CONFERENCES
Slow: A Symposium in
Praxis & Theory
MASS MoCA, November 1, 2019.
The Mind’s Eye, a symposium initiative and online journal of
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) in collaboration with
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) invites scholars, critics,
visual artists, creative writers, activists, curators, and other cultural
practitioners to submit abstracts for an interdisciplinary symposium engaging
“slowness” as a praxis and theoretical framework. We are particularly
interested in presentations that engage the topic of “slowness” from an
interdisciplinary approach and welcome speakers from across fields.
Submit proposals to mindseye@mcla.edu by April 15, 2019.
Languages: Power,
Identity, Relationships
This panel explores the power of image culture in shaping
the visual identity of twentieth-century transatlantic vanguardisms. Since the
inception of European experimentalism during the first decades of the twentieth
century, a series of art movements engaged in radical art production that
defied conventions. From the Cubist adoption of multiple viewpoints, through
the Futurist celebration of technology and speed, the Expressionist distortion
of form, to the Dadaist sense of provocation and the irrational juxtaposition
of images in Surrealism, visual art has set precedents for literature on an
international level of exchanges.
By May 31st, 2019, please submit a 300-word abstract in
English or Spanish along with a brief bio and A/V requirements to Leticia Pérez
Alonso (leticia.p.alonso@jsums.edu),
Jackson State University.
Male (Un)Bonding:
Men, Masculinities, and Homosocial Troubles
13-15 June 2019, Bush House, King’s College London
Male (Un)Bonding is a three-day workshop and networking
event bringing together a group for researchers working on the study of
contemporary and historical masculinities from multiple disciplines and
scholarly backgrounds to consider the urgent question of the relationality of
masculinities. How might we build on the foundational work on the topic to
further theorize masculinity beyond identity and to think through the
homosocial relations that produce and resist reactionary positions? How might
destructive forms of masculinity be interrogated and dismantled at formative
sites of masculine performance? Can we identify forms of homosocial
interrelations in and beyond cis/trans and hetero/homosexual spectrums and
binaries, and how might these forms model new ways of being together and social
configurations?
Please send materials to Workshop Leaders at broderick.chow@brunel.ac.uk and eerolain@buffalo.edu by Monday
22 April 2019.
‘Le Deuxième Sexe
Seventy Years On: Reading Beauvoir around the World’
Atlanta, GA, 25-26 October 2019
Seventy years following its publication in France, Simone de
Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (1949) remains a fundamental source of
philosophical feminist knowledge, providing concrete evidence of women’s
societal oppression and delineating the constructed nature of gender through an
existential, phenomenological lens. The aim of this conference will be to bring
together international scholars working at the intersections of Beauvoirian
Studies and Translation Studies in order to trace holistically the
dissemination of Beauvoirian thought on a global scale
Abstract deadline: 31 May 2019
Contact Email: jbullo2@emory.edu
Veganism as Engaged
Anthropological Theory
University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 3-6, 2019
Human domination over all global systems in the anthropocene
has impacted nonhuman animal lives in diverse and wide-reaching ways, from the
mass consumption of meat to the devastation of natural ecosystems. The meat and
dairy industries are sustained by reproductive control and the objectification
of female bodies. Achieving universal gender equality must necessarily involve
the dissolution of these exploitative industries. In addition, the increasing
quantity of meat eaten in the United States is a runaway byproduct of the
ideological legacies of colonialism and imperialism. Veganism can therefore be
a performative feminist and de-colonizing stance that rejects and bears witness
to both human and nonhuman animal injustices.
To be considered for this organized session, please send a
short abstract (200 words) of your proposed paper and a brief biographical
statement by May 1, 2019 to Danielle Raad, draad@umass.edu.
European Social
Science History Conference – Sexuality Network
Leiden, The Netherlands, 18 – 21 March, 2020
The ESSHC Sexuality Network is inviting paper and panel
proposals for its biennial meeting in 2020. Founded in 1998, the Sexuality
Network is Europe’s oldest and only recurrent forum for the presentation of new
work in the history of sexualities from around the globe. It brings together
both junior and senior scholars of sexual history from a wide range of
countries, and is neither restricted to European topics, nor to European
historians.
In recognition of the growing need for non-Western,
transnational, transcontinental and global perspectives, the 2020 edition is
especially interested in papers and panels that focus on exchanges, networks and
developments across cultural and international borders. In recognition of the
need to understand gender beyond the binary, the Network also encourages
ground-breaking work on trans, intersex, and non-binary gender history in
previously unstudied contexts and settings.
