CONFERENCES
Meeting of the
Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies
Austin, Texas, March 3-8, 2020
SECOLAS invites faculty members, independent scholars, and
students to submit panel and individual paper proposals for participation in
the conference. The organization welcomes submissions on any aspect of Latin
American and/or Caribbean Studies. Graduate student presenters will be eligible
to submit their paper for the Edward
H. Moseley Student Paper Award for the best paper presented at the
SECOLAS meeting.
Contact Email: s.hyland@wingate.edu
Crossroads Humanities
Student Conference
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4803232/crossroads-humanities-student-conference
Saturday, March 28th, 2020, Nova Southeastern University,
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
This conference builds on the concept of South Florida as
the crossroads of the Transatlantic world and asks students to develop
presentations that explore the convergence of cultures, values, and ideas
evident in various humanities disciplines. The Crossroads Humanities Student
Conference strives to incorporate diverse perspectives and topics from a range
of humanities fields including history, philosophy, literature, languages,
cultural theory, and the arts. We welcome digital humanities projects and also
invite papers in legal studies, political science, national security, family
therapy, communication, conflict resolution studies, and international
relations when approached with a humanities lens.
Submit abstracts of 150 words or less to Dr. Andrea Shaw
Nevins andrshaw@nova.edu no
later than December 31st, 2019.
The Challenge of
Change
Texas A&M University, February 21-22, 2020
The theme for this year’s conference is “The Challenge of
Change.” Our central focus for this conference is to create a scholarly
discussion on the historical or historiographical change, or lack thereof, in
their respective fields, and talk about the challenges and responses that
resulted from such shifts. We encourage
submissions from a wide variety of fields and academic disciplines to have an
inclusive and
interdisciplinary environment in which to have fruitful
discussion. We are accepting paper proposals regarding any geographical region
and featuring research on any historical period or topic.
Submit a 250 word (maximum) abstract and curriculum vitae by
Monday, November 18, 2019.
Empowering Languages
and Cultures
University of Alabama, January 31-February 1, 2020
We invite abstracts about all languages and all areas of
Literature and Linguistics, including, but not limited to: Classical
Literature; Renaissance Literature; Medieval Literature and Culture; Early
Modern Literature and Culture; 18th and 19th Century Literature and Culture; 20th
and 21st Century Literature and Culture; Feminism and Women Writers; Queer and
Gender Studies; Transatlantic and Intercultural Studies; Storytelling,
Mythology, and Memory; Film and Visual arts.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words (not
including tables, graphs, or references) through EasyAbs at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/UALC2020.
The deadline for proposal submission is November 1st, 2019.
Contact Email: ualanguagesconference@gmail.com
History of Women in
the Americas
3rd July 2020, University of Manchester
We invite 250 word abstracts for 20-minute presentations on
any topic, geographical period, chronological time, or theme related to the
history of women in the Americas. We also welcome comparative papers between
two countries in the Americas or one in the Americas and a country outside the
region.
Please submit abstracts along with a 100-word biography of
each proposed speaker to shawsociety@gmail.com,
by 21st February 2020.
Africa on the Rise!
60 years after 1960
The Pennsylvania State University, April 17th-18th, 2020
60 years after 1960,” commemorates the “Year of Africa.”
1960 significantly cascades the independence of African nations, as no less
than 17 countries gained their freedom from colonial rule in that year alone. This
conference aims to trace the development of Africa since 1960 through
formulations such as Global Africa and Theories of the Global South. It aims to
bring together humanities and social science scholarship to critically review
issues with regards to the decolonization of Africa, Pan-Africanism, the
self-reliance of national economies, nation-building experiments, postcolonial
challenges, creative arts and new technologies, and the future development of
the continent.
Abstracts of 200 words (max) are due by Dec. 5th,
2019. Please click on the link to submit:
Feeling Democracy: A
Conference on Politics and Emotions
Rutgers University, April 17, 2020
Emotions and affect have emerged as a rich field of inquiry
in the social sciences and humanities. How can feminism help us make sense of
the complex relationship between emotions and democracy? To what extent are
solidarities around gender, race, and sexuality catalysts of a passionate
democratic politics? Is the expression of emotion in democratic politics only
acceptable when it is voiced by certain types of people or communities? We seek
to explore these and other related questions in an interdisciplinary conference
and welcome national and international perspectives related to our theme.
Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2019.
Contact Email: irw@sas.rutgers.edu
Making the American
City
March 20 – 21, 2020, Boston, MA
We invite submissions that examine the political history of
cities across a range of themes. Cities have been central to partisan politics,
from nineteenth-century party machines to the urban–rural divide which characterizes
recent polarization; cities have also formed the arenas in which political
contests over race, class, and labor have intersected. Gender and sexualities,
as political identities, have been formed by the dynamic experience of city
life. Cities are hubs for transnational exchanges in ideas, goods, and people,
from diplomacy and immigration to material culture and consumption. The
political history of the American city encompasses the growth of bureaucracy
and institutions of governance; fierce debates (sometimes violent) over the
shape and ownership of the built environment; the political impact of urban
sprawl; and fraught wartime experiences in urban home-fronts. We are excited to
receive submissions that cover many such themes from a variety of perspectives.
