CONFERENCES
ENVISIONING A FEMINIST AND QUEER
SOUTH
The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of
Mississippi is pleased to host the 2019 SEWSA Annual Conference. Our theme
considers the distinctive role of gender studies programs in the South in
fostering interdisciplinary scholarship, social change, and the creation of
inclusive spaces.
Gender studies’ distinctive integration of teaching, scholarship,
programs, and advocacy has never been more essential, particularly in the South
in the current historical moment. Unprecedented interest in feminism and a
resurgence of activism exists in the same space as increased anti-gay,
anti-immigrant, and anti-choice legislation. In such a climate, this year’s SEWSA
takes the opportunity to draw insight and inspiration from the past and chart a
course for a South that is more equitable, more feminist, and more queer.
Proposal submission deadline is November 30, 2018 and
should be submitted to http://bit.ly/SEWSA19.
Institutions and Interactions
March 2, 2019, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Whether involving interactions with other peoples or the environment
around them, institutions have played a critical role in guiding human
behavior. Institutions, formal or informal, purposefully created or organically
developed, have shaped political, social, cultural, environmental, and economic
interactions. Easily identifiable institutions, such as the apparatus of the
“state,” as well as less visible institutions, such as friendship, provide
unique opportunities for historical inquiry, by paying close attention to
questions of power dynamics and the complex webs surrounding human action.
Institutions have played an important role in shaping the contours of
interactions between human and nonhuman actors and landscapes across diverse
settings. As such, this theme invites a broad array of historical scholarship
covering any historical topic in any region or time.
Abstracts due Friday, December 14, 2018.
Contact Email: purdueHGSA@gmail.com
Texas Literature & Language
Symposium
This year, TexMoot will investigate many aspects of orality/aurality:
literature for listening. We welcome presentations about storytelling,
podcasting, audiobooks, voice acting, theatre, spoken-word poetry, personal
narratives, gaming, and other verbal/vocal/auditory genres and/or their
appearance in written works. Presentations can take the form of flash papers,
conference-length talks, or creative performances.
Submit an abstract of under 300 words by Saturday, Nov. 17th, 2018
Contact Email: info@texmoot.org
URL: http://texmoot.org/
Centering the Margins
April 6, 2019, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
“Centering the Margins” refers to a scholarly focus on the voices,
stories, and perspectives of historically, socially, and politically
marginalized groups. This conference will provide a space for scholars in
English, Rhetoric and Composition, and intersecting fields who center the
margins to share their work.
A conference of this nature hopes to legitimize fields and scholarship
that have previously been ignored or underappreciated by the academy, or areas
of focus within ‘legitimized’ fields that are considered niche or of no
consequence to the fields at large. The Northeastern English Graduate Student
Association invites you to continue reconstituting the canons and constructing
inclusive and equitable visions of consciousness in all fields of study, and
boost new ones, by centering a conference around previously overlooked work,
especially when it is made by marginalized peoples.
Proposal Due Date: January 10, 2019
Contact Email: northeasternEGSA@gmail.com
RAW (Research | Art | Writing)
2019 Symposium: Expression and Repression
February 23, 2019, UT Dalla
Repression appears in a wide spectrum of forms, from entire cultures
and peoples being repressed under restrictive regimes to the personal
repression of thoughts, instincts, and identity. How do suppressed thoughts and urges manifest
in the cultural and historical artifacts of a society, and what can those manifestations
reveal about our own natures? How do we understand history, literature,
philosophy, or art as reflective of the expressive or personal freedoms of a
period? What are the possibilities of
expression through an interdisciplinary approach to the arts and humanities?
Submission Deadline: November 21, 2018
Contact Email: ah.gsa@utdallas.edu
HIGH/LOW: Taste, Quality, and
Resolution in Film & Media
UC Berkeley Graduate Conference in Film & Media, Feb 8-9, 2019
A degraded film strip. A lossy jpeg. A pirated cassette tape. An HBO
drama. A Tomatometer rating. An amateur YouTube video. Questions of quality,
taste, and resolution have been key to discourses about the moving image from
cinema’s early days. Twenty-first century changes to our media environment
replay debates about quality and resolution that have long circulated around
the cinema. The 2019 Berkeley Film & Media Graduate Conference seeks to put
into dialogue ideas of taste, quality, and resolution in form and content from
the standpoint of the digital age. HIGH/LOW asks how historical understandings
of quality, value, and taste persist or are challenged by emerging medial
forms.
Deadline: Novemeber 15, 2018
Contact Email: highlowconference@gmail.com
Global Souths Conference
April 4-6, 2019, University of Louisiana – Lafayette
The Global Souths conference is a three-day, interdisciplinary
conference that aims to explore the connections between the U. S. South and the
Global South. The South is more than a place. It is a point of connection, a
nexus of ideas transcending both geographical and ideological boundaries. We
invite all scholars and graduate students in the arts, humanities, and social
sciences to submit critical and creative proposals that explore humanity's
interactions with and responses to an increasingly globalized world.
The deadline for abstracts is December 31, 2018.
ontact Email: dsgsconference@gmail.com
Afflicted Bodies, Affected
Societies: Disease and Wellness in Historical Perspective
Seton Hall University, 7-8 February
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?
Please send a single document containing 1) a title and an abstract of
up to 250 words and 2) a short (one-paragraph) biography, to setonhallhistorysymposium@gmail.com by
Monday, 19 November, 2018.
Please feel free to contact Anne Giblin Gedacht at anne.gedacht@shu.edu, or Golbarg
Rekabtalaei at golbarg.rekabtalaei@shu.edu,
with any questions. For more information about History at Seton Hall, please
visit our website, https://www.shu.edu/history/.
Body IQ Festival 2019
Somatische Akademie Berlin
15.-17. 11. 2019
Body IQ Festival 2019 aims to address questions of re-embodiment in a
context of global ethical and ecological crisis. Over the last decades somatic
practices have become a growing field of sensorial, experiential and
emancipatory learning within a broad range of educational, therapeutic and
artistic contexts. How can somatic practices contribute to a re-education of
attention and human interaction with a sustainable living world? How do we
mobilise, activate and organize a culture of somatic passion and care for a
dignified future for all?
We are inviting artists, educators and scholars to contribute through
workshops, academic presentations, performances and artefacts, lectures, or
other alternative formats.
Deadline for Applications Dec 1st 2018
Contact Email: t.kampe@bathspa.ac.uk
Paradise on Fire: Association
for the Study of Literature and Environment 2019
June 26-30, 2019, University of California Davis
Paradise does not exist, and yet that never seems to stop people from
finding it, or building it, or dreaming its contours – often to the detriment
of humans and nonhumans on the wrong side of its walls. California was affixed
to our maps by conquistadors, eager readers of Montalvo who believed the
Earthly Paradise to be nearby. The price of its establishment was the genocide
of the land’s indigenous populations. Yet as Octavia Butler’s dystopian vision
of California on fire has shown, walls seldom lead to lasting safety and cannot
exclude a turbulent world for long (The
Parable of the Sower). If as Rebecca Solnit contends, “paradise arises in
hell,” when democratic communities are built from the ground up during times of
disaster that leave us “free to live and act another way,” what might life in
catastrophic times entail for the environmental humanities? How should we
write, teach, protest, live, and act during this era when “paradise” is on
fire, figuratively and literally?
