CONFERENCES
Corrections,
Rehabilitation, and Reform
On October 5, the Prison University Project will host an
academic conference at San Quentin State Prison in which incarcerated students
and outside scholars will exchange ideas about “Corrections, Rehabilitation,
and Reform.”
In an era in which “rehabilitation” is increasingly rewarded
but nevertheless difficult to quantify, in which prison populations increase at
the same time as abolitionist movements intensify, and in which racial and
economic injustice are prime contributors to prison overpopulation, it is
urgent to generate new ideas. While many scholars outside of prison focus on
just these questions, we posit that the answers are inadequate until incarcerated
scholars are able to weigh in on the debates that shape their own lives and
futures. This conference seeks solutions for the ills of the criminal justice
system in the U.S. that came about in the 20th century. We believe that if
incarcerated Americans come together with scholars from the outside, we might
generate valuable debates and ideas about the direction that 21st century
reform might take.
To propose a paper
or panel please send a 300-500-word proposal, 100-word abstract (for the
conference program), and a 50-word biography to Jesse Rothman at ajamgochian@prisonuniversityproject.org by May 31, 2018.
Spaces of Oppression:
Creating a History That Fosters Tolerance
Society of Architectural Historians, 72nd Annual
International Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, April 24–28, 2019
This session’s objectives are both scholarly and
pedagogical. It seeks to bring together
historical studies of legally-sanctioned oppressive spaces from the fifteenth
through twentieth centuries. It also
seeks to identify the topics, textual sources, and heritage sites for teaching
the history of oppressive spaces. Participants
are asked to explore the premise that this architectural history—supported by
scholarship as well as classroom and experiential learning—can play a role in
creating greater tolerance within society today. Everyone at some point has felt uncomfortable
or trapped within his/her physical surroundings. Can an understanding of the oppressive spaces
of the past lead to greater empathy towards those in comparable situations
today?
A 300-word abstract and CV (2 pages maximum) should be
submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 5, 2018, to the online portal
found at http://www.sah.org/2019.
Colonial Spatiality
in African Sahara Regions
This session investigates the ways with which European
colonial regimes have shaped the design of African Saharan aboveground and
underground territories, cities, villages, infrastructures, and societies over
the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. These Saharan regions comprise
Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia,
and Western Sahara. Colonized by different European countries—including
Britain, Italy, France, and Spain—these climatically challenging territories
served primarily to search, extract, and transport the desert’s multiple
natural resources and assets. Yet, in what exactly consisted these designs? This
session aims at addressing these questions and exploring the relationship
between spatial planning, architecture, environment, and European colonial
practices in African Saharan regions. We seek papers that critically analyze
the involvement of European colonial civil servants, military officers,
engineers, planners, and architects in shaping the design of one or more
African Saharan regions.
DEADLINE June 30, 2018
Contact Email: arch@samiahenni.com
Disability and
Environmental History: A Place for Stories
How has environmental history privileged normative notions
of environment and bodily experience? For example, how have mobility and abled
forms of ecological work/contact/labor been centered as narratives and
storylines in environmental history at the expense of stories about disabled
bodies and alternative access? How might we write disabled and
differently-abled communities back into the long and rich narratives of abled
versions of environmental history? Picking up on the year's theme, “Using
Environmental History: Rewards and Risks,” this roundtable will ask how
environmental history can be used to build a politics of inclusion for disabled
bodies. We will seek not only to answer these questions, but also highlight new
work being done at the intersection of environmental history and disability
studies/history.
Please send a 150-200 word proposal that elaborates your
contribution to the roundtable to Sara J. Grossman at sjg52@psu.edu by June 15, 2018.
Resistance, Revolt,
and Revolution
Our conference encourages graduate students to submit
proposals that engage in the conference theme by examining power relations and
activism in all historical fields, geographic locations, and time periods. The
theme addresses the ways historical actors struggle to overcome oppression,
whether their actions be against political, social, or cultural forces. This
conference especially solicits proposals attending to international narratives
of activism, interdisciplinary approaches, and comparative methodologies.
The deadline for submission is September 1, 2018
Please submit all materials to hgsa.csulb@gmail.com with the
subject "Conference Proposal."
