CONFERENCES
Stonewall at 50 and
Beyond
Paris-Dauphine University (Paris-Sciences-et-Lettres), June
3rd–5th, 2019
In the night of June 27th to 28th, 1969, gay and transgender
patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village bar in New York, refused to
comply with one more among countless occurrences of police harassment. For five
days and nights the neighborhood was the theater of a rough confrontation
between demonstrators and police. In the following weeks and months, the
resulting mobilization reinforced the already burgeoning movement for gay
liberation. The fiftieth anniversary of Stonewall in 2019 is an opportunity to
reexamine its legacy and lasting impact on the creation of an LGBTQ movement in
the United States and worldwide. This conference aims to interrogate the
processes of memorialization and patrimonialization, as well as the political
legacy and the cultural and activist representations of Stonewall.
Paper submissions in French or English (c. 500 words) with
an explicit presentation of the methodology and data, and a brief biographical
note (5 lines) should be uploaded by October 15, 2018, at: https://stonewallat50.sciencesconf.org.
Contact and information: stonewallat50@gmail.com.
Beyond the Contact
Zone: Redefining Discourses of Culture and Identity for the 21st Century
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Washington,
D.C., March 21-24, 2019.
In the nearly seventy five years since Fernando Ortiz coined
the term “trans-culturation”, a plethora of discourses has emerged that
navigate complex socio-cultural connections and intersections in an attempt to
theorize the strands that unite and divide them. Understanding that our current
world has changed exponentially and drastically from prior centuries, and
recognizing the need for redefined or new ways of seeing and being in the
world, this seminar seeks to investigate these discourses in dialogue with each
other. Following NeMLA's theme for the 50th Convention, the goal is to do this
investigative, border-crossing work “in order to address the ongoing challenges
we face in producing a world that values diversity, honesty, scholarship, and
justice.”
Abstracts of 300 words are due on September 30th
See detailed submission guidelines here: https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/callforpapers/submit.html
Contact Email: st521@nyu.edu
Water Logics
April 11-12, 2019, Tulane University
Taking its critical cue from New Orleans’s unique liminal
position on the Gulf Coast, Water logics starts from the shoreline as a
threshold, as a point of departure away from land. Drawing from
characterizations of the aqueous as a “site of intellection” and “imaginative
projection” (Wigen 2007), this conference seeks to foster cultural,
archeological, historical, literary, and philosophical inquiries into the
production, performance, and dissemination of knowledge across maritime spaces:
the Caribbean Sea of our conference locale, but also the circum-Atlantic world,
the Pacific Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea in their
interrelations. With an eye towards the “material condition and praxis of the
maritime world” (Blum 2010), we call for a reorientation of practical
methodologies towards a comparative geophilosophy of watery spaces beyond
dominant transit tropes (the sea as an expanse to be traversed or bridged in a
series of physical, metaphorical, and historical transitions).
Detailed abstracts (500 words) and biographical notes are
due by October 15, 2018 to Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (etamalet@tulane.edu) and
yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu).
Superheroes and the
Immigrant Experience
The superhero-as-outsider has been a narrative told for
decades since Superman’s parents sent him on a rocket from Krypton to Earth.
The immigration narrative is closely aligned with extraterrestrial heroes,
including refugees such as the Martian Manhunter and Icon. Yet a superhero does
not have to be from another planet to experience the process of immigration: in
just X-Men, Charles Xavier, Deadpool, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Storm all
work outside their nations of birth, and Magneto forms Genosha as an
international sanctuary for mutants persecuted by their governments. Recent
films such as Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther examine the challenges of being
forced out of one’s home and taking on the role of an exile. This session will
examine immigration in multiple contexts, including US superheroes migrating to
other countries, metaphorical representations of immigrants’ experiences, and
how real-life policies and prejudices are addressed in the more fantastical
worlds of superheroes.
Please submit a 300-word abstract and brief biographical
statement by September 30, 2018 directly through NeMLA's
system: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17585.
Contact Email: rponcecordero@keene.edu
Southeastern American
Studies Association (SASA) Conference
March 14-16, 2019, Atlanta, Georgia
Black Lives Matter, the #MeToo Movement, the Women’s March,
DREAMERs, the March for Our Lives. In recent years, we have witnessed—whether
on the ground or via social media—a diversity of individuals and groups
speaking up and talking back publicly in response to systemic intimidation and
violence that has marginalized certain populations within and beyond the United
States. Some say that we are at a watershed moment in U.S. history, but are we?
Who and what have come before, and in what ways did they succeed and/or fail?
How do the writers, speakers, and activists of today build upon the work of
writers, speakers, and activists of yesteryear? And—in what ways—do new
technologies impact social movements and the backlashes against them?
For the 2019 SASA conference, we invite interdisciplinary
papers and roundtables that explore moments (whether literary, historical, and/
or cultural) of “talking back” within national and transnational contexts.
Please use this link to
submit your proposals online by August 1, 2018: https://goo.gl/forms/X5RQvBZ1XSO22J2m1.
Contact Email: sasaconference2019@gmail.com
The Body Productive
Birkbeck, University of London // 8th December 2018
How are bodies produced under capitalism? How, in turn, does
capitalism make bodies productive? How is the body (and knowledge of the body)
shaped by demands of production, consumption and exchange, and how can these
logics be resisted, challenged and overcome? At this one-day, interdisciplinary
conference, we invite scholars and activists to assess the contribution of The
Productive Body, and to address its relevance as a theoretical tool for understanding
and challenging contemporary ideologies of bodily health, efficiency and
productivity.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to
thebodyproductive@gmail.com by 24th August 2018.
Contact Email: thebodyproductive@gmail.com
Loss
McGill University, Montreal Canada, 9-10 May 2019
Loss: A Symposium takes up the issue of loss by bringing together
scholars working in Indigenous Studies, Critical Refugee Studies, Citizenship
Studies and related fields to consider this subject through the dual framework
of loss and remaining. In doing so, the symposium asks the fundamental question
of “What is loss?” and the related questions of “What causes loss?”, “What
remains?” and, “What is beyond loss?”. These four questions point to the
temporal nature of loss, and some of the ways that scholars are working through
the meaning, significance and implications of loss. The symposium is intended
to underscore the limits or risks of focusing on loss and telling loss
narratives while also thinking about how the subject of loss interacts with
hope and resurgence.
