CONFERENCES
Rethinking
Voices: Local/Diaspora Identities, Silenced Voices and Minority History in
Africa.
November
19-21, 2020, Washington, D.C.
This
panel introduces a new category of minority history in postcolonial African
studies: the history of “silenced voices.” Such voices include those of
underrepresented minorities which have literally been silenced including women,
children, survivors, diaspora groups of minority ethnicity,
physically-challenged individuals like the deaf and blind and LGBTQ
individuals. These minorities’ voices leave traces behind them that are then
transformed into memories that are often fragile and neglected because they
have not been recorded or studied.
To
participate in this panel, send a 300-word abstract to Bright Alozie at bca0004@mix.wvu.edu
by April 25, 2020. This conference also offers two funding
opportunities. For more information about the conference, visit https://www.asmeascholars.org/
Narrating
Transitional Justice: History, Memory, Poetics and Politics
6-7
August 2020, McMaster University, Canada
This
workshop will examine truth-seeking and reconciliation as an exercise in
storytelling. We are interested in exploring certain questions: What kinds of
stories are told in truth commission hearings and other transitional justice processes?
Who tells these stories and how are they recounted? What kinds of rhetorical
strategies are deployed by the narrators - victims, perpetrators, or witnesses
- in telling their stories, and what are the effects of these modes of telling?
How are these stories reported by the media? What are the discourses embedded
in the varied narratives of the reconciliation actors? How do the public
performances or dramatizations of story-telling function to further or hinder
justice, healing and state-building?
Please
email proposals/ abstracts and a short CV by April 20, 2020 to Dr. Melike
Yilmaz - yilmam2@mcmaster.ca
Future
of the University
Tulsa,
Oklahoma, April 16-18, 2020
Many
institutions of higher learning are currently considering plans for a
significant restructure of academic programs which raises key questions
regarding the essential purpose of the American University. Questions to be
addressed include but are not limited to the appropriate role of the faculty in
university governance and the determination of the curriculum; the return on investment in education for
students; the roles of education consultants and accrediting agencies in
advising the future University; the role of the liberal arts in the curriculum
of the future; the interpretation and implementation of regulatory policies,
such as assessment, accommodation, harassment, and tenure; and the
responsibilities of the University as an institution to Society.
Please
submit an abstract of not more than 300 words to holly-laird@outlook.com by
17 February 2020.
Contact
Email: holly-laird@outlook.com
Engaging
Indigenous Communities: Respect, Reciprocity and Reconciliation
The
conference theme will explore various aspects of RESPECT, RECIPROCITY and
RECONCILIATION through time and their implications for the future. Since the
Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report in 2015, many
people have asked themselves what reconciliation is, what forms it can or
should take, how will it occur, who will drive it, and – importantly – how this
will impact Canada and the globe. Two key elements to achieving reconciliation
are RESPECT – of differences, diverse knowledges, communities, and rights – and
RECIPROCITY – an equitable give and take based on respect, relationships, and
sharing. We hope that delegates to and
participants in this conference will address one or all three of the conference
themes in terms of the Canadian, North, Central, and South American, or Global
experiences. We encourage Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to submit
proposals.
Email
proposals to the Organizing Committee at engaging2020@mta.ca by 15 March 2020
Historically
Situated: History, Memory, and Place
October
16-18, 2020
The
Fort Ticonderoga Museum seeks proposals for new research, perspectives, and criticism
on the broad history and practice of historic preservation. From an historic or
contemporary point of view, what are the practical and philosophical challenges
with preservation and restoration? How has the preservation and restoration of
historic sites and buildings shaped history, and how will ongoing preservation
efforts shape our future understanding of our past? How do monuments, writing,
and memory preserve buildings, sites, and individuals that do not survive? What
is the interplay between historic landscapes and the built environment? How do
we manage our past with our present? How have historic landscapes, structures,
and monuments been represented themselves in art, culture, and criticism?
Please
submit a 300-word abstract and CV by email by April 1, 2020, to Richard M.
Strum: rstrum@fort-ticonderoga.org.
URL:
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Preservation-CFP-MK-FINAL-01-30-20.pdf
Radical
Ecologies
New
York, Friday, April 10th - Saturday, April 11th, 2020
The
9th annual Radical Democracy conference, sponsored by the Department of
Politics at The New School for Social Research, will convene theorists and
practitioners around the theme of Radical Ecologies. In the year that “climate
strike” was named word of the year by Collins Dictionary, we seek to explore
what opportunities for democratic resistance can be found in a multiplicity of
ecologies. The conference will provide a platform for dialogue on the urgent
question of our future in a post-climate change world.
Please
submit your paper or panel abstracts by the newly extended deadline February
15, 2020, to radicaldemocracy@newschool.edu.
NWSA
panels
Transnational
Latina feminisms/Queer Feminisms/Feminist Artivism
The
panel invites paper proposals which will engage with transnational Latina/Latin
American feminisms, transnational queer feminisms, or transnational feminist
artivism. Please send a 50-100 word abstract with a title and short bio to:
Hinda Seif, hseif2@uis.edu
ASAP but no later than 2/20.
NWSA
conference & proposal submission process: https://nwsa.org/page/cfp.
Indeterminate
Futures / The Future of Indeterminacy
13
– 15 November 2020, University of Dundee, Scotland
Indeterminacy
– often associated with but not identical to unknowability and liminality –
doesn’t merely defy the ‘order-disorder’, ‘certainty-uncertainty’ binary
creating a ‘both-and’ and ‘neither-nor’ space in which a cat can be both dead
and alive, as in Schrödinger’s experiment. Indeterminacy is a self-perpetuating
dynamic of change with no spatial or temporal constancy – a vibrant
multiplicity of parallel potentialities and realities. Initially derived from
Bohr’s quantum indeterminacy, Gödel's undecidability, and Stengers and
Prirogine's non-linear dynamics, indeterminacy upsets stable structures and
ossified power regimes which is why it was embraced as a liberating epistemic
force by many 20th century artists and theorists. The aim of this
transdisciplinary conference is to evaluate the current and future epistemic
and ontological potential of spatio-temporal, cultural-mnemonic and
socio-political forms of indeterminacy.
