Materializing
Resistance: Gender, Politics, and Craft
Lexington, Kentucky, USA, April 12 - 13, 201
Much recent scholarship has stressed the critical potential
of craft, frequently utilizing feminist and queer methodologies to address the
ways in which craft engages issues of gender. This symposium aims to explore
how the politics of craft are framed, preserved, deconstructed, revised, and
reimagined today, and how artists deploy the unique properties of their chosen
materials to resist gender binaries and hierarchies.
Deadline: Jan 4, 2019
Please send proposal to TFAPKentucky@gmail.com.
UnDisciplined
Graduate Conference
Thursday, April 4th to Saturday, April 6that the Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University
UnDisciplined is a graduate student conference for scholars
whose modes of inquiry intersect the humanities, social sciences, sciences,
technology, activism, and the arts. It is a space for sharing scholarly,
artistic, and/or activist work that theorizes or reveals forces that shape
human experiences. We invite scholars and artists whose work breaks down
conventional divisions between disciplines, academia and activism, as well as
theoretical critique and cultural production. As such, UnDisciplined brings together
researchers focused on areas and fields, rather than disciplines and
traditions, embracing research that poses problems and questions the
disciplining of thought in academia.
Please submit your application to undisciplinedqueensu@gmail.com by January
21st, 2019.
Game-based Learning
Conference
This year, the CUNY Games Conference distills its best
cutting-edge interactive presentations into a one-day event to promote and
discuss game-based pedagogies in higher education, focusing particularly on
non-digital learning activities that faculty can use in the classroom every
day. The conference will include workshops lead by CUNY Games Organizers on how
to modify existing games for the classroom, how to incorporate elements of play
into simulations and critical thinking activities, as well as poster sessions,
playtesting, and game play. For the digitally minded, we will also offer a
workshop in creating computer games in Unity.
proposals due 12/1/18
Contact Email: contactcunygames@gmail.com
(Im)material Culture:
Identity and Agency in Commonplace Objects
March 8-9, 2019, University at Buffalo
We seek original papers that analyze a wide range of
historical topics, time periods, and places, drawing from a variety of
theoretical and methodological approaches. For the 28th Annual Plesur
Conference, we are especially seeking research that addresses the theme of “(Im)material
Culture: Identity and Agency in Commonplace Objects.” Broadly interpreted, this
theme seeks to bring historical perspective to issues related to the study of
material culture and the roles objects play in history. Work that employs
multi-disciplinary approaches is especially encouraged.
The deadline for paper proposals is January 15.
URL: http://gsa.buffalo.edu/ubgha/milton-plesur-graduate-history-conference/cfp/ .
Please contact
Victoria Nachreiner at ghaconference2019@gmail.com.
Victoria Nachreiner at ghaconference2019@gmail.com.
Global Affairs
Conference
The Rutgers University Division of Global Affairs is pleased
to announce the 2019 Annual Global Affairs Conference to be held on Friday,
April 5th, 2019 on the Newark campus.
This year’s conference theme, “Security in International Studies:
Current Considerations, New Directions," aims to address various aspects
of traditional and contemporary issues in security studies in an attempt to
address momentous challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. The
conference agenda will also be focused on expanding and redefining national
security with greater focus on formerly exclusive human security issues such as
climate change, immigration and economic security.
The submission deadline for abstracts is January 15, 2019.
Contact Email: saga.rutgers@gmail.com
Art in the
Anthropocene
Trinity College Dublin, 7 to 9 June 2019
The Anthropocene has been defined as the present geological
epoch in which the earth’s ecosystems and biodiversity are being slowly
disrupted by human intervention. Posthumanism has offered an alternative to
anthropocentrism and emphasised the importance of the non-human in the
challenge against the destructive effects of the Anthropocene. Posthumanism
privileges animals, plant life, ecological systems and the environment, as well
as providing a feminist perspective on human patriarchy. It emphasizes the
protection and conservation of the earth and its inhabitants, recognizing
continuity between all living creatures including plants, animals and humans.
New trends in philosophy offer new materialism, object-oriented ontologies, and
theories of social assemblage. As art is more sensitive in reacting to the
issue of the Anthropocene, we encourage papers on Visual art, theatre,
performance, film, and new media.
Please send a 250 word abstract of your proposed paper with
a brief biography to Professor Steve Wilmer, swilmer@tcd.ie by 15 January 2019.
Translating Across
Boundaries
Emory's Critical Juncture conference is now accepting paper
proposals for our sixth annual conference, happening at Emory University in
Atlanta, GA on April 5-6, 2019. Critical Juncture 2019: Translating Across
Boundaries will be a space to struggle with the question:how do we communicate
with people different than us? Differences are constructed barriers which
prevent access to information and the validation of different ways of knowing.
We are particularly interested in the ways in which individuals working in
specific disciplines or from specific positions of knowledge engage with other
intersectional communities and/or convey their insights to those beyond their
tribe.
Deadline: December 19, 2018
Visit our website: www.criticaljunctureconference.wordpress.com
Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/criticaljuncture
Contact Email: rachel.kolb@emory.edu
Media & Civil
Rights History Symposium
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3184050/cfp-media-civil-rights-history-symposium
March 8-9, 2019, University of South Carolina
The biennial Media & Civil Rights History Symposium
welcomes scholars from various disciplines and approaches that address the
vital relationship between civil rights and public communication from
local/national/transnational contexts, perspectives and periods. The symposium,
which concludes with the Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History
presentation, will take place in conjunction with the AEJMC Southeast
Colloquium.
Deadline: December 17, 2018
For more information visit http://bit.ly/uofsc-sjmc-mcrhs or
contact Dr. Kenneth Campbell, Director, Media & Civil Rights History
Symposium, at kcampbell@sc.edu
Resistance in
Retrospect
Texas A&M University, April 12-13, 2019.
Our central focus is to create a scholarly discussion on
resistance in its various forms such as armed resistance against a central authority,
political activism, engagement of public discourse, or popular memory. We
encourage submissions from a wide variety of fields and academic disciplines to
have an inclusive and interdisciplinary environment in which to have fruitful
discussion. We are accepting paper proposals regarding any geographical region
and featuring research on any historical period or topic.
deadline: January 21, 2019
Contact Email: HGSO.TAMU@gmail.com
Histories of the
Senses
The editors of the Journal of the Canadian Historical
Association invite submissions for papers on “Histories of the Senses” to be
delivered as a panel at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical
Association, 3-5 June 2019, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,
Canada. We welcome papers that focus on any time period and geographical
location, from both early career researchers and established scholars. Papers
will be 20 minutes in length and may be delivered in either English or French.
As invited members of this panel, presenters will be encouraged to submit their
papers for publication in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the Canadian
Historical Association.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words along
with a CV of 1-2 pages to Mairi Cowan, at mairi.cowan@utoronto.ca, by 7
December.
