CONFERENCES
Creaturely Ethics and Poetics
27-29 June,
The Open University (UK)
The
convenors welcome submissions that explore the vulnerability of diverse
subjects - both animal and human - within multiple contexts and different
disciplinary fields of study. This includes disciplines that are not
traditionally associated with management and organizational studies, such as
cultural analysis, anthropology, history, film studies, art history,
contemporary art studies, visual culture, ethnic and racial studies, ecological
studies, cultural studies, queer studies, settler and colonial studies, indigenous
studies, literature, health care, religious studies, theology, area studies,
legal studies, politics, education, social work, environmental humanities,
philosophy, interdisciplinary studies and other research fields that are still
emerging. The overarching aim is to wrestle with the idea of the vulnerability
of life and consider the possibility of sustaining ethical relations between
beings that are intrinsically motivated by love, but often exists in contexts
that are not always conducive to sustaining such relations. Hence, submissions
to this stream could consider how an organizational, institutional or
industrial context plays some role in hindering and/or facilitating ethical
relationships in multiple contexts or settings.
The deadline
for submission of abstracts is January 31st, 2019.
Send
abstract with your contact information to creaturelyethics2019@gmail.com
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood:
Integration, Community, and Co-Habitation
University
of London, 25-27 September 2019
Our
conference seeks to shift focus by exploring transcultural encounters in the
urban neighbourhood. We posit that the urban neighbourhood is a social
microcosm that allows for a more nuanced discussion of transculturality as
lived practice. The urban neighbourhood is local but not provincial; it is a
fluid space in which various temporal and spatial axes intersect; it is the
locus where diverse trans/cultural practices can engender togetherness as well
as differences and conflict. It is the contact zone where disparate cultures
meet in often highly asymmetrical relations, fostering processes of
hybridisation, creolisation and neoculturation. We invite papers from a broad
range of disciplines and fields, including urban geography, urban planning,
architecture, memory studies, film studies, visual and performance arts,
contemporary literary studies, cultural studies, sociology, practice-based
research and linguistics.
Deadline: 10
January 2019
The Long History of Pan-African
Intellectual Activism: More Than a Centenary, 1919-2019
University
of Vienna/ Austria, Thursday to Friday, 16th to 17th May 2019
In 1919,
parallel to the peace negotiations at Versailles and St. Germain near Paris,
African American historian and political activist W.E.B. DuBois launched the
1st Pan-African Congress in order to confront Western racism and call into
question European colonial rule. Though 1919 was a watershed, it was not the
beginning. Likewise, Pan-Africanism experienced many twists and turns since the
1920s. On many levels, then, Pan-Africanism is alive. Moreover, it is on the
agenda lists of many engaged in African affairs again. To put these current
interests and recent developments in proper contexts is a timely task for
historians and intellectual history. The conference welcomes contributions to
the long history of Pan-African intellectual activism in the 20th and 21st
century. In particular, papers that approach this topic through (auto-)
biography and close readings of Pan-African traditions and narratives are
called for.
Contributors
shall hand in a significant abstract (300 to 400 words) and a short CV (not
exceeding 1 page) by Sunday, 6th January 2019.
Contact
Email: arno.sonderegger@univie.ac.at
Phish Studies: An Interdisciplinary
Conference on the Band, its Music, and its Fans
Oregon State
University is pleased to announce the first peer-reviewed academic conference
devoted to the music and fan culture of the improvisational rock band Phish.
The conference will take place on Oregon State’s campus in Corvallis, Oregon,
May 17-19, 2019. For the past thirty-five years, Phish has been consistently
building a fervent fan base and impressive live performance history, often
working outside traditional avenues of the mainstream recording industry.
Despite their achievements, Phish has received far less scholarly attention
than many other acts in popular music. Bringing scholars together from diverse
academic disciplines, we welcome a wide range of methodological and theoretical
approaches to the sonic, narrative, performative, visual, and cultural worlds
of Phish.
Abstracts
are due no later than January 15, 2019.
For
submission instructions and more information, go to http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/phish2019/
Contact
Email: jacobacohen86@gmail.com
Eyes on Surveillance: (In)security in
Everyday Life
April 5 - 6,
2019, Johns Hopkins University
For this
year’s conference, we invite submissions that interrogate the normalization of
surveillance in our everyday life. Going beyond “surveillance” as a buzzword,
we encourage research across disciplines that considers what might constitute
the monitoring of bodies and actions across a variety of lived experience. To
deepen our understanding of surveillance, we ask: How can we critically think
about the ways constant scrutiny exacerbates, rather than resolves danger, risk
and fear, often for marginalized groups? Can we imagine surveillance as
something that multiplies modes of insecurity rather than reducing them?
Submission
deadline: Friday, February 15th, 2019
Deadline for
submission is 11:59 p.m. on Friday, February 15th, 2019.
