CONFERENCES
Feminist
Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network: Law & Society 2020
May 28-31, 2020 in Denver, Colorado
Scholars from all parts of the academy and from all
countries are warmly invited to submit a paper for a panel to be sponsored by
the Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network at the 2020 Law and
Society Annual Meeting in Denver. The Feminist Legal Theory CRN brings together
law and society scholars across a range of fields who are interested in feminist
legal theory. Information about the Law and Society meeting is available at https://www.lawandsociety.org/index.html.
This year’s meeting invites us to explore “Rule and
Resistance.” We are especially
interested in proposals that explore the application of feminist legal theory
to this theme, broadly construed.
Please submit all proposals by Friday, September 20, 2019.
Millennial
Masculinities. Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals
Massey University, Wellington New Zealand, December 10-11
2019
Millennial Masculinities is a two day interdisciplinary
conference that explores the expression of masculinities through constructions
of fashion, identity, style and appearance across the Arts and Humanities. Its
areas of inquiry include cultural and gender theory, art history, fashion
studies, film studies, literature, philosophy and sociology amongst others.
Deadline for Submission of proposals: October 15, 2019
Send paper abstracts with subject title Millennial
Masculinities to Professor Vicki Karaminas at v.karaminas@massey.ac.nz
Global
Literature in the Wake of the Trump Presidency
This panel is for the Northeast Modern Language Association
(NeMLA) 51st Annual Conference in Boston, MA from October 5, 2020 to October 8,
2020.
This roundtable endeavors to assess the influence of Donald
Trump’s presidency on literature in the US and around the world. Three avenues
of inquiry will be featured. First, how has the Trump presidency influenced
literature in the US since 2016? Second, are there commonalities between
writing in the US and writing internationally owing to the Trump presidency?
Finally, focusing on non-US writing, are there perspectives or themes in global
literature that are not at all present in US writing that have occurred in the
wake of Trump’s presidency?
Please submit a 250-300 word abstract to Chris McComb
at cc.mccomb@gmail.com by
September 30, 2019.
Nationalism
and Populism: Expressions of Fear or Political Strategies
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, April 23-24, 2020
Right wing populism has become an apparent and expanding
phenomenon of the present. Nationalist claims to protect the state against
waves of immigration are en vogue. Populists promise to secure national
interests and to defend cultural values. The geographical and cultural Other is
used to establish or to strengthen a narrative of fear. A two-day workshop at
the Center for the Study of Nationalism, at the College of International
Studies of the University of Oklahoma, in co-operation with Nord Universitet,
Norway, will examine the interrelationship of nationalism and populism during
the 20th and 21st centuries.
Proposals (max. 350 words) and a short bio should be
submitted to Carsten Schapkow cschapkow@ou.edu and Frank Jacob frank.jacob@nord.no by September
30, 2019.
American Comparative Literature Association's
2020 Annual Meeting
Chicago, March 19th-22nd, 2020
Our online portal will open for seminar submissions in mid
July, with a deadline of August 31, at 9:00 AM Eastern. Read calls for papers
here (https://www.acla.org/node/add/seminar).
Individuals interested in participating in a particular seminar are encouraged
to be in touch with the organizers over the summer; paper submissions through
the portal will open August 31 and close September 23.
Southwest
Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Annual Conference
February 19-22, 2020, Albuquerque, NM
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 41st annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/.
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 41st annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/.
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2019.
Contact Email: klacey@southwestpca.org
Conservation,
Environmentalism, and Stewardship—Ecological Spirituality as Common Ground
Religion in Society Research Network: a conference and
journal founded in 2011, exploring the role of religion and spirituality in
society. Tenth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society
2020 will be held in Vancouver, CA 30 April - 1 May 2020.
Final proposal submissions are accepted until 30 March 2020.
