CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Sacred Journeys 11th
Global Conference
One of the most ancient practices of humankind, pilgrimage
is associated with a great variety of religious and spiritual traditions,
beliefs, and sacred geographies. As a global phenomenon, pilgrimage facilitates
interaction among diverse peoples from countless cultures, occupations, and
walks of life. In our annual conference, we explore the concept of travel for
transformation. We welcome presentations that help explain the practice of real
journeys under lenses that respect the sacred as understood within a community
or tradition. No one academic discipline controls our conversations and
interdisciplinary approaches enrich us all.
abstracts due Feb. 1, 2024
Contact Email imcintos@iupui.edu
Hip-Hop is 50!: The Golden
Anniversary Conference
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20001634/hip-hop-50-golden-anniversary-conference
Atlanta, GA on November 8- 9, 2023.
2023 marks the 50th, golden anniversary of Hip-Hop culture.
When the culture initially began many were adamant that the culture, often
categorized as nihilistic and misogynistic, would not last long and would
simply be a phase. Yet, now over four
decades later and Hip-Hop culture shows no signs of dissipating. In fact, more and more scholars, activists,
politicians, business owners, and leaders are aware of the importance of the
culture and the power that Hip-Hop culture is able to assert.
Submissions will be accepted until September 15, 2023.
Contact Email lbonnette@gsu.edu
The Queer Outside: A
Recourse
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20679
This panel seeks empirical and theoretical contributions
that recognize the tensions, feelings, and potentialities of experiences by
folks who identify as queer and/or nonnormative, whose experiences also collide
and collude with the educational, cultural, and political aspects of their
social locations. Our intention for this
conversation is to offer a space of provocation and refuge to those who
persistently emerge from, who ongoingly defend and carefully escape to, the
queer outside. Inspired by the work of Fred Moten and Stefano Harney in The
Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, our vision is to gather and
drift together into the queer outside. Like the undercommons, the queer outside
is always here. It is our insistence to become incomplete, unsurrounded by the
routined performatives of identities set up and forth by the impulse of the
neoliberal university.
Please submit a 250-word abstract by Sept 30.
Contact Email CLodia@sfsu.edu
Spectacle and
Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20454
By paying attention to both the representations of bodies in
narratives and the role of embodiment in their reception, we aim to explore the
dual, both complementary and contrary, aspects of bodies as spectacles as well
as embodiment as a mode of empathy (or compassion; cf. Ruberg, see also
Haraway’s notion of ‘becoming with’) that are at play when considering
narratives through the (excessive) body. This seminar seeks to facilitate a
discussion on bodies and/or embodiment in narratives and texts. For this
purpose, we invite case studies on body representations and/or narrative
embodiment that will serve as a basis for our enquiry into the work that bodies
do in texts.
Abstracts can be submitted by 30 September 2023
For questions, please contact the chairs Sarah Beyvers (sarah.beyvers@uni-passau.de) and Jonathan
Rose (jonathan.rose@uni-passau.de)
What Does Justice
Look Like?
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Session13226.html
College Art Association (CAA) on February 15-17, 2024 in
Chicago, IL.
With iconographical roots in Ancient Egypt, western
representations of Justice have typically taken the form of a blindfolded woman
holding a pair of scales and a sword. This solemn allegory, which often adorns
the walls and buildings of institutions administering justice, remains a
powerful symbol that must be interrogated. Legal scholars and art historians
have questioned the adequacy of such a demiurgic conception of justice and
described how this image synthesized various judicial processes or yielded
conflicting interpretations. Whether allegories, utopian visions of peace,
images of struggles against injustices, or representations of punishment, this
panel contends that a just society cannot be achieved without a clear picture
of what justice looks like. Ultimately, it seeks to demonstrate how the visual
arts can play a generative role in shaping visions of justice for the
twenty-first century.
Submissions are due on August 31, 2023
Contact Email sandrinecanac@gmail.com
Archives in/of
Transit: Historical Perspectives from the 1930s to the Present
https://www.ghi-dc.org/events/event/date/archives-in-of-transit-2024
Workshop at University of Southern California, Los Angeles
This workshop will explore new ways of thinking about
archives, archival records, and other artifacts historians might use as primary
sources to gain deeper insight into the history of migrants in transit and the
knowledge they possessed, produced, transmitted, or lost. With a starting point
in the history of Jewish migration from National Socialist-occupied areas, the
workshop broadens out to investigate the experiences of refugees and migrants
fleeing genocide, armed conflict, and persecution throughout the twentieth
century. In this workshop, we will initiate discussions around these topics and
others that bring together a transnational history of the Holocaust with
studies of migrant knowledge in different contexts, including contemporary
conflicts and migration.
Please upload a brief CV and a paper proposal of no
more than 400 words by September 15, 2023, in a single PDF document
to our conference
platform.
