CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
K-pop and the West:
Media, Fandom, and Transnational Politics
University at Buffalo (UB), the State University of New York
October 27-28, 2023
The symposium aims at creating an opportunity to think about
research, pedagogy, and methodologies in our critical study of K-pop in the
West. There has been some debate about whether K-pop’s popularity in the U.S.
market represents its status as a mainstream—as compared to an ethnic—pop
genre. Some would argue that the current success of K-pop be viewed as a
collective achievement of K-pop fans. In this view, American fans have, in
particular, “fought against” the U.S. media industry’s commercial devaluation
of K-pop and their racially discriminatory practices that adversely affect
K-pop artists. How do Western media, fandom, and academia contribute to the
formation of K-pop and its global circulation? What are the potentials and
limits that we encounter as K-pop scholars in Western academia? How do actors
in the K-pop world engage in translocal politics and public discourses in the
West?
We are accepting proposals until July 15, 2023.
Contact Email: kpop2023@buffalo.edu
Graduate Student Conference
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/frakerconference/
The 2023 Charles F. Fraker Graduate Student Conference,
hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University
of Michigan will be titled, "Dis/continuities: Unsettling Memory and
Time" and will take place on October 6 and 7, 2023. This conference
proposes a critical reflection on the relationship between memory and time - in
particular, the challenges of thinking beyond or at the threshold of binary
ways of understanding this relationship. We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words
for papers in English or any Romance language that engages the fields, themes,
and media mentioned in the CFP. We encourage scholarly investigations in the
form of academic papers and alternative forms of inquiry such as hybrid prose,
poetry, performance, photography, or film. Works may deal with Romance literary
or cultural studies as well as other disciplines in the humanities and social
sciences.
Contact Email: frakerconference@umich.edu
Fully- & Part Funded Bursaries: Environmental Arts
& Eco Somatic Residency
https://www.interculturalroots.org/project/isle-martin-residency-scotland
Isle Martin, Scotland 6 - 10 September 2023
This 'Human-Nature Connect' residency oordinated by artist
scholars Thomas Kampe, Alex Boyd, Anthony O'Flaherty and local practitioners,
in dialogue with Intercultural Roots UK. Join a tem of up to 30 international
and local artists, educators, scholars and activists for an environmental arts,
eco-somatic and climate action residency through a Part Funded or Fully Funded
Bursary to spend five days (4 nights) on a remote, uninhabited Scottish
island.
Radical Thought in the Anthropocene: Dimensions and
Potentials of Critical Theory
1-3.6.2023, University Centre WALL, Graz University
The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School has
significantly shaped the philosophy of the post-war period. In view of the
global ecological, technological, economic and societal challenges that affect
us all, the aim is to develop sustainable solutions for the future by combining
critical theory and innovative practice in a way that transcends public
discourse and disciplines. Participation is also possible via web stream.
Contact Email: stefan.baumgarten@uni-graz.at
Teaching Critical Race Theory
https://networks.h-net.org/node/21301/discussions/12874896/cfp-teaching-critical-race-theory
This is session #18782 in the Call for Papers for the 2023
PAMLA . This panel queries the notion of “critical race theory” and how to
teach racial issues whether or not one is specifically a “critical race
theorist.” This topic is especially urgent during a time of right-wing
“anti-‘woke’” agendas that seek to erase the very concept of race from public
education and to attack as “divisive” any effort to offer a historically
informed and rigorous accounting for ongoing inequality and racism in American
society. How do we bring such issues into the classroom and discuss them
critically even as “race” is the fulcrum by which regressive political forces
seek to eliminate public education itself as a space of free inquiry in an increasingly
eroded polity? Diverse perspectives welcome: psychoanalytic, ethnic/gender
studies, feminist, Marxist, new historicism.
The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to
30 Jun 2023.
Contact Email: cc@hevanet.com
URL: http://pamla.org
Queer Africa:
Resilience and Hopeful Now
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20608
This panel calls for stories exploring contemporary creative
works as fluid and diverse moments and their relation to what it means to have
an identity as both queer and African. This intersection between queer and
African is fraught with conflict in the present political and social
understanding of homosexuality as un-African and a Western ideology transported
to Africa during colonialism. Therefore, when most African nations have made
homosexuality illegal, thus, preventing human rights from queer Africans and
making them surplus, this panel calls for short stories, poems, memoirs, and
novel extracts about queer African characters. The panel requests stories that
inherently challenge the myth that queerness is un-African and therefore is
surplus to what is true African identity. The panel calls for diversity in
story genre, form, style, and content representing queer African characters or
living as a queer African to celebrate a surplus queer African identity through
themes of resilience and hope.