Contact Email: support@religioninsociety.com
Conference:
Laughing in an Emergency: Humour in Contemporary Art
University of Manchester, 17 - 18 April, 2020
Although the politics of humour has attracted recent
attention, leading scholars across the social sciences and humanities
continually lament the lack of scholarly analysis on the subject. The need for
a more sustained understanding of the role of humour in the face of crisis and
humanitarian emergency is particularly pertinent when assessing contemporary
art and visual culture. This is because, despite both the emphasis on trauma
and crisis (which has remained a scholarly pre-occupation since the 1990s),
visual culture theory has failed to adequately investigate why humour becomes
pronounced in practice in times of emergency. Further, if the 21st century is
characterized by the experience of perpetual crisis, then discourse has
neglected to provide in-depth analysis of how humour offers a new understanding
of this political context, whilst also suggesting how we might deal with such
crises.
Please send proposals to liae@manchester.ac.uk by October
30th 2019.
Any queries regarding the event should be directed to Dr
Chrisoula Lionis - chrisoula.lionis@manchester.ac.uk
Sexual
Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice
March 6, 2020, UCLA
We are specifically interested in presentations that center
anti-imperialist, anti-racist, Indigenous, intersectional,
anti-carceral/abolitionist frameworks for understanding sexual violence. We
invite proposals for papers, roundtable presentations, and posters related to
studies of sexual violence in the context of empire, settler colonialism,
incarceration, immigration detention and deportation, and labor exploitation,
among other forms of state and capitalist violence. We also welcome research on
the criminalization of gender and sexual non-conformity, social institutions
and carceral control, and intersectional abolitionist responses—historical and
contemporary—to punishment.
Deadline for All Proposal Submissions: Sunday, October 27,
2019
Climate
Fictions/ Indigenous Studies Conference
University of Cambridge, 24-25 January 2020
Critical Indigenous studies can neither be perceived as
niche, nor trivialized as topical. In the way climate-capitalism has become an
existential threat, a sincere engagement with Indigenous knowledges has become
ineluctable. This conference seeks to initiate a multidisciplinary conversation
on climate change, as conceived by, and re-inscribed within, Indigenous
literatures. So far within the small domain of English Humanities, contemporary
climate fiction by Indigenous authors have presented an urgent need to converse
with scientific and social-scientific approaches to climate change. Centring
these literatures, especially at a University such as Cambridge that is itself
implicated in climate capitalism, is vital to confront the racial nature of
climate change discourse which overlooks those who are leading the resistance
in theory and praxis. These literatures tie the material to the literary,
forging new links between resurgence movements and academic scholarship. These
literatures also provide a narrative space for the local exigencies of land to
feature within a global discourse on climate.
For the call for papers, and more information, visit www.climatefictions.info
email: climatefictions@gmail.com
Popular
& American Culture Association Conference
Wednesday, April 15 to Saturday, April 18, 2020,
Philadelphia, PA
Proposals will be considered for sessions organized around a
theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are scheduled in 1½-hour slots,
typically with four papers or speakers per standard session. Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes.
Working professionals, scholars, educators, and graduate students are all
encouraged to submit. Discussion panels of 4-6 participants each are also
encouraged. All presenters must be members of the PCA and must register for the
conference.
For information on PCA/ACA, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org
Teaching
Textiles: The History of Craft Instruction
6-7 December 2019, Madison WI
The Teaching Textiles
symposium will explore this nexus of skill, education, communication,
enterprise, and collecting. Because textiles are used so broadly— from the
necessities of shelter, such as clothing, fabric structures, and bedding; to
luxuries, such as ornamental embroidery for embellishing the home or body; to
cultural symbols, such as religious vestments—the dissemination of their making
also ranges broadly, across place and time. We welcome proposals for case studies,
comparisons, or thematic approaches from across history and around the globe.
Please send
proposals (or queries about the event) to Prof. Marina Moskowitz at mmoskowitz@wisc.edu by 23 September 2019.
Women,
Peace and Security
Binghamton University, April 23-25, 2020
2020 marks a series of significant anniversaries for
international women’s human rights advocacy. From their earliest work after the
forming of the Commission on the Status of Women in 1946 to the breakthrough
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW) in 1980, the Beijing Platform
for Action (1995) and the adoption, by the Security Council of Resolution 1325
on Women, Peace and Security (2000), feminists have used the United Nations to
affirm the central role and right of women to participate in peace and
post-conflict rebuilding, broadly conceived, and to address the particular
forms of physical and legal vulnerabilities faced by women and girls worldwide.
