CONFERENCES
Cartographies of Racial Justice Beyond Borders: Territories of Dispossession and Migration
https://migrations.cornell.edu/summer-institute-call-applications
Summer Institute: July 12–23, 2021
This summer, we invite a cohort of 25 participants to engage in critical race theory, global migration studies, and speculative design to map the terrain of the future of global racial justice. With a focus on borders as geopolitical constructs, we will collectively consider the long history of planetary human migration, the timeline of racial capitalism, and the requisite geographies of dispossession. Participants will be mentored, working in groups to create a speculative design digital atlas and podcast (no technical skills required).
Applications due: May 7
email: hm75@cornell.edu
Racial Violence: the American (hi)story
https://www.gires.org/activities/conferences/racial-violence-the-american-history/
24-25 July 2021-- Live sessions:2 days/Virtual platform:5 days
Commemorating the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Massacre (May 31) we wish to re-examine the role of racially motivated violence in the shaping of American society and identity. We hope to answer a spectrum of questions through the exploration of their multiple aspects. What are the semantics and limitations in characterizing or labeling such cases (riots, massacres. Unrest etc)? What lessons can we learn from the past? What are the shared roots, causes and prospects? How modern American citizenship is shaped? Are equality and freedom in the 21st century only a faded dream?
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: June, 1 2021
Contact Email: info@gires.org
What brings you joy in pop culture?
https://www.lonestar.edu/popup.htm
October 28 and 29, 2021, virtually hosted by Lone Star College-University Park, Houston
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.The conference is sponsored by the LSC-University Park English Department.
Call for papers deadline: Aug. 29, 2021
For questions and additional information, email Rhonda Jackson Joseph at Rhonda.JacksonJoseph@Lonestar.edu
“Narrating Lives”: International Conference on Storytelling, (Auto)Biography and (Auto)Ethnography
https://life-history.lcir.co.uk
28-29 August 2021 - London/Online
The “Narrating Lives” conference will focus on reading and interpreting (auto)biographical texts and methods across the humanities, social sciences, and visual and performing arts. It will analyse theoretical and practical approaches to life writing and the components of (auto)biographical acts, including memory, experience, identity, embodiment, space, and agency. We will attempt to identify key concerns and considerations that led to the development of the methods and to outline the purposes and ethics of (auto)biographical and (auto)ethnographic research.
Proposals should be sent by 20 June 2021 to: life-history@lcir.co.uk.
International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies
16-17 October 2021 – London/Online
Multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels and the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is more and more recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions. Representations of nature’s agency have become central to many studies conducted in literature, culture studies, philosophy, history, sociology or political science. This conference aims to explore the relationship between the physical environment and text in its broader meaning as well as analyse the social concerns raised by environmental crises.
Paper proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 1 August 2021 to: eco@lcir.co.uk.
Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute –
https://blogs.newschool.edu/tcds/program-information/
July 6th to July 20th, virtual
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.
Seminars
Ann Snitow Memorial Seminar: Affective Fictions: Gender Ideology and Racial Fragility in Contemporary Politics
The Power of Social Imaginaries: Making Sense of the Political Today
Democracy and Social Justice: Explorations in Public Sociology
Complete applications are due April 30, 2021.
Contact Email: tcds@newschool.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Building an Ecological Civilization in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Developing World
BRIQ (Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly) is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Building an Ecological Civilization in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Developing World”. The ecological crisis is globally recognized as one of the most fundamental challenges of our time. This recognition was strongly felt in the intensity of extreme weather events in 2019, which witnessed a record number of around 7 million people displaced due to environment-related causes. The year 2019 is also ranked as the second-hottest year on record for the planet. In this context, it is ever more important to reassess the key environmental challenges faced by developing countries and draw lessons from their policies away from what one could call “green imperialism”.
