CONFERENCES
Resilience in the Post-COVID-19 World Disorder
https://cjm.unitn.it/sites/cjm.unitn.it/files/download/68/Resilience%20open%20call_9-11%20sett.pdf
The aim of this workshop/conference is to have a wide-ranging discussion on the use of resilience as an analytic and policy tool. It wants to explore the ways it has emerged in different areas of social and political life, highlighting how the Covid-19 crises may have exposed its limits but also given it space to expand even further as a tool of government. The conference organization will cover travel and accommodation for three nights. A decision on the timing and modality for the workshop will be taken in due time, if the current health provisions remain in place.
If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract (250 words) of your paper along with a short bio by 15 February 2021 vincenzo.dellasala@unitn.it.
Sites of Feminist Memory: Remembering suffrage in Europe and the United States of America
https://wfw.hypotheses.org/341
7-11 June 2021, online
These spectacular enshrinements of leading suffrage campaigners in such quintessential sites of national memory can be read as a form of apotheosis for a process begun by the suffrage campaigners themselves to inscribe the suffrage past into our built environments via statues and street names, commemorative plaques and memorial monuments, community cafés and communal libraries[4]. Building on the very recent work of Vera Mackie and Sharon Crozier-de Rosa, interrogating the history and effects of that process of creation of literal ”Sites of Feminist Memory,” across Europe and the United States, in local, national and transnational settings, will be a central ambition of this conference. We thus invite papers which focus on such literal sites of feminist memory in Europe and the United States.
Send a 300 word abstract in English to Marc Calvini-Lefebvre (marc.calvini-lefebvre@univ-amu.fr) and Claire Sorin (claire.sorin@univ-amu.fr) by 08 February 2021.
Currents of Change: Past, Present, and Public
Thursday-Friday, April 8-9, 2021, Online via Zoom
Across the humanities and social sciences (and indeed, beyond) we are constantly encountering, examining, or advocating for change. Whether its impacts are global or local, revolutionary or fractional, generative or destructive, change often drives the direction of historically grounded research and community outreach. As we navigate new digital spaces in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, how has this recent turn to the digital has fundamentally changed our personal, professional, political, social, and environmental relationships? What does remote learning signify for our students, our peers, and our scholarship? How is this current digital age ushering in new ways of thinking, being, connecting, and sharing our expertise both within and beyond the academy?
Interested applicants should submit a 250-word abstract by Friday, February 12, 2021
Contact Email: ucihgsa@gmail.com
URL: http://ucihgsa.com
American Historical Association
http://clgbthistory.org/call-for-papers-aha-2022-annual-meeting
We are now soliciting submissions for next year’s meeting of the American Historical Association in New Orleans, January 6-9, 2022. The AHA seeks submissions on all “places, periods, people, and topics; on the uses of diverse sources and methods, including digital history; and on theory and the uses of history itself in a wide variety of venues.” Reflecting this, the CLGBTH welcomes sessions focused on any aspect of LGBTQ history. We especially encourage sessions addressing areas outside of the United States; periods before the twentieth century; histories of LGBTQ people of color; trans history; teaching LGBTQ history; and the place of LGBTQ history in public life. In addition to panels and roundtables, we welcome poster sessions to be considered for CLGBTH sponsorship.
please submit your panel or poster session to us by February 1, 2021 (midnight PST) to clgbth.cochairs@gmail.com.
Resilience, Resistance, Renovation, and Rebirth Conference
Zoom Conference: April 22, 23, 29, 30, 2021
What a year? SARS CoV-2 has hit us hard and forced us into a new normal. What is this normal now in the sciences, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (or STEAM)? What has happened to your work, research, and lives that would not have happened without the interruption of the SARS CoV-2 virus? How was the pandemic a spark for innovation for that cultural change, poem, industrial design, theorem, performance, medical discovery or whatever you and your team have discovered? 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 email a title and abstract (300 words maximum) describing your panel or presentation to steamconference2021@gmail.com by January 31, 2021
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES
Tarleton State University, Fort Worth (Texas) Campus and Online, Oct. 22-23, 2021
This year's theme is: "SWCAS at 50: Asia Through the Years." We are especially interested in topics that cover aspects of Asia during the past 50 years as we celebrate the SWCAS 50th anniversary, but proposals on any topic related to Asian studies are welcome. Please send proposals to Marcy Tanter, tanter@tarleton.edu.