More specifically, this conference will address the unequal distribution of the
rights of citizenship (women’s differential rights to civil, political, social,
economic, and cultural citizenship), gendered vulnerability and cultural
belonging, and particular ways state legal systems make women as a category of
persons vulnerable to harm (whether in the context of international or
intranational conflict, gun violence, forced economic migration and
displacement, or environmental catastrophe).
Submissions due by November 1, 2019 to: hri@binghamton.edu.
Campuses
and Colonialism symposium
University of North Carolina
Since the turn of the millenium, a growing number of U.S.
university campuses have undertaken serious intellectual and institutional
accounting for their complicity in the histories of slavery and the slave
trade. The time is ripe for a sustained look at the role of university
campuses, particularly but not exclusively in the United States, in the history
of settler colonialism: the forcible transfer of land; the replacement of
Indigenous with settler populations; the remaking of physical and cultural
landscapes in the image of the newcomers; the relegation of Indigenous peoples
either to a vanishing past or a zone of misty and demeaning romanticism. We
propose that campuses consider how these histories are woven together in
faculty research, graduate and undergraduate student recruitment and retention,
curriculum offerings, built environments, labor practices, and more.
By September 20, 2019 applicants should submit a proposal to
Steve Kantrowitz at skantrow@wisc.edu.
URL: https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/InstitutesCenters/swcenter/Symposia/Future/CampusColonialism
Coming
to Terms With Apartheid: History, Resistance, Legacy
The symposium will examine the history and legacy of
apartheid from different vantage points including economic, social, diplomatic,
intellectual and cultural lenses. In addition to the history of apartheid, we
will examine the massive international movement that emerged to resist the violent
and systematic discrimination. The anti-apartheid movement was among the first
successful transnational social movements in the era of globalization. In its
transnational scope and eventual success, it can be compared to the
abolitionist movement of the 19th century. What is unique about the
anti-apartheid movement is the extent of support it received from individuals,
governments and organizations on all continents. Few social movements garner
anywhere near the international support mobilized against the apartheid regime
in South Africa.
Please send abstracts of 250-300 words with a short
biography to resistingapartheid@gmail.com by December
15.
For questions and further information visit the conference
website at https://africana.sdsu.edu/conference.
Thinking
Regionally: Research, Policy, & Practice
The 2020 Small Cities Conference at Ball State University
brings together academics and policy makers interested in regional solutions to
common problems facing communities and regions. The conference organizers seek
proposals for papers and/or panels that consider the regional dimensions of
challenges facing small cities, towns, and rural places. Research on
international issues is also welcome if it is clearly linked to U.S.
impacts. The conference will take place
on May 8-9, 2020 at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
Proposal deadline: Nov. 1, 2019
Sexual
Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice
March 6, 2020, UCLA
This year’s conference theme, Sexual Violence as Structural
Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice, will focus on feminist,
queer, trans, anti-carceral, transnational, and intersectional approaches to
sexual violence. We invite proposals for papers, roundtable presentations, and
posters from graduate students, and posters from undergraduate students.
Successful submissions will center anti-imperialist, anti-racist, Indigenous,
intersectional, anti-carceral/abolitionist frameworks for understanding sexual
violence. This is an interdisciplinary conference and we encourage submissions
from all fields of study.
Deadline for Paper and Poster Proposals: Sunday, October 27,
2019, at 11:59PM PDT
application form: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/ac1f2394-ecf2-45e0-b78f-bcc6273d0de9/thinking-gender-2020-submissions
Contact Bri-Ann Hernandez, 2020 Thinking Gender Conference
Coordinator, at thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu.
