CONFERENCES
Global Affairs Conference
The Rutgers University Division of Global Affairs (DGA), and
its student organization, Student Association of Global Affairs (SAGA), will
host the 2020 Global Affairs Conference on April 3, 2020 at Rutgers University
- Newark. With its annual conference, SAGA seeks to provide a space of critical
inquiry for graduate students and early career faculty. This year’s conference
theme, “Global Politics in the Era of Climate Change,” aims to examine various
aspects of global climate politics including the role of international
agreements, civil society movements, indigenous communities, and state actors
in addressing what can be argued is the existential challenge of our time.
The submission deadline for abstracts is Friday, January
10, 2020. Please submit an anonymous abstract of up to 400 words (in
PDF or Word document form) to saga.rutgers@gmail.com.
Asian or Asian diaspora studies
The Organizing Committee of Asian Studies on the Pacific
Coast (ASPAC) 2020 at University of Hawaii at Hilo invites college and
university faculty, K-12 teachers, independent scholars and graduate and undergraduate
students with an interest in Asian or Asian diaspora studies to submit
proposals for organized panels, roundtable discussions, individual papers or
poster presentations on historical or contemporary topics in the humanities,
arts, social sciences, education, health, law, business, environmental sciences
or other disciplines related to Asia and the Asian diaspora.
The early submission deadline is on December 31, 2019.
Please send submissions and queries to 2020aspac@gmail.com
History Graduate Conference
The History Graduate Student Association and Ohio University
invite graduate students to propose papers for this interdisciplinary
conference in Athens, OH. The conference will begin on the evening of March 27,
2020 with the keynote speech by Dr. Robyn C. Spencer of Lehman College, City
University of New York. It will continue the next morning (March 28, 2020) with
the conference itself. Students working on the contemporary period in any
geographical region are invited to participate. Conference organizers are particularly
interested in papers dedicated to interdisciplinary topics analyzed within
their historical context.
To apply, please email a 300-word paper proposal and CV
to ohiohgsa@gmail.com by
January 15, 2020.
Radical Ecologies
Friday, April 10th - Saturday, April 11th, 2020, The New
School for Social Research, New York
Against the backdrop of increasingly visible and devastating
climate disasters, resurgent environmental movements are embracing divergent visions
and methods of struggle to realize change. As such, it is timely to ask, What
makes an ecology radical? A multitude of intersecting traditions have sought to
answer this question. An eco-feminist might approach this through the lens of
social reproduction. An eco-socialist might frame radical ecology in terms of a
mode of production beyond capitalism that can sustain and replenish nature.
Indigenous perspectives can draw on centuries of resistance to extractive
colonial capitalism. The conference will consider how a radical ecological
praxis can be pursued within this plurality of histories, cosmologies and
schools of thought, and, crucially, examine what we can learn from the work of
activists on the frontline. We therefore call on both scholars and activists to
engage in a fruitful dialogue on the still unsettled relationship between
politics and the environment.
Please submit your paper or panel abstracts by February 1st,
2020, to radicaldemocracy@newschool.edu.
Change in Motion: Environment, Migration, and Mobilities
May 18-19, 2020, Berkeley
Academics, journalists, NGOs, and institutions of global
governance increasingly speak of ‘environmental migrants’ and ‘climate
refugees.’ But what separates an environmental migrant or climate refugee from
another migrant, refugee, or asylum-seeker? We therefore invite scholars from
across disciplines to share work that explores the multifaceted
interdependencies and entanglements between migration and environmental change.
How and under what circumstances might climate and migration scholarship be
most productively brought to bear on each other? We invite participants to
widen the scope of questions commonly posed, knowledges considered, and
histories told, and to think at varying temporal, spatial, and causal scales.
Deadline: January 15, 2020
For questions regarding the conference, please contact Sarah
Earnshaw (searnshaw@berkeley.edu)
or Samantha Fox (foxs1@newschool.edu).
Spheres of Change and Challenge: the Local and the Global
Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, April
17 - 18, 2020
We invite graduate and advanced undergraduate students from
across the social sciences and the humanities to submit proposals for papers or
panels that adopt an interdisciplinary or transnational approach, but we are
also seeking papers or panels that approach historical topics in more
traditional ways. Submissions must be based on original research. In keeping
with the theme of the conference, individual papers will be organized into
individually chaired panels that cross spatial, temporal, and disciplinary
boundaries.
