Thursday, October 21, 2021

Calls for Papers, Funding Opportunities, and Resources, October 21, 2021

 

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

Beyond Borders: Visualizing Diaspora, Displacement, and Dispossession

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8456573/call-papers-beyond-borders-visualizing-diaspora-displacement

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

https://carleton.ca/culturalmediations/ruth-and-mark-phillips-professorship-in-cultural-mediations/rmpp-workshop/

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8510524/memories-matter-oral-history-hope-and-community-southwest-oral

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8581785/call-papers-workshop-asian-food-and-power-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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8595403/call-participants-virtual-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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8600021/raw-research-art-and-writing-graduate-student-conference-2022

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8627429/g-span-graduate-scholarship-power-adversity-and-networks-span

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

https://www.acla.org/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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8493634/cfp-feminist-encounters-gender-activism-south-asia-spring-2023

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8676155/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

https://associationlatinamericanart.org/awards/alaa-lasa-vcs-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

https://www.tshaonline.org/awards/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

https://jobs.uic.edu/job-board/job-details?jobID=154623&job=open-rank-tenure-track-or-tenured-position-in-critical-feminist-science-and-technology-studies-gender-and-womens-studies-communications

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

https://www.sevenstories.org.uk/whats-on/events/1068/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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8660487/identity-politics-and-political-institutions-asak-online

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8598600/upcoming-symposium-legacies-slavery-racism-and-empire-history

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 openhttps://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

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stranger-justice-the-multiple-legacies-of-the-hillthomas-hearings-tickets-195236887787

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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