BPM:
Bodies, Places, Movements
The International Association for the Study of Popular
Music-United States chapter (IASPM-US) invites proposals for its annual
conference, which will take place in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on
May 21-23, 2020. We welcome abstracts on all aspects of popular music, broadly
defined, from any discipline or profession, and especially encourage
submissions on the many rich popular music histories of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
and Detroit. The theme for this year’s conference is “BPM: Bodies, Places,
Movements,” which intersects with Detroit and its storied place in rhythm and
blues, rock, punk, pop, hip-hop, and electronic dance music, and is intended to
connect the histories, philosophies, and practices of urban spaces to other
historical and global popular music communities.
Please submit proposals via Word document to iaspmus2020@gmail.com with “last
name, first name” in the subject line no later than midnight October 1,
2019.
PUBLICATIONS
Disruption,
defiance and dissent: Everyday forms of resistance in a digitally networked
Global South
This forthcoming special issue of Bandung: Journal of the
Global South seeks innovative theoretical approaches and context-sensitive
empirical studies that engage the theme of everyday resistance in an age of
networked communication and digital platforms. Through various cases in Global
South societies, the collection interrogates the consequences of visibility and
networked media, for everyday resistance itself and social change. The Global
South context is characterised by complex social hierarchies, alternative
modernities and post-colonial histories that shape and inform everyday
political struggles. Indeed, how subordinated groups in Global South societies
use digital media to express dissent, disrupt unjust social and economic order
and defy oppressive structures show the possibilities and limits of mediated
visibility.
This special issue will publish research articles of
8,000-10,000 words (inclusive of references) in 2020. Interested authors should
send inquiries (along with a 250-word abstract of the paper) to the following
email addresses as soon as possible before submitting full manuscripts: jlorenzana@ateneo.edu and jjacobo@ateneo.edu.
Paper
Trails
Often there is more than research inside the books we read.
Bookmarks, train tickets, receipts, and menus tucked into pages offer clues
about the life of the book itself. Yet the lives of our research material often
go unmarked, lost between the gaps in disciplinary boundaries and narrow
definitions. What happens when we consider the three moments of production,
transmission, and reception together with our own research stories? The
editorial board invite contributors to submit papers to be published in a BOOC
(Book as Open Online Content), a fully open access platform with UCL Press
described as “a living book”. We are interested in a broad geographical and
chronological scope and actively welcome a diverse range of topics and authors.
Deadline for submissions is 31st January 2020
email: a.smith@chi.ac.uk
Black
Americans in the Age of Emancipation
Black Americans in the Age of Emancipation aims to tell the
stories of African Americans from across the U.S. during the struggle against
slavery. This collection hopes to harness the potential of the recent wave of
digitization to better represent the lives and experiences of the Black folk
who led a revolution for equality against slavery and state-sponsored white
supremacy. These African American visionaries, from educated elites to
working-class men and women, boldly challenged white elites and former enslavers.
By giving voice to their stories, we hope to facilitate a more accurate
depiction of American life and identity while continuing their struggle to
transform the U.S.
We seek submissions for a multi-volume collection of African
American biography examining the lived experiences of Black men, women, and
children across the U.S. from 1830-1900. Proposals are due by October 31, 2019
and should be no more than 250 words for chapters of 8,000-10,000 words. Please
also include a short contributor bio of no more than 100 words and email them
to Caroline Grego (cegrego@gmail.com),
Lucien Holness (lholness@vt.edu),
and William Horne (horne.activisthistory@gmail.com).
Edited
Collection of Essays on Graduate Student Teaching
We are currently accepting essay proposals from graduate
students for an edited volume that will serve as a guide to teaching and
learning in higher education for their peers who are new to teaching. This book
will pull together strategies and tools from authors with immediate, relevant
experience to help readers discover effective and more inclusive teaching
techniques. Our goal is to encourage collaborative professionalization among
graduate students as they transition into their careers as scholars and
educators.
Abstract proposals (max. 300 words) are due by Tuesday, October
15, 2019 at 11:59 pm EST.
Please direct any remaining inquiries to gradteaching@cornell.edu.
Gender
and Sexuality in Religion and Performance
The journal Ecumenica
is interested in the combination of creativity, religion, and spirituality in
expressive practice, preferring no particular form of creative expression, and
privileging no particular religious tradition. The journal’s very aim is to
consider the variety of modes in which creative and religious impulses might be
realized. Ecumenica’s interdisciplinary premise welcomes all critical
approaches to such topics as performance art, theatre, ritual, contemplative
and devotional practices, and expressions of community.
