CONFERENCES
Anti-Bodies
https://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/conference-960395.html
June 10-12, 2021
The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites proposals for participation in its nineteenth annual meeting. Proposals on all topics relevant to cultural studies will be considered, with priority given to those that engage this year's theme of “Anti-Bodies.” We call for proposals that explore how the metaphor of “anti-bodies” offers a lens to analyze these issues in light of the current moment. We especially encourage proposals that attend to the premise of the “anti-”, in either its positive or negative political valence, such as the rise of anti-racism in opposition to anti-blackness and other forms of injustice and their attendant contestations. We are also interested in proposals that examine institutional structures or social relations that are “anti-body” in terms of race, gender, sexuality, and/or disability, such as criminal justice, immigration, and policing structures.
Final Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, December 15, 2020
Please direct any questions about praxis sessions to Michelle Fehsenfeld at admin@culturalstudiesassociation.org.
Comics Arts Conference WonderCon
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6584113/comics-arts-conference-wondercon
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 26-28, 2021. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. The CAC at WonderCon is presently scheduled to take place in person; however, this may change, and presenters should be prepared to adapt to a virtual format.
Proposals are due December 1, 2020, to our online submission portal at www.surveymonkey.com/r/YNPFZTM or via email. For more information, please contact Kathleen McClancy at comicsartsconference@gmail.com.
"SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations"
10-12 May 2021, Live in Helsinki and online
This multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine performative, embodied and acoustic histories of articulating political representation and colonial ‘otherness’. To that end, we intend to extend the focus of the conference beyond established Anglophone analyses of the metropole and colony, and indeed, beyond the disciplinary pre-eminence of Anglophone postcolonial studies.
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is 21st November 2020
URL: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/calliope-international-conference
Contact Email: calliope2021@helsinki.fi
(Ab)Normality
March 6, 2021, Graduate History Association of the University at Buffalo Graduate History Conference
For the 30th Annual Plesur Conference, the GHA especially seeks research addressing the theme of “(Ab)Normality.” Recognizing that norms and mores have dramatically varied across time and space, manifesting in decisions and attitudes that themselves have significantly altered the cultures and societies in which specific ‘norms’ exist, we seek papers that consider how constructions of normality or abnormality over time have played a role in shaping history—that (Ab)Normality has historical agency.
Please send your proposal via email to plesur2021@gmail.comb by January 6, 2021.
Matrix of Mobility: Networks of Objects and Exchange
https://gustasymposium.wordpress.com/
Graduate Symposium, Online, March 4–5, 2021
The world is connected by waves of movement and exchange, from land-based and ocean-faring migration to networks of objects and encounters. This symposium seeks to explore the historical and contemporary currents of networked mobility and places of exchange. We invite papers that reflect critically on ideas of geographies, scales, mobility, exchange, navigation, and migration. Papers will ideally engage with the boundaries of disciplines, area studies, and methodologies. We encourage submissions from students and scholars engaging with art and visual and material culture in any period, as well as those considering the visual through the lenses of history, sociology, literary and cinema studies, museum studies, and urban studies.
Please submit 250-word paper abstracts accompanied by a 100-word bio via the “2021 Wollesen Symposium Submission Form” by Monday, January 11, 2021, at 5 PM ET.
email: gustasymposium@utoronto.ca
Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction
https://www.hiig.de/en/events/ai21/
A Japanese-German Conference in Berlin, Germany, 17 and 18 June 2021
Imaginations about the human and technologies are far from universal, they are culturally specific. This is why a cross-cultural comparison is crucial for better understanding the relationship between AI and the human and how they are mutually constructed by uncovering those aspects that are regarded as natural, normal or given. Focusing on concepts, representations and narratives from different cultures, the conference aims to address two axes of comparison that help us make sense of the diverse realities of artificial intelligence and the ideas of what is human: Science and fiction, East Asia and the West.
abstract deadline: 10 February 2021 to ai21@hiig.de
Anti-Bodies
https://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/conference-960395.html
The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites proposals for participation in its nineteenth annual meeting. Proposals on all topics relevant to cultural studies will be considered, with priority given to those that engage this year's theme of “Anti-Bodies.”
