CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Bodies on the Edge:
Life and Death in Migration
On their perilous journey to foreign lands, migrants come
close to death or encounter it. Once settled, some of them yearn to be buried
with their ancestors in their homeland, a few prefer the soil where their
children grew up. The Thanatic Ethics project explores the social implications
and aesthetic representations of the circulation of bodies in migratory spaces.
Circulating bodies become part and parcel of their biosphere, enmeshed in an
organic and inorganic continuum with other living organisms, a wider relational
cosmology of life forms (Kodjo-Granvaux 2021), from the smallest viruses (COVID
19) to complex plants and animals, but also material objects and raw matter.
This is not only the case for migrants’ bodies but also for migrating bodies,
their commodified body parts circulating on the market for organ trafficking.
We invite contributors to send their proposals (a
250-word abstract, title, author’s name, a 150-word bio, and contact
information) to the conference email address: thanaticethics@gmail.com.
https://www.thanaticethics.com/
No Limits
https://www.unl.edu/wgs/no-limits-submissions
“No Limits” is an annual student conference dedicated to
crossing boundaries between disciplines and exploring a wide range of women’s and
gender issues. We invite proposals from undergraduates, graduate students, and
recent graduates on any topic from any discipline related to women’s issues,
lives, histories or cultures; feminism; or women’s and gender studies. Creative
writing, visual arts, film, music, performances, workshops, and academic papers
are all welcome.
Deadline for submissions is Friday, January 21, 2022.
email: nolimitsunl@unl.edu
Love, Sex, and
Justice in the South
https://www.sewsa.net/2022-call-for-papers
The Southeastern Women’s Studies Association (SEWSA) is a
feminist organization that actively supports and promotes all aspects of
women’s studies at every level of involvement. The organization is committed to
scholarship on and activism eliminating oppression and discrimination on the
basis of sex, gender identity and expression, race, age, religion, sexual
orientation, ethnic background, physical ability, and class. Submit papers for
a specific SEWSA caucus, and papers not accepted for a caucus panel will be
considered for the general conference.
Submissions Due December 1, 2021
Please submit questions to SEWSA Student Caucus Chair
Victoria Folayan at vfolayan1@student.gsu.edu.
Transportation,
Movement, and Mobility
October 27-28, 2022, Youngstown State University
This symposium seeks to bring together a variety of emerging
and established scholars whose work investigates the themes of transportation,
movement, and mobility in U.S. history. Proposals from all eras and fields
relative to U.S. history are welcome. We will give due consideration to all
proposals submitted, whether from faculty, graduate students, independent
scholars, or undergraduate students.
Please email your proposals with the subject line “Reeder
Symposium” to alfluker@ysu.edu by
April 30, 2022.
Critical
Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-critical-infrastructure-studies-digital-humanities
Critical infrastructure studies has emerged as a framework
for linking thought on the complex relations between society and its material
structures across fields such as science and technology studies, design,
ethnography, media infrastructure studies, feminist theory, critical race and
ethnicity studies, postcolonial studies, environmental studies, animal studies,
literary studies, the creative arts, and others (see the CIstudies.org
Bibliography ). This growing body of work explores why infrastructure
is essential for understanding people’s lives, practices, and identities. Critical
Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities will now bring
infrastructural approaches front and center as an area where DH is uniquely
equipped to lead the humanities in thought and practice, using its own
infrastructural legacy as inspiration and mirror. The aim is to understand how
infrastructure underpins and influences DH, and how DH in turn can influence
infrastructure design, development, and maintenance.
Abstracts (500 words) and a short bio due: December 15, 2021:
ayliu@english.ucsb.edu, urszula.pawlicka-deger@kcl.ac.uk,
and james.smithies@kcl.ac.uk.
Centering Resistance:
Imaginings of a New Feminist Future
https://consortium.gws.wisc.edu/call-for-proposals/
April 7-9, 2022
This year’s theme rests on an urgent line of inquiry: What
has the pandemic revealed about the type of world we need to rebuild and
reconstruct to foster a new feminist future(s)? What have recent local,
national, and global events taught us about empathy, inclusion, and justice as
we grapple with the present but turn a hopeful gaze toward the future? As we
pause to consider “Centering Resistance: Imaginings of a New Feminist Future,”
we invite proposals that foreground an intersectional-feminist lens to map out
inclusive societal structures, equitable institutional frameworks,
cross-movement solidarities, and radical reimaginings of the future. We welcome
proposals for pre-recorded presentations, virtual art exhibitions, virtual
posters, and synchronous roundtables.
