CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Radical Kinship:
Interspecies Ontologies Beyond Productivity
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20387
In its materiality, animal surplus surfaces not only in the
animal-industrial complex, the clothing sector, and laboratories but also in
selective breeding (animal eugenics), animal shelters, and the entertainment
industry. Taking the literal framing of “surplus” as a point of departure, this
panel proposes to push against the notion of productivity and the capitalist
logic of reducing nonhuman animals to mere production units. The panel seeks
alternative models of relationality based on non-extraction, mutuality, and
solidarity across species, and calls for transdisciplinary papers in literary
and media studies that aim at radically rewiring the ontological status of
more-than-human animals. Can we reimagine interspecies relationships rooted in
reciprocity rather than in speciesism and utilitarian ideologies? How can we
recalibrate value systems toward a kin-centric, non-productive direction?
CFP DEADLINE: 30th September
For any questions, please contact: etavella@uchicago.edu; cd914@comminfo.rutgers.edu
The Reality of Artificiality: Artificial Intelligence and the Academe
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20419
Though the full capabilities of AI are still largely
unknown, or they have yet to be developed, institutions and pedagogues are
actively exploring how to work amid and with the realities of artificiality -
how to harness the benefits and navigate potential disadvantages of
incorporating generative AI tools in the classroom. Presenters from across all
disciplines are therefore invited to discuss the impact of generative
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as Chat GPT, on teaching and learning
and, broadly, on academic standards and practices.
The deadline to submit presentation proposals is September
30, 2023.
Contact Email: dellannia.segreti@mail.utoronto.ca
'How do I write what
I don’t know?': Mastering Grant Application Writing
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20446
The decline of the humanities in recent years triggered by
falling enrollment numbers and coupled with pandemic-induced budget crunches
have ushered in various forms of economic precarity for graduate students
across North America, Europe, and beyond. The importance of securing funding to
finish a dissertation, a master’s thesis, and miscellaneous short-term and
long-term research projects cannot, therefore, be overstated for graduate
students across the board. As such, this GSC-sponsored roundtable will attempt
to answer some pressing questions about mastering grant-writing and
fellowship-application writing, a genre of academic writing about which
graduate students often receive very little formal training at a departmental
level.
The deadline to submit presentation proposals is September
30, 2023.
Contact Emailsamadrita.kuiti@uconn.edu
International
Conference on Disability and Diversity
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Center on Disability
Studies, in the College of Education, is accepting presentation proposals for
the 39th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and
Diversity, February 27–28, 2024 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Submissions are being
accepted until October 1, 2023 with a preferred submission date of September
15th at http://go.hawaii.edu/na2.
Contact Email prcall@hawaii.edu
Navigating Alt-Ac:
Beyond Higher Education
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20599
Lack of structured departmental and/or institutional
guidance on professions outside academia makes it necessary to initiate a
serious discussion on various aspects of pushing towards alternative academic
careers, or, in other words, “alt-ac.” Hundreds of graduate students in the
humanities have already established successful careers as journalists, content
creators, data activists, consultants, editors, education managers, etc. Many
have leveraged their experience in academic research to contribute to research
in think tanks and non-profit organisations. This GSC-sponsored panel will
address the absence of a sustained dialogue on alt-ac by providing a
constructive platform designed to help graduate students acquire knowledge and
receive support to expand their professional circle. In creating a space for
discussing alternate career opportunities, the panel will help them identify
and market transferable skills valued in industry.
The deadline to submit presentation proposals is September
30, 2023.
Contact Emailmridula2076@gmail.com
Preparation for
Profession: Sharing Information for Early Career Teaching
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20515
Many graduate students within the broader humanities and
social sciences want to pursue a teaching career either inside or outside the
boundaries of higher education. As such, the time they spend working as
teaching assistants and instructors of record in the college classroom
constitutes valuable experience to them in many ways. In the absence of
insufficient pedagogical resources and curricular training, the processes of
developing and creating original courses and assignments aside from working
through classroom management issues become difficult for graduate students.
Adjunct and contingent educators also face similar constraints as their
graduate counterparts. As such, this GSC-sponsored roundtable aims to offer a
robust discussion on addressing this gap in pedagogical support at
institutional and departmental levels.
Please send questions and thoughts to gsc@nemla.org
Deadline of Abstract Submission: September 30, 2023
Surplus Problem
Bodies: Age & Disability in Hispanic Literatures and Media Narratives
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20581
This roundtable thus invites submissions that problematize
depictions and discourses of age and disability understood as “excess” or
“surplus” in Hispanic literatures and media narratives. Some of the questions
that we would like to address include, but are not limited to, the following:
How do representations of age and disability understood as “excess” reinforce
or subvert dominant cultural ideas of normalcy? Is the representation of
problem bodies as “excess” a strategy to reclaim a space within society or a
ruse to have them be stored away from public view? What does the presence —or
lack thereof— of these surplus problem bodies reveal about the political
economy of the society and culture in which they originate? Who profits from
this “excess”? Whose bodies are deemed disposable and forced into invisibility?
Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words in Spanish or
English by September 30, 2023
email: Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso (yuste-alonso@hendrix.edu) and
Felipe Pruneda Sentíes (pruneda@hendrix.edu).
