CONFERENCES
Resisting 'Religion'
American Association of Religion, Western Region Annual
Conference, Arizona State University | March 2-3, 2019
Is it time to resist “Religion”? As an academic discipline,
religious studies (RS) is dividing into smaller distinct sub-fields due to
factors such as the problematic nature of defining “religion” and of
articulating a coherent RS perspective (e.g., the well-established problems
with comparative projects like the “world religions paradigm”), disciplinary
and economic pressures (e.g., donors’ endowments) pushing RS to fragment into
area studies, and RS scholars’ adherence to entrenched theories and
methodologies. We welcome papers that respond to recent arguments that
“religious studies” should become “worldview studies” and more descriptive
rather than prescriptive critiques of the field of “religion” as a naturalized
discipline.
Please email your 250-word proposals
to Nathan Fredrickson (nfredrickson@umail.ucsb.edu)
and Dr. Lilith Acadia (acadia@berkeley.edu).
DEADLINE FOR PAPERS PROPOSALS: 1 OCTOBER 2018, MIDNIGHT PST
Contact Email: acadia@berkeley.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
NeMLA sessions
ReSisters of Americanization: Women Writing Difference in
the 19/20th C U.S.
NeMLA 2019, March 21-24, 2019 - Washington, DC
Within any culture, as well as transculturally, we
might—with Spivak—consider women as colonized subjects; as such, women
negotiate Bhabha’s third space of hybrid identity. In the 19thand 20thcentury
United States, the processes of Americanization explicitly functioned as the
dominant mode of cultural oppression. How then did 19/20thcentury women writers
in the U.S. present, resist and/or directly challenge the homogenizing
processes of Americanization (and its concordant gender hierarchy) in their
work? If the subaltern speaks, what might she say? Might she utilize more than
one voice? This panel invites papers that explore the work of women writing in
the 19thand 20thcentury United States whose fiction, in resisting, commenting
upon or critiquing Americanization/the hegemonic social order, demonstrates a
Bhabhian hybridity and/or Bakhtinian carnivalesque. Papers that focus on women
of this era writing fiction that explores racialized and/or ethnic communities
in the U.S. are especially welcome.
Submit abstract proposal by September 30, 2018 at http://www.nemla.org
Contact Email: tlh35@pitt.edu
How Can Adjuncts,
Graduate Students, and Tenured Professors Better Fight for the University We
Want?
This panel, part of the NeMLA 2019 conference in Washington,
DC from March 21-24, 2019, aims to bring together adjuncts, graduate students,
and tenured professors to discuss how we can all work together to fight for a
more democratic and just work environment. Topics might include ways to build
solidarity to improve working conditions, more democratic ways to share power
and responsibility between adjuncts, graduate students, and tenured professors,
and ways to increase diversity in the university. Other topics that address
solidarity between all workers in the university are welcome. Upload an
abstract of 300 words or fewer and a brief bio through the NeMLA portal
at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17434 by
September 30, 2018.
Crafting the Long
Tomorrow @ Biosphere 2
Feb. 21-24, 2019, Arizona
The physical sciences tell us civilization and the biosphere
face extreme consequences from global trends humans have set in motion,
especially climate change. Multiple disciplines can illuminate both the global
emergency and the long tomorrow—crafting approaches, some likely deeply
unsettling, that could extend the lifespan of our species and others. Some
still deliberate about the messiness of what used to be called the two cultures
of arts and sciences, even as scholars have usefully blurred those boundaries.
However, disciplinary divides both continue to be breached in welcome fashion
by collaborations in such emerging fields as “art/sci,” “environmental
humanities,” “geohumanities” and more.
Proposals due: Oct. 22, 2018.
Contact Email: joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu
Feminists Confronting
the Carceral State
February 22, 2019, Luskin Conference Center, UCLA
Much of the policy and research on punishment in the United
States has focused on men. Yet, the history and contemporary reality of women’s
subjugation to systems of punishment also runs deep and warrants further
exploration. Many young women and girls, especially Black, Brown, and Native
girls, are ensnared in the carceral state where they are criminalized and
surveilled in schools, foster systems, and in their communities. Moreover,
transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals are particularly vulnerable to
policing and incarceration and state-sanctioned violence.
