CONFERENCES
International
Organizations and Decolonization in Historical Perspective
University of Munich, January 25 – 26, 2019
The goal is not so much comprehensiveness, but to showcase a
variety of methodological approaches, subjects, historical dynamics, and
timeframes. While the twentieth century has received the majority of scholarly
attention, the symposium seeks to expand the chronology by also paying
attention to earlier instances of international organizations affecting
decolonization and vice versa, for example in the Latin American context. It
further aims to move beyond the examination of more prominent bodies such as
the League of Nations and the UN as well as their affiliated agencies in order
to showcase other organizations of global reach, such as the Arab League or the
International Organization for Migration. It seeks to learn about a variety of
actors – colonial subjects, citizens of new states and (former) metropoles,
government representatives, experts and volunteers – and examine not only
political and economic but also social, cultural, legal, and environmental
history. By providing a common focus on the global history of decolonization
and international organizations, the proposed conference aims to bring together
scholars from diverse regional and thematic subfields.
Scholars interested in presenting a paper at the symposium
are invited to send a brief abstract of 250-300 words as
well as a CV by 15 June 2018, to Eva-Maria
Muschik at iosdecolonization@gmail.com.
Gay, Lesbian, and
Transgender Literature and Culture
PAMLA 2018, Bellingham, Washington, from Friday, November 9
to Sunday, November 11, 2018
This panel invites submissions which discuss
intersectionality in literature, media, or culture pertaining to Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer representations. You may, should you wish,
engage in the conference theme of "Acting, Roles, Stages,” but any topic
on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer literature is welcome. However,
you might want to explore such issues as acting as art and metaphor, theories
of role play and theatricality, conceptions of the world stage and the public
audience, and film adaptation, in connection to this session’s topic
Submit your proposal via our online system here: http://pamla.org/2018/topic-areas
Deadline for submissions: May 30th 2018
Contact Email: morflaha@indiana.edu
Latina/x Feminisms
September 7-8, Penn State University--University Park, Pa
You are invited to participate in the 2018 meeting of the
Roundtable on Latina/x Feminisms, a forum for engagement with Latina/x feminist
theories and practices. This roundtable is a Latina/x space dedicated to the
discussion of all issues related to Latina/x and Latin American Feminisms. We
welcome Latinas/x and their allies to engage in critical, creative, and
supportive discussions. Too many
academic conferences are based on a model which prioritizes competitive, agonistic
discussions. We wish to make room for
alternative encuentros in which we share ideas, forge connections and learn
from one another.
Deadline: July 15, 2018
For more information on past roundtables go to http://www.latinafeminism.com
or contact Mariana Ortega at muo3@psu.edu
Rights and Wrongs: A
Constitution and Citizenship Day Conference
San Francisco State
University – 17-18 September 2018
Over the last year,
the people of the United States have participated in far-reaching debates and
discussions about the U.S. Constitution. Many of these conversations have
focused on democratic governance and its relationship to presidential
elections, foreign collusion, political corruption, voting rights, legislative
redistricting, and constitutional impeachment. Others have addressed specific
constitutional provisions such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press,
separation of church and state, privacy rights, rights to bear arms,
protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, birthright citizenship,
due process rights, and rights of equal protection. Meanwhile, some of the
most polarizing national discussions of 2017 and 2018—about racialized
policing, immigration restriction, sanctuary cities, health care, sexual
harassment, LGBT rights, hate speech, and gun control—have been framed as matters
of constitutional meaning and significance. Just as important and revealing are
the constitutional topics that much of the country has not been considering,
including the rights of indigenous, colonized, incarcerated, and
institutionalized peoples on lands currently claimed and controlled by the
United States.
Proposals for papers, presentations, panels,
roundtables, teach-ins, and workshops (maximum 250 words) should be submitted
by 25 June 2018 to marcs@sfsu.edu.
Mediating Change
University of North Texas, November 1-2, 2018
We invite scholarship and creative projects that focus on
the intersections of media and justice; we are particularly interested in
research, creative projects, pedagogy, and activism with a specific local or
regional focus.
We are also interested in collaborative and community-based
research or creative projects; we encourage workshops and panels that include
diverse populations including students, youth, and community leaders.
Deadline: May 25, 2018
Email submissions to: MediatingChangeConference@gmail.com
Subversive Spaces,
Subversive Bodies in the Atlantic World
International Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic
History, The University of Texas at Arlington, October 19-20, 2018
Transatlantic history examines the circulation and
interaction of people, goods, and ideas between and within any of the four
continents surrounding the Atlantic basin between the time of the first
Atlantic contacts in the 1400s and the present day. Situated primarily in the
fields of social and cultural history, its approaches are problem-oriented in
scope and often employ comparative and transnational frameworks. We invite
papers and panel submissions that are historical, geographical,
anthropological, literary, sociological, and cartographic in nature—including
interdisciplinary and digital humanities projects—that fall within the scope of
transatlantic studies from both graduate students and young scholars.
Deadline: June 1, 2018
Please direct all questions to Brandon Blakesle: brandon.blakesle@mavs.uta.edu
The Spirit of
International Solidarity, the Right to Asylum, and the Response to Displacement
La Trobe University, 14-15 February 2019, Melbourne,
Australia.
