CONFERENCES
Call for Abstracts in Cultural Geography
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7169872/call-abstracts-cultural-geography
Friday-Sunday, 7-10 October 2021, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Seeking proposals for short presentations (10-20 minutes) of research related to cultural geography. This can take the form of anthropological case studies, political narratives, creative responses to place, GIS studies, refugee and immigration information, &c. Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation) to the Cultural Geography Area on the Submissions website (submissions.mpcaaca.org).
Contact Email: alastriapress@gmail.com
URL: https://alastriapress.wordpress.com/call-for-proposals/
Outcasts and Outliers in Literature, Music, and Visual Arts
https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/complit/comparative-literature-conference-outcasts-and-outliers/
Annual Comparative Literature Conference, Wednesday and Thursday, April 7-8, 2021—virtual
This conference will focus on examining and interrogating the notions of outcasts and outliers of literature, music, and the visual arts. That may mean attention to little-known texts, genres that are not typically addressed in a Comparative Literature context, characters and communities pushed into the margins, and the notion of marginality itself. We encourage papers centering the perspectives of Black, indigenous and racialized people of color and other marginalized communities.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words (not including optional bibliography) should be submitted by February 15, 2021.
email: comparativeworldliterature@gmail.com
In the Wake of Red Power Movements. New Perspectives on Indigenous Intellectual and Narrative Traditions
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/calendar/in-the-wake
This symposium explores North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions that were recovered, reclaimed, or (re-)invented in the wake of Red Power movements that emerged in the 1960s in the settler colonial societies of Canada and the USA. It asks: which new perspectives and visions have been developed over the last 50 years within Indigenous studies and related fields when looking at Indigenous land and land rights, Indigenous political and social sovereignty, extractivism and environmental destruction, oppressive sex/gender systems, and for describing the repercussions of settler colonialism in North America, especially in narrative representations?
Please send your proposals (max. 300 words) plus a short bio (max. 150 words) to in_the_wake@outlook.com by March 30, 2021.
Cultural Identities in a Global World: Reframing Hybridity
https://www.uni-giessen.de/faculties/gcsc/newsboard/cfp-cultural-identities-in-a-global-world-1
Online Interdisciplinary Laboratory-Conference, June 24-25, 2021
We aim to explore new ways to overcome the essentialization and commodification of cultural hybridity that has been taking place in the last decades in the global world. In this way, we encourage new meanings, action-oriented concepts in a broader discussion about localization, translation and digitalization of cultural identities in our interconnected global world. Our approach stresses how the genealogy of hybridity proves its fecundity in understanding the construction of cultural identities. In this sense, we see hybridity as a cultural artefact and a (still) useful analytical tool in the study of culture.
Send their abstracts for contributions (max. 300 words with a short biographical statement) no later than the 1st of March 2021 to Clara.Verri and Laura.Popa.
Moving Stories
https://www.oralhistory.org/2021/02/01/2021-call-for-proposals-is-now-open/
2021 Oral History Association Annual Meeting: October 13-17, 2021
For submission inquiries or more information, contact: Faith Bagley, Program Associate, 615-898-2544, oha@oralhistory.org
Mobilization, Interaction, Contention: Relations Between NGOs/Civil Society and States in Times of Covid-19 An Interdisciplinary Workshop
23, 38, and 30 June 2021
We welcome submissions from scholars who wish to develop publishable papers based on empirical research and theoretical analysis. Our aim is to include a diverse yet comparable set of geopolitical contexts, drawing from disciplines such as Law, Geography, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Media, Medical Humanities, Social Work, Criminology, and Business Management. We also encourage applications from NGO/state/civil society professionals, activists, artists, and journalists – abstracts should clearly indicate whether the perspective submitted is research and/or experience based, and can offer insightful analysis.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 01 March 2021.
Questions and inquiries should be sent to the conference organizers:
Katharina Konarek - kkonarek@staff.haifa.ac.il
Omri Grinberg - o.grinberg@mail.utoronto.ca
Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century
23-24 June, 2021
The purpose of this workshop is to draw together the latest advances on ‘socialist space’ – broadly conceived – from different arms of historical research. With a particular emphasis on transnational and international approaches to the twentieth century history of socialist space, the workshop will reflect on how developments in the field over the past two decades have altered our understanding of how such spaces were constructed (both literally and discursively), how they could become sites of contested meanings, and how they were perceived outside the socialist world. In particular, the workshop will be concerned with how scholarly approaches associated with postcolonialism, global history, gender history, and the ‘temporal’ and ‘sensory’ turns have reconfigured our understandings of the twentieth century history of socialist space.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words, along with a short CV, by 31 March to rethinkingsocialistspace@gmail.com.
