CONFERENCES
The
Urban Question
17
April 2020, Rutgers University
In
the wake of the so-called “urban turn” (Prakash 2009) in the humanities and
social sciences in recent years, this one-day symposium will investigate the
possible frameworks through which the city emerges as an object of analysis in
the various disciplines of literary studies, history, geography, and film
studies. We seek to explore the many ways in which the city is envisaged in
contemporary times, especially in relation to what has been traditionally
excluded from both the narration of the city and how we study it. We invite
current graduate students to send proposals to Rudrani Gangopadhyay and
Chiara Degli-Esposti at ccaurbanhumanitites@gmail.com by 11:59PM (EST) on 16 February
2020.
Contact
Email: ccaurbanhumanitites@gmail.com
Blended
Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference
Bryn
Mawr College, May 20–21, 2020
The
Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference is a forum for scholars and
academics to present and share their practices, methods, experiences, and
findings related to blended learning. We understand blended learning as any
combination of online and face-to-face instruction that is intended to support,
enhance, and develop high-impact learning experiences that embody the values of
a liberal arts education.
Deadline
for Proposals: February 16, 2020
Contact
Email: blendedlearning@brynmmawr.edu
Landscapes
22nd
of May 2020, University of Sheffield
With
extreme weather events, governments in crisis and sea levels on the rise,
environmental and political climates seem to have reached a boiling point. In a
society in turmoil over Brexit negotiations, the climate crisis often goes
ignored. Whether political or environmental, it is abundantly clear that the
landscapes we inhabit are no longer defined by stable factors, if they ever
were. How do we make sense of these landscapes during turbulent times in which
their topographies are constantly shifting?
Deadline
6th March 2020
Contact
Email: landscapespgc@gmail.com
Money
on the Left: The Green New Deal Across the Arts & Humanities
The
Modern Money Network Humanities Division is pleased to announce that its second
conference will be held in spring 2020, from April 24 through April 26, at
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The conference invites participation
from academics, artists, and activists who engage critically and creatively
with the history, present, and future to expand the Green New Deal imaginary in
the United States and around the world. Submissions are open for presentation
proposals that engage with the aesthetic, cultural, historical, political
economic, and/or rhetorical aspects of the Green New Deal movement.
Send
proposals to William Saas (wsaas@lsu.edu) by February 1, 2020 for full
consideration
Capitalism
and the Senses
November
6, 2020, Wilmington, Delaware
This
conference will explore the sensory history of capitalism—the ways that seeing,
hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching have shaped, and been shaped by,
capitalism over the longue durée, from the early modern era to the present.
From the stench of the stockyards to the saccharine sounds of Muzak, everyday
sensory environments have been made and remade by capitalism, and as portals
through which we take in knowledge of the world, the senses have been subject
to manipulation, exploitation, and commodification. If, as Karl Marx contended
in 1844, the senses have a history, then that history is intertwined with the
development of capitalism, which has drawn on the embodied power of the senses
and, in turn, influenced how sensory experience has changed over time.
Please
submit proposals of no more than 500 words and a one-page C.V. to Carol Lockman
at clockman@Hagley.org
by May 1, 2020.
Liberal
Education in Era of Migration, Refugee Crises, and Decolonization
May
1st and 2nd, 2020, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The
conference aims to create a focused debate around not only the phenomenon of
refugee migration but also seeks to understand the crisis as located within a
continuum of other constructions of the refugee as the non-Western Other. This
construction leads to the near necessity of speaking of decolonization as an
imperative located possibly within liberal education and its practices. The
intertwining of the refugee experience with the indigenous communities’ lived
experience calls for intervention and thought. Can liberal education aid in
this so-called process of decolonization? Is it a singular process or are there
multiple ways in which decolonization can occur? What does this
decolonization(s) look like?
Send
your abstracts, suitable for blind-review, to either Karim Dharamsi (kdharamsi@mtroyal.ca),
David Clemis (dclemis@mtroyal.ca)
or Navneet Kumar (nkumar@mhc.ab.ca)
by February 29, 2020.
Political
Demonologies: Race, Gender, and Coloniality in a Postsecular Age
May
15–16, 2020, University College Dublin, Ireland
This
conference aims to critically examine how constructions of religion, race,
coloniality, gender, secularity, and sexuality operate within the discursive
and affective frameworks of contemporary systems of exclusion and erasure. Many
critical insights have not yet been brought into sustained conversation with
scholarship in sociology, religious studies, or politics and international
relations. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary body of
scholars, the conference will bring these fields into fruitful and timely
conversation. In doing so, it will not only chart current reactionary politics
but critically excavate the structures they draw upon, exacerbate, and
rearticulate—antiblackness, misogyny, queer- and transphobia, settler
colonialism, and global coloniality—and how these distinct systems of
marginalization are mobilized in ways that both reinforce and deconstruct one
another.
Please
submit a paper title, abstract of 250–300 words, a short biography, and
contact details to jonathon.odonnell@ucd.ieand catherine.carey@ucd.ie.
Deadline
March 1, 2020
International
Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place
Quinnipiac
University, April 24-26, 2020Inquiry on the spatial properties of memory has
traditionally energized a variety of disciplines as well as built bridges among
them: from philosophy, theology, and geography, to history, sociology and
anthropology, from neuroscience and psychology to computer science and
environmental studies. Environments affect remembrances that, in turn, shape
identity, in a loop of interactions that blur boundaries between what is past
and present. How do individuals and communities understand memory spaces,
monuments, and borders?
proposals
due February 14, 2020
Please
send your abstract (300 word limit) to Troy Paddock, paddockt1@southernct.edu
Migration/Immigration
Washington,
DC,
November
19-22, 2020
The
Social Science History Association is the leading interdisciplinary association
for historical research in the United States.
The Migration/Immigration Network of the Social Science History
Association seeks panel and paper submissions wherein migration scholars make
imaginative use of historical data and tools from the social sciences to
analyze how politics, society, and the economy interact over time and engage
with questions such as: How have migrations, social divisions, and demographic
change informed politics? How has politics altered the meaning of human
mobility, gender, race, sexuality or ethnicity, and vice versa? What role does
the study of mobile people, culture, religion, and social divisions play in
politics? How are politics, society, and the economy shaped by history and
migration institutions and how can we use novel sources and tools from the
social sciences to pin down these relationships?
