CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Darkness in the American Imagination
https://www.popmec.com/darkness-conference/
virtual conference 4–8 September 2023
Darkness has always been defined in binary opposition to light. As Toni Morrison puts it in Playing in the Dark (1992): “Whiteness, alone, is mute, meaningless, unfathomable, pointless, frozen, veiled, curtained, dreaded, senseless, implacable.” While darkness and light are mutually constitutive, the threshold between the two is ambivalent; it is blurry and changing. In addition to its symbolic dimensions, the darkness-vs.-light binary can also be taken literally: the early settlers feared the dark while electricity effectively banished darkness from cities, for example. The dark may be rife with danger, a metaphorical space of erasure, and a tool of obfuscation, but at the same time, the dark may provide protection, a space for subversion, and a place of beauty.
Deadline for submission: JUNE 11, 2023 to popmec.darkness@gmail.com
Oral History Summer School
https://www.oralhistorysummerschool.com/all-events?category=Upcoming%20Workshops
Fri, Jun 2, 2023 2:00 PM Fri, Jun 9, 2023 2:00 PM and Sun, Jul 23, 2023 5:00 PM Sun, Jul 30, 2023 3:00 PM
Come all ye budding oral historians, media makers, advocates and others who wish to make of use of oral history in your practices. This immersive upstate New York workshop is a rigorous introduction to the field of oral history. Over the course of 4 days, we’ll cover interview techniques, project design, and recording tutorials, plus sessions dedicated to ethics, trauma, advocacy, archives, and other related topics.
Contact Email: annie@oralhistorysummerschool.com
Undiscovered Country - Southeastern American Studies Association Conference
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 May 5, 2023 to conference@southeasternasa.org.
Pandemic Pedagogy: Redefining Teaching and Learning Spaces
We warmly invite you to participate in our roundtable, "Pandemic Pedagogy: Redefining Teaching and Learning Spaces" (description below) - at PAMLA 2023 October 26 – October 29, 2023 – Portland, Oregon. Additional details can be found at the following link https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18789.
The deadline to submit presentation proposals is May 31, 2023.
Contact Email: dellannia.segreti@mail.utoronto.ca
History of Emotions Conference
https://nachemotion.wordpress.com/2023/04/02/nache-conference-2024/
The North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) will be holding its next conference June 7-8, 2024, on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, CA. Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals on the history of emotions, for single presentations or for panels. The conference is open to proposals dealing with the history of emotions in any region or time period; interdisciplinary approaches are welcome.
Due date for proposals is Sept. 15, 2023
Please address questions or proposals to pstearns@gmu.edu.
Literature and Popular Culture – Northeast Popular & American Culture Association
The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2023 Northeast Popular & American Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2023 hybrid annual conference will be held from Thursday, October 12-Saturday, October 14, 2023. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place at Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts on Friday evening and Saturday morning. More information on the hybrid conference format can be found here: https://nepca.blog/2023-annual-conference/
250-word abstracts are due by August 1, 2023.
Email: susan.gorman@mcphs.edu
History of the Philosophy of Pregnancy Conference
https://udayton.edu/artssciences/academics/philosophy/opportunities/baker-philosophy-colloquium.php
hosted by the Philosophy Department of the University of Dayton, October 6-7th, 2023
Our conference is motivated by the dearth of historical scholarship on the philosophy of pregnancy. Historical scholarship on reproduction tends to focus on the conception and development of the embryo -- 'generation' and 'embryology' -- treating the developing organism as an independent entity. As a consequence, pregnancy is written out of the causal story. The goal of this conference is to recover a history of the philosophy of pregnancy and bring the work and experiences of the pregnant individual into focus.
Please submit abstracts of ~500 words to histphilpregnancy@gmail.com by May 15, 2023
In Between the Lines: Race, Class, Gender and the Intersections Between
https://history.unl.edu/2023-Rawley
University of Nebraska-Lincoln | October 5-6, 2023
This conference is intended to interpret the concept of ‘In Between the Lines’ broadly. Therefore, submissions are encouraged which address this concept in any way. Potential projects might explore any of the above categories as they pertain to society, cultures, politics, economies, and religions across the world over time. Projects may connect to this year’s theme through traditional academia, digital humanities work, alternative academic avenues, or other methodologies and perspectives.
