Ecocriticism and Sustainability Graduate Student Conference
14-15 October 2022, hybrid
The Anthropocene, a new geological epoch proposed by Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer in 2000, highlights the detrimental human impact on the planet. The Covid-19 pandemic and climate change have become arguably two of the most concrete and destructive examples of human-centric life. The consequences of the pandemic and climate change have also underlined otherwise less evident dichotomies such as human/non-human and nature/culture. In recent years, the inequalities between these binaries, as well as the malign effects of human-oriented life have become an even more prominent focus for scholars in diverse fields such as cultural studies, philosophy, history, literature, and sociology.
Abstract Deadline: 7 September 2022
Contact Email: graduateconference2022@gmail.com
NeMLA 2023
Abstract deadline Sept. 30
Resilience, Failure, and Academic Identity
This roundtable session is interested in resilience as a form of individual emotional labor that, like all emotional labor according to Arlie Russell Hochschild, places unequal demands on faculty who are untenured, contingent, or who identify in historically-marginalized identity categories. Neoliberal capitalist labor markets can manipulate resilience to keep academics who identify in historically-marginalized identity groups focused on our individual abilities to bounce back after an academic failure, instead of demanding change in unsustainable workplaces or to discriminatory peer review processes. How and why do we fail and when is it ok to admit our academic failures? How and when do narratives of resilience demand that we rewrite failures into successes? Can we refuse resilience? Are calls to bounce back after a rejection akin to a mythology of women trying to “have it all”
Please submit 200-word abstract and a brief bio to the NeMLA portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19926
Contact Email: kaminerv@utica.edu
Human(ities) Matters: Academia, Community, and Civic Life (Roundtable)
This roundtable seeks to bridge traditional notions of academic humanities with the material needs of communities and civic life to advance the possibility that academia and the fields outside it are not mutually exclusive but can be mutually beneficial. To this end, we invite participants who are actively engaged in both academic and non-academic practices, as well as also those with advanced academic degrees but who have since transitioned to fields such as policy, advocacy, commercial publishing, analytic journalism, cultural production, entertainment media, for-profit research, and non-profit organizations, among others.
Submit abstracts here directly: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19925.
email: cylagan2@uwo.ca
The Power of Refusal: Creating and Identifying Spaces for Love and Care
This seminar builds on successful seminars from the past three years on the roles and limits of narrative in bearing witness to trauma and injustice. This year, we explore refusal, whether in narrative, art, or literary criticism, as a strategic tool for resistance and a foundation for love and care, even as it produces discomfort. We are particularly interested in deliberate, visible forms of refusal. Some examples include: silences that gesture towards but refuse to tell certain stories; critical refusal of dominant theoretical frameworks to fill the silences and gaps created in texts. Building on this formulation, we ask how artistic and critical refusals can challenge unjust power relations to generate communities of care through traditional and innovative forms, genres, commitments, and relationships. What formal strategies refuse restrictive narratives and make space for love and care?
Please submit 200-word abstract to the NeMLA submission page: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19929
Contact Email: kaminerv@utica.edu
Becoming-Transhuman: The Machine Is Us (And the dash is Deleuzian)
Continuing an ongoing philosophical conversation about the order of rank and value, media theorist and evolutionary biologist Donna Haraway states in A Cyborg Manifesto that the classifications of human, machine, and animal species blur if one examines them at the genetic or molecular level; the order and rank of human supremacy dissolves. In the late 19th century following the acceptance of Darwin’s theory of evolution, how were the fuzzy lines between humans, animals, and machines drawn and by whom? At what point do we, as humans, become transhuman—enhanced by technology? Becoming-Transhuman: The Machine Is Us calls for papers focusing on how classifications of human, machine, animal species blur in the twenty-first century. Scholars are invited to present explorations of practical and controversial applications of transhumanism, such as vaccines, prosthetic extensions of the body, bioengineering of life, cochlear implants, transgender or transracial identity, sentient cars, communication with animals, and immortality research.
