May 23–25, 2018, University
of Giessen
This symposium
promotes the concept of “sacred space(s)” as a point of entry for bringing
together recent theoretical work on space and place with the study of culture
and the study/anthropology of religion. Furthermore, the symposium explores the
changing, and at times conflicting, imaginations of the “sacred” and their role
in the making and unmaking of specific spatial configurations and features in
past and present contexts. The goal of the symposium is twofold: first, it aims
at fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue in the study of spatial(izing)
formations of the “sacred” and its cultural dynamics. Second, by focusing on
the multiple layers, inner frictions and dynamics of “sacred space(s)”, it
attempts to challenge an analytical vocabulary that is based on conventional
dichotomies such as religious/secular, traditional/modern or sacred/profane.
We invite proposals
for papers. Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short CV by
Nov. 1, 2017 to Jens Kugele (jens.kugele@gcsc.uni-giessen.de) and Katharina Stornig (katharina.stornig@gcsc.uni-giessen.de).
Spiritualities of Human Enhancement and Artificial
Intelligence
Vancouver, December
1st and 2nd 2017
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.
Contact Email: sask.scienceandreligion@gmail.com
Deadline: October
16, 2017
(Digital) Humanities conference
April 20-22, 2018 –
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Our (Digital)
Humanity: Storytelling, Media Organizing and Social Justice is an innovative
community conference that will locate the budding field of digital humanities
at the intersection of public humanities, digital scholarship, oral history,
“media organizing” & social justice. The conference will create an
inter-generational convergence space for members of social movements, community
based public historians, students, and activist-scholars to network, share
their digital projects, offer digital capacity building trainings and
strengthen collaboration.
Contact Email: jcm5@lehigh.edu
The deadline is
November 15, 2017.
History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
March 23-24, 2018, Indiana
University Bloomington
The Indiana
University Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine and HPS
Graduate Students Association are calling for submissions from graduate students
working on topics relating to the history and/or philosophy of science for its
second graduate student conference in the spring of 2017. Submissions are
welcome on a breadth of historical or philosophical topics in the sciences.
This conference is intended to be an opportunity for graduate students to share
their work, make connections, and receive feedback from peers and faculty in a
congenial environment.
Contact Email: iuhpsconf@gmail.com
Submission Deadline:
January 1st, 2018
The State of the State: What is American Political
History Now?
University of Nottingham,
Saturday 17 February 2018
This one-day
symposium seeks to explore the state of twentieth century American political
history today, both through reflections on the field but also presentations of
the latest historical research.
Proposals and
one-page CVs should be sent to Joe Merton (joe.merton@nottingham.ac.uk), Vivien Miller (vivien.miller@nottingham.ac.uk) and Bevan Sewell (bevan.sewell@nottingham.ac.uk) by Friday 27th October 2017.
The Changing Faces of Evil
Saturday 17th March
2018 - Sunday 18th March 2018, Lisbon, Portugal
As we head deeper
into the 21st Century, what does it mean to call someone or something ‘evil’?
Previously used to describe natural disasters such as the Lisbon Earthquake of
1755 or even pandemics such as the Black Death, evil is now used as a popular
term by the press and social media to refer to various acts of hatred,
violence, terror, brutality and senseless killing.
Despite feeling
antiquated and out of place, ‘evil’ continues to enjoy widespread use and retains
significant personal resonance and social meaning. The Changing Faces of Evil
is an inclusive interdisciplinary project through which we will seek to map the
changing faces of evil across history and explore the question: what are the
modern evils of the 21st century?
Contact Email: lisbonevil@progressiveconnexions.net
Deadline: Friday
20th October 2017.
Script, print, and letterforms in global contexts: the
visual and the material
Birmingham City
University, UK, Thursday 28 June – Friday 29 June, 2018
In this conference,
we seek to explore the plurality of the printed and written word in various
writing systems of the world, and stimulate a deeper engagement with artefacts:
whether handwritten, lithographed, typographically printed, or digitally
conjured. We invite both scholars and practitioners, broadly in the areas of
design, printing, publishing, typography, and book history, to bring critical
perspectives and present fresh approaches to the study of the visual and
material aspects of print in the diverse linguistic contexts of the world.
TO APPLY:
please send a suggested title, synopsis (300-word abstracts) and biographical
details (up to 150 words) via a PDF or Word attachment to thevisualandthematerial@gmail.com by 12-noon GMT, 15 November, 2017.
