CONFERENCES
American Studies
Graduate Conference
October 4th& 5th, 2018
The graduate students in the American Studies Department at
the University of Alabama invite proposals from graduate students and scholars
on topics across all time periods that can be creatively related to the
intersections between local, national and transnational communities, while
keeping in mind that a community need not be tied to traditional notions about
place and time. In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of American
Studies, the program committee welcomes proposals from fields including, but
not limited to, race, gender, and LGBTQ studies, history, art (visual, audio,
performance), literature, music, social sciences, media studies, disability
studies, and environmental studies.
Proposals are due September 5thand should be
emailed to uaamsconference@gmail.com
Politics and Media
Popular/American Culture Association conference, Washington,
D.C April 17-20, 2019
ACA/PCA is committed to an interdisciplinary approach.
Papers that examine particular political campaigns or individuals/operations,
the use of electronic and print media either to report on or to promote
political events and issues, political language, the use of new media
technology such as cell phones/mobiles and the web are some areas of particular
interest. Studies that focus on US presidential primaries and previous
elections are also welcome. Studies may include press coverage, cartoons, and
the response to the electoral process in film and literature. We also welcome
studies on the participation of women, gays, Trans genders, African Americans,
and minorities in politics.
Interested individuals should submit an abstract of no more
than 250 words (including presentation title) and complete contact information
(name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, and contact
telephone number) to the database at http://conference.pcaaca.org.
The deadline is October 1., 2018
Contact Email: FHASSENC@ODU.EDU
The Religious Body
Imagined
Elon University's Center for the Study of Religion, Culture
and Society (CSRCS) is currently accepting proposals for "The Religious
Body Imagined" symposium, to be held Feb 7-9, 2019.
This symposium will probe the porous edges of the religious
body and examines the ways in which it has been imagined, imaged, and
discursively produced in particular places, times, and religious traditions. It
seeks to theorize the religious body’s various functions, roles, and
transformative effects through a range of disciplinary and theoretical lenses.
It asks, “How does our experience of the body shape our conceptions of the
sacred (however defined), and conversely, how do the invisible contours of the
sacred re-instantiate or re-embody themselves in concrete physical form? The
symposium explicitly seeks to engage theories of the body, materiality,
performance, and visual culture, as well as cultural studies, space / place,
ritual, postcolonial theory and / or social justice as it pertains to
embodiment.
Proposals will be accepted through Sept 15, 2018. For more
information, please consult https://www.elon.edu/u/academics/csrcs/on-the-edge/
Contact Email: bpennington4@elon.edu
Boston Seminar on
African American History
The Boston Seminar on African American History invites
proposals for sessions in its Spring 2019 series. The Seminar involves
discussion of pre-circulated works in progress, especially article or
chapter-length papers (20-40 pages), focusing on any aspect of African American
history and culture from the era of first contact through the present day.
Papers comparing the American experience with developments elsewhere in the
world are welcome, as are cross-disciplinary studies.
We invite proposals (500 words) and CVs from interested
researchers.
Please submit your proposals by October 1, 2018 to Alexis
Buckley, (abuckley@masshist.org),
Research Coordinator at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
For more information on the Boston Seminar on African
American History series, visit the seminar’s webpage,https://www.masshist.org/calendar/seminars/african-american-history.
Radical Migrations:
People and Ideas on the Move
This panel is interested in the migration of politically
radical persons during any period from the late nineteenth century to the
present. The conference, The Global
Labor Migration: Past & Present, is June 20-22, 2019 in Amsterdam.
Papers may examine any aspect of migration, but should be focused on how the
radical politics of the migrants affected their migration and/or reception in
their new communities. Papers on transnational and/or internal migrations are
welcome. Please send abstracts of 250 words or less and a short bio to djmarquis@email.wm.edu
Deadline 8/13/18
Global Labor
Migration Past and Present
The Global Labor Migration Network has announced its call
for papers for a 2019 international summit in Amsterdam. The application portal
is now open. Presentations on labor migration in Africa, Asia, and Latin
America are particularly encouraged.
The submission form may be found at https://apply.arhu.umd.edu/application/146/info.
The deadline for submitting proposals is 11:59 p.m. EST,
August 15, 2018. If you encounter technical difficulties, please contact
technical support at https://apply.arhu.umd.edu/contact.
For non-technical questions concerning submission guidelines, eligibilities, or
submission status, please contact globalmigration@umd.edu.
