CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Exploring the Margins
of History
The History Graduate Student Organization at Texas A&M
University is proud to announce that our 12th annual graduate and undergraduate
history student conference will take place on February 18th and 19th, 2022.
This conference is an opportunity for students to showcase their research in
front of their peers, as well as experts from a variety of historical fields. In
selecting the theme, the conference honors the evolution of historical
scholarship that has shone a light on people previously ignored or
marginalized, and maintains that their time in the shadows remains an essential
topic for historical examination. We thus celebrate the accomplishments of the
present, while also addressing the shortcomings of the past.
Undergraduate and graduate students interested in presenting
at the conference must submit a 250-word (maximum) abstract, along with a
curriculum vitae (CV), by Friday, November 19, 2021 to: tamuconference2022@gmail.com.
NeMLA 2022,Baltimore,
Maryland, March 10-13
Exploring Plurality: Queering Feminism(s), Neoliberalism,
and the Commodification of Intersectionality
Queering feminism(s) provides a framework for
reconceptualizing plurality, analyzing neoliberalism, and dismantling
byproducts of colonialist structures. This session seeks contributions that
engage with the commodification of feminisms and intersectionality, as well as
transnational feminist methods and theory as interventions in white hegemonic
systems.
Please submit your proposal, along with a brief bio
(excluded from the 300-word count) by September 30, 2021, here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19371.
New Directions in Feminist Pedagogy
This roundtable asks participants to engage with and present
the new directions in feminist pedagogy that inevitably emerged in the past two
years (2020-2022) during the coronavirus pandemic, but also beyond it. We ask:
how does contemporary feminist pedagogy confront the challenges inherent in a
post-truth era and a divided political body; take on the work of anti-racism;
and adapt to the monumental shift online during the coronavirus pandemic...all
while honoring feminist principles?
URL: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19271
Laura Hartmann-Villatla (lah132@georgetown.edu)
Lauren Kuryloski (lkurylos@buffalo.edu)
Sex in Literature After #MeToo
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19328
This panel invites projects concerning sex in literature.
What problematic depictions of sex might need re-examining in our current
context? How have people who have experienced rape and sexual assault
represented those experiences and/or their impacts? How has literature been
able to represent sex that is joyful, pleasurable, and equitable?
You may direct any inquiries to Kellie Sharp (kelliesh@buffalo.edu).
Digital Humanities in Language and Culture Courses
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19468
This roundtable discusses the inclusion, design, and
assessment of Digital Humanities (DH) initiatives in language and culture
courses. Despite the proliferation of literature dedicated to the
interdisciplinary nature of DH, the resources available to explore their
inclusion and applications in language and culture courses are still scattered.
Beyond the increasing number of multi-language projects, websites, open-access
resources, and databases that foster faculty and student collaborations, it
remains difficult to give visibility to these works and assess their outcomes,
especially in language courses.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 30, 2021
Contact Email: afognani@coastal.edu
Afro-Futurism: Speculative Fiction and Culture of Africa
and the African Diaspora
Just as speculative fiction has always done, Afrofuturism
illuminates contemporary issues by placing them in fantastical contexts, more
specifically Afrofuturism addresses themes and concerns that have been
otherwise neglected in the science fiction/fantasy canon. This panel seeks to
examine Afrofuturist and African Futurist literature to highlight voices of
black empowerment and to privilege black narratives in speculative fiction,
science fiction, and fantasy from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Submit 300-word abstracts and brief bio to http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/callforpapers.html by September
30, 2021.
Contact Email: adrummond@dcccd.edu
Virtually
Undisciplined: Diversifying Higher Education and Research through
interconnectivity
31st March – 1st April 2022
Virtually undisciplined is the bi-annual conference for
Women in Academia Support Network (WIASN). WIASN exists to promote gender
equity in Higher Education and Research. The theme of this conference is
situated around interconnectivity and diversity; with particular regard to an
intersectional approach to gender diversity that must include race, religion,
sex, disability and class. In this conference we particularly welcome papers,
performance, artistic representations, play/games/playful activities and
practical workshops that address either of these strands or a combination.
Submissions close: Friday 12th November 2021.
Contact Email: contact@wiasn.com
Participation and public interpretations: How to navigate
multiple historical narratives in museums?
