CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Graduate Conference on Power and Struggle: Paper Contest
The Graduate History Association of the Department of History at The University of Alabama previously announced its hosting of the Thirteenth Annual Graduate Student Conference on Power and Struggle. The contest’s theme addresses new approaches of historical analysis that focus on the relationship between struggle and power, especially people who struggled to break, transform, or reclaim the boundaries constructed by those in power. We encourage graduate students to submit papers that examine these relationships across various temporal, geographical, and topical fields and disciplines. The contest seeks submissions employing theoretical approaches, interdisciplinary methods, comparative perspectives, and multi-archival research bases that push the bounds of historical interpretation.
The upcoming submission deadline Friday, March 25, 2022 to ghapowerandstruggle@ua.edu.
Queer Temporalities: Resisting straight~forwards
Friday, May 27, 2022 at UCLA,
UCLA LGBTQ Studies’ 25th Q-Grad Conference is seeking graduate student papers and creative work that speaks to the theme: Queer Temporalities: Resisting straight~forwards. We invite scholars to explore and embrace questions, ideas, and alternative understandings of time in a queer(ed) context. We seek to elevate work that challenges, resists, operates outside of, and/or wrestles with the burdening pressures of the “straight~forwards”, such as perpetual linear progress and clock time. Prompts for potential lines of inquiry include: How does the past linger, echo, and haunt to inform and reconfigure our understandings of the present and the future? How might temporal (non)pathways such as spirals, cycles, eruptions, and disintegrations relate to, or change the nature of your work? How do forms of movement and non-movement create alternative relationships to time?
The last day to submit to the CFP is Sunday, April 10th at 11:59pm PST.
Please direct questions to Haley Roeser: q-grad@humnet.ucla.edu.
Through the Food Lens
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9988824/through-food-lens
MMLA Annual Convention (November 16-21, 2022)
This session invites proposals that engage with literary or cultural food studies, food novels, or other texts that depict food and eating in unconventional ways. How can we approach literary or cultural texts through the framework of food and eating and what effect does this have on the reading experience or the audience? This panel is especially interested in proposals that examine socially or politically sensitive topics and, with respect to the conference theme Post-Now, the alternative ways of reading and perceiving that the food lens can enable. Proposals should indicate your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and paper title, as well as the methodologies used and the text(s) under consideration.
Contact Email: mmothes@uni-koblenz.de
URL: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/callforpapers/
Transformative Learning Activism and Reflexivity in Education
https://amps-research.com/teaching-uod/
15-17 November 2022, virtual
Active and reflexive learners and practitioners are essential to shaping and re-shaping our future places and practices. In allowing for the exploration of change in a place it allows us to embed the need for knowledge built by working with others and embedded within the social context. As we face the challenges of rapid urbanization, social and economic inequalities and the climate emergency, our students need to be equipped to navigate a super-complex and uncertain world. Understanding the complexity of place and societal issues, and our roles as designers, advisors or practitioners in various fields is essential. In shaping and re-shaping places, services and community practices of various sorts, students have the opportunity to look holistically at the inter-connection of society, structures, and space, but also to understand how they might contribute and be part of the problem they are addressing and its solution.
Abstracts: 30 June 2022
Violence and Autonomy: Indigenizing Speculative Fiction
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18476
Speculative fiction has become the space in which imaginings of the future proliferate not totally free of the specter of history but free from the fatalism that subaltern communities often are forced to cope with under the weight of that history. As such, Indigenous writers, both in the US and in the rest of the world, have turned to the genre as a way to construct futurisms of survivance and resistance. Speculative Fiction, then, has become an outlet, a genre in which marginalized peoples can discuss the atrocities inflicted on them and create worlds where this oppression is dismantled and destroyed. It is with these goals in mind that we feel it is imperative and essential to hold a panel not just on indigenous literature but Indigenous Speculative Fiction so as to represent the full scope of Indigenous voices in literary discourse.
Contact Email: zoie.yell@unlv.edu
Humanism, Posthumanism, Anti-Humanism: Educational Perspectives
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, 05-07 October 2022
Grasping the present situation of our human and educational history requires (re)thinking a number of important questions. Of course, the answers to these questions depend on our understanding of humanism and posthumanism, the critique surrounding both, and what we consider that education is for or should become. We invite the global scholarly and teacher community to submit abstracts for the conference that provide theoretical, philosophical, sociological, practical or any disciplinary insights on the reflections. We welcome a broad range of contributions that provide educational perspectives on humanism, posthumanism, de-humanism, and related approaches, such as new materialism, including papers with a special focus on related ecological and technological aspects.
