CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Teaching Beyond the
Curriculum
https://amps-research.com/conference/teaching-2023/
15-17 Nov, 2023, virtual
As we adapt to the radical disruptions of the technological
turn post COVID, it can be overwhelming. What this all results in for teachers
and learners alike, is an open, and sometimes contested, question. In
considering the education sector as now operating ‘beyond the curriculum’, this
conference examines how our teaching has morphed in recent years. Its premise
is that we always have, and increasingly need to do more than ‘simply teach’.
In teaching students to be ‘information literate’, we provide them with skills
for life. In encouraging critical thinking, we help navigate a changed
tomorrow. In focusing on transferable skills, we prepare them for complex
futures. Through community engagement, we open students to socially conscious
models of work. In the new tech-classroom, we do this by combining contemporary
tools with established bodies of knowledge.
Abstract deadline: 10 July 2023
Queries: conference@amps-research.com
Native American and
Indigenous Studies Association 2023 Graduate Student Pre-Conference Gathering
file:///C:/Users/abeins/Downloads/Pre-Conference%20Flyer%20EN.pdf
May 10, 2023, Toronto
his pre-conference will be an opportunity for Black,
Indigenous, and Black-Indigenous graduate students to think explicitly, and
alongside one another, about the theories of change informing their research.
The theme of this pre-conference is a student-led response to the themes of
Unangax̂ scholar, Eve Tuck's (2022) short essay that asks, What is your Theory
of Change These Days? This pre-conference will be a time to carefully attend to
this question and nurture one another's theories of change. By acknowledging
our theories of change and sharing them with each other, we can actively refuse
what Tuck identifies as the default, colonial, and antiblack theories of change
often undergirding academic research.
We invite Indigenous, Black, and Black-Indigenous graduate
students to share the theories of change you have learned within and alongside
your communities and academic disciplines.
Submit your 250-word abstract to this google form by Monday,
February 28, 2023, at 11:59 pm EST.
Any questions can be
sent to Tkarontocirclelab@gmail.com.
Our Sisters Killjoy
https://afemsconference.wixsite.com/afems/afems-2023
11-13 July 2023, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa
In a world coping with the stark inequalities that COVID-19
has thrown into view, our sisters across the continent and world have every
reason to be angry, and they are more vocal than ever. In this fifth
anniversary edition of the African Feminisms (Afems) Conference, which will be
hosted by the Rhodes University Department of Literary Studies in English and
the Wits University Department of Fine Arts, Afems 2023 will return to its
birth at Rhodes University and celebrate Our Sisters Killjoy – feminist
killjoys, black feminist killjoys, queer killjoys, differently-abled killjoys,
eco killjoys, creative killjoys, anti-capitalist killjoys,
speaking-truth-to-power killjoys, everyday killjoys, chick-lit killjoys,
comedic killjoys and more.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent in by 31
March 2023 to afrifems17@gmail.com.
Women Defining
Boundaries Between Worlds: Matrilineal Societies, Matricultures, and Shamanic
Practices
15-19 November 2023, Toronto, Ontario
Women Defining Boundaries Between Worlds: Matrilineal
Societies, Matricultures, and Shamanism follows Nicole-Claude Mathieu’s
injunction to explore the potential linkage between cultures fostering
matrilinies, or their social equivalent, and shamanic practices. We want to
discuss the processes at work in the intersection and interactions between
matriculture and the cultural systems supporting ritual life, religion, and
shamanism.
Submit an abstract of 50 - 250 words to coordinator Angela
Sumegi at angela.sumegi@carleton.ca
by Friday, 17 March 2023.
URL: https://annualmeeting.americananthro.org/
Miss America and
Pageants: Gowns, Crowns, & Contradictions
https://chss.rowan.edu/centers/inter_majors/interdisciplinary_programs/americanstudies/miss_america/
Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, September 29, 2023
With this conference, we hope to generate public and
scholarly conversations about the complex social, cultural and political
meanings of pageants. The conference will also showcase Rowan’s Miss America
digital archive, a digital collection of documents, photos, and artifacts from
the Miss America Organization collection. This conference is not sponsored by
or directly affiliated with the Miss America Organization.
Submit proposals for papers, panels, or posters to Dr.
Katherine Turner at turnerk@rowan.edu by
March 12, 2023.