Submissions intended for the Spring 2020 issue concerning
gender and sexuality in performance and religion should be received by
September 20, 2019.
Contact Email: editor@ecumenica.org
Writing
Opportunities with Sacred Matters
Established in 2014 at Emory University, Sacred Matters is a
web magazine of public scholarship that undercuts conventional understandings
of religion and reimagines the boundaries between religion and culture. As a
digital publication, Sacred Matters provides a forum for innovative scholarship
by taking advantage of the Internet’s capabilities to deliver audio, video,
images, and text and facilitating new ways of organizing and presenting commentary,
opinion, and analysis. We are always looking for contributors wanting to reach
a popular audience with original ideas in a blog article format. We accept
articles from graduate students, emerging scholars, and senior faculty.
Contact Email: sacredmatters@emory.edu
Rage
and Rethinking First-Wave Feminism
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society invites
submissions for a special issue titled “Rage.” We welcome essays that consider
political, social, and cultural understandings of rage. Essays should address
rage as a contested framework and concept that shapes structural distributions
of power, consolidated and constituted through modern institutions and
ideologies. We welcome essays that theorize rage from decolonial, anticolonial,
and intersectional feminist perspectives to better understand the lives of
women, and subaltern, queer, trans, and nonbinary peoples. Essays should
address rage as a central analytical question for feminist theory and practice
but may also analyze rage as a dynamic concept, constituted in relation to
other affective modes, from sadness, grief, elation, and exhaustion to the
long-term effects of these emotional experiences on the body, on marginalized
communities, and on the workings of the state.
The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2019.
Rethinking “First Wave” Feminisms: Over the past several
decades, scholarship in a variety of disciplines has challenged the “wave”
model of feminism. Inspired by the 2020 centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment,
this special issue seeks to rethink “first wave” feminisms in a heterogeneous
and expansive way—by pushing geographic, chronological, and ideological
boundaries and by broadening the definition of whom we usually think of as
early feminists. While contributions on the Nineteenth Amendment in the United
States, and the suffrage movement worldwide, are welcome, we also encourage
submissions that consider early manifestations of feminism and feminist
movements in broad and global terms. Scholars from all disciplines are
encouraged to submit their work.
The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2020.
Cities
as Communicative Change Agents
Change is a defining aspect of the urban condition. As
cities face unique challenges, they attempt to evolve, adapt, and lead the
world into an uncertain future, especially as the age of artificial
intelligence and other digital technologies attempt to make cities more
“efficient.” The inevitable increase in demographic, ideological, and
socio-cultural diversity that accompanies urban growth is similarly worthy of
our attention. Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci designed an “ideal city”
that attempted to reshape how we think and act in cities so as to prevent
another outbreak of the plague. Today, the world is facing climate change,
wealth inequality, housing crises, food shortages, and global mass migration;
cities are at the heart of these problems and their solutions. We see cities as
embedded and necessary communicative change agents in addressing these crises.
By including scholarship from functional, critical, and
cultural approaches to research, in addition to balancing work that emphasizes
specific urban change with case studies and on-the-ground work that
(re)considers how we have, can, and/or should approach urban change, this
volume will illustrate the various ways that urban communication scholarship
addresses and inspires urban change.
Abstract due Sept. 30
Disability
and the Environment in the Global Colonial Era
This edited collection examines the intersections of
disability and the environment in the times of colonial expansion. It traces
the emergence of eco-ableist discourses through a careful examination of such
issues as gender, race, imperialism, industrialization, the environment,
climate, and other subjects, and probes the ways through which various cultural
artifacts from that era effectively construct the meanings of disability and
the environment. The book shows that in the colonial era the perceptions of
disability were largely defined by the earlier environmental discourses,
whereas the understanding of the environment was very similar to how ableism in
that era viewed people with disabilities. It thus adumbrates the tight and
intricate linkage between disability and the environment. Potential
contributors are welcome to submit their abstracts of 250-350 words along with
their short bios (150 words max.) to tatiana.prorokova@gmx.de by
October 15, 2019. Full chapters of 8,000 words will be requested by March 1,
2020.
