CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Anne Moody Workshop for Scholars
Tuesday, May 18, 2022, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
This workshop is a one-day virtual event designed to gather scholars from a broad range of disciplines who want to explore, analyze, celebrate, and contextualize the work and life of Anne Moody, author of the iconic Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968). The ultimate goal will be to inspire further research and scholarship on Anne Moody with potential for publication.
If you are interested in joining the workshop, please send an email by March 1, 2022 to TJ Boisseau (tjboisseau@purdue.edu)
The View from the Anthropocene
In this age of ecological, economic and social crises, the notion of the Anthropocene is becoming ever more significant. Proposed by Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer in 2000, the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch highlights detrimental human impact on the planet, while as a critical notion it synthetises anti-, non- or post-anthropocentric views challenging the dominant discourses and practices that place humans at the centre of the world. However, with its scope incessantly expanding and its meanings ever in flux, the Anthropocene requires constant redefinition and reassessment. The conference aims to address some of the controversies, the lethargy and (wilful) ignorance that conceal the significance of the Anthropocene, exploring the notion itself as well as its theoretical and practical challenges from the perspectives of posthumanism, animal studies, ecocriticism and any other approaches that question anthropocentrism from their respective viewpoints.
Please send a 250 word abstract of your proposed
paper with a brief, max. 100 word biography to theviewfromtheanthropocene@gmail.com
by June 30, 2022.
For more information please visit the event’s Facebook page or contact the organizers at the following e-mail address: theviewfromtheanthropocene@gmail.com.
"Theirstory": An Online Conference on American LGBTQIA+ Scholarship and Activism
Monday February 28th, 2022
Hosted by Queen’s University Belfast’s American Studies Association (ASA). The month of February has long been connected to the concept of love. ASA want to provide a platform for American LGBTQIA+ scholars and activists to share their work with the wider community. “Theirstory” will be an online and international conference. CfPs are open to all; students, academics, activists, independent researchers, etc. Speakers can choose their own topic as long as it relates to American LGBTQIA+ scholarship and/or activism.
Please email americanstudies@qub.ac.uk with a paper abstract and a CV by February 7th at 5pm to apply.
Making Space
The 2022 Myers Graduate Student Symposium in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University will explore the interrelation of art and space, asking how art emerges from, collaborates in, and shapes the making of space. Space has long both manifested and contested socio-political hegemonies at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and other facets of identity, and our present moment has only made just, equitable, and daring responses more pressing. As such, this symposium intends for “making space” to denote a practice of foregrounding marginalized perspectives and platforming calls for justice. This symposium invites scholars to consider how art makes space through representation, reception, and circulation as it structures practices of viewing, modes of relation, and fields of knowledge.
Please submit proposals through this portal by February 11, 2022.
Any questions can be sent to the organizers at MyersSymposiumNUAH@gmail.com.
History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Seminar
https://www.masshist.org/seminars/history-women-gender-sexuality-seminar
The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality seminar invites proposals for sessions in its 2022-2023 series. The Seminar involves discussion of pre-circulated works in progress, especially article or chapter-length papers (20-40 pages). Topics address all aspects of the history of women, gender, and sexuality in the United States. Cross-disciplinary projects and projects comparing the American experience with that in other parts of the world are also welcomed. We invite proposals (500 words) and CVs from interested researchers.
Please submit your proposals by 20 March 2022 to research@masshist.org.
Encountering Colonialism: Land, Lives, and Legacies
The conference is an interdisciplinary gathering of researchers that aims to promote new ideas, discussions, and connections. It will embrace all scholarship that explores the dynamics of interaction between and within colonial and Indigenous powers and peoples. Of particular relevance are discussions of demographic, cultural, economic, religious, linguistic, legal, material, and gendered encounters.
Applicants should submit a 300-word abstract and a short personal biography to the conference committee no later than 11:59 p.m. AST on Friday, February 11th, 2022.
For more information, please feel free to contact the conference committee, at dalconference2022@gmail.com.
Working toward a More Equitable Classroom
https://twu.edu/tlt/information-for-faculty/open-educational-practices/
The TWU Open Pedagogy Community is excited to announce our first Open Educational Practices Conference, scheduled for virtual delivery on April 20-21, 2022. The conference covers Open Educational Practices (OEP), including Open Educational Resources (OER) and other relevant topics. OEP create learner-driven educational environments involving students co-writing course sections, such as assignments, schedules, rubrics, and policies. OEP might also include students writing or editing Wikipedia articles or developing video clips to share on YouTube. Students can participate in these public scholarship activities with instructor support.
