CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
NORTHEAST MLA CONFERENCE, BALTIMORE, MARCH 2022
Rhizomatic and Multicentered Approaches in Creative
Research Praxes
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19510
This seminar will be based on short papers and robust
dialogues that explore these and related topics and model intra-action and
simultaneity by bringing together kindred spirits who embody this ideology
through their written, oral, aural, and/or visual aesthetic, poetry, fiction,
nonfiction, sound and video work, photography, performance, pedagogy,
sculpture, and any and all hybrids in-between, in an environment receptive to
interaction, experimentation, and a lively, imaginative, generative exchange of
ideas.
All Participation Proposals must be submitted by September
29, 2021.
Masculine Wars, Feminine Exterminations: Between
Experiences, Traumas and Revolts
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19246
Encouraging multidimensional and interdisciplinary analyzes
of the poetics of female bodies in a context of conflict, this panel opens the
debate on the traditional and contemporary representations and imaginaries of
wars in literature and arts with an emphasis on
the place occupied by the female(s) character(s), the abuses,
exploitations, and martyrdoms of her/their body(ies), as well as her/their
responses and complex reactions to war,
oppression, arbitrariness, and extermination attempts.
For questions,
please contact Tiako Djomatchoua Murielle Sandra (mt2200@princeton.edu)
RuPedagogies of Realness: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Teaching
and Learning
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/User/SubmitAbstract/19384
This roundtable is a combined showcase of published work
that began on a NeMLA panel and opportunity to extend the conversation from the
original panel and publication to look at the increasingly global enterprise of
RuPaul’s Drag Race and its pedagogical power. Across its chapters, RuPedagogies
of Realness: Essays on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Teaching and Learning (McFarland
2021) tackles issues from heterotopia, pop-linguistics, philosophies of
co-productive learning, and televised curricula to cultural appropriation,
sports as pedagogy, stand-up as pedagogy, and even digital drag…right into the
COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to sharing the published work in RuPedagogies,
we are seeking panelists who would like to engage in conversation and debate
regarding their own RuPedagogies: what and how do we learn through the lens of
the series? Inversely, although perhaps more importantly, what and how does the
series teach us?
Contact Email: Lindsay.Bryde@gmail.com
Traversing the Terrain: Navigating Grad School’s Hidden
Curriculum
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19325
How does one prepare for a comprehensive exam? Who would
make for the best members of a dissertation committee, and how should one ask
them for help? What kind of relationship should one have with other graduate
students? How does one move from being an undergraduate to a graduate student? This
GSC-sponsored roundtable session thus hopes to help demystify the myriad ways
that the hidden curriculum of grad school might pose unnecessary challenges to
graduate student success, while also capitalizing on the wisdom of experience
of those who have engaged with and successfully overcome such institutional
barriers.
For inquiries, please email Christian Ylagan at cylagan2@uwo.ca or gsc@nemla.org.
What We Are And What We Can Be: On Leadership
Expectations Among Graduate Students
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19324
This GSC-sponsored roundtable seeks to bridge traditional
notions of graduate school with active leadership training frameworks that seek
to develop engaged graduate students who could take the reins and influence
positive change in various contexts in and out of academia. To this end, we
invite participants who could speak to both conventional and creative ways that
graduate students could or should be trained to be competent, committed,
compassionate, and service-oriented leaders. Of special interest would be
presentations that provide insight on how to carve out graduate student-initiated
opportunities for developmental leadership training within existing academic
programs.
Please forward inquiries to NeMLA GSC Vice President, Christian
Ylagan at cylagan2@uwo.ca
Balancing Acts: Finding Time for Work and Scholarship
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19225
This roundtable seeks to present a real-time discussion of
these problems within English and language studies and hopes to try and find
active answers to these questions. Rather than a presentation of papers, this
is conceived as a traditional speaking roundtable: the presenters will have a
few remarks prepared, but, ideally, this will serve as an academic conversation
to jumpstart a larger, more necessary discussion amongst professionals about
how and why finding a balance between working and scholarship is necessary,
particularly in our fields.
email: medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com
Pasts and Futures of
the Library
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8084707/pasts-and-futures-library
A library is a philosophical space and a physical place. In
this conference, we invite scholars from a wide range of fields including the
humanities, social sciences, and information and library sciences, to explore
the libraries of the past and to imagine the libraries of the future. How were
and are libraries used? What do they provide access to and for whom? What have
and should libraries contain, and who, if anyone, should own the rights to
those materials?
