CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Living with Climate Change:
Perspectives from the Humanities and Beyond
https://www.amphilsoc.org/living-climate-change-2022
The American Philosophical Society's Library &
Museum invites innovative paper proposals from scholars in all fields whose
work explores the topic of climate change from a humanities perspective. While
the impact of climate change has generated numerous scientific studies and
advancements, it has also influenced work across the arts and humanities,
inspiring new questions, analytics, and approaches for considering the
relationship between humans and the natural world.
Applicants should submit a title and a 250-word
proposal along with a C.V. by May 1, 2022
email: alink@amphilsoc.org
Gay,
Lesbian, and Transgender Literature and Culture – PAMLA
This panel invites submissions that discuss
intersectionality in literature, media, or culture pertaining to Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer representations. You may, should you wish,
engage in the conference theme of "Geographies of the Fantastic and the
Quotidian,” but any topic on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer
literature or culture is welcome.
Proposal deadline July 10, 2022.
Contact Email: nhbartels@gmail.com
Mapping
Migration and the Challenges of Digital Curation
Monday 20 June 2022, 10am – 5pm BST
To mark 2022’s Refugee Week, the Library’s launch of
its new Refugee Map and to explore the opportunities and challenges of digital
humanities projects to record, analyse, and commemorate the experience of
forced migration, we are pleased to host an interdisciplinary, one-day virtual
symposium that will examine themes related to the challenges of transnational
digital curation and the sustainability of digital humanities resources in a
new digital age for archives and heritage collections. To what extent do
digital resources that map the paths of forced migration extend or subvert
archival mediation? Do they democratise access to globally dispersed archives,
or reinforce national, cultural or other barriers? What are the problems of
sustainability for digital resources?
To apply to attend, please send the following
information to Dr Christine Schmidt by Tuesday 31 May 2022: cschmidt@wienerholocaustlibrary.org.
Archiving
Activism in the Digital Age
Contemporary repertoires of protest have been
adapting to digitally-oriented media environments (Tilly 2006; Hoskins 2017;
Treré 2018; Merrill, Keightley, and Daphi 2020), begging the question how they
will be archived for the future. 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). By focusing on the
archiving-activism nexus, our aim is also to productively bridge the different
conceptualizations of “archive” and in particular the contraposition between
the epistemological idea of “the Archive” in the Foucauldian sense (Foucault
1969) and of archives as material – even when “just digital” – socio-cultural
spaces (Sheffield 2020).
Abstract
submission deadline: May 15, 2022
Contact Email: d.salerno@uu.nl
Virtual
Feminist Digital Methods Events & Conference
11-13 August 2022
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many feminist
scholars have turned to digital methods out of necessity. Others have been
using digital methods long before the pandemic. There is a gap between
increased demand for digital acuity and decreased ability to gather,
troubleshoot, or discuss ideas and projects. Our intention is to fill some of
that gap. Our primary aim is to foster communities of practice around feminist
digital methods by creating intentional space for dialogues, knowledge sharing,
workshops, showcases, and presentations. We also aim to engage topics of
feminist ethics, digital tools and infrastructure, feminist digital pedagogies,
knowledge production & mobilization, social media, and online work,
performance, and presence.
Contact Email: femdigmethods@gmail.com
Then,
Now and Always: Socio-Cultural Heritage
https://amps-research.com/conference/heritages-prague/
June 28-30,
2023
Then, Now and Always is a research project proposal
developed by the Czech Technical University. It explores the dynamic processes
and changing roles of small museums for societies, communities and local
interest groups. Recently, museums and places of memory have increasingly
become centers of interaction and communication. Through documenting them, this
project seeks to map current models of holistic placemaking and better
understand local processes of preserving, telling, and sharing local history
and cultural stories.
Contact Email: team@amps-research.com
Abstracts: July 10, 2022
Postgraduate
Forum Sentient Performativities: Thinking Alongside the Human
https://performativities.info/sentient-performativities-june-29-30/
29th & 30th June 2022 at Dartington Hall estate &
online
The 2022 art.earth postgraduate forum investigates
the role of somatic practices and how they can foster embodied ecological
awareness and communication between the human and other than human worlds. It
seeks to bring together multiple fields of thought, practice and research that
share embodied approaches that bridge the human, plant and animal divide. We
ask what are those emerging forms of ecological somatic practices as critical
tools to re-gain ecological futures - acts of care, resistance, de-colonisation
and reconnection. How can we bring a felt awareness of our organismic
entanglement and planetary belonging into dialogue with critical understandings
of our cultural-political and socio-economic contexts ? How can this offer new
modes of thinking, perceiving and of being-with, necessary for an embodied
planetary citizenship and stewardship ?