Conference applications should be sent via e-mail to the following address: wseconference@instifdt.bg.ac.rs no later than June 1
Contact Email: ivan.nisavic@instifdt.bg.ac.rs
Online conference on Archives and Emotions
Friday 7 October 2022, 8:00–11:00 (New York, EST)
This virtual conference aims to explore the interplay between emotions and archives—traditional, digital, official, and personal/unofficial—from an interdisciplinary point of view. This interplay includes but is not limited to: Emotions as attachments and reactions to documents and to the people who created them; Emotion as the experience of the archive as a space, an environment, and a milieu (including the personal and professional relationships formed there); Emotions as factors affecting which and how records are accumulated, collected, re/arranged, preserved, as well as the shape, description, communication, and the physicality of the archives, also taking into account issues of neutrality and inclusivity, or lack thereof.
Please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio to Dr Ilaria Scaglia by email and by email to Dr Valeria Vanesio by the 8 April 2022.
Contact Email: i.scaglia@aston.ac.uk
Borders, Connections & Transgressions_ CFP 5th Annual White Rose South Asia Conference
https://whiterosesouthasiaconference.wordpress.com/
University of Sheffield on 1 July 2022 - hybrid
The history of South Asia is a history of borders, drawn and redrawn across a contiguous landmass. It is littered with stories of violence as well as a rich tradition of cultural exchange. Both physical and metaphorical borders feature prominently in any discussion of South Asia. With thousands of miles of frontiers between and within them, borders are a topic that South Asians encounter on a daily basis. This conference will help us critically engage with and think through borders, both as lines and liminal spaces, and in the connections and transgressions that they enable.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 May 2022.
Any questions can be sent to Parshati Dutta at whiterosesouthasiagraduate@gmail.com.
Black Lives Matter: Lessons from a Global Movement
https://www.gires.org/activities/conferences/black-lives-matter-lessons-from-a-global-movement/
The social media campaigns that transformed into one of the most important movements in the United States and sparkled racial justice protests across the globe. Black Lives Matter slogan became famous internationally and created a vast network of grass-roots organizations and a moral collective for activists and supporters social justice and equality. We invite scholars from diverse fields including but not limited to philosophy, religion, theology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, art, economics, geography, cultural and political studies along with representatives from think-tanks and organizations to contribute to the discussion and to debate these issues.
Contact Email: info@gires.org
PUBLICATIONS
Digital Sankofa: Understanding Black Digital Humanities past and futures
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/submissions/cfps.html
Black lives and experiences have been captured, investigated, interpreted, and analyzed from different perspectives and reasons in various ways and different fields/disciplines. The digital world presents new opportunities and challenges for understanding, analyzing, presenting, and making sense of Black lives and experiences. Understanding that Black digital humanities is the intersection of Blackness with technology (Gallon, 2016), we are calling for papers that highlight how emerging technology (ies) has been used and could be employed to a) explore Blackness; b) how technology has been used and could be a tool/space to present, define, and study Black people, culture and history in a digital world and with digital tools. Whether we have consistently engaged in this work, or are brand new to these considerations, now is an opportune time to reflect on the role of technology in: shaping, defining, presenting, and/or constructing Black lives, Blackness, and Black experiences.
Abstracts due: March 28, 2022
Suspension
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10031973/liquid-blackness-cfp-suspension
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 7, no. 2, Fall 2023
Here we invite to think about suspension as a hermeneutic or operation that functions as a theoretical and methodological pivot, a relay, a pause, or a sigh. Suspension can help identify sites, moments, and modes where the tension between the extractive and jurisgenerative poles of liquidity are placed at a distance or held in some form of temporary, if precarious, balance. Indeed, while “flow” is one of the promises of liquidity it is also one of its primary delusions. Partly inspired by Lauren McLeod Cramer’s reading of “icons of catastrophe” in his work—that is, the way in which the architecture of his filmmaking activates the joints between blackness and anti-blackness— “suspension” offered a way to reflect on what, in the same issue, Daren Fowler writing on Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016) described as a “praxis for the ethics of black liquidity.”
Submissions Due: September 1, 2022 (send to journalsubmissions@liquidblackness.com)
The next issue of USAbroad aims to acknowledge and celebrate the importance and impact of bell hooks' transgressive interdisciplinarity, which challenges the boundaries of academic disciplines and those of the cultural marketplace to present a "feminism for everybody," accessible beyond academic and corporate languages. We invite proposals that address the myriad themes of her intellectual output: from gender to sex and sexuality, from sexism to the construction of masculinity, from racism to the representation of blackness, from the house as a site of resistance to women's labor, from the university teaching to education in general. These and other issues can be considered in bell hooks' intellectual production or examined in the writings of other authors who were influential to her work, have engaged with or were inspired by her ideas. We also welcome proposals investigating relevant political and historical junctions that were part of hooks’ analysis or can be reinterpreted through her writings. Submissions can therefore explore a wide range of fields, theories, topics, and perspectives that characterized hooks' life and work and that today shape her legacy.
