CONFERENCES
Diversity
in/and/or the Arts
NeMLA 2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
Diversity, which in the US and UK had initially been
associated with and largely confined to the areas of employment and college
admissions, has recently taken center stage, most dramatically with the seating
of the US House of Representatives on 2 January and the Golden Globes film
awards 4 days later. Despite the gains, diversity remains a contentious issue
even in an area associated with progressivism: the arts in general and
literature in particular.
Submit your proposal here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/login; panel
session number: 18179
Deadline for submitting an abstract: 30 September 2019
Contact Email: rmorace@daemen.edu
Female
Power, Memory, and Subversive Narratives
NeMLA 2020 - Boston March 5-8, 2020.
This panel seeks to understand the
relationship between Memory, Female Power, and Subversive Narratives. This is
an important area of interest as the world continues to struggle with the
growing voices of women who were intimidated, were forced to keep quiet or
powerless, and how memory places a function in that role. World literature has
long explored power in all its nuance yet it is important to understand how
female power has taken control of a male dominated narrative. Literature can
include areas where women had unexpected roles of power, the place of fear and
memory, or the unusual place of being able to control their destiny or the fate
of others. Going outside the comforts of known social orders can be for
pleasure or filled with fear which creates paradigms for people and allows for
better understanding of self, perhaps freedom from restrictive societal rules,
or unwelcomed sexual attention or aggression.
Date for proposal submission -
Sept. 30, 2019
Embodied Learning - Moving Creativity and Agency
10/19-10/20/19, Bath Spa
University, Newton Park Campus, Bath (UK)
This one-day symposium addresses
issues around embodiment in learning, education and performer training. Through
practical explorations, academic presentations, workshop sessions, artistic
interaction and debate we will explore how a somatic-turn in learning,
education and training can contribute to a meaningful and critical education to
‘humanize humanity’ ( Morin 1999:10 ) in the context of global and civilisatory
crises. The symposium will be followed by a one- day workshop by Glenna Batson.
The convenor team invites educators, academics and artists to contribute to
this pertinent symposium through lectures, workshops, panel discussions
artistic presentations or alternative formats.
Deadline for proposals: 09/08/2019
NEW MATERIALIST APPROACHES TO SOUND
Saturday October 19th at Columbia
University
We invite scholars working in the
humanities, arts and sciences to submit proposals for papers and performances
that engage with the themes of sound and new materialism, broadly
construed. We welcome work that adopts
historical, technological, analytical, philosophical, materialist, and creative
vantage points, among others. Overall, this conference will direct these
diverse disciplinary and methodological perspectives towards convergent and
critical issues, creating new, interdisciplinary lines of enquiry and
generating original research.
Proposals of no more than 500
words (300 words for artistic presentation) should be submitted as a PDF by
August 14th 2019 to jc5036@columbia.edu
URL: https://music.columbia.edu/news/new-materialist-approaches-to-sound-conference-call-for-proposals
Symposium to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the 19th
Amendment
Meredith College, Raleigh, N.C., April 2, 2020
Snapshot 20/20 will foster
international and interdisciplinary scholarship and conversations on the
social, economic, and political status of women and girls from 1920 to 2020.
Scholars and students are invited to submit papers and projects on a wide range
of topics including global women's rights and status, gender identification,
issues of citizenship and activism, social welfare policy, and democracy
broadly.
Our Call for Papers will be
released in August, 2019. Contact Angela Robbins, Associate Professor of
History, with inquiries at aprobbins@meredith.edu.
Critical and Liberatory Pedagogies in African American Art
College Art Association
Conference, Feb 12-15, 2020 in Chicago.
The goal is to examine how
critical and liberatory pedagogies perform important epistemological work for
students and scholars. How do archives and the digital humanities enrich
coursework and object study? How might deconstructive analysis produce
additional modes of criticality in the wake of recent publications and museum
surveys? Although Fred Moten and Stefano Harvey have described teaching as
perfunctorily “performing the work of the university” in The Undercommons:
Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013), these scholarly investigations will
illuminate pedagogical strategies for resistance, liberation, or even
self-critique.
