CONFERENCES
Que(e)rying Gender
http://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk/gender-nonconformity-conference/
4-5 September 2021 – London/Online
The conference seeks to explore the past and current status
of gender identity around the world, to examine the ways in which society is
shaped by gender and to situate gender in relation to the full scope of human
affairs.
Proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note
should be sent by 20 June 2021 to: genderstudies@lcir.co.uk.
Resistance and (Re)Generation:
http://southeasternasa.org/sasa-2022-conference/
March 3-5, 2022, Southeastern American Studies Association
conference
For the 2022 SASA conference, we are inviting
interdisciplinary papers and roundtables that explore moments (literary,
historical, cultural) of resistance and regeneration within national and
transnational contexts. And we welcome papers and sessions that explore how
scholars’ research, teaching, and/or service perform meaningful cultural work
within and beyond their particular academic settings. Further, we ask scholars
to consider where and how that public intellectualism/public scholarship fits
into the research and teaching agendas of American Studies scholars.
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2021
email: peepless@cofc.edu
or Conference2021@southeasternasa.org
Race and Ethnicity @ NEPCA
https://nepca.blog/conference/
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s virtual
conference will be held Thursday, October 21 to Saturday, October 23. The Race and Ethnicity area welcomes paper
submissions from graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, and
independent researchers of popular culture.
The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2021.
Submit proposals: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-ywks4p4OJv4pwR5LqOfQiriePr3pP26wJn48nttcDV1thA/viewform
email: emoralesdiaz@westfield.ma.edu
SPATIAL INEQUITIES POST COVID-19
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7673624/spatial-inequities-post-covid-19
01-03 December, 2021
Our relationship to outdoor spaces such as streets, parks,
public open spaces has changed since COVID 19 pandemic. To limit the spread of
the virus, lockdowns and stay home measures were enforced reducing both
physical and social connection to the outside world. Over the years, we have
witnessed the positive impacts of parks, green areas, and playgrounds
contributing to reducing mental health and wellness, supporting children’s
development, and creating a social network or support systems within the
communities. With the research indicating that the virus is less likely to
transmit in the outdoor setting, the focuses of the built-environmental design
have shifted to the innovative outdoor spaces. In this conference, we discuss
how the public health professionals, urban designers, architects, policymakers
respond to the short, medium, and long-term strategies to maintain
accessibility, flexibility, design, maintenance, and connectivity, and
equitable contribution of such space would transform.
URL: https://architecturemps.com/design-health/
Contact Email: info@architecturemps.com
A FOCUS ON PEDAGOGY
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7673623/focus-pedagogy
20-22nd April, 2022
Today the education sector is going through what most
commentators see as an unprecedented period of change. The assumption is that
in the wake of COVID-19, many standard modes of teaching and learning have
changed forever. However, while the flux of recent times appears to have been
enormous, many aspects of what we do remains the same. Set in this context,
this conference reminds us that the pandemic is only one aspect of what it is
to be an educator and researcher today. Asking us to take a step back from the
flux we have been in recently, it invites us to refocus on our teaching and
research topics. Importantly, it welcomes presentations that highlight pedagogy
and research that has continued unaffected by remote teaching, as well as
examples were radical realignments have been necessary. Whether it be in the
fields of the arts, design, social or environmental sciences, this conference
seeks to better grasp the tenor of teaching and research in today’s changing
academy.
Abstracts: 30th June
Contact Email: research@architecturemps.com
URL: https://architecturemps.com/focus-pedagogy/
International Visual Literacy Association Virtual
Conference
https://ivla.org/conference/call-for-proposals-2021/
November 4 to 6, 2021
The conference theme is Seeing Across Disciplines: Visual
Literacy and Education. The conference will bring together different
theoretical viewpoints and practices on visual literacy, joining scholars,
students, and practitioners from all over the world in an interesting exchange
of ideas. The conference is open to contributions on new theoretical insights,
media, innovative practices, and methodologies on assessment and evaluation.
The conference takes place virtually through ZOOM.
The proposals should
be submitted electronically by August 9, 2021.