Proposals must be submitted by December 15, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST.
Contact Email: ASLEconference2019@gmail.com
Postcolonial Studies Association
Convention
University of Manchester, 11–13 September 2019
Paper and panel proposals are invited from academics, scholars and
postgraduates as well as community organisers and activists with interests in
any area of postcolonial studies from any disciplinary, cross- or
interdisciplinary perspective and practice.
For all their differences, it might be said that postcolonialists are
united in their commitment to pursuing justice in the face of all the
destructive social, political, religious, cultural and environmental
consequences of imperialism. Given the thematic, disciplinary, methodological,
and idiomatic breadth of the postcolonial field, though, ‘justice’ is marked by
many different, often competing conceptions – cognitive, epistemic,
restorative, transitional, socialist, cosmopolitan. Moreover, complex
discourses around the ‘rights’ on which we might base notions of justice have
opened up questions of whose rights should predominate, who should articulate
rights and for whom?
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Monday 28 January 2019.
Contact Email: psaconference@postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk
Stonewall at 50 and Beyond:
Interrogating the Legacy and Memory of the 1969 Riots
Paris-Dauphine University (Paris-Sciences-et-Lettres), June 3rd–5th,
2019
On the fiftieth anniversary of Stonewall, this conference aims to shed
critical light on this major event and its possible effects on the development
of LGBTQ mobilizations around the world. It seeks to investigate the processes
of memorialization, as well as the political legacy and the cultural and
activist representations of Stonewall.
Deadline for paper submissions: December 1st, 2018.
Contact Email: stonewallat50@gmail.com
Violence in a Connecting World
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, March 21-22, 2019
We invite papers that explore the relationship between integration
within global systems and manifestations of violence. What diverse forms of
violence are brought about by interconnectedness? How was interconnectedness
imposed on different peoples? How did historical actors resist
interconnectedness? In what respects can violence result from inclusion or
exclusion from global systems of interconnectedness, such as capitalism and
imperialism? How do investigations of global history, especially globalization,
allow us to theorize violence as a process which does not always materially and
physically manifest, but is perpetuated systemically? How can global historians
conceptualize trauma, coercion, and the lasting psychological effects of
violence?
The deadline for submission is December 7, 2018.
Contact Email: ghiq@queensu.ca
African Studies Conference
University of Leeds, April 4-5,
2019
Building on its long history of a multidisciplinary and critical study
of African societies, cultures and politics, the Leeds University Centre for
African Studies invites proposals for panels and papers with cutting-edge
empirical and theoretical research into Africa’s multiple realities, dynamics
and meanings. We specifically welcome contributions that probe new methods and
concepts from across the social sciences and humanities in order to advance our
understanding of Africa as a place and an idea, and the state of African
Studies as a field.
The deadline for proposals is Friday 30 November 2018.
Contact Email: african-studies@leeds.ac.uk
Rethinking Disruptive Sex from
the 19th to the 21st Century
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, April 15-16 2019
This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together work on the
history of childhood, medicine, gender, emotion, sex, and sexuality to question
what it is that has given some sex disruptive or normative power from the 19th
to the 21st century. The aim of the conference will be to question the
assumptions we have about what disruptive and non-disruptive sex is, what
contexts move sex from one category to another, and how these categories have
changed over time and place. We encourage participants to particularly consider
how the answers to these questions change across transnational contexts and
time periods.
Abstracts should be sent to Dr Hannah J Elizabeth and Dr Sarah Kenny at rethinkingdisruptivesex@gmail.com by December
15th.
Race, Gender and Technology in
Science-Fiction
Maison Française, Oxford, 25-27 April 2019
The Maison Française conference committee invites proposals that
examine the themes of race, gender and technology in science-fiction from the
classical period to the present, in all media (print, film, television…) and
from any continent.
Proposals are due by 1 December 2018.
Contact Email: mfosf2019@gmail.com
Immolations: Queer Theory and
Environmental Destruction
We are looking for individual or collaborative contributions to "Immolations:
Queer Theory and Environmental Destruction," a panel to be
presented at the 2019 conference of the Association for the Study of Literature
and Environment (UC Davis, June 26-30). Please submit a brief abstract via
Submittable (https://asle.submittable.com/submit/126655/immolations-queer-theory-and-environmental-destruction)
prior to December 15.
Contact Email: tremblay@nmsu.edu
International Graduate
Historical Studies Conference
The International Graduate Historical Studies Conference will host
“Transcending Boundaries” at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant,
Michigan, March 29 - 30, 2019.
We invite graduate students from across the social sciences and the
humanities to submit proposals for papers or panels that adopt an
interdisciplinary or transnational approach, but we are also seeking papers or
panels that approach historical topics in more traditional ways. All
submissions must be based on original research. In keeping with the theme of
the conference, individual papers will be organized into panels that cross
spatial, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries.
Preference will be given to papers and panels received during the early
submission period which ends December 16, 2018.
Contact Email: histconf@cmich.edu
URL: http://ighsc.info/
(Re)Writing Global Histories:
Movement, Memory, and Materiality
March 23-24, 2019, Boston, MA, USA
The conference will address a wide variety of themes within world
history and public history, looking specifically at how histories of various
ideas, materials, and people have been (re)written throughout human history. We
encourage papers that think broadly about how global histories can be
reinterpreted to include voices that have been historically overlooked, and
those that explore these issues within narrow and broad contexts.
For information on paper and
panel submissions, please visit our website: http://nu-histconference.org/call-for-papers/
If you have any questions, you are welcome to email us: nugradconf@gmail.com
Body, Place, and Identity
Conference
University of North Texas, March 1-2, 2019
Throughout the conference we will explore how historical subjects
construct and are constructed by their surroundings and their corporealities.
“Bodies” represents the literal bodies of human and non-human beings as well as
physical/natural/human-made “bodies” and communities such as bodies of water,
civic bodies, etc. This connects to histories of place, defined geographically
and existentially, framed by political, environmental, spiritual, and other
borders. Emerging from bodies and places are identities, shaped by gender,
sexuality, race, ethnicity, economics, politics, religions, and other social,
biological, and cultural influences.
Please send proposals to: bpiunthistory@gmail.com before
or on December 1, 2018.
Animal Remains Conference
April 29-30th, 2019, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Animal remains are
everywhere. From the cryogenically-preserved DNA of the extinct Po’ouli bird
held in storage at the Frozen Zoo to the ivory tusks of African elephants that
flood the market of the illegal wildlife trade, animal bodies have been
fashioned into commodities, fetishized visual objects, colonial artifacts,
meat, carrion, taxidermic trophies, and biotechnological innovations.
Decomposed organic compounds that were once ancient animal and vegetable
remains are also converted into fuel and an array of petro-products, while
dinosaurs and other prehistoric species make frequent appearances in recent
science fiction films like Jurassic World. Building on these emerging
developments, this international and cross-disciplinary conference will examine
the material histories and futures of animal remains.
