CONFERENCES
Education Beyond
Borders: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges
The UWI Biennial Conference, 2019, proposes that we envisage
education beyond conventional borders of space, time, discipline and thinking.
Imagining what education can and should be like, requires that we invite
diverse voices and multiple perspectives to engage in dialogue. This stance
acknowledges that ‘education’ is not solely the preserve of professional
educators, wherever they may operate in the education system, nor is education
of the individual adequately achieved by teachers working in isolation.
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2018.
Contact Email: maurice.iton@sta.uwi.edu
Sexuality and Borders
Symposium, 4-5 April 2019, New York University, NYC
In her path-breaking work Borderlands/La Frontera (1987),
Gloria E. AnzaldĂșa parsed out the relationship between heteronormativity and
the stretching of the border into various borderlands, subjectivities, and
temporalities. In the context of ongoing migration and the intensification of
border regimes, this formative thesis on the relationship between borders and
sexuality needs renewed attention and consideration. While people continue to
move across borders, sexuality becomes a dominant frame through which such
movement is attempted to be captured, framed, and contained. At the same time,
the border becomes understood, organized, and contested through sexuality and
sexual discourse.
Please send proposals for papers (no longer than 350 words)
and a short bio (150 words) by November 1st, 2018 to sexualityandborders@tutanota.com.
For updates and more information see https://sexualityandborders.wordpress.com/
For questions please contact sexualityandborders@tutanota.com
Taking Risks and Code
Meshing: Multimodal Approaches to Engaged Pedagogy
Multimodality and popular culture helps students not only
understand canonical texts but also fosters a deeper love for literature,
critical thinking, and methods of applicable inquiry. This roundtable will
propose practices to pedagogically switch from an intellectual binary
separating “academic” materials for an approach akin to code meshing, a term
Vershawn Ashanti Young eloquently defines as “mulitdialectalism and
pluralingualism in one speech act, in one paper [that] blend[s] dialects,
international languages, local idioms, chat-room lingo, and the rhetorical
styles of various ethnic and cultural groups.” Applying code meshing to
critical analysis, synthesis, and discourse opens the space not just for
television as text, but also Hip Hop, advertisements, stand-up comedy, sketch
comedy, etc.
Contact Email: dissinge@usc.edu
Protecting Indigenous
Heritage
We are looking for contributors to a workshop focused on
ethnical, legal, professional and educational issues surrounding handling
materials featuring forms of indigenous cultural/intellectual heritage, and/or
created with participation of indigenous peoples, or on indigenous lands.
The workshop theme is open to all memory institutions
professionals and scholars, with a particular emphasis on expertize of
practices librarians, archivists, museum professionals. Scholars and
practitioners engaged in policy development, and advocacy are also most welcome.
The workshop will feature as a part of 2019 iConference in
Washington DC (March 31-April 3, 2019); more about the conference can be found
here: https://ischools.org/the-iconference/about-the-iconference/iconference-preview/
Please send 250 words of less description of your
contribution, and a brief bio to Ulia Gosart at ugosart@ucla.edu or Ashley Evans
at evans.ashleypaige@gmail.com.
Due date for submission is September 1, 2018.
Transgressing
Fortified Global Borders
The Society of Global Scholars is proud to announce its 3rd
conference, Transgressing Fortified Borders, to be held at the University of
California, Santa Barbara February 22nd and 23rd, 2019.
Global transgressions, which we define as disobedience to the
foundations of globalization thinking that rely on borders and institutions,
manifest in both theory and praxis. Transgressive actors and forces challenge
colonialities that raise borders to segregate cultures and ethnicities, to
exclude undesirable ‘others’, or to validate populist discourses and
constructed ideas of belonging, which are longestablished imperialist
mechanisms.
Thus, the 2019 Society for Global Scholars conference is a
call for scholars, activists, social movements, and students to regroup,
rethink, and respond†to the strengthening of borders and explore spatial
colonialities, while highlighting and discovering Global South voices and subjectivities.
Send submissions to sgsresearchhub@gmail.com.