Repair Work
National Council for Public History annual meeting, Hartford,
Connecticut, March 27-30, 2019
Public historians have long been engaged in acts of repair.
We restore and preserve objects and buildings. We reconstruct fragmentary
evidence about the past and reconsider the stories it has been used to tell,
including stories about past commemorations themselves. We contribute, directly
or indirectly, to economic and civic revitalization efforts. Increasingly, we
also align our work with social and environmental projects of reparation, putting
ourselves in service of overcoming or resisting the effects of past damage, injustice,
and exclusion.
NCPH invites proposals that explore how public history
intersects—sometimes purposefully, sometimes with unintended consequences—with
the ongoing task of
Final submissions are due Sunday, July 15, 2018 at
11:59 pm. Please email NCPH Program Manager Meghan Hillman at meghillm@iupui.edu with any
questions.
Emergency and
Emergence
Los Angeles, CA, October 18-20, 2018
First Forum invites submissions that explore the many
meanings and implications of the concept of emergency in relation to cinema and
media scholars and practitioners. Emergency and emergence can be considered
catalytic concepts, cultivating moments of potential and fostering new forms of
organization to respond to an emergency’s urgent call. What kinds of action are
motivated by emergency thinking? How do viewers respond to media produced under
emergency conditions? What other vocabularies might be employed to characterize
radical change or a disruption in norms? Is there a way to conceptualize
emergency that takes into consideration different modalities and histories? We
invite interrogation of the potential of the theory and practice of emergency
and of alternatives to this term, as ways of thinking about social, political,
technological, and aesthetic transformations that occur during times of
uncertainty.
Non-traditional, creative projects are welcome, as are
individual papers,pre-constituted panels or workshops. Please email your
submissions and inquiries to firstforum18@gmail.com by
June 1st, 2018.
Paranoia in the
Americas: American Anxieties in a Transnational Context
University College Cork, 24 November 2018
From the earliest moments of its existence, the optimistic
dream of America has been underpinned by a much darker sense of anxiety and
paranoia. Whether embodied in early colonial fears of nefarious witches
corrupting pious Puritan settlements, Cold-War fantasies of “reds under the
bed,” or porous borders unable to keep the Other out, American culture and
politics has often been defined by fears of the enemy, the Other, the invisible
saboteur. Drawing together literary scholars, cultural theorists, historians,
political scientists and diverse thinkers from every discipline, this one-day
symposium seeks to explore the role of paranoia in American culture and
politics. Not merely limited to the United States, the anxieties that afflict
contemporary America are truly transnational in nature. As such, this symposium
seeks to incorporate a broad range of perspectives in order to fully explore
the nature, scope and implications of the current resurgence of American
paranoia.
Abstracts of no more
than 250 words and short biographical notes (no more than 4-5 lines) should be
sent to Dr Donna Alexander (donna.alexander@ucc.ie) and Dr Miranda Corcoran (miranda.corcoran@ucc.ie) by Friday the 3rd of August 2018.
Power and Struggle
University of
Alabama Graduate History Association Conference, October 5-6, 2018
Our conference
encourages graduate students to submit proposals that engage the conference
theme by examining power relations in all historical fields and time periods.
The theme addresses new approaches to historical analysis that focus on the
relationship between struggle and power, especially people who struggled to
break, transform, or reclaim the boundaries constructed by those in power. The
Conference seeks proposals employing innovative approaches, interdisciplinary
methods, comparative perspectives, and multi-archival research bases.
The deadline for
proposal submission is May 30, 2018.
Contact Email: ghaconference@gmail.com
In Search of Global
Impact of Asian Aesthetics on American Art and Material Culture
October 11-12, 2018, The University of Delaware and
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
We invite graduate students from a variety of fields, from
all regions of the world to submit a short abstract of a dissertation in
progress or a project that: 1) redefines the canon of art history, with a focus
on the multidirectional impact of Asian aesthetics on American art and material
culture, and/or 2) proposes new interpretations of the transcultural and
transhistorical flow of aesthetics that not only redefine the geocultural
boundaries of Asia and North America, but also rethink methodological
formations of aesthetic emergence.
To apply, send a
short abstract written in English (300-500 words) and a 2-page CV to: “global-aesthetics@udel.edu” by June 8, 2018.
