CONFERENCES
Waste not, Want not:
Food and thrift from antiquity to the present
Thursday 12th and Friday 13th September 2019 University of
Cambridge
This day-and-a-half conference will bring together academics
and professionals working within the interdisciplinary fields of food studies
and food sustainability research, to reflect on past and present attitudes
towards food preservation and waste. Part of an ongoing historiographical
effort to better understand consuming behaviours through time, the conference
aims to open up a dialogue between historians and policy makers. Using both
past and present as critical lenses, the event will serve as a platform for the
discussion of more sustainable food practice in the present and future.
Abstracts of 300 words max. should be emailed to foodandthrift@yahoo.com by
the deadline 31st May 2019.
Slow: A Symposium in
Praxis and Theory,
MASS MoCA on 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.
Efficiency, immediate results, short term profits: these are
driving forces of modernity. Meanwhile, slowness may connote laziness,
wastefulness, and lack of planning. Our obsession with speed in a highly
specialized, industrialized, and digitalized age is narrowly driven by the
demands of capitalism, which consigns “slowness” to the bin of unwanted qualities.
However, key aspects to our development and survival as a species demand time
and commitment. Human relationships are gradual to foster; changes brought by
social movements happen by degrees; scientific breakthroughs are proceeded by
extensive research; art-making calls for continual practice and renewal.
For panels and roundtables, please submit 600-word
abstracts and a brief bio for each participant. Submit proposals to mindseye@mcla.edu by May 1, 2019.
Memories that Move:
Pasts and Presents of Colonial Infrastructure
Nairobi, 24–26 October 2019
Remnants of colonial infrastructure are plainly visible all
over Africa. Urban centres are marked by colonial architecture; old railway
lines have become heritage sites and are now preserved in museums; schools and
universities still bear the stamp of European education systems; and colonial
borders continue to matter on the continent to this day. While legacies of
colonial town planning, such as statues and residential segregation, are highly
controversial, other aspects of colonial infrastructure are remembered with
appreciation. Still others appear so mundane and quotidian that their pasts
have hardly received any attention. Decades after independence, the memory of
colonialism and its tangible and intangible manifestations remain deeply
ambivalent and often reveal perplexing contradictions.
Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words along with
a short CV to Norman Aselmeyer (norman.aselmeyer@eui.eu)
by 12 May 2019.
Spoofing the Vampire:
What We Do in the Shadows and the Comedic Vampire
Editors Bacon and Szanter seek original essays for an edited
collection on What We Do in the Shadows (2014) and the Comedic Vampire. While
the majority of films, television series, comics, games and books portray the
vampire as a deeply dramatic, Gothic figure, there are many examples of the
vampire and its generic trappings as a source of comedy. The vampire is nothing
other than egalitarian in its targets choosing political, sexual, social and
religious topics to lampoon, as well as innocent children, lovelorn teenagers,
and the nostalgic elderly, the comedic vampire has spread its bat wings and
taken a pretty bumpy flight into our homes and canons. This collection will
explore the figure of the comedic vampire in all its incarnations and the
implications of taking a beloved dramatic figure a little less seriously.
Preference will be given to abstracts received before Friday
26th July 2019.
Contact us and send abstracts to spoofingthevamp@gmail.com
Sexual and Gendered
Violence
Sunday 1st December 2019 – Monday 2nd December 2019, Prague,
Czech Republic
Sexual and gendered violence affects individuals,
communities and societies alike. Present in all cultures and walks of life, it
can ruin lives, destroy families, break trust and encumber economies. And yet,
while the effects can be devastating, stories of resilience and empowerment
exist. We welcome any relevant and insightful contribution, from classic
presentations to proposals for workshops, topics for debates, panels or round
tables, brainstorming sessions for creating policy materials or research
instruments, sharing of event-appropriate professional or personal experience, all
the way to meaningful forms of artistic expression (film, poetry, photography
exhibitions etc.)
300 word proposals for participation should be submitted by
Friday 31st May 2019.