The final deadline for abstracts is February 16, 2020.
Contact Email: histconf@cmich.edu
URL: http://ighsc.info/
Glitch - Poetics of Error
NYU, April 16th-17th 2020
In recent years, "glitch" has become a prominent
subject in the arts and cultural discourse. Deviating from an aesthetics of
perfection, accuracy and authenticity, glitch art and theory deals with
malfunctions, perceived errors, the suspension of functionality, and lack of
control over systems. While media and cultural studies, as well as design and
political theory, have addressed the implications of the glitch, it has
received little, if any, attention in literary theory. Yet, within the literary
field, it is common knowledge that a mistake, a slip, a misunderstanding is
always hermeneutically charged, revealing meanings otherwise concealed. In this
conference we would like to inquire whether the concept of the glitch might
serve as a critical tool for literary analysis, or vice versa: how literary
texts shed light on the theoretical and aesthetic concept of the glitch.
Please send a 300-word abstract and short bio to glitchpoetics.nyu@gmail.com by
January 30th, 2020
Economy of Promises and Sociology of Expectations
The Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et
la technologie (CIRST) is organizing a two days conference in Montreal in the
week of August 24-29, 2020 (exact dates to be confirmed this spring). Titled
"Economy of Promises and Sociology of Expectations", this conference
aims to reflect on the particular dynamic of the scientific and innovation fields,
based on promises and expectations of all kinds.
Due date: January 10, 2020
Contact Email: cirst@uqam.ca
Thinking Globally, Thinking Locally: Contradictions,
Connections, and Conceptions
April 10th, 2020 Rutgers University
The 42nd annual Warren Susman Graduate Conference welcomes
papers from graduate students in history as well as other humanities
disciplines that speak to the theme of the connections between global and local
histories. We invite submissions for individual papers and panels from graduate
students at all levels and in all departments. Global history is a field that
has recently come to prominence. Yet, scholars are divided about what exactly
is global history. Histories of the local and the intimate bring into relief
debates about the limits of historical understanding. By putting into dialogue
these two distinctive approaches to history, we hope to illuminate their
convergences, divergences, and entanglements, and the ways in which histories
of the local may enhance histories of the global, and vice versa. We seek
scholarship from all fields that helps us situate these two approaches in our
understanding of history.
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2020
Please direct proposal submissions as well as any questions
to susmanconf@history.rutgers.edu
Oral History and the Media
July 3-4, 2020, Bournemouth University, UK
The relationship between oral history and the media can also
be seen in how oral history has been used to explore the histories and
experiences of the media itself, with oral history projects charting the
development of media companies and organisation. This has coincided with an
upsurge of interest in memory and nostalgia related to the experiences of media,
such as memories of cinema, books and music. This conference aims to consider
the relationship between oral history and the media, both historically and
today, by exploring similarities, differences, opportunities and challenges
between media practices and oral history practices, from interviewing to
editing, audiences to ethics.
The deadline for submission of proposals is 20th December
2019
Contact Email: polly.owen@ohs.org.uk
Gender, Subjectivity, and "Everyday Health" in
the Post-1945 World
What is the history of “everyday health” in the postwar
world, and where might we find it? This conference (University of Essex, 16-18
April 2020) invites participants to explore the history of gender, selfhood,
and health from multiple perspectives. It has four main aims: to examine how
gender, alongside class, ‘race’, and sexuality, mediated experiences of health
and wellbeing; to interrogate the reasons for differences in gendered
experiences in different regions of the world; to critically assess the concept
of ‘everyday health’; and to develop and share methodologies that allow us to
write histories of subjectivity and embodiment from the bottom-up.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 5pm, Wednesday
10th December 2019
Abstracts and queries should be submitted to Georgina
Randall at admin@bodyselffamily.org
Apocalypse: Unveiling the Future
8 February 2020, Houston Baptist University
Signum University is
pleased to announce its third annual Texas Literature & Language Symposium
(aka “TexMoot”) on Saturday, February 8th, 2020, in the great city of Houston,
Texas. From Ragnarok to Revelation, from the utopian proposals of Plato’s
Republic to the dystopian vision of Huxley’s Brave New World, a prominent
concern of human language and literature has always been to describe possible
futures. Some of these visions of the future are cataclysmic, looking forward
to a time when Heaven—or Mother Earth—will wipe the slate clean; others propose
a more optimistic vision of progress. Recent films such as Interstellar or Tomorrowland
have taken a middle way, suggesting that although humanity has recently fallen
short of its promise, there still remains hope that we will be able to pull
ourselves up by our own bootstraps. Ultimately, these myriad versions of our
destiny tell us as much about who we are as they do about where we are going.
