CONFERENCES
Transformations: An
Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium
Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, April 5-6, 2018
One of the main concepts this symposium hopes to explore is
a focus on the “transnational.” For instance, how does popular media circulate
across communities around the globe and blur or clarify boundaries of
citizenship, nationalism, and internationalism? Under the theme of
“Transformations,” this symposium hopes to traverse a range of disciplines and
perspectives across the campus and our region. Our focus, broadly construed,
encompasses concepts such as change, metamorphosis, flows & movements,
adaptations & conversions. How do translations from one language to
another, one medium to another, or one cultural context to another transform
our understandings of works of literature, history, or art?
Abstracts, CVs, and bios should be submitted via email to: TAMUCCGraduateSymposium@gmail.com
Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, February 2, 2018
Critical Juncture
Conference
Critical Juncture, now in its fifth year at Emory
University, is an interdisciplinary grad student – young faculty conference
committed to thinking through intersections of traditional academic
disciplines, as well as fostering creative intellectual conversations about the
intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, ability. This year, we mark
the 30th anniversary of the publication of Gloria Anzaldúa’s endlessly generative
Borderlands/La Frontera.
Critical Juncture 2018 asks scholars, artists, and activists
across all disciplines: what are borders, and how do we live, inhabit,
transgress and transform them? In particular, we invite renewed investigations
into the complex, layered and contradictory landscapes of race, geography,
sexuality, gender, class, poetry, materiality, history, critical thought and
spirituality that Anzaldúa has laid out for us.
Please send 300-500 word abstracts to samia.vasa@emory.edu by December
15, 2017
Contact Email: samia.vasa@emory.edu
Matter(s) of Fact
Western University, March 15-17, 2018
This conference invites papers on literary, historical, and
theoretical investigations of narratives, hermeneutics, and myths of facts and
truths. In the realm of narratives and material production, questions around
literariness and fiction arise: if fiction is inevitably infused with a certain
degree of reality, then is fiction, in turn, able to modify the Real? How are
facts integrated into fiction and what happens when fiction interpenetrates
with facts? In what ways can we speak about literariness as a post-factual
regime? What have been some of the literary strategies deployed towards
fictionalizing facts, truth, or epistemes? On the flipside, in what ways has
fiction been historicized as fact, truth, or “real”? How have these polyvalent
strategies evolved, if at all, over time?
We are asking those interested in delivering 15 to 20-minute
presentations to submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to
themattersoffact@gmail.com by January 3, 2018.
Contact Email: themattersoffact@gmail.com
Everyday Practices
The Department of History of Art and Architecture,
University of California Santa Barbara, is pleased to announce a one-day
graduate symposium on Friday, May 4, 2018 on the topic of “Everyday Practices.”
Art and architectural historians have frequently overlooked the everyday in favor
of grand and canonical narratives. By emphasizing histories of power, the
significance of the ordinary is often lost. Over the course of this conference
we aim to reclaim the nuance and allusive nature of everyday life by addressing
the mundane, the vernacular, the mass-disseminated, and other ordinary
narratives.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words along
with a one-page CV, to ucsb.haa.symposium@gmail.com
by January 15, 2018.
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.
Please send all abstracts and inquiries to sgsresearchhub@gmail.com by November 30th.
Please send all abstracts and inquiries to sgsresearchhub@gmail.com by November 30th.
Contact Email: sgsresearchhub@gmail.com
Ecomedia Virtual
Symposium
University of California, Santa Barbara, June 14-30, 2018
A troubling paradox lies at the heart of ecomedia studies:
those of us who study and teach about the intersection of ecological issues and
non-print media also recognize that the production, consumption, and
circulation of media texts take a massive toll on the Earth’s environment, an
issue well documented by media scholars. Yet if we are to better understand the
vital role that film and media play in reflecting, responding to, and shaping
public attitudes about the relationships between the human and non-human
worlds, as well as different human communities, we must embrace this paradox.
In this first-ever ASLE online symposium, we will collectively situate and
define ecomedia studies and its relationship to environmental humanities, film
and media studies, and cultural studies through a series of virtual
presentations and conversations. While ecomedia will be our buzzword for the
event, proposals on all aspects of environmental criticism are welcome.
Please submit abstracts of 300 words by December 1 to
Christy Tidwell (christy.tidwell@gmail.com).
Cultural Histories of
Air and Illness
University of Warwick, 8–9 June 2018
The Cultural Histories of Air and Illness Conference will
span disciplines and periods to explore broadly the link between human health
and the air. How have we thought about, studied, and depicted the connections
between air and illness? In what ways have we represented air as a source or
carrier of visible and invisible dangers? How have humans constructed their
relationship with the environment and what role has the environment played in
the history of human health? How has air pollution and climate change impacted
health across a globalized world?
The deadline for proposals is 15 January 2018. Please use
the conference organizer’s email address for all correspondence and proposals: a.sciampacone@warwick.ac.uk.
For further information, please visit the conference website
at: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/arthistory/research/conferences/air/
Bodies of
Archives/Archival Bodies
1-3 June 2018 at the British Museum, Clore Centre and SOAS,
Senate House, London.
Our interest is not limited to objects, but also to the idea
of the body (or collective bodies) as archives of experience. In particular, we
are interested in the archive’s potential for collaborative artistic and
ethnographic practices: What forms of collaborative work does the archive
offer? In what ways can the collective sensibility of the archive be explored?
What can we gain from a process-based notion of the archive? What implications
does this have on the role of the archive in art and anthropology, and for the
practices related to it in particular?
We call for papers and art/media interventions that explore
a variety of contemporary understandings of 'archive' that open up for
individuals, groups and institutions possibilities to produce creative
anthropological and artistic work.
Please submit the paper proposal before 8 January
2018 online: http://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6079
Contact Email: Fiona.Siegenthaler@unibas.ch
Contact Email: Fiona.Siegenthaler@unibas.ch
States of Emergence
American Studies Association conference, November 8-11,
2018, Atlanta, Georgia
From drone strikes in Yemen to white nationalist violence in
Charlottesville, emergency and crisis are constant facts of life in the United
States and in the world. The theme for the 2018 annual meeting of the American
Studies Association, “States of Emergence,” emphasizes that our sense of crisis
must be thought alongside our constant commitment to challenging the calamities
that beset us and to producing alternative—indeed better—worlds.
The deadline for proposals of panels and individual papers
is February 1, 2018.