Please send any questions to ricjhu@jhu.edu. For more information,
visit: https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/ric.
Nativism, White Power, and Anti-Immigrant
Violence in the United States
April 19-20,
2019, University of Chicago
We endeavor
first to structurally locate white backlash and the reemergence of militant
white supremacists in the context of American politics over the last 60 years.
We seek speakers to contextualize the impact the Civil Rights Movement had in
the passage of the Civil Right Act (1964), the Voting Rights Act (1965), the
Fair Housing Act (1968), and all the directives that followed. Many scholars
locate the roots of white backlash in the economic transformation, radical
changes to gender and racial power structures, and the changing nature of the
state in the late twentieth century, and we therefore seek to excavate these
root causes and evaluate their continued resonance, or lack thereof. The
conference’s second goal is to empirically chronicle the many iterations of
resurgent white nationalism, ranging from mainstream political discourse to the
violent activism of the white power movement. Finally, we hope to explore
varied notions of futurity and the possible solutions to the republic’s deep
divides.
No deadline
given
Contact
Email: belew@uchicago.edu
Rewriting Trauma & Visibility:
Motherwork, Pregnancy, and Birth
Manhattan
College, APRIL 5-6 2019
Calling all
sociologists, women’s, sexuality, and gender scholars, masculinity studies
scholars, birth-workers, doctors, maternal psychologists, motherhood and
fatherhood scholars, artists, performers: This conference call for papers
focuses on uncovering, naming and rewriting traumas of motherwork, pregnancy
and birth. We especially aim to make visible those topics related to
(dis)abilities and other marginalized positionalities, relying on Patricia Hill
Collins’ conceptualization of motherwork as mothering that is designed for the
survival and success of the next generation in the context of oppression. We
recognize traumas in multiple forms, originating before, during, and after
pregnancy and birth and throughout motherhood, contextualized by the
intersectional identities of those traumatized.
Send
abstracts to info@MOMmuseum.org by
Dec. 15
Contact
Email: ltropp@mmm.edu
Converging Narratives: Speak OUT! Shut UP!
April 5-6,
2019, Chicago, Illinois
Contemporary
movements like #BLM and #MeToo are platforms for community members who can no
longer accept the blind eye often turned to oppression and abuse. All of these
speakers find their voices celebrated and echoed as well as criticized by
opposing forces. In addition, and at times in parallel, we recognize that other
people and groups have been and are effectively silenced in numerous ways:
whether through censorship, murder, repression…or through the imposition of a dominant
language silencing minority ones. This interdisciplinary graduate student
conference -- Converging Narratives: Speak OUT! – Shut UP! -- will focus on
voice, specifically how political, cultural, and social pressures can amplify
and/or silence it.
Please
submit a short bio (no longer than 50 words) and an abstract (no longer
than 300 words) to convergingnarratives@gmail.com by January
15, 2019
The Re/active Image
15–16
February 2019, NYU
Speaking on
the evolution and significance of black aesthetics throughout film, music, and
history, Arthur Jafa recognizes an explicitly reactive dimension in black
cultural production, one predicated on the treatment or transformation of given
materials. He demonstrates that black creativity and artistic expression in the
United States has been elementally shaped by—and in reaction to—the parameters
and circumstances of chattel slavery and its violent legacies. We intend to
explore manifold instances and modalities of this reactive dimension in cinema
and its kindred forms. We are interested in how the image, broadly conceived,
reacts—and has reacted—to culture, to discipline, to history, to theory, to
itself. But we are also concerned with how it acts—as autonomous, animating,
innervating, interactive, activist.
Please
submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, along with a brief biographical
statement, to thereactiveimage@gmail.com by
5pm on December 31st, 2018.
Residue and Remnants: (re-)Presenting
Cultural Memory, Contamination, and Destruction
University
of Washington, Seattle: April 5-6, 2019
The
interdisciplinary graduate student conference entitled “Residue and Remnants:
(re-)Presenting Cultural Memory, Contamination, and Destruction” will
investigate the complexities surrounding cultural residues pertaining to the
reproduction and erasure of traditions, artistic practices, and mythologies,
thus posing questions about what remains and how it has arrived. Answers to
these questions have been offered from a multitude of disciplines including,
but not limited to: sociology, philosophy, anthropology, political science,
drama, history, psychology, comparative literature, philology, and media
studies. What narratives and histories dominate the popular imaginary? How have
they come to us? How have these legacies been written/performed/expressed? What
are the influences that have shaped the stories we tell? What can we learn from
that which has survived and where is the place for that which has been erased?
deadline: January
5th, 2019.
