CONFERENCES
Sartorial
Representations of the African Diaspora
London College of Fashion, London, UK, Friday 4th May 2018
This, CIAD’s first dress conference of the African Diaspora,
seeks to understand how African Diaspora communities came to be visually
represented or have developed the agency to represent themselves and establish
their identities through clothing and adornment.
Colonial textbooks have suggested that people on the
continent of Africa, had little in the way of material or sartorial culture,
with which to distinguish themselves and certainly nothing to rival the
elegance of Europe. It is fair to say that not only has historic style and
culture coming out of Africa been of the merit and quality on a par with
Europe, but that oftentimes what has come out of the continent has been of such
total opposite to the considerations of Europe that the eminence has been
unrecognisable by historical westernised anthropologists and writers.
Contact Email: conference@ciad.org.uk
The deadline for submissions is Friday17th November 2017.
Re(crossing) Borders:
Mobility and Migration in Contemporary Literature and Art
Chicago, IL, ARCH 28-30, 2018
As we come closer to the beginning of the third decade of
the twenty-first century, the lives of millions of people have been shaped by
the experiences of mobility and migration. For the first time in human history,
all continents are involved in the mass movements of people. This panel
(symposium) attends to the critical moment with a specific focus on the
emerging interactions between Europe and the world shaping new forms of
literature and the arts, theories and criticism. An evolving, rich body of
contemporary “mobile” and ex(tra)territorial literature and art seeks to
explore and reflect on the new dialogic dynamics between and across cultures in
Europe as well as throughout the world. This symposium seeks to have three
panels with three speakers each and a final roundtable with all participants
focusing on the development of recent theoretical reflections on mobility and
migration.Please send proposals to Gisela Brinker-Gabler, gbrinker@binghamton.edu and Nicole
Shea, nshea@msmc.edu, by October 8, 2017.
Sewing Reality:
Fashion in Non-Fiction Media
June 9th, 2018, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK
This interdisciplinary symposium wants to fill this vacuum
and excavate and reassess the role of non-fiction media in shaping our
understanding of fashion across multiple platforms and different national
contexts. The event aims to create an open space for dialogue between fashion
and documentary studies, drawing from different methodologies and approaches:
media and cultural studies, ethnography, audience research, marketing and
public relations.
Deadline for proposals: 5th January 2018.
For queries and submissions, email Dr Elena Caoduro, Elena.Caoduro@beds.ac.uk
30th Annual
Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference
We invite research projects among a broad spectrum of
topics. Employment of traditional ethnographic and qualitative research
projects provides the common thread for conference papers. Proposals will be
peer-reviewed among three strands: Results of qualitative and ethnographic
research studies, qualitative research methods, and pedagogical issues in
qualitative research.
Proposal Submission deadline is November 19, 2017.
Contact Email: eqrc@cedarville.edu
URL: http://www.eqrc.net
International
Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora
July 2-6, 2018, Nairobi, Kenya
The future of African people is in Africa and beyond. This conference seeks to capture Africa's
process of innovating the future for itself based on a progressive embrace of
what Africa is: young, productive,
optimistic, and endowed in a state of transformation that is not only confident
about itself but also unapologetic about its global outlook. Africa is moving beyond its historical
tribulations and assertions of its greatness to a more conscious and dynamic
agency for itself and its future. In
this reconfiguration, it is creating an enabling setting for African
innovations and sustainable development as well as domestic, global, and
diaspora transformations that seek to capture this growing agency.
USIU's website: http://www.usiu.research/conferences.
Contact Email: cveney@usiu.ac.ke
The deadline to submit abstract proposals is February 15,
2018.
In Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/335819/motion-performance-and-unsettling-borders
Northwestern University, April 27-29, 2018
How do borders echo and reverberate as cultural geographies,
unsettling space and forcing bodies to move, to organize, and to perform? How
do performers and scholars account for and navigate their bordered existence,
when traversing them can regularly (re)produce the conditions for both
precarious and secure living? What conditions arise amongst bodies, boundaries,
and the spaces there in between? The 2018 Department of Performance Studies
Graduate Student Conference, In Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders,
invites graduate students—practitioners and scholars—to generate dialogue and
debate by coming together around artistic work and interdisciplinary thinking.
Please submit all proposals, and any questions to, inmotion2018@gmail.com. For more
information, please visit our website: https://sites.northwestern.edu/inmotion
The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2017
Toward the Building
of a New Africa
March 29-31, 2018, University of West Georgia, Carrollton,
Georgia
This 22nd Annual Conference of the African Studies and
Research Forum (ASRF) invites participants to present papers on ways to build a
new Africa by addressing past, present, and future issues pertaining to the
African continent, people of African descent, institutions in the continent and
the Diaspora, and relationships between Africa and other countries and regions
around the world. The conference seeks to bring together researchers from
around the globe and from various disciplines to take stock of current research
and foster communication across approaches to the study of Africa. In keeping
with the spirit of diversity, we welcome abstracts for individual papers and
colloquia that engage with various topical and theoretical foci, types and
sources of data, methodological questions, and practical applications.
