CONFERENCES
Art and Environmental
Justice Symposium
Portland, Oregon, November 22-23, 2019
A free, full-day interdisciplinary symposium to promote
dialog on the interplay of environmentalism, social justice, education, and the
arts. Scholars, activists, educators, and artists working on environmental
justice issues will explore the politics surrounding systemic biases and the
ways that environmental degradation and climate change intersect with race,
gender, and class to create disproportionate outcomes on both a local and
global scale. The day’s agenda will place the arts at the center of these
conversations, investigating how creative practices contribute to community and
global struggles for environmental justice.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 17, 2019
email proposals to hfsgs@pnca.edu
Please direct questions to Shawna Lipton, Symposium Faculty
Director, slipton@pnca.edu or
Graduate Student Coordinator Randy Meza, rmeza@pnca.edu
Prison Abolition,
Human Rights, and Penal Reform: From the Local to the Global
September 26-28, 2019, University of Texas at Austin
Mass incarceration and overcriminalization in the United
States are subject to critique by some on both the right and the left today.
Many critics increasingly talk of prison abolition. At the same time, the
international human rights movement continues to rely upon criminal punishment
as its primary enforcement tool for many violations, even as it criticizes
harsh prison conditions, the use of the death penalty, and lack of due process
in criminal proceedings. What would it mean for the human rights movement to
take seriously calls for prison abolitionism and the economic and racial
inequalities that overcriminalization reproduces and exacerbates? And what
might critics of the carceral regime in the United States have to learn from
work done by international human rights advocates in a variety of countries?
Please send an abstract of your paper, panel, or project in
under 500 words to Sarah Eliason by July 15, 2019.
Contact Email: e.shore@austin.utexas.edu
Witness: A Symposium on the Art of Samuel Bak
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4104125/goldstein-symposium-art-and-human-rights
In conjunction with UNO’s retrospective exhibition,
“Witness: The Art of Samuel Bak,” the University of Nebraska at Omaha is convening
a study day on September 26, 2019 related to contemporary art and human
rights. Scholars from all disciplines
are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute presentations focused on the
intersection of art and human rights.
Proposals that touch upon or relate to the life and oeuvre of Samuel Bak
(1933-present) are especially welcome.
As this is an interdisciplinary collaboration, scholars from all
disciplines are encouraged to submit.
Please send to goldsteincenter@unomaha.edu
by June 15, 2019
Contact Email: chutt@unomaha.edu
Rethinking
Regionalism: 20th-century Art and Visual Culture in the American West
Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding
of the Broadmoor Art Academy (the precursor to the current Colorado Springs
Fine Arts Center), this symposium aims to provide a forum for new inquiries,
challenges, and reassessments of Western American art and visual culture. In
order to illuminate new perspectives on a dynamic, even tumultuous period, we
encourage a reconsideration and reimagining of the themes and issues of
20th-century Art and Visual Culture in the American West. What marks the various
stages and styles of art in the West? What alternative stories might a renewed
look at the artists, teachers, and students who helped build new styles of art
in the Academy, produce? In what ways would a reexamination of early
instructional practices, and their impact on different types and generations of
students, or the development and role of lithography as an art form, change
existing narratives? Please email an abstract of 200-300 words and a brief cv
by June 1, 2019 to FACsymposium@coloradocollege.edu.
Dying at the Margins:
A Critical Exploration of Material-Discursive Perspectives to Death and Dying
September 26, 2019 to September 27, 2019, KTH – Royal
Institute of Technology in Stockholm
Death is often assumed to arrive when heart and lungs stop.
Yet, sometimes the borders between life and death are unclear. Death, then, may get interrupted, delayed, or
come undone, disrupting the “natural” and “normal” forms of a “good” death. We
acknowledge such disruptions as material and discursive; that is, bodies,
minds, geographies, stories, and more act to challenge human perspectives on
how people, animals, plants, or things ought to die and where and how the dead
ought to be laid to rest. Suddenly, what seemed coherent no longer is, in the
breakdown or dissolution of that which is dying but also in the way one orders
worlds and afterworlds.
This workshop, thus, seeks to explore socio-ecological
networks of the dying and dead that exist at the margins. Through this
workshop, we hope to build a bridge between scholars working in the medical and
environmental humanities and the social sciences, providing a venue to put into
conversation research that explores how dying “bodies”—animal (including
human), plant, thing, place—challenge natural, normative, and notions of a
“good” death.
Deadline for abstracts is June 5, 2019
Contact Email: jessep@kth.se
6th International
Conference on Women's Studies: How Far Have We Got?
Leeds, United Kingdom
In the age of post-feminism when many are trying to argue
that feminism is no longer needed because women have reached equality through
the introduction of legislation and entry of women to all professions, the
reality shows a different story. Women politicians, for example, are still
scrutinised based on their looks and objectified. The situation is no better in
advertising where there is still a major issue of sexual harassment and the
culture of sexism visible in both industry treatment of women and sterotyped
representation of women in adverts. And even though it is legally possible for
men to take paternal leaves and stay at home to take care of children and
household, it is still women who have these requests approved more often than
men, which testifies that patriarchal views of expected roles are still
present.
