CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
NORTHEAST MLA CONFERENCE, BALTIMORE, MARCH 2022
The Popularity of Feminist Storytelling
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19456
Our contemporary moment is rife with women readers and others seeking out feminist story-telling, both in the world of Jane Austen fandom and around so many other literary figures. Our panel is interested in exploring what heroines and women writers afford this kind of reception of feminist story-telling and how readers create literary and material cultures around them. How can scholars engage with the contemporary fandom surrounding Austen and the hype around feminist story-telling more generally? How do we rediscover the romance, the feminism, and the characters of the original text after experiencing numerous retellings and adaptations? How do different media -- film, tv, retelling, material culture of Etsy stores, traveling, and coffee table editions -- highlight different aspects of feminist story-telling? We are interested in analyzing the effect that contemporary readerships, fandoms, and social media platforms have on the critical relationship to classic authors and texts.
Thinking beyond Competition: Envisioning Practices of Collaboration for Doctoral Writers
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19540
Even before the covid-19 pandemic disrupted the infrastructure of support for dissertation writers, a significant gap between need and assistance prevailed. This absence, coupled with the declining percentage in tenured faculty numbers, and a concomitant growth of poorly-waged, precarious adjuncts and graduate student instructors, has increased a paternalistic trend in doctoral writing support, encouraging students to compete with each other for scarce administrative and pedagogical resources and blame themselves when that fails. This culture of competition is heavily weighted towards extrinsic motivation, a process that engenders a myth of exceptional individual effort while lowering self-belief and reinforcing ideologies of product over process. Ultimately, this negates what research regarding the writing process has uncovered about the ways that outcome-oriented directives augment the graduate mental health crisis. In contrast, we invite collaborative visions of supporting doctoral writing that help students navigate the dissertation and move towards completion without competition.
email: koregan@yorku.ca
Is Now the Time? Academic Protests and Their Fallout/s
Around the country, and world, faculty of all ranks and institution types are taking to the streets, media (whether print, broadcast, and/ or social), and courts to protest austerity measures such as hiring freezes, mass layoffs/ non-reappointments, even closings of entire departments and institutions, with actions ranging from petitions and opinion pieces to strike threats and authorisation votes. Solidarity seems to be demonstrated to an extent not seen before, across job titles, faculty ranks, and institution types. Given the increasingly competitive (academic) job market, these developments may seem shocking but are also being welcomed by many, much like the protests of police brutality and bigoted violence; like other crisis points, this one seems to be ushering in, if not forcing, change many deem long overdue.
Here's the link to the session description and to submit an abstract: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19419
Email: bastet801@att.net
Imaging Peace: Care-full Non-violence in Contemporary Sci-fi Narratives
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19315
In literature and popular culture, the non-violent approach is vastly underrepresented as a viable philosophy. This is problematic because the stories we tell shape the imaginary we live out of. Part of the reason the pacifist position seems so untenable is precisely because it remains so unimagined. We welcome papers that identify, describe, and analyze sci-fi texts that undertake the task of imaging a peaceful future of care instead of domination and conquest or offer modes of non-violent resistance against power. These texts may include graphic novels, films, novels, comics, and sci-fi from different periods and cultures that offer an alternative, non-violent vision of our future.
Contact Email: verosis@hotmail.com
Art and Critical Ecologies: Multiscalar Engagements
November 12-13, 2021; online
We believe this will be East Asia’s first conference on art and ecology. Our hope is that this conference will bring together researchers and practitioners working in the intersections of art, ecology, indigeneity, geopolitics, and STS (science and technology studies) to build a cross-regional network of sustainable collaboration.
Panel 1: Art and Microbial Worlds - Please submit your proposal to panel convenor Timurgalieva Olga at otimurgal2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk
Panel 2: Art, Ecology, Geology, and Climatology - Please submit your proposal to panel convenor NAGASAKA Aki at anagasaka2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk
Panel 3: Art, Ecology, and Contested Indigeneity - Please submit your proposal to panel convenor LIU Mankun at mankunli2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk
Proposal deadline: August 15, 2021.
Creating Places and Spaces
https://www.ephemerasociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/EPH-42-Call-for-Presentations.pdf
Ephemera 42, the Ephemera Society of America (ESA) annual conference, will take place at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, Connecticut on March 18, 2022.