Abstracts of 350 words, along
with a 50-word bio (in email body or in doc.x), can be sent to Sarah Bezan (s.bezan@sheffield.ac.uk) and
Robert McKay (r.mckay@sheffield.ac.uk)
by November 23rd, 2018.
"Paradise is Drowning:" Rising Tides, Breaking Conditions
and Altered Horizons
June 26-30, 2019 - University
of California at Davis
The flipside of the phrase
"paradise is burning" (the theme for the 2019 ASLE conference) would
be, especially for many that live in coastal communities, "paradise is
drowning." The two elemental events
are interconnected via the extreme weather of climate change. This panel features eco-critical projects
(art, film, geography, literature and more) that address the oceanic
catastrophes of climate change, the breaking conditions of the present and the
potential for altered horizon concepts created in their wake. How can eco-critical projects help to address
the slowly creeping inundations of the present that spell submerged futures for
many of the world's most vulnerable coastal, delta, and island populations
whose subsistence and survival depend on the ocean?
Please send a 250-500 word abstract and a brief bio (2-3 sentences)
by Sat. Dec. 15, 2018 to both Jaimey
Hamilton Faris at jhamiltonfaris@gmail.comand
Christina Gerhardt at crgerhardt@gmail.com.
Conference on the History and
Philosophy of Science and Medicine
29th and 30th March, 2019, Indiana University Bloomington
The Indiana University Department of History and Philosophy of Science
and Medicine and HPS Graduate Students Association are calling for submissions
from graduate students working on topics relating to the history and/or
philosophy of science for its third graduate student conference in the spring of
2019. Submissions are welcome on a breadth of historical or philosophical
topics in the sciences. This conference is intended to be an opportunity for
graduate students to share their work, make connections, and receive feedback
from peers and faculty in a congenial environment.
Email submissions to iuhpsconf@gmail.com on
or before January 1st.
Contact Info:
Ryan O'Loughlin (email me at rjolough@iu.edu).
Alternatively, contact us (the History and Philosophy of Science &
Medince graduate students at Indiana University) at iuhpsconf@gmail.com or see
our website at http://iuhpsgraduateconference.blogspot.com
Militarization: Methods,
Approaches, and New Directions
Harvard University, March 28th-29th, 2019
Con-IH is looking for submissions on a broad range of topics relating
to militaries, militarism, militancy, and militarization in global and
international history. Processes of militarization and armed conflict have
produced destructive violence, created new international and regional networks,
and transformed social, cultural, and economic relations. Con-IH seeks to discuss cutting-edge studies that
take up the subject of militarization beyond a single nation’s history to
encompass international, regional, imperial and global historical contexts.
Proposals must be received by November 15, 2018
Contact Email: oberiano@g.harvard.edu
URL: http://con-ih.com
Queer Work/Queer Labour
Friday 15th March, 2019. Universtiy College London.
The workplace has always been a central arena for the creation and
contestation of sexual minority identities and rights. This conference brings
together studies of capitalism, labour, and sexuality, each of them important
fields in the scholarship of the modern world, and explores the intersections
between them. The one-day event will examine how lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people have encountered discrimination, fought
for workplace rights and imagined liberation within and beyond the confines of
capitalism.
The deadline for submissions is 1 December 2018.
Contact Email: joshua.hollands.14@ucl.ac.uk
(Un)Told Stories
USD Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research Conference, March
12-14, 2019
In the past year, the #MeToo movement catalyzed an international
discussion about continuing widespread sexual harassment and sexual violence.
It has also raised awareness about the context in which stories are told,
heard, or silenced. People have asked a variety of questions in efforts to
understand how and why marginalized figures are able to speak, be seen, and be
heard.
Submit proposals to wgss@usd.edu.
Proposals should be submitted both as an electronic email attachment and
included in the body of the email. Deadline for submissions is December 15,
2018. Website: http://www.usd.edu/wgss-conference.
Healing the Mind/Body/Soul:
Community, Activism, and Justice in Education
We want to highlight practices in education that are indeed healing,
that restore connections within ourselves, amongst one another, and with
nature. We want to hear the stories,
learn about the programs and activities that help heal the wounds systems of
oppression promulgate on our communities and students. Our ambition this year
is to encourage students, teachers, community activists, public educators,
professors, scholar-activists, and humans of any social and personal identity
to share their efforts and wisdom.
Cultural Memory and Trauma:
Literary and Visual Representations
The Comparative World Literature Program at California State
University, Long Beach, invites abstracts for presentations at its 54th annual
conference in Long Beach, California. This year we would like participants to
consider the relationship between trauma and memory, both individual and
collective memory and their intersections, within a variety of disciplinary
contexts. How is a cultural memory formed, or how do cultures remember the
past? How do different voices/media contribute to constructing a cultural
memory? How does the act of commemorating trauma affect or even alter the way
that an experience is remembered?
Abstracts of no more than 300 words (not including optional
bibliography) should be submitted by January 31, 2019. Please submit abstracts
as a Word document as an email attachment to (comparativeworldliterature@gmail.com).
Zones and Lines, Water and Land: New Conversations on Borders
Cardiff University, Wales,
United Kingdom, 22-24 May, 2019
In the early modern world, no
less than today, borders were contested spaces that fostered opportunity on one
hand and anxiety on the other. New technologies expanded the reach and scale of
maritime enterprises and empires even as control of coastlines and blue-water
spaces remained elusive. European interest in a path to the “western sea”
focused North and South American colonists’ attention westward to what turned
out to be the landlocked interior of massive continents governed and defended
by Native peoples already there.
Interested participants should
send one document containing a 250-word paper abstract, a few sentences
describing preferred delivery format (i.e., roundtable, abstract +
presentation, etc.), and a short CV to Rachel Herrmann (HerrmannR@cardiff.ac.uk) by
January 1st, 2019
Fictions and Frictions: The
Power and Politics of Narrative
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, March 1-2, 2019
The construction of a counternarrative can be a strategy for political
resistance, revealing power structures by articulating a perspective on social
reality alternative to the dominant or norm. Yet, alternative realities are not
always positive or emancipatory, as demonstrated by the proliferation of claims
of “fake news” and “alternative facts.” When multiple narratives collide into
each other, they create friction at their edges. In that friction, we might
find new perspectives and possibilities. This symposium will focus on narrative
edges in order to develop a more nuanced understanding of the way that visual
and performative fictions function politically. We seek 20-minute presentations
from graduate students in any discipline that engage with the construction or deconstruction
of power through oral, written, and visual narratives, or with the conflicts
and congruences among competing narratives.
Please send your 300-word abstracts and a 2-page CV, or any questions
to Alyssa Bralower and Sarah Richter at sahauiuc58@gmail.com by December
1, 2018.
