CONFERENCES
Markets and
Migration: Ethnic Spaces in the Urban Landscape
Society of Architectural Historians 2021 Annual
International Conference
April 14–18, 2021 in Montréal, Canada
This session focuses on the role migration has had in
defining the identities of cities and their neighborhoods, examining how
immigrants have shaped the urban landscape through commercial and mixed-use
developments such as strip-malls, corner shops, and market stalls. The study of
these interstitial spaces demands architectural analyses that can address
ancillary spatial practices, global and transnational exchanges, markets and
movements of people, goods, and symbols specific to urban minorities. We
welcome papers that address the ways in which commercial endeavors by
immigrants, defined by the particular locale, have contributed to the forms and
histories of a given city at all geographical and temporal scales from the
environmental, historical to the ephemeral, from the storefront, street,
neighborhood, to the region.
ONLINE EDUCATION:
TEACHING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
A virtual conference coordinated by Routledge, AMPS and
PARADE: 21-23 April 2021
Recent events across the world of academia have brought into
full light the various agendas around online education and research. As
universities, schools and colleges closed across the world in 2020, researchers,
teachers and students scrambled to adapt to a whole host of new pedagogical
tools, communicative techniques, learning methods and teaching styles almost
overnight. Some survived, others thrived, while some struggled and ultimately
went ‘out of business’. What then, is the “new present” for education in the
discipline areas of this conference, and what will the tomorrow hold?
This virtual conference welcomes presentations from
researchers and teachers on how they operate in the ‘online classroom, studio or
lab’ and how they function ‘in the field’ using the new technologies available
to them.
30 June 2020: Early abstracts will be reviewed.
The World of Alt-Ac
South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference,
November 13-15, 2020, Jacksonville, Florida
This session of SAMLA 92 invites proposals for a roundtable
discussion about Alt-Ac (Alternative-Academic) careers, preparation, and
mentorship opportunities. The goal is to provide SAMLA attendees with practical
information about transitioning to Alt-Ac work. Anyone with a doctorate working
in a career outside of academia or within the academy and not teaching is
encouraged to apply. By June 25, 2020, please send a CV and a brief description
of how you would contribute to the discussion to Dr. Trisha Kannan at tk1139@gmail.com.
NOTE: The conference organizers are planning for a normal
conference at this point, but they are also preparing for a virtual conference
if need be.
Controversy and
Consensus: Shifting Places, Patterns, and Perspectives Graduate Conference
Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, April
16 and 17, 2021
We invite graduate and advanced undergraduate students from across
the social sciences and the humanities to submit proposals for papers or panels
that adopt an interdisciplinary or transnational approach, but we are also
seeking papers or panels that approach historical topics in more traditional
ways. All submissions must be based on original research.
Deadline: January 9, 2021
Contact Email: histconf@cmich.edu
Indigenous Studies Area, Midwest Popular Culture
Association Conference
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 MAY 29, 2020 via the online submission system, http://submissions.mpcaaca.org.
Materialisms: Reconciliations in the Present-Updated
University of Minnesota, Graduate Student Conference,
October 2-3, 2020
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?
This excess of the human cannot be spoken without reference to the neoliberal
condition which has fomented callous accumulation of capital while relegating
so much of humanity to the status of “surplus”. Such acknowledgement hails the
historical materialism of Marx, yet, unspoken resides the unseen ‘vibrancies’ of
the nonhuman. 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 July 31st, 2020.
PUBLICATIONS
Visual Ethnography of COVID-19 pandemic – mapping project
Anthropologists reside, work and conduct field work all
around the world, and mobility is at the very core of our endeavour. However,
with the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 and consequent mobility
restrictions – for us as well as for most communities across the globe – our
physical presence has been drastically limited both at home, and with respect
to the ‘field’ where we do our fieldwork. This call for action is inspired by
our strength as a global network and community, and by our capacity to situate
the local in the global and vice versa.
We invite all anthropologists, as well as other social
researchers with ethnographic interest, to contribute to a visual ethnographic
map of COVID-19 pandemic via a specific mapping project created in Google Maps,
entitled Visual Ethnography of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each contributor is invited to upload to the
project map current photos, accompanied by a date and short description.