Please submit 200-word abstract to the NeMLA submission page: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19858
Contact Email: amandalongstudio@gmail.com
Horror, Capitalism, and the Cinematic Representation of Class Structure
Following generative discussions unveiling the potentiality of reading the horror genre through the lens of class analysis, this seminar invites contributions that highlight the role of racial and heteropatriarchal capitalism in cinematic horror narratives. Together with seminar participants, we are interested in adding a novel line of inquiry, which perhaps has not been thoroughly explored, to the rich theoretical scholarship that has grown around the horror genre. Echoing Mark Steven (2017), we will ask: How are contemporary horror movies responding, absorbing, or resisting the dynamics of capitalism beyond a liberal understanding of identity politics?
Please submit an abstract of 200 to 250 words describing your proposed seminar paper by September 30th, 2022, to the submission page: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20059.
Should you have any questions, please contact Valeria Dani (vd76@cornell.edu) and Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso (yuste-alonso@hendrix.edu).
The Remnants of Plato’s Cave – From Imprisonment and Ideology to Resilience
Plato used the allegory for a specific purpose — to defend the need for education and philosophy. It is undeniable that in a society we are to a certain extent prisoners bound by ideologies, cultures and devices introduced in the century of digitalization. So, what happened to the cave today? Has the allegory lost its relevance, or have its implications multiplied? There are myriad ways of addressing and approaching this development of culture and society in the 21st century. We will welcome any approach that explores allegory in the context of modern culture, such as psychoanalytical, hermeneutical, or feministic representations and the development of culture in Literature and Cinema.
All proposals must be submitted through NeMLA´s online portal at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP by September 30.
Contact Email: tschmid5@binghamton.edu
Managing Milestones: Navigating Grad School’s Hidden Curriculum
The existence of a hidden curriculum perhaps begs the question: if such knowledge and skills are so important to every graduate student’s success, why are they hidden to begin with? In the complex world of academia, success requires that every graduate student pick up certain competencies that seasoned scholars master but usually take for granted, or which are otherwise considered as the least pragmatic investment of time and training. This belies the asymmetrical ways that academic culture operates, setting up for success those few who have an inkling of how things work while systematizing barriers that hinder others. This GSC-sponsored roundtable session thus hopes to help demystify the myriad ways that the hidden curriculum of grad school might pose unnecessary challenges to graduate student success, while also capitalizing on the wisdom of experience of those who have engaged with and successfully overcome such institutional barriers
Please submit proposals directly to: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19907
email: cylagan2@uwo.ca
Gender and Sexuality Writing Collective
https://www.sas.rochester.edu/gsw/graduate/writingcollective/
The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester will hold a two-day writing collective on October 21-22, 2022. The writing collective will provide a lively platform for graduate students, early career researchers, and independent scholars to workshop a paper with peers and faculty from multiple institutions. This event is intended as an opportunity for graduate students to consider issues pertaining to gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability. Participants will engage with one another in interdisciplinary discussions led by established scholars in the humanities, arts, and social sciences whose experience and outstanding research in their respective fields will benefit and help shape the papers. We welcome emerging scholars to join us in this program of events that includes writing workshops, a panel on publishing, and a dinner reception.
Please submit your paper (6,000-10,000 words) along with a brief biographical statement including your broader research interest(s) in Word or PDF format by June 30, 2022, to the graduate organizing committee at sbaiwritingcollective@gmail.com.
"Digital Histories" Graduate Conference
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10416543/digital-histories-graduate-conference
November 4-5, 2022, Brown University
What is the digital? Is it discontinuous signals, binary code, discrete symbols? Is it a logic that manages networks, labor, and cultural production? Is it a continuation of technologies of organization and oppression coterminous with the project of Western modernity? Just as we ask “what is the digital?” we also ask: “what is history?” It is our contention that these questions are intertwined: the discontinuity that is often said to characterize the digital poses a challenge to the historical as a normative disciplinary form. If the production of historical knowledge within the academy hinges on linear, narrative storytelling – including but not limited to tenure lines awarded to those able to author monographs – can such histories adequately attend to digitality? “Digital Histories,” the Department of Modern Culture and Media’s inaugural Graduate Student Conference, emerges from these questions.