Submission
Deadline: February 16, 2020
Thinking
Archives: Gender, Sexuality, and Archival Recognition
My
name is Quinn Anex-Ries and I am a third year PhD student in American Studies
and Ethnicity at USC. I am writing to solicit potential panelists and
moderators for a proposed panel for AHA. Challenging the taken-for-grantedness
of the archive within histories of gender and sexuality, this panel critically
interrogates the archive as a central actor within the formation of identity,
knowledge, and power. The questions that animate this panel are thus as
follows: how are gender, sexuality, and self-making at stake in archival
representation and production? What are the limits and possibilities of state,
legal, and subcultural archives? Combining the analytic frameworks of critical
archival studies, histories of sexuality, gay and lesbian history, and social
movement history, this panel addresses these questions by investigating the
form, constitution, and power of the archive.
Email
Quinn at anexries@usc.edu with a proposed paper
topic.
Crossing
Boundaries in Literature, Culture, and Theory
Purdue
University in West Lafayette, Indiana on March 27 and 28, 2020
Boundaries
represent real or imagined limits within various cultures, and negotiation of
these boundaries enables innovation, transgression, as well as social, ethical,
or political implications. Literature and other cultural artifacts work to
challenge, straddle, or even reinforce boundaries, from national borders to the
artificial limits scholars construct between time periods or fields of study.
This symposium will investigate and encourage boundary crossings in literature,
culture, and language in the broadest sense.
Please
send abstract proposals of up to 250 words in length to purduelitco@gmail.com.
The deadline for submissions is January 17, 2020.
Waste,
Violence & Justice
Chicago,
IL from May 28 - 30, 2020
This
year's conference theme speaks to the intersections of violence and waste as it
pertains to social inequality and the criminal justice system. JSA welcomes papers or presentations that
focus on a wide variety of topics, including those addressing environmental
justice; mass incarceration and prisoner rights; social inequality; state and
corporate crime; the treatment of immigrants; restorative justice and
transformative justice; and theoretical work and/or empirical work about crime,
justice, or the law. This list is not
exhaustive, and we welcome papers from a variety of academic disciplines. We also welcome presentations from people and
organizations outside of academia.
email:
nc518@nyu.edu
International
Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
To
increase our understanding of ethnic, racial and religious conflicts in
different countries around the world, the conference will consider submissions
from multidisciplinary fields of study and practice. Qualitative, quantitative
or mixed methods research studies from university scholars and researchers are
accepted. Case studies, lessons learned, success stories, policy analysis or
design, and best practices from policy makers, practitioners, and indigenous
peoples are also accepted.
Abstract
Submission Deadline: Saturday, July 18, 2020
All
abstracts, full papers, graphic materials and inquiries should be sent by email
to: icerm@icermediation.org.
Figuring
Magic Realism – International Interpretations of an Elusive Term
October
2, 2020, City University of New York, Graduate Center
A
compound of two evidently adversarial terms, Magic Realism inhabits an apparent
contradiction. This elastic term, still controversial, has been routinely
applied to characterize representations of the real world in various media
marked by strange or supernatural qualities that speak to psychological,
social, and political alienation or to transcendental states. Artists from
Felice Casorati to Georg Scholz, Paul Cadmus to Wifredo Lam, and at times even
Edward Hopper to Frida Kahlo have been classified under this slippery label. We
welcome submissions on manifestations of Magic Realism from the interwar years
and beyond, embracing all geographical contexts.
Please
submit abstracts by January 24 to Stephanie Huber, Viviana Bucarelli, and Chloe
Wyma at MagicRealismConference@gmail.com.
Race
and Equity in Higher Ed
June
13, 2020 at Villanova University
This
conference seeks to help unravel the relationship of race and place, which together
overwhelmingly shape American life, in higher education at our bi-annual
conference. We invite panel, poster, roundtable, multimedia, and individual
proposals exploring issues of race and equity in higher education from
academics and activists alike.
Please
email proposals of no more than 300 words for panels and individual papers to William
Horne by Wednesday, April 1st, along with a brief bio and current
contact information
Sounds
of Migration
Pennsylvania
State University from September 10 – 12, 2020
This
conference will examine the diverse expressions and echoes of what we call the
sounds of migration. Drawing from Arjun Appadurai’s (1996) definition of technoscapes,
we conceptualize “the sounds of migration” as encapsulating the fluid nature of
sounds, bodies, and cultural elements coming together to construct imagined
worlds, as seen in a globalized space. We invite a broad range of submissions
that explore various aspects of the oral and aural dynamics related to
migrations, displacements, refugees, and diasporas. How do minority voices
emerge? What impact do experiences of migration have on everyday life, both
from those relocating and the receiving society? How is literature, language,
music, and/or other forms of culture and artistic expression created? How do
languages in contact influence each other and lead to changes in pronunciation,
word formation or sentence structure?
The
submission deadline is Sunday, March 15, 2020
Media
Theory, Media Fiction, and Infrastructures Beyond the Earth Workshop
Space
exploration mediates how societies envision their future and space exploration
would not be possible without media. More obviously, the history of space
exploration is closely tied to Cold War military and economic imperatives.
Today, established space agencies are struggling with national funding, and
numerous countries are starting ambitious space programs, and private companies
and individuals are building innovative space plans and technologies. The
current socio-political configuration offers thinkers and practitioners new
opportunities by which to intervene in how we envision and inhabit the cosmos.
Media Theory, Media Fiction, and Infrastructures Beyond the Earth is a two-day
workshop May 7-8, 2020 at University of Toronto, Mississauga that will
investigate space exploration and inhabitation from the point of view of media
studies.
Submit
abstract to spaceandmedia.uoft@gmail.com, by February 15.
Communication
Graduate Student Conference
Simon
Fraser University, Vancouver, BC on May 14, 2020
Drawing
on the interdisciplinary potential of communication studies, the 2020 SFU
School of Communication Graduate Caucus Conference aims to generate
conversation by highlighting the ways in which graduate-level research can
address, challenge, and rethink the issues and stakes of our times. Twenty
years into the new millennium, we ask graduate students in communication
studies and associated disciplines: How might we conceive of research as a
motor of possibility, or, vice-versa, of possibility as a motor of research?
Through this conference, we hope to create a space conducive to cross-disciplinary
dialogue, engaged critique, creative proposals, and provocative re-imaginings
from graduate students.
Submit
abstracts to sfucmnsgradconference2020@gmail.com no later
than February 28, 2020
Architectures
of Hiding
Architectural
creation, its representation, interpretation, and associated activities more
often than not are seen as processes of revelation. However, one can argue that
architecture hides as much as it reveals. In the realm of architecture, are
there examples of ‘hiding’ in teaching, representing, knowing, writing and
building architecture? If so, how do those manifest themselves?
How
is hiding practiced under other terms that obscure the practice of concealment?
What does it result in? What sources does it emerge from and who operates it?
Proposals are due by January 30th, 2020 AT
11:59 EST.
