CONFERENCES
American Women Writers: Ecologies, Survival, Change
https://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/2021-ssaww-triennial-conference-theme-and-call/
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) 2021 Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, November 4-7, 2021
“Ecologies, Survival, Change” celebrates the many women across the Americas whose creative work fosters survival and envisions change by exploring the systems in which we live, labor and love. We offer the term “ecologies” to signify the dynamic, interlocking systems that make up our world, from networks of family and friends to entrenched processes of environmental exploitation to hierarchies of race and gender. Material and discursive, natural and human created, entrenched and emergent – ecologies integrate diverse, even conflicting, values and effects. As the novel coronavirus demonstrates, global pandemics and other crises make many ecologies hyper-visible, calling attention to the sustenance which some provide while exacerbating the destructiveness of others.
Proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers are to be submitted no later than February 1, 2021.
Imperial Foodways: Culinary Economies and Provisioning Politics, 1500 to the Present
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxr0UUJ7Eh_SFm_su4hMJxejo9IFdB64eS0jd9dkLyM7DzHg/viewform
We invite you to submit a proposal for a virtual, interdisciplinary workshop on the role of food, foodways, and cultural practice in global empires to take place May 21-23rd, 2021. We are seeking then to bring together a group of scholars from a variety of disciplines who are considering how food shaped and was shaped by colonial forms of power, violence, hierarchies, markets, borders and identities since 1500. We seek paper submissions from all regions and time periods that fit the general theme of “Food and Empire,” and consider any aspect of foodways.
Proposals should be submitted by February 15th, 2021 through this registration form
email: foodandempireworkshop@gmail.com
Art and the City: Urban Space, Art, and Social Resistance
16-18 April 2021. On-site and online
This conference series bring together a team of international scholars with an interest in art and right to the city, aesthetics, and politics, cultural and artistic rebellion, aesthetics of social movements, and activist art in the urban space. To push forward the dialogues and widen the debates on art’s relationship to the political, Art and the City conferences interrogate what the reconfiguration of difference, equality, and equity entails at present moment, and what it is to aesthetically and politically experience the world from the perspective of social dissensus and rebellion.
Submit abstracts to Tijen Tunali tijentunali@gmail.com no later than January 31, 2021.
Games and Narrative Conference
https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/international-conference-games-and-narrative
University of Waterloo, June 11-16, 2021
Almost since their inception, videogames have used narrative. Sometimes the narrative element has been implicit, other times open, but games have exploited narrative techniques, employed narrative suspense, and relied on narrative characters with ever greater sophistication. There is, however, debate over the role narrative plays in videogames. Is gameplay fundamentally distinct from narrative? Do we always subtlely try to narrativize our game experience? The conference will provide an opportunity to examine the intersection between videogames and narrative through a variety of online formats: live lectures, speaker panels, video essays, workshops, and live streaming gameplay with commentary and discussion. The entire conference will be available online, in formats designed for maximum accessibility.
proposal deadline: January 31st, 2021
email: icgan.submissions@uwaterloo.ca
Cultural Divides: Bridging Gaps and Making Connections
4-6 March 2021, virtual
The Humanities encompasses a vast story comprised of many stories. From the classics through the present day, from ancient times to the contemporary, the humanities as a discipline speaks through time, as a voice for many cultures, addressing many peoples. HERA invites research, papers, panels, and presentations embracing inclusivity in all aspects of the human conditions––including, but not limited to, race, class, gender, sexuality, age, veteran status, ability, power, ecology, sustainability.
Deadline for submission: no later than January 25, 2021.
Questions may be directed to the conference organizer, Marcia Green (mgreen@sfsu.edu)
URL: https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/hera/
South Asia Conference: Space, Place, and Temporalities
https://whiterosesouthasiaconference.wordpress.com/
30 April 2021, virtual
India’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act of December 2019, which offers amnesty to non-Muslim religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, was announced by the federal government ostensibly to protect religious minorities fleeing persecution from these three Muslim-majority countries. To this end, the White Rose South Asia Network presents their Fourth Annual Conference on the theme of ‘Space, Place and Temporalities’. This one-day event will bring together postgraduate students from across the arts, humanities and social sciences to consider various aspects of South Asian society.
Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words and a short 100-word biography to whiterosesouthasiagraduate@gmail.com, along with any other questions or queries, by 18 December 2020.
(Virtual Conference) Materialisms: Reconciliations in the Present
April 16th-17th, 2021, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
In an era marked by an excess of the human and its possessions, as well as its corollaries – perverse deprivation, subjective erasure, and an erosion of nonhuman life – by what means might we provide adequate analysis and offer paths of reconciliation with the present moment? A new materialism of otherness, a thing-power, must find rupture here. This otherness is that of the human made foreclosed by capital, yes, but additionally that of the nonhuman, the posthuman, the animal, inorganic matter, machines, atmospheres, the dead. How might the encounter between historical and new materialism permit us to communicate with, feel, and imagine the nonhuman while rendering visible the foreclosed human? In short, how might we imagine (things) otherwise?
Please submit your 200-300 word abstracts in PDF or word, or any questions to umn.materialism2020@gmail.com by February 10th, 2021
Religion in a Time of Pandemic
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6888724/religion-time-pandemic
March 6, 2021, University of Florida
The theme of this conference is of timely importance as the current COVID-19 pandemic rapidly changes our social and economic systems and modifies religious practices. As a result, many governments have banned physical gatherings thereby impacting traditional methods of worship and forcing religious leaders to identify novel ways of addressing the needs of religious communities and their followers. As a result, the use of technology has become a valuable tool and medium of communication and practice. For this conference, we seek papers that analyze and / or explore the relationship between religion and the cultural, economic, political, and social spheres that occur in a time of pandemic.
Interested graduate and undergraduate students should submit a 250 word abstract as a single Word document, along with their full name, email, and affiliated institution and department to ufreligiondept@gmail.com by December 20, 2020.
Theorizing Zombiism 2 Conference: Undead Again
https://www.gu.se/en/event/theorizing-zombiism-2
July 29, 2021 to July 31, 2021, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
The zombie as an allegory for cultural, social, and scientific analysis spans almost every discipline including humanities, biology, mathematics, anthropology, economics, and political science. This range of use for the zombie narrative is a clear indication of its adaptability and viability as a distinct framework for critical theory. Theorizing Zombiism 2: Undead again will thus serve as a timely and much-needed platform for the development of international and interdisciplinary relationships between researchers, educators, practitioners and other interested parties.
Send abstracts of 300 to theorizingzombiism@gmail.com by February 10, 2021.
PUBLICATIONS
Persevering through the Pandemic: Communication, Creativity and Connection
We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection examining the many ways in which people are persevering under such extraordinary circumstances. Persevering through the Pandemic: Communication, Creativity and Connection will focus on the many ways people have adapted and/or adopted strategies of resilience, comfort, and productivity in the face of recent societal and social stressors. The collection will offer a broad academic focus and consider a host of methodological approaches to the topic. We envision the aforementioned qualities as the book’s structure and seek abstracts fitting within these specific areas: resilience, comfort, productivity. Scholarship related to Communication, Storytelling, Media Studies about relationships (roles and shifts), protests, politics, the election, work, (virtual) teaching, journalism, media, and newfound passions.
Please submit abstract and bio to Deborah A. Macey at deborahmacey@gmail.com by January 5.
Acoustic and Visual Ecology of Damaged Planet
http://fmkjournals.fmk.edu.rs/index.php/AM/announcement/view/11
This special issue of AM Journal of Art and Media Studies invites scholars in the environmental and energy humanities, media studies, film studies, musicology, sound studies, and cultural studies to probe climate change and environmental degradation from the visual and sound perspectives and their intersection. We are particularly interested in how various visual and sound media, including film, TV, theater, art, and music, address the problem of the invisibility of the current environmental crisis and censure our insufficient action to save the planet, even as these media are ultimately seeking to make these issues visible and audible to audiences worldwide. The special issue also examines the ways in which images and sounds of the degrading planet formulate the cultural understanding of environmental crisis.