If you would like to contribute, please email Cristina
Douglas, r01crd17@abdn.ac.uk.
Mobilizing
Narratives: Narrating (Im)Mobility Injustice (edited collection)
Edward Said's summation that "we live in a period of
migration, of forced travel and forced residence, that has literally engulfed
the globe” (Culture and Resistance, 2003) is an apt description of the riveting
and pervasive nature of (im)mobility in contemporary times. Wars, climate
change, pandemics, economic recessions, and social and cultural inequalities
all contribute to coerce individuals as well as communities into forced
movement or imposed immobility. This collection of articles seeks to
investigate the injustices related to free circulation as represented in
literary texts.
I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches
conjugating literary studies and mobility studies. Chatpers should also
investigate injustices attending (im)mobility and discuss the role of literary
production in consciousness raising.
For any query, please contact: Hager Ben Driss, bendrisshager@gmail.com
ExtReme 21: Going Beyond in Post-Millennial
North-American Literature and Culture
The editors seek proposals that focus on the topic of the
(broadly understood) extreme in American and Canadian literature and culture of
the last two decades. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
-- human dominion vs. bio gaze – the Anthropocene, are we
too many?, extreme nature, disaster scenarios, elitist issue?, “wild goats take
over an empty town,” the underappreciated outdoors
-- extreme -isms (e.g. radicalism, extremism,
fundamentalism, conservatism, liberalism)
-- (post-)9/11 – terror, war, suspicion, discrimination,
conspiracy, surveillance, safety, Enduring Freedom?
-- post/transhumanist aesthetics/ethics
-- WHAT NOW? (moving past/going beyond the unprecedented)
Scholars interested in contributing an essay of
approximately 20,000-30,000 characters with spaces are invited to submit
a 250-word abstract specifying their line of research. The abstracts
should be sent to Izabella Kimak and Julia Nikiel (exreyconference@gmail.com) by 31
July 2020.
Historizing Islamophobia
The
Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam invites articles for a
special issue related to the theme of Historizing Islamophobia.
Islamophobia is often explained as a problem of behaviour and attitudes,
effacing the world-historical thick contexts in which Islamophobia emerged as a
form of racism constitutive in the making of the modern world. As we approach
the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, this special issue is interested in papers
that take a critical stance towards the dominant framing of 11 September 2001
as the ‘starting point’ of Islamophobia. We seek articles that present
counter-hegemonic analyses, approaches and concepts, examining Islamophobia as
a longer and more complex phenomenon. We are especially interested in papers
which examine how settler-colonial projects against Indigenous communities and
colonized communities have informed Islamophobia formations across varying
national, social and political contexts.
Submission should be made before the 20 February 2021.
For more information, please contact the Guest Editor at randa.abdel-fattah@mq.edu.au.
Women in Higher Education: A Compilation of Feminist
Historiographies
We are pleased to invite chapters for an upcoming book
proposal entitled, Women in Higher Education: A Compilation of Feminist
Historiographies. The focus of the book will be on women who have significantly
influenced higher education in the United States during the mid-19th to
mid-20th centuries. We welcome feminist historiographies highlighting women
from a wide range of national, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds to share the
legacies of these female educational pioneers. If accepted, the final book
chapters must document the subject’s relevant biography, her contribution to
higher education and demonstrate an in-depth intersectionality of narratives
between author and historical female figure.
Submission deadline for summaries: August 14, 2020
Proposals and submissions should be emailed to the Main
Editor: Karen Case at kcase@hartford.edu
A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood
How do scholars research and shed light on marginalized
populations - especially those that are rarely recognized as such? Combining
girl-centered feminist inquiry and public history, this edited volume reflects
on how we research and interpret girls and girlhood for the public. This book will reflect on how girls have been
marginalized, how our work is bringing their stories to light, and why
incorporating girlhood narratives in museums, historic sites, memorials, and
other public spaces helps foster intersectional inclusivity and expand our
audience base. Together, each chapter will showcase that by addressing girls
specifically, we can better engage with youth, advocate for gender equality,
and provide new insights into history and culture that expand our view of
historical events, people, and places.
Please submit a 300-word abstract and 100 word biography,
plus C.V., to Tiffany R. Isselhardt at tiffany@girlmuseum.org by
July 30, 2020.