7 December 2021.
The 2021 symposium
will bring together scholars, museum and archives professionals, heritage and
other public history practitioners to discuss if and how multiple and sometimes
conflicting historical narratives can coexist in museums. Navigating diverse
experiences and perceptions of the past raises the matter of diverse
interpretations of historical narratives and their possible inclusion in
historiography and museums. This plurality can affect historical narrations,
especially within highly conflicting societies, where the perceptions of
historical facts can be very diverse and sometimes even incompatible. Museums
can be battlegrounds for political discussions, seeking to mediate between
often emotionally, and sometimes ideologically, charged discourses about the
histories of nations, individuals, and identities.
Send your proposals
to phacs@uni.lu before 30 September
2021.
Obscenity! Blasphemy! Treason! An Interdisciplinary
International Conference on Censorship
March 3–4, 2022 at NTU 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 Sept 7, 2021.
Popular Culture/American Culture Association
https://pcaaca.org/area/politics-portrayed-electronic-print-and-media
April 13-16, 2022, Seattle
Proposals will be considered for sessions organized around a
theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Working professionals, scholars, educators,
and graduate students are all encouraged to submit. All presenters must be members of the PCA and
must register for the conference.
e-mail: fhassenc@odu.edu
Roundtable for Black Feminist and Womanist Theory
Nov. 4-6, 2021
The mission of the Roundtable is to unite scholars across
disciplines who are working to highlight the intellectual contributions of
Black women and non-men throughout the African diaspora. This space functions
as a working space for scholars of various levels and backgrounds to receive
feedback on their projects that will enrich the Black feminist and womanist
traditions. While this space is not closed to Black women and non-men, it is
expected that presenters focus on these groups in their submitted
works-in-progress.
The deadline for abstract submissions is September 30, 2021
at 11:59pmEST.
Paper submission: https://roundtableforblackfeminismandwomanism.weebly.com/submit-a-paper-register-for-the-roundtable.html
Contact Email: bfwroundtable@gmail.com
The Disability Gaze: Material and Visual Approaches
The symposium will take place on April 29-30, 2022,
virtually and in-person at the University of Delaware
The Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) at the
University of Delaware invites proposals for its third biennial conference. What
kinds of subjecthood have been produced at the intersections of disability and
materiality? How have artists incorporated assistive devices or prostheses in
their framing of self? We ask participants to consider how the disability gaze
creates objects of visual and material culture and in doing so asserts disabled
people’s subjectivity. This conference seeks, through an interdisciplinary and
material culture approach, to reclaim the disability gaze as it extends into
lived experience.
Please send abstracts of max. 300 words (up to two relevant
images are welcome), with a brief CV of no more than two pages, by September
15, 2021 to disabilitygaze@gmail.com
Bodies of Occupation: Queers, Monsters and Others
Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia (COTCA),
University of Nottingham, presents the program ‘Bodies of Occupation’, a series
of online conversations between artists, academics, and activists (16 September
– 28 October 2021).
Stories of foreign occupation are filled with bodies. By
turns savage, ‘civilised’, enslaved, resisting, exploited, fetishised or
‘emancipated’, bodies mediate between the different forms, agencies, and spaces
of occupation. As an ever-changing site of interaction between the occupier and
the occupied, they are shapeshifters that reflect the unstable realities and
perceptions of occupation itself. Building on notions such as ‘more-than-human’
and ‘slow violence’, the program seeks to unpack the specific corporeality of
occupation.
Register via Zoom here: https://bit.ly/3zHycGc
Website: https://cotca.org/essays/
Enquiries: Stephanie.Benzaquen-Gautier@nottingham.ac.uk
Sources of Decolonization: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Toward the Ends of Empires
Department of Modern History, University of Marburg, April
6-8 2022
The digital workshop will provide an interactive space for
doctoral candidates and early-career researchers to present ongoing projects on
the processes of decolonization in imperial metropoles. It aims to draw
attention to the underexplored spaces and sources that historicize empire’s
lasting presence at home. Through a mixture of presentations and hands-on
source discussion, we hope to foster debate on the historical experiences of
decolonization as well as on interdisciplinary theoretical or methodological
approaches to the study of the end of European and non-European empires.