Feminists Confronting the Carceral State invites presenters
to think through approaches that consider the social contexts in which the
carceral state operates in feminist, queer, intersectional, and critical ways.
Given recent re-commitments to “tough on crime” beliefs and policies, feminists
must be at the forefront of resisting and dismantling the carceral state in all
areas of society.
Deadline: Sunday, October 28 at 11:59 PM
Questions? Contact Shena Sanchez at thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu
Warrior Roots Direct
Action Training Camp
We are excited to announce the Warrior Roots Direct Action
Training Camp. This gathering will engage in direct action for advancing
grassroots organizing projects, critical conversations, and community building
strategies among the people of South Texas with the vision of building a
sustainable network of diverse communities able to mobilize, protect and defend
themselves. We invite artists, media makers, health practitioners, advocates,
young people, students, activists & community organizers, scholars &
teachers, and anyone else interested in submitting a workshop or presentation
to address these objectives.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: September 14, 2018
Please send inquiries to warriorootstrainingcamp@gmail.com
Only You and Your
Ghost Will Know: Music, Death and Afterlife
April 11th-April 14th, 2019, Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle,
WA
Popular music has long been centrally concerned with death
and the afterlife. Songs, recordings and musical traditions have expressed both
mourning and celebration, and have – in some cases – helped envision the
possibilities of a continued existence where “death is not the end.” From
gospel to metal and beyond, music pays tribute to the departed, offers
opportunities for ceremony and commemoration, and helps to process tragedies
both personal and public. It even blurs the boundaries between states of life
and death, offering sonic and symbolic evidence for hauntings, purgatories, and
the continued presence of ancestors in the lives of the earthbound. For the
2019 Pop Conference, we invite proposals that contend with the many ways that
music reflects and expresses the realities of the end and the possibilities of
rebirth.
Proposals are due November 12th.
Contact Email: hughesc@rhodes.edu
Mothers, Motherhood,
& Mothering in Popular Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
February 20-23, 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The panel area chairpersons seek papers that study
motherhood by exploring how popular culture representations of mothers
complicate notions of societal ideals of motherhood, mothering performance, or
mothering identity. We invite papers that consider motherhood depictions in
popular media such as television, movies, magazines, advertising, art,
government policy, child-rearing manuals, photography, online media, and
literature. We particularly encourage papers that also take up issues of
intersectionality and mothering including gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity,
age, ability, citizenship, nationality, and social class.
Proposal submission deadline: November 1, 2018
All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s
database at http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca
If you have any questions about the Mothers, Motherhood, and
Mothering in Popular Culture area, please contact its Area Chair, Kathleen
Lacey, atklacey@southwestpca.org or
Assistant Area Chair, Jennifer Martin, at jdmartin@email.sc.edu.
Memory
Conference Date: January 25-26, 2019, Montana State
University
The Northern Montana Interdisciplinary Conference (NMIC) at
Montana State University -Northern in Havre, MT, is currently accepting
proposals for 15-20 minute presentations from individuals and panels, as well
as round table proposals and creative pieces. This year’s conference theme is
MEMORY. This theme encourages argument-driven papers and presentations that
explore any aspects of memory and its relationship to areas of cultural,
literary, artistic, historical, or scientific disciplines.
Deadline for Proposals: October 31, 2018
Contact Email: valerie.guyant@msun.edu
Criptic Identities.
Historicizing the identity formation of persons with disabilities across the
globe
Leiden University, Institute for History, 21 – 22 March 2019
Historically, disability politics have included both the
professional and institutional negotiation of individuals as socially 'deviant'
and 'unfit', as well as organized collective action from within communities of
persons with disabilities themselves. How did these differing identities of
disability come about? And of equal importance, in which ways did disability
not become an identity? What kinds of identity formation processes can we
detect in different societal contexts as well as cultural settings, and do
these follow comparable or diverging trajectories? With this workshop, we hope
that new, evidence-based studies on the identities of disability and 'the
disabled person' from various places around the globe will not only shed light
on historical conceptualizations, but may provide new reflections and insights
on how we as scholars conceptualize disability today, and in which ways these
two might be related.