We take up the theme of “Anti-Bodies” as a way to illuminate how the COVID pandemic is intensifying and making more overtly visible pre-existing social conditions that continue to plague contemporary culture. We call for proposals that explore how the metaphor of “anti-bodies” offers a lens to analyze these issues in light of the current moment. We are interested in proposals that examine institutional structures or social relations that are “anti-body” in terms of race, gender, sexuality, and/or disability, such as criminal justice, immigration, and policing structures.
Final Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, December 15, 2020
If you have any questions, please address them to Michelle Fehsenfeld at: admin@culturalstudiesassociation.org
Resilience, Resistance, Renovation, and Rebirth Conference
This spring Northern Arizona University College of Arts and Letters will host the Resilience, Resistance, Renovation, and Rebirth Conference. Proposals for panels, individual talks, and performances that address this time in quarantine as a time of inspiration, innovation, and change from all disciplines and fields of study are welcome.
Please submit a title and abstract (300 words maximum) describing your panel or presentation, and email to steamconference2021@gmail.com by January 31, 2021.
For more information, please contact David Van Ness (David.Van-Ness@nau.edu) or Blase Scarnati (Blase.Scarnati@nau.edu).
Crossroads of Memory
https://www.southernct.edu/iasesp/conferences/current-cfp
Quinnipiac University, April 24-26, 2020
Inquiry on the spatial properties of memory has traditionally energized a variety of disciplines as well as built bridges among them: from philosophy, theology, and geography, to history, sociology and anthropology, from neuroscience and psychology to computer science and environmental studies. Environments affect remembrances that, in turn, shape identity, in a loop of interactions that blur boundaries between what is past and present. How do individuals and communities understand memory spaces, monuments, and borders? How do various kinds of environments –urban, rural, and virtual—retain or alter memory, while being shaped by it? How do historiographies, literary and artistic narratives connect space, place, and the environment? How is memory processed, archived, accessed, and continually reshaped through environment?
Please send your abstract (300 word limit) to Troy Paddock, paddockt1@southernct.edu by February 14, 2020
Alliance, connection, and cooperation
In a year that has made questions of isolation, alienation, allyship, and coalition brutally relevant, the University of Maryland HGSA Graduate Conference seeks to explore the broader meanings and historical impacts of the connections that people, groups, and movements have both succeeded and failed in creating. In times of change, transition, or turmoil, the idea and function of alliance, connection, and cooperation play important historical roles. We encourage our applicants to examine what compels, characterizes, and impedes cooperation among and between historical actors as well as between historians and their subjects to consider the distances—ideological, conceptual, political, spatial, temporal, cultural, geographical—that alliances of all stripes seek to diminish.
Submit an abstract to umdgradhistconference@gmail.com by Friday, 8 January 2021.
Art and humanity: what is possible? Days of study
29 and 30 April 2021
Today’s humanitarian problems are more complex than they appear at first sight. Conflicts are becoming more drawn-out. It is not always clear who the protagonists are. The reasons for conflicts are often hard to discern and their level of violence is not linear. Natural disasters are more violent, more sudden, more frightening, and affect all levels of society. We are discovering the impact of pandemics, and all the unknown factors associated with them. The digitization of our societies is bringing new humanitarian problems; we hear talk of cyber warfare, the impact of fake news and propaganda on civilians and the dilemma of the digital divide. Can art enable us to grasp these complexities and give them meaning?
Send proposals to pap@redcrossmuseum.ch by 18 December 2020.
URL: https://www.redcrossmuseum.ch/en/
Transnational Humanities: Concept and Praxis
https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/events/ourevents/archive/name,512788,en.html
Friday, 19th February 2021
In an ever-changing and increasingly transnationalized world, the multidirectional movement of people, ideas, and commodities, enhanced by advances in transport, information, and communication technologies, have now become an integral aspect of our everyday lived-experience and identity formation. Born out of the awareness of the current condition, the analysis of the transnational network resonated with conversations in the humanities highlighting the interconnectivity of social, political, and cultural activities that cut across state boundaries. Transnationalism as a concept and praxis challenges the unexamined structural concepts that frame the world, people, knowledge, and objects into binary oppositions, i.e. their division into global/local, central/peripheral, western/non-western, or universal/particular camps and positions that reproduce a divisive and hierarchical form of society.
Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a bio-note of around 200 words to hiphdconference2021@gmail.com on or before 20 December 2020 (Sunday), 5:00 PM (Irish Standard Time)
Photography and Resistance
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6628982/photography-and-resistance
Photography, as Yvonne Vera writes, "has often brought forth the most loaded fraction of time, a calcification of the most unequal, brutal and undemocratic moment of human encounter" (Vera, 1999). Photography has also been used as a form of resistance to repressive regimes, to oppose war and violence, and as a means to challenge racism and heteronormative patriarchy. Photography offers both a means of critique and a way of making visible events and forms of power that are not intended to be seen. Feminist and LGBTQI+ photographers have taken up cameras as a way to produce new visual vocabularies, to reimagine the world otherwise, and to challenge hegemonic ways of seeing. Of particular interest are works that illuminate the lives and work of women and nonbinary photographers and that draw on the insights and practices of anti-racist and intersectional feminism.
300 - 500 word abstracts and brief biographical notes are due by 12th December 2020.
Contact Email: kyliethomas.south@gmail.com
URL: https://maifeminism.com/new-call-for-papers-photography-resistance/
PUBLICATIONS
Somatics and Eco-Consciousness
Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices special issue
This special issue of JDSP calls for papers and alternative contributions that explore the possibilities and impact of somatic practices in the evolution of an embodied eco-consciousness. Somatic practices are traditionally concerned with heightening sensorial introspection. Such foregrounding can unwittingly exclude and yet paradoxically invoke an awareness of the reciprocity between self and environment.
Deadline for full articles: 20th January 2021
Guidelines: https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/8861/1/NfC_JDSP.pdf
Contact Email: t.kampe@bathspa.ac.uk
URL: https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/centre-for-dance-research/jdsp/
Tearing Down Disciplinary Barriers: Dialogues between Hispanic Studies and Indigenous Studies
The disciplines of Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies, and Spanish programmes frequently find themselves isolated from that of Indigenous Studies in university contexts in that rarely do the contributions of the latter influence the research and teaching of the former. This disconnect between distinct but allied worlds or scholarly environments inevitably determines the texts we study in the university classroom, most of which have been produced by non-Indigenous writers. These conditions perpetuate the invisibility of an entire corpus produced in Spanish and in Indigenous languages. This project attempts to illuminate the literary, oral, and non-alphabetic Indigenous pluriverse of Abiayala at the crossroads of the hemispheres of Hispanic Studies and Indigenous Studies.
Send proposals, prepared in English or in Spanish, to the editors, Lauren Beck (lbeck@mta.ca), Gloria E. Chacón (gchacon@ucsd.edu), and Juan Sánchez-MartÃnez (jsanche1@unca.edu) before January 15, 2021.
Radical Intimacies: A Multispecies Politics of Care and Kinship
Intimate forms of connection and care are ubiquitous in multispecies relationships, and they become legitimate forms of knowledge in fleeting moments of encounter as well as in the course of lifetimes lived together care-fully. This edited collection centers these latter forms of intimacy within a particular context: shared lives of care and rehabilitation that unfold after individuals of other species have been liberated from conditions of normalized and widely accepted forms of harm and violence – for instance, fugitives from farms, slaughterhouses, laboratories, global trade networks, and sites of extermination and expulsion. Intimacy offers multiple possibilities for knowledge-making; being in, and through intimate relationships of care, we come to know the lasting impacts of the harm other animals are subjected to within dominant structures of capitalism, colonialism, and anthropocentrism.
To be considered for inclusion in this edited volume, please submit in the first instance a 250-word abstract, a tentative title, and 100-word bio to both Katie Gillespie (kathryn.a.gillespie@gmail.com) and Yamini Narayanan (y.narayanan@deakin.edu.au) for consideration by 1 December 2020.
Gender and Forced Displacement: New Perspectives on International Migration
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/Gender_and_Forced_Displacement
There are over 70 million people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Refugees, asylum seekers, stateless populations, and those who have been internally displaced all comprise those who are recognized as forcibly displaced. Millions more are turned away at international borders, languish in detention centers, and face deportation. Women migrants face challenges during displacement that include gender-based violence, family separation, health complications, and economic responsibilities. This Special Issue examines new perspectives on international migration by examining how gender and forced displacement is conceptualized.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2021.