Latin
American and Latinx Visual Culture
Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture is a quarterly
peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the most current international
research on the visual culture of Mexico, Central America, South America, and
the Caribbean, as well as that created in diaspora. A defining focus of the
journal is its concentration of current scholarship on both Latin American and
Latinx visual culture in a single publication. The journal aims to approach
ancient, colonial, modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx visual
culture from a range of interdisciplinary methodologies and perspectives.
Long-form scholarly articles, topical debates, and book
reviews consider the development of Latin American and Latinx visual culture,
art history, material culture, architecture, visual studies, museum studies,
collecting, cultural history, film, pop culture, public art, art and activism,
as well as pedagogical issues, methodological debates, and historiographical
concerns. Comparative and methodologically innovative papers are especially
welcome.
Please direct any editorial inquiries to the Editor-in-Chief
via e-mail at LALVCeditorinchief@ucpress.edu.
Culture,
Politics, and Cultural Politics
The Typescript is a new online magazine of culture, politics,
and cultural politics (not peer-reviewed) that is, at turns, scrappy and
erudite, addressing the cultural politics of this historical moment from an
inclusive, non-sectarian left perspective. We speak to Millennials and Gen-Xers
in an intelligent and often wry voice about the things that are important to
all of us. We welcome submissions from emerging and experienced writers in all
genres, including essays, feature and news articles, and creative writing of
kinds, as well as dynamic media productions (audio and video), and virtual
exhibits of art and photography.
Discursive
Practices and the Role of Ideology: Discourse Studies Meets Critical Theory
In Discourse Studies, discourse is usually understood as the
use of texts in various sorts ofcontexts (situational, historical, structural,
institutional). From these practices of meaning production, different aspects
of the social such as identities, believes, attitudes, institutions, social
structures and new text production emerge. Despite this broad notion of
discourse, the notion of ideology is often understood as sets of collective
beliefs or mental representations.
In this special issue we want to bring together critical
discourse studies and critical theory in order to focus on the ideological
dimensions of power, domination, inequality and injustices that are related to
discourse production. In particular, the contributions of this special issue
reflect on the material conditions of discourse productions. The authors will
elaborate how language is related to the formation of hierarchies in discourses
on gender, race and social class. We will furthermore elaborate how subject
positions and subjectivities are formed by discourses in an unequal
socio-material space, and we will reflect on the ideological role in these
processes. A third group of contributions will discuss the relationship between
ideology and critique.
Deadline for abstracts: November 20, 2019
Critical
Insights: Frederick Douglass
This is a call for essay proposals for a forthcoming edited
collection on Frederick Douglass. This volume will be published in fall 2020 as
part of the following subset of Salem Press’s Critical Insights collection: https://www.salempress.com/ci_authors.
Designed for high school and undergraduate students, this collection will
provide a comprehensive introduction to Frederick Douglass, with a particular
focus on literary studies.
If you are interested in contributing to this project,
please submit an abstract of approximately 250-350 words and a brief CV to
Jericho Williams (williamsj@smcsc.edu)
by Friday, October 4th
Women's
Studies Quarterly Special Issue - "solidão"
How do you read/experience/address solidão? This issue
invites intersectional critical theory from scholar-activists to confront
systems of oppression that challenge the idea of universalism and the limited
belief that humanity is white, skinny, heterosexual, able-bodied, U.S.
American, middle class, Christian, and male (O que é a interseccionalidade by
Carla Akotirene [2017]). How do you frame intersectional theory with
Afro-Atlantic and African knowledge production outside of the United States?
While recognizing the historical roots and social/racial meaning of solidão, we
invite submissions that take into account how solidão is experienced differently,
based on differential subjectivities and communal similarities. How can we
engage solidão with Black women and LGBTQ+ communities of color as
history-making and knowledge-producing protagonists?