If you wish to participate in the workshop, please send an
abstract of about 350 words and a short CV no later than 1 November 2018 to the
following email address: rethinkingdisability@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Annual Africa
Conference at The University of Texas at Austin
March 29-31, 2019
Scholars are invited to examine diverse aspects of identity
formation in Africa or within African communities. The conference intends to
address core questions such as what constitutes the different practices of
making and unmaking of identities, why various social groups resort to identity
politics of different sorts, what are the larger implications of identity
politics in African social formations, and how socially marginalized and
excluded groups invest in identity politics to endorse right-based social
movements. Parallel to that, the conference invites inquiries about how
transnational and global currents inform the discursive formations of various
identities among Africans and the African diaspora.
deadline: December 15
Sacred Journeys
County Kildare, Ireland, Wednesday 10 July – Thursday 11
July 2019
More than 400 million people embark annually on pilgrimages
with numbers steadily increasing. Pilgrimage is one of the most ancient
practices of humankind and is associated with a great variety of religious and
spiritual traditions, beliefs and sacred geographies. As a global phenomenon,
pilgrimage facilitates interaction between and among diverse peoples from countless
cultures, occupations, and walks of life. In the 6th Global Conference, we will
continue to explore pilgrimage’s personal, interpersonal, intercultural, and
international dimensions. This includes similarities and differences in the
practice in Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Taoism, and other
traditions, as well as secular pilgrimage. The impact of the internet and
globalization, pilgrimage as protest, and pilgrimage and peace building, among
others, are all topics of interest, as are the concepts of the internal
pilgrimage and the journey of self-discovery.
Proposals should be submitted no later than Thursday, 28
February 2019
Contact Email: imcintos@iupui.edu
Consumption: Food,
Culture, Desire
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA
While from a scholarly perspective consumption is most often
associated with economics, the true fundamental act of consumption is the
intake or expenditure of some raw material—whether lucre, food, media, ideas,
belief, time, love—to serve a need or desire inherent within the self. We are a
highly consumptive culture—we overeat, we take in too much media, we concern
ourselves with economic status. What we consume—what we take in—says quite a bit
about ourselves as individuals and as a social whole. It must also speak to our
(individual and social) capacity for release, for what we can provide or offer
the world. This conference looks to how the various fields represented by the
Humanities explore our relationships to this concept of Consumption.
Abstracts are due by JANUARY 15, 2019
Contact Email: mcornelius@wilson.edu
History of Medicine
& Science
The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and
Science is holding it's 21st annual conference on March 13-16, 2019 at the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.
We welcome submissions for papers or panels that discuss the
history of medicine, nursing, and/or science. This is broadly construed to
encompass all fields and subfields historical, literary, anthropological,
philosophical, legal, and sociological related to the historical understanding
of any aspect of science, medicine, nursing, health care, and the medical and
health science professions, as well as closely related topics, including issues
related to science, medicine, and nursing involving race, disabilities,
sustainability, environment, technology, and gender studies.
Deadline: OCTOBER 29, 2018
Please visit www.sahms.net for
full information
Contact Email: sahmsconference@gmail.com
Contradicting
Contradictions: Interrogating Humanities-based Scholar Activism in the
Neoliberal University
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.
email: ihgradconference@ucmerced.edu.
World History
Association & Global Urban History Project
San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 27 - 29, 2019
For the “Cities in Global Contexts” theme, we seek panels by
world historians who have taken up urban topics, panels by urbanists attracted
by the challenges of global research, and panels that bring these two groups together.
We are also interested in strengthening professional networks that cross
between these two fields, so conference attendees who wish to do so will be
able to join GUHP as part of their conference registration. For the “Caribbean
as Crossroads,” we seek panels that address the long history of this region,
from the first settlements in c. 5000 BCE to the 2017 hurricanes.
The deadline for proposals is November 30.
Contact Email: info@thewha.org
40th Annual Southwest
Popular/American Culture Association Conference
February 20-23, 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for
the 40thannual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s
largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject
areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of
subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/.
The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2018.
