CONFERENCES
Animals in the Humanities
conference
Roanoke College, Virginia, Dates: March 23–24, 2018
The human condition has always been defined in relation to the animal,
from the ancients to contemporary “post-humanist” thinkers. Yet our
relationships with animals have always been ambivalent and ambiguous. Pampered
as pets, raised and killed in horrendous conditions as food, we idolize,
exploit, and overlook them. Patriarchal culture has often linked animality with
women (and the indigenous) and rationality with men (and civilization). To
challenge some of these traditional practices and categories, recent studies of
animals in culture have raised important theoretical questions about what
constitutes the humanities. For example, why has there been an “animal turn” in
the humanities? Why are so many intellectuals challenging the human-animal
binary? Are animals no longer the “absolute other”?
Submission deadline: February 15, 2018
Contact Email: mdharris@roanoke.edu
Prison, Power, and Protest in
Black History
This call for papers is for a proposed panel for the upcoming 103rd
meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
(ASALH) in Indianapolis, IN between OCT 3-7 2018. (The panel has not yet been
submitted to ASALH and I am currently collecting abstracts for the submission.)
Once assembled, the panel will focus on themes of black legal confinement
across the 20th century, and attempts to resist, protest, and dismantle unfair
systems of incarceration. Papers on convict labor, imprisonment, parole, and
execution are welcomed including work on broader themes such as mass
incarceration, the war on drugs, and sentencing disparities. More specifically,
papers that explore the depth of the experience of convicts, resistance to the
impact of incarceration, and movements, ideologies, or cultures of opposition,
are most fitting.
To apply as a panelist, please submit a CV and a short (500 word or
less) abstract of the paper you would like to present by MARCH 10 to (dflowe@wustl.edu).
Race and Intersecting Feminist
Future
The Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues is a
collaborative effort to reinvigorate Seneca Falls as a site of feminist
activism and intellectual exchange. Rather than featuring presentations of
papers, the organizers invite presenters to lead structured dialogues aimed at
fostering collaboration and insightful conversation among students, faculty,
and activists. We invite students, faculty, and community activists to
participate in a weekend of dialogue.
Proposal Deadline: April 30, 2018. Proposals will be accepted through
our submission form, which is detailed below and accessible here: https://airtable.com/embed/shrq7eJ2RjqO36lQA?backgroundColor=blue
Oral History Association Annual
Meeting
The Oral History Association invites proposals for papers and
presentations for its 2018 annual meeting and the second meeting outside the
United States to be held at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
As oral historians we explore and analyze how our interviews are shaped
by the current climate and context that surrounds us when we record our
stories. We also believe that
contemporary conversations can and will shape our annual meeting. Events in the past year have reaffirmed OHA’s
commitment to actively cultivating our organization as a space to fight
inequality. As oral historians and as
members of OHA we “remain committed to documenting personal narratives of
complex and diverse histories” and have reaffirmed our fundamental values of
respect, empowerment, diversity, engagement, and inclusion. The Program
Committee welcomes broad and creative interpretations of the conference
theme. We especially encourage
presenters to think about innovative delivery models including dramatic
performance, interactive sessions, and the use of digital media.
Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Contact Email: oha@oralhistory.org
Can a liberal education make you
a better discerner of truth?
May 3 - 5, 2018, Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta
It seems as if we're awash in information. From the moment we wake
until we turn off our phones at night, we are bombarded with images, messages,
news and information from a confounding number of sources. The entirety of the
world's collected facts, seemingly left unadulterated only for us to interpret
and justify, never feels more than a few taps away. Today, ``alternative”,
``fake” or ``ideologically” driven news sources compete for audience attention
and loyalty, often using emotion to rally people toward a certain political
cause or issue. In the face of this, citizens often feel disoriented, unsure of
where to turn to understand the world. They report an increasing mistrust in
institutions of all kinds, including the courts, government, media
organizations, universities, and ``experts”.
deadline: March 5th, 2018
Contact Email: kdharamsi@mtroyal.ca
Ev’ry Body, This Time: A
Sexuality Studies Conference
University of California, Berkeley, April 12-14, 2018
“Ev’ry Body, This Time.” The elision in ev’ry gestures in multiple
ways: to the bodies that have been exempted in various iterations of sexuality
studies, and to our quixotic desire to (re-)emplace them. It refers as well to
the shifting and ever-proliferating fact of bodies: the way that apparent gaps
may not represent incompleteness, but point instead to troubled standards of
perceiving or evaluating wholeness; that filling a gap can thus provisionally
flesh out bodies that are at once legible and illegible. Race and gender, in
their mutable complexities, sit at the core of these questions. Our apostrophe
calls to a multitude of bodies, recognizing the potential for thinking through,
substituting, re-visioning, and, ultimately, holding space for, bodies that
exceed categorical legislation and rhetorical disciplinarity.