Contact
Email: cripticcollab@gmail.com
Shall
Not be Denied: Rights in American Discourse and Culture
March
27-28, 2020 at Ramapo College, located in Mahwah, New Jersey
Our
conference theme references the one hundredth anniversary of the passage of the
19th Amendment in 1920. While we are reminded this centennial year of the fight
for women’s suffrage and other social movements using the concept of “rights,”
we further observe that the rhetoric of rights has entered popular parlance and
has been variously used through the American experience. These have included
struggles over citizenship, equality, political participation, expression,
cultural inclusion, and many others. The conference location calls us to
reflect on the experiences of the Ramapough Lunaape who continue to demand full
civil rights, recognition, and sovereignty.
More
information about the conference, location, and registration can be found at
our website: https://sites.google.com/view/easasoa2020/.
Deadline:
Jan 31, 2020
Contact
Email: brantellsworth@centralpenn.edu
Raising
Indigenous Voices in Academia: A Conference on the Scholarship of Indigenous
Knowledge
September
17-19, 2020, Niagara Falls, NY
A
central conference theme of Raising Indigenous Voices in Academia is to
highlight Indigenous knowledge and scholarship with the goal to raise awareness
of the lack of Indigenous scholars representing Indigenous scholarship in
academia. Specific times have been set aside for attendees to discuss thoughts
about the scholarship presented and how that can contribute to college and
university communities. All scholars and administrators are welcome to register
and attend. Indigenous scholars, as perhaps the most underrepresented ethnic
group globally, are especially encouraged to submit a presentation proposal. Proposals for paper presentations,
posters/exhibits, interactive sessions, or innovative showcases are encouraged
from areas including, but not limited to, archaeology, ethnobotany, historical
anthropology, linguistic anthropology, political-legal anthropology,
socio-cultural anthropology, and any other relevant discipline.
Send
proposals to agmriva2020@gmail.com
by March 1, 2020.
The
Poetics, Politics, and Praxis of Transnational Feminisms
November
12-15, 2020, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The
2020 NWSA conference theme, “The Poetics, Politics, and Praxis of Transnational
Feminisms,” seeks to open up conversation about the evolution of transnational
feminisms. The intention of this call is to revisit the linear narratives that
accompany gender and feminist studies which circumscribe the emergence and
definition of transnational feminism as well as erase the long history of Black
transnational feminisms. It also seeks to affirm the particular discourses within
transnational feminisms that have been deepened by analyses of class, culture,
religion, ethnicity, race, and caste. This is a critical historical moment to
foreground the global context and to consider what a systemic, materialist,
anti-racist transnational feminist analysis can offer.
Deadline:
Feb. 28, 2020
Women in
Higher Education
The
Women's & Gender Studies and the Conference Program Committee at Texas Tech
University proudly announces a call for papers for the Annual Conference on The
Advancement of Women, which will take place on the campus of Texas Tech
University. We invite presentations that explore the manifold meanings of
movement and change as connected to, created by, and/or caught up in the
presence of women's, gender, and identity issues, in both contemporary and
historical frameworks. Interdisciplinary proposals, as well as those from the
disciplines and specialty subject areas are welcome.
Submit
an 250-word abstract including the proposal title, name, affiliation and
contact information for all author(s) on or before February 21, 2020.
Contact
Email: patricia.a.earl@ttu.edu
Gender,
Women's Suffrage and Political Power: Past, Present and Future
November
19-21, 2020, Michigan State University
The
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future
(GWSPP) conference is a multi-day meeting that brings together academics and
activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political
power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political
participation and representation in the United States and across the globe.
This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will
conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and
political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a
critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement.
Submission
Deadline: March 6, 2020
email:
gwsppconference@gmail.com
The
Humanities: Why They Matter, Why We Should Care
Chicago,
4-7 March 2020
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. Submissions are
encouraged from educators at all levels (University, College, Community
College, Graduate students) as well as
all those with an interest in the arts and humanities.
Deadline – January 31, 2020
Contact
Email: mgreen@sfsu.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Mockbusters, Monsters, Mass Destruction, and Lots More
Stuff!: Appreciations of The Asylum Oeuvre
If you are familiar with made for SyFy films featuring cgi
monsters and bloodshed, or if you have mistakenly rented a film that you
mistook for a current blockbuster, or if you are still digging through the five
dollar bins at various department stores then you are probably familiar with
films like Sharknado, Mercenaries, Sinister Squad, American
Virgin, Sunday School Musical, and Snakes on a Train,
all courtesy of The Asylum. Functioning similarly to American International
Pictures did in the 1950s, this film company produces the same sorts of fare,
accompanied by similar exploitation impulses. The films no doubt have varying
degrees of quality, but they are numerous, and have become a significant part
of the cultural fabric. I solicit proposals for essays to be included in a
collection devoted to academic analysis of The Asylum’s cinematic output
July 15: Submission deadline for proposals
email: jcolavit@butler.edu
Contemporary Multicultural Escapades
Vernon Press invites contributors to a volume dedicated to
examining inter-cultural dialogue between the Middle East and the continental
West. This edited volume is an interdisciplinary multicultural escapade that
brings together research in sociology, anthropology, literary analyses, and cultural
studies that shed light on the psycho-social dimension emerging from the
contemporary intercultural dialogue. Contributing authors are anticipated to
provide research that ranges from interpretations of this clash via
globalization, to its impact on the consolidation of Eastern culture with those
of the West.
Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2020
For further questions
or to submit your abstract, you can email the volume’s editor, Vicky Panossian
(vicky.panossian@lau.edu).
Transnational American Spaces
As people migrate, they are drawn to the familiar in their need
to adapt to the unfamiliar, forming communities whose cohesiveness emanates
from shared value systems and experiences. Culturally homogeneous networks
constructed by migrant communities in the U.S. both shape and are shaped by the
spaces they occupy. The process by which they envision their home as they
create a transnational space is frequently reflected in their artistic and
literary expressions. This volume will focus on the ways in which literary
texts depict migrant bodies and their communal spaces within the context of a
sometimes welcoming, sometimes hostile U.S. environment.
Please send a 500 word abstract, along with a short CV,
toTina Powell tpowell@concord.edu and
Patricia Sagasti Suppes psuppes@ferrum.edu by
5 pm Feb. 29, 2020.
Public Feminisms: Community
Engagement through Writing, Research and Activism
We are seeking proposals for an anthology of short essays
(10-15 pages) on public feminisms emerging from the academy to be published by
the peer-reviewed, open access press, Lever Press (https://www.leverpress.org/).