Deadline for Paper Submissions: May 07, 2021
email: briq@briqjournal.com; efe.gurcan@istinye.edu.tr
URL: https://briqjournal.com/en
Streaming and Seriality
https://research.hkbu.edu.hk/page/detail/532#2-1
This special issue of Global Storytelling will investigate how streaming media has impacted the production, distribution, and reception of serial narratives. Television research, beginning with Herta Herzog’s landmark study of radio listeners “On Borrowed Experience”, privileged the soap opera as an object of research due to the special problems posed by seriality and melodrama and the construction of gender within the text and within the audience. Central to this topic is the impact of different models of serial distribution. Global Storytelling calls for papers, articles, essays, and book reviews on topics related to streaming’s impact on serial narratives: the ways they affect viewers, their ability to create affect in audiences, and ways they have been affected by larger industrial and cultural trends.
The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2021.
Special issue editors: Ellen Seiter (seiter@usc.edu) and Suzanne Scott (suzanne.scott@utexas.edu).
Women, Creativity and Nonviolence
Women, Creativity and Nonviolence seek to explore the creative ways in which women around the globe have contributed towards significant nonviolent changes in the contemporary world. This interdisciplinary edited volume is open to numerous disciplines such as: Sociology, Cultural Studies, Gender and Women Studies History, Language and Literature, Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Peace Studies among others.
Please send an abstract (250 words maximum) and a short biography( about 100 words) by May 10, 2021 to Dr Anna Hamling (ahamling@unb.ca).
Ecofeminist Drama: Environment, Gender, and Theatre
Chapter proposals are invited for Ecofeminist Drama: Environment, Gender, and Theatre. 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 April 28, 2021. Solid first drafts of full chapters are due by September 1, 2021.
Centering Black Cultural Production in Translation
This special focus of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature (STTCL) explores translation of Black African and diasporic literature, film, and media. Articles may examine Black-authored and/or -translated texts written and translated after 1900, or post-1900 translations of older texts. As STTCL focuses on texts in French, German, and Spanish, articles may address translations between these languages or translations between these languages and another language/other languages. We are particularly interested in texts that explore translations from or into indigenous African languages or Black creoles, pidgins, or dialects.
Interested authors should send a 300-500-word abstract to Dr. Priscilla Layne (playne@email.unc.edu) and Dr. Corine Tachtiris (ctachtiris@umass.edu) by June 15, 2021.
URL: https://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/
Environmental Justice in North America
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7543707/cfp-environmental-justice-north-america
Chapter proposals are invited for inclusion in Routledge's "Environmental Justice in North America" volume. The volume will serve as a required or supplementary textbook in BA/MA courses on American, North American, and Global environmental history, Indigenous studies, environmental studies, sustainability studies, peace and justice studies, and Race/Ethnic studies. It will offer instructors and students a range of accessible historical case studies that illuminate the challenges of confronting environmental racism and environmental classism, written by a set of authors that reflects the diversity of communities examined in the book.
Interested authors should send a short abstract and a short version c.v. to Dr. Paul C. Rosier (paul.rosier@villanova.edu) by May 15, 2021
Cripping the Archive: Disability, Power, and History
This collection will explore the relationship between disability and the archive. We envision essays that collectively challenge “compulsory able-bodiedness”/able-mindedness (McRuer, 2006) - the ubiquitous beliefs and practices that center able-bodiedness in service of normativity. We invite contributors to ‘crip’ the archive, to adopt a critical orientation that illuminates and disrupts ableist power structures and dynamics and analyze how ableness informs the politics of the archive as a physical space, a sacred place, a discriminatory record, and a collection of silences. We seek work that uses a wide range of methods from authors who foreground the lived experiences and representations of disability in their work. We also strongly encourage submissions that use intersectional, interdisciplinary, and transnational approaches to the question of disability and the archive.