The submission deadline is Feb 7, 2018.
Please direct all INQUIRIES to cssc@berkeley.edu
History of Education Society
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 4
The Program Committee for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the History of
Education Society invites proposals on all topics related to the history of
education, in any period or setting. The Committee defines education broadly to
include all institutions of socialization—mass media, voluntary organizations,
and so on—as well as schools; universities; learned and/or scientific
societies; libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions; vocational
and/or corporate training enterprises; after-school and out-of-school learning
environments; international organizations; and technology-mediated systems of
education. We invite proposals for individual papers, complete paper sessions,
panel discussions, or workshops.
To submit a proposal, please go to https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HES2018.
Proposals are due on or before March 15, 2018
American Political History
Institute Graduate Student Conference
Boston University Department of History, April 6 - 7, 2018
Paying close attention to the way that politics and public policy
structure everyday life, the American Political History Institute invites
scholars to present work that engages in analysis of policy as well as the
interconnectedness of personal networks and political endeavors, with an eye on
the horizon: constructions of policy communities, political networks, personal
relationships, and national and international connections at critical junctures
in U.S. history.
Individual paper or panel proposals should be submitted in the form of
a 300-500 word abstract by Friday, January 26, 2018
Contact Email: dshorten@bu.edu
Intersectionalities/Interconnections/Liminalities
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the College of
Arts and Humanities, and the University of West Georgia (UWG) invite you to
celebrate the 33rd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities,
October 25-27, 2018. We welcome submissions from across the Humanities, Fine
Arts, and the Social and Natural Sciences, dealing with
INTERSECTIONALITIES/INTERCONNECTIONS/LIMINALITIES and the many relations and
intersections between them. Papers, exhibits, performances and screenings may
be submitted by scholars, graduate students, writers, artists, and
performers.
Proposals are due by May 15th, 2018.
Contact Email: azapata@westga.edu
Placing Gender. A Workshop on
Gender and Environmental History
Date: 10-12 December 2018
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender remains an under-developed area of inquiry in environmental
history. Despite Carolyn Merchant's provocative 1990 article on gender and
environment in the Journal of American History, little has happened to address
this fact. This workshop aims to bring together scholars working in this area
in order to advance the study of gender in environmental history. We hope to
attract submissions which cover a range of time periods and diverse geographical
areas.
Submissions due by 15 February 2018
Contact Email: events@rcc.lmu.de
Aesthetics and Poetics in the
History of Political Thought
The uneasy distinctions between poetics, aesthetics and politics raise
many important issues for historians of political thought. Can we sharply
distinguish political and aesthetic concerns throughout history? Are political
theories always determined by the languages and conventions in which they are
uttered? What relationship does material culture have to the history of
political thought? Aiming to explore these and related questions, the
organisers of the 11th Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political
Thought and Intellectual History, scheduled for Wednesday, June 13, 2018,
invite submissions for presentations on the theme ‘Aesthetics and Poetics in
the History of Political Thought.’
The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2018.
Contact Email: mmh53@cam.ac.uk
Crosscurrents of Commensuration:
An interdisciplinary conference
Crosscurrents of Commensuration will explore commensuration – in its
widest possible sense – as a focus of critical analysis across the social
sciences and humanities. Construed
broadly, commensuration involves equating units or entities judged in the first
instance to be essentially different and incomparable with one another. Such operations of same-making – along with
corollary processes of differentiation and distinction – are fundamentally
generative aspects of sociocultural life, and have proven to be highly fecund
as both objects and optics of analysis across the social sciences and
humanities.
Please submit an abstract of 200-300 words by February 15, 2018.
