CONFERENCES
Thinking Gender 2018
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women invites submissions
of paper, poster, speed pitching research roundtable, and visual arts proposals
for our 28th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference.
This year’s conference theme, Pre-existing Conditions, will
focus on the interactions of health and gender as a play on the current,
on-going discussions about gender-focused health and healthcare. Healthcare
reform is not new to political or contemporary discussions, but what is novel
is the recognition of the need for vast improvement of political understanding
of health and care especially for women and LGBTQI+2s communities.
Registered graduate students from any institution are
eligible to submit presentation proposals for all Thinking Gender sessions.
The deadline for all submission proposals is November 1,
2017.
Postcolonial South
Asian Masculinities
Taking as its starting point R.W.Connel’s understanding of
multiple variants of "hegemonic masculinities," this panel seeks to
examine how masculinities are constructed across a vast spectrum of class,
caste, and ethnic differences in South Asia. Borrowing from Stuart Hall’s
theorization of "identity in process," this panel seeks to examine
the idea of masculinity "in process" in post-colonial/post-imperial
spaces like India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. This panel seeks to
examine different forms of fragile masculinities and aim to unpack their
inextricable relationship with hegemonic practices. By doing so, this panel
will examine how the idea of masculinity is heavily influenced by both local
and contemporary neoliberal practices. This panel also seeks to expand its
scope beyond literary representations, to accommodate representations of
masculinities across different medias like cinema, including new forms of media
like social media.
Please submit abstracts here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/User/SubmitAbstract/17019
by September 30th.
Contact Email: ade1@binghamton.edu
International
Graduate Historical Studies Conference
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, April 6
- 7, 2018\
We invite graduate students from across the social sciences
and the humanities to submit proposals for papers or panels that adopt an
interdisciplinary or transnational approach, but we are also seeking papers or
panels that approach historical topics in more traditional ways. All
submissions must be based on original research. In keeping with the theme of
the conference, individual papers will be organized into panels that cross
spatial, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries.
Send abstract (250-350 words) and a short curriculum vita as
an attachment to histconf@cmich.edu. Preference will be given to papers and panels
received during the early submission period which ends December 17, 2017.
Emotions and American
Protest
April 4–7, 2018, King’s College London
We are recruiting panellists for a panel on the role of
emotions in 20th century U.S. protest and activism, as part of the upcoming
EBAAS conference in 2018.
How does emotional expression function in protest movements
in which convincing adversaries is not the primary goal? In addition, what role
do gendered and racialised expectations of emotions play in the creation and
perceptions of emotions in protest?
This panel will explore these questions with regards to the
African American freedom struggle, and late 20th century urban community
activism. We welcome abstracts from those whose work addresses both emotion and
any kind of U.S. activism in the last century, including but not limited to:
feminist and LGBT organisations, right-wing protest campaigns, labour
movements, anti-war campaigns, and race and ethnicity-based protests.
Please send your a 250-word abstract of your proposed paper
and a short biography as soon as possible to timo.schrader@nottingham.ac.uk.
Words at Work: When
Literature Forms as Social Action
UCLA, March 29th through April 1st.
We invite papers that discuss the ways in which literary
words take form as social action locally and globally. We will interrogate how
words "get to work" for communities in ways that the academy
struggles to account for. As such, we aim to directly address the question
posed by a recent headline in the LA Review of Books: "What are the
humanities for?" This question has become increasingly urgent under the
rise of right-wing populism globally and in the United States under a White
House administration that has placed the humanities and the arts on the funding
chopping block, and whose very existence seems to undermine closely held
premises of literary "work" in the world - that it makes us
empathetic and helps us exercise critical thought.
Submit abstracts of 250-300 words to the seminar organizers
through the ACLA website, here: http://www.acla.org/words-work-when-literature-forms-social-action
Southwest
Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference
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/. The American Studies and American History
subject area allows for a broad range of topics that address historical
influences on American culture and/or cultural identity. Papers from a
historical, interdisciplinary, and/or transnational perspective are encouraged.
The deadline for submissions is October 22, 2017.
All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s
database at http://conference2018.southwestpca.org/
Contact Email: marinski@ohio.edu
Writing the Noise:
the politics and history of subcultural music
University of Reading, 6–7 September 2018
How should we write the history of subcultures and their
music? How do we write about current subcultures and musics? What theories or
perspectives should we adopt? What sources can we use and how do we apply them?