Questions about the CFP? Contact the president-elect, Rod Ferguson (fergusonasa@gmail.com),
and/or the program committee chairs Avery Gordon
(averygordon@soc.ucsb.edu), Grace
Kyungwon Hong (gracehongucla@gmail.com, or Junaid Rana (jrana@illinois.edu).
Spaces of Dissent
FRIDAY, APRIL 6TH, Stony Brook University
The current political climate of rising right-wing
governments throughout the world has necessitated a political urgency for
resistance and creation of spaces of dissent. For many, this has caused a shock
and has been an alarming call to action. However, for the marginalized groups,
the current political climate is simply an increase of continuous oppression,
surveillance, and domination. How then, do we organize politically without
resorting to singularity and uniformity? How are these varying subject
positions, with different histories and perspectives, negotiated in spaces of
dissent? What kinds of meanings and knowledges are generated in spaces of
dissent?
Proposals should be emailed to: Annu.Daftuar@stonybrook.edu by
Jan. 1, 2018.
Women's History
Conference: Women and Religion
9-10 March 2018, Queen's University Belfast
The relationship between women and religion has long been a
complex and controversial one. Some women have historically viewed their faith
as liberating; other have perceived religion as a more oppressive force. The
2018 Women’s History Conference, in celebration of International Women’s Day,
will examine women’s experiences in a variety of religions (not exclusively
Christianity) from antiquity to modernity. This international conference seeks
to facilitate discussion about how women have expressed and practised their
faith in a variety of political and cultural environments throughout the world.
It will explore the complex relationship between women and religion through
their individual experiences, their involvement in religious institutions and
communities, or their dealings with religion through law and the political
state.
Abstracts of 250 words along with a proposed title and brief
biographical note should be submitted by 15 December 2017 to iwdconference2018@gmail.com.
The Eyes and Ears of
Power - Surveillance, History, and Privacy
Surveillance scholars and historians from different
sub-disciplines - political, cultural, economic, legal, global, technological,
media - are hereby invited to submit paper proposals to an international
conference on the history of surveillance in Copenhagen on September 12-14,
2018.
The conference is organized as a joint-venture between
ENIGMA - Museum of Communication and the Centre for Public Regulation and
Administration (CORA) and the Department of Information Studies at the
University of Copenhagen.
Deadline for proposals: February 1, 2018
For more information, see here: http://www.enigma.dk/2017/11/06/call-for-papers-the-eyes-and-ears-of-power-surveillance-history-and-privacy/
Contact Email: am@enigma.dk
Methodological issues
in African Studies - Cross-disciplinary research collaboration and policy
impact
The ASAUK 2018 conference (11-13 September 2018, University
of Birmingham, UK) celebrates the diversity and interdisciplinarity of the
study of Africa. To build networks among scholars interested in similar topics
or fields, the conference includes several thematic streams.
The deadline for submissions is 16 February 2018.
Writing, the State,
and the Rise of Neo-Nationalism: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Concerns
The exigency of ongoing scholarly consideration of the
relation between the nation and writing could not be more apparent. The rise of
populist and pro-national politicians and events such as Brexit place new
strains on the architecture of globalization. A disruptive force,
neo-nationalism has provoked anxiety about sustaining existing international
institutions and prompted introspection within nations about the abiding ties
of community and place. This conference seeks a diverse range of panels and
papers from scholars in literary studies, rhetoric, the social sciences, and
other disciplines. Interdisciplinary papers and panels, and papers and panels
addressing transatlantic subjects, are especially encouraged.
Submit all proposals to Christopher K. Coffman (ccoffman@bu.edu) and Thomas Finan (etfinan@bu.edu) no later than November 30,
2017.
Histories of
Disability: local, global and colonial stories
June 7-8 2018, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Back in 2001, the historian of American deafness Douglas
Baynton argued that ‘Disability is everywhere in history, once you begin
looking for it, but conspicuously absent in the histories we write' (Baynton,
2001, p. 52). Since then the history of disability has burgeoned with many
important studies showing this not only to be a significant field but a vibrant
one. But several key areas remain to be thoroughly interrogated. The
historiography remains largely limited to America and western Europe, historians
have been slow to take up the exciting postcolonial questions explored by
literary scholars and sociologists about the relationship between colonialism
and disability, and a tendency has remained to treat the western experience of
disability as a universal one. This workshop aims to interrogate these biases,
shed light on geographical specificity of disability and think more about the
global history of disability both empirically and theoretically.
Abstracts of c. 300 words should be sent to Esme Cleall, e.r.cleall@sheffield.ac.uk by 1st December
2017. I’d also be happy to answer any questions.
Storying Our Pasts:
Historical Narratives and Representation
The Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium is one of the
longest running history graduate conferences in Canada. March 15-17, 2018, the
Department of History, Carleton University, will be hosting the 24th Annual
Colloquium.
This year’s theme, “Storying our Pasts: Historical
Narratives and Representations,” highlights historical output and means of
storytelling. We hope to draw on different methodologies in a self-reflexive
dialogue about how historians present and share their research.
Please send your submission to underhill.colloquium@gmail.com no
later than January 21, 2018.
Narratives from the
World of the Sensible
March 18-19, 2018 • Towson University
Whether we are or are not aware of it, we all owe our being
and existence to the world of the sensible. It is where we encounter others and
where others encounter us. The encounter is of sensible by the sensible. We
invite abstracts that draw inspiration from the sensible, that pay attention to
it, and that affirm our shared dwelling in it. The conference seeks the
companionship with those who are interested in sharing their sensorial
experiences.
Abstracts are due on January 31, 2018.
Contact Email: jmurungi@towson.edu
Eros, Sexuality, and
Embodiment in Esoteric Traditions
Rice University, in Houston, Texas, May 24-27, 2018.
We are seeking proposals for papers exploring the theme
“Eros, Sexuality, and Embodiment in Esoteric Traditions.” Esoteric writings
offer a range of possibilities for investigating both literal and figurative
erotic and sexual configurations, from the allegorical couplings of alchemy, to
the practices of Valentinian Gnosticism, to descriptions of angelic sex in Ida
Craddock. Connectedly, esoteric thinkers
have described numerous unusual ways to embodiment, from phenomena of divine
possession, to the making of magical children, to golems and animated statues.
Our deadline for panel or paper proposal submission is
December 1, 2017.
Contact Email: ASEconference@rice.edu
Sixteenth
International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 5-7 July 2018
We invite proposals for paper presentations,
workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, virtual lightning talks,
virtual posters, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes:
Theme 1: Critical Cultural Studies
Theme 2: Communications and Linguistic Studies
Theme 3: Literary Humanities
Theme 4: Civic, Political, and Community Studies
Theme 5: Humanities Education
We welcome the submission of presentation proposals at any
time of the year up until 30 days before the start of the conference.