Submissions of abstracts (up to 500 words) with an email
contact should be sent to Dr Martina Topić (martinahr@gmail.com)
by 15 October 2019.
Conference on Asian
Studies (ACAS): Borders, Bridges, Intersections
November 22-23, 2019, Olomouc, Czech Republic
The general theme of the conference this year is Borders,
Bridges, Intersections. We welcome papers that concern any region in Asia and
approach the conference theme from a variety of perspectives, including
linguistics, literature, arts, cultural studies, media studies, sociology,
anthropology, history, philosophy, political science, international relations,
economics, cultural geography, and other fields. We would also like to
especially encourage contributions in the field of language teaching and
learning.
Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2019
Website: http://acas.upol.cz
Any questions can be addressed to acas@upol.cz.
State of the Nation:
Literary and Visual Nationalisms, Then and Now
October 25, 2019, Stony Brook University
Among all modern political phenomena, nationalism, according
to Perry Anderson, is the most value-contested, with judgments of its record
ranging from admiration to anathema. Conceptions of the nation and the
nation-state also vary widely from objectivist definitions based on ethnicity
and race to postmodern concepts of discursively-constituted imaginaries which
interrogate claims of timelessness and truth. This broad spectrum of differing
ideas about nationalism and the nation have informed and shaped cultural
production and, likewise, cultural production has impacted the state of the
nation.
Energized by this potential inflection point, the State of
the Nation conference aims to explore the ways in which nationalism, nationality,
and national identities are and were shaped, promoted, constructed, and
interrogated in literary and visual languages and how the nation has been and
still is used as a cultural-political argument.
Abstracts due Sept 6, 2019
email: evelyn.cruise@stonybrook.edu
SUNY Pride Conference
October 18th & 19th, 2019
This conference is meant to highlight and celebrate LGBTQIA+
experiences through fostered dialogue across academic and/or practical
experiences, disciplinary foci, and institutional perspectives, as well as
provide support and resources to those that attend. Today’s students entering
college come with new attitudes and understandings around gender and sexuality.
Despite the progress made in different areas of policy, education, and pop
culture, there’s still a lot of work to be done in order to give the best
support and education to students in a nation and world full of uncertainty. To
this effect, this year’s theme serves to provide an avenue for different voices
to be heard and allow for greater representation of individuals who are so
often silenced.
Submissions are due by Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 11:59
PM EST.
Contact Email: Emily.Phelps@oneonta.edu
Environment: Last
Call
September 27-28, 2019, McGill University
News about the increasing deterioration of the natural
environment populate our daily sources of information: newspapers, TV, radio,
social media. Let’s face it: scientists keep repeating that OUR time is the
time of the LAST CALL for cooperative initiatives aimed to save the environment
from this crisis.
Yet, if our conceptualization of the human being must be
re-framed into a post-anthropocentric dimension, what role should be assigned
to culture? Can cultural products and natural phenomena be considered as equal
manifestations of a material-discursive continuum? The question of what the
Humanities can concretely do to answer the LAST CALL is more complicated than
it seems and implies several interrogatives: what are the best research methods
to answer this call? How do new technologies re-frame humanist methodologies?
LAST CALL plans to have an evening exposé of visual creative
works dealing with environmental topics addressed in the conference (see Call
for Abstracts). Creative works include (but are not limited to): photography,
digital visual works, short films, video art, videogames-as-art, etc. Please submit proposals by July 1st 2019 to llcgrad2019@gmail.com.
History of Emotions
George Mason University on June 5-6, 2020
The conference will welcome papers on a variety of aspects
and approaches concerning the history of emotion, providing opportunities as
well for further acquaintance among practitioners in the field, North American
and beyond.
Proposal deadline: June 1, 2019
Contact Email: smatt@weber.edu
Memory Lives On:
Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
The task of documenting the history of HIV/AIDS and thinking
about the present and future of the epidemic is daunting. The enormity and
complexity of the stories and perspectives on the disease, which has affected
so many millions of patients and families around the world, present significant
challenges that demand continual reexamination. In examining and reflecting on
our knowledge of the history of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and its future, we hope
to improve our understanding of the true effects of the disease, and what it
can teach us about future epidemics.
The program committee invites submissions for presentations addressing the
HIV/AIDS epidemic from the wide-ranging perspectives of historians, archivists
and librarians, artists, journalists, activists and community groups,
scientific researchers, health care providers, and people living with HIV. We
invite proposals from individuals with diverse experience and expertise on the
HIV/AIDS epidemic in scholarship, research and advocacy. Proposals will be
considered in a variety of forms including paper presentations, panel
discussions and posters.
The deadline for submissions is June 3.
Submit a proposal: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/A2nohy
For any inquiries contact David Krah david.krah@ucsf.edu
More information about the UCSF AIDS History Project: https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/
Making Sense of the
Senses: Evaluating the Sensorium in Visual Culture
OCTOBER 24–27 OCTOBRE 2019 Hilton Hotel, Québec
The classification, discrimination, and individuation of the
senses have long been a topic of discussion among scholars in the natural
sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Although the paradigm of the five
senses can be found in philosophical texts from Ancient Greece and China, the
sensory categories defined differed significantly between the two regions. This
disparity of sense perception informed the interdisciplinary field of sensory
studies and following the sensory turn of the 1990s, led to a profusion of
sense-specific subfields, especially those related to visual culture. While the
invention of visual culture collapsed the hierarchy of high/low art, the
proliferation of visual culture studies further entrenches the hierarchical
division of the senses. This panel seeks to explore interpretations of the
sensorium in visual culture and evaluate the cultural and social
connections/implications of the Senses in Art.
