CONFERENCES
Why Remember? Ruins, Remains and
Reconstructions in Times of War and Its Aftermath
Questions of memory (and forgetting) are intensely political and have
far-reaching consequences. Yet, how do they reverberate in the context of
post-war societies, post-conflict reconciliation, conflict prevention,
questions of memory and past events? To what extent do we remember the past and
how do we choose what to remember and why we remember? How could and should
(consciously and unconsciously) memory processes shape the present and future?
How might public institutions (such as museums and other heritage sites that
support education/awareness) deal with the past? What is the difference between
commemoration and memorialization? Where do they intersect and how might they
impact the process of reconciliation and prevention?
Please submit your proposals no later than February 15th, 2018 to
why.remember.conference@gmail.com.
See this link for more information: http://www.warmfoundation.org
Washington Ethical Leadership
Summit and Conference 2018
Today, the question of ethics in politics and its importance for the
sustenance of the democratic norms and institution is more important than ever.
Unethical leadership affects everyone and has the tremendous implications for
our political and economic life. The Summit and Conference will address these
implications in a day-two event. The Summit (April 29) under the theme “A
Global Catalyst for Change” will feature keynote addresses and a series of
discussions, and the Conference ( May 2) will bring academics and practitioners
to present their research, experiences and findings on these isssues.
The Conference seek to address the questions; What is the role of
ethics in the American society and around the world today?What are the major
ethical challenges societies are experiencing and how are they being addressed?
How do we find and develop ethical leaders?How do we as citizens and
professionals respond to new ethical dilemmas ? Participants are invited to
submit proposals by March 10, 2018.
Contact Email: kbilgin@viu.edu
Summer Symposium on Interactive Interdisciplinarity
The Collaborative for
Interdisciplinary/Integrative Studies (CIIS) announces its Summer Symposium on
interdisciplinary pedagogy and research on June 1-2, 2018 in Hamden,
Connecticut. We welcome
submissions for papers, presentations, or panels on all aspects of
interdisciplinary pedagogy and research. Possible topics include emerging
critical theories in interdisciplinary studies, interdisciplinary approaches to
teaching and research, digital humanities, interdisciplinary studies and
evolving institutional cultures, new directions in interdisciplinary studies curricula,
and experiential learning/project-based learning.
To propose a paper,
presentation, or panel discussion for the Symposium, please submit an abstract of
up to 750 words for blind review to the Symposium website (ids.qu.edu) by
February 16, 2018.
Contact Email: Mary.Paddock@quinnipiac.edu
URL: http://ids.qu.edu/
Art and Housing Struggles: between art and political organising
London, 31 May to 1 Jun 2018
For long time art has been
integral to the neoliberal governance and policies around ‘housing
regeneration’. Art is expected to produce social and economic outcomes, to
regenerate the hollowed-out economies of postindustrial cities and to energise
communities – regardless of a total paucity of evidence that the arts can
perform any of these tasks. In some parts of the world, national public
institutions, private developers, supra-national institutions and NGOs are keen
to sponsor socially-engaged art projects. The role of art in ‘the housing
regeneration’ shows that art is an integral part of current capitalist
mutations that are turning the neoliberal art subject in a source of capital.
The focus of this conference
are the contradictions and potentials of art in contemporary housing struggles.
We intend to continue building on previous efforts to connect art and housing
in discussions surrounding gentrification and social housing as well as
rethinking art and housing trough social reproduction.
Proposals for papers and
creative entries can be submitted until 19 Feb 2018.
Please address proposals
to: digitalstorymakingresearch@gmail.com
Rutgers Annual Global Affairs Conference
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 globalization 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?
Deadline: February 16, 2018
Contact Email: saga.rutgers@gmail.com
The Invention and Reinvention of Decolonization: Rethinking the
‘Waves’ Narrative
LONDON, JUNE 21-22, 2018
Was ‘decolonization’ a European
invention designed to ease the ‘White Man’s Burden’ and pave the way for a
neo-colonial system of extraction and dependency? Was it a Latin American invention intended to
undo ‘the colonial system?’ Or was it an
Indian, French Algerian or Caribbean invention?
