CONFERENCES
Humanities Education
and Research Association conference
7-10 March 2018, Chicago, Illinois
Theme:
Humanities through the Ages
The HERA conference program committee invites proposals for
presentations at the 2018 conference. The program committee’s theme is designed
to incorporate any and all possible connotations: the history and development
of the humanities, the changes in the humanities over time, the triumphs of and
threats to the humanities, the importance of the humanities, the challenges to
the humanities. Also included within the theme is the idea of humanities and
humanities education being enriched and enlivened by commitment and dedication
from all age levels, spanning the lives of individuals as well as history.
Submissions are encouraged from educators at all levels
(including undergraduate/graduate students) as well as all those with an
interest in the arts and humanities. Proposals for papers, panels, or workshops
(150-200 words) must be submitted through the conference submission portal on
the HERA website at www.h-e-r-a.org.
Contact Email: mgreen@sfsu.edu
Deadline for submission: no later than January 25, 2018
The Latina/o
Literature & Culture Society of the American Literature Association
San Francisco, CA, May 24-27, 2018
In the past, the Latina/o/x Literature and Culture Society
has organized panels that focus on literary genre, single authors, children’s
literature, speculative fiction, comparative analyses, as well as cultural
studies approaches. This year, we welcome a variety of theoretical and
interdisciplinary approaches, as well as a variety of panel types, including
traditional paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and sessions dedicated to
the teaching of Latina/o/x literature. Given the location of the Conference in
San Francisco, we solicit proposals focused on Latina/o/x experiences in San
Francisco and the West Coast more broadly.
Deadline: January 8, 2018
Contact Email: cherrera@csufresno.edu
2018 Women's
Leadership Summit
Women’s Network (WN) is a grassroots organization that aims
to bring women to the forefront at all levels of corporate, community, and
civic leadership. Under this mission, WN offers high-impact programming to
women in areas of leadership development, professional advancement, and
entrepreneurship and helps local businesses and organizations build programming
that better serves emerging women leaders. The 2018 Leadership Summit welcomes
work in the areas of leadership development for women, gender equity and
unconscious bias in the workplace, and thought leadership on advancing women’s
lives.
Deadline: January 15, 2018
Email all proposals to WNsummit2018@gmail.com
Joint Journalism and
Communication History Conference
This one-day interdisciplinary conference welcomes scholars
and graduate students with an interest in journalism or communication history.
Innovative research and ideas from all areas of journalism and communication
history and from all time periods are welcome. This conference offers
participants the chance to explore new ideas, garner feedback on their work,
and meet colleagues from around the world interested in journalism and
communication history in a welcoming environment.
The final deadline for submissions is January 4, 2018.
Contact Email: eking@loyola.edu
Primary Source: An
Interdisciplinary Conference on Memory and Identity
Fontbonne University, in partnership with the Missouri
History Museum and sponsored by a National Endowment for the Humanities
“Humanities Connections” grant, announces Primary Source, an interdisciplinary
conference on the connections between memory—both individual and collective—and
identity. We seek proposals that explore these topics from a variety of
disciplines, and with a particular interest in the intersection of memory and
identity for individuals and communities in migration, whether domestically or
transnationally.
Deadline for abstracts is January 5, 2018
Contact Email: cwohlford@fontbonne.edu
Chicano/a Literature,
Film, and Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association, February
7-10, 2018, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Panels and individual papers on all aspects of Chicana,
Chicano, and Chicanx culture are encouraged for our upcoming conference. The
Chicana/o/x Literature, Film, and Culture area tends to be both multicultural
and interdisciplinary, and panels and individual papers may explore any issues
relevant to Chicana/o/x cultural studies.
Proposal submission deadline: November 15, 2017
email: llinares@css.edu
Colonial Tourism:
sites, resistances and performances
15- 20 July 2018 at the University of Warsaw
The session seeks critical readings of tourist
infrastructures of the colonial state which occupied a distinctive position in
the development of settler society. Hotels, inns, safari camps, tours, holiday
camps, and resorts, together with colonial administrations, shipping, rail and
eventual airline companies played critical roles in developing this network.
These tourist sites and experiences often constituted a centrepiece of colonial
representations and practices, as well as sites to showcase and subjugate
indigenous peoples. They also played a key role in colonial violence.
Contact Email: denis.linehan@ucc.ie
Black Communities: A
Conference for Collaboration
We are pleased to announce the Call for
Proposals for Black
Communities: A Conference for Collaboration. The event will
take place on April 23-25 at the Carolina Theater in Durham, North
Carolina. This multi-disciplinary conference will connect academic
researchers and Black Communities across North America and the world. By
creating new collaborations, we will help to document, safeguard and enhance
the life of these communities. Proposals are due November 14, 2017.
