CONFERENCES
A Whole New World: Research, Development and Innovation in the Pandemic Era
The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has had huge impacts on public health systems, society, food systems, education, and economies among other areas, and has led to massive transformations in the way we live and work. It has also given rise to significant research, development and innovations across different fields of human endeavour aimed at overcoming or adapting to the challenges posed by the pandemic. The University of Nigeria, Nsukka is organizing a three-day Multidisciplinary International Virtual Conference from 5-7th July 2021 that will bring together researchers, policy makers, multilateral development agencies, NGOs and other development actors across the world to explore research, development and innovations in various disciplines and their importance in the era of Covid-19 .
Deadline for Abstracts submission is 1 July, 2021
Contact Email: felix.egara@unn.edu.ng
Food and the Environment: The Dynamic Relationship Between Food Practices and Nature
https://allardpierson.nl/en/whats-on/amsterdam-symposium-on-the-history-of-food/
11-12 February 2022
The Symposium encourages scholars from all relevant fields of research to explore the continuing relevance of the interconnectedness of food history and environmental history. Although the 1960-1980s Green Revolution has thus far managed to avert a ‘Malthusian disaster’, worries about the intensive use of nature’s resources coupled with booming population growth continue to persist. At the same time, more people have become aware of the dynamic, two-way relationship between humans and their environment, and of the fact that natural conditions have always shaped and endangered human life. This year’s Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food traces this far-reaching transformative impact of food production and consumption practices on the environment – and vice versa – both in history and today.
please submit an abstract before 15 September 2021 to Foodhistory-ub@uva.nl
Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Workshop and Conference
https://digitalorientalist.com/the-digital-orientalists-virtual-workshop-and-conference-2021/
The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Workshop and Conference 2021 will be held on June 26, 2021. It will primarily focus on research methods. In the intra-pandemic world numerous conferences and academic meetings have gone digital, but there is still relatively limited space devoted to the discussion of digital research methods or to the processes of conducting digital humanities research within the field of oriental studies broadly defined. We hope to create a space where scholars, students, educators, librarians, and creators can come together and share tools, resources, and research methods with colleagues in related disciplines.
Contact Email: james@digitalorientalist.com
Seeking Freedom: The Underground Railroad in the Mid-Atlantic
https://www.lincoln.edu/seeking-freedom-underground-railroad-mid-atlantic
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, March 31, April 1-2, 2022
We welcome proposals from all fields and disciplines, from historians, preservationists, independent scholars, social scientists, community leaders, undergraduate, and graduate students. Of particular interest are the lower eastern middle states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and southern New York. We also desire papers that explore any or all the diverse complexities of the UGRR, including known and unknown physical sites (homes, corridors, routes) and those that extract the voices of the unheard, invisible, and underrated.
Priority will be given to prospective participants who submit by October 15, 2021.
Inquiries can be sent to ugrrconference@lincoln.edu
Performance and Populism: Mobilization and Popular Power on the Left
The University of Warwick and the University of California-Berkeley are organizing an interdisciplinary conference, Performance and Populism, which will take place online, November 3-5, 2021. The conference examines mobilization and political praxis on the left through both civic performances (protests, civil movements, political speeches…) and artistic performances (theatre, dance, music… ) in order to strengthen interdisciplinary approaches among scholars and activists engaged in building popular power for anti-racist, egalitarian, and pluralistic societies.
Please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio by the 7th of July 2021 to: goran.petrovic@warwick.ac.uk and angela.marino@berkeley.edu
Raising Indigenous Voices in Academia
Online Conference Sept. 2-6 2021
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Raising Indigenous Voices in Academia (RIVA) conference, highlighting Indigenous Knowledge and Scholarship. All scholars are welcome to submit a paper proposal. Administrators, academics and the general public are welcome to register to attend. Indigenous scholars, who demographically are perhaps the most underrepresented ethnic group globally, are especially encouraged to submit an abstract.
For registration and submission information please
visit http://www.umt.edu/nsilc/basepage.php
Please submit abstracts of up to 120 words as early as possible.
