CONFERENCES
Power
and Struggle
The University of Alabama Graduate History Association 11th
Annual Conference
The conference’s theme addresses new approaches of historical
analysis that focus on the relationship between struggle and power, especially
people who struggled to break, transform, or reclaim the boundaries constructed
by those in power. We encourage graduate students to submit proposals that
examine these relationships across various temporal, geographical, and topical
fields and disciplines. The conference seeks proposals employing theoretical
approaches, interdisciplinary methods, comparative perspectives, and
multi-archival research bases that pushes the bounds of historical
interpretation.
The deadline for proposal submission is July 2, 2019.
For more information please email the committee at ghaconference@gmail.com.
Mobility,
Conflict, and Frontiers
November 21-23, 2019, At the Universidad Autónoma de
Coahuila, Saltillo, Coahuila
Despite the geographic and environmental diversity of
Northeastern Mexico and Texas, numerous social, political, economic, and
cultural processes have endowed the whole area with a distinct historical
identity. Since time immemorial, the region has witnessed numerous movements of
peoples of diverse ethnic and geographic origins, often resulting in conflict
and violence, but also in episodes of coexistence and integration. The Rio
Grande has served as the theoretical borderline between Mexico and the United
States since the mid-nineteenth century. However, as it typically occurs in
border regions, the borderline often becomes invisible in practice. Changing
socioeconomic dynamics, both regional and global, constantly generate new
challenges and opportunities to the dwellers of a frontier where political
jurisdictions and laws are sometimes ignored, which in turn generates
significant challenges to authorities and institutions.
Those interested in participating should submit a research
abstract no longer than 1,000 characters, along with an updated CV of the same
length, by June 21, 2019.
Contact Email: norestexas@gmail.com
Native
Legacies in the 21st Century
The Thirteenth Native American Symposium will held on November 1, 2019 at Southeastern
Oklahoma State University. Papers,
presentations, panels, creative projects, and short films addressing all
aspects of Native American life and studies are welcome, including
but not limited to archaeology, history, literature, law, medicine, education,
religion, politics, social science, and the fine arts. All papers
presented at the symposium will be eligible for inclusion in a volume of
published proceedings, which will also be posted on our website at http://homepages.se.edu/nas/. Send abstracts of no more than 250 words by
July 15, 2019 to Dr. Mark B. Spencer at mspencer@se.edu.
SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM
– TOKYO
4 – 5 October 2019
We are pleased to announce a call for contributions to
SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM (SGFA) – Tokyo, a research event
investigating scholarly and artistic research in the context of sound in all
its various creative and theoretical forms, gender and activism. This open call
welcomes responses from all relevant disciplines and in a variety of formats
from short academic presentations to more experimental contributions. These may
include sound works, moving image work, performances etc.
Deadline for proposals: 17 June 2019
email: sgfa-tokyo@crisap.org.
New
Perspectives on Non-State Political Violence
Queen's University Belfast
We welcome Ph.D. and early-career researchers as well as
experienced academics and practitioners from a broad range of backgrounds who
are interested in innovative ways of researching and analysing non-state
political violence. Please submit your abstract (max. 500 words) and a
short bio to nppvconf2019@qub.ac.uk by
July 15, 2019
Landscapes
of Politics and Identity in American Literature
Proposals being accepted for session at the Northeast Modern
Language Association Convention in Boston, MA, March 5-8, 2020.
For Americans, the landscape brings strong associations,
whether cultural, political, historical, or commercial. The landscape, in a
sense, is central to the Amercian identity.
This session seeks proposals on the meaning of landscape in American
literature. How do Americans use the
landscape to create identity? In what
ways are landscapes used politically or culturally to create meaning? This session encourages interdisciplinary
approaches to the landscape in American literature, including the examination
of literature and the visual arts.
Submit 300 word
proposals by September 30, 2019 to the NEMLA website: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17923.
Contact Email: khealey@worcester.edu
Re-Thinking
the Language Classroom Through Special Learning Dis/Ability
NeMLA 2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
This panel aims to re-think the way we design language
courses that include students with special needs. How can we redefine the
concept of equal treatment within a course with an heterogenous student body?