Contact Email: asrf2018bangura@gmail.com
The proposal submission deadline is December 22, 2017
Conference on Romance
Languages and Literatures
April 6-7, 2018
Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit
abstracts for papers dealing with all areas and aspects of Romance Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures. Proposals on Film, Popular Culture, Cultural
Studies, Creative Writing, Digital Humanities, and Non-canonical approaches to
literature are especially welcome.
Please email all abstracts to cinciconf@gmail.com
URL: http://www.ccrll.com
Deadline for submission: January 15, 2018
Apparition: the
(im)materiality of modern surface
Friday 9 March 2018, De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K.
This one-day symposium examines the contemporary fascination
with the surfaces, surveying the (im)material surface qualities of our everyday
environment. It brings together scholars and practitioners from a range of
disciplines—creative arts and design, architecture, performance, cultural
studies, anthropology, sociology, history, literary studies and social studies
of science and technology—to discuss the construction, dissolution and
deconstruction of the surface.
If the everyday surface can be regarded as a site for the
projection and display of psychical, cultural, social, and political values,
what is the implication of the dissolving surface? How does the (im)materiality
of surface affect our experience of the body, self and society today? What is
our attitude towards these surface qualities? In what forms does surface
materiality exist in the virtual age? What kind of moral, functional, aesthetic
values does the surface conceal or reveal?
Please send an abstract (400 words max.) with a brief
profile (150 words max. to apparition9march2018@gmail.com with ‘Abstract
submission: Apparition’ in the subject line, using the Submission
Form (download HERE). The Call
closes on 1 December 2017.
THE VESEY CONSPIRACY
at 200: BLACK ANTISLAVERY and the ATLANTIC WORLD
In preparation for a volume of essays to commemorate the
200th anniversary of the “Denmark Vesey Conspiracy” of 1822, the Carolina
Lowcountry in the Atlantic World Program (CLAW) at the College of Charleston
will hold a small conference on enslaved and free black anti-slavery, February
8-10, 2019.
Known to scholars mainly as a conspiracy of Carolina slaves,
the “Denmark Vesey Conspiracy” also ensnared free black people and should be
treated as a part of the broader black anti-slavery movement. Some of the
rebels were aware of the Missouri Compromise debates over slavery. They
compared Carolina whites to those national leaders who they thought wanted to
end slavery. Some of the rebels were aware of the Sierra Leone colony of freed
slaves and probably had known free and enslaved people who emigrated there in
1821. Some were aware of revolutionary Haiti. Some were born in Africa. In the
truest sense, there were African, American, and Atlantic dimensions to the 1822
rebels’ organizing.
To propose a paper, send a CV and a 250 word abstract to
James O’Neil Spady (jspady@soka.edu) by
January 8, 2018.
Food & Middle
Eastern Diasporas Conference
April 5-7, 2018 at the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for
Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University
Middle Eastern cuisines seem to have been suspended in time
in popular imagination and culture. Yet nothing could be farther from the
truth. Since the arrival in North America between 1890 and 1920 of the first
wave of Middle Eastern diasporas, cuisines that originated in the cities and
villages of the Eastern Mediterranean have undergone spectacular
transformations in their evolution both within the Middle East and beyond – in
Argentina, Australia, Canada, Mexico and the U.S. At the same time, nostalgia,
longing and post-traumatic stress have reshuffled the role of food in Middle
Eastern identity(ies). The social contexts of these cuisines – in terms of
their significance in memory, oral histories, intergenerational transmission of
cultural identities and tourist promotion—have also shifted or diversified over
the decades.
Emails may be sent to akhater@ncsu.edu
The deadline for receipt of paper proposals is Friday,
November 3, 2017
Class at the Border:
Migration, Confinement, and (Im)mobility
The Center for the Study of Inequality and Social Justice at
Stony Brook University is pleased to announce they will be hosting the 2018
Working-Class Studies Association conference on the campus of Stony Brook
University from June 6-9, 2018.
Against the backdrop of globalization, where capital flows
across borders more easily than people, we are living in increasingly
walled-off societies. The conference theme, Class at the Border: Migration,
Confinement, and (Im)mobility, explores how an explicit recognition of class
can deepen our understanding of the structures and ideas that divide
individuals, communities, societies, and nations across the globe.
Presentations for this conference will consider how walls, borders, and other
dividing lines--of both the material and figurative variety--are constructed,
upheld, resisted, and dismantled.
Submit proposals as an e-mail attachment and any inquiries
about the conference to wcsa2018@gmail.com
Proposals must be received by December 15, 2017
Rethinking
Transformation
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, 7-8 March 2018.
The purpose of this two-day international conference is to
bring together a range of scholars to hear and discuss a selection of papers
related to the multi-dimensional nature of transformation. This will not only
engage with different ways in which ‘transformation’ has been thought, but, in
so doing, also bring us to question whether these two historically dominant
conceptions of it are sufficient. We welcome papers that broach the topic from
a variety of angles, perspectives, and figures, but are especially interested
in papers that deal with it in relation to post-Kantian thinking, because it is
here that the most sustained and radical engagement with this issue is found.