Proposals are due by April 30.
Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19: An Interdisciplinary Approach
https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/cfp-anti-asian-racism-covid-19/
Virtual Workshop: Thursday, 10 June and Friday, 11 June 2021
We aim to address the following questions of anti-Asian racism in Canada and beyond:
What explains the rising anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic?
In what ways does anti-Asian racism affect Asian communities and interracial relations?
How can the escalation of anti-Asian racism be mitigated?
We are seeking contributions from across disciplines and applying new methodologies, including but not limited to computational methods, large-scale modelling, and the innovative use of emerging technologies.
Please submit your abstract by Thursday, 28 January 2021.
For general inquiries, please contact the York Centre for Asian Research at ycar@yorku.ca.
Critical Disability Studies Conference (Virtual)
April 7, 14, 21, and 28
This year’s theme, Enacting Disability Justice, highlights the importance of mobilizing scholarly work in Critical Disability Studies within and outside of academia. The theme seeks to demonstrate how Critical Disability Studies contributes to social policy, human rights, and the development of a disability corpus. Submissions related to the theme are encouraged; however, we welcome submissions on any topic related to disability.
Please send your submission to cdssa@yugsa.ca no later than February 28, 2021.
URL: http://cdssa.ca/
Association for Ethnic Studies 2021 Conference
November 5-6, 2021
This is a moment to think about and understand the changing nature of activism in the 21st century. 2020 witnessed a historic upsurge in antiracist activism. What were the long-term consequences of these movements? How do we assess the nature of civil organization and social change in a social media environment in which much organizing happens outside of public view? What are the linkages and disconnections between academic and civic activism at this juncture? We invite proposals for papers and panels on all topics related to ethnic studies and social justice activism.
Deadline for Proposals: March 15, 2021.
Submissions should be sent to: tmesser@bgsu.edu
Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic
April 21-23, 2021
From our confined spaces dominated by small computer screens, we see how the pressing issues of our time begin to float in front of us in new condensed forms. The perilous biopolitics of the pandemic, combined with the politics of fear, have reinforced an upsurge of nativism, right-wing populism, xenophobia, conspiracy theories, etc. The outbreak of COVID became an opportunity for authoritarian governments to further solidify their power, which includes restricting civil rights, imposing a state of exception, and fortifying the mass surveillance infrastructure. However, the pandemic has exposed how incredibly vulnerable we are, not just to this deadly COVID-19 but to an infection that affects the way we think about our past, present, and future.
Please send your proposals along with a short bio (max. 100 words) to memorystudies@newschool.edu by February 15, 2021.
PUBLICATIONS
Contact, contamination, and contagion
Although primarily perceived as threats, both contamination (from the Latin contaminare, to blend, mingle) and contagion (con-tangĕre, to touch together) imply some form of communication and transmission "by contact direct or mediate" (OED). Understood as procedures of exchange, they have long been used as productive metaphors for various forms of proliferation of ideas and phenomena, thus exceeding the boundaries of their original epidemiological context. The 2021 issue of LEA encourages contributors to explore the ideas of contact, contamination and contagion in all their connotations, thinking not only in terms of disease and invasion, but also of constructive and enriching cross-fertilization between peoples, cultures, texts, and ideas.
