CONFERENCES
Prejudice and
Expertise-Discrimination in the West, 1850-2000
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the reemergence of
prejudice as a factor in European and North American politics and society.
Events ranging from the rise of the far-right in France and Germany to Brexit
and the election of Donald Trump have been ascribed by a range of commentators
to political discontent in part motivated by racial and religious prejudice,
misogyny, and xenophobia.
We propose to explore how prejudice of all forms has been historically
— and is today — constructed, supported and represented to the public. In
particular, this conference will aim to show how discriminatory polices and
perspectives have been rationalized by recourse to theories about human
‘difference’.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief
biographical statement by 6 December 2017 to: conveners@prejudice-expertise.org
Madness, Mental Illness and Mind Doctors in 20th and 21st Century
Pop Culture
3rd and 4th May 2018, University
of Edinburg
This conference will examine
these representations, and explore the ways in which madness, mental illness,
and those who are both affected by, and striving to treat, psychological
maladies are depicted in twentieth and twenty-first century popular culture. We
ask: how have fluctuating historical conditions and attitudes influenced the
ways in which madness and mental illness are portrayed in the media? What kind
of relationship exists between medical understandings of psychological
disorders and popular depictions of such illnesses? Do contemporary portrayals
of “madness” in popular fictions work to demystify and destigmatize mental
illness, or do these representations reinforce negative stereotypes, further
obfuscating our understanding of psychological disorders?
Please submit abstracts of 300
words, along with a short biographical note (150 words), to madnessinpopculture@gmail.com by 2nd February, 2018. Further information at www.madnessinpopculture.com.
Collective Memory, Social Action, and the Uses of History
The conference will take place
on March 8-9, 2018 on the flagship campus of the University of Maryland.
From Maryland and
Charlottesville to Catalonia, Myanmar, and communities across the globe, this
year has seen a dramatic increase in activism, public debate, and conflict
centered on collective memory, representation, and history. Movements and
actors across the political spectrum have claimed historical narratives to
forward sometimes conflicting visions for society.
With the goal of better
understand the diverse ways individuals, institutions, states, and civil
society have produced, utilized, and contested memory and history, this conference
encourages submissions from various disciplines, fields, geographical areas,
and time periods. Additionally, we encourage paper or presentations submissions
from political or movement practitioners outside of the academy dealing with
topics history, memory, and action.
Proposals must be submitted by January 10, 2018 to umdgradhistconference@gmail.com
What Now? NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference
February 23-24, 2018
What now? A discomfiting
question. It compels a revisiting of our pasts, a consideration of where we
stand today, and an articulation of the directions in which we expect, or hope,
to go. As disciplinary boundaries become fluid, technology continues to change,
and temporalities seem increasingly uncertain, it is essential to address the
What Nows confronting our field today, and reconsider those from before.
What are the forgotten futures
of the past? How is the now mediated (or not)? How is the future lived and
preserved in the now? Can we think through, and ‘think-through-by-doing’ the
futures of our fields? Could a more vibrant interdisciplinarity, connections
between theory and practice, and a reach beyond academia have answers to offer?
Please submit an abstract
(250-300 words) and CV to csstudentconference@gmail.com no later than December 30
Care Ethics and Precarity
PORTLAND, OREGON, September 27
& 28, 2018
The Care Ethics Research
Consortium (CERC) is a worldwide, interdisciplinary community committed to the
robust exploration and advancement of care ethics. Precarity is a rich and widely
contested term that can describe a variety of oppressive circumstances. We are seeking presentations that explore how
an ethic of care confronts precarity, broadly construed. All scholarly approaches are welcome
including those that address or employ theory, empirical data, applications,
policy, aesthetics, etc. Given the
origin of care ethics in women’s experience and feminist theory, feminist
scholars are particularly encouraged to submit presentation proposals.
Please send your 500 word
abstract for peer review to: abstracts@care-ethics.org by March 1, 2018.
For
conference questions, please contact the conference chair, Professor Maurice Hamington at m.hamington@care-ethics.org.
Agile Objects: The Art and
Anthropology of Re-materialization
We warmly invite paper proposals for our panel “Agile Objects: The Art
and Anthropology of Re-materialization” at the Royal Anthropology Institute’s
Art, Materiality and Representation conference hosted by the British
Museum/SOAS, 1st-3rd June 2018. This panel examines the practices by which
artists and media-makers from non-Western contexts are progressively
re-materializing digital content in order to increase the exclusivity, cultural
capital, and visibility of their aesthetic and cultural creations.
Call for papers is open now until 8th January 2018. To submit a paper,
please see: https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6075
Contact Email: emilie.lefebvre@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Art, Technology, Education, Law,
Society and Sensory Diversity
Montreal, 2-5 May 2018
“The sensorium is a fascinating focus for cultural studies,” wrote
Walter J. Ong in “The Shifting Sensorium” (1991). Ong’s words heralded the
arrival of sensory studies, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry which takes a cultural
approach to the study of the senses and a sensory approach to the study of
culture. Sensory Studies has galvanized much exciting and provocative research
and experimentation in the humanities and social sciences and visual and
performing arts over the past three decades. Proposals for panels (up to three
papers) and individual papers relating to any of the above topics are warmly
welcomed.
Deadline: 15 December 2017
Contact Email: senses@concordia.ca
[Un]making Empires
Yale University American Art Graduate Symposium, April 7, 2018
The history and experience of immigration, colonization, and
nation-building in the Americas have contributed to a complex artistic legacy.
From Incan quero vessels to Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar
Baby, the arts of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean have
engaged and served different imperial visions. A means of both consolidating
and challenging state power, material and visual cultures of empire have also
shaped the identities of individuals, larger communities, and entire countries
alike. The Fourteenth Annual Yale University American Art Graduate Symposium
invites papers that present new ways of thinking about art’s relationships to
colonialism and empire. We invite submissions from graduate students working on
American art across all time periods and media.
Interested participants are invited to submit an abstract of no more
than 350 words along with a CV to americanist.symposium@gmail.com by
January 26, 2018.
Globalization vs Nationalism
Rutgers Division of Global Affairs, Newark, NJ, April 21, 2017
The nexus between globalization and nationalism has been subject to
debate within the global affairs discipline within the last century; both
concepts hold an essential position in our contemporary world. Their importance
lies in the establishment of modern societies and nation-states, and their role
in a world in which interdependence has expanded.