Applicants are asked to submit an abstract of approximately 500 words, along with a résumé including their main publications, by May 2, 2022 to: usabroad@unibo.it
Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century: Place, Identity, and Agency
The last three decades have resulted in broad efforts to address the coloniality of the names that designate our communities and the people who live in or come from them. Calls to consult and give greater voice to marginalized groups, whether in Australia, Canada, Latin America, or Africa (among other nations and regions that have experienced or continue to experience colonization), shine light on the need to address harmful naming practices that have impacted and shaped our identities. This collection of essays will offer both case studies that demonstrate how names are (or are not) decolonized, as well as theorizations about decoloniality at its intersection with names and identity. The book will bring together scholars working in Indigenous Studies, Critical Race Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Postcolonialism, Onomastics, among other fields interested in decolonizing names. The book will attempt to offer tools to marginalized groups around the world so that they can pursue the decolonization of their names while challenging the so-called authorities who claim to govern naming conventions and practices.
Please submit proposals to the editors, Dr. Lauren Beck (lbeck@mta.ca) and Dr. Grace Gomashie (ggomashi@uwo.ca) by April 15, 2022.
Postcoloniality, Indigenousness, and National Consciousness in Select Literature(s) and Film(s)
‘National consciousness’ and careful registering of so-called ‘indigenousness’ are two important features which seem to have found their easy but steady ways into novels, poetry, and numerous films produced all over the world, following the conclusion of the First World War. On the one hand, the imperialists have used them to assert and sustain their identity as colonisers; on the other, in countries of Africa and in India, these became significant postcolonial features which, in turn, led to an increased struggle to gain independence from imperialist domination. The proposed anthology of critical writings aims to collect essays which focus on how national consciousness and expression of indigenousness have come to be regularly explored in post-1918 (a) English Literature and Films; (b) American Literature and Films; (c) Australian Literature and Films; (d) African Literatures in English and Films; and (e) Indian English writings and Indian movies.
Please submit your proposal by 15th May 2022 to the book-editor Prof. (Dr.) Pinaki Roy, monkaaroy@gmail.com, with C.C. to pinaki@raiganjuniversity.ac.in
Around/Beyond Feminist Aesthetics
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9950859/aroundbeyond-feminist-aesthetics
Feminist debates in/around/against/beyond aesthetics have been a recurrent concern in writing about feminist art practices since the late 1960s. There exists a long and complex history in the last 50 years which is all too often reduced to a few key questions about the visibility or representation of women artists or confined to one nation. This issue, therefore, calls for papers on contemporary art which rethink questions in/around/against and beyond feminist aesthetics in relation to politics that challenge and rethink different schools in aesthetics and aesthetic theory including (but not exclusively) those that are materialist, analytical, black, Indigenous, deconstructive, anti/de-colonial and post-colonial and queer.
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/
Send proposals by end of April 2022 to: katy@ktpress.co.uk
Revealing Posthuman Encounters in Performance
Posthumanist discourse has exploded during the last decade, inviting a turn toward a post-anthropocentric, post-dualist approach to theatre studies. However, the common definition of theatre as performance of human actors for a human audience still privileges anthropocentrism. 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.
Deadline for abstract proposals: April 15, 2022
All inquiries and submissions should be sent
to co-editors Stefano Boselli and Sarah Lucie
at posthumanperformance@gmail.com
Teaching American History in Alternative Spaces
For its March 2023, section, the contributing editors for the section invite submissions that provide narratives of, and/or explore foundational pedagogical issues related to, teaching American history in alternative spaces. We have no boundaries to what we might consider as “alternative spaces.” Such locations could well include prisons, social movements, civic associations, or various realms of the internet. Essays could be analytical studies of such teaching, and/or ethnographic narratives, and/or first-person reflections. Authors/co-authors do not need to be professional historians.
Essays should not exceed 4,000 words. Deadline for an initial draft is July 1, 2022
Please send questions and contributions to Laura Westhoff at westhoffL@umsl.edu and Robert Johnston at johnsto1@uic.edu.
Using Poetics and Technology to Inform Pre-Service Educators’ Transformative Pedagogy
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/5704
Please consider submitting a chapter proposal for Using Poetics and Technology to Inform Pre-Service Educators’ Transformative Pedagogy, which is being edited by Professors Lindamichelle Baron and Xin Bai of the Teacher Education Department at York College, The City University of New York.
Contact Email: lbaron@york.cuny.edu
Proposals Submission Deadline: May 2, 2022
Call For Reviews: The Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas
http://www.asatex.org/book_reviews.html
The Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas (JASAT) is now accepting book reviews for 2022. I would like to invite any interested scholar to write a review for our upcoming issue. If you see any recent publication that sparks your interest, I would be happy to request it for your review. If you have a particular book in mind, I am willing to consider any book that explores a topic dealing with American history, literature, journalism, or culture. I am also accepting reviews on recent works of American fiction or poetry.
To inquire about publishing a book review in JASAT, please email the book review editor at: WeirH@wcjc.edu.
