CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Beyond Borders:
Visualizing Diaspora, Displacement, and Dispossession
Symposium Date: April 1–2, 2022 via Zoom
Over the course of two days, Tufts University’s Department
of the History of Art and Architecture will host a series of panels inspired by
the following questions: How have ethnic and cultural conflicts shaped material
and visual cultures? What do objects and architecture of survival tell us about
agency, resistance, and the displaced? How does the insurmountability of loss
transform art practice? Who designs and implements processes of conversion, and
for whom? We encourage submissions on topics relating to art, architecture, and
visual media from all fields across the humanities concerned with material in
any time period.
Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2021
Contact Email: tufts.symposium.2022@gmail.com
Emerging Voices for
Animals in Tourism Virtual Conference
https://www.thecivetproject.com/emergingvoices
17th-18th March 2022, virtual
The aim of this conference is to strengthen the bridge
between “tourism academia” and “non-tourism academia” by highlighting and
celebrating fresh perspectives within and external to tourism, and those who
bridge the two. It is our vision that through the launch of the Emerging Voices
for Animals in Tourism Conference 2022, a vibrant transdisciplinary community
will emerge to advocate for animals enrolled within varying contexts within the
tourism industry. Currently, a proposal is in progress for a book dedicated to
emergent scholars whose work engages with animal advocacy within tourism.
Therefore, it is hoped that those who partake in the conference outlined above
will also have the opportunity to disseminate their research further through
inclusion of their work in this proposed book.
To apply, please submit a 250-300 word abstract and 100 word
author bio by December 1st 2021
Contact Email: evatconference@gmail.com
Physical Cultures of
the Body
https://starkcenter.org/physical-cultures-of-the-body-2022/
Jan. 14, 2022
The body has, and will continue to be, an area of intense
interest in academia. As one of the world’s leading research centers dedicated
to the study of physical culture, the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical
Culture and Sports is proud to announce its second VIRTUAL CONFERENCE focused
on historical and other humanities-based approaches to the study of physical
culture. We define physical culture as
“the various activities people have employed over the centuries to strengthen
their bodies, enhance their physiques, increase their endurance, improve their
health, fight against aging, and become better athletes.”
ABSTRACTS DUE: NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Contact Email: kim@starkcenter.org
Towards a
Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art
Workshop at Carleton University, Institute for Comparative
Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, Thursday, March 10, 2022
Current global ecological, political and social crises, this
workshop argues, have once again underscored the urgency of unlearning universalized
modern Western frameworks in order to uncover the world’s cosmological,
epistemological and ontological heterogeneity. Co-constituted with the modern
Western frameworks that have conceptualized the world in line with colonial and
imperial Eurocentric power structures, art history has primarily reinforced
social, political and epistemological inequalities and hierarchies. This
session approaches the broader decolonial project through the category of
temporality. While the workshop organizers focus on modern and contemporary
art, we welcome papers grounded in diverse art historical periods and forms of
research, including museum and curatorial studies and the anthropology and
philosophy of art.
Contributors are invited to present a 20 mins paper. Please
send an abstract (150 words max.) and short bio (150 words max.) by October 30,
2021 to Amy Bruce (amy.bruce@carleton.ca).
Queer History
Conference 2022
http://clgbthistory.org/queer-history-conference-2022
The Committee on LGBT History and the GLBT Historical
Society are pleased to announce a call for papers for its second conference,
Queer History Conference 2022 (or QHC 22), to be held at San Francisco State
University from June 12 to 15, 2022. Scholars working on any aspect of the
queer past, in any region of the world, during any period, are encouraged to
apply. We use the word “queer” to include both same-sex sexuality and histories
of trans identity and gender non-conformity. We encourage interdisciplinary
scholarship but we also stress that this conference is meant to interrogate the
queer past.
Please make all submissions by November 1, 2021 to QHC2022@gmail.com.
The Memories Matter:
Oral History, Hope, and Community
Southwest Oral History Association Conference April 1-3,
2022 Las Vegas, NV
Oral history is a personal field. Oral historians are
invested in the stories we record, the narrators who share their stories, and
the communities they are part of. Traditionally, oral history presupposes
sitting or walking together and talking--an intimate interpersonal process. The
COVID19 pandemic has changed this approach to our work and the interactions we
once took for granted. And so our theme, The Memories Matter: Oral History,
Hope, and Community, reflects our hopes for the future, and the concerns many
of us acknowledge and share.
