CONFERENCES
Digital Arab
Diasporas: archiving, curating, narrating
https://networks.h-net.org/node/8378/discussions/3350849/cfp-digital-arab-diasporas
University of Sussex, 24 April 2019
University of Sussex, 24 April 2019
The symposium Digital Arab Diasporas brings together
projects which employ digital technologies to record and share the stories of
migrants and diaspora communities from the Arabic-speaking countries of the
MENA region. How are archivists, community activists, historians and artists
applying digital technologies to capture the complex experiences of migrants
whose voices often disappear between the cracks of national narratives or the
reductive discourses of colonialism, orientalism and “the War on Terror”? To
what extent are grassroots initiatives able to link up across transnational
spaces and how can they gain access to the expertise and often prohibitively
expensive digital systems required to ensure the longevity of such projects?
What are the particular challenges of using the Arabic language, with its
non-Latin script, in such projects? The symposium will address these and
related questions through an open forum of dialogue in which projects at
various stages of completion can share experiences and practices.
To submit a proposal, please send a summary of no more than
400 words as an email attachment to arabdiasporas@gmail.com by no later than 31
January 2019.
Contact Email: j.norris@sussex.ac.uk
Cultural Responsive
Teaching in the History Classroom
The Teaching History Conference, founded in 2015, is a
community of practice that fosters collaborative K–16 conversations among
history educators at all levels and across all sectors. For the 3rd biennial
conference, which will be focused on culturally responsive teaching, we invite
proposals for panels, papers, seminars, and workshops that engage with this question:
What can culturally relevant and inclusive teaching look like in history and
social studies classrooms across the K–16 continuum? We strongly encourage
proposals from history educators working in all different locations of the
profession, including K–12 teachers, university and college professors,
graduate students, education researchers, and history practitioners from the
nonprofit world—especially proposals that feature or model collaboration
between these sectors.
Proposal Deadline: Monday January 14, 2019
Questions should be directed to teaching.history.conference@gmail.com.
Imaginary
Border(land)s: Urban Territoriality Reconsidered
Delhi; 18-21 Sep 2019
Scholars are now recognising that borders generate a
dynamism in and of themselves, and that cross-border linkages are far more
central to identities than previously acknowledged. Trans-border movement -- of
both people and artefacts -- has become a part of ‘modern’ state-system, whilst
‘deterritorialization’ (Appadurai, 1990) characterizes the contemporary
globalised world. However, existing studies mostly focus on the
national-statist borders. This panel instead probes into imaginary
border(land)s within the cityspace: how modern techniques of territorialization
and urban imagination furnish urban ‘enclaves’. For detailed instructions for
abstract submission, please visit: https://rc21delhi2019.com/index.php/call-for-abstracts/.
Please note that the panel number for this session is P15.
Contact Email: avishek.avishek@gmail.com
The Ethics of Roles:
Public, Professional, Personal
University of Toronto
We will use this opportunity to explore the place of roles
within our ethical lives, such as the ways in which roles can alter our moral
duties, improve or corrupt our moral character, and shape our understanding of
others. We will also consider the ethical dimensions of specific roles, for
example: public servants, lawyers, medical professionals, business
professionals, academics, artists, religious or spiritual advisors, citizens,
parents, siblings and friends. The hope is for this breadth of focus to reveal
common questions and further our understanding of roles and their ethics. The
deadline for submissions is January 31, 2019
For further information, please contact us at graduateassociates@gmail.com.
Biopolitics: In Many
Ways
Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Biopolitics is a predominant paradigm in the social sciences
and humanities, which begins from the premise that life is central to modern
politics. In the early nineteenth century, biopolitics emerged alongside
concerns with overpopulation, public hygiene, pseudo-scientific theories of
‘race,’ and into state institutions such as the socio-biological regime of the
Nazis. More recently, contemporary issues such as combating climate change,
prevention of the global spread of infectious diseases, as well as rethinking
the meaning of being human (given biomedical advances in such areas as genetic
engineering, reproductive technologies, and even prosthetics), life has become
a central issue for politics.
deadline: Friday, January 18, 2019
Contact Email: biopolitics2019@gmail.com
Blended Learning in
the Liberal Arts Conference
Wednesday, May 22 – Thursday, May 23, 2019 at Bryn Mawr
College
Our definition of blended learning is quite broad,
encompassing any combination of online and face-to-face instruction that
supports close faculty-student interactions and high-impact, student-centered
pedagogies, promotes life-long learning, or otherwise contributes to the goals
and mission of a liberal arts education. We are open to all topics related to
blended learning in the liberal arts. Past participants have indicated
particular interest in presentations that focus on process as well as product,
give hands-on practical advice and implementation tips, and/or show methods and
techniques over time.