How do we tailor the course content, the assessments and the evaluation
criteria to the needs of disabled students? How can we make the experience
with disabled students pedagogically and
emotionally meaningful to the entire class?
Please make sure to submit your abstract through the
following web site URL by September 30th, 2019: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17983
Contact Email: cellinese@princeton.edu
'Let
Ghosts be Ghosts': Reading Animals in the Academy and the Anthropocene
NeMLA 2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
Despite its scholarly view as an inquiry most commonly
worthy of analysis when it relates to more celebrated fields of study, the
interdisciplinary field of animal studies has worked its way into the view of
various scholars, including the well-known Jacques Derrida. Animals have
occupied a central position in the public eye for more than 30 years, though
their literary value has been pigeonholed into a space where animals are only acknowledged
as metaphors of anthropocentric concerns. By exploring methodological
approaches, such as Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus‘s “surface reading”, this
panel seeks to recognize animals as more than anthropocentric metaphors and
respond to the constricting difficulties of reading and understanding an animal
outside of human experiences.
Please submit abstracts of 300 words by September 30, 2019
using the NeMLA portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18031
Contact Email: jenna.sterling@temple.edu
Asian
Studies in the Digital Age
October 12–13, 2019, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 48th
Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference
The conference theme “Asian Studies in the Digital Age”
reflects upon what it means to study Asia in an historical moment animated by
the global spread of digital technologies. The conference is open to scholars
from all academic disciplines and from all ranks, including full-time and part-time
faculty, graduate students, independent scholars, and professionals. We seek
paper proposals on all topics related to Asia. We especially encourage
submissions from scholars and students working in digital humanities, science
and technology studies, media studies, data science, communications,
information science, software studies, and platform studies.
The deadline for panel and paper proposals is FRIDAY, JUNE
15th.
Contact Email: benders@dickinson.edu
URL: http://maraas.org
Race,
Ethnicity, and Architecture in the Nation's Capital
Saturday, April 18, 2020,
Governments and private developers have employed built
environments to control and regulate racialized bodies. Through the systemic
planning of residential and commercial districts, public spaces, and transit,
they ensured the growth of isolated enclaves whose economic health varied based
on inhabitants’ race. Historically-specific understandings of race have
likewise shaped the design and construction of the capital’s architecture, for
example influencing the development of various building typologies, ranging
from embassies and museums to shopping centers. The 13th Latrobe Chapter
Biennial Symposium therefore calls for a timely investigation of the symbiotic
relationship between race, ethnicity, and architecture in the greater
Washington, DC region. It conceptualizes race broadly, not as an issue of binaries,
but rather of corporeal hierarchies that meaningfully structure the design and
experience of architectural and urban spaces.
Please send a one-page, 350-word abstract of a 20-minute
paper and 1-2 page curriculum vitae by August 1, 2019 to vyta.baselice@gmail.com.
URL:
Transformative
Pedagogy: From Conformity to Critical Thinking in the College Classroom
NeMLA 2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
This roundtable aims to open an interdisciplinary discussion
across the humanities about critical pedagogies that promote new ways of teaching
and learning and contribute to transform the classroom into a communal space
that stimulates critical thinking rather than conformity to satisfy pre-set
expectations. We invite proposals that explore ideas, strategies, projects, and
practices that address the question of community, student-teacher engagement,
diversity and difference, and critical thinking within and outside the
classroom.