Deadline for submissions is Friday 22th May 2022
Contact Email: minou@art-earth.org.uk
Art
+ Design: Teaching and Complexity
https://amps-research.com/conference/applying-education/
Conference: 26-28 April, 2023
This is a strand call to educators in: Art and
design; media studies; film; digital arts; fine arts; art history, Particular
emphasis is placed on applying education in these fields in both individual
practice and the workplace.
Abstract deadline - 10 July 2022
Contact Email: program@amps-research.com
Reckoning
with Race & Racism in Academic Medicine
https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/conf-reckoning-with-racism-med/
May 5th - 6th, 2022
The legacies of race and racism cast a long shadow
on academic medical institutions today: ongoing scientific racism in medicine,
unequal access to health care, the segregation of medical facilities, and the
exclusion of African Americans and other racialized groups from medical
education. Medical research and medical
practice have not merely been incidentally affected by racism in broader
society, but rather have been key sites for the production and reproduction of
biological understandings of race. In
order to develop more effective anti-racist responses to endemic health
inequalities made so visible in the COVID-19 epidemic, medicine needs to fully
confront these painful histories of structural violence.
Animals
in the American Popular Imagination | Virtual conference
https://www.popmec.com/pop-animals/
12-16 September 2022
This international conference will focus on the
representation of animals and human-animal relations in American popular
culture, in all its forms, across media, past and present. The thematic
clusters are Representations of animals in popular culture, from animality to
bestiality: the human as nonhuman animal, commodification of non-human animals:
zooculture, pet industry, agribusiness, animal science: research,
experimentation, and animal-assisted therapy, animals in popular discourse. Proposals
that do not fall into these will, of course, also be considered.
Deadline for submission: April 24, 2022
If you have any doubt or inquiry, feel welcome to
drop a line at popmec.animals@gmail.com.
Dissident
Feminisms: Inaugural bell hooks center Symposium
https://tinyurl.com/bhcsymposium2023
June 16th-18th, 2023, Berea College
In honor and celebration of her life, works, and
legacy, the Inaugural bell hooks Symposium at the bell hooks center at Berea
College holds collective space for continued engagement with dissident
feminisms. This symposium encourages theory, praxis, poetics, and aesthetics
that move hooks’s interventions into the present moment while challenging the
co-optation and de-politicization of her work.
If interested, please submit a 250-300 word proposal
to https://tinyurl.com/bhcsymposium2023 by September
15th, 2022
Climate in Crisis Activism, Apathy,
and Responsibility: Social Responses to and Social Causes of the Current
Climate Crisis
https://humber.ca/tifa/climate-in-crisis
Conference Date: September 23 and 24, 2022, virtual
Over the past century, globalization has led to an
interconnectedness and an awareness of the shared effects of climate change,
yet hesitancy and outright denialism surrounding climate change have slowed
progress, and have also worked to diminish or distract from notions of social
responsibility. Societal responsibility has been transferred away from the
corporate or systemic to the individual, where action may be simpler, but
impact is negligible. This conference seeks to explore the social challenges
faced by the climate crisis, the impacts of climate change denialism,
environmental racism, representations of the climate crisis in media and the
arts, individual vs. corporate responsibility, and the need for equitable
solutions.
Submission Deadline: June 5, 2022
Contact Email: tifa@humber.ca
COVID and Accessibility:
Roundtable Discussion About Policies Instituted in Response to the Pandemic
Related to Access
https://samla.memberclicks.net/samla-94-cfps
This Roundtable discussion welcomes submissions on
any aspect of pre-pandemic college classroom access, post-pandemic college
classroom access, or policies implemented in college classrooms post-pandemic
which could limit access. This roundtable seeks to generate a wider
conversation about how instructors handle access in the classroom, and what has
improved or hindered access. Participants will be asked to contribute to a
Declaration of Access, a document which can be utilized to remind instructors,
departments, or universities of the important work which needs to be done
creating access on college campuses. By August 1st, 2022, please submit an
abstract of 250-300 words, a brief bio, and any A/V or scheduling requests to Dr.
