CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Transcultural Production Studies Digital Seminar
https://www.cinecosa.com/cycles/transcultural-production-studies/call-for-papers/
The online seminar series will comprise six online sessions in 2021-2022 as well as panels during the NECS 2022 Conference.
Viewing Production Culture through an international lens raises new questions related to cultural diversity and cultural exchanges. Each film and television professional can be considered a pluricultural individual whose identity blends two production cultures: one linked to a specific profession within the film industry and one linked to the way cinema works in a specific nation. In order to comprehend the varied and complex phenomena of cultural exchanges at stake in the internationalised film and television industry, the Transcultural Production Studies seminar series invites scholars to discuss the following question: What processes of transculturation are at play when film and television professionals work in multicultural contexts?
Proposals should be sent to transcultural@cinecosa.com and nolwenn.mingant@univ-angers.fr by 30 August 2021.
NORTHEAST MLA CONFERENCE, BALTIMORE, MARCH 2022
Race and Identities in Latinx Representations in Literature and Film
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19457
Most cultural representations of the Latinx community produced in the United States have historically reduced this population to stereotypes or caricatures. Nevertheless, there is a new wave of cultural phenomena (literature, films, tv series, etc.) that has not only challenged these exaggerated and erroneous representations but has also sought to breathe complexity into real Latinx subjectivities and experiences. This panel welcomes essays that discuss new forms and interpretations of the histories and traditions of the Latinx communities present in literature and film.
Please submit abstracts online via the NeMLA portal by September 30, 2021: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP
Ethics of Care in Native American and Indigenous Literatures
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19319 Daniel Heath Justice frames his book Why Indigenous Literature Matters through four guiding questions: “How do we learn to be human,” “How do we behave as good relatives,” “How do we become good ancestors,” and “How do we learn to live together?” These questions address issues central to the ethics of care in Native American literature and Indigenous Studies, ethics that speak to the understanding of practices, experiences, traditions, and epistemologies that inform Native lives and Indigenous forms of cultural and literary expression. While principles of care shape the literary and cultural texts themselves, they also affect how we engage and interpret them, and most importantly, they serve as an important guiding principle for our research practices, both settler and Indigenous. We seek papers that engage with the ethics of care in Native American Literature and that address some of the following topics: the relationship between the human and non-human worlds in literature, the role of storytelling as a practice of care, the ethics of care as a literary trope, Indigenous experiences and practices that reclaim Native humanity in the face of colonialism and genocide, the ethics of care as a research paradigm, and the representation of care paradigms in literature as knowledge production.
Submission deadline is 30 Sept 2021
email: ixquintanawulf@salisbury.edu
Pandemic, Protest, and Feminist Politics
This panel invites abstracts between 200-300 words that engage with questions and frameworks of dissent that have erupted in the recent socio-political movements led by women and female identifying subjects in the time of the pandemic, and consider the possibilities of forging radical plurinational and intersectional feminist solidarities. Please submit abstracts between June 15 to September 30 through this portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19204
Humanism or Posthumanism?
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19399
The purpose of this session is to open a discussion about connections, conflicts, and boundaries between Humanism and Posthumanism by exploring philosophical and literary scenarios in diverse ages of human artistic creativity and thinking, from the Renaissance to the Romanticism to the Postmodern. The session wishes to create a debate on the complexity of the interplay between Humanism and Posthumanism as a crucial issue of our time, and at the same time as a fundamental question that has crossed the entire history of human artistic and philosophical elaboration without geographical, epochal, cultural or linguistic distinctions.
email: giorgia@live.unc.edu
Art of Caring: Women and Genderqueer Art Curatorship
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19551
In 1971, Linda Nochlin published her key essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”. Central to her argument was the concept that the very notion of the “Great Artist” could not accommodate the realities of women’s day-to-day lives. This dilemma, that the “Great Woman Artist” cannot exist due to gendered living, remains relevant today. As a case in point, the pandemic has seen an exodus of women from the workforce to roles as carer-givers, as if by default. In keeping with the 2022 theme of care, we are seeking proposals that speak to acts of care by genderqueer, cis, and trans women in art. In other words, how can we care for art and artists in a new way?
Contact Email: meredith.christine.richard@gmail.comn
Literature Beyond Bars
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19192
How does the prison context disrupt and innovate upon traditional readings of literary texts? This roundtable hosts a collaborative discussion of the symbiosis of literature and the contemporary penal system in the age of mass incarceration. We welcome contributions that address the promising and/or potentially problematic aspects of reading and teaching literature in prison, with particular interest in the interpretive, pedagogical, and civic implications of these practices.