Abstracts should be sent to Trenholme Junghans (ftj23@cam.ac.uk).
FUNDING
The Library Company of
Philadelphia Fellowships
The Library Company, located in Center City Philadelphia, holds over
half a million rare books and graphics that are capable of supporting research
in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and
the Atlantic world in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Fellows share
opportunities to participate in the Philadelphia region’s vibrant intellectual
life while conducting their research in the print, graphics, and manuscript
collections of the Library Company and other local institutions.
The library offers dissertation and short-term research fellowships.
Please visit the above URL for more information about the funding opportunities
and whom to contact with questions.
Grant Opportunities: Eleventh
Annual ASMEA Conference
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is
pleased to offer Research and Travel Grant opportunities in conjunction with
its Eleventh Annual Conference being held November 1 - 2, 2018 in Washington
D.C.
The Research Grant Program is designed to stimulate new and
diverse lines of discourse on topics that deserve greater attention within
the regions of the Middle East and Africa. Grants of up to $2500 will be
awarded. Program guidelines and qualifying research
topic areas can be found on the ASMEA website here.
The deadline to apply for grants is April 15, 2018.
Questions can be directed to info@asmeascholars.org or 202-429-8860.
Center for Communal Studies
Annual Prizes & Research Travel Grant
The Center
for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana annually
invites submissions for its prize competition for the best undergraduate and
graduate student papers on historic or contemporary communal groups,
intentional communities and utopias. Submissions may come from any academic
discipline and should be focused on a topic clearly related
to contemporary or historic communal groups or utopias.
Graduate Paper or Thesis or Dissertation Chapter
Author of the best graduate paper or thesis or dissertation chapter will receive $500. The annual deadline for submission is March 1. The prize winner will be announced in April 2018.
Author of the best graduate paper or thesis or dissertation chapter will receive $500. The annual deadline for submission is March 1. The prize winner will be announced in April 2018.
Research Travel Grant
The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana
annually invites applications for a Research Travel Grant to fund research at
the Communal Studies Collection at USI's David L. Rice Library.
Please direct inquiries and
send application materials as email attachments to Casey Harison at charison@usi.edu.
Visiting Summer Research
Fellowships at UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library
The Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries is pleased to announce that it will award up
to eight short-term summer
research fellowships in the amount of $1,250 to
support intensive, innovative, and impactful research use of its collections.
The application deadline is February 15, 2018.
Contact Email: wilsonlibrary@unc.edu
2018 American Folklife Center
Awards and Fellowships
*Archie
Green Fellowships of up to $35,000 each to support new, original,
independent field research into the culture and traditions of contemporary
American workers and/or occupational groups within the United States.
*The Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Award to increase awareness of the ethnographic collections at the Library of Congress and to make the collections of primary ethnographic materials housed anywhere at the LOC available for the needs and uses of those in the private sector.
*The Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Award to increase awareness of the ethnographic collections at the Library of Congress and to make the collections of primary ethnographic materials housed anywhere at the LOC available for the needs and uses of those in the private sector.
*Henry
Reed Fund Awards to support activities directly involving folk
artists, especially activities that reflect, draw upon, or strengthen the
collections of the American Folklife Center.
Contact Email: ngro@loc.gov
Charles Redd Center Grants and
Fellowships
The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University
is pleased to announce multiple awards for 2018 that are available for research
and public programs related to Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico, Utah, or Wyoming. Please see the descriptions below.
Follow the link to https://reddcenter.byu.edu/Pages/Apply-for-an-Award.aspx for
application instructions. Applications for 2018 are due by 11:59 p.m. MST on
March 15
If you have any questions about the application process or about
submitting your application, please contact Amy Carlin at 801-422-4048 or amy_carlin@byu.edu. If you have questions
about the substance of your application you may contact either Brenden Rensink
at bwrensink@byu.edu or Brian
Cannon at brian_cannon@byu.edu.
Residence Grant at the Center
for Urban History
The program includes five one-month residence grants for
young researchers, working on their PhD thesis or preparing them for
publishing, and five two-week residence grants for advanced researchers. The
program also provides for three residences in digital urban
history, jointly with the Lviv
Interactive project, an online-encyclopedia representing the history of
Lviv through places and spaces. The researchers are expected to have an
interest in preparing materials for the project while placing their own
research focus within the spatial aspect of Lviv and engaging digital methods
to study the topic under analysis.