Please submit a 150-word abstract (with title), and 100-word
bio to Dr. Laura Madokoro (laura.madokoro@mcgill.ca)
by 31 August 2018.
Popular Culture and
Coloniality: Decolonizing Global Media and Communication
March 28, 2019 | Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania
Over the past three decades, intellectual energy in global
media studies has worked to decolonize the field. Using popular culture as a
avenue through which to examine global geo-politics and communication, the
conference invites submissions that critically examine affect, power,
representation, and politics in shifting technological landscapes. In doing so,
this one-day conference asks: how can critical, theoretical, and empirical
studies of popular culture push global media studies to further examine the
production of knowledge?
We invite papers that work critically to further decolonize
media studies and unmoor scholarship from sedimentary understandings of place,
space, time, and power beyond determinist discourses like the essentialization
of media and technology.
Interested participants should send abstracts of 250
words cargcfellowsconference@gmail.com by
September 15, 2018.
Black
Internationalism–Then and Now
March 22-23, 2019, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
African American Intellectual History Society’s Fourth Annual
Conference
International exchange has been and remains central to Black
intellectual production. Thinkers, artists, activists and cultural workers
throughout the African diaspora have made crucial contributions to global
intellectual, social and political movements through travel, correspondence,
financial exchange and exile. As the increasing amount of scholarship on Black
internationalism suggests, there remains much to uncover about the nature and
impact of this global mobility. For example, how have Black actors engaged with
the conditions that facilitate and curtail movement and exchange? How might the
broad range of sites for internationalist work shed new light on Black thought
and political engagement? How have the methods and stakes of Black internationalism
changed over time?
Proposals should be submitted via email (conference@aaihs.org)
as a Microsoft Word attachment no later than September 15, 2018.
Migratory Poetics
Conference
December 6-7, UC Irvine, 2018
Thinking migration from the perspective of those who move or
are moved can help to reconfigure what belonging means. How are internality and
externality experienced when one’s immigration status can change irrespective
of any social, legal or spatial transgression? Can processes of translation
challenge ideas of enclosure and originality associated with notions of
sovereignty and national security?
The organizers of this conference invite literary, visual
and theoretical negotiations of voice, historicity, and inhabitance. We are
especially interested in work that explores the limits of accounts of
structural violence, and attends to how descriptions of the relation between
state and pseudo-state forms of violence are entangled with ideals of
masculinity and masculinist conceptions of power.
Abstracts of 250 words or titled panel submissions of
grouped 250 word abstracts should be sent to mpconferenceirvine18@gmail.com by August
30th, 2018.
First Things First:
Preparing Students For Success
Thursday and Friday, March 7 & 8, 2019
As educators, we all have one goal in common: student success. We do, however, go about achieving that goal
in ways that speak both to our different disciplines and to our unique teaching
styles. Whether they are first time on
campus, returning, or transfer students, what is it that you believe sets up
incoming students for success? In other
words, when you begin planning for a new term, what elements are your “first
things first?”
send completed individual and panel proposals to TeachingMatters@gordonstate.edu
by January 18, 2019
Direct any questions to the CETL Director, Dr. Anna
Higgins-Harrell at a_higgins@gordonstate.edu or
at (678) 359-5095
Southern Studies
Conference
February 1-2, 2019
Now in its eleventh year, the AUM Southern Studies
Conference, hosted by Auburn University at Montgomery, explores themes related
to the American South across a wide array of disciplines and methodologies.
Registrants to the two-day interdisciplianry conference enjoy a variety of
peer-reviewed panels, two distinguished keynote speakers and a visiting artist,
who gives a talk and mounts a gallery exhibition. 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.
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
Contact Email: nslipp@bu.edu
International Gullah
Geechee and African Diaspora Conference
he Charles W. Joyner Institute for Gullah and African
Diaspora Studies at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina,
invites abstracts and panel proposals for its 1st Annual International Gullah
Geechee and African Diaspora (IGGAD) Conference March 7-9, 2019. This year’s
theme—Tracing the African Diaspora: Places of Suffering, Resilience and
Reinvention—examines significant social, political and cultural experiences
among African American communities and various African and Caribbean nations in
the past, present and envisioned future. Papers that contribute new knowledge
and understanding in the broad areas of racial identity, feminism,
transnational migration, gender studies, public health, religion, slavery,
Afrofuturism, Pan-Africanism and Gullah/Geechee are encouraged.
You may submit proposals by Friday, September 7, 2018 at https://www.coastal.edu/joynerinstitute/conference/ or
email Eric Crawford, PhD at ecrawford@coastal.edu
Global Status of
Women and Girls Conference: Intersectionality
March 21-23, 2019, Christopher Newport University
This interdisciplinary conference uses tools of the arts,
humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by
women and girls around the world, both historically and today. Our 2019
conference theme marks the 30thanniversary of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s use of the
term “intersectionality” as well as the 400thanniversary of the first Africans
arriving in Hampton and the Jamestown Colony in 1619. Given the close proximity
to Jamestown and Hampton, this year’s conference will especially highlight the
ways in which gender intersects race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and other
identity markers in complex ways. To this end, we welcome proposals that use an
intersectional approach to understand these subjects, as well as the
interconnectedness of systems of oppression, power, and privilege.
Please submit a 350 to 500-word abstractby October
1st, 2018 at www.globalstatusofwomen-conf.org
Contact Email: ahconf@cnu.edu
Enslaved: Peoples of
the Historic Slave Trade
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, March
8-9, 2019
The major objective of this conference is to encourage collaboration
among scholars utilizing databases to document and reconstruct the lives of
individuals who were part of historic slave trades. This conference will focus
primarily on the enslavement and trade of people of African descent before the
twentieth century, but we welcome papers from scholars studying other slave
trades. We are interested in proposals
from scholars who are presenting, interpreting, coordinating, integrating and
preserving data about individuals--of slave, free or other status. Databases
may be in various stages of development and construction from beginning to
complete.
