CONFERENCES
Silences in Literary Trauma Studies: A
Reconsideration
State
University of New York, Buffalo, 5th April 2019
In
the history of trauma literary studies, this contest often privileges a
singularity of silence, namely the inability to narrate trauma, over other
modes of representation and narration. More precisely, silence can be read as
the central topos through which modern psychological trauma has been
understood, through to the emergence of the field of literary trauma studies as
a response to the Holocaust. However, this approach to trauma, and its
grounding in the Holocaust, has left unexamined a second, no less traumatic,
silence that Coetzee’s Foe addresses, by underlining its absence in the canon.
This second silence (or more accurately silences) compounds the singular
absent, silence of Holocaust testimonies, and appears in the silent voices of
the post-colonial subjects, the voices of pre-twentieth century trauma victims,
and the voices of those whose literatures continue to occupy a marginal, if not
entirely absent position in discussions of trauma. This conference welcomes
papers that address the singular silence that has formed the core of literary
trauma theory, as well as work that explores the second silence(s) described
above.
deadline
for submissions: February 8, 2019
contact
email: rachitan@buffalo.edu
For
further details you may visit the conference website: https://silencesconference2019.wordpress.com/
Thinking
with the Senses: Histories of Humanitarian Sentiment and Practice
Liverpool, 13-14 May 2019
In recent years a rich body of research has begun to
interrogate the role that visual – primarily print and broadcast – media has
played in shaping humanitarian sentiments and practices. With this conference,
we seek to both deepen and broaden these conversations by considering how
attention to the full range of sensory perception might develop our
understandings of historical and contemporary humanitarian practices,
sentiments, movements and their impacts. Therefore, we are keen to understand
how giving due attention to the senses, perceptions, and perspectives of
beneficiary, as well as donor, communities might better illuminate expressions
of the humanitarian impulse across time and space.
CFP Deadline: 4 March 2019
An
Illness of Her Own: Women and Their Writing Processes and Products
This collection focuses on marginalized stories that
address women’s difficult truths and raw experiences when illnesses threaten
their sense of self, when stories may not be triumphant by societal standards,
when women question their worlds and bodies as they knew them. The goal of the
collection is to illuminate ways in which both narrative product and writing
processes enable women to create spaces, through their writing acts or genre
selected, where she can work with, around, and (sometimes) through her illness,
the diagnosis and the different complexities that may arise. The collection solicits scholarly and hybrid
pieces that bridge body studies, women’s studies, and trauma studies in ways
that focus on how women write their illness and how writing processes and
narrative products establish “spaces” of their own.
deadline for submissions: February 15, 201
email: RnSpear@gmail.com
Framing
Narratives
Boston University’s American and New England Studies
Program is proud to announce a call for papers for its upcoming Graduate
Student Conference to be held on April 13, 2019.
This conference’s theme, “Framing Narratives,” asks
people to think through the establishment, circulation, and contestation of the
stories that "frame" American life. What stories give shape to,
constrain, border, bolster, or animate American visions of selfhood and
community? These might be literal stories (or literal frames!), but could also
be some of the unspoken, but demonstrably real narratives that shore up
national identity.
Please
submit by February 15, 2019 to: amnespconference2019@gmail.com
ADVANCING
Latinas in STEM Academic Careers
May 16-17, 2019 South Padre Island, Texas
Featuring keynote speakers, scholarly presentations,
and interactive sessions/panels, this symposium (funded by the National Science
Foundation) will explore challenges, opportunities, best practices, and lessons
learned regarding the success of Latinas in academic and professional careers
in Science (including Social Science), Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
(STEM) careers. The symposium will also bring STEM Latinas together from
multiple institutions of higher education to collectively share their
experiences.
For full consideration, proposals should be
submitted via the UTRGV NSF INCLUDES online portal by February 25, 2019.
Contact
Email: marci.mcmahon@utrgv.edu
Re-Vision:
Myth, Memory, and the Gendered Self
The University of California, Riverside’s Art
History Graduate Student Association (AHGSA) is pleased to announce the 8th
annual academic conference on Saturday, May 25, 2019.