Please send an abstract of not more than 250 words by
5pm PST November 29, 2021 to ebonney@fullerton.edu and
klambert@fullerton.edu
Gulf Coast Symposium
on Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation
The upper Gulf Coast occupies a unique yet contradictory
place in the history of North American slavery. Encompassing the western fringe
of the slave-owning South, the region was the site of both oppression and
refuge. The Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper
Gulf Coast will convene a symposium at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, on
April 19, 2022, to consider the many experiences and expressions of slavery,
abolition, and emancipation in the region's past and publish this work in The
Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record. The Center invites proposals
from established and emerging scholars who actively seek disciplinary
intersections between art, economics, ethnicity, gender, history, literature,
material culture, sociology, and other fields. The Center and The Record
welcome projects connected to broadly defined Gulf South and Southeast Texas
regions.
Proposal deadline: November 1, 2021 to jlbryan@lamar.edu
URL: https://www.lamar.edu/arts-sciences/research-centers/center-for-history-and-culture/index.html
African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD)
Interdisciplinary Conference
https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/aaadjmu/
The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies program
at James Madison University invites proposals for its annual interdisciplinary
conference, to be held virtually as a webinar series from Wednesday, February
16 to Saturday, February 19, 2022. This year’s theme is “Voices of Race, Modes
of Advocacy.” Ranging across topics from scientific practice to social policy
to cultural movements, the conference will bring together a group of scholars
and archivists from a wide variety of overlapping and intersecting fields. The
conference will feature a keynote presentation by scholar, activist, and social
critic Dorothy Roberts (Fatal Invention, Killing the Black Body, Shattered
Bonds).
Please send any questions and/or 300-word presentation
proposals (or 1000-word panel proposals) to aaadstudies@jmu.edu
by October 15, 2021.
Obscenity! Blasphemy!
Treason! An Interdisciplinary Conference on Censorship
March 3–4, 2022, National Taiwan University and online
Obscenity! Blasphemy! Treason! Justifications for censorship
imply that censored objects hold the power to subvert moral, religious, and
civic good. The censor assumes that power, turning the censored object into a
hidden hypothetical danger, whose excision from public view reinforces values
and even realities the censor is protecting. This conference seeks to
understand the power, interactions, and evolution of the censor, censored, and
censorship. We welcome presentations addressing theoretical or actual
censorship of a range of objects (e.g. text, sound, visual media, education,
thought) and from across disciplines (e.g. literature, history, philosophy,
film studies, art history, anthropology, politics, law).
Please send an
abstract of your proposed presentation (200–300 words) and a brief bio to Dr L.
Acadia (acadia@ntu.edu.tw) by
August 27, 2021.
Utopian
Possibilities: Knowledge, Happiness and Wellbeing
http://utopian-studies-europe.org/conference/
10-12 December 2021 – an Online Conference
The conference will have the threefold objective of raising
awareness, analysing old and new utopian spaces and discourses, and creating a
forum for delegates to co-design the future. Hopefully, a document will result
from this co-designing activity – The Porto Declaration on Utopian
Possibilities – to be signed by individuals and institutions, acknowledging the
productivity of a utopian thinking methodology and asserting the universities
as privileged places for training utopian minds.
Please send proposals via email to utopian.possibilities.conference@gmail.com by 1st
October 2021.
Global Conference on
Women and Gender: Community, Care, and Crisis
in person and online, March 17-19, 2022
This interdisciplinary conference brings together
participants from all academic fields to engage in wide-ranging, critical
conversations about how communitites are devleoped, fostered, and destroyed in
the small- and large-scale; who is most entitled to care and who must/can give
it; how crisis affects both communities as a whole and the individuals within
them; and how all of these questions are shaped by the ways gender is
constructed, legislated, resisted, adn performed. Contributors are encouraged
to have an expansive understanding of the conference theme as participants
discuss the past, present, and future of community, care, and crisis throughout
the world.
Please submit a 350-500 word abstract by October 1st, 2021
Please direct inquiries about the conference to gcwg@cnu.edu.
