CONFERENCES
Poverty in America: The Past, Present
and Future
University
of Oxford, 10-11 May 2019
2019
marks fifty-five years since President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an
“unconditional War on Poverty” in the United States and one year since
President Donald J. Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers declared the War on
Poverty “largely over and a success”. While most would agree America’s War on
Poverty is “over”, few – from either side of politics – would agree that it was
won. According to the US Census Bureau, 39.7 million Americans, or 12.3% of the
total population, currently live in poverty. More than half of America’s
children qualify as either “poor or low income”. Over 40 million Americans rely
on food stamps to provide their meals.
To understand why America is still plagued by the “paradox of poverty
amidst plenty” a two-day interdisciplinary conference entitled "Poverty in
America: The Past, Present, and Future" is being convened at the Rothermere
American Institute of the University of Oxford.
Proposals
of no more than 250 words per paper, accompanied by a 1-page CV, should be sent
to the organisers (Alex Coccia and Mitch Roberson - povertyinamericaconference@gmail.com)
no later than 1 March 2019.
History Graduate Symposium
The
History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) at California State University,
Fresno announces the 21st Annual History Graduate Student Symposium, which will
be held on Saturday, April 27, 2019 in Fresno, California. HGSA is
now accepting papers from graduate students in any field of historical inquiry,
but especially those demonstrating innovative and/or interdisciplinary
approaches.
Please
submit a 100-word proposal and a current curriculum vitae to HGSA at fresnostatehgsa@gmail.com by March
30, 2019.
Seriality
A Special Session for the Modern Language
Association's annual meeting (Seattle, January 9-12, 2020):
Empirical and theoretical papers on seriality,
broadly conceived, to include work on print-culture, narratology, rhetoric,
writing and reading practices, socialization, identity politics, and
more. No restrictions regarding period or region.
300-word proposals with c.v. due March 15, 2019
to: cavitch@english.upenn.edu and clooby@humnet.ucla.edu.
Black
Lives
Friday,
April 12, 2019, CUNY Graduate Center
We
seek papers and panel proposals that take up any aspect of “Black Lives”
understood broadly as an entry point into research in, but not limited to, any
of the areas listed below. We are especially interested in workshop proposals
that address the necessary rituals and habits for self-care, success/pushing
back in a hostile workplace, building and maintaining your village, and
contemporary radical Black artists/activists.
Please
submit an abstract of up to 250 words, a short biographical description, and
your contact information by February 28, 2019. Proposals and questions should
be sent to conference organizers at blacklivesconferencecommittee@gmail.com.
Anime Chronotopes: Nostalgia in
Japanese Animation and Comics
Los
Angeles Convention Center, July 4-7, 2019
The
Anime Expo Academic Symposium (AXAS) is a special track of programming
featuring conference-style panels presenting scholarship on anime, manga, and
Japanese culture to Anime Expo's attendees. This program grants unique
opportunities for scholars to share their work with a diverse popular audience,
for fans and scholars to share their enthusiasm with one another, and for all
to delve deeper into the world of Japanese pop culture.
250-400
word proposals should be submitted as a PDF or word document to animeexpo.academic@gmail.com.
Deadline
for Paper Proposals: April 7, 2019
Contact
Email: cabot@usc.edu
Postcolonial Studies, the Environmental
Humanities, and the Limits of the Human
In
his 2020 MLA theme description, Simon Gikandi asks for a reflection on the role
of the humanities in “defining the nature of the human in the face of what
appears to be its diminishment.” This roundtable, cosponsored by the MLA Africa
Since 1990 forum and the Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities forum,
reframes Gikandi’s provocation in ecological terms: how do we define the limits
of what Sylvia Wynter terms the “genre of the human” in the face of ecological
decline and climate change? We invite proposals for presentations that analyze
the role of postcolonial literature and media, as well as post/decolonial
theory, in understanding the human and the limits of the term in the current
epoch.
