CONFERENCES
Feeling Out of Place: Foreclosed Affordances, Precarious
Affects, and Experiences of Placelessness
AAA (American Anthropological Association) 2020 Panel, St.
Louis, MO, November 18-22, 2020
Panel Abstract: Place has long held a central position in
anthropological inquiry. From the discipline’s beginnings, ethnographers were
attuned to the particularities of place in shaping sociocultural structures and
practices. While phenomenological experience has been a dominant lens for
addressing the notion of place, recent anthropological scholarship drawing on
new materialism has put forth novel methodologies and epistemologies of place
that factor in the agency of non-human actors. Drawing on place as a bounded
site and lens of analysis, scholars have looked at the connection of bodies and
embodied practices within larger landscapes. Such scholarship has made crucial
interventions into the relationships between people and things as well as the
ways in which varied entities are co-constitutive of place and
place-attachments.
We welcome papers that engage with the theme across a wide
range of geographical contexts and ethnographic topics. Please send abstracts
to Tariq Adely (tia10@georgetown.edu)
and David Balgley (dcb88@georgetown.edu)
by Monday, April 20, 2020.
Votes for All?: Suffrage and the15th and 19th Amendments
The History Department, Black Studies, and Women's and
Gender Studies at Cleveland State University invite proposals for an
interdisciplinary conference on voting rights in the United States scheduled
for 8-10 October 2020 at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, or, if
necessary, online via Zoom, Blackboard Collaborate, or other to-be-determined
tools.
The year 2020 marks the 150th and 100th anniversaries of the
ratification of the 15th and 19th amendments, which prohibited voting
discrimination based on race and sex. These amendments resulted from monumental shifts in political and social
history and from years of struggle by Americans who demanded full citizenship
and equality and will be justly commemorated and celebrated. This anniversary, however, offers a special
opportunity for conversation and consideration of the their impact, their
limitations, and the continuing struggle to both suppress and protect voting
rights in this election year.
Deadline: 15 May 2020
Contact Email: r.s.shelton@csuohio.edu
Historically Situated: History, Memory, and Place
Friday-Sunday, 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 May 1,
2020, to Richard M. Strum, Director of Academic Programs: rstrum@fort-ticonderoga.org.
Materialisms: Reconciliations in the Present
October 2-3, 2020, University of Minnesota
In an era marked by an excess of the human and its
possessions, as well as its corollaries – perverse deprivation, subjective
erasure, and an erosion of nonhuman life – by what means might we provide
adequate analysis and offer paths of reconciliation with the present moment? A
new materialism of otherness, a t hing-power, must find rupture here. This
otherness is that of the human made foreclosed by capital, yes, but
additionally that of the nonhuman, the posthuman, the animal, inorganic matter,
machines, atmospheres, the dead. How might the encounter between historical and
new materialism permit us to communicate with, feel, and imagine the nonhuman
while rendering visible the foreclosed human? In short, how might we imagine
(things) otherwise?
Please submit your 200-300 word abstracts in PDF or word, or
any questions to umn.materialism2020@gmail.com
by June 1st, 2020.
Relationships, Reciprocity, and Responsibilities:
Indigenous Studies in Archives and Beyond
September 24-26, 2020, American Philosophical Society,
Philadelphia, PA
As part of its NASI initiative, CNAIR will host a three-day
conference in Philadelphia in September 2020. The conference will reflect new
and emerging scholarship in Native American and Indigenous Studies and allied
fields. Recent scholarship has emphasized the importance of relationships and
relationship-building both with and within Indigenous communities; the
significance of reciprocity in identifying, establishing, and maintaining
community-based priorities; and an increased responsibility to decolonize
scholarship, institutions, and collections.
Applicants should submit a title and a 250-word proposal
related to these themes, along with a 1-page C.V., by April 15, 2020 via
Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/73761.
For more information contact Adrianna Link, Head of
Scholarly Programs, at alink@amphilsoc.org.
CITIES IN A CHANGING WORLD: QUESTIONS OF CULTURE, CLIMATE
AND DESIGN
Virtual conference: New York. City Tech, CUNY, June 16-18,
2021
The premise of this conference is that the city is a site of
interconnected problems. No single issue dominates its needs. No single
discipline has the answers to its questions. As a result, the range of issues
we deal with is vast. Urban designers are developing new models of settlement
planning to address housing needs. Architects are renovating ever more existing
buildings. Infrastructure designers are developing faster modes of
transportation.