THE IMAGE OF REDEMPTION
Individuals from all
disciplines are invited to submit paper or panel proposals for presentation at
the Society for the Academic Study of Social Imagery (SASSI) conference, to be
held Fri-Sat, March 9-10, in Greeley, CO. The 2018 theme explores "THE
IMAGE OF REDEMPTION in Literature, Media, and Society." All variations on
redemption are included, e.g. absolution, reclamation, forgiveness, reparation;
as well as contrasts, e.g. forfeiture, abandonment. All eras and cultures are
appropriate; all methodologies welcome.
Please submit a one-page abstract, or a
one-page panel proposal with brief individual abstracts, by Dec. 8, 2017
to sassi@unco.edu.
Hazardous Objects: Function, Materiality, and Context
Winterthur Museum,
Garden & Library, April 26-27, 2018
We invite papers
that identify and consider the production and use of hazardous material
culture. Whether through composition or intended function, objects are
hazardous or may become hazardous. Certain materials, organic or artificial,
exist as hazards to humans. Additionally, hazards are often embedded in the
material environment and affect our experience of domestic, institutional and
public space.
Send your proposal,
with a current c.v. of no more than two pages, to emerging.scholars@gmail.com.
Proposals must be
received by 5 p.m. on Friday, November 10, 2017.
Disability Studies and Postcolonial Literary Space
2018 NeMLA panel
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, for 15-20 minutes paper
presentation. All abstracts must be submitted through this link: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17155.
Contact Email: shubhang@buffalo.edu
Publishing Queer/Queer Publishing
Senate House Library
is calling for papers on queer publishing for presentation at a 1-day
conference taking place at Senate House in March 2018. The conference forms
part of the events programme for the exhibition ‘Queer Between the Covers’,
held at Senate House Library from January to June 2018. The presence of queer
works on twentieth century publishers’ lists tended to represent complex
processes of equivocation, marked by streams of open titillation and
multi-layered camouflage. Novels of queer love could be presented by mainstream
forms as examining ‘social problems,’ released by pulp presses with lurid
covers promising erotic excitement, printed in severely limited and expensive
editions to avoid censure, or offered to the public by imprints more accustomed
to gambling against censorship with works pornographic in their intent and
content. This fragmented world, driven by simultaneous repression of and
prurient interest in queer lifestyles, means that it is difficult to delineate
a broad history of queer publishing.
To submit a paper,
please send abstracts of up to 250 words to shl.whatson@london.ac.uk by Nov. 17
Contact Email: shl.whatson@london.ac.uk
DERRIDA TODAY
Concordia University,
Montreal, Canada from May 23-26th 2018.
The Derrida Today
conferences are a means by which to bring together a community of
Derrida/deconstruction scholars from around the world, and to showcase the
latest work in Derrida Studies, and its relevance to cultural, political, and
social practice. The conference
will be broadly interdisciplinary and invites contributions from a range
of academic, disciplinary and cultural
contexts. We will consider papers and panel proposals on any aspect of
Derrida’s work, or deconstruction, in relation to various topics and
contemporary issues.
Due Dates for
Abstracts: 1st December 2017
Abstracts to be sent
to: derridatodayconference@gmail.com
Food and...
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.
Contact Email: humanities.center@ttu.edu
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted to humanitiescenter@ttu.edu by
October 15, 2017.
Diversity and
Rhetorical Traditions
American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium, May
31-June 1, 2018
This Symposium asks scholars to reflect on the challenges
and opportunities of diversity within and among various rhetorical traditions.
Some possible topics may be comparative in scope, engaging with differences
between culturally-diverse visions of rhetoric. Other approaches may focus on
diversity within a given rhetorical tradition, such as Cicero’s Roman
appropriation of Greek philosophy or Confucius’s disputes with Daoist approaches
to the nature of virtuous speech and action. Yet other topics may circulate
around contemporary debates over diversity on the campus or in modern nation
states, and what this difference in community composition means for rhetorical
practices.
To be considered for the Symposium, please submit a
one-page, single-spaced abstract to Dr. Scott Stroud (sstroud@austin.utexas.edu) by
September 30, 2017. All submissions should relate to the Symposium theme, be
composed in English, stripped of author identification for peer review, and
submitted as either a Word document or a PDF. For more information, visit www.ashr.org and http://ashr.org/gatherings/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.
NATURE: Narrative,
Authorship, Textual Ecosystems
Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Conference
The University of Chicago, November 10-11, 2017
We often assume we know what nature is when we talk about
it, whether in everyday speech or in academic discourse. But what exactly do we
mean by the term “nature” and the semantic field surrounding it? Some scholars,
such as Dipesh Chakrabarty, have thought about ways in which we narrativize
nature and our relationship to it. This raises a set of further questions that
we want to explore in our conference: What kinds of relationships does nature
have to text, narrative, and authorship? By our count, there are at least four
ways in which this relationship manifests itself: nature writes itself
(shifting coastlines, eroding mountains); nature writes us (genetics, climate
impact, sounds); we write nature physically (pollution, technology); and we
write nature as narrative (literary, scientific texts).