Deadline Oct. 1, 2018
Urban Affairs
Conference
April 24 – 27, 2019 | Los Angeles, California
Over a three-day period, researchers, graduate students,
policy advocates, service providers, program funders, and others will present
their analyses, experiences, and actions related to urban communities. In
addition to formal presentations, the conference provides opportunities to
network with attendees from North America, Europe, Asia, and other parts of the
globe.
Abstract deadline: October 1
Contact Email: conf@uaamail.org
LGBT+ Solidarity:
Past and PresentLGBT+ Solidarity: Past and Present
29 - 31 March 2019 at Ulster University, Belfast
Since its inception, the conference has maintained a
commitment to examining the subjects and methodologies that are part of LGBT+
history. It furthers the goals of the OUTing the Past festival by coordinating
a two-day programme featuring papers, panel discussions and workshops while
providing a forum for productive and sustained engagements among its
participants.
Among other possibilities, the conference Advisory Panel
seeks to develop a programme that showcases actors, events, and testimonials
that illuminate or complicate notions of solidarity across time, highlights
LGBT+ history that speaks to working across regions, nations, ideologies or
explores or imagines alignments that seek to develop new frameworks for
generating and communicating LGBT+ history, proposes projects that utilize
LGBT+ histories as a means of empowerment for under-represented groups, such as
youth, the elderly, BAME / people of color, people with disabilities, diasporic
communities, etc.
Abstracts for papers, panels, or workshops should be
submitted by 1st October 2018 via academics@schools-out.org.uk.
Questions regarding participation can be sent to the conference Programme
Coordinator at kvalente@colgate.edu.
Literature and
Culture Since 1900
February 21 - 23, 2019, University of Louisville
Critical papers may be submitted on any topic that addresses
literary works published since 1900, and/or their relationship with other arts
and disciplines (film, journalism, opera, music, pop culture, painting,
architecture, law, etc). Work by creative writers is also welcome.
Submissions will be considered if received by 11:59 P.M. EST
September 10, 2018.
Popular Culture
Association 2019 National Conference
Washington Marriott, Wednesday, April 17, to Saturday, April
20, 2019
American Indian Literatures and Cultures: We invite
submissions from individuals and organized panels (3 or 4 persons), focusing on
topics related to American Indian/First Nations/Indigenous peoples’ realities
and/or literatures.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2018
For conference information, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org/national-conference/
Contact Email: tpetete@uco.edu
NeMLA Convention,
Washington, DC, March 21-24, 2019 – Calls for Abstracts
Deadline: September
30
Digital Humanities and Narratives of Science, Technology,
and Medicine
This workshop examines how the history of science,
technology, and medicine are applied to the digital humanities. Since written,
visual, and audio content are getting more dominant in the scholarly discourse,
what type of digital resources can enrich our understanding of this field of
the humanities? While it can be argued that researching for traditional
academic settings and for the digital humanities requires different linguistic
codes, genres, and resources, it is true that popularization of scholarly
contents relies on selections, rhetorical devices, and visualization
techniques.
Please submit abstracts (300 words for single paper, poster,
or demonstration) and an academic CV (100 words) via your NeMLA user account.
Contact Email: digitalhumanitiescfp@gmail.com
New Representations of Motherhood in the Literature of
the New Millennium
Compared to a few decades ago, the birth rate in many
Western countries has dramatically decreased and the roles and representations
of maternal figures have changed significantly. Through IVF, gamete donation
and surrogacy, motherhood is no longer defined univocally, and family
structures have evolved accordingly. This panel seeks at investigating how
biotechnology, social and family changes, law, and religion inform the
representations of motherhood in the literature of the new millennium from an
interdisciplinary perspective.
Please, submit a 300-word abstract and a brief biography to:
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17660
Questions can be addressed to Laura Lazzari (lazzari@cua.edu)
Decolonial Approaches to Literature, Film and Visual Arts
This panel seeks to relate the theoretical production of
decolonial thought with other approaches and critical discourses in the fields
of comparative literature and interdisciplinary humanities. . Our main aim is
to consider different projects of delinking from the coloniality of power,
being, knowledge and nation states in literature, film, visual culture, and
their related industrial practices. We invite participants to think about
(de)coloniality beyond the geographical limit of the Americas. Proposals for
paper presentations on literature, especially fiction, film and visuals arts
and the way they become a conduit for decolonial thought are welcome. Please
submit an abstract of 300 words or less and a brief biography by September
30th, 2018 to the following link: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17558.
