CONFERENCES
Generaciones: Commonalities and Differences over the Generations
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6444547/2021-naccs-tejas-foco-virtual-conference
February 19-20, 2021, Conference to be Hosted Virtually by Tarrant County College
“¡Mis padres no entienden!” Throughout any culture, parents and their children often fail to see eye-to-eye when addressing countless issues. Certainly, Chicanx is not immune to this dynamic. As a result of a variety of factors including, but not limited to, changing cultures, shifts in environments, new legislation, migratory issues, and religious differences, a stumbling block toward progress and unification are disagreements from one generation to the next. Regardless, generations often maintain significant, congruous long-term goals. This conference’s theme, Generaciones: Commonalities and Differences over the Generations addresses this long-standing and important issue.
All submissions should be sent via email to naccstejas2021@gmail.com and are due by December 1, 2020.
URL: https://naccstejasfoco.wixsite.com/tejas
Challenging Dominant Historical Narratives
Friday, November 20, online.
The History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) at California State University, Long Beach is pleased to announce a call for papers for its fourth annual conference that will explore challenging dominant narratives in history. The conference is intended to offer graduate students the opportunity to present original research and promote interdisciplinary and innovative scholarship. The conference aims to provide redefinitions, historical contexts, significances, and/or consequences of challenging a dominant historical narrative. All fields are welcome.
Submit 250-300 word abstracts and 50-75 word bios in pdf format to HGSA.CSULB@gmail.com by October 23rd.
Movement and Mobility in America
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6459655/cfp-movement-and-mobility-america
American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT), Online Conference, June 28-29, 2021
From protests against the Stamp Act, Tea Act, and Townshend Duties in the eighteenth century; to the abolitionist, and women’s and workers’ rights movements of the nineteenth century; to the peace, civil rights, free speech, and anti-nuclear activism of the twentieth century; to the use of social media as an organizing platform in the twenty-first century, Americans have defined, and have been defined by, movement and mobility, using it to counter injustice by voicing their opinions and taking to the streets. As US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg expressed, “Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you”—a dictum that Americans have been following for over three centuries. ASAT invites the submission of individual abstracts, panels, and workshop/roundtable proposals that explore all aspects of this theme.
Proposal deadline: February 28, 2021
Contact Email: info@asat-jast.org
Humanitarian Organizations: (Hi)Stories, Impact and Challenges
International Conference
Our new international conference seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners in order to remember stories from the long history of humanitarian assistance offered by organizations such as UNICEF, International Red Cross, Red Crescent and Red Crystal, Oxfam and Doctors without Frontiers in all over the world. We wish to explore their impact in shaping global citizenship and highlight the importance of their work for the support of people both in conflicts and natural catastrophes. In desperate times not only they have overcame the (geo)political and national obstacles and helped people survive but also protected legacies by recording stories and memories creating unique sources of information.
Deadline for proposals: 5 January 2020
Contact Email: info@gires.org
Contextualizing Digital Media in the Global Pandemic
NeMLA 2021: Philadelphia, PA. March 11-14, 2021
This panel welcomes comparative and interdisciplinary studies of digital media practices during the 2020 pandemic. Studies presented will revolve around, without attempting to answer in whole, two key questions. First, how does the 2020 pandemic affect our lives on (and through) digital media? Second, how does digital media, in turn, affect human experience during the pandemic? We particularly welcome scholars who bring their unusual expertise into the discussion, addressing these questions by examining digital media practices across linguistic and national boundaries and/or through substantial engagement with disciplines such as computer science, international studies, public health, or anthropology.
Abstracts should be submitted here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18508
Contact Email: emeng@uchicago.edu
Teaching through objects: engaging students with material culture in university and public settings
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16uErFL_Rzfrq5E8qxZu9hqhJfDuxuT5j/view
This event will be held remotely, 26th-27th November 2020
Objects present uniquely compelling and complex tools for teaching and research. This two day workshop aims to strengthen our use of material culture in teaching by exploring object centred teaching and learning practices. Material culture embodies a multitude of potential narratives, and offers students opportunities to think about their discipline(s) in new ways. This event will bring together a range of perspectives to consider how those leading directed teaching sessions can support this process.
Deadline for submissions: 12th October 2020
Contact Email: teachingthroughobjects@gmail.com
Mountain dreams. Mountains in aesthetic representations of dreams: between symbolism and space of experience.
Literary and cinematographic representations of mountains – and particularly high mountains – frequently depict them as national symbols and sites of regional identification. Also, on an individual level, mountains as sites of human life and experience play a significant part in processes of personal identity building. It is interesting to see that this influence of landscape on individual experiences of the self occurs predominantly in the unconscious. Especially in dreams, mountains feature prominently, both on a symbolic level and as spaces of concrete experiences. At this conference we will examine different aspects and functions of dreaming about mountains in literature and film.
Please submit your proposal in German, English or French until 25 November 2020. Please send your abstract as a Word file of max. 3.000 characters and a short CV to: sophia.mehrbrey@uni-saarland.de
Culture, Things, and Empire: Virtual Seminar Series
The CTE Virtual Seminar Series invites researchers, primarily PhD candidates, postdoctoral and early career researchers, to submit abstracts to present their work-in-progress research in the form of 20-minute papers at one of the 5 online seminars. There will be time for a 40-minute question and answer, discussion, and feedback space. We also ask that any researchers applying to present seek out a ‘respondent’ for their session who can help chair, initiate discussion, and offer a more focussed perspective on the topic. Respondents can be anyone from within or outside of academia with the ability to comment on your topic. Please get in touch with us via the contact details below should you need help finding a respondent.
If you would like to present at one of the seminars, please submit your name, email address, abstract (max. 300 words), a short biography (max. 100 words), and your respondent’s name and email address to the CTE team at culturethingsempire@gmail.com by 5pm on Monday 19th October 2020.
URL: https://culturethingsempire.wordpress.com/
Global Conference on Women’s Studies
While significant achievements have been made on women’s studies, great questions, and challenges remain. The Global Conference on Women’s Studies, to be held this year on December 18-20 in Oxford- UK will address a diverse range of theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together voices and insights from around the world and from all academic disciplines to engage in lively discussions on women’s and gender studies, review their research findings, exchange ideas, and explore emerging trends.