Contact Email: nozipho.wabatagore@york.ac.uk
Pregnancy Loss in
Contemporary Literature and Film
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20339
This panel aims to examine how elective, therapeutic,
spontaneous abortions, and stillbirths are represented in work of literature
and cinema from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. We welcome
papers that engage with novels, graphic novels, memoirs, cross-genre texts,
poems, films, and documentaries that address experiences of pregnancy loss in
contemporary societies, cultures, and languages, by using different
methodologies. Topics that can be considered may include stories of childbirth
and loss in the first, second or third trimester, experiences of
traumatic/empowering abortions, and writing about loss to heal, inform,
educate, advocate, overcome trauma, empower, and change medical protocols,
among others.
Please, send a 250-word abstract and a short bio through the
NeMLA website by September 30, 2023
Contact Email: lazzari.laura@gmail.com
Narrative Fiction and
its Alternatives Forms
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20351
the academic world, there is a constant exploration of new
forms, genres, philosophies, and directions—reworking established concepts and
creating new ones. While storytelling initially existed in verbal speech and
gestures, modern mediums such as novels, comics, films, and video games have
expanded the narrative landscape. Focusing on novelistic fiction, this panel
explores their evolution, and more particularly, the proliferation of genres
within them. Is the variety of narrative fiction always beneficial? When should
we put a halt to reinventing the forms of narrative fiction? As we explore the
boundless beyond, it is worth considering if it is worthwhile to continue
pushing beyond the boundaries of what we already know and consider whether an
“end” exists at all.
The deadline is September 30th 2023.
Questions: michzhx@gmail.com
Rethinking the
'Indian Wars'
https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Research/Institutes-and-Centers/SWCenter/Symposia/Future/IndianWars
The symposium will meet at SMU’s satellite campus in Taos,
NM in October 2024, and then again at a second meeting and public presentation
in Tempe, AZ in April 2025 This symposium invites scholars to think about the
Indian Wars in new ways. We embrace a broad geographical, chronological, and
thematic frame, stretching across the North American continent from the
pre-colonial to the post-Reconstruction eras and beyond. We seek proposals
drawing upon the fields of borderlands history, legal history, environmental
history, Native history, ethnohistory, and military history, as well as
anthropology, archaeology, and security studies, among others, while
emphasizing such topics as territoriality, sovereignty, diplomacy, economy,
peacemaking, politics, violence, conflict, strategy, and memory, along with
specific campaigns and battles. We
encourage submissions from graduate students, early and mid-career scholars,
scholars without a university affiliation, and especially Indigenous scholars.
Proposals consisting of a one-page CV and a 500-word
description of the chapter emphasizing how it fits the theme should be sent
to lance.blyth@afacademy.af.edu by
September 15, 2023
Social and
Environmental (In)justice in Discourse & in the Literary/Artistic
Imagination
http://ens-conference-tunis.com/
November 8-10, 2023, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Tunis
The conference aims at inviting scholarly examinations of
the discursive patterns—historiographic, documentary, theoretical, and
artistic—within which the old theme of social (in)justice has been revisited in
connection to the issue of environmental (in)equality. If—as it has often been
noted—exposure to, and suffering from ecological disasters has also been
victimizing the lower classes, marginal groups, and indigenous populations, how
far did this multi-faceted injustice orient documentary, theoretical and
creative practices towards a critical rethinking of the concept of
representation, as well as a rethinking of notions such as militancy,
commitment, and activism?
Abstract submission deadline: September 4, 2023
Contact address: ens.conference.tunis@gmail.com
Asian Studies
sessions at the PAMLA 2023 Conference
https://www.pamla.org/pamla2023/
Portland, OR, on October 26–29.
Two Asian Studies sessions at the 2023 Annual Conference of
the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) are seeking
proposals for presentations. The first session is Asian Literature and Culture.
It will explore a wide variety of Asian literature and culture topics, with a
particular interest in topics that intersect with the conference theme of
"Shifting Perspectives." The second session is Asian Film and Media.
For over a century, Asian film and media have offered sites ripe for cultural
analyses. While resisting the essentializing label of "Asian," this
session seeks to benefit from conversations that emerge when we recognize the
heterogeneity of Asia as well as the commonalities that run through its various
cultural products.
The due date for the proposal is Friday, June 30.
Contact Email: skakihara@fullerton.edu
Femininities and
Masculinities under Nationalisms
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20682
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Boston,
Massachusetts, March 7-10 2024
This panel will address literary (and/or multimedia) works
in the context of demands made by nationalistic ideologies for specific
expressions of femininity and/or masculinity.
What are the hegemonic forms or expressions of masculinity and/or
femininity required or celebrated by the nationalism of a particular cultural
context or nation-state and how are those expressed in literary or multimedia
texts? Papers in this session might focus one or more texts within the
literature of a particular nation-state (and its particular nationalism) or
they may take a comparative focus across cultures. Because nationalisms are always committed
not only to specific hegemonic expressions of masculinity and femininity but
also to an overarching gender binary, papers that explore anti- or non- gender-
binary literary representations in nationalistic contexts would also be
welcome.
Abstracts should be submitted to the NEMLA portal by
September 30th 2023.