Contact Email: dschwa24@binghamton.edu
The Wakandan Civitas and its Panthering Futurity
Black Panther ventures Afrotopic advancement and this panel
engages receptions of Black civilization as literary form (i.e. reading film,
graphic novel, etc. as text) in order to create dialogue generally about
various aspects of African and African diasporic representation. This panel reviews
and welcomes both ideal and/or dystopic civilizational interpretives. Papers should endeavor various facets seen on
screen as text and how it reveals connectivity from or to a Black past
particularly locating eutopic notions that counter or embellish traditionalized
(and/or sexualized, racialized, classized) gazes. We encourage submission that
read rendering notions of race, class, gender, intelligence, civilizations,
colonialisms, etc. and that involve theoretical and literary inquiry within and
intersecting the Africana Studies realm.
Women warriors, youth scientism, vibrania/technological
signifiers/implications, kings, queens, interethnic rivalries, diasporic
divides, nationalism, separatism, classism, and any other “isms” and are
sought. The various themes relating to
narrative, anti-hero heroism, character symbolism, epistemic rupture,
consciousness raising, global impact, empire, contradiction, Marvel formatting,
etc. are also highly sought.
Contact Email: serrano@udel.edu
Anxious
Masculinity in the American Drama
Expected to be
rugged and “studly,” preferably by using his muscles and conquering the untamed
wilderness, the male breadwinner was also obliged to put a roof over his
family’s heads, a task that often required that he labor behind a desk in a
confining office space dressed in suit and tie. This panel invites papers
focused on American plays that examine the swirling anxieties that result from
the often contradictory, vexing and toxic requirements for the successful
performance of masculinity in America.
Contact Email: gleitman@ithaca.edu
Aesthetics of
Gentrification: Art, Architecture, and Displacement
International Conference, University of Oregon in Portland,
April 5-6, 2019
Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in
seductive spaces and exclusive communities that apsire to innovation,
creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is
also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and
precarity. In a time of escalating housing crisis and unaffordable cities,
scholars speak of eco-gentrification, techno-gentrification,
super-gentrification, and planetary-gentrification to describe the different
forms and scales of involuntary displacement occuring in vulnerable communities
in response to current patterns of development and the hype-driven discourses
of the creative city, smart city, and sustainable city.
More information is available in the "events"
section of the Slow Lab website: https://slowlab.uoregon.edu/
Please email proposals (max. 300 words) for 20-minute
papers, together with a short CV, before October 8, 2018 to the organizer,
Christoph Lindner (University of Oregon): cpl@uoregon.edu
Realizing Resistance:
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Star Wars, Episodes VII, VIII & IX
May 2–4, 2019, University of North Texas
This conference seeks to critically explore what it means to
be “with the Resistance” by focusing on Episodes VII, VIII, and (to the extent
possible) IX, as well as the various ways these films reflect, contribute to,
or even fail to show “how we define ourselves through the movies and related
media.” In other words, this conference aims to bring together scholars from
across disciplines to examine the three most recent Star Wars films as cultural
texts, with an explicit focus on themes of resistance and justice, and on how
these films contribute to, reflect, or depart from broader contemporary
cultural practices and social discourses. And so, we invite all interested
participants to join us in thinking about the themes of resistance to hegemony,
justice, and the restoration of peace in Episodes VII, VIII & IX and how
these films reflect, contribute to, or depart from wider social discourses and
cultural phenomena.
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2018
If you have questions please contact resistance@digital-frontiers.org.
