Friday, August 27, 2021

Calls for Papers, Funding Opportunities, and Resources, August 27, 2021

 

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8089140/cfp-gulf-coast-symposium-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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8052461/obscenity-blasphemy-treason-interdisciplinary-conference

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.

CFP: https://www.academia.edu/50826717/CFP_Obscenity_Blasphemy_Treason_An_Interdisciplinary_International_Conference_on_Censorship

 

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

https://cnu.edu/gcwg/

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

URL: http://www.asatex.org/

 

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.educonor.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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8038789/call-papers-teaching-world-literature-through-interdisciplinary

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8064963/cfp-special-issue-after-turn-new-directions-socially-engaged

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”

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8065228/call-papers-queering-sexual-and-gendered-citizenship-%E2%80%9Cmodern

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8092009/wokeness-sleepwalking-and-stupors-war-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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8119550/social-work-practice-indigenous-people-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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8107594/call-original-essays%EF%BC%9Atheorizing-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)

https://www.higheredjobs.com/institution/details.cfm?JobCode=177578301&Title=Assistant%20Professor%20of%20Public%20History%20and%20Public%20Humanities%20%28Job%20Id%3A%2041839%29&aID=7137

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

https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/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

 

 

RESOURCES

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.


 2021 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Curriculum Teach-In

https://www.teachingforchange.org/2021-indigenous-peoples-teach-in

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021 | 12:30PM–3:00PM ET

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.

 

 

 

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