In 1948, attempts to enshrine the right to asylum in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights failed. Rather than proclaiming a right
to seek and be granted asylum from persecution, Article 14 speaks only of a
right to seek and to enjoy asylum. In this symposium, we aim to analyse attempts to mobilise the idea of
international/global solidarity in international law-making (as distinct from
regional solidarity efforts), particularly with regards to refugees and asylum
seekers. One such attempt is the recent work undertaken by UNHCR towards the
development of the Global Compact on Refugees to foster greater
responsibility-sharing among States for significant refugee movements. We
invite contributions that explore successful or unsuccessful attempts at making
international/global solidarity work, particularly in relation to asylum
seekers and the forced displacement of people.
CfP Deadline: 500 word (max) abstract by 15 June 2018
Email abstracts and a brief biographical note (max 100
words) to j.boyd@latrobe.edu.au
URL: https://protectingnoncitizens.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-the-spirit-of-international-solidarity/
Protest and Dissent:
An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
1st –2nd December 2018, Vienna, Austria
Protest and dissent are not new: history is full of
movements that have brought fundamental change to our societies through
protest, as well as those whose dissent was unsuccessful and the issues they
challenged still unaddressed. Furthermore, although many popular protest
movements have received widespread support, others have been condemned, both by
those in power and by societies at large. This inclusive interdisciplinary
project will explore all aspects of protest and dissent, both historical and in
the present moment. By bringing together a wide range of scholars, activists,
artists, journalists, ngo’s and professionals we hope to consider the myriad of
ways protest and dissent can be expressed, why some movements experience
widespread popular and support and others do not, the effectiveness of
particular tactics in bringing about lasting change, and what in 2018 we can
learn from earlier struggles.
300 word proposals, presentations, abstracts and other forms
of contribution and participation should be submitted by Friday 8th June 2018.
Contact Email: viennaprotest@progressiveconnexions.net
URL: http://www.progressiveconnexions.net/interdisciplinary-projects/human-rights/protest/conferences/
Kumoricon Anime and
Manga Studies: ‘Intertextual Anime’
Portland, OR, October 26-28, 2018
Homage, allusion, and experimentation with genre conventions
have been key elements in anime and manga, from the inspirational role of film
noir and Akira Kurosawa on the Gekiga movement, to the self-reflexive
examination of popular genres and character types in recent anime and manga
such as Re:Creators and Space Dandy. Fan practices, such as dÅjinshi and
cosplay, follow in a similar vein, recontextualizing or reproducing the
familiar to both entertain and discover new elements contained within their
source material. An understanding of the complexities of intertextual frames
and genre deeply contributes to the appreciation of anime and manga as mediums
for both scholars and fans, and can both draw on and benefit multiple
approaches and methodologies employed in their study, from history to animation
theory.
Deadline for Paper Proposals: July 15, 2018
Please contact N. Trace Cabot at cabot@usc.edu with any questions.
Alternatives to the
Present. A Conference on Architecture, Urbanism, Sociology, Development &
Planning
November 1-2, 2018. Kent State University, Cleveland
The New Urban Agenda of the United Nations seeks to combine
the material, social and environmental agendas molding the urban world. The
American Association of Geographers links the notions of resilience and urban
justice. The American Planning Association advocates for planning that promotes
social equity and inclusive communities while the AIA champions livable
communities. This conference brings these disciplines together and critiques
the reality of this seemingly coherent set of agendas in the built environment.
Abstracts: 05 June 2018
More information: http://architecturemps.com/cleveland/
Queries: info@architecturemps.com
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?
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.
Slavery and Sexual
Labor in the Middle East and North Africa
The Fourth Annual Conference of the Iranian Studies
Initiative will be held on Friday and Saturday, October 19th-20th, 2018 at the
University California, Santa Barbara.
The theme of this year’s conference is Slavery and Sexual
Labor in the Middle East and North Africa and we welcome proposals for academic
papers addressing the institution of marriage, slavery, concubinage,
prostitution, indentured servitude or debt slavery, as well as the lives of
orphans, divorced women, and widows in the Middle East and North Africa. Papers
focusing on the parallels and disjunctures between early modern and
contemporary forms of coercive labor practices and sexual servitude in the 19th
and 20th centuries are particularly welcome, but all papers related to these
subjects will be considered.
The deadline for the call for papers is May 1st, 2018.
Contact Email: emassie@umail.ucsb.edu
Teaching About
Culture and Society in a New Atmosphere
June 1, 2018, Towson University
The polarization of social and political discourse, ongoing
debates about the “truth,” a devaluation of expertise, and increased levels of
anxiety among our students are just a few of the dynamics currently
complicating our work in the classroom. The contentious quality of the moment
makes it particularly difficult to address many of the topics that are at the
heart of our disciplines including culture, identity, diversity, globalization,
immigration, religion, and government. How can we engage our students, bridge
divisions, and create spaces that foster deep reflection and open-mindedness?
What strategies can we use to encourage and empower our students, particularly
those who feel threatened or marginalized? Our conference theme invites
attendees to address the challenges and rewards of teaching about culture and
society in the current environment. We hope to provide a forum for faculty and
students to share insights about what is working in the classroom and the
community.
