CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Launching
Collaborations and (Re)building Community in Our Fields
https://louisville.edu/conference/watson/2024-watson-conference
Feb. 28-Fri., Mar. 1, 2024
From our classrooms to source use in our writing to the
feedback we receive from and provide to mentors and peers, our work as writing
and rhetoric teacher-scholars is inherently social. Yet there is something
uniquely meaningful about creating a shared text, project, or event with
others. And some of the charged possibilities of collaboration that do exist
have been stolen or disrupted. The many pandemics afflicting our world have
wrought and revealed new and longstanding harms; among these is the fracturing
of the professional networks and relationships that should form the bedrock of
our work. Recognizing the joys and challenges of collaboration in our field,
and the professional ruptures forced or exposed by our current moment, the 2024
Watson Conference seeks to sponsor a number of collaborative projects to which
participation can be open and more widely accessible.
Deadline for Participants to Apply to Join a Project:
Sunday, January 7, 11:59 p.m.
Questions? Email watson@louisville.edu.
Latin American and Latinx Art and Visual Culture
Dissertation Workshop
https://sites.utexas.edu/clavis/islaa-forum/
The Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS) and
the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) are pleased to announce
the third convening of the ISLAA Forum: Latin American and Latinx Art and
Visual Culture Dissertation Workshop, to take place at the University of Texas
at Austin on April 4-6, 2024. This 3-day program invites up to 6 doctoral
students to develop their dissertation chapter manuscripts with a group of
scholars with a variety of geographic, thematic, and methodological interests. We
are especially interested in hearing from emerging scholars working on Black,
Indigenous, feminist, queer, Central American, and Caribbean projects. We also
want to hear from scholars from communities historically underrepresented in
academia and from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Application deadline: January 7, 2024
Contact Email gflaherty@austin.utexas.edu
Consilience 2024
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20014426/cfp-consilience-2024
Every year, Dalhousie’s Graduate History Society hosts a
conference to foster critical thinking and meaningful discussion on the
discipline. This year’s theme of consilience hopes to spark discussion on the
importance of interdisciplinary research. The importance of consilience is
fostering a dialogue between disciplines that traditionally have little
interaction. The 25th annual conference will be a hybrid event in Halifax at
Dalhousie University. Consilience will consider graduate-level papers in any
area of study featuring an overlap with history.
Dalhousie Graduate History Society (DGHS): dalconsilience@gmail.com
The Humanities Project 2024: [Re] Telling Our Stories
https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/hera/conference/
March, 6 - 9 at San Francisco State University
Submissions are encouraged from educators at all levels
(including undergraduate/graduate students) as well as all those with an
interest in the arts and humanities. Proposals for papers, panels, or workshops
(150-200 words) must be submitted through the conference e-submission links
below. Submissions are processed on a first come, first serve basis and
decision notifications will be sent out within one to two weeks from
submission.
Contact Email mgreen@sfsu.edu
Text Under Pressure
https://textualsociety.org/2024-conference-text-under-pressure/
University of Tulsa, June 6-8, 2024
In this setting, steeped in many varieties of cultural
encounter and collision, marked by repression, assertion, protest, and
celebration, it is fitting that we explore the textuality of pressure. Pressure
flattens, coerces, contains, and restrains–forces that can precipitate
paradoxical responses: collapse, transformation, resistance, liberation. Texts
manifest many varieties of creative, social, and political pressure in their
expressive content and form. But text is also often a matter of technological pressure:
printing techniques rely on the pressure of a platen, for example. Such
pressurized circumstances, symbolic and material, reveal core issues of textual
production, circulation, reception, and contestation. In addition to proposals
related to the conference theme, STS welcomes proposals on all aspects of
textual scholarship.
All proposals due:
February 16, 2024
Contested Ground:
Claiming and Reclaiming Territory in History
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20015117/graduate-history-conference-umass-amherst
The Graduate History Association of the University of
Massachusetts Amherst invites paper proposals for its 20th annual historically
grounded, interdisciplinary conference. This year’s conference is entitled
"Contested Ground: Claiming and Reclaiming Territory in History" and
will take place on our campus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from
April 5-6th, 2024. This conference seeks to bring graduate students together to
consider how historical actors have claimed and fought for spaces across
settings varying from hyperlocal to global. We invite conference participants
to think expansively about borders – physical, political, and cultural–
considering issues of imperialism, racism and prejudice, and identity
formation. We encourage papers to engage with the question of how historians
might connect these topics to modern-day issues of justice and injustice, such as
colonial land occupation, state and national politics, and identity across
borders.
Proposals from graduate students of 200-300 words will be
accepted until January 15, 2024. Submit proposals using this form: https://forms.gle/88etRSCpEi7L5FDk9.
Contact Email ghapage@umass.edu
Developing Room
Graduate Colloquium: (Un)archived: Photography Against/Along the Grain of
Absence in Global Asias
https://www.developingroom.com/event/the-developing-room-eighth-graduate-student-colloquium
New York University
April 26th, 2024
Deadline for application: January 15, 2024
We invite doctoral students—at any stage and from any field
of study—whose research critically engages with photography in/as/and/against
the archive around the issues of Asia and its diasporas. The colloquium will
open with a keynote speech, and each graduate participant will give a 20 to
25-minute presentation and engage in a faculty-led panel discussion. Selected
papers will also be considered for publication in positions politics, the
online platform of positions.
Contact Email developingroom@gmail.com
Continuities,
Ruptures, Resurgences: Still in Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
https://inside.southernct.edu/womens-and-gender-studies/wgs-2024/call-for-papers
Five decades after the publication of Alice Walker’s
womanist essays "In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens," her eponymous
essay (originally published in 1972) continues to be a beckon call, a vision
for those of us engaged in feminist studies and intersectional justice work. Fifty
plus years later, we are still in search of our mothers’ gardens, sites and
sources of our nourishment. Urged by Walker’s search and guided by
Haudenosaunee and other Black, Indigenous, Latinx, women of color, and queer
feminist visionaries (“for the next seven generations”), we ask ourselves
questions for our collective futures. The 2024 Women’s & Gender Studies
(WGS) Conference at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) offers a
critical space and place for a two-day inquiry across differences and
communities into the intersections of gender, race, communities, and
institutions.
Submit proposals (150-250 words) to WGS@southernct.edu by January 18, 2024.
Gender and the Public
Sphere
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/12/13/gender-and-the-public-sphere
April 11, 2024, Lubbock, Texas
Texas Tech University’s 40th Women’s & Gender Studies
annual spring conference, to be
held on April 11, 2024, invites submissions on the theme
Gender and The Public Sphere.
Organizers seek proposals for individual papers or panels on
topics related to gendered public
discourses, the representations of gender in public life and
popular culture, and all the nuanced
meanings of Jurgen Habermas’s twentieth-century concept of
the “public sphere” as it relates to
emerging research on gender and sexuality.