Investigating
Mid-Atlantic Plantations: Slavery, Economies, and Space
Philadelphia, PA, October 17-19, 2019
We seek participants from diverse fields including economic,
social, and cultural history; African American studies; geography, archeology,
and material culture; and museum studies, cultural resource management, and
historic preservation. Paper proposals might address economic, familial, and
religious networks; enslavement, indenture, and “free” labor; land ownership
and land development; agricultural and horticultural practices; architecture,
circulation, and spatial relationships; physical and cognitive maps; foodways
and music; industry and commerce; and the construction of gendered or racial
categories. We look forward to seeing even more ways that applicants might
illuminate these mid-Atlantic geographies of privilege, slavery, and forced
labor; manifold local and far-reaching economies; and spaces both rural and
urban.
The deadline for submissions is 15 September 2018.
Contact Email: mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
PUBLISHING
Suffrage at 100:
Women and American Politics Since 1920
As the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment
approaches, women are seemingly at a crossroads in American politics. They
appear to be gaining traction in this traditionally masculine realm, but are
still far behind. Women continue to
grapple with the disappointment that gender parity in politics did not easily
follow the right to vote. This collection will map out the last 100 years of
this lengthy struggle, focusing on efforts to recognize, appreciate, and
cultivate women’s civic engagement since the ratification of the Nineteenth
Amendment. We welcome new articles (8,000 to 10,000 words including notes)
broadly addressing women and American politics since 1920. We also welcome related historiographic
essays and interpretive analysis accompanying relevant primary source
document(s).
Please send article abstracts of 500 words and a CV by
September 15, 2018 to: Stacie at staranto@ramapo.edu or
Leandra at lrzarnow@central.uh.edu.
We also welcome questions and comments at those email addresses.
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 25th year 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.
To read our current issue and our submission guidelines, or
browse our content, please visit www.southerncultures.org.
Renewable Energy:
International Perspectives on Sustainability
This interdisciplinary edited volume investigates
economic 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 problems and obstacles. By September 21 please submit
your CV and an abstract (approximately 300 words) to Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochk@tulane.edu and/or Dr. Elena
Shabliy eshabliy@tulane.edu. This
edited volume is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.
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.
Find the CfA online here: https://www.on-culture.org/submission/cfa-issue-7/
Contact Email: content@on-culture.org
Abstract Submission no later than September 15, 2018
World-Making and
World-Traveling with Decolonial Feminisms and Women of Color
This special issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women
Studiesinvites contributions of scholarly, creative, and visual works that
share diverse modes of decolonial feminist praxis in relation to the lifeworks
of philosopher María Lugones. Lugones’ conceptualization of “playfulness,
‘world’-traveling and loving perception,” and her analysis of the “coloniality
of gender,” frame our conversation on decolonial feminisms. 2020 will mark the
thirtieth anniversary of the inclusion of Lugones’ essay, “Playfulness,
‘World’-Traveling, and Loving Perception,” in the anthology edited by Gloria
Anzaldúa, Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras. We offer this call as a way
to consider the historical, theoretical, pedagogical, and praxical engagements
with the term “Women of Color” as it travels across times and spaces.
Submission Deadline:
February 1, 2019
Please submit all works through our online editorial manager
and briefly state that your submission is to be considered for the special
issue: www.editorialmanager.com/fron/Default.aspx
All correspondence can be sent to the guest editors
at: frontiersjournal@utah.edu
Representing Abortion
This edited collection begins from these questions to
consider how artists, writers, performers, and activists create space to make
abortion visible, audible, and palpable within contexts dominated by
antiabortion imagery centred on the fetus and the erasure of the person
considering or undergoing abortion. This
collection will build on the recent exciting proliferation of scholarly work on
abortion that investigates the history, politics, and law of abortion, as well
as antiabortion movements and experiences of pregnancy loss. Central to the
considerations in this proposed collection is the intellectual and political
work that these artworks, texts, performances, and actions do and make
possible. Contemporary and historical
analyses are welcomed.
Proposals must be received on or before October 1, 2018.