Decolonizing Feminist
and Queer Pedagogies
"This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that
seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and
liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emphasize
intersectionality in our classes, women of color or queer of color critiques
are largely offered after—and as correctives to—a canon where whiteness is
default and invisible. As a result, these institutionalized canons, which
naturalize whiteness alongside colonial conceptions of gender, retain their
primacy of thought. How can we instead design our courses to center the
coloniality of knowledge and the coloniality of gender? How do we put to practice
a pedagogy that takes to heart the work of Lugones, Mohanty, Munoz, and hooks,
among others?"
Please submit your
proposal by Friday, March 3, to Atia Sattar (asattar@usc.edu).
Reading, Writing, and
Teaching the Rust Belt: Co-Creating Regional Humanities Ecosystems
June 4-18, 2023, Pepper Pike, OH
The Rust Belt is often overlooked as "flyover"
country and part of a dead, industrial past. Through the act of storytelling,
we'll pull the Rust Belt into the dynamic present by focusing on the importance
of regional storytelling and sense of place. Participants leave with new tools
to equip their students to shape the future of the Rust Belt, identify and
contribute to social solutions, and reimagine the role of the humanities within
this sphere. Our work can be a model for ways to use the humanities to find new
solutions and empower our students to become more productive citizens. We
invite applicants from any discipline who want to actively re-imagine the role
of the humanities in a "post-industrial" region. Please forward this
announcement to any of your colleagues whom you think would be interested,
regardless of their discipline. While the examples we work from will all be
from the Rust Belt of the United States, we know region's challenges are
similar to those of many other parts of the world.
Applications Due: March 3, 2023
email: rustbeltlab@gmail.com
(Post-)Doctoral Students in the field of Postcolonial and
Gender Studies
The CePoG is organising a colloquium for (post-)doctoral
students/researchers in the field of Postcolonial and Gender Studies from 6-7
July 2023. The aim is to offer young researchers working in these two fields a
platform for exchange and interdisciplinary networking. We ask those who would
like to participate with a presentation to send us an abstract (max. 1500
characters incl. spaces) and the title of the master’s thesis, dissertation
thesis or postdoctoral project by 13 March 2023 (to be sent to cepog@uni-trier.de). Both
theoretical-methodological questions and analyses of concrete examples are
welcome.
The colloquium is planned as a face-to-face event at the
University of Trier. The organisers will endeavour to finance travel costs.
E-Mail: cepog@uni-trier.de
The Humanities for OUR Times: New Perspectives on
Humanistic Methods and Social Justice
https://www.humanitiesforourtimescc.org/
14—17 June 2023, Colorado College
How do the humanities contribute to anti-oppressive work,
and how can humanties methods-- from inquiry and critque to creative production
and performance-- dismantle systems of oppression, create and sustain community
and solidarity, and advance liberation? How can we, as educators, empower and
prepare students to embark effectively on social justice projects and enact
social change? How can we harness the power and potential of the humanities to
forge dynamic synergies between the classroom, the archive, and the streets? Colorado
College is hosting an academic conference with the goal of bringing together
educators, artists, and activists to engage these questions and consider the
relationship between humanities methods and social justice today.
Please submit a 250-word abstract and short (3-5 sentence)
bio to MellonHumanities@coloradocollege.edu
by March 15, 2023.
Crisis: Resistance, Rupture, Renewal
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12378170/crisis-resistance-rupture-renewal
Date of conference: 19 May
The world is currently beset by crisis. From the COVID-19
pandemic and its after-effects to the conflict in Ukraine, crisis seems to be
inescapable. Moreover, crisis has been a recurrent feature of the first two
decades of the twenty-first century, with the 2008 crash and its aftermath, as
well as the existential threat of the climate emergency. We understand crisis
as a moment normatively designated to be of intense difficulty or danger, in
which assumptions and norms are often challenged and even overturned. The
notion of crisis allows for the exploration of questions of periodization,
scale, and normativity. When do crises begin and when are they resolved? In the
context of a world defined by crisis, the 2023 PhD Conference of the UCD
Humanities Institute is seeking proposals from emerging scholars and artists
(doctoral candidates or researchers who received their PhD within the last five
years) who are engaged, either conceptually or practically, with crises of any
kind.
Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a bio-note
of around 200 words to hiphdconference2023@gmail.com
on or before 28 February 2023.