Contact Email: clare@globalks.org
Poetry and Poetics
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA), February 22-27, 2021
Virtual Conference
We are now forming panels for presentations of American poetry and poetics criticism at our 2021 conference. There are no limits in regard to historical period, topic, or theme, and we welcome panel proposals, especially those that include panelists from multiple institutions.
All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca
If you have any questions about the Poetry and Poetics (Critical) area, please contact its Area Chair, Scarlett Higgins, shiggins@unm.edu.
Submission Deadline: November 13, 2020
Social Justice and Online Activism
https://chesapeakedh.github.io/conference-2021
February 25th and 26th, 2021, Virtual
The Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium (CDHC) invites submissions for its second annual conference: Social Justice and Online Activism. We encourage participation from the broader digital humanities communities, including undergraduate and graduate students, college and university faculty, independent scholars, community members, librarians, archivists, and technologists.
Please submit proposals online through our form by November 31, 2020.
If you have any questions, please contact chesapeakedhconsortium@gmail.com.
Worlds of Imagination: Media, Place and Tourism in Today’s Global World
https://www.worldsofimagination.eu/conference/
April 7th- 9th 2021. Online conference
In today’s globalized, transnational and digitalized media environment, popular culture plays a significant role in the establishment and (re)negotiation of place identities and the ways in which people relate to physical locations. Traveling to film locations, participating in fan re-enactments or visiting theme parks are some of the varied and multifaceted ways in which the ties between people’s worlds of imagination and the real worlds they inhabit are made tangible through place. This conference highlights the interconnections between media, tourism and place and aims to bring together the diverse perspectives, approaches and actors involved in this process while focusing on critical issues accompanying this multifaceted phenomenon.
Please submit your abstracts of max. 300 words and a short biographical statement (max. 50 words) to info@worldsofimagination.eu before December 1st, 2020.
Voice and Vulnerability
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_k-6NZRaVnYUO-PEdlwwFqqpzxqphhhD/view
5th and 6th February 2021
Voices appear; they are articulated and enunciated across texts of all genres, media, languages, cultures and time periods. But voices can also be misheard, misunderstood and ignored; some voices speak more loudly than others, while other voices are not heard at all, or never given the chance to speak. The vulnerability of voice can result from qualities intrinsic to the voice itself, as well as from externally determined social, political, and economic factors. Yet these voices of the vulnerable constitute a subversive potential that can be explored across (and through) the margins of literature, language and art. This conference seeks to investigate the relationship between, and intersections of, voice and vulnerability.
Submit your 250-word abstract and a short bio (no more than 50 words) to ml-grad net@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk by November 15th 2020.
email: sophia.buck@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Centring Race in History: Antiquity to the Present
23-25 November 2020
What should be the place of race in historiography and historical practice? The last few decades have witnessed a flowering of the historical study of race. Yet most of this scholarship has been confined to late modern colonial, global, and postcolonial histories, with little interest from other fields. In medieval and early modern studies, the bulk of writing on race has been produced by those working in literature rather than history. And if we look to the big treatments of history that have been growing in popularity in the profession and the book trade in recent years, race barely features. The aim of our conference is to confront this marginalization of race in history, and to consider how we can centre race in our discipline: theoretically, methodologically, and empirically.
Please submit paper proposals of c. 250 words and biographies of c. 150 words by 15 October 2020 to icr@edgehill.ac.uk and monica.gonzalezcorrea@eui.eu
URL: http://monitoracism.eu/centring-race-in-history-antiquity-to-the-present/
Entangled Im/Mobilities: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences
18–20 March 2021
The conference aims to encourage discussion on how entangled im/mobilities interact and are co-produced to reveal complex relations of meaning, shaped by geographic, cultural, and historical contexts. It seeks to bring together reflections from the humanities and the social sciences to celebrate the multifaceted field of mobilities research, expanding across and beyond disciplines, tackling topics ranging from im/mobilities resulting from climate change to cultural and literary representations of im/mobilities.
Proposal Deadline: 31 October 2020.
Contact Email: entangled.mobilities@univie.ac.at
URL: https://mobilecultures.univie.ac.at/en/conference2021/
Understanding Land: Configuring Spaces, Making Identities
Land has been an important and perhaps an overarching category for us to understand how we perceive and make sense of the world. While on one hand it has often been seen as tabula rasa (a formless interval) in colonial thinking, a simple interrogation would reveal that land is often coterminous with a set of material and cultural practices that give it a distinct sense of identity and meaning over generations and for different societies. As both part and product of property relations, habitations and ecology, it therefore occupies an important place in thinking about arts, philosophy and history. In order to engage with these issues, the conference seeks to invite early career research scholars to use land as a dynamic act of placemaking and creating identities.
We invite MPhil and PhD scholars to send their abstracts (250-350 words) to snugraduateconference2021@gmail.com by 31st October, 2020.
URL: https://history.snu.edu.in
American Comparative Literature Association's 2021 Annual Meeting
https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting
The is now fully virtual and will take place April 8-11, 2021.
Submission is open until October 31.
Leaky Ontologies
In an increasingly compartmentalized, consolidated time, leaking incidents keep surfacing from the backdrop of our human reality designed for smooth functioning and come to shape our age. Thinking with and through leaking objects, this seminar seeks to approach the theoretical implications of leakage as it seeps into ecological, sociological, technological, and philosophical discourses. In which ways do literature, cinema, performance, music, media, the visual arts, and other creative languages feature leakage, and what can we learn from them?
Please direct questions and/or comments to Pedro Lopes de Almeida (pedro_lopesdealmeida@brown.edu) and Xingyue Zhou (zhxy921@gmail.com).
URL: https://acla.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/2/sessiongallery/233
City as a Bricolage: Alternative understandings of the urban
We are interested in papers which expand and break the disciplinary boundaries to pose questions on the urban. The papers could be on any aspect of the urban not limited to space-time configurations, being and belonging in the city, claiming the city, building and making of the city, boundaries of the city etc. We also welcome de-colonial ways of looking at the city, at uncovering urban histories which might have been forgotten or erased by the emergence of post-colonial nation states.