Please email a paper abstract of
no more than 250 words and a brief CV to the session co-chair, Melanee Harvey,
at melcharv@gmail.com by July 23, 2019.
Bold Women
February 29, 2020, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA
As a descriptor, “bold” implies
courage and conviction; a “bold” person acts, not hesitating in the face of
impediments, whether they be physical, cultural, or social. “Bold” can also
mean flashy, or showy, or something—or someone—beyond conventional thought,
action, or deed. This conference seeks
to explore how the various fields represented by the Humanities (or, indeed,
fields tertiary to the Humanities) explore our relationships to boldness,
especially—given the history of Wilson College—boldness in, the boldness of,
and boldness about women.
Abstracts are due by JANUARY 15,
2020.
The Poetics of Precarity: Literature, Art, and the
Precarious Condition
18-20 March 2020, University of
Leuven
This conference will focus on the
cultural figurations of precarity to (re)construct its poetics from a
historical point of view. Present-day ‘precarity’ can in certain regards be
understood as a return of structural uncertainty that characterised earlier
stages in the history of capitalism, like the scenes of primitive accumulation,
the 19th century, the 1930s… (Robert Castel, Sanford Schram). Perhaps the
imagination and representation of precarious realities are rooted in former
cultural models and practices as well. For example, contemporary authors
revisit and reinvent 19th-century genres like the social reportage, the social
novel and the interview to address the social question of the 20th/21st
century. This conference will map and examine these continuities and
discontinuities in the intellectual histories and poetic imaginations of
precarity.
The deadline for submissions is 30
September 2019.
Who's In and Who's Out of Fashion (Studies)?
Is there a correct or wrong way to
do fashion studies? The field has rapidly grown ever since the 1998 issue of
Fashion Theory surveyed the methodological status of its emergence. The major
concern then was identifying and reconciling what dress historian Lou Taylor
termed “the great divide” between practice-based (museum-oriented) and
theoretical-based (academia-oriented) approaches to the study of fashion. Since
then, approaches using fashion as a lens to engage and explore our material and
visual world have exploded, uniting scholars from disparate academic
disciplines—from art and design history to anthropology, among others—under
what we now call “fashion studies”. Fashion deeply resonates as a scholarly
subject for those concerned with debates on gender, modernity, and globalization
as well as other sites of critical inquiry. This panel seeks papers that
challenge the received assumptions about the field and those that aim to
reposition it in relation to its attendant disciplines through case studies.
Directions for submitting the
proposal: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html
The Aesthetics of Drone Warfare
University of Sheffield 7-8
February 2020
Drones have now become commercial
and readily available, with innovators promising unprecedented solutions to
sectors as wide ranging as agriculture, energy, public safety, and
construction. But this multi-billion-dollar industry is founded upon the technology’s
origins in a military context, and drone warfare is rapidly redefining the
meaning of war, peace, and their temporal and geographical boundaries.
Combining surveillance with targeting, satellite imaging with ground-level
intelligence, human observation with algorithmic apparatuses, drones have
catalysed new ways of making and experiencing war. This international two-day
conference explores the issues surrounding drone warfare through the prism of
aesthetics: aesthetics understood as art, and as the relationship between the
body, the self, and the material environment.
Please send 250-word individual
paper proposals, or 350-word proposals for fully formed panels, along with
short biographies, to Beryl Pong at artofdronewarfare@gmail.com
Deadline: 20 October 2019
Conference website: https://artofdronewarfare.com/
Gender, Politics, and Everyday Life: Power, Resistance and
Representation
Christopher Newport University,
March 19-21, 2020
This interdisciplinary conference
brings together participants from all academic fields to engage in wide-ranging
conversations on gender and politics around the world. While formal politics
loom large in 2020, we encourage an expansive understanding of political action
and expression, inspired by Carol Hanisch’s essay, “The Personal is Political,”
which sees all relationships of power as political and connects women’s
experiences, self-expression, and values to their lives as political actors and
subjects.