Imagine Queer:
Exploring the Radical Potential of Queerness Now
Newcastle University, 12th October 2018
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?
Proposals should be sent to imaginequeer2018@gmail.com by
31st May 2018.
Denial: The Final
Stage of Genocide
April 13-14, 2019, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Denial is often the “final stage of genocide,” Gregory H.
Stanton asserted twenty years ago. The perpetrators “deny that they committed
any crimes, and often blame what happened on the victims…. The black hole of
forgetting is the negative force that results in future genocides.” (Stanton,
1996, 1998) The ways in which portrayals of genocide are constructed may
contribute to creating “zones of denial” (Shavit 2005) that allow space for
minimizing the harsh realities of genocide in our collective understanding. For
victims and their descendants, denial brings additional injustice and trauma.
This conference will examine multiple cases of denial and
place them in comparative context. We seek to explore strategies of denial and
to confront denial and its effects on survivors and upon collective memory.
Submit abstracts by November 1, 2018 to hghr.uncc@gmail.com.
Contact Email: hghr.uncc@gmail.com
Settler Colonialism
at the Bar: an Interdisciplinary Workshop on Law, Race and Colonial History
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
While the decolonisation of academia and society have become
important topics, the significance and potential of such an approach is open to
interpretation and often the subject of passionate debate. The Decolonisation
Group at Utrecht University, which was created in January 2018, brings together
historians, lawyers and postcolonial theorists to explore what can be gained
from an interdisciplinary discussion. This workshop wants to invite scholars
from the field of history, law, political science, sociology, economics and
Media and Cultural Studies as well as other academics who work on the topics of
Settler Colonialism and property law – broadly defined – to join this
conversation.
Please send an abstract of max. 500 words and a short CV
to decolonisationgroup@gmail.com by
15 June 2018
For more information you can contact Frank Gerits f.p.l.gerits@uu.nl , Stacey Links
s.links@uu.nl or Rachel
Gillett r.a.gillett@uu.nl.
“Making it like a
man”: men, masculinities and the modern “career”
Recent critical representations of the workplace seem to
leave little doubt about its gendered norms and conventions. Glass ceilings,
the gender pay gap, leaky pipelines, old boys’ networks, calls for women to
lean in (not to mention recurring reports of gendered harassment) all point to
an assumption of male homosociability as an enduring norm in 21st century
‘work’.
In this conference, we aim to focus on the multiple and
diverse masculinities ‘at work’ in the processes of professionalization and
career management that typify modern working life. Spanning both historical
approaches to the rise of ‘profession’ as a marker of masculinity, and critical
approaches to the current structures of management, employment and workplace
hierarchy, we set out to question what role masculinity plays in cultural understandings,
affective experiences and mediatized representations of a professional
‘career’.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should
be uploaded at https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/89548/lomake.html by June
30, 2018.
Contact Email: josephine.hoegaerts@helsinki.fi
Women Warriors and
Popular Culture: Representations across Time and Space
2018 Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American
Culture Association (NEPCA)
Worcester State University, 19-20 October 2018
Women warriors have been important figures throughout
history, but their reception and representation in popular culture is often
overlooked. As a means of furthering discussion and debate on these
individuals, the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of
the Medieval in Popular Culture invites paper proposals that explore the
histories, mythologies, cultural presentations and workings of women warriors
across time and space. We welcome papers that delve into the popular cultural
appropriation of notable women warriors, such as Boudicca, Joanna of Flanders
Joan of Arc, or Grace O’Malley, as well as papers that address the place and
signification of women warriors in the historical and mythic fiction of popular
culture (TV, movies, comics, etc.), such as Snow White and the Huntsman, The
Vikings, and Wonder Woman.
Proposals due 1 June 2018
Contact Email: medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com
Performance Studies
In and From South Asia
Oct 11, 2018, Madison, WI
The aim of this symposium is to facilitate a dialogue
between the fields of South Asian Studies and Performance Studies, by bringing
together scholars and artists who work at the intersection of these two
disciplines. In so doing, it addresses two major lacunae: The
under-representation of performance as a tool and an object of analysis in the
study of South Asia; and the dominant Euro-American-centrism of the discourse
of Performance Studies. This year, we will focus on how performative analysis
might generate new understandings of subjects as diverse as the neoliberal
Indian city or the staging of Sanskrit epics.
