CONFERENCES
Finding Community
in Digital Humanities
October
4- 5, 2018, University of Kansas
When
the diversity of disciplines, technologies, and communities involved in DH
converge, we are often confronted with novel and/or previously uninvestigated
approaches to the field. How do these aspects overlap? Where do they diverge?
Each community brings its own voice and perspective, often urging us to
interrogate the assumptions hidden within our own work. This conference's theme
asks participants to examine these intersections and bring us into dialogue
with one another. Aside from disciplinary and research communities in the
Digital Humanities, we also frame communities as those of lived experiences:
international communities, marginalized communities and communities of
resistance, classroom communities, digital communities, and others.
The
Deadline is April 6, 2018 for proposals.
Submit
proposals here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGuFIAGMm-AyXZiEeg-WyS8gG6ui6J1ynM-JRYZX3NExbw8g/viewform
Crossroads VI:
Conflicts, Contrasts, and Contradictions
September
28-30, 2018, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In
the sixth edition of the Crossroads Graduate Student Conference in Comparative
Literature, we seek to investigate the theoretical problems situated at the
intersection of the three concepts outlined above in literature, film, and
other media. In the spirit of this anti-consensus approach, we seek
contributions tackling heterodox positionings in scholarship, literature, and
art. We are particularly interested in papers exploring representations of
dissent, incompatibility, and internally flawed speech/discourse, as well as
works, be they literary, filmic, or performative, that embody the
contradictory, and resist consensus by emphasizing conflict as a productive
strategy.
Deadline:
June 15, 2018
Contact
Email: crossroads@complit.umass.edu
Ontario Women's
History Network - Annual Conference
The
Ontario Women's History Network's annual conference will be held in Ottawa on
October 26 and 27, 2018. The focus of this year's conference is on the
intersections between public and women's and gender history, with emphasis on
museum exhibits and teaching opportunities.
Deadline
proposal submission is May 1, 2018.
Contact
Email: info@owhn-rhfo.ca
Imagine Queer:
Exploring the Radical Potential of Queerness Now
The
aim of the conference is to consider interdisciplinary approaches to the
transgressive potential of queerness today. Considering grassroots LGBTQ+
activism, artistic practices, as well as academic discourse of queer theory, we
seek to identify and address issues arising in the current transnational
socio-political conditions. How can biopolitics be challenged by queer
temporalities? How can radical activism of preceding decades be
re-contextualised and employed now? Can queer social formations, based on
friendship, kinship, and affective communities, be used to reconsider the
heteronormative structures aided by the legislation in the international
context?
Please
include 350-word abstracts for 20-minute presentations and a short biographical
note in your application. The proposals should be sent to imaginequeer2018@gmail.com by 31st
May 2018.
Symposium on
Globalizing Learning
The
internationalization of education and the increasing trend in higher education
to take global rather than nation-bounded perspectives on learning across
disciplines demands new ways of thinking about higher education in global
contexts. The intention behind organizing this symposium is to gather a small
group of teacher-scholars at the cutting edge of scholarship on teaching and
learning to explore theories behind, approaches to, and practices of
globalizing learning. Speakers will be
invited to contribute to the Spring 2019 themed issue of the peer-reviewed
academic journal Currents in Teaching and Learning.
If
you are interesting in participating in the symposium as a presenter, please
send your abstract to Martin Fromm at mfromm@worcester.edu. Deadline
for abstracts is June 1.
Slave Dwelling
Project Conference: Slavery, Resistance, and Community
Join
the Slave Dwelling Project, the Middle Tennessee State University Center for
Historic Preservation, and our Pulitzer Prize-winning Keynote Speaker, Colson
Whitehead (author of The Underground Railroad, 2016), for the fifth annual
Slave Dwelling Project Conference, to be held at Middle Tennessee State
University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from October 24-27, 2018.
The
themes of the conference are Slavery, Resistance, and Community. We are looking
for proposals to speak to a diverse, creative, and thought-provoking range of
topics related to each theme or a combination of the themes.
The deadline to submit a proposal is May 1, 2018. Submit by e-mail
to sdpcon2018@gmail.com.
Mediating Change
November
1-2, 2018 at UNT
The
conference focuses on the roles of media in creating a more equitable,
inclusive, sustainable, and just society. The goal is to bring scholars, media
practitioners, educators, and/or activists together in one space so that we can
all learn from and about each other’s research, creative projects, tools, and
strategies.
Deadline
to submit a proposal is Friday, May 25, 2018
Email
submissions to: MediatingChangeConference@gmail.com
The
full CFP is here: https://www.mediatingchangeconference.com/cfp
Southeastern
College Art Conference
The
University of Alabama at Birmingham is pleased to present the 2018 SECAC
conference, October 17-20, 2018
The
2018 conference will feature more than 120 sessions focusing on studio and art
historical research, community engagement, curatorial practices, design,
technology, pedagogy, and arts administration. SECAC encourages traditional
papers as well as demonstrations, performances, screenings, and multi-media
presentations.
proposal
deadline: 15 April, 2018
Settler Social
Identities
24-25
July 2018, University College Dublin
This
conference will examine the role literary sociability and associational life
performed in defining and regulating the ideologies of citizenship in the
settler colonies. Focusing on a broad definition of rational recreation this
conference will explore how popular reading practices, circulating libraries,
public lectures, soirées, exhibitions, clubs, societies and other associations
created and reinforced notions of ‘respectability’ and ‘improvement’ that both
projected an image of coherent community in nascent settler colonies, and
defined who was included and excluded from these new colonial formations.