Submission deadline: May 31, 2019
Download CFP/Application at https://bit.ly/2DGnQvj
Contact Email: samantha.chang@mail.utoronto.ca
Media, Mediations and
Mediators: (Re) Mediating History in the 21st Century
The International Network for Theory of History (INTH) is
pleased to announce that its fourth network conference will take place in
Puebla, Mexico on 6, 7 and 8 May, 2020 at Institute for Social Sciences and
Humanities ‘Alfonso Vélez Pliego’, Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP).
The 4th INTH conference addresses the theme of ‘media,
mediations and mediators’. Can visual and aural media yield forms of knowledge
which cannot be captured by text-based historical media (as Rosenstone argues)?
What happens to historical insights or ideas when they are ‘translated’ from
one medium to another? Does the ‘visualism’ of many popular media of historical
expression come at the cost of classic (text-based) hermeneutic approaches to
the past? How does the rise of new mediatechnologies affect the relationship
between historiography, archives and sources? How should historians engage with
audiovisual archives, and how should they intervene in ongoing debates on
audiovisual preservation?
Those interested in participating in the conference are
asked to send in abstracts of 300-500 words either in docx or pdf format
to Inthpuebla2020@gmail.com,
by 15 July 2019.
URL: https://www.inth.ugent.be/content/media-mediations-and-mediators-re-mediating-history-21st-century
Dream Cultures:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
University of Helsinki, 19-20 September 2019
Studies of sleep and dreaming within psychology and medicine
have shown that peaceful, energising sleep is vital for personal wellbeing and
for public health, but dreams can also have a significant role in the cultural
life of different periods and locations. Moreover, agonising, tormenting dreams
that cause strong negative emotional responses – nightmares or bad dreams – are
often connected to conditions that prevail in the dreamers’ societal and
cultural world. Dreaming has often been seen as a universal phenomenon, but dream
narratives, meanings given to dreams and even the content of dreams are
culturally and historically contingent. Dream Cultures will offer a
multidisciplinary arena for discussing how dreams and nightmares have been
understood and conceptualized in various historical and cultural contexts.
Those who wish to present a paper in the conference are
kindly requested to send an abstract of no more than 500 words to dreamingdreamsandnightmares@gmail.com by
May 15, 2019.
TMI: Sharing and
Surveillance, University of Birmingham
In the twenty-first century, evolving networks and platforms
have opened up the possibility of sharing personal tastes, desires, ideas, and
experiences on a global scale. However, these changes also facilitate the
tracking of trends and habits via data collated for a wide range of purposes,
including commercial, political, personal, and institutional surveillance. This
one-day conference reflects on how literature, culture, and new media draw
attention to and interrogate aspects of sharing and surveillance in modern and
contemporary culture as well as earlier periods. The organisers invite papers
about the representation of sharing and/or surveillance across a range of
distinct literatures, media platforms, and art forms contemplating the sharing
of personal information in an age of precarity, self-tracking, and complicity.
Please send enquiries and abstracts including the paper
title, speaker name, contact email, abstract of no more than 250 words and a
biography (~100 words) to sharingsurveillance@gmail.com by Monday
20th May 2019.
Nationalisms: 20th
Annual Africa Conference
March 27-29, 2020, Department of History, UT Austin
Africa’s histories and politics reveal trends of nationalism
in response to colonial conquest, anti-colonial resistance, movements of
liberation, neo-colonialism, and post-colonial developments, as well as the
emergence of African nationalist theories. Used in social, political, and
economic spheres, nationalism and its effect augment dimensions of heightened
complexity. The 2020 Africa Conference intends to critically examine the highly
intricate and contested processes of nationalism and its significance for
African societies and for African diaspora across the Atlantic, the
Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean.
Proposals will be accepted by email: toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu, the
conference email:africaconference2020@gmail.com,
and on the official conference website from mid-June to 15th December
2019 (http://www.utexas.edu/cola/africa-conference).
Ars Animalia
October 18-19, 2019, Rice University
Ars Animalia, the second biennial graduate conference
presented by the Department of Art History and the Humanities Research Center
at Rice University, invites papers that consider the role, function, or
representation of animals in art-making practices throughout the centuries and
across the globe. For many artists,
reflection on the human’s place in a world of animals has been a rich and
complex source of exploration. What do images and/or the use of animals tell us
about animals and those who depicted them? How have scientific, religious,
political, and aesthetic discourses shaped and been shaped by depictions of
animals?
Please send a
300-word abstract and curriculum vitae (limited to 3 pages or less) to arsanimalia@gmail.com by
June 30, 2019.