For questions please contact Prof. Neyooxet Greymorning at agmriva2020@gmail.com
Reach Out and Touch Someone: A Conference on Commercial Intimacy and Personalization
November 4 and 5, 2021
This conference will explore the broad theme of commercial intimacy from the mid 19th century to the late 20th century. We are particularly interested in scholarship that explores how intimacy worked, the technologies behind it, and the interplay between the business and the personal. What were the technologies behind industrialized forms of intimacy? How did commercial entities appropriate tools of intimacy to sell? How might the history of emotions change our understanding of advertising and persuasion? We are interested in original, unpublished, and historically-informed papers addressing the above and related topics, from the mid-1800s to the recent past and centered in the US, written from a range of disciplinary viewpoints, including but not limited to: history; communication; media studies; psychology; sociology; geography; advertising; marketing; graphic design; printing and publishing; and information studies.
Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words and a one-page C.V. to Carol Lockman at https://www.hagley.org/2021-fall-conference-abstract-submission by July 1, 2021.
Northeast Popular Culture Association
The 2021 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as another virtual conference from Thursday, October 21-Saturday, October 23. In the past year, we have updated our areas and therefore, encourage those submitting a CFP to revisit the conference areas page. The call will be open until August 1, 2021. If you have further questions, please reach out to us at northeastpopculture@gmail.com.
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. 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 2 July 2021
Finding Africa 2021: Insurgent Life
This past year has seen global uprisings and revolutions against corrupt and authoritarian governments erupt from America, to Lebanon, to Hong Kong, to Cuba, to Myanmar, to Iraq, to Syria to the UK to Nigeria to India. Mass mobilisations against racial state violence and calls to arms against the systems in place which devalue lives every day. The world over, people have risen up to protest against the normalised disposability of their lives, a reality which has been thrown into sharp focus by the COVID-19 pandemic. For this seminar series, we are inviting papers which explore this theme of insurgent life, or life as insurgency in Africa.
Abstracts must be a maximum of 300 words, submitted in Word format to findingpocoafrica@gmail.com by 10 July 2021.
URL: https://findingafricaseminar.wordpress.com/
Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/flt/
Saturday 12th February 2022, University of Warwick
What was the relationship between the trade in living tropical orchids and their botanical illustrations in Victorian England? How did people understand the relationship between the lacquer that flowed as sap from trees, and lacquer as the surface of art objects in early modern period? The aim of this conference is to follow both natural and artificial objects across global boundaries and between the disciplines of history, history of art and history of science. This will reveal the very different paths and meanings natural objects acquire once they leave their natural habitats and transition from living materials to objects of trade, science and art.
To submit a proposal: send an abstract of a 20 minute paper (up to 300 words), with a short biography (up to 150 words) to livingandstill2022@outlook.com by 23.59 (BST) on Sunday 12th September 2021
NORTHEAST MLA CONFERENCE, BALTIMORE, MARCH 2022
Race, Place, and Migration in Afro-Latinx Literature and Visual Art
This panel invites papers focused on the analysis of Afro-Latinx migratory dynamics as represented in Latin American art (films, plastic and visual art, live performances, and so on) and literature (such as novels, poems, plays, comics, visual poetry). Papers on the Caribbean, Centro America, South America, and Brazil are welcomed.
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2021.
Instructions: For consideration, plese upload your abstract (200-300 words in English) to NeMLA's portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19490
Contact Email: nb3hf@virginia.edu
Monstrous Machines, Queer Bodies & Haunted Technocultures in the American South
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19546
Despite persistent conceptions of the American South as rural and pastoral, Modern and Postmodern Southern literatures have just as persistently grappled with the significance of modernity, consumerism, and technology. David A. Davis demonstrates how Southern modernism emerged from the disruptions that modernity introduced into the region by World War I. Rapid technological change can transform our connections to our own bodies and to others; and these transformations have profoundly animated Southern literatures. While much significant work has begun in these areas, many compelling gaps remain. We invite papers focusing on how 19th and 20th century Southern writers have represented, imagined, resisted, rejected, or fantasized technologies of all or any kinds.
Contact Email: ehfinnegan@gmail.com
Art and Activism: The Reshaping of Collective Consciousness and Social Justice
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19223
The link between artist and activist illustrates the import of black public voices that challenge institutions of white supremacy, gender oppression, and systemic dehumanization. Historically, artists have critiqued, documented, and contextualized racial violence to ensure that the past is not forgotten and to reshape the nation’s consciousness. Consequently, their efforts mobilized activists to establish organizations, such as the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the Combahee River Collective, that disrupt and dismantle socio-political associations that marginalize and oppress. This roundtable session seeks papers that consider artists, intellectuals, and activists that cultivate a black public voice that documents and contextualizes the history of Black social protests and ongoing discourses on social justice and equality.
