CONFERENCES
Virtually (Un)Dressed: Researching the Body in the Digital Age
https://www.dress-body-association.org/conferences
The Dress and Body Association will be holding its inaugural
conference November 13-14, 2020. Although the digital realm is in many ways
disembodied, it is also an important site for political activism and for
building social networks and communities. Many users know that digital images
and videos are frequently curated and sometimes manipulated, yet online media
is saturated with iconic images. As we have seen with movements such as body
positivity, Occupy, the Women’s March, Black Lives Matter, etc., this imagery
of bodies and dress profoundly shapes public sentiment. It can also impact
research by creating and limiting funding opportunities, changing
trajectory/ies for scholars, and challenging the status quo.
For best consideration, please submit by August 15, 2020.
URL: https://www.dress-body-association.org/cfp
email: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com
Vampire Academic Conference
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6292159/5th-vampire-academic-conference
Virtual: Friday 30th - Saturday 31st October
This major interdisciplinary international conference aims
to examine and expand debates around vampires in all their many aspects. We
therefore invite researchers from a range of academic backgrounds to
re/consider vampires as a phenomenon that reaches across multiple sites of
production and consumption, from literature and film to theatre and games to
music and fashion and beyond. What accounts for this Gothic character's undying
popular appeal, even in today's postmodern, digital, commercialized world? How does vampirism circulate within and comment
upon mass culture?
Please submit a 300-500-word abstract, along with a short
biography and indication of the format of your proposed presentation to
Submittable by September 14th.
Contact Email: jelinej@scf.edu
URL: https://ivfaf.com/
Multispecies Storytelling Conference
26th and 27th November 2020
Multispecies approaches have recently developed as important
interdisciplinary connections between the arts and humanities and the natural
sciences. The term ‘multispecies’ is used to characterise a varied set of
critical perspectives that are connected in their commitment to
non-anthropocentric ways of thinking. One of the imperatives of multispecies
approaches is to interrogate and challenge anthropocentric approaches and
emphasise interrelationships with other forms of life. This conference,
organised by the Multispecies Storytelling network, asks how multispecies
approaches can be used to understand more-than-human heritage and explore the
epistemological, methodological and policy implications of such thinking.
Please submit abstracts of 250 words, a brief biographical
note, institutional affiliation, and time zone by 23rd September
2020 to: Claire.parkinson@edgehill.ac.uk
and Brett.Mills@uea.ac.uk
Inclusion and Exclusion in the Discourse on Covid-19
6/27/21 - 7/2/21
The rapid spread of the previously unknown coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2 has led to political decisions in many countries which have had a
profound impact on the lives of all people in societies. In the public
discourse on the Covid-19 pandemic these political decisions and their
consequences for certain social groups are vividly discussed. The panel aims at
investigating and (critically) discussing facets of inclusion and exclusion in
the public discourse by the means of discourse linguistic analysis. The
discourse on Covid-19 is taken as exemplary object of investigation, because
this global discourse seems to allow general insights into the social standing
of groups and linguistic practices of positioning and of speaking about social
groups (that may differ from society to society).
Please submit your abstract until October 25, 2020
via the IprA website (https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP).
Contact Email: kristin.kuck@ovgu.de
Race and Science Fiction
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/sciencefictionatcitytech/
November 19, 2020, 9:00AM-5:00PM,
online
The Fifth Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium aims to
explore the possibilities for change through the myriad connections between
Race and Science Fiction with scholarly presentations, readings by authors, and
engaging discussion. It is our goal to foster conversations that question,
critique, or discuss SF as it relates to Race.
Please send a 250-word abstract with title, brief
professional bio, and contact information to Jason Ellis (jellis@citytech.cuny.edu) by
September 30, 2020
Critical Conversations on Reproductive Health/Care: Past,
Present, and Future
Place: Online Conference, Week of February 1-7, 2021.
Languages: English and Spanish.
This conference will bring together historians,
anthropologists, pregnancy caregivers, artists, activists, and journalists to
address key issues in the history of reproduction and the practice of
reproductive medicine. We are particularly interested in how reproductions
intersect with phenomenon such as, but not limited to: midwifery, parenting,
and kinship-making; trauma in obstetric and abortion care; obstetric racism in
the past and present; colonialism, migration, and displacement; and
incarceration and detention.
Please submit a summary of your proposed contribution,
approximately one page in length, by 15 September 2020 to the e-mail address criticalreproductivecare2021@gmail.com.
Feminism, Art & Institutions: Towards Post-Pandemic
Cultural Politics and Practices
This panel addresses the intersection of feminism, art and
institutions in the wake of the COVID-19 global epidemic. Given that major
restructuring of pedagogies, curatorial practices, institutional policies,
community organising, employment practices, and funding were evidenced during
the pandemic and are envisaged for after the pandemic, how should we be working
and organising towards post-pandemic work lives that are informed by
intersectional feminism?