Contact Email: michelle.wendt@stockton.edu
Mediating and rethinking site – teaching and the design
process
https://architecturemps.com/ball-state/
Ball State University, April 20-22, 2022
The concept of a site, location, setting or a context is a
notion that has, in recent times has taken on meanings seemingly directly
associated with the pandemic and concomitant social distancing – whether
permanently or not. This conference strand papers invites submissions that
consider site (and its correlates in different disciplines – location, setting,
context etc.) as something more than just ‘absolute’ and/or material. We invite
papers that consider ‘site’ as a more intangible and malleable concept that may
serve as a framework for art and design teaching, and as an impetus for the
creative process
30 June 2021: Abstracts
Contact Email: research@architecturemps.com
The State We’re In - Democracy’s Fractures, Fixes and
Futures
https://canrad.mandela.ac.za/Events/Call-For-Papers-The-State-We-re-In
Abstracts (150-200 words, with title and keywords) are
hereby invited for paper presentations at an interdisciplinary conference that
will take place online on 7-9 September 2021 to critically interrogate the
state of democracy – its tendencies, dynamics and structural conditions,
globally and in South Africa. The conference marks the ten-year anniversary of
the founding of Nelson Mandela University’s Centre for the Advancement of
Non-Racialism and Democracy. Individual submissions and panel proposals are
welcome. The conference is open to academics, postgraduate students and civil
society activists.
The abstracts should be submitted to canrad.research@gmail.com.
The deadline for the submissions is 15 June 2021.
Dissent In Transatlantic Perspective: Then, Now and in
the Future?
https://dissent2022.fsv.cuni.cz/
Main goal of the symposium is to explore the concept of
dissent from different disciplinary perspectives in order to assess its various
meanings, uses and continued relevance in the current transatlantic context.
The wave of populist and/or authoritarian regimes actively hostile to the very
concept of dissent, or hijacking the concept, saying they are the only true
dissenters to the status quo should
serve as an important frame of reference. At the same time, liberal regimes are
tackling resurgent internal dissent both from reactionary conservative groups
as well as from progressive ones like Black Lives Matter.
Please send your abstracts and a short bio by September 10th,
2021, to american.studies@fsv.cuni.cz.
American Art and the Political Imagination
March 18–19, 2022 The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Visual culture has long been central to the formation of the
American political imagination. Images and objects across a variety of genres
have been critical to constructing and challenging how the American public
imagines and understands their nation’s history, identity and values. Visual
culture has also, however, been critical in the formulation and dissemination
of counter-narratives and subversions that ensure the American political
imagination is far from homogeneous. Just as images have worked to entrench a
political mainstream, they have also served countercultural purposes,
challenging prevailing fashionings of national identity and agitating for
change. We welcome papers on topics from all periods and genres of American
art, from the colonial to the contemporary. We particularly welcome proposals
that consider representations of and by marginalised artists and subjects
across American visual and material cultures.
Please send your paper title, 250-300 word abstract and CV
to louis.shadwick@courtauld.ac.uk
and madeleine.harrison@courtauld.ac.uk
by 15 June 2021
Science Fiction: Activism and Resistance
http://www.lsfrc.co.uk/events/cfp-activism-and-resistance/
9-11 September 2021, online
For our 2021 conference, the LSFRC welcomes submissions that
explore the theme of “Activism and Resistance.” We recognise the urgency of
this theme and the broad ways in which it can be interpreted and applied. We
welcome contributions that explore SF as the site of activism and resistance,
critical reflections of activism and resistance against SF’s tradition so far,
and broader contributions on the topics of activism and resistance. We are
especially keen to welcome practitioners, activists, change-makers and
dissidents who are working to create a more equitable world. We do not adhere
to strict reading of the term SF; instead, we encourage a widening of the genre
to highlight and uplift different voices and perspectives. We invite proposals
for papers, panels, workshops, protest and disruption sessions, performances,
installations, and creative responses to the theme, and we would like to
actively encourage alternative and innovative forms of presentation and
engagement.
Please email proposals (300 words + 50 word author bios)
and/or enquiries to lsfrcmail@gmail.com by 30th
June.