Papers are to be sent to yaminkrishn@gmail.com, meiyen104@gmail.com
“We are all in this together” – Connectivity and Community in Isolation
June 23-25, 2021, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
As our global crisis continues, it seems that the social order and our sense of self is changing. We celebrate family birthdays via Skype, demonstrate for social justice on Instagram, and visit art exhibitions in Animal Crossing; meanwhile, we are condemned to living twenty-four hours a day with our partners, roommates or alone, in a home turned office, habituated to uncertainty and fear. Through this experience, we have become keenly aware of both digital technologies’ previously untapped potentialities for connecting us and their seemingly unbridgeable boundaries; we are learning to live in and with entrapment, experiencing both unprecedented distance and closeness. We want to use this moment to start thinking about how to overcome or reconfigure distancing and isolation from the perspective of embodied connectivity and the embodiment of connectivity.
Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) and bio (max. 100 words) via the submission form by 30 November 2020. (If you have trouble accessing the submission form, you may instead e-mail your abstract, bio, and contact information to ascaworkshop2021@gmail.com.)
PUBLICATIONS
Providing Engaging, Inclusive, and Equitable Instruction: A Special E-Publication of Thought Pieces
At no other time in the history of Higher Education has engaging, inclusive, equitable education been such an important topic. In spring, we all made the pivot to remote instruction, a shift for which many of us were unprepared. Higher Ed’s unpreparedness with regard to online learning was not the only issue exposed by COVID, however. Also exposed were vast equity gaps that affected our students from low-income families and, especially, underserved groups. All our students were and still are socially distanced, anxious about learning online, and experiencing various levels of trauma; in addition, many were and still are marginalized, experiencing basic needs insecurity, and more likely to contract and die from COVID 19. Indicators suggest that a significant number are even disillusioned and now question the efficacy of a higher education degree. As a result of what many refer to as our multiple pandemics, educators are being asked to be more deliberate and intentional than ever. This special publication of Thought Pieces seeks to showcase the ways in which faculty are meeting that call.
All submissions must be received by January 31, 2021
Direct any questions to Dr. Anna Higgins-Harrell at a_higgins@gordonstate.edu or at (678) 359-5095.
Unheard Voices of Forgiveness: Exploring Underrepresented Perspectives and Confronting Racism, Sexism, and Xenophobia
Vernon Press invites book chapter proposals to be included in a forthcoming scholarly volume on the philosophy of forgiveness. All proposals related to the title are welcome, but special consideration will be given to those that address specific issues related to racism, sexism, and xenophobia. All philosophically-based schools of thought are encouraged to submit, as are other disciplines, as long as the chapter contains a clear philosophical component. Also, proposals dealing with corollary issues like resentment, anger, mercy, and vengeance are welcome, as long as they are appropriately related to and clearly discussed in relation to forgiveness.
Abstract/Chapter Due: 25 November 2020
email: cdlewis1@pstcc.edu
The Prison Theatre Reader
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6461685/prison-theatre-reader
The exploration of prison is not new in literature and theatre. It is one in which convicts tell their stories from the inside. Here, the detained locate their experiences and conditions of prison. According to Arnold Erickson, prison has been a fertile setting for Artists, Musicians and Writers alike. Prisoners have produced hundreds of works that encompassed a wide range of literature books describing the prison experience. Modernist literature and theatre with its eclecticism saw the upsurge in the prison narrative. While Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas are rich in the literature and theatre of detention, there remains a dearth of critical works on the prison theatre and literature. To this end, this edited volume will examine the representation of prison in literature and theatre. It aims to investigate the experiences of prisoners in drama, prose and poetry.
All manuscripts must reach the editor(s) on/before 15th December, 2020: okpadahstephen@gmail.com, nkydebuzz@yahoo.com and kai.horthemke@gmail.com
Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities
This volume, edited by human, physical, and critical geographers, geomaticians, GIScientists, and literary, digital and environmental humanities scholars, aims to help produce a capacious, eclectic space of knowledge on DEH. We are calling for chapter contributions from researchers in the arts, humanities and sciences, scholars in commensurate fields, practitioners and professionals, artists, activists, poets, filmmakers and storytellers who engage the environment and the digital and are situated or situate their work in the Global South and Global North (terrestrially and subterraneous) the Oceans, the Arctic, Antarctica (surface and benthic), the Atmosphere and its layers, the Moon, Solar System, Interstellar space and Galaxies beyond.
1 January 2021, Submission of Abstracts
Contact Email: ctravis@tcd.ie
Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature (STTCL) seeks book reviewers
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6460399/sttcl-books-review
Reviewers should either hold a PhD or be ABD and reviewing a book in their field (broadly defined). We can only ship books to addresses in the United States, but we may be able to obtain E-books for reviewers outside of the U.S.
An up-to-date list of titles available for review can always be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NAZNgYP_2kYGBSsQ5AQaT1TumAPhtXz7jsuDmSy3JbE/edit?usp=sharing
Interested reviewers should contact Dr. Kathleen Antonioli (kantonioli@ksu.edu) with their mailing address, qualifications, and title(s) they are interested in reviewing.
URL: https://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/
The Material Image. Affordances as a New Approach to Visual Studies.
The special issue of Art Style Magazine, “The Material Image. Affordances as a New Approach to Visual Culture Studies, shall discuss the impact of affordances for visual culture studies in art history, design theory, new media, archaeology, classics, and related fields. Within disciplines concerning artworks from prehistoric artifacts to virtual realities, it is self-evident to discuss the materiality of objects and images. Paradoxically, however, the study of historical and literary sources often shifts the scholarly focus away from this material dimension of visual culture studies. While the so-called material turn tries to counter this development and has a high impact on public discourse, other studies emphasize that objects and images gain meaning through their involvement in human activities. In this respect, the concept of affordance offers new perspectives on the study of ancient and modern artworks.
The deadline for the submission of essays is November 27, 2020.