Potential contributors are invited to submit their abstracts of 300 words and short bios (about 150 words) by December 31, 2020.
Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad: tatiana.konrad@gmx.net
Indigenous Responses to Disease: Ethnohistory inspired by COVID
Ethnohistory is pleased to welcome abstracts of articles for a special issue that explores Indigenous perspectives on disease within the North American and Latin American contexts. The proposed essays should focus on topics that address new sources, methodologies and interpretations concerning Indigenous-centred experiences. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit full article manuscripts for double-blind peer review.
Those interested should send a 250-300 word abstract by 30 January 2021 to the attention of co-editors Katie Labelle (Kathryn.labelle@usask.ca) and Rob Schwaller (asejournal@gmail.com).
URL: https://ethnohistory.org/
Race, Sports and Protest: The Sporting Antecedents of Black Lives Matter
This special issue of Sport in History seeks to bring together a range of perspectives on the Black Lives Matter movement in an historical context. We are looking for articles that assess the movement in relation to its historical precursors in the sporting world – from the high-profile Black Power protests among sportspeople and teams of the 1960s and 70s through to the more recent protests at the start of the 21st century. In so doing, this special issue hopes to bring together important historical perspectives from which to view the events of more recent months, with a hope that with increased context we can provide greater understanding.
Articles must be within 6,000 and 8,000 words in length, including references should be submitted via ScholarOne by 30 November 2021.
Edited Collection on Jesmyn Ward
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6818473/cfp-edited-collection-jesmyn-ward
Known for her critically acclaimed fiction and non-fiction, Jesmyn Ward’s lyrical narratives of Black life, home, and family in Louisanna’s Gulf Coast are visceral and evocative. Moreover, while her work is often set in the same geographical region, the concerns explored within it stretch beyond the shores of the Gulf Coast, extending if not physically then cosmologically toward the Caribbean and the African continent. Yet, despite the critical celebration and geopolitical breadth of her work, Ward remains remarkably under-studied, particularly outside the United States.
Please send any initial inquiries, or 250-word article proposals and brief bios, to Sheri-Marie Harrison (harrisonsl@missouri.edu), Arin Keeble (a.keeble@napier.ac.ukl), and Maria Torres-Quevedo (mariaelenactq@gmail.com) by 28th February 2021.
Unraveling Health, Risk, and Violence across Social Difference
Editors of SPECTRA: The ASPECT Journal invite scholarly work that brings social, political, ethical, and cultural thought into conversation with contemporary topics such as COVID-19, police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement, the use of state violence, and the removal of statues. Other subjects pertaining to the broader theme are also welcome. We are especially interested in research that employs interdisciplinary methodologies as well as implements features of public histories, cultural colonialism, and state violence.
To be considered for volume 8.2, submissions must be received by Friday, December 18, 2020. SPECTRA does accept rolling submissions, and submissions received after December 18will be considered for future volumes.
email: journalSPECTRA@gmail.com
Memory and Literature
Literature plays a crucial role in the research field of Memory Studies. In spite of extensive research in this field, also and particularly in Literary Studies relating to fictional minds and commemoration, various scholars mentioned that there is still a virtual lack of theoretical approaches to textual analysis. Moreover, although Literary Theory and especially Narratology offers concrete instruments for textual analysis, these two areas are only occasionally combined. The planned special issue of Journal of Literary Theory aims to test several theoretical approaches to literature which deal with traumatic memory and memory of violence.