The final deadline to submit for consideration will be
January 15, 2022
Direct all additional inquiries to soha@unlv.edu.
History across the
Humanities: Memory, Identity, and Community
online/Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor,
February 24-25, 2022
The Youngstown State University History Program and the
Alpha Gamma Beta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta invite proposals for the 2022
History across the Humanities Conference (HATH). This annual conference is
dedicated to encouraging interdisciplinary research by undergraduate and
graduate students. The HATH organizers invite paper and panel presentations
related to the theme: Memory, Identity, and Community. We hope to assemble a
program that explores public, popular, and/or collective memory. We wish to
examine how individuals and communities adopt particular beliefs about the past
and how those beliefs shape their actions and values in the present.
Please email proposals to history@ysu.edu by December 31, 2021.
Contact Email: history@ysu.edu
Feminist Awakenings
in Multiethnic Literature
https://melus2020.wpcomstaging.com/
MELUS 2022 Panel, New Orleans, March 23-28, 2022
In response to the MELUS 2022 conference theme, “Awakenings,
Reckonings, and Multiethnic Literature: Woke, What Now?”, this panel invites
papers that consider feminist awakenings in 20th to 21st century
multiethnic literature and/or the role of multiethnicity in women’s literature
about awakenings, feminist or otherwise. Possible topics include Kate Chopin’s
novella The Awakening and other works; 20th-21st century
women’s awakenings in literature and film; women’s reinterpretations of
awakenings in other cultures, ages, and media; speculative awakenings; and
other subjects. Scholars at all levels are welcome to join this panel. Please
send a 200-word abstract, short biography, and any queries to Isadora J. Wagner
at isadora.wagner@fulbright.edu.vn by
Sunday, 24 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 and
online
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. The
conference will serve as a platform to foster collaboration between various
groups engaged in understanding and improving disability conditions.
Abstracts up to 300 words in Word format must be submitted
through the electronic system by October 31, 2021.
Contact Email: ggulnurdemirci@gmail.com
Mapping Bodies
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8577967/call-papers
International Association for the Study of Environment,
Space, and Place, Loyola University Chicago, April 22-24, 2022
The global pandemic highlights already existing disparities
in U.S. health care—especially racial, social, economic, and age
inequities—seen, for example, in inadequate elderly care, vaccine access, and
diverging health outcomes. These problems raise questions about the value of
human existence in a social system where a zip code may very well determine
one’s bodily and mental well-being. How are bodies defined by such factors as
race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, and the
like? The body also plays an important role in religion, such as in the
“resurrection of the body,” reincarnation, and “the body of Christ.” What are
possible connections between the body and mind or spirit? Phrases like the
“body politic” further emphasize the extent to which our conceptualizing in a
variety of fields involves images of the body.
Papers due February 15, 2022
Contact Email: jmatzke@umw.edu
URL: https://iasesp.org/conferences/
Asian Food and Power
in a Global Context
Date: December 9-10, 2021, Charles University, Prague &
online
Food is not only a vital part of our lives, representing
history, traditions, and culture, but food can also be used as an instrument to
create cross-cultural understanding. In fact, food is the base of every society
and food and at the same time it is a tool to communicate ideas, values,
identities, and attitudes. Consequently, the topic of food brings together
issues of economics, politics, nationality, family, and religion. By tracing
Asian food both inside and outside of Asia, in course of this workshop, we want
to explore the power of food in regard to the relationship between food and
religious rituals, between food and identity construction, as well as on food
in international politics.
Interested scholars are encouraged to submit an abstract
(max. 500 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words) in English, until
October 29, 2021.
Contact Email: 244108@mail.muni.cz
Native American
Studies Seminar
The newly established and student-led American Studies
Association of Queen's Univeristy Belfast are hosting an online seminar which
aims to highlight the scholarship and activism of Native Americans. The event
is planned for Monday November 22nd, 2021, the same week as Thanksgiving. The
overarching and broad theme of the seminar is "Truthsgiving."
Speakers have full ageny with their topics, they do not necessarily need to
relate to the holiday, however, some correlation would be preferred. Papers
should be 20 minutes in length. The main goal of the seminar is to provide a
platform for Native American scholarship and activism to be acknowledged and
appreciated. We want a diverse and comprehensive panel.
