CONFERENCES
Matter(s) of Fact
Graduate Student Conference presented by the Graduate Programs
in Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and Theory & Criticism at
Western University
March 15-17, 2018
This year’s conference seeks to explore and cultivate the
discussion surrounding our relationship to the factual, the tangible, and the
constructed. Whether this discussion be through the lens of material culture,
institutional, literary or cultural narratives, an inspection of how we
approach facts weaves together linguistics and theory in a way that we hope
builds bridges between disciplines and encourages ways of thinking that
mediate—rather than aggravate—the unique perspectives that arise from such a
multidisciplinary topic. This conference invites papers on literary,
historical, and theoretical investigations of narratives, hermeneutics, and
myths of facts and truths.
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.
Greenpeace 2018
Action Camp
Tampa Bay, FL, area from March 3-8, 2018
The creative, peaceful, diverse solutions and movements that
we foster at Action Camp are even more necessary and vital. We need people with skills and courage to
gather, who are willing to stand up and speak out, who are willing to work for
the liberation of brown and black folks, who love this world and will work
tirelessly to protect it and make it a more just and equitable place for all.
Greenpeace is offering a six-day, intensive training to
learn and share non-violent direct action skills like climbing, arts &
creative resistance, kayaktivism, and blockades. We are looking for people who
want to create change in their communities and in the world.
Applications will close on January 6, 2018
Migrant Knowledges:
Concepts, Voices, Spaces
April 20-21, 2018, UC Berkeley
With particular but not exclusive focus on the inter-area
and interdisciplinary history of the Americas from the 19th to the 21st
centuries, this workshop seeks to explore the possible methodologies,
narratives, and empirics that facilitate a critical engagement with the concept
of “migrant knowledges.” Emphasis is put on migrants as producers and conveyors
of knowledge. The format of the workshop is intentionally interactive and aims
to engender exploratory discussion and debate through three consecutive
roundtables. The goal is to develop a set of approaches that enable further
research on and analysis of migrant knowledge and its histories. Toward this
end, we will request submission of short pre-circulated statements, while the
workshop will be dedicated mostly to discussion.
The deadline for proposals is February 5, 2018.
Please send a statement of one page addressing one set of questions together
with a brief academic CV in a single PDF file to Heike Friedman at friedman@ghi-dc.org. If you have
questions concerning the workshop, please contact Andrea Westermann at westermann@ghi-dc.org.
New Approaches to
Gender and Migration in the US Since 1900
The Department of History at Bates College invites papers on
the topic of gender and migration to and/or within the United States since
1900. Presentations will be part of a day-long graduate symposium showcasing
the work of emerging scholars (recent PhD or ABD) from historically underrepresented
groups.
Abstract, CV, and statement should be submitted in PDF
format by email to History2018@bates.edu by
January 20, 2018. Questions may be addressed to Professor Caroline Shaw
at cshaw@bates.edu.
2018 Africa
Conference
University of Texas at Austin, March 30 – April 1, 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.
Proposal deadline: January 20
Contact Email: Africaconference2018@gmail.com
Place and
Displacement: The Spacing of History
The International Network for Theory of History (INTH) is
happy to announce that its third network conference will take place in
Stockholm from August 20th-22nd, 2018, at Södertörn University. The goal of
the conference is to gather theorists and philosophers of history from around
the world and to offer a forum for scholars to exchange ideas, questions and
resources. The main focus of this conference is on place and displacement and
its relevance for the theory of history.
Those interested in taking part in the conference are asked
to send in abstracts of 300-500 words either in docx or pdf format to inthstockholm@gmail.com, by January
15th, 2018.
Contact Email: inthstockholm@gmail.com
Crossing the
Boundaries
Binghamton University's Art History Graduate Student Union
seeks Dreamreaders (as in Haruki Murakami's dystopian novel Hard-boiled
Wonderland and the End of the World) and others, from multiple disciplinary
backgrounds, for the 26th annual Crossing the Boundaries conference, which will
engage the concept of [pl.]: Exploring the Multiple. The recent return to
issues of the real and unreal, stimulated by disourses around art objects,
techno-culture, and systems theory, prompts continued searching for multiple,
unstable, even incoherent statuses and possibilities, and their relocation
within an ocean of networks. The making of such alternative constellations is
the aim of this gathering.
Submissions due by
Friday, February 9, 2018
Contact Email: buctbconf@gmail.com
URL: https://ctbconf.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/crossing-the-boundaries-2018-graduate-student-conference/
Graduate Student
Conference in U.S. History
Friday May 4 and Saturday May 5, 2018, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
The world has constructed America, just as America has
shaped itself--as a real and imagined place, constructed and reconstructed by
transnational forces and figures.