Black Migrations
February 7-8, 2019, University of Missouri
Migration has played a central role in the histories of Africans and
their descendants. For some, migration was entirely voluntary while others were
forced to move due to violence, political destabilization, ecological degradation,
or other upheavals. Black migrations have also resulted in more diverse and
stratified interracial populations that have reshaped the societies of the
receiving areas. In more recent periods, scholars have begun exploring the
impact out-migration and return migration have had on the development and
stability of various majority black societies. In addition, scholars, students,
and activists have been examining the relation between relocation and
conceptualizations of blackness.
Abstract deadline: November 15, 2018.
Questions about the symposium can be sent to organizers D.A. Dunkley (dunkleyd@missouri.edu), Tristan
Ivory (ivoryt@missouri.edu), or
Christopher Wikle (wiklec@missouri.edu).
Conference of the Fantastic in
the Arts
March13-16, 2019, Orlando, Florida
The International Fantastic Division of the International Association
for the Fantastic in the Arts is soliciting proposals for ICFA 2019 papers,
sessions, creative readings, and other panels about the GLOBAL FANTASTIC in any
media and discipline.
Our Division encourages international research and art about spiritual,
fabulist, weird, and experimental manifestations of the
non-real/surreal/transreal throughout the world.
To submit proposals by 10/31, visit https://www.fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/ and
select the International Fantastic as the Division to which to
forward your proposal.
Contact Email: idawrite@gmai.com
Blacks on the Left Symposium
May 31-June 1, 2019, Emory
University
We invite proposals for papers
that will illuminate the braided histories of struggles against racism, state
violence, and capitalism alongside the individuals and organizations that
engaged in those conflicts. ‘Blacks on the Left’ is a symposium that we hope
can bring together a variety of disciplines that document the role of left-wing
anti-capitalist politics in struggles for black liberation. (Or, for that
matter, cases in which these forces part ways.)
The submission deadline is
December 1, 2018.
Contact Email: ccharti@emory.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Exhibition Design Influenced by
Cinema
The medium of cinema works through an unfolding process of perception.
As a spectator of cinema, one is drawn into a dimensional world, where the
experience of spectacle, narrative, and semiosis work together to percolate a
film’s interest, context, and purpose. Cinema is affective, engaging, and
critically contemplative. Through dynamic relations between the movement and
colour of images, ambient, immersive, and musical sound, cultural and human
perspective, cinema creates an altered experience of reality. This encourages
individuals to reflect, through embodied and cognitive instances, on the
fluctuating conditions of the world and human experience.
This special edition mini-issue of the CMA Journal invites writers,
reviewers, practitioners, and scholars from the fields of visual art, film,
media history, as well as critical and cultural studies to contemplate how the
perceptual process of cinema or other media can inform an altered form of
curation in contemporary white-cube gallery space.
Projects should be submitted via email directly to cma_journal@sfu.ca with the subject: ATTN: Mini
Issue #1
Teen Childbearing and Young
Parenthood: Rearing, Rhetoric, and Representation
We are seeking contributors for a collection of essays which analyze
the rhetoric of teen childbearing and young parenthood. The edited collection,
tentatively titled Teen Childbearing and Young Parenthood: Rearing, Rhetoric,
and Representation, would invite contributors to explore the rhetoric and
representation of teen childbearing and young parenthood. The collection's
purpose is to explore how society perceives not only teen mothers but also
young parents so that education, social science, and policy/administrative
communicators understand how much of the conversations regarding teen pregnancy
are steeped in stigmatizing political and ideological suggestion that,
ultimately, steer how public services, education, and financial resources are
allocated to young parents.
Deadline for Proposals: February 1, 2019
Please send prospective contributions and questions to Youngparenthoodcollection@gmail.com.
Transnational American Studies
within the Post-Arab Spring Context
This Special Forum of The Journal of Transnational American Studies is
intended to rethink the field of American Studies within the context of current
global events– variable, rather than exceptional. It aims to consider what we
might gain from global analysis, beginning from spaces of rebellion, exposed by
the Arab Spring and sites like Tahrir Square, Zuccotti Park, Dakota Access
Pipeline protests in the US, and the 2012 Quebec student protests in Canada.
Contributions are welcome by scholars from around the globe who work in
American Studies or closely related fields to assay a truly global ambit of
analysis, beyond the transnational turn to not only acknowledge the
interconnectedness of global developments in political economy but also provide
the means to extend and deepen critiques of the myth of American
exceptionalism.
Please submit manuscripts electronically to the following email
address: arabspringtas@gmail.com Submissions
should be received by January 28th, 2018.
Contact Email: arabspringtas@gmail.com
Inheriting Black Studies
Souls invites essays, critical book/film/art reviews, and interviews by
advanced graduate students and junior faculty that commemorate the 50th
anniversary of Black Studies, focusing on the range of intellectual
inheritances we have received from this meta-discipline and what those
inheritances demand of the future(s) of critical black study.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 11:59 PST FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Upload Submissions to: https://www.editorialmanager.com/souls/default.aspx
Please address questions to: Marco Roc, Souls Managing Editor, mroc2@uic.edu
Marginalized Voices in Academia
Series
The Activist History Review invites proposals for its series
“Marginalized Voices in Academia,” which features personal essays by scholars
from marginalized communities about their experiences in academia. The voices of academics from marginalized
communities cannot be ignored, even when their message brings discomfort. We
here at The Activist History Review are committed to providing
a space to amplify those voices in the hope that our collective demands will
one day be too loud to ignore. So, this call for submissions for our
“Marginalized Voices in Academia” series is an open and continuous one. Potential
contributors may contact Executive Editor Nathan Wuertenberg at activisthistory@gmail.com at
any time from this point forward.
Strident Voices, Dissenting
Bodies: Subaltern Women's Narratives
The edited collection is entitled Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies:
Subaltern Women’s Narratives. It will bring together scholarship that explores
marginalised women’s narratives of resistance and subversion. The focus is
two-fold: to look at the lived experiences of women as they negotiate their
lives in a world of political flux and conflicts; and to examine women’s
dissenting practices as recorded in texts and archives. The collection will not
be limited to a gendered (re)reading of alternative historical narratives, but
will rather rethink newer definitions for resistance and subversion. At its
core, this collection will explore intersections of gender, race, and place. It
will push the boundaries of scholarship on decolonial and postcolonial feminism
and subaltern studies, reading women’s subversive practices.
Abstract submission deadline: November 18, 2018
Submit to: subalternwomen2017@gmail.com
Lacanian and Foucaultian
Approaches to the Body Essay Collection
Both Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault took the body as an object of
critical inquiry but explored it in divergent ways. This collection of essays,
under advance contract with McFarland and Company, will bring together scholars
working from Lacanian and Foucaultian perspectives to interrogate the body.
Collectively, the papers selected for this volume will aspire to answer, among
others, the following questions: how do Lacan and Foucault approach the body,
and what new forms of subjectivity emerge when we pay attention to the body?
What are we allowed to do to or with our bodies, and what are we allowed to ask
others to do to or with our bodies? And how can we bring Lacanian and
Foucaultian theory to bear on ethical, legal, medical, philosophical, sexual,
and theological concerns about the body?
Please send proposals of 500 words along with a CV by January 31, 2019,
to Becky McLaughlin at bmclaugh@southalabama.edu and
Eric Daffron at edaffron@ramapo.edu.