31 January 2021: submission deadline for abstracts
Dr. Urania Milevski (milevski@uni-bremen.de) and Dr. Lena Wetenkamp (wetenkamp@uni-mainz.de)
Blackness/Afrikanness & Meditation, Dharma, Buddhism
In the last three decades, Black voices from across the African diaspora have begun to take up prominent space in both Western and Eastern Buddhist, Dharma, and Meditation spaces and communities. Though Black/Afrikan practitioners, teachers, and scholars are a small percentage of the global Buddhist populations, their influence and integration of mindfulness and meditation has invigorated many communities and peoples who have felt left out of or turned off from mainstream meditation communities and teachers. This special issue of The Arrow Journal turns its attention to thinking critically, creatively, historically, and speculatively about the relation between Blackness, Afrikanness, and Meditation, Dharma, and Buddhism.
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2021
Contact Email: shante@shanteparadigm.com
Fantasy Narratives: Modes, Tropes, and Meaning
Investigation of the self and its articulation is at the center of fantasy narratives and subsists on the afterlife of the text in the form of adaptations, fanfiction, and reboots. Pedagogical strategies of reading fantasy engage with this afterlife, questions of the self, and socio-political realities. Classic Fairy tales are now being re-examined through feminism, psychoanalysis, anthropocentrism, sociology, and postcolonialism. Narrative selves are no longer merely human, they appear as posthuman (cyborgs), anti-human (Resident Evil), anthropomorphic (werewolves, shapeshifters), or less-than-human (zombies). New media in the form of virtual reality and video games are transforming the ways of engaging with fantasy.
Vol. 8, Issue 1 of Literophile will focus on the evocations of fantasy narratives across regional, linguistic, contextual, formal, and semantic levels and explore the intersections between created worlds and contemporary worlds.
Proposals of no more than 300 words should reach literophile@gmail.com by 20 December 2020.
Covid Play/s: Entertainment and the Arts in the Quarantimes
As we enter, from a North American standpoint, months 10 and beyond of “quarantine,” the question of how we have learned - as creators or consumers - to play, is far from settled. This proposed collection addresses the question of play in broad terms: how have the arts, culture, and entertainment industries adapted to a majority virtual world? How has our understanding of togetherness and play changed with public health guidelines in effect? Might new forms of art and play developed in quarantine outlive the pandemic and perhaps supplant earlier forms? What do these forms offer in terms of accessibility, equity, or exclusion?
We invite submissions for this edited collection on any area of arts, culture, and entertainment. Please send 300-word abstract, title, and short biography to playingcovid@gmail.com by 17 January 2021.
Persevering through the Pandemic: Communication, Creativity and Connection
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6869851/cfp-chapter-proposals
A global pandemic, contentious elections, protests for racial justice, 2020 has been a challenging year. We want to hear your stories and scholarship about how you are faring through this pandemic. We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection examining the many ways in which people are persevering under such extraordinary circumstances. The collection will focus on the many ways people have adapted and/or adopted strategies of resilience, comfort, and productivity in the face of recent societal and social stressors.
Please submit abstract and bio to Deborah A. Macey at deborahmacey@gmail.com by January 5.
Document/ary
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6889736/cfc-documentary
Refract’s fourth volume seeks to explore the entanglements between the document and the documentary as sources of information and forms of visual culture. The aesthetic elements of the document/ary–its materiality, age, iconography, site(s)–are designed to facilitate the recording of information, providing authenticity and legitimacy by appearing to (re)produce, or provide evidence of, “the real.” This volume of Refract asks: how has evidence as a material form shifted over time/space? How do we assess what is real and true? What can the document/ary as a visual form teach us about how truth value is constructed? If we must accept that the document/ary is not neutral, how does the perception of “truth” aid in the construction of specific narratives that may uphold or devalue certain histories, empires, or political positions? What do these mediations reveal about the way power/history/narrative is constructed?
Please send full-length submissions (up to 10,000 words), an abstract, a bio, and 5 keywords to refractjournal@ucsc.edu by Monday, February 22, 2021.
URL: https://havc.ucsc.edu/visual_studies_phd/refract_journal
Biodiversity and the Religious Imagination
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Biodiversity_Religious
The term biodiversity can refer to the genetic variations within a species, the variety of species, or the different habitats that are their homes. Essays in this Special Issue may deal with any of these types of diversity, but the primary meaning intended is the diversity of species.
