CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Reactions to HIV/AIDS since the 1980s: Transnational and comparative history perspectives
30-31 August 2022, University of St Andrews, in-person and online
This conference aims to help promote research on the social, cultural, political, and financial implications of HIV/AIDS across the globe from a transnational and comparative perspective. While there has been substantial research on this topic, such literature tends so far to focus on national contexts within Western Europe and North America. In this vein, relevant scholarship has largely, although not entirely, neglected transnational connections, especially among activists and NGOs dealing with AIDS, prior to the late 1990s.
All proposals should be submitted electronically by 15 February 2022 to transnationalaids@gmail.com
URL: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/V013955/1
Art and the City: Urban Space, Art, and Social Change
https://artandthecity.sciencesconf.org/
AARHUS UNIVERSITY, May 26-28, 2022, Online and In-Person
Art and the City: Urban Space, Art, and Social Change conferences bring together a team of international scholars with an interest in art and the right to the city, urban creativity, aesthetics and politics, cultural and artistic rebellion, aesthetics of urban social movements, and rebellious art in the urban space. The central goal of this conference series is to critically engage in a multifaceted, multi-disciplinary, and multi-geographic perspective to articulate and promote a richer and more integrated understanding of the ideologies, relationships, meanings, and practices that arise from the diverse interactions among the three social spheres: urban space, art, and society. To push forward the dialogues and widen the debates on art’s relationship to the political and the social, Art and the City conferences interrogate what it is to aesthetically experience the city from the perspective of social dissensus and democratic citizenship.
Proposals to Tijen Tunali tijen.tunali@cc.au.dk no later than January 31, 2021
Transitions
virtually from May 14-16, 2022
Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes is the national professional association for the academic discipline of Women's and Gender Studies in Canada. The past almost two years have offered and forced numerous transitions on us all -- of work and play, of family and relationships and connections – asking, demanding, that everyday practices and larger social structures be (re)examined. From thinking about global geographies and national spaces, the overt continuity of gendered and racialized spaces, and the central role that virtual space has come to play in everyday life, through to the slowing time of lockdowns, phases of re-openings, and the “pandemic time” of life and death, space and time have re-emerged as central considerations through which to make sense of our worlds. Transitions are thus always located in, are always about, time and space. For this year’s conference we invite reflections of all kinds on the many ways in which space and time–materially and symbolically–circulate as modes of framing, understanding, theorizing, and politicizing the many and varied social justice concerns of WGS practitioners.
Please submit abstracts, as per the instructions below, to wgsrf2022@gmail.com, by January 27, 2022
Altered States
24th Annual Film Studies Association of Canada Graduate Colloquium, co-hosted by the University of Toronto and York University, to take place online on 18/19 February 2022
While altered states of consciousness may initially evoke subjective experiences, these modes are deeply relational. We hope to draw upon recent approaches from Black and Indigenous studies, queer and trans studies, and other decolonial perspectives to address altered states through an intersectional lens. As such, we invite papers from film and media studies, visual studies, and other related fields. In addition to traditional conference presentations, we welcome video essays and other writerly and artistic explorations of our theme.
Proposals to csgraduatestudentunion@gmail.com by 17 December 2021
Histories in Crisis: Experiencing and historicising moments of conflict
The Institute of Historical Research’s History Lab is pleased to announce that its flagship conference will be taking place virtually next year on Tuesday, 19th July 2022.
Conflicts and crises define eras. They naturally attract historical enquiry, and they also connect the past to the present. Global pandemics, environmental catastrophes, human rights inequalities, and ongoing humanitarian emergencies are but a few examples of the challenges that societies face today informed by historical legacies and contingencies. The aim of this conference is to reflect on how we study historical and ongoing crises, to provoke new approaches and frameworks, and to consider how individuals, societies, and historians have experienced, conceptualised, and reacted to crises broadly defined.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words along with a short bio to Waseem.ahmed.21@ucl.ac.uk with the subject title ‘History Lab Conference 2022’ by Tuesday, 1st March 2022.
Race, Memory, and Public History
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9357384/race-memory-and-public-history
Friday April 1st, 2022 on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus (MMC) at Florida International University
The conference will feature a mixed format that includes panels and workshops. We solicit presentations that feature recent trends in oral history, digital history, and quantitative analysis as they pertain to themes of Race, Memory and post Memory, conceptualizations of time and temporality, and historical justice achieved through public history.
Please submit proposals and application materials to dohgsaconference@gmail.com.
Memory in Transition: Intersections, Contestations, Futures
3-5 March, 2022
The multidirectional explorations into memory encompass a wide array of thematic concerns from trauma, loss, rehabilitation and postmemory, urban memorial configurations including foodways and cultures, memory and its entanglements with material objects, the study of the aural landscape and its embeddings in literary and public memory, historical migrations and journeys of expatriation to memory’s function in the radical shifts wrought by the global pandemic on communities and customs. The multidirectional explorations into memory encompass a wide array of thematic concerns from trauma, loss, rehabilitation and postmemory, urban memorial configurations including foodways and cultures, memory and its entanglements with material objects, the study of the aural landscape and its embeddings in literary and public memory, historical migrations and journeys of expatriation to memory’s function in the radical shifts wrought by the global pandemic on communities and customs.