Focusing on the popular and recreational, we encourage papers which engage with
understudied facets of colonial experience including the experiences of women,
working-class settlers, and indigenous and minority groups.
Deadline
for submissions: Tuesday 1 May 2018
Contact
Email: settlersocialidentity@gmail.com
Politics and
Aesthetics of Obsolescence
University
of Minnesota, October 12-13, 2018
Has
human society fully done away with the pre-modern ideal of permanence and
gradual change? With the establishment of “planned obsolescence” as a fixture
in business practices that accelerate the cycle of consumption to breakneck
speed, time and history feel past their “best before” date: one is born too
old, always already behind on the most recent “disruptive” trends in fashion,
lifestyle choice, or current verbiage. On the other hand, this whirlpool of
obsolescence is not without its resistances: a number of counterwaste and anti-consumption
movements and initiatives, ranging from municipally sanctioned recycling
programs to a reactivated interest in localism, minimalism, DIY culture, as
well as the call for a “right to repair” mark growing areas of contention, or
at least corrective, to the logic of perpetual novelty.
Proposal
submissions will be due May 13th, 2018.
Please
visit mimsgg.org for
further information and the online submission form. For any questions, feel
free to contact the conference committee via mimsgg@umn.edu.
Conference on
Inclusion and Diversity in Higher Education
Texas
A&M University at Galveston September 12-13, 2018
The
second annual TAMUG Conference on Inclusion and Diversity in Higher Education
draws its theme from critic Sara Ahmed’s On Being Included: Racism and
Diversity in Institutional Life, which describes the challenges that diversity
practitioners face as they work “with as well as in the gap between words and
deeds” around diversity and inclusion at a variety of institutions (Ahmed
140). We invite abstract submissions on
any aspect of inclusion and diversity work that attends to the myriad ways that
practitioners build internal and external relationships with multiple
stakeholders, communicate its significance to multiple listeners, take
ownership of initiatives and work toward transformative change. Presentation proposals might include but are
not limited to the dynamics of diversity, dimensions of individual differences,
diversity and media representations, educational policies, pedagogy, practices
and curricula, the relationship between democracy, diversity and inclusion, and
intersectional identities among many others.
Please
send your abstract of no more than 400 words to bunch-davis@tamu.edu by
April 1, 2018.
gender, identity,
sex, or sexuality in popular culture
The
Northeast Popular Culture Association is currently soliciting papers for its
upcoming conference at Worcester State College in Worcester MA, on October
19-20, 2018. Papers may deal with any aspect of gender, identity, sex, or
sexuality in popular culture. Papers focusing on recent public discourses about
discriminatory legislation are especially welcome, though papers on all
appropriate topics are encouraged.
Inquiries
regarding details of this session may be directed to its chair, Dr. Carol-Ann
Farkas. carol-ann.farkas@mcphs.edu
Deadline
for proposals is June 1 2018.
Creative Image:
Ways of Seeing, Representing and Reshaping Reality
The
residency will take place between 21st and 25th September 2018 in the Peak
District, UK, and the conference between 26th and 27th September 2018 at the
University of Manchester. We invite theoretical, experimental, sensorial, and
methodological contributions that cover themes including, but not limited to:
image ontologies; the aesthetic developments of audio-visual media; the senses
in visual ethnography. Film, photography, performance, sound, drawings, and any
other sensory materials produced through critical, creative or reflexive
processes in artistic practice, practice-as-research or ethnography are all
welcome.
The
submission deadline for both the conference and the residency is 31st May 2018.
Contact
Email: visualresearchnet@gmail.com
(Re)conceptualising
Asian Civil Society in the Age of Post-Politics
This
conference seeks to better understand how civil society in Asian cities are
renegotiating existing, and establishing new, alliances and solidarities with
each other and with other organisations/institutional bodies in order to
reconfigure the way urban governance is conceptualised and enacted in the
post-political era. To examine established and emergent network formations
within Asian civil societies, this conference focusses on exploring issues
surrounding two aspects of the urban condition; that of the natural (the
physical resources and features on the landscape) and the cultural (the
tangible and intangible features that pertain to human activities), as
respectively represented by urban environmental governance and urban heritage
conservation debates. Although urban heritage and urban environmental
governance may appear as disparate topics, they are in fact interrelated
domains, and are central components within discussions on urban liveability and
sustainability, and are therefore pivotal and powerful considerations in the
generation of new urban governance initiatives.
Please
submit your proposal using the provided paper
proposal found in the URL to Dr Sonia
Lam-Knott arilsyc@nus.edu.sg and Dr
Creighton Connolly ariccp@nus.edu.sg by 20
April 2018.
Landscape
Citizenships: A Symposium
Citizenship,
conceived as landship, also asks that the criteria for belonging issue not from
birthright or ‘blood and soil’, but from affinity, experience, and applied
landscape knowledge. People might come to belong to a landscape through work,
inhabitation, and showing an understanding of its operation, and to have their
citizenship approved and validated by others for the same reason. Such
citizenships of affinity nest comfortably within landscape citizenships in
performative realms of practice. This symposium seeks to examine landscape
citizenships through the lens of landscape justice and landscape democracy,
asking questions in the diverse fields of politics, anthropology, sociology,
and design among others.