The Human, Conditioned
The radical conditioning of humans by the built environment can be
identified across geographies, times and scales: from Ernst Neufert’s slight
modification of the human body to conform with the dimensions of his modular
standards, to the planning of office floors according to organisational
theories in the Bürolandschaft experiments; from slave and container ships, to
data centres and cold server rooms; from modern spaces constructed around the
norms of a universal human body, to Amazon’s fulfilment centres and landscapes
of logistics and automation that challenge both conventional spatial
requirements and normative rules meant for human habitation, and the
distinctions between city and countryside.
This issue of Footprint seeks to highlight spaces of radical
conditioning, in which humans have to operate in accordance with the logic of
industrial economy and technology. We would like to present an understanding of
the machine and its rise in a societal and architectural context by exploring
historical and contemporary instances of such spaces.
Authors of research articles are requested to submit their
contributions on Footprint’s online platform before 15 January 2019.
Contact Email: editors.footprint@gmail.com
Eloquent Vandals
Nuart Journal aims to serve as a forum for critical discourse and
commentary on urban art cultures and street art practice, defined as broadly as
possible to include all aspects of both independently sanctioned and
unsanctioned art in public space that does not fall under the general rubric of
traditional public art practice.
The theme of Issue II – ELOQUENT VANDALS – is a provocative link to
street art and urban culture’s delinquent roots and the “creative joy of destruction”
– evidenced most recently in Banksy and Blu’s high profile acts of
auto-iconoclasm, but also present in a plethora of quotidian, human scale,
unsanctioned urban interventions. The rise of festival-sponsored neo-liberal
muralism sits uneasily with these ungovernable forms of urban creativity. This
special issue calls for contributions that celebrate the work of street art's
eloquent vandals, and papers that critically examine attempts to cultivate,
instrumentalise, commodify and 'protect' the art of the streets.
Deadline January 7 2019
Contact Email: editor@nuartjournal.com
Disability Studies
The Journal of Science Fiction is accepting submissions for a special
issue on disability studies and science fiction to be released in early 2019.
Disability studies, like Afrofuturism and other similarly diverse
contextual and sociopolitical approaches to science fiction, highlights the
significance of minority representation and inclusion in science and
speculative fiction literature, film, comics, and popular culture. By
increasing scholarly visibility into the critical discourses surrounding
representations and interpretations of disability in SF media and scholarship,
the Journal of Science Fiction aims to highlight the fruitful insights
resulting from such intersectional analysis, both direct and indirect, which
can further advance our understanding of the genre’s capacity to teach us about
ourselves and one another.
We are seeking academic articles of 5,000 to 8,000 words, short
reflection pieces of 500 to 1,000 words, and book reviews of 500-750 words by
Friday, November 16th.
Contact Email: aisha.matthews@museumofsciencefiction.org
Women, Gender and Politics in
Muslim Societies: A New Historiography?
The call for this special issue on Women, Gender and Politics in Muslim
Societies seeks to gather contributions around these topics in a manner that
focuses particular attention on transnational perspectives, transcending the
boundaries of national histories through the prism of women active in
predominantly Muslim societies in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. This
thematic issue of Genre et histoire aims to gather studies that shed historical
light on the issues raised by the sociological and anthropological literature,
by going beyond the reductive construction of Muslim women as a homogeneous
group. To do this, we want to explore the heterogeneity of women’s stories in
the Muslim world from the end of the First World War to the present day, in
order to deconstruct the social and symbolic meanings associated with this
category.
Proposals of up to
3.000 characters, in English or French should be sent together with a CV
to Silvia Bruzzi (silviabruzzi@yahoo.it) and Lucia Sorbera (lucia.sorbera@sydney.edu.au) before 15 November 2018.
The New Black Public Sphere
In The Black Public Sphere, resistance to the hierarchies inherent in
elitist definitions and forms of political power take place in neighborhood
organizing, collaborative creation, and collective political action. Community
gardens, public libraries, public schools and learning communities, systems of
nonmonetary exchange, creative arts and the sharing of vital resources are just
a few examples of this social sphere’s location and activities. Submissions
should be related to the Black Public Sphere Theory in regards to function,
location, Black agency, and political organizing.
Please submit an initial abstract (no longer than two paragraphs) which
includes: a narrative in which you identify the connection between your theme
and the Black Public Sphere theory; the question(s) you will be pursuing; how
you will approach this research; and any conclusions.
Your abstract must be addressed to the two editors of this anthology:
Dr. Eric R. Jackson (jacksoner@nku.edu)
and Dr. Stephanie Anne Johnson (stephanieannejohnsonphd@gmail.com).
Inheritance
We are seeking papers that take a critical and transgressive approach
to any and all aspects of inheritance, which in its most basic form involves
one who bequeaths, items passed down, and one who receives. Our consideration
of inheritance then questions first who has the power to decide what is worthy
to be passed down and who is worthy to receive? How is this power granted,
questioned, and subverted? How do people divested of this power find
alternative ways of leaving a legacy? Second, what gets passed down and what
gets left out of the process of inheritance? What forms of inheritance are
recognized—given significance—or not? What histories or memories are
remembered—preserved, passed down—or not? What inheritances are lost and how do
we reckon those losses? Finally, who receives and who is excluded from
inheriting? Who are the winners and losers in generational transfers? What
economic and social repercussions are experienced by persons excluded from
inheritance, particularly women, people of color, immigrants, people without property,
and persons with disabilities? How do these losses continue to be felt over the
generations? How do we reckon the immaterial losses, such as names never
recorded, art never created, writing never published?
Priority Submission Deadline: March 1, 2019
Contact Maria Rice Bellamy and Karen Weingarten at WSQInheritanceIssue@gmail.com.
Beginnings
How does one begin to speak of beginnings? If the beginning is behind
us, how does one begin again? Should one attempt to, and is it up to us to
choose? What role does the idea of the precursor play in literature, theory,
and philosophy? Must one always, as Harold Bloom advocates, misread? And how
does one even begin to write a poem, a novel, or a treatise? What literary
works, in their origin(-)ality, began something bigger than themselves—one here
thinks of Frankenstein, for instance—and is the entire oak tree always
contained in the acorn?
The editors of antae welcome
complete essay submissions on or around the topic of beginnings. The
authorial guidelines are available on www.antaejournal.com, and the
deadline for submissions to antaejournal@gmail.com is
the 20th of January, 2019.
Bridging the Gap? Digital Media
in the Literature Classroom
Much has been written about pedagogy in the wired classroom, and recent
studies suggest that the humanities are revitalized when media is incorporated
into undergraduate teaching. This work is often anchored in the belief that
“digital natives” learn differently from the previous generation of students and tends to follow one of two divergent
narratives about student dis/engagement. On one hand, 21st-century students are
self-motivated multi-taskers used to knowledge communities in which learning is
actively produced rather than passively consumed; on the other hand,
21st-century students are passive consumers trained by the prevailing digital
culture to seek instant gratification and turn off when it is not forthcoming.