Email info@texmoot.org with
questions.
DEADLINE: January 1st, 2020
Exploring Space(s): Discovering Texas and Beyond
Spring Meeting of the Texas Map Society, May 29-30 in
Houston, Texas
Building on Houston’s link to NASA and space exploration,
the Texas Map Society is soliciting proposals for papers, 20 minutes in length,
that address aspects of geographical discovery and exploration of Texas and the
greater Southwest, from the earliest encounters by Europeans to humanity’s
slipping Earth’s bonds and boldly going beyond our planetary borders.
Paper proposals are due January 1st, 2020.For more
information on The Texas Map Society and how to join: https://texasmapsociety.org/
Contact Email: Mylynka.Cardona@tamuc.edu
Embodied and socially constructed?: Dis/ability in media, law, and history
We invite proposals for papers to be included in a symposium
and an edited book entitled, Embodied and socially constructed?: Dis/ability in media, law, and history. The
symposium will be held at Suffolk University, Boston, from July 29-31, 2020. We anticipate the anthology will publish at
the beginning of 2021.
The fields of Media Studies, Critical Legal Studies, and
History have been at the vanguard in exploring the intersectionality of race,
gender, class, etc., but, with notable exceptions, have not significantly
theorized dis/ability. For example,
media studies scholars highlight subjectivity and affects, but have not
considered how both are embodied experiences; legal scholars currently focus on
whether dis/ability laws can or should be used to help solve problems related
to supposedly distinct identities, such as race; while history has focused on
dis/ability but without engaging meaningfully with Critical Disability Studies. This symposium and book will bring together
interdisciplinary and intersectional scholarship on the simultaneous social
construction and embodiment of dis/abilities.
Friday, January 17th, 2020: Send a
250-750-word abstract with a working title, biography or CV, and contact
information to mlee@suffolk.edu,
placing “Symposium” in the header
Revolution!
February 6-7, Seton Hall University
What is a Revolution?
Historians have used the term broadly to describe movements resulting in
the toppling of regimes and establishment of new social and political orders,
yet much remains unclear. Are
revolutions an intrinsically modern phenomenon, or can the concept be
productively applied to events in the ancient and medieval worlds? Can revolutions be clearly bounded in time?
How do they begin and end? Is there a common trajectory? When and why do revolutions arise in
interrelated clusters? However we choose
to answer such questions, the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
and recent events, from the Arab Spring to the uprisings in Hong Kong, remind
us that revolutions, whether a cause of hope or trepidation, have lost none of
their force and relevance.
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
Monday, 2 December, 2019.
Please feel free to contact Sean Harvey at sean.harvey@shu.edu with any
questions. For more information about History at Seton Hall, please visit our
website, https://www.shu.edu/history/.
Beyond the Culture: Black Popular Culture and Social
Justice
Beyond the Culture: Black Popular Culture and Social Justice
is the first popular culture and social justice conference to be held at
Georgia State University. The conference will be held in Atlanta on February 6
and 7, 2020. The purpose of this conference is to critically examine the use of
popular culture in social justice. Specifically, this conference will examine
the ways in which artists, scholars and activists have used popular culture to
pursue social justice. Various forms of popular culture are used in the fight
for social justice across the many realities of the human condition. This
includes music, comic books, literature, film, television programs and social
media branding. Understanding the role of popular culture and its relationship
to social justice, we are having a two-day national conference that focuses on
the utility of popular culture for social justice.
Submissions will be accepted until December 15, 2019.
For inquiries about the conference, contact the Department of African-American
Studies at 404-413-5135 and/or email lbonnette@gsu.edu.