Please send proposals including a title, an abstract of no more than 300 words, and a short biographical statement of no more than 100 words to memoryconference22@gmail.com by 22 January 2022.
Digital Humanities and Social Sciences: Perspectives on Language, Literature and Media
The Faculty of Al Alsun (Languages) and Mass Communication at Misr International University in Egypt announces its 2nd International Conference on "Digital Humanities and Social Sciences: Perspectives on Language, Literature and Media" on May 14-15, 2022. The Conference will take place virtually through the videoconferencing platform zoom. The aim of the conference is to bring together digital humanities and social sciences scholars and practitioners to share their knowledge and experience of this emerging field from a variety of perspectives.
The deadline for proposal submission is March 7, 2022. For further details, please check the conference webpage at http://dhss.miuegypt.edu.eg/
Creative Counter-Memorializations: A Symposium/Gathering
https://www.countermemoryactivism.ca/symposium2022
24-27 November, 2022 The Counter-Memory Activism research cluster (CMA) invites artists, activists, scholars, and museologists to participate in Creative Counter-Memorializations: A Symposium/Gathering. The event will take place in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), blending virtual and in-person presentations. We are seeking both artistic and regular and alternative scholarly responses to difficult and contested histories. The symposium is open to all forms of stories and modes of expression that challenge dominant national narratives and traditional institutional conventions, especially those that engage with legacies of settler-colonialism.
Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2022
Contact Email: countermemoryactivism@gmail.com
Western Association of Women Historians Conference
April 21-23, 2022, Costa Mesa, Californi
The Program Committee invites submissions for the presentation of scholarly work-in-progress, research methods, teaching and curriculum ideas, digital innovation, public history, and issues of importance to women scholars and to the future of the profession. Proposals for panels, roundtables, posters, or workshops in all fields, regions, and periods of history are welcome. Priority consideration will be given to proposals submitted as complete or mostly complete sessions. The WAWH values inclusivity and welcomes participation from historians from all faculty ranks and career paths, including graduate students, unaffiliated scholars, museum and library professionals, and history practitioners in allied fields.
The Call for Proposals deadline is 1 February 2022
email: executivedirector@wawh.org
Making Peace with the Earth
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9488101/call-papers-making-peace-earth
Lenoir-Rhyne University, April 7th – April 9th, 2022
Before we live with other humans, before all is made political or ethical, we live with the earth. Whether we realize it or not, we relate to the earth and all of its inhabitants deeply, as if to the beloved. We need it to survive, to thrive, to exist. In the way that writers as such as Rainer Maria Rilke mention our being “bees of the invisible” or Robin Wall Kimmerer describes “the chance to be outside in the vital presence of other species” and sitting at their feet and listening, what kind of relationship do we want to model for others? How might we describe the earth as teaching us about the primordial ways of healing?
Please submit proposals (300-500 words) for 15-30 minute presentations by March 1, 2022.
email: Michael.Deckard@lr.edu
Remapping the feminist global
We invite participants to this multi-location hybrid conference, ‘Remapping the feminist global’ co-convened by International Feminist Journal of Politics and Asian Center for Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans University. Convened in South Korea, this 2022 conference turns to Asia as a geographic location and imaginary that offers an important anchoring for global feminist conversations to move beyond the current hegemonic hold of the West and the (imperial) nation-state system that emerged wherein the global governance structure has pre-determined how feminism becomes a salient political and academic discourse. We believe that in a world where feminists working in universities as organic intellectuals and teachers for change not only requires foundational interrogation but also demands radical methodological moves to keep true. In this spirit, we invite critical and creative discussions that expand and better locate the ‘academic research’, ‘university’ and ‘scholarship’ with artists, poets, activists, and policy practitioners across regions and locations.
Submission Date: 30 January 2022
Contact Email: acwsewha@ewha.ac.kr
Mapping Bodies
Loyola University Chicago. April 22-24, 2022
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9475193/mapping-bodies
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.
Please send your abstract as a Word or PDF attachment (300 word limit) by February 15, 2022, to Jason Hayob-Matzke jmatzke@umw.edu or Jodie Hayob-Matzke jhayob@umw.edu.
Graduate 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. Panels will include three or four paper presentations, running between fifteen and twenty minutes each, with comments and questions to follow. The Barnes Club is monitoring the evolving COVID situation and will make a final decision on whether to transition to an online format no later than February 15th.
email: jabconf@temple.edu
Please submit a 250-word abstract that outlines your original research or project and a current C.V. via this link no later than Monday, January 31, 2022.
Dwelling on the everyday: architecture, ghosts, ellipses
8 and 29 July 2022 (via Zoom)
This symposium attends to the relationships between everyday architecture where people lived and what is left behind, salvaged, celebrated, or overlooked, but may sometimes be reactivated in powerful and unpredictable ways by those who come later. We are interested (though not exclusively) in the houses of artists and writers and the ways in which they are often treated like relics or holy shrines by subsequent fans and scholars. We are particularly interested in the ways in which the past resonates in places of dwelling, how it leaves its mark on places and how people leave their mark on their dwellings. What traces are left and how are they celebrated, fetishized, banished or ignored? What do the places inhabited reveal about those who inhabited them?