Contact Email friedman@ghi-dc.org
Rethinking the
Landscape: Future Imaginaries in Environmental Art and Eco-Art History
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Session12618.html
While the concept of the Anthropocene has become central to
the discourse on climate crises, several scholars have criticized the
essentializing use of the Anthropocene thesis, offering alternative terms, such
as Capitalocene or Chthulucene. This panel proposes to examine diverse
approaches to the ongoing global environmental crises in addition to critiques
of neoliberalism from scholars, artists, and critics. How do we rethink
art-historical methodologies, curatorial assumptions or practice-led research
to consider Donna Haraway’s post-individualist approach to engage with
non-human agents who exemplify interdependent and entangled agencies that are
“involved in climate chaos as much as its antidote”?
Contact Email sarena.abdullah@gmail.com
Poetics and Politics
of Care
Caring for life, territory, and the more than human networks
has positioned itself as a central issue in community and local struggles in
Latin America. Recently scholars from multiple disciplines have found in these
experiences fruitful routes to problematize the patriarchal relations of
exploitation, inequality, and coloniality, as well as horizons of meaning to
expand definitions of the collective by proposing ways of coexisting and caring
for the web of life. In this panel, we will address the role of care in
socio-ecological conflicts and struggles. We consider care as a relational and
distributed force among a multiplicity of agencies and materials which sustain
our worlds through complex infrastructures and interdependencies.
Contact Email tyanif.rico@uni-bielefeld.de
Indigenous
Survivance: Rethinking Environmental Crisis and Global Colonialism
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/wceh2024/p/13425
Oulu, Finland,19-23 August, 2024
This panel seeks to understand Indigenous resilience in the
face of the twin forces of colonialism and environmental crisis, from ca. 1600
to the present. In particular, it focuses on Indigenous strategies of
survivance. Survivance, a fusion of survival and resistance, is a concept
coined by Anishinaabe scholar Gerald Vizenor to emphasize Indigenous agency
involved in the conscious and active process of surviving and resisting
colonialism. The panel accordingly invites participants to consider how to
write environmental histories that, while recognizing the harrowing impacts of
colonialism and environmental crises, draw attention to the creative Indigenous
strategies that have fuelled Indigenous resilience and resurgence against
almost unthinkable challenges. Likewise, we encourage the panellists to discuss
how to connect such critical issues as Indigenous ontologies, art, ritual and
traditional ecological knowledge to the majority societies' concerns with
environmental history.
Deadline September 15, 2023
Contact Email janne.lahti@helsinki.fi
The Global Conference
on Women and Gender
March 21-23, 2024, Christopher Newport University’s College
of Arts and Humanities
In the 1970s, scholars began to apply feminist critiques to
uncover the connections between patriarchy and dominance over the natural
world. Today, scholars continue to
explore the links among gender (in)equality, social justice, and environmental
concerns, past and present. This interdisciplinary conference on women and
gender brings together participants from all academic fields to engage in
wide-ranging conversations about connections among normative cultural
assumptions, gender-based marginalization, and the exploitation of nature. Are
the causal or motivational roots of these phenomena connected? How do economic
systems tie into this matrix? If there are common causes for economic degradation
and gender marginalization, might there be common avenues of amelioration?
Please submit a 300-500 word abstract by October 15, 2023
Please direct inquiries about the conference to gcwg@cnu.edu
Caring Futures:
Contradictions, Transformation, and Revolutionary Possibilities
May 27th-30th, 2024, American University in Paris
This hybrid conference seeks to bring together artists,
activists, and scholars from a range of perspectives, disciplines, modalities,
and methods to explore how we can revolutionize the way we care. We seek works
that examine these contradictions and possibilities in caring, care labor, and
care theory from cultural, social, economic, or political perspectives.
Potential topics may include but are not limited to: care and social justice;
social reproduction; care and exploitation; care and precarity; the economics
of care; animal studies; medical humanities; care in the digital age; intimacy;
care infrastructures; racism in care; care in/and the family; transnational
care and care in/and the global South, the environment; care and dis/abilities;
mutual aid; abolition and care; radical care; feminist, queer, and trans
studies perspectives on care; histories of care. We are particularly interested
in work that engages with questions of power and the social and economic
contradictions of care.
Send submissions and inquiries to
caringfutures2024@gmail.com by November 1, 2023.
History at the Crossroads
https://ncheteach.org/conference
Cleveland, OH on March 7-9, 2024
The national conference is a place where historical thinkers
can come together and share their passion for teaching and learning. Join teachers, historians and university
faculty from around the nation for three days of History Education!