Those interested in presenting a paper should send a 300
word abstract, including name and institutional affiliation, to rethinkingtransformation@uc3m.esby
the 30th November 2017. The language of the conference is
English and attendance will be free. More information can be found at the
conference website: https://rethinkingtransformation.wordpress.com/
Supply and Command:
Encoding Logistics, Labor, and the Mediation of Making
Supply and Command is a two day conference hosted by New
York University’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, April
19th-20th, 2018, featuring a keynote address from Deborah Cowen and Carolina
Bank Muñoz. We invite scholars, writers, artists, and activists to submit
papers organized around the logic of the supply chain from the perspective of
communication and media studies, media history, and media anthropology.
Contact Email: hock@nyu.edu
Interested participants should submit a brief abstract no
later than December 1st, 2017 at https://supplystudies.com/supply-and-command/
War and Imprisonment
The one-day conference will be held at the Graduate Center
of the City University of New York on Friday, May 11, 2018. The capture and
confinement of human beings has been—and remains—a central feature of warfare
and periods of mass violence both within and between nation-states and among
non-state actors. Prisoners apprehended
and held during times of conflict—whether military or political—have been both
blessing and curse to their keepers.
While often valued as cheap labor and lucrative bargaining chips, the
high costs—economic, social, political, and environmental—associated with mass
imprisonment continue to challenge even the best organized bureaucratic
states. This conference seeks to explore
these historical and contemporary dynamics across geographic time and space.
Individual paper proposals of no more than 300 words and a
short CV should be sent to Clarence (Jeff) Hall (chall@qcc.cuny.edu) and Sarah
Danielsson (sdanielsson@gc.cuny.edu) no
later than December 15, 2017.
Women in the Wake of
May 68: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Postgraduate Conference
16 May 2018, King’s College London
One of the largest mass movements in French history, May 68
represented the culmination of a rejection of the established moral order. This
period of civil unrest is often considered the cultural, social, and moral
turning point in postmodern society. While the events of May 68 have garnered
much academic attention, there has been little discussion of how the event
affected the status of French women in the years directly following, especially
how this is represented in the culture-at-large in film, literature and the
arts. We invite postgraduate students researching topics related to the history
or representation of French women in the aftermath of May 68 to apply,
including those from Art, Art History, Cultural Studies, Fashion, Film, French,
History, Literature, Philosophy and Women & Gender Studies departments.
Interested postgraduate students should submit a proposal
for a 20-minute paper to WomenAfterMay68@kcl.ac.uk by
12 February 2018.
The Great Transition
- Setting the Stage for a Post-Capitalist Society
17-20th May 2018 at Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec,
Canada
After years of revolt and mobilization following the
economic crisis of 2008, from Occupy Wall Street to Bernie Sanders, from the
Maple Spring through Nuit Debout (and without forgetting the tragic backlash
aimed at Syriza) to the complex evolution of the Pink Tide in Latin America and
the democratic socialism of Rojava, the domination of the capitalist economy
has been questioned on numerous occasions. In order to pass from multiple
resistances to a convergent offensive, it seems imperative to elaborate a real
project of transition out of capitalism, building on the critical knowledge
produced both at the university and in social movements.
For the conference The Great Transition: Setting the Stage
for a Post-Capitalist Society we invite everyone to reflect on this question
along one of our three general lines of inquiry: critiques of capitalism,
anti-capitalist transition strategies and post-capitalist models
Contact Email: info@thegreattransition.net
deadline: November 15, 2017
International
Graduate Historical Studies Conference
Central Michigan University in 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.
Preference will be given to papers and panels received
during the early submission period which ends For more information visit us at www.ighsc.info or e-mail histconf@cmich.edu
December 17, 2017. The final deadline for submission is
February 11, 2018.
Quality and
Affordability in Education
Thursday and Friday, March 8-9, 2018
Teaching Matters is celebrating its sixteenth annual
interdisciplinary conference in 2018 at Gordon State College on its main campus
(Barnesville, Georgia).
Presentations/discussions will focus on innovative and creative pedagogical
methods, approaches to various texts and/or concepts, and theories. The
conference is open to all of those who have a passion for pedagogy; conference
presentations are designed so that educators can share ideas and strategies
that promote student success, student engagement, and active learning. "Quality
and Affordability in Education" provides a broad platform for educators to
share innovative ways they provide quality affordable education. Of course, we also encourage proposals not
directly related to the theme.
All proposals are due January 5, 2018. Direct any
questions to the CETL Director, Dr. Anna Higgins-Harrell at a_higgins@gordonstate.edu. Send completed individual and panel proposals
to TeachingMatters@gordonstate.edu.
Broadcasting health
and disease. Bodies, markets and television, 1950s-1980s
The conference will be held on 19-21 February 2018, at
Wellcome Trust, London.
The three-day conference aims to investigate how television
programmes in their multiplicity approached issues like medical progress and
its limits, healthy behaviour or new forms of exercise by adapting them to TV
formats and programming. We are interested in the history of health on
television, which cannot be written without consideration of the history of
television itself.
Throughout the age of television health and body-related
subjects have been presented and diffused into the public sphere via a multitude
of forms, ranging from short films in health education programmes to school
television, from professional training to TV ads, from documentary and reality
TV shows to TV news, but also as complementary VHS and similar video formats
circulating in private and public spheres.
Please send proposals (a short CV and an abstract or outline
of 500 words) by 1 November 2017 to tkoenig@unistra.fr.