Proposal deadline: November 22, 2019
Contact Email: aphigradconference@gmail.com
Austerity University:
Public Education for $ale
March 6-7, 2020, New Paltz, NY
Austerity University: Public Education for $ale aims to
provide a space for educators, scholars, students, workers, and community
members to discuss the problems associated with state and federal divestment
from our public colleges and universities. Sessions will emphasize public education,
organizing strategies, networking opportunities, data sharing, and more. We
seek to create and strengthen alliances between groups dedicated to
investigating, critiquing, and resisting the ongoing corporatization and
concomitant austerity measures aimed at our public university systems.
Please submit your 250 word proposals to https://www.austerityuniversity.com/submissions
by November 15, 2019.
Questions? Email us at: AusterityUniversity@gmail.com
Digital Initiatives
Symposium
The Digital Initiatives Symposium at the University of San
Diego is accepting proposals for its full day conference on Tuesday, April 28,
2020. We welcome proposals from a wide variety of organizations, including
colleges and universities of all sizes, community colleges, public libraries,
special libraries, museums, and other cultural memory institutions.
Proposal Submission Deadline: Friday, Nov. 22, 2019
Questions? Contact digital@sandiego.edu
From the Grassroots
to the Statehouse: Women’s Activism and Political Power
Sarah Lawrence College, March 27-28, 2020
In anticipation of another U.S. Presidential election in
2020, this conference asks: How much of a difference does it make to have women
in positions of power and focuses on the question, what is the potential power
of women’s leadership now and in the past?
From leadership in activist organizations to running in local elections
to ultimately attempting to become leaders of nations- have women done what
Gbowee fervently believed is possible? When women get into positions of
political power, how much do they confront, change, and shake up the status
quo? Or, do we find conversely that women are forced to modify more radical
positions in order to serve a broader constituency? Does the phenomenon of
forced compromise and de-radicalization occur only in electoral politics or can
it be found in other places where women are in positions of power?
Deadline: December 9, 2019
email: tjames@sarahlawrence.edu
Fashion and Freaks
and Monsters symposium
September 3 & 4, 2020, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Today and across history, bodies and what is on and around
them express or are seen as expressing the strange, the imaginative and the
fanciful, the apocalyptic and the dystopic, the morally ambiguous, socially
unacceptable or what over history, has unfortunately been deemed the freakish
or the monstrous. Fashion at the boundaries challenges norms, creates novelty,
marks, explores, and pushes social boundaries, poses social and moral
questions. Outsider fashion has been
inspired by art, has become art itself, has been celebrated for its hedonistic
or playful elements. Outsider fashion has also, over history, provoked
disapproval, repression, has been seen as freakishness, and sometimes led to
incarceration, when bodies and/or what they wore did not fit the cultural,
social, gendered, medical, or psychiatric norms of their day. Always in play beyond the surface of fashion
are constructed notions of the body, gender, health and community norms.
January 30, 2020:
Abstracts due
Contact Email: areilly@hawaii.edu
Commemorate the 100th
Anniversary of the 19th Amendment
Meredith College, located in Raleigh, N.C., is pleased to
announce our Call for Papers for Snapshot 20/20, a symposium to commemorate the
100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Snapshot 20/20 will foster
international and interdisciplinary scholarship and conversations focused on
the social, economic, and political status of girls and women over the past 100
years. Scholars and students are invited to submit papers and projects on a
wide range of topics regarding women's rights and status around the globe,
including voting and democracy, issues of citizenship and activism, gender
identification, and social welfare policy. Individual papers and projects, as
well as complete panels and roundtable discussions, are welcome.
Submit your abstract to our committee using our Google Form and send
inquiries to us at meredith@symposium.edu. Our
Call for Papers will be open through January 15.
Migration,
Identities, Borders and Globalization Conference
Marquette University, Milwaukee, March 27-28, 2020
Migration has been part of the human experience.
Historically, the intersection of immigration with race is self-evident.
Voluntary and involuntary migrations have shaped global demographics while creating
a persistent culture of racism. In the 21st century, however, the nature of
migration and the politics of belonging has become more contentious. Debates
over immigration have received renewed interest following attempts to overhaul
immigration in the West and anti-immigration rhetoric aimed particularly at
immigrants from the global south. This conference examines critical
contemporary issues on migration as to how the flows of people have entangled
with politics of identity, nationalism, statehood, and ideologies in the age of
globalization.
Submit abstracts of no more than 300 word to: africana.studies@marquette.edu no
later than February 20, 2020.
Justice
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech University (Lubbock,
Texas) is happy to announce a call for papers for our Third Annual Conference
in the Humanities, to be held in Lubbock over April 3-4 2020. The conference
topic each year aligns with the Center's annual theme, which for 2019-2020 is
“Justice.” We are interested in the interdisciplinary study of justice in
myriad forms and across any of the following disciplines: art, literature,
history, film and media, music, philosophy, law, digital humanities, museum
and/or archival studies, critical race studies, ethnic studies, women’s and
gender studies, design, and education.