Contact Email: blackcommunities@unc.edu
Locating the
“Avant-Garde”
Web Conference: Locating the “Avant-Garde”:
(Post)Modern Music at the Boundaries in the 20th & 21st Centuries
Conference Dates: April 14-15, 21-22, 28-29, 2018
Throughout the 20th
and 21st centuries, the term “avant-garde” has been used to describe myriad
artists, genres, styles, and compositions, demonstrating that this term has had
wide-ranging and yet socio-culturally specific significance. One of the goals
of the recently founded Musical Avant-Gardes Project (MAG Project) is to interrogate
what it means to be “avant-garde” as well as what performing the “avant-garde”
means, has meant, and might continue to mean for those involved in musical
histories and performances of avant-gardism throughout the world.
Proposal Deadline: 1 January 2018
Please direct questions to the above address, or contact
Jill Rogers (jillian.rogers@ucc.ie)
or Matt Friedman (m.w.friedman@gmail.com).
For additional information on the MAG Project, visit our website: http://magproject.org/.
Literature and
Intersectionality
We seek proposals that explore intersectional (see Kimberle
Crenshaw) approaches to literature. We are interested in relfections on
intersectionality as literary practice, as well as papers that engage with
literary representations of struggles for racial, economic, and gender justice
in the American and global contexts. Papers that engage with the intersection
of racial, economic, and other struggles for justice in any area of literature
are welcome. We are interested in papers that engage literature as a way of
thinking about coalition building. We also invite proposals that explore
anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-classist teaching practices, curricula,
research, theory, and criticism.
Graduate students at all levels and/or independent scholars
should send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Sam Sorensen and Joanna Grim
at LSJLehigh@gmail.com by
October 31, 2017.
Democracy on the
Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the Global Challenge to Democratic Freedoms
20th Annual Women's History Conference at Sarah Lawrence
College, March 3-4, 2018
People who have historically been most excluded from the
benefits of democratic citizenship are precisely those who have demanded that
democratic nations live up to their professed ideals. This year, the 20th
Annual Women's History conference will expand upon college’s yearlong
discussion of the theme “Democracy and Education” by examining the challenges
faced by those who live, work, and struggle on the margins of democracy. We
will interrogate the history of democracy and the interplay between
citizenship, race, gender, sexuality and inequality. We ask: if we agree that equality is an
important component of a liberal democracy, what impact does structural and
systemic inequality have on an individual’s ability to experience the full
range of democratic freedoms?
Deadline December 22, 2017.
Send proposals to: tjames@sarahlawrence.edu
Posthuman Ethics
NYU, April 27-28 2018
This Symposium is dedicated to the significance of the
posthuman in relation to ethics and applied philosophy. We will address current
global issues in order to spark a deep and multilayered analysis of what the
notion of “posthuman ethics” implies. This Symposium wishes to engage in
posthuman ethical reflections on AI, cyborgs, the digital turn, human
enhancement and biotechnologies, genetic privacy, robots, environmental
sustainability, drones, non-human animals, space, big data, the global dynamics
of human interactions in relation to power and equity, among other topics. We
invite your reflections on posthumanism both as a praxis and as a moral stance
on the world, as exemplified by its advocacy of environmentalism, cyborg
rights, animal personhood, sustainable advanced technologies and ethical
economies.
We invite abstracts of up to 200 words and a short bio, to
be sent to: NYposthuman@gmail.com
Abstracts should be received by December 31st 2017.
Abstracts should be received by December 31st 2017.
Bridges/Puentes –
Digital Humanities Conference
Hosted by the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD), La
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and El Colegio de México
(Colmex)
26-29 June 2018
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)
invites submission of proposals for its annual conference on any aspect of
digital humanities. The theme of the 2018 conference is “Bridges/Puentes,” and
contributions that speak to the theme or that focus on knowledge mobilization,
collaboration among scholars and scholarly communities, relationships of
North/South scholarship and epistemologies, globalization and digital divides,
public-facing and community-engaged scholarship, translation, digital ecologies,
hacker culture, and digital indigenous studies are especially encouraged.
deadline: 11:59pm GMT-6 (local Mexico City time) 27 November
2017
Contact email: dh2018@adho.org
Frederick Douglass
Bicentennial Interdisciplinary Conference: Re-Imagining Diversity,
Multiculturalism, and Social Justice
April 5-6, 2018, West Chester University in West Chester, PA
The Frederick Douglass Institute Collaborative within the
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) invites you to submit
abstracts/papers/proposals for the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Conference
scheduled on April 5-6, 2018 at West Chester University. This bicentennial
celebration will examine Douglass’ legacy within the contexts of his era and
today. Scholars, academics, researchers and intellectuals of diverse
backgrounds are encouraged to submit abstracts, papers or proposals related to
the conference theme.