Animal Ethics and
Animal Law
22 - 25 July, 2018, St Stephen’s House, University of Oxford
Papers are invited from academics worldwide on topics
relating to animal law, animal ethics, and the relation between the two. We
welcome a variety of perspectives that have bearing on this relationship,
including philosophical and religious ethics, historical, anthropological,
psychological, scientific, psychological, and sociological perspectives.
Our particular focus is on how law can affect positive
change for animals, including the motivations and strategies for achieving
legal reform and issues involving the administration, enforcement and
effectiveness of existing legislation. We welcome perspectives from ethicists,
legal scholars, barristers and solicitors, law enforcers, anti-cruelty
inspectors, politicians, and opinion formers.
Abstracts of proposed contributions (no more than 300 words)
should be sent to Clair Linzey via email: depdirector@oxfordanimalethics.com.
The deadline for abstracts is 1 January 2018.
Chicano/a Literature,
Film, and Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
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.
All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s
database at http://conference.southwestpca.org/.
If you have any questions about the Chicano/a
Literature, Film, and Culture area, please contact its Area Chair, Dr.
Lupe Linares, College of St Scholastica, llinares@css.edu.
Proposal submission deadline: October 22, 2017
African American
Intellectual History Society
I am seeking collaborators for a panel at the 3rd annual
meeting of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) , to be
held March 30-31, 2018 at Brandeis University, as well as the 2019 Organization
of American Historians (OAH) conference, to be held April 4-6, 2019 in
Philadelphia. I plan to present my research on African American women who
participated in the movement against child sex abuse, specifically the
educational tactics developed by black women to breach the topic of sexual
abuse in the black community while avoiding carceral discourses. The Call for
Papers for each conference can be found here:
http://www.aaihs.org/cfp/.
Please forward any inquiries to caitlin.wiesner@rutgers.edu no
later than October 16, 2017.
PUBLISHING
Sacred Matters
Magazine
Established in 2014 at Emory University, Sacred Matters is a
web magazine of public scholarship that undercuts conventional understandings
of religion and reimagines the boundaries between religion and culture. We are
always looking for contributors wanting to reach a popular audience with
original ideas in a blog article format. We accept articles from graduate
students, emerging scholars, and senior faculty.
With a range of blogs and websites dedicated to religion
flourishing online right now, Sacred Matters has a unique place among its peer
publications. Sacred Matters features articles and commentaries that bring
often excluded conversations about religion, spirituality, sacred beings, and
the sacred things of society to the fore. The scope of topics is expansive but
culture-bound, ranging from science to popular culture; theology to sexuality;
health and healing to the Internet. Sacred Matters is flexible enough for both
amusing side projects and material directly related to dissertations or book
projects.
Contact Email: sacredmatters@emory.edu
Feminist Protests
Cultivate is an annual, open-access
journal based in the University of York at the Centre for Women’s Studies. For
this special issue, we are interested in investigating the ways in which we can
come together, to persist, resist and rise. Now we ask how we can harness the
current political momentum to re-energise existing forms of political activism
and cultivate new and radical approaches to old threats re-imagined. How can we
unite across borders to tear down walls–physical, political, cultural, and social–faster
than they can build them? We accept academic essays as well as cultural
commentary and creative work. Both academics and non-academics are encouraged
to submit material, in all mediums of art and critical thought, including but
not limited to essays, photo essays, poetry, videos, podcasts.
Please email submissions by 1st
November 2017
On the Precipice of Parenthood:
Narratives of Pregnancy, Conception, and Birth
In this interdisciplinary anthology, we’ll use a wide
spectrum of perspectives to support an intersectional approach to
parenthood—how maternity is affected by class, race, and gender
identity—honoring that it can look different from culture to culture. We will
accept a range of academic topics as well as creative genres. Ideally, we would
include personal essays/creative nonfiction, fictional prose, and interviews
that work within the topic of identity and motherhood. Finally, we are
committed to using gender-inclusive language in this collection by using words
such as pregnant “person” or “parenthood” when appropriate.
Email: info@demeterpress.org
250-word abstracts plus 50-word biography due by: November
1, 2017
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 November 3, 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/.
Contact Email: pivot@yorku.ca
Teaching with Digital Humanities
The Faculty Academy
on Excellence in Teaching is issuing this Call For Papers seeking contributions
for a new edited collection entitled Quick Hits: Teaching with Digital
Humanities to be published by Indiana University Press. Teaching with Digital
Humanities aims to introduce faculty, administrators, and staff to ways in
which digital techniques from the arts, humanities, and social sciences can be
incorporated in the classroom at the undergraduate and graduate level to
enhance learning and professional development experiences for students and
faculty alike.
To learn more about
the project, please contact co-editors Christopher Young (cjy@iun.edu) and Emma Annette
Wilson (eawilson8@ua.edu).
Please submit
your proposal by October 28, 2017.
Toward an Ecopoetics of Randomness and Design
For this Special
Focus section of Ecozon@, we invite scholars from across disciplines to
investigate how ecopoetics manifests not only in poetry, but also in genres
different from poetry, as well as in other products of human creativity such as
architecture or landscaping. In addition, we would like contributors to discuss
and share their perspectives on the role that the principles of randomness and
design play in ecopoetics’ exploration of the complex relationship between
artifice and the natural environment in and beyond writing.