Application info and templates: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2021/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html?fbclid=IwAR26i7aDiqj5NnAcgAdCAe4PzBSmJWGi5nX9qZgsEHTcxzGOSMreTI6bsuQ
Contact Email: e.r.mitchell@leeds.ac.uk
Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian
Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture
A (Virtual) Interdisciplinary Conference January 14 – 15,
2021
Such times of widespread upheaval render the perennial
utopian (and dystopian) imaginary especially valuable. While utopias offer
imaginative projections of better worlds and ways of being, dystopias extrapolate
from the deficient ‘present’ and offer projections of potentially nightmarish
futures. Yet the critique, imagination and desire for the ‘better’ inherent
within both are essential for building beyond the current ‘eco-dystopian’ era
of pandemics, extinctions and ecological collapse. Pandemics and the spectre of
eco-apocalypse don’t signal the end of all worlds or times but merely of the
world as presently constituted; there is always the vital question of what
comes after. Thus, we are thrilled to present this interdisciplinary conference
for exploring literary, film, cultural and ethico-political representations of
‘living in the end times’.
Please send your abstracts (300 words) and a short bio of up
to 150 words to pandemicimaginaries@gmail.com
by November 6, 2020.
Sensing Style: Subcultural Movements in the 21st century
The objective of this one-day symposium is to identify the
state-of-the art debates on style and subcultures within the globalised,
viralised and mediatised popular culture of the 21st. The focus is twofold: on
the one hand we aim to develop and identify new theoretical perspectives on
subcultures and style, and on the other hand we aim to map emerging distinctive
subcultures as new spaces of style that are specific to contemporary culture
and society. This symposium will lead to an edited volume based on the papers
presented and discussion held during the symposium paper.
To propose a paper for a 20 minute talk, please send an
abstract of no more than 300 words and a short bio of 150 words in a single PDF
before 1 September 2020.
Contact Email: a.k.c.crucq@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Radically Sexed: The Controversial Role of Pornography, Gender-Bending
and Intersexuality in Modern American Art
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6349154/cfp-caa-2021-radically-sexed
This panel will focus on radical portrayals of gender and
sexuality in twentieth-century art. Specifically, it seeks papers that will
address the incisive ways in which modern and contemporary artists plumbed the
interstices between established cultural tropes—male vs. female, anodyne vs.
obscene—and, in so doing, courted controversies that continue to dominate
discourse today. Submissions that consider artworks across diverse mediums,
time periods and geographies are encouraged, as are papers that situate interstitial
gender and sexuality in the broader context of protest art, performance, public
art and conceptualism.
If interested, please send to Katharine J. Wright (kaj287@nyu.edu) by September 14
Music, Sound and Trauma Studies: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives
Online, February 12-14, 2021
Supported by an IU Presidential Arts & Humanities Grant
and taking place February 12-14, 2021, this online conference will feature
invited talks, roundtable conversations, paper presentations, workshops, and
seminars. This event is designed to engender conversations amongst researchers,
students, and the general public not only about the role of music and sound in
traumatic experience, but also about how attending to trauma as a
physiological, psychological, and social phenomenon might produce individual,
interpersonal, and social healing.
Deadline for Proposals: September 15, 2020
email: musicsoundtraumaconf2021@gmail.com
Just Environments
https://www.edra.org/page/edra52
Detroit, May 19 - 22, 2021
The conference will focus on how research, design, and
relationships between people and environments contribute to the creation of
justice. Current social, health, environmental, and justice challenges call for
collaborative and transdisciplinary efforts to pursue intentional questioning
of disciplinary borders and sensitive approaches to framing and solving
pressing contemporary problems through research and practice.
proposal deadline: Oct. 1
CFP: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.edra.org/resource/resmgr/edra52/edra-52_cfp.pdf
Contact Email: conference@edra.org
Unserious Ecocriticism
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6352253/cfp-caa-unserious-ecocriticism
In her book, Bad Environmentalism, cultural theorist Nicole
Seymour elucidates some of the most problematic or uncomfortable aspects of
mainstream environmental discourse—its self-righteousness, its seriousness, its
“doom and gloom”, its whiteness and classism, and its limitations—and generates
an improbable archive of art, documentary, writing, and film that does
otherwise. We are looking for more examples of creative work that uses
approaches seemingly forbidden by mainstream environmentalism, not as a way of
dismissing their importance, but instead as energizing alternatives. Can
looking through the lens of the funny, the weird, the unusual, and the
inappropriate help find unasked questions, reveal unlikely solutions, discover
unexpected potential, and promote change?
To apply, please email a 250 word abstract using the
application form found here: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2021/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html to
session chairs Jessica Landau, jel220@pitt.edu and
Maria Lux, marialux@gmail.com by
September 16.
"Our Ancestor was an Animal that Breathed
Water": Non-Human Beings and Art of the Anthropocene
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Session7283.html
Seeking relevant papers for a session at the upcoming College
Art Association Conference, Feb. 10-13, 2021, originally scheduled to be held
in NYC but currently being reorganized as (mainly) a virtual event.
Wildlife conservation and climate science have been linked
substantively at least since Darwin, who also broached what we now call animal
rights with noted sensitivity. Art in his orbit saw a broad turn to
naturalistic landscapes and portrayals of animals. Yet, growing interest in the
two veins proceeded somewhat independently until the postwar era, in the wake
of a massive commercial livestock industry, global eco-bio organizations, and
wide recognition of the Anthropocene. A 2019 UN Study indicated that related
science as well as humanities discourses have increasingly cemented the
interdependency of our fates with that of other species.
email: jbcutler111@gmail.com
PUBLICATIONS
Left History Call For
Submissions
https://lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/lh
Left History invites original submissions on a wide
range of topics. Issues of Left History regularly include
articles from a variety of academic disciplines, political perspectives, and
theoretical approaches, on topics including race, politics, gender, sexuality,
culture, the state, labour, the environment, human rights, theory, and method.