The out-of-frame and
the unsaid in texts and images
Wednesday, June 5th 2019 & Thursday, June 6th 2019
This international conference is organized by doctoral
students and young researchers from the French research unit (https://www.univ-brest.fr/hcti), at
the University of Western Brittany, in Brest, France.
Due to its framing, every static or moving image implies the
existence of something left out of frame, just as a text implies something that
is not written or said. The diversity of media (painting, photography, theater,
cinema, comics, TV series, video games, etc.) has engendered an explosion of
the concepts of framing, marginality and liminality, which redefines the very
notions of off-camera, off-text, or even “off-page”. With this
interdisciplinary view in mind, this symposium will examine and analyze the
porosity of the “unsaid” and of the “out-of-frame” in order to explore them in
both visual and textual fields, in accordance with the main axes of inquiry
within the HCTI research unit.
Submissions (title and short summary of 300 words), in
French or in English, as well as a short biography of the author (name,
surname, email address, affiliation, PhD topic and research field) should be
sent to the following address: doctorants.hcti@gmail.com by January
31st 2019 (strict deadline).
Transatlantic Studies
Association Annual Conference
University of Lancaster, 8-10 July 2019
The TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the
‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in a variety of
disciplines, including (but not limited to): history, politics and
international relations, and literary studies. All transatlantic-themed paper
and panel proposals from these and related disciplines are welcome.
Deadline for panel and paper proposals: 20 January 2019
Contact Email: t.c.mills@lancaster.ac.uk
Representations of
Afrolatinidad in Global Perspective
University of Pittsburgh, April 11-13, 2019
The intersections of race, ethnicity, and representation
have shaped historical and contemporary articulations of Afrolatinidad. As an
expression of multivalent identity, both shared and unique, Afrolatinidad
informs the experiences of over 150 million Afro-Latin Americans and millions
more within diasporic communities in the United States, Canada, Europe, and
beyond. The conference seeks to foster an international dialogue that addresses
regional, national, and transnational links among the ways Afro-Latin Americans
and Afro-Latinxs create, sustain, and transform meanings surrounding blackness
in political, social, and cultural contexts.
Please submit a title, 250-word abstract, and 2-page CV by
January 7, 2019 to Afro-Latin@pitt.edu.
For additional details, see https://www.africanastudies.pitt.edu/Call%20for%20Papers%3A%20Representations%20of%20Afrolatinidad
Global Civil Rights
February 23, 2019, Texas A&M University-Commerce
This 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. Every year the WHAT Conference also chooses a special thematic focus.
For 2019 this theme is “Global Civil Rights.” 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 30, 2018.
Contact Email: cynthia.ross@tamuc.edu
PLAY Conference in
the Humanities
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech University (Lubbock,
Texas) is happy to announce a call for papers for our second Annual Conference
in the Humanities, to be held in Lubbock on April 13, 2019. The conference topic each year aligns with
the Center's annual theme, which for 2018-2019 is "PLAY.” We are
interested in the interdisciplinary study of play in myriad forms and in any of
the following categories: art, culture, literature, music, dance, games,
sports, politics, technology, and education. This list is open-ended and, in
the spirit ofplay, we are open to proposals that catch us by intellectual
surprise.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted to humanitiescenter@ttu.edu by
December 15, 2018 with all documents contained in a single PDF.
Afflicted Bodies,
Affected Societies: Disease and Wellness in Historical Perspective
The year 2018 marks the centennial of the 1918 Influenza
Pandemic, one of the deadliest outbreaks of disease in recorded history. To acknowledge the social impact of illness
on humanity, the History Department at Seton Hall University will host a
two-day symposium on disease and wellness in historical perspective. Some of
the questions we seek to investigate over the course of this symposium are as
follows: How have notions of illness and
wellness changed over time? In what ways have medical progress and discovery
been shaped by wars and natural disasters?
How did regimes of hygiene fashion social hierarchies or imperial
policy? What have been the social, political, and economic consequences of the
diseased body and/or mind in various societies? How do civilizations
conceptualize disease and miracles within faith practices? How do public health and issues of social
justice intersect?
Deadline: 30 November 2018
Please feel free to contact Golbarg Rekabtalaei at golbarg.rekabtalaei@shu.edu or
Anne Giblin Gedacht at anne.gedacht@shu.edu with
any questions. For more information about History at Seton Hall, please visit
our website, https://www.shu.edu/history/.
The Long History of
Modern Surveillance
This ICA preconference is dedicated to bringing together
scholars from diverse research traditions and from around the world to illuminate
the long history of modern surveillance. Submissions are invited to consider
the full breadth of past surveillance techniques and regimes, in any geographic
or national context, prior to the current moment. The scope includes empirical
research and comparative studies, historically-informed theory, intellectual
histories of the field, and methodological reflections. We especially welcome
submissions that address histories of surveillance from transnational and/or
de-Westernized perspectives.
Abstracts of 300 words (maximum) should be submitted no
later than 30 November 2018.
The full CFP is available at https://communicationhistory.org/preconference/
Send abstracts and any queries to: Josh Lauer (josh.lauer@unh.edu).
Women's & Gender
Studies Conference
Women's & Gender Studies at Texas Tech
University proudly announces a call for proposals for the 35th Annual
Conference, which will take place on our campus, April 25-27, 2019. We invite
papers and panel proposals that explore the manifold meanings of movement and
change as connected to, created by, and/or caught up in the presence of
women's, gender, and identity issues, in both contemporary and historical
frameworks. Interdisciplinary proposals, as well as those from disciplines and
specialty subject areas are also encouraged to submit. Submit an 250-word
abstract including the proposal title, name, affiliation and contact
information for all author(s) on or before March 1, 2019.
Link: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies/AWHE_about.php
Contact Email: patricia.a.earl@ttu.edu
Intersectional Activism
in the Age of Gender Based Violence and Authoritarian Oppression
Sarah Lawrence College, March 1-2, 2019
The 21st annual women's history conference, will explore the
struggle against global gender based violence through the lens of
intersectionality. Intersectionality, a term first theorized by feminist
activist and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, was based on the previous work of
Black women in organizations such as the Combahee River Collective and the
Third World Women's Alliance. These activists by foregrounding the notion of
“simultaneous oppressions” gave voice to the frustrations surrounding the
inability of feminist and anti-racist activists to consider the intersections
of oppression that women of color faced. Crenshaw saw intersectionality as a
tool to address failures within those movements. It is through Crenshaw’s framework that we seek to interrogate global
gendered violence, now and in the past.