America materializes through global alliance and opposition,
immigration, urban development and rural economies, organization, consumption,
and rebellion. In whose image is America
constructed? Where are its borders? The American History Workshop at the
University of Michigan invites papers for its 2019 graduate student conference
themed "Constructing America: Identities, Infrastructure and
Institutions." Our keynote speaker is Professor Laura Barraclough (Yale
University), hose work integrates archival, ethnographic, and spatial analyses
of urban life and culture.
Please submit an abstract of 150-300 words and a CV to the
conference planning committee at umusgradconference@gmail.com.
Proposals are due by Sunday, January 28, 2018.
Performance,
Politics, and Play
September 13-16, 2018, New York City
In response to the “performative turn” in the humanities,
the ongoing interest in bio- and body-politics, and the growing attention to
leisure, dance, and sport studies, the International Society for Cultural
History invites paper and panel proposals for its 2018 annual conference on
Performance, Politics, and Play. Scholars working on any historical period or
location are encouraged to explore this theme.
DEADLINE: January 15, 2018.
Contact Email: isch2018@gmail.com
Translating Feminism:
Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Text, Place and Agency
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 13-15 June 2018
The focus of this Conference is on the translocal,
transcultural and translingual connections between such texts and their authors
in both historical and contemporary contexts.
In what ways do texts connect activists operating in different local
environments? How are actors influenced by intellectual and political sources
originating from other localities and different cultural environments? What
happens to a text when it is adapted to a new environment and is politically
operationalised in different circumstances?
Please send us your abstract by 16 March.
Contact Email: translatingfeminism@gmail.com
Disco! An
Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Sussex, 21-23 June 2018
From its origins as a New York City subculture amongst gay,
black and Latino/Latina practitioners, and its transition into the mainstream,
to its subsequent lives across international scenes, disco poses pivotal
questions about the entanglements of art, industry, identity, and community.
Disco is the site of many significant and lasting debates in popular culture,
including those surrounding the figures of the DJ and the diva, the status and
significance of dancing bodies, the tension between what is authentic and what
is synthetic, and the historic maligning of society’s others. This major
interdisciplinary international conference aims to examine and expand these
debates.
Please send a 300-word abstract, along with a short
biography and indication of the format of your proposed presentation to: disco@sussex.ac.uk by Friday 2
March 2018.
Contact Email: michael.lawrence@sussex.ac.uk
Collection Thinking
12-14 June 2018, Concordia University, Montreal
What is a collection? As a concept that signifies both an
action (of gathering things together) and an entity (the things gathered), the
collection raises important questions about how we create meaning through acts
of selection, arrangement and description. The idea for this conference
originates in a project that considers the literary historical and cultural
significance of the author’s personal collection (of books, papers and
ephemera) as a repository of materials with culturally-informed organizational
structures.
Please send proposals of no more than 250 words for
individual papers and panel sessions, plus a one-page CV for each presenter as
Word or PDF attachment, to Chalsley Taylor chalsleytaylor@gmail.com by 1
March 2018.
#Metoo: Oral
histories of sexual violence and harassment.
2018 OHA Annual Meeting. October 10-13, 2018, Montreal
From #believesurvivors to #me too, narratives around
harassment, abuse, and sexual violence have become increasingly prominent in
the media over the last few years. This panel draws on feminist oral history
practice to explore critical questions relating to oral narratives of
harassment and abuse. Oral history, with its ability to capture personal
experiences and intimate narratives, is well-suited to document experiences of
sexual violence, harassment, and abuse. The sharing of traumatic memories can also
raise a range of ethical issues for narrators and interviewers. This panel
explores how interviews exploring experiences of harassment and abuse,
particularly within institutions and organizations, can shed new light on
contemporary efforts to achieve justice for survivors.
Please send abstracts for papers to kja45@sfu.ca by January 14th.
The Women, Gender,
and Sexuality Network of the Social Science History Association
“Histories of Disadvantage. Meanings, Mechanisms, and
Politics”
44th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History
Association,
Phoenix, Arizona, November 8-11, 2018
While we encourage contributions related to regional themes
of borders and borderlands, histories of rebellious actions, and mobilization
for rights (widely defined), we will be happy to consider papers or panels
from all geographical regions that address related themes, offer new
theoretical frameworks, and present materials that allow us to compare,
contrast, and illustrate the complexity of rights (including, but not limited
to legal concepts of gender/sexual power and norms, international/national
dimensions of social/cultural/political/legal constructs of human rights,
refugees and power/empowerment) as well as border crossings (including but not
limited to the complexities of physical trespassing of nation-state borders,
cultural ruptures, gendered and sexual transgressions).