Complexities of Care and Caring
http://signsjournal.org/for-authors/calls-for-papers
Signs Special Issue
Over the past four decades of feminist scholarship and practice, notions of care and caring, as noun and verb, have had great traction across disciplinary divides, spurring debate while challenging binaries of equality and difference, public and private, the cold hand of the market and the warmth of home, the rational and irrational, and paid and unpaid labor. We write this call in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid the groundswell of support for #BlackLivesMatter, when indeed the need for renewing such challenges is dramatically clear.
The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2021.
Historicizing the Images and Politics of the Afropolitan
Radical History Review seeks contributions that examine the idea of the Afropolitan, derived from the prefix Afro, for African, and polis, the Greek word for “citizen.” Achille Mbembe’s 2007 essay describes Afropolitanism as an ability “to domesticate the unfamiliar, to work with what seem to be opposites” while explicitly refusing “victim identity.” A powerful visual aesthetic accompanies this focus on urban landscapes, the arts, and gendered bodies. Yet, studies of the Afropolitan have not engaged with the deep history of mobility within and beyond Africa. Nor have historians contextualized fully the expansive global African diaspora.
By February 1, 2021, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing your potential article as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com.
Black Love
https://www.feministpress.org/current-call-for-papers
This special issue of the WSQ seeks to focus on groups that imagine a world beyond limitations imposed by borders to conceptualize for themselves what justice looks like when we center love and care at the heart of our politics. Moving away from the mere ephemeral, this issue explores the moment love moves from theory to practice. We invite papers that interrogate Black love as a concept and tool for forming, sustaining, and fragmenting global Black communities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Submissions might attend to questions such as: What are the histories and legacies of Black love? How have expressions and practices of Black love changed across locales and periods? What does it mean to lead with care in everyday actions? What does it mean to transgress boundaries of affect?
Scholarly articles should be sent to guest issue editors Mary Phillips, Rashida L. Harrison, and Nicole M. Jackson at WSQBlackLove@gmail.com. We will give priority consideration to submissions received by March 1, 2021. Please send complete articles, not abstracts.
Foundations of Biodesign: Integrating Art, Design, and Biology
https://www.cumulusassociation.org/call-for-papers-foundation-of-biodesign/
Biodesign is an emerging discipline that harnesses biotechnology and living systems to create products and processes, probe humanity’s relationship with biology, and interrogate emerging practices in the life sciences. Practitioners consider relationships among people, the environment, and lifecycles, and attempt to recognize humanity’s part in an intricate ecosystem that binds designed objects to the living world. The discipline requires academic discourse on which to build new branches of biodesign research. We ask that contributors describe their own ongoing research or review areas of research that are emerging. This Call is open to academic researchers studying the field of biodesign, practitioners, and students of the field.
November 16, 2020: Deadline for submissions of abstracts
URL: https://www.biodesigned.org/cfp
email: info@biodesignchallenge.org
A (Re)Turn to the African Girl - (Re)Defining African Girlhood
Despite a century of efforts to bring about gender justice, women and girls continue to occupy highly disadvantaged positions. It remains a vexing quandary in the twenty-first century that African girls hold less power, wealth, and voice in the public sphere than almost any group globally. Girlhood studies are a critical means to counter the historical tendency for feminist scholarship to center adult women and ignore or marginalize girls. As a result, girlhoods generally remain under-researched and under theorized. This edited collection is focused on adolescent girls in Africa - specifically how girls agency informs our understandings of girlhood and how colonial and post-colonial interventions have shaped and re-defined African girlhood through pseudo-scientific developmental models that were introduced on the continent via missionary education systems and continue today.
No deadline given
Contact Email: jakschm@tcnj.edu
#RecordCovid19: Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic
For a new edited collection with De Gruyter based on the #RecordCovid19 Project we are inviting contributors to submit proposals historicizing the experience of the pandemic. We particularly seek chapters based around themes that emerge from the first-hand accounts submitted to #RecordCovid19 as well as wider research. Contributors will ideally come from a range of disciplines including history, sociology, political science, linguistics, and media studies. Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome. Proposals should be inspired but not limited by the themes arising from the #RecordCovid19 Project.
Proposal Deadline: 20 November 2020
Contact Email: ac7579@coventry.ac.uk
URL: https://kristopherlovell.com/record-covid-19-project/
Teaching and Writing Justice
The CEA Mid-Atlantic Review specializes in literary and cultural criticism, discussions of pedagogy, public humanities work, book reviews, personal essays concerned with the teaching of English, and creative writing related to literature or teaching. We invite scholarly articles, position papers, and pedagogical reflections on the theme "Writing and Teaching Justice" for its Fall 2021 issue. Although proposals may broadly interpret the theme along the following subtopics indicated below, we will also gladly review thematically divergent works for possible inclusion.