Please submit abstracts (300-500 words), an abbreviated CV, and a short bio to editors Jenifer Barclay (barclay7@buffalo.edu) and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy (hunt.kennedy@unb.ca) by May 15 2021
Representation of Disability
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WPEe1NmKbJO6ETBiCCrEsOIpz7bDVyJ0V0xgNuiDQu4/edit
The representation of disability is often inaccurate, misrepresented or simply missing from mainstream media. Although there has been an improvement in the number of disabled people on and behind the screen, there is still a lot to be done. We need to recognise that disability is just as important as gender, race and sexuality when it comes to representation. Fans want to see themselves represented on screen whether that is in the latest Netflix original series or the current Disney animated film. In this call, we ask for proposals looking at the representation of disability in media and/or fan culture.
Please submit your proposal by August 30, 2021.
email: inmediares@gsu.edu
URL: http://mediacommons.org/imr/how-it-works
Black and Queer, Music on Screen
https://liquidblackness.com/news/call-for-papers-liquid-blackness-issue-62
This special issue of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies proposes to work on Black Queer expression in audiovisual musics cutting across histories of the avant-garde, popular audiovisuality, and frameworks both transnational and critically transhistorical. The goal of the issue is to set up the framework for a survey of Black and Queer musicality in audiovisual media so as to suggest “non-contemporaneous” dialogues between and across historical registers and media platforms, so that the critical expressive power of non-conforming persons of color become a given rather than an alibi, an absence, or a projection.
Submission Due: September 15, 2021 (send to journalsubmissions@liquidblackness.com)
Imagining Queer Domesticities
I seek submissions of original completed essays for an edited collection of original scholarly research on imagining queer domesticities in literary, cultural, historical, and/or legal contexts. While of course queer people have always had domestic lives, the cultural imagination of queerness often situates queer people in public spaces—the gay bar, the public park or restroom as a cruising site, the Pride march or ACT UP protest—rather than in the space of home. At the same time, queer-identified people have also been represented as anti-domesticity, their lives as antithetically opposed to “traditional” home life—a position some queer activists and theorists have embraced. I invite contributions focusing on literary, cultural, legal, and/or historical texts that investigate the ways these texts participate in, resist, and revise the ways we imagine the relationship of queerness and domesticity
Complete essays of 20-25 pages are due by November 15, 2021.
Contact Email: mwilson4@umassd.edu
(Re)imagining body work
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7624934/call-book-chapters-reimagining-body-work
We title this call for proposals ‘(Re)imagining body work’ as a moniker to capture researchers who fully engage with their participants and their activities, as well as reflexively considering the role of their own embodied experiences in generating such knowledge. Far from having an ‘absent presence’, this book foregrounds the embodied experiences of researchers who consider the researcher’s body as a topic of, and resource in, empirical social science.
Deadline for proposals: 31st of May 2021
email: Cornelia Mayr (cornelia.mayr@aau.at)
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
2021 Awards: Coordinating Council for Women in History
https://theccwh.org/ccwh-awards/
The CCWH offers the six awards to help reach its organizational goals.
The Catherine Prelinger Award is a scholarship of $20,000 which will be awarded to a scholar of excellence. This award, named for Catherine Prelinger, a former CCWH president and nontraditional scholar, is intended to enhance the work of a contemporary scholar whose academic path has not followed the traditional path of uninterrupted study, moving from completed secondary, to undergraduate, then graduate degrees, followed by a tenure-track faculty position.
Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship is an annual award of $1000 given to a graduate student working on a historical dissertation that interrogates race and gender, not necessarily in a history department. The award is intended to support either a crucial stage of research or the final year of writing.
The deadline for receipt of all 2020 applications is June 15, 2020.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Assistant Professor (50% FTE in Women and Gender Studies)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61216
The Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) invites applications for a one-year Limited Term Appointment (LTA) at 50% FTE in the area of Women and Gender Studies (WGS). The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, Teaching. Candidates must have a demonstrable record of excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level in a degree granting program, including lecture preparation and delivery, curriculum development, and development of online material/lectures.
All qualified candidates are invited to apply by the closing date of April 15. Email your application materials to historical.studies@utoronto.ca, with “WGS LTA application” in the subject line of your email. Applicants must submit a cover letter, a current curriculum vitae; and a complete teaching dossier. If you have questions about this position, please contact Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, Director, Women and Gender Studies Program at v.birgani@utoronto.ca.
