CONFERENCES
Earth(ly) Matters
Online conference
In the face of unprecedented, anthropogenic chaos in the
natural world and in a time that has been further complicated by the Covid-19
pandemic, we are asking what matters on Earth and how Earth matters. What role
can the humanities and social sciences play at a time of climate breakdown and
a catastrophic decline in wildlife?
Abstracts should be 250 words and submitted to: shuprssconference@gmail.com,
along with a 100-word academic biography by the 12th of June 2020.
Flyover Comics Symposium
Symposium Dates: September 24 & 25, 2020
The events of 2020 have disrupted normal patterns for
professional conferences, resulting in cancellations of major comics studies
meetings. To fill the lacunae left by these cancellations, three university
comics studies communities are uniting with Digital Frontiers to offer the
Flyover Comics Symposium, a virtual conference for comics studies scholars,
students, and professionals. If you have a proposal that was accepted to any
canceled comics event in 2020, POW! you’re accepted! Just submit your 500-word
abstract and upload a PDF of your acceptance notification in the submission
form.
Submissions are due August 2, 2020.
Northeast Modern Language Association Panels
March 11-14, 2021, Philadelphia, PA
Deconstructing/Constructing Simultaneously: Harlem
Renaissance Writers Changing Worlds
Building upon the 52nd annual Northeast Modern Language
Association (NeMLA) convention theme of “Tradition and Innovation: Changing
Worlds through the Humanities,” this panel asks interested participants to
consider how authors of the Harlem Renaissance era used artistic innovation to
upend outmoded and destructive traditions, to decolonize the African-American
mind, and to offer Black-authored definitions of Blackness after decades of
stereotyping that had a stranglehold on the U.S. cultural imagination. In other
words, how do Black artists of the Harlem Renaissance promote necessary change
by challenging stagnant traditions both inter- and intra-racially? How do they
use the creative word as a space to promote innovation in art as well as
cultural representation?
Please submit an abstract of no more than five hundred words
to Dr. Christopher Allen Varlack at varlackc@arcadia.edu
no later than Friday, September 4, 2020 for consideration.
“Possible Futures” and “Collective Fantasies” Reimagined:
Explorations into Changing Worlds in Afrofuturist Literature—A Roundtable
Building upon the convention theme of “Tradition and
Innovation: Changing Worlds through the Humanities,” this roundtable asks
interested participants to examine the core philosophies of Afrofuturism and
the texts that engage Afrofuturist themes in order to better understand how
Black authors such as Octavia E. Butler, George Schuyler, Tananarive Due, Nalo
Hopkinson, and others envision the deconstruction of systemic barriers to
racial uplift through art, technology, and science in a world where Blackness
is now celebrated instead of stigmatized, silenced, and ignored. Recognizing
that, yes, “a community whose past has
been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have subsequently been
consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, [can] imagine
possible futures” and engineer new “collective fantasies” (Dery), this
roundtable, sponsored by Third Stone Journal (devoted to Afrofuturism,
African-futurism, and other modes of the Black fantastic), intends to delve
headfirst into the futuristic, the scientific, as well as the supernatural to
discover what the world looks like when those barriers are swept away.
Please submit an abstract of no more than five hundred words
for a ten minute presentation to Dr. Christopher Allen Varlack at varlackc@arcadia.edu no later than
Friday, September 4, 2020 for consideration.
Multiple Temporalities
Abstracts for 15-20 minute papers that consider multiple
temporalities within or across works of literature, criticism, or other forms
of media, discourse, or performance, such as temporalities that are varied,
conflicting, competing, haphazard, (re)constructed, broken, or accidental. How
do temporal modes or frameworks--or their enforcement, or their lack, or
resistance to them--reflect differences of intention, ideology, social or
natural order, technology, ontology, or ethics? In what ways are temporalities
variously material, subjective, human, organic, or inhuman? What is the role of
the reader, viewer, or other participant in engaging with multiple
temporalities?
Contact Email: spdeshong@gmail.com
Women’s Utopic and Dystopic Visions
This panel seeks to address the following types of
questions: How do women’s utopian and dystopian works reveal their thoughts and
experiences about their historical moment? What critiques of culture, religion,
government, education, gender norms, etc. emerge? How do women’s cultural,
racial, socioeconomic, sexual, educational, etc. backgrounds influence their
creation of these utopias and dystopias? What do they depict in this
alternative world, and how does it speak back to their own realities?