Contact
Email: uwigsc19@gmail.com
Austerity and Anti-Austerity Beyond
Capitalism
University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 12-14, 2019
During the
global economic crisis of 2008 many observers predicted that austerity
economics would be discredited and abandoned, but over the ensuing decade it
demonstrated surprising resilience. This conference at the University of
Michigan will explore the history of austerity economics and the opposition to
it, both uncovering overlooked forms of resistance and using those conflicts to
better understand the nature of austerity itself. Our premise is that this
economic ideology has a deeper and broader history than is commonly recognized.
Though typically associated with neoliberalism, austerity has appeared as a
central theme within a variety of economic frameworks. We hope to
re-conceptualize this ideology as a more pervasive economic doctrine enacted
and challenged at different historical junctures and across different economic
and political systems.
Please
submit proposals of 250-300 words and a CV to antiausterity@umich.edu by February
15, 2019.
Visual Culture Papers at the 2019 American
Studies Association
The Visual
Culture Caucus (http://www.theasa.net/communities/caucuses/visual-culture-caucus) of
the American Studies Association (ASA) promotes the participation of visual
culture scholars at the ASA annual meeting in Homolulu on November 7-10, 2019.
The conference theme this year is “Build as We Fight” (http://www.theasa.net/annual-meeting/years-meeting).
We are looking for papers or panels that investigate or interrogate visual
culture in its many forms. Topics might include a variety of visual practices
both within and outside the art world, emerging vehicles of expression such as
the Internet and social media, methods of studying visual culture, and issues
of pedagogy.
deadline:
January 11, 2019
Contact
Email: mnj@lclark.edu
Geo-aesthetics Conference
The sensible
world cosntitutes the primordial world
- a world that is alreday there before
the emegence of the split between the concept of the corporeal and the concept
of the incorporeal. This split bears on the interpretation of what it is to be
a human being and presupposes the existence
of a promordail pre-conceptualized realm of sensible world. Inhabiting suh a
wolrd constitutes an elemental experience e of being at home. It also provides
a basis for an elemental experience of homelesseness. It also constitutes the basis that
human bbeings share with
non-human members of the snsible world. In such a world, one undergoes a
unique sensorial lived-experience.
We invite
abstracts that draw inspiration form the
world of the sensible, that pay attention to it , and that affirm a shared
dwelling. Presentations that address being at home or being homeless in
the world of the sensible in any manner
of its multiple expressions are welcome.
Abstracts
are due by Januray 31, 2019
Contact
Email: jmurungi@towson.edu
Action and Activism: Investigating and
Making Change
The History
Graduate Student Association of CSU Long Beach is proud to present its first
Collaborative Symposium. This event, titled “Action and Activism: Investigating
and Making Change,” will be open to both graduate and credential students of
History. During this event, we will explore both historical change and activism
and how historians participate in advocating for a progressive future. The
purpose of this event will be to promote working together with other
historians-in-training and exploring our futures as we progress through our
education.
Proposal
deadline: email hgsa.csulb@gmail.com by FEBRUARY
1, 2019
Recovering, digitizing and practicalizing
Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge
Kisii
University, Kenya, July 15 - 20, 2019
Following
broadly defined and multi-purpose transdisciplinary approaches to areal
studies, the African Studies Research Center, Kisii is holding its first
international conference focusing on four largely circumscribed thematic
research areas under the theme of “Recovering, digitizing and practicalizing
Africa Indigenous Knowledge”. The intent is to bring together scholars and
practitioners alike to make sense of indigenous ways of knowing and of doing
things across the continent, and to analyze persistent issues in a way that
would liaise with science to proffer viable solutions that in turn would inform
practice. Essentially, the conference is to transition us from Knowledge to
practical applications.
Abstracts
Due March 15, 2019.
Contact
Email: aa@kisiiuniversity.ac.ke
Bad Romance: The Ethics of Love, Sex, and
Desire
Harvard
University, March 29-30
The #MeToo
movement has raised questions about the ethics of love, sex, and desire.
Narrowly, it has raised questions about sexual consent and violation; broadly,
it has raised questions about attraction, power, monogamy, adultery, sex work,
and more. Thinkers and artists throughout history, from Plato and Sappho to
Foucault and Martha Nussbaum, have addressed these topics. But in light of the
current crisis in sexual ethics, we propose a conference that re-examines how
we should conduct ourselves in romantic and sexual relationships. Issues of
erotic ethics not only invite but also demand an interdisciplinary approach.
Scholars working in philosophy, history, history of science, literary studies,
and art history are all examining different aspects of this topic, such as the
moral status of sexual activity, the evolution of erotic norms over time, and
the representation of romantic crimes in art and literature.
Speakers
should send 250-350 word abstracts and CVs to BadRomanceConference@gmail.com by
January 15th.