For best consideration, submissions should be submitted by
May 11, 2018
Contact Email: nbrown2@ccbcmd.edu
Freedom, Power, and
Personal Identity in American Pluralism
The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Values in Higher
Education will explore how personal identities shape and are shaped by the
realities of pluralism together with different sorts of, and imbalances of,
power. In particular, we ask: Can the formation of a rich plurality of personal
identities be consistent with the existence of a collective or national
identity? We invite proposals for individual and panel presentations around the
following questions (though not limited to these): While we often talk of
freedom, what do we mean by it? How do we determine and ensure the proper
stewardship of power? How fluid or static are national, ethnic, religious,
racial, sexual and gender identities? Is a moral consensus possible, one that
serves as a point of departure for the plurality of identities represented in American
society? Is civil discourse—discourse that results in actualizing human goods
and services (such as affordable health care for all)—possible?
deadline: May 1, 2018
Contact Email: bain-selbo@svhe.org
Re-conceptualizing
National Identity
In her article “Scales of Aggregation: Prenational,
Subnational, Transnational,” Wai Chee Dimock asks some important questions “On
what scale should we study the transnational? How does it mesh with the scale
of the nation-state? How does it act upon the latter-and how is it in turn
acted upon as a competing as well as a complementary regime of regulation?”
Dimock recognizes that the transnational is in a dialogic relationship with the
national. This view, however, seems to invite a vertical interpretation of this
relationship. How does each individual negotiate
his position against national and other
transnational forces? How does transnationalism re-conceptualize national
identity, specifically Asian American identity? This panel encourages papers
comparing Asian American texts with texts by other minorities. Also welcome are
papers comparing Asian American texts with texts by immigrants that are trying
to redefine national identities other than American. Please send a 400 word
abstract, a one page CV, and any A/V requests by May 15, 2018 to Debora
Stefani, Georgia College, at dstefani2012@gmail.com.
PUBLISHING
The Explored
Proposals for this thematic issue of our journal, presently
in its 50th year in print, will examine the experience of being explored.
Contributions will ideally feature the perspective of exploration through
first-hand accounts and develop a critical engagement with the subject matter
that also elevates typically underrepresented voices, perspectives, and
experiences within the context of exploration history. Terrae Incognitae
publishes material relating to any period of exploration history up to the
mid-twentieth century.
Please send 150-word abstracts stating the subject of the
contribution as well as its critical frame, citing as necessary examples of the
primary and secondary literature that will feature prominently in the
submission, to the editor, Dr. Lauren Beck (lbeck@mta.ca)
no later than May 30, 2018.
Disability Studies
and Ecocriticism: Critical and Creative Intersections
This CFP calls for critical essays and creative works that
address the intersection of disability studies and ecocriticism, or disability
and the environment. In terms of critical essays, we will consider analyses of
novels, poetry, comics, dance, art, and movies. We will also consider creative
works (including creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction) that center on an
exploration of the relationship(s) between disability and the environment. We
are particularly interested in works that address the following broad questions
in specific ways: What can be gained by investigating ecological issues through
the lens of disability studies? What can be gained by investigating disability
through the lens of ecocriticism? How can these two viewpoints be joined?
Please send 300-500
word proposals to Dr. Christine Junker (Wright State University) and Dr. Todd
Comer (Defiance College) by this deadline: June 1 2018. Emails: tcomer@defiance.edu and christine.wilson@wright.edu.
India, Religion, and Performance
Scholars and artists are invited to submit essays, artist
statements, interviews, book reviews, and performance reviews for Ecumenica’s
first issue as a publication of Penn State University Press. Es- says may
concern any topics that involve performance, religion, and India. In the vein
of performance studies, we welcome scholarship on theatre, performance art, and
also the activity of religion, includ- ing ritual, pilgrimage, festival,
devotional practice, etc. We also welcome work on relevant theory and religious
concepts, such as rasa and bhakti.
Submissions for this issue should be received by July 15,
2018.
Contact Email: editor@ecumenicajournal.org
Rituals for Living, Rituals for Dying
Modern ritualists
are exploring ancient and modern ritual traditions in many forms, in litanies,
liturgies, as seasonal customs, and as a deliberate creation done with
consciousness and intentionality by artists in gallery shows and in
performance. Spiritual traditions, in specific, use ritual to create specific
experiential events whether in the familiar “Sunday service”, at Shabbat, or
calls to prayer or in small groups outside the “mainstream”. Beyond the discipline of anthropological
“ritual studies” focused upon the past, theological schools and consciousness
studies departments in higher education are beginning to explore this area of
study by developing program tracks and additions to conference programming as a
living art.
This issue will
explore the living art of ritual creation from co-creation within diverse
spiritual traditions to artists utilizing ritual and ritualistic forms to
create a specific experienceAbstract Deadline:
May 21, 2017
Contact Email: coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com
Blackness and Disability
Blackness and
Disability: The Reprise opens up several significant scholarly avenues. First,
it offers continuity since the other special issue will not be the final word.
Because the discussion of Blackness and disability is often thought of as
limiting and limited, I find it imperative to put out a variety of high quality
scholarship that demonstrates otherwise. Second, discussions about Blackness
and disability require a refusal of easy narratives about intellectual lineage.