An Abstract of 200-300 words and a short CV should be
submitted to Lena.jur@uni-marburg.de
or stephen.foose@uni-marburg.de
by 15 December 2021
"Cyborg Pedagogies": The Center for Black,
Brown, and Queer Studies's First Annual Pedagogy Conference
From concerns over racist harassment on the Zoom
video-chatting platform to ethical implications for the use of student data on
the Canvas, there are ongoing attempts to describe and mitigate harm caused to
ourselves and others in digital worlds. This conference seeks to address the
following emerging questions in our pedagogical landscape: how can cyborg
theory help us navigate online learning, teaching, and communication? How have
our relationships with technology and teaching shifted in the face of COVID-19?
How can we adapt and resist exploitation in digital spaces with our minds,
bodies, and scholarship?
Participants will receive a $2000 stipend to support their
research and writing.
Applications received by July 1st (midnight EST) will
receive full consideration.
The Virtual Congress on Gender Studies: Gendered Global
Crisis
Global crises, like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, have a
profound impact on human life, although to varying degrees in terms of gender
equality. Gender discrimination, bias, and inequalities already exist in
non-crisis periods all around the world. It is thus not surprising that crisis
situations increase the existing gender inequalities. The COVID-19 pandemic not
only increased but also revealed the gender inequalities in the world’s
political, social, and economic systems in a relatively short amount of time.
It is therefore vital to analyse the relationship between global crises and
gender inequalities through the lenses of gender studies. In this line, the CGS
congress aims to provide a forum for researchers, academics, practitioners,
students, and educators to discuss issues linked to gender studies from a
global crisis perspective.
Abstract deadline: 25 September 2021 to gendercongress@gmail.com
Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in Modern Societies
September 21-22, 2022, University of Missouri
How do we sustain or achieve peace in times of crisis? This
question has challenged many people, including scholars, activists,
policymakers, and students, who have been working on initiatives to achieve
sustainable peace in local, national, and international communities. They have
worked diligently to effect harmonious coexistence within environments wracked
by racial injustice, endemic poverty, civil unrest, conspiracy theories,
antidemocratic trends, and threats to public health and the natural
environment.
Please submit abstracts (Microsoft Word) of no more than 250
words each to Mary Dickson-Amagada (madgbc@mail.missouri.edu)
by Jan. 15, 2022.
You may send questions about the conference to D.A. Dunkley
(dunkleyd@missouri.edu)
Borderlands: Cultures, Communities, Design and Place
https://architecturemps.com/calgary/
The University of Calgary, June 28-30, 2022
It is concerned with a particular place and place types:
citiies, rural areas and teh the borderlands between. It is particularly
interetsed in these places in the context of Canada. It is concerned with the relations between
people and place: Cultures – How do
first nation inhabitants negotiate rights to a place in now predominatly
'other' cultures. Society – What voice do ‘people’ and ‘cultures’ have in
design and planning practices and how do mechanisms for participation function.
It is concerned with global cross disciplinary issues: Design + Planning – how
are we working in our individual fields and across disciplinary and
geographical boundaries. Infrastructure + Building – how do the infrastructures
we design and build impact people, habitation, sustainability and climate.
Abstracts: 01 December, 2021
The Art Museum in the Digital Age
https://www.belvedere.at/en/digitalmuseum2022
online, 17–21 Jan 22
The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference
series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fourth event on
the topic. The COVID-19 pandemic, and our resultant inability to experience
proximity to people and objects, has given the matter additional “virulence” in
museums. Although the topic of digitization was gaining ground before the
pandemic, the measures taken against the virus created a very special
experimental arrangement in which the digital presence of museums was no longer
merely a possible extension of exhibition spaces but rather the only way to
reach the public. The 2022 edition centers on the convergence of analog and
digital media. Is the binary rhetoric of analog/digital,
conservative/progressive, either/or ... still appropriate in the post-digital
age, or should we address questions of media specificity, hybridity, and mixed
reality?
Please send your
abstracts for a 20- to 25-minute presentation in German or English (max. 250
words), including a short biography with complete contact information as one
PDF document by 17 October 2021 to a.kroupova@belvedere.at.