Roundtable for Black
Feminist and Womanist Theory
Please join us for the 4th annual meeting of The Roundtable
for Black Feminist and Womanist Theory, which will be held at Dartmouth College
(Hanover, NH) from November 9-11, 2023. To ensure the greatest amount of
flexibility and accessibility for attendees, the meeting will be hybrid
(in-person and virtual). Scholars, artists, and activists are across all career
stages, disciplines, and affiliations are encouraged to apply and attend.
Graduate students and junior scholars are especially encourage to submit a
proposal for consideration.
Submissions are due August 21st
Please email bfwroundtable@gmail.com with
any questions
Association of
Southeast Asian Studies Annual Conference
https://aseasuk.org/aseas-conference-2023/
We are delighted to invite submissions for the 32nd
conference of the Association of Southeast Asian Studies (ASEAS). This is our
first conference to be held in Southeast Asia and will be held at the Faculty
of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, from 27 to 30
November 2023. Proposals are welcomed on any subject in Southeast Asian
Studies. We hope to attract a range of papers across eras, geographies and
disciplines.
Please email proposals to aseasconference2023@gmail.com
by 15 September 2023
Silence: practices,
experiences and rituals
https://fonoteka.etnologia.uj.edu.pl/seminarium
The seminar will be held off line and online every month
since October 2023 till June 2024.
The aim of the seminar is listening silence as cultural
practice, the method of collecting sounding knowledge and
existential/borderline experience. We would like to investigate different kinds
of activities bound with the silence (in its extensive meaning), to try to
explore how it (silence) is experienced, described and practiced. In this
year's seminar we are interested in silence in its processual and performative
dimension, and want to propose to make a shift in research from “sound studies”
to “listening studies”, from the “object” to “praxis”, to explore how various
practices related to silence affect human beings and their relationship with
the world/environment.
The call is open to artist, practitioners, and scholars
(especially within humanities and social sciences but not only). Everyone
interested are encouraged to share abstracts (200-300 words) by August 18th
2023.
Questions should be addressed to Łukasz Sochacki: fonoteka@uj.edu.pl
Rhetorical
Circulation for Social Justice
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20607
Panel of 55th NeMLA
Annual Convention, Boston, MA | March 7-10, 2024
Indian reformers and social activists Jyotirao Phule and B.
R. Ambedkar looked up to American antiracist struggle and activists as models
and inspiration for Dalit movement in India. W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther
King Jr. drew inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi, Ambedkar, and Indian people’s
anticolonial movement. It is one of many examples of transnational circulation
of voices of justice and solidarity in nineteenth and twentieth centuries when
humanity was yet to have the luxuries of instantaneous communication channels.
Now, in our increasingly networked world saturated with new media, as Thomas
Rickert puts, circulation has become “more than just a flow of communication,
affect, and material” because its dynamic process is marked by the significant
forms of transformation (301). The digital affordances have made it possible
for the extension of offline social moments to online and vice versa at
transnational scales. With the exponential growth of participatory culture in
digital ecology of communication network, netizens involve in remix,
appropriation, and further circulation of digital texts in the spirit of
“digital bricoleurs” (Eyman 86).
Submission deadline: September 30, 2023
Contact Email: sarbagya.kafle1@louisiana.edu
BlackAntiquaLit:
Reading the Black Past
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20527
This panel reviews aspects of race, class, sex, gender,
legacy identity, origins connectivity, etc. that involve theoretical and
literary inquiry working within a transdisciplinary spectrum and that make use
of non-fiction, fiction, poems, songs and images alike. It is hoped that a
formation of meaning of the varying guises of BlackAntiquaLit: visual, film,
art, narration, historicism, characterization, symbolism, epistemics,
consciousness, the worldly, and empire clash will offer an impactful and
dialectic venue. The panel involves readings in film, art, graphic novel, etc.
as text. Papers should delve into various aspects and uses of the Black past as
inspiration, recovery, critique, gazing, negation, denial, pejoratives, slants,
contention, revivalist, Egyptianism, Africanism etc. etc. etc. This panel
reviews and welcomes various ideals used in media that offer interpretives.
Papers should endeavor various facets seen in any era or time and that include
contemporary forms or popular cultural expressions on screen or read as text
again in a broad sense. The panel hopes to inform and reveal
interconnectivities of BlackAntiquaLit and particularly locating countering
and/or embellished renditions.
Submission deadline: September 30, 2023
Contact Email: serrano@udel.edu
From Biopolitics to
Ecoaesthetics: Legacies of Encroachment(s)
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20745
The reality of globalization, and its inherent movements and
interactions of bodies, challenges the radical frame and geographies of the
aforementioned concepts. The inevitability of the relation, in its
materialisations as contact, conflict, and integration, highlights the thin
lines between acknowledging, understanding, and trespassing boundaries in human
relations to each other and to the systems that govern their lives. Boundaries
being perceived either as divine or man-made laws, their existence and legacies
are sustained by internalized knowledge of codes and conventions, values and
principles, traditions and modus operandi. The idea of encroachment in thinking
of the experiences of boundaries in human relations captures the inevitable
obsession for trespassing. Regardless of its motivation, trespassing has an
impact on the body that is transformative. Therefore, the effects of
encroachment pervade the body in its relation to itself and its environment(s).