If interested please send a topic abstract and CV to etaylor13@qub.ac.uk by Friday November
5th, 2021
Reality, Reflection,
and Retrospection: Perceptions on Time, Space, and Subjectivity
Saturday, February 12, 2022
The Arts & Humanities Association of Graduate Students
(AGS) of UTD is now inviting proposals for the thirteenth annual RAW (Research,
Art & Writing) conference. The conference is organized by and for graduate
student scholars to engage in scholarly and creative conversations with peers
across the various fields of the humanities. Our 2022 conference will be
facilitated in a hybrid format: in-person presentations will be hosted in
Richardson, Texas; remote presentations will be hosted online. This year, we
invite scholarly papers and creative projects that address how we
engage/disengage with reality, see ourselves and the world around us, and look
to the past to understand our present and/or future. We hope the wide scope of
our theme this year will allow the incorporation of submissions from across the
humanities disciplines.
Submission Deadline: Friday, November 19, 2021 by 11:59pm: :
https://utdallas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0HTbhie3NNiftqe
RAW Conference Coordinator RAWConference@utdallas.edu
Navigating
Boundaries: Transnationalism and Migration
The History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) at
California State University, Long Beach is pleased to announce a call for
papers for its fifth annual conference that will examine transnationalism and
migration. The conference is intended to offer graduate students the
opportunity to present original research and promote interdisciplinary and
innovative scholarship. The conference aims to provide new insight into
migration, identities, discourse, ideologies, refugees, and diasporas. All
fields are welcome. The conference will be held via Zoom on Friday, November
19th.
submit 250-300 word abstracts and 50-75
word bios in pdf format to csulb.hgsa@gmail.com
by November 5th
Please direct any questions you may have to the HGSA email: csulb.hgsa@gmail.com
Change, Continuity,
and Chaos
April 8-10, 2022 in Tucson, AZ
The University of Arizona’s History Graduate Association
(HGA) invites paper proposals on the theme Change, Continuity, and Chaos for
the inaugural Conference for Graduate Scholarship on Power, Adversity, and
Networks (G-SPAN). This conference is designed to promote interdisciplinary
collaboration, cooperation, and
collegiality between and among graduate students. We welcome papers from the
humanities and social sciences focused on any period.
All proposals, whether individual papers or panels, must be
submitted to UAG-SPAN@email.arizona.edu by
no later than December 10, 2021.
URL: https://history.arizona.edu/history-graduate-association
American Comparative
Literature Association Seminars
Please select a seminar for which you would like to propose
a paper. Current ACLA guidelines specify that each ACLA member may submit only
ONE PAPER for consideration. Abstracts must be received by Sunday, October 31,
2021 at 11:59 p.m. PST. Our 2021 conference will be held April 8-11, 2021
entirely online.
COVID 19 and Gender
https://networks.h-net.org/node/24029/discussions/8599731/call-participants-covid-19-and-gender
We are seeking scholars, activists and creative artists (in
the broad sense of the word) whose work explores the gendered and racial impact
of the pandemic for the annual women, gender, and sexuality studies colloquium
at St. Mary's College of Maryland, which we plan to hold in person during the
3rd week in March 2022. At this point, we are looking to identify individuals
whose work is centered around the inequities created or exacerbated by the
pandemic. If you'd like to get a sense
of the scope, intentions, and past topics of the event, you may follow this
link: http://www.smcm.edu/events/wgsx-colloquium/.
email: bbasaran@smcm.edu
Sassafras, Stickball,
and Stories: Indigenous Cultures of the Gulf South https://indigenoussymposium.tulane.edu/
New Orleans Center for the Gulf South Indigenous Symposium
at Tulane University
The symposium will take place March 18-19, 2022 on Tulane’s
Uptown campus and the first day will be devoted to presentations selected
through our CFP. Our theme is a broadly defined
examination of the cultures of Indigenous Nations currently or formerly
situated throughout the Gulf South. In the wake of Hurricane Ida and the
profound impact of climate change on Indigenous nations we are keen to hear
from communities and cultural bearers from these areas. Whether in the face of
disasters or discrimination, maintaining culture is an act of resistance
against those forces seeking to destroy it. We welcome presentations from a
wide variety of disciplines, and would like to prioritize presentations on
coastal communities, climate change and cultural response, resistance, and
adaptation to these challenges.
