CONFERENCES
From Suffrage to
Stonewall: The Visual and Material Culture of Social Justice
March 14th, 2020, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
The years 2019 and 2020 are significant anniversaries for
the history of social justice movements in the United States. These
anniversaries commemorate the many campaigns for social justice that have taken
place from the 19th century to the present, including abolition/antislavery,
women’s rights, and the civil rights movements for the African-American, LGBTQ,
Native American, and disability communities. These campaigns all sought
political and economic change, but they also focused on shifting cultural
attitudes toward and perceptions of the groups for whom they mobilized. All of
these movements deployed visual and material culture to advance their goals,
but these artifacts have not drawn the scholarly attention they deserve. The
2020 Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium will focus on research related to any aspect
of this subject from painting, sculpture, public performance and installation
to ephemera, costume, and craft.
The deadline for submissions is November 15th, 2019.
Contact Email: mmcnamar@wellesley.edu
Touch and Tactility
in Art
Washington University in St. Louis, Friday, February 28 –
Saturday, February 29, 2020
This symposium aims to explore the notions of touch and
tactility as they relate to art, architecture, and art history. Despite the
overarching designation “visual arts,” many objects that are today categorized
as such were originally created in order to be held, worn, or used, not merely
viewed. Artists’ touch and how they leave their mark, visible or otherwise,
also carries profound implications. These issues are especially relevant today,
whether it be artists who create works meant to be touched, or institutions
that develop resources for the visually impaired. This symposium seeks
submissions across chronological and geographic areas. We especially welcome
cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, and inter-medial topics related to touch and
tactility.
Please email materials to GSAHS@wustl.edu. Selected speakers will
be notified by December 15, 2019
The Right to Vote
On March 27-28, 2020, Washburn University will host a
conference exploring the rich and complex story of suffrage and political
representation, in history and contemporary life. We request papers and panels
that consider suffrage and political inclusion, broadly defined, in any period
or setting. For example, we welcome presentations and sessions that consider
histories of suffrage in the United States or throughout the globe, the 19th
amendment and its legacies, or alternate models for political participation; as
well as studies of contemporary legal frameworks and organizing, constitutional
law, or voting rights.
To submit a proposal, please follow the guidelines below,
and email as an attached file to history@washburn.edu.
The deadline for all submissions is
January 3, 2020.
Mobilities,
Exclusion, and Migrants’ Agency in the Pacific Realm in a Transregional and
Diachronic Perspective
University of California, Berkeley | June 1-2, 2020
We invite historians and scholars from other disciplines to
revisit the exclusion of migrants and their agency in coping with exclusion in
light of the dynamics of mobility in and across the Pacific. More specifically,
we want to focus on the various and entangled ways in which migration,
exclusion, and racism have influenced government policies, perceptions of
migrants in host societies, and migrants’ agency in the Pacific region since
the nineteenth century. We expect papers that explore the shifting
intersections and interactions between migration and exclusion through
empirical case studies. We are particularly interested in three interrelated
topics: the regulation of migration by empires and nation-states, the
discourses in the receiving societies and in migrant communities, and the
strategies developed by migrants to cope with racialized exclusion and
discrimination.
Please upload a brief CV including your name, institutional
affiliation, and email contact and a proposal of no more than 300 words
by November 30, 2019 to our online
portal.
For questions regarding the conference, please contact Dr.
Albert Manke (manke[at]ghi-dc.org).
Bodily Sovereignty
and Collective Action
2020 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Conference, Chicago,
Illinois, May 28-May 30, 2020
The notion of sovereignty is up for serious epistemological
debate. We encourage proposals that investigate and consider how the framework
of sovereignty informs the re-mappings, re-zonings, and regressions of the
current conjuncture, and how ideas of sovereignty inform cultural productions
and resistance to these changes. At the same time, we invite critical
perspectives on sovereignty’s appropriations and strategic deployments in
contemporary and historical contexts. We take inspiration, in particular, from
the conference’s location in the city of Chicago, which has a long history of
resistance to violence and has been a key site in the fight for bodily
sovereignty, whether in the significance of the Haymarket riot in the struggle
for global labor rights, the legendary Jane Collective’s work restoring women’s
bodily sovereignty before Roe v. Wade, the ongoing collective resistance to
police brutality, and the still countercultural notion that Black Lives Matter.
We encourage proposals that draw on these legacies and illuminate paths in
which they prefigure sovereign futures.
Deadline for Submissions: Monday, Dec 9, 2019
If you have any questions, please address them to Michelle
Fehsenfeld at: contact@culturalstudiesassociation.org
Unfreedom
February 7-8, 2020, Arizona State University,
Unfreedom marked the lives of various people in the
premodern world. Many factors played a role in shaping the forms of unfreedom
prevalent in the premodern era: violence and coercion; shame and dishonor;
disconnection of kin groups and destruction of social networks; and individual
and collective strategies for economic, political, and social success that
depended on the subjection of others. This year’s conference will focus on
those whose status was defined primarily in terms of unfreedom, coercion, and
constraint rather than the enjoyment of freedoms or privileges, including but
not limited to slaves, serfs, captives, prisoners, pledges, hostages, and
forced marriage or concubinage.
Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis until
midnight, Mountain Standard Time on November 30, 2019.
Art and Action:
Literary Authorship, Politics, and Celebrity Culture
20-21 March 2020 | The Oxford Research Centre
Interrogating the ideological dimension of literary
celebrity and highlighting the fault-lines between public and private authorial
selves, ‘pure’ art, political commitment, and marketplace imperatives, this
conference joins current debates on authorship and literary value. It brings
together writers, academics, literary activists, and industry stakeholders to
explore the wider implications of authors’ political responsibilities and
cultural authority in today’s heavily commodified literary marketplace and age
of celebrity activism.