Brielle Campos, Middle Tennessee State University, at Brielle.Campos@mtsu.edu.
(Re)thinking Landscape: Ways of
knowing / Ways of being
September 29 - October 1, 2022, Yale University
If landscape
studies have traditionally focused on questions of representation and cultural
imaginaries, how does taking land seriously as a category prompt a rethinking
of landscape? Landscapes have real, material impacts on our lives but landscape
is also a canvas onto which a variety of emotional, ideological, and discursive
involvement is mapped. Landscape is used by artists, writers, theorists, and
politicians to tell us something—and, importantly, to make us believe
something—about our lives and ourselves. We invite papers from
interdisciplinary scholars working at the convergence of land, representation,
and politics across media, geographies, and time periods. Through the framework
of the Environmental Humanities, this conference seeks to re-think landscape
studies and the definition of landscape through a cross-disciplinary dialogue
across the humanities and social sciences.
send abstracts to rethinking.landscape.conference@gmail.com by
May 31
Performing Resilience:
Re-embodying Wellbeing, Agency and Creative Communities in Higher Education
One-day
Online Symposium 07/16/2022
This one-day symposium aims to generate some
understanding how performing arts pedagogies can offer bio-psycho-social tools
for resilience development for students and staff in HE, and how models of
existing good practice can be transferred and applied in educational contexts
beyond the field. Performing arts, dance and somatic practices have a history
of claiming and articulating their teaching & learning method as
transformative pedagogies and agents of change. How can we embed resilience
education in our curricula to develop a sustainable culture of care amongst
students and staff? How can embodied, experiential, & community oriented
performing arts pedagogies form resources for resilience training? How do we question and decentralise dominant
western neo-liberal models of hyper-individualisation, and learn from critical,
post-humanist and non-western pedagogical models?
submission deadline: May 18 to t.kampe@bathspa.ac.uk
Unlocking Inequality: Revisiting
the Intersection of Race and Class
October 21-22, 2022, Thurgood Marshall School of Law,
3100 Cleburne, Houston
The Civil Rights Era of the mid 20th century brought
about some reforms, it did not achieve substantive equality for people of
color, and in particular for African American, Latinx and Native American
communities. The wealth and income of
these communities are far below that of whites, their poverty and unemployment
rates are far above the national average, and they are far underrepresented
among college graduates and in professions requiring higher education. New historical research suggests that
capitalist tools and mechanisms--from accounting and management practices to
mortgages, the corporate form, and private property itself--are the products of
a mindset that has distributed the privileges of "humanity"
unequally. This account refuses the
traditional question of "Is it race or class?" and suggests that the
two are intimately intertwined.
Please submit your proposal by June 30, 2022
Contact Email: thomas.kleven@tmslaw.tsu.edu
Diversity, Diasporas and
Digitality: The Worlds of Wikimedia and beyond
16-18 November 2022, University of Sydney,
The first two decades of the 21st century have
brought war, a global pandemic, climate changes and the widespread erosion of
culture, as recognised by the United Nations which declared 2022-2032 to be the
International Decade of Indigenous Languages. This conference seeks to
investigate the variety of ways that digital media is (or isn’t) meeting these
challenges. We invite participants to consider how communities that have been
displaced, marginalised or otherwise disadvantaged, may best be served by online
platforms and open knowledge movements. We seek submissions that address open
knowledge, global diversity, inclusivity and cultural dynamism from a range of
perspectives, including digital communication, indigenous knowledge, health
communication and Internet studies. We particularly encourage submissions that
explore knowledge activism, such as the Wikimedia movement; open platforms,
such as Wikipedia; as well as digital methods across different disciplines and
fields of knowledge.
Please submit abstracts up to 250 words by June 20.
For questions please contact Associate Professor Frances Di
Lauro and and Dr
Bunty Avieson,
Anatomies
of Grief: Conversations on an Ethics of Living
Thursday, June 23 2022
While there has been sustained discussion on grief
in relation to illness, war, and death, what is at stake when we explore this
affective landscape in relation to loss and sadness, which illuminate grief in the realm of the living?