Please submit a 150-200 word abstract and short bio before
September 30th to the NeMLA submission page: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18333
For further questions or inquiries on this panel, please
contact Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso (chair) at ruth.yuste_alonso@uconn.edu
Multispecies
Becoming: Coming into Terms with Our Own End
NeMLA 2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
This panel aims to consider speculative/science fiction’s
imagination of the end of the human reign as we know it. What would the a
posthuman, transhuman body and space look like? What can we become in order to
stay with the trouble? And what kind of discourses such imaginations disrups
and question through offering these depictions? To submit your short (500 words
)abstract with a brief bio , please go to NeMLA link below or from NeMLA org
paper abstract proposal page , and then choose session 18150: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18150
email: Esendur1@binghamton.edu
Northeast
Modern Language Association 51st Annual Convention
Please join us for NeMLA's 51st Annual Convention at the
Boston Marriott Copley Place, conveniently located in the heart of the city. The
theme of NeMLA 2020 is "Shaping and Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places,
Languages, and Cultures" — a topic embracing the many facets that define
each and every human being across cultures and languages, as well as the many
ways in which we interact with each other in today’s rapidly changing global
world.
Submit abstracts to more than 400 sessions with a
free NeMLA user account by September
30, 2019. For more information, please visit our website.
Bodies
of Buddhism: Somaesthetic Explorations
February 27-28, 2020, Boca Raton Campus of Florida Atlantic
University
Approaching Buddhism from an embodied perspective opens new
pathways for reexamining the varieties of ways that this religion has been
practiced. This somaesthetic focus paints a more complete picture of how
Buddhist practices connect to issues of humanism, social justice, the arts, and
the art of living. This conference invites papers on Buddhism’s somatic
dimensions and the body’s role in Buddhist ethics and artistic practices. One
aim of the conference is to explore this positive dimension of dissonance in
Buddhist thought and practice, but our call is open to other somaesthetic
perspectives on the bodies of Buddhism.
Interested participants should send a paper title, abstract,
and brief bio to Dr. Kenneth W. Holloway at khollow4@fau.edu or bodymindculture@fau.edu prior to
October 1, 2019.
Planet
Ocean
21st September 2019 at DCU’s All Hallows Campus in
Drumcondra, Dublin
Changing marine environments form a significant part of
contemporary concerns around global warming. Rising sea-levels, microplastics,
oil spills, and fishing practices are just some of the compounding
environmental factors that scientific research attempts to tackle. Yet the sea
is also an everyday space of both livelihood and leisure. Coastal environments
are key to local livelihoods and national economies. For the individual, the
sea may be a space of escape, sport, or inspiration. Indeed, the sea’s intangible
nature as well as its flux and flows have influenced writers and artists from
the earliest beginnings of human history. If marine and coastal environments
are to be preserved for future generations, then these interdisciplinary
interactions must be charted and negotiated today.
The workshop aims to bring together academics and
non-academics from Ireland and abroad who engage in research or daily practice
related to engaging with and protecting the world’s seas and oceans.
Please send abstracts / descriptions
of creative contributions of max. 300 words, along with a short bio of max. 150
words to 2019planetocean@gmail.com by
June 30.
Race,
Memory, and Identity
Thursday, November 14 to Saturday, November 16, 2019,
Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
This conference aims to bring together scholars from
multiple disciplinary perspectives to broadly explore the intersections of
Race, Memory, and Identity. Contemporary social, political, and media
discourses demonstrate the continued need to evaluate the differing ways that
race and identity impact memory in connection to history, trauma, loss and
remembrance. Understanding memory as both a subject and a tool can act to
promote conversations about how memories of the past impress upon individual
and collective memory to affectively shape racial and cultural identities. How
might we remember the legacies of personal and historical injustices in the
present while at the same time shaping the future to allow for an exploration
of the persistently entangled forces of remembrance, identity, and justice?
Proposals should be sent to muraceconference@monmouth.edu by
July 1, 2019
LITERATURE
AND GEOGRAPHY IN LATIN AMERICA
This panel welcomes papers that study the role of physical
spaces and related geographical concepts in the political, social, and cultural
structures and processes of Latin American countries and its literary
traditions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Please submit a
200-words abstract to Cinthya Torres at ctorres@shc.edu by
July 10.
Imagining
the Utopian/Dystopian Future of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
The Society of Utopian Studies Annual Conference, October 17-19,
2019, East Lansing, MI
This panel or series of panels will explore the utopian and
dystopian dreams of technology, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and
data science on teaching and learning at institutions of higher education. We
seek proposals from scholars from a variety of disciplines across institutions
of higher education. Proposals need to address utopian/dystopian impulses/
futures/dreams from a scholarly perspective.
