CONFERENCES
Disrupting the
boundaries: Twitter as a new literary practice?
NeMLA Convention - Washington DC (March 21-24, 2019)
The use of Twitter and other Web 2.0 applications as a
contemporary practice to write or re-write literary texts is developing
participative, multimodal, and co-constructed creations where the roles of
authorship and audience become intertwined. This panel aims to investigate the
multifaceted aspects of this phenomenon in the Italian and in the international
context. Can this be considered a promising literary practice? How does a
platform like Twitter affect what we read and write? What are the possible
effects of the development of transnational literary and linguistic projects?
Please upload a 300-word abstract and short bio at the
following link: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17352
Contact Email: giusy.difilippo@gmail.com
Western Association
of Women Historians
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/2496953/western-association-women-historians-cfp
PORTLAND, OREGON, April 25–27, 2019
The Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) invites
proposals for panels, roundtables, posters, workshops, and individual
presentations in all fields, regions, and periods of history. We particularly
encourage non-traditional formats and topics. These could include panels and
roundtables focused on pedagogy, on women in academia, on public history, digital
humanities, academic publishing, career paths, activism, etc. We expect that
all panels will be diverse in their composition.
Proposals Due: Monday, October 15, 2018
Contact Email: president@wawh.org
URL: https://wawh.org/
Black Panther: Taking
Stock of the First African Super Hero at 50
The Department of English and Humanities at Shawnee State
University and the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México
invite scholars to submit 500 word abstracts on topics related to the character
of the Black Panther in his various permutations in comic books and films for a
two-day conference to be held April 19th and 20th, 2019 at Shawnee State
University in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Interested scholars should send their abstract to BlackPantherConference2019@gmail.com by
December 1st 2018.
Intelligent Idealisms
June 22-26, 2019, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Intelligent materialism” is, of course, nothing other than
Marxism, for which the “matter” in materialism is not an abstract concept but
rather names the dialectical development of the mode of production and
reproduction of human life, a dialectic in which thought is a conditioned but
active element. This year’s Institute on Culture and Society will focus on the
question of what today constitutes the other terms in Lenin’s dictum — what
today might constitute “stupid materialism” and what, if anything, “intelligent
idealisms” have to offer Marxism today. As always, this year’s focus is not
exclusive: all proposals bearing on Marxism will be considered.
Please send proposals for papers, panels, and roundtables
to mlg.ics.2019@gmail.com by
February 15, 2019.
Ways of Knowing
April 12-13, 2019 / Temple University
The Graduate Students of Color Association and Faculty
Senate Committee on the Status of Faculty of Color at Temple University are
pleased to announce the first annual Scholars of Color Conference (SOCC). This
international, interdisciplinary two-day conference is devoted to connecting
and celebrating the research of scholars of color.
Our inaugural theme – “Ways of Knowing” – explores what
constitutes knowledge, fact versus fiction. How do we know what we know? As
scholars of color, we are often accused of bias on the sole basis of our
identity politics. Yet, objectivity is a myth. How can we reclaim our
positionalities as a source of strength – a composite lens through which to
view the world? At SOCC, we gather to support and connect with one another’s
scholarship. In weaving a tapestry of diverse experiences and perspectives, we
may expand our “ways of knowing.”
Proposals should be submitted here by Friday,
December 21, 2018 at 11:59pm EST: http://goo.gl/forms/XDrxmv4rE58B2R422
Submission guidelines: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IXpZsIrWcpGlgRBnVUvZ0U7QkDRjDF8A/
Contact Email: socc2019@gmail.com
Internet history
conference
We invite you to submit an abstract of a paper topic to
present at a cross-disciplinary symposium organized by the Intellectual
Property Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law and the Center for Justice
and Law at Hamline University to be held on Friday, March 29, 2019 in St. Paul,
Minnesota. The title of the symposium is: Revisiting “Realizing the Information
Future: The Internet and Beyond,” the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. It is
intended to explore the issues raised in the report “Realizing the Information
Future: The Internet and Beyond,” published by National Academy Press in 1994,
and how the commercial use of the internet has changed our world since 1994.
Please submit your abstract to the Center for Justice and
Law at Hamline University (cjl@hamline.edu)
on before October 19, 2018.
Critical Geographies
of Digital Dissent and Suppression
University of Oxford
Human geographers and critical social scientists recognize
the complex ways in which social media and the Internet more broadly operates
as a critical mechanism of place- and community-making, bound up with complex
contestations of political meaning-making, stories and counter-stories
(Pickerill 2003; Leitner, Sheppard, and Sziarto 2008; Hands 2011). At the same time, digital spaces are
increasingly being disrupted and inhibited through processes of infrastructural
injustice, including stoppage, suspension, blackouts, user fees, throttling and
more (Murrey 2019). Cyberspace has emerged as a contentious “terrain of
resistance” within contemporary political, social, and economic struggle
(Routledge 2017, 5).
Please send a paper title and 250-word abstract to
amber.murrey-ndewa@ouce.ox.ac.uk and patricia.daley@geog.ox.ac.uk by
14th October 2018.
Rural Politics and
Society: Representing Rural Society
We are soliciting papers to be included in four panels at
the European Rural History Oganization (EURHO) conference to be held in Paris
at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, September 10-13, 2019.
Submitted papers should be broadly concerned with the
problems associated with how rural socity organized in order to advance its
political, economic and social interests. Is the attempt to represent rural
society destined to fail and if so why? Alternatively, what have movements and
organizations that have sustained themselves done in order to do so? Is the
structure and nature of rural society inimical to the effective collective
action and the creation of organizations to represent rural interests?
5 October 2018: Deadline for panels submissions
Contact Email: d.c.brett@open.ac.uk
The Image of
Migration: Landscapes and People
This conference aims to bring together scholars and
filmmakers to address how moving images depict the relationship between place
and human migration. We define migration in the broadest terms as any movement
of peoples, including migration within nations or across national boundaries.
We define place in the broadest terms, including air, land, and sea, and the
built environment. Any screen experience relating to the interaction between
migration and place is of interest — cinema, television, government and
industry promotional films, training films, anthropological films, tourist
experience videos, cell phone videos, home movies and non-professional videos,
digital media, games, video installations, and other moving image technologies
and genres.
deadline for abstract submissions: November 1, 2018
Contact Email: bmauer@ucf.edu
Symposium on the
Digital Humanities
The fourth Utah Symposium on the Digital Humanities is being
hosted at Weber State University on February 1-2, 2019. The Symposium is a
place to continue the conversations from earlier DHU conferences. It enables
scholars in Utah and neighboring regions to dwell further on issues that are of
concern to the digital humanities. The symposium schedule intersects with
Lingofest (weber.edu/lingofest), a national conference at Weber State
University which brings together people interested in voice-based technology
(like Amazon Alexa). This intersection will catalyze further interactions
between the humanities and other forms of digital culture.
Please send a 300 word abstract to utahdigitalhumanities4@gmail.com
by November 2, 2018.