Abstract deadline: April 15
With regard to the Sexuality Network in particular, please
contact its chairs:
Chiara Beccalossi (cbeccalossi@lincoln.ac.uk)
Wannes Dupont (wannes.dupont@yale-nus.edu.sg)
Julie Gammon (j.gammon@soton.ac.uk)
25 Years of Zapatismo
Across Time and Space / Años de Zapatismo através del tiempo y el espacio
California State University Los Angeles, April 26 and 27,
2019
We invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables,
workshops, art projects, performances, installations, booths, dialogues, and
other activities related to the Zapatista movement and to movements and organizations
that are inspired by it. We welcome proposals from students, artists,
organizers, activists, independent scholars, and faculty.
To participate, please submit a short description of your
proposal to las@calstatela.edu by April
5.
Mobilities &
Immobilities: Histories of Modern Migration to and in the Americas
This workshop will convene on Thursday, September 12th and
Friday, September 13th at Harvard University.
Questions of migration are being debated across the globe
with alarming urgency. Yet, contemporary forms of migration and the debates
that arise from them are underscored by historical processes often rooted in
concerns related to race, gender, sexuality, labor, class, and the state. This
workshop aims to pull together scholars committed to the study of migration to
and in the Americas during the modern period. In this regard, we hope to
facilitate a larger conversation that underscores the various historical
concerns that have produced mobility for some and immobility for others, and,
at times, sustained shifting relations between mobility and immobility.
Interested applicants should submit a 400-word proposal in
PDF format by May 15th to historiesofmodernmigration@gmail.com.
Visualizing the Self
in Flux
25th - 26th October 2019, Pennsylvania State University
The Liberal Arts Collective invites scholars and
professionals to submit presentation proposals around issues of visuality and
the self in flux, the self in search of
identity, in transformation, or the self which is in process. We borrow the word
flux from metallurgy where it is used as an agent to promote melting and
de-oxidize the surface of a metal so that it can be joined with another metal
in the process of soldering or welding. Likewise, we hope to encourage flow between
disciplines and promote discussion on transformative processes. How can this process of joining, via the
agent flux, be applied to thinking of identity formation and the self in visual
and literary forms?
The deadline for the submission of paper and panel proposals
will be April 5th at 11:59pm EST.
Please submit all proposals and direct any inquiries to libarts.co@gmail.com.
Indigenous Studies, Midwest
Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association
10-13 October 2019, Cincinnati, OH
The Indigenous Studies Area of the Midwest Popular Culture
Association calls for papers, abstracts, and panel proposals for the annual
Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference.
Abstracts may address any aspect of Aboriginal, First Nations, Maori, Sami, and
other Indigenous popular cultures. In addition, the area highly encourages
comparative papers between Indigenous and, say, Asian, Latin American, Pacific
Islander, or African popular cultures.
Proposal deadline: April 30
Send questions and inquiries to the Area Chair, Anthony Adah
at tony.adah@gmail.com
URL: http://mpcaaca.org/
Jewish Ghosts:
Haunting and the Haunted in Literature and Culture
CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University, October 30th
and 31st, 2019
Throughout literature, art and culture, haunting is tapped
to figure a number of topics. It seems to recur in works by or referring to
Jews. This conference will explore the many renditions of haunting which appear
in the Jewish imaginary and in the imagination of Jews. What do these specters,
haunted spaces and ghostly objects symbolize? How do they help or harm Jewish
identity? What do they indicate about Jewish concepts of time and history? Has
the shape of these Jewish hauntings altered over time? How might haunting act
as a critical lens for understanding the Jewish experience? This conference
aims at an inter-disciplinary look at this trope as it arises in a number of
fields from the 19th century to the present day, including history, art,
literature, religious studies and psychology.
Deadline: April 28th, 2019
Contact Email: JewishHaunting@gmail.com
PUBLICATIONS
Female Death Work and
Feminist Deathways in the American South
This call for papers, tentatively entitled Female Death Work
and Feminist Deathways in the American South, is for an edited volume that focuses
specifically on the history of women, gender, and death in the American South
to be published by an academic press. Recent scholarship has demonstrated that
the South does indeed possess a unique history of death and dying. Southern
terrain and climate, western expansion and forced migrations, the centrality of
slavery, the cultural impact of African cosmologies and social practices, the
Civil War and Reconstruction, white terrorism, the globalization of the
American South, and a distinct and uneven shift toward modern industry and
institutions all worked to produce regionally-marked mortality rates and
southern deathways. This volume will build on such scholarship with a sharpened
focus on the role of women and gender in shaping the southern history of death.
Deadline for Submissions: September 1, 2019
Address All Questions, Submissions, etc. to: femaledeathwork@gmail.com
Art, Activism, and
the Pursuit of a Better Life
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. Adding urgency to this trend, the Trump
administration’s recent travel ban prompted MOMA to rehang part of its
permanent collection with work by artists from the seven targeted nations.