New York Conference
on Asian Studies
SUNY New Paltz, October 4-5, 2019
Movement happens across many types of terrain: physical,
social, temporal, ideological. As changes to the world’s economic, political,
and ecological systems occur at an ever faster clip, movement reshapes both our
physical and intellectual landscapes. For instance, internal and transnational
migration, economic remittances, and desertification exist in the same
landscape as the rise of populist nationalism, the growth of new religions, and
the sharing of music and art on social media. Movement perennially forces us to
rethink our relationship to the world. What role has Asia played in moving the
world to where it is now, and how will it foster new ways of thinking and being
in the future?
To submit a proposal for a complete panel,
roundtable, or an individual paper please use our online
proposal submission form found on the NYCAS 2019 website. Please
send any questions to the co-chairs at New Paltz, Professors Lauren Meeker and
Nathen Clerici. (meekerl@newpaltz.edu and clericin@newpaltz.edu)
Deadline: May 15
UNTAMED: Women and
the Law
The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation invites proposals for
papers to be presented at its “UNTAMED: Women and the Law” symposium to be held
September 13-14, 2019 at Jamestown Settlement in Williamsburg, Virginia. The
symposium will examine the history of women in America, from pre-colonial times
to today, through the lens of the law.
Proposals should explore a topic related to the women’s
legal status or legal issues in America. Topics might include the evolution of
laws governing women and marriage, family, education, work, healthcare, civil
rights, politics and the intersection of gender with identity categories of
race, class, sexuality, age and ability.
Deadline for proposals:
May 13, 2019
Contact Email: abigail.schumann@jyf.virginia.gov
body/language
May 21–24, 2020, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
This conference focuses on the use of the body and/or
language to gain, lose, contest, or express power and agency in the ancient
Mediterranean world. Bodies and words,
at both the physical and the conceptual levels, can exert disproportionate,
oppositional, or complementary forces.
Both have the power to transform their surrounding environments
significantly. Yet there is a problematic
dichotomy between body/physicality and language/reason, a problem long noted by
philosophers, literary theorists, and social historians. FemClas 2020 seeks to contest, blur, and even
eradicate these boundaries through papers, panels, and other programming that
promotes interdisciplinary exploration of the ancient world.
All submissions are due September 1, 2019.
Contact Email: thmgg@wfu.edu
African American
& Native American Symposium
The 2nd Annual Dividing Lines Symposium is a conference and
peacebuilding initiative developed with the goal of providing space for
interdisciplinary study, cross-cultural communication and understanding of
African American and Native American populations. In our second year, we are
issuing a call for paper presentations, panels and poster submissions. The
symposium will take place February 7th and 8th, 2020 at Kennesaw State
University’s Sturgis Library in Kennesaw, GA.
We are seeking individual presenters, panels totaling no
more than four (4) participants, and academic posters based on any topic
related to African and Native American social, ethnic and cultural interactions
throughout the Americas. Dividing Lines is an interdisciplinary symposium;
therefore, we encourage relevant submissions from all academic disciplines.
Submissions focused on African, African American, Native American or Latino/a
topics will also be considered.
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2019
Please send submissions and any questions to: DividingLinesSymposium@gmail.com
PUBLICATIONS
Young Children, Race,
and Racism: Global Perspectives
Special Issue of the Journal of Curriculum, Teaching,
Learning and Leadership in Education
The special issue seeks to provide a collection of diverse
and international scholarship on children and race. In addition to empirical
contributions that focus on components of young children’s (0-8) racial
identity (self-identification, perceived similarity, racial awareness) and
attitudes, we are particularly interested in receiving submissions that draw on
theoretical perspectives such as post-colonial, anti-colonial, critical race
theory, anti-racism, and poststructuralism to offer new exegeses on the
processes, including racial discourse, that shape both racialized and white
children’s understanding of systemic and individual racial privilege,
subjectivity and identity.
Submission deadline: July 1, 2019
Contact Email: kescayg@unomaha.edu
The AIDS Crisis is Not Over
This issue of the
Radical History Review will examine the politics of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. We
seek essays that document the breadth and depth of radical responses to
HIV/AIDS, at political and geographical scales ranging from the local to the
global. These may include contributions that address connections between AIDS
activism and other social movements both backwards and forwards, from struggles
for black, women’s, and gay liberation to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives
Matter. Essays may also address the radical politics of AIDS media, from the
agitprop of Gran Fury and DIVA TV to struggles over AIDS and the arts,
including both conservative censorship and the Tacoma Action Collective’s
response to the exhibit Art AIDS America. Contributions may also examine
HIV/AIDS as part of histories and geographies of colonialism and race-making,
including the contested sites of Haiti, sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian
subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and the politics of tourism, travel, and global
commerce. Essays may also address AIDS and carcerality, including HIV
criminalization laws, HIV/AIDS (activism) in prisons and jails, sex work, and
HIV/AIDS in immigrant detention and control.