Please email your 250-word abstracts to performancesymposium2018@gmail.com by
June 1, 2018.
Contact Email: sharvarisastry@uchicago.edu
PUBLISHING
together
In recent years, a diverse range of actors have emphasized
the need to come together, to join forces and mobilize against/in the context
of escalating ecological disaster, permanent war and empire, violence against
women, growing economic precarity, the prison industrial complex, and
heightened state-sanctioned racism and xenophobia (for example, the Women’s
March, #MeToo, the Poor People’s Campaign, #BlackLivesMatter, trans justice,
sanctuary, global anti-austerity movements, the International Women’s Strike,
and BDS, among others). Many of these calls align with long traditions of
organizing against the gendered dimension of local and global forms of
structural violence that have included Black Freedom struggles, anti-colonial
struggles, and struggles against settler colonialism.
In this issue, we seek to build upon and continue earlier
conversations in WSQ taken up in the special issues Engage (2013) and
Solidarity (2014). We invite contributions that engage feminist theory to
reflect on long-standing debates and theorizations about the limitations and
possibilities of coming together.
Priority Deadline: September 15, 2018 (Please send complete
articles, not abstracts)
Scholarly articles and inquiries should be sent to guest
issue editors Ujju Aggarwal, Linta Varghese, and Rupal Oza at WSQTogether@gmail.com.
Gender and Popular
Culture: Representations and Embodiment
Contributions are invited toward an edited volume of
critical essays on Gender and Popular Culture: Representations and Embodiment.
Gender and popular culture are connected in multiple ways. Popular culture is a
comprehensive and highly mediated phenomenon that consists of an extensive
range of cultural texts and practices from films to newspaper and television,
from designing computer games to creating cartoon series. Gender as a social
and religious construct is continually produced, consumed and represented in
popular culture.
Interested contributors are requested to submit a short abstract
of 1000 words to editor Kusha Tiwari at kushatiwari@gmail.com not later
than 30th May, 2018.
Practices of
Listening
For the first issue of Soapbox,
a graduate journal for cultural analysis, we invite submissions that explore
listening as a critical practice. With this topic, we aim to bring together
accounts of listening as both a method and object of analysis, including
everyday practices and new modes of research that articulate who or what can
listen and who or what can be heard.
Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) to soapboxjournal@gmail.com by May
30.
Decolonizing Ways of
Knowing: Heritage, Living Communities, and Indigenous Understandings of Place
This special issue of Genealogy invites essays on the topic,
“Decolonizing Ways of Knowing: Heritage, Living Communities, and Indigenous
Built Environments.” Manuscripts may focus on all aspects of heritage, heritage
preservation, and traditions of knowing and engaging the past in the present.
The “State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2016” report,
published by the Minority Rights Group International (MRG), emphasized the
close interconnections between culture and nature, the relationship between
people and places, and that these associations are particularly relevant to
indigenous communities. We invite contributions that imagine possibilities and
associations that mark our humanity cross-culturally including practices of
honoring the dead, worshiping/acknowledging ancestors, tracing
kinship/genealogical associations, transmitting local histories and knowledge
of place, and creating shared identity through oral history and storytelling.
Deadline: 15 November 2018
Contact Email: genealogy@mdpi.com
Difficult Conversations: Collaborative art practices
across political divides
Activist art is one
of the most visible artistic outputs of the early 21st century. Political and Activist art often crosses
national boundaries and allows artists both professional and amateur to
participate in the important political and artistic discussions. This volume
hopes to continue conversations on how both academics and artists could help to
create bridges of understanding in the most contested geographical areas.
Abstracts of
approximately 500 words are due on June 10.
Contact Email: myzelev@geneseo.edu
Litany in the Arts
and Culture
Scholars representing various disciplines are kindly
encouraged to submit paper proposals focusing on litanies and their forms and
representations in different spheres of culture, including liturgy, literature,
music, the visual arts, spirituality, and philosophy. The litany derives from
ancient religious rites. Throughout the ages, however, it spread across many
countries and became much more than a mere form of prayer. The litanic verse is
marked by religious semantics, but it also bears the mark of inter-European
divisions, such as those experienced between and within various denominations,
countries and nations, as well as the original folk cultures. Therefore, the
litany may be of interest to scholars specializing in areas such the emergence
of national identities and religious minorities, the crossover between art and
religion as well as between music and poetry, the history of liturgy and spiritual
life, the cultural exchanges between various nations.