In looking at the city as a site of such inherent
interdisciplinarity, the conference venue offers insights. In this place, as in
cites the world over, none of the issues that vex the metropolis are isolated,
and none of their factors, consequences or responses are limited to single
disciplines.
Abstracts: June 30, 2020
Contact: conference@architecturemps.com
Black Feminist and Womanist Theory
September 10th-12th, 2020 at Penn State, University Park
The mission of the Roundtable is to unite scholars across
disciplines who are working to highlight the intellectual contributions of
Black women and non-men throughout the African diaspora. This space functions
as a working space for scholars of various levels to receive feedback on their
projects that will enrich the Black feminist and womanist traditions. While
this space is not closed to Black women and non-men, it is expected that
scholars focus on these groups in their submitted works-in-progress.
The deadline for
abstract submissions has been extended to May 17th. For more information you
can contact me at kxt96@psu.edu.
Passing - A Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Conference
University of Southern California, October 23-24, 2020
Passing or its necessity, involves the individual and
collective scrubbing of enfleshed histories, and forecloses the possibility of
authentic relationships with others. According to Stone, gender passing—as a
performance of hegemonic discourses, as a disidentification with gender
normativity, as a movement towards new horizons of desire—is analogical to the
experience of racial and sexual passing, against which people of color, gays,
and lesbians have already imagined new modes of embodiment, resistance, and
solidarity. Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Conference at the University of
Southern California invites emerging scholars, educators, researchers, artists,
activists, and community members to consider passing, what Snorton identifies
"as the practice of moving from an oppressed group to a dominant group”
(79) and what we consider as a technology of and against visual, aesthetic,
cinematic, televisual, and computational regimes of knowledge.
Abstracts due: May 31, 2020, at 11:59pm
Please direct queries to the conference organizing
committee at firstforum2020@gmail.com
or Harry Hvdson at hgilbert@usc.edu.
Urban Assemblage :
The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data
28-30 June 2021
Virtual / London
This new polemic agency of the machine to generate, analyse
and distribute data is not limited to the built environment however. It also
informs the creative industries. A plethora of films in recent decades have
built on the imaginary it offers: The Matrix, Ex Machina, Her, Minority Report
to name but a few. In the arts, data is increasingly used as both a tool and
motive for artworks. David McCandless’ founding of the platform Information Is
Beautiful, and Aaron Koblin’s establishment of Google’s Data Arts Team are
typical examples. Landscape and projection artists use the digital
recalibration of data into imagery to create spaces and representations of our
cities daily.
Early Abstracts: 30 June 2020
Contact and submissions: admin@architecturemps.com
PUBLICATIONS
Social Order and Art Sources of Imagination
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6003705/social-order-and-art-sources-imagination
By suggesting the general topic Social Order and Art Sources
of Imagination, we would like to invite scholars to contribute with research
papers focusing on how artworks function as primary documents of how social
order emerges and is maintained. By introducing the framework inspired by one
of the aspects of contemporary cultural sociology, we would like to note that
art can be seen as a reflection of society if we define ‘reflection’ as a means
for contributing to the understanding of society itself. Therefore,
understanding society is also possible via the understanding of specific pieces
of art and mass culture that circulate within society. According to cultural
sociological methodology, it may provide insights that otherwise would not be
possible to gain.
June 1, 2020 — 500 words abstracts deadline
Contributions should be sent via e-mail to the
editors-in-chief, Professor Alexander Filippov, and Dr. Nail Farkhatdinov (sociologica@hse.ru).
Autotheory
ASAP/Journal seeks critical and creative contributions for a
guest-edited special issue on autotheory. Fusing self-representation with
philosophy and critical theory, autotheory moves between the worlds of theory
and practice, often exceeding disciplinary boundaries, genres, and forms. This
special issue embarks on a rigorous investigation of the autotheoretical
impulse as it moves across medial, disciplinary, and national borders from the
1960s to the present.
Completed essays are due by 1 May 2020. Please e-mail
queries or abstracts to the ASAP/Journal editor, Jonathan P. Eburne,
at editors_asap@press.jhu.edu.
For additional submission guidelines, please visit https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/asap_journal/guidelines.html.
Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public
Engagement Among Latin American Migrants
This volume interrogates the intersection of digital
diasporas to studies on public engagement and social activism, particularly how
social platforms and mobile applications enable the creation of virtual
communities of Latin American migrants living abroad. This edited book looks
for contributions on relevant cases on how Latin Americans use information
technologies to build diasporic communities not only to stay in contact with
their culture at a distance but to power social activism and to fight back
against social and political tribulations in both contexts (homeland and the
host country). Above all, this anthology aims to illustrate that despite
misfortune, peril, and distance, diasporic communities remain unwilling to
renounce their cultures, nor do they merely acquiesce to the demands of their
new host countries.
The deadline to submit the full chapter is July 05, 2020
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or to send
us a 250-words proposal ASP to the following addresses: david.dalton@uncc.edu and david.ramirez@redudg.udg.mx
Realms of Gender Interactions: South Asian Perspectives
South Asian Survey (SAGE Journal)
Gender, across South Asia, is entangled in social and
cultural role stereotyping that limits the ability of women as well as
differently gendered individuals to invest in their human capital and social
networks. Transformations in the social, political and economic systems, over
the decades, have enabled women and other genders to think and aim beyond their
life behind the veil/closet and gain control over their agency. Gender
activism, in the South Asian countries, has ranged from women’s participation
in social and political movements to promoting gender rights and socio-economic
justice (Leela Fernandes, 2017) and abolishing discriminatory laws and
irrational gender classifications. Women are overcoming gender stereotyping to
realize their dreams, and also breaking the glass ceilings to overcome
organized systems of vertical segregation in organizational setups within and
across the nation-states in the region.
Full papers (5000-6000 words), as well as a short biography
(max. 100 words) should be sent to both the editors 30th April, 2020 at rabikar.du@gmail.com and kushatiwari@gmail.com
The politics of religious dissent
The first issue of International Journal of Religion is a
special issue. It seeks to compare and contrast differing religious perspectives
on the topic of politics and religious dissent. Its focus is on: key tenets of
belief of a particular religious faith; examples of dissent from core beliefs;
the elasticity of religious traditions; consequences of dissent; diversity
within religious faiths; how religions manage or fail to manage dissent;
ethical treatment of dissent in religious traditions; and whether religious
faiths prescribe clear ways to manage dissent.
Deadline for abstracts, of between 150-200 words, is 30
April 2020.
Contact Email: ijoreditor@gmail.com
Gender and Empowerment in American History and Politics
Starting from this premise, the fourth issue of USAbroad
seeks to reflect on how gender interacted and still interacts with political
discourse and practice at large. This means exploring not only how gender has
influenced political participation and mobilization but also how gender issues
have shaped and have been shaped by the society that underpins common political
norms and institutions. The stated goal is to investigate the complex and
multi-faceted link between gender and empowerment in American history and politics.
We seek to understand how straight women as well as members of the LGBTQ+
community have defined empowerment in terms of policy and outcomes, and what
approaches have devised to reach autonomy and self-determination in American
society broadly defined.
Abstract deadline: April 30
Contact Email: cadedduf@gmail.com
Crossing Sacred Borders: Writing Journeys in Literature
and Culture
Writers, poets, philosophers, and thinkers often dwelled on
the theme of a journey and spiritual quest as one the central themes in their
works in many religious and literary traditions; ancient masterpieces offer
fascinating stories of pilgrimages, wanderings, and inner search. Among such
literary works is the epic of Gilgamesh, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, etc. The
motif of travel and journey dominates literary narratives in world literature.
Protagonists are usually in constant movement and search for someone or
something. Travel and journey, pilgrimage and inner quest are those topics that
will be discussed in this interdisciplinary edited volume. By April 10,
please submit a 250-300 word abstract and your CV to Dr. Elena Shabliy eshabliy@tulane.edu and/or Dr. Dmitry
Kurochkin dkurochk@fas.harvard.edu.
Digital Humanities Digital approaches to Literary
,linguistic and cultural Studies
With the prolific growth of digital technologies, there have
been paradigm shifts in the ways in which traditional approaches to the study
of Humanities in particular literary, and culture studies have been made. The
emergence of digital turn and the accompanying methods and techniques have ,in
the last several years, have made significant critical interventions into the
field of literary, linguistic study, and cultural heritage research and
resulted in different approaches which scholars have integrated into their
research in the field of humanities. The anthology seeks critical essays from
scholars, archivists, librarians and heritage practitioners on broader
methodological and empirical issues pertaining to the intersection of literary
studies and Digital Humanities.