Proposal submission deadline: October 30, 2017
Contact Email: asargent@wcupa.edu
Conference on Language, Learning, & Culture 2018 --
Making Research Matter
April 6-7, 2018, Virginia
International University
In focusing on “Making Research Matter,” our aim is to
involve a diverse group of practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, community
members, and other stakeholders in a multidirectional sharing of interests,
values, and expertise. We especially welcome proposals involving projects in
which the investigators considered the users and uses of their research from
the very beginning and made decisions accordingly—from action-research projects
conducted by individual teachers in their classrooms to larger-scale funded
endeavors where collaborative teams had an eye toward wider public engagement
and policy impacts, and everything in between.
Proposals for paper and poster presentations, workshops,
colloquia, and panel discussions are invited until December 4, 2017.
Contact Email: kevin@viu.edu
TANGIBLE – INTANGIBLE
HERITAGE(S): Design, social and cultural critiques on the past, present and the
future
University of East London, UK, 14 – 15 June 2018
In a time when the construction of New Towns are on the
agenda in UK, cities re being built from scratch across China and climate
change threatens historic cities and landscapes. Socio-economic change means
industrial communities crave investment and political answers from the likes of
Donald Trump while tourist cities adapt to attract the holiday dollar. In this
context, what can we mean by ‘heritage’?
This conference defines heritage as a physical, social,
political, economic, artistic, media and design issue. It attempts to open up
the concept of heritage to a reading that is interdisciplinary and concerned
with the past, the future, physical infrastructure and community structures.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 01 March 2018
Contact Email: conference@architecturemps.com
Comics Arts
Conference WonderCon
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200
word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or
historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting
of scholars and professionals at WonderCon in Anaheim, CA, March 23-25, 2018.
We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical
perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent
scholars. We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all
areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers,
retailers, distributors, and journalists. The CAC is designed to bring
together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historians to engage in
discussion of the comics medium in a forum that includes the public.
Proposals are due December 1, 2017, to our submission website at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BZ8XV9N or
by email to comicsartsconference@gmail.com.
Comics and the
Graphic Narrative: The Future of the Movement
August 5-7, 2018, Kent State University
This call for proposals seeks original, interdisciplinary
research in areas related to comics and graphic novels. Possible topics, as
related to the conference theme, include (but are not limited to): Cultural
constructions of comics and graphic novels; Reaching diverse readers via comics
and graphic novels; Historical perspectives on comics and graphic novels ;
Visual history/storytelling in comic books and graphic novels; Comics and
graphic novels as propaganda directed at youth ; The future of comics and graphic novels Political issues in
comics and graphic novels.
January 15, 2018: Deadline to submit abstracts
Curating Resistance:
Punk as Archival Method
February 9 - 10, 2018, University of California, Los Angeles
We invite submissions from all punk scholars, public
intellectuals, music writers, resistant historians, critical students, misfit
theorizers, queer thinkers, feminists, archivists, freaky writers, and anyone
interested in the ways in which punk’s resistant musical literacies are
protected, preserved, and circulated as well as the stakes of these practices.
Papers, or alternative format presentations, may address any aspect of
“curating resistance” and “punk as archival method,” such as punk identities
that have been made marginal--queer, trans, punks of color, disability, women,
among others--and expressive modes, intersectional oppression and inscriptive
methods of resistance, the politics of punk preservation, critical approaches
to punk media, dismantling white supremacy in archives or in punk, punk
pedagogies, hidden transcripts and markets, border/genre transcending and
crossing, resistant literacies and DIY genealogies, tensions between punk and
institutions, punk as a space for historical presence/presents and futurities,
and punk as space for the creation/maintenance of alternative genealogies,
unconventional families, and community dialogue.
Send email inquiries to Jessica Schwartz, conference
organizer and program committee chair, at schwartz@humnet.ucla.edu, and
Candace Hansen, conference and program logistics/community outreach, at candacelhansen@ucla.edu.