We will be delighted to receive abstracts of ca.500 words by 1 March 2022. Please send to: helen.hills@york.ac.uk and alice.sanger@open.ac.uk.
Digital Humanities Conference
https://keystonedh.network/2022/cfp
We are excited to announce that 2022’s Keystone DH Conference will be held June 15-17 at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Digital Humanities in Baltimore, MD. Proposals are welcome on any aspect of digital technologies and their application to the humanities and/or social sciences. We highly encourage projects that focus on the collaborative nature of research and teaching. Senior scholars should foreground the labor of students, librarians, and/or the community that sustained the project. We especially welcome proposals with representative and inclusive speaker involvement, and that highlight methods and insights that generalize beyond the immediate application described.
The proposal deadline is February 1, 2022
email contact@keystonedh.network
Whose choice, whose rights? Global-historical and intersectional approaches to the emergence of reproductive rights after 1945
At this conference, we explore the emergence of notions of reproductive rights, reproductive justice and reproductive choice and autonomy over the course of the second half of the 20th Century. Papers will be focused on the changing status of the reproductive body in public, medical and legal discourse throughout this period, taking post-World War 2 reconstruction as the starting point and the definition of reproductive rights by the United Nations at the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in 1994 as the endpoint. We will analyse the emergence of notions of reproductive rights against the backdrop of changing gender roles, sexual revolutions, processes of medicalisation, changing forms of mass communication, and wider contexts such as decolonisation, the emergence of the UN system and human rights discourse, and the globalisation of demographic debate.
Abstracts should be sent by 7 February 2022 to reproductive-rights@glasgow.ac.uk.
Contact Email: necochea@med.unc.edu
Thresholds: Contexts of Rupture, Change and Adaptation
https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/events/ourevents/archive/name,602527,en.html
UCD Humanities Institute PhD Conference, 25 March 2022
We understand thresholds as representing the movement from one space or state to another, whether this be sudden and cataclysmic or slow and gentle. The ‘threshold’ also allows for an exploration of ‘in-between’ or ‘in process’, i.e. that which is located on or within the threshold, rather than on either side of it. We may be forced to move through a threshold, adapting as best we can to the circumstances on the other side, or we might produce a threshold as part of a process of creativity and discovery. Translators, for example, work within a linguistic threshold, forging something new from a pre-existing piece of textual or verbal expression.
Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a bio-note of around 200 words to hiphdconference2022@gmail.com on or before Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 5:00 PM (Irish Standard Time).
Invasive Species and Shifting Disease Ecologies: Perspectives from the Humanities and the Social Sciences
https://wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/conferences/
Online Conference, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrew
Bringing together perspectives from the humanities and social sciences in dialogue with the life sciences, this online conference seeks to break new ground in the hitherto understudied medical and health dimensions of species invasiveness. In so doing, it aims to elucidate how species invasiveness has been linked to medical and health questions, the epistemological, political and ethnographic realities of making this connection, and to examine how medicalized notions of “invasive species” have shaped relationships between humans, animals, plants, microbes, land use, the environment. Send proposals to wwrat@st-andrews.ac.uk by the 28th of February 2022
PUBLICATIONS
Queer Cinema in the 21st Century
https://www.intellectbooks.com/queer-studies-in-media-popular-culture
Queerness has been represented on film, in varying ways, from the advent of motion pictures to the present day. This special issue of the academic journal Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture will explore the forms and functions of groundbreaking queer cinema in the early decades of the 21st century. Completed articles on any topic pertaining to contemporary cinema studies at the intersection of gender/sexuality studies and/or queer theory are invited from established and emerging scholars of various disciplines.
Original submissions of 6,000-8,000 words total (including references), in the form of a double-spaced Microsoft Word document, should be e-mailed to journal co-editor Kylo-Patrick Hart (k.hart@tcu.edu) by February 15, 2022.
Contact Email: k.hart@tcu.edu
Copyright and Creative Practice
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/amart/cfp-copyright-and-creative-practice
American Art, the peer-reviewed journal co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press, seeks papers that explore the intersection of how matters related to copyright, or intellectual property more broadly, have been interrogated or otherwise problematized through the creative practices of American artists or artists active within the borders of the United States both historically and in the contemporary era.
Please submit manuscripts of 1,500 to 2000 words (including notes) with 3—5 images, to AmericanArtJournal@si.edu by June 1, 2022.
The Primacy of Indigenous Knowledge
Vernon Press invites book chapter proposals to be included in a forthcoming scholarly volume on "The Primacy of Indigenous Knowledge." This book seeks to ask broad questions about Indigenous agricultural history that spans chronologic, geographic, and spatial boundaries, and is interested in compiling a collection of works addressing Indigenous agriculture around the globe. We welcome proposals that are interdisciplinary in nature and can come from disciplines that include archaeology, anthropology, English, ethnohistory, history, literature, sociology, etc. We seek book chapters that range from approximately 5000-6000 words in length to include in this edited collection.