Deadline for submissions: 11:59 PM (U.S. Central Daylight
Time): Sunday, November 7, 2021
email: karla.strand@wisc.edu
Intersections and the
Anthropocene
March 31-April 1, 2022
This interdisciplinary conference embraces the challenge of
creating an environmentally sustainable future with gender equity. Our goals
are to disentangle the social and technological systems that have led to the
contemporary climate crisis—the dubious achievement of the Anthropocene—and to
unearth the deeply rooted intersections of identity categories, such as gender
identity, sexual identity/orientation, race, class, age, ethnicity, and
nationality, that shape the experiences of those who toil in service of this
geological age. The complexity of imminent threats requires interdisciplinary
cooperation to address scientific, ethical, and political problems of the
Anthropocene and meet the goal of a sustainable society that treats humanity
and Earth with respect. How does intersectionality allow us to better understand
the challenges of Anthropocene?
Abstracts and proposals should be submitted by February 15,
2022, to rflynn1@ggc.edu.
Shame - A Global
Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
The proliferation of information technology and social media
has democratised and decentralised the way humans communicate and learn about
the world around them. On one hand, this has afforded another platform for
shame to be used against individuals and groups. On the other hand, this has
facilitated the undermining – or destabilisation – of facts, truths, norms and
customs that have traditionally informed the uses of shame. This raises
questions about how shame can function in a world where the adherence of
individuals to their own personal truths may immunise them against feelings of
humiliation arising from the judgement of others. This inaugural conference
offers a space for people from diverse disciplines, practices and professions
to engage in inclusive interdisciplinary dialogues about the many facets of shame.
From the conversations and dialogues which take place, our intention is to form
a selective innovative interdisciplinary publication(s) and other outputs to
engender further research and collaboration.
300 word proposals, presentations, abstracts and other forms
of contribution and participation should be submitted by Friday 26th November
2021
email: pragueshame@progressiveconnexions.net
Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion in the Historical Narrative
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, January 21 &
22, 2022
The theme for this year's conference is "Diversity,
Equity, and Inclusion in the Historical Narrative." As historians, we have
a duty and obligation to bring historical accounts to light no matter where
they happened or to whom they occurred. This forum encourages researchers to
look at those places and peoples who have been marginalized in our fields and
broaden our shared understanding of history by bringing their stories to life.
Take this as a call-to-research to reconstruct a fuller picture of the past
from all perspectives of the historical narrative. We look forward to hearing
the fruitful results of your research as you examine new avenues in the study
of the past.
All initial submissions should be inputted through this
form: https://forms.gle/Z1hkBqQMF3UB2NV76.
All subsequent questions and correspondence should be emailed to: gha@uncc.edu.
submission deadline: November 12, 2021
Climate Change,
Inequality, and Livable Cities
Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of History,
Humanities Center, and Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies,
with generous support of the A.W. Mellon Foundation, will convene a three-day
workshop, June 8 — 10, 2022, that seeks to bring together eight early-career
scholars (including advanced doctoral candidates) to share in-progress research
on the challenges of urban life in an era of accelerating climate change and
inequality. We seek approaches from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives,
methodologies, locations, and time periods (past, present, and future). We are particularly excited to welcome
scholars who engage directly with communities, organizations, or social
movements working to make cities more livable for marginalized populations within
and beyond the United States.
To apply: please submit a 300-word abstract of the work to
be presented and a two-page c.v. to jsoluri@andrew.cmu.edu by
January 15, 2022.
Future of Work
https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/project-type/working-paper-series/
The Rapoport Center’s Working Paper Series -- part of
University of Texas at Austin's Center for Human Rights and Justice -- is
seeking to publish innovative papers by established and early-career
researchers and practitioners. Authors from all disciplines are welcome to
submit papers on a variety of human rights and social justice topics. At
present, we are particularly interested in papers in line with the Rapoport
Center’s current thematic focus on the future of work. Submissions are accepted
on a rolling basis.
Graduate History
Conference
Temple University March 18-19, 2022
The James A. Barnes Club, Temple University's graduate
student history organization, is pleased to announce the 27th Annual Barnes
Club Graduate Student History Conference. The event will feature a keynote
address from the chair of the history department at Macalester College, Dr.