The conclusion to both of these narratives is the same: get media into your
class if you want to engage students. But the long-standing interest in media
as a means to reach students and enhance delivery also points to an absence in
current scholarship, which has not been attentive to that same media as content
in the literature classroom.
Submissions are due by January 1, 2019. Please contact guest editor
with questions or concerns: kristin.lucas@mail.mcgill.ca.
Full Bleed
Full Bleed, an annual print journal of art and design, seeks
submissions for its third issue, forthcoming in Spring 2019. For Issue Three,
we are especially, but not exclusively, interested in submissions that concern
machines. We seek new writing about or related to artificial intelligence,
robotics, the machination of labor, political machines, Rube Goldberg-type
contraptions and related absurdities, virtual reality, and games.
Please send previously unpublished work along with a brief biography
to fullbleedjournal@gmail.com by
January 1.
Contact Email: pjaskunas@mica.edu
The Future of the City
The Journal of Philosophical Criticism, a double-blind peer review
online academic journal, invites submission of papers on the topic: The Future
of the City.
Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2019
Contact Email: editor@journalpc.org
URL: http://journalpc.org
Feminist Genealogies: Specific
Political Intersections
As we approach the third decade of the 21st Century, it is something of
a truism to say that there are multiple feminisms. A post-feminist sensibility (Gill, 2007)
establishes contemporary currency for debating feminist sociopolitical
activism, for mistaking feminist identities, for rejuvenating backlash or
lamenting fragmentation. This special
issue aims to openly celebrate the multiplicity of feminist genealogical
practices of critique and prefiguration, with respect for enabling tensions and
productive problematics.
Any one who has interests in submitting, please feel free to contact
the guest editor Prof. Mandy Morgan (C.A.Morgan@massey.ac.nz) or
the managing editor Ms. Allie Shi (genealogy@mdpi.com)
Deadline for manuscript
submissions: 14 January 2019
Exploring Fashion as
Communication in Popular Communication
The editors of Popular Communication: The International Journal of
Media and Culture invite submissions for a special issue on the topics of
Fashion Journalism and Fashion as Communication.
With the consolidation of fashion studies as an academic field, the
study of fashion, dress, and costume has become a fertile ground for
interdisciplinary research for scholars from communication and media studies.
Media studies scholars have considered fashion, dress, and costume in relation
to film and other visual media formats. Fashion journalism remains a less-
explored territory under media studies as an umbrella discipline. This special
issue offers a unique opportunity to look at the role of journalism as a
profession and as an industry key player in the context of fashion, popular
communication, and consumer culture.
Submitted papers should be 6,000-7,000 words in length (inclusive of
all elements). The deadline for submission is February 28th, 2019.
For further questions before submission, contact Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén
at elizabeth.lunden@gmail.com.
400 years: African American
Struggles, Triumphs, and Survival Since 1619
The Journal of History and Culture (JHC) is now accepting abstracts for
the next JHC issue — a special edition — scheduled for late Spring 2019 and
focusing on “400 years: African American Struggles, Triumphs, and Survival
Since 1619.” Our theme is in conjunction with the 2019 quadricentennial
commemoration of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in English-speaking
Colonies which later became the United States.
Abstracts Due: Nov. 1, 2018
Contact Email: mdhurd@pvamu.edu
Edited Volume on Euro-African relations
A tight embrace is the proposed title for an
interdisciplinary, multi-contributed volume examining the recent developments
of social, political and economic relations between Europe and Africa to shed
new light on the bonds existing between the two areas. The overall aim of the
volume is that of illustrating the existing ties between the continents,
promoting a much-needed common narrative putting together Europe and Africa as
a single macro-area connected by common and interrelated dynamics. Submissions
are welcomed that contribute directly to history, political sciences,
economics, anthropology, women’s and ethnic studies, sociology, or related
fields.
Proposals should be submitted
via email attachment to Marco Zoppi (marco.zoppi2@unibo.it) by 15
December, 2018.
Submission deadline: November
16, 2018
Sustainable Fashion
The International Society For
Sustainable Fashion invites ongoing article submissions worldwide on all
aspects of sustainable fashion and textiles for the peer reviewed official
journal. Articles are usually between 3000-5000 words in Harvard referencing
format, with 60 word biography. Submit full articles online at https://www.sustainable-fashion-society.org/journal.html or
email journal@sustainable-fashion-society.org.
Institutionalized Yoga
But with the increasing
presence of the practice comes new questions surrounding how and where it is
being implemented. This issue of Race and Yoga journal invites critical
interrogations of yoga in institutions. How are yoga practices being
implemented in companies or major corporations? How is yoga being taught in
schools or clinics? In prisons or jails? Who is being invited to teach and/or
participate in these practices? How is harm being perpetuated or mitigated? Who
or what benefits from the addition of yoga in these spaces?
DEADLINE: January 15, 2019
Contact Email: raceandyoga@gmail.com
Literary Walks, Slow Travel, and Eco-Awareness in Contemporary
Literature
Seeking submission for a
forthcoming issue of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature
One of the latest fitness
trends from Sweden is the so-called ‘plogging’, picking up trash while jogging.
Embarking from this image of social engagement for the purpose of healing the
planet proposals are sought for an upcoming issue of Studies in Twentieth and
Twenty-First Century Literature for a series of essays in English that analyse
literary, filmic, or other artistic productions in twentieth- and twenty-first
century German, French, Italian, or Spanish speaking cultures in view of the
links between ‘slow travel’ and eco-awareness.
Please provide a 500-word
abstract for articles not to exceed 7500 words, along with a brief CV, complete
contact details, and academic affiliation, in an email to arndsp@tcd.ie with the reference line
of STTCL Abstract. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is February 1,
2019.
Veganism and Cycling / Cycling
and Veganism
We wish to put together an anthology of essays on how cycling and
veganism are intertwined and are looking to hear from you on your thoughts as a
vegan cyclist. What happens when a vegan bikes? What sorts of “vegan
subjectivities” emerge as one bikes? What does thinking through cycling and
veganism as interconnected practices that engage both mind and body reveal?
Does biking open possibilities for people to become vegans?
We are looking for essays in which one’s experiences of cycling provide
a jumping off point for reflecting on various ideas and insights that respond
to and center veganism.
If you are interested in contributing to this book, please email both
of its editors, Carol J. Adams and Michael D. Wise, by January 10, 2019: cja@caroljadams.com; Michael.Wise@unt.edu
Critical Histories of Aging and
Later Life
The Radical History Review seeks to foster critical perspectives on the
histories and politics related to these contemporary understandings of aging
and what has been called “later life.” We need radical histories that bring age
and aging to the center of analysis and probe the deep past to elucidate
antecedents, critiques, and alternative frameworks for making sense of both the
“aging crisis” and possibility for thinking about aging and longevity in
broader historical perspective. We invite contributions from all time periods
and geographies that investigate aging and later life and put them in
historical context: as axes for multiscalar and intersectional identities or
inequalities, as contested objects of knowledge and governance, as community
formations, and sites of cultural and political struggle.