Please direct any
queries to Franca Bellarsi (fbellars@ulb.ac.be)
and Judith Rauscher (judith.rauscher@uni-bamberg.de).
Manuscripts of 6000-8000 words may be submitted via the journal platform as
early as 15 May 2018 and no later than 15 July 2018.
The Global Vampire on Page and Stage
Call for chapters: Proposals
will be considered from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including
literary studies, film studies, and comics studies. The global popularity of
the cinematic vampire goes beyond the usual Anglo-American suspects, and this
collection would like to open up for discussion, analysis, and sharing those
texts that are rather farther afield in American scholarship. The goal is to
read the figure of the vampire in popular culture through a global perspective
and across media.
Contact Email: cait.coker@gmail.com
Proposal deadline:
December 1, 2017
ANAFORA journal – Call for Papers
Anafora, an
international journal published by the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences, University of Osijek, invites contributions for the upcoming special
issue 4.1 on theory, criticism, and pedagogy of adaptation and the 2018 issues
5.1 and 5.2. The journal seeks
to advance the development of research in literature by addressing diverse
literary and interdisciplinary perspectives and promoting high-quality
scientific work. The primary editorial goal of the journal is to create a forum
for scholars and professionals that will foster a dialogue in the fields of
literature and related disciplines and provide a common ground for productive
knowledge exchange.
Contact Email: anafora@ffos.hr
The final deadline
for issue 4.1 is November 1, 2017. Submission deadlines for issues 5.1 and 5.2
are March 1 and September 30, 2018, respectively.
Furthering, nurturing and futuring Global Art Histories?
‘Art history’ as we
know it in the west is traditionally closely linked to its institutions. In
various essays, American art historian Donald Preziosi has stressed the
inextricable relations between art history, museography, and the modern
nation-state. Art history needed archives to depart from; the museum provided
such archives, and both added luster to the collective imagination of the
nation-state based on the fabrication of a national (Christian) cultural past. In
recent decades, it has slowly become clear that such an art history coincided
with the selective appropriation, downplaying, negation and ‘othering’ of
artistic cultures that do not fit in such a constellation. Aware of its own limitations as an ‘academic
journal’, despite its own legacy, and despite the particular blindnesses and
biases resulting from the privileged subject positions occupied by both the
editorial board and the guest editor for this issue, the question Kunstlicht
wants to ask is: where to go with art history/ies, and how?
Proposals (200-300
words) with attached résumés can be submitted until November 24, 2017 via redactie@tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl.
Deadline proposals:
26 November 2017
Encyclopedia of Racial Violence
Graduate students,
faculty and other practitioners in relevant humanities and social science
fields are invited to submit entries for the tentatively titled
"Encyclopedia of Racial Violence in America." If interested, please
contact Douglas Flowe (racial.violence.encyclopedia@gmail.com) to inquire about the list of essay topics
still available before DECEMBER 1, 2017.
Interracial Families in the U.S. South, post-Loving;
edited volume
We are looking for
contributions to an edited volume on interracial (black/white) families in the
U.S. South, post-Loving (1967). We welcome scholarly articles
(historically-based; Chicago-style annotation) as well as works of memoir or
creative nonfiction. While we use as a starting point the LovingSupreme
Court case, which struck the remaining state anti-miscegenation laws in the
U.S., we seek work that views interracial families' experience over the past
fifty years through a wide lens. Topics might include, but are certainly not
limited to, the experiences of interracial couples or families in residential
communities - urban, suburban, or rural; in educational, workplace, religious,
or recreational settings; in relationship to friends and extended family; in
interaction with various societal institutions and sites of authority (e.g.,
legal and law enforcement, political, social service, medical, military, etc.);
and in communities of self-identification, affiliation, activism, or
solidarity. Please send queries, proposals, or manuscripts to Kellie Buford (kbuford@astate.edu) or Lauri Umansky (lumansky@astate.edu); orginal, never-published work only,
please.
Unwatchable Scenes, Unhappy Spectators: A New Imperative
of Representation
A Special Issue of
Asian
The historical
moment of whiteness is totally unwatchable. This special issue aims to capture
the new relations of ethics and pleasure between people of color that this
unbearability incites. We wish to explore other ways of connecting with figures
of racial others not dependent upon an inextricable linkage to whiteness. Yet
we are also intent on considering how “positive” images or claims to
self-representation do not always solve the problem of whiteness’s seemingly
indelible imprint or the messiness of spectatorial visual pleasure. Thus, how
can we theorize bad aesthetics as outwardly unwatchable while theorizing
representations that are inwardly impossible to watch due to the political
traumas they induce and inadequate satisfaction they supply? Diasporic Visual
Cultures and the Americas. With this special issue, we hope to formulate a
practice of the unwatchable that turns away from the screen but does not turn
away from the new opportunities for resistance, critique, and desire in this
new era of looking relations.