Submission Deadline: February 16, 2018
For additional general information, please see www.ssha.org.
Dominique Grisard dominique.grisard@unibas.ch
Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney jadwiga@email.arizona.edu
Martin Gössl martin.goessl@fh-joanneum.at
Ethics and social
engagement of researchers
Often, starting a new research project or fieldwork begins
with a self-reflective survey by the researcher of their own research
practices. The URMIS graduate symposium, which is held once a year at Paris
Diderot University or the University of Nice, France, offers to Ph.D students,
senior Ph.D candidates and post-doctoral fellows in Anthropology, Sociology,
History, Geography, and Ethnic Studies, an opportunity to present their
reflections on methodological and ethical questions about research practices in
their own fields. For the 2018 edition, which will take place at the University
of Nice, we invite submissions on researchers’ attitudes to social and
political engagement and on the ethics of research. The symposium will allow
researchers to discuss their past or present research projects in the light of
such questions, which are too often left unaddressed and remain hidden in our
publications.
Those interested in presenting their research at this
conference should send a 250-word abstract to jddurmis2018@gmail.com no later
than February 1st, 2018.
Critical Disaster
Studies conference
New York University, September 21-22, 2018
Disasters loom large in the human imagination. From the
Biblical story of Noah’s flood to science fiction fantasies of nuclear war,
every generation, it seems, envisions its own spectacular destruction. Today,
in the context of climate change, urbanization, and global conflict, anxieties
about environmental devastation, financial crisis, and terrorism join enduring
fears of earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts, and disease. This conference will
bring together new and established scholars of disaster and related themes in
order to evaluate the state of this emergent field and to chart pathways for
future research. We seek contributions from the humanities and interpretive
social sciences that examine disaster in social, political, cultural, architectural,
environmental, and transnational perspectives.
Please submit abstracts of approximately 300 words, along
with a CV, to critical.disaster.studies@gmail.com by
January 8, 2018.
Africans, African
Americans, Academia, and Activism
Bowie State University, April 5-7, 2018
The Gloria Richardson Humanities Initiative at Bowie State
University, therefore, invites individual paper and panel proposals for
presentations at its second conference. Presentations may address any aspect of
African, African American, or African Diaspora involvement in activism and/or
protest on college or university campuses, or for demands for access to
education at any level at any time anywhere in Africa, the United States,
and/or the African Diaspora.
Please submit individual paper proposals (c.300 words),
panel proposals (c. 500 words) and a brief CV (2pp. maximum) for each presenter
by Saturday, February 17, 2018 to Humanities@bowiestate.edu
Resistance and
Recovery across the Americas
Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference, November
7-11, 2018 | The Westin Denver Downtown
From Anne Hutchinson to Phillis Wheatley to the Crunk
Feminist Collective, American women writers have historically engaged in
resistance in their creative/activist works, pushing against restrictive gender
norms, a patriarchal culture that devalued women in political and economic
spaces, the tradition of silence and silencing, and any number of other
obstacles that limited women’s voices and their freedom to explore the full
breadth of their unique identities. At the same time, from scholars like
Frances Foster to the initiatives championed by the likes of Legacy and the
Colored Conventions Project, scholars also work toward recovery, eager to
rediscover the works of American women writers who were active in their
resistance, insightful in their social and political critiques, and responsive
to the dominant discourse on race, protest, social justice, as well as
identity, etc. emerging during their lives.
The deadline for proposals of approximately 250 to 300 words
is Friday, February 16, 2018
Contact Email: ssaww.vpdevelopment@gmail.com
Entangled Others –
Other Entanglements: Critical Perspectives on the Relationship of Racism and
Antisemitism
International Conference, Berlin, June 24-26, 2019
Critical inquiry into the relationship of racism and
antisemitism is more urgent than ever. Due to the global resurgence of
authoritarian movements and governments, the proliferation and acceptance of
racist and anti-Semitic views is dramatically increasing. At the same time, the
missing connection between the struggles against racism and against
antisemitism has been all too often a serious political handicap. Despite all
this, the conceptual and historical relationship of racism and antisemitism
remains both strongly contested and unclear. Historical research often
presupposes a specific understanding of this relationship but hardly ever
inquires into it or even acknowledges it.