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2021
Contact Email: ilaria.natali@unifi.it
Incarceration and Resistance
The editors of this special issue of the Global South are seeking contributors whose work engages with questions of incarceration and movements for resistance and abolition. As many major works regarding the development of mass incarceration in the United States draw explicit links between the development of the prison and the legacies of U.S. slavery and Jim Crow practices, this issue is, rather (or also), interested in examining the development of the prison-industrial complex through a global south perspective.
Please send abstracts of up to 500 words (in MLA style) and a 100-word biographical statement to guest editors Juyeon Jang and Allison M. Serraes, at jjang4@go.olemiss.edu and aserraes@uni-mainz.de, by June 1, 2021.
The Latinx Experience: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Contributions are invited for consideration to be published in a collection of essays giving an overview of critical issues in Latinx Studies with a focus on communities and the shifting contours of Latinx identities, focusing on the heterogeneity and complexity of Latinx identities and experiences. While this volume will center on the U.S. context, we seek global, transnational, and international perspectives, as well.
Please submit a no more than two page abstract (approximately 500 words) of a chapter that you wish to be considered for this collection by March 1, 2021, as well as a curriculum vitae. Contact email: Dr. Maria Joaquina Villaseñor (mvillasenor@csumb.edu) and Dr. Hortencia Jimenez (hjimenez@hartnell.edu).
Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You've Been Told about Black Women
Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You've Been Told about Black Women revisits notions of Black womanhood to include the ways in which Black women's perceived strength can function as a dangerous denial of Black women's humanity. This collection addresses the stigma of this extraordinary endurance in professional and personal spaces, the Black church, in interpersonal partnerships, and within the justice arena, while also giving voice and value to Black women's experiences as the backbone of the Black family and community.
Submissions will be accepted between through June 30, 2021.
Please contact Dr. Clarissa West-White at whitec@cookman.edu or Abayomi Animashaun at abayomi@blacklawrencepress.com with questions.
Latinx Representation in Popular Culture and New Media
We invite chapter proposals from scholars based in Europe whose work delves into the issues, configurations, and manifestations of the representation of Latinxs and the Latinx experience in popular culture and new media. The aim of the volume is to collect research on the diverse sociocultural, contextual, and aesthetic aspects intertwining in the production of Latinx self/representation. Issues related to the expression and depiction of Latinx subjectivity have entered the public sphere with renewed force in recent years.
Please send your abstract proposal (400-500 words) and short bio (max. 200 words, including author’s academic affiliation) to latinx.popculture@gmail.com by March 20, 2021.
Rethinking Space Beyond the Pandemic
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7148026/rethinking-space-beyond-pandemic
Integrating the spatial turn in the latter half of twentieth century with our current reality allows a reevaluation of existing contours of research across a range of registers—philosophy, geography, physics, architecture, history, religion, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and literature. How do we undertake the existential dynamics of space in view of the pandemic which commands our actions, and thereby shapes our ethics? What would be the new proxemics of the emerging epoch amongst these changing conceptions of space? As the discourse over space assumes a new urgency and vigour, Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies calls for papers that raise discussions over space in its relation to interpretations of selfhood along physical, social, digital, and pandemic dimensions as well as its various ramifications manifesting with the new ways of relating with space.
Submission deadline: 15th April, 2021
Please feel free to email any queries to – llids.journal@gmail.com.
New Fictional Formats & Age-Old Narratives: Understanding Creative Modes of Popular Culture in the Digital Age
Constant transformation has been the norm in the new digital media environment since its inception. During the 2020 health crisis, the impact of this ever-changing digital world in our daily lives has been especially notable. Due to quarantine measures, the only opportunity to interact with friends and to consume culture was to rely on social networks, streaming services and video conferencing softwares. In this context, boundaries between cultural and leisure industries continue to blur. The cultural field—which had already accepted video games, comics and fanfiction into the realm of the mainstream—has continued to expand thanks to social media and the increasing gamification in video on demand platforms. This Call for Papers thus searches for fresh new research that explores contemporary fictional narratives and creations native to the digital environment. Send your proposal to popmec.call@gmail.com. The editor in charge of this call is Laura Álvarez Trigo, so feel welcome to contact her directly with any inquiry regarding the call, at laura.alvarezt@edu.uah.es.