All the above? Is the received
‘wave’ narrative (first, second, third, fourth waves) currently used to tell
the global history of decolonization still adequate to the task? Or would notions such as ‘invention’ and
‘reinvention’ be more useful?
Please submit a 200-word
abstract, paper title, and one-page biographical note copied jointly to
Professor Philip Murphy (philip.murphy@sas.ac.uk)
and Professor Mark Thurner (mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk)
by Monday 12 March 2018.
Indigenous Communities and “Civilizing” Institutions in the Colonial
and Postcolonial World
I am seeking two to three
participants for a panel at Ethnohistory in October 2018 (Oaxaca, Mexico).
The goal of this panel is to
examine the experiences of indigenous people who encountered colonial and
postcolonial institutions purporting to civilize, modernize, uplift, or assimilate
them. These institutions have taken many different forms across space and time,
and they have been inextricably linked to broader processes of territorial
dispossession, community destruction, and cultural erasure. This panel seeks to
center indigenous voices and experiences, and address the plurality of
indigenous responses to these ‘civilizing’ schemes.
Interested panelists should
send an abstract and CV to hannah.greenwald@yale.edu by February
20, 2018.
For more information about the
conference: http://ethnohistory.org/index.php/annual-conference-2018/
Police Brutality in Communities of Color
panel for American Historical
Association (AHA) 2019 Annual Conference
In this panel, we welcome
discussions on the history of police brutality in communities of color
throughout the twentieth century. All regions and eras are welcome.
Contact Email: Erica.metcalfe@tsu.edu
Family, Memory & Identity Symposium
Aarhus Institute of Advanced
Studies (AIAS), Denmark
The family has long been a
central unit of social organisation, understood as key to child development,
the production of personal and familial identity, and the transmission of
values. It is a unit of political significance, identified as the ‘nursery of
the nation’ from at least the medieval period and thus subject to significant
analysis and intervention. The family is also implicated in the production of
nations, where particular families (not least monarchies) and family stories
become national histories – defining the boundaries of who belongs and who does
not. Such processes of identity-making require a range of forms of inheritance
and memory-making, whether at a personal level in stories told to children or
the ways that family becomes embedded in heritage sites and museums to explain
our national stories. This symposium explores the relationship between family,
memory and identity, asking how family is defined, articulated and transmitted
to its members and those beyond.
Abstracts of no more than 250
words, and a short bio, should be emailed to Katie Barclay, katiebarclay@aias.au.dk by 15
March 2018.
Historiographical Innovations: A Conference on Emerging Historical
Practices
November 1st and 2nd, 2018 at
McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario
We seek to highlight historians
whose work opens up the study of history to be more inclusive of marginalized,
forgotten, or subaltern narratives by challenging standard versions of
political, social, and economic histories. Emerging scholars are confronting
sterile narratives by engaging with avant-garde theoretical discourses and
advanced practical approaches that allow for more critical analysis of the
past. Often, this has serious implications in the present. Because such trans-,
inter-, and multi-disciplinarity has, for many of us, become crucial to our
historical practice. This choice to move beyond the discipline’s traditional
boundaries has enabled graduate students to push the field into new directions
while engaging with contemporary issues. This conference will therefore provide
a platform for emerging scholars who are doing some of the most exciting and
ground-breaking work for the field at large.
If you have any further
questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: mcmasterhistgradconf@gmail.com.
The deadline for submitted panels and papers is: March 31, 2018.
Revolutions: Challenging Society and the State: History Across the
Disciplines Conference
Dalhousie University, Nova
Scotia
We will be discussing
demographic, cultural, economic, religious, linguistic, legal, material, and
gendered change in a variety of historical contexts. In addition, we welcome
submissions from papers ranging in a variety of topics and disciplines. The History
Across the Disciplines Conference encourages presentations that incorporate a
specific historical technique in pursuing an analysis, or approach to a topic
from within a specialized field.
Please submit a short abstract
and a one-page CV to historyacrossthedisciplines@gmail.com no
later than February 15th, 2018.
Higher Education for the 21st Century: Strategies for innovative
learning
Universidad de los Andes (www.uniandes.edu.co) in Bogotá, Colombia
between the 25-28 of June 2018.
CEA members agreed that this
workshop will focus on the main issues related to innovation in higher
education and strategies for innovative learning.
