CONFERENCES
Witness and “Withness”
Memphis Tennessee, January 27-30, 2022
The Southern Humanities Conference invites proposals for
papers on any aspect of the theme “Witness and ‘Withness.’” The topic is
interdisciplinary and invites proposals from all disciplines and areas of
study, as well as creative pieces including but not limited to performance,
music, art, and literature. Please note that the name of our organization simply
reflects its having been founded in the U.S. south; no presenter is expected to
present anything “southern,” though southern topics are also welcomed.
Conference attendees come from all over the United States, Canada, as well as
overseas.
Please submit proposals of 300-500 words through our website
at www.southernhumanities.org
(preferred) by December 15, 2020.
email: Brett Bebber at southernhumanities@gmail.com.
Masking the Crisis:
Social Movements, Street Politics, and the Political Process
https://www.facebook.com/theUDC/posts/3472131742835637
June 23-25, 2021
At this conference we will discuss the politics of “masking”
and “unmasking” in relation to our broader political, economic, and media
crises. The fracturing of the Liberal project--exhausted by the contradictions
and failures of neoliberalism--has unmasked our dire political straits, as
denial becomes dogma and science is rejected in favor of bravado. While the
past years have seen an inspiring rise in social movements, we risk being
“masked” by the Biden effect, placated as part of a larger “progressive” bloc
while the crises that brought us to the brink of authoritarianism continue to
manifest.
Deadline for Submissions: April 1, 2021
Link to Submit: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=udc2021
On Coloniality and
Colonialism: postcolonial and decolonial studies in dialogue
This session is a special session of the 2021 MMLA
Convention “Cultures of Collectivity”, currently scheduled to take place
November 4-7, 2021 in Milwaukee, WI. This panel is inspired by ongoing
discussions regarding the continued relevancy of postcolonial studies before
the greater push towards epistemic diversity. In attempting to broaden the
scope of postcolonial studies, this panel solicits propositions that look at
the many ways in which the postcolonial imaginary can be reinterpreted and
applied to the larger question of coloniality from 1492 to the present day.
Please submit a 300-word abstract, short biography and AV
requests to Eric Wistrom at wistrom@wisc.edu by May 1,
2021.
Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
https://epidemicsandothering.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
October 1-2, 2021
This symposium provides a forum specifically for the study
of the sociocultural developments that lead to “Othering” in situations of a
perceived crisis. Aiming at bringing together multi- and interdisciplinary,
scholarly approaches to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we invite papers that examine
the processes of “Othering” in relation to a long human history of epidemics
and pandemics and the myriad social, political, philosophical, medical,
artistic, literary, filmic, and poetic representations and reactions that have
produced and/or challenged such Othering dynamics.
Please send 300 to 500 word abstracts (in PDF format) of
proposed 15 to 20 minute papers to epidemics-and-othering@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
by April 30th, 2021.
EnGender Conference 2021
https://engenderacademia.wordpress.com/conference-2021/
En-Gender will have its first conference in 2021!
EnGender2021 will take place from 4th to 6th of August 2021. It will be
conducted online and be made available to join from various time zones. We want
you to become part of an amazing interdisciplinary and international community
of gender researchers. In order to do so, we will be holding presentations and
discussions in English, Spanish, German and French in order to encourage
diverse research and collaboration.
Interested in presenting in one or more of the parts? Fill
out the Google Form below by 30th April:
https://forms.gle/8jsr6Zgx7tT4fmJJ9
email: engenderingthepast@gmail.com
HEALTH, EQUITY, and PEACEBUILDING: Creating Healthy and
Inclusive Communities
https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/2021-call-for-proposals/
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, OCTOBER 7-10, 2021
The roots of health disparities stretch back in history with
colonization practices and are laid bare again by COVID19. The rawness of our
recent crisis provides an important opportunity to explore the depth of health
hierarchies. Importantly, it also energizes our recognition of the urgent need
for change. Through papers, plenaries, and performances, we will explore the
critical barriers and opportunities to address public health crisis points such
as racism, economic disparity, social determinants of health, and gendered
violence among other examples of systemic inequalities. Central to our
discussions will be the thirst for innovative change and the centering of
excluded and silenced voices.
Proposal Submission
Deadline: April 23, 2021
For more information, contact info@peacejusticestudies.org
or visit https://www.peacejusticestudies.org.