The (Hi)stories We Create: Narratives of Exceptionalism,
Ideology, and Resilience
https://iaas.ie/iaas-postgraduate-symposium/the-histories-we-create/
Digital Humanities in Language and Culture Courses online, 5th/6th
November 2021
For the 2021 IAAS Postgraduate Symposium, we will
investigate the narratives that we create
and that are created for us, narratives that obfuscate truths or
implement ideology, narratives that
further contextualise events or create understanding, as well as narratives of
celebration, joy and self-care which can
exist to counter those long held as empirical truth.
The deadline for
submissions, to be sent to
postgrad@iaas.ie, is Friday, 24th September 2021.
Contact Email: postgrad@iaas.ie
PUBLICATIONS
Edited volume on TV
series created by Shonda Rhimes
I welcome
contributions from scholars of film, television, media studies, popular
culture, acting, and theater, as well as working practitioners, including
screen and television writers, filmmakers, and playwrights. Essays may explore
individual works or may interrogate a single theme, question, or construct
across multiple works. I expect many essays will offer a critical analysis of Shonda
Rhimes’ work so readers can expand their knowledge and understanding of the
television writing craft, and many essays in this volume will include
historically sophisticated commentaries, exploring Rhimes’ career through the
lens of production, reception, and creative collaborations and dynamics.
Please submit a
250-word abstract along with a 150-word biographical statement to Anna
Weinstein (aweinst6@kennesaw.edu) by Sept 31, 2021. Please title the subject
line of your email: "Abstract – The Works of Shonda Rhimes."
Radical
Environmentalism
For a forthcoming
special issue, The Journal for the Study of Radicalism are soliciting articles
on environmental radicalism (broadly and widely construed), with a specific focus
on figures, groups, communities, and ideologies that seek transformative
solutions to environmental crises. We are particularly interested in projects
that challenge the way we consider and apply the term “radical,” as well as the
relationship (and/or divide) between theory and praxis.
Abstracts Due:
December 1, 2021
Contact Email: jsrenvironmentalradical@gmail.com
URL: https://msupress.org/journals/journal-for-the-study-of-radicalism/
Streaming #MeToo -
Rape Culture in American Television
A consideration of
the pervasive nature of sexual violence in American culture needs to be
expanded to include the television industry. Our follow-up anthology, Streaming
#MeToo: Rape Culture in American Television, will explore sexual violence in
terms of television content and its production context. While we are interested
in chapters on popular topics like rape narratives in series like Game of
Thrones and Jessica Jones, our goal is to develop an expansive collection that
explores sexual violence across a range of eras, platforms, genres, and
production contexts.
Please submit a 250
word abstract along with a brief author bio to Ralph Beliveau (beliveau@ou.edu) by September 15, 2021.
Routledge Research
Companion to Toni Morrison
This is an early
call for chapter proposals for a volume I have been commissioned to edit, The
Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison. This companion text is intended
for a scholarly audience and is meant as support, including for up-and-coming
or new, Morrison scholars as they approach new research on her work.
It would be great,
in this first round, to receive one- or two-page proposals by early next year,
let’s say 2/28/22 as a final deadline.. You may reach me at: mfadem@kbcc.cuny.edu
Ecocriticism and
Pandemics
http://interface.org.tw/index.php/if/pages/view/CallForPapers17
"Interface"
calls for papers for Issue 17
As the Covid-19
pandemic has disrupted the 21st century by totally changing people’s lives, it
has also become one of the factors that is bringing forward new ways of
thinking about the environment. Ecocriticism has therefore become a new trend
in cross-disciplinary research, necessitated by the state of emergency due
to the pandemic. In The Ecocriticism
Reader, Cheryll Glotfelty notes that “ecocriticism is the study of the
relationship between literature and the physical environment”, in other words,
it is a combination of literature and the natural environment as an implicit
criticism between human/non-human, and objects/non-objects. In this issue, we
are attempting to explore the new possibilities between ecology and pandemics.
With the spread of the pandemic, has it changed people's ecological concept? Is
there any new interpretation of the pandemics underway within eco-criticism?
Papers should be
submitted online at http://interface.org.tw/ no later than December 15, 2021.