Please submit a 350 to 500-word abstract
by October 1st, 2019 at: http://cnu.edu/gcwg
Contact Email: ahconf@cnu.edu
2020 OAH Annual Meeting: (In)Equalities
April 2-5, 2020, Washington, D.C
For centuries now, questions of
“equality” and “inequality” have informed American politics and culture, and
also appeared repeatedly in the histories we write, exhibit, and teach. How
have the meanings of equality and inequality changed over time? How have
equality and inequality, as ideas and practice, shaped--and been shaped by--
the state and its institutions, international relations and transnational
circulations, economic distributions and relations of (re)production, social
hierarchies and social movements, science and religion, and vernacular
geographies and the micro-interactions of everyday embodied life? As keywords
in historians’ lexicon, how do equality and inequality expand and limit our
studies of the past? In a critical election year, how do the histories of
equality and inequality help us understand the United States and its place in
the world today? The 2020 OAH Annual Meeting will address the theme of
(In)Equalities in our past and present.
Queering the City, Transatlantic Perspectives
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4261585/queering-city-transatlantic-perspectives
In these days of increasingly
powerful movements of revolt against sexism, sexual harassment, and violence
directed at women and gender-norm-and-sexuality-dissidents, the questions we
hope to raise with this academic and artistic conference are more present than
ever. We’re thus hoping for papers related to the history of social movements
or of artistic performances in France and in the US, to the geography of queer
or activist spaces, to the sociology of social movements linked with the
creation of space and with resistance in an urban context. But we’re also
hoping for presentations by contemporary artists and interventions by feminist
and LGBTQI+ activists. We welcome art installations and bodily performances
using the sexuated, gendered, racialized and class-branded dis/abled body,
provoking in and for the self a transformation of values and norms. More
classic talks will not be set up as panel discussions (presentation + Q &
A) but as interactive workshops inspired by popular education techniques.
Proposals (title, 500 word
abstract plus corpus/bibliographic sources) and short biographic note to be
sent to queeringthecity2020@gmail.com up
to 15 September 2019
Motherhood in the Academy II: Policy Roundtable
We invite you to join us for a
presentation by two experts who combine research and experience in changing
campus culture through pro-family policy. They will discuss ways to amend
university/college policies so that the structure of academic labor clearly and
effectively supports parents and family life in all ranks and divisions:
faculty, staff, administrators and students. After the presentation, they will
assist in a break-out session of groups of 2-3 people tasked with discussing
current policies and brainstorming ways to promote parenthood on campus. We
invite you to contact us with any questions regarding this roundtable: Erin
Myers (erin.a.myers@gmail.com) and Kate
Bastin (bastink@eckerd.com).
You may submit your abstract
directly through the NeMLA portal here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/1811.
Rethinking
Race and Slavery at 400 Years
Calling for papers and teaching demonstrations for a
conference on "Rethinking Race and Slavery at 400 Years." The
conference will be held on Friday 8 November at Avon Old Farms School, Avon
Connecticut.Our aim is ambitious: capitalizing on the 400th anniversary of the
beginnings of African slavery at Jamestown, the conference seeks to re-evaluate
scholarship and teaching about race and slavery across the entire sweep of U.S.
history since 1619. Keynote speakers include award-winning scholars Manisha
Sinha and Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar.
Deadline for submission is 15 August 2019. Submissions and
questions should be directed to Conference Director Dr. Chris Doyle at doylec@avonoldfarms.com.
Radical
women: the construction of Latin American women artists through exhibitions
Session at the College Art Association CAA2020 annual
conference, 12-15 February 2020, Chicago
In 2017, the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art,
1960-1985 opened at the Hammer Museum, UCLA as part of Getty’s Pacific Standard
Time initiative: LA/LA. The exhibition presented works by 120 women artists
active in Latin America and the United States, claiming to be the “first survey
of radical and feminist art practices in Latin America and among Latina artists
in the United States.” This panel invites discussion on how the framework of
feminism can help explore, counter, complicate and (re)construct Latin American
identities and art histories.
To submit a paper proposal, please use CAA’s proposal form
found at https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html.