We invite contributions that are at the intersection of but
not limited to literature, media studies, ecocriticism, history, philosophy,
sound and visual studies. Please send your 200 word abstracts to ailievska@uchicago.edu and davidorsbon@uchicago.edu by
October 15, 2017.
Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures Conference
April 19th-21st, 2018 – University of Kentucky
The KFLC is proud to open sessions devoted to the
presentation of scholarly research in the area of East Asian Studies. The KFLC
has a tradition of attracting scholars from a broad range of languages and
specializations. This year’s conference will have sessions in Arabic and
Islamic Studies, Classical Studies, East Asian Studies, French and Francophone
Studies, German-Austrian-Swiss Studies, Hispanic Linguistics, Hispanic Studies
(Spanish Peninsular and Spanish American), Indigenous and Endangered Languages,
Intercultural Studies, Italian Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language
Studies for the Professions, Linguistics, Lusophone Studies, Neo-Latin Studies,
Russian and Slavic Studies, Second Language Acquisition, and Translation
Studies.
Contact Email: msinoue@uky.edu
Deadline for Abstract Submission: November 6th, 2017, 11:59
PM EST
National Association
for Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference
We invite papers and presentations from multiple
disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives in Chicana/o/x Studies on the
theme of “The Queer Turn.”
Over the past thirty years, Chicana/o/x Studies has been
irrevocably transformed through critical work on gender and sexuality. This
metamorphosis parallels (but is not necessarily congruent to) similar effects
in other disciplines and interdisciplines wrought by shifting the lens towards
a more expansive understanding of the roles gender and sexuality play in
identity formations, especially racial-ethnic identities. This Queer Turn in
Chicana/o/x Studies did not happen overnight, nor without pitched and often
intensely personal battles between factions over who is and what exactly
constitutes the appropriate Chicana/o/x subject. The echoes of these
disagreements and tensions still resonate through NACCS, and the larger
interdiscipline of Chicana/o/x Studies as a whole.
Submissions due by October 15, 2017.
African American/
Black Studies area 2018 SWPCA
Feb 7-10, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference
Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico
The African American / Black Studies area of the conference
welcomes proposals regarding any aspect of African American or African life,
culture, performance, literature, media, history, law, politics, economics,
education, health care, art, religion, social sciences, business,
representations in popular culture, music, the diaspora, or any other issues
relevant to African American/Black Studies and culture.
Submit all proposals to: http://conference.southwestpca.org/
Please send any inquiries to area chair Debbie Olson, olsond@moval.edu
Deadline: October 22, 2017.
AFRICA AND THE GLOBAL
ATLANTIC WORLD CONFERENCE
The Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State
University will hold its fourth biennial Africa and the Global Atlantic World
Conference on April 12th and 13th, 2018. This year’s conference focuses on
intersectionalities between approaches to resistance that various communities
have historically deployed to confront systemic forms of dominance. At a time
when wellness, health, clean environment, and sustainability are as threatened
as economic and gender equality, disadvantaged communities of color find
themselves uniquely periled by detrimental public policies and social
attitudes. In such perilous moments, it becomes imperative to examine the ways
in which freedom struggles in the Pan-African world are intersectional with
other liberation struggles in which similar and different strategies and
legacies of resistance exist.
For more information about the conference, please contact
the Conference Committee electronically (at dpas@kent.edu).
All abstracts are due November 15, 2017.
Living Matters: The
Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms
This American Comparative Literature Association seminar
invites papers addressing life forms that have been largely neglected by the
nonhuman turn, in its more immediate focus on animals, objects, and environmental
forces or processes. In this seminar we aim to explore the myriad ways that
“living matter” matters to the human—how nonhuman ‘cultures’ interact with or
inform human ones. We hope to examine more closely human efforts to engage these
nonhuman worlds, whether in everyday life or in the textual and discursive
realms of politics, poetics, ethics, and so on. We therefore solicit papers in
literary and cultural studies that address the relationship between nonhuman
processes and states—germination and growth, rooting and branching out,
fruition and decay—and the institutions or practices that make up human
culture.
Interested participants are asked to email the seminar
co-organizers Agnes Malinowska (amalinowska@uchicago.edu)
and Joela Jacobs (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
with some information about their project and their academic background as soon
as possible. All participants will need to submit a 250-word abstract to
the ACLA website (http://www.acla.org/annual-meeting)
by September 21, 2017.