Priority Submission Deadline: September 15, 2019
Scholarly articles and inquiries should be sent to guest
issue editors Tanya Saunders, Luciane Ramos-Silva, and Sarah
Soanirina Ohmer at WSQsolidao@gmail.com.
Animating
LGBTQ+ Representations: Queering the Production of Movement – book reviews
Synoptique: An Online Journal in Film and Moving Image Studies
is seeking Book Reviews submissions for its 9.1 Issue- Animating LGBTQ+
Representations: Queering the Production of Movement. Reviews are typically in the 2000-word range. For sample
reviews, please consult recent issues of the journal (https://synoptique.ca/). Send
your information to all the Issue’s guest editors
by September 2nd, 2019: Jaqueline Ristola (jacqueline.ristola@gmail.com), Edmond
Ernest dit Alban (ernestedo@gmail.com)
and Kevin J. Cooley (kevin.cooley@ufl.edu).
Autoethnography
and Self-Study as Education Research Methods: Continuing Debates and
Contemporary Applications
There is recurring and increasing scholarly interest in the
ethical and methodological possibilities of autoethnography and self-study as
research methods in education (understood broadly and inclusively as
encompassing learning and/or teaching in diverse forms and ranging from formal
and structured on the one hand to informal and incidental on the other hand).
Against the backdrop of that scholarly interest, this proposed edited research
book is centred on continuing debates and contemporary applications related to
autoethnography and self-study.
Abstract deadline: 31 October 2019
Women
and their Words: The Rhetoric of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Campaign
The book, tentatively entitled Women and their Words: The
Rhetoric of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Campaign, examines the prelude
to the historic event—Election Day, November 3, 2020—focusing on the women who
ran for high office, whether it be Vice-President or President. The primary focus of the book will surround
the political discourse of the individuals as demonstrated through speeches,
debates, and social media, while taking into consideration visual rhetoric
components, such as political ads / signage, and yes, the appearance of the
candidate. The interdisciplinary
approach lends itself to: rhetoric; political rhetoric; political discourse;
leadership studies; feminist studies; women in politics; media; international
relations; sociology.
Proposals of approximately 300 words must be submitted no
later than September 23, 2019.
Contact Email: m.lockhart.phd@gmail.com
FUNDING
Harry
Ransom Center 2020–2021 research fellowships
The Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin will
award 10 dissertation fellowships for projects that require substantial on-site
use of its collections. The collections support research in all areas of the
humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts,
music, and cultural history. For information about how the Center might support
your research project, contact us: https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/contact/.
The deadline for applications, which must be submitted
through the Center’s website, is November 11, 2019, 5 p.m. CST.
Questions about the fellowship program or application
procedures should be directed to ransomfellowships@utexas.edu.
The
Willison Foundation Charitable Trust Research Awards
Applications are invited from anyone pursuing advanced
research in the History of the Book, irrespective of nationality, discipline,
or profession. ‘Advanced research’ is taken to mean work towards a doctorate,
post-doctoral research, and work of an equivalent level regardless of the
applicant’s formal qualifications. Applications will be judged on scholarly
criteria and upon financial criteria, including the efficient use of grant
money and the prospects of the project’s being finished in the time estimated
in the application. Recipients will be expected to be working towards
publication and/or other forms of dissemination.
Deadline: 5 pm GMT on
30 September 2019
Research
Fellowships at the Autry Museum of the American
The Library and Archives of the Autry Museum is a gateway to
an exceptional collection of books, archives, audiovisual resources, and rare
documents pertaining to Native American cultures as well as the myth and
realities associated with the American West. To encourage the discovery and
support of new scholarship, the Autry awards annual Research Fellowships that
brings diverse researchers and topics through our doors. Previous fellows have
used the Autry's collection to conduct research related to indigenous, gender,
labor, environmental, and borderland studies as well as art, architecture,
entertainment, military science, and popular culture.
Completed applications and letters of recommendation must be
sent via e-mail to fellowships@theautry.org.
Deadline: Monday, December 2,
2019.