Contact Email: rawleyunl@gmail.com
Gendered Advocacy and Activism, Shaping Institutions and Communities
Arkansas State University, May 15-19, 2024
In consideration of recent events and movements, the theme of the 2024 Rural Women’s Studies Association conference, Gendered Advocacy and Activism, Shaping Institutions and Communities, emphasizes the central role that women and individuals of all genders and sexualities have played and continue to play in shaping and reforming our institutions and communities. This potentially includes the exploration of such subthemes as: advocacy, education, agriculture, health, reproductive rights, mental health, LGBTQIA+, politics, poverty, race, ethnicity, religion, and Women’s Rights issues.
Proposal deadline: 1 June 2023 to: rwsa2024@gmail.com.
Radical Humanism
https://sites.google.com/view/criticalpsychology/2023-radical-humanism?authuser=0
September 8-9, 2023
The International Conference on Radical Humanism invites scholars to submit proposals for papers, which critique bourgeois, liberal, and/or Eurocentric humanism(s) from the perspectives of Indigenous studies, Black studies, and/or postcolonial/decolonial studies and using concepts from Marxism, anarchism, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and/or Africana, Asian, and Latin American philosophies. The aim of the conference to problematize and expand the Euromodern conception of the “human” in order to document and develop critical epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies that honor the complexities of humans around the world, particularly Indigenous, Black, and Global Southern humans, who have been historically excluded from the category of “human.”
Contact Email: besharaster@gmail.com
Deadline for Submissions: May 31, 2023
Race and Ethnicity, Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Race and Ethnicity area welcomes paper submissions from graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, and independent researchers of popular culture. NEPCA’s 2023 fall hybrid conference will be held October 12 – October 14, 2023 at Nichols College and via Zoom. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2023.
If you have questions about this area, please reach out to the Race & Ethnicity Chair: Enrique Morales-Diaz, SUNY Oneonta, enrique.morales-diaz@oneonta.edu.
URL: https://nepca.blog/2023-annual-conference/
Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies
We invite proposals for individual papers for the Asian American literary or cultural studies session at PAMLA's 2023 conference. The conference will take place in Portland, Oregon from Thursday, October 26 through Sunday, October 29, 2023. We have a particular interest in presentations that: engage across disciplinary boundaries (critical race theory, postcolonial studies, feminist and queer studies, etc.); make connections to issues in the field at large (transnationalism, biopolitics, aesthetics, memory, etc.); focus on texts not often discussed; or attend to genres not often represented in Asian American literary and cultural studies. “Texts” here is defined broadly to include visual, performing and digital arts, film, new media, disciplinary landscapes, geographic terrain, the politicized body (and more).
Proposals are due on May 31st.
Contact Email: melissa.poulsen@menlo.edu
URL: https://www.pamla.org/pamla2023/
Decolonising Spaces and Cultures
https://amps-research.com/local-cultures-global-spaces-melbourne/
5-7 Dec, 2023, virtual
As part of the Local Cultures – Global Spaces initiative with Rochester Institute of Technology and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Melbourne calls for papers as part of its conference strand: Decolonising Spatial Theories, Pedagogies & Practices. Alongside colleagues in all parts of the world, we must address crucial questions that arise from the places where we are:
What does it mean to research, teach, and work on the unceded sovereign lands of First Nations peoples?
How are the built environment and spatial disciplines complicit in processes of dispossession?
How might damaged environments be restored, and how might the connections of people and place be supported in this?
How can postcolonial, immigrant- and refugee-settlers build respectful relationships with Indigenous stakeholders that cross race, culture and class?
Abstracts: 15 July, 2023
Contact Email: events@amps-research.com
Boundaries and Margins
10-12 May 2023, Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations, Online
Boundaries and their transgression have often been seen as inherent to textual encounters with fantasy. This thematic concern with the perceived limits of consensus reality arguably makes it uniquely suited for representing the lived experience of those marginalised by such definitions of realism. Examining the borders of both reality and the genre are central to contemporary fantasy studies. How do academics, creative practitioners, and fans create, enforce, or challenge boundaries in the production, distribution, and reception of fantasy texts? Fantasy and the fantastic have myriad capabilities for challenging hegemony, but how can that capacity be fully utilised?