Institutional Erasure
of Race: Violence Across Time and Space
On October 4th, 2018, the working group on Institutional
Erasure of Race: Violence across Time and Space will convene at University
College London. The workshop is an attempt to study the different modes through
which modern institutions have contributed towards structural violence in
relation to racial discrimination. We are particularly interested in examining
a modern shift that has seen race increasingly erased as a legitimate marker of
difference in formal institutional discourse, while racial difference has
simultaneously been consolidated in other spheres; at times camouflaged in
public consciousness, at others operating through informal institutional or
social practices.
For more information on the first workshop, please consult www.erasureofrace.com.
We invite interested participants to submit a 250 word
abstract to the workshop by August 29th, 2018.
Bitter Critique,
Emphatic Rebellion: The Politics of Writing While Black
Seeking abstracts for a panel featured at the Northeast
Modern Language Association (NeMLA) to be held March 21-24, 2019 in Washington,
D.C.
Riffing off Du Bois ("Criteria of Negro Art"),
Wright ("Blueprint for Negro Writing"), Lorde ("Poetry is not a
Luxury"), Baraka ("Black Art"), and many others, this panel
seeks to situate, examine, interrogate, and align black writers in American
literature and culture. Our objective is to define the many ways black/African
American/Negro/Slave writers have characterized or fictionalized what it
“means” to be a writer of color. At stake is an understanding of the evolution
of the Black Writer as we have moved from an origin of slave narratives to
“post-racial” narratives.
Please submit a 300-word abstract by Sept. 30, 2018.
Contact Email: cjcravens@umes.edu
Viscerality in the
20th Century
Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference
to be held on March 21-24th, 2019 in Washington D.C.
This panel seeks to investigate viscerality in its many
guises: as a language, sensation, image, affect, style, and methodology.
Viscerality has seeped into critical discourses of the twentieth century,
traversing disciplines, and getting under our skins; yet, it has widely evaded
our attention precisely because of its abject and impressionistic “minorness. How
can viscerality help the body occupy, break down, or exceed spaces and
practices of regulation? Broadening the ways we read for orality and consumption
in modernist writing, viscerality allows us to tend to the mouth as an aperture
that is perceptive of and receptive to foods and appetites.
Please submit your 300-word abstract directly through the
NeMLA website by September 30th: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17236
International
Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies
20 October, 2018 – London, UK
Ecocriticism plays a significant role in shaping
environmental consciousness. Representations of nature’s agency become central
to many studies conducted in literature, culture studies, philosophy, history,
sociology or political science. This conference aims to explore the
relationship between the physical environment and text in its broader meaning
as well as analyse the social concerns raised by environmental crisis.
Paper proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical
note should be sent by 20 August, 2018
Contact Email: eco@irf-network.org
University Labor Relations and Graduate Student Labor
Concerns
NeMLA convention in
Washington, D.C., to be held March 21-24, 2019.
This roundtable
explores graduate student labor concerns, especially in light of recent and
widespread labor struggles and unionization movements on campuses. Many
graduate students serve as either instructor of record or as a teaching
assistant to a mentor professor. Some suggest developing a teacher persona that
demonstrates a certain form of power and authority. How does one perform such a
persona when one’s material conditions, the rhetoric of institutional
administrators, and institutional practices suggest quite the opposite, that
one is, in fact, expendable or at the very least not valuable enough to deserve
a living wage?
Proposals from
graduate students, CAITY members, tenured and tenure-track professors, and
administrators are encouraged, and we welcome proposals on anything related to
university labor relations and graduate student/part-time instructor labor
concern.
Submission deadline:
September 30, 2018.
PUBLICATIONS
Humor
ASAP/Journal Special Issue
We seek critical, scholarly, or otherwise conceptually
driven essays that address topics in the contemporary arts worldwide with
humor. This special issue of ASAP/Journal seeks critical essays that experiment
with humor as a style, voice, and/or method of writing and analysis. The
demands of contemporary scholarship—not to mention the demands faced by
contemporary scholars, artists, and institutions of higher education—have
become familiar to the point of mortification. Scholarly writing, no less than
artistic practice or grantwriting, is an exercise in prestige and survival, as
much as an instrument of creative thinking and the communication of new ideas.
What might it mean to make such writing funny?
