CONFERENCES
Midwest Popular Culture
Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference
Thursday-Sunday,
4-7 October 2018, Indianapolis, IN
Individuals
may only submit one paper, and please do not submit the same paper to more than
one Area.
Deadline
for receipt of proposals is April 30, 2018.
submit
proposals here: http://submissions.mpcaaca.org/
Resistance Reimagined: East Asian
Languages and Cultures Graduate Student Symposium
University
of Southern California, September 29, 2018
This
conference aims to investigate and formulate new theorizations of resistance as
well as rethink how communities and individuals construct narratives to
reimagine social and political changes in the context of East Asia. The topic
can be interpreted widely in relation to various fields, including but not
limited to cinema and media studies, gender studies, history, linguistics,
literature, religion, and visual studies.
Proposal
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2018
Applicants
should submit an abstract (max. 250 words) and a short biography (max. 150
words) to uscgsea@gmail.com by
May 1, 2018 (5:00 p.m. PST).
Space, Place & Adaptation
New
Orleans, 11/29-12/1
Holding
our annual conference in New Orleans raises questions of space, place, and
adaptation in the study of literature, film, and media. The city has long
served as a point of contact and conflict between various cultures and their
traditions, and its unique identity demonstrates the enduring influence of
those populations today. While we welcome papers on any aspect of film and
media studies.
Please
submit your proposal viathis Google Doc <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewJi9Q6SDIrym8gaI8g6rYBzvsR7sa22ZI0AqqFqFqfO5orA/viewform>by July
15, 2018. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Pete Kunze at litfilm2018@gmail.com.
Framing the Global
Indiana
University-Bloomington, September 27-29, 2018
We
invite proposals for panels or individual papers that are empirically grounded
while addressing important theoretical and methodological issues in studying
the global. Scholars in all academic and professional fields are encouraged to
submit proposals. Work that considers both practical and scholarly approaches
to global studies, global issues, and globalization is welcome, as are
proposals from scholars and educators who are working to create meaningful
spaces for global learning.
Proposal
submission deadline: May 1, 2018
Email: framing@indiana.edu
Revolutionary Nonviolence in Violent
Times: 50 years since 1968
Annual
conference of the Peace & Justice Studies Association, September 27-30,
2018, Arcadia University, Philadelphia, PA
Both
today and fifty years ago, violence and nonviolence were used as tactics as
well as strategies. One might argue progress towards peace evades us. It isn’t
particularly clear how to bring about sustainable change and progress. Are our
notions and definitions of what constitutes violence and nonviolence
oversimplified? What exactly has changed, if anything? What does revolutionary
nonviolence, pacifism, and militancy look like then compared to now? How do we
understand these terms and definitions today? How is revolutionary nonviolence
expressed, practiced or utilized in this current political environment? What
lessons and ideas still resonate? From the passive to the coercive, and from the
Gandhian to the guerrilla, what are effective means of struggle today, and how
are they different from the past?
Deadline:
April 15
Contact
Email: info@peacejusticestudies.org
Power
The
conference will be held Saturday, June 16, 2018 at The George Washington
University in Washington, D.C.
The
Activist History Review invites proposals for its annual conference on June 16,
2018, organized around the theme of power. The
first annual conference of The Activist History Review encourages
submissions on the theme of power. Trump’s appeal lies not in his ideological
coherence or understanding of the issues, but as a conduit of power for various
conservative constituencies who, until recently, pundits predicted might
be demographically condemned to obscurity.
Subsequent polling, the rhetoric of the 2016 campaign itself, and the
election’s outcome suggest that many who voted for Trump in November were
concerned with being permanently disempowered. If we are to understand a system of
power premised on the promise and threat to “make America great again,” we must
investigate the relationship to power conjured by those who
utter it.
deadline:
April 18
Contact
Email: horne.activisthistory@gmail.com
Scholar-Activism in the Twenty-first
Century
British
Library, London, 22-23 June 2018
The
conference will put scholars into conversation with activists to discuss how
scholars and activists can work together, put recent social movements such as
The Black Lives Matter Movement into scholarly and historical perspective, and
highlight some ways in which scholars and activists in the US and UK are
currently working together and engaging in efforts for social justice. We
welcome individual proposals from scholars, activists, and scholar-activists to
participate in this conference. In particular, we welcome proposals from
scholars and scholar-activists whose research helps to put current social
activism in the US and the UK (including the Black Lives Matter movement,
Justice for Grenfell, Decolonizing Education, the Poor People’s Campaign, and
#MeToo among others) and challenges to this activism in scholarly and/or
historical perspective.