Proposals should be submitted to NOCGSteam@tulane.edu and the
submission deadline is November 15, 2021.
email: NOCGSteam@tulane.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Narratives of
Gendered Abuse in Academia
This edited collection will document narratives of gendered
abuse and disadvantage in academia, in order to bear witness to the ways that
women, and all whose gender expression falls outside heteronormative
masculinity, are devitalized in higher education. We are interested in the
power of memoir becoming “anonymous,” in the circulating of anecdote as
feminist documentation, and in the idea that the personal is political,
theoretical, and professional. The collection will also ask after the ways that
academic institutions replicate the kinds of gendered abuses that individuals
experience in other forms of relationship, such as partner abuse, abuse in
marriage, and abuse in family structures, alongside the failures of various
therapeutic models in these analogous scenarios. Thus, we seek first-person
accounts of all varieties of gendered abuse, harassment, and/or discrimination
as experienced by women and LGBTQ individuals in academia.
Please submit your
500-750 word abstract, brief c.v., and contact information to
both volume editors (hollandmkh@newpaltz.edu and rohmanc@lafayette.edu) by April 1, 2022.
Feminist Encounters -
Gender Activism in South Asia
Feminist Encounters seeks multi-format submissions for a
special issue on Gender Activism in South Asia for Spring 2023. In this issue,
we wish to consider historical activisms, and also how gender activism in the
region has been changing over the last decade. We invite proposals for articles that will
address how civil society, nation states and the media are shaping narratives
of feminism and gender activism in the region of South Asia. We are interested
in contributions from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Maldives,
Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
300 words abstract
and bio by 1 November 2021 to Munira.cheema@kcl.ac.uk or salma.siddique@hu-berlin.de
Moral Economies
https://www.southerncultures.org/cfp-moral-economies/
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed
quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages
submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Moral
Economies. For this issue, we seek submissions that reveal the moral dimensions
of economies and vice versa. What moral logics—sacred or profane, beneficent or
perverse, overt or blandly in denial—can we find embedded in getting, giving,
making, caring, and spending? What moral imaginaries have animated alternative
economic spheres, or are yet to be realized? What is the secret life of
property, the implied ethic of work, the unacknowledged parties to a contract,
or the moral horizon of a market?
We will accept submissions for this issue through January 3,
2022
Left Histories of a
Digital World or the Digital World of Left History
https://lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/lh/announcement/view/17
What impact did the “digital turns” have on the left? What
role does “the digital” play in left analyses of society, economy, and
politics? Answers to these questions are increasingly important, given the
global pandemic’s acceleration and expansion of our digital lives and the ways
that these technologies and systems operate within pre-existing power
structures and inequalities. Left History, a long-running interdisciplinary
journal of historical inquiry and debate, seeks submissions for a special issue
on the relationship between the left and the digital transformation, whether subject
matter, method, or both. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
histories of science and technology; the political economy of digital worlds;
power and social networks; and digital approaches to historical analysis.
We welcome submissions until 1 November 2021
If you have any questions, please email us at lefthist@yorku.ca.
Inheritance:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Inheritance catapults private intimacies into the public
domain of law. Behind the seemingly strict legal formalism of inheritance,
succession and probate law - writing wills/determining intestacy - lies a whole set of social, cultural,
familial, and affective processes. It is this intersection of the social and
the legal that interests us. Thinking about inheritance reveals the tenacity of
existing power structures but also the essential and constant work of ‘private’
law to sustain them, and, consequently, the possibilities of alternatives. In
foregrounding ‘generationality’, scholarship about inheritance provides a space
to think about both the past and the future, of both society and the self.
Please send a 500-word abstract with title, short bio, and
contact information to Suzanne Lenon (suzanne.lenon@uleth.ca)
and Daniel Monk (d.monk@bbk.ac.uk) by
January 15, 2022
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Afro Latin
American/Afro-Latinx Scholarship Prize
The Association for Latin American Art, an affiliate of the
College Art Association, and the Visual Culture Section of the Latin American
Studies Association, are pleased to sponsor the ALAA Annual Afro Latin
American/Afro-Latinx Essay Prize. We will consider scholarly essays published
in a peer reviewed journal, edited volume, or exhibition catalogue during the
previous year, on any aspect of Afro Latin American art, architecture, or
visual culture in Latin America and the United States, covering any period from
the colonial era to the present.