The deadline for submission of full papers is March 14, 2021.
Handbook of Research on Social Justice Research Methods
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/5091
The purpose of this handbook is to offer scholars, researchers, and practitioners with information for new and emerging social justice research methodologies to tackle the many social justice problems across a global society and environment. More and more, researchers across disciplines incorporate social justice aspects of research problems and this text offers methods and approaches for answers to societal problems, effect change, contribute to current scholarship, or transform outdated research paradigms. The handbook may also be supplemental for researchers who aim to initiate change within their discipline, workplace, or communities as they conduct research. This text will comprise a diverse resource of social justice research methods, designs, approaches, and strategies for the contemporary social justice researcher.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 10, 2021, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words.
Contact Email: robin.throne@gmail.com
Black Nostalgia & Black Diaspora as Cultural Production
http://www.ariashalliday.com/black-nostalgia-cfp.html
In response to global unrest after the murder of George Floyd and the shuttering of public venues due to outbreaks of the novel coronavirus (or COVID-19), companies like Netflix, Nike, Mattel, and many others have affirmed their accountability to Black communities using the popular moniker, “Black Lives Matter.” However, the varying uses of bricolage, cultural hegemony, and appropriation collapse cultural context as well as encourage local and global intertextuality—in some ways losing cultural specificity while encouraging global cultural dexterity. This special issue hopes to lay bare the ideological work recent representational blackness has engineered as well as the ways diasporic cultural context intertextuality and bricolage shapes what we believe about our present, past, and future.
Abstracts Due: April 15, 2021
Contact Email: a.halliday@uky.edu
"Bring out your Dead:" Visions of Pandemics Past, Present and Future in Literature and the Arts
Editors Brodman and Doan are seeking original essays for the sixth of a series of books on visions of the supernatural and the apocalyptic in literature and the arts.* They encourage submissions from peoples and cultures around the world and from scholars of the Sciences as well as the Arts.
Abstracts are due before February 1, 2021.
Contact us and send abstracts to: brodman@nova.edu or doan@nova.edu
Resisting White Supremacy in the African Diaspora: Moving Towards Liberation and Decolonization
The months of May and June, 2020, saw unprecedented global protests against anti-Black racism and calls for a more equitable and just society that recognizes the humanity and lives of people of African descent. While these protests initially originated across the United States, protesters around the world quickly galvanized in support of these issues organizing events in a growing number of countries. To facilitate these and other conversations, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Humanities at the University of Texas at El Paso invites papers for a special issue that aims to capture forms of African descendants’ resistance against the tyranny of white supremacy across multiple continents.
The deadline for complete papers (6000 words) is June 1, 2021. Please send enquiries and submissions to guillorycry@uhd.edu.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships at Emory
http://jamesweldonjohnson.emory.edu/home/fellowship/index.html
For both types of fellowship, the James Weldon Johnson Institute of Emory University welcomes applications from scholars in the humanities. We are interested in research projects across the spectrum of the humanities that examine the origins, evolution, impact and legacy of race, difference, and the modern quest for civil and human rights. We also support research projects that examine race and ethnicity and its points of intersection with other identities and movements addressing differences along gender, class, religious, or sexual lines.
The deadline for both is Feb. 25, 2021
email: rhonda.patrick@emory.edu
Call for editorial assistants: US pop culture and new media
This call is for editorial assistants for the peer-reviewed academic blog https://popmec.hypotheses.org (ISSN 2660-8839). Assistants will be regularly invited to join in editorial discussions, learn about the peer-reviewing process, and have the chance to participate in the coordination of calls, events, and activities. We welcome applications by early career researchers, including skilled BA and MA students interested in the topics the collective works on. Assistants will appear in the PopMeC Team page and a certificate of their editorial activities will be released whenever needed.