If you have any
questions, please email us at lefthist@yorku.ca
America Unfiltered
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6293081/america-unfiltered
American Unfiltered
brings together academic and journalistic expertise to provide informed
insights on the US. We endorse the democratic value of thinking aloud and
promoting critical conversations in a time of populist politics and
algorithm-led news. We are interested in publishing well-reasoned pieces in the
fields of American politics, foreign policy, media and culture. These may be
original writings or abstracted from scholarly publications. Articles should be
approx. 1,000 words.
Liam Kennedy: liam.kennedy@ucd.ie
Post-university
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6285657/post-university
In their current,
much-criticised shape, university departments that provide education in social
sciences are often presented as demented and inertia-driven institutions that
hopelessly lag behind the galloping real world with its rapidly transforming
social relations heavily shaped by the emergence of new technologies. We would
like to scrutinize the current deficiencies of academic institutions and
provide an online platform for new forms of expression and knowledge production.
For the first event in the Post-university project, we focus on topics native
to International Relations.
We welcome
submissions in various formats: audios, visuals, and texts will all be
considered.
For more information
please visit the website: https://post-university.org/
Contact Email: post-university@ceu.edu
Rhetoric of Ecology
in Visual Culture
The aim of the Res
Rhetorica issue on Rhetoric of Ecology in Visual Culture is to provide
different critical perspectives on the persuasive power of images in
environmental and ecological rhetoric. One of our main concerns is with
understanding how “eco” images work on their viewers: What does a given image
or film and its aesthetics do to the audience, how does it orient, disorient or
reorient us, what does it make us feel? How does it reflect or challenge our
complex relatedness to “the more-than-human, other-than-human, inhuman, and
human-as-humus”?
submission deadline:
December 31, 2020
Contact Email: katarzyna.paszkiewicz@uib.es
URL: https://resrhetorica.com/
Witnessing After the
Human
With this Special
Issue of Angelakiwe seek to create a platform for articulating and exploring
the meanings of witnessing ‘after the human’ from diverse disciplinary
perspectives. We ask about the epistemological, aesthetic, political and
ethical effects of extending the practice of witnessing from the human subject
to diverse categories of non-human beings, such as animals, plants, cyborgs,
machines, and inanimate objects, as endowed with a capacity akin to
‘testimonial affordance’ and as potential producers of testimonial knowledge.
We explore the possibilities within contemporary theorizing of testimony to
reveal and to work beyond the limits of the humanist imaginary of the witness
as a historical agent, often in tandem with thinking from feminist, queer,
Indigenous, disability, critical race and whiteness studies that has done so
much to expose the limitations and violences inherent to ‘the human’ as a
framework for subjectivity.
Indications of
interest are invited by November 01, 2020.
Contact Email: Zolkos@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Critical Asian
Studies Commentary Blog
Critical Asian
Studies, a Taylor and Francis a multidisciplinary academic journal, is
soliciting brief 500-1,500 word online blog posts to be published on our
journal’s website platform, Voices from the Field, for a linguistically and
culturally diverse broad readership. With a focus on practice, the blog
publishes posts emphasizing empirical evidence about emerging scholarship,
commentary, and research on new and critical topics unfolding across Asia on
the themes of 1) research and opinion on politics, economic realities, or
another critical topic in an Asian region, or 2) reflections on fieldwork
highlighting methods employed across various disciplines for research,
analysis, and data collection. These topics and categories are open to
suggestions and review with a short online publication timeline.
Contact Email: webeditor.criticalasianstudies@gmail.com
URL: https://criticalasianstudies.org/commentary
Sustainability and
Men’s Fashion
Special Issue of Critical
Studies in Men’s Fashion
Despite the recent
growth of sustainable fashion brands specifically targeting men, such as
UNTOLDe (https://www.untolde.com/), these remain very much a minority;
globally, women consume far more sustainable fashion than their male
counterparts. With this in mind, this special issue will look at the question
of sustainability specifically in the men’s fashion industry. All manuscripts
will undergo a double blind peer review process. Articles will be selected on
the basis of their content and scholarship. The content must be in line with
the journal’s vision of advancing scholarship on men and appearance.
Please e-mail an
abstract of 150–200 words to the editors, Debbie Moorhouse, D.Moorhouse@hud.ac.uk, and Graham H. Roberts, grahamroberts83@gmail.com, by 30 September 2020.
URL: https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/50282/1/CFP_CSMF_Sustainability_and_Men_s_Fashion_July_20.pdf
Anarchism
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6293972/cfa-anarchism-journal-study-radicalism
Journal for the
Study of Radicalism
We are interested in
articles for an issue that explores the history of anarchism, including recent
history of anarchist movements, groups, and individuals. We are also interested
in related currents, which include Black bloc, antifa, and the creation of
autonomous zones, as well as ecological movements or groups like Extinction
Rebellion.