Please send your proposals directly to the session chairs Elize Mazadiego (emazadiego@ucsd.edu) and Eve Kalyva (e.m.kalyva@gmail.com)
Deadline to submit a paper
proposal: 23 July 2019
PUBLICATIONS
Curricular
Confrontations in the Wake of Anti-Blackness and in the Break of Black
Possibilities
This special issue of Curriculum
Inquiry aims to give readers and curriculum workers entry points
into an expansive, interdisciplinary dialogue on
anti-Blackness in curriculum studies. We ask
contributors to consider how the heterogeneity of Black
being and becoming, which inherently
encompasses the multiplicities of Blacknesses within the
African Americas as well as across a
diaspora inhabited by African, Caribbean, and Afro-Latinx
peoples, is (mis)represented in the overall
project of knowledge (re)generation as historically and
currently undertaken in the west.
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2019
Please email Esther O. Ohito (ohitoe@denison.edu), Justin A.
Coles (jcoles4@fordham.edu), fahima i. ife (ife@lsu.edu), and Michael J. Dumas
(michaeldumas@berkeley.edu).
Mass
Incarceration & Racial Justice
Res Philosophica, and special editors, Scott Berman and Chad
Flanders, invite papers on the topic of mass incarceration and racial justice
for the 2019 Res Philosophica Essay Prize and a special issue of the journal.
Submissions addressing any of the many philosophical questions related to mass
incarceration and racial justice are welcome. The deadline is Sept. 1, 2019.
Transverse
Disciplines
This volume seeks to offer approaches that do not dilute the
political capacity of the kind of work that happens inside and outside of the
academy. In order to unsettle the restrictive nature of working exclusively
within disciplinary structures, scholars and teachers must rethink the ethical
and social impact of academic work as activists in our spheres of influence. If
the university writ large is invested in bringing together different approaches
and forms of knowledge and making social justice a sustainable politics of
being, transverse disciplines built of queer-feminist approaches act as a
lightning rod for transformative thinking. In this manner, the reshaping of a
discipline and disciplinarity itself becomes an activist project. Interrogating
positionality, relationality, and ethical principles of academic work, this
volume will feature a series of theoretical essays that explore future
possibilities punctuated by short, diagnostic stories or testimonies on present
experiences of being in the academy.
Please send an abstract (200 words) and a brief bio (no more
than 150 words) for either format to Simone Pfleger (pfleger@ualberta.ca)
and Carrie Smith (carrie.smith@ualberta.ca) by August 15, 2019.
Teaching
Failures
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and
Pedagogy
The editors seek articles (6,000-10,000 words); methods and
texts essays (3,000 to 5,000 words); photo-essays, and contributions to our new
“Teaching Failures” section (2,500-5,000) for the forthcoming issue of
Transformations. Submissions should explore strategies for teaching in the
classroom and in non-traditional spaces. Teaching Failures essays should focus
on a particularly challenging classroom experience, a struggle with a specific
teaching resource, or failure/success as related to pedagogical practice. More
broadly, authors might explore the ways in which educational institutions and
institutional structures define and engage failure and/or success (for example,
academic silos, issues relating to academic freedom, work cultures, governance,
etc.)
We welcome jargon-free essays from all disciplinary and
interdisciplinary perspectives.
Contact Email: transformations@njcu.edu
Unfurling
Unflattening: Tracing Theoretical, Methodological, and Pedagogical
Possibilities
Overview. 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. From
its origin as the first dissertation in comics submitted at Columbia
University, Unflattening went on to garner some of the most prestigious
accolades in both comics and academia.
Drawing on philosophical questions of education and epistemology; the past,
present, and future of visual culture; and the aesthetic and critical processes
and networks of comics, Sousanis argues for new ways of seeing the world.
The editors aim to gather chapter authors from a wide
variety of disciplines (e.g., science, English, education, philosophy, art and
design, performance) and educational contexts (e.g., elementary, secondary, and
post-secondary education). Authors are asked to write from a first-person
perspective on the ways in which they are unfurling the possibilities of
Unflattening within one of the three sections to be included within the book:
theoretical, methodological, or pedagogical.