The Right Use of the
Earth
Paris, May, 29-31 and June 1, 2018
This is a joint conference of the Paris Sciences et Lettres
Environmental Humanities Program and the New York University. The conference will explore how views of the
earth as a united and limited whole, and its right and sustainable use, have
jointly been constituted as objects of knowledge and objects of government in
the last centuries, and how these views today reshape societies as well as the
academia.
Deadline for submission is December 20, 2017
Contact Email: christophe.bonneuil@cnrs.fr
UC Davis Graduate
Conference
May 4-6, 2018, at the University of California: Davis
This year’s conference theme, “Post-Truth and Memory,”
addresses the role of the humanities and social sciences in a post-truth
era. We are particularly interested in
the contentiousness of the study and preservation of history and historical
memory, and additionally invite proposals on a variety of themes, including:
memory and memorialization, truth and reconciliation, big data and Digital
Humanities, populism, and disinformation and misinformation.
For consideration, please send the following documents to
the program committee at ucdgradconf@gmail.com by
December 30th, 2016.
For more information about our 2018 Conference, please
contact Conference Secretary Miguel Novoa at manovoa@ucdavis.edu.
Political History
Now: Expanding Horizons
April 6 - 7, 2018, Boston, MA
The reinvigoration of political history and its blending of
politics, social, and cultural analysis has emerged as one of the most exciting
areas of academic scholarship in the past quarter century. Paying close
attention to the way that politics and public policy structure everyday life,
the APHI invites scholars to present work that engages in analysis of policy as
well as the interconnectedness of personal networks and political endeavors,
with an eye on the horizon: constructions of policy communities, political
networks, personal relationships, and national and international connections at
critical junctures in U.S. history.
Individual paper or panel proposals should be submitted in
the form of a 300-500 word abstract by Friday, January 12, 2018. Please include
a one-page C.V. along with your proposal, and send via email to David Shorten
at dshorten@bu.edu.
Africa Conference at
the University of Texas at Austin
March 29-31, 2018
The 2018 Africa Conference will critically examine Africa’s
political leadership and extant institutions vis-à-vis the continent’s history
of underdevelopment, present challenges, and future trajectories within the
global political economy. Scholars are invited to interrogate the nature and
evolution of leadership and institutions in Africa from the pre-colonial era to
contemporary times. Institutions in this context are broadly defined to include
formal and informal institutions, including history, traditions and culture of
the people. Is it leadership that shapes institutions or do institutions
determine the quality of leaders that emerge? How can African states achieve
the leadership and institutional transformation necessary to address the
perennial development challenges of the continent? Are there lessons that could
be drawn from the experiences of the pre-colonial era to inform contemporary
issues of leadership? We invite proposals for papers, panel presentations,
roundtables and artistic works/performances that would critically examine these
and other related issues on Africa’s leadership and institutions.
Proposals will be accepted on the official conference
website from mid-August to November 30, 2017 (http://www.utexas.edu/cola/africa-conference/).
Contact Email: africaconference2018@gmail.com
Contact Email: africaconference2018@gmail.com
Fandom—Past, Present,
Future
DePaul University, Chicago, IL, October 25-27, 2018
Building on the success of the annual Fan Studies Network
conference in the United Kingdom, and with the support of our international
colleagues, we invite submissions for a North American fan studies conference.
We welcome all topics and themes related to media, sports, music, and celebrity
fandoms, discussions of affirmative and/or transformative fans and their
contributions, as well as meta-questions such as ethics and methodology. We
encourage submissions on gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, and other
aspects of power and identity in fan works and fan communities.
Please send any inquiries and/or abstracts to
fsnna.conference@gmail.com by 15th February 2018.
Contact Email: pbooth@depaul.edu
Gathering at the
Waters: Healing, Legacy, and Activism in Black Literature
Medgar Evers College, from Thursday, March 22, to Sunday,
March 25, 2018.
The theme of the 14th National Black Writers Conference,
“Gathering at the Waters: Healing, Legacy, and Activism in Black Literature,”
acknowledges our concern about the recent, and still continuing, issues of
social inequality and injustices that challenge us and builds on the legacy of
healing through activism. This timely theme centers on the ways in which Black
writers use their writing to explore and convey messages that heal and restore
our individual selves and collective community. The Conference will also
examine the instrumental role that Black writers have played in building our
cultural history; the imprint that this has left in Black literature; and how
the literature of Black writers has impacted present-day and future
generations.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday, January 15,
2018.
Contact Email: creynolds@mec.cuny.edu
History Conference
Texas A&M University, March 23-24, 2018.
The theme for this year's conference is "Conflicts and
Resolutions." Our central focus for this conference is to create a
scholarly discussion on different conflicts, both historical and academic, and
the resolutions, or lack thereof, that resulted. We encourage submissions from
a wide variety of fields and academic disciplines to have an inclusive and
interdisciplinary environment in which to have a fruitful discussion. We are
accepting paper proposals regarding any geographical region and featuring
research on any historical period or topic.
deadline: Friday, December 15, 2017
Contact Email: tamuhistoryconference2018@gmail.com
Destination: Detroit
/ Communities of migration in metro Detroit
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers for a conference to
take place in Detroit, September 27-29, 2018, focused on changing the narrative
about the city. What populations converged in Detroit during the late 19th and
first half of the 20th century? During the decades of crisis, when so many were
fleeing the city, who chose to stay, settle and invest in Detroit? What new
communities emerged - in Southwest Detroit, in Dearborn, in Hamtramck - as
established immigrant families moved out and new populations moved in? How have
these new communities changed the face of Detroit?
Please send abstract (max. 300 words) and a brief bio (max.
150 words) to islamicstudies@umich.edu by
December 1, 2017.
Love in Translation
March 2-3, 2018, New Brunswick, New Jersey
The biennial graduate student conference at the Rutgers
University Program in Comparative Literature seeks to understand how love
figures in and is transfigured by translation. The conference invites
participants to think about how love disrupts and transforms the ways in which
literary imagination functions across languages, time, space, borders. Some of
the questions we aim to address are: How is love translated? Can love be a
methodology in translation? Is it a hindrance or is it generative? Is love a
theme or a product of translation?
The deadline for paper proposals is 11:59 PM on December
15th, 2017. Please e-mail all proposals to Conference Co-Chairs Penny Yeung or
Rudrani Gangopadhyay at rucomplit2018@gmail.com.