Southwest
Popular/American Culture Association
February 7-10, 2018, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for
the 39th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s
largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject
areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of
subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/.
Proposal submission deadline: October 22, 2017
Extrapolation,
Interdisciplinarity, and Learning: The Second Annual City Tech Symposium on
Science Fiction
December 6, 2017,
New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY
Join us for a one-day symposium in the spirit of Asimov’s
defense by exploring interdisciplinarity through the lens of science fiction—a
mediating ‘third culture’ (borrowing C.P. Snow’s term) that combines the
sciences and the humanities to extrapolate new worlds while reflecting on our
own. This symposium aims to explore science fiction as an interdisciplinary
literary form, a tool for teaching interdisciplinarity, and a cultural art form
benefiting from interdisciplinary research approaches.
Please send your abstract (no more than 250 words), brief
bio, and contact information to Jason Ellis (jellis@citytech.cuny.edu) by
Oct. 31, 2017.
PUBLISHING
How We Make
Our third issue of Trace Journal, “How We Make,” explores
how we make “through, with, and alongside” (N. Katherine Hayles) a larger
ecology of technology, society, and design. The growing availability of cheap
and easily hackable technology has captured commercial and scholarly attention
worldwide, instigating a new type of DIY citizenship built from a hybrid
economy of material, conceptual, and digital production. Publications like Make
Magazine, online tutorials like Instructables, and community makerspace labs
like Artisan’s Asylum offer multiple platforms for ‘how to’ projects– anything
from building a home to hacking software or 3D-printing a prosthetic limb. But
is it enough to make for making’s sake? And how do we attend to the longer
history of makers and makerspaces? Completed articles will be peer-reviewed and
should be between 3000-8000 words in length.
If you are interested in contributing, please submit your
finalized project to the Issue 3 Submittable page (trace.submittable.com) by
December 1, 2017.
Contact Email: shannon.butts@ufl.edu
Indigenous Feminist
Politics in Settler Contexts
How do Indigenous/Native/Aboriginal feminisms navigate the
contemporary political terrain in settler colonial contexts? How does attention
to the concerns of Indigenous people change or reshape dominant progressive
and/or liberal conceptual and activist concerns? For instance, can Indigenous
understandings of land, the sacred, and kinship offer new insights and
strategies for addressing xenophobia, climate change, and racism? Do they pose
challenges and dilemmas? As is typical of our journal, we invite scholarly
essays based on original research as well as review essays on clusters of new
works, art essays, fiction, poetry, pedagogical reflections, and political
commentary. We especially welcome content grounded in place, people, and time.
Deadline: November 30 (the website says Sept. 15, but on
9/21 I received an email that lists 11/30 as the deadline)
MEMORY
The editors of RoundTable invite academic articles and
creative submissions on any aspect of literary engagement with the experience
or concept of memory, from the medieval to the contemporary, the individual to
the collective, the material to the digital. How, and why, does memory matter?
RoundTable is an online, peer-reviewed, open access literary journal for and by
postgraduate and early career researchers and creative practitioners.
Deadline: 15 October 2017
Contact Email: mercere@roehampton.ac.uk
Journal of Festive Studies
The journal’s stated
aim is to draw together all academics who share an interest in festivities,
including but not limited to holiday celebrations, family rituals, carnivals,
religious feasts, processions and parades, and civic commemorations. For its
first issue, the journal will look at festive studies as an emerging academic
sub-field since the late 1960s and seeks submissions that consider some of the
methods and theories that scholars have relied on to apprehend festive
practices across the world. The specific contributions of the historical,
geographical, sociological, anthropological, ethnological, psychological, and
economic disciplines to the study of festivities may be explored but, more
importantly, authors should offer guidelines on how to successfully integrate
them. How can one reconcile, for instance, the discourse of “festival tourism,”
dominated by the positivistic, quantitative research paradigm of consumer
behavior approaches, with a more classical discourse, mostly flowing from
cultural anthropology and sociology, concerning the roles, meanings and impacts
of festivals in society and culture?
All texts should be
sent by November 1 2017 to submissions-festive-studies@mail.h-net.msu.edu along with the author’s bio and an
abstract of c. 250 words. Please contact Ellen Litwicki (ellen.litwicki@fredonia.edu) and Aurélie Godet (augodet@yahoo.com) with any questions.