Without abandoning the phenomena of individual and collective mourning in
relation to ongoing historical events and atrocities, how might we tend to the
deeper revelations that “grief” offers us? For this online symposium, we
welcome presentations that draw upon various modes of critical thought and new
methodologies. This may include standard academic papers or creative
explorations that utilize the archival, digital media and multi-modal
engagements, literary and non-literary texts, site analysis, and other source
materials.
proposals due Friday, May 27, 2022 to ethics@utoronto.ca
PUBLICATIONS
Multidisciplinary
Collection on Transraciality
We welcome submissions from scholars working in a
wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to ethnic and race
studies, linguistics, history, law, political science, philosophy, gender and
sexuality studies, medical sciences, and sociology. We seek submissions on any topic that will
help broaden the theorization of transraciality, such as: the intersection of
transracial identification and class or gender; the effects transracial
identification might have on BIPOC identities and/or political efforts; the way
legal frameworks may shape transracial identification; how historical
understandings or practices of race change can inform our contemporary
perception of transracial identity; the replication of transphobic rhetoric in
skepticism about transraciality; and how concepts of race and/or ethnicity
might change with increased understanding or acceptance of transracial
identification.
Submit your abstract by June 30, 2022 as
an attached Word document to both Rebecca Tuvel (tuvelr@rhodes.edu) and Molly McKibbin (molly.mckibbin@gmail.com).
Revolutionary
Papers: Counter-Institutions, -Politics and -Cultures of Anticolonial
Periodicals in the Global South
This issue of Radical History Review will examine
periodicals and other print ephemera—including newspapers, cultural and
literary journals, magazines, and pamphlets—as sites of Left, anti-imperial,
and anti-colonial critical production across the Global South. During struggles
against colonialism, Apartheid, and postcolonial violence, revolutionary papers
generated oppositional networks, critical politics, left mobilizations,
literary scenes, and alternative artistic practices.
Proposal deadline: June 15, 2022,
email: revolutionarypapers@gmail.com and contactrhr@gmail.com
Trans
is the future. The future is trans
https://beestungmag.com/special-calls-for-work/
And while our trans might begin with gender,
presentation, and embodiment, it certainly doesn’t end there. For this special
issue of beestung, we’re seeking works by nonbinary and two-spirit writers that
cross not only gender but also genre and form. We want your barely-legible;
your not-fiction, not-poetry, and definitely-not-binary words. We want
speculative work that can only do what it does outside and against the bounds
of traditional “poetry” and “fiction,” informed and delivered by people outside
the bounds of binary gender.
Deadline: July 5th, 2022
Please send work to Cavar at editorialcavar@gmail.com.
Graduate
Student Pedagogy: Feminist Approaches to Graduate Level Instruction and
Mentorship
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpedagogy/aimsandscope.html
There is vast research on approaches to teaching and
pedagogical practice. However, much of this research and information is aimed
at teaching undergraduates. What are the nuances and differences in a graduate
classroom? How do we become excellent instructors of graduate students? What
are best practices for graduate student pedagogies? How can we ensure our feminist
pedagogy training translates to a graduate setting?
We invite submissions for critical commentaries
(1000-1,200 words) on approaches to teaching graduate students, as well as
original teaching activities (1,500-2,500 words).
Please submit a 200-500 word extended abstract by
June 15th.
Please send all inquiries and/or abstract
submissions to Penny Harvey at pharvey@ciis.edu
Queering
Disney: History of The Walt Disney Company and the Queer Community
With Disney’s initial apathetic response to the
‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill which recently passed in the state of Florida, it is time
to shed light on Disney’s complex relationship with the LGBTQIA2S+ community.
Recently, there have been works which briefly discuss the relationship of
queerness and Disney, such as Sean Griffin’s Tinker Bells and Evil Queens
(2000), Melanie S. Kohnen Queer Representation, Visibility, and Race (2016),
Jennifer Sandlin and Julie Garlen’s edited collection Disney, Culture, and
Curriculum (2016), and Joseph Brennan’s edited collection Queerbaiting and
Fandom (2019). However, the queer artist/contributor has yet to be the main
topic of discussion. The edited collection seeks to illuminate the various
aspects and areas that the LGBTQIA2S+ community has impacted and been a part of
in relation to The Walt Disney Company worldwide. This collection is looking to
take part in the Transnational Queer Histories (TGH) book series with De
Gruyter.
Abstracts are due by June 30th at midnight.
Send abstracts to: Brittany.eldridge.18@ucl.ac.uk.
Feminisms
Across the World
https://sophia.smith.edu/meridians/submissions/call-for-submissions/
Special Issue for Meridians: Feminism, Race,
Transnationalism
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.”1 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.