Performance and Labor
in the Contemporary World
March 30 – 31, 2018, Duke University Department of Cultural
Anthropology
When football quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, took a knee
during the national anthem, his intention was not to disrupt the NFL’s economic
flow, as one might during a players’ strike. Instead, Kaepernick used the power
of spectacle and his status as a cultural performer to foster a public debate
on racism in the USA. Performance – sports, music, dance, yoga, porn, sex-work,
martial arts, theater, cinema, television – bring together aesthetics and labor
in a specific way. While performance uses embodied and participatory modes of
enactment to reinforce or transform societal norms, laborers, too, often invoke
performative strategies to develop new modes of recognition. Workers may stage
dramatic performances to disrupt economic flows, by striking, or, more subtly,
develop strategies to subtly resist alienating and dehumanizing forms of labor
(for example: Office Olympics, bar tenders dancing, etc.). On the flip side,
labor control mechanisms increasingly rely on notions like performance. For
this conference, we welcome papers that address the ways in which performance
and labor inform, interact, and address each other’s inseparability.
The deadline for submission is January 1, 2018. Please
email abstracts to performanceandlabor@gmail.com
Contact Email: hannah.borenstein@duke.edu
The Forest Unseen:
Feminism and the Visibility of Connections in Bodies, Nature, Science, and
Violence
This panel seeks to convene presenters interested in
exploring connections among feminist theories, environmental studies, and the
sciences in the context of German Studies, with a focus on representations of
forests, trees, and gendered bodies. Contributions could include eco-feminist
perspectives on diverse texts, including oral and written narratives, fiction,
poetry, graphic novels, and visual texts.
Please send abstracts of 200-300 words, including your
thoughts on the panel format, to both organizers by March 1, 2018.
Organizers: Erika Berroth (berrothe@southwestern.edu) and
Joela Jacobs (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Wild Places, Natural
Spaces
We live in a world increasingly populated and altered by
human beings. Along with the physical
transformations have come fundamental changes in how we conceptualize our
relationship with the world around us.
Where once wild places represented darkness, danger, and temptation,
they now conjure images of personal challenge (“conquering” the Appalachian
trail or Mount Rainier), individual spiritual renewal, or hope against the
degradation of rampant consumerism, inequality, or political rot. Nature—and its supposed pure form,
wilderness—is both seen as the opposite of all things human and yet our true
home. These changing and often inconsistent
metaphors and models guide us in every area of our lives—the social, economic,
aesthetic, philosophic, religious, and scientific.
deadline: Friday, February 9, 2018
Contact Email: paddockt1@southernct.edu
American Historical
Association - Pacific Coast Branch
August 2-4, 2018, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
The 2018 Program Committee invites proposals for panels,
papers, and roundtables on any subject but particularly welcomes proposals that
address the theme: The Historian’s
Scholarly and Public Roles. In light of today’s roiling debates over the meanings
of the past, it is critical that historians explore how we can speak to broad
audiences, share our critical methods, illuminate questions of context and
interpretation, and guide discussions of policy, representation, and
commemoration.
Deadline for submitting proposals: January 8, 2018.
Contact Email: daniel.mcinerney@usu.edu
In Motion:
Performance and Unsettling Borders
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/848494/motion-performance-and-unsettling-borders
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.
The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2017.
Contact Email: didiermorelli2018@u.northwestern.edu
Cross River Akwanshi:
the conservation and interpretation of indigenous cultural stones
March 12-13, 2018, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross
River State, Nigeria
The Cross River Akwanshi carved monoliths, believed to be
over 1,000 years old, are a key West African example of world heritage
represented by cultural stones. Like other such phenomena, they are beset by
problems of conservation as well as of contextual interpretation. While the
Nigerian case is acute, other cultural stone sites globally are also
threatened. How best can individual scholars and community leaders respond
effectively? How can concerned international agencies help? We welcome scholars
to present their own case studies, whether from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and
Europe.
Abstract closing date: January 15, 2018
Contact Email: imiller@hampshire.edu
Globalization,
Diversity, and Education Conference
The conference theme, Power and Cultural Politics in
Antiracist and Decolonial Education and Educational Research:
Intersectionality, Resistance, and Survival,invites proposals for paper
presentations, workshops, and posters that share research that interrogates the
cultural politics of education and engages scholarship that critically examines
the relationships between knowledge, power, and experience in education for
greater equity and justice. What is the role of education and of educational
research in a public culture of dissent? How can oppositional pedagogies, or
“pedagogies of dissent” (Mohanty, 2003) operate in the context of cultural
politics? What does it look like in K-12 education and higher education?
Presentations that interrogate the cultural politics of education and engages
in questions of knowledge, power, and experience in education for greater
equity and justice are especially welcomed.
deadline: December 4
Contact Email: pgroves@wsu.edu
URL: https://education.wsu.edu/events/globalization/gde2018/;
https://education.wsu.edu/events/globalization/
Our Digital
Humanities: Storytelling, Media Organizing and Social Justice Community
Conference
April 20-22, 2018
This innovative community conference will locate the budding
field of digital humanities at the intersection of public humanities, digital
scholarship, oral history, “media organizing” & social justice. The
conference will create an inter-generational convergence space for members of
social movements, community based public historians, students, and
activist-scholars to network, share their digital projects, offer digital
capacity building trainings and strengthen collaboration.
deadline: November 26
Inquiries: incasip@lehigh.edu,
American Museums and
the Interpretation of Religion
We seek papers for a panel addressing the history of the
interpretation of religion at American museums and public history sites, to be
presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in
Philadelphia, PA, April 4-6, 2019. Papers should address the
interpretation of religious practices, peoples, and/or ideas in
a public history setting. Proposals from working public history
professionals and scholars studying themes in public history are
encouraged. Interested individuals should submit a brief paper
description (200-300 words) and a brief CV to Randall Miller (miller@sju.edu) and Laura Chmielewski (laura.chmielewski@purchase.edu)
by December 1st, 2017.
Rethinking
Transformation
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Puerta de Toledo Campus, 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 (for a 20 minute presentation) including name and institutional
affiliation, to rethinkingtransformation@uc3m.es by
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/.
From First to Last
Texts, Creators, Readers, Agents
26th annual conference of the Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading and Publishing
9th - 12th July 2018, at Western Sydney University, New
South Wales, Australia
In 2018 this international book history conference will be
held in the southern hemisphere for the first time. As SHARP moves into its
next 25 years, participants are encouraged to think creatively about how the
book has been an agent that both anchors cultural continuities and provokes
changes in mentalities throughout human history; the connectivity between oral
/ aural traditions and written cultures etc.; challenging assumptions about
centre / periphery and Anglo / Euro-centrisms in book history; and states of
the discipline which address book historiographical concerns and trends, but
also stimulate book history to become truly adventurous and methodologically
innovative.