The deadline for proposals is February 25, 2019
Contact Email: blendedlearning@brynmawr.edu
Media & Civil
Rights History Symposium
March 8-9, 2019, University of South Carolina
The biennial Media & Civil Rights History Symposium
welcomes scholars from various disciplines and approaches that address the
vital relationship between civil rights and public communication from
local/national/transnational contexts, perspectives and periods. We are
accepting abstracts (up to 500 words) for papers and panel sessions (up to
1,000 words) on all aspects of the historical relationship between media and
civil rights.
For more information visit http://bit.ly/uofsc-sjmc-mcrhs or
contact
Dr. Kenneth Campbell, Director, Media & Civil Rights
History Symposium, at kcampbell@sc.edu
The Struggle
Continues: Intersectional Activism in the Age of Gender Based Violence and
Authoritarian Oppression
March 1-2, 2019, Sarah Lawrence College
The 21st annual women's history conference, will explore the
struggle against global gender based violence through the lens of
intersectionality. We seek papers, presentations, and creative works that
explore the following questions:
What are the structural and systemic factors that produce
gender based violence and how do race, class, gender, ability and orientation
inform them? What are the ways in which gender based violence has been used by
the state and how have activists addressed these crimes or attempted to force
governments to do so? What are the successes and mistakes of past movements to
end gender based violence and what lessons can current activists take from
previous movements? How can we overcome intersectional failures, to unify and
build stronger, more robust coalitions?
deadline: January 7, 2019
email: tjames@sarahlawrence.edu
Diversity and
Inclusion in Intentional Communities
International Communal Studies Association, July 18-21, 2019,
Hudson, NY
Our thirteenth international conference will explore
strategies that intentional communities use to promote the inclusion and
empowerment of persons of diverse abilities, cultures, races, economic
backgrounds, religions, ages, genders, and sexualities. We especially welcome
proposals related to intentional communities and community movements that focus
on the experiences of particular groups that have historically been
marginalized—as, for example, the Camphill movement does for persons with
intellectual disabilities. We also especially welcome proposals that explore
the implications of community choices that seek to increase or to limit
diversity.
Deadline for Submission of Proposals: February 1, 2019
To submit a proposal, please email your proposal to conference
chair Dan McKanan at dmckanan@hds.harvard.edu or
upload a single proposal document to the ICSA website at http://www.communa.org.il/icsa/index.php/conferences/camphill-2019/call-for-papers.
Mad, Bad, and
Dangerous Texts: Controversies in Reading, Writing, Editing, and Printing
University of Toronto, March 23, 2019.
The theme of this year’s Book History and Print Culture
Graduate Student Colloquium is “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Texts: Controversies in
Reading, Writing, Editing, and Printing.” We invite applications from graduate
students, independent scholars, and emerging academics working in any
discipline, time period, and geographical region. We hope to explore the ways
that print objects have been used to elude and redefine notions of legitimacy.
We welcome very broad interpretations of the idea of “danger,” as well as
discussions of non-book materials, such as manuscripts, maps, film, or digital
documents, that adopt a book history or bibliographic approach.
Deadline for paper and panel proposals is January 18, 2019.
email: bhpccolloquium@gmail.com
Cultural Memory and
Trauma: Literary and Visual Representations
April 24-25, 2019, 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?
Deadline: January 31, 2019
Contact Email: comparativeworldliterature@gmail.com
Access and Inclusion
in Oral History
April 18 - April 19, Monmouth University
How can the oral history community ensure that individuals
with unique needs, including but not limited to visual, hearing, mobility, or
cognitive challenges, are able to participate in oral history as both
interviewers and narrators? How do we share oral histories, both in brick and
mortar archives and on the web, in broadly accessible formats? In what ways is
the oral history community documenting the disability rights movement? The
experience of those with special needs? Narrators and researchers who prefer to
"speak in the language of their heart?" Who is the audience for such
interviews and how do we prioritize levels of accessibility when resources to
do so are limited?
Deadline for Submissions: January 15
website: http://ohmar.org
Contact Email: mziobro@monmouth.edu
Making History
Public(s): Presenting the Collective
Friday May 10 and Saturday May 11, 2019, University of
Michigan
“Making History Public(s)” will interrogate the creation of
publics in the United States, broadly defined. Papers might investigate the
making of publics in any number of ways: as citizenry or voting bloc; as
audience or consumer; as the product of, or precursor to political mobilization
or disruption; as transnational formation. American publics might be defined
spatially or ideologically, shaped through communication, proximity, or
knowledge. They might be determined institutionally, informally, or
discursively.