Contact
Email: Tess.McNulty2@gmail.com
Documenting the Archive
University
of Chicago, April 26th and 27th, 2019
Documentary
film practice inflects and is in turn also inflected by the theories and
practices around the study of the archive. Documenting the Archive aims to be a
forum for theoretical and methodological interventions in cinema and media
studies by invoking the archive’s historical and theoretical relationship with
cinema, especially documentary film practice. As new modes of apprehending and
preserving the everyday are redefining and reconfiguring documentary film
practice, the transitions to digital paradigms have led to an epistemological
destabilization as well as a reconsideration of the concept of the archive
itself. The conference pushes the boundaries of cinema and media studies to ask
what domains of critical inquiry, forms of experience, and historiographic
methodologies emerge by examining the multifarious relations between
documentary and archives.
Please email
an abstract (250-300 words) along with a short bio to documentingthearchive@gmail.com by
February 1, 2019.
Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology
The
University of Texas at Dallas, May 23-25, 2019
This
interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the interplay between human,
ethical, social, cultural, and political values, on the one hand, and science,
technology, engineering, and medical research and practice, on the other hand.
We invite presentations that seek not only to understand how values and science
have and do influence one another, but also how they must and should influence
one another (as well as types of influence that should be avoided). From this
background, presentations that explore the relationship between science and the
public and the relationship between science and social justice are also
welcome. Finally, this conference ultimately seeks to promoting ethically
responsible and socially beneficial scientific research and technological
innovation, and critical reflection about the influence of science, technology,
and medicine on our values, culture, practices, and worldviews.
Submission
Deadline: January 15, 2018
Submit
your proposals at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmst2019
Contact
Email: values@utdallas.edu
Black Panther: Taking Stock of the First
African Super Hero at 50
The
Department of English and Humanities at Shawnee State University and the Asian
and African Studies at El Colegio de México invite scholars to submit 500 word
abstracts on topics related to the character of the Black Panther in his
various permutations in comic books and films for a two-day conference to be
held April 19th and 20th, 2019 at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Interested
scholars should send their abstract to BlackPantherConference2019@gmail.com by
February 1st, 2019.
More
information is available at: http://www.shawnee.edu/black-panther/?fbclid=IwAR0Vqx37IT1ZQN5bRlpthwebk7-GyFwq_gDbArkYrDK-P4oxoqgKNG_vBJM
Contact
Email: alrosenberg@colmex.mx
Negotiating the Borderlands: Identities and
Encounters in the Liminal
University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, March 22-23, 2019
Mobility and
displacement are elemental realities of our rapidly changing world, forcing
populations to migrate, leading to potentially shifting identification and
fluid forms of identity. The prevalence of migration as a human experience, and
especially the current waves of migration, necessitate a discussion of the
permeability of borders and of their physicality. Through the mixing of
peoples’ personal perceptions, an interrogation of political, geographical and
cultural borders give a new approach to the notion of identity. How do these
real and imagined movements and shifts shape identities? How can we reinterpret
borders to express the role they play in the formation and transformation of
identity? How might borders be understood metaphorically as imagined spaces
where interests and overlap and compete?
Please send
a 500 word abstract along with a brief biographical statement, in a separate
document, to csconference.unm@gmail.com by
January 18, 2019.
BACK TO THE FUTURE: VISIONS OF TOMORROW IN
HISTORY
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3312783/cfp-back-future-visions-tomorrow-history”
Friday, MAY
3, 2019, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
The “The
history of the future” can, at first, seem like a contraction in terms. But the
past several years have seen increasing scholarly interest in the study of past
futures. Not only are utopian, dystopian, and apocalyptic visions of the future
interesting in their own right, but they also offer historians a lens to reexamine
core disciplinary issues of contingency and historical change. Looking at the
hopes and fears people had for future can tell us about their priorities and
reveal what kind of change they considered possible or likely.
Please send
a paper proposal of no more than one page (250 words) to conference convener
Kevin Baker by Monday, January 28, 2019.
Contact
Email: ktb@u.northwestern.edu
FAR RIGHT AND ANTIFASCISM CONFERENCE
27 April
2019 – University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
This
graduate conference will provide opportunities for early-career scholars and
graduate students to meet and share their work. Particularly welcome are
intersectional approaches and topics involving transnational and post-1945
movements, especially those originating outside the United States and Europe.
We are also interested in areas of study that tie into broader themes associated
with fascism and anti-fascism, even if they do not address these two concepts
directly, for example: structural oppression and state violence, white
nationalism/supremacy, racism, antisemitism, disability studies, queer issues,
feminism, indigenous struggles, and intersections of race, class, gender, and
religion.
