CONFERENCES
Resistance and Resilience: Envisioning the Future
https://resistance-and-resilience-umdsllc.weebly.com/
March 5-6, 2021, online
This interdisciplinary graduate conference seeks to
investigate how literary, cinematic, and other mediums interrogate, shape, and
embody strategies of resistance and resilience and imagine alternative futures
in contemporary and historical contexts across the globe. In the midst of a
deadly pandemic, among other social, political, economic, and environmental
crises on local and global scales, envisioning the future can become an act of
resilience and resistance.
Deadline: January 15, 2021
email: umd.sllc.colloq@gmail.com
RAW: Research, Art, and Writing Conference
February 20th, 2021, University of Texas at Dallas
The humanities provide the core site of investigation into
the phenomenon of hyperbole. As researchers, we seek to understand how
overstatement has provided the rhetorical impetus vital to the unfolding of
historical, literary, and aesthetic movements. As artists, we incorporate
shocking imagery to include our audience within the deep significance and
emotional charge of the aesthetic event. As interdisciplinary scholars, we are
constantly interrogating the uses to which hyperbole is put in history books,
literature, museum exhibits, art galleries, public history sites, and other
aspects of human culture. We seek to understand how specific overstatements
have shaped the past and present, while also recognizing the power artistic
shock and awe possesses to transform and inspire the future. Our holistic
approach allows us the flexibility to contextualize the complexities of
hyperbole as a figure not only of speech but also of form. How can artful
overstatement find its way into verbal, auditory, visual, and other media and
spaces?
Please email your submission to utd.gsa@gmail.com by January 19, 2021.
Archival Kismet: A Conference for Historical Exploration
https://symposium.foragerone.com/akache21/
April 8-11, 2021
This non-traditional virtual conference will be a forum for
history researchers and those in allied disciplines to share early research
findings, focusing on the objects, artifacts, and ephemera of the archive. All
presentations should be informal and centered around a specific "cool
thing" or archival "find"—a poster, a letter, an object, a film
clip, a concept, etc., or a small set of related materials. Think of your
presentation like history show-and-tell.
Submissions via this form (https://forms.gle/mCm7b7J6C8qvnF4Z7)
will be taken through Jan. 15. Please contact Courtney Thompson (cthompson@history.msstate.edu)
with any questions or concerns.
Centering the Voices of Black Women
The Ball State African American Studies program, Teachers
College, and the Office of Inclusive Excellence are pleased to announce the 1st
Midwest Regional African American Studies Biennial Conference taking place
virtually March 12-13, 2021. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Irma McClaurin, founder
of the Black Feminist Archive. The program committee is accepting abstracts for
individual paper presentations and panel sessions that center Black women in
antiracism theory and practice, as well as within the fields and functions of
Africana Studies and its continuous development and advancement. We welcome
proposals for individual papers and panels that focus on Black women in
antiracism theory and practice, creative writing, and pedagogy. We also welcome
papers and panels on topics within the overarching frameworks of Black life.
All abstracts must be emailed to bsuafricanamericanstudies@gmail.com.
The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2021.
Toward the Antiracist Conference: Reckoning With the
Past, Reimagining the Present
http://louisville.edu/conference/watson/cfc
Mini-Conference: April 21-23, 2021
The thirteenth biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference in
Rhetoric and Composition, which will be held virtually from April 21-23, 2021,
will focus on policies and practices for planning and convening antiracist
conferences. Moreover, we seek to extend the repair work the Watson Conference
has undertaken in addressing its own history of enabling anti-Black racism by
forging a way forward.
Each day for three days (April 21-23, 2021), the
mini-conference will feature approximately one invited keynote presentation and
two panel presentations or workshops. (Panels/workshops will not be
concurrent.) Assuming six total panels or workshops and three or four
presenters per panel or workshop, we are therefore expecting to select up to
approximately 18 to 24 presenters.
Proposals (submitted through our webform) due by Monday,
February 8, 11:59 pm EST
Please direct questions to watson@louisville.edu.
What is Left? Class Analysis and the Present Crisis
A virtual Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by Doctoral
Students at UChicago (May 7-8, 2021)
This conference aims to foster a re-emergent debate over the
US Left’s present marginalization of Marxian class analysis and this
situation’s relation to the US Left’s class composition. We are interested in
research that employs or otherwise critically engages with Marxian class
analysis, especially as a method for examining leftist theoretical and
strategic commitments. We especially encourage submissions by advanced graduate
students and early career academics. This conference aims to contribute to the
US Left’s effort to chart a progressive and realistic path through the present
crisis.