Interested graduate students should submit abstracts (maximum 300 words) – along with short biographies (maximum 150 words) – to digitalhistoriesmcm@gmail.com by July 31st, 2022
PUBLICATIONS
‘Stars and Franchises’ Edited Collection
This edited collection seeks to examine the intersections between two significant media systems: stardom and the franchise. It will explore the convergences, tensions and inter-dependences that star-driven texts and franchise cultures have constantly negotiated within the entertainment industry, on a global, historical and multiplatform scale. It aims to analyse franchise sites and strategies as significant nexus where an understanding of stars is created, managed and interpreted, and to analyse the place and value of the star to media franchise production. While the subject matter will undoubtedly attract scholars interested in exploring the increased dominance of franchise cinema as Hollywood’s primary mode of production, and this is something that we wholeheartedly encourage, we are also keen to hear from contributors interested in exploring franchises and stars that fall outside of the Anglo-American experience.
Please send abstracts of 300 to 500 words and a brief biographical note of 150 words to s.k.thomas@liverpool.ac.uk by 30th July 2022
Future Genders
This special issue of Visual Resources invites explorations related to the topic of “Future Genders” broadly conceived. The word “future” here rejects what Elizabeth Freeman (2010) calls chrononormativity, expanding it to think about gender(s) across time. We are interested in interdisciplinary scholarship that breaks reliance on existing frameworks, or works to radically reinvigorate gender studies. We are interested in scholarship that engages in visual manifestations of gender outside of traditional media lenses. We are interested in how future gender is informed by genders already lost to us through histories of colonization and white supremacy, and we invite contributions from BIPOC scholars, artists and activists. We are interested in multimedia explorations of this topic framed by thoughtful theoretical engagements. Furthermore, we welcome the submission of experimental writing and artwork for consideration in the journal. To this end we encourage collaboration and are willing to suggest connections should you have a work in progress and are looking for partners within academic and artistic spaces.
Submission Deadline for abstracts: Wednesday 17th August 2022 to futuregenders@gmail.com
Call for Contributions: Environmental Humanities Month
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/environment/2022/06/19/call-for-contributions/
The main goal of the Environmental Humanities Month is to raise awareness about the humanities and social sciences aspects of circularity and humanity’s shift to sustainability by targeting a global audience via scientific and artistic interdisciplinary cross-pollination, and by using local knowledge as well as languages beyond English to amplify vulnerable and marginalized voices of environmental humanities across the globe. Organizers are now soliciting a wide range of humanities and social sciences perspectives on circularity and sustainability to be presented and debated jointly with actors from the arts, civil society, and sciences arenas.
Please send your page long contribution synopsis (or relevant weblink plus brief description) and your short CV to organizers at viktor.pal@helsinki.fi by Monday, 21 August 2022.
Gender, Colonialism & Science: A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Primary Sources
We are seeking contributions to a volume of primary source materials that provide an insight into the many and contested meanings of ‘the environment,’ spanning the period c.1650 to 1950. Our geographic focus is on the regions that were under imperial dominance, with the aim of exploring how colonial expansion reframed the meaning of ‘the environment’ in spaces across the globe with relevance to the British Empire. We seek sources that provide insights into alternative and counter-colonial ways of imagining ‘the environment,’ produced by colonized and/or people marginalized by race, gender, disability, sexuality, socio-economic status, and other categories of identity. This volume will be part of a 5-volume series, “Gender, Colonialism, and Science: A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Primary Sources” from Routledge.