Contact Email: editorial@artstyle.international
URL: https://artstyle.international/submission/
Rupturing Post-Racial Fantasies: The Rhetorical Politics of Race and American Popular Culture Since the Ferguson Uprisings
In this volume, we seek chapters that employ techniques of close critical analysis to map and critically interrogate how contemporary media texts within American popular culture negotiate the political fantasy underlying the racial project of our time: post-race. We seek to engage with chapters that include but are not limited to the examination of media as it intersects with a number of rhetorical approaches. Possible topics may include but are not limited to films, television series, limited series, theatre, social media, etc.
Deadline for proposals: November 1, 2020
You may send questions to Byron Craig (bbccraig@ilstu.edu), Patricia Davis (p.davis@northeastern.edu), or Stephen Rahko (srahko@indiana.edu) as necessary.
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 by 22nd November 2020 to both Benjamina Efua Dadzie (benjamina.e.dadzie@gmail.com) and Marta Mezzanzanica (marta.mezzanzanica@gmail.com)
North of the Black Atlantic: Histories, Literatures, and Cultures of Black
Call for Chapters
North of the Black Atlantic extends Gilroy’s landmark work, mapping Canada as part of black diasporas parallel to but with vital differences from African Americanness. Black presence in Canada dates from the 1600s, involving enslavement as well as expressions of black resistance from fugitive narratives to activism to hip hop.
Contact Email: jamie.george@cambridgescholars.com
URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/t/EditedCollectionsLiterature
Afrofuturisms: Re-Imagining Contemporary Blackness: History, Art, Technology, and Culture
Contributors are invited to submit chapters for a book project on Afrofuturism, an emerging and increasingly relevant area in Africana/Africanist fields. The scholarly essays will analyze, discuss, or examine Afrofuturism. The purpose of the book project is to gather in one volume current research that both outlines the academic field and conceptualizes it as a growing site of interdisciplinary exploration. We encourage essays that assess and re-assess Afrofuturism from a variety of perspectives, including notably the polemical, historical, esthetic, academic, and cultural. Contributors are also encourage to share in their essays the analytical and comparative dimensions of Afrofuturism.
Deadline: December 31, 2020 (unclear if this is for chapters or proposals)
Contact Email: ogundayo@pitt.edu
21st Century Religion: Global Christian Reconstructionism and its Radical Discontents
In light of claims that biblical law should hold dominion over human law, this special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review** seeks to engage with the dialectic relationship between a vision of inclusive Christianity—as imagined through the lens of Christian Reconstructionism—and global development. By engaging with Christian Reconstructionism and the current state of American and global Christianity, this special issue seeks to understand what the intervention of theocratic dominionism means for citizenship, pluralism, and conditions of difference and diversity, and how the translation of biblical law would redefine notions of sovereignty, borders, and identity. In normalizing biblical law (and thus claims of heresy, blasphemy, and apostasy) and western traditions of identity (e.g., white, patriarchic, nuclear family), how does the emergence of Christian Reconstructionism and its global reach represent a radical refusal of secularity and the modern/postmodern?
If interested in contributing, please email christianreconstructionismcfp@gmail.com by December 15, 2020 .
Ethics and Politics of TV Series
Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opphil/opphil-overview.xml) invites submissions for the topical issue.
The aesthetic potential for visualising ethical issues and developing a collective inquiry into democratic values has not yet been fully appreciated. Because of their format (weekly/seasonal regularity, home viewing) and the participatory qualities of the Internet (tweeting, chat forums), series allow for a new form of education by expressing complex issues through narrative and characters. This topical issue invites scholars in philosophy, film and media studies, sociology, political science, cultural studies etc. to explore popular TV series’ capacity to raise ethical and political issues, to build forms of awareness necessary for the safety of individuals and societies, and ultimately, to create shared and shareable values.
Contact Email: magdalena.skoneczna@degruyter.com
The Evidence: Black Archivists Holding Memory
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQAZigA4R29s6WC9iRlclDpZS2VK0nPYMK1utNdTdE33Tkxg/viewform
The Nomadic Archivists Project (NAP) is seeking submissions for The Evidence: Black Archivists Holding Memory, an anthology exploring the archival experience across Africa and the African Diaspora. We understand that the global Black archival experience is a complex one and converging over time, space, and memory. We acknowledge and affirm archiving our stories is a cultural and political act. We welcome archivists, artists, curators, historians, memory workers, public record keepers, scholars and students to participate in this groundbreaking project.
The deadline for submitting a proposal or abstract is December 15, 2020.
For inquiries: https://www.nomadicarchivistsproject.com/contact
Website: www.nomadicarchivistsproject.com
Racial Justice and Peace History: Is it “Different” This Time?
This proposed special issue of Peace & Change represents one way the Peace History Society can contribute to our understanding of the present moment, encouraging and highlighting new scholarship on the relationship between peace and racial justice. What are the animating visions that have driven movements for peace and justice and who participated in them? What connections have activists made between these two causes, and what have they accomplished? How have definitions of peace and racial justice changed over time, and who has had the power to define them?
Essays of up to 10,000 words are due January 31, 2021.
Contact Email: rlieberm@kennesaw.edu
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14680130/homepage/forauthors.html
Public History – Beyond Impact and Engagement
We are pleased to invite Early Career Researchers to submit proposals for a special Early Career Researcher-focused issue of History, the journal of the Historical Association, for publication in December 2021. This special issue will focus on public history, broadly defined. Frequently presented in the academy as fodder for ‘impact and engagement’ sections in grant applications, research evaluation metrics, and career progression. This issue hopes to interrogate ‘Public History’ as a positive in and of itself, examining its possibilities and addressing its boundaries and hierarchies.
The deadline for full submissions is March 1st, 2021.
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1468229x/homepage/forauthors.html
Contact Email: publichistorydec2021@gmail.com
Pandemics & Epidemics in Cultural Representation
This project seeks to examine how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented these episodes which have ushered in paradigmatic shifts in the ways in which we live and interact; in what ways, currently, are we individually and collectively configuring the contours of community, communicability, and contagion? From the classical times to the contemporary moment, cultural texts have engaged, both centrally as well as indirectly, with ideas of contagion and community through representations of historical (and imagined) apocalyptic catastrophes in the form of species-threatening epidemics/pandemics. This proposed collection seeks to bring together research that examines cultural configurations and representations of devastating and world-threatening epidemic outbreaks to understand how cultural works have negotiated the fraught territories of human contact and contagion, loaded with both possibility and danger.