Jack Henning
Fellowship in Labor Culture and History
This fellowship has been established to encourage innovative
study of the expressive culture of working people in the United States, their
identities, philosophies, and the problems they encounter. We are especially
interested in supporting graduate students who are exploring important, innovative
topics related to the lives of working people that may fall outside of the
parameters of traditional academic research and funding.
Applications must be postmarked no later than December 1,
2019.Questions regarding the application process should be sent to: Henning@laborculture.org
African
American Episcopal Historical Collection Travel Grant Program
Travel reimbursement grants are available to individuals who
would like to use the African American Episcopal Historical Collection (AAEHC)
for research. Faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, independent
researchers, and Episcopal clergy and laypersons are encouraged to apply. Funds
may be used for transportation, meals, lodging, photocopying, and other
research costs.
Application Deadline: January 17, 2020
Journal
of Visual Culture Early Career Researcher Prize
The International Association for Visual Culture and the
Journal of Visual Culture (https://www.iavc.info/)
invite submissions for their Early Career Researcher Prize. Current doctoral
students and recent PhDs (within 5 years of degree) may submit original,
unpublished essays on any topic related to visual culture. Manuscripts should
be submitted in Word or LaTeX format as a single running document (abstract,
keywords, biography, essay) between August 1 and September 30, 2019 to VCEssayPrize@gmail.com.
WORKSHOPS
Worlding
Decolonial Knowledges in Modern and Contemporary Art
November 8-11, 2019, Ottawa, Ontario
With generous support from the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Centre for Transnational Cultural
Analysis at Carleton University will host a workshop for early career
researchers on November 10, 2019. We invite graduate students, postdoctoral
fellows, early-career artists, and curators from all regions of the world to
submit a short abstract of research or a project-in-process that considers the
world-making and decolonial capacities of modern and contemporary art from any
relevant geocultural perspective. The workshop is part of Worlding the Global:
The Arts in an Age of Decolonization, a four-day international academy designed
to collaboratively re-imagine and pluralize the 'global' from multiple
geocultural perspectives.
To apply, please send a short abstract written in English
(200-250 words maximum) and a 2-page CV to: worldingthelgobal@gmail.com by
September 20, 2019.
A full schedule of events is forthcoming on our website: https://carleton.ca/ctca/?p=1205.
14th
Annual Feminist Theory Workshop
March 20 - 21, 2020, Duke University
The Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW), which began in 2007, are
organized pedagogically to promote intense study, featuring both keynote
lectures by internationally known scholars and small working seminars for
participants. The event is free; however, registration is required.
The Feminist Theory Workshop offers a unique opportunity for
internationally recognized faculty and young scholars to engage in sustained
dialogue about feminist theory as a scholarly domain of inquiry. The “workshop”
approach of this conference requires active participation of both presenters
and attendees. Small seminars allow for focused participant exchange,
roundtables synthesize central debates of the weekend, and provocative keynote
lectures all bring those who attend the work-shop into collaborative
conversations
Texas
Regional Society for the Study of American Women Writers Group
The Fall 2019 meeting of the Texas Regional SSAWW Study
Group will take place on Saturday October 12, 2019 at Texas Tech University,
hosted by Elissa Zellinger. The common reading will be Iola Leroy by Frances E.
W. Harper, edited by Koritha Mitchell (Broadview, 2018), and Dr. Mitchell will
be present as a special guest participant. This event is free and open to
faculty members, independent scholars, and graduate students, but a reservation
is required.
RSVP by
September 28, 2018 by emailing Elissa Zellinger (elissa.zellinger@ttu.edu)
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Assistant
Professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
California State University - Long Beach
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Ph.D. in a humanities, social science or related field of
study
Degree at time of application or official notification of
completion of the doctoral degree by August 1, 2020.
Expertise in applied gender studies in areas including, but
not limited to, public policy, public health, or non-profit or community-based
organizing
Focus on Asian diaspora or Asian-American communities; or
Muslim countries, cultures, or communities
Demonstrated potential for effectiveness in teaching and
research in applied women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, broadly defined
Review of applications to begin October 15, 2019
email: lori.baralt@csulb.edu
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.
The reference list and application materials must be
submitted by midnight on October 15, 2019.
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