CONFERENCES
Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and CultureInternational Virtual Conference, Cappadocia University, Turkey, January 14-15, 2021
The pandemic has laid bare existing structural inequalities within global capitalist systems. While multitudes face the economic hardships of a looming global recession, the planet’s wealthy elite have found refuge in their exclusive ‘utopias’ of private medical and security staff, escape mansions and luxury doomsday bunkers. Moreover, the pandemic serves as an augur of further socio-ecological perturbations to come should global capitalism’s relentless exploitation of species and ecosystems continue unabated. Perhaps most importantly, pandemics bring to light the intricate and inextricable entanglements between humans and myriad Earth others, and the realization that we are far from the only actors with the agency to engender world-shattering transformations.
The deadline for submissions is November 6, 2020.
email: pandemicimaginaries@gmail.com
A New Poetics of Space: Literary Walks in times of Pandemics and Climate Change
https://www.miun.se/online-conference
Online conference: 7 December 2020, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden
As we have become more mindful of our day-to-day comings and goings, our engagement with literature that either extolls the virtues of walking or warns against the perils of the journey has both heightened and changed. Furthermore, as our experience of confinement and self-isolation has reshaped our everyday lives, we may recontextualise our examination of literature in relation to a politics of space and place. This online conference will explore what the act of walking stands for and what it signifies today in various textual forms. The one-day event aims to reflect the various ways in which walking, in its manifold possibilities and contexts, informs our understanding of the ways in which our experience of confinement has impacted our understanding of society and reading of literature.
Please send abstracts (200-250 words), including a title and short bio (100 words) to lucy.jeffery@miun.se by 1 October 2020.
Migrating World: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration and Integration
https://integration.lcir.co.uk/
20-21 February 2021 - London/Online
It is important to analyze all these processes of our migrating world applying various interdisciplinary approaches in order to better understand the current trends in international migration, to discuss and assess different aspects and changes in the fields of migration, integration and cultural diversity. The international interdisciplinary conference "Migrating World: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration and Integration" aims to bring together scholars from around the world to exchange and share their ideas and research findings in all relevant aspects of migration and integration. It will provide an effective interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of migration, integration and cultural diversity.
Paper proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 31 October 2020 to: integration@lcir.co.uk.
Rap and Hip Hop
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA), 42nd Annual Conference, Week of February 22-27, 2021
Proposals are being accepted for the Rap and Hip Hop Culture area. We had excellent representation in this area last year and are looking to expand in both quantity and complexity for this year’s conference. We are particularly interested in proposals that address the following, but will consider any proposal that deals with rap music and hip hop culture.
Submission Deadline: November 13, 2020
For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/
Contact Email: robert.tinajero@untdallas.edu
Gender and Empire
https://conih.fas.harvard.edu/
(Virtual) Harvard History Grad Student Conference
The 2020-2021 organizing committee for the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History (Con-IH) invites graduate students to submit proposals for its twenty-first annual conference. Con-IH is looking for submissions on a broad range of topics relating to localized, national, global, or transnational facets of empire intersecting with constructs of gender. What does it mean to study Gender and Empire now, in this precarious moment, as we face a massive international public health crisis, global anti-Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous racism and police brutality, transphobic violence, and ongoing social uprisings?
URL: https://conih.fas.harvard.edu/cfp
email: conih@fas.harvard.edu
Home in Empire: Colonial Experiences of Intimacy and Mobility
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/ceim/
Saturday 13th March 2021, University of Warwick
This conference seeks to approach the home as both a material reality and imagined space, bringing these different conceptualisations together to discuss both the intimacies and mobilities at the heart of the imperial experience. Our core themes are intended to centre the role of relationships and ask how transnational connections are woven into practices of homemaking. The home could be considered as a site of resistance but also as a space marked by colonial violence and racism. Evoking notions of belonging complicated by mobility and migration, the lived realities of home might challenge dominant discourses and highlight the messiness of everyday life. Developing interdisciplinary discussions on gender, race and migration, At Home in Empire will offer new insights into how homes were made and remade across colonial and post-colonial settings.
We invite proposals of up to 300 words for papers of 20 minutes, submitted with a short biography to athomeinempire2021@gmail.com by 5pm on Monday 12th October 2020.
African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
James Madison University, February 17-20, 2021
This year's theme is “Movement(s), Collectives, and Collectivity.” Ranging across topics from archival practices to Black Lives Matter, the conference will bring together a group of scholars and archivists from a wide variety of overlapping and intersecting fields. The conference will feature a keynote presentation by poet and scholar-activist Claudia Rankine, co-founder of The Racial Imaginary Institute and author of Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely.