With its annual conference, the Student Association of Global Affairs
at Rutgers University seeks to broaden this conversation and provide a space
for students to deconstruct traditional narratives within international
relations and global affairs by exploring the interaction between globalism and
nationalism and how they can inform theory, analysis, practice, and
methodology: Why do we need to take this discussion into account? How can it
shape our thinking both at domestic and global levels?
The submission deadline for abstracts is January 31, 2018.
Contact Email: saga.rutgers@gmail.com
Rutgers Division of Global
Affairs, Newark, NJ, April 21, 2017
12-13 APRIL 2018, INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCED STUDY OF THE HUMANITIES,
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
The language of the countercultural is now often as likely to be used
to describe the so-called ‘Alt-Right’ as it is the radical youth culture of the
60s. On 17 February 2017, for example, the Independent online, in response to
claims in the media, published an op-ed entitled, ‘There’s a very simple reason
why the alt-right is not the new counterculture’ – the reason being that there
is simply no dominant culture to counter. On the other hand, some, such as
film-maker Adam Curtis, has argued that, in spite of itself, the counterculture
has contributed to the development it originally sought to break with. With
these issues in mind, for this workshop we invite speakers to propose 20-minute
papers on the international counterculture in contemporary discourse, or
reconsiderations on the artistic or historic counterculture of the 1960s and
70s.
Please submit abstracts of 250 words, as well as a short bio (50 words)
by 15 January 2018 to iash.counterculture@gmail.com.
History of Emotions: Grasping
Perceptions, Thinking Subjectivities
University of Montreal, 14-15-16 March 2018
The organizing committee wishes to create a core space for discussion,
reflection and criticism around the analysis of the theme of emotions in
research. How do faith, ideology, "race", class and gender influence
the expression of emotions? Do emotional markers vary from one society to
another (throughout space and time)? Do emotions have a conscious or an
unconscious impact on human action in society? Should scholars worry about some
forms of emotional manipulation? How should emotions be perceived in the
infinite multitude of our sources (whether written, spoken, filmed, recorded,
drawn, etc.)? Should researchers, sometimes also as witnesses, have to silence
their emotions in order to discuss their topic of interest? What is the
affective commitment of researchers to their witnesses? Do our perceptions and
subjectivities alter our work, and if so, how?
Please submit your proposal in either English or French (250
words maximum) before January 22, 2018 at midnight, to: xxv.colloque.aeddhum@gmail.com with
a copy to jacques.dehouck@gmail.com.
Escaping Escapism in Fantasy and
the Fantastic
26th – 27th April 2018
This two-day symposium at the University of Glasgow seeks to examine
and honour the relationship between escapism and the fantastic. We welcome
proposals for papers on this theme from researchers and practitioners working
in the field of fantasy and the fantastic across all media, whether within the
academy or beyond it. We are particularly interested in submissions from
postgraduate and early career researchers.
Please submit a 300-word abstract and a 100-word biography in separate
editable documents (not PDF) to submissions.gifconference@gmail.com by Monday,
the 15th of January 2018.
URL: https://gifcon.org/
Racism and the Disciplinary
Differentiation of Science and Philosophy
University of Texas at Dallas, May 17-20, 2018
This workshop seeks to weave together three historical threads that
have each separately received significant attention in recent years, but which
have not so far been followed together, perhaps due to the siloing of different
sub-disciplines of and approaches within the History of Ideas: (1) the role of
racism in the formation of the philosophical canon, (2) the role of racism in
the emergence of science as a distinct pursuit, especially the life and social
sciences, and (3) the disciplinary and professional differentiation of
philosophy and science from one another from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2018
Contact Email: mattbrown@utdallas.edu
Transnational belonging and
subjectivity-in-process: contemporary women artists’ encounters with space
New York, June 26-27, 2018
Current nation-state narratives and rising nationalisms demand that we
rethink notions of space and politics of access to space. We live in a crisis
in which we need to renegotiate and reframe the potential of solidarity and
cooperation. In rejecting the idea of male granted space, Luce Irigaray names
its patriarchal spatial exclusion, which renders women passive and removes them
from participation with/in the community. Marsha Meskimmon’s concept of
‘be(long)ing’ as a form of cosmopolitanism suggests novel ways of thinking
about dislocated subjects, domesticity and citizenship. Through such renaming
and reframing, this session destabilises the politics of space to consider ways
in which female agency disrupts borders and activates concerns around different
forms of belonging, citizenship and transnationalisms. What is the potential of
common and ethical figurations of being, human and non-human?
Deadline: December 15, 2017
Contact Email: b.sliwinska@fashion.arts.ac.uk
URL: http://www.christies.com/exhibitions/christies-education-conference-celebrating-female-agency-arts
Conflicts and Resolutions
Texas A&M History
Conference, 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 fruitful discussion. We are accepting paper proposals
regarding any geographical region and featuring research on any historical
period or topic.
Travel grants are available for presenters.
Deadline: Jan. 14, 2018
Contact Email: tamuhistoryconference2018@gmail.com
URL: file:///C:/Users/Laptop/Downloads/TAMU%20HGSO%20Conference%20Travel%20Grant%20and%20CFP%202018.pdf
Engendering Change
Graduate Gender/Sexualities Conference, April 14, 2018, University of
Chicago
The conference is open to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
in any field who are working on research related to the study of gender/genders
and sexualities broadly defined. Submissions may also come from any
methodological background.
To submit, please upload an abstract of no more than 300 words, title,
and keywords to: https://engenderingchange2018.wordpress.com.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 5pm (CST) on January 22, 2018.
Please direct any questions to: engenderingchangeconference@gmail.com.
Derrida Today Conference
The conference will be broadly interdisciplinary and invites
contributions from a range of academic, disciplinary and cultural contexts. We
will accept papers and panel proposals in English or French on any aspect of
Derrida’s work, or deconstruction, in relation to various topics and contemporary
issues, such as: philosophy, phenomenology and other theoretical/philosophical
thinkers, literature, psychoanalysis, architecture and design, law, film and
visual studies, haptic technologies, photography, art, music, dance,
embodiment, feminism, race and whiteness studies, politics, ethics, sociology,
cultural studies, queer theory, sexuality, education, science (physics,
biology, medicine, chemistry), IT and multimedia, the environment, technology,
etc. We also accept papers that engage
in the spirit of deconstructive thought (if not on Derrida or deconstruction
itself).