Please send proposals of no more than 250 words and a brief
CV by June 21, 2019 to Marisa Brandt (brandtm7@msu.edu),
Zach Kaiser (kaiserza@msu.edu), and Stephanie E.
Vasko (vaskoste@msu.edu).
Intersections
of Language and Nature: Conservation, Documentation, and Access
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 6th and 7th, 2019
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 to JNCLOWRI@pitt.edu
before July 15th.
Black
Temporalities: Past, Present, and Future
10th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Interdisciplinary Conference, James Madison University, Feb 20-21, 2020
Ranging across topics from oral history to Afrofuturism, the
conference will bring together a group of scholars from a wide variety of
overlapping and intersecting fields. We welcome proposals from scholars in all
relevant disciplines at any point in their scholarly careers.
Please send any questions and/or 300-word presentation
proposals (or 1000-word panel proposals) to aaadstudies@jmu.edu by
October 15, 2019.
Arts
Practice Research: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and the Creative Process
October 11-13th, 2019, Texas Tech University
The conference, held on the campus of Texas Tech University,
will bring together students and teachers, creators and scholars, campus and
community, vernacular and cultivated genres, “traditional” and “modern”
perspectives—and will investigate and fruitfully complicate the dynamics
between all. We invite proposals for individual papers, themed paper sessions;
individual presentations of works in process; round-table discussions;
workshops in devised theater, free sound improvisation, contact partnering,
dance, improvisational visual art. Students will participate at every stage and
level, including planning, logistics, presentation, and assessment. Featured
performances will include works “devised” through the process of arts practice
via transdisciplinary collaboration.
The deadline is June 15 2019
inquiries may be directed to steering Committee chair christopher.smith@ttu.edu
Just
Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT
Just Code is a one and a half day CBI symposium/workshop on
how code—construed broadly, from software routines to bodies of law and
policy—structures and reinforces power relations. It will explore the often
invisible ways that individuals and institutions use software, algorithms, and
computerized systems to establish, legitimize, and reinforce widespread social,
material, commercial, and cultural inequalities and power imbalances. The event
will also examine how individuals, unions, political organizations, and other
institutions use code to fight for equality and justice.
Deadline for Paper Proposals is Oct. 15, 2019 to cbi@umn.edu
Registration: https://forms.gle/KK5n37jhN1Mdnyxp9
Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures Conference
April 16th-18th, 2020 – University of Kentucky
The KFLC is proud to open sessions devoted to the
presentation of scholarly research in the area of East Asian Studies. Abstracts are invited in all areas and
aspects of this field, including, but not limited to:
- Class, gender,
ethnicity/race
- Colonialism and Diaspora
- Memory, violence, and
nation
- Popular culture in global
markets
- Performance, agency, and
identity
- Ethics of
literary-cultural studies
- Classical literature; new
readings
- Media studies, music
studies, film studies
- Social movements –
justice, citizenship, and resistance
- The avant-garde – arts in
contexts
- Body, space, and the
public sphere
- The politics of writing –
writing within/against culture
For general information about the conference and paper
presentation guidelines, and to submit abstracts and panel proposals BY
NOVEMBER 11th, 2019 at 11:59 PM EST, please visit our
website: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/
PUBLICATIONS
From
Self-Portrait to Selfie: Contemporary Art and Self-Representation in the Social
Media Age
Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device
and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging
becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this
selfies have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled
otherwise representationally marginalized constituencies to insert
self-representations into visual culture. In the Western European and North
American art-historical context, self-portraiture has been somewhat rigidly
albeit obliquely defined, and selfies have facilitated a shift regarding who
literally holds the power to self-image. The essays gathered herein will reveal
that in our current moment it is necessary and advantageous to consider the
merits and interventions of selfies and self-portraiture in an expanded field
of self-representations. We invite authors to take interdisciplinary global perspectives,
to investigate various sub-genres, aesthetic practices, and lineages in which
selfies intervene to enrich the discourse on self-representation in the
expanded field today.