Last date for the submission of abstract: November 15, 2020
Contact Email: pandemicsinculturaltexts@gmail.com
Reimagining the Cosmopolis. Living in a Confined Humanity
In this unprecedented context, many voices have been raised against globalization to denounce in the health crisis both an effect and a powerful revelation of its contradictions as well as its failures. As a result, some have considered cosmopolitanism as a ‘post-ideological ideology’ (McCrae & Smith, May 2020, 50) at the service of a global elite, indifferent or blind to the world's difficulties. This new book, which intends to update and achieve the project started with Cosmopolitanism in Hard Times (Cicchelli and Mesure, 2020), is therefore justified by the ambition to continue the debate on the power of these anti-universalist tendencies in the prism of this highly globalized event that is the pandemic, tendencies that are exacerbating the trends observed in recent years. We wish to direct our thinking to the long term so as not to let ourselves be blinded by the evidence of an event as traumatic as it may be.
Submission of proposals (300 words maximum): end of November 2020
Vincenzo Cicchelli (Vincenzo.cicchelli@msh-paris.fr) and Sylvie Mesure (mesure.sylvie@wanadoo.fr)
Ecology as Modernity’s New Horizon: Narratives of Progress, Regression and Apocalypse in the Anthropocene
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture–Issue 12
As global warming and the current ecological crisis bring modern humans face to face with their finite planetary resources and their impacts on the biosphere, narratives of apocalypse and collapse proliferate in contemporary culture. “Living in the Anthropocene” has become a rallying call for the advocates of urgency, while the overwhelming majority of political and corporate actors continue to fail to act. This issue of Text Matters would like to interrogate some of the issues of temporality raised by the ecological challenge.
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words to both editors by November 15, 2020 to agnieszka.soltysikmonnet@unil.ch and christian.arnsperger@unil.ch
URL: http://people.unil.ch/agnieszkasoltysikmonnet/news/announcements-and-cfps/
Black Fire—This Time
Willow Books is pleased to announce a call for submissions for the anthology Black Fire—This Time, which pays homage to the anthology Black Fire, edited by Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal. Black Fire, published in 1968, is considered the defining work of the Black Arts Movement. Black Fire—This Time seeks to further explore the profound and timely messages of Black self-determination and Black Power espoused in Black Fire and encourages submissions that explore the intersectionality between the Black Arts Movement and Black Lives Matter, laying bare the legacy of systemic racism on Black Americans.
· The deadline for submissions is October 22, 2020.
Questions should be forwarded to Dr. Kim McMillon, blackfirethistime@yahoo.com
Dissident self-narratives: radical and queer life writing
Life writing is often considered to endorse a universalist liberal humanist ethics that encompasses a broad spectrum that goes from a neoliberal emphasis on self-sufficiency to theories of care that highlight our common vulnerability and interdependence. This universalist humanist ethics, even in its most progressive forms, may blunt life writing’s radical edge and even participate in the silencing and oppression of subaltern beings that fall outside its scope. Thus, diseased, displaced, dissenting, dis-integrated autobiographical voices and life-writing’s dissident potential and radical, queer promises need to be reassessed and reclaimed. This special issue aims to examine critical and anti-normative explorations of the self as they become manifest in contemporary but also older forms of life writing that have challenged hegemonic discourses shaping human subjectivity, the sexual order and the political status quo.
--Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted to Aude Haffen at marie-aude.haffen@univ-montp3.fr and synthesisjournal2008@gmail.com by 20 December 2020.
URL: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/synthesis/index
Afro-Gothic: Black Horror and the Relentless Haunting of Traumatic Pasts
For Afro-Gothic: Black Horror and the Relentless Haunting of Traumatic Pasts, we seek work that explores the Afro-Gothic as an aesthetic and as a means of working through the trauma of colonial slavery. Although the Gothic genre is widely discussed as a purely European literary tradition, the gothic manifests as a global phenomenon. Every culture possesses its own ghost stories, monster tales, or myths about creatures with supernatural powers. This project examines how the tropes of the gothic—with its constructions of the monstrous, the villainous, the mad and the haunted—take on wholly different valences when they are studied within the contexts of blackness, particularly under the modern colonial project. Please submit an abstract (300 words) along with a brief bio to afrogothiccfp@gmail.com.
The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2020.
Culture Jam
The editor of Culture Jam, special issue of Textshop Experiments, is looking for cultural and media saboteurs for the expressed purpose of protesting, resisting, and disrupting how cultural narratives are being constructed and disseminated. As Black Lives Matter protests, COVID-19, presidential scandals, and other happenings are leaving indelible marks on the annals of history, fundamental questions concerning the formation of the dominant narratives must be asked. Who is writing these cultural narratives? Who decides who creates these narratives? How will they be remembered? Are these constructed narratives accurate portrayals of how these events transpired? Are they legitimate?
The deadline for submission is February 1, 2021. If you’d like to contribute to this issue or propose an idea, please send queries, proposals or completed projects to editor Brian Gaines at blgaine@vt.edu. Additional information may be found at http://textshopexperiments.org/.
Cultures of Sexuality
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6529227/cfp-cultures-sexuality-dec-1-2020
Since the sexual abuse allegations against American film producer Harvey Weinstein in Oct 2017, the #metoo movement has received wide attention on social media and in public life. What this movement has reminded us is sexual abuse is deeply implicated in social/hierarchical power structures (forcing survivors to suffer violence and then hide trauma). It has also offered the possibility of speaking against sexual abuse, harassment, and violence in public and “shaming” perpetrators (as “due process” has often been painful, slow, and unfair). Although this Sanglap issue is not exclusively about #metoo, it will seek to understand sex and sexuality in cultural contexts. What are the ideologies that drive the globalized cultural representations of sexuality?
Please send in your full papers (within 8,000 words, including notes and references, formatted in MLA 7th edition) to sanglapthejournal@gmail.com by Dec 1, 2020.