7
May 2018 Deadline for extended
abstracts of 750-1000 words
Contact
Email: landscapecitizenships@gmail.com
Conference on the
History of Women Religious
Saint
Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
| June 23–26, 2019
As
the centennials of women's suffrage in North America, Europe, and beyond
generate renewed interest in women's history, the conference seeks to explore
how the history of women religious has been commemorated, preserved, and
celebrated. How has that history been told, documented, and remembered? How
have religious communities entrusted their history to others? How have
anniversaries been moments of significance or transformation? How does the
history of women religious intersect with turning points within women’s history
more broadly?
Submissions
should be made electronically by June 1, 2018, by emailing PDFs of
proposals and CVs to cushwa@nd.edu.
Trans Theory
Conference
October
5-6, 2018, American University, Washington D.C.
Over
the past two decades, with the publication of The Transgender Studies Reader
1 and 2 (2006; 2013) and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, transgender
studies has quickly become a prominent interdisciplinary field. While
disciplines such as history, literature, and visual arts have made significant
contributions to this emerging field, philosophy has yet to clarify its role
within transgender studies. The aim of this conference will be to continue to
explore what might be called "trans philosophy" – that is,
philosophical work that is accountable to and illuminative of transgender
experiences, histories, cultural production, and politics.
Please
send your submission to transphilosophyproject@gmail.com by
April 15, 2018.
Contact
Email: transphilosophyproject@gmail.com
Mapping the
Margins of Knowledge
Birmingham,
AL, November 2-4, 2018
This
workshop as part of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference welcomes
submissions addressing alternative ways to think about knowledge production in
the humanities. Participants will explore how racial and gendered
positionalities expose the margins of traditional academic discourse and
discuss the potential of community-based and collaborative research in the
humanities.
By
May 25, 2018, please submit an abstract of 150-300 words, a brief bio, and any
A/V to Elsa Charléty, Brown University and Edwige Crucifix at elsa_charlety@brown.edu and edwige
_crucifix@brown.edu.
World in Flux:
Exploring Cultural and Media Studies in a Changing World
Our
world is ever-fluctuating, nothing is static, and these oscillations reflect
upon Cultural and Media Studies. The confluence of research and its environment
calls for new modes of understanding spanning cultural, aesthetic,
socio-economic, technological, political and environmental concerns.
Consequently, we are witnessing the development of new approaches and
methodologies in Cultural and Media Studies. In navigating new fields of study,
stimulating modes of research are emerging. The creative nature of the field
invites a wide range of practices that are challenging the borders between art
and research.
King’s
College London, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries welcomes
proposals for PhD Conference 2018 exploring possibilities for Cultural and
Media Studies and how these can help us to understand the fluctuating world we
inhabit.
Abstract
submission deadline: 9 April 2018
Contact
Email: cmci-conference@kcl.ac.uk
NORTHEAST
POPULAR/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
NEPCA’s 2018 fall conference will be held on the
campus of Worcester State University Worcester, Massachusetts, the weekend of
October 19-20, 2018. NEPCA area chairs help the organization assemble its
annual conference by helping the program chair determine the worthiness of
paper submissions. They also help submitters fashion their proposals. Learn
about the different topics here: https://nepca.blog/nepca-area-chairs/. Submit proposals here: https://nepca.blog/nepca-area-chairs/.
Deadline for proposals: June 1, 2018
Political
Identity on the Threshold
Location: Nova University of Lisbon, September 10-11
2018
The Nova Institute of Philosophy (Ifilnova) is
interested in scholarship that assesses the meaning and the normativity of
political identity in contemporary times. Namely, we are interested in
understanding the extent to which political identity is mostly a matter of
binding values or if, on the contrary, it requires thicker historical and
natural components.
3. Email the abstract and contact information
to: filipefaria@gmail.com by 12 PM UTC, 31 March 2018.
Beyond
Humanism Conference
18-21st July 2018 in Wroclaw, Poland
Trans- and posthumanist reflections—as well as their
meta-versions—seem to significantly undermine established definitions of
culture and question a traditional division into culture and nature. These
divisions are difficult to defend in the context of contemporary biotechnology,
gene therapy, and easy genome modification available thanks to technologies
such as CRISPR-Cas9 system, technological and pharmacological expansions of
human cognitive capacities, or overcoming physical and cognitive disabilities.
The extent of technological interference in Stelarc’s “obsolete body” is
currently so large that it is difficult to talk about it in terms of nature. It
is more of a non-dualist hybrid which is in the process of permanent
self-overcoming. Bioart appears to paradigmatically illustrate this mixture of
nature and culture as well as its conscious undermining of this division, which
is part of the various beyond humanism movements.
Abstracts should be received by the 1st of April
2018.
The
Metaphor of the Monster
The Department of Classical and Modern Languages and
Literatures (CMLL) at Mississippi State University will soon be hosting a
symposium dedicated to "The metaphor of the monster." This exciting event will take place on Friday,
September 21st, and Saturday, September 22nd, 2018.
Mermaids, giants, gorgons, harpies, dragons,
cyclopes, hermaphrodites, cannibals,amazons, krakens, werewolves, barbarians,
savages, zombies, vampires, angels, demons– all of those inhabit and represent
our deepest fears of attack and hybridization, but also our deepest desires of
transgression. Frequently described in antithetical terms, monsters were
frequently read in the past as holy inscriptions and proofs of the variety and
beauty of the world created by God, or as threats to civilization and order.