The submission deadline is 31.10.2019. For further details
on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at our
website (https://www.mdpi.com/books/publish_with_us).
Contact Email: wagner@mdpi.com
Fandom
Pedagogies
The expansion of fan studies as an academic field, and the
growing visibility of fandom and fan activities in popular culture, have led to
more instructors using fannish activities and engagement in the classroom, and
teaching fan studies as a disciplinary focus. Teaching fandom and fan studies
means drawing from a multidisciplinary spectrum of methodologies and foci. Yet,
as fan studies itself is often a “moving target” -- refusing, in many
instances, of becoming “disciplined” enough to match traditional academic units
-- it becomes imperative to discuss the various contributions, methodologies,
ethics, and lacunae of the field in a classroom setting. The specific
pedagogical needs of the fan studies classroom require sustained interrogation
because of the changing field of fan studies itself. This special issue seeks
submissions that specifically address the pedagogical methods, styles,
contributions, and concerns of the fan studies course, classroom, and online
space(s).
Due date—January 1, 2020
Please visit TWC's Web site (http://journal.transformativeworks.org/)
for complete submission guidelines, or e-mail the TWC Editor (editor@transformativeworks.org).
Discourses
on Sustainability: Climate Change, Clean Energy, and Justice
This book will bring together researchers to analyze
environmental issues and sustainability. Climate change was recognized as an
urgent problem by the United Nations; the Paris Agreement aims at strengthening
the global response to the threat of global warming. Climate-related risks to
health, security, water supply, and economic growth will be discussed. We also seek
contributions on philosophical questions related to renewable energy
development and climate change mitigation, such as ethics, social justice,
equality, human rights, etc. When confronting environmental problems, questions
of fairness, equity, and justice are of great importance.
By July 15 please submit your CV and an
abstract (approximately 300 words) to Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochk@tulane.edu and/or Dr. Elena
Shabliy eshabliy@tulane.edu.
Familial
Influences on Superheroes
The edited collection, Familial Influences on Superheroes,
will examine the role that the family plays on the development of the superhero
as portrayed in radio, comics, graphic novels, television series, and feature
films. Many superheroes have experienced
the trauma of losing (a) parent(s), which sets them apart from others. Thus, the individuals that the superheroes
gravitate towards become an integral part of their lives, to the point where
they form a necessary and vital “familial network” of connections that would
either replace those that were lost or never fully established. This network ranges from “substitute”
parents/guardians as well as siblings and relatives, to significant others and
even more extended members comprising superhero teams. Each chapter will focus on a specific
superhero and how s/he has been impacted by the aforementioned familial
figures. Through this collection of
essays, readers will understand the psychological makeup of superheroes much
better and see that behind every hero is a family member(s) encouraging them to
use their powers for the benefit of humanity.
The deadline for proposals of 500 words is August 1, 2019. Please
email your abstract and a brief bio to jiaccino@thechicagoschool.edu.
Object-Oriented
Ontology and its Critics
Special issue of Open Philosophy (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opphil)
Oriented Ontology (OOO) has provoked more critics and
generated more interdisciplinary work than any of the strands of post-2007
Speculative Realism. This topical issue aims to address both the controversies
associated with OOO and its rapid spread across the disciplines. Articles
presenting thoughtful criticism of OOO are welcomed for this issue, as are
discussions of OOO’s intervention in such fields as archaeology, architecture,
art, literary criticism, organization theory, social theory, and videogame criticism,
among others.
Submissions will be collected till July 31, 2019.
Contact Email: Lukasz.Gworek@degruyter.com
Activism
in the Name of the Spirit/God: Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the
Nineteenth Century to the Present
Chapters are solicited for inclusion in an edited volume
titled Activism in the Name of the Spirit/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 disciplinary fields
such as feminist, gender, and sexuality studies and rhetorical history.
Interested authors should submit proposals to jami.carlacio@yale.edu the
following for consideration, by June 30, 2019.