This list, in keeping with the Humanities Center’s expansive mission, is
open-ended.
New and Emerging
Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands
Friday March 13, 2020 at The Huntington Library, Art Museum,
and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
This workshop seeks to bring together six graduate students
in the field of the Spanish Borderlands to bolster intellectual exchange and
create community among graduate students and interested faculty working on
similar or related topics. Successful
workshop presentation proposals should highlight new and emerging research on
the Spanish Borderlands and focus on some aspect of California, Arizona, New
Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, or Florida from the sixteenth through the
mid-nineteenth century. The workshop
sponsors will cover travel, lodging, and meals.
For full consideration, a proposal, bibliography, and CV
must be submitted by November 1st, 2019, to
workshop chairs Alejandra Dubcovsky and Steven Hackel at alejandra.dubcovsky@ucr.edu.
Race in the Space
Between, 1914-1945
University of Virginia, June 4-6, 2020
In the Space Between Society, scholars who study literature,
history, media, art, society, and culture between 1914 and 1945, or between and
during the two world wars of the twentieth-century, exchange ideas about their
approaches and their objects of study. This year’s conference addresses the key
roles that race—including racial formation, racial ideologies and racialist
practices—played in creative, intellectual, ideological, and political
conversations from 1914-1945.
Please send abstracts (300 words) along with a short
biographical statement (100 words) to conference organizer Carmenita
Higginbotham at ch6sv@virginia.edu by December
1, 2019.
Capitalist Souths
The University of Georgia Department of History and the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce the first Capitalist Souths
interdisciplinary graduate student conference to be held March 13-14, 2020, at
the UGA campus in Athens, Georgia. Our conference invites graduate students to
submit proposals that illuminate new work that draws together the history of
capitalism and the US South in its Atlantic World and Global South contexts.
The theme, Capitalist Souths, addresses the increasing difficulty to understand
the development of capitalism in the US South without understanding its
embeddedness in transnational and global flows of capital, labor, ideas, and
people.
The deadline for proposal submission is December 15,
2019.
Contact Email: capitalistsouths@gmail.com
Game-based Learning
Conference
January 15-17, 2020, at the CUNY Graduate Center
We invite all involved in higher education pedagogy —
faculty, administrators, graduate students, undergraduates, and game designers
— to submit a talk or poster on the theory and practice of play and games. We
also welcome game demos and playtesting that focus on higher education.
For more information and to submit a proposal: http://gamesconf2020.commons.gc.cuny.edu
Call for Proposals -- due Oct. 20, 2019
Contact Email: contactcunygames@gmail.com
URL: http://cunygames.org
Rethinking Rights in
Times of Crisis: Local and Global Perspectives on Resilience and Dignity
Kennesaw State University. March 12th -
14th 2020
The ubiquitous crises of the early 21st century have been
marked by populist forces that, in association with state and nonstate
entities, have increasingly normalized violence against our planet’s most
vulnerable. We therefore believe it is
imperative to cultivate nuanced understandings of resilience, to advocate
urgently for a praxis of responsibility and compassion, and to engage
critically with mechanisms for respecting the dignity of humans and others,
with structures and the logics of rights.
This conference will highlight issues that compel us to think about the
future of the planet deeply, creatively, conceptually, and contextually.
Deadline for abstract submissions: October 30, 2019.
Conference abstracts and enquiries: Email: humandignity@kennesaw.edu
Conference Webpage: https://dga.kennesaw.edu/caads/civilrightsconference2020/index.php
The Seventh Feminist
Art History Conference Call for Papers
American University, Washington, D.C., 25–27 September 2020
In the spirit of bringing together the diverse strands of
thought and practice that feminist art history now embraces, this conference
will feature papers spanning a wide range of chronological, geographic,
intersectional, and interdisciplinary topics. These may include (but are not
limited to) artists, movements, and works of art and architecture; cultural
institutions and critical discourses; practices of collecting, patronage, and
display; the gendering of objects, spaces, and media; the reception of images; and
issues of power, agency, gender, and sexuality within visual and material
cultures. At this year’s conference, underrepresented art-historical periods
(ancient, medieval, Renaissance), cultures and traditions beyond the Western
world,, and issues of race and ethnicity are especially encouraged. We welcome
submissions from established and emerging scholars of art history as well as
advanced graduate students.
Proposals due by 1 December 2019
email: feminist.ahconference@gmail.com.