Who is able to write them? Did – and do – you have to have been there? This
international conference will analyse the problems and possibilities of writing
on subcultures and their music. It will bring together academics, journalists
and practitioners; it will be multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. It will
be designed to facilitate conversations between historians, sociologists and
musicologists, between cultural studies and political science, between
performers and commentators, between journalists, writers and academics.
Deadline: 15 November 2017
email: m.worley@reading.ac.uk
Living Matters: The
Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms
ACLA Seminar, 3/29-4/1, 2018 at UCLA
This ACLA 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. We seek to engage
the world of living matter that evades human perception or blends, object-like,
into human environments—the overlapping worlds of plants, bacteria, fungi, and
algae, among other quietly animate forms. 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.
Interested participants are asked to email the seminar
co-organizers Agnes Malinowska (amalinowska@uchicago.edu)
and Joela Jacobs (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
with a 250-word abstract and a short bio or CV by August 25th. You
may also choose to submit an abstract/CV through the ACLA website (http://www.acla.org/annual-meeting) between September
1-23, 2017
Transnational Fields
of Production and Consumption
International Sociological Association, July 15-21, 2018,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
There is a growing literature that focuses on the
transnational elements of cultural production and consumption. This session is
interested in studies of cultural production and/or consumption that highlight
the transnational character of fields. How can transnational analyses of
production and/or consumption enrich our understandings of fields? What are the
advantages and/or disadvantages in transnational studies of production and/or
consumption? Of particular interest are studies that focus on popular culture
broadly defined (music, food, fashion, literature, etc.), although all
empirical subject areas are welcome.
Contact Email: athenaelafros@gmail.com
NeMLA 49th Annual
Convention
The 49th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language
Association will meet April 12 to 15, 2018, in Pittsburgh.
The theme of this year's convention is "Global Spaces,
Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds." We seek to examine the concept of
spaces: their appropriation and occupation, the demarcation of borders,
processes of inclusivity and exclusivity, as well as reproductive processes
related to the creation of worlds—real, fantastic, and imagined. Pittsburgh, a
city whose recent cultural explosion attracts visitors from around the United
States and the world, provides the ideal backdrop for such thought-provoking
topics.
To submit to any of the more than 400 calls for papers,
please visit https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP,
create a free account, and submit your abstract directly to each desired
session. Submissions are due by September 30, 2017.
Contact Email: support@nemla.org
IMAGINING THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE: UNSETTLING
SCIENTIFIC STORIES
UNIVERSITY OF YORK, UK, March 27-29, 2018
Recent years have seen a significant growth of academic and
public interest in the role of the sciences in creating and sustaining both
imagined and enacted futures. Technological innovations and emergent
theoretical paradigms gel and jolt against abiding ecological, social, medical
or economic concerns: researchers, novelists, cartoonists, civil servants,
business leaders and politicians assess and estimate the costs of planning for
or mitigating likely consequences. The trouble is that thinking about the
future is a matter of perspective: where you decide to stand constrains what
you can see.
Proposals for individual papers should include an abstract
of no more than 250 words, together with a short (100) word author bio. Panel
proposals should also include a short (150 word) commentary on the overall
theme. Please email proposals to unsettling-science@york.ac.uk (as
email attachments in Word format) by FRIDAY 15th SEPTEMBER.
Further information can be found here: http://unsettlingscientificstories.co.uk/imagined-futures and
via twitter:@UnSetSciStories #ImaginedFutures
American Literature
Area at PCA/ACA
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
(PCA/ACA) 2018 National Conference
Indianapolis, IN, March 28-31, 2018
Papers may concern any work(s) of American literature in any
genre from the colonial era to the early twenty-first century. A range of
critical approaches is welcome: For instance, presentations may consider
literary representations, explore historical implications, offer theoretical
readings, or examine thematic parallels. Proposals about the intersections of
American literature and popular culture—including but not limited to film,
music, television, theater, visual arts, and fashion—are encouraged, as are
treatments of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in American literature.
Proposals must be submitted through the PCA/ACA submission
database, which can be found at https://conference.pcaaca.org/.
Contact Email: taylor13@rose-hulman.edu
Media Culture and Race Matters in Asia: Convergences and
Divergences
The media—digital platforms, webisodes, multilingual media,
mobile media, vlogs and other social media, film, radio, and TV—are essential
to our everyday life. While it is true globally (with varying degrees) that the
media impact and are intricately interwoven into what we do, think, and feel,
the media are also a specifically regional phenomenon situated in time and
place. These specificities of the media, however, are simultaneously
transferrable and transformable across borders as they are built out of
idiomatic and shared visual and verbal aesthetic systems. Since the development
of the Internet and mobile communications in particular, it has, for example,
become common for people in India to watch popular Korean television shows and
vice versa, while adaptations across geographic and national boundaries have
become a popular practice. We in Media Culture and Race Matters in Asia examine
the era of the media through two particular lenses, that is, Asia and race as
they inform and are informed by the production and consumption of media.
Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 15th, 2017
If interested, please send an abstract of 300 words to
Maya Dodd (maya@flame.edu.in)
or Hyesu Park (hyesu.park@bellevuecollege.edu)
by September 15th, 2017.
Artificial Lives
Conference
This conference is the first of an interdisciplinary series
investigating developments in the arts and sciences responding to the
manufacturing of being. It will take place at the University of Sussex. In the
wake of the creation of the first stable semisynthetic organism, and numerous
other developments in the enhancing and manufacturing of artificial life,
thinkers and practitioners across disciplines are seeking to reconceive our
understanding of extended being. Significant developments in fields including,
and not limited to Biopolitics, Disability Studies, Affect studies, Post
humanism and Medical Humanities have contributed to a new understanding of the
limits and nature of the human, and of the environment. As the gap between
speculation and reality narrows, this conference provides a timely opportunity
to survey and reflect on the impact of synthesised lifeforms on our picture of
the lifeworld.
Deadline: 25th September 2017
Please submit a 250 word abstract and short bio via our
website –https://artificiallives.wordpress.com/contact/.
If you have any further queries, please email us at artificiallivesproject@gmail.com
Performativity as
Critique: The Transpacific Under and After Imperialism
2018 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature
Association (ACLA), March 29–April 1, 2018, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Recent scholarship has discussed decolonization and the
afterlife of empire in different geopolitical contexts, such as the British and
French empires. Political and social aspects of decolonization have undergone
heated discussions for the East Asian context as well. At the same time,
although the cultural aspect of shifts in national boundaries also has been
analyzed, approaches to the region from a transpacific perspective and as a
site for cultural performances have become more productive and necessary. The
seminar welcomes papers that discuss a range of questions regarding the
relationship between individual subjects and social and state institutions,
from literary to visual texts, from East Asia to Polynesia and the United
States, from the start of Japan’s modernization in 1868 and continuing through
postwar military occupation up to the present
Please visit https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting for
more details about the meeting.
Contact Email: skakihara@fullerton.edu
Drugs and the Senses
in Popular Culture: An Ambiguous relationship
This panel will take place during the International
Sociological Association (ISA) XIXth World Congress of Sociology, Metro Toronto
Convention Center, Toronto, Canada, July 15-21 2018, as part of the Thematic
Group-TG07 "Senses and Society"
History of drugs in contemporary society can actually be
readdressed from the side of the senses, using popular culture and subcultures
as materials. How can we describe what is unspeakable? What are the roles of the senses (vision,
sound, touch, other…) in the depiction of the altered or parallel universes
created by the drug ingestion? But the opening of the doors of perception,
based upon the democratization of the access to psychotropic substances in the
last century, had also an impact on social imaginary. How can we measure and
study this link? What are his effects on our own perception of the world,
passed through popular culture? Expected papers must address these issues, with
no restriction of cultural or geographical frames.
Abstracts are to be submitted online before September 30th
2017 on the ISA Congress website: http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts.
Contact Email: alexandre.marchant@free.fr
375 Years of African
American Presence in Maryland
Bowie State University, Bowie, MD, October 19-21, 2017
The year 2017 represents the 375th anniversary of African
American presence in Maryland. Since the arrival of the first captives from
Africa in 1642, people of African descent have contributed significantly to the
shaping of Maryland’s culture, economy, and institutions. The organizers of
this conference invite panels and individual papers addressing any aspect of
the history, culture, and experiences of African Americans in Maryland for
presentation at the inaugural conference of the Gloria Richardson Humanities
Initiative at Bowie State University.