Deadline for Proposals: December 14, 2018
Contact Email: tjames@sarahlawrence.edu
Humanities and
Democracy
Missouri Humanities Council, Friday, March 22
Humanities & The Future will gather people from the
Midwest who work in, study, and teach the Humanities to think anew about how
the Humanities help us to understand democracy both locally and globally. How
might we engage with memoir, film, historical novels, historical documents,
speeches, and famous debates both in the past and now to help us better
understand the ways in which democracies can, do, and should work? How do
records of the human experience, in a wide array of forms, help us to imagine past
key historical moments and possible new futures for democracy? We welcome
submissions from across the Humanities that deal with a broad range of texts
and ideas related to Rights, Conflict, and Negotiation in the context of
democracy.
CFP Submission deadline: Friday, December 7.
Contact Email: katie@mohumanities.org
Berkshire Conference
of Women Historians
The theme for the 2020 Berkshire Conference on the History
of Women, Genders, and Sexualities will be Gendered Environments: Exploring
Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities in Social, Political, and
"Natural" Worlds. The conference will be held May 21-23, 2020 at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Our aim is to hold conversations that think through the
intricate interplays among gender and sexuality, social and legal systems of
power and political representation, and the material realities of an interconnected
world continually shaped by physical nature, the human and nonhuman animals,
plants, and other beings that inhabit that nature. If Earth's history has
indeed entered a new geological epoch termed the Anthropocene, where do the
historical knowledges and experiences of women, people of diverse genders and
sexualities, and people of color, along with environmental justice efforts in
the historical past, enter into our efforts to understand, theorize,
contextualize, and meet these existential problems?
The deadline for all submissions is March 17th, 2019
Contact Email: bigberks2020@berksconference.org
Asian Studies
Graduate Student Conference
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, April 11-12, 2019
We are seeking submissions that will engage panelists and
audiences in “provincializing Asia” by dismantling hegemonic political,
cultural, and/or economic descriptions and practices associated with the region
in a holistic manner. Our conference aims to bridge methodological,
theoretical, and epistemological divides within all areas of Asia and Asian
Studies. We particularly encourage the submission of proposals that involve
original research and incorporate interdisciplinary methods and frameworks that
critically explore new and emerging trends and/or rethink existing
methodologies and frameworks in Asian Studies.
Please send your proposals to gradconf@hawaii.edu by January
5, 2019
Contact Email: irmakyaz@hawaii.edu
Techniques of Memory:
Landscape, Iconoclasm, Medium and Power
The foundational literature on memorialization, which
includes classics such as Pierre Nora’s Lieux de Memoire, James Young’s The
Texture of Memory, Andreas Huyssen’s Twilight Memories, dealt with a historical
phenomenon rooted in the 80s and were heightened by anxieties about the new
millennium. Nearly three decades later its seems pressing to reassess the role
that memory and its physical manifestations –memorials, monuments, plaques,
calendars, photographs– play in our contemporary world. The 2019 Global Urban
Humanities conference, Techniques of Memory, invites scholars, artists,
architects, and activists to come together to analyze memorialization as a
historical phenomenon, discuss the contemporary role of memorials, and examine
the changing role of memory in diverse geographical areas and historical
periods. The symposium will consist of four panels: Landscape, Iconoclasm,
Medium and Power.
The deadline for submissions is December 20th, 2018.
Please direct inquiries to Valentina Rozas-Krause vrozas@berkeley.edu.
Techniques of Memory online: http://globalurbanhumanities.berkeley.edu/symposium-call-for-papers-for-techniques-of-memory
Humanities and
Democracy
How do the Humanities help us to understand Democracy? The
Missouri Humanities Council will be holding its second annual Midwest
“Humanities & The Future” Symposium to explore this question. Symposium
events will take place at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri on Friday,
March 22 & Saturday, March 23. Humanities & The Future will gather
people from the Midwest who work in, study, and teach the Humanities to think
anew about how the Humanities help us to understand democracy both locally and
globally. How might we engage with memoir, film, historical novels, historical
documents, speeches, and famous debates both in the past and now to help us
better understand the ways in which democracies can, do, and should work?
Submission deadline is Friday, December 7.
Contact Email: katie@mohumanities.org
The Right, the Beautiful, the Good: Norms constructed,
transformed, transgressed
University of Montreal, March 20th, 21st and 22nd, 2019
Largely constructed through discourses, laws, and treaties
by political, religious, or ideological powers, norms are diffused by
institutions and partially internalized by each individual. They mark the line
that separates acceptable from deviant behaviours in settings that range from
our public lives to the intimacy of our homes. Many of the social sciences,
such as sociology, psychology, and economics, have centered norms at the core
their studies. Historians have applied norms in reflections on religion,
politics, power, daily and material life, identity, sexuality, gender, race,
colonialism, inclusion and exclusion, marginality, criminality, etc.
Re-examining norms is not only an opportunity to offer new interpretations of
their aforementioned uses, but also to bring into question the norms that
researchers themselves use with regard to
methodologies, inviting the decentralization of research and the
emergence of new fields of studies (such as post-colonialism, Imperial Studies,
Animal Studies, Environmental Studies, Anthropocene, etc.).
The deadline to apply is January 4th, 2019, at midnight.
Traversing the Gap:
Relevance as a Transformative Force at Sites of Public Memory
As time passes between the September 11, 2001 attacks on the
World Trade Center and the present, efforts to engage the public in the process
of constructing and making sense of the events—as well as their relationship to
them—becomes increasingly difficult. Time distances visitors and those who work
on memory-related initiatives from communal traumas and the historic sites that
commemorate them, interfering with processes of understanding and empathy. Due
to this phenomenon, our conference explores the concept of “relevance,” as a
state of staying connected to a communal trauma to educate, foster growth, and
encourage empathy. In such a way, memorials, museums, and historic sites become
not only places of honoring victims but also places that support transformation
at the individual and cultural levels.
Paper and workshop proposals are encouraged to explore this
issue of relevance, examining the cultural institutions, educational
interventions, theoretical models, archives, bodies, and texts that contend
with cultivating connectivity, interaction, and meaningful engagement with a
wide range of audiences.
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and CV to
the conference organizers (Drs. Stephanie Arel and Cathlin Goulding) at 2019conference@911memorial.org by December
31, 2018
The Rise of Student
Activism in the Age of Social Media
What are the concerns for student activists in regards to
documentation and preservation of their digital lives as a member of a
community traditionally silenced or underdocumented in mainstream archives? How
can social media records democratize archival spaces? Contemporary student
activism while incorporating the traditional methods of direct action through
demonstrations and protests has also witnessed the convergence of online
practices where organizing, communication, solicitation, interrogation occurs primarily
within digital spaces, more specifically through social media. Instagram,
Twitter, Snapchat, Meetup, and Facebook have become tools for documenting
student dissent—whether it is digital flyers, interviews, demands to
administration, campaigns for change, or hashtags, a massive amount of data on
student activism exists in the digital.
