CONFERENCES
Materialisms: Reconciliations in the Present
April 9th-10th, 2021, University of Minnesota, Graduate Student Conference
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? We welcome submissions across disciplines, theories, methodologies, areas, and topics that address contemporary debates around these questions. We are particularly, but by no means exclusively, interested in pieces that place the CFP in conversation with the current state of global discontent stemming from COVID-19 and the uprisings following the murder of George Floyd.
Please submit your 200-300 word abstracts in PDF or word, or any questions to umn.materialism2020@gmail.com by January 10th, 2021.
NeMLA 2021: Philadelphia, PA. March 11-14, 2021
Conceptualizing the Body: Identity, Intimacy, and Intervention
Bodies, and representations of bodies, surround our everyday existence. Our bodies, and the bodies around us, are subject to norms that police how a body should look or behave in a given context. Glamorous and desirable bodies draw positive attention and literary and cultural representations reflect this, while deviant bodies are policed and regulated. This panel aims to explore how various bodies are represented in contemporary culture as well as analyze how these representations impact our perceptions of self and world.
Submit abstracts directly on the NeMLA website. More information is available at http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/session.html
email: kae1392@gmail.com
Evolving Rhetoric of Whiteness
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6239910/evolving-rhetoric-whiteness
We are living in a moment when white identity is becoming more exposed given the Black Lives Matter movement and its accompanying prolific expression of white racial “wokeness.” We also see white identity asserted anew through the rise of white supremacy groups. The presentations in this panel will examine the evolving rhetoric of white America. Panelists can address questions raised by the shifts in our culture surrounding the meaning of whiteness.
Proposals due by Sept. 30.
Contact Email: caleb.corkery@millersville.edu
URL: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18911
Imagining Queer Domesticity
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18881
This panel seeks to take a long view, exploring the intersections and divergences among the ways that contemporary literary, cultural, and legal discourses imagine queer domesticity in a post-Obergefell environment with earlier representations of queer domestic life. What imaginative possibilities might we discover by looking back at texts produced before legal same-sex marriage could itself be imagined? What continuities and deviations appear when we put an early 20th-century queer text alongsie one produced in the early 21st century? How are defining historical traumas, such as the First World War and the AIDS crisis, understood and experienced through domestic life? How might those enable us to imagine queer domesticity now?
Proposals due by Sept. 30.
Contact Email: mwilson4@umassd.edu
Disability Representation in Contemporary Media
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18845
In recent years, inclusion and representation of various minority groups in the media have become prevalent. Cinema and television have come to offer some of the most diverse character portrayals within the media universe. Accordingly, it is now common to find characters of diverse racial backgrounds, nationalities, and sexual orientations. One of the last frontiers of such media representation has been the disability community. Television programs such as Atypical (2017-Present) and The Good Doctor (2017-Present) both have a protagonist with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Similarly, Ali Stroker became the first actress in a wheelchair to win a Tony Award in 2019. (And even retail stores now have catalogs that feature models with visible disabilities).
Proposals due by Sept. 30.
Contact Email: mnw41@georgetown.edu
Identity, Diversity, and Representation in Video Games
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18944
With more research and analysis of video games as literary and cultural media in the last few years, there are still substantial gaps relating to the role of diversity and non-normative identities in games. This roundtable panel welcomes papers topics related (but not limited to) the role of identity in video games, the expression of non-normative identities through games, inclusion and diversity in the video game industry, and any other topics related to identity and representation in video games.
Please submit all abstracts before 30 September 2020.
Contact Email: tdh70@georgetown.edu
Being Human in the Digital Age: The Future of Humanities
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18630
Given this transition to the digital era, questions in Humanities scholarship must tackle political, economic, and technological challenges that shape and are shaped by the human. This panel intends to open a dialogue on the role of Humanities as a discipline in examining human structures, cultures, and social traditions in the digital age. Some questions it attempts to tackle are: What does it mean to be human in a digitized world? How can Humanities as a discipline or humanities-oriented scholarship enable a rethinking of the human subject in digital futures? How is the self designed on digital platforms? How is collective identity / intersectional identity constructed digitally? How do communities congregate online? How do the human and the digital shape each other? How does online existence reflect offline realities?
For more information, please email nanditha@yorku.ca
Digital Dialogues
http://digital.humanities.lcir.co.uk/
24-25 October 2020
With the epidemic shaking the world and the research/teaching/learning being moved online, the field of Digital Humanities has received an unprecedented attention of scholars and professionals. It has become vital to explore its theories, methods and practices and to clarify its multiple possibilities and challenges. This conference will look at the interaction of humanities and digital technologies and the use of humanities related digital resources in various fields. It will analyse the ways digital humanities transformed and keep transforming academic environment, local communities and global conversations and the innovative ways of sharing knowledge and teaching it introduced.
Paper proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 10 August 2020 to: digital.humanities@lcir.co.uk.
Digital Humanities and Gender History
Dates: 5.2., 12.2., 19.2. and 26.2.2021, 4 - 8 p.m. CET
This online conference aims to address gender-historical aspects of the history of the digital and the digital humanities as well as the application of digital methods and research workflows for gender-historical questions. The conference will examine the gender-historical implications of digital methods, tools and projects as well as the possibilities and limitations, added values and challenges that digital methods offer for the study of gender history. In addition to the presentation of current and completed projects, problem-centered lectures dealing with aspects of cross-cutting relevance for a digital gender history are particularly welcome.