Reciprocity
https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/6e52918e-ce24-4803-bca7-29ce18098445
October 27-30, 2021
The conference theme—Reciprocity—both responds to and, more
importantly, resists the alienating social effects of the pandemic, as well as
other contemporary structural, institutional, geopolitical, economic, and
planetary forms of estrangement. Working together in and against a global
climate of pervasive dividedness and isolation, the conference theme reflects
instead the priorities of collective struggle, abolitionist self-care, mutual
aid, love, and the creation—or reconstruction—of resistant forms of
infrastructure that animate the contemporary arts worldwide.
MAY 15, 2021: Seminar topics due via e-mail – asap12.conference@gmail.com
Questions may be addressed to asap12.conference@gmail.com
Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute:
"Reimagining Our Future”
https://blogs.newschool.edu/tcds/democracy-diversity-institute-2021/
July 6-20, 2021
This summer we offer three intensive graduate seminars,
which — along with distinguished guests’ talks, evening conversations, and
micro-events — are designed to explore issues of social justice and the
widespread dismantling of democracy and to illuminate the emergence of new
social actors. Each interdisciplinary, comparative, and interactive course
offers the equivalent of semester-length credits at the New School for Social
Research. As with our regular on-site, in-person Institutes, even under this
year’s exceptional circumstances we intend above all to create a community of
civic-minded junior scholars that will be sustained well after the completion
of the institute itself as part of a growing and thriving transregional
network.
Contact Email: tcds@newschool.edu
#spoiltheconference –
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Spoilers
https://www.isek.uzh.ch/de/popul%C3%A4rekulturen/veranstaltungen/2022cfp.html
18 & 19 March 2022, University of Zurich
#spoiltheconference, jointly organised by the Department of
Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies and the Department of Film Studies at
the University of Zurich, is the first international conference on spoilers.
Since spoilers touch on a wide variety of fields, our goal is to host a fundamentally
interdisciplinary event. We strive for fruitful exchange between the
disciplines, and therefore emphatically invite proposals from literature, film,
media, and game studies, as well as from reception and fan studies, and
psychology or sociology.
Please e-mail us your 300–500 word abstract,
accompanied by a short CV, to spoiltheconference@isek.uzh.ch by
30 June 2021.
PUBLICATIONS
Teaching Girlhood
Studies
Girlhood Studies, as
an academic discipline, is still growing. Since some educational institutions
do include girls’ studies as part of a special curriculum, an academic program,
a certificate course, a minor, or as part of Women’s Studies or Gender Studies,
Girlhood Studies does have a presence in academia although at this stage rarely
in an autonomous department. The key questions that inform this special issue
build on those that informed the creation of this journal: “What is girlhood
studies”? How do we do girlhood studies? What is the relationship between
women’s studies and girlhood studies? What is the relationship between girlhood
studies and boyhood and masculinity studies?”
Abstracts are due by
15 October 2021 and should be sent to teachinggirlhoodstudies@gmail.com
URL: journals.berghahnbooks.com/_uploads/ghs/GHS_cfp_TeachingGirlhoodStudies.pdf
Black Girls in Space:
Locating the Geographies of Black Girlhoods
journals.berghahnbooks.com/_uploads/ghs/GHS_cfp_BlackGirlsinSpace.pdf
Research irradiating
Black girls’ schooling and educative experiences is increasing; however, the
construction of Black girlhood itself is rarely robustly theorized and/or
articulated as contested beyond topical references to fixed notions of race and
gender. This special issue explores the experiences of Black school-aged girls
(or schoolgirls) as situated in specific geographical, environmental,
sociohistorical, and cultural spaces and places. In this special issue,
geography will be employed as a wide lens useful for magnifying the role of
environments as well as social, cultural, economic, and human resources in the
experiences of Black school-aged girls (or schoolgirls).
Abstracts are due by
30 November 2020
email: blackgirlhoods@gmail.com
Female Fighters in
diverse world regions and organizations
Although the sheer
number of women participating in combat units and armed battle all over the
world has been steadily increasing since World War II, academic research has
been hesitant to investigate the manifold aspects of this phenomenon until
recently. But a development of this dimension needs much more thorough research
by cultural and area studies than has been carried out to date. Our aim is to
come up with an innovative and interdisciplinary volume on women in combat
units, or otherwise actively engaged in armed battle, in several world regions,
organizations, and time periods. The perspective of the women themselves is of
particular importance to us.