The goal of this year’s conference is to promote an
interdisciplinary dialogue through visual and material culture by questioning
imposed gendered hierarchies and identities, in order to facilitate inclusive
understanding of gendered roles in myth throughout history. This year’s theme
concerns re-vision – revising, re-conceptualizing, and seeing differently – as
the act of “looking back” to forge new critical directions and critique
androcentric world views and traditions.
Please email an abstract and a CV to ahgsa.ucr@gmail.com by Friday,
March 8, 2019.
Carlotta Falzone Robinson- cfalz001@ucr.edu
Publishing
Feminisms
Publishing Feminisms is a working group that draws
together feminist scholars and practitioners who are working on a variety of
linked projects related to publishing, periodicals, and print culture in and
beyond feminism’s second wave. This group plans to sponsor at least one panel
at the 2019 National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference (Nov. 14-17
in San Francisco) and invites proposals related to the interest group that
engage the conference theme “Protest, Justice, and Transnational Organizing”
and one of the subthemes: Feminist Publishing Across/Crossing Borders; Feminist
Print Cultures out of Bounds; Print Objects: Resisting the Status Quo in
Feminist Publishing; and Building Worlds in Print.
If interested, please send a paper title, a 50-100
word abstract, and a brief cv by February 15 to Agatha Beins at abeins@twu.edu.
Epistemologies
of Memory
King’s College London
Memory studies has in the last three decades quickly
grown from a ‘nascent’ to an established field of study with its own
association, networks and journals to which multiple disciplines in the humanities
and social sciences contribute. However, at the same time, broader debates on
methodology are only starting to emerge. The same is true for the reading of
key authors for memory studies by multiple disciplines. Rarely addressed
epistemological concerns are very often the grounds for those debates and
struggles in this fast extending multidisciplinary field.
300-word
abstracts and a biography of a few lines can be
submitted by e-mail to kclmemorygroup@gmail.com. The deadline for
abstract submission is May 2, 2019.
Thomas Van de Putte: kclmemorygroup@gmail.com
Bridging
Gaps: Re-Fashioning Stories for Celebrity Counterpublics
New York City, August 30 – September 1, 2019
The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS)
Bridging Gaps conference series uses a reflective practice paradigm and asks an
urgent question: Can we learn popular strategies and re-fashion celebrity
stories into tools for public intellectualism and social transformation, in
addition to studying them? The format of the
conference aims at being open and inclusive of interdisciplinary academic
scholars and practitioners involved in all areas of celebrity culture, fandom,
fashion, and journalism. The conference
combines paper presentations, workshop panels, roundtables, slideshows, and
interviews that aim to bridge gaps in celebrity activism, persona branding, and
fashion education. Working papers, media productions, and personal stories will
be considered for the conference.
Abstract deadline: March 18, 2019
Integrative
Healthcare Strategies: Exploring Culture and Practice in Traditional,
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
This conference seeks to create a new discourse on
the practice, history, and culture of traditional, complementary and
alternative medicine by bringing together Integrative medical specialists and
scholars of traditional medical systems such as historians, anthropologists,
and sociologists. We invite proposals for individual papers, complete panels,
and poster presentations that examine the clinical application and/or history,
sociology, anthropology, or culture of T/CAM fields such as (but not limited
to) acupuncture, acupressure, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine,
homeopathy, naturopathy, and Tai Chi.
Please submit proposals by April 1, 2019.
Unwieldy
Archives
May 2-3, 2019, University of Toronto
Archives can be unwieldy institutions. This
conference asks participants to reflect on the relationship between the
archives they use and the histories they write. As historians, how do we deal
with the power and politics of archives? A historian's curiosity as they begin
their archival research can quickly be met with frustration. The archive itself
or particular documents might be destroyed or inaccessible, the silences in the
archive can seem insurmountable, or the documents found in archives might be
unable to capture the ephemerality of the historian's subject of research. How
do historians work around -- and through -- such silences?
Please submit a 250-word proposal and a short
biographical sketch to aghstoronto@gmail.com by
Monday February 25th, 2019.
Documenting
the Archive
University of Chicago, April 26th and 27th, 2019
Documentary film practice inflects and is in turn
also inflected by the theories and practices around the study of the archive.
Documenting the Archive aims to be a forum for theoretical and methodological
interventions in cinema and media studies by invoking the archive’s historical
and theoretical relationship with cinema, especially documentary film practice.
