A few resources during this time
of uncertainty:
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions
of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more: https://archive.org/.
Open Culture: http://www.openculture.com/
Museums Offer Virtual Tours: https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours
Bard’s Environmental Humanities offers an array of
practice-rich courses and workshops that emphasize the integration of history,
theory, and experimentation with digital, analog, and conceptual methods of
learning: https://eh.bard.edu/covid-19/
Coronavirus guide for parents: https://mommypoppins.com/family/coronavirus-pandemic-update-indoor-activities-resources-kids
Storyline Online: https://www.storylineonline.net/about-us/
Storyline Online: https://www.storylineonline.net/about-us/
Mobile Food Pantries in Denton County: https://www.facebook.com/DentonHungerCoalition/photos/a.1512976645456065/2489228147830905/?type=3&theater
Collective Care Is Our Best Weapon against COVID-19:
https://medium.com/@kittystryker/collective-care-is-our-best-weapon-against-covid-19-851e29568656
Virtual Field Trips: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SvIdgTx9djKO6SjyvPDsoGlkgE3iExmi3qh2KRRku_w/preview
TransCrip Teaching Tips during COVID-19:
450 Ivy League courses you can take online right now
for free: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ivy-league-free-online-courses-a0d7ae675869/
Humanities Coronavirus Syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UeAN5jhSib-CsP17keNC6c3iMF7PgE3KDDDBy24w0xY/edit
Resources for Online Meetings, Classes, and Events: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NyrEU7n6IUl5rgGiflx_dK8CrdoB2bwyyl9XG-H7iw8/preview#heading=h.jb9co2l7jt1p
Social Distancing Festival: https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/submit
Digital Concert Hall now free for everyone: https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/titelgeschichten/20192020/digital-concert-hall/
The Philharmonie Berlin is closed until 19 April to help contain the coronavirus. But the orchestra will continue to play for you – in the Digital Concert Hall. The Berliner Philharmoniker invite you to visit their virtual concert hall free of charge.
Met Opera To Launch Free Nightly Streams During Coronavirus Closure: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Met-Opes-To-Launch-Free-Nightly-Streams-During-Coronavirus-Closure-20200313
Wildlife Cameras: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=viewing.webcams
Netflix Parties: https://www.netflixparty.com/
CONFERENCES
Queer and Trans Memory Practices
International Federation for Public History World
Conference, August 18 - 22, 2020.
Berlin, Germany
We seek participants for a working group that will bring
together public historians, archivists, scholars, artists, oral historians, and
activists interested in exploring the collective process of “memory” in queer
and trans communities. The aim is to convene a diverse group of stakeholders to
explore the production and circulation of queer and trans memory across a range
of geographical and institutional locations, and to explore new approaches that
this work might take in the coming years.
Please send your proposals to kpmurphy@umn.edu and rmattson@umn.edu by
April 1, 2020.
Science Fiction
Research Association annual conference
July 8-11, Indiana University
This year we take FABULATION as our key term. Fabulation is
a potent political force as well as an emerging genre convention. Ranging from
fantasy fiction and the New Weird to fictional sciences and prefigurative
politics, fabulation centers the importance of imagining otherwise in the
construction of reality as a scholarly as well as a fictional action. Building
on the critique of imperial sciences by Indigenous scholars and imaginative writers
that were the focus of the 2019 conference, this year’s conference asks what
subjugated knowledges can be found in the speculative fiction archives and how
they might be surfaced in the present toward multispecies thriving and
antiracist worlding.
300-500 word abstracts should be sent to SFRA2020IU@gmail.com by March 15
2020.
Questions concerning this call for papers, preconstituted
panels, & roundtables can be directed to SFRA2020IU@gmail.com,
Rebekah Sheldon (rsheldon@indiana.edu),
or De Witt Douglas Kilgore (dkilgore@indiana.edu).
Rebel Streets: Urban Space, Art and Social Movements
July 1-3, 2020, Berlin
The central goal of this “traveling conference” –each year
in a different city in Europe –is to engage in a multifaceted,
multi-disciplinary and multi-geographic perspective to articulate and promote a
richer and a more integrated understanding of the ideologies, relationships,
meanings and practices that arise from the diverse interactions among the three
social spheres: urban space, art, and social movements. To push forward the
dialogues and widen the debates on art’s relationship to the political, Rebel
Streets conferences interrogate what the reconfiguration of difference,
equality, and equity entail at present moment, and what it is to aesthetically
and politically experience the world from the perspective of social dissensus
and rebellion.
Submit abstracts to Tijen Tunali eume@trafo-berlin.de no
later than March 31st, 2020.
Commedification of Art
The panel explores the commedic visual art as the practice
of liberation from the political, religious, and economic constraints, as pure
creativity and redemption of transgressive labor. Potential questions include
but are not limited to: What are the historical sources of commedification of
art and its effects on the established values and norms of art production? Does
it threaten institutions of art by opposing the commodity business? For the
broadest investigation of the topic, contributors are encouraged to address
diverse genealogies of comedy within the global cultural formations and as
distinct individual expressions.