Decolonizing
Technologies, Reprogramming Education
On 16-18 May 2019, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and
Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), in partnership with the
Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia
(UBC) and the Department of English at the University of Victoria (UVic), will
be guests on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking
Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) people, facilitating a conference about decolonizing
technologies and reprogramming education.
The conference will hold up and support Indigenous scholars
and knowledges, centering work by Indigenous women and women of colour. It will
engage how technologies are, can be, and have been decolonized. HASTAC welcomes
submissions from practitioners at all stages of their careers; from all
disciplines, occupations, and fields; from the public, non-profit, and private
sectors; and from groups as well as individuals, including independent
scholar-practitioners and artists.
Deadline for proposals is Monday 15 October 2018.
Please email info@hastac2019.org with
any questions you have about the conference.
CRITICAL ZONE
University of Hamburg, 21/22 February 2019
Instead of pursuing dichotomous world views or despairingly
taking the escape route of climate change denial into an imagined parallel
world, Bruno Latour (2017, 2018) proposes to set out for the ‘critical zone’.
The ‘critical zone’ is the thin near-surface layer of earth between the bottom
of the groundwater and the tops of the trees. There, rock, soil, water, air,
and living organisms constantly interact and constitute through highly complex
transformational processes the conditions for all terrestrial life. In this
zone earth displays its agency relevant to humans. Now it is essential to
explore this new territory to understand the inseparable interweaving of humans
and terrestrial processes.
Please send your proposals for papers (30 minutes) and a
short academic CV to Jacobus Bracker and Stefanie Johns until 31 October
2018: post@bildkontexte.de.
Blackness, Care, Love
CFP for the panel "Blackness, Care, Love" at the
College Art Association's 107th Annual Conference, held in New York City
February 13-16, 2019
Blackness, care, and love in art. Initially, it may make
sense to separate the terms: Blackness describes a state of being and a
theoretical lens useable for situating relations of the social, not necessarily
sensations, emotions or aesthetics. The category of “the black” may even be
discordant to the creative or artistic. It might conflict with ideas of “the
human,” if seeing and caring requires an exchange involving social recognition,
subjecthood, or perhaps even love. But maybe love is just what “blackness”
needs. “Love” offers both recognition and legitimation.
What are the mechanisms through which blackness, care, and
love become encumbered by politics? Noting the dangers of mere performances of
compassion and liberal senses of sentimentality and care, both of which abound
in contemporary media, we ask: What expressions of care are best suited for
seeing blackness and love together?
Submission Deadline: August 6, 2018
Email: rael.salley@gmail.com
Current Research in
Digital History
March 9, 2019 — George Mason University, Arlington, VA
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media invites
submissions for the second annual Current Research in Digital History
conference. Submissions should offer historical arguments and interpretations
rather than showcase digital projects. The format of short presentations
provides an opportunity to make arguments on the basis of ongoing research in
larger projects. Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals. Some
travel funding for presenters is available
Submissions due: September 28, 2018. E-mail
submissions as a PDF or URL to lincoln+crdh@lincolnmullen.com.
PUBLICATIONS
Media, communication
and sport
The challenge of this Mediapolis edition is to precisely
demonstrate, once again, how sport can and should be the subject of research in
the academic and scientific sphere, given its social plasticity and appeal to
interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary approaches. Appearing in the
ninetieth century and popularized in the twentieth century, the sport
phenomenon has reached the new millennium as a creator of behaviors at a global
scale, assuming itself as a "total social fact", worthy of profound
reflection by the Social, Human and Communication Sciences.
Deadline for paper submission: 30 September 2018
Contact Email: franciscopinheiro72@gmail.com
The Suffrage
Centennial
Special Issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age &
Progressive Era
We seek proposals that follow recent scholarship on African
American feminism, historical memory, and transnational politics that have
begun to illuminate the vast number of previously untold suffrage stories. Such
scholarship has revealed that notions of gender, sexuality, suffrage, and
citizenship rights were often central and sometimes peripheral to multiple
political debates and movements. This special issue will reconsider the 19th
Amendment in the broader political landscapes in which women lobbied for the
vote.
Please send article abstracts (300 words or less) and short
2-page CVs to jgape@yorku.ca by
September 15, 2018.