Global Studies of
Childhood
In this special issue of Children and Popular Culture,
authors are invited to consider intersections of popular culture by, for, and
about childhood, both broadly construed. We will explore both the impacts of
popular culture on youth and childhood and the very real impacts of children
and youth on popular culture. All disciplinary approaches are welcome,
including but not limited to textual and visual analysis, ethnographic work,
studies of children’s popular material culture, historical readings,
comparative analysis of texts, and consumer and communication studies.
Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2017.
Please send any queries to guest editor Patrick Cox at patrick.cox@rutgers.edu.
Building bodies:
Gendered Sport and Transnational Movements
The Yearbook of Women’s History is a peer-reviewed academic
annual covering all aspects of gender connected with historical research
throughout the world. The thrilling European title for the Dutch women’s
football team, a pregnant Serena Williams winning the Australian Open tennis
tournament, Kenyan-born Rose Chelimo of Bahrain becoming World Champion of the
women’s marathon, and 66-year-old Pat Gallant-Charette being the oldest woman
to swim across the English Channel – these are only recent highlights of female
achievements in sport. In all respects, women’s sport participation and success
is booming. In addition, ‘fitgirls’ have become part of popular culture. The
2018 volume of the Yearbook of Women’s History will focus on the making of ‘the
sporting body’ as a concept full of ambiguous cultural meanings and impact.
Marjet Derks, Professor of Sports History at Radboud University Nijmegen, will
serve as guest editor for this volume, which will appear in the year of the
2018 Winter Olympics.
Abstracts (max. 300 words) are to be submitted by 2
October, 2017 to Saskia Bultman (editorial secretary): s.bultman@let.ru.nl
Representing Religion
Boston College, 23-24, 2018
From illuminated manuscripts to Buddhist stupas to the
Pope’s twitter account, the representation of religion has taken many forms
over time. Further, the question of who represents religion -- lay people or
priests, men or women, believers or non-believers -- has been a central debate.
This conference seeks to explore the varied formats, means, and meanings behind
how religion is represented in art, culture, the media, and practice. We are
particularly interested in paper or panel proposals from the field of public
history. How is religion represented through museums, monuments, and historic
sites? How have authors or directors crafted their representations of religion
in popular books or movies? How do different religions represent their own
histories, through their digital presence?
Please submit your proposals to the conference committee
at bchistoryofreligion@gmail.com.
The deadline for submission is November 15, 2017.
Manga and politics -
The visual literacy of statecraft
The editor invites article proposals for a collected
research edition that investigates the representation of politics in manga. The
book explores the multifaceted relationship between Japan’s political
storytelling practices, the media and bureaucratic discourses as played out in
the visual arts by looking at contemporary narratives of Japan’s modern
pop-cultural storytellers.
While the focus of the book is the political agenda of
pop-culture, the often subtle maneuverings and power struggles of contemporary
manga are explored via the interaction of popular cultural and other media
discourses such as history, sociology, psychology, media studies and literature.
To what extent do contemporary activist writers incorporate innovative use of
language in provocative fictional what-if scenarios, to undermine the status
quo? How do the story telling practices of modern Japanese manga undermine
apathetic conformist society and challenge consumerist society; capitalism and
Japan’s neoliberal agenda.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words for articles of
about 8000 words in length. Please email your question and proposal to Roman
Rosenbaum at: roman.rosenbaum@sydney.edu.au by
31 October 2017.
Native American
Narratives in a Global Context
Building on this historically significant moment,
Transmotion is currently seeking submissions for a cross-disciplinary special
issue that seeks to explore Indigenous Studies, focusing on the significance of
Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous 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. A comparative
focus foregrounds the distinct but interconnected experiences of (post)
colonial and disenfranchised communities across the world. A lens of this kind
can expand and ask global questions on what it means to be native in specific
colonial spaces and the ways through which one can analyze literary expressions
that work towards decolonization in these contexts.
Any questions should be directed towards the Guest Editors:
Rebecca Macklin, University of Leeds (r.macklin@leeds.ac.uk)
and Eman Ghanayem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (ghanaye2@illinois.edu).
Deadline for Abstracts: 1st October 2017
Teaching with Digital
Humanities
The Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching is issuing
this Call For Papers seeking contributions for a new edited collection entitled
Quick Hits: Teaching with Digital Humanities to be published by Indiana
University Press. Teaching with Digital Humanities aims to introduce faculty,
administrators, and staff to ways in which digital techniques from the arts,
humanities, and social sciences can be incorporated in the classroom at the
undergraduate and graduate level to enhance learning and professional
development experiences for students and faculty alike.
To learn more about the project, please contact co-editors Christopher
Young (cjy@iun.edu) and Emma Annette
Wilson (eawilson8@ua.edu).
URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnzeosUygyg6Vby_ArcXuFM5t1yduJVsNwGbK5sI8aZOJfig/viewform
Please submit your proposal by October 8, 2017.
Endangered Knowledge
KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation
Studies is a new peer-reviewed electronic journal seeking abstracts for
contributions to a special issue on "Endangered Knowledge," to be
published in early autumn 2018.
This special issue asks: how do we preserve and effectively
disseminate knowledge in the face of environmental, political, financial,
infrastructural, and related risks? Inspired in particular by recent
initiatives addressing the precarious state of public information under the Trump
administration--such as DataRefuge, the Preservation of Electronic Government
Information (PEGI) project, and Endangered Data Week--we invite contributions
that explore issues related to endangerment as a critical category of analysis
for records, data, collections, and networks. Submissions may treat the
dissemination and preservation of material at risk of disappearing, whether
through inherent ephemerality or environmental loss, lack of proper
preservation measures and care, or deliberate erasure.
Please submit abstracts to kulajournal@uvic.ca by 31 October
2017.
The Architecture of
Logistics
This issue of Footprint meditates on logistics and its
architecture of exchange as the essential lymph of neoliberalism. Registering
and managing the circulation of people, goods and information across the
planet, the architecture of logistics could be considered the litmus paper from
which one could read and understand territories, populations and societal
assemblages. Using textual and visual materials, our ambition is to unfold the
multivalences of the logistical apparatus, dissecting its buildings and spaces,
its technologies and labour relations, its historical evolutions as well as its
future projections.
Contact Email: fp23@footprintjournal.org
Authors interested in contributing are requested to submit
an extended abstract to the editors before 1 December 2017 (1500 words for full
papers, 700 words for review articles and visual essays). Please also include a
short bio (300 words).
Art, Architecture,
and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean and Pacific
I invite papers that engage with questions: How does Empire
define vision and experience? How might images, materials, and built objects serve
as a form of resistance to Empire? Do images and built environments reflect,
countersign, or challenge ideals of local and/or imperial cultures? Does the
cultural geography of islands factor into imperialism? Essays might address,
among other topics, forms of resistance to U.S. cultural presence; the role of
architecture in expressions of state power; visual regimes of race and racism;
or gendered representations of the United States and its foreign holdings in
the Pacific and Caribbean. Papers examining the consumption and production of
art in support or critique of U.S. imperialism at the turn of the century in
the major cities of Cuba, Guam, Hawai’i, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico are
encouraged. Essays that telescope back to the nineteenth century, looking at
the imperialist rhetoric of the Monroe Doctrine, and project forward, thinking
of the ongoing significance of vision and experience in the U.S. Empire, Latinx
and Filipinx communities, and the islands of the Caribbean and Pacific, are
especially welcome.
Essay abstracts (approximately 250 words) and a CV should be
sent by January 20, 2018 to Joseph R. Hartman at hartmanjr@umkc.edu
Visual
representations of war and violence: considering embodiment
Interventions, Critical Studies on Security aims to
encourage the study of ‘security’ in and through social critique and to publish
theoretically informed scholarship that engages with the practice and politics
of security. In keeping with these aims, the Interventions section publishes
shorter pieces (1000 -2000 words) that explore security from a range of
theoretical perspectives.
Please send complete submissions to Linda Roland Danil
at: lindarolandd@gmail.com by
30 November 2017.
Mediating Global
Migration
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/204261/call-papers-journal-communication-inquiry
The Journal of Communication Inquiry (JCI) invites
submissions that adopt critical-cultural approaches to the intersection of
media and immigration for its October 2018 theme issue, “Mediating Global
Migration.”
As globalization has encouraged the exchange of people,
goods and ideas leading to porous national boundaries in the past several
decades, numerous efforts across the world have sought to contain this
mobility. While examples of political efforts to restrict immigration abound, this
call for papers invites critical-cultural approaches to examine media’s complex
role in negotiating the migration process and experience. Studies that display
theoretical and methodological innovation are particularly encouraged, as are
submissions that attempt to explain, clarify, or problematize associated
concepts such as “migration,” “immigration,” “diaspora,” and “transnationalism”
in relation to communication.
The deadline for submitting the manuscripts is January 15,
2018. A maximum 7,000-word paper (including references, tables, etc.) will be
considered for publication, subject to double blind peer-review. Please contact
Managing Editor Subin Paul (jci@uiowa.edu)
with questions.
Queer Loves in Jewish
History: From Ancient Israel to Europe before the Shoah
We seek chapters of between approximately 5,500-8,000 words
for an edited volume called Queer Loves in Jewish History: From Ancient Israel
to Europe Before the Shoah to be published by University of Wisconsin Press in
their prestigious Judaic Studies series.