“Submit by” Date: May 16, 2022
For questions about the manuscript review process,
email: meridians@smith.edu
Labor
Ecologies and the Right to Survive
http://greentheoryandpraxisjournal.org/special-issue-open/
Who has the right to survive? This shocking question
captures the defining problem of our era. From medical care to mass
incarceration, homelessness to mass starvation, the right to survive is hardly
guaranteed in the U.S., and the question of survival only grows more urgent as
global capitalism seems bent on squeezing out the last drops of petrocarbon
profits from the withered husk of our planet. If we are to seize the right to
survive, we must understand the ways that these issues are intertwined. In
partnership with The Activist History Review, Green Theory and Praxis invites
contributions for Volume 14, Issue 2 that explore how we seize the right to
survive for one another and in solidarity with our global community.
Please send completed drafts (3000-5000 words) with
an abstract (200 words) and bio (100 words) to William Horne (horne.activisthistory@gmail.com)
and Céire Kealty (ceireakealty@gmail.com)
by July 1, 2022.
Nonbinary
https://womensstudiesquarterly.com/issues/cfp/
This special issue of WSQ reflects upon the work
that the word “nonbinary” does in terms of unsettling the codes of gender,
sexuality, race, and other categories of being and knowing. For this issue, we
understand “nonbinary” to serve as a direct challenge to the tenacity of binary
logics, ethics, and orientations. Not only located in, but perhaps most
recognizably found in discussions of gender and sexuality, nonbinary must be
thought in relation to deep conceptions of identity and belonging across the
spectrum of power and difference. We, as guest editors, ask how it is the case
that nonbinary representations and narratives circulate through culture, why it
is the case that nonbinariness and its intersections with other identities
continues to be overlooked in relation to LGBTQIA+, feminist theory, critical
race, postcolonial, and, specifically, trans studies, and how we can resist binary
ideologies and practices to reposition nonbinary as the intentional practice of
freedom.
Priority Deadline for articles: September 15, 2022
For questions, please email the guest issue editors
at WSQEditorial@gmail.com.
Heat
https://thresholdsjournal.com/51-Heat
Thresholds 51: Heat takes
enthalpy—the thermodynamic property that comprises heat, pressure, and volume
to effect chemical state change—as its guiding principle. We seek scholarly
writing, artistic interventions, and criticism from art, architecture, and
related fields to apply pressure within the volume to effect disciplinary state
change. We aim to discover the ways art and architecture have historically
navigated, wielded, and avoided heat.
Submission deadline: June 1, 2022
email: thresh@mit.edu
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Research Travel
Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
https://www.library.illinois.edu/hpnl/blog/call-for-applications-2022-2023-research-travel-grant
The University Library is one of the largest research
libraries in the U.S., holding more than 14 million volumes and 24 million
other items and materials in all formats, languages, and subjects. For more
information about the Library’s collections, see: https://www.library.illinois.edu/collections/special-collections.
Travel grants awards typically range from $1,000 to $2,500 per recipient.
For travel during Summer 2022, please apply by May 15, 2022.
For travel during the academic year 2022-23, please apply by August 1, 2022
(for fall or spring travel) or December 5, 2022 (for spring travel).
Contact Email: hpnl@library.illinois.edu
LGBTQ-RAN Educational Resource Prize
https://www.lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/educational-resource-prize-guidelines
To further the teaching and instruction of LGBTQ+ history in
various classroom contexts, the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network offers this
annual LGBTQ-RAN Educational Resource Prize. Inaugurated in 2021, the prize
honors scholars and teachers developing curricular and instructional materials
for the teaching of LGBTQ+ religious history at all levels of education from
primary to higher education, as well as in congregational or community
settings. A key purpose of this prize is
to support and amplify the development of these educational resources and to
make excellent resources available to the public by publishing them (with
authors’ permission and with acknowledgement and citation) on the LGBTQ-RAN website
in order to amplify awareness about the important contribution of the LGBTQ+
community to religious history.