Please send any questions and/or 300-word presentation proposals (or 1000-word panel proposals) to aaadstudies@jmu.edu by November 1, 2020.
Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism: Speculative Fiction of Africa and the African Diaspora
This panel is a part of the 2021 Northeast Modern Language Association conference (NeMLA), to be held in Philadelphia, PA on March 11-14.
Afrofuturism, a term coined in the 1990s and meant to encompass speculative writings and culture from Africa and the African Diaspora, has become over the years a vibrant genre of literary and arts culture. Speculative fiction has long been thought to be the realm of primarily western, white, and male authors. However, from as far back as W. E. B. Du Bois’s “The Comet” in 1920 to Ryan Coogler’s vision of Black Panther, writers and artists of African descent have been casting their creativity toward the future to embrace and engage themes of race, gender, technology, and the future of humanity. This panel seeks to examine Afrofuturist and African Futurist literature to highlight voices of black empowerment and to privilege black narratives in speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Submit 300-word abstracts and brief bio to https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/Login by September 30, 2020.
“Teaching With Archives”: Current and Past Pedagogical Practices
This roundtable invites 5-10 minute presentations that share innovative approaches to integrating archives into the rhetoric, composition, or literature undergraduate classroom and that pose corresponding questions or present challenges for discussion. This roundtable also invites presentations that consider ways in which teachers of the past—especially within extracurricular settings, often venues “for resistance that was not ordinarily available” in classrooms—have innovatively taught with archives (Schultz “Young Composers” 134). What lessons might their past pedagogical practices offer our teaching today? Roundtable contributors are particularly encouraged to consider: interrelations among archives, power relations, public memory, and pedagogy; what constitutes an archives; and the rhetoricity of archives. Please visit https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18888 to submit an abstract by September 30, 2020. For more information about the Northeast MLA 2021 Convention, please visit: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
URL: gwetzel@sju.edu
The (Im)Possibilities of Bearing Witness: The Intrinsic Value and Healing Power of Autobiographic Narratives
https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/warsaw-conference-2021-cfp/
The Witnessing Working Group of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) is organizing a roundtable during the forthcoming MSA annual conference in Warsaw, Poland, July 5-9, 2021. Due to Covid-19, virtual participation will be possible. This roundtable will discuss the role of the researcher and the ways in which his/her testimony with traumatic experiences influences the course of research, but also the way in which the individual traumatic experiences of the researcher affect his/her trauma research methodology and narratives produced. Besides that, we would like to explore ways through which witness testimonies can influence researchers and ordinary readers and if (and to what extent) such testimonies may help post-trauma healing and recovery.
Submit proposals to Alma Jeftic (alma.jeftic@gmail.com) and Stefanie Hofer (hofer@vt.edu) by October 2, 2020.
For more information please consult MSA webpage:
https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/warsaw-conference-2021-cfp/
BTS: Global Interdisciplinary Conference
https://www.csun.edu/mike-curb-arts-media-communication/bts
May 1-2, 2021. California State University Northridge
This conference will bring together academics, fans, and music and media industry practitioners in a supportive and inclusive space to talk, debate and share ideas about BTS. Subjects will include music, fandom, education, film and media, performance art, culture, fashion and so on. Please submit a 300-word abstract (summary) of your proposed twenty-minute presentation and a short bio to https://ctvacsun.submittable.com/forms/initial. Videos may be longer.
The deadline for proposals is November 6th.
For more information contact BTSatCSUN@gmail.com
The Remains of the Body | Legacy and Cultural Memory of Bodies in World Culture
Saturday 22nd May 2021 – University of Warwick (UK)
This conference, The Remains of the Body: Legacy and Cultural Memory of Bodies in World Culture, intends to tackle the current issue of how bodies are marked, organised and produced as cultural entities that leave traces into the world imagery after their total or partial material dissolution. Particularly, the conference’s goal is to gather an interdisciplinary network of scholars exploring the way in which the body, or parts of it, is preserved and remembered in time in different aspects of cultural representation, in order to evaluate its cultural impact. Key concepts will be: sacralization/desacralization; the body as a relic of a past age; immortality and techniques for enduring fame; posthumous life; remembrance, memory and commemoration; and any other topic exploring the relationship between body, death and memory.