Following a fractious election year and in the face of an uncertain
political/social future, it seems protest has again been mobilized, and with it
the art of activism, as gestures of aesthetic resistance are endowed with a
renewed sense of energy and purpose.
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?
Inquiries and submissions should be sent to Wendy Chase
at wendy.chase@fsw.edu and
Elijah Pritchett at elijah.pritchett@fsw.edu.
Gender and Sexuality
in Critical Animal Studies
A growing number of scholars, activists, and concerned
citizens have come forth to advocate for those who struggle to secure equity,
inclusion, and justice. This book contributes to this struggle by highlighting
the interests of nonhuman animals related to gender and sexuality issues.
Critical analysis such as this has the potential of operating as a powerful
force for countering the stigmas that continue to oppress nonhumans. Thus my
aim in creating this book is to demonstrate that critical commentary can create
content that is inclusive and empowering for nonhumans.
Contact Email: Drambergeorge@gmail.com
Submit abstracts here: https://goo.gl/forms/e58DjFeVJPCBh3Nx1
Activism in the Name
of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth
Century to the Present
The volume’s goal is to present an historical and rhetorical
trajectory of black female religious public intellectuals from the nineteenth
through the twenty-first century and thus seeks papers that will demonstrate
these women’s efficacy in calling for and effecting social change. The editor
welcomes proposals from scholars in various fields whose interests are aligned
with the issues outlined above. These primarily include African American
Studies (and history), religious
studies; and disicplinary fields such as feminist, gender, and sexuality
studies and rhetorical history
Interested authors
should submit to jami.carlacio@yale.edu the following for consideration, by May
15, 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 April 22 to
Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochk@tulane.edu and/or
Dr. Elena Shabliy eshabliy@tulane.edu.
Comics and Graphic
Novels
Paradoxa Volume 32
In recent decades, the increasing critical recognition of
comics as a legitimate artistic and literary genre has spawned the creation of
several significant international events, such as the Angoulême International
Comics Festival (France) and the Lucca Comics and Games convention (Italy),
helping to further break down barriers and to bring national traditions into
ever closer contact. What can a transnational analysis of the development of
comics and graphic novels teach us about the nature of the genre? Do the
exchanges and circulations (of authors, characters, styles, subjects,
publishing formats…) between national traditions allow for a rewriting of the
evolution of graphic narratives, outside of nation-based or linguistic models?
500-word abstracts of article proposals or questions
regarding this project should be sent to frigerio@dal.ca by
September 1, 2019.
URL: http://paradoxa.com/
Urban Gaming in the
Smart, Creative, and Sustainable City
This proposed edited collection seeks papers that examine
intersections between game studies, play studies, urban geography and other
related disciplines. We seek contributions from scholars, artists, urbanists
and commentators that explore the ways urban games, play and playfulness can
connect with contemporary urban policy discourses that often ignore or overlook
them. These discourses include the economic exigencies of the "creative
city"; the environmental strategies of "the sustainable city";
and the technological optimization envisioned by the "smart city."
Contributions may include comparative case studies, such as those that examine
how specific urban games complicate, contradict, or complement visions of the
near-future city as seamless, responsive, and adaptable to the challenges of
urban life and infrastructural management.
Please submit along with CV by April 20th for consideration.
Contact Email: mowens@berkeley.edu
Crisis: Predicament
and Potential
Aigne, 2019/2020 Issue
Crisis is a concept which often has strong negative
connotations, particularly in a world experiencing a series of economic,
political, and social crises within various contexts, territories, and
vocations. While crisis and predicament seem to have an intuitive connection,
crisis is also a catalyst for invention and innovation: for potential. Crisis
encourages us to experiment with both reshaped and unprecedented paradigms,
even in uncertain or turbulent scenarios which could appear transgressive at
the time presented. It is important to value and understand, in the context of
new emerging mind-sets, the potential of these transformations and the impact
they could have for the world we live in.
Abstract Deadline April 19th, 2019
Email to: aigne@ucc.ie.
Historical
Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (HRRH) has
established a well-deserved reputation for publishing high quality articles of
wide-ranging interest for over forty years. The journal, which publishes
articles in both English and French, is committed to exploring history in an
interdisciplinary framework and with a comparative focus. Historical approaches
to art, literature, and the social sciences; the history of mentalities and
intellectual movements; the terrain where religion and history meet: these are
the subjects to which Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques is devoted.
Send submissions and complete contact information to the
editor, Elizabeth Macknight at e.macknight@abdn.ac.uk.
“What the Hell is
Going On?”: Essays on Faith & Theology in the Zombie Apocalypse
The editors seek original essays for an edited collection on
the place of theology and belief in the context of the zombie apocalypse. This
collection will address the function of faith and belief more broadly within
existing and forthcoming zombie media. The evolving zombie studies space
addresses many facets of human behavior and action in the post-apocalyptic
landscape, but few address the presence of belief—ranging from how organized
religion survives (or evolves) amidst zombies, how survivors cope with
lingering spirituality or a desire to believe, or even how zombies themselves
might express “faith” or “belief” in a post-human environment.