Critique, Revolution, and Liberation in Film
The last few years in film brought viewers not only great stories and performances, but also presented sophisticated social critiques and invited audiences to imagine the possibilities of alternative worlds. The reparations and retributive violence set around the Tulsa Massacre of HBO’s Watchmen, for example, ask us to consider how we might create a just future grounded in a reckoning with America’s racist past. The dating violence and predation in the three seasons of You on Netflix, meanwhile, take aim at the relationship between technology, gender, culture, and oppression. Together, they illustrate the power of social critique in film that transcends genre. For our Spring 2022 issue, The Activist History Review invites essays that consider how film—spanning genres from documentary and drama to comedy, science fiction, and fantasy—can help us critique systems of oppression and imagine egalitarian alternatives.
Contact Email: horne.activisthistory@gmail.com
Pandemic Protagonists – Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures such as lockdowns, social and physical distancing, or face coverings hit most of us unprepared. In order to better understand the individual and collective reactions to the pandemic outbreak, many turned to existing cultural productions holding pandemic knowledge. Due to their capacity to convey their “knowledge to [their audiences] as experiential knowledge which can be reconstructed step by step, or even more, can be acquired by reliving it,”[2] pandemic and Corona Fictions provide the public with a first-hand account of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises and numerous possibilities of individual and collective (re)actions, represented by a variety of fictional main characters. In the peer-reviewed edited volume on Pandemic Protagonists we seek to gain insight into the array of main characters or certain groups of characters appearing in pandemic and Corona Fictions from a literary, cultural, and media studies point of view.
May 1, 2022: submit abstract
Contact Email: yvonne.voelkl@tugraz.at
URL: https://www.tugraz.at/projekte/cofi/home/
American Fury: Collective Action and the Politics of Moral Outrage
This edited collection explores widely circulated expressions of “moral outrage” in the US, considering news events, political platforms, social media posts, and other mediated outrage events in contemporary culture. We especially welcome submissions that analyze a specific incident or act that generated public outrage and collective action, or that theorize the psychology of outrage in specific social contexts. The list of current contributors includes a diverse group of interdisciplinary, international scholars; we are soliciting submissions that complete our list. Interested contributors should send proposals of no more than 350 words and a brief bio to Myra Mendible, Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University, mendible@fgcu.edu by May 1, 2022.
Linguistic hybridity in literature
In this Special Issue, we aspire to relaunch the study of linguistic hybridization in literature, a phenomenon which works on different linguistic layers such as phonology, semantics, syntax, lexical and etymological levels. Instead of being conceived as a gratuitous multilingual form (Sternberg 1981), we argue that linguistic hybridity in literature is a tool used by writers for multiple reasons, spanning from narratological and fictional to political. Additionally, through hybridizations, writers often find a way to defamiliarise or pull out an object from the ordinary perception in order to create a new (multilingual) meaning. Russian Formalists understood literature as a way to renovate human perception and de-automatize semantic routines. This may easily happen thanks to the encounter between two or more different languages which is activated by the hybridization process.
Please send a 300-word abstract in English and a brief bio to julie.charles@univ-lille.fr and mariannadeganutti5@gmail.com by the 21st October 2022
Feminists Confront State Violence
https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/2021/12/03/feminists-confront-state-violence-due-june-1-2022/
Radical History Review seeks proposals for feminist analyses that explore how communities have conceptualized, negotiated, and challenged structures of state violence. Historically, people on the front lines of a range of historical and contemporary struggles have exposed how state violence operates in the lives of women and vulnerable populations through forms of active harm as well as organized abandonment. This issue aims to create a feminist archive of campaigns, tactics, frameworks, and circumstances that illuminate how people have named, analyzed, and struggled against the multiscalar and capacious nature of regimes of violence across all time periods, geographic contexts, and conceptions of governance.
Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2022
Contact Email: contactrhr@gmail.com
Archiving activism in the digital age
For several decades now, moreover, there have been growing demands for the digitization of older collections pertaining to social movements from earlier times. This was given a new urgency by the COVID-19 pandemic and the very limited accessibility of physical archives in 2020 and 2021. But it is part of a longer-term trend which reflects the growing centrality of the digital in social and political life, and the growing demand for digitally accessible archival resources that can be used for multiple purposes: academic research, activism, artistic and curatorial projects. The digitization of existing collections calls again for a critical reflection on the risks and opportunities entailed in the digital remediation (Bolter and Grusin 1999; Erll and Rigney 2009) of the legacy of past social movements. The proposed edited volume aims to contribute to these debates from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives. It seeks to advance recent work in memory studies, media studies, (critical) archival studies and social movement studies, by bringing into dialogue scholars, archivists and activists (though these roles may overlap).
Contact Email: d.salerno@uu.nl
Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2022
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
James P. Danky Fellowships
http://www.wiscprintdigital.org/fellowship/
In honor of Jim Danky’s long service to print culture scholarship, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical Society, is offering two short-term research fellowship awards for 2022-2023. The Danky Fellowships provide $1000 per individual for expenses while conducting research using the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society (please see details of the collections). Prior to applying it is strongly suggested that applicants contact the Wisconsin Historical Society (askarchives@wisconsinhistory.org or 608-264-6459) to discuss the relevancy of WHS collections to their projects.