Entangled Others – Other Entanglements invites participants
to discuss the potentials and pitfalls of an analysis of the relationship
between racism and antisemitism. The conference aims to approach this
relationship from a wide range of topical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives.
Deadline for the proposals is February 4, 2018.
Contact Email: felix.axster@tu-berlin.de
Disabled Latinx
Movement
May 31 - June 2nd 2018, Austin, Texas
CNLD & the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities invite
proposal submissions from individuals, academics, practitioners, activists,
advocates, community members, self-advocates and more (with preference given to
those who identify as Disabled Latinx). You can submit proposals to present
individually, via teleconferencing and/or in groups (of no more than four
individuals). Through submissions we hope to uplift the experiences of
individuals who identify as Disabled, Deaf, and/or Blind and Latinx (Chicanx,
Hispanic, Latinx, Mexican, Mestiza, etc.), and those representing other
marginalized identities such as undocumented, LGBTQIA, elder, Afro-Latinx, and
neurodiverse.
Submission deadline: March 1st 2018
Contact Email: Washiekatorres@gmail.com
URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfTwNXIlSSNyCjTWFkbi9JYm4FO_FcPf8qZcN1rTsbOwOLm8g/viewform
Annual Conference on
Women in Higher Ed
Women's & Gender Studies at Texas Tech University
proudly announces a call for proposals for the 34th Annual Conference on the
Advancement of Women, which will take place on the campus, April 20, 2018.
Guest Speakers include; Dr. Norma Cantu (Chicana/o & Latina/o scholar and
Favianna Rodriguez, artist/activist. We invite papers and panel proposals that
explore the manifold meanings of movement and change as connected to, created
by, and/or caught up in the presence of women's, gender, and identity issues,
in both contemporary and historical frameworks. Interdisciplinary proposals, as
well as those from disciplines and specialty subject areas are also encouraged
to submit.
Submit an 250-word abstract including the proposal title,
name, affiliation and contact information for all author(s) on or before
February 23, 2018.
Contact Email: womens.studies@ttu.edu
Society for U.S.
Intellectual History
The Society for U.S. Intellectual History invites proposals
for its 2018 annual conference. This year’s event will be held November 8-11,
2018, at the Warwick-Allerton Hotel, a historic hotel on Chicago’s Magnificent
Mile.The 2018 theme is “Anti-Intellectual Sensibilities.” We interpret this
broadly to include topics such as “alternative facts,” unreason, anti-elitism,
ignorance, the distortions of ideology, thoughtlessness, post-truth phenomena,
and anti-establishment movements. We expect to see proposals touching on
science, culture, politics, race, gender, government, society,
education—covering all time periods and various events in U.S. history.
For submission guidelines go to https://s-usih.org/conference/2018-call-for-papers/
Contact Email: USIH2018@gmail.com
Art, Materiality and
Representation
Royal Anthropological Institute
In particular, this panel will explore the political
possibilities opened up by a conversation between art and infrastructure. Do
infrastructural publics (Collier et al. 2016) mark the emergence of new forms
of political consciousness for art today? How do conceptualisations of
infrastructure as a public good define a new civil contract (Azoulay 2008) for
artistic practices? How do the visual, material and digital politics of
infrastructure reconfigure art spaces, audiences and curatorial roles? This
panel welcomes ethnographic accounts of, and creative engagements with /
through / about infrastructure, that speak to anthropological theories of
materiality, agency, and the politics of representation.
Please send abstract proposal (max 250 words) by 8th January
2018 to the online form:https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6072
Contact Email: pauline.destree.10@ucl.ac.uk
Innovative
Perspectives in History Conference
The History Graduate Student Association at Virginia Tech
invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 21st Annual
Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference. This
interdisciplinary conference will be held at the Virginia Tech Graduate Life
Center in Blacksburg, VA on March 30-31, 2018. A one-page abstract and a
short vita should be submitted by January 10, 2018. Please send to: Ellen
Boggs atvthgsa@gmail.com.
Teaching on the
Extreme Right: New Challenges, Fresh Approaches
University of Northampton, Park Campus, 12 April 2018
The impact of extreme right politics has changed in recent
times, creating new challenges for those who teach on this topic. This one-day
conference will bring together academics and practitioners to discuss fresh
approaches to teaching about the extreme right, as well as reflecting on
established approaches.
If you would like to submit a paper for the conference
please contact Daniel Jones (Daniel.Jones@Northampton.ac.uk)
or Dr Paul Jackson (Paul.Jackson@Northampton.ac.uk)
with an abstract or any queries you may have before 15th February 2018.