Please use this
link to submit a 500-word abstract or panel proposal by 5 p.m. on Friday,
February 2, 2024.
email: Miglena.Sternadori@ttu.edu
Care Feminisms, Crip
Futures
https://wgssouth.org/conference
University of South Carolina Upstate - Spartanburg, SC,
March 28 – March 30, 2024
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Dobbs decision,
and recent legislation banning gender-affirming healthcare for transgender
youth in a significant majority of states in the southeastern region, analyses
of public health disparities and the socio-economics of caregiving require our
urgent attention as feminist theorists, educators, and activists. To attend to
these matters, the role of feminist disability studies, crip theory, and care
feminisms in the field of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is arguably
more important than ever. With a broad interest in the work of cripping WGS, we
invite proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtables with a focus on
care feminisms and crip futures. While this topic is a major focus of the
conference, proposals are welcome on all aspects of work in WGS.
Deadline - December 31st, 2023
Strategies of
Critique - Study and Dissent
https://strategiesofcritique.com/
The 2024 Strategies of Critique conference takes its
inspiration from this literature with the theme “Study and Dissent,” asking
what practices can resist the enclosure of knowledge in a perfect circle. What
are the possibilities for practices of what Fred Moten and Stefano Harney have
described as “fugitivity,” extending far beyond the self and beyond the
university? How can knowledge be rethought in opposition to the neoliberal university,
which as Wendy Brown has argued, is a site of the production of human capital;
or according to Dana Olwan and Carol Fadda, a profoundly militarized apparatus
in service of global imperialism? We seek to recognize forms of study that go
beyond institutional classifications of teachers and students, to all those
who, as Alessandro Russo puts it, demonstrate “a desire to think beyond
knowledge” – that is, beyond the reduction of study to textbooks and exams, to
the communication of information that “leaves nothing to think about.”
Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2023
Contact Email strategies.critique@gmail.com
Unsettling
Territories: Fear in Literature and the Arts
Location: School of Arts and Humanities, University of
Lisbon and Online
This seminar, as part of the project Aesthetics of Memory
and Emotions at the Centre for Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and
Humanities of the University of Lisbon, aims to revisit these generating and reconstructive
territories of unease, questioning, through differentiated reading procedures,
their fictional, diegetic, discursive, and aesthetic-literary representations.
It also aims to find, intratextually or in inter-artistic dialogue, strategies
for (de)constructing fear in the universe of the aesthetics of emotions.
Proposals should be submitted by January 10, 2024 to the
email: labirintosdomalflul@gmail.com.
The Ends and Means of
Liberal Education in the Twenty-First Century
https://sites.google.com/mtroyal.ca/liberaleducationconference/home
May 2nd to 4th 2024, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada
The powerful, transformative forces reshaping contemporary
societies both challenge liberal education and provide it with new
opportunities. The Ends and Means of Liberal Education in the Twenty-First
Century conference will explore the relevance and possibilities of
undergraduate liberal education given the advent of artificial intelligence,
digital media, political polarisation, cultural fragmentation, and growing
economic and social instability. But do such conventional notions of liberal
education depend on a vanishing, or perhaps only once imagined, societal
consensus on the identification, meaning and relevance of the things
constituting cultural capital, transferable skills, personal growth, or local
and global citizenship? Have revolutions in technology and economic relations,
together with fast-changing conceptions of the self and social identities,
profoundly challenged both the aims and methods of liberal education?
Please prepare your abstract of no longer than 300 words by
February 29, 2024 to liberal.education@mtroyal.ca.
African
American Studies Biennial Conference
The Ball State African American Studies program and the
Honors College are pleased to announce the hybrid 2nd Midwest Regional African
American Studies Biennial Conference taking place on February 22-23, 2024. The
conference will be virtual with an opportunity to present face-to-face in
Muncie, Indiana.
Love ethic is a concept that originates with bell hooks
(1952-2021) which emphasizes the importance of utilizing all the dimensions of
love (care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect, and knowledge) to
foster a sense urgency in our intrapersonal relationships as well as our
relationships to our communities at large. Centering love ethic within our
classrooms has become more urgent now so than ever in our current moment of
conservative backlash to the teaching of African American Studies and race and
gender studies more generally. Our
program committee is accepting abstracts from scholars, students, and community
members for individual paper presentations and panel sessions that center these
and other related themes and questions.
The deadline for submissions is January 19, 2024.
Contact Information ballstateafamstudies@gmail.com
No Limits! Building
Communities, Resisting Oppressions
8 March 2024
The University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Women and Gender
Studies Program (WGS) welcomes submissions for the 2024 No Limits Student
Research Conference. The past few years have seen an extraordinary shift in our
nation’s politics and culture, both positive and negative. The overturning of
Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court, for example, has injected additional
urgency into both scholarship and activism. There have been certain gains in
LGBTQ+ rights, but we have also witnessed backlash from state and local
governments. Both in the US and globally, women’s economic status and health
declined during the COVID-19 crisis and has not rebounded. This year’s
conference theme invites graduate and undergraduate students to explore the
implications of these changes and challenges. Not all presentations need to
address the conference theme, though they should focus on issues of interest
within women, gender, and sexuality studies.
Submission deadline: by 5 Feb 2024
email: davidpeterso1@unomaha.edu
Glitching Comics
https://comicsstudies.org/css-2024-call-for-papers/
The CSS Conference Committee invites members to join us in
glitching comics. What can errors in production processes of print comics
reveal about systems of racialization? How might digital reading practices
expose industry sexism or ableism? What do creators accomplish when they
embrace glitchy aesthetics? How do comics or comics media that dwell in the
in-between or sit with discomfort help us to refuse violent social norms? How
do marginalized creators take advantage of systemic failures? We recognize the
feedback loop between digital and AFK spaces so we encourage participants to
draw on print or digital comics, comics-related media, or texts that actively
blur these distinctions. The Comics Studies Society invites proposals for
15-minute individual papers, pre-formed panels, media objects (such as critical
making, comics, video, Twine, or performance), and pedagogy or other workshops
that engage with how comics (across forms, genres, media, experiences, regions,
and cultures) disrupt the status quo.
Submit 250-word abstracts via the Google Forms below no
later than 11:59pm Central Time (US) on January 14, 2024.
Please contact the Conference Committee with any questions: comicsstudiesorg@gmail.com
Lessons Learned: Using History in Times of Crisis
https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/calendar/event-detail?eventId=5257
March 29-30, 2024
The role of the historian is to help make sense of the past
and inform the present and future. How we understand the past is subject to different
interpretations, theories, and methodologies that shape how we understand the
field of history. However, in times of crisis, we can learn how to best tell
those stories, but also how people adapted in times of crisis. We call for
proposals and research that address times of crisis and how we can use history
to understand the past. How we make sense of, and what constitutes a crisis
differs for each scholar. With this theme we hope to explore times of crisis
and how our scholarship can grapple with the past and what we can learn from
it.