Contact Email: flassite@mc3.edu
Care With(out) and Against the State
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19163
This panel uses the figuration of the state in order to probe the question of “care”—broadly defined—in the 21st century. How does the state organize the distribution of care, and who is permitted to avail of its services? How does the state involve itself in the care work that enables processes of social reproduction? And how might a stateless society reconfigure relations of solidarity and care? We welcome abstract submissions pertaining, but not limited to: the Marxist/socialist state, the limits of the state, the state as a site of contestation, social reproduction, citizenship, statelessness, solidarity and mutual aid, care work, the welfare state, and other historical confluences between the state and various networks of care.
email: Alya Ansari (ansar060@umn.edu), Thomas McGlone (tmcglone@villanova.edu)
More Just, More Sustainable Futures 1.0: Artistic Research Symposium for PhD Students: Multiple Ecologies, Diverse Ontologies
Postgraduate research students at the University of Plymouth are curating and hosting an online symposium under the broad theme of multiple ecologies, diverse ontologies and ethico-onto-epistemological exchanges. The symposium will explore ways artistic research/practice-research imagines paths towards alternative visions for more just, sustainable presents and futures for our collective environments. It aims to reflect practices which are inclusive of different frames of reference and diversity in working, doing and thinking. Each selected presenter or panel will be invited to contribute their presentation(s) as a research paper (~3000-4000 words) or visual essay (~1000-1500 words to be included in an e-book of the conference. This will be peer reviewed and edited, along with a prologue, by University of Plymouth PhD candidates and professors.
Proposal deadline: July 3, 2021.
Contact Email: multiple.ecologies@plymouth.ac.uk
AURA: AUTHENTICITY, EXPERIENCE, AND ART
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7822674/2021-cleveland-symposium-cfp
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2021
The Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University invites graduate students to submit abstracts for its 2021 Annual Symposium Aura: Authenticity, Experience, and Art. How do we expand our celebration of the aura of an object to encompass its many forms? How do we grapple with the subject of originality and authenticity in an increasingly digital world? How do artists and museum professionals address the history of the aura and issues of reproduction, circulation, and access in their work? In what ways do reproductions benefit or potentially harm the original art objects? This year’s symposium welcomes innovative research papers that explore issues of authenticity and reproduction in and around the creation, reception, and circulation of the visual arts. Submissions may explore aspects of this theme as manifested in any medium as well as in any historical period and geographical location. Different methodological perspectives are welcomed.
Proposals: clevelandsymposium@gmail.com by Friday, June 18, 2021
History of Emotions
https://nachemotion.wordpress.com/
The North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) will be holding its next conference June 3-4, 2022, on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals, for single presentations or for panels. The conference is open to proposals dealing with any region or time period; interdisciplinary approaches are welcome.
Due date for proposals is Sept. 15, 2021: pstearns@gmu.edu.
Contingent Systems: Art and/as Algorithmic Critique
http://www.ikgallery.ca/contingent-systems-call-for-papers/
Contingent Systems: Art and/as Algorithmic Critique is a panel series that will explore critical intersections between creative practice and algorithmic culture. Starting on September 17th, 2021 and occurring every second Friday for ten weeks, the series will consider the ways that artists have worked, in both historical and contemporary contexts, to render the algorithmic intelligible, opening space for reflexive critique, meaningful resistance, and imaginative repurposing. We are seeking proposals for research presentations that employ practice-based, archaeological, and/or critical approaches to creative work.
Please submit abstracts (350-500 words) and a short bio (150 words) to: contingent.systems@auarts.ca by July 6th, 2021
Archiving Community Oral Histories – Workshop
https://southphoenixoralhistory.com/2021/06/04/archiving-community-oral-histories-summer-workshop/
July 26-30, 2021
Join us for this interactive and intensive multi-day workshop for oral historians. Learn to analyze and index completed oral histories from the South Phoenix Oral History Project's signature collection. Upon completion, you will publish a dynamic summary of one oral history interview to our website. Each summary contains an index, biographical story, metadata, and video or audio clips. All of your work will be appropriately credited to you.
