CONFERENCES
Intersectionality
and the University
NeMLA
2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
Drawing
from Kimberle Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality, this roundtable proposes
a holistic approach to understanding and navigating the interpersonal,
logistical, and ideological tensions within the university. We seek a diverse
group of participants with insights on how to negotiate these issues in
life-affirming ways and promote efforts toward greater diversity, inclusion,
and equitability in the academe. As a Graduate Student Caucus-sponsored
session, we are particularly interested in proposals that address graduate
student concerns, but welcome insights from and about tenure-track faculty,
contingent and adjunct faculty, undergraduate students, and staff.
Please
submit proposals of 250-300 words and a bio of at most 100 words to the NeMLA
portal (https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP) by September
30 2019.
For
questions, please write to Jennifer Ross at jnross@email.wm.edu
Intersections
of Language and Nature: Conservation, Documentation, and Access
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, September 6th and 7th
The
two-day symposium brings together scholars from indigenous communities,
conservation practice, the arts, and academia to address the parallel threats
facing linguistic and biological diversity and explore opportunities for
collaboration. As scholarship on biocultural diversity has demonstrated,
interesting correlations have been observed across linguistic and biological
diversity. Using ethno-ornithology as a
framework, we will investigate the potential for holistic approaches to
conservation and scholarship implicit in these observations.
If
you are interested in taking part in the poster sessions, please send an
abstract of no more than 500 words toJNCLOWRI@pitt.edu before July
15th.
Feeling
(Un)American: Race and National Belonging in the African American Literary
Tradition
NeMLA
2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
In
his 1903 The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois poses a question at the heart
of the African-American literary tradition: “How does it feel to be a problem?”
We see the question’s precursors in Walker’s Appeal, Douglass’ address on the
Fourth of July, and Harper’s anti-slavery poetry. It reverberates in Hurston’s
“How It Feels To Be Colored Me,” Ellison’s “black and blue,” Morrison’s The
Bluest Eye, and Rankine’s Citizen. Taking up the affective relationship between
race and national belonging, these texts ask us to contend with what it feels
like to be black in a nation founded on anti-blackness. Indeed, as Baldwin and
Coates make clear, the problem lies ever “between the world and me.”
This
panel speaks to recent critical trends in affect studies, critical race theory,
and American and African-American literature. In doing so, it expands upon Du
Bois’ question by asking: What kinds of affective expression does the nation
demand of black Americans? How has African-American literature wrestled with,
circumvented, accepted, or defied such demands?
Please
use the link below to submit a 250-word abstract and a short bio by September
30, 2019: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17985
For
further information contact Gabrielle Everett (gabrielle.everett@rutgers.edu)
or Margarita Castromán (margarita.castroman@rutgers.edu).
Afro-diasporic
Futures Before Afrofuturism
NeMLA
2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
This
panel will consider the political and aesthetic investments of future
speculations in Afro-diasporic writing from the nineteenth through early
twentieth centuries—before the Civil Rights movement, before decolonization,
perhaps before emancipation. In this way, the session adopts a broad
interpretation of Kudwo Eshun’s assertion that “Afrofuturism studies the
appeals that black artists, musicians, critics, and writers have made to the
future, in moments where any future was made difficult for them to imagine.”
Together, we will seek a more nuanced view of the imagined and/or foreclosed
futures with which black writers have contended at various historical
junctures, in both fictional and nonfictional modes. Since contemporary
Afrofuturism often calls upon and reimagines Afro-diasporic histories even as
it looks forward, this session enacts a complementary gesture, asking how
visions of the future in earlier literatures might have continued resonance
today, and how their recovery might inform our responses to the political
exigencies of the present.
Please
do not submit abstracts via email; all submissions must come in through NeMLA's
online portal (https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17890)
by September 30.
Contact
Email: kperillo@umass.edu
Poetry
and Identity: Shaping and Sharing the Trauma of Displacement
NeMLA
2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
This
panel will broach the topic of shaping a poetic identity through the prism of a
traumatic experience of displacement. How does the poet present a disturbing
personal history on the page? Coming from one place and being forcibly moved to
another also involves confronting a different language and culture: how is such
an occurrence translated to the page? This panel aims to examine and compare
poetic expressions from various times and places, which can be multilingual,
multimodal, and so on (poems from volumes, blends of visual art and poems,
performance poems, slam poetry, to name just a few possibilities), and to
examine how poets from diverse backgrounds have tried to contextualize,
re-shape, redefine, and/or resolve their own traumatic experiences through
different poetic expressions.