Send completed
articles to the editors at jsrmsu@gmail.com by October
15, 2020 to be in time for the next issue
URL: http://msupress.org/journals/jsr/
Poetics and Politics
of Trauma: Regional Wounds, Universal Traumas, and the Possibility of Empathy
Vernon Press invites
chapter proposals for the collected work Poetics and Politics of Trauma:
Regional Wounds, Universal Traumas, and the Possibility of Empathy, edited by
Maryam Ghodrati and Rachel Dale. We aim to ask whether, in a globalizing world
grappling with copious forms of traumatizing grievances (including terrorism,
wars, massive displacements of refugees, rise of far-right sentiments, police
violence, etc.), both deconstructivist and pluralist theories could merge to
provide an understanding of trauma, its narrative, and sociopolitical
dimensions. How can we consider the ongoing nature of suffering experienced by
traumatized subjects and yet develop a more humane way of representation that
could lead to what Dominick LaCapra termed as “empathic unsettlement”? What
relations exist between the empathetic vision and prevention of suffering?
Proposals due:
August 15, 2020
email: Rachel Dale (rdale@brandeis.edu) and Maryam Ghodrati (mghodrati@umass.edu)
Hierarchies of
Disability Human Rights
The disability
movement has gained important rights for persons with disabilities on both the
international and local levels. Progress, however, has not been equal. Some persons
with disabilities enjoy greater representation within disability movements and
more legal rights than others. This edited volume is focused on exploring
Hierarchies of Disability Human Rights by examining the ways in which some
voices remain unheard and certain identities are more protected than others.
For example, the needs and interests of men with disabilities have historically
been promoted over women with disabilities, and the legal protections gained
for persons with physical or sensory disabilities are often greater than those
with psychosocial, developmental, and intellectual disabilities. Similarly,
advocates located in the Global North often have more influence than those in
the Global South over the international disability rights’ agenda.
If you are
interested in contributing something, please submit a short abstract or
explanation of your intended contribution (250-500 word as a .doc or .docx
file) to sjmeyers@uw.edu by
August 31, 2020.
Women, Gender, and Families of Color
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/wgfc.html
Women, Gender, and
Families of Color (WGFC) invites submissions for upcoming issues. This multidisciplinary
journal centers on the study of Black, Latina, Indigenous, and Asian American
women, gender, and families. Within this framework, the journal encourages
theoretical and empirical research from history, the social and behavioral
sciences, and humanities including comparative and transnational research, and
analyses of domestic social, political, economic, and cultural policies and
practices within the United States.
Ayesha Hardison,
Editor hardison@ku.edu
Red Ink: Critical
Essays on Horror Comic Books
The editors of Red
Ink are seeking abstracts for essays are seeking abstracts for essays that
could be included in an upcoming collection.
Essays should focus on particular titles or storylines rather than the
history of the genre. Submissions may address any horror comic book from any
era, including global comics, as well as close readings of audiovisual
adaptations. Analysis must apply critical theory to explore the form, function,
and/or intersectionality of horror comic books and culture.
Deadline for
Proposals: Nov. 15, 2020
Contact email: redinkproject@yahoo.com
Genetic Histories and
Liberties: Eugenics, Genetic Ancestries and Genetic Technologies in Literary
and Visual Cultures
We invite chapters
that examine the ways in which representations of the body and gender within
literature and visual culture (including film, television, graphic novels,
comics, and video games) from the eighteenth century to the present day have
engaged with and challenged political, religious, cultural and social attitudes
towards eugenics, genetic ancestries and genetic technologies. Contributors may
focus upon the ways in which genetic technologies have enabled individual
choices and challenged deeply entrenched social issues such as racism, sexism
and heterosexism.
Chapter Proposal
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2020
email: genetics.eds@gmail.com
Geographia Literaria:
Studies in Earth, Ethics and Literature
This volume by
sensing the fundamental ideas of space and place on the earth seeks to
negotiate with and react to the underlying semasiological or
psycho-geographical principle of Geopoethics which cuts across all these varied
and at times conflicting schools. It tries to understand how we poetically
exist with-the-earth? How is our psyche an integral part of the earth-thought?
How literature deals with the concepts of space and place? How, through
literature, one is able to comprehend the underlying principle of Geopoethics—
the principle of finding art in earth or E(art)h.
We seek chapter
abstracts (not more than 350 words) along with a short bio-note (not more than
100 words) in MS Word file(s) for the aforementioned title. The deadline for
submitting the abstracts is 30 August 2020.
email: dyukrish@gmail.com.
Blackness @ Play:
Communities, Culture, Creativity
American Journal of
Play
Psychologists,
educators, cultural theorists, and activists have long-argued that play and
playfulness are essential tools of everyday survival that open up pathways for
cognition, creativity, criticality, and collective joy. This special issue of
the American Journal of Play seeks essays, interviews, and other creative and
scholarly perspectives on past, present, and emerging examples of the
intersections between Black culture and play. Just as the forms, methods, and
tools of Black play are infinite, so too is the state of blackness at play
expansive. As such, we seek a range of
works that depict and explore the dynamic nature of Black people at play—from
Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s doll studies, linguistic play, double dutch, and
histories of playing the dozens, to DJ D-Nice’s Club Quarantine dance parties,
Black Panther Cosplay, Black gaming enclaves, and the playful and critical
interventions of Black digital content creators.