Cost: $100 per person, but waivers and scholarships are available. Special consideration will be given to students.
email: Historysouthmountain@gmail.com
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. A century after the destruction, we wish to explore the reasons that the story of Greenwood, the African American part of Tulsa, also known as the Black Wall Street (among many other similar cases) was lost in oblivion. How and why one of the most powerful and independent African American communities in history was devastated and how the city, state and federal authorities facilitated such an action? What happened in similar cases? GIRES, dedicated to interdisciplinarity, invites scholars from diverse fields including but not limited to philosophy, religion, theology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, art, economics, geography, cultural and political studies along with representatives from think-tanks and organizations to contribute to the discussion and to debate these issues.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: July, 9 2021
Contact Email: info@gires.org
Infrastructures and (Im)mobile Lives: Interruptions, Failures, and Repairs
https://ari.nus.edu.sg/events/infrastructures/
WORKSHOP DATE: 21-22 FEBRUARY 2022 (online)
This proposed workshop explores the relationship between migration, infrastructures, and (im)mobilities as it relates to infrastructural breakdown and transformation. The workshop is concerned with the diverse interruptions, failures, and repairs that are involved in the ongoing production of mobility systems and flows. What happens when the infrastructures that maintain migration regimes and mobility flows are disrupted? How do interruptions and glitches in various infrastructures, in turn, re-shape existing or create new practices and meanings of mobility and immobility? How might thinking about failures and repairs help (re)examine and theorise existing mobility infrastructures that organise and reproduce migration patterns, processes, and experiences?
Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (300 words maximum) and a brief personal biography of 150 words for submission to Dr Yi’En Cheng at arichen@nus.edu.sg by 31 August 2021.
Contact Email: arios@nus.edu.sg
PUBLICATIONS
Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online
https://airtable.com/shrcir8baciAeEmGT
Our book will encourage a new movement in online teaching and learning, using feminist pedagogy to enhance and empower educators and students who engage in online educational efforts. 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. Final chapters should range from 3,500 to 4,000 words and include a digital component such as, but not limited to, an annotated assignment description or a vlog-like video that details the assignment or concept in action and how it relates to feminist pedagogical tenets.
July 2, 2021: Book chapter proposals due
For further inquiries, please feel free to contact Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, jhoward8@tulane.edu.
Watching Covid - The Pandemic on Screen
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7793212/cfp-watching-covid-pandemic-screen
This edited collection will explore the changing role of television during, and in the wake of, the Covid-19 crisis, as well as how the pandemic has already become part of the narrative of numerous TV series. We invite proposals offering analysis in these developments on the structural level of TV production as well as the representational level. On the structural level, how have TV networks and streaming services responded and are the changes long-lasting? We welcome analysis concerning traditional plot/presentation models, the incorporation of new safety protocols, filming location selection, and further structural/format changes to the industry.
Please submit your abstracts on the subject of Watching Covid to watching.covid.tv@gmail.com by June 30th, 2021.
Reproductive health rights, tourism and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Africa
Following a global sharp decline in inter country adoption which has drawn a lot of attention to Africa, reproductive tourism with the use of assisted technologies is gradually on the increase and attention is gradually shifting to Africa as a viable location for reproductive tourism. Presently, many African countries are struggling to make reproductive health services available and accessible to all. The child and maternal mortality rate across several countries in Africa is still high. This book will focus on research into reproductive health, reproductive rights, assisted reproductive technologies and access to reproductive services across Africa.
Abstracts should be submitted to ircrephealth@gmail.com by 30 June 2021
Political Imprisonments and Confinements
https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/call-for-papers/political-imprisonments-and-confinements/
Radical History Review seeks contributions for a special issue exploring degrees, types, and experiences of imprisonments and confinements throughout history, and the individuals, groups, and spaces involved in them. We recognize that all imprisonments are political, and that the reasons for incarceration or confinement vary widely across space, time, and context. For that reason, this issue explores the histories of individuals and groups who have faced imprisonment, confinement, exile, banishment, or internment, due to clashes with institutions or individuals in power and authority. The subjects may range in scope from detainees attached to political movements to wartime internees to prisoners of conscience to refugee camp inmates to closeted or othered individuals; those who have faced confinement for challenging established hierarchies of gender, sexuality, nationality, race, social class, religion, ethnicity, political perspective, or mode of ability.
By September 1, 2021, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article you wish as a Word or PDF file attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com
GAMING + Project: Exploring Interdisciplinary Intersections with Gamic Media
The GAMING + Project, a digital public scholarship hub for all things videogames research, is currently accepting proposals for short written or video essays exploring the significance of gamic media to a broad range of academic disciplines, including anthropology, fine arts, cultural geography, history, international relations, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political science, religious studies, sociology, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity studies, and other fields. If you are a graduate student or a post-doc interested in contributing to the first installment of GAMING + content (GAMING + 1.0), please submit an abstract (250 words maximum) to the organizers using this Google form by June 30th. https://forms.gle/8vqjBhAnKQxLa4g77.