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Contact Email: projectstandarchives@gmail.com
First Things
First: Preparing Students For Success
March 7 & 8, 2019
Teaching Matters is celebrating its seventeenth annual
interdisciplinary conference in 2019 at Gordon State College on its main campus
in Barnesville, Georgia. The conference
is open to all of those who have a passion for teaching, with conference events
designed so that educators can share ideas and strategies that promote student
success, student engagement, and active learning. As educators, we all have one
goal in common: student success. We do, however, go about achieving that goal
in ways that speak both to our different disciplines and to our unique teaching
styles. Whether they are first time on
campus, returning, or transfer students, what is it that you believe sets up
incoming students for success? In other
words, when you begin planning for a new term, what elements are your “first
things first?”
All proposals are due January 18, 2019
Direct any questions to the CETL Director, Dr. Anna
Higgins-Harrell at a_higgins@gordonstate.edu or
at (678) 359-5095.
Commemorating Violent
Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace
Kent, OH, October 24-26, 2019
Many decades before school shootings became sadly
commonplace in the U. S., Kent State University students were killed on May 4,
1970, by the Ohio National Guard during a demonstration against the US war in
Vietnam and Cambodia. Documenting violence and delivering accountability are
critical steps in peacebuilding following violent conflicts ranging from
lynchings to political assassinations to wars to genocide. As the Kent State
experience demonstrates, memorializing and commemorating are equally important
responses—particularly when the violence has been nation-states using violence
against their own citizens. Scholarship on memorializing has blossomed in
recent decades, as has research on peacebuilding in a variety of conflict and
post-conflict settings.
All submissions are due by February 15, 2019
Contact Email: lhancoc2@kent.edu
URL: https://www.kent.edu/spcs/conference-commemorating-violent-conflicts-and-building-sustainable-peace
Breaking Down the
Walls: New Directions in Environmental Thinking for the Anthropocene
This panel invites interdisciplinary thinkers to transcend
standardized methodologies for teaching and learning about the
environment. The ASLE (Association for
the Study of Literature and the Environment) Biennial Conference (themed
'Paradise on Fire') will be held at University of California, Davis, from June
26-30, 2019.
If "paradise" is, in some sense, a world in which
we can 'have our cake and eat it, too', then this would seem the goal of
sustainability, promises of a kind of techno-utopia, and most mass-marketing
through which trans-national corporations advertise seductively and we consume
willingly. The underlying idea is simple
enough: if we can fix the world - or feel less guilty about breaking it - then
we can (more or less) enjoy business as usual.
Paradise, in this sense, is a salve for the psyche - one that absolves
us of responsibility - ensuring that we don't feel bad even as things get
worse.
Contact Email: ron2154@gmail.com
African, African
American, and Diaspora Studies
The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies program
at James Madison University invites proposals for its annual interdisciplinary
conference, to be held on the campus of JMU in Harrisonburg, Virginia on Feb
21-22, 2019. This year's theme is “Bodies in Motion.” Ranging across topics
from the politics of migration to the aesthetics of black embodiment, from
action films to political activism, the conference will bring together a group
of scholars from a wide variety of overlapping and intersecting fields. We
welcome proposals from scholars in all relevant disciplines at any point in
their scholarly careers.
Please send
questions and/or 300-word presentation proposals (or 1000-word panel proposals)
to aaadstudies@jmu.edu by
December 1, 2018.
Crossing Borders,
Boundaries, and Cultures: Studies in Transnational Comics
The event will take place at London College of Communication
(UAL) on Wed 06 March 2019.
In an age of globalisation, popular culture has been
increasingly analysed through transnational perspectives to reveal how local,
national, international, and global dynamics influence and shape the form and
content of a given cultural artefact, and impact its production, consumption,
and regulation. Comics can cross national and cultural boundaries in a variety
of contexts: from its hand drawn form that blends diverse cultural influences
and styles and its collaborative creative process, to the translation and
circulation of comics across countries (amongst other aspects). In this regard,
the study of comics provides a rich subject of focus in which to effectively
engage with issues of transnational exchange.
The deadline for submissions is 30 November
Email: archive-enquiries@arts.ac.uk
Pop Culture
Conference
May 04, 2019, DePaul University
This event will feature roundtable discussions from scholars
and fans of Disney, concentrating mainly on Disney animation, Disney
live-action, and Disney theme parks. Participants may propose panels and papers
about a broad array of ideas related to Disney and its cultural impact. The Pop
Culture Conference does not feature formal paper presentations, but speakers
are invited to have roundtable discussions themed around these topics. The
audience for this event is both graduate and undergraduate students, both fans
and scholars. You may propose multiple papers and panels.
Please email your
abstracts and a CV/resume
to Pop Culture Conference (popcultureconference@gmail.com)
by Jan 15, 2019
Critical Perspectives
on Modern Slavery: Law, Policy and Society
This one-day interdisciplinary conference aims to explore
the issue of “modern slavery” through providing a platform to critique related
legal, ideological, political and policy responses. As a term “modern slavery”
serves as a powerful tool that invokes an extensive appeal to altruistic
feeling, while simultaneously providing an expansive umbrella-like term for a
range of exploitative practices. The
issues of human trafficking and “modern slavery” has become one of great
contemporary importance and in the past decades there has been a flurry of
legal and policy responses to the issue on international and national level.
Simultaneously, there has been vast amounts of scholarship on the topic, much
of it critical of those responses, fiercely contesting the use of the term
‘slavery’ in this context.
Deadline for abstract: Thursday 31 January 2019.
Contact Email: laura.lammasniemi@warwick.ac.uk
West Texas Symposium of History
The West Texas Journal
of History is now taking submissions for its 2019 edition, Volume 1, Number 8.
The papers are to be presented Saturday, April 13, 2019, at the West Texas
Symposium of History on the Midland College campus and are to be published in
the 2019 West Texas Journal of History. Papers may cover any subject in a historical perspective – traditional
history (preference will be given to papers that cover West Texas history),
literature, archaeology, philosophy, political science, art, and the teaching
of these areas.
Final date for
submissions is January 31, 2019.
Contact Email: dhopkins@midland.edu
Movement and Migration
The History Graduate
Student Association at Stony Brook University will host its third annual
interdisciplinary graduate conference on Saturday, March 30, 2019. Graduate
students from all fields are invited to submit paper or panel proposals related
to the theme of “Movement and Migration.” In past years this conference has
attracted participants from across the country. The conference offers graduate
students an excellent opportunity to network, engage with new and innovative
scholarship from multiple disciplines, and receive feedback on their research
projects from fellow students and established scholars.
Please direct inquiries
and submissions to stonybrookhgsa@gmail.com by February
1, 2019
Consumption, Exchange and Material Culture
For its Eleventh
Annual Graduate Conference, Syracuse University’s Future Professoriate Program
is seeking papers related to material history and consumption. Topics can
include: the exchange of goods and services and the meanings attached to those
exchanges; histories and theories of goods and services; the exchange of ideas
and information (including news and rumors); praise for and critiques of
consumerism; the connections between globalism and consumption societies;
slavery and the movement of people for profit; blackmarkets and trade in
illicit goods; and all other themes related to material culture, trade, and
consumption.