For
consideration, please submit a *250-300 word abstract* and a *biographical
statement* indicating institutional affiliation (not exceeding 100 words)
to cth5jd@virginia.edu and nrr3ax@virginia.edu by 15
January, 2019
Shifting Boundaries: Re-directions,
Mis-directions, and Alternative Methodologies in Contemporary Research
March 14,
2019 at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
The
conference seeks to encourage dynamic interdisciplinary discussion in relation
to this year’s central theme: Shifting Boundaries. Shifting Boundaries takes as
its mission statement the notion that academic disciplines must not remain
isolated from current political affairs, social movements, and cultural
realities. We do this out of a recognition of the ongoing need to attend to the
contemporary political landscape, punctuated as it is by ongoing contestations
over a broad range of ‘boundaries’: Post- and Trans- Humanisms, Feminisms,
Queer and Transgender theories contest the boundaries of the body, the self,
and the fixity of gender.
Deadline:
Dec. 15, 2018
Contact
Email: agic.concordia@gmail.ca
Beyond Discourse: Critical and Empirical
Approaches to Human Trafficking
April 4 and
5, the University of Kansas
This two-day
conference will apply the contributions of critical anti-trafficking
scholarship to the demand for empirical research on human trafficking in our
communities and around the world. It uses the insights of discursive critiques
to conduct better research on the prevalence, nature, and prevention of social
problems that have become known as human trafficking. We seek interdisciplinary
and intersectional conversations to better understand the continuities and
ruptures across investigations of human trafficking, building toward more just
and effective frameworks for research on exploitation and violence.
Please join
us by submitting a brief CV and a 250-350 word abstract to BeyondDiscourse@gmail.com by
January 7.
Insecurity
University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May 2-4, 2019
This
conference proposes the concept of “insecurity” as one of the governing logics
of economic, political, and social life in the West at the end of the second
decade of the 21st century. The notion of insecurity has affinities with, but
is more capacious than, “precarity,” which has been used by cultural, economic,
and sociopolitical theorists to describe the structural vulnerability that runs
through the complex historical formation of labor under which we operate today.
Both precarity and insecurity address the increasing economic inequality of the
21st century, in which the gap between individual and corporate wealth and the
income of those who work (or are unable to work) for a living grows
increasingly vast and unbridgeable. Our definition of insecurity begins with
and is predicated upon the structural economic injustice and precarity that
predominate in our present historical moment, but expands the concept of
precarity from its primarily economic meaning to include technological,
affective, environmental, and geopolitical concerns.
Please send your
abstract (up to 250 words) and a brief (1-page) CV by Friday, January
11, 2019 to c21@uwm.edu.
American Literature Association Conference
The American
Literature Association will host its thirtieth annual conference from May
23-26, 2019, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. As we continue to both
promote and advance the study of American women writers, Society for the Study
of American Women Writers will once again organize panels for this exciting and
informative event: Digital Humanities and the Study of American Women Writers
and Globalizing American Women Writers.
Please send
proposals to ssaww.vpdevelopment@gmail.com no
later than January 4, 2019
Without Naming It: Pragmatics and Poetics
of Pronouns
Cornell
University, Ithaca NY, March 22-23, 2019
The graduate
students in German Studies at Cornell University invite contributions to this
year’s conference centered on pronouns. The conference aims to bring together
scholars interested in engaging with these ubiquitous and multifaceted elements
of language from varying perspectives. Thanks not least to the work of queer
practices and theories, pronouns have recently attained a high-profile role
within public discourse and the political sphere. With this, pronouns continue
to inform a long history of literary, cultural, and philosophical
investigations, whether in shaping character, voice, and perspective,
complicating agency and identity, or raising questions of indexicality and
reference. We invite proposals for papers from fields such as literary and
cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics, queer studies, science studies, and
related fields.
Abstracts
for 20-minute presentations are due by January 31, 2019. Please
send your paper proposals (around 300 words) to pronouns.cornell@gmail.com.
Displacement: Art through the Lens of
Borders and Exchange
Arizona
State University, April 6, 2019
This
interdisciplinary symposium will explore concepts of borders and exchange through a lens of material and visual
culture. Submissions might consider themes such as movement, migration,
relocation/dislocation, memory, syncretism, hybridity, and/or any other subject
related to borders and exchange including the real or imagined, the implied or
disputed, the historical or apocryphal, and the liminal or transliminal.
Please include a CV and submit your materials
to cogahASU@gmail.com by
11:59 pm (MST) December 21, 2018.
LSU History Graduate Conference
The History
Graduate Student Association at Louisiana State University is delighted to
announce the tenth annual Graduate History Conference for February 22 -23,
2019. We invite submissions for individual papers and panels from graduate
students at all levels. Proposals may cover all fields and approaches of
historical scholarship and span all chronological and geographical boundaries.
Deadline for
all Paper Proposals: December 20, 2018.
Please send
proposals and questions to hgsa@lsu.edu.
Visit our website at https://lsu.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/HGSA for
more information.