URL: https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap
Creative Interference: Between Neoliberalism and Human Rights
This special issue offers a novel rapprochement between human rights “artivism” (artistic activism) and cultural studies of neoliberalism. Although conventionally understood as economic policy and social philosophy, neoliberalism emerges in this volume as a form of human rights abuse. In specifying neoliberalism in this way, we are arguing that it demands not only theoretical elaboration, but rather artistic and activist response, or creative interference. The essays in this special issue will explore the interventionist and reparative labor of artists, broadly defined: How, we ask, do the arts impact the way communities understand and expose neoliberalism as atrocity?
Potential contributors should submit proposals to ahuizarh@arizona.edu and kaitlinmmurphy@arizona.edu by November 1, 2020.
The Abolitionist South
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, The Abolitionist South, to be published Fall 2021. For The Abolitionist South, we seek submissions that make visible a radical US South which has long envisioned a world without policing, prisons, or other forms of punishment. As PIC (prison industrial complex) abolitionist Angela Davis has pointed out, radical simply means “grasping things at the root.” A region so often exceptionalized for its brutality and white supremacy is also the seedbed of freedom dreams and radical movement traditions.
We will accept submissions for this issue through November 30, 2020, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/Submit
(Re)imagining body work
In sociology, ‘the body’ is currently examined in a multitude of ways and has an interesting and contested role in sociological thinking and research. But where is the researcher’s body in all the describing and interrogating talk about the body? Such a starting point involves an understanding of the human body by undertaking the lived experiences that permeates it. We title this call for proposals ‘(Re)imagining body work’ as a moniker to capture researchers who fully engage with their participants and their activities. Far from having an absent presence, this book foregrounds current embodied fieldwork of sociologists who discuss and explore the lived body as a topic of, and resource in, empirical social science. The idea behind the book is to collect original and creative ‘body work’ in sociology which makes the body a focus of enquiry and supports more research from a current embodied fieldwork perspective.
Deadline for proposals: 30th October, 2020
Please send proposals to Cornelia Mayr (cornelia.mayr@aau.at)
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Phillips Fund for Native American Research
https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/phillips-fund-native-american-research
The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States and Canada. The grants are intended for such costs as travel, tapes, films, and consultants' fees. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, or psycholinguistics; for the purchase of permanent equipment; or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The committee distinguishes ethnohistory from contemporary ethnography as the study of cultures and cultural change through time.
Deadline: March 1, 2021
Brian Carpenter, Curator of Native American Materials, may be reached at bcarpenter@amphilsoc.org or 215-440-3418.
2021-22 Library Fellowships at New-York Historical Society
2021-22 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Awards in Women’s History
Application deadline: January 15, 2021.
The two recipients of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Awards in Women’s History should have a strong interest in women’s and public history and the applications of these fields outside the academy. Functioning as research associates and providing programmatic support for N-YHS’s Center for Women’s History, pre-doctoral awardees will assist in the development of content for the Women's History exhibitions, associated educational curriculum, and on-site experiences for students, scholars, and visitors.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Women’s History and Public History
Application deadline: March 6, 2021.
Hired for a two-year term, one Mellon Fellow works as a public historian for the New-York Historical Society’s Center for Women’s History. The ideal candidate will have a strong scholarly background in women’s history and an interest in public history. The Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will help build the interpretive and pedagogical aspects of the Center’s programming, and will be deputized with managing certain projects independently.
2021-22 Short Term Fellowships
Several short term fellowships will be awarded to scholars at any academic level working in the library collections of the New-York Historical Society. Research is to be conducted for two to four weeks for a stipend of between $2,000. The fellowship period will begin July 1, 2021 and end June 30, 2022.
Application deadline: January 15, 2021
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Research Fellowship
https://www.sharpweb.org/main/sharp-25th-anniversary-research-fellowship-2/
Designed to enhance SHARP’s global scope as an academic society, the fellowship will provide support for research anywhere in the world, whether to visit archives or libraries, to interview authors or publishers, to collaborate on projects that cannot be managed digitally, or to collect oral histories. The grant will be for up to US$3000 and may be used for travel, accommodation and direct research costs, such as photography.
Applications will close each year on 1 December.
Any questions should be addressed to the Director of Awards (awards@sharpweb.org).
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholars
https://www.hastac.org/initiatives/hastac-scholars/apply-now-join-hastac-scholars
· Join an interdisciplinary community of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and technologists changing the way we teach and learn.
· Meet and collaborate with others who share your research interests, pedagogy approaches, and professional development ideas.
· Contribute to HASTAC Scholars in countless ways: blog, host forums and webinars, organize events, an discuss new ideas that reconceive teaching, learning, research, writing and structuring knowledge.
Apply by October 15
If you have specific questions, please email the Director of HASTAC Scholars, Adashima Oyo, at scholars@hastac.org.
Georgia Historical Society's Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Research Fellowships
https://georgiahistory.com/about-ghs/vincent-j-dooley-distinguished-fellows-program/
The Georgia Historical Society will be accepting applications for Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Research Fellowships until January 8, 2021. These fellowships are intended to assist scholars in conducting on-site research specifically in the GHS Research Center collections, including manuscripts, photographs, architectural drawings, rare and non-rare books, as well as maps, portraits, and artifacts.
Contact Email: sboone@georgiahistory.com
URL: https://georgiahistory.com/
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Research Project Assistant for the Center for American Women and Politics
https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/119940
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Research Project Assistant for the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP). This position is responsible for assisting the Data Services Manager in monitoring candidacies of women from the state legislative level and up, and in managing and expanding CAWP’s national database of women officeholders.
No deadline listed
Assistant Professor in 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. We particularly encourage applications from candidates whose work is interdisciplinary and firmly grounded in intersectional and anti-racist analysis that draws on women of color feminisms, Black studies, Latinx studies, Asian American studies, and/or Indigenous studies.
Deadline for Applications: 10/16/20
Assistant/Associate Professor, Latinx Studies, Duke University
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16885
Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences seeks distinguished candidates for two tenure-track professorships in Latinx Studies. These hires are part of an effort to increase the number of faculty with global perspectives and expertise across core departments. Candidates should be at the assistant or associate professor level; the search is open to discipline and to field. Preference will be given to candidates whose work is centrally located in Latinx Studies. Concentrations might include but are not limited to such knowledge formations as Afro-Latinx Studies; Critical Latinx Indigenous Studies; Global Border Studies; the Global South; Latinx Europe; New Media Studies; Trans, Sexuality, and Gender Latinx Studies. Tenure will be located in humanities or interpretive social science departments.