Contact Email: lfernandez@weber.edu
The Thrill of the
Dark: Heritages of Fear, Fascination and Fantasy
Birmingham, 25-27 April 2019
Over recent years there has been tremendous interest in
‘dark heritage’ and associated ‘dark tourism’ but still we struggle with the
powerful attraction of the darkness, the thrill it can provide and where (and
if) we draw boundaries around its commodification its representation and the
experiences we seek from it. This conference seeks to explore the multiple
relationships we have with the concept of darkness with reference to the
legacies we create from it. How is the thrill of darkness expressed through the
widely framed notion of heritage? How do we experience, negotiate, represent,
commodify, valorise or censor the heritages of darkness? What and where is the
thrill of the darkness and how is it negotiated across cultures, generations
and gender? Why does the dark fascinate us so?
Please provide a 300 word abstract of your intended
paper/presentation no later than October 31st via our online submission
platform: www.universityofbirmingham.submittable.com
Connected Histories:
Decolonization and the 20th Century
Yale University, April 26-27, 2019
In the past few years, the project of writing global history
has become increasingly celebrated. Many historians argue for the utility and
indeed necessity of globalizing history. Others still remain skeptical of what
a global optic can occlude.
This conference invites senior and emerging scholars to
interrogate what the “global turn” can offer to histories of decolonization and
anti-colonial thought in the twentieth century. This would involve moving
beyond the direct connections between colony and metropole and to think about other
connected and conceptual geographies and terrains. We understand decolonization
to encompass not only the formal transference of powers, but also the larger
processes by which individuals and societies confronted the legacy and violence
of empire – in political memory, intellectual thought, and public history.
MELUS (Multi-Ethnic
Literature in the United States) Conference
March 21-24, 2019, Cincinnati, OH
The theme of the 2019 MELUS conference begins from the
premise that a subterranean history beats below every official narrative. What
stories get told? What stories get erased or moved to the periphery? How do
multi-ethnic literature, film, narrative media, and performance bring to light
these critical narratives?
Deadline for Abstracts: October 15, 2018
Contact Email: melus2019@gmail.com
URL: http://melus2019.com
Enslaved: Peoples of
the Historic Slave Trade
March 8-9, 2019, Michigan State University
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
*October 15th*.
Fat Studies Research,
Artistry, and Activism
Please join other Fat Studies scholars at the Washington
Marriott Wardman Park in Washngton, DC from April 17-20, 2019 for the Popular
Culture Association National Conference. All submissions are welcome, but
please ensure your proposal fits within the academic and political scopes of
Fat Studies. Please also be mindful that Fat Studies is a political project and
not merely an umbrella term for all discussions of larger bodies.
The deadline for online submission of presentations is
October 1, 2018.
Contact Email: Lesleigh.Owen@bhsu.edu
Midwest Association
for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studie
Louisville, Kentucky, Friday, March 22, 2019
This conference focuses on the idea of home as a place and a
concept. It also engages with what has become an important topic in the recent
history of the Middle East and Islamic World, displacement, dispossession, and
refugees. The recent massive dislocation of people as a result of the wars in
Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Libya are a potential topic, but papers
regarding historical movements and dislocations in the Ottoman Empire, Iran,
Greater Syria, Israel, Armenia, North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia are
welcome.
Please submit a one-page prospectus along with your name,
title, and affiliation by January 19, 2019 to: James N. Tallon, tallon1453@gmail.com
The Words that Shape
Us: Language, Culture and Identity
University of Alabama Languages Conference, February 8 – 9,
2019
We invite abstracts about all languages and all areas of
Literature and Linguistics. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words
through EasyAbs at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/UALC2019.
The deadline for proposal submission is November 10th, 2018.
Anti-Oppressive
Solidarities: "Third World" Feminism's Leadership against Imperialism
This session will present work by scholars on the
literature, movements, activism, and cultural production from the regions of
Latin/South America, Africa, and Asia, which have, in a showcase of imperial
language, been described as the “Third World” by those in the industrial West.
By centering the voices of the “Third World” as crucial sociopolitical and
feminist pedagogues, those attending this session will develop a greater
appreciation for the fact that we live under one world and one global system
that affects us all- though to varying degrees and political valences. The
voices, guidance, and leadership from those experiencing oppression and
empowerment worldwide are necessary to fully understand anti-imperial and
decolonizing frameworks. Papers should focus on how the so-called "Third
World" teaches those of us in the so-called "First World" more
about feminism, activism, scholarship, politics, and resistance than the U.S.,
Canada, or Western Europe can. Collapsing the notions of “different worlds” by
collectivizing voices against global orders of imperialism is the goal of this
session.
If you have any questions, feel free to email Caroline
Cheung at caromelcheung@gmail.com
Inter-disciplinary
Conference on Human Rights
March 7-8, 2019, Norwich University, Northfield Vermont
We believe, that the complicated historical developments in
Central European countries gives strong
reasons to turn the attention of academic community, and especially the young
generation, to the seemingly distant (but
close) historical moments mentioned above. A better understanding of the
recent past may help in interpreting current developments in politics and their
consequences to the human rights movement. Thus, the goal of the conference is
to apply the lessons from the past to recent developments in many countries.
Conference will offer strong emphasis on feedback and
discussion, moderated by expert chairpersons in various sessions. The conference will aim at young scholars as
well as student works - both in presentations and active discussions in special
sessions.
Abstract deadline: Oct. 31, 2018
Contact Email: rbrucken@norwich.edu
Continuity in/of
Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality
May 16-19, 2019, Scottsdale, Arizona
ACSF 11 will be structured around a main topic (in this case
"Continuity in/of Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality") but also
open to ideas, works, and proposals relevant to the Forum's areas of
interest. We invite all individuals
interested in participating in this event to submit proposals of 500 to 1,000
words for either the SYMPOSIUM TOPIC or an OPEN SESSION. Proposals may be submitted
in one of three categories: paper, practice/research project, and workshop.
The deadline is January 21st, 2019.
Contact Email: bermudez@cua.edu
Beyond Digital
Fronteras: Rehumanizing Latinx Education
A critical conceptual question that frames the relationship
between Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) and/or Latinx classrooms and the
digital humanities is this: “In the pursuit of more authentic transregional and
transnational learning experiences, how might digital tools in HSI/Latinx
classrooms be employed to enhance students’ understandings of heterogeneous
Latinx knowledges and subjectivities?” To begin to dissect this question and
conceive of solutions one must first acknowledge that even in Hispanic Serving
Institutions, universities and colleges have remained simply
“Hispanic-Enrolling” without modifying institutional policies and practices to
better reflect their students. This proposed edited manuscript will feature
scholarly articles and critical essays that address these challenges and
discuss the ways that technology has/can be used in classrooms in more
effective and inclusive ways not only to serve Latinx students and overcome
“participation gaps,” but, more critically, to transform and “rehumanize”
Latinx higher education.
Please send a 300-500 word abstract to rehumanizinglatinxeducation@gmail.edu by December
7, 2018.
Recovering,
digitizing and practicalizing Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge
Following broadly defined and multi-purpose
transdisciplinary approaches to areal studies, the African Studies Research
Center, Kisii is holding its first international conference focusing on four
largely circumscribed thematic research areas under the theme of “Recovering,
digitizing and practicalizing Africa Indigenous Knowledge”. The goal in
accordance with the objective of the emerging African Studies Research Center
at Kisii University is to provide, fieldwork-based documentation of those
traditional ways of knowing and doing things across nations of Africa spanning
different institutions as well as give theoretical account of the same. The
intent is to bring together scholars and practitioners alike to make sense of
indigenous ways of knowing and of doing things across the continent, and to
analyze persistent issues in a way that would liaise with science to proffer
viable solutions that in turn would inform practice. Essentially, the
conference is to transition us from Knowledge to practical applications.