Deadline: Dec. 15
Contact Email: derridatodayconference@gmail.com
Challenging the Liberal World
Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations,
1955-2000
Leiden University, 8-9 May 2018
The United Nations is the central node in the system of global
governance, organizing and managing the interaction and cooperation of the
organs and specialized agencies of the institution with NGOs, corporate and
civil society actors and increasingly, the global public. Despite the important
role of the UN in this nexus, existing histories of the organization place an
emphasis on the role of Western actors and often overlook the agency of
countries from the Global South. This workshop will investigate how
individuals, organizations, civil society actors and states from the Global
South impacted upon the UN and the system of global governance in the latter
half of the 20th century as they expanded the meaning of decolonization to
address a range of North/South inequalities.
Please send an abstract of max. 500 words and a short CV to the
following email address: a.m.omalley@hum.leidenuniv.nl
by 1 January 2018.
Performance making and the
Archive
16th-17th March 2018, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
This conference is interested in a conversation on the nature of the
archive and its transformation within the context of performance making.
Theoretically performance has been understood as ephemeral, located in the
present, bearing affective excess, having transformative powers, identified as
disappearance etc. Its material absence has been at the heart of these
theoretical formulations. On the contrary, it has also been understood as
‘circulation of representations of representations’ and the romanticism around
its liveness has been argued over.
Proposals are due on: 10TH FEBRUARY, 2018.
Contact Email: performingarchive@gmail.com
Glocal Places of Literature:
Production - Distribution – Reception
June 28-30, 2018, Comparative Literature, University of Göttingen
(Germany)
This conference aims at investigating the shifting interconnection
between literatures and place in the twenty-first century on three intersecting
planes: literary production, distribution, and reception. We invite
contributions that discuss the issue of the changing role of real and imagined,
local and global, virtual and physical places of literature in an international
context. We want to bring together scholars from all fields within literary and
cultural studies, as well as from disciplines such as the sociology of
literature, human geography, book studies, and museology.
Please submit a short proposal (approx. 300 words, in English or
German) and a short biographical note to Marleen Knipping (marleen.knipping@phil.uni-goettingen.de;
North American Studies, University of Göttingen) and Julia Kroll (julia.kroll@phil.uni-goettingen.de;
Anglophone Literature and Culture, University of
Göttingen) by January 31st, 2018
Graduate Student Conference on
Peace and Conflict
Saturday, March 24, 2018, Cornell University
This conference invites submission of abstracts from graduate students
from fields including, but not limited to, government, sociology, history,
science and technology studies, anthropology, philosophy, law, and
communications. Topics should be related to the Reppy Institute’s interest in
the problems of war and peace, arms control and disarmament, and instances of
collective violence.
Contact Email: reppyfellows@gmail.com
Class at the Border: Migration, Confinement, and (Im)mobility
Stony Brook University from
June 6-9, 2018
Against the backdrop of
globalization, where capital flows across borders more easily than people, we
are living in increasingly walled-off societies. The conference theme, Class at
the Border: Migration, Confinement, and (Im)mobility, explores how an explicit
recognition of class can deepen our understanding of the structures and ideas
that divide individuals, communities, societies, and nations across the globe.
Presentations for this conference will consider how walls, borders, and other
dividing lines–of both the material and figurative variety–are constructed,
upheld, resisted, and dismantled.
Proposals must be received by
December 15, 2017
Contact Email: christopher.sellers@stonybrook.edu
Women's & Gender Studies at
Texas Tech University - Annual
Conference
April 20, 2018
The Women's & Gender Studies and the Conference Program Committee
at Texas Tech University proudly announces a call for papers for the Annual
Conference on The Advancement of Women, which will take place on the campus of
Texas Tech University. We invite presentations 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
the disciplines and specialty subject areas are welcome.
Deadline for submissions February 23, 2018
Contact Email: womens.studies@ttu.edu
Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and Human Rights
The Master of Arts in Holocaust
and Genocide Studies (MAHG) Program at Stockton University is proud to announce
its second conference on genocide, mass atrocity, and human rights for graduate
students. The theme of this year’s conference is “The Global Impact of
Genocide.” Proposal topics should be related to the overall theme, but
applicants should feel comfortable submitting proposals related to the general
subjects of genocide, mass atrocity, or human rights. The theme of each panel
session will be determined based on the proposals that are selected for
presentation. Faculty members of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program at
Stockton University will moderate each panel session.
Deadline: February 16, 2017
Contact Email: sarah.albertson@stockton.edu
Black Radicalism in the United
States
Tamiment Library, NYU, April 14-15, 2018.
The aim of a planned two-day conference in New York City is to bring
together scholars and activists alike, who deal with the history and the actual
legacy of black radicalism in the United States. What have been the dreams, but
also the fears of these radical movements, its African American supporters, but
also its African American antagonists? What, to be more precise, were the hopes
and dreams of black radicalism in the United States, and who were the
supposedly or actually existing enemies of these dreams? Which means were
perceived as legitimate to achieve the utopia black radicalism was possibly
leading to?
Interested scholars or activists should send a short proposal (max. 300
words) and their short CV (max. 2 pages) to FJacob@qcc.cuny.edu, tj29@nyu.edu, and kazembe.balagun@rosalux.org until January
10, 2018.
South Asia and the Limits of
Humanistic Inquiry
The University of Chicago, March 1st-2nd 2018
Humanistic inquiry has played an important role in shaping South Asia,
and South Asia has played an important role in shaping humanistic inquiry. But
how far back into the past and how far into the future does this hold true? The
fifteenth annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference at the University of
Chicago invites papers that address the limits—whether temporal, institutional
or conceptual—of humanistic inquiry. The question we pose is a simple one: Why
should scholarship on South Asia lead academic discussions that invest new
agency in the environment and other non-human entities?
Please send 200 word abstracts to http://tiny.cc/SAGSC by December
31st, 2017.
Milton Plesur Graduate History
Conference
The Graduate History Association (GHA) of the University at Buffalo
announces the 27th Annual Milton Plesur Graduate History Conference, to take
place March 16-17, 2018. We seek original papers that explore the currents of
contemporary scholarship and analyze a wide range of historical topics, time
periods, and geographic locations.
Similarly, we encourage proposals that draw from diverse theoretical and
methodological approaches to enrich the exchange of ideas at our conference. For the 27th Annual Plesur Conference, we are
especially seeking research that addresses the theme of “Rediscovering Oceanus:
21st Century Approaches to the Atlantic World.”
Broadly interpreted, this theme seeks to bring historical perspective to
issues related – but not limited to – colonialism, imperialism, trade, the
environment, immigration and migration, and all cultures with ties to the
Atlantic World. Work that employs
multi-disciplinary approaches is especially encouraged.