Submissions will close February 1, 2024
Email: uwmhgsa@gmail.com
The Scholarly In-Between: An Interdisciplinary
Exploration of Culture, Literature, and the Humanities
May 2nd, 2024
This one-day Zoom conference aims to explore the challenges,
rewards and necessities of working between fields, and the ways in which such
an approach can reinvigorate the humanities for our times. One of the promises
of interdisciplinary research is the potential to pull pre-existing but
independent fields into productive conversation with one another. How might new
research methodologies, such as data science and quantitative analysis tools,
produce generative findings in the humanities and established disciplines such
as literature and history? How might finding connections between fields help
broaden the scope of research and make legible new and emerging objects of
study (like social media and video games)?
The deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2024
Contact Email icslacinterface2024@gmail.com
Comics Arts Conference
https://comicsartsconference.wp.txstate.edu/
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word
abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical
perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars
and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 25–28,
2024. We seek proposals from a broad
range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation
of academic and independent scholars.
Proposals for the San
Diego Comic-Con are due February 1.
Contact Email comicsartsconference@gmail.com
CFP Storytelling
for Environmental Futures
https://nordic-envhum.org/anest/cfp-storytelling-for-environmental-futures/
Stavanger, Norway, 7-9 August 2024
Storytelling is how humans make sense of the world. Storytelling
binds together communities, and can tear them apart. Stories are not just
linear tellings in time and space, but can also spiral, cycle, and create
patterns. Stories can be told in words, visuals, and embodied experience. One
of the main goals of storytelling is to recount an obstacle and how it can be
overcome. Facing environmental challenges like climate change, extinction,
pollution, and extractivism needs to take advantage of that kind of
storytelling—and it is precisely the type of analysis that environmental
humanities scholars can provide. “Storytelling for Environmental Futures” wants
to interrogate how storytelling about the future and in service of the future
works. What are these environmental stories? Who is making these stories? Who
is reading/hearing/encountering the stories? Why is this story being told? Who
is carrying the stories?
Deadline to apply is 15 January 2024
Email: Greenhouse@uis.no
Create, Connect, Reflect: Launching Collaborations and
(Re)building Community in Our Fields
https://louisville.edu/conference/watson/2024-watson-conference
The fourteenth biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference in
Rhetoric and Composition will offer a space for launching collaborative
projects and increasing access to participation. Attendees will spend three
days working together on a project, either over Zoom or on-site at the
University of Louisville. The conference will also feature a keynote, showcase,
reflection on the collaborative process, and social activities (including on
Zoom). By the end of the conference, each group will have presented a project
deliverable at the showcase and will be free to continue their collaboration
thereafter. The conference is driven not only by a desire to promote connection
and community and to support shared work that addresses a pressing issue, but
also by a dedication to antiracist and anti-oppressive praxis that will enable
humanizing, rather than alienating, working environments.
The deadline for applications is January 21
Contact Email watson@louisville.edu
Leaning into Liminality: Historical Actors in Transitory
Spaces
https://historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu/46th-annual-susman-conference-cfp-deadline-01-25-24/
The graduate students in the Department of History at Rutgers University invite
proposals for the 46th Annual Warren Susman Graduate Conference, to be held
Friday, April 5th, 2024. We seek papers from graduate students in history and
other disciplines that speak to this year’s theme, Leaning into Liminality:
Historical Actors in Transitory Spaces. Please see the attached Call for Papers
for additional information. The submission deadline is January 25, 2024.
Selected participants will be notified of their acceptance by mid-February.
Please feel free to email at susmanconf@history.rutgers.edu for
more information.
“Consilience”: Exploring History Across the Disciplines
The importance of consilience is fostering a dialogue
between disciplines that traditionally have little interaction. In this case,
the more we know, the more we grow, and this year’s conference intends to
highlight how interdisciplinary approaches to history should be celebrated,
providing a sense of unity in knowledge.
Proposals: January 12
2024
Contact Email dalconsilience@gmail.com
PUBLICATIONS
Transnational Feminist Pedagogy
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20013869/anthology-transnational-feminist-pedagogy
Our edited volume seeks to explore pedagogical adaptations
of transnational feminisms in the classroom– as content, context, and
framework. Building off from transnational feminist work of Inderpal Grewal
& Karen Caplan, Chandra Mohanty, Valentine Moghadam, Richa Nagar, and
others, this anthology addresses the changing landscape of pedagogy and higher
education, in light of the pandemic and associated precarities, rise of
authoritarianism, and the introduction of online learning/generative AI in the
classroom. We are seeking critical essays that challenge and expand the
conceptual underpinnings of transnational feminisms in the classroom and
develop and curate best teaching practices from transnational feminist, queer,
and critical digital pedagogies.
Please send 250/300-word abstracts to
feministpedagogy2023@gmail.com by December 30, 2023.
Writing the Body
Bodies inform our way of being in the world. The human body
can be a site of expression, (mis)identification, or inscription, giving rise
to a myriad of possibilities that transform and are transformed by our
perceptions of the self, connections with others, and the world around us. This
issue of Working Papers in the Humanities explores the ways in which human
bodies are narrated and understood, how they have been marginalised, empowered
or rendered (in)visible, as well as how they uphold and interrogate questions
of normativity.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be
sent, accompanied by a short biographical statement on the same page, to postgrads@mhra.org.uk by 8th January
2024.
‘Care-ful convening: towards low carbon and inclusive
knowledge sharing’
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-environmental-media#call-for-papers
The consequences of human-induced climate change, the
extinction of flora and fauna, pollution, environmental predation, and
injustices are causing a spectrum of constraints, shrinkage, alteration and
loss. In response, people are figuring out how to think, communicate and act
differently to account for damages done by systems whose human,
more-than-human, and planetary harms are fueled by petrocultures. Our call
invites scholars across disciplines to explore the articulation between media
and new forms of collaborative and non-extractive ways of knowledge exchange
and communication. This callout seeks
cracks and opportunities: what does care-ful convening look like considering
the entanglement between platforms and the global supply chains, extractive
industries and capitalist geopolitics that have led to climate breakdown?
Please send us an abstract of up to 250 words and three
keywords no later than 15 January 2024.
Contact Email jzp726@psu.edu
Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation
https://ceraejournal.com/2023/11/29/cerae-volume-11-call-for-papers/
Shifting – or transforming – between states of being is a
feature of human and animal societies as well as of the wider living world and
the cosmos. This act of shifting is experienced through both natural and
unnatural processes and can be seen in all areas of life, from the reproductive
cycles of organisms, to epochal changes undergone by entire societies, and
everything in between. But transformations can also refer to distortions of reality,
both deliberate and accidental, magical or real, as much as they can reflect
genuine changes to an individual, an institution, a landscape, or even a
society. Understanding how one thing becomes another was arguably a feature of
much of medieval and early modern intellectual history – from Isidore to
Aquinas, Albertus Magnus to Descartes and Newtown – and whole schools of
thought could be founded and even wars fought over the differences.