Contact Email: tkg25@cam.ac.uk
Studying Trauma as a Part of Life and Understanding/Seeking Reconciliation
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19320
This panel invites abstracts (200-300 words) along with bio-notes (100 words) by September 30, 2021, to understand trauma from literary as well as interdisciplinary approaches and study the different aspects of it. Through the investigation of literature, socio-political readings, and psychological understandings the panel aims to look at how the experience of trauma shared or not can become a common base to offer solidarity to the whole of humanity. Be it a worldwide pandemic, a natural disaster or heinous crimes trauma is a part and parcel of these experiences. Through this session, we would like to look at the concept of healing and care as a form of reconciliation.
email: rohinichakraborty92@gmail.com
Queering Feminism(s), Neoliberalism, and the Commodification of Intersectionality
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19371
Feminism does not exist in singularity, and its plurality centers disenfranchised narratives and perspectives. Due to the interwoven structural oppressions based on the social construct of identities, intersectionality’s formation provides a foundation and praxis to theorize and contribute to the dismantling of systemic oppressions. This session seeks contributions that engage with the commodification of feminisms and transnational feminist methods and its interventions in white hegemonic systems. We are interested in identifying ways that feminism(s) have been appropriated to construct binaries that restrict the development of feminist thought, art, and organizing. Further, we are interested in literary texts including, but not limited to, various forms of literature, film, and new/social media, that participate in queering feminism(s). As a Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus-sponsored roundtable session, we invite papers that broadly engage with topics that participate in the queering of feminism(s) to analyze the commodification of intersectionality within a neoliberal context.
email: rwillingham@twu.edu; SJariullah@twu.edu
Silence or Screams? Archives of Race, Gender, & Sexuality
https://archivalkismet.org/home-2/cfp-archival-kismet-fall-2021/
The Fall 2021 meeting of Archival Kismet will be held virtually December 10-11, 2021. This will be a themed meeting, entitled “Silence or Screams? Archives of Race, Gender, & Sexuality.” We particularly encourage scholars working on aspects of identity and their intersections, including (but not limited to) race, gender, and sexuality in the history of science and medicine, to submit proposals. This non-traditional virtual conference is a forum for history researchers and those in allied disciplines to share early research findings, focusing on the objects, artifacts, and ephemera of the archive. All presentations should be informal and centered around a specific “cool thing” or archival “find” relating to the theme—a poster, a letter, an object, a film clip, a concept, etc., or a small set of related materials. Think of your presentation like history show-and-tell.
Please contact the co-organizers, Courtney Thompson (cthompson@history.msstate.edu) and Alexandra Rutherford (alexr@yorku.ca), with any questions or concerns.
URL: https://archivalkismet.org/
Submissions via this form will be accepted through October 1, 2021.
Society for Analytical Feminism Meetings
The Society for Analytical Feminism invites submissions of abstracts of papers (with bibliographies) or proposals for a session at the 2021 Eastern, Central, and Pacific Division APA meetings from January 5 - 8, 2022 in Montreal, Quebec,; February 23 - 26, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois; and April 13 - April 16, 2022 in
Vancouver, British Columbia respectively.
The Society seeks abstracts of works that examine feminist issues by methods broadly construed as analytic, or that discuss the use of analytic philosophical methods as applied to feminist issues. We encourage creative, complex engagements with these questions that engaged historically marginalized voices, methods, or viewpoints.
Deadline for all submissions is August 15.
email: Jeanine Schroer - feminist.analytic@gmail.com
LGBTQ Studies at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association
https://mapaca.net/areas/lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer-lgbtq-studies
The LGBTQ Studies Area of MAPACA invites proposals for the 2021 Virtual Conference, which will be held November 10-13, 2021. We seek papers or panels of relevance to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities. Research in this area uses interdisciplinary ways of thinking to understand the development and construction of sexual identity and the diversity of sexuality in society. We welcome contemporary, critical, and/or historical perspectives.
Deadline: July 15, 2021
Contact Email: robertsc@stjohns.edu
URL: https://mapaca.net/conference
Environments of Inequality: Crises, Conflicts, Comparisons
The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS), the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI PRO) at UC Berkeley, and the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1288 “Practices of Comparing” at Bielefeld University invite doctoral students with an interest in history to apply to attend an international summer school that will be convened from September 25 to 30, 2022, at CALAS (Guadalajara, Mexico). The summer school Environments of Inequality, thus, will examine topics related to different formations and expressions of environments of inequality from the early modern, colonial period to the present age of the Anthropocene with a strong (but not exclusive) focus on the Americas from multiple interdisciplinary perspectives.