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the
Organising Chair and the Project Administrator:
Kristine Seitz: kristine@kristineseitz.com
Project Administrator: praguesgv@progressiveconnexions.net
Project Administrator: praguesgv@progressiveconnexions.net
GET UP, STAND UP:
THEMES OF PROTEST IN LITERATURE, FILM, AND MUSIC
Panel for the South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Conference: November 8–10, 2019
Elie Wiesel believes that “We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence
encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” With these words in mind,
this panel invites abstracts for papers that consider themes of protest in
literature, film, and music. Prospective panelists may consider, but are
not limited to, texts from authors such as W. E. B. Du Bois and James Baldwin,
the impact of larger movements such as the Beats, and/or films like Fahrenheit
451 and V for Vendetta. Speakers may also examine
lyrics and music from musicians and groups such as the Ramones, Bob Marley, The
Beach Boys, and the Geto Boys. What is the continued relevance of these
voices? Who has picked up these ideas and continues to speak in opposition
to our oppressors? Please submit abstracts to William Nesbitt at wnesbitt@beaconcollege.edu along
with a brief biographical statement and any A/V requirements.
deadline for submissions: June 2, 2019
Radical Immersions: Navigating
between virtual/physical environments and information bubbles
Watermans Arts Centre (London), 8-10 September 2019
Over the past years, immersive technologies have been hyped
as consumer gadgets, entertainment media and the future of exhibition
practices. The free distribution of VR headsets with smartphones and the
increasing interest of museums, festivals and other cultural organisers towards
‘immersive digital content’ have quickly turned VR and AR devices and
applications into widely recognized cultural artefacts. Meanwhile, social media
platforms enable the formation of communities where members immerse themselves
in alternate networks of signification in which conspiracy theories are
embedded in seemingly consistent information clouds. The Digital Research in
the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) conference 2019 will examine these two perspectives
on immersion in digital culture, and aims to identify some of their broader
ideological frameworks as well as develop detailed insights into the workings
of specific technologies in relation to their promises.
Please submit your abstracts and work proposals by 30 April
2019
Contact: http://www.2019.drha.uk/contact/
Music and the
Visionary
27-28 September 2019, University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon,
Canada)
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore
relationships between music and the visionary beyond the notion of the
innovative composer as a prophet figure. By examining how the visionary aspect
of music relates to performance and social practice and how it is represented
or theorized in works from music and other disciplines, this conference invites
a broad range of approaches and musical traditions.
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words and a separate
biography of 50-100 words (attached as doc or pdf files) to amanda.lalonde@usask.ca. The deadline
for submissions is 24 May 2019.
For more information, please see the conference website: https://artsandscience.usask.ca/music/musicandthevisionary.php
Law, Difference, and
Healthcare
The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies and
the Department of History at Princeton University is hosting a conference and
workshop on “Law, Difference, and Healthcare: Making Sense of Structural Racism
in Medico-Legal History.” This workshop shall convene graduate students,
post-doctoral researchers, and faculty who employ historical methodologies in
their work. Our focus will be to examine the qualities and conditions that have
produced the spaces, laws, and legalities that structure racism in medicine,
healthcare, public health, and related social policy. In recent decades, many
of these areas have been addressed through studies of the construction of
“race” and genomics, specific diseases, clinical medicine, and medical
institutions.
Our gathering will be held from Thursday to Friday afternoon
of June 6—7, 2019. Conference contributions are geared toward the production of
an edited volume. Paper abstract proposals for this open call for papers are
due May 1st
Contact Email: aumoithe@princeton.edu
Alternative
Realities: New Challenges for American Literature in the Era of Trump
Friday 13 – Saturday 14 December 2019, Clinton Institute for
American Studies, University College Dublin
After the election of Donald Trump in 2016 it feels like,
once again, reality is outpacing fiction, with the Trump presidency
inaugurating a new stage in the process of aestheticization in which politics
and entertainment converge as never before. This paradigm shift—which is not
exclusive to the US, but that is especially acute given Trump’s celebrity
status and his leadership style—has been sharpened by the disruptive impact of
new and social media in the public sphere, bringing to the fore concomitant
concerns about the derealization of political and cultural discourses. In a
context where the relationship between fact and fiction has been deeply
destabilized, writers are challenged to make sense of this new “American
reality” that is troubling core assumptions about the purpose and value of
literature.
The deadline for paper and panel proposals is 1st September
2019
Contact Email: dolores.resano@ucd.ie
Universities Studying
Slavery 2019 Fall Symposium: The Academy’s Original Sin
October 9-12, 2019, Xavier University & The University
of Cincinnati
This symposium encourages collaboration among—and unites
scholars from—a broad range of colleges and universities to better understand
the role of enslaved people and their relation to higher education. Slavery’s
legacy in the American academy is demonstrated in myriad ways, from
African-American access to higher education and discussions surrounding
reparative justice, to racism and discrimination within academe and battles to
rename places/spaces on college campuses nationwide. The Fall 2019 Symposium continues the
conversation, focusing on the enslavement of people of African descent and how
that enslavement manifested itself in the development of U.S. educational
institutions. Moreover, it will directly
question these complicated legacies.