Please send your
proposal (no more than 250 words) for 20-minute papers along with a short
biographical note to sandra.mayer@univie.ac.at by 29 November 2019
I’M-MIGRATION: U.S.
MIGRATION AND BORDERS
February 28-29, 2020, University of Tennessee, Knoxvi
While our journal is limited to graduate students, we invite
both graduate students and faculty to submit a 250-word abstract for the
Vernacular Symposium at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Panel proposals
are also welcome; please include an abstract and a short bio for each paper on
the proposed panel. Submissions are not limited to the conference theme. For
inquiries and submissions, please contact Holly Villines, Vernacular Editor-in-Chief,
at hvilline@vols.utk.ed by December 15, 2019.
(Re)Imagining
Education For Liberation
This conference invites educators, researchers, and
activists to dialogue on the important work of (re)imagining education for
liberation. We ask contributors to consider how systems of interlocking
oppressions impact education, and how it could be reimagined across k-12 and
higher education for greater justice and liberation. Some critical questions
might include: Liberation from what/toward what? What does education for liberation
look and feel like in k-12 and higher education? How could STEM/STEAM education
be (re)imagined for global justice and liberation? How might a greater focus on
activism in education change schooling? We invite proposals for paper
presentations, workshops, panels, artistic expressions, and posters that share
research and/or practices in education that rethink or (re)imagine education
for greater justice and liberation.
Submission Deadline: Nov 18th, 2019
NEW PERSPECTIVES IN
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Yale University, April 18, 2020
Yale Environmental History invites paper proposals from
graduate students at northeastern universities for a one-day conference on
environmental history. Paper proposals from any region or time period are
welcome. The conference seeks to showcase new projects in environmental history
and to encourage vigorous dialogue among graduate students and faculty. We
invite papers that address environmental history in its broadest sense, whether
dealing with political economy, society and culture, intellectual debates,
science and technology, microorganisms and disease, or policy and planning.
Conference organizers are particularly eager to include comparative and
non-U.S. perspectives on environmental history.
Submissions must be emailed to environmentalhistory@yale.edu by
December 8, 2019.
For more information on past conferences, including agendas
and paper abstracts, visit http://environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/conferences.
Activism from Below
Queen’s University Belfast – March 19-20, 2020
Throughout the history of the United States, social and
political movements have depended upon individual activism, grassroots
organizing, and community engagement for success. This conference aims to
explore the various and changing ways in which both the theories and methods of
activism have been defined and/or challenged, as well as the experiences of the
people and organizations who have formed the foundations of mass movements. We
therefore invite papers from scholars at all stages to present research that
examines the history of activism in the U.S., through considerations of the
people, places, and practices of grassroots mobilization.
Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words, along with your
academic affiliation (if applicable) and professional title, to activismhistoryqub@gmail.com by
November 14, 2019.
Graduate Education at
Work in the World
April 30 – May 1, 2020, The Graduate Center, CUNY, NYC
Our premise is that graduate education can lead to engaging
and often unexpected opportunities—but this should not be left entirely to
chance and the initiative of individual students. Moreover, deep connections
between scholars and society can be mutually beneficial, as scholars have much
to learn from communities of practice and other knowledge sources while
contributing their own expertise. This conference will focus on new approaches
to graduate education in support of the public good, without losing sight of
other key elements of higher education reform—including labor practices,
student debt, efforts toward improving diversity and inclusion, shared
governance, pedagogical training, and more. Participants will generate ideas,
share best practices, consider difficult questions, and work toward new models
for graduate education that support an array of creative, flexible career
paths.
Proposal Deadline: October 22, 2019
Without Borders:
Tracing the Cultural, Archival & Political African Diaspora
March 4-7, 2020, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
The Charles W. Joyner Institute for Gullah and African
Diaspora Studies and the Athenaeum Press at Coastal Carolina University invite
abstracts, poster sessions, lightning talks and panel proposals for their
second International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference (IGGAD).
This year’s theme focuses on the political, technological and cultural
encodings and decodings of the African Diaspora in archives, public
interpretation, performance and community organizing.
Deadline: Oct. 31
Contact Email: morehouse@coastal.edu
Protests, Power, and
Prayer: Intersection of Activism, Culture, and Religion
February 21-22, 2020, University of Florida
This conference will explore the intersections of religion
and/or spirituality and activism as we seek to highlight instances of religious
resistance, dynamics of power, and instances of socio-cultural change.
Historically, religious individuals and communities have engaged with political
and social activism in cultural movements including those focused on civil
rights, ecological justice, social reform, gender equity, LGBTQ+ rights,
partisan politics, and self-determination, among others. For this conference,
we seek papers that analyze or explore dimensions of power associated with
cultural instances of religious protest or resistance. Papers are welcome to
engage cultural or religious/spiritual perspectives and to address either
historical or contemporary instances of activism or protest.
Interested graduate students should submit a 250 word
abstract to ufrgsaconference2020@gmail.com by
November 15, 2019.
Religion, Law, and
Politics in the Middle East
23 April 2020, Syracuse University
The workshop will serve as a venue for advanced graduate
students (ABDs) to meet and share their work-in-progress and receive extensive
feedback on their dissertation projects from a panel of interdisciplinary
experts. The workshop welcomes research conducted on a broad range of topics
that addresses the historical and contemporary interactions between religious,
legal and political institutions in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Students from related disciplines using all types of theoretical and
methodological approaches are welcome to apply. Topics include but are not
limited to state-religion relations, secularism, religious movements, religious
law and courts, religious authority, social movements, political violence,
democratization, political parties, gender, sectarianism, colonialism,
political systems, migration, and refugees.