Conference website: https://www.kisiiuniversity.ac.ke/conference/
Visual Solidarities:
Crossing borders in aesthetic practices
In this session, we propose to expand art historical and
visual fields of enquiry by examining the often side-lined, post-1945
histories, trajectories and methodologies of visual production and circulation
that express and constitute relations of solidarity. We suggest that in
solidarity with different peoples’ struggles there is a sense of
border-crossing from self to other and towards a shared space of politics that
potentially challenges stable identities and fixed localities.
We invite case studies and critical theories that discuss
relationships of affinity, solidarity, friendship and/or activist
collaboration, which engage in multi/inter/trans-disciplinary aesthetic
practices and/or precipitate different modes of artistic production,
circulation and migrations, or which determinedly transgress geographic,
national, cultural and disciplinary borders in, and through, the visual.
Deadline for submissions: Monday 5 November 2018
Mary Ikoniadou, Manchester Metropolitan
University, m.ikoniadou@mmu.ac.uk
Zeina Maasri, University of Brighton, z.elmaasri@brighton.ac.uk
Tracing the Agency of
Sound
Historisches Institut der Universität Bern, Switzerland, 08-09
February 2019
This two-day workshop aims to depart from understanding
sound as a passive “background” or neutral “medium”. We want to shift our
attention to sound as influence, agent, and/or actor: Sound evokes emotions
(tone and inflection of voice, socio- and dialect, laughing and weeping), it
shapes thinking (configuring metaphors and patterns of thought), it impacts
bodies and contributes to their movement (via shouts/orders, dancing, sounds of
war), and takes part in shaping language (though possibilities and limits of
its representation in speech and text). We welcome contributions from different
fields and disciplines (anthropology, psychology and neuroscience, history of
emotions), as long as they are applicable for historical research.
08 October 2018 (Monday): Deadline for proposal
Contact Email: nikita.hock@hist.unibe.ch
Sexuality and Borders
4-5 April 2019, New York University, NYC
In her path-breaking work Borderlands/La
Frontera (1987), Gloria E. Anzaldúa parsed out the
relationship between heteronormativity and the stretching of the border into
various borderlands, subjectivities, and temporalities. In the context of
growing migration and the accompanying intensification of border regimes, this
formative thesis on the relationship between borders and sexuality needs
renewed attention and consideration. How do sexuality and borders intersect?
What role does sexuality play in the production, maintenance and disruption of
contemporary border regimes? How do borders as features of racial capitalism
multiply inequalities via sexuality and, conversely, how is sexuality mediated
through racialized border regimes?
Please send proposals for papers (no longer than 350 words)
and a short bio (150 words) by November 1st, 2018 to sexualityandborders@tutanota.com.
Black Bibliographia:
Print/Culture/Art
April 26-27, 2019, University of Delaware
The question “What is a black book?” is implicit in the work
of scholars and curators who examine histories of African American print
production and reading. It is equally germane to artists and printers
experimenting with the book and other print forms today. To address this
question, “Black Bibliographia: Print/Culture/Art” will host an exchange of
ideas across longstanding divides of discipline and practice. The symposium
invites participation from individuals invested in books and other print
objects as material forms, aesthetic inventions, circulating texts, and
repositories of design. In this way, “Black Bibliographia” aims to build on a
growing body of work in African American print culture—already rich in
nineteenth-century studies—while also inviting reassessment of the material
life of black bookmaking and print production in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries.
Please send abstracts of 300 words, with a brief CV, by
October 5, 2018, to materialculture@udel.edu.
Global Civil Rights
February 23, 2019, Texas A&M University-Commerce
The World History Association of Texas conference provides a
forum for the discussion of all aspects of World History. Proposals for panels,
single papers, round tables, and workshops from teachers, research scholars,
and students on any topic related to World History including new research,
concepts, or pedagogy are welcome. We envision the theme broadly as
transnational, multicultural, and multiethnic recognizing there are many
avenues toward building an historical narrative of civil rights that may
include dimensions of gender, race, ethnicity, identity, sexuality, equity,
equality, resistance, and social justice.
All proposals are due no later than November 15, 2018.
Contact Email: cynthia.ross@tamuc.edu
Religion / Water / Climate
13-16 June 2019, University College Cork
The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature
and Culture welcomes papers, panels, and proposals from all disciplines that
address the intersections of religion, nature, and culture. For this conference
we especially welcome proposals that focus on religious and cultural responses
to and conceptions of climate weirding, especially concerning water and climate
change. The anthropogenic destabilization of global climate systems elicits
responses from religious actors, but also precipitates religious questions. Of
particular interest are places, ecosystems, and environmental processes where
climate-induced hydrological changes have religious ramifications: coastal
communities, desertification, wetlands, sea level rise, erratic rainfall,
melting permafrost and glaciers, intensifying tropical storms, mangroves,
fishing and fishermen.
Proposal Deadline: 14 December 2018
Contact Email: secretary@issrnc.org
Anxiety and Politics
Papers selected for this themed panel on “Anxiety and
Politics” will be submitted to a Political Theory Section of the (2019) annual
conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), one of the
largest Political Science conferences in the country. Submissions from any
discipline or sub-field are welcome.
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2018.
Contact Email: mhb4@caa.columbia.edu
Society for the Study
of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy at the American Philosophical
Association
The topic for January 2019 for the Society for the Study of
Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy at the Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association (Sheraton Hotel Times Square, NYC) will be
The Place of Primordial Wisdom in Buddhist Philosophy.
Please sent abstracts for review by October 1, 2018 to
Marie Friquegnon: friquegnonm@wpunj.edu
Of God and Monsters
April 5th -7th 2019, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
The Religious Studies program at Texas State University,
therefore, welcomes submissions for our upcoming conference on Monsters and
Monster Theory. Through this conference, we hope to explore the complex
intersections of monsters and meaning making from a variety of theoretical,
academic, and intellectual angles. Because “monsters” are a category that
appears across time and cultural milieus, this conference will foster
conversations between scholars working in very different areas and is not
limited in terms of cultural region, historical time, or religious tradition.
Conference organizers anticipate inviting papers presented at this conference
to submit their revised papers for an edited volume.
Please submit an abstract with a maximum of 300-words
to TexasStateMonsters@gmail.com by
November 1.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to
contact conference organizers Natasha Mikles (n.mikles@txstate.edu) or Joseph Laycock
(joseph.laycock@txstate.edu).
Highbrow, Lowbrow,
No-brow: Research and Aesthetic Values in the Humanities
The HERA conference peer review program committee invites
proposals for presentations at the 2019 conference. Our understanding of the
tensions and implications of the “highbrow-lowbrow” continuum have existed for
as long as the humanities. Although the terms are first associated with the
19th century, connotations of the humanities as possessing elevated, elite,
upper class, or even sanctified religious ritual, intellectual, or cultural
endeavor may be traced back to ancient times. Similarly, aspects of the
humanities variously characterized as being lowly, crude or ordinary, lower
class, or even pagan, anti-intellectual, or low class may also be traced back
through the ages. Used widely in a vast variety of humanistic disciplines, the
understanding and attribution of aesthetic values finds expression in terms
that evoke the opposition between elevated treatment of the humanities and
lowly derogatory devaluations.