Between the Living
and the Dead: A Halloween Conference
https://www.progressiveconnexions.net/interdisciplinary-projects/evil/living-and-dead/conferences/
Saturday 30th October - Sunday 31st October 2021, online
Across cultures and time, humans have demonstrated a primal
need to maintain a connection with the dead. The idea that the veil separating
the living and the dead becomes porous at particular times and places has held
particular sway over the imagination, with Samhain in Ireland and Scotland,
Mexico’s Día de los Muertos, the Hungry Ghost Festival in regions of Asia,
Pitru Paksha in India, or the Awuru Odo Festival in Nigeria emerging as just a
few examples of the rituals that articulate humanity’s drive to transcend the
boundaries of mortality. Why do we tell stories about ghosts/spirits, haunted
houses, witches, and demonic possessions? What do our narratives and cultural
practices reveal about the way we perceive death, the afterlife and the
supernatural?
The aim of this interdisciplinary conference and
collaborative networking event is to bring people together and encourage
creative conversations in the context of a variety of formats: papers,
seminars, workshops, storytelling, performances, poster presentations, panels,
q&a’s, round-tables etc.
300 word proposals, presentations, abstracts and other forms
of contribution and participation should be submitted by Monday 6th September
2021
Adriana Gordillo: adriana.gordillo@mnsu.edu
Project Administrator: livingdead@progressiveconnexions.net
Art in strange places
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8021265/art-strange-places
Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France, 17-18 March 2022
Art, in the sense of canonical works, is frequently seen
overflowing from its recognised loci (e.g. art gallery, concert hall, literary
festival, poetry reading...) into everyday culture. This may be a deliberate
strategy to make the canon more accessible to a wider public, but it is very
often commercially motivated. Unlike "pop art" - whose own aesthetic
codes limited its appeal to a new elite -, or the structured
popularisation/vulgarisation of high culture which aims to sustain the canon
and educate the public in its ways, "high" art frequently appears in
"low" places. How do the artistic community, authors, composers, collectors,
critics and commentators react to this? What does the general public think? In
what ways is the perception of art affected by this commodification?
Proposals (c.400 words) and a short biographical note (c.150
words) should be sent to Béatrice Laurent (beatrice.laurent@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr)
and Trevor Harris (trevor.harris@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr)
by 7 October 2021.
American Studies
Association of Texas (ASAT) Conference
http://www.asatex.org/2021_CFP.pdf
The 65th annual American Studies Association of Texas (ASAT)
Conference will be held November 11- 13, 2021 at Midwestern State University in
Wichita Falls, Texas. ASAT encourages the submission of academic and creative
proposals for panels, papers, and visual presentations that reflect a
contemplative inquiry of the conference theme from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Presenters should be professionals in their field, though graduate and
undergraduate students are also encouraged to submit proposals endorsed by a
faculty mentor.
The deadline for submissions is September 3, 2021.
email: john.schulze@msutexas.edu
Apocalypse, Dystopia,
and Disaster
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8015500/apocalypse-dystopia-and-disaster
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for
the 43rd annual SWPACA conference. The Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster in
Culture Area is calling for papers about anything apocalyptic, dystopian, or
disaster-related. This can be in movies,
television, literature, graphic novels, or any other cultural examples of
disaster, dystopia, or the end of the world.
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2021
All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s
database at http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca
Contact Email: trayers.shane@gmail.com
Emerging Voices in
Theatre and Performance Studies
https://stagingabjection.com/announcements/
We are delighted to announce that the research group Staging
National Abjection: Theatre and Politics in Turkey and its Diasporas is
resuming its webinar series in Fall 2021. This year, part of our webinar series
will highlight the work of emerging scholars in the broader field of theatre
and performance studies, particularly the scholarship on performance and
politics. We invite papers and works-in-progress by MA and PhD students,
postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars.
Please submit an
abstract of 500 words and a CV to staging.abjection@khas.edu.tr by September 20, 2021.