Please submit
proposals to suhistoryfpp@gmail.com by
January 14th, 2019,
PUBLICATIONS
Screening Indigenous
Bodies
Special Issue of Screen Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
of Experience, Perception, and Display
For this special issue, we are curating a collection of
essays that concern the screening of Indigenous bodies across a variety of
con/texts—from historical and genealogical studies of representation to the
most contemporary Indigenous film productions including feature films, short
films, animated films, and more. We are also interested in topics that directly
relate to (as the above description indicates) “the portrayal, function, and
reception of [indigenous] 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.”
If you are interested, please send completed manuscripts by
1 December.
Send abstracts and submissions to Dr. Sol Neely: sjneely@alaska.edu
Screening Non-Binary
Bodies
A call for a Screen Bodies special issue on gender
non-conforming bodies in visual media.
Considering the role of visual culture in establishing
identity and media’s interplay with selfrecognition and cultural
representation, this issue will be devoted to a reflexive and intersectional
discussion of visual politics and affects of non-binary bodies. When actor Asia
Kate Dillon starring as Taylor Mason in the TV series Billions stated their
non-binary pronoun preference as “they/them/their” it meant a revolution for
non-binary people and their materialisation in media discourses. For the first
time the western world encountered a character in a large production who
rejected conventional binary gender positions and advocated non-binary
pronouns.
Abstracts (max. 500 words) and bios (max. 200 words) for
full essays (5000 - 6000 words) should be sent to Wibke Straube: wibke.straube@kau.se by January 20,
2019.
Sexpertise: Sexual
Knowledge and the Public in the 19th and 20th Centuries
We seek proposals for contributions to a special issue of a
leading history of medicine journal on the modern history of “sexperts” and
“sexpertise”. With these guiding categories in mind, contributions will seek to
explore the circulation and transmission of sexual knowledge and ideas between
experts and publics in the 19th and 20th centuries, or else to question this
distinction altogether.
If you are interested in participating in this special
issue, please send an article abstract of no more than 500 words to the email
addresses below by 4th January 2019.
Dr Hannah Charnock, University of Bristol (hannah.charnock@bristol.ac.uk)
Dr Sarah L. Jones, University of Exeter (s.l.jones@exeter.ac.uk)
Dr Ben Mechen, Royal Holloway, University of London (ben.mechen@rhul.ac.uk)
Media of Crisis,
Criticism, and Opposition: Tactical Media in the Struggle for Social Change
Democratic Communiqué invites contributions to the Fall 2019
special issue dedicated to “Tactical Media in the Struggle for Social Change.”
This issue focuses on the analysis and investigation of the
tactical and political use of media in the struggle for social change. We ask:
How does the tactical use of media in the struggle for social change construct,
shape and/or influence various movements? What effects do the tactical use of
media have on advocacy?
Deadline for submission of abstracts (500 words, add 200
words bio): January 1, 2019
Contact Email: cfptacticalmediassc@gmail.com
First-Generation PhDs
Navigating Institutional Power
Abstracts are invited for an edited anthology on the
experiences of individuals who are in the first-generation (first-gen) of their
families to earn Bachelor’s and Doctoral degrees in the United States. We seek
narrative pieces where contributors illuminate their embodied experiences of
socialization to the professoriate through the lenses of two or more social
identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, and
citizenship—in addition to socioeconomic background—while highlighting the ways
in which multiple forms of structural oppression impacted each author’s
capacity to navigate graduate student life. As Audre Lorde stated, “There is no
such thing as a single-issue struggle, because we do not live single-issue
lives.”
Deadline for Abstracts is January 30, 2019
Contact Email: sablanj@uw.edu
Remembering Ntozake
Shange
In light of Ntozake Shange’s recent death, The Langston
Hughes Review will publish a commemorative special issue on her life and
writings. Newspaper articles and social media posts notwithstanding, the
scholarship on Shange is hardly commensurate with her writings. This special
issue addresses this lacuna. Shange once described herself as “a daughter of
the black arts movement, even though they didn’t know they were gonna have a
girl,” but how could she claim such a lineage and identify as a feminist?
Essays should be between 4500 and 6000 words, excluding
endnotes and references. Please address questions to Tony Bolden, Editor, The
Langston Hughes Review, lhr@ku.edu. Deadline: January 15, 2020.
Religions in African
American Popular Culture
Religions, an international, interdisciplinary,
peer-reviewed, open access journal on religions and theology, is seeking
contributions for a special edition focused on “Religions in African American
Popular Culture.” African American popular culture is defined here as those
aspects of culture largely created and produced by peoples of Africana descent
in the United States of America that engender joy, pleasure, enjoyment, and
amusement and that are expressed through artifacts (e.g., icons and personas)
and practices (e.g., arts and rituals). The artifacts of African American
popular culture are inclusive of but not limited to objects and material
culture, heroes, celebrities, stars, and stereotypes. The practices of African
American popular culture are inclusive of but not limited to music, literature,
theater, radio, film, television, comic art, games, sports, worship services,
parties, dinners and reunions, and festivals and holidays.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2019
Contact Email: anelson@bgsu.edu
Literary Walks, Slow
Travel, and Eco-Awareness in Contemporary Literature
Seeking submissions for a forthcoming issue of Studies in
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature. Slow travel implies an
intensification of experiencing the environment, its devastation, and
possibilities of healing. This is not limited to walking alone, although
authors of literary walks such as W.G. Sebald or Friedrich Christian Delius are
important for this volume. Such literature reveals the tension between the
solitary walker distancing himself from the community with its social and
political responsibilities, while at the same time actually engaging more
closely with the global community and its concerns about the environment and
politics. But walking in literature can also be an intensely neo-Romantic
experience. When Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft (later Mary
Shelley) first eloped and found themselves stranded without money in Paris they
decided to walk the 700 km distance to Switzerland. While nineteenth-century
literature teems with walkers, how does this map out in the twentieth and
twenty-first century?
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is February 1,
2019.
Contact Email: arndsp@tcd.ie
Voices on the Move:
An Anthology of Literature and Art by and about Refugees
The collection, tentatively entitled Voices on the Move,
will feature short stories, essays, poems, and short drama that explore the
complicated nature of immigration and refuge after the Arab Spring. It is our
hope that Voices on the Move’s transnational, multiform arena will pique your
interest, and that you’d be able to contribute a personal essay, a short
literary genre, or a more experimental form. We are currently reaching out to
authors and essayists across the world.
Please send your submissions to voicesonthemove@gmail.com by
January 30th, 2019.