Third, augmenting the body of scholarship in a different venue allows for
greater dissemination of these ideas. Finally, as the music metaphor suggests,
the reprise – along with the remix, and the re-up – suggest a replenishing,
returning, and reinvention. The more we learn about Blackness and disability
together, the more we understand that they are mercurial and complex. We need
an opportunity for scholarship to self-consciously reinvest in the topics by
intentionally returning to them.
Abstracts of no more
than 500 words and a brief CV should be sent to Theri' Pickens c/o intellectual.insurrection@gmail.com
by August 31.
Place as Sacred
This issue will focus on entire regions of socio-religious
activities--or those of more limited scale-- where individuals and groups
interact with a range of places deemed "sacred" (by whatever terms or
norms are accepted in the region). The
regions are East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Europe
North/South, Africa, South America, Mesoamerica, North America, Australia/New
Zealand. This special issue will attempt to be inclusive of the diversity of
people and their varied interactions with these sites, honouring the
multiplicity of ways we interpret the terms “place” and “sacred.”
The proposal deadline is Friday, May 11th.
For any questions about the CFP, please contact nelsonj@usfca.edu.
Radical Empathy in
Archival Practice
In their 2016 article From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics:
Radical Empathy in the Archives, Michelle Caswell and Marika Cifor define
radical empathy as “a willingness to be affected, to be shaped by another’s
experience, without blurring the lines between the self and the other.”
Incorporating a feminist ethics approach that centers lived experiences that
fall out of the “official” archival record, Caswell and Cifor identify archivists
as caregivers whose responsibilities are not primarily bound to records but to
records creators, subjects, users, and communities through “a web of mutual
affective responsibility.”
We invite authors from a variety of career experiences and
archival practices (students, early career professionals, and colleagues
working in community archives, public libraries, museums, non-profits,
corporations, etc.) to contribute to this special issue of the Journal of
Critical Library and Information Studies.
Deadline for Submission: January 30, 2019
Please direct questions to the guest editors for the issue:
Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez: elvia.ar@uci.edu,
Jasmine Jones: jjones@library.ucla.edu,
Shannon O’Neill: soneill@barnard.edu,
Holly Smith: hsmith12@spelman.edu
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. 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).
Submission guidelines: http://www.feralfeminisms.com/submission-guidelines/
Deadline: August 31, 2018
Does Public Art Have
to be Bad Art?
special issue of Open Philosophy
The aim of this topical issue is to explore diverse
perspectives and recurring problems in the area of public art. By public art we
mean, among other things, civic and institutionally commissioned works that are
placed in public places such as community squares and plazas, as well as works
that claim to explain or commemorate the spaces in which they appear.
Background controversies are familiar debates about the use or misuse of public
funds, the alleged elitism of commissioning committees, and the difficulties of
art’s relation to its own site(s). A case such as Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc
might serve here as an example that gathers most of the relevant themes into
one example. There is of course a great deal of discourse on the question of
public art in general; the aim of our deliberately provocative question in the
call for papers is to isolate the specifically controversial status of public
art. This in turn highlights the status of public spaces, and thus offers an
especially urgent version of the always vexed relation between art and politics.
Submissions will be collected from September 1 to October
31, 2018. To submit an article for the special issue of Open Philosophy,
authors are asked to access the on-line submission system at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/opphil
All the questions about this thematic issue can be addressed
to Mark Kingwell at mark.kingwell@utoronto.ca
Fourth Wave Feminism
in Science Fiction & Fantasy
This anthology is seeking to define the new kinds of
heroines that science fiction/fantasy films and television are producing right
now (it may be split into two collections between these types). Hunger Games
has been chosen as the cutting-off point – films and television should be later
than 2012 and have significant heroines. Though the term is imperfect, these
heroines will be described as fourth wave feminist – the authors in the
collection can be the trendsetters who help define the term. Authors are free
to give it their own spin without perfect agreement, but fourth wave is being
defined as more powerful and diverse heroines who needn’t be softened or
sexualized or reduced to sidekicks like those of previous eras.
Deadline for proposals June 30 (roughly 300 words, optional
bio or CV) to valerie@calithwain.com,
subject: FOURTH WAVE SUBMISSION
Yoga Philosophy
Prabuddha Bharata is a monthly English
journal devoted to the social sciences and the humanities started in 1896 by
Swami Vivekananda and is in its 123rd year now. The January 2019 issue of Prabuddha
Bharata will be on the theme Thoughts on Yoga. One can
submit a paper on any aspect of Yoga philosophy for this special issue with a
250-word abstract. The word range is 3000-6000 and the last date is 31 August
2018. The paper and abstract has to be sent to prabuddhabharata@gmail.com The
last date for sending the abstract is 31 May 2018.
Crisis of sexual
abuse in sport
Cultural Studies <> Critical Methodologies journal
special issue
On January 24, 2018, former USA Gymnastics and Michigan
State University doctor, and convicted serial child molester, Larry Nassar, was
sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison “after more than 150 women and girls
said in court that he sexually abused them over the past two decades”
(Levenson, 2018). On February 5, 2018, Nassar was sentenced to an additional 40
to 125 years in prison after pleading guilty to several additional charges of
sexual assault.