Moveo, Ergo Sum: Imagination, Ethics, and Ontology of
Mobilities
October 29-30, 2021 (Online)
The mobilities studies which was initiated by John Urry and
his colleagues more than a decade ago, has expanded the problematique of
mobility from the social to the geographical, focusing on the issues of the
movement of things and information, its technologies and infrastructures, and
the network and its complexities of heterogeneous cultures. Recognizing that
the phenomena of mobility today are not restricted to the physical, the
mobility humanities tries to understand mobility as an essential part of human
beings. From the humanities perspective, mobility is practiced physically
beyond all the boundaries and we are also defined by how we move. In this
sense, we would consider Imagination, Ethics and Ontology in Mobilities. This
conference presents an opportunity for scholars to share their ideas and
inquiries at the intersection of mobilities studies and humanities,
transcending the conventional divide between the social sciences and humanities
abstracts due June 14, 2021: GMHC2019@gmail.com
URL: https://www.mobilityhumanities.net/
Queer History Conference 2022
http://clgbthistory.org/queer-history-conference-2022
The Committee on LGBT History is pleased to announce a call
for papers for its second conference, Queer History Conference 2022 (or QHC
22), to be held at San Francisco State University from June 12 to 15, 2022. Scholars working on any aspect of the queer
past, in any region of the world, during any period, are encouraged to apply.
We use the word “queer” to include both same-sex sexuality and histories of
trans identity and gender non-conformity. We encourage interdisciplinary
scholarship but we also stress that this conference is meant to interrogate the
queer past.
Please make all submissions by November 1, 2021 to QHC2022@gmail.com
Cultural Awareness
and Social Justice / / Conciencia cultural y justicia social
October 27-30, 2021 - Tucson, Arizona
The 32nd annual conference of the Association of Academic
Programs in Latin America & the Caribbean will be hosted by the University
of Arizona in Tucson and will feature accepted presentations on the conference
theme in two formats, a reception, an optional cultural excursion and many
opportunities for informal conversation. We accept presentations and discussion
in Spanish and English and anticipate certain sessions will be live-streamed
for registrants outside of the US unable to travel. View expert roundtables and
performances from our virtual conference in February. https://www.aaplac.org/conference/2021-prelude/.
Deadline for Proposals - July 9, 2021
Contact Email: aaplacinfo@gmail.com
URL: https://www.aaplac.org/es/2021-call-for-proposals/
Music and Social
Conflicts
Music has often been described as a “soundtrack” for social
conflicts. However, as recent scholarship has begun to demonstrate, music’s
role within social movements and conflicts runs much deeper than just sonic representation.
Indeed, in both its auditory and lyrical forms, music has played a multifaceted
role within many social movements, conflicts, and uprisings. Music has in fact
often served as the primary social and cultural instrument through which
conflicts have emerged and, over the much longer term, documented as historical
experiences. Our aim with this seventh volume of Zapruder World is to open up a
reflection on the relationship between music and social conflicts.
Abstracts in English (250-500 words) shall be sent to submissions@zapruderworld.org by June
30, 2021.
Submissions Instructions: http://www.zapruderworld.org/submissions-instructions/
Telling, exhibiting
and commemorating minority histories in the United States
Workshop organized by the Institut d’Histoire du Temps
Présent, UMR 8244, to be held on the 12/10/2021
Minority narratives mobilize collective memories and
processes of patrimonialization and different mediations of history, notably in
the school and medias. We propose to focus on one of their concrete forms,
namely museums and heritage sites. Museums are indeed at the focus of political
and historiographic issues in the way they articulate, or not, the narrative of
minorities and the national narrative. In the framework of this workshop, we
propose to explore these questions under different angles and considering
different disciplinary approaches of the social sciences. The question of the
mediation of history, here approached through the prism of museum institutions
and heritage sites, as well as the articulation between past and present, will
be our focus.
Please send your proposal (500 words), in English or in
French, possibly accompanied by images, as well as a brief CV, before the 15th of
September 2021 to this address: raconterlesminorites@gmail.com.
URL: https://www.ihtp.cnrs.fr/
Confronting Crises:
History for Uncertain Times
https://www.oah.org/meetings-events/meetings-events/call-for-proposals/
2022 OAH Conference on American History
We live in uncertain times. Authoritarian rule, border
walls, immigration bans, children in
cages, police killings, a global pandemic, hate crimes, and global warming are
just some of the crises we’ve faced in recent years. They point to the
possibility that we’re living in a state of permanent crisis as the new normal.