The final deadline for submission of abstracts is June 20,
2018.
All proposals and queries should be addressed to: sadowski@uw.edu.pl
Children and Spirituality
This child worship echoes back to the ideation of the holy
child in Romantic thought,a child who is in close proximity to God. How does
this lingering idea fare today? How holy is the child when there is no God in
our age of secularization? Is the child of a same-sex couple considered as
angelic as a straight couple’s child? How about the HIV-positive child? Is the
child still innocent given the know-how of technology that puts the child ahead
of any parents or grandparents? What form of parenting does an unholy, knowing
child inspire? What is the child's relationship to God? Is God a part of
childhood in the secular age? Where is God in childhood? Are we still God’s
children Does God corrupt childhood? How is God showing up in our discourses
about children and childhood today? While the demonic child has received a lot
of attention, this volume is interested in a variety of angles about the
relationship between God and children, our angelic children, such as the
following, non-exclusive list:
Please submit a 350 word abstract, a short bio, and
full contact information by 30 June 2018 to childrenandspirituality@gmail.com.
Completed chapters are due 31 January 2019.
Socio-Political
Context of Death and Dying
This Special Issue of Societies invites scholars to examine
both the social and political circumstances in which death and dying are
experienced. The issue pays close attention to the abundant socio-political
changes, nationally and internationally, which directly and indirectly
influence how people die or experience the death of a loved one. The last ten
years alone, not only in the UK, the care of the dying and bereaved has seen
increasing interest by governments, while medical, clinical and technical approaches
pertain. People die in hospitals, hospices or other institutions more often
than they die in the comfort of their own home. The ambiguity of identifying
when one is ready to die keeps medicine attuned to the task of preserving and
prolonging life. This issue would like to explore in more detail the
socio-political context in which death is experienced and examine how shifting
societal and political attitudes influence how we die and vice versa. Finally,
the issue is interested in bringing together both empirical and theoretical
papers, aiming at conceptualising the current governance of death and dying,
while focusing on the impact of the former on the latter.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2018
Contact Email: p.pentaris@gre.ac.uk
Woman Suffrage
The editorial board of DEP: Deportate, esuli, profughe /
Deportees, Exiles, Refugees welcomes submissions for a Special Issue edition,
entitled ‘1918 and Beyond: New Votes, New Voices? – Retrospectives,
Assessments, Outlooks’ and commemorating the centenary of women’s suffrage in
numerous states.
DEP invites transdisciplinary approaches to and perspectives
of these topics and themes, as well as contrastive analyses, interfacing
narratives, aspects, and historiographies from diverse countries. Proposals by
graduate students and postdoctoral or early career researchers are particularly
encouraged.
Please send a 500-word article synopsis and a
300-word résumé before 30 June 2018 to: NewVotesNewVoices@gmail.com
State Killing: Queer
and Women of Color Manifestas against U.S. Violence and Oppression
Feral Feminisms, an independent, inter-media, peer-reviewed,
and open-access online journal, invites submissions from artists, activists,
and scholars for a special issue titled, “State Killing: Queer and Women of
Color Manifestas against U.S. Violence and Oppression,” guest edited by Annie
Hill, Niq D. Johnson, and Ersula Ore. The issue will center the voices and
anti-violence work of queer and women of color activist-intellectuals by
providing a forum for provocative manifestas and manifestations of feminism.
Submitted contributions may include full-length theoretical essays (5000 – 7000
words), shorter creative pieces, cultural commentaries, personal narratives or
auto-ethnographies (500 – 2500 words), poetry, photo-essays, short films/video
(uploaded to Vimeo), visual and sound art (jpeg Max 1MB), or a combination of
forms. Please send inquiries and submissions to the guest editors: Annie Hill
(anniehill@utexas.edu); Niq D. Johnson (niq.djohnson@pitt.edu);
and Ersula Ore (ejore@asu.edu); cc’ing Feral
Feminisms in the email (feralfeminisms@gmail.com).