PUBLICATIONS
Landscape Planning, Sustainability and Diversity in Human-Nature interactions
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/landscape_sustain
This Special Issue of the Journal Diversity aims to present an up-to-date overview of environmental sustainability and diversity in human– nature interactions from a broad and interdisciplinary perspective by bringing together conceptual, epistemological, methodological, and mainly case-based studies or applied perspectives.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 November 2021.
Contact Email: diversity@mdpi.com
Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature
Chapter proposals are invited for The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature. Each chapter will provide a comprehensive survey and analysis of a clearly defined topic at the interface of literature and ecofeminism, with chapters grouped into three parts: a review and analysis of ecofeminism in the literatures of a diverse sample of languages; core issues and topics that guide contemporary ecofeminist literary theory and criticism; wide-ranging literary genres through an ecofeminist lens.
Interested authors should send a 300- to 500-word abstract, 200-word biography, and sample of a previously published chapter or article to Dr. Douglas Vakoch at dvakoch@ciis.edu by March 25, 2021.
Podcasting to Disassemble the Patriarchy
https://www.adriennetrier-bieniek.com/cfp
Edited Book Proposal by: Adrienne Trier-Bieniek
This proposed edited collection serves as one of the first texts combining the media of podcasting, in general, and the layered ways gender inequality plays a role in podcasts. Feminist approaches to pop culture have consistently asserted that women’s lives and experiences are systematically placed to the margins of media.
Abstracts emailed to adrienne.mtb@gmail.com will be accepted until March 1st.
ART AND RESILIENCE
https://polkmuseumofart.org/jahms-about
In this call for papers, the Journal of Art History and Museum Studies (JAHMS) seeks essays exploring the theme of "Art and Resilience" applied broadly over time, media, and geography. This past year has been one of the most difficult years in recent human history and memory. People around the world have tried to cope with loss, illness, social and political upheaval, and fear on a scale comparable to major world wars, plagues, depressions, and natural disasters of the past. But, as in all times of trial and tragedy, people worldwide have also shown their resilience — their abilities to find light in the darkness — in the face of very little about which to feel resilient.
Submissions may be submitted to jahms.editors@gmail.com by March 7, 2021, at 11:59 pm EST
Post-Soul Afro-Latinidades
The editors of The Black Scholar welcome essays for a themed issue examining post-soul Afro-Latinidad literature, culture, and politics. “Post-Soul Afro-Latinidades” is a response to the increasing interest in and need for critical discussions of Afro-Latina/o/x subjectivity and culture in the post-segregation era. The guest editors seek articles that investigate the relationship between afro-latinidad and the post-soul aesthetic, a critical concept in African American studies.
For full consideration, complete articles must be submitted to TBS‘s homepage on Taylor & Francis no later than March 1st 2021. Manuscripts must not exceed 4,000 words.
Contact Email: masiki@bu.edu
URL: https://www.theblackscholar.org/call-for-papers/post-soul-afro-latinidades/
Rethinking intimacy: representations, scenes and scenarios of intimacy in women’s writing
https://vernonpress.com/proposal/50/829ea3469ba0213e213b8becc08d43f6
Vernon Press invites contributions to the volume entitled Rethinking intimacy: representations, scenes and scenarios of intimacy in women’s writing. The volume will be focusing on scenarios of intimacy, examining the role and influence of intimacy on the history of women’s reading and writing practices and more specifically question the way in which women, supposed to be actors in these scenarios, may have handled them. We will be exploring both recent developments in the area of intimacy in ecriture feminine, and the links between intimacy and the experience of homelanding to the feminist movement/emancipation.
Please send an abstract (250 words maximum) and 6-8 keywords to Assoc. Prof. Carmen Duțu, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest, carmen.dutu@ucdc.rom, by 24th February 2021.
Waste Now! Histories and Contemporalities of Discards
While a growing body of literature has studied the phenomenon in Europe and North America, the environmentally focused social sciences know little on the global history of waste and discards as well as the continuities and interconnectivities of the past and present of garbage in non-Western societies. This workshop and a subsequent edited book publication project with a reputable global academic press will look into and analyze the various past and current dynamics of the many forms and aspects of garbage globally, with a focus on areas and countries outside of the First World.