Submissions must be
received electronically by June 30, 2022
Contact Email: mark@lgbtqreligiousarchives.org
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Coordinator: College Student Services Administration
https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/116577
The College Student Services Administration Program at
Oregon State University, uniquely situated in the School of Language, Culture
and Society, prepares future scholar-practitioner higher education leaders who
are focused on equity and access, diversity and inclusion, responsible
stewardship, and social justice. The Program graduates entry and mid-level
professionals with knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be culturally
responsive, socially just, innovative, and transformative higher education
student affairs practitioners and leaders. The Coordinator of the College
Student Services Administration (CSSA) Program will provide academic and
administrative leadership for a competency-based master’s degree program that
has social justice as its foundational values. The Coordinator will administer
a cohort-based Corvallis campus program and contribute to a growing Ecampus
(distance learning) program. The Coordinator will demonstrate scholarly
activity by publication of articles, book chapters, and monographs as well as
teach CSSA courses and provides advising to CSSA students.
closing date: 04/15/2022
Asian University for
Women, Fellowships in the Humanities
The Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong,
Bangladesh invites applications for up to nine Fellowships in the humanities
for talented young scholars to help develop an innovative humanities program
within a rapidly growing and distinctive international university. Fellowships
would be for an initial period of two years, at the end of which fellows would
have the opportunity to apply for a faculty position. Applications are invited
in the broadly defined fields of history, literature, religion, and philosophy.
Candidates with interdisciplinary interests will be especially welcome. ease
submit a cover letter, CV, and the names of three references, along with a
teaching statement and research statement to hrd@auw.edu.bd by 30 June 2022
Critical Black
Studies and Anti-Oppressive Studies program for high school students
In summer 2023, Telluride Association plans to host programs
in Critical Black Studies (TASS-CBS) and Anti-Oppressive Studies (TASS-AOS) at
Cornell University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Maryland.
TASS seminars will run from late June to early August. Telluride Association is
looking for faculty pairs who will collaboratively design and teach a
challenging six-week seminar course for TASS students, who are high school
sophomores and juniors. Through topical exploration of their respective
disciplines, faculty will introduce students to critical thinking, academic
reading and writing. Seminars meet five days a week from 9 am to 12 pm each day.
Education and
Outreach Specialist, Body Positive Program, Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center
The University of Virginia seeks an Education and Outreach
Specialist to support the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center. This coordination
includes supervising 4-6 undergraduate interns. Interns serve for an academic
year as part of the Women’s Center’s Engaged Scholarship program; they deliver
the Body Project and other trainings for their peers. The successful candidate
should be able to foster a supportive and student-centered environment to
empower and equip students with skills and strategies to engage in
self-advocacy, as well as understanding the needs of students from diverse
cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds at the intersection of multiple
identities.
Review of Applicants will begin April 21, 2022.
For questions about the position or the application process,
please contact Ashley Cochran, Senior Recruiter at alc6dk@virginia.edu.
Director of the
Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life
Director of the GSC leads efforts to create a strong and
supportive campus environment for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities by facilitating the
creation of a University community that values and actively supports
inclusiveness, equity, and diversity. The Director works with staff members in
the GSC, OED, and across the system with other diversity professionals and
allies to address campus climate through education, policy, and the provision
of resources for all members of the University community. The Director
communicates, educates, and consults with campus constituents about the needs
and issues of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; supports those who experience harassment
and discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender
expression; and directs individuals to additional resources available
system-wide as appropriate.
This position will remain open until filled.
Postgraduate
Fellowships at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and
Justice
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and
Justice, an interdisciplinary human rights center housed in the School of Law
at the University of Texas at Austin, seeks applications for two postgraduate
fellowship positions. We are
particularly interested in applicants whose intellectual interests and
commitments are aligned with the Rapoport Center's ongoing work on the gendered
and racialized dimensions of worker precarity, especially in the context of
informal and migrant labor, as well as on social reproduction, livelihoods, and
innovative forms of worker organizing. In addition, we welcome applications
from individuals whose scholarly work reflects the Center’s emerging
priorities, including those of the new Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and
Social Justice: peace, environmental and climate justice, and reproductive and
sexual rights.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.
Any questions, and all materials (in PDF format), should be
sent to Nina Ebner, nebner@utexas.edu.
One-year visiting
faculty position in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
https://jobs.gvsu.edu/en-us/job/494152/visiting-faculty-of-women-gender-sexuality-studies
The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in
the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Grand Valley State University
(GVSU) is seeking applications for a full-time, one-year visiting faculty
position that may be renewed for up to three years2022. Candidates should have: expertise in WGS/
LGBTQ studies; experience teaching introductory WGSS courses; ability to teach
courses that fulfill General Education US Diversity requirements; a
demonstrated commitment to inclusive, interdisciplinary pedagogical practices;
and a commitment to challenging structural inequalities while working for
social justice.