The submission deadline is
April 1st, 2018.
Contact Email: cea2018@uniandes.edu.co
The Paradox of the Other: Difficulties in Classification
Brooklyn College Graduate
English Conference, Saturday, May 5, 2018
This conference seeks to
examine the definition of “other” by investigating both the need to classify
and the need to resist classification. Otherness is not reducible simply to
established concepts of gender, race,
sexuality, etc. Instead, the way we
classify otherness is constantly shifting. Why, then, do these needs to
classify and resist classification exist simultaneously? Does the illustration
of “otherness” in literature, politics, and popular culture reify otherness as
natural, as a given? Does it allow otherness to flourish, diminishing the
coercive force of normativity? Or does
it produce a new concept of normativity, thereby creating another other, so to
speak? By shifting and/or redefining power structures, are we solving
otherness, or are we perpetuating it under a new, undefined classification? In
this interdisciplinary conference,we encourage presenters to expand on the
difficulties found in otherness discourses.
Wild Places, Natural Spaces
Changing and often inconsistent
metaphors and models guide us in every area of our lives—the social, economic,
aesthetic, philosophic, religious, and scientific. But questions arise at every turn: Are we part of nature or distinct? Do our “real” selves reside in “tamed” or
“wild” spaces, and what do these mean?
Does our presence in a place, or the effects of our actions on a place,
make it irreparably or happily humanized?
What responsibilities do we have to develop coherent and
ethically-viable constructions of the human/nature nexus? How, historically, have the ideas of
wilderness, nature, and society co-evolved?
How have they been represented?
And, importantly, what does it mean to speak about the wild and the
natural in a multicultural world in which we assign different meanings to these
concepts?
deadline: Friday, February 9,
2018
Contact Email: paddockt1@southernct.edu
Defining the Museum of the 21st
Century: Evolving Multiculturalism in Museums in the United States
The International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) and Southern New
Hampshire University (SNHU) are pleased to announce that a symposium on
“Defining the Museum of the 21st Century” will be hosted by Southern New
Hampshire University’s History Program on September 14, 2018 online in the
United States Eastern Time. ICOFOM’s specific aim is to construct the
definition from a worldwide platform for debates on theory about museums and
museological topics, and its role in collecting the concepts of the museum definition.
Abstracts are due by March 9, 2018
Contact Email: y.chung1@snhu.edu
Genres and media landscapes in virtual-physical learning spaces.
Moving frontlines?
The international conference
Genres and media landscapes in virtual-physical learning spaces. Moving
frontlines?, GeM 2018, aims to create a multi-disciplinary platform that will
bridge the gaps between different theoretical constructs regarding genres, as
well as institutional usage and every-day practices in a media dense society.
The conference will bring together scholars from the disciplines of Media
Studies, Education, Arts and Humanities, including professionals from the
sector of culture, with the aim of going beyond the polarized academic area of
genre studies.
Please submit your abstract by
uploading your file here (deadline 15 April 2018): http://machform.hj.se/view.php?id=361527
Contact Email: gem2018@ju.se
Thinking Mountains
Thinking Mountains (http://thinkingmountains.ca/index.html) is a triennial interdisciplinary mountain studies summit that promotes
dialogue about mountain places, peoples, and activities around the world.
Mountains matter. They comprise a
quarter of the world’s land surface. They house a quarter of the world’s human
population. Mountains hold extraordinary cultural significance for societies
around the globe, and are venerated in religion, art, and literature. Mountains
can be sites of extraordinary possibility and wealth, but also be zones of
debilitating poverty: places on
societies’ margins, where communications are poor and infrastructure, jobs, services,
education, and health care are lacking.
deadline: Friday, February 23,
2018
Contact Email: thinkingmtns@ualberta.ca
North American Labor History
Conference
October 18-20, 2018, Wayne State University
The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference
(NALHC), an international conference with a global perspective on labor and
working-class history, invites proposals for case studies, project
demonstrations, papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops on the theme Labor
and History in the 21st Century for our fortieth anniversary annual
meeting. We invite proposals from any discipline and from scholars,
practitioners, and activists working in any geographical or temporal framework.