Please
submit your abstract through the NeMLA website. You will be asked to register
(for free) at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/Login.
Spatializing
Social Justice
NeMLA
2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
In
this session, we share the healing power of literature and argue that literacy
is the lifelong intellectual process of gaining meaning from a critical
interpretation of written or printed text. We touch upon different types of
writing and writers who aim to explore the healing process through words. Post
your abstract by 9/30/2019: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17869
email:
Mad207@lehigh.edu
The Role
of the magazine in shaping feminism
NeMLA
2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
The
significance of this session is to outline how the magazine help shape feminism
throughout the Twentieth Century; how they outline what it is to be a feminist;
how they provide a platform for feminist discussion; how they connect women on
a global scale; how they provide a space where the like-minded champion female
independence and equality; how they provide a space where contributors
challenge instilled gender perceptions and re-evaluated the role of women in
society; how they allow readers to communicate with the editors of the magazine
as well as other readers, an engagement that enables a magazine community.
Making the magazine a symbolic badge of allegiance, creating a blueprint that
helped shape and develop feminism and feminist ideologies within the last
century.
Theorizing
Transmediality in its Transnational Contexts
NeMLA
2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
The
study of literature has always relied upon the traversal of borders of various
kinds, both inter and intra nationally. This panel will engage with issues of
literary study across geographical and cultural borders as well as the
boundaries between literary and audio-visual media in the contemporary digital
age. As the field of screen studies has been informed by theoretical frameworks
originating in the field of literary studies, we ask how the interpretation of
literary texts is informed by disciplines that are only now, in the digital
age, being born. As digital technologies intensify movement of media across
traditional notions of borders between various communities, how can we model
the traversal of literary analysis across not only such borders but the bounds
of medium?
Deadline
for submissions: September 30, 2019.
250-word
abstracts must be submitted online through the NeMLA website at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18091.
Contact
Email: lnole@gradcenter.cuny.edu
American
Society for Environmental History
March
25-29, 2020, Ottawa, Ontario
ASEH
invites panel and paper proposals that consider environmental history in all
periods and places, especially those concerning the theme of Reparative
Environmental History. Analyses of the influence of material, economic, and
political power on historical ecologies and the people who live in them are
already familiar in environmental history. The theme of Reparative
Environmental History builds on these analyses by addressing the possibility of
making amends to those whose legal rights, health, livelihoods, and access to
nature were denied through others’ exercise of power, as well as to the
profoundly altered ecosystems themselves. Reparations require close examination
of past processes, how they have been narrated, and how these narratives have
been deployed and by whom. We especially welcome proposals that consider
environmental history as a force for material, political, or discursive
reparation to those disadvantaged by many conditions, including class, race,
gender, faith, colonial subjecthood, and rural or urban location.
Deadline
for Submissions: July 12, 2019
Southern
Humanities Conference, 2020
Baton
Rouge, LA, January 30-Feb 1, 2020
The
Southern Humanities Council Conference invites proposals for papers on any
aspect of the theme “Revelry and Reverence.” The topic is interdisciplinary and
invites proposals from all disciplines and areas of study, as well as creative
pieces including but not limited to performance, music, art, and literature.
(Please note that the name of our organization simply reflects its having been
founded in the U.S. south; no presenter is expected to present anything
“southern,” though southern topics are also welcomed.
Proposals
are due by December 15, 2019.
Social
Media & Antisemitism
5
& 6 November 2019, Edge Hill University, UK
Social
media is arguably impacting in significant ways on anti-Jewish racism- but what
is novel about this relationship? Focused on this question, Social Media &
Antisemitism is the first conference to analyse the connection between
innovations in media and changes in antisemitism over the longue durée. To that
end, we seek contributions from both social media experts and historians. We are interested in contributions that
consider any innovations in media and anti-Jewish prejudice within our broad
timeframe. Comparative papers considering different media are welcome, as are
transnational and global analyses, though we are interested in all relevant
geographical spaces- large or small.