In thinking about legacies of encroachments in French and Francophone
literatures, we think of the legacies of this concept in literary practices, in
thematic choices across geographies, and its transmedial expressions within and
beyond the literary canon(s).
Proposals can be sent to (mt2200@princeton.edu) or on NEMLA
portal.
Reflecting and
Teaching on the Racialization of Latinx Peoples in Popular Culture
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20477
This roundtable welcomes educators whose teaching and
scholarship focus on Latinx Peoples and Popular Culture. We are particularly
interested in sharing and discussing ideas on 1) how various forms of popular
culture (such as film, music, television, comics, and video games) have
racialized and gendered the Latinx bodies (e.g., defined them as other,
different, inferior, or feminine) in order to legitimate hierarchical and
discriminatory practices and uphold Western/White supremacy; 2) the development
of new forms of popular culture that challenge exaggerated and discriminatory
representations and offer alternative and non-hierarchical images and
definitions of Latinx communities; 3) and how to incorporate Latinx popular
culture into the classroom as part of our efforts to explain to our students
the complexities surrounding Latinx subjectivities and experiences.
Please send 200-word abstracts by September 30th, 2023
Contact Email: j1lara@bridgew.edu
(Em)Body/Environment
https://www.southernhumanities.org/call
Savannah, GA, February 1-4, 2024
The Southern Humanities Conference invites proposals for
papers on any aspect of the theme “Em)Body/Environment,” broadly conceived. Our
conference themes are meant to be inspiring and prompt reflection, not
limiting. The topic is interdisciplinary
and invites proposals from all areas of study, as well as creative pieces
including but not limited to performance, music, art, and literature. Customary
paper and full panel proposals are invited, as are ones for creative
presentation formats like roundtables, workshops, and demonstrations. Moreover, the Southern Humanities Conference
welcomes proposals from teachers and professionals outside the academy, as well
as from scholars in the early stages of their academic careers including
graduate students.
Please submit proposals of 300-500 words through our website
at www.southernhumanities.org (preferred),
or by email sent to Brett Bebber at southernhumanities@gmail.com. Proposals
are due by December 15, 2023
Conference on Citizenship
https://www.masshist.org/research/conferences
Massachusetts Historical Society, July 11-13, 2024
The conference committee invites proposals of papers and/or
panels that explore themes associated with citizenship and other variations of
national belonging reflected in both the pieces of landmark legislation
featured here. Additionally, this conference will serve both scholars and K-12
educators by providing a platform to consider how the classroom serves as a key
site of historical representation. Teachers will be invited to attend the
traditional academic sessions, and scholars in turn will be invited to
participate in a concluding teacher workshop at the end of the conference.
Email ccloutier@masshist.org
A Surplus of Plusses:
Transferable Teaching Strategies from Writing to Text
Post-2020, the general education curriculum is being
re-evaluated at many institutions. Within these core requirements, first-year
writing courses are becoming increasingly vulnerable whether by repackaging the
requirements through non-Writing specific classes or by streamlining
two-semester writing sequences into one. The transference of pedagogical
approaches between first-year Writing and Literature classes reinforces
critical thinking, verbal, and written skills. Yet equal in importance for the
current population of students, but less visible to those wary of general
education’s ‘profitability’, is the structure and delivery of the course
materials which creates connections with their peers and encourages students to
be receptive to being intellectually challenged.
The Roundtable welcomes proposals which discuss how
pedagogical techniques implemented in First-Year Writing classes, Introductory
Literature courses, or both, have supported student learning in broad or
specific ways as they have transitioned back to face-to-face learning. Please
submit abstract proposals of 200-300 words by Saturday, September 30, 2023
at: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20678
Conference on Asian
Studies
24–25 November 2023 | Olomouc, Czech Republic & Online
(Hybrid)
We welcome contributions that focus on any aspect of
cultures or societies in Asia as well as their diasporic manifestations. We
seek both synchronic and diachronic perspectives from anthropology, the arts,
cultural geography, history, international relations, linguistics, literary
studies, philosophy, political science, religion studies, sociology, and other
fields in the humanities and social sciences. We also welcome interdisciplinary
and transdisciplinary investigations.
The abstract submission deadline is June 30, 2023.
Any questions can be addressed to acas@upol.cz.