Please submit your contribution, approximately one page in length, by 31 August to the e-mail address pia.sybille.marzell@uni-jena.de.
studies of belonging
https://nias.knaw.nl/news/call-for-proposals-nias-conference-2021/
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) welcomes proposals from scholars and cultural practitioners for the NIAS Conference from 9-11 June 2021. The overarching theme of this interdisciplinary 3-day conference is studies of belonging. The definition of ‘studies of belonging’ will deliberately remain open as this concept can apply to a vast range of social, historical, material, cultural, psychological, juridical, social geographical, and economic phenomena.
Please, submit your proposal (max. 1 page) via Events@nias.knaw.nl, before 1 October 2020.
The Price of Everything: Commerce, Aesthetics, and the 'Value' of Contemporary Art
UAAC 2020 Session
In recent years, the conversation around contemporary art, and how it is “valued,” has been set against the backdrop of public scandal and spectacle. Media coverage of record prices attained at art auctions, the global expansion of branded art fairs, and protests surrounding museum trustees and donors connected to conflicting interests, co-mingle with viral art world news stories that spark great public debate, such as the shredded Banksy performance at Sotheby’s London in 2018; the Maurizio Cattelan banana piece and aftermath at Art Basel last year; or closer to home, the controversies surrounding Rodney Graham’s public art work Spinning Chandelier funded by a luxury condo developer in Vancouver. This panel seeks to examine the broader and critical dimensions of this issue and calls for presentations that explore, whether through specific case study or theory-based examination, the contours and stakes around how contemporary art is “valued,” collected, and given meaning in the current climate.
Submission deadline: July 31, 2020
email: dorothy.barenscott@kpu.ca | lara@openworkart.ca
Land Back: Indigenous Landscapes of Resurgence and Freedom
https://www.doaks.org/research/garden-landscape/scholarly-activities/land-back
April 30 to May 1, 2021
Relations to land are a fundamental component of indigenous worldviews, politics, and identity. “Land Back” has become a slogan for indigenous activists. In this symposium, we aim to highlight the many ways indigenous people understand and activate land relations for political resurgence and freedom across the Americas, by refusing colonial territorializations of indigenous land and life-making practices. We are particularly interested in papers working at the intersection of indigenous studies and the fields associated with landscape studies, including geography, political ecology, landscape architecture, planning, art history, and archaeology.
Submit a 500-word abstract and curriculum vitae as a single PDF to landscape@doaks.org by August 1, 2020.
Sugar and Spice and the Not So Nice: Comics Picturing Girlhood
https://www.comics.ugent.be/picturing-girlhood-international-symposium-22-23-april-2021/
International Symposium 22- 23 April 2021
Comics have long relied on reinforcing reader identity formation whether through interest, age group or hobbies. Constructed and largely mythical notions of gendered readership consequently became one of the most defining aspects of many of these comics. As gendered products, comics have constructed feminine role models and identities to which girls have replied with both rebellion and conformity. The aim of this symposium is to inspire and promote discourse around comparative constructions of girlhood. This exploration will consider relationships between and influences on European girls’ comics in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
Please submit a proposal of approximately 400 words for a 20-minute paper, together with a biographical note (100-200 words), to comics@ugent.be by 15 September 2020.
Viral Masculinities online conference – registration open
31 August–11 September 2020
We’re living in viral times; ours is a time of contagion. As Tony Sampson writes in his book Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks, “the networked infrastructures of late capitalism are interwoven with the universal logic of the epidemic” (Sampson 2011, 1–2). Deeply connected to contemporary biopolitics and modes of digital sociability, virality also underpins news forms of wealth creation and accumulation sustained by 21st-century media, whilst at the same time (paradoxically, perhaps) presenting a political threat through the risk it carries of “contagious overspills” that may undo borders, nation states, institutions, ontologies and subjectivities. If our time is a game of push and pull fuelled on all sides by contagious forms of relationality, what then for masculinities? If our understandings of masculinity are “inherently relational” (Connell 2005, 68), what happens to them in a context of “contagious relationality” (Sampson 2011, 3)?
To check the individual sessions and register to the ones you’d like to attend, please visit http://porousmasculinities.exeter.ac.uk/conference/.
Contact Email: Masculinities@exeter.ac.uk
No Going Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics
April 8 and 9, 2021
The second biennial early career conference by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania asks: What are post-pandemic politics? We understand post-pandemic, not as a myopic focus on COVID-19, but rather as an optic illuminating both persistent and emergent conditions of inequity and precarity. We also use post-pandemic as an opportunity to imagine new forms of politics, community, solidarity, and action.
The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2020.
Contact Email: cargcfellows@gmail.com
Remaking the University in Our Image
https://activisthistory.com/2020/07/06/conference-remaking-the-university-in-our-image/
Conference date: Saturday, September 12, 2020, 8:30am-12:00pm ET.
To help facilitate egalitarian systems of knowledge production, The Activist History Review will host a digital symposium, “Remaking the University in Our Image,” for early career, independent, and contingent scholars. Paper and workshop proposals should address the work of building a scholarly community that is active and engaged in the world in which we all live, work, and struggle. We solicit proposals that use theory and historical example to lay out potential journeys toward or models for abolitionist, cautionary, and utopian visions of the future of higher education informed by the past.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words for papers, panels, or workshops, and should be emailed to activisthistory@gmail.com by August 10, 2020 at 11:59 PM.