Please submit individual paper proposals (c.300 words),
panel proposals (c. 500 words) and a brief CV (2pp. maximum) for each presenter
by Friday, September 15, 2017
Contact Email: Humanities@bowiestate.edu
Fictional
Representations of North American Ideological Environment/Space and Place
Divisions
4 – 7 April 2018, King’s College LondonCurrent dramatic
events, such as those recently unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia, point
out to deep historical divisions within the present American ideological
territory. American writers have engaged with such cultural phenomena. Thus,
for instance, the specific milieu of the frontier ethos and the frontiersman
are resuscitated by authors like T.C. Boyle and Dave Eggers within the
narrative space of the contemporary American novel, via characters evading or
violently confronting the national political power nexus. Recent American
fictions imaginatively approach: economic clashes between the neoliberal
multinational elite and locally manipulated blue and white-collar participants
in the production of goods; ethnic conflicts within national and formerly colonial/subaltern
environments; including those of the Confederacy and the Union; LGBTQ minority
vs. mainstream gender majority continental/intersectional problematic encounters,
as well as their social and individually psychological consequences.
Submissions are sought for a panel which aims to explore how American novelists
represent such spatial separations/divisions in present-day United States.
Please send an abstract (250 words) for a 20-minute paper, including a title,
an email address, and a brief CV to Mihai Mindra, at mihai.mindra@gmail.com, by September
20, 2017.
PUBLISHING
Black Womanhood in
Popular Culture
Our special issue of Open Cultural Studies aims to examine
the multifaceted ideological implications of this proliferation of black
womanhood in popular culture. We understand popular culture as a site where
“collective social understandings are created” (cf. Stuart Hall 2009) and as a
marketplace governed primarily by economic interests, but also trading in
symbolic capital, identities, and collective fantasies. Popular culture thus
may model new subject positions, unsettle cultural authorities, and question
cultural ideals – intentionally or inadvertently so. The contributions to this
special issue discuss representations and performances of black womanhood in
the transatlantic sphere. They raise issues about the genealogies of these
images and their empowering and limiting qualities, about the “affective
agency” (Rebecca Wanzo) and subjecthood that black women claim and/or are
assigned in these cultural productions, and about the signifying functions of
the black female body in visual economies.
Please submit abstracts (500 words maximum)
and biographical information to Dr Katharina Gerund (Erlangen/Nürnberg)
and Dr Stefanie Schäfer (Jena): stefanie@uni-jena.de and katharina.gerund@fau.de by
January 15, 2018.
Contact Email: izabella.penier@degruyteropen.com
2018-19 Fellowship
Competition - The US 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
The Material
Atlantic: Objects, Capitalism and the Transatlantic Imagination
This edited volume seeks essays that will explore the
material history of objects as they are circulated between Europe and/or Africa
and the Atlantic World (approx. 1650-1800) during the long eighteenth century.
Tied to the legacies of imperialism, slavery, and creolization, discussing
material objects allows for an avenue of scholarly intervention onto the global
markets that existed at the time and naturalized value systems that reverberate
to this day.
The volume will attend to the critical intersection of
material culture, formations of capitalism, and the transatlantic imagination,
contributing to the robust interdisciplinarity of current eighteenth-century
scholarship. To capture the breadth of the project, the volume seeks essays
that span the Americas (North and South), including the Caribbean. Essays that
discuss the eighteenth-century South Atlantic and its material culture (to
include Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch colonial Americas and African diaspora) are
particularly welcome.
Proposals of approximately 500 words and a CV should be sent
to Victoria Barnett-Woods at vab@gwu.edu by
October 13th, 2017.
Decolonizing Yoga?
& Unsettling “Social Justice”
Call for Papers: Race and Yoga Journal
Indigenous peoples and practices are often eclipsed from
dominant discourses. When “decolonization” is co-opted and used synonymously
with “social justice,” Indigenous peoples are even excluded from these
discussions. Yet as Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang clarify, “Decolonization brings
about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for
other things we want to do to improve our societies and schools.” This special
cluster of Race and Yoga journal recognizes the need to (re)center Indigenous
peoples, practices, and lands locally and globally in conversations at the
convergence of decolonization and yoga.
DEADLINE: January 15, 2018
Please send all inquires to raceandyoga@gmail.com
Feminism and
Motherhood in the 21st century
Motherhood has long been a vital yet complex, even
problematic topic for feminism. This special issue of Feminist Encounters: A
Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics investigates the meanings
of motherhood for feminism today, and the challenges it poses, in a glocal
context characterised by gender fluidity and social inequality. This special
issue of Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and
Politics is dedicated to the critical analysis of contemporary motherhood and
its glocal representations and manifestations. This issue has an
interdisciplinary focus and welcomes contributions from a wide range of fields,
including arts and humanities, social science, psychology, philosophy.
300 word Abstract and Bio by 1 November 2017 to cbeyer@glos.ac.uk
For general enquiries please email the managing editor
via editorialfeminist@lectito.net.
