CONFERENCES
Hindsight • Foresight
• Insight
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and
Collaboratory 2020 Conference
As we take time to reflect, we also confront new threats and
troubles. Hindsight is important, but limited in helping us understand what to
do now that will make a difference tomorrow. Foresight understands that the
future is already with us, present in the present. Taking stock of what we now
understand, how do we anticipate what will need to be done? What possibilities
and problems are emerging that require our attention and action in order that we make a difference for tomorrow? Insight
will arise out of these questions and engagements. What insights might we glean
regarding the practices and projects that will support the futures we want to
inhabit? What do we need to commit to the effort? What forms might commitment
take? This conference will make time to reassess, to recalibrate, and to
recommit to doing things differently.
HASTAC 2020: Hindsight • Foresight • Insight welcomes
submissions from critical and creative practitioners at all stages of their
careers; from all disciplines, occupations, and fields; from the public,
non-profit, and private sectors; and from groups as well as individuals,
including independent scholar-practitioners and artists.
Deadline for proposals is Friday, 14 February 2020.
Please email atecgradstudies@utdallas.edu
with any questions you have about the conference.
'Where are you from?'
to 'Where shall we go together?' Re-imagining Home and Belonging in
21st-Century Women's Writing
University of London, Friday, 5 June 2020
In our current time of mass migration, questions of home and
belonging are central to public discourses in many European nations. While
increasing numbers of people have either chosen to or been forced to go on the
move and make new homes, thus complicating questions of attachment and
belonging, we are also witnessing a growing political desire for exclusive,
homogenous and static notions of home. Focusing on recent imaginaries and
discussions of ideas of home and belonging by women writers/performers across
cultures, this symposium explores the potential of artistic interventions into
traditionally held ideas, which may contribute to the formation of alternative,
inclusive and future-oriented conceptualisations of belonging.
Short abstracts (no more than 250 words) for 20-minute
papers should be sent to Dr Maria Roca Lizarazu (M.RocaLizarazu@bham.ac.uk<mailto:M.RocaLizarazu@bham.ac.uk>)
and Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex (Godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk<mailto:Godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk>)
by Monday, 6 January 2020.
(Re-)Making
Citizenship: Explorations of Belonging and Participation in the Arts
7 May 2020, University of Warwick
This one-day workshop wants to explore the role and
contribution of the Arts in contemporary discussions of citizenship. What
alternative models of belonging, membership and participation can we find in
the Arts? How do the Arts potentially challenge our existing conceptions of
citizenship, whilst also allowing us to go beyond them? And how might the Arts
contribute toward citizenship education? The workshop is interested in bringing
together academics from all disciplines with artistic practitioners from
various backgrounds (literature, music, performance, visual arts) to
collaboratively think through these questions. We invite both traditional
academic papers and other forms of contribution, such as artistic pieces,
interventions, reflections etc.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words for either academic
papers or other modes of contribution, followed by a short bio note, should be
sent to I.Dal-Poz@warwick.ac.uk and M.RocaLizarazu@bham.ac.uk by February
15th, 2020.
Crossing Borders
The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the
University of Mississippi invites you to come celebrate the 20th anniversary of
our Isom Student Gender Conference, which will take place March 18-20. At the
2020 Isom Student Gender Conference, we encourage scholars to consider the
importance of crossing borders in a variety of contexts: borders between theory and practice, the
university and the community, national borders, boundaries of identity, borders
between real and imagined spaces, boundaries in aesthetic spaces and political
practice. All binaries we use to divide
up people, species, nations, and concepts are potential borders to cross, and
we encourage you to question any and all binary categories in your
interdisciplinary scholarship.
Interested applicants should submit 250-word abstracts for
individual papers or 500-word abstracts for panel proposals to the link below: https://tinyurl.com/2020ISGC
Submit proposals by January 31, 2020.
Contact Email: isomctr@olemiss.edu
Figuring Magic
Realism
October 2, 2020, City University of New York, Graduate
Center
Never a coherent style or aesthetic movement, Magic Realism
has spanned the globe, extending from Europe to Asia, Latin America, and the
United States, where, in 1943, the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition “American
Realists and Magic Realists” brought together more than forty historical and
contemporary under its amorphous auspices. That the term has been adapted to so
many geographical and cultural contexts has only enhanced the difficulty of
ascribing it a concrete definition. We welcome submissions on manifestations of
Magic Realism from the interwar years and beyond, embracing all geographical
contexts.
Please submit abstracts of 150 to 300 words, accompanied by
a c. v. and a brief bio (of 100 words) by January 24 to Stephanie Huber,
Viviana Bucarelli, and Chloe Wyma at MagicRealismConference@gmail.com.
"Making Do"
in Urbanism and the Arts
Conference, May 30-31, 2020 Portland, Oregon
A quotidian practice, 'making-do' refers to personalized
modes of fixing and/or adapting urban spaces by those in precarious,
marginalized or at-risk communities. Further, certain kinds of spaces seem to
lend themselves to acts of 'making-do' — spaces between buildings, patches of
urban wilderness, abandoned buildings, corner plots, stoops and stairwells —
sites where vernacular life makes and makes itself felt. Making-do can be
understood, therefore, as an act of staking claim to place. This conference
seeks, therefore, to examine the aesthetics, effects, and theoretical insights
to be drawn from 'making-do'. It seeks to engage thought and discussion on
questions such as: How do contemporary practices in urbanism, architecture, art
and landscape architecture consider and inform making-do?
deadline: Monday, January 6, 2020
Contact Email: raechelroot@gmail.com
Animal Rights:
Advocacy and Academia
15 - 16 May, 2020, National University of Ireland Galway
This symposium will address the academy’s comparatively
recent focus on animal rights and consider the relationship of that academic
interest to the practice of advocacy for nonhuman animals. With the aim of
investigating how animal advocacy and animal scholarship can support and inform
each other we will explore the kinds of questions that we could (and perhaps
should) ask of the tradition of animal studies, think about the limits and
responsibilities of a pedagogy of animal studies, and examine the relationship
between scholarship and animal advocacy.
Abstracts no longer than 250 words should be submitted
to frances.mccormack@nuigalway.ie no
later than 21 January, 2020.