The residence grants are offered to researchers of various fields in
the humanities from different countries. We especially encourage historians,
culture studies scholars, and anthropologists.
Application deadline March 15, 2018
Contact Email: grants@lvivcenter.org
Gerald R. Ford Scholar Award
(Dissertation Award) in Honor of Robert M. Teeter
The Gerald R Ford Scholar award in honor of Robert M. Teeter is an
annual award of $5,000 Given to a doctoral student to support dissertation
research in any field related to any aspect of the United States political
process and public policy during the last half of the 20th century. Of special
intrest is the role and analysis of public opinion in that process. The
recepiant determines use of the award money including, but not limited to:
travel, reproduction fees, administrative costs, and other research and writing
expenses. The Application deadline is March 31, 2018.
Contact Email: ford.library@nara.gov
Gender, Transgender and other
Transitions
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1265177/gender-transgender-and-other-transitions
Fellowships are available for the 2018 CrossCurrents Research
Colloquium. Spend the month of July in New York working on a research or
writing project of your own design and collaborate with others engaged in this
issue from Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, secular and other perspectives with
access to Union, Auburn, Columibia University and Jewish Theological Seminary
Libraries.
Application Deadline: February
15
For futher information about the colloquium as well as how to apply,
please visit: http://www.crosscurrents.org/colloquium.htm
Contact Email: chashenderson@mindspring.com
Sandra L. Panther Fellowship in
the History of Family Medicine
The Center for the History of Family Medicine (CHFM) is proud to
announce its eighth annual Fellowship in the History of Family Medicine. Now
renamed the Sandra L. Panther Fellowship in the History of Family Medicine in
honor of former AAFP Foundation executive director Sandra L. "Sandy"
Panther, interested family physicians, residents, students, other health
professionals, historians, scholars, educators, scientists and others are
invited to apply.
The deadline to apply is by 5:00 PM (CDT), Saturday, March 31, 2018.
Contact Email: chfm@aafp.org
Fellowship Opportunities at the
American Philosophical Society Library
The American Philosophical Society Library is now accepting
applications for long and short-term research fellowships for scholars working
in the fields of history of science, technology, and medicine; early American
history; and Native American and Indigenous studies. Applicants whose research
subjects overlap any other APS Library fellowship programs may also submit
applications to other pertinent programs, though only one fellowship can be
awarded to an individual.
Comprehensive, searchable guides and finding aids to our collections
are available online at http://www.amphilsoc.org/library.
Visit the URL below for more information about the different
fellowships
Contact Email: alink@amphilsoc.org
2018-2019 New York Public
Library Short-Term Research Fellowships
The New York Public Library is pleased to offer short-term research
fellowships to support graduate-level, post-doctoral, and independent
researchers. Individuals needing to
conduct on-site research in the Library’s special collections to support projects
in the humanities, business, and the fine and performing arts are encouraged to
apply.
To apply, submit an online application at https://fellowships.nypl.org/home.
Application Deadline: February
15, 2018
Contact Email: meredithmann@nypl.org
Cold War Center Dissertation
Fellowships & Travel Grants
The Center for the United States and the Cold War at NYU's Tamiment
Library supports research on the Cold War, especially on the ways in which this
ideological and geopolitical conflict with the Soviet Union affected American
politics, culture, and society. We will be offering a dissertation fellowship
and several travel grants to scholars who are interested in using Tamiment's
holdings to further their research.
Applicants for the dissertation fellowship must have passed their
comprehensive examinations and expect to complete their dissertations within
two years of the start of the 2018-2019 academic year. The dissertation fellow/s
will receive either a stipend of $15,000 for one semester or $30,000 for a
nine-month academic year.
The Center's Agnese N. Haury travel grants range from $500 to $3,000,
depending on need, to support research in the holdings of the Tamiment Library.
Research trips may last any length of time, however only scholars outside the
New York metropolitan area will be considered.
Deadline: March 31, 2018
Contact Email: ColdWarCenter@nyu.edu
2018 James P. Danky Fellowship
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the History of Print
and Digital Culture, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical Society, is
again offering its annual short-term research fellowship (http://www.wiscprintdigital.org/fellowship/).