300-word abstract:
September 15, 2020
email: russworm@umass.edu
URL: https://www.journalofplay.org/about
Body, Politics, and
Nation: Intersections of (Post) Modernity
We invite
submissions that take the ‘body’ as a unit of analysis to understand how
national politics and politics in the name of the nation deploy a rhetoric that
(re)constructs or perhaps resuscitates old dichotomies in the face of new
challenges. Who is allowed to stay, where, under what conditions, and with
whom, seems everywhere a pressing concern which brings together not simply the site
of the subject-body and the nation(-state), but confronts a variegated politics
of intersections: politics of a disciplinary, classed, sexual and gendered,
racial and ethnic character.
Please submit all
abstracts (400 words) and chapters by the 31st August 2020 to
both Idreas Khandy (i.khandy@lancaster.ac.uk) and Dr. Muneeb Hafiz (m.hafiz@lancaster.ac.uk)
Beyond the Void:
Trauma Studies for the 21st Century
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6303759/beyond-void-trauma-studies-21st-century
Amidst a global
pandemic and climate emergency, #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, this
volume asks how trauma studies can better respond to complex 21st century
realities. Notions of an unspeakable void, so defining for Cathy Caruth’s and
Shoshona Feldman’s neo-Freudian approach to trauma at the end of the 20th
century, simply cannot account anymore for the patterns of power, toxicity and
viral threats which continue to create traumatic suffering. This volume, to be
published by Lexington Books, therefore seeks to raise new questions, and
welcomes submissions which explore the long-term global aftermath of the 9/11
attacks; perspectives which update trauma studies for the 21st century beyond
the impact of the terrorist event are equally welcome.
Please email all
proposals, ideas and questions to 21centurytrauma@gmail.com by October 1, 2020
Viral Memes :
Research and Reflections on the Coronapocalypse
In contrast to the
recent millennium, itself an “event” only in the sense created by
expectationalism, with Y2K as a paradigmatic “non-event,” COVID-19 has
activated apocalyptic sensibilities like no other event in living memory. Its impact has been global, multifarious, and
multivalent. 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, policy implications, and potential security issues of
the pandemic.
All proposals should
be received by November 2, 2020 at georgejsieg@gmail.com and trayers.shane@gmail.com.
Isolation
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6308953/tbd-graduate-journal-call-papers
To Be Decided* is
currently accepting submissions for its sixth issue, Isolation. TBD* is a
graduate student-run journal founded by the Social and Political Thought Program
at Acadia University. Across the globe, people were driven into isolation due
to the COVID-19 virus. For months people stayed home, workplaces closed, social
events were cancelled, and normal interactions and movement were replaced by
wide berths, plexiglass, and closed borders. We became isolated as individuals
and isolated as nations and states. And yet, as graduate students, so much of
the work we do is done in isolation. How does it affect how we socialize, how
we politicize, and how we mobilize? What are the benefits to isolation – how
does it impact the development of and engagement with theory, or
creativity? We encourage you to
experiment with topics including, but certainly not limited to, the following:
Instructions for
submission are appended below. Please direct all submissions to tbdgraduatejournal@gmail.com. Submissions are due by October
9th, 2020.
“Bring Out Your
Dead”: Visions of Pandemics Past, Present and Future in Literature and the Arts
Editors Barbara
Brodman and James Doan are seeking original essays for the sixth of a series of
books on visions of the supernatural and the apocalyptic in literature and the
arts.Each section of this collection will focus on one of the following
categories:
1. Visions of
pandemics past in literature and the arts, with emphasis on critical analysis
of lessons learned and lost during and after each event and the causes and
possible consequences of each;
2. Visions of modern
pandemics in literature and the arts, with emphasis on critical analysis of
lessons learned and lost during and after each event and the causes and
possible consequences of each;
3. Futuristic
visions of pandemics in literature and the arts, with emphasis on critical
analysis of the proposed outcomes of those events and their effect on the
planet and the human species.
Abstracts are due
before April 1, 2021.
Contact us and send abstracts to: brodman@nova.edu or doan@nova.edu
Illness, Narrated
https://www.on-culture.org/submission/cfa-issue-11/
In response to
debates considering the relationship between illness and narrative, and the
extent to which these concepts can be seen as mutually constitutive, this issue
of On_Culture seeks to gather new approaches and critical perspectives to the
intricate relationship between narrative and illness. We welcome
(inter)disciplinary contributions addressing the concepts’ entanglement on an
individual, societal, and global level. Beyond the immediate focus on narrative
as illness mediation, the turn to affect in critical theory can prove
productive in addressing the autonomy of the body. Furthermore, expanding the
scope of narrative beyond literary texts, internet culture, online media, and
the increasing use of digital and technological innovations in healthcare can
be seen to mediate both health and illness in different ways.
Please submit an
abstract of 300 words with the article title, 5-6 keywords, and a short
biographical note to content@on-culture.org (subject line "Abstract Submission
Issue 11") no later than September 15, 2020.
Representations of
Disability in Science Fiction
Vernon Press invites
book chapter proposals for a forthcoming scholarly volume on representations of
disability in science fiction, a peer-reviewed collection of essays that will
examine how disability identity and experience have been shaped through the
science fiction genre. The volume will consider all categories and types of disability
as they are depicted in science fiction. Discussions may include, but are not
limited to, physical, cognitive, sensory, or psychological disability. Along
with this, analyses of various types of science fiction texts are encouraged,
from traditional literature to film, television, comics, graphic novels,
narrative-based video games, etc. Contributors are invited to consider not only
those examples from science fiction that advance disability representation but
also those which may compromise or discount it.