Applicants should send their proposals by December 15, 2019
to SUMESPGradWorkshop@gmail.com.
Leadership, Student
Activism, and the Struggle for Democracy: National and International Contexts
The Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State
University will hold its fifth biennial Africa and the Global Atlantic World
Conference (AGAWC) on April 9 and 10, 2020. The conference will focus on the
leadership and activism of university/college students and the militarized
violent responses they faced. Since the major gains of a global Civil Rights
Movement have been increasingly challenged, weakened, or eroded by various
political administrations and inefficient or ill-intended public policies, it
is imperative to revisit the history and legacies of activism that led Peoples
of African descent and other marginalized communities worldwide to stand
against exploitation and state violence. Re-examining and safeguarding this
history through the prism of student protests from the 1960s to the present
will enable us to center the resistance of Peoples of African descent,
Indigenous Peoples, and other Peoples of Color in national and international
debates on civil rights, individual and communal liberties, freedom, equality,
upward mobility, and other measurements of democracy.
abstracts are due by December 1, 2019.
Contact Email: bmbaye@kent.edu
We Are All Directly
Impacted: Mapping Societal Wellness, Institutions, and Self
Conference at San Quentin State Prison, April 18, 2020
Starting with the observation that both self and institution
are socially constructed, our conference aims to explore the ways in which
pathways to reaching our individual full potential intersect and conflict with
the various social contracts and norms that we are born into. Some
institutions, like marriage, effectively create more rights for many
participants, while others, like prison, purport to create a safer society by
denying rights to those people within its confines. In a similar vein, some
institutions like higher education are exclusive to varying degrees, while
others, like gender, are largely assigned at birth and difficult to opt out of.
To propose a paper
or panel please send a 300-500-word proposal, a 100-word abstract (for the
conference program), and a 50-word biography to conference@prisonuniversityproject.org by November 5, 2019.
Bodies of Knowledge
April 9 & 10, 2020, University of South Carolina Upstate
The 2020 event will focus on the politics, culture, and
health issues surrounding the transgender community. According to a 2016
Williams Institute report, there are an estimated 21,000 transgender adults
living in the state of South Carolina. Transgender people face significantly
more challenges than do other members of the LGBTQ+ community. In a 2018 report
entitled “Understanding LGBTQ Needs in Spartanburg County,” transgender and
genderqueer respondents commented that the Upstate region “needs improved
education on transgender identities and improved access to transgender-specific
health care needs.” The 2020 Bodies of Knowledge promises to help bridge the
current gap in understanding trans experiences and improve the local climate
for transgender people in the Upstate through creative presentations from
scholar and artists.
250-word abstracts due Dec. 1, 2019 by email to Dr. Lisa Johnson
(mjohnson@uscupstate.edu)
Revolutions: Moments
and Movements in Historical Perspective
February 6-7, 2020, Baruch College, City University of New
York
The Department of History of Seton Hall University invites
paper proposals for the symposium “Revolutions: Moments and Movements in
Historical Perspective.” The symposium will consider revolutions broadly in
their social, cultural, and intellectual origins and ramifications, examining
the interactions of ideologies, structures, pivotal moments, and social and
political movements.
Please send proposals, in the form of a single document
containing (1) a title and an abstract of 250 words and (2) a short CV, to setonhallhistorysymposium@gmail.com by
Friday, November 15, 2019.
For more information about History at Seton Hall, please
visit our website, https://www.shu.edu/history/.
When and Where They
Enter: Four Centuries of Black Women in America
We take inspiration from this Anna Julia Cooper 1892 writing
and Paula Giddings’s 1984 book for the theme of the tenth anniversary of the
Lemon Project Symposium. During our last symposium, we celebrated four hundred
years of black community and culture. We again seek to both remember and look
forward—this year we will specifically focus on the often-overlooked history of
black women in America. From Angela of the 1619 First Africans to First Lady
Michelle Obama, we invite presenters to consider the wide-ranging experiences
of black women from 1619 to the present.
Email proposals to lemon@wm.edu no
later than November 15, 2019.
Black Temporalities:
Past, Present, and Future
James Madison University, Feb 20-21, 2020
The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies program
at James Madison University invites proposals for its annual interdisciplinary
conference, to be held on the campus of JMU in Harrisonburg, Virginia on
February 20-21, 2020. Ranging across topics from oral history to Afrofuturism,
the conference will bring together a group of scholars from a wide variety of
overlapping and intersecting fields. The conference will feature a keynote
presentation by novelist Nalo Hokinson (Midnight Robber; Brown Girl in the
Ring), and a featured talk by the JMU Dean of Libraries, Dr. Bethany Nowviskie,
who writes on liberatory and speculative digital library design.
Please send any questions and/or 300-word presentation
proposals (or 1000-word panel proposals) to aaadstudies@jmu.edu by November 1
Landscape and
Identity: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Being in the World
Thursday 26 and Friday 27 March 2019 at Durham University
The interrelation between human identities and the
landscapes and environments they inhabit is recognised in many disciplines
throughout the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. With different
disciplinary histories, backgrounds, research traditions, and paradigms, all
these disciplines employ their own theories, approaches, and methods to study
the link between landscapes, environments, and human identities across time and
space. However, they all share common interests as well.
Please send an abstract of up to 250 words to landscape.identity.durham@gmail.com
before 5pm (GMT) on Friday 15 November 2019.
Activism Across the
Political Spectrum: Challenges for Practice, Research and Teaching in the
Cultural Heritage Field
26 – 30 August 2020, University College London, London, UK
Panel for the Association of Critical Heritage Studies
Conference 2020
This session examines different types of activism and
activist groups across the political spectrum and discusses how the dramatic
political shifts and the rise of populist and far-right groups and parties in
many countries across the globe have impacted – and keep impacting – the
cultural heritage sector. While recent academic literature has primarily
focused on the progressive activist potential within the cultural heritage
sector, the panel seeks to explore how various activist groups have used
cultural heritage sites, museums, or grassroots initiatives to promote their
agendas.