Please submit an abstract of up to 150 words on what
you might like to present or be part of as well as a short (max 75-word)
biographical summary to mlm29@sussex.ac.uk by 25 April 2018.
Feel
free to email Melissa Milewski at mlm29@sussex.ac.uk with any inquiries.
English & Literature in the College
Classroom
The
Angelina College Language Arts and Education Division seeks 250-word proposals
for 15-20 minute presentations for East Texas English Language &
Literature: English & Literature in the College Classroom. The conference
will be held October 6, 2018, at Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas. We welcome
submissions regarding all aspects of English language and literature, but
preference will be given to proposals from English faculty and graduate
students addressing effective, innovative post-secondary ELA education
Deadline
for proposals: April 22, 2018
contact
email: rwilliams@angelina.edu
Imagining and creating walls, utopias,
and co-fragile formations
18-21
September 2018, University of Oxford
The
wall has again become the dominant trope in current discourses and imaginaries.
For some, walls signify the potential for utopia and for others, the wall
serves as protection against those beyond. Accordingly, this panel examines the
ways in which societies, communities, and individuals come to form fragile
barriers and estrangements between themselves and others. We encourage
panelists to explore their ethnographic data on segregated or enclosed
communities to address the role of participants' (co-)constructed imaginaries
in constituting barriers. These barriers may take form in border regions,
religious enclaves, ghettos, intentional communities, gated neighborhoods, and
other spaces. In short, we ask, in what ways do people imagine, contest, and
normalize the creation and maintenance of divisions?
Deadline:
April 20
If
you have any questions, you may contact Matthew McCoy, the organiser and
presenter, at mcy@ucla.edu.
Investigating Mid-Atlantic Plantations:
Slavery, Economies, and Space
Philadelphia,
PA, October 17-19, 2019
This
conference is intentionally interdisciplinary. We seek participants from
diverse fields including economic, social, and cultural history; African
American studies; geography, archeology, and material culture; and museum
studies, cultural resource management, and historic preservation. Paper
proposals might address economic, familial, and religious networks;
enslavement, indenture, and “free” labor; land ownership and land development;
agricultural and horticultural practices; architecture, circulation, and
spatial relationships; physical and cognitive maps; foodways and music;
industry and commerce; and the construction of gendered or racial categories.
We look forward to seeing even more ways that applicants might illuminate these
mid-Atlantic geographies of privilege, slavery, and forced labor; manifold
local and far-reaching economies, and spaces both rural and urban.
The
deadline for submissions is 15 September 2018
Contact
Email: clowry@librarycompany.org
Newberry Seminar on Religion and
Culture in the Americas
The
Religion and Culture in the Americas Seminar explores topics in religion and
culture broadly and from interdisciplinary perspectives including social
history, biography, cultural studies, visual and material culture, urban
studies, and the history of ideas. We are interested in how religious belief
has affected society, rather than creedal- or theological-focused studies. The
Seminar provides an opportunity for scholars to share works-in-progress, and we
encourage papers that use new methods, unveil archival discoveries, or need
feedback in preparation for book and journal article publication. The seminar
will meet on selected Fridays during the academic year, 3-5 pm, at the Newberry
Library in Chicago, Illinois.
Submission
Deadline: June 1, 2018
Contact
Email: scholarlyseminars@newberry.org
Architecture, Environments, History and
Culture
Kent
State University, Cleveland, Dates: 01-02 Nov
2018
Scholarship
suggests that 20th Century top-down and disciplinary reductive understandings
of the urban condition, such as those attributed to the Athens Charter, are a
thing of the past. It also suggests a scenario in which social equity is fully
integrated into notions of development. However, even a cursory glance at the
reality of early 21st Century urbanism shows this is clearly not the case. On
the one hand, individual disciplines still tend to work in isolation and even
in competition, while on the other, Neoliberal agendas still represent the
raison d’être of most development projects. The Alternatives to the Present
conference seeks to critique the dichotomies involved in this increasingly
confused scenario by bringing together various disciplines to interrogate the
diversity of factors either limiting or activating the possibilities of an
equitable urban future.