Music, Sound and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Online, February 12-14, 2021
This conference—"Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”— seeks to bring together scholars working in and beyond music and sound studies to address the myriad ways that music and sound historically and contemporaneously not only have helped people process trauma, but also have been implicated in violence resulting in trauma. In addition, we are especially interested in hearing from scholars working with music and sound in pedagogical contexts with a focus on trauma-informed teaching and learning.
Abstract submission: musicsoundtraumaconf2021@gmail.com by September 1, 2020:
URL: https://musicsoundtraumaconf2021.com/
ANOTHER ARTWORLD: Manifestations and Conditions of Equity in Visual Arts
3 – 4 December 2020, Belgrade, Serbia
We invite empirical, theoretical and practice-informed contributions from across a range of disciplines (art theory, cultural studies, cultural management, and cultural policy, sociology of art and economics of culture, and other related fields) to propose paper/project presentations, thematic panel sessions, or workshops in these areas, or to suggest other innovative and provocative themes. Papers should contribute to the consideration of the principles and models of decentralized (horizontal) management in visual arts; models based on equity, cooperative relationships and self-governance, i.e. the implementation of direct democracy, which implies direct decision-making on all the common issues in the field of contemporary visual art.
Proposals should be submitted to email: anotherartworld@arts.bg.ac.rs by Sept. 30
For more information please visit: www.anotherartworld.org
Virtual Conference: “Shall Not Be Denied”: The 15th and 19th Amendments at the Sesquicentennial and Centennial of their Ratifications
https://www.masshist.org/conferences
October 12-16, 2020
The year 2020 marks the anniversaries of two critical amendments to the United States Constitution. Spaced fifty years apart, the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments, ratified in 1870 and 1920, respectively, prohibited the use of race or sex to deny American citizens the franchise. This conference revisits the long journey to secure voting rights for African Americans and women in United States history. It considers the legal precedents and hurdles that each amendment faced, the meaning and uneven outcomes of each, the social context that allowed for ultimate ratification, the role of key individuals and groups in these respective contexts, and how each amendment has been remembered over time.
Schedule: https://www.masshist.org/2012/juniper/assets/research/snbd_conference_schedule.pdf
Gratitude in Transatlantic Relations and Diplomacy
https://transatlanticgratitude.wordpress.com/
What is the function of gratitude in transatlantic relations? When, where, and how has it been expressed and who was involved? Have gestures of gratitude evolved over time? Reversely, has the absence of gratitude had an impact on transatlantic ties? This online symposium seeks to bring together new approaches to international studies - affect, material culture, public diplomacy - to examine the significance of gratitude in the history of transatlantic relations. The symposium aims to build collaborative networks and to publish a collection of articles in a peer-reviewed journal.
Please contact us or submit a 300 word proposal with short bio description to GratitudeTransatlantic2021@gmail.com.
PUBLICATIONS
Methodological Issues in Social Research: Some Personal Accounts of ‘Fieldwork’
The book envelops some personal accounts of researchers who have done intensive, comprehensive and ethnographic fieldworks in various social settings and versatile regional contexts across the globe. Since personal experience holds collective importance and academic significance, the collection of field-experience of a galaxy of scholars across disciplines and regions enables to contribute a distinctive framework to the existing body of scholarship on the social research methodologies. The book intends to accommodate some personal accounts of doing fieldwork in social research in challenging social contexts of some well-trained academic and professional researchers having diversified disciplinary backgrounds.
Submission (an abstract: 300 words and bio-note: 150 words): by July 30, 2020.
email: nasir.anthro@cu.ac.bd, paul.alak@cu.ac.bd
Resisting White Supremacy in the African Diaspora: Moving Towards Liberation and Decolonization
Journal of Interdisciplinary Humanities invites papers on research pertaining to the theme of “Resisting White Supremacy in the African Diaspora: Moving Towards Liberation and Decolonization.” This timely special issue aims to include papers that capture forms of African descendants’ resistance against the tyranny of white supremacy across multiple continents. The scope of this issue is intended to be broad and inclusive of diverse methodologies, theories, and approaches.
The deadline for complete papers (4000-6000 words) is January 1, 2021. Please send inquiries and submissions to guillorycry@uhd.edu.
URL: https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/hera/Journal/call-for-papers.html
Feminist Engagements with the Queer Archive
https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/callforpapers.html
In this special issue of The Journal of Feminist Scholarship, we’ll explore the queer archive as a site of feminist potential, where feminist methods and theoretical perspectives might power a productive dialogue about the possibilities and limitations of archiving the queer and queering the archive. The queer archive, broadly conceived, is a site of recovery and remembrance, a space for queer worldbuilding, and a place where dominant histories are challenged, negotiated, and affirmed. How might we, as feminist scholars, apply feminist methods and theories to trace and interrogate the flow of power within and across archival institutions and heritage sites? How might we internalize the lessons of the queer archive and apply them to other feminist projects? How can we more broadly conceive what constitutes the queer archive and its potentials?