Review of applications will begin on May 16th, 2022
Questions about the position may be directed to the
Department Chair: Dr. Ayana Weekley, weekleya@gvsu.edu
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
CONFERENCES
Feminism, Photography and Resistance Symposium
https://www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk/whats-on/feminism-photography-and-resistance-symposium
Please join us for an online research symposium on
photography and resistance through a feminist lens 28th of April from 3 - 7.30pm GMT. Speakers include:
Anna Rocca in conversation with Dora Carpenter-Latiri about
her exhibition,Tunisian Women of the Book
Julia Winckler on the work of Marilyn Stafford
Gabriella McGrogan on resistance to the war on drugs in the
Phillipines
Taous Dahmani on the visual culture of the 1976 Grunwick
dispute in the UK
Tessa Lewin in conversation with South African photographer
Dean Hutton
Heather Diack on the work of Civil Rights photographer Doris
Derby
Rosario Montero on documentary photography in Chile
Tara Pixley speaking about her, film Rebel Vision, on the
work of Black female and non binary photographers associated with Authority
Collective
Contact Email: info@fourcornersfilm.co.uk
Designed Orders
https://architecturesoforder.org/en/event/ordered-design/
The architectural design process aims to create new orders
and at the same time is, itself, structured by its practical, technical,
social, and legal frameworks. The lecture series in the 2022/2023 summer and
winter semester traces this double relation. Each design imagines the future
and represents an attempt to create a new spatial – and thus always social –
order. This projective access to the unknown and unthought places planning
conventions, construction standards, legal requirements and established
architectural, urbanistic and social ideas in relation to each other rethinks
them, and makes them dynamic. The lecture series asks how design structures the
interaction of these different and heterogeneous factors and what roles the
conditions, norms, and tools of design play. The focus of the events in the
summer semester is the question of how order comes into the design process.
Contact Email: jenniferdyck.em@gmail.com
Book Talk: The Creole
Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-the-creole-archipelago-tickets-312844786177
April 27, 2022, 12:30–1:30pm CDT
In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how
generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers
from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge social,
economic, and informal political connections that spanned the eastern
Caribbean. Focusing on a chain of volcanic islands, each one visible from the
next, whose societies developed outside the sphere of European rule until the
end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, Murphy argues that the imperial frameworks
typically used to analyze the early colonial Caribbean are at odds with the
geographic realities that shaped daily life in the region.
Contact Email: clas@uchicago.edu
Reckoning with Race & Racism in Academic Medicine
https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/conf-reckoning-with-racism-med/
May 5th - 6th, 2022
The legacies of race
and racism cast a long shadow on academic medical institutions today: ongoing
scientific racism in medicine, unequal access to health care, the segregation
of medical facilities, and the exclusion of African Americans and other
racialized groups from medical education.
Medical research and medical practice have not merely been incidentally
affected by racism in broader society, but rather have been key sites for the
production and reproduction of biological understandings of race. In order to develop more effective
anti-racist responses to endemic health inequalities made so visible in the
COVID-19 epidemic, medicine needs to fully confront these painful histories of
structural violence.
Can You Be White and
Hear This? The Racial Art of Listening in American
Moor and Desdemona
https://crrs.ca/event/keynote-kimhall/
April 22 at 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
This talk explores the ways that Keith Hamilton Cobb’s
American Moor and Toni Morrison and Rokia Traoré’s Desdemona address the
whiteness of the various “industries” that discipline black responses to
Shakespeare. Their appropriations of Shakespeare’s Othello speak over what
W.E.B Du Bois called the color line by performing conversations that highlight
the missed readings and over-readings in the play.
Contact Email: crrs@vicu.utoronto.ca
“Battle for the
Ballot” The Struggle for Voting Rights in Florida
April 25, 2022 at 12:00pm EDT
Allison Mitchell’s dissertation, “Battle for the Ballot: A
History of Black Electoral Politics and Voter Suppression in Florida,
1940s-2010s,” draws from the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral
History housed at George A. Smathers Libraries. Mitchell’s dissertation uses
oral history to tell the story of hitherto forgotten African American efforts
to challenge segregation and voter suppression in Florida. Dr. Sharon Austin,
Professor of Political Science at UF will provide commentary on the
presentation.