Resonance: Axiologies of Distributed Perception
The aim of this transdisciplinary volume is to examine
resonant frequencies in the structuring of animal-human-machinic
perceptibilities and their becoming-technique, matrix, or technology through
confluence, concrescence, negentropy, and, conversely, dissipation, erosion or
entropy. It’s to open up a space of reflection on interspecies microperceptions
that lie beneath the threshold of known perceptions, yet create
spatio-temporal, geolocative and energetic inscriptions and vibrations. The
collection is divided into three sections: Entanglement, Plasticity, and
Organology.
Please send 500 w proposals for 6500 w chapters and a 150 w
bio with the subject heading ‘Resonance’ to: indeterminacy@dundee.ac.uk by 20
June 2020.
Bodies at the Bottom of the Well: Critical and Creative
Approaches to Medical Racism
In light of increased average life expectancy in the U.S.
due to advances in medical care, medical racism still produces disproportionate
adverse health outcomes. In this context there is an increasing necessity to understand
the history of medical racism, become aware of contemporary experiences of
medical racism, and develop strategies and practices to promote change in the
many fields related to health care. This book will offer cross-disciplinary,
academic, activist, and creative perspectives about the systemic and
institutional nature of medical racism. While our proposed title is an homage
to the work of Critical Race Theorists, we welcome proposals that incorporate
other critical theories and methodologies. We also encourage writing that goes
beyond academic essays such as personal narratives and other creative works.
Proposal Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020
Send submissions to: LewisandKelley@gmail.com
Loneliness and the Crisis of Work
Reflecting on what role do the activities of work perform in
human lives, it was Hannah Arendt, who linked work with the enterprise of
world-building. Contrary to what Marx had hoped, one can also ask: is it
possible to get rid of work in an ideal society? How does one understand the
legitimacy of work? In the background of these concerns, the volume seeks to
address the crisis of work/social labor and loneliness within contemporary
capitalist work settings (with particular reference to academia) to understand
new modes of domination, vulnerabilities, exclusion and meaninglessness in the
present times.
Please submit an abstract up to 100-250 words, with 6-7
keywords and a short CV by 30th May, 2020 to CrisisofWork@gmail.com.
Human Trafficking: Global History and Global Perspectives
The US Department of State and many non-governmental and
intergovernmental organizations consider human trafficking “modern slavery.”
Although the number varies, it is believed that, worldwide, no less than 20
million people are being trafficked. These institutions and scholars around the
world have noted that assessing the full scope of human trafficking is difficult
because, in the first place, many governments do not know what to do with the
victims and their perpetrators; secondly, the perpetrators often do not
cooperate for fear of the law; and third,
many of the victims not cooperate because of the stigma attached and,
most importantly, the fear of retribution against them and their friends and
family members. The purpose of this project is to systematically examine Human
Trafficking around the world. It is for this reason that we are inviting
scholars, members of the Civil Society, government and non-governmental
organizations to contribute chapters to this book project.
Please submit a 300-350-word abstract plus a 150-250-word
biography along with your official contact information by 30 June 2020 to edung@alasu.edu and please Cc the coeditor at
aavwunudiogba@csustan.edu
Molecular Intimacies of Empire
This special issue of the Journal of Transnational
American Studies on The Molecular Intimacies of Empire seeks to deepen
intellectual connections between New Materialist scholarship (including in
environmental humanities, Science and Technology Studies, and material
feminism) and transnational American studies by attending to U.S.
neo/imperialism’s reliance on racialized and uneven molecular intimacies. The
Molecular Intimacies of Empire shifts the scale of analysis to empire’s
mutually constitutive relation with chemical bonds through the simultaneously
transnational and “trans-corporeal” (Stacy Alaimo) circulation of foods,
flavors, scents, dyes, toxics, plants, pathogens, drugs, chemical processes,
and other biological and synthetic materials.
The editors, David Vázquez and Hsuan Hsu, invite 250-word
abstracts due by August 1, 2020 to molecularintimacies@gmail.com.
Decentring the Avant-garde: Landscape, Travel and the
Gaze in Experimental Film and Video
The special issue of Papers on Language and Literature (vol.