These opposing views on the monster show the radically different values that
have been assigned to monsters since they started to permeate the human
imagination in manuscripts, maps, and books.
The deadline to submit abstracts is July 1st, 2018.
Contact
Email: kam131@msstate.edu
Texts in Motion:
Materiality, Mobility, and Archiving in World History
The
movement of people, commodities, and ideas has long attracted the attention of
scholars of world history. Straddling the interstices between commodities and
ideas, written texts have been a particularly productive subject of study. This
one-day conference invites graduate students to reflect critically on the
written and other physical sources on which their research depends as ‘texts in
motion’ within world history. We welcome submissions which interrogate the
material and political trajectories of particular texts, which foreground the
power relations and truth regimes underpinning the archives of world history,
which attend to the sensory and affective dimensions of working with the
written word and physical texts.
Why do we still
eat meat?
This
year's "Animals in Literature and Film" panel at the Midwest Modern
Languages Association's annual meeting (November 15–18, 2018 in Kansas City,
MO) invites papers engaging the conference's theme of "Consuming
Cultures," specifically how the consumption or non-consumption of animals
by animals (both human and non-human) has shaped our moral, symbolic, and
traditional relationships with what we call "food."
This
panel will examine the choices behind the portrayal of eating animals in
literature and film. The call for papers can be found here under the heading
"Animals in Literature and Film." We invite submissions from all
fields that engage in this topic from a literary, cinematic, or art historical
angle both in our own cultural moment and beyond it.
Deadline:
April 5
Contact
Email: day.491@osu.edu
Our
Place in the Cosmos?: Humanity, Spirituality, and the Awesome Universe
Saskatoon, August 13th and 14th 2018
One
often cited premise is that the work of modern scientists like Copernicus and
Darwin served to remove our home planet and humanity from their special place
in the cosmos as previously upheld by religious and spiritual traditions.
Nonetheless, religion and spirituality have proven to be an enduring feature of
the human landscape even for many scientists, in part, because religious and
spiritual expressions have themselves shifted to tolerate, accommodate, and even
promote new cosmologies. Additionally, more contemporary developments in
scientific theory such as: big bang cosmology, quantum field theory,
‘mitochondrial Eve’, the multiverse, the Gaia hypothesis, the singularity, or
the anthropic principle have lent themselves to religious and spiritual
readings. Compounding the tensions active here, many of these religious and
spiritual readings lie outside the aims, scopes, and intensions of the
scientists who first formulated these concepts.
Deadline:
April 15th, 2018
Questions
from academics can be directed to the chair of the conference planning
committee, Dr. Christopher Hrynkow, at chrynkow@stmcollege.ca.
PUBLISHING
Future Histories
of the Middle East and South Asia
The
anthology will be open to articles dealing with future histories and science
fiction across time periods written in any of the languages of the Middle East
(including North Africa and Turkey) and South Asia (including Indian English).
Addressing science fiction as a mode rather than genre, we bracket the question
of how the line separating fictional from putatively non-fictional genres is
articulated across cultures and languages and leave the door open for
contextually sensitive studies of speculative uses of technological and
scientific references within a wide range of fields, from novels and plays to
jurisprudence and engineering. The anthology thus intends to fill the critical
gap that exists with respect to future histories in the Middle East and South
Asia while at the same time uncovering engagements Abstracts of up to 500 words
are invited by 15 June 2018 to: futurehistoriesMESA@gmail.comwith
science-fictional modes of discourse that might otherwise be overlooked.
AFRICOLOGY special
issue on Black Popular Culture
Africology:
The Journal of Pan African Studies (formerly The Journal of Pan African
Studies; JPAS), a trans-disciplinary on-line multilingual peer reviewed
open-access scholarly journal devoted to the intellectual synthesis of
research, scholarship and critical thought on the African experience around the
world, is seeking contributions for a special edition focused on “Black Popular
Culture,” those aspects of culture by people of African heritage in all parts
of the world that engender joy, pleasure, enjoyment, and amusement and that are
expressed through formulas and genres (www.jpanafrican.org).
Please
send your 300-500 word abstract (including your name,
organizational/departmental affiliation, email address, title of contribution)
in MS Word in a Times New Roman 12 typeface via an attachment in an e-mail on
or before April 30, 2018, to Dr. Angela Nelson (anelson@bgsu.edu).
Images and
Imaginaries of Identity/Alterity: The Conceptualization of the Other in the Era
of Globalization
This
second volume of ÉLLiC N° 2, A Multilingual Journal, is inscribed within an
interdisciplinary perspective to interrogate the issues of globalization,
changing identities and cultural and language crossings (Giddens). Every
individual, every community needs to determine its place in relation to the
other and to affirm its identity. Hence,
identity is the product of social interactions and “the construction of
identity is inseparable from alterity – indeed, identity itself makes sense in
juxtaposition with alterity” (Schick). It is a process that we build through
contact with others, through identification and differencing, about who they
are, who we believe they are and the image that we perceive they have of us,
according to Dominique Picard. It can be
built in a context of reciprocity, exchange and mutual respect or in a climate
of struggle, conflict and violence.
Deadline
for sending abstracts (2000 to 3000 characters): April 12th, 2018
Proposals
should be sent to: labolanguesllc@gmail.com
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.