Prospective
panelists should submit a 200-word abstract and one-page CV to Byron Santangelo
(bsantang@ku.edu) and Cajetan Iheka (cniheka@ua.edu)
by March 15, 2019
Association for the Study of the
Worldwide African Diaspora
November
5-9, 2019, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
ASWAD
invites panel and individual paper proposal submissions for its 10th biennial
conference to be held in Williamsburg, VA (USA), November 5 to 9, 2019 on the
campus of the College of William and Mary to discuss, examine, and reflect on
the legacies of enslavement and the meaning(s) of freedom for people of African
descent nationally and globally on the four hundredth anniversary of the
origins of slavery in what became the United States. We also seek papers that
interrogate the many other diasporas that began (and continue) in Africa, and
continue to flourish in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South and Central
America, the Caribbean and the Pacific/Indian Ocean basins. We are particularly interested in panels and
papers on the conference themes of remembrance, renaissance, and revolution in
the many African diasporas across time and space. However, we encourage papers
from any time period and topic related to the study of the African-descended.
The
deadline for Panel/Paper Proposals is March 1, 2019
Note:
For an online version of this Call for Papers please click here: ASWAD CFP 2019
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Network of
the Social Science History Association
The
Women, Gender and Sexuality network of the Social Science History
Association calls for papers for its annual conference to be held in
Chicago from Nov 21-24, 2019 (www.ssha.org).
The theme of the 2019 conference is “Data and Its Discontents.” Panels and
papers on other aspects of social science history of women, gender and
sexuality are more than welcome.
The
submission deadline is March 1.
Contact
Email: Jadwiga@email.arizona.edu
International Gender and Sexuality
Studies Conference
October
3-5, 2019 at the Nigh University Center at the University of Central Oklahoma
This
international interdisciplinary conference welcomes proposals for presentations
in a variety of formats that address issues of gender and sexuality in the
social sciences, humanities, fine arts, and STEM fields. We invite students,
faculty, staff, scholars, and activists to propose papers, panels, roundtable
discussions, and poster presentations. We also welcome proposals to present or
perform creative work including creative writing, drama, music, and visual art.
Abstracts
should be submitted to thecenteratuco@gmail.com The
deadline to submit your abstract for consideration is Friday, May 10, 2019,
before 11:59PM. For more questions, please reach out to Dr. Lindsey Churchill,
Director of the Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center at lchurchill@uco.edu.
Managing Scandal in the White House
The
Department of History at Mississippi State University, in conjunction with the
Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at the Mitchell Memorial Library
and the Presidential History Network, will host a two-day symposium, October
24-25, 2019, to analyze the history and memory of American presidential
scandals. We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit paper proposals
that investigate the ways in which scandal has been: managed or mismanaged by
presidents and administration staff; shaped by the history of the era;
prosecuted in the court of public opinion; depicted in popular culture or
historiography; interpreted by international onlookers. Other proposals related to the theme of the
symposium will receive full consideration.
Email
submissions to Richard V. Damms (rdamms@history.msstate.edu) by
15 April 2019.
Northeast Popular Culture Association
The
2019 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual
conference this fall on Friday, November 15-Saturday, November 16 at the
Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. We are looking forward to another engaging
and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and
presentations for this year’s conference.
Please
submit your proposal via the online form:
https://goo.gl/forms/QdMp1Ov9bUKYTSin1.
Both proposals for individual papers and complete panels will be considered.
The deadline for proposals is June 1, 2019.
Religion, Racism, and Religious Racism
University
of North Carolina at Charlotte, April 25-26, 2019
Restrictions
on religious freedom also frequently stem from racial bias. For example,
policies banning certain types of hairstyles, head-coverings, or other
religious attire in schools and public places often begin as a response to
concerns about minority immigrants. Similarly, growing limitations on certain
religious practices, such as the ritual slaughter of animals and circumcision,
have a disparate impact on racial or ethnic minorities. Furthermore, laws and
policies addressing religious-based terrorism frequently stereotype racial
minorities as having a greater propensity for violent crime. Through the
discussion of these and related topics, this symposium seeks to unpack the
relationship between religion and racism. We invite proposals exploring any
aspect of the relationship between religion and racism or any aspect of “religious
racism.”