Please send a 300-word abstract, project title, and a brief bio in English to Nick Timmerman (Volume Editor) at: ntimmer@langston.edu by April 1, 2022.
Power and Subversion
https://www.on-culture.org/submission/cfa-issue-14-winter-2022/
This issue seeks to explore where the concept of codes can be of added value as a heuristic tool for the study of culture in the digital and the analog beyond metaphorical uses of the term. Our focus is on the processual character of codes and therefore their performative potential. The issue aims to shed light on the questions: “What do codes do?” and “What do we do with codes?” We invite scholars from a diverse spectrum of disciplines — from anthropology, linguistics, literature studies, philosophy, cultural sociology, political sciences, law and the arts to information sciences and digital humanities — to contribute to this issue and engage in an interdisciplinary reflection on the concept of code, its limits and potentials.
Submit an abstract of 300 words with the article title, 5–6 keywords, a short biographical note, and your email address to content@on-culture.org (subject line “Abstract Submission”) no later than February 15, 2022.
email: content@on-culture.org
Call for Guest Editors -- Rejoinder
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9368430/call-guest-editors-rejoinder
The Institute for Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers University is seeking guest editors for the Spring 2023 issue of its online journal, Rejoinder (https://irw.rutgers.edu/rejoinder). Rejoinder features work at the intersection of scholarship and activism that reflects feminist/queer and social justice perspectives and is currently published once a year. Guest editors will be responsible for the overall shape of the issue, and Rejoinder staff will advise on the process. To be considered, please contact the editor-in-chief, Sarah Tobias, at stobias@rutgers.edu, with a 2-page proposal that includes a draft theme for your issue (and your rationale for selecting it) and a draft call for submissions. Please also include a CV or short bio that describes prior editorial experience. Deadline: March 31, 2022.
Lines of Resistance: Graphic Narratives and Activism
https://canyalcinkaya.net/cfp-lines-of-resistance/
A Special Issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
For this special issue, we invite contributions that explore the role of graphic narratives in cutting through political inertia and visualising utopian alternatives. We wish to build on the histories of art and activism to better understand the role of both professional artists and amateur/everyday practitioners in circulating new framings for action. We are calling for submissions from artists, activists and academics on the role of graphic storytelling in activist movements. Potential contributors are welcome to consider the past, present and the future of graphic activism across the globe. Case studies from international contexts are encouraged. Submissions in the form of graphic essays are also welcome.
Abstracts due 28 February 2022
Contact Email: can.yalcinkaya@mq.edu.au
The Routledge Companion to Latinx Life Writing
Contributions are invited for consideration to be published in a collection of essays introducing readers to Latinx Life Writing, a prominent and essential pan-genre within Latinx literature since Latinx literature began to be conceived as such. Life writing is a broad umbrella term that encompasses a number of genres in which authors take life and lived experience as their core subject. Within Latinx life writing, these genres include memoir, autobiography, and testimonio most centrally. Although this book is scholarly in nature, the tone will be broadly accessible in order to make the book suitable for a wide audience including graduate students, undergraduate students in community colleges and four-year universities, and classroom instructors.
Please submit a no more than two page abstract (approximately 500 words) of a chapter that you wish to be considered for this handbook by January 28, 2022.
email: Dr. Christine Fernandez (chrfernandez@csumb.edu) and Dr. Maria Joaquina Villaseñor (mvillasenor@csumb.edu).
Feminism: Global Tipping Points
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 at https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/submit.cgi?context=jfs
URL: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/
Contact Email: jen_riley@uri.edu
Breaching Hierarchy: Students and Teachers Collaborating For Social Change
https://www.facebook.com/peoplesbayarea/posts/2969569583304531
We are interested in projects that contest teacher-student relationships as mutually exclusive categories, and represent collaborations that challenge the traditional meaning of these roles (i.e. of teacher and student). Projects can include but are not limited to research based or civic learning projects, educational events, art exhibits, plays, etc. We are open to submissions that are experiential reflections, innovative theorizations, as well as those based on data collected and analyzed from the project.
The deadline to submit abstracts is February 1, 2022
Submissions, and any request for clarifications, should be emailed to:
Hakim Williams: hakimwill@gmail.com, Hana Huskić: huskha01@gettysburg.edu, and Christina Noto: cnoto5955@gmail.com
Troubling Terms and the Sex Trades
https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/2021/04/15/troubling-terms-and-the-sex-trades/
Prostitution, sex work, trafficking, and decriminalization are not only contentious feminist issues, but contentious words that have important and complex histories and cultural contexts. This special issue of the Radical History Review will explore the “troubling terms” associated with sexual labor and exploitation. This call for papers solicits a range of different submissions. It seeks article-length, historically-grounded pieces as well as shorter reflective pieces, both from historians and those who have worked with sex workers or as sex workers, about what these terms mean, and how their meaning and application have changed over time.