Indigeneity
April 15-17, 2020, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
For this year’s installment of our symposium series, we
invite presentations that examine indigeneity, which may include many terms,
such as ādivāsī, janajāti, vanavāsī, dravida, ādi-dravida, tribal, etc., as a
concept and lived experience, in South Asia and among South Asian diasporas. We
are interested in bringing together perspectives from a variety of disciplines,
regions, historical periods, and arts. We encourage individual papers, panels,
storytelling and creative pieces, and art performances.
Abstract Submission by December 20th, 2019
Retracing Power: Authority, Conflict, And Resistance in
History
The Fordham History Department, through its O’Connell
Initiative on the Global History of Capitalism, is accepting abstracts for its
Graduate Student Workshop. The workshop will take place on Friday, April 3,
2020. Our goal is to foster conversations across a wide variety of topics.
Concepts such as power, politics, and society can be interpreted broadly across
time periods and geographies. Submissions can include topics on race, gender,
class, political and social structures as well as economic, cultural, and
religious institutions from antiquity to the modern era. We especially welcome
papers exploring the following questions: How are culture and political power
intertwined? How did gender, race, or
class shape involvement in political institutions? How have class and race
intersected with political power? How has the authority of religion affected
social relations? How did the power structures of trade and colonialism
function?
Submissions should be sent to fordhamgradworkshop@gmail.com by
the deadline of December 13, 2019
PUBLICATIONS
A Seat at the Table: Black Women as Public Intellectuals
in U.S. History and Culture
This volume focuses on the public intellectualism of African
American women in United States history from the nineteenth century to the
present (understanding the term intellectual as broadly construed). With four
major sections on politics, governance, society and culture and the military,
“A Seat at the Table” seeks to fill a void in the history of black women’s
intellectual history by concentrating on black women and their ideas in the
public sphere. Chapters on one of the following individuals listed (or proposed
related subjects relevant to the theme) are still sought by the editor to
complete this important volume.
Send a 250-word abstract to Dr. Hettie V. Williams at hwilliam@monmouth.edu
Anthropocenes
Anthropocenes engages our contemporary epoch of the
Anthropocene on the basis that its importance goes far beyond the popular and
scientific concerns of global warming and climate change. As well as new
problems, the Anthropocene offers new opportunities: questioning and disrupting
established disciplinary silos and assumptions, calling for innovative,
experimental and new interdisciplinary approaches. The choice of title reflects
our understanding of the Anthropocene as a plural concept that is radically transformed
when seen from different disciplines, different geographical and social
positions, and different ontological categories (human, inhuman, posthuman).
Contact Email: a.lockett@westminster.ac.uk
Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist
Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
The volume’s goal is to present an historical and rhetorical
trajectory of black female religious public intellectuals from the nineteenth
through the twenty-first century and thus seeks papers that will demonstrate
these women’s efficacy in calling for and effecting social change. The editor
welcomes proposals from scholars in various fields whose interests are aligned with
the issues outlined above. These primarily include African American Studies
(and history), religious studies; and
disciplinary fields such as feminist, gender, and sexuality studies and
rhetorical history.
Interested authors should submit to jami.carlacio@yale.edu the
following for consideration, by December 31, 2019.
BANDITS, BRIGANDS, AND MILITANTS: THE HISTORICAL
SOCIOLOGY OF OUTLAWS
Bandits, brigands, and militants have been popular and
disputable figures in world history. States outlawed these formidable men and
women through pejorative words and legal measures while many of state
authorities also used them for their political ends from time to time. Some of
outlaws became admired authorities in their own villages and towns whereas in
other places their heroism was equivalent to oppression. We welcome articles on
a broad range in both geographic and chronological terms, including local,
regional, national and/or global foci from medieval times through to
contemporary periods.
If you are interested in contributing to this special issue
for the Journal of Historical Sociology to be
published either in the last issue of 2021 or the first issue of 2022, please
get in touch with the guest editor, Dr Baris Cayli Messina via b.cayli@derby.ac.uk and
send your abstract (250 words) by 15 February 2020.
LGBTQ Policy Journal
https://lgbtq.hkspublications.org/
The LGBTQ Policy Journal at the Harvard Kennedy School is currently seeking pitches for submissions. Pitches may be made by anyone (not just HKS students) at any stage in the writing process - from a vague idea to a completed piece - so please feel free to submit even if you are only in the brainstorming phase of your writing process! If interested in pitching, please submit the form here with as much information as available by Friday, December 6, 2019. Please see the form for more general information on submissions, and contact us with any additional questions at lgbtq_journal@hks.harvard.edu.
Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin/x America
The internet is both a medium, the latest in a long line of
previous mass media, and a space of trans-individuation and collective
co-creation. As a communicational infrastructure, the internet is tied in more
classical ways to the geopolitics of information production and circulation. Humor,
on the other hand, is often based on
mechanisms of superiority, relief, or incongruity. Ethnic humor in a national
context is an instance of superiority-based humor. It functions like “a secret
code” that is shared by all those who belong to the ethnos and it produces a
context and community-based ethos of superiority. This superiority is expressed
in two ways: first, foreigners do not share our sense of humor or simply lack a
sense of humor. Secondly, foreigners are themselves funny and worth laughing
at. Thus, humor plays a key role in the signaling of boundaries of identity—who
stands inside or outside significant creative spaces. With the nature of the
internet and humor in mind, we are seeking contributions for a volume
provisionally titled Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin/x America.
Deadline for abstracts: May 1, 2020
Contact Email: fernandez@gsu.edu
From the Curious to the Quantum: Identity, Culture, and
the Science Performance
We are currently soliciting essays that interrogate the
science performance as it intersects with notions of identity and culture. For
the purposes of this volume, the science performance can be broadly defined as
an event or process that straddles the scientific and theatrical realms, from
surgical demonstrations in Victorian medical schools to contemporary
productions of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus, from activist demonstrations against
fossil fuel-sponsored art exhibits to planetarium shows. “Performance” may
connote theatrical treatments of science content, live art, public history,
performance art, applied performance, and/or the consideration of scientific
events qua performance. “Science” might engage a range of disciplines from
biology, chemistry, ecology, medicine, psychology, physics, geology, astronomy,
data science, robotics, technology, or engineering. It might also encompass
historical fields such as natural philosophy, phrenology, “the new science,”
alchemy, or astrology.
Please submit an abstract of 250-400 words and a brief bio
of 200 words no later than 31 January 2020 to Vivian Appler (applervr@cofc.edu) and Meredith Conti (maconti@buffalo.edu)
Women and Nonviolence in 20 and 21 centuries
The principle of nonviolence, also known as nonviolent
resistance, rejects the use of physical violence to achieve social or political
change. History shows that the success of peaceful social transformation
depends largely on individuals who are charismatic, knowledgeable, skilled in
the strategies and methods of nonviolence (M. Gandhi, M L King, Rigoberta
Menchu, Dolores Huerta, Viola Desmond, Wangari Waathai, and many more). I
invite faculty members, researchers and practitioners to submit a proposal to a
potential second edited volume, specifically on Women and Nonviolence, to be published with Cambridge Scholars
Publishing in 2020/2021. This
interdisciplinary volume is open to numerous disciplines such as:
Sociology, Cultural Studies, Gender and Women StudiesHistory, Language and Literature,
Religious Studies and Indigenous Studies.
Please send an abstract of about 300
words to Dr. Anna Hamling (ahamling@unb.ca) by
November 30, 2019
FUNDING
Schlesinger Library
on the History of Women in America research grants
The Schlesinger Library invites scholars and other serious
researchers at any career stage beyond graduate school to apply for support for
their work in our collections. Grants of up to $3,000 will be given on a
competitive basis. Applicants must have a doctoral degree or equivalent
research and writing experience. Priority will be given to those who have
demonstrated research productivity and whose projects require use of materials
available only at the Schlesinger Library. The awards may be used to cover
travel and living expenses, photocopies or other reproductions, and other
incidental research expenses, but not for the purchase of equipment or travel
to other sites for research.
The deadline for submission is January 31, 2020.
Questions? Contact slgrants@radcliffe.harvard.edu
Research Travel
Grants: Rubenstein Library, Duke University
The Rubenstein Rare
Book & Manuscript Library provides travel grants of up to $1,500 for
researchers whose work would benefit from access to the collections held at
Duke.
Mary Lily Research
Travel Grants (Sallie Bingham Center): Research projects must use materials from the Bingham Center's
women's history collections and include a focus on women or gender. Anyone who
wishes to use materials from the Bingham Center's collections for historical
research related to the history of women, gender, and sexuality may apply,
regardless of academic status. Projects exploring Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender history topics that focus primarily on women's experiences are eligible
for a Mary Lily Grant; all others may apply for a Harry
H. Harkins, Jr. T'73 Travel Grant (Research projects may use any LGBTQ
history materials from the Rubenstein Library).