Contact Email: rahurst@stfx.ca
Women and Politics:
Obstacles & Opportunities
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought invites contributions
for its next issue. The equal participation of women in politics and government
is all important for the successful functioning of vibrant democratic
communities in which both women and men can thrive. However, the history of
women in American politics tells a story which differs from that reality. In
the upcoming issue of the journal, we wish to focus on those obstacles and
opportunities which have, or may not have, contributed to women’s equal
political participation.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: September 30, 2018
Contact Email: lisa.richter@salve.edu
Call for Submissions:
Screen Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Experience, Perception, and
Display
Screen Bodies is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on the
intersection of Screen Studies and Body Studies across disciplines,
institutions, and media.The journal considers moving and still images, whether
from the entertainment industry, information technologies, or news and media
outlets, including cinema, television, the internet, and gallery spaces. It
investigates the private experiences of portable and personal devices and the
institutional ones of medical and surveillance imaging. Screen Bodies addresses
the portrayal, function, and reception of bodies on and in front of screens
from the perspectives of gender and sexuality, feminism and masculinity, trans
studies, queer theory, critical race theory, cyborg studies, and dis/ability studies.
The journal seeks submissions related to any of the areas
and methodologies outlined above. In particular, we encourage scholars to
submit work that focuses on matters of embodiment on screens outside of the
arts and entertainment, such as those in medicine, surveillance, and
interactive visualization in computer science.
Deadline: Oct. 15
Contact Email: ball@math.harvard.edu
Environment: From A
Humanities Perspective
In the last decades, we have witnessed concerted efforts
from worldwide organisations such as the UN or from leaders of powerful nations
to adopt strategies that aim to preserve our planet and raise environmental
awareness among the public. These efforts have been accelerated partly by world
environmentalists such as Rachel Carson, Wangari Maathai, Chico Mendes and others
and partly by global social movements such as the Chipko Movement in India,
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Plastic Pollution Coalition, etc. Such interventions
have enthused humanities and social sciences scholars to participate in
discussions, controlled earlier by hard sciences and understand how
environmental issues have affected human life, society, and culture.
Please e-mail your unpublished, full papers (a minimum 5000
to a maximum of 7000 words including endnotes and bibliography, along with a
200 word abstract, 6 keywords and a 100 word bio-note) as MS Word attachments,
in accordance with our journal style guidelines (see the relevant section in
Sanglap’s website) to editors@sanglap-journal.in by November
10, 2018.
Teaching 9/11 and Its
Aftermaths
Essay proposals are invited for a scholarly volume entitled
Teaching 9/11 and Its Aftermaths, to appear in the Options for Teaching series
published by the Modern Language Association. The upcoming twentieth
anniversary of the terrorist attacks heralds the first generation of college
students whose understanding of the events and their contexts and consequences
has no basis in personal memory. Through scholarly essays, teaching materials,
and pedagogical resources, Teaching 9/11 and Its Aftermaths aims to highlight
the complexity, diversity, and breadth of the materials available to
instructors teaching the literature and culture of 9/11 and its aftermaths, at
both the undergraduate and graduate level and in a variety of institutional
settings.
Authors from diverse backgrounds are invited to submit
350–400-word abstracts and brief 50-word biographies by 30 September 2018.
Contact Email: eosucha@bates.edu
What Guns Mean: The
Symbolic Lives of Firearms
Civilian-owned firearms are particular material objects
whose public health implications garner increasing academic and public
attention. After years of relative silence, many leading American public health
organizations, medical groups, and research universities have now come out
against the research blockade put in place by the so-called Dickey Amendment in
1996. To date, however, relatively little attention has been paid to larger
questions of what guns mean, and how firearms emerge as powerful symbols whose
connotations are shaped by history, politics, and culture. This article
collection will explore these latter associations by looking in depth at guns
as particular, and particularly charged, cultural and political symbols.
Article proposals should be submitted to the Editorial
Office by October 1, 2018. Please send proposals to palcomms@palgrave.com.
Contact Email:
Transregional Postcolonialisms: Queer Remainders of
Disappearing Imperialism
American Comparative Literature Association 2019 Annual
Meeting
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 7 – 10, 2019
How might we queer current postcolonial lines to catch sight
of the ever-shifting formations of imperialism? How might we queer the queer to
make it resonate with yet other ways of going beyond, or remapping, established
boundaries? If in forming itself it disappears, thus constantly expanding,
where, to begin with, is the empire? Through attention to the region—smaller
and larger than the nation—this panel explores imperialism across its
colonizations and the queer and postcolonial cultures that emerge as responses
to its asymmetrical building of a world. How does imperialism tie one region to
another, constituting a region, itself multiple, as part of a world? In what
ways is queerness also a “region” targeted for colonization?
Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words through the ACLA
website https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting
by September 20.
Policing, Justice,
and the Radical Imagination
Radical History Review seeks proposals for contributions to
a forthcoming issue that will bring together historically oriented scholarship
and politically engaged writing that examine places and times without police.
Social movements like the Brazilian campaign Reaja ou será mort@ (React or Be
Killed) and Black Lives Matter in the U.S. seek not only to redress and prevent
the harms inflicted by police and prisons, but also to reenvision forms of
social organization that do not rely on such institutions of state violence at
all. Indeed, the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) centrally calls for their
abolition, meaning not just dismantling these institutions of public discipline
but also redistributing their capacities into institutions of real community
safety, like schools, hospitals, and public spaces. While the idea of a world
without police may appear utopian, this issue of RHR challenges us to take this
proposition seriously. What would a world without police look like, and how
might it function? How might radical histories of policing allow us to imagine
such a world?
By October 1, 2018, please submit a 1-2 page abstract
summarizing the article you wish as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com
Portrayals of the
Bride in Screen, Stage and Literary Productions, and Pop Culture Narratives
To whatever degree, every culture in the world is different
to all others. Yet one figure that consistently features in almost every
culture is the bride. The bride is a central figure in the wedding ceremony, a
ritual that symbolizes the psychological and real foundation of marriage or
committed union and expresses both the promise of happiness, security, safety,
protection, and peace and unity in the home and the most exalted aspects of
frith—the sanctity of the unionized state and human life. From antiquity to the
present, brides feature in stories, witticisms, anecdotes, jokes and in both
high and low culture. The concept of the bride symbolizes the promise of renewal
and growth of the family and is an important part of social and cultural
history and ritual in all societies, world-wide, yet it would seem that there
are no published academic books on portrayals of the bride from the angle
suggested in this cfp.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2018.
Contact Email: Jo.Parnell@newcastle.edu.au
Representations of
African American Professionals on TV Series Since the 1990s
I am looking for chapters for an edited volume under
contract with McFarland Press, focusing on how African Americans professionals
have been portrayed in scripted television since the 1990s. This collection of
essays specifically focuses on African Americans within television and their
representations as professionals across various shows. The fairly narrow
representation of African Americans on television is primarily comprised of
short-storied characters who act in ways that enforcing stereotypes surrounding
African American communities and cultures. As a break from these constant
messages, this book aims to give space for analyses and understanding of
depictions of African American professionals within television as a way for
acknowledging, interrogating and potentially embracing regressive and
progressive representations in television.
First please reach out to LaToya T. Brackett via email
at: latoyatbrackett@gmail.com to
inquire about your potential submission by October 1st, 2018.
Patriarchy and Gender
in Africa
Globally, males disproportionately predominate leadership
roles and exert power in diverse forms of social systems and institutions.
Patriarchy, the supremacy of fatherhood whereby women and children rely totally
on male line, is entrenched in many societies around the world. Differential
enjoyment of rights and dignity predetermined for women and men, based on their
social, cultural and legal disposition, typify gender inequality. Patriarchy
and gender inequality are two important but complex and debatable issues facing
the African continent today. Argued to be the main cause of gender inequality,
patriarchy plagues Africa in spite of immense progress made in the last two
decades to address the prolonged impacts of gender injustice and male
dominance. We announce a call for chapter proposals to critically analyze the
situation of girls and women in Africa.
Proposal Submission Deadline:30 September 2018
Polymath: An
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal
Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal is
now accepting submissions for future issues. Articles on any interdisciplinary
topic are welcome, although we especially seek submissions that cross or
connect unusual disciplinary boundaries such as humanities and the laboratory
sciences. Polymath also welcomes articles by undergraduate or graduate students
working on interdisciplinary projects.