Abstracts
(max. 500 words) should be sent to Dr. Danielle N. Boaz at dboaz@uncc.edu ,
along with a short bio (max. 150 words) by Feb 25, 2019.
Gender and Trauma: Material, Methods,
Media
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3665612/gender-and-trauma-material-methods-media
September
20–21, 2019, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Specialists
in trauma studies and gender studies have collaborated to produce innovative
research on war, genocide and other sites of extreme violence. Building bridges between scholars in trauma
research and gender studies leads to important discoveries finding new source
bases, methods and directions of inquiry, opens up new areas of research and
raises critical questions. We invite applicants who are interested in any
topics related to trauma studies and gender studies (or who specialize in one
or the other and would like to build interrelations between the two fields)
across regional, national, chronological, disciplinary as well as taboo and
other boundaries.
Please
email proposals to Jason Crouthamel (crouthaj@gvsu.edu)
by April 30, 2019.
Experiential Design – creating cities
and spaces for health and wellbeing
16-17
January 2020, Florida State University
This
conference and its publications are premised on the belief that health
professionals,enviornmental psychologists and social workers need to better
understand and collaborate more closely with the designers, architects and
planners who create the spaces and products and people need and use daily,
whether that be: our hospitals and schools; the interior environments of
offices, homes and public buildings; the streets of our cities; or the products
and furniture we employ for assistance or general use.
ABSTRCTS:
20 June 2019
History of Emotions Conference
George
Mason University on June 5-6, 2020
The
conference will welcome papers on a variety of aspects and approaches
concerning the history of emotion, providing opportunities as well for further
acquaintance among practitioners in the field, North American and beyond. As in
our founding conference in 2018, most sessions will feature three or four
presentations with opportunities for comment and discussion from the audience.
As before as well, the conference will not be able to support participant
expenses, but we will work to keep costs as modest as possible.
deadline:
June 1, 2019
Debating Suffrage in America Before and
Since the Nineteenth Amendment
The
Maine Historical Society invites submission for its annual Historian’s Forum on
July 13, 2019 in Portland, Maine. This year’s topic is Debating Suffrage in
American history. Four contributors will
deliver 30-minute talks followed by participation in a moderated panel
discussion.
To
apply, please submit a 500-word paper proposal and a one-page CV to isaxine@mainehistory.org by March
15, 2019.
To What End? Narrative, Institutions,
and Practices
The
conference will broadly explore the resources of neo-Aristotelian thought,
especially as they might be brought to bear on reframing moral discourse in a
world increasingly shaped by the market, the state, bureaucracy, and
technology. Alasdair MacIntyre has both shone a spotlight on the futility of
rational dialogue in an emotivist culture and renewed efforts to rediscover the
insights of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Marx. As this leading thinker and critic of
modernity turns 90 this year, we come together from a variety of disciplines
and countries to engage in this important collaborative work.
The
deadline to submit proposals is April 5.
Media and Popular Culture
11
January 2020, The Queens Hotel, Leeds, United Kingdom
The
media system is changing and with the proliferation of fake news and
alternative websites offering alternative facts, we live in the age of
propaganda and wars for the dissemination of information. In addition, growing
anti-intellectualism and populism in the West, especially promoted by the
Far-Right politicians and activists, means that many members of the public
dismiss information from experts who are seen as elites and thus not
trustworthy. All of this created a situation in which many do not trust
official sources of information and the public is more prone to propaganda than
ever.
Submissions
of abstracts (up to 500 words) with an email contact should be sent to Dr
Martina Topić (martinahr@gmail.com) by 15 September
2019. Decisions will be sent by 15 October 2019.
PUBLICATIONS
Art, Activism, and the Pursuit of a
Better Life
Special
Issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities
Recently
there has been a surge in art of dissent as creators and performers respond to
the uptick of injustice, inequality, and authoritarianism around the world. This
edition of Interdisciplinary Humanities will explore the complex terrain of
artistic dissent and activism as both a contemporary practice and a tradition.