Mediating
Mother-Activism
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8199494/mediating-mother-activism
Recent years have
seen a renewed interest in exploring motherhood and mothering as political and
emotional resources for digital activism. Although the intertwinement of
mothering and politics predates the digital context, feminist debates around
the politicization of mothering, from protests against state killings and
disappearances, via the role of the mother in nation-building, to advocacy for
right wing populisms, need addressing all the more urgently as we endeavour to
understand the ways in which mothering is not only mediatised, but agentively
deployed across social media platforms. The proposed edited volume aims to
bring together contributions from a broad range of interdisciplinary
perspectives with a focus around mothering and the uses of social media for
social and political change. We aim to include conceptual papers as well as
empirical studies from a broad range of contexts across the global South and
global North.
Abstract submission
deadline: September 15, 2021.
email Gilda Seddighi
gse@vestforsk.no
URL: Gilda Seddighi
gse@vestforsk.no.
Re-Storying the World for Multispecies Survival
https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/synthesis/pages/view/callforpapers
This special issue
of Synthesis aims to respond to the challenges that recent reflections on
multispecies survival and coexistence pose for studies in literature, art, and
critical theory today. This special
issue invites contributions that offer new perspectives on multispecies
entanglements in literary and artistic works and theories from different
disciplines, genres, historical periods, and cultural traditions. At the heart
of this approach is a commitment to careful and imaginative attention to the
lives and worlds of others, whether human or nonhuman, grounded in diverse
academic and creative practices, including literary studies, art, critical
theory, natural sciences, and Indigenous knowledges.
Abstracts of 250-300
words (and a brief bio note) should be submitted to Mayako Murai at mayakomurai@me.com and synthesisjournal2008@gmail.com by 15
November 2021.
The Primacy of Indigenous Knowledge
Vernon Press invites
book chapter proposals to be included in a forthcoming scholarly volume on
"The Primacy of Indigenous Knowledge." Since the 1970s, the study of
Indigenous peoples has grown across many different disciplines, which have
produced a number of important works. This book seeks to ask broad questions
about Indigenous agricultural history that spans chronologic, geographic, and
spatial boundaries, and is interested in compiling a collection of works
addressing Indigenous agriculture around the globe. We welcome proposals that
are interdisciplinary in nature and can come from disciplines that include
archaeology, anthropology, English, ethnohistory, history, literature,
sociology, etc. We seek book chapters that range from approximately 5000-6000
words in length to include in this edited collection.
Please send a
300-word abstract, project title, and a brief bio in English to Nick Timmerman
(Volume Editor) at: ntimmer@langston.edu by
December 1, 2021.
Queer Visuals: Gender, Sexuality and Indian Cinema
While commercial
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood, has come a long way in its
depiction of diversified gender identities, the stereotypes of comical relief
and voyeurism still remain its dominant feature. Since songs play a crucial
role in facilitating the narrative of the plot, the lyrics used also form a
crucial space for critical investigation in the field of gender studies, and to
understand in what ways Hindi songs uphold or subvert traditional gender roles.
The proposed volume will be an attempt to build upon and complement existing
theories and literature associated with the discourse of gender and sexual
representation in visual media, particularly in films and in the emerging
digital space, across Indian languages. Critical explorations of the following
will construct the cynosure to establish a multicultural understanding of queer
visuals and the consumerist ideals that dictate such mass media production.
The deadline for the
submission of Abstracts is 30th November 2021
email: srija.sanyal@gmail.com and srija.sanyal@ronininstitute.org
Affecting Selves in Contemporary American Literature
Following Benedict
Anderson’s claim that nations are “imagined communities” (2006, 22), Timothy
Brennan affirms that nations “are imaginary constructs that depend for their
existence on an apparatus of cultural fictions in which imaginative fiction
plays a decisive role” (1990, 49). In this sense, the idea of national fantasy
may be propelled forward by means of cultural artifacts that sustain it, and
which put forth the “correct” performance of subjectivity. Amongst them,
fiction is a powerful tool to create what Lauren Berlant has called “intimate
publics”, which are a group of readers and consumers who “already share a
worldview and emotional knowledge that they have derived from a broadly common
historical experience” (2008, ix). These productions, especially those
traversed by sentimentality and addressed to an intimate public, allow, on the
one hand, to voice complaints and express discomfort or disappointments at the
failed expectations of the “good life” (Berlant 2011), while on the other hand
they reify and uphold these normative narratives.