57) aims to highlight the work of filmmakers working on the margins of the
avant-garde, including those using traditional (8 mm or 16 mm) and new (hybrid)
media formats, and the ways they (re)address the questions of landscape, travel
and the gaze. The proposed special issue of Papers on Language and Literature
seeks contributions that discuss works of both renowned and less known
experimental filmmakers, including those working on the periphery of the
avant-garde film practice.
Please send a paper proposal of approx 250 words and CV
(including the list of publications) to the editor, Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska, at
kornelia.boczkowska@gmail.com.
The deadline for abstract submissions is June 1, 2020.
The Environment and Social Justice in Asia
Articles are invited for a special issue of the Asian
Affairs Journal on the subject of "The Environment and Social Justice in
Asia", to be published in November 2020. Articles covering any field or
issue under this heading, including mining, water issues, forestry, manual
scavenging, climate change, pollution, wildlife issues, or any other related
matter are sought for this special issue of the Journal. This special issue
hopes to focus attention on the interactions of environmental issues, politics,
wealth, opportunities and privileges, as well as the effect of interventions
and advocacy work on behalf of marginalised groups.
The deadline for submissions is 15 September 2020.
Contact Email: bijan.omrani@btinternet.com
Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and
Art
Over forty years have passed since Sandra Gilbert and Susan
Gubar wrote The Madwomen in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth
Century Literary Imagination, their quintessential work of feminist literary
criticism has called attention to itself through its title. The phrase
“madwoman” has not become outdated; to the contrary, it continues to signify,
to take on cultural, literary, and power-related meaning, meaning that extends
to academic, cultural, legal, political, and other arenas. What happens when we
de-contextualize “the madwoman” from her orthodox contexts in order to consider
her in ways that seek to produce and uncover meaning not relegated to the woman
writer or to the nineteenth century literary imagination alone? The collection
will deliberate on the category of ‘the madwoman’ within social justice
movements, literatures, and art – grappling with both literary and cultural
constructions of ‘the madwoman,’ as well as with the ways that women writers,
artists, and activists have embraced or subverted the category of ‘madwoman’
and used the construct and label in positive ways, reclaiming it and
undermining its patriarchal uses, in order to work for various forms of social
justice.
Please send proposals to Jessica Lowell Mason (jlmason1@buffalo.edu) and Nicole Crevar
(ncrevar@email.arizona.edu) by
August 1.
Histories of Disability
Thirty years ago year this summer, the Americans with
Disabilities Act became law. To observe this anniversary, Process: a blog
for American history invites submissions about all aspects of the history
of disability in the United States. We urge authors to think broadly about
disability and about how both lived experiences and definitions of disability
have changed over time. We hope to receive essays that explore the
intersections of disability and ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and
class—as well as materials that investigate the nature and operation of
ableism—throughout U.S. history. We welcome contributions from anyone engaged
in the practice of U.S. history, including researchers, teachers, graduate
students, archivists, curators, public historians, digital scholars, activists,
and others. Submissions should be written for a public readership and should
generally not exceed 1500 words.
Proposals and drafts may be emailed to blog@oah.org.
Edited collection on
collaborative art and literature of the U.S. quarantine
We are presently seeking chapter contributions for a collection
tentatively entitled Collaborative Quarantine: Critical Essays on Co-created
Literature and Art of the American Pandemic. Several major university presses
have already shown interest in the collection. We are aiming for Winter 2020 as
a deadline for the submission of chapter drafts. Topics covered by current
chapters include: collaborative poetry and online poetry communities of
co-creation, co-authored creative non-fiction reportage of first-responders
during the pandemic, community-authored renegotiations of rental agreements,
and co-drawn diary comics of those in quarantine.
Abstracts of 300 words are sought by August 1, 2020.
Please email to Michael.chaney@dartmouth.edu
Teaching in a
Pandemic
The pandemic has shaken up education at every level. We seek
contributions for our next issue of Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive
Scholarship and Pedagogy (Penn State University Press) for a special section on
"Teaching in a Pandemic." The contribution can be a reflective essay
or creative work on teaching and learning during the COVID-19 crisis.