Submission Deadline for Paper Abstracts: 12 October 2019
For any enquiries please contact annette.loeseke@nyu.edu.
Global Souths
Conference
March 19-21, 2020, University of Louisiana-Lafayette
The Global Souths conference is a three-day,
interdisciplinary conference that aims to explore the connections between the
U. S. South and the Global South. The South is more than place. It is a point
of connection, a nexus of ideas transcending both geographical and ideological
boundaries. We invite all scholars and graduate students in the arts,
humanities, and social sciences to submit critical and creative proposals that
explore humanity’s interactions with and responses to an increasingly
globalized world.
The deadline for individual papers and complete panel
submissions is October 31st, 2019.
Submit all proposals
to dsgsconference@gmail.com. Graduate Student Travel Grant applications
should be sent to pamelarachelewing@gmail.com. Please visit our website for more
information: www.DSGSconference.weebly.com
Society for the
History of Women in the Americas
University of Manchester, 3 July 2020
Founded in 2009, SHAW is dedicated to the historical
investigation of women and gender in North America, Latin America, and the
Caribbean, either within or between nation states/ and or the northern or
southern hemispheres. 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.
Joint Journalism and
Communication History Conference
March 14, 2020, New York City
This one-day interdisciplinary conference welcomes scholars
and graduate students with an interest in journalism or communication history.
Innovative research and ideas from all areas of journalism and communication
history and from all time periods are welcome. This conference offers
participants the chance to explore new ideas, garner feedback on their work,
and meet colleagues from around the world interested in journalism and
communication history in a welcoming environment.
Early Bird Submission Deadline: November 15, 2019
email: brian.creech@temple.edu
Environmental Justice
in Multispecies Worlds: Land, Water, Food
University of Wisconsin–Madison. March 6-8, 2020
Inspired by work on Indigenous cosmopolitics, multispecies
ethics, feminist and postcolonial studies, and racial capitalism, we seek to
understand the following questions: How have histories of colonial and
capitalist exploitation shaped contemporary configurations among humans and
other beings? How do class, racial, ethnic, gender, and other politics shape
multispecies encounters? How can recognizing multiple forms of life reframe
techno-scientific management? What might constitute environmental justice in
the pluriverse? How might attention to Indigenous cosmologies and multispecies
ethics redefine the politics and structures of environmental justice? Is justice
an apt framework for engaging relationships among humans and other-than-humans?
For more information on submission details and selection
criteria, please see our website at multispeciesjustice.org.
Submissions are due
by 5pm Central Time, November 15.
Contact Email: multispeciesUW@gmail.com
Eco-Architecture 2020
5 - 7 May 2020, A Coruña, Spain
The objective of this Conference is to review the challenges
and new opportunities for contemporary architecture. These are a result of
advances in design and new building technologies, as well as the development of
new materials. The conference will also deal with topics such as building
technologies, design by passive systems, design with nature, cultural
sensitivity, life cycle assessment, resources and rehabilitation and many
others including case studies from many different places around the world. The
list of topics gives an idea of the scope of the meeting, papers on other
topics relating to the conference objectives are welcome.
No deadline for abstracts given
Post-Magical Realist
Worlds: Contemporary Postcolonial Storytelling Modes, Critiques, and
Perspectives
Please consider applying to this session at CCLA conference
on post-magical realism in literature, cinema, art and pop culture.
"Post-Magical Realist Worlds: Contemporary Postcolonial Storytelling
Modes, Critiques, and Perspectives." This session seeks to explore
multiple modes of representing, mediating, or distorting the postcolonial
worlds that magical realism was initially developed to capture. We are particularly
interested in post-magical realist modes of representation in contemporary
media, literature, cinema, and the arts, as well as popular culture.
Please submit 250-300 word abstracts for 20-minute
presentations as Word documents to the Session Chairs, Dr. Justyna
Poray-Wybranowska (jporayw@ryerson.ca)
and Dr. Agata Mergler (agatamer@yorku.ca)
by November 24, 2019
Hindsight is 20/20:
How Popular Culture Writes, Rewrites, and Unwrites History
Wayne State University (Detroit, MI); March 27-29, 2020
The focus of this year’s conference is to examine the many
ways that our perceptions, identities, and cultures are regularly shaped and
reshaped - positively and negatively - by these narratives. We welcome
presentations and panels looking beyond contemporary and/or American popular
culture, and into international and pre-20th century texts which also look to
the past to imagine or reimagine the present and future. We are also interested
are texts which add voices and experiences which were previously missing,
overlooked, or silenced. In what ways do these works rethink official histories
to comment on or shape their own contemporary moments? Additionally, how have
various genre reimaginings added to the discourse between history and pop
culture? In what ways have different forms of media - video games, comics,
plays, ballads, lyrics, board games, fan fiction/vids, zines, and so on - engaged
with the project of writing, rewriting, and unwriting history?
Proposals are due December 2, 2019, and should be
submitted via: https://forms.wayne.edu/5d9ebab272e32/
All inquiries should be addressed to
Conference Planning Committee co-chairs Shelby Cadwell and/or Matt Linton and
sent to kinoclub313wsu@gmail.com.
Worldmaking around
the world: Rethinking the intersections of popular media, translation and
LGBTQ+ activism across cultures
University of Exeter. 17-18 April 2020.