Abstracts should be submitted by 30 December 2020 to the following email address: remainsofthebody@gmail.com
Deanthrocentric Materialism and the Politics of Matter
March 2021, Paris
This one-day conference will concentrate on the tension that holds together materialism and the question of political criticism. It aims to draw on the recent tendency of material studies to retheorize the politics of matter. Following what Jennifer Roberts calls the different ‘horizons’ of transnational material studies (‘The Ecological Horizon’, ‘The Horizon of Virtuality’, and ‘The Horizon of Western Dualism’) (Roberts, 2017), feminist materialism (Alaimo and Hekman, 2007), and queer theory, it invites an evaluation of the critical potential of material studies and its rejection of anthropocentrism. It will be an occasion to explore how material studies can hold together the question of materiality with renewed attention to the questions of post-enlightenment human subjectivity.
Proposals of 300 words and a short biography should be sent to Dr. Diane Leblond (diane.leblond@univ-lorraine.fr), Dr. Sarah Gould (sarah.gould@univ-paris1.fr), Dr. Estelle Murail (e.murail@icp.fr) by December 15th 2020.
Feminism, Art & Institutions: Towards Post-Pandemic Cultural Politics and Practices
CAA Annual Conference 2021 now to take place remotely with a virtual program from 10-13 Feb.
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
Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6424381/apocalypse-dystopia-and-disaster
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA), February 22-27, 2021
The Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster in Culture Area is calling for papers about anything apocalyptic, dystopian, or disaster-related. This can be in movies, television, literature, graphic novels, or any other cultural examples of disaster, dystopia, or the end of the world. We will also be hosting a round table on the current pandemic. This area is interested in all types of theories, both real world and fictional.
See the Zombie Culture CFP at http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers.
If you have any questions about the Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster area, please contact its Area Chair, Shane Trayers at trayers.shane@gmail.com
The Latinx Side of Western America
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6400220/latinx-side-western-america
Venice, 13-16 September 2021.
The storytelling of these graphic products travels from El Paso borderline to Phoenix AZ, from Tijuana to San Diego to LA and Oakland, and passes through Portland all the way to Seattle. The Western side of the U.S. explores through these narratives’ diverse themes of anti-romantic realities inside the empire; this production can represent or misrepresent the force and contribution that undocumented communities bring to the American western society. We encourage participants to deliver intersectional approaches between genres, stories, and languages. This panel is meant to be a place to learn and discuss our honest ideas of the American experience on the Western side of the USA.
Proposals of up to 2000 characters including spaces (around 350 words) must be sent to mdiazbasteris@cornellcollege.edu by Friday 2 October 2020 at 11:59 pm CET.
Feminist Imaginaria; Going Beyond Realism
https://www.socialsciencesandhumanities.com/feminist-conference/
17 April 2021, The Queens, Leeds, United Kingdom
Femspec Journal and The Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, in partnership with Intellect, are seeking abstracts of 250-300 words for papers or creative works in any medium--poetry, fiction, film, TV, dance, theatre, music, opera, social media, gaming, graphic novels, or genre--surrealism, science fiction, magical realism, gothic, horror, fantasy, myth, folklore, rock, punk, etc, that challenges gender using tools that go beyond realism using the speculative exploration of any kind including supernatural or utopian/dystopian framing, posing the "what if," making gender-bending solutions to contemporary global social and cultural issues, using imagination and fantasy to pose resolution to these problems showing how the problems grew from lack of alignment of power relations between the sexes in the first place.
Submissions of abstracts (up to 300 words) with an email contact should be sent to Dr Batya Weinbaum (weinbaumbatya@gmail.com) and Dr Martina Topić (martinahr@gmail.com) by 30 November 2020.
Multiple Decolonialities of Asias
Kyoto, 24-27 August 2021
This panel proposes to embrace the heterogeneities inherent in Asia instead of looking for regional integration such as EU or even ASEAN as an intellectual and political task for decolonizing Asia. This is based on the firm conviction and realization that every nation-state and groups within the nation-states in Asia have their own specific histories and lived-experiences. It is only by acknowledging these many histories in their conflicts and disagreements that a dialogue could be initiated that takes the historical task and legacy of decolonization forward in the 21st Century. The many Asias therefore we are invoking is not sub-regional groups (South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia etc.) but an alternative framework based on this dialogue.
Please send 250 word abstracts and author details to Mithilesh Kumar, mithilesh.kumar@christuniversity.in by 25th September 2020.