PUBLICATIONS
Rage, Struggle,
Freedom: Politics of Hope and Love
https://sfonline.barnard.edu/call-for-submissions/
The Scholar and Feminist Online is pleased to invite you to
submit your work to our first-ever open call for a special issue on
transnational feminist struggles and solidarities guest edited by Margo Okazawa-Rey
and Elif Sarican, tentatively titled “Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Politics of Hope
and Love.” By synthesizing the politics
of love, anger, and resistance with hope and a steadfast dedication to
meaningful freedom, feminist scholars and activists in the current century
present numerous possibilities for a world markedly distinct from the one we
now confront, unlocking the potential for abundant rewards. To this end, we
seek submissions from activists, artists, musicians, poets and creative
writers, revolutionaries, and scholars that respond to these questions and
others you may have in this seemingly unprecedented historic time. We welcome
written scholarly articles, individual and movement reflections, and opinion
pieces. We also enthusiastically encourage art, poems, and video and creative
multimedia forms.
The deadline to submit your work for consideration is
Monday, October 2, 2023.
email: sfonline@barnard.edu
Unbearable Beings
https://womensstudiesquarterly.com/issues/cfp/
This special issue of WSQ explores the unbearableness of
that which cannot be contained within the category of what Sylvia Wynter
defines as the “Man-as-human.” Infrastructures of oppression—the nation-state
and its borders, citizenship, the unequal distribution of material resources
deemed essential for survival such as healthcare, housing, education, and other
human rights—police the borders of the category of the “Man-as-human” and cast
out Black, Indigenous, people of color, impoverished, disabled, and LGBTQIA+
people differently. Treated as the refuse of urban renewal and gentrification,
and/or displaced by environmental crises, wars, and ongoing legacies of settler
colonialism and capitalist exploitation, marginalized subjects have, however,
effected enormous sociopolitical changes over time, and have fostered
socialities in spaces deemed unhomely and unclean.
We are interested in submissions that explore abject spaces shaped
by white settler colonial domestic/international policies and multinational
corporations. More specifically, submissions should explore how these cultural
expressions push against/ embrace/reject the unbearableness of being(s) and
offer unknown possibilities of our freedom and creativity as a species.
Priority Deadline: September 15, 2023
For questions, please email the guest issue editors at WSQEditorial@gmail.com.
Gendering Social Media: Power, Privilege, and Politics
We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues towards a
book chapter for the book Gendering Social Media: Power, Privilege, and
Politics to be published by Springer, Germany. Please
submit your chapters before July 15, 2023. Please send your submission
to editorialteam2022@gmail.com.
Kindly acknowledge editors by email in case you are interested in contributing
to any book chapter.
Performance in the Humanities
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12865409/performance-humanities
This special edition of Interdisciplinary Humanities will
investigate how performance shapes our experience of the humanities. In the
four decades since NYU offered the first degree in “Performance Studies,” the
advent of the internet and social media has changed the way we study, create,
teach, learn, and identify ourselves. Performance forms and platforms have
multiplied and facilitated one of the most contentious political cycles in
American history, public upheavals demanding social justice, and new thresholds
of mis and disinformation. How are these performance platforms shaping our
experience and understanding of the world? With so much at stake for our
students, this is the right time to reflect upon the role performance is
playing in meaning-making. We invite papers that explore performance in all its
manifestations.
Contact Email: Kimberly.abunuwara@uvu.edu
Ecozon@
In this special themed section, we invite explorations and
conceptualizations of disruptive encounters – whether gentle or violent,
fictional or factual – which challenge the cause-and-effect logic of quick-fix
remedies. Building on Anna Tsing’s concept of the transformative effect of
“unpredictable encounters” (Tsing 2015, 20), we are interested in disruptive
encounters that challenge and transform dominant (alienated) human-nonhuman
relationships. Our concept of ‘disruptive encounter’ builds on but is not
limited to three major sites of disruptive encounters which we believe engender
practices of care, contamination and surrendering control over (nonhuman)
environments: Science-Art-Worldings; Forced Nurture; Gentle Encounters.
We invite contributions in English, German, and French.
Back to the Future:
Feminist Media Activism in Transition
How has feminist media activism transitioned from the print
era to the digital? What are the key events or moments of technological
transition which have signalled shifts in feminist media activism or production
(for instance, the rise of TV/televised events, radio, Xerox machines,
hashtags, or TikTok)? And what methodological approaches (decolonial, queer,
affective, archival, periodical) might we bring to the concept of ‘transition’
in feminist media studies? This special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies
uses the concept of ‘media in transition’ to explore how feminist issues and
campaigns are shaped by the technologies via which they are mediated.
Please submit abstracts (max 300 words) to eleanor.careless@northumbria.ac.uk by
30 of June 2023
Subversion Zones:
Bodies and Spaces at the Threshold
https://escholarship.org/uc/reactreview/submissions
From property lines to nation-states, sites located on
either side of a border are often considered as bounded spaces that constitute
positive entities. But what happens at their periphery? How do edge and
threshold zones challenge our understanding of our environments, intellectual
categories, and our bodies? Conversely, in what ways do spaces of uncertainty
and contradiction shield and reinforce existing power structures, or
reappropriate the subversive? We invite contributions that examine subversive
spaces within the edges, borders, and threshold zones of art, architecture,
landscape, or related visual materials and methods. While we welcome all
submissions, react/review prioritizes those by graduate students from any
discipline at any stage of their MA or Ph.D. program, as well as postdoctoral
fellows, and early career contingent scholars.