Radicalism,
Radicalization, and Terrorism
JSR:
Journal for the Study of Radicalism would like to encourage submission of
articles for a special issue on the roles played by radicalism and
radicalization with regard to terrorism. There are numerous journals devoted to
terrorism studies as such, but we would like to encourage articles that
specifically discuss radicalization and the nature of radicalism that results
in terrorist acts. We also are interested in articles that focus on the process
of radicalization, grounded in specific examples of individuals, groups, or
movements. Historical, sociological, anthropological, religious studies, and
literary approaches all are encouraged.
Send
queries or completed articles to the editors at jsr@msu.edu by
August 1, 2018. Our Call for Papers is always current at https://www.msu.edu/~jsr/
See
http://msupress.org/journals/jsr/ for
more information.
Contact
Email: jsr@msu.edu
Latin American and
Latinx Visual Culture
Latin
American and Latinx Visual Culture, A new journal to be published by University
of California Press
Focused
on Latin American and Latinx visual culture of all time periods -- ancient,
colonial, modern, and contemporary – LALVC publishes on Mexico, Central
America, South America, the Caribbean, and the United States, as well as on
communities in diaspora. LALVC considers all aspects of visual expression,
including, but not limited to, art history, material culture, architecture,
film and media, museum studies, pop culture, fashion, public art and activism.
We welcome a range of interdisciplinary methodologies and perspectives.
Additionally, the journal seeks to inspire and advance dialogue and debate
concerning pedagogical, methodological, and historiographical issues.
To
submit your work for review, or for any inquiries, please contact the editorial
staff at LALVCsubmissions@ucpress.edu.
Please review the journal’s author
guidelines prior to submission.
Inequalities in
the ‘Gig Economy’ era: gender and generational challenges
Special
Edition of Journal of Sociology 2019Over the last few decades, there has been a
radical transformation of Australia's labour market and education sector, with
intersecting implications for gender and generational inequalities. First, the
composition of the labour force has changed. There has been both a significant
increase in women's participation in paid work and a steady decline in
full-time youth employment. Second, in parallel, a minor revolution has taken
place in the educational system. For decades, the aim of Australian educational
policies was to close the gender gap and ensure women's equal participation in
education at all levels. This target has been reached and women's educational
attainment now outmatches men's, including at the tertiary level. However, this
does not translate into gender equity in the labour market.
We
invite contributions from scholars that aim to shed light on the intersection
of these two developments and the apparent resulting 'broken promise' of human
capital theory- the belief of both individuals and governments that more
education leads to a better future- for a special edition of the Journal of
Sociology.
Potential
authors are asked to submit abstracts of up to 500 words by April 8 2018.
Contact
Email: brendan.churchill@unimelb.edu.au
Revolutionary
Positions: Sexuality and Gender in Cuba and Beyond
The
Radical History Review invites proposals on how the sexual and gendered
dimensions of the Cuban Revolution were interpreted, debated, appropriated, and
reimagined, globally; and, in turn, how Cuban policies responded to or engaged
with global conversations about gender and sexuality, including feminist
movements and movements for gay and lesbian rights.
Abstract
Deadline: June 1, 2018
Contact
Email: contactrhr@gmail.com
Performance in the
Feminist Classroom
Call
for Proposals for a Special Issue of Feminist Teacher
At
its core, feminist pedagogy recognizes that the classroom is a space of
performance, where students and teachers often fall into, and reproduce,
socially prescribed roles and power structures. That these roles replicate
patriarchal order and privilege dominant epistemologies and ways of learning
serves as an important locus for feminist intervention. We seek to explore an
array of practices across a wide-variety of feminist classrooms, including but
not limited to high schools, community colleges, public and private institutions,
research universities, and liberal arts colleges; from high school classrooms
to large first-year, introductory lectures, senior seminars, and graduate
colloquia.
Deadline
500-word proposals: April 1, 2018
Abstracts
and manuscripts should follow Feminist Teacher submission guidelines (http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/ft/ftsubmissions.html)
Contact
Email: h.masturzo@fscj.edu
Rohingya Refugees:
Identity, Citizenship, and Human Rights
Rohingyas
are the ethnic native community of the Rakhine State, which is situated on the
western coastal region of Burma, today’s Myanmar. The words ‘Rakhine’ and
‘Rohingya’ are known for their preservation of national and ethnic heritage
from centuries but, unfortunately, they have been rendered homeless in their
own country. Rohingyas have become stateless through sophisticated
de-nationalization which automatically made them among the “most persecuted ethnic
minorities in the world”. The ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic identity of
the Rohingyas was selectively and strategically excluded from the ‘national
imagination’ of Myanmar state. They are denied citizenship and have become
victims of structural violence, forced labor, confiscation of property, rape,
gender abuse, human right violation, etc.
The
present issue of Café Dissensus aims to explore the following subthemes to
understand the Rohingya crisis in general and their problems as stateless and
refugees in other countries.
Submissions
will be accepted till 15 October, 2018 and the issue will be
published on 1 December, 2018. Please strict to deadline and email your
submissions to the issue editor, Chapparban Sajaudeen Nijamodeen: shujaudeen09@gmail.com
Currents in
Teaching and Learning
Currents
in Teaching and Learning, a peer-reviewed electronic journal that fosters
exchanges among reflective teacher-scholars across the disciplines, welcomes
submissions. The theme for the Spring 2019 issue is “Globalizing learning.” Submissions
may take the form of Teaching and Program Reports: short reports from different
disciplines on classroom practices (2850–5700 words); Essays: longer research,
theoretical, or conceptual articles and explorations of issues and challenges
facing teachers today (5700 – 7125 words); Book Reviews: send inquiries attn:
Kisha Tracy, Book Review Editor. No unsolicited reviews, please.