Please
send a 250-word paper proposal and short biography to james.renton@edgehill.ac.uk and jenny.barrett@edgehill.ac.uk by
19 July 2019.
Culture(s)
in Conversation: Environments, Landscapes, and Ecologies
Bowling
Green State University on February 14th and 15th, 2020
Resisting
anthropocentrism, we seek to understand humanity’s connection to the world
itself, both in a cultural and physical sense. Because the environmental
humanities refer to a plurality of positions, we welcome contributions from the
humanities and social sciences, including but not limited to, the fields of
Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Film Studies, English, History, Sociology,
Philosophy, and Urban Studies. We seek individual presentations and round table
discussions that approach the concept of environment from a cultural lens and
encourage submissions that broaden our understanding of environment, subject,
and space.
Please
submit a 200-250 word abstract for papers, presentations, and round tables
using the google form by October 15, 2019: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1Ho6dGCz77pNmh2C5TxgFsCyGvGdFYjxqcqZaeLP0URr7EQ/viewform
If
you have questions, please contact: Stevie Scheurich at sscheur@bgsu.edu
Symposium
on Gender, Family, and Generations in Africa
September
13-14, 2019, Bucknell University,
We
have organized the GFG Symposium to bring together a group of scholars
interested in the intersections of these particular subjects both historically
over the longue duréeand in the contemporary world. One important aim is to
facilitate a dialogue across the various disciplines about the challenges and
opportunities in focusing on Gender, Family, and Generations that centers
African epistemologies and voices. How do ideologies and experiences of gender,
family, and generation intersect and impact each other? How do notions of
gender, family, and generation get misunderstood?
The
deadline for submission of proposals is 20 July 2019.
Please
submit to Symposium Conveners Drs. C. Cymone Fourshey (ccf014@bucknell.edu) and Chris Saidi (saidi@kutztown.edu).
Violent
Spaces: Landscape, Space & Place
We
are excited to announce the Call for Papers for Violent Spaces, the annual PGR
conference of the Landscape, Space and Place Group, which will be held on the
9th of September at the University of Nottingham. Spatial violence is an
expansive concept which covers a range of environmental, social, political,
economic and historical phenomena. As such, what is offered here is merely an
insight into the way in which spatial violence might act upon and shape our
contemporary world.
Please
send an abstract of no more than 250 words with a short bio (100 words max)
to lsp-group@nottingham.ac.uk by the
15th of July 2019.
International
Conference on Information Technology : New Generations
The
International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations (ITNG) is
an annual event focusing on state of the art technologies pertaining to digital
information and communications. The applications of advanced information
technology to such domains as astronomy, biology, education, geosciences,
security and health care are among topics of relevance to ITNG. Visionary
ideas, theoretical and experimental results, as well as prototypes, designs,
and tools that help the information readily flow to the user are of special
interest. Machine Learning, Robotics, High Performance Computing, and
Innovative Methods of Computing are examples of related topics. The conference
features keynote speakers, the best student award, poster award, service award,
a technical open panel, and workshops/exhibits from industry, government and
academia.
Paper
Submission Deadline: October 11, 2019
Contact
Email: sarah.harris@unlv.edu
Spaces of
Conflict
Friday,
October 25, 2019, Kent State University
The
Spaces of Conflict conference is organized as part of the 50th Commemoration of
May 4, 1970 event at Kent State where the Ohio National Guard shot four of the
KSU students and injured nine during the demonstration event against the US war
in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Our
built environment has always been affected and transformed by conflict.
Consequently, design professionals are directly or indirectly influencing the
processes of conflict through infrastructural development, urban and
architectural interventions, planning policies, and public space making. By
bringing together scholars, educators, researchers, and practitioners, we aim
to debate, exchange ideas, and theoretical perspectives on the role of space in
relation to different forms of conflict.
deadline:
July 20
The
following is the link to the website of the conference. https://www.caed.events/
If
you have any questions, please reach out to Dr. Taraneh Meshkani, tmeshkan@kent.edu.
English
in a World of Strangers: Rethinking World Anglophone Studies
Goethe
University Frankfurt, 21-24 May, 2020
In
an increasingly globalized world characterized by multipolar power structures,
transcultural flows and interlaced digital pathways, English has long since
become a worldly language. The 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for
Postcolonial Anglophone Studies (GAPS) will take up the challenge of exploring
the current state and future development of World Anglophone Studies.