If you are interested in applying, please send your academic cv to popmec.call@gmail.com.
Feel welcome to browse our site (https://popmec.hypotheses.org), discovering our current team and sections (https://popmec.hypotheses.org/team-2).
Paid Opportunity for Under/Graduate Researcher(s) in History of Sexuality
50 Years On, Many Years Past: Nonfictions of Sexuality (www.histsex.org) is soon-to-be released resource for the history of sexuality funded by a generous Carnegie-Whitney Grant from the American Library Association. This project will develop an open-source, easily reusable bibliography chosen, reviewed, and annotated by historians of sexuality, sex educators, and librarians active in sexuality fields.
Send a short email or one page cover letter and a 2-3 page CV, to B. M. Watson at briwats@iu.edu on or before February 5th, 2021.
Assistant Professor - Africana Studies Program
https://apply.interfolio.com/82338
Lafayette College announces a full-time, tenure-track position in the Africana Studies Program at the rank of assistant professor, beginning July 1, 2021, with specialization in contemporary African American life and culture. Africana Studies at Lafayette is a vibrant program of over a dozen faculty members who teach in departments of literature, history, government, anthropology, economics, and religious studies.
All materials should be uploaded by February 18, 2021.
Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/82479
The University of Florida Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research (tenure home) invites applications for a nine-month, full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin August 16, 2021. We invite applicants in feminist technoscience and related fields who specialize in critical analysis and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science. This includes applicants who focus on how AI and data science can shape and be shaped by gender, race, sexuality and other biases and social inequalities as well as uses of AI and data science to promote ethical accountability and social justice.
Applications should be submitted by February 15, 2021.
Questions may be directed to Dr. Alyssa Zucker, Search Committee Chair: azucker@ufl.edu.
Assistant Professor position in Black Gender Studies
https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF06055
The UCLA Department of Gender Studies is pleased to seek applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in the field of Black gender studies. We are interested in candidates with expertise in one or more of the following fields: Black feminism; Black queer studies; Black trans studies; anti-Black sexual or gendered medical violence or health precarity; historical or ongoing institutions and practices of Black healing, aid, and care; reproductive justice.
Completed applications must be received by February 15, 2021
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Book Talk Series
https://www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book-talks
Spring 2021 Virtual Book Talk series sponsored by the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture (PHBAC) at the American Antiquarian Society.
January 12: Craig Dworkin, Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality (University of Chicago Press)
February 25: Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
March 25: Lucas Dietrich, Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920 (University of Massachusetts Press)
April 29: Koritha Mitchell, From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture (University of Illinois Press)
This program is free but requires advanced registration. Those interested in attending may register at https://www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book-talks. All book talks are recorded and available on the AAS YouTube Channel.
Betty Friedan's 100th Birthday: Moving the Legacy Forward
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6UTFxG4MRyaie7JRuxgwSQ
February 4, 2021; 7:00-8:15 p.m. EST
As you know, Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963) and co-founded the National Organization for Women (1966). To commemorate the 100th anniversary of her birth, VFA has gathered some powerful voices to reflect on how Friedan and the Second Wave women's movement changed the world - and what the future holds for feminists. Speakers include Christian Nunes-- President of NOW, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Charles Schumer, Gloria Steinem, Author/journalist Gail Collins, Friedan’s son Jonathan Friedan, Friedan’s daughter Emily Friedan, Activist Heather Booth, VFA president Eleanor Pam, NOW co-founder and VFA chair Muriel Fox.