A focus on the religious imagination provides a rubric that encompasses a range of possible topics, including (but not limited to): how religions envision the nature and significance of the rich array of species; religious practices that impact the survival (or not) of species; and the ways that the diversity of species influence religious thought and practice. The concern is not primarily animal rights, understood as the rights of individual members of species, important though that is; rather, it is the rich diversity of life as an important dimension of the context for religious practices, narratives, and beliefs.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2022.
email: religions@mdpi.com
Passionate Humanities - Ways Into the Future
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6908556/passionate-humanities-ways-future
In the U.S., the crisis is already showing severe consequences. Programs within the humanities face major cuts in funding, e.g. German departments lose their graduate programs, positions are frozen, and the student numbers drop due to increasing financial strain. Disciplines like Religious Studies, Classics and other foreign languages do not fare better either since universities started operating with terms such as “research” instead of “scholarship.” Programs and departments consolidate, becoming large entities that only make sense in a corporate way, but not academically. Instead of desperately attempting to play along with the quantitative logic the corporate university forces upon the humanities, don’t we need to start justifying our existence from within and find new ways to advertise our strengths to the public?
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2021
email: stefan.bronner@uconn.edu; m.jones@northeastern.edu; ms5qt@virginia.edu
Womxn of Color on the Front Lines: Stories of How We Win
Canadian Scholars Press and The Ellipsis Institute for Womxn of Color in the Academy seek chapter proposals. By establishing intersectionality as a core feminist practice, the Ellipsis Institute intentionally creates space for women of color students, staff, and faculty as we build relationships across lines of difference in pursuit of advocacy efforts for all women, in all roles. For this anthology, we seek to curate this volume to center methodologies and frameworks that validate the lived experiences of womxn of color in the academy, and to amplify curricular and pedagogical strategies that subvert the dominant narrative of whiteness as property as it manifests in today's global classrooms.
You should be able to access the full proposal here.
Expected length of abstract: 250-500 words. Deadline: March 1, 2021
email: storiesofhowwewin@gmail.com
Ambiguity: Conditions, Potentials, Limits
https://www.on-culture.org/submission/cfa-issue-12/
As a topic that is both timeless and current, the variety of manifestations and functions of ambiguity in culture, politics and everyday life has inspired scholars from various disciplines in the study of culture, from gender and queer studies (Engel 2002, Wilkerson 2007) to art history and theory (Eco 1962, Franklin 2020), and social sciences (Bauman 2007). The 12th issue of On_Culture seeks to explore ambiguity in its potential and limits as an analytical tool for research in the study of culture. By the same token, the issue is also interested in perspectives on ambiguity as a cultural phenomenon in its historical situatedness and political dimensions.
submit an abstract of 300 words with the article title and a short biographical note to content@on-culture.org (subject line “Abstract Submission Issue 12”) no later than February 28, 2021.
email: content@on-culture.org
The anthropology of ambiguity: Theory, praxis and critique
Regardless of any ambiguity in the meaning and treatment of the term, ‘ambiguity’ is often defined as possessing double meaning and double sense. Indeed, it is seen as both provoking confusion as well as a holding place from which clarity can emerge. This collection aims to engage with the concept of ambiguity in anthropological theory and praxis from a range of socio-cultural, circumstantial, temporal, geographic, spatial, and infrastructural perspectives. In this call for abstracts, we encourage traditional book-length chapters, reflections on creative practice, photographic essays, and creative textual pursuits. In terms of image and creative content, ambiguity may be fluid in the imagery from a visual point of view (style, form) or perceived in the interpretation of the images/text.
Abstracts consisting of a title and 200-words will be accepted until Friday, 18 December 2020.