Participants are invited to address the transformation of English from a
language of colonization or decolonization (and postcolonization?) to a
language of new power brokers as well as strangers, minorities and asylum
seekers and to scrutinize the new politics of language in which English has
become entangled in widely differing historical, political and cultural
contexts across the planet.
Deadline
for panel suggestions along with proposed speakers (minimum 3): November 01,
2019
Deadline
for individual abstracts: December 31, 2019
For
submission guidelines, please check the conference website: www.gaps2020-frankfurt.com
Contact
Email: Malreddy@em.uni-frankfurt.de
International
Conference on the Blues
October
4, 2019, Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi
Delta
State University is now accepting proposals for papers, presentations,
lecture-performances, workshops, panels, and clinics for the 6th annual
International Conference on the Blues.Papers are invited from scholars,
including authors, performers, African American music enthusiasts, and
independent researchers. We also welcome young and emerging scholars (graduate
students, recent masters and doctoral graduates, and junior faculty).
Proposal
Deadline: Friday, June 28
Philosophy
and Popular Culture
“Philosophy?
I always preferred common sense.” This infuriating phrase has met the
exasperated ears of many individuals invested in philosophy, whether people
trained in the discipline, teaching in it, or simply appreciative of its value
for society. Building bridges between philosophy and apparent “common sense,”
however, depends upon those who have regard for philosophical discourse and
inquiry.
Both
analytical and continental styles and figures within philosophy are welcome,
although clarity of analysis and subject matter are always appreciated.
Questions may be directed to Anthony G. Cirilla at acirilla@cofo.edu,
and abstracts can be submitted on the form found here: https://nepca.blog/conference/
email:
acirilla@cofo.edu
Constellations:
Connections, Disruptions, and Imaginations in Cinema and Beyond
University
of Southern California, Thursday, October 10, 2019 and Friday, October 11, 2019
Imagining
new constellations is hermeneutical. The act of imagining opens the possibility
for third spaces, making room for new worlds, and forming connections that were
otherwise impossible. When imagining constellations, one leaves open the
possibility of adapting to new changes, allowing new points to enter and
emerge, and respect the existence of other constellations in the vicinity.
Cinema, media, and visual culture has been generative in this endeavor. The
First Forum 2019 organizing committee welcomes papers, artwork, and creative
projects that expand, complicate, and reconsider the metaphor of constellations
in relation to sound and moving images. Papers outside the field of cinema and
media are strongly encouraged.
Please
e-mail an abstract of 250-300 words for a 15 to 18 minute presentation; a
biography of 150 words; and institutional affiliation to firstforum2019@gmail.com by July 31,
2019.
PUBLICATIONS
Alterglobal
Politics: Postcolonial Theory in the Era of the Anthropocene and the Nonhuman
This
special issue of Postcolonial Studies will explore hybrid assemblages of
notions and imaginaries of the ‘human’, the ‘nonhuman’, of species-life and of
the entanglement of different temporal and planetary scales in this moment of
accelerating climate change. Can postcolonial theory’s focus on the
‘particular’, the ‘fragmentary’ and the ‘local enable new ways of
imagining/thinking planetarity, cosmopolitics and a global politics of climate
change? Are considerations of the entanglements between the human and the
nonhuman complementary or antithetical to postcolonial theory’s drive to
pluralise the human? Are there ways in which we can contend with and theorise
what Sylvia Wynter calls ‘genres of the human’ in this era of climate change
and species extinction?
We
invite 250-word abstracts, due by 1 July 2019
Contact
Email: arbaishya1@ou.edu
Transgender
Narratives Anthology
We
are in search of works concerning transgender experiences and issues that make
them distinct from other narratives of identity within the LGBTQIA+ community.
At this time, we are looking to fill the gaps from an initial call for chapter
proposals and are seeking submissions that focus on the transfemme experience
specifically. These pieces can be scholarly OR creative, by single or multiple
authors, but all should be constructed with an undergraduate audience in mind. We
expect pieces to address multiple aspects of identity, but with a focus on
transgender, gendernonconforming (GNC), genderqueer, or nonbinary (NB)
narratives.
Expected
length of creative pieces: flexible, but not to exceed 8000 words. Proposed
deadline for full chapters: November 30, 2019.