All proposals must be submitted by 11:59 pm EDT on April 1,
2020.
Questions may be directed to 2020 Conference Director Carly
Phinizy (secac2020@vcu.edu).
Race and Ethnicity in Popular Culture
Northeast Popular and American Culture Association
Conference, Friday, October 23-Saturday, October 24
The Race and Ethnicity Area requests proposals for
individual papers or 3-4 paper panels to be presented at the 2020 Northeast
Popular and American Culture Association (NEPCA) annual conference. We welcome
proposals from graduate students, junior faculty, and senior scholars. NEPCA
conferences offer intimate and nurturing sessions in which new ideas and
works-in-progress can be aired, as well as completed projects. Please upload
proposals to https://forms.gle/TTbp6EVTkYJqcGgM6
by June 1, 2020.
Contact Email: cmatieyshen@gmail.com
Anthrodecentrism: Humans as Footnotes in Time and Space
12th June 2020, Catholic University of Paris
This study day will consider changes in understanding of
space and time that challenge traditional ways of situating ourselves as humans
at the centre of our own world. In the Western world, our centrality was first
called into question by the scientific exploration of the cosmos. We welcome
papers looking at representations of the human in response to our changing
understanding of time and/or space, or examining the rethinking of the category
of the human together with the rethinking of time and/or space. We welcome
papers from a variety of disciplines, such as literature, arts, history,
anthropology, sociology, religious studies, philosophy as well as the use of
diverse theoretical tools.
Proposals should be sent to Dr. Diane Leblond (diane.leblond@univ-lorraine.fr),
Dr. Sarah Gould (sarah.gould@univ-paris1.fr),
Dr. Estelle Murail (e.murail@icp.fr) and
Dr. Delphine Louis-Dimitrov (d.louisdimitrov@icp.fr)
by March 30th, 2020.
Coming to Terms With Apartheid: History, Politics, Legacy
San Diego State University, May 1-4, 2020
The symposium will examine the history and legacy of
apartheid from different vantage points including economic, social, diplomatic,
intellectual and cultural lenses. In addition to the history of apartheid, we
will examine the massive international movement that emerged to resist the
violent and systematic discrimination. The anti-apartheid movement was among
the first successful transnational social movements in the era of
globalization. In its transnational scope and eventual success, it can be
compared to the abolitionist movement of the 19th century. What is unique about
the anti-apartheid movement is the extent of support it received from
individuals, governments and organizations on all continents. Few social
movements garner anywhere near the international support mobilized against the
apartheid regime in South Africa.
Contact Email: resistingapartheid@gmail.com
Love Beyond the (Hu)man
Dublin, Ireland | 26 June, 2020
This multidisciplinary conference on lesbians* and their
pets* draws inspiration from women* (all terms inclusively defined) from
history, literature, art, and theory whose relationships with non-human animals
impacted their lives and love. What roles do non-humans play in Sapphic
stories? How might queer women’s relationships with non-human animals generate
knowledge, impact other identities such as class and race, serve as a pretext
to veil same-sex relationships, appear as a literary / musical / filmic /
artistic trope, produce a lesbian aesthetic, or suggest lesbian futurity? We
wonder also about the questions you may be asking, and look forward to hearing
the stories that interest you!
Abstracts due: 31 March, 2020
Contact Email: SapphicPets@gmail.com
Global Bodies, Global Lives
Saturday 30th May 2020, University of Oxford
When examining narratives of global history, macro scale
analyses predominate, in which supranational formations – including empires,
corporations and NGOs – often take centre-stage. Yet the aspiration of global
history to encompass such broad-ranging themes has the potential to marginalise
and to merely abstract individual lives and the lived experiences which
underpin them. Focusing on the impact of human endeavour on the world stage -
at an individual and corporeal level - would force us to consider what it
means, and what it has meant, to inhabit global bodies and to live global
lives.
Paper abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted to tghsgradconference@gmail.com by 15
March 2020.
In/humanness in the 21st century: existence,
relationality, and precarity
Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, ON, Canada
(January 7–10, 2021)
In the vein of interrogating in/humanness, we intend to
consider if and how we are able to persist against the demand for productivity
and forge connections. How might becoming in/human allow us to exist and
explore forms of sociality and kinship through theoretical, literary, filmic,
and artistic approaches that resist the ongoing precariticization of bodies and
a demand for agency, sovereignty, and productivity rendered legible through a
(homo or hetero)normative, cis, able-bodied, white, middle class, consumer
citizen subject?
We seek approaches to notions of in/humanness across media,
cultural traditions, and historical periods as they engage critical race,
queer, disability, and animal studies to interrogate the possibility of
objecthood and inhumanness as an antisocial mode that underscores a refusal to
become what society demands.
Please submit 350-word abstracts and short presenter's
biographies to Carrie Smith (carrie.smith@ualberta.ca)
and Simone Pfleger (pfleger@ualberta.ca)
by March 25.