Contact Email: daigengna@ucsb.edu
Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Repair
The collection will offer a set of chapters that consider the matter from various points of view, disciplinary, national, theoretical, historical, some comparative, all more than likely interdisciplinary. Work collected in the volume is to focus on reparations both in national frameworks and also internationally. It takes up the matter of restorative justice “after empire," if you will—not that empire is over, rather in consideration of its longue durée, what kind of economic equilibrations are called for today? The idea is to consider, assess and theorize empire through the triptych: theft, debt, repair -- imperial. Any one of those, any two, or all three. Any discipline, any geography, history, empire, any methodology, data, material as long as it is probing and answering these questions in some way.
proposal deadline: 8/31/21
email: mfadem@kbcc.cuny.edu
Black Queer Subjectivity
https://womengenderandfamilies.ku.edu/cfp/call-for-papers-black-queer-subjectivity/
2021 marks the 25th anniversary of Cheryl Duyne’s seminal mockumentary The Watermelon Woman; it also marks the 5th anniversary of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Academy Award winning film, Moonlight. Although released twenty years apart, both films wrestle with questions around Black queer subjectivity. By “Black queer subjectivity,” we are evoking the multiplicity that shapes Black queer identities, positionalities, and belonging—including corporeal, sexual, ephemeral, euphoric, cultural, intimate, and spiritual modes. This special issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color is interested in how our notions of Black queer subjectivity have evolved since The Watermelon Woman. We invite intersectional and interdisciplinary work in the form of essays, poems, personal narratives, and creative non-fiction. We are especially keen on pieces that are situated in the arts and humanities (including film, literature, graphics/comics, visual art, music, dance, and drama).
Please send detailed abstracts of approximately 500 words along with a short biographical statement (200 words) to wgfc@ku.edu by Thursday, July 15, 2021,
Struggle & Hustle: Queer Nonfiction Prose
Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism invites submissions for a special issue devoted to exploring trans and queer mutual aid, support, and networks in all genres and periods of nonfiction prose. This issue seeks to delve into the ways in which trans and queer writers have mobilized nonfiction prose to make visible marginalized identities, disseminate underground knowledge, and fashion networks of care and family.
Abstract deadline: 2 August 2021
Special Issue Editor(s): Lisa Hager: hagerl@uwm.edu
Textual Negotiation of Online Identities
Communicating via, generically speaking, computers has lately come to represent a routine, ritual and, arguably, necessary activity in the modern age on both personal and professional levels. Under the umbrella term known as computer-mediated communication, multimodal par excellence, several sociocultural acts are performed. From among them scholars have been particularly interested in the textual (text, here, in its broader meaning of language, discourse and semiotic architecture) process of negotiating individual or group identities, be they situated or permanent, on the fixed- fluid spectrum. This issue will host papers falling under the joint or specific scientific approaches of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, applied linguistics, multilingual and intercultural communication, or language policies, etc.
1 May 2022 – proposal submission deadline
Contact Email: diana.cotrau@ubbcluj.ro
URL: http://www.studia.ubbcluj.ro
Cartoon Conflicts: Contemporary Controversies and Historical Precedents
7 January 2015 was a watershed for political cartooning across the world. The terrorist attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo killed 12 and injured 11, and prompted the worldwide Je suis Charlie campaign, focused on issues of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Cartoon Conflicts and Caricature Wars aims to bring analysis of these controversies various together for the first time, and to go further – exploring the significant cartoon conflicts that have animated the art and practice of cartooning over the centuries. The editors invite proposals for chapters concentrated on significant cartoon conflicts, or caricature wars, from any and all global contexts, and time periods. Joint authorship is encouraged, as this volume is intended to showcase the collaborative and cross-disciplinary scholarship that is so characteristic of cartoon studies. Contributions may take historical, literary, art-historical, legal, linguistic, media studies, or other approaches.
Abstracts of 300 words, together with a short author biography of 150 words, should be emailed to the editors by 31 December 2021.
Contact Email: rscully@une.edu.au
The Fractured States of America
https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/announcement/view/149
JAm It! is an annual, peer-reviewed journal of American Studies created by junior faculty, early-stage researchers, and PhD students. We publish academic articles, book reviews, and creative writing, favoring fresh and original contributions.