Application Deadline: September 30, 2021.
Contact Email: calas-antropoceno@uni-bielefeld.de
Confabulations: Art Practice, Art History, Critical Medical Humanities
Confabulations: Art Practice, Art History, Critical Medical Humanities is a new series of urgent conversations on health, medicine, and medicalized bodies triangulating three areas of practice and scholarship, each with their own lineages, disciplinary ambits, and trajectories of remembering and forgetting. Consisting of talks, workshops, readings, performances, and works-in-progress presentations, the series intends to make explicit the contributions that artists and art historians can make to debates and developments in critical medical humanities and, in turn, to offer ways of expanding the possibilities of art practice and art history. Confabulations: Art Practice, Art History, Critical Medical Humanities is envisioned as a two-year series of monthly online events beginning in fall 2021 and leading up to an edited volume of texts, artworks, and documentation of artworks. We invite expressions of interest for the series, the edited volume, or both.
Deadlines for Expressions of Interest:
Confabulations 2021–22: 31 August 2021
Confabulations 2022–23: 31 July 2022
email: Dr Fiona Johnstone (fiona.r.johnstone@durham.ac.uk), Dr Allison Morehead (morehead@queensu.ca); Dr Imogen Wiltshire (iw61@leicester.ac.uk).
PUBLICATIONS
Audio-Visual at a Distance in Pedagogy and Practice
This special feature titled “Audio-Visual at a Distance in Pedagogy and Practice” builds on our previous special feature “When Class Time Is Screen Time,” in which students reflect on their virtual learning experiences. We see “Audio/Visual at a Distance” as a space for educators to share and reflect on how they’ve used virtual platforms in their courses to use or engage audio/visual content. Through this forum, we hope to explore the way we, as educators, can more clearly articulate our pedagogical values and more intentionally develop practice based on the values. Additionally, we are eager to offer readers ideas they can translate into their own teaching and learning.
Send proposals of about 100-150 words along with a brief bio to ffc@twu.edu by July 23, 2021.
CFP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19dchZ03sBPtDokT1VgBJ__rYGHOMZLzpOoflrKuGiVU/edit?usp=sharing
Aesthetics of Protest Movements: The Politics and Culture of Discontent
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AiPgUjF4I3xFC1BPq7xMa7RzIOFAfv5t/view
The journal Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Studia Territorialia invites authors to submit articles for a special issue. This special issue of Studia Territorialia aims to deconstruct the aesthetic imagery employed by the political and civic actors involved in protests prior to, during, and after their protests. We do not refer to something as “aesthetic” in the sense of necessarily “beautiful,” “tasteful” or “formal,” because there are other aesthetic values such as “sublime,” “ugly,” “interesting,” and “humorous.” An appeal to these and other values can also fuel emotions and mobilization for political ends. In this special issue, aesthetics is in essence the sensitive and imaginative aspect of the effort to change social and political reality.
Submissions should be sent to the editorial team at stuter@fsv.cuni.cz or uploaded via the journal management system.
Abstract submission deadline: August 31, 2021.
URL: https://stuter.fsv.cuni.cz/stuter
Transform the Modern Languages Classroom! A Critical Modern Languages Pedagogy
Scholars, practitioners, and activists in the field of modern languages, and in fields such as sociolinguistics and education studies with modern languages experience, are invited to submit essays for a new volume on critical pedagogy for modern languages. Transform the Modern Languages Classroom! A Critical Modern Languages Pedagogy is intended to overcome the “resistance to ideas that challenge the ideological neutrality often claimed for language teaching and learning” (Morgan and Mattos, 2018). Taking an activist pedagogical stance (Preston and Aslett 2014), it follows Pessoa and Urzêda-Freitas’s understanding that if language can produce discrimination and inequality, it can also challenge and subvert oppressive practices (2012, 757).
Interested contributors are requested to submit a title, abstract (500 words) and short biography of the contributor (200 words, including author’s academic titles and affiliation) to Derek Hird at d.hird@lancaster.ac.uk by 15 July 2021.