Please email an abstract of the proposed paper/presentation
(limit 500 words) and CV to USS2019XUC@xavier.edu by
July 1, 2019
The Conflict of the
Faculties: Scarcity and Competition in Higher Education
Liberal arts programs today are often underfunded and
underenrolled, while professional programs may command the greatest share of
the university’s resources and, increasingly, attract the greatest number of
students. Traditionally, the liberal
arts have been a part of every university education, but funding shortfalls and
a shift in educational priorities have redefined the liberal arts as a mere
embellishment of the more practical knowledge taught in professional
programs. This has led to what seems
like intractable conflicts between the aims of a traditional liberal arts
education (sparking intellectual curiosity, cultivating the love of learning,
and fostering intellectual capacities that are critical for citizenship) and
the more limited economic aims of training and credentialing students for the
work force. Is there a way to minimize
or avoid this conflict? Can the diverse faculties of the contemporary
university rediscover common ground? At
the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Values in Higher Education, we are
seeking to move beyond the standard and sometimes stale arguments to transform
the familiar conflict of the faculties into a productive debate.
Deadline to submit – May 15, 2019
Contact Email: bain-selbo@svhe.org
Rise Up, Take a Knee: Popular Culture and Protest in
Decolonizing Societies
Utrecht, 27-28 June
2019
Sports, music, and
film generate engagement, passion, and enjoyment. Yet scholars and fans alike
have sometimes seen them as ‘pure’ entertainment existing alongside or even
outside of politics. This workshop will explore what happens when figures and
pop culture products challenge attempts to ‘keep politics out’ of sports,
music, and popular entertainment. The
workshop seeks to build upon work done by artists, sportspeople, filmmakers,
and academics that shows how entertainment and racial exclusion are linked. We
call for papers that examine the connections between popular culture,
race-making, empire and politics. Often colonial subjects or racially marked
citizens have been allowed/expected to excel in sports, music, and performance.
But that acceptance has been conditional.
Deadline For Papers:
April 22nd 2019
See our website for
more information: https://decolonisationgroup.wordpress.com/.
For any further
information please don't hesitate to contact myself as administrative support
for the project on l.r.boyne@students.uu.nl or
Rachel Gillett on r.a.gillett@uu.nl.
Across Colonial Lines: Empires, Commodities and Movements
We are pleased to
invite abstracts to Across Colonial Lines: Empires, Commodities and Movements,
at the University of Leeds on 18th September 2019. This one-day conference
focuses on how commodities circulated within and between Empire(s), with the
aim of exploring how these movements affected the Empire and its parts. Using a
broad definition of ‘commodities’, this conference brings together scholars of
empire and commodity over a broad historical time-period. With a series of
panels, a keynote speech and a roundtable discussion, we hope to explore new
methodologies and research ideas collectively, to generate new perspectives on
commodities in the imperial context.
Deadline for
Abstract Submission: 10 June 2019
To submit your
abstract please send your paper title, abstract (250-300 words) and a short bio
(150 words) in MS-word format to leedscommodityconference@gmail.com
For any enquiries
regarding the conference, please contact Emily Webb or Purba Hossain at leedscommodityconference@gmail.com.
Space, Place, and the
Spirit of Material Culture
The Communal Studies Association, October 17 to 19, 2019, Winterthur
Museum, Garden & Library Winterthur, Delaware
Human creativity shapes and reshapes the material world in
many ways. This year’s conference theme is meant to underscore the role of
material culture in intentional communities and its link to the creation of
objects and spaces within a community, the making of places where intentional
communities can be found, and the ideological, spiritual, and material values
that are expressed in the objects and landscapes a community makes, owns, uses,
or alters. We are looking for studies that focus on how belief and ideology
writ broadly create, reflect, and reinforce material culture in intentional
communities, and conversely how that material culture creates, influences,
promotes, or obstructs an ideology or way of life. How do communities design
their own material existence, even if their primary goals are spiritual? How do
success and failure in the realm of the material affect the existence and
success or failure of the communities themselves?
The deadline for submission of proposals is May 20, 2019
email: slbrown@fau.edu
Beyond
Globalizations?