Please submit a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bionote via this form by January 6th 2023 at midnight GMT
If you have any questions regarding our event or our CfP, please contact us at GIFCon@glasgow.ac.uk.
Identity and Diversity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Diversity is one of the most used concepts. Yet, its complexities, plural meaning, and other aspects have rarely been understood since popular views of race, culture, and identity in North America and Europe have generally dominated discussions in international academic and non-academic settings. Moreover, while the scholarship on diversity is massive, it has not sufficiently explored the concept from interdisciplinary perspectives. Recognizing the central role that identity (be it national, religious, social, political, cultural, or of a different type) has in how individuals and communities understand and represent diversity, this conference will offer different and unique perspectives on the concept.
abstract deadline: June 15, 2023
email: comparingdiversities@kent.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Cinematic Ecosystems: Screen Encounters with More-Than-Human Worlds
The current global eco-emergency demands a rethinking and reimagining of environments and human beings’ relationship to and within more-than-human worlds. The subject of the nonhuman has been central to scholarship in the field of ecocinema studies. This book builds on such scholarship but aims to home in on the concept of the ecosystem as a specific, situated biological system - involving interactions between soil, atmosphere, water, and living organisms - that is crucial to understanding and coping in the era of ecological catastrophe. Our guiding questions for this collection are: How do cinema and media work to articulate ecosystems and what are the epistemological, material, and politico-ethical implications of such articulations? And how can cinema and media aid us in coming to know more-than-human worlds and what are the limits of such inquiries?
Please submit your 500-word proposal and a short author bio to Mary Hegedus and Jessica Mulvogue via email at mjhegedus@gmail.com and jessica.mulvogue@gmail.com by June 30th, 2023.
The Vote
https://www.southerncultures.org/about/submit/
Deadline for Submissions: June 1, 2023
In our country’s history, tremendous efforts have been made to secure voting rights for all citizens. The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1869 guaranteed Black Americans the right to vote. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, largely granting access to the ballot for white women. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 established full access to the franchise law after decades of Jim Crow segregation and violence denied millions of Americans, especially Black southerners, their right to the franchise.
The Vote special issue of Southern Cultures will ask what twenty-first-century voter suppression looks like, and how today’s strategies are different from those used in the past. How does our history inform present-day understanding of the fight for voting rights in the South? Voter suppression has been our legacy. Will it be our future?
UNSETTLING CONSERVATION: New insights into grassroots agency as post-colonial/anti-colonial force
Ecological conservation has been a major area of anthropological concern. The ‘fortress model of conservation’ has always been fraught with conflicts between the states or international conservation organizations designating regions to be protected as nature reserves and parks, and the local communities that live there. We welcome both individual and co-authored pieces. Please submit your approximately 500-word proposal to Tapoja Chaudhuri (chaudhut@seattleu.edu) and Cameron Butler (cambutl@yorku.ca) by July 1st, 2023.This edited volume seeks to bring a critical decolonial and postcolonial lens to ethnographic approaches on conservation. We invite contributions that focus on ethnographic case studies, intervene in theoretical debates, or review the current literature on a specific topic within the field.
We welcome both individual and co-authored pieces. Please submit your approximately 500-word proposal to Tapoja Chaudhuri (chaudhut@seattleu.edu) and Cameron Butler (cambutl@yorku.ca) by July 1st, 2023.
Purpose Washing and Woke Capitalism: The Stories Organizations Tell Us
This volume aims to bring together theoretical and practical insights into the workings and vocabulary of purpose washing in organisations. To improve their reputation and achieve a competitive advantage, many organisations have adopted the rhetoric of social justice, diversity, inclusivity, and sustainability in recent years. However, they are unable to bridge the gap between rhetoric and action. This phenomenon has been termed 'purpose washing', and it raises important questions about the role of organizations in society, the ethics of corporate communication, and the potential for social change. It also questions the neoliberal logic of ‘progressive posturing’ by these organizations.