Feminism and Labour
Struggles
special issue on
Feminism and Labor Struggles
The oppression of women is a burning issue everywhere and
remains crucial to understanding social history. Recent campaigns aimed at challenging endemic
violence and structural discrimination against women in society and are gaining
popularity in the world’s most affluent countries as well as in the world’s
poorest countries. At the same time, historically, women are often at the
forefront of movements which challenge not only gender-based oppression, but
also forms of oppression based on class and nation. In this special issue, we
aim to clarify the distinct problems facing women in male-dominated society and
the divergent effects of patriarchy on women belonging to distinct classes and
nations within the imperialist world economy, from the end of the Second World
War to the present. We seek to highlight the ways in which these strands of
oppression intersect and produce distinctive gender relations.
The deadline for abstracts is 1 December 2018
Contact Email: iness@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Approaches to the
Animal in Literature and Culture
The rise and expansion of Animal Studies over the past
decades can be seen in the explosion of various articles, journals, books,
conferences, organisations, courses all over the academic world. With the
publication of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation in 1975 and Tom Regan’s The
Case for Animal Rights in 1983, there has been a burgeoning interest in
nonhuman animals among academics, animal advocates, and the general public.
Interested scholars recognise the lack of scholarly attention given to nonhuman
animals and to the relationships between human and nonhuman, especially in the
light of the pervasiveness of animal representations, symbols, and stories, as
well as the actual presence of animals in human societies and cultures.
Contributors have the liberty to choose literary and
cultural texts for their case study, but the papers must theorise the
significant presence of nonhuman animals in the selected texts. Photo-essays
are also welcome.
Submission Deadline: 31st October 2018
Submit to: studiesanimal@gmail.com
Rethinking Racial
Identity Politics: Group Conflict, Compromise, and Competition
The increasing complexity of governing in the twenty-first
century demands new examinations into the perils and promises of racial
identity politics. For this purpose, this Special Issue of Societies invites
manuscripts of original research that examine the effects of racial identity
politics on governance in contemporary heterogeneous societies. We welcome
submissions that employ any variety of quantitative, qualitative, and
mixed-method approaches. Studies may be comparative and may be specific to a
region, nation, state, or sub-state area. We especially welcome manuscripts
that address the following: public policy debates where the racial identity of
advocates or opponents is a factor in how debate is framed or understood (e.g.,
housing, immigration, policing, health care, land use, education reforms);
connections between racial identity politics and the quality of democracy;
linkages between racial identity and political attitudes or behavior; how
racial identity politics can both facilitate and undermine social
subordination; and how racial identity politics relates to the formation,
maintenance, or collapse of organizations and networks.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 November 2018
Contact Email: tkingmea@umbc.edu
Critique: Meanings, Methods, Contexts
Our current historical
moment is full of urgent reasons to practice critique. But what kinds of
critique are effective? It is difficult if not fully senseless to expose the
contradictions within, for instance, U.S. President Trump’s politics, when
these politics programmatically flaunt such contradictions themselves.
Critical methods of exposure and unmasking are rendered futile when the object
of critique has built these mechanisms into its modus operandi. This conundrum,
currently debated and tackled from many disciplinary angles within the study of
culture, is the impetus for On_Culture’s next issue.
abstract deadline: September
15, 2018
Beyond Bad: Criminals
as Heroes in Popular Culture
The OED defines “criminal” as “of the nature of or involving
a crime punishable by law; of the nature of a grave offence, wicked;
deplorable; shocking.” But consider the mythos of the western gunslinger, the
romanticized view of pirates, or the rise of the Robin Hood-esque folk hero.
Western culture’s fascination with crime, criminals, and everything in between
is nothing new. And, certainly, western culture seems to get a sort of
scopophilic pleasure in terms of watching people behave badly and our media
reflects this. The intense following of series such as Breaking Bad speaks to
the fact that the viewing public is more than willing to invite criminals into
their homes via their entertainment but not in reality.
Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture
and Pedagogy is currently seeking contributions for a special topics issue on
the role of the criminal as hero. This issue will examine the criminal as
hero/protagonist in any medium of popular culture and focus on their social,
political, and legal significance.
Please send abstracts (500 words in length) to guest
editors, kathrynelanephd@gmail.com and dr.roxie.james@gmail.com by
September 1, 2018.