Human Matters: Engaging Publics in the Humanities
July 8-11, 2020, University of British Columbia Okanagan
The humanities profess to help societies to understand
themselves better and to tackle enduring questions about the human condition –
and yet, scholars in the humanities often struggle to speak with broader
publics about their work. The public humanities are an attempt to put
engagement with publics at the heart of humanistic inquiry. This conference is
an opportunity for researchers in all fields to come together to make the
public humanities more visible and to discuss core questions in public-facing
scholarship.
Deadline for paper and session proposals: January 15, 2020
Questions? Email public.humanities.ok@ubc.ca
From the Grassroots to the Statehouse: Women’s Activism
and Political Power
March 27-28, 2020, Sarah Lawrence College
In anticipation of another U.S. Presidential election in
2020, this conference asks: How much of a difference does it make to have women
in positions of power and focuses on the question what is the potential power
of women’s leadership now and in the past?
We welcome proposals that go beyond the category of “women” to include
the powerful activism of LGBTQ populations, disability rights activists, and
immigration activists, to name just a few of the perspectives that we are
hoping to engage with through this conference. Panels with an international
focus and /or grassroots activism are particularly encouraged.
Deadline for Proposals - January 2, 2020
Send proposals to: Tara James (tjames@sarahlawrence.edu)
Assessing the Landscape, Countering the Anti-Black
Narrative and Advancing the Discipline
The Africana Studies Program at The University of New Mexico
has entered its 50th year. In homage to the discipline, our practitioners, and
supporters, we will host the Inaugural Southwest Conference on Black Studies.
Through the conference, we hope to reinforce the founding pillars of the
discipline and reflect on our long-standing commitment to academic excellence
and social responsibility.
Deadline: Jan. 31
Contact Email: nacosta@unm.edu
World Weary: Cultures of Exhaustion
UNIVERSITY OF YORK, UK 21–22 MAY 2020
How does contemporary culture make sense of weary worlds?
Exhaustion can be used to describe both the depletion of planetary resources
and a structural waning associated with the demands of neoliberalism, one which
is magnified by socio-political and technological change (Schaffner, 2017). The
burden of bodily and planetary exhaustion is increasingly justified by an
ideology of commitment and resilience, even as its effects are carried
disproportionately across populations. We are interested in academic and non-academic
responses to the varied intersections of exhaustion and culture, particularly
with regard to counterstrategies working in response to more entrenched
formations of exhaustion.
The deadline for proposals is 10 January 2020.
Please direct proposals to: Gabriella Beckhurst, gabriella.beckhurst.19@ucl.ac.uk; Francesca
Curtis, fc710@york.ac.uk; Cecilia
Tricker-Walsh, ctricker-walsh1@sheffield.ac.uk
The Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements:
Critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches
The Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and
Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM) is pleased to announce its 2020 conference, to
be held at the University of Bedfordshire UK (Bedford Campus) 29-30 June 2020. The
aim of the conference is to facilitate critical and interdisciplinary
discussion of apocalypticism, millenarianism and associated movements across
time, place, and culture. Academic fields include anthropology, archaeology,
biblical studies, critical theory, cultural studies, history, literary studies,
political studies, psychology, religious studies, sociology, etc. The
interdisciplinary scope is broadly understood to include methodologies,
comparative approaches, and showcasing of research more specific to individual
fields of expertise.
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2020.
Contact Email: conference@censamm.org
Urban Space and the Senses
Berkeley 9 - 10 May 2020
Studying urban space with the five senses inevitably leads
us to transcend spatial stereotypes through a direct empirical and bodily
approach: apparently dystopian places can reveal unexpected sonic virtues, just
as picture-postcard landscapes can in fact be an utter mess for their
other-than-visual senses. When used in historical research, a multisensory
approach to the study of space can have a demystifying power, offering
representations of material life which are often much more realistic then
established historical representations. These are just some of the reasons that
make an interdisciplinary debate on the study, representation and design of
urban space through the senses particularly promising.
Please send a 300-word abstract, contact details and a brief
bio by Friday, 15 January 2020 to the conference email address crossdisciplinaryurbanspace@gmail.com.
The intersectional ghosts of natural history: gender,
class, race, and empire
The history of science is haunted by many ‘ghosts’, such as
women’s contributions to natural history, the involvement of the global South
in the production of scientific knowledge, and the role of knowledge production
in colonial dispossession. These kinds of ghosts, writes Banu Subramaniam, are
‘a haunting reminder of an ignored past’, and it is our duty as historians to
render them visible by ‘confront[ing] the past, or [else] the dead never go
away, history never sleeps, the truth can never be erased, forgotten, or
foreclosed’. This workshop addresses the intersectionality of several such
‘ghosts’ in the history of natural history.
Inquiries, abstracts (c. 200 words, by January 31) and
pre-circulated material (March 31) to: tanja.hammel@unibas.ch
or ljg54@cam.ac.uk
Gender, Race, Community, & Conflict: Pursuing Peace
and Justice
April 24th and 25th, 2020, Southern Connecticut State
University
We invite proposals that investigate the past, the present,
and the future of the intersections of gender, race, and community that
showcase feminist interventions in the tackling of conflicts. In what ways can
feminist practices and movements counter the negative consequences of hate and
white supremacy? What can we do to support communities struggling to align with
the feminist agendas of peace, justice and unity while honoring differences?
How is the feminist body involved in community, conflict and the pursuit of
peace and justice? How does feminism contribute to the pursuit of equity and
equality? How has feminist storytelling narrated these struggles and
contributed to/reshaped intellectual discourse? What can we do to ensure a more
just and equitable world?
Extended Deadline: January 13, 2020
Email: womensstudies@southernct.edu
Comics Arts Conference
The Comics Arts Conference accepts 100-200 word abstracts
for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical perspective on comics
(juxtaposed images in sequence). We seek
proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and
welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. We also encourage the involvement of
professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators,
editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.
Proposals for the San Diego Comic-Con are due February 1.
To contact us, please email us at comicsartsconference@gmail.com.