One of the fascinating things about society is how we create our living environments, whether it is the city or community in which we choose to live or our own living room. Ephemera 42 will focus on the design of environments, interior and exterior, ranging in scale from regional planning and urban design, to the architectural detail or sidewalk lamppost. This rich topic encompasses design innovations, stylistic and regional movements, architects, landscape architects, urbanists, draftspersons and craftspeople—anyone and anything that serves to shape the environment in which we live.
Proposals must be submitted by September 1, 2021 to Barbara Loe, Ephemera 42 Conference Chair, by e-mail at bjloe@earthlink.net
URL: https://www.ephemerasociety.org/
Solidarity and the Political – Feminist thinking and the needs of today
October 2021, Nordic Summer University
What are the political aspects concerning solidarity? Solidarity is one of the six principles of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The Oxford dictionary tells us that solidarity describes a state of physical and political organisation, as well as a feeling. What does solidarity mean when teaching? Is solidarity possible in Hannah Arendt’s ‘political realm’? How does this relate to the black feminist movement, and the call for solidarity on ”mainstream” feminism: what is the critique and how is solidarity achieved? And with regard to nature and in bioethics: how does solidarity function in the discourse of climate change?
The symposium will take place online. There will be a two-day symposium, plus several satellite events, organised by our study circle.
To join, email hospitality.solidarity@gmail.com by Sept. 1, 2021
Protest, Power, and Persistence: Southern Women Past and Present
Twelfth Southern Association for Women Historians Conference, June 9-12, 2022, University of Kentucky
This year’s theme is inspired by the connections between the past and present work southern women have done, to protest various forms of injustice and to effect political and social change in myriad ways. Recent women’s activism to protest unjust policies in the policing and justice systems, as well as southern women’s efforts to expand access to voting has underscored women’s role in challenging and changing southern politics and society over time. We hope this conference will inspire a conversation about the many ways southern women have fought for individual and collective rights and worked to reform various areas of southern society.
Please send completed submission forms to: sawh2022submit@gmail.com by September 1
email: Crystal Feimster (crystal.feimster@yale.edu) or Anne Marshall (amarshall@history.msstate.edu),
Global Empire and Resistance Scholarship mini-conference
The Global Empire and Resistance Scholarship conference (GEARS) is a one day event (Saturday, November 20th, 2021) bringing together academics and practitioners working to resist global imperialism. GEARS invites paper proposals discussing imperialism, colonialism, and resistance movements at any level. We welcome scholarship from any discipline and encourage non-traditional modes of presentation. We accept individual submissions only, to maximize conversations. Our goal is to promote engagement across disciplines, cultures, and countries in our increasingly globalized world.
Please submit the following to gearsconference@gmail.com by Friday, October 1st 2021
email: andrew.wilczak@wilkes.edu
Violence against Women: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
14-16 July 2022, German Historical Institute London
Violence always matters: it wrecks and destroys lives. But gender-based violence has also varied enormously over time and place. Bringing together sociologists and historians, this conference explores the relations between gender regimes and gendered violence in different settings. It looks at Britain and Germany in the 20th and 21st centuries in a global context and encourages comparative studies of gender violence, especially outside of armed conflict. We draw particularly on the concept of gender regimes, as a way of thinking about the structural nature of gender at a macro-level. The conference will bridge the disciplinary divide. We are particularly interested in theoretical papers that open up to historical perspectives, or historical papers that test theoretical assumptions.
Send abstracts to ekfg.abstracts2022@uni-due.de by 1 October, 2021
Disability at the Intersection of History, Culture, Religion, Gender, and Health
https://epublications.marquette.edu/icdi/2022/
March 3-4, 2022, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Disability is a living human experience. It is not merely a medical or biological phenomenon, and it is not only the subject of sciences. Perspectives on disability have evolved historically, theologically, and medically. Using interdisciplinary approaches to examine disability as fluid and dynamic condition can help us understand it as an identity and as social construct. This conference aims to encourage open discussion and better understanding as well as to breakdown stigma associated with disabilities. To accomplish that, the conference aims to generate inclusive dialogues and interdisciplinary interactions between academia, community organizers, social and legal activists, health care service/providers, and religious leaders.
Abstracts up to 300 words in Word format must be submitted through the electronic system by October 31, 2021.
Contact Email: ggulnurdemirci@gmail.com
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 43rd annual SWPACA conference, to take place in Albuquerque, NM, on February 23-26, 2022! One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/. New areas this year include Italian American Culture(s) and Spy Culture!