The deadline for paper proposals is Friday, January 5, 2018.
Contact Email: ghaconference2018@gmail.com
Comics and Graphic Narratives
Circle at the American Literature Association
May 24-27, 2018, Hyatt Regency San Francisco
The Comics & Graphic Narrative Circle welcomes abstracts for
presentation at two sessions on comics at the 2018 ALA conference in San
Francisco: Underground, Indie, and Alternative Publishing & the Graphic
Novel and Drawing While Black.
Please email an abstract (of no more than 350 words) and a brief
biographical note to Alex Beringer (aberinger@montevallo.edu) no
later than Jan 26th.
Memory and Repression
Syracuse University , Friday, March 23rd, 2018
The Future Professoriate Program of the Department of History at
Syracuse University will host its tenth annual graduate conference on Friday,
March 23rd, 2018. As debates rage in our country over the proper interpretation
of Confederate symbols, we are reminded that collective memory never applies to
an entire body politic but instead fractures along fault lines political,
social, ethnic, racial, gendered, and religious. To celebrate the ten-year
anniversary of the history graduate conference, our theme this year will be memory.
Papers that focus on memory repression, subversion, or omission are encouraged,
though we invite proposals from any and all studies that treat the subject of
memory. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: amnesia, collective
memory, “coming to terms with the past”, commemoration, divided memory,
forgetting, local memory, the manipulation of memory, memorialization, places
of memory, the politics of memory, public/official memory, and remembrance
(including remembering violence, war, and genocide).
Please submit proposals to suhistoryfpp@gmail.com by January
15th, 2018.
(Dis)Unity and Destruction:
Surviving the Storm Together
The University of Texas at Arlington, April 5-6, 2018
Recent years have borne witness to a barrage of natural disasters that
have devastated communities worldwide. Furthermore, escalating civil unrest has
interrupted daily life with human acts of violence. This onslaught of
destruction in current events has raised myriad questions about how we respond
to, and rise above, adversity. What does the future hold for a world
overwhelmed by both nature and man? What, and how, can we learn from these
experiences? How can progress overcome the surge of destructive forces? How do
individuals cope with, and move on from, trauma? What can we accomplish when we
come together? This year’s conference seeks potential answers to these
questions as a means of advancing the conversation and promoting healing and
progress.
Proposals due by: December 31st, 2017
Please submit 250 word abstracts to: DisUnityandDestructionEGSA2018@gmail.com
Borders and Borderlands
April 6-8, 2018, Bowling Green State University
Borders are meant to separate. They delineate one from another. Issues
of power arise when that delineation creates or exploits a marginalized
“other.” Recent debates across the US and the world illustrate the importance
of borders to establish and protect concepts of nationalism and safety; the
plan for a “transparent” wall on the southern border of the United States, the
refugee crisis which led to the limit of free movement in Europe, and the
ethnic cleansing in Myanmar are all examples of the rise of xenophobia and
global humanitarian crises.
Through examination of cultural representations, treatments, and uses
of borders in the arts and social justice movements, we can understand
ourselves, our futures, and our relation to one another and to ourselves. The
tasks of defining and dismantling concepts of borders have never been more important.
Through multiple theoretical lenses and the exploration of popular culture, we
can take a critical look at how and why borders, borderlands, and their
usefulness as a means of engaging with intersectional identities are emerging
as vital areas of study.
Submit Proposals by December 22, 2017 at www.bgsu.edu/raybrowne
For more info, e-mail raybrowneconf@bgsu.edu
Vampires, Mummies, and Zombies:
Searching for Sophia Among the Undead
Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, April 12 – 14, 2018
The undead seem to be everywhere these days. From Voldemort’s horcruxes
to the vampires of True Blood; from the white walkers of Game of Thrones, to
the walkers of the hit AMC series, The Walking Dead, the undead appear to have
taken up indefinite residence in popular culture. Confronting us with our own
anxieties surrounding mortality and the concomitant anxieties of life itself,
the undead challenge us to rethink the nature of the human being, call into
question our ethical and religious assumptions, and offer critiques of reigning
political ideologies. The undead therefore provide multiple avenues of
theoretical exploration and analysis, from the philosophical to the cultural,
economic, sociological, theological, aesthetic, and psychological.
Please submit detailed abstracts of no more than 600 words, in .doc,
.docx, or .pdf format, to the seminar director, Vernon Cisney, at vcisney@gmail.com, no later than January 7,
2018.
PUBLISHING
Artistic positions and
representations of mobility and migration
Reflections and representations of migration and mobilities are the
topics of the fourth issue 2018 of the online journal “Mobile Culture Studies”
(http://unipub.uni-graz.at/mcsj/wiki/about),
following issues on “The Sea Voyage,“ “Forced Mobilities, New Moorings,” and “Migration
et Ambience.“ We invite you to submit contributions dealing with artistic
positions, in a broad sense, that deal with migration and mobility from an
everyday and popular perspective. The contributions can be written in other
languages that English (http://unipub.uni-graz.at/mcsj/wiki/submitting?lang=en).
Abstract Deadline: February 2, 2018
Contact Email: schloer@soton.ac.uk
Women's Writing on Women Writing
Men
For this special issue of Women’s Writing we are seeking submissions
that consider women writers’ depictions of men. The issue intends to explore
the range of masculine constructions depicted by women writers in 18th and 19th
century fiction, poetry and drama. In doing so, the editors seek to navigate
the diversity of representations of men, manliness, and masculinities by women
within this period in order to illuminate further this little examined field.
This special issue will focus on women’s representations of men and masculinity
as they negotiate issues of class, gender, race, and sexuality.
Please submit 500 word abstracts and a brief biography for consideration
to Joanne Ella Parsons (Bath Spa University) j.parsons1@bathspa.ac.uk and
Ruth Heholt (Falmouth University) ruth.heholt@falmouth.ac.uk by
1stst May 2018.
From Weinstein to Moore
Historians of gender have long argued that the sexual exploitation of
women is a central facet of American life. Women’s work has traditionally been
limited to specific sectors like domestic and household labor. The conditions
under which female workers toiled, often alone, made it difficult for them to
mobilize for better treatment and wages. It also made them easy targets for abuse.