Proposals due to paulabarbaguerrero@usal.es and lauradelaparra@usal.es by December
30th, 2021.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph
and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies fellowships
https://www.ushmm.org/research/opportunities-for-academics/fellowships/annual
The USHMM awards
fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. We
welcome proposals from scholars in all academic disciplines. These fellowships
require a minimum two months in-residence and are designed for scholars at all
levels of their academic careers who are at least PhD candidates (ABD),
including scholars not affiliated with universities.
The competition is
currently open and will close on November 15, 2021
Contact Email: vscholars@ushmm.org
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
https://citizensandscholars.org/fellowships/newcombe/
The Institute for
Citizens and Scholars, formerly known as the WW Foundation is now accepting
applications for the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships.
These Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of
ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social
sciences, and particularly to help Ph.D. and Th.D. candidates in these fields
complete their dissertation work in a timely manner.
Deadline to apply:
November 15, 2021
Contact Email: newcombe@citizensandscholars.org
Women's Studies Fellowships
The Institute for
Citizens and Scholars, formerly known as the WW Foundation, is now accepting
applications for their Women’s Studies Fellowships. The Women’s Studies
Fellowships support final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in
the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses topics of women and
gender in interdisciplinary and original ways. Eligible applicants will be
Ph.D. candidates at institutions in the United States who will complete their
dissertations during the fellowship year. Eligible proposals from applicants in
the humanities and social sciences will have a central focus, the study of women
and/or gender, women’s studies, or feminist/gender/LGBTQ theory.
October 15, 2021,
11:59 p.m. EST
Contact Email: ws@citizensandscholars.org
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Tenure-track Position in Women’s and Gender Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61758
Berea College, home
of the new bell hooks center, invites applicants for an Assistant Professor in
Women’s and Gender Studies to begin in August 2022. Applicants must have a PhD
in hand, preferably in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or a complementary
interdisciplinary field. The candidate will teach six classes each year,
including the department’s introductory survey course—Decolonizing Feminism—as
well as a queer and trans studies course, and a feminist and queer dis/ability
studies course. The candidate is also expected to teach two classes each year
in the General Education program.
Teaching and
research expertise in the following areas are preferred: women-of-color
feminism(s), anti-racist and anti-colonial feminism(s), sexuality studies, and
disability studies. We especially welcome training and expertise in Native
approaches to feminism, including Indigenous re/visions of (white) feminism’s
institutionalization of queer and trans studies; as well as expertise in the
intersection of Indigeneity and dis/ability, broadly construed.
Review of
applications will begin October 15, 2021 and continue until the position is
filled.
URL: https://myberea.csod.com/ats/careersite/jobdetails.aspx?site=3&c=myberea&id=948
University of Michigan LSA Collegiate Fellows
https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/fellowships-awards/lsa-collegiate-postdoctoral-fellowship.html
The College of
Literature Science and the Arts (LSA) at the University of Michigan seeks
outstanding scholars in all liberal arts fields whose teaching/mentoring,
and/or research, and/or service and engagement will contribute to our
interconnected goals of excellence, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The fellowship provides up to two years of
support for early career natural scientists, humanists, and social scientists
with dedicated research time, mentorship, research and travel funding, and
cohort- and program-based professional development opportunities related to
scholarship and teaching, to prepare them for possible tenure-track
appointments in LSA.
Application
Deadline: Monday, October 4, 2021
email: lsacollegiate@umich.edu
Open Rank Tenured/ Tenure-Track Professor of Black Queer
Diaspora Studies
https://faculty.utexas.edu/career/81639
The Department of
African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
invites applications for two full-time, open rank positions in black queer
diaspora studies. We seek applications from scholars who engage in humanistic
or social science inquiry into black LGBTQ communities, black queer theory,
and/or black queer cultural production. We hope to make at least one hire with
an emphasis on the literary, visual and performing arts.
For full
consideration, application materials must be received by October 15, 2021.
Please address any
inquiries about the position to the search committee Co-Chairs Dr. Lyndon K.