This special issue of Cultural StudiesóCritical
Methodologies encourages manuscript submissions that help to
illuminate/revision the historical present toward a different future, to engage
with the pain of understanding, the promise of hope. We seek to consider manuscripts that relate
to the Nassar-Michigan State-USAG case directly, and/or in a broader sense.
Manuscripts are due by June 1, 2018, with a word length of
no more than 6,000 words inclusive of references, endnotes, and so forth.
Manuscripts should be submitted via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cscm,
noting that it is for the special issue. Questions concerning the special issue
should be directed to syndy@illinois.edu or mgiardina@fsu.edu.
Authority and
Transgression
Modern Horizons Journal special issue
Ours is a particularly relevant time to think about
authority and transgression in all of their given and potential forms.
Politically, in local communities and globally, authority is undergoing a
transformation, becoming less legitimate while at the same time becoming more
powerful and violent. While the current climate urgently calls for serious discussion
of ideas and forms of authority and transgression, we should not limit our
scope to the present. We wish to think about the ways authority and
transgression are manifest historically. Is authority taken or granted? If so,
who or what bestows authority? We are particularly interested in papers that
address questions of authority and transgression outside of a strictly
political realm.
Please submit full papers to editors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca by 15
May, 2018.
Reciprocity in
Community-Engaged Food and Environmental Justice Scholarship
Special Issue of Community Literacy JournalEnvironmental and
food justice research seeks to document and address dimensions of social
inequality across ethnicity, gender, and national origin. This research has
primarily focused on food security, resource depletion, the siting of toxic
industries, and climate change as they impact poor and working class
communities. One component in mitigating social inequality has been
university-community partnerships. We seek to spotlight methods and
methodologies for community-engaged scholarship with a focus on food and
environmental justice and are interested in an array of manuscripts that report
on community-based projects--deeply rooted in reciprocity--in order to help
readers learn about a range of models, ideas, and resources to facilitate their
own community-engaged scholarship.
Email 500-word proposals to Dawn Opel (opeldawn@msu.edu) and Donnie Johnson Sackey
(donnie.sackey@wayne.edu) by June
15, 2018.
Insects, Art and
Science in the Modern Age
From its beginnings, humanity has lived intensely with the
insects, which are prevailing forms of life in the terrestrial environment.
Relations of good and evil, established over millennia with these small animals
crossed through various civilizations, are duly enshrined in stereotyped
symbols in the imaginary of the Christian West in the centuries preceding the
Industrial Revolution. Representations of beetles, butterflies, dragonflies,
bees and flies, although very frequent in artistic iconography of the time,
have been sparingly recorded and considered in studies of the image. The
omnipresence of these “miraculous reductions of the mystery and magic of grand
divine design” will be treated here conceptually in analogy with the notions of
micro- and macrocosm, in which the detail holds a key to the comprehension of
the whole.
Art historians interested in collaborating with the dossier
should send proposals to contato@figura.art.br.
Beyond Binaries:
Trans Identities in Contemporary Culture
A growing awareness of transgender issues has intensified in
recent years, especially after the high-profile media example of Caitlyn
Jenner, the career ascension of Laverne Cox, and the cross-media achievements
of Jazz Jennings. This rising awareness has caused activism both for and
against the transgender community and compels us to question many of the
binaries that permeate popular culture. Few issues question borders and
transcend boundaries in such an important manner as current transgender
concerns, and although there has been scholarly attention on trans communities,
there has been little attention given to the intersection of trans identities
and broader contemporary culture.
We are seeking 200-400 word abstracts for book chapters
(18-20 pages with end notes) exploring the theme of what exists within and
beyond the binaries that were, upon a time, never questioned or examined,
especially as expressed through a transgender lens and in popular culture.
May 15, 2018—Deadline for chapter proposals
Contact Email: john.lamothe@erau.edu
Creative Discovery in
Human Robot Interaction: Technology and Techniques
Special Issue of MTI
Human Robot Interaction (HRI) is an established, but rapidly
growing field with many focal points. Whether we focus of humanoid robots,
robot systems, or robotics incorporated in the human body, research in the area
shares one theme: interaction. How do we relate to robots, how do robots relate
to us, and how might we more clearly define the complexity of interaction?
While those working in science and engineering have taken the field to exciting
areas, collaboration with other research specialties is often hampered by a
lack of understanding between approaches. Anyone working in HRI is well-aware
that popular culture– with a few exceptions – portrays robots as a threat to
human life. Even Isaac Asimov’s famous laws of robotics, which are often held
up as a celebration of the potential of robots, are more a cautionary tale than
a map for exploration.
Interested authors should email the Guest Editors directly (pfinn@ucalgary.ca; ehud@cpsc.ucalgary.ca). Full article
drafts due on June 30th through the journal’s online submission system.
Death to Museums
It might seem odd that a journal dedicated to museum studies
would select such an intense directive as the theme for its fourth edition. But
this provocative phrase turns out to be quite generative and open to
interpretation. Death to Museums may evoke spectres of torch-bearing mobs
ransacking Greek temples. Or looters stealing antiquities in times of war like
the fate that befell the National Museum of Iraq in 2003. Maybe it sounds like
the rallying cry of conservative politicians and fundamentalist religious
groups. Or maybe it is saying the idea of the museum as a cold, aloof, and
stuffy mausoleum needs to come to an end. Perhaps museums are killing
themselves through efforts to attract more visitors and compete with tourist
destinations, popular culture, and recreational commerce.