Deadline for submission: April 15, 2021.
Contact Email: CEAMidAtlanticReview@gmail.com
URL: https://www.umes.edu/CEAMAG
The Wild and the Familiar
Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre
The magic of the world has seemed far away as we struggled through the days since the pandemic began. The summer of wildfire, the winter of snow and storm, the climate chaos has continued unabated with fires, floods, and drought. Civil unrest and political instability has visited countries where life was once predictable and safe. It seems that the world has turned upside down and we have lost our center as the familiar no longer gives comfort or is gone, forever. Coreopsis’ Autumn 2021 issue will explore the themes of what is familiar, what is lost and what remains. What is transformed. What has been discarded (for good or ill).
Deadlines: Queries: March 2021. Full Papers and essays: June 2021
Contact Email: coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com
Buddhist Women’s Religiosity: Contemporary Feminist Perspectives
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Feminist_Perspectives
If we aspire to provide a more balanced and complete picture of Buddhist women’s religious lives as social beings (as daughters, wives, mothers, nuns, workers, activists, and politicians), we need to examine with greater attention and depth the positive and affirming dimensions of women’s lived religious experiences outside of the monastic context. This Special Issue invites articles that use a feminist approach, broadly construed, to expand and provide an emphasis on women outside of the traditional monastic context and examine how women, in any Buddhist community, have lived, and continue to live, their Buddhist faith through a wide range of activities, practices and places throughout time and in the contemporary world.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 February 2021.
Assistant Editor of Religions: Ms. Kiki Zhang (kiki.zhang@mdpi.com)
Invisible Labor in Carceral Spaces
Special Issue of International Labor and Working-Class History
ILWCH is soliciting articles for a special issue that will examine the history of unfree labor in carceral spaces within a global context. We are seeking essays that explore invisible labor in settings where people have been historically confined and forced or coerced to work. These spaces include, but are not limited to, plantations, prisons, jails, asylums, workhouses, immigration detention centers, work camps, and private homes where unfree labor has been used to serve prison officials, clean up oil spills, fight wild fires, transcribe and convert documents for genealogical companies, make furniture for universities, farm fish, sew lingerie, and so on.
proposals due December 2, 2020
email: TLL4Y@virginia.edu
Letters from Black Faculty
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6655200/cfp-letters-black-faculty
This collection seeks unfiltered, unedited letters from Black academics, intellectuals, and faculty activists that address structural racism and individual experience in the academy, and the tenuous divide between the professional, the political, and the personal. What we are looking for are those letters sent to department heads, college administrators, fellow faculty and trustees that have as their goal holding institutions to their words when they say that “Black Lives Matter”. The purpose of this edited collection is to archive and reproduce this moment in time through the lens of those letters written by Black faculty challenging institutions of higher education to prove their anti-racist bonafides and meet their promises to deliver systemic equity to Black scholars.
If interested in contributing, please send an email confirmation with an abstract of not more than 500 words by January 1, 2021 to Hawthornet@berea.edu.
The Aesthetics of Pandemics
https://eventalaesthetics.net/cfp/
Evental Aesthetics is an independent, double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to philosophical and aesthetic intersections. The special issue will be devoted to philosophical challenges and aesthetic responses to the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Contact Email: editors@eventalaesthetics.net
Handmaids’ and Aunts’ Tales: Learning from Atwood about Resisting Gileads Fictional and Real
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has become in recent years increasingly prescient, as large swaths of our world have become ever more like Gilead. Bruce Miller’s provocative television adaptation, having visualized in its first season Gilead’s establishment and early years, has moved since to flesh out the early years leading to its demise. Atwood’s long-awaited sequel, The Testaments, which appeared less than a month after season three’s finale, offers us now an overall blueprint. As we await season four, to appear sometime next year, and a promised adaptation of The Testaments eventually, we do well to wonder what in Atwood’s and Miller’s developing narrative may help us to save ourselves from various slippery slopes to various real-life Gileads.