(dis)COVERING
DISCOURSES
Transdisciplinary Conference in University College Cork,
Ireland, 18th / 19th May 2018
Given the symbiotic relationship we have with discourses
whereby we are unremittingly surrounded by, embedded in and informed by
discursive ensembles, whilst simultaneously actively shaping them, the aim of
this transdisciplinary conference is to offer researchers a space to explore
and challenge current discourses. We wish to think not only about current
hierarchies and the power they affirm, but also about what is absent in the
current discursive regimes. Since discourse is perceived as having formative,
regulatory and authoritative characteristics, in this conference we aim to
cover ongoing discourses and to peel back layers and thus dis-cover discourses
hidden in society.
Potential themes on Discourse that we would like to address:
Architecture/Arts, Borders, Body, Class, Gender, Health, Identity,
Institutions, Integration, Knowledge, Literature/Literary Critique Economy,
Migration, Multilingualism, Nature/Animals, Precarity, Religion, Silence,
Social Media, Space, Violence.
Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) and a brief
biography (max. 70 words) to discoursescfp@gmail.com by
12th February 2018.
(Un)common worlds:
Contesting the limits of human–animal communities
7-9 August 2018 – Turku, Finland
Humans and other animals share spaces and create communities
together. They touch each other in various symbolic and material ways,
constantly crossing and redrawing communal, ethical and very practical
boundaries. As of late, this multifarious renegotiation of human-animal
relations has sparked intense debates both in the public arena and in academia.
With this Call we invite you to discuss and develop ideas about human-animal
worlds both common and uncommon. We invite presentations to this
interdisciplinary conference from various fields, including but not limited to
social sciences, law, arts and humanities, and natural and environmental
sciences.
CFP is open until 28 February 2018.
Contact Email: uncommonworlds2018@gmail.com
Moving Monuments:
History, Memory and the Politics of Public Sculpture
On-going events in the United States concerning the removal
of Confederate soldier-statues, together with similar discussions in the UK
linked to various memorials and monuments from the age of Empire, make clear
that despite living in an era of increasingly 'virtual memory', public
sculpture continues to draw – and provoke – engaged political debate. Prompted
by these contemporary ‘culture wars’, and in order to provide a space in which
scholars, heritage professionals and interested members of the public might
gather to interrogate the politics of commemorative sculpture, the Manchester
Centre for Public History and Heritage is organising a two-day conference for
20 – 21 April 2018.
Abstracts of c.300 words, plus a one page CV should be sent
to Sam Edwards at s.edwards@mmu.ac.uk by Friday
26th January 2017.
Exploring photography
in the History of the immigration to the USA
The workshop aims at taking this discussion further, with a
particular focus on “the work” photography is doing in culture. It attempts to
establish an understanding of the role of photographs in the many small
narratives that make up the history of the migration to the USA from the
1850s-1980. It may thus be thought of as a contribution or a piece to a
greater, transnational, migration-historical jigsaw puzzle that is as yet barely
begun.
A 500-word proposal and a curriculum vitae (including email
address) should be received by the organizers by January 15, 2018. The proposal
and CV should be sent as attachments to an email sent to Sigrid Lien at Sigrid.Lien@uib.no
Questions may be addressed to Justin.Carville@iadt.ie
Real and Imagined
Borders: People, Place, Time
Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, April
6 - 7, 201
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.
The final deadline for submission is February 11, 2018.
Contact Email: histconf@cmich.edu
URL: http://ighsc.info/
F*ck May ’68, Fight
Now: Exploring the Uses of the Radical Past from 1968 to Today
This conference takes the 50th anniversary of 1968 as an
occasion to critically assess the various ways in which radical events and
movements since the 1960s have been retold, not just in historical writing, but
through a broad range of cultural media, activities, and practices, including
by activists themselves. It also seeks to explore how the representation of the
past is involved in the struggle over cultural and political meaning in the
present, over what counts as history and what does not. Finally, it aims to
reflect on how memory and history continue to inform political activity in the
contemporary moment. In doing so, the conference organisers invite contributions
from activists, historians, and other scholars, but also artists, journalists,
curators, archivists, educators, filmmakers, musicians, and cultural workers.
