CONFERENCES
Justice
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech University (Lubbock,
Texas) is happy to announce a call for papers for our Third Annual Conference in
the Humanities, to be held in Lubbock over April 3-4 2020. The conference topic
each year aligns with the Center's annual theme, which for 2019-2020 is
“Justice.” We are interested in the interdisciplinary study of justice in
myriad forms and across any of the following disciplines: art, literature,
history, film and media, music, philosophy, law, digital humanities, museum
and/or archival studies, critical race studies, ethnic studies, women’s and
gender studies, design, and education.
This list, in keeping with the Humanities Center’s expansive mission, is
open-ended.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be
submitted to humanitiescenter@ttu.edu by January
10
Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous
Peoples - The Case of the Americas and Australia/Pacific Region
October 12-14, 2020, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles
The conference will provide a forum for leading and emerging
scholars and knowledge holders from around the world to present groundbreaking
research on the topics of genocide against Indigenous peoples (especially in
North America, Latin America, and Australia/Pacific Region), the long-lasting
impacts of mass violence on those communities, and their resistance, agency,
and initiatives to effect change. The objective of the conference is to foster
an international, interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on these
subjects, across a variety of historical, cultural, and geographic contexts. .
It also aims to shed light on lesser-known and under-researched instances and
aspects of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples. Contributions taking
comparative approaches between violence against different Indigenous nations,
tribes and communities, and between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cases are
also encouraged.
Submission deadline: January 15, 2020
For further information, please contact: cagr@usc.edu
The Challenge of Change
Texas A&M University, February 21-22, 202
The theme for this year’s conference is “The Challenge of
Change.” Our central focus for this conference is to create a scholarly
discussion on the historical or historiographical change, or lack thereof, in
their respective fields, and talk about the challenges and responses that
resulted from such shifts. We encourage
submissions from a wide variety of fields and academic disciplines to have an
inclusive and
interdisciplinary environment in which to have fruitful
discussion. We are accepting paper proposals regarding any geographical region
and featuring research on any historical period or topic.
Deadline: Tuesday, December 10, 2019.
Contact Email: tamuconference2020@gmail.com
Core Futures Conference 2020: Race in Core
Philadelphia, PA, Friday-Saturday, March 13-14
General education courses in the Liberal Arts offer students
the chance to engage with texts that have shaped the world we live in today.
Yet even as scholars in the fields of literary studies, history, philosophy,
and political theory have expanded the scope of their inquiries to include
previously marginalized voices, many core programs rely on a fixed canon of
authors from the Western European tradition while neglecting the intellectual
achievements of non-European peoples -- and, crucially, the ways in which
"the West" has long been shaped by contact with non-European peoples and
their lifeways.
Race in Core seeks papers on how we can best reshape core
curricula and syllabi to reflect the reality of a historical scene that has
always been multiracial and multicultural. Papers on any topic, from any time
period, are welcome. However, we urge potential contributors to remain focused
on practical pedagogical issues
Deadline: January 6, 2020.
Contact Email: robert.rabiee@temple.edu
URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMwNq-qCB1eNH9uputM6NTfSi90M1VoAd6mdXDLQiAsKRNAw/viewform
Archiving from the Intersections and Community-Driven
Archives
Arizona State University (ASU) Library is proud to host the
final of four Project STAND (Student Activism Now Documented) forums on
February 27 and 28, 2020. Project STAND brings together students, archivists,
faculty, and community members from across the country to discuss the
importance of student activism in academia and the need to preserve this
history. This forum seeks to center the voices of historically marginalized
communities, the varying intersections within these communities, and the need
to create community-driven archives. We invite individuals or small-groups to
submit a panel, paper, or poster presentation on the forum theme.
Deadline for proposals is Friday, December 13, 2019.