We invite reflections on how, on the level of policy, discourse, and societal dynamics, such internal divisions have been flattened out for the sake of a uniform—rather than united—nation. Finally, to encourage a nuanced and balanced understanding of the topic, we also welcome contributions that highlight how fractures and differences, as well as the very need for a real or imagined internal enemy, have had virtuous outcomes in US history and its formation.
Interested scholars should submit a 500-word abstract and short bio to valentina.romanzi@univr.it, bruno.toscano@phd.unipi.it and cc’ing journal@aisna-graduates.online by July 15, 2021.
Covid-19 and Social Sciences
For nearly two years, Covid-19 has disrupted societies and radically changed daily lives around the world (Lazar et al, 2020. Nesteruk, 2021, Walther, 2021). The new situation generated by the pandemic induces a set of new problems that force us to rethink key aspects of our lives as individuals, groups, institutions, and societies (“Covid-19, confinement et addictions, 2020”; Mora, 2021; Torales et al., 2020). At the same time, Covid-19 has highlighted deep health and socioeconomic inequalities within and between societies (Wallace & Wallace, 2021). In this particular context of crisis, this special issue aims to offer a critical assessment of the role of the social sciences in the response to the pandemic, as well as the challenges of post-Covid-19 societies. It welcomes (trans)disciplinary contributions using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed approaches. International comparisons are also encouraged.
Potential contributors are invited to submit abstracts no longer than 250 words, excluding references, by email to temporalites@charesso.org. Abstracts will be received until July 30, 2021.
Generations
Generational Studies is growing as an area of research as multiple generations now co-exist in the workforce. Each generational cohort brings with it diverse viewpoints and varied lived experiences—sometimes quite disparate of one another. Therefore, exploring these age cohorts potentially provides an opportunity to discuss and better understand the challenges of creating cohesiveness as well as discovering the interrelatedness of cultural experiences that have the potential to connect generations. This special issue of The Journal of American Culture is interested in building a better understanding of generational attitudes and experiences. Potential topics could include generational cultural production/consumption (literature, film, music, etc.); generation-specific demographics, characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors; generational identities and realities (then and now).
Manuscript submissions should be 4000-6000 words in length, double-spaced, and in current MLA format. We will be vetting potential articles May- October 1, 2021. Send an email attachment, in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format, to Shay Rahm at srahm@uco.edu.
Religion, Animals, and X
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Religion_Animals
This Special Issue of Religions seeks to advance this second direction by bringing together a set of articles that all address “Religion, Animals, and X” where “X” could be other critical categories connected with social movements like coloniality, gender and sexuality, queerness, or race; topical areas of broad social concern like anti-Black racism, anti-immigrant racism, climate change, factory farming, hunting, and pandemics; new areas of religion scholarship like affect, disability, ecology, migration, monsters, plants, and science fiction; critical terms in religious studies like belief, body, grief, life, mourning, person, sacrifice, and scripture. Articles are already being developed on religion, animals, and the following categories: art, blackness, the contemplative, the family, food, and indigenous traditions. Each article should either take up a particular exemplum or exempla in the service of advancing the discussion of religion, animals, and X, or, alternatively, should seek to survey and analyze existing work on religion, animals, and X.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2021.
If you have questions or would like to send an abstract before developing your paper, please email both kmershon@email.wcu.edu and aarongross@sandiego.edu.
EMANCIPATORY MOVEMENTS OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH IN A CHANGING WORLD ORDER
2021 is a unique year. It is the 60th anniversary of the Non-Aligned Movement launched in Belgrade, in1961. It is also the 55th anniversary of the Tricontinental Conference in Havana, which widened the movement by including the countries of Latin America. This year also marks the anniversaries of two further events, closely connected with the fundamental emancipatory spirit of the Third World movement after the Second World War. 2021 is the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune and the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the leading power of the Eastern European socialist experiment after the Second World War. We believe these anniversaries offer us an opportunity to revisit and comprehend the struggle of the Global South. These anniversaries commemorate a wave of proactive initiatives with the ambition to achieve real independence from the oppressors and build a more democratic international order.
Submit abstracts to to Annamaria Artner artner.annamaria@krtk.hu by 07 July 2021
Streaming #MeToo - Rape Culture in American Television
The #MeToo movement has drawn attention to the prevalence of sexual violence in professional, public, and private spaces. A consideration of the pervasive nature of sexual violence in American culture needs to be expanded to include the television industry. Our follow-up anthology, Streaming #MeToo: Rape Culture in American Television, will explore sexual violence in terms of television content and its production context. While we are interested in chapters on popular topics like rape narratives in series like Game of Thrones and Jessica Jones, our goal is to develop an expansive collection that explores sexual violence across a range of eras, platforms, genres, and production contexts.