Physical Cultures of the Body
The body has, and will continue to be, an area of intense interest in academia. As one of the world’s leading groups in the study of physical culture, the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports is proud to announce a VIRTUAL CONFERENCE focused on historical and other humanities-based approaches to the study of physical culture. We define physical culture as “the various activities people have employed over the centuries to strengthen their bodies, enhance their physiques, increase their endurance, improve their health, fight against aging, and become better athletes.” We therefore welcome papers from both established scholars and graduate students exploring all humanities-based aspects of physical culture. Papers must represent new research and may not have been published or presented elsewhere.
ABSTRACTS DUE: NOVEMBER 6, 2020
For questions, please email conference co-organizers: Conor Heffernan at Conor.Heffernan@austin.utexas.edu and Jan Todd and jan@starkcenter.org
PUBLICATIONS
Love, Knowledge, and Revolution
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUvPgClXRT0YbNeNoTLeUxI3zbN_QeBXwEbmWkBMBI5d-Cxw/viewform
Editors are seeking chapters and sections for a new edited volume contracted by Routledge Press entitled Love, Knowledge, and Revolution: Decolonizing Directions in Comparative Ethnic Studies. 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 share a proposal or abstract describing the chapter or contribution by September 23, 2020.
Governing Genealogies of Film Education
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6373356/governing-genealogies-film-education
Contributions are sought for an edited scholarly collection, the purpose of which is to introduce readers to a nascent, critical historiographic approach to the formal study and deployment of cinema based upon extensive archival research into the declassified governing paper trail located in government, university, and philanthropic foundation archives in the United States and other imperial locations, and of traces left behind in postcolonial and neocolonial state institutions. We invite research that dovetails investigation of production culture and the cinematic public sphere with exposure and analysis of governmental policy and bureaucratic processes. The primary objective of the volume is to shed light on the institution and institutionalization of film and, more broadly, audiovisual education as an international academic discipline, as well as of media governance through the governmentality of university and state programming at bureaucratic and aesthetic levels with complex and lasting implications for global cultures and subject positions.
Please submit proposals, including affiliation and curriculum vitae, by October 15, 2020, to both:
Hadi Gharabaghi <hgharabaghi@drew.edu>
Terri Ginsberg <terri.ginsberg@aucegypt.edu>
An Anthology of Non-Conformism
Through this anthology, we the co-editors—Epifania Amoo-Adare and I —intend to share diverse accounts of non-conformism, illustrating what is so hard—but also so very good—about being a rebel wom!n. More specifically, we seek to highlight the lives, experiences, energies and spirits of non-conformists, who also just happen to be wom!n; i.e., women, wemoon, womyn, and womxn—however self-identified. We intend to use a range of media and literary forms (e.g. prosetry, poetry, photography, other artwork etc). to answer the fundamental question: What does it mean to be a rebel/non-conforming wom!n in today’s world? To this end, we would love to receive offerings from you that tell us your own story, or that of other rebel wom!n. Abstracts should be emailed to biraacreatives@gmail.com by 30 September 2020.
URL: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/call-submissions-anthology-non-conformism-epifania-amoo-adare
Fictions of Distance in Recent American Literature
The special issue Fictions of Distance explores the many shades of posthuman intimacy that occur in these interstices. Drawing on literary knowledge of the present enables posing questions that pertain to the current crisis: What is the relationship between individual alienation and digitally-mediated, posthuman communion? How does virtual intimacy relate to physical distance? How does the proliferation of ‘digital selves’ affect offline subjectivities? How will the already fading dichotomies of private/public and work/leisure fare in this new world order? What long-term consequences may occur due to the vigilant supervision of self and others mandated by the pandemic?
For additional submission guidelines, please see: https://amlit.eu/index.php/amlit/about/submissions.
Contact Email: eggers@gsnas.fu-berlin.de
Queering Middle East Migrations
Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies invites contributions to a special issue on “Queering Middle East Migrations.” This issue seeks to bring together scholars working on topics related to migration and sexualities from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and to encourage others to begin to reflect on how sexualities inflect the migratory experience.
We invite full articles of 7,000-10,000 words, including endnotes, and shorter thought-pieces of c.3,000 words. Please send contributions to mashriq_mahjar@ncsu.edu by October 1, 2020.
URL: https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/20
Essays on Librarians/Archives/Libraries in Graphic Novels, Comic Strips and Sequential Art
The editors of a new collection of articles/essays are seeking essays about the portrayal of libraries, archives and librarians in graphic novels, comic strips, and sequential art/comics. The librarian and the library have a long and varied history in sequential art. Steven M. Bergson’s popular website LIBRARIANS IN COMICS (http://www.ibiblio.org/librariesfaq/comstrp/comstrp.htm; http://www.ibiblio.org/librariesfaq/combks/combks.htm) is a useful reference source and a place to start as is the essay Let’s Talk Comics: Librarians by Megan Halsband (https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2019/07/lets-talk-comics-librarians/). There are also other websites which discuss librarians in comics and provide a place for scholars to start.