Proposals are due by Sunday, January 28, 2019.
Contact Email: umusgradconference@gmail.com
Bridging Faith and
Feminism: The Role That Religion Can Play in Advancing Gender Equality
November 23-26, San Diego
Papers are invited for a session sponsored by the Baha'i
Studies Unit and supported by the Women's Caucus of the American Academy of
Religion. When one considers the depth and scale of change required for the
realization of gender equality worldwide—change that is not only material and
technical but also moral, spiritual, and cultural—it becomes clear that the
tremendous social, spiritual and intellectual resources of religious
communities and faith-based organizations will be a key component of these
efforts. A wide range of papers are invited from different perspectives and
academic approaches to examine how religious and secular actors can work
together to advance gender equality worldwide. How can a new narrative that
encompasses the ideals inherent in respective worldviews of gender equality be
created —a narrative that focuses on our common humanity, on justice and the
establishment of peace?
The deadline for a 500- word proposal is March 1, 2019.
Contact Email: srameshfar@bic.org
Comics Arts
Conference at Comic-Con International
The Comics Arts conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word
abstracts for papers, presentations, panels, and poster sessions taking a
critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence)
for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International in San
Diego, CA, from July 18-21, 2019. We seek proposals from a broad range of
disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of
academic and independent scholars. We
also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics
industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and
journalists. The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars,
professionals, critics, and historians to engage in discussion of the comics
medium in a forum that includes the public.
Proposals are due February 1, 2019, via email or to our submission website
at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GL39FWC.
Contact Email: comicsartsconference@gmail.com
Enduring Slavery: Resistance, Public Memory, and
Transatlantic Archives
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of
Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
invites submissions for its second biennial conference. The conference will be
held at the Schomburg Center in New York City on October 10-12, 2019.
We seek proposals from scholars whose work offers new
insights on transatlantic slavery and its afterlives. Topics of interest to the
2019 program committee include: rebellion and resistance among the enslaved,
the political economy of slavery and its relationship to capitalism, debates
over public memory about slavery, university reckonings with their slavery
pasts, gendered aspects of slavery, medicine and healing, digital humanities,
and depictions of slavery in popular culture. Innovative papers that explore
slavery in transnational contexts are particularly welcome.
Please email an individual abstract (no more than
300 words) or a 3-person panel abstract (no more than 800
words) and a two-page CV for each participant to lapiduscenter@nypl.org by February
1, 2019.
PUBLICATIONS
The Heroine's Tale
We are seeking proposals for chapters for a new edited
collection titled “The Heroine's Tale: Reimagining The Female Hero's Journey in
the New Millennium.” This collection considers the role of the contemporary
heroine, aiming to take stock of existing conversations and debates related to
cultural and creative representations of heroines and heroinism and providing
the basis for new directions of inquiry.
Deadlines: February 1, 2019 (for proposal) September 1, 2019
(for essay)
Please submit proposals and any questions to heroines2019@gmail.com
Cinema and Social
Conflicts
This volume of Zapruder
World aims at bringing different
perspectives on how cinema has functioned as a means to narrate and consolidate
the memory of social conflicts, and as site of dispute, mediation, and
production of struggles. Be it in film theory, grassroots guerrilla filmmaking,
or transnational networks of alternative distribution and exhibition, cinema
not only represents but also produces, imagines, and enables different modes of
political struggle. We call for papers that go beyond the analysis of the issue
of historical representation, addressing how cinema has contributed to social
struggles in any and all intersections of nation, class, sex, and race. We are
equally interested in contributions that look at how the history of social
conflicts has contributed to the shaping of cinema.
Abstracts in English (200-400 words) shall be sent to submissions@zapruderworld.org by February
15, 2019.
Rage
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society invites
submissions for a special issue titled “Rage,” slated for publication in the
summer of 2021.
We welcome essays that consider political, social, and
cultural understandings of rage. Essays should address rage as a contested
framework and concept that shapes structural distributions of power,
consolidated and constituted through modern institutions and ideologies. We
welcome essays that theorize rage from decolonial, anticolonial, and
intersectional feminist perspectives to better understand the lives of women,
and subaltern, queer, trans, and nonbinary peoples. Essays should address rage
as a central analytical question for feminist theory and practice but may also
analyze rage as a dynamic concept, constituted in relation to other affective
modes, from sadness, grief, elation, and exhaustion to the long-term effects of
these emotional experiences on the body, on marginalized communities, and on
the workings of the state.