Queer Conversations: Looking to Art History
and Visual Culture
Jennifer
Doyle suggests that queer readings of art and visual culture can be a source of
pleasure and hope, or even provide the very means for existence. In this
spirit, we hope to explore the possibilities that emerge from putting queer
theory into conversation with art history. In what ways can queer visual
culture and artistic practices offer more inclusive and diverse ways of living?
What does queer visual culture have to teach us about navigating and inhabiting
our spaces and environments differently? And, moving beyond Doyle’s suggestion,
how do emotions such as sadness, anger, and discomfort figure in queer visual
culture and research? This year’s Modern and Contemporary Colloquium at the
Courtauld Institute of Art will be a space for postgraduates, early career art
historians and artists to gather for a series of ‘queer conversations’
concerned with the pressing question of how queer academia might trouble art
historical discourse.
Please send
a 250-300 word abstract of your paper along with a brief CV to queerconversations2019@gmail.com
by Friday 21st December
Contact
Email: queerconversations2019@gmail.com
PUBLICATIONS
Queer Kinship: Erotic Affinities and the
Politics of Belonging
“Queer
Kinship: Erotic Affinities and the Politics of Belonging” is a proposed volume
that charts the conceptions, practices, and politics of contemporary queer
kinship. Neoliberalism has unraveled the already loose bonds of the
heteronormative nuclear family. What futures exist for queer kinship within and
beyond the state? What new methods are needed to grasp the intersectional and
material complexities of queer belonging as it moves across domains and
disciplines? How do queer cultures forge kinship bonds through cultural
objects, bodily performances, and circulatory practices, and what concepts are
needed to theorize their modes of belonging?
Please send
one-page abstracts with CV and contact information to Elizabeth Freeman (esfreeman@ucdavis.edu) and Tyler
Bradway (tyler.bradway@gmail.com)
by January 1, 2019.
Migration in Africa and Beyond: Text and
Contexts
Migration is
a much discussed subject in African studies. Owing to the centrality of
migration to issues of nationality, politics and international relations, much
of what is accessible in existing literature have tended to focus on the
perspectives of history and the larger social science inquiry. While there have
been notable research output on the subject of migration, especially in the
twenty-first century, there is a need to deepen the discourse of migration
studies by means of a holistic
consideration of the texts and contexts of its essence. To this end, this
volume proposes a body of interdisciplinary essays which hope to approach
migration by engaging its multifarious narratives across cultural, literary,
historical and the social sciences’ perspectives. . The ultimate projection is to demonstrate
that migration is at the centre/and is central to twenty-first century inter
and inter-group relations as well as development discourses.
Interested
authors are to submit a 250 word abstract of their papers on or before 30th
January, 2019.
Contact
Email: adebusuyi@oauife.edu.ng
Social
Haunting, Classed Affect, and the Afterlives of Deindustrialization
Special Issue of the Journal of Working-Class
Studies
This call seeks essays that explore the
affective entanglement of haunted spaces of deindustrialization and the lived
experiences of social haunting across the globe, and we are particularly
interested in work that connects to emergent social, cultural, and political
formations and makes visible new contestations, solidarities and
collectivities. Believing that a classed, placed and historically situated
“politics of affect” is indispensable for any account of contemporary domestic
phenomena such as the rise of Trump or the UK Brexit vote, we are keen to
develop a theoretical and methodological vocabulary around ‘classed affect’ as
an approach to understanding class after de-industrialization. Consequently, we
are especially interested in research that identifies affectual registers of
deindustrialization in haunted spaces as relevant to class re-composition,
shifting political alliances, and the rise of ‘new populisms’ across the globe.
please submit an abstract of no more
than 500 words and a brief CV to affectJWCS@gmail.com by February
1, 2019.
Survivor Stories: Challenging Our Rape
Culture Together
In the last
few months survivors’ efforts have been mobilized by efforts around the Me Too
Movement, Time’s Up efforts, and, most recently, the Brett Kavanaugh
appointment to the Supreme Court. Right now survivors’ voices are being heard
at protest rallies, speak outs, and academic conferences across the country.
Survivor
Stories aims to give space to these voices in book form. This book collects
together a range of survivors’ stories that are powerfully and creatively
written as well as theoretically grounded. The chapters will include analyses
of the events that survivors recall as well as their varied cultural, social,
and political effects. The accounts depicted need not be recent. However, the
analyses of them should be situated within discussions of recent cultural
events and the larger contexts of analyses related to race, ethnicity, class,
age, gender, sexuality, region, and nation.
Send a
one-two paragraph biographical statement by December 15, 2018 to Laura.Gray-Rosendale@nau.edu.