Practices of
Imagination - Placings of Imaginaries
https://www.practicing.place/event/practices-of-imagination-placings-of-imaginaries/
The conference will take place on the 8th, 9th and 10th of
February 2024, hosted by the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, in
Eichstätt, Germany.
Imagining is usually seen as something that individual
subjects do on their own and that is located in the blackbox of the
individual’s mind – secretive and placeless. The conceptual focus of our
conference seeks to challenge this assumption, and encourages explorations of
alternative approaches. Examining the notions of place and placelessness that
imaginaries incite (in works such as The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre,
and Rob Shields’ Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity),
we aim to look at practices of imagination as shared activities, foregrounding
their connection to place-making practices (e.g. in storytelling, protesting,
playing, designing, etc.). We invite contributions that reflect on practices of
imagination from a decidedly interdisciplinary perspective, as materially bound
routinized bodily performances which are simultaneously mental activities.
Please submit, as a single document, abstracts of no more
than 300 words along with a short CV to conference_pp@ku.de
by 31st of August 2023.
A Research-creation episteme? Practices, interventions, dissensus - a
symposium
https://complit.ca/2023/07/02/cfp-a-research-creation-episteme/
Symposium (hybrid) | Trent
University | Peterborough ON, Canada | October 30, 2023
Humanities scholars have been asking increasingly specific
questions about whether creative practices correlate to knowledge production,
and about the boundaries of a creative research orientation. While systems of
categorization have shifted to meet new demands for knowledge transfer and
dissemination at universities, the watersheds protecting visual artistic
practice have given way to multi-modal forms of expression. The epistemic shift
implied by reconfiguring these outputs as novel practices that either
complement or displace the traditional pathways of knowledge production is
still largely untested despite strong initial recognition by research granting
agencies, faculty hiring committees, and other pockets of institutional power.
Submission deadline August 15 2023
Contact Email ccla.aclc@trentu.ca
2025 OAH Conference
on American History
https://www.oah.org/conferences/cfp/
April 3–April 6, 2025, Chicago, Illinois
We welcome proposals for the 2025 OAH convention in Chicago
in all categories of styles and forms: three-paper sessions; panels and
roundtables; state of the field; chat rooms; lightning rounds, and workshops. This
OAH meeting will have no single theme.
We welcome all questions, themes, and fields, new and old, in the
comprehensive subject of United States and American history. We invite proposals focused on categories and
specializations of history by gender, race, sexual orientation, region,
chronology, or area study.
Call for Proposals: December 1 – March 1, 2024
Contact Email meetings@oah.org
Interdisciplinary
Graduate Student Conference
https://interdisciplinary.ca/present
Organized by the students in the Interdisciplinary Graduate
Studies (IGS) program at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan, our
conference mission is to bring together folks who are invested in
interdisciplinary work. Our September 28 & 29, 2023 Conference theme, An
Interdisciplinarian’s Toolbox: Emerging Practices and Methodologies for
Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries, focuses on the ways in which we engage in
interdisciplinary research, further reflecting on how these processes may give
rise to new ideas, knowledge, and change.
Deadline for proposal submission is August 11, 2023, 11:59
pm (PST).
Feel free to reach out to igsstudentsociety@gmail.com with
any questions
Framing the Unreal:
Exploring Graphic/Visual Science Fiction and Fantasy
Academia has paid little attention to science fiction and
fantasy in comics. But the growing corpus of graphic narrative secondary
literature continually offers more materials concerning SF/F comics, which are
undoubtedly a vast territory for textual exploration. One might e.g. consider
the diffusion of superhero comics, which—be they of DC Comics or Marvel descent—have
always incorporated typically SF/F elements in their stories (Superman being,
as we all know, an alien from planet Krypton, and Doctor Strange being a
sorcerer). It is thus high time to devote a large-scale event to the discussion
of SF/F in comics; therefore, the ICLA Standing Research Committee on Comics
Studies and Graphic narrative has decided to celebrate its 20th anniversary by
organizing a conference to be held at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
Proposals should be submitted:
· For panels (by April 15, 2024) include a general
introduction (200 words) and a 300-word abstract for each presentation
· For standalone presentations (by May 31, 2024) include a
400-word abstract
Contact Email umbertorossi_000@fastwebnet.it
Dress and Body
Association Conference
https://www.dress-body-association.org/conferences
CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR DRESS AND THE BODY, November
4-5, 2023, online
Curiously, we use the term “climate change” primarily (if
not exclusively) in connection with deteriorating environmental conditions. Yet
human bodies and dress are also... and have always been... impacted by changing
“attitudes or conditions.” What changes happening today are having the greatest
or most pertinent impacts? How are these changes affecting different “bodies of
people” (societies, cultures, organizations, communities, etc.)?
For best consideration, please submit your abstract by
August 1, 2023
Dress & Body Association | dress.body.assoc@gmail.com
Teaching the
Literature Survey Course
https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/specialsessionscallforpapers/
The goal of this roundtable aims to both interrogate the
apparent demise of these foundational literature classes and brainstorm ways to
resuscitate the "survey" in order to democratize the working and
teaching conditions for all faculty and students. What texts should now be
used? What authors should be covered? How do we rethink the breadth and depth
of course assignments for students from a variety of backgrounds and
experiences? What do we owe our courses, our histories, our students,
ourselves?