URL: https://stagingabjection.com/
Getting In/Formation
through Queer Feminist Temporalities
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2022/webprogrampreliminary/Session9346.html
College Art Association, Chicago IL, February 16-19, 2022
Building upon the idea that time can violently displace and
perpetuate erasure, which has been repeatedly put forth by feminist, queer, and
disabled activists and scholars, this panel proposes time as a methodology to
disrupt and intervene in aesthetic canons and forms of representation. This discussion
explores how the forms, gestures, and textures of time slips redress tensions
between gender, sexual, and national identities. Concerned with how
relationships to history, trauma, and medium inform practice, the panel reveals
how queer feminist temporalities allow for repair and riposte while also
resisting silencing and erasure.
Send the completed proposal form by Thursday,
September 16th, 2021 to Session Chairs via email: jm225@buffalo.edu& conor.g.moynihan@gmail.com (Jocelyn
E. Marshall & Conor Moynihan)
To submit, access the proposal form from CAA’s website
(fillable PDF file): https://caa.confex.com/caa/2022/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html
Queering Sexual and Gendered Citizenship in the “Modern
World”
https://utpjournals.press/journals/cjh/cfp
Theme Issue of the Canadian Journal of History/Annales
canadiennes d’histoire
For this thematic issue of CJH/ACH, we invite scholars to
send proposals that seek to analyze, deconstruct, and problematize the history
of sexual and gendered citizenship in the “modern world” (~ nineteenth- to late
twentieth-century) from a queer perspective. We particularly welcome
contributions with a transnational and comparative approach, and articles
analyzing this issue from intersectional, post-colonial, and indigenous
perspectives. Those interested should send a brief CV and an abstract of 300
words by September 15, 2021 to cjh@utpress.utoronto.ca.
PUBLICATIONS
Teaching World Literature
Through An Interdisciplinary Literary Lens
This
collection seeks essays from all humanities disciplines that cover the
challenges of teaching texts from other countries to students who have not
traveled to that country. The essays should be accompanied by lesson plans and
directions for assignments. Contributors may consider the unique challenges of
covering history, geography, and cultural norms in their lessons. For example, a
text by Yukio Mishima on Japanese suicide could be integrated into a course on
death and dying. A social science course could use Mohsin Hamid’s novel Moth
Smoke in a unit on substance abuse. Faculty members teaching overseas could use
texts and films from their home countries. In adding to teaching experiences
and methods, the essays may explore lesson planning, course delivery, and the
overall effectiveness of integrating text and/or films form other countries in
courses in humanities disciplines.
Deadline
for abstracts: December 1, 2021
email: wong@claflin.edu
Tropical Landscapes:
nature-culture entanglements
https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/announcement
A landscape’s
physicality is entwined with layers of human meaning and value – and tropical
landscapes have a particular human value. The tropics is commonly defined in
geographical terms as the region of Earth on either side of the Equator extending
to the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. As part of this drive for
cultivation, the new theory of the plantationocene critiques how expansive
plantation landscapes – past and present – are entwined with environmental
degradation, with histories of colonialism, with capitalism and racism, and the
tropics. The Special Issue invites a wide range of articles and creative works
from researchers who engage with the tropical regions of the world.
Submission
deadline: 30 November 2021
eTropic
Editor: etropic@jcu.edu.au
'After the Turn': New Directions
in Socially Engaged Art Research
The
special issue seeks to examine the evolution of the 'social turn' in
contemporary art in light of other emerging and urgent contexts, such as the
decolonisation of art history, the climate crisis and the global pandemic. It
aims to bring together new ways of thinking, conceptualising and evaluating
modes of social engagement and artistic organisation that question, expand and
add new meanings to the vocabulary and methods affiliated with the social turn
discourse.
Please
email abstracts, keywords and bio to: Dani Child d.child@mmu.ac.uk and Mor Coher mor0ante0@gmail.com no later than 30th
September 2021.
https://www.academia.edu/50843529/CFP_After_the_Turn_New_Directions_in_Socially_Engaged_Art_Research
Queering Sexual and Gendered
Citizenship in the “Modern World”
The
history of sex, sexuality, and gender is a history of conflicts and resistance,
of “steps forwards” and “steps backwards,” of “revolutions” and
“counter-revolutions.” Historians of sexuality and gender analyze practices,
behaviors, experiences, and identities, while emphasizing how sex, sexuality,
and gender are inextricably interconnected with social, political, and
ideological power structures. Social attitudes towards sex, sexuality, and
gender are prone to vary continuously. For this thematic issue of CJH/ACH, we
invite scholars to send proposals that seek to analyze, deconstruct, and
problematize the history of sexual and gendered citizenship in the “modern
world” (~ nineteenth- to late twentieth-century) from a queer perspective. We
particularly welcome contributions with a transnational and comparative
approach, and articles analyzing this issue from intersectional, post-colonial,
and indigenous perspectives.