Deadline: Oct. 26, 2020
Contact Info: humanitiesdean@duke.edu
Women@MIT Research Guide: Women@MIT Spring 2021 Fellowship
https://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=991573&p=7914998
MIT Libraries’ Department of Distinctive Collections (DDC) is seeking applicants for its Women@MIT Spring Fellowship.Scholars, activists, artists, musicians, and/or writers will focus on the creation and sharing of knowledge and history present in the Women@MIT collections in informative and engaging ways within the scope of the interdisciplinary fields of women’s studies, gender studies and ethnic studies. Participants will help inform the narrative of women’s history at MIT and contribute to the greater understanding of the history of women at the Institute and in STEM.
Applications are due by November 16, 2020.
email: acmcgee@mit.edu
This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture
https://thisweekinblackhistoryandsociety.buzzsprout.com/
Members of the Black and African Diaspora United Forum (BADFU) of Monmouth University host an array of scholars, activists, and community members on matters pertaining to the history, society, and culture of Black and African American communities in the United States (U.S.) and beyond. These podcast episodes are on a variety of subjects including, but not limited to, history, economics, women, gender, mental health, higher education, to reparations, medicine, and politics. There will be a new episode released every Monday during the academic year from September to May.
Contact Email: hwilliam@monmouth.edu
Organization Website: https://www.monmouth.edu/faculty-and-staff/badfu/
Podcast Zora's Daughters focuses on Black feminist anthropology
http://smallaxe.net/content/932
Small Axe editorial assistant Alyssa A.L. James and Brendane Tynes co-host Zora's Daughters, a bi-weekly podcast that uses Black feminist anthropology to think through race, politics, and popular culture. Together, they theorize social issues in a way that is accessible and entertaining, with a syllabus for each episode.
Pologued: New Podcast from the Ohio State University analyzes the myth of the women's bloc
http://origins.osu.edu/milestones/prologued-podcast-19th-amendment-centennial-suffrage-women-voting
Prologued is a serial podcast from Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. With amazing stories and remarkable guests, Prologued offers in-depth discussions of the historical roots of the world today—a past that has often been lost, ignored, or misconstrued. Each season we reconstruct the history of a major issue that confronts society now: to explain how we got here and to reveal a path forward. Join us for insight and entertainment about the past, present, and future.
Season 1 premieres August 11, 2020 and will air on Tuesdays through September.
Feminism and the Academy Today: A Graduate Forum (open access)
https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/vol16/iss16/
Forum in the Journal of Feminist Scholarship (vol. 16, 2019).
The idea for this forum developed through conversations concerned with how theacademic industrial complex continues to regulate feminist relationships, labor, health, knowledge production, and access to liberatory histories and futures. Of particular concern is the continued academic investment in hierarchies and management that create explicit and not-so-easily-named violences that significantly affect feminist experiences in, and with, education.
Black Monuments Matter: A Virtual Exhibition of Sub-Saharan Architecture
https://www.agakhancentre.org.uk/gallery/black-monuments-matter/
5 October 2020 – 31 March 2021
The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Cape Town University are pleased to present the online exhibition “Black Monuments Matter”. Black Monuments Matter recognises and highlights African contributions to world history by exhibiting World Heritage Monuments and architectural treasures from Sub-Saharan Africa. Black Monuments Matter aspires to create links to living African heritage by making it visible, assessable, and known to as many people as possible. In general, we would like to raise awareness of and respect towards Black cultures and Africa’s past to a larger audience.
Contact Email: layal.n.mohammad@aku.edu
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
LGBTQ+ Histories of the Holocaust
https://www.ushmm.org/research/opportunities-for-academics/faculty-seminars/hess/2021
Monday, January 4, 2021, to Friday, January 8, 2021, between 12 PM and 4 PM ET
The 2021 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar focuses on the history of LGBTQ+ people during the Holocaust, as well as the continued relevance of this history to understanding the discrimination that queer and trans people face today. This Seminar offers the opportunity to approach broad questions about how LGBTQ+ histories of the Holocaust might inform understandings of homophobia, transphobia, racism, tolerance, and human rights, well beyond the Nazi state. In addition, it provides faculty with tools and resources to build a scholarly environment conducive to teaching the continued relevance of this topic today.
Applications must be received in electronic form no later than November 1, 2020.
email: kwhite@ushmm.org.
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech's Scholarly Theme for 2020-2021 is Forests!
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech’s annual theme for 2020-2021 is Forests. Thinking with forests, the Humanities Center’s program this coming year will address this narrowing of the traditional division between the human and the rest of life. We will bring diverse sides of the university and community together for collaboration, discussion, and debate, as we observe and interpret these gathering trends toward species communion.
URL: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/humanities-center/index.php
Contact Email: humanitiescenter@ttu.edu
Pandemic Perspectives: Stories through Collections
https://americanhistory.si.edu/pandemic-perspectives
Tuesdays, 4-5p.m. EST
Join curators and historians for an engaging series of panels offering perspectives on the current pandemic. Panelists will virtually share objects from the past as a springboard to a lively discussion of how to better understand the present. Audience questions are encouraged and will be addressed in the moderated dialogue.
September 29, 2020: Fear and Scapegoating during a Pandemic
October 6, 2020 Pandemic Pursuits: How Your Ancestors Had Fun at Home
November 3, 2020: Voting During a Pandemic
November 24, 2020: Comfort Food During a Pandemic
December 1, 2020: How Are Museums Collecting Around COVID-19?
December 15, 2020: Looking Good on that Zoom Call: Personal Appearance During a Quarantine
January 5, 2021: Racing for Vaccines
January 19, 2021: Mask Up!