By February 1, 2022, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the essay or article you wish to contribute as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com
Gender Justice - Women’s Rights and Equity
The book provides an in-depth analysis of global perspectives on advancing public and social gender policy worldwide; it also examines women’s political representation and participation in peace processes in the context of their community, emphasizing existing cultural norms with biases, questioning societal prejudices toward women, for example, in STEM and creative economies. The volume covers several domains presenting a wide range of important issues that demonstrate gender inequality, discussing a wide range of cultural and geographical realities. The collection also analyzes how female empowerment can benefit from changing the status quo and improving economic and collective action opportunities, as well as how governments could act and whether it should interfere with public policy to alter different norms and practices that hinder women’s participation and active involvement globally.
By February 4, please send your CV and abstract to co-editors: Dr. Elena Shabliy eshabliy@g.harvard.edu and/or Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochkin@fas.harvard.edu.
History for the 21st Century
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9427780/call-proposals-history-21st-century
History for the 21st Century (“H/21”) is a collaborative faculty-led initiative of the World History Association with a central mission of enabling college and university faculty to introduce students effectively to historical thinking necessary for navigating an equitable and sustainable world through the twenty-first century. The goal of History for the 21st Century is to support adapting to this new environment through a faculty-led collaborative effort focusing centrally on General Education history courses. Our goal is to offer free, student-centered, inquiry driven, and user-friendly materials to help transform curriculum for students in the General Education history classroom. For the first phase of this project (2021–2023), H/21 will sponsor the production of free, digitally available teaching units (called Modules Ready to Educate, or MREs) that teach both skills and historical content suitable for introductory world history courses.
proposal deadline: February 20, 2022 to info@history21.com.
email: https://www.history21.com/
Revealing Posthuman Encounters in Performance
Revealing Posthuman Encounters in Performance is an intervention to reframe current theatre studies methodologies to attend to the broader spectrum of non-human actors and the crucial ways they exert agency in the theatre event. With this collection of essays for performance studies scholars and practitioners, we aim to engage posthumanist thought to expand readers’ awareness, refocus their perspective, and reveal a broad spectrum of non-human actors that often remain unseen even as they interact with human performers. Performance studies have indeed included props, objects, and technology in their purview, but these analyses tend toward a historical or semiotic/symbolic approach that consequently neglects the vibrant non-human agencies involved at several levels of scale.
Abstract proposals due by February 28, 2022
All inquiries and submissions should be sent to co-editors Stefano Boselli and Sarah Lucie at posthumanperformance@gmail.com
Global Histories of Menstruation and Menopause - Special Issue of the Journal of Women's History
The Journal for Women’s History is calling for papers focusing on the histories of menstruation and menopause around the globe. This special issue aims to highlight the historical changes, continuities, diversities, and experiences of those who menstruate, and those who do not. We are looking for historical studies that incorporate transdisciplinary and transnational approaches and explore hitherto underexplored questions, themes, peoples, and regions.
Please submit an abstract (300 words max) and a CV by MARCH 30, 2022 to: JWHGuestEditor@gmail.com
URL: https://jwomenshistory.org/announcements/
The Political Lives of Infrastructure
https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/2021/05/12/the-political-lives-of-infrastructure/
A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review
From the blockades against settler constructions at Mauna Kea and Wet’suwet’en to resistance along China’s New Silk Road or on the streets of hyper-policed cities across the North America, radical movements are exposing how infrastructures have historically underpinned various intersecting forms of imperial, settler colonial, and racial capitalist power. Across these sites, Indigenous land defenders, Black Lives Matter activists, abolitionists, labour organizers, and others have challenged these projects with a militant praxis of struggle, committed to constructing the alternative infrastructures needed to sustain decolonial modes of collective action and solidarity-building.
By February 1, 2022, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article you wish as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with “Issue 147 Abstract Submission” in the subject line.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
University of Chicago Library short-term research fellowships
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/applications-open-2022-platzman-memorial-fellowships/
Any visiting researcher, writer, or artist residing more than 100 miles from Chicago, and whose project requires on-site consultation of University of Chicago Library collections, primarily archives, manuscripts, rare books, or other materials in the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, is eligible.
The deadline for applications is February 11, 2022
Contact Email: jmwright98@uchicago.edu
Women’s History Research Fellowship
The Manuscript Division is pleased to announce the National Woman’s Party (NWP) Research Fellowship, a new opportunity for Library of Congress researchers established in 2020. One fellowship will be awarded annually, with a stipend of up to $2,000 to be used to cover travel to and from Washington, D.C., overnight accommodations, as well as other research expenses. Awards will assist fellows in their ongoing scholarly research and writing projects on the National Woman’s Party or more broadly related topics within the fields of women’s and gender history, equality studies, women’s studies, or other subject areas linked to the legacy of the National Woman’s Party.
Completed applications are due on February 15, 2022
URL: https://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/interns.html?loclr=blogmss
Dialogical Cultures - Critical Reflection Spaces for Cultural Studies and Social Sciences
The KU Center for Advanced Studies “Dialogical Cultures – Critical Reflection Spaces for Cultural Studies and Social Sciences” (KU CAS) has recently been established as a research platform at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt to promote interdisciplinary research in the fields of cultural studies, social sciences, and the humanities. KU CAS projects reflect its overall focus on dialogue and “dialogicity”, understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon, dynamic practice, and transformative process of cultural exchange under varying conflictual communicative preconditions and scenarios. Current main research areas include cultures of antiquity, (de)colonization, borders/ spaces, arts and literatures within broader societal fields, as well as interrelations of genres and media.