We are accepting proposal submissions for presentations until March 15, 2022.
Contact alundahl@twu.edu if you have any questions about submitting a proposal.
THE SECOND WAVE: REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN OF COLOR
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, March 24 and 25, 2022.
The conference opens with a panel featuring three outstanding leaders in American history who will share their remarkable experiences: Frances Beal, Martha Cotera, and Yvonne Swan (formerly Wanrow). Leading scholars in the field will present their work the next day, alongside the selected graduate presenters. Students selected to give papers will receive up to $500 to defray travel & accommodation costs. (International applicants, if selected, may receive additional funding.)
Papers must be submitted for consideration by February 15, 2022, to co-organizers Catherine Clinton (catherine.clinton@utsa.edu) and Elizabeth Cobbs (cobbs@tamu.edu)
Fandom After #MeToo/#BalanceTonPorc
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9593891/fandom-after-metoobalancetonporc
Bilingual French/English symposium - 1 July 2022, The University of Chicago, Paris
While fan studies as an academic discipline has existed since the early 1990s and has since both proliferated and become increasingly mainstream in the anglophone world (Scott and Click 2018, 1) and in France (Bourdaa 2015), no academic work or event has yet confronted the important question of the impact of #MeToo, #BalanceTonPorc and their offshoots on fan communities and practices. This conference, then, aims to bring together international scholars interested in this issue.
We invite abstracts of no more than 300 words for 20-minute papers, to be sent to eve.bennett@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr and l.lanckman@herts.ac.uk by 18 March 2022.
Antifascism in the 21st Century
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9551891/antifascism-21st-century
As recent events have shown, fascist ideology and its attendant components--oppostion to working-class movements, hyper-nationalism, anti-democracy, white supremacy, and xenophobia--remain a threat to democratic institutions and practices worldwide. As in the past, the rise of fascism has been met with anti-fascist opposition. To coincide with the centennial of the March on Rome, we will hold a two-day interdisciplinary conference, Anti-fascism in the 21st Century. The purpose of this conference is not to retell stories of past anti-fascist movements, but to consider anti-fascism as a contemporary global movement with myriad forms and to explore the challenges of organizing against fascism for a new generation.
Please submit a summary of presentation (up to 500 words) along with a brief narrative biography to hofculctr@hofstra.edu by April 15, 2022.
Difficult Histories
https://midwestworldhistory.wildapricot.org/The-Next-Conference
September 23-24, 2022, Grand Valley State University
During a time when growing numbers of people are becoming conscious of the politicization of history, this theme is intended to invite presentations and discussions on how world historians can successfully engage with contested topics. While designed to spark discussion, the conference theme is not intended to limit possibilities: paper and panel proposals on any theme and time period in world history are welcome. Similarly, proposals that focus on teaching and those that showcase research are equally encouraged. The Midwest World History Association, along with GLHC, seeks to bring together college and K-12 faculty, and welcomes proposals from K-12 teachers, college faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and public historians, as well as scholars and teachers working in allied fields.
Proposal Deadline: May 15, 2022
email chair@mwwha.org
Whose choice, whose rights? Global-historical and intersectional approaches to the emergence of reproductive rights after 1945
Glasgow, UK / online, 9 and 10 June 2022
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.
Code-Switching in Arts. Online Conference
https://langueflow.wordpress.com/2021/09/17/code-switching-arts-conference-2022/
29 September – 1 October 2022
Contemporary and historical multilingual narratives transcend the boundaries and constraints dictated by our physical world, allowing verbal and audio-visual artists, as well as their mediators to elaborate innovative linguistic solutions, which broaden and also break the common communication norms. There are multiple ways to involve diverse languages and other communication codes in an artistic production. The aim of this conference is to explore the code-switching/multilanguaging strategies used by contemporary and historical writers and artists to structure their multilingual narratives in different forms of art, including literature, theatre and film.