The deadline for submitting abstracts of proposed papers is
5pm CST on February 1st, 2021.
email: classanalysisandtheleft@gmail.com
“While There Is A Soul In Prison, I Am Not Free”: The
History of Solidarity in Social and Economic Justice
April 10, 2021, Online Conference
The conference’s theme is broadly the history of “solidarity
in social and economic justice,” and the organizers are specifically interested
in the fields of labor and social movement history. However, to give specific
focus to prison abolitionism and mass incarceration, special attention will be
given to scholars and activists working in the prison abolitionist movement.
Themes in terms of geographic location and time are being left purposefully
open to encourage a wide range of topics in world history throughout the long
struggle of working class social movements.
The organizers are accepting paper and panel presentations
until January 31, 2021
Contact Email: wbishop@marian.edu
Resistance and Persistence: Possibilities of
(Re)emergence
English Conference at Binghamton University, April 24, 2021
In light of the recent civil uprising against police
brutality accompanied by the Covid-19 pandemic on the global scale, we bear
witness to the intersections of political and ecological emergencies that
tacitly or explicitly demarcate hardening boundaries across race, class,
gender, ability, and citizenship. These heightened moments of crises
unequivocally expose imbalanced access to health care and racialized as well as
gendered capitalistic extractivism as embedded in modern history and its
production of the “human.” For this
year’s conference, Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders invites voices that engage
in tandem people with the planet,
resistance with persistence, and survival with revolt. We ask: How do we
understand the immediate and long moments of duress and its connection to
systematic violence?
Prospective participants should submit their proposal of
300- words to shiftingborders@gmail.com no
later than February 21, 2021.
The City, the Media and Gentrification: Actors,
Discourses and Representations
May 28th and 29th, 2021
Starting from the assumption that the media are transmitters
of speeches and representations, this conference aims to assess their role as
actors within the sphere (Macé 2005) in the field of gentrification. The term
“media” can be understood in its broadest sense, as all media are likely to
address the issue of gentrification. We will consider, without any limitation,
traditional media (print, radio, television), new media (extensions of
traditional media, including digital press, podcasts, blogs, etc.) and social
media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.). It will involve discussing possible
disciplinary articulations (sociological, architectural, urban, linguistics, etc.)
between the media and the gentrification process.
Please submit an abstract of 300 words (in French or English
– the final papers will be ideally in English but the discussions will be
imperatively in English) with a short biblio-biography to the conference
organizers eventmediagentrification@gmail.com
by February 19th.
Migrating Archives of Reality. Programming, Curating, and
Appropriation of Non-fiction Film
Online conference, 6-7 May 2021
The digital turn, which has created new modes of access and
circulation for films, underscores and amplifies what has been the fate of
non-fiction film since the beginning of its existence - it has always been, and
continues to be, a migrating archive of reality. As the established power differentials between
official and private collections change, works and topics which were hitherto
barred from view or even forbidden can now become visible. However, practices
of digitization, online programming, digital curation, appropriation (including
colorization of black and white archival footage), and sharing, open up new
spaces and layers of meaning. Moreover,
they also alter and sometimes overwrite the original or historical meaning of
non-fiction films, with significant epistemic, political, and ethical
consequences. In particular, the new modes of digital access carry the danger
of misuses or misunderstandings of the historical content (and in some cases
also of the form, aesthetics, and the materiality) of non-fiction film.
Please send your abstracts (200 words, short bio) to: victore.prague@gmail.com.
The Latina/o/x Literature & Culture Society (American
Literature Association Conference)
This year the Latina/o/x Literature & Culture Society
welcomes submissions focusing on diverse topics including literary genre,
single authors, children’s literature, speculative fiction, comparative
analyses, as well as cultural studies approaches. We also encourage a variety
of theoretical and interdisciplinary prisms as well as a variety of panel
types, including traditional paper sessions, roundtable discussions, and
sessions dedicated to the teaching of Latina/o/x literature. Given the location
of the Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, we solicit proposals centering
Latina/o/x experiences in New England and the Northeastern U.S. more broadly.