Proposals due to Drs Bridget Keown (BEK76@pitt.edu) Laura Lovett,(LLL49@pitt.edu), and Ayah Nuriddin (an4984@princeton.edu) by December 31, 2022
Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis
https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/story/10.3366/news.2022.06.20.500446
From the COVID-19 pandemic, to the Russian war against Ukraine, to accelerating climate change, to the rise of neo-fascist politics that target racial and ethnic minorities, refugees, and gender minorities, the last several years have found us teaching in times of overlapping crises. For some, recent years have been an introduction to teaching under crisis, while others have been enduring and teaching under such conditions for a long time. For this special issue, “Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis,” we solicit essays that take up the question of how to tackle the challenge of teaching under such constraints.
Deadline for submissions: 31st January 2023
URL: https://www.euppublishing.com/page/ijhac/submissions
Submissions should be sent to: ijhac@fcsh.unl.pt
Historifans: A Digital History Project
https://historifans.org/?p=290
Historifans, a digital history site that focuses on the intersection of historical research and popular culture launched today. The first article is an introduction to what we hope to do with the site: create a space for academics to write about their research and pop culture interests. What's coming next? Articles on Marvel's Thor vs. Sango (and the history of mental health), why Star Wars droids should be leading the Rebel Alliance (based on Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth), Orientalism in Game of Thrones, and so much more. This is our first article, “Don’t everybody thank me at once”: A few historians, an obsession with pop culture, and the creation of (yet another) digital history site," by Dr. Danielle Sanchez, Assistant Professor, Colorado College.
Propose a contribution: https://historifans.org/?page_id=74
Contact Email: dsanchez@coloradocollege.edu
Women, “Failure” and Academia Post-2020
This collection will explore the situation of women in the post-2020 academy, while taking a counterintuitive lens that privileges failures rather than successes. Instead of celebrating successes or providing habitual lists of academic achievements, we aim to examine the unfinished, the unattained, the unconventional—that which doesn’t fit neatly and tidily into a narrative of modern academia and academic life. Taking Jack Halberstam’s theorisation of failure in The Queer Art of Failure (2011) as our starting point, we are interested in the purposeless, the culturally anarchic, the quirky in post-2020 academia and women’s position in it. The present co-edited collection will, thus, explore the present academic moment: Where are we going? Indeed, are we going anywhere? Do universities have a future? And women in them? And if so, what is such present and such future?
Please send us your abstracts (200-300 words) and a short biographical note (100 words) before 15 September 2022 to Dr Marina Cano (marina.cano@hivolda.no) and Dr Rosa García-Periago (rosagperiago@um.es).
Fix It Fics: Challenging the Status Quo through Fan Fiction
Sometimes it is for fans to alter storylines that were dissatisfying to viewers and readers, or to account for the sudden death of a beloved character. Recently, fix it fics have been essential to writing as a form of activism in how fan fiction addresses an original creator’s missteps that result in the harm or degradation of others. In other words, fan fiction reimagines the status quo. This edited collection of essays is seeking chapters that consider fan fiction as a force for change, a response to trauma, and a way of encouraging inclusivity. It will also consider how performed fan fiction, or fan fiction acknowledged by the original creators impacts fandom canon.
Please submit 1-page proposals and a short biography to Kaitlin Tonti at ktonti2@gmail.com by Sept. 22, 2022.
Global Movements for Civil Rights: A Retrospective
As we approach the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the New England Journal of History is seeking papers to create a special issue journal to cover topics relating to Civil Rights of the early 1960s for our Fall 2024 edition. How did civil rights flourish in not only the United States, but other nations? How have we expanded our understanding of the international implications of the Civil Rights Movement? What people have moved into the historical portrait of this time that have been previously unknown? How did civil rights translate among diverse populations? Submit your article proposals for our special Fall 2024 edition focusing on the Civil Rights Movement in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Contact Email: editors@nejh.org
Black Witches & Queer Ghosts: Disrupting Norms in Supernatural Teen Serials
While fascination with the supernatural has an extensive history, combining teen subjects and audiences with supernatural topics is a fairly contemporary form of entertainment. Serials like Teen Wolf, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and the Vampire Diaries center their narratives on supernatural subjects while occasionally addressing topics that are relevant to teen audiences. Despite the gains made in media regarding inclusion, there are instances when topics, such as race, gender, and sexuality, are avoided in teen serials, which, it may be argued, should be safe spaces where addressing these subjects is most needed. This collection seeks to examine instances in teen supernatural serials that effectively address socially relevant topics, exploring how these subjects are broached while adhering to the overarching theme, and to explore instances in which these serials avoid social issues, opting instead to perform an erasure of any theme that might stray from an ‘American family values’ perspective.