Abstracts:
05 June 2018.
Show & Prove Hip Hop Studies
Conference
December
7-9, 2018 | Riverside, CA
Show
& Prove is interdisciplinary in practice and international in scope. It is premised on cultivating the necessary
and critical dialogues for the development of Hip Hop Studies as a field. As one of the few ongoing conferences
exclusively geared toward Hip Hop Studies, it has become a site for dialogue
and critical feedback on new and cutting edge work. Visit our website for details on the
keywords. This conference is free and
open to the public.
Proposals
are due no later than 11:59pm PST on April 15, 2018.
Visit www.showandproveconference.com or
write conference founder and chair Dr. Imani Kai Johnson at showproveconf@gmail.com for more
information.
Academy in Exile Conference: Exile and
Academic Freedom Today
The
conference will take place on 18-19 October 2018 at the
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI).
The
conference will explore the institutionalization of academic freedom since its
establishment as Lehr- und Lernfreiheit at Humboldt University. It asks how the
meaning of exile is changing with respect to academic freedom. With growing
numbers of scholars internally displaced or exiled abroad, emphasis will be
placed on the common understanding of exile as a form of refuge, as well as on
other types of state and social control of dissent and free thought.
Please
submit the abstract, along with a brief biographical statement, in a single pdf
file by 15 April 2018 to: academyinexile@kwi-nrw.de
Narratives of Illness
Midwest
Modern Languages Association, Kansas City, Nov. 15-18, 2018
Special
session call for papers
This
panel considers ways that narratives of consumption/tuberculosis and other
illnesses “awash in significance” (Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor) engage
with other aspects of culture and identity. How do issues of race, ethnicity,
gender, sexuality, and disability figure in representations of illness? What
role do literary and artistic representations play in changing definitions of
pathology? What do images of illness reveal about concepts of modernity,
technology, urban space, and consumerism? How do cultural narratives of illness
relate to the construction of spaces for regulating health, or to experiences
of travel and migration? What links exist between representations of illness
and sociocultural roles of writers and readers? How do audiences consume images
of illness?
Please
send a 250-word abstract to Laura Kanost at lakanost@ksu.edu by April 15.
PUBLISHING
FIELD HOLLERS and FREEDOM SONGS
As
John Hope Franklin describes it his landmark book, From Slavery to Freedom,
they tell and sing their stories in the midst of what are arguably the best
examples of the worst discriminatory racism, brutal enslavement, and harshest
social practices known to mankind. Their spirit through their voices, music,
and songs are determined somehow to survive. They share the how, the what, and
the reasons why they have survived. They also tell the stories of who we are
and where we are going, thus the significance of “knowing thyself.”
Contributions
may address a broad range of topics, e.g., historical, contemporary, and/or
emerging artifacts and practices of Black popular culture. We welcome academic
essays as well as images and interviews. All relevant topics and subtopics will
be considered for this edition.
Please
send your 250-500 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
September 30, 2018, to Dr. C. Sade Turnipseed (redclaypresents@aol.com).
Latino Fatherhood in Literature, Film,
and Television
Latino
fatherhood and paternal figures are ever present in literature, film, and
television, yet there is a lack of scholarly attention on their representation.
Research has largely focused on Latina/Chicana motherhood and maternal figures.
The purpose of this edited collection, titled "Latino Fatherhood: Papá in
Popular Narrative," is to address this major gap in Latinx cultural studies
by investigating how Latino fatherhood is defined, represented, and challenged
in literature, film, and television. Proposals dedicated to Latinx cultural
productions as well as Hollywood and media treatments of Latino fatherhood are
both welcomed. The deadline for proposals is June 1st, 2018, with completed
manuscripts due October 1st, 2018. Final revisions will be due January 15th,
2019. The final word count for completed chapters is 5,000-6,000 words. A
scholarly press has expressed interest in this project.
Please
submit proposals of no more than 300 words to mmflores@csustan.edu.
Nations in Time: Genealogy, History and
the Narration of Time
Like
any other human community, one of the fundamental roles nations play is to
embed individuals in a particular point in time and space. In other words,
nations and nationalism, an organisational principle of social life, work to
provide individuals with a sense of who they are and where they belong. While
nations are not the only form of community to serve human kind in this manner,
they are the most privileged due to their intricate relationship with the
nation-state, the dominant form of political organisation.