Please submit proposals and inquiries to Co-Chairs Drs.
Cristina Herrera and Cathryn Merla-Watson: cherrera@mail.fresnostate.edu and cathryn.merlawatson@utrgv.edu
Decolonising
Archives, Rethinking Canons : Writing Intellectual Histories of Global
Entanglements
Our larger aim in this conference is hinged on two primary
concerns. One is of bringing to the fore works in intellectual history and
political thought, framed by both context specificity and vernacular sources.
The second important goal is to question the equivocal process of canonization
and bring together scholars working on non-canonical intellectual traditions,
texts, and figures. Therefore, we welcome submissions which will question the
ways in which the postcolonial afterlives of the empire, have shaped practices
of intellectual history writing.
Submissions should be sent to cantabconference@gmail.com no
later than the 5th of February, 2021.
For queries, feel free to write to Shuvatri Dasgupta (sd781@cam.ac.uk) or Rohit Dutta Roy (rd548@cam.ac.uk)
Western Association
of Women Historians 2021 Conference
April 22–24, 2021 | Online
The virtual conference will foster critical conversations
around all fields, regions, and periods of history. To that end, this year's
conference will replace the traditional 20-minute individual paper reading with
shorter and more interactive presentation styles. We encourage non-traditional
formats and topics, including roundtables on topics such as pedagogy, digital
humanities, or public history. In addition, this year we offer “mentoring pods”
for conversations around academic publishing, health and wellness, activism;
poster presentations in a digital format; and the opportunity to workshop a
book chapter or essay to move your work forward.
The deadline to submit a proposal is February 1, 2021.
URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1frjRl1rBeOMsrgY0kPSoGJvQUuWfIsMlpFnpKJxbI18/edit?usp=sharing
Contact Email: executivedirector@wawh.org
Quarantined
Histories: Narratives of Control and Controlled Narratives
March 26th, 2021
"Quarantine" has become an agonizingly familiar
concept for all of us over the past year. We invite our applicants to use their
experiences of quarantine to reflect on themes of control, connectivity, and
community. From the geopolitics of “Divide and Rule” to the social politics of
“A Room of One’s Own,” strategies of quarantine have shaped the making and
telling of history. The 43rd Annual Warren Susman Graduate Conference welcomes
papers from graduate students in history and other disciplines, at all levels,
who would like to engage in a shared exploration of these topics.
Proposals due: January 25th, 2021
Email: susmanconf@history.rutgers.edu
POP-UP Academic
Conference on Popular Culture
https://www.lonestar.edu/popup.htm
Wednesday, April 7, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm, Thursday, April 8,
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
The POP-UP Academic Conference is a two-day,
multidisciplinary gathering of academics whose scholarly research interests
include various aspects of global popular culture and the larger conversations
surrounding these aspects. Interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 7, 2021
Email your submissions or questions to Rhonda.JacksonJoseph@Lonestar.edu.
PUBLICATIONS
The New Black Public Sphere
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6958530/new-black-public-sphere
In The Black Public Sphere, resistance to the hierarchies
inherent in elitist definitions and forms of political power take place in
neighborhood organizing, collaborative creation, and collective political
action. Community gardens, public libraries, public schools and learning communities,
systems of nonmonetary exchange, creative arts and the sharing of vital
resources are just a few examples of this social sphere’s location and
activities. In an age when participation in democratic processes and
legislative bodies have been made unavailable for many Black people, the
information provided by person to person discourse, community events, and
online represent on-going education, significant contributions to community
empowerment, and a stimulus for political / civic participation.
Your abstract must be addressed by or before January 31,
2020 to the two editors of this anthology: Dr. Eric R. Jackson (jacksoner@nku.edu) and Dr. Stephanie Anne
Johnson (stephanieannejohnsonphd@gmail.com).
Of Memory and History
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6958418/memory-and-history
Les Cahiers d’histoire journal is presently accepting
proposals for its 2021 regular issue about a debate around the interactions
between history and memory. More precisely, we wish to reflect on the
epistemological distinction made by Pierre Nora in the 1980s: “The collective
memory, globalizing and borderless, blurred and telescoping, is a matter of
belief, only assimilating what strengthens itself. Analytical and critical,
precise and distinct, the historical memory is the domain of reason, which
instructs without convincing.”