Please email abstract and CV to enslavedconference@gmail.com by
September 30th
Universal Design for
Learning (UDL) in the College Writing Class
Northeast Modern Language Association conference, which will
take place March 21 to 24, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to
education that emphasizes inclusivity in the design of curricula, instructional
strategies, and assessment. Inspired by a movement in architecture to create
accessible built environments, the UDL framework is intended to foster learning
environments that provide welcoming spaces for learners of all types, according
to the premise that structural “accommodations” intended to benefit particular
students (closed captioning on videos, digital copies of print documents,
alternative assessments, etc.) enhance the learning environment for all
students. Increasingly, the UDL model is influencing public policy and the
pedagogical climate of educational institutions from elementary schools to
colleges. This panel seeks to address the question of how UDL principles can be
applied to the teaching of college composition.
View the complete CFP and submit abstracts here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17246
Deadline for abstracts is September 30, 2018.
Contact Email: rlaist@goodwin.edu
Our Foremothers’
Keepers: The Art & Practice of Black Women’s History
December 7-8, 2018
| Loyola Marymount University,
Los Angeles, California
In anticipation of its Ruby Anniversary, the Association of
Black Women Historians (ABWH) is pleased to invite panel and paper proposal
submissions for its first national symposium Our Foremothers’ Keepers: The Art
and Practice of Black Women’s History. In the forty years since a small group
of women first met to form a professional network of Black women historians,
the field of Black women’s history has exploded. “Our Foremothers’ Keepers”
will explore the achievements and challenges that drive the field of Black
women’s history. It will also reflect on the future direction of research on
Black Women’s Studies within the United States and African Diaspora.
The scholarly presentations will depart slightly from the
typical conference format. Presenters will discuss their research and findings
as in formal panel presentations, but they are also asked to highlight larger
questions and issues around their subjects, methodological approaches, and/or
sources.
For full details, see the ABWH website (truth.abwh.org/call-for-papers).
Submit your paper, panel, and/or roundtable proposal/abstract using the form
at https://tinyurl.com/ABWHProposals by August 1.
Contact Email: ABWHSymposium@gmail.com
Activist
Environmental History in the Trump Era
We are looking for historian(s) interested in joining a
roundtable to talk about their experiences in activism oriented against the
environmental policies of the Trump Administration. The roundtable
proposal will go in for the next American Society for Environmental
History meeting, in Columbus OH April 11-13 2019, which has as its theme
"Using Enviro History: Rewards and Risks."
Contact Email: christopher.sellers@stonybrook.edu
College Art
Association conference, New York, February 13–16, 2019
Deadline: August 6,
2018
Art and Justice: New Pedagogical Approaches
Considering the intersections between visual culture and
criminal justice, this panel seeks to address how scholars and artists can
engage in questions of social justice and activism responsibly. As issues of
policing, criminal justice, and mass incarceration reach unprecedented heights
around the world, this panel foregrounds papers offering insights into how we
as art historians, artists, critics, museum curators, and educators might
intervene to affect change. What methodological and pedagogical shifts to our
practices do we need to make in order to ensure that historical inequalities
and prejudices are not replicated when engaging in issues of social justice and
activism?
Contact Email: long.courtney.s@gmail.com
Queer Artists of Color in New York During the AIDS
Epidemic
Even though NY has been overly written about with regards to
AIDS, HIV, art and/as activism—there has been little work done on women, LGBT,
and queers of color during the early days of AIDS in the, then, art capital of
the world. Thus, it is important to look
at art through literary, visual, performance, and activist women of color and
artists of color. If the work of Jose
Muñoz has taught us anything, it is that hegemonic AIDS and art literature and
history have a lot to learn from other histories and lives—as well as art,
broadly construed, by queer woman and artists of color. Thus, this panel will explore those so often
elided in this field of research and theorization in order to open the field to
a broader spectrum.
Contact Email: dr.robert.a.summers@gmail.com
The Radical Sixties
28–29 June 2019, University of Brighton, UK
This conference thus seeks to decentre the established loci
of “The Sixties”. It builds on recent efforts to expand and complicate the
spatiality and temporality of the global sixties and calls for new analyses of
this critical historical conjuncture from the standpoint of solidarity. For
today we seem to know very little about how solidarity constituted a nodal
theme for radical Leftist politics in the 1960s; its intellectual frameworks
and transnational politics, associated aesthetics and cultures of circulation.
How was solidarity conceived, imagined and radically enacted in the
border-crossings, both spatial and intellectual, of revolutionaries in the
“long” 1960s?
Please send proposals for individual papers/ and or panels
by 28 September 2018 to: Radical60s@brighton.ac.uk
For any enquiries regarding proposals, please contact Zeina
Maasri: Z.ElMaasri@brighton.ac.uk
Violence and Alterity
21-22 September 2018, McGill University
What does "difference" mean? The contemporary
world is answering this question abruptly and violently, further marginalising
the marginalised, expelling the expelled, harassing the harassed. The violence
expressed by these answers calls for an urgent critical analysis of the
relationship between violence and alterity, the way the former is enmeshed in
languages, literatures and cultures, and the way that the latter is asked to
conform to capitalist interpretations of subjectivity and objectivity.
Because this conference aims to facilitate reflection and
cultural intervention in the debate on violence and alterity, the diversity of
the contributors and their contributions is fundamental. We therefore invite
scholars in Women's and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology,
Literature, Translation, Media Studies and other related programs.
Please submit a 250 word abstract in either French or
English explaining the topic and main arguments of the presentation by
August 1st, 2018 to llcgrad2018@gmail.com.
Trans Studies in the
Global South: An Emerging Scholars Symposium
October 12, 2018
The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College
invites papers in trans studies in the Global South, for a day-long symposium
showcasing the work of emerging scholars (recent PhD or ABD) from historically
underrepresented groups. We define trans studies broadly to include the study
of gender normativities and non-conformities.
Invited speakers will be guests of the College from the
evening of Thursday, October 11th through breakfast on Saturday, October 13th,
with all paper presentations to occur on Friday, October 12th. Bates will
provide a small stipend for the panelists and cover their travel expenses.
The deadline for submission of these materials is August 15.
For more information, please contact TSGSsymposium@bates.edu.
Queer History
Conference
The Committee on LGBT History is pleased to announce a call
for papers for its inaugural conference, Queer History Conference 2019 (or QHC
19), to be held at San Francisco State University from June 16 to 18, 2019.