Those
interested should send a brief CV and an abstract of 300 words by September 15,
2021 to cjh@utpress.utoronto.ca.
URL: https://www.utpjournals.press/loi/cjh
Wokeness, Sleepwalking and
Stupors: The War on Social Justice Discourse
Oct. 6,
2021, virtual
The
world as we know it is undergoing dynamic transformation. Many gains have been
made in recent decades towards loosening the grip of some of the belief systems
that have enabled many systemic inequalities in the modern world. The
ideological underpinnings of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy and coloniality,
for example, have been rigorously challenged and are being steadily eroded,
leading to changes in legal frameworks, social practices and the norms of
acceptable everyday behaviour. We hope to facilitate the presentation of
thoughts that tease out the nuances of these metaphors in relation to the
production of social justice thinking. The conference will not take the form of
traditional presentations and Q&A but will rather ask participants to present
their thoughts 4 briefly, and then engage in conversations with fellow
panelists.
abstracts
are due on 31 August 2021 to conference.wicds@wits.ac.za
URL: https://www.wokenesssleepwalkingandstupors.com/
Extinction and Memorial Culture:
Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8012253/extinction-and-memorial-culture-reckoning-species-lossMass extinction and the
diminishment of biodiversity is one of the most significant issues facing our
time—a period now widely described as the Anthropocene. We invite papers which
consider how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings
and cultures. In particular this collection focusses on how extinction is
memorialised in museums, zoos and cultural institutions, through public acts of
protest, ritual and mourning, in literature and art, and by individuals. This
collection will ask: What happens after extinction? What public affects might
new extinction rituals and ceremonies produce? What are the ethical, political
and philosophical questions that arise when we look at the remains of extinct
animals in museums? How might acts of collective mourning shape public
environmental sentiment?
300-word
abstracts and 200-word bio due: September 30, 2021.
Contact
Email: hannah.stark@utas.edu.au
Social
Work Practice with Indigenous People: A Global South Perspective
This
book aims to explore indigenous social work issues in the global south or
developing countries. Notably, it will help the policy makers, social workers
and development professionals to respond by developing more appropriate social
welfare policies, which will lead to a better outcome for the indigenous
population across the global south. The insight of this book attempts to cover-
(i) concept of indigenous social work practice, (ii) the social work approaches
in indigenous settings, (iii) application of social work methods in indigenous
community development, (iv) indigenization of social work practice, (iv) impact
of social welfare policies on indigenous people or communities, (vi) issues and
challenges of social workers in delivering the social services to indigenous
communities.
Proposals
related to theoretical, empirical and policy analysis dealing with any of the
below-mentioned themes are welcome across the world from academicians,
scholars, early career researchers, policy makers, development professionals,
and social workers. Indigenous scholars are especially encouraged to
contribute.
Please
send your proposed abstract title (no more than 400 words), name, affiliation
to koustab3662@gmail.com by 25th October 2021
Theorizing
cultural practice
The
goal of this book is to globalize the discourse on practice theory in addition
to showing regionalized versions of its relevance toward explanation of
cultural thought and action. Especially desirable for this book are
applications of method and theory to explain puzzling cultural customs in
community, ethnic, regional, and transnational contexts; implications of
practice theory for issues of political power and public policy; integration
with constructed concepts of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality for
practitioners of cultural analysis as well as the groups they study;
comparative consideration of practices driven by contemporary forms of
technology and media; relationship to twentieth-century streams of cultural
work including structuralism, psychoanalysis, performance, and
functionalism. Emphasis in the volume
will be on interdisciplinary, international dialogue and clear, comprehensible
writing will be a requirement for publication.