Complexities of Care and Caring
http://signsjournal.org/for-authors/calls-for-papers/
Over the past four decades of feminist scholarship and practice, notions of care and caring, as noun and verb, have had great traction across disciplinary divides, spurring debate while challenging binaries of equality and difference, public and private, the cold hand of the market and the warmth of home, the rational and irrational, and paid and unpaid labor. This special issue invites such reassessment across disciplines, broadly questioning and complicating feminist histories, debates, and politics of care and caring. We also welcome submissions exploring and complicating cultural work on representations of care and caring, whether from the arts, media and popular culture, or literature or literary studies.
The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2021
The Shape of Us: Water Ways and Movements
https://public.imaginingamerica.org/about/call-for-submissions-v7n1
For the forthcoming issue of its multi-media journal Public, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) invites a critical reflection on a subject of pressing concern across multiple political, economic, social, and environmental struggles for justice and equity: Water. Essential to all living systems, water scarcity impacts more than half of the world’s population, with droughts and severe flooding predicted to displace hundreds of millions of people within the next decade. From Texas to India, South Africa to Brazil, global warming and rising water levels are destroying livelihoods, exposing failures in governmental policies and public services, and drastically reconfiguring relationships to space, place, community, and identity. Water often shapes who we are – stories of the rivers, lakes, streams, and oceans that nurture and feed our bodies, hearts, and minds, and connect communities. Around the world people are mourning, and searching for new ways to relate to changing waterways.
Full submissions are due September 17, 2021
email: ojsinfo@syr.edu
Race Relations in American History
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy/special_issues/race_relation
A special issue of Genealogy
While scholarship in the broad field of race relations in American history is robust, this volume will trace developments in the research, public understanding, and presentation of American race relations. Our goal is to examine the myriad ways that race continues to shape American life, policies, institutions, and customs. At the same time, this volume will also explore how racially minoritized groups have navigated, worked through, and pushed back against the white supremacist structures that shaped so much of American history.
Please send abstracts to the guest editors (bjett@fsw.edu and fritz@msmary.edu) or to the Genealogy Editorial Office (simi.wang@mdpi.com) by July 31, 2021.
Contact Email: bjett@fsw.edu
Revolutions in Print: Rebellion, Reform and the Press
The Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group (PPCRG) at Nottingham Trent University invites proposals for contributions to a special issue zine on the topic of ‘Revolutions in Print: Rebellion, Reform and the Press’. The zine will be produced as part of the PPCRG’s exhibition and event series on this topic (26 Oct-29 Nov 2021) at Nottingham Castle, where it will be distributed. We invite proposals for contributions on any aspect of rebellion, reform or revolution in the periodical press from the nineteenth century through to the present day. The exhibition addresses this theme from regional, national as well as international perspectives and we invite contributions that take any of these approaches.
Proposals should be submitted by 20 July 2021 as an email attachment to the editors at ppcrg@ntu.ac.uk.
URL: https://periodicalsandprintculture.org/blog/
Feminism and Cybersecurity
With more and more examples of cyberattacks orchestrated by state actors, cyberwarfare and espionage are becoming critical issues for policymakers and military leaders worldwide. Notions of national security have dominated cybersecurity debates and how to best address threats in the cyber realm. Response to emerging cybersecurity issues, including threats, should not merely focus on building cyber defensive and offensive capabilities. Cybersecurity policies need to take individual users' human rights seriously by putting people's empowerment and well-being at their center. Weaponizing a heavily populated civilian space has enormous implications for the human rights of the civilian population. Individuals around the world are frequently at risk of human rights violations related to cyberspace.
Please submit a 300-word abstract of your proposed paper to amhajne@stonehill.edu on or before August 1st, 2021.
Animal Heroes, Villains and Others: the Narrative Functions of Strange and Familiar Creatures in Film and Television
We invite chapter proposals (300-500 words) for a volume of essays under contract with Lexington Books. This edited collection will examine how animal characters in film and television serve as protagonists, antagonists, or anti-heroes fulfilling various narrative functions. Essays should consider how representations of animal characters in different narrative contexts reflect societal attitudes towards animals as informed by the intersectionality of any of the following: culture, race, gender, sexuality, social class, disability. This edited collection will also address how recent representations deviate from more conventional character types and analyze the role of setting as well as historical and social contexts in shaping these representations. Only unpublished essays will be considered.