Contact Email: msheard@ucsb.edu
Deadline: August 18, 2023
2023 NWSA Women of
Color Caucus – Frontiers Student Essay Award
https://frontiers.utah.edu/2023-nwsa-women-of-color-caucus-frontiers-student-essay-award/
The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) in
partnership with Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies invites paper
submissions for the 2023 NWSA Women of Color Caucus-Frontiers Student Essay
Award. The purpose of this award is to discover, encourage, and promote the
intellectual development of emerging scholars who engage in critical theoretical
discussions and/or analyses about feminist/womanist issues concerning women and
girls of color in the United States and diasporas. One (1) annual $500 award is available for a
woman of color who is a current graduate student and member of NWSA. The
prize-winning essay will automatically be considered for publication in
Frontiers. All essays are subject to the Frontiers peer review process. If
winning essays are accepted for publication, additional revisions may be
required.
Deadline for Proposal Submission: July 1, 2023
Belief in Solidarity.
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of religiously inspired solidarity
in modernizing and post-secular contexts
https://www.ucsia.org/home-en/themes/religion-society/events/belief-in-solidarity/
Antwerp, Belgium, Date: 11 – 13 December 2023
In this workshop, we aim to discuss the role of faith and
religious inspiration in organizing solidarity in contemporary super diverse
and post-secular urbanized societies as well as in secularizing societies from
the nineteenth century on. We proceed from the observation that religiously
inspired or faith-based organizations have played and continue to play a significant
role in offering social support and protection to vulnerable groups. However,
these organizations do not sit easily in their intellectual and
political-ideological context. The aim of our workshop is to unpack this
tension in an interdisciplinary way. Both in the past and today the practices
and views of religiously inspired people were both challenged by and related to
the development of such ‘modern’ concepts and standards as equality,
neutrality, human rights and democracy.
Deadline: 28 June 2023
Contact Email: gilke.gunst@ucsia.be
Urban Uprisings in
Asia: Women’s Social and Political Activism in Contemporary Asian Literature in
English
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the
literary representation of women's social and political activism in the context
of urban uprisings. This emerging genre of literary studies has opened up
exciting new avenues for exploring the experiences of women who have
participated in these movements, and for examining the ways in which their
stories have been told and interpreted. While sociological studies have long
focused on urban uprisings, they have tended to overlook the specific
experiences of women within these movements. The book aims to shed light on the
diverse forms of women's activism in urban areas throughout the Asian
continent. The editors seek to not only comprehend each case as a distinct
phenomenon but also to identify commonalities and disparities among them. They
are interested in receiving innovative contributions that explore various
historical and contemporary examples of urban uprisings in Asia.
Please submit an abstract of approx. 400 words and a short
bionote to Moussa Pourya Asl (moussa.pourya@usm.my)
or Henry Oinas-Kukkonen (henry.oinas-kukkonen@oulu.fi)
by 30 June 2023.
Frontiers at 50: The
Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Knowledge Production
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies was founded in
Boulder, Colorado, in 1975 and was housed in the Women's Studies department at
the University of Colorado-Boulder. Frontiers began as a volunteer-based
organization to bridge academic and community-based feminist knowledge and
corresponded with a local movement among students, faculty, and community
members to develop a women's studies program at the University of Colorado.
What does the history of Frontiers tell us about the role of academic journals
in the broader history of feminism? What possibilities and limitations emerge
when we view academic feminist journals as historical records of how feminism
and feminist theory, methodology, and praxis have been defined and redefined
across the decades?
Contact Email: frontiersjournal@utah.edu
Nostalgia Enterprise:
Longing for the Past, (Re-)Imagining the Future
https://stuter.fsv.cuni.cz/stuter/announcement/view/20
The peer-reviewed academic journal Acta Universitatis
Carolinae – Studia Territorialia invites authors to submit articles for a
special issue entitled “Nostalgia Enterprise: Longing for the Past,
(Re-)Imagining the Future.” This special issue aims to identify the features of
such nostalgic discourses, the cultural mechanisms on which they rely, and the
various ways in which they are politicized within and beyond the post-socialist
context. It will zoom in on the question of whose nostalgia is detectable in the
public sphere and the ends to which it is employed. Does longing for the past
appear in both expected and unexpected ways? How is such longing used in
political discourses, media, film, literature, museum exhibitions, music,
material culture, performances, and sales campaigns for national brands?
Submissions should be sent to the journal’s editorial team
at stuter@fsv.cuni.cz or
uploaded via the Studia Territorialia journal management
system.
Deadline for submission of abstracts (no more than 300
words): July 31, 2023.