Please submit a 200-300 word abstract to the Northeast
Modern Language Association portal (https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/Login)
by September 30. You can email any questions to alicia.beeson@wvup.edu.
Black Experience in the White Gaze: Framing Afro-Latin
American Identity in XIX-XX Centuries
We invite the participants to explore some of the ways in
which Afro-Latin American experience was narrated by writers, scientists, and
politicians in Latin America from the late XIX century to mid-XX century and
beyond. We encourage to address Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Lusophone
contexts of the said regions and the ties between these.
Please submit your abstracts here (https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18618)
by September 30, 2020.
Contact Email: karins@bu.edu
Ecological Spiritualities
Harvard Divinity School, Program for the Evolution of
Spirituality Inaugural Conference, Spring 2021
The theme of our
inaugural conference will be “Ecological Spiritualities.” Presentations and
workshops will explore the evolution of earth-based spiritual traditions and
highlight innovative spiritual practices that are emerging in response to the
painful realities of climate change, mass extinction, biodiversity loss, and
the disruption of local and global ecosystems.
We invite professors, doctoral candidates, graduate
students, and undergraduate students in the study of religion and related
fields to submit paper proposals from a variety of theoretical, methodological,
and disciplinary perspectives. We also welcome proposals from spiritual
leaders, environmental activists, farmers, and others whose work places them at
the intersection of spirituality and ecology.
Bodily Realities: Engaging the Discourse of Dis/Ability
The Department of Art History and Art and The Cleveland
Museum of Art are pleased to announce the theme of the 46th annual graduate
symposium: Bodily Realities: Engaging the Discourse of Dis/Ability. The
physical body is often a contested space for artists and art audiences, but one
that offers abundant possibilities for exploring and expressing identity.
Physical ability or disability is a key component of identity and can have a
profound impact on artistic production, subject matter, and reception. Art can
play a significant role in shaping the often problematic discourse surrounding
this topic. Bodily Realities: Engaging the Discourse of Dis/Ability seeks to
generate a dialogue about the relationship between ability and disability in
the visual arts and art museums in an effort to understand the role of bodily
differences in artistic practice, representation, and viewership. This
symposium will address the ways in which the visual arts and artists either
confirm or challenge the perceived dichotomy of the normative and non-normative
physical body.
Deadline for paper submissions: Friday, June 26, 2020;
emailed to Katie DiDomenico and Mackenzie Clark at clevelandsymposium@gmail.com.
Stress, Distress and Drop-out Amongst Higher Education
Students
Access, inclusiveness and well-being for all are key in
developments in higher education across the world. Students have to cope with
many challenges, both inside and outside higher education institution, which
can have immense consequences varying from poor access, low engagement and
feelings of distress to delays and drop-out. Yet these challenges and
consequences can be different depending on students’ social, cultural, economic
and language backgrounds leading to a discrepancy between inclusive access and
inclusive outcomes. his special issue seeks research contributions as well as
review articles that conceptually, theoretically and empirically focus on
stress, distress and drop-out amongst higher education (HE) students.
Deadline for article submission: September 1, 2020
Contact Email: beata.socha@degruyter.com
Representations of Refugee, Migrant, and Displaced Motherhood
in a Global Context
Contributions are invited for a scholarly edited collection
that aims to explore literary accounts of migrant, refugee, and displaced
motherhood in a global context. The collection will look primarily at
contemporary writings about migrant motherhood. In a world marked by forced
migrations, climate change, and wars, the collection aims to examine writings
about the displacement of mothers at the American borders, in the Syrian
conflict, and beyond. This book seeks to examine writings by and about the
displaced mother in both fiction and non-fiction.
Contact Email: maria.lombard@northwestern.edu
Passing
The 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. We invite applicants to think
across passing both as a minoritarian and minoritizing technique of endurance
and resistance, and in its idiomatic forms. How, for instance, do idioms such
as “passing for,” “passing up,” “passing through,” “passing away,” and
“pass/fail,” among others, gain their significance and cultural force through
common sense understandings, lived experiences, and racialized/racializing and
gendered/gendering systems of passing?