For more information on Dialogue: The
Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy please
visit www.journaldialogue.org or
email the editors, editors@journaldialogue.org
Art, Addiction and
Affect
Addiction has historically been associated with
"negative" affects such as shame and remorse. This edited collection
will consider visual material that depicts the consumption of addictive
substances (not limited to alcohol and drugs) with particular attention
to affect: affects that are represented as well as the expected and
perhaps unexpected affects of viewers. Proposals for chapters are welcomed that
address any time period and any medium. The chapters will draw on a range of
critical theories, including affect theory but also queer theories, feminist
theories, critical race theories and so on. The visual culture of addiction is
still an understudied field; attention to affect will offer important
contributions to both art history and addiction studies. Contributors are
encouraged to consider both "positive" and "negative"
affects.
Contact Email: julia.skelly@mcgill.ca
Southeast Asian Media
Studies
The Southeast Asian Media Studies is the official
international, blind peer-reviewed, and open-access scholarly journal of the
newly-formed Southeast Asian Media Studies Association (SEAMSA). The first two
issues of the journal aim to provide a collection of theoretical and discursive
articles on Southeast Asian media studies and literacy.
All submissions must be original and may not be under review
by another journal or any academic publication. Authors should follow the
journal’s manuscript guidelines: https://seamediastudies.wordpress.com/author-guidelines/
All manuscripts should be sent to editor.seams@gmail.com.
The deadline for manuscripts for both issues is on 30 August
2018
The Beyond Beyonce
Reader: Black Women, Womanism, and Contemporary Popular Culture
This interdisciplinary anthology aims to diversify the
narrative by giving voice to a number of contemporary black female artists
throughout the Diaspora who have, and continue to make their mark in popular
culture in order to demonstrate a nuanced, inclusive yet critical lens of expressions of black
womanhood, sexuality, spirituality, and empowerment. The anthology will
comprise critical essays on black solo, and duet female artists under music genres such as
African, folk, hip hop, jazz, neo soul, R&B and rock and roll which
celebrate and critically analyze the images and representations of black
womanhood in popular culture over the past three decades.
As the title indicates, this project is contextualized
within a womanist framework, a term first coined by author Alice Walker in her
1981 collection of essays In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, a worldview
which was further developed by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunjemi, Clenora Hudson Weems, Layli Maparyan, and
others.
Those who are interested in contributing to this project
must submit a 500 word abstract and a one page cv in
one pdf document (abstract followed by cv) to erykah05@gmail.com.
The deadline for abstract submissions is October 31, 2018,
11:59 PT
Transitions into
Parenthood: Childbearing, Childrearing, and the Changing Nature of Parenting
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, an annual
series which focuses upon cutting-edge topics in family research around the globe,
is seeking manuscript submissions for its 2019 volume. In order to better
understand the transitions into parenthood, this multidisciplinary volume of
CPFR will address such topics as: employment and fertility, socioeconomic
status and parenting styles, the role of ICTs in the transition into
parenthood, childbearing desires versus childbearing outcomes, the social media
construction of parenthood, predictors of fertility preferences, the social
construction of parenthood through consumption practices, gender differences in
childrearing, infertility and fertility clinics, migration and fertility
patterns, parental discipline and child outcomes, and non-parental
childrearing, among others.
The deadline for initial submissions is January 31, 2019.
Any questions may be directed to the editors at rosalina@uevora.pt and slblair@buffalo.edu.
Tropical Gothic
‘The Gothic’ is undergoing a resurgence in academic and
popular cultures. Propelled by fears produced by globalization, the neoliberal
order, networked technologies, post-truth and environmental uncertainty –
tropes of ‘the gothic’ resonate. The gothic allows us to delve into the
unknown. It calls up unspoken truths and secret desires. Gothic studies that
provide particularly interesting arenas of analysis include: culture, ritual,
mythology, film, architecture, literature, fashion, art, landscapes, places,
nature, spaces, histories and spectral cities. ‘Tropical Gothic’ may include
subgenres such as: imperial gothic, orientalism in gothic literature, colonial
and postcolonial gothic. In contemporary society neoliberal connections with
the tropics and gothic may be investigated. In popular culture, tropical
aspects of gothic film, cybergoth, gothic-steampunk, gothic sci-fi, goth
graphic novels, and gothic music may be explored.
Submission Deadline: 30 December 2018
Contact Email: etropic@jcu.edu.au
Connective Tissue in
the School-to-Prison Pipeline
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/2090555/connective-tissue-school-prison-pipeline
The conversation on the school-to-prison pipeline among boys
of color is complex and involves understanding how the 4 C’s -- classroom,
cops, courts, and community -- interface to create a pipeline. However, what
has been under-conceptualized is whether and how notions of masculinity and
boyhood that emerge within these institutions may operate as an invisible
connective tissue across these institutions. In other words, the manner in which
the bodies of Black and Latino males are viewed, interacted with, and treated
within these institutions provides a rationalizing frame for how the actions
within institutions occur. This interdisciplinary special issue of Boyhood
Studies intends to provide a conceptual exploration of how male bodies of color
are constructed within and across these institutions in order to establish the
pipeline as concretized through “normative” or oppressive notions of
masculinity and boyhood.