The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2019.
Guidelines for submission available at http://signsjournal.org/for-authors/author-guidelines/.
email: a.mazzaschi@northeastern.edu
Fascisms and
Antifascisms Since 1945
Radical History Review seeks proposals for contributions to
a forthcoming issue that will bring together historically oriented scholarship
on fascisms and antifascisms since the end of the Second World War. Though
scholars have widely understood interwar fascism as a complex web of
nationalism, heteropatriarchy, and race and class-based ideology, since 1945
many far-right movements have emerged that draw upon elements of this political
tendency without necessarily identifying as fascist, thus destabilizing the
term fascism itself. What, for example, is the difference between uses of
“fascism,” “populism,” and “authoritarianism” in political discourse and
movements?
Proposal Deadline: February 1, 2019
Contact Email: contactrhr@gmail.com
Pop Culture Studies
Journal - Call for Reviewers
The Popular Culture Studies Journal is now seeking reviewers
for its upcoming issues. Starting this year however we are not only seeking
reviews of books on any aspect of U.S. or international popular culture, but we
have opened the section to include movies, shows, and games (reviews of video
and board games will be welcomed). If you are interested in writing a review
for The Popular Culture Studies Journal please email Dr. Malynnda A. Johnson at
malynnda.johnson@indstate.edu.
Reviews should adhere to the ethos of The Popular Culture
Studies Journal and be largely positive with any criticism of the
author/creator being constructive in nature. For more information about this
journal, please visit: http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/
Arts and political
ecology
The journal Ecología Política invites authors to send their
article proposals for its next issue. The main subject of the issue will be
Arts and political ecology where we will tackle both the theoretical and the
political aspects in the use of the arts in all its forms (literature, visual
arts, film, theatre, comics, music, etc.) within the contexts of ecological
crisis, conflicts and/or socio-environmental transformations, placing especial
emphasis on eco-fiction(s).
Article proposal submission (250 words max.). Deadline: 27
January 2019.
Contact Email: articulos@ecologiapolitica.info
Nostalgia and Video
Game Music
Call for Chapter Articles
We endeavor to theorize the nostalgia that drives fans to
replay old games, clamor for re-releases, remix game themes, and reimagine
familiar tunes in live performances in venues ranging from YouTube, to the jazz
club, and even the concert hall. Nostalgia has grown into a palpable yet
amorphous theme within discourses on game sound, particularly in music
scholarship. We aim for this volume to engage this research and to interrogate
its unexamined assumptions via multifaceted, cross-disciplinary chapters.
Although conceived within an academic purview, we recognize and respect the
importance of this topic to a range of disciplines, subcultures, and readers.
Please submit by 15 February 2019 to Nostalgia.VGM@gmail.com an
abstract of 350 words maximum
Kinship as Critical
Idiom in Oceanic Studies
Special thematic issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents
This special issue sets forth from Hester Blum’s argument
that we may “find capacious possibilities for new forms of relationality
through attention to the sea’s properties, conditions, and shaping or eroding
forces” (2013: 152), investigating its particular applicability to questions of
kinship. More specifically, it uses the notion of kinship as a critical idiom
and conceptual lens to examine the oceanic turn’s potential for rethinking
forms of (human and nonhuman) belonging. In other words, it considers kinship a
particularly salient concept through which to explore the new concepts and
ideas coming from oceanic studies.
Please send abstracts and working bibliographies to
both katharina.fackler@uni-graz.at and silvia.schultermandl@uni-graz.at
by February 1, 2019.
Sounding Heritage
Special issue of the journal Change Over Time: An
International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment
Material heritage is not constrained merely to what we see –
what we hear conveys a broad range of information essential to shaping and
recalling a sense of place. Sounds can enhance or dominate emplaced experience
and be used to test, analyze, and sensorially reconstruct heritage. Yet the
many roles played by sound remain largely unexamined in conservation practice.
This issue seeks to draw together the various dimensions and neglected
possibilities of sound in heritage towards their greater consideration in
theory and practice.
Abstracts of 200-300 words are due 4 January 2019.
Contact Email: cot@design.upenn.edu
Trump’s America: Terrorizing
Gender, Race, and Justice
We invite abstract proposals for chapters in an edited
volume.