Reimagining Higher
Education: The Future(s) of American Colleges and Universities
July 22-26, 2020, Indiana University-Purdue
Calls for radical transformation in higher education have
been ubiquitous in recent years, generating new ideas for potential directions
for post-secondary education. The result is a diversity of futures available to
higher education, wherein both the structure and purpose of university
education are reimagined. The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society for Values in
Higher Education will consider and critique the many futures available to
post-secondary education.
Deadline to submit a proposal is April 15th.
Contact Email: bain-selbo@svhe.org
Hindsight is 20/20:
How Popular Culture Writes, Rewrites, and Unwrites History
Wayne State University (Detroit, MI); March 27-29, 2020
We welcome presentations and panels looking beyond
contemporary and/or American popular culture, and into international and
pre-20th century texts which also look to the past to imagine or reimagine the
present and future. We are also interested in texts which add voices and
experiences which were previously missing, overlooked, or silenced. In what
ways do these works rethink official histories to comment on or shape their own
contemporary moments? Additionally, how have various genre reimaginings added
to the discourse between history and pop culture? In what ways have different
forms of media - video games, comics, plays, ballads, lyrics, board games, fan
fiction, vids, zines, and so on - engaged with the project of writing,
rewriting, and unwriting history?
Proposals are due
December 16, 2019, and should be submitted via: https://forms.wayne.edu/5d9ebab272e32/
All inquiries should be addressed to
Conference Planning Committee co-chairs Shelby Cadwell and/or Matt Linton and
sent to kinoclub313wsu@gmail.com.
Alternative Realities
This is a panel proposal that we wish to submit to the ALA
for their conference on May 21-24 in San Diego, California. This panel aims to
explore alternative realities or perspectives that can be applied to and appear
in American literature. Through this
exploration, it is possible to discover new avenues of discussion and
interpretation of popular and/or canonical texts, which in turn allows for
deeper cultural and social understanding.
Examining work that literally and figurative create alternative
realities illuminates social anxieties, era-tied socio-cultural psyches, and
continuing cultural patterns of oppression.
Please submit a 100-250 word paper proposal with your name,
affliation and contact information to Robyn Johnson, rjohn017@ucr.edu by January 15, 2020.
Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department
Graduate Student Conference
March 5-6, 2020, Columbia University
The conference brings together graduate students working on
the social and intellectual traditions of those three regions for constructive
exchanges in a welcoming and stimulating environment. Through these exchanges,
participants have the opportunity to learn from each others' diverse range of
backgrounds by exploring common theoretical and methodological challenges and
concerns
Abstracts of up to 400 words should be submitted to mesaasgradcon2020@gmail.com by
January 14, 2020.
Beyond Reality: Post-Intellectualism and the Re/Emergence
of Subjective Truths
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, April 10-11, 2020
The destabilization of truth and rejection of authority is a
powerful force. Although the terms “anti-intellectual” and “post-truth” were
coined relatively recently, such terms connote trends which often reappear in
different guises. The consequences of these trends translate into a growing and
widespread distrust of authority. The prevalence of this phenomenon
necessitates a discussion of subjectivism, rejection of scientific innovation,
propaganda, political climates, societal conflict, and other concepts related
to subjective and objective notions of reality. In any period of such upheaval,
we must ask: How have waves of anti-intellectualism and subjective truths ebbed
and flowed in different periods?
Please send a 500 word abstract along with a brief
biographical statement, in a separate document, to csconference.unm@gmail.com by
January 17, 2020.
Outcasts and Outliers in Literature, Music, and Visual
Arts
http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/complit/comparative-literature-conference-outliers-and-outcasts
April 14-15, 2020, California State University, Long Beach
From the canon wars of the 1980s and 1990s to the debates
over the place of genre fiction, popular culture, and digital media in the
classroom, the question of what to include—and what to omit—continues to
provoke debate and response. But what do we do with those texts, topics, and
people who have been cast out, or those who are such outliers that they were
never included? This conference will focus on the outcasts and outliers of
literature, music, and the visual arts. That may mean attention to little-known
texts, genres that are not typically addressed in a Comparative Literature
context, characters and communities on the margins, and the notion of
marginality itself.
deadline: January 31, 2020
Contact Email: kathryn.chew@csulb.edu
NEW PERSPECTIVES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
April 18, 2020, Yale University
Yale Environmental History invites paper proposals from
graduate students at northeastern universities for a one-day conference on
environmental history. Paper proposals from any region or time period are
welcome. We invite papers that address environmental history in its broadest
sense, whether dealing with political economy, society and culture,
intellectual debates, science and technology, microorganisms and disease, or
policy and planning. Conference organizers are particularly eager to include
comparative and non-U.S. perspectives on environmental history.
Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: December 8, 2019
(Im)possibility
Harvard University, April 9–10, 2020
(Im)possibility marks a limit of available information, a
threshold of representation, a cessation of action. Thinking at the limits of
the possible gives rise to a specific set of issues: how might we articulate
that which cannot be said? How might we orient ourselves toward that for which
no available theory or representation is adequate?
We don’t have to choose: (im)possibility is given in the
shared periphery of a futural, idealized dimension and a present, negative
dimension. It lays waste to current frameworks, concepts, and worlds while
offering insight from beyond the break. (Im)possibility beckons as a radical
promise because it endures as an impassive present, and one of the challenges
of the contemporary moment might be to hold those two modalities together. How
might we consider the impossible itself as anything other than a negative
concept—an index of failure? What might we articulate about (im)possibility
without, for all that, rendering it (as another) possible?
Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words), together
with a short biographical note, to fvsconference@gmail.com by January
15, 2020
Contact Email: zavrl@g.harvard.edu
Urban Space and the Senses
9-10 May 2020, University of California at Berkeley
Although historically dominated by sight-based approaches,
for some decades now urban studies have also been engaged with the study of
space through sound, touch, smell, and taste. The concepts of soundscape,
tactile space, smellscape, foodscape, initially developed by a few scholars from
various backgrounds, have pervaded a number of fields such as architecture,
planning, anthropology, social sciences, historical studies, literary studies,
and art history, to name but a few. Social, cultural, and environmental
features of space are in fact reflected in all sensorial landscapes. As part of
the ‘Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Urban Space’ network, this international
conference investigates the ways in which different disciplines engage with
urban space and the senses, in areas ranging from architecture, urban planning,
literature, film studies, geography, history, linguistics, philosophy, art
history, sociology, drama and theatre studies,
anthropology, among others.
Please send a 300-word abstract, contact details and a brief
bio by Friday, 15 January 2020 to the conference email address crossdisciplinaryurbanspace@gmail.com
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/crossdisciplinaryurbanspace/
UnDisciplined
March 20-22, 2020, Queen’s University at Kingston
UnDisciplined is a graduate student conference for scholars
whose modes of inquiry intersect the humanities, social sciences, sciences,
technology, activisim, and the arts. It is a space for sharing scholarly,
artistic, and/or activist work that theorizes or reveals forces that shape
human experiences. We invite scholars and artists whose work breaks down
conventional divisions between disciplines, academia and activism, as well as
theoretical critique and cultural production. As such, UnDisciplined brings
together researchers focused on areas and fields, rather than disciplines and
traditions, embracing research that poses problems, creates dialogue, and
questions the disciplining of thought in academia.
Applications are open until January 17th, 2020. All
questions should be directed to undisciplinedqueensu@gmail.com.
Latina/o/x Literature and Culture Society, American
Literature Association
May 21-24, 2020, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA
This year the Latina/o/x Literature & Culture Society
welcomes submissions focusing on diverse topics including literary genre,
single authors, children’s literature, speculative fiction, comparative
analyses, as well as cultural studies approaches. We also encourage a variety
of theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches as well as a variety of panel
types, including traditional paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and
sessions dedicated to the teaching of Latina/o/x literature. Given the location
of the Conference in San Diego, we solicit proposals centering Latina/o/x
experiences in San Diego and California more broadly.