The GSA is holding its annual conference at the University
of Northampton, with the theme 'Beyond Globalizations?'. The key note speaker
will be Barry Gills (editor of the journal Globalizations). We welcome paper
proposals from scholars at all career stages. Themes could include but are by
no means limited to Slow growth & de-growth alternatives; Global challenges
(economic, ecological, social, etc.); The future of global studies; Anti-cosmopolitanism?
Trump, Brexit, etc.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, along with
a short 150-word bio, to GlobalStudiesAssociationUK@gmail.com.
Please send abstracts by Tue 30th April 2019.
Teaching Popular
Culture
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will be
having its annual conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire this year. And I'm looking for interesting and unique
proposals around teaching and popular culture.
This area focuses on how to teach popular culture, which may include
sharing unique approaches to teaching courses focused specifically on “popular
culture”; teaching courses on an area within popular culture (e.g. courses that
focus on the content and cultural aspects–not necessarily the “how-to” aspects
of comics, video games, horror, Harry Potter, baseball, The Beatles, etc);
teaching mainstream courses using popular culture (e.g. baseball statistics for
explaining, statistics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer for explaining political
theory, Star Trek for exploring biology).
The deadline for applications is June 1, 2019.
Contact Email: lance.eaton@gmail.com
URL: http://nepca.blog
Visualizing the Self
in Flux
25th - 26th October 2019, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park
The Liberal Arts Collective at the Pennsylvania State
University, University Park campus 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. This conference encourages
submissions that reflect on visuality in these spaces of in-betweenness,
contradiction, process, becoming, and spaces of metamorphosis.
The deadline for the submission of paper and panel proposals
will be Friday, April 26th at 11:59pm EST.
Please submit all
proposals and direct any inquiries to libarts.co@gmail.com
Virtuous suffering:
New perspectives on the Ethics of Suffering for Critical Global Health and
Justice
Two-day workshop at Leiden University: 16-17 September 2019
Can suffering be positive? Currently dominant discourses,
primarily voiced through human rights activism and humanitarianism, maintain
the opposite: suffering, mentally and
physically, has to be avoided and where it exists, it has to be reduced. Global
public health approaches are at the frontline of this fight against suffering.
Within and beyond public health, researchers from a range of disciplines have
inquired into the human experience of suffering, primarily focusing on its
negative dimensions, even though some have argued for the importance of going
beyond the suffering subject in order to look for resilience. But what if
people do not want to avoid suffering? The workshop will build on scholarship
(in anthropology) on ethics and moralities that articulate the productive
potential of failure and suffering and critical (historical) scholarship of
human rights, humanitarianism, social justice and global health.
If you wish to participate in the workshop, please send an
abstract of about 350 words and a short CV no later than 15 May to the
following email address: rethinkingdisability@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Together We RISE:
Reaching Inclusivity for Student Excellence - Call for Proposals
Friday October 11, 2019, Eastern Illinois University
A signature AAC&U initiative, Making Excellence
Inclusive is designed to explore how colleges and universities can fully
utilize the resources of diversity to achieve academic excellence for all
students.
The annual RISE conference provides faculty and staff the
strategies and tools to support students' academic success. The conference is
also designed to raise awareness of the diverse challenges our students face,
whether as members of underrepresented groups, as first-generation college
students, as non-traditionally aged students, or as students with disabilities.
Email proposals to Jim Howley at RISE@eiu.edu by
June 1, 2019.
Integrative Healthcare Strategies: Exploring Culture and
Practice in Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine
September 21, 2019, Utica
College
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.
For more information or to submit proposals please
visit www.utica.edu/ihs. Please
submit proposals by May 1, 2019.
Contact Email: dwittner@utica.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Digital Wellness
Since its inception, the digital humanities has considered
the question “what is it to be human in relation to machines in the digital
age?” This issue of Open Information Science asks for papers that consider how
we can understand “digital wellness” as part of the ongoing inquiry into what
acts, representations, and understandings exist around human-ness in the
digital era. Particularly, this volume
seeks to explore the possibilities of digital wellness provided through a range
of disciplines and forms. We invite papers which consider architectures,
platforms, and diverse disciplinary engagements with the opportunities and
challenges surrounding digital wellness.
Please send 1-2 page Abstracts by June 1, 2019 to vkarno@uri.edu.
Contact Email: Lukasz.Gworek@degruyter.com
The Documentary
Moment
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed
quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages
submissions from scholars, writers, documentarians, and visual and sound
artists for our second special Documentary Issue, to be published Spring 2020.