How is artistic dissent visualized, enacted, performed, disseminated? In what
ways have artists responded--in various cultural contexts and from various
subject positions--to authoritarianism, income inequality, environmental,
racial and sexual injustice?
Inquiries
and submissions should be sent to Wendy Chase at wendy.chase@fsw.edu and
Elijah Pritchett at elijah.pritchett@fsw.edu.
Article
deadline: May 1, 2019
Existential Conceptions of the
Relationship between Philosophy and Theology
This
special issue aims to explore and reflect on the ways in which the relationship
between philosophy and theology is conceived, problematised, and illuminated in
existential or existentialist thought. In contributing to this discussion,
papers could for example address the relationship between philosophy and
theology through existential analysis of philosophically and theologically
significant themes, such as freedom, paradox, sin, salvation, grace, reason and
more; papers could also address this relationship by discussing the positions
of specific existential or existentialist thinkers on this; or papers could
sketch what the very notion of existential analysis might tell us about
philosophy and theology today.
Submissions
will be collected by May 10, 2019 via the on-line submission system at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/
For
further information please email Nikolaas Deketelaere (nikolaas.deketelaere@theology.ox.ac.uk)
or Elizabeth Li (elizabeth.li@theology.ox.ac.uk).
Film and Ethics.
Cinema
- Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image welcomes submissions
A
special focus will be given to enquire film’s aesthetic/ethical relationship:
film’s path from normative ethics to applied ethics; the extent to which
aesthetic form, or style, determine ethical meaning; the way it instigates
ethical understandings and cultural-political awareness and how it involves
ethical/political statements. Exploring the issue of film and ethics also
provides a rich way of revisiting the legacy of film theory, especially with
regard to cinema’s ideological and political dimensions, since film’s
aesthetics and ethics have always enjoyed a close, if sometimes troubled,
relationship.
Prospective
authors should submit a short CV along with the abstract. Abstract proposals
(max. 500 words) are due on March 8th, 2019
Disenchantment
Chiasma:
A Site for Thought is pleased to invite submissions for its sixth issue, on the
theory and philosophy of “disenchantment”. While the contemporary world roils
from accelerated inequality across diverse sectors of the global population;
technological advancement and complexification; proliferating ‘connectedness’;
network, information, and media sinkholes within which the distinction between
fact and value is increasingly void—and all this in the midst of great political
absurdity—disenchantment, in all its Janus-faced nuance, is again critical to
be thought today.
Articles
should be 5,000-10,000 words long. Please send anonymized articles with
abstracts to chiasma.asiteforthought@gmail.com by March 1,
2019
Lesbians and Joy
Drawing
inspiration from Audre Lorde’s “Use of the Erotic,” this special issue examines
joy as a method for revolution and queer resistance. We are looking for
contributors who consider the potentiality of queer joy as a necessity for
struggle and resistance.
Questions
this issue looks at include: how can the embracing of joy and self-knowledge
inform and enhance lesbian and queer women communities? Why is joy necessary in
the Trump era? How is joy crafted and promoted in queer spaces, such as balls,
online communities, and activism movements?
Deadline
for abstracts: March 15, 2019
Contact
Email: sgabbard@depaul.edu
Dystopian States of America:
Apocalyptic Visions and Warnings in American Literature, Film, and Politics
This
project aims to be an accessible, wide-ranging survey of and reference work on
dystopian and apocalyptic themes in literature, film, and popular culture. The
set will not only provide insights into some of the most influential and
disturbing visions of futuristic dystopia/apocalypse in film and literature,
but also provide a gateway through which to examine anxieties and concerns that
have roiled American politics and society over the years, such as climate
change and other environmental catastrophes,
nuclear proliferation, totalitarianism, technological over-reach
(artificial intelligence, genetic engineering), pandemics, cultural decay,
racial tensions/competition, and religious extremism.