Deadline: January 31, 2020
Please submit proposals and inquiries to cathryn.merlawatson@utrgv.edu
For information about the Latina/o/x Literature and Culture
Society, please visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/164409943705319/
Religion and Ethics of Violence
On March 27-28, 2020 at Indiana University Bloomington
Most religions and philosophical schools in world history
have included strong admonitions against the exorcise of violence, but violent
entrepreneurs – including religious leaders of otherwise peaceful religions –
have had little trouble using ethics or religion to legitimize or even
encourage certain acts of extreme violence. Collective violence always calls
for a certain degree of legitimization and righteous ideology, perhaps most
famously seen in the concept of Just War. Even the most atrocious acts of
violence have thus been committed with at least a nominal claim of being “for a
greater good,” or alternatively, a “lesser evil.”
The purpose of the seminar is to create a dialogue between
scholars from different disciplines and areas about cross-cultural and
culture-specific ideas of “ethical” and “appropriate violence.” Through the
seminar we hope to explore possibilities of future collaborations across
disciplines for the study of the relations between ethics and violence.
Deadline for abstracts: December 31, 2019.
Contact Email: mortoxen@indiana.edu
Research Travel Grant, Special Collections, Michigan
State University Libraries
Research strengths of MSU Special Collections are deep and
varied, including an outstanding comic art collection; American radicalism on
the extreme right and left; extensive holdings on Latino and Chicano activism
and artists; popular culture; zines, Africana; exceptional rare book holdings
in cookery, the history of science, veterinary medicine, Italian unification,
conduct books; one of the country’s oldest LGBTQ+ collections; a peerless
collection documenting the contemporary men’s movements; and the papers of
numerous Michigan writers including Richard Ford, Diane Wakoski, and Thomas
McGuane. Please consult our
collections page for more information on MSU’s unique holdings.
deadline: January 31, 2020
Contact Email: lib.dl.spcgrants@msu.edu
Jack G. Shaheen Research Grants
The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and the
Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU are pleased to announce the first
annual competition for the Jack G. Shaheen Research Grants. These grants are
meant to facilitate travel to and accommodation in New York City over a short
period of time for scholars conducting archival research in the Jack G. Shaheen
Collection on Arabs in US Film and Television held at the NYU Tamiment Library
and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Kevorkian Center’s Ettinghausen Library,
and Asian/Pacific/American Institute.
Deadline: January 15, 2020 5:00 p.m. EST
Contact Email: kevorkian.center@nyu.edu
Representation, Materiality, & the Environment
Friday April 24, 2020, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Art historians have examined how the natural world has
operated as an important factor in the production of objects and images, while
architectural historians have analyzed the dialectical relationship between the
built and natural environments. This symposium invites papers that consider the
role of the natural environment in artistic representation and production
across time and space. How has nature been interpreted or imagined by artists,
critics, and architects? What role do natural resources and materiality play in
the production of objects and visual representations of the environment? How
have political, philosophical, economic, social, and historical discourses
critically engaged with topics concerning the environment?
To apply to present a twenty-minute paper, please submit an
abstract of no more than 300 words and a current CV to ucsbHAA2020@gmail.com by Wednesday
January 15, 2020
PUBLICATIONS
Machine Learning and Social Justice
We seek contributions on emerging problems associated with
the proliferation of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in decision making.
This interdisciplinary edited volume focuses on topics of morality and social
justice and discusses Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, including sources of
potential social biases, from technical perspectives. Please submit your
abstract (approximately 300 words), along with your CV by December 20 to
Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochk@tulane.edu and/or
Dr. Elena Shabliy eshabliy@tulane.edu.
Metaphors of Migration
This guest-edited issue of On_Culture focuses on migration,
one of the most pressing issues that contemporary societies currently face. The
lived reality of migration is fundamentally framed by discourse formations,
where metaphors can function as creative devices to establish a reality of what
migration could or even should mean. Seen from this perspective migration and
imagination are closely tied as two subjects of central interest and core
concern in both the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
Adequate understanding of migration therefore warrants
interdisciplinary collaboration within the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
Competences from philology and literature studies, art history, philosophy,
media studies, etc., must be taken into account alongside with the expertise
from sociology, political science, anthropology, criminology, and psychology.