We are looking for work that examines and understands the
“documentary moment,” using the idea of “moment” to refer to both the decisive
instant of documentary image making and the sense of urgency we often feel to
document a very present experience of political and social friction in the
American South. Important stories need to be documented and shared, and yet it
is equally important that we explore new ways of telling these stories, if only
to break the cycle of documentary work that can be curiously neutralized by its
own conventions.
We will be accepting submissions for this special issue
through June 9, 2019, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/Submit.
Transnational
Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts
Current nation-state narratives and rising new nationalisms
demand that the politics of access to space is reconsidered and renegotiated.
Contributions to this volume are invited that focus on ways in which women’s
contemporary art practice and female agency disrupts borders and activates
concerns around different forms of belonging, citizenship and transnationalisms.
We are particularly keen to include contributions that address those
perspectives from a globally versatile range and we invite proposals that focus
on practices from the southern continents of Africa, Latin America, the Middle
East, Australia or the Indian subcontinent.
The deadline for submitting a 300 word proposal, together
with 100 word bio, is May 31st 2019.
Contact Email: catherine.dormor@rca.ac.uk
Confronting Critical
Equity and Inclusion Incidents on Campus: Lessons Learned and Emerging Practices
Seeking contributors for a new edited volume. This volume is
a collection of critical incidents that have occurred over the last five years
featuring failed diversity moments, the lessons they offer, and the
possibilities for engendering change in higher education spaces. This text will
feature first person narratives, offering readers the opportunity to experience
and explore current DEI challenges, faultlines, and opportunities for change,
while also proposing solutions borne of theory and practice.
Due date: June 28, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. central time
Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word using a
12-point font with APA citation format. Submissions should be double-spaced and
must be between 3500 to 5500 words (including references).
Contact Email: Hannah.Oliha.Donaldson@Ku.edu
Place, Memory &
Justice: Critical Perspectives on Sites of Conscience
A special issue of Space & Culture
Sites of Conscience, as a global movement to reclaim and
reinterpret places of human suffering and injustice as sites of memory,
encourages reflection on how a geographically situated and specific set of past
events have broader relevance to contemporary debates about democracy, human
rights and social justice. This special issue of Space and Culture will bring
together scholars, practitioners and activists to engage with sites of
conscience who are interested in such sites in terms of social spaces. We are
particularly interested in papers which consider how sites of conscience
situate history, memory, politics, temporality, law, ethics and justice within
a spatial framework.
1 September 2019: deadline for abstracts (500 words) and
bios (200 words)
For more information about the Special Issue, please email
abstracts and any queries to justine.lloyd@mq.edu.au.
special issue on
Prince
Spectrum, a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary research
journal published by Indiana University Press, is preparing a special issue
marking the 35th anniversary of Prince’s hugely popular album and movie Purple
Rain. We invite submissions of original, previously unpublished manuscripts
that are as creative as Prince’s songwriting, music, and performances.
Prospective contributors should send abstracts of no more
than 300 words by Monday, May 6, 2019 and expect notification of selection by
Friday, May 10, 2019. All questions should be directed to the special issue
editor at shannoncochran@clayton.edu.
Strong A(s)
F(eminist): Power in Strength Sports
Traditionally, strength sports, which focus strictly on the
development and individualized application of physical power, were reserved by
public perceptions and athletic institutions as a masculine domain. However,
strength sports have seen an exponential growth of women’s participation in the
past decade. These sports have also diversified beyond gender to include LGBTQ,
people of color, older and disabled athletes and practitioners.
Interdisciplinary sports scholars have noted that sport can both reinforce and
reimagine identities, including gender. As such, athletic forums and the
athlete’s own body become sites of political struggle, and of capitalist
commodification. Since strength sports are tightly linked to the exercise of
power and the performance of conventional understandings of masculinity, they
are a particularly potent platform for insurgent gender practices.
Recognizing the importance of this radical understanding of
empowerment for the future of strength sports and its potential to disrupt
white supremacist patriarchy, we welcome intersectional feminist analyses of
gender in strength sports, beyond a singular focus on women’s participation.