Please submit proposals via a single Word document [labeled
last name_first name.docx] to PunkUCLA2018@gmail.com by November 15,
2017
DEMOGRAPHIC,
ECONOMIC, AND SECURITY CHALLENGES IN AFRICA
Tennessee State University, April 5-6, 2018
In its 2017 world population report, the Population Division
of the United Nations indicated that half of the world’s population growth in
the world between now and 2050 will likely come from Africa, and that the most
populous country in Africa, Nigeria, will overtake the United States to become
the third-most populous country in the world by 2050. Even though Africa’s
population is expected to grow and its share of the world’s population is
anticipated to increase from 17% in 2017 to 26 % by 2050, the population will
grow slowly than in the past given substantial reductions in levels of
fertility. Despite such prospects, recent discussions on sustainable
development and demography place a lot of emphasis on the central role that
Africa is playing in determining the future size and distribution of the world
population and international migration flows/patterns.
This year’s conference will provide a platform for scholars
and other participants to critically examine, within a multidisciplinary
framework, contemporary African challenges pertaining to demographics,
economics, and national security.
Contact Email: aoyebade@tnstate.edu
Refusing to Fight:
Reimagining War in Global Perspectives
Violence and war play starring roles in historical research
and education. They are also rich fodder for film and television, and books
about war dominate the history sections of bookstores. Conflicts between and
within groups, nations, empires, and kingdoms reveal political tensions,
cultural divisions, social upheavals, and individual identities. This
conference will explore the myriad ways and reasons why people decide not to
fight, from the ideological and religious, to the personal and practical. It
will also assess how states, professions and populations have responded to
deserters or draft-dodgers and the extent to which perceptions,
representations, and the treatment of these men and women have changed over
time. By bringing together scholars who engage with alternative visions of
violence, war, heroism and manliness, we hope to gain a broader understanding
of how ‘refusing to fight’ has been experienced, studied, and remembered around
the globe, from Antiquity to the 21st century.
Please submit your proposal/abstract to the conference
organizers, at refusingtofight@gmail.com by December
31st, 2017.
Transnational
belonging and subjectivity-in-process: contemporary women artists’ encounters
with space
June 26 - 27, 2018, New York City
Current nation-state narratives and rising nationalisms
demand that we rethink notions of space and politics of access to space. We
live in a crisis in which we need to renegotiate and reframe the potential of
solidarity and cooperation. This session destabilises the politics of space to
consider ways in which female agency disrupts borders and activates concerns
around different forms of belonging, citizenship and transnationalisms. What is
the potential of common and ethical figurations of being, human and non-human?
The session acknowledges women’s generous encounters with
space and their commitment to decolonize spaces through solidarity, hospitality
and friendship. Contributions will signal transversal thinking and artmaking
that articulates ‘in-between’ and co-affective models of belonging and
questions current forms of citizenship and national subjectivity.
Paper proposals should include an abstract (max 500 words)
and short biography (max 250 words), and be sent to Basia Slwinska (b.sliwinska@fashion.art.ac.uk) and/
or Catherine Dormor (catherine.dormor@rca.ac.uk)
URL: http://www.christies.com/exhibitions/christies-education-conference-celebrating-female-agency-arts
Deadline: Dec 15, 2017
Making a Spectacle:
Audience and the Art of Engagement
Friday April 20, 2018, Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey
What is spectacle and how do we represent it? What is at
stake in these representations? How does spectacle operate in different spaces
and eras? For centuries, artists and critical thinkers have reflected on the
nature of spectacle and its role within society. In a famous philosophical
text, French theorist Guy Debord offered one possible definition, which
highlights the impact of visual culture on communal relations. His observation
remains equally relevant today, in a world saturated with images and
divertissements that clamor for our attention and influence the ways we
interact with each other.
Please send your abstract and a current CV to rutgersarthistorygradsymposium@gmail.com by
December 30, 2017.
Precarity and
Possibility: Imaginings of a New Academy
In the past two decades, scholarship in the humanities has
sought to redefine the boundaries of disciplinary work in order to expand the
ways we both produce and disseminate knowledge. The emerging field of
interdisciplinary humanities attempts to bridge established disciplines with
new modes of scholarly inquiry in order to account for the limitations of traditional
disciplinary work. The Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference
engages with this emerging field as one of the few interdisciplinary humanities
programs in the nation that is located at the University of California, Merced,
the first research university built in the U.S. in the 21st century. This
unique formation of humanities makes UC Merced an important site to engage in
discussion about precarity and possibility of the human, field formation, and
the role of the university.
Please submit 300 word abstracts for: individual papers,
presentation, poster, or panel proposals, along with a brief CV, or any
questions to: ihgradconference@ucmerced.edu.