Deadline:
December 15, 2018
For
essays and teaching and program reports, send all inquiries to Editor Martin
Fromm at currents@worcester.edu.
For book reviews, send all inquiries to Book Review Editor Kisha Tracy at ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu.
For submission guidelines, visit our website at www.worcester.edu/currents.
Faces of
Posthumanism
Conveying
a techno-cultural reality that stands out through hybridization of species and
regna, of the biological and the artificial, even of human and non-human,
Posthumanism is one of the concepts that are currently under debate. It fuses
prolific and conflicting discourses on multifaceted social realities, which are
related to genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, bioethics, while it is
itself questionable on account of its theoretical fictitious quality. Under the
outsized umbrella of posthumanism countless technophiliac and technophobic
theories cohabit, attempting to both diagnose present-day (post)human nature
and explore diachronically the techno-cultural mores of humanity.
Deadline
for full articles: 30th of June, 2018.
Abstracts
(200 words), key-words, and complete articles (up to 7,000 words), together
with short biographical notes of authors (approximately 400 words) will be sent
to the e-mail address: meridian.critic.flsc@gmail.com
For
further details, please visit http://meridiancritic.usv.ro/index.php?page=instructions-to-authors
Corporeal Media
It
is time for feminist media studies to refocus its attention on the body. Bodies
matter in the ways in which they are differentiated, valued, shared, disrupted,
erased and spectacularized. In the current geopolitical and technologized
context, the body is not only an object of cultural representation but also a
medium through which economic and environmental forces circulate. The body is
therefore often a surface on which particular knowledges and harms are
inscribed.
This
issue of Commentary and Criticism invites brief position papers/think pieces
that engage with bodies in their geopolitical particularities as extensions of
media systems and their material infrastructures. Inspired by both old and new
materialisms, we welcome essays that address embodied experiences, physical
symptoms, labor practices and corporeal regimes that speak to ways of knowing
massively-distributed media networks and/or sketch new directions for feminist
media studies.
Please
submit full contributions by 15 September 2018
Contact
Email: aep383@nyu.edu
Institutions and
Well-Being: Heritage, Space & Bodies
We
invite contributions for a collection of articles exploring the intersections
of heritage, space and well-being. The planned volume seeks to investigate how
traces of history impact on space and the ways in which the ensuing
interrelations facilitate or curtail well-being. Thus, for instance, ‘traces’
of history affect the extent to which different (ethic, gendered, classed,
etc.) bodies can extend into space (Ahmed 2006), and this has significant
influence on their well-being. More specifically, “traces of the past in the present”
(Harrison 2013, 166) shape the degree to which different bodies can benefit or
are incapacitated from spaces designated for well-being. We are, for instance,
interested in (representations of) how lingering traces of the past in (mental)
health care spaces impact on subjects’ (practitioners’ as well as clients’)
perception of and affective reaction to those spaces.
Abstract
deadline: March 28
email:
elisabeth.punzi@psy.gu.se
Edited Volume on
The Disney Channel
While
The Walt Disney Company and its media texts (particularly its films) have been
the subject of countless books and journal articles, little if any attention
has been paid specifically to the Disney Channel, and particularly to its shows
aimed at the tween market. When focus has been turned to the relationship
between tweens and Disney, it has been almost exclusively production and
distribution-based: how Disney markets to tweens, what tweens want to consume,
and so on. This volume aims to build a picture of the “Disney Tween Universe”
that is constructed on the Disney channel by examining, deconstructing, and
interpreting the shows themselves. Please note that only live-action fictional
programming is being considered, not animated programming or game shows.
Proposals
should be submitted via email attachment to Dr. Christopher Bell (cbell3@uccs.edu) by May
1, 2018.
Call for Human
Rights Articles
Citizens’
Rights Watch (CRW) is an international human rights NGO, focusing on digital
advocacy and into raising awareness of human rights issues through the
monitoring, research and analysis of human rights, in respect to democracy and
the rule of law in both the national and international levels.
We
particularly welcome volunteers, activists, academics, students, groups, NGOs,
academic institutions and others to share their expertise, views, thoughts and
experiences with us. Articles should be between 500-1500 words.
Articles
may be submitted in Word Format directly to the CRW Content Editor, Athanasia Zagorianou (email:newsletter@citizensrw.org) by
30 of March 2018.
Contact
Email: newsletter@citizensrw.org
Digital Stories:
Narratives and Aesthetics in Post-network Media’
University
of York, Post-Graduate Symposium, 21st June 2018
Technology
has radically changed our ways to approach, consume and enjoy media. The
aesthetic experience of watching a Netflix series or engaging with the comments
section in a newsfeed has become a daily experience we couldn’t have imagined a
decade ago. These new ways of relating to media are shaping new narratives,
from creators shaking off the boundaries and conventions of film and TV to
audiences becoming content-creators themselves. These new dynamics are raising
both important questions and interesting ideas. This one-day symposium is a
series of events that aim to generate a dialogue around these issues by
Postgraduate researchers and practitioners of all levels.
We
want to invite postgraduate researchers and practitioners of any discipline
that explores the changes and challenges of digitality in storytelling arts.
April
6th – Deadline for abstracts submission
Contact
Email: tgps500@york.ac.uk
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.