Please send abstracts of 400-500 words, four to five relevant citations, and CV to Bek Orr rorr@brockport.edu by August 15th, 2020.
Representing Vulnerability in Literature and Film
We seek contributions that explore the ways in which representing vulnerability problematizes its visibilization in film and literature. Both theoretical and practical approaches as well as different critical stances are welcome.
Deadline for abstract submissions: December 18, 2020 to graco.hum676@ugr.es
Streetnotes: Sounds of the City
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6267119/cfp-streetnotes-sounds-city
From traffic honking to church bells; jackhammers to party music; begging to preaching; protest chants to hovering helicopters…sounds of various kinds accompany our daily urban existence, and in time we learn how to navigate them—generating, regulating, celebrating, or ignoring them. But the COVID-19 pandemic transformed our sonic experiences in cities: some are amplified, some subdued. How do we make sense of urban sounds, noise, and music anew?
Submit all articles through Streetnotes submission system, by Oct 15th, 2020: http://escholarship.org/uc/ucdavislibrary_streetnotes
Please, direct any inquiries to the co-editors of the volume: Prof. Jorge de La Barre, jorgelabarre@id.uff.br and Prof. Blagovesta Momchedjkova, bmm202@nyu.edu
Pandemic: Race. Politics. Literature.
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6264282/pandemic-race-politics-literature
The New Americanist is seeking articles which engage with contemporary literature within the framework of race and politics. Racism and nationalist isolationism are rife and borders have hardened, isolating individuals more than ever before. Our sense of ourselves and our relation to our communities is fraught. How do we confront these concerns? How do we read these events before us? What can speak to these moments? For us at The New Americanist, for a special double issue to be published in 2021, we wonder what contemporary literature has to offer in the face of such crises.
Please send a 250 word abstract and one a short biographical note to newamericanistjournal@gmail.com by 31 August 2020.
URL: http://newamericanist.com
Black Fire—This Time
Willow Books is pleased to announce a call for submissions for the anthology Black Fire—This Time, which pays homage to the anthology Black Fire, edited by Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal. This book seeks to further explore the profound and timely messages of Black self-determination and Black Power espoused in Black Fire. Black Fire—This Time encourages submissions that explore the intersectionality between the Black Arts Movement and Black Lives Matter, laying bare the legacy of systemic racism on Black Americans.
The deadline for submissions is August 17, 2020.
URL: https://bambdfest.submittable.com/submit/170157/black-fire-this-time
Questions should be forwarded to Dr. Kim McMillon, blackfirethistime@yahoo.com
Historicising the perpetrators of sexual violence: global perspectives
Though it transcends historical periods, sexual violence is not inevitable or ahistorical. The perpetration, policing, and prosecution of sexual aggression are shaped by historically contingent myths and assumptions, as well as by social structures which foster the circumstances for sexual assault. Historically, the perpetrators of sexual violence have often been protected by legal systems which place the burden of proof on victims, and by patriarchal social structures in which men are more likely to occupy positions of power which can be exploited with impunity. The Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters (SHaME) project at Birkbeck, University of London, invites article proposals that scrutinise and historicise the perpetrators of sexual violence in the modern period.
Informal enquiries and proposals, consisting of a short CV and 500-word abstract, should be sent to Dr Ruth Beecher (r.beecher@bbk.ac.uk) and Dr Stephanie Wright (stephanie.wright@bbk.ac.uk) by 31 October 2020.
Opening the Vault: Media Industry Studies and its Archives
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous scholars have been unable to physically access archival records, locked away for an indefinite period of time. In the present, various media industries—studios, streaming services, talent agencies, and more —have continued to announce deals, make public statements, and present a digital front that veils the story underneath. With continued conglomeration and corporate security practices winnowing access to materials, even smaller stakes questions—even the amount of eyes on any particular work on digital platforms—are becoming increasingly impossible to uncover without records. This issue aims to highlight approaches to archives and methods of employing them in studies of media industries. How have scholars used unexpected collections or unique approaches to interrogate and challenge them?
Proposals due October 1, 2020
email: labuza@usc.edu
History from Scratch – Voices across the Planet
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/histories/special_issues/history_scratch
Possible aspects and points for the special issue
- Purpose of doing history: response to (particular) social, environmental or political concerns, creating historical consciousness for a group or in general, personal curiosity, or self-affirmation, etc.
- Role of (particular) models, theories, philosophies, ideologies, or avant-garde provocations for historical practice; the importance of historical methods (source criticism, discourse analysis, data mining, etc.).
- Role of academic conventions and restrictions of the historical field, usefulness or uselessness of interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary approaches.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2020.
Contact Email: jon.mathieu@unilu.ch
Innovation Ethics
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6234937/innovation-ethics
Have the last 20-50 years of innovation been a success? How does society view the founder? Is risk appropriately distributed across the innovation dynamic? What roles should the government take in scientific progress? What entities are responsible for technical disasters? How important are individual rights and privacy? What problems should innovators focus on for the next twenty years? This collection will include a range of essays from both academics and professionals working on ethical issues facing the future of innovation.
You may submit a 300-500 word abstract by September 30th.