Deadline: August 15, 2018
Contact Email: Edward.fergus@temple.edu
Southern Cultures
Special 25th Anniversary Issue
Southern Cultures, the award-winning quarterly of the
UNC Center for the Study of the American South, is planning four special issues
in 2019 to mark its 25thyear of publication. The four themes— Backward/Forward, Inside/Outside, Left/Right,
and Here/Away—will highlight where the South is coming from and
where it’s going, who’s included and who’s left out, how it’s changing and how
it’s not, what’s near and what’s far. We’d like contributors to interpret these
themes broadly and creatively, mixing serious interpretations of the South’s
history, future, space, and politics with reimagined takes on what these tropes
should mean going forward.
We’re leading off with Backward/Forward in
Spring 2019. Through September 30, 2018, we’re inviting submissions on that
general theme from scholars, writers, and visual artists at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/submit .
Teaching Failures
We are seeking short essays (2,000-3,000 words) that explore
the theme of "Teaching Failures." These pieces might focus on a
particularly challenging classroom experience, a struggle with a specific
teaching resource, or failure/success as related to pedagogical practice. More
broadly, authors might explore the ways in which educational institutions and
institutional structures define and engage failture and/or success (for
example, academic silos, issues relating to academic freedom, work cultures,
governance, etc.)
Deadline: 15 September 2018
Contact Email: transformations@njcu.edu
FUNDING
African American
Episcopal Historical Collection Travel Grant Program
Travel reimbursement grants are available to individuals who
would like to use the African American Episcopal Historical Collection (AAEHC)
for research. Faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, independent
researchers, and Episcopal clergy and laypersons are encouraged to apply. Funds
may be used for transportation, meals, lodging, photocopying, and other
research costs.
Application Deadline: January 18, 2019
Contact Email: askaaehc@vts.edu
URL: https://vts.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/95/download/download_2578742.pdf;
http://www.vts.edu/aaehc.
2019 Fellowships at
the Center for Holocaust Studies
The fellowships are designed to support and foster
international Holocaust research. The program is aimed at established as well as
younger researchers. As we are interested in a high degree of international
cooperation, applications from Germany, Europe as well as from all over the
world are welcome. A topic within the field of Holocaust Studies is required in
order to be eligible for one of the fellowships.
Junior Fellowships (2500 Euro per month): for PhD-Candidates
(in exceptional cases, for Master Candidates). These fellowships last up to
four months each.
Application deadline: 22 September 2018
Contact Email: bennett@ifz-muenchen.de
URL: https://www.ifz-muenchen.de/zentrum-fuer-holocaust-studien/fellowships/aktuelle-ausschreibungen/
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Open Rank Faculty
Position in Sexuality Studies
The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at
Washington University in St. Louis seeks an assistant, associate, or full
professor in the area of Sexuality Studies. We are especially interested in
innovative scholars who concentrate in one or more of the following areas:
racialized sexualities; sexual labor and economies; sexual health and reproductive
justice; transgender studies; queer indigeneity and migration studies.
Candidates should demonstrate an ability to teach our introduction to women,
gender, and sexuality studies course, as well as advanced undergraduate and
graduate courses in feminist theory, queer theory, queer of color critique,
and/or critical sexual studies.
Priority will be given to applications received on or before
October 15, 2018
Requests for additional information pertaining to the
search, may be directed to Professor Jeffrey Q. McCune, Search Committee Chair,
at jmccune@wustl.edu.
Assistant Professor
in African and Afro-American Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
The Department of African and Afro-American Studies (AAAS)
and the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program (WGS) at Brandeis
University seeks candidates whose scholarship and teaching approach the
subjects of Black Feminisms and Queer Studies from a variety of perspectives,
which not only foreground the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and
sexuality, but also explore the frontiers of critical thought pioneered by
Black feminist and queer theorists and activists.
Review of applications will begin October 15, 2018
apply online: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/11426.
Questions can be directed to: Shannon Kearns: skearns@brandeis.edu.
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