CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
The Anthropocene: From boundaries to bonds.
Interdisciplinary crossovers in knowledge development
https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/Events/The%20Anthropocene%20from%20boundaries%20to%20bonds
19-20 October 2023
Our conference aims at investigating the potential of
inter/trans/multidisciplinary alliances in research on the Anthropocene and the
importance of such disciplinary border-crossings for producing knowledge that
can not only meet the challenges of the scientific kind, but also be
transferrable to the social sphere. The Anthropocene defies the cognitive,
imaginative, affective and ethical systems underlying our perception and
understanding of reality. We propose to see the knowledge on/of the
Anthropocene as a borderland where many turning points (crises) meet and
coalesce. Such a perspective exposes the necessity to think beyond the dualisms
of science/humanities. The project seeks spaces for mutual inspirations and new
bonds between systems, methods and classes governing science and knowledge.
Deadline for abstract proposals: 31 May 2023 to anthropoceneconf@gmail.com
Call for
Applications: Toward Equity in Publishing
https://americanart.si.edu/research/toward-equity-publishing
Toward
Equity in Publishing is a professional development program provided by
the peer-reviewed journal American Art,
which is co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and University of
Chicago Press. The program works toward ameliorating the inequitable conditions
that precede and impede publication by providing developmental editing and
workshops to demystify academic publishing. Eligibility is limited to untenured
faculty, junior museum staff, independent scholars, and unpublished graduate
students.
Deadline: May 1, 2023
Contact Email: AmericanArtJournal@si.edu
Peace History Society
Conference
https://www.peacehistorysociety.org/phs2023/papers.html
The PEACE HISTORY SOCIETY invites proposals for its biennial
international conference hosted by Gwynedd Mercy University in a hybrid format
blending on-site and virtual presentations, exhibitions, and events from
October 26 through October 28, 2023. The conference theme recognizes peace as
an active process often expressed through dissent and protest rather than a
passive condition signifying an absence of physical violence. It refers equally
to nonviolent protest across a range of justice movements and to direct actions
in support of peace and justice. Panels and papers that address this theme
through various formats (traditional, roundtables, posters, lightning rounds,
teaching workshops, etc.) may examine topics set in previous eras or bring the
past into the present by exploring ways that current movements have drawn upon
earlier examples of protest for inspiration, symbolism, or methods.
Applicants should send proposals for individual papers or a
panel (limit of 250 words per paper) and a one-page CV for each participant
to phs2023@peacehistorysociety.org by
March 31, 2023
Midwest Pop Culture
Association Hip Hop Area
6-8, October 2023, DePaul University, Chicago
1 year in, hip-hop is back at MPCA/ACA! The field of hip hop
studies analyzes hip hop as a musical, cultural, urban, and social form of
expression. This field’s expansive view places hip hop at the center to
understand they ways in which people consume, listen, produce hip hop music and
its changes over time. There are many ways to examine hip hop and we are
excited to include hip hop studies in the MPCA/ACA. We are seeking papers,
panels, and roundtables focusing on hip hop culture, artists, hip hop studies,
hip hop fandom and beyond. Topics can include, but are not limited to, lyrical
analysis, trends in hip hop, genres, urban analysis, hip hop in television,
analysis of an artist.
Deadline for receipt of proposals is April 30, 2023. Submit
paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation)
to the appropriate Area on the Submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels.
Area Chair: Brianna Quade, bmquade@uwm.edu
Interdisciplinary Academic Conference: Displacement and
Diaspora
September 29 - September 30, 2023, Toronto
This conference seeks to explore displacement and the
concept of diaspora through an interdisciplinary lens. Whether due to war,
colonialism, or environmental deterioration, we are seeking analyses of the
causes of displacement, and we want to hear stories from and about the
diaspora. Whether it be studies of diasporic literature, analyses of
environmentally-influenced migration, or glimpses into what it means to be part
of a digital diaspora, we are seeking to have our understanding of the terms
diaspora and displacement challenged and reshaped.