Or, maybe constant crises have always shaped the lives of all but the fraction
of people whose social status has offered them comforts and reprieve? Perhaps
the only difference now is that COVID-19 has made even the privileged feel
vulnerable. If or when the pandemic recedes, we’ll all re-enter a world that
will be different than the one we lived in on the eve of the shutdown. It is
difficult to imagine, though, that the world to come will be rid of the
precarity, instability, and inequities--in short, crises--that have plagued the
past.
Submissions will be accepted from December 1, 2021 to
February 1, 2022
PUBLICATIONS
Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online
https://airtable.com/shrcir8baciAeEmGT
Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online will be an edited
collection of essays and corresponding digital components that serves as a
pedagogical resource book for these educators, across disciplines in higher
education. It will provide readers with tangible examples of online praxis that
align with the tenets of feminist pedagogy. This book will fill a gap in
existing literature in online pedagogy as well as feminist pedagogy, providing
theory, method, and tools for bringing feminist principles to distance
learning.
July 2, 2021: Book chapter proposals due
Contact Email: jhoward8@tulane.edu
Cultural Practices - The
Magazine of the Institute for Cultural Practices
The magazine’s aim is to create a space where researchers,
students and practitioners discuss ongoing cultural practices. In that sense,
we plan to have an informative role while also providing a framework for
understanding. We encourage contributions from scholars, postgraduate students,
and practitioners working within the sphere of cultural practice at any stage
of their careers. We also welcome both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary
contributions that extend discourse and debate.
email: culturalpracticemagazine@gmail.com
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
Questions about the length, style, format of experimental
submissions can be directed to journalsubmissions@liquidblackness.com
Critical Insights: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
Designed for high school students and undergraduates, the
book will offer new approaches to The Color Purple. It will feature ten
critical readings essays (5,000 words), plus four additional chapters
(4,000-5,000 words) focusing on specific approaches to the novel, including a
“critical lens” chapter, a chapter exploring the influence of its time period,
a chapter comparing the novel with a similar work, and a critical reception
chapter. Since the audience consists primarily of upper-level high school and
undergraduate students, abstracts and essays should be relatively jargon-free
and comprehensible to a more general audience.
please submit an abstract of approximately 200-300 words and
a brief CV to williamsj@smcsc.edu by
Friday, June 4th.
Online Extremism and the Insurrection of 2021
Fast Capitalism is seeking critical essays for possible
inclusion in a special section of an upcoming 2021 issue about the online
right-wing extremism. Our goal is to gather both scholarly essays and political
commentaries to present critical analyses of the growing numbers of white supremacists
and how they have organized their disruptive political networks online.
Submissions are due by June 7
Contact Email: darditi@uta.edu
URL: http://fastcapitalism.com
Unknown stories of intermediaries in women’s migration:
men, women and non-binary people
Recent scholarship has promoted gender equality in the field
of female migration. Although generally seeking to record stories on the
experiences of migrant women, scholars are also working to uncover the
lesser-known stories of men, women, and non-binary people who played a part in
the migration of women. This collection of essays aims to record the forgotten
stories of people who positively or negatively impacted female migration.
Stories can be about social network formers/maintainers, migrant smugglers,
human traffickers, and more. We propose an edited collection of stories that
show how everyone, no matter what gender they identify as, plays a role and is
involved in female migration. Stories may be about people both past and
present.
Contributors are invited to send by July 10, 2021 an
abstract proposal of approximately 350 words
email: Alexandra Yingst (aly3@hi.is) and
Stellamarina Donato (s.donato@lumsa.it)
Black Lives Matter--Lessons from the Harlem Renaissance
For scholars of literature and culture, the texts of the
past then prove invaluable in tracing the heritage of racial violence that has
prompted the Black Lives Matter Movement (as well as its predecessors) while
also providing insight into how to negotiate this tenuous space of unending
frustration, deep-seated anger, fatigue, and enduring pain. Works like these
help preserve the record of past violence against the constant threats of
historical revision, erasure, and silencing that have so deeply contributed to
the disregard for Black lives across time. At the same time, they help us to
better understand the ways in which dangerous stereotypes—like that of the
Brute Negro—have enabled the oppression of and violence against Blacks, from
the brutal buck breaking tactics employed during the antebellum era to
discourage dissent, to the widespread tradition of public lynchings, to the
many forms of racially motivated violence aimed at countering racial uplift and
sociopolitical change.