Preference will be given to abstracts received before June
30th, 2019.
Contact us and send abstracts to Ashley and Simon at theologyofzombies@gmail.com.
Boyhood Studies - An
Interdisciplinary Journal
Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a
peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the discussion of boyhood, young
masculinities, and boys’ lives by exploring the full scale of intricacies,
challenges, and legacies that inform male and masculine developments. Boyhood
Studies is committed to a critical and international scope and solicits both
articles and special issue proposals from a variety of research fields
including, but not limited to, the social and psychological sciences,
historical and cultural studies, philosophy, and social, legal, and health
studies.
Contact Email: boyhoodstudies@gmail.com
Calls for Papers, Funding Opportunities, and Resources, March 9, 2019
The Western History
Association Scholarships, Fellowships, Honors
Sara Jackson Graduate Student Award
In recognition of Sara Jackson’s commitment to minority
students and graduate research, the WHA provides an annual award of $500 in
support of graduate student (M.A. or Ph.D.) research on the North American
West.
WHA-Huntington Library Martin Ridge Fellowship
In recognition of Martin Ridge's long service to both the
Western History Association and The Huntington Library, this $3500, one-month
research fellowship at The Huntington Library has been established in his
honor. Eligible applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent or be a doctoral
student at the dissertation stage.
Walter Rundell Award
In recognition of the late Walter Rundell, Jr.’s commitment
to graduate education in the field of Western History, the Western History
Association offers a graduate student award for $1500.
All deadlines: June 15
Contact Email: westernhistoryassociation@gmail.com
Resident Fellowship
at the Summer Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Applications for a week-long intensive academic career
development program are invited from junior scholars who have received their
PhD degrees after 2013. Eight scholars
in a range of disciplines will be selected from a pool of international
applicants. Scholars will engage with
leading Chinese studies faculty to make creative use of new media to produce
public knowledge about Chinese society, culture, and history and develop
research-based expertise in teaching.
Selected fellows will come to the University of Pittsburgh to join a
team of international faculty for one week, May 26th – June 1st, 2019.
Applications, including a letter with details on teaching
and research experience, a CV, a draft syllabus, and the names and contact
information of two referees must be submitted no later than April
10th to Dr. Joseph S. Alter at asia@pitt.edu. Early applications are strongly
encouraged.
LSU Libraries Special
Collections Research Grant
The LSU Libraries is offering research travel grants of
$1000 each to support the work of researchers who use the rich holdings of the
LSU Libraries Special Collections. The purpose of the grant is to support a
researcher’s travel and lodging costs associated with a research trip to Baton
Rouge, LA. Graduate level, post-doctoral, faculty and independent researchers
who live outside the Baton Rouge area are encouraged to apply.
Application deadline: April 30, 2019
Email special@lsu.edu with
any questions about the research travel grants.
Robert J. Dole
Institute of Politics Funding
For more information about the awards and application
details, please visit http://dolearchives.ku.edu/grants.
Research Fellowship
The Dole Archive and Special Collections is now accepting
applications for the 2019 Research Fellowship.
Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars are eligible to apply for
this $2,500 award, which will support substantial contributions to the study of
Congress, politics, or policy issues on a national or international scale.
Applications must be received in whole on or before May 31,
2019.
Travel Grants
The Dole Archive and Special Collections is now accepting
applications for 2019 Travel Grants. The
travel grant program is intended to defray costs associated with
research-related travel to the Dole Institute.
This program offers reimbursements of up to $750 to undergraduate and
graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and independent scholars.
There is no deadline to apply, and applications will be
accepted until funds are exhausted.
Coordinating Council
For Women In History 2019 Awards
CCWH Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Award 2019
The winning article for 2019 must be published in a refereed
journal in either 2016 or 2017. An article may only be submitted once. All fields of history will be considered.
CCWH Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship 2019
The Coordinating Council for Women in History Ida B. Wells
Graduate Student Fellowship is an annual award of $1000 given to a graduate
student working on a historical dissertation that interrogates race and gender,
not necessarily in a history department.
CCWH Catherine Prelinger Memorial Award 2019
The Coordinating Council for Women in History will award
$20,000 to a scholar, with a Ph.D. or has advanced to candidacy, who has not
followed a traditional academic path of uninterrupted and completed secondary,
undergraduate, and graduate degrees leading to a tenure-track faculty position.
Although the recipient’s degrees do not have to be in history, the recipient’s
work should clearly be historical in nature
The deadline for the awards is 2 April 2019. Please go to www.theccwh.org for membership and online
application details.