Submissions should include a 300 words abstract and short author CV and should be sent by March 28 to editors irisborowy@shu.edu.cn and viktor.pal@helsinki.fi
Political Imprisonments and Confinements
https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/call-for-papers/political-imprisonments-and-confinements/
Radical History Review seeks contributions for a special issue exploring degrees, types, and experiences of imprisonments and confinements throughout history, and the individuals, groups, and spaces involved in them. We recognize that all imprisonments are political, and that the reasons for incarceration or confinement vary widely across space, time, and context. For that reason, this issue explores the histories of individuals and groups who have faced imprisonment, confinement, exile, banishment, or internment, due to clashes with institutions or individuals in power and authority.
By September 1, 2021, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article you wish as a Word or PDF file attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Francis Johnson Fellowships
https://librarycompany.org/francis-johnson-fellowships
Calling all performing artists, musicians, actors, visual artists, and other creative scholars and practitioners! America's oldest cultural institution, the Library Company of Philadelphia welcomes applications for a new grant that seeks to critically and creatively engage our African American history collections. The Francis Johnson Fellowship will support two fellows—a humanities scholar and a creative practitioner—as they delve into the compositions of this vital early-nineteenth-century artist.
To apply, email a proposal (no more than 1000 words) plus a preliminary budget and timeline, resume or c.v., and one letter of reference to wfenton@librarycompany.org by March 1.
Research and Creative Fellowships
https://www.lamar.edu/arts-sciences/research-centers/center-for-history-and-culture/programs.html
The Center (CHC) seeks to support the creation, preservation, and transmission of knowledge about all aspects of life in Southeast Texas and along the Gulf Coast between Corpus Christi and Pensacola. Our fellowship program recognizes scholars, authors, and artists who have made or are making contributions to the broader understanding of our region. The CHC encourages applications from any discipline. We are especially interested in projects that consider our core geographic region within broader national, hemispheric, or global frameworks.
To receive full consideration, applications must be received on or before April 1.
Contact Email: bgillis@lamar.edu
Research Grant for Authors – Iowa History
https://iowaculture.gov/about-us/about/grants/research-grant-authors
The State Historical Society of Iowa will award up to fifteen research stipends of $1,000 each to support original research and interpretive writing related to the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest. Preference will be given to applicants proposing to pursue previously neglected topics or new approaches to or interpretations of previously treated topics.
Apply by April 15, 2020.
URL: https://iowaculture.gov/history/grants/research-grant-authors/grant-guidelines
2021 Beveridge Fellowship
https://friendsoffairsted.org/fellowship/call-for-entries/
Named in honor of the eminent Olmsted scholar and Series Editor of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, the Beveridge Fellowship seeks to connect students and professionals engaged in art or architectural history, landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, engineering, American studies, or related disciplines with the archival collections (Olmsted Archives) of Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.
Applications are due April 30, 2021
Contact Email: fellowship@friendsoffairsted.org
William L. Clements Library 2021-22 Research Fellowships
https://clements.umich.edu/research/fellowships/
The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan is accepting applications for research fellowships for the 2021-22 cycle. Specializing in pre-1900 American history and culture, the Clements Library's primary resources (books, manuscripts, prints, maps, photographs, and much more) support diverse research topics. Particular strengths include: graphic arts, gender and ethnicity, religion, the American Revolution, Native American history, slavery and antislavery, Atlantic history, the Caribbean, cartography, reform movements, travel and exploration, among others.
Applications are due by March 1, 2021,
email clements-fellowships@umich.edu for more information.
Research Fellowships at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
https://centerofthewest.org/research/fellowship-program/
Each year, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West offers a limited number of research stipends for promising and established visiting western scholars in our fellowship program. Scholars research, write, and develop ideas and manuscripts that expand the horizon of western studies. Fellows will be granted a stipend of $5000.
Applications are due March 31, 2021
email: terryh@centerofthewest.org
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Helmerich Center for American Research, Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow
https://apply.interfolio.com/75569
The University of Tulsa’s Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum seeks applications for its Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow. The center also holds a large Native American collection of manuscripts, photographs, maps, and rare books. While the Helmerich Center welcomes interdisciplinary applications from scholars with focus on any aspect of the history and cultures of the Americas, we highly encourage applications from candidates who wish to conduct research in the following thematic areas: Maps/Mapmaking in the Americas, Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous histories, Freedmen of the Five Tribes in Indian Territory, Spanish Colonial and Inquisition studies, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, or Charles Marion Russell’s life and work.