Vernacular Landscapes
of San Antonio and Central Texas
The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper and poster
proposals for its 41st Annual Conference, Vernacular Landscapes of San Antonio
and Central Texas, May 6 to May 9, 2020 in San Antonio, Texas. The paper and
poster sessions will be on Saturday, May 9. They may address topics relating to
vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide and
how people use these sites. Submissions on all relevant topics are welcome. We
encourage papers and posters focusing on vernacular architecture and cultural
landscapes of Texas, as well as issues of displacement, migration,
acculturation, revival architecture, and African Americans in slavery and
freedom in borderlands.
deadline: Nov. 3
email: conference@vafweb.org
Historicizing the
Self: Emotions and Cognition in U.S. History
‘Historicizing the Self’ is designed to be a cooperative
grappling with the theoretical and methodological challenges facing scholars
engaged in the history of emotions and social cognition. Susan J. Matt says the
goal is “to conjoin the intellectual histories of emotions—the dominant ideals
and ideas—with explorations of how such ideas were received or rejected,
adopted or adapted, in social and cultural life.” We believe emotions history,
in all of its forms, offers scholars a better lens for understanding how
decisions—both personal and political—are actually made. We welcome submissions
from anyone whose research or methodology relates to emotions history,
including research on cognitive science, animal behavior, epistemology and
ontology, performance studies, political decision-making, behavioral economics,
mental health, vicarious trauma, material culture, literary expression, and
nature writing. This list is not intended to be exhaustive but to suggest the
broad range of fields that connect to emotions scholarship.
Please submit a 300 word abstract, accompanied by a CV, to
Annelle Brunson (annelle.brunson25@uga.edu)
by February 1, 2020.
Crossing Boundaries
in Literature, Culture, and Theory
March 27-28, 2020
Graduate students in the Literature, Theory, and Cultural
Studies program at Purdue University invite participation in their first annual
symposium, “Crossing Boundaries in Literature, Theory, and Culture.” Boundaries
represent real or imagined limits within various cultures, and negotiation of
these boundaries enables innovation, transgression, as well as social, ethical,
or political implications. Literature and other cultural artifacts work to
challenge, straddle, or even reinforce boundaries, from national borders to the
artificial limits scholars construct between time periods or fields of study.
This symposium will investigate and encourage boundary crossings in literature,
culture, and language in the broadest sense.
Please send abstract
proposals of up to 250 words in length to purduelitco@purdue.edu. The deadline for submissions is
January 17, 2020.
Creative Cartographies
and Inherited Aesthetics: Craft, Tradition, and Labor in Contemporary Fine Art
Practices
Association for Art History 2020 Annual Conference,
Newcastle University & Northumbria University, April 1–3 2020
This session seeks papers that broadly discuss the fine-art
practice and aesthetics of artists of the 20th and 21st centuries in relation
to their diasporic parentage and heritage. How do different understandings of
and approaches to creativity, craft, tradition and labor intersect and manifest
in the work of fine artists? What part have feminisms played in the passing on
of skills and craft across generations and geographies? How have those creative
and/or cultural traditions been treated in formal institutions?
Deadline for submissions: Monday 21 October 2019
Contact Email: elmccutcheon@gmail.com
Aesthetics Conference
University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston Jamaica, March
21, 2020 to March 22, 2020
Could the uncharted world of aesthetics be none other than
the charted world of aesthetics, where each world is what it is by virtue of
being the site for the constitution of the other? Is there not an
uncharted world of aesthetics in which the life of each one of our
senses is an expression? As we imagine answers to these questions, it should
be clear that, when taken together, their respective answers are about
ourselves. Indeed, the uncharted world of aesthetics is the uncharted
world of who we are. Moreover, it is a world that deserves affirmation and
perpetual preservation in the context of what is conceivably a language
with limitless potential.
We invite abstracts that draw inspiration from the uncharted
world of aesthetics and that affirms, celebrates, and promotes its existence.
Please send an abstract of 200 words
to jmurungi@towson.edu
Abstracts are due on January 31, 2020
Resistance and
Reimagination: Women, Gender, and the Arts
April 16-18, 2020, UW-Madison Campus
We invite scholars, students, activists, artists, civil
society leaders, and all members of the community to submit proposals that
consider the arts as a site of inquiry, pedagogical practice, methodology, activism,
exploration, and social transformation. This year’s theme encourages a feminist
lens to argue against a separation amongst art, politics, activism, and
epistemology. With the help of the arts, we can envision how to deconstruct,
decolonize, and reimagine life and society. We welcome proposals that consider
the arts from a variety of perspectives including, but not limited to: visual
arts, performance, photography, creative writing, academic research, feminist
pedagogical practices, and digital mediums. We welcome presentations that
foreground intersectionality.
The deadline for submissions is 11:59 PM (US Central
Daylight Time) on Friday, November 1, 2019.
posthuman agency
NYU April 30-May 2, 2020
This Symposium is dedicated to exploring the importance of
posthuman agency in the interrelated significations of human and non-human
realms. We intend to spark a deep and multilayered analysis of posthuman agency
both as praxis and as a moral stance on the current global issues, as
exemplified by its advocacy of environmentalism, cyborg rights, animal
personhood, sustainable advanced technologies and ethical economies. We wish to
examine posthuman agency from a variety of perspectives, including but not
limited to: philosophy, natural and social sciences, law, religion, technology,
mindfulness, and the arts.