Black Lives
Matter--Lessons from the Harlem Renaissance
I am inviting
chapter proposals for an edited volume tentatively titled Black Lives Matter:
Lessons from the Harlem Renaissance that will probe the literature of the
Harlem Renaissance era in light of the Black Lives Matter Movement of the
present day. Scholars who are interested in participating in this project are
asked to consider the following questions, among others: What insights do the
authors of the New Negro Movement, often referred to as the Harlem Renaissance,
provide into the stigmatization and stereotyping of Blackness that are in many
ways the root causes of racial discrimination and violence across time? What
insights do authors of this period provide into racial pain and the
longstanding impact on the Black community? How do authors of the Harlem
Renaissance use their texts to record the systems of violence against Blacks
and to hold accountable, if they do at all, those who have contributed to the
subsequent racial trauma and pain? How can educators use the texts of the
Harlem Renaissance to promote meaningful conversations in the classroom (and
beyond) regarding anti-Black violence and oppression as well as antiracism?
Send proposals to Dr.
Christopher Allen Varlack, at varlackc@arcadia.edu by Friday, June 4, 2021.
Energy Justice -
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Energy justice is a
relatively new concept as compared to environmental justice; first and
foremost, energy justice is characterized as a certain tool for the
policymaking process that seeks to identify when and where injustices occur and
how to identify them. Energy justice is a transdisciplinary research agenda
that has already received notable scholarly attention in such academic fields
as law, philosophy, international relations, public administration,
international development, politics, government, and (environmental) economics.
We seek contributions that discuss energy justice and climate change mitigation
and adaptation from various angles. This interdisciplinary edited volume is
under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. By April 5, please send your CV
and abstract to co-editors: Dr. Elena Shabliy eshabliy@tulane.edu and/or Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochkin@fas.harvard.edu.
Post-Normative?
This special issue
of South Atlantic Review, the journal of the South Atlantic Modern
Language Association (SAMLA), seeks to explore the possibilities of going
“post-normative” as a method of radical queer theorizing and practice. Our
preference for the “post” prefix gives queerness a number of potential
definitions in relation to Warner’s “regimes of the normal.” Is queerness in
excess of or somehow beyond whatever is deemed “normal”? Does queerness, to
think with José Esteban Muñoz, come after the normal “here and now”? Is
“normativity” as a term of socially routine behavior becoming—as a Vice article
(https://www.vice.com/en/article/avy9vz/can-straight-people-be-queer-435) asks—something of the past? Through the
investigating of these (and more) questions, this issue attempts to theorize
what queerness offers (what forms it takes, what types of being it makes
possible) in the wake of normativity.
Prospective contributors should submit <500-word
abstracts to Horacio Sierra (hsierra@bowiestate.edu)
& Austin Svedjan (asvedj1@lsu.edu)
with “Post-Normative Submission” in the subject line by June 15, 2021.
Posthuman Drag
Is drag separable
from gender? A preponderance of self-described "drag things" (versus
drag kings and queens) specializing in performances of non-human entities and
appearing everywhere from stages in local gay bars to digital platforms like
Instagram and YouTube would suggest so; however, when we speak of drag in
academic literature, we hew closely to notions of drag as demonstrating gender
performativity above all else. This collection therefore seeks to theorize a
previously underrepresented form of drag performance that does not necessarily
play with gender so much as it plays with humanness:We call this
"posthuman drag."
If you are
interested in contributing to this collection, please send a 250-300
word abstract, a proposed chapter title, and a short bio-note
(100 words) as an email-attachment to posthumandrag@gmail.com by April 5, 2021.
PEDAGOGY: Literature,
Linguistics, & Digital Tools
https://vernonpress.com/proposal/152/54596884c621f92eb64932ba5d98a20b
We are seeking
papers for a volume of essays with a focus on an international range of
pedagogical interventions in the teaching of literature with a focus on
language and the use of digital tools.