Deadline for submission: no later than January 24, 2019
Questions may be directed to the conference organizer,
Marcia Green (mgreen@sfsu.edu).
Global Human Rights
at Risk? Challenges, Prospects, and Reforms
6th and 7th June 2019, The Hague, Netherlands
This multidisciplinary conference aims to analyze the causes
and consequences of various contemporary challenges to international human
rights and emancipatory politics. First, the seminar examines whether, and if
so, how the apparently declining influence of the West, the rise of
authoritarianism, and increasing material inequality within and between nations
could impact the legitimacy and effectiveness of international human rights.
Second, the seminar invites new and radical perspectives that aim to reinvent
the future of transnational human rights norms and human dignity — its
substantive content, ethical assumptions, as well as its representative global
and national institutions. Third, the seminar brings together leading and
promising scholars in conversation with human rights practitioners in an effort
to bring a dynamic and fruitful debate that bridges theory and practice.
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 15, 2018 (17:00, CET)
Imagining the
Apocalypse
Shaped by different religious traditions, the apocalypse has
been called upon throughout history to articulate collective anxieties, act as
a warning, or a yearned-for spiritual salvation. These contradictory and
competing aims behind imagining the end of the world in specific cultural moments
make it a fertile ground for analysis. This conference will ask: what are the
politics of picturing annihilation, from the early Christian Church to climate
change today? This call for papers welcomes submissions from all historical
periods and geographic regions.
Please send a short bio with proposals of no more than 300
words for 20-minute papers to edwin.coomasaru@courtauld.ac.uk by 14th January
2019.
Animals: Theory,
Practice, Representation
Leiden University, The Netherlands, 4 and 5 April 2019
This graduate conference is an international and
interdisciplinary platform where PhD and master students can present, exchange,
and discuss research results and innovative theoretical insights with
participants from diverse backgrounds. This conference aims to rethink the
relationships between humans and animals, in order to examine the ways in which
these relationships are defined. By drawing attention to such concerns, we
would like to invite participants from a wide spectrum of disciplines to
contribute to this intriguing field of inquiry.
Please send your proposal and a short bio to the conference’s
Email address no later than October 1st 2018. Our Email
address: lucasconference@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Crossing Borders
Conference
The Crossing Borders Conference, a multi-disciplinary
student conference on the United States, Canada, and border issues will be held
at Niagara University from March 1-2, 2019. Undergraduate and graduate students
are encouraged to submit an abstract proposal of their work about
Canadian-American relations from all disciplines. The conference is sponsored
by the Office of the Canadian Consul, Brock University, Niagara University, and
the University at Buffalo.
Abstracts are due February 8, 2019.
Contact Email: srisk@niagara.edu
Contradicting
Contradictions: Interrogating Humanities-Based Scholar Activism in the Neoliberal
University
University of California, Merced, April 11-13, 2019
Humanities scholars find utility in anthropology,
archaeology, art, history, literature, philosophy, and other disciplines in
order to understand human society and culture. In recent years, the humanities
has made an effort toward addressing social justice issues through the use of a
critical lens. Sometimes, despite this effort, humanities scholars reproduce
the same issues they claim to understand. This outcome can be especially common
in the realm of activist scholarship. Activist scholarship aims to understand
the dynamics of select social issues, and produce knowledge that may help in
alleviating social ailments. But what happens when academic knowledge
overshadows community knowledge, in effect undermining lived experiences?
Please submit a 300 word-limit abstract by the December 15,
2018 deadline
ILO Centenerary and
the Future of Global Worker Rights
Washington, DC, Oct. 24-26, 2019
October 29, 2019, will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of
the first International Labor Conference (ILC), held in the Pan American Union
Building in Washington, D.C., under the nascent International Labor
Organization (ILO). This conference will mark the centenary of that watershed
event. It will be both retrospective and
prospective. It will look back to
analyze and evaluate a century of efforts to advance workers’ rights around the
globe. It will look forward to ponder
the ways in which global supply chains, financialization, and the growth of the
“gig” economy and other forms of non-standard work challenge the ILO system and
raise questions about the very definition of employers and employees and the
basis of labor relations.
Please send paper, presentation, or panel proposals to kilwp@georgetown.edu. Deadline
for submissions is November 15, 2018.
PUBLICATIONS
From Balloons to
Drones
Established in 2016, From Balloons to Drones is a scholarly
online platform that provides analysis and debate about air power history,
theory, and contemporary operations in their broadest sense including space and
cyber power. Air power is to be understood broadly, encompassing not only the
history of air warfare, including social and cultural aspects but also related
fields such as archaeology, international relations, strategic studies, law and
ethics. Since its emergence, air power has increasingly become the preferred
form of military power for many governments. However, the application and
development of air power is controversial and often misunderstood. To remedy
this, From Balloons to Drones seeks to provide analysis and debate about air
power through the publication of articles, research notes, commentary, book
reviews, and historic book reviews.
If you are interested in contributing, please email our
editor, Dr Ross Mahoney, at airpowerstudies@gmail.com or
visit our webpage here:- https://balloonstodrones.com/
What does it mean to
write ‘left’ history?
Left History asks this question amidst
increasing socio-economic inequality and wage stagnation, the normalization of
precarious labour, the emergence of powerful protest groups within a
fragmenting Left, and the global resurgence of racist, neo-fascist movements.
Within academia, neoliberalism has had profoundly stifling effects, even as
innovations in the digital humanities open new avenues for the dissemination of
knowledge. What can left histories contribute against this backdrop?
If you wish to submit an article for consideration, please
let us know in advance by emailing lefthist@yorku.ca.
To ensure adequate time for submissions to undergo the peer review process, we
have set a submission deadline of March 31, 2019.
Thresholds in
Literature and the Arts
The liminal space is a paradoxical place that connects the
space it severs: under the sign of ritual though, the liminal not only allows
passage, but almost demands it. As far as etymology is concerned, the term
derives from the Latin word limen, which shares the same root as the latin word
limes: limit, margin, border. On the one hand, limen constitutes the threshold
of a building or a room; on the other hand, its relation to the act of passage
is clearly antithetical to that of the limes, whose role is to assure the
impermeability between spaces. If the orthographic similarity hints at a common
thread – a rock or a piece of wood that is placed crosswise in order to signal
the end/beginning of a place – the minor spelling difference reveals deep
functional and ontological differences. This volume, co-edited by the Centre
for Comparative Studies and the Centre for Classical Studies of the School of
Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon, represents a further step
towards the clarification of this rather hazy concept that has been often
(mis)used.
Papers must be submitted no later than January 15, 2019 to
the following email address: thresholdslitartsvolume@gmail.com.
Transnational
American Studies within the Post-Arab Spring Context
This Special Forum is intended to rethink the field of
American Studies within the context of current global events– variable, rather
than exceptional. It aims to consider what we might gain from global analysis,
beginning from spaces of rebellion, exposed by the Arab Spring and sites like
Tahrir Square, Zuccotti Park, Dakota Access Pipeline protests in the US, and
the 2012 Quebec student protests in Canada. Contributions are welcome by
scholars from around the globe who work in American Studies or closely related
fields to assay a truly global ambit of analysis, beyond the transnational turn
to not only acknowledge the interconnectedness of global developments in
political economy but also provide the means to extend and deepen critiques of
the myth of American exceptionalism.