Submissions should be sent as a single PDF file by April 15, 2018
to nalhc@wayne.edu
Stars and Screen
Film and Media History Conference
September 27-29, 2018, Rowan University Glassboro, NJ
In the ‘Golden Age’ of Classical Hollywood Cinema, MGM was known
as the motion picture studio with “More Stars Than There Are In Heaven.” In fact,
‘Stars’ have illuminated cinematic screens for over 100 years, from classic
movie stars (Bogart, Bacall, Hepburn, Chaplin) to films about Hollywood’s star
factory (A Star Is Born, What Price Hollywood?) to shooting stars (Deep
Impact), falling stars (Sunset Boulevard, Raging Bull), and stars in ‘space,
the final frontier’ (Star Trek) in a ‘galaxy far, far away’ (Star Wars).
Digital video streaming and binge watching of films and media also re-imagines
and creates new moving image ‘stars’ transforming the cinematic or televisual
production, distribution, and viewing reception experience. What does this
nostalgic re-imagining of film history and cinematic production of stars on
screen tell us about the cultural moment we find ourselves in?
Proposal abstracts should be 200-300 words in length and are due by
June 15, 2018. Please submit your proposal electronically at https://starsandscreen.blogspot.com/ by
entering your abstract on the Stars and Screen Conference Submission
Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfl8MLP5cSVjetdXAWbk7lzMnZchCZTcOiVst8-7TPrlx4Ctg/viewform.
Contact Email: starsandscreen@gmail.com
Transcultural Studies Student
Conference
We are happy to announce that on April 27th, 2018, the Cluster of
Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context will be holding its inaugural
Transcultural Studies Student Conference at Heidelberg University, exclusively
aimed for and managed by Masters and PhD students who are performing research
employing or relating to transcultural theory. The goal of the conference is to
establish an annual student conference in the methodology of Transcultural
Studies in which advanced students of all fields and places can meet and engage
in discourse that would enhance our collective understanding of our emerging
methodological outlook.
To apply for the conference, please submit a 250 word abstract via
e-mail to tssc@stura.uni-heidelberg.de by
the February 18th as a deadline
The (im)possibility of liberal
nationalism in the age of Trump and the Catalan conundrum – Moving beyond the
binaries of Nationalism Studies
24-26 May 2018, University of Edinburgh
This workshop wants to move beyond the classic binaries of Nationalism
Studies towards a more nuanced, reformulated framework that might provide a way
to better understand nationalisms’ shifting guises. This workshop welcomes
reflections and case studies from across the field of the social sciences and
the humanities. The aim is to publish an edited volume with an international academic
publisher or a themed issue of an international academic journal.
Please send a 500
word abstract of your paper and a short academic biography of 5 lines
to J.Kennedy@ed.ac.uk and Maarten.VanGinderachter@uantwerpen.be.
URL:
Deadline is 15 March 2018.
Women in Religion
I am organizing a Special Session for the 2018 South Central Modern
Language Association meeting to be held in San Antonio, Texas, 11-14 October
2018. I am hoping to find two more papers to fill this Special Session panel.
Papers for this panel will illustrate the diverse ways that women have
found to participate in western and/or non-western religious
practices across time and cultures.
Please send abstracts of no more than 150 words to chappell@tarleton.edu no later
than 15 February.
Men and Masculinities and
Participatory Art
Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Conference, November 15-18,
2018, San Antonio, TX
We invite you to submit abstracts for a panel on the theme of men and
masculinities in the Middle East and its diaspora. Under what framework do we
understand the construction of men/manliness/masculinity within the Middle East
(inclusive of the colonized and colonizer)? How can other fields inform us
about potential theoretical pitfalls and shortcomings, that may emerge in the
study of masculinity in the Middle East? Where do we place colonialism in our
understanding of the development of Arab and/or Persian masculinity (e.g. What
can homoerotic colonial encounters with the colonized tell us about popular
understandings of Middle Eastern manhood?)
Please send abstracts of 300-400 words to organizers Bryan Roby (robyb@umich.edu) and Anne Marie Butler (abutler4@buffalo.edu) by Saturday,
February 11th.