Abstracts are due no later than August 30, 2019. Email
abstracts to unfurlingunflattening@gmail.com
Contact Email: jmutell@widener.edu
Research
in African Literature – books for review
Research in African Literatures welcomes interested scholars
to visit our new online list of books available for review and contact us
should they be interested in serving as a reviewer. Find the list of books
through the above URL.
More-than-human
companionship: Growing older with animals, plants, landscapes, and technology
This collection aims to address the various entanglements
with more-than-humans that continue through the life course into old age, as
they become more prominent, nuanced and potentially enriching in late life, or
are specifically designed to assist late life transitions and needs. The volume
proposes to creatively think about what a more-than-human perspective brings to
aging, both to humans and non-human beings.
Please send an abstract of approximately 300 words and a
short bio note by 31stth July to r01crd17@abdn.ac.uk; a.whitehouse@abdn.ac.uk andarnar.arnason@abdn.ac.uk.
Popular
Culture Studies Journal Call For Reviewers
The Popular Culture Studies Journal is now seeking reviewers
for its upcoming issues. We are continuing to seek reviews of books on any
aspect of U.S. or international popular culture, as well as proposals for
movies, television/streaming shows, and games (reviews of video and board games
will be welcomed). If you are interested in writing a review for The Popular
Culture Studies Journal please email Dr. Malynnda A. Johnson at malynnda.johnson@indstate.edu with
PCSJ Book Review and your last name in the subject line.
For more information about this
journal, please visit: http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal
Ecologies
in Southeast Asian Media and Popular Culture
Environmental images and representations have proliferated
in recent years in media and pop cultural texts due to the widespread
recognition of their powerful role in informing audiences about urgent
ecological issues. 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.
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Contact Email: jrtelles@up.edu.ph
Decolonial
Interventions
This Special Issue invites contributions from all
disciplines that consider decoloniality as an entry point for getting into or
being-within the middle of gender and decoloniality. From a common ground of
shared struggles against epistemic and systemic power, this Special Issue
invites contributions that interrogate the ambiguities of coloniality as a
continuing condition and that begin to illuminate the qualities of struggle,
the formations of hope and the regenerative tactics that live in its midst.
Please submit your abstract (300-400 words) with keywords
(not more than 6) to aniquevered@gmail.com with
“In medias res: Decolonial Interventions” in the subject heading, by 15th
November 2019.
The
Freedom to Make and Remake
The North Meridian Review will publish a special issue on
the theme is “The Freedom to Make and Remake.” Viewed from the current American political
climate, the freedom to make and remake ourselves and the places with which we
identity may feel more urgent now than at any time since the Civil Rights Era.
Viewed another way, however, this freedom of revision and rewrite has continued
without interruption, especially for those who maintain lives on the edges of
consumer society. However, from the perspective of those whose lives have been
intertwined with the cultural, economic, or personal dispossession of
colonialism and white supremacy, the “freedom to make and remake” was and is a
well-maintained fiction. To better understand these outcomes and tensions, we
seek essays, articles, and poetry of the those who work to shape, make, and
remake their cities through community development, activism, public art
(sanctioned or otherwise), education (formal or informal), publishing, social
practice, performance, and urban design. Special consideration will be given to
community based writing and non-traditional methods of constructing knowledge.
Submission Deadline:
December 1, 2019.
Contact Email: wbishop@marian.edu
Wellness
amidst experiences of chronicity: A spiritual and faith-based exploration
Call for chapter submissions
While the context of the ‘chronic’ condition is most well
known as medical and treatment oriented, this collection will reflect on
chronic health and wellness beyond the diagnosis of chronic medical conditions.
The authors will bring a critical lens for the exploration of cultural and
daily experiences of various forms of chronic conditions and wellness in relation
to practices of spirituality and faith. Chronicity as a framework, with a focus
on the meaning-centered aspects of illness experiences over time, will set the
stage for this collection, considering that chronic conditions draw together
developed and developing countries, the global North and South, East or West.
This inter- and transdisciplinary collection invites contributors and leading
scholars in the cultural and social sciences, medical professionals,
psychotherapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses, and
practitioners of complementary and alternative across the fields of
anthropology, sociology, psychology, health education, and social work to
understand, rethink, and transform spiritual and faith-based striving in health
care.