Contact Email: fmay68fightnow@gmail.com
PUBLISHING
Afro-Intellectualism:
Past, Present, and Future Dimensions
Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies seeks submissions focused on: the African
intelligentsia, the African brain drain, decolonizing education in Africa and
the African world community, institutional development and support for the
African intelligentsia, the internationalization of African intellectualism,
organic scholars within the African intelligentsia, the sociology of African
intellectualism, the scholar-activist tradition/practice within the African
intelligentsia, critical biographical profiles of the African intelligentsia,
book reviews, the motion and behavior through space and time of African
intellectualism in relationship to energy and force (the physics of African
intellectualism), interviews, art and the African intelligentsia,
Afro-futurism, the African intelligentsia absent of egocentricity, the
conscious and unconscious dynamics/psychology of African intellectualism, etc.
All relevant topics and subtopics will be considered for this edition.
Contact Email: j_vern_cromartie@yahoo.com
Breaking the Fourth
Wall: Live Performances at Museums and Other Cultural Institutions
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals
In an age when technology and virtual experiences
monopolized our attention, a conscious attempt has been made to reinstate the
importance and success of ephemerality. For instance, in recent years,
performance art has increased in popularity, particularly within the context of
live exhibitions within museums. Internationally, museums have chosen to
emphasize the nuanced resurgence of performance through exhibitions in on site
concert halls or interactive displays. For this issue, we invite articles that
discuss live performances, their meaning, and their effect in engaging
communities within and around museum collections. Contributors are invited to
investigate the broadest range of performance from dance, music, theatre, film
to video, installation, and projection mapping.
Authors should express their interest by submitting a
150-word abstract to the guest editors and the journal editor by February 15,
2018.
Contact Email: jdgsh@rit.edu
Countercultures
FORUM Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts
Art, fashion, literature, cinema and music have historically
been vehicles to express and disseminate dissent. From the murals of Diego
Rivera to those of Banksy, and from the Romantic Jacobins to the South African
EFF, dissenting and countercultural movements have used the arts to stand
against powerful social institutions. Likewise, countercultural movements have found
their way into the politics of those who want to preserve the existing social
structures. Donald Trump’s promise to ‘Drain the Swamp’ while reinforcing
conservative values appealed to a large mass of US voters who saw the rise of
the left as a menace to their lifestyle. In this context of anti-establishment
sentiment, large corporations, too, have made use of the aesthetics of dissent
for private gain, as was the case with Pepsi Co.’s controversial Kendall Jenner
ad. Issue 26 of FORUM seeks contributions from a range of disciplines that
engage with the notions of counterculture and dissent.
Please e-mail your article, a short abstract and your
academic CV in separate, clearly labelled DOC(X). files to editors@forumjournal.org by 26
February 2018.
Queering Girlhood
This Special Issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary
Journal takes up the project of bringing the queer girl from the margins to the
center of girls’ studies by inviting articles from various disciplinary
perspectives that explore the experiences and representations of queer girls,
as well as the impact of queer girl cultures on the understanding of girlhood.
When they appear in public discourse or popular representations, which happens
far too infrequently, queer girls usually act as representative of a problem to
be solved, a phase to grow out of, or a minor point within a larger debate
about young female sexuality. In considerations of queer youth, they again find
themselves marginalized or silenced by a seemingly inescapable focus on their
male peers. Theirs are, in short, voices we too rarely hear and experiences too
rarely figured. Yet, because they are so obviously marginalized by and/or
resistant to normative constructions of gender and sexuality, queer girls
provoke a number of important critical questions for definitions of youth and
of girlhood.
Please direct inquiries to Barbara Jane Brickman (bjbrickman@ua.edu) and send expressions of
interest and/or abstracts to her by 19 February 2018.
For more information, see www.berghahnjournals.com/girlhood-studies.
Jewish Studies and
the Jewish Question after Trump
The election of Donald Trump has brought the “Jewish
Question” back onto the intellectual agenda in a way that it has not been for
decades. If the term was employed first by non-Jews in the context of
emancipation, it was subsequently put into frequent use by Jews themselves to
describe the vexed relationship between Jewishness and the dominant social
formations of the modern world—whether Christianity, Europe, the West, the
Nation State, Enlightenment, etc. The Jewish Question named, and names, a
fundamental and unstable self-other relationship that is central to the
production of both Jewish and non-Jewish identities in modernity.
Prospective contributors should email abstracts of 500-600
words by April 30, 2018.
T(r)opophilia:
Haunting/Haunted Places
The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English
Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue
focusing on t(r)opophilia: sense/love of place.
We welcome papers in English and invite proposals (no more
than 9,000 words) from senior as well as junior academics. Please send the
manuscript, an abstract (cca. 200 words) with 5 keywords, and a brief curriculum
vitae as attachments to BOTH msa@usv.ro and msa_usv@hotmail.com.