Humanities Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61263
The Penn State Humanities Institute seeks applications for up to two newly available Post-doctoral Fellowships for the 2021-2022 Academic Year. Fellowships are for up to two years. Fellows will be in residence at the Humanities Institute at Penn State and will be afforded office space (assuming normal operations in Fall 2021) and support for ongoing research projects. No teaching is required for these Fellowships, however teaching opportunities may be available if the scholar wishes. Applicants are encouraged to explain how their work bears on issues of social concern, even if indirectly. The successful applicants will be distinguished by their scholarly excellence and how their work fits in with the central values of the Institute's mission.
Review of applications will begin on April 12 and continue until the positions are filled.
Apply online at https://apptrkr.com/2204018
Visiting Instructor I, Women's & Gender Studies
The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa invites applications for a one-year, full-time Visiting Instructor, to begin August 9, 2021 with the possible extension for a second and/or third year. The successful candidate for this teaching position will be responsible for large-enrollment face-to-face, and/or online undergraduate courses in the WGS core and elective curriculum, including Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies and Human Sexual Behavior. This position involves minimal service expectations; however, the successful candidate will be responsible for mentoring and directing graduate assistants.
Review of applications begins on April 23, 2021.
email Jennifer Ellerman-Queen at jellerma@usf.edu
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Visiting Faculty
The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Grand Valley State University (GVSU) is seeking applications for a full-time, one-year visiting faculty position with an anticipated start date in August 2021. Visiting positions may be renewed for up to three years depending on funding and Department, College, and University needs. Candidates should have: expertise in LGBTQ studies; experience teaching introductory WGSS courses; ability to teach courses that fulfill General Education US Diversity requirements; a demonstrated commitment to inclusive, interdisciplinary pedagogical practices; and a commitment to challenging structural inequalities while working for social justice.
Review of applications will begin on May 14, 2021
Search Committee Chair: Dr. Julia Mason at masonja@gvsu.edu
Pennsylvania State University Humanities Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship
The College of the Liberal Arts seeks applications from recent PhDs to mid-career scholars who wish to advance their research or expand their digital and public-reaching scholarship in these areas in the Humanities. We seek fellows who hail from historically underrepresented racial minority (URM) groups – including African Americans, Latinxs, and Native Americans (as well as those with a deep and demonstrated commitment to diversity in the academy and whose research also focuses on the consequences of racial inequities, barriers to racial equality, and democratic social change and transformation).
Review of applications will begin on April 12 and continue until the positions are filled.
University of Wyoming, Honors College, Instructional Professor, Assistant
The University of Wyoming Honors College invites applications for the position of Instructional Professor, a one-year appointment with the potential for renewal. In the field of academic expertise, we seek a PhD in a humanities or social science field. It is imperative that candidates have interest and experience in interdisciplinary approaches to teaching. The successful candidate will teach in our core first-year sequence, an interdisciplinary Colloquium for first-year students in the Honors College. This course is a multi-section, small-seminar-style, theme-based course with readings from multiple disciplines. Candidate will also collaborate with colleagues in the continuing development of these courses. The successful candidate will also offer upper-division humanities or social science-themed seminars.
Review of applications will begin 5/19/2021, and continue until position is filled.
One-year Visiting Assistant Professor in African American Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/86735
The African-American Studies Program at Colby College invites applications for a one-year (possibly renewable) visiting Assistant Professorship, beginning July 1, 2021. While a Ph.D. is preferred, an advanced ABD will be considered. We seek a scholar whose research specialties and teaching experience focus on African-American social life and culture in the United States. Teaching experience, highly relevant innovative research, and significant organizational, cultural, or civic engagement with African-American communities in the United States are necessary. While disciplinary training and affiliations are open, preference will be given to candidates whose courses can contribute to and be cross-listed with the departments of sociology or anthropology.