Submit your papers by December 1, 2017 here: www.editorialmanager.com/adva/default.aspx
For more info on ADVA: www.brill.com/products/journal/asian-diasporic-visual-cultures-and-americas
Post-Colonial Nostalgia
During the Rio
Olympic Games of 2016 a conservative British MP tweeted a map of the British
Empire along with the words “Empire goes for gold.” This is only one example of
how recent events have prompted some in the west to recall tropes and
narratives of empires with a sense of longing for a supposedly better past. The
British vote in favor of “Brexit” along with the French presidential election’s
debate on how to unconditionally love the French past highlighted the enduring
power of imperialist discourse and the contentious politics of the ways in
which empire is remembered and invoked. In some European instances similar
tropes permeate the longings of the once-colonized as well as the former
colonizer.
The special issue of
the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies “On post-colonial
nostalgia” seeks to explore the relationship between contemporary history and
the melancholy of empire, the specificities of this type of remembering, the
position of who remembers vis-à-vis imperial and colonial administrations, and
the modalities of remembrance.
Manuscripts of c.
5,000 words and following MLA guidelines for formatting should be submitted by
November 1st 2017 according to the Journal’s guidelines
at http://jcpcsonline.com/submissions.html.
Simon Lewis, English
Department, College of Charleston, LewisS@cofc.edu
Giusi Russo, History
Department, Montgomery County Community College, grusso@mc3.edu
Food Fights: A Global
Perspective
Over the past three decades, scholars and activists engaged
in agriculture, food systems, and consumerism have demonstrated food’s
significance to the human experience, particularly during the modern epoch. The
subject of food provides scholars with an attractive interpretive lens for
examining the dynamics of globalization and transnationality by shedding light
on a wide range of hitherto unexamined processes and diverse political,
economic, and cultural relationships. This volume of Zapruder World will focus
on how the production, distribution, and consumption of food—as well as its
scarcity—have assisted or resisted the spread of state and commercial power in
an increasingly “globalized” marketplace. We call for studies which move beyond
the utilization of food as a proxy for analyzing (inter)national political or
economic relationships, focusing indstead on food’s contributions to the
construction of global commercial or imperial systems and the ways in which
global power dynamics have engendered forms of popular mobilization and
resistance via food, food systems, and food cultures.
Abstracts in English (300-600 words) shall be sent to submissions@zapruderworld.org by January
15, 2018.
Contact Email: info@zapruderworld.org
Displaced Peoples
The Journal of
Internal Displacement is calling for papers to be published in its Law and
Society’s Collaborative Research Network (CRN 11 – Displaced Peoples) Special
Issue in January 2018. Papers must be submitted no later than by 31 October
2017.
Contact Email: internaldisplacement@gmail.com
Genders, sexualities, and museums
In the years since
the first reader’s appearance, a great deal about the world has changed – while
other aspects remain surprisingly static - and museums have followed suit. In
the world of museums, sex, sexuality, and gender have, arguably, become more
visible in certain quarters; scholars, museum practitioners, and activists are
sparking new conversations on these topic all the time. Thus, it seems like the
perfect time to compile another collection of essays which grapple with the
complexities, frustrations, and successes of authentically and respectfully
representing and interrogating gender and sexuality in contemporary museum
practice.
Articles must be
submitted in MS Word format together with abstracts and high-resolution images,
either through email or Dropbox. Due to the cost of subventions, we will be
able to use only a very limited number of photographs. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Contact Email: jadair1@murraystate.edu
Close Encounters in War
Wars in general are
cultural phenomena, among the most ancient and deeply rooted aspects of human
cultural evolution: investigating their meaning, by reflecting on the ways we
experience wars and conflicts as human beings is therefore essential. Conflict
is deeply intertwined with language, culture, instincts, passions, behavioural
patterns and with the human ability to represent concepts aesthetically. The
concept of “encounter” is therefore fundamental as it involves experience, and
as a consequence it implies the idea that the fact of encountering war shapes
and develops our minds and affects our behaviour, questioning habits and
values, prejudices and views of the world.
For the launch issue
(n. 0) of Close Encounters in War we invite articles which investigate
irregular and asymmetric conflicts from ancient times to modern and
contemporary periods, reaching beyond the study of military tactics and
strategy and focusing on the way human beings ‘encounter’ with and within this
type of armed conflict.
Contact Email: simona.tobia@closeencounters.com
The editors of Close
Encounters in War invite the submission of 3-500 words abstracts in English by
15th November 2017.
SCREENS: The
Candidate Journal, Issue 8 CFP
We live in a society of screens, where spectacle is made
miniature and mobile, where the eye is under constant assault—in the bedroom,
at the kitchen table, in the subway, in the classroom, in the consulting
room. Our forthcoming issue seeks to
critically and creatively probe this assault by asking: how are we to
understand both what a screen is and the roles it plays in contemporary
life? In what ways do digital mnemonics
interfere or aid in shaping unconscious fantasy and how have they altered the
very structures of memory and subjectivity?
What does psychoanalysis offer such investigations?
With the understanding that psychoanalytic theory relies a
good deal on perspectives external to its own frame, for this issue we solicit
the views not only of analysts and analysts-in-training, but also writers,
analysands, artists, and academics working in other fields. We invite 300-350 word proposals for projects
focusing on a particular question having to do with the contemporary screen.