Applications will be accepted until March 31, 2021.
Any questions should be directed to alex-patterson@utulsa.edu.
Postdoctoral Associate for Global Racial Justice
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61021
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University (New Brunswick Center) and the School of Arts and Sciences, invite applications for the 2021-2023 Scarlet and Black Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Scholars engaged in the examination of the global dimensions of anti-Black racism and its impact upon the Americas (1580-to the present) are invited to apply. We are interested in research projects that examine the origins, evolution, impact and legacy of race, difference, and the modern quest for civil and human rights.
deadline for applications is March 15, 2021
https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/125504
Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Fellowship
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61051
The Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (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 Fall 2021 term from mid-September through mid-December 2021. While the fellowship will be remote, we strive to incorporate Fellows into the Yale University academic community. To accomplish this, we encourage Fellows to identify one or more potential Yale units beyond RITM with which they hope to engage.
Mar 31, 2021 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
URL: https://apply.interfolio.com/84239
Questions about the position can be directed to margaret.katz@yale.edu
2021 Virtual Summer Internships: Paid & at the National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/opportunities/interns-and-fellows/graduate/summer.html
Nine-week virtual summer internships provide opportunities to work on projects directed by a Gallery curator or department head. Biweekly museum seminars introduce interns to the broad spectrum of museum work, and to Gallery staff, departments, programs, and functions. Eligibility varies according to internship, but most are for undergraduates completing their degrees in May or June 2021, currently enrolled graduate students of all levels and those graduating in May or June 2021.
Interns receive a stipend of approximately $4,500 that is subject to all applicable taxes.
Deadline: February 28, 2021
Questions? contact Mattie Schloetzer m-schloetzer@nga.gov.
Associate Director for Collaborative Initiatives in Faculty Development
https://apptrkr.com/get_redirect.php?id=2134295
The CEILS Associate Director for Collaborative Initiatives in Faculty Development will be an expert in creating sustainable models for driving pedagogical improvement and instructional innovation among faculty and graduate students engaged in undergraduate education within the Humanities. Responsibilities comprise designing and implementing in-person and online programming and resources that prepare faculty and graduate students, including teaching assistants (TAs), to utilize evidence-based, inclusive teaching strategies shown to be effective in diverse classrooms.
The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in the Humanities or a related discipline and demonstrated ability to engage university faculty in activities surrounding teaching. Experience preferred in the areas of undergraduate and graduate education, instructional innovation/curriculum development, and promotion of student diversity, access, and retention in higher education.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Post Doctoral Associate in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/125478
Our postdoctoral fellowships provide focused support for both research and concrete engagement with global racial justice issues and campaigns. These humanities centered fellowships will support scholars whose academic research demonstrates a deep investment in the areas of inquiry related to anti-racism and social inequality, at home and abroad.
All application materials are due by March 15, 2021. For further inquiries and information about applying to the fellowship, please write to isgrj@oq.rutgers.edu.
Call for New Members - Gender & History Editorial Collective
The journal Gender & History is recruiting new members to its editorial collective. The editorial collective is the journal's ultimate decision-making body and sets the intellectual direction of the journal and its special issues and associated events. Collective members will be asked to coordinate manuscripts through the reviewing process, act as reviewers, and offer intellectual input at collective meetings (two per year, with the option of virtual attendance where meetings are in person).
To apply, please send a two-page CV and a brief statement (max 400 words) explaining your suitability for collective membership to genderandhistory@sheffield.ac.uk by 31 March 2021.
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14680424
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Queering Authoritarianisms: Conflict, Resistance, and Coloniality
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29301
22 March 2021 - 26 March 2021
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars and activists working on and campaigning against authoritarianisms and right-wing attacks on democracy through a queer perspective. By queering authoritarianisms, we mean making visible LGBTIQ+ lives and politics which resist authoritarian and undemocratic politics. In the workshops, for example, we will discuss the politics of writing amidst conflict. In panels, such as ‘decolonising sexualities’, we will explore the intertwined nature of politics, coloniality, and sexualities. All in all, we are thoroughly excited to be organising this conference!
Free and open to the public.