Queer Creation(s) - International Gender and Sexuality
Studies Conference
September 29 - October 1
We are thinking about the many and varied ways that people
‘engender’ new things, bringing fresh ideas, artworks, social norms or practices
into being. We celebrate and draw on the traditions of storytelling,
world-making, and community-building often found in groups with non-traditional
gender identities or sexualities. What does it mean to create queerly, or to
‘queer’ the act of creation? What are the possible relationships between
procreation, re-creation, or creating in other ways? Especially in difficult
circumstances, how can we create the future we desire?
Undiscovered Country
https://southeasternasa.org/atlanta2023/
For the 2023 conference of the Southeastern American Studies
Association, to be held Sept 28-30 in Atlanta, Georgia, we call for papers
addressing any aspect of the theme, “undiscovered country”: colonial, decolonial,
catastrophic, utopian, and/or speculative. We also encourage papers and panels
grounded in the study of place, space, and environment, including both natural
and built environments. Finally, interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary
explorations of climate change and climate activism are also welcomed. The
deadline for proposals is March 31, 2023
Contact Email: rhill54@kennesaw.edu
Indigenous Histories in New England: Pastkeepers and
Pastkeeping
https://dublin-seminar.org/our-2023-call-for-papers/
June 23–24, 2023
The Seminar invites proposals for papers that focus on
addressing the gaps in Indigenous voice and visibility in public views of the
past. We wish to critically consider who has claimed responsibility for
“keeping” the Indigenous past in New England, including how it has been
represented (for better or worse), how historical research can be decolonized
and improved, and what museums and tribal nations have done to engage the
public in better understandings.
Email proposals to dublinseminar@historic-deerfield.org. Deadline:
Noon EST Friday, March 3, 2023.
Contact Email: Boston1775@earthlink.net
Multiple Marginalizations in the Glocal World
En-Gender will have its third online conference this year
taking place 9 – 11 August 2023. This year’s theme is multiple marginalizations
in the glocal world. We want to engage with questions of indigenous and Black,
queer and trans feminisms, forms of coloniality, intersectionality and power
structures as well as how other forms of marginalizations, often dismissed
within these discussions, relate to these and other experiences. We actively
encourage submissions from different disciplines and historical periods. This
conference is open for students and scholars of all levels to enhance the
scholarly exchange around the globe.
Please send in your abstract of 250 words using this google form. Deadline for
proposals is March 31.
Contact Email: engenderingthepast@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/739746241038455/
May 3, 10am - 11:30am EST
Museums have, from their preliminary existence, been part of
the colonial project. The Moved to Action report, released by the Canadian
Museums Association in 2022 in answer to the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission’s Call to Action #67, provides a series of standards for museums
seeking to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (UNDRIP) and support Indigenous self-determination.
How do we acknowledge the truth of the colonial legacy of
museums while also supporting our work as community institutions? Join the
report co-authors to discuss hopes for a national baseline of support for
Canadian museums and ways that together we can be moved to enact and support
Indigenous self-determination.
Contact: capsl@concordia.ca
PUBLICATIONS
Rican Feminisms
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18pB0qK5bVHv7PNtw2q4cP8aQdi01XYIyGRRn5ltOscM/edit
Focusing specifically on Puerto Rican feminist praxis in
diaspora and across the archipelago, Rican Feminisms will chart the terrain of
Puerto Rican feminisms of the past, present, and future. The volume intends to
document liberation strategies to learn from and to teach with as well as offer
a lineage of anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist elders and ancestors
to call upon. Artists, activists, and
scholars (at all levels, from various kinds of institutions, or no institution)
identifying as/with and/or working on/with boricua feminisms, Afro-Rican
feminisms, queer rican feminisms, trans Rican feminisms, diaspoRican feminisms,
barrio feminisms, indigenous rican feminisms, and other expressions of
minoritized Rican identity and practice are strongly encouraged to submit.
Please submit a 150-word abstract with title, a 50-word bio,
and your contact information to collection editor Jessica N. Pabón-Colón at pabonj@newpaltz.edu by March 1, 2023
Black Beauty: Perspectives, Views and Representations
https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-fashion-beauty#call-for-papers
This Special Issue focuses on ‘Black Beauty’, offering those
who engage in pan-African, women and gender, critical race theory, fashion and
beauty studies an opportunity to showcase scholarly work that will unpack,
evaluate and critique the views, perceptions, history, myths and realism of
Black women and beauty. We encourage submissions that critically use such
lenses as Black feminist thought, feminist theory, critical race theory,
postcolonial and decolonial theory, and that consider the numerous
intersections of power and oppression at work in race, class, gender,
sexuality, ability and nationality, as well as constructions of identity
through the gaze of imperialistic cultures.