Submit your proposal and a brief bio online by May 14, 2023:
https://humber.ca/tifa/call-proposals
Black Midwest Initiative Summer Institute: Black Study
& Creative Praxis
http://www.theblackmidwest.com/bmi-summer-institute.html
July 17-21, 2023
The Black Midwest Initiative (BMI) at the University of
Illinois Chicago is pleased to invite applications to its inaugural Summer
Institute. This convening, which is organized around the three pillars of BMI’s
mission—academics, art, and activism—will bring together 15 Institute
participants with 5 Institute facilitators, all accomplished practitioners
within their respective fields, for a week-long series of workshops,
discussions, and presentations around the scholarship, artistic practice, and
organizational work being done within Black midwestern communities. Each person
selected to participate in the Summer Institute will also work to develop a
project, individually or in collaboration with one or more other Institute
participants, that will be shown or exhibited as part of the Third Biennial
Black Midwest Symposium, which will be held at Sinclair Community College in
Dayton, Ohio in October 2024.
Application Deadline: March 31, 2023
Contact Email: theblackmidwest@gmail.com
Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction
https://more.bham.ac.uk/mwpf-network/muslim-womens-popular-fiction-international-conference/
Birmingham, UK, 5-9 September 2023
We invite paper proposals for a free international conference
on Muslim women’s popular and genre fiction and film across all languages,
forms and periods. We aim to bring together researchers to examine the global
turn in popular fiction, and the concurrent ‘popular turn’ in Muslim women’s
writing and film-making. Focusing on writing by women deemed ‘popular’ rather
than ‘literary’, we encourage proposals that engage with under-studied popular
and genre texts (including romance, chick lit, detective fiction, Young Adult,
fantasy, life writing, and science fiction) from a range of critical
disciplinary perspectives.
Please send abstracts of 250 words for 20-minute papers,
including a short bio for all speakers, to a.burge@bham.ac.uk by 16 April 2023.
Architecture and Public Art, 1975-Present
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/architecture_public_art
This Special Issue of Arts invites contributions that
consider how architects and public artists negotiated these concerns and spaces
from 1975 to the present day. This Special Issue will track these sometimes
seamless, sometimes begrudging, and sometimes hostile engagements when
architects and public artists jointly developed works, sites, and city plans.
Where and when do the practices and concerns of architecture and public art
come together? How have architects encouraged artists to design plaza
sculptures, indoor and outdoor furniture pieces, or functional interior design
elements? How have artists modified their own practices to respond to
architectural interests informed by parametric scripting or pursuits of green
building certifications? What influence have new funding sources and zoning
incentives had on the alignment of the fields of architecture and public art?
Contributions may take the form of scholarly analyses of historical moments,
geographic circumstances, and stylistic traditions, as well as interviews and
other creative formats.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 May 2023
Contact Email: wasserman@american.edu
Workshop on Visions of Third-Worldism
We invite applications for a workshop on Third Worldism
between the 1950s and 1980s. The goal of the workshop is providing definitions
of Third Worldism through Europe-global South collaborations. We are especially
interested in how modes of transnational initiatives transcended a Eurocentric
understanding of a one-way solidarity. We want to explore how Europe supported
the struggle for decolonization and liberation, how the global South found a
European space in their anti-colonial activism, and the mutual transformations
of solidarity. Moreover, we believe that even in failed collaborations,
scholars can trace important trajectories for the study of Third Worldism.
Please submit an abstract (300 words) and a short CV (2 pages) to grusso@mc3.edu and marco.zoppi2@unibo.it by April 15, 2023.
PUBLICATIONS
Wars We Never
Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction
Critical essays are requested for Wars We Never Fought:
Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction.
This collection will examine the use and function of war as a central
thematic or formal element in science / speculative fiction and fantasy texts
in a variety of popular culture media, from narrative fiction to film and
television to video games and new media. Wars We Never Fought will seek to offer
accessible and wide-ranging critical insight into how and why creators in the
fields of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres use “war” as a device
within the diegetic worlds of their stories; what the depictions of war and
warriors within these texts suggest regarding notions such as race, class,
gender, sexuality, difference, sociopolitical power, and other cultural values;
and how the textual dramatization of entirely fictitious wars might reflect,
interrogate, and even structure understanding of warfare in the “real
world.”
Deadline for Essay Proposals
June 1, 2023 to wars.we.never@gmail.com.