Many of us engage with our communities and with our students
via methods that extend beyond the traditional academic classroom, scholarly
journals, and on-campus activities. This anthology will showcase the many
innovative techniques feminist scholars (teachers and students) utilize to
amplify the voices of women, girls, and non-binary individuals, engage in
activism, write or speak to a larger public beyond academia, and promote social
awareness in their communities. We welcome engagements with the following
topics: New, intersectional, and interdisciplinary perspectives on public
feminisms; Feminist scholars writing for the feminist press;
scholars writing for and speaking to the mainstream press; Feminist scholars on
television and radio; Community-based learning; Community-based research; Activism inside and outside of the academy;
Activism as a form of pedagogy
Proposals (250 words) due June 1, 2020
Questions and proposals should be submitted to Carrie N.
Baker at cbaker@smith.edu.
40th Anniversary of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color and All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies
http://www.feministstudies.org/submissions/guidelines.html#call
In the foreword to the first edition of This Bridge Called My Back, Toni Cade Bambara wrote: “Quite frankly, This Bridge needs no Foreword; it is the Afterward that will count.” And what an impactful afterward it has been. Also published the following year, But Some of Us Are Brave ushered in nothing less than what Audre Lorde called "a new era" in women's studies.
40th Anniversary of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color and All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies
http://www.feministstudies.org/submissions/guidelines.html#call
In the foreword to the first edition of This Bridge Called My Back, Toni Cade Bambara wrote: “Quite frankly, This Bridge needs no Foreword; it is the Afterward that will count.” And what an impactful afterward it has been. Also published the following year, But Some of Us Are Brave ushered in nothing less than what Audre Lorde called "a new era" in women's studies.
We invite contributions of three kinds:
1) Short pieces (3000 words) in the genres that these
collections exemplify: creative, urgent, personal theoretical writing that can
reach a range of readers, addressing questions of social justice.
2) Analyses of the institutional transformations that these
two texts generated and/or continue to generate.
3) Concrete reflective essays about the pedagogical uses of
these texts and the changing responses of students over the decades.
Content can be sent to submit@feministstudies.org. Please
direct any inquiries to editorial director Ashwini Tambe at atambe@umd.edu.
Deadline: June 1, 2020
Breaking News
From medieval town criers, to the couriers who ran along the
highways of the Incan empire, to the rumors that spread among the enslaved of
St. Domingue, how did news break to the public in the past, and how did
everyday people and subaltern actors break past elite gatekeepers of public
information? What efforts were made to
break the public’s faith in those who presumed to guard the “public good” and
why? How can scholars break down, or
deconstruct, the ways in which we understand the struggles over public
discourse?
By February 1, 2020, please submit a 1-2 page abstract
summarizing the article you wish as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com.
Journal of Women’s History Graduate Student
Article Prize
The Editorial Board of the is proud to announce the fourth biennial
prize for the best article manuscript in the field of women’s history authored
by a graduate student. Article manuscripts in any chronological and
geographical area are welcome. We seek work that has broad significance for the
field of women’s history in general, addresses issues that transcend the
particulars of the case, and breaks new ground conceptually or
methodologically.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically by March 1,
2020 to the committee chair: Lessie Jo Frazier, frazierl@indiana.edu.
Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics
Vernon Press invites chapter proposals on Adaptation in
Comics and Television for an edited collection Polyptych: Adaptation,
Television, and Comics. Comicbooks and television have been adapting almost as
long as either has existed, yet scant work has been done on the relationship
between these two mass media. Adaptation theory helps us navigate a world of
transmedia properties and media conglomerates where models of stable text and
singular author have little useful purchase. The creative collaboration and
corporate origin of these projects demands more than a reading for theme;
rather, the nature of the relationship between comicbooks and television
requires a range of interpretive strategies.
Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2020
For further questions or to submit your proposal, you can
email Reginald Wiebe (Reginald.wiebe@concordia.ab.ca)
Writing Climate
We are Francesca and Giulia, co-editors-in-chief of
Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, a peer-reviewed open access journal run by
postgraduate students from Monash University. We are currently looking for
submissions for our special issue on WRITING CLIMATE, to be published in
mid-2020. The deadline for submissions will be the 30th of April and authors
will be notified as soon as possible of the outcome of their submission.
Contact Email: arts-colloquy@monash.edu
Guerrilla Music: Sonic Histories of African
Self-Liberation
his edited volume--Guerrilla Music: Sonic Histories of
African Self-Liberation--seeks contributions on the musical arts that inspired,
mobilized, drove, and articulated the African struggles for independence across
the continent throughout the 20th century. Chapters need to identify the
guerrilla musicians, cultural troupes, choirs, or other individuals or entities
that deployed music with the purpose or effect of aiding the African struggle
for independence in any part of the continent. The anti-occupation resistance
movements were often driven by song, as were the searing critique of colonial
regimes, the rising tide of latter-day nationalism and the armed struggles.
Please submit a 300-word abstract and a brief bio by March
20, 2020. Email to Chikowero@history.ucsb.edu.
‘These Are Our Stories’: Global Expressions of “Other”
Histories, Narratives, and Identities in Photographic Albums
This proposed volume seeks papers addressing a range of
photographic practices by “Others” from around the globe, from any time period,
and from a variety of social/cultural contexts, whose albums present narratives
that move beyond those reflected in our existing histories. We are particularly
interested in the visual strategies that album makers have used to assert
control over the presentation of their histories and identities, and what those
narratives have to say.
E-mail proposals to trentms@cofc.edu
and kkbelden@olemiss.edu by 4/1/20.
Out of Place: Migration, Memory and Emotions
Throughout the 20th and 21st century, political and economic
disruptions, wars, voluntary or enforced migrations, colonization and
post-coloniality experienced by large communities all over the world have
aroused feelings of loss and displacement. In face of new places and realities,
people have been obliged to continuous translation or redefinition of their
cultural identity, and they often had to deal with the aftermath of ideological
and ethnic violence. We welcome contributions across the domains of migration,
cultural, literary, film, art, and memory studies as well as other relevant
fields.
Abstracts (350-500 words) are to be submitted by 31st March
2020
Contact Email: outofplace2019@gmail.com
The New Humanities in the ‘Post-University’
According to Bernard Stiegler, in the twenty-first century ‘logos
has become a technologos’ and our societies increasingly profit-driven, two
joint tendencies which had also a significant impact on the reorganization of
the University as a corporate commodified workplace representative of the
‘capitalocene’. In order to respond to the challenges of the allegedly
posthuman digital age, humanities have also mutated into ‘new humanities’ or
‘posthumanities’ whose role, beyond adapting to and engaging with new ways of
life, should be to remain vigilant and critical of the marketization of higher
education.
Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics
welcomes interdisciplinary approaches, ranging across critical theory, literary
and cultural studies, linguistics, as well as other disciplines in the humanities
and the sciences.
The deadline for abstract submission is March 30, 2020
Proposals and articles should be sent as attachments to wordandtext2011@gmail.com and to
the editors to anionescu@sjtu.edu.cn
and milesi@sjtu.edu.cn.