Abstract Deadline:
September 1, 2019
Contact Email: contactrhr@gmail.com
Call for Book
Reviews: The Journal of Applied Arts and Health
The Journal of Applied Arts & Health is seeking book
reviewers for the following texts:
“Playing for Time Theatre Company: Perspectives from the
Prison”, edited by Annie McKean and Kate Massey-Chase
“Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for
Trauma Recovery”, by Dr. Jamie Marich
For more information about the Journal of Applied Arts &
Health, please visit: https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=169/
Contact Email: jaah.reviews@gmail.com
Ways of Seeing:
Visuality, Visibility, and Vision
Pacific Coast Philology, the scholarly, peer-reviewed
journal of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), the west
coast affiliate of the MLA, is looking for papers. We are currently in search
of essays from PAMLA members and non-members alike on a wide range of literary,
cultural, language-based, and media-focused topics for the regular issue, to be
published in the spring of 2020. Given the wide range of scholarship published
in the journal, we strongly encourage proposers to submit manuscripts written
for a broad scholarly audience, essays with a clear, fully developed main
thesis, essays that contextualize analysis within the relevant theoretical
framework, and most importantly essays that further the discourse in
interesting, thought-provoking ways.
You may submit manuscripts at any time, but we are
particularly interested in submissions by September 1, 2019.
Contact Email: roswitha.burwick@gmail.com
Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine
Although this series ended twenty years ago this year, a
stand-alone examination of the series has not been published to date. On air
from 1993-1999, DS9 was a departure from The Next Generation’s depiction of the
United Federation of Planets’ diplomatic and scientific study of the Alpha
Quadrant. Situated on a space station at the entrance of a wormhole near the
planet of Bajor, DS9’s stories revolved around the uneasy cease-fire between
the Bajorans and the Cardassians as mediated by the Federation. Different in style from the two previous
incarnations of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine illustrated a future darker and more
dystopian than the vision depicted in The Original Series and The Next
Generation.
Deadline for formal proposals is 1 October 2019.
Please email Sherry at DoctorGinn@gmail.com with your
proposals and any questions you may have concerning the project.
Imagining the Future
of Digital Archives and Collections
This issue of Stedelijk Studies investigates how we imagine
those transformations, and how they affect cultural and academic practices. We
invite manuscripts that critically investigate how practices of digitization of
collections and archives transform knowledge production and knowledge exchange
across academia, museums, and archives. This question ties in with recent
scholarship in the fields of digital heritage, digital art history, and digital
humanities, but is also addressed in other fields, such as science and
technology studies (STS), artistic practices, and design theory.
Deadline for the abstract (max. 300 words) and CV is June
14, 2019.
Contact Email: stedelijkstudies@stedelijk.nl
Narrative
The editors of Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique invite
contributions for a special issue on the theme of narrative to be published in
late 2019. What has become clear in recent years is the breadth of the
“narrative turn” in the humanities and social sciences, from postclassical
approaches to narratology to new understandings of the importance of narrative
to film, digital media, medico-legal, and interdisciplinary research.
All submissions for this issue are due by 9 June 2019
Contact Email: arts-colloquy@monash.edu
Museums and the
Working Class
This edited collection aims to place a discussion of class
within the field of museology. A variety of points of view within the wider
discourse of class are welcome. How do museums deny and marginalise or, support
and encourage representations of the working and poverty classes? Is this work
framed in the past or connected with contemporary struggle and achievements? Do
museums encourage an intersection between multiculturalism and class? Between
class and other identities?
Submit an abstract of 200 words, a short bio (100 words) and
a proposed chapter title by 28 June 2019.
Contact Email: adele.chynoweth@anu.edu.au
The Afro-Americas
Recent studies, such as African Slavery in Latin America
(Oxford UP 2007) and The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United
States, Black in Latin America (New York UP, 2012) have examined the historical
exclusion of Black peoples and the contemporary forces that have led to greater
visibility of Black peoples in the Americas. This volume, seeks to move beyond
the focus on inclusion/exclusion to examine, instead, autonomy within Black
communities in Latin America since 1959. We aim to underscore the dynamic
reality of multilingual Afro-descendants in the Americas with varying degrees
of association to the Hispanic and Lusophone domain, thereby disassembling
one-dimensional linguistic understandings of Black communities in the
region. We envision this as a
necessarily interdisciplinary inquiry, and thus invite contributions that
navigate literary, cultural, political, economic, and theoretical spheres. We
welcome contributions that examine transnational and transhistorical Black
experiences, and we especially seek work with a South-to-North approach.
Please email your proposal (Title, 200-300-word abstract in
English), and author's CV as electronic attachment to both jgomezme@d.umn.edu and ramos169@umn.edu by June 1, 2019.
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.
Please send proposals
to Jami.Carlacio@yale.edu by
May 20, 2019
Routledge Handbook of
Vegan Studies
I am seeking proposals for chapters for the handbook that
reflect knowledge of the field and that build on extant work in the discipline.
Such proposals might include but are not limited to vegan Studies and history,
key figures, relationship to animal studies, critical race studies, gender
studies/feminism, identity/intersectionality, and politics.
Please submit abstract proposals of 250-300 words and a CV
to Laura Wright at lwright@email.wcu.eduby May
31.