Teaching WGSS Online in the Time of COVID: Lessons Learned So Far
https://secure.everyaction.com/E2RnPWYNO0iV23pmU-H8jA2
Friday, February 26, 2021, 9am – 12 noon PT
Workshop Objectives:
Reflect on our pandemic teaching experiences
Share what worked (and what didn't!) in online course design and feminist pedagogy
Engage students with digital resources, assignments and social media
Address structural inequality in and beyond the online classroom
Event fee: $10 - $40. Please RSVP by Monday, February 22!
For more information and scholarships, please email Karon Jolna, Ms. Classroom at kjolna@msmagazine.com.
Transformative Learning in the Humanities – Events
These events cover a wide range of topics related to the humanities, focusing primarily on pedagogy, such as “Black Love as Pedagogical Principle” (Friday, February 26 @ 1 – 2 PM) and “Voicing Poverty and Creating a New Interdisciplinary Humanities Curriculum: A Workshop & Info-Session” (Friday, March 5 @ 11 AM – 1 PM).
NYPL Events
The New York Public Library offers 93,000 free programs a year across its 92 locations, from author talks and performances to exhibitions. Meet your favorite author, hear a live concert, or find something new at the Library.
History and Theory of Photography Virtual Event
https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-CrqjktH917aWHv2ttGljKsJigh7z9b
April 2, 2021, 12:30 – 5:30pm Eastern Time
This event will feature presentations by four Ph.D. candidates who are working on dissertation topics in which photography—its histories and theories—play a central role. Presenters will share a chapter or a section from their dissertation, along with an account of how that chapter/section fits within their larger project. The presentation format involves a formal 25-minute presentation followed by 25 minutes of discussion. The Developing Room invites a large audience of faculty and students in order to ensure a rich conversation and to build a constituency from which papers can be drawn in subsequent years. In the last three years, our event has brought together an international group of researchers working across a wide range of topics related to photography.
Contact Email: maria.garth@rutgers.edu
In Her Own Right: A Century of Women's Activism, 1820-1920
March 18-19, 2021
The Philadelphia Area Consortium for Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) and In Her Own Right project team invite you to join us in exploring a century of women’s activism leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment. The symposium celebrates more than 5 years of work on the In Her Own Right project.
Black Toys and Toymakers: The Story of Shindana Toys
https://www.museumofplay.org/calendar/shindana-toys
February 26, 1:00 PM (EST)
In 2020, The Strong inducted Baby Nancy into its National Toy Hall of Fame. Crafted with Black children in mind, Baby Nancy is the first Black doll that found mass popularity at home and abroad. Learn about Shindana Toys—the Black-owned company behind the groundbreaking doll—at a special, virtual discussion with a panel of experts on its history and significance. Hosted by The Strong’s Christopher Bensch, the 40-minute discussion will delve into the story of Shindana Toys’ creation and evolution, their role in the community, their products, and examples of Black entrepreneurship. It will be followed by a question-and-answer session.
Making Abolition Geographies—Roundtable discussion
https://www.facebook.com/events/715753155982818/
Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 6:30 PM CST – 7:30 PM CST
Moderator 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. 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).
URL: https://simpsoncenter.org/programs/lecture-3-ruth-wilson-gilmore
Berkeley Institute for the Study of Social Issues—Spring 2021 events
https://issi.berkeley.edu/events
Decolonizing Epistemology: A Conversation with Latinx Philosophers
Thursday, February 18 | 3:30 - 5:00pm PT
Book Release: Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities (2020)
Thursday, March 4 | 3:30 - 5:00pm PT
Decolonizing Indigenous Migration: Violence, Settler Capitalism, Gender and Law
Monday, April 5 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PT
Archives of Conjure (2020): Healing Materialities and Race
Thursday, April 8 | 5:00 - 7:00pm PT
Archives of Conjure (2020): Healing Materialities and Race
Thursday, April 8 | 5:00 - 7:00pm PT
Making African America: A Virtual Symposium on Immigration and the Changing Dynamics of Blackness
https://nmaahc.si.edu/making-african-america
March 5-6, March 12-13, March 19-20
The Making African America symposium brings together scholars, journalists, activists, curators, filmmakers and writers to discuss how immigration has shaped and is continuing to reshape what it means to be Black in the United States. The conference will be held over 3 consecutive weekends in March. Panel topics include Civil and Labor Rights, Transnational Ties, Artistic Encounters, Constructions of Blackness, representations of the Black Immigrant experience in film/literature/cultural institutions, and so much more. This conference will speak to the wide variety of historic and contemporary experiences that come from the intersection of African Americans and American Africans.
The symposium is free, though registration is required.
Contact Email: globalmigration@umd.edu