Autotheory
ASAP/Journal seeks critical and creative contributions for a
guest-edited special issue on “autotheory.” Fusing self-representation with
philosophy and critical theory, autotheory moves between the worlds of “theory”
and “practice,” often exceeding disciplinary boundaries, genres, and forms.
This special issue embarks on a rigorous investigation of the autotheoretical
impulse as it moves across medial, disciplinary, and national borders from the
1960s to the present. In dialogue with scholars, artists, and activists, this
issue will broach the central question: What are autotheory’s conditions of
possibility, and what are the political, aesthetic, and cultural effects of
this theoretical turn in contemporary cultural production?
Completed essays due by May 1, 2020. Please send
queries or abstracts via email to the ASAP/Journal editor, Jonathan P. Eburne,
at editors_asap@press.jhu.edu
Rendered Invisible: African and Black Migrants and Asylum
Seekers at the U.S. Mexican Border
Call for Papers for the next issue of Irinkerindo: A
Journal of African Migration. The purpose of this call for papers is to
create awareness and to stimulate conversation about the geopolitics of African
and Black migration at the US-Mexican border; to give voice to African and
Black migrants and asylum seekers to share their personal stories; and to
influence the global narrative and conversation about the ways in which African
and Black migration and asylum are conceptualized and discussed in the larger
global migration movement. We encourage submissions that use an
interdisciplinary approach to this emerging and important topic. Creative
artistic (poetry and images) submissions are also welcomed.
March 30, 2020 deadline for full manuscript submissions
For more information, contact info@africamigration.com
Interdisciplinary and Social Justice Work
Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and
Creative Inquiry, a peer-reviewed, online journal of Union Institute
& University’s Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies program, is seeking
submissions for its next issue. We have instituted a rolling submission
policy; however, to be considered for the seventh volume please
submit by February 15th, 2020. The next publication date is June 2020.
Please email the submission package to penumbra.editor@myunion.edu.
Black Resistance to Slavery and its Afterlives
Slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration are just a few
forms that the ever-morphing systems of anti-blackness have taken in the United
States. But where there is injustice, there is resistance. While systems of domination
largely determine our life circumstances, no institution is completely
totalizing. Since the first boatload of Africans were kidnapped and hauled to
the Americas, black people have subverted conditions of oppression, against all
odds. For Black History Month, The Activist History Review is seeking articles
which examine the various forms of “fugitivity” and the implications for black
radicalism.
Email proposals of no more than 300 words to Darryl Walker, Jr by
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Drawing (Hi)stories: Rethinking Historical Graphic
Narratives
The Italian academic journal Status Quaestionis, a
comparative literature publication based at Sapienza University of Rome, is
looking for articles on historical comics for a special issue to be published
in 2021. An analysis of historical comics may tell us much about how and why we
remember the past, and what present concerns, fears and hopes make us look back
at events far in time and space. A discussion of these graphic narratives may
deal with such vital issues as gender, ethnicity, colonialism and post-colonialism,
migrations, wars and revolutions, exploitation and oppression, racism, which
surface in stories of individuals, communities, and nations set in a more or
less remote past. We are looking for essays providing such an analysis and such
a discussion, focusing on historical comics from the most diverse national and
cultural backgrounds, be they from celebrated artists or from neglected or
emerging practitioners of the sequential art. Essays on fictional and
non-fictional comics are both welcome; we are also interested in articles
dealing with educational comics, not to mention those which deal with the
historical past with an ironic, parodic, or satirical approach.
Proposal deadline: May 15, 2020
email: Tracy Lassiter (tlassiter@unm.edu)
or Umberto Rossi at umbertorossi_000@fastwebnet.it
Invisibility
Call for Work: Comparative Media Arts Journal, Issue 8
Silence, unseen, unspeakable, inapreciable, faint,
concealed, unheard, impalpable. These are terms that fall within the semantic
realm of invisibility. How do we begin to speak about, create alongside, sit
with, and/or reflect on what cannot -by definition- be reified? Invisibility offers the opportunity to
retrospectively observe and chronicle what goes (un)intentionally ignored. On
the other hand, to acknowledge invisibility is to deterritorialize our sight,
to be open to experience what is around us without hierarchizing the senses. We
are looking for submissions from scholars, artists, and writers that explore or
respond to the questions: What may escape our notice? What lays beyond the
margins of our attention?
Submission Deadline: February 29th, 2020
Contact Email: cma_journal@sfu.ca
Nationalism of
Nations without States
We are putting a journal special issue proposal together
that we intend to pitch to the journal Ethnicities.
Nationalism is yet again proving to be a force majeure in global politics as
societies, both in the West and the East, as a result of the struggle to come
to terms with the disorienting effects of globalisation. Nationalism, as
articulated by the current ruling dispensations in USA, Britain, Brazil,
Turkey, and India, represents the illiberal variant of the phenomenon. Since
this variant of the phenomenon is espoused by some of the most powerful
political players in global politics today, it is understandable that people
who lean towards the progressive end of the political spectrum are wary and
suspicious of nationalism as a whole.
Deadline to send abstracts of 400 words: 1st February 2020
Please submit by email all abstracts and articles to both
Idreas Khandy (i.khandy@lancaster.ac.uk)
and Ceren Şengül (ceren.sengul@ens.fr).
Femicide
The edited volume, tentatively entitled, Love and Murder:
Female Killings in 21st Century will provide broad historical and sociological
background to female killings and facilitate professional discussions to
explore its causes and hopefully offer solutions (legislative, sociological,
academic, religious, civil society, conflict resolution) to bring a decisive
end to a growing epidemic. Academicians
have to be engaged in developing a richer understanding of the societal,
psychological, sexual, gender-related, religious, legal backgrounds and
historical complexities of female killings in recent years. The objective is to
establish a solid reference base that will serve as a blueprint and a beacon
for the legislators, educators, policy makers, as well as for the governments
to collaborate and work towards establishing a secure, safer and equitable
future for all women. This project offers an opportunity for social scientists
to present their research and propose solutions to stop the female killings in
any part of the world, but primarily in Turkey.
Interested contributors should send a short abstract (300
words) and a short CV (1 page) to the editor by March 30th, 2020
Email: anadolu@temple.edu
Hauntings and Traces
This issue of Refract investigates the power dynamics of
(in)visibility through “haunting” and the “trace.” A form of way-making, the trace offers itself
as an object, subject, and action, a remnant and a becoming. Haunting occupies
a discomforting space between something/somebody and nothing/nobody – not
simply a vestige of previous realities but an active force that unsettles
life-and-death worlds. When the trace makes itself known, it has the capacity
to become a possession of those in power: controlled, regulated, and framed.