Deadline
for Essay Proposals: June 1, 2019
The Erotics of Nonsexualities:
Intersectional Approaches
This
special issue of Feminist Formations
seeks to bring into conversation intersectional work on erotics and on
nonsexualities. The word erotics, derived from the ancient Greek eros, marks a
way of thinking intimacy, relating, and kinship that can include but is not
tied strictly to sexual desire. We see erotics as an important theoretical
interlocutor for thinking about nonsexual intimacies in terms that challenge
settler colonial and Western knowledge paradigms. Erotics holds space for
imagining nonsexual intimacies as places for celebration, protest, and
world-making. A focus on erotics draws on queer of color contributions to
challenging the separation of sexuality from other realms of life, community,
identity, and activism. This special issue seeks scholarship on erotics and
nonsexualities that employs intersectionality as a key analytic.
Submission
deadline: August 19, 2019
Questions
about the submission process may be sent to Editorial assistants Andrés López
and LK Mae at feministformations@oregonstate.edu.
Wandering
M/C
Journal Special Issue
Wandering,
as both a physical movement and a conceptual metaphor, can transcend the
boundaries between past and present, the real and imagined, the centre and the
periphery, the virtual and the actual, the human and the non-human, the private
and the public, and the finite and the boundless. This special issue on
‘wandering’ will explore current and emerging research on wandering practices
and behaviours, methodologies, texts, and technologies.
Prospective
contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to
the issue editors: wandering@journal.media-culture.org.au.
Article
deadline: 19 Apr. 2019
Reimagining Black Masculinities and
Public Space: Essays on Race, Gender and Social Activism
Reimagining
Black Masculinities and Public Space explores the nexus of race, gender and
activism. Thematically the book is concerned with social
movements/protests/activism/controversy around Black masculinities and/or Black
men (e.g., Black pluralism, Michael Brown, Surviving R. Kelly, Colin
Kaepernick, Black Panther, etc.). In addition, the book foregrounds
theoretically sophisticated and empirically rigorous analyses of the different
ways Black men inform societal change.
March
22, 2019 is the deadline for submissions; email to mhopson@gmu.edu and mpetin@gmail.com
The Graduate History Review Call for
Submissions
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3672028/graduate-history-review-call-submissions
The
Graduate History Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal managed by, and for,
graduate history students. We are currently seeking submissions that explore
different aspects of narrative and storytelling in the writing of history.
Narrative, like anything, can be both problematic and beneficial in history
writing, and we welcome articles and research notes that touch upon the roles
narrative and storytelling play in the histories we read, write, and live.
We
accept submissions on an ongoing basis, but only submissions received before
March 15 2019 will be considered for publication in Volume 8.
Submission
Guidelines: https://ghrjournal.wordpress.com/submit-an-article
LGBTQ Histories
OutHistory.org,
the major website on LGBTQ history, is forming a collaborative of volunteers
interested in researching, writing, editing, publishing, and publicizing new
content on the site. OutHistory would like to publish original research on
LGBTQ youth culture and organizing, old folks memoirs, transgender U.S.
history, African American and Asian American LGBTQ people, working class
people, and a great variety of other subjects.
Interested
individuals are encouraged to suggest their own areas and degrees of
participation. Persons with skills in digital publishing, web design, social
media, archives, public history, research, writing, and editing are encouraged
to join the OutHistory Collaborative. For a list of some possible research
subjects see: “Missing Persons of LGBTQ History”: http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/katz-writing-work/missing
People
interested in joining the Collaborative should email Katz at outhistory@gmail.com.
Food and World's Fairs/Expositions
This
special issue of Food, Culture & Society will examine how fairs and
expositions – at local, regional, national, and international levels anytime
from the nineteenth century to the present – reflect and shape perceptions of
food production and consumption for mass audiences. It will consider the
perspectives of fair organizers, publicists, exhibitors, concessionaires,
restaurateurs, and consumers in constructing and experiencing the diversity of
food cultures on the fairgrounds.
Articles might consider questions like: how did (or does) the exhibition
of food reflect transformations in food manufacturing or production over
time? What impact did factors like
audience, location, funding, or managerial oversight have on the exhibition of
food? What techniques did food exhibitors
use to attract the attention of visitors and how did these techniques shape
fairgoers’ experiences?