Please send a 300-500-word abstract by November 15th 2020 to Carrye Syma Carrye.Syma@ttu.edu
Untangling the Knots of Identity: Afro Hair and Blackness
Hair texture shapes ideas about images of beauty and sexuality, but also about race, gender, class and power. This is because hair is not just a social episode, i.e.., a consequence of a natural characteristic (being), but also a social act that produces an outcome (doing). Every-day actions and practices socialise hair, making it political, i.e.., a medium of statements about/between the Self and the society. We invite submissions that take ‘Afro-hair’ as a unit of analysis and discuss the intersection between the socio-cultural context and hair textures/hairstyles by exploring what is considered good hair and bad hair; how Afro-hair can be a symbol of Black resistance to oppression and a means through which Black people practice their agency in the world; the meaning of the Black diaspora in this context and the collective belonging to the Nappy community; the health and economic implications of beauty standards.
Please submit a 500-words (max) proposal along with a preliminary reference list up to five titles, and a short biography by 22nd November 2020 to both Benjamina Efua Dadzie (benjamina.e.dadzie@gmail.com) and Marta Mezzanzanica (marta.mezzanzanica@gmail.com).
Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic
The Liberal Arts Collective at the Pennsylvania State University is launching a podcast, "Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic,” which will run during Fall 2020 to early Spring 2021. This podcast seeks to interview a variety of academics, artists, activists, or community members to feature their work and experiences as they try to understand, explain, alleviate, or simply capture the contemporary phenomena that fall under these themes. Speakers will be volunteering to remotely record a 15-minute long informal conversation about their work or experience. Parallel events include a reading group and a closing roundtable. Podcast speakers may be considered for the final roundtable as well.
- To propose/participate, please send a 250 word description of your project and an updated C.V. to libarts.co@gmail.com, with “podcast speaker”
URL: https://sites.psu.edu/liberalartscollective/
Humanities for All Blog
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6417816/contribute-humanities-all-blog
The Humanities for All Blog publishes on all aspects of the publicly engaged humanities in U.S. higher education, we are particularly interested in the following topics: Discussions of ways that humanities scholars and students can engage wide-ranging communities during times of crisis; Case studies featuring publicly engaged initiatives and projects involving faculty and students of U.S. universities and colleges; Considerations of publicly engaged practices in undergraduate and graduate instruction; Analysis of trends in publicly engaged work at U.S. higher education; Discussions of how the Humanities for All database and essays have been used in publicly engaged research, teaching, preservation, programming, and infrastructure; How the Humanities for All database and essays have been used in the classroom; and Posts that foreground the voices of community partners.
To submit, please email a short (under 100 word) pitch outlining your proposed post, its significance, and why you are the right person to write it, to Younger Oliver at yoliver@nhalliance.org.
Learn more here: https://humanitiesforall.org/grow and read previous blog posts here: https://humanitiesforall.org/features
REINTRODUCING FEMINIST INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS
This volume intends to offer a systematic re-introduction to feminism's intellectual legacy. We encourage an ampler view of feminist theory which extends beyond its production in the global North and beyond the problematics of location, with the North/South dichotomy often resulting not only in oppositional notions of agency (active agents vs silent victims) but also in competing cultural interests (civil rights and queer theory vs decolonization, economic justice, and disarmament). One of the aims in reintroducing feminist intellectual traditions from the perspective of their multiple strands across the globe is to reflect, in as diversified a manner as possible, on feminism's instituting power, especially on the work of the academy (e.g. the conference on National Development at Wellesley in the mid-1970s) and of global institutions (e.g. the UN and its conferences, culminating perhaps in Beijing).
We invite chapter proposals from scholars worldwide and from all disciplines.
Proposals: 300 word abstract and a brief biography by 5 December 2020.
Send proposals to filomena.mitrano@unive.it; rajnisingh18@iitism.ac.in.
Go Online! Reconfiguring Writing Courses for the New Virtual World
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.