Chapter proposals of
300-500 words are due by October 1st, 2020 and should be emailed to Courtney
Stanton (Editor) at cebs@newark.rutgers.edu.
Animal Futurity: A
Speculative Exploration of the Future of Human-Animal Relations
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6322561/cfp-animal-futurity
A plethora of work
has been done on present and past relationships between humans and NHAs, and
there has also been significant research into the intersection of animals and
SFF, as evidenced for example by the Special Issue, “On Animals and Science
Fiction”, in Science Fiction Studies. Drawing on this work in SFF, we
foreground the term “speculative” in our interrogation, to show not only that
cultural productions allow scholars and artists to consider crucial questions
and possible solutions, but also to link our exploration to the world of
financial markets. The speculations of traders and other professions
objectifies NHAs and extra-human nature by commodifying these entities and
assigning them continually changing abstract values to make profits. We draw on
this SFF foundation to ask at once more broadly (in terms of genre) and more
specifically (in terms of temporality) what the future of human-NHA relations,
which we term “animal futurity” here, might look like.
Please submit a
250-300 words abstract by 7th September 2020
Please direct all submissions
and enquiries to nora.castle@warwick.ac.uk and g.champion@warwick.ac.uk.
African American
Expressive Culture and Protest, Imagination, and Dreams of Blackness
The Journal of
American Folklore invites you to contribute creative, reflective, or scholarly
work to chronicle the current movement for racial and social justice. This
multidisciplinary issue will include the work of activists, artists, and
scholars to showcase the power of Black artistic expression, beauty, and
identity. In an uncertain time of COVID-19, the efforts to dismantle white
supremacy, and the age of Black Lives Matter, the editors of the Journal of
American Folklore recognize that this moment is not isolated; instead, it is a
part of a broader continuum in the work of Black liberation. The editors are
most interested in submissions by Black contributors because this “moment’ of
U.S. history should be told by those on the frontlines who are the most active
in the streets, organizations, digital platforms, and scholarly debates.
Deadline: November
2, 2020
For JAF guidelines,
go to https://www.afsnet.org/page/JAFContribInfo
Covid-19: The
Intimacies of Pandemicsb
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6351528/cfp-covid-19-intimacies-pandemics
In the midst of
narratives that attempt to present the spread and effects of COVID-19 as the
‘great equaliser’ that infects indiscriminately, the effects as we have seen
them have been disproportionately shaped by gendered power relations. Many
social practices, forms of intimacy and relations have been disrupted, or
forced to take new shapes. Health and economic systems have been placed under
new forms of pressure. And as we adjust to social distancing and isolation on a
planetary scale, people have tried to make sense of these shifts as fear,
rumour, laughter, anxiety and uncertainty mediate our experience of this
pandemic. It is urgent to understand this unprecedented pandemic that has
reshaped all aspects of our lives from a feminist perspective. Please submit
abstracts to leverne@eject.co.za or admin@agenda.org.za.
Abstract deadline:
Sept. 15, 2020
URL: http://www.agenda.org.za/
Black Canadian
Creativity, Expressive Cultures, and Narratives of Space and Place
This thematic issue
of the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire aims to widen
the scope of the Black Canadian experience by examining histories of Black
creativity—peoples, projects, and productions. In addition to documenting Black
Canadians’ contributions to creative fields, this issue asks: What stories of
Black creativity have yet to be told and how do these narratives give life to,
and amplify the voices of, Black Canadian creatives—artistically, socially, and
politically? Additionally, what creative peoples and/or productions have
engaged with questions of space and place? While the CJH/ACH is an academic
history journal, we welcome abstracts by those working in creative fields.
Submissions
deadline: September 15, 2020.
URL: https://bit.ly/CJHcfp0720
Handbook on
Sex/Sexuality in Game Studies
The concept behind a
handbook is to compile a comprehensive assembly of essays in an attempt to map
a discipline. As such we are primarily, but not necessarily exclusively,
looking for synthesis/review essays that bring together existing research. We
are not opposed to efforts which map out new directions in the field as long as
they consider where we are as a basis for where we might/will be going. What
makes this topic intriguing is that both the borders of sex and sexuality and
the nature of video games resist easy categorization. Game Studies as an
“academic field” is inherently interdisciplinary, creating both challenge and
opportunity for how to conceptualize this (these) topic(s). As the range of
platforms, formats, and game types continue to increase so do the ways to
present, perform, and play sex and sexuality.
The deadline for
receipt of all proposals is September 30, 2020
Contact Email: mwysocki@flagler.edu
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6345674/gendered-arab
The Arab notion of
identity, defined by traditional gender roles, categorizes the binary subsets
of the patriarchal understanding of performative “male” and “female” facades.
Gender remains vaguely defined in the Arab world due to layers of taboo and
stigma; untraditional gender roles and practices result in a halt of the
fragile cyclical reality within the Arab realm. In recent years, the academic
world began to decode expressions of gender within the Arab world, however the
gendered Arab identity has been fundamentally stereotyped. In this edited
volume, we venture into various subsets of the 21st century Arab identity that
pertain to deciphering the gendered Arab.