Authors should send their submission as a pdf to the Chair
of the award committee no later than November 15, 2021
Contact Email: pniell@fsu.edu
Texas State Library
and Archives Commission Research Fellowship in Texas History
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission Research
Fellowship in Texas History is awarded for the best research proposal utilizing
collections of the State Archives in Austin.
Individuals wishing to apply should submit an application form (and
attach the proposal and a curriculum vita) by November 15, 2021.
Contact Email: pprice@tsl.texas.gov
Dissertation Award
https://iehs.org/awards/george-e-pozzetta-dissertation-award/
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) presents two
awards of $1,000 each to help graduate students with their dissertations on
American immigration, emigration, or ethnic history, broadly defined. These
awards are intended for students in the process of researching and writing
their dissertations and not intended for students completing and defending in
Spring 2022.
Application materials and the supporting letter must be
received by the committee by the deadline, December 31, 2021.
Inquiries and application materials should be submitted via
email to pozzetta_award@iehs.org.
Houghton Library
Visiting Fellowship Program
https://library.harvard.edu/grants-fellowships/houghton-library-visiting-fellowships
Houghton Library is Harvard’s principal repository for rare
books and manuscripts, literary and performing arts archives, and more. The
Visiting Fellowship Program offers scholars at all stages of their careers
funding to pursue projects that require in-depth research on the Library’s
holdings. The application deadline for 2022-2023 fellowships is January 14,
2022.
Contact Email: accardo@fas.harvard.edu
Grant Applications
due at Notre Dame's Cushwa Center
https://cushwa.nd.edu/grant-opportunities/
The University of Notre Dame's Cushwa Center for the Study
of American Catholicism administers a number of funding opportunities to
support scholarly research in a variety of subject areas. Apply by December 31,
2021, at cushwa.nd.edu
William L. Clements
Library 2022-2023 Research Fellowships
https://clements.umich.edu/research/fellowships/
The Clements’ holdings—books, manuscripts, pamphlets, maps,
prints and views, newspapers, photographs, ephemera—are among the best in the
world on almost any aspect of the American experience from 1492 through 1900,
and support a diverse array of research projects. Particular strengths include:
military history, gender and ethnicity, religion, the American Revolution,
Native American history, slavery and antislavery, Atlantic history, the
Caribbean, cartography, the Civil War, reform movements, travel and
exploration, among others.
Applications are due by January 15, 2022
email clements-fellowships@umich.edu
for more information
Power and Struggle: Essay
Contest
The Graduate History Association of the Department of
History at The University of Alabama previously announced its hosting of the
Thirteenth Annual Graduate Student Conference on Power and Struggle. Due to the
current environment of uncertainty surrounding public health and safety
concerns this coming Fall Semester, the executive committee has decided to
transition from an in-person conference to a paper contest this year.
The contest’s theme addresses new approaches of historical
analysis that focus on the relationship between struggle and power, especially
people who struggled to break, transform, or reclaim the boundaries constructed
by those in power. We encourage graduate students to submit papers that examine
these relationships across various temporal, geographical, and topical fields
and disciplines. The contest seeks submissions employing theoretical
approaches, interdisciplinary methods, comparative perspectives, and multi-archival
research bases that push the bounds of historical interpretation.
Deadline: Friday, March 25, 2022
email: ghapowerandstruggle@ua.edu
Bodleian Visiting
Fellowships
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
The fellowships support scholars in any field of study and
from anywhere in the world to undertake research in the Bodleian's special
collections. Our special collections hold outstanding resources for scholarly
study and discovery. These include: classical papyri; medieval and renaissance
European manuscripts; ancient and modern manuscript and printed material from
the Americas, Asia, Africa, Australasia and Oceania; rare printed books;
literary, political and historical papers; personal and institutional archives
relating to the history of science, technology and medicine; printed ephemera;
music; maps.
submission deadline of noon GMT on Tuesday 30 November 2021
email: fellowships@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Research Specialist
for Black Play & Culture
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62030
The Strong is a highly interactive, collections-based museum
devoted to the history and exploration of play.