By June 1, 2019, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the
article you wish as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with
“Issue 139 Abstract Submission” in the subject line.
Jewishness and Sexuality in the
United States
https://networks.h-net.org/node/24029/discussions/2626787/cfp-jewishness-and-sexuality-united-states
Historians have investigated the centrality of sexuality to the
political, social, and cultural history of the United States. Yet until
recently, few historians of sexuality have attended to the important ways that
Jewish religious practices, Jewish identities, Jewish culture, Jewish
institutions, and Jewish political perspectives have shaped sexual politics,
sexual communities and sexual identities over the course of the twentieth
century. Likewise, historians of American Jews and Judaism have barely begun to
account for the changing meanings of sexuality within American Jewish politics,
institutions, practices, and identities. We welcome chapters that take Jewishness
as a starting point for rethinking American sexual history and sexuality as a
starting point for rethinking American Jewish history.
Please send a proposal of no more than 1500 words to Gillian
Frank gaf4xf@virginia.edu, Jonathan
Krasner jkrasner@brandeis.edu and
Rachel Kransonkranson@pitt.edu by
January 15, 2019 along with a 1-page CV.
FUNDING
Wills Research Fellowship
The Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, Tennessee, will begin
accepting applications for the 2019 Wills Research Fellowship. The purpose of
the fellowship is to promote the interpretation of Tennessee history and the
scholarly use of the Society’s collections, housed at the Tennessee State
Library and Archives, Nashville.
The application deadline for the 2019 Research Fellowship is December
31, 2018.
Contact Email: atop@tennesseehistory.org
African & African Diaspora
Studies Dissertation Fellowship
Boston College’s African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS)
announces its dissertation fellowship competition. Scholars working in any
discipline in the Social Sciences or Humanities, with projects focusing on any
topic within African and/or African Diaspora Studies, are eligible to apply. We
seek applicants pursuing innovative, preferably interdisciplinary, projects in
dialogue with critical issues and trends within the field.
DEADLINE: 15 January 2019
Research Fellowship in Texas
History
The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is now accepting
applications for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC)
Research Fellowship in Texas history. The fellowship includes a $2,000 stipend
and is awarded for the best research proposal utilizing the collections of the
State Archives in Austin.
Deadline: Dec. 28
2019-2020 Winterthur Research
Fellowships
Winterthur invites scholars, graduate students, artists, and
craftspeople to begin brainstorming and planning projects for application to
the 2019–2020 Research Fellowship Program. A Broad Range of Scholarly Topics
and Academic Disciplines:
-- Topics in social and cultural history, ethnic and religious history,
art history, literary studies, American studies, design history and decorative
arts, geography and landscape studies, material culture, museum studies, and
conservation studies
-- Topics related to the colonial Americas and the United States in a
global context from the 17th to the 20th centuries
Winterthur is once again offering short-term Maker-Creator Fellowships.
These fellowships are designed for artists, writers, filmmakers,
horticulturists, craftspeople, and others who wish to examine, study, and
immerse themselves in Winterthur’s vast collections in order to inspire
creative and artistic works.
Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2019. For more details and
to apply, visit the Research Fellowship webpage
or e-mailacademicprograms@winterthur.org.
Autry Research Fellowship
The Library and Archives of the Autry Museum is the gateway to the
Autry’s exceptional collection of books, archives, audiovisual resources, and
materials about Native American cultures and the history of the American West. Research
Fellows will be expected to be in residence only during June, July or August,
2019 (the Library and Archives will remain closed to non-fellows until
2019 or early 2020). For more details, please visit the Library and
Archives fellowship
page.
Applications for the 2019 year are due Tuesday, December 1, 2018.
Contact Email: lposas@theautry.org
Fellowship for the Study of
Ephemera
The Ephemera Society of America invites applications for the Philip
Jones Fellowship for the Study of Ephemera. This competition, now in its
eleventh year, is open to any interested individual or organization for the
study of any aspect of ephemera, defined as minor (and sometimes major)
everyday documents intended for one-time or short-term use. Please see the ESA
website at www.ephemerasociety.org for
more information about ephemera.
Applications are due December 1, 2018.
Contact Email: frogcop@cox.net
Schlesinger Library Grants
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites
applicants for a variety of research grants. The library’s special collections
document over two centuries of United States history, from abolition to
transgender rights. Manuscripts, books, periodicals, audiovisual material,
photographs, and other objects make up the collections. These materials
illuminate the lives of ordinary women as well as American icons.
Application Deadline: Monday, February 4, 2019
Complete grant information and access to the application portal is
available here: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/grants
Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship
Program
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University is a museum and
research center that promotes the examination of modern visual and material
culture. The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is on North American and
European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic
design from the period 1885-1945. Fellowships are intended to support full-time
research, generally for a period of three to five weeks. The program is open to
holders of master’s or doctoral degrees, Ph.D. candidates, and to others who
have a significant record of professional achievement in relevant fields.
The application deadline is December 31
Contact Email: research@thewolf.fiu.edu
Opportunities for Native
American Scholars
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.
The Frances C. Allen Fellowship supports women of American Indian
heritage. Preference for this award is given to non-tenured women working in
any graduate or pre-professional field. This fellowship is open to all fields
of study. Recipients are expected to work closely with members of the D’Arcy
McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies during their
residency.
The Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellowship supports
scholars of American Indian heritage. This fellowship is open to all fields of
study. Applicants within the Chicago metropolitan area are eligible.
The deadline is December 15.
Contact Email: research@newberry.org
Visiting Predoctoral and
Postdoctoral Fellowships 2019-2020
The James Weldon Johnson Institute of Emory University welcomes
applications from scholars in the humanities. We are interested in research
projects across the spectrum of the humanities that examine the origins,
evolution, impact and legacy of race, difference, and the modern quest for
civil and human rights. We also support research projects that examine race and
ethnicity and its points of intersection with other identities and movements
addressing differences along gender, class, religious, or sexual
lines. Visiting Fellows will be in residence at Emory for the academic
year 2019-2020. Visit the website at www.jwji.emory.edu for a
complete program description.
The deadline for applications is January 28, 2019.
Marie Tremaine Fellowship
The Marie Tremaine Fellowship is offered in memory and through the
generosity of Marie Tremaine (1902-1984), the doyenne of Canadian
bibliographers. The Fellowship was instituted in 1987 and is offered annually
to support the work of a scholar engaged in some area of bibliographical
research, including textual studies and publishing history and with a
particular emphasis on Canada. The amount of the Fellowship is $2,000.00. The
recipient of the Marie Tremaine Fellowship also receives a free one-year
membership in the society.
Deadline for application: December 14, 2018.
For further details please see the Fellowship page at http://www.bsc-sbc.ca/en/fellowship-awards/
Contact Email: josee.vincent@usherbrooke.ca
Chase Family Travel Grant for
Graduate Scholars
The Chase Family Grant is made possible through an endowment created by
members of the Chase family, pioneers in Florida citrus growing. Its purpose is
to enable graduate students to conduct research in the P.K. Yonge Library of
Florida History at the George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida.