Please email an abstract (250-300 words) along with
a short bio to the organising committee co-chairs Sean Batton, Ritika Kaushik,
and Cinta Pelejà at: documentingthearchive@gmail.com by
February 10, 2019.
Gayness
In Queer Times
University of Brighton, UK, June 13th & 14th2019
Over the past decade the articulation of theory or
politics that is explicitly gay (rather than queer or LGBTQ) has often been
attached to limiting, exclusionary, and oppressive practices, particularly
regarding race and gender. As an unsurprising result, in both academia and
activism ‘gay’ is frequently framed as the normative, assimilationist, and
exclusionary past to queer’s fluid, radical, and inclusive present and future. Yet
critically engaging with what gay andqueer mean (or could mean) nowadays can be
elided precisely because of this problematic juxtaposition. We want to
challenge and interrogate assumptions of how gay can be known and
conceptualised, beyond conflation with / reduction to homosexuality.
Please send abstracts of ~250 words, plus a short
bio, to convenor Ian Sinclair (i.a.sinclair@brighton.ac.uk) by Friday
March 15th2019.
Refugees,
Citizenship, and Belonging: Towards a History of the Present
Drew University, 20-21 September, 2019
he current focus on refugees, and the familiar claim
that we are experiencing a “refugee crisis” is clearly a response to
geo-political events. But it is also a moment in our discursive history. As
such, the present situation calls for a historicization of the major terms and
concepts of our political debate. How have the experience of immigration and
international integration shaped our understanding of national identity? How
have different countries constructed their histories in response to changing
times? We invite papers engaging with the intellectual and cultural history of
the “refugee,” and related topics like home, statelessness, and
extraterritoriality, both from historians and other scholars and from activists
working in the field.
Please send abstracts to Hopper@drew.edu by
April 15, 2019
Liminal
Borders: Constructing and Deconstructing Borders in World History
Cambridge from 17-18 May 2019
This interdisciplinary conference will bring
together graduate students, early career scholars, and activists to investigate
historical and contemporary borders as problematic sites across the globe.
Borders encompass histories, ideologies and conflict; for instance, post-9/11
border intelligence strategies and technologies have had far-reaching
consequences from people (including migrants and refugees) and economies
(trade, international corporations) to emotional rhetoric about fear, security
and difference. History plays a fundamental role in the construction and
dissemination of inclusionary and exclusionary spaces and their interconnected
conceptions of identity, both voluntary and coercive.
Abstract deadline: 10 February 2019. Send 200-300
word abstracts to worldhistoryworkshop@gmail.com.
The
Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders
Philadelphia, PA, October 10-12, 2019
The American Philosophical Society Library invites
scholars in all fields to submit paper proposals for an international and
interdisciplinary conference investigating the power of maps and the politics
of drawing borders. This three-day conference will be held in conjunction with
the APS Museum’s exhibit, Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American
Republic, which traces the creation and use of maps from the mid-eighteenth
century through the early republic to show the different ways in which maps
produced and extended the physical, political, and ideological boundaries of
the new nation while creating and reinforcing structural inequalities.
Applicants should submit a title and a 250-word
proposal along with a C.V. by March 15, 2019 via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/59727.
For more information, visit https://www.amphilsoc.org/, or contact Adrianna
Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at alink@amphilsoc.org.
Rutgers
Annual Global Affairs Conference
The Rutgers University Division of Global Affairs is
pleased to announce the 2019 Annual Global Affairs Conference to be held on
Friday, April 5th, 2019 on the Newark campus.
This year’s conference theme, “Security in International Studies:
Current Considerations, New Directions," aims to address various aspects
of traditional and contemporary issues in security studies in an attempt to
address momentous challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. The
conference agenda will also be focused on expanding and redefining national
security with greater focus on formerly exclusive human security issues such as
climate change, immigration and economic security.
The submission deadline for abstracts is February
22, 2019. Please submit an anonymous abstract of up to 400 words (in PDF or
Word document form) to saga.rutgers@gmail.com.