Proposals must be submitted no later than January 10, 2021
email: publication@cahiershistoire.org.
Historicizing the Images and Politics of the Afropolitan
A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review
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.” Though
Mbembe emphasizes heterogeneity in Africa, most scholarship focuses on the flow
of Africans and African cultures between global megacities. In popular media,
the term appears in magazine titles, art exhibits, and albums, highlighting
fashion, consumer culture, and networks of capital. 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.
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: February 1, 2021
email: contactrhr@gmail.com
Towards Digitalism
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6997060/towards-digitalism
With the spread of COVID,
the terms such as “digitality”,
“digitalism” , “digital culture”, “digital
philosophy”, “transhumanism”, and
“great reset” have started to be used in
our lives. Digitalism, the condition of being locked down in our homes and living in a digital
world, has had reverberations in all
walks of life particularly in arts, education and literature. The purpose of
this volume is to touch upon the echoing of digitalism in arts, literature and
education. Hence, the topics to be covered include these
terms, exploring them from various viewpoints, including sociological
and philosophical aspects, and attempt to pinpoint them in a cultural and
artistic context.
Those who wish to contribute to the volume/volumes are
kindly asked to send their proposals of 400-500 words to Dr. Feryal
Cubukcu, cubukcu.feryal@gmail.com
by January 30.
Politics and Culture: Exploring the Connections Between
Social Movements and the Arts
The North Meridian Review: A Journal of Culture and
Scholarship special issue
The theme of this year’s special volume will examine how
social movements interact with the arts. Although social movement research
often includes analyses of competing group interests, collective behavior,
organizational capacities, and rational choices, less attention has been given
to the inextricable connections between culture, broadly defined, and the
creation and mobilization of such movements. This is despite the history which
shows how music, painting, poetry, drama, fiction, and crafted lectures have
inspired and mobilized masses of people to fight for their rights. Such has
been the case in struggles for worker rights, civil rights, peace, and justice.
We seek articles, essays, poetry, and art.
Submission Deadline:
February 19, 2021.
Contact Email: wbishop@marian.edu
URL: https://thenorthmeridianreview.org/
Gender and Food in
Contemporary East Asia
This volume approaches food as a symbolic and material site
where gender roles and identities are imagined, performed, and negotiated. It
argues that a critical engagement with practices and representation of food
from gender perspective can enhance our understanding of the society and
culture of contemporary East Asia.
Send us a 300-word abstract to Dr. Jooyeon Rhee (jooyeonrhee@gmail.com) by 20 January
2021
Enchantment,
Disenchantment, Reenchantment Rethinking practices of interconnection in a
century of crisis
https://www.sfu.ca/cmajournal/issues/issue-ten--enchantment--disenchantment--reenchantment.html
Contemporary scholarship (Foster 2015; Berardi 2017;
Steryerl 2017) periodizes our current century as one of crisis, evermore
evidenced by the ongoing systemic violence against BIPOC; the Covid-19 viral
pandemic; Western neo-fascisms; migratory emergencies; and a willful ignorance
among governments and corporations of the sure peril of our climate. Our
present culture of emergency indicates the long-term effects of disenchantment
have intensified. Careful not to position enchanted cosmologies against
disenchanted materialisms, this call for work turns to the fine arts to ask if
the world is disenchanted, how may we propel the human out of isolated primacy?
Text submissions should be 500-5000 words.
Please email your submission to cma_journal@sfu.ca with the subject
heading ‘Attn: Issue 10’
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2021
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Haverford College Special Collections Fellowships
https://www.haverford.edu/library/quaker-special-collections/fellowships
Each year Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
offers two $3,000 fellowships for researchers to use our unique materials for a
minimum of two weeks of research. Projects engaging with any religion,
historical religious practices, history, literature, material culture,
Quakerism, or other topics supported by collections material will be
considered.
Contact Sarah Horowitz with your questions: shorowitz@haverford.edu | (610)
896-2948
Applications are due February 8, 2021.
The James P. Danky
Fellowships in Print Culture
http://www.wiscprintdigital.org/fellowship/
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the History
of Print and Digital Culture, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical
Society, is offering one short-term research fellowship award for 2021-2022.
The Danky Fellowships provide $1000 per individual for their expenses while
conducting research using the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Prior
to applying it is strongly suggested that applicants contact the Wisconsin
Historical Society (askarchives@wisconsinhistory.org or
608-264-6459) to discuss the relevancy of WHS collections to their projects.