Please direct queries to the conference organizing
committee at firstforum2020@gmail.com
or Harry Hvdson at hgilbert@usc.edu.
Deadline: June 14
PUBLICATIONS
Global Queer and
Trans* Studies
In recent years there has been an increasing visibility of
queer and trans* studies in International and Intercultural Communication, emphasizing
the intersectional queer and trans* politics of belonging. However, such
collection of queer intercultural scholarships yet struggles to fully locate
global perspectives on queer and trans* identities, performances, and spaces. Thus,
this special issue calls to further expand the current state of Queer
Intercultural Communication. Accordingly, Global Queer and Trans* Studies
welcome submissions that examine, question, and/or critique a range of topics
related to the intersections of queer transnational communication.
September 1, 2020: Contributors submit their essays
From the Trenches:
Health Humanities in Application
The health humanities field arises out of encounters of the
humanities with health broadly conceived, and has rapidly become recognized for
its breadth of application, involving numerous disciplines, expansive
interdisciplinary practice, and multiple professional and individual contexts.
A key consideration that binds these encounters is how health and the
humanities come together in application, and From the Trenches builds from this
elemental concept.
We invite expressions of interest relating to any aspect of
the intersections of health and the humanities in applied contexts. These contexts
can range from the conventional humanities disciplines (e.g., literary studies,
history, philosophy, etc.) to creative fields (e.g., visual art, digital art,
installation art) to epistemological considerations.
Expression of interest due July 30, 2020.
email: christian.riegel@uregina.ca
Hybridity and Star
Trek
Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
Accepted essays will be published in a Special Issue of the
peer-reviewed journal Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State University
Press). Please submit essays of no longer than 7,500 words to
http://www.editorialmanager.com/interlitstudies/. Select “Special Issue
Article” before uploading your manuscript.
Deadline for receipt of essays is October 5, 2020
Politics and Culture:
Exploring the Connections Between Social Movements and the Arts
The theme of this year’s special volume will examine how
social movements interact with the arts. Although social movement research
often includes analyses of competing group interests, collective behavior,
organizational capacities, and rational choices, less attention has been given
to the inextricable connections between culture, broadly defined, and the
creation and mobilization of such movements. This is despite the history which
shows how music, painting, poetry, drama, fiction, and crafted lectures have
inspired and mobilized masses of people to fight for their rights. Such has
been the case in struggles for worker rights, civil rights, peace, and justice.
We seek articles, essays, poetry, and art that apply analysis from a
humanistic, historical, and social scientific method to the topic of social
movements.
Submission Deadline:
December 1, 2020.
Contact Email: wbishop@marian.edu
Latin America’s
Ongoing Revolutions
Latin America has been born and bred in revolutionary terms.
A first wave of unrest (1780-1898) spurred nation making throughout the
hemisphere, fostering differentiated notions of citizenship and other
exclusionary regimes of belonging. A first liberal cycle thus ended up in
fractured and fragmented national communities, riddled by enduring colonial
practices, capitalism, and racism. A second cycle of unrest (1910-1980)
introduced the region into the global geopolitics of industrialization,
political modernity, and state transformations. At Age of Revolutions, we are seeking for
contributions that explore and discuss Latin America’s ongoing struggles and
contemporary “revolutions,” from campesino demands for land and student
protests to the current feminist movement and the LGBTI quest for rights, among
others.
Proposals are due on July 30th and the curated series is
expected to be published through the fall of 2020. Please send your
submissions/proposals to jpuente@smith.edu.
Call for Book Reviewers
Call for Book
Reviewers: The International Social Science Review invites the
submission of book reviews in archaeology, public health, history, political
science, sociology, anthropology, economics, international relations, criminal
justice, social work, psychology, social philosophy, history of education,
human/cultural geography, and all social science interdisciplinary
fields. Books to be reviewed are assigned four times a year, via email, on
a first come, first served basis.
If you would like to
be added to this email distribution list, please email the editors at bookrevieweditors.issr@gmail.com with your name and a brief cv. For all other inquiries related to
the journal, please email quinn.issr@gmail.com
Coping with COVID - Call for Videos
The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of
Hawaii at Manoa is starting a multilingual video series to document how you are
coping with COVID. We want to solicit short videos - about 5 mins - from South
Asia faculty, students, and community speaking earnestly about what matters to
you the most during these difficult times. You may also want to show your
activities or share creative work and art pieces that express how you are
dealing with the crisis. The videos will be posted and highlighted on the
Center's web and social media pages.