In this spirit, each chapter of the book will explore a broadly or specifically philosophical, political, or social lesson gleaned from the fictional resistance to Gilead that is at the core of Atwood and Miller’s developing narrative, with an eye to its actual or potential role in resisting real-life Gileads, now and in the future.
Please forward detailed abstracts, roughly three to five hundred words in length, by December 15, to trip@mccrossin.org
The Routledge International Handbook on Heritage and Gender
https://www.dropbox.com/s/guijy42cjxojy20/CFP_Heritage%26Gender_Routledge.pdf?dl=0
With this publication we aim to provide a complete overview of current, international research and practice in the area of heritage and gender, with focus on a wide global readership. We are looking to bring together a range of contributors from across the world, encouraging the exchange of ideas between countries to inform practice. Handbooks aim to set the research agenda for the next five to ten years, to redefine existing areas within the context of international research, and to highlight emerging areas.
Feb 26, 2021: deadline for chapter proposals to heritageandgender@gmail.com
The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film
This volume addresses the topic of LGBTQIA+ portrayals within American film. Covering over two-hundred film entries from the last (approximately) fifty years, the breadth and depth of this volume will generate some highly significant material for both academics and general audiences alike. If you are interested in contributing, please send an email with the subject line “LGBTQIA+ in Film,” and we will forward the list of entries to you for your perusal.
The first deadline for contributor submissions will be 1 April 2021 (though we encourage pieces to be submitted as they are completed).
Please direct all inquiries to our Project Manager, Ariel Tucci, at the following email address: LGBTQIAfilms@gmail.com
Ecological and Religious Radicalism
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6719154/cfa-ecological-and-religious-radicalism
Journal for the Study of Radicalism, special issue
We are interested in articles for an issue that explores the history of ecological radicalism, including the recent history of movements, groups, and individuals. We are also interested in related currents, which could include anarchism, black bloc, antifa, and the creation of autonomous zones, as well as ecological movements or groups like Extinction Rebellion. And we welcome articles on various forms of religious radicalism across the political spectrum.
Send completed articles to the editors at jsrmsu@gmail.com by January 15, 2021 to be in time for the next issue.
URL: https://msupress.org/journals/journal-for-the-study-of-radicalism/
(In)Secure Worlds: Scales, Systems and Spaces of Carcerality
We would like to invite you to participate in this exciting interdisciplinary project by contributing a chapter to the collection. Carceral systems have expanded over the past decades as strategies accompanying the many ‘wars on’ crime, drugs, poverty, and terrorism. These systems serve to securitize, isolate, manage and police specific groups of criminalized others. In effect, the carceral has become such an inextricable aspect of current security paradigms that scientists speak of a carceral age and carceral states (Moran et al. 2018, Garland 2013, Wacquant 2000). Carceral forms, then, do not just influence those who come into daily contact with the prison.
If you are interested in doing so, we ask that you submit an abstract of 250-300 words, a proposed chapter title and a short bio of 80 words to us by 30 November 2020.
Contact Email: h.h.stuit@uva.nl
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Immigration History Dissertation Award
For the 2021 award, the George E. Pozetta Dissertation Award Committee invites applications from any Ph.D. candidate who will have completed qualifying exams by 2020, and whose thesis focuses on American immigration, emigration, or ethnic history, broadly defined. The award provides two grants of $1000 each for expenses to be incurred in researching the dissertation.
Application materials and the supporting letter must be received by the committee by the deadline: Friday, December 18, 2020.
Inquiries and application materials should be submitted via email to pozzetta_award@iehs.org.
Patrick Henry Fellowship, Washington College
https://www.washcoll.edu/learn-by-doing/starr/Fellowships/patrick_henry_fellowship/index.php
The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience invites applications for its full-time residential writing fellowship, which supports outstanding writing on American history and culture by both scholars and nonacademic authors. The project should address the history and/or legacy – broadly defined – of the U.S. founding era and/or the nation’s founding ideas. We encourage a broad reading of such terms as “founders” and “founding ideas.” Past fellowship topics have ranged as broadly as the early history of the slave trade, American religious minorities, and the LGBTQ rights movement.
The deadline for the 2021-22 Patrick Henry History Fellowship is December 1, 2020.
Questions may be directed to Juliet Kaczmarczyk at the Starr Center, jkaczmarczyk3@washcoll.edu.