The study of literature has taken many turns since New Criticism of the
early 20th century—Psychoanalytic, Marxist, Semiotics, Structuralism,
Deconstruction, New Historicism, Post-Colonial, Feminist, Queer, and Critical
Race. All these various theories
nonetheless rest on a foundation of meticulous careful reading, or playful
misreading. That is to say, whatever one is looking for in literary texts, or
whatever frame one is looking through, we begin with the language of those
works. The digital tools that are now part of our reading armamentarium give us
powerful new ways to see texts and to see into them. And that, in turn, means
we have new ways to help students of literature understand and respond to texts.
To submit: please
email the editors an abstract of 250 words, a brief bibliography of 5-10 key
sources, and a brief biography of 100 words to Martin Gliserman (gliserma@english.rutgers.edu); Marcello Giovanelli (m.giovanelli@aston.ac.uk); Carly Overfelt (carlyoverfelt@oakland.edu)
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Medical Heritage Library fellowships
Fellowship for
Disability Studies
http://www.medicalheritage.org/jaipreet-virdi-2021-fellowship-for-disability-studies/
The Medical Heritage
Library seeks a motivated fellow to assist in the continuing development of our
education and outreach programs. Under the guidance of a member of our
governance board, the fellow will develop curated collections or sets for the
MHL website on the topic of disability and medical technologies. Examples of
existing primary source sets can be found on the MHL website: http://www.medicalheritage.org/resource-sets/.
This virtual
position is open to all qualified graduate students with a strong interest in
medical, disability, or health history, with additional interests in
library/information science or education.
Please submit your
application materials by April 19th, 2021 through this from: https://forms.gle/APV6Kq9G38SJbzkZA
Indiana University Bloomington Digital Repository
Research Fellowship 2021
https://ias.indiana.edu/research-support/research-repository-fellows.html
In partnership with
IU Bloomington repositories, the IAS offers a short-term Repository Research
Fellowship program to support immersive collections research. This initiative
is intended to support research in the rich collections of the IU Bloomington
campus and to build partnerships between scholars at and beyond IUB. Prior to
submission, proposals must be discussed with one or more staff members at the
archive, library, or museum. Collaboration is encouraged. Fellows will be
expected to make a virtual presentation of some aspect of the project. This
will be facilitated by IAS staff members.
Deadline for
Applications: May 1st, 2020
Questions about the fellowship should be directed to ias@indiana.edu.
Oral History Research 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.
Deadline for
Application: April 5, 2021
For more information, contact Paul Ortiz, portiz@ufl.edu
JOB/INTERNSHIP
University of Minnesota Postdoctoral Associate Position
https://ias.umn.edu/opportunities/job-opening-minnesota-transform-postdoctoral-associate
The Associate is
open to scholars whose work is based in the humanities and focuses on the
issues of redress, reparations, or abolition regarding racial justice and/or
settler colonialism. Preference will be given to those who engage these issues
in relation to higher education or universities.
Applications will be
reviewed beginning April 1, 2021.
URL: https://ias.umn.edu/programs/public-scholarship/minnesota-transform
Assistant Professor of Gender, Women's and Sexuality
Studies
https://appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/27725
The Gender, Women’s
and Sexuality Studies program (GWS) in the Department of Interdisciplinary
Studies (IDS) at Appalachian State University invites applicants for a TT
position at the rank of Assistant Professor in GWS with a specialization in
LGBTQ Studies to begin August 9, 2021. We have a particular interest in
developing a Transgender Studies component of our LGBT Studies coursework and
minor should the successful candidate have strengths and interests in that
area.
Evaluation of
Applications Begins 04/02/2021
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Women, Gender
& Sexuality, University of Virginia
As part of the
Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, the UVA Department of Women,
Gender and Sexuality invites applications for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship
in Black, Indigenous and/or global/transnational approaches to gender and
sexuality. We seek a rising scholar
(candidates who received, or will receive, their Ph.D. degree between August
24, 2019 and August 24, 2021) whose research and teaching are grounded in Black
trans/feminist/queer studies, Two-spirit/ Native/Indigenous
trans/feminist/queer studies, and/or transnational gender and sexuality
studies. Scholars whose research engages with Disability Studies are especially
welcome to apply.
Please contact
Allison Pugh with any questions at allisonpugh@gmail.com.
URL: https://graduate.as.virginia.edu/rising-scholars
Review of applications
will begin April 12, 2021.