Essays due by May 15, 2019.
Please send queries or abstracts via email to the ASAP/Journal editor,
Jonathan P. Eburne, at editors_asap@press.jhu.edu
fandom and neomedia
studies
We are pleased to announce a CFP for submissions to the 4.2
edition of The Phoenix Papers, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of fandom
and neomedia studies. Ours is an interdisciplinary group, including historians,
psychologists, scientists, writers, independent scholars, and industry
professionals. This allows for a wide range of opinions in our peer review
process, both for the conference and the journal. We welcome contributions from
all disciplines and from all levels of academic achievement as we value the
intersection of fandom and academia. Our conference is thus unique in its blend
of traditional and modern elements. Submissions are welcome from professors,
students, and independent researchers. Topics may come from anime, manga,
science fiction, television series, movies, radio, performing arts, or any
other popular culture phenomenon and their respective fandom groups.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words must be submitted by 15
December 2018.
Contact Email: fansconference@gmail.com
Special Issue on
Disability Studies
The Journal of Science Fiction is accepting submissions for
a special issue on disability studies and science fiction to be released on
January 31, 2019. Disability studies, like Afrofuturism and other similarly diverse
contextual and sociopolitical approaches to science fiction, highlights the
significance of minority representation and inclusion in science and
speculative fiction literature, film, comics, and popular culture. By
increasing scholarly visibility into the critical discourses surrounding
representations and interpretations of disability in SF media and scholarship,
the Journal of Science Fiction aims to highlight the fruitful insights
resulting from such intersectional analysis, both direct and indirect, which
can further advance our understanding of the genre’s capacity to teach us about
ourselves and one another.
We are seeking academic articles of 5,000 to 8,000 words,
short reflection pieces of 500 to 1,000 words, and book reviews of 500-750
words by Friday, October 19th.
Interrupting
Globalisation: Heterotopia in the Twenty-First Century
Can heterotopia help us make sense of globalisation? A heterotopia,
in Michel Foucault’s initial formulations, describes the spatial articulation
of a discursive order, manifesting its own distinct logics and categories in
ways that refract or disturb prevailing paradigms. As part of the “reassertion
of space” or “spatial turn” that has gathered pace in the humanities and social
sciences from the 1980s onwards, the concept of heterotopia has enjoyed broad
critical appeal across literary studies, visual culture and cultural geography.
And yet, despite its popularity, the concept of heterotopia stands in tension
with other critical approaches and spatial terms in cultural theory. Twenty-first
century globalisation is often characterised by a tumultuous undifferentiation
of cultural spaces, in which formerly integral identities bleed into one
another, diverse polities are commonly exposed to ecological risks, and
sovereign territories fade amid shifting new configurations.
Contributors are invited to submit abstracts for chapters
exploring heterotopian forms and expressions in film, literature, art, music,
television and socio-political practice, relating to any genre, medium or
geographical context.
Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) for a full chapter,
together with a short academic CV (max. 200 words), to heterotopics@gmail.com by 15
September 2018.
Encyclopedia of
African American Culture
This three-volume A-Z encyclopedia will cover the broad
roots of African American culture, including living traditions, rites of
passage, folk culture, popular culture, subcultures, and other forms of shared
expression. Readers often believe there to be a cohesive and shared culture
among African Americans, and while the broad culture shares general
commonalities, rich variation exists within specific cultural expressions.
Contact Email: oldyce@yahoo.com
Rhetorics of
veg(etari)anism
I am soliciting chapters for an anthology to be published
with an academic press and which will cover a wide range of rhetorical
perspectives on veganism as identity, practice, ideology, and discursive ecology.
Broad topic areas may include, but are not limited to, the following: Veg(etari)an
techne: crafting veg(etari)an arguments about ethics, health, the environment; Rhetorics
of anti-veg(etari)an discourses: points of view from science, medicine, nutrition;
popular culture – including social media, TV) Representations of veg(etari)ans
and veg(etari)anism in the media Veg(etari)an affect: rhetorical sentiments
around meat eating/animal exploitation; The sensuous veg(etari)an (e.g.,
veg(etari)an cookbooks and websites); Veg(etari)an rhetorical intersections:
feminism, racism, environmentalism, ableism.