This conference aims to rethink the ways in which popular
media, in the forms of film and TV, offer material for LGBTQ+ worldmaking
through translation, exploring the intersections between global queer media
flows (especially in relation to translation), popular film and TV, queer
worldmaking and LGBTQ+ activism in order to question assumptions about the
relationships between popular media, queer culture and the hegemonic position
of current Anglophone cultures in reflections on queer practices.
The deadline for proposals is 1 December 2019.
Further information about the event can be found on the
project website: http://translatingforchange.exeter.ac.uk/
Proposals and queries should be sent to the organisers, Ting
Guo (t.guo@exeter.ac.uk) and Jonathan
Evans (jonathan.evans@port.ac.uk).
PUBLICATIONS
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.
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.
Animal Fashions
The online open acess bilingual journal Apparence(s) will publish a special issue
(Dec.2020) on the complex relationships between animals or animal by-products
and fashion and dress. The special issue will examine the use of animal
by-products (be it fur, feathers, cohineal or silk) alongside the inspiration
animals have long provided to fashion (from the 'mode giraffe' in 1830 France
to the shark skin simsuit of Michael Phelps). We want to study sartorial
practices, their meanings and impact - whether cultural, economic or
environmental. The volume aims to investigate the use of animal by-products in
dress and fashion but also shed light on the trades and skills of people
involved in the transformation of animal products for fashion.
Please send complete 6 000 word essays in electronic format
– in French or in English – by April 1st 2020
Contact Email: ariane.fennetaux@univ-paris-diderot.fr
Gender and Food Technology in South Asia
Is technology
gendered? One of the earliest celebrations of technological innovation in food
has been green revolution. There has been attempts to study impacts and role of
technology in food production in South Asia. However, a critical reading of
gendered forms of technology and food in South Asia is absent in the readings
available in debates on food securitization, food and livelihoods, and food and
identity in South Asia. The
proposed volume aims to understand the mutual constitutiveness of gender and
technology in shaping each other with a special focus on food technologies as a
gendered artefact.
Deadline of
abstracts : 10 November 2019
Contact email: ishita@sau.int
The Plantationocene Series—Plantation Worlds, Past and
Present
In January 2019,
Edge Effects published “Plantation Legacies,” the inaugural piece of our
18-month long Plantationocene series. That essay, and the series as a whole,
explores the idea of the Plantationocene—a proposed alternate name for the
epoch often called the Anthropocene. Because environmental concerns cannot be
disentangled from colonialism, capitalism, and racism, this series investigates
agricultural plantation spaces as well as the ways that plantation logics
organize modern economies, environments, and social relations. We’re interested in previously unpublished
essays (~1500-2000 words), photo essays, and other creative pieces from a
diverse array of academic, artistic, and activist perspectives.
submission window:
October 15–December 15, 2019
email: edgeeffects@nelson.wisc.edu
Refugee, (Im)Migrant, and Displaced Motherhood in America
Contributions are
invited for a scholarly edited collection that aims to explore literary
accounts of migrant, refugee, and displaced motherhood in America. This book
will look primarily at contemporary writings about migrant and refugee mothers
in America. This collection is particularly interested in analysis of
first-hand accounts of migrant motherhood, while also recognizing that the
migrant mother is often silent. Therefore, analysis of both fictional and
non-fiction accounts may be of importance as the collection pieces together the
fragmented lives of migrant mothers.
1 December 2019:
Deadline for submitting 250-400 word abstract of your chapter and a 50-word
bio.
Contact Email: maria.lombard@northwestern.edu
Xenophobic
Landscapes: Sentience Reconsidered
June 2021 Special Issue for Cambridge Journal of
Anthropology
The edited volume aims to bring together research on social
imaginaries of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, right-wing. The panel
invites work from political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and
their cognate disciplines to explore alternative logics of sentient landscapes.
Despite the field of sentient landscapes gaining attention in academia, the
literature seldom seems to question the intentionality of sentient landscapes.
Often romanticized as pure, good, and just, sentient landscapes are mainly
imagined and analyzed as protectors of those who are powerless, indigenous, and
colonized. Yet indigeneity is a social construct that has traditionally been
claimed by political factions with wildly different agendas.
Proposals (and any questions) should be sent to Alexandra Coțofană (siacotof@iu.edu) by October 30th, 2019.
Proposals (and any questions) should be sent to Alexandra Coțofană (siacotof@iu.edu) by October 30th, 2019.
Multidisciplinary
Perspectives on Women, Voice, and Agency
Call for Chapters
Women’s agency and its lack in the political realm has been
a central theme of feminist scholarship. The interplay between economic,
political, social and cultural forces on the one hand, and women’s individual
and collective struggles on the other, centers upon the problem of agency.
Having and exercising a voice is also closely tied to the idea of visibility
and therefore representation. Male domination restricts voice and restricts
visibility. Essentially, women were conceptualized as the other, and the
experiences of women framed from a masculine lens. Therefore, further research
and scholarly discussion is needed to explore voice and its accompanying
visibility in and across both public and private spheres. This means in
politics, media, the arts, health, education, private realms and so on.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or
before November 10, 2019, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words.
Contact Email: angelique.nairn@gmail.com
Global Perspectives
on Women's Leadership and Gender (In)Equality
Gender inequality remains one of the most important
questions and a major barrier to human development; this interdisciplinary
volume discusses women’s global leadership and women’s rights advancement
around the globe. This book analyses women’s leadership roles world-wide; it is
also a contribution to the growing field of leadership. We look at cross
cultural examples and case-studies of outstanding women and female leaders.
This book discusses contemporary leadership theories and obstacles to women’s
leadership. A multitude of factors should be considered when estimating women’s
participation in the international political arena. This study contributes to
such fields as political science, women’s studies, feminist philosophy, and
history.