Scholars working on any aspect of the queer past, in any region of the world,
during any period, are encouraged to apply. We use the word “queer” to include
both same-sex sexuality and histories of trans identity and gender
non-conformity. We encourage interdisciplinary scholarship but we also stress
that this conference is meant to interrogate the queer past. There is no
specific theme; rather, we hope that this gathering will simply showcase the
best of current work and new directions in the field of queer history,
including panels addressing historiographical debates or states-of-the-field.
Please make all submissions by November 1,
2018 and send all questions to sueyoshi@sfsu.edu and syrett@ku.edu with
“QHC 19” in the subject line.
African Heritage
Studies Association 49th Annual Conference
Atlanta, Georgia, October 25-27th 2018
In 1951, an historic petition, signed and presented by many
including W.E.B. DuBois, charging genocide was presented to the United
Nations. Global Africans are still prey
to policies and practices that result in eradication of our culture and total
annihilation of our existence. We are
witnessing the blatant selling of Africans into slavery in Northern Africa,
poverty, limited access to infrastructure, health facilities and
education. Incessant wars have resulted
in a third generation of Africans residing in refugee camps that have now
swelled to over eighteen million. At
this juncture, neo-liberalism has become another brand of nouveau
neo-colonialism that is proffering as an antidote. AHSA was founded on the
promise of moving Global Africans forward through scholarship and activism,
this conference will hold fast to that mission through the interchange of ideas
and commitment!
Deadline: August 15th 2018
Proposals should be submitted to Dr. Ife Williams, AHSA
Program Chair: africanheritagestudies@gmail.com
Shadow Places. Urban
Strategies of Dealing with Painful Pasts
March 7–10, 2019 · German Historical Institute, Warsaw
The term “shadow place” is a neologism that draws attention
to memorialization and touristification as social processes. It designates
places that are confronted with a publicly known and labelled historical
burden, that are informed by them as spaces of memory, and have become tourist
attractions as a result. Shadow places are different from “dark” or “evil”
places in that their meaning cannot be solely reduced to terrors of the past;
the attribute “shadow” implies positive as well as negative interpretations of
the past. Accordingly, shadow places define spaces where the tension plays out
between affliction and liberation, victimhood and heroism, between the onus and
the pleasures of the past. It is the reception of historical burden and its
place in the cultural memory of posterity, and not the historical events
themselves, that decides on the type and degree of shadow cast on a particular
place.
Please send your abstract (up to 350 words) and a short
biography (up to 150 words) to Sabine Stach (stach@dhi.waw.pl) by September
15, 2018.
Museums as Agents of
Memory and Change
25-26/04/2019, Estonian National Museum
Museums have been shifting toward expanding their work from
collecting and preserving to supporting and educating communities. They are
using their collections to promote social change in the context of rising
global demands on history and culture institutions. More than ever, dealing
with the past is full of impediments and challenges for museums. This
conference aims to problematise museums as places of memory negotiations, and
agents of societal change. While increasingly seeking to engage themselves in
public life, museums are embedded in the fields of politics of memory and
heritage, diverse, often disparate group interests, and power relations. How
can a contemporary museum critically deal with the past and shape open debate
and yet take into account diverse stakeholders and the versatility of
narratives in play?
Please submit your
abstract of 300 words for a 20‐minute paper, along with a short CV, by October
15, 2018 to conference e-mail: conference@erm.ee
Rethinking Peace
Mediation
The workshop explores the effects and dilemmas of the
professionalization of peace mediation.
It will bring together practitioners and scholars to make sense of the
evolution of multi-track peacemaking efforts.
The overall objective is to challenge supposed common notions of peace
mediation (e.g., consensus driven; focus on process design; respect for human
rights and other normative parameters; principle of inclusivity and gender
sensitivity). In this context, the
workshop probes the accuracy of what peace mediation ought to be and its
real-life form. By looking at the ‘why’,
‘what’, and ‘who’, the workshop seeks to build a picture of modern peace
mediation while offering a critical reflection to new realities in the field.
Please submit your abstract (300 words) by 27 July
2018 online: https://goo.gl/up2Gmg.
Popular Art,
Architecture, and Design
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Wednesday, April 17 to Saturday, April 20, 2019, Washington,
D.C.
We are considering proposals for sessions organized around a
theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are scheduled in 1½
hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.
Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. Working professionals, scholars,
educators, and graduate students from a variety of methodologies including Art
History, Fine Art, Museum or Curatorial Studies, Architecture, and
Industrial/Interior Design are all encouraged to submit.
Please submit a title and an abstract of no more
than 250 words and a short 50-word bio with contact
information (name, institutional affiliation, mail and email addresses, and
contact telephone number) by October 1, 2018. To submit an
abstract, go to http://ncp.pcaaca.org.
URL: For more conference information, go to http://www.pcaaca.org/national-conference/
Digitorium 2018
The University of Alabama University Libraries through the
Alabama Digital Humanities Center invites you to submit a proposal to present
at the Digitorium 2018 DH conference, October 4 - 6, 2018. We look forward to
reviewing your proposals on digital methods, tools, and pedagogies. For more
information, please visit the Digitorium site (https://apps.lib.ua.edu/blogs/digitorium/).
Contact Email: tcwilson@ua.edu
PUBLICATIONS
The Gaze
Issue 27 of FORUM seeks contributions from a wide range of
disciplines concerning the gaze, recognition, and identification. All aspects
of culture and identity can be said to be subject to a form of the gaze - how
does an art form interact with its audience? How does the presence of the gaze
affect the ownership of a medium? How is the gaze redirected in subversive art?
Please e-mail your
article, a short abstract, and your academic CV in separate, clearly labelled
.doc(x) files to editors@forumjournal.org by
11 September, 2018.
Unsilencing Black
Sexuality in the African Diaspora
This is a call for papers that offers analysis of Black
sexuality studies in Africa and the African diaspora. Essays may address any
time period or geographical region. Those that focus on any form of art by
Black artists, including film, literature, song, drama/theater, and visual art
are particularly welcome. Studies of historical figures are also encouraged.