uthors are invited to submit an extended abstract (500 words) by 30th May 2023 to Shubhda Arora at shubhda.arora.30@gmail.com
Abortion in International Popular Culture
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12725286/abortion-international-popular-culture
Access to a safe and legal abortion is a right women have been fighting for around the globe for decades, and in recent years, laws that have made access to abortion easier have begun to align with majority support. When the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, countries that had recently passed laws easing restrictions on abortion looked to the U.S. with concern and even fear. Some countries, such as France, quickly moved to strengthen national protection of abortion rights to ensure that long-established rights would not be removed by a radical minority. In other countries, such as Ireland, Argentina, and Colombia, recent victories for reproductive justice are being reflected in popular culture as people feel more empowered to share their stories. This collection will look to popular culture outside the United States to demonstrate how important these narratives can be in influencing cultural understanding and promoting the protection of reproductive rights.
Submit proposals of 300-500 words by May 15 to Kelli Maloy at kellimaloy97@gmail.com and Brenda Boudreau at bboudreaustl@gmail.com.
Boundaries and Margins
https://fantasy-research.gla.ac.uk/index.php/call-for-papers/
Mapping the Impossible, Special Issue--We welcome submissions from undergraduate and postgraduate students (and from those who have graduated within the last year) from any higher education institution. We publish articles on any aspect of fantasy and the fantastic and any work within this transmedial genre. Increasingly, students from more established disciplines (including, but not limited to, Literature Studies, Game Studies, Film and Television Studies, Media Studies, Philosophy and Theology) elect to write essays on a fantasy-related topic that intersects with their primary discipline. Our third Special Issue takes as its theme ‘Boundaries and Margins’, inspired by the works produced during this year’s GIFCon. Submissions are encouraged from those who presented during the conference, but also from fantasts far and wide who would like to share their perspectives on boundaries and margins in fantasy and the fantastic.
email: journal.for.fantasy@gmail.com
Teaching Pop Culture in the Humanities Classroom
We invite scholars across the humanities to submit their book chapter proposal for inclusion in Teaching Popular Culture in the Humanities classroom. This edited volume will provide theoretical and practical approaches to engaging students in course content through the lens of popular culture. The term popular culture is used loosely to describe a range of media consumed by the public, from television, film, comic books, and internet culture. We invite scholars to submit the following proposal via Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r8v64Qquf3M3lA2lGMSsigcUeyO-h6hTD9rNw4qJaUQ/prefill by May 30, 2023
email: archiopolia@uhd.edu
Abolitionist Pedagogies, Pedagogical Labor: A Critical Dialogue
https://online.ucpress.edu/esr/article/45/2-3/62/194548/CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS-A-DISTRIBUTED-SPECIAL
In response to the challenges of privatization, austerity, and the complicity of higher education institutions in white supremacy and settler colonialism, how do we assess education’s past and present and look toward equitable futures? Taking up these questions, this distributed special issue will run in the critical dialogues section of Ethnic Studies Review, and will examine abolitionist pedagogy and student labor during the pandemic and beyond. We especially welcome submissions from voices on the margins of the higher education system including graduate student instructors or TAs, precarious/adjunct faculty, independent scholars, university staff, librarians, digital specialists, workers, and K–12 educators.
To be considered, please send an abstract of 250 words (or an equivalent overview/representative sample for non-prose submissions) to abolitionist.ped@gmail.comby July 15, 2023.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
Grants for Graphic Culture Research
https://www.dnpfcp.jp/foundation_e/grants/
DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion grants research on graphic design and graphic arts from diverse disciplines to contribute to developing graphic design and graphic art culture in Japan and worldwide. Target Research Fields are research on graphic design or graphic art in general and research on graphic culture-related archives.
Deadline: June 16
Contact Email: dnp-foundation-grants@team.dnp.co.jp
The Coordinating Council for Women in History Annual Awards
The Coordinating Council for Women in History offers 6 annual prizes, some of which are open to graduate students. Details and application instructions may be found at https://theccwh.org/ccwh-awards. The awards deadline is May 15, 2023.