“Death to Museums” is a call for disruption. It is a call to
action and proclaims the need for change. This issue of Fwd: Museumsasks: Do
museums need to change to avoid their death? Do museums need to die in order to
change? Are museums under attack? By whom and to what end?
Deadline: January 5, 2019 by 11:59 PM (CT)
Contact Email: thereseq@uic.edu
Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration
Religion and
Migration has become an important area of study, yet remains diverse. Research in this area has expanded as
audiences become more interested in the topic.
Transnational migration calls into question the relationship of religion
in the diaspora. Religious identities
are changing in the face of pluralism and multiculturalism. This volume will
examine universalist ideas of religion, as well as constructed ideas of
religion, in the global world.
Please send a
proposal (300-500 words), an abstract (100 words), anticipated word count, and
CV to Rubina Ramji at RelMigration@gmail.com. Feel free to direct any questions to the
editors before submission.
Proposal
Deadline: June 1, 2018
sustainability: social,
economic and environmental
“Glocalism”, a
peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary journal, is currently
accepting manuscripts for publication.
With the term
“Anthropocene” scholars from various disciplines illustrate the idea of a recent geological epoch in which human
activity has made an unprecedented impact on the planet. Human modification of
geological and ecological processes has accelerated rapidly over the span of
the twentieth century. All of these
interdependent issues threaten the world and humankind’s wellbeing; their
consequences already affect food, water, energy, resource security and so
forth. In order to reverse this trend, we need to develop strategies for a
peaceful and equitable relationship between humans and the earth. The only way to
attain a global equilibrium is through immediate and effective transition to
sustainability – a transition to a world that sustains abundant and diverse
life, and does so humanely – which can be inspired by some local experiences
and original new conceptualizations.
Deadline: August 31,
2018
Contact Email: zaru.elia@gmail.com
Global Media Literacy
in the Digital Age
Glimpse, a double-blind peer reviewed journal published
annually by the Society for Phenomenology and Media, invites papers for its
Spring 2019 issue that will focus on the theme of global media literacy in the
digital age. We find ourselves, arguably, on the brink of a third digital
revolution--Web 3.0 constituted by an Internet of things that send and receive
data--but we have not yet come to terms with Web 2.0 that confounded us with
fake news and Presidential tweets. Glimpse seeks papers that map theoretical
distinctions and identify philosophical dilemmas by exploring aspects of media
literacy in the global and local media landscapes. Abstracts should focus on
specific media of communication (graffiti, books, TV, radio, film, dance,
wearables, artificial intelligence, etc.). The media under scrutiny need not be
digital, but we encourage reflections on the constraints placed on the media by
the digital age. All theoretical and philosophical perspectives are welcome
(analytic, linguistic, phenomenological, Marxist, etc.).
Submit your papers to the editor at glimpseSPM@mail.com by August
15th.
Transnational Fandoms
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1733075/cfp-mechademia-121-transnational-fandoms
Special issue of Mechademia
12.1
Media fandoms arose
in Japan and the United States contemporaneously, growing out of the
proliferation of mass media in the twentieth century, particularly after the
spread of the television in the 1950s and 1960s. Transnational fan cultures have played an active role in these
developments, and professional creators continue to evolve in their attempts to
court and to corral fandom approval and fan production. Friction between these
groups, and the slippages among them evident in the doujin goods networks of Japan,
the webstores of fan artists worldwide, and the growing approbation for
established creators working on tie-in media, are some of the most interesting
sites of study for transnational fandoms in the twenty-first century.
Authors are invited
to submit papers of 5000-7000 words by June 1, 2018.
Contact Email: mechademia@mcad.edu
The Interdisciplinary
Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy
Dialogue is the first open access, peer-reviewed journal
focused on the intersection of popular culture and pedagogy. 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. Dialogue welcomes
essays on a variety of topics related to popular culture and pedagogy, we are
particularly interested right now in receiving pieces which address
globalization and the effects on learning, thinking, and practice for an
upcoming issue. Blog posts highlight applications in the classroom, best
practices in teaching and learning both inside and outside the classroom, new
multimodal approaches, and additional items/ideas not fitting neatly into a
scholarly article.
Contact Email: editors@journaldialogue.org
Daily Life of Women:
How They Lived from Ancient Times to the Present
Project Editors are once again seeking contributors to the
forthcoming four-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of the Daily Life of Women: How
They Lived from Ancient Times to the Present, to be published by ABC-CLIO. An
entry list has been determined by the editors and publisher, with entries
ranging from earliest societies to modern nations. All entries fit within the
themes of The Arts; Economics and Work;
Family and Community Life; Recreation and Social Customs; and Religious Life.
For a full list of entries, and/or to express interest in
contributing, please email Micheal Tarver at mtarver@atu.edu.
Deadline for this
round of contributions is August 1, 2018.
Music, Sound, and the
Aurality of the Environment in the Anthropocene
Papers on a range of music and religion topics are always
welcome for consideration in general issues; submissions close September 1,
2018.