The deadline for themed submissions is 31 March 2024.
Please contact the editor at editorcerae@gmail.com
Special issue on the
“Free Angela Davis” Movement
https://historianscommunism.com/2023/11/27/cfp-free-angela-davis/
The journal welcomes articles, dialogues, notes, and further
comments thereon of 5000-8000 for the special issue "Solidarity Across
Borders: Revisiting the 'Free Angela Davis' Movement and Its Global
Impact."
The “Free Angela Davis” movement of the 1970s was an
international campaign advocating for the release of Angela Davis, a
distinguished Black political activist, scholar, and author. Thanks to this
campaign Angela Davis emerged as an international symbol of resistance against
racial injustice, political repression, and the criminalization of dissent. This
special edition seeks reflections on how this historic moment of global
solidarity influenced different communities politically and personally,
exploring the contemporary relevance of the past, including its limitations and
possibilities.
If you are interested, please send a 250 word abstract to
Tatsiana Shchurko shchurko.1@osu.edu and
Denise Lynn dmlynn1@usi.edu. Abstracts
will be considered until February 1.
Trust, Voting, and
Democracy with Thinking C21
https://uwm.edu/c21/publications/digital-publications/thinking-c21-blog/
Thinking C21, the scholarly online publication
affiliated with the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is delighted to announce its call for short essays
intended for publication during the Spring semester of 2024. Early career
scholars and graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, sciences,
and other disciplines are invited to explore the multifaceted context of our
theme for this academic year, Trust & The Vote.
Proposals should be submitted to c21@uwm.edu
by Dec. 15, 2023.
Contact Email c21@uwm.edu
Women and Food
https://www.welearnwomen.org/womens-perspectives.html
Women’s Perspectives #19 will showcase original writings and
artwork by adult literacy/basic education students across all levels. Student writers and artists are
encouraged to reflect and to share ideas on the theme “Women and Food.” Tell us about your
relationship with food. How is food used in celebration? How is food our
friend? How is food our enemy? How is food part of life? Are there traditional
or special meals that were prepared in your family? How do women contribute to
society through food? Write tips to help others with food preparation,
nutrition, or presentation.
WE LEARN embraces an inclusive definition of “women” that includes
cis-women, trans women, and femme/feminine-identifying gender queer, and
non-binary people.
Deadline: January 31, 2024
Email all submissions to wp@welearnwomen.org
Zoopolitical
Remains: Seeking Interspecies Justice in the History of Western Political
Thought
With this collection we seek to advance our understanding of
interspecies justice and the political obstacles that might stand in the way of
its implementation. With the aim of extending theories of justice and related
political concepts to animals - and dismantling those that are not flexible
enough to encompass animals - the book adopts a view of animals as more than
merely objects of moral concern. Rather, the collection will be committed to a
view of animals as agentic, self-determining, other-regarding beings, who exist
both as individuals and as members of human-nonhuman (political) communities. The
collection aims to reach a wide audience, not only of those interested in the
animal “political turn” and in the history of political thought, but also
political theorists, critical theorists, historians, legal scholars, and
sociologists. In other words, we seek to reach all those who are interested in
the development of political thought, and in considering how animals can inform
their own disciplines and the theoretical commitments that uphold them.
Please submit a summary of 300-400 words to
both editors (serrin.rutledge-prior@anu.edu.au and krebber@uni-kassel.de) by 31
January 2024.
Radical Histories of Decolonization
https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-histories-of-decolonization-due-january-8-2024/
This issue of the Radical History Review seeks to explore
the genealogy of decolonization as a category of analysis and how people have
dreamed and enacted decolonization in past and present. We are interested in
work that reconsiders how decolonization has occurred—as both success and failure—throughout history, including in
geographic areas that fall outside of the twentieth-century paradigm including
Haiti and many parts of Latin America that press into the twenty-first century.
We are interested in questions of how the colonized in overseas colonies,
settler colonies, and informal colonies understood decolonization across
different times and spaces.
Abstract Deadline: January 8, 2024
Contact: contactrhr@gmail.com
Race, Religion, and Ethnicity: Critical Junctures
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/8M09NDLU77
The Special Issue is
dedicated to mapping, interpreting, dis/entangling, and de/constructing the
manifestations, productions, and intertwinements of the categories of race,
religion, and ethnicity. Scholars working on either race, ethnicity, or
religion tend to overlook the manifold interactions between these categories,
leaving the conceptual and empirical intersections between them unclear. This
hinders a critical assessment of the logics of their entanglement or
separation, the work these categories do, and the ways in which they manifest.
We suggest that the interactions between race/religion/ethnicity matter for how
they operate as governmental technologies of states, for how they figure in
people’s hopes and aspirations, and for how they allow for certain ascriptions
and assertions of identities, as well as for resisting these.
Please submit an abstract and title of your proposed
contribution by 15 January 2024 to the guest editors Mariska Jung (mariska.jung@vub.be)
and Martijn de Koning (martijn.dekoning@ru.nl).
The Past and Present of Humanities Peer Review
Special Issue of Minerva - A Review of Science, Learning and
Policy
Peer review, i.e. the institutionalized evaluation of
scholars and their outputs by others working in the same field, is fundamental
to knowledge production and research evaluation in the present-day humanities.
However, the origins and development of humanities peer review remain remarkably
poorly understood, particularly in comparison to the history of peer review in
the natural and social sciences. This special issue aims to bridge this
knowledge gap by exploring the historical evolution of peer review in
humanities disciplines such as history, theology, philosophy, musicology, and
linguistics. It seeks to uncover the diverse forms of humanities peer review
that have existed throughout history, extending beyond currently dominant
practices of academic peer review.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2024
Contact Email mariegabrielle.verbergt@ugent.be
Trans-disciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arts-communities#call-for-papers
This special issue of the Journal of Arts and Communities
(JAAC) will engage with rich content from a diverse range of scholars within
the expanded fields of disability, art, and design, from a trans-disciplinary
perspective. What does the cross-pollination of disability, art, and design
look, sound, and feel like from within and across the disciplines of art
history, visual culture, museum and curatorial studies, architecture, design,
the health humanities, film and theatre, and the creative industries at large?
Proposals to acachia@uh.edu
by Friday 2 February 2024.