Today, women remain at risk. From Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky, to
the victims of Anthony Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, and Roy Moore, it is clear
that the possibility of harassment and assault is a fact of life for American
women. As Cecily Strong observed in a recent Saturday Night Live skit, “all of
this isn’t just a scandal. It didn’t just start last week. It’s just actual
reality for half of the population.” The Activist History Review invites
proposals that address this reality, past and present.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words for articles from 1250-2000
words, and should be emailed to William Horne at horne.activisthistory@gmail.com
by Monday, December 18th at 11:59 PM.
New perspectives on reading and
writing across the disciplines
This special issue of Higher Education Research & Development
connects a growing body of work on and interest in reading and writing across
the disciplines, including cognitive science, the text-based foundations of
much of new media and digitisation, and the widening international
participation agenda in the tertiary sector. What are the challenges,
difficulties, and pleasures of reading for students and teachers? What
strategies best help students learn to de-code complex texts and enter into
meaning-making dialogue?
HERD seeks articles of between 5000 and 7000 words (all inclusive) that
engage with these issues in some way. Full articles are due by 31 March 2018.
For more information or to seek feedback on an idea, please contact the
special issue editors Judith Seaboyer j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au
and Tully Barnett tully.barnett@flinders.edu.au
A guide for authors, along with other relevant information, can be
found on the journal’s homepage:
Digital Media & Society
In this volume of TransScripts, we explore notions of sociality by
thinking with and through digital media’s past, present, and future. Digital
media scholars from various disciplines in the humanities, social sciences,
arts, and computer sciences have urged us to ask what it means to be social in
this rapidly changing digital age. Contemporary scholarship on digital media
and society has asked after the implications of emerging and future digital
media forms on social relations, literacy and the internet, labor in the age of
cognitive capitalism, the role of digital media technology in social and
political movements, money flows, community and social network formation,
gaming subcultures, pop culture and fandoms, classroom education, and more.
Submission deadline: January 5, 2018
HIV/AIDS Related Art
Actualizing an Archetype: Narratives Conceived to Survive questions the
way we tell the story of HIV/AIDS and its effects on our contemporaneous
understandings of the disease. This
exhibition examines how the story of AIDS is communicated by artists rather
than telling the history of AIDS. We invite visual and performing artists to
submit artwork/proposals that encompass a wide-ranging understanding of how the
story of HIV/AIDS can be expressed visually, through the employment,
manipulation, and deconstruction of elements of symbols, archetypes,
narratives, and mythologies.
Please send high-resolution images (jpeg), an artist’s statement, and a
CV to ActualizinganArchetype@gmail.com.
Deadline for submission: January
15, 2018
Contact Email: shawndiamond@email.arizona.edu
Critical Feminist Exits, Re-Routings,
and Institutional Betrayals in Academia
This special issue of Feminist Formations focuses on the politics of
the movement of critical feminist scholars—those who routinely challenge
racialized, gendered, ableist, heteronormative or homophobic, and/or first-worldist
scripts within their fields or departments, through their embodied presence and
their substantive work. We invite manuscripts that map out and examine
scholars’ movements within, across, and out of academic institutions. Of
interest also are analyses of how administrators and academic institutions
initiate, negotiate, and/or respond to moves and exits by critical scholars. We
seek thoughtful examination of institutional failures to support critical
feminist scholars, analysis of the consequences of such failures, as well as
discussion of administrative responses that embrace and support critical
feminist scholars and their work, as a way to identify transformative
possibilities.
Full papers due February 15, 2018
Please see https://www.feministformations.org/submit/calls-for-papers for
details and link to the submission system.
Blackness and Labor in the
Afterlives of Racial Slavery
A Special Issue of International Labor and Working-Class History
Between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, the history of
labor on a global scale was shaped by the ambiguities and contradictions
accompanying the legal abolition of Black slavery and the persistence of racialized
coercion within putatively “free” contractual arrangements. Critical Black
studies have placed such questions within the conceptual framework of the
“afterlife” of slavery, defined by authors like Saidiya Hartman (Lose Your
Mother, 2008) and Christina Sharpe (In the Wake, 2016) as a state of continuous
vulnerability and endangerment of Black lives, shaping the present in ways that
reflect the limitations and constraints of “freedom.” The afterlives of
slavery, whose persistence is most evident in the continuously unaddressed
demand that “Black Lives Matter”, also challenge labor scholarship.
Prospective authors should send, by January 31, 2018, a cover letter
(including address, e-mail details, and institutional affiliation), a two-page
CV, and an abstract not exceeding 500 words.
Contact Email: barchiesi.1@osu.edu
Collections, Collectors and the
Collecting of Knowledge in Education
This collection will address collections, collectors and the collecting
of knowledge in educational media such as textbooks, primers, atlases, teaching
materials (objects and images, including wall charts and maps), curricula and
teachers’ and youth guidebooks. It will explore the objects and structures of
material and digital collections, the aims and motivations of public bodies and
private persons who collect them, and the means by which they are collected,
preserved, archived and disseminated. How and why are the sources of
educational media research conceived, selected, collected and managed? Who
creates and maintains collections, and for whom? And what influence do modes of
collecting have on researchers and their work – and on our knowledge of the
knowledge production process? This special issue brings together case studies
of the places, spaces, times, agents, aims, methods and contexts, and uses and
users, of educational resources, but also offers insight into theoretical
understandings of the specific nature of secondary sources of knowledge,
drawing on the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, history,
psychology and sociology.
Deadline: 31 January 2018: Title and abstract
Contact Email: collect@gei.de
Alien
Call for Submissions - Fwd: Museums Journal
Recognizing the need to critically transform museums, Fwd: Museums
strives to create a space for challenging, critiquing, and imagining
alternative modes of thinking and production within and outside of museums.
This journal is produced by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Museum and
Exhibition Studies Program.
In response to the 2016 election and its immediate aftermath, the theme
of our third issue is “alien.” What does it mean to be “alien”? How can we
unpack the term “alien” in the context of museums and cultural institutions?
Deadline: January 5, 2018 for manuscripts of up to 2,500 words
Contact Email: thereseq@uic.edu
From Weinstein to Moore: Sexual
Predation in American Culture
The Activist History Review invites article proposals for our January
issue, “From Weinstein to Moore: Sexual Predation in American Culture.”