Deadline: June 1, 2018.
Contact Email:
URL: http://msa.usv.ro/
Memory, Amnesia,
Commemoration
Special Issue, ELN (English Language Notes)
This proposed special issue takes as its focus the topic of
memory and its cognates, amnesia and commemoration. Memory has witnessed a
remarkable efflorescence in the past few years, both in scholarly work in the
humanities and in popular efforts to address the collective forgetting of
traumatic pasts. While the interrelationship between history (the study of past
events) and memory (the ways in which the past is remembered and accessed), and
the role of institutions such as museums and monuments in memorialization have
been staple topics of academic historiography, scholars in recent years have
turned their attention to how catastrophes—colonization, slavery, war,
genocide, and disease pandemics—impact memory, and how traumatic events are
remembered by victims, survivors, and descendants.
Papers are due July 31, 2018
Contact Email: ramesh.mallipeddi@colorado.edu
Food Fights: A Global
Perspective
Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of
Social Conflict
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 instead 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
Asian Diasporas Issue
This special issue aims to curate essays that theorize and
narrate Asian diasporas through feminist frameworks. We invite contributors to
foreground gender as they engage conceptually with Asian diasporas as spaces of
un-unified and uneven gendering and queering experiences, identities, histories
and hegemonies, compelling individuals to endlessly translate multiple forces
into daily interactions. What are the local and global gendering moments in
Asian diasporic transnationalism? How do we investigate “politics of
destination” (Chu, 2010) in the often-described fluid movement of Asian
diasporas? What unique struggles do Asian diasporas encounter as a historically
feminized group in colonialist discourse? In what light should we study Asian
diasporas beyond the Global North’s imaginaries of “Asia” and its related
gender identities, localities, populations, and bodies?
Scholarly articles and inquiries should be sent to guest
issue editors Lili Shi and Yadira Perez Hazel at AsianDiasporasWSQ@gmail.com.
We will give priority consideration to submissions received by March 1,
2018. Please send complete articles, not abstracts.
Contact Email: wsqeditorial@gmail.com
Ecofeminist Science
Fiction
Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume titled
Ecofeminist Science Fiction. Interested authors should send a 300-word
abstract, 200-word biography, and sample of a previously published chapter or
article to dvakoch@meti.org by February
1, 2018.
Contact Email: dvakoch@meti.org
Creative Discovery in
Human Robot Interaction: Technology and Techniques
Human–robot interactions (HRI) is an established, but
rapidly-growing, field with many focal points. Whether we focus on humanoid
robots, robot systems, or robotics incorporated in the human body, research in
the area shares one theme: interaction. How do we relate to robots, how do
robots relate to us, and how might we more clearly define the complexity of
interaction with robots? While those working in science and engineering have
taken the field of HRI to exciting areas, robots can be researched also as social
actors, regardless of their technical attributes. This special issue aims at
disseminating cutting edge HRI work emerging from domains that are less
represented in mainstream HRI venues, work that is informed by performance
research, the arts, architecture, design, literature and philosophy. This
Special Issue seeks provocative and radical HRI scholarly work that will evoke
novel methodical approaches to pressing robotic interaction questions, offering
the community a chance to shake up our current thinking and practice, and to
provide fresh insights into HRI.
Interested authors should submit a 100-word proposal through
the journal website. Final papers to be submitted by April 1, 2018.
Contact Email: pfinn@ucalgary.ca
The Green Critique: A
Collection of Critical Essays
Ecocriticism began as a result of the environmental
revolution that had begun around the 1960s after the publication of Rachel
Carson’s Silent Spring. It focuses on the importance of the relationship
between human beings and nature, how human beings are both effecting and affecting
nature and vice versa. With time, it started to lay significant impact over
various other disciplines as well and emerged as an umbrella term in critical,
cultural and academic discourse. As an ‘earth-centered approach’, it
intersected environment and culture and calling for collaboration between
natural scientists, writers, literary critics, anthropologists, historians,
academicians and more.
15th January– Final Submission
Contact Email: environscritique@gmail.com
Theatre and
Performance in Muslim Worlds
This special issue of Ecumenica will focus on theatre and
performance in Islamic countries and cultures, and (re)presentations of Muslim
bodies on stage. The issue will interrogate the multiple ways in which Muslim
bodies are (re)presented on stage, in everyday life, and in the archive.
Deadline for submissions is 30 January 2018.
