Sunday, February 26, 2023

Calls for Papers, Funding Opportunities, and Resources, February 27, 2023

 

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12394697/cfp-conference-women-defining-boundaries-between-worlds

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12395662/nwsa-cfp-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

http://rustbeltlab.org/about/

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12343497/call-papers-interdisciplinary-colloquium-post-doctoral

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12372959/8th-annual-international-gender-and-sexuality-studies

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.orgDeadline: Noon EST Friday, March 3, 2023. 

Contact Email:  Boston1775@earthlink.net

 

Multiple Marginalizations in the Glocal World

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12412819/call-papers-en-gender-2023-online-conference-multiple

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

 

Moved to Action: A Workshop on Activating the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canadian Museums

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

http://www.history21.com

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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12431147/call-book-reviewers-journal-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

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12418660/cfp-edited-collection-wine-moms-qanon-violence-heart-white

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. 

Review of applications will begin on March 13, 2023.

 

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

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-event-dr-tey-m-nunn-smithsonian-womens-history-initiative-tickets-525752308307

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

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-event-dr-tey-m-nunn-smithsonian-womens-history-initiative-tickets-525752308307

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

https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/online-book-launch-against-ngos-a-critical-perspective-on-civil-society-management-and-development-2/

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

 

 

RESOURCES

The ‘Good School’ Podcast Has Landed!

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/‘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.

 

 

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