For more information about Vegan Studies, please
visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegan_studies;https://ugapress.org/book/9780820348568/the-vegan-studies-project/
New Disability
Poetics
This issue draws together poets, critics, and hybrid
practitioners in the fields of contemporary poetics and disability studies to
posit new approaches to experimental aesthetic practices that interrogate and
represent the social, political, and mediated realities of disability. We welcome
papers that situates disability in dialogue with analyses of class, race,
sexuality, immigration status, and other forms of social precarity, as well as
work that situates disability poetics within local, national, transnational,
and planetary scales of instability and shift. We encourage essays that will
read disability across fields and situate the body as a site of lived
experience within environmental and social systems that press upon it.
Proposals of 300 words due: 15 June 2019
Please direct questions, abstracts, and full articles to newdisabilitypoetics@gmail.com.
American Television
in the Trump Era
Donald Trump’s emergence in the field of American politics
has had an undeniable and wide-ranging impact on contemporary American
television. As a medium television has been quick to respond to the
extraordinary climate and fast-paced news environment created by the
roller-coaster of events and political strategies that have defined the Trump
administration. This volume seeks a range of essays aiming to address the ways
in which the political climate of the Trump era has revealed itself on American
television. The political setting might be defined as much by movements such as
#MeToo, Time’s Up and Black Lives Matter as by the various branches of federal
government, or political moments such as Charlottesville or the release of the
Mueller Report. Similarly, authors might choose to examine individual
television shows or particular genres, and themes including celebrity politics,
backlash culture, journalism as entertainment, genre hybridity, amongst a
variety of topics.
Chapter proposals should be submitted as a 300-400 word
abstract by 30 June 2019 to the editor, Karen McNally, at TrumpEraTelevisionthebook@gmail.com.
Digital Heritage in
Cultural Conflicts
The DigiCONFLICT international Research Consortium are
seeking proposals for chapter contributions to an academic, peer-reviewed,
edited volume on uses and abuses of digital heritage in the context of socially
and politically charged cultural conflicts. While acknowledging the role
digitalization plays in shaping transnational attitudes to cultural heritage,
members of the DigiCONFLICT Research Consortium contest common convictions
about the allegedly universal and democratic nature of digital heritage. Also
recognizing the role digital heritage plays in increasing access to cultural
heritage and in making cultural heritage products readily available across
borders, they pay particular attention to the ways in which digital heritage
reflects and frames given societies as well as their complex historical and
cultural power structures.
All chapter proposals must be written in English, and should
be sent to DigiCONFLICT@gmail.com by
the 7th of June 2019.
Philosophy of Horror:
Aesthetics, Politics, and Historicity
In the first volume of his Horror of Philosophy trilogy—In
the Dust of this Planet—Eugene Thacker calls the horror of philosophy “the
isolation of those moments in which philosophy reveals its own limitations and
constraints, moments in which thinking enigmatically confronts the horizon of its
own possibility.” The wider genre of “horror” encompassing such genres as
literature, cinema, and the arts exposes its viewers/readers/audience to a
world of conflict between the selfsame subject and the of the ‘other’ which
involves the element of horror.
The proposed volume undertakes to read into this phenomenon,
of horror, as a philosophical statement. We are interested in essays that look
into the genre of horror and its sub-genres (body horror, disaster horror,
horror drama, psychological horror, science fiction horror, slasher, home
invasion, supernatural horror, gothic horror and others) across the mediums of
literature, cinema, digital cultures, and the arts from a philosophically
informed perspective, or those that develop a philosophical perspective of
their own.
The deadline for complete submissions is October 15, 2019.
Queries and submissions may be directed to subashishbhattacharjee@gmail.com and citeron05@yahoo.com.
Critical Asian
Studies Journal- Call for online blog posts
As the web editor, I am newly soliciting short 500-1,000
online blog posts to be published on the journal’s website platform. Our
journal is now publishing online articles and posts on the work of early career
scholars, emerging scholars, and research on new and critical topics unfolding
across Asia on the themes of 1) research and work on a critical topic in a
region of Asia, or 2) reflections or updates of fieldwork highlighting or
reflecting on methods employed for research.
If you would like to submit a post, respond to webeditor.criticalasianstudies@gmail.com with
your interest and potential topic. For reference and examples, please visit the
journal's website: https://criticalasianstudies.org/commentary
Powerful Pleasures:
Embodied Knowledge and BDSM
For this volume, we are looking for authors who can join us
in showing some of the diverse ways in which the study of alternative
sexualities can be executed and made productive. Centred around the theme of
Embodied Knowledge – to be understood in a similar way to when it was first
explored by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in Phenomenology of Perception, as a specific
type of knowledge being tied to the body instead of logic – the contributors
will be expected to explore through different media and a variety of
disciplinary and interdisciplinary methods how the still developing field of
critical BDSM research might evolve and how we can develop new knowledge and
understanding of and in relation to BDSM. We are looking for a balance between
theory and practice, personal experience and academia. At the same time we hope
to contribute to debates taking place both in and outside of the field of BDSM.
Coming together from different disciplines and points of view, what we hope to
accomplish is that the interdisciplinary dialogue started by the authors will
both explore the possibilities in this emerging field and show its value to
other areas of research.
Proposal deadline: June 30
Contact Email: powerfulpleasures@outlook.com
Mobilities and
Settler Colonialism
The special issue will examine and theorize the significance
of movement and mobility in the production and contestation of settler colonial
geographies. We invite papers that consider the movements of diverse peoples,
non-human actors, and material and non-material things under conditions of
settler colonialism. Papers may address any time period or geographic context.