Please submit an abstract of 300 words with the article
title, 5-6 keywords, and a short biographical note to content@on-culture.org (subject
line “Abstract Submission Issue 10”) no later than February 28, 2020
Visit the website for more information: www.on-culture.org
Digital Humanities
and the Future of Chronicling the African Past
For our initial themed volume, History in Africa is seeking
contributions on the intersection of the study of Africa and the burgeoning
field of Digital Humanities. Digital Humanities may be understood broadly as
the use of computing technologies to examine and analyze history, culture, and
the arts. However, scholars and activists have debated that definition and the
politics of using Digital Humanities for digital archives, websites, on-line
exhibits, published research, and teaching. As Digital Humanities Centers and projects
have proliferated, scholars also have raised questions about how race,
diversity, and inclusivity relate to the shaping, practice, and funding of this
new field. Thus, we are interested in how Digital Humanities in African history
affects methodological approaches, historiography, and public engagement with
history.
Please submit a 500 word abstract and a 2-page CV to managingeditor@historyinafrica.org by
December 15, 2019.
Handbook on
Cyberbullying and Online Harassment
Workplace cyberbullying and online harassment have become
escalating problems around the world given users’ heavy reliance of modern
communication technologies such as mobile and tablet devices, laptops,
computers, and social media networks. Thus, the purpose of the Handbook of
Research on Cyberbullying and Online Harassment in the Workplace is to provide
an in-depth review of cutting edge concepts and theories surrounding the area
of workplace cyberbullying and online harassment, including, but not limited to
conceptualizations, theoretical underpinnings, conceptual analyses, empirical
studies, cases and applications, and interventions, to obtain an enhanced grasp
of this area of research.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or
before January 1, 2020, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words
Contact Email: lsalazar@wtamu.edu
History during the
Anthropocene
The theme issue will consider what the form and function of
history can and should be at a time of profound rupture. The disruptive
intrusion of the human world into the planetary balance, and the corresponding
eruption of global systems into human social and political frameworks,
undermines the distinction between human and natural worlds. Yet this
distinction has long been the basis for the human sciences, and especially for
an understanding of history as articulated through human experience. What would
a non- or post-human history look like? At a time when the immense destructive
power of human civilisation seems inversely proportional to our ability to
achieve progressive change, who or what is the agent of history? To what extent is it still possible to think
in terms of cause and effect, when radical uncertainty and unpredictable global
feedback are conditioning our present and future? Should the task of history be
to try to recuperate some coherent story for humanity or to promote its
undoing?
In the first instance, we ask potential contributors to
submit a 500 word abstract and a one page cv to l.a.guillaume@open.ac.uk.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 28 February 2020
Translation and Adaptation in Comics and Graphic Novels
The exploration of comics through the lens of translation
and adaptation studies is a relatively recent advent, a natural evolution of
the field of comics studies. The history of comics is inexorably intertwined
with adaptation, in keeping with its nature of a mix of text and image. Comics are read the world over by diverse
audiences, in a variety of media beyond the traditional ink on paper, and seem
uniquely suited to our modern media moment, with examples in every genre and
medium. The process of creating comics, already the result of the collective
effort of artists, writers, and editors, is further complicated by the
processes of adaptation and translation (outlined by scholars like Linda
Hutcheon and Ilaria Meloni), with new meanings being created out of the process
at large, meanings potential at odds with the intent of the creators'
intentions. To that end, this volume discusses the translation and adaptation
of comics and graphic narratives with an emphasis on transnational and digital
contexts.