Submissions should be received by November 15th, 2018.
Contact Email: eahmedmo@uoguelph.ca
Digital Dialogues:
Navigating Online Spaces
Intersectional Apocalypse is a student made, student run,
and student edited online journal which makes centring marginalised voices and
experiences a priority. We bring emphasis to how this journal is being created
on unceded Coast Salish Territory; the traditional territories of the Musqueam,
Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Kwikwetlem Nations. Understanding that the work of
the journal is undertaken on unceded territory informs our journal practice so
that Indigenous perspectives are at the forefront of our consciousness. It is our goal to unpack oppressive
narratives and social frameworks, while simultaneously creating a positive and
engaging platform.
As an anti-oppressive, anti-colonial and decolonial,
non-hierarchical, and diversity focused journal, we bring the attention of our
first issue to navigating online spaces. For our first issue, we will explore
the many complexities of marginalised experiences online and relating to online
spaces. All media accepted and encouraged.
Please send in submissions by October 11, 2018
Teaching Literature
and Writing in Prisons
Essay proposals are invited for a scholarly and pedagogical
volume entitled Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons. With well over two
million people currently held in prisons in the United States, mass
incarceration remains a nationwide social justice issue. One way that scholars,
teachers, and activists have addressed this issue is by teaching literature and
writing in prisons. These teachers and their incarcerated students interrogate
the past and acknowledge the social injustices of the present. Most
importantly, they use literature and writing to imagine a future in which these
negotiations are no longer necessary.
Please submit proposals by 15 November 2018
The Cost of Bearing
Witness: Secondary Trauma and Self-Care in Fieldwork-Based Social Research
There is a wide-ranging scholarship addressing exposure of
helping professionals to secondary trauma. However, comparatively little
research has been published that examines traumatic stress exposure in social
science researchers conducting fieldwork in traumatized settings. The painful
encounters to witness disturbing and distressing sides of human behaviours,
practices, dynamics, relationships, and experiences often leave profound impact
on social science researchers with serious possibilities to cause secondary
trauma. Researchers in social sciences are often unprepared and unable to
recognize secondary trauma as potential challenge before embarking on a
fieldwork. To avoid compassion fatigue, burnouts, and emotional vulnerability
in all phases of research, it is important to study secondary trauma further to
define concrete measures to prevent and/or minimize psychological challenges.
We welcome proposals by researchers from qualitative and
fieldwork-based social sciences and humanities discussing these aspects of
secondary trauma, and any other relevant aspects from diverse methodological
and theoretical perspectives.
PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR 250-word abstract by 10 OCTOBER 2018.
Contact Email: nena.mocnik@utu.fi
Resisting Injustice:
Contemporary Views on Angela Davis
Resisting Injustice: Contemporary Views on Angela Davis will
contribute to the discourse on
scholar and civil rights activist Angela Y. Davis by being the first interdisciplinary book of
critical essays to focus primarily on
Angela Y. Davis. The book will consist of essays analyzing books, essays, and/or speeches by Angela Y.
Davis and essays examining representations of Angela Y. Davis in music,
literature, film, art, dance, and/or other related and relevant topics in
relationship to the overall theme of
“Resisting Injustice.”
Submissions should include an updated or recent CV, a 250 -
300 words abstract including the title
of the proposed essay, and contact information.
The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2018.
Contact Email: sharon.jones@wright.edu
The Contingent
Dynamics of Political Humor
This CFP for a special issue of European Journal of Humour
Research (EJHR) seeks original interdisciplinary scholarly work that allows for
both the repressive and irrepressible dynamics of humor by locating the actual
practices and instances of political humor succeeding, falling flat, or
backfiring within their relevant historical, institutional and cultural
contexts.
For our purposes, ‘political humor’ involves substantial
political action conducted through amusing means, rather than the use of
political subjects for amusement. It is
political communication that partakes in humor, proffering cognitive and
affective pleasures typically resulting in laughter in order to better inform
and solicit sympathetic political participation in a particular ideological or
distributional agenda in lieu of the agenda of rivals.
Please submit your proposals of no more than 500 words by
Dec 1, 2018 to <massihzekavat@gmail.com>.
Renewable Energy:
International Perspectives on Sustainability
This interdisciplinary edited volume investigates economic and
political factors of renewable energy use, introduces social acceptance of
renewable energy innovation, and aims to strike a balance between a broad and
professional audience. This work will discuss the history of the renewable
energy development and briefly describe the physical and technological
foundations of sustainable energy generation. It is important to support and promote dialogue about
alternative possibilities for energy sources as well as discuss climate change
problems and obstacles. By December 1, please submit your CV
and full chapter (7,000-10,000 words, the Chicago Manual of Style) to Dr.
Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochk@tulane.edu and/or
Dr. Elena Shabliy eshabliy@tulane.edu.
Bad Objects
The concept of a “bad object” has long been a moving target
in media studies. Although the term is rarely defined with any specificity, a
“bad object” is typically a text that is used in critical analysis with the
implicit or explicit acknowledgement of its perceived violations of “good”
taste. Applications of this term have rapidly diversified in the past decade.
With the increase in scholarship on new media, social media, video games, and
global flows, together with greater attention to diverse identities
behind/on/in front of the screen, the conversation on taste cultures has
shifted significantly. This issue seeks to expand or question the boundaries
and applications of the “bad object” as an analytical framework. We welcome
pieces that challenge the foundations of this divide. How can we re-calibrate
these and other approaches to address purported bad objects within our
contemporary media landscape? Can we approach bad objects beyond the text
itself in issues of production cultures, distribution, and consumption?
Send electronic manuscripts and/or any questions to vltcfp@gmail.com by January 25.
Cinematic Curation
The medium of cinema works through an unfolding process of
perception. As a spectator of cinema, one is drawn into a dimensional world,
where the experience of spectacle, narrative, and semiosis work together to
percolate a film’s interest, context, and purpose. Cinema is affective,
engaging, and critically contemplative. Through dynamic relations between the
movement and colour of images, ambient, immersive, and musical sound, cultural
and human perspective, cinema creates an altered experience of reality. This
encourages individuals to reflect, through embodied and cognitive instances, on
the fluctuating conditions of the world and human experience.
This special edition mini-issue of the CMA Journal invites
writers, reviewers, practitioners, and scholars from the fields of visual art,
film, media history, as well as critical and cultural studies to contemplate
how the perceptual process of cinema or other media can inform an altered form
of curation in contemporary white-cube gallery space.
Proposal deadline: October 12
Contact Email: cma_journal@sfu.ca
Imagining Latinidad:
Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants
This volume focuses on the intersection amid the research on
the conformation of digital diasporas and studies related to public engagement
and social activism, particularly on how social platforms and mobile
applications enable the conformation of virtual communities of Latin American
migrants living abroad. This edited book looks for contributions on relevant
cases on how Latin Americans use information technologies to build diasporic
communities not only to stay in contact with their culture at a distance but to
power social activism and to fight back against social and political
tribulations in both contexts (homeland and the host country). Above all, this
anthology aims to illustrate that besides all the misfortunes, perils and the
distance, diasporic communities are not willing to renounce to their cultures,
nor do they merely acquiesce to the demands of their new host countries.