Please send a 200–300-word blurb about what you'd like to
approach at the roundtable along with a short bio to Michael Modarelli
(mmodarelli@walsh.edu) by August 5th.
Research travel
grant: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library
https://www.library.illinois.edu/hpnl/blog/call-for-applications-2023-2024-research-travel-grant/
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library and the
Department of History are pleased to announce a Research Travel Grant to
support scholars conducting research in any of the Library’s collections. For
more information about the Library’s collections, see: https://www.library.illinois.edu/collections/special-collections.
Scholars at the graduate and post-doctoral levels who wish to conduct research
at the University of Illinois Library are invited to apply.
Applications will be accepted until September 15, 2023 for
grants for travel between October 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024.
Contact Email hpnl@library.illinois.edu
Roundtable on Utopian
Pedagogies, Pedagogies of Utopia
https://utopian-studies.org/conference2023/
Nov 9-11, in Austin, Tx
The Teaching Committee of the Society for Utopian Studies is
organizing a roundtable on pedagogies of utopia. We are seeking short talks of about ten
minutes on strategies for teaching utopian texts in classes where literature is
not the main focus or strategies for teaching in higher ed that build student
capacities and agency, such as, but not limited to "ungrading,"
leadership training, etc. or which otherwise challenge the banking model of
education. A written-up lesson or
assignment would be shared at the panel.
Proposal Deadline: August 4, 2023
Contact Email erigsby@stmarys-ca.edu
International
Conference on Gender Studies 21st and 22nd September 2023 (Hybrid)
National Institute of Technology Karnataka
The idea of gender is highly debated, and has been deprived
of its biological connections in recent years, and is stated as a purely social
construct. Performance theory too ascertains sexuality, one’s sexual identity,
or gender to be a performance that is socially and culturally constructed. The
queering of sexuality has meant that studies are now tracing the ways in which
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQA2S+) bodies
experience and live their gender beyond normative binaries. This conference
would attempt to encapsulate the inherent multiple perspectives of the theme by
incorporating the theoretical and pragmatic dimensions of Gender Studies.
Furthermore, it envisages a dynamic academic interaction where the critical and
historical paradigms of the gender-culture association can be perceptually
evaluated.
deadline for submissions:
August 10, 2023
contact email: icgsnitk@gmail.com
Diasporic Feminist
Approaches to U.S. Imperialism
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20483
Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston MA | 7-10
March 2024
This panel examines and celebrates artists and writers
confronting the ongoing effects of white supremacist regimes and imperialism.
Focusing namely on the U.S. and its impact around the world, speakers
illuminate both the histories of U.S.-backed atrocities and the innovative
creative-critical techniques employed to protest and upend the political
overreach. Together, the panel highlights theoretical and artistic
interventions in diasporic feminisms to support current discussions of transnational
feminist solidarities.
deadline: September 30, 2023
Questions can be directed toward Jocelyn E. Marshall at jocelyne_marshall@emerson.edu.
Out of Time: An
Exploration of Surplus Value in Marginalized Bodies
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20707
This panel invites scholarship examining literature, film,
and non-traditional narrative forms produced in the age of capitalism and from
any geographic location to engage in a transhistorical and transnational
discussion of surplus and excess in relation to marginalization and the body.
Our aim is to cultivate a dynamic conversation around the concept of
surplus—its dual role as a form of resistance and as a mechanism of control—and
how it influences physical bodies, especially those marginalized due to race, class,
and ability. We're particularly interested in understanding how non-productive
time relates to bodies and why non-productive uses of time are tied to
marginalized bodies. Our goal is to consider Alison Kafer’s concept of “crip
time” from Feminist, Queer, Crip alongside Robert McRuer’s understanding of
“crip excess,” Amber Musser’s use of “sensual excess,” and Nicole Fleetwood’s
analysis of “excess flesh” to explore how bodies exceed their text within the
capitalist order.
Please submit 300 word (max) abstracts by September 30th
Contact: Megan Harlow, George Washington University (mharlow@gwu.edu) and Rachael
Nebraska Lynch, George Washington University (rachaelnebraska@outlook.com)
PUBLICATIONS
Transfuturism Edited
Book
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12889678/transfuturism-edited-book#main-content
Identity and representation in the here and now, as far as
cultural productions are concerned, have been supported and/ or undermined by
visions of the future in literature, performative arts, or cinema. Authors and
performers have offered to audiences their concerns, hopes, and expectations
about possible futures via either utopian or dystopian narratives. It is our
belief that the role of futuristic and Science Fiction productions has been key
in supporting a transcendence and transformation of subjectivities in the now.
Therefore, we are inviting scholars interested in renditions of futuristic
worlds in literature, film, or performative arts focusing on (but not
restricted to) the following topics to join us in this book project.