Today, women remain at risk. From Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky, to
the victims of Anthony Weiner, Harvey Weinstein, and Roy Moore, it is clear
that the possibility of harassment and assault is a fact of life for American
women. As Cecily Strong observed in a recent Saturday Night Live skit, “all of
this isn’t just a scandal. It didn’t just start last week. It’s just actual
reality for half of the population.” The Activist History Review invites
proposals that address this reality, past and present.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words for articles from 1250-2000
words, and should be emailed to William Horne at horne.activisthistory@gmail.com
by Monday, December 18th at 11:59 PM
The Other 1980s: Reframing
Comics' Crucial Decade
We invite abstracts for essays that shift our focus to forgotten and
neglected comics and graphic narratives of the 1980s published for the
English-speaking market in North America and the UK. This collection will
provide readers and scholars with a more complete understanding of a robust era
of ambitious comics publishing, one whose products have not always easily
squared with the dominant tendencies in comics studies: open-ended serials that
do not translate neatly to the graphic novel format beloved by literature
departments; vast superhero narratives with no connection to the Marvel or DC
Universes; idiosyncratic and often experimental minicomics and zines; offbeat
science-fiction and fantasy adventures that have never been collected or
reprinted; and other such square pegs. This collection not only aims to broaden
our understanding of the context from which comics such as Spiegelman’s Maus
and Moore and Gibbons’s Watchmen emerged but also to revise conventional
histories of this vital period in comics history, positioning works that have
long been seen as peripheral or even disposable at the center of the frame.
Please send a two-page abstract and a CV to Brannon Costello (bcostell@lsu.edu) and Brian Cremins (bcremins@harpercollege.edu) by
January 31, 2018.
Literature, Politics, Media
We are living, as one Ancient Chinese curse aptly puts it, in
interesting times. This observation has not gone unnoticed, of course, by that
industry that both reports and manufactures news. Endless numbers of pages
about the major topical stories of the past few months—ranging from Brexit to
Trump and Syria—are being written as you read this very sentence.
As may be evident from the epigraphs above, however, there may be
somewhat of a discrepancy between “the way things are” and “the message
delivered about the way things are”. Typically, of course, the latter is
tantamount to the news that eventually gets published. Brexit, it may be
argued, has delivered a master class in this respect. Complex realities
involving different groups of people are simplified to a ridiculous level in a
patronising exploitation of the emotions of the disenfranchised. Simple enough
matters, on the other hand—often to do with the failures of hegemony—are
deliberately obfuscated or completely ignored.
In light of the above, the editors of antae welcome
submissions on or around the topic of literary and philosophical thought as
engaged with contemporary politics and media. The authorial guidelines are
available on www.antaejournal.com,
and the deadline for submissions to antaejournal@gmail.com is the
30th of April, 2018.
Contact Email: antaejournal@gmail.com
The Stranger Within
Why are we often troubled by
the presence of strangers? What does it mean to encounter strangeness in
ourselves or in the spaces we frequent? What are the ethics, aesthetics, and
politics of naming the strange – and the stranger? The next issue of Rejoinder explores
the theme of the stranger within. Submissions (including essays, commentary,
criticism, fiction, poetry, and artwork) should address this theme from feminist,
queer, and social justice-inspired perspectives. We particularly welcome
contributions at the intersection of scholarship and activism. For manuscript
preparation details, please see our website at: http://irw.rutgers.edu/about-rejoinder. Rejoinder is published by the Institute for Research
on Women at Rutgers University in partnership with the Center for Women in the
Arts and Humanities. Please send completed written work (2,000-2,500 words
max), jpegs of artwork, and short bios to the editor, Sarah Tobias (stobias@rutgers.edu) by January 16, 2018.
Contact Email: thomash@uci.edu
Through Mama’s Eyes: Unique
Perspectives of Southern Matriarchy
This work seeks to combine essays that explore the very essence of the
Southern Matriarch and how her presence has underscored and influenced various
aspects of Southern life. The primary goal of this work is to combine into a
single source a variety of ways in which art, architecture, culture,
literature, music, cuisine, history, education, and linguistics have been
defined by the Southern Matriarch, thus revealing her importance to southern
culture. The secondary purpose of this book is to arouse a robust dialogue
about the perceived value of southern matriarchs to our communities versus the
actual value that our southern mothers have in society. Additionally, it seeks
to illuminate the varied definitions, and sometimes complicated, definitions of
matriarchy; particularly in terms of gender, race, sexuality, and class. The
final objective of this book is to help redefine and complicate the perceptions
of the Southern Matriarch to more accurately reflect the importance and
contributions of such a position to society and southern culture.
Practice and Theory
Confluence: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Special Issue
In recent years, the field of Graduate Liberal Studies has taken a
pragmatic turn, toward a wide range of interdisciplinary endeavors, including
community activism, conflict resolution and mediation, social entrepreneurship,
sustainability, service learning, travel study, digital humanities, and public
history. Recasting “theory and practice” as “practice and theory,” this Special
Issue aims to foreground practical applications, without losing sight of their theoretical
underpinnings. In this spirit, we invite papers across a broad spectrum of
interdisciplinary inquiry and engagement, from hands-on initiatives, to
theoretical perspectives, to the vital tensions and connections between
practice and theory.
Contact Email: Editor@confluence-aglsp.org
Creating the child audience:
media and the invention of modern American childhood in the late 19th and 20th
centuries
Transatlantica special issue: call for contributions
This Transatlantica issue sets out to examine how, in the process of
creating new audiences for its products, child-centric media crafted a homogenizing
vision of childhood especially compatible with media consumption. As a result,
in the course of the late 19th and 20th centuries, media has made itself the
vehicle of adult norms and expectations about children’s tastes, behaviors and
development – be it to pander to existing tastes and behaviors or shape them to
ideal standards, some civic-minded (with emphasis on social adjustment,
character building, or good citizenship), some commercial, and others both at
once.
Abstracts should not exceed 400 words and must be sent in English or in
French along with a short bio (both in .pdf and .doc/.docx formats) to: thibaut.clement@paris-sorbonne.fr by
January 31, 2018. Completed papers will be expected by June 30, 2018. For
details on formatting, please refer to the journal’s style sheet at: http://transatlantica.revues.org/5220
Another Turn of the Screw toward
Luso/Hispanic Whiteness Studies
To date, extensive scholarly research already exists in the field of
Whiteness Studies. Stemming from, and overlapping with, some premises of
Post-Colonial Studies, this new discipline soon found home in the American,
British, Australian and South African academies to examine white racial
formations. Thus, in its beginnings, scholars shifted their focus from
scrutinizing minoritized ‘Others’ to examining how white hegemonic identities
came to be placed in relation to concepts of normalcy, privilege and
oppression. However, the field of Whiteness Studies has mostly engaged with
conceptions of whiteness within Anglo-centred racial traditions, and is thus
written in English and concerned about the white presence in former British
settler-nations, thus one could claim that the lack of relationality in the
field is indeed even greater than initially assumed. If we are to recognize
that a central tenet of Whiteness Studies entails a re-evaluation of History.