See our electronic submission guidelines at http://www.lectitojournals.com/submission-guidelines.
Social Justice and
Fan Studies
Call for Book Manuscripts: LSU Press is proud to announce
the addition of new lists in fan studies and social justice. Proposals in these
areas can be sent to Jenny Keegan, whose guidelines are online at the LSU Press
website.
Social Justice – This new list will build on LSU Press’s
prestigious publications in slavery studies and civil rights, addressing social
justice issues of the twenty-first century, from #BlackLivesMatter to trans
rights to mass incarceration. Books on this list will bring the lessons of the
past to bear on the most pressing issues of the present: They will explore the
ongoing legacies of historical oppression; the social, political, and
rhetorical strategies that reproduce inequity; and the activism that endeavors
to counter it.
Fan Studies – This multidisciplinary list will explore
cultural, historical, and social elements of fandoms across all media types,
from music to sports to literature to film and television. Books on the list
will expand the lineage of fan studies beyond narratives of Trek-zines and Sherlockian
societies, offer close examinations of the contrasting or overlapping practices
of different fandoms, explore activism and social consciousness in fan
communities, and more.
Contact Email: jenniferkeegan@lsu.edu
Heritage: Landscapes
We seek submissions for the Volume 7, Issue 1 of
Landscapes: The Journal of the
International Centre for Landscape and Language, a fully refereed
interdisciplinary, multimedia online journal. This volume’s special theme is
“Heritage: Landscapes.” What are the intersections between cultural identity
and landscapes? How do humans curate their heritage in landscapes? What are the
consequences for cultures and environments when landscapes are designated
“heritage?” What conflicts arise between heritage landscapes and other
treatments of the land, such as economic development and ecosystem
sustainability? These questions have particular currency for the Standing Rock
Sioux effort to preserve sacred lands from economic development, controversy
over monuments on public lands, and Aboriginal efforts to pass on traditions of
earth care to the next generation. Who choses what landscapes to memorialize,
why, and how?
Contact Email: landscapelanguage@gmail.com
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
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.
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
FUNDING
American
Philosophical Society Library Resident Research Fellowships
The American Philosophical Society Library offers short-term
residential fellowships for conducting research in its collections. We are a leading
international center for research in the history of American science and
technology and its European roots, as well as early American history and
culture. The Library houses over 11 million manuscript items, 350,000 volumes
of printed materials, thousands of maps and prints, and more than a thousand
hours of audio recordings of Native American languages.
The fellowships, funded by generous benefactors, are open to
both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals. Applicants may be: Ph.D. candidates
who have passed their preliminary examinations and are researching their
dissertation.
deadline: 1 March 2017
Contact Email: libfellows@amphilsoc.org
George E. Pozzetta
Dissertation Award
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society announces
competition for the 2018 George E.
Pozzetta Dissertation Award. It invites applications from any Ph.D.
candidate who will have completed qualifying exams by 2017, and whose thesis
focuses on American immigration, emigration, or ethnic history. The award
provides two grants of $1000 each for expenses to be incurred in researching
the dissertation. Applicants must submit a three-page to five-page descriptive
proposal in English discussing the significance of the work, the methodology,
sources, and collections to be consulted. Also included must be a proposed
budget, a brief curriculum vitae, and a supporting letter from the major
advisor. To be considered for the award, all applicants must submit their
materials via email to all committee members by December 15th, 2017.
WORKSHOPS
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
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
Tani E. Barlow Papers
Available for Research
The Pembroke Center for
Teaching and Research on Women and the John Hay Library at Brown
University are proud to announce the opening of the Tani
E. Barlow papers. This collection was processed as part of the Feminist
Theory Archive.
This collection (32 linear feet) spans from 1957 – 2017 and
consists of Barlow’s personal and professional papers that document her personal
life, academic career, and research interests of feminism, postcoloniality, and
women’s history in Asia, specifically in China. Barlow’s papers highlight her
family history, personal relationships, teaching career, editorial work,
research, and writing, with syllabi, lectures, correspondence, subject files,
and drafts, in addition to a substantial collection of Barlow’s diaries and
photographs. These materials are in English, Mandarin, and Japanese. Scholars
who study feminism and gender in East Asia, the Women's Movement in China,
modern girlhood, and the author, Ding Ling, will find this collection
particularly useful.
Research requests are welcome. For more information about
the collection, please contact Mary Murphy, the Nancy L. Buc '65,
Pembroke Center Archivist, at 401-863-6268 or mary_murphy1@brown.edu.
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