CONFERENCES
Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives
The Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington DC (GHI PRO) invites proposals from post-doctoral scholars, recent PhDs, as well as those in the final stages of their dissertations with a background in history and/or related fields. We call for empirically rich and theoretically informed contributions in migration studies that interrogate questions of knowledge production, the creation of borders, and the everyday lives of people in borderlands. Papers will be precirculated to allow maximum time for peers and invited senior scholars to engage in discussions on the state of the field. The workshop language will be English.
Please upload a brief CV and a proposal of no more than 750 words by March 15, 2021, to our online portal.
Contact Email: friedman@ghi-dc.org
Border Abolition 2021
https://www.borderabolition2021.com/call
Border Abolition 2021 will be a two-day online conference aimed at connecting organising, campaigning, activist research and academic work around border violence, incarceration, abolitionism, racism and other interlocking forms of racialisation. We hope to bring together people struggling against borders in all their forms, from immigration detention, prison and militarised border sites, to the solidarity practices that resist expanding systems of everyday bordering. We see this work as also envisioning the creation of systems of care, safety and support that many of our communities lack.
proposal deadline: April 15
Please submit your ideas for contributions to borderabolition@gmail.com
Humanities for the Anthropocene
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7373741/humanities-anthropocene
July 7-9, 2021, University of Puget Sound & University of Victoria
The goal of this research incubator workshop is to initiate collaborative work on what it means to be a humanist and to practice the Humanities in the present moment and for the future. The incubator is a framework for presenting early-stage or ongoing research and for working collaboratively on shared ideas and lines of enquiry. Our plans include: the creation of a research group; an in-person conference in 2022; and an edited volume, Humanities for the Anthropocene Handbook, with values, principles, and tools for pedagogical praxis.
Please send 250-word abstracts with contact information and a short bio to: Elena Pnevmonidou, University of Victoria (epnev@uvic.ca) and Kristopher Imbrigotta, University of Puget Sound (kimbrigotta@pugetsound.edu) by 31 March 2021
History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar
The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality seminar invites proposals for sessions in its 2021-2022 series. The Seminar involves discussion of pre-circulated works in progress, especially article or chapter-length papers (20-40 pages). Topics address all aspects of the history of women, gender, and sexuality in the United States. Cross-disciplinary projects and projects comparing the American experience with that in other parts of the world are also welcomed. This year, the MHS is also hosting a special series of programs related to Disability Studies. Scholars working in this field in relation to the history women, gender, and sexuality are invited to submit proposals for this series.
Please submit your proposals by 9 April 2021 to research@masshist.org.
Unwanted Histories. The legacies of contested monuments and objects: new homes, new interpretations, new meanings
This one-day international, inter-sectoral online conference will explore how “unwanted histories” have been treated to date – both successfully and unsuccessfully – through individual case-studies, as well as theoretical methodologies and proposals for future projects, platforms, and digital media. We aspire to bring together (post-)colonial historians, curators, museum specialists, and others engaged with the field of “Unwanted Histories” to establish research collaborations by critically investigating stories of (post-)colonial heritage, the framing of imperial history within museums and civic spaces, and how to deal with demands to change the culture of exhibiting cultural heritage both in public and private.
If you would like to propose a paper for a 20-minute presentation, please send an abstract of 250-300 words to d.m.s.m.natermann@hum.leidenuniv.nl and alexandra.ortolja-baird@kcl.ac.uk by Friday, 19 March 2021
Diversity in Digital Humanities
https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/digitorium/
We’re very excited to invite proposals for Digitorium 2021, a multi-disciplinary Digital Humanities conference held at the University of Alabama from October 7-9, 2021. This year, our theme is “Diversity in Digital Humanities.” How can we use DH to reach diverse audiences? How is DH taught and by whom to whom? How is DH helping to be more inclusive and diverse, and how can we do better? What stories can be told using DH? Proposals should demonstrate how we as digital humanists can engage with communities and our scholarship in new and innovative ways using digital methods.
Deadline: April 16, 2021
Feel free to contact the ADHC at adhc@lib.ua.edu if you have any questions.
URL: https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/digitorium/?page_id=7
Africanist Knowledge That Agitates
https://africanstudies.northwestern.edu/graduate/afrisem/afrisem-conference.html
The Africa Seminar (AfriSem) at Northwestern University’s Program of African Studies, is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its 6th Annual Graduate Students’ Conference to be held virtually on June 10-12, 2021. AfriSem is a student-driven group that provides an interdisciplinary and area-defined setting for graduate students studying Africa to develop, present, and draw advice on papers and research proposals.