We are especially interested in papers that draw explicitly from settler
colonial studies, critical indigenous studies, ethnic studies, and mobility
studies in their analytical frameworks and methodologies.
Please submit a working title, a 200-word abstract, and 5 to
7 keywords to settlermobilities@gmail.com by Friday, May 31, 2019.
Questions may be directed to us collectively at this same
email address: settlermobilities@gmail.com.
Conceptualizing
equitable, successful, and fair education for Indigenous Latinx communities in
U.S. learning environments
This special issue emerges out of a need to fill the current
lacuna in our understanding of what constitutes equitable, successful, and fair
education for all Indigenous Latinx learners in the United States. My vision is
that this special issue will serve as an intellectual platform where scholars
and educators can share their findings about the learning experiences of
Indigenous Latinx learners in U.S. learning environments. Consistent with the
Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education (DIME) Journal’s aim and scope, my
vision is to provide a space in this special issue to cutting-edge work that
gives visibility to the Indigenous Latinx communities in the United States as
they continue to be “underrepresented within scholarly research and
literature.”
Full call for papers: file:///C:/Users/laptop/Downloads/DiasporaIndigenousandMinorityEducationJournalCallforProposals.pdf
To be considered, please submit an abstract (200-300 words)
accompanied by a short bio for each author by July 15th, 2019.
Please email all proposals and questions to luis.penton@gmail.com.
Spirituality and
Abolition
Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics is seeking
submissions by artists for our third issue, Spirituality and Abolition, to be
edited by Ashon Crawley and Roberto Sirvent. Abolition conceptualizes art as
another mode of knowledge creation and investigation, on par with other
rigorous academic work. By putting visual art and poetry in conversation with
academic articles in the physical journal, we give equal weight to these
different ways of knowing the world and recognize the value of the arts as an
alternative and potentially more inclusive mode of study.
We invite submissions by artists working and creating
outside the ‘white cube’ circuit whose individual practice, themes or
interventions engage with the theme of Spirituality and Abolition and the goals
of Abolition Journal in a meaningful way. We understand ‘art’ broadly to
include many different forms and media: painting, video, drawing, poetry,
multi-media, documentary, among others.
Please submit a short (200-300 word) artist statement,
visual images in pdf format, online portfolio or website, or other
documentation that you feel best represents your work and practice to abolitionart@gmail.com by June 15,
2019.
Soft Interventions:
Knitting, Embroidery and Textiles as Challenges to the Art Historical and
Social Canon
Both the artistic production of the last century and the art
historical reflections based on gender studies have spawned diverse initiatives
that highlight and revalue the role of knitting, embroidery and textiles in
artistic creation, as well as studies of the ways in which these media
contribute distinctive work processes and modes of signification to the
disciplines of art and art history.
Although a number of existing publications address aspects
of this topic, this dossier aims to deepen and widen the reflection through the
study of specific cases from a broader geographic and cultural universe, as
well as through historical and theoretical reflection on the implications and
contributions of art works representative of these “soft interventions” in the
construction of new discourses in the fields of art and art history, and their
role in deconstructing and reconfiguring the categories, dichotomies and
cartographies that constitute the art historical canon.
article deadline: June 28th, 2019
Contact Email: revistahart@uniandes.edu.co
Cultural evolution
Cultural evolution describes how socially learned ideas,
rules, and skills are transmitted and change over time, giving rise to diverse
forms of social organisation, belief systems, languages, technologies and
artistic traditions. This research article collection showcases cutting-edge
research into cultural evolution, bringing together contributions — both
quantitative and qualitative — that reflect the interdisciplinary scope of this
rapidly growing field, as well as the diversity of topics and approaches within
it.
This is a rolling article collection and as such submissions
will be welcomed at any point up until the end of December 2019.
Contact Email: palcomms@palgrave.com
Critical Histories of
Aging and Later Life
The Radical History Review seeks to foster critical
perspectives on the histories and politics related to contemporary
understandings of aging and what has been called “later life.” We need radical
histories that bring age and aging to the center of analysis and probe the deep
past to elucidate antecedents, critiques, and alternative frameworks for making
sense of both the “aging crisis” and possibility for thinking about aging and
longevity in broader historical perspective. Old age has long bubbled beneath
the surface in radical history scholarship: in articulations of kinship and
political authority; within transformations of intergenerational relationships
wrought by colonialism, industrialization and long histories of migration and
settlement; within social welfare and capitalist, socialist, and post/colonial
state building; within the ongoing struggles of caring labor and the biopolitical
management of life itself; and within the brutal exclusions from old age and
infirmity through global systems of inequality and deprivation.
Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2019
Contact Email: contactrhr@gmail.com
URL: http://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/call-for-papers/critical-histories-of-aging-and-later-life/
Ecologies in
Southeast Asian Media and Popular Culture
Ecomedia scholars have emphasised the importance of reading
various forms of mass media and popular culture from the perspectives of
ecology, sustainability, climate change and the Anthropocene. Meanwhile, the
limited literature of Southeast Asian ecomedia studies is scattered in various
journals such as Utopian Studies and Environmental Communication, and books
such as Southeast Asian Ecocriticism: Theories, Practices, Prospects (2018).