Contact
Email: errutter@bsu.edu
conference,
film festival, and exhibition reports
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media seeks
reports for its two 2018 issues. Potential contributors are invited to contact
the Reports Editor to agree the submission of a conference, film festival or
exhibition report. Submissions in MLA and Alphaville style, along with a short
biographical note and contact information, will be due by 30 April 2018 and 30
October 2018 respectively. Reports and interviews should be 1,500-2,500 words
in length and should be original, unpublished in print or electronically, and not
under consideration elsewhere. Guidelines are available at: http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Guidelines.html
Contact
Email: davide.alphaville@gmail.com
A
Holistic View of Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education: From Campus
Operations to Curricula, Research and Outreach
This Special Issue of Sustainability focuses on
advancing the topic of sustainability assessment in higher education. We ask
for conceptual and empirical contributions addressing holistic approaches to
assess and integrate sustainability into all aspects of higher education
institutions
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 14 May 2018
Contact
Email: liv.li@mdpi.com
Journal of South
Texas
Housed
at Texas A & M University in Kingsville, the Journal is actively seeking
scholarship on all aspects of Texas history, especially projects illuminating
the multi-cultural elements of the state’s past and its broad geographical
influence. As the preeminent journal of Texas’s cultural history, we strive to
publish new work on topics such as women’s history, ethnic history,
Texas/borderlands, African American history, and the Mexican-American Diaspora,
including examinations of Texas migrants and other relevant immigrant groups.
Recently published articles representative of this focus includes a
multi-cultural study of the urbanization of south Texas before 1950 and a
comparative history of alternative Chicano education.
Contact
Email: alberto.rodriguez2@tamuk.edu
The
Synergistic Classroom: Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
Among the challenges confronting the liberal arts
today is a fundamental disconnect between the curricula that many institutions
offer and the training that many students need. In the early twenty first
century, most colleges and universities still adhere to the model of
disciplinary-specialization that developed in the nineteenth century when the
pressures of industrialization and globalization led to the expansion of higher
education and a need to justify the growing number of tenure lines within an
institution. The proposed volume will explore the practice of
interdisciplinarity in the classroom within the small college setting. The
project will comprise an edited collection of essays written by faculty members
at small institutions who are finding, or have found, novel ways to incorporate
interdisciplinarity into classrooms in the humanities, STEM and/or professional
fields.
Abstracts due to Aaron Angello (angello@hood.edu) by March 30.
The
Importance of Sociology of Education for a Sustainable Future
This Special Issue of Sustainability, “The
Importance of Sociology of Education for a Sustainable Future”, aims to focus
on the contributions that Sociology of Education, in a broad sense
(encompassing the most diverse formal, non-formal and informal processes of
education, instruction, schooling and/or socialisation) can provide in the
analysis of sustainable development, in different contexts and audiences.
abstract deadline: October 1, 2018
Contact
Email: liv.li@mdpi.com
Writing
Space with Moving Images: Exhibition, Museum and Urban Itineraries
How do moving images help to shape of the spaces in
which they are installed? How are the forms of spectatorship structured? In
which forms are exhibits integrated with each other and with moving images, to
build a museographic itinerary? How were moving images used in the various
types of exhibition and presentation spaces during the 20th Century? What kinds
of supports are used and how can one trace their history? What is the role of
the exhibition designer and how does s/he work with moving images? And what is
the role of new technologies, and in particular of digital media, in these
contexts and practices?
This special issue seeks to explore the use of
moving images as a museographic tool, distancing itself from the institutions
of contemporary art in order to address all forms of writing the exhibition
space through cinema, video and other devices linked to moving images, focusing
on museums, commercial presentations and fairs, on architectural and urban
contexts, in the present or with a historical perspective.
Please send an abstract and a short biographical
note to mandelli.elisa@gmail.com and francesco.federici@iuav.it by March 30, 2018.
American
Territorialities
This special forum of the Journal for Transnational
American Studies is situated in the context of contemporary critical
discussions of the nation-state, transnationalism, and globalization, but
insists on a longer historical perspective and places its focus specifically on
the United States. It is setting out to explore the historical and contemporary
relationship between sovereignty, territoriality, and jurisdiction in the
context of US-American colonial/imperial processes. Placing conceptions of
territoriality at the center of analysis, the special forum takes as its
starting point the definition of territoriality as “spatially defined political
rule” (Miles Kahler and Barbara Walter, “Territoriality and Conflict in an Era
of Globalization” 5).
Applications should include an abstract of the
proposed contribution (about 500 words) and a short CV. Please submit your
application by April 30, 2018 to: territorialities@uni-potsdam.de
FUNDING
Donald Durnbaugh
Starting Scholar Award of the Communal Studies Association
Scholars
of any age early in their careers are encouraged to submit papers on any aspect
of intentional communities, past or present, for consideration for the Donald
Durnbaugh Starting Scholar Award. Candidates need not have any organizational
affiliation or academic connections. Each paper will be judged on its own merit
and its suitability for publication in the Communal Societies journal.
Deadline
for Submissions: June 1, 2018
Contact
Email: startingscholar@communalstudies.org
Congressional
Research Grants
The
Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research
on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The competition is open to
individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists,
historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies,
and journalists are among those eligible. The Center encourages graduate
students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply
and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States.
All
application materials must be received on or before April 1 of the current
year.