Socially Engaged and
Participatory Art in the MENA Region
This panel seeks paper proposals that discuss participatory and/or
socially engaged art in a broad sense. The organizers encourage potential
participants to think outside the scope of what is conventionally recognized as
art, art making, art object, and performance. Some questions that panelists
might address are: What projects from MENA exemplify socially engaged and
participatory art, and what does their enactment tell us about how communities
within the region are negotiating turmoil and injustice? How do socially
engaged and participatory projects move away from a prioritization of
aesthetics, and what impact does this have on their reach and reception?
Conversely, how might we consider the status of the aesthetic in socially
engaged art projects?
Please submit 300-400 word abstracts to the organizers Elisabeth
Friedman (efriedm@ilstu.edu) and Anne
Marie Butler (abutler4@buffalo.edu)
by Sunday February 11.
Creativity, Innovation, and
Resilience: Rethinking Challenges and Opportunities in Africa
Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes African Studies Conference, University of
Pittsburgh, March 24, 2018
Seeing the need for opportunities for scholarly development and
networking among educators and researchers in African Studies outside of the
annual meeting of the African Studies Association, we invite Africanists from
universities, community colleges, HBCUs, and other academic institutions in the
neighboring states of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia,
Indiana, Michigan, and New York to participate in the conference.
The deadline for conference abstracts is March 1, 2018.
Register and Submit Abstracts here: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8DrDS8WEoTbhm4d
Contact Email: ydc1@pitt.edu
PUBLISHING
Disability Studies and
Ecocriticism: Critical and Creative Intersections
This CFP calls for critical essays and creative works that address the
intersection of disability studies and ecocriticism, or disability and the
environment. In terms of critical essays, we will consider analyses of novels,
poetry, comics, dance, art, and movies. We will also consider creative works
(including creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction) that center on an
exploration of the relationship(s) between disability and the environment. We
are particularly interested in works that address the following broad questions
in specific ways: What can be gained by investigating ecological issues through
the lens of disability studies? What can be gained by investigating disability
through the lens of ecocriticism? How can these two viewpoints be joined?
Please send 300-500 word proposals to Dr. Christine Junker (Wright
State University) and Dr. Todd Comer (Defiance College) by March 1, 2018.
Capitalist Aesthetics
Special issue of Open Cultural Studies
“Capitalist Aesthetics” will build on Fredric Jameson’s attention to
the rich seam between aesthetics, ideology and political economy in light of
the above developments and welcomes articles that explore the aesthetic
configurations—from the cute to the comfortable, from the no-brow to the
fringe—through which the economic logics of late capitalism come to crystallize
today. It invites work that treats the stylistic and formal dimension of
cultural objects, and the verdictive and affective dimensions of cultural
discourse/experience, as valuable “cryptograms” of contemporary ideological
formations and the economic relations they sustain. In the process, it will
foreground the fact that—despite widespread suspicion, post-Bourdieu, of the
discourse of the aesthetic—scholars associated with cultural studies, from
Raymond Williams to Rosalind Gill, have developed a powerful set of critical
tools for analysing aesthetic configurations, both as vehicles of ideological
and economic domination, and as sources of subversion, pleasure, critique, and
renewal.
Please submit your proposals to izabella.penier@degruyteropen.com by March
1, 2018.
Globalization and Federations
“Glocalism”, a peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary
journal, is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. We welcome studies
in any field, with or without comparative approach, that address both practical
effects and theoretical import.
Website: http://www.glocalismjournal.net/
Deadline: April 30, 2018
In Authentic America: Heritage,
identity, performance and commemoration in the United States
Call for Book Chapter Submissions
This book addresses the highly relevant debates about authenticity and
inauthenticity in America. America may have difficult and troubled
relationships with the rest of the world, but its culture strongly influences
global heritage. The topic of post-truth and discussions of racial and sexual
equality and politics of identity often shape the news and agendas in the
United States. While many works cover American identity, American dream,
American tourism and topics such as hyperreality and gentrification, no current
work specifically examines the controversial theme of American authenticity.
Authenticity can be laterally applied to many fields, including the
study of culture, heritage, history, politics, tourism, placemaking, geography
and film. Permutations of authenticity include invented traditions,
constructions, recreations, restorations, re-enactment and post-truth, all of
which shape the agenda and profoundly influence the image of the United States
in the contemporary world.