Digital Activisms and
Intersectionality in Context
Special issue of Feminist Encounters
In the past two decades, there has been a great deal of
visibility for marginalised populations from many parts of the world via social
media platforms (whether through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Tumblr,
YouTube, and other platforms). We have seen protest movements focused on
gender, race and caste issues, for instance, utilising these privately-owned
communication technology infrastructures to build networks, reach global
audiences, and demonstrate the influence of digital "publics,"
"contrapublics," "alternetworks," "counterpublics,"
and so on. At the same time, these platforms are equally accessible to trolls
and groups that use them to spread hate speech, fake news, propaganda,
misinformation, and divisive rhetoric in the name of freedom of speech. We
welcome papers that nuance intersectionality as theory or method and those that
deploy situated, contextual, intersectionalities to flesh out how activisms and
solidarities can be forged based on shifting temporal, social, and geopolitical
dynamics.
Abstracts of 750
words (excluding listed sources) and a short biographical note of no more than
100 words should be sent to radhik@bgsu.edu no later than 30 June 2023.
Contact Email: radhik@bgsu.edu
Queer Representation
in Literature and Popular Culture
https://vernonpress.com/proposal/258/36c7e2d7f6cbd97fe1d498b20aec4f6e
This book explores queer representations through varied
narratives from literature, media, and popular culture in an attempt to explore
queer sexuality, the portrayal of queer bodies, and the socio-political
construction of sexuality. The objective is to critically analyze queer
representations in the form of narratives and popular imagination, shedding
light on the current debates and queer politics. The book employs frameworks of
gender, identity, nationalism, history, culture, citizenship, and censorship to
understand queer subjectivities in contemporary narratives. By analyzing
contemporary modes and platforms of queer representation in the twenty-first
century, including the influence of streaming platforms, this book recognizes
the significant shifts in portraying and positioning.
Please submit an abstract no longer than 500 words with a
brief bio note to Dr. Dhishna Pannikot and Dr. Tanupriya (volume editors)
at dr.dhishnapannikot@gmail.com & tanupriya.2493@gmail.com by 5th
July 2023.
Documenting
Disability in History
SourceLab is
a digital documentary publishing initiative sponsored by the Department of
History at the University of Illinois. For Fall 2023, SourceLab is issuing a
call for proposals for a new series, publishing sources for the history of
disability. Do you know of a digitized source (in any format) that you think
could have wide interest for teachers, researchers, and the public at large?
Would you like to use a reliable edition of it yourself? This call is open to
the history and study of disability from all time periods and geographic
locations. Nor do we limit ourselves to items in English and we can work to
produce translations. Our main limitation is one of scale. For example, we are
interested in shorter individual documents, not entire collections or archives.
Such projects are more manageable for our student teams.
For more information about the program, see our brochure, “SourceLab: An Idea.”
email: sourcelabuiuc@gmail.com
Dobbs v. Jackson
Women's Health Organization: One Year Later
http://www.feministstudies.org/submissions/guidelines.html#call
On the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, Feminist
Studies invites News & Views reports on how
activists, state legislatures, organizations, and corporations are responding
to it. Our goal is to share resources and information about the new and
shifting landscape with our readers. Typical length: 1500 words.
Due Date: September 30, 2023
Please send submissions to submit@feministstudies.org
Feminist Theologies
in American Literature
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12883762/feminist-theologies-american-literature
The editor of a collection in development seeks completed
chapters on literary expressions of feminist theology broadly construed. The
scope of the volume is wide and inclusive. Chapters may focus on any religious
tradition, historical period, genre, or form of American literature. We
particularly welcome essays on works of literature.
Chapters are due by September 29.
Please send submissions to Andrew Ball (andrew_ball@emerson.edu) by
September 29.
Left History Call For
Papers/Submissions
Left History invites original submissions on a wide range of
topics for our upcoming Fall 2023 Issue. Left History regularly includes
articles from a spectrum of academic disciplines, political perspectives, and
theoretical approaches, on topics including race, politics, social movements,
human rights, gender/sexuality, culture,
labour, the environment, theory, and methodology.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at lefthist@yorku.ca
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS
William & Mary
Special Collections Research Travel Grants
https://libraries.wm.edu/blog/post/scrc-now-accepting-2023-2024-research-travel-grant-applications
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) of William
& Mary Libraries is pleased to announce that it will award travel grants to
faculty members, graduate students, and/or independent researchers to support
research use of its collections. Writers, creative and performing artists,
filmmakers, and journalists are welcome to apply.
Send all application materials by the end of the day on July
7 to spcoll@wm.edu
2023 Anne Braden
Prize, Southern Historical Association
The Anne Braden Prize was established in 2020 to commemorate
the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, recognizing the right of women to
vote. The Braden Prize recognizes an article in a journal or edited book
focusing on Southern women’s history. Articles published on Southern women from
every racial, ethnic, class, or subregional background are eligible, from the
colonial era up to the year 2000, inclusive.
Off-prints or articles published
in calendar year 2022 should be submitted to manager@thesha.org by July 1,
2023.