Some topics to consider: How have Black people’s depictions of sexuality
changed over time? How have Black people used forms of art to respond to the
colonial or dominant “gaze”? How have Black people reclaimed their bodies from
the “gaze”? How have Black people defined or redefined sexuality? In other
words, how have Black people generated or created new expressions of sexuality
rather than responded to existing ones? What does pleasure or desire mean
within the context of Black people’s lives and work? What is the relationship
between resistance, protest, and sexuality for Black people in the diaspora?
Please send 300 word abstracts (saved as Microsoft Word
document) to ttgreen@uncg.edu by
December 10, 2018.
Apocryphal
Technologies
While the term “technological imaginary” is often used to
describe how technologies are invested with utopian aspirations that prevent
users from sensing legitimate disappointments, frustrations, or malfunctions,
the term “apocryphal technology” refers to technological imaginaries that are
more explicitly dubious, suspicious, or fraudulent. The apocryphal nature of
these technologies becomes particularly evident when they are used in the
service of cryptic, murky offerings, such as truth verification, bodily
enhancement, cognitive amplification, or religious rituals, yet in a sense all
technologies contain at least some element of apocrypha, as they always comprise
functions or benefits that exceed their limitations in the here and now. The
special issue will examine these forces by gathering together contributions,
constellations, and networks of media that describe, highlight, and challenge
the beliefs inspired by technological innovations and failures.
If you are interested, please submit a brief description of
your intended contribution (such as a short paragraph or sketch) by 1 December
2018 to jamie@continentcontinent.cc and anthony@continentcontinent.cc.
For more information on the journal, please visit our website at http://continentcontinent.cc.
Queer Intersections /
Southern Spaces
Southern Spaces, a peer-reviewed, multimedia, open
access journal, invites scholars, critics, writers, artists, and activists to
submit essays, photo essays, original documentaries, and digital projects for a
new series: "Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces." To queer is to
exist as subjects in the transitive space of choice between doing and not
doing. The question shifts from identifying queer subjects as intelligible,
fixed beings to asking the critical questions: To queer what? Where? When? What
do, or should, we queer and why? With the series "Queer Intersections /
Southern Spaces," Southern Spaces welcomes submissions from scholars,
activists, and artists who stand in this intersectional space and raise these
critical questions.
Please submit proposals (350–500 words) or full projects to
series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu)
on or before July 30th, 2018.
Submissions information: https://southernspaces.org/submission-guidelines
Blaxploitation
Special Issue of The Journal of Popular Culture
This issue of the Journal of Popular Culture will focus on
Blaxploitation in terms of its significance in the 1970s, as well as the myriad
ways in which the movement has and continues to influence popular culture. The essays will go beyond traditional
conceptions of Blaxploitation with the distinct goal of helping to fill in the
gaps that exist in the scholarship focusing on this highly important, yet oft
overlooked period. For example, what do
films produced during this movement in the 1970s reveal about filmmaking and
the African American experience at that time and beyond? Who or what was
exploited during this period? How does the movement continue to influence media
forms like television series, video games, and new media? What has Blaxploitation’s impact been on
hip-hop music? How did/does inform World Cinema?
Please send abstracts (500 words) to novotnyl(at)iastate.edu
and gbutters(at)aurora.edu by September 1, 2018.
A Reflexive study of
the Rituals Associated with Death and Dying
The editors wish to put together an interdisciplinary
collection of essays that utilize reflexive scholarly inquiry to interrogate
cultural responses to death by gathering essays that analyze various aspects of
death while at the same time acknowledging that death affects us all. Any study
on the topic cannot be decontextualized. We must all necessarily grapple with
loss and mortality as we examine cultural responses to death. In order to do
so, we would like to address in this work is how one can both critically view
mortuary practices as an observer/researcher while also being an emotionally
invested participant.
Submission deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2018.
Inquiries and proposals welcome: Contact Kalliopi
Christodoulaki, litos@purdue.edu,
or Aubrey Thamann,athamann@iupui.edu.
Global Cultures of
Antifascism, 1920–2016
This special issue of Fascism. Journal of Comparative
Fascist Studies will examine cultural manifestations of antifascism during the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Antifascism, like the fascist advance to
which it was a response, was a global phenomenon with important national and
local specificities. This special issue seeks to move beyond traditional
narratives of success and/or failure by examining the ways in which particular
cultures (broadly interpreted) shaped various individuals' and groups'
understanding of antifascism. Whether or not antifascist movements achieved
their political goals in the short-term, antifascism often had a long-reaching
effect on cultural politics, political coalitions, and civic participation.
Investigating how activists conceptualized antifascism reveals the extent to
which it intersected with other key allegiances. It is anticipated that
proposals will interrogate how commitments to workers' emancipation,
republicanism, transnational Jewishness, or anti-imperialism—to name just a
few—influenced antifascist outlooks and vice versa.
Please send a 250-word abstract of your proposed paper
to michael.ortiz@unco.edu by September
30, 2018.
Medical Narratives of
Ill Health
Humanities special issue
For this special issue of Humanities, we seek to explore how
literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day engages with
and challenges modern medical authority when it comes to understanding disease,
illness, and sickness. Papers for this special issue of Humanities should focus
on narratives—fictional and/or non-fictional (such as medical realism, science
fiction, pathographies, medical reports, etc.)—that explore the contentious
space of disagreement between medicine, society, and the individual. Authors
might consider topics such as: disease as metaphor; social vs. medical
definitions of disease; patient agency and individual experiences of illness;
challenges to medical technology’s presumed objectivity; representations of
contagion and/or public health—or any other topics that relate to better
understanding literary representations of disease, illness, and/or sickness.
The deadline for submission of articles to the guest editor
is January 10, 2019
Please email articles directly to Amanda M. Caleb at acaleb@misericordia.edu.
Please consult the journal's webpage for formatting instructions: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/contagion.
Suffrage at 100:
Women and American Politics Since 1920
This collection will map out the last 100 years of this
lengthy struggle, focusing on efforts to recognize, appreciate, and cultivate
women’s civic engagement since the ratification of the Nineteenth
Amendment. Our purpose is not
celebratory. Instead, we seek to trace
the uneven road to suffrage and public office women of different backgrounds
and means experienced after 1920. We
also intend to expose the institutional barriers and masculinist conceptions of
leadership that women in politics have faced and continue to tackle. Melding gender, social, cultural, and
political history, this collection seeks to capture examples of women acting
together and on their own within and outside electoral and governmental
channels to claim a political presence, enlist state action, and create
alternative services and solutions.