Prior to applying it is strongly suggested that applicants contact Lee Grady at
the Wisconsin Historical Society (lee.grady@wisconsinhistory.org or
608-264-6459) to discuss the relevancy of WHS collections to their
projects.
Contact Email: chpdc@ischool.wisc.edu
University of Chicago Library -
Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships - Summer 2018
Any visiting researcher, writer, or artist residing more than 100 miles
from Chicago, and whose project requires on-site consultation of University of
Chicago Library collections, primarily archives, manuscripts, rare books, or
other materials in the Special Collections Research Center, is eligible. Support
for beginning scholars is a priority of the program. Applications in the fields
of late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century physics or physical chemistry,
or nineteenth-century classical opera, will receive special consideration.
The deadline for applications is March 19, 2018.
Contact Email: arch@uchicago.edu
Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowship
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and
Abolition, part of the MacMillan Center at Yale University, is pleased to
announce that we are accepting applications for the following fellowships. For
2018-2019, the GLC is offering two types of postdoctoral and faculty
fellowships that advance the study of slavery, its role in the creation of the
modern world, and its legacies.
The deadline for applications for the 2018-2019 fellowships is March 1,
2018. For further information regarding specific fellowships and the
application process see the Gilder Lehrman Center website: http://glc.yale.edu/fellowships.
Du Bois Visiting Scholars
Fellowships
Fellows may come from any field and any perspective, and they may work
on any topic, but their research should explore the major themes that
characterize Du Bois’s scholarship and activism.
This includes the history and meaning of racial, social, and economic
justice; the problems of democracy and political inclusion; the role of
capitalism in world affairs; and the global influence of African cultures.
Comprehensive, searchable guides and finding aids to SCUA’s collections are
available online at http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/.
Full-time faculty or independent scholars (with a PhD) are eligible to
apply. Fellows will receive a stipend of $4,500 for an eight-week library
residency. With a housing allowance of $2,500 as well as a research allowance
of $600. The deadline for applications is March 16, 2018. For more
information: http://bit.ly/dubois_fellowship.
Contact Email: scua@library.umass.edu
2018-2019 Women in Medicine
Legacy Foundation Research Fellowship
https://networks.h-net.org/node/24029/discussions/1260843/call-applicants-2018-2019-women-medicine-legacy-foundation
The Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation is pleased to provide one
$5,000 grant to support travel, lodging, and incidental expenses for a flexible
research period between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019. Foundation Fellowships
are offered for research related to the history of women to be conducted at the
Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of
Medicine.
Deadline May 15, 2018
Email: chm@hms.harvard.edu
Smith College Special
Collections Fellowships and Grants
Special Collections at Smith College offer four fellowships. Faculty
members, independent researchers, and graduate students who live at least 50
miles from Northampton, MA, and whose research interests and objectives would
be significantly advanced by extended work in the holdings of the three
collections may apply. Recipients will be expected to present an informal
work-in-progress colloquium to the Smith College community during their
residency and, at some later time, to send the Special Collections a copy of
the final results of their research, whether in published or unpublished form.
We encourage potential applicants to contact our reference archivists to
inquire about the relevance of our collections for their projects before
submitting proposals. Application deadline is February 15, 2018.
Queries can be made by emailing specialcollections@smith.edu or
by calling 413-585-2970. Application instructions are online at https://www.smith.edu/libraries/special-collections/services/grants.
PUBLISHING
How to Engage (for) Social Change?
This
edited volume invites contributions that reflect on the phenomenon of social
engagement, aiming to conceptualize this phenomenon and/or apply it in social
research. In terms of conceptualizing social engagement, we invite contributors
to address a broad range of questions related to the ontological status and
conceptual boundaries of “social engagement”, which we believe call for further
elaboration: what type of human action does the term social engagement refer
to?
Alongside
theoretical investigation, we also wish to examine whether social engagement,
as an analytical concept for social research, has any comparative advantage
over more established terms in social sciences that are closely related to it,
such as social movements, civic activism, new forms of “horizontal” democratic
protest, etc.
