CONFERENCES
Feminist and Gender
Studies: Global Perspectives
Feb 8 – 11, 2019, Pondicherry, India
Gendered identities and realities are constituted through,
among other things, media and performance. Paradoxically, however, the
representations that substantiate these gender categories are often deployed
for radically different purposes. For instance, they might be brought into play
for the mobilization of dominant ideologies, on the one hand, and feminist
disruptions, on the other. With attention to the diverse forums through which
artistic and popular texts reach the public, this conference aims to address the
inconsistencies, the absurdities, and irregularities of gender constitution in
historical and contemporary local, national and global contexts. We seek to
encourage theoretical, political, historical, and generally critical engagement
with a variety of texts, ranging from television shows, advertisements,
journalism, social media, film, literature, graphic fiction, photography, and
live performance and to promote active discussion of them at the conference
itself.
Last date for sending abstract: August 30, 2018
Childhoods of Color
University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 13-14, 2019
Approximately half of school-aged children in the United
States today are not white. This fact is not reflected by representations of
children in print and digital culture.
UW-Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Books Center (which has tracked data
on race and children’s book publishing since 1985) shows that African American,
Latinx, Native American, and Asian American characters have been continually
unrepresented in the children’s literature industry. Responding to the need to
shift media paradigms, recent academic and activist work has attempted to
counter past exclusions and erasures by prioritizing childhoods of color. Our
conference seeks traditional panel and roundtable proposals and welcomes
non-traditional presentation forms on themes and topics related to “Childhoods
of Color” as they intersect with print and digital cultures.
Compiled panels and individual panel submissions should be
submitted to chpdc@ischool.wisc.edu and
are due by Monday, October 15th, 2018.
Visual Culture
Conference: Reflections in the Funhouse Mirror
Saint Louis University, Department of American Studies,
October 19-20, 2018
Unlike a roller coaster thrill ride, the traditional
funhouse attraction invites amusement park visitors to move around and interact
with the lighthearted attractions inside, giving some visitors power to control
their experience. The fun of the funhouse is in its often playful obstacles: it
seeks to warp reality and surprise the viewer with an unstable and unpredictable
perspective. Similar to a funhouse mirror, visual mediums also have the power
to distort, obscure, and transform particular ways of seeing and looking, for
better or worse, for amusement or shock. We invite papers that explore the
power of visual culture to distort, obscure, and transform ways of seeing and
looking that address a variety of media.
Interested graduate
student contributors are asked to submit a title and 250-word abstract of their
paper to slu.visual@gmail.com by July 13, 2018.
Jews and the Americas
February 24-26, 2019, University of Florida
This multidisciplinary conference aims to explore various
facets of the Jewish experience in the Americas from the 16th century until
today. This experience has been shaped by intra-religious developments as well
as through relations – actual, spiritual, and imaginary – with Jewish
communities outside the Americas. It was, of course, likewise influenced by the
same political, economic, cultural, and social forces that shaped the societies
of the Americas more generally during the past five centuries. The aim of the
conference is to bring together the fields of Latin American and Jewish studies
and scholarship on North America through different disciplinary approaches.
The deadline to apply is September 1, 2018.
Submit proposals to our online application page at: https://ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5ASw0DDVGVpWmQB
Contact Email: JewsandtheAmericasConference@uflib.ufl.edu
Southern Studies
Conference
Auburn University at Montgomery (1-2 February 2019)
The 2019 Conference Committee invites proposals for
twenty-minute academic papers or creative presentations on any aspect of Southern
Studies (broadly defined), including those relating to the fields of
anthropology, geography, art history, history, literature, theater, music,
communications, political science, and sociology. Disciplinary and
interdisciplinary approaches to this theme are welcome.
Proposals can be emailed to southernstudies@aum.edu and
should include a 250-word abstract and a 2-page CV. The deadline for submission
is October 22, 2018.
Re-Framing the
Constitution: Futures of the Fourteenth Amendment
Rice University, Houston, Texas, October 5 & 6, 2018
The 150th year of the Fourteenth Amendment comes at a
particularly distressing moment of national turmoil, when exposure to anxieties
rooted in fear, hate, and ignorance is becoming increasingly lethal, especially
for those whom questions and issues of “citizenship” are not abstract but
tightly woven into the fabric of lived experience. Marking this
sesquicentennial, “Re-Framing the Constitution” issues an interdisciplinary
call for papers that reflect on, reexamine, and reimagine this 400-word text as
a definitive turning point in U.S. social and legal reform.
Submissions due August 15, 2018
Please submit a 300-word abstract and short CV to Keith
McCall (kdm7@rice.edu) and Scott Pett (sap9@rice.edu)
Women and Politics:
Obstacles & Opportunities
The equal participation of women in politics and government
is all important for the successful functioning of vibrant democratic
communities in which both women and men can thrive. However, the history of
women in American politics tells a story which differs from that reality. Prior
to the beginning of the 21st century, women were outsiders in the world of
politics, including voting, holding elective office, and serving on juries.