Deadline for Submission of Proposals: July 15, 2021
Contact emails: Karin.Beeler@unbc.ca and Stan.Beeler@unbc.ca
Presence
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-drama-review/information/call-for-papers
For nearly three decades, scholars have debated whether performance is constituted by the mutual presence of live bodies in coterminous time and space. Since its inception, this debate has been influenced by poststructuralism, feminism, queer theory, phenomenology and critical race theory. For these discourses, performance can critically interrogate the metaphysics of presence by confusing, displacing, or reframing the conditions by which we distinguish it from absence. Consequently, performance has often been identified as an elusive mode of presence that challenges all manner of culturally constructed binaries: appearance and disappearance, liveness and mediatization, archival remains and embodied memory, reality and illusion, representation and action, selfsameness and otherness, etc. If performance has been construed as the deconstructive practice par excellence, then privileging co-presence has sometimes been construed as naïve and even passé.
Submissions should be approximately 9–12,000 words, and be sent for consideration by 15 September, 2021.
For submissions and inquiries, please email evan.hill@yale.edu
American Bodies
Bodies, and processes of embodiment, loom large in cultural imaginations of America. More recently, investigations into the corporeal have been invigorated by insights from fields like disability studies, fat studies, or the medical humanities and through impulses from queer and affect theory that continue to productively complicate mind-body dichotomies. How specific cultural artifacts, scientific developments, or political decisions imagine bodies, regulate them, imperil them, mark them, or differentiate between them thus does particularly noteworthy cultural work in the United States—something that is always intricately connected to questions of power and control. For its fifteenth issue, aspeers dedicates its topical section to “American Bodies” and invites European graduate students to critically and analytically explore American literature, (popular) culture, society, history, politics, and media through the lens of the body (or bodies) in the US. We welcome papers from all fields, methodologies, and approaches comprising American studies as well as interdisciplinary submissions.
general academic contributions due October 17, 2021
Contact Email: info@aspeers.com
Transembling Family
How do we come to conceptualize trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse families? How do technologies impact how we come to define or create trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse families? What are the stories we want to read? What stories are missing from dominant narratives that we want told? How do we normalize family beyond stereotypes? How do we come to define family as trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse folks and where do we struggle or find joy? For this volume, we use the term “family” as a working truth with a wide range of meanings in an attempt to address the feelings of family belonging across all aspects of social location: ability, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, gender identity, body size, social class and beyond. This volume seeks to interrogate, inform, and challenge understandings of trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse familial understandings and creation through acknowledgement of the technologies of everyday life.
Submit Abstract (approximately 250 words) as well as a 50-word bio to zacgrant@yorku.ca by September 15, 2021
Pandemics, People, Politics: Challenges and Futures
THE JMC REVIEW: An Interdisciplinary Social Science Journal of Criticism, Practice and Theory
The current volume therefore focuses on the pandemic not only as a global health crisis, but also on the political economy, and socio-cultural impact of pandemics in general, and how they impact broader challenges especially relating to the postcolony, magnified by the rise of populist and authoritarian tendencies, legal frameworks and carceralities, state surveillance and military interventions, the decline of democratic rights, climate and planetary disruptions, and challenges to people’s power, and other connected implications of the pandemic and its ongoing impacts on livelihood, cultures, and consumption.
Please submit proposals on or before 21 July 2021 here: jmcreview@gmail.com
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Laura Bassi Scholarship
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and funding consists of:
Master’s candidates: $750
Doctoral candidates: $2,500
Junior academics: $500
Deadline: 31 July 2021
email: scholarships@editing.press
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/andrew-w-mellon-postdoctoral-fellowship-humanities
Five one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are available to junior scholars in the humanities who are no more than five years out of their doctorate. Preference will be given to candidates not yet in tenure track positions, whose proposals are interdisciplinary, who have not previously enjoyed use of the resources of the University of Pennsylvania, and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to Penn's intellectual life. The programs of the Wolf Humanities Center are conceived through yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. For the 2022-2023 academic year, our topic will be Heritage.
The fellowship is open to all scholars, national and international, who meet eligibility requirements.
Application Deadline: October 15, 2021
Video Oral History Processor/Publisher
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61497
The HistoryMakers seeks to hire full-time Video Oral History Processors/Publishers to audit/edit, segment, write descriptive narrative descriptions and archivally process the life oral history interviews in The HistoryMakers Collection that are housed permanently at the Library of Congress and making accessible to users worldwide via The HistoryMakers Digital Archive. Those hired must have a background in African American, American, women and gender studies, anthropology, social history, economics, politics, STEM/medicine, the arts, library or information science or other related fields and will work as part of a publishing team that will process and add 40-45 interviews/month to The HistoryMakers Digital Archive (each interview averages 4-6 hours in length).