Abstract: 31 March 2022
Contact: zerocodeswitching@pm.me
PUBLICATIONS
Telling Life Stories: Ethos, Positionality, and Structures of Narrative
By engaging with life narratives and their readerly interpretation, we gather up resources to reexamine the role of narrative as an epistemology or ‘way of knowing,’ as well as to raise questions pertaining to the subjectivity of the author, the positionality of the reader, and the re-evaluation of factors affecting textual production. The narrative ethos of the writer writing, as reflected in the emotive engagement of the reader reading, highlights the shared experience of such discourse. Interpretation creates narrative models which reflect psychological underpinnings, as influenced by culturally available forms and content. Within this ethical/ethotic textual frame, the identity of the reader is projected along with the constructed identity of the author/protagonist/narrator.
Submission deadline: 15th April, 2022
email any queries to – editors@ellids.com.
Transgressive Teaching & Learning: Critical Essays on bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy
Transgressive Teaching & Learning: Critical Essays on bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy is the first sustained collection of critical essays to engage hooks’ teaching trilogy. This volume seeks to explore how teachers and learners across all educational levels and disciplines, in locations inside and outside of the university, employ hooks’ engaged pedagogical praxes. We seek contributions from both learners and practitioners who actively resist antiblack, imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, abled, cisheteronorative patriarchal pedagogical praxes, and who remain deeply committed to the work of “educat[ing] people to heal this world into what it might become.” We invite learner-scholars and teacher-scholars alike to submit proposals for critical chapters on educational praxes (3000-5500 words), personal reflections on pedagogy from learners and practitioners (1500-3000 words), and “teachings” describing pedagogical activities designed to facilitate dialogue following hooks’ idiom in Teaching Critical Thinking and Teaching Community (1000-2000 words).
Please send abstract (300 words) and a short author bio (150 words) by May 2nd, 2022 to: bhookscollection@gmail.com.
New Perspectives on Pop Culture
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/pop_culture
Popular culture has long been identified either as the expression of working class or common folk or as the lowly substratum of an idealized high culture; thus, the emergence of a media-crossing pop aesthetic in the 1950s marked the beginning of a whole-scale social and cultural transformation. Popular culture has long been identified either as the expression of working class or common folk or as the lowly substratum of an idealized high culture; thus, the emergence of a media-crossing pop aesthetic in the 1950s marked the beginning of a whole-scale social and cultural transformation. As an aesthetics of surfaces and artificiality, of the somatic, the serial and mass-produced, the “zany, cute, and interesting” (Ngai 2012), pop has amplified the ambivalence of the popular, for instance, its qualitative connotations of the simple and trivial or the resistant and subversive, as well as its quantitative claims of being better known, more commercially successful, and more widely disseminated than that which is not popular.
Please submit your abstracts to: Daniel Stein (stein@anglistik.uni-siegen.de) and Niels Werber (werber@germanistik.uni-siegen.de) by March 1, 2022.
Critical Fat Phenomenology
https://kristinrodier.wordpress.com/calls-for-papers/
We invite scholarly papers, creative works, and transformative descriptions that engage the nexus of fat as a political identity and critical phenomenology. Despite the ground swell of scholarly literature in fat studies and critical phenomenology, there is little-to-no attention paid to larger bodies in critical phenomenology, and conversely almost no attention to phenomenology in fat studies. This proposed volume will flesh out the space between critical phenomenology and fat studies by outlining concepts for a critical fat phenomenology through case studies of experience.
Please submit an abstract (maximum 300 words) along with a title, bio(s), and keywords (up to five) in a single .docx or .pdf file via email to criticalfatphenomenology@gmail.com by April 20th, 2022.
Abortion in Popular Culture
We are accepting 250-300 word abstracts that deal with abortion depictions in popular culture of the last 20 years that are changing the narrative about abortion in a wide range of popular culture, including film, television, literature, music, podcasts, blogs, and social media. Abstracts should outline the author's theoretical format and identify the goals of the essay. Submit proposals to Brenda Boudreau at bboudreau6971@gmail.com and Kelli Maloy at kem25@pitt.edu.
Indigenous Feminisms Across the World
https://sophia.smith.edu/meridians/submissions/call-for-submissions/
This new special issue on transnational feminist approaches to Indigeneity intervenes in conversations where “decolonial feminism is often associated with Indigenous scholars and those from the Americas, and postcolonial feminism with scholars from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.” We hope to bring together conversations about Indigeneity from across Asia and Africa as well as Australia, Europe, and the Americas. A transnational comparative approach to Indigeneity between the Americas and the “elsewhere” as a philosophical category enables a productive decentering of the Western Hemisphere. Thus, our goal is to explore the praxis driven possibilities of activist, creative, and epistemic engagements within and across hemispheric Indigenous politics, economies, histories, and peoples.