How Higher Education Should Respond to Fake
News and the Post-Truth World
The Liminal:
Interdisciplinary Journal of Technology in Education
To remedy
the fake news problem, educators and universities have emphasized information
literacy education mostly taught in first year English Composition courses
(FYC), but information literacy alone does not prepare students to identify
deep fakes, which are media designed to confuse human sight and hearing for the
purpose of evading detection. In most FYC courses, students are asked to apply
an evaluation checklist, such as the popular “currency, relevance, authority,
accuracy, and purpose” (CRAAP) test, to assess the credibility of web sources.
However, the evaluation criteria of the CRAAP test are insufficient for
identifying deep fakes created by AI propaganda machines to mimic the
appearance of legitimate sources.
deadline:
January 15, 2019
Journal
Website: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/theliminal/
CFP document: http://bit.ly/liminalcfp20181
CFP document: http://bit.ly/liminalcfp20181
Contact
Email: theliminaljournal@gmail.com
Intersectional Automations
This
collection will explore a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological
enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithmic culture collide with
intersectional social justice issues, such as race, class, gender, sexuality,
ability and citizenship. This edited collection will draw an analytical circle
around these interconnected and adjacent issues, lending a critical eye to what
is at stake due to the automation of aspects of culture. How do equity issues
intersect with these fields? Are the pronouncements always already dire, or are
there also lines of flight towards more equitable futures in which agentic
artefacts and extensions can play an active part? Chapters may address one or
multiple equity issues, and submissions that address emergent intersections
between them will be given special consideration.
If
interested, please send a 750-word abstract, collection of keywords, and a
150-word bio to the editor, Dr. Nathan Rambukkana (n_rambukkana@complexsingularities.net),
by 1 April 2019
Call for Chapter Proposals: Series on
Ecofeminism
This
multivolume series on Ecofeminism considers the intersectional analysis offered
by feminist thinkers and explores how ecofeminist concepts have been utilized
in the social sciences and the humanities. The broader goal of the series is to
encourage readers to explore the multifaceted field of ecofeminism.
Ecofeminists work to deconstruct intersecting forms of oppression against women
and the destruction of nonhuman living things and the earth; however, there is
also an effort to provide alternative ways of thinking and ways of life that
sustain us all. Ecofeminist theorists and activists work to create loving
communities where deep connection is valued. They understand that the struggle
for the dignity of women will not be complete if we do not also include the
liberation of the earth.
Proposal
deadline: Monday, December 10th, 2018.
Contact
Email: atchison71@gmail.com
Familial Influences on Superheroes
The edited
collection, Familial Influences on Superheroes, will examine the role that the
family plays on the development of the superhero as portrayed in radio, comics,
graphic novels, television series, and feature films. Many superheroes have experienced the trauma
of losing (a) parent(s), which sets them apart from others. Thus, the individuals that the superheroes
gravitate towards become an integral part of their lives, to the point where
they form a necessary and vital “familial network” of connections that would
either replace those that were lost or never fully established. This network ranges from “substitute”
parents/guardians as well as siblings and relatives, to significant others and
even more extended members comprising superhero teams. Each chapter will focus on a specific
superhero and how s/he has been impacted by the aforementioned familial
figures.
The deadline
for proposals of 500 words is April 30, 2019.
Contact
Email: jiaccino@thechicagoschool.edu
FUNDING
University of Chicago Library Fellowships
Any visiting
researcher, writer, or artist residing more than 100 miles from Chicago, and
whose project requires on-site consultation of University of Chicago Library
collections, primarily archives, manuscripts, rare books, or other materials in
the Special Collections Research Center, is eligible.
The deadline
for applications is March 4, 2019.
Questions?
Contact arch@chicago.edu
Research Travel Grants, Rubenstein Library,
Duke University
The Sallie Bingham Center
for Women’s History and Culture, the John Hope
Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture,
the John
W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History,
the History of
Medicine Collections, the Human
Rights Archive, and the Archive
of Documentary Arts, will each award up to $1,500 per recipient ($2,000
for international applicants to the Human Rights Archive) to fund travel and
other expenses related to visiting the Rubenstein Library. The Rubenstein
Library also awards up to $1,500 for individuals who would benefit from access
to our gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender history collections through
the Harry
H. Harkins, Jr. T’73 Travel Grant.
Applications
must be submitted no later than 5:00 PM EST on January 31, 2019.
Contact
Email: special-collections@duke.edu
2019-20 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in
Women’s History – New York State
Predoctoral
Fellowships
The two
recipients of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in Women's
History should have a strong interest in the fields of women’s and public
history. This unusual part-time fellowship introduces young scholars to work
outside the academy in public history and may not directly correspond with
their dissertation research. The Predoctoral Fellows will be in residence part
time at the New-York Historical Society for one academic year, between
September 5, 2019 and June 29, 2020, with a stipend of $15,000 per year.
Application
deadline: January 15, 2018
Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/56744
Short-Term
Fellowships
A variety of
Short-Term Fellowships will be awarded to scholars at any academic level.