Contact Information
Aparajita Nanda: aparananda@berkeley.edu;
Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Rădulescu: lucia.grosu@rei.ase.ro
Sex (Mis)Education in
the English-Speaking World
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12889741/sex-miseducation-english-speaking-world
This call for papers seeks contributions that will engage
with the competing forms of formal and informal sex education as they pertain
to the English-speaking world. Our aim is to propose varied, innovative and interdisciplinary
approaches to the broad question of sex education, welcoming papers from
historians, linguists, literary critics, sociologists, specialists in gender
studies and others. Keeping in mind Foucault’s notion that sex is both hyper
visible and taboo, we aim at providing in-depth discussions which will help
better understand both formal and informal sex education taking into account
the fact that sex education is fraught with cultural tensions and political
feuds. What constitutes a proper sex education for some is clearly antithetical
to what counts as a liberating, positive sex education for others. Since sex
education is steeped in identity politics and has evolved in a nonlinear way,
the possibilities for miseducation are vast.
We invite authors to submit original research article
proposals – a 400-word abstract along with a short biographical note (150
words) – by October 15, 2023.
The proposals will be emailed to the editors: florence.pellegry@univ-reunion.fr;
emilie.souyri@univ-cotedazur.fr
Indigenous peoples
and data sovereignty: research issues and digital sovereignty
For Indigenous Peoples, this new digital world offers opportunities
to access data (those produced in the context of scientific research as well as
those accumulated by external bodies) as a cultural, social and economic
resource. For example, the huge cache of administrative data related to
Indigenous Peoples could potentially trigger a new era of Indigenous public
policy development and implementation. AI is increasingly being used to tell
stories about cultural and linguistic revitalization activities, as well as to
undertake counter-mapping or participatory design initiatives to reassert their
powers, their territorial autonomy and governance. This special edition of
Nouvelle Pratiques Sociales (New Social Prcatice) is looking for contributions
that explore aspects of Indigenous Data Sovereignty, as well as practical
applications of data management by and for Indigenous peoples.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: August 15, 2023
Contact Email: nps@courrier.uqam.ca
Transgender Science
Fiction
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12890020/chapters-transgender-science-fiction
Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book Transgender
Science Fiction. This is a volume of literary, film, and media
theory and criticism guided by both transgender studies and science fiction
studies. Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word
biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the
Dropbox folder at https://bit.ly/Transgender_Science_Fiction no
later than August 15, 2023.
Decoding Artificial
Sociality
Call for Papers for Special Issue in New Media and Society
The emergence and development of technologies enabling
communications between humans and machines sparked a rethinking of the scope
and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this context, software
that mimics social interaction is becoming available to vast masses of users
around the world. Yet we still lack interpretative frameworks and conceptual
tools that go beyond the analysis of specific platforms to capture new kinds of
social experiences and engagements that these technologies facilitate. This special
issue aims to fill this gap. We invite contributors to interrogate the
implications, dynamics, opportunities and risks of “Artificial Sociality,” i.e.
technologies and practices able to sustain the impression of social competence
and behavior in machines.
Please submit your proposal via email no later than 30
September 2023 to special issue editors Iliana Depounti, i.depounti@lboro.ac.uk and Simone
Natale, simone.natale@unito.it.
The Multiverse
(edited collection)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12888355/cfp-multiverse-edited-collection
The multiverse is, seemingly, everywhere all at once. The
recent success of multiverse-focused media across platforms (e.g., films like
Everything Everywhere All at Once and Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse;
television like the CW/DC multiverse crossovers or the His Dark Materials
adaptation; literature like Dark Matter by Blake Crouch or This Is How You Lose
The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone; multiple comic book/graphic
novel storylines, etc.) speaks to significant issues within contemporary
culture. Different from transmedia (one narrative told across media boundaries)
or shared universes (spin-offs that take place within the same media universe),
multiverse fiction explores alternate realities, multiple canons, and
contradictory realities within the confines of one fictional narrative. I am
particularly interested in the concept of the multiverse across cultural
boundaries, non-western approaches to the multiverse concept, and multiple
iterations of the multiverse.
Call for Reviewers -
Journal of Popular Culture
https://networks.h-net.org/group/73374/announcements/20000083/call-reviewers-journal-popular-culture
The Journal of Popular Culture is looking for those who are
interested in reviewing books. These reviews will be due on September 30,
2023. If you have a completed Master's
degree or higher, one of these books is in your field of study, and you are
interested in writing a review for us, please contact me at kiuchiyu@msu.edu,
noting your preferred title and your mailing address.
Available Books
Russ Crawford, Women's American Football: Breaking Barriers
on and off the Gridiron, Nebraska
Paul Youngquist, A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of
Afrofuturism, Texas
Anthony Quinn, et al., Chicano Chicana Americana: Popular
Culture Pluralism, Arizona
Diana Harvey et al., Beer Places: The Micrgeographies of
Craft Beer, Arkansas
Anne Cremieux, Now You See Her: How Lesbian Culture Won Over
America, McFarland
Francis Agnoli, Race and the Animated Bodyscape, Mississippi
Jonathan Silverman, Astros and Asterisks, Texas
Steven Gietschier, Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years,
Nebraska
Christina Adamou and Sotris Petridis, Television by Stream,
McFarland
Penelope Ingram, Imperiled Whiteness, Mississippi
Contact Email kiuchiyu@msu.edu
Writing Artifacts
(Edited Collection)
For this edited collection titled Writing Artifacts, we
invite scholars in writing studies and material culture studies, as well as
those across disciplines who study writing or writing artifacts, to help us
build a rich archive of the objects and possessions that matter to the study
and practice of writing–broadly construed. What is a writing artifact? For the
purposes of this collection, we mean any material thing taken up in acts of
writing: tools, implements, possessions, objects–material and immaterial (such as
digital objects)–that can teach us about writers and writing. Any mundane human
thing can be an artifact when we approach it as worthy of study.