Please upload your submissions by March 20, 2022 to Meridians’ Editorial Manager submissions system: https://www.editorialmanager.com/meridians/default.aspx.
For questions about the manuscript review process, email: meridians@smith.edu.
Dark Academia: Definitions, Theories, and Prospects
At the center of the dark academic sensibility lies a paradox: though dark academia enjoys the cosmetic trappings of the pursuit of higher knowledge, it is at its core a celebration of the university as a place of occultation and performativity. The dark academic’s taste for mystery, history, and a distinctly Anglophone, Romantico-Modernist canon – coupled with an equally distinct early 20th century sartorial and lifestyle model – runs inevitably into exclusivity, elitism, and reactionary nostalgia. Indeed, the case can be made that these very elements are in fact constitutive of dark academia, as such.
What might dark academia – and its current popularity – tell us about the contemporary moment of noisy, perhaps diversionary, cultural warfare over the university and education more generally: “wokeness,” the “fearless pursuit of truth,” the sophistic invocation of “reason” in defense of the unreasonable, and the insistence on keeping schools open in the face of a pandemic? Can it direct us back to considerations of class, resistance, hegemony, epistemology, and art as a critical practice?
Please send a proposal of approximately 250 to 350 words and a short biographical statement to both editors, Cody Jones (codyjones@nyu.edu) and Nell Pach (npach@uchicago.edu) by April 1, 2022
The Living Legacy of African American Studies: Its Past, Present, and Future(s)
The first section of the proposed monograph will offer historical and cultural contexts for African American studies, considering where the discipline began and what subjects it incorporates. A second section will be devoted to case studies or applications of the discipline throughout time, i.e., literary readings, sociological examinations, archeological discoveries, historical moments, anthropological studies, artistic responses, journalism and media pieces, and so on. Our hope is also to offer practical pedagogical tools such as syllabi, lesson plans, assignment ideas, and other useful methodologies for bringing the discipline into the classroom.
We welcome an array of perspectives, theories, and methodologies. The goal of the project is to feature an interdisciplinary collection of essays from academic scholars, industry experts, and public figures. Essays will explore African American studies in some regard, positing assertions about its historical, social, political, and/or cultural significance.
Interested parties should submit (1) a 300-500 word chapter abstract and (2) a 50 word author bio, as one Microsoft Word document, to afamastudiescollection@gmail.com by Friday March 4, 2022.
Asian American Abolition Feminisms
This interdisciplinary special issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies invites contributions of scholarly, creative, movement, and visual works that speak to the historical, theoretical, methodological, experimental, and pedagogical possibilities of Asian American Abolition Feminisms. We invite submissions from scholars, activists and organizers, care workers, artists, and archivists, with different orientations to abolitionist feminist politics that center visions of community care, safety, healing, wellbeing, wholeness, and liberation. We invite submissions from scholars, activists, cultural workers, archivists, artists, caregivers, massage and sex workers engaged in campaigns, movements, and cultural production that seek a world beyond police, prisons, and punishment.
Full manuscript and content submission deadline: Monday, August 15, 2022 by midnight PST
email abolitionfeminismscfp@gmail.com.
The Heroine's Tale: Reimagining The Female Hero's Journey in the New Millennium
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9620738/cfp-heroines-tale
The past two decades have seen landmark moments for women that likewise reflect a nuanced and often-fractured notion of what it means to be a heroine in the new millennium. From female-centered television shows such as Issa Rae’s Insecure and Mikaela Coel’s I May Destroy You, to Time’s decision to name “the silence breakers” its 2017 “Person of the Year,” the past ten years reflect an increased presence of women both in front of and behind the camera, challenging the patriarchal norms present in Hollywood. This book will survey the changing role of the heroine in popular culture, discuss how representations of heroinism have changed or remained the same in the wake of significant feminist benchmarks, and explore how conceptions of the heroine have been impacted by processes of adaptation and transmediation. We are particularly interested in essays that explore this topic from an intersectional approach, considering how not only gender but also race, class, and sexuality have shaped these characters.