Fellows will conduct research in the library collections of the New-York
Historical Society for two to four weeks at a time, and will receive a stipend
of $2,000. These fellowships will begin and end between July 1, 2019 and June
29, 2020.
Application
deadline: Dec 31, 2018
Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/56740
Western History Collections Fellowships
The
University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections (WHC) invites
applications from established and emerging scholars for two newly-endowed
research fellowships. The fellowships support research residencies in the
Western History Collections and are designed to connect researchers to the rich
archival, print and visual resources.
Deadline for
applications: January 15, 2019
Contact
Email: bridget.burke@ou.edu
Research grants at the Hargrett Library
The Hargrett
Rare Book and Manuscript Library advances the research, instructional, and
service mission of the University of Georgia by collecting, preserving, and
sharing the published and unpublished works that document the history and
culture of Georgia. The Hargrett Library promotes the state’s literary,
cultural, social, and economic legacy; and it builds collections of distinction
in other areas, including natural history, ecology and environmentalism, history
of the book, performing arts, women’s history, journalism and print media, and
University history.
All
applications are due by April 1, 2019
Learn more
about the Hargrett Library at www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett
Learn more
about eligibility and the application process at https://t.uga.edu/4zr
Contact
Email: kshirley@uga.edu
Research Fellowships Smith College Special
Collections 2019 – 2020
Special
Collections at Smith College offer extended-term fellowships to help offset the
travel expenses of researchers engaged in studies that will benefit from access
to, including initial survey and exploration of, the holdings of Smith College
Special Collections. Successful applicants will receive awards of $2,500,
intended to support research visits of a minimum of four weeks. Recipients are
expected to present an informal work-in-progress colloquium to the Smith
College community during their residency.
Application
deadline is February 15, 2019.
Please send any inquiries to Amy
Hague, specialcollections@smith.edu or
413-585-2970.
The Albert Shanker Fellowship for Research
in Education
The Walter
P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University seeks
applicants for the Albert Shanker Fellowship for Research in Education. This
research grant provides assistance for advanced graduate students and
junior/senior faculty utilizing the American Federation of Teachers archives as
well as collections related to educational history housed at the Reuther
Library. Two grants in the amount of $600 each will be awarded in support of
research. Applications must be received no later than February 1, 2019.
Contact Email: ad6292@wayne.edu
Short-Term Research Fellowship
Opportunities at the American Philosophical Society Library
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3258759/2019-2020-fellowship-opportunities-american-philosophical
The American
Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia invites applications for long and
short-term research fellowships for scholars working in all fields, and
especially those working on projects pertaining to the history of science,
technology, and medicine; early American history; anthropology and linguistics;
and Native American and Indigenous Studies.
Comprehensive,
searchable guides and finding aids to our collections are available online
at www.amphilsoc.org/library.
The deadline
for all long-term fellowship opportunities is Friday, February 1, 2019 at 11:59
p.m. EST. The deadline for all short-term fellowship opportunities (including
Digital Knowledge Sharing and Digital Humanities Fellowships) is Friday, March
1, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
Contact
Email: libfellows@amphilsoc.org
HistoryMakers Academic Research Fellowship
Application
The
HistoryMakers – the nation’s largest African American video oral history
archive – invites applications for one of four $7,500 Academic Research
Fellowship awards created from funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
for the period of Summer 2019 (April–September 2019). Submission is open to: 1)
faculty at all stages of their careers, and 2) graduate students who have
passed their general examinations. The HistoryMakers Academic Research
Fellowship awards will be awarded to faculty or graduate students pursuing
advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or
both. Recipients will produce articles, websites, blogs, digital materials,
lesson plans and syllabi, conference presentations/papers, and/or other
scholarly resources in the humanities.
Application
Deadline: Friday, March 1, 2019
Contact
Email: thmfellows@gmail.com
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Assistant Teaching Professor, Humanities
Penn State
University's Abington College seeks an innovative, interdisciplinary faculty
member to join our Division of Arts & Humanities. The position begins Fall
2019, and is full-time (typically four courses per semester). This is a
fixed-term, potentially renewable 36-week faculty contract. The successful
candidate for this position will be able to teach an interdisciplinary range of
courses centering on diversity, gender, sexuality, and cultural identity in the
contemporary US. In order to be considered, candidates must have already
completed a PhD relevant to these areas.
Applications
will be accepted until January 4, 2019.
Apply online
at http://apptrkr.com/1339147
RESOURCES
Close Encounters in Irregular and
Asymmetric Warfare
We are proud
to announce that the Close Encounters in War journal's first issue is now
available on line. This Special Issue focuses on "Close Encounters in
Irregular and Asymmetric Conflict" and it can be downloaded from the www.closeencountersinwar.com website.