Please submit your proposals by sending your application by 1
April 2018 to both: Jane.Lovell@Canterbury.ac.uk and Sam.Hitchmough@Bristol.ac.uk
Waste: Papers on Disposability,
Decay, and Depletion
Call for Articles
This special collection entitled Waste: Papers on Disposability, Decay,
and Depletion will make visible the untold story of waste by exploring its
representations, both material and metaphorical, within contemporary culture.
Calling on related discourses from the arts, social sciences, medical
humanities and beyond, Waste: Papers on Disposability, Decay, and Depletion
will bring together a diverse collection of quality articles on a (waste)
matter that impacts and implicates us all, and will be made readily available
to a wide audience through open access publishing.
The deadline for abstract submission is April 3rd 2018.
Please email abstracts plus a short bio to wasteconference2017@bbk.ac.uk.
History of Disaster
Process—the blog of the Organization of American
Historians, The Journal of American History, and The American Historian—invites
proposals and submissions for a series of upcoming posts about the history of
disasters. This series will be open to a variety of topics, such as the history
of floods, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, tornados, blizzards, and
other natural disasters; the history of nuclear accidents, ship wrecks, oil
spills, blackouts, and other man-made disasters; disaster relief and other
disaster-focused interventions; how race, class, gender, and/or sexuality
intersect with disasters; and other topics attending to the historical
implications of various disasters. We accept pitches from anyone actively
engaged in the practice of U.S. history, including researchers, teachers,
graduate students, archivists, curators, public historians, digital scholars,
and others. For more information about Process, please visit our website. Materials may be sent
to blog@oah.org. Please circulate this
announcement.
History of Retailing and
Consumption
The Routledge journal, History of Retailing and Consumption provides a
central place for publication and reference for those interested in all aspects
of the subject: from the literary, to the spatial, to the economic. In bringing
together different disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches, we
aim to foster greater dialogue between the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Equally, by drawing together contributions from across the globe, we hope to
facilitate international comparisons through empirical studies and review
essays. We are now actively accepting
papers on these topics. The journal
publishes three types of articles: thought pieces, which are 3,000-5,000 words,
scholarly articles, which are 8,000-10,000 words, and literature review essays.
Contact Email: hrcjournal@gmail.com
Infrastructure
This special issue will gather new work from the humanities, arts, and
social sciences examining “infrastructure” as concept or material reality in
Asia, Asian America, and Asian diasporic communities around the world. We
welcome scholarship that explores the relationships between real and conceptual
infrastructures, concrete materials and codes of practice—both in particular
parts of Asia and as Asian people, goods, and ideas circulate globally. We are
especially interested in essays that use the concept of infrastructure to
better understand questions related to development projects, technological
changes, and emergent political and social realities. Our goal is to discover
how infrastructure studies can renew classic approaches to Asian societies and
their national or global histories, provide new insights into Asian and Asian
diasporic literatures or arts, and help focus attention on current ecological
and political concerns—for example, by mobilizing new concepts such as
redundancy, resiliance, and repair.
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2019.
Contact Email: verge@psu.edu
Is It Time to Bury
Neoliberalism?
The Activist History Review calls for papers that define or illustrate
neoliberalism. Is neoliberalism a coherent economic and cultural system reliant
upon an open market and a globalized economy, or an over-distilled term for a
complex political and social climate decades in the making? If academics and
activists need to cast neoliberalism aside, how should it be done and what can
be used in its place? For this issue, special attention will be given to
proposals that historicize neoliberalism and critically analyze the
concentration of wealth and dismantling of state-sponsored programs for
economic and social equality in the mid-twentieth century.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words for articles from 1250-2000
words, and should be emailed to Andreas Meyris at activisthistory@gmail.comby Monday,
February 19th at 11:59 PM.
Inscription: Tracing Place
This journal issue seeks to investigate how such literary evocations of
memory, can or have been used in site analysis or architectural design. Like
the tracing of history in lines and stones is depicted in the novels of W.G.
Sebald’s, Marcel Proust, or Orhan Pamuk, also contemporary architects, urban
planners and landscape architects may search for evocative ways to take up
traces of history in their designs. Approaching the question of local urban
cultures, histories and stories with a literary lens thus offers the
possibility to understand not only how urban places are experienced and
remembered, but also how they can be produced or transformed.