Since that time, they have made significant gains. In fact, over the last few
decades, women have made progress in political participation in all aspects of
political life, although not equally. In the upcoming issue of the journal, we
wish to focus on those obstacles and opportunities which have, or may not have,
contributed to women’s equal political participation.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: August 1, 2018
Submit all manuscripts, electronically, to co-editors: Dr.
Carol Shelton(cshelton@ric.edu), Dr.
Virginia Walsh, R.S.M., (walshv@salve.edu)
International Girls
Studies
University of Notre Dame, 28 February - 2 March, 2019
Girls Studies has become one of the most dynamic academic
fields, encompassing scholars from a vast array of disciplines engaged in a
variety of interdisciplinary approaches. This conference aims to bring together
scholars and creative practitioners from across the world to explore
contemporary and historical experiences and constructions of girlhood and
girls’ culture, as well as recent developments within the field.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 1 July 2018
Please direct any questions about the conference and the
submission process to: igsaatnd19@gmail.com.
Updates about the conference schedule, events, travel and
lodging, and more will be posted at: https://genderstudies.nd.edu/conferences/.
Octavia Butler’s
Afrofuturistic Visions: Reframing Identity, Culture, and History
In 1979, Octavia Butler juxtaposed the neo-slave narrative
form and the science fictional device of time travel to create Kindred, a
transdisciplinary novel that made slavery viscerally real to more than half a
million readers. Forty years later, Butler’s work remains highly relevant in
our culture—with Ava DuVernay preparing the first screen adaptation of Butler’s
work—and political climate—Butler’s prescient Parable series seems to have
predicted our current world. Butler’s writing is the subject of significant and
varied cross-disciplinary scholarly inquiry. This seminar invites abstracts for
papers that explore Butler’s unique approach to transculturation, especially
how she utilizes the generic conventions of science fiction to subvert
traditional ways of looking at and understanding the world.
Caribbean
Science/Speculative Fiction (S/F) Symposium
The Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literatures at
the University of the West Indies Cave Hill is inviting papers that explore themes
related to Caribbean speculative fiction. The last two decades have seen an
increase in the publication of SF works by Caribbean writers who bring a
Caribbean sensibility to a genre that has been steadily gaining global academic
recognition. These works encourage a re-examination of what constitutes
Caribbean literature and challenge us to consider the nature of Caribbean SF,
especially in the ways that it differs from other geo-political/cultural
writings in the genre, and whether or not writing in this genre helps us to
understand our position on a global stage.
Abstracts of about 250 words and a brief biographical note
should be sent by Friday 27th July.
Contact Email: ahpa44@hotmail.com
A Corpus in Fever:
Archival Impulses in Theory, Literature, and the Arts
14 December 2018
This one-day conference invites PhD candidates and early
career academics working across the disciplines of Anglophone literature,
history, art, philosophy, and psychoanalysis to reflect on the literal and the
metaphorical meanings of the archive, and on the associations between archive
and text, book, textual corpus, body, psyche, edifice, and image. From Walter
Benjamin’s Arcades Project to recent developments in conceptual art and experimental
poetry, the archive emerges as a critical concept and trope in late modernity
and problematizes the politics of authorship, genre, and canon formation. It
thus sheds light on texts, artworks, and other cultural products and opens
fruitful discussions pertaining to issues of (post)modernity, the politics of
memory, and the problem of historical consciousness.
The deadline for the submission of proposals for individual
20-minute papers (250-300 words) is July
31st, 2018.
Contact Email: archivalimpulses@gmail.com
Public Workshop on Indigenous Internationalism in Context
The Centre for Sámi
Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway is pleased request submissions
for an international scholarly workshop on Indigenous Internationalism, in
Tromsø on 18-19 October 2018. The multidisciplinary conference will gather
together the relatively small number of scholars who research the international
Indigenous movement, its history and its connections around the world. This may
include research on global Indigenous organizations (like the World Council of
Indigenous Peoples or the International Indian Treaty Council), regional
Indigenous organizations workings across state borders (like the Saami Council
or the Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas), individual Indigenous
internationalists, international Indigenous conferences, and Indigenous
activity at the United Nations.
Interested parties
should submit both a one-page proposal and a CV by 15 July 2018 to: jonathan.crossen@uit.no
International Conference on Gender, Sexuality and
Justice: Resilience in Uncertain Times
7-8 December 2018, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong
While significant
progress was made on the rights of women and sexual minorities in the past
decade, there is widespread concern that the recent global resurgence of the
political right has created setbacks for some of this progress. Simultaneously,
fundamentalisms of religious, cultural, and social natures have emerged in
various forms across different countries and regions. In such an uncertain
time, how does civil society maintain the fragile progressive institutions and
reimagine gender justice? The interdisciplinary conference encourages dialogues
across cultures, regions, and academic disciplines. It provides a platform for discussion on the
role of various social, cultural, and legal systems as avenues for reform. It considers
the importance and limitations of recent changes in social policy and law on
different levels.