Please submit a proposal by Sunday, September 25, 2023
Contact Email cydneyalexis@gmail.com
Memory Over
Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials and Intangible Heritage
We invite article proposals for a Radical History Review
issue on monuments, memorials, and counter-memory that consider these efforts
to transform public markers of memory. We are especially interested in
submissions that query how sites negotiate troubled histories (genocide,
racism, colonialism, occupation) in troubled times (Eastern Europe today,
confederate monuments in the US South, Tiananmen Square protest monuments in
Hong Kong). We welcome contributions that focus on grassroots memory-work by
Indigenous communities, people of color, LGBTQ activists, or working-class
mobilizations.
Abstract Deadline: August 1, 2023
Contact: contactrhr@gmail.com
Saving English, World
Languages and the Humanities: What and Who Should Be Included in the
Conversation?
The general devaluing of the humanities and associated
skills raises concerns of how do we communicate our value to the public? What
role can assessment play in making the case for the humanities? These and other
factors impact the declining enrollments in English, world languages, and
humanities. In addition, ChatGPT, AI, and online translators menace the value
and existence of the humanities in yet another way. This special volume focuses
on factors threatening English, French studies, and other world languages as
well as humanities programs, with a view to exploring creative solutions. What
and who should be included in this conversation? What needs to change? What
should be preserved? What’s next?
Please submit a 250–350-word proposal and brief bio by 12
August 2023 to both editors: E. Nicole Meyer (nimeyer@augusta.edu) and
Christina R. McDonald (McDonaldCR@vmi.edu).
One Nation Under
God(s)?: Exploring the Interplay of Race, Religion, and American Identity
In this volume we seek to understand historical
constructions and contemporary challenges to the formation of American identity
by tending to the role that the intersection of race and religion plays in
understanding who we were, who we are, and who we have the potential to become.
Examining the role of religion in the formulation of the nation produces not
only an understanding of American identity at the intersection of race and
religion, but also as communication scholars that seek to understand the
interplay of culture and identity, it provides theoretical and methodical
contributions that aids us in understanding these constructs more generally.
deadline for this second group of submissions is September
30th 2023 to race.religion.americanidentity@gmail.com
In this special issue of the International Mad Studies Journal, we seek to explore
how Mad Studies, bodyminds, knowledges, meaning-making, thoughts, ideas,
creativity, and imaginations, engage in an ongoing process of m/Maddening the
academy and being m/Maddened by the academy. We operate from a shared
understanding that the academy is rooted in the glorification of a particular
colonial, white supremacist, neoliberal, Western, Global North ideological and
political context and we seek to transgress this. Therefore, we invite a
multitude of definitions of what the academy is, has been, and can be. We are
especially grateful to scholars Juan Carlos Cea-Madrid and Tatiana Parada for
their 2021 article “Maddening the Academy: Mad Studies, Critical Methodologies
and Militant Research in Mental Health” from which the title of this special
issue pays homage.
We encourage abstract submissions by December 15, 2023 via
email to mkrazins@syr.edu.
Personhood, Spirit,
and the Afterlife
English Language Notes
invites submissions for a special issue that will explore the dynamic nature of
personhood as it relates to various notions of spirit and the afterlife. This
interdisciplinary issue seeks to encourage discussions on empirical
functionalism and ontological personalism of a person’s individuation, and the
textural and palpable expressions of individuality. The editors are interested
in how the construction of personhood considers the interaction of the material
and immaterial, and how it is informed by the realm outside of the material in
its ability to describe itself.
Potential contributors may submit abstracts by September 1,
2023 or submit a completed article, essay, or creative piece by September 21,
2023.
email: Ruth Ellen Kocher at ruthellen.kocher@colorado.edu
and KP Kaszubowski at kpkaszu@gmail.com.
Cases on AI in
Language Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/6638
Submissions are sought for a publication entitled Cases on
AI in Language Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, to be published by IGI
Global. With the emergence of ChatGPT, the use of artificial intelligence in
education has sparked heated debate. Since its release, it has received
positive reviews as well as criticisms. In academia, some educators see it as a
possible useful tool in teaching, learning and assessment while more others
worry that it harms the academic integrity and creates many ethical issues. With
a focus on language education, the book will exam how artificial intelligence
can be supervised while upholding the academic integrity, successfully being
utilized, and improved to help teaching, learning and assessment.