Please upload your videos here and
send email to saib@hawaii.edu and csas@hawaii.edu to let us know that you
have submitted your piece. Please submit by June 15th, 2020.
White Lies Matter: Truth, Race, and Power in America
We are pleased to invite chapters for an upcoming book
project entitled, White Lies Matter: Truth, Race, and Power in America. Using a
lie/lies/lying as the starting point, the project will focus on the “culture of
untruth” that has historically surrounded the lived experiences of blacks in
America. White Lies Matter is also
concerned with the paradoxical role of the media—from turn-of-the-century periodicals
and mid-twentieth century radio broadcasts, to contemporary social media
platforms—in its transition from incendiary town crier to unlikely defender.
This project confronts directly the baseless accusations, false testimonies,
manipulation of the law, and tacit acceptance of and agreement by so-called
innocent bystanders, that have all been effective tools in depriving blacks a
myriad of resources, opportunities, property, and even their lives.
Submission deadline for summaries: September 1, 2020
Contact Email: mcgeehy@ucmail.uc.edu
AIDS Remains
New Centennial Review, special issue
In the first decades of the AIDS crisis (1980s through the
mid-1990s), vital struggles over the meanings, definitions and representations
of AIDS sought to unite culture analysis with cultural activism. Now that the
world is gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, how has the significance of that
analysis and activism shifted? How does the present experience of a new,
seemingly untreatable virus affect our comprehension of the representations and
contested meanings of AIDS, a different pandemic that once held global
attention? What remains of the urgency with which critical discourses once
contested dominant understandings of "AIDS"? Papers should engage the
intersections of politics, culture, and representation within conceptual
frameworks such as critical race theory, disability studies, postcolonial
studies, affect theory, etc.
Please submit complete articles (20-25 pages
including notes) and a brief bio to Richard Block (blockr@uw.edu), kchapman4@vcu.edu), and Mia du Plessis (michaelduplessis@gmail.com)
by August 31, 2020.
Call for Reviewers
For a new journal dedicated to the study of American
Literatures – AmLit – based at the University of Graz (https://amlit.eu/), we are looking for qualified
scholars in American Studies interested in becoming reviewers for academic
articles. If you are interested, you would be added to our pool of reviewers
and be informed on a regular basis about essays in the blind reviewing process.
The journal appears twice a year (March and October). Once in the reviewers’
board, you could, of course, still decline if your workload does not allow for
reviewing or if the essay suggested to you does not fit into your research
area.
Please send your consent to become a reviewer for AmLit
together with a short bio sketch, your affiliation and your expertise within
the field of American Studies (naming up to four key areas of your research) to
amlit-journal@uni-graz.at.
City Life in the Time of Pandemic
Special Issue of the open-access journal Urbanities-Journal
of Urban Ethnography.
This special collection will include short contributions in
the form of analytic reflections on the many interrelated aspects and
consequences of the stay-at-home policy. Some countries have announced that
they will start easing their lockdown. However, we all know that the impact of
the pandemic – and related policies – will stay with us for a long time to
come. For further details, you can contact me at g.b.prato@kent.ac.uk.
Xenophobia, Nativism and Pan-Africanism in 21st Century
Africa
The purpose of this anthology is to examine the mounting
incidence of xenophobia and nativism across the African continent. Second, it
seeks to examine how invidious and self-immolating xenophobia and nativism
negate the noble intent of Pan-Africanism. Finally, it aims to examine the implications
of the resentments, the physical and mental attacks, and the incessant killings
on the psyche, solidarity, and development of the Black World.
Please submit a
300-350-word abstract plus a 150-250-word biography (About the Author) along
with your official contact information by 30 June 2020 to Sabidde@gmail.com and please Cc the
co-editor at ematambo@yahoo.com
#Solidarity
Solidarity is a fundamental social experience, a shared
concern that connects individuals to each other and that also forms bonds among
groups, collectives, and communities.