Writing African
Feminist Subjectivities
https://www.feministformations.org/submit/calls-for-papers
African feminist subjectivities are complex and often
contradictory. They are always in flux and necessarily connected to
transnational and global processes and movements but also grounded in specific
histories and locales. We seek essays that address subjectivity as an
analytical category that troubles essentialist conceptions of belonging and
raises critical questions about feminism as resistance politics. Specifically,
we invite essays, poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction that explore how
feminists of Africa write and articulate African feminist subjectivities (Cis,
Queer and Transgender); how they negotiate power and build feminist
communities; how they mobilize against domestic and sexual repression and
violence; how they address politics of knowledge production and its embedded
hierarchies of power (geographical, economic, cultural, racial and linguistic);
and how they navigate essentialist renditions of African identity and what it
means to be African and write feminisms in Africa.
Manuscripts should be submitted to the Feminist
Formations Submittable page by September 1st, 2023.
Questions about the submission process may be sent to
editorial assistant Miranda Findlay at feministformations@oregonstate.edu.
Questionnaire: The Animacy of Objects
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/amart/call-for-submissions
American Art, the peer-reviewed journal co-published by the
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press, seeks to
publish papers demonstrating cultural perspectives that recognize objects as
animate beings. Contributors are encouraged to interrogate how the Western
discipline of art history, and particularly the focus of this journal—the role
played by art and related visual culture in the ongoing transnational and
transcultural formation of “America” as a contested geography, identity, and
idea—would benefit from these perspectives. Toward this goal, essays are
welcome from scholars who are working both within and beyond North American
topics, as well as those coming from other disciplines and fields. Selected
authors will be compensated $500 each.
Please submit manuscripts of 1,500–2,000 words (including
notes) with 1–4 images, to AmericanArtJournal@si.edu
by August 15, 2023.
Inclusive Approaches to Historic Preservation: Gender,
Race, Sexuality and Ability
https://www.mtsu.edu/history/strickland-scholar.php
March 30, 2023 7:00PM Central Time
Gail Dubrow will discuss her thirty years teaching and
practicing in the field of historic preservation and public history. As a
graduate student, Dubrow was one of the first to integrate new scholarship in
women’s history into the identification and interpretation of historic places.
Later as a junior faculty member at University of Washington, she was among the
first to document places significant in Asian American heritage in Washington
State. In recent years she has addressed
LGBTQ heritage and places significant in the history of people with
disabilities.
Contact Email: victoria.richardson@mtsu.edu
Teaching Humanities
With Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/6470
How have humanities faculty contributed to the growth and
achievement of Black and brown students, demographics of college learners who
have typically been labeled as being “at risk” or “falling” in the achievement
gap or “just not college ready”? Humanities has within it the very keys for
student proficiency and mastery of the written and spoken language, as well as
critical analysis of literature, art, history, film, and other required
subjects in college programs. Exploring the ways in which faculty have
developed new courses, taught using technology, utilized the arts and digital
media, and facilitated student research and writing related to capstone
projects in the humanities, can further provide insight into the success of
HBCUs and HSIs and how the faculty are meeting the needs of diverse students -
pre and post - pandemic to increase student achievement and provide cultural
safe spaces for students.
Proposals Submission Deadline: April 26, 2023
Contact Email: dfrazier@coppin.edu
The Cultural Impact of Mattel’s Celebrity Doll
Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become a ubiquitous
global presence and a touchstone of cultural consciousness. Those who have
studied Barbie note that no other toy has generated so much sustained media and
scholarly interest. The proposed volume aims to bring together
interdisciplinary perspectives to study the rise, development, and current
status of Barbie media and Barbie’s role in various media platforms. We invite
proposals from a range of disciplines and perspectives, including cultural
studies, literary and textual studies, art, fashion, media and communication
studies, music, education, gender studies, marketing, and critical reception,
among others.
Proposals due May 1, 2023 to the editors at barbieinmedia@gmail.com.