Folklore, Learning and Literacies
Friday 24 to Sunday 26 April 2020, UCL Institute of
Education, London
Lore is learning: folklore is a body of knowledge and a
means of transmission. Vernacular knowledge, and vernacular transmission, each
rooted in language. Formal education and training are no more—or less—formative
than the informal, everyday vernacular literacies that we absorb from our peer
groups or families. A proverb is a condensed lesson; a ballad or a fairy-tale
has a moral more often than not; a rite of passage may encapsulate a trade’s
culture. And the landscape, whether rural or urban, is a theatre of memory and
the backdrop of local legend. So yes, lore is learning. But how do we learn
folklore? How do we learn about folklore?
Send proposals to the Folklore Society at thefolkloresociety@gmail.com by 12th
January 2020
Crossing Boundaries in Literature, Culture, and Theory
Graduate students in the Literature, Theory, and Cultural
Studies program at Purdue University invite participation in their first annual
symposium, “Crossing Boundaries in Literature, Theory, and Culture.” 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.
Toward an Understanding of Nonhuman Minds: From Animal to
Artificial Agency
University of Zurich – June 5-6, 2020
In the 21st century, these long-held beliefs have come under
renewed scrutiny. Recent scholarship places greater emphasis on recognizing and
describing nonhuman forms of agency, for example, by looking at the agency of
nonhuman animals and artificial intelligence. Area specialists have claimed
that Japanese culture less strictly segregates the human and nonhuman spheres,
which may be one of many factors contributing to the broader acceptance of
robots in Japan.
The workshop offers a platform for collaboration and the
exchange of ideas by reassessing the possibilities, boundaries, and capacities
of addressing nonhuman agency. The following questions will be asked: (1) How
do diverse academic fields conceptualize nonhuman agency? (2) What analytical
advantages, if any, does considering nonhuman agency bring to academic writing?
Interested scholars are asked to send a 400-word paper
proposal and a CV to anne.aronsson@aoi.uzh.ch,
fynn.holm@uzh.ch, and melissaann.kaul@aoi.uzh.ch by 31
January 2020
Mapping the migrant experience: places, affect and
imaginaries from the margins
We are calling for papers or presentations of creative
projects for a panel on Mapping the migrant experience: places, affect and
imaginaries from the margins at the upcoming biennial conference Anthropology
and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future. The conference will be held
at the SOAS, the British Museum and the Royal Geography Society, between June
4th - 7th, 2020.
The migrant experience, in its entangled nature, recreates
place through affect and imaginary. Understanding the world as flow or margin
demands crossing boundaries between anthropology, geography and artistic
practices through collaborative research and creation.
Call for Papers closes 8 January 2020
Contact Email: toma.peiu@colorado.edu
Consuming America: Consumers, Capitalism, and
Consequences
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 7- 8, 2020
The University of Michigan 2020 Graduate Student U.S.
History Conference welcomes submissions from graduate students in history and
related disciplines whose scholarly work examines consumption and consumers,
both broadly conceived
. Papers might investigate how consumption serves as an
instrument of politics or a method of social control. Others may seek to
restore individual or group agency within the wider process, and accordingly
emphasize connection between consumer choice and expressions of identity. Still
others could explore the mutually deterministic relationship between culture
and consumption; how cultures are defined by the goods and services they
consume, and so too how culture, social customs, and habits shape consumption
patterns.
Please submit an abstract of
250 words and a one-page curriculum vitae to our conference planning
committee by Friday, February 14.
Contact Email: umusgradconference@gmail.com
Votes for All? Suffrage and the 15th and 19th Amendments
The History Department, Black Studies, and Women's and
Gender Studies at Cleveland State University invite proposals for an
interdisciplinary conference on voting rights in the United States scheduled
for 8-10 October 2020 at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio.
We invite scholars to submit 500-word abstracts for
individual papers and panels on such questions as: What did the struggle for
and against suffrage and the social change it represented look like on the
ground level? How have ideas of citizenship and voting intersected with race,
class, gender, immigration, and "legitimate," documentable
nationality. What was the relationship between the Fifteenth and the Nineteenth
Amendments and what social, political, and cultural forces shaped the years
between the passage of both? How inclusive was access to suffrage under the
Nineteenth Amendment?
Deadline: 1 April 2020.
Submit proposals: Dr. Stephanie D. Hinnershitz, s.hinnershitz@csuohio.edu
Art’s Reparative Turn: Creating Agency, Hopeful
Futurities, and Movement Towards an Exit
The American Studies Association annual meeting theme
“Creativity within Revolt” speaks to creative practitioners across disciplines.
This panel seeks proposals from those in: visual arts, music, dance, poetics,
interdisciplinary practice, and performance to present current artistic
research from practices that intersect with the concept of a reparative turn. This
panel seeks to further Sedgwick’s proposal for investment in reparative theory
by replacing the suggested reading framework with artistic practice.
Specifically, this call seeks contributions foregrounding artistic practices
that embody subversive imaginaries in revolt against hegemonic and social
othering through a reparative turn towards agency and an exit from dynamics of
bias.
Proposals to be submitted via http://www.shannonforrester.com/cfp
on or before: January, 25, 2020
Contact Email: shannon.forrester@network.rca.ac.uk
New Worlds: Histories of Crisis and Encounter
History Graduate Student Association Conference, Brown
University, April 3-4, 2020
This conference intends to provoke discussion among
academics from all geographical and temporal fields concerning how we envision
new worlds, how they are created in politics and space, how conceptions of
newness change over time, and how these questions are approached by various
methodologies. This could involve exploring ancient and medieval visions of the
future, challenging the Eurocentric point of view in writing histories of
encounter, examining the interactions between non-human and human worlds. It
also reveals the extent to which the understanding of rupture and revolution
has shifted and how the use of scientific knowledge and technology has
reconfigured the modern world.
Please apply here by midnight on
February 2nd, 2020.
Please contact brownhgsaconference2020@gmail.com for
further questions
Snapshot 20/20: A Symposium Commemorating the 100th
Anniversary of the 19th Amendment
Meredith College, Raleigh, N.C., April 2-5
Snapshot 20/20 will foster international and
interdisciplinary scholarship and conversations focused on the social,
economic, and political status of girls and women over the past 100 years. Scholars
and students are invited to submit papers and projects on a wide range of
topics regarding women's rights and status around the globe, including voting
and democracy, issues of citizenship and activism, gender identification, and
social welfare policy. Individual papers and projects, as well as complete
panels and roundtable discussions, are welcome.