The
Erasure of Subject: Postmodern Reflections
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS),
an academic journal, invites original and unpublished research papers. Postmodernist
discursions are preoccupied with the creation of incipient epistemologies that
would throw into relief tonalities of ruptures existing within human ‘self.’
One tonality within the postmodern requiem of Cartesian subject, a reference
point for the world around, finds it a nebulous presence. Here the idea of a
disembodied rationality, free from historical contingencies, gets replaced by a
persistent enquiry about the possibility of this thinking subject. This
narrative about the status of subject pans across different disciplinary spaces
where discursive practices engage themselves with reconceptualizing the
traditional, metaphysical positioning of the subject as a stable, regulating
‘presence’ imparting meaning to the objective world.
Only complete papers will be considered for publication. The
papers need to be submitted according to the latest guidelines of the MLA
format. You are welcome to submit full length papers (not less than 3500 words)
along with a 150 words abstract, list of keywords, bio-note, and word count (in
a separate word doc) on or before 30th June, 2019.
Website – www.ellids.com
Contact Email: llids.journal@gmail.com
Latina/o
Art
The US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal, a
peer-reviewed publication dedicated to research about the country’s Latina/o
population and relies on oral history as an essential methodology, invites submissions
of original manuscripts for its fifth volume. Subject of interest is oral
histories of Latina/o art, artists, art activism, and more. This includes, but
is not limited to, public art, murals, community artists, art and education,
and testimonies of Latina/o artists. We will also consider similar themes as
long as the focus is US Latinos through oral history. The deadline for initial
submissions is Tuesday, October 1, 2019. All submissions should be directed to latoralhistory@utexas.edu.
submission guidelines: https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/us-latina-latino-oral-history-journal
The
CANCELED Issue
“Canceling” is a mode of protest that usually originates in
online spaces in which cultural capital is divested from someone or something
that has come to represent unacceptable values. In recent years, practices of
social criticism such as “canceling,” “calling out,” and “de-platforming” have
become mechanisms by which to hold public figures and media sources
accountable. Through the collective act of canceling, a group assumes the power
to deny an outlet for harmful messages and people. Often emerging as a
spontaneous response to public speech and acts, canceling centers voices in
those marginal spaces that hegemonic discourse ignores. No wonder, then, that
we see so many attempts to label canceling a “toxic” and “anti-democratic”
activity. But if it is indeed “non-deliberative” and “non-rational,” does it
necessarily follow that it is also undemocratic? The 2019 Winter issue of Open
Set will examine so-called “cancel culture” and the questions it raises for the
arts, humanities, and creative practices.
Proposals of 500-800 words should be sent to openset.editors@gmail.com no
later than 1 August 2019.
Gender
Justice: Theoretical Practices of Intersectional Identity
This essay collection examines how gender, as a category of
identity, must continually be understood in relation to how structures of
inequality define and shape its meaning. It asks how notions of “justice” shape
gender identity and whether the legal justice system itself privileges notions
of gender or is itself gendered. Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice
seeks proposals for essays that contribute to understanding how theoretical
practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations
formed as a result of their interaction.
abstract submission deadline: June 19
Contact Email: esw55@georgetown.edu
American
Studies in the Archive
The New Americanist seeks articles for its fourth issue’s
special feature section “American Studies in the Archive.” Articles whose
framework largely depends on archival materials, or which theorize the role of
the archive – either historically or in current practice – will be considered.
Special consideration will be given to articles which take race, transnational,
LGBTQ, or disability studies approaches.
Send a 250-word abstract and a brief biography with
institutional affiliation to newamericanistjournal@gmail.com by 19
July 2019.