Please send inquiries and chapter abstracts not to exceed
300 words to Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, c.hanganu-bresch@usciences.edu
by September 30, 2018.
Full CFP here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pW-XQPJOvwm4FCqLddDurBCAYKGKbbBW05cjej1mm84/edit?usp=sharing
Humanities in Prison
This Special Issue of the journal Humanities, “Humanities in Prison,” will bring together essays
about the teaching and study of the humanities in juvenile detention centers
and state and federal prisons. If we understand the disciplines of the
humanities as dedicated to studying the manifold forms and meanings of human
experience, and the teaching of the humanities as effectively participating in
the cultivation of human capacities and social potentialities, what challenges
do educators and incarcerated students face when the humanities are introduced
into institutions predicated on a culture of dehumanization and
deindividuation?
deadline for submissions: January 15, 2019
Contact Email: derwin@ihc.ucsb.edu
American Anger
"If you're not angry, you're not paying
attention"—according to an Esquire/NBC News survey from 2016, "[h]alf
of all Americans are angrier today than they were a year ago." Statements like
this mirror a perceived cultural and societal change that transcends simplistic
partisan divides and has been accompanied by political battles and heated
discourse. Though there has been an increased focus on anger in American public
life following the 2016 election season, the mobilization of anger has a
history that reaches back much further than current debates might suggest.
For its twelfth issue, aspeers thus dedicates its topical
section to "American Anger" and invites European graduate students to
critically and analytically explore American literature, (popular) culture,
society, history, politics, and media through the lens of anger in the US. We
welcome papers from all fields, methodologies, and approaches comprising
American studies as well as inter- and transdisciplinary submissions.
Papers due October 28, 2018
Contact Email: info@aspeers.com
Crossing Borders
Evoke: A Historical, Theoretical, and Cultural Analysis of
Africana Dance and Theatre
The theme, “Crossing Borders,” seeks to interrogate Africana
arts – dance, theatre, and film – that have boundlessly enriched the lives of
people in territories other than where the artform originated. What are the
narratives that these artforms convey? How and why are they relevant to people
so far away from the point of origin? Can new narratives be infused in Africana
artforms that originated somewhere else? These are but a few of the infinite
potential topics that can be explored in submissions. All articles are to be
submitted on Evoke’s website. No hardcopies will be accepted. Submission
deadline is October 26, 2018.
Contact Email: ofosuwa.abiola@howard.edu
Contemporary
Humanities
Watchung Review Call For Submissions
With the 21st Century well under way and the forces of
nationalism, isolationism, wealth inequality and global war louder and stronger
than ever, the humanities have perhaps never been more relevant. The Watchung Review seeks scholarly articles,
pedagogical reflections and strategies, creative work and alternative
scholarship that explores the roles, identities, purposes and challenges of
contemporary humanities. What do we mean
by the humanities? How do the humanities fit into current forms of
globalization? How can we best teach the humanities in contemporary composition
and literature classrooms? We seek textual analyses, rhetorical analyses, broad
readings of media and culture, pedagogic strategies and creative work that
address these questions.
Deadline: 31st December 2018
Please send inquiries and submissions to watchungreview@gmail.com
Guerrilla War and
Insurgency: Lessons from History
This purpose of this book is to present and examine various
historical examples of this form of war. Valuable lessons can be gleaned from
examining and understanding past conflicts of this kind. Each of these
conflicts hold their own unique characteristics as well as broad common themes.
The nature of guerrilla warfare as it relates to insurgency and the way these
forces confront ‘conventional’ advisories can inform approaches to modern
irregular, hybrid, and even ‘conventional’ wars. In an effort to understand the
complexity of these conflicts alternative perspectives and underrepresented
examples will be introduced. By looking at these historical lessons our
understanding can be considerably altered.