Panel
proposal deadline: 20 April 2020; Individual presentation deadline: 1 May 2020
Contact
Email: n.lushetich@dundee.ac.uk
Crossing
Borders Conference
March
6 and 7, 2020, St. Catharines, Ontario
We
encourage graduate students and senior undergraduates to submit an abstract for
this conference. Abstracts should be 250 words or less.
Deadline:
February 14
Innovative
Perspectives in History Conference
Virginia
Tech, Blacskburg, VA, 20-21 March 2020
Our
conference is an opportunity for graduates and advanced undergraduates to share
research projects in a supportive, professional environment and a chance to
network with future colleagues. Our conference values interdisciplinary
approaches to the past, and we invite proposals from historians and students in
related disciplines whose work represents “innovative perspectives in history.”
Presentations on any aspect of history, time period, or world region are
welcome.
Paper
and panel proposals are due by February 15, 2020. Please send them to our
Panels Committee at vthgsa@gmail.com.
In
the Wake of Red Power Movements. New Perspectives on Indigenous Intellectual
and Narrative Traditions
University
of Warwick, May 15/16, 2020
This
symposium explores North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative
traditions that were recovered, reclaimed, or (re-)invented in the wake of Red
Power movements that emerged in the 1960s in the settler colonial societies of
Canada and the USA. It asks: which new perspectives and visions have been
developed over the last 50 years within Indigenous studies and related fields
when looking at Indigenous land and land rights, Indigenous political and
social sovereignty, extractivism and environmental destruction, oppressive
sex/gender systems, and for describing the repercussions of settler colonialism
in North America, especially in narrative representations?
Please
send your proposals (max. 300 words) plus a short bio (max. 150 words) to in_the_wake@outlook.com
by March 15, 2020.
Disrupting
the Past, Questioning the Present, and Imagining the Future
October
23-25, 2020, Seneca Falls, NY
Continuing
in the footsteps of the seminal 1848 women’s rights convention, the Seneca
FallsDialogues is a grassroots coming together of activists, artists, students,
and academics, with the intention of fostering collaborative learning and
feminist action. The 2020 Dialogues seeks to provoke discussion, inspire
action, and foster community in this watershed moment. We look forward to
discussions of elections, democracy, decolonization of pedagogies, digital
disruption, local and global activism, bodies, identities, art, performance,
and more.
Proposals
are due by April 30th, 2020.
Submit
proposals here: https://senecafallsdialogues.com/call-for-dialogues-page/call-for-dialogues/
MLA
2021 Toronto, 7-10 Jan. 2021
The
Art of Persistence: Migration and Ecocriticism in Literature and Visual Arts
This
panel invites submissions that explore how climate refugees, asylum seekers,
and economic migrants affect and are affected by the environment, and the ways
in which these dynamics are reflected in literature and visual arts.
Deadline
for submissions: Sunday, 15 March 2020
Please
submit an abstract of 250 words directly to Nicole Bonino (Chair of the Panel) nb3hf@virginia.edu.
Prison
Voices: Literature from Inside the Walls
This
panel will examine modern literary production emerging from US prisons since
the post-Attica prison-building boom and the growth of mass
incarceration. It will center incarcerated voices, their ideologies, and
pedagogical possibilities for college and university teachers. There is
special interest in discussion of censorship and conditions of production.
Scope includes single or multiple authors, ex-prisoners and currently
incarcerated, and all genres – poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose,
autobiography, drama, erotica, and more. Send 250-300 word abstracts and
a short bio to Joe.Lockard@asu.edu
before February 25,
2020.
Conference
on the Advancement of Women
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. 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.
Travel
funding is available: email Elizabeth.sharp@ttu.edu
Proposals
due February 21
Politics,
Society, and the Economy: the Past and Today
Washington,
DC on November 19-22, 2020
Social
Science History Association annual conference
The
2020 Program Committee seeks individual papers and panel proposals on all
aspects of
social
science history. We are especially interested in research that makes
imaginative use of
historical
data and tools from the social sciences to analyze how politics, society, and
the
economy
interact over time. Student Travel
Grants are available.
Submission
Deadline at http://ssha2020.ssha.org/
by February 16, 2020
Citizen
Acts
The
14th Amendment stipulates that “all persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they reside.” Yet the conferrence of the rights
of U.S. citizenship to Indigenous peoples, descendants of enslaved Africans,
nonwhite immigrants, and refugees has been repeatedly contested and warped by
and in federal and state law. We seek 15-minute papers that investigate
constructions of the citizen in southern literature and culture along ethnic,
sexual, racial, and regional lines.
Please
send a 250-word abstract to Joanna Davis-McElligatt at joanna.davis-mcelligatt@unt.edu by
March 15th 2020.
Fashion
at the Periphery
October
8-10, 2020, Chicago, IL
For
its inaugural conference, The Chicago Fashion Lyceum (CFL) seeks presentations
that might explore the peripheries of both fashion and the field of fashion
studies from a variety of disciplines, points of view, theories, and
methodologies. We welcome proposals from those who have a learned knowledge of
fashion studies as well as from practitioners who have a lived knowledge of
fashion’s systems and processes. Questions to be explored include: Which
topics, methods, approaches and theories have been relegated to the peripheries
of fashion studies? How do communities build their own styles on the frontiers
of fashion? Are there borders and bridges yet to be crossed? What is barely
visible at the horizons of fashion? What does it mean to de-center fashion? And
what have we overlooked?
Please
send abstracts to chicagofashionlyceum@gmail.com by March
1, 2020.
The
History and Future of the Moral Economy
University
of Manchester, 3-4 June 2019
This
conference will explore, analyse, and debate the ways in which morality and
ideas of social and economic progress have been entwined in the past and
resonate today. Morality and its relationship to economic behaviour has long
fascinated historians and social scientists, as evidenced in works of classical
political economy through to the study of social movements and political
activism. The history of capitalism, development, and environmental change
possesses an ethical dimension that is evident from the medieval period through
to the present by way of the planned economy, the emergence of neoliberalism,
and in current debates about a Green New Deal.