Contact Email: klacey@southwestpca.org
Claiming Space: A Symposium on Black Futures - Past, Present, and Potential
https://airandspace.si.edu/learn/highlighted-topics/afrofuturism/claiming-space-symposium
January 27-29, 2022, Virtual
Our call for proposals is now open and we invite multi-disciplinary scholars, writers, artists, and thinkers to submit a an individual proposal with a short abstract (350-500) via the form on our website by September 10. Scholars should select the themes they believe their work best corresponds with. Please find submission requirements, theme descriptions, and updates on our website. If you'd like to sign up to receive updates, please register through this link.
email: ClaimingSpace@si.edu
2021-2022 Indigenous Studies Seminar, Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society
The Indigenous Studies Seminar at the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum provides a forum for works-in-progress that explore topics in Native American and Indigenous Studies and related fields. Inspired by the work of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR, https://www.amphilsoc.org/library/CNAIR) at the APS, we are particularly interested in work by Indigenous scholars and projects that highlight community-engaged scholarship, use of archival and museum collections in research, teaching, and learning, Indigenous research methodologies, language revitalization, place-based teaching and learning, and related topics.
To submit a proposal, please email a one-page proposal, a brief statement (2-3 sentences) explaining how this paper relates to your other work, and a brief CV by August 29, 2021 to scholarlyprograms@amphilsoc.org.
PUBLICATIONS
The Crisis: Fighting for Multiracial Democracy
In our first issue since pausing publication due to COVID, The Activist History Review invites essays for our July/August series. Entitled “The Crisis: Fighting for Multiracial Democracy,” the issue pays homage to The Crisis, co-founded in 1910 by W.E.B. Du Bois and seeks to explore the entanglements of capitalism with white supremacy. The crisis outlined by Du Bois in 1910 remains distressingly familiar today—white conservatives rig the state to their sole advantage with segregated schools and restricted instruction, criminalized dissent, voting restrictions and disenfranchisement, and racist violence and white insurrection—because today’s Republican Party made itself an institution of overt white power and entitlement. And as the recent Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee decision illustrates, the crisis grows increasingly urgent as white elites foreclose avenues towards a truly participatory democracy.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words for articles from 1250-2000 words, and should be emailed to horne.activisthistory@gmail.com by July 26th
Digital Pedagogies Post-COVID-19
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7923577/digital-pedagogies-post-covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced academe to rethink the role digital and internet technologies play in and with the pedagogical process. For better or worse, the internet as institution has disrupted classical and traditional notions of learning. As evidenced by the pandemic, we are all falling behind in this paradigmatic shift in pedagogical understanding and approach. This special issue explores the potentials and dangers that digital technologies hold for pedagogy and education. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the “Zoomification” of teaching, we aim to reassess the key issues facing digital pedagogy today. Our interest lies in analyzing the significance of the generational shift in the modes of cognitive processing and behavioral patterning engendered by digital technologies (the internet, video games, augmented reality, virtual reality, etc.).
Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2021
email: jmarkelj@gmail.com and ssndvall@memphis.edu
Uncontained Toxicity: The Dialectics of Loss and Control.
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7932343/call-papers-edited-volume
Toxicity creates a double-bind. On the one hand, it poses the threat of contamination; its danger lies in its ability to cross borders in case of undesired industrial spills, the overuse of pesticides and herbicides in corporative agrobusiness or assassination attempts (Navalny). On the other hand, precisely this ability makes it necessary to create containment that isolates as well as protects the environment from toxicity. Toxicity is here understood as a posthuman agent/dynamic that has influence on communication, politics, social environments, individual and public health as well as aesthetics and technology.
Please submit abstracts of maximum 300 words by September 30, 2021 to Gisela Heffes (gisela.heffes@rice.edu) & Arndt Niebisch (arndt.niebisch@univie.ac.at).
Speculative Fictions' Intersections with Posthumanism and New Materialism
Extrapolation invites papers for a special issue investigating how speculative fiction, broadly conceived, dramatizes the tensions between the material limitations of the body and efforts to think beyond the human subject in posthumanism and new materialism. We are particularly invested in the ways speculative texts critique the centrality of the human while remaining attentive to the lived experience of the material body as it responds to ecological, technological, and economic demands that exceed human capacities of understanding.