Please
submit chapter proposals to: transgenderanthology@gmail.com
Unfurling
Unflattening: Tracing Theoretical, Methodological, and Pedagogical
Possibilities
The
publication of Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening (2015) created an unprecedented
stir among scholars, teachers, and publishers. Even before its release by
Harvard University Press, the book was hailed as a breakthrough in reimagining
education, the study of creativity, and the power of visual thinking; and as an
argument for the radical potential of comics for the transformation of
scholarly work and communication. The edited volume “Unfurling Unflattening”
will present a range of chapters that suggest new potential for the application
of Sousanis’s work germane to re-envisioning theory, expanding methodology, and
transforming pedagogy.
Abstracts
are due no later than August 30, 2019. Email abstracts to unfurlingunflattening@gmail.com.
Call for
Book Chapters: Machine Learning and Social Justice
We
seek contributions on emerging problems associated with the proliferation of
the Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in decision making. This interdisciplinary
edited volume focuses on topics of morality and social justice
and discusses Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, including sources of
potential social biases, from technical perspectives. Please submit your
abstract (approximately 300 words), along with your CV by August 15 to
Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochk@tulane.edu and/or
Dr. Elena Shabliy eshabliy@tulane.edu.
Researchers
at Risk: The Precarious Positions of Scholars Conducting Dangerous Enquiries
This
proposed edited research book is focused on the phenomenon of researchers at
risk – that is, the experiences and perceptions of scholars whose topics of
research require them to engage with diverse kinds of dangers, uncertainties or
vulnerabilities. Sometimes this risk derives from working with variously
marginalised individuals and groups, or from being members of such groups
themselves; at other times, the risk relates to particular economic or
environmental conditions and/or political forces influencing the specific
research fields in which they operate. Researchers at risk frequently encounter
ethical dilemmas focused on their relationships with the participants and other
stakeholders in the research, including when they construct themselves, or are
constructed by others, such as activists or lobbyists.
Please
email your abstract and a bionote of no more than 125 words for each chapter
author to either deborah.mulligan@usq.edu.au orpatrick.danaher@usq.edu.au
Submission
Deadline: July 31, 2019
Deconstructing
Doctoral Discourses: Students’ Stories and Strategies for Success
This
proposed edited research book is focused on the phenomenon of deconstructing
doctoral discourses – that is, on the processes of identifying, analysing,
challenging, subverting and transforming the taken-for-granted assumptions
framing the ways that “the doctorate” is spoken and written about, and
underpinning the generally accepted approaches to planning, conducting and
evaluating doctoral research. More
specifically, the chapters in the book are concerned with the stories that
doctoral students tell and write about their work.
Please
email your abstract and a bionote of no more than 125 words for each chapter
author to either deborah.mulligan@usq.edu.au or patrick.danaher@usq.edu.au
Submission
Deadline: July 31, 2019
VISTA
Journal of Visual Culture
We
are now inviting researchers and artists to contribute to the number 5 of the
online journal VISTA, a journal specialized on Visual Culture, and published by
the Portuguese Association of communication Sciences (SOPCOM). This issue will
debate the relations between colonial archives, the visual regimes that are
accessible through those archives and the post colonial debates on visuality.
We summarized our focus under the title: Imperial Views: colonial visualities
and processes of visual decolonization.
Please
see the CFP page here: http://vista.sopcom.pt/pag/en#call
Please
contact the editors of this issue, Teresa Mendes Flores (teresaflores@fcsh.unl.pt) and Cecilia
Jardemar (cecilia.Jardemar@konstfack.se)
Fat
Activism
Special
issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society
We
are seeking pieces on fat activism as encountered and created both inside and
outside the academy; we recognize the tenuous and often ambiguous boundaries
between activism and academia as well as between grassroots, radical movements,
and legal/policy-based social change. As two white and queer – one fat and one
thin – activist-scholars situated within the university, we also acknowledge
the significance of simultaneously working through discipline-specific methods,
using interdisciplinary approaches of analysis, and challenging canons and
conventions of historical and contemporary narratives to decenter western- and
white-centric claims to fat activism and fat studies.
Please send a 250-400
word proposal and current CV or resume to both co-editors, Jason Whitesel (jawhit6@ilstu.edu)
and Stefanie Snider (snider.stefanie@gmail.com)
by September 1, 2019.
International
Journal of Indigenous Health
In
this special guest edition, the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA)
prioritizes submissions identifying health systems innovations including
cultural safety and humility education and action plans, trauma-informed care
approaches, and anti-racism strategies that are Indigenous-specific.