Gill at lyndonkgill@utexas.edu or
Dr. Simone Browne at sbrowne@austin.utexas.edu.
Full-time Lecturer in Diversity and Inclusion Leadership
https://apply.interfolio.com/94194
The Diversity and
Inclusion Leadership Graduate Program (DLS) at Tufts University’s Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences is seeking applicants for a full-time lecturer
position to begin in September 2022.
This interdisciplinary program is focused on engaging students with
scholarly theories and practical tools for careers in leadership to create
change within organizations and society for greater justice, equity, diversity,
and inclusion. The teaching, research, and practice interests of the successful
candidate should be in the areas around these themes broadly conceived. Expertise in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion,
and Justice (DEIJ) leadership, organizational change, critical theory, program
evaluation are all areas of interest.
Please contact Dr.
Silas Pinto at Silas.Pinto@tufts.edu
if further information is needed. Review
of applications will begin November 15th and continue until the position is
filled.
Assistant Professor in Feminist/Queer/Trans* Dis/Ability
Studies
The Women's, Gender
& Queer Studies Department at California Polytechnic State University (Cal
Poly) in San Luis Obispo, CA seeks applications for a full-time (academic
year), tenure-track assistant professor with a specialization in feminist,
queer, and/or trans* dis/ability studies, with a particular focus on critical
approaches that emphasize dis/ability as a social situation and a political
process; consider dis/ability in the context of settler colonialism,
cisheteropatriarchy, and racial capitalism; and center the knowledges and
experiences of people with dis/abilities, studying cultural and artistic productions,
social, cultural, and/or political theories, public laws and policies,
professional practices, and/or everyday life.
REVIEW BEGIN DATE:
October 15, 2021.
Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Post-Doctoral
Fellowship
https://mii.wustl.edu/how-to-apply/
Washington
University in St. Louis announces the twenty-first year of Modeling
Interdisciplinary Inquiry, a postdoctoral fellowship program endowed by the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, designed to encourage interdisciplinary
scholarship and teaching across the humanities and interpretive social
sciences. We invite applications from recent PhDs, DPhils, or D.F.A.s (in hand
by June 30, 2022, and no earlier than June 30, 2018) who have not previously
held a research-oriented postdoctoral fellowship for a position as Fellow. During
the two years of their fellowship, they will teach three undergraduate courses
and collaborate in leading an interdisciplinary seminar on theory and methods
for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the humanities
and social sciences.
Submit materials by
December 7th, 2021.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
https://lawrence.peopleadmin.com/postings/648
The Gender Studies
program (https://www.lawrence.edu/academics/study/gender_studies) at Lawrence
University of Wisconsin invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at
the rank of Assistant Professor. The successful candidate for the tenure-track
position will have a critical, interdisciplinary approach and be able to work
effectively with colleagues across various disciplines. Areas of expertise are
open, but candidates are expected to have an ongoing program of high quality
scholarship and to demonstrate a commitment to intersectional and inclusive
scholarship and teaching. We welcome expertise at the intersections of: Black
Feminist Thought; disability; Indigeneity; global feminisms; labor and class;
and Latinx, Asian & Asian American, and Queer/Trans studies.
For full
consideration, all materials should be submitted by November 5, 2021.
Assistant Professor of Queer and/or Trans Ethnic Studies
https://csucareers.calstate.edu/detail.aspx?pid=88876
San Francisco State
University’s Department of Race and Resistance Studies offers an exciting
opportunity for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position focused on Queer
and/or Trans Ethnic Studies beginning August 2022. We seek a colleague whose
teaching and research focus on queer and/or trans communities of color, whose
work is based in the arts and humanities (including history), and who
specializes in queer and/or trans of color theory, practice, and resistance.
Application review
begins October 1, 2021
Please direct all
questions about the position to the MFT Faculty Search Committee at mfthire@sfsu.edu
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
What’s
Postcolonial about (Settler) Colonial America?
Register using this
link: https://tinyurl.com/DigitalExpressions
International
Symposium (Online), Dates: 8-9 September, 2021
This symposium
engages with the digital forms of expressions of the self. It explores the ways
in which, for instance, digital techniques now allow the construction of selves
that often rely more on algorithms than any ‘original’ referent. Digital
self-expression occurs both consciously and explicitly, and subconsciously and
indirectly. Taking this as a point of departure, this symposium examines the
broad range of digital expressions of the self.