The deadline to submit a proposal is December 15, 2017. The
conference will be held on March 16-17, 2018 at the University of California,
Merced. For more information visit: http://ihgradconference.ucmerced.edu.
Art, Design and Cultures
- Complexity and Contradiction – Conference
University of Arizona, Tucson, 22 – 23 February 2018
Today, Donald Trump promises investment in infrastructure,
China continues to urbanize and pollute, global cities are often surrounded by
slums. Alongside this, the arts and cultural industries seen as economic motors
and media representations of urban life continue to stigmatize and idealize in
equal measure. To understand the way we live in cities, towns and communities
today requires what Jane Rendell calls ‘critical spatial practice’ – critique
from different disciplines: the arts, cultural studies, social sciences and the
design sector – architecture, landscape design etc.
Abstracts due: 05 Dec 2017
Contact Email: info@architectturemps.com
Alter-Globalizations
Dominant narratives in today’s global sociopolitical
landscape reinforce a dichotomy between globalization and anti-globalization.
This dichotomy ignores not only the connections between these two poles as they
have emerged in the Global North but also the plethora of alternatives
formulated by communities and movements at the margins. Alter-Globalizations
foreground myriad imaginaries from below, presenting a host of possibilities
for another world.
This conference will be held March 2nd & 3rd 2018 at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Dangerous bodies -
Look out! Fashioned bodies on the boundaries.
Art & King's College, London.
5 – 7
April 2018
This panel explores the cultural intersection between
bodies, fashion and transgression. Bodies are political players in culture
- what role do fashioned bodies play in
resistance, in meeting governmental boundaries or institutional power? Fashion
is an aspect of modern warfare. Style can defend and attack in cultural space.
How do fashioned bodies occupy the grey area between social control and the
resistance to power? In relation to Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou’s idea
of the ‘performative in the political’ (2013) this session would like to
consider how fashioned bodies - which are ‘revolting’, ‘laughing’, ‘unruly’,
‘grotesque’, ‘contaminating’, explicit, or silent and still – enact resistant
strategies of protest.
Contact Email: j.m.willson@leeds.ac.uk
Please send 250 word abstract to the panel convenors by
deadline of Nov. 6th.
Borders and Borders
Walls, A New Era? (In)security, Symbolism, Vulnerabilities
September 27-28, 2018, Montreal, Quebec
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the following redefinition
of international relations were meant to open an age of globalization in which
states and sovereignty were to become obsolete and borders irrelevant. However,
in the wake of 9/11, borders came back into focus and new ones were drawn. With
this trend, border barriers, fences, and walls that were expected to be a
historical symbol of a collapsed bipolar system were erected at a pace that
defied all predictions. Many of them are armored, cemented, monitored, filmed,
and patrolled. In this new environment, walls, razor wire, sensors,
helicopters, barriers, (wo)men, border guards and drones have become the
accessories of hard borders in an open world, complemented and reinforced by
policies oriented towards the double movement of externalization and
internalization of borders and the hardening of visa and asylum policies.
Deadline for abstract submission: March 31, 2018
Contact Email: BordersandWalls@gmail.com
CUNY Games Conference
Game-based pedagogy uses some of the best aspects of
collaborative, active, and inquiry-based learning. With the growing maturity of
game-based learning in higher education, the focus has shifted from whether
games are appropriate for higher education to how games can be best used to
bring real pedagogical benefits and encourage student-centered education. The
CUNY Games Network is dedicated to encouraging research, scholarship and
teaching in this developing field. We aim to bring together all stakeholders:
faculty, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and game designers.
Questions? Get in touch at contactcunygames@gmail.com! Visit
our conference website as www.cunygames.org.
Proposals are due on November 1st, 2017.
PUBLISHING
Encyclopedia of
Sexism in American Cinema
This volume takes up the topic of sexism within American
Cinema from its early days of film production to the present. Covering over 400
entries that include films, producers, directors, actresses, actors, genres, as
well as conceptual and critical interpretations, the breadth and depth of this
volume will generate some highly significant material for both academics and
general audiences alike. The first of its kind—indeed there are no other
encyclopedias that cover this topic anywhere on the market—The Encyclopedia of
Sexism in American Cinema is a timely companion to the ever-growing field of
critical film studies.
The first deadline for contributor submissions will be 1
December 2017.
contact email: salvador.jimenez.murguia@gmail.com
Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the
21st Century
In the 21st century,
female authors have moved beyond the margins of male-authored texts to command
new spaces of prominence in the African literary canon. African women's
creative artistry has garnered critical acclaim through distinguished awards,
best-selling fiction and penetrating insight into women's experiences. Many
contemporary women writers share the distinction of living in the west, which
confers education and new and expanded opportunities along with paradoxical
realities of otherness. The essays in this volume will explore a range of themes
on all aspects of African women's writing from the diaspora.