Submissions
that meet all guidelines and are ready for peer review are due by September 30,
2019.
Please
refer to the journal’s submission guidelines and policies prior to preparing
and submitting an article for submission: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijih/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.
Please
contact the FNHA’s Research and Knowledge Exchange team with submissions or
questions: rkee@fnha.ca.
Isn't It
Ironic? Receivership and Responsibility in Popular Culture
As
literary technique, irony is a dissimulative rhetorical act in which the tenor
and vehicle of one’s language are often in deliberately playful conflict with
one another for the purposes of emphasising paradox, incongruity, and humour.
This collection addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture
and the role of the consumer (reader, viewer, listener) in determining and
disseminating meaning. What happens when texts intended and received in one
manner are themselves ironically recontextualised? How do we – and should we –
police ‘banter culture’? And in what ways is ‘truthiness’ reflected in popular
culture?
Please
send a 300-word abstract outlining your key ideas and arguments, a brief bio,
and a writing sample (preferably published) to ironyandpopculture@gmail.com
by Oct. 31.
Contact
Email: ironyandpopculture@gmail.com
New
Television
We
are currently putting together a special issue of The Canadian Review of
American Studies on the topic of “new television.” We are seeking essay-length
explorations of this predominantly American genre’s uptake of recent political,
technological, and cultural shifts as well as currents in cinematic and
literary fiction. We are especially interested in analyses of one or several of
the following series: The Sopranos, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Deadwood,
Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Mad Men, True Detective, House of Cards, Weeds,
Veep, Transparent, and High Maintenance.
Please
send a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bio, c/o Daniel Adleman, to
newtelevisioncfp@gmail.com by August 1, 2019.
Call for
Podcast Contributors: Books Aren't Dead
The
co-producers of Books Aren’t Dead, a podcast with authors of books and games
that deal with intersections of feminism, new technology, new media and digital
spaces are looking for contributors and collaborators. Books Aren’t Dead is
affiliated with the Fembot Collective and the peer-reviewed journal Ada.
We
invite graduate students, junior scholars, and faculty interested in
interviewing and/or profiling authors, makers, and scholars of new
publications/games/digital projects that deal with any of these themes. We
accept submissions from potential interviewers and submissions of books to be
considered. We also have a list of books to be considered for review. No
technical knowledge of podcasting is required, we will help with all steps of
the process.
Our
first episode can be found at: https://blogs.bgsu.edu/booksarentdead/
Contributor
information and instructions can be found here: https://blogs.bgsu.edu/booksarentdead/contribute/
Contact
Email: eledwar@bgsu.edu
What’s
White in the Rainbow: White Supremacy in LGBTQ Movements
We
invite you to submit an abstract for consideration for What’s White in the
Rainbow: White Supremacy in LGBTQ Movements, an edited volume highlighting
works of established and emerging thinkers examining the presence, effects, and
abolition of white supremacy in LGBTQ social movements. The first of its kind,
"What’s White in the Rainbow" aims to demonstrate the deep structural
and social ties between white supremacy and LGBTQ social movements in the
United States. This volume will bring together scholars across multiple
disciplines to create a conversation about what role white supremacy has had,
and continues to have, in LGBT social movements.
Abstracts
due July 31, 2019
For
more information contact: WhiteSupremacyInLGBTQMovements@gmail.com
Trajectories
of Images
In
today’s society, digital images have become increasingly mobile. They are
networked, shared on social media, and circulated across small and portable
screens. The rising traffic of digital photographs, films and videos in our
time invites us to re-examine the historical and theoretical relevance of
images’ mobility and to provide a materialist account of visual media. A
materialist perspective does not restrict itself to questions of social
practices around and usages of images or to the circulation of recurrent
motifs, but rather interrogates the conditions which make the transmission and
circulation of images possible or stand in its way. It addresses the
trajectories, spacing, deferrals and intervals between production and
exhibition which give weight to the materiality of mobile images.
A
planned edited volume on “Trajectories of Images” invites contributions
exploring the materiality of circulation and transportation of analogue and/or
digital images (paintings, postcards, photography, film, wirephoto, mail art,
etc.). We particularly welcome proposals which consider the implications of
mobility for theories of media and images.