Contact Email: roger.hunt@ideatrek.io
URL: https://www.ideatrek.io/call-for-papers
After Crises: Art, Museums, and New Socialities
The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums & Culture
In this special issue we wish to explore the ways in which crises of all kinds—global and local, current and historical, natural and human-made, and technological and creative—have impacted the ways in which social identities, interactions, and associations occur and continue to be maintained and articulated. In Marxist theory, the conceptualization of crisis concerns itself with the causes and consequences of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall in a capitalist system. We see the notion of crisis in much broader terms, including the notions of the void and gaps developed by Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou. So, we are interested in submissions that account for the radical politics of equality and event in the context of the art sector, the art market, museums, and contemporary culture.
Proposals for contributions are due on July 15, 2020. Send all the information requested above—as a single PDF document—to the GJ@garagemca.org.
Contact Email: a.zavadski@garagemca.org
URL: http://thegaragejournal.org/
Built/Unbuilt
https://networks.h-net.org/node/24029/discussions/6237658/cfp-southern-cultures-issue-builtunbuilt
Imagined and built landscapes in the South are expressions of, and exert influences on, the region’s diverse peoples, cultures, politics, and economies. This call for submissions for Southern Cultures welcomes at a critical time when prevailing modes of cultural and political expression are in question, and when prominent features of our built environment are rejected, removed, and reimagined. We seek work that examines the constructed spaces of the American South—from planning to design to manufacture—and the impacts of those spaces on individuals, communities, and cultures.
We will be accepting submissions for this special issue through August 31, 2020, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/Submit.
Africa: A Globalizing World and the Challenges of Peace, Security, and Development
The two-volume books hence proceed from the vantage point of framing the study of Africa in its development and contacts with the world across its historical trajectory and sociopolitical continuity. It is based on the belief that understanding the current and future challenges of the continent is only possible through a judicious insight into the ways the continent has adopted in addressing past and contemporary problems. A balanced view of Africa is indispensable for the stability, prosperity, and security of the world. The goals of the volumes are to provide scholarly foundations for the complex socioeconomic and public policy issues in the broader framework of security, peacebuilding, and development.
Please submit a 300-350-word abstract clearly outlining the leading ideas, insights, and anticipated research findings by 15 August 2020.
Contact Email: Sabidde@gmail.com
Policing and Labor - Short Essay Series
Exertions, the short-form web publication of the Society for the Anthropology of Work, invites submissions of no more than 1,500 words for a special forum on policing and labor. Reading policing through the lens of work—and work through the lens of policing—disturbs conceptions of state violence, traditional labor solidarities, and research methods by focusing on the figure of the police officer as both a powerful state agent and a classed worker. How is state dominance materialized or refigured through the labor of policing, whether in the spectacle of the uniformed officer or the more informal work of private security, neighborhood patrols, or self-deputized citizens? We welcome contributions to this forum from both within and beyond anthropology.
To contribute, please send a 3- to 4-sentence proposal to series editor Jessica Katzenstein at jessica_katzenstein@brown.edu by Thursday, July 23.
Narratives of precarious migrancy in the Global South
Following the recent call in social science migration studies to ‘recentre the South’ (Fiddian-Qasmiyeh “Recentering”), this volume invites readings of narratives that depict the varied contexts and conditions of precarious migrancy in the South. Similarly, we want to suggest that although the focus on border regimes and practices are important for rendering visible the material experience of forced migration to the Global North, this may not be the most important framework for understanding the materiality of precarious migration in the Global South. Our call to centre narratives of migration in the South corresponds to a shift in studies of migration literature from the strictly postcolonial – that is migration from (former) colonies to (former) metropoles – to a framework that is ‘global and postcolonial.’
If you are interested in contributing to the proposed volume of essays, please submit a detailed 500–800 word abstract by 1st September 2020 to Gigi Adair (gigi.adair@uni-bielefeld.de) and Carly McLaughlin (carly.mclaughlin@uni-potsdam.de).
The Gendered Subaltern and the Urban Theatre Spaceb
Call for book chapters
Society as a whole operates through a power-play which is exhibited by the dominance of one group over the others. This dominance is asserted by and penetrates through the layers of class, caste, race, sex, and gender among others as it imbues the oppression at all levels while denying a voice to those in the subjugated position. The subaltern becomes the invisible being who is unable to articulate its identity amidst the lacunae resulting from the hegemonic silencing and their subsequent marginalisation.
Last date of submission of abstracts is 25th August, 2020 to the editor at shuchi.sharma@ipu.ac.in
Re-imaging Resilient Food Landscapes: Perspectives from Planning History
The book explores how lessons from past urban planning experiences can inform current debates on urban agriculture. The focus is on planning ideas, either implemented or not, and the roles of key individual architects and planners who considered the relationships between urban areas and the countryside, and agricultural strategies for the city during the nineteenth and twentieth century. The book intends to bring to light lessons from the past that can help practitioners, students, researchers, city administrators, and food no-profits to reimagine urban-rural relationships, intra-urban productive landscapes, and urban agricultural systems today.
Please submit an abstract of 300 words by September 14, 2020
Contact Email: c.brisotto@ufl.edu
Police Brutality as a Public Health Crisis
The JAAS, the premiere journal in African American Studies in the world, is preparing a special issue on the matter of police brutality in the United States of America. ne fundamental question the authors continue to ask is, “What has changed since the Rodney King ordeal?” Despite the international media attention that the King beating garnered, thus putting police use of extra-legal force against motorists and pedestrians, especially Black people, on the front-burner of American civic politics, little seems to have changed. How authors choose to engage the subject matter will be limited only by one’s imagination. Because this special issue has the potential to impact policy, we are especially interested in those papers that proffer solutions to this man-made epidemic.