Abstract submission deadline: September 15
Email: andrew.hatala@umanitoba.ca
Email: kerstin.roger@umanitoba.ca
Queer
History Month
SQS – The journal of Queer Studies in Finland – is to
publish its 2/2020 special issue on Queer History Month. The special issue aims
to provoke discussion widely on the ways in which LGBTQ+ history month has been
realized by different actors in different contexts, such as schools, museums or
the Internet. How is one to tackle the complexities of queer sexualities and
genders when reaching out to students and publics? How are the obstacles
managed, be they attitudinal, organizational or administrative, when organizing
events and activities around queer history month?
SQS invites
submissions for peer-reviewed articles (not to exceed 70 000 characters),
editorially managed review articles (35 000), opinion pieces and commentaries
(21 000) as well as book reviews for the special issue. The journal publishes
texts written in English, Swedish and Finnish. See https://journal.fi/sqs/about/submissions for
more details.
Please send us a one page abstract of your intended
submission (please identify the chosen category), including your contact
details and a short bio, by the 29th of November, 2019.
Contact Email: thereseq@uic.edu
Intercultural
Conversations
The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/),
based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites
contributions for an issue on intercultural conversations. After decades of
optimism about the role of multiculturalism in the creation of more flexible,
liberal and nuanced narratives of identity, the re-emergence of right-wing
nationalism across the western world has thrust the more divisive language of
borders and divisions predicated upon race, ethnicity and religion into public
discourse once again. In such a context, many writers emphasize the role
cultural texts play in constructing spaces where such oppositions can be
challenged and cross-cultural engagement facilitated.
We welcome original papers in English and invite proposals
(no more than 9,000 words) from senior as well as junior academics.
Submission deadline: 1 June 2020
#MeToo
and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Assault and
Rape Culture
The #MeToo movement, created by activist Tarana Burke as a
grassroots campaign ten years before it took off on social media, has unleashed
a flood of pop culture books on misogyny, rape, rape culture, and sexual
assault. Yet to date, no major work considers how the #MeToo movement might
enrich our critical and pedagogical literary practices, or how literary and
cultural studies might help feminist scholars better understand and marshal the
powerful energies of #MeToo.
This volume aims to ignite a conversation about literature,
culture, and sexual assault by gathering essays that bring these areas of
inquiry and activism to bear on each other.
Please submit 500-750 word
abstracts, brief c.v., and contact information to both volume editors (hewetth@newpaltz.edu and hollandm@newpaltz.edu) by October 1.
FUNDING
Organization
of American Historians: Awards and Prizes
The Organization of American Historians offers several
awards and prizes for graduate students. All have a December 2, 2019 deadline.
Huggins-Quarles Award
https://www.oah.org/awards/dissertation-awards/huggins-quarles-award/
Given annually to one or two graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the PhD dissertation.
https://www.oah.org/awards/dissertation-awards/huggins-quarles-award/
Given annually to one or two graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the PhD dissertation.
John Higham Research Fellowship
https://www.oah.org/awards/uncategorized-awards/john-higham-fellowship/
Annual fellowship open to all graduate students writing doctoral dissertations for a PhD in American history.
https://www.oah.org/awards/uncategorized-awards/john-higham-fellowship/
Annual fellowship open to all graduate students writing doctoral dissertations for a PhD in American history.
Louis Pelzer Memorial Award
https://www.oah.org/awards/article-essay-awards/louis-pelzer-memorial-aw...
Candidates for graduate degrees are invited to submit essays dealing with any period or topic in the history of the United States.
https://www.oah.org/awards/article-essay-awards/louis-pelzer-memorial-aw...
Candidates for graduate degrees are invited to submit essays dealing with any period or topic in the history of the United States.
Presidents' Travel Fund for
Emerging Historians
https://www.oah.org/awards/travel-grants/presidents-travel-fund/
Annual fund provides travel stipends of up to $750 for up to five graduate students and recent PhDs in history (no more than four years from date of degree) whose papers or panels/sessions have been accepted by the OAH Program Committee for inclusion on the annual meeting program. Preference will be given to those who are presenting at the OAH Annual Meeting for the first time.
Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grants
https://www.oah.org/awards/travel-grants/merrill-travel-grants/
Annual grants, supported by a bequest from the Merrill trust, help sponsor the travel-related costs of graduate students who are confirmed as participants on the OAH conference program and who incur expenses traveling to the annual meeting. Five awards of $500 each may be awarded each year. Graduate students who are PhD candidates and who are presenting a paper or serving as a commentator on a session or panel are eligible to apply.
https://www.oah.org/awards/travel-grants/presidents-travel-fund/
Annual fund provides travel stipends of up to $750 for up to five graduate students and recent PhDs in history (no more than four years from date of degree) whose papers or panels/sessions have been accepted by the OAH Program Committee for inclusion on the annual meeting program. Preference will be given to those who are presenting at the OAH Annual Meeting for the first time.
Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grants
https://www.oah.org/awards/travel-grants/merrill-travel-grants/
Annual grants, supported by a bequest from the Merrill trust, help sponsor the travel-related costs of graduate students who are confirmed as participants on the OAH conference program and who incur expenses traveling to the annual meeting. Five awards of $500 each may be awarded each year. Graduate students who are PhD candidates and who are presenting a paper or serving as a commentator on a session or panel are eligible to apply.
John
D'Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award
The John D'Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award is given
annually by the Organization of American Historians to the best PhD
dissertation in U.S. LGBTQ history. The award is named for John D'Emilio,
pioneer in LGBTQ history.
A dissertation must be completed during the period July 1,
2018 through June 30, 2019 to be eligible for the 2020 D'Emilio Award.
All material must be received by midnight (PST) on October
1, 2019.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Postdoctoral
Fellowships in Migration and the Humanities
Migration plays as critical a role in the moral imagination
of the humanities as it does in shaping the activist vision of humanitarianism
and human rights. Too often, the humanities are summoned merely as witnesses to
the spectacle of the significant currents and crises of contemporary life.
Literature and the arts are viewed as iconic presences whose primary aesthetic
and moral values lie in their illustrative powers of empathy and evocation. Yet
the intellectual formation of the humanities—their very conception of the
nature of meaning, knowledge, and morals—is deeply resonant with the
displacement of values and the revision of norms that shape the transitional
and translational narratives of migrant lives.
We welcome applications from scholars in all fields whose
work innovatively engages with migration and the humanities.
The application deadline for applicants to submit their
materials is November 15, 2019.
Please contact Dr. Andrea Volpe (alvolpe@fas.harvard.edu) with questions
about applying for a fellowship
RESOURCES
Truth
Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells - new documentary website
The Frances Willard House Museum and Archives recently
launched Truth Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells, a
community history project that explores this conflict. The project
includes a digital exhibit of original archival sources, now available at www.willardandwells.org.
The website features a selection of primary documents
organized in a "timeline" format, so visitors can follow the conflict
as it developed. Each document is annotated to provide background information
and make dense nineteenth-century prose easier to understand. The website also
features short contextual essays on topics like woman suffrage and
Reconstruction; interpretive essays from scholars and commentators who bring
fresh insights into the conflict; and a bibliography to guide further reading
and research.
More information can be found at franceswillardhouse.org or via
email at director@franceswillardhouse.org or
phone at 847-328-7500.
Mediatised
Images of Japan in Europe: Through the Media Kaleidoscope
Volume 6 of Mutual Images, the journal of Mutual Images
Research Association is now available to read online.
Mutual Images is an open access, double-blind peer-reviewed
academic journal, created and edited by the scholarly and independant Mutual
Images Research Association. Its field of interest is the analysis and
discussion of the ever-changing, multifaceted relations between Europe and
Asia, and between specific European countries or regions and specific Asian
countries or regions. A privileged area of investigation concerns the mutual
cultural influences between Japan and other cultures, with a special emphasis
on visual cultures, media studies and the cultural imaginary.
Email: mutualimages@gmail.com