Contributors can come from any sector of education: professors, graduate
students, teaching assistants, K-12 teachers, administrators, support staff, home
schoolers, parents, policymakers, and students. The due date for submissions is
15 August 2020.
Contact Email: jmartinek@njcu.edu
Quarantined Across
Borders: Call for Short Essays
We invite personal narratives, commentaries, and critical
essays on immigrant/diasporic/borderland communities during the lockdown,
quarantine, or shelter-in-place issued during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Anybody
from any background, geographic location, age group, and occupation can submit.
Initial 800-1000 word short essays are due
to Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian at srivi@tamu.edu by May
15, 2020. All essays will first appear on the Media Rise blog and its
social media pages in May 2020.
Publication
Opportunity for Edited Volume on Education as Gender Policy
Chapter contributions are sought for an edited volume on the
role of American universities in war
zones and post-conflict societies in serving as a catalyst for women's
empowerment programs and gender studies. The project will lead to an edited
volume on Education as Gender Policy: Gender Studies, Women's Empowerment and
Economic Development in Post-Conflict Asia and the Middle East. Authors working
on education and gender in other parts of the world are also welcome to submit
chapters towards the publication of this edited volume. The volume is part of a
book series on the establishment of American Universities in war zones and
post-conflict societies. The focus of this particular volume is on Gender.
email: baharj74@gmail.com
Pandemics in African
Societies: Dynamics, Exigencies and Responses
Through this book, we aim to bring together a body of reputable
authors and articles that will interrogate and explain, through critical
analysis, the implications of global pandemics in African societies. It is
planned as a volume with a multi-disciplinary outlook, investigating such
global pandemics from historical, sociological, political, economic,
anthropological as well as other literary perspectives, presenting fresh and
original data on the experiences and reactions in African societies. Interested
contributors to the volume are expected to undertake a critical examination and
re-examination of the ways, means and approaches by which Africans and their
societies respond(ed) to such health emergencies.
Each interested contributor should please submit a
250–300-word abstract, with name, affiliation and contact details as a
Microsoft Word attachment to the editor: pandemics.africa@gmail.com by
30 May, 2020.
Teaching About Asia
in a Time of Pandemic
In collaboration with the AAS teaching journal, Education
About Asia, we are developing an edited Asia Shorts volume titled “Teaching
About Asia in a Time of Pandemic.” This
volume will consist of two sections.
Section one will include teaching resource essays on how to teach
Asia-related topics online.
Contributions are welcome from seasoned online-instructors as well as
from those recently forced into an online environment because of Covid-19. Prospective authors may address their online
instructional approaches that are applicable to middle, high school, or
undergraduate courses. Section two will
include essays on teaching about the pandemic utilizing historical, economic,
political and social perspectives from and about Asia.
Prospective authors are strongly encouraged to email me a
1-3 paragraph description of possible contributions preferably before June 15,
2020: David.Kenley@dsu.edu
Transgender Literary
Theory and Criticism
Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book
Transgender Literary Theory and Criticism. We are seeking chapters that show
how transgender theory can provide novel insights for developing literary
theory and conducting literary criticism, as well as chapters that analyze
specific literary works that explore transgender identity and experience from
the perspectives of a variety of literary theories. Chapters may draw on
transgender theory and/or one or more traditional schools of literary theory,
including but not limited to queer theory, critical theory, feminism,
psychoanalysis, cultural materialism, poststructuralism, contextualism,
postmodernism, postcolonialism, posthumanism, transhumanism, transfeminism,
ecocriticism, and queer ecologies. Chapters that develop original transgender
literary theories 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@ciis.edu by
July 15, 2020.
Multilingualism in
Migrant Contexts
The innovative aim of this Special Issue is to present key
sociolinguistic and social psychological aspects of multilingual behaviour in
migratory contexts from any region or community of the world, through a comparative
examination of original academic scholarship that may encompass either
empirical and/or theoretical approaches. This volume aims to be a forum through
which the actual linguistic behaviour of migrants and their families as social
actors in situated contexts can be debated and analysed through a comparative
perspective.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2020
Contact Email: languages@mdpi.com
Responding to Far-Right Militants
The Activist
History Review invites
proposals for our June 2020 issue, “Responding to Far-Right Militants.” The
far-right militia actions of the last decade, from the Bundy Ranch to the
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, threaten violence to promote a white
supremacist capitalist ideology and to repress all who oppose it. As we face
increasing vigilante threats and violence under the pandemic, it is crucial
that we understand both their aims and organizations as well as the ways that
antifascist organizations responded to extremist violence and intimidation.