To promote this vital conversation, I am therefore 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.
Black Lives Matter: Lessons from the Harlem Renaissance
- proposals due Friday, June 4, 2021 –
email: varlackc@arcadia.edu
Cripping the Archive
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7741864/extended-deadline-cfp-cripping-archive
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
**JUNE 14, 2021**
Bearing Witness: Animal Loss in the Anthropocene
https://vernonpress.com/proposal/163/99266a4512834ab99aadd6d2abb403c2
This volume seeks to contribute to the growing field of
Extinction Studies in the environmental
humanities by accepting the demand to bear witness to the significations
of these losses, to enter the forbidding
realms of absence and learn to mourn and pay tribute. These extinction events open paths to responsibility and
accountability, but also to celebrations of life and ritual expressions of grief. This volume is also
intended as a vehicle for thinking about the future of life on earth, and how apocalyptic tropes may
be of assistance in imagining new ways of doing
politics beyond the temporality of progress. What strategies of
resistance could counter Anthropocene
extinctions and interrupt the seeming inexorability of the “great
unraveling”? Can we cultivate forms of
empathy that privilege solidarity over competition and are capable of incorporating the perspectives of other
thinking subjects into a shared “cosmopolitics”?
Deadline for Abstracts (250 words): 15 June, 2021
email: aconty@aus.edu; wiseman@ucsb.edu
The Gutters: Comics,
Cinema, and Cultural Capital
https://vernonpress.com/proposal/162/1e06666b96a6db2f06a57870da5e9681
Vernon Press invites chapter proposals on Adaptation in
Comics and Television for an edited collection The Gutters: Comics, Cinema, and
Cultural Capital. There is much critical attention paid to cinematic
adaptations of comic books, but little focus on the movies that fall outside
these discourses of respectability. The question is not about which movies are
better than others, but about the cultural capital that provides the rationale
for such evaluations. What factors have resigned cinematic comic book
adaptations to the gutters of academic study? All areas of study, with a common
goal of engaging the cultural, social, philosophical, and material significance
on the topic of cultural capital and respectability in cinematic adaptations of
comic books are invited to participate.
Deadline for proposals: October 1, 2021
For further questions or to submit your proposal, you can
email Reginald Wiebe (Reginald.wiebe@concordia.ab.ca)
InVisible Memes for
Cultural Teens
Invisible Culture seeks both scholarly and creative works
that approach internet memes as aesthetic, cultural, and political objects of
study. Memes have been discussed largely in their communicative and
participatory capacities, particularly in the fields of communications,
political science, and other social sciences. However, there are few examples
of humanistic work approaching memes and memetics as world-building practices
and as cultural objects that foreground meaningful sense-making. In this issue
we seek work that speaks to that capacious view of memes, from part to elusive
whole, whether focusing on the deeply contextual particularities of a specific
meme or community, the subversive or revolutionary potential of particular
imagery, discussing the practice of meme artist or reckoning with memetics as a
worldwide phenomenon.
Please send completed papers (with references following the
guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words
to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu by
June 30, 2021
URL: http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Library Company of
Philadelphia Innovation Award
https://librarycompany.org/innovation-award/
The Library Company of Philadelphia Innovation Award will be
awarded to a recent project that critically and creatively expands the
possibilities of humanistic scholarship. We want to see work whose urgency
renews disciplinary engagements with broader social issues, chafes against
disciplinary boundaries, or whose content or forms might not be legible as
scholarship within the university rewards structures. In short, we want to do
our small part to catalyze experimentation and adaptation in the humanities,
and we want you to surprise us. The committee will ask how a project challenges
long-held assumptions within and across genres, fields, or disciplines. We
welcome proposals from applicants in all fields and at all career stages,
including graduate students, junior and senior faculty, as well as independent
scholars.
Proposals due to dbrock@librarycompany.org by August
1,
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Call for Associate Editor: TPS Notes from the Field Blog
Notes from the Field is a peer-reviewed blog that highlights
practical lessons from the front lines of teaching with primary sources. The
blog solicits and hosts posts that explore the theory and practice of teaching
with primary sources. Posts may come from educators and practitioners from all
types of institutions and teaching environments. The Associate Editor will be
responsible for determining the direction of the blog, soliciting new posts,
communicating with blog contributors, providing feedback on submissions,
formatting posts for publication, and facilitating communication between
contributors and peer reviewers. Associate Editors also serve as peer reviewers
when the need arises and attend TPS Facilitation Team meetings as available.