Contact Email: t.heffernan@unsw.edu.au
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
William L. Clements Library 2021-22 Research Fellowships
https://clements.umich.edu/research/fellowships
The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan is accepting applications for research fellowships for the 2021-22 cycle. Specializing in pre-1900 American history and culture, the Clements Library's primary resources (books, manuscripts, prints, maps, photographs, and much more) support diverse research topics. Particular strengths include: graphic arts, gender and ethnicity, religion, the American Revolution, Native American history, slavery and antislavery, Atlantic history, the Caribbean, cartography, reform movements, travel and exploration, among others. Sources relating to women's history can be found across our collecting divisions.
Applications are due by March 1, 2021
email clements-fellowships@umich.edu for more information
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship
https://apply.interfolio.com/79205
The American Philosophical Society Library & Museum in Philadelphia seeks applicants for one-year and 6 month, residential fellowships for graduate students, especially Native American and Indigenous scholars in training, tribal college and university faculty members, and those working with Indigenous communities. These funding opportunities are supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI). Fellows will be based at the Library & Museum's Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR), which aims to promote greater collaboration between scholars, archives, and indigenous communities.
Deadline: January 29, 2021.
Fellowship in Printing History
The American Printing History Association (APHA) is accepting applications for the 2021 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History. An award of up to $2,000 is available for research in any area of the history of printing, including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts, and letter forms.
Applications and supporting materials are due by Monday, December 21, 2020.
Contact Email: fellowship@printinghistory.org
URL: http://printinghistory.org
Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society
Short-term Research Fellowships
https://www.masshist.org/research/fellowships/short-term
The MHS will offer more than 20 short-term research fellowships in 2020. Most grants will provide a stipend of $2,000 for four weeks of research at the Society sometime between 1 July 2021, and 30 June 2022. Short-term awards are open to independent scholars, advanced graduate students, and holders of the Ph.D. or the equivalent.
Applications must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on 1 March 2021.
Please direct questions to fellowships@masshist.org, (617) 646-0577
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium
http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/nerfc/?goto=fellowships/nerfc
THE NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL FELLOWSHIP CONSORTIUM, a collaboration of 30 major cultural agencies, expects offer at least two dozen awards in 2021–2022. Each grant will provide a stipend of $5,000 for a minimum of eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Awards are open to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who hold the necessary U.S. government documents. Grants are designed to encourage projects that draw on the resources of several agencies.
Deadline: April 1, 2021
Contact Email: kmorris@masshist.org
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Assistant Professor of Africana, Gender, and Identity Studies
https://www.facebook.com/groups/371313456328045
Ohio Wesleyan University is excited to grow its newly created interdisciplinary Department of Africana, Gender, and Identity Studies with a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek applicants who bring to their teaching and research an intersectional lens focused on issues of race, ethnicity, and class in the U.S. The area of specialization is open, but we are interested in candidates who hold an interdisciplinary PhD.
Review of applications will begin on January 25, 2021, and will continue until the position is filled. Questions should be directed to facultyjobs@owu.edu.
Assistant Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60598
Kennesaw State University is now accepting applications for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies faculty position beginning August 2021. This position is a joint appointment in the Department of History and Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Studies Department. Applicants should possess expertise in the study of gender and history with an expectation of teaching Women’s History and courses in the Gender and Women’s Studies program in addition to general education courses in US or world history.
To guarantee consideration, applications must be received by January 4, 2021. Position will remain open until filled.
For a full description of this position, application deadlines, and application procedures, visit https://facultyaffairs.kennesaw.edu/faculty_openings.php.
For questions about this faculty opening, please contact Dr. Alice K. Pate, Chair of History and Philosophy, apate9@kennesaw.edu, or Cecile Accilien, Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies, caccilie@kennesaw.edu.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and Academic Administration
https://uscdornsife.usc.edu/dept/futurehumanities/index.cfm
The USC Mellon Humanities and the University of the Future Program seeks applications for two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships from scholars whose research is in any area of the humanities or humanistic social sciences and who have interest in academic administration. Applicants’ research must be based in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. We welcome proposals from applicants with interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary projects. Proposals may focus on any period and geographic region.