You are warmly invited to provide a document with a brief
bio (no more than 250 words with titles, affiliations, and contacts) and an
abstract (300-500 words). Please send the proposal to the following
addresses: david.dalton@uncc.edu and david.ramirez@redudg.udg.mx
Deadline: January 15, 2019
LGBTQ Comics Reader:
Critical Challenges, Future Directions
The LGBTQ Comics Studies Reader will honour LGBTQ work that
emerged from and was influenced by the underground and alternative comix
movement of the mid-1960s to become what is still an underrepresented sub-genre
in comics scholarship: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)
comics, their critical implications, their provocative current iterations, and
their future directions. The aim of this LGBTQ Comics Studies Reader is to
provide a platform for sustained, theoretically rigorous thinking about the
various social, economic, historical, cultural, ethical and pedagogical issues
at work in LGTBQ comics and cartoons, from around the world.
Abstracts should run about 250 words and are due by 1
November 2018.
Queries may be directed to Professors Alison Halsall (ahalsall@yorku.ca) and Jonathan Warren (jwarren@yorku.ca).
Critical Pedagogical
Strategies to Transcend Hegemonic Masculinity
This anthology will transform traditional discussions of
gender to highlight how employing different pedagogical strategies, styles, and
curriculum can change the oppressive and harmful impact of toxic masculinity.
We recognize that oppression can have a hampering effect on all students
ability to learn, grow, and thrive thus the need for creating pedagogical
strategies that expose and ameliorate problems stemming from that oppression.
We invite activists, academics, allies, educators, and other interested people
to submit practical research, perspectives, and frameworks to make this happen.
This collection targets individuals who are interested in learning more about
masculinity and how it affects women and members of the LGBTQIA community.
Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2018
You may also email questions tomasculinitybook2019@gmail.com
Diary Writing as a
Quasi-literary Genre
This book focuses on diary writing as a quasi-literary genre
that includes autobiography, biography, memoir, correspondence, travel
literature, and more. The book will examine the diarist's text because it speaks
the truth of the appearance of things. Through the lens of the diary, this book
will discuss how diarists, writers, and poets reflect on multiculturalism and
intercultural relations. Subjects and themes include identity, language, race,
class, culture, gender, religion, sexuality, and nationality of American
minorities who use the diary to help them find their own expressive language,
explore their identity, and understand themselves, their intimate
relationships, and the world around them. Since the diary is an
autobiographical text the book will include the study of autobiography, poetry,
fiction, and non-fiction.
Submit a 500-word abstract with the title due on or before
November 1, 2018, to angelarhooks@gmail.com
Aggression in Humans
and Other Animals
Our current understanding of aggression is a complex
tapestry whose motifs range from genetically determined patterns of attack in
other animals and facial expressions of anger in us to developmental
influences, such as parenting styles and developmental trajectories of
aggression, to environmental factors that include noxious, aggression-provoking
stimuli like heat and pain. This is a call for thoughtful essays that engage
the state of the art in aggression research to seek new connections and new
views, challenging and expanding the ideas in this tapestry of knowledge about
ourselves, other animals, or both.
Essays (2,500–3,500 words in length), along with 1–2-line
author biographies, should be sent to Robert Elias (editor in
chief) or Shawn Doubiago (managing editor) at Peace Review (peacereview@usfca.edu) by 15 October
2018.
For more information on submitting essays, visit https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/research/peace-review-journal/submission-guidelines.
Horror and Politics
We’re seeking chapter-length contributions to an edited
volume on horror and politics. The working title for this project is The
Politics of Fear: Horror and Political Thought. We’re open to contributions
that discuss anything that falls under the umbrella of “horror” (prose fiction,
films, television series, comics, poetry, video games, theater, music, etc.) in
connection with politics and political thought. We intend this project to speak
to a variety of audiences: scholars across a range of disciplines,
undergraduate and graduate students, horror fans, and the general reader.
deadline for submissions: October 1, 2018
email: picaried@uscsumter.edu
Memory, Migration,
and Modern Fiction
For this special issue of Modern Fiction Studies, we invite
essays that explore the relationships between memory, identity, and migration
in modern fiction. Essays may approach these ideas in any way that addresses
their significance or untangles the complexities with which these topics are
expressed. Some questions essays might consider are: how do migration,
diaspora, and exile affect individual and collective memory? How is migration
represented aesthetically and politically? What are the effects of migration on
personal and community identity or ideas of home and belonging? Who is given
the power to represent these experiences? How are accountability and
responsibility represented in this fiction? What are the ethics of memory in
relation to displacement and dislocation? Is there an ethics of memory?
Deadline for Submissions: 1 June 2019
Contact Email: friedman@tcnj.edu
Somaesthetics and
Sport
Sport offers opportunities for the integrated experience of
human embodiment. At the same time,
sport occurs within, shapes and is shaped by a sometimes vexing tension in
which individual desire unfolds and contends with various broader converging
forces such as physical limitation, natural and artificial environments,
technology, institutional norms, cultural attitudes and stereotypes, social
circumstances, and political struggles.
Scholars in disciplines from the natural sciences, social sciences, and
humanities have all shed important light on these different dimensions of
sport. For this volume in the series Studies in Somaesthetics, we intend to
develop a mutually illuminating and enriching dialogue between sport, broadly
conceived, and the interdisciplinary methods of somaesthetics.
For more on somaesthetics and the series Studies in
Somaesthetics, please go to https://brill.com/view/serial/SIS
Contact Email: ycolas@oberlin.edu
Journal for the Study
of Radicalism
Forthcoming thematic issues will include anarchism,
including Black Bloc activism, ecological radicalism, animal rights radicalism,
and right-wing forms of radicalism. We are particularly interested in articles
on transnational subjects as well as on lesser-known examples of radicalism, as
well as in articles that include theoretical and methodological considerations.
Send queries or completed articles to the editors at jsr@msu.edu by November
15, 2018.
See http://www.msupress.msu.edu/journals/jsr for
more information.
Refugees and
International Law: The Challenge of Protection
This Special Issue provides a forum for addressing some of
the critical legal issues involving refugees and international law. Possible
legal issues include, but are not limited to the following: When and how can
international humanitarian law and international criminal law advance the
protection of refugees? What other branches of public international law can
support and inform the application and interpretation of international refugee
law while enhancing the protection of those seeking asylum? How can international
human rights law best be applied to strengthen the protection of refugees at
all stages of the refugee cycle? Given the fractured nature of international
criminal law jurisprudence, how can it best be applied and interpreted to
ensure that refugee protection is not compromised, the impunity gap is not
widened, and, justice is done? What is required to ensure that international
refugee law is uniformly and consistently applied across states and the UNHCR?
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2019
Contact Email: liv.li@mdpi.com
Capture Japan –
Visual Culture and the Global Imagination
The book aims to analyse, deconstruct and challenge
representations of Japan in a variety of different visual media such as cinema,
documentary film, photography, visual art, anime, manga, comics, television or
advertising. Through a series of case studies by an international group of
experts in the field, the book will highlight the institutional framework that
has allowed certain types of images of Japan to be promoted, while others have
been suppressed. The book will point to a vast network of global institutions,
each concerned with a different type of image of Japan that fits into an
ideological, political, cultural or economic agenda. Internationally, these
institutions include film production companies or art museums and galleries,
whereas in Japan they include local tourist boards, government agencies or
computer game manufacturers. Whilst these institutions have differing
interests, this book will identify common threads in the type of image of Japan
that is being imagined, produced and promoted by such institutions. The book
will make the argument that these images are visual tropes that feed into a
type of Japan of the global imagination.