Call
for Papers Due: 6 March 2020 to moraleconomy2020@gmail.com
Contact
Email: patrick.doyle-2@manchester.ac.uk
After
Hope: Future Forms and Alternative Methods
Asian
Art Museum, San Francisco, Symposium: September 25-27, 2020
After
Hope seeks to engage critical explorations of hope as an aesthetic and embodied
experience. The prompt to think “after” hope is intended as a way to consider
hope’s complex relationship to the future and the past. Through presentations
and workshops focused on cultural, material, and technological expressions of hope,
this interdisciplinary symposium aims to explore hope as a dynamic index of
change. To do so, it asks what it means to go after hope and what comes after
hope.
Please
submit 250-word abstracts to Padma D. Maitland at pmaitlan@calpoly.edu
by March 15, 2020.
“Blood
on the Leaves / And Blood at the Roots”: Reconsidering Forms of Enslavement and
Subjection across Disciplines
18-20
June, 2020
This
event aims to open a multicultural space beyond institutional and geographical
boundaries to foster discussions and to listen to a variety of voices,
addressing the problems of enslavement and subjection. In this space, this
conference seeks to explore the various figurations and conceptions of
enslavement and subjection across disciplines—from philosophy to literature, from
the arts to the social sciences, to mention only a few— and beyond territories.
Enslavement and subjugation are not only concerns of our past but urgent
problems of our present and future. The title of the conference directly refers
to Billie Holiday’s 1939 performance of Strange Fruit so as to emphasise both
the human and environmental impact of forms of enslavement and subjection which
have—literally and metaphorically—left “Blood on the leaves / And blood at the
Roots.”
Deadline:
20th April 2020
email:
bloodontheleaves@gmail.com
International
Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference
University
of Central Oklahoma, October 2-3, 2020.
For
2020, our conference theme is “Inclusive, Intersectional, Interdisciplinary.”
As we celebrate the centennial of US women’s suffrage and look forward into the
21st century, we want to focus on our overlaps as a community. How do diverse
people inhabit the juncture of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies? How can
academics and activists work together to advance deep thinking and real-world
change? How do our different backgrounds – in terms of lived experiences,
scholarly fields, and political goals – help to cross-pollinate our
understanding of WGSS? What productive tensions exist between these fields and
experiences? How can we resolve conflict inclusively and work toward shared
solutions? This year’s conference will gather together voices from across the
complex ecosystem of gender and sexuality studies, creating a crossroads for
conversation.
proposal
deadline: May 1
For
more questions, please reach out to Dr. Lindsey Churchill at lchurchill@uco.edu.
The
History and Future of the Moral Economy
University
of Manchester, 3-4 June 2020
This
conference will explore, analyse, and debate the ways in which morality and
ideas of social and economic progress have been entwined in the past and
resonate today. Morality and its relationship to economic behaviour has long
fascinated historians and social scientists, as evidenced in works of classical
political economy through to the study of social movements and political
activism. The history of capitalism, development, and environmental change
possesses an ethical dimension that is evident from the medieval period through
to the present by way of the planned economy, the emergence of neoliberalism,
and in current debates about a Green New Deal. But how has morality been
central to the way in which people have understood their relationship to wider
social change in the past and does this still matter today?
Call
for Papers Due: 6 March 2020
Contact
Email: moraleconomy2020@gmail.com; patrick.doyle-2@manchester.ac.uk
The
Impact of Impact: Partnership Working and the Humanities
University
of Huddersfield, 18 June 2020
This
free one-day event offers an opportunity to share examples of good practice and
highlight the innovative contributions that the humanities make to wider
society. It is also a chance to critically explore the current and ongoing
problems faced by those working in partnership. The organisers invite proposals
for 20 minute papers due Monday 2nd March, 2020.
Contact
Email: r.f.light@hud.ac.uk
Bodies
on the Edge of Citizenship
University
of Portsmouth, 6-7 July 2020
Citizenship,
as a set of rights to democratic participation and to “nationality”, has been
declared since 1948 to be universal, yet it is a commonplace to observe that,
historically and in the contemporary world, citizenship is enacted in practice
through divisions and exclusions. Through 2019-20, the “Exploring the Edge of
Citizenship” project at Portsmouth is holding workshops exploring a variety of
issues surrounding these topics. Culminating the first phase of this project,
we are holding a conference to explore current thinking across the humanities
and social sciences on the range of issues raised when the rhetorics and
practices of citizenship collide with the realities of embodiment. We invite
paper proposals from scholars in any fields, contemporary or historical.
Please
submit proposals of no more than 300 words for 20-minute papers, along with a
brief CV, to <edgeofcitizenship@port.ac.uk> no later than 28
February 2020.
African
Feminisms Conference - In Search of our Shrines: Feminist Healing & the
Politics of Love
University
of Cape Town, 27th - 29th August 2020
The
conference addresses alternative modes of knowledge production, ongoing
implications of the divide between feminist theory and praxis, as well as
intellectual and creative feminist strategies. What possibilities are offered
by the multimodal, polyphonic, intersectional and deeply political work of
feminist healing in societies that care little for women, queer and non-binary
bodies and lives? In a time of ecological collapse, neoliberal modes of
governance that extend across institutions, the intensification and resurgence
of racist and sexist public cultures, what are the possibilities for building
worlds that are life-giving? How can practices of feminist healing ‘teach best
what we most yearn for’ to bring about ‘revolutions of love and courage’ (Pregs
Govender, 2007).
Please
email a 200 - 250 word abstract or proposal to afems2020@gmail.com
by the 31st of March 2020
Digitorium
We’re
very excited to invite proposals for Digitorium 2020, a multi-disciplinary
Digital Humanities conference held at the University of Alabama from October
1-3, 2020. We seek proposals from a range of people including those who are
brand new in the field of digital humanities, experienced scholars,
practitioners, students, and anybody in-between to create an inclusive
environment where everybody can learn something from each other. Proposals
should demonstrate how we as digital humanists can engage with communities and
our scholarship in new and innovative ways using digital methods.