Short
abstracts (around 300 words) are due March 5, 2018
Contact
Email: submit@instifdt.bg.ac.rs
Animals with (or without) Borders
We
are seeking papers on the theme of “Animals with (or without) Borders” for the
summer 2018 issue of the semi-annual scholarly journal, Pakistan Journal of
Historical Studies (PJHS), published by the Indiana University Press
(Bloomington, USA).
This
guest-edited issue explores the interaction between human boundaries and animal
lives. As a historical phenomenon, such interaction would include the
imposition of borders on existing trade routes and seasonal migration of
pastoral societies, and attempts to politically corral animals to fit human
boundaries. Socially, it might address problems such as the difference in
animal production or welfare on two sides of a border. Politically, it would
extend to veterinary, epidemic and tax controls on the movement of animals or
animal products, and the role of infrastructure and development capital in the
regional development of breeding and production chains.
For
more information or to propose an idea, please email to pjhs@khaldunia.org (cc
to thomas_dubois@yahoo.com; hak@khaldunia.org)
Journal’s
website: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/pages.php?cPath=4&pID=97
Deadline
for submitting articles is 20th April 2018.
What remains of postmodernity?
Since
the 70s, the word postmodernity has articulated a tendency, a state of mind,
and a condition that resists conceptualization or complete definition. Although
the intellectual community has agreed to situate J. F. Lyotard and his key
work, The Postmodern condition (1979), as the origin of the debate on this
phenomenon, the truth is that the literary theorist Ihab Hassan had already
used the word systematically in 1971. Since that date, the notion has spread
across the fields of Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, and the Social
Sciences. These are two of the problems that one faces when approaching the
surface of the postmodern phenomenon: its lack of definition and its ambiguous
periodization. Along with these concerns, the thematic and disciplinary diversity
of that which has been normalized under the name of postmodernity calls for a
reassessment and a reconceptualization capable of assimilating decades of
thinking under this subject.
Deadline:
April 20th 2018
Contact
Email: revista.forma@upf.edu
Global Urban Inequalities: Case Studies
on Cultural Development and Change
This
call seeks ethnographic cultural research that focuses on singular urban,
metropolitan cities across the globe and highlights issues of inequality in at
least one way that can include race, gender, culture, indigenous groups,
inclusion, urban planning, cultural celebrations, use of space, politics,
socio-economic processes, and many other forms. Ideally, this book will include
ethnographic focused chapters from every part of the world and it will not just
focus on capital cities or on already anthropologically rich areas. This call
specifically asks for a diversity in theoretical lenses among the authors,
ideographic studies that do not attempt to make comparative narratives, and
have a singular geographic focus. This volume will balance both positive and
negative perspectives on the inequality without necessarily a moral lesson,
noting that issues of inequality often have both ups and downs.
Submissions are due May 1, 2018 and should be
emailed to the editor, Jessica Bodoh-Creed at jbodohc2@calstatela.edu
Biopolitics, Necropolitics,
Cosmopolitics: Feminist and Queer Interventions
Special
Issue of *Journal of Gender Studies*
This
special issue aims to both address these urgent issues and open them up onto
new ways of imagining vital politics, resistance strategies, and
other-than-merely-human agencies. In this way, we envision feminist and queer
interventions that rethink categories such as ‘human’ and ‘subjectivity’ based
on the classical modern premises. This special issue hopes therefore to produce
resilient visions of transformation of the matrix of in-/exclusion into
feminist/queer cosmopolitical futures that contribute to a new discourse of
planetary social justice.
For
consideration, *please email abstracts (300-500 words) by March 15, 2018* to
Christine Quinan (C.L.Quinan@uu.nl)
and Kathrin Thiele (K.Thiele@uu.nl).
OBSCENITY: “I Know It when I See It”
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 the theme of obscenity. We envisage papers that follow
suit to the growing literature on “obscenity & sexuality” (Nead, 1992,
2001), “speaking the unspeakable” (Michelson, 1993) and “art & obscenity”
(Mey, 2007), not to mention “degradation” (Saunders, 2011).