Essay deadline: February 1, 2018.
FUNDING
Georgia College Special
Collections Library Research Grants
Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia, offers short-term Library
Research Grants every year to scholars and students whose work would benefit
from access to materials in Ina Dillard Russell Library’s Special Collections.
Strengths of the collections include Milledgeville/Baldwin County history and
culture, (local/regional) women’s history, and Georgia College history. Special
Collections houses the papers of authors Flannery O’Connor and Alice Walker and
several political figures, including U.S. Secretary of Labor W. J. Usery, U. S.
Senator Paul Coverdell, U. S. Representative Carl Vinson, and Georgia State
Senator Floyd L. Griffin, Jr. For more information about Special Collections or
the grant, please visit our website.
Deadline: April 2, 2018
Contact Email: holly.croft@gcsu.edu
Visiting Scholar in Women's
Studies
The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of
Ottawa is inviting applications for its Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in
Women's Studies for 2018-2019. The purpose of this fund is to attract highly
qualified researchers working on feminist, women's or gender issues. The
Visiting Scholar's stay should be from three (3) to six (6) months within the
university's academic year, from September to April. The recipient will receive
a maximum of $4,000, which may be used to supplement research and/or travel
expenses. Scholars with alternative funding will be considered.
The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies invites applications from
Canadian and non-Canadian scholars, both tenured and untenured faculty, and
from post-doctoral or independent scholars who are pursuing critical feminist
research. Individuals must have a Ph.D. to be considered for this position.
The closing date for submitting applications is December 31st 2017.
E-mail: coorfem@uOttawa.ca
Research Travel Grants:
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/.
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, the John
Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and
Culture, the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing
History, the History of Medicine Collections, and the Human Rights Archive will
each award up to $1,500 per recipient to fund travel and other expenses related
to visiting the Rubenstein Library. The Rubenstein also offers the Eleanore and
Harold Jantz Fellowship, a $1,500 award for researchers whose work would
benefit from use of the Jantz Collections. Please review the guidelines for
each Center regarding which collections and what topics are eligible.
The deadline for application is January 31, 2018 by 5:00 PM EST.
Contact Email: kelly.wooten@duke.edu
Winterthur Research Fellowship
Program
Winterthur invites scholars, graduate students, artists, and
craftspeople to apply to submit applications for a 4-month postdoctoral
fellowship, 1–2 semester dissertation fellowships, and 1–3 month short-term
fellowships.
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.
Contact Email: researchapplication@winterthur.org
Summer Doctoral Research
Fellowship Applications
The USF Ricci Institute is a premier global resource for the study of
Chinese-Western cultural exchange with a core focus on the social and cultural
history of Christianity
in China. Besides its more than 80,000 volumes of books in Chinese and
Western languages, its library also includes a digital copies of: (1) the Japonica-Sinica Manuscript
Collection from the Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus (ARSI); (2) the
Francis A. Rouleau Microfilm / Digital Archival Collections’ (3) the Canton
Diocese Archival Collection; (4) the Passionist China Collection; (5) Anthony
E. Clark Collection, and (6) other archival materials.
Deadline: January 5, 2018
Contact Email: ricci@usfca.edu
Pennsylvania Scholars in
Residence Program at the State Archives
The Pennsylvania State Archives and the Pennsylvania Historical
Association invite applications for the 2018-2019 Scholars in Residence
Program. The Scholars in Residence Program provides support for up to four
weeks of full-time research and study in manuscript and state record
collections maintained by the Pennsylvania State Archives. Residency programs
are open to all who are conducting research on Pennsylvania history, including
academic scholars, public sector professionals, independent scholars, graduate
students, educators, writers, filmmakers, and others.
For a full description of the residency program and application
materials, as well as information about Deadline for application is February
15, 2018
State Archives research collections, go to the PHMC Web site: http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/News-Programs/Pages/default.aspx.
You may also email: RA-PHMCScholars@state.pa.us
Visiting Fellowships 2018/19
The Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University
invites applications for fellowships for visiting scholars working on projects
related to the history of policies, concepts, practices or debates related to
development on local, national, regional or global levels.
The Center of the History of Global Development welcome applications
from researchers who are taking innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to
any aspects of this topic. For the year 2018/19, priority is given to proposals
that address dilemmas of changing or contradictory “development” outcomes:
projects or trends that are positive for some people but negative for others,
beneficial in some circumstances but damaging in others, helpful at one point
in time but destructive in a different decade or century.
The deadline is 15 December 2017. For further information,
contact Prof. Iris Borowy at borowyiris@i.shu.edu.cn or
Prof. Yong-an Zhang at zhangyongan@shu.edu.cn.
Schlesinger Library Grants
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites
applicants for a variety of research grants, including dissertation grants and
oral history grants. Applications will be evaluated on the significance of the
research and the project’s potential contribution to the advancement of
knowledge, along with its creativity in drawing on the library’s collections.
The awards may be used to cover travel and living expenses, scanning, and other
incidental research expenses, but not for the purchase of durable equipment or
travel to other research sites.
For more information about our grant offerings please visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/grants
Contact Email: cara_raskin@radcliffe.harvard.edu
Reuther Library 2018 Sam Fishman
Travel Grant Program
The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
invites applications for travel grants of up to $1,000 as part of the 2018 Sam
Fishman Travel Grant Program. The program provides research grant to support
faculty, students, independent researchers, and union members to defray travel,
lodging, food, and other costs to conduct research in the Reuther Library’s
extensive labor collections. The award is named in honor of Sam Fishman, a
former UAW and Michigan AFL-CIO leader and grants are only given in support of
projects relating to labor history.
The deadline for applications will be Tuesday, January 16
Contact Email: erik.nordberg@wayne.edu
Sport History Graduate Essay
Contest
The North American Society for Sport History announces its
thirty-fourth annual NASSH Graduate Essay Prize. The NASSH Prize is awarded
annually to the graduate student whose historical essay is judged by the
committee to be of the highest quality. The award winner will present his or
her paper in a special session at the 2018 NASSH convention in Winnipeg.