Henry Belin du Pont
Research Grants
https://www.hagley.org/henry-belin-du-pont-research-grants
Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants enable scholars to
pursue advanced research and study in the library, archival, pictorial, and
artifact collections of the Hagley Museum and Library. These grants are
intended to support serious scholarly work that makes use of Hagley's research
collections and expands on prior scholarship. The stipends are for a maximum of
eight weeks and are pro-rated at $400/week for recipients who reside more than
50 miles from Hagley, and $200/week for those within 50 miles.
Deadline: June 30
Please email any questions to Dr. Roger Horowitz, rhorowitz@hagley.org.
Yale Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies Research Fellowship
https://lgbts.yale.edu/research
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies
Fellowship at Yale University is currently accepting applications for 2023-24!
Scholars from across the country and around the world are invited to apply. The
fellowship provides an award of $4,000, which is intended to pay for travel to
and from New Haven and act as a living allowance. Granted for one month, the
recipient is expected to be in residence for a minimum of twenty days during
the period of their award and is encouraged to participate in the activities of
Yale University, including programs organized by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, and
the Yale Research Initiative on the
History of Sexualities.
Please note that applications and letters of recommendation
are due no later than Friday, June 30, 2023.
Contact lgbts@yale.edu for
details.
Research Support
Grants - Maine Women Writers Collection
https://library.une.edu/mwwc/home/research-support/research-support-grants/
MWWC Research Support Grants are intended for faculty,
independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation stage who
are actively pursuing research that requires or would benefit from access to
the holdings of the Maine Women Writers Collection. Grants range between $500
and $1,500 and may be used for transportation, housing, and research-related
expenses.
Please direct any questions to the MWWC Curator, Sarah
Baker, at sbaker8@une.edu
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Monumental
Opportunities
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11WKrfez7eKU38kh9CU2pVER5hcVJvpwp/view
July 12th 4:00 pm Central via Zoom
Please join the Roberson Project for an online introduction
to the Locating Slavery’s Legacies database, a digital repository of
information about memorials on college campuses that harbor connections to
slavery, the Civil War, and the Lost Cause. We have just finished a “pilot
year” of testing the database in collaboration with colleagues and students at
Elon, Furman, Meredith, VMI, Washington and Lee, Western Kentucky, William and
Mary, and Wofford. Thanks to their contributions and productive engagement, we
are able to launch the first phase of the website this coming September. We
anticipate a dozen or more new partners for the coming year.
You can learn more about the Locating Slavery’s Legacies
database at locatinglegacies.org.
If you have questions, please write to us at locatinglegacies@sewanee.edu.
Writing Club at Home:
On Collecting with Shaka McGlotten
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8874
Jun 29, 6:00–7:00 p.m. ET
This special Pride Month edition of Writing Club is an
opportunity to build community among people invested in queer and trans
perspectives, art, and liberation. In collaboration with CUNY’s Center for
LGTBQ Studies (CLAGS), this Writing Club welcomes Shaka McGlotten to facilitate
a writing workshop on the themes of collection and the body, making connections
with artworks by Adrian Piper and Kiki Smith that are currently on view in the
exhibition The Sum of All Parts. This workshop takes place online via Zoom.
Register: https://writingclubathomeoncollectingw.splashthat.com/
Real Talk
https://app.inclusivv.co/equitabledinnersatlanta/conversations/6030
Tuesday, July 25 at 7PM EDT
Welcome to Equitable Dinners Atlanta - a city-wide event
combining arts, local history, and courageous conversations to inspire positive
collective action for moving forward together. This year our theme is An
Invitation to Real Talk: Real Talk. Real Stories. Real Action. Make meaningful
connections with neighbors and strangers, share stories, and be inspired to
take positive action and move Atlanta forward. Join the movement towards a more
equitable Atlanta by hosting an Equitable Dinners event today. Equitable
Dinners take place in homes, businesses, places of worship, or community
centers. Experience the power of connection, storytelling, and dialogue.
Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference
https://journals.h-net.org/phtc/issue/view/18
The inaugural edition of the Proceedings of the H-Net
Teaching Conference offers six papers that examine a variety of pedagogical
topics, including setting student expectations, teaching difficult topics, and
game play.
Public Feminisms
https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/h128nh254?locale=en
In this open-access edited collection, a diverse range of
feminist scholar-activists write about the dynamic and varied methods they use
to reach beyond traditional classrooms and scholarly journals to share their
work with the public. Here is an opportunity to reflect on the meaning and
importance of community engagement and to archive some of the important
public-facing work feminists are doing today. Faculty, graduate, and
undergraduate students, as well as administrators hoping to increase their
schools’ connections to the community, will find this volume indispensable.
fields of force:
navigating power in space, place and landscape
https://escholarship.org/uc/reactreview/3/0
react/review is an annual peer-reviewed
responsive journal produced by graduate students from the department of the
History of Art & Architecture at UC Santa Barbara dedicated to research by
emerging scholars in art and architectural history and related fields. Each
issue takes its theme from the yearly spring symposium organized by UCSB Art
History graduate students.
Contact Email: msheard@ucsb.edu