Contact Email: execdir@theccwh.org
The Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy (GITA) at MSU Denver Archive Mini-Grant
https://digital.auraria.edu/collection/c756e006-f3b5-417d-add1-f8a925993154
The Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy (GITA) at Metropolitan State University of Denver is \ awarding a mini grant ($700) for a research project that will make use of the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy @ MSU Denver Digital Collection at Auraria Library. This digital collection houses archival materials collected by GITA, previously the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services (IWSS). Materials document feminist and queer activism at MSU Denver and on Auraria Campus in Denver in addition to events with local, national and international speakers, newsletters, letters, hate-mail, papers and documents regarding Gender, Women’s and Sexualities Studies, Women’s Centers and services offered to students affected by sexism and other forms of oppression. Materials range from the 1970s until today.
You can see the collection at: https://digital.auraria.edu/collection/c756e006-f3b5-417d-add1-f8a925993154).
Anyone can apply to this grant. Preference will be given to students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs such as the completion of a project or discrete segment thereof.
Please send to arusso8@msudenver.edu:
1) A Curriculum Vitae
2) A letter describing your research project and how the use of the GITA archive will benefit your research project (500-800 words).
3) Name of two references with contact information (contacted for finalist)
Deadline: May 7, 2023.
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
cyberSW Native American Fellowship
https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/about/position-openings/cybersw-native-american-fellow/
cyberSW is an open-access digital work space where researchers and the public can explore the archaeological record of the US Southwest and Northwest Mexico. Archaeology Southwest practices a holistic, conservation-based approach to exploring and protecting heritage places and landscapes.
The Fellow’s work will focus on enriching the plant and animal data available in cyberSW. The goal is for these data to be useful for Native American communities and researchers alike, while being sensitive to Indigenous values and knowledge systems. Working closely with the cyberSW Tribal Working Group and Development Team, the Fellow will design and implement a project related to Indigenous uses of plants and/or animals that will greatly enhance cyberSW. The position may be filled by someone with relevant life experience and knowledge; university-based academic qualifications and training are not required. The Fellow’s project may help fulfill academic degree requirements, however.
Application Deadline: May 12, 2023
Contact cyberSW Database Manager Joshua Watts, jwatts@archaeologysouthwest.org, with any questions
Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom: Interconnections in Comparative Dialogue
https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/17347
The Sawyer Seminar, a year-long Mellon Foundation-funded program, explores and emphasizes the importance of studying the global interconnectedness of histories of slavery in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific worlds, foregrounding how their evolutions shaped processes of racialization and the advancement of capitalism. It also draws attention to the various forms of fugitivity that challenged systems of slavery by acts of withdrawal and contestation. We thus seek candidates whose work aligns with these themes and who would benefit from active engagement with the speakers and events that the Seminar will be hosting in Bloomington in Fall 2023 and Spring 2024. Apart from expecting that the Fellow will pursue research activities associated with their primary area – as demonstrated by presentations and published work – they will also be expected to participate fully in the Seminar’s programming for the academic year, which will include such activities as leading reading groups and serving as a commentator at workshop and conference panels.
Applications received by April 15, 2023, will receive full consideration, but the search will remain open until the position is filled.
Questions regarding the position or application process can be directed to: Professors Pedro Machado (Department of History; pmachado@indiana.edu) and Olimpia Rosenthal (Department of Spanish and Portuguese; orosenth@indiana.edu).
Associate Director, Community Growth, Op-Ed Project
The OpEd Project is a social venture and leadership organization, founded to change who writes history. We are a community of thought leaders and change agents who actively share knowledge, resources, and connections across color, creed, class, sexuality, gender, ability, age and beyond.
The OpEd Project is seeking a visionary, go-getting leader to supercharge the growth of our community (currently more than 22K individuals and 300 organizations, built entirely by word of mouth). This is an extraordinary opportunity for an ambitious and resourceful professional with a track record of driving sustainable business growth to build deep and long-lasting relationships with individuals of all backgrounds, with the potential not only to change individuals’ lives but also to have collective historical impact. Partnering with the Senior Director, Growth and Partnerships and in ongoing consultation with the CEO, the mission of the Associate Director, Community Growth is to lead a team to implement a growth strategy that enhances our holistic “flywheel” model for public workshops, the primary engine through which we expand our reach and meet our mission.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Historical perspectives on ethics, morals, and values in public health
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/public-health-humanities#events
Running from April 2023 to April 2024, these seminars feature scholars from around the world tackling everything from the quarantining of slave ships to the moral economy of the NHS.