Abstract deadline: March 5, 2018
Contact Email: journal@writingplace.org
Environments of Change
Aigne Winter 2018 Issue
The contemporary world is undergoing a period of accelerated change
which can be attributed to a number of different developments: technological
advances, the ubiquity of social media and smartphones, the acceleration of
global warming and the resultant environmental disasters, and major political
upheavals such as Brexit and the growth of white nationalist movements across
the globe. These and other changes create constantly shifting and unstable contemporary
environments. In this climate of economic, political and environmental
uncertainty, it is important to address the impact on and outcomes of these and
other major changes in our contemporary world. The aim of this issue is to
offer a series of articles which engage with the theme of ‘Environments of
Change’ in challenging and diverse ways.
Potential contributors are invited to submit a 5,000-7,000 word paper
by 4 May 2018
Contact Email: aigne@ucc.ie
URL: http://aigne.ucc.ie/
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 February 28, 2018.
Revisiting the Elegy in the
Black Lives Matter Era
For this edited collection, we seek essays that investigate
contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. We are especially interested in
essays that discuss contemporary black writers’ responses to personal and
public deaths, challenging some of the foundational components of the elegy,
while still drawing on the form. One could look at the contemporary poem of
mourning as a challenge to the elegy in its past form, as a commemoration of
diasporic challenges (including police brutality), and/or as a vehicle for
addressing concerns with citizenship and belonging.
Creative submissions (2-3 elegiac poems or short prose pieces) and
500-word essay abstracts are due by March 30, 2018.
Please send queries and submissions to Drs. Emily Rutter (errutter@bsu.edu) and Tiffany Austin (tiffanyuaustin@gmail.com).
Civil Society and Social
Movements: Challenges and Opportunities
This volume examines the roles and contributions of civil society and
social movements in terms of women and youth empowerment, freedom of
expression, conflict resolution, the promotion of human rights and community
peace-building. For this scope, it investigates the impact of civil society and
social movements organizations on politics, power and their impact on social
and political life. The book also analyses the extent to which the new
information technologies are used by civil society and social movements for
mobilizing as well as framing their political and social demands. Finally, it
offers an overview of international donors’ agenda and interests in supporting
civic engagement empowerment projects. Overall, this volume is meant to
contribute to the current debate on the nature of and the relationship between
civil society and social movements by providing new insights into concrete
manifestations of these phenomena in non-Western context.
Potential authors are invited to send their abstract of maximum 300
words to Dr. Ibrahim Natil: dr.natil59@gmail.com,
Dr. Chiara Pierobon: chiara.pierobon@ovgu.de
and Ms. Lilian Tauber: l.a.tauber@durham.ac.uk by February
4, 2018.
Hoodwinking Higher Education:
Deviant Behavior and Academia
I am seeking insightful, jargon-limited, and engaging writing on a
wide-range of topics that address the dynamics of social and ethical boundary
setting and breaches related to the broader institution of academia. Although
emergent research is encouraged, case studies and theoretical pieces will also
be seriously considered.
Please send a 200-500 word abstract and an abbreviated curriculum
vitae to the following address: smurguia@aiu.ac.jp
Abstracts Due: 10 May 2018
Disability Studies and
Ecocriticism: Critical and Creative Intersections
This CFP calls for creative works and critical essays that explore the
intersection of disability studies and ecocriticism, or disability and the
environment. We will consider creative works (including creative nonfiction,
poetry, and fiction) that center on an exploration of the relationship(s)
between disability and the environment. We are particularly interested in
works that address the following broad questions in specific ways: How does the
lived and emotional experience of the environment and disability intersect?
What happens when we bring the two together and see ecological issues trhough
the lens of disability studies, and disability through the lens of
ecocriticism?
Please send 300-500 word proposals to Dr. Christine Junker (Wright
State University) and Dr. Todd Comer (Defiance College) by March 1, 2018. Final
essays/creative works should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words in length.