Gender and Design:
Studies in Material Culture
This edited volume will examine intersections of design and
gender across a range of historical moments, political environments and
material categories. We invite readings and materialist critiques of designed
objects, exchanges, spaces, instruments, affects and styles as well as
evaluations of ‘design practice’ as gendered work, performance, or
representation. Of particular interest are contemporary design theory,
transnational design events, ecological design, new technocentric or scientific
design, posthuman material culture, and local design archaeologies as they
relate to the politics of gender and agency in our post-millennial era.
Please send abstracts in English of 300-500 words, along
with a short biography by February 15, 2019 to Binita Mehta atbinita.mehta@mville.edu,
Pia Mukherji at pia.mukherji@gmail.com, and
Jennifer A. Rich at Jennifer.A.rich@hofstra.edu.
Gender[ed] Racial
Violence Against People in Africa and the African Diaspora Transcending Time
and Space
Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies (formerly The
Journal of Pan African Studies; JPAS), a trans-disciplinary on-line
multilingual peerreviewed open-access scholarly journal devoted to the
intellectual synthesis of research, scholarship and critical thought on the
African experience around the world, is seeking contributions for a special
edition focused on “Gender[ed] Violence Against People of African Descent in
Africa and the African Diaspora Transcending Time and Space,” hence, an
examination of the gender-based violence perpetuated against people of color in
Africa, the Americas and the broader African Diaspora (www.jpanafrican.org).
Please send your abstract by or before February 28, 2019 to
Dr. Maria DeLongoria (mdelongoria@mec.cuny.edu).
Arkive City 2.0:
Tracing Time in the Network Ages
Technologies of speed, extraction and compression
characterise ‘the Network Ages’, enabling people, (life)forms, materials, ideas
and information to be created, circulated, consumed, wasted, stored and lost in
new ways and at new rates. In response to the multiple and emerging
temporalities of network reality, Arkive City 2.0 is distinct in moving forward
to explore the 21st Century roles of archives as producers, mediators,
preservers and erasers of time. The proposal of an arkive (sic) 'City 2.0'
creates a conceptual vehicle through which to explore the relevance of the
polis and the citizen, and beyond this the nature of agency, in the archival
field of contemporary life. The anthology will bring together a diverse and
international body of thinking on the impact and the potential of changes in archival
practices for the construction of memories, histories, and experiences of the
present. Crucially, the publication will consider how the human production of
time through archives and archiving is now intimately linked to the shaping of
collective futures for the human species and the more-than-human world.
Deadline for abstract submission: Monday 17th December 2018
Contact Email: J.L.Bacon@unsw.edu.au
Global Black
Movements
This special issue on global black movements attempts to
explain and assess the global social and political movements in Africa, the
Caribbean, Europe, and the Americas through a 200+ year period – from the
revolutions of the end of the 18th century (including the Haitian revolution)
to modern 20th and 21st century political, social and cultural movements in the
black diaspora. What constitutes a “black social movement”? How do we address
the complexity of the resistance activity of these movements? What is the
legacy of earlier black movements for current black movements? This special
issue will also address not only the forms these movements assumed, but their
theoretical and programmatic bases, racial and ethnic social formations,
variations in type and consequences or outcomes, and the contexts in which they
arose.
Deadline: 31 March 2019
Contact Email: genealogy@mdpi.com
Photo-Literary
Disorders: Literature, Photography and Illness
Since the invention of photography was announced in 1839,
photographic aesthetics, practices and products have inspired literature in its
varied forms. The development of the photographic camera in the nineteenth
century reinforced an entrenched visual inclination towards things, people and
events, a tendency that has always extended to literature. Yet, the
relationship between photography and literary culture started at a time when
scientific developments also impacted enormously on the understanding of health
and disease. For this Special Issue, contributions are invited to reflect on
the relationship between photography (as aesthetics, language, material object
and practice) and diverse literary genres (prosaic and poetic, non-fictional,
auto/biographical and novelistic forms).
Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted by 1 February
2019.
Contact Email: giorgia.alu@sydney.edu.au
Globalizing learning
Currents in Teaching and Learning, a peer-reviewed electronic
journal that fosters exchanges among reflective teacher-scholars across the
disciplines, welcomes submissions for its Spring 2019 issue.
The theme for the Spring 2019 issue is “Globalizing
learning.” With the intensifying clash between nationalism and globalization,
the issue of how to incorporate consciousness of global issues and trends into
college education has become ever more critical. For this issue, we invite submissions that
address this issue from theoretical and/or practical perspectives.
Submissions Deadline: December 15, 2018
For essays and teaching and program reports, send all inquiries to Editor Martin Fromm at currents@worcester.edu. For submission guidelines, visit our website at www.worcester.edu/currents.
For essays and teaching and program reports, send all inquiries to Editor Martin Fromm at currents@worcester.edu. For submission guidelines, visit our website at www.worcester.edu/currents.
The Black AIDS
Epidemic
Almost twenty years after the publication of Cathy Cohen’s
The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics, HIV/AIDS
remains marginal in black studies. Because this special issue centers “intraventive”
cultural practice and knowledge, we do not see artistic modes of production as
separate from other modes of theorizing.
Therefore, in addition to literature, visual cultures, music, and
theatre/performance, we are also interested in analyses emerging from cultural
studies, performance studies, critical race, feminist, queer, disability
studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to public health.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 11:59 PST MARCH 1, 2019
Upload Submissions at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/souls/default.aspx
Please address questions to: Marco Roc, Souls Managing
Editor, mroc2@uic.edu
Immigrant Detention/Deportation
and Family Separations
With attention on the US–Mexico border, the media has
suddenly focused on the topic of family separations, but these discussions are
narrow and limited to recent child detention. In the past, it was common to see
families that were temporarily separated when migrant men traveled for seasonal
work. The militarization of the US–Mexico border cut the migrant flow by making
it more difficult to come and go between countries. Migrants created new
strategies to maintain families together that involved bringing children to the
United States. Crossing the border implies a direct threat of being separated,
but the risk remains after entering the United States. The undocumented
families that reach their destination live with the fear of the detention and
deportation of any undocumented member of the unit. Children with US
citizenship also face the peril of losing their undocumented parents. In
general, immigrant detention and deportation cause genealogical disruptions.
Contact Email: genealogy@mdpi.com
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2019
Climate Change
Anthology
Researchers on climate change, transformation and planetary
futures – how would storifying your research look like with propositional
scenarios? C-CHANGE and AdaptationCONNECTS at the University of Oslo are
inviting short stories that help activate the possible and challenge dominant
modes of thinking and action around the tepid response to climate change.
The shortlisted short stories will be published in an
anthology and there are prizes for judged entries – more details on lengths and
due dates below and at https://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/research/projects/adaptation/news/our-entangled-future.html
Please submit your short story to adaptationconnects@sgeo.uio.no by January
15, 2019.