Please submit your abstracts, along with your CV to dkurochk@tulane.edu and/or shabliy@fas.harvard.edu by November
18.
Dreams and Atrocity:
Reflections on Modern and Contemporary Trauma in Art, Literature and Visual
Culture
Please consider contributing to this edited collection on
‘Dreams and Atrocity: Reflections on Modern and Contemporary Trauma in Art,
Literature and Visual Culture’, which aims to fill this critical gap in
scholarship by exploring twentieth- and twenty-first-century traumas through
the lens of the dream or dreamlike. More specifically, this collection will
closely examine the political and historical importance of dreams as
representational tools or modes of witnessing that can offer new aesthetic and
theoretical frameworks within which to analyse moments of acute human and
ecological atrocity, be they war, genocide, colonialism, ecocide/extinction,
colonialism, gender oppression/violence or the ongoing refugee crisis. It wants
to develop diverse and interdisciplinary theorisations, readings and
applications of the dream or dreamlike.
Please submit
clear and concise abstracts of 300 words with a title and author bio (no more
than 100 words) to Emily-Rose Baker and Diane Otosaka at erbaker1@sheffield.ac.uk and mldmo@leeds.ac.uk by 20th December 2019.
Afrofuturisms:
Re-Imagining Contemporary Blackness: History, Art, Technology, and Culture
Contributors are invited to submit chapters for a book
project on Afrofuturism, an emerging and increasingly relevant area in
Africana/Africanist fields.The scholarly essays will analyze, discuss, or
examine Afrofuturism. The purpose of the book project is to gather in one
volume current researchthat both outlines the academic field and conceptualizes
it as a growing site of interdisciplinary exploration.We encourage essays that
assess and re-assess Afrofuturism from a variety of perspectives, including notably
the polemical, historical, esthetic, academic, and cultural. Contributors are
also encourage to share in their essays the analytical and comparative
dimensions of Afrofuturism.
no deadline given
Contact Email: ogundayo@pitt.edu
Against Translation: Global Comics History and Memory
The primary
objective of this collection is to bring together original scholarship on
comics that are potentially not receiving the scholarly attention they deserve
due to their lack of English translation or that have been studied in
scholarship unavailable to an Anglophone audience. In addition, the
collection’s focus will allow contributors the freedom to collocate works by
creators from different national and analytical traditions, as well as genres
within the form, to forge links across the field and give attention to comics
in all their various guises.
Deadline for
submission of 300-word abstracts and a short author note (c.150 words):
December 20, 2019.
Contact Email: translation.autographics@gmail.com
Just art. Documentary poetics and justice
Synthesis journal
special issue
In both their form
and content, different currents of documentary aesthetics all accord a
privileged place to the judicial system, interacting with its regime of proof,
the frameworks of the enquiry and the trial, and its mission to administer
justice. However, though such works structurally undermine claims to aesthetic
autonomy and voluntarily confine themselves to the historical particular, they
circulate in extra-judicial spheres and invite forms of judgement that differ
from those administrated by the legal system. What motivates this recourse to art,
and what effects might this aesthetic supplement seek to engender? Do such
works act to shore up the judicial system in place? Do they seek rather to
complement it or palliate its shortcomings? Or do they sometimes turn the
tables and put the law itself on trial? To what ends? What, if any, alternative
conceptions of the just do they generate? And what, if any, changes do such
works aspire to effect on the course of the history they engage with?
Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted to
Naomi Toth at ntoth@parisnanterre.fr and synthesisjournal2008@gmail.com by 1 December 2019.
Graduate Students of Color Reflect on Lessons Lived and
Learned in the Academy
special issue
of Women, Gender, and Families of Color
Your voice, your
experiences, and your insights are critical for a special issue of Women,
Gender, and Families of Color focused on the experiences of graduate students
of color learning, working, navigating, and matriculating in higher education.
We seek a diversity of perspectives from marginalized and minoritized
populations in the academy, including students currently in MA and PhD programs
as well as recent graduates across disciplines. In soliciting these essays, the
journal aims to provide a space for emerging scholars to contemplate the formal
structure and informal customs of graduate school as well as the aforementioned
factors’ import and impact for graduate students of color as they make their way
in the academy.
Machine Learning and
Social Justice
We seek contributions on emerging problems associated with
the proliferation of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in decision making.
This interdisciplinary edited volume focuses on topics of morality and social
justice and discusses Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, including sources
of potential social biases, from technical perspectives. Please submit your
abstract (approximately 300 words), along with your CV by November 1 to
Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochk@tulane.edu and/or
Dr. Elena Shabliy eshabliy@tulane.edu.
Feeding the Elephant,
a new forum on scholarly communications
Feeding the Elephant: A Forum on Scholarly Communications
aims to bring together conversations about scholarly communications in the
arts, humanities, and social sciences. It is a place for readers from the
worlds of publishing, libraries, academic organizations, and academia, early
career or established, affiliated or independent, who are deeply interested in
the questions shaping scholarly communications today.
Each month, Feeding the Elephant will invite members of
different communities of practice to contribute essays, blog posts,
roundtables, and podcast conversations around a different theme. The topic for
September is Peer
Review. Posts will consider transparency
in peer review, diversity
and equity, open review, and advice for first-time reviewers, as well as
growing list of peer
review resources.
To get involved, suggest future topics, or pitch an idea,
please write to the editors at feeding.the.elephant@mail.h-net.org.
Contact Email: yelena@mail.h-net.org
FUNDING
Fellowship in the
Materiality of Print Culture
This newly created fellowship in the Materiality of Print
Culture provides one month of support for research in any aspect of printing
history, book production, or illustration technologies including photography.