Submission deadline is April 8, 2020.
For more information please email at: afrisem@u.northwestern.edu
Peace History Society Virtual Conference
The Peace History Society (peacehistorysociety.org) invites proposals for our biennial conference in October 2021, especially proposals engaging in many possible ways with our theme of “Struggling for Justice, Struggling for Peace.” We welcome proposals for traditional papers and paper panels, roundtables, workshops, posters, and guided navigations of digital history exhibits, maps, websites, etc. We encourage proposals focused on teaching and public history as well as research. We hope that the organizers of panel, roundtable, or other group proposals will use the opportunity to initiate or advance conversations with scholars, students, and peace and justice advocates/activists who may not (yet) be members of PHS. We look forward to receiving proposals that bring together diverse and gender-balanced sets of participants and, where appropriate, feature intergenerational collaboration and dialogue.
Please also send inquiries to phs2021@peacehistorysociety.org.
URL: http://peacehistorysociety.org/phs2021/
Re-writing / Re-imagining the Past
https://engleza.lls.unibuc.ro/conferinte/
3–5 June 2021
Much recent scholarship has fruitfully traced the ways in which we construct narratives of the past and fill them with contemporary content or bend them to contemporary values. There remains, however, ample room for further exploring the afterlives of the past as constructed in the present. Re-imagining the past, as such, explores the imaginative reconstruction of the past in the writing of historians and in works of historical fiction. Rewriting reveals traces of the original, as interpreted by the author. It is a remnant of something that once was or has passed, but which continues to exist as echoes, relics, memories, or ghosts.
Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2021
Please send proposals (and enquiries) to conf.eng.litcult@lls.unibuc.ro.
Digital Matters: Designing/Performing Agency in the Anthropocene
September 5-7, 2021 in Berlin
The Anthropocene offers a contradiction and a challenge. Its contradiction lies in highlighting the immensity of human impact on a planetary scale matched only by the impotence of creating agencies that might mitigate or change this impact. Its challenge lies in the collapse of the nature/culture-divide that results in a shift in temporal, spatial, and conceptual scales. The Anthropocene reshapes how we think, perceive, design, create and connect. The current pandemic has shown us that the interconnectivity of the Anthropocene is no longer hampered by being too complex or abstract; the pandemic instead has forced these shifts into a globally shared experience.
Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2021.
URL: www.drha.uk/2021/call-for-paper
Contact Email: l.drury@fu-berlin.de
PUBLICATIONS
Uncovering a Hidden Curriculum: Teaching and Learning Black History and Culture
For too long the serious study of African American history and culture in public schools and universities has often been an afterthought. African American history courses are normally not a part of required curriculum but are often optional. We are seeking book chapters that cover a broad range of topics on African American history and culture along four trajectories that include: 1) Historical analysis essays, 2) Pedagogical challenges essays, 3) Essays on the teaching and learning of African American history, and 4) Lesson plans and teaching resources devoted to teaching African American history and culture.
Contact: (childsd1@nku.edu)
300-500 Word Abstract Due Friday March 19, 2021.
Rethinking practices of interconnection in a century of crisis
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? Developing a definition of contemporary enchantment that highlights human participation among the cosmos as opposed to an isolated observer (Jane Bennett 2001, 2010; Barad 2007; Puig de la Bellacasa 2015), this issue welcomes case-studies of artworks, documentation of completed artworks, experimental writing, and scholarly inquiry that explores practices of care, philosophies of interconnection, entanglement, or subject/object assemblages through art.
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2021
Please email your submission to cma_journal@sfu.ca
Race, Migration, Colonialism in Language Teaching and Learning
https://www.utpjournals.press/journals/cmlr/cfp
This special issue of The Canadian Modern Language Review (CMLR) aims to amplify and extend this work by bringing together articles in English and French that theorize the intersection of race/racism, migration, and white-settler and other colonialisms with issues related to language teaching and learning. We are interested in data-driven theoretical or practice-oriented submissions that do more than describe the impact of these intersections on the identities and ideologies present across various language-education contexts. In addition, we invite submissions that explore these intersections in relation to pedagogies and policies that contribute to undoing current inequities in educational opportunities and outcomes.
Paper Submission: 1 November 2021
email: haque@yorku.ca; jeff.bale@utoronto.ca
Autoethnography of Plural Feminisms
The collection intends to understand how the extraordinary and the mundane have informed our feminist thought, identities, praxis, pedagogies and the myriad ways in which they have brought us to feminism—propelling us to explore, expand, challenge and revolutionise it. The book also aims to explore how feminists negotiate with and subvert power in myriad ways, and how we contribute to gender and sexual politics while navigating our histories, cultural realities, socio-economic specificities, and politico-militarised contexts. To be more specific, we are interested in exploring how the identities of different autoethnographers/authors are evolving through their contextualized feminist praxis and are being continually shaped by their politics.