Submit your abstract to our committee using our Google Form and send
inquiries to us at meredith@symposium.edu
by February 1, 2020.
Contact Email: aprobbins@meredith.edu
Environmental Crimes Conference
The 2020 Environmental Crimes Conference will take place
October 1 and 2, 2020 in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK. Papers of
interest include topics such as, Colonial environmental history related
environmental crimes; Comparative national, regional, and international
(criminal or civil) approaches to preventing or addressing environmental crimes;
Government or Corporate accountability
for environmental crimes; Government, Corporate, and/or Zoological programs
which address environmental crimes; The impact of environmental crimes on
Indigenous communities and/or responses by indigenous communities to
environmental crimes; Crimes against
wildlife; Movements which respond to or address an environmental crimes; Technological
responses to environmental crime
Submissions close March 6, 2020
Contact Email: thecommongoodfoundation@gmail.com
Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference
https://ihgradcon.wixsite.com/ucmerced
UC Merced, April 3-4, 2020
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group are pleased to announce the 7th Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference. The Conference Committee invites submissions of abstracts from all students conducting research in the humanities and related humanistic fields, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary graduate research. Submissions may take the form of individual presentations, research posters, and panel discussions.
To be considered, submit a 300-word abstract by the January 31, 2020 deadline
Identities: Understanding of Oneself, Others and the
World
Identities and discourses of alterity are, at all times and
in all societies, an integral part of social, political, economic, cultural and
territorial interactions. Our views of ourselves and others tend to be
influenced by multiple factors, including discourses on individuals, groups and
their environment, as well as various performances and materialities. The
historiography of identities and alterities is now divided into several
subfields. Concepts of plurality and the multitude are hence at the core of our
understandings of self, others and the environment.
Please submit your proposal in either English or French
(250 words maximum) before January 13, 2020, at 6 p.m.,
to xxviicolloqueaeddhum@gmail.com
with a copy to marly.tiburcio-carneiro@umontreal.ca.
ZoraFest 2020
March 28, 2020, Fort Pierce, Florida
To celebrate, educate, and recognize the literary legacy of
Zora Neale Hurston, the foundation seeks papers from multiple disciplines
conducting work around the theme of “Community.” ZoraFest invites rich,
academic, and relevant discussions regarding a wide-range of themes, concepts,
and ideas of community - as they relate to Hurston’s vast repertoire of work,
history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, economics, the development,
maintenance, and growth of marginalized communities.
Please submit your abstract and additional information to
the following email by Feb. 23: mhobson@irsc.edu.
PUBLICATIONS
Decolonising Film and
Screen Studies
In this Open Access edited volume which forms part of the
“Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies” project, we seek to put
the field of Film and Screen Studies into conversation with these contemporary,
cross-disciplinary debates and discussions. Despite the complexities of
defining “decolonisation”, particularly in relation to distinct contexts, we
feel that this is an urgent conversation for Film and Screen Studies given how
Eurocentric the field remains, half a century after its academic formalisation.
While an important body of research has been published since the late 1980s on
African cinema (e.g. Diawara 1992, Ukadike 1994), Black cinema (e.g. Cham and
Andrade-Watkins 1988, hooks 1996), postcolonial cinema and media (e.g. Shohat
and Stam 1994), and on de-westernising film studies (e.g. Higbee and Bâ 2012),
a large proportion of Film and Screen Studies scholarship continues to ignore
continental Africa, much of Asia, research in languages other than English, and
questions of diverse cultures and worldviews.
Please email paper proposals of 500 words, and a biography
of 200 words, by 30 April 2020 to
Professor Lindiwe Dovey at LD18@SOAS.AC.UK
Unexpected Interviews: Surprise and Creativity in Oral
History
What is to be done with oral history interviews that go
“wrong”? Would discarding an interview be the best solution for dealing with an
unusual narrative? For us, the answer is a resounding no – and this is the
guiding idea of the dossier of reflections to be gathered in the present
volume “Unexpected Interviews: Surprise and Creativity in Oral History”
[tentative title], to be published by the Brazilian publisher Letra e Voz. The
purpose of the book is to promote a collective reflection on oral history
practice based on interviews that, at first sight, “went wrong”: encounters
that produced unexpected results and data that, in principle, seem to be
useless. We aim to analyze how this sort of experience not only can drive one
to refocusing the particular research project, but also can reconfigure the
researcher’s very ethos, making him/her question initial certainties and
hypotheses.
Proposals due February 10, 2020.
Inquiries: Researchers are invited to submit to the
editors a brief summary of their proposals (no more than 500 words, in English)
and a biographical note, sent to both editors no later than February 10,
2020.Ricardo Santhiago: ricardo.santhiago@unifesp.br
and Miriam Hermeto miriamhermeto@gmail.com
But You Don't Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and other Super Heroes Battling Invisible Illness
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9u0B3PQKBDgByOJKS2JexOrqT1KdPcbaisN9ViUZWQ010vA/viewform
You are welcome to submit up to 5 pieces of creative work; which may include poetry, prose, creative non-fiction, short fiction, and/or original artwork. Each piece of writing submitted must be limited in length (under 1,000 words).
Submissions for this anthology will be open from January 1, 2020 through January 31, 2020.
Questions/Concerns? Email: indieblucollective@gmail.com
But You Don't Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and other Super Heroes Battling Invisible Illness
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9u0B3PQKBDgByOJKS2JexOrqT1KdPcbaisN9ViUZWQ010vA/viewform
You are welcome to submit up to 5 pieces of creative work; which may include poetry, prose, creative non-fiction, short fiction, and/or original artwork. Each piece of writing submitted must be limited in length (under 1,000 words).
Submissions for this anthology will be open from January 1, 2020 through January 31, 2020.
Questions/Concerns? Email: indieblucollective@gmail.com
Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature
Wordgathering is
an online quarterly journal of disability poetry, literature and art dedicated
to providing a venue where the work of writers with disabilities can be found
and to building up a core of work for those interested in disability
literature. While it gives preference to the work of writers with disability,
it seeks the well-crafted work of any writer that makes a contribution of the
field. Wordgathering is an open access journal that accepts rolling
submissions. Though deeply committed to poetry, Wordgathering also
accept literary essays, short fiction, drama, art and books for review. Our aim
is to give voice to the emerging genre of disability literature; therefore, we
seek work related to disability or by writers with disabilities.