Education Resources Fellow
The Medical Heritage Library seeks a motivated fellow to assist in the continuing development of our education and outreach programs. Under the guidance of a member of our governance board, the fellow will develop curated collections or sets for the MHL website on the topic of race and equity in health and healthcare. Examples of existing primary source sets can be found on the MHL website: http://www.medicalheritage.org/resource-sets/.
This virtual position is open to all qualified graduate students with a strong interest in medical or health history, with additional interests in library/information science or education.
Please submit your application materials by April 19th, 2021 through this form: https://forms.gle/wQpjSpsEa8i2N1X36
Open Access Library Databases
These two free databases from the Office of
the Gender and Women's Studies Librarian will help researchers locate scholarly
books in English and global films focused on gender, feminism, and the lives of
women, girls, and transgender people.
http://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/
Inspired by Sylvia Plath's tenacity and
curiosity, this growing resource of hand-selected entries identifies recent
books for researchers, scholarly editions, selected memoirs, and notable works
for a general audience. Records include citations that can be copied and
inclusive subject categories linked to related material.
http://dorothy.library.wisc.edu/
Named for prominent Dorothys, this database
collects production details for films and television programs mainly produced
since 2010. Projects directed or created by women and key topics in gender and
women's studies are central to this expanding resource curated for diversity.
Updated regularly, Dorothy incorporates comprehensive options for researching
documentaries, dramas and comedies, television shows, and educational films.
Send questions and
corrections to gwslsylvia@library.wisc.edu
or gwsldorothy@library.wisc.edu.
Open Access Books and Chapters
https://www.routledge.com/our-products/open-access-books/accessing-oa-books
Taylor & Francis
Open Access Books are published across all subject areas, our strengths are in
Society & Social Sciences and Humanities. We have also built collections in
subject specific areas and collections for universities and funders who have a
large amount of book content to open access.
Queer Epistemicides. Languages, Knowledges, Sexualities
https://www.queerepistemicides.com/
29-30 April 2021
For full details including bios, abstracts and playlists
please visit the conference website.
"Freedom Riders" Free Screening and Discussion
with Director Stanley Nelson
5 p.m. ET on March 25
The year 2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the historic
journey of civil rights activists Freedom Riders. To recognize this momentous
occasion, The Starr Center invites you to a virtual film screening and
conversation with award-winning documentarian and director Stanley Nelson.
We'll begin at 5 p.m. ET with a free, two-hour screening of Nelson's
"Freedom Riders." After a brief intermission, starting at 7 p.m.,
Nelson will share with us his professional insights about the film.
Histories of Global
Health, COVID 19 and Asian Responses
https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/histories-of-global-health-covid-19-and-asian-responses-2/
April 6, 2021 , 10:00 am – 11:00 am
The conversation with historian Jean-Paul Gaudillière will
interrogate how global health has evolved as a field that is defined by
philanthropy, public-private partnerships, and donor-driven technical
assistance. The COVID 19 pandemic has revealed how this field, while guided by
expertise from Geneva and Seattle, has not taken into account public health
models adopted by many Asian countries. By comparing experiences of countries
in Asia, Africa, and Europe, the discussion hopes to put a critical lens on
what regimes of global health have privileged – and systematically ignored.
Contact Email: sarahjessup123@gmail.com
Gender-Based Violence
Consortium Symposium: Visualizing Change, Resisting Violence
https://transform.utah.edu/event/gender-based-violence-consortium-symposium/
April 15-16, 2021
The Gender-Based Violence Consortium at the University of
Utah brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars. The consortium is
an inter-professional collaboration, a campus scholarly network that embodies
an academic commitment to sharing knowledge, supporting long-term
collaborations through research hubs, creating programming, sharing teaching
and responding to gender-based violence in Utah.
Register here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DHGKYVT
Decoloniality And
Disintegration Of Western Cognitive Empire – Rethinking Sovereignty And
Territoriality In The 21st Century
April 14-16, 2021, International Online Conference
The conference brings together in an online webinar format
scholars from around the globe to discuss what is meant by such increasingly
familiar terms as “decoloniality” or “decolonization.” It will explore the
relationship between these themes and issues of nationality, territoriality,
and sovereignty as they concern the struggles of indigenous peoples.
In order to take part in the conference, however, you must
first register. Once you register, you will automatically receive a
participation link for Zoom, which will be valid for the entire conference.
Contact Info: editor.thenewpolis@gmail.com