Contact
Email: fmackaman@dirksencenter.org
William O’Farrell
Fellowship at Northeast Historic Film in Maine
The
O'Farrell Fellowship is awarded to an individual engaged in research toward a
publication, production, or presentation based on moving image history and
culture, particularly amateur and nontheatrical film.
The
complete application must be received no later than March 30, 2018
Contact
Email: jenkinsj@email.arizona.edu
Vivian G. Prins
Fellowship 2018 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
The
Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is pleased to
offer a fellowship for emigrating scholars, artists, museum professionals, and
researchers through a grant from The Vivian G. Prins Foundation. The grant is
in honor of Bronia Brandman, a survivor of Auschwitz and one of the Museum’s
earliest and most steadfast volunteers. The Vivian G. Prins Fellowship Program
is an opportunity in multidisciplinary fields to conduct research, engage in
scholarly exchange, take part in public workshops, seminars, related
collaborations and art installations, and to provide emergent and established
experts from around the world with opportunities for professional development
and training in the United States.
Application
deadline: April 2, 2018
Applications
are to be submitted online: https://mjhnyc.wufoo.com/forms/the-vivian-g-prins-fellowship-2018/
Email:
yfriedman@mjhnyc.org
Labor History
Prizes
BARBARA
WERTHEIMER PRIZE IN LABOR HISTORY
To
recognize serious study in labor and work history among undergraduate students,
the New York Labor History Association annually awards the Barbara Wertheimer
Prize for the best research paper written during the previous academic year.
BERNARD
BELLUSH PRIZE
The
Bernard Bellush Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship by graduate students
in labor and work history.
The
deadline is June 15, 2018.
Email:
bgreenbe@monmouth.edu
James P. Danky
Fellowship
In
honor of James P. Danky’s long service to print culture scholarship, the
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the History of Print and Digital
Culture, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical Society, offers two
annual short-term research fellowship awards. Grant money may be used for
travel to the WHS, costs of copying pertinent archival resources, and living
expenses while pursuing research. If in residence during the semester, the
recipient will be expected to give a presentation as part of the colloquium
series of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture.
Applications
are due by May 1.
Contact
Email: chpdc@ischool.wisc.edu
Research
Fellowship—Study the South
Scholars
researching the history of the South now have an opportunity for funded
research in the collections of the Department of Archives and Special
Collections at the J. D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi.
Special Collections has particular strengths in areas that include political
history, the blues, civil rights, and the antebellum and Civil War eras.
Subject guides and finding aids at Archives and Special Collections can be
found at www.libraries.olemiss.edu/archives.
The
deadline for application is March 30, 2018
Contact
Email: jgthomas@olemiss.edu
Swem Special
Collections Research Travel Grant
The
Special Collections Research Center of William & Mary Libraries is pleased
to announce that it will award up to four (4) travel grants in the maximum
amount of $1,500 each to faculty members, graduate students, and/or independent
researchers to support use of its collections. Writers, creative performing
artists, filmmakers and journalists are welcome to apply.
For
information on the manuscripts, rare books, and university archives held in the
Special Collections Research Center, please visit https://libraries.wm.edu/research/special-collections.
Strengths of the collections include, but are not limited to, books on dogs,
fore-edge painting books, Virginia family papers and libraries,
twentieth-century Southern politics, women's diaries, travel diaries, veterans'
letters, notable alumni, and university history.
Deadline
for application is April 15, 2018.
Contact
Email: spcoll@wm.edu
Summersell Center
for the Study of the South Fellowship
To
support the study of southern history and promote the use of the collections
housed at the University of Alabama, the Frances S. Summersell Center for the
Study of the South and the University of Alabama Libraries will offer a total
of eight fellowships in the amount of $500 each for researchers whose projects
entail work to be conducted in southern history or southern studies at the W.S.
Hoole Special Collections Library (http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/),
the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection (http://www.lib.ua.edu/williamscollection),
or in other University of Alabama collections.
The
deadline for applications to be received by the Summersell Center is April 1,
2018.
Any
questions about the fellowships may be directed to John Giggie, Director of the
Summersell Center, at jmgiggie@ua.edu
or 205.348.1859. More information about the Summersell Center is available
at www.scss.ua.edu,
and on our Facebook page.
RESOURCES
The Girl in the
Text
This
special issue of Girlhood Studies, close to double the length of previous
issues, offers a blockbuster of articles on the theme of the girl in the text.
Feminism and the
Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes?
UCL
Press is delighted to announce a brand new open access book that may be of
interest to list subscribers: Feminism and the Politics of Childhood. Free
download: https://goo.gl/qS5jmE
Feminism
and the Politics of Childhood offers an innovative and critical exploration of
perceived commonalities and conflicts between women and children and, more
broadly, between various forms of feminism and the politics of childhood. This
unique collection of 18 chapters brings into dialogue authors from a range of
geographical contexts, social science disciplines, activist organisations, and
theoretical perspectives. The wide variety of subjects include refugee camps,
care labour, domestic violence and childcare and education.
Abortion Stories
Oral History Project & Traveling Exhibit
The
Abortion Diary is the intersection of self-expression, healing, and the art of
story-sharing and story-listening. We are dedicated to creating a space for
people to share stories they haven’t been able to share and listen to stories
they haven’t been able to hear.
Listen
to oral histories from people who have experienced abortion: http://theabortiondiary.com/category/abortion-stories-uncategorized/
For
more information about the traveling exhibit:
http://theabortiondiary.com/abortion-artifacts-exhibit/