Deadline: December 31st 2019
Contact Email: NYposthuman@gmail.com
8th Annual Africa
Conference
Tennessee State University
Following the attainment of political independence and the
recent wave of democratization that swept across the continent, African
Renaissance is considered the next major agenda for Africa, which will involve
economic, political, and social renewal. The AU in its continental 50-year
agenda, called Agenda 2063, envisions a prosperous, peaceful, and integrated
Africa, based on the ideals of Pan-Africanism and the vision of African
Renaissance, which would usher in a new Africa with global influence, and its
states imbued with good governance, democracy, respect for human rights,
justice, and the rule of law. This year’s conference will provide a platform
for scholars, policy makers, and other participants to examine critically
within a multidisciplinary framework, Africa’s economic, political, and
socio-cultural transformations and renewal, with specific focus on undercurrent
issues including achievements, opportunities, challenges, and prospects.
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2019
Contact Email: tsuafricaconference@tnstate.edu
On the Possibility
and the Impossibility of Reparations
7-8th May 2020, Columbia University, New York City
Scholars dealing with questions of reparatory justice have
tended to sympathize with the moral sentiments surrounding symbolic practices
of reparations, but have often assumed the impossibility of widespread material
reparations in the context of colonialism and transatlantic slavery. The scope
of this emergent politics of repair is not exclusively moral, however, it goes
beyond apology and commitments to symbolic change. Taking seriously reparatory
justice in material terms thereby poses new demands to scholars interested in
social inequality, racism, colonialism, and reparations.
The broad goal of this workshop is to investigate the
significance of a turn to greater acceptance of material reparations for
colonialism and slavery, to investigate what widespread material reparations
could look like, and to probe the terms on which reparations would be capable
of both enacting repair and combating social inequality in capitalist, white
supremacist, and settler colonial contexts. The following questions serve as a
guide, though we welcome all papers that deal with the theme of reparatory
justice in the context of European colonialism and transatlantic slavery
To apply, please email applications and other questions to
the organizing committee at opircolumbia2020@gmail.com by
October 31st, 2019 at 11pm (EST).
Viral Masculinities
University of Exeter, UK, 1–2 September 2020
We’re living in viral times; ours is a time of contagion. As
Tony Sampson writes in his book Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of
Networks, “the networked infrastructures of late capitalism are interwoven with
the universal logic of the epidemic” (Sampson 2011, 1–2). Deeply connected to
contemporary biopolitics and modes of digital sociability, virality also
underpins news forms of wealth creation and accumulation sustained by
21st-century media, whilst at the same time (paradoxically, perhaps) presenting
a political threat through the risk it carries of “contagious overspills” that
may undo borders, nation states, institutions, ontologies and subjectivities
(2). If our time is a game of push and pull fuelled on all sides by contagious
forms of relationality, what then for masculinities? Within that context, we
invite proposals for individual papers, creative/performative presentations,
and pre-constituted panels addressing masculinities in relation to the
material, technological and conceptual aspects of virality and its
epistemological, ontological, ethical and/or (bio)political dimensions.
Please send a 300-word abstract and short bio (max 50 words)
for each paper to Dr João Florêncio at the Exeter Masculinities Research Unit (Masculinities@exeter.ac.uk) by the
31st of January, 2020.
PUBLICATIONS
Graphic Novels as
World Literature
The collection is also interested with how these graphic
texts engage with, fit in with, or complicate notions of World Literature. Therefore, the larger theoretical framework
of World Literature is welcome (though not necessarily required) in proposed
articles, but so are postcolonial, decolonial, Global South, and similar
approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-western
graphic narratives on their own terms. This collection, then, seeks to consider
the ways that graphic novels from the Global South intersect with issues such
translation, commodification, circulation, Orientalism, and many others. In short, what do the unique formal elements
of graphic narratives bring to conversations about literature and the globe,
whether through World Literature strictly defined via its well-known
interlocuters (Damrosch, Moretti, Apter, Mufti, Cheah, etc.) or through any
number of other legitimate critics, theories, and methods?
Abstracts (300-500 words) for proposed articles should be
submitted by November 1, 2019 to the editor of the proposed collection, James
Hodapp, at jhodapp@northwestern.edu.
Porn Chic, Erotic
Style and Fashion
Fashion, Style & Popular Culture is calling
for articles for a special issue focusing on erotic style, to be published
autumn 2021. Article submission deadline: 1 September 2020
Contact Email: lhallaraujo@stephens.edu
Queer Virginia
Queer history is a vibrant and growing field that has
generated many local research projects. It is part of the uncovered or
rediscovered “hidden history” that has challenged and enlivened traditional
narratives. There is a need, therefore, to bring this local research to greater
public and scholarly notice in order to shape regional and national stories. In
particular, Virginia played a prominent role in the making of queer identities
and rights during and after gay liberation.
Proposals, including a tentative title, 500-word abstract,
and accompanying bibliography may be sent to queervirginia@gmail.com along
with prospective contributor’s names, contact information, and academic affiliation
by November 15, 2019.
Quests: Magical
Journeys and Wayside Attractions
Coreopsis Journal of Myth and Theatre
The realm of mythopoetics and speculative fiction, popular
dramas, and the ancient art of the story-song. From the ancient texts of Inanna,
the wonder tales of the Mabinogion and Troyes’ Sainte Grail cycle, to Baum’s
Land of Oz and Tolkien’s Hobbits, to the very modern American Gods, or
McKillip’s The Forgotten Beasts of Eld the tale of the quest and journeys into
the realm of magic and wonder are part and parcel of the art of storytellers.