Please submit abstracts of 300–500 words and a brief bio
(150 words) to Sharon N. Hughes, s.n.hughes@uel.ac.uk
by 31 May 2023.
Entangled and
Empowered: Agency in Multispecies Communities
Entangled relationships, inescapable and inevitable as they
are, can be a source of frustration and constraint for those humans, animals,
plants, and landscapes tied into them. However, they can also offer a chance
for agency, and for augmentation and improvement of more than one species’
lives as these communities journey together into the future of the
more-than-human world. This collection welcomes multidisciplinary perspectives,
including those from literature, film studies, animal studies, and popular
culture studies, on how these entanglements produce agency and empowerment for
the beings involved in them.
Please submit your 500-word proposal to Keri Stevenson
at Keristevenson@unm.edu by June
1st, 2023
History for the 21st Century: CFP for Teaching Modules
History for the 21st
Century (“H/21”) is a collaborative faculty-led initiative of the World History
Association with a central mission of enabling college and university faculty
to introduce students effectively to historical thinking necessary for
navigating an equitable and sustainable world through the twenty-first century.
he goal of History for the 21st Century is to support adapting to this new
environment through a faculty-led collaborative effort focusing centrally on
General Education history courses. Our goal is to offer free, student-centered,
inquiry driven, and user-friendly materials to help transform curriculum for
students in the General Education history classroom.
For 2023, H/21 is
sponsoring the production of free, digitally available teaching units (called
Modules Ready to Educate, or MREs) that teach both skills and historical
content suitable for introductory world history courses.
Applications can be
emailed to the project director, Jesse Spohnholz (Washington State University)
at info@history21.com.
Contact Email: spohnhoj@wsu.edu
No, This Is America:
Interrogating Bad Faith Narratives, Epistemologies of Ignorance, Grammars of
Violence, and Selective Racial Memories in a Post-Truth, Post-Shame, and
Post-Accountable United States
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nDh1RJW__T0Fr-bh0ozcTK0y5i1xxeAJ/view
The Professing
Education Journal invites proposals for manuscripts for its
forthcoming special issue on bad faith in education and society.
Entitled, No, This Is America: Interrogating Bad Faith Narratives,
Epistemologies of Ignorance, Grammars of Violence, and Selective Racial
Memories in a Post-Truth, Post-Shame, and Post-Accountable United States,
the special issue seeks to illuminate the manifestations of bad faith in
the U.S. and explicate how what constitutes antiblackness, setter colonization,
white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, xenophobia, ableism, and classism are
informed, operationalized, and machinated by bad faith. Additionally, the
special issue will pay special attention to how to counter these logics in the
21st-century digital age
Please submit a ~500-word proposal by the March 31,
2023 deadline to Amir Gilmore at amir.gilmore@wsu.edu.
Call for Book Reviewers: Journal of Popular Culture
The Journal of Popular Culture is looking for those who are
interested in reviewing books. These reviews would be due on March 10,
2023. If you have a completed Master's
degree or higher, one of these books is in your field of study, and you are
interested in writing a review for us, please contact me at kiuchiyu@msu.edu.
Available Books
April Yoder, Pithcing Democracy: Baseball and Politics in
the Dominican Republic, Texas
Paul Youngquist, A Pure Solar World Sun Ra and the Birth of
Afrofuturism, Texas
Russ Crawford, Women's American Football: Breaking Barriers
on and off the Gridiron, Nebraska
Nicholas Carnes and Lilly Goren, The Politics of the Marvel
Cinematic Universe, Kansas
Ken Feil, Fearless Brugality: Jacqueline Susann's Queer
Comedy and Camp Authorship, Wayne State
John Stephens and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Children, Deafness,
and Deaf Cltures in Popular Media, Mississippi
Kyle Parry, A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes,
Minnesota
John Lent, Asian Political Cartoons, Mississippi
Luke Winslow et al., The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton,
Lexington
Anthony Macias, Chicano Chicana America: Pop Culture
Pluralism, Arizona
Mia Mask, Black Rodeo: A History of the African American
Western, Illinois
Diana Harvey et al., Beer Places: The Micrgeographies of
Craft Beer, Arkansas
Contact Email: kiuchiyu@msu.edu
From Wine Moms to QAnon: The Violence at the Heart of
White Women’s Lifestyle Culture, Past and Present
This proposed edited collection historicizes the harms
leveled by the white middle class’s appropriation of Audre Lorde’s investment
in self-care. More specifically, we consider how the aspirational empowerment
and self-improvement industry has emerged as a force that obscures the violence
embedded in individualism, neglects collective trauma, and negates the
possibility of collective solutions. Inspired by Kyla Schuller’s observation
that white women’s culture often “presents capitalism as the deliverer of
equality” and thus obscures how how “capitalism is actually a chief engine of
social harm,” we seek essays that explore how the white self-care/wellness
industry—broadly defined from the eighteenth century to the present day—exerts
a discipline that narrows the radical possibilities of what carework could
mean, either for oneself, one’s family, or for one’s community.