To let us know your thoughts, please contact us at comments@wordgathering.com.
Creature Features & the Environment
Creature Features & the Environment, a special issue of
Science Fiction Film and Television (SFFTV), seeks essays that engage with
creature features as a specific subset of environmental science fiction.
Popularized in the mid-20th century as sf/horror, creature features are films
with creatures of various sorts attacking, whether awakened from dormancy by
radiation, discovered in distant locales, or accidentally created in labs.
While some creature features, like George McCowan’s Frogs (1972), may be
intentionally commenting on environmental issues, many are simply ripe for
environmental readings.
Please send proposals of approximately 250 words and a
brief bio to the special issue editors, Bridgitte Barclay (bbarclay@aurora.edu) and Christy Tidwell
(christy.tidwell@gmail.com),
by February 17, 2020
Ntozake Shange’s art, life, and legacy
The Langston Hughes Review is currently accepting
essays on any aspect of Ntozake Shange’s art, life, and legacy for a special
issue. Shange forged a complex feminism that embraced the contradictions of
black life and de/constructed trauma, while using all of this to promote
activism and happiness in her stories. As a poet, playwright, novelist, actor,
and dancer, she was one of the most influential black feminists of her
generation. What is Shange’s legacy for contemporary black women artists and
scholars?
Deadline: 15 January 2020. For more information, visit https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_LHR.html.
Open Access Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim
World
The Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World aims to
be a new reference for field archaeologists, (art) historians, anthropologists,
curators, and scholars and students of the archeology, (art) history,
architecture, anthropology and ethnography of the Muslim world. This readership
represents a new broader definition of material culture that includes not only
artefacts, architectural structures and monuments, but also crafts. The journal
aims to inform (other) disciplines and historiographies, for example by also
including archaeological field surveys.
Submissions should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Stéphane
Pradines, at Stephane.Pradines@aku.edu.
Successes and Setbacks of Social Media: Impact on Academic
Life
Posting comments, sharing content and going live -- these
are simple tasks that can lead to major implications for social media users,
especially college students. Successes and Setbacks of Social Media: Impact on
Academic Life explores how social sites influence the lives of students as they
forge a path to earn degrees and ascend the career ladder. This call for papers
invites a diverse group of graduate students and professionals (across all
fields) to write first-hand narratives reflecting on social media’s influence
on academic achievement, relationships, self-worth and the presentation of
themselves to their virtual networks while enrolled in higher education
programs.
For consideration, please email a 250-word abstract and
title to the editor at cheyenne.seymour@bcc.cuny.edu
no later than January 27, 2020.
Transnational families around the world
Recent research has broadened the concept of the
transnational family in tune with the global dynamics of transnationalization
of knowledge that has precipitated highly qualified migrations, the greater
visibility charged by refuge crossings and deportation, accentuating the
problem of family reunification. Demographically we find aged transnational
families and unfulfilled promises of return, which may include second or third
generations born in the destination. The analysis of the transnational
families, then, involves considering many dimensions that are related to the
vital, social, historical and cultural processes that make them possible, as
well as the relationships of similarities, differences and inequalities between
them and concerning the community of origin, activating the cultural dilemmas
of coexistence and social recognition.
This Handbook is based on the observation that migration is
inevitable in a world where the labour market requires young and cheap workers,
and, secondly, that immigration is governed, in its vast majority, by global
inequalities that are entangled.
We are receiving chapters submissions (an abstract of no
more than 500 words) until February, 10th 2020; email to Dr Javiera
Cienfuegos: javieracienfuegos@gmail.com.
Video Game Art Reader
This issue of the Video Game Art Reader (VGAR) proposes
overclocking as a metaphor for how games are produced and experienced today,
and the temporal compressions and expansions of the many historical lineages
that have shaped game art and culture. In the same way that a computer user
might overclock the processor of their machine to achieve results beyond its
intended use, how can video game art studies overclock its received historical
boundaries and intervene on current understandings of video game practices that
are accelerating past their limits?
Deadline for Submissions is March 20, 2020
email: mreed@vgagallery.org
Artistic, Digital, and Political Creation in
English-Speaking African Countries
This special issue aims at recovering the multiplicity of
creative African contexts, while bearing in mind the openness of these
contexts, especially in the age of the internet, even if the propension of
African people and ideas to circulate within the continent and abroad predated
the invention of cyberspace. Although this special issue aims at focusing on
the present, this heritage and its influence on today’s societies cannot be
ignored.
Please send an abstract, less than 300 words (with a
title) and a bio, not more than 100 words to marie-odile.hedon@univ-amu.fr, fanny.robles@univ-amu.fr and gilles.teulie@univ-amu.fr by 31 January 2020.
Pioneer African Women in Law Project (PAWLP)
Women across the continent of Africa have historically
played important leadership roles. Today, despite colonial re-gendering of our
societies, African women continue to rise. The Pioneer African Women in Law
Project (PAWLP) is a digital archive project designed to document in one
collection, the lives and contributions of African women pioneers in the
different fields of law across Africa. Entries are open to all interested
authors. Cross and interdisciplinary submissions are especially welcome. Entries
are accepted on a rolling basis till all “pioneers” are covered.
Email your entry as a word attachment to: info@africanwomeninlaw.com. In the
subject line use “PAWLP SUBMISSION”
Streaming Wars and TV's Next Juncture
Flow Volume 26 Special Issue
This special issue of Flow’s twenty-sixth volume, “Streaming
Wars and the Future of Television,” asks cultural and media scholars to
consider these and other questions related to the recent shift in streaming
media — all while remembering streaming technologies’ long and integral role in
post-network American television. From 2000, with the use of cameras to
live-stream the activities of the Big Brother house on AOL, to the mid 2000s,
when platforms began delivering content digitally to households, and the early
2010s, when Netflix, Amazon Video, and others began producing original content
— over the past 20 years, the short history of streaming has been made up of
numerous evolutions. The entrance of these new streaming platforms, then, might
be better understood not as a revolutionary break from one era to another but
rather as yet another (albeit monumental) progression.