A Research-Creation Episteme? Practices, Interventions, Dissensus
https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/cfps
Humanities scholars around the world have been asking
increasingly specific questions about whether creative practices correlate to
knowledge production, and about the boundaries of a creative research
orientation. While metrics of categorization have shifted to meet new demands
for knowledge transfer and dissemination at universities, the watersheds that
once protected visual artistic practice have given way to multi-modal
practices, including archival projects, creative writing, communications,
documentary film, film essay, mapping and locative projects, sound art, theatre
and performance, transmedial storytelling, and others.
12 February 2024: Proposals due
Contact Email ccla.aclc@trentu.ca
InVisible Culture 38: Ecologies of Excess
https://www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/mau99f0l/release/1?readingCollection=0834bc88
To theorize ecology is necessarily to contend with excess,
whether that be in the form of unceasing material production or in the forms of
social and theoretical remainders. In order to grapple with the excess of
agencies at work in the more-than-human world, contemporary theories of ecology
often appeal to tropes of darkness, “chthonic ones,” monsters, and ghosts
(Morton, 2016; Haraway, 2016; Tsing, Swanson, Gan, and Bubandt, 2017). By
betraying a sense of wonder, these tropes attest to our phenomenological,
affective, and discursive bewilderment in the face of what is unknowable and
seek to account for that excess by distributing agency beyond the
epistemological frameworks of “the human.” Invisible Culture
seeks articles and artworks that address the visualization of excess in/of
ecologies. On the table here, or in the garbage bin as it were, are
considerations of excess both as a consequence of the
particular intellectual history of ecocriticism and its intersections with new
materialism(s), or as principally physical remains.
Please send completed papers (with references following the
guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words
to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu
March 1, 2024
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
JDC Archives accepting applications for 2024 fellowships
https://archives.jdc.org/jdc-archives-accepting-applications-for-2024-fellowships/
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications
for its 2024 fellowship program. In 2024, three to six fellowships will be
awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and
independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives. Our finding aids
can be consulted to identify relevant subject areas of research. The fellowship
awards are $2,500 and the deadline for submission is January 30, 2024.
Contact Email outreach-archives@jdc.org
JDC Archives
accepting applications for 2024 fellowships
https://archives.jdc.org/jdc-archives-accepting-applications-for-2024-fellowships/
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for
its 2024 fellowship program. In 2024, three to six fellowships will be awarded
to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and
independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives.
Our finding
aids can be consulted to identify relevant subject areas of research.
The fellowship awards are $2,500 and the deadline for submission is January 30,
2024.
Contact Email outreach-archives@jdc.org
Barnard Library
Research Award, 2023-24
https://library.barnard.edu/news/applications-open-barnard-library-research-award-2023-24
We welcome your applications for the Barnard
Library Research award, supporting research using collections at the
Barnard Library, Barnard Zine Library, and Barnard Archives, resulting in any
final format. Applications are open until February 7, 2024. Award
notifications will be sent to applicants by March 15, 2023 for research to be
conducted at Barnard during the period July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024. Please read about
the award on the library's website before applying and contact mtenney@barnard.edu with
any questions.
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium non-residential
fellowships
http://digitalethnicfutures.org/grants/
The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) is accepting
applications for our current funding opportunities. Applications are due
January 20, 2024.
DEFCon Teaching Fellowships are $2500 stipends that support
the development of courses at the intersections of ethnic studies and digital
humanities.
DEFCon Capacity Building Fellowships provide up to $5000 to support
projects that build institutional capacity for digital ethnic studies.
DEFCon Mentors receive stipends of $2500 per fellow
mentored. They provide up to 50 hours of assistance to recipients of our
fellowships.
DEFCon Teaching & Capacity Building Fellowships are
designed for faculty (contingent and tenure-line) and librarians working at
four-year or two-year public colleges and universities (excluding R1s).
Graduate students are eligible to apply for Teaching Fellowships if they are
designing the course for a four-year or two-year public college or university
(excluding R1s) and are eligible for a Capacity Building Fellowship if they
hold a faculty position at one of these institutions.
For inquiries, please contact Roopika Risam (Consortium
Director) at digitalethnicfutures@gmail.com.
Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Fellowship Program
https://www.nypl.org/fellowships/diamonstein-spielvogel-fellowship-program
The New York Public Library is pleased to offer the
Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship Program to support advanced research at the
Library's flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Fellowships are open to
Ph.D. candidates, post-doctoral scholars, and independent researchers with
projects that would significantly benefit from research conducted onsite at the
Schwarzman Building. Projects requiring access to original materials including
manuscripts, archives, books, photographs, prints, maps, newspapers, and
journals will be given preference, but all worthy projects will be considered.
Application deadline: February 19, 2024
For assistance with the application process, email fellowships@nypl.org
New York Public
Library National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowships
https://www.nypl.org/fellowships/neh-long-term-fellowships
The New York Public Library is pleased to offer National
Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowships to support advanced research
at the Library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Fellowships are open
to scholars researching the history, literature, and culture of peoples
represented in collections accessible at the Schwarzman Building and to
professionals in fields related to the Library’s holdings, including
librarianship and archives administration, special collections, photography,
prints, and maps. Projects drawing heavily on collections traditionally used to
advance the social sciences, science and technology, psychology, education, and
religion are also eligible, but only if the project takes a humanistic
approach, relies on humanities-related methodologies, and contributes to the
body of knowledge which enlightens the human experience.
Application Deadline: January 15, 2024
For assistance with the application process, please contact fellowships@nypl.org.
Library Company of Philadelphia Program in Women's
History fellowships 2024-2025
https://librarycompany.org/academic-programs/fellowships-2/#/
The Davida T. Deutsch Program in Women’s History at the
Library Company of Philadelphia invites applications for 2024–25
fellowships. Since 2013, the Program has
supported short-term fellowships for research on women’s history supported by
the collections; this has included projects that range from studies of specific
women to those that examine the intersections of gender with other systems of
power. We are pleased to expand our
support for research in women’s history with a new dissertation fellowship.
Application deadline: February 1, 2024
Questions? Email Program Director Amy Sopcak Joseph (asopcakjoseph@librarycompany.org)
or fellowships@librarycompany.org
John Carter Brown Library Fellowship
https://www.washcoll.edu/learn-by-doing/starr/Fellowships/hodson-brown-fellowship.php
Candidates with a U.S. history topic are strongly encouraged
to concentrate on the period prior to 1801. The fellowship is also open to
filmmakers, novelists, creative and performing artists, and others working on
projects that draw on this period of history.
Candidates are encouraged to consult the John Carter Brown Library’s
collections online prior to submitting an application.
The deadline for the 2024-2025 Award is February 15, 2024
Contact Email csinatra2@washcoll.edu
National Woman’s Party (NWP) Research Fellowship
The National Woman’s Party (NWP) Research Fellowship is made
possible by a generous donation of the National Woman’s Party in 2020, during
the centennial year of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The National
Woman’s Party collaborated with the Library of Congress throughout much of the
twentieth and now into the twenty-first century to preserve the organization’s history
by donating collections materials for scholarly research. Graduate students,
independent scholars, and other researchers with a need for the fellowship
support are encouraged to apply.