Whether we explore the realm of story, or use the idea of a quest or journey as
a metaphor, or find ourselves walking into the unknown in the waking world,
questing after an idea or an object in a laboratory or in the natural world,
the image of seeking and finding -- or, not finding -- is a powerful one. In
the Spring 2020 issue, we will explore the idea of questing and journeys into
the unknown.
Query/Abstract Deadline: December 20th, 2019
Contact Email: coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com
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 October 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.
How to do things with
speculative pragmatism?
AM Journal of Art and Media Studies is an academic journal
for art theory, media studies, cultural studies, general art sciences,
philosophy of art and contemporary aesthetics with interdisciplinary approach
and international scope.
How can we start understanding what is happening in/with the
more-than-human, as Erin Manning puts it, world today? Brian Massumi writes
that it is about ‘finding ways to understand any given mode of activity in
these experiential terms, starting from an ontological primacy of the
relational-qualitative and respecting the singularity of the activity’s
unfolding’ (2011: 13). This is a call to enter into a critical dialogue with
the speculative pragmatism, its ontology, politics and aesthetics, along the
multiplicity of lines of with, and see what kind of new material-semiotic reconfigurations
might emerge.
Deadline for abstracts: December 31, 2019.
Contact Email: andrija.filipovic@fmk.edu.rs
Breaking News
Radical History Review Issue number 141
The Radical History Review seeks submissions which examine
this assumption. From medieval town criers, to the couriers who ran along the
highways of the Incan empire, to the rumors that spread among the enslaved of
St. Domingue, how did news break to the public in the past, and how did
everyday people and subaltern actors break past elite gatekeepers of public
information? What efforts were made to
break the public’s faith in those who presumed to guard the “public good” and
why? How can scholars break down, or
deconstruct, the ways in which we understand the struggles over public
discourse?
Abstract Deadline: February 1, 2020
Contact Email: contactrhr@gmail.com
Books Available for
Review for the Journal for the Study of Radicalism
Reviewers must be
professors, independent scholars, or professionals who hold a PhD or terminal
degree in their field. Advanced graduate students are also encouraged to reply.
Email the Book Review Editor at jsrbookreview@gmail.com in
order to review a text listed in the URL below. We also welcome and encourage
ideas on other texts related to radicalism.
Criminal Justice
Reform/Review of Black Political Economy
In 2020, the Review of Black Political Economy will publish
a special issue titled "Criminal Justice Reform: 2020 and Beyond."
This volume will feature research about the US criminal justice system to
advance our understanding of the link between race and the criminal justice
system. We seek to bring new research to light that can both inform
policymakers (and the public) and challenge them to think in new ways.
The deadline to submit a manuscript for consideration is
December 31, 2019.
Please contact Prof. Ngina Chiteji at nc518@nyu.edu if you have questions.
#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 December 15.
Responding to Site
Specificity
Issue 7 of the Comparative Media Arts Journal examines
responses towards art engagement with land and space. Artworks, performances,
music, sound art, and other mediums of art are often associated with the spaces
designed to contain them, the theatre (Moving Image and Theatre), the concert
hall, the museum or gallery. Yet, these institutional spaces curate art with
specific intentions; imposing restrictions on artists and their process. These
spaces also call for audiences to engage in specific ways, by sitting down to
watch and listen or walk around without touching the art. Institutional spaces
designed for Art restrict the people who can create/ participate to those who
subject themselves to the space’s confines.
When writing about Site Specificity in Art Creation, a few concerns come
up considering the discourse surrounding Land. What are the power dynamics
being addressed in the art and space?
Submission Deadline: October 18th, 2019
email: cma_journal@sfu.ca
Burning Borders : Disability Brought to Bear
To border is to boundarize, to carve up, to mark the outer
limits of spaces, objects, and concepts. It cuts our landscapes and shapes our
subjectivities; it is as much a process of signifying that which is, as that
which is not. Bordering is, in short, a creative act that generates a profound
yet arbitrary abstraction: boundary. This is nowhere more evident than in the
pursuit of disability as a line of academic inquiry. Disability Studies (DS)
and Disability History (DH), after all, would not exist without distinction
between that which concerns some scholars but not others. As subsidiaries of
already-bounded disciplines, these fields are brought into being by demarcating
between ability and disability—a province historically tended by religious
leaders, medical and legal professionals, bureaucrats and statisticians. This
knowledge finds expression in a mesh of tenure and academic libraries, research
funding and peer-review, healthcare and life insurance, exorbitant tuition and
student debt, contingent faculty and corporate contracts.
And so, The Activist History Review seeks submissions that
engage irregular epistemologies, reconnoiter deviant histories, and transgress
inveterate boundaries—all in service to bringing disability’s pasts to bear on
the present.