Submission Deadline—Friday, January 26, 2018
Contact Email: jan@starkcenter.org
Newberry Library Short-Term
Fellowships
Short-Term Fellowships provide opportunities for individuals who have a
specific need for the Newberry’s collection. Postdoctoral scholars, PhD
candidates, and scholars with terminal degrees who live and work outside of the
Chicago metropolitan area are eligible. Most fellowships are available for one
month with a stipend of $2,500 per month. Awardees may combine their Newberry
fellowship award with sabbatical funding or other stipendiary support. Fellows
are welcome to stay in residence at the Newberry beyond the terms of their
fellowship, but the amount of their stipend cannot be increased beyond the
initial award.
There are many different kinds of short-term fellowships. Please browse
the above URL.
Graduate student applicants must be ABD by the December 15 deadline.
Please apply at: https://newberry.slideroom.com.
Virginia Historical Society -
Research Fellowships and Awards at the Virginia Historical Society
Are you interested in conducting research in our library? We know
extensive research requires a lot of time spent in a library and at times the
cost of traveling for research can add up quickly. To help scholars with their
research and travel expenses, the Virginia Historical Society offers several
fellowships and awards.
The deadline for applications to be received by the VHS is Friday,
January 26, 2018
WORKSHOPS
Asian Studies Summer Institute
Penn State University invites applicants for its annual Asian Studies
Summer Institute, to be held June 10-16, 2018.
This year’s Institute, co-directed by Leo Coleman (Hunter College/CUNY)
and Jessamyn Abel (Penn State), focuses on the topic of “Infrastructure.”
Penn State will cover housing and meals, and offer an honorarium to
help defray travel costs (USD 400 from the East Coast, 600 from the Midwest,
800 from the West Coast; USD 1000 from Europe; USD 1350 from Asia). Applicants must have completed their PhDs no
earlier than June 2013, or be advanced graduate students who are completing
their dissertations.
To apply, please send the following documents in a single PDF
file to verge@psu.edu by March
15, 2018.
Law, Jurisprudence and Social
Thought
Amherst College will host a National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Seminar for K-12 teachers and current full time graduate students who
intend to pursue a career in K-12 teaching, from July 1-July 26, 2018.
The seminar will be directed by Austin Sarat of the Departments of Political
Science and Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought. It will examine three
questions: What is punishment and why do we punish as we
do? What can we learn about politics, law, and culture in the
United States from an examination of our practices of punishment? What
are the appropriate limits of punishment? The application deadline is
March 1, 2018. Information is available at http://www.amherst.edu/go/neh.
If you have any questions regarding the seminar or the application process,
contact Megan Estes at (413)542-2380 or email neh@amherst.edu.
Democratizing Knowledge/Mellon
Summer Institute
Spelman College, 17-23 June 2018
The Democratizing Knowledge/Mellon 2018 Summer Institute will bring
together faculty, advanced doctoral students, and activist-scholars from the
humanities and social sciences across North America and the Global South to
examine the current state of US higher education; explore productive dialogues
between community organizations, activists, and scholar-activists; and work on
collaborative strategies to create a more just academy. Together,
scholar-activists and community partners will share how these collaborations
build new and sometimes unexpected
publics between critical academic scholarship and community-based
organizations. This year’s Institute will give preference to applicants from
HBCUs and other minority serving institutions.
Eligibility: Doctoral Students who have completed at least two years of
course work, postdoctoral scholars, and pre-tenure faculty in contingent and
tenure-track positions who are working on issues related to the topic of the Institute.
Application Deadline: 1 February 2018
For further information, please contact Dellareese T. Jackson,
DK/Mellon Graduate Coordinator (dtjack03@syr.edu)
Application link: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8cCRJ6g5pnyuPE9
The Good, the Bad and the
Monster. Queers, Crips and (Other) Misfits off the edge of the map
May 14 to 18, 2018, Water Museum (Coimbra, Portugal)
The INTIMATE Summer School embraces monstrosity in what it offers
regarding the undoing of binaries and the celebration of embodied differences.
We aim to explore who are the contemporary monsters, what are the dichotomies
they challenge and how narratives on monsters contribute to definitions of
human. We want to explore monsters as a possible theoretical figuration to
escape mainstream celebrations of humanity and to embrace the vivid
possibilities offered by interdisciplinary, boundary-crossing contributions
from different fields of knowledge. We aim at creating spaces to discuss
contributions and experiences that often fall out of the map even within
critical studies. Also, we interrogate the possibilities of creating knowledge
from places of estrangement regarding mainstream sources of knowledge
production in the academic fields of LGBTQ and critical studies.
Deadline for applications: 5 January 2018
Contact Email: monstersummerschool@ces.uc.pt
Oral History Center
UC Berkeley campus from August 6-10, 2018
The institute is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows,
university faculty, independent scholars, and museum and community-based
historians who are engaged in oral history work. The goal of the institute is
to strengthen the ability of its participants to conduct research-focused
interviews and to consider special characteristics of interviews as historical
evidence in a rigorous academic environment.
Contact Email: sfarrell@library.berkeley.edu
Summer Course on Refugees and
Forced Migration
May 7-11, 2018 | York University, Toronto
The Summer Course is an internationally acclaimed, non-credit course
for academic and field-based practitioners working in the area of forced
migration. It serves as a hub for researchers, students, practitioners, service
providers and policy makers to share information and ideas. The Summer Course
is housed within the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), York University
(Toronto, Canada). All participants who complete the full course receive a York
University Centre for Refugee Studies Summer Course Certificate.
Contact Email: summer@yorku.ca
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.
We welcome emerging scholars to join us in this one-day program of
events that includes a full day of workshops and a panel discussion. Breakfast
and lunch will be provided. To learn more, please visit: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/gsw/graduate/conference/index.html.
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.
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.
Buddhist East Asia: The
Interplay of Religion, the Arts and Politics
This multidisciplinary program, funded by the National Endowment for
the Humanities, will offer four weeks of context-rich engagement with Buddhist
teachings, practices and primary texts (in translation), examining how they
have shaped and been shaped by the cultures and societies of East Asia. The
program will consider how Buddhism addressed both personal and social needs in
ways that were inseparable from the dynamics of intellectual exchange, artistic
production, trade and politics. Designed to strike a balance between the needs
both for breadth and depth in engaging traditions that are culturally and
historically distant, Buddhist East Asia will provide abundant resources for
developing pedagogically-effective course materials across a wide range of
humanities and social science disciplines. Applications will be welcomed from
eligible fulltime and adjunct faculty, as well as qualified graduate students.
Participants will receive a stipend of $3300 to defray costs for travel,
housing, meals and incidentals.
Application deadline: March 1, 2018
Contact Email: hershocp@eastwestcenter.org
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