Contact Email: veteranfeministsofamerica@gmail.com
URL: http://www.veteranfeministsofamerica.org/events/
A Racial Reckoning: Discussion of Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings
https://mailchi.mp/uci/minor_feelings
Wednesday, February 3, 10 AM - 11 AM (Pacific Time), virtual
Cathy Park Hong, author of the best-selling book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, will be visiting UCI on April 15. Numerous events since the publication of Minor Feelings in early 2000 have asked the US to reckon with its histories and pervasive cultures of systemic racism. What exactly needs to be reckoned with, and who should be involved? What does it mean to be Asian American in this unprecedented moment? Do literature and the humanities more broadly play unique roles in interrogating the events we find ourselves in?
For more information, please contact Judy Wu (j.wu@uci.edu)
And So On: Reading and Conversation with Kiese Laymon
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2021-kiese-laymon-lecture-virtual
Thursday, Feb 11, 2021 4:00 pm EST
Kiese Laymon will talk with Courtney R. Baker about whether the actual histories of American colleges and universities should be ripe sites for Black American horror and comedic narratives. Laymon will create a live novella and a live essay during this talk, while questioning the ethics of making art “for” an audience longing for both titillation and innocence from the horrific histories of Black Americans in and around American institutions of higher learning.
Free and open to the public. To view this event online, individuals will need to register via Zoom.
Equity & Diversity Conference at UNT
February 23, 2021, virtual
The Equity & Diversity Conference is an annual event hosted by the Division of Institutional Equity & Diversity at the University of North Texas. The conference brings together hundreds of students, educators, and professionals who are committed to equity, access, and inclusion in higher education, but is also open to any community members interested in diversity and inclusion topics.
Register by Feb. 16 ($25 for students): https://edc.unt.edu/registration
Human Rights: Fair Food at the Kitchen Table
https://freedomcenter.org/voice/event/human-rights-fair-food-at-the-kitchen-table
Friday, January 22, 2021 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
This discussion will focus on the experiences of migrant farm workers to better understand how their working conditions and rights are central to combating human trafficking and ensuring a just food system. Experts will discuss the legacies of slave economies and immigration law on contemporary migrant farm workers’ rights as well as the ongoing farmworker civil rights movement to ensure their fair treatment.
Free, but Registration is required:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zPDBx8EPRoWE33Y2xYxwpA
Race, Ethnicity and Architecture in the Nation’s Capital
https://www.latrobechaptersah.org/current-symposium
February 2-26, 2021 | Virtual
Governments and private developers have employed built environments to control and regulate racialized bodies. Through the systemic planning of residential and commercial districts, public spaces, and transit, they ensured the growth of isolated enclaves whose economic health varied based on inhabitants’ race. Historically-specific understandings of race have likewise shaped the design and construction of the capital’s architecture, for example influencing the development of various building typologies, ranging from embassies and museums to shopping centers. The 13th Latrobe Chapter Biennial Symposium therefore calls for a timely investigation of the symbiotic relationship between race and architecture in the greater Washington, DC region. It conceptualizes race broadly, not as an issue of binaries, but rather of corporeal hierarchies that meaningfully structure the design and experience of architectural and urban spaces.
Contact Email: vyta.pivo@gmail.com
Virtual Worlds in Pandemic Times
https://ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20210202-tom-boellstorff/
2 February 2021, 11:00 - 12:00 (Singapore Time)
In this talk, I will present research in progress for the project “Virtual Worlds in Pandemic Times”. In this project, a research team including myself, three graduate student researchers, and a documentary filmmaker are exploring how due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented number of people have been socializing online, in new ways. Better understanding these new digital cultures will have consequences for COVID prevention: successful physical distancing will rely on new forms of social closeness online. It will also have consequences for everything from work and education to climate change.
How Do Publishers 'Really' Decide Whether to Publish Your Book Manuscript?
January 26 at 16:30 IST / 9:30 AM EST
Join us for an interview in our ‘Publication Success Interview Series’, where we will discuss how publishers really decide whether to publish your manuscript. I will be speaking with Katie Chin, Acquisitions Editor at Brill Publishers, about why she accepts or rejects manuscripts, and about practical tools for increasing scholars' chances of being published - and quickly.