Essay
abstracts due: March 15, 2019
Contact Email: bonnie.miller@umb.edu
Digital Heritage Storytelling: Luxury
Brands, Visual Cultures, Technologies
In
a digital age, packaging and marketing such historical narratives means
communicating heritage through social tools such as YouTube videos and
Instagram posts and stories, as well as more traditional blogs and websites.
Digital Heritage Storytelling for Luxury Brands will be an edited collection
that brings together many different case studies representing not only various
brands, but also various academic disciplines. Rooted in both fashion studies
and the digital humanities, this will be a truly interdisciplinary (and international)
anthology for students and academics, digital humanities practitioners, and
industry professionals alike.
250
word abstracts are due to Amanda Sikarskie by May 1, 2019
Contact
Email: asikarsk@umich.edu
Arts in the Black Press During the Age
of Jim Crow
American
Studies invites submissions for a special issue, to be published in Fall 2020,
focused upon coverage of the arts in the black press between Reconstruction and
the end of legalized Jim Crow segregation in the 1960s. Critics and reporters
on the arts beat not only brought to light the creative output of black
musicians, filmmakers, writers, and visual artists, but also investigated the
role the arts played in the long struggle against oppression, as well as the
economic and cultural impact of the arts on black communities and the United
States as a whole. We welcome contributions on any appropriate topic from
scholars working across all disciplines.
Articles
should be sent by August 1, 2019 to the guest editors as .doc or .docx
attachments to artsblackpress@gmail.com.
Multidisciplinary Approaches to
Crowdfunding Platforms
During
recent years, the number of crowdfunding platforms has increasead in worldwide.
In order to discuss ideas, problems, challenges, and solutions for changes in
society and organizations to improve crowdfunding platforms, we prepare this
book. This book has an important role to play in providing knowledge for
researchers, experts, and practitioners of crowdfunding platforms in the global
digital economy. It also intends to provide guidelines for economists,
managers, entrepreneurs, consultants, policy makers, and technology developers.
Proposals
Submission Deadline: March 7, 2019
FUNDING
Fellowships at the Horner Library
Together
with the German Society of Pennsylvania, the German Historical Institute will
sponsor two to four fellowships of up to four weeks for research at the Joseph
Horner Memorial Library in Philadelphia between June 1 and July 15, 2019. The
fellowship will be awarded to Ph.D. and M.A. students and advanced scholars
without restrictions in research fields or geographical provenance. The
"GHI Fellowship at the Horner Library" will provide a travel subsidy
and an allowance of $1,000 to $3,500 depending on the length of the stay and
the qualifications of the fellows. Opportunities to research at other special
collections in Philadelphia may be available.
Applications
(in English or German) should be made electronically to the GHI (c/o Bryan
Hart; fellowships@ghi-dc.org). They should
include a project description of no more than 2,000 words, curriculum vitae,
copies of academic degrees, and one letter of reference. Application deadline
is March 1, 2019.
Special Collections Research Center,
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. Archives
and modern manuscript strengths include early Ohio River valley history;
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Civil War era; social sciences and
social welfare policy; physics, astrophysics, and geophysical science; theology
and history of religions; Poetry magazine and modern poetry; post-World War II
nuclear policy, Cold War intellectual politics, and world constitutionalism;
urban history; Chicago medical history; and Chicago jazz.
The
deadline for applications is March 4, 2019.
Email:
arch@chicago.edu
Hinshaw Research Fellowship for Quaker
Studies
Applications
are now being collected for the 2019 Hinshaw Fellowship to
support research in the Quaker Archives (formerly the Friends Historical
Collection) at Guilford College to study any aspect related to southern
Quaker studies. See http://library.guilford.edu/fhc/fellowships for
application details and additional information.