Applications are due by May 1, 2022
Summersell Short-Term Research Fellowships
https://summersell.ua.edu/projects/research-fellowships/
To support the study of southern history and promote the use of the manuscript collections housed at The University of Alabama, the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, in collaboration with the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History & The University of Alabama Libraries, will offer a total of eight research fellowships in the amount of $500 each for the 2022-2023 academic year. Eligible researchers will have projects that entail work to be conducted in southern history or southern studies at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection, or any other University of Alabama collections.
The deadline for applications is April 15, 2022.
Contact Email: jmgiggie@ua.edu
Rubenstein Library Research Travel Grants, Duke University
https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/grants-and-fellowships
The Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library provides travel grants of up to $1500 for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the following collections:
Archive of Documentary Arts
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Grants
Harry H. Harkins T’73 Travel Grants for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
History of Medicine
Human Rights Archive
John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture (Mary Lily Research Grants)
The deadline for applications will be Saturday, April 30, 2022, at 6:00 pm EST.
Contact Email: AskRL@duke.edu
Louisiana State University Special Collections Travel Grants
https://lib.lsu.edu/special/research/grant
The LSU Libraries is offering research travel grants of at least $1,000 each to support the work of researchers who use the rich holdings of the LSU Libraries Special Collections. The purpose of the grant is to support a researcher’s travel and lodging costs associated with a research trip to Baton Rouge, LA. Graduate level, post-doctoral, faculty and independent researchers who live outside the Baton Rouge area are encouraged to apply.
Application deadline: April 30, 2022
Contact Email: special@lsu.edu
Florida State University Libraries Harper Research Grant
https://www.lib.fsu.edu/sca/research/harper-research-grant
The Special Collections & Archives Division of the Florida State University Libraries will award research grants of up to $1500 each to non-FSU graduate students, post docs, early career scholars and/or independent researchers to support research in any collection managed by FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives. Collections of unique manuscripts, historic maps, rare books, photographs, and university archives offer abundant opportunities for discovery and scholarship. Strengths of the collections include regional history from colonial times through the twentieth century, including but not limited to plantation and business records, Civil Rights, and society and culture, the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire poetry and literature, Florida political history, and the history of Florida State University. We are also the home of the Emmett Till Archives, the Claude Pepper Library, and FSU’s World War II Archives.
Send all application materials by 5pm (EST) on May 2, 2022 to lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu.
Please contact us at lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu
The Coordinating Council for Women in History Annual Awards 2022
https://theccwh.org/ccwh-awards/
The CCWH offers six awards, including the Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship and a $20,000 award to a scholar whose career has not followed a traditional path through secondary and higher education and whose work has contributed to women in the historical profession. For a full award description, current application form and information about previous award recipients, please read more about each award at the above URL.
The deadline for receipt of all 2022 applications is May 15, 2022.
Gale-CLGBTH Non-Residential Fellowships
http://clgbthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Gale-CLGBTH-CFP.pdf
Gale and the Committee on LGBT History, in collaboration with the Queer History Conference 2022, seek applications for five (5) Non-Residential Fellowships, which will support research or teaching projects that use Gale’s Archives of Sexuality and Gender and use digital humanities methodologies. Awarded fellows will be given access to Archives of Sexuality and Gender and the Gale Digital Scholar Lab for the duration of their fellowship. Proposals from any subfield within LGBT studies are welcome, but applicants must make clear how they will use digital methods and the Archives of Sexuality and Gender corpus to further their research and/or teaching.
Applications are due at 11:59 PM PST on April 18, 2022
Applications should be sent to CLGBTH Co-Chairs Eric Gonzaba and Chelsea Del Rio at clgbth.cochairs@gmail.com.
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Diversity Teaching Fellow Positions, Allegheny College
https://sites.allegheny.edu/hr/job_post/allegheny-college-diversity-teaching-fellowship-program/
Allegheny College invites a cohort of applicants for two-year visiting faculty appointments beginning fall 2022 in the Allegheny Diversity Teaching Fellowship Program in these departments: Community and Justice Studies, Psychology, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies. While it is expected that candidates have their PhD at the time of appointment (with no more than six years beyond the PhD), ABD candidates with strong qualifications will be considered.
Application materials should be sent to Dr. M. Soledad Caballero at scaballe@allegheny.edu.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled; to receive consideration, all application materials must be submitted by April 1, 2022.
Postdoctoral Scholar for the Unarchiving Blackness Mellon Sawyer Seminar
https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01530
The University of California, Riverside, invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Scholar to support an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar entitled “Unarchiving Blackness: Why the Primacy of African and African Diaspora Studies Necessitates a Creative Reconsideration of Archives” scheduled for the 2022-23 academic year. Thinking across disciplinary, geographic, and temporal boundaries, the Unarchiving Blackness Mellon Sawyer Seminar will explore alternative methodological engagements with archival materials that push against the silenced, erased, and inhuman contortions of Black life in the past by conceiving of archival futurity that illuminates the expansiveness of Blackness on the continent of Africa, in North America, and in the Caribbean.