Scholars, researchers, and Archivists, Librarians are
invited to send an abstract (max. 250 words) of their proposed chapters and a
short bio-note to before April 15, 2020.
Capitalism, Coronavirus, and Crushing College as We Know It
Massive changes are afoot in academia as a result of
COVID-19. Fast Capitalism would like your critical thoughts on the way the
quick move to online education will change higher education for everyone. The
special section of Fast Capitalism will appear in issue 17.2 due out in
September/October 2020. We're witnessing how crisis capitalism has a way of
massively shifting our day-to-day existence. The fact that so many are willing
to create online course materials without compensation or course reductions
speaks to hegemony. Antonio Gramsci argued hegemony is so powerful because we
consent to the processes that oppress us and/or others. We're consenting to a
change in the education system. What is happening is a massive amount of unpaid
labor to convert our in-person classes online without any resources.
If you’re interested in submitting an essay feel free to
submit one via FastCapitalism.com or email the editor, David Arditi (darditi@uta.edu). Submit full essays before
May 1 or contact David Arditi.
Lonely Nerds?
Special Issue of Exchanges. The Interdisciplinary Research
Journal
Through its analysis of artistic takes on nerds, our issue
aims to intervene in the debate about technologies' and popular media’s
influence on social bonds, with a particular focus on loneliness. We suggest a
broad understanding of loneliness that includes a wide range of societal issues
such as stances vis-à-vis society, the positionality of nerds within or outside
of it, their intergroup behaviour dynamics and belonging, their feeling of
loneliness both derived from physical and/or emotional isolation, or even
conceptualised as loneliness within a group.
Abstracts of up to 300 words and queries should be submitted
to lonelynerds2021@gmail.com by
18th May 2020.
Contact Email: benjamin.schaper@t-online.de
The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing
Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing
Health is silence, illness voice. The lived-body (leib), the
body as it is lived and the body which is not merely a corporeal body (korper),
speaks through illness (Sarkar, 2019). The latter is a ‘psychosomatic’
condition of not being at ease with-the-world and is, both pathologically and
conceptually, different from disease and sickness (Aho & Aho, 2008). This
then becomes insignificant whether that illness is the illness of the mind or
the body— as the body which is lived is beyond the Cartesian dualism. It is
more of an ambiguous continuum of mind-body entanglement rather than the more
simplistic mind/body binary. Mental illnesses, therefore, are as much as of the
body as physical illnesses are of mind.
We seek chapter abstracts (not more than 300 words) along
with a short bio-note (not more than 100 words) for the aforementioned title on
different encounters between illness and literature across time and space. Abstracts
may be sent to either jayjitsarkars@gmail.com
or dyukrish@gmail.com by April 30.
Constructing Islam: Politization of Muslim Identity in
Contemporary World
How do various actors ‘format’ Islam in the public space?
How do established discourses politicize and transform the Muslim identity?
Finally, how does the Muslim community respond to requests to unify/standardize
its representation, and what effect does this exert on pluralism within the
Muslim community? What new meanings emerge from such interaction? In this issue
we invite authors to examine in-depth the phenomenon of politicization of
Muslim identity: on the one hand, what image is being shaped in different
sectors of public space? and, on the other hand, how does the Muslim community
react to the set frames?
The authors are welcome to submit their proposals as
abstracts with a title (not more than 500 words) to guest editor Sofya Ragozina
(sofyaragozina@gmail.com) by June
1, 2020.
URL: http://islamology.in
Gender, Sexuality, and Performance in Latin America and the
Caribbean
As evidenced in the public nature of movements such as
#NiUnaMenos, Argentina’s “Green Wave,” and the phenomenon of “Un violador en tu
camino,” introduced by the Chilean performance group Lastesis, gender and
sexuality are gaining public attention in Latin America in new ways, and
performance is proving an important method of activism and engagement in the
public sphere. At the same time, these collective actions call attention to
their continuities with performative genealogies and historical legacies
throughout the twentieth century, and even earlier, as Latin America has
witnessed some of the earliest feminist movements in the Western Hemisphere.
Aiming for balanced regional coverage, we hope to include
case studies spanning Latin America and the Caribbean and in dialogue with
Latinx diasporic communities in the United States and Canada. We invite essays
that attend to the historicity of gender and sexual justice movements, as well
as their rootedness in theatre and performance practices.