Resisting Identities:
Possibilities of (Re)emergence
Graduate Conference at Binghamton University, April 25th,
2020, New York
The political turmoil taking place on a global scale, such
as Chile, Hongkong, Iraq, Myanmar, and the United States, calls for a close
examination of the state apparatus and brings out the urgency of coalescing
resisting identities against the tremendous neoliberal authoritarianism.
Witnessing the increasing criminalization of migrants and immigrants, queer
bodies, religious as well as other minority identities, we search for
alternatives that are non-conforming to global capitalistic regimes.
Contemplating resistant strategies against the stultifying identity politics as
resembled by the U.S. official antiracist liberal-capitalist orders, this
year’s STAB conference invites critical insights on the history and future of
community forming. We encourage prospective participants to rethink American
Studies as an unruly field from different approaches.
Please submit your proposal of 350- words to shiftingborders@gmail.com no
later than March 22, 2020.
Questions or concerns should be directed to conference
organizer Chenrui Zhao at czhao24@binghamton.edu.
Celebrity &
Stardom
Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association Annual Conference, October 2-4, 2020
The Area Chair for the Celebrity and Stardom Area invites
paper or panel proposals on any aspect of celebrity and stardom. The deadline for submissions is April 30,
2020. Submissions are to be
uploaded at http://submissions.mpcaaca.org/.
Contact Email: scott.chappuis@cuaa.edu
Religion and Environment: Relations and Relationality
February 4-7, 2021, Tempe, Arizona
The ISSRNC welcomes papers, panels, and proposals from all
disciplines that address the intersections of religion, nature, and culture.
For our tenth conference, to be held at Arizona State University, we are
especially interested in engaging questions of relationality: relations between
human and other-than-human beings (including animals, spirits, gods, places,
etc.), among cultural groups, among academic disciplines, etc. The “Religion
and Environments: Relations and Relationality” conference provides a space for
these conversations, showcasing cutting-edge theory and research necessary to
meaningful interdisciplinary exchange on these critical issues.
August 3, 2020 – Submissions due online.
Please contact secretary@issrnc.org if
you have any questions.
Sacred Rhetoric
October 16-17, 2020 on Winebrenner’s campus in Findlay, OH
Sacred Rhetoric is an interdisciplinary event devoted to the
consideration of discourses of religion.
Potential proposals can cover diverse topics including, but not limited
to, philosophies of religious language, accounts of religion as a discipline,
and internal dialogue within religious traditions. While the conference is open to any topic
related to religion and religious communication, the planning committee is
particularly interested in proposals related to the depiction of religion in
media, religion in American politics, and religion and modernity.
Send proposals to Dr. David Barbee at david.barbee@winebrenner.edu.
Association for Ethnic Studies/Department of Ethnic
Studies 2020 Conference
Nov. 5, 6, 7, 2020 | Bowling Green, Ohio
In conjunction with
the department’s celebration of the 50thanniversary of BGSU’s Ethnic Studies
program, the conference will be an opportunity to look back upon the history of
the scholarly field of ethnic studies and the social movements that forced the
academy to accommodate it. In celebrating our history, we are also mindful of
assessing our contemporary moment and the challenges of struggles for justice
and equality in the future. Beyond the immediacy of national politics in
November of 2020, this is also a moment to think about and understand the
changing nature of activism in the 21st century.
Deadline for Proposals: May 15, 2020, submitted to conferenceaes@gmail.com
Digitorium 2020
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 April 15, 2020.
email: adhc@lib.ua.edu
Indigenous Studies
The Indigenous Studies Area of the Midwest Popular Culture
Association seeks panels and paper abstracts for the annual Midwest Popular
Culture Association/American Culture Association conference to be held at the
Westin Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN from October 2-4, 2020. Abstracts may address any aspect of
Aboriginal, First Nations, Maori, Sami, and other Indigenous popular cultures.
In addition, the area highly encourages comparative papers between Indigenous
and, say, Asian, Latin American, Pacific Islander, or African popular cultures.
200-300 word abstracts may be submitted electronically
before or by APRIL 30, 2020 via the online submission
system, http://submissions.mpcaaca.org.
Contact Email: tony.adah@gmail.com
Philosophy and Religion
The Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (https://pppr.princeton.edu) is excited to
announce an inaugural conference in philosophy of religion, to be held October
29-31, 2020 at Princeton University.
We are now inviting submissions of abstracts of papers in
philosophy of religion, broadly construed. In addition to all topics
traditionally treated in analytic philosophy of religion, we hope to include
papers in the history of philosophical thinking about religious issues, the
psychology and cognitive science of religion, theories and methods in the study
of religion, the philosophical study of non-western religious traditions, and
religious ethics.
Please submit abstracts suitable for blind review of 300-500
words to pppr@princeton.edu by May 15,
2020.