The deadline for submission of chapter abstracts is 30 March, 2021.
Please submit your proposals and enquiries to the editors: Po-Han Lee (pohanlee@ntu.edu.tw) and Sohini Chatterjee (schatt7@uwo.ca).
(When) Will the Joy Come?: Black Womxn in the Ivory Tower
(When) Will the Joy Come? will survey a topic not yet fully addressed in scholarship—the emotive processes in the aftermath of success—when sentiments of joy, happiness or relief are not immediately experienced. Considering the grim reality that the Academy has not yet achieved a utopia that successfully promotes and executes equality among lines of race, class and gender, this book will explore Black womxn’s emotional and mental state(s) during their careers when goal markers are met. This text aims to be an interdisciplinary collection that includes narratives based on personal experiences as well as qualitative and/or quantitative-based studies with an emphasis on the intersection of race, class and gender.
The proposal deadline is March 10, 2021.
Please email proposals to chapdelainer@duq.edu.
Black Girl Banned: Representations of Rebellion and Radical Black Girlhood
From Alice Walker's womanism to bell hooks' oppositional gaze, Black girls' rebellion inspires concepts and theoretical approaches that aid in understanding the lives of Black girls and women. These theorizations--and Black girls' actions--counter dominant narratives and distortions of Black girlhood. Despite censoring, surveilling, and policing. This collection examines representations of Black girl resistance in creative works. We invite examinations of cultural productions (e.g., novels, poetry, plays, films, music, and short stories). We seek chapters that discuss the ways Black women writers present (counter) narratives of girlhood to demonstrate the myriad possibilities of Black girl rebellion.
Please submit a 500 word abstract and brief bio to Ebony Perro at eperro@tulane.edu and Regina Bernard-Carreño at chairbls@gmail.com by March 30th, 2021.
Ordinary Oralities: Everyday Voices in History
Histories of voice are often written as accounts of greatness: great statesmen, notable rebels, grands discours, and famous exceptional speakers and singers populate our shelves. This focus on the great and exceptional has not only led to disproportionate attention to a small subset of historical actors (powerful, white, western men and the occasional token woman), but also obscures the broad range of vocal practices that have informed, co-created and given meaning to human lives and interactions in the past. For most historical actors, life did not consist of grand public speeches, but of private conversations, intimate whispers, hot gossip or interminable quarrels. Proposals for chapters are welcome by early career scholars and established researchers alike.
Proposal Deadline: 15 April 2021
Send proposals to Josephine.hoegaerts@helsinki.fi and JaniceSchroeder@Cunet.Carleton.Ca
Screen Bodies
ww.berghahnjournals.com/screen-bodies
Screen Bodies is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that is devoted to the interface of art, science, and technology. The journal’s aim is to examine how bodies engage with and are engaged by screens, as well as how bodies are represented on screens. It features critical, theoretical, and empirical methods used in the diverse fields comprising the humanities, social sciences, computer science, communications, and the arts.
Manuscripts submissions and book reviews should be submitted to Andrew J. Ball at screenbodies@berghahnjournals.com by June 1, 2021.
Call for Book Reviewers: H-History-and-Theory
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7373412/call-book-reviewers-h-history-and-theory
H-History-and-Theory publishes reviews on works pertaining to numerous topics in the field, focusing much on Historical Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory, and Dialectics. If you would like to be considered for reviewing at H-History-and-Theory, please provide an e-mail with a CV attached to:
kettlera@email.sc.edu. Works for review will be assigned based on listed topics, level of expertise, and availability of editions.
Edited Volume on Zora Neale Hurston
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7376661/cfp-edited-volume-zora-neale-hurston
Aiming to offer readers one of the most comprehensive scholarly volumes on Hurston to date, Hurston in Context then strives not only to include essays on Hurston’s famous works—from her 1921 short story “John Redding Goes to Sea,” published in Stylus, to her highly celebrated 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God—but also to open space for scholars to probe Hurston’s equally important yet underappreciated or understudied contributions, such as her impressive collection of plays and 1930 musical revues dramatizing both African and African-American folk expression for the stage.