Please send abstracts of between 250-500 words by March
15th, 2023 to anna.duane@uconn.edu
and elizabeth_marshall@sfu.ca.
militant ecotopias
http://www.re-visiones.net/index.php/RE-VISIONES/announcement/view/13
In recent times, the predominant discourses – and even the
general sensitivity to climate change and the ecological crisis – have shifted
from denialism to catastrophism. We have gone from rejecting the seriousness of
the problem – reducing it to a challenge of technical innovation, a matter of
R+D+I – to writing off an ecologically and climatically habitable tomorrow.
This amounts to another form of cancelling the future, in the face of which we
can only adapt and try to minimize the damage.
We know, in the face of all this, that history never
proposes a single path. And that there are many possible alternatives. Exposing
them, thinking about them, and feeling them, seem to be the necessary
prerequisites for action. This would mean cultivating a militant optimism or a
strategic utopianism. Without positing utopia as an ultimate goal or as a
static state of affairs, this issue of Re-visions seeks to open up the horizon
of the possible and to gather exercises of radical social imagination that
outline sustainable and desirable societies.
Paper deadline: June 1, 2023
Contact Email: julia.ramirez.blanco@gmail.com
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Funding opportunities from the Friends Historical
Association
https://www.quakerhistory.org/grants
The Friends Historical Association is pleased to offer
funding to support contributions to the field of Quaker history. There are
three grant opportunities: project support, publication subventions, and
research funds. All opportunities run on the same cycle, and applications are
due April 15, 2023. Details about each opportunity and application instruction
are provided at https://www.quakerhistory.org/grants.
Applications are due April 15, 2023.
Contact Email: president@quakerhistory.org
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Latinx Sexualities
Postdoctoral Fellow
https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/144446
The University of Utah’s Division of Gender Studies and the
Department of Sociology seeks applicants for a one-year postdoctoral
research/teaching position in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation.
The Fellow’s research interests, grounded in Latinx sexualities, will engage
with scholarship that may include, but is not limited to interdisciplinary
trans studies, disability studies, environmental studies, migration and
immigration, decolonial and feminist theories, Indigeneity, Afro-Latinidades,
and social justice activism. The dissertation must be signed by June 30, 2023.
Review of applications will begin March 10, 2023 and
continue until the position is filled.
For further questions about the position, please contact Dr.
Sarita Gaytán sarita.gaytan@soc.utah.edu.
Lecturer in Cross-Disciplinary
Studies
https://jobs.etsu.edu/postings/24359
The Division of Cross-Disciplinary Studies (CDST) seeks a
full-time, nine-month lecturer to teach primarily in its undergraduate,
interdisciplinary degree programs. 4-4 teaching load (24 credits per academic
year) plus departmental/institutional service as assigned. Assigned courses
will be mostly online, with some on-ground sections. Possibility of periodic
graduate teaching for candidates with relevant preparation and interests. Research
or teaching interest/experience especially desirable in areas such as cultural
studies, social geography, environmental/sustainability studies,
gender/diversity/social justice/peace studies, STEAM studies, leadership/workforce/organizational
studies is preferred.
The review of applications will begin on March 15, 2023.
Assistant Teaching Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
https://apptrkr.com/3927145
The Women's and Gender Studies Program (WGS) at Northern Arizona University (NAU) invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor (non-tenure-track) position expected to start in August 2023. We are looking for a teacher-scholar with a PhD in Women's and Gender Studies or a related field. We especially welcome applicants who focus on queer and/or trans studies and transnational feminisms, and who demonstrate engagement with intersectionality. The ideal candidate will have a record of effective teaching in classes related to the WGS Queer Studies Minor, as well as WGS introductory, core, transnational or global feminisms, and other elective courses.