DEADLINE:
March 15, 2019
Contact
Email: archives@guilford.edu
Fellowships at the Gilder Lehrman
Center- Yale
The
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, part
of the MacMillan Center at Yale University, is accepting applications for
fellowships. Two types of postdoctoral and faculty fellowships are offered to
advance the study of slavery, its role in the creation of the modern world, and
its legacies. They are: the Postdoctoral and Faculty Fellowships (one-month and
four-month) and the annual Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellowship
(academic year). These are in-residence positions. During their time in New
Haven, fellows have access to Yale University libraries and resources, office
space at the Gilder Lehrman Center, give a public lecture, record a podcast
interview, and participate in the intellectual life at the Center.
For
the 2019-2020 fellowships, highest priority is given to applications that are
fully complete by March 1, 2019. For further information regarding
specific fellowships and the application process see the Gilder Lehrman Center
website: https://glc.yale.edu/Fellowships
Digital Humanities Fellowship, American
Philosophical Society Library
The
American Philosophical Library welcomes applications for fellowships in the
Digital Humanities. These one-month fellowships are open to scholars at all
stages of their careers, including graduate students. Interested scholars may
choose to submit proposals for projects that: 1) utilize the APS’s Library
holdings to advance a digital component of an independent research project, or,
2) seek to apply existing tools and expertise to digital projects developed in
collaboration with the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship.
Deadline:
Mar 1, 2019
Full
details are available on the application webpage: http://apply.interfolio.com/56792
Visiting Scholar Fellowship - The
Humanities Center at Texas Tech University
The
Humanities Center at Texas Tech University invites applications for a Spring,
2020 Visiting Scholar Fellowship. Scholars in any Humanities field are welcome
to apply, but special consideration will be given to applicants who plan to use
libraries, archives, and other resources at Texas Tech and/or the Lubbock area.
The selected Fellow will ideally hold the Ph.D., but an exceptional ABD would
be considered.
Applications
are due via email no later than March 31, 2019.
IU IAS Summer Repository Research
Fellowship
The
Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study is now accepting applications
for its 2019 Summer Repository Research Fellowship (SRRF). This program funds a
two-week residential fellowship for a community scholar or faculty member from
outside Indiana University Bloomington to conduct in-depth research in the
collections of one or more of our partner repositories. The fellowship provides
funding for travel costs, accommodation, per diem, and a two-week stipend.
Applications
are due by March 8, 2019.
URL: https://iasweb.webtest.iu.edu/research-support/fellows/summer-repo-research-fellowship/index.html
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, to be used for research at the library
from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020.
Learn
more about the Hargrett Library at www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett
Research Fellowship- Swarthmore College
Peace Collection and/or Friends Historical Library
The
Moore Research Fellowship promotes research during the academic year or summer
months using the resources of the Friends Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore
College Peace Collection. Strong preference will be given to projects making
significant use of resources only available on site at Swarthmore College.. A
stipend in the amount of $1,200 per week, for a minimum of two weeks and a
maximum of six weeks will be available.
Those eligible to apply include Swarthmore College students, faculty and
staff, as well as faculty, graduate students, students, or scholars at all
levels from outside the Swarthmore College community.
The
application deadline is March 15, 2019.
Travel Awards--Louisiana Historical
Association
The
Louisiana Historical Association will offer two short-term travel awards for
2019. Each grant will provide a stipend of $1,500 for research in Louisiana
archives and collections. These grants are designed to assist scholars
interested in Louisiana history, for whom distance and expense present a
substantial obstacle to research in the state's rich archives. Complete
applications are due by March 1, 2019, for travel between May 1, 2019 and
September 15, 2019.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of
Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition: Residential Fellowships
The
GLC is offering two types of postdoctoral and faculty fellowships that advance
the study of slavery, its role in the creation of the modern world, and its
legacies. They are: the Postdoctoral and Faculty Fellowships (one-month and
four-month) and the annual Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellowship
(academic year). These are in-residence positions. During their time in New
Haven, fellows have access to Yale University libraries and resources, office
space at the Gilder Lehrman Center, give a public lecture, record a podcast
interview, and participate in the intellectual life at the Center.
For
the 2019-2020 fellowships, highest priority is given to applications that are
fully complete by March 1, 2019.