Submit a CV, abstract of no more than 300 words, and a biographical statement of no more than 100 words to the editor, Dr. Christopher Allen Varlack, at varlackc@arcadia.edu by Monday, April 5, 2021,
Alternatives to the Anthropocene
https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/call-for-papers/alternatives-to-the-anthropocene/
This issue seeks submissions that examine the voices of those who fought against the development of the Anthropocene, the geological age in which human activity has dominated the climate and environment. By “alternatives to the Anthropocene,” we invite discussion of at least three connected topics: the Anthropocene as a technocratic, scientific designation of our current epoch; the limits of this approach to periodizing the last 500 years; and the social movements that have challenged the extractive capitalism essential to this epoch.
By June 1, 2021, please submit a one-page abstract summarizing the article as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com.
The construction of subjectivity in the age of social media
In a well-known article, "Egyptian Melodrama - Technology of the Modern Subject?" (2002), the anthropologist Lila Abu Lughod highlighted how the diffusion of television melodrama in Egypt provided the model of a "new" type of subject, a real "melodrama of conscience". Through melodrama the young Egyptian women have acquired a new emotional literacy, also mediated by an intense identification with the actors. They have learned to express the same emotions of television characters and to interpret their own affective and sentimental experiences starting from (or thanks to) a melodramatic register. Based on this analysis, we can ask ourselves whether a similar process of "Instagrammation of consciences" is taking place today. Can social media be considered "technologies" to produce new types of self? And if so, which ones?
Please send a 250 words abstract (including title) by May, 31 to Vincenzo Matera, University of Bologna (v.matera@unibo.it) and Angela Biscaldi, University of Milan (angela.biscaldi@unimi.it)
Nocturnal Ethnographies: aesthetics and imaginary of the night
Night has emerged as a field of studies for ethnographers working in a number of disciplines, from Anthropology to Geography, from Media Studies to Sociology. If histories, geographies, architecture and the politics of the night are burgeoning fields of current research, we aim at exploring the aesthetic, sensory, and imaginative dimensions of night from an ethnographic perspective: How do ethnographers conduct research at/on night? Are there specific sensibilities that emerge when the night falls? What sort of imaginaries and aesthetics do the nocturnal hours invoke? This issue of Ethnologies aims to foster the debate by gathering interdisciplinary contributions on ethnographic studies that engage with the night from an imaginative and aesthetic perspective. Our goal is to map nocturnal ethnographies, and understand how night affects scholars’ research, what kind of tools and techniques are proposed to study such a specific spatio-temporality.
May 1, 2021: proposal submission
email: ediamanti@johncabot.edu and alexbf@uvic.ca
URL: https://www.acef-fsac.ulaval.ca/en/ethnologies/authors
Challenges and Prospects of Born-digital and Digitized Archives in the Digital Humanities
https://www.aura-network.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Special-Issue-1-UPDATE.pdf
Digital archives are transforming the humanities. Digitized collections of newspapers and books have pushed scholars to develop new, data-rich methods. Born-digital archives are now better preserved and managed thanks to the development of open-access and commercial software. Digital Humanities have moved from the fringe to the centre of academia. Yet, the path from the production of digital records to their analysis is far from smooth. This special issue of Archival Science will explore the current challenges and prospects of digital and born-digital archives for Digital Humanities, focusing particularly on the topic of access
If you have any questions, please contact the editors: Dr Lise Jaillant (l.jaillant@lboro.ac.uk) and Dr Eirini Goudarouli (Eirini.Goudarouli@nationalarchives.gov.uk).
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Laura Bassi Scholarship
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and funding consists of:
Master’s candidates: $750
Doctoral candidates: $2,500
Junior academics: $500
Deadline: 31 March 2021
email: scholarships@editing.press
Study the social opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)
https://www.cais.nrw/en/callforapplications/fellowship_en/
Are you studying the social, political, economic or cultural effects of digitalization? Do you want more freedom for your work and are interested in interdisciplinary exchange? Apply to become a fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany. With its fellowships, CAIS supports excellent researchers and practitioners of all career stages and disciplines, whose work focuses on the social opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation.
Take up to six months to concentrate exclusively on your research, free from other obligations. As a fellow, you will receive a grant for the duration of your stay. Alternatively, CAIS will finance the costs for a replacement at your home institution while you are away.
Deadline for applications: The funding program is continuous. Apply until 12 April 2021 for fellowships starting from October 2021.
Contact Email: esther.laufer@cais.nrw
Fellowship Opportunities at the New York Public Library
https://www.nypl.org/fellowships/diamonstein-spielvogel-fellowship-program
The New York Public Library is pleased to announce the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship Program to support advanced research at the Center for Research in the Humanities, located in the Library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Fellowships are open to Ph.D. candidates, post-Doctoral scholars, and independent researchers studying the humanities and the history, literature, and culture of peoples represented throughout the collections housed at the Schwarzman Building.