Speculative Fiction and Settler-Colonialism
MLA Conference Jan. 7-10, 2021, Toronto
This session examines how speculative fiction depicts and
engages with settler-colonial settings but also how it challenges
settler-colonial practices and ideologies, including their legacies in the
contemporary period. Please submit 250-word abstracts and a CV to isabelle.hesse@sydney.edu.au by Friday,
20 March 2020
Graduate Student Conference on Power and Struggle
The Graduate History Association (GHA) of the Department of
History at The University of Alabama is pleased to announce that it is hosting
its Twelfth Annual Graduate Student Conference on Power and Struggle on October
9-10, 2020. The conference’s theme addresses new approaches of historical
analysis that focus on the relationship between struggle and power, especially
people who struggled to break, transform, or reclaim the boundaries constructed
by those in power. We encourage graduate students to submit proposals that
examine these relationships across various temporal, geographical, and topical
fields and disciplines.
The deadline for proposal submission is Friday May 15, 2020.
email: ghapowerandstruggle@ua.edu
Gendered Representations in 20th Century American Art
& Culture
10th and 11th June 2020, London
We are excited to bring you two days of thought-provoking
discussions designed to showcase new and emerging approaches to the study of
gender construction and identity in American culture, addressing how
femininities and masculinities are explored through the modes of music,
literature, art, and wider media and cultural apparatus. The aim of this
conference is to bring together PhD students and early career academics within
the field of American Studies across departmental boundaries, enabling them to
share their research and engage in collaborative debates surrounding the role
of gender in a culturally and socio-politically tumultuous period of American culture;
the twentieth century.
Deadline: April 15
International Peace-Building
Austin, Texas, September 25-27, 2020.
The Global Center for Religious Research exists to promote
the academic study of religion and the scholars conducting that research from
around the world. This three-day academic conference will feature scholarly
presentations centered on the theme of international peace-building from
professional researchers, educators, and students of religion.
Due Date for Submission: June 1st, 2020
Contact Email: dslade@gcrr.org
PUBLICATIONS
Eradicating Gender
Violence
Canadian Scholars is considering publishing a
collection of articles, titled Eradicating Gender Violence: Community-Building
and Resistance Through Feminist Pedagogies, aimed at finding classroom
strategies that respond to episodes of gender violence. The editors seek
contributions that range across fields but share the intention to expose gender
violence, intervene in its production and reproduction, and reimagine ways of
ending gender violence through feminist pedagogies with a commitment to
intersectionality and decolonial action.
Deadline for
abstracts: APRIL 15, 2020
Online Networked
Learning Ecologies and Their Implications In Theory and Practice
"Open Education
Studies" announces a call for papers for a Topical Issue: "Online
Networked Learning Ecologies and Their Implications In Theory and Practice.” Online
networks have provided many opportunities in many areas, including teaching and
learning. It can be claimed that online virtual spaces are now an extension of
our offline physical spaces. Individuals can now pursue knowledge in these
spaces and have the ability to traverse between them to fulfil their learning
needs.
Deadline for
submissions: April 30, 2020.
In case of any
questions, please contact the Guest Editor at arasbozkurt@gmail.com or Managing Editor
of "Open
Education Studies" at Beata.Socha@degruyter.com
Technology in
Education
History of
Education Quarterly, a
peer-reviewed journal that is the official publication of the History of
Education Society, is seeking papers for a forthcoming special issue on the
history of educational technology. Each year, schools spend tens of millions of
dollars on educational technology. Policy makers continue to emphasize its
importance, but critics argue that such investments have had a negligible
impact on how teachers teach or how students learn. HEQ seeks to enhance the
policy debate and fortify the existing historiography by exploring how
educational technology has been sold, adopted, adapted, or rejected over time.
Email: Kimberley_Tolley@uml.edu
Indigeneity +
Disability History
Disability Studies
Quarterly is inviting abstracts for a special issue on disability and
Indigenous lives, cultures, and experiences—past, present, and future. We seek
contributions in a range of formats, including personal narratives, fiction,
academic articles, photo essays, artworks, book reviews, and community-based
history. Co-authored works are warmly welcomed. Projects should engage a broad
audience, and use clear and accessible language. Visual contributions such as
artworks and photographs should be accompanied by image descriptions.
Please send a
250-word proposal to Susan Burch (sburch@middlebury.edu)
by May 15, 2020
Integrity
Change Over Time:
An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment, published by the University of Pennsylvania
Press, invites submissions. The elaboration of integrity has developed in
tandem with the expanding scope of heritage from individual monuments to more
complex assemblages that defy singular synchronic definitions of form and
significance. Heritage today includes urban, cultural, and vernacular
landscapes that necessitate an understanding of the inextricable relationship
between the built environment, cultural context, and intangible values and thus
requires both a more nuanced and versatile assessment of integrity. While
UNESCO and ICOMOS offer general guidance on assessing integrity, it is clear
that integrity is a relational concept. We welcome contributions from a range
of contexts that both challenge operational concepts of integrity and
demonstrate practical, actual, and inclusive approaches.
Abstracts of 200-300
words are due 5 June 2020.
Contact Email: cot@design.upenn.edu
Kobe Bean Bryant
The Journal of
African American Studies, a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, and
interdisciplinary research journal published by Springer, is preparing a
special issue marking the 25th anniversary of Kobe Bean Bryant’s NBA debut. We
invite submissions of original, previously unpublished manuscripts that are as
ambitious and inspiring as Kobe’s approach to the game and life. Bryant was more
than a basketball player. He was a husband, father, humanitarian, and mentor to
numerous athletes as well as an Academy Award recipient.