Questions about this search should be directed to Chandra D. Bhimull, Associate Professor of African-American Studies and Anthropology, Chair of African-American Studies: cbhimull@colby.edu
In/Visible Differences: Ethnicity and Nation, Art and Translation
http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/product/item.php?it_id=1617170447&ca_id=10&page=1&sort1=&sort2=
The Spring 2021 issue of Situations brings together a group of critical articles exploring the visible or invisible differences in ethnicity, nation, art, and translation in the Asian context.
Contact Email: bk21eng-edit@yonsei.ac.kr
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
History of Sexuality Reading Group
https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/queens-history-of-sexuality-reading-group-32309531559
The Queen's History of Sexuality Reading Group, based in Queen’s University’s Department of History, is hosting sessions featuring authors of exciting recent monographs in the field. Each session features an introduction to the book by the author, followed by 40 minutes of Q&A. Participants are expected to read the monographs or selected chapters ahead of time, to make the most of the sessions.
Events occur through April and May.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/QueensSexuality
Love Across Borders: Asian Americans, Race, and the Politics of Intermarriage and Family-Making
https://kansas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R4kcI_-SSomRqJ5J9UBvvA
May 6, 2021 07:00 PM in Central Time
In this talk, Dr. Kelly Chong addresses what motivates marital boundary crossings, what occurs inside these marriages once couples start families, and what race has to do with these processes. She focuses on the cultural forces, particularly racial imageries, that condition the desires and marital choices of individuals and what role such imageries may play in the process of family making. Far from being the end point of assimilation, Chong explores how these marriages are a complicated terrain of life-long identity struggles and of cultural re-construction for Asian Americans.
Contact Email: ceas@ku.edu
Sites of Feminist Memory - Remembering Suffrage in Europe and the USA
https://wfw.hypotheses.org/580
Phase 1: 7 May – 7 June 2021; Phase 2: 8-11 June 2021. This is a slow e-conference.
In phase 1, attendees are invited to read, listen and watch the papers listed below and post comments & questions for speakers in the comments section of each panel. In phase 2, speakers will answer those comments and questions in a series of live Zoom sessions (times and dates for these can be found below). If you wish to attend the conference, please email us at feministmemory@gmail.com by 5 May 2021. The link to the conference website will be sent out on 6 May 2021.
Interrupted and Restricted: Digital Humanities and Ethics in a Time of Crisis
Friday 14 May 2021, 16:30-18:30 London Time.
In academia, we have seen requests for digital materials at an unprecedented rate. In turn, we have seen an overwhelming response from libraries, museums, publishers, and more to fill the gap, but at what cost? This panel seeks to address not only the forward facing aspects of digital humanities (DH), ensuring access to researchers, students, and scholars, but also takes a step back to question the ethics and implications of what is disseminated via the virtual vis-à-vis human rights.
Register: https://aku-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qduispjkjGNYwvUw1p97r9pWi4hr-Gvc-
Conversations on Transnational Black Feminisms
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversations-on-transnational-black-feminisms-tickets-150412701439
April 28, 2021, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CDT
“Conversations on Transnational Black Feminisms” The inaugural public event of the Transnational Black Feminisms Working Group of the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) at Columbia University will be a virtual conversation between Margo Okazawa-Rey (Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University and one of the founding members of the Combahee River Collective), Hakima Abbas (Co-Founder of the Black Feminist Fund and Co-Executive Director of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development/AWID), and Vanessa Thompson (research associate at the Institute of Sociology at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt).
In the Wake of Red Power Movements
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/calendar/in-the-wake
May 14/15, 2021, 3.30 to 10 pm BST, 4.30 to 11 pm CEST
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 is guided by the idea that North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions developed and recovered since the 1960s offer new and reclaimed ways of being, organizing, and thinking in the face of destruction, dispossession, and oppression; Indigenous ways of writing and righting are connected to ongoing social struggles for land rights, access to clean water, and intellectual and socio-political sovereignty.
Contact Email: Doro.Wiese@warwick.ac.uk