Deadline
for submitting abstracts is March 15, 2020.
Feel
free to contact the ADHC at adhc@lib.ua.edu if you have any
questions.
website:
https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/digitorium/
Trump,
Television and the Media: From Drama to "Fake News" to Tweetstorms
12
June 2020, London Metropolitan University
This
one-day conference seeks to explore both the influence of the media on the
Trump presidency, and the impact of the Trump era on a variety of media forms.
The aim is to bring together scholars from a variety of fields for
interdisciplinary discussion of this extraordinary era in American politics and
culture. Contributors may choose to address the conference theme by, for
example, considering American TV’s fictional depictions of the era, exploring
the relationship between Trump and the news media, or examining the political
impact of this media presidency, amongst other topics. It is envisaged that the
breadth of papers will go beyond the specific realm of the presidency to
encompass the political and cultural backdrop of racial and gender divisions
and of protest movements such as #MeToo, Time’s Up and Black Lives Matter. The
ultimate aim of the conference is to reflect upon on how the confluence of
Trump and the media has affected America’s cultural landscape and the nation’s
politics.
The
deadline for submission of proposals is: Friday 20 March 2020.
Southeast
Indian Studies Conference
March
19-20, 2020, Museum of the Southeast American Indian
The
purpose of the Southeast Indian Studies Conference is to provide a forum for
discussion of the culture, history, art, health and contemporary issues of
Native Americans in the Southeast. The conference serves as a critical venue
for scholars, students and all persons interested in American Indian Studies in
the region. Keynote event: "The Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movement in
2020” by Devon Mihesuah
PUBLICATIONS
Innovations
in Social Finance: Transitioning Beyond Economic Value
Innovations
in Social Finance - Transitioning Beyond Economic Value is an edited collection
that will summarize, discuss, and analyze new innovative trends in social
finance. The collection will feature contributions that aim to 1) highlight
emerging trends (products, tools, and processes) in social finance, 2) present
case studies related to the development, deployment, or scaling of social
finance innovations, 3) offer an understanding of how non-economic
externalities are being incorporated, managed, and assessed in recent
innovations, 4) reveal the disruptive potential of social finance innovations
by analyzing how they are redefining mainstream finance, 5) analyze the scales
– of operation and impact – of different innovations, and 6) explore the complex
relationship between social finance and social innovation.
Abstract
and CV submission deadline – March 31st, 2020
Submissions
should be sent via email to sse.innovation@concordia.ca
Social
Semiotics special edition: Political ideology in everyday social media use
Special
issue to be published in Social Semiotics
Scholars
have previously shown the need to look for the political and ideological in
popular culture (Adorno 1991, Williams 1963). In Critical Discourse Studies,
some recent special issues make the same case (Machin & Van Leeuwen 2016;
Way 2019) based on the idea that it is in popular culture and the everyday
where we most experience politics “as fun, as style, and simply as part of the
taken for granted everyday world…. [though these] are infused by and shaped by,
power relations and ideologies” (Machin 2013: 347). Our special issue differs
from this previous work, looking specifically at social media. We consider how
ideologies like neoliberalism, sexism, racism and populism (to name a few) are
embedded in our everyday engagement with social media.
Please send abstracts to Dr Lyndon Way at Lyndon.way@liverpool.ac.uk
and Professor Gwen Bouvier at gwen.bouvier@gmail.com by 1 March 2020.
Queer Kinship: Erotic Affinities and the Politics of Belonging
We seek essays that speak to the intersections of Latinx/Latin American kinship and queer kinship theory for “Queer Kinship: Erotic Affinities and the Politics of Belonging,” a collection we are editing that is currently under contract with Duke University Press. We are especially interested in work from anthropologists and qualitative/humanistic social scientists. Essays should center kinship, broadly construed, and might consider issues such as migration, family separation, borders, diaspora, cultural practices, movements past or present, language, and other topics relevant to queer Latinx studies.
Please send 250-500 word abstract, full essay of 6,000-7,000 words, CV, and contact information to Elizabeth Freeman (esfreeman@ucdavis.edu) and Tyler Bradway (tyler.bradway@gmail.com) by March 1st, 2020.
Towards
Critical Academic Studies: Tracing the Effects of Conflict, Crisis, and Communication
in Higher Education
We
call for proposals of book chapters that offer in-depth analyses of the effects
of conflict and crisis within higher education. Submissions from authors across
the disciplines are very welcome. The collection will incorporate a
transnational perspective, and submissions from authors outside of the USA are
strongly encouraged.
We
recognize a potential to enrich our understanding of academic conflicts and
crises by focusing on their effects on individuals and within groups,
communities, and societies. Specifically, careful tracing of effects can enrich
our understanding of how multiple stakeholders experience and engage creatively
with conflict and crisis in academe.
Abstracts
are due by May 31, 2020
Proposals
should be sent to both Adrienne Lamberti at lamberti@uni.edu and Anne R. Richards at Anne_Richards@kennesaw.edu.
Journal
of Modern Slavery / SlaveFree Today
SlaveFree
Today and the Journal of Modern Slavery are launching a blog. The blog will
feature evocative, fresh and thought-provoking perspectives about emerging and
interesting actions being taken around the world to eliminate modern slavery.
We are seeking new and young voices to join the conversation. We are accepting
submissions on a rolling basis.
Email
your submission to blog@slavefreetoday.org; queries: editor@journalofmodernslavery.org
Rethinking
the Humanities and Development in Africa
Abraka
Studies in African Arts is a book series of the Faculty of Arts, Delta State
University, Abraka. This series provides a platform for the publication of
research in the humanities and related disciplines. Every book in the series
has a specific theme or focus. The first volume was published in 2006 with the
theme “African Arts and National Development” and the second volume was
published in 2011 with the theme “The Humanities and Capital Development”. In
this volume, the editor welcomes well-researched contributions on the theme
“Rethinking the Humanities and Development in Africa”. Contributions that are
not based on the theme of this volume are also welcome. The book is scheduled
for release in the first week of May, 2020.