Research Travel Grants
https://cushwa.nd.edu/grant-opportunities/
The Cushwa Center administers five funding opportunities to support scholarly research in a variety of subject areas. The next application deadline for all five programs is December 31, 2020.Research Travel Grants assist scholars who wish to visit the University Archives or other collections at the Hesburgh Libraries at Notre Dame for research relating to the study of Catholics in America.
Contact Email: cushwa@nd.edu
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Harvard Inequality in America Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60507
The Inequality in America Initiative seeks applications from recent doctoral degree recipients interested in joining a multidisciplinary network of Harvard researchers working to address the manifold challenges of inequality. This program is intended to seed new research directions, facilitate collaboration across disciplines, and develop new leaders in the study of inequality who can publish at the highest level, reach the widest audience, and impact policy.
The 2021 Postdoc Program application deadline is Friday, November 20, 2020, 11:59 PM EST.
Please read our FAQs first. See also the application portal help page. Otherwise, contact Jennifer Shephard (jmsheph@fas.harvard.edu; 1.617.495.7906) with questions.
URL: https://inequalityinamerica.fas.harvard.edu/postdoctoral-program
Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies in Black Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies
https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF06402
The Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies with a focus on Black feminist theory and cultural studies. Open to a variety of interdisciplinary and methodological approaches that foreground: media, technology, data, surveillance, digital activism; critical studies of race, gender, sexuality and Black feminist theory, including Black queer/trans/sexuality studies; Black feminism in the global south; Black diaspora studies; critical race theory; decolonial feminisms; or disability studies to complement Department’s existing strengths in feminist transnational analysis, critical interdisciplinarity, and cultural theory.
Applications completed by November 15, 2020 will be granted full consideration.
email: jscheper@uci.edu
Assistant Professor in Social Justice Informatics
https://apply.interfolio.com/79763
The School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Social Justice Informatics. We are particularly interested in information scholars who will focus on the redistribution of power to address inequities at the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. We understand Social Justice Informatics to involve building knowledge (historical, empirical, theoretical, critical) to drive action on challenges such as racism, human rights, poverty, environmental justice, and development towards a more just society.
We will begin to review applications and interview candidates on November 12, 2020.
Questions about these positions may be sent to facultysearch@ischool.utexas.edu.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Native American and Indigenous Women, Genders, and Sexualities
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/17285
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University invites applications for the two-year Allen-Berenson Postdoctoral Fellowship at the rank of Lecturer beginning in the academic year 2021-2022. We invite applicants whose work focuses on Native American and Indigenous women, genders, and sexualities to apply. We welcome a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, and are especially interested in scholars who bring an intersectional approach to their intellectual work.
First consideration will be given to applications received by January 15, 2021.
Questions about the position can be directed to: abrandon@brandeis.edu.
Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://dornsife.usc.edu/society-of-fellows/
The USC Society of Fellows is an interdisciplinary community that supports advanced research by postdoctoral fellows and faculty members, promoting intellectual exchange and interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Each year the Society admits postdoctoral fellows, who are appointed for two-year terms during which they pursue research and teach three courses over four semesters, with one semester for full-time research.
The deadline to apply is Friday, November 13, 2020, 5pm PST.
email: societyoffellows@dornsife.usc.edu
URL: https://dornsife.usc.edu/society-of-fellows/how-to-apply/
Race & Reconciliation Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow
https://jobs.tcu.edu/en-us/job/496702/race-reconciliation-initiative-postdoctoral-fellow
The Postdoctoral Fellow is responsible for contributing scholarly work to the respective discipline and Texas Christian University through teaching, research, creative activity, and service. This position will participate in research and programming for the TCU Race & Reconciliation Initiative. This residential 9-month fellowship will begin late fall 2020 and is open to individuals who have met all requirements for the doctorate by the position start date.
Applications close: Open until filled
Feminist/Queer Approaches to Race
https://apply.interfolio.com/79967
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Emory University is seeking applications from scholars engaged in feminist/queer studies of race with attention to histories or legacies of race, broadly conceived. The position is open rank. We are seeking a colleague with expertise in history and/or the social sciences and who has a critical, interdisciplinary orientation to the study of race, gender and/or sexuality. We are open to a variety of interdisciplinary historical and/or social sciences-based methodological approaches.