Solidarity becomes more urgent at times of unrest, change, and social
shifts. Our current Covid-19 situation, informed by a new ubiquity of mediated
communication and social connections, is such a watershed moment for
experiencing and thinking about social fabric and the role of media in
particular. Other historical moments with impact on a larger social level, such
as the 1989-90 fall of the ‘Eastern bloc’ and its repercussions for a global
world order, or the 1968 student and peace protests in its various local forms,
also brought forth their specific formations of solidarity with specific media
politics. Submissions might address modes of im/mediated solidarity that have
emerged during the ongoing health crisis, but also prior iterations that need
historicisation.
We look forward to receiving abstracts of 300 words, 3-5
bibliographic references, and a short biography of 100 words by 1 July 2020 to g.decuir@aup.nl. On the basis of selected
abstracts, writers will be invited to submit full manuscripts (6,000-8,000
words, revised abstract, 4-5 keywords) which will subsequently go through a
double-blind peer review process before final acceptance for publication.
Poetry and Identity: Shaping and Sharing the Trauma of
Displacement
This edited volume will broach the topic of shaping a poetic
identity through the prism of a traumatic experience of displacement. It aims
to examine and compare poetic expressions from various times and places, which
can be multilingual, multimodal, and so on (poems from volumes, blends of
visual art and poems, performance poems, slam poetry, to name just a few
possibilities), and to examine how poets from diverse backgrounds have tried to
contextualize, re-shape, redefine, and/or resolve their own traumatic
experiences through different poetic expressions.
Deadline for proposals: 3rd July 2020
Contact Email: luciehoudu@aol.fr
How Literature Understands Poverty
Special Issue of American Literature
This special issue examines the role of literature and
criticism in addressing poverty and dispossession by asking what literature and
criticism distinctively have to offer to an understanding of poverty and
impoverished communities in the United States and abroad. What theories and
methods of reading does literature about poverty demand? What language for
talking about poverty does literature provide? In turn, what kinds of demands
and pressures do efforts to address poverty, dispossession, and extreme
economic inequality place on literary form and language?
Submissions of 11,000 words or less (including endnotes and
references) should be submitted electronically at www.editorialmanager.com/al/default.asp by October
1, 2020.
Contact Email: callahanc5@sacredheart.edu
Black Girl Magic: Redefining New Black Feminist Thought
In this vein, this edition of Open Cultural Studies Journal
seeks essays as innovative and thoughtprovoking as the writings from the Crunk
Feminist Collective. The primary theme for exploration is representation: How
is a new generation of black feminists representing a black feminist agenda?
How are artists and writers subverting definitions of black womanhood
represented in media and scholarship? Finally, how are marginalized groups
within communities of color fighting for recognition?
Deadline for extended abstracts: 15 September 2020
In case of any questions, please contact Guest Editor (tracey.walters@stonybrook.edu)
or Managing Editor (katarzyna.grzegorek@degruyter.com).
Towards a Better Me: Self-Optimization in Modernist
Culture
With its equally profound and transitory interest in new
forms of expression, new ways of life, and new technologies, modernism
thoroughly and critically embraced the idea of the self as something that can
be created and recreated, either in accordance with or in contradiction to
social norms. Our book will trace the development of this idea in Western
modernist culture, both in its canonized centers and neglected peripheries.
Special attention will be paid to processes of self-optimization with regard to
gender, ethnicity, the body, and language, as well as “alternative lifestyles”
and the advent of mass culture. Our volume thus seeks to offer a panoramic view
of an oft-overlooked theme of European and North American modernity that
anticipates our current postmodern crisis of the self.
If you are interested in contributing to this collection,
please submit an abstract of approximately 300-400 words and a brief CV to the
editors (tcarsten@iupui.edu and mattias.pirholt@sh.se) by August 1,
2020.
Decolonizing Fashion as Process
Call For Papers - International Journal of Fashion Studies
Decolonizing fashion is not an isolated event, an act that
happens and completes itself. This is
the case whether we are talking about symbols of political independence,
production practices against economic neo-colonialism, design practices against
cultural imperialism, or efforts to decolonize education, writing, museums and
ethnographic research. As process, these
all involve fashion in a continuum, a decolonization that has already been
going on, and that has no ending, no final conclusion. This special issue
invites papers that highlight the opportunities and pitfalls that come with any
examination of or attempt to decolonize fashion. These may be historical or
contemporary. We welcome proposals from diverse approaches that acknowledge and
explore the incomplete, ongoing, and contradictory process of decolonizing
fashion.