Applications are welcomed from those inside and outside the academy, but are
especially encouraged from librarians, curators, conservators, and advanced
practitioners of any of the allied arts of printing, printmaking, photography,
graphic design, or book production. Applicants must have a focused research
project that centers on some material aspect of print culture and must
demonstrate how research in The Huntington's Library collections is critical to
its development.
The application deadline for fellowships in the 2020-2021
academic year is Nov. 15, 2019
Fellowship
Opportunities at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick
Gallery invite applications for research fellowships in the art, craft, and visual
culture of the United States. Fellowships are residential and support full-time
independent and dissertation research. The holdings of the Smithsonian American
Art Museum reveal the United States’ rich artistic and cultural history from
the colonial period to today. This unparalleled collection of over 44,000 works
by more than 7,000 artists includes special strengths in nineteenth- and
twentieth-century sculpture, nineteenth-century landscape painting and imagery
of the American West, Gilded Age and American impressionist painting,
twentieth-century realism, New Deal art, photography and graphic art,
self-taught art, work by Latinx and African-American artists, and time-based
media. Contemporary American craft and decorative art are featured in the Renwick
Gallery, a branch of the museum located across from the White House.
November 1st is the application deadline for fellowships
that begin on or after June 1, 2020. For applications, research consultation,
and general information visit AmericanArt.si.edu/fellowships or
email SAAMFellowships@si.edu.
Recovering the US
Hispanic Heritage Program / US Latino Digital Humanities
The University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities
(USLDH) program is a digital scholarship/research undertaking to provide
training and research on US Latino recovered materials. Proposals must draw
from recovered primary and derivative sources produced by Latinas/os in what is
now the United States, dating from the Colonial Period to 1980 (such as
Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage collections, other repositories
and/or the community). Scholars at different stages of their careers
(Academics, librarians, advanced graduate students, independent scholars, etc.)
are encouraged to apply for a stipend of up to $7,500 for investigative work.
The Grants-in-Aid program is designed to provide a stipend
to scholars for research and development of digital scholarship in the form of
a digital publication and/or a digital project. The grant covers any expense
connected with research that will advance a project to the next stage or to a
successful conclusion
To apply, please submit a letter of interest, project
description (2-3 pages), proposed budget (include 2-day visit to Houston), CV
and 2 letters of recommendation via email to recovery@uh.edu
by December 20, 2019.
Eccles Centre
Visiting Fellowships
The Eccles Centre for American Studies invites applications
from researchers from any disciplinary or creative background to spend time
exploring the British Library's North American collections. We are keen to hear
from all kinds of serious researchers who have the potential to produce
something new, exciting, challenging and different as a result of their
research into the Canadian, US or Caribbean collections of the Library. We
therefore welcome not only applicants from academic backgrounds working on
scholarly research, but also from creative practitioners working on artistic
and cultural projects.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 17:00 GMT on
Friday 17 January 2020.
Contact Email: eccles-centre@bl.uk
ASEH Equity Graduate Student Fellowship
The American Society
for Environmental History offers the Equity Graduate Student Fellowship to
recognize and support a Ph.D. student from an underrepresented group for his or
her achievements in environmental history research. The fellowship provides a
single payment of $1,000 for dissertation research and travel in the field of
environmental history, without geographical restriction. Students must be ASEH
members at the time of their application to be eligible. Applications are
due November 15, 2019.
Contact Email: kbrosnan@ou.edu
Winterthur Research
Fellowships
Winterthur invites scholars, graduate students, artists, and
craftspeople to begin brainstorming and planning projects for application to
the 2020–2021 Research Fellowship Program at Winterthur Museum, Garden &
Library. Fellowships include a 4-month
postdoctoral fellowship, a 1–2 semester dissertation fellowships, and 1–3 month
short-term fellowships. Fellows have full access to the library collections,
including more than 87,000 volumes and one-half million manuscripts and images,
searchable online.
Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2020. For more
details and to apply, visit the Research Fellowship webpage
or e-mail academicprograms@winterthur.org.
Clements Library
Research Fellowships
The Clements Library research fellowships exist to help
scholars gain access to the Library’s rich array of primary sources on early
American history. The potential for rewarding research at the Clements—on
military history, gender and ethnicity, religion, the American Revolution,
Native Americans, politics and government, slavery and antislavery, the Civil
War, travel and exploration—is remarkably strong.
Applications must be received by January 15 for research to
be undertaken in that calendar year.
For further information contact: clements-fellowships@umich.edu or
call 734-764-2347.
2020-21 Fellowships
at the New-York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society offers several long- and
short-term fellowships during the academic year. Fellowships are open to
scholars at various times during their academic careers. Visit nyhistory.org/library/fellowships for
instructions and application checklists for each fellowship.
The application deadline for all fellowships is January 3,
2020.
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
Contact Email: askaaehc@vts.edu
For more information, visit http://www.vts.edu/aaehc.
WORKSHOPS
New Storytellers: The
Research Institute in Digital Ethnic Studies
We are excited to invite applications for the Research
Institute in Digital Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This
innovative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative two-week program will bring
together scholars from Minority Serving Institutions who seek to advance their
research and teaching using digital humanities approaches. This ACLS summer
institute is designed primarily for full-time or part-time humanities faculty
at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) who teach undergraduate students.
Advanced graduate students attending MSIs, and scholars/staff employed by
museums, libraries, historical societies and other organizations associated
with MSIs are also eligible. All applicants must demonstrate that their
participation in the institute aims to advance ethnic studies in the digital
realm.
November 15, 2019, is the deadline to submit your
application.