Abstract/Bio/References due November 1, 2022
email: calexander@tuskegee.edu
INDIGENOUS GAZE: Decolonising Visual Cultures
https://archivopapersjournal.com/ojs/index.php/apj/announcement/view/3
The editors of Archivo Papers Journal are pleased to announce the third volume: “Indigenous Gaze: Decolonising Visual Cultures“. This volume aims at drawing attention to the diversity in the meaning of the image beyond the Occidental visual culture and opening a space to discuss alternative sensitivities, aesthetics, meanings, and contexts in photography, filmmaking and animation. It wishes to address the historical, cultural, social, and ontological injustices and disparities embedded within colonial reality, its mentality and the gaze ingrained in it. Interested parties should submit their proposals online by registering at www.archivopapersjournal.com.
Submission deadline – 15 October 2022
Archiving the Anthropocene: New Taxonomies Between Art And Science
Since its initial formulation and popularization in the public sphere, the Anthropocene thesis has triggered several critical debates across scientific disciplines and artistic practices, which have included non-anthropocentric and decolonial perspectives, critiques of species thinking and extractive economies, and insights from political ecology and the natural sciences. While scientific institutions have increasingly initiated collaborations with artists and designers, visual artists from different geographies and traditions have creatively engaged with the geological and planetary imaginaries mobilized by the ‘epoch of man’. They have done so by maintaining a critical relationship with the forms of knowledge reproduced by geoscientific research and communication.
30 September 2022: deadline for submission of abstracts
Contact Email: emiliano.guaraldo@unive.it
Figures of Freedom in Anthropocene Fiction
We are soliciting chapters for a forthcoming book, Figures of Freedom in Anthropocene Fiction, a collection of essays examining how American literary, filmic, and televisual narratives have represented and reimagined themes of personal and political agency within the context of 21st-century aspirations and anxieties. The goal of this book will be to unpack what 21st-century American narratives can teach us about how the idea of freedom has been expanded, distorted, extinguished, and/or reconstituted in contemporary fiction.
Please send 300-word chapter proposals to Randy Laist at rlaist@bridgeport.edu by September 1, 2022.
My body, my choice: transnational visual activism for women’s reproductive rights
Call for chapter contributions to the edited book (to be submitted for consideration with Routledge) provisionally entitled My body, my choice: transnational visual activism for women’s reproductive rights. This book interrogates how contemporary feminist visual activist and artivist practice enables the United Nations’ and European Union’s values and goals concerning gender equality and women’s reproductive rights to be achieved while acknowledging and respecting women’s agency, active citizenship and democracy. Feminist visual activism cultivates forms of creativity that emerge from embodied, lived, performative and ethical orientations, welcoming practices of ontological re-viewing and re-doing otherwise for social justice. The book focuses on feminist care as instrumental for democracy and social justice while examining ways in which the visual can articulate, advocate and enable women’s reproductive rights via specific methods, strategies, tactics and methodologies employed locally and transnationally.
Please send proposals to: bsliwinska@fcsh.unl.pt by July 24th 2022.