Please submit a 200-250 word abstract to both editors by May
10, 2020: katherine.zien@mcgill.ca,
werth@american.edu
Autoethnography and
cissexism / heterosexism
The Journal of Autoethnography is publishing an issue about
cissexism / heterosexism. Contributors are asked to:
* Bring the experiences of queerness into
focus through a variety of intersectional and interdisciplinary
autoethnographies
* Demonstrate the need for cultural change and
social justice interventions related to various dimensions of queer existence
in order to improve queer livability
* Bring to light the assumptions that
accompany kinship formations/creations and demonstrate how these assumptions
are informed by vectors of oppression
* Expand the category of queer kinship and
demonstrate additional modes of queer resistance to heterosexism and cissexism
Potential contributors are invited to submit an abstract
(250-500 words) of their proposed contribution to Jocelyne Bartram Scott at mailto:JB.Scott@ttu.edu> by
June 15, 2020.
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? 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: 30th June 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/
African Immigrants Mental Health
Currently, African immigrants are one of the fastest growing
immigrant populations with over 2.1 millions African immigrants residing in the
U.S. as of 2015 (Anderson, 2017). This led the Office of Minority Health
Resource Center (OMHRC) and African-serving organizations in the United States,
to first host the United States Conference on African Immigrant Health in 2013 to address health issues among
African immigrants and refugees within the United States. Although awareness of
this population needs increases, limited health information exists on this
group especially regarding mental health and its consequences in their daily
lives. The purpose of this edited volume is to gather literature on the mental
and psychological health of African immigrants from various professionals and
individuals.
Deadline for chapter proposals (approx. 500 words excluding
citations): April 30th, 2020.
Gender and Unpaid Work
Special issue of Journal of Comparative Family Studies
The issue will focus on gender, housework, and care
activities (childcare and eldercare). We welcome a wide range of papers on the
topic in any cultural contexts and hope to highlight the importance of gender
relations and social expectations in shaping the patterns of the domestic
division of unpaid labor. The authors are welcome to discuss commonalities and
differences across countries and welfare regimes, as well as historical trends
and contemporary issues on the topic. We invite manuscripts which use
quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methodologies. The main issue we plan to
address is whether gendered relations within households produce diverging
outcomes in housework and care participation in different countries.
Submission deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2020
Rebel Streets: Urban Space, Art and Social Movements
Art’s role in the urban space of social mobilizations
results in a multitude of spatial dynamics and the emotional, communicative and
aesthetic interactions. Such urban creativity has a broad scope of interests
from a clear “right to the city” perspective with its ecological, spatial, and
ideological agenda to the struggles of civil rights, and individual and
collective freedoms. While, this aspect of urban creativity has opened the
research into recognizing street art as a genre for “political democratization”
(Bengtsen & Arvidson, 2014), the growing significance of art in social and
spatial justice movements has not met with a rigorous academic undertaking.
This year's Rebel Streets Conference is canceled due to
Covid-19. Abstract submissions for the edited volume are accepted until April
30, 2020.
Contact Email: tijentunali9@gmail.com
The Politics of Technology in Latin America
The purpose of these edited books is to examine the
technological and ethical trends and prospective challenges that will reshape
the social use of digital technologies in Latin America. How will ethical and
legal frameworks have to evolve to respond to novel issues and critical
challenges in the region, ranging from virtual harassment, bullying and sexting
incidents posted on YouTube, dating app user privacy, information on members of
criminal organizations disseminated on social media, political activism and
governmental censorship, in addition to the introduction of robotics and AI,
cyberwar, the rise of fake news and alternative facts, the digital economy,
cryptocurrencies and other key topics.
The deadline to submit the full chapter is June 08, 2020.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or to send
us a 500-words proposal and a 250-CV ASAP to the following addresses: david.ramirez@redudg.udg.mx and barbaracgurgel@gmail.com
Other Voices:
Redefining the Humanities
Colleges and universities have experienced their own rapid
and foundational changes and challenges over the past two decades: deep and
permanent funding cuts; attacks from political factions and business interests
questioning the purpose and value of higher education itself; extreme pressures
to produce “work-ready” graduates; the continuing “adjunctification” of the
professorate; and the closure of programs, departments, colleges, and entire
universities. Yet the humanities remain in the vanguard of social and cultural
changes, as they always have. Ever responsive to the cultures and societies
from which they come, the humanities is in the midst of a metamorphosis as the
role of the arts and letters in the 21st century evolves to represent,
articulate, interpret, challenge, champion, and create the myriad and rapid
changes underway.