If
you are interested in publishing a chapter in this volume, please submit an
abstract of approximately 300 words and a short biography toolga.moskatova@fau.de by 31 July
2019.
FUNDING
Dublin/Sklar
Graduate Student Essay Award
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4181248/dublinsklar-graduate-student-essay-award
The
Dublin/Sklar Graduate Essay Competition: In honor of Thomas Dublin and Kathryn
Kish Sklar, the founding editors of the electronic journal and database Women
and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, Alexander Street Press
gives an annual award to a graduate student who submits the best paper making
use of our extensive database of primary sources. The winner will be awarded
$500 and receive recognition at the Women and Social Movements in the U.S.
luncheon at the 2020 Organization of American Historians Meeting in Washington,
D.C. The selected essay will also be eligible to be peer-reviewed for
publication in our journal.
Essay
Due Date: Jan. 1, 2020.
New York
Academy of Medicine Library history of medicine fellowships
The
Academy Library offers two annual research fellowships to support the
advancement of scholarly research in the history of medicine and public health.
Fellowship recipients are in-house scholars who conduct research using the
Academy’s collections and resources. The Helfand Fellowship supports research
using Academy library resources for scholarly study of the history of medicine
and public health. The Klemperer Fellowship supports research using the Academy
Library's resources for scholarly study of the history of medicine.
We
invite applications from anyone, regardless of citizenship, academic
discipline, or academic status. If you have questions about the instructions,
the application process, or the Library’s collections, please call 212-822-7313
or send email to history@nyam.org.
Applications
are due by the end of the day on Friday, August 23, 2019.
Louise
Seaman Bechtel Visiting Travel Grant Program
The
Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature in the Department of
Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida’s George A.
Smathers Libraries contains more than 115,000 books and periodicals published
in the United States and Great Britain from the mid-1600s to present day. Proposals
may be submitted on any topic, but applications that focus on the following
topics will be given priority: Diversity in children’s literature; Women and
science; Creative projects using collection as inspiration; Movable books.
Proposals
and specific questions regarding the application process can be directed to lib-baldwin@uflib.ufl.edu.
Deadline:
July 10
Application:
https://www.marisandoz.org/events_activities/mari-sandoz-research-award/mari-sandoz-research-award-application.html
Istanbul
Research Institute Grants
Call
for Applications: Istanbul Research Institute Grants
Istanbul
Research Institute offers four types of grants for researchers working on
projects related to its departments of Byzantine, Ottoman, Atatürk and
Republican-Era studies, and its “Istanbul and Music” Research Program.
For
more information, eligibility criteria, and application: https://en.iae.org.tr/Content/Grants/128
Deadline:
August 11, 2019
Contact
Email: fellowships@iae.org.tr
Mari
Sandoz Scholar Award
The
Mari Sandoz Heritage Society encourages college students to conduct research on
Mari Sandoz and her work at the undergraduate and graduate level by offering an
annual research award of $1,000 for proposals that emphasize new insights on
Sandoz or new approaches to her life and work. Topics to consider include:
feminism; American Indian topics; environmental issues; activism. The award
recipient will present the research at the annual Mari Sandoz Conference at
Chadron State College in Chadron, Nebraska.
The
current call for papers deadline is July 31, 2019
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Lehigh
University, Mellon Research Scholar
Lehigh
University seeks applications for a three-year Mellon Postdoctoral Research Scholar
to participate, beginning August 2019, in the leadership of our efforts to
integrate and amplify the Humanities across all disciplines.
The
scholar will contribute to sharpening and pursuing the vision of the grant
program and to the development of programming under its auspices, pursue
individual scholarship, teach one undergraduate course each semester,
contribute to workshops in partnership with Lehigh’s Center for Innovation in
Teaching and Learning, and work with faculty to help reimagine courses and
pedagogies to better integrate and accentuate the Humanities.
The
position is open to candidates with a Ph.D. received between August 2016 and
August 2019.
The
deadline for receipt of all materials is July 15, 2019.
Inquiries
should be directed to Professor Michael Kramp (dmk209@lehigh.edu).