Contact Email: avi@aclang.com
URL: https://www.aclang.com/event/brill-publishers-january-26-2021/?src=H-NET
Making Abolition Geographies
https://simpsoncenter.org/programs/lecture-3-ruth-wilson-gilmore
February 25, 2021, 4:30-5:30pm (PST)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work has led the way in showing that abolition is a practical program for urgent change based in the needs, talents, and dreams of vulnerable people. Scholars and community organizers join her for a conversation about decarceration and community-based approaches to generating well-being and addressing harm. Roundtable discussants will include Angélica Cházaro (School of Law, University of Washington), Shaun Glaze (Research Director, King County Equity Now), and Megan Ybarra (Geography, UW). Introduced by Gillian Harkins (English, UW); moderated by Chandan Reddy (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, UW).
Guillermo Gómez-Peña: An Open Letter to the Museum of the Future
https://www.facebook.com/events/253265736164317/
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 7 PM CST – 7:30 PM CST
Guillermo Gómez-Peña has an obsession with rewriting and restaging so-called “Western Art History” while highlighting colonial legacies of systematic exclusion, demonization and fetishization of Brown, Black, and indigenous bodies. This live radio keynote from Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra challenges contemporary art museum practices and calls for an open discussion regarding radical restructuring from within.
Broadcasting on 105.5 FM WLPN-LP Chicago and streaming on https://www.twitch.tv/lumpenradio.
Podcasting Toward Social Change: Sound-Based Pedagogy & Scholarship Series
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/podcasting-toward-social-change-sound-based-pedagogy-scholarship-series-tickets-137350514085
Join Joi Adams, creator of "Dear White ISU," on Thursday, February, 18, 3-4pm CST for her talk "Dear White ISU: Using Podcasting as a Tool of Activism."
Join Ada Jaarsma, creator of "The Learning Gene," on Thursday, February 25, 3-4pm CST for her talk "Podcasting: Pedagogy."
Join Hannah McGregor, creator of "Witch, Please" and "Secret Feminist Agenda," on Thursday, March 4, 3-4pm CST for her talk "Is Podcasting Pedagogy?:Rethinking the Teaching/Scholarship Divide."
Reimagining Citizenship: Prospects for Immigration Reform During the Biden Administration
https://www.ecornell.com/keynotes/overview/K021121/
Thursday, February 11, 2021, 12pm EST
In this first event in our Reimagining Citizenship series, we’ll examine what President Biden and his team can realistically achieve when it comes to fixing our broken immigration system. What will the new administration tackle first, and why? What can it achieve through executive orders, and how likely is Congress to take meaningful action? Cornell Law School professor Steve Yale-Loehr will moderate a panel discussion with three leading immigration experts.
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and Racist Nationalism
https://www.facebook.com/events/405395527188710/
Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 4 PM CST
Join Harsha Walia and Robin D.G. Kelley for a discussion about racist border regimes, capitalism and migration, and the ascent of the far-right across the world, marking the release of Walia’s Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism.
RESOURCES
Queer History Month, Museums, and Activism for Justice and Freedom
https://journal.fi/sqs/issue/view/7065
The Winter issue of SQS, the peer-reviewed Journal of Queer Studies in Finland, has just been released. The special double-issue, co-edited by Therese Quinn (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) and Tuula Juvonen (University of Turku, Finland), addresses the topic of Queer History Month in museums and other memory institutions. With art, reviews, opinion pieces and articles by scholars, practitioners, educators and activists, the issue includes work in English, Finnish and Swedish from the US, UK, Baltic and Nordic countries on a diversity of topics including exhibiting LGBTQ history in a Dallas, Texas archive; Black queer artist Alvin Baltrop's archive; trans and non-binary inclusive narratives in museums; LGBT histories in the Baltic States; and more. Access is free; please share.
Contact Email: thereseq@uic.edu