Critical Insights: HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS
I'm seeking original essays for the proposed book Critical Insights: HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS, a collection of scholarly essays (under contract with Grey House Publishing/EBSCO), on any aspect of Julia Alvarez’s novel. Because Critical Insights volumes are directed toward a readership of advanced high school and undergraduate college students, each chapter will present an argument supported by close reading of text. The argument must be broad enough to reflect one or more primary concerns of that text and to introduce students to previous scholarship on that particular aspect of the text. The goal for the volume is provide a wide-ranging set of critical interpretations of this novel, which is frequently assigned in high schools, drawing on current theoretical approaches, written in a style accessible to the target readership.
To propose a chapter, please send a 300 to 500-word abstract (or more than one abstract) and a cv ASAP, or by October 5, 2020 to kdrake@scrippscollege.edu
WOKE TV: Politically Alert Television in the Trump, BLM, and Post-#MeToo Era
As little attention has been directed toward the concept of woke television within academia, Woke TV aims to gather contributions that further explore how expressions of woke culture translate into the world of television narrative and representation, but also in dimensions of production and reception. This collection is primarily interested in navigating the context of US television; however, studies based on other national/cultural contexts will also be considered. We seek to engage with the following lines of inquiry: (a) industry perspectives, (b) textual (representational/discursive) approaches, (c) issues of audience reception, as well as (d) issues of critical reception.
Please submit one-page abstracts/proposals to either Georgia Aitaki (georgia.aitaki@oru.se) or Lauren J. DeCarvalho (Lauren.DeCarvalho@du.edu) by November 1, 2020
Narrating “New Normal”: Graduate Student Symposium
https://research.hkbu.edu.hk/page/detail/532#CFP1
What is “new normal?” As the COVID-19 pandemic sickens millions, isolates billions, and brings economies to a standstill around the globe, the phrase has entered the everyday lexicon of governments, news, and social media, with many regarding the ensuing widespread shift of basic human activities online – school, shopping, work, and socializing – as a “new normal.” Yet, the phrase “new normal” itself is not new. Governments, corporations, and institutions readily deploy “new normal” to legitimize regulations, laws, and policies that ensure organizational survival in crisis, thereby relegating the people whose uncertain livelihoods they normalize as expendable. We invite graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to present their research on digital and moving image stories and storytelling about “new normal(s).”
To submit a proposal, please send an extended abstract of no more than 500 words, 2-page CV, and email address for correspondence to gstjournal@hkbu.edu.hk by December 1, 2020.
Transgender India: Understanding Third Gender Identities and Experiences through the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
Chapters are invited for Transgender India, drawing on scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, covering topics from antiquity to the present. Contributions may explore a range of Indian transgender identities and experiences—including but not limited to individuals identifying as third gender, hijra, sadhin, MTF, FTM, and nonbinary.
Interested authors should send a 300-word abstract, 200-word bionote, and sample of a previously published chapter or article to Dr. Douglas Vakoch at dvakoch@ciis.edu by October 1, 2020.
FUNDING
Bibliographical Society of American Fellowships
https://bibsocamer.org/awards/fellowships/
In keeping with the central value the Society places on bibliography as a critical framework, the BSA funds a number of fellowships to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats. Bibliographical projects may range chronologically from the study of clay tablets and papyrus rolls to contemporary literary texts and born-digital materials. Projects may include establishing a text or studying the history of book or manuscript production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading, and the history of bibliographical study itself. The above URL offers information about a number of funding opportunities.
All applications due November 2, 2020
For more information, please contact Hope Mayo, Chair of the Fellowship Committee at bsafellowships@bibsocamer.org.
Resident Scholar fellowships
https://sarweb.org/scholars/resident/
Resident scholar fellowships are awarded annually by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) to up to six scholars who have completed their research and who need time to prepare manuscripts or dissertations on topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may approach their research from the perspective of anthropology or from related fields such as history and sociology. Scholars from the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to apply. Applicants for doctoral level fellowships must have their PhD in hand at time of application. If not, you must apply as a PhD candidate and will receive the pre-doctoral level stipend award.
Applications are accepted through the first Monday in November to be considered for tenure beginning September 1 of the following year.
For questions, please call (505) 954-7237 or email scholar@sarsf.org.
Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowship from Indiana Humanities
https://indianahumanities.org/wgmfellowship
Following the murder of George Floyd and weeks of protest, Indiana Humanities committed to using our humanities work to shed light, provide comfort and aid discourse about racial injustice. In this spirit, we’re pleased to introduce a fellowship of $2,500tosupport new humanities research that explores anti-Black racial injustice and structural racism in Indiana and how Black Hoosiers have responded.
Proposals for the Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowships are due by September 28, 2020.