Deadline:
December 1, 2021
Send a
precis of the proposed contribution to the editor at bronners@uwm.edu by Dec. 1, 2021
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Bibliographical Society of America’s New
Scholars Program
https://bibsocamer.org/awards/new-scholars-program/
The Bibliographical Society of America’s New Scholars Program
promotes the work of scholars new to bibliography, broadly defined to include
the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission,
and subsequent history of all textual artifacts. This includes manuscript,
print, and digital media, from clay and stone to laptops and iPads. The New
Scholars award is $1,000, with a $500 travel stipend.
For more details on the New Scholars program, including
eligibility and application information, please visit the BSA website, and
watch the 2020 information session recording on YouTube.
Contact Email: beh7v@virginia.edu
Holocaust Studies Fellowship
https://www.ushmm.org/research/opportunities-for-academics/fellowships/annual
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph
and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is pleased to award
fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. We
welcome proposals from scholars in all academic disciplines and award specific
fellowships-in-residence to candidates working on their dissertations (ABD). A
principal focus of the overall fellowship program is to ensure the development
of a new generation of scholars, and those early in their careers are
especially encouraged to apply.
Deadline: Nov. 15
email: vscholars@ushmm.org
Residential
Fellowships at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies
https://www.cais.nrw/en/callforapplications/fellowship_en/
Apply to become a fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet
Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany. With its fellowships, CAIS supports
excellent researchers and practitioners of all career stages and disciplines,
whose work focuses on the social opportunities and challenges of the digital
transformation. As a fellow, you will receive a grant for the duration of your
stay. Alternatively, CAIS will finance the costs for a replacement at your home
institution while you are away. The modern infrastructure at CAIS offers
optimal working conditions and a wide range of opportunities for exchanging
ideas. During your stay, you will be accommodated in a comfortable apartment
free of charge.
Send an abstract of your project (max. 300 words) with
letterhead and information on the desired time of implementation as a PDF
to application@cais.nrw by 31
August 2021.
If you have any questions, please contact esther.laufer@cais.nrw.
About the Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship
https://www.pem.org/visit/library-02/research-fellowships
One recipient will be awarded the Frances E. Malamy Research
Fellowship of the Peabody Essex Museum to perform independent scholarly
research at the Phillips Library. Fellowships awarded can be taken between
January 3, 2022 and December 31, 2022. Fellows are expected to be in residence
for a minimum of eight weeks. Research must include primary use of archival
materials held at the Phillips Library, and/or archiving activities under the
direction of the Phillips Library staff.
All application materials, including references, must be
received by 11:59 pm on October 31, 2021.
Contact Email: research@pem.org
Fellowships and Grants for Humanists
https://www.doaks.org/research
Fellowships are awarded to Byzantine, Garden and Landscape,
and Pre-Columbian scholars on the basis of demonstrated scholarly ability and
preparation of the candidate, including interest and value of the study or
project, and the project’s relevance to the resources of Dumbarton Oaks A
number of grants and fellowships are available, including Junior Fellowships,
awarded to degree candidates who at the time of application have
fulfilled all preliminary requirements for a PhD or appropriate final
degree, and plan to work on a dissertation or final project while
at Dumbarton Oaks, under the direction of a faculty member
from their own university.
Contact Email: fellowshipprograms@doaks.org
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Black
Excellence—Multiple Faculty Appointments
https://uwaterloo.ca/provost/black-excellence-multiple-faculty-appointments-open-all
The University of Waterloo is pleased to announce the
cluster hiring of ten tenure-track/tenured academic appointments representing
emerging and established career stages who will contribute to Black excellence
across all six Waterloo Faculties and to Waterloo’s goal of a culture of
equity, diversity, and inclusivity for all through increasing the
representation of Black peoples.
Review of applications will begin on October 18, 2021 and
continue until the positions are filled.
URL: https://uwaterloo.ca/provost/cluster-hiring-initiatives
email: Recruitment.Provost@uwaterloo.ca
Assistant Professor of Public History and Public Humanities
(Job ID: 41839)
The University of Louisville is seeking a tenure-track
Assistant Professor in Public History and Public Humanities to begin August
2022. This position will be a joint appointment in the Department of History,
which offers a Graduate Certificate and an MA track in Public History, and the
Department of Comparative Humanities, which offers an MA in Public Humanities
and a Ph.D. in Humanities. Within two years, this hire will become director of
the Public History and Public Humanities programs. Candidates will teach upper
division and graduate courses in public history/humanities, along with courses
in the Cardinal Core program and their research specialization. Preference will be given to candidates whose
research field is the experience of historically underrepresented groups and/or
marginalized communities in the United States.