Contact Email: barbieinmedia@gmail.com
Queer Immunities/Immunologies, Queer Virology
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12608089/cfp-special-issue-journal-sexualities
Ever since the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980’s, queer bodies –
and at the time, specifically gay men –
have always somehow been singled out, and stigmatized – in the fields of
immunity, immunology, and virology. The AIDS crisis of the 1980’s in particular
demonstrated that the fields of immunity, immunology and virology do not just
involve bodies and lives that exist in a vacuum – infections, diseases,
epidemics and pandemics are thoroughly political phenomena that are further
imbued with an economic and social dimension, or what Joshua Pocius has
recently termed the ‘geocorpogeographies of HIV’. This special issue calls for
papers that explore the fields of queer immunities/immunologies and queer
virology and its intersections with gender and sexualities. The call is broad
and welcomes contributions from the fields of not just biomedicine, but also
films, art and art history, and literature, amongst others.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 30 June 2023
Contact Email: lindarolandd@gmail.com
Postdoctoral
Researcher at the rank of Instructor in the department of Race, Diaspora, and
Indigeneity - University of Chicago
https://apply.interfolio.com/122630
We are interested in scholars whose work, from any
disciplinary perspective, demonstrates excellence and addresses intersections
of race, diaspora, and indigeneity and their dynamic social and political
correlation. Our department emphasizes boundary-crossing and interdisciplinary
scholarship and tools of inquiry that engage multiple modes and sites of
knowledge production, particularly outside the traditional bounds of the
academy. All applications are welcome, and we especially encourage topics and
approaches which speak to the intersectional, mixed-method, and public-facing
emphasis of our departmental culture.
Review of applications will begin on April 21, 2023 and
continue until the position is filled or the search is closed
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
History on Trial: An
American History Forum with Educators
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ex9dJhBlSmW404U1ot0_nQ#/registration
April 2, 1:30 pm-4:00 pm PST
From school board meetings to the halls of state
legislatures and front-page news, the politicization of the teaching and
writing of United States history is reshaping what can and cannot be taught in
our nation’s classrooms at all levels. Rooted in the sentiment that there is
only a singular narrative explaining the American experiment, past and present,
these efforts seek to take us back to an earlier era characterized by a
limited, celebratory vision that ignores the core conflict of our national
story: that the United States was founded on radical notions of liberty,
freedom, and equality, but built on systems of slavery, exploitation, and exclusion.
Panelists will focus on the challenges of teaching and presenting history in
today’s classrooms, public spaces and museums, debates over what and whose
history will be taught, and lessons to be gleaned from “history wars” of the
past.
Driving Progress: The Future of DE&I at Work
https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K041423/
Friday, April 14, 2023, 10am EDT
Dana Moss, Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion officer at Corning Incorporated, will talk with Cornell ILR School
Dean Alexander Colvin about what she has learned over her career about
DE&I’s role in the workplace and its future. She will also offer key
insights into Corning’s journey toward establishing an intuitive DE&I
mindset globally and share reflections on Corning's recently published annual
DE&I report. You will discover why DE&I is not just the right thing for
companies to do – it is also vital to progress.
Workshop: Diversity
and Intersectionality
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FYzrX3ClR0KbFMZiY5cxTg
The national Inclusion and Equity Committee of the American
Association for University Women is hosting a virtual workshop on Wednesday,
May 10, from 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm ET in preparation for World Day for Cultural
Diversity (observed on Sunday, May 21). This workshop provides a hands on
learning opportunity for AAUW members to explore aspects of diversity and
intersectionality.
Celebrating Diversity
Month
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AwboUK_gQXuTYhJ_67v2Rg
Please join the of the American Association for University
Women’s Inclusion & Equity Committee’s virtual webinar on April 24, 2023 at
2:00pm ET. The webinar is designed to aid local branches and states as they
prepare to celebrate Diversity Month in April and the World Day for Cultural Diversity
on May 21. The webinar is designed to be interactive, with ample opportunities
for participants to make suggestions and ask questions.
Still in Love: Multicultural Lesbian Publishing in the
80s, 90s, and Beyond
https://www.facebook.com/events/169922192509538/
March 28, at 7 P.M. E.T.
Come explore this exciting period in lesbian-feminist
literary communities with a distinguished panel: founder of Aunt Lute Books,
Joan Pinkvoss; Aunt Lute author, ire’ne lara silva; founder of Firebrand Books,
Nancy Bereano; and Firebrand author Cherríe Moraga. Julie R. Enszer will
moderate the discussion. It will be an exciting evening discussing the books,
passions, and people that shaped the lesbian print movement.