Applicants should be enrolled in a graduate program leading to the masters or
doctoral degree and actively engaged in research on Florida history or research
that incorporates Florida as a major focus. Preference will be given to graduate
students from institutions outside the State of Florida who demonstrate a need
to travel to UF for on-campus access to the resources of Special Collections.
Applications must be received via email by 5:00 PM on Friday, November
30, 2018.
For full information on application procedures, please visit the travel
grant website at: http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/StipendPage1.htm
or query Dr. James Cusick, jgcusick@ufl.edu /
352-273-2778
Marilyn Yarbrough
Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship
Kenyon College, a highly selective, nationally ranked liberal arts
college in central Ohio, invites applications for the Marilyn Yarbrough
Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship beginning in July 2019. The program is for scholars in the final
stages of their doctoral work who need only to finish the dissertation to
complete requirements for the Ph.D. We hope the experience of teaching,
researching, and living for a year at Kenyon will encourage these Fellows to
consider a liberal arts college as a place to begin their careers as teachers and
scholars.
Review of applications will begin December 20, 2018 and will continue
until the position is filled.
Humanities Institute,
Residential Fellow
The University of Connecticut
Humanities Institute invites applications for residential fellowships.
Fellowships offers a stipend, office, and all the benefits of a
Research I university. Just as important, we offer community, space, and time
for scholars to write, argue, engage, and create.
Year-long fellowships are open to humanities professors, independent
scholars, writers, museum and library professionals. Take advantage of the
research facilities, archives and special collections, and museums with ideal
proximity to Hartford, Boston, and New York City.
Application materials must be received by February 1, 2019.
For complete information, application, and guidelines: www.humanities.uconn.edu/become-a-fellow/
Fellowships - Jack, Joseph and
Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
The Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all relevant academic
disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, film
studies, German studies, history, Jewish studies, law, literature, material
culture, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, comparative
genocide studies, and others. Proposals from applicants conducting research
outside the discipline of history or on Mandel Center strategic priorities are
especially encouraged. The Mandel Center awards fellowships-in-residence to
candidates working on their dissertations (ABD), postdoctoral researchers, and
senior scholars. Immediate postdocs and faculty between appointments will also
be considered.
All applications must be submitted in English via an online application process, found at
apply.ushmm.org. The Fellowship Competition will close on November 15,
2018.
To search the Museum’s holdings, visit collections.ushmm.org.
Emerging Scholar Award
Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, a
SCOPUS-indexed journal published at Yonsei University, is pleased to announce
its first Emerging Scholar Award, which will be given to the best article about
any aspect of Asian culture written by a graduate student or a post-doctoral
researcher. To be considered for the award, which comes with a cash prize of US
$1,000 and the publication of the winning article in the spring issue of Situations,
please send a manuscript of 6,000 to 8,000 words and a curriculum vitae to Terry
Murphy (tmurphy@yonsei.ac.kr) and
Suk Koo Rhee (skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr)
by December 31, 2018.
WORKSHOPS
Realities and Fantasies:
Relations, Transformations, Discontinuities
10-12 April 2019, University of Amsterdam
The world of fantasy often serves as an escape from reality, its
limitations, and its many social, economic, and corporeal restrictions.
Reality, in turn, is often desired amidst the delusions of the fantastic.
However, the two are not always separate. In this workshop, we take on the
continuous and renewed interest in the real in its relation to fantasy, illusion,
and imagination. Whereas typically, debates on realism are focused on its
contrast to idealism or nominalism, we ask: What are the contemporary relations
between realities and fantasies? How do reality and fantasy speak to
intellectual imaginings and possible futures?
Abstracts (max. 300 words) and a short biographical note (max. 100
words) should be submitted to realitiesfantasies2019@gmail.com before 15
November 2018
See the complete CFP on http://realitiesfantasies.wordpress.com
Migration, Mobility, and
Sustainability: Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Institute
In partnership with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), we
proposed this collaborative project to host a weeklong, in-person workshop and
five additional monthly virtual workshops on collaborative Digital Humanities
(DH) and Caribbean Studies. This grant proposal and project developed from our
shared feminist technology practices, where we approach and utilize technology
to best meet community needs. Feminist technology practices are
transdisciplinary, recognize the importance of people in relation to
technologies and technical practices, and are socio-technical, encompassing
people, policies, communities, and technologies together. As such, this project
begins by acknowledging distributed and diverse expertise in our communities,
respecting diversity and difference, and affirming the power and value of our
communities and networks, including both working collaboratively together as
members of the investigator team as well as working in relation to our
connected communities.
Applications are due February 1, 2019.
apply here: http://dloc.com/teach/apply
Questions may be directed to laurien@ufl.edu
Oral History Training Institute
Please join us in January 2019 for a five-day workshop. During the
training week individuals are introduced to all aspects of the interview
process, including general oral history theory and methodology, interviewing
techniques and performance of mock interviews, legal and ethical issues,
transcription practices, archiving, recording equipment and its use, data
management, and other relevant topics. Interested participants are encouraged
to bring their research ideas to the workshop. While the scope of the training
workshop will be focused through a STEM lens, individual topics are not limited
to science, technology, engineering, and medicine. This workshop is open to all
researchers interested in the practice of conducting research interviews and
oral histories in order to elucidate and to preserve the unwritten past.
Contact Email: sblatt@sciencehistory.org
Summer Seminars with Étienne
Balibar, Nancy Fraser, and Achille Mbembe
The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) at the New School for
Social Research is pleased to announce that we are now accepting fellowship
applications for our 2019 Summer Seminars (June 9 - 15, 2019). Advanced
graduate students and faculty are eligible to apply.
The Institute is founded on the premise that responding to current and
emergent problems requires developing our collective capacities to formulate
new and better questions, rather than relying on the application of all too
familiar ready-made theories. Our themes are mobile and responsive, joining
conceptual labor with pressing political concerns in our times, in an effort to
understand and act upon better that which is emergent on our collective
horizons. The Institute offers a unique and intensive opportunity for fellows
to pursue this charge in one of the three week-long seminars designed to
cultivate styles of thinking and conceptual vocabularies that address the
disparate sites and unequal conditions in which we live.
Applications are due December 15, 2018.
Contact Email: icsi@newschool.edu
Memory and Borders: Examining
Nationalism and Identity through Material Culture
This event will be held on February 11, 2019 at the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, UK.
This is a call for participants to engage in a workshop discussing
memory and borders. Its purpose is to encourage cross-disciplinary discourse on
the theme of memory and borders. Students, academics, designers, artists,
philosophers, writers, journalists, filmmakers, thinkers and creators will come
together to foster a conversation concerning the idea of the ‘border’ as a
material or ideological barrier or impasse and the impact that these borders
have on individual and collective memory. We will discuss ideas around the
theme of “Memory and Borders” through material cultures, in a discursive format
that includes work and research (-in progress) presentations, and round-table
discussions.
Please send a (maximum) 150-word abstract to memoryandborders@gmail.com by
17:00 on December 15, 2018.
Contact Email: memoryandborders@gmail.com
Contact Email: memoryandborders@gmail.com
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