Black Feminist/
Womanist Postdoctoral Fellow
https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/2768040/black-feminist-womanist-postdoctoral-fellow/
As part of the University of South Carolina's inaugural
Bridge to Faculty program, the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies seeks a
dynamic Postdoctoral Scholar in the area of Black feminist/womanist studies who
conducts research at the intersections of gender, race, class, and
sexuality. This two-year post doc is
intended to lead to a tenure track position in the Department. We especially
welcome candidates with scholarship from intersectional and interdisciplinary
perspectives. The area of research specialization is open. This includes any
theoretical or empirical contributions, any geographical foci, historical
period, or transnational orientations.
Applications and materials must be received by March 20,
2023.
For more information, contact the Search Committee Chair, Dr.
Emily Mann: emily.mann@sc.edu
Latinx Sexualities Postdoctoral Fellow
https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/144446
The University of Utah’s Division of Gender Studies and the
Department of Sociology seeks applicants for a one-year postdoctoral
research/teaching position in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation
(Transform) in collaboration with the College for Behavioral and Social Science.
The Fellow’s research interests, grounded in Latinx sexualities, will engage
with scholarship that may include, but is not limited to interdisciplinary
trans studies, disability studies, environmental studies, migration and
immigration, decolonial and feminist theories, Indigeneity, Afro-Latinidades,
and social justice activism.
Questions contact Dr. Sarita Gaytán sarita.gaytan@soc.utah.edu.
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Queer and Trans* Ecologies Interdisciplinary
Initiative
https://queerandtransecologies.com/
March 23-25, 2023
The Queer and Trans* Ecologies Interdisciplinary Initiative
spans the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to explore
questions in the fields of queer and trans* ecologies about new embodiments and
social relations in the Anthropocene. All events are free and open to the
public. For disability accessibility, our event will be available by Zoom.
Contact: qtecologies@umn.edu
Preserving Women's History at the Smithsonian
February 28th:
5:00pm-7:30pm
Kick Off Women's History Month with Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn,
Director of the Smithsonian's American Women's History Initiative. Dr. Nunn is
the first to lead this brand new initiative that seeks to make women more
visible and ultimately pave the way for a national American Women’s History
Museum. Straddling focus on the arts and history, she has long stood out in the
museum world for her efforts to bring diversity and inclusion to the forefront
of museum curation, collection, and heritage work.
Introduction to ChatGPT
https://psu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvcOqgqTgrE9fTv-mOtpM84T8r3Jazwsg-
Mar 20, 2023 03:00 PM EST
What is ChatGPT?
Creative writing and digital humanities scholar Nika Mavrody and history
doctoral candidate Shu Wan will provide some basic information about ChatGPT
followed by an informal conversation about the possible uses and misuses of
this new technology in the classroom.
ChatGPT and Other
Cutting-Edge Learning Tech
https://connect.chronicle.com/che-ci-wbn-2023-03-08-learntech-smu_01-Event-LP---Guided.html
March 8, 2023 2 PM ET
Much has been said about the potential — and potential
pitfalls — of AI tools like ChatGPT. What do faculty and administrators need to
know as they look toward a more AI-enabled academic future?
The Chronicle brings together a panel of experts to discuss
this hot-button issue in the virtual forum, “ChatGPT and Other Cutting-Edge
Learning Tech."
Join us to hear
their thoughts on topics like shat educators need to know about research,
writing, tutoring, and grading tools like ChatGPT and other generative AI
tools; how colleges can best prepare their faculty members to teach with and
about AI; teaching students how to use AI tools wisely
Monique Wittig: Twenty Years Later
https://networks.h-net.org/node/24029/discussions/12375555/monique-wittig-twenty-years-later
17 and 18 March 2023
This event marks the twentieth anniversary of the passing of
the lesbian activist, writer and philosopher Monique Wittig (1935-2003), as
well as the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of her Corps lesbien.
Cosponsored by Berkeley French and the Institut des Études Genre at the Université
de Genève, the conference will encourage new directions in scholarship on
Wittig and stimulate international exchange about her work. All events (except
the film screenings) are free and open to the public and will be simulcast on
Zoom. Sign up to receive a Zoom link to attend the conference here.