Vision
as Critique: Studying Visual Culture
Friday, April 26, 2019, Irvine, California
Foregrounding the notions of intermediality,
interdisciplinarity, and intertextuality, this conference proposes
self-reflexive explorations of methods to study visual culture, as well as
critical engagements of the visual in other disciplines. In their necessary
breadth, these theoretical and historical explorations will consider
appropriation, translation, dialogue, and resistance across the arts, media,
and cultural forms. At the end of panel presentations, we would like to conduct
a roundtable discussion on the study visual cultures and its possibilities as a
field. Our inquiry will take steps to define the field in the contemporary
moment and anticipate the next analytical turn.
All materials can be submitted to submissions2019uci@gmail.com.
Materials must be submitted no later than February 18, 2019.
Conference
on Social Sciences and Humanities
We invite you to attend the 12th International RAIS
Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities organized by the Research
Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) which will be held at
Princeton, The Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA, on April 3-4, 2019. The Research Association for
Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) creates an ample research platform for
academics and researchers from all around the world and offers them the
opportunity to create lasting relations for future collaborations. RAIS
encourages academics and researchers to share their experiences and to contribute
to the developing of diverse subjects, offering them the perspective of an
interdisciplinary approach.
Abstract submission deadline: February 18, 2019
Gender
on the Settler Colonial Frontier
The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,
Genders, and Sexualities will be held May 21-23, 2020 at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Maryland.The conference topic is “gendered
environments: exploring histories of women, genders, and sexualities.”
This panel will explore how natural environments
shaped, or were used by, settler colonists during the early settlement period
in Southern Africa and North America, during the nineteenth century. The
comparative model of the panel seeks to draw links between the function of
settler colonialism in two vastly different natural environments, to show what
remains and what changes when people on the edges of empire must use or respond
to the space to which they have come. Panelists who work on Southern Africa
and/or North America are invited to participate.
Please submit a 250 word abstract to Carla Joubert (cjoubert@uwo.ca)
and a 1-page CV. Presentations will be 10 to 15 minutes in length.
Deadline: February 28, 2019
Gender
and Sexuality Studies Conference
The Women's Research Center and BGLTQ+ Student
Center at the University of Central Oklahoma invite proposals for presentations
at the Fourth Annual International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference. The
IGSS conference will be held on 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.
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.
Fashion,
Performance and Photography
Saturday 31st August 2019 – Sunday 1st September
2019, Lisbon, Portugal
Our Global Fashion, Performance and Photography
event will examine the dynamics of all these (and related) fields. In a world
which is experiencing the transforming realities of globalization, with people
engaging at all levels and in diverse ways, the intersections and engagements
created at the interface nexus of these three modes of representation are
paramount. They involve cultural, social, commercial, artistic, financial, and
political issues, and from the bottom to the top can determine power relations,
careers, sexual norms and deviance, and more. This conference aims to consider
ways in which we can re-imagine our practices in relation to others, our
history, and the environment with a view to forming a selective publication to
engender further collaboration and discussion, whilst also continuing the
evolution of the project.
300 word proposals, presentations, abstracts and
other forms of contribution and participation should be submitted by Friday 8th
March 2019.
Enquiries: lisbonfashion@progressiveconnexions.net
Multiverse
Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
October 18-20, 2019, Hilton Atlanta
Multiverse Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
was formed from our belief that great stories don’t only come from the books
and comics we love to read. Each fan is their own universe as well, with their
own unique story to tell. Added together, these infinite stories create the
Multiverse of modern fandom. This Multiverse also informs the creation of works
of speculative fiction; stories in the speculative fiction field encompass
every imaginable academic discipline. In this light, we seek to create a
multidisciplinary academic program that will showcase the innumerable ways
speculative fiction is inspired by various disciplines.
Deadline for Submissions: May 31, 2019
Contact Email: Rhonda Jackson Joseph, Learn@Multiversecon.org
Association
for Political Theory Annual Meeting
University of California, Irvine, October 24th-26th,
2019
The
Association for Political Theory (APT) invites proposals from faculty members,
independent scholars, and ABD graduate students for its annual conference to be
held October 24th-26th, 2019, at the campus of the University of California,
Irvine. We will consider papers on all topics in political theory, political
philosophy and their cognate disciplines, from scholars working in any field at
any institution. We also encourage faculty members to volunteer to serve as
chairs and/or discussants.