Please submit inquiries and/or 300-word abstracts, working bibliographies, and brief CVs electronically as MS Word attachments to guest editors Tony M. Vinci (Vinci@ohio.edu) or John Landreville (john.landreville@wayne.edu) by October 31st, 2021
Past Tense Online
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7936080/past-tense-online-summer-2021-cfp
We are excited to invite early career scholars in history to submit pitches or complete pieces for publication on Past Tense Online, the new web platform for Past Tense Graduate Review of History. Past Tense Online is calling on new historians to contribute their expertise to the myriad global crises that we face today. We are especially interested in commentaries that examine the history of residential schools in Canada, the broader legacies of settler-colonialism, and the continued presence of colonization in Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. Commentaries are essays of 1000-1500 words that intervene in current scholarly debates, place current events in historical perspective, or share unexpected archival finds. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please submit your pitch or completed work to pasttensejournal@gmail.com.
URL: https://pasttensejournal.com/past-tense-online/
Books Available for Review for the Journal for the Study of Radicalism
Email the Book Review Editor at jsrbookreview@gmail.com in order to review a text listed below. We also welcome and encourage ideas on other texts related to radicalism.
- Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937 in Barcelona, Agustin Guillamon
- The American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural Dissidents, Damon Bach
- Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973–2001, eds. Dan Berger and Emily Hobson
- The Human Animal Earthling Identity: Shared Values Unifying Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Environmental Movements, Carrie Freeman (Available as a PDF)
- SNCC’s Stories: The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South, Sharon Monteith
- Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation, Rebecca Brückmann(Available as a PDF)
- Loisaida as Urban Laboratory: Puerto Rican Community Activism in New York, Timo Schrader
- Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota, Craig B. Upright
- Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad
- Revolution or Death: The Life of Eldridge Cleaver, Justin Gifford
- Anarchism, Carissa Honeywell
- English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics?, Richard Taylor
- Are We the 99%? The Occupy Movement, Feminism, and Intersectionality, Heather Hurwitz
- This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent, Daegan Miller
- The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America, Josephine Donovan
- Vietnam’s Prodigal Heroes: American Deserters, International Protest, European Exile, and Amnesty, Paul Benedikt Glatz
URL: https://msupress.org/journals/journal-for-the-study-of-radicalism/
email: jsrbookreview@gmail.com
The Multiple: hybridity at the crossroads of fields and practices (from 1950 to the present day)
This issue of Cahiers de Mariemont focuses on multiple as a practice characteristic of the post-war period and which still accompanies and reflects the profound transformations of our societies today. As Michel Melot writes about the book: ‘The “multiple” is neither a reproduction, nor a “copy” interchangeable with another. The category of “multiple” is therefore a hybrid between reproduction and a single original work’[1]. The societal transformations brought about by the youth of the time, the accessibility of techniques and even the fall in the costs of automatic reproduction (the first Xerox photocopier dates from 1959), give hope for the possibility of reappropriation and diversion of the means of industrial production - in which artists could not intervene directly. This potential for the dissemination of art to as many people as possible suggests to new creators a questioning of the commercial and/or cultural goods of the ‘consumer society’. This volume invites researchers, artists and publishers to question this art form, reflecting not only on the evolution of the status of the work of art and that of the artist, but also on the way in which these works use and sometimes divert the most recent means of production and distribution, in particular since the 2000s.
Proposals are to be sent to the editor of the Cahiers de Mariemont, Jean-Sébastien Balzat (jean-sebastien.balzat@musee-mariemont.be) by September 15th 2021.
URL: http://www.musee-mariemont.be/index.php?id=1128
In_Visibilities
https://www.on-culture.org/submission/call-for-abstracts-issue-13-summer-2022/
Visibility is still a very contested and polarizing concept regarding politics of representation and discourses on agency. Especially in public debates of the Global North the topos of visibility is ascribed a predominantly positive value and it is discussed as a precondition for political agency and social recognition. It is assumed that, in order to claim specific needs, rights, and interests, subjects (or collectives) suffering from the experience of discrimination and marginalization need to ‘become visible.’ Following up on these debates, this On_Culture issue will approach questions of in_visibility from a power-analytical and ideology-critical perspective. Avoiding a binary opposition, visibility and invisibility are conceptualized as two mutually entangled concepts. By using the underscore in the orthography (in_visibility), we want to highlight the processual continuum between the two concepts and create a space for ambiguities that put the visibility concept under re-negotiation.