This is a volunteer position with a term of three years
beginning July 1, 2021. Associate editors can expect to devote approximately
2-5 hours per month to this work.
Contact Email: mmaryans@indiana.edu
URL: https://tpscollective.org/
Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program in the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University is seeking a qualified
candidate for a Lecturer in the following areas: introduction to women’s and
gender studies, contemporary queer studies, intersectional feminism, and/or
popular culture. The candidate will deliver instruction in both face-to-face
and online formats.
Review of applicants
will begin on June 15, 2021 and remain open until filled
For more information, contact Ann Oberhauser, Director,
Women's and Gender Studies, at annober@iastate.edu
or #515-294-9283.
Assistant Professor in Anti-Black Racism and Resistance
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61354
The Sociology Department at the University of California
seeks to hire an outstanding scholar whose research and teaching focuses on the
structures of and resistance to the persistence and consequences of anti-Black
racism in America and/or globally for a tenure-track Assistant Professor
position with an effective date of July 1, 2021. All areas of research
specialization will be considered, although special consideration will be given
to candidates whose research and teaching focus on social movements and diverse
forms of anti-racist activism; the impact of race, class, and gender on health
inequalities; and environmental racism.
Next review date: Monday, May 31, 2021
URL: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01983
Help contact: cgorgita@soc.ucsb.edu
Professorial Lecturer in African American and African
Diaspora Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/87969
American University, Department of Critical Race, Gender,
& Culture Studies
The Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies
in the College of Arts and Sciences at
American University invites applications for a term faculty appointment
in African American and African Diaspora
Studies for Academic Year 2021-2022 at the rank of Professorial Lecturer.
Applicants should hold a Ph.D., or have an anticipated Ph.D. completion date
before August 2021, in a field conducive to an appointment in African American and
African Diaspora Studies. The successful
applicant will teach three courses per semester (fall and spring) at the
introductory and advanced levels. We
especially welcome candidates with expertise in fields such as Gender and/or
Sexuality, Caribbean Studies, or Black Popular Culture.
Review of applications will begin 6/14/21
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Transnationalism and
its new spatial frames: artists, objects and forms of deterritorialization
22 June, 9:00-11:00 CT and 23 June, 9:00-11:00 CT
This workshop, part of the Amsterdam School for Cultural
Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and organized in collaboration with the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, proposes to share and discuss work on
art from and in relation to the Global South, highlighting the history and
operation of transnationalism as it relates to these geographies, while also
taking into account possible axes of solidarity and relational fields of
production.
To register for the workshop please contact: e.mazadiego@uva.nl
The Empire Suffrage
Syllabus
https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/empire-suffrage-syllabus/home
The United States
developed as a democracy and an empire simultaneously, with direct consequences
for women’s access to political power. The country was born in an era when
ideas about individual rights existed alongside ideas about racial and gender
hierarchies that supported enslavement and conquest. The Empire Suffrage
Syllabus insists that recognizing the United States as an empire is crucial for
understanding how and why some women obtained the vote and others did not.
White women first obtained the right to vote in the U.S. West, a site of
conquest over Indigenous nations and Mexico.
Ask a University
Press
The Association of
University Presses (AUPresses) is an organization of more than 150
international nonprofit scholarly publishers. The Ask UP website is designed to
help scholars and the broader public learn more about scholarly publishing.
From books and journals to digital publishing, the Ask UP site is a resource
for finding out more about the full range and value of research generated by
university press publishing. The site has been created by members of the
AUPresses Faculty Outreach Committee, comprised of members from university
presses and other scholarly professional organizations.
Hortense J. Spillers audio recordings now available
online
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/collections/id_1033/
This collection contains digitized content from the papers of Hortense J. Spillers, American literary critic, Black feminist scholar, and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in English at Vanderbilt University. Items include reformatted reel-to-reel tapes and cassette tapes documenting church services, the Archimedes in Harlem Symposium, and the Birth of Black Cinema Symposium. For more information on the Hortense J. Spillers papers, please view the finding aid here: https://www.riamco.org/render?eadid=US-RPB-ms2019.013