August 31, 2023: Proposal Submission Deadline
email: F.PAN2@lse.ac.uk
Lesbian Pedagogy: What
is it and how do we do it? A Journal of Lesbian Studies Call for Papers
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/wjls20
We invite educators from across levels and institutions to
enter a conversation on the meaning and practices of lesbian pedagogies. We
seek essays and commentaries from teachers reflecting on the processes involved
in lesbian pedagogy from across disciplines and institutions. What does
“lesbian pedagogy” mean in your teaching context, and what are its
transformational affordances and/or limitations? What are insights you can
share from teaching lesbian histories, politics, culture, and sexualities to a
younger generation of students? Please share
well-crafted insights with us on your lesbian pedagogical frameworks,
experiences, perspectives, and practices.
Please send well-written and well-composed commentaries or
reflections to the editors. Reflections on lesbian pedagogy will be accepted on
a rolling basis. Reflections should be no longer than 3,000 words. Since we are
interested in commentaries engaged in conversations with lesbian studies, we
suggest that you write with articles or commentaries published in the Journal
of Lesbian Studies. The editorial team and guest editor Clare Forstie will
evaluate and edit submissions. Following revisions, they will be published
online first in a special section on Lesbian Pedagogies. Please send your
submission to Ella Ben Hagai ebenhagai@fullerton.edu
and Clare Forstie forst122@umn.edu.
Filth, Dirt,
Im/Purity and Feminine Care
Vernon Press invites book chapters for an edited volume
For this book, we seek chapters that expand our knowledge
about the underexplored domain of feminine care and also question the hegemonic
feminine care culture as a whole. We particularly encourage chapters that focus
on Global South and that not only discuss feminine care duties/care
epistemology in handling filth, dirt, and im/purity but also contest the larger
relationship of feminine bodies with filth, dirt, and im/purity and feminine
care culture.
Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief biography to
Madhurima Guha at mguha@asu.edu ,
by August 30th, 2023
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
ALAA/LASA-VCS Afro
Latin American/Afro-Latinx Scholarship Prize
The Association for Latin American Art (ALAA), an affiliate
of the College Art Association (CAA), and the Visual Culture Section of the
Latin American Studies Association (VCS-LASA), are pleased to sponsor the ALAA
Annual Afro Latin American/Afro-Latinx Essay Prize. We will consider scholarly
essays published in a peer reviewed journal, edited volume, or exhibition
catalogue during the previous year, on any aspect of Afro Latin American and
Afro-Latinx art, architecture, or visual culture in Latin America and the
United States, covering any period from the colonial era to the present.
For consideration, authors should send their submission as a
pdf to the Chair of the award committee Paul Niell pniell@fsu.edu no later than October 31,
2023.
Contact Email - pniell@fsu.edu
Three-Month
Fellowship to Explore PLANETARY TIMES
https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/planetarythinking/fellowshipprogram/callfellowship2024
Artists in Residence Program (2022-2025) in Giessen, Germany
In 2024, two pairs of artists & scholars will be
exploring Planetary Times in and through collaborative projects. Throughout
their fully funded, three months residency at the Justus Liebig University
(JLU), Giessen, fellows gain the unique opportunity to conduct research, create
artworks, and engage in transdisciplinary dialogues between the humanities,
social sciences, natural sciences, and the arts. To contribute to each year’s
thematic focus, we seek individuals who are willing to transgress disciplinary
boundaries within and resulting from their advanced, academic and creative
endeavors.
Deadline to apply for the third round is September 1st,
2023.
John W. Kluge Center
- Paid Research Fellowships
https://www.loc.gov/programs/john-w-kluge-center/chairs-fellowships/fellowships/
The Kluge Center exists to further the study of humanity
through the use of the large and varied collections of the Library of Congress.
All fields and disciplines within the social sciences and the humanities,
including interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research, are welcome. Fellows
hold book borrowing privileges and are in residence with desk space in the
historic Thomas Jefferson Building with access to specialized librarians
throughout the Library. Applicants may be US citizens or foreign nationals, and
foreign nationals will be assisted in obtaining necessary visas.
deadline of September 15, 2023
email scholarly@loc.gov with any questions
Bibliographical
Society of America's New Scholars Program
https://bibsocamer.org/awards/new-scholars-program/
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) New Scholars
Program strives to welcome researchers who have not previously published,
lectured, or taught on bibliographical subjects by nurturing and promoting
their scholarship. Each year, three New Scholars receive a cash award of
$1,000, a $500 travel stipend, and the opportunity to present their work.
Applications are due on September 5, 2023
Contact Email new.scholars@bibsocamer.org
Archival research
funding
https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/michael-g-karni-scholarship
The Immigration History
Research Center Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries
invites applications for the Grant-in-Aid
Award. In support of University of Minnesota Libraries’ priority of
anti-racist work and our guiding principles of inclusivity, diversity, equity
and accessibility, the award will prioritize applicants who identify in their
application as people of color or as a member of groups historically excluded
or underrepresented in academia and archives. This call for applications is
open to all, through September 1, 2023.
Please refer to the Karni Scholarship
webpage for complete details or contact ihrca@umn.edu with any questions.