Digital Games and/as Theatre: Retooling Entertainment, Art, Learning
This volume seeks to probe into the question of why there are good reasons for theatre to be chosen as one of the basic reference models to study digital games (including MMORPGs). More generally, it sets about to explore affinities and intersections between theatre—analogue, digital, or mixed—and digital games of various kinds, as well as the benefits that the theatre-digital games alliance entails for both sides of the hyphen, and for the social domains of entertainment, art, and learning in which both are involved and which both affect.
Please send a well-developed abstract of 300–500 words and a biographical note of 150–200 words to Dr. Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou (aikaterini@enl.auth.gr) and Dr. Dimitra Nikolaidou (d.nicolaidou@gmail.com) by November 30, 2022.
Online Education During a Time of Emergency: Conditions, Contexts, and Critiques
The Edited Volume is intended to explore perspectives on online education, especially after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in 2019, to broaden and deepen readers’ understandings of how research might better address academic issues relating to educating online. When the pandemic triggered the disruption of national educational systems and a rapid transition to online education, there were no guidelines on how to proceed; specifically, the role of educational technologies and distinctions between formal and informal learning remained unclear (Greenhow & Lewin, 2016). This Volume will examine how educators adopted new pedagogical practices, adjusted to flexible working environments and tackled new technologies to keep education systems going following the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic. The focus will be on showcasing innovative practices and reflecting on learning theories in online education.
Submission of abstract: August 31, 2022
email: pdavies@pmu.edu.sa
American Apocalypses
https://acyig.americananthro.org/neosvol14iss1sp22/fall2022cfp/
NEOS welcomes submissions for the Fall 2022 issue: Doing and Undoing "Family" in Uncertain Times. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, refugee displacement, border detention, the effects of climate change, U.S. attacks against transgender youth, and the confirmation of unmarked child graves at former Indian Residential Schools, family continues to be a site of uncertainty, struggle, and hope for children and youth. This upcoming issue will reposition classical anthropological questions focused on the formation of family and cultivation of kinship by applying contemporary, critical, and interdisciplinary lenses toward how family is done and undone in highly uncertain and unequal times. We seek pieces that explore the constructions, practices, beliefs, and values that lead to and maintain family formations and configurations and how these may be influenced by historical, cultural, political, and economic structures.
The NEOS Editorial Team may be reached at acyig.editor@gmail.com.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Scholarships for Native Students
https://www.nativeforward.org/about-us/
Native Forward Scholars Fund is the largest scholarship provider to Native students in the U.S. We award approximately $15 million in scholarships annually and have awarded over $350 million since our inception. We provide financial support for American Indians and Alaska Natives seeking higher education and support them in obtaining undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. We partner with Tribes, the federal government, foundations, corporations, and individuals to ensure the growth and sustainability of scholarships.
Native Forward offers a range of resources for Native students: https://www.nativeforward.org/native-forward-student-center/
Bibliographical Society of America’s New Scholars Program
https://bibsocamer.org/awards/new-scholars-program/
The Bibliographical Society of America’s New Scholars Program promotes the work of scholars new to bibliography, broadly defined to include the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, and subsequent history of all textual artifacts. This includes manuscript, print, and digital media, from clay and stone to laptops and iPads. The committee strongly encourages applications from those who have not previously published, lectured, or taught on bibliographical subjects. Bibliographical scholarship pursuing new methods and new approaches, including applications from candidates applying bibliographical theory and principles to diverse materials and media, is welcome.
Apply by September 2, 2022
Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to Barbara E. Heritage, Chair, New Scholars Program, at new.scholars@bibsocamer.org.
William Way LGBT Community Center fellowships
William Way LGBT Community Center is offering four $1,500 fellowships for conducting research in its John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives in Philadelphia, PA. Fellowships are available to researchers and/or research topics representing women, people of color, and/or trans and gender non-conforming individuals or communities. Researchers at all levels will be considered. The fellowships will cover research conducted over a period of at least one week (five days) between September 15 and December 15, 2022. Applicants are encouraged to review the Archives’ holdings and to inquire about the Archives ability to support the proposed topic. While the primary research should take place in our Archives, the resources of our LGBTQ lending library will be available to fellows as well.
deadline August 15, 2022
Please email archives@waygay.org if you’d like to discuss your proposed project in advance of your application.