Contact Email: sharpsydney2018@gmail.com
Deadline: Thursday 7 December 2017
Reformatting the
World
Reformatting the World: An Interdisciplinary Conference on
Technology and the Humanities
February 23-24, 2018
The Graduate Program in Humanities and the Humanities
Graduate Student Association (HuGSA) at York University are pleased to announce
an interdisciplinary conference interrogating the critical role of technology,
both past and present, in shaping human culture and society. Technology, in the
broadest sense, has enriched our lives by opening up new vistas of knowledge
about ourselves (or our selves) and the natural world. Digital technologies,
for example, have made possible new, highly-advanced forms of social
organization. They have also revolutionized almost every aspect of our lives,
from travel, communication, entertainment, culture and the arts to food,
medicine, education, politics, and science.
Deadline: 8 December,
2017
Contact Email: humaconference@gmail.com
Northeastern
University Graduate History Conference
The 2018 conference title is “Interrogating Boundaries:
Mapping the Mental and Material in World History” and will feature as the
keynote speaker Professor Ann Laura Stoler of the New School for Social
Research. The conference will address a wide variety of themes within world
history and public history, looking specifically at the physical, social,
mental and material boundaries that have been present through human history. We
encourage papers that think broadly about the definition of boundaries and
frontiers, and those that explore these issues within both local and global
contexts.
The deadline for submissions to the conference is Friday
December 15th 2017.
email: nugradconf@gmail.com
Interracial
Intimacies Symposium
April 18-19, 2018, University of Chicago
Symposium organizers seek papers that include, but are not
limited to, themes pertaining to one of the following tracks:
1. Intersectionality and intimacy.
2. Beyond the black and white dichotomy.
3. Racialized desire.
4. Sex and the State.
5. Interracial intimacy within the home/beyond sex.
Please submit a one-page CV and an abstract (no more than
250 words) by December 1, 2017 to interracialintimacies2018@gmail.com.
For questions regarding the symposium email the organizers
at interracialintimacies2018@gmail.com
For more information, please visit www.interracialintimacies2018.weebly.com
PUBLISHING
LGBTQ Heritage
In spite of the immense historic and cultural contributions
of LGBTQ Americans, the LGBTQ community at large is among the least represented
in our national, state, and local designation programs. This issue of Change
over Time, published in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall
Uprising, will explore questions related to LGBTQ cultural heritage: What are
the challenges in identifying an often invisible and, at times, transient and
denied history? How can historians and preservationists ensure for diverse
representation of LGBTQ communities? How does one address significance and
architectural integrity when recognizing LGBTQ sites that are often
architecturally undistinguished and frequently altered?
Submissions may include case studies, theoretical
explorations, evaluations of current practices, or presentations of arts- or
web-based projects related to LGBTQ cultural heritage.
Abstracts of 200-300 words are due 5 January 2018. Authors
will be notified of provisional paper acceptance by 19 January 2018. Final
manuscript submissions will be due mid May 2018.
email: cot@design.upenn.edu
30 years of Gloria
Evangelina Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
This is the content for the upcoming issue of Camino Real.
Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas Review (Year 2018. Volume 10.
Issue 13.), a monograph dedicated to Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s work.
Critical articles, creative writings and interviews that link the issues
addressed in Anzaldúa’s work are requested. The following topics can be
approached: Nepantla and nepantleras, spiritual activism, Anzaldúa and
pedagogy, cross-borders and international context, linguistic terrorism,
theoretical frameworks and development of the Anzalduesco thinking.
Deadline for :
December 11th, 2017
If you are interested in sending your proposal, please
contact publicaciones@institutofranklin.net
New Directions in
Irish American Literature and Culture
In his preliminary note to the 1993 MELUS special issue on
Irish American Literature, Charles Fanning wrote, “In hundreds of works as
accomplished as any in American literature, [Irish American] writers have
described and considered the experience and changing self-image of the American
Irish. The result is a literature the study of which has much to teach us about
ethnic otherness in American life” (1).Since this issue, not only has the
number of works written about the self-image of the American Irish continued to
grow, more significantly, the ways in which we’ve come to understand this
self-image has been exponentially developed and deepened. Along with the list
of exciting new transnational writers of the Irish American image has come a
new and often challenging critical reflection on the construct and contours of
the Irish American ethnic subject. Issues such as race, gender, space,
performativity, and national sympathies have been reexamined as part of an
engaged study of the Irish American stereotype as it has developed over the
eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. New studies have
emerged in Irish American autobiography, interethnic relations, and the Irish
American subject in the popular and political press. This new issue seeks to
gather and reflect some of these new directions in Irish American studies. We invite broad understandings and a varied
approach to the theme of this issue.
Please submit completed papers through the MELUS online
manuscript system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/melus by
15 April 2018.
For questions about the issue, please contact James Byrne (byrne_james@wheatoncollege.edu).
The Educational
Intelligent Economy: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and
the Internet of Things in Education
This book examines, from a comparative perspective, the
impact of the movement from the so-called knowledge-based economy towards the
‘Intelligent Economy,’ which is premised upon the application of knowledge. In
this new era that blends the physical with the cyber-physical, the rise of
educational intelligence means that clients (countries, organization, and other
stakeholders) are plied with cutting-edge data in the form of predictive
analytical patterns (modelling, machine learning, and data mining of historical
data), and knowledge about global educational predictions of future outcomes
and trends. In this sense, the volume attempts to link the advent of this new
technological revolution to the world of governance and policy formulation in
education, in order to open a broader discussion about the systemic and human
implications of the emerging intelligent economy for education.
Submissions should include a 300-500 word abstract and a
brief CV with full contact information. They should be sent to tjules@luc.edu and florin.salajan@ndsu.edu before December
1, 2017.
URL:
Music, Sound, and the
Aurality of the Environment in the Anthropocene: Spiritual and Religious
Perspectives
Yale Journal of Music & Religion invites articles for a
special issue examining connections between music, sound, aurality, and the
environment in global expressions of spirituality and religious activity.