Prospective
contributors should send abstracts of no more than 250 words by Thursday, April
2, 2020
Nature and Society in
the Anthropocene – Breaching the Divide?
Journal Opinião
Filosófica Call for Papers
In the last 70
years, the increased scale of human action over nature produced irreversible
transformations in the Earth’s systems whose consequence was an ecological
crisis with two interrelated dimensions: on the one hand, social, political and
economic phenomena; and, on the other hand, natural or environmental processes.
Since then, the Anthropocene became the focus of debate not only in traditional
scientific fields, but also in the human and social sciences as well as in the
humanities, discussions ranging from attempts to pinpoint its beginning to
criticism and doubts regarding its overall validity. The challenge put forward
by this volume is to rethink the relation between Society and Nature in the
context of the Anthropocene, offering novel ways of dealing with the newfound
condition of humankind as a geological force.
Submission Deadline:
October, 2020
LGBTQ+ Literature
Contributions needed for OER LGBTQ+ Studies Textbook
The editors of an
introductory level LGBTQ Studies OER textbook are seeking contributors. This
open textbook will focus on the study of LGBTQ issues and culture from an
interdisciplinary perspective. It will include key documents and multimedia
resources, emphasizing an intersectional, feminist analysis. We are seeking faculty
teaching or doing research in the areas of gender and sexuality studies to
contribute 2,500 word research profiles. At this time we are looking for
research profiles that explore various aspects of LGBTQ+ literature and
literary history.
Commitment for
authoring a 4000-6000 word chapter within a provided structure (Feb-March
2019).
Questions can also
be directed to: Jennifer Miller (jennifermiller@uta.edu) or Allison Brown (browna@geneseo.edu).
NEoN Emerging Artists’ Commission
NEoN Digital Arts Festival
is dedicated to showcasing artworks that critically engage with digital and
media technologies. We are seeking to commission artists at the first stages of
their career (regardless of age) whose works engage with any aspect of the
project theme of indeterminacy and NEoN 2020 festival’s theme of Share, Share
Alike. We seek project proposals that suggest connections and commonalities
between sharing and indeterminacy. We casually use the word ‘share’ to describe
distributing images, stories and info across social media networks, but what
responsibilities come with sharing resources today? Can digital tools help us
understand our collective needs and make better, fairer choices?
Successful
applicants will be offered a fee of £500 (to cover all production costs and
materials) and will be featured during the festival at NOMAS Projects, a
publicly accessible window exhibition space.
Deadline: 20th of
April, 2020
Submit application
here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFTs0HlpDluQeBNbuaMmDlc0tdh-528uSuXBu0DUW-bcTXQg/viewform?pli=1
Eco-anxiety, Eco-depression, and Planetary Hope
Chapter proposals
are invited for an edited book examining the nature and scope of eco-anxiety
and eco-depression, with an emphasis on alleviating suffering through
innovative treatment approaches that foster a sense of hope. The book will
appear in the series Environment and Society, published by Lexington Books, an
imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. Interested authors
should send a 300-word abstract, 200-word biography, and sample of a previously
published chapter or article to Douglas Vakoch, PhD, at dvakoch@ciis.edu by April 1, 2020.
Epidemics and Plagues in Literature
Plague has always
been with us throughout history and in literature and is still with us now. Its
comparative modern rarity only makes its mortality data all the more striking.
H1N1, Ebola, SARS are all recent examples, and now there is a new one on the
list--- the Novel Coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) that started in December
2019 in Wuhan, China, which quickly became a Public Health Emergency of
International Concern (PHEIC). This special issue of Neohelicon invites
scholars from around the world to contribute to the critical discussion of
literature about real epidemics and plagues, either contemporary or historical,
but with a special focus on those contemporary ones.
Creative Resistance
2019 emerged as a
year of unprecedented political mobilization which led to the beginning of a
new political culture characterized by protests and civil disobedience. Dissent
erupted in cities across the world, and protesting voices grew louder as public
fury occupied the streets, from Paris to Prague, Beirut to Catalonia, in Hong
Kong, Santiago, Tehran, Baghdad, Budapest, New Delhi, and even London. The 30th
issue of FORUM aims to look at Creative Resistance and how it emerges in
different forms, in different cultures. What do you think Creative Resistance
means? Who do you think has defined art as political and used it to voice
dissent? What forms of art have been used to challenge the status quo and how
have they endured, evolved and transpired?
Please e-mail your
paper, a short abstract and your academic CV in separate, clearly labelled
DOC(X). files to editors@forumjournal.org by 10th April 2020
Mechademia: Second
Arc
This volume of
Mechademia: Second Arc, Vol.14.1, seeks ambitious and insightful essays on what
is considered to be current science fiction and/or speculative fiction in a
variety of fields (such as novels, manga, anime, cosplay and other performative
genres, and drama) that pioneer the new horizons of science fiction in the
current context of international literature, film, anime, manga, or art.