Contact Email: ann.elkhoury@uts.edu.au
Archives and Popular
Culture
This special issue explores the intricate relationship
between archives and popular culture: how archives shape our understanding of
“popular culture,” and how diverse forms of popular culture shape conceptions
and contents of archives. Conventional conceptualizations of the archive as the
repository of authoritative historical documents, assembled and maintained by
institutions of the state, have increasingly been challenged. Formation of
repositories, in public and private, of materials created by individuals who
lack epistemic authority has been of interest not only to historians looking
for traces of their lives. Especially through diverse forms of popular
culture—from books, photography, video, and music to statues and garments—archives
have taken on new lives to become part of public culture. In such cultural
products, that which ostensibly belongs to history shapes how we understand the
past, can experience the present, and imagine the future.
you are interested in contributing to this special
issue, please send a 300-word abstract to the editors, Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay (rea270@nyu.edu)
and Olivera Jokic (ojokic@jjay.cuny.edu), by
November 30, 2018.
FUNDING
Barnard Library Research Awards
The Barnard Library will award two grants of $2,500 to researchers
using its Archives, Zine Library or Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW)
collection. The purpose of this program is to expand social justice and
feminist research by sharing with activists, artists, independent scholars and
academics the material at Barnard. Undergraduate and graduate students, adjunct
and term faculty, professors, journalists and independent scholars are
encouraged to apply.
Applications will be accepted through March 3, 2019 at
midnight Eastern Time.
email: jfreedman@barnard.edu
Pennsylvania State
Archives and Pennsylvania Historical Association Announce 2019 Scholars in
Residence Program
Residency programs are open to anyone researching
Pennsylvania history, including academic scholars, public sector professionals,
independent scholars, graduate students, educators, writers, filmmakers and
others. Residencies may be scheduled for up to four weeks between June 1, 2019
and August 31, 2019. Stipends will be awarded.
The deadline to apply is February 15, 2019
Contact Email: RA-PHMCScholars@pa.gov
Winterthur Research Fellowships
The Winterthur
Research Fellowship Program is accepting applications for 2019-2020. Fellows
have full access to the library collections, including more than 87,000 volumes
and one-half million manuscripts and images, searchable online. Resources for
the 17th to the early 20th centuries include printed and rare books,
manuscripts, period trade catalogues, auction and exhibition catalogues, printed
ephemera, and an extensive reference photograph collection of decorative arts.
Fellows may conduct object-based research in the museum collection, which
includes 90,000 artifacts and works of art made or used in America from about
1600 to 1860, with a strong emphasis on domestic life.
The application
deadline is January 15, 2019. For more information, please contact academicprograms@winterthur.org.
Centre of African Studies Visiting Fellowships
The Centre of
African Studies invites applications for two Visiting Research Fellowships from
candidates in all the disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The
aim of the Fellowship is to enable the fellow to focus on a period of research
and writing in Cambridge. It is expected that applicants would be intending to
come to the University to work on a project building on existing research for
which residence in Cambridge is demonstrably appropriate.
The closing date for
applications is 1 February 2019
An application
package may be downloaded here or requested by emailing: centre@african.cam.ac.uk.
Grant Applications for
Notre Dame's Cushwa Center
Grants and awards fund research in repositories at the
University of Notre Dame and beyond.
Research Travel Grants assist scholars visiting the Notre Dame Archives
and Hesburgh Libraries. Peter R.
D'Agostino Research Travel Grants support research in Roman archives for
projects on U.S. Catholic history.
Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grants support research focused
on Catholic women in modern history.
Hesburgh Research Travel Grants support projects using the Theodore M.
Hesburgh Papers and related collections at the Notre Dame Archives. Hibernian Research Awards provide travel
funds for the scholarly study of Irish and Irish American history.
Deadline: Dec. 31
Contact Email: sulbrich@nd.edu
2019 Farrar Award in
Media & Civil Rights History
The biennial Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights
History recognizes the best journal article or chapter in an edited collection
on the historical relationship between the media and civil rights. Submitted
articles or chapters should be works of historical scholarship and must have
been published in 2017 or 2018. We encourage submissions that address the media
and civil rights from a range of local/national/transnational contexts,
periods, and perspectives.
Deadline: December 17, 2018
Contact Email: kcampbell@sc.edu
Graduate Research
Fellowships at the Center for Jewish History
The Center for Jewish History offers ten-month fellowships
to doctoral candidates to support original research using the collections of
the Center’s partners—American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi
Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research. Preference is given to those candidates who draw on the
library and archival resources of more than one partner institution.
The application deadline for Graduate Research Fellowships
starting in Fall 2019 is January 15, 2019.
Contact Email: fellowships@cjh.org
MSU Special
Collections Summer Research Fellowships
Michigan State University Libraries invites applications for
research fellowships for the summer of 2019. These fellowships are to support
the financial needs of visiting scholars who live more than 100 miles from East
Lansing and whose research would benefit from on-site access to materials
housed in MSU Libraries’ Special Collections.
Research strengths of MSU Special Collections are deep and
varied, including an outstanding comic book collection; extensive collections
on American radicalism, popular culture, and Africana; exceptional rare book
holdings in cookery, the history of science, veterinary medicine, Italian
unification, and conduct books; one of the country’s oldest LGBTQ+ collections;
a peerless collection documenting contemporary men’s movements; a rapidly
expanding zine collection; and the papers of a number of Michigan writers,
including Richard Ford, Diane Wakoski, and Thomas McGuane.
Deadline: January 31, 2019
Contact Email: spcfellows@lib.msu.edu
Regional Research
Fellowships
The James W. Scott Regional Research Fellowships promote
awareness and innovative use of archival collections at Western Washington
University, and seek to forward scholarly understandings of the Pacific
Northwest. Applications are accepted from individuals in doctoral programs as
well as individuals who have finished the PhD.
Applications for the award will be reviewed after January
31, 2019. Applications must be submitted by email to Ruth.Steele@wwu.edu
Research grants at
the New York State Archives
The Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program supports
advanced work on New York State history, government, or public policy with
grants to qualified applicants to defray travel-related expenses for on-site
research at the New York State Archives in Albany, NY. Previous Residents have
included academic and public historians, graduate students, independent
researchers and writers, and primary and secondary school teachers. Residencies
range from a few days to several weeks depending upon the nature of the
research and volume of records consulted.
Applications must be postmarked or e-mailed by midnight (ET)
January 15, 2019.
Contact Email: archref@nysed.gov
Newberry Short-Term
Fellowship for Writers, Artists, and Other Humanists
The Newberry Library's long-standing fellowship program
provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to
pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. In addition to the Library’s
collections, fellows are supported by a collegial interdisciplinary community
of researchers, curators, and librarians. An array of scholarly and public
programs also contributes to an engaging intellectual environment. Learn more
at the web page below.