250 word abstracts
and a 150-word biography are due by January 31, 2018
Contact Email: sackeyfior@wssu.edu
Barack Obama: Presidential Years, Impact and Legacy
The conclusion of
any presidential term presents an appropriate
time for assessment. We pose the question: What are legacies of the
Barack Obama administrations (2009-2017)? Eschewing the vulgarity of “pro–” and
“con–” analysis, we seek a balanced range of submissions. Seeking a “balanced
range of submissions,” we acknowledge our
responsibility to produce assessments that serve as “the judgement of
history” (Van Ranke, Theory and Practice of History, 1973). The UK Public
Records Office’s “thirty year rule” (1967) was founded on the assumption that
time and distance permit such assessments of history. At the same time, we
acknowledge such legal innovations as the Freedom of Information Act (1979),
and social developments such as twenty-first century “hacker culture” to permit
the “history of the present” which Walter Benjamin foresaw during the age of
radio (Illuminations, 1968).
Submissions should
include a 300 word abstract and a 2-page CV with full contact information. They
should be sent to obamalegacies@gmail.com before 30 November 2017.
Critique in the Trump
Era
The contentious campaign, election and presidency of Donald
Trump have yielded two inextricable phenomena. On one hand, readers across the
globe confront a daily onslaught of events, information and misinformation; on
the other, we have seen a similar glut of affective and politically active
responses and commentary—on both sides of the issue. This maelstrom of
information has overwhelmed traditional forms of scholarship that rely on time,
reflection, and hindsight to process. In this spirit, Contemporaries at Post45
is launching a series of atypical critical pieces that directly address this
moment of political turmoil and attendant questions about the public value of
intellectual work.
We invite short collaborative essays, dialogues, arguments,
creative critical works, and other forms of scholarship that emphasize
interdisciplinarity and build new coalitions both in and out of the academy.
We invite pieces of 1500-2500 words, with flexibility
depending on form, to be submitted on a rolling basis beginning in November
2017 with the goal of beginning publication in January 2018. Please email
submissions, with 1-2 sentence bios for each contributing author, to gwald@gwu.edu
and thomasdolan@gwu.edu.
Streetnotes 26: From
Above: The Practice of Verticality
Streetnotes is seeking submissions for 26th issue titled
“From Above: The Practice of Verticality.” Cities may be old or new, modern or
post-modern, global or not quite yet so. Cities are in fact increasingly
vertical, and verticality may be regarded as a universal asset: the higher (the
building, hill or mountain), the better (the view, for all purposes). In an
attempt to critically engage with a possibly arising culture of verticality, we
are interested in collecting a variety of contributions that explore the
experience and imagination attached to gaining a bird’s (or God’s) eye view.
Particularly, we aim at understanding how and in which ways the production
and/or consumption of verticality helps document the contemporary urban
experience.
Submit all articles through Streetnotes submission system,
by January 1st, 2018
email: jorgelabarre@id.uff.br, bmm202@nyu.edu
Hip Hop and Social
Justice
The goal of the volume is to document and analyze the ways
in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed,
promoted, or supported social justice challenges. This manuscript is soliciting
chapters that examine the relationships between Hip-Hop culture, political
engagement, and social justice work over the last four decades. This volume
will explore topics such as: Hip Hop and education, Hip Hop and the Black Lives
Matter movement, Hip Hop and mass incarceration and the prison industrial
complex, Hip Hop and electoral politics, Hip Hop and gender and sexuality, Hip
Hop and public policy, Hip Hop, race and racism and Hip Hop and social justice
globally.
Email either Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey at lbonnette@gsu.edu or Adolphus G. Belk,
Jr. at belka@winthrop.edu with
an abstract of 500 words or less of your proposed contributions and a brief
bio. All abstracts are due November 15, 2017.
Race and Revolution
Series
Age of
Revolutions invites submissions on the history of race and revolution.
We welcome posts (800-1200 words) on historical topics relating to race as
facilitating, mitigating, and/or limiting influence in revolutionary
experience. Put another way: How has race impacted revolutionary experience,
identity, and action?
Submissions on the American, French, Haitian, and Latin
American Revolutions are welcome as are posts on other revolutions too. Age of
Revolutions has organized similar series around issues like “Bearing
Arms in the Age of Revolutions,” “Sexing
Histories of Revolution,” and “(In)forming
Revolution: Information Networks in the Age of Revolution.”