Museum
Curator in Latinx Political History
Smithsonian
Institution, National Museum of American History
Kenneth
E. Behring Center
We
are seeking scholars familiar with Latinx political movements. Specializations
could include but are not limited to:
social justice movements (labor organizing, civil rights, voting rights,
LBGTQ, housing, employment, policing); labor, women’s, or gender activism; and
electoral politics. We are seeking scholars familiar with Latinx political
movements. Specializations could include but are not limited to: social justice movements (labor organizing,
civil rights, voting rights, LBGTQ, housing, employment, policing); labor,
women’s, or gender activism; and electoral politics.
A
Ph.D. in history, American studies or related field is preferred. Experience
working with material culture or in museums a plus. This is a position
equivalent to an assistant/associate professor.
Contact
Abigail Karow with questions: NMAHApplications@si.edu
WORKSHOPS
Gender
& Sexuality Writing Collective
The
Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the
University of Rochester will hold a two-day writing collective on October
25-26, 2019. The aim of the collective is to create an intimate space for
emerging scholars of gender and sexuality to share their work with a focus on
preparing their paper for publication. This event is intended as an opportunity
for graduate students to consider issues pertaining to gender, sexuality, race,
class, and disability. Participants will engage with one another in
interdisciplinary discussions led by established scholars in the humanities,
arts, and social sciences, whose experience and outstanding research in their
respective fields will benefit and help shape the papers.
Please
submit your paper (6,000-10,000 words, including your name, broader research
interest, and email address) along with a brief biographical statement in Word
or PDF format by August 15, 2019, to the graduate organizing committee at sbaiwritingcollective@gmail.com.
Society
for the Study of American Women Writers
The
Fall 2019 meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study Group will take place on
Saturday October 12, 2019 at Texas Tech University. The common reading will be Iola Leroy by Frances E. W. Harper,
edited by Koritha Mitchell (Broadview, 2018), and Dr. Mitchell will be present
as a special guest participant.
The
Study Group is an informal gathering of professors, graduate students, and independent
scholars who share an interest in American women’s writing. We share a lunch
(provided by the host campus), spend the afternoon discussing the common
reading, and have dinner at a local restaurant (paid individually). We welcome
new participants to join the conversation, which is always rich and
stimulating, and often touches on larger professional concerns (teaching,
publishing, mentoring, etc.).
More
details regarding travel, location, lodging, parking, etc. will be available at
our website in the Fall: http://txssaww.wordpress.com/
email:
dhenderson@uta.edu
RESOURCES
Open-source,
Open-edit Resources on Democratic Innovation & Public Participation
We
are pleased to announce the launch of our fully redesigned open-source, open-edit
website https://participedia.net/. Participedia’s
searchable database of participatory democracy is for anyone - from the
armchair researcher to the social scientist. The platform was collaboratively
designed by an international research partnership to connect and bolster their
work on participatory democracy with publicly crowdsourced knowledge.
Contact
Email: communications@participedia.net
During
Office Hours -- Usable, practical resources for teachers in higher ed
During
Office Hours is a free, non-profit resource for teachers in higher education.
We provide a variety of syllabi, activities, handouts, articles and the like
for use and adaption as you see fit. We welcome and encourage submissions from
all course levels, subjects, and disciplines.
At
During Office Hours, we’re a group of like-minded teachers in higher education
who want to create an easy to use, open access source for teaching resources. At
During Office Hours, we’re a group of like-minded teachers in higher education
who want to create an easy to use, open access source for teaching resources.
Edge
Effects Magazine
Edge
Effects offers a wide array of content relating to environmental and cultural
change across the full sweep of human history. We seek to invite and cultivate
a broad readership and authorship that spans a range of political and cultural
perspectives. We aim to address the historical and contemporary marginalization
and silencing of voices in academic disciplines and the academy more broadly.
Our name—about which you can read more in a piece by Bill Cronon—invokes our
commitment to publishing across boundaries, at the intersections of the
sciences with the humanities, of academe with the public, of narrated pasts
with imagined futures.
Edge
Effects features content in many formats—text, image, video, and a
podcast—while maintaining a commitment to clear, accessible prose. Its content
is grouped into six broad categories: Essays, Commentary, Reviews, Exhibits,
Fieldnotes, and Checklists.
We
invite submissions from anyone interested in bringing interdisciplinary
environmental humanities work to a public audience. We are especially
interested in publishing graduate students, adjuncts, practitioners, early
career scholars, and other voices adjacent to the traditional professoriate.
send
proposals to edgeeffects@nelson.wisc.edu.