Deadline: Jan 1, 2021 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
email: beth.reingold@emory.edu
Washington College, Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
The interdisciplinary Starr Center is dedicated to fostering innovative approaches to American history and culture at the local and national levels. Established in 2000, the Center promotes excellence in the study of American history, politics, and culture; builds bridges among diverse academic disciplines and with other institutions; engages with a broad range of public constituencies; and creates special on- and off-campus opportunities for Washington College students and faculty.
email: Juliet Kaczmarczyk, Center Coordinator, jkaczmarczyk3@washcoll.edu
Assistant Director for Communications and Outreach
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60593
This Assistant Director will act as the Starr Center’s chief communications and public relations officer, managing its digital content, printed materials, photos/videos, press releases and social media presence. They will proactively develop (write, assign, edit, produce) original content about the Center, its activities, staff, students, fellows, and alumni for diverse platforms, both print and digital. They will oversee and manage the Starr Center’s website and its presence on other parts of the College’s website, regularly adding, updating, and maintaining content. With active participation and assistance from student interns, they will expand the Starr Center’s social media presence. In collaboration with other staff, they will work on material that informs prospective Washington College students about the Center’s programs.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
Assistant Director for Programs and Experiential Learning
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60594
Building on the Center’s public humanities programs and projects, the Assistant Director for Programs and Experiential Learning will develop, organize, manage, and supervise experiential learning opportunities for Washington College students. Serving as an educator, mentor, and supervisor to undergraduate students, this staff member will design, implement, and report on out-of-classroom learning opportunities, including on-site and off-site internships, exploratory trips, and research projects. In partnership with other staff and faculty across the campus, the Assistant Director will develop and coordinate events and programs designed to bring these students into conversation and collaboration with the local community and broader world. This is a full-time, benefit-eligible position.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
Open rank tenure-stream faculty positions in Black Feminisms, Genders, and Sexualities Studies
https://careers.msu.edu/mob/en-us/job/504162/assistantassociatefull-professor-tenure-system
The Department of African American and African Studies invites applications for two open rank tenure-system faculty positions in Black Feminisms, Genders, and Sexualities Studies with the ability to be appointed at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor (9-month appointment) in the Department of African American and African Studies in the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. We have special needs in Black Genders Studies and Black Sexualities Studies.
Applications received by January 4, 2021 will receive full consideration.
Email: lomaxtam@msu.edu
Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration – fellowship
https://apply.interfolio.com/80721
RITM invites artists, media makers, and journalists whose work focuses on race, indigeneity, and/or transnational migration to apply to be a Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow during the Spring 2021 term, from February 1 through April 30. The Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) is a university-wide, interdisciplinary academic research center that aims to advance rigorous, innovative research and teaching on key topics of historical and contemporary importance. Building upon Yale’s longstanding strengths, RITM fosters intellectual exchanges that cross institutional, disciplinary, and geographic borders; enrich and challenge academic fields; and foreground perspectives often underrepresented in university and policy circles.
Deadline: Dec 1, 2020
Questions about the position can be directed to margaret.katz@yale.edu
Primary Source Modules about Women's History and Culture
https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/instruction
Librarians from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture and the Rubenstein Library (Duke University) have developed a series of teaching modules based on primary sources for instructors to use for online courses. These creative modules span a wide range of topics and disciplines, and offer a flexible way to incorporate historical publications and archival materials into your syllabus. Please feel free to use and adapt independently.
email: Kelly.wooten@duke.edu
Deconstructing Institutional Racism through a Decolonial Lens
“Deconstructing Institutional Racism through a Decolonial Lens” was the title and theme of the first collaborative online event and discussion session hosted on 14th October 2020 by Decolonial Dialogues (DD) in partnership with the Race, Ethnicity and Education Network (REEN). The primary focus of this session was an artist’s talk and keynote presentation given by musician, film-maker and activist Pravini Baboeram – producer and director of the documentary "The Uprising"
- Link to the full documentary film - The Uprising (with English subtitles): https://youtu.be/8GjRMQrJ2ig
- Link to The Uprising: Educational Toolkit - A Guide for Educators to Engage Students in Decolonizing the Mind: https://youtu.be/NK9GzXGjnNg
- Link to the dialogue recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eyhJOog-gA&feature=youtu.be
URL: https://decolonialdialogue.wordpress.com/
Contact Email: c.a.dixon@sheffield.ac.uk