Historians
on Housewives-Call for Podcast Participants
The Historians on Housewives
project is looking for podcast participants. Historians on Housewives is headquartered in
Orange County, California where Bravo launched the Housewife franchise with The
Real Housewives of Orange County. Our project brings together scholars from all
ranks and disciplinary backgrounds to explore historical questions arising from
the themes, events, episodes, and story arcs shaping Bravo Network’s Housewives
franchises (and other Bravo-related reality television shows). We are seeking
scholars interested in contributing to podcast episodes beginning in July 2019
Please submit your materials via our webpage: https://historiansonhousewives.com/podcastsubmission
For more information see our webpage: historiansonhousewives.com
Please direct all questions to historiansonhousewives@gmail.com
Asian
Literature in the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching
journal of the Association for Asian Studies. We are developing a special
section for winter 2019 titled “Asian Literature in the Humanities and the
Social Sciences.” This special section is intended for not only literature
courses but a number of other academic disciplines that benefit from the
pedagogical inclusion of literature. A few examples of possible topics for the
special section include literature and understanding Southeast Asian maritime
history, Japanese business novels, using Asian primary sources in history
courses, historical fiction and understanding Asia’s past, Tang Dynasty poetry
in world literature courses, Tagore and Gandhi’s works as Indian responses to
the challenges of the West, and literatures of the Great Leap Forward and the
Cultural Revolution.
Manuscripts for this special section should be submitted on
or before August 1st, 2019. Prospective authors are welcome to contact me at lucien-ellington@utc.edu.
Deflating
the Dictators: Satire, Humor, and Twenty-First-Century Tyranny
The journal Humanities seeks to publish international
analyses of current efforts by satirists and humorists to call attention to the
injustice and abuse inflicted by autocrats. Which satirists are engaging in a
national or international struggle for justice against repressive leadership
and with what means? How are satire and the related mode of humor currently
functioning, despite censorship, in oppressive regimes? How do current
satirical or humorous texts depicting oppression incorporate facts and artefacts
that generate countercultural memories and thereby fill gaps in other
historical or mass media narratives?
Please send completed article of approximately 9,000 words,
including references, to Jill Twark, East Carolina University, twarkj@ecu.edu by September 30, 2019.
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/humor_satire
Museum
Media(ting): Emerging Technologies and Difficult Heritage
This edited volume examines theoretical approaches and case
studies that demonstrate how emerging technologies can display, reveal and
negotiate difficult, dissonant, negative or undesirable heritage. We are
particularly interested in how emerging technologies in museums have the
potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions,
encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide
alternative experiences. By emerging technologies, we refer to contemporary
advances and innovations in technology such as virtual reality, augmented
reality, mixed reality, holograms, artificial intelligence, gamification, smart
systems, etc. How can museums, with the help of technology, manage to tell unheard
stories, touch upon issues of difficult heritage, and narrate stories of
unprivileged groups of people such as minorities, women, LBTG, immigrants,
etc.?
To submit an abstract please send a 500-word abstract
(including references) and a short bio for each author (up to 70 words each) totheopisti.stylianou@cut.ac.cy and a.heraclidou@rise.org.cy by
July 15th 2019.
The
Food Network Channel
Contributions are sought for an interdisciplinary collection
of essays on the Food Network television channels to be published by McFarland
& Co. We are interested in a sustained exploration of the television
channel and brand as a cultural phenomenon. When the Television Food Network was
founded in 1993, its programming was conceived as educational: teach people how
to cook well via recorded and call-in shows, with side trips into the economics
of food and healthy living. There have been no significant academic book-length
study on the Food Network and its subsidiaries, and with the current interest
in food studies and food culture among academics, we believe there is no better
time to examine this successful television brand. Cooking shows are no longer
limited to the Food Network, but the channel prepared the popular and formulaic
programming which has become recognizable formats.
Proposal submissions due: June 10, 2019
Contact Email: foodnetworkbook@gmail.com
FUNDING
Purdue
University Archives research travel grants
The Purdue University Archives & Special Collections
welcomes applications for its 2019/2020 Research Travel Grants. The purpose of
these grants is to support the research of faculty, students, and independent
scholars whose research cannot progress satisfactorily without consulting the
materials onsite. Grants of up to $2000 will be awarded to individual scholars
to support their travel.