To ensure full consideration, applications and supporting material should be received by Tuesday, April 5, 2022.
Help contact: jody.benjamin@ucr.edu
Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in Latinx Arts, Literatures, Cultures or Religions
The Humanities Research Center (HRC) at Rice University invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in Latinx Arts, Literatures, Cultures or Religions. We seek emergent scholars who explore new avenues in Latinx/e Studies, methodologically and/or thematically, including those who go beyond and/or question identity concepts such as latinidad y hispanidad via indigenous, black, and/or queer/cuir studies. We are especially interested in researchers who work in (or bridge) the fields of Mexican-American studies, Central American-American studies, Borderlands and Migration studies, Tejano Studies and/or Latinx Studies in Houston, Texas, the US South, and/or the Gulf Coast.
Deadline for application: April 11, 2022
Public Humanities Fellow, Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland
https://apply.interfolio.com/102456
St. Mary’s College of Maryland is accepting résumés for the one-year position of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Public Humanities Fellow. By supporting existing humanities programming and participating in community engagement work with invested people and projects in the campus and local community, the Public Humanities Fellow will take responsibility for two central objectives: 1) creating a long-term plan for activities and public outreach related to this monument for use by the College; and 2) completing scholarly research in the humanities related to the Fellow’s expertise that bears directly on the experiences of the enslaved in the historical and contemporary American landscape. This is a full-time, one-year temporary contingent position.
Applications received by April 15, 2022 will receive full consideration.
Questions may be directed to Dr. Erin Peters, Director of the Boyden Gallery and Collection at eapeters@smcm.edu.
Strathclyde Chancellors Fellow in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63164
The School of Humanities is recruiting a Chancellor’s Fellow in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. The successful candidate’s research will focus on gender as it intersects with other structural inequalities, including race, class and/or religion. The ideal candidate will have an interdisciplinary background and familiarity with research methodologies spanning humanities and social sciences. Although not restricting our search to these areas, we encourage colleagues with specialisms in South or East Asian, Middle Eastern, African or Latin American feminisms; digital activisms; communications and advocacy; environmentalism or digital humanities.
Closing date: 10 April 2022
Assistant Director for LGBTQ Student Initiatives and Administration at University of Notre Dame
https://jobs.nd.edu/postings/25362
This position reports directly to and assists the Director of the Gender Relations Center (GRC), working with the entire staff of the GRC in developing and supporting an environment at Notre Dame that fosters safe and healthy relationships while promoting the moral formation of undergraduate and graduate students consistent with the University’s Catholic identity, mission, and values. The Assistant Director for LGBTQ Student Initiatives and Administration promotes the GRC mission by spearheading programming, pastoral care and educational trainings for LGBTQ student initiatives, and providing oversight for at least two dimensions of departmental administration, such as student worker operations, communication, assessment, and budgeting.
Job Closing Date: 04/07/2022
Assistant Director for Women's and Men's Initiatives at University of Notre Dame
https://jobs.nd.edu/postings/25363
This position reports directly to and assists the Director of the Gender Relations Center (GRC), working with the entire staff of the GRC in developing and supporting an environment at Notre Dame that fosters safe and healthy relationships while promoting the moral formation of undergraduate and graduate students consistent with the University’s Catholic identity, mission, and values. The Assistant Director for Women’s and Men’s Initiatives promotes the GRC mission by spearheading programming and initiatives related to women’s and men’s issues, gender equity and empowerment, intersectionality, and healthy sense of self, providing mentorship to student leaders who help design and implement programs on campus; and collaborating with other departments within Student Affairs, academic departments, and other university units.
Job Closing Date: 04/14/2022
Taft Postdoctoral Fellow
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63245
The purpose of this Fellowship is to provide emergent, interdisciplinary scholars with time to further their work in an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary setting, and to provide them with mentoring from a faculty member in their field. We are particularly interested in scholars whose work addresses social justice issues and/or engages with diverse publics in contemporary, historical, and/or trans/national context. The Fellow will teach one course per semester, including one graduate seminar on a topic of the Fellow’s choosing (or the equivalent); participate in the collegial life of the Center, which sponsors lectures, conferences, and colloquia; help develop and coordinate public engagement and community outreach events, and give an annual public presentation
Deadline April 8, 2022
Postdoctoral Scholar for the Unarchiving Blackness
https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01530
The Center for Ideas and Society is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary center for academic research, dedicated to advancing humanistic studies, intellectual exchange, and creativity at UC Riverside. In collaboration with the Postdoctoral Scholar, the seminar conveners will facilitate research workshops, public lectures, artist talks, a symposium, and other events exploring how archives of Black life—including documents, drawings, maps, material culture, photographs, and digital content —shape historical narratives of the past, impact the material conditions of African and African Diasporic people in the present, and create imaginative possibilities of vibrant Black life for the future.