Deadline for
submissions: July 1, 2020
Contact Email: submissions@mechademia.com
Transecology: Transgender
Science and Technology
Chapter proposals
are invited for the edited book Transgender Science and Technology. Ben Barres’
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist provides insights into the lived
experience of a prominent scientist who was transgender. This new book extends
that work by fostering novel insights into science and technology by viewing
them through specifically transgender perspectives. We are seeking proposals
that examine the specific science or technology that is the focus of each
chapter using insights from transgender theory and experience. The core
question that motivates the book is “How can we better understand the nature
and development of specific sciences and technologies through a transgender
lens?” Proposals that explicitly critique cisnormativity and cissexism are
especially welcome.
Interested authors
should send a 300-word abstract, 200-word biography, and sample of a previously
published chapter or article to Dr. Douglas Vakoch at dvakoch@meti.org by April 20, 2020.
No Template: Art and
the Technicity of Race
A decade ago, Beth
Coleman and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun introduced the concept of race and/as
technology. Recently, the concept has received renewed attention as the
intersections between race and ethnicity and the technological have come to the
fore in popular discourse, raised by issues ranging from representation in film
to bias in facial recognition. Critical work by scholars such as Simone Browne
and Lisa Nakamura and the Precarity Lab has also continued to interrogate the
technicity of race and its relationship to other technologies, both historical
and contemporary. Artistic research and practice on the subject, however, has often
been either neglected or instrumentalized as illustrative of a larger debate.
June 30, 2020:
Deadline for submission of abstracts.
Contact Email: md@megandriscoll.net
FUNDING
Coordinating Council for Women in History Annual Awards
The Catherine
Prelinger Memorial Award is a $20,000 award given to a scholar who has not
followed a traditional academic path of uninterrupted study. The award is open to applicants with a PhD
and graduate students advanced to candidacy.
The CCWH/Berks
Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to a graduate student completing a
dissertation in history.
The Ida B. Wells
Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to a graduate student completing a
historical dissertation, not necessarily in a history department, that interrogates
race and gender.
The Nupur Chaudhuri
First Article Prize is a $1000 award that recognizes a superlative first
article published in any field of history.
The Carol Gold
Article Prize is a $500 award given to a scholar of any rank for a superlative
article published in any field of history.
The Rachel Fuchs
Award is a $500 award that recognizes extraordinary mentorship and service to
women and the LGBTQI community in the historical profession
The deadline for all
awards is May 15, 2020.
Please contact Elizabeth
Everton (execdir@theccwh.org) with any
questions.
Barbara Harlow Prize for Excellence in Graduate Research
A pioneer in the
field of literature and human rights, both in and outside of the African
continent, Barbara Harlow was key to the development of numerous intellectual
initiatives throughout her work. From her groundbreaking efforts at the
University of Texas with the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Social
Justice, the Bridging Disciplines Program, and the annual Ethnic and Third
World Literatures publication and associated conference to her tireless
determination to elevate the voices of repressed populations in places such as
Palestine and South Africa, Barbara Harlow proved herself to be an unbending force
to be reckoned with. We encourage all graduate students presenting research at
the 2020 Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin as well
as TOFAC in Nairobi in July to submit their research for consideration for this
award.
Apply to toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu by
March 20, 2018 at midnight.
Buffalo Bill Center of the West Fellowships
Buffalo Bill Center
of the West (CENTER) in Cody, Wyoming, invites proposals for its 2020–2021
Resident Fellowship Program. Fellowships are intended to fund research
advancing knowledge, understanding, and passion about the extraordinary
cultural and natural heritage of the American West and its timeless and global
relevance. Fellows may pursue field research in the Cody area (i.e., the
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem or the Big Horn Basin and Mountains), work in the
collections of the McCracken Research Library or one of our five museums, and,
in the case of the Peter K. Simpson Fellowship, at the American Heritage Center
in Laramie, Wyoming.
For more
information, visit our fellowship page at https://centerofthewest.org/research/fellowship-program/
The application
deadline is March 31, 2020.
Contact Email: terryh@centerofthewest.org
Pequot Library 2020 Dillon Fellowship
Pequot Library in
Southport, CT is pleased to announce the first year of the Dillon Fellowship
program, which will provide support to researchers working on the library’s
collections for projects lasting between one week and one month. Among the
library’s noted strengths are its collections of Americana, local history, fine
arts press, and historic children’s books, as well as its well-preserved
pamphlets and printed ephemeral materials from the late eighteenth through the
nineteenth centuries.
The application
deadline for 2020 fellows is April 4, 2020
Inquiries and completed
applications should be directed to specialcollections@pequotlibrary.org.
For more information about Pequot Library’s Special Collections, visit the
Special Collections & Research page of our website: https://www.pequotlibrary.org/learn/special-collections-research/
LSU Libraries Special Collections Research Grant
The LSU Libraries is
offering research travel grants of at least $1000 each to support the work of
researchers who use the rich holdings of the LSU Libraries Special Collections.