Abstracts of no more than 200 words are due no later than Friday, August 28, 2020.
Any questions should be directed to Drs. Reese at RRReese@cpp.edu and Jeffries at Jeffries.70@osu.edu.
New and Old Normals
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6272016/call-contributors-new-and-old-normals
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-20 has radically reshaped socio-cultural and institutional landscapes around the globe. As communities begin to re-open, we are presented with an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine those communities, and the broader structures that support them – how can academic institutions,p or the police force, for example, be radically changed in this moment. Utopian visions for horizontalist communities must not only become normal, but necessary in the scope of how we reimagine our shared future. This reimagining might involve the creation of new models and practices for how we live and work together, or the centering of models that have been culturally minimized or fallen into disuse.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words for articles from 1250-2000 words, and should be emailed to horne.activisthistory@gmail.com by July 31 at 11:59 PM
URL: https://activisthistory.com/2020/07/12/call-for-contributors-new-and-old-normals/
FUNDING
Lerner-Scott Prize
https://www.oah.org/awards/dissertation-awards/lerner-scott-prize/
The Lerner-Scott Prize is given annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history. The prize is named for Gerda Lerner and Anne Firor Scott, both pioneers in women’s history and past presidents of the OAH. A dissertation must be completed during the period July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020 to be eligible for the 2021 Lerner-Scott Prize.
The committee chair must receive all applications by October 1, 2020.
Contact Email: oah@oah.org
John D'Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award
https://www.oah.org/awards/dissertation-awards/john-demilio-lgbtq-history-dissertation-award/
The John D'Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians to the best PhD dissertation in U.S. LGBTQ history. The award is named for John D'Emilio, pioneer in LGBTQ history. A dissertation must be completed during the period July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020 to be eligible for the 2021 D'Emilio Award.
All material must be received by midnight (PST) on October 1, 2020.
Contact Email: oah@oah.org
Huggins-Quarles Award
https://www.oah.org/awards/dissertation-awards/huggins-quarles-award/
Named for Benjamin Quarles and Nathan Huggins, two outstanding historians of the African American past, the Huggins-Quarles Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians to one or two graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the PhD dissertation. These awards were established to promote greater diversity in the historical profession.
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2020.
email: ii300@nyu.edu
John Higham Research Fellowship
https://www.oah.org/awards/uncategorized-awards/john-higham-fellowship/
The Organization of American Historians (OAH) invites applications for its annual John Higham Research Fellowship. The Higham Fellowship offers two annual awards ranging from $1,000 to $1,500 each to successful applicants. This fellowship is open to all graduate students writing doctoral dissertations for a PhD in American history.
Deadline: December 1, 2020
email: jlim42@asu.edu
RSAP Early Career Research Grants
https://www.periodicalresearch.org/#grants
The Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) invites applications for grants of between $250 and $1,000 to enhance research activities in American periodicals. These grants are intended for early career scholars – graduate students and those who have received their doctorate within the last five years – and are open to those who are “researching in place” in the midst of the ongoing pandemic. The funds may be used in a variety of ways, including but not limited to: a subscription to an online database or resource; reproduction or copyright/use fees for brick-and-mortar archival materials or digital database materials; travel to archives; childcare to enable travel or a concentrated period of research/writing; computer software.
The deadline for applications is August 1, 2020. Awards will be announced by August 15th.
Please download the application form and instructions.
Passim Emergency Artist Relief (PEAR) fund
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyImyD-Lm90MmW76EkH7e8Cvmaobx4NyM-jUoIr-rO6mYD0w/viewform
Mission: To assist musicians in our community who are in dire need of financial aid due to the COVID-19 pandemic, where a huge amount of musicians are losing income due to relying on a gig economy. Grants will be distributed on a first come, first served basis and additional funds will be released as they are available. Artists can submit 1 request per individual. For this second round of grants, artists can receive up to $250.
URL: https://www.passim.org/PEARFund/
Humanities Perspectives on the Pandemic
https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/humanities_perspectives_on_the_pandemic#Corona%20Talks
The coronavirus pandemic has rapidly changed our world. In response to this challenge, we are offering the pamphlet 13 Perspectives on The Pandemic: Thinking In A State Of Exception. This free publication provides a virtual space for thinkers in the humanities to historically embed and critically interrogate our response to the Covid-19 crisis.
Furthermore we are happy to announce our digital lecture series De Gruyter Corona Talks, Thinking in a State of Exception: https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/humanities_perspectives_on_the_pandemic#Corona%20Talks
African American LGBTQ+ U.S. History Chronology
http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/aa/african-american-chronology
Along with the inspiring, hopeful history of resistance, this chronology sometimes includes extremely offensive, racist language because documenting oppression is important to the work of remembering the past, understanding the present, and creating a free future.
Help OutHistory add to this chronology! Email Jonathan Ned Katz at outhistory@gmail.com.