Application deadline: April 18, 2021
Contact Email: fellowships@nypl.org
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Postdoctoral Teaching Associate
https://wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jobs/job/Postdoctoral-Teaching-Associate_R-555
The Department of History at Washington State University seeks to hire a postdoctoral teaching associate to teach the university’s core undergraduate course, “The Roots of Contemporary Issues” beginning August 2021, pending budgetary approval. “The Roots of Contemporary Issues” is a history course that helps students make sense of our complex world by focusing on the deep historical roots of present-day issues in global perspective. Applicants should demonstrate their ability to understand historical problems in transnational, comparative, or global perspective and to engage students in discussion relating to the history of the environment, globalization, social inequalities, diverse ways of thinking, and world conflicts.
Application review begins March 8
Questions can be sent to the search chair and director, Jesse Spohnholz at spohnhoj@wsu.edu
RESOURCES
Japanese Maps Digital Collection
https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/japanesemaps/1
This collection draws on cartographic materials from the University of Manchester Library Japanese Collection and the Maps Collection. It holds roughly 60 items: mostly maps, charts and atlases, and a limited number of material classified as chishi, or topography (encyclopaedias, guidebooks, prints, surveys) that include maps or are otherwise related to cartography.
Contact Email: soniafavi@gmail.com
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
"Liberate Your Research" Workshop with Nadine Naberb
https://www.nwsa.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1489873
Thursday, March 25, 2021, 2:00 PM
Participants will learn how to heal anxiety, imposter syndrome, overwhelm, and the colonial-gendered-racial violence of the academic industrial complex. We will foster a sense of empowerment in relation to research and writing goals. We will also learn how to name a set of liberated theories and methods that align with who you are, what you stand for, the communities/social movements you care about, and our need for collective care and well-being. In closing, we will discuss activist research.
email: nwsaoffice@nwsa.org
Screening: On Her Shoulders (2018)
https://www.facebook.com/events/633160623785451
March 27, 2019 at 3 PM CDT – 5 PM CDT
Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people. Nadia Murad was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018.
free and open to the public
How Beautiful We Were: Imbolo Mbue
https://www.showclix.com/event/imbolombue/tag/nyplconnect
Tue. Mar 30, 2021 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, Imbolo Mbue's new novel tells of people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Imbolo Mbue discusses her latest novel's exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom.
Cover Letters for Humanists
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cover-letters-for-humanists-tickets-144502772683
Wed, April 7, 2021, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM CDT
This workshop will introduce participants to the genre of the cover letter and address how to use it to tell your story to employers outside of academia. Guided by the facilitator, participants will also do some brainstorming and outlining of their own cover letters. (The primary audience for this workshop is graduate students and precariously employed MAs/PhDs in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.)
This workshop is free, though attendees are encouraged to donate $5 to a social justice organization, mutual aid fund, or #TransCrowdFund fundraiser.
ART and the City : Urban Space, Art and Social Change
28 April 2021
https://artandthecity.sciencesconf.org/
Art and the City: Urban Space, Art and Social Change conference series bring together a team of international scholars with an interest in art and 'right to the city', aesthetics and politics of the urban environment, artistic rebellion on the streets, aesthetics of urban social movements and art activism in the urban space. The central goal of this “traveling conference” series–each year in a different city in Europe –is to engage in a multifaceted, multi-disciplinary, and multi-geographic perspective to articulate and promote a richer and a more integrated understanding of the ideologies, relationships, meanings, and practices that arise from the diverse interactions among the three social spheres: urban space, art, and social change. To register and receive the online meeting link please go to conference website.
Queer Epistemicides. Languages, Knowledges, Sexualities
https://www.queerepistemicides.com/
29 April 2021, 12.30pm - 30 April 2021, 6.30pm
All are welcome to attend this free conference, which will be held online via Zoom. For full details including bios, abstracts and playlists please visit the conference website.
The Ends of the Earth: Polar Exploration, Print Culture, and Climate Change
Friday, Mar. 26, 2020, 2:00-4:30 PM, Zoom Webinar
The Ends of the Earth: Polar Exploration, Print Culture, and Climate Change is an online symposium which will showcase recent scholarship at the intersection of American literary studies, environmental humanities, and print culture and serve as a provocation to the audience: what kinds of knowledge are produced at the (geographical, ecological, and possibly even the temporal) ends of the earth?
If you will need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this program/event, please contact Jamie L. Jones at jaljones@illinois.edu.
Register: https://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rOnQCs0tQ_ungrS0VPhvRg
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