Please send article abstracts of 500 words and a CV by
September 15, 2018 to: Stacie at staranto@ramapo.edu or
Leandra atlrzarnow@central.uh.edu.
Hyphenations: Muslim
Writers, Artists, and Performers in America
Contributions are invited for an anthology of essays about
Muslim American writers, artists, and performers engaging with their hyphenated
identities in the quest for creative self-expression. Current contributions
range from analyses of social media activists, creators of various visual
media, and hip hop artists in relation to their Muslim American identity.
Particularly eager to include more contributions on Muslim American writers and
musicians, or those whose work defies genres, in their articulation of assimilation,
alterity, dissent, and transgression as Muslim Americans. Essays should analyze
the intersection of the imaginative spheres of arts/literature/music and the
domains of faith in the different media of expression used by Muslim Americans
as they challenge the sacred and the secular.
Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted by August
15 to Mahwash Shoaib (mahwashshoaib@hotmail.com).
Indigenous Religions
and Globalization’s Effects on the Earth and Ecology
This Special Issue of Religions is concerned especially with
the impact of globalization in the early 21st century, especially on the lives,
cultures, lands, and sacred places of Indigenous peoples around the world, and
the manner that ecological devastation has become normative in the world to the
point that the latest indicators in 2018 are that up to 90% of certain species
of insects and invertebrates have disappeared permanently, heralding an
unprecedented extinction of life. We invite papers from scholars and activists
who are committed to sharing their wisdom in addressing these very urgent
issues of our time.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2019
Language, Music and
Knowledge Production in Africa
There has always been that long-lasting interconnectedness
among language, music and philosophy. Language is at the heart of the creative
process in all ages and civilisations. With particular reference to Africa,
language manifests the myriads of cultural forms which in turn ushers the
ideology and well-being of the people. Musical resources can contribute
immensely to our understanding of philosophical knowledge just as different
strands of philosophy may be embedded in music generally. Against the above
backdrop, this proposed book interrogates forms of African music with a view to
teasing out their epistemological foundations and ideology. Epistemology, a key
strategic ally in the production of knowledge, is an imperative in Africa’s
pre-cursor oral societies. This edited book will be a compendium that shows the
interconnectivity among the issues of language, music and ideology.
You may send all submissions and enquiries to akinmakande@yahoo.com, gbengafasiku@yahoo.com or wole4u@gmail.com
No deadline given
Representing Abortion
How do we represent abortion? What work does representing abortion do? Can representing abortion challenge and change
conventional reproductive rights understandings of abortion that circulate
publicly? This edited collection begins
from these questions to consider how artists, writers, performers, and
activists create space to make abortion visible, audible, and palpable within
contexts dominated by antiabortion imagery centred on the fetus and the erasure
of the person considering or undergoing abortion. This collection will build on the recent
exciting proliferation of scholarly work on abortion that investigates the
history, politics, and law of abortion, as well as antiabortion movements and
experiences of pregnancy loss. Central to the considerations in this proposed
collection is the intellectual and political work that these artworks, texts,
performances, and actions do and make possible.
Contemporary and historical analyses are welcomed.
To submit a proposal for inclusion in this collection,
please submit a 500 word abstract, a working title, and a 100 word biographical
statement torahurst@stfx.ca.
Proposals must be received on or before October 1, 2018.
Unsilencing Black
Sexuality in the African Diaspora
This is a call for papers that offers analysis of Black
sexuality studies in Africa and the African diaspora. Essays may address any
time period or geographical region. Those that focus on any form of art by
Black artists, including film, literature, song, drama/theater, and visual art
are particularly welcome. Studies of historical figures are also encouraged.
Some topics to consider: How have Black people’s depictions of sexuality
changed over time? How have Black people used forms of art to respond to the
colonial or dominant “gaze”? How have Black people reclaimed their bodies from
the “gaze”? What is the relationship between resistance, protest, and sexuality
for Black people in the diaspora?
Please send 300 word abstracts (saved as Microsoft Word
document) to ttgreen@uncg.edu by
December 10, 2018 and, if accepted, full essays by July 1, 2019.
African American
Culture
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Annual conference
We are considering proposals for sessions organized around a
theme, special panels and/or individual papers.
Sessions are scheduled in 1-½ hour slots, typically with four papers or
speakers per standard session.
Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. We encourage the submission of topics on
African American and African-derived performance and culture.
DEADLINE: October 1, 2018
Contact Email: egsherrod@vcu.edu
For conference information, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org/national-conference/
Displaced Subjects:
Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Critical Refugee Studies
This special issue – focused on global human rights and
international humanitarianism – is from the outset guided by critical refugee
studies. The layered contemplation of critical refugee studies deliberately
moves beyond the acknowledgement of stateless figures and nationless subjects
to methodologically engage critical juxtapositioning. Such comparative
analyses, which anticipate this issue’s contents and themes, encompass a
dialogic situating of ostensibly opposing disciplines (for instance, sociology,
education, performance studies, and literature) and seemingly incompatible
spaces (for example, military bases, libraries, art galleries, digital
platforms, activist workshops, and secondary education classrooms). In so
doing, contributors will collectively address the wide-ranging conditions which
brought such displaced subjects “into being.”
Essay deadline: December 1, 2018
Queries and submissions should be sent to: verge@psu.edu.
Social Media and
Cyber-Ethics: An African Perspective
Adelina Mbinjama-Gamatham and Mark Malisa are seeking
abstracts on Social Media and Cyber-Ethics: An African Perspective for a book
to be published by Juta Academic Publishers. In order to move towards a more
decolonial curriculum in media communications, the book aims at offering an
African perspective on how social media and cyber-ethics are being used by
youths, organizations, and individuals in Africa. We are inviting abstracts
focusing on contemporary issues and future developments related to Social Media
and Cyber-Ethics. Interested authors should submit a 300 word maximum abstract,
describing their proposed article and title.