Walter Greason, author of International Segregation and Cities Imagined: The
African Diaspora in Media and History. Proposals from graduate students for
individual papers or panels are welcome on any topic, time period, or approach
to history. We welcome proposals that foreground public history and digital
humanities, and are eager to work with applicants in these fields to facilitate
their participation.
Please submit a 250-word abstract that outlines your
original research or project and a current C.V. via this link no
later than Friday, December 31, 2021.
If you have any questions, please email: jabconf@temple.edu.
Cultivating Dynamic
Environments Graduate Conference
April 8-9th, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA
As our natural environments become increasingly vulnerable
to the realities of climate change, so too do our personal and communal
environments experience strain. In thinking about conversations of potential
irreversible climate collapse, we don’t always ruminate on the ways in which
our social, economic, political, cultural, creative, and academic environments
are increasingly impacted by looming devastation. Thus, the varying
environments of our lives do not remain isolated from each other as their
pitfalls and triumphs reverberate across the dynamics of culture, manifesting
in our policy, lifestyles, art, literature, and criticism to leave profound
impressions on the historical record.
Sprouting from these recent queries, criticism, and
meditations on the impacts of climate change, the English Graduate Organization
at Duquesne University invites a wide range of proposals from all disciplines
that consider, interpret, imagine, respond to the implications and necessity
for cultivating dynamic environments in our contemporary era. We also encourage
broader interpretations of the conference theme.
Deadline for submissions: January 1st, 2022
Contact email: environments@duq.edu
PUBLICATIONS
At the Dusk of
Literature?––literary extremities.
https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/Current_CFP
The French philosopher Catherine Malabou famously argued
that writing must now face the dawn of the post-deconstructive era. Venturing
beyond deconstruction, Malabou points to a necessary “reorientation of
literature” along the lines of neurobiological research, whose objective is to
reclaim the body from either philosophical or scientific reductionism. We
welcome both individual scholarly abstracts that consider the topic alongside
Malabou’s new materialist post-deconstructive reflection on writing’s extremity
as a space from which to think its present and future; and we equally encourage
a variety of other approaches that reflect on the significance and complexity
of the notion of extremity as it continues to affect, transform and manifest
itself in literature in the 21st century.
An abstract [max. 300 words] should be submitted by January
31, 2022:
malgorzata.myk@uni.lodz.pl and mark.tardi@uni.lodz.pl
"How We Want to
Learn!" Radical Student Voices from the Academy in a Crises World
Submit an abstract to our edited volume – “How We Want to
Learn!”: Radical Student Voices from the Academy in a Crises World. This edited
volume explores the rarely heard radical voices of graduate and undergraduate
students expressing in critical and heartfelt ways how YOU want to learn, as
opposed to how 'we' in the academy want to teach. This is your opportunity to
dream about what school would look like in an ideal world. Write about your
frustrations, your personal experience of pain or of success in an academic or
other learning setting. Write about the learning that has set you on fire – or
your longing for such an experience.
No deadline given
Contact Email: phoebe.godfrey@uconn.edu
Pandemic Pedagogy
In March 2020, college instructors across the US suddenly
found their courses—and their classrooms—transitioned to fully-online contexts
as COVID-19 took the lives of millions and people around the world began to
shelter in place. Now, over a year later, the time for reflection seems apt.
What have instructors learned from this historic era in higher education
pedagogy? This volume seeks to explore these questions and offer concrete
answers to instructors hoping to model their classrooms around a new hybrid
pedagogy that blends various aspects of both online and face-to-face
instruction. In particular, the volume will focus on these questions as they
relate to teaching and learning in community college classrooms across the
disciplines.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 11/15/2021
Please send proposals of 1-2 pages plus a 1-page
bibliography and 1-paragraph author bio to: Melissa Dennihy: MDennihy@qcc.cuny.edu; Zivah Perel
Katz: ZKatz@qcc.cuny.edu
Feminism: Global
Tipping Points
https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/callforpapers.html
An argument could be made that 2020 itself was a tipping
point for the world, and it also could be seen to have contained numerous
tipping points. This issue considers the former, 2020-2021 as a major global
tipping point that thrust populations and subpopulations into unfamiliar behaviors,
procedures, and situations and forced immense, sometimes irreversible changes
on their lives. In particular, the issue calls for feminist responses and
considerations of these tipping points and discussions of how COVID-19 shaped
and influenced feminisms and feminist movement. For this special edition, we
invite articles that contemplate the idea of “tipping points” and how
feminisms, feminist theorizing, and feminist activism has responded – or not --
to this period of time marked by the pandemic.