All materials must be received by October 4,2021.
Questions about the search can be sent to phsearch@louisville.edu.
Assistant Professor in Transgender Studies
https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF04377
The Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at
the University of California, Davis seeks applications for a full-time, tenure
track, assistant professorship in Transgender Studies to begin July 1, 2022.
This position requires a teaching and research focus on transgender studies
with an emphasis on at least two subfields. These subfields could include, but
are not limited to, the following: critical prison studies; global migration
and refugee studies; critical legal studies; science, technology, health, and
environmental studies; or media, literature, performance, and cultural studies.
We are seeking a critical, interdisciplinary orientation to transgender
studies. A transnational research focus is preferred. Attention to histories or
legacies of race and colonialism, broadly conceived, is required.
To receive full consideration, applications must be
submitted by November 15, 2021.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
CONFERENCES
Amerindian Lecture
Series
Fall 2021 program: https://www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2021/09/khi-amerindian-lecture-series.php
The KHI Amerindian Lecture Series 2021 is conceived as a
forum to reflect on Indigenous arts/visual cultures and aesthetic practices
created on the American continent, past and present. It gathers scholars who
present novel research in/linking art history, anthropology/ethnology,
(ethno)history, archaeology, museum studies, artistic and curatorial work, as
well as other areas of inquiry concerned with images and artifacts and their
handling. The diversity and richness of indigenous ‘visual modes’ across the
continent is shown through a range of case studies which serve as a starting
point to develop methodological and conceptual tools for the study of a variety
of subjects.
Contact Email: info@khi.fi.it
Critical Heritage
Practice: Preferred Futures, Uncertain Presents and Speculative Pasts
This presentation will provide a practice-based account of
heritage conservation as a set of research methods that contribute to broader
debates about the past and concerns about our futures. It will explore the
principles of the conservation discipline within a framing of colonialism and
the need for additional methodological tools that go beyond the technical
ability of heritage to merely present something of the past to be experienced
in the present. Two heritage projects will be discussed as examples of the
application of decolonizing, transcultural, critical heritage, and post-humanist
practice in the conservation of heritage places and objects.
If you are interested in admission to the workshop,
please fill
out and email this form to event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by
August 26, 2021.
Crossing Borders, Counter-cartographies: Contemplations and Collaborations Using Historic Newspapers
https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_sneJaZ94TzaLLiZw0_8KDQ
Sep 14, 2021 01:00 PM in Eastern Time
In this talk, Dr. Celeste González de Bustamante, Professor of Journalism and Director of the Center for Border & Global Journalism at the University of Arizona, will discuss how research involving historical newspapers, including those in the National Digital Newspaper Program, contributes to better understanding of the Mexico-United States borderlands and beyond. Her talk will consider how interdisciplinary and cross border collaborations with libraries, librarians, and media scholars can result in valuable experiential learning opportunities and research for students. She will discuss the results of student-centered research projects whose underlying aim is to create “counter-cartographies” of journalism and borderlands history.
Global Photography:
Temporalities and Spatial Logics
https://artmuseum.unm.edu/global-photography/
Virtual Symposium / September 9-10, 2021
This virtual symposium questions how thinking creatively and
critically through photography’s temporalities and spatial logics can open up
new models for considering global photographic practices. Organized in two
parts, over two days, each panel will consist of two practitioners and two
scholars who will share a pre-recorded ten-minute presentation followed by an
hour-long moderated discussion amongst the participants, and a Q&A session
with audience members.
Contact Email: tweissma@illinois.edu
Publishing During a Pandemic: A Roundtable Discussion
with Leading Publishers on the Latest Developments in Academic Publication
https://www.aclang.com/event/princeton-university-press-august-31-2021/?src=HAnnounce
August 31 at 2:30 PM UK/ 9:30 AM EDT for free on Zoom
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many publishers to change
their workflow to publish relevant research faster and in a more accessible
way. Join us to hear Katie Stileman, Princeton University Press; Duncan
Nicholas, President of EASE; and Michael Willis from Wiley discuss what the
pandemic has meant thus far for the world of publishing.