State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grant
The State Historical Society of Iowa will
award research stipends of $1,000 to support original research and interpretive
writing related to the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest. Preference will
be given to applicants proposing to pursue previously neglected topics or new
approaches to or interpretations of previously treated topics. The State
Historical Society of Iowa invites applicants from a variety of backgrounds,
including academic and public historians, graduate students, and independent
researchers and writers. Applications will be judged on the basis of their
potential for producing publishable work.
Proposals
for the 2019/2020 awards must be postmarked by April 15, 2019.
For
further information, call 319-335-3931 or send e-mail to marvin-bergman@uiowa.edu. Please do not send applications via email.
RESOURCES
Left History is now open access
Established
in 1993, Left History is a peer-reviewed bi-annual scholarly
journal run out of York University, with an editorial board of prominent left
historians. Left History features articles by both established
and new scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, on topics including
race, politics, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment,
human rights, theory, and method. Left History also includes
review essays and individual book reviews.
The
editors are pleased to announce that as of February 2019, all content will be
published online and open-access. Our updated website can be reached at https://lh.journals.yorku.ca/. Users
simply need to register with a username and password to be able to view
open-access content, including our most recently published edition. The website
also contains calls for papers, including the announcement of our upcoming special
edition, which asks the question "what is left history?" https://lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/lh/announcement/view/9
Contact
Email: lefthist@yorku.ca
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Visiting Assistant Professor in Media
and Gender Studies
The
programs of Film & Media Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s
Studies at William & Mary invite applications for a one-year
non-tenure-track position as Visiting Assistant Professor. The successful
applicant will be joint appointed to both programs, and teach (3:3 load).
Preferred areas of expertise include feminist or queer filmmaking, television
studies, video art, game studies, animation, virtual reality, or global media
as well as work with gender, queer, critical race, or postcolonial theory.
Applicants
must apply online at https://jobs.wm.edu. For
full consideration, submit application materials by the review date, March 13,
2019.
Call for Editors
The
editors of H-Grad are excited to announce several openings on the editorial
board. We are seeking individuals who have the skill-sets to contribute to one
or more of the following core areas:
*Building
up our discussion and resource tabs with relevant material relating to graduate
life
*Enhancing
our social media presence
*Creating
blog posts pertinent to graduate students’ experiences
Anyone
interested in becoming an H-Grad editor should submit an application by Friday,
1 March 2019.
Please
send all applications as well as questions and concerns to the H-Grad editors
at editorial-grad@mail.h-net.msu.edu.
WORKSHOPS
Governance and Diversity Workshop
The
diversity of corporate governance practices is so vast that it defies a “common
definition” (Aguilera & Jackson, 2003). In an era of internationalization,
globalization and, like in Europe, harmonization initiatives, many topics
related to governance and diversity raise ongoing interest. The ways social
contexts and institutions shape and condition corporate governance structures
and practices, the interplay between firm- and national-level governance
mechanisms are the subject of cross-national comparative analysis. Questions
concerning the extent to which best governance practices and regims may be
transported, transplanted from one national business system to another are
raised. The extent to which corporate governance principles and practices
should encompass the needs of external constituencies, such as stakeholders, is
closely scrutinized.
To
share recent advances in academic research on these themas, we invite you to
participate in the Governance and Diversity 2nd Workshop to be held on June 20,
2019 at Paris School of Business, 59 rue Nationale, 75013 Paris, France.
deadline:
March 11, 2019
Women and Development in the Global
South Seminar
SAR
invites proposals for an Advanced Seminar that focuses on the circumstances of
women in the developing world and offers paths to concrete, practical
strategies for improving their health, prosperity, and general well-being. Proposals
may address global problems or focus on specific regional questions. Above all, the participants should be
committed to producing practical improvements in the lives of women and
workable proposals likely to achieve that end.
Seminars focused on broad policy issues will be judged according to
whether practical implementation measures are included in the discussion.
The
deadline for applications is April 30, 2019.
For
questions, please call 505-954-7237 or email spray@sarsf.org.