To be considered for this timely issue, please submit a
completed short essay of 1,200-1,500 words, along with at least three images
(.png), video, and/or new media files (GIFs, etc.), and a short bio, to
co-managing editors Rusty Hatchell and Selena Dickey at flowjournaleditors@gmail.com by Monday,
February 10, 2020.
Postmodern age. Appearances of a contemporary phenomenon
in design, fashion, architecture, film, and art
Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine
Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard,
Jean-François Lyotard, and Jacques Derrida, as well as Susan Sontag, Judith
Butler, and many other authors, have analyzed our culture and society and its
phenomena in a new way. Therefore, they have introduced a concept of
postmodernism that shakes the foundations of our understanding of society and
ourselves. But almost nobody –except research– knows about its meaning. So this
special issue aims to present their basic ideas and discuss the phenomena, not
of verbal articulations, but of non-verbal images. In this way, we are asking
for contributions of extended essays on art, media, and culture regarding a
postmodern perspective.
Deadline: May 4, 2020
The extended essay should be submitted to editorial@artstyle.international
Contact Email: editorial@artstyle.international
FUNDING
CLIR Postdoctoral
Fellowships in African American and African Studies
These fellowships are for recent Ph.D.s with expertise in
any aspect of African American and/or African Studies; salaries, a portion of
fringe benefits, and these fellows’ participation in program activities are
fully funded through CLIR for selected hosts.
The deadline for prospective fellows is January 10, 2020
CLIR staff will lead several Twitter Q&A sessions for interested applicants in
fall 2019 and winter 2020.
Susan Bulkeley Butler Women's Archives at the Purdue
University Research Travel Grants
The Women's Archives
collects, preserves, and makes available for research original and rare
materials that capture the often overlooked and under-represented stories of
women and their communities in Purdue and Indiana's past. Our collections
include papers, photographs, audio-visual materials, digital media, rare books,
and select artifacts documenting women faculty, staff, and students at Purdue University;
organizations and programs at Purdue that support women; and significant women
and women's organizations in Indiana.
For descriptions of our collections, see Women's Archives https://archives.lib.purdue.edu/repositories/2/classifications/4?&page=3.
email: watso217@purdue.edu
The deadline for applications is January 17, 2020.
Digital Humanities Associate Fellowship
The Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies and the William Levine Family Institute for
Holocaust Education are pleased to invite applications for the Digital
Humanities Associate Fellowship Program, recognizing the increasing importance
and use of Digital Humanities (DH) in Holocaust research. This (relatively)
young academic specialty seeks to apply the wealth of new digital techniques
and technologies to the problems of humanities research and education. designed
for students currently enrolled in a master’s degree program or completing
their undergraduate education. The Museum welcomes applications from students
in the use of technology for research and teaching in all academic discipline.
Deadline: February 1st, 2020.
Teaching and Research Fellowships in “Performing
Religion”: Lived Religion in the Digital Age
We invite applications from instructional faculty at any
rank for these fellowships. Proposals that seek collaboration with community
partners, across disciplines of study, and/or across teaching contexts are
encouraged. Joint proposals also encouraged. No prior digital humanities
experience is required. Deadline January 15, 2020. Learn more: www.religioninplace.org. For
questions contact co-director Rachel Lindsey (rachel.lindsey@slu.edu).
Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Research Fellowships
We will award Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Research
Fellowships to support research projects that require substantial on-site use
of our special collections, including those held in the Special
Collections Research Center and the Stephen S. Clark Library.
Collections that are out of scope for this fellowship opportunity include the Joseph A. Labadie
Collection and the Papyrology
Collection. Applications for support for all types of research projects --
academic, creative, journalistic, etc. -- will be considered, and no specific
credentials are required.
Application Deadline: Friday 31 January 2020
Questions may be directed to Martha O’Hara Conway at moconway@umich.edu.
Research Fellowship – UI Bloomington
The Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University is
now accepting applications for its 2020 Summer Repository Research Fellowship
(SRRF). This program funds a two-week residential fellowship for a community
scholar or faculty member from outside Indiana University Bloomington to
conduct in-depth research in the collections of one or more of our partner
repositories.
***Note: Alfred Kinsey’s and the Kinsey Institute papers are
housed here: https://kinseyinstitute.org/collections/index.php
Applications are due by March 1st, 2020.
Questions about the fellowship should be addressed to the
IAS Associate Director Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe at ias@indiana.edu
Research grants at the Hargrett Library
The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library advances the
research, instructional, and service mission of the University of Georgia by
collecting, preserving, and sharing the published and unpublished works that
document the history and culture of Georgia. The Hargrett Library promotes the
state’s literary, cultural, social, and economic legacy; and it builds
collections of distinction in other areas, including natural history, ecology
and environmentalism, history of the book, performing arts, women’s history,
journalism and print media, and University history.
All applications are due by April 1, 2020, to be used for
research at the library from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021.
email: kshirley@uga.edu
Learn more about the Hargrett Library at www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett
CFP Cadbury fellowships 2020, University of Birmingham
This year’s Cadbury programme and conference is concerned
with processes of interpretation in African societies and African studies: how
do the authors of what we call ‘sources’ convey meaning in their written and
oral texts? We wish to discuss what makes the understanding of African
societies possible; what is at stake when different types of exegetes interpret
the past or the present of Africa. Understanding is shaped by one’s position in
the world and is a product of language, history and subjective perspective. As
Mamadou Diawara and Abderrahmane Ngaidé have shown, this implies a reflexion on
the position of interpreters, historians or anthropologists, ‘outsiders’ or
‘insiders’ in relation to the circumstances they study and their being in the
world as ‘searchers of Meaning.’
If you would like to be considered for the 2020 scheme,
please send your application by email to Dr Ceri Whatley on c.n.whatley@bham.ac.uk by 7 February
2020.
New England Regional Fellowship
New England Regional Fellowship
http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/nerfc/
THE NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL FELLOWSHIP CONSORTIUM, a collaboration of 30 major cultural agencies, will offer at least two dozen awards in 2020–2021. 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. NERFC grants support work in a broad array of fields, including but not limited to: history, literature, art history, African American studies, American studies, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, environmental studies, oceanography, and the histories of law, medicine, and technology.