Please submit an abstract of 300 words with the article title, 5–6 keywords, and a short biographical note to content@on-culture.org (subject line “Abstract Submission Issue 13”) no later than September 15, 2021.
Beyond the Culture: Black Popular Culture and Social Justice
Beyond the Culture: Black Popular Culture and Social Justice is a seminal interdisciplinary text that examines the use of various genres of Black popular culture to engage diverse political, social and economic concerns. The goal of this volume is to document and analyze the numerous ways Black popular culture (television shows, music, movies, books, comic books and graphic novels) have discussed, promoted, and supported notions of social justice. In this edited volume, we argue that Black popular culture is more than merely entertainment. Our compilation offers detailed analyses of the relationship between Black popular culture and social justice. Specifically, this book details the ways Black popular culture not only “engenders empathy” but also increases awareness and empowers social justice.
Abstracts Due: August 31, 2021
email: jgayles@gsu.edu; lbonnette@gsu.edu
Teaching Girlhood Studies
Girlhood Studies special issue
Articles may address teaching girlhood studies from various perspectives and academic disciplines including historical studies, literature, cultural studies, media studies, the study of juvenilia art, material and virtual culture (for example toys and games), girls and science, geographies of girlhood, education, and girl methodologies and methods, among others. Articles may present case studies or empirical research, may include or focus on artistic representations, or may be about theoretical or conceptual frameworks related to girlhood pedagogies. Teacher perspectives as well those of students are welcome. In addition to conventional articles, we will also consider creative contributions and material produced by (former or current) students of Girlhood Studies courses.
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 October 2021
Contact Email: teachinggirlhoodstudies@gmail.com
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.
Please send article proposal abstracts of 500 words to Lisa Hager (hagerl@uwm.edu) by August 13, 2021.
URL: https://bit.ly/prosestudiesaims
Beyond the Culture: Black Popular Culture and Social Justice
Edited Volume Call for Papers
Beyond the Culture: Black Popular Culture and Social Justice is an interdisciplinary text that examines the use of various genres of Black popular culture to engage diverse political, social and economic concerns. The goal of this volume is to document and analyze the numerous ways Black popular culture (television shows, music, movies, books, comic books and graphic novels) have discussed, promoted, and supported notions of social justice. In this edited volume, we argue that Black popular culture is more than merely entertainment. Our compilation offers detailed analyses of the relationship between Black popular culture and social justice. Specifically, this book details the ways Black popular culture not only “engenders empathy” but also increases awareness and empowers social justice.
Abstracts Due: August 31, 2021
Contact Email: lbonnette@gsu.edu
Afro and Indigenous Futures: A Student-Led Project Series
The New School's Black Student Union (BSU) and Liberal Studies Student Association (LSSA) is seeking artists, creatives, activists, intellectuals, and scholars to contribute to a virtual exhibition about visions of the future from Afro and Indigenous perspectives. BSU x LSSA calls for creatives to tap into Afro and Indigenous visions and imaginations of the future to de/reconceptualize the meaning of freedom past the restrictions of colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism. To that end, we will focus on three categories: environment, art, and technology and their relationship with a future created by Afro and Indigenous peoples.
Please fill out this Google form with your details and a draft about the work you would like to present (finished work is also accepted) before August 17, 2021.
Contact Email: hassa681@newschool.edu
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Immigration History Research Grant
https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/ihrca/grant-aid-award
The Immigration History Research Center Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries invites applications for the Grant-in-Aid Award. The 2022 award will prioritize applicants who identify as people of color, as well as those who identify as members of groups historically marginalized in academia and archives. Typically, awards are for $1,000.00, and four awards are given each year
Deadline: September 1, 2021.