Paper proposal (300-500 words) March 1
Please submit proposals and any questions to Caroline Smith – cjsmith7@gwu.edu.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Short-Term Research Fellowships, Swarthmore College
https://www.swarthmore.edu/friends-historical-library/moore-research-fellowship
The Swarthmore College Special Collections seeks applicants for the 2022-2023 Moore Research Fellowship, which promotes research in the resources of the Friends Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. The fellowship comes with a stipend of $1,200 per week for a minimum of two weeks and a maximum of six weeks.
The application deadline is March 15, 2022.
Questions about the application process may be directed to Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, ccauste1@swarthmore.edu.
Autry Museum Fellowship
https://theautry.org/research-collections/fellowships
The Library and Archives of the Autry Museum is a gateway to an exceptional collection of books, archives, audiovisual resources, and rare documents pertaining to Native American cultures as well as the myth and realities associated with the American West. To encourage the discovery and support of new scholarship, the Autry awards annual Research Fellowships that brings diverse researchers and topics through our doors. Previous fellows have used the Autry's collection to conduct research related to indigenous, gender, labor, environmental, religious and borderland studies as well as art, architecture, entertainment, military science, and popular culture.
Applications for the 2022 Autry Summer Research Fellowships are due Monday, Feb. 28
You may continue to contact Library and Archives staff at rroom@theautry.org
Library Research Grant – Northwestern University Libraries
The Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives is home to many of the Libraries' rarest materials, including manuscripts, archives, prints, and artifacts. In addition to the University Archives which document the history of Northwestern, its faculty, staff, alumni and the city of Evanston, the McCormick Library of Special Collections has particular strengths in 20th-century music and performance art, women’s history, journalism, and social, political, and literary movements of the 1960s in the United States. It additionally holds a diverse array of significant discrete print and hybrid collections of material including ones related to the Siege and Commune of Paris of 1870-71, the poet Horace, the archive of the Gate Theatre of Dublin, 19th and early 20th century anarchism, and 20th century art and literary movements such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.
email librarygrants@northwestern.edu.
The deadline to apply is April 1, 2022.
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Fellowship
https://www.mdah.ms.gov/careers-volunteering/fellowship-opportunities
MDAH is now accepting applications for the 2022 Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Fellowship. Offered in partnership with the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute, this annual fellowship awards a $5,000 stipend to one graduate student or early-career faculty member to conduct research using the Mississippi archives at MDAH for a minimum of two weeks during the summer. The deadline is March 4, 2022.
contact Email: lheller@mdah.ms.gov
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Transgender Studies
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate appointment in transgender studies for the 2022-2023 academic year. Research subfields could include, but are not limited to, the following: Black feminisms and queer critique; global migration and refugee studies; health, technology, and/or environmental studies; settler colonial studies; or indigenous studies, including occupation and resistance in the Global South.
Complete applications received by February 11, 2022, will receive full consideration. For further information, contact the Department Chair Mimi Thi Nguyen (mimin@illinois.edu) or visit the department’s website at http://gws.illinois.edu.
Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities
https://shass.mit.edu/academics/graduate/mellon-postdoctoral-fellowship
MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences awards two fellowships each year to promising scholars working at the intersection of humanities disciplines, or between the humanities and other disciplines. This Fellowship is especially intended for scholars who work in more than one specialty within the humanities, or bridging from the humanities with other disciplines.
The application deadline is Monday, February 28th.
Email shass-mellon@mit.edu, or call Ana Ludwig at 617-715-4525
URL: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/fellowship/20912
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.
Assistant/Associate Professor in Sexuality Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/101861
The School of Social Transformation, an interdisciplinary unit at Arizona State University (http://sst.asu.edu), invites applications for a full-time tenure-eligible Assistant or Associate Professor position in Women and Gender Studies. The anticipated start date is Fall 2022. Preference will be given to candidates whose research and perspective is feminist, queer, interdisciplinary, and intersectional, and strongly addresses sexuality studies, broadly construed. Areas of teaching and research can include but are not limited to: sexuality in diasporic communities; sexuality, health, biopolitics; transnationalism, borderlands, and globalization; queer and/or trans of color theory, practice, and resistance; sexuality and justice, including disability/crip theory, and violence.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will occur thereafter until the initial deadline of March 14, 2022
Questions about this position should be directed to Lisa Anderson, Chair of the Search Committee, via e-mail: lmanderson@asu.edu
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen is an interdisciplinary research institute for the humanities and social sciences in the tradition of institutes for advanced study. Located in the Ruhr area, KWI offers a space for independent and innovative research in the humanities as well as various opportunities to engage and include the public. Currently, research at KWI focusses on the following areas: literary and cultural sociology, cultural science studies, science communication and public humanities. Further projects are concerned with cultures of communication and political participation. KWI aims to foster innovative research questions, concepts and methods in connection with theories of philology, cultural studies and the social sciences.