Submission Guidelines: http://www.ecumenicajournal.org/submission-guidelines/
Art and Freedom of
Expression
The upcoming issue of Seismopolite Journal of Art and
Politics will discuss how different artistic forms and strategies may advance
freedom of expression and be used to confront censorship in contexts worldwide.
Contributors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds are invited to submit
articles, reviews or interviews that address this theme through a high variety
of possible angles and art forms.
We accept submissions continuously, but to make sure you are
considered for the upcoming issue, please send your proposal/ draft, CV and
samples of earlier work to submissions@seismopolite.com within
January 14, 2018
Current issue: www.seismopolite.com
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.
Disability & Shame
RDS is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, international
journal published by the Center on Disability Studies at the University of
Hawai‘i at Manoa. This Call for Papers proposes a forum on the subject of shame
and disability, broadly conceived. It is hoped that through critical discourse
addressing the historical and current contexts, contributing factors, effects,
and responses to shame, greater understanding of this phenomena will diminish
discrimination and violence.
We look forward to receiving your submissions. If you have
any questions, please contact
Contact Email: rdsj@hawaii.edu
Disney Theme Parks
and Performance
We are seeking interested scholars to join an
anthology/edited collection of essays focused on performance and Disney theme
parks, tentatively titled Carousel of Performance: The Tourist as Actor in the
Mouse’s Kingdom. Several authors have already contributed work to this
collection in progress, and discussions have begun with an interested academic
publisher.
If you would like to contribute an article, please submit a
500 word abstract to the project’s co-editors, Jennifer Kokai (jenniferkokai@weber.edu) and Tom
Robson (trobson@millikin.edu) by
Monday, January 22. We also invite interested parties to email us to discuss
possible ideas.
FUNDING
James W. Scott
Research Fellowship Awards
The James W. Scott Regional Research Fellowships promote
awareness and innovative use of archival collections at Western Washington University,
and seek to forward scholarly understandings of the Pacific Northwest.
Fellowship funds are awarded in honor of the late Dr. James W. Scott, a founder
and first Director of the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, and a noted
scholar of the Pacific Northwest region. Up to $1000 funding is offered in 2018
to support significant research using archival holdings at WWU’s Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (CPNWS),
a unit of Western Libraries Heritage Resources.
Applications are accepted from individuals in doctoral
programs as well as individuals who have finished the Ph.D.
Applications for the award will be reviewed after April 1,
2018.
Contact Email: Ruth.Steele@wwu.edu
Research Travel
Grants: Sallie Bingham Center, Rubenstein Library, Duke University
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
is now accepting applications for our 2018-2019 research travel grants: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/grants-and-fellowships/.
Of particular interest to the fields of Women’s, Gender,
Feminist, and Sexuality Studies, the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History
and Culture offers Mary Lily Research Grants for research in these areas. The
Sallie Bingham Center documents the public and private lives of women through a
wide variety of published and unpublished sources, including personal and
family papers, organizational records, print sources such as books and
periodicals, and audiovisual materials. Particular strengths of the Sallie
Bingham Center are feminism in the U.S., women's prescriptive literature from
the 19th & 20th centuries, girls' literature, zines, artist's books by
women, gender & sexuality, and the history & culture of women in the
South.
The deadline for application is January 31, 2018 by 5:00 PM
EST.
E-mail: kelly.wooten@duke.edu
Winterthur Research
Fellowship Program
Winterthur is once again offering short-term “Maker-Creator”
Fellowships. These short-term fellowships are designed for artists, writers,
filmmakers, horticulturalists, craftspeople, and others who wish to examine,
study, and immerse themselves in Winterthur’s vast collections in order to
inspire creative and artistic works for general audiences.
Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2018.
For more details and to apply, visit the Research Fellowship web page or
e-mail researchapplication@winterthur.org.
Digital Humanities
The German Literature Archive Marbach, the Klassik Stiftung
Weimar, and the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel collect, preserve, and
provide access to more than 500 years of German and European cultural history. The
three institutions are calling for applications for several fellowships in the
field of Digital Humanities, ideally lasting six months (at least three, a
maximum of twelve). The programme is open to all disciplines and is directed
towards young scholars (graduates at Master level) from Germany and abroad.
Applicants must be working on a project linked to the interests and collections
of at least one of the three institutions and make use of methods and
techniques from the Digital Humanities (e.g. Markup Methods for Electronic
Editions, Stylometry, Topic Modelling, Visualisation). Prior to the application
it is recommended to contact the respective collection department for further
information on the holdings of interest.
Application deadline: January 15