Applications are due by May 1, 2021
email materials to Dr. Heather Wacha, chpdc@ischool.wisc.edu
Schlesinger Library
Grants 2021-2022
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/grants
DISSERTATION GRANTS
Application Deadline: Friday, January 29, 2021
The Schlesinger
Library invites predoctoral scholars whose dissertation research requires use
of the library's collections to apply for research support. Grants of up to
$3,000 will be given on a competitive basis. Applicants must have advanced to
candidacy in a doctoral program in a relevant field and have an approved
dissertation topic.
Questions? Contact slgrants@radcliffe.harvard.edu
2021 Julian Pleasants
Oral History Travel Award
This award is
designed for applicants whose oral history work would benefit from access to
the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program’s 8,000+ archive of interviews in the
University of Florida Digital Collections housed at George A. Smathers
Libraries, https://ufdc.ufl.edu/oral. Preference will be given to applicants working in one or more of the
following areas: African American
history, Native American History, Women’s History, Latinx Studies, labor,
military veterans, social movements or environmental studies. The Pleasants
Award comes with a $2,000 dollar stipend, and research guidance into SPOHP’s
oral history collections. Applicants are encouraged to conduct their research
remotely during the Global Pandemic.
Deadline for
Application: March 15, 2021
For more
information, contact Paul Ortiz, portiz@ufl.edu
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Assistant or Associate Professor in Critical Race Studies
https://jobs.gmu.edu/postings/49044
The George Mason University College of Humanities and Social
Sciences (CHSS) invites applications for an interdisciplinary full-time,
tenure-line position (assistant or associate level) with a research and
teaching specialty in critical race studies, and an emphasis on how race and
racialization interact with other forms of socially constructed identities,
including but not limited to, gender, sexuality, class, and disability. We seek
applicants whose work addresses such matters as environmental racism;
connections between racial formations and capitalism; indigeneity; blackness
and the afterlives of slavery; whiteness, colonialism, and decolonization;
neoliberalism; or the prison-industrial complex. Disciplinary training is open.
Review of applications will begin January 5, 2021.
Lecturer in Women’s,
Gender, and Environmental Studies
https://careers.utrgv.edu/postings/26430
The School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community
Engagement (SIPCE) invites applications for a Lecturer I (3YR) position in
Gender and Women’s Studies, with secondary or combined expertise in
Environmental Studies. Preferred areas of expertise should include one or any
combination of the following fields, but not limited to: gender and the
environment, gender and environmental justice, the impact of environmental
changes on marginalized populations, eco-feminism, feminist theories,
sexuality/LGBTQIA+ studies, queer theory, critical race theory, ethnic studies,
and indigenous studies. While the geographical focus is open, SIPCE is
particularly interested in scholars with regional expertise in borderlands,
Latin America/Caribbean, North America, Africa, and/or the Middle East.
The main responsibilities of the person hired for this
position will be to teach undergraduate courses, including Introduction to
Gender Studies and Introduction to Environmental Studies. There may also be an
opportunity to develop and teach upper level electives in the successful
candidate’s areas of expertise.
Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, focus
in queer studies and studies of gender and sexuality
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60838
The American Studies Department at Occidental College
invites applicants for a full time, non-tenure track Visiting Assistant
Professor Position for 2021-2022. We seek a candidate familiar with the
interdisciplinary methods of American Studies with a focus in queer studies and
studies of gender and sexuality. Desired secondary specializations include
teaching/research experience in any area of American ethnic studies and/or
cultural studies.
All materials are due no later than February 8, 2021. Candidates
should send an electronic file of their materials to AMSTNTT2021@oxy.edu.
URL: https://www.oxy.edu/academics/areas-study/american-studies
Post Doctoral Fellowship, American Studies
https://staffjobs.ua.edu/en-us/job/511926/postdocvisiting-scientist-american-studies-ams-511926
Under the direction of a senior faculty member who serves as
a mentor for the postdoctoral appointee, The Postdoctoral Fellow provides for
an internship and continuation of scholarly activity and research after
achieving the Ph.D. or other doctoral degree. Postdoctoral Research Associate
positions available to persons with degrees and research interests within
American Studies with the goal of transitioning successful candidates into
tenure-track positions at the University of Alabama's College of Arts &
Sciences.