The deadline for
applications is January 31, 2020 by 5:00 PM EST. Questions? Email special-collections@duke.edu.
Michigan State
University Special Collections Summer Research Grants
Michigan State
University Libraries invites applications for research grants for the summer of
2020. The grants are intended to help scholars who live more than 100 miles
from East Lansing whose research would benefit from on-site access to the rich
primary source collections housed in MSU Libraries’ Special Collections.
Research strengths
of MSU Special Collections are deep and varied, including an outstanding comic
art collection; American radicalism on the extreme right and left; extensive
holdings on Latino and Chicano activism and artists; popular culture; zines,
Africana; exceptional rare book holdings in cookery, the history of science,
veterinary medicine, Italian unification, conduct books; one of the country’s
oldest LGBTQ+ collections; a peerless collection documenting the contemporary
men’s movements; and the papers of numerous Michigan writers including Richard
Ford, and Diane Wakoski.Please consult our collections page for
more information on MSU’s unique holdings.
Submit applications to lib.dl.spcgrants@lib.msu.edu) by
January 31, 2020
Book Art Research
Fellowship
Researchers and scholars in art history, literature, book
history, library science, or museum studies are invited to submit research
proposals drawing upon the Center’s unique collections of materials related to
book art.
The Center’s Permanent Collection consists of three parts:
1) a Fine Arts Collection of artists’ books, prints, and objects; 2) a
Reference Library focused on the practice, theory, and history of book arts;
and 3) the Center’s Archives containing records of original exhibitions presented
at the Center and the history of the Center’s programmatic activities. Taken as
a whole, the Center’s collections serve as a historical record of book art as a
creative medium and a framework for critical research into book art practice.
Deadline for 2020 review: December 1, 2019.
To learn more about the Center for Book Arts collections and
its holdings visit the online
catalog.
Research Fellowships
The James
W. Scott Regional Research Fellowships promote awareness and
innovative use of archival collections at Western Washington University (WWU),
and seek to forward scholarly understandings of the Pacific Northwest.
Fellowship funds are awarded in honor of the late Dr. James W. Scott, a founder
and first Director of the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, and a
noted scholar of the Pacific Northwest region. Up to $1000 funding is offered
to support significant research using archival holdings at WWU’s Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (CPNWS),
a unit of Western Libraries Heritage
Resources.
Applications for the award will be reviewed after January
31, 2020. Applications must be submitted by email to Ruth.Steele@wwu.edu
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship
The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at
Stanford University offers a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Recent PhDs in
the humanities and social sciences whose research focuses on gender with an
intersectional perspective are eligible.
We encourage scholars with a strong interest in interdisciplinary
methods to apply.
apply here: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/Stanford%20University/Clayman%20Institute%20of%20Gender%20Research
email: wskid@stanford.edu
Deadline for applications is January 9, 2020 at 11:59 PM
PST.
RESOURCES
A Normal Girl
I believe the members of the H-Women network may be
interested in the following documentary short A NORMAL GIRL, which follows
Chicago-based activist Pidgeon Pagonis. This film addresses issues of body
image, public health, human rights, and activism in relation to the experiences
of intersexuality and otherness. Only 15 minutes long, the piece is a perfect
fit for a class curriculum, leaving plenty of time for further discussion and
exploration of its themes.
You can watch a clip from the film here.
URL: https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/a-normal-girl/?mc_cid=b10f46b793&mc_eid=145b5b8a4f
Rocking the Academy
Rocking the Academy, hosted by Mary Churchill and Roopika Risam, brings you conversations with the very best truth tellers who are formulating a different vision of the university.
I episode 3, for example, “co-hosts Roopika Risam and Mary Churchill talk with Alex Gil, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University, about his ideas for the future of higher education. We talk with Alex about the ways his background in postcolonial and textual scholarship led him to work in digital humanities, the nature of labor in libraries, and his visionary work beyond the boundaries of the university through projects like Rikersbot. Alex sees hope for a different future of higher ed in this collaborative work being done outside of the academy.”