February 2, 2021: Race and Place: Yellow Fever and the Free African Society in Philadelphia
February 16, 2021: Essential Workers: Prestige Versus Pay
Contact Email: daemmricha@si.edu
The Social Life of DNA
https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4qJ6VLGyS921W7wnF1QwHA
Oct 1, 2020 04:00 PM EST
Nelson takes us on an unprecedented journey into how the double helix has wound its way into the heart of the most urgent contemporary social issues around race. Artfully weaving together interactions with root-seekers alongside illuminating historical details and revealing personal narrative, she shows that genetic genealogy is a new tool for addressing old and enduring issues, including grappling with the unfinished business of slavery, establishing ties with African ancestral homelands, and making legal claims for slavery reparations.
Contact Email: stsprogram@mit.edu
Dismantling White Supremacism: A Conversation and Plan of Action
You are invited to join a Forum for History of Human Science organized Open Discussion as part of the 2020 History of Science Society virtual meeting. This Open Discussion leverages our perspectives as historians of human science to explore cultures of White Supremacism as design problems: the way many organizations are designed are inherently discriminatory. Allied with efforts to develop cultures of inclusion, this discussion posits that additional (complementary) tactics are necessary to dismantle cultures of White Supremacism, as characterized in Jones and Okun’s “White Supremacy Culture” (2001).
Contact Email: jacy.young@questu.ca
URL: http://fhhs.org/
Capitalism and the Senses
https://www.hagley.org/research/conference/2020-fall-conference
November 5 and 6, 2020
The conference explores the sensory history of capitalism—the ways that seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching have shaped, and been shaped by, capitalism over the longue durée and around the world. The sixteen presenters are drawn from institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Papers will be offered in four sessions, two held successively each day from 9 am to 1 pm.
Register here: https://www.hagley.org/research/conference/2020-fall-conference/register
Ephemeral Bodies: A Media Archaeology of Queer Zines
Fri, November 13, 2020, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
In this talk Spencer Keralis will examine how the rise of desktop publishing enabled queer comics and zine makers to seize the means of production for materials that reflected their community’s needs and identity, and explore how media archaeology bridges the disciplines of digital humanities and book history, to reveal new ways of querying postmodern ephemera.
Queer Institutions – A Panel Discussion
Thursday 8 October, 5:15 PM EST
Marc Stein explores how activists at more than twenty colleges went to court in the 1970s to challenge their institutions’ refusal to recognize LGBT student groups. Stein’s paper analyzes these cases and situates the successful litigation at Virginia Commonwealth University in relation to contemporaneous Virginia rulings that upheld the criminalization of same-sex sodomy and the prosecution of an interracial threesome. Ashley Ruderman-Looff’s essay considers the Lavender Scare's impact on women's prison reform. Her essay tells the story of Dr. Miriam Van Waters, a superintendent of the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women who was dismissed from her post in 1949. This paper analyzes Van Waters’ subversive use of the Rorschach inkblot test, allowing her to eschew homosexual diagnosis and include queer women in the reformatory’s rehabilitative programs.
Register: https://18308a.blackbaudhosting.com/18308a/Queer-Institutions--A-Panel-Discussion
Questions? Email seminars@masshist.org
"'I don't see this happening anywhere else': Reflections from the Grassroots on Latinx Resistance in the Anaheim/Santa Ana Region"
https://rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jlPW8cUJSKK8E2Co4x7t8w
Dec 3, 2020 07:00 PM in Eastern Time
This year's Chambers Oral History Graduate Fellow is Carie Rael, whose work examines how Latinx residents combated gentrification, criminalization, and deportation in the Anaheim/Santa Ana region from 1942 to 2010. She will share her findings from grassroots activists and residents who work with the Latinx community in the region.
Contact Email: kathryn.rizzi@rutgers.edu
URL: https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/
Workshops for Early-Career Scholars of Religion in America
American Examples seeks applications for participants in its newly designed 2021 program. AE consists of three four-session workshops, each with its own focus: research, public scholarship, and teaching. Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, the workshops will be held virtually. Each workshop will take place across two two-hour sessions each Saturday and Sunday afternoon over two weekends.
American Examples seeks applications for participants from any untenured scholar who studies so-called “religion in America,” very broadly conceived. Applicants must have at least reached ABD status in their Ph.D. program.
Applicants to participate should send the following to AE Director Michael Altman via email at michael.altman@ua.edu. Applications are due October 31, 2020.
URL: https://americanexamples.ua.edu
Institutional Approaches to Sustainability
October 31, 2020 from 4-7pm CET on zoom.
This conference is part of our virtual trilogy [re]Framing the Arts: A Sustainable Shift, organized in collaboration with the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Nyenrode Business University. This first edition, Institutional Approaches to Sustainability, is dedicated to the structural and institutional shifts towards a carbon zero arts sector. We will discuss the options for an environmentally sustainable building, investigate the organizational choices behind sustainable storage facilities and learn about sustainable climate control systems.
Tickets are donation-based: https://www.artswitch.org/ticketing-1
For more information: https://www.artswitch.org/sustainable-institution
If you have questions, please feel free to contact us at info@artswitch.org
New Perspectives in Black Ecology
https://brown.zoom.us/j/92345337994?pwd=b1E3RlB6YmU1SGVEcGZUQnhBVmJjQT09#successOctober 13, 2020, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (EDT)
The American Society for Environmental History will sponsor a series of webinars around Race and the Environment during Fall 2020. The webinars will capture and expand some of the exciting sessions from the March 2020 meeting that ASEH was forced to cancel to the COVID pandemic. ASEH and its members are eager to engage in this transformative cultural moment by sharing their scholarship and discussing its larger implications. The 2020 Program Committee and the Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity are organizing the webinars.
Zoom link: https://brown.zoom.us/j/92345337994?pwd=b1E3RlB6YmU1SGVEcGZUQnhBVmJjQT09#success
Contact Email: admin@aseh.org
URL: http://aseh.org
Liberating the Archive
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6535790/join-us-webinar-liberating-archive
Oct 15, 2020 03:30 PM in Harare, Pretoria
Join authors Prof Carolyn Hamilton, Prof Jacob Dlamini & Prof Imraan Coovadia discussing their new books exploring the nexuses of archive-discourse, public-private & violence-peacemaking.
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OeRUyJdcR3aRiM3oJ0HWdw
Contact Email: APC-admin@uct.ac.za