Apply by Apr 5, 2022 to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Applications will continue to be accepted until May 31, 2022, but will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Mellon Just Transformations Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://apptrkr.com/get_redirect.php?id=2936439
This grant allows us to expand existing programs and new initiatives focused on Black studies, racial justice, and diversifying academic communities and pipelines. The College of the Liberal Arts seeks applications from recent PhDs to mid-career scholars who wish to advance their research or expand their digital and public-facing scholarship. We seek fellows who hail from historically underrepresented racial minority (URM) groups - including African Americans, Latinxs, and Native Americans (as well as those with a deep and demonstrated commitment to diversity in the academy whose research also focuses on the consequences of racial inequities, barriers to racial equality, and democratic social change and transformation).
Review of applications will begin after April 20 and continue until the fellowships are awarded.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Digital Praxis in the Humanities – spring series
https://whc.yale.edu/working-groups/digital-praxis-humanities-dhyale-conversation-series
In this series of conversations, leading DH scholars speak about how the digital reorganization of scholarship has triggered new research questions and outcomes. Centering four main practices—editing, archiving, mapping, databasing—these conversations highlight how digital projects begin, how their conclusions intersect with current critical discourses, and how their methods transform what it means to work in the humanities.
Contact Email: michael.faciejew@yale.edu
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/caaas/events/2022-eric-williams-memorial-lecture
5:00 p.m., Thursday, April 14, 2022
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Carol Anderson, Professor of African American Studies at Emory University
email: clbryant@austin.utexas.edu
Apr 11, 2022 12:00 PM in Pacific Time
In this session, Helaine Blumenthal, Senior Program Manager at Wiki Education, will speak about the Wikipedia assignment’s broader impact and how instructors can partner with Wiki Education to design and facilitate a Wikipedia assignment. Trudi Jacobson, Professor Emerita at the University of Albany, SUNY, and Mark Marinkovic, a student of Trudi’s, will discuss their experiences using a Wikipedia assignment in information literacy courses. And Naniette Coleman, Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy and Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley, and Ava Wu, a student of Naniette’s, will discuss their experience using a Wikipedia assignment to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of cybersecurity, privacy, and surveillance topics in numerous languages.
Contact Email: helaine@wikiedu.org
Register https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtcOGrpjIsEtRpYtzMJHZTZPRxumiV2FAG
Feminism, Photography and Resistance Discussion Series
https://www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk/whats-on/feminism-photography-and-resistance-discussion-series
Please join us for a series of online talks on feminism, photography and resistance organised by Four Corners, UK and Kylie Thomas.
21 April Organising, Protesting and Taking Pictures - A conversation with Taous Dahmani, Maggie Murray and Joanne O'Brien
Contact Email: kyliethomas.south@gmail.com
Global Indigenous Intimacies
https://apa.nyu.edu/event/global-indigenous-intimacies/
April 28, 2022, Thursday, 6 to 7:30 pm ET
In Intimacies of Four Continents, Lisa Lowe shows how capitalism and modernity emerged from the history of colonial encounters, which coerced intimacies among America’s Indigenous peoples and the Africans and Asians brought to this continent for the extraction of labor by European settlers. The violence of these colonial intimacies must be masked, Lowe argues, so that narratives of modernity and progress spread by Europeans maintain their luster. Our panelists discuss what happens on the other side of the mask, addressing the new modes of kinship, collectivity, recognition, solidarity—of decolonial democracy, equality, and representation—that also emerged in the face of colonial violations.
Five Score Later: Civil Rights and Historical Memory in Gettysburg
Join Starr Center Director Adam Goodheart for a Zoom conversation with Author and Historian Jill Ogline Titus, as they discuss her new book Gettysburg 1963 (UNC Press, 2021). During this event, Goodheart and Titus will explore the Civil War, Civil Rights, and how the Cold War shaped Gettysburg as a political tool. The book’s publisher, University of North Carolina Press, said that “Examining the experiences of political leaders, civil rights activists, preservation-minded Civil War enthusiasts, and local residents, Titus shows how the era’s deep divisions thrust Gettysburg into the national spotlight and ensured that white and Black Americans would define the meaning of the battle, the address, and the war in dramatically different ways.”
Contact Email: amcginnis3@washcoll.edu
URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUod--qqzksGNeaceQcVzu-vG-mCKOkhpaM
Reflecting: Metacognitive Teaching for Student Success
Apr 1, 2022 12:00 PM EST
Effective teaching doesn’t stop with successful student learning. Educator and social activist professor bell hooks envisioned the classroom as “a location of possibility” where we can cultivate a learning sanctuary for ourselves and our students. For this to happen and for meaningful and responsive teaching to take place, a teacher must consider many aspects of a student: the intellectual, the social, and the emotional. Indeed, taking the time to reflect on students’ experiences and outcomes—not only at the end of the term, but throughout the semester—is central to equity-minded transformative teaching. In this interactive session with Mays Imad (Connecticut College and Pima Community College), participants will engage in a variety of ways to understand the importance of students’ experiences and identify areas and opportunities for improvement.