Interested contributors should provide a 250-word abstract
of chapter and short bio by June 15, 2019 to: strengthsportsreader@gmail.com
Contact Email: mmf515@nyu.edu
The U.S. in Central
and South America AND Queer History for Process
Process: a blog for American history invites proposals and
submissions for an upcoming series on U.S. intervention in Central and South
America. We are open to a wide variety of themes, including but not limited to
forms and methods of U.S. imperialism, transregional solidarities and
activisms, and historical interpretations of contemporary developments. Process
also invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on queer history
in the United States. We are open to a wide variety of themes, including but
not limited to queer culture; material culture and aesthetics; literature, art,
and film; queer history in the archives; queer social demonstrations; and queer
solidarities. Materials may be sent to blog@oah.org.
gewohnt: un/common
Practices of the
profit-oriented market economy are currently being counteracted by the revival
of “commons” movements, whose adherents advocate the just global distribution
of resources and also collaborative or coproductive forms of organization and
ownership. Silke Helfrich describes “commons” as “structures of enablement for
sites of relative autonomy, spaces of creative development, and processes of
self-empowerment.” GAM.16 – gewohnt: un/common transfers this potential to the
field of architecture: How can spatial concepts affect opportunities for
cohabitation and thus also strengthen awareness about community resources and
convivial relations among people? In order to analyze the space-formative
consequences of this development and to draft visions of diverse modes of
cohabitation as spatial practice, it is necessary to engage in open reflection
and take inventory of different concepts of living, but also to revisit
historical models. For example, the unusual hybrid spatial logics and experiments
of postmodernism, which already in the 1960s had explicitly countered the
standardization of housing programs, were granted only peripheral meaning in
terms of actual planning practice.
Abstracts (max. 500 words), accompanied by a short
biography, may be submitted by May 3, 2019, togam@tugraz.at.
The New Status Quo:
Essays on Poverty in the United States and Beyond
Special Issue of Feminist Formations
We invite submissions for a special issue of Feminist
Formations on gender, sexuality, race, and poverty in the contemporary era set
against the backdrop of neoliberalism, settler colonialism, and global warfare.
The collection will examine poverty as it is both created and perpetuated by
U.S. policy and practices in the twenty-first century, addressing domestic
poverty but also refuting the discrete geographical and political boundaries of
the nation state to incorporate a wider terrain and analytical scope.
Abstracts due: May 15, 2019
Please address any questions to the co-editors: Sarah Tobias
at stobias@rutgers.edu and
Nicole R. Fleetwood at nifleet@amerstudies.rutgers.edu.
For more information, see www.feministformations.org.
Journal of Decolonising
Disciplines
The Journal of Decolonising Disciplines (JDD) is pleased to
invite contributions to its inaugural issue which will appear in August 2019.
As an intellectual space, the JDD aims to provide a platform for considering
decolonising strategies in all disciplines across the various faculties of the
university. While the debate on decolonisation has been largely limited to the
faculties of Arts/Humanities and Social Sciences, we recognize the need for a
journal that will encourage a transdisciplinary conversation on decolonising
all disciplinary knowledges at the contemporary university. With that aim in
mind we invite contributions from scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences,
Commerce, Health sciences, Law, Education, Engineering, Built Environment,
Natural and Agricultural Sciences as well as Theology and Religious Studies.
Interested authors are invited to submit their articles with
a maximum length of 10 000 words to jdd@up.ac.za on
or before 31 May 2018.
Human Rights Review
is seeking book reviewers
Human Rights Review is currently soliciting book
reviews and multi-book essays for future issues. A list of books available for
review is available online. Please contact Book Review Editor Lindsey Kingston
(lkingston54@webster.edu)
with book requests or to discuss other possible options. Book reviewers should
have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline; in some cases, doctoral candidates with
advanced standing may also contribute.
Boyhood and
Belonging: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the roles of space and place on
young men’s identities
This special issue of Boyhood Studies (Volume 12, Issue 2,)
will draw on interdisciplinary perspectives of space and place in order to
investigate male identities. The issue will enhance our understanding of boys
and young men’s practices as they negotiate a sense of belonging, investment in
peer cultures and via relationships with ‘territories’ and places. More specifically,
the issue seeks to understand the manner in which the practices, discourses and
ethos of particular locales, spaces and institutions shape the opportunities
and ‘ways of being’ for boys and young men. We also aim to look at how
interactions and relationships with girls, young women, sisters, mothers, and
grandmothers shape boyhood and boys’ lives, and more specifically, their sense
of belonging.
Abstracts due May 30.
Contact Email: boyhoodstudies@gmail.com
Black Intellectuals
and the Making of the Atlantic World
The Editors of African and Black Diaspora announce a Call
for Papers on Black Intellectuals and the Making of the Atlantic World for a
special issue of African and Black
Diaspora: An International Journal.