For more information please contact: Adolfhoromero@ufl.edu or Portiz@ufl.edu
Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/mryya99v
An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and
Life-Making during Medical Incarceration
https://www.humanities.uci.edu/events/virtual-book-celebration-adria-imadas-archive-skin-archive-kin
The UCI Center for Medical Humanities hosts a virtual
celebration of Dr. Adria L. Imada’s new book, An Archive of Skin, An Archive of
Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration (University of
California Press, 2022). Praised as a “deeply moving” and “field-making”
contribution to the history of disability and medicine, An Archive of Skin
offers an unprecedented view of the visual culture of Hansen’s disease and
kinship in Hawai‘i during the longest medical quarantine in modern history.
April 27, 2022, 4 – 5 PM PST
Contact Email: aimada@uci.edu
University of Chicago
Press Book Sale
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/virtualCatalog/vc60.html
Our annual sale is one of the biggest university press book
sales in the country. Every year we go through our overstock inventory and
offer deep discounts on hundreds of books in subjects like history, fiction,
art, science, travel, cooking, and more. Shop below or download a copy of
our PDF
catalog to get these amazing deals on scholarly and trade titles from
the University of Chicago Press and our distributed publishers. Hurry! Supplies
are limited on some books.
Use code AD1958 on our site to access these great deals.
Sale ends June 15, 2022.
Beyond Masculinist
Ideals of Resistance online workshop, 2-3 June, 18:00 CEST
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/beyond-masculinist-ideals-of-resistance-tickets-315264634007
This workshop aims to rethink resistance beyond the
masculinist imaginary by delving into the ambiguities of women’s resistance
experience. It explores how women resisters have confronted the moral dilemmas
that stem from their context-specific vulnerabilities and how their actions
have reframed the repressive understandings of sexual difference. The purpose
of this examination is to contest the oppressive implications of hegemonic
visions of resistance and challenge the perpetuation of gender hierarchies
after the supposedly emancipatory moment of resistance has passed. The workshop
fosters an interdisciplinary conversation between scholars working in the
fields of social and political theory, gender studies, memory politics,
sociology, history, and literature.
Contact Email: masa.mrovlje@univie.ac.at
Colloquium
Biopoliticum (virtual seminar)
https://colloquiumbiopoliticum.com/
Thursday, May 19, 14.30–17.00 EEST (Helsinki time)
The Colloquium Biopoliticum is a periodic academic event
during which researchers discuss work in progress and recent developments in
the field of biopolitics.
Programme
14.30: Opening Remarks
14.35–15.20: Mika Ojakangas (Jyväskylä): On the Reasons
Why Agamben Is Not a Theorist of Biopolitics
15.25–16.10: Jussi Backman (Jyväskylä): On the
(Meta)biopolitics of Happiness
16.15–17.00: S.M. Amadae (Helsinki): The Biopolitics of
Violence
Please, email marco.piasentier@gmail.com for
the Zoom link.
What Are You Going to
Do with That? Podcast
https://www.studythehumanities.org/podcast
Each episode traces a unique pathway from a humanities major
to careers in law, public health, finance, technology, museums, public
relations, and high-end food production while emphasizing a broader theme that
applies across humanities disciplines and industries. These stories debunk
widespread misconceptions about humanities majors’ career prospects by
highlighting some of the limitless possibilities for applying humanities
knowledge and skills in today’s workforce.
Study the Humanities Toolkit: https://www.studythehumanities.org/toolkit
Compassionate
Leadership for School Belonging open-access eBook
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/171324
In Compassionate
Leadership for School Belonging, international scholar and practitioner Kathryn
Riley shines the powerful lens of belonging on schools. Belonging is that sense
of being somewhere you can be confident you will fit in and feel safe in your
identity: a feeling of being at home in a place. When belonging is a school’s
guiding principle more young people at all levels experience a sense of
connectedness and friendship, perform better academically, and come to believe
in themselves; their teachers feel more professionally fulfilled, their
families more accepted.
Disability Research Mentorship
Program for Black Graduate Students
CQL | The Council on Quality and Leadership research
Mentorship Program aims to provide Black students with opportunities to build
up their resumes with research publications. This Mentorship Program provides
students with access to data and helps students develop a peer-review journal
article using this data. Our hope is that by the end of the Mentorship Program
students will have an accepted/in-press journal article (sole or first author)
which they can add to their CV. Students will also have an opportunity to
present their work if they wish to do so.
Contact Email: cfriedman@thecouncil.org