The Ground of Our Existence with Dr. Melvin A. Whitehead
https://gaines.uky.edu/events/ground-our-existence
Apr 7, 2022, 3:00 – 4:30 PM EST via Zoom
Dr. Whitehead’s talk will emphasize the significance of centering Black communities and perspectives about whiteness and white supremacy in anti-racist work and scholarship. In this talk, he will explore the following questions: What is the relationship between whiteness and anti-blackness? Why does this relationship matter? What does it mean to center Black communities in how we even think about whiteness? What does it mean to center Black communities in how we think about the purpose and usefulness of anti-racist work?
Ask a Digital Historian
https://networks.h-net.org/node/21301/discussions/10042525/aha-ask-digital-historian-april-15
Event description: Is there an answer to a digital
humanities question you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask? Do you
need help designing a digital history project? Want to try something digital
but don't even know where to begin? If you answered yes to any of these, we
hope you'll register to attend this online event, where you'll be able to talk
through your questions live with digital history experts.
Registration is required. Visit our registration page to
sign up and receive the Zoom link. There is no cost to attend.
Questions can be sent to Leland Grigoli at lgrigoli@historians.org.
Inheritance: How Communities Are Responding to Controversial Artwork
https://sites.brown.edu/inheritance/
Inheritance (April 27 - 30, 2022; Zoom) brings together activists, curators, educators, tribal leaders, artists, historians, heritage workers, and policy makers to explore the range of strategies that institutions and communities are using to respond to contentious representations of race, Indigenous lifeways and history in public art and architecture. Speakers from the US, UK and Canada will offer first-hand accounts of initiatives and actions that resulted in the removal, reinterpretation, or recontextualization of public and commemorative artworks, heritage sites and museum collections, while others will present on efforts to protect and preserve sites that have been ignored or under-resourced.
Mind the Gap II:Dialogues beyond the human
Discussion Series
A growing body of work between social sciences and the humanities has been questioning foundational categorical oppositions. The analytical gaps between mind and body, nature and society, individual and collective, local and global, spiritual and material, social and economic, and long and short duration, on which the modern western epistemic order is founded, have become increasingly unable to address some of the most crucial problems of our time. In this seminar series we will discuss texts on vitalism, new materialism, more-than-human societies, post-humanism, and others, exploring concepts such as things, cyborgs, hybrids, actants, networks and meshworks.
Everyone is welcome-- free registration
URL: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10030794/mind-gap-ii-dialogues-beyond-human
Humanities Lecture Series: Natalie Diaz, "Postcolonial Love Poem"
April 20, 7pm
Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dune-fields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.
Fighting Back: How Anti-Rape Activists Fostered Feminism on Campus
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10031973/liquid-blackness-cfp-suspension
Zoom Webinar on April 13, at 7 PM
Anna Richey will examine students in both the Women's Liberation and Civil Rights Movements and their work to stop rape within their communities. Oral histories play a central role in Richey's research by centering the voices of survivors and activists, as they redefined public discourse on gendered violence. These interviews illuminate the powerful history of student-led grassroots organizing, the implementation of Title IX within higher education, and the growth of the supposedly "safe space" of the modern college campus.
Register in advance for the Zoom Webinar
Contact Email: kathryn.rizzi@rutgers.edu
APRIL 12, 2022 AT 2 PM
The University of North Texas College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences is hosting its In-CLASS Distinguished Scholars Series. This semester, a panel of six UNT faculty will discuss Critical Race Theory Matters.
Making Up Selves: The Operating Instructions
https://religionlab.virginia.edu/events/making-up-selves-the-operating-instructions/
April 8-9; A symposium to explore how voice, narrative, rituals, and imagination—from antiquity to present-day—are practiced in the ‘making of ourselves.’ “Our experience of ourselves,” the French philosopher Michel Foucault said, “seems to us, no doubt, to be that which is original and immediate; but we have to remember that it has been constituted through historically formed practices. And what we believe we see so clearly in ourselves…is given to us via techniques.” What is true of our experience of ourselves and our lives goes for the worlds we take ourselves to inhabit and experience: the ones we find apparently ready-made for us; the ones we narrate into being and enact in our rituals; the ones we dream ourselves into.
Contact Email: ad8da@virginia.edu
Irreversible – The Manifestations of Change
Thursdays, April 7-July 14, 18.15 - 19.45 CEST
The Baltic Sea Region is an area where changes mostly occur within a set of intertwining transregional parameters. By focusing on the aftereffects of transformations, this joint lecture series inquires about processes that lack the chance of a turn-around: from a single event to a concatenation of circumstances leading to an unforeseeable outcome. It can be difficult to draw a line between the permanent and the transient, but there are, certainly, damages or developments that are irreversible, in terms of material loss or environmental change. At the same time, the very idea of irreversibility has to be processed in language and media; it is part of a discourse and thus of history.
Contact Email: baltic-peripeties@uni-greifswald.de