Please feel free to contact Polymath editor
Jeff Manuel (jemanue@siue.edu)
with any questions. For author guidelines and to submit an article, please
visit: https://ojcs.siue.edu/ojs/index.php/polymath/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
FUNDING
Phillips Fund for
Native American Research
The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society
provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and
the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States
and Canada. The grants are intended for such costs as travel, tapes, films, and
consultants' fees. The committee prefers to support the work of younger
scholars who have received the doctorate. Applications are also accepted from
graduate students for research on master’s theses or doctoral dissertations.
Deadline: March 1, 2019
Contact Email: musumeci@amphilsoc.org
NOMIS Fellowships
The center invites applications from outstanding junior and
senior researchers in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences for
three one-year NOMIS Fellowships beginning September 1, 2019. The NOMIS
Fellowship Program supports groundbreaking research projects related to how images
act as models or paradigms in scientific and aesthetic contexts. We are
interested in the fundamental ways images serve as instruments for making
complex structures visible and accessible to interpretation. In both aesthetic
and experimental settings, images often assume an exemplary character, aiding
epistemic and learning processes. They fulfill evidential, didactic, and
symbolic functions, and thereby produce different forms of knowledge.
Deadline: October 15, 2018.
Inquiries and applications should be sent to eikones@unibas.ch.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Inclusive Excellence
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Critical Gender and Race Studies
https://jobs.scu.edu/postings/7632
The Santa Clara University Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST) Department seeks a feminist teacher-scholar who conducts engaged social research at the intersection of gender and race, focusing primarily on the United States. Areas of research specialization could include but are not limited to: medicine and technology, health and reproductive justice, environmental studies, labor market segmentation, state and intimate violence, gender and immigration, systems of institutionalization (e.g., prisons, shelters, surveillance); science and technology studies, women of color feminisms, black feminisms, Latinx feminisms, critical gender and race theorizing, political economy and social movements, or digital culture. We particularly encourage applications from candidates whose work is interdisciplinary in nature.
The Santa Clara University Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST) Department seeks a feminist teacher-scholar who conducts engaged social research at the intersection of gender and race, focusing primarily on the United States. Areas of research specialization could include but are not limited to: medicine and technology, health and reproductive justice, environmental studies, labor market segmentation, state and intimate violence, gender and immigration, systems of institutionalization (e.g., prisons, shelters, surveillance); science and technology studies, women of color feminisms, black feminisms, Latinx feminisms, critical gender and race theorizing, political economy and social movements, or digital culture. We particularly encourage applications from candidates whose work is interdisciplinary in nature.
Application deadline: 12/15/2018
WORKSHOPS
Emerging African
Studies Scholars Workshop
In collaboration with the ASA, the ASR invites submissions
for the Atlanta PEASS workshop. PEASS workshops are designed to develop high quality
journal submissions from emerging scholars in African Studies under the
mentorship of senior Africanists. Emerging scholars will have an opportunity to
work closely with senior scholars to re-work a pre-circulated draft article of
a paper they are presenting at the annual meeting. Scholars who wish to submit
a proposal to a PEASS may be post-doctoral researchers, newly minted PhDs with
works-in-progress currently underway, or soon-to-submit PhD students.
Participants must be registered attendees at the Annual Meeting, and presenting
on the program.
You can find the complete call for applications and more
information here: https://africanstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ASR-PEASS-Atlanta-Call.pdf. Applications
are due September 7, 2018.
For further information contact Kathryn Salucka, kathryn@africanstudies.org.
In the Clouds
ArtScience Workshop
January 24-26, 2019, Stavanger, Norway
Humans have long fitted clouds into culture. From heavenly
deities depicted as living in the clouds or descending from them to picturesque
Romantic landscapes with sweeping cloudy vistas, clouds have become objects
imbued with cultural meaning. While clouds are part of nature, they are also
fundamentally technological. Clouds were systematically classified in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a typical imposition of a
technological system onto an object of study. Clouds are thus both material and
metaphorical: a meteorological phenomenon, a digital technological data
platform, a religious symbol, a place of daydreams. How does the modern
computing cloud relate to longer human engagement with clouds as physical,
technological, and emotional objects? What meanings do clouds carry? What do we
imagine when we imagine a cloud?
Deadline for proposals: Sept. 15
Contact Email: dolly.jorgensen@uis.no
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