To be considered for
publication in this edited volume, please submit your 300–500 word abstracts by
November 30, 2020. For submissions and queries please contact editors Salma
Yassine (salma.yassine@lau.edu)
and Vicky Panossian (vicky.panossian@lau.edu).
This Special Issue
will examine the ways that the expansive categories of food, gender and
sovereignty have intersected over time, shaped by each other and by specific
historical circumstances. Sovereignty is an expansive category, incorporating
not only the consolidation of formal political entities, but also the
non-elite, everyday politics of survival and self-determination. We see
sovereignty as encompassing the formal claims of governments over land and
peoples, and also the ways that individuals, collectives and communities assert
control over resources. Whether directed at bodies or abstract polities,
sovereignty and food have historically informed one another. Food is similarly
capacious, including liquids, solids and matter that, like Jell-O, refuses easy
binaries. It consists of substances considered nourishing and poisonous, is
inextricable from medicine, and is absorbed into the body through many means.
Food is tied to many needs: budgetary, cultural, economic, emotional,
financial, physiological, political, psychological, sacred, sexual, social. Its
multidimensional nature makes it both quotidian and extraordinary.
Please send the
required materials by email to genderhistory@viu.ca or by mail by Sept. 30, 2020
Editors are seeking
chapters and sections for a new volume entitled Love, Knowledge, and
Revolution: Decolonizing Directions in Comparative Ethnic Studies (Routledge,
2021). The work contributes to a pivotal contemporary moment in the history of Ethnic
Studies when California's AB1460 - which makes Ethnic Studies a graduation
requirement throughout the California State University system - empowers
students with the tools needed to contest and transform systems of oppression
and an exciting opportunity to reimagine and reorganize the university. Please
submit your brief proposal through the link. https://forms.gle/vswXHPMkUEM7zaUu5.
Contact Email: carlos.salomon@csueastbay.edu
We live in a world
where the impetus to teach writing online is no longer just one of convenience
or economic necessity. In the era of Covid-19, it has become a public health
imperative – one that has begun to foster not only a wave of interesting new
practices, but also a variety of questions about the future of writing
instruction. This edited collection will feature writers who share their
experiences teaching writing at the college level in creative ways in hybrid,
blended, and online/remote/virtual environments. For this edited collection, we
invite the voices of both very experienced online teachers of writing as well
as more novice online teachers. We are interested in both stories of important
successes as well as unforeseen problems and difficulties.
Please send a brief
abstract (250 words) as well as a short biographical statement to Laura.Gray-Rosendale@nau.edu by
October 15, 2020.
http://interface.org.tw/index.php/if/pages/view/CallForPapers14
The contemporary age
of hyper-information provides the necessary conditions for the intentional and
systematic construction of information flows that create virtual
interpretations of facts and events which are at variance with reality, and
which aim at manipulating public consciousness to the advantage of interested
parties. This phenomenon has allowed us to talk about the post-truth effect.
Identification of the manipulative potential of new information technologies,
description of the types of manipulation, and development of effective ways to
counter them is an important task of the humanitarian scientific community. We
expect the papers submitted will contribute to: 1) further study of the
deception discourse, identification of its formation and functioning
mechanisms, 2) identification of active dissemination areas and use of the
post-truth manipulative potential, description of its manifestation features in
individual discursive practices, 3) formation of effective ways to counter new
modern manipulative technologies.
Submission Deadline:
November 30, 2020
Contact Email: vvagios@ntu.edu.tw
The Thinker is a
Pan-African quarterly run by the Department of English at the University of
Johannesburg. As a hybrid journal, The Thinker publishes both journalistic and
academic articles. We welcome Africa-centred articles from diverse
perspectives, in order to enrich both knowledge of the continent and of issues
impacting the continent.
Submissions are due
15 September 2020.
Contact Email: thethinker@uj.ac.za
URL: http://www.thethinker.co.za
Seeking chapters
(roughly 8,000-10,000 words) for an edited volume examining approaches to the
communication of religion and/or religious ideas. The volume is
tentatively titled Communicating Religion. Potential topics can include
an examination of discourse around religious ideas within faith communities,
e.g. discussions related to belief or practice in sermons or
homilies. Other directions may examine the expression of religious
beliefs through various media formats (art, music, literature, etc.) or the
reception of religious ideas through media. Please send a 300 word
abstract and a c.v. to david.barbee@winebrenner.edu by
October 31, 2020 for full consideration.
Call for proposals
for a special issue of Critical Studies
Authors engaged in
studies about Blackness and masculinity in relation to dressing and styling
practices are encouraged to submit articles, independent of the type of
research, methodologies or theoretical frameworks implemented.
Please e-mail a Word
or PDF abstract of 150–200 words to the guest editor, Henry Navarro
Delgado, hnavarro@ryerson.ca, by
1 October 2020.
FUNDING
Prize for an Emerging Food Historian
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6351066/prize-emerging-food-historian
The editors of
Global Food History are pleased to announce the journal’s inaugural Prize for
an Emerging Food Historian. This prize will be awarded to an early career
scholar or an established historian who has not yet published in the field of
food history. To apply for the prize, applicants should remove all identifying
information from the body and notes of their draft article, and submit it as a
Word or PDF document to Dr Rachel Herrmann (HerrmannR@cardiff.ac.uk) by 1
December 2020.