The deadline for submitting your application is 31 January 2022 to forschungskolleg-dialogkulturen@ku.de
URL:
https://www.ku.de/fileadmin/190816/Fellowships_KU_CAS_Dialogical_Cultures_Summer_2022.pdf
Digital Humanism Fellowship
https://www.iwm.at/program/digital-humanism-fellowship
The recently established fellowship program on “Digital Humanism” aims to describe, analyze, and influence the complex interplay of technology and humankind, envisaging a better society and life in the digitized era. Senior and Junior Visiting Fellows are invited to the Institute to explore the urgent intellectual challenges at the complex interplay of humans and machines. During their stay at the Institute, they work on crucial topics in the field, pursue interdisciplinary research, and organize lectures and discussions reaching out to the public audience in Vienna and beyond.
The deadline for applications is 28 February 2022.
Contact Email: fellowships@iwm.at
Wilson Library Research Fellowships
https://library.unc.edu/wilson/visit/grants-and-fellowships/
The Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries is now accepting applications for three funding opportunities for students and researchers who wish to use the rich and deep resources available in the UNC-Chapel Hill’s special collections.
All application materials are due by midnight on January 31
URL: https://library.unc.edu/wilson/visit/grants-and-fellowships/visiting-researcher-fellowships/
United States political process and public policy Funding
https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/fsa.asp
The award is an annual grant of $5,000 given to a doctoral student to support dissertation research in any field related to United States political process and public policy – particularly the role and analysis of public opinion – during the last half of the 20th century. Award funds may be used for travel, reproduction fees, administrative costs, and other research and writing expenses. Alternative research arrangements may be made with the award winner in the event of COVID-19 travel restrictions.
The application deadline is March 31, 2022. Applications and letters of recommendation can be submitted by e-mail to Lauren White (lauren.white@nara.gov).
WAWH Carol Gold Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize
The Western Association of Women Historians' Awards Committee invites award submissions for eight prizes at the 54th Annual Conference held at Ayers Hotel in Costa Mesa, Califnoria! The awards highlight great scholarship, teaching, and graduate work produced by current WAWH members.
Deadline: March 11, 2022
email: executivedirector@wawh.org
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Postdoctoral Associate in Public Humanities
https://apply.interfolio.com/99731
The Yale University Department of History invites applications for a Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Associate in Public Humanities. The successful candidate may specialize in any subfield within History but will have experience/credentials in one or more of the following areas: Digital Humanities, Documentary Studies, Public History, Public Writing, Museums/Collections, or Space & Place.
Review of applications will begin March 4, 2022. Please contact Ms. Denise Scott, Senior Administrative Assistant at denise.scott@yale.edu with questions.
Positions in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Saint Louis University
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62859
One full-time, open rank position: We welcome candidates with any area of specialization but will give preference to applicants with a strength in social science research, and we have a special interest in the following areas: women of color and feminism; gender and race disparities in health care; policy (specialization open, but could include gender-based violence, disability, immigration, race, sexuality, etc.); and science and technology. Review of applications begins 21 January 2022.
Two Three-year Post-Doctoral Fellowships: We are seeking applicants who are enthusiastic about teaching courses that link the study of women, gender, and sexuality with pressing questions arising in the STEM fields. We have a particular interest in candidates working in the following teaching and research areas: gender, sexuality, race, and health/health care; and science, technology, and environmental studies. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting December 1 until the positions are filled.
email:wstd@slu.edu
URL: https://slu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers
Women’s & Gender Studies - Assistant Professor
https://careers.pace.edu/postings/20756
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences of Pace University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position focused on Queer Studies/Sexualities in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin September 2022. The selected candidate will be expected to teach required major courses—including research methods—to develop specialty courses in Queer Studies/Sexualities and other areas of expertise, to share student advisement and mentorship, and to contribute to departmental, college, and university programs and student-led feminist and social justice initiatives.
Applications received by January 30th, 2022 are guaranteed consideration
Assistant Professor - Gender, Health and Sexuality
https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/2329693/assistant-professor-gender-health-and-sexuality/
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program (WGS) and the Department of Sociology (SOC) at Northern Arizona University invite applications for a joint tenure-track position in the area of Chicana/Latinx studies with an emphasis on gender, health, and sexuality. We are seeking a scholar who focuses on public health, with a commitment to interdisciplinary, global, postcolonial, intersectional, and anti-racist approaches that challenge the marginalization of diverse populations.
Priority review of applications will begin on January 3, 2022 with weekly reviews thereafter.
Please see nau.jobs for full job descriptions and details on how to apply online
Post-Doctoral Humanities Fellowships in Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/100395
DePaul University’s Social Transformation Research Collaborative (STRC) invites applications for two, two-year Post-Doctoral Humanities Fellowships in Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies, to begin July 2022. Fellowships are particularly designed to support diversification of the academy through structured mentoring and time for writing and scholarly activity, pedagogical development, and hands-on career experience for newly-minted scholars working in fields focused on the histories and cultures of people of color.