Please submit a 250 word abstract along with a brief author bio to Ralph Beliveau (beliveau@ou.edu) by September 1st, 2021.
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Postdoctoral Associate: Center for Women's Global Leadership
https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/133681
The postdoctoral associate will work with the faculty director in coordinating CWGL’s academic programing on Women’s Human Rights. S/he will plan and teach a Fall semester course that combines classroom lectures and community-based experiential learning that culminates in a symposium for students’ project presentations in dialogue with academics across disciplines and invited activists. The postdoctoral associate will also carry out routine and semi-routine work within work parameters for CWGL and under general supervision upon completion. S/he will develop policy, research studies, and comprehensive planning documents in relation to academic programming for CWGL., and interphases with relevant RU centers and departments.
The position requires at least a Ph.D. degree in a related field, with all requirements completed by August 1, 2021.
Posting Close Date: 07/31/2021
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship
https://academics.depaul.edu/faculty-jobs/Pages/position-detail.aspx?dpusearchbyid=299601
The Ida B. Wells-Barnett Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship reflects the University's Vincentian mission, which includes a scholarly commitment to the areas of race, equality, social justice and advocacy for historically oppressed and underserved populations. Ida B. Wells-Barnett fellows will teach three total courses over 10-week quarters. Specific courses and scheduling will be determined in consultation with the Department of African and Black Diaspora Studies chair.
Eligibility is restricted to those who have received their PhD in Black/Africana Studies or related fields no earlier than 2017 and who will have the PhD in hand by July 2021.
Applications are due by July 7, 2021
Virtual Residency Application of Interest: AUC Woodruff Library and Project STAND
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFpy-7J5XriAu9O5nsE-1o7q36vUHP3VR5PTJgQQs2uCUnUA/viewform
Project STAND and the AUC Woodruff Library will host a one-week virtual residency September 13-17. The residency will invite six individuals to serve in a cohort to create an online educational resource as part of an Archiving Student Activism toolkit. A cohort of six will focus on building an educational resource geared toward building an ecosystem of care, including knowledge sharing and collaborative learning between a network of information professionals who have expressed an interest and commitment to ethically engaging with student organizers. The theme for our first residency is: Archiving in Black: Student Organizing at HBCU’s and Cross Cultural Movements. The residency will center the voices of members from HBCUs. HBCUs have a series of unique opportunities and challenges regarding documenting student organizers that will be explored. However, this residency will unpack themes that are widely applicable to the BIPOC community. We look forward to welcoming a cohort that will add to the richness of our conversations!
Contact Email: projectstandarchives@gmail.com
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Cultural Identities in a Global World: Reframing Cultural Hybridity
June 23-24-25, 2021, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture in Giessen, Germany
The 21st Century is a time of cultural and social acceleration (Rosa, 2013), which continuously shapes physical limits by updating socio-cultural dynamics in the hybrid form of overlapping, blending and mixing of cultural identities. The novel COVID-19 pandemic highlights this global dimension by provoking an even faster digitalization of all spheres of life and forming new cultural hierarchies through disparities in technological development and economic resources. Is this crisis one of the examples that show how cultural hybridity can be reconceptualised in theoretical discourses and social practice? In this laboratory-conference, we look for a more concrete, differentiated and nuanced understanding of cultural hybridity, stressing the need for a critique of the concept and its harmonious connotations.
Contact Email: Laura.Popa@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
People Power: History, Organizing and Larry Goodwyn's Vision in the 21st Century
July 16, 2021, 1:00 CST
Featuring contributions from leading scholar-activists including Tim Tyson, Marsha Darling, and Ernie Cortez, People Power demonstrates how history can inform the building of new social justice movements today. This volume is inspired by the pathbreaking life and work of writer, activist, and historian Lawrence “Larry” Goodwyn. What motivates ordinary people to move from kitchen table conversations to civic engagement? This inaugural book event will feature readings from People Power that highlight how histories of anti-racism and popular insurgencies can inform today's social movements and scholarship on social justice.