Individual
papers or panel proposals should be sent to genderconference2018@cuhk.edu.hk by 1 August 2018.
Sick Theories: A
Transdisciplinary Conference on Sickness and Sexuality
University of Toronto, Thursday, November 8 - Friday, November
9, 2018.
In Sick Theories, we take up this word “sick” and the ways
in which it is different from and/or similar to “ill” or “disabled.” As a word,
illness operates to make the realities of sickness more palatable for the
neoliberal, capitalist world that depends upon the oppression of the sick body
and labels it as unproductive. Sickness demarcates the messiness, ugliness, and
inexplicable nature of disease, bringing us back to the original meaning of
disease as dis-ease. What does it mean to be sick, as opposed to being ill?
What directions might critical disability studies, critical mad studies, sexual
diversity studies, and queer theory take us as we reconsider what it means to
be sick? With Sick Theories, we bring together scholars, writers, artists,
activists, and educators to untangle the relationships between sickness and
sexuality.
For paper proposals: please submit an abstract of 250 words
as a Microsoft Word (DOC) file, along with a brief bio, to sicktheories@gmail.com by July 15,
2018
Paradise on Fire:
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
University of California, Davis, from June 26-30, 2019
Paradise does not exist, and yet that never seems to stop
people from finding it, or building it, or dreaming its contours – often to the
detriment of humans and nonhumans on the wrong side of its walls. f as Rebecca
Solnit contends, “paradise arises in hell,” when democratic communities are
built from the ground up during times of disaster that leave us “free to live
and act another way,” what might life in catastrophic times entail for the
environmental humanities? How should we write, teach, protest, live, and act
during this era when “paradise” is on fire, figuratively and literally?
The Biennial ASLE Conference “Paradise on Fire” explores the
connections among storytelling, real and imagined landscapes, future-making,
activism, environed spaces, differential exclusions, long histories, and the
disaster-prone terrains of the Anthropocene.
Proposals may be submitted until Sept. 1, 2018.
Contact Email: info@asle.org
New perspectives in
feminist labour history: work and activism
Bologna, 17-18 January 2019
The two-days conference called by the EHLN
working group “Feminist Labour History”
and the SISLAV working group “Gender and Labour”, supported by the Department of History and Cultures at Bologna
University, explores new perspectives in
gendered labour history as arising in Europe and around the world since the beginning of the 21st century.
The deadline for abstracts is July 10th, 2018. Please send a
500-word abstract and a short academic CV (max 500 word) to feministlabourhistory2019@gmail.com.
The Uses and Abuses
of History in the Trump Era
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, March
28-29, 2019
Since the election, the historical imagination has been
pushed into overdrive, as a highly polarized electorate aims to promote its
vision of the nation’s future, often by asserting certain narratives about the
past. Examples can be seen in debates about the racism of famous suffragists,
the statues of confederate soldiers, a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval
Office, “Pocahontas” as a slur, Harriett Tubman’s image on the $20 bill, the
flag as a symbol of “our heritage,” “chain migration” and “anchor babies,”
whether the country is a “nation of immigrants,” and whether it was “founded on
Judeo-Christian principles.” We seek presentations that: analyze recent
evocations of the past in national political discourse, offer correctives of
such representations, and/or situate contemporary developments in historical
context.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: Sept. 1, 2018
She is Hysterical: Hysteria,
Politics, and Performance Strategies
University of California, Los Angeles, November 1, 2018
In Europe, especially in Vienna and Paris, around 1900, the
hysterical girl was a well-studied object in arts and sciences; she
re-appeared, a hundred years later, in countless manifestations in US
mainstream horror films.(1) In addition, key words describing women in protest
as “hysterical”, “nasty”, “possessed”, or “monstrous” dominate contemporary
public discourse. The female hysteric in these current narratives references strikingly
established representations of the hysteric as (public) performer that extend
well beyond the European studies of the nineteenth century.
Although the history and evolution of the representation of
hysteria have been extensively researched, the study of how these discourses
have been transferred to twenty-first-century US popular culture remains
uncharted territory. This conference’s main focus is the way in which the
hysteric is involved in and performs on the pressing intersection of hysteria, cultural,
(horror) film and performance studies.
Please submit a 500-word proposal and a 200-word
biography to Johanna Braun (johannabraun@ucla.edu) by
July 30, 2018.