Watchung Review invites scholarly articles and creative
works that take up the reimaginings of the humanities and its place in the 21st
century. We invite broad interpretations of these reimaginings, especially ones
sensitive to new or underrepresented voices.
Deadline: 30th June 2020
Please send inquiries and submissions to watchungreview@gmail.com
Effects of Pandemics
on Religion
The Division of Religious History for the Global Center for
Religious Research (GCRR) is seeking written submissions to be anthologized in
a bound publication dedicated to the influence and effects of pandemics on
religion. We welcome both industry leaders and scholars from any discipline
related to religious studies, the natural or social sciences, theology, and
history. Initial submission proposals should be an abstract of 200‒500 words.
Final book chapters should be 4,000‒8,000 words.
Submission Due Date: July 1st, 2020
Contact info@gcrr.org for
submissions or questions about submissions.
CFP Pandemics in
World History
World History Connected, a 14-year-old affiliate of
the World History Association published by the University of Illinois Press, is
seeking papers for a special issue devoted to research and the scholarship of
teaching on that pandemics germane to the interdisciplinary field of world
history, embracing, but not limited to, trans-regional, comparative, gender,
and global studies. Submissions should be received by November 2, 2020 for
possible publication in the February issue of 2021. Manuscripts should be
submitted electronically to the Editor at mgilbert@hpu.edu.
Correspondence relating to books to be reviewed and those interested in
reviewing books for this issue, should contact cskwiot@mma.edu.
International Journal for Indigenous Health
The International Journal of Indigenous Health (IJIH) is
pleased to announce a general call for papers for Volume 15. In this call for
papers, IJIH is inviting manuscript submissions from academic and
community-based researchers and practitioners or submissions from Indigenous
community members in the field of Indigenous health.
Contact the IJIH editorial team with questions or concerns
at ijih.dlsph@utoronto.ca.
Rendered Invisible: African and Black Migrants and Asylum
Seekers at the U.S. Mexican Border
Call for papers for the next issue of Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal
of African Migration
The purpose of this call for papers is to create awareness
and to stimulate conversation about the geopolitics of African and Black
migration at the U.S. Mexican border; to give voice to African and Black
migrants and asylum seekers to share their personal stories; and to influence
the global narrative and conversation about the ways in which African and Black
migration and asylum is conceptualized and discussed in the larger global
migration movement. We encourage submissions that use an interdisciplinary
approach to this emerging and important topic. Creative artistic (poetry and
images) submissions are also welcomed.
Submit your papers using the following form: https://africamigration.com/paper-submissions
For more information contact: info@africamigration.com
Introducing Artsolation & call for submission
Artsolation is a platform about visual cultures created by
Lauren Rozenberg and Laura Scalabrella Spada. It materialised in a time of
isolation, of social distancing and fearful uncertainties about the future.
This blog aims to disseminate research and to reflect on any expression of
visual cultures. Artsolation is a platform about visual cultures created by
Lauren Rozenberg and Laura Scalabrella Spada. It materialised in a time of
isolation, of social distancing and fearful uncertainties about the future.
This blog aims to disseminate research and to reflect on any expression of
visual cultures.
We hope you will join us in amplifying our voices and
sharing cultures. Please, get in touch with us at info@artsolation.co.uk or through
the contact form.
FUNDING
Fellowships in Southeast Texas and Gulf Coast Studies
The Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and
the Upper Gulf Coast at Lamar University Our supports the creation,
preservation, and transmission of knowledge about all aspects of life in
Southeast Texas and along the Gulf Coast between Corpus Christi and Pensacola.
Each year we award up to three $5000 fellowships to scholars, authors, and
artists who have made or are making contributions to the broader understanding
of our region. This funding is meant to support fellows for up to one academic
semester (approximately 3 months) as they pursue their research or creative
agenda. We encourage applications from any discipline and are especially
interested in projects that consider our core geographic region within broader
national, hemispheric, or global frameworks.