Proposals should be
no more than 250 words for articles from 1250-2000 words, and should be emailed
to horne.activisthistory@gmail.com by
May 31st at 11:59 PM. Please also include a short bio of no more than 100 words.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Visiting Assistant
Professor of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies
The Department of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES)
at Texas Christian University invites applications for the Cecil H. and Ida
Green Visiting Assistant Professor. Responsibilities center on teaching four
courses per semester, including at least two sections of an introductory-level
course and some mixture of the CRES Internship & Field Research course,
required courses for the major, or an upper-division elective related to the
professor’s research specialty.
To apply, upload a cover letter, complete CV, diversity
statement, a list of three references, and a list of previous and future
courses to https://tcu.iGreentree.com/CSS_Faculty/CSSPage_Referred.ASP?Req=2020-F030.
For full consideration, apply before May 30, 2020.
Professorial Lecturer in American Studies with specialty
in Latinx Studies
The Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies Collaborative
(CRGC) in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University invites
applications for a term faculty appointment in American Studies with a
specialty in Latinx Studies for Academic Year 2020-21 at the rank of
Professorial Lecturer. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. by August 2020 in
American Studies or other relevant field and provide evidence of strong
teaching skills. Experience with on-line instruction welcomed. The successful
applicant will teach three courses per semester, including AMST-240, Poverty
and Culture; AMST-200, American Dreams, American Lives; and one upper-level
topics course determined by the candidate’s expertise.
Salary is competitive. Review of applications will begin
immediately and continue until the position is filled.
WORKSHOPS
Newberry Seminar of
Religion and Culture in the Americas
The Religion and Culture in the Americas Seminar explores
topics in religion and culture broadly and from interdisciplinary perspectives
including social history, biography, cultural studies, visual and material
culture, urban studies, and the history of ideas. We are interested in how
religious belief has affected society, rather than creedal- or
theological-focused studies.
Please apply here by Monday, June 15, 2020: https://www.newberry.org/seminar-proposal-form
Contact Email: halem@newberry.org
Wonder Women &
Rebel Girls: Women Warriors in the Media, 18th-21st Centuries
4th September 2020, Centre
for War Studies, University College Dublin
Online workshop
The explosive
popularity of recent films such as Wonder Woman (2017) and initiatives like
Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls (2016; 2018) reflects a growing appetite in
today’s media for depictions of women on the front lines, ‘strong’ female
action heroes taking up roles other than victim, girlfriend, or grieving widow.
At the same time, however, the waging of war off-screen continues to test the
limits of policies of gender equality, with women’s admission to combat
positions in the military only granted in the last few years in many countries
and opposition to it remaining widespread. This workshop therefore aims to
explore the unfolding contemporary phenomenon of women warriors on screen and
in print within a larger historical context, from the early 18th century
onwards, and in any geographical context.
Please send
abstracts of no more than 300 words, plus a short biographical note, to wonderwomenworkshop@gmail.com by 5 June.
Judaic Studies Open Access Books
Brown University Judaic Studies (BJS) announces the launch
of our Open Access Books program. BJS
Open Books will be available on the Brown Judaic Studies website in all
formats. The books can also be accessed, in different formats, through a
number of other sites: JSTOR (HTML
and PDF); Project
MUSE (HTML and PDF); the Hathi Trust (PDF); SBL Press (Print
on Demand); Amazon (e-Reader); and the Brown Digital Repository (PDF, HTML,
e-Reader and TXT). The Association for Jewish Studies will also post a
link to our titles.
Contact Email: BJSMS@Brown.edu
Free Webinar: MLA Style 101
Looking for resources for your online course? We’ve made our
recording of MLA Style 101: A Hands-On Workshop available for free. View the
webinar for a step-by-step guide to creating a works-cited-list entry for any
source.
MONITORacism magazine
Responding to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s appeal for
research into the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on minority communities,
MONITORacism magazine has produced this weekly video series, the "Cuomo
Files". The aim is to bring academic expertise on the subject to global
public debate. The "Cuomo Files" was launched on 13 April 2020.
Contact Email: james.renton@edgehill.ac.uk