Please send a 200 to 250 word abstract as well as a 100
short biography to the editor of the book Dr. Marco Bohr m.bohr@lboro.ac.uk by the 1st of
October 2018.
Dialogue and
Creativity
Culture and Dialogue is an international peer
reviewed print and electronic journal of cross-cultural philosophy and
humanities. The next 2019 issue (Volume 7, Number 1) will focus on the theme of
Dialogue and Creativity:
“Dialogue and creativity” can encompass a great many
specifically philosophical themes and issues, and some ideas involving
dialogical relationships include:
· Comparative
philosophy of creativity, which may analyse one or more particular non-Western
perspectives and how they can engage the current field of Western philosophy of
creativity. Among many relevant topics are virtue, knowledge, metaphysics,
aesthetics, mind, language, personal identity, imagination and artificial
intelligence.
· Philosophical
reflection on the range of scientific approaches to creativity, as well as
enquiry into the nature of creativity in mathematics and the sciences.
· The role and
significance of creativity in culture and society, including learning and
education.
· Creativity in
the arts, and the art of creativity.
· Creativity and
the interpretive tradition of philosophy (e.g., personalism, existentialism,
phenomenology, hermeneutics).
· Creativity,
interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity.
Submissions to: admin@culture-dialogue.net
Notes for Authors: www.culture-dialogue.net/notes-for-authors
Notes for Authors: www.culture-dialogue.net/notes-for-authors
Please Don't Ask Me
About My Dissertation: Dispatches from the Academic Trenches
While there are many "how-to" guides on completing
an advanced degree program, there are few collections that center on the grad
student experience from graduate students themselves. The purpose of this
collection of essays is to share honest and humorous perspectives on the
experience of completing an MS or PhD program (a degree that may or may not
lead to a career in academia) while offering practical knowledge that could
help other graduate students in successfully navigating multiple levels of
academia.
Autobiographical essays will be the main feature of this
work, but creative expressions such as the poetic essay, poetry, and
illustrations will also be accepted.
Contact Email: elvalenz@gmail.com
Feminisms and
Leadership
Feminist attention has been dedicated to understanding
differential leadership experiences within this highly gendered terrain.
However, a wealth of feminist literature continues to promote women’s
leadership in these spaces without dismantling the spaces themselves. Moreover,
unchecked histories of racism, sexism, classism, and ableism function to keep
notions of ‘successful’ leadership firmly within the confines of dominant
globalizing forces. This special issue invites feminist work that rewrites
notions of ‘successful’ leadership in psychology and related academic and
non-academic disciplines.
Contributions may include original articles (up to 3000-7000
words), observations and commentaries (up to 2500 words) or creative pieces (up
to 2000 words). Submissions will be subject to the usual peer review process.
The deadline for submissions is January 7th 2019.
SOCIAL MOMENTS: A
Student Journal of Social Relations
SOCIAL MOMENTS: A Student Journal of Social Relations is a
free, online, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal examining the social and
cultural world through a social science lens.
All graduate and undergraduate students of the social sciences are invited
to submit articles for publication.
Relevant disciplines include, but are not limited to: sociology,
criminology/criminal justice, women/gender studies, sexuality, political
science, social psychology, cultural anthropology, and cultural/social geography.
Contact Us: SocialMomentsJournal@gmail.com
The Speculative Body:
Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Televisual Imagination
“The Speculative Body: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the
Televisual Imagination” understands “body” in a broad sense, both encompassing
but also expanding outside of the (presumed) domains of gender, race, and
sexuality to question and destabilize the boundaries of both the human and the
national “body”. By “speculative” storytelling we intend a focus on television
and film that soften a hardened sense of empirical reality and explore the
“what if” questions, including but not necessarily limited to: science fiction,
fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, and all their various
intersections, noting the ways in which these genre “bodies” are frequently
blurred and combined.
We seek contributors working or interested in speculating in
these and related areas from a queer, feminist, critical race, and/or
disability studies perspective.
Abstracts of approximately 500 words are due by October 15
2018
Contact Email: sherry.zane@uconn.edu
Theopoetics
Special issue of Literature and Theology journal
Given Literature and Theology’s commitment as a journal to
engagement between religion and culture, articles that engage with literary and
other forms of artistic expression are particularly welcome.
Please send an abstract and outline of your article
(abstract 500 words) to Dr Anna Fisk University of Glasgow (anna.fisk@glasgow.ac.uk) by 31st October
2018.
Net Neutrality and
Digital Media/Scholarship
Each month, the MediaCommons Field Guide hosts a different
conversation in Media Studies, Digital Humanities, and Culture Studies asking
contributors to connect their interests or research to a core conceptual
question. We are seeking contributors to shape new and intriguing conversations
for our October issue on net neutrality and digital publishing/access, asking:
What effects will shifting net neutrality laws have on digital media and
digital scholarship? Many scholars elect to submit semi-informal essay-form
responses (400-600 words), however, we also welcome multimedia/interactive and
alternate forms of digital submissions.
Should you have any additional questions or concerns,
contact coordinating editor D’An Knowles Ball (tknowles@odu.edu),
or Avi Santo, MediaCommons’ managing editor (asanto@odu.edu).
FUNDING
Research Fellowships
in the Humanities at the Harry Ransom Center
We are accepting applications for the 2019–2020 year, which
includes 10 dissertation fellowships for projects that require substantial
on-site use of the Center’s collections. The collections support research in
all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the
performing arts, music, and cultural history.
The submission deadline is November 15, 2018, at 5:00pm CST
Questions about the fellowship program or application
procedures should be directed to ransomfellowships@utexas.edu.
Lemelson Center
Fellowships and Travel Grants
Through its fellowships and travel grants, the Lemelson
Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation supports research projects
that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in
American society. Projects may include (but are not limited to) historical
research and documentation projects resulting in dissertations, publications,
exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia
products.
Apps Due: 1 November 2018
Contact Email: hintze@si.edu
Massachusetts
Historical Society Research Fellowships
The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer more than
forty research fellowships for the academic year 2019-2020. For more information, please
visit www.masshist.org/research/fellowships,
email fellowships@masshist.org or
phone 617-646-0577. Follow us on Twitter @MHS_Research for reminders
regarding fellowship deadlines and information on all of our other activities.
American Geographical
Society Fellowships
McColl Research Program
The McColl Research Program was established to attract
visiting scholars, (who reside beyond commuting distance of UWM), whose
research would benefit from extensive use of the collections and who are
interested in communicating their research results to a broad, educated general
audience. The intended goal is to promote geographical literacy to the broadest
possible community, especially those who can apply the data and analyses. Research
projects supported by the Fellowship program must fall within the wide range of
subject areas that could be supported by the Library’s collections. Examples
include area studies, discovery and exploration, history of cartography,
history of geographical thought, historical geography and geographical themes
with a significant historical component, and any topic that would have policy, business
or similar applications.