Deadline:
1 September, 2018.
Contact
Email: onoriucolacel@litere.usv.ro
URL: http://msa.usv.ro/
Migration, Sex, and Intimate Labor,
1850-2000
The
Journal of Women’s History is seeking expressions of interest to submit
articles to a special issue on migration, sex, and intimate labor in the period
between 1850 and 2000, in any local, national, transnational, or global
context. It seeks to frame “intimate labor” within the long history of women’s
involvement in domestic and sexual markets and their movement across and within
borders for myriad forms of care and body work (Boris and Parreñas, 2010). This
special issue will be positioned within an emergent historiography that
examines the practices, discourses, regulation of, and attempts to suppress
what has come to be known as “trafficking,” while foregrounding the ways in
which a historical lens can destabilize this term.
Prospective
contributors to this special issue are asked to send an extended abstract of
1,000 words to the issue’s guest editors, Julia Laite (j.laite@bbk.ac.uk)
and Philippa Hetherington (p.hetherington@ucl.ac.uk) by 1 June 2018.
Culture, Theory and Critique
Culture,
Theory and Critique is a refereed, interdisciplinary journal for the
transformation and development of critical theories in the humanities and
social sciences. It aims to critique and reconstruct theories by interfacing
them with one another and by relocating them in new sites and conjunctures.
Please
visit our website (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rctc20/current)
for instructions and guidelines on how to submit an article.
Contact
Email: culturetheoryandcritique@gmail.com
Women Rewriting History: Critical
Resistance through Literature, Film, and Art
Rewriting
historical and canonical texts has been a continuing tradition in literature,
but takes on particular significance in women’s revisions of literature,
legends, and myths created by men. Women writers across the world have revised
male texts from different epochs, particularly focusing on the representation
of women as historical, legendary, and mythic subjects. This volume will
include women writers, filmmakers, and artists from all centuries and diverse
cultural backgrounds who have revisited classical texts, especially those that
question or challenge the roles of women. We seek to include women from all
national and cultural backgrounds and artistic and literary genres who rewrite
and reconceive historical, legendary, and mythic figures.
Deadline
for Proposals: April 1, 2018
Please
direct all submissions and inquiries to Lisa Bernstein at lbernstein3@gmail.com and
Tulin Ece Tosun at ttosun@purdue.edu
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.
Abstract
deadline: January 31, 2018
Contact
Email: barchiesi.1@osu.edu
Subjects, Objects, Others: Materialisms
from the Enslaved and Colonized
A
Special Issue of darkmatter
This
issue of darkmatter is concerned with interrogating this problematic by
focusing on objects laden with stories of slavery, colonization and their
aftermaths, and thus offers materialist responses that address the capitalocene
itself, and the uneven lived experiences of those upon whose subjugation and
dispossession it has been built. Attending to objects that have lives of their
own ‒ speaking, acting, and making claims upon the world, through their
materials, craft, and form ‒ we seek to draw out depictions and theories of the
material that emerge from these objects themselves.
Abstracts
should be submitted by 15 February 2018.
Contact
Email: subjectsobjectsothers@gmail.com
Surveillance Cultures
This
special issue of On_Culture charts the fundamental changes in cultural agency
brought about by expansion, digitalization, and de-materialization of
surveillance technologies. These developments penetrate every-day experiences
down to the most quotidian and unconscious practices as well as the very
materiality of the affected bodies. As a growing performative force, these
practices and the responses they elicit work towards an essential cultural
restructuring that results in a plurality of surveillance cultures. This
pluralization calls for a radical reconceptualization of surveillance with
regard to the personal as well as systemic possibilities it re-determines.
abstract
deadline: March 30, 2018
Contact
Email: content@on-culture.org
WORKSHOPS
Justice After Atrocity?
The 4th Master Seminar on Post-Genocide Invites college seniors,
graduate students, scholars, practitioners and policymakers, and others to
submit a 250-word abstract to dklein@kean.edu by March 1 of a paper in progress
or recently completed dealing with the seminar theme, "Justice After
Atrocity?" The Seminar, which will be facilitated by Lawrence Douglas,
James J Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst
College, will permit participants to present their research and receive criticism
and ideas for constructive, new lines of Investigation. it will take place at
Kean University over two days, April 19-20, and is cosponsored by the
Reflections in the Aftermath of War and Genocide Consortium, a coalition of
scholars and practitioners affiliated with Cornell University, Kean University,
Georgia State University, and Yale University committed to exploring the
aftermaths of genocide.
Contact Email: dklein@kean.edu