Please submit a 250-word proposal to guest editors Kathleen
Brian (kmbrian@gmail.com) and Alexandria
Einspahr (alexandria.einspahr@gmail.com)
no later than Monday, September 23.
AI for Everyone?
Critical Perspectives
This collection of contributions brings together critical
debates about Artificial Intelligence (AI) to interrogate how we should
understand what constitutes AI, its impact and challenges. If we want to make
sure that AI-powered applications and solutions will benefit society at large
and mitigate AI’s potential negative consequences, we need to overcome the
widespread dichotomic (utopian/dystopian) thinking about AI. By offering
different perspectives and engaging in critical conversations on the potential
and impact of AI, this collection aims to invite all stakeholders involved to
contribute to a more nuanced vision of how to make sure AI will deliver
benefits for everyone, if at all possible (and what is needed to facilitate
change).
October 10, 2019:
Deadline for abstracts
email: p.verdegem@westminster.ac.uk
URL: https://uwestminsterpress.blog/2019/09/10/call-for-papers-ai-for-everyone-critical-perspectives/
The Black Midwest
Anthology
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4661572/black-midwest-anthology-call-submissions
This anthology is meant to explore the various meanings and
experiences of blackness throughout the greater Midwest and Rust Belt regions
of the United States. We’re looking for compelling narratives,
thought-provoking analyses, and impactful commentaries that are able to render
the complexities of the region meaningfully to a broad audience and will be
relevant for years to come. While we anticipate the stories of major cities
like Detroit and Chicago will be represented, we’re also looking to represent
the stories of people living in smaller cities and rural areas where the lives
of black residents have more often gone unacknowledged by traditional news and
media outlets. We also especially encourage submissions that explore issues
around immigration, queerness and sexuality, religious difference, and
disability.
Submit contributions and questions to: blackmidwestanthology@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: DECEMBER 1, 2019
Art and Absence
Northwestern University Department of Art History, Evanston,
IL, Friday, February 28th
What is absence and how is it considered or addressed in
relation to visual culture? The modern
English term “absence” derives from the Latin ab (“off, away from”) and esse
(“to be”), meaning to be away from, or apart from, a state of being. An absence
in this sense signals not only the opposite of presence but rather its lack,
suggesting a palpable separation from something. Whether as a lacuna, as
palpable nonpresence, or as a theoretical concept, artists across time and
space have used absence as a stylistic, material, aesthetic, or narrative
choice in their work. Furthermore, scholarship on visual culture and the
history of art has often relied on the presence of objects, images, archives,
and artists. Thus the absence of source material, whether through loss,
disregard, or inaccessibility, has ultimately shaped conditions of historicization
and has impacted what gets included or excluded in both institutional and
cultural memory.
Please email proposals and questions to MyersSymposiumNUAH@gmail.com and caitlindimartino2022@u.northwestern.edu by
Monday, October 7th, 2019.
FUNDING
Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics
https://cattcenter.iastate.edu/research/catt-prize/apply/
This annual competition is designed to encourage and reward
scholars embarking on significant research in the area of women and politics.
Research projects submitted for prize consideration may address any topic
related to women and politics. Scholars at any level, from graduate students to
tenured faculty members as well as independent researchers, may apply. In light
of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution, projects related to women’s suffrage history or women’s
political participation are especially welcome for this year’s competition.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CST on November 24, 2019
Questions? Check the Catt Prize FAQs page
or email the center at cattcntr@iastate.edu or
call 515-294-3181.
Frances E. Malamy
Research Fellowship of the Peabody Essex Museum
One recipient will be awarded the Frances E. Malamy Research
Fellowship of the Peabody Essex Museum to perform independent scholarly
research at the Phillips Library, located at 306 Newburyport Turnpike in
Rowley, MA. All application materials, including references, must be received
by 11:59 pm on October 31, 2019.
email: research@pem.org
online catalog: http://pem-voyager.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/vwebv/searchBasic
UCLA Library Special
Collections Research Fellowships
The UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships
Program supports the use of special collections materials by visiting scholars
and UCLA graduate students. Collections that are administered by UCLA Library
Special Collections and available for fellowship-supported research include
rare books, journals, manuscripts, archives, printed ephemera, photographs and
other audiovisual materials, oral history interviews, and other items in the
humanities and social sciences; medical, life and physical sciences; visual and
performing arts; and UCLA history.
Deadline: November 1, 2019.
Contact Email: lib_lscfellowships@library.ucla.edu
Florida Atlantic
University Libraries and the Huntington Library Fellowships
The Florida Atlantic University Libraries and the Huntington
Library are jointly offering three short-term research fellowships for advanced
graduate students. Fellows will spend the month of October 2020 in residence
using Florida Atlantic University Libraries’ Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of
America Collection in Boca Raton, Florida. They may take the second month of
the fellowship at the Huntington Library at any time between June 1, 2020 and
June 30, 2021. While at the Florida Atlantic University Libraries, fellows will
meet together weekly along with FAU faculty and participate in academic
programming. Fellows will be encouraged to submit a conference panel based on
the materials they find in the collections and their discussions during the
fellowship period.