Visual Culture
Conference
Saint Louis University,
October 19-20, 2018
The Department of American Studies at Saint Louis University
proudly presents, “Reflections in the Funhouse Mirror,” a visual culture
conference soliciting graduate student applicants. Unlike a roller coaster
thrill ride, the traditional funhouse attraction invites amusement park
visitors to move around and interact with the lighthearted attractions inside,
giving some visitors power to control their experience. The fun of the funhouse
is in its often playful obstacles: it seeks to warp reality and surprise the
viewer with an unstable and unpredictable perspective. Similar to a funhouse
mirror, visual mediums also have the power to distort, obscure, and transform
particular ways of seeing and looking, for better or worse, for amusement or
shock.
Interested graduate
student contributors are asked to submit a title and 250-word abstract of their
paper to slu.visual@gmail.com by June 29, 2018.
on graduate students’
mental health
October 25-26, 2018, University of Ottawa
The Comparative Literature Students’ Tribune is a space of
encounter and bilingual discussion in English and in French, where graduate
students can share their research projects while reflecting on their
discipline. At the first four meetings (organized alternatively in Montréal and
Toronto since January 2015) students from a dozen universities presented their
scholarly and creative work in both languages, taking different approaches and
using a variety of formats.
We welcome your
proposals (150-250 words per proposal), however original and experimental,
until August 6, 2018 at the following email address: tribunelitcomp@gmail.com.
Silence, Sound,
Rhythm, and Performance
Asheville, NC, January 24-27, 2019
The Southern Humanities Council Conference invites proposals
for papers on any aspect of the theme “Silence, Sound, Rhythm, and
Performance.” The topic is interdisciplinary and invites proposals from all
disciplines and areas of study, as well as creative pieces including but not
limited to performance, music, art, and literature. Topics are not limited to
but may address any of the following areas, and may integrate the theme in
trans-disciplinary or interdisciplinary ways, that is, the paper may address
the theme from particular perspectives OR a paper may address the integration
of two or more dimensions of the theme.
Submit proposals of 300-500 words through our website at www.southernhumanities.org (preferred),
or to Mark Ledbetter at shcouncil@gmail.com.
Proposals are due by December 20, 2018.
2019 Meeting of the
Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
The 58th annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the
Association for Asian Studies will be held January 18–20, 2019 at Rhodes
College in Memphis, Tennessee. More information can be found on our new
website, which is www.sec-aas.com.
The program committee welcomes proposals for individual or
panel presentations from faculty, graduate students, and independent
scholars. Proposals must be submitted no later than October 31,
2018. You must complete the submission form online. Submit panel
submissions here and individual
paper submissions here. Please direct any questions about
proposal submission to our program chair, Professor Han Li, and questions about
conference logistics to our local arrangements chair Professor Chia-rong Wu (wuc@rhodes.edu).
Elegy: New Approaches
Durham University, September 14, 2018
Elegy, as Jahan Ramanzani observes, is the ‘mimesis of
mourning’. It is the poetic form and distillation of our common response to
loss, meeting the need for consolation and renewal in the face of death. It
fulfils several cathartic requirements: the expression of grief, anger, and
disbelief; the idealisation of what is lost; and the preservation of its
memory. Elegy’s catalyst can emerge as the death of a loved one or exemplary
figure (often a fellow poet, as in Alfred Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’), the loss
of love itself, or the loss of values that have receded from the cultural
consciousness. This conference is envisioned as a forum for reflection on the
current state of research on elegy and on potentially fruitful directions for
future exploration.
We invite proposals for 20 minute papers on the theme of
elegy and the elegiac, broadly considered. Please send a 250 word abstract and
a mini-biography (50-100 words) to Dr Laura McKenzie at elegy2018@gmail.com by July
15, 2018. For further details visit the conference website athttps://bit.ly/2IMY5ya.
Zen Buddhism: Roots
and Branches
November 2-3 2018 at FAU’s Boca Raton campus
Today Zen Buddhism is both a religion and a bodily practice
with branches that have spread over the entire world. Its roots first developed
in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), and by the thirteenth century
the tradition had spread to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. In the modern period,
the theory and practice of Zen has become prominent in Europe, the Americas,
and elsewhere. This conference will provide a forum for scholars to explore
both the early development and the later spread of Zen. Areas of particular
interest include both ancient and modern issues related to history, ethics,
aesthetics, gender, as well as pedagogy.
Abstracts of 250
words and a current CV should be sent electronically as attachments
to bodymindculture@fau.edu no later than August 1, 2018. Please
direct conference inquiries to the same address. Further information about the
conference will be made available at http://www.fau.edu/bodymindculture, where you can also consult the programs of
the Center’s prior international conferences.
PUBLICATIONS
Television Fat
This special Issue of Fat
Studies will explore the myriad ways that fat is portrayed and theorized on
television. In an era of growing
visibility in television programs, fat bodies and identities are portrayed in
diverse and sometimes contradictory manners.
The spectrum of body type/size and types of programs affiliated with
those living fat lives vary from normalization and acceptance, to the
medicalization and denigration of fat.