Abstracts
of 300-400 words are due by midnight PST on Monday, February 4, 2019 at: https://associationforpoliticaltheory.org/Paper_Proposal_Form
For
questions about the program or proposal guidelines, please contact one of the
Program Committee Co-Chairs, Hagar Kotef (hagar.kotef@soas.ac.uk)
and Neil Roberts (Neil.Roberts@williams.edu).
Mediations: Disability, Technology, and
the Arts
Stanford
University, May 18th, 2019
From
the politics of assistive technologies, to the normative assumptions built into
communicative formats, to the role of ableism in media production, disability
studies in the last decade has further embraced thematic and methodological
approaches from media studies and science and technology studies (STS), moving
beyond the study of representations to better understand the myriad ways that
media and disability intersect. This conference seeks papers to take up the
challenge of exploring the relationship between disability studies, media
studies, and STS. Furthermore, in light of recent scholarship on media and
self-expression, we encourage submissions that examine artistic representations
relating to disability in light of these methodological considerations.
Proposal
Deadline: February 15th, 2019
For
any inquiries, please contact the conference organizers: Frank Mondelli (frankvm@stanford.edu), Brigitte
Pawliw-Fry (bpf@stanford.edu), Anima Shrestha (anshres@stanford.edu), and Rachel
Wallstrom (rjwall@stanford.edu).
Fashion, Style, and Global Culture
Conference
Drexel
University is excited to host the Fashion, Style, & Global Culture
Conference May 16-18, 2019. This conference promises to be an excellent
opportunity for scholars, professionals, and students to engage in the world of
fashion studies, business, and the overall global culture of fashion. The
symposium has an inclusive definition of the term “fashion.” While fashion is
often understood to center on apparel choices, fashion can be recognized as the
current style or way of behaving in any field. Thus, proposals are welcome from
divergent fields such as fine arts, digital media, television, film,
merchandising, fashion design, business, architecture, anthropology, cultural
studies, history, interior design, graphic design, psychology, sociology, and
women’s studies among others to examine interconnections and intersections between
fashion and global culture.
submissions
are due by April 1, 2019
email:
jhh33@drexel.edu
History Graduate Symposium
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.
Energy, Culture and Society in the Global
South
31
May – 1 June 2019, University of Cambridge
At
a moment of global climate crisis, it is necessary to critically analyse energy
systems and their entanglement in social, economic and political realities.
This discussion will develop crucial understanding of the use of alternative
and renewable forms of energy. The conference aims to address the significance
of historically uneven development in determining the different ways energy is
used and conceptualised around the world. As the negotiations of the 2016 Paris
climate accord highlighted, plans for energy transition must also engage with
calls for energy justice. Therefore, this conference will focus on cultures of
energy in the Global South, drawing attention to particular connections between
energy, colonialism and the post-colonial state.
If
you would like to propose a paper for our conference, please submit a completed
application form by 11th of February 2019 on https://goo.gl/forms/LBeFxPIomOvjMcMv2.
More
information about the conference can be found on https://energyconference.home.blog.
Please
do not hesitate to contact the session conveners if you require further
information: energyconference2019@gmail.com.
PUBLICATIONS
Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas
and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants
This
volume focuses on the intersection amid the research on the conformation of
digital diasporas and studies related to public engagement and social activism,
particularly on how social platforms and mobile applications enable the
conformation of virtual communities of Latin American migrants living abroad.
Thanks to spaces of socialization like Facebook closed groups, Bulletin Board
System (BBS), and WhatsApp groups among others, Latin Americans are able to
stay in contact with the culture that they left behind. Members of these groups
share information related to their homeland through discussions of food, music,
celebrations and other cultural elements. This everyday interchange encourages
cohesion and solidarity, and it strengthens the feelings of belonging even when
people may be thousands of kilometers apart. These diasporic virtual
communities are not distant to the struggles in their homelands; on the
contrary, thanks to digital technologies, people from these groups organize
public and virtual demonstrations, thus constructing transnational solidarity
chains to denounce injustices and discrimination in their country(ies).
Please
send the proposal to the following addresses: david.dalton@uncc.eduand david.ramirez@redudg.udg.mx
Deadline
February 17, 2019.
The Politics of Carnival
Special
issue of the Journal of Festive Studies
Most
cultures include one or several carnivalesque events in their ritual calendars.