Hauntings, on the other hand, destabilize accessible narratives and come to
(re)possess these sites of tension. While traces can lead to parts of the past
being deliberately forgotten or rendered invisible, they may also rematerialize
these very histories, memories, and knowledges.
Please send full-length
submissions to refractjournal@ucsc.edu by the extended deadline of Monday,
March 16, 2020
FUNDING
Wilson Special Collections Library Research Fellowships
The Wilson Special Collections Library offers research
funding in five categories of awards: Southern Studies Doctoral Fellowships; Summer
Visiting Research Fellowships; Rare Book Collection Fellowships; Audiovisual
Research Fellowship;
The application period for fellowships (except for the
Incubator Awards) is now open with all applications due January 31, 2020.
Contact Email: turi@email.unc.edu
Travel Award Wilfrid Laurier University Archives and
Special Collections
The Joan Mitchell Travel Award seeks to promote and support
original, scholarly research in the Laurier Archives. The Travel Award supports
researchers wishing to travel to the Laurier Archives to conduct research in
any of the archival collections. The
collections of the Laurier Archives focus on: the Environment (with an emphasis
on water resources, Canada's North, and biosphere reserves in Canada); the
history of the Lutheran Church in Canada; music in Canada; and the history of
Wilfrid Laurier University.
For more information, please visit https://library.wlu.ca/research-materials/archives#tab-travel-award
or contact
us at the Laurier Archives.
Please submit PDF submissions to libarch@wlu.ca
Applications are due February 14, 2020.
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Fellowship
One annual award of $1,000 will be made. To receive the
award the Fellow, or a proxy researcher engaged by the Fellow, will be required
to conduct research in residence at TAMU-CC Special Collections and Archives. Applicants
should demonstrate the specific relevance of the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers to
their research through their 1,000-word overview and a cover letter. Essential
information about the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers may be found at http://library.tamucc.edu/find/special-collections/browse-special-collections/hpgarcia/index.html,
including the finding aid that describes the papers, a digital exhibit that
provides an overview of his life, and the digitized items from his papers that
have been made available in the TAMU-CC Repository.
The deadline for applications is March 1, 2020.
Please send questions and applications to specialcollections@tamucc.edu.
Funded opportunities for research at Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks is a Harvard University research institute,
library, museum, and garden located in Washington, DC. Since 1940 it has
supported scholarship in the Humanities through its fellowships and grants,
library and special collections, and publications. More than 2,000 awarded
researchers have advanced their projects in the areas of study supported by its
founders Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss: Byzantine Studies,
including related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, western Medieval,
Slavic, and Near Eastern Studies; Pre-Columbian Studies of Mexico, Central
America, and Andean South America; and Garden and Landscape Studies, including
garden history, landscape architecture, urban landscape design, and Plant
Humanities.
Dumbarton Oaks is currently accepting applications from
scholars around the world and at all career stages to a variety of
opportunities this spring and summer. Please visit our website to
learn more.
Contact Email: fellowshipprograms@doaks.org
Toshiba International Foundation Fellowships
Applications are invited for Toshiba International
Foundation scholarships for a three-month stay in Japan to be completed by the
end of March 2021. Grantees can expect a fellowship of not more than 7.000 EUR.
The TIFO Fellowship programme aims at enabling Ph.D. candidates to pursue
research in Japan for their ongoing Ph.D. projects. Applicants must be doctoral
students by the time of applying as well as by the time of the scheduled
research stay in Japan. They should be specializing in any field in Japanese
Studies at a European institution. Candidates pursuing their first Ph.D. degree
are eligible to apply.
The next application deadline is 5 May 2020.
Contact Email: office@eajs.eu
Community or Disunity?
June 29 - July 24, 2020
The University of Colorado's Benson Center for the Study of
Western Civilization invites applicants to a four-week Summer Institute in
Boulder, Colorado. The Institute is open to scholars holding a PhD (or
disciplinary equivalent) who are conducting research on some topic that falls within
the scope of the Center’s 2020-21 theme, "Community or Disunity?"
Application review will begin March 15
Visiting Fellowships at the Center for the History of
Global Development
Shanghai University, 2020
The Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai
University http://www.history-global-development.net/ invites applications for
fellowships for visiting scholars working on projects related to the history of
policies, concepts, practices or debates related to development on local,
national, regional or global levels. The Center of the History of Global
Development welcome applications from researchers who are taking innovative and
interdisciplinary approaches to the topic. Preference is given to topics
related to the focus areas of the Center.
The deadline is 8 February 2020. Please, send applications
(in a single pdf file) to: Professor Iris Borowy irisborowy@shu.edu.cn.
Africa Is a Country Fellowship
The purpose of the AIAC Fellowship is to support the
production of original work and new knowledge on Africa-related topics that are
under-recognized and under-covered in traditional media, new media, and other
public forums. It particularly seeks to amplify voices and perspectives from
the left that address the major political, social, and economic issues
affecting Africans in ways that are original, accessible, and engaging to a
variety of audiences. Fellows will be writers and/or other
cultural/intellectual producers who can contribute meaningfully to transforming
and expanding knowledge about Africa and the diaspora.
While we expect that most fellows will produce essays and/or
reporting and analysis, we are also open to work in other formats, such as
photo essays, documentary videos, and more. Fiction, poetry, and fine and
performing arts are not eligible for support from this program.
Applications received by February 20, 2020 will receive
priority consideration.
For inquiries or problems with the application, email: fellows@africasacountry.com
Laura Bassi Scholarship
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established by Editing Press
in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and
junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly
construed, within their disciplines. All currently enrolled master’s and
doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five
years of their employment.
Deadline: 25 March 2020
You may submit your queries to scholarships@editing.press.
William Ready
Division of Archives and Research Collections Research Travel Grants
The William Ready Division of Archives and Research
Collections at McMaster University Library is pleased to provide a small travel
grant for visiting scholars. Graduate students, faculty, post-docs, and
independent researchers whose research requires on-site use of the Ready
Division’s collections are eligible to apply. Learn more about their holdings
here: https://library.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/collection_development_policy_2016.pdf
and here https://library.mcmaster.ca/collections.
Application deadline: January 31
e-mail: wyckoff at mcmaster.ca
Southwest Oral
History Association Grants
SOHA awards up to three mini-grants each year totaling up to
$1500. Funds may be used for interviewing, equipment, transcription, editing,
publishing, and other oral history related expenses. Students, teachers, and
independent researchers, historical societies, archives, museums, and
non-profits in the general SOHA region are encouraged to apply to conduct research
on the Southwest. Recipients may be invited to present their work at a SOHA
conference within two years of receiving the Award. We also ask that recipients
prepare a written report on their work for inclusion in SOHA’s newsletter
within six months of receiving the award.