Because play is universal and pervasive, The Strong has aspired to
collect, preserve, and interpret an inclusive history of play that represents
the diversity of people and experiences in the United States. The Research Specialist for Black Play &
Culture will review the museum’s current collections and exhibits to identify
opportunities for new and diverse artifact acquisitions and exhibit displays;
develop online interpretive content through a series of museum blogs and an
online exhibit; engage local, regional, and national communities through
collecting and interpretive initiatives; and play a critical role in the growth
and interpretation of the world’s most comprehensive public collection of
playthings and historical materials related to play.
email: lrothfuss@museumofplay.org
URL: https://www.museumofplay.org/careers-internships/
Postdoctoral Faculty
Fellow, Writing and Arts & Cultures
Writing position: https://apply.interfolio.com/95025
Arts & Cultures position: https://apply.interfolio.com/95024
The Liberal Studies Core is a dynamic liberal arts
curriculum that provides a global and interdisciplinary foundation for nearly
100 NYU majors. The curriculum emphasizes conceptual and spatial frameworks to
trace the movement of ideas and the interconnectivity of material culture,
through the study of different texts, histories, exchanges, structures and
systems, languages, arts, and writing from early antiquity through contemporary
times. Small seminar-style classes and close faculty-student interaction ensure
the benefits of a liberal arts college within a large urban research
university. We are especially interested in hiring qualified candidates who can
contribute through their research, teaching and service to the diversity and
excellence of the Liberal Studies community.
"Visions of
Slavery" Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellowship
http://apply.interfolio.com/95981
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, invites applications for a
one-year postdoctoral fellowship to support an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Sawyer Seminar entitled “Visions of Slavery: Histories, Memories, and
Mobilizations of Unfreedom in the Black Atlantic” scheduled for the 2022-23
academic year. Through comparative and interdisciplinary lenses, they will seek
to assess historical and contemporary forms of “unfreedom”—the various modes of
forced labor inclusive of, and extending beyond, chattel slavery, such as
peonage, indentured and debt servitude, convict leasing and prison labor, child
labor, and sexual exploitation.
Review of applications will begin December 15, 2021.
Inquiries can be directed to: Professor Walter C. Rucker, wrucker@emory.edu.
Digital Inquiry,
Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism Network Mellon Fellowship
https://apply.interfolio.com/92435
The DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and
Optimism) Network Mellon Fellowship will address vital topics such as racial
and gender inequality, histories of exclusion, disability justice and
techno-ableism, and digital racial politics within the academy and beyond. In
collaboration with the Mellon Foundation, this position is part of a
seven-person fellowship cluster hiring effort across a consortium of five
universities.
There are several DISCO fellowships at different
universities.
Applications received before Oct. 18, 2021 will be
guaranteed consideration, but they will continue to be reviewed as they are
received until the position is filled.
Assistant Professor
Trans and/or Queer Cultural Studies
https://employment.ku.edu/academic/20430BR
The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at
the University of Kansas seeks an Assistant Professor of Trans and/or Queer
Cultural Studies for Fall 2022. This position is a full-time, tenure-track,
academic-year (9-month) appointment. The successful candidate must have
research and teaching expertise in trans and/or queer cultural studies and/or
theory. Applications from all
trans/queer cultural studies scholars are invited with a particular interest in
areas of queer of color critique, transnational, global South, or post-colonial
analysis.
Completed applications must be received no later than
November 15, 2021 to be considered.
Questions may be sent to the search committee chair, Associate Professor
Katie Batza at batza@ku.edu.
Assistant Professor
of Black Trans and Queer Studies
https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-Professor-of-Black-Trans-and-Queer-Studies/33279
The Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University
of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor
position in the field of Black trans and/or queer studies. The department is
especially interested in an interdisciplinary scholar whose work draws upon
Black feminist/queer/trans radical thought and engages with critical,
abolitionist, and/or decolonial frameworks. Historical period and geographical
focus of research are open. Interdisciplinary scholarship is strongly
encouraged.
Full consideration will be given to applicants who apply by
November 30, 2021, and the department will continue screening applicants until
the position is filled.