Contact Email: nehagupta_rs@hum.nits.ac.in
URL: https://tinyurl.com/DEBookofAbstracts
What’s
Postcolonial about (Settler) Colonial America?
October 4, 2021,
12:00 PM – 2:30 PM CDT
Just over twenty
years ago, Michael Warner challenged early American scholars to engage the
question, “What’s colonial about colonial America?” This 2.5-hour roundtable picks up this thread
a generation later to ask what might be gained analytically from applying a
postcolonial lens to the early United States.
This panel asks what are the tensions, resonances, and antagonisms
between postcolonial theory and settler colonial theory? How might a framework that applies
postcolonialism to the US be useful for revising our image of the US past? And how might including the US among
postcolonial nations be useful for revising our view of “postcolonial/ism”?
Questions may be
directed to jessica.roney@temple.edu.
Gender Infinity Conference
https://genderinfinity.org/conference/
Gender Infinity
hosts the largest annual conference in the south for trans youth and their
families. Every year we welcome over 300 attendees to learn more about creating
trans affirming spaces and be knowledgeable about topics that affect the trans
community. At Gender Infinity we believe in educating our attendees through the
lens of justice for all trans people, because we know that trans equity cannot
fully be completed until the most marginalized person has the right to equality
and equity. General Admission (adults, students and youth) for this event is free.
Register by Sept.
15: https://genderinfinity.org/conference/how-to-register/
Email: info@genderinfinity.org
The Gimmick as Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
https://calstatela.zoom.us/webinar/register/8016257712713/WN_5l-DqbY9RnmCurzdcaF64g
Dr. Sianne Ngai's talk, "The Gimmick as Aesthetic
Judgment and Capitalist Form," analyzes the “gimmick” as a form that, both
repulsive and yet strangely attractive, can be found virtually everywhere in
capitalism. The theory of the gimmick
represents a crucial contribution to aesthetic theory from a thinker lauded by
The Chronicle of Higher Education as the “most influential literary theorist of
her generation.”
The event will take
place on Zoom on Monday, October 4, 2021 at 6 p.m. PST. It is free and open to all; please register
in advance for the webinar here: https://calstatela.zoom.us/webinar/register/8016257712713/WN_5l-DqbY9RnmCurzdcaF64g
Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change
https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/lepage/events/turning-points.html
Indigenous peoples
around the world are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
How have Indigenous scholars’ historical and cultural perspectives contributed
to conversations about climate change? How do Indigenous perspectives
powerfully shape national and international climate justice movements? Join us
for this important conversation on 09/22 at 6 p ET!
Contact Email: andreina.sotosegura@villanova.edu
Cite Black Women
https://www.citeblackwomencollective.org/
In November 2017 Christen A. Smith created Cite Black Women as a campaign to
push people to engage in a radical praxis of citation that acknowledges and
honors Black women’s transnational intellectual production. The idea was to
motivate everyone, but particularly academics, to critically reflect on their
everyday practices of citation and start to consciously question how they
can incorporate black women into the
CORE of their work.
The Cite Black Women podcast is a bi-weekly
program featuring reflections and
conversations about the politics and praxis of acknowledging and centering
Black women’s ideas and intellectual contributions inside and outside of the
academy through citation.
See also “A
Disturbing Pattern”
Franchise: The Golden
Arches in Black America
https://www.hagley.org/research/history-hangout-marcia-chatelain
Interview with author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. Marcia Chatelain
explores how fast food restaurants saturated black neighborhoods and became, as
well, a focal point in the development of “black capitalism.” To tell this
story, she charts a surprising history of cooperation among fast food
companies, black capitalists, and civil rights leaders, who―in the troubled
years after King's assassination―believed they found an economic answer to the
problem of racial inequality.
NYU Press
Open-Access Books
http://opensquare.nyupress.org/books/
A browser-based reading platform, Open Square
enables us to increase the impact of scholarly work by making it freely
available in a digital format and to experiment with new ways of presenting
scholarship and adding enhanced content to traditionally published books. Open
Square features new and recently published titles as well as a growing library
of classic backlist publications.