This issue seeks to explore the variety of fat identities, imagery, and
portrayals found across television programming.
To be considered for this issue, please submit a 250-500
word proposal (or full paper draft) and brief bio or vita to Daniel Farr (dfarr4@kennesaw.edu) by July 10, 2018.
I’m Already Dead:
Essays on The CW’s iZombie and Vertigo’s iZOMBIE
This particular series has begun to overhaul modern
constructions of the zombie in popular culture and media. While scholarship on
the television zombie is not in short supply, particularly in regards to AMC’s
The Walking Dead, we believe this particular show and comic series speak to a
growing trend in zombie culture whereby the zombie “passes” as human—fully
assimilating into normalized society. The collection aims to explore how this
new, “improved” zombie altered popular notions of the zombie monster and
brought in a new group of viewers who may shy away from the blood and gore
tradition of other popular zombie narratives. As each season of the series begins to take a more traditional
approach to zombie narratives, we want to focus this collection on how the show
tackles current power and political structures as well as asking questions
about globalization and nationhood.
Preference will be
given to abstracts received before August 30, 2018
Women and Politics:
Obstacles & Opportunities
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought, a peer-reviewed
open access journal, invites contributions for its next issue.
The equal participation of women in politics and government
is all important for the successful functioning of vibrant democratic
communities in which both women and men can thrive. However, the history of
women in American politics tells a story which differs from that reality. Prior
to the beginning of the 21st century, women were outsiders in the world of
politics, including voting, holding elective office, and serving on juries.
Since that time, they have made significant gains. In fact, over the last few
decades, women have made progress in political participation in all aspects of
political life, although not equally. In the upcoming issue of the journal, we
wish to focus on those obstacles and opportunities which have, or may not have,
contributed to women’s equal political participation.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: August 31, 2018
Contact Email: walshv@salve.edu
Animal Law and Policy
Small Grants Program Request for Proposals
The UCLA School of Law Animal Law and Policy Small Grants
Program (“Program”) is seeking small grant proposals. This Program is designed
to support legal and non-legal empirical scholarship to advance animal law and
policy reform. To learn more about the Program, including previously
funded projects, please use this link: http://law.ucla.edu/centers/social-policy/animal-law-grants-program/about/
Applications are welcome from any field as long as the
potential application of the research to animal law and policy reform is clear.
We have a particular interest in fields such as psychology, including moral
psychology, sociology, philosophy, economics, and other social sciences.
The application period is open now and closes on December 1,
2018.
Our Program can be reached at 773-259-7760 or at alp@law.ucla.edu if you have any
questions.
Culture in Focus
Culture in Focus, an annual eJournal of the English
Department at Middle Georgia State University, seeks articles and essays for
its 2019 issue. Book reviews are also welcome. This issue is especially
devoted to educational issues, but we invite submissions in all the relevant
areas that fall within the
scope of this journal. Please submit full papers following the instructions
under the Submission
Guidelines link by February 1, 2019.
Contact Email: cif@mga.edu
Biometrics: Mediating
Bodies
Special issue #60 of PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas
Biometrics refers to the way that bodies are measured and
identified. It uses the logic of calculation to reduce the identity of a body
to a set of data. In her work on facial recognition, Kelly Gates (2011) reminds
us that biometric identification is a way of addressing the “problem of
‘disembodied identities,’ or the existence of visual and textual
representations of individuals that circulate independent of their physical
bodies,” a situation that has been particularly exacerbated with the rise of
media technologies since the nineteenth century. This issue of PUBLIC works to
understand the many ways that biometrics reinserts the body into mediated
communication.
Abstracts 350 words: 5 September 2018
Beginnings
How does one begin to speak of beginnings? If the beginning
is behind us, how does one begin again? Should one attempt to, and is it up to
us to choose?
In light of the above, the editors of antae welcome proposal submissions on or
around the topic of beginnings. The authorial guidelines are available
on www.antaejournal.com, and
the deadline for submissions to antaejournal@gmail.com is
the 10th of
October, 2018. Submissions should be in the form of proposals between 250 and 400 words,
and accompanied by a brief
biographical note.
Archival Research:
Discovery, Truth, and Imagination
The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming
submissions for its Winter 2019 issue, themed “Archival Research: Discovery,
Truth, and Imagination.” Archival
research is crucial for scholarship in all disciplines. Within the archive, in
whatever form it takes, is the opportunity to overlap chronological moments and
movements which may have never met for any other purpose. Through
often-forgotten scraps of digital or physical past and present, fresh insights
are made and provocative contributions to scholarly conversations are ignited,
often providing rich knowledge about marginalized communities. For this
upcoming issue, we are seeking scholarly conversations surrounding archival
research within English Studies (both undergraduate and graduate). We encourage submissions from literature
(American, British, or other literature written in English), linguistics,
rhetoric, composition, literary theory, pedagogy and the English classroom, and
academia itself.