Abstract and CV Due: 31 December 2019
Contact Email: adaptationcomics@gmail.com
Becoming Home: Diaspora and the Anglophone Transnational
The diaspora becomes an important cultural phenomenon in the
formation of national identities and opposing attempts to transcend the idea of
nationhood itself on its way to developing new forms of transnationalism,
“citizens who, though migrating from poor to rich countries, manage to
construct and nurture social fields that intimately link their respective
homelands and new diasporic locations” (Patterson). Bill Ashcroft views the
transnation not just in terms of the diaspora, but also as one that exists
“outside of the state that begins within the nation—the potential for all
subjects to live beyond the metaphoric boundaries of the nation state.” As
such, “Diasporic subjects are . . . distinct versions of modern, transnational,
intercultural experience” (Clifford). The diasporic experience/consciousness of
being at home abroad (Sheffer), here there, plays a role in the tensions
between nation and transnation in different cultural and socio-political
contexts.
Please submit a one-page proposal along with a brief bio no
later than 1 March 2020.
email: Jude V. Nixon (Jnixon@salemstate.edu)
and Mariaconcetta Costantini (mariaconcetta.costantini@unich.it)
Theorizing Corporeality in the Climate Change Era
Theorizing about the body has never been more urgent than in
our current era of climate change. Climate change has had increasingly intimate
corporeal implications (especially in the Global South), and the widening gap
between the rich and the poor has only exacerbated these matters, as has the
global rise in right-wing extremism. And while exciting advances in genetic
research, stem cell technologies, and silicon-based prosthetics offer startling
rewards of comfort and longevity, they also prompt concern about corporeal
borders and boundaries—physical and ethical. How can we discuss from literary
works and film the ways in which various natural materials threaten human
corporeal integrity?
Please send essays in the form of a Word document attachment
to Dr. Simon C. Estok (estok@skku.edu;
cc: kk.soh@ateneo.edu;
subject: Theorizing Corporeality) by Jan. 31, 2020.
For inquiries about submission guidelines and future events,
visit http://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/kk/
Flow - online journal of television and media studies
The editors of Flow regularly seek short columns (1000-1300
words) examining timely topics in television, media, and popular culture.
Queries and proposals regarding potential submissions are encouraged. To be
considered for publication, papers should be emailed as attachments in .doc or
.docx format, double-spaced, in MLA or CMS style, with the author’s name and contact
information clearly included on the attached file.
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” at 100
In June 1921, Crisis published Langston Hughes’ first adult
poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” In many ways it contained the blueprint for
the poet’s entire subsequent career, and established many of his key themes:
black pride and self-assertion; the validation of Africa as spiritual force and
ancestral homeland; black identity conceived as fluidly transnational and as
formed by layers of history. The poem, and the body of work to follow it, were also
enormously influential, not just to writers, but to visual artists, musicians,
and performers across all media. On the centenary of the poem’s publication,
this special issue of Langston Hughes Review will take “The Negro Speaks of
Rivers” as a focal point through which to assess Hughes’ legacy over the last
hundred years, and evaluate the contemporary significance of his work as it
enters its second century.
Contributors are invited to send CVs and abstracts of
250-400 words to the guest editor, Shane Graham (shane.graham@usu.edu) and
the editor, Tony Bolden (lhr@ku.edu) by January
31, 2020.
Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell About, With, and
Around Videogames
The study of the stories we tell about videogames, with
videogames, and around videogames can shed new light on how conceptions of
character, space, time, the body, and identity are being reshaped by new forms
of play, playable media, algorithmic systems, surveillance culture, and social
media. It can help us identify the innovative narrative techniques inspired by
or remediated from videogames, videogame players, and videogame culture. And it
can help us better understand the stories that surround videogames, whether the
stories that strengthen stereotypes and intensify prejudice or expose and
undermine them. We are looking for
essays by scholars interested in establishing the foundations for the study of
this fascinating, but underappreciated body of literature.
Please send an abstract of no less than 300 and no more than
700 words to Dr. Megan Amber Condis and Dr. Mike Sell at readyreaderonecfp@gmail.com by
March 31, 2020.