This is evident in pagan European festivities as much as in African, Asian, and
American festivals. Since the 1970s and the gradual convergence between
anthropology, cultural history, and sociology through the frame of ‘carnival
studies,’ there has been much debate about whether carnival is a liberating
social ritual. Indeed, one can argue that there have always been attempts by
dominant or hegemonic groups to tame and sanitize carnivals, or to eliminate
them altogether. The Journal of Festive Studies will bring together historians,
anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, folklorists and other
specialists of carnival to explore the links between carnival and politics as
showcased by celebrations in Europe, North America, the Caribbean, Latin
America, etc.
All
texts should be between 6,000 and 12,000 words and should be uploaded by March
31, 2019 on the journal's website (https://journals.h-net.org/jfs), along with the
author’s bio and an abstract of c. 250 words. Please contact Ellen Litwkicki (ellen.litwicki@fredonia.edu)
and Aurélie Godet (augodet@yahoo.com)
with any questions.
Video Pedagogy: Theory and practice
As
one of the most diversified technologies, video has offered numerous
opportunities and possibilities for developing effective teaching and learning
contexts. Research shows that video constitutes a critical factor in achieving
learning outcomes, and it is an effective tool for teaching and learning in
various disciplines. Video has proven to have great potential to provide a
number of avenues to facilitate active and blended learning. Studies have shown
the ability of video to engage the learner and activate cognitive and emotional
learning, increase motivation in learning, and have a positive effect on
students’ perceptions towards learning.
If
you are interested in contributing to this book, please send an abstract
(approximately 200 words) to us (to both dilani.gedera@waikato.ac.nz and arezou.zalipour@aut.ac.nz)
by 20 February 2019.
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 March 4 to
Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochk@tulane.edu and/or Dr. Elena
Shabliy eshabliy@tulane.edu.
Women and Gender in American Jewish
History
In
recognition of the 100thanniversary of women’s suffrage, the editors of
American Jewish History are calling for papers on the subject of women and
gender for a special issue of the journal. Please send abstracts of not more
than 300 words, a short bio, as well as any inquiries to the journal managing
editor, Nick Underwood (nunderwood@ajhs.org),
by February 28, 2019.
Aesthetics
The
notions of art, beauty, and the sublime themselves have been subject to
extensive rethinking and reconfiguration. Treading further conceptually,
debates in aesthetics have engaged with the core concepts in the repertoire of
philosophy, such as truth, value, ethics, reality, representation, and form.
While these concepts have illuminated philosophical debates on aesthetics,
philosophy does not have a monopoly over concepts, and these core concepts also
form part of many other domains; moving between discourses, new pathways of
thought—and questions—about aesthetics emerge. the editors of antae welcome complete essay submissions
on or around the topic of Aesthetics. The authorial guidelines are
available on www.antaejournal.com,
and the deadline for submissions to antaejournal@gmail.com is
the 20th of July,
2019.
AI and ubiquitous smart technologies
The
growing pervasiveness of AI and neural networks, the ubiquity of smart devices,
the increasing appification of social worlds and the Internet of Things pose
unique challenges, but also opportunities for philosophy, art and cultural
criticism. How do ubiquitous network technologies enable new forms of
interaction and experience but perhaps compromise others? We seek submissions
that reflect on the complex relationships between contemporary technologies of
connectivity and experience, the aesthetics of the everyday, expression, social
practices and utopias of the future.
Deadline:
31 March 2019
Aesthetics of Heterogeneity
Globalization
has brought the world together by creating a new scope for sharing
commonalities. But human history has always witnessed conflicts among global
communities due to differences. An array of global conflicts has been creating
numerous events of diaspora for the last few centuries. Not only diasporic
event influences the sociopolitical condition of a country, but also it plays a
vital role in reshaping the cultural existence of a social life. Mediation
between identities, ambivalence regarding the self, conforming to the
hybridity, etc. are what diaspora brings to the cultural reality. Inspired by
this dynamic view towards diaspora and its Greek origin speiro meaning “to sow”
or “to disperse,” this issue of the CMA Journal will broadly examine the
multicultural influence on diaspora artworks as well as the issue of the
aesthetics of heterogeneity in the arts.