No deadline listed.
email: strc@depaul.edu
Postdoctoral
Fellowship in Black Feminist Studies
https://careersmanager.pageuppeople.com/879/cw/en-us/job/508625/postdoctoral-fellow
The Northeastern University Africana Studies Program and
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program announce a 2-year Postdoctoral
Fellowship in Black Feminist Studies to begin July 1, 2022. Specialization may be in any area of Africana
Studies in disciplines of social sciences or humanities, with a clear
commitment to feminist interdisciplinary work. Areas of particular interest in
the Northeastern context include the transmission, circulation, and
organization of social movements for gender and sexual equity; sexual and
racial communities, cultures, and markets, particularly as these are inflected
by digital culture; memes of gender or sexuality that inform digital humanities
theory and practice; expressive uses of media in the construction of gendered
and raced subjectivities; feminist inflections of digital representational
practices and systems.
For fullest consideration, applications should be submitted
by February 1, 2022.
Instructor, Women's and Gender Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62806
We invite applications for one position, subject to final budgetary approval, at the rank of either Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (hired with tenure is a possibility) with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2022 (negotiable). The successful candidate will be a teacher-scholar broadly trained in gender, women’s, sexuality, and/or feminist studies. We especially invite candidates who will strengthen our program’s commitment to social justice, anti-racist scholarship, and feminist technology, science, and/or health studies.
The selection committee will begin reviewing applications on March 1, 2022
For information on the job search, contact Dr. Scott Murray, Chair of the Search Committee and Chair, Department of Humanities. smurray@mtroyal.ca.
Junior Chair in 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 (Burnaby Campus) is seeking outstanding candidates for the Ruth Wynn Woodward (RWW) Junior Chair in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, commencing September 1, 2022. The RWW Endowment funds a Junior Chair who is expected to perform significant outreach-based activities that bridge academic and non-academic communities. This position will be appointed for a two-year full-time term with the possibility of renewal for up to one additional year, subject to budget availability.
The successful applicant will be an exceptional emerging scholar with no more than 4 years of experience after the PhD. Applicants should have a completed PhD by 4 March 2022.
Completed applications must be emailed to the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at rwwpost@sfu.ca and received no later than February 15, 2022.
Instructor, Women's and Gender Studies
https://mtroyalca.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/1570
We invite applications for one position, subject to final budgetary approval, at the rank of either Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (hired with tenure is a possibility) with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2022 (negotiable). The successful candidate will be a teacher-scholar broadly trained in gender, women’s, sexuality, and/or feminist studies with expertise in field(s) that complement but do not duplicate those already represented. Fields of specialty are open, and the position will remain open until filled. We especially invite candidates who will strengthen our program’s commitment to social justice, anti-racist scholarship, and feminist technology, science, and/or health studies.
For information on the job search, contact Dr. Scott Murray, Chair of the Search Committee and Chair, Department of Humanities. smurray@mtroyal.ca.
First consideration will be given to complete applications submitted by February 28, 2022.
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62797
The Departments of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University invite applications for a jointly appointed, one-year Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Feminist and/or Queer Legal Studies. We seek applicants who are enthusiastic about teaching undergraduate courses in areas such as Philosophy of Law, Feminist Philosophy/Theory, Queer and Feminist Legal Theory, Women/Gender/Sexuality & the Law, Gender & Human Rights, and Critical Race Studies. We have a particular interest in candidates whose teaching and research engages critical approaches to race, diaspora, coloniality, migration, citizenship, and/or class.
Applications received by February 11, 2022 will be given full consideration
Questions regarding the position may be sent to Professor John Lysaker, Chair of the Department of Philosophy (jlysake@emory.edu) or Professor Beth Reingold, Chair of the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (beth.reingold@emory.edu).
Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Associates - Interactive Histories- Judaism, Christianity and Islam
This is an opportunity for promising early career researchers specializing in the histories of Jews/Judaism, Christians/Christianity, and/or Muslims/Islam to contribute their own research to a large-scale exploration of the long span of history of inter-relation between these three faith traditions. The project studies the ways in which Judaism, Christianity and Islam have taken shape at different places and times over their roughly two-thousand-year history of thinking with and about one another, and how the myriad interpretations and retellings of that conjoined history can help us both to understand relations between these communities in the past and present, and also to consider future potentials. An additional goal of the project is to translate the fruits of this research into multiple media accessible to diverse audiences.
The deadline for submission of application materials is March 31, 2022
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
The Art Museum in the Digital Age
Jan 17-21, 2022
The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fourth event on the topic. During the COVID-19-lockdowns, the digital presence of museums was no longer merely one possible extension of exhibition spaces, but rather the only way to reach the public. While our conference in 2021 focused on the crisis-related (re)turn to one’s own collections, this time it shifts to questions beyond binary concepts, such as media specificity, hybridity, and mixed reality. In five thematic blocks, the lectures deal with how the digital and the analog can be productively, conceptually, and aesthetically interwoven in a museum setting.