Manuscripts
should be sent as an MS Word file to abrakastudiesbook@gmail.com
on or before February 29th 2020.
Beyond
Equity Into Justice: Bringing Theory Into Practice at Community Colleges
This
edited volume addresses how our changing attitudes towards serving all student
populations has shifted the pedagogical and relational approaches used by
faculty, staff, and administrators at community colleges. Attitudes about
equality, equity, and justice are more intentional and integral to the
evolution of the work we do as educators. The editors of this volume propose
that the work of community colleges has expanded to include going beyond equity
into providing a true barrier-free learning environment for students, one that
is attuned to justice.
If
interested, please email a brief biography and 500-word abstract to Sobia Khan
and Kendra Unruh at beyondequityjustice@gmail.com by March 31, 2020.
Imagining
Communities, Multilingually
In
this special issue, titled “Imagining Communities, Multilingually,” which we
intend to offer to the journal parallax, the various contributors pursue both a
critique and an elaboration of Anderson’s work from the perspective of
literary, artistic and societal multilingualism. Each essay takes one or more
literary works, art works or other cultural products as a starting point for a
reflection on the relationship between language, place and group formation in
the early twenty-first century all over the world. It centrally asks how
European legacies of enforced monolingualism and language standardization are
worked through not only in Europe itself, but especially also in other places.
The contributions are firmly rooted in literary, cultural and media studies,
yet do not shy away from making connections with other humanities and social
science disciplines.
Abstracts
are due 31 May 2020
Contact
Email: j.d.van.amelsvoort@rug.nl
To
Be Or Not To Be? Reproduction in the Age of Extinction: An Anthology
How
does the climate crisis and the 6th mass extinction impact upon questions of
reproductive rights, our experiences of pregnancy and miscarriage, fertility
and infertility, childbirth and birth-striking, parenthood and the decision not
to become a parent? The aim of the project is to create an anthology bringing
together different voices and narratives about the experience of pregnancy,
childbirth, childrearing and birth-striking in the climate crisis. We are
currently seeking submissions from any and all perspectives: from parents and
those who are childfree; from birth-strikers and those currently trying to get
pregnant; from those exploring this question from an academic or fictional
perspective and those whose perspective is more personal.
Deadline:
31st March 2020
Please
send all enquiries, expressions of interest and submissions to tobeanthology@gmail.com or
follow the link on our website https://to-be-or-not-to-be-anthology.com/
Do-It-Together
(DIT): Hacking the Anthropocene
The
Anthropocene is a name coined for the emerging geological era in which humans
are viewed as the dominant planetary force. Intended to evoke ecological
concern, it draws on settler colonial discourse, problematically homogenizes
all humans as planet destroyers and implies that we are locked into these
petrifying ways of being. As a colonial figure and inheritance, the
Anthropocene is articulated as a teleological story-arc that jettisons “us all”
towards apocalypse but fails to interrogate which humans drive and benefit from
ecological degradation. It fails to consider that social systems, rather than
human nature, are the cause of such degradation. It figures and normalizes the
privileged white cis-male as the epitome of human-ness. The issue of Feral
Feminisms is a rallying cry for you (plural) to help us continue asking:
how might we Hack the Anthropocene together?
Deadline:
31 May 2020
Transnationalizing
Homonationalism
The
issue of Feral Feminisms will explore transnational approaches to
theorizing, visualizing, and producing knowledge about homonationalism.
Submitted contributions may include full-length theoretical essays (5000 – 7000
words), shorter creative pieces, cultural commentaries, personal narratives or
auto-ethnographies (500 – 2500 words), poetry, photo-essays, short films/video
(uploaded to Vimeo), visual (jpeg) and sound art, or a combination of forms.
Please send inquiries and submissions to the guest editor, Amy Verhaeghe, at amy.verhaeghe@gmail.com.
Deadline:
15 April 2020
Fashion
and Motherhood
Special
Issue of FSJ: The Fashion Studies Journal
Becoming
a mother*, whether through biological, adoptive, or other means, is not a rare
experience. Wearing clothes, mother or not, is universal. But the nature and
reality of dressing as a mother enjoys no particular consensus among those who
do it; except, that is, that it's different than it was before kids, and
possibly different than it was for moms in previous generations. What factors
shape mothers' experiences of dressing? Media (social and otherwise)? Religion,
consumerism, sexuality, privilege, group belonging, the sometimes shocking
realities of a new body, the word "MILF"? Please tell us about the
confounding expectations! The shame! The fear! The mommy boot camp! The tabloid
covers! The hopital-issued mesh underwear!
If
you would like to discuss an idea before writing a draft, please send an email
by March 15th, 2020 to give us time to develop the idea with you.
Contact
Email: laura@fashionstudiesjournal.org
Social
Media @
Social
media has lastingly altered the way in which we use and perceive the internet.
The enduring popularity of platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or
Twitter glaringly illustrates how “the entire set of ways people make
themselves visible to the world, and make the world visible to them, has
undergone a substantial reorientation with respect to new devices that capture
and share” (Jurgenson 2019: 2). The visual dimension of digital communication,
especially, has fostered a hope for the creation of a globally intelligible
code of affect, able to surpass linguistic borders. In this light, the issue
“social media / Soziale Medien / reseaux sociaux” of the comparative journal
variationsseeks to put into focus the photographic, filmic and especially
textual narrative forms of the Web 2.0.
Abstracts
for proposed contributions (300-400 words) on the topic of this year’s issue
may be sent to the editors until 16 February 2020: variations@rom.uzh.ch.
Postcolonial
Interventions
Postcolonial
Interventions invites papers that would focus on the literary and cultural
representations of the postcolonial precariat, and the vortex of concerns
surrounding the emerging and evolving forms of precarity. Globalisation has generated
new forms of insecure communities across the world, cutting across usual
divisions of first and third world, but buttressed nevertheless by various
forms of divisions fostered by considerations of gender, race, ethnicity, age,
educational qualifications and so on. The ‘precariat’ is a term that seeks to
identify this insecure, vulnerable and fragmented population while being
mindful of its inherent fluidity and heterogeneity.