To register for the event via Zoom, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApc-qppj4tG9Kd1V4DxIlbvCkP4NfQpmnv
Ethnographies of Mobility: Circular Migration and Uneven Geographies
https://culturalresearch.center/Ethnographies-of-Mobility
July 2, 2021
Join Vivian Chenxue Lu, from Fordham University; Derek Sheridan, from Academia Sinica; and Mingwei Huang, from Dartmouth College, for an insightful conversation about circular migrations of Chinese and Africans between China and Africa. The speakers will delve into how shifting uneven geographies shape migrant motivations, destinations, and experiences as racialized, national, ethnic, and gendered subjects. The mini-symposium is moderated by Cheryl Schmitz, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
Contact Email: ccrd@LN.edu.hk
The Stories Bodies Tell: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 24th July 2021 - Sunday 25th July 2021, online
The Stories Bodies Tell is an inclusive interdisciplinary symposium exploring the many and diverse ways bodies tell and reveal their stories, with or without intention. We struggle to escape physical representation. Beauty, illness, monstrosity, body art and modifications, fashion, culture, subcultures, history, and more all impact bodies and the stories they tell. Life is visibly inscribed on every line and in every pore of our body. What is beautiful and who is expected to be so seems intimately tied to the present; a relative story that changes with fashion and culture. And while some use personal expression to frame their own narrative, others seek to challenge the notion that the body says anything valid about what lurks inside on its own. The body may become a prison, when illness, disability or age takes over. It can be the vehicle of the warrior, surviving battles, enduring childbirth, committing astounding feats, revealing abilities we never knew we had. It can survive incredible things, and the scars left behind tell stories of what we went through. Even the corpse, cold and stiff, may hide a last few secrets, readable by those who understand.
300 word proposals, presentations, abstracts and other forms of contribution and participation should be submitted by Wednesday 23rd June 2021. All enquiries should be sent to: storiestold@progressiveconnexions.net
Conceptualizing Planetary Humanities – A Public Panel
June 24th, 16.00-17.15; June 25h, 9.00-10.15 am Central European Time
The way knowledge is produced, managed, applied and disseminated on a global scale today is damaging to the environment and to social relations, and is threatening to destroy the well-being of the vast majority of humans in the near future. So what needs to be done in order to change this? Many scholars working on humanities questions agree that there is a need for a radically new interpretative framework of the world. What would a new narrative on globalization, a planetary narrative, look like? This public panel is part of a workshop hosted by Bo Strath, John Noyes & Dominic Sachsenmaier. It will discuss some of the major themes, contours, contexts, interventions, challenges, or potential pitfalls of the humanities understood as a planetary endeavor. The two panels (about one hour each) will be broadcast on youtube livestream.
Contact Email: john.noyes@utoronto.ca
On Reparations and Decolonization with Professor Robin D.G. Kelley
https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvdOmpqzsuHt1PmfHjTFr5SLq2ReJl7DrX
June 29, 2021 at 6:30 PM CDT
Troubled by how the current discourse or “plans” for reparations do not, for the most part, challenge the terms of racial capitalism, this talk will revisit the question of reparations which was examined in Freedom Dreams two decades ago. Following a brief discussion of the history or reparations movements, Professor Kelley will explore how, as the reparations movement becomes legitimized, its scope may be narrowed to be consistent with neoliberal thinking and capitalism, including the logic of property rights and compensation without radical transformation. As such reparations discourse may exclude Indigenous dispossession, potentially derailing struggles for decolonization. Also, this lecture will explore the meaning of decolonization and the larger question of repair: What is required to reverse 500 plus years of history and to make a new world? How may we think of reparations and decolonization as processes complimentary to one another, rather than at odds?
Faculty Focus Podcasts
https://www.facultyfocus.com/faculty-focus-live-podcast/
Faculty Focus Podcasts are designed to bring instructors and teachers inspiration, energy, and creative strategies that they can utilize in their everyday teaching. We hope the following tips, tricks, and pedagogy techniques give teachers and instructors an extra boost of creativity and motivation. These episodes are perfect for your drive to work or can be integrated as a 15-minute think session to get your wheels turning before stepping into the classroom or “zooming” onto the computer screen.
NECSUS Spring 2021_#Solidarity - New journal issue online
https://necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/spring-2021_solidarity/
A new open access issue of NECSUS - European Journal of Media Studies is now available online. The NECSUS Spring 2021 issue offers a special article section on #Solidarity, while also containing feature articles as well as exhibition, festival and book reviews.
Contact Email: l.kopitz@uva.nl