Deadline for the chapter proposals: 31 October 2018
Please send a 300-word chapter proposal and a 150-word bio
to christopher.murray@kcl.ac.uk
Queer African Screen
Media
This special issue for the Journal of African Cultural
Studies aims to explore the historical and emerging forms of queer African
screen media, including art films, documentaries, music videos, popular video
films, and activist media. We invite academic articles from across disciplines
and are especially interested in showcasing scholarship from the African
continent. Articles may examine queer African screen media in relationship to
the aesthetics of pleasure and the erotic, questions of theory and history, new
censorship laws, digital media studies, audience studies, and discourses of
power and resistance, among other things. We encourage authors to look at
current cultural production and forms of distribution and exhibition on the
continent as well as historical and global representations of African
queerness. We are also open to alternative
formats of articles, including but not limited to, video essays, interviews,
and shorter “think pieces.”
Please submit 250-word abstracts by October 1st to Lindsey
Green-Simms (lgs@american.edu) and
Z’Ă©toile Imma (zimma@tulane.edu).
But now, we must eat!
Food and Drink in Science Fiction
This volume will discuss food and drink in science fiction
across media—movies, television shows, literature, video games, comics, etc. Of
course, as forms of sustenance, food and drink are among the essential elements
of life. But this is also precisely why representations of food and drink are
always ripe with meaning. As this book will show, science fiction uses food and
drink to explore pertinent issues ranging from the homogenization of food in a
globalized economy to the exploitation of our natural resources and the
attendant phenomena of water, air, and soil pollution, deforestation, and the
scarcification of food.
November 15, 2018: deadline for abstracts
Contact Email: science.fiction.food@gmail.com
Journal of
Afro-Americans in New York Life and History
Afro-Americans in New York Life and History (AANYLH) is a
multidisciplinary journal that publishes peer-reviewed, original research on
African American history, culture, politics, and economics, focusing primarily
(though not exclusively) on New York State. We seek to engage scholarly and
community perspectives on the African American experience, past and present,
especially as it pertains to New York State. The Journal publishes research
articles that examine developments in African American, Africana, Diaspora, and
Black Studies.
Submissions should be sent to Editor, Steve Peraza, at perazas@buffalostate.edu with
“AANYLH MS Submission” in the subject line. Please email inquiries to the
editor at perazas@buffalostate.edu with
“AANYLH Inquiry” in the subject line.
FUNDING
University of
Michigan Library's Special Collections Research Fellowships
The University of Michigan Library's William P. Heidrich
Research Fellowship supports research projects that require substantial on-site
use of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection during calendar year 2019. A collection
documenting the history of social protest movements and marginalized political
communities from the 19th century to the present, the U-M Library’s Joseph A.
Labadie Collection is the oldest publicly accessible archive of its kind in
America.
The fellowships will provide funds for on-site research on
any topic that is supported by the Labadie Collection. Applications for support
for all types of research projects -- academic, creative, journalistic, etc. --
will be considered, and no specific credentials are required.
Application deadline for both: September 28, 2018
URL: https://www.lib.umich.edu/labadie-collection;
https://umichlibrary.submittable.com/submit/cadc058c-b9f5-4491-8eca-c6ccdfc76d84/william-p-heidrich-research-fellowship’
Grants to Scholars -
Friends of University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
The Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
is pleased to offer grants intended to offset expenses for out-of-town scholars
wishing to utilize the rich resources held by the UW-Madison General Library
System. Awards of up to $2,000 each are
available to scholars living in the United States and $3,000 to those from
elsewhere around the world.
Applications are due December 31.
Contact Email: Friends@library.wisc.edu
UCLA Library Special
Collections Research Fellowship
The UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships
Program supports the use of special collections materials by visiting scholars
and UCLA graduate students. Collections that are administered by UCLA Library
Special Collections and available for fellowship-supported research include
rare books, journals, manuscripts, archives, printed ephemera, photographs and
other audiovisual materials, oral history interviews, and other items in the
humanities and social sciences; medical, life and physical sciences; visual and
performing arts; and UCLA history.
There are several fellowships available; learn more about
their focuses and deadlines at the URL below.