For more info, find us online at https://readyreaderone.home.blog/
Excavations
February 14-15, 2020, Montréal, Québec
McGill University’s 26th Annual English Graduate Conference,
therefore, warmly invites submissions that consider excavation, as concept or
practice, in relation to literature, film, theatre, art, language, and culture.
This conference asks: how does the past relate to the present, and how do
renewed examinations of the past open up new futures? What materials do we seek
to bring to the surface of academic discourse? How do we, as scholars and
critics, participate in the reconstruction of the materials we study? And what
do the lexicon and the conceptual register of excavations offer us as scholars (for
example, in the context of debates surrounding “depth” and “surface” models of
reading, or in practices like literary text “mining”)? In short, this
conference seeks to examine “excavation” as a model for the various ways humans
have and continue to engage with practices of cultural production and to
understand the continued involvement of the present with the historical past.
Submission Deadline: December 13th, 2019
Contact Email: mathieu.bouchard4@mail.mcgill.ca
Architectures of Slavery: Ruins & Reconstructions
On October 24-26, 2019 the Art & Architectural History
Department at the College of Charleston hosted a symposium dedicated to the
historic and ongoing relationships between slavery and the built environment.
In order to establish a legacy of this symposium we are looking to collect and
publish revised papers as well as additional papers on the event’s theme by
scholars who were unable to attend the event in an edited volume.
Deadline for paper submissions is Monday, January 20, 2020
to walkernr@cofc.edu and stiefelb@cofc.edu.
African American Migration and Smaller Midwestern Cities
The critical importance of the Great Migration to Detroit,
Chicago, Cleveland, and Milwaukee has been well-documented. Less
understood has been the history and impact of various waves of black
migration to smaller Midwestern urban spaces (such as Peoria,
Saginaw, Council Bluffs, Sioux Falls, etc.) in the century between
the Civil War and the modern Civil Rights movement (approx. 1860-1970).
The Middle West Review welcomes proposals outlining potential
articles on this lesser-known migration for publication in a special issue of
the journal. Proposals should be two paragraphs, include a CV, and
be sent to MWR@USD.edu by December
15, 2019.
FUNDING
Graduate Research Fellowship at the Center for Jewish
History
The Center for Jewish History offers ten-month fellowships
to doctoral candidates to support original research using the collections of
the Center’s partners - American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi
Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research. Preference is given to those candidates who draw on the
library and archival resources of more than one partner institution. The
fellowship is open to qualified doctoral candidates from accredited domestic
and international institutions.
Deadline: December 20, 2019
Contact Email: fellowships@cjh.org
Haverford College Special Collections, 2020-2021
Fellowships
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections is now
accepting applications for its 2020-2021 fellowship program. Fellowships are
available to scholars at any stage of their careers; projects funded by these
fellowships should engage with our collections in unique and creative way.We
are pleased to offer two fellowships this year: Gest Fellowship, for projects
which include religion and the Scattergood Fellowship, for research in the
history of mental health.
Applications are due February 3, 2020.
Contact Email: shorowitz@haverford.edu
Travel Grants:
Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas
is pleased to announce the availability of three travel grants to facilitate
research and use of the library’s collections. The amount available for each
award is $1,000:
African American Experience Collections: Alyce Hunley Whayne
Visiting Researchers Travel Award (ddandrid@ku.edu)
Polish Collections: Alexander and Valentine Janta Endowment
Travel Award (kscook@ku.edu)
All Library Collections: Spencer Research Library Travel
Award (bethwhittaker@ku.edu)
Applications must be submitted by December 31, 2019,
Online application: https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/travel-award-application
Robert L. Platzman Memorial 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 University Archives documents the history of
the University of Chicago, the work of its faculty, and the life of the
academic community. Among areas of particular strength are the history of
higher education, including race and gender on
campus; the development of academic disciplines and area studies;
and records and papers in economics, sociology,
history, anthropology
and ethnology, education, law, social thought, social work, theology
and history of religions, ecology,
physics, astrophysics, and geophysical science, among other fields.