Please
send your submissions to postcolonialinterventions@gmail.com within 29
February 2020
Pacific
Northwest Matricultures
On
the Pacific Coast of North America, ranging from Chinookan peoples of Oregan to
the Yakutat Tlingit and Eyak communities in Alaska, British Columbia, and the
Yukon Territory, many Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest share common
features of matriculture, particularly matrilineal kinship systems with clan
identity transmitted through one’s mother. Mostly based around the ocean (the
only exception being the Inland Tlingit), these cultures also share ancestral
heritage that spans millennia. This issue of Matrix will feature two
aspects of matriculture among Pacific Northwest communities, the first being
historical accounts of pre-colonial protocols for life-cycle passages and the
second being the revitalization of these protocols and their meaning to the
youth of today.
Submission
to: info@networkonculture.ca by
31 May 2020
Whiteness
in Latin America and the Caribbean
Special
Journal Issue
In
this Call for Papers, we encourage abstract submissions from humanists and
social scientists whose work carefully examines whiteness in the region, while
highlighting critical theoretical debates and empirical approaches. We are particularly interested in historical,
sociological, political, literary, or ethnographic scholarship that focus on
Central American countries, the Andean region, the Southern Cone, and the
Caribbean.
Interested
scholars should submit materials to Dr. Hugo Cerón-Anaya (hrc209@lehigh.edu),
Dr. Patricia de Santana Pinho (ppinho@ucsc.edu), and Dr. Ana Ramos-Zayas (Ana.Ramos-Zayas@yale.edu)
by March 2, 2020.
The
New Black Public Sphere
Defined
by the Black Public Sphere Collective, 1“… the black public sphere is one
critical space where new democratic forms and emergent diasporic movements can
enrich and question one another” (The Black Public Sphere: A Public Culture
Book, p.1). In this era, locations for the Black Public Sphere have grown to
include storefront venues, community centers, Black owned businesses, communal
urban farms, informal galleries, music sharing, digital collaboration, and on
the internet in the form of blogs, chat rooms, websites, and other forms of
social media. During this time of governmental chaos, injustice, and aggressive
racial profiling, the identification and restoration of an active Black Public
Sphere can serve as tool for organization, participation, and wellbeing in the
Black community.
Please
submit an initial abstract (no longer than two paragraphs) which includes: a
narrative in which you identify the connection between your theme and the Black
Public Sphere theory; the question(s) you will be pursuing; how you will
approach this research; and any conclusions to Dr. Eric R. Jackson (jacksoner@nku.edu);
Dr. Stephanie Anne Johnson (stephanieannejohnsonphd@gmail.com
FUNDING
Traveling
Research Seminar on Afro-Latin American Art
We
seek to constitute a transnational research network of scholars interested in
Afro-Latin American Art through a traveling research seminar, generously funded
by the Getty Foundation through its Connecting Art Histories initiative, that
will visit Argentina and Uruguay (2020), Brazil (2021) and, depending on future
funding, Colombia (2022). Participants will discuss relevant texts, share
research results, and visit sites of interest. The seminar is open to advanced
doctoral students (who have completed their comprehensive exams), junior (2014
or later PhD), and mid-career scholars, as well as junior curators and artists
interested in the field. We will select participants working on a variety of
countries, styles, and time periods. Through this program, we hope to
consolidate Afro-Latin American Art as a discernible field of study and to
generate much needed attention and interest from scholars, art history
departments, curators, art critics, collectors, and museums.
You
must submit your COMPLETE application by March 1, 2020.
Contact
Email: alari@fas.harvard.edu
Short-Term
Research Fellowship: Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South
To
support the study of southern history and promote the use of the manuscript
collections housed at the University of Alabama, the Frances S. Summersell
Center for the Study of the South and the University of Alabama Libraries will
offer a total of eight research fellowships in the amount of $500. Both
academic and non-academic researchers at any stage of their careers are
encouraged to apply. Eligible researchers will have projects that entail work
to be conducted in southern history or southern studies at the W.S.
Hoole Special Collections Library, the A.S.
Williams III Americana Collection, or any other University of
Alabama collections. General information about the Summersell Center is
available at summersell.ua.edu.
The
deadline for applications is April 1, 2020
CrossCurrents
Research Colloquium - Fellowships Available
Fellowships
are available for a project proposal on the theme "Oppressions and
Repair" at the annual CrossCurrents Research Colloquium to be held July 6
- July 24 in New York. The Colloquium is residential and provides fellows with
room and board (vegetarian/kosher food available) as well as round trip travel
to and from New York. Also provided is access to libraries and research
facilities at Columbia University, Teachers College, Union, Auburn and Jewish
Theological Seminaries. For full description and application form please visit https://aril.org/colloquium.html.
Application
deadline, Feb 28, 2020
Contact
Email: chashenderson@mindspring.com
Fellowships
at the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center
The
University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center (AHC) has established new
fellowships for the study of western political history, the American West, and
women in the public sector. These fellowships are in addition to already
existing AHC offerings: The Bernard L. Majewski Research Fellowship to study
the history of economic geology and the Peter K. Simpson Fellowship on the
American West, which is a collaboration by the AHC and the Buffalo Bill Center
of the West in Cody, Wyoming.
Application
materials for all of the AHC’s fellowships should be submitted electronically
by March 30, 2020, to AHC Archivist Leslie Waggener at lwaggen2@uwyo.edu.
To
learn more about the AHC, please see www.uwyo.edu/ahc/.
Research
Fellowship, Friends Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore College Peace
Collection
The
Margaret W. Moore and John M. Moore Research Fellowship promotes research
during the academic year or summer months using the resources of the Friends
Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, providing a
stipend to support such research. Strong
preference will be given to projects making significant use of resources only
available on site at Swarthmore College. For information and questions about
the collections and holdings. contact staff in Friends Historical Library
at: <friends@swarthmore.edu>
or Wendy E. Chmielewski, Curator of the Peace Collection at: <peacecollection@swarthmore.edu>
The
application deadline is March 15
Questions
about the application process may be directed to Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, ccauste1@swarthmore.edu.