Candidates for fellowships will have a completed PhD plus up to six years of post-doctoral experience.
The application deadline is 28 February 2022, 24:00 (midnight, CET).
email: international.fellowship@uni-due.de
Call for Copyeditors for Postcolonial Text
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9577351/call-copyeditors-postcolonial-text
Postcolonial Text, a refereed open-access journal that publishes academic and creative writing on postcolonial, transnational, and indigenous themes, is seeking copyeditors. The positions are voluntary—though new team members will benefit from contributing to the process of publishing some of the most current research in the field. The position requires excellent written communication skills, careful attention to detail, a strong command of grammar and spelling, and competency in MS Word.
To apply, please submit a short statement of interest with a CV to Managing Editor Esther de Bruijn at esther.debruijn@kcl.ac.uk by 4 February 2022.
Post Doctoral Fellow, Black Studies Program
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62899
The Black Studies Program of Skidmore College, a selective liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York, invites applications for two Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships, both beginning in September 2022. Mellon Fellows in Black Studies will be chosen based on their ability to teach courses in humanistic subfields in need of more representation and coverage by faculty affiliated with the Black Studies Program and Skidmore at large. These fields can include, but are by no means limited to areas such as Afrofuturism and Afro-pessimism in literary studies, critical digital humanities, history of the Black Atlantic, and transnational approaches to Black religious studies.
Review of applications will begin on Monday, February 21, 2022.
Questions can be directed to the search committee chair, Winston Grady-Willis, at wgradywi@skidmore.edu.
Oral History Researcher
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62903
The HistoryMakers seeks to hire full time Oral History Researchers to complete in-depth research for its video oral history interviews and its subject matter categories. Those hired must have a background in African American, American, women and gender studies, anthropology, social history, economics, politics, STEM/medicine, the arts, business, etc.
The candidate must have a master’s degree in African American history, history, politics, women and gender studies, politics or a related degree. He/she must possess strong administrative (type 65 wpm) and organizational skills and be a very strong researcher/writer, adept at proofreading and able to multi-task. Prior experience with detailed paper file and desktop management, being able to do focused work for long periods of time, maturity of intent and the ability to demonstrate his/her interest in furthering The HistoryMakers mission and growth a must.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture
Inaugurated in the spring of 2021, NYU Space Talks is a lecture series convened by Alexander C.T. Geppert at NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and NYU Shanghai with the Department of History in New York City. Each semester, established and upcoming scholars present the latest research on the history and politics of outer space, extraterrestrial life and astroculture, both in Europe and around the globe.
All NYU Space Talks are held on Zoom. Everybody is welcome but advance registration is required.
Contact Email: alexander.geppert@nyu.edu
Women in Academia Support Network Free Virtual Conference
https://sites.google.com/view/wiasnconference2022/home?authuser=0
31 March - 1 April 2022
The Women In Academia Research Network (WIASN) invites you to come and join us in our first free online conference around the topic 'Virtually Undisciplined: Diversifying Higher Education and Research'. The conference hosts contributions from all over the world, including presentation sessions, interactive workshops and keynote speeches.
Race, Religion, and Politics in the Age of Frederick Douglass: An Online Symposium
https://frederickdouglasspapersproject.com/page/iupui-frederick-douglass-symposium
The Frederick Douglass Papers is pleased to announce the return of the biannual Frederick Douglass Symposium (Feb 16-18), now more accessible than ever through a virtual format. Interested persons can register for this event at https://iu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sjSBoqJcRtmVsthmibLLZQ. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link to attend the events each day. If you have further questions, please contact Dr. John Kaufman-McKivigan at jmckivig@iupui.edu.