Completed applications are due on February 15, 2024
Send completed applications, letters of recommendation, and
questions to: mssfellowships@loc.gov
Haverford College Special Collections Fellowships
https://www.haverford.edu/libraries/quaker-special-collections/fellowships
Quaker & Special Collections at Haverford College is now
accepting applications for its 2024-2025 short-term ($3,000 for two weeks)
fellowship programs. These Fellowships provide funding for scholars at any
stage of their careers to engage with our unique materials. Quaker &
Special Collections includes materials documenting the history, faith, and
practice of the Society of Friends from its founding to the present, as well as
materials which illuminate histories of abolition, health and environment,
relief work, book history, and material culture.
Contact Email shorowitz@haverford.edu
APS Fellowships with the Center for Native and Indigenous
Research
https://www.amphilsoc.org/cnair-funding-opportunities
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
supports community- and campus-based projects related to cultural and language
vitality, Indigenous self-determination, and Native American and Indigenous
Studies through a variety of funding opportunities. These include academic
residential fellowships and internships based at the American Philosophical
Society in Philadelphia, as well as non-residential individual and group
fellowships intended for community-oriented projects and goals.
Deadlines vary based on fellowship: January 19, 2024 or March
15, 2024
Princeton University
Library Special Collections Research Grants Program
Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library
offers short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the
Princeton University Library special and distinct collections. With grants of
up to $4,800, plus travel expenses, this competitive grant program offers
researchers from around the world access to PUL’s unique and rare collections. Applications
will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and
other rare and unique holdings in Special Collections
The 2024-2025 application is now open and will close
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 at 12pm EST.
Contact Email pulgrant@princeton.edu
Rose Library's 2024
Visiting Research Fellowships
The Rose Library offers a variety of programs to support the
use of its research collections. We have 13 subject
specific fellowships, as well as short-term fellowships in 5
strategic areas. The length of the subject specific fellowship will depend
on the applicant's research proposal, while the strategic short-term
fellowships require a minimum residency of 5 business days. The Rose
Library visiting researcher fellowships range in topic from Black history and
culture to LGBTQIA+ studies to southern Jewish history and more! These awards
help researchers from around the world come to Atlanta, Georgia to use our
collections.
Applications open December 11th, 2023 and close at 11:59 EST
on February 29th, 2024.
Contact Email rose.library@emory.edu
State Library and
Archives of Florida Research Stipend Program
https://dos.fl.gov/library-archives/archives/research/stipend/
The Division of Library and Information Services is pleased
to announce a competitive stipend program for qualified researchers, sponsored
by the Friends of the State Library and Archives of Florida. The program is
intended to support exceptional projects utilizing the collections of the State
Archives and State Library of Florida that can only be accessed on-site. Up to
two applicants will be selected each year.
Eligibility: Academic historians, graduate students and
undergraduate students conducting research; community historians and
independent researchers or writers; K-12 teachers or professionals developing
curriculum materials or other projects.
To be considered, applications and supporting documents must
be emailed or postmarked no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern on January 31,
2024.
Contact the State Archives of Florida at archives@dos.myflorida.com or
850.245.6719.
Rubenstein Library
2024-2025 Research Travel Grants
https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/grants-and-fellowships
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
at Duke University in Durham, N.C., is now accepting applications for our
2024-2025 research travel grant program: https://duke.is/rltg-2024.
Projects must align with the guidelines for selected travel grant(s) regarding
topic and collection usage. We encourage applications from independent researchers;
students at any level of education; faculty and teachers; visual and performing
artists; writers; filmmakers; and public historians.
See especially the Mary Lily Research
Grants (Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture)
Applications will be accepted through Thursday, February 29,
2024, at 6:00 pm EST.
Direct all questions to AskRL@duke.edu
with the subject line “Travel Grants.”
The Gay & Lesbian Review’s (The G&LR) graduate student
grant opportunity
https://glreview.org/the-gay-lesbian-review-writers-and-artists-grant/
The writers and artists grant program is designed to
cultivate a diverse pool of writers for The G&LR to bring new perspectives,
ideas, and voices to the magazine and to encourage and support emerging and
unpublished LGBTQ+ writers, thinkers,
scholars, and artists. We are currently accepting proposals from graduate
students across disciplines and fields that make a contribution to LGBTQ+
scholarship or the arts. The grant(s) will be awarded to scholars, writers, and
artists to provide funding to write one or more articles for The G&LR and
to begin, complete, or advance LGBTQ+ related writing and other creative
projects.
The application deadline is 11:59 PM EST on February 2, 2024
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Visiting Assistant
Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at
Allegheny College invites applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant
Professor position beginning August 2024 with the possibility of renewal.
Specialization is open and we will look favorably on candidates with expertise
in trans studies, disability studies, care feminisms, critical madness studies
or feminist-queer approaches to mental health, feminist-queer approaches to
critical feminist data studies, and/or digital feminisms & technologies. We
especially encourage applications from candidates with a Ph.D. in
Gender/Trans/Queer/Women’s/Feminist Studies.
Send application materials (cover letter, CV with contact
information including email and telephone number, a one-page statement of
teaching philosophy, and a list of three references) as a single PDF file to
the Office of Human Resources, Allegheny College, 520 North Main Street,
Meadville PA 16335 or by email to employment@allegheny.edu
by February 9, 2024.
Assistant/Associate/Full
Professor - Detroit Center for Black Studies
https://waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/1648
Thanks to a generous donation by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, Wayne State University is proud to announce a multi-year cluster
hire of 50 tenured or tenure-track faculty over a three-year period, and the
establishment of the Detroit Center for Black Studies. This faculty-led center
will be multidisciplinary and inclusive of the breadth of scholars who work in
African American, African, and African-diaspora studies with attention to U.S.
and global histories, urban, cultural, social, economic, legal, and health
systems. The first phase of a multi-year cluster hiring initiative, this year’s
search seeks applicants engaged in humanistic and social scientific inquiry, open
field, open rank. Applicants must engage in research and/or creative activity,
as well as teaching or training that fall within the Center’s focus and will be
expected to actively participate in the Center’s growth and programming. These
are full-time tenured and tenure-track positions.
For fullest consideration in the first phase, please submit
your application by January 30th, 2024.
Program Lead,
Inclusive Excellence
Project Leads serves as a resource for a specific student
population (ALANA women and LGBTQ+) by assisting them with their unique
personal, social, academic, and financial concerns. This includes outreach and
advocacy on behalf of ALANA women and LGBGTQ+ students by working to ensure
that they feel supported and assisting them with gaining access to campus and
community resources. Program Leads provide holistic support to help students
achieve their academic goals and reduce equity gaps. The team works
collaboratively to plan, implement, and assess culturally relevant identity
development and career-connected education programs designed to promote an
inclusive campus climate. The Program Lead plays a critical role in supporting
the access, persistence, retention, and success of all students from historically
underrepresented communities.