Further information on holdings can be found here: http://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/history/weiner-researchers-guide/ and http://www.huntington.org/research/.
Application materials should be sent to afinucane@fau.edu by November 15,
2019.
2020 Indigenous
Community Research Fellowships
The American Philosophical Society (APS)’s Indigenous
Community Research Fellowships support research by Indigenous community
members, elders, teachers, knowledge keepers, tribal officials, traditional
leaders, museum and archive professionals, scholars, and others, regardless of
academic background, seeking to examine materials at the APS Library & Museum
in support of Indigenous community-based priorities. Any community whose
cultural heritage is represented in the APS Library & Museum's collections
is encouraged to apply.
The deadline for applications is October 15, 2019.
Contact Email: alink@amphilsoc.org
Lemelson Center
Fellowships and Travel Grants
Through its fellowships and travel grants, the Lemelson Center
for the Study of Invention and Innovation supports research projects that
present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in
American society. Projects may include (but are not limited to) historical
research and documentation projects resulting in dissertations, publications,
exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia
products.
The Lemelson Center Fellowship Program annually
awards 2 to 3 fellowships to pre-doctoral graduate students, post-doctoral
scholars, and other professionals who have completed advanced training. Fellows
are expected to reside in the Washington, D.C. area, to participate in the
Center's activities, and to make a presentation of their work to colleagues at
the museum.
For application procedures and additional information,
see http://invention.si.edu/lemelson-center-fellowship-program.
Researchers may wish to consult with the fellowship coordinator before submitting
a proposal; contact historian Eric S. Hintz, PhD at +1 202-633-3734 or hintze@si.edu.
Applications are due
1 November 1, 2019.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Call for Editors—The
Activist History Review
The Activist History Review is seeking applicants for
positions on its editorial board. Qualified applicants may hail from a wide
variety of personal, political, intellectual, and disciplinary backgrounds both
in and out of academia, but should be dedicated to understanding the ways that
our studies of the past should impact our actions in the present. We especially
encourage members of marginalized communities to apply.
Areas available: Content editing and setting the tone of The
Activist History Review; copy editing; social media editing
Interested candidates should submit a letter of introduction
and a brief CV to activisthistory@gmail.com
by Monday, September 23rd at 11:59pm EST.
Assistant professor in the Department of Studies in Race,
Colonialism, and Diaspora
The Tufts University Department of Studies in Race,
Colonialism, and Diaspora, in the School of Arts & Sciences, invites
applications for two tenure-track Mellon Foundation assistant professorships.
These positions are part of a cluster hire funded by a grant from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. The Department seeks scholars whose work contributes to one
or more of the following fields: Africana Studies, Native American/Indigenous
Studies, Asian American Studies, Latinx Studies, Transnational American
Studies, or Colonialism Studies.
Review of applications begins October 1, 2019,
and continues until the position is filled.
For additional information, applicants may contact
Department Administrator Cynthia Sanders at cynthia.sanders@tufts.edu.
Stevanovich Institute
on the Formation of Knowledge 2020-22 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of
Instructor
The Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at
the University of Chicago invites applications for two-year Postdoctoral
Researchers at the Rank of Instructor, to begin on July 1, 2020. Postdocs will
join a community of leading scholars from across the university to study the
process of knowledge formation and transmittal from antiquity to the present
day and to explore how this history and culture shapes our modern world. We are
particularly interested in applicants working at the intersection of areas such
as, but not limited to, technology, public policy, and ethics. We also invite
applicants working on the Institute’s 2020-22 research theme of artificial
intelligence. Postdocs will conduct individual research and may collaborate on
topics including the current research theme.
Application materials must be submitted by midnight on
October 15, 2019.
RESOURCES
Multi-ethnic
Immigration & the US South
The Journal of American Ethnic History announces
the publication of its summer 2019 special issue, Multi-ethnic Immigration and
the US South, edited by Sarah McNamara (Texas A&M University) and Cecilia
Márquez (Duke University). This issue brings together scholars across
disciplines who explore the US South as a site of historic immigration and
multi-culturalism
The Power of Maps and
the Politics of Borders
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, October
10-12, 2019
This three-day conference will investigate the power of maps
and the politics of drawing borders. By tracing the creation and use of maps
from the mid-eighteenth century through the early republic, the conference will
explore the different ways in which maps produced and extended the physical, political,
and ideological boundaries of the new nation while creating and reinforcing
structural inequalities.
The conference is free and open to the public and will be
live-streamed. A full program, registration, and additional details are
available on the conference website: https://www.amphilsoc.org/events/power-maps-and-politics-borders
Questions or other inquiries may be directed to Adrianna
Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at alink@amphilsoc.org or
by phone at (215) 410-3415.
Pioneer Feminist
Histories Project
Veteran Feminists of America (VFA) has launched its Pioneer
Feminist Histories Project. Featured on the website are more than
100 activists from the feminist movement of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Newly
conducted oral history interviews are included for most. Check back
often - pioneer feminists are being added on a regular basis. We’ve
also added links to oral history collections from a number of other
organizations.
Contact vfa@veteranfeministsofamerica.org for
more information.
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