The purpose of the grant is to support a researcher’s travel and lodging costs
associated with a research trip to Baton Rouge, LA. Graduate level,
post-doctoral, faculty and independent researchers who live outside the Baton
Rouge area are encouraged to apply.
Send applications to
special@lsu.edu by April 30.
William & Mary Special Collections 2020-2021 Research
Travel Grants
The Special
Collections Research Center of William & Mary Libraries is pleased to
announce that it will award up to four travel grants of up to $1,500 each to
faculty, graduate students, and/or independent researchers to support use of
its collections. Writers, creative and performing artists, filmmakers and
journalists are welcome to apply for the research travel grants.
Send all application
materials by the end of the day on April 3 to spcoll@wm.edu.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Assistant Director/Violence Against Women Prevention
Program Director
Under the direction
of the Women's Center Director, the Women's Center Assistant Director (UCP 6),
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.
This role is 70% focused on educational programming and 30% on advocacy
and support services. Please apply
online at https://hr.uconn.edu/jobs
This job posting is
scheduled to be removed at 11:55 p.m. Eastern time on March 9, 2020.
Amplify Organizing Fellowship
Are you committed to
fighting for progressive causes, but can’t afford to spend a summer working for
free? All our fellows come from low-income and working-class backgrounds, and
most attend public universities or community colleges. People of color, new
Americans, undocumented Americans, women, and LGBTQ candidates are strongly
encouraged to apply. No political or organizing experience is required.
Feel free to reach
out with any questions: hello@amplifyfellowship.org
Apply here: https://www.amplifyfellowship.org/apply
The final deadline
is Friday, March 6
Post-doctoral fellowship in Critical Native American and
Indigenous Studies
The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
at Columbia University invites applications for a two-year, non-renewable,
residential post-doctoral fellowship in Critical Native American and Indigenous
Studies, beginning in the September 1, 2020. We welcome a variety of
disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Areas of interest include (but
are not limited to): history, politics and political theory, English literature
and comparative literature, anthropology, sociology, literature, religion,
language, material and visual culture, aesthetic practices, gender and sexuality,
law, environmental and resource management, decolonization.
First consideration
will be given to applications submitted by March 25, 2020.
Latinx Studies postdoctoral associate
The University
Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh invites
applications for a one-year (with the possibility of renewal), full-time,
non-tenure-stream postdoctoral fellowship centered on Latinx studies, beginning
August 2020. We welcome applicants whose research (and proposed teaching)
underscores the recognition of the vital importance of the Latinx experience in
the United States (and the gap which remains in the scholarship documenting and
analyzing it). We are particularly interested in scholars whose work explores
intersections with Latinx history, Latinx literatures, gender and sexuality, or
urban communities.
To be considered,
please submit application material by March 15, 2020.
IGNITE Fellowships
Every year IGNITE
recruits a cohort of diverse and passionate women in communities across America
and provides them with resources, training, and networks to flex their
political power and mobilize women on their campuses and in their communities
to become civically engaged. Fellows serve as ambassadors for IGNITE’s mission
and vision and play a valuable role in our efforts to spread a national message
that it is time for young women to step into political power. IGNITE Fellows
will be compensated with a $12,000 stipend with the successful demonstration of
monthly benchmarks and engagement in IGNITE meetings and training.
The fellowship runs
from August 17, 2020, to June 30, 2021. Different cities host fellowships, so
check out the deadlines through the above URL.
For more information
or questions, please contact our Fellows Director, Tierra Stewart at tierra@ignitenational.org. Monthly
webinars offer more information.
Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Assistant
Professor of Instruction
The Gender,
Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA,
invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Instruction. We seek
candidates who can teach introductory and upper-level courses in both the
interdisciplinary field of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and in one or
more humanities or social science disciplines. We are particularly interested
in instructors who have experience with a variety of teaching methods and
curricular perspectives, and experience in one or more of the following areas:
undergraduate academic advising, program administration, internship placement
and supervision, and event planning and programming.
Deadline: Mar 30, 2020
The Tobin Project: Case Writer/Senior Case Writer
A strong candidate
for the Case Writer position is a talented graduate who is intellectually
ambitious and possesses outstanding writing and research skills and a passion
for using rigorous research to better understand the world. Familiarity with
case-method teaching and case writing is welcome, but not essential.
The Tobin Project is
a non-profit, non-partisan research organization seeking to catalyze innovative
scholarship on major, real world problems, from rising economic inequality to
threats to national security. Inspired by Professor James Tobin’s belief that
scholars have a vital role to play in the public sphere, Tobin works with a
network of several hundred scholars, from Nobel Laureates to top graduate
students, along with policymakers at the highest levels of government, to
generate pioneering research on some of the most pressing problems facing
America and the world today.