Climate Change in Historical Perspective Grants CFP
https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/scholarship/centers/lepage-center.html
The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University seeks proposals for public-facing historical projects related to the theme of “Climate Change in Historical Perspective.” The Center will fund up to five projects (up to $5,000) that creatively engage with the broad range of questions, concerns, policies and practices related to climate change, and how historical study can further public understanding of the present moment.
Proposals are due Aug. 31, 2022.
Contact Email: lepage@villanova.edu
Immigration History Research Grant
https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/ihrca/grant-aid-award
The Immigration History Research Center Archives (IHRCA) offers Grant-in-Aid Awards to support a visit in order to conduct research in our collections. This award is open to researchers of all disciplines, backgrounds, and levels of training, and is intended to support a research visit of 5 days. This award will prioritize applicants who identify as people of color, as well as those who identify as members of groups historically marginalized in academia and archives.
Applications must be received by September 1, 2022 to ihrca@umn.edu.
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Invisible Histories Project Graduate Internship Opportunities
The Invisible Histories Project (IHP) is 501(c)3 nonprofit located in Birmingham, AL that locates, collects, preserves, researches and creates educational events around LGBTQ history in the Deep South. You can learn more about IHP at www.invisiblehistory.org. IHP offers semester based internships for graduate students to earn course credit or practicum experience. There are a number of different virtual and in-person internship possibilities available; learn about internships here and inquire about an internship here: contact@invisiblehistory.org.
University of Pennsylvania, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/andrew-w-mellon-postdoctoral-fellowship-humanities
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are available to junior scholars in the humanities who are no more than five years out of their doctorate. The programs of the Wolf Humanities Center are conceived through yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. For the 2023–2024 academic year, our topic will be Revolution. The Wolf Humanities Center is keen to support projects that contribute to the dismantling of all forms of racial, gender, and other discrimination as they exist within the humanities. We know that such efforts can take an infinite variety of forms, and we encourage you to include in the course of your application an explanation of how your scholarship contributes to this effort if it does.
Application Deadline: November 1, 2022
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Society of Fellows
https://societyoffellows.umich.edu/the-fellowship/application-guidelines/
The Michigan Society of Fellows was founded in 1970 through grants from the Ford Foundation and Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies for the purpose of promoting academic and creative excellence in the humanities, the arts, the social, physical, and life sciences, and in the professions. The objective of the Society is to provide financial and intellectual support for individuals holding advanced degrees in their fields, who are selected for their outstanding achievement, professional promise, and interdisciplinary interests. Applicants from the following disciplines will not be considered this year: American Culture, Anthropology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Music, or Nursing.
The application deadline is Thursday, September 15, 2022, 1:00 PM EDT.
Cornell University, Society for the Humanities
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/21965
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University invites applications for residential fellowships from scholars and artists whose projects reflect on the 2023-24 theme of Crossing. Up to six fellows will be appointed. The fellowships are held for one year. Crossing begins by opening a possibility: to meet or to pass by, to encounter in a spirit of collaboration or conflict. Like an X on a map, crossing marks both a place and a process, an intersection and a journey. Crossing entails navigating borders between states on scales ranging from the cellular to the geopolitical. As the embodiment of movement, crossing creates opportunity and transition, continuity and contact, collision and negation, while its infrastructures implicate objects, channels, and traces in the passage of bodies and ideas.