There is yet to be published a scholarly book dedicated specifically to
ecocritical readings of Southeast Asian mass media and popular culture
artifacts. This edited collection aims to fill this gap. Scholars of Southeast
Asian mass media and popular culture, therefore, are invited to contribute
proposals for book chapters that develop ecocritical readings of various forms
of mass media and popular culture texts produced in Southeast Asia.
Please submit a 250-300 word abstract and a 50-word bio-note
to Dr. John Ryan (john.c.ryan@uwa.edu.au)
and Prof. Jason Paolo Telles (jrtelles@up.edu.ph)
by 15 July 2019.
FUNDING
Travel to
Collections, University of Florida
Travel grants of up to $2,500 are available to support
research between August 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020 in the Special and Area
Studies Collections of University of Florida. Evaluation criteria include
interdisciplinarity, use of more than one collection, and a tangible
publication or scholarly outcome. Awardees must travel 100 miles or farther to
be eligible. Grants are available for research in any of the department's
collections and must be used for onsite research. The array of historical
materials available are described at: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/.
Proposals are due Friday, May 17, 2019
Contact Email: lib-baldwin@uflib.ufl.edu
Marie
Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2019
The Institute
of Contemporary History (IHC), a leading research centre in modern
and contemporary history located in Portugal, welcomes applications for Marie
Curie Fellowships, acting as host institution, from researchers
interested in developing their studies of the past in the following main areas
— that correspond to our strategic lines of research:
1. Connected Histories: State-Building, Social Movements,
and Political Economy
2. Colonialism, Anti-Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism
3. Precarious Worlds and Sustainability: Nature, Health, and Work
4. Modern Mediations: Arts, Technology, and Communication
5. Uses of the Past: Memory and Cultural Heritage
6. Digital humanities
2. Colonialism, Anti-Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism
3. Precarious Worlds and Sustainability: Nature, Health, and Work
4. Modern Mediations: Arts, Technology, and Communication
5. Uses of the Past: Memory and Cultural Heritage
6. Digital humanities
Please submit your application material to Vasco Marques via
the email bibliometria.ihc@fcsh.unl.pt.
Deadline for applications: 7 July 2019
The Southeast
Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) Research Travel
Grants
The SERMEISS Overseas Travel Grant Program provides $500 in
financial support for pre-tenured or doctoral student overseas travel to conduct
fieldwork, archival research, survey work, etc. on the Middle East or Islam in
any academic discipline in the social sciences or humanities from any time
period. The deadline for submission is
September 1, 2019.
For further information and submission procedures, see the
attachments on the SERMEISS homepage: http://www.sermeiss.org/.
Contact Email: edsermeiss@gmail.com
RESOURCES
American Folklore
Society's Folklore & Education Section Blog
Our new Folklore & Education Section has shifted from
publishing an annual newsletter into the hosting of a new blog on FIE. We’re
pleased to announce that it is officially live. You can visit the Blog at: https://folkloreandeducation.wordpress.com/.
The American Prison
Writing Archive
The American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) is the largest
and first fully searchable digital archive of non-fiction essays by
incarcerated people writing about their experience inside. The APWA also
accepts first-person, non-fiction essays about the carceral experience of
prison staff and volunteers. If you work or volunteer inside prisons,
with incarcerated people, please visit the APWA website at https://apw.dhinitiative.org/collection-description to
download the permissions questionnaire required from all APWA
contributors.
Contact Email: dlarson@hamilton.edu
Sacred Space and
Place
This special issue of Religions
aims to be inclusive of the diversity of people and their varied interactions
with these sites, honouring the multiplicity of ways we interpret the terms
“place” and “sacred.” For example, a city like Paris is known, observed, and
monitored worldwide but is also full of sites that are "sacred" to
widely diverse populations. That is why the theme of "place as
sacred" provides agency to whoever is designating the uniquely ordained,
set aside, and sometimes extraordinary features of a particular location. The
full text of the issue’s content is available online.
Women's Suffrage and
the Media
Suffrage and the Media is a database and resource site
created by members of the American Journalism Historians Association. This
website, launched in June 2017, is intended to serve as a multimedia resource
companion to the special suffrage issue. It includes an ever-growing collection
of media-related suffrage content and includes when possible direct access to
primary and secondary sources or, when restrictions prevent display,
information about where and how to locate and obtain them.
WORKSHOPS
Histories of Modern
Migration to and in the Americas
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. Our purpose is to assemble a
small group of scholars whose historical engagement with questions of migration
can speak across histories of migration often bracketed into smaller subfields
and Area Studies. We invite Ph.D. candidates in their completion year and
junior scholars to submit proposals. Projects must be rooted in extensive
archival research and can vary in scale from the local to the global. We
encourage scholarship in the fields of History, American, African American, Asian
American, Latinx, and Native American Studies.
We invite submissions in English from individuals at all
universities. Interested applicants should submit a 400-word proposal in PDF
format by May 15th to historiesofmodernmigration@gmail.com.
For more
information, please see: https://www.migrantherstory.com/