Email: soha@unlv.edu
Study the South
Research Fellowship
Scholars researching the South now have an opportunity for
funded research in the collections of the Department of Archives and Special
Collections at the J. D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi.
The Study the South research fellowship, sponsored by the
Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Department of Archives and
Special Collections, will provide funding of $1,500 to one qualified scholar,
who will also have access to a carrel in the library and an opportunity to
publish an essay in Study the South based on their
research.Subject guides and finding aids at Archives and Special Collections
can be found at www.libraries.olemiss.edu/specialcollectionspages.
The deadline for application is March 30, 2020
Contact Email: jgthomas@olemiss.edu
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Call for Network Editors
H-Women is looking for two network editors, one with an
interest in developing social media ties and another with an interest in
building network resources, specifically teaching material.
For the first position, we are looking for someone with
social media savvy to compile a weekend reading list and synthesize social
media stories of particular interest to the listserv. For the second position,
we are looking for someone interested in adding to H-Women’s teaching resources
by collecting and posting syllabuses and assignments that could be adapted and
adopted in women’s and gender history/studies courses. We would particularly
wish to provide inclusive lists of materials to support faculty who wish to
bring voices of people of color, queer folks, indigenous people, immigrants,
and others into the classroom.
Learn more about the qualities of network editors here. For more information or
to apply, please send an email with a short description of your research
interests along with a CV to editorial-women@mail.h-net.org
with “Network Editor” in the subject line.
Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Gender, Disability and
Social Justice
School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University
The Tanis Doe post-doctoral fellowship will provide an
opportunity for emerging scholarship on animating disability movements in
Canada and globally. It will support the existing philosophy of the School of
Disability Studies and its commitment to engaging and transforming exclusionary
cultural, social and political systems. Particularly, we welcome applications
with research programs that employ transnational, diaspora, post-colonial
and/or Black Disability Studies.
The School of Disability Studies in the Faculty of Community
Services at Ryerson University invites applications for the Ethel Louise
Armstrong Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Disability Studies. With a gift from the
Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation, this fellowship was established to further
the scholarly contributions of disabled women. It is intended for a disabled
woman1 who has completed doctoral studies within the past five (5) years in any
discipline that advances scholarship related to Disability Studies.
Application deadline is March 1st 2020 for both
Contact Email: eliza.chandler@ryerson.ca
URL: https://www.ryerson.ca/careers/research-staff-opportunities/tanis-doe-post-doctoral-fellowship-dec-16-2019/;
https://www.ryerson.ca/careers/research-staff-opportunities/ethel-louise-armstrong-post-doctoral-fellowship-dec-16-2019/
Solutions Specialist, Knowledge Dissemination
The Solutions Journalism Network (SJN)’s mission is to
spread the practice of solutions journalism: rigorous reporting on responses to
social problems. The Solutions
Specialist is a key role that takes care of the growth, quality, and curation
of the Solutions Story Tracker: a digital database of solutions stories and a
distinctive knowledge asset that can provide high value to journalists,
citizens, and actors across society. Through analysis, indexing, and curation
of solutions journalism stories, our Solutions Specialist will be equipping
society with the information that it needs to tackle today’s most pressing
social problems, while acquiring valuable experience in the growing field of
the digital humanities.
We are hiring for six positions (20 hours/week at $20/hour).
Each Solutions Specialist position will become an expert in one beat: Health,
Environment & Agriculture, Democracy, Economic Equity, Education, or
Criminal Justice.
Applications due: February 6, 2020
Visiting Assistant Professor, Gender and Sexuality
Studies
Davidson College seeks to hire a two-year Visiting Assistant
Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Field/discipline open, but
preference is given to candidates teaching and researching Black Sexualities
and/or Black Women's Studies/Feminist Thought. The successful candidate will
teach five courses per year, including: two upper-level courses examining
scholarly questions in Black Sexualities/ and/or Black Women’s Studies/Black
Feminist Thought particular to the candidate’s home field or discipline; two
introductory GSS courses (Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies and
Feminist and Queer Theories); as well as one first-year writing course designed
around issues of interest to both practitioners in the candidate’s field and to
wider readers.
Review of applications begins February 15, 2020
email: patilburg@davidson.edu
Humanities Policy Fellow
The Humanities Policy Fellowship provides an opportunity for
an early-career professional with training in the humanities or humanistic
social sciences to learn about a career in public policy and administration.
While in residence, the Humanities Policy Fellow will contribute to new and
ongoing Academy projects working across disciplines with Academy members,
staff, and subject-matter experts.
Priority consideration will be given to applications
received online by Tuesday, February 18, 2020.
Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor
The George Washington University seeks to hire up to 4
postdoctoral fellows for two-year terms, commencing as early as the fall of
2020. Those chosen will be a part of the Mount Vernon Society of Fellows,
located on the Mount Vernon Campus of the university, just north of Georgetown.
It is expected that fellows will play a leading role in creating a lively
intellectual and creative campus environment. Areas where there is particular
interest include: sustainability, global connections, interfaith communication,
civic and community engagement, inclusion and diversity, digital identities,
health, as well as artistic expression and design.
Review of applications will commence on February 14, 2020
Humanities Teaching Positions
Tenure-track: https://ban-apex-prod.valenciacollege.edu:8080/ords/f?p=JOB_DESCRIPTIONS:3:::::P3_ID:454&cs=1DFEE941D39B6D81E3DEEEDAFBBF1D02C
Non tenure-track: https://ban-apex-prod.valenciacollege.edu:8080/ords/f?p=JOB_DESCRIPTIONS:3:::::P3_ID:453&cs=1B6A0E6F1298A0B5D36C9BEB47C10734A
Valencia College is seeking Professors, Humanities to join
our dedicated, passionate faculty team as a full-time, 10-Month tenure-track
appointment and 8- Month annual appointment beginning Fall 2020. As one of the
largest community colleges in Florida, Valencia College helps shape the lives
of more than 75,000 students each year.
But it’s not our size that makes us great. It is our commitment to
ensure that equal access to higher education belongs to everyone, because the
future does, too.
The Ideal Candidate will have a master’s degree or higher
from a regional accredited institution in Art History, History, Humanities,
Interdisciplinary Studies or Liberal Studies with an emphasis in Humanities,
Literature, Music History or Musicology, Philosophy, Religion or Theology or 18
graduate semester hours in Art History, Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies
or Liberal Studies with an emphasis in Humanities, Literature, Music History or
Musicology, Philosophy, Religion or Theology + a master's degree [required].