Contact Email: yjmr@yale.edu
Sports and Politics
Sports and politics have long been intertwined; in some
cases—the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang being the most recent
example—competition venues have doubled as stages for high-level international
diplomacy and intrigue; while in others—preparations for the 2022 FIFA World
Cup in Qatar come to mind—governments’ use of sport and sporting events to
achieve political advantages has unleashed a torrent of damaging consequences
for workers, the environment, and vulnerable populations worldwide. Considering
the historical and contemporary ties between sport and politics, a one-day conference
in New York City in December 2018 will take a closer look at these
relationships with a focus on four main topics. We invite scholars from across
the disciplines—and from any stage of their career—to submit proposals that
match at least one of the topics listed below. Proposals addressing a different
topic or question related to sport and politics may also be considered.
Scholars interested in presenting a paper at the conference
should send a short proposal (max. 300 words) and a one page CV to CHall@qcc.cuny.eduand jacob.m.a84@googlemail.com no
later than May 31, 2018.
Hannah Arendt and the
Boundaries of the Public Sphere
The Russian Sociological Review invites scholars in the
fields of theoretical sociology, social philosophy, intellectual history and
the related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities to contribute to
a special issue devoted to Hannah Arendt and the problem of the boundaries of
public sphere. Arendt’s thought is a promising point to access the problem of
who can and who cannot be admitted to the public forum. While arguing for the
cultivation of plurality as a political virtue, she nevertheless calls for
responsible politics which implies protecting the public sphere. Arendt is no
less famous for noticing the intrinsic link between freedom and lying in
politics than for her alarming analyses of totalitarianism. How can these
positions be reconciled and/ or synthesized in an age of ‘alternative facts’,
‘post-truths’ and the threatening encapsulation of people within their echo
chambers?
July 1, 2018 — 500 words abstracts deadline
Contact Email: sociologica@hse.ru
FUNDING
University of Florida
Travel to Collections
Travel grants up to $2,500 are available to undertake
research between August 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019 with any of UF’s Special and
Area Studies Collections. Proposals are due Friday, June 1, 2018.
For information on Special and Area Studies Collections,
University of Florida: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/
If you have questions about the suitability of your
proposal, or need information on any aspect of the program, please contact Flo
Turcotte by phone (352-273-2767) or email (turcotte@ufl.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,
is again offering its short-term research fellowship. (http://www.wiscprintdigital.org/fellowship/). The
Danky Fellowship provides $1000 per recipient for expenses while conducting
research in the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society (please see
details of the collections at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/collections/).
Prior to applying it is strongly suggested that applicants contact Lee Grady at
the Wisconsin Historical Society (lee.grady@wisconsinhistory.org or
608-264-6459) to discuss the relevancy of WHS collections to their projects.
Applications are due by May 1
American Geographical
Society Library Fellowships
The AGS Library fellowship programs were created to give
scholars from this country and abroad an opportunity to pursue their work in
proximity to a distinguished collection of primary sources. Fellowships are
available for any qualified researcher, the main criteria for appointment being
the merit and significance of the candidate’s proposal, the qualifications of
the candidate, and the relevance of the project to the holdings of the Library.
As the former research library and map collection of the American Geographical
Society of New York, the Library has strengths in geography, cartography and
related historical topics.
Applications must be received at the AGS Library by November
16, 2018.
Contact Email: bidney@uwm.edu
Banting Postdoctoral
Fellowships
The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides funding
to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally,
who will positively contribute to the country's economic, social and
research-based growth. Fellowships are given for scholars in the social
sciences and humanities (see previous recipients here: http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/en/2016-2017-eng.html).
Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada and foreign citizens are eligible
to apply if they fulfill or have fulfilled all degree requirements for a PhD,
PhD-equivalent or health professional degree between September 15, 2015 and
September 30, 2019.
Deadline: September 19, 2018
Postdoctoral
Fellowship in Israel
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar competition for 2018-19 is now
accepting applications for the Postdoctoral
Fellowship to Israel. The United States-Israel Educational
Foundation (USIEF) plans to award eight grants to U.S. postdoctoral scholars
who seek to pursue research at Israeli institutions of higher education. These
unique and prestigious grants are open to researchers in all academic
disciplines and support programs of work for up to 20 months (two academic
years). According to Israeli regulations, a researcher may be
defined as a postdoctoral fellow for a period of five years, beginning from the
date of the award of his/her doctorate.
Applications are due August 1, 2018.
Contact Email: middleeastnorthafrica@iie.org
Charlton Oral History
Research Grant
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History invites
individual scholars with training and experience in oral history research who
are conducting oral history interviews to apply for support of up to $3,000 for
summer 2018 and the 2018-2019 academic year. With this grant, the Institute
seeks to partner with one scholar who is using oral history to address new
questions and offer fresh perspectives on a subject area in which the research
method has not yet been extensively applied. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural
research on local, national, or international subjects is welcome.
Applications must be received by June 1, 2018.
Contact Email: stephen_sloan@baylor.edu
Betty Gabehart Prizes
in fiction, nonfiction, poetry
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference is now accepting
submissions for our annual emerging writer awards, the Betty Gabehart Prizes in
fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Every $10 entry fee directly supports the
prize honorariums of $300 each, and winners also receive full tuition support
to enroll in a small-group writing workshop during the conference on Sept.