Submission deadline: November 15, 2018.
Contact Email: southtexasenglishstudies@gmail.com
Conflict in the 21st
Century: The Impact of Cyber Warfare, Social Media, and Technology
I am currently seeking contributors for Conflict in
the 21st Century: The Impact of Cyber Warfare, Social
Media, and Technology. Entries cover topics dealing with the technical and
interpersonal aspects of conflict in the digital domain as well as other topics
relating to physical technologies relevant to the 21st century.
If you are interested in contributing to the project, please send your contact
information and a short CV or biographical sketch to nicholas.sambaluk.prof@gmail.com.
I will send you the current list of available entries and the
contributor guide.
A HERITAGE OF WAR,
CONFLICT, AND COMMEMORATION
Sites of war and conflict that symbolize collective loss or
that served as pivotal moments in national or global history are sometimes
elevated to the status of “heritage.” Battlefields, sites of bombings, or
places of terrorist attacks are all marked by human tragedy and acts of violence
and their interpretation is inherently conflictual. This issue of Change Over
Time examines heritage produced by violent acts of destruction and our efforts
to commemorate the complex narratives these sites embody.
Abstracts of 200-300 words are due 1 August 2018
Contact Email: cot@design.upenn.edu
Theology and Game of
Thrones
Theology and Pop Culture is currently seeking contributions
for a potential volume on the work of George R.R. Martin and the world of Game
of Thrones. Essays should be written for academics, but avoid “jargon” to be
accessible for the layperson.
Please submit Abstracts between 300-700 words with CVs to
Matthew Brake at popandtheology@gmail.com by
July 1, 2018
Visualizing Kinship:
Politics, Challenges, Opportunities
Adoption & Culture publishes essays on any aspect of
adoption’s intersection with culture. This issue of Adoption & Culture asks
how we might use the critical study of adoption to strategize the visual
politics of kinship. We seek essays that
discuss a broad range of issues or questions.
These include but are not limited to: How do adoptive families
look? How do adoptive kin become visible
in mainstream cultures? How have queer
theory, critical race studies, feminism, and gender studies influenced the
visibility or invisibility of adoptive families? First families? Does a visible
genealogy of adoptive kinship exist? Do
non-normative forms of kinship necessitate new forms of visual representation?
What is at stake, politically, in visualizing radical forms of kinship? Are
there assets to invisibility? How do
normalizing discourses – for example, bio-heteronormativity – influence the
appearance of adoptive kinship? Or disappearance?
Please submit a 500-word proposal or abstract by 1 November
2018 to lcurzon@ua.edu.
Traversing time:
Novel through ages
Sharing mutual influences literary texts accrete newer
compositional techniques and themes to legitimize Mikhael Bakhtin’s assertion
that novel “is the sole genre that continues to develop, that is as yet
uncompleted.” Even so it is an onerous task to trace a linear graph of its rise
through history since its inception in the first half of the eighteenth
century, partially because of its growth in multiple spaces at different times
and partially because of its varied modes of expression refracting into various
styles of narrative technique. This issue of LLIDS encourages scholars to
contribute papers to widen and reorient our understanding of this genre even
further.
You are welcome to submit full papers (not less than 3500
words) along with a 150 words abstract, list of keywords, bio-note, and word
count on or before 20th July, 2018.
All necessary author guidelines can be found at – http://www.ellids.com/author-guidelines/.
Please email your submissions and queries to – llids.journal@gmail.com.
Disability, Activism
and the Academy: Time for Renewal?
Disability & Society, Call for Papers: Special Issue
In the next Special Issue we wish to bring together fresh
insights into the relationship between disability, activism and the academy and
to explore how this is playing out against the backdrop of very difficult times
in which disabled people are bearing the brunt of global upheavals and
conflicts, austerity policies and the changing nature of political activism
amongst disabled people.
We invite contributions which will examine the relationship
between disability, the academy and activism in relation to any chosen themes.
Back in our first Editorial of 1986 it was said ‘we do not wish the journal to
be viewed as a vehicle for merely representing professional perspectives. Thus
we want to encourage the consumers of services and people with disabilities to
speak for themselves’. We strongly encourage articles written in partnership
for the Special Issue, though this is not a prerequisite for submission.
The final deadline for receipt of papers is 31st August
2018.
Superheroes and
Disability: Unmasking Ableism in the Media
Both disability studies and comic studies are a continually
growing field for academic departments across the globe. Scholars have noticed
the increasing presence of their intellectual approaches in political and
philosophical theorizing both inside and outside of the academy. In fact, the
growing popularity of superheroes confronting disability has led to a litany of
scattered publications and essays about supercrips and other discriminatory
representations that associate disability with villainy. However, there has yet
to be a collection that focuses exclusively on unmasking ableism and ability
privilege inherent in popular superhero representations. This collection
targets mainstream consumers who are interested in disability studies and enjoy
watching superhero movies and reading comics. By helping readers understand the
intersection of media representation and real-world connections to disability,
this collection proves that media is never neutral and that not all superheroes
fight on the side of good, even if that is their goal.