Email the materials
to opportunities@tobinproject.org;
applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Postdoctoral Scholar in Latinx Gender/Sexuality History
The Department of
History at Texas Tech University, in coordination with Women’s and Gender
Studies and Mexican-American Latina/o Studies, seeks applications for a
Postdoctoral Scholar in Latinx Gender/Sexuality history to begin August 2020. Successful
applicants must hold a Ph.D. by the time of their appointment. Preference will
be given to applicants whose background in history is supplemented with
experience in Women’s and Gender Studies and/or Mexican-American Studies. Strong
candidates will also demonstrate an ability to promote diversity and utilize
intersectional approaches to research and pedagogy.
Review of
applications will begin on April 3, 2020.
All interested
applicants must apply online at https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25898&siteid=5637#jobDetails=498520_5637
email: j.willett@ttu.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities
The Penn Program in
Environmental Humanities (PPEH) at the University of Pennsylvania invites
applications for a one-year Mellon postdoctoral fellowship. PPEH Mellon Fellows
are expected to pursue their own research agendas as well as actively
participate in the Program’s signature public environmental humanities projects,
in Philadelphia and beyond. The ideal candidate’s application materials will
explicitly address how their research and teaching intersects with ongoing
public initiatives to expand the right to research; we are especially
interested in candidates whose work engages with the digital and medical
humanities.
Deadline: Apr 1, 2020
email: arenberg@sas.upenn.edu
Post-doctoral Fellow Latino/a Studies
The Department of
Latin American and Latino/a Studies at Smith College invites applications for a
two-year, benefits eligible post-doctoral fellowship in Latino/a Studies to
begin July 1, 2020. We welcome applications from any field, but are
particularly interested in scholars working on questions of cultural
citizenship, labor and land rights, and/or technologies of representation. We
especially encourage applicants whose work and teaching emphasizes
intersectional perspectives and innovative methods, and have experience working
beyond conventional modes of knowledge production.
Review of
applications will begin on March 30, 2020.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Indigenous Knowledges
We seek a dynamic,
innovative scholar who specializes in indigenous perspectives. As confidence in
grand technological solutions to existing social and environmental problems has
been tempered by an awareness of damaging unintended consequences, a new
appreciation of indigenous knowledges has begun to transform our development
paradigms. We seek a candidate who can demonstrate deep engagement with the
traditional knowledge through such areas as language, lifeways, theorizations,
and technologies of one or more groups, as well as an understanding of how
indigenous knowledges can productively inform larger conversations in science,
law, policy, heritage and commerce.
Review of
applications will begin on March 15, 2020 and will continue until the position
is filled.
Inquiries may be
directed to: Daniel W. Rivers (rivers.91@osu.edu)
and John N. Low (low.89@osu.edu).
WORKSHOPS
Society for the History of Technology Grad Student
Workshop
The Society for the
History of Technology (SHOT) Early Career Interest Group (ECIG) invites
graduate students to submit abstracts to participate in an intensive workshop
embedded in the formal SHOT conference, which this year is being held jointly
with the History of Science Society (HSS). The workshop will provide graduate
students with an opportunity to discuss their work in progress and to receive
extensive feedback on their work from several established scholars and their
peers. The workshop will occur during two sessions during the annual meeting,
which runs October 7-11.
The deadline for
proposals is April 30th, 2020
Submit proposals to https://forms.gle/4bEmHRKWU5vvEE2p8,
and email them to the organizers at SHOTGradWorkshop2020@gmail.com with
“Graduate Student Workshop” in the subject line.
International Justice
June 30 - July 11,
2020,
The “International
Justice Delegation” brings together young people from around the world for a
unique and intensive 12-day program exploring international justice, human
rights, peace, and international law. Rather than study these subjects only
through textbooks, participants experience real-life cases of international
justice coming to life in The Hague, Netherlands, also known as the
international capital of peace and justice.
Deadline: April 15,
2020
Urban In-sights: A Workshop in American Visual Culture
and Literacy
July 27-29, 2020,
Library Company of Philadelphia
This three-day
workshop aims to enhance the skills of historians, art historians, archivists,
curators, and other university, library and museum professionals, as well as
graduate students who use images to interpret American art, history, and
culture. We seek to augment and strengthen participants’ ability to identify,
“read,” and analyze graphic material, including prints, photographs,
watercolors, paintings, ephemera, and other two-dimensional objects. As the
program uses Philadelphia as a focal point, priority will be given to
applicants interested in using visual and material culture to explore urban
topics.
Applications are
due: March 27, 2020
email: printroom@librarycompany.org
Training Workshops - Qualitative Research
QUAL-WORKS offers a
series of training workshops on qualitative research. We offer three types of
workshops: scheduled workshops, individual mentored sessions, and customized
workshops. Scheduled workshops are held twice a year during summer. Mentored
sessions provide individual mentoring with a QUAL-WORKS expert on your own
research project. Customized workshops can be developed to meet the training
needs of your organization. Please see the workshop schedule below with links
to fliers for more information on each type of workshop.
May 5-8 and August
3-6, 2020
For information: qualworks@emory.edu or 404-7278804
Journal of Social History: Gender and Disability
We are pleased to
announce the release of the latest issue of the Journal of Social History, including
a special section on Gender and Disability.
Contact Email: jsh1@gmu.edu
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