Examining how environments, places, and nature are approached as sites endowed
with spiritual and religious significance, this issue focuses on the
intersections of music, sound, religion, and the environment. Possible topics
include: religious music that promotes environmental ethics and sustainability;
nonhuman musicality and sonic agency; site-specific music used to voice
religious perspectives; music and healing following environmental trauma;
applied ethnomusicology and public musicology in environmental leadership and
volunteerism; and the performance of religious music at environmentalist
festivals, rallies, and protests.
Manuscript submission deadline is September 1, 2018
Contact Email: yjmr@yale.edu
Two special issues of
Open Cultural Studies
Marx, Semiotics and Political Praxis
The contemporary commodification of the semiotic field and
the emptying out of signs as spectacles has severed the political, ethical,
ideological, intellectual and even existential scope of (academic) writing as a
political project. In this context, it is pertinent to return to the work of
Karl Marx to reflect on and engage with his coherent articulation of words and
their use, of words and actions, and of the intellectual and the political. The
coherence of his discourse and praxis offers tools to think through, if not
seek to transform, the alienated semiotic landscape of our times. To
commemorate the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, in this special issue of Open Cultural Studies we want to honour
his 11th Thesis on Feuerbach: "philosophers have only interpreted the
world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it".
Geomedia
Geomedia is an emerging concept that has been deployed to
capture a particular technological condition, associated with recent rapid
developments in digital technology. As such, it signals to the dialectics of
locative media and the mediations of localities (Thielmann, 2010, Lapenta 2011,
2012; McQuire, 2016). At the same time ontologies and epistemologies of the
urban are being reworked in and through geomedia processes, ranging from
questions of urbanism/urbanity as a way of life, inclusion, exclusion and
precarious urbanities, to questions of (new) spatio-temporalities of the urban,
various flows and mobile appropriations of the city. In short, geomedia and the
right to the city.
Abstract deadline: Jan. 15, 2018
The Graduate History Review
The Graduate History Review is a peer-reviewed, open access
journal published by graduate students at the University of Victoria. We
welcome original and innovative research notes and essays from emerging
scholars in history and related disciplines. Volume 7 asks how history “defines
human-ness?” We accept submissions on an ongoing basis, but will only consider
submissions received before January 30th, 2018 for publication in Volume 7.
Contact Email: gradhistoryreview@gmail.com
URL: http://uvic.ca/ghr
Disability Studies
and Ecocriticism: Critical and Creative Intersections
This CFP calls for critical essays and creative works that
address the intersection of disability studies and ecocriticism, or disability
and the environment. In terms of critical essays, we will consider analyses of
novels, poetry, comics, dance, art, and movies. We will also consider creative
works (including creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction) that center on an
exploration of the relationship(s) between disability and the environment.
We are particularly interested in works that address the following
broad questions in specific ways: What can be gained by investigating
ecological issues through the lens of disability studies? What can be gained by
investigating disability through the lens of ecocriticism? How can these two
viewpoints be joined?
Please send 300-500 word proposals to Dr. Christine Junker
(Wright State University) and Dr. Todd Comer (Defiance College) by this
deadline: March 1, 2018. If your submission is creative, please contact Dr.
Junker with any questions. Final critical essays should be around 6,000 words
in length. Emails: tcomer@defiance.edu and christine.wilson@wright.edu.
Spectral Mexico.
Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations
is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican
culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa
Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem narrators…, are recognizable
figures in Mexican folklore, religion, arts, literature, and cinema. The
journal iMex. México Interdisciplinario / Interdisciplinary
Mexico is accepting new contributions interrogating the transformation
and trajectory of these themes in the contemporary artistic, literary, and
audiovisual genres. We are looking for articles that examine discourses and
representations of death, ghostliness, and haunting with a solid theoretical
background and/or from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The articles, written in Spanish or in English, can be
submitted from now on to June 30th, 2018 to the following email
addresses:
Prof. Dr. Alberto Ribas-Casasayas: aribascasasayas@scu.edu
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yasmin Temelli: yasmin.temelli@rub.de
LGBTQ Heritage from
US and International Contexts
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall
Uprising, the Spring 2019 issue of Change Over Time, an international journal
of conservation and the built environment, will explore questions related to
LGBTQ cultural heritage: What are the challenges in identifying an often
invisible and, at times, transient and denied history? How can historians and
preservationists ensure for diverse representation of LGBTQ communities? How
does one address significance and architectural integrity when recognizing
LGBTQ sites that are often architecturally undistinguished and frequently
altered?
Abstracts of 200-300 words are due 5 January 2018.
Contact Email: cot@design.upenn.edu
The Anatomy of
Inscription
In their 1910 essay ‘Poetic Principles’, Nikolai and David
Burliuk describe poetry as ‘sensible’, arguing that the word ‘changes its
qualities according to whether it is handwritten, printed or thought’. Jacques
Derrida widens this claim in Of Grammatology (1967), writing that one of the
‘fundamental problems’ when coming to terms with signification is the
deployment of ‘diverse forms of graphic substances (material: wood, wax, skin,
stone, ink, metal, vegetable)’, as well as different kinds of styli. How do the
material properties of writing feed back into its semantic sense, differing when
engraved in stone or tattooed on skin? Are inscriptions in paintings — which
are sometimes indecipherable, as in the case of Alexander Nagel’s
‘pseudoscripts’ (2011) — fundamentally different from text in film, the subject
of Mikhail Iampolski’s The Memory of Tiresias (1998)?
Deadline for submission of 200-300 word abstracts: 1
February 2018
Contact
Email: hbd23@cam.ac.uk
Intersections in Film
and Media Studies
While today “cinema” is an increasingly fluid term that
moves across platforms, genres and textual boundaries, in this special issue we
are interested in what it means to study cinema and/or other forms of
screen-media in today’s increasingly fractured media landscape. This issue will
explore the transitional nature of contemporary screen studies and the movement
of scholarship, theory and ideas across its boundaries.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2018
Contact Email: sydneyscreenstudies@gmail.com
Subjects, Objects,
Others: Materialisms from the Enslaved and Colonized
This issue of darkmatter is concerned with interrogating
this problematic by focusing on objects laden with stories of slavery,
colonization and their aftermaths, and thus offers materialist responses that
address the capitalocene itself, and the uneven lived experiences of those upon
whose subjugation and dispossession it has been built. Attending to objects
that have lives of their own ‒ speaking, acting, and making claims upon the
world, through their materials, craft, and form ‒ we seek to draw out depictions
and theories of the material that emerge from these objects themselves. Whilst
highlighting objects as agents, claim-makers and discussants in a complex
world, this issue will nevertheless underscore that this world is one in which
thingification has been fundamental to the working of slavery and colonization,
in which many persons have never attained subjecthood at all. We invite
theory-driven scholarly papers and experimental critical texts about objects
whose claims stretch the limits of the social and material world. By bringing
these materialisms from the dispossessed, oppressed and exploited into
conversation with New Materialism, this issue will encourage us to think these
subjects and the worlds that they encounter in new terms.