Voces of a Pandemic
https://voces.lib.utexas.edu/voces-pandemic
Voces of a Pandemic is a partnership among institutions across the country, dedicated to recording, preserving and disseminating the unique perspectives of Latinos/as during this crisis. Latinos have been disproportionately affected by the novel coronavirus for several reasons: Many are “essential workers” who are required to go to work (some without protective equipment) and face potential exposure to the virus. Others lack health care. Some have lost their jobs, introducing still more uncertainty into their lives. And some suffer from pre-existing health conditions, sometimes as a result of poverty and inequality, which put them at greater risk. Thousands are also undocumented, compounding their vulnerability.
All interviews and data gathering are conducted online. All interviews are posted on YouTube as they await complete processing. Completely processed interviews will be posted on the Voces Oral History Center website.
#SuffrageSyllabus
https://long19.radcliffe.harvard.edu/teaching/suffrage-syllabus/
This #SuffrageSyllabus explores the tangled history of gender and United States citizenship. It was created by a group of scholars working together with Harvard College students and Schlesinger Library staff as part of the Library’s Long 19th Amendment Project. We’ve organized the semester-long course of readings and assignments around turning points in the history of American voting rights and female citizenship, from 1776 to the present day. We hope teachers working in a wide variety of classrooms will adapt this content to enrich their teaching.
American History Association Pedagogy Resources
Online Teaching Forum
The AHA is excited to announce the AHA Online Teaching Forum, a series of virtual events, from webinars to workshops, designed to help historians plan for teaching in online and hybrid environments.
Upcoming Virtual Event:
June 25, 2020 at 2:00PM ET - “Engaging Students Online: Using Digital Sources and Assignments in Virtual Classrooms” with Dr. Steven Mintz (Univ. of Texas, Austin) and Dr. Laura McEnaney (Whittier College; VP of AHA Teaching Division)
Remote Teaching Wiki Project
Here, historians who have resources useful for remote teaching can share them, and those racing to adapt courses can search for materials instead of working from scratch. To find materials to help you teach, just browse the wiki (http://www.ahadigital.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page). To add materials to the wiki contact us at: team@ahadigital.org
Transcripts: A podcast about how trans people are remaking the world.
https://anchor.fm/transcripts-podcast
Transcripts is a new podcast that puts the transgender movement in context. Using oral histories from the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries, hosts Andrea Jenkins and Myrl Beam introduce listeners to the trans activists who are changing our world.
Episode 1: Even though transgender-themed TV shows like Transparent and Pose have achieved mainstream popularity, trans people still face huge barriers to employment, housing, and safety. The hosts investigate how trans activists are grappling with those contradictions - and what they’re doing to change the system.
Visit our website to learn more about the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project: https://www.lib.umn.edu/tretter/transgender-oral-history-project.
Call for Participants: attitudes towards open access publishing among Black, Indigenous, and POC faculty study
A research team is seeking participants interested in joining a focus group about attitudes towards open access publishing among faculty who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color. This survey is intended to identify participants interested in participating in a small, online focus group exploring attitudes towards open access publishing. The online focus group will last 90 (ninety) minutes. This survey is completely voluntary. All responses will be kept confidential and only the two member research team will have access to responses.
If you have any questions regarding this survey or the larger study, please contact the principal investigator, Tatiana Bryant (Asst. Professor, Adelphi University, (516) 877-3555, tbryant@adelphi.edu). URL: https://bit.ly/oabipocrecruitmentsurvey
Report on the State of Resources Provided to Support Scholars Against Harassment, Trolling, and Doxxing While Doing Public Media Work
In the summer of 2020, we sought to understand the kind of resources universities actually provide to support scholars doing public facing media work. We wanted to know: what information universities make available to scholars for dealing with trolling, doxxing, and harassment when they do public facing scholarship and media work; the availability of that information online (on the Media Relations Offices’ websites); and the information that Media Relations Offices/Newsrooms make available to scholars that might not be on their website (plans, policies, advice). The goal of this research is to establish what practices already exist, what information and resources are missing, and to encourage all Canadian universities’ Media Relations Offices to develop a best practices plan.
PDF is available for download: https://publicscholarshipandmediawork.blogspot.com/p/report.html
Contact Email: alexandraketchum@gmail.com
Cross Movement Mobilisation — Perspectives from the Global North and South
https://moving-the-social.ub.rub.de/index.php/MTS/index
The Institute for Social Movements of Ruhr University Bochum is pleased to announce that the latest issue of its journal "Moving the Social" has been published.
Articles
Janet M. Conway and Anabel Paulos: Feminism, Food Sovereignty and Cross-Movement Mobilisation Against Neoliberal Globalisation in Latin America: Intertwined Genealogies
Juliana R. Luiz, Priscila Delgado de Carvalho and Marco Antonio Teixeira: Cross-Movement in Latin America: Lessons from the Mercosur Confederation of Family Farming Organisations (Coprofam)
Kei Takata: Connecting with the First or the Third World?: Two Paths Toward the Transnational Network Building in the Japanese Global Sixties
Supurna Banerjee: Solidarities in and through Resistance: Rethinking Alliance-Building through Protests in Plantations in India
Beatrice Halsaa: The (Trans)National Mobilisation of Sámi Women in Norway
Contact Email: mts@rub.de
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
https://link-springer-com.ezp.twu.edu/book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-0614-7#about
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?” The chapters—diverse in content, form and perspective—establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Visiting Scholar of Indigenous Studies
https://ias.umn.edu/get-involved/visiting-scholar
The Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus invites applications for a two-year appointment for an early-career scholar as part of the Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative.