Deadline: January 31, 2021
University of Connecticut, Humanities Institute, Visiting
Scholar Fellowship
https://apply.interfolio.com/81901
During this time of global change and uncertainty, UCHI
seeks to mobilize the humanities as a revitalizing force for our academic
communities, national conversations, and global commitments. Fellows enjoy the
full use of UConn’s research facilities, museums, archives, and special
collections, as well as easy access to Hartford, Boston, and New York City. In sum,
UCHI fosters a rich intellectual environment for scholars to create, connect,
and recommit to the urgency of the humanities. Fellowships are open to
humanities researchers, including professors, independent scholars, writers,
and museum and library professionals. Applicants whose research engages with
the nature, meaning, or artistic expression of truth—which are the themes of
UCHI’s ongoing Henry Luce Foundation-funded Future of Truth project—are
encouraged to apply.
Application materials must be received by February 1, 2021.
Email: uchi@uconn.edu
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of History
https://joblink.jmu.edu/postings/8052
The Department of History at James Madison University
invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of history with a
specialization in Latina/o – Latinx history and the dynamics of shifting
boundaries of race and ethnicity in the United States. The department
especially welcomes applicants whose research and teaching focus on gender and
sexuality and/or migration. The successful candidate will teach courses in
large and small classroom settings that serve general education, American
Studies, the history major, interdisciplinary minors and the department’s MA
program.
No deadline listed
URL: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60807
Assistant Professor, Race and Health in the United States
and/or African diaspora
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60874
The College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Virginia is launching a new faculty hiring initiative devoted to
Race, Justice and Equity. As part of this newest initiative, the Carter G.
Woodson Institute and Department of African American and African Studies
invites applications for an assistant professorship specializing in the study
of race and health in the United States and/or African diaspora, with a start
date in the fall of 2021. We seek candidates whose research and teaching focus
on racial disparities in health care, health outcomes, and life expectancy,
and/or address the historical, social, political, and economic experiences of
persons of color within health and medicine. We invite applications from across
the range of humanities and social science disciplines.
We will begin to review applications on January 25, 2021.
Apply online at https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs:
search for posting # R0020751
email: awk6n@virginia.edu.;
nr7f@virginia.edu
Tenure, Tenure Track, Associate or Full professor in the
history of Democracy, Women, Gender, and Sexuality
The University of Virginia Department of History seeks to
appoint scholars whose primary research is focused on the study of democracy,
either to advance the work of the core lab on the history and principles of
democracy or contribute to one of the Initiative’s other projects. The
department invites applicants from scholars with expertise in one of the
following areas: with the support of the Mellon Foundation, democracy and
gender in a global, historical perspective; with the support of the John L. Nau
Foundation, democracy, citizenship, and immigration. These searches will
continue until the positions are filled.
Review of applications will begin on January 11, 2021.
Apply online at https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs
search for requisition #R0020084
email: kkg2u@virginia.edu;
nr7f@virginia.edu
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Bodies, Transnationalism and Affect in Recent Hispanic
Poetry
Studies in Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature announces
the publication of issue 45.1 (2021) with a Special Focus Section on Bodies, Transnationalism
and Affect in Recent Hispanic Poetry—All articles available at https://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/. Join us for a panel discussion of the new
issue on Jan 15, 2021 02:00 PM Central Time.
Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://ksu.zoom.us/j/95255782403
Contact Email: kantonioli@ksu.edu
Pandemic
Perspectives: Material Culture and History
https://americanhistory.si.edu/pandemic-perspectives
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History - Tuesday
Colloquium – Jan 5-Mar 2
Join curators and historians for an engaging series of panel
discussions 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.
Gender and the Early
Video Game Industry in the United States
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4916076074516/WN_cJGb-tpWSpGpgn9uCbWzmA
Jan 13, 2021 11:00 AM in Eastern Time
What role did women play in the Gaming Industry in the US
and how has this role changed? Author Anne McDivitt gives a short introduction
to her book Hot Tubs and Pac-Man and
her findings about gender and the early video game industry in the US
(1950s-1980s).