Activists, academics, artists, and allies are invited to
submit a 250-300 word abstract for the collection along with a 100-word bio by
July 27th, 2018 to mediaanddisability@gmail.com.
Trans Quarterly calls for papers
Trans*/Religion
Trans* studies has been intertwined with religion and
religious studies since its inception: some of the earliest work in transgender
studies directly challenged models for understanding transgender experience
derived from transphobic scholars of religion, while more recently religious
studies has been a fruitful space for considering questions central to
contemporary transgender scholarship: questions of materiality and
immateriality, the categories of ethics and aesthetics, the constitution of the
human, and processes of embodiment. Religion, as well as religious studies, can
offer intellectual, conceptual and affective resources for a transgender
critique of oppressive forms of power/knowledge invested in the
medico-scientific worldview of secular Western modernity. And yet, the legacy
of transphobia within various religious traditions and within religious studies
as an interdisciplinary field subverts a deeper conversation between the
religion and transgender. What assumptions, narratives, terms, and frames need
to be challenged, what new categories and methodologies need to be explored, in
order to fully occupy the nexus of trans*/religion?
Full articles due July 1, 2018
Any questions should be addressed by e-mail to both guest
editors for the issue: Max Strassfeld (mstrassfeld@email.arizona.edu)
and Robyn Henderson-Espinoza (robyn.henderson-espinoza@vanderbilt.edu).
Trans Futures
We must write the future, and we must critique the very
concept of futurity. Making a claim to trans futures, this TSQ special issue
focuses on trans approaches to meanings, times, and embodiments of futurity as
they have been created and used in transgender studies, and in trans cultures
and political movements. At a moment when imagining trans futures seems
particularly urgent in the interplay between fundamentalist and neoliberal
forms of cisgender hetero-patriarchal white supremacy, we call for critical
discussions of the ways in which trans people have been represented and
socially located in relationship to the future through ideological systems and
institutional networks (the state, prison network, the military, the police,
psych-medical science, mediated culture, the university, civil society, law,
art economies, transnational corporations and finance, etc.). We invite
critical and creative work that produces and imagines potential trans futures
by engaging the multiple materialities and temporalities of trans living.
Full articles due Oct. 1, 2018
Questions for the editors of this issue may be addressed to
micha cárdenas (michamc@uw.edu)
and Jian Chen (chen.982@osu.edu).
Toni Morrison and
Adaptation
Special Issue of College Literature
For this special issue, we invite essays that analyze
Morrison's artistic and intellectual imprint on the stage, screen, and through
lyric. By examining and theorizing Morrison's intricate relationship to and
critical impact on adaptation and performance genres, we attend to a necessary
component of Morrison's creative process, which she spells out in her essay
"The Site of Memory." Morrison offers a trust in recollections, the
relationship between images, and creative imagination that privilege acts of
performance, which enabled witnessing and passing on without written record.
Illustrated in her method of "literary archaeology," this
multi-constitutive process, in which genre fluidity is necessary to
reconstituting black history and black life, crucially dissipates the divide
between the processes for living and adaptation.
How does performance and adaptation help us theorize the
ways Morrison enlivens narrative through her rich description of gesture? How
does Morrison’s approach to temporality become enriched once considered through
performance? What new insights might we gain about the subject of adaptation
when read in the context of Morrison?
Please submit a CV and 500 word abstract for essays between
8000-10000 words to Stacie McCormick and Rhaisa Williams at morrisonadaptation@gmail.com by September
1, 2018.
Global Media Literacy
in the Digital Age
Glimpse, a double-blind peer reviewed journal published
annually by the Society for Phenomenology and Media (SPM), 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.
Submit your papers (max. 3000 words) to the editor at glimpseSPM@mail.com by August
15th.
Engaging the
Elephant: Using Movies to Facilitate Difficult Conversations about Race in the
Classroom
Engaging the Elephant in the Room seeks to stimulate
difficult discussions about race among diverse students in the college
classroom. Analysis of select films focusing on race will raise consciousness
about race, racism, and race relations to facilitate dialogue in the classroom
as a counterspace or safe way to real life experiences. The editors are
interested in carefully conceived proposals for manuscripts which will
critically examine a select film as it relates to race, racism and/or race
relations utilizing critical race theory as an over-arching theoretical framework.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) acknowledges as a basic premise that race and racism
are defining characteristics of American society. CRT reveals how the dominant ideology of
colorblindness and race neutrality act as a camouflage for the self-interest,
power, and privilege of dominant groups in American society. As a concluding section of analysis, the
editors are interested in scholars offering suggestions on how to teach the
film and engage students in a conversation about race and/or race relations.
Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal in
the form of an extended abstract of approximately two to three pages prepared
in APA style, 6th edition.
Proposals due: June 30
Contact Email: jhamlet@niu.edu
Stranger
POST(blank) is seeking Academic and/or Peer-Reviewed
articles and papers to be paired with Visual Art, Poetry, Fiction, and Creative
Non-Fiction on any subject relating the theme of "Stranger". We are
especially interested in any works that explore Politics, Philosophy, History,
Immigration, Geography, Science,
Psychology, Law, Religion / Spirituality, or any combination of these and/or
related topics. As this is traditionally more of an art journal, we do not
necessarily demand that you adhere to any specific format (ie, MLA, AP,
Chicago), though we do ask that you cite all sources, keep information accurate
to the best of your knowledge, and take your work and submissions seriously.
deadline: July 23
Contact Email: postblankzine@gmail.com
The Impact of
Politics on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
RHM is compiling a themed issue to be published in May 2019
on the impact of politics on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
The purpose of the issue is to assimilate and highlight the consequences of and
interconnections between political activities, systems or change on SRHR –
whether at global, regional, state, or local levels, and at their
intersections, especially in low- and middle-income settings.
Submission deadline 31 October 2018
Contact Email: editorial@rhmatters.org
Pilgrimage and
Diversity in the Information Age
International Journal of Information, Diversity, and
Inclusion (IJIDI) - Special Issue
This Special Issue of IJIDI will address this gap by
offering a combined information and diversity perspective to the study of
pilgrimage; shedding light on the approaches and concepts that can enrich our
understanding of the pilgrim’s journey and it complexities through the lens of
information and media practices, embodied experiences, memory work, discourses
and practices around diversity, curation practices, and community building in a
global and digital world. This holistic approach will pave the way for a
broader conversation on social phenomenology and the diversity of human
information behaviours and religious/spiritual practices in the context of
pilgrimage.
August 1, 2018: Full paper submission
Contact Email: perla.innocenti@northumbria.ac.uk
FUNDING
National Academy of
Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships
The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new
generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields
to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These $27,500
fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing
fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or
practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.
The application will open on August 1, 2018.
Completed applications must be submitted electronically no later
than 5pm Eastern Time on Thursday, October 4, 2018.
If you have any other questions, please contact the NAEd by
email at info@naeducation.org.
Louise Seaman Bechtel
Visiting Travel Grant Program
The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature at
the University of Florida is now accepting applications for the new Louise
Seaman Bechtel Visiting Travel Grant program. Grants of up to $1,500 for US
residents or $2,500 (not inclusive of taxes) are available for international
residents to undertake research in one of the largest collections of
Anglo-American children's literature in the world.
Proposals are due Thursday, July 5, 2018
For more information, inlcuding eligibility and procedures,
please visit http://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/baldwin/Index.aspx
Contact Email: salteri@ufl.edu
WORKSHOPS
Subversive Theories
of the Political
Colorado College (October 25-26, 2018)
This workshop seeks to bring together faculty and graduate
students who are working on ways to radically rethink the political in the face
of a growing convergence between neoliberalism and neo-fascism. We are, thus,
interested in both, interrogating the de-politicization that characterizes
neoliberal hegemony, while at the same time investigating the differential
modes that resistance to the exploitation of commodified and uncommodified life
takes under new structures of disavowal. Our quest for today’s subversive
theories of the political was inspired by the relational thinking of black
feminist theorizing, queer of color critique, intersectional Marxism, critical
indigenous studies, decolonial theory, and disability studies, and we believe
that the very important work done in these traditions can help us to develop
more nuanced theories of the political. But we also want to put these
traditions in conversation with each other, to evaluate the concepts developed
in each of them, and the problems they have identified. All participants are
expected to discuss work-in-progress.
Interested applicants should submit a CV and an
abstract by July 15th(11:59 EST) to the following e-mail
address: subversivepoltheory@gmail.com
Online Introduction
to Oral History Workshop
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History invites you
to join its online, live audio workshop, "Getting Started with Oral
History." The interactive workshop
will provide six hours of instruction on two consecutive Wednesdays in August—August
1 and 8, from 10:00 a.m. CDT to 1:00 p.m. CDT.
You may take part in the workshop from the convenience of your home or
office computer via Cisco WebEx. This introductory workshop, designed to help
participants plan and begin an oral history project, will be taught by
Institute faculty and staff members Adrienne Cain, Michelle Holland, Jessica
Roseberry, Steven Sielaff, and Stephen Sloan.
Participants will create a project design and conduct an oral history
interview as part of the course. The
cost is $100, which includes the two sessions, online access to all reading
materials, and ongoing consultation for your oral history project.
Contact Email: stephen_sloan@baylor.edu