Contact Email: info@thecandidatejournal.org
Proposals of 300-350 words are due on October 15
Organized Labor
The Activist History Review invites proposals for articles
that address the theme of “organized labor” to be featured in the November
issue.
Journalists, political candidates, and policymakers have of
late devoted much attention to the rural and white segments of the “working
class,” but have focused mainly on aspects of political culture. Few in the
national conversation make the overt connection between workers’ shrinking
shares of the economic pie and the decline in union membership and rise in
anti-union legislation nationally. The economic future of the United States and
its workers is directly affected by the present state of organized labor.
Unions’ historical role in the development of the modern American economy
illustrates the symbiotic relationship between economic growth and expanded
workers’ rights. TAHR seeks essays that explore the current state and future of
organized labor with a historical lens.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words for articles from
1250-2000 words, and should be emailed to William Horne at horne.activisthistory@gmail.com
by Friday, October 13, at 11:59PM.
Radical Histories of
Sanctuary
The Radical History Review seeks submissions on the concept
of sanctuary. We are interested in work that converses with current discussions
across fields and historicizes the concept’s lineages within religious,
political, and legal histories and in relation to social movements that have
contested (and have been persecuted for contesting) governmental and
non-governmental violence. What does it mean–and what has it meant–to evoke the
term “sanctuary”? While sanctuary’s significance has been raised in the context
of contemporary immigrant activism, it encompasses a longer history that can be
traced back centuries across geographic areas in service of widely distinct
groups.
This issue seeks to think through the connections and
dissonances of sanctuary by examining the deep histories of its use in a
comparative framework. Under what particular conditions and for whom or what is
sanctuary invoked? What are the relations among its different iterations? How
does the term’s etymological roots in biblical traditions affect its use and
meaning over time, as it is taken up in secular contexts? What tensions emerge
between the symbolic and legal meanings in particular invocations of sanctuary?
How might sanctuary enact alternative forms of social and political membership
in a community?
Contact Email: contactrhr@gmail.com
deadline: February 1, 2018
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 7, 2017
with an extended abstract and brief bio for consideration.
Music and Protest
This Southern Cultures Special Issue aims to gather work
that documents and understands southern music’s relationships to protest and
resistance, both historically and in its present moment, and in the voices of
musicians, scholars, critics, audiences, visual artists, and activists, broadly
defined. We understand southern music to exist across many genres, communities,
and collaborations and seek to expand the conversation beyond the
sometimes-limiting lenses of “traditional music” and “protest songs.” To that
end, we are less interested in stereotypes, revisiting past debates, or
fetishized music culture than we are in the interaction of peoples and cultures
with the broader forces of political, social, historical, and economic change
at work in the South.
Submissions can explore any topic or theme related to
southern music and protest, with a special interest in pieces that seek new
understandings of the region and its musics, identify current communities and
concerns, and address its ongoing struggles for justice and expression. We
welcome explorations of the region in the forms Southern Cultures publishes:
scholarly articles, memoir, interviews, surveys, photo essays, and shorter
feature essays.
We will be accepting submissions for this special issue
through December 1, 2017, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/submit.
FUNDING
TN Historical Society
Research Fellowship
The Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, Tennessee, will
begin accepting applications for the 2018 Wills Research Fellowship on October
1, 2017. The purpose of the fellowship is to promote the interpretation of
Tennessee history and the scholarly use of the Society’s collections, housed at
the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville. See the TSLA for a catalog
and manuscripts guide. The fellowship is provided through the Society’s Jesse
E. Wills Memorial Fund. The collections of the Society are especially strong in
the frontier, Jacksonian, antebellum, and Civil War eras.
A single $500 stipend for a one-week fellowship period will
be awarded. University faculty, doctoral candidates, and published public and
lay historians are eligible.
Contact Email: atop@tennesseehistory.org
The application deadline for the 2018 Research Fellowship is
December 15, 2017.
Massachusetts
Historical Society Research Fellowships
The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer more than
forty research fellowships for the academic year 2018-2019.
For more information, please visit www.masshist.org/research/fellowships,
email fellowships@masshist.org or
phone 617-646-0577. Follow us on Twitter @MHS_Research for reminders
regarding fellowship deadlines and information on all of our other activities.
Opportunities for
Native American Scholars
The Newberry Library's long-standing fellowship program
provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to
pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. In addition to the Library’
collections, fellows are supported by a collegial interdisciplinary community
of researchers, curators, and librarians. An array of scholarly and public
programs also contributes to an engaging intellectual environment.
Short-Term
Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates,
and those who hold other terminal degrees.
Many of the Newberry's fellowship opportunities have
specific eligibility requirements; in order to learn more about these
requisites, as well as application guidelines and additional fellowship
opportunities, please visit
our website. Questions should be addressed to research@newberry.org.
The deadline for short-term opportunities is December
15.
2018 Fellowships at the Center for Holocaust Studies at
the Institute for Contemporary History
The fellowships are
designed to support and foster international Holocaust research. The program is
aimed at established as well as younger researchers. As we are interested in a
high degree of international cooperation, applications from Germany, Europe as
well as from all over the world are welcome. A topic within the field of
Holocaust Studies is required in order to be eligible for one of the
fellowships.