Smithsonian Women's History Initiative
February 28, 2023, 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM CST
Kick Off Women's History Month with Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn,
Director of the Smithsonian's American Women's History Initiative. Dr. Nunn is
the first to lead this brand new initiative that seeks to make women more
visible and ultimately pave the way for a national American Women’s History
Museum. Straddling focus on the arts and history, she has long stood out in the
museum world for her efforts to bring diversity and inclusion to the forefront
of museum curation, collection, and heritage work.
Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for
Environmental Justice in LA
https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/glasscock/book-prize/23-bp/
Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 2:00pm CST
This lecture is being delivered by Dr. Nadia Y. Kim (Loyola
Marymount University) for her winning book, Refusing Death: Immigrant Women
and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA (Stanford University Press,
2021).
Contact Email: glasscock@tamu.edu
Against NGOs: A critical perspective on Civil Society,
Management, and Development
Thursday, March 30 , 9:00 am – 10:30 am
What would development look like if its practitioners and
scholars were ‘against NGOs,’ challenging common sense about them? This book
presents a critical perspective on NGOs, describing how they emerged as key
agents of development over time. Through an interpretative history based on
Gramscian concepts it shows how civil society organizations were gradually
enlisted in development as non-state technocratic actors. The book argues that
management studies and development studies emerged as commonsensical
explanations for capitalist crises. Each offered complementary solutions to
balance the needs of capital and society, in particular historical
circumstances. These solutions also situated civil society as agents of
development and vectors of management. Against NGOs fills a gap within the
literature of management and development studies through its original
discussion of their historical interconnections and shared themes. The book
raises provocative questions on what forms of knowledge-politics can respond
productively to the crises of our contemporary moment.
Contact Email: indiachina@newschool.edu
Conversation with
Tressie McMillan Cottom
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-tressie-mcmillan-cottom-lecture
Thursday, March 30, 2023, 4 PM ET
Tressie McMillan Cottom is a sociologist; public thinker;
professor with the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; a New York Times columnist; and a
2020 MacArthur Fellow. Her collection of essays, Thick (The New Press, 2019), investigating how Black women’s lives
are deeply shaped by structural racism and inequality, was a National Book
Award finalist and named a top book of 2019 by TIME, the New York Times Book
Review, New York Public Library, and the Chicago Tribune.
Intimate Inequalities
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-brodwyn-fischer-fellow-presentation-virtual
Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 12 PM ET
Fischer is a historian of inequality and its persistence.
She specializes in the study of Brazil and Latin America, focusing on informality,
cities, citizenship, law, migration, race, slavery, and its afterlives. In this
talk about her book-in-progress, she takes us on a journey through the everyday
archives of Recife, Brazil—a city that has existed across its 500-year history
as a bastion of patriarchal slavery, a laboratory for informal urbanism, and a
cradle for some of Brazil’s most innovative political and social movements.
Through this unorthodox urban ramble, Fischer explains what Recife’s tangled
history can teach us about the role of informal, relational power in
perpetuating the racial and social inequalities entrenched by slavery and other
forms of systemic subjugation.
THE INDIGENOUS GAZE:
DECOLONIZING VISUAL CULTURES
https://www.archivoplatform.com/webinar
This Webinar Series seeks to continue the ongoing
discussions in decolonial thought and visual practices beyond Western-centred
conceptualisations of the image. Throughout five sessions, scholars, artists,
and curators, will critically approach the concept of the 'gaze' in visual
culture, interrogating it from historical, cultural, and ontological
standpoints, and addressing the Indigenisation of the image as a means for
decolonizing the fields of visual culture and contemporary art studies.
MAR 15 | "Dismantling
the Coloniality of Seeing: Contemporary Indigeneities and Counter-Imaginaries
for the Global Age" by Dr. Nasheli Jiménez del Val
APR 12 | "Gazing into the representation of Indigeneity in Indigenous Contemporary
Art: Reconciling via decolonizing aesthetics and curatorial practices?" by
Dr. Laura Singeot
MAY 17 | "Curating 'We live like trees in the footsteps
of our ancestors'" by Dr. Marianna Tsionki & Dr. Mariana Cunha
JUN 14 | "Environmental Justice through a decolonial
Lens” by Spring Ulmer
JUL 19 | "To dance in the dark"by Helen Starr
Queries: info@archivoplatform.com
The ‘Good School’
Podcast Has Landed!
The “Good School” podcast features students talking about
what makes a good school, and why community college was a good school for them.