Abstracts should be submitted by 15 January 2018
Contact Email: subjectsobjectsothers@gmail.com
Southern Cultures
Special Issue on Music and Protest
Southern Cultures encourages submissions from scholars,
writers, musicians, and visual artists for our Music and Protest Issue. This
call 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.”
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 will be accepting submissions for this special issue
through December 1, 2017
Book Reviewers for Soundings:
An Interdisciplinary Journal
As part of an effort to develop a more robust reviews
section, the editors of Soundings: An
Interdisciplinary Journal are seeking graduate school
students who would be interested in potentially reviewing books for the journal
as freelance writers. Books to be reviewed would be assigned to potential
reviewers based on their academic background. Please note that this is an
unpaid position. With that said, this is a great opportunity for any graduate
school student to obtain invaluable experience writing for
a scholarly journal. If interested, please submit a résumé or
curriculum vitae, along with a 5-page writing sample, to Soundings. Questions
can also be directed to the same address.
Writing and Science
a special issue on "Writing and Science" that will
appear in the research journal Written Communication. I have included the link
to the CFP so you can print and share this information if you wish. You can
find the CFP here:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0741088317737905
Deadline for manuscript submissions: March 1st, 2018
If you have any questions about the special issue, please
feel free to contact Chad Wickman, Editor, at the following address: cwickman@auburn.edu.
Living Cities: Tropical
Imaginaries
‘Living Cities: Tropical Imaginaries’ reminds us that urban
environments are both created and creative spaces. This Call for Papers is
concerned with the peopled and lived experiences of cities and how these
interact with built, natural and cultural environments. The CFP is interested
in processes of tropical space and place-making, with an emphasis on key areas
that make up lived cities in the tropics: creative economies, cultural and
natural landscapes, aesthetics, urban myths and story making, sustainable
practices, heritage, everyday life, community practices and liminal spaces. The
tropical emphasis is particularly relevant to cities in Tropical Asia, the
Northern Tropics of Australia, the deep south of America, Latin America and the
Caribbean, Africa and the Pacific.
deadline: 30 November 2017
Contact Email: etropic@jcu.edu.au
Settler Sounds: Music,
Indigeneity, and Colonialism in the Americas
We are soliciting submissions for a special issue of Journal
of the Society for American Music that will investigate sonic aspects of the
Americas through a consideration of the distinct, yet related, modes of
colonialism and Indigeneity that have come to define the region. The purpose of
the issue is twofold: first, to evaluate how a focus on music and other sonic
phenomena may help us better understand the socio-historical formation of the
cultures of the Americas; and second, to discover how a focus on modes of
discovery, settlement, and expansion of colonial regimes in the Americas and
beyond can help us develop transnational perspectives in American music
studies. Critically, we hope to use this issue to grapple with the ongoing
relevance of Indigenous people and their claims to sovereignty for American
music scholarship.
Article submissions should be sent electronically to JSAM’s
Editor by April 1, 2018.
Contact Email: gpsolis@illinois.edu
Beyond Love
For its twenty-ninth issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic
Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that
address the complex and multiple meanings of love. For IVC 29, we invite
contributors to explore visual representations and contestations of the concept
of love. What does love look like? How is it displayed? What are the conditions
and/or/of possibilities for love? Where do we locate love’s value? Can love
bear witness to violence? Are love, erotics and abjection mutually exclusive?
What distinguishes love as either ideal or rational? Who or what dictates this
categorical distinction and how do these types of love appear? We welcome
papers that interrogate/excavate/trace love as concept and/or practice in
visual culture.
Please send
completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago
Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu by January 15, 2018.
Rethinking Black Love
Since E. Franklin Frazier
In this special issue of Women, Gender, and Families of
Color the editors are soliciting scholarly contributions that rethink what the
affective word “love” means in Black communities.
In 1939, when the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier published
his study The Negro Family in the United States, he had no idea he was
initiating a discussion about Black life, love, and family that would be
debated well into the twenty-first century. Although a great deal of
sociological and historical work has been done to countervail these depictions
and their reverberating consequences, popular culture, media, law, research,
and social practices continue to conscribe Black families with racially biased,
patriarchal tropes that stem from the work of Frazier and his intellectual
descendant, Moynihan.
Submission deadline: February 1, 2018
email: wgfc@ku.edu
American Women's
Writing and the Genealogies of Queer Thought
This special issue aims to address a key contradiction in
the development of contemporary queer theory: on the one hand, queer
intellectual history has clear though too frequently elided roots in feminism
and women’s writing; and, on the other hand, many of queer theory’s most
defining arguments draw inductively from astonishingly narrow archives that
occlude women’s embodiment, history, desires, and experiences. We seek papers
that engage this contradiction by bringing queer theoretical thought into
dialogue with American women’s writing from the seventeenth century through the
early-twentieth century. How does our understanding of queer theory and its
history change when examined through a longer and more diverse archive than it
is typically afforded? How does our understanding of women’s writing and its
history change when examined as a conceptual participant in the genealogy of
queer thought?
Deadline: July 31, 2018
Please send electronic submissions and any inquiries to the
guest editors: Timothy M. Griffiths (tmg2a@virginia.edu)
and Travis M. Foster (travis.foster@villanova.edu).
Craft as Political
Activism in a Nation Divided
This proposed volume, an edited collection, is committed to
investigating how people create handicrafts and share them publicly as a
statement reacting to political policies. At the heart of this volume is an
exploration of craft as action and a means of expression relating to unfolding
current events throughout U.S. history. Craft activism “marries” a DIY,
grassroots makers’ ethic with commemorative culture to reveal a unique
relationship that is democratic, visual and rooted in the desire for social
change.
Please email Hinda Mandell, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
School of Communication, RIT (hbmgpt@rit.edu)
by Nov. 30 expressing an interest in contributing
a chapter.
FUNDING
Lemelson Center
Fellowships and Travel Grants
The Lemelson Center Fellowship Program supports projects
that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in
American society. These 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 Center annually awards two to three fellowships to
pre-doctoral graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and other professionals
who have completed advanced training.
deadline: 11:59 p.m. EST on 1 December 2017
email: hintze@si.edu
Massachusetts
Historical Society Fellowships, 2018-2019
Short-term Fellowships carry a stipend of $2,000 to support
four or more weeks of research in the Society’s collections. One application
automatically puts you into consideration for any applicable short-term
fellowships. Graduate students, faculty, and independent researchers are
welcome to apply.
DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2018
For more information, please visit www.masshist.org/research/fellowships,
email fellowships@masshist.org or
phone 617-646-0577.
The Mary Baker Eddy
Library 2018 Fellowships
The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston is now accepting
online applications for our Summer 2018 Research Fellowships. The fellowship
program is open to academic scholars, independent researchers, and graduate
students. The Library’s collections, centered on the papers of Mary Baker Eddy
and records documenting the history of Christian Science, offer scholars
countless opportunities for original research
Apply at our website by February 5, 2018. For further
information about the Library’s holdings and the fellowship program go to http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/fellowships or
contact 617-450-7124, fellowships@mbelibrary.org.
Andrew W. Mellon
Fellowships in Women’s History
The two recipients of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Predoctoral Fellowship in Women's History should have a strong interest in the
fields of women’s and public history. This unusual part-time fellowship
introduces young scholars to work outside the academy in public history and may
not directly correspond with their dissertation research. They must be
currently enrolled students in good standing in a relevant PhD program in the
humanities. The Predoctoral Fellows will be in residence part time at the
New-York Historical Society for one academic year, between September 5, 2018
and June 29, 2019, with a stipend of $15,000 per year. This position is not
full time and will not receive full benefits.
Application deadline: January 8, 2018
ASEH Equity Graduate
Student Fellowship
ASEH created this fellowship to recognize graduate students
from an underrepresented group for their achievements in environmental history
research, to expand ASEH membership, and to broaden the topics of study in the
field. The fellowship provides a single payment of $1,000 for Ph.D. graduate
student research and travel in the field of environmental history, without
geographical restriction. The funds must be used to support archival research
and travel during 2018.
All items for the Equity Graduate Student Fellowship must be
submitted electronically to director@aseh.net by November
17, 2017.
Cornell University
College of Human Ecology History of Home Economics Fellowship
We invite faculty members, research scholars, and advanced
graduate students (must be eligible to work in the United States) with
demonstrated background and experience in historical studies to apply for this
post-graduate opportunity. The fellowship recipient will receive an award of
$6,500 for a summer or sabbatical residency of approximately six weeks to use
the unique resources available from the College and the Cornell University
Library system in pursuit of scholarly research in the history of Home
Economics and its impact on American society.
The deadline for receipt of all application materials is
Friday, March 2, 2018. For additional information, see: http://www.human.cornell.edu/fellowship/ .
Contact Email: clm37@cornell.edu
WORKSHOPS
Archive Transformed
Artist/Scholar Collaborative Residency at the Colorado
Chautauqua National Historic Landmark, Boulder Colorado, May 13-18, 2018
This residency is the first of its kind that brings together
artists and scholars to take archival material, broadly conceived, and
transform it or re-imagine it to create new knowledge. The archive under
investigation can reflect the history of an individual, family, or institution,
whether a government institution, NGO, or community group. Some examples would be a business, a hospital
and its MR image archive, a Native American community, a church, synagogue, or
mosque, or a photographer’s archive full of negatives. Importantly, if the
artist/scholar collaboration chooses to work with a particular individual,
institution, or community, either the scholar or artist (or both) should
ideally have a relationship with that entity.
For full consideration for your collaborative residency, the
following must be received by December 15, 2017 to archivetransformed@colorado.edu
Humanities Intensive
Learning & Teaching
The Humanities Intensive Teaching and Learning (HILT)
Institute will be held June 4-8, 2018 on the campus of the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This institute explores different aspects of working in/with
digital humanities.
More on the courses: http://dhtraining.org/hilt/conferences/hilt-2018/courses/
More on the costs: http://dhtraining.org/hilt/conferences/hilt-2018/dates-costs/
contact: dhtraining01@gmail.com
Gender &
Sexuality Writing Collective
March 2, 2018, University of Rochester
The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and
Women's Studies at the University of Rochester will hold a one-day writing
collective on March 2, 2018. The writing
collective will provide a lively platform for graduate students to workshop a
paper with fellow graduate students and faculty from multiple institutions. The aim of the collective is to create an
intimate space for emerging scholars of gender and sexuality to share their
work with a focus on preparing the paper for publication. This event is
intended as an opportunity for graduate students to consider issues pertaining
to gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability. Participants will engage
with one another in interdisciplinary discussions led by established scholars
in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, whose experience and outstanding
research in their respective fields will benefit and help shape the papers.
Please submit a paper (6,000-10,000 words, including your
name, broader research interest, and email address) along with a brief
biographical statement in Word or PDF format by December 31, 2017, to the
graduate organizing committee at sbaigradconf2018@gmail.com.
Summer Program:
Courses in Statistics & Quantitative Methods
The ICPSR Summer Program provides rigorous, hands-on
training in statistical techniques and research methodologies used in the
social, behavioral, and medical sciences. We strive to fulfill the needs of
researchers throughout their careers by offering instruction on a broad range
of topics, ranging from introductory statistics to advanced quantitative
methods and cutting-edge techniques. Our participants include graduate
students, faculty, researchers, and policy analysts from more than 350
universities, institutions, and organizations around the world.
We will announce our 2018 schedule in January, and
registration for all courses will open in early February. Scholarships are
available.
For more information, visit www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog or
contact sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu or
(734) 763-7400.
Economy and Society
Summer School
We are delighted to announce that the Economy + Society
Summer School is now open for applications. The school runs from the 14-18th of
May 2018 in Blackwater Castle, Co.Cork, Ireland. Accredited by University
College Cork for 5 or 10 ECS credits, the school is tailored to doctoral
candidates in the broad social sciences, this residential summer school brings
together scholars from multiple paradigms and disciplines, spanning sociology,
economics, anthropology, history, politics and aesthetics.
Deadline for applications 31st March 2018.
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RESOURCES
Inaugural Issue of
the Journal of Historical Network Research
The online Journal of Historical Network Research aims to
publish outstanding and original contributions which apply the theories and
methodologies of social network analysis to historical research. It promotes
the interplay between different areas of historical research (in the broadest
sense), social and political sciences, and different research traditions and
disciplines, while strengthening the dialogue between network research and
“traditional” historical research. All contents are made available free of
charge to readers and authors following Open Access principles.
The issue is available here: https://jhnr.uni.lu/index.php/jhnr
Contact Email: JHNR-editors@historicalnetworkresearch.org