Submission
deadline: February 18, 2019
Ethics, Errors, & Ethnocentrism in
Social Science Research
Broadly,
the book focuses on the ethical and methodological issues that researchers face
while conducting social research especially on the topics of crime and
victimization. It also includes discussions on ethics of collecting data in
foreign settings and/or with vulnerable populations that may or may not be
aware of their rights. It is especially common in the age of helicopter
researchers, as well as while conducting research in settings where power
equations as well as stereotypes may come into play while exploring topics of
crime and justice.
Submit
outline by 2/15/19 to Dr. Divya Sharma at sharmad@wcsu.edu
ENVIRONMENTAL ARTISTIC PRACTICES AND
INDIGENEITY: IN(TER)VENTIONS, RECYCLING, SOVEREIGNTY
Analysing
creative practices by Indigenous artists, or artists working closely with
Indigenous communities, this pluridisciplinary issue aims to determine how
Indigenous societies perceive and interact with pollution and toxic substances
that affect their environment and territories. The issue examines how
conceptions of waste and its recycling enlightens discourses on Indigenous
sovereignty, and in turn, explores how the notion of sovereignty – as
understood, lived, and defined by Indigenous peoples – informs and influences
artistic practices that respond to contemporary environmental challenges.
This
issue invites contributions addressing all forms of artistic practices in the
tropics of the Pacific, Northern Australia, Indian Ocean Islands, tropical
Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, or the deep
south of the USA. Contributions on the ways the global North of Europe or
America intersects with Indigenous peoples/practices in the tropics are also
welcome.
Submission
deadline: 30 July 2019
For
enquiries or pitching ideas email the special issue editors: Dr
Estelle Castro-Koshy, Australia estelle.castrokoshy@jcu.edu.au;
Dr Géraldine Le Roux, Senior Lecturer, geraldine.leroux@univ-brest.fr
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.
Feminists
are raging. This special issue will
consider our rage as a global, complex phenomenon that mandates
interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis. Rage is historical. Rage can be
deeply exclusionary, recognizable as a legitimate emotion for only a privileged
few. It is an instrument of patriarchy as well as a potential feminist
resource. Rage shapes moral claims for racial justice, movements against gender
violence, and opposition to the global rise of authoritarian regimes. This
special issue seeks to further explore rage as a conundrum, or double agent,
operating both for and against feminism: visceral, transgressive, galvanizing,
and socially constructed.
The
deadline for submissions is September 15, 2019
The
full call for papers and submission instructions are available here: http://signsjournal.org/for-authors/calls-for-papers/#rage
FUNDING
Communal Studies 2019 Prizes
Author
of the best graduate paper or thesis or dissertation chapter will receive $500.
The annual deadline for submissions is 1 March. If sending a thesis or
dissertation chapter, please include a short explanation of how the submission
fits into the larger work. Submissions may come from any academic discipline
and should be focused on a topic clearly related to communal groups or utopias.
Submissions should not be longer than 35 pages and should be sent as an email attachment
to charison@usi.edu.
Deadline:
6 February 2019.
Quaker & Special Collections,
Haverford College
The
Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation Research Fellowship offers
$5,000 to researchers engaging in the study of the history of mental health and
health care, the role of Quakerism in mental health care, and mental health
care reform. The Gest Fellowship offers $2,000 for researchers engaging with
religion, religious community, or historical religious practices; while many
scholars may wish to consult our Quaker collections, the Fellowship is not
limited to Quaker projects.
The
deadline to apply for both fellowships is March 15. Further information on the
application process and materials, as well as when and how research funding can
be used, is available at https://www.haverford.edu/library/quaker-special-collections/fellowships.
Contact
Email: shorowitz@haverford.edu
KCCJEE Graduate Fellowship Application
The
KCC Japan Education Exchange Graduate Fellowships Program was established in
1996 to support qualified PhD students for research or study in Japan. The
purpose of the Fellowship is to support future American educators who will
teach more effectively about Japan. Completed applications and all supporting
materials must be submitted to programs@kccjee.org
no later than 12:00 midnight EST on March 4, 2019.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Fellowships
The
Historical Society of Pennsylvania invites applications for four fellowships,
each of which is intended to support one month of residency in Philadelphia
during the 2019–2020 academic year. Enriched by the holdings of the Balch
Institute for Ethnic Studies, HSP holds more than 19 million personal,
organizational, and business manuscripts, as well as 560,000 printed items and
312,000 graphic images concerning national and regional political, social, and
family history. Its archives richly document the social, cultural, and economic
history of a region central to many aspects of the nation’s development from
colonial times to the 20th century.