The
term genealogy immediately suggests ancestry, which in turn suggests some form
of blood relationship. In the study of nations and nationalism, the reference
to blood relationship is linked to the understanding of ethnic nationhood,
which is often seen as problematic in the liberal democratic normative
framework. But is this the only contribution genealogy makes to the study of
nations and nationalism? The special issue invites contributions to investigate
the relationship between nations and time focusing on the characteristics of
genealogy as a way of making sense of time and the past.
Deadline:
15 July 2018
Contact
Email: genealogy@mdpi.com
Xenolinguistics: Toward a Science of
Extraterrestrial Language
Would
extraterrestrial intelligence have language? If so, what can we say about the
nature of such language prior to making contact, or before even knowing whether
extraterrestrial intelligence exists? To explore these questions, chapter
proposals are invited for an edited book titled Xenolinguistics: Toward a
Science of Extraterrestrial Language. This book builds upon the forthcoming
Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Cognition and Communication in the Universe
(Oxford University Press, 2018), which is also edited by Douglas Vakoch.
Proposals in all areas of linguistics are encouraged, as are proposals
exploring the distinctive nature of language when compared with nonhuman
communication systems.
Interested
authors should send a 400-word abstract, 200-word biography, and sample of a
previously published chapter or article to Douglas Vakoch at dvakoch@meti.org by
May 15, 2018.
URL: http://www.meti.org
Heritage:
Landscape
Announcing the publication of the Special Issue of
Landscapes, "Landscape: Heritage" (vol. 8, issue 7, 2018). This is
the first of two special issues on this topic. We are accepting submissions for
the second issue until November, 2018.
Contact
Email: landscapelanguage@gmail.com
On Margins: Feminist Architectural
Histories of Migration
On
Margins: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration will
form an issue of the peer-reviewed, open access ABE
Journal, guest edited by Rachel Lee and Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi.
This
project works in concert with a growing body of initiatives to write feminist
histories of modern architecture through collaborative and intersectional
historiographic practices: which redistribute power, co-produce solidarity, and
reassess the objects and methods of architectural history. We begin by posing
two arguments to architectural historians: first, that the dynamic of a
situated and re-situated perspective is foundational to feminist histories of
architecture, and second, that feminist historiographical approaches
destabilize presumptions of fixity at the heart of the discipline. We seek
histories that employ feminist methods or gather empirical studies of women’s
work that emerged from acts and experiences of migration performed individually
or collectively—into and out of geographies of control and subjugation, beyond
gender or gender framings, across lifeworlds.
Submission
deadline: 1st July 2018.
Contact
Email: rachel.lee@lmu.de
Pedagogical Innovations for Sustainable
Development
To
achieve a paradigm shift in education for sustainability and sustainable
development, there is a need for (i) a formal education reform, (ii)
integration of sustainability in non-formal education setting and outreach, and
(iii) strengthened education for sustainability (President’s Council on
Sustainable Development, 1996). The dissemination of successful education
practices that incorporate sustainability across the globe would allow
individuals, educational institutions (formal and non-formal), organizations,
industry, and practitioners to assess, modify, and/or integrate these practices
into their particular settings. The diffusion and adoption of best educational
practices for sustainability is critical to addressing global challenges that
current and future society will face.
Deadline
for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2018
Corruption
The
Activist History Review invites proposals for our May 2018 issue, “Corruption.”
At
the end of Donald Trump’s first year in office, the Washington Post asked
readers whether his administration was “becoming the most corrupt in U.S.
History.” The short answer is that it is difficult to know. Trump famously
refused to release his tax returns or divest from his businesses, opting
instead to place his assets in a “trust” that he can easily control. He broke
with decades of precedent on both fronts. According to two attorneys general
suing the administration, the president is in clear violation of the
“emoluments clause” of the Constitution for using his hotels to profit from
public business with officials from Bahrain to Maine. Nor does the
administration’s abuse of position stop with Trump.