Submit application in one electronic file to: scrcfellowship@lib.uchicago.edu
Wilson Special Collections Library Research Fellowships
The Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries is now accepting applications for four
funding opportunities for researchers who wish to use the rich and deep
resources available in the UNC-Chapel Hill’s special collections. The first two fellowship categories support
work on the American South, one of the major strengths of the special
collections at Wilson Library.
Complete applications for all fellowships are due by
midnight January 31st.
Contact Email: turi@email.unc.edu
2020 Frederick B. Artz Summer Research Grants Program -
Oberlin College Archives
The Oberlin College Archives established the Frederick B.
Artz Summer Research Grants Program in 1990. This research program, which is
made possible by a grant from the Oberlin Historical and Improvement
Organization, is intended to encourage and facilitate the publication of
scholarly, humanistic studies based on archival and special collections sources
at Oberlin College, with special emphasis on the history of the institution,
Oberlin Community and liberal arts education. Studies of a local nature
involving the resources of both archival and special collections departments
are especially encouraged.
The deadline for
applications is January 15, 2020.
For more information please go to the following link: http://www2.oberlin.edu/archive/artz/index.html.
Contact Email: ken.grossi@oberlin.edu
Black Metropolis Research Consortium 2020 Summer
Fellowship Call for Applications
Through an international competition, the BMRC offers
1-month residential fellowships in the City of Chicago for its Summer
Short-term Fellowship Program. The
Summer Short-term Fellowship Program has engaged scholars, artists, writers,
and public historians to better formulate new historical narratives of
Chicago’s past. The new, original research and art developed through this
program is significant as it illuminates the national and international
importance of Chicago’s African American community.
Application Deadline:
January 12, 2020
Newberry Library's Short-Term Fellowships
Short-Term Fellowships provide opportunities for individuals
who have a specific need for the Newberry’s collection. Postdoctoral scholars,
PhD candidates, and scholars with terminal degrees who live and work outside of
the Chicago metropolitan area are eligible (for most fellowships). Most fellowships
are available for one month with a stipend of $2,500 per month. Graduate
student applicants for short-term fellowships must be ABD by the December 15
deadline.
Contact Email: research@newberry.org
Research awards at the Osler Library of the History of
Medicine
The Osler Library offers three research travel awards for
those wishing to undertake research at the library.
Application deadline for all awards: 10 January 2020.
Contact Email: osler.library@mcgill.ca
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Two-year Visiting Lecturer Position
The Women’s and Gender Studies Department has an opening for
a two-year position as Visiting Lecturer. We are seeking a feminist scholar
whose research and teaching are in global/transnation and/or indigenous
studies, who can offer courses in the areas of social change, social movements,
environmental studies, or history. The department focuses on an intersectional
approach to Women’s and Gender Studies. The course load is 5 courses. PhD
preferred, ABD considered.
Contact Rosanna Hertz, WGST Chair with any questions (rhertz@wellesley.edu)
Review of application begins 01/31/2020
WORKSHOPS
Carcerality in the
Globalised Present: Prison Spaces, Forms and Imaginaries
18-19 June 2020 at the University of Amsterdam
This conference seeks to analyse the intersections between
the carceral and the global in an interdisciplinary context. It explicitly
invites scholars from different fields – including but not limited to the
humanities and social sciences – to reflect on the interrelations between
space, materiality, form, culture and the imagination. In order to achieve
this, the conference organises a series of interdisciplinary panels according
to theme rather than method. If possible, the workshop will include a visit to
a former prison site. In order to foster in depth discussion, the panels will
be based on participant’s written work. The most to the point conference
proceedings will be selected for a special issue / edited volume.
Abstracts (max 250 words) and a short bio (max 100 words)
are due on 31 January 2020
Please submit your abstract to the workshop organisers:
Hanneke Stuit (h.h.stuit@uva.nl) and
Julienne Weegels (j.h.j.weegels@cedla.nl).
Feel free to email us with any questions.