Library Research Fellowships
The American Geographical Society Library Research
Fellowship program is intended to help bring to the AGS Library scholars who
reside beyond commuting distance of UWM, and whose research would benefit from
extensive use of the Library. Research projects supported by the Fellowship
program must fall within the wide range of subject areas that could be
supported by the Library. Examples include history of cartography (including
cartobibliography), history of geographic thought, discovery and exploration,
historical geography, and other history themes with a significant geographical
component.
Eligible applicants are established scholars, or doctoral
students who have completed their course work and are at the stage of writing
their dissertations.
Application deadline for both fellowship programs is:
December 16, 2018
email: bidney@uwm.edu
Mellon/ACLS
Dissertation Completion Fellowships
ACLS invites applications for Mellon/ACLS Dissertation
Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research and writing to help
advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the
last year of PhD dissertation writing. The total award of up to $38,000
includes a stipend plus additional funds for university fees and research
support.
Deadline: October 24, 2018
email: fellowships@acls.org
George E. Pozzetta
Dissertation Award
Each year the Immigration and Ethnic History Society awards
the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award. For the 2019 award, it will invite
applications from any Ph.D. candidate who will have completed qualifying exams
by 2018, and whose thesis focuses on American immigration, emigration, or
ethnic history. The award provides two grants of $1000 each for expenses to be
incurred in researching the dissertation.
deadline: 11:59 PM on December 17, 2018.
Contact Email: jkraut456@gmail.com
2018 Ford Foundation
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
The Ford Foundation is committed to increasing the diversity
of the country’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic
and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to
increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource
for enriching the education of all students. Their Pre-Doctoral fellowship opportunity
offers an annual stipend of $24,000, expenses paid to attend at least one
Conference of Ford Fellows, as well as access to Ford Fellow Regional Liaisons,
a network of former Ford Fellows who have volunteered to provide mentoring and
support to current fellows.
The deadline to apply is December 14, 2017
Florida Atlantic
University Libraries-Huntington Library Graduate Research Fellowship
The Florida Atlantic University Libraries and the Huntington
Library are jointly offering three short-term research fellowships for advanced
graduate students. Fellows will spend the month of October 2019 in residence
using Florida Atlantic University Libraries’ Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of
America Collection in Boca Raton, Florida. They may take the second month of
the fellowship at the Huntington Library at any time between July 1, 2019 and
June 30, 2020. While at the Florida Atlantic University Libraries, fellows will
meet together weekly along with FAU faculty and participate in academic
programming. Fellows will be encouraged to submit a conference panel based on
the materials they find in the collections and their discussions during the
fellowship period.
The application deadline is November 15, 2018.
Email: afinucane@fau.edu
Fellowships for
Digital Collections
The Omohundro Institute is pleased to offer fellowships for
scholars at all levels working in partnership with special collections
libraries and historical societies. The Fellowships for Digital Collections are
part of the Lapidus Initiative. In concert with other OI projects promoting
creative use of digital tools and materials, these fellowships are intended to
bring scholars and collections specialists together to make collections
available for digital scholarship.
The fellowship awards up to $5,000 to the holding library
and to the scholar whose research relies on, or will be greatly enhanced by,
the digitization of a collection or partial collection of materials related to
early America, broadly conceived, before 1820.
Applications are due November 1.
Email Martha Howard at martha.howard@wm.edu.
Prize for Research on
Women and Politics
The Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and
Politics is an annual competition designed to encourage and reward scholars
embarking on significant research in the area of women and politics. Research
projects submitted for prize consideration may address any topic related to
women and politics. Scholars at any level, from graduate students to tenured
faculty members as well as independent researchers, may apply.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CST on November 25, 2018
Questions? Email the center at cattcntr@iastate.edu or
call 515-294-3181
Resident Scholar
Fellowship
Resident scholar fellowships are awarded annually by the
School for Advanced Research (SAR) to up to six scholars who have completed
their research and who need time to prepare manuscripts or dissertations on
topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may
approach their research from the perspective of anthropology or from related
fields such as history and sociology.
Deadline: November 1
Application: https://scholar.myreviewroom.com/
Mellon Fellowships
for Dissertation Research in Original Sources
The purposes of this fellowship program are to:
• help junior scholars in the humanities and related social
science fields gain skill and creativity in developing knowledge from original
sources;
• enable dissertation writers to do research wherever
relevant sources may be, rather than just where financial support is available;
• encourage more extensive and innovative uses of original
sources in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and related
repositories in the United States and abroad; and
• provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates
into how scholarly resources can be developed for access most helpfully in the
future.
The deadline for submission of application materials is
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Contact Email: mellon@clir.org
Newberry Library
Short-Term Fellowships
Newberry Library Fellowships provide support to researchers
who wish to use our collection. Postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, and
scholars with terminal degrees who live and work outside of the Chicago
metropolitan area are eligible.
Deadline: December 15
WORKSHOPS
Dissertation Workshop
on Afro-Latin American Studies
May 10-11, 2019.
The Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins
Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, invites
graduate students working on dissertations related to Afro-Latin American
studies to submit a proposal to the annual Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation
Workshop on Afro- Latin American Studies. Doctoral students at universities
anywhere in the world, who are at the dissertation writing stage, from any
discipline, are invited to submit an application. Previous applicants who were
not selected before are welcome to reapply.
The only condition is that their dissertations deal with Afro- Latin American topics broadly
defined, covering any time period, from colonial times to the present.
Complete materials should be uploaded electronically by January 13, 2019 using the following application format: https://goo.gl/forms/iCChlRJeIWncPAAg1
Complete materials should be uploaded electronically by January 13, 2019 using the following application format: https://goo.gl/forms/iCChlRJeIWncPAAg1
Contact Email: alari@fas.harvard.edu
Summer Seminars with Étienne Balibar, Nancy Fraser, and
Achille Mbembe
The Institute for
Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) at the New School for Social Research is pleased
to announce that we are now accepting fellowship applications for our 2019
Summer Seminars (June 9 - 15, 2019). Advanced graduate students and faculty are
eligible to apply.
Faculty we shall
have with us in 2019: ÉTIENNE BALIBAR (Kingston University) will convene the
seminar on "Communism: Return to the New Commons?"; NANCY FRASER(New
School for Social Research) will lead the seminar on “Critique of
Capitalism"; and ACHILLE MBEMBE (WISER Institute, University of
Witwatersrand) will convene the seminar, “Borders in the Age of Networks” We
are particularly excited to have this synergy among the seminars and anticipate
enabling opportunities for abundant exchange across them.
Applications are due
before midnight Eastern Standard Time on December 15, 2018.
Contact Email: icsi@newschool.edu
Prisons and Prisoners
Prison Records in Historical Perspective
April 23-24, 2019, University of Guelph, Canada
The constitution of the prison as mass incarceration
institution has long attracted the interest of researchers. The unusually
detailed nature of most of the prison archives partly explains the attraction.
The detailed analysis of these data, starting in the 1970s; it is the fact that
so many criminologists specialists in social and economic history, demographers
and other social scientists. The increasing power of software and hardware as
well as the accumulation of vast amounts of data on prisons, some of which is
combined with other sources, provide researchers with broad prospects, but also
a challenge. This workshop will be an opportunity to deepen these questions
about the operation of criminal justice records. It will bring together
researchers from different disciplines and countries to confront their sources
and methods (classification, analysis, etc.) and to reassess the paradigms of
research.
Please send an abstract of 250 words before 30 September, to
Kris Inwood kinwood@uoguelph.ca