URL: http://www.thehistorymakers.org
Program Coordinator, Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center
The Program Coordinator will have two primary programmatic responsibilities: addressing gender-based issues, including violence, and supporting the Women’s Center’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work. They will develop and deliver equity-focused programming that attends to the intersections of these two priorities and considers the needs of the Women’s Center community (undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty/staff members, and alumni). The Program Coordinator will develop deep partnerships and work strategically with student organizations that serve specific student populations. his position is ideal for someone who has a deep commitment to working with students to address gender-based violence and gender-based inequities.
This position will remain open until filled. Review of Applicants will begin on July 12, 2021.
For questions about the position or the application process, please contact Ashley Cochran, Senior Recruiter at alc6dk@virginia.edu.
Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities: Anti-Racism
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech University invites applications for its Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, to be held over the 2020-2021 academic year, beginning on September 1, 2021. This fellowship will be closely aligned with the Center’s scholarly theme for the year, Anti-Racism, and accordingly, the Center will prioritize applicants whose work contributes to anti-racist scholarship. This position will target early career scholars with the potential to move into a tenure-track position after the term of the award, and who would benefit from dedicated research and writing time as well as professional development mentoring.
We will begin reviewing applications on July 23, 2021
For additional information, contact Dr. Michael Borshuk, Director of the Humanities Center at Texas Tech at michael.borshuk@ttu.edu.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Dissidence and Feminism: Public Round Table
Wednesday 15 July, 18:00 – 20:00 CET
In the recent years, historians have contested this image of male dissidents, turning away the attention from the most popular emblematic figures to include those who escaped so far the media attention. This brought forward also the discussion on intersectionality of the dissident movement, and of different claims brought forward by it. In our roundtable we will look at the history of the women question within the dissidents movement, both including the question of participation of women in the movement itself, and the feminist claims raised as one of the postulates. Four historians specialising in Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Polish People’s Republic will join us to discuss specific case studies, but also draw comparisons and even show a few entanglements between so far separately viewed movements.
Mobilization, Interaction, Contention - Relations Between NGOs/Civil Society and States in Times of COVID-19
June 23, 28 and 30, 2021
The conference promises unique perspectives on the at-times tense, other times fruitful (and sometimes, both) relations between state agents and institutions and various non-governmental actors. Unique, because of the interdisciplinary approaches coming into dialogue (among them: Social Work, Law, International Relations, Political Science, Anthropology, Political Geography, and more); the different geo-political contexts surveyed; and the in-depth analysis of themes that carry a sense of urgency.
Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat
https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/
July 13-23, 2021
Join us for ten days of presentations talk-backs, and a radical experiment in reimagining the traditional workshop as an open forum of mutual accountability. This inaugural writing retreat invites applications from writers of all disciplines, genres, and backgrounds who are committed to antiracist writing practices. Registered auditors may log in to view morning lectures and talk-backs, and may observe the afternoon experimental workshops, at their convenience. There is no fee for participation.
To apply as an auditor, click here for details and to register.
The Pink and Purple Church in the Castro
http://arspgallery.com/mccsf-exhibit-main/
In 1979, a community of LGBTQ Christians bought an old church building in San Francisco’s Castro District. Over the next decade, the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco (MCCSF) became known in the neighborhood as the “Pink and Purple Church.” It started as a place where queer people could be out and proud about their sexuality and their faith. When AIDS hit, it became a place where they could sing and pray, heal and mourn, resist and celebrate. This exhibit uses archival sound to tell the story of MCCSF and how it got through the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States. It’s drawn from a collection of audio recordings made by MCCSF starting in 1987. In 2011, a long-time member told researcher Lynne Gerber about tapes he had stored under the floor in the church’s sound room. The collection of more than 1200 cassettes had been unknown to the rest of the congregation.
email: l.gerber999@gmail.com
Race and Remembrance Podcast Series
In this series, ten episodes will be recorded exploring stories from our Joel Buchanan Archive, or JBA Collection, which aims to document the perspectives and experiences of local African American community members and commemorate Black history. This series will be organized by theme, with two episodes on each of the following: racial terror and violence in 20th century Florida, the Civil Rights Movement in Gainesville and community activism, the history of racism within the University of Florida, the prevalence of academic and professional discrimination at UF, and the struggle for racial equity/justice today. It is our hope that this podcast series will help amplify the often-ignored stories of the Black communities at UF, in Florida, and across the nation.
Email: alanagomez@ufl.edu