Harrison Middleton
University Fellowship in Ideas
The HMU Fellowship in Ideas is a writing and discussion
project in the humanities designed for a recent university graduate from any
field who has an interest in the humanities, interdisciplinary dialogue, and
intellectual and professional enrichment. The Fellowship offers emerging
scholars exposure to the history of ideas in Western civilization, networking
opportunities amongst an array of academicians, lifelong learners, readers, and
thinkers from a broad range of disciplines, and credited authorship in two
university publications. Except for conference attendance, all activities of
the HMU Fellowship in Ideas may be carried out from any location with adequate
telephone and internet access.
Submit your application and writing samples as attached
Microsoft Word-compatible documents to Information@hmu.edu.
The deadline for applications is October 1, 2018.
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
University of
Michigan Library's Special Collections Research Fellowships
The University of Michigan Library's William P. Heidrich
Research Fellowship supports research projects that require substantial on-site
use of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection during calendar year 2019. A collection
documenting the history of social protest movements and marginalized political
communities from the 19th century to the present, the U-M Library’s Joseph A.
Labadie Collection is the oldest publicly accessible archive of its kind in
America.
The fellowships will provide funds for on-site research on
any topic that is supported by the Labadie Collection. Applications for support
for all types of research projects -- academic, creative, journalistic, etc. --
will be considered, and no specific credentials are required.
Application deadline for both: September 28, 2018
URL: https://www.lib.umich.edu/labadie-collection;
https://umichlibrary.submittable.com/submit/cadc058c-b9f5-4491-8eca-c6ccdfc76d84/william-p-heidrich-research-fellowship’
Grants to Scholars -
Friends of University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
The Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
is pleased to offer grants intended to offset expenses for out-of-town scholars
wishing to utilize the rich resources held by the UW-Madison General Library
System. Awards of up to $2,000 each are
available to scholars living in the United States and $3,000 to those from
elsewhere around the world.
Applications are due December 31.
Contact Email: Friends@library.wisc.edu
UCLA Library Special
Collections Research Fellowship
The UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships
Program supports the use of special collections materials by visiting scholars
and UCLA graduate students. Collections that are administered by UCLA Library
Special Collections and available for fellowship-supported research include
rare books, journals, manuscripts, archives, printed ephemera, photographs and
other audiovisual materials, oral history interviews, and other items in the
humanities and social sciences; medical, life and physical sciences; visual and
performing arts; and UCLA history.
There are several fellowships available; learn more about
their focuses and deadlines at the URL below.
Harrison Middleton
University Fellowship in Ideas
The HMU Fellowship in Ideas is a writing and discussion project
in the humanities designed for a recent university graduate from any field who
has an interest in the humanities, interdisciplinary dialogue, and intellectual
and professional enrichment. The Fellowship offers emerging scholars exposure
to the history of ideas in Western civilization, networking opportunities
amongst an array of academicians, lifelong learners, readers, and thinkers from
a broad range of disciplines, and credited authorship in two university
publications. Except for conference attendance, all activities of the HMU
Fellowship in Ideas may be carried out from any location with adequate
telephone and internet access.
Submit your application and writing samples as attached
Microsoft Word-compatible documents to Information@hmu.edu.
The deadline for applications is October 1, 2018.
WORKSHOPS
The Transformation
and Reproduction of Social Inequalities: Discourse, Power, and Critique
1/16 - 1/18/2019, University of Valencia, Spain
The DiscourseNet Winter School brings together advanced MA
as well as PhD students (BA students with their own research project are also
welcome) who want to pursue research on questions revolving around Discourse,
Power and Critique with respect to Social Inequalities and to discuss the
methodological and theoretical challenges of their thesis projects or first
ideas. Its aim is to bring young and established discourse researchers together
to address practical challenges in discourse research. The event will provide a
collaborative exchange and hands-on research experience in a rather informal
workshop setting. Introductory workshops on the following fields of inquiry
will be given by more experienced scholars from the Universities of Giessen,
Warwick and Valencia, together with guests from other international
universities.
Proposals should be sent in by the 15th of October 2018.
Contact Email: critica@uv.es