Please send submissions with a 60-word author biography and
100-word abstract to the three guest editors by 31 August 2018. For detailed
submission guidelines, please visit: http://www.feralfeminisms.com/submission-guidelines/.
Feminist and Queer
Activism in Britain and the United States in the Long 1980s
Feminist and queer activism in the long 1980s has recently
become subject to renewed scrutiny. Scholarship has challenged the perception
that the period was one of quiescence after the tumult of the 1970s. In this
edited volume we seek to bring together work that positions the 1980s as an era
of formative activism and critical debate in Britain and the United States. The
collection will demonstrate how an inattentiveness to the 1980s, as with other
perceived fallow periods of feminist activism, has obscured the work of women
of colour, working-class women, and queer communities. The edited volume will
bring researchers working in different geographical contexts and disciplines
into discussion with one another in order to enhance our understanding of
feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States.
30th June 2018: Deadline for submission of abstracts
email: sarah.crook@new.ox.ac.uk
Religion and Black
Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Since the nineteenth century, Christian black female public
intellectuals have called attention to and protested against the discrimination
of African American women on the basis of their race, class, and gender, and
particularly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, their sexual
orientation. Drawing on their spiritual authority, many of these black
feminists, including Maria Stewart, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett,
Pauli Murray, bell hooks, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, and Renita Weems, have
attempted to dislodge the normative thinking that has occluded the presence of
these injustices. Whether marching, writing, preaching, or speaking, their goal
has been to challenge and undermine discriminatory practices in all areas of
social and political life and spur the public into action.
The volume’s goal is to present an historical and rhetorical
trajectory of black female religious public intellectuals from the nineteenth
through twenty-first century and thus seeks papers that will demonstrate these
women’s efficacy in creating a movement for social change.
Abstract deadline: June 25, 2018
Contact Email: jami.carlacio@yale.edu
Activists Lives
This special issue seeks to bring together articles that
contribute historical depth and comparative breadth to the subject of activist
lives. By taking seriously the role of emotion and affect, and by focusing on
individual and collective biographies, the co-editors hope to move beyond
institutional or issue-based histories to show how movements for social change
have flowed into one another through the medium of relationships. The aim is to
show that social movements-from gender justice to workers' rights to radical
environmentalism and far beyond-are constituted by consecutive or overlapping
scenes, subcultures, and often highly conflicted movement currents.
Send a 300-400 word abstract and a short 2-page CV by July
1, 2018 to Lana Dee Povitz and Steven High at steven.high@concordia.ca.
Confronting and
Combatting Othering in English Studies
If 2017 has taught us anything, it is that “Othering” is
still defiantly alive almost two decades into the 21st century; in fact, it
seems to be on the increase. We see and hear it every time we turn on the
television or access our social media: calls for immigration bans across the
globe, for building walls and barriers to prevent infiltration by undesirables,
the language of vile and divisive dissension in global politics, the rise of
hate speech of all kinds. In this upcoming issue, we ask the loaded question:
what is the responsibility of English Studies in confronting, combatting, and
maybe even dismantling the Othering trajectory that the world seems to be on?
How do we create a pedagogy of democracy in our classrooms, our writings, our
research, and our extracurricular activities that foster true inclusion,
solidarity, and intersectionality?
Submission deadline: June 10, 2018.
Contact Email: southtexasenglishstudies@gmail.com
Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination
Radical History
Review seeks proposals for contributions to a forthcoming issue that will bring
together historically oriented scholarship and politically engaged writing that
examine places and times without police. Social movements like the Brazilian
campaign Reaja ou será mort@ (React or Be Killed) and Black Lives Matter in the
U.S. seek not only to redress and prevent the harms inflicted by police and
prisons, but also to reenvision forms of social organization that do not rely
on such institutions of state violence at all. Indeed, the Movement for Black
Lives (M4BL) centrally calls for their abolition, meaning not just dismantling these
institutions of public discipline but also redistributing their capacities into
institutions of real community safety, like schools, hospitals, and public
spaces. While the idea of a world without police may appear utopian, this issue
of RHR challenges us to take this proposition seriously. What would a world
without police look like, and how might it function? How might radical
histories of policing allow us to imagine such a world?
Abstract Deadline:
September 1, 2018
ontact Email: contactrhr@gmail.com
Close encounters,
displacement and war
Close Encounters in War Journal is a peer-reviewed journal
aimed at studying war as a human experience, through interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary approaches ranging from the Humanities to the Social Sciences.