Marietta College
McCullough Research Fellowship
https://library.marietta.edu/mcculloughfellowship
Located in Marietta, Ohio, the first organized settlement in
the Northwest Territory, Marietta College's Legacy Library holds 18th, 19th,
and 20th century collections focusing on the new nation, the Northwest Territory,
and the industry and culture out Southeast Ohio and the Mid-Ohio Valley.
Applications for spring and summer are due October 15
Contact Email: McCulloughFellowship@marietta.edu
Travel Grants for
Scholars: Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
https://www.library.wisc.edu/friends/friends-grants/grants-in-aid/
Awards are made up to $2,000 for recipients from North
America, and $3,000 for those from elsewhere in the world. The purpose is to
foster the high-level use of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries’
rich holdings, and to make them better known and more accessible to a wider
circle of scholars. Scholars may be asked to share their research experience
with UW-Madison faculty, staff, and students on an informal basis during their
visit. A short follow-up report is also requested at the completion of their
stay. The annual application deadline is December 31 of any year, with
decisions made in February.
Please contact our office with any questions, we can be
reached at (608) 265-2505, or via email, friends@library.wisc.edu.
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
African American
Policy Forum – multiple positions
https://www.aapf.org/workwithus
Utilizing new ideas and innovative perspectives to transform
public discourse and policy, the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) promotes
frameworks and strategies that reflect a vision of racial justice that embraces
the intersections of race, gender, class, and other barriers that continue to
disempower marginalized communities. At
the core of our vision is a deep and firm commitment to knowledge as a means of
advancing. AAPF is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value a
diverse workplace that strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+
individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities,
foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. Positions include (among
others):
#SayHerName Social Services Coordinator
#SayHerName Campaign Manager
Media Arts Specialist
Research & Writing Fellow
Critical Race Theory Legal Internship
Program Coordinator - Student Center for Social Justice and Identity
Director of Programs, Arts Education & Art Therapy
Project Create is a community-based nonprofit that promotes creative youth development through multi-disciplinary arts education and art therapy. Project Create teaching artists have been working with children, youth, and families in Washington, D.C. for twenty-nine years. The Director of Programs (DoP) will be responsible for the programmatic success of Project Create, ensuring seamless team management and development, program design and delivery, and quality control and evaluation. A successful Director of Programs must have a broad knowledge of program management principles. They must have a strategic mindset as well as be able to lead and develop a high-performance management team.
Deadline: August 30, 2023
Center for Research on
Race and Ethnicity in Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://crres.indiana.edu/programs/postdoctoral-fellowships/index.html
The CRRES Postdoctoral Scholars Program is a fellowship
program that aims to create a legacy of scholars who will be positioned to
address broad issues related to race and ethnicity using a multidisciplinary
lens. Fellows will be placed in one of IU’s sixteen degree granting
schools, and are expected to pursue research activities associated with
their primary area of work, as demonstrated by conference presentations and
published works. Fellows will also teach one course in their home departments
in each year of their residency; are expected to participate in CRRES
activities; and take part in their home departments' colloquia and/or seminars.
Assistant Professor
(Women's Gender Sexuality Studies)
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at
the University of Massachusetts Boston invites applications for a tenure track
assistant position beginning September 1, 2024. This position will support our
undergraduate minor in Queer and Transgender Studies. We are seeking a
scholar-educator with expertise in Black Feminisms, Black Queer Studies, Black
Trans Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Indigenous Studies, and/or
Transnational Feminisms. Responsibilities also include advising students in the
WGS major and Queer and Trans Studies minor. Successful candidates will have a
Ph.D. (in hand or expected by August 2024).
Initial review of applications will begin October 15 and
continue until the position is filled.
Questions? email Chris Barcelos, chris.barcelos@umb.edu
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Pleasing Truths,
Framing Identity
https://www.dar.org/museum/pleasing-truths-framing-identity-symposium
Friday, November 3, 2023
This year’s theme will explore the concept of identity and
how it is conveyed as introduced in the DAR Museum’s exhibit, Pleasing Truths:
Power and Portraits in the American Home. This exhibition takes a deeper dive
into the context and symbolism of early portraits to better understand the
transmission of ideas and their impact on people over time. Presentations will
focus on American identity and will incorporate an element of decorative arts
or material history. Listen to a full day of speakers and tour the exhibit with
William Strollo, Curator of Exhibitions.
Virtual and in-person options available.
NCZ: Not Channel Zero - The Revolution, Televised
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ncz-not-channel-zero-the-revolution-televised-tickets-675606205347
Starts on Wednesday, August 2 · 5pm CDT
Not Channel Zero was a video series produced by Black Planet Productions--a New York City-based video collective of Black and Latine video artists that formed in the early 1990s. The series combined alternative television style with a critique of commercial media, using low-end, accessible technology and extremely small budgets, sometimes only fifty dollars. For three years, the collective produced regular programming for Manhattan Neighborhood Network on the anti-Gulf war movement, homophobia in communities of color, police brutality, sexism, and urban issues.
Before the talk on Wednesday, Aug 2nd at 6, TWN will stream six NCZ programs from Monday, July 31 till Wed, Aug 2nd at 6 PM. With your RSVP, we will share a link to the August 2nd Zoom talk and the video showcase.