Abstracts of 250-300 words along with author bio should be
emailed to arti.sandhu@uc.edu by June
30, 2020.
Viral Memes : Research and Reflections on the
Coronapocalypse
With the current reopening of some physical centers of academic
research, and the nearly immediate, still persistent, massive availability of
online reference tools, this seems an appropriate time to issue this call for
papers with the intention of assembling a comprehensive collection of research
related to the impact of the pandemic in every area of contemporary life and
from every academic perspective. We are
open to receiving papers from any discipline in the humanities, social science,
and related fields, whether mono-, multi-, inter-, or transdisciplinary. Similarly, we anticipate considerable
interest in any and all areas of popular culture studies, including all
entertainment and journalistic media along with any other areas of the academic
study of popular culture. Further,
inclusive of (but not exclusive to) political science approaches, we are
interested in analyses of the impact of COVID-19 on the domestic politics of
any nations, and also on the international political consequences of the
pandemic.
Proposals should be received by August 1, 2020.
Forced migration and modern slavery: unplanned journeys
of exploitation and survival
Journal of Modern Slavery -- topical issue
The relationship between forced migration and modern slavery
is frequently assumed, yet rarely examined.
We note that the dislocation of people during periods of conflict,
political upheaval, organised violence and as a result of targeted policies and
campaigns often gives rise to conditions which foster vulnerability and
encourage extreme exploitation. Equally, we note that the creation of
exploitative conditions which deny people the opportunity to establish secure
livelihoods may encourage outflows, giving rise to situations of what Alexander
Betts has termed, ‘survival migration’. This special issue seeks to explore the
relationship between forced displacement and modern slavery, understood
broadly.
Deadline for submission: 15 September 2020
Contact Email: editor@journalofmodernslavery.org
Pedagogy Pop Up (Textshop Experiments special issue)
In this Call for Projects and Practices, Textshop
Experiments seeks to acknowledge and celebrate the digital resilience,
creativity, and adaptability that instructors in higher education demonstrated
in response to the onset of COVID-19 and a sudden pivot to alternate delivery
and online instruction. Over the past several months, we saw you lead with
empathy, experiment with new technology, and communicate grace. In short, you made
it work. This special issue serves as a witness to your invisible labor and as
a resource for future instruction.
We accept work in the following formats: doc, docx, jpg, png, mp3, mp4, mov.
We invite stories, written descriptions, prompts, videos, pictures.
If you’d like to contribute, please send your manuscript /
media to Mari Ramler at mramler@tntech.edu
and and Dan Frank at dmfrank@writing.ucsb.edu
by July 1, 2020.
Moving to the Other Side of the Mountain: Black Women’s
Resolve in A Moment of Crisis
The theme for the 2021 edition of PHILLIS seeks to present
scholarly opinions on the ways in which Black women utilize their resources in
collaboration with allies to navigate a society that continuously presents
challenges to their overall quality of life.
This moment of a global health pandemic and international protests of
racial injustice has uncovered the inequities that disproportionally impact
Black life in America. During these moments Black women have organized and
mobilized as they sought to protect themselves and those in their communities.
In addressing the theme, essays must state the issue, cite data to support the
premise, and elaborate on how Black women are striving to move past the problem
to the “other side,” where progress and improvement are being realized.
Please submit to phillis@deltafoundation.net
Deadline for submission of abstract is July 8, 2020
Matrix: A Journal for
Matricultural Studies
The International Network for Training, Education, and
Research on Culture (Network on Culture) is pleased to announce the launch
of Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies (Matrix).
Matrix provides an interdisciplinary forum for those working from the
theoretical stance of matriculture. Matriculture is an abstract concept
referring to mostly universal but variegated aspects of culture, like ‘art’,
‘religion’, or 'common sense'. These include, for instance, matrilineal kinship
systems, matrilocal families, matrifocal societies, or matriarchates.
Matriculture may be very strong; it is often weak, but it may be developed to
encompass a large portion of the cultural context.
Contact Email: lrowlatt@networkonculture.ca
Rendered Invisible: African and Black Migrants and Asylum
Seekers at the U.S. Mexican Border
Call for papers for the next issue in 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.