The deadline for completed applications is April 1, 2020
Contact Email: bgillis@lamar.edu
The Jamie Guilbeau and Thelma Guilbeau UL Lafayette
Collections Research Grant
Proposals should indicate promise of publication or reaching
a broad audience in some other form and require work in the collections of the
University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collections, the Ernest J. Gaines
Center, the Cajun and Creole Music Collection, the Center for Louisiana
Studies, or in other UL Lafayette collections. The grant is intended primarily
to defray travel expenses, therefore preference will be given to researchers
beyond commuting distance of UL Lafayette. Particular consideration will be
given to applications that speak broadly to Louisiana and its history,
heritage, cultures, and identities.
The deadline for applications is May 1, 2020.
Contact Email: michael.martin@louisiana.edu
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Mellon Postdoctoral
Research Associate
William & Mary seeks a postdoctoral fellow to
participate in research and programming for The Lemon Project: A Journey of
Reconciliation. The Lemon Project Fellow will engage the community in the
search for descendants of the people enslaved by William & Mary and its
affiliates from its founding until the U.S. Civil War. The Fellow will help to
prepare community members to locate descendants (by birth or community
affiliation) using archival research and genealogical methods. Findings will be
used in The Lemon Project’s restorative justice efforts, including supporting
the African American community’s awareness and understanding of its role in the
history of William & Mary, increasing awareness of the institution’s public
narrative through curriculum and workshop development, and supporting the
completion of the Memorial to African Americans Enslaved by William & Mary.
The application review begins on May 8, 2020, and the job
closes on May 10, 2020.
Apply online at https://jobs.wm.edu/postings/38665
History of Sexuality
Graduate Research Assistantship
I am hiring a graduate researcher to assist in the
construction of an annotated bibliography focusing on the history of sexuality.
This fellowship is largely aimed at a PhD. candidates who are at the
comprehensive exam or A.B.D. stage, but advanced Masters-level students are
also encouraged to apply. Interest in digital humanities, digital archives, or
related topics would also help.
Remuneration is in the form of a $1,500 USD payment in 2-3
installments (depending on whatever format works best for the awardee). This is
roughly roughly 5-8hr a week at ~$16/hr over a 3 month/12 week time period, but
the length of time is also negotiable.
Send a 1-page cover letter and a 2-3 page CV, to Brian M.
Watson at briwats@iu.edu on or before May
1st, 2020. References are not required, but do not harm the application. Minoritized
or multiply-marginalized candidates possessing essentially equivalent qualifications
will receive preferential consideration. If applicable, please mention this in
the cover letter.
Project description
About 50 Years On:
50 Years On, Many Years Past: Nonfictions of Sexuality (www.histsex.com) is an
in-progress resource for the history of sexuality funded by a generous
Carnegie-Whitney Grant from the American Library Association. This project will
develop an open-source, easily reusable bibliography chosen, reviewed, and
annotated by historians of sexuality, sex educators, and librarians active in
sexuality fields.
Additional resources offered will include:
(1) A worldwide searchable and
annotated directory of archives of use to historians, students, and researchers
interested in LGBTQIA+ research.
(2) A descriptive catalog of
relevant digital projects connected to sexuality and sexual representation.
(3) A bibliography of books
tagged and searchable by research interest, reading level, topic, and more.
(4) An interactive visual
timeline of major events in the history of sexuality to help ground and pique
public interest.
Service Assistant Professor and Assistant Director –
Women’s and Gender Studies
The West Virginia University program in Women’s and Gender
Studies (WGST; https://womensgenderstudies.wvu.edu/) invites applications for a
faculty position at the rank of Service Assistant Professor. This position is
for the 9-month academic year with a 3-month summer assignment. The preferred
start date is July 1, 2020. Service faculty appointments at WVU are full-time,
promotable, and non-tenure track.
This position requires a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree
in Women’s and Gender Studies or a related field; ability to provide excellent
undergraduate teaching and advising in WGST; ability to assist the program
director in curriculum design, course scheduling, assessment, student
recruitment, and mentoring GTAs; ability to work effectively in a diverse environment;
and excellent oral and written communication skills.
Review of applications will begin on May 15, 2020 and
continue until the position is filled. For further information, contact Dr.
Sharon Bird, Search Committee Chair, at sharon.bird@mail.wvu.edu.
Bringing Your Course Online
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fully online. On this site, we are gathering resources and advice from Modern
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site, you’ll find ideas about how to reflect and make a plan, decide on an
approach and select tools, and revise class assignments and activities. You’ll
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moment, digital pedagogy, and discipline-specific concerns.
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