Contact Email: rabea.rittgerodt@degruyter.com
Creative Women, Creative Business: Feminist Publishing,
Design and Comix
Jan. 13-15, 2021
A free, three-day
mini-festival showcasing the past, present and future of feminist publishing
and creativity. Join us for a series of practical workshops and talks on
creative feminisms in the marketplace, featuring Virago chair Lennie Goodings,
Dialogue Books publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, Crystal Mahey-Morgan from Own It!
literary agency, Kate Macdonald of Handheld Press, Sofia Niazi from One of My
Kind, comic artist and Laydeez do Comics founder Nicola Streeten and many other
inspirational women creatives.
Contact Email: e.careless@sussex.ac.uk
"Research Redesign in the Covid Context"
Dissertation Workshop
https://ceaps.illinois.edu/DissertationWorkshop2021
February 24-25, 2021,
5-8 pm CST
The theme of this dissertation workshop is “Research
redesign in the context of the Covid pandemic.” Everyone who relies on archival
work or fieldwork in international locations by now realizes that they must adjust
their plans and goals in order to continue an active research life. This
workshop is intended to bring together doctoral students, regardless of
citizenship, in the humanities and social sciences who are (1) developing
dissertation proposals or are in the early phases of research or dissertation
writing; and who are (2) planning, conducting, or are in the early phases of
writing up dissertation research. The workshop will be limited to 12 students,
ideally from a broad array of disciplines and working on a wide variety of
materials and in various regions of Asia. It also will include a small
multidisciplinary and multi-area faculty with similar interests.
Application Deadline: Friday, January 15, 2021
Contact Yuchia Chang at yuchia@illinois.edu or Misumi Sadler
at sadlerm@illinois.edu
Restitution and Memorialization
in the Shadow of Decolonization – Roundtable
January 29, 15h00-17h00 (GMT)
The disparate use of the umbrella terms decolonization and
reparations poses the risk of writing off Black histories of resistance and overcoming.
This is specially the case when international organizations such as the UNESCO
and ICOM co-opt current debates about restitution and memorialization into
their institutional agendas. In contrast to what their re-search reports
suggest, claims for freedom and compensation for enslavement predate modern
abolitionism, and demands for the restitution of looted artefacts and stolen
lands were coterminous with military colonialism. At the same time, cultural
critics have begun to overlook that the #RhodesMustFall movement preceded the
latest iconoclastic protests in the US and Europe. In the face of this triple
erasure, this roundtable will discuss the rele-vance of past claims to inform
ongoing discussions concerning the politics of memory and memorialization.
Contact Email: mariaelenaindelicato@ces.uc.pt
Digital Humanities & Gender History
https://www.gw.uni-jena.de/digitalgenderhistory
5 Feb., 12 Feb., 19 Feb. and 26 Feb, .2021, 4 - 8 p.m. CET
The conference aims to address gender-historical aspects of
the history of the digital and the digital humanities as well as the
application of digital methods and research workflows for gender-historical
questions. The conference will examine the gender-historical implications of
digital methods, tools and projects as well as the possibilities and limitations,
added values and challenges that digital methods offer for the study of gender
history.
To receive access, please register for the event at pia.sybille.marzell@uni-jena.de.
Critical Conversations
on Reproductive Health/Care: Past, Present, and Future
https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/reproductive-health-care-past-present-and-future
Online Conference, February 3-7, 2021
The conference will bring together clinicians, scholars, and
advocates to address key issues in the history and practice of reproductive
medicine. Scholars from across disciplines at the Johns Hopkins University and
School of Medicine are organizing a conference that will bring together
historians, anthropologists, pregnancy caregivers, artists, activists, and
journalists to address key issues in the history of reproduction and the
practice of reproductive medicine. We are particularly interested in how
reproductions intersect with phenomena such as, but not limited to: midwifery,
parenting, and kinship-making; trauma in obstetric and abortion care; obstetric
racism in the past and present; colonialism, migration, and displacement; and
incarceration and detention.
RESOURCES
Capitalism
and the Senses
https://www.hagley.org/research/conference/2020-fall-conference
Presentations delivered at the
“Capitalism and the Senses” in November 2020 are now online--this conference,
organized by the Hagley Museum and Library explored the sensory history of
capitalism—the ways that seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching have
shaped, and been shaped by, capitalist processes and social relations.
Collectively the papers stress how capitalism has drawn on the embodied power
of the senses and, in turn, influenced how sensory experience has developed.
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