Proposals
should be no more than 250 words for articles from 1250-2000 words, and should
be emailed to William Horne at horne.activisthistory@gmail.com by Monday, April
23rd at 11:59 PM
Reenvisioning Religious Education
Religious
education, as a field and practice, has a long and complex history. For many,
religious education conjures up an array of images and questions, often
stemming from personal experiences in educational settings, a longing for
genuine learning communities, an exploration of religious traditions, and at
times anxieties about the future and purpose of religion or religious education
for generations to come. In this special edition of Religions on Reenvisioning Religious Education, we invite papers
that help us wrestle with these ever-changing images and questions.
Deadline
for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2018
More
details, please visite: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/education
Contact
Email: pinky.he@mdpi.com
Animal Assemblages and the Possibility
of Language
I
am seeking artists for a 3-4 person group exhibition, tentatively entitled
“Animal Assemblages and the Possibility of Language,” at the School of Art
Landmark Galleries, Texas Tech University, in March-April 2019.
The
exhibition proposes that “language” is merely a human-defined component of the
broad spectrum of animal communication. Are animal languages, such as bat
signals or dolphin calls, more complex than human ones? How is animal
communication always intrinsically part of, and co-evolving with, an
environment? Deleuze, for example, has famously written about birdsongs as
assemblages. Moving beyond an older model by which language was seen to define
what's essential about humans, this exhibition will grapple with animal
communication in a properly posthuman way. The exhibition will also take as
axiomatic that humans and animals have always been in dialogue and exchange.
Animals have always come to us as mediated, and never pre-exist in a pristine
or uncontaminated “Nature.” Recognizing the two-way dialogue between humans and
animals opens up the inquiry into culture and history.
If
interested, please send an email to Dr Kevin Chua (Associate Professor of Art
History, Texas Tech University) at kevin.chua@ttu.edu, informing me of your
experience in the topic, and what you’d like to propose for the exhibition.
Please include your CV. I will begin making selections on April 16, 2018.
InVisible Culture
For
its thirtieth issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual
Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the poetics
and politics of video games.
This
issue of InVisible Culture takes a cultural studies approach toward video games
in that the formal aesthetics always register aspects of the culture that they
emerge from. We think of games as an open category that includes a broad range
of media, from mainstream AAA games to art installations; complex “hardcore”
games as well as casual mobile apps; visually rich to text-based
interactions—cutting across a range of experiences, from the banality of playing
an app to the singularity of wearing a VR headset. We take gaming aesthetics to
mean not only the system of visual, aural, ludic, and narrative configurations
of (a) given game(s) but also the manipulation of these systems: modding,
updating, streaming, etc. We are also interested in what surrounds games, such
as to what degree games afford community building and collaboration between
players.
Please
send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the
Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu by
June 30th, 2018.
Women’s Movements and the Shape of
Feminist Theory and Praxis in Latin America
Special
issue of Journal of International Women’s Studies
This
issue will address multiple and conflicting women’s agendas in Latin American
political and social life. Latin America is a particularly rich region for
examining the links among state power, political agency, and women’s lived
experience. Struggles for indigenous sovereignty have been especially
influential on the development of Latin American feminist theories, as have
other class- and ethnic-based movements. These movements have been embedded
within the structural nexus between gender violence and the state, and the
politics of revolution, populism, or dictatorship. The movement of ideas and
people across national boundaries has also influenced the development of
women’s activism and feminist thought.
July
6, 2018: deadline to submit an essay
Inquiries
about this special issue should be directed to Erin O’Connor eoconnor@bridgew.edu or
M. Gabriela Torres torres_mgabriela@wheatoncollege.edu.
Public
Feminisms
This special issue seeks to address these dynamics
through a multifaceted and interdisciplinary discussion of “Public Feminisms.”
Signs has sought—through the creation of the Feminist Public Intellectuals
Project—to actively advocate for feminist voices in both the scholarly and the
public sphere, building a critical mass of public intellectuals who speak with
a feminist voice to audiences outside of academia. These multipronged efforts
have engaged feminist theorizing and historicizing with the pressing political
and social problems across the globe. This special issue seeks to further
extend the discourse of public feminisms.
The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2018.