Assistant Professor
in Race, Gender, and Health
https://uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/107045
We seek candidates whose scholarship and teaching emphasizes
the intersections of gender, race, and health. Field of study is open,
including (but not limited to) fields such as women’s, gender, and sexuality
studies, anthropology, human geography, philosophy, political science,
psychology, and sociology. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
health and healthcare disparities involving race and gender; the gendered and
raced dimensions of science, technology, and medicine; transgender and LGBTQIA+
health; institutional/structural violence and health; and reproductive health,
rights, and justice. The person will hold a 50/50 joint appointment in the
Women’s and Gender Studies Program and in another department, depending on
degree field and area of expertise.
Email: swansc@mailbox.sc.edu
Postdoctoral
Fellowships in Black Geographies/US Black Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/96610
Dartmouth College invites applications for a Guarini Dean’s
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Black Geographies/US Black Studies. We are most
interested in scholars in the social sciences whose work produces or advances
theories concerning placemaking, Black liberation, and/or the dismantling of
racial capitalism within the historical and contemporary context of US society.
This encompasses candidates whose work engages with, for example, carceral
geographies, Black feminisms, Queer and Trans theories, diasporic studies, race
and anti-racism, and comparative studies of race and sovereignty. In addition,
the fellowship promotes student and faculty diversity at Dartmouth, and
throughout higher education, by supporting the early career development of underrepresented
scholars and others with a demonstrated ability to advance educational
diversity and inclusivity.
Review of applications will begin January 22, 2022 and
continue until February 15, 2022.
Critical Feminist
Science and Technology Studies
The Program in Gender and Women’s Studies and the Department
of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago invite applications
for an open rank, tenure-track or tenured position in Critical Feminist Science
and Technology Studies subject to budgetary funding. The position is part of a
cluster hire initiative focusing on Social Justice and Human Rights. We are
looking for a scholar working at a nexus of Science and Technology Studies
(STS) and intersectional feminism. Topics of scholarly inquiry might include
but are not limited to: postcolonial critiques of scientific epistemologies and
methodologies; decolonial analyses of gender, race, disability and biopolitics;
indigenous knowledge production and technologies; digital feminism, new media
abolitionist and materialist critiques; racialization of technological
innovation especially in the context of reproductive and biometric information;
race, sexuality and gaming; and a reimagining of the so-called digital divide
through critical studies of informatics.
For full consideration please apply by November 15, 2021.
questions: Rachel Caidor, rcaidor@uic.edu
Fields of the Future
Fellowships, 2022-23
https://www.bgc.bard.edu/bgc-research-fellowship
Bard Graduate Center (BGC) is pleased to continue its annual
Fields of the Future fellowship and mentorship program, which aims to help
promote diversity and inclusion in the advanced study of the material world. BGC studies the past in its own terms in order
to better understand where the future has come from. We invite applicants to
submit projects that they think map the fields of the future. In an effort to
promote necessary diversity and inclusion in the fields of decorative arts,
design history, and material culture, we particularly wish to encourage applicants
from historically underrepresented groups and/or projects of related thematic
focus. Doctoral students of exceptional promise are also encouraged to apply.
All materials must be received by Monday, December 6, 2021,
at 11:59 PM EST.
Please direct questions to the Fellowship Committee via
email (fellowships@bgc.bard.edu)
AAPF #SayHerName
Campaign Manager
https://www.aapf.org/sayhername-campaignmanager
The African American Policy Forum is seeking a full time
#SayHerName Campaign Manager to join our team! The #SayHerName Campaign Manager
reports to the Director of Programs and Advocacy. Duties and responsibilities
include leading projects and daily operations of the #SayHerName program;
working with and assessing the current and future needs of the #SayHerName
Mothers Network; developing community relationships and partnerships;
developing and implementing a plan for expansion of the Campaign; and more.
AAPF Research
Assistant
https://www.aapf.org/researchassistantft-hire
The African American Policy Forum is seeking an enthusiastic
Research Assistant to join our team! This position is a temporary remote role
with the potential to transition into an in-office permanent role. The Research
Assistant will contribute research to the African American Policy Forum’s,
Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw’s, and the Center for Intersectionality and Social
Policy Studies’ (CISPS) ongoing international and domestic projects,
intersectional issues, policy development, and media coverage.
Director of Sexual
Orientation, Gender Identity & Expression
https://joblink.jmu.edu/postings/10395
Reporting to the Associate Vice President for Diversity,
Equity & Inclusion the Director of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity,
& Expression (SOGIE) serves as a resource to the James Madison University
campus community and is a university leader, providing support and advocacy for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, nonbinary, and other sexual-and
gender minority students, faculty, & staff.