Contact Email: lnahmias@indianahumanities.org
Proposal description: https://indianahumanities.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Wilma-Gibbs-Moore-Fellowships-CFP-final.pdf
Malamy Fellowship offered at the Peabody Essex Museum
https://www.pem.org/visit/library-02/research-fellowships
One recipient will be awarded the Frances E. Malamy Fellowship to perform independent scholarly research at the library within a three-month time-frame between January 4, 2021 and December 31, 2021. Research must include use of archival materials held at the Phillips Library, and/or archiving activities under the direction of the Phillips Library staff. The Malamy fellowship is available to U.S. citizens, green card holders, and holders of an F1 student visa or a J1 practicum/training visa.
All application materials, including references, must be received by 11:59 pm on November 1, 2020.
email: research@pem.org
Jack Henning Graduate Fellowship in Labor Culture & History
http://www.laborculture.org/scholarship/henning.html
Purpose: To encourage innovative study of the expressive culture of working people in the United States, as well as their identities, philosophies, and the problems they encounter. Eligibility: Graduate students (Master’s and Ph.D. candidates) enrolled in an accredited California university undertaking research related to laborlore, labor history, occupational folklife, trade union traditions, and/or workers’ expressive culture, all broadly defined. A stipend of $5,000 will be provided for the academic year 2021-2022.
Applications must be postmarked no later than December 1, 2020.
Questions regarding the application process should be sent to: henning@laborculture.org
Library Company of Philadelphia Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2021-2022
https://networks.h-net.org/node/24029/discussions/6393544/post-doctoral-fellowships-2021-2022
National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships support research in residence at the Library Company on any subject relevant to its collections, which are capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the Atlantic world form the 17th through the 19th centuries. Advanced degree candidates must have completed all requirements, except for the actual conferral of the degree, by the application deadline, November 1, 2020.
URL: https://librarycompany.org/neh-and-peaes-post-doctoral-fellowships-application/
For more information about the NEH award, contact either Will Fenton (wfenton@librarycompany.org) or James Green (jgreen@librarycompany.org).
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Assistant Professor of Critical Gender and Race Studies
The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic university, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Critical Gender and Race Studies, to begin Fall 2021. Specifically, we seek a feminist teacher-scholar who conducts engaged social research at the intersection of gender and race, focusing primarily on the United States. Areas of research specialization for this candidate may include but are not limited to: science and technology studies, health
and reproductive justice, labor and migration studies, institutional/structural violence, carceral studies, environmental justice, digital/media cultures, social movements, and policy/advocacy studies.
*Deadline for Applications:* 10/16/20
email: slodhia@scu.edu; lgarber@scu.edu
IDEAL Provostial Fellows for Studies in Race and Ethnicity
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. To be eligible for an early career fellowship, a candidate must be within three years of the date of their terminal degree at the time of appointment.
Applications should be submitted electronically at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16562 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.
Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60361
The Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame seeks an innovative and dynamic early-career scholar of Native American and Indigenous Studies. This position is open in terms of research focus, but a PhD in American Studies, Native American Studies, or related interdisciplinary field is strongly preferred. Candidates with a PhD in another field will be considered if they demonstrate extensive interdisciplinary training in a field closely related to North American Indigenous studies at the PhD level. An ideal candidate might also have a demonstrated track record of socially-engaged research, experience teaching and mentoring Native and other underrepresented students, and/or a record of collaboration with Native communities.
Applicants should send a cover letter and CV via Interfolio no later than October 15, 2020.
Interfolio link: https://apply.interfolio.com/78332
Executive Director for Equity and Inclusion
https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/2018143/executive-director-for-equity-and-inclusion/
Front Range Community College is the largest community college in Colorado, enrolling close to 28,000 credit students annually. We also have a strong commitment to inclusion, equity, and diversity. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that matches our student community.
As the Executive Director for Equity and Inclusion (EDEI), you will report directly to the College President. Operating as a change-agent, you will provide collaborative leadership for professional development, programming, and initiatives that create an equitable and inclusive environment at the college and promote the success of all students.
Position will remain open until filled with a priority deadline of September 18, 2020.
For more information, visit the following: www.frontrange.edu and VISION 2020.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Using Holocaust Documents Online: The Changing Relationship Between the Archivist and the Users
https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/pdf-drupal/en/archive/workshop-23-24-november-2020.pdf
We invite you to participate in a virtual international workshop organized by EVZ-Yad Vashem. The workshops provide a platform for discussions of contemporary questions, methodologies and programs, related to the accessibility of Holocaust documentation. In this workshop, taking place in the shadow of a the Covid-19 pandemic, we will deal with how open access to Holocaust documentation, and services provided remotely can redefine standard procedure and transform the way we interact, and we will explore the challenges and benefits these changes bring.