The second issue of the journal will be a thematic one, dedicated to the
experience of displacement as a consequence of war and conflict, and titled
“Close encounters, displacement and war”.
Wars in general are cultural phenomena, among the most
ancient and deeply rooted aspects of human cultural evolution: investigating
their meaning, by reflecting on the ways we experience wars and conflicts as
human beings is therefore essential. Conflictis deeply intertwined with
language, culture, instincts, passions, behavioural patterns and with the human
ability to represent concepts aesthetically. The concept of “encounter” is
therefore fundamental as it involves experience, and as a consequence it
implies that war can shape and develop our minds and affect our behaviour by
questioning habits and values, prejudices and views of the world.
Deadline: June 1, 2018
Abstracts can be sent to: simona.tobia@closeencountersinwar.com
Intersections of
Critical Disability Studies and Critical Animal Studies
The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
This special issue builds on an emergent body of scholarship
located at the intersection of critical disability studies & critical
animal studies, shedding light on ableism and speciesism as interconnecting
oppressions, the ways in which animality and disability are mutually
constitutive, as well as the tensions and coalitions shared by these two
related fields.
Submissions due: June 1, 2018
Please submit electronically in Microsoft Word format to the
special issue's guest co-editors: Alan Santinele Martino (santina@mcmaster.ca) & Sarah May
Lindsay (lindsays@mcmaster.ca)
FUNDING
Malamy Fellowship
One recipient will be awarded the Francis E. Malamy
Fellowship to perform independent scholarly research at the library within a
three month time-frame between August 1, 2018 and July 31, 2019. Research must
include use of archival materials held at the Phillips Library, and/or
archiving activities under the direction of the Phillips Library staff.
All application materials, including references, must be
received by June 15, 2018. All materials may be submitted electronically
to research@pem.org
Graduate Student
Essay Prize
The Michigan
Historical Review announces a call for graduate papers exploring themes from
Michigan's past for its Graduate Student Essay Prize. The lucky
winner will receive $2000 and publication in our journal. Deadline is 1 July 2018. Papers
must use original, primary source material and will be judged on style,
research, originality and proper documentation. They should be 10,000-12,000 words, double-spaced and
footnoted, with the author's name not appearing anywhere on the paper. A cover letter with the name
of graduate school and advisor must accompany. We are happy to answer any
questions or concerns. Please send entry no later than July 1st to mihisrev@cmich.edu.
Yale-AvHumboldt
short-time travel grants
This year we are pleased to offer up to 10 short-term
research grants of between $1,000 and $4,000 to support travel (for up to three
months) to or within Europe for research on topics in the following areas:
European history, Middle Eastern history, global early modern history, the
history of empires, and environmental history.
We encourage applications for projects that cut across geographies,
chronologies, and methods. Priority will be given to those seeking support to
visit archives and libraries to further their original research in the stated
fields. These grants can support the
research of scholars at any stage in their careers past the point of Ph.D.
candidacy.
Deadline: August 1, 2018
Contact Email: cornel.zwierlein@uni-bamberg.de
Women in Medicine
Legacy Foundation Fellowship
The Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation is pleased to
provide one $5,000 grant to support travel, lodging, and incidental expenses
for a flexible research period between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.
Foundation Fellowships are offered for research related to the history of women
to be conducted at the Center for the History of Medicine at
the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Deadline: June 1, 2018
Electronic submissions of applications and supporting materials
and any questions may be directed to chm@hms.harvard.edu or (617) 432-2170.
RESOURCES
Black Arts Movement
Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies has produced
a special 341 page issue on the Black Arts Movement with guest editor Kim McMillon,
a doctoral candidate at the University of California at Merced. The edition
includes living icons of the Black Arts Movement (1965-1975) who were present
at Black Arts Movement anniversary conferences in 2014 (University of
California at Merced) and 2016 (Dillard University). The special edition has a
three part introduction/dedication, a poetry section of 13 poets, 14 essays,
and seven contributions in art, music, dance, and photography.
The edition (no-cost, open access) is available at: http://www.jpanafrican.org/vol11no6.htm
Contact Email: atjpas@gmail.org