Communal
Studies Collection Research Travel Grant
The
Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana annually
invites applications for a Research Travel Grant to fund research at the
Communal Studies Collection at USI's David L. Rice Library. The Communal
Studies Collection's rich archival materials hold information on over 600
historic and contemporary communal societies, utopias and intentional
communities. A complete listing of communities can be found on
the library website.
Send
submissions as an email attachment to charison@usi.edu. Applications are due annually
by 1 March.
James
P. Danky Fellowships
In
honor of James P. Danky's long service to print culture scholarship, the
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the History of Print and Digital
Culture, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical Society, is again
offering two short-term research fellowships. Prior to applying, it is strongly suggested
that applicants contact Lee Grady at the Wisconsin Historical Society (lee.grady@wisconsinhistory.org
or 608-264-6459) to discuss the relevancy of WHS collections to their
projects.
Applications
due May 1, 2020
Academic
Research, Creative Study & Digital Humanities Fellowship Funds
The
HistoryMakers Academic Research Fellowship awards will be awarded to faculty or
graduate students pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities
scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients will produce articles,
websites, blogs, digital materials, lesson plans and syllabi, conference
presentations/papers, and/or other scholarly resources in the humanities.
Submit
applications online at: https://forms.gle/JXnVLiYj2RcYkBPT8
The
HistoryMakers Digital Humanities Fellowship awards will be awarded to digital
humanities scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require
digital expression, analysis, and/or digital publication.
Submit applications online at: https://forms.gle/bL381YVtXTYtQoMj7
The
HistoryMakers Creative Study Fellowship awards will be awarded to composers,
choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers or other kinds of
artists or humanists working in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction),
performance (theatrical productions, documentaries, monologues) and poetry.
Submit
applications online at: https://forms.gle/CDvFw7TvEXqof1169
All
applications due March 2, 2020
For
Inquiries, please contact: thmfellows@gmail.com
2021-2022
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Competition Launch
The
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is accepting applications for the 2021-22
academic year. Opportunities are
available for artists, college and university faculty, professionals, and
independent scholars to teach and conduct research at educational and research
institutions. Fulbright Scholars
represent the diversity of the United States and build lasting relationships
with students, collaborators, the wider research community, and institutions
abroad that serve as the foundation for future collaborations.
The
application deadline is September 15, 2020.
Contact
Email: cvelez@iie.org
Library
Company of Philadelphia Fellowships
The
Library Company, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731 and located in Center
City Philadelphia, holds over half a million rare books and graphics that are
capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating
to the history of America and the Atlantic world in the 17th, 18th, and 19th
centuries.
Dissertation
fellowships: https://librarycompany.org/academic-programs/fellowships/dissertation/
Short-term
fellowships: https://librarycompany.org/academic-programs/fellowships/short-term/
Research
Fellowship -- University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections
The
Masterson Fellowship, endowed by Conrad and Ellen Masterson of Cee Vee, Texas,
provides opportunities for visiting scholars to conduct research in the University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections
for one to three months. The fellowship is open to advanced graduate students,
faculty, or independent scholars engaged in an original research project of significant
scholarly merit that will benefit directly from the utilization of materials in
the Western History Collections. Several awards of one to three months
will be made, and priority consideration for at least one fellowship line will
be given to research on range management history, the impact of
cattle ranching in the American West, or related topics. The stipend for the
Masterson Fellowship is $2,500 per month.
DEADLINE: February 17, 2020
Apply
via Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/71469
Contact
Email: tfuller@ou.edu
The
Mary Baker Eddy Library Research Fellowship
The
Mary Baker Eddy Library awards annual short-term research fellowships. The
program is designed to support original contributions to scholarship. Relevant
areas of research in the Library’s collections include include the life of Mary
Baker Eddy and the history of the Christian Science movement, as well as fields
that include women’s studies; spirituality and health; religious studies;
nineteenth- and twentieth-century history; cultural and social history;
architecture; and journalism.
If
you are interested in submitting an application, please be in touch with us
first at fellowships@mbelibrary.org,
to discuss your proposed research, including additional holdings that may be
relevant. Review library collections here: https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/finding-aids/.
Contact
Email: fellowships@mbelibrary.org
Application
deadline: March 2, 2020
Postdoctoral
Fellowship in the Humanities
Yale
University invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the
Humanities, to begin in July 2020. The Fellow will be affiliated with the
interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities. The Fellow will teach one course
each semester in the Directed Studies program, an integrated set of courses in
western literature, philosophy, and historical & political thought.
Instructors teaching in the program take turns giving the weekly lecture to the
entire program, and meet with their own smaller group of fifteen students twice
each week in a seminar setting.
To
ensure full consideration, please submit all materials through Interfolio by
March 15, 2020.
Please
contact Inessa Laskova, inessa.laskova@yale.edu if you have any
questions.
State
Historical Society of Iowa 2020/21 Research Grants
The
State Historical Society of Iowa will award up to ten research stipends of
$1,000 each to support original research and interpretive writing related to
the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest. Preference will be given to applicants
proposing to pursue previously neglected topics or new approaches to or
interpretations of previously treated topics. SHSI invites applicants from a
variety of backgrounds, including academic and public historians, graduate
students, and independent researchers and writers.
Applications
for the 2020/2021 awards must be postmarked by April 15, 2020.
email:
andrew.klumpp@iowa.gov
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Assistant
professor in queer migrations
The Department of Feminist Studies at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications
for a tenure-track position at the rank
of assistant professor in queer migrations. Of special interest to us are
innovative methodological approaches to
gender and sexual citizenship, discourses of belonging, and human
rights in the context of state and
social violence against LGBTQ communities
in historical or contemporary national and transnational frames.
Apply by February 9, 2020 for primary consideration;
position will remain open until filled.
Please direct any questions to Sonya Baker, Business
Officer: sbaker@femst.ucsb.edu.