For more information contact: info@africamigration.com
July 31, 2020: deadline for full manuscript submissions
No Template: Art and the Technicity of Race
This special issue of Media-N responds to the urgent need to
examine the state of dialogue on race and/as technology in art practice,
history, and criticism. It will feature a ten years on reflection on the
concept by Beth Coleman, opening discussion onto the way this framework has
shaped, and has been shaped by, art of the past and present.
We seek contributions that explore how art sheds light not
only on the relationship between race, ethnicity, and the technological, but on
race itself as, in the words of Coleman, “a disruptive technology that changes
the terms of engagement with an all-too-familiar system of representation and
power” (178).
Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 31, 2020
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Third Stone Journal: Call for Volunteers
Third Stone—a journal devoted to Afrofuturism,
African-futurism, and other modes of the Black Fantastic—is expanding its staff
with two exciting new positions: a grants and business coordinator as well as a
social media coordinator. The individuals who assume these positions will play
a vital role in the growth and development of Third Stone, enabling us to
innovate and to reach a wider audience as we engage critical and creative
conversations on the topics mentioned above.
Individuals interested in applying for these positions
should reach out to 3rdstonejournal@gmail.com,
providing a cover letter and CV/resume. Letters of recommendation are
encouraged but not required.
Professorial Lecturer in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies & African American and African Diaspora Studies
The Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies
in the College of Arts and Sciences at
American University invites applications for a term faculty
appointment in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African American and
African Diaspora Studies for Academic Year 2020-2021. We especially welcome candidates with
demonstrated experience teaching a wide range of courses from an intersectional
feminist perspective, and expertise in fields such as, but not limited to,
Black Queer Studies, Black Feminism, and/or Black Popular Culture.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will
continue until the position is filled.
School of Culture, Gender, and Social Justice - Visiting
Assistant Professor
The University of Wyoming invites applications/nominations
for two Visiting Assistant Professors in the School of Culture, Gender, and
Social Justice (SCGSJ). Each appointment is for a one-year term from August
2020 through May 2021. The successful candidate must be able to teach across two
or more disciplines in the School (African American & Diaspora Studies
(AADS), Latino/a Studies (LTST), Native American & Indigenous Studies
(NAIS), and Gender and Women Studies (GWST)). We are particularly interested in
candidates who come from an interdisciplinary and/or intersectional background
and who are well versed in decolonial and related theories and perspectives.
Review of applications will begin immediately, with new
applications considered until the positions are filled.
email: jbridge@uwyo.edu
FUNDING
Rachel Carson – Simone Veil Fellowship
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and
Project House Europe, both located at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,
invite applications for their joint fellowship. As international and
interdisciplinary research centers, they award one joint fellowship to a
postdoctoral or senior scholar working across disciplines and striving to
contribute to the public dialogue on contemporary European environmental
history. Fellows will be based in the heart of Munich at either the RCC or PHE
and have no teaching obligation. They are expected to spend their fellowship in
residence, to work on a major project, and to participate actively in life at
RCC and PHE, including a presentation of their work.
Applications must be received by 31 August 2020
Contact Email: thomas.rohringer@lmu.de
Laura Bassi
Scholarship to support copyediting your writing
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established by Editing Press
in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and
junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly
construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every
discipline and the value of the scholarships are remitted through editorial
assistance as follows:
Master’s candidates: $750
Doctoral candidates: $2,500
Deadline: July 25
You may submit your queries to scholarships@editing.press.
Global Rhetorics
In these unsettling times, we write to share news about a
project that highlights both our global connectedness and the diversity of the
wide-reaching work that we do under the banner of “rhetoric. This podcast aims
to amplify the scholarship and pedagogies of rhetoricians around the globe. Our
episodes take a deliberately interdisciplinary and international perspective.
We interview scholars working in a variety of countries, cultures, and
disciplines about their rhetorically-oriented research and teaching.
Contact Email: c.bjork@massey.ac.nz
Twitter, social movements, and the logic of connective
action: Activism in the 21st century
Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
has just released its latest issue. The issue features five articles that
present research on a variety of issues, from refugee audiences as media
participants, to the adaptation of Marvel comics in Finland, streaming theater
performances, the constitution of activist fan communities, and how the mental
models approach can be used to understand narrative performance.
Contact Email: judith.rosenbaumandre@maine.edu