This call is available online at http://signsjournal.org/for-authors/calls-for-papers/#public
Opioid Aesthetics: Expressive Culture
in an Age of Addiction
Edited
by Travis Stimeling (associate professor of musicology, West Virginia University)
and published by West Virginia University Press, Opioid Aesthetics: Expressive
Culture in an Age of Addiction will shed new light on the opioid epidemic by
engaging meaningfully with the expressive culture that is emerging from this
ongoing crisis. In particular, this edited collection calls upon a
multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners to consider the ways
that people have mobilized their creativity to offer insights into the effects
of the opioid crisis. Opioid Aesthetics seeks to consider the ways in which
this national addiction to a drug class that promotes anesthesia might also be
seen to have aesthetic impacts, as well. Through this work, then, we hope to
provide new ways of considering the opioid epidemic and its impacts in the
hopes that a more aesthetically engaged understanding of it might lead to
short- and long-term solutions to bring it to an end.
Interested
scholars should submit a 500-word abstract and current CV to travis.stimeling@mail.wvu.edu by
1 June 2018. Completed essays of no more than 7500 words will be due by 1 March
2019.
Globalization and the Effects on
Learning, Thinking, and Practice
Dialogue:
The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy - Special Issue
Dialogue
is the first open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on the intersection of
popular culture and pedagogy. While some open access journals charge a
publication fee for authors to submit, Dialogue is committed to creating and
maintaining a scholarly journal that is accessible to all—meaning that there
is no charge for either the author or the reader. While Dialogue welcomes
essays on a variety of topics related to popular culture and pedagogy, we are
particularly interested in receiving pieces which address globalization and the
effects on learning, thinking, and practice for an upcoming issue.
papers
due 15 May 2018
Contact
Email: editors@journaldialogue.org
Access, Control, and Dissemination in
Digital Humanities
While
DH is seen by some as especially interdisciplinary or more conducive to group
work, linked data, and open research, including both access to results and
participation in research itself, the very nature of its connectedness creates
challenges for researchers who wish to assert control of data, have some role
in how data is used or how work is acknowledged, and how it is attributed and
recorded. Researchers involved in any substantial DH project must confront
similar questions: who should be allowed to make reproductions of artifacts,
which ones, how many, how often, of what quality and at what cost, what are the
rights of possession and reproduction, including access, copyright,
intellectual property rights or digital rights management. Given the potential
of open and accessible data, it is sometimes suggested that DH might be a
much-needed bridge between ivory tower institutions and the general public. The
promise of DH in this regard, however, still remains in many ways unfulfilled,
raising the question of who DH is for, if not solely for bodies of like-minded
academics.
Proposals
Submission Deadline: 01 May 2018
Contact
Email: shane_hawkins@carleton.ca
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?
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
April 15, 2018. Abstracts should be from 300 to 500 words of length (either in
English or Italian).
Digital Humanities and English studies
The
Representations in the English Speaking World journal, winter issue.
In
the last decades, digital Humanities have become ubiquitous both in France and
abroad. Manifestoes have been drafted, research teams gathered, chairs created,
projects funded. Taking a moment to look back on the transformation of a field
whose very definition is itself controversial might thus prove useful. Oxymoron
for some, genuine revolution for others, ephemeral utopia, pragmatic choice or
inevitable and lasting evolution, the digital humanities are far from a
consensual area. Consequently, this issue of Représentations dans le monde
anglophone proposes to gather feedback from researchers from the various
disciplines of English studies in France and abroad in order to map out this
digital migration of contemporary research at the level of its instruments, its
objects, its fields of study and its methods (Bourdeloie 2014).
Please
send your abstracts (500 words approx.), in English or in French, before
April 18, 2018 to Geraldine Castel at the Grenoble Alpes
university (Geraldine.castel@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr).
FUNDING
2018-19 Eadington Fellows Application
The
Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites
interested scholars to apply for the 2018-19 cycle of William R. Eadington
fellowships, which facilitate research into many aspects of both gambling and
Las Vegas at UNLV Special Collections in the University Libraries. Anyone
currently in a graduate program (with a preference for Ph.D. students who are
ABD) or serving as a university faculty member is eligible to apply.