The Women’s Archives: The Susan Bulkeley Butler Women’s
Archives was established to proactively document and preserve the legacy of
women who helped shape Purdue and Indiana history. Notable collections include
the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth personal papers as well as their Library of
Management; various collections documenting the history of the Deans of Women
at Purdue; the Sisters for Health Education (S.H.E.) records; and the Paulina
T. Merritt papers on the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Movement, among others. Women’s
Archives website: http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/womens-archives/.
General information about the Purdue University
Archives: https://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol
More information about travel grants: https://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/research-travel-grants
Database of archival materials available for research: https://archives.lib.purdue.edu/
Contact Email: sschmit@purdue.edu
Prize
for graduate research in North American West histories of women and gender
The Irene Ledesma Prize is awarded to a Ph.D. graduate
student and intended to support research in western women’s and gender history.
The $1,000 Prize supports travel to collections or other research expenses
related to the histories of women and gender in the North American West.
Applicants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the time of application. For
more information visit the CWWH website: www.westernwomenshistory.org
Submission Deadline is June 15,
2019
Graduate
Research Essay Prize at the Archives of American Art
The Dedalus Foundation Graduate Research Essay Prize at the
Archives of American Art recognizes original research by a graduate student
that engages in a substantial, meaningful way with the holdings of the
Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art and focuses on studies related to
painting, sculpture, and the allied arts from 1940 to the present day. The
competition is open to students enrolled at the time of submission in a
graduate program in art history, visual studies, American studies, or related
fields. Submissions for the 2019 prize must be sent to AAAprize@si.edu by September
15, 2019. For more information about the criteria for submission and
how to enter the competition, please visit https://www.aaa.si.edu/publications/essay-prize.
Contact Email: shapiroed@si.edu
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Andrew
W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
The Wolf Humanities Center awards five (5) one-year Andrew
W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the
humanities who are no more than five years out of their doctorate. Preference
will be given to candidates not yet in tenure track positions, whose proposals
are interdisciplinary, who have not previously enjoyed use of the resources of
the University of Pennsylvania, and who would particularly benefit from and
contribute to Penn's intellectual life.
The programs of the Wolf Humanities Center are conceived
through yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. For
the 2020-2021 academic year, our topic will be CHOICE.
Application Deadline: October 15, 2019
email: saravarney@sas.upenn.edu
Associate
Director Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies
The Associate Director of Comparative Race & Ethnic
Studies supports the department of Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies
(CRES), which seeks to educate students, faculty, staff, and the larger
community to critically examine race and ethnicity as an essential step in
becoming ethical citizens and leaders in today's global community.
Review of applications begins June 10, 2019
RESOURCES
#Emotions
- New Journal Issue Online
A new open access issue of NECSUS - European Journal of
Media Studies is now available online. The NECSUS Spring 2019 issue offers a
special article section on #Emotions, while also containing feature articles,
exhibition and book reviews, and audiovisual essays. Find the new journal
issue here.
MOOC on
Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Migration
All the way through cross-border movements of people, gender
is an important factor: it might determine causes and consequences of
migration, impact on asylum procedures, and be a key element in human rights
violations. For refugees and migrants, especially women and girls, moving and
crossing borders often comes with heightened risks such as physical harm,
sexual and gender-based violence (GBV), psychosocial trauma and exploitation,
including trafficking. Addressing the root causes of forced and economic
migration and ensuring that human rights are protected throughout the whole
process are essential steps towards a stronger recognition of equal dignity for
all.
This MOOC provides participants with knowledge, multiple
perspectives and examples of practices that can help them develop and reinforce
their critical understanding and effective action in a field that is at the
crossroads of gender, migration and human rights studies.
Course dates: 10 June – 21 July 2019
Free enrolment until: 30 June 2019
For more information, contact us at e-learning@gchumanrights.org or visit www.gchumanrights.org/mooc-gbv
Free enrolment until: 30 June 2019
For more information, contact us at e-learning@gchumanrights.org or visit www.gchumanrights.org/mooc-gbv
Contact Email: gaia.balbo@gchumanrights.org
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