The Director for SOGIE supports the vision and mission of the
university, the Division of Student Affairs, and the Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion unit. The Director of SOGIE
plays a critical role on the Student Affairs DEI Leadership Team focused on
strengthening advocacy and support for marginalized communities on campus.
Application review starts 11/08/2021
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
CONFERENCES
Witness Literature: In Conversation with Beverley Naidoo
Wednesday 20 October, 7 - 8pm GMT
Join award winning children’s author
Beverley Naidoo and Newcastle University researcher Helen King as they discuss
Beverley’s Carnegie Medal-winning novel, The Other Side of Truth (2000), and
its story of Nigerian refugee children in the UK. Drawing on Naidoo’s archive,
which is held in Seven Stories’ internationally significant collection, we will
be introduced to the people and events that inspired the novel, examine
Beverley’s creative process, and read responses from her young readers. The
conversation will ask timely questions about the relationship between fiction
and reality, and the ways in which children’s books are used by authors and
readers to explore pressing social issues.
Identity Politics and Political Institutions
October 29-30, 2021 (Korean Standard
Time)
The American Studies Association of
Korea (ASAK) is pleased to announce an international conference. For this
year’s conference, we are delighted to welcome Robin D. G. Kelley,
Distinguished Professor of History and African American Studies and Gary B.
Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, as our keynote speaker. The title
of the keynote speech is “Black Spring, Blue Winter: On the Identity Politics
of Police.” Admission is free and open to the public.
Contact Email: asakconference@gmail.com
URL: http://www.asak.or.kr/eng/
Legacies of Slavery, Racism, and Empire in the History of Medicine
We are pleased to announce the
international symposium “Legacies of Slavery, Racism, and Empire in the History
of Medicine” to be held on November 12, 2021. The event will take place
online via Zoom on November 12, 2021, from 4pm to 8pm (Paris time). Registrations
are now open: https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HB-LQYk9SoOIrgAmA3POcw.You will be able to find the program of the event via the
following weblink: https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/college/centerinparis-prod/s3fs-public/2021-10/Legacies_prog.pdf
Contact Email: christopherwilloughby@fas.harvard.edu
Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade
Was Won, 1783–1807
https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/rosenbach2021
October 25, 26, and 28, 2021: 5:30pm
(EST)
In this series of highly illustrated
lectures, Michael Suarez offers a fresh perspective on British abolition,
richly informed by political prints and personal correspondence, newspapers and
pamphlets, account books and committee minutes, parliamentary reports and
private diaries.
email: lynne@pobox.upenn.edu
Stranger Justice: The Multiple Legacies of the Anita Hill/Clarence
Thomas Hearings
October 27, 2021 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
“Stranger Justice: The Multiple
Legacies of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Hearings” will analyze the
intersectional failures that granted Clarence Thomas his seat on the Supreme
Court and reflect on the conservative project that his confirmation empowered—
from the assaults on the rights of marginalized communities to the weakening of
American social democracy.
On this timely episode, AAPF executive
director Kimberlé Crenshaw will be joined by Jill Abramson, senior lecturer at
Harvard University and former executive editor of The New York Times; Paul
Butler, professor of law at Georgetown University and acclaimed scholar on race
and the law; Matt Ford, author and staff writer at The New Republic; Beverly
Guy-Sheftall, professor of women’s studies at Spelman College and renowned
Black feminist scholar; and Catharine MacKinnon, professor of law at the
University of Michigan and Harvard University and pathbreaking feminist legal
scholar.
The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and
Racial Justice
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/auntie-sewing-squad-visits-city-lights-tickets-167444720667
NOVEMBER 3, 2021 AT 8 PM – 9:30 PM CDT
The Auntie Sewing Squad is a quirky,
fast-moving, and adaptive mutual-aid group that showed up to meet a critical
need. Led primarily by women of color, the group includes some who learned to
sew from mothers and grandmothers working for sweatshops or as a survival skill
passed down by refugee relatives. The Auntie Sewing Squad speaks back to the
history of exploited immigrant labor as it enacts an intersectional commitment
to public health for all. This collection of essays and ephemera is a community
document of the labor and care of the Auntie Sewing Squad.