This volume examines the disruptive leakage of the political
“nervous system” (Taussig 1992) in Trump’s America and its hazardous, toxic,
and violent effects on societal impact zones: gender, race, and justice. Our
critical concern rests with documenting and theorizing how the traumatizing
caprice of this presidency instigates ruptures in the body politic, the rhythms
of everyday life, the conditions of justice, and the experiences of personhood.
Please send abstracts (250-500 words) of proposed chapters
and a 100-word author bio by January 15, 2019 to Christine Kray:cakgss@rit.edu.
Inheritance
WSQ Special issue
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?
Because Inheritance coincides with the fiftieth anniversary
of the Feminist Press, we also seek submissions considering the role of the
archive and of feminist and reconstructionist efforts in recovering losses from
more traditional and hegemonic experiences of inheritance.
Scholarly articles and inquiries should be sent to guest
issue editors Maria Rice Bellamy and Karen Weingarten at WSQInheritanceIssue@gmail.com.
We will give priority consideration to submissions received by March 1,
2019.
Musical Feelings and
Affective Politics
CFP for Culture, Theory and Critique Over the past two
decades, scholars across the humanities and social sciences have highlighted
affect as a crucial dimension of political life. This special issue argues that
music - as sound and as practice - has an important role to play in this
evolving academic conversation. Although music can and does carry symbolic
meanings, people are commonly drawn to music because of how it makes them feel.
Moreover, these feelings have exceptional potency, enabling the emergence of
new subjectivities, social collectives, and political imaginaries.
Interested individuals should submit an abstract of no more
than 350 words to ADesai-Stephens@esm.rochester.edu by
February 1st, 2019.
Sacred Matters
Established in 2014 at Emory University, Sacred Matters is a
web magazine of public scholarship that undercuts conventional understandings
of religion and reimagines the boundaries between religion and culture. With a
range of blogs and websites dedicated to religion flourishing online right now,
Sacred Matters has a unique place among its peer publications. Sacred Matters
features articles and commentaries that bring often excluded conversations
about religion, spirituality, sacred beings, and the sacred things of society
to the fore. The scope of topics is expansive but culture-bound, ranging from
science to popular culture; theology to sexuality; health and healing to the
Internet. Sacred Matters is flexible enough for both amusing side projects and
material directly related to dissertations or book projects.
We hope you will
consider contributing to Sacred Matters! Please send pitches and
submissions to sacredmatters@emory.edu
Follow us
@SacredMatters or visit our homepage www.sacredmattersmagazine.com
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Gender Studies
Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Gender Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame
invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in Gender Studies
to begin August 2019. The successful candidate will teach one course per
semester (two courses total) and will be expected to pursue a program of
independent research and participate in the scholarly life of the faculty. Area
of concentration is open; however, the Program has identified the
intersectional study of sexualities, masculinities, transnational and
U.S.-multiracial feminisms, and trans studies as core areas for growth.
Applications must be received by 11:59 pm on January 31,
2019.
Questions may be addressed to Dr. Pam Butler, Acting
Director of the Gender Studies Program, at pbutler1@nd.edu.
RESOURCES
Mapping
NECSUS focuses on cinema, television, and new media studies
by publishing research either by European scholars or on European media for a
global readership. A new open access issue is now available online. The issue
offers a special article section on #Mapping, while also containing feature
articles, festival, exhibition, and book reviews, and audiovisual essays.
Guidelines for submissions: https://necsus-ejms.org/guidelines-for-submission/
WORKSHOPS
Lisbon Summer School
for the Study of Culture - Neurohumanities: Promises & Threats
Lisbon, July 1-6, 2019
The promise of the Neurohumanities, the neuroscientifically
informed study of cultural artifacts, discourses and practices, lies in
unveiling the link between embodied processes and the sophistication of
culture. And it has the somewhat hidden agenda of legitimizing the field, by
giving it a science-close status of relevance and social acknowledgement it has
long lacked. Here, though, lies also its weakness: should the Humanities become
scientific? Can they afford to do so? Should they be reduced to experimental
methodologies, collaborative research practices, sloppy concept travelling,
transvestite interdisciplinarity? Is the promise of the Neurohumanities, seen
by some as the ultimate overcoming of the science-humanities or the two
cultures divide, in fact not only ontologically and methodologically impossible
and more than that undesirable?
The IX Summer School for the Study of Culture invites
participants to submit paper and poster proposals that critically consider the
developments of the Neurohumanities in the past decades and question its
immediate and future challenges and opportunities.
Proposals should be sent to lxsummerschool@gmail.com no
later than February 28, 2019
Contact Email: lxsummerschool@gmail.com
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