Applications Deadline: January 3, 2024
Assistant Professor
of Ethnic Studies (Black Studies)
https://hr.wwu.edu/careers?job=501294
The Department of Ethnic Studies at Western Washington
University is inviting applications for a full-time tenure-track position at
the rank of Assistant Professor in Black Studies. We seek a scholar whose
research engages major themes in Black Studies from a national, regional,
global, transnational, and/or comparative perspective. Appropriate areas of
expertise include Black transnational and diasporic studies; comparative race,
ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender, sexuality, and disability studies; social movements;
health and spirituality; law and public policy; racial capitalism; and/or
carcerality. We are open to any discipline. Required: PhD in Black Studies,
Ethnic Studies, or other relevant field in the Humanities and/or Social
Sciences or ABD at the time of application.
Applications review will begin on January 5, 2024
or questions regarding the position, application process, or
department, contact Dr. Debra Salazar salazard@wwu.edu.
Research Fellowships
in United States Law & Race
The Department of History at University of Nebraska Lincoln
invites applications for two summer research fellowship programs for graduate
and undergraduate students.
The Graduate
Fellows Summer Research Institute in U.S. Law & Race is a 3-week,
residential, Mellon-funded fellowship that provides a stipend, room/board, and
travel costs for 4 graduate students to receive training in digital legal
history and mentoring to support their dissertation research. Applications are
due January 15, 2024 and the program runs June 10-28, 2024.
The Digital
Legal Research Lab Research Experience for Undergraduates is a
10-week, residential, National Science Foundation-funded fellowship that
provides a stipend, room/board, and travel costs for 8 undergraduate students
to receive training in digital legal history and mentoring to support their
research and professional development. Applications are due February 1, 2024
and the program runs June 3-Aug 7, 2024.
Contact Email kjagodinsky@unl.edu
Visiting Assistant
Professor of Social Justice Leadership
https://morehouse.peopleadmin.com/postings/8578
The Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership at Morehouse
College invites applications for a one-year appointment—with the possibility of
an additional one year extension only—as a ‘visiting professor of social
justice leadership’ in the Leadership Studies Program. We invite applicants
from all disciplines who study and teach about leadership, however, we are
particularly interested in applicants who are eager to teach ‘social justice
leadership,’ ‘introduction to Black leadership,’ and/or the ‘history and
theories of leadership.’ The successful applicant’s responsibilities will
typically include the equivalent of a 3-3 teaching load and participating in
the co-curricular programming of the Center. This position is designed ideally
for post-doctorate or early career faculty. Candidates must be able to show
evidence of excellence in teaching and research.
Applications due by January 31, 2024
For more information, contact the director of the Leadership
Studies Program: kipton.jensen@morehouse.edu.
Project Coordinator,
Senior - Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Coordinate and manage the administrative, financial, and
personnel activities of the humanities institute, under limited supervision.
Represent Wyoming or the University at meetings and events,
which may include reporting on projects, planning collaborations with other
project professionals, and evaluating projects.
Coordinate and plan grant writing and fund raising
activities.
Develop project budgets; monitor expenses against budget
allocations.
Produce high-quality humanities content for public
engagement, including communications, promotional materials for events.
Maintain high-quality social media engagement.
Manage logistics for public events.
Supervise hourly and student employees.
Complete applications received by 1/5/2024 will receive full
consideration.
email: humanities@uwyo.edu
Emory University, The
Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry -- One-Year Postdoctoral
Fellowship
http://fchi.emory.edu/home/fellowships/index.html
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66579
The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry of Emory University is
accepting applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2024-2025 on
the theme of "Democracy: Past, Present, Future." The Fellowship is
for 10 months (August 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025), and carries a stipend of
$55,000, a research fund of $2000, and eligibility for a wide range of
competitive benefits. The Center invites applications from candidates who are
eager to be part of a community of scholars engaged in a broad range of
conversations in an interdisciplinary setting. The Fellowship funds an academic
year of study, teaching, and academic residence at the Center. The deadline for
submission of completed applications is January 31, 2024. Announcements of
awards will begin in mid-April. More information and application instructions
are available from the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at www.fchi.emory.edu.
University of Pennsylvania,
Lightning Scholars Program
https://apply.interfolio.com/135161
Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania invites
applications for its 2024-2025 Lightning Scholars Program. This program brings
untenured, but tenure-track, faculty at either the assistant or associate level
from around the world to Philadelphia for a semester or year of writing,
fellowship, and bridging the gap between academia and the policy world. This
fellowship program allows untenured faculty members at leading research
universities around the world to join Perry World House and the Penn community
for a semester or full academic year in residence in Philadelphia to produce a
major research project or book. While the fellowship program is for faculty
working on global affairs topics, preference will be given to faculty working
on subjects broadly related to the following themes: climate change and the environment,
Asia-Pacific, transatlantic relations, security and defense, urbanization,
immigration/migration, democracy, global health, emerging technologies, and
peace and security, and whose work can provide practical policy implications.
Applications will close at midnight on January 22, 2024.
If you have questions, please email worldhouse@pwh.upenn.edu.
Fellowship in Public
Scholarship
https://www.religionandcities.org/workwithus
The Center for Religion and Cities invites graduate
students, experienced scholars, ethnographers, practitioners, and public
intellectuals to apply for the 2024 Fellowship in Public Scholarship. In this
fellowship we seek individuals we are interested in engaging with their work as
public scholarship and are committed to practices of centering listening in the
work of research, analysis, and writing. The fellowship will be facilitated
virtually and runs from February to May 2024 and includes a $2,500 honorarium
and an opportunity to share your work as public scholarship.
Application Deadline: January 5, 2024
Submit questions and/or application materials to: info@ReligionAndCities.org
Assist Prof, Liberal
Studies major/African American Studies and/or Women & Gender Studies minors
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66531
The University of Illinois Springfield invites applications
for a tenure-track Assistant professor to begin August 16, 2024, serving a
major in Liberal Studies and minors in African American Studies and/or Women
and Gender Studies. Applicants are invited to affiliate with the newly formed
Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice. We seek a specialist
in interdisciplinary or intersectional studies, multicultural and ethnic
studies, Black studies, women's and gender studies, sexuality studies, or
related area. Standard teaching load is 3 courses per semester in both online
and on-ground modalities. Field is open, with tenure home possible in
Sociology/Anthropology, English, History, Human Development Counseling/Social
Work, or Art/Music/Theatre. Responsibilities include working with students
within interdisciplinary programs above. Engagement with the campus community
is expected and presence in the local community is strongly encouraged and
valued.