URL: https://www.lib.umn.edu/ihrca
email: ihrca@umn.edu
Bibliographical Society of America fellowships
https://bibsocamer.org/awards/fellowships/
In keeping with the central value the Society places on bibliography as a critical framework, the BSA funds a number of fellowships to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats. Bibliographical projects may range chronologically from the study of clay tablets and papyrus rolls to contemporary literary texts and born-digital materials. Topics relating to books and manuscripts in any field and of any period are eligible for consideration as long as they include analysis of the physical object – that is, the handwritten, printed, or other textual artifact – as historical evidence.
deadline: Friday, October 1, 2021
Contact Email: erin.mcguirl@bibsocamer.org
The Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellowship
https://asen.ac.uk/journals/nations-nationalism/smith/
The Anthony Smith Visiting Fellowship provides £5,000 for a one to two month research stay at LSE IDEAS. It is intended primarily, but not exclusively, for scholars in the early stages of their career, namely doctoral candidates and post-doctoral fellows whose work and research focuses primarily on a topic related to nationalism. Visiting Fellows will be required to write a Strategic Update on their research topic (up to 5,000 words) and present their research at an ASEN/LSE IDEAS seminar.
If you would like more information, please email asen@asen.ac.uk.
Deadline: September 1
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Society for the Humanities Fellowships, Focal Theme "Repair"
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/18828
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University invites applications for residential fellowships from scholars and artists whose projects reflect on the 2022-23 theme of Repair. When ruptures, fissures, and breaks can no longer be ignored, it’s time for repair. Repair calls to mind practices of care, craft, and conservation as well as the exigencies of restoration and reparation. Repair invites reflection on how things fall apart and thus on how objects, relations, and histories are made, as well as how they can be re-made, made differently. The domain of repair is as global and vast as damage and hurt. From reparations that seek to address the ongoing violence of colonialism and slavery to environmental restoration in the face of extractive economies, repair is essential, even an act of resistance. The transformative possibility embedded in the theme of repair is, however, also a potentially coercive space, implying a solution when none exists or is appropriate. Are some things irreparable? When repair fails our futures, we welcome its critique and reimagining.
Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree before January 1, 2021
Deadline: September 20, 2021
Email: humctr@cornell.edu
Public Programs Coordinator at Humanities Texas
https://www.humanitiestexas.org/about/employment
Posted on 5/31/21; open until filled
Humanities Texas public programs offer Texans opportunities for learning and reflection, stimulate civic
awareness, and ensure that the state’s cultural and intellectual resources are accessible to a broad audience. The public programs coordinator will report to the Humanities Texas director of programs and
communication and will work closely with other staff. The public programs coordinator should be highly
organized, efficient, and detail oriented. They should be able to work independently as well as part of a
team; relate comfortably to a broad spectrum of people; and communicate with venues, potential renters, suppliers, and contractors.
Email materials to jobs@humanitiestexas.org
Job description: https://www.humanitiestexas.org/sites/default/files/page-attachment/Public%20Programs%20Coordinator.pdf
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxl7naifi7pzrq5/Postdoctoral%20Fellowship%202021_FINAL.pdf
A partnership project linking 32 academic and community partners across Canada, US, and Latin America to study “hemispheric performance” as a research-creation methodology, a pedagogical strategy, and tool for social change. We are particularly interested in postdoctoral projects that explore how politically inflected research-creation practices (i.e. artistic or practice-based research) shift how we ask research questions, engage with research subjects, and value research outcomes.
Deadline: August 6
email: levin@yorku.ca
University of Michigan, Society of Fellows
http://societyoffellows.umich.edu/
The Michigan Society of Fellows was founded in 1970 through grants from the Ford Foundation and Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies for the purpose of promoting academic and creative excellence in the humanities, the arts, the social, physical, and life sciences, and in the professions. The objective of the Society is to provide financial and intellectual support for individuals holding advanced degrees in their fields, who are selected for their outstanding achievement, professional promise, and interdisciplinary interests. Those selected for fellowships must have received the Ph.D. degree or comparable artistic or professional degree between June 1, 2019, and August 29, 2022.
Application Deadline: September 15, 2021
email: society.of.fellows@umich.edu
Dartmouth College, Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://apply.interfolio.com/90325
These fellowships foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees by permitting them to pursue their research while gaining mentored experience as teachers and members of the departments and/or programs in which they are housed. We are particularly interested in scholars whose research is innovative and transcends traditional disciplinary divides. Applications will be accepted in the various fields of humanities, social sciences, sciences, interdisciplinary programs, engineering, business and medicine.
deadline: Monday, September 13, 2021, 11:59 PM EDT.
Should you have questions, please direct them to society.of.fellows@dartmouth.edu.