Submissions are due March 1, 2022
Any queries can be sent to jen_riley@uri.edu
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.
Please submit your 500-750 word abstract, brief c.v.,
and contact information to both volume editors (hollandm@newpaltz.edu and rohmanc@lafayette.edu) by
April 1, 2022.
Unserious
Ecocriticism: Humor, Wit, Play, and Environmental Destruction in North American
Contemporary Art & Visual Culture
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8771508/cfp-edited-volume-unserious-ecocriticism
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and habitat destruction
are certainly serious issues. Mainstream environmentalism in North America, a
continent just beginning to more viscerally feel the effects of the
environmental destruction caused by its inhabitants, tends to approach
environmental issues through bleak messages of gloom and doom, unquestioned
sincerity, and appeals to feelings of fear and hopelessness. But what happens
if we attempt to address these challenges with wit, playfulness, and earnest
attempts to take the ridiculous seriously? This volume seeks to disrupt
traditional forms of ecocriticism that only operate through tragedy and dire
warnings, and instead bring together artists, art historians, and other
scholars of visual culture who present creative, playful, and downright funny
ways to rethink our relationship to the planet through contemporary art and
visual culture.
To submit a proposal, please send a 250 word abstract and CV
to the editors (marialux@gmail.com,
and jlandau1@uchicago.edu) by
November 3, 2021.
Representing Girlhood
in Popular Culture
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8776825/representing-girlhood-popular-culture
Call for Chapter Abstracts for Edited Collection, to be part
of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies series.
Contemporary popular culture texts increasingly showcase
representations of girls and young women in a myriad of ways. There are common
tropes that we as audiences have come to expect in stories of girlhood, which
usually concern navigating friendships, self-discovery, familial drama, teenage
discontent, etc., packaged in familiar frames about suburban school
experiences, or in fantastical and bold tales in fantasy and science fiction. This
collection aims to examine representations of girls and young women across the
landscape of popular culture texts to understand how the figure of the girl is
constructed and addressed.
Please send 300-word abstracts, including a title and short
biography to Carmel Cedro carmel.cedro@aut.ac.nz by December
17th, 2021.
Teaching “CRT” in an
Age of White Backlash
Anyone paying attention to the protests and death threats at
school board meetings over the last year would be forgiven for wondering if
they had time-travelled to the segregationist insurgencies in the wake of the
1954 Brown ruling. From language rendering white supremacy as patriotic to
conservative paranoia about socialist and communist agitators, many of the
ideas voiced by “anti-CRT” protestors draw on the white reactionary movement of
the Massive Resistance era. For our Winter 2021 issue, The Activist History
Review invites essays that consider how we teach “CRT”—the umbrella term white
conservatives apply to any teaching critical of white supremacy—amid a white
backlash movement that seeks to outlaw our work.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words for articles from
1250-2000 words, and should be emailed to horne.activisthistory@gmail.com by
November 22nd at 11:59 PM.
Contact Email: horne.activisthistory@gmail.com
Critical
Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (edited collection)
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-critical-infrastructure-studies-digital-humanities
Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities
aims to direct the attention of digital humanists to the wider area of
infrastructure studies, and deploy perspectives gained from that wider
infrastructuralism to better understand the infrastructures of DH. It will
bring infrastructural approaches front and center as an area where DH is
uniquely equipped to lead the humanities in thought and practice, using its own
infrastructural legacy as inspiration and mirror. The aim is to understand how
infrastructure underpins and influences DH, and how DH in turn can influence
infrastructure design, development, and maintenance. The volume will promote
understanding of critical infrastructure studies as a field of writing and
practice, and open dialogues between DH and cognate infrastructural fields.
Deadline for 500-word abstracts: December 15, 2021
email: ayliu@english.ucsb.edu, urszula.pawlicka-deger@kcl.ac.uk,
and james.smithies@kcl.ac.uk
Digital Storytelling
The Velvet Light Trap #91 seeks a variety of topics and
approaches which include but are not limited to media industries, production
culture, participatory culture, textual analysis, paratextual analysis,
authorship studies, transmedia storytelling, media convergences, and contextual
culture in analyzing storytelling within its respective digital environment. We
welcome submissions that explore the shifting or newly emerging trends in
storytelling in the broader media ecology, especially those that push the
boundaries of formulaic legacy media storytelling and contextualize the
changing modes of narratives within the new media environment.