Preferred qualifications:
- Background in environmental justice/stewardship, Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies, and humanistic fields
- Experience in program development and working with Indigenous and other underrepresented students
- Firm grounding in interdisciplinary and intersectional research methods and approaches
Position is open until filled; review of applications begins on Tuesday, September 1, 2020.
email: ias@umn.edu
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship
https://apply.interfolio.com/77175
The Ida B. Wells-Barnett Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship reflects the University's Vincentian mission, which includes a scholarly commitment to the areas of race, equality, social justice and advocacy for historically oppressed and underserved populations. The Vincentian mission is reinforced by the principles that informed Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s advocacy of civil and human rights for Black people. Eligibility is restricted to those who have received their PhD no earlier than 2016 and who will have the PhD in hand by the end of July 2020.
Review of applications will begin August 7, 2020.
email: abd@depaul.edu
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Public Humanities
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60239
The National Park Service (NPS) and the National Park Foundation (NPF) invite scholars who are no more than five years beyond receipt of the doctorate to apply for a one-year National Park Service Mellon Public Humanities Postdoctoral fellowship. This Postdoctoral Fellow will examine public places, monuments, memorials, invented traditions, and memory and how they are being contested as America grapples with its historical consciousness and its grand narrative. This Fellowship will contribute to the effort to bridge gaps between the academic and the popular to better tell the story of America from its roots laid out in our early founding documents to the present day.
For best consideration, apply by August 14, 2020.
email: publichumanities2020@nationalparks.org
WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS
Sifting the Soil: A Webinar on Food, Feminism, and Intersectionality
https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpdOGvqzsoHNAFd5jsGTCfbuqbGQ1iZT1S
Jul 24, 2020 10:00 AM in Eastern Time
10:15 - 11:30am EST
"Road Maps to Intersectionality, Feminism, and Food Studies": A Conversation with Jennifer Nash and Brittney Cooper
1-2:30pm EST
Forum on Intersectionality, Feminism and Food Studies.
Contact Email: dpersaud@umd.edu
"The Body Remembers What the Mind Forgets": Memory, Trauma and Writing
https://memory.lcir.co.uk/trauma-memory-and-writing/
11 August 2020
In this session, we will think about the relationship between trauma and memory. We will explore ideas from key thinkers, and have discussions on how trauma affects our relationship to time and bodies. Then we will look at a creative essay genre and consider more broadly how trauma is represented in literature. We will each share an example of representation of trauma in either literature or popular culture and think about dominant trends, methods of representation, and even cliches. The workshop is designed for students, young scholars and independent researchers with a particular interest related to memory studies. It is designed and led by Dr Katherine Da Cunha Lewin.
Registration fee: 45 GBP
In order to book a place, please register on http://registration.lcir.co.uk by 31 July 2020.
Contact Email: memory@lcir.co.uk
Gender Research Online Workshop
https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk/gender-research-workshop/
1 August 2020 – Online
This session will discuss and examine the work of four highly influential 20th century feminist thinkers: Simone de Beauvoir, Audre Lorde, Olive Morris and Jacqueline Rose. We will cover different kinds of texts, such as literary criticism, essays, poetry and archival material, in order to explore the wide variety and application of feminist thinking. We will engage in close reading, as well as discussing the most important ideas of these thinkers. We will also think about the relationships between feminism and politics, and consider the interrelation between theory and practice. The workshop is designed for students, young scholars and independent researchers with a particular interest related to gender studies. The workshop will allow them to deepen theoretical and methodological knowledge and critical thinking in gender studies.
Registration fee is 45 GBP
In order to book a place, please fill in the Booking Form and send it to workshops@lcir.co.uk by 20 July 2020
Remote Interviewing in the COVID-19 Era (Presented by the Southwest Oral History Association)
July 31st, 9:30am (PST) on Zoom
Considering doing oral history while in quarantine? Join us to discuss our experiences conducting and processing interviews online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Come prepared to share! This workshop will include a robust dialogue of concerns, benefits, and potentially useful technologies when it comes to remote interviewing.
URL: Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VB_FMoJBauS-bGCV0sOByrDP_SUc2NL1-DEfdHr6QUE/viewform?edit_requested=true
email: summer.cherland@southmountaincc.edu
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lBw2Ao0fS7euE_778X7_dA
Aug 4, 2020 05:00 PM in Eastern Time
the Portrait Gallery will host Lonnie G. Bunch III, the current Secretary of the Smithsonian, and John W. McCarter Jr., a former member of the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents, in conversation about the “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” censorship controversy and its broader impact on exhibition planning practices, both at the Smithsonian and beyond.
The webinar is free online via zoom, but registration is required.
https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/hideseek-difference-and-desire-american-portraiture
Virtual Lecture Series: Talking Memory
Sunday, August 2nd, 11 AM Pacific
The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to the opening lecture in our International Virtual Lecture Series: Talking Memory. Our guest speaker is Prof. Jan Grabowski who will give a lecture on: "Holocaust Distortion and the Battle for Memory and Commemoration: The Case of Poland"
The lecture series is free but registration is required: https://forms.gle/fPjUgh7FK8RXcApe9
Contact Email: madenes@gfh.org.il