Wednesday 26 April, 4.00-5.30pm: Reproductive injustice in mid-20th century Britain and America
Thursday 11 May, 4.00-5.30pm: Masks and myopia – politics and protection in public health campaigns
Tuesday 30 May, 4.00-5.30pm: Inequality and expendability in early public health,
Wednesday 7 June, 4.00-5.30pm: Moral frameworks for public health
Tuesday 27 June, 4.00-5.30pm: Vaccine mandates and exemptions
Contact Email: janet.weston@lshtm.ac.uk
Displaced Indigeneity, Unsettling Histories
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/displaced-indigeneity-unsettling-histories-tickets-580435577437
University of Glasgow and Online - June 26, 27 & 28, 2023
This workshop, focusing on Indigenous histories of enslavement and displacement, is one of the first of its kind in the UK, and it aims to bring Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous histories to greater attention of students and researchers and highlight the ways in which these histories have traditionally been sublimated by the majority of historical subdisciplines. This workshop speaks to urgent questions about the exclusion of Indigenous peoples and perspectives from mainstream academic scholarship and aims to promote Indigenous histories in the UK, to address the afterlives of Indigenous enslavement and ongoing process of settler colonialism, and to consider the legacies of these histories today.
Graphic Entanglements, Assessments, and Entwinements: A Visual Culture Program Roundtable
May 17th, 2023, 5:30pm ET, Virtual Event
What does it mean to see coal above ground? What does looking closely at government-sponsored illustrations of the American West before the Civil war reveal? How do artistic constructions of pharmaceuticals, health, and illness affect our understanding of American visual culture and vice versa? Join Visual Culture Program fellows Andrea Krupp, Alexis Monroe, and Phillippa Pitts as they discuss these questions and their current research projects with Program Director Erika Piola. Learn more about their creative scholarship with historical visual materials that also fosters our knowledge of our present visual world.
2023 Disability Research Mentorship Program for Black Graduate Students
CQL | The Council on Quality research Mentorship Program aims to provide Black students with opportunities to build up their CVs by co-writing a journal article about people with disabilities. As part of this Mentorship Program, students will receive guidance from about conducting research for publication and navigating the peer-review process. This includes refining conducting the analysis, structuring and writing the journal article, and responding to feedback from peer-reviewers. Our hope is that by the end of the Mentorship Program students will have an accepted/in-press journal article (first author) which they can add to their CV. Students will be given a $1,500 stipend for their participation in this mentorship program.
Contact Email: cfriedman@thecouncil.org
African American Outdoor Recreation
The National Historic Landmarks Program is pleased to announce the release of a new theme study, African American Outdoor Recreation, which examines how race impacted the experience of and access to outdoor recreation and leisure resources for African American people in the United States from the end of the Civil War through the early 21st century. Led by the legacy Midwest Regional Office Historic Preservation Partnerships Program and prepared through a partnership with Organization of American Historians (OAH), the study also includes typologies of related property types such as resorts, amusement parks, campgrounds, or beaches, and registration guidelines to identify and evaluate surviving examples for further study as potential NHLs. By examining this history through the lens of race and from the perspective of Black people, African American Outdoor Recreation brings together the histories of recreation and civil rights in the United States and sheds further light on central themes in the Black experience in the United States.
Contact Email: lisa_davidson@nps.gov
URL: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/recent-theme-studies.htm
Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling By Debarati Sen
Open Access Book
https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/82dfc03c-9db0-4358-83c3-dc7ddab738f3
Everyday Sustainability takes readers to ground zero of market-based sustainability initiatives—Darjeeling, India—where Fair Trade ostensibly promises gender justice to minority Nepali women engaged in organic tea production. These women tea farmers and plantation workers have distinct entrepreneurial strategies and everyday practices of social justice that at times dovetail with and at other times rub against the tenets of the emerging global morality market. The author questions why women beneficiaries of transnational justice-making projects remain skeptical about the potential for economic and social empowerment through Fair Trade while simultaneously seeking to use the movement to give voice to their situated demands for mobility, economic advancement, and community level social justice.
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