August 1: Submission deadline for abstracts
The Future of
Education for Sustainable Development – Between the Power of Technology and the
Need for Responsible Citizenship
Beyond the power of technological applications, recent
socio-economic and ecological challenges show that we do not lack sufficient
knowledge for change, but we lack people who are willing and able to engage and
make change. Especially in the area of climate change research, our recent
problems are not derived from a lack of scientific data and technological
opportunities for dissemination, but from a lack of adequate methods of
teaching and knowledge exchange, which can initiate and foster active
engagement and responsible citizenship. ESD aims at new ways of learning that
enable citizens to actively shape sustainable socio-ecological transformations.
This Special Issues calls for cases, reviews, and research articles to discuss
technological applications in the transdisciplinary light of responsible
citizenship and engagement for sustainable development.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2018
Contact Email: liv.li@mdpi.com
Digital and New Media
Mediascape, UCLA’s graduate journal for Cinema and Media
Studies, seeks submissions for the Meta-Section of its upcoming issue on
digital and new media. Our upcoming publication aims to investigate the
categories of digital and new media shorn of the initial excitement that marked
their emergence. The Meta-Section,
specifically, is looking for submissions of critical essays, digital art
(recycled, collaged, or originally created), interviews, and other creative
forms that feature reflexive inquiries into digital and new media. Academics,
critics, artists, and others working within and around the
humanities—regardless of identity or profession—are invited to apply. It is our
strong hope that we receive proposals for collaborations between artists and
scholars aiming to work together to open up the critical terrain of the
digital.
Proposals due August 8, 2018
All questions re:
Meta submissions, including application, should be directed to Michael Reinhard
at Mediascape.Meta@gmail.com
with the subject header “Meta Submission."
Feminisms and
ARTivism in the Americas
The specificity of counterhegemonic feminisms is due to a
unique articulation between theory and praxis. For instance, feminist ARTivists
are increasingly expressing their demands across the continent, notably through
hip hop or visual arts – like the collectives “Somos guerreras” or “Batallones
femeninos”. These forms of action and activism are part of a global struggle
that does more than questioning patriarchy only, that does more than many white
and bourgeois feminist collectives. For Abya Yala feminists, it is necessary to
fight against patriarchy, racism and the coloniality of power, all at the same
time and by drawing on the specific history of indigenous and Black people. The
body plays a fundamental role in both the issues raised and privileged forms of
action. As a site of colonization, the body has to be reinvested and
re-appropriated through arts and performance.
This edition will examine the plurality and the strengths of
these movements across America. We invite papers that deal with the specific
features of these feminisms and their contribution to the fight against race,
gender, sexuality and class oppression. Comparative works are particularly
encouraged.
The papers, of 2000 to 6000 words, will be written in
English, Spanish, Portuguese or French. Please send an abstract and a brief
author bio.
The deadline for papers, which should be emailed to Anouk
Guiné (anouk.guine@univ-lehavre.fr)
and Emanuele de Maupeou (emanuele.de-maupeou@univ-rouen.fr),
is 20 August, 2018.
Re-Envisioning
Religious Studies As A Global Discipline
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and the
University of Denver in conjunction with its partner faculty researchers abroad
is sponsoring a two-day symposium prior to the American Academy of Religion
meeting on the topic “Re-Envisioning Religious Studies As A Global
Discipline” The purpose of the symposium
is to re-envision the field of Religious Studies as an emergent, operative,
genuinely global discipline that is neither predominantly “Americocentric” nor
beholden largely to, or segmented by, the specialties, topical interests, and
methodologies that have prevailed in recent decades.
Proposals should be submitted to editor.jcrt@gmail.com and
include a 300-500 word abstract of the presentation along
with a full curriculum vitae no later than August 15,
2018. Submi
Media Fields Issue #14: At the Edge
As contemporary
media scholarship continues to think through the proliferation of internet and
screen cultures, their edges remain crucial to a comprehensive understanding.
Edward S. Casey writes that edges supply “a species of boundaries, that is,
porous edges that take in as well as give out—in contrast to borders, which act
to delimit institutions and concrete practices in the life-world.” Casey’s
provocation suggests that studying media at the fringes or peripheries of
society necessitates a discussion of the edges that construct their
marginality. Additionally, edges establish relationalities between entities
through their capacity to connect the nodes of distributed networks and complex
systems. In this way, exploring media technologies and practices ‘at the edge’
can help locate imagined horizons and connections that inform the boundaries of
identity, community, and globality.
Submission Deadline:
September 28, 2018
For any inquiries,
please contact issue co-editors Jeremy Moore (jmoore@umail.ucsb.edu) and
Nicole Strobel (nstrobel@umail.ucsb.edu).
Email submissions to submissions@mediafieldsjournal.org For
more information and submission guidelines, please visit http://www.mediafieldsjournal.org
Latin American and
Latinx Visual Culture Call for Contributions
UC Press’s Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture is the
first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to visual and material cultures
in Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and those in diaspora.
For the first time, scholars working in these areas have a scholarly venue for
the latest research in art history, design, material culture, architecture,
film and media, performance art, museum studies, popular culture, fashion, as
well as public art and activism. Our geographical scope and chronological span
are wide-ranging and encompassing. We consider scholarship from the ancient
Americas to the contemporary moment. With the recent spectacular growth in
research and exhibitions on Latin American and Latinx art, the time has come
for such a journal.
Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture is accepting
scholarly research articles for review. The deadline for consideration for the
second issue is September 1, 2018 and for the third
issue January 1, 2019. Please direct inquiries to lalvcsubmissions@ucpress.edu.
FUNDING
Short-term Visegrad
Research Scholarship at Blinken Open Society Archives
The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives announces
the joint Visegrad Scholarship at OSA scheme for the 2018/19 academic year.
Annually 15 scholarships of 2 000 EUR each are offered to support a 2-months
long stay and research at the Blinken OSA in Budapest. We invite researchers,
scholars, journalists and artists from the fields of social sciences, history,
philosophy and arts to research our collections and reflect on the conditions
of knowledge production during and after the Cold War. Application deadlines
for the submissions in the 2018/19 academic year are July 25, 2018 and November
15, 2018.
Contact Email: gadoros@ceu.edu
Dublin/Sklar Graduate
Essay Award
The incoming editors of WASM and Alexander Street are
pleased to announce an inaugural WASM graduate essay competition. The winner
will be awarded $500 and receive recognition at the WASM luncheon at the
Organization of American Historians Annual Conference. The selected essay will be peer-reviewed and
eligible for publication in the WASM Journal. The essay must use one or more of
the WASM primary source collections as the basis for the research paper.