Contact Email: research@newberry.org
Fellowships in
"Mapping Religion": Lived Religion in the Digital Age
We invite applications from instructional faculty at any
rank to support new and/or redesigned courses that address topics, themes, or
subjects relevant to the study of lived religion in the digital age. We are
especially interested in supporting efforts to bring students into interaction
with religious diversity through site visits; urban, community, or neighborhood
studies; and/or digital storytelling. Proposals that seek collaboration with
community partners, across disciplines of study, and/or across teaching
contexts are encouraged. Joint proposals are also encouraged. No prior digital
humanities experience is required.
LRDA is a new research initiative at Saint Louis University
that works with local religious communities, museums, parks, schools, and other
civic organizations to develop deeply-considered, multisensory inventories of
lived religion. We invite scholars trained in religion, theology, history,
digital humanities, urban studies, American studies, and other related fields
to participate in these efforts through competitive research fellowships.
Awards will be made available to colleagues of all ranks and faculty status,
independent scholars, advanced graduate students, and other professionals. No
prior digital humanities experience is required
Deadline January 4, 2019.
For questions contact co-director Rachel Lindsey (rachel.lindsey@slu.edu).
WORKSHOPS
Summer Seminar for
School Teachers on Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad
This three week NEH summer seminar will focus on the history
of the Underground Railroad in North America from origins of slavery to the Reconstruction
Era.Class time each morning will be spent on intensive study of key primary and
secondary texts on the seminar topics. There will be daily pedagogical sessions
on classroom application of the areas of study.
Field trips will travel to Auburn, New York, Seneca Fall, Rochester, New
York then to Albany, New York, Northampton, Massachusetts, Middelbury, Vermont,
North Elba, New York.
Contact Email: ghodges@colgate.edu
March 1, 2019: Deadline to submit your application
Fragment – Power –
Public: Narrative, Authority, and Circulation in Archival Work
The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien, the Max Weber
Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland and the
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages of the American University of
Beirut (AUB) cordially invite doctoral and postdoctoral scholars from the
humanities and social sciences, as well as research-oriented artists and
writers, to apply for a Transregional Academy.
Scholars of history, culture and society in and of the
Middle East, no matter what their political engagement, were swept up in the
wave of Arab uprisings that started in 2010. The revolutions brought to a
paroxysm a process of contestation that had been building since the 1990s, when
new critiques began to challenge old narratives and ideologies and shake their
hold on public space and the political sphere. This cross-disciplinary,
international Transregional Academy also probes the ways in which the past,
present and future have been and are imagined, represented, and reconfigured in
modern historiography, literature, art and thought in archival work. Examining
questions of aesthetics, genre, translation, and historiography, it aims to
build on ongoing conversations about the practice of literary, artistic and
historiographic excavation.
Travel, accommodation and meals of the participants will be
fully covered.
Deadline: 15 December 2018.
Please send your application by e-mail as one PDF file to eume(at)trafo-berlin.de.
Please send your application by e-mail as one PDF file to eume(at)trafo-berlin.de.
Bread and Water:
Access, Belonging, and Environmental Justice in the City
The seminar intends to convene researchers, policymakers,
practitioners, and activists to explore what kinds of policies and practices
promote urban food and water systems based on equity, inclusion, and
resiliency. The seminar's approach to
answering this question rests on the assumption that challenges associated with
provisioning urban residents with clean water and food go beyond agricultural
yields and water treatment. The seminar will focus on rights to food and water,
and infrastructures of inclusion to achieve equitable acess among diverse urban
inhabitants. Along with physical structures, such as sewers and urban gardens,
the seminar will analyze the cultural, economic, and political contexts in
which such infrastructure is created (or not) and maintained (or not).
Invited participants will be provided with travel
reimbursement, lodging in Pittsburgh, a post-seminar dinner, and a $750
honorarium.
Send proposals, consisting of a three-hundred word abstract
of the work to be presented and a two-page c.v., to <breadwatermellonsawyerseminar@gmail.com>
by February 1, 2019.
For more information, please contact John Soluri <jsoluri@andrew.cmu.edu>
Bridging the Gap's
2019 New Era Workshop
Sunday, February 24, 2019 - Tuesday, February 26, 2019;
Location: University of California, Berkeley
Bridging the Gap is now accepting applications for our 2019
New Era Workshop (NEW). Bridging the Gap's professional development
institutes are designed to train, develop, and mentor scholars who seek to
pursue policy-relevant research and theoretically grounded policy work. NEW is
an annual three-day training program, where PhD students and post-docs engage
in a structured comparative scenario analysis and research generation exercise
facilitated by Bridging the Gap fellows. For more information, visit the NEW
general information page: http://bridgingthegapproject.org/programs/new-era/ and
our Frequently Asked Questions page: http://bridgingthegapproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/New-Era-Workshop-FAQ-Final-Edits-.pdf
Contact Email: bridgingthegap@american.edu
Museums: Humanities
in the Public Sphere
Join us for this in-depth exploration of museums and curated
cultural collections around Washington, D.C. This four-week NEH Summer
Institute for College and University Teachers will bring the rich and diverse
histories of America’s public museums into wider use for teaching and research
in the humanities. The Institute approaches museums as sites for
interdisciplinary inquiry into advances in humanistic and scientific research,
the effects of ongoing international conflicts, the speed of evolving
technologies, and ethical debates over privacy, sustainability, and cultural
heritage.
Application Deadline is March 1, 2019
Contact Email: claire.hendren@gmail.com
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Assistant Professor
of Gender and Sexuality Studies
The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) at Bates
College invites applications for a tenure-track position in trans studies with
expertise in the Global South. We define trans studies broadly to include the
study of gender normativities and non-conformities. We seek candidates in the
humanities or humanistic social sciences with a strong commitment to
undergraduate teaching and mentorship, to scholarly work, and to active and
inclusive pedagogies. The position carries a five-course annual teaching load,
and will include participation in teaching the program’s core courses,
including Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies, and senior thesis
advising.
Review of applications will begin on December 5, 2018.
Assistant Professor,
Women's Studies
The Department of Women’s Studies, College of Social
Sciences, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, seeks a candidate with expertise that
is well situated at the intersection of sexuality, sexual violence, sexual
harassment, and queer embodiment. Demonstrated ability to conduct research and
teach in the areas of sexuality, sexual violence, sexual harassment, or queer
studies. Evidence of active scholarly research agenda. Demonstrated ability to
mentor undergraduate and/or graduate students with diverse backgrounds and
experiences. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse faculty
and staff.
Review of applications to begin on January 9, 2019 and
continue until position is filled.
Assistant Professor
of Gender History
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the
Department of History at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan
invite applications for a joint position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor,
beginning fall 2019, with tenure home in GWS. We encourage applications from
scholars specializing in the modern (19th-20th century) United States, Latin
America, or Europe, especially intersectional approaches to Latinx gender
history, African-American, or indigenous studies. However, other areas of
research will also be considered. Experience in gender theory, teaching a
diverse range of students, community engagement or activism will all be
welcomed.
Review of applications will begin November 25th, 2018