Emails: tcomer@defiance.edu and christine.wilson@wright.edu
The Monstrous Global: The
Effects of Globalization on Cultures
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture Vol. 21, No. 2 (June 2019) Special Issue
For this special issue on “The Monstrous Global: The Effects of
Globalization on Cultures,” we invite papers that explore representations of
the monstrous effects and products of globalization. The monstrous (as in The
Monstrous Feminine by Barbara Creed) in this sense alludes to the ways in which
local or national displays of fear and anxiety about the Other are embedded in
struggles and tensions of global scale; the inability to cognitively map the
effect of such global forces on local/national problems produces monstrous
representations of the global.
Please submit 200-300 word abstract by March 31 to Ju Young Jin
at juyjin@umail.iu.edu. Please
direct your inquiries to Ju Young Jin or Jae H. Roe at jhroe@sogang.ac.kr.
the radical
Haunt Journal of Art is a vessel for critical interrogations of writing
as both a tool for artistic expression and a means for analyzing creative
practices. Ours is a commitment to providing a platform for new textual forms
and strategies wherein the production of writing and art may serve one another.
For our fifth volume, we’d like to consider the status of “the radical” in
contemporary thought. We define the radical as that which brings upheaval or a
forceful transformation of political, social, artistic, or other terrain.
However, we are putting pressure on what we term romantic notions of radicality
which situate the radical as a disruption ending in some form of
socio-political redemption; a redemption that is a relief from a masked past
that ceaselessly rears its head in the present. In this sense, we are
interested in radicality as something non-teleological.
Deadline: May 15th
Contact Email: hauntjournal@uci.edu
The New Fascism Syllabus
The New Fascism Syllabus is a crowd-sourced collection of writings on
the history of fascist, populist, and authoritarian movements and governments
during the 20th and 21st centuries. It is intended to serve as a popular
entryway into the scholarly literature for those seeking deeper insights into
how past societies gravitated towards and experienced varieties of right-wing
authoritarianism. The goal is to provide comparative perspectives on how
everyday people, as well as cultural authorities and civil institutions, coped
with and in some cases resisted these changes. Rather than equating the history
of fascism, populism, and authoritarianism across time, space, and place, the
project’s primary objective is to showcase movements and popular struggles from
a variety of contexts, and to highlight scholarly insights into current
socio-political trends.
Any scholars interested in sharing their bibliographies and,
most importantly, links to any digitized primary source collections pertaining
to the project's central topics and themes are encouraged to either join our
private Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/NewFascismSyllabus/)
or contact our editors directly (http://www.thehistoryinquestion.com/contact/).
Submissions will be accepted until February 25, 2018.
Contact Email: media@thehistoryinquestion.com
FUNDING
Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Internships Available
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, is offering a
number of internship opportunities for the summer of 2018. The Center’s summer
internship program provides opportunities for students who want to gain
practical museum experience, and to assist students in the development of new
or expanded applications for their academic and professional interests. The
internship program offers students hands-on involvement with the museum
profession in a manner that cannot be duplicated in the classroom or through
textbooks. These experiences may result in graduate theses and dissertations,
and assist students in defining their career goals. Interns become aware of the
professional practices and ethics of a workplace environment.
Application deadline is March 1, 2018. Click on the following
link for more information: https://centerofthewest.org/learn/internships/
Contact Email: chriss@centerofthwest.org
RESOURCES
Literary and Cultural Plant
Studies Network
Join the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network for scholarly
exchange and collaboration about the study of plants in the Humanities and
Social Sciences. You can join our listserv and visit our website at http://plants.sites.arizona.edu/. We
invite you to add your publications and/or artwork to our bibliography of
primary and secondary materials, and you can find or list plant conferences,
panels, workshops, organizations, networks, and planned publications (CfPs). If
you would like to add your profile, please email a bio (with the requisite
profile link/email address) to Joela Jacobs (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu).
This is also the address for any entries and queries.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Paid Summer Graduate Internships
at The Henry Ford
Five graduate internship opportunities are available for
summer 2018 at The Henry Ford:
- Archival Holdings
Survey Internship
- Industrial Design
Collection Processing Internship
- McGuffey Readers
Organization, Description, and Access Internship
- Textile Conservation
Internship
- Textile History
Collection Archival Processing Internship
For project descriptions and application instructions, please
visit https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/about/ways-to-get-involved/.
Contact Email: saigej@thehenryford.org