Proposals are due by December 1, 2016.
Please send your pitch through the following link: https://ageofrevolutions.com/submissions/
Asia and
Globalization: Trends and Challenges
In collaboration with the , Asian Studies Minor
Program at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, NETSOL is pleased
to call for papers for a special issue (Spring 2018) on Asia with a
theme, Asia and Globalization: Trends and Challenges. This
special issue aims to attract papers from both the presenters at this symposium
and other scholars with research on this field. Scholars with research
consistent with this theme are encouraged to submit their papers for the
special issue on Asia.
Deadline to submit papers: February 15, 2018.
Contact Email: tamer.balci@utrgv.edu
Using Television’s Material Heritage
The medium of
television is responsible for a huge accumulation of redundant objects: old TV
sets and VTRs (and the tables to put them on), superseded production equipment
and software, videotape and film that is no longer useable. This raises various
questions, from practical to historiographical and methodological ones.
What are we to do
with this accumulation of objects, many of which are not easily recycled? How do we approach these objects as
historical records? What tools and research practices do we need to go beyond
the written cultures of television and address its non-discursive experiences?
How do we articulate historical narratives that may emerge out of television’s
non-discursive past? What histories do these objects tell, other than what’s already
been documented and preserved in written and audiovisual archives?
See www.viewjournal.eu for the current and back issues.
Contact Email: support@viewjournal.eu
FUNDING
Short-Term Library
Research Grants
Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library
offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the
research collections. These Library Research Grants, which have a value of up
to $4,000 plus transporations costs, are meant to help defray expenses incurred
in traveling to and residing in Princeton during the tenure of the grant. The
length of the grant will depend on the applicant’s research proposal, but is
ordinarily up to one month.
Prospective grantees are urged to consult the Library’s home
page at http://library.princeton.edu/ for
detailed descriptions of the collections.
Library Research Grants awarded in this academic year are
tenable from May 2018 to April 2019, and the deadline for applications is
January 31, 2018.
Robert H. Zieger
Prize for Southern Labor Studies
The Southern Labor Studies Association is currently
accepting submissions for the Robert H. Zieger Prize for Southern Labor
Studies. SLSA awards the Zieger Prize at the Southern Labor Studies Conference
for the best unpublished essay in southern labor studies written by a graduate
student or early career scholar, journalist, or activist. The Zieger Prize
includes a $500 award.
Contact Email: portiz@ufl.edu
Deadline: November 6, 2017
American Art Academic
Awards
Terra Foundation academic awards, fellowships, and grants
help scholars in the field of American art realize their academic and professional
goals and support the worldwide study and presentation of the historical art of
the United States. Award opportunities are listed at the following URL: https://www.terraamericanart.org/what-we-offer/grant-fellowship-opportunities/2018-terra-foundation-academic-awards-fellowships-grants/
Contact Email: grants@terraamericanart.org
Short-Term
Fellowships
Short-Term Fellowships provide opportunities for individuals
who have a specific need for the Newberry’s collection. Postdoctoral scholars,
PhD candidates, and scholars with terminal degrees who live and work outside of
the Chicago metropolitan area are eligible. Most fellowships are available for
one month with a stipend of $2,500 per month. Awardees may combine their
Newberry fellowship award with sabbatical funding or other stipendiary support.
The URL above lists the different fellowships available. All
appear to have a December 15 deadline.
Wolfsonian Fellowship
Program
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University is a museum
and research center that promotes the examination of modern visual and material
culture. The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is on North American and
European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic
design from the period 1850-1945. The United States, Great Britain, Germany,
Italy, and the Netherlands are the countries most extensively represented.
There are also smaller but significant holdings from a number of other
countries, including Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, the former Soviet
Union, and Hungary. The collection includes works on paper (including posters,
prints and design drawings), furniture, paintings, sculpture, glass, textiles,
ceramics, lighting and other appliances, and many other kinds of objects.
Applicants are encouraged to discuss their project with the
Fellowship Coordinator prior to submission to ensure the relevance of their
proposals to the Wolfsonian’s collection. For more information, visit https://www.wolfsonian.org/research-library/fellowships or
email to research@thewolf.fiu.edu.
Summer Graduate
Student Research Fellowships
Graduate Studies, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies,
Human Rights, Jewish History / Studies, Modern European History / Studies
The Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies is pleased to invite applications for Graduate
Student Research Fellows, designed for students accepted to or currently
enrolled in a master’s degree program or in their first year of a PhD program.
Students who have completed more than one year of doctoral work will not be
considered.