Application deadline: 12/24/2023
Texas State
University, Honors College Senior Lecturer in Honors
https://jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/44919
The Honors College at Texas State University invites
applications for a Senior Lecturer in Honors, with a specialty in the
Humanities or Social Sciences, to begin in Fall 2024. This is a full-time
position with an initial appointment of one year and reappointment contingent
upon satisfactory performance review. Scholars in all disciplines of the
humanities and social sciences are encouraged to apply, and we are especially
interested in candidates who can offer new and engaging topic-based courses in
the following General Education Core Curriculum (GECC) areas: Language,
Philosophy, and Culture; American History; Government/Political Science; and
Social and Behavioral Sciences. We also strongly encourage applications from
scholars whose academic background and teaching interests contribute to our
growing minors in African-American Studies, Latina/o Studies, Diversity
Studies, Peace and Social Justice Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies.
Full Consideration Date: 01/08/2024
Postdoctoral
Fellowship in African & African American Studies
https://afas.wustl.edu/2024-2025-afas-washington-university-postdoctoral-application
The Department of African and African American Studies
(AFAS) at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications from recent
Ph.D. graduates in the humanities and social sciences open to scholars in any
discipline whose work focuses on the Caribbean and/or Afro-Latin America. We
are especially interested in a scholar whose work engages with questions
emanating from environmental justice, Black geographies and ecologies, digital
cultures and/or Black feminism at the intersection of gender and sexuality.
Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States and
must have received a doctorate no earlier than Spring 2021 and no later than
July 1, 2024.
Rising Scholars
Postdoctoral Fellows Program
https://graduate.as.virginia.edu/rising-scholars
The goal of fellowship is to provide a mentored
professional development opportunity to train the next generation of scholars
for future tenure-track positions -- at UVA or elsewhere. Postdoctoral Fellows
selected under this program are appointed for two 12-month terms, contingent on
annual review. They engage in scholarship, creative, research, teaching and
professional development activities that align with their preparation to
successful transition to a tenure-track position. The Rising Scholars Postdoctoral
Fellows are funded by a University-wide Race, Place and Equity grant from the
Mellon Foundation and UVA matching funds to advance
research, creative practice, and teaching related to race, justice, and
equity (RJE). Applicants should specify a home department in the Arts &
Humanities or Social Sciences and must work on RJE-related questions,
specifically those in Black and Indigenous Studies of the United States.
Review of applications will begin January 15, 2024.
Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar, Humanities and Social
Sciences
https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/193322
Interdisciplinary Studies at North Carolina State University
invites applications from recent Ph.D. graduates (within the past five years)
in all humanities-related and social science disciplines for two postdoctoral
teaching positions. These positions will be awarded for the academic year
2024-2025 with the option to extend to 2025-2026 pending successful evaluation.
Each semester, the postdoctoral scholar will be expected to teach two sections
of Critical Thinking in American Life: Engaging Across Difference, an
introductory humanities course designed to teach undergraduates critical
thinking skills through the examination of transformative texts.
The search committee will begin reviewing applications
starting January 8th, 2024.
Email: dmproven@ncsu.edu
Vanderbilt's A&S
College Core Postdoctoral Fellows Program
https://redcap.vanderbilt.edu/surveys/?s=7LN4LKYR4DLDKYRF
A&S College Core Fellows will teach in Vanderbilt’s new
undergraduate general education series, the First-Year Core: “Being Human” in
the fall and “Science, Technology, Values” in the spring. These are small
reading- and writing-intensive seminars taught from a common syllabus and in
conjunction with faculty across the college. College Core Fellows will also
carry some administrative responsibilities, assisting the Director and
Associate Director of the Core Office in running the first-year program. The
two-year fellowship will support early career scholars interested in general
education, curriculum development, writing instruction, and higher education
administration. We are especially interested in candidates with demonstrated
experience with interdisciplinary collaborations and writing pedagogy, and with
a scholarly background in liberal studies, humanistic studies, and/or science
and technology studies.
The application deadline is February 1, 2024
Please direct all questions to Professor Paul Stob,
Director, A&S Core Office at paul.stob@vanderbilt.edu.
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Virtual Launch Event
- The Cybercene Lab
This new humanities-centered lab proposes the Cybercene as a
new gathering principal to study the current ecocultural era in our planetary
history. As lands burn, oceans boil, species go extinct almost unnoticed on a
daily basis and political/economic/cultural conflicts (local, regional and
global) multiply, we aim to explore interdisciplinary yet realistic pathways
towards healing and restored habitability. Complete details with links for
webinar registration will follow in January 2024.
Contact Email Vetri.Nathan@rutgers.edu
Rethinking Political
Power
https://rethinkingpower.rutgers.edu/
This report draws upon interviews with 192 political actors
within five states – Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania – to
examine both the state of and change in women’s political power from 2010 to
2023. State-focused investigation allows us to better analyze the gender and
intersectional dynamics at play within state political ecosystems, which we
define as the interconnected systems, networks of individuals and
organizations, and overall environments in which both formal and informal
politics occurs. Each of the chapters of this report reflects a key finding
from our interviews. These findings are not mutually exclusive, as is evident
in sites of overlap and cross-reference across chapters. The complexity within
each finding – including differences across states, party, race/ethnicity, and
time – is detailed in each chapter, using direct quotations from our interview
subjects to illustrate important points specific to that finding and
perceptions common across multiple interviews.
Cultural
Constructions of Race and Racism Research Collective
https://csalateral.org/ccrrrc/
The CCRRC is a global network of media makers, scholars, and
activists working with our communities identify and dismantle colorism and
anti-Black racism. It CcRrrC (pronounced krrick!) builds off
earlier successes at the journal with support of the SSRC’s Research AMP Program.
In 2021, Lateral launched the Cultural Constructions of Race and Racism in the SWANA forum.
In early 2024, CcRrrC will host content for two additional regions, examining cultural constructions of race and
racism in the Caribbean, under the leadership of Dr. Danielle Roper, and in
East Asia, under the leadership of Dr. Soo Ryon Yoon.
To be notified of updates about CcRrrC, please join
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partner with us to continue to develop this work, please email ccrrrc.lateral@gmail.com.
Reading with
Algorithms
https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/reading-with-algorithms/
The essays in this cluster in Post45 investigate the shaping force that social media platform
algorithms are having on reading practices and emerging aesthetics. AI and
machine learning, data collection and control, are now inescapable facets of
how people read: watched over by corporations, interrupted by advertisements,
distracted by multiplying devices and open tabs, joined by others engaging with
the same content, our practices all observed and reflected in new textual
forms. Algorithmic effects are distributed and experienced unevenly, reflecting
varying levels of access to social media reading experiences, as well as
varying forms of exposure to surveillance and control. What does it mean to
read with and through algorithmic structures? How does their uneven
distribution affect reading cultures across and within the shifting lines of
digital engagement?