deadline: September 20, 2022
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Digital Intimacy: Young Women and Social Transformation in Asia
https://culturalresearch.center/Digital-Intimacy-mini-symposia-series
How do young women understand and experience intimacy in the age of social media? Are their experiences qualitatively different after the millennial turn and the rapid expansion of digital technologies? What impact do these digital experiences and understanding of intimacy have on how millennial subjects experience, understand, and negotiate social relations in globalizing Asia? This mini-symposia series aims to throw new light on emerging practices of digital intimacy, with specific reference to how young, college-going women cultivate digital personae of their selves, and how such personae forge new ways of negotiating and navigating the realms of (a) courtship/marriage, (b) kinship/family and (c) tertiary education
Webinar: Teaching the Impact of Overturning Roe v Wade
Legends of Drag: Queens of a Certain Age: A Conversation with Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legends-of-drag-queens-of-a-certain-age-tickets-373334994017
July 26, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Join PORTAL, the National Portrait Gallery’s Scholarly Center, for a conversation with artist Harry James Hanson and writer Devin Antheus, the authors of Legends of Drag: Queens of a Certain Age. This event will chart the history of drag from the margins of society to the mainstream, celebrate the lives behind the images, and explore the techniques and unique floral designs behind the portraits.
Contact Email: JacksonPJ@si.edu
Successfully Turn Your Dissertation into a Book or Series of Articles
https://www.aclang.com/event/handbook-for-academic-authors-july-27-2022/?src=H-Women
July 27 1:30 PM EDT on Zoom
The jump from dissertation to publication involves multiple stages and a critical shift in mindset on who your writing should be directed towards. Beth Luey, author of the book Handbook for Academic Authors (Cambridge University Press) and founder and director of the Scholarly Publishing Program at Arizona will provide insight on:
The main differences between writing for your advisors and writing for a general academic audience
Insight on combatting writer's block and isolation while writing
Tips to cut your dissertation’s material down
Outlets to turn to for support along the writing journeState University, has extensive experience supporting academics who made this leap.
South Asian American Digital Archive
SAADA is a community-based culture change organization ensuring that South Asian Americans are included in the American story: past, present, and future. They offer a number of resources, including publications, funding for archiving, and storytelling initiatives.
Gender and Surveillance
https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/issue/view/1124
The most recent issue of the Review of International American Studies on the topic of gender and surveillance, guest-edited by Molly Geidel and J.D. Schnepf, is now available online. The essays in the first half of this issue highlight how a focus on the gendered surveillance associated with US imperialism—its practices, logics, and lexicon—can shed new light on the discursive formation of genders, sexualities, and feminisms in the age of the war on terrorism. Essays in the second half of the issue explore racialized and gendered forms of surveillance that generate new permutations of hypervisibility and invisibility.
New Podcast about Sex, History, and Healthcare
Announcing the launch of “This Is Probably A Really Weird Question,” a podcast in which Dr. Ronni Hayon, a family physician who specializes in trans healthcare, and Rebecca Davis, who writes and teaches about the history of sexuality, answer those not-at-all-weird questions they hear from patients, students, and colleagues about bodies, sexuality, health, and history. Please visit our website, www.reallyweirdquestion.com, follow us on Twitter @areallyweirdpod and/or on Instagram @reallyweirdquestionpod. New episodes every month. Available on all the major podcast hosting services; you can also stream episodes here: https://www.reallyweirdquestion.com/episodes.
Open access book: The Inclusion Illusion
UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of The Inclusion Illus ion. Based on the UK’s largest observation study of pupils with high-level SEND, The Inclusion Illusion exposes how attendance at a mainstream school is no guarantee of receiving a mainstream education. Observations of nearly 1,500 lessons in English schools show that their everyday experience of school is characterised by separation and segregation. Furthermore, interviews with nearly 500 pupils, parents and school staff reveal the effect of this marginalisation on the quality of their education. The way schools are organised and how classrooms are composed creates a form of ‘structural exclusion’ that preserves mainstream education for typically-developing pupils and justifies a diluted pedagogical offer for pupils with high-level SEND. Policymakers, not mainstream schools, are indicted over this state of affairs. This book prompts questions about what we think inclusion is and what it looks like. Ultimately, it suggests why a more authentic form of inclusion is needed, and how it might be achieved.