Different fellowships have different deadlines and points of contact.
Apply online: https://masshistfellowships.slideroom.com/#/Login
THE NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL FELLOWSHIP CONSORTIUM, a collaboration of 30 major cultural agencies, will offer at least two dozen awards in 2020–2021. 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. NERFC grants support work in a broad array of fields, including but not limited to: history, literature, art history, African American studies, American studies, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, environmental studies, oceanography, and the histories of law, medicine, and technology.
Different fellowships have different deadlines and points of contact.
Apply online: https://masshistfellowships.slideroom.com/#/Login
William L. Clements Library 2020 Research Fellowships
Specializing in American history, with particular strengths
in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Clements Library holds a rich collection of
primary resources, including books, manuscripts, prints, maps, photographs, and
much more. Our holdings support diverse research topics including: military
history, gender and ethnicity, religion, the American Revolution, Native
American history, the history of slavery and abolition, Atlantic history, the
Caribbean, cartography, the Civil War, reform movements, travel and
exploration, among others.
Applications are due by January 15, 2020,
Contact Email: jptolemy@umich.edu
John Money Fellowship for Scholars of Sexology
The fellowship supports graduate students whose scholarly
work would benefit from the use of library and archival materials at the Kinsey
Institute. Fellows are also expected to contribute to the organization, preservation,
and/or accessibility of Kinsey Institute collections. The graduate fellow may
stay between four to eight weeks at the Kinsey Institute during the calendar
year of the award. Research for a thesis
or dissertation will be acceptable.
Application deadline is February 1, 2020.
email: zhoul@indiana.edu
American Philosophical Society Library and Museum fellowships
The APS Library invites scholars to apply for fellowships to
do research in the collections. Fellowships are offered for short-term and
long-term opportunities, for subject-specific research, and in digital
humanities.
Deadlines vary based on the fellowship but range from Jan 31
to March 6
questions: libfellows@amphilsoc.org or 215-440-3400.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Assistant
Professor in Reproductive Justice
The
School of Social Transformation, an interdisciplinary unit at Arizona State
University (http://sst.asu.edu),
invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position as Assistant Professor with a specialization in
Reproductive Justice. Specific areas of expertise may include but are not
limited to reproductive justice,
reproductive health, bodily autonomy,
rights/movements for reproductive freedom or critical approaches to reproductive technologies.
Initial
deadline for receipt of complete applications is January 25, 2020.
Questions
about this position should be directed to Kathy Nakagawa, Chair of the Search
Committee via email to nakagawa@asu.edu.
Assistant
Professor in Transnational Feminism(s)
The
School of Social Transformation (SST) at Arizona State University seeks
applications for a full-time tenure-eligible position at the rank of Assistant
Professor in transnational feminism(s). The specific area of specialization
within the field of transnational feminisms is open, but preference will be
given to candidates whose research and perspective is interdisciplinary and
engages intersectionality, in conversation with transnationalism, as a
framework for structural analysis. We understand “transnational” to refer to
flows and intersections across established boundaries and bodies of knowledge
and not (or not only) in a limited geographic sense.
Initial
deadline for receipt of complete applications is January 25, 2020.
Questions
about this position should be directed to Karen Kuo, Chair of the Search
Committee via email to karen.kuo@asu.edu
Laura C.
Harris Scholar-in-Residence 2020-21
Denison
University Women’s and Gender Studies Program invites applications for the
2020-21 Laura C. Harris Scholar-in-Residence. The residency will be awarded
this year to an outstanding scholar, artist, and/or activist in the field of
Women’s and Gender Studies engaged in advanced research and/or praxis in
Indigenous Feminisms and/or Latinx studies. Applicants may be affiliated with
an academic institution or they may be independent scholars, artists, or activists.
Applications
Submitted by January 27, 2020 will receive full consideration.
Paid
Summer 2020 Internship for Graduate Student - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Archives
Join
a vibrant community of students at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this summer!
The Museum Seminar (MuSe) Internship Program awards paid ten-week summer
internships to graduate students interested in a career in the arts and fields
related to the Met’s many departments. The Met has over forty department areas,
including Museum Archives, that host interns from a wide variety of academic
backgrounds with an interest in art and museums. In addition to developing
skills through special projects with Met staff, MuSe interns train to lead
their own public tours in the galleries and participate in a weekly seminar
series on museum practice.
DEADLINE:
January 22, 2020, at 11:59 p.m.
Contact
Email: collegeprograms@metmuseum.org
Postdoctoral
Associate at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
The
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis invites applications from scholars in
all disciplines for post-doctoral residential fellowships during the 2020-2021 academic
year. Using a cross-cultural, comparative, and multidisciplinary lens, the
seminar will explore what it means—and what it has meant—to be alive or dead.
The seminar will examine the beliefs and rituals, contests and technologies,
confusion and anxiety that have surrounded the beginning and end of life from
the ancient period to the present, with particular emphasis on comparative
approaches from around the globe. If the existing scholarly work on life and
death illustrates anything, it is that the opposition between living and dead
bodies was never absolute and that the desire to manipulate the beginning and
end of life, be it through rituals or medical technology, has been a constant
aspiration.
Applications
consisting of a CV, a 1,500-word research project description, and 3
confidential letters of recommendation are required. All applications must be
received by February 28, 2020.
email:
Johanna Schoen johanna.schoen@rutgers.edu and Kimberly Mutcherson
kim.mutcherson@rutgers.edu
Tel
Aviv University, One-year Postdoctoral Fellowship
The
Dan David Foundation in collaboration with the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical
Studies, Tel Aviv University, will award a one-year postdoctoral fellowship of
$30,000 for the 2020-2021 academic year. The Dan David Foundation will give
preference to candidates whose research focuses on the history of gender
studies.
Candidates
should submit their applications by February 16, 2020.
Candidates
should submit their applications via Email: schoolofhist@tauex.tau.ac.il
Thinking
Matters Fellowship
The
Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) at Stanford
University is now accepting applications for teaching fellowship positions in
Thinking Matters. We invite applications from candidates who are interested in
teaching in the framework of a liberal education requirement for first-year
students. In the application process, all candidates must identify the courses
that fit their teaching experience and training. We seek candidates in the
Humanities and/or in the Social Sciences, particularly from the fields of
philosophy and ethics. Eligible candidates will have earned a doctorate in a
relevant field, conferred no earlier than 2014 and no later than August 2020.