Deadline:
July 20, 2018
Contact
Email: dgs@unlv.nevada.edu
Jamie Guilbeau and Thelma Guilbeau UL
Lafayette Collections Research Grant
To
promote the use of collections housed at the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette, the Department of History, Geography, and Philosophy is pleased to
announce the Jamie Guilbeau and Thelma Guilbeau UL Lafayette Collections
Research Grant in the amount of $2,000 for a researcher who is NOT a faculty
member, staff member, or student at UL Lafayette. Proposals should indicate
promise of publication or reaching a broad audience in some other form and
require work in the collections of the University Archives and Acadiana
Manuscripts Collections (http://library.louisiana.edu/collections/university-archives-manuscripts),
the Ernest J. Gaines Center (http://ernestgaines.louisiana.edu/center), the
Cajun and Creole Music Collection (http://library.louisiana.edu/collections/ccmc),
the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum (http://www.hilliardmuseum.org/),
the Center for Louisiana Studies (http://cls.louisiana.edu/), or in other UL
Lafayette collections.
The
deadline for applications is April 21, 2018.
Contact
Email: docmartin@louisiana.edu
Coordinating Council for Women in
History 2018 Awards
The
Coordinating Council for Women in History Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Award
is an annual $1000 prize that recognizes the best first article published in
any field of history by a CCWH member. The winning article for 2018 must be
published in a refereed journal in either 2016 or 2017. An article may only be
submitted once. All fields of history
will be considered.
The
Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Berkshire Conference of
Women’s History Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to a graduate
student completing a dissertation in a History Department in the United States.
The award is intended to support either a crucial stage of research or the
final year of writing.
The
Coordinating Council for Women in History Ida B. Wells Graduate Student
Fellowship is an annual award of $1000 given to a graduate student working on a
historical dissertation that interrogates race and gender, not necessarily in a
history department. The award is intended to support either a crucial stage of
research or the final year of writing.
The
Coordinating Council for Women in History will award $20,000 to a scholar, with
a Ph.D. or has advanced to candidacy, who has not followed a traditional
academic path of uninterrupted and completed secondary, undergraduate, and graduate
degrees leading to a tenure-track faculty position. Although the recipient’s
degrees do not have to be in history, the recipient’s work should clearly be
historical in nature.
The
deadline for the awards are 15 May 2018. Please go to www.theccwh.org
for membership and online application details.
Contact
Email: execdir@theccwh.org
Society for American Music Awards &
Fellowships
The
Society for American Music is now accepting applications for the its annual
awards and fellowships. Please see each listing at www.american-music.org for
complete information. Please note that there are awards for publications
and for research, some specifically for graduate students.
Contact
Email: kendraprestonleonard@gmail.com
SMU Tower Center and Latino Center for
Leadership Development Research Grant Program
The John
Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University and
the Latino
Center for Leadership Development are excited to share a call
for proposals for research grants for up to $10,000 for scholarly
research projects that have policy implications for the Latina/o population.
Faculty with doctoral degrees and students enrolled in doctoral programs at
higher education institutions, as well as individuals with doctoral degrees
with positions in national and local research-based and public policy
institutions and/or organizations are welcome to apply. Applicants may be from
any academic discipline.
The
applications are due online 4/15. If you have any questions, please
contact Dr. Danielle Lemi (dlemi@latinocld.com) or Dr. Jennifer Cook (jcook@latinocld.com)
URL:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScku3yizqTE5wcBev_1Y1IfE3S9GKxFd6-uplEgUE00wJgk_Q/viewform
Fellowship for Graduate Student
Attendance at Genocide and Human Rights University Program
The
Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) announces a fellowship to
support attendance by a graduate student at the Genocide and Human Rights
University Program (GHRUP) at the University of Toronto. This annual
graduate-level course, which incorporates genocide theory, history, sociology,
political science, anthropology, psychology, and international law, will be
taught by thirteen leading experts over a two-week period, July 30 –
August 10, 2018. The application deadline is April 30, 2018. For
more information about the program, see https://www.genocidestudies.org/2017-program
GHRUP
application instructions can be found at https://www.genocidestudies.org/apply
Contact
Email: hrec@ualberta.ca
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) Award
Graduate
Student Paper Award
Each
year, CLAGS sponsors a student paper
competition open to all graduate students enrolled in the CUNY system. A cash prize is awarded to the best paper
written in a CUNY graduate class on any topic related to gay, lesbian,
bisexual, queer, or transgender experiences. Papers should be between 15 and 50
pages and of publishable quality.
CLAGS
Fellowship Award
An
award to be given annually for a graduate student, an academic, or an
independent scholar for work on a dissertation, a first book manuscript, or a
second book manuscript.
Deadline
for both: June 1, 2018
email:
clagsfellowships@gmail.com