TWU subscribes to this database: Women and Social Movements
Essay Due Date: Jan. 1, 2019 to wasmatuc@gmail.com.
Smithsonian Travel
Research in Equity Collection
To encourage use of its equity-related collections, the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History offers 4 short-term travel
awards for researchers. The TREC award is intended for research in NMAH
collections related to one or more of the following: disability; gender, LGBTQ
and sexuality; and race and ethnicity. Researchers may be at any level or rank,
from any institution as well as independent scholars, writers, journalists,
artists, or film-makers.
Application deadline: July 15.
RESOURCES
Samuel Proctor Oral
History Program
The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Digital Collection
includes the digital holdings of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
(SPOHP) at the University of Florida. With over 5,000 interviews and more than
150,000 pages of transcribed material, the SPOHP collection is one of the
largest oral history archives in the South and one of the top collections in
the country. The largest collection contains more than 900 interviews with
Native Americans including Seminoles, Cherokees, and Creeks.
Public access to the official collection of digital
interviews, which have been digitized and uploaded to the Smathers Libraries
archives from the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, can be found at
the UF Digital Collections website above.
WORKSHOPS
Symposium on the
Science of Stories
Burlington Vermont, Oct. 15-17, 2018
We aim to define the new science of stories by combining
perspectives of artists, social scientists, and computational scientists and
analyze and quantify Storions (units of story) while observing how they move
and change over time and space. During this intensive three-day short course,
we will explore the nature of narratives, how to extract them from data, how
they move through time and space, and how to preserve them through
communication. We will also explore how to communicate data-rich narratives to the
public and how to tell a story using data and sound visualizations. In this
course, we will introduce participants to methods, tools, and theory at the
forefront of complex systems science, cognitive science, sentiment analysis,
network theory, information theory, digital humanities, literature, data
visualization, and data analytics.
Contact Email: juniper.lovato@uvm.edu
Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/stories18
Production and
circulation of knowledge on Gender: Perspectives from the Global South
17-18 December 2018 – Paris
The aim of this workshop is to analyze the conditions of
production of knowledge on gender, from the perspective of countries based in
the Global South. We wish both to highlight the local, regional and global
dynamics of knowledge production on gender, as well as analyze the type of
knowledge that is produced, from a theoretical as well as an epistemic
perspective.
The discussions will revolve around three axes of analysis:
The social processes of knowledge production, globalization and circulation of
knowledge, and gender in the Global South. This three-pronged approach will
allow us to investigate the making and the circulation of knowledge on gender
in the South and focus on both concrete processes and theoretical productions.
To do so, we welcome papers that are based on empirical data (observations,
interviews including prosopography, socio-historical documentary analysis) and
ethnographic approaches.
Contributors should send their proposals to the organizers
in English or French before 10/09/2018. Proposals
(one to two pages) should include a title, a summary highlighting a research
question, the methodology and data mobilized, and the axis of analysis the
paper fits into.
Emmanuelle Bouilly emmanuelle.bouilly@yahoo.fr;
Virginie Dutoya : virginiedutoya@gmail.com;
Marie Saiget : saiget.marie@gmail.com
United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum Summer Research Workshop Program
The USHMM’s Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies invites proposals from Workshop Coordinator(s) to conduct
two-week research workshops at the Museum during the month of July in 2019. We
welcome proposals from scholars in all relevant disciplines, including history,
political science, literature, Jewish studies, Romani studies, philosophy,
religion, anthropology, comparative genocide studies, and law. The Mandel
Center will assign to each workshop a staff scholar with expertise relevant to
the proposed topic. The Mandel Center will also provide meeting space and
access to a computer, telephone, and photocopier.
Applications are due October 1, 2018.
Contact Email: khegburg@ushmm.org
Stakes of Sanctuary Workshop
In recent decades,
there has been a great deal of attention given to modern sanctuary practices,
ranging from the sanctuary offered to asylum seekers from Central America in
the 1980s to recent efforts to declare university campuses, cities and states
sanctuary spaces. Although much of the focus has been on contemporary
activities in the United States, sanctuary is a global, and deeply historic
phenomenon.
The
interdisciplinary Stakes of Sanctuary workshop interrogates how and why
sanctuary has become so central to public discourse on the protection of
refugees and migrants, with the recognition that sanctuary practices have
diverse and complex genealogies. The diversity of sanctuary practices invites
critical engagement around the character of sanctuary and its significance. To
this end, the workshop asks about the impulse and character of sanctuary, now
and historically, as well as what is at stake, and for whom, in the claiming
and offering of sanctuary.
To propose a
contribution, please send abstracts (300 words) to Patti Tamara Lenard and
Laura Madokoro at:patti.lenard@uottawa.ca and laura.madokoro@mcgill.ca,
by August 1, 2018. Papers will be pre-circulated, so drafts must be submitted
by 1 February 2019.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
American Studies, Assistant
Professor
The Department of American Studies at California State
University, Fullerton, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant
Professor position with appointment to begin Fall 2019. We seek a specialist in
the study of race and/or sexuality and gender within the larger context of
American history and culture, with ability to teach American Studies theories
and methods at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as courses on
topics such as: Civil Rights and Social Movements; Race, Gender and Popular Culture;
and Race and Sex in American Culture.
Completed applications received by September 14, 2018 will
be given full consideration.
Please direct all questions about the position to: Elaine
Lewinnek, Chair, American Studies Search Committee, elewinnek@fullerton.edu.
Assistant Professor,
Latinx/Indigenous Sovereignty, Human Rights, Violence
The Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) invites applications for a tenure-track
Assistant Professor to begin in August 2019. The successful candidate should
have demonstrated experience teaching core gender and women’s studies courses
at the undergraduate level, a sub-specialty in Latinx or Indigenous
sovereignty, human rights, and/or violence, a promising research agenda, a commitment
to and experience in fostering inclusive excellence, and a Ph.D. in
Gender/Women’s Studies or a closely related interdisciplinary field at the time
of appointment. The position is fully funded through the Gender and Women’s
Studies Department, with the possibility of teaching courses cross-listed with
other campus units. The teaching load is 3/2.
Review of applications will begin November 19, 2018