14–15, as well as an opportunity to give a reading during the conference. The
submission deadline is June 1, 2018, and guidelines are available on the
conference website.
Contact Email: kentuckywomenwriters@gmail.com
Alfred D. Chandler
Jr. Travel Fellowships
The purpose of this fellowship is to facilitate library and
archival research in business or economic history. Individual grants range from
$1,000 to $3,000. To apply, send a CV, a summary of past academic research (of
1-2 pages), and a detailed description of the research you wish to undertake
(of 2-3 pages). Applicants must indicate the amount of money requested (up to
$3,000). Please also arrange to have one letter of reference sent independently
of the application. The deadline for receipt of applications is November 5,
2018. All materials should be sent to Walter Friedman via e-mail to wfriedman@hbs.edu.
Special and Area
Studies Collections Fellowship at University of Florida
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1728215/call-proposals-travel-collections-grants
Travel grants of up to $2,500 are available to support
research in the Special and Area Studies Collections Department of the George
A. Smathers Libraries at University of Florida. University of Florida
collections are exceptionally broad and deep for the study of global and
Florida topics. Collection strengths include Latin America and the Caribbean,
Judaica, African wildlife conservation, world and Florida maps, historical
Anglo-American children's literature, and Florida history, literature,
politics, and architecture.
Proposals are due Friday, June 1, 2018
Details of the travel grant program and descriptions of
collections may be found at: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/.
Contact Email: turcotte@ufl.edu
2019 Artist Residency
Program at The Watermill Center
The Watermill Center is now accepting applications for its
2019 Artist Residency Program, and wants to open the opportunity to academics
and writers! The Watermill Center’s Artist Residency Program began in 2006,
when The Center officially opened as a year-round facility. Each year
collectives and individual artists take up residence at The Center to live and
develop works that critically investigate, challenge and extend the existing
norms of artistic practice. Artists-in-Residence share their creative process
with the community through open rehearsals, workshops and artist talks.
Application Deadline May 14, 2018.
Contact Email: info@watermillcenter.org
Institute of Latin
American Studies 2018 / 2019 Stipendiary Fellowship
The purpose of this scheme is to provide support to Early
Career Scholars with relevant subject expertise to pursue innovative and interdisciplinary
research on Latin America and the Caribbean in an environment tailored to such
work, free from competitive institutional constraints. The scheme enables the
Fellows to engage a broad range of UK and international scholars in their research
through the formation of networks and through collaboration in research
projects, publications and dissemination events such as workshops and
conferences.
To apply, please send the following documents by email
to ilas@sas.ac.uk by 11.59pm (UK time) on Sunday 20
May 2018.
Email: ilas@sas.ac.uk
WORKSHOPS
In Conversation:
Pathways and Advice for Women of Color Faculty Entering University
Administration
May 21, 2018, Ohio State University
As women of color faculty continue to chart pathways into
university administration, they enter a space that can be isolating and, in
many instances, without mentorship. This one-day workshop is designed to
provide women of color faculty who are either entering or considering higher
education administration the opportunity to hear and be in conversation with
experienced women of color administrators from a diverse representation of
institutions. This workshop will offer strategic guidance on pathways and
decision making that is unique to the experiences and needs of women of color,
as well as offer the opportunity for community building and networking.
Registration by
May 10, 2018 is required and includes the workshop, materials, and meals.
Contact Email: drake.194@osu.edu
Oratunga Winter School: Creating out of Place
Led by eminent
ficto-critical writer and anthropologist Jury Professor Stephen Muecke and set
in the historic Oratunga sheep station on the traditional lands of the
Adnyamathanha people, this four day winter school includes workshops with
artists and thinkers affiliated with the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative
Practice. Interdisciplinary in approach, the winter school examines creative
place-making in storied Country. Workshops invite and expect an appropriate
engage-ment with, and response to, Country, but will locate this critically and
historically. Practice, and reflection on practice, will be encouraged through
a program of solo and group activities.
To apply please send
a short sample of work (no more than ten pages or images) and a CV to jmcoetzeecentre@adelaide.edu.au by 25th May 2018. All fees are due by
15th June 2018.
More info: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/jmcoetzeecentre/news-events/
More info: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/jmcoetzeecentre/news-events/
Edible Environments
Montreal, July 5-13
Professor Anya Zilberstein will offer graduate (and advanced
undergraduate) students a one week summer school in Montreal, focusing on the
city's food and environmental history. Fellowships covering tuition are
available for non-Canadian students; all students will be provided with free
housing in a newly renovated downtown dormitory (formerly the Grey Nun's
Monastery).
New DEADLINE to apply: May 1.
Interactive
Interdisciplinarity
The Collaborative for Interdisciplinary/Integrative Studies
at Quinnipiac University (Hamden, CT) is hosting a Summer Symposium, June 1-2,
2018. The Symposium will focus on interactive, applied interdisciiplinarity in
teaching and research. Registration for the Symposium will be open until May 1,
2018. The registration fee includes all meals. Space is limited, so register
soon!
Contact Email: mary.paddock@quinnipiac.edu
URL: http://ids.qu.edu
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