We are interested in coverage of all major periods and topics in queer
Jewish history, but have particular needs in the following areas/topics: (1)
male homoeroticism in the Hebrew Bible (central focus should not be on the
relationship between David and Jonathan); (2) the Talmuds; (3) Lurianic
Kabbalah; (4) early-middle Hasidic movement; (5) Shabatai Z'vi; (6) 18-19th
centuries; (7) Magnus Hirschfeld and the German Jewish Homophile Movement; and
(8) lesbian desire and representation in secular modernist Yiddish culture and
literature. We also have a second volume
in the planning stages that will encompass queer subjects in Jewish history
from the Shoah in Europe through the present time.
Contact Email: blackmerc1@southernct.edu
Cafe Dissensus, Issue 44
From processions to
pamphlets, vigils and manifestoes, the articulation of dissent could take any
form. This issue of Café Dissensus intends to inquire into art-based
interventions and their capacity for political movement. Critical art, by being
contentious, can disclose alternate and previously subverted perspectives on
the world. The past decades with its chronicles of economic and political crisis
has seen art intersect as a key element of protest as it playfully or
polemically opens up spaces of engagement and action. Through a variety of
creative forms: street performances, giant art installations, protest music,
dissenting cartoons, videos and images that go viral, it generates new modes of
advocacy, interrupting older beliefs and imagining more equitable alternatives
to the status quo.
Submissions should
be of roughly 2000-2500 words. Some longer pieces would be considered, if they
deserve more space. Submissions will be accepted till 28 February, 2018.
Contact Email: chandrika.c.acharya@gmail.com
Words. Beats. Life
Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture
invites proposals for our special issue on street lit and the confluence
between hip-hop and literature. The expectation is that a proposal will speak
to the scholar's analysis of the specific work(s) under discussion as well as
the wider body of literature/performance that surrounds it.
Words. Beats. Life is a peer-reviewed, hybrid periodical of
art and hip-hop studies. Since 2002, Words. Beats. Life has been committed to
nurturing and showcasing the creative talents and expertise of artists and
scholars in its uniquely hip-hop-inspired setting.
Proposals are due by October 5. Proposals should be 300
words or less. Please email the special issue editor Keenan Norris at Keenan.Norris@goddard.edu.
Climate and Health
Submissions are
invited for a series hosted by the REMEDIA blog on the theme of ‘Climate and
Health.’ Blog posts might explore any aspect of the relationship between
climate and health, including changing patterns of disease under different
climatic conditions, measurements of health and climate, historical conceptions
of the climate-sensitive body, and the development of public health measures to
estimate and mitigate the impact of climate change on health. We welcome papers
from colleagues working in history, sociology, anthropology and elsewhere in
the humanities, as well as from researches in the sciences of climate and
health interested in addressing a broader audience.
If you are
interested in contributing to REMEDIA for this themed series or to showcase
your research on another subject, please send an email to Lisa Haushofer and
Kate Womersley at remedianetwork@gmail.com with a short description of your proposed
topic, argument, and sources, by October 1st, 2017.
Radical Care
Today, to care for
oneself or others can be a radical act. This special issue investigates the
meaning and power of care in different forms and on various scales: the
digital, the infrastructural, the personal, the environmental, and the
governmental. While caring has long been considered an individual practice, its
transformative power becomes possible within collective efforts. This special
issue seeks to define “care” in social breakdowns of labor, pain, and duress,
in order to locate and analyze the mediated boundaries and structures of what
it means to feel and provide care, survive, and even dare to thrive while
facing down an existential threat.
Contact Email: hiilei.hobart@northwestern.edu
Deadline for
abstracts: October 1, 2017
Genders, Sexes, Sexualities, and Gender Identities Beyond
“LGBT”
Special Issue: Women
and Language
Critical studies of
gender, sex, sexuality, and gender identity have many goals, and certainly one
includes the effort to trouble, interrogate, and upend binaries, dichotomies,
and rigid categories—and the naturalization thereof. Despite these underlying
theoretical commitments many of us share, research about sexuality and gender
identity often subtly reinscribes many of the categories and even binaries it
purports to disavow. Thus, this special issue invites articles that explore
identities and expressions of gender, sex, sexuality, and gender identity not
typically contained in the acronym, including analyses that interrogate the
acronym and its hegemony as such.