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rfgf20
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
https://apply.interfolio.com/77464
These fellowships
foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D.
degrees by permitting them to pursue their research while gaining mentored
experience as teachers and members of the departments and/or programs in which
they are housed. We are particularly interested in scholars whose research is
innovative and transcends traditional disciplinary divides. Applications will be accepted in the various
fields of humanities, social sciences, sciences, interdisciplinary programs,
engineering, business and medicine.
Applications are
accepted through Interfolio and must be received on or before Monday, September
14, 2020, 11:59 PM EDT.
Should you have
questions, please direct them to society.of.fellows@dartmouth.edu.
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16569
The Society for the
Humanities at Cornell University invites applications for residential
fellowships from scholars whose research projects reflect on the 2021-22 theme
of AFTERLIVES.
In times of revolt,
times of shutdown, times of crisis, times of hope and transformation, the focal
theme of afterlives raises the double question concerning all moments of
transition, upheaval, or demise: What lives on and what comes after? What
survives, what fades away, and what emerges changed? We invite applicants to
interrogate afterlives in this tension between rupture and continuity,
difference and persistence, revolution and tradition.
Application
deadline: October 1, 2020
Email: humctr@cornell.edu
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60248
The Department of
Ethnic Studies at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic university,
invites applications for an open rank search (tenure-track or tenured) in the
field of African American Studies, beginning fall 2021. We seek applicants with
expertise in African American Studies to support the undergraduate Ethnic
Studies major and minor as well as an anticipated minor in African American
studies, while contributing to department scholarship in critical race and
ethnic studies.
Application
Deadline: October 30, 2020
email: asampaio@scu.edu
Copyeditors for Postcolonial Text
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6305549/call-copyeditors-postcolonial-text
Postcolonial Text, a
refereed open-access journal that publishes academic and creative writing on
postcolonial, transnational, and indigenous themes, is seeking copyeditors. The
positions are voluntary—though new team members will benefit from contributing
to the process of publishing some of the most current research in the field.
To apply, please
submit a short statement of interest with a CV to Managing Editor Esther de
Bruijn (King's College London) at esther.debruijn@kcl.ac.uk
by 7 September 2020.
Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship
www.wilsoncenter.org/fellowship
The Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars is announcing the opening of its 2021-2022
Fellowship competition. The Center awards academic year residential fellowships
to scholars, practitioners, journalists, and public intellectuals from any
country with outstanding project proposals on global issues. Within this
framework, the Center supports projects that intersect with contemporary policy
issues and provide the historical and/or cultural context for some of today’s
significant public policy debates. Applicants must hold a doctorate or have
equivalent professional experience.
You may also contact
the Scholars and Academic Relations Office at fellowships@wilsoncenter.org or
call (202) 691-4170 for more information.
Application
deadline: October 1, 2020
Provostial Fellows for Studies in Race and Ethnicity
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16562
Stanford University,
in conjunction with its IDEAL initiative, is pleased to announce that it is
seeking to appoint four to five early career fellows engaged in the study of
race and ethnicity. The purpose of this program is to support the work of
early-career researchers, who will lead the next generation of scholarship in
race and ethnicity and whose work will point the way forward for reshaping race
relations in America. Fellowships may be in any of the seven schools in the
University (Business, Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Education,
Engineering, Humanities & Sciences, Law, Medicine). Selection criteria
includes the originality and quality of the research, as well as demonstrated
potential for intellectual achievement.
The deadline for
receiving applications for early career fellowships is November 1, 2020
Additional details
about the fellowship program can be found at https://facultydevelopment.stanford.edu/ideal-provostial-fellows.
email: facultydevelopment@stanford.edu
Television & New Media Special Issue
Television & New
Media turns 20 years old this week!
We're so happy to release our anniversary issue on limited-time Open
Access, featuring 20 scholars' commentaries about media studies in our
turbulent times.
Table of Contents: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tvna/21/6
The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early
Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Summer 2020 issue,
Journal of Transnational American Studies
All content is open access
Twenty-First Century B.I.T.C.H. Frameworks: Hip Hop
Feminism Comes of Age
https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jhhs/
special issue of the
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Dedicated to the bad
bitches, ratchet women, classy women, & hood feminists. All issues are
peer-reviewed and open-access.
Join Us for Monthly Oral History Virtual Happy Hours!
Grab your favorite
festive treat and join us on the first Thursday of every month for a virtual
conversation about Oral History in the COVID19 Era. Click here for schedule and
registration: https://southphoenixoralhistory.com/2020/08/12/spoh-hosting-monthly-virtual-happy-hours/.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
“Shall Not Be Denied”: The 15th and 19th Amendments at
the Sesquicentennial and Centennial of their Ratifications
https://www.masshist.org/conferences
Virtual conference, 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. However, the amendments did not prevent states from
adopting other methods of discrimination. Viewed as the product of two
different movements—abolitionism and the Civil War on the one hand and the
Progressive campaigns and the First World War on the other—these two periods
and amendments are not often considered together. 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.
conference schedule:
https://www.masshist.org/2012/juniper/assets/research/snbd_conference_schedule.pdf