Free Registration: https://www.belvedere.at/en/digitalmuseum2022
Contact Email: a.kroupova@belvedere.at
Divided Socities: Negotiating the Past, Present and Future
https://www.global-negotiation.org/divided-societies
Virtual Conference, 26-27 January 2022
Societies around the world are increasingly struggling with the emergence of deep rifts among their populations. Topics such as Covid-19, Brexit, #MeToo and climate change can quickly become polarising, stifling debate and preventing meaningful action to address common problems. Societal conflicts are not simply a challenge for political actors but have a direct impact on our daily lives and how we deal with one another. This conference will examine the role that negotiating our past, present, and future can play in overcoming social divisions.
Contact Email: jack.williams@philos.uzh.ch
“Whiteness is a Sankhara:” Racial Justice as Buddhist Practice
Monday, January 24, 2022, 8:00 am EST
While confronting whiteness is often seen as the work of progressive social justice, Buddhist practice and philosophy offer a rich framework for, and imperative to do, such work. Methodologically combining ethnographic and philosophical approaches, this paper aims to show both what contemporary Buddhists have done to alleviate the suffering caused by whiteness and what resources the tradition offers for extending such work.
This event is free. Registration is required. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Contact Email: tuan.huynh@orinst.ox.ac.uk, oubuddhism2@gmail.com
New Perspectives on Eugenics
Twitter Conference, Jan. 31st – Feb. 4th 2022
Information and schedule: https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/timetablefinal.pdf
Refuge, Asylum, Detention: A Feminist and Queer Lens
https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K020322/
Thursday, February 03, 2022, 4:30pm EST
In this discussion, we use feminist and queer lenses to analyze these movements and containments. We explore how gender and sexuality shape refuge, asylum, and detention; how feminist and queer standpoints illuminate the structures that produce and sustain global apartheid; and how refugees and their allies resist these forces.
If you have questions, please email keynotes@ecornell.com
Disability Can Save Your Life: Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer
The University of King's College will host Kenny Fries for an online lecture, entitled “Disability Can Save Your Life: Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer”.
Kenny Fries is an American writer and scholar in the area of disability and queer theory. He is the author of In the Province of the Gods (Creative Capital Literature Award); The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory (Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights); and Body, Remember: A Memoir. He edited Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out, and his books of poems include In the Gardens of Japan, Desert Walking, and Anesthesia. His current work-in-progress is Stumbling over History: Disability and the Holocaust, excerpts from which are the basis for his video series What Happened Here in the Summer of 1940?
Please RSVP in order to recieve the Zoom link: https://ukings.ca/events/disability-can-save-your-life-queering-the-crip-cripping-the-queer/
Contact Email: lucybeaboyd@gmail.com
José María Mora, Napoleon Sarony, and the Migrant Surround in American Portrait Photography
The National Portrait Gallery Announces Digital Lecture Tues. Jan. 25
What is the relationship between early portrait photography and identity? This presentation considers how portrait photographers constructed their studio spaces to facilitate the performance of diverse American identities during the late nineteenth century. José María Mora, a Cuban-born US photographer, and his mentor Napoleon Sarony, a native French speaker born in Quebec, rose to prominence during the Gilded Age for staging lush portrait tableaus that deployed hand-painted backdrops and richly theatrical studio effects. Though the vivid artifice of their work conventionally has been connected to the commercial excesses of the period, deeper consideration both photographers’ immigrant status helps illuminate how publicly circulated portraiture participated in the renegotiation of national type at an historical moment when more than 12 million new arrivals to the United States were reinventing and revitalizing what it meant to be American.
Contact Email: petitoj@si.edu
In Search of Epistemic Justice
January 20, from 4 to 5:30 pm UTC, 11 am East Coast Time
We are pleased to invite you to the inaugural event of our international online seminar: In Search of Epistemic Justice: A Tentative Cartography. In Search of Epistemic Justice aims to explore epistemic inequality in a variety of cultural, historical, and geopolitical contexts, as well as within the academy. For our first event, we will host a round table with four scholars: Emmalon Davis (Philosophy, University of Michigan), Revathi Krishnaswamy (English, San José State University), Marília Librandi (Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Sociology, University of Coimbra). Starting off from a set of pre-circulated questions, Davis, Krishnaswamy, Librandi, and de Sousa Santos will discuss how they understand epistemic justice, what role the concept (or its alternatives) plays in their research, what the obstacles to cognitive equality are in their disciplines, and the implications of epistemic justice outside the academy.
You can direct any questions to our email address insearchof.epistemic.justice@gmail.com.
Run a Wikipedia assignment in Spring 2022
If you're an instructor at an institution of higher education in the U.S. or Canada, we hope you'll run a Wikipedia assignment in Winter/Spring 2022. The idea is simple, but powerful - students have the chance to contribute to Wikipedia as an assignment in your course, all while improving their digital and media literacy skills and providing the world with access to better information in your own field of study. There are no fees to run a Wikipedia assignment, and Wiki Education supports the project from beginning to end. We hope you'll join the hundreds of faculty that run this project each term. To get started, visit https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/.
Contact Email: helaine@wikiedu.org