We’re Not Just Whistling Dixie: Southern Lesbian
Feminists
https://slfaherstoryproject.org/about-slfahp/slfahp-in-the-news/
March 30, 2023 at 4:00 Eastern Daylight Time
“We just about choked on our grits recently when we
overheard yet another woman say, ‘There was no lesbian-feminist activism in the
South, was there?’ Yes, there was a lot activism initiated by lesbian
feminists, activism that proliferated through networking across all the states,
not just the Southern states, activism that benefitted lesbians and all women. We
dykes who are involved with the Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist (SLFA)
Herstory Project have created a performance to enhance your knowledge about the
rich culture of lesbian feminists in the South from the 1960s through the
1990s, as well as to toot our own horns.
To register for the zoom, please contact *Old Lesbians
Organizing for Change – OLOC*: info@oloc.org
The Archive
Revisited: Black Feminist Internationalism and Eurasian Knowledge Production
April 21, May 23-24, 2023, Zoom
The Archive Revisited focuses on reimagining the legacies of
Black feminist internationalism in Soviet Eurasia, i.e., East Europe and
Central Asia. Workshop participants reflect on the meaning and value, including
the limitations and possibilities, of past relationships, encounters, and
intellectual exchanges. The workshop approaches the archive as a site of
exploration and location of creative invention and critical knowledge
production. After the workshop, participants’ contributions will be assembled
into a digital gazette.
For any questions about the workshop, please contact
Tatsiana Shchurko at shchurko.1@osu.edu.
When
Waters Rise and Rocks Speak: An Analysis of Indigenous Research Credential
Theft by an Ally
April 25 • 4-5:30 pm (MDT)
Dr. Christine M. Ami’s research investigates the nuances of
traditional butchering of sheep throughout the Navajo Nation. These variations
also correspond with the various approaches to inherent Diné decolonizing
practices, which she analyzes throughout her dissertation, “Díí jí nída’iil’ah
: A Study of Traditional Navajo Butchering.” Additionally, as the Navajo
Cultural Arts Program (NCAP) Grant Manager at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, she
is responsible programing associated with the Navajo Cultural Arts Certificate
Program, the Navajo Cultural Arts Apprenticeship Program as well as various cultural
arts lectures and workshops offered throughout the year.
Zoom URL: https://unm.zoom.us/j/92372500060
In conversation with
Dr. Karen B. Cook Bell Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their
Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J4InCPIAQHKPwYWx6ErfAQ
Apr 14, 2023 01:00 PM CST
Join CEO Gloria L. Blackwell in conversation with AAUW
American Fellowship alumna Dr. Karen B. Cook Bell. She is currently an
Associate Professor of History and the Wilson H. Elkins Endowed Professor at
Bowie State University. Her current book: Running from Bondage was a finalist
for the Pauli Murray Book Prize for Best Book in African American Intellectual
History. It tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third
of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage
during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen B. Cook Bell’s enlightening and
original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century
America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls
of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to
escape.
President of the
Texas NAACP to speak at TWU
https://twu.edu/student-life/student-life-news/president-of-the-texas-naacp-to-speak-at-twu/
Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP, will visit TWU’s Denton campus on Thursday, Mar. 30 at noon to talk about the glass ceiling and workplace discrimination as part of Women’s History Month activities. The lecture, which will be held in the Bridges Auditorium in the Student Union at Hubbard Hall, is free and open to the public. Bledsoe has also been a staunch supporter of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and is a founder of the collective, Black Brown Dialogues on Policy that seeks to “advance equitable and inclusive public policies affecting our communities.”
New open access book:
Women in the History of Science
UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new
open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Women in
the History of Science: A sourcebook, edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie
Harrison, Erika Lynn Jones, Rebecca Martin, and Farrah
Lawrence-Mackey. Download it free: http://bit.ly/3IZ30cA
Women in the History of Science brings together primary
sources that highlight women’s involvement in scientific knowledge production
around the world. Drawing on texts, images and objects, each primary source is
accompanied by an explanatory text, questions to prompt discussion, and a
bibliography to aid further research. Arranged by time period, covering 1200
BCE to the twenty-first century, and across 12 inclusive and far-reaching
themes, this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in
exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics,
medicine and culture.