Send electronic manuscripts and/or any questions to vltcfp@gmail.com by January 31, 2022.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
African and
African Diaspora Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/96035
Boston College’s African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS)
announces its dissertation fellowship competition. Scholars working in any discipline in the
Social Sciences or Humanities, with projects focusing on any topic within
African and/or African Diaspora Studies, are eligible to apply. We seek applicants pursuing innovative,
preferably interdisciplinary, projects in dialogue with critical issues and
trends within the field. Eligible applicants must be currently enrolled in a
PhD Program and be ABD by the start of the fellowship year. US Citizens,
Permanent Residents and International Students are encouraged to apply.
Submit all application materials – including letters of recommendation
– by Monday, 10 January 2022 at 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) via
Interfolio.
2022-2023 William
L. Clements Library 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. Primary sources
relating to women's history can be found across our collecting divisions.
Applications are due by January 15, 2022
email clements-fellowships@umich.edu for more
information
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Sociology, Race, and
Gender
https://facultyjobs.ua.edu/postings/49342
The Department of Gender and Race Studies at The University
of Alabama invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor
appointment specializing in Sociology, Race, and Gender. We seek candidates
whose sociological research addresses outcomes in specific environments and
communities, such as prisons, schools, housing, the workplace, urban and rural
populations, and immigrant and refugee populations.
Review of applications will begin November 15, 2021, and
will continue until the position is filled.
For more information, contact the search committee chair Dr.
Utz McKnight, at utz.mcknight@ua.edu
Marilyn Yarbrough
Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship
The program is for scholars in the final stages of their
doctoral work who need only to finish the dissertation to complete requirements
for the Ph.D. We hope the experience of teaching, researching, and living for a
year at Kenyon will encourage these Fellows to consider a liberal arts college
as a place to begin their careers as teachers and scholars. In the past,
fellowships have been awarded in: African and African American Studies,
American Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Asian Studies, Biology, English,
History, Math, Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish), Music, Religious
Studies, Sociology, Women's and Gender Studies.
Questions? Contact Amy Quinlivan at quinlivana@kenyon.edu.
Assistant Director
for Multicultural Student Affairs
https://yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/25638
Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota
Reporting to the Director of Student Involvement and
Leadership, the Assistant Director for Multicultural Student Affairs will build
inclusive communities, facilitate programing, assist with recruiting,
retaining, and mentoring historically marginalized students. Using best
practices from across the country, the successful candidate will be responsible
for providing institution-wide leadership around student belonging, connection,
and engagement. Working within a supportive team environment, this critical
leader will advance student inclusion so that students may thrive and focus on
their academic and co-curricular interests in an environment that is safe,
secure, and welcoming.
Lecturer - Gender,
Sexuality, and Women's Studies
https://www.sfu.ca/gsws/about-us/careers.html
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
(GSWS) at Simon Fraser University invites applications for a continuing
teaching appointment at the rank of Lecturer, commencing July 1, 2022.
The preferred candidate will have: expertise in new media
and equity-focused digital pedagogy; interest and training in one or more of
the following fields, including but not limited to: educational technology,
interactive arts and streaming media, games design, massive open online course
design, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality for online learning, experiential
learning platform.
Applications should be addressed to Dr. Helen Leung,
Department Chair, and submitted electronically to gswspost@sfu.ca.
Priority given to completed applications received prior to
November 23, 2021.
Assistant Professor
in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Cal State University San Marcos
The WGSS department is committed to intersectional and
critical approaches to the study of sex, gender, and sexuality. We seek a
colleague who focuses on Women of Color Feminisms with a corollary emphasis in
one or more areas (such as, but not limited to): Border Studies,
Global/Transnational Studies, Decolonial/Postcolonial Studies,
Immigration/Diaspora Studies, Indigenous Studies, Sexuality Studies, Disability
Studies, and/or Ethnic Studies. We also seek a colleague committed to
transformative feminist and decolonial pedagogies, undergraduate research, and
feminist methodologies. The successful candidate will be committed to the
academic success of all students and to an environment that respects and builds
support for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Review of applications will begin January 24, 2022, and will
continue until the position is filled.