Deadline: November
15, 2017
Contact Email: bennett@ifz-muenchen.de
Dianne Woest Fellowship at The Historic New Orleans
Collection
The Woest Fellowship
is open to doctoral candidates, academic and museum professionals, and
independent scholars. US citizenship is not required, but applicants should be
fluent in English. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color,
religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, or any other protected
status.
Deadline:
Applications for the 2018/19 Woest Fellowship are due November 15, 2017.
Contact Email: JasonW@hnoc.org
Posen Society of Fellows Dissertation Fellowships
The Posen Foundation
invites applications for the Posen Society of Fellows 2018-2020 cohort of PhD
candidates studying modernization processes in Jewish history, society, and
culture. The fellowship offers a $20,000 stipend/year for 2 years & summer
seminars with preeminent Jewish Studies scholars.
Contact Email: Rachelbiale@gmail.com
Applications for the
2018-20 will open November 10, 2017
Fellowships and
Grants in China Studies 2017-18
ACLS invites applications in China Studies. With the
generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation, The National Endowment for the
Humanities, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (CCK) for International
Scholarly Exchange, ACLS offers support for graduate students, early career
scholars and for the organization of meetings, workshops, and conferences.
Luce/ACLS Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants: 3-4 months
in 2018 for visits to China to investigate research sites and establish
contacts with scholars before beginning basic research for the dissertation
($5,000).
Luce/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships: two consecutive
semesters released from teaching for preparation of the PhD dissertation for
publication, or for embarking on new research projects. (up to $50,000).
For complete guidelines, please visit www.acls.org/programs/china-studies/ and www.acls.org/programs/chinese-culture/.
Contact Email: chinastudies@acls.org
African Humanities
Program: 2017-18 Fellowship Competition
The African Humanities Program (AHP) seeks to reinvigorate
the humanities in Africa through fellowship competitions and related activities
in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In partnership with the
Carnegie Corporation of New York, which has generously provided funding, AHP
offers African scholars an integrated set of opportunities to develop
individual capacities and to promote formation of scholarly networks. The
African Humanities Program supports the Carnegie Corporation’s efforts to
develop and retain African academics at universities in Africa.
Contact Email: ahp@acls.org
Completed applications must be submitted by November 2,
2017.
2018 UCLA Library
Special Collections Short-term Research Fellowships
The UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships Program
supports the use of special collections materials by visiting scholars and UCLA
graduate students. Collections that are administered by UCLA Library Special
Collections and available for fellowship-supported research include rare books,
journals, manuscripts, archives, printed ephemera, photographs and other
audiovisual materials, oral history interviews, and other items in the
humanities and social sciences; medical, life and physical sciences; visual and
performing arts; and UCLA history. There are a number of different fellowships
offered; browse them through the URL below.
Contact Email: lib_lscfellowships@library.ucla.edu
2018 Critical
Language Scholarship (CLS) Program
The CLS Program is an intensive overseas language and
cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and
universities. Students spend eight to ten weeks abroad studying one of 14
critical languages. The program includes intensive language instruction and
structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language
gains.
CLS, a program of the U.S. Department of State, is part of a
wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and
mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic
prosperity. CLS plays an important role in preparing students for the 21st
century's globalized workforce and increasing national competitiveness.
Contact Email: cls@americancouncils.org
Applications are due November 15, 2017 by 7:59pm EST.
Essay Competition in
Jewish Thought and Culture
The Luckens Prize is awarded to the best unpublished
original essay that is also suitable for oral presentation to a general
audience and is written by a graduate student or recent Ph.D. (Ph.D from no
earlier than 2016) who does not already have a tenure-track academic
position. The Luckens Prize carries an
award of $500, made possible by a generous gift from the late Dr. Mark
Luckens. In addition to the cash award,
the author of the winning essay will be brought to the University of Kentucky
to deliver a public lecture in early 2018.
Contact Email: jfernheimer@uky.edu
Submissions must be received by midnight Oct. 20, 2017 to be
considered.
WORKSHOPS
Summer Arabic
Language and Media Program
Program dates: 24 June - 9 August 2018, Manah, Oman
The Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center (SQCC) is delighted to
announce its 2018 Summer Arabic Language and Media (SALAM) program, a
fully-funded intensive Arabic language scholarship program in the Sultanate of
Oman. SQCC supports Arabic language study for U.S. students through its annual
SALAM program. This intensive Arabic language program will allow students to
gain a deeper knowledge of Arabic, while becoming familiar with Omani history
and culture.
Applications due 31 December 2017
RESOURCES
Sexing History
We are excited to announce the launch of Sexing History, a
new podcast that examines how the history of sexuality shapes present day
cultures and politics.
This podcast, a new research tool for teaching histories of
gender and sexuality, is hosted by historians Gillian Frank and Lauren
Gutterman. Sexing History uses oral histories, archival sound clips, commentary
and analysis, and interviews with other scholars in the field to tell
compelling stories about the past to illuminate our present.
Our first episode looks at the story of Aaron Fricke. In
1980, Aaron sued his Rhode Island school district after they prohibited him
from bringing his same-sex partner to prom. We are delighted that Aaron shared
his story with us and you can access the episode on our website.
You can listen to the first episode here: https://soundcloud.com/user-197021129/episode-1-prom-night.
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