Critical Race Theory
Summer School – virtual
https://hopin.com/events/crt-summer-school-presents-defending-the-freedom-to-learn
30 Jul, 4:00 PM - 3 Aug, 10:00 PM
We are thrilled to announce that registration is officially
open for our Fourth Annual Critical Race Theory Summer School! Now more than
ever, we need the tools that teach us to see how anti-Blackness and white
Christian nationalism have been normalized throughout our legal, political,
educational, and cultural institutions. At this summer school, our faculty will
also analyze and chart the ways that racism has been deployed as a cudgel to
dismantle social goods, public institutions, and racial and social progress.
Coming after the recent attacks on Black studies, diversity and inclusion initiatives,
and the Supreme Court’s decision to curtail affirmative action, this year’s CRT
Summer School could not arrive at a more urgent time for racial justice and our
pursuit of a multiracial democracy.
Student-Activist Ticket (High school, Undergraduate and
Graduate Students; full-time or part-time))
$75.00
OAH | NCPH Virtual Conference Series
https://www.oah.org/conferences/2024-oah-ncph-virtualconference-series/
APRIL 30, 2024 - MAY 2, 2024
“Public Dialogue, Relevance, and Change: Being in Service to
Communities and the Nation”
Join us as we honor and explore the ways in which
individuals, communities, and historians work and learn together. Listening
carefully to the intersections, richness, sorrows, and joys of the past, we’ll
ask: How are historians in dialog with communities? How do we define respect
and relevance for those we study and avoid extractive practices? How do
historians partner with communities to create a more just, informed, and
compassionate future in the United States and globally? How should
practitioners of history be more accountable to diverse publics as we confront
injustices in our contemporary moment? How do we identify and redress historic
harms and seek restoration and reconciliation?
Open Access Featured
Content from Bloomsbury/ABC-CLIO databases
https://www.abc-clio.com/academic-featured-content/
As summer vacation commences, we're taking a look back at the
top accessed content articles from across The American Mosaic databases
this past Academic year. Including resources from The
African American Experience, The
American Indian Experience, The
Asian American Experience, and The
Latino American Experience, this month's featured content gives you a
look at what subscribers are most interested in.
New Podcast about
Academic Writing
Announcing Writing It! The Podcast About Academics
& Writing. Join us for lively and honest conversations with
editors and scholars at all career stages -- from full professors to grad
students and independent scholars -- as we make academic writing and publishing
more transparent and less overwhelming. Find us here and wherever you listen to
podcasts. Subscribe and write to us at writingit@jst.ufl.edu with your
ideas for future episodes/questions you'd like addressed.
Documentary Series
published by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS)
https://onlinemovie.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/
Over the past few years, the Center for Southeast Asian
Studies (CSEAS) Kyoto University has produced a series of documentaries
showcasing researchers who are engaged in cutting-edge research in Southeast
Asia and other parts of the world. The program also includes information on
literature related to research projects so that those who are interested can
follow up on their interests. Documentaries are 10-15 minutes in length and
provide vignettes from the field. This initiative provides a window onto what
kinds of research fieldworkers are conducting in Southeast Asia and other
regions. All documentaries are subtitled in English/Japanese and available to
view online.
MLA Style Center
The MLA Style Center is the only authorized
website on MLA style. A companion to the MLA
Handbook, the site provides students and educators with a host of free
resources for teaching and learning the MLA’s approach to research, writing,
and documentation. It offers a quick guide to
citing any source according to the MLA format template, a practice template,
a Q&A feature
with hundreds of citation examples, a blog of writing tips,
guidelines for formatting
a paper and avoiding plagiarism, sample papers, lesson plans, worksheets, and other
classroom resources submitted by users. Additional teaching resources are in
development.
Journal for Women and
Gender Centers in Higher Education
https://commons.case.edu/jwgche/
First issue published!
The Journal for Women and Gender Centers in Higher
Education is a peer reviewed open access journal launching at the
Flora Stone Mather Center for Women at Case Western Reserve University that
publishes knowledge created by and for Women's and Gender Equity Centers in
higher education.
JWGCHE is currently accepting submissions from past,
present, and future women and gender practitioners, as well as scholars and
students who study women and gender centers. Submissions may include
evidence-based research articles, case studies, program evaluations, innovative
program overviews, center histories, and other work related to women and gender
centers.
For questions please contact Angela Clark-Taylor at
axc954@case.edu or the Managing Editor,
Hannah Regan, at hxr256@case.edu.
Engaged Urban Pedagogy: Participatory practices in planning and
place-making
Free download: https://bit.ly/3JH9gFZ
Engaged Urban Pedagogy presents a participatory approach to
teaching built environment subjects by exploring 12 examples of real-world
engagement in urban planning involving people within, and beyond, the
university. Starting with curriculum review, course content is analysed in
light of urban pasts, race, queer identity, lived experiences and concerns of
urban professionals. Case studies then shift to focus on techniques for
participatory critical pedagogy, including expanding the ‘classroom’ with links
to live place-making processes, connections made through digital co-design
exercises, and student-led podcasting assignments. Finally, the book turns to
activities beyond formal university teaching, such as where school-age children
learn about their own participation in urban processes together alongside
university students and researchers.
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