Director (Assistant
or Associate Prof), Indigenous Studies Program)
https://careers.uwosh.edu/cw/en-us/job/498772/director-of-indigenous-studies
The College of Letters and Science at the University of
Wisconsin Oshkosh invites applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure
track) or Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Director of the
Indigenous Studies Program. We are searching for an individual who has a strong
interest in and skills appropriate to developing a certificate program into a
minor and supporting our Indigenous Studies Program through campus leadership,
curricular development, scholarship, outreach/recruitment, and student
mentorship. Our Indigenous Studies Program is globally focused, yet for this
position preference will be given to those candidates whose lived experience,
knowledge, and research is centered on and with Indigenous communities of North
America.
Applications received by Wednesday, December 15th are
ensured full consideration
email: bohrj@uwosh.edu
Emory University, Fox
Center for Humanistic Inquiry
http://fchi.emory.edu/home/fellowships/index.html
The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry of Emory University is
accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship for one and two academic
years of study, teaching, and residence in the Center. This fellowship offers research opportunities
to those trained in the humanities as traditionally defined and to others
seriously interested in humanistic issues; research projects must be
humanistic, but fellows may hold the Ph.D. in any discipline. We especially seek applicants and projects
that will benefit from and contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of the
group of Fellows and the work of the FCHI.
Application deadline: January 14, 2022
email: foxcenter@emory.edu
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
CONFERENCES
The Ecological Question in Global Health: A Panel Discussion
Thursday, November 18 , 9:00 am –
11:00 am
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into
stark relief the interactions between climate change and global health and
revealed the dangers of ‘siloization’ of these issues into different conceptual
frameworks and governance regimes. The panel will explore how the understanding
of the environment and public health can be bridged, and how these challenges
are being addressed especially in India and China.
Biotic Resistance: Eco-Caribbean Visions in Art and Exhibition
Practice
https://bioticresistance.squarespace.com/
November 2021
Importantly, the series is not bound
by chronological focus, but supports research that draws transhistorical
connections between the colonial era, the period of independence and the
contemporary. The climatic phenomena that currently make the Caribbean one of
the most ecologically vulnerable regions in the world are inextricable from the
history of this region as a site of colonial extraction and exploitation. A
central objective is to highlight the role that artists and thinkers with
Caribbean heritage have played in shaping a planetary consciousness that is
uniquely suited to thinking through the ecological emergencies of the present.
Contact Email: giulia.smith@rsa.ox.ac.uk
The Mobile Archive
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8703315/mobile-archive-online-symposium
November 10, University of Siegen
(Germany)
The attention to mobilities across
time and space thus necessitates a critical look at one of the anchoring
institutions in early American studies, the archive. Often established with a
geographic basis, and usually bracketed by dates, the archival collection
inevitably renders a given moment or object or angle of inquiry more relevant
than others. Practicalities, of course, shape these decisions. Scholars travel
to Pennsylvania to investigate Revolutionary Philadelphia, Massachusetts to
understand Puritan New England, and so on. But how did archival materials
themselves travel? Letters were sent, objects changed hands, spaces were
imagined, entire collections would migrate over time. This mobility belies the
instability of any claim to archival “rootedness.”
Contact Email: mobilearchiveproject@gmail.com
The Realm of
Possibility - A Gender and Queer Studies Symposium
Nov. 12-14, 2021
Realm of Possibility
(RoP) is an interdisciplinary, international symposium addressing issues and
phenomena connected to Gender and Queer Studies. After a successful launch in
2020 with a wonderfully diverse panel of speakers, the 2021 symposium will concentrate
on the topic of masculinity. While contributions from sociology, psychology,
etc. are welcome, the symposium’s focus is on cultural and artistic expressions
of selfhood and zeitgeist that can be read through the lens of Gender and Queer
Studies.
Contact Email: ef@ibugi.de
Digital Humanities
and Materiality seminar
https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24790
2 November 2021, 4.00pm - 5.15pm (UK time)
What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now
that literary texts—and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and
reading—are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are
the opportunities and obligations for book history, textual criticism, and
bibliography when literary texts are distributed across digital platforms,
devices, formats, and networks? Indeed, what is textual scholarship when the
"text" of our everyday speech is a verb as often as it is a noun?