Assistant
Director/Violence Against Women Prevention
Under the direction of the Women's Center Director,
the Women's Center Assistant Director provides program implementation,
management, and administrative coordination for the Violence Against Women
Prevention Program (VAWPP), with a focus on peer education and community
awareness events. While gender-based violence is the primary focus of this
position, the expectation is that the role is also integrated into the overall
gender equity work of the Center, which provides education, advocacy, and
support services on campus through an intersectional lens.
Deadline: Feb. 24
Gender,
Women, and Sexualities (GWS) Studies tenure-track Assistant Professor position
The Gender,
Women, and Sexualities (GWS) Studies Department at Metropolitan State
University of Denver is seeking applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin
Fall 2020. The courses to be taught include core courses such as Introduction
to Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies, Multicultural Study of Sexualities
and Genders, Women of Color, Feminist and Queer Research methods, and upper
division courses in the candidate’s area of expertise. Of special interest are
GWS scholars with an expertise in queer indigenous studies, critical race
and/or migration studies, and/or transnational feminisms.
To ensure full consideration, applications must be
received by 02/17/2020, 11:59pm (MT)
Visiting Assistant Professor in Women’s, Gender
& Sexuality Studies
The Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Program at
Williams College invites applicants for a Visiting Assistant Professor
appointment beginning Fall 2020 for one year with the possibility of renewal
for a second year. We seek candidates with training in Women’s, Gender &
Sexuality Studies, broadly defined. We are especially interested in candidates
whose work engages woman of color feminism and/or queer of color critique. Please
send cover letter and curriculum vitae to the chair of the Program, Prof.
Kiaran Honderich via Interfolio http://apply.interfolio.com/72703.
Director
of Programs, Human Rights Center
The HRC creates positive change through education,
dialogue and transdisciplinary research for and about advocacy. As part of a
University that promotes the common good, the Center is committed to bridging
the gap between theory and practice in order to advance human rights and
sustainable development locally, nationally, and around the world. The position
will administer existing Human Rights Center (HRC) programs and will be
responsible for developing and cultivating new programmatic educational,
research and experiential learning opportunities for students locally,
nationally and internationally.
Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis
beginning February 15 until March 15. (Additional information here: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59855).
Postdoctoral
fellowship in WGSS
The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
at Washington University in St. Louis seeks to fill a two-year post-doctoral
appointment to begin in the 2020-21 academic year in the field of gender and
sexuality studies. We are particularly
interested in scholars who have training in social science methodologies and
whose work engages one of the following fields:
Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, African Studies, Asian Studies,
or transnational studies.
Further inquiries can be made to 314-935-5102 or wgss@wustl.edu.
WORKSHOPS
Disability
Studies Graduate Certificate
The
University of Toledo’s Disability Studies Program is pleased to announce the
creation of a 100% online graduate certificate in disability studies. Enrolling
now for fall 2020. The graduate certificate in disability studies is ideal for
working professionals and graduate students seeking advancement in a wide range
of areas, including: Policy, Education,
Advocacy, Compliance, Medical and allied health, Engineering and design,
Humanities, Social sciences.
Contact
Email: kim.nielsen2@utoledo.edu
Research
Seminar in American History
The Netherlands, 1-3 July 2020
The
RIAS will host its next research seminar on 1-3 July 2020, and we kindly invite
applications from current doctoral candidates whose research covers any aspect
of U.S. culture, media, society, politics, or foreign relations, current or
historical. We welcome proposals for research papers (e.g. a dissertation
chapter), or for papers that give an overview of the project in its entirety. In
order to support a culture of diversity and inclusion, we strongly encourage
proposals from students that reflect the diversity of our field in terms of
gender, ethnicity, and disability.
Applicants
are invited to submit their proposals, consisting of a 300-word abstract and a
CV, no later than Tuesday, 7 April 2020 to rias@zeeland.nl.
Summer
Institute on Genocide Studies on Prevention
The
3rd biennial Summer Institute for Genocide Studies and Prevention will be held
June 1-5, 2020 at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire (US). Keene State, a public liberal arts
institution, is home to the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,
one of the nation’s oldest Holocaust resource centers, and also offers the only
undergraduate major in Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the United
States. The College’s specialized
library collection and related campus resources provide unique facilities for
teaching and research in genocide studies.
Deadline:
March 9, 2020
Contact
Email: jwaller@keene.edu
2020
ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research
The
ICPSR Summer Program offers rigorous, hands-on training in statistics,
quantitative methods, and data analysis for students, faculty, and researchers
of all skill levels and backgrounds. From May through August 2020, the ICPSR
Summer Program will offer more than 80 courses in Ann Arbor, Michigan and other
cities around the world. This year’s curriculum includes courses on Bayesian
analysis; MLE; regression analysis; data science; machine learning; race,
ethnicity, and quantitative methodology; qualitative methods; R; and many other
methods and techniques.
Registration
for all courses will open on February 11, 2020. For more information,
visit our webpage or contact sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu or
(734) 763-7400.
Western
History Dissertation Workshop
May
28-29, 2020, at the University of Kansas
Five
advanced western history Ph.D. students will be selected to present a chapter
of their work to a collegial group of 10-12 leading scholars from participating
institutions across the United States, listed below. Applicants who are most
likely to benefit from this workshop are those who have completed a few
chapters of their dissertation and who expect to defend in the 2020-2021
academic year. Selected participants will share a chapter (of no more than
fifty pages) at the workshop and receive feedback from other participants and
from senior scholars affiliated with the sponsoring institutions.
Applications
are due March 2, 2020 to Andrew Isenberg (isenberg@ku.edu).
New
Resources on the Intersection of Racism and Religious Intolerance
The
International Commission to Combat Religious Racism has released its inaugural
map, spreadsheet, and report on Twenty Years of Religious Racism in Brazil.
These materials analyze 300 cases of religious intolerance against
Afro-Brazilian faiths that have taken place since 2000. In the hope of
encouraging scholars to study or teach about these cases (which can be useful
to enhance discussions about racism, Afro-Latin America, and religious
extremism, among other things), I have published a report, two interactive
maps, and a detailed spreadsheet about hundreds of incidents of intolerance
against Afro-Brazilian religions that have occurred since the start of the 21st
century.
Email:
dboaz@uncc.edu
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