Contact Email: digitalethnicstudies@unl.edu
Colonial and
Postcolonial Print Mobilities: Black Periodicals and Local Publications,
1880-present
Newcastle University, 10-12 June 2020
This workshop will explore local and global networks of
circulation for literary and political writing produced by black authors,
editors and readers, and will showcase the rich resources in Newcastle
University’s archives on black print networks in Africa, Britain and the
Caribbean. We will look at how colonial-era networks were established locally
and allowed the circulation of ideas about anti-colonialism and literary
production through “print mobility,” that is, the dissemination of newspapers,
magazines, and pamphlets across black transcontinental and transatlantic
readerships.
Please send short abstracts to Stephanie Newell (stephanie.newell@yale.edu) and Jack
Webb (jack.webb@newcastle.ac.uk)
by January 16th 2020
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Tenure Track, History
of Gender, Sexuality
The Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University
invites applications for a tenure-track assistant-rank professorship in the
history of gender and/or sexuality, with an anticipated start date on or about
July 1, 2020. Open to scholars in any geographic or chronological field, as
well as transnational historians. We are particularly interested in applicants
whose work is deeply engaged with and contributes to one or more of the
following: feminist, queer, gender, queer-of-color, and trans theories/studies.
Queer, trans, and other scholars of color are encouraged to apply.
Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2019.
Assistant Professor
of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality and History
The University of Maine invites applications for a
tenure-track, academic-year, assistant professor in History and Women’s,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGS) with a specialization in the modern transnational
history of women. The candidate should specialize in one or more regions
outside North America. Qualified scholars should focus on aspects of race,
class, ethnicity, nationality, or citizenship and employ feminist approaches
and methodologies. The teaching load is evenly split between WGS and History.
Review of applications begins November 15, 2019.
For questions about the search, please contact WGS director
Susan Gardner at susan.k.gardner@maine.edu.
Assistant Professor,
Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Critical Ethnic & Community
Studies
University of Massachusetts – Boston
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(WGSS) and the MS Program in Critical Ethnic and Community Studies (CECS)
invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor position beginning
September 1, 2020. We are especially interested in a candidate keen to
contribute to program development of the relatively new graduate program of
CECS and undergraduate minor of Sexuality Studies. This would be a joint
appointment, with the tenure home in the Department of Women’s, Gender and
Sexuality Studies; teaching and service responsibilities would be equally
shared across both units and supported through a Memorandum of Understanding.
The review of the applications will begin October 15, 2019
and continue until the position is filled.
To apply, please go to: http://employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us/job/502746/assistant-professor-womens-gender-sexuality-studies-and-critical-ethnic-community-studies
Assistant professor
in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a focus on Queer and/or Trans*
of Color Studies
California State University - Los Angeles, Women's, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies
An earned Ph.D. in Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Ethnic
Studies, American Studies or a relevant discipline in the Humanities or Social
Sciences is required; however, applicants nearing completion of the doctorate
(ABD) may be considered. For appointment, the doctorate must be completed by
the date of appointment (8/20/2020). The successful candidate will be expected
to teach general education and core courses in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies, including courses in Queer and/or Trans* of Color Studies, at the
undergraduate and graduate levels; participate in program and curriculum
development; and maintain a research profile that aligns with their area of
expertise.
Review of applications will begin on November 22, 2019, and
continue until the position is filled.
University Application for Employment Form (www.calstatela.edu/academic/position)
Tenure-Track
Assistant Professor - Queer Ethnic Studies and/or Trans Ethnic Studies
California State University - Los Angeles, Women's, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies
We seek a colleague whose teaching and research focus on
queer and/or trans communities of color, whose work is based in the arts and
humanities (including history), and who specializes in queer and/or trans of
color theory, practice, and resistance. We encourage candidates who focus on
Black, Arab Diasporic, and/or Muslim communities but are open to other areas
and broader comparative analyses. We seek a scholar who can teach the
foundational course of our Queer Ethnic Studies Minor, “Coloring Queer:
Imagining Communities,” and build curriculum for this minor as well as the
minor and major in Race and Resistance Studies. We also encourage candidates
who can teach courses for our minor in Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and
Diasporas.
A detailed position description is available at: http://rrs.sfsu.edu/
Submit materials via email to: queerethnic@sfsu.edu by November
18, 2019
Tenure-Track
Assistant Professor - Women of Color Feminisms
San Francisco State University’s Department of Race and
Resistance Studies offers an exciting opportunity for a tenure-track Assistant
Professor position focused on Women of Color Feminisms beginning August 2020.
We seek a colleague whose teaching and research include the theories and
experiences of women of color, emphasizing intersecting forms of oppression as
well as strategies of resistance and empowerment. We are open to disciplinary
and topical approaches to women of color feminisms (broadly defined). We seek a
scholar who can teach comparative courses such as “Women, Race, and Class” as
well as courses developed based on the candidate’s interests and in
consultation with the department and college. We encourage candidates who can
help build the major and minor programs in Race and Resistance Studies and/or
whose work would add to curricular areas such as immigration, incarceration,
borders, transnationalism, food, health, and climate justice. The candidate’s
research can be comparative or focus on a context-specific community.
Submit materials via email to: wocfem@sfsu.edu by November 18, 2019
Tenure-track
Assistant Professor, gender/sexuality and/or race/ethnicity in any region of
the world
The Department of Religious Studies at the University of
Texas at Austin invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor
position in Religious Studies gender/sexuality and/or race/ethnicity in any
region of the world. Our ideal candidate will be a scholar with a research
focus on interdisciplinary, comparative or transnational research agenda. This
position will contribute to the undergraduate and graduate programs in
Religious Studies. The position will be based in the Department of Religious
Studies with teaching responsibilities in Religious Studies. The teaching load
is 2/2 and the position will begin in August 2020.
Review of applications will begin 9 a.m. EST on October 28,
2019
Please send questions to Chad Seales, Chair of the Search
Committee at: seales@austin.utexas.edu.