Not going to be able to make it on the 31st? Register using
the button above and we will send you a free recording after the event.
Contact Email: avi@aclang.com
Sharing Digitally: Seminar on Digital Tools and
Infrastructures
https://www.lvivcenter.org/en/conferences/sharing-digitally-2/
September 29, 2021
How do digital humanities projects work? What tools and
skills are needed to create such projects? Is expertise in programming a key to
it all? Where do you find the experience of others and share your own
achievements? How do digital technologies affect knowledge production and
academic discussion? What standards and infrastructures are needed in order to
maintain, exchange, and discuss projects built around historical data in a
productive and sustainable way? A Digital History Seminar "Sharing
Digitally: Digital Tools and Infrastructures" will focus on the tools and
digital standards, networks of institutions, and discussion platforms in the
field of digital humanities and social sciences that help search for answers to
these questions.
Taras Nazaruk, Center for Urban History, head of digital
projects, t.nazaruk@lvivcenter.org
Southern
Association for Women Historians Graduate Council Mentoring Program
The graduate mentoring committee of the
Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH) would like to facilitate a
mentoring program for our graduate student and job-seeking members. The
mentoring program aims to provide graduate students and early career scholars
with lasting connections to other scholars and graduate students across various
institutions and fields. While this program is still in its early stages, it
will consist of a zoom mentoring series that will take place once or twice a
semester.
We are currently seeking volunteers to serve
as mentors as well as graduate students and other early career scholars
interested in being mentored. Potential mentors and mentees do not have to be
current members of the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH) to
participate!
If you are interested in participating,
please fill out our survey by August 30th, 2021, in order to participate in our
first mentoring zoom session this fall, though we will continue to accept
interested parties on a rolling basis. The survey can be found, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe91vR_dvSuqgS_BJHxO5YRH1UxS1HjJaIQ4aYCoIXVOtGrXg/viewform?usp=sf_link.
Please direct any questions or comments to Ann
Tucker at ann.tucker@ung.edu.
Men’s Activism to
End Violence Against Women: Voices from Spain, Sweden and the UK (open-access book)
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49724
From the publisher: Using case studies from
Europe and the UK, this book highlights those men who are taking action to
eradicate violence against women. Examining the factors that support men to
take a public stance, the authors also demonstrate what we can learn from their
experiences to help build the movement to end violence against women. This
important study will inform grassroots movements working to involve and engage
men and boys in building gender equality.
Publisher website: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/home
Genders: Author Talk
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/kathryn-bond-stockton-/register
8/31, 7pm Mountain Time
Gender(s) explores the fascinating, fraught, intimate, morphing matter of gender. Stockton argues for gender's strangeness, no matter how “normal” the concept seems; gender is queer for everyone, she claims, even when it's played quite straight. And she explains how race and money dramatically shape everybody's gender, even in sometimes surprising ways. Playful but serious, erudite and witty, Stockton marshals an impressive array of exhibits to consider, including dolls and their new gendering, the thrust of Jane Austen and Lil Nas X, gender identities according to women's colleges, gay and transgender ballroom scenes, and much more.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and Teaching for Change host a day of online conversation, curriculum sharing, and ideas exchange.
NMAI education experts, Teaching for Change, and K–12 teachers will share curriculum and teaching strategies and explore the NMAI’s Essential Understandings for teaching about Indigenous peoples’ histories and their experiences around land justice today. The keynote speaker will discuss land rights issues and the relationship between Indigenous knowledge and the land. Workshops will feature classroom resources from the NMAI’s online education portal Native Knowledge 360° and the Zinn Education Project’s Teach Climate Justice Campaign. The teach-in will be held online via Zoom.
Registration cost is $10.00
email: aacosta@teachingforchange.org
Nuts & Bolts Webinar on Innovative Pedagogies: American Indian Education
https://www.educatordiversity.org/event/nutsandboltswebinar1/
September 1 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
The 2021-2022 Innovative Pedagogies Webinar Series will inspire participants to think about educational practice through lenses which center and humanize historically excluded learners. Our hope is that participants will walk away with an invigorated teaching philosophy and toolkits that revolutionize their practice. This webinar features Dr. Gregory Cajete, who will discuss the history and current state of American Indian education from policy to practice.