The Mandel Center welcomes applications from students in all
academic disciplines, including history, political science, literature, Jewish
studies, psychology, sociology, geography, and others. Students outside the
field of History are encouraged to apply.
Applications are due January 1, 2018.
email: SGRA@ushmm.org
International
Fellowship Program at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
The program supports projects that are directly related with
the diverse institutions and the rich collections of the Staatliche Museen zu
Berlin. The fellowships, which can be held to up to three months, allow
researchers to work on their individual projects and to establish professional
contacts at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The program aims to strengthen the
position of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in the international research
network and therefore specifically addresses scholars who do not reside in Germany.
The fellows will also gain the opportunity to participate in the academic and
cultural life at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Stiftung Preußischer
Kulturbesitz.
Deadline: December 31
Contact Email: forschung@smb.spk-berlin.de
URL: http://www.smb.museum/en/research/scholarship-programmes/international-scholarship-programme.html
Philip Jones
Fellowship for the Study of Ephemera
The Ephemera Society of America invites applications for the
Philip Jones Fellowship for the Study of Ephemera. This competition, now in its
eleventh year, is open to any interested individual or organization for the
study of any aspect of ephemera, defined as minor (and sometimes major)
everyday documents intended for one-time or short-term use.
Applications are due December 1, 2017.
Contact Email: jonesfellow@ephemerasociety.org
Jacob Rader Marcus
Center of the American Jewish Archives
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish
Archives is pleased to invite applications to its annual Fellowship Program for
the 2018-2019 academic year. The Marcus Center's Fellowship Program provides
recipients with month long fellowships for research and writing at The Jacob
Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, located on the Cincinnati
campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Applicants for
the Marcus Center Fellowship Program must be conducting serious research in
some area relating to the history of North American Jewry. Typically, Marcus
Center Fellowships will be awarded to post-doctoral candidates, Ph.D.
candidates who are completing dissertations, and senior or independent
scholars.
Contact Email: dherman@huc.edu
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship
The Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship provides access to
the Newberry’s collection for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars. This
fellowship is open to applicants in all areas of study appropriate to the
library’s collection. Preference will be given to those working in the early
modern period or Renaissance, as well as in English history, legal history, or
European history.
Short-Term
Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates,
and those who hold other terminal degrees. Short-Term Fellowships are generally
awarded for 1 to 2 months; unless otherwise noted the stipend is $2,500 per
month. These fellowships support individual scholarly research for those who
have a specific need for the Newberry's collection and are mainly restricted to
individuals who live and work outside of the Chicago metropolitan area. The
deadline for short-term opportunities is December 15.
Contact Email: research@newberry.org
Lemelson Center
Fellowships and Travel Grants
Through its fellowships and travel grants, the Lemelson
Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation supports research projects
that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in
American society. Projects may include (but are not limited to) historical
research and documentation projects resulting in dissertations, publications,
exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia
products. The URL below lists several different fellowship opportunities.
Contact Email: hintze@si.edu
Applications Due: 1
December 2017
Jefferson Studies Fellowships
Short-term
fellowships are awarded for one or more months, and open to academics from any
country, subject to selection by committee.
Successful applicants will be working on Jefferson-related projects.
Priority is given to Jefferson-related projects using the Digital Archeological
Archive of Comparative Slavery or Getting Word.
Fellows are expected
to be in residence at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson
Studies (ICJS), where they will have access to Monticello's expert staff and
research holdings at the Jefferson Library as well as those of the University
of Virginia.
Application
deadlines are November 1 and April 1.
WORKSHOPS
Urban Utopias:
Memory, Rights, and Speculation
21 February 2018, 9-17, Utrecht University
Utopia articulates dreams of a better life and anticipations
of the future; as social dreaming, utopia combines communal and imaginative
experimentation. Reconfigurations of the past often help to constitute utopian
urban visions of the future. A
heuristic, speculative, mobile approach to cultural texts (literature, film,
art, other texts) capturing these phenomena can help us understand better the
shifting layers and many kinds of movements, in the plural sites of the urban, in an uneven, globalized world and
earlier in the colonial and precolonial periods. We are looking for papers that
focus on Asia or Europe or both and allow for a comparative approach with a
focus that could be on any aspects of the intersection of utopia, memory, and
the urban. Rights (human, environmental and animal) and the domain of
speculative arts (science fiction, dystopia, utopia) are also relevant subjects
in this workshop.
Please send abstracts of 300 words and a biographical note
of the same length (for the workshop digital brochure) by 15 November 2017 to B.Bagchi@uu.nl.