Assistant Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
The Department of Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon (UO) seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in Pacific Islander studies beginning fall 2022. We welcome applications from scholars working on any dimension of Pacific Islander studies, with a preference for expertise in Indigenous feminisms. We encourage applications from scholars in any discipline, especially those engaged in intersectional analyses, including gender, sexuality, comparative, relational, and interdisciplinary approaches. The successful applicant will be expected to teach introductory, upper-division, and graduate courses in Pacific Islander studies, as well as other, more general courses that contribute to the Ethnic Studies major, the Native American and Indigenous Studies major, and the Ph.D. program.
Application Deadline: October 1, 2021
Contact Email: klopotek@uoregon.edu
“Environment and Climate”: Visiting Research Scholar
https://history.princeton.edu/centers-programs/shelby-cullom-davis-center/fellowships
In 2022-24, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University seeks applications from scholars working on questions related to environment and climate in an historical framework, in any period of human history, and all geographical areas. We welcome projects that explore the mutual influence of social and physical environments, including projects that foreground the role of the environment in shaping human societies and those that highlight the role of humans in changing climatic and environmental conditions.
Applications for 2022/23 fellowships are due December 1, 2021.
Contact Email: jhoule@princeton.edu
Society of Fellows Post-doctoral Fellowship - Humanities, Dartmouth College
https://www.dartmouth.edu/sof/
These fellowships foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees by permitting them to pursue their research while gaining mentored experience as teachers and members of the departments and/or programs in which they are housed. We are particularly interested in scholars whose research is innovative and transcends traditional disciplinary divides. Applications will be accepted in the various fields of humanities, social sciences, sciences, interdisciplinary programs, engineering, business and medicine.
Applications are accepted through Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/90325 and must be received on or before Monday, September 13, 2021, 11:59 PM EDT.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
The uncanny swipe drive: the return of a racist mode of algorithmic thought on dating apps
https://camvisres.org/the-uncanny-swipe-drive/
12th August 2021 (14.00 – 16.00 GMT)
As scholars decry algorithmic oppression with increasing alarm, they also describe it as colonizing every last bit of sociality where it could be resisted. Swipe apps constitute a prototypical example of this development. By employing protocols that foster absent-minded engagement, they allow unconscious racial preferences to be expressed without troubling users’ perceptions of themselves as non-racist. In this seminar Dr Gregory Narr will discuss his recent research on the transition from dating websites to dating apps as an effect of today’s increasingly affective mode of capitalism.
Email: william.feighery@camvisres.org
Feminism in Contemporary US Popular Culture: Legacies and Gendered Realities
Sept 18 and 25, 2021
The event will consist of four different roundtables with invited scholars and experts in the field:
Iterations of 21st-Century Feminism and (Internet) Popular Culture
Othered Realities: Intersections of Gender, Race and Ethnicity
Mainstream Queer Representations: from Pinkwashing to Queer-coding and Queer-baiting
Women as Popular Culture Creators
Register: https://www.popmec.com/registration/
email: popmec.feminism@gmail.com
Finding Data Sources in Caribbean Studies: An 'Exploring the Caribbean in DH' workshop
August 12, 10am-12:00pm EDT
In this workshop we will be collectively building a bibliography of data sources for Caribbean Studies. In order to do so, we will learn advanced searching techniques and explore vast information landscapes in search of the data sources and documents we need. The searching techniques will include the use of advanced computational search operators and the specifics of data set searches. The information landscapes we will look at break with the binaries between primary and secondary sources, scholarly and cultural sources, and public and private sources. We will then learn how to do research collectively, as instead of as individuals. The workshop will be concluded by this collective exercise in “crowdsourcing” of a meta-bibliography—a bibliography of source sets—for Caribbean Studies.
Register here: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkf-mvrzsjGdcQHxSeZk8jo57PZO1YYNzo
Details regarding the full series are available at: http://dlocasdata.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/exploring-the-caribbean-in-dh-a-dloc-as-data-workshop-series/.
Civil Rights in America: Racial Discrimination in Housing
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/recent-theme-studies.htm
The National Historic Landmarks Program is pleased to announce the release of a new theme study, Civil Rights in America: Racial Discrimination in Housing. As part four of the five-part Civil Rights in America series, this theme study examines the history of race-based housing discrimination leading to the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Beyond potential NHLs, the context here and in other NHL theme studies can be useful when preparing National Register nominations. The complete accessible PDF including analysis of potentially nationally significant properties is available for download.
Contact Email: lisa_davidson@nps.gov
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