These are the topics which motivate Bitstreams, a distillation of twenty years
of thinking about the intersection of digital media, textual studies, and
literary archives.
Think Again! African
Arts, Museum Politics, and Savior Complexes
https://emory.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Znqee-uxRuuKhmteukb2PA
In recent years, calls for the return of objects from Africa
currently housed in European and North American collections to the African
continent have garnered increased attention among art professionals and broader
publics worldwide. Through this one-day virtual event organized by Emory
University’s Institute of African Studies (IAS), we will hear from a broad
range of university- and museum-based professionals—some located in African
institutions and others in North American ones—to consider different power
dynamics and other concerns at play. The aim is to listen carefully to a
variety of informed perspectives, including ones that may unsettle, inconvenience,
or otherwise prompt us to rethink what we thought we knew.
Contact Email: jacquelyn.charlton@emory.edu
Worlds Enough and Time: Towards a Comparative Global Humanities
https://comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/About/
Saturday, Nov 13, 2021 08:00 AM -
11:00AM
This conference advocates for a new
Comparative Global Humanities: the integrative transformation of the Humanities
through a radical foregrounding of geographical scope and temporal depth. It
embodies the belief that to create more equal societies in the present, we need
to create more equality for other places and other pasts — and learn from all
they have to offer. We aim to develop new comparative methodologies based on
the world’s archives and conceptual vocabularies. This allows us to address the
social, political, and creative functions of cultural heritage in today’s world
and to advocate more effectively for social justice, and for cultural
understanding and reconciliation.
Contact Email: tranvoj@mit.edu
Register: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclduyoqjssEtyKH2jw52RUgknfP6ws82Vi
U Belong Glasgow: A Creative Conversation with Kokumo Rocks
Mon, 15 November 2021, 12:30 – 13:30
CST
Kokumo was raised in the Fife village
of Cowdenbeath, and hers was the only black family in the area. In the mid
1990’s she was diagnosed as dyslexic and went on to become a performance poet.
She describes herself as an African/Asian/Scottish writer and performance poet,
and has performed in the UK, USA, India and Africa. Her collections are Bad Ass
Raindrop (2002), and, Stolen From Africa (2007), both published by Luath Press.
Gender, Health, & Social Justice Speaker Series
The series is presented virtually (via
Zoom) on select Fridays from 10:00-11:30am PST.
Contact Email: letitia.johnson@usask.ca
November 19, 2021: Urvi Desai (McGill
University), "Birth Control in India: Women’s Stories, Health, and
Technology, 1930s-60s"
January 21, 2022: Georgia Grainger
(University of Strathclyde), "Vasectomy in Twentieth Century Britain:
Uncovering Men's Reproductive Choices"
March 4, 2022: Ipshita Nath
(University of Saskatchewan), "Diseased Delinquent Bodies: Sanitation,
Healthcare, and Jail-Discipline in Colonial India"
March 25, 2022: Jennifer Fraser
(University of Toronto), "Behind the Screen: The History and Politics of
Canadian Breast Cancer Imaging"
April 1, 2022: Publishing in Scholarly
Journals: Q&A with the North American Editors of Gender & History
Worlds Enough and Time: Towards a Comparative Global Humanities
https://comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/About/
Friday, Nov 12, 2021 08:00 AM -
12:00PM Saturday, Nov 13, 2021 08:00 AM - 11:00AM - (Eastern Standard Time)
This conference advocates for a new
Comparative Global Humanities: the integrative transformation of the Humanities
through a radical foregrounding of geographical scope and temporal depth. It
embodies the belief that to create more equal societies in the present, we need
to create more equality for other places and other pasts — and learn from all
they have to offer. We aim to develop new comparative methodologies based on
the world’s archives and conceptual vocabularies. This allows us to address the
social, political, and creative functions of cultural heritage in today’s world
and to advocate more effectively for social justice, and for cultural
understanding and reconciliation.
Contact Email: tranvoj@mit.edu
Racism(s) by Other Means
https://culturalresearch.center/Racism-s-by-Other-Means
November 18-19, 2021
This two-day workshop on
"Racism(s) by Other Means" proposes to analyse how contemporary
social, political and technological transformations have rendered ineffectual
previous forms of thinking about racism and processes of racialisation
associated with imperialism/colonialism. Given that the host institutions are
in the USA, Hong Kong SAR, and India, we are interested in understanding how
issues to do with racism(s) play out in these locations. Recently, a US-based
scholar has proposed looking at race as a form of caste, while in the 1990s
there was a great deal of interest in activist circles in India in defining
casteism as a form of racism. Questions of race/racism have begun to surface
more frequently in East Asia too.