Deadline
for receipt of applications is March 1, 2019
Center for the History of Collecting
Fellowships
The
Center for the History of Collecting encourages and supports the awareness and
study of the formation of fine and decorative arts collections in the United
States from Colonial times to the present, as well as in Europe from the
Renaissance onward, while asserting the relevance of this subject to art and
cultural history.
Two
short-term fellowships will be granted for Winter/Spring 2019 (January–June),
one to a junior scholar, and one to a senior scholar. One long-term Leon Levy
Fellowships (one academic semester) will be granted for Winter/Spring 2019.
Application forms for Summer/Fall 2019 fellowships must be e-mailed no later
than February 11, 2019.
Contact
Email: center@frick.org
Research Funding Opportunities
Each
year, the American Historical Association awards several research
grants with the aim of advancing the study and exploration of history
in a diverse number of subject areas. All grants are awarded in June
and may be used anytime in the subsequent 15 months for expenses related to
furthering research in progress. Grants may be used for travel to a
library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; borrowing or
access fees; and similar research expenses—a list of purposes that is meant to
be merely illustrative, not exhaustive (other expenses, such as child care, can
be included). The deadline for research grant applications
is February 15. Please contact awards@historians.org with
questions.
WORKSHOPS
Oral History from the Margins to the
Center: Narrating the Politics of our Times
June
17th until June 28th at Columbia University
The
2019 Summer Institute in Oral History will focus on the challenges we face in
documenting the political present when secrecy and distortions of truth
threaten the most vulnerable in open societies.
What role does public memory and the search for meaning play in rescuing and preserving the stories
that we most need to hear? Specifically,
we will explore what journalists, oral historians, advocates and scholars of
the present can learn from each other, as we sharpen our skills and awareness
of how to document the stories that we most need to record and disseminate.
Priority
deadline: February 28, 2019
For
inquiries, please contact Institute Co-Directors: Mary Marshall Clark (mmc17@columbia.edu) and Terrell
Frazier (tf2292@columbia.edu).
The Prison & the City. Spaces of
Incarceration, Practices of Exclusion, and Public Communication
3-4
October 2019, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine
The
idea of this workshop is to look at prisons as essentially public spaces, which
are part of the urban fabric despite their closed structure. We aim to discuss
penal prisons as a historical microcosm of urban societies and examine their
contemporary re-usage. Historically, modern spaces of incarceration formed a
part of the implementation of penal codices as legal practice, so prisons were
often located close to court buildings. Although peripheral within the 19th
century urban structures, most prisons became central locations in the 20th
century. The workshop invites scholars to explore the dynamics between the
practices of exclusion and the specific web of social relations created among
the inmates and prison administration.
In
order to take part in the workshop please submit abstract (up to 500 words); a
brief CV (1-2 pages) by May 15, 2019 to conferences@lvivcenter.org
RESOURCES
New Historic Marker
Program Celebrates Women’s Suffrage History in United States
The Pomeroy Foundation, which is a private, grant-making
foundation based in Syracuse, N.Y., is providing grants through its National
Women’s Suffrage Marker Grant Program to recognize historically significant
people, places or things across the United States instrumental to women gaining
the right to vote. Historic markers awarded through the program will highlight
sites on the National
Votes for Women Trail (NVWT). The NVWT, a project of the NCWHS,
identifies the many sites that were integral to the suffrage movement, and
makes them accessible on a mobile friendly website to be easily searched by
location, suffragist, ethnicity, and a variety of other useful criteria.
If you have an idea for a historic marker to commemorate
women’s suffrage in your community, please contact your NVWT State Coordinator
to begin the nomination process: https://ncwhs.org/votes-for-women-trail/state-coordinators/.
You can also contact the NCWHS directly: https://ncwhs.org/about/contact-us/.
Contact Email: steve@wgpfoundation.org
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