Contact Email: spencelg@miamioh.edu
Article deadline:
January 31, 2018
Visualizing Protest: Transnational Approaches to the
Aesthetics of Dissent
Issue 14, Ada: A
Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
In this issue, we
invite contributors to engage with how protest is visualized, that is, rendered
visual in the form of iconography and through social media, and imagined as a
utopian project of feminist, queer, and anti-racist worldmaking. Exploring the
emerging modes of visibility, networked solidarity, and collaborative knowledge
production, “Visualizing Protest” seeks to examine the relationships between
the aesthetics of feminist transnational protest and digital revolt in a
dynamic, polymedia context characterized by amateur remixing, instantaneous
sharing, immaterial labour, corporate ownership of digital platforms, and
institutionalized state surveillance of social media.
Complete submissions
should be sent to editor@adanewmedia.org by January 12, 2018.
Contributions should be no more than 3,000 words.
Digital America
Digital America is
now accepting submissions for Issue No. 10. We are an online journal that
focuses on digital art and culture with an eye towards impactful perspectives
in the digital age, as well as analyzing what it means to live in our current
political climate. We are looking for critical essays, film, artwork, design,
and reviews that question, analyze, and/or hack the tools of digital culture.
We are also interested in work that explores how new behaviors and global
networks of power and influence are examining what it means to be American.
Submissions are due
by November 10.
Contact Email: info@digitalamerica.org
FUNDING
Brian King Fabulous Researcher Fund 2018
Applications are open to Canadian and international scholars,
graduate students, artists, cultural producers, and other independent
researchers with an established research agenda who wish to conduct research at
the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
Application materials should explain the research project’s
focus, methodology, and engagement with existing scholarship; the application
should also explain the intended product, as well as the CLGA collection(s) to
be used during the proposed grant. Applicants new to CLGA’s collections are
encouraged to consult with volunteer archivists prior to submitting their
application. They can be reached queeries@clga.ca.
Deadline: November 10
JDC Archives
Fellowship Program
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2018
fellowship program. In 2018, 5 fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars,
postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to
conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or in Jerusalem.
Topics in the fields of twentieth century Jewish history, modern history,
social welfare, migration, and humanitarian assistance will be considered, as
well as other areas of academic research covered in the JDC archival
collections http://archives.jdc.org/search-the-archives//. To identify relevant materials, please
visit http://archives.jdc.org/explore-the-archives/finding-aids/. The fellowship awards are
$2,000-$5,000.
Deadline for submission: Monday, January 15, 2018.
Houghton
Library Visiting Fellowships 2018-2019
The collections of Houghton Library touch upon almost every
aspect of the human record, particularly the history and culture of Europe and
North America, and include special concentrations in the history of printing
and of theater. Materials held here
range from medieval manuscripts and early printed books to the working papers
of living writers. Fellows will also have access to collections in Widener
Library as well as to other libraries at the University. Preference is given to scholars whose
research is closely based on materials in Houghton collections, especially when
those materials are unique; fellowships are normally not granted to scholars who
live within commuting distance of the library.
Contact Email: duhaime@fas.harvard.edu
URL: http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/public_programs/visiting_fellowships.cfm and http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/public_programs/visiting_fellowships.cfm#apply
Deadline: January 12, 2018
Schomburg
Center Scholars-in-Residence Program
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a unit of
The New York Public Library, invites applications for its Scholars-in-Residence
Program for the 2018-2019 academic year.
The program offers long-term and short-term research
fellowships to scholars and writers pursuing projects in African diasporic
studies in fields including history, politics, literature, and culture.
Contact Email: sir@nypl.org
Deadline: December 1, 2017
Autry Museum
of the American West 2018 Research Fellowships
Applications for the Autry Museum of the American West’s 2018
Research Fellowships are being accepted through December 1, 2017. PhD
candidates, post-doctoral researchers, and independent scholars interested in
the history and mythologies of the American West are encouraged to apply.
Research Fellows will be in residence June, July, or August 2018. The Autry is
located in Los Angeles and holds one of the nation’s most comprehensive book
and archival collections on Native American cultures and the history of the
American West.
Contact Email: lposas@theautry.org
WORKSHOPS
Dissertation Workshop
on Afro-Latin American Studies
The Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins
Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, invites
graduate students working on dissertations related to Afro-Latin American
studies to submit a proposal. Doctoral students at universities anywhere in the
world, who are at the dissertation writing stage, from any discipline, are
invited to submit an application. Previous applicants who were not selected
before are welcome to reapply. The only condition is that their dissertations
deal with Afro-Latin American topics broadly defined, covering any time period,
from colonial times to the present.
Materials should be sent electronically to ALARI@fas.harvard.edu (please
write “Dissertation Workshop” in the subject) by January 15,
2018.