The application deadline is Friday, January 29, 2021.
Assistant Professor, Catalyzing Antiracist and Decolonial Futures
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/17559
The University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites applications for four tenure-track Assistant Professors whose work will contribute to the Catalyzing Antiracist and Decolonial Futures (CARDF) cluster. CARDF applicants will be hired in each of four home departments: English, Literatures Cultures & Languages, Philosophy, and Political Science, though candidates with cross-disciplinary interests may be considered for more than one of these positions.
Preference will be given to those who apply by December 15, 2020
For questions about this position prior to January 1st, please contact the search chairs, Jason Chang (jason.o.change@uconn.edu) and Jane Gordon (jane.gordon@uconn.edu).
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
‘Poetic translations’: Conversations across the plurality of Arts disciplines in Visual Arts Exhibitions
The rationale of the conference is to explore how the different arts translate across disciplines and to establish exchanges that will allow arts disciplines to engage with contemporary debates and concerns in a non-hierarchical way. In this context the term ‘translation’ is taken from Walter Benjamin through Jacques Derrida’s interpretation, which can be read as yet another translation in a long line of poetic translations. Hence this conference’s use of the term ‘poetic translation’ with reference to the hierarchical tradition and the way it is being transformed through translations to create non-hierarchical structures of exchange. For the ‘creative act’, by definition, introduces an innovative moment. It is this ‘poetic’ innovation, Benjamin insists, in which ‘the unfathomable, the mysterious, the “poetic”, can be reproduced; but only if the translator is also a poet [artist]’.
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Contact Email: maja.hill@solent.ac.uk
URL: https://solentva.hypotheses.org/poetic-translations
Culture, Things, and Empire: Virtual Seminar Series
We are delighted to announce that registration is now open. Our first series contains six seminars, each one based on a particular theme: landscape, travel, drugs, materials, communication, and (agri)culture. These seminars will take place every month consecutively between December 2020 and May 2021. Each speaker will present their 10-minute paper followed by a response to both papers by their respondents. Group discussion, questions and comments will take place in the time remaining.
Speaker schedule: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bAwvP7IhXIHrO8t65OGgjA0TQJkCAsQR/view
Contact Email: culturethingsempire@gmail.com
URL: https://culturethingsempire.wordpress.com/
Black Studies Now and the Countercurrents of Hazel Carby
http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/black-studies-now-and-the-countercurrents-of-hazel-carby/
The special issue, “Black Studies Now and the Countercurrents of Hazel Carby” was just published by InVisible Culture, the graduate-student led journal of the Graduate Program in Visual & Cultural Studies. Responding directly to the civil unrest and racial reckoning of 2020, including the murder of Daniel Prude in Rochester, this wide-ranging special issue showcases what Black Studies both is and could be at present by engaging with the countercurrents that flow through the thinking and writing of one of the most important scholars of the Black diaspora of the past fifty years.
Positions: a politics and culture show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWx7L51zx5w
Positions offers scholarly perspectives on current trends in media, technology, and beyond. The show is sponsored by members of the New Media and Digital Culture working group of the Cultural Studies Association. It is also available as a podcast on all major platforms.
In the pilot episode, four cultural theorists discuss the fallout from the recent election. While pundits have covered the conspiracy myths, polarized culture, and militarized politics in the run-up to the election, these scholars offer insight to how disruptive media, anti-blackness, and antagonistic politics will live on for weeks, months, and years.
TERA journal
https://tera.institute/journal/
TERA is a digital first institute augmenting existing academic frameworks for a global network of researchers interested inEcologies of Risk & Resilience. Ecologies of Risk & Resilience apply multiple, transdisciplinary research lenses to the perils and possibilities of the Anthroprocene to produce new critical theory and intervention models for modern risks. TERA journal #1 includes contributions of renowned and emerging thinkers and artist and is open access.
Contact Email: sara@tera.institute