Applications
will close January 30, 2020.
Mitchell
Center Postdoctoral Fellowship on "Free Speech Battles"
University
of Pennsylvania, Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
Free
speech has re-emerged in recent years as a significant political rallying cry,
as political polarization and shifting cultural sensitivities have intensified
the struggles in many democratic countries over the boundaries of acceptable
speech. These struggles are far from new, but in the contemporary context
emerging media platforms have presented new challenges to the regulation and
protection of open expression. Global in its outlook, multifaceted in its
purposes, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy seeks to
contribute to the ongoing quest for democratic values, ideas, and institutions
throughout the world. In addition to hosting speakers from the fields of academia,
journalism, politics, and public policy, the Mitchell Center supports
undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research.
Apply
through Interfolio at apply.interfolio.com/72667
Deadline: February 16, 2020
Deadline: February 16, 2020
Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Postdoctoral
Fellowship
The
American Philosophical Society Library & Museum in Philadelphia seeks
applicants for a one-year, residential fellowship for post-doctoral scholars at
any stage of their careers, including tribal college faculty members and others
who work closely 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.
Applications
are open to scholars in all related fields and all periods of time, although
preference will be given to those who have experience working with Indigenous
communities.
For
information on the short-term fellowships visit https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/fellowships.
Deadline:
Jan 31, 2020 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
createCanvas
createCanvas
is Processing Foundation’s new education podcast, which focuses on teaching at
the intersection of art, science, and technology. The podcast is part of our
new Education Portal, a collection of free education materials that can be used
to teach our software in a variety of classroom settings. Rather than endorse a
specific curriculum, we’ve engaged with a variety of educators from our
community, ranging from K12 teachers, to folks who lead workshops at
hackerspaces, to university professors in interdisciplinary departments. We’ve
asked them to share their teaching materials, which anyone can use.
Check
out their interview with Sharon De La Cruz, a multi-disciplinary artist and
activist from New York City: https://medium.com/processing-foundation/createcanvas-interview-with-sharon-de-la-cruz-part-1-78a9448beffc
Conversations
Across the Field of Dance Studies
Open-access
journal!
Editors
of Conversations seek to bring you themes and debates current in the field of
dance studies and the profession, alongside news from the international
community of scholars in dance and related disciplines. Conversations welcomes
submissions in a range of formats, from debate to poetic reveries, images to reviews.
Online
Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States
We
have posted the third installment of the freely-accessible ONLINE BIOGRAPHICAL
DICTIONARY OF THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, which now
includes 2,140 short biographies of grassroots woman suffrage activists. The
OBD can be accessed at https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN.
To reach our goal of 3,500 biographical sketches we need additional volunteers
to research and write biographies or to supervise the work of students
preparing sketches. Please contact Thomas Dublin (tdublin@binghamton.edu)
for fuller information and guidelines for the work.
Open
Access Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World
The
Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World aims to be a new reference for
field archaeologists, (art) historians, anthropologists, curators, and scholars
and students of the archeology, (art) history, architecture, anthropology and
ethnography of the Muslim world. This readership represents a new broader
definition of material culture that includes not only artefacts, architectural
structures and monuments, but also crafts. The journal aims to inform (other)
disciplines and historiographies, for example by also including archaeological
field surveys.
International
Journal of Urban and Regional Research
The
world’s most pressing concerns are increasingly locating in cities and urban
regions – from terrorism and warfare, to climate-related disasters, to
financial crises, to the temporary and permanent settlement of asylum seekers
and displaced persons. Cities are the sites in which these challenges are
arising and unfolding, where solutions are being sought, and where ways of life
are being transformed in both subtle and dramatic ways. This new web series
brings IJURR’s distinctive critical urban perspective to shine a “spotlight on”
these issues of pressing global concern.
The
most recent spotlight: “Queering Urban Studies”
WORKSHOPS
Canadian
School of Peacebuilding
We
offer 5-day intensive courses that are available for professional development,
personal inspiration, or academic credit. CSOP is a learning community of
diverse peacebuilders who come together to learn, network, and engage in
peacebuilding. It is a great opportunity for peacebuilders from all faiths,
countries, and identity groups. Everyone is welcome!
June
8-12, 2020
Indigenous
Politics, Land, and Globalization with instructor Rauna Kuokkanen
Leading
in an Age of Polarization with instructor David Brubaker
Active
Bystander Training with instructor Joy Meeker
June
15-19, 2020
Does
Religion Cause Violence? with instructor William Cavanaugh
Dreaming
of Kanata and Canada: Indigenous Graphic Novels and Reconciliation with
instructor Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
Trauma,
Healing, and Reconciliation with instructor Kelly Bernardin-Dvorak
Contact
Email: csop@cmu.ca
Immigration
& Migration in the American South
Rice
University, June 18–19, 2020
The
Journal of Southern History came to Rice University 60 years ago, and to
celebrate the JSH and Rice are offering a Manuscript Workshop. We invite
scholars to participate in a workshop for article-length manuscripts (8,000 to
12,000 words, exclusive of notes) that address some aspect of migration or
immigration in the American South. Scholars might explore questions such as who
moves to the South and why. How did the arrival of one group displace others?
What were the economic, political, cultural, and social consequences of such
migration or immigration? This movement of peoples could be voluntary or
forced, and the journeys may have taken place within the bounds of the United
States or traversed oceans and borders.
Applicants
should submit materials to jshmanuscriptworkshop@rice.edu by March 1, 2020
Summer
Session at the School of Criticism and Theory
In
an intensive six-week course of study, faculty members and graduate students
from around the world, in the humanities and social sciences, explore recent
developments in critical theory. The 2020 Session is scheduled for June 14 –
July 23 at Cornell University. The above URL takes you to descriptions of the
following session topics: Magic; Formalist Methods, Political Consequences; Epistemology
of the Archive and the Practice of Archival History; Whiteness and the
Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment.
Deadline
for applications 1 Mar. 2020.
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