We are seeking papers that examine the development of Black
intellectual movements and the various political and cultural networks they
developed in the colonial metropolis
and how these networks were activated, nurtured to conveyed transnational
dialogue among people of the African descent.
In what ways have these networks both real and imagined become spaces of
knowledge and memory? What political discourse and cultural resources were
developed to resist the colonial empire both at home and abroad?
Deadlines: Submission
of Abstracts, June 15, 2019.
The Sound of
Survival. Music in Post-conflict and Humanitarian Settings
Violence: An International Journal is launching a call for
papers
Against a backdrop of unprecedented humanitarian crises and
chaotic migration, this special issue aims to examine, from an historical and
critical perspective, the current and past initiatives to mobilize music in
post-conflict and humanitarian settings and to explore the complementarity of
musical practices and survival strategies in such settings (including
environmental disasters and epidemic outbreaks).
We intend to show how interdisciplinary approaches to music
and sound can shed light on power, violence and political dynamics within
humanitarian and post-conflict settings. It also adds to our understanding of
how people experience and survive such extreme situations, and the ways in
which they overcome adverse conditions.
Preliminary proposals for the theme section “The Sound of
Survival” must be send before May 15th 2019.
Contact Email: cgroult@msh-paris.fr
URL: http://www.fmsh.fr/
Religious, Ethical
and Cultural Diversity
Contemporary societies are much prone to the process of
intensifying cultural and religious divergence influenced by the expanding
communication media outreach, current migration waves and increased population
mobility. Although the advance of media connectivity and its growing impact
provide for never-seen-before interacting opportunities between the various
cultural and religious entities and official bodies, the latest regional crises
in the region of the broader Middle East and the concomitant aggravating
social, political and economic dynamics have led to the rapid diversification
of local and regional cultural and religious settings. This is accentuated by
the growing discord between generated-over-time prejudices, racist discourses,
enmity and public anxieties about terrorism fueled by ultra-nationalistic,
conservative and white-supremacy tendencies against the refugees, foreign
workers and various religious and ethnic groups, on the one side, and the
extreme religious interpretations and growing faith-based radicalism, on the
other. Thus, the envisaged volume aims to explore the underlying converging
features of religious, ethical and cultural diversity that would provide for
maintaining the fabric of our societies and guarantee their further peaceful
development.
Deadline for book chapter proposal submissions: May 15, 2019.
E-mail address: iu_recv__contributions@istanbul.edu.tr
FUNDING
Travel Research Grant
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library and
the Department of History are pleased to announce a Research Travel Grant to
support scholars conducting research in any of the Library’s collections. The
University Library is one of the largest research libraries in the U.S.,
holding more than 14 million volumes and 24 million other items and materials
in all formats, languages, and subjects. Special collections include the papers
of literary figures such as Marcel Proust, H.G. Wells, Carl Sandburg and
Gwendolyn Brooks, extensive collections relating to the history of science and
technology, extraordinary collections of Slavic and East European, and Latin
American and Caribbean materials, and a unique collection of sub-Saharan
African research materials.
For more information about the Library’s collections, see: https://www.library.illinois.edu/collections/special-collections/.
Deadlines: Applications for 2019-2020 will be accepted until
May 1, 2019.
Contact Email: hpnl@library.illinois.edu
Michele Larose-Osler Library
Artist-in-Residence applications
The award supports visual artists visiting the university to
create works that address contemporary and/or historical subjects in medicine
and the health sciences that are inspired by the rich and diverse collections
held by the Osler Library and/or other sources at McGill, which may include
McGill faculties and hospitals. Possible projects can include, but are not
limited to: painting; photography; performance; sculpture; and digital, video
or installation art.
Application deadline: 10 May 2019
Contact Email: osler.library@mcgill.ca
Visiting Fellowships
2019
The Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai
University http://www.history-global-development.net/ invites
applications for fellowships for visiting scholars working on projects related
to the history of policies, concepts, practices or debates related to
development on local, national, regional or global levels. The Center of the
History of Global Development welcome applications from researchers who are
taking innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to the topic. Preference is
given to topics related to the focus areas of the Center: development models,
health, sustainable development, international organizations and urban
development. Fellows with an interest in longer term cooperation between the
Center and their home institution are also particularly invited to apply.
The deadline is 5 May 2019. For further
information, contact Prof. Iris Borowy borowyiris@i.shu.edu.cn.