The deadline to submit proposals is 21 September, 2020
Contact Email: hillel.solomon@yadvashem.org.il
URL: https://www.yadvashem.org/archive.html
Women, Power, and Portraiture
https://npg.si.edu/edgar-p-richardson-symposium
Webinars via Zoom | Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. EDT
Sept. 15 – Nov. 10, 2020
American Academy of Religion Online Workshops
Sunday, November 29, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Motherhood & Religion: A Comparative, Interdisciplinary, Matricentric, Feminist Approach
https://www.aarweb.org/AARAnnualMeeting2020/AARAnnualMeeting2020/Workshops.aspx
The intersection of motherhood and religion remains rarely studied even within research on gender in religious studies. Yet, under the influence of matricentric feminism, topics on motherhood and mothering (as institution and experience) or parenting are being brought to the foreground in religious studies and in theology, with references to contemporary maternal theory and recent developments in motherhood studies. This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to discuss their on-going work and to network with other researchers in religious studies or theology who focus on common research themes such as alternative forms of motherhood and mothering in religion, divine and human mothers, or (non-religious) feminist perspectives that consider both the patriarchal institution of motherhood and religion as oppressive.
Pandemic Ritual Workshop
One of the theoretical issues raised by these new practices has to do with the differences that are worth making (or not) between habits and rituals, and more generally, between ceremonial performance and equally conventional everyday activity. How can taking these recently introduced Covid 19 related practices into consideration shed light on these questions and others?
Racism and Antiracism in Science and Theology
The Dialogue on the Science, Ethics, and Religion Program (DoSER) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) invites religious scholars to join us in discussing the role of racism in the past and present of science and theology. How have racist ideas affected the development of both scientific and theological thought, and how does that history affect how the intersection of the two subjects is discussed today?
In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing
In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing considers what it means to make art history, how knowledge is shared (or obscured), and the way histories are made—and unmade—while also considering the personal stakes of scholarship. Each episode offers a lively, in-depth look into the life and mind of a scholar or artist working with art historical or visual material. Discussions touch on guests’ current research projects, career paths, and significant texts, mentors, and experiences that have shaped their thinking. In the Foreground is available on iTunes, Spotify, and anywhere else you may listen to podcasts.
The Future of the African American Past Video Resources
https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/future-of-the-african-american-past
On May 19–21, 2016, the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) co-hosted The Future of the African American Past. This video library features excerpts from the opening roundtable and eight conference sessions that can be used in K–12, community college, and undergraduate classrooms to guide understanding of major themes in this evolving field. For more about The Future of the African American Past and full video recordings of the sessions, visit the conference website.
African History Digital Document Portal
AH_digITalPortal project will curate electronic and digitized copies of historical documents and field research materials, archives, and other sources of information that scholars & researchers of Africa have collected over many years of their work. These resources will include copies of field notes, manuscripts, rare books, magazines, pamphlets, pictures and images, and transcripts of interviews, songs, and other audio and visual documents covering periods from before colonization of Africa up until the recent past.
Contact Email: kolapof@uoguelph.ca
The Library of Congress’s Web Site for Teachers: A New Look for a Trusted Resource
The Library has updated its Web site for teachers to make it more focused and easier for educators to use. The site now makes its home at a new URL: www.loc.gov/programs/teachers. The Library’s Teachers site has long provided a substantial suite of classroom materials, professional development resources, and other tools to support teachers as they use the Library’s powerful online collections of primary sources with their students.
Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments
https://digitalpedagogy.hcommons.org/
Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities is a peer-reviewed, curated collection of reusable and remixable resources for teaching and research. Organized by keyword, the annotated artifacts can be saved in collections for future reference or sharing. Each keyword includes a curatorial statement and artifacts that exemplify that keyword. You can read the keywords comprehensively, as you would a printed collection, and browse artifacts, exploring certain types or subject matter. For other ideas about using this collection, see the introduction, Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.
Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records
https://library.unt.edu/news/2019/12-11-tbaal-grant/
The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL), in partnership with the University of North Texas, has received a $25,000 grant from the Hoblitzelle Foundation to continue digitizing the organization’s archive, which highlights the diverse artistic legacy of African Americans. As items from TBAAL’s archive are digitized, they are made available in UNT’s The Portal to Texas History, where students, researchers and the general public have easy access to rare and historical materials.
View the collection here: https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/BLACKA/browse/