URL: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59801;
https://valenciacollege.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/10/home/requisition/6674?c=valenciacollege
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in Africana
Studies
The Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre
and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University invite
applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Black Gender and
Sexuality Studies. The successful
candidate will interrogate Africana literature and other expressive practices
about racialized sexual knowledge with a focus on any, or multiple, spaces of
Africa and the African Diaspora. Ideally, they will bring a transnational focus
to their teaching and research.
Applications will be reviewed beginning January 22, 2020,
and accepted until the position is filled.
Assistant Teaching
Professor position
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Iowa State
University invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor position to
support areas of excellence in the program with preference given to
contemporary approaches to intersectionality, gender, and sexuality. The
successful candidate will have a strong academic and teaching background in one
or more of the following areas: gender and sexuality studies; women of color
feminisms; and introduction to queer studies.
Required Minimum Qualifications: MA in Women's Studies or a
related discipline
Post closing date: April 30, 2020
Please direct inquiries and questions to Director Ann
Oberhauser: annober@iastate.edu or
phone (515-294-9283)
Assistant Director
for Advocacy & Education
The Assistant Director for Advocacy & Education is
responsible for serving as the primary first responder, advocate, resource, and
point of referral for students and others seeking sexual violence services and
information. The incumbent provides ongoing support to survivors of sexual
assault and gender-based violence, as needed.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Master’s Degree in Women's or Gender
Studies, Counseling, Education or related field.
The review of applications will begin February 3, 2020 and
continue until the position is filled.
email: juli.parker@UMASSD.EDU
Visiting Assistant
Professor - Two-Year
The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program (WGSS) at
Colby College invites applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant
professorship beginning September 1, 2020.
We seek an individual with strengths in indigenous feminisms/US women of
color feminisms, queer theory, or trans theory, and humanities based methods.
The position carries a five-course load each year and includes being able to
teach Intro to Women’s Studies, Feminist Theory, and electives of the visiting
professor’s choice. We will give particular weight to candidates who have
successfully designed and taught their own courses.
Please submit materials to http://apply.interfolio.com/73383.
Review of applications will begin on 3/1/2020.
WORKSHOPS
Conceptualizing “Difference”
Conference and PhD summer school
This workshop aims to explore and interrogate ‘difference’
as a political category. First, we aim to map categories of difference
structuring political life, in past and present, and across and beyond the
global North. Second, we aim to explore more meta-level questions about what
‘difference’ means in the first place. How did our modern thinking about
‘difference’ come about? What roads of political thinking does it facilitate,
and which does it close off? And can we think beyond ‘difference’?
The summer school is intended to give PhD students the
opportunity to:
--relate their research to broader, inter-disciplinary
debates on citizenship, civil society and rule of law, with a view to
rethinking and developing their arguments
--present their research in a supportive setting and receive
feedback on the content and form of their presentation
--discuss their research informally with scholars and with
other PhD students.
Successful applicants will attend the conference on Monday
8th and Tuesday 9th June, and then participate in the PhD summer school on
Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th June.
Summer school applicants should register here
by 7th February.
Questions about the programme should be directed to sophie.lauwers@abdn.ac.uk and fredericke.weiner@abdn.ac.uk
Voces Oral History Research Summer Institute
June 8-12, 2020, The University of Texas at Austin
This workshop is for faculty and graduate students wishing
to use oral history in research and teaching. This weeklong institute will be
helpful to the beginner, intermediate and advanced scholar. Instructors have
created oral history projects, published widely using oral history, and are
leaders in oral history publishing and teaching. Participants meet in break-out
groups with the institute directors to workshop their own plans and ideas.
Applications accepted through March 9, 2020
email: voces@utexas.edu
Religious Diversity and the Secular University
Cambridge, 6-17 July 2020
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge invites applications from
outstanding early career scholars to participate in a two-week summer workshop
in July 2020, devoted to some of the most critical issues in the emergence of
the modern university and our historical moment: the related questions of
secularism and religious diversity. We welcome applications from scholars in
any academic discipline whose work engages with the dynamics of religious
interaction in historical and cultural perspectives, with the study of
religion(s) in one way or other, and with the intellectual, methodological and
conceptual foundations thereof.
Contact Email: twd26@cam.ac.uk
NEH Summer Seminar on Radio and Decolonization
A two-week NEH-funded summer seminar at the University of
Denver for higher education faculty members interested in decolonization and in
the political, social, and cultural impacts of radio and sound technologies,
offering intellectual frameworks and practical tools for incorporating sound
into scholarship and pedagogy. For more information including schedule,
application details, and eligibility: Radio
and Decolonization.
Contact Email: abronfman@albany.edu
Visual Intersections
6th-8th July 2020, Durham University, United Kingdom
The Centre for Visual Arts and Culture and Durham University
Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme in Visual Culture would like to inivte
scholars and early career researchers to submit their papers for Visual
Intersection 5 which will be held on 6-8 July 2020. The fifth in a series of
summer schools brings scholars together to explore the interdisciplinary nature
of visual culture and exchange current ideas and approaches in the field. We
welcome both scholarly and creative submissions from researchers working in a
wide range of disciplines, including art, history, anthropology, philosophy,
archaeology, computer science, natural and social sciences, among others.
The closing date for proposals is 28/02/2020.
Contact Email: visualintersections@gmail.com
Monitoring the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons
The Global Campus of Human
Rights (GC) is proud to offer again one of its most successful Massive
Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Focusing on the protection of LGBTI persons and
their human rights, the MOOC on Monitoring the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons
provides a worldwide overview of human rights standards, mechanisms and
practices in this area.
Course dates: 20 January – 1 March 2020
Contact Email: gaia.balbo@gchumanrights.org
PrincetonX HOPE online course
Hi everyone, I am happy to invite you to enroll, free, in a
new online edX course: Human Odyssey to Political Existentialism (HOPE), a
unique journey into the human condition and its politics, developed by
Princeton University, collaborating with TAU. In 44 talks and interactive tasks
we cover a dozen themes – features that set us apart, and bring us together, as
human: Are we better than animals and machines? What’s the difference between
freedom and liberty? Should we pursue happiness? Why do we yield to fear and
anxiety? What’s the point of living, dying, and killing? What are the roles of
reflection, truth and morality in our society and politics? Is God dead, but
religion alive? Can we defeat alienation? Is love all we need? How much can,
and should, we hope for?
Contact Email: ua42@cornell.edu
Syllabus-constructing tool, Ab Imperio
The Ab Imperio syllabus tool helps identify materials from
over 20 years of the journal run both chronologically and thematically. We are
launching the project “Ab Imperio Syllabus” (Reading Library for Your Syllabi)
to facilitate navigation among the English-language articles published since
May 2000, by keywords, periods, and formats.
Contact Email: aturbin@hse.ru