Contact Email: ccrd@LN.edu.hk
Buddhism and Posthumanism
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcO2oqz0uGtfN6pGtOhooO1g7w_KsSfyq
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8850016/buddhism-and-posthumanism
Nov. 2021-March 2022
How are anthropocentric attitudes
driving the climate crisis? What do Buddhist traditions say about these
attitudes? What is our responsibility to non-human animals and the natural world?
What do Buddhists say about the place of humans in multispecies environments? The
Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University
of Toronoto is thrilled to announce its 2021–22 speaker series Buddhism and
Posthumanism: Questioning the Place of Humans in Multispecies Environments,
which features climate researchers, activists, and Buddhist studies scholars
focused on reconsidering the place of humans in an interconnected world.
Lectures on Zoom begin at 3:00 pm
Eastern Time; registration is required. Optional readings are shared with
registrants before each event.
Contact Email: buddhiststudies@utoronto.ca
Entangled Knowledges: Practices of Dreaming, Reflecting, and Being
Present
https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/living-resurgence-dreaming-in-dangerous-times-dr-dian-million/
November 17th, 2021 at 5:30PM - 7:00PM
PST
Living Resurgence: Dreaming in
Dangerous TImes with Dr. Dian Million
I seek an invitation to a conversation
on what Indigeneity means to the abolitionist call for practices of “freedom”
in places. It is to speak to the sometimes fraught and sometimes generous
questions that are posed between Black and Indigenous Feminisms, about land and
about the after lives of enslavement and what we might dream of just futures
together if we think relationally, in “constellations” rather than from silos
(Simpson, 2017). What is a promise of Indigenous economies as a practice of
life making in places in this moment rather than as a shadow of capitalism; the
lure of turning Indigenous places into corporate mini-economies, where the
“implacable logic of debt takes over for the implacable logic of the white
man’s burden…of the need for people cut off from circuits of capital
accumulation to develop their capacities, to adjust to the standards of the
more advanced world, to reform their backward ways (Byrd, et al.,2018).
‘Pracademia’: The Growing Trend of Academics Writing for Industry
https://www.aclang.com/event/routledge-november-30-2021/?src=hnet
November 30 at 4:30 PM Israel time/
2:30 PM UK/ 9:30 AM EDT on Zoom
This month we are exploring the
prospect of turning your research into an industry-specific book for
practitioners. From research-based books geared towards CEOs on business
management to books on wellness and maintaining healthy lifestyles, writing a
book for a specific audience or readership outside of academia has become a
higher priority for many researchers in recent years.
Contact Email: avi@aclang.com
Art, Critical Ecologies, and Multiscalar Engagements
Nov. 12-13, 2021
A conference organized by Wanwu
Practice Group, City University of Hong Kong
This conference will be East Asia's
first conference on contemporary art and ecology. Through the conference, we
hope to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the
intersections of art, ecology, indigeneity, geopolitics, and STS (science and
technology studies) to build a cross-regional network of sustainable
collaboration.
Contact Email: mankunli2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk
Indigenous Futurisms: A conversation between Grace Dillon and
Suzanne Kite
https://event.newschool.edu/indigenousfuturisms
November 12, 2021 / 2 PM ET
The Liberal Studies Student
Association at The New School for Social Research is excited to announce its
latest event in the speaker series "Afro and Indigenous Futures."
This online event asks, How can art engenderliberating ways of knowing,
imagining, and ultimately producing the world? And what is the role of
indigenous scientific literacies in this endeavor? In face of the decadence of
Progress as the modern world’s civilizational compass, scholar Grace Dillon and
artist Suzanne Kite will engage in a conversation to explore different aspects
of indigenous artistic and scientific engagements with reality to delve for alternative
worlds, futures, and temporalities, which will be able to account for a
more-than-human endurance through time.
Contact Email: LibStudStuAssc@newschool.edu
Digital Fridays by
HASTAC Scholars
Digital Fridays sessions are conceptualized and hosted by
HASTAC Scholars who present on research topics, teaching approaches. or
professional development strategies. Recordings available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs4s4YzyzpmFxlhUc6W9-39kTfERZ3TMK