2019 James P. Danky
Fellowship
The Danky Fellowships provide $1000 per individual for their
expenses while conducting research using the collections of the Wisconsin
Historical Society (please see
details of the collections). Grant money may be used for travel to the WHS,
costs of copying pertinent archival resources, and living expenses while
pursuing research. If in residence during the semester, the recipient will be
expected to give a presentation as part of the colloquium series of the Center
for the History of Print and Digital Culture.
Prior to applying it is strongly suggested that applicants
contact Lee Grady at the Wisconsin Historical Society (lee.grady@wisconsinhistory.org or
608-264-6459) to discuss the relevancy of WHS collections to their
projects.
Applications are due by May 1
Contact Email: ahpalmer@wisc.edu
Situations Emerging Scholar Award
Situations: Cultural
Studies in the Asian Context, a SCOPUS-indexed journal published at Yonsei
University, is pleased to announce its second annual competition for its
Emerging Scholar Award, which will be given to the best submission about any
aspect of Asian culture written by a graduate student or a post-doctoral
researcher.
To be considered for
the award, which comes with a cash prize of US $1,000 and the publication of
the winning article in the 2020 spring issue of Situations, please send
a manuscript of 6,000 to 8,000 words and a curriculum vitae to Terry
Murphy (tmurphy@yonsei.ac.kr)
and Suk Koo Rhee (skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr)
by December 31, 2019. Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of
Style (16th ed.). Refer to our journal website for citational details: http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/sub03/sub01.php.
Alfred D. Bell Jr.,
Travel Grants
The Forest History Society annually offers a number of
competitive Alfred D. Bell Jr., Travel Grants to support travel and lodging
expenses of up to $950.00 incurred by researchers conducting in-depth studies
at the Society's Alvin J. Huss Archives and Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Library. The Forest History Society awards several
Bell Travel Grants each year to researchers who use FHS resources to support
their work. Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis, with awards going to
persons whose research topics are well covered in the FHS library and archives.
Research Travel
Grant: Yale's Cushing/Whitney Medical Historical Library
The Medical Historical Library, located in New Haven,
Connecticut, holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical
books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets. The 2019-2020 travel grant
is available to historians and other faculty, medical practitioners, graduate
students, and other researchers who wish to use the collections of the Medical
Historical Library.
Please apply online by April 29th, 2019.
Additional information about the Library and its collections
may be found at: https://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical
E-mail: melissa.grafe@yale.edu
Amon Carter Museum of
American Art Davidson Fellowship
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art invites applications
for the 2019/2020 Davidson Family Fellowship. The fellowship provides support
for scholars holding a PhD (or equivalent) or PhD candidates to work on
research projects in American art that advance scholarship by connecting with
objects in the museum’s permanent collection. The stipend rate is $3,000 per
month for a minimum one-month to a maximum four-month period of full-time
research at the museum.
The application deadline is July 1, 2019
Full description, including application form and guidelines:
http://www.cartermuseum.org/library/davidson-family-fellowship
Contact Email: samd@cartermuseum.org
RESOURCES
Queering Girlhood
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/girlhood-studies/12/1/girlhood-studies.12.issue-1.xml
Special issue of Girlhood
Studies about queering girlhood in this open-access online journal.
The Profession (A
publication of the MLA)
Brought to you by the Modern Language Association,
Profession offers articles, news, and resources to support the work you do—in a
classroom, a library, a writing center, or an office for study abroad. We
publish three issues a year; each will include a cluster of articles on a theme
as well as other timely essays. We’ll also bring you practical tools,
guidelines, calls for papers, grant opportunities, and more.
The current issue focuses on the theme “Academic Freedom.”
The magazine is online and open access, but to submit
content authors must be members of the MLA.
WORKSHOPS
Summer Program in
Critical Theory, Film and New Media Studies
July 23 2019 - August 25, 2019
This five-week intensive program offers participants an introduction
to the most important topics and methodologies in Critical Theory and Film and
Media Studies. Seminars will be led by UC Irvine faculty and include
presentations by specialists in the field. Leveraging the academic strength of
UC Irvine and its Southern California location, the program will also include
custom designed field trips to Film, Television, Social Media, and Gaming
Industry locations. Site visits and seminar style classroom activities will
give students, scholars and media professionals the Critical Theory oriented
practical and conceptual tools to understand the fast-changing landscape of the
contemporary culture industries.
Application due date May 8, 2019.
For more information, contact summer_theory@ce.uci.edu.
Application here: https://ce.uci.edu/criticaltheory/pdfs/summer_program_application.pdf