Proposal Submission Deadline: September 25, 2023
Contact Email john@ncheteach.org
Black Music Symposium
British Library in London, 20th October 2023
This symposium invites the submission of a diverse range of
conference papers, posters and facilitated discussion about black British music
and what it means globally. The frame of the symposium, and its themes, is
expanded to consider a broad range of thematic areas. A suggested list of paper
and poster themes are below, as is an invitation to organise a themed panel
discussion. We also welcome papers on any theme or area relevant to the
conference, black British music, black music, researching the African diaspora
and music, as well as work with an interdisciplinary and/or intersectional
focus relevant to the conference.
abstracts: September 21st, 2023
Contact Email h.boon@westminster.ac.uk
Visions of Racial
Justice and Childhood: Inequalities, Identities, Politics, Relationalities and
Representations
Camden, NJ, USA, on June 6 to June 8, 2024
This conference invites presentations that consider how
different social actors and entities, including (but not limited to)
governments, corporations, non- governmental organizations, and activist
groups, have envisioned racial justice in relation to childhood and youth. What
visions of racial justice are sustained, contested, and otherwise engaged
across children’s literature, media, and popular culture? What roles have
imagined and actual children played in constructing the politics of racial
justice, and how have various inequalities, identities, and relationalities
shaped this process across time and space? In what ways has the concept of
“racial justice” been mobilized by various actors across the political
spectrum? How are the notions of racial justice and childhood enacted in
complementary and/or contradictory ways?
The deadline for submissions is 11:59 pm (US Eastern
Daylight Time) on October 1, 2023.
Contact Email csmellonconference@gmail.com
Diaspora, Diversity
and Immigration
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20003290/diaspora-diversity-and-immigration
Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada, April 24-25, 2024
Considering that the known responses of multiculturalism and
interculturalism in Western political life, diversity theory and homogeneous
ethos, and the pulls and pressures of diaspora politics have been said to
result in “...a variety of coerced cultural-defense measures, thereby directing
immigrants to embrace the values and customs of the dominant group [in various
democratic countries]” (Liav Orgad, 2015, 6), this conference seeks to examine
these issues and their impacts on liberal democracies. Acknowledging that an
ethically acceptable immigration policy must remain in synch with well-known
democratic values, including an unflinching support to diversity and diaspora,
the rights of immigrants, refugees and other vulnerable individuals, we invite
participants to engage in a constructive analysis of raised issues from their
respective theoretical and practical standpoints and situatedness. Our goal is
to develop a more accommodative and non-binary understanding of immigration and
diversity, emphasizing the importance of cultural openness and mutual respect
in minority and majority cultures at home and abroad.
Please submit your abstract (150 words) and a short bio by
October 30, 2023: Email:: Diaspora-Diversity@ustpaul.ca
Hunt-Simes Institute
in Sexuality Studies
Launched in 2023, HISS is a summer intensive in sexuality
studies at the University of Sydney 19 February to 1 March 2024. HISS brings
together outstanding early career researchers from around the world to
undertake workshops work with international research leaders from across the
full breadth of the humanities and social sciences. In 2024, HISS takes the theme
Queer Relationality.
We invite PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and early
career faculty within 5 years of PhD conferral to apply.
deadline: 22 September
45th Annual SWPACA
Conference
http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/
February 21 — 24, 2024, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposals for papers and panels will be accepted for the
2024 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference to take place
February 21-24 in Albuquerque, NM! One of the nation’s largest
interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas,
each typically featuring multiple panels.
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2023.
If you have general questions about the conference, please
contact us at support@southwestpca.org.
Reparations: Past,
Present, and Future
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s
Ninth Annual Conference, March 8-9, 2024
We call for papers and panels from scholars, activists,
educators, and artists whose work can be (re)conceptualized in some way through
the prism of reparations and reparative justice. For panels on reparations: How
does your work inform, challenge, complicate, historicize, or speak to the
discursive and organizational practice of reparations? How do our narratives
detailing the many harms of slavery, Jim Crow, and systemic racism illuminate
(or at times obfuscate) the reparative process? What might reparations look
like international, nationally, in your city, at your university, or in your
neighborhood?
Deadline for Submissions: September 1, 2023
Feel free to reach out to us at conference@aaihs.org for more
information about this event.
Fluid Ways of Being
and Relating: Gender and Belonging in the Atlantic
The Atlantic History Workshop at New York University seeks
proposals for our conference to be held on April 26-27, 2024. The conference
aims to convene emerging and established scholars whose scholarship speaks to
ideas of gender and belonging, particularly among Africans, people of African
descent, and Native and Indigenous peoples across the Atlantic. Proposals are
due November 15, 2023. For more information on the goals of the conference and
instructions on how to apply, please see the detailed Call for Papers below or
visit NYU Atlantic History Workshop at: https://wp.nyu.edu/atlantic_workshop/conference-2024/.
Please email your submissions to Erica Duncan and Madison
Bastress at NYUAtlanticHistConference2024@gmail.com by November
15, 2023.
Corporeal
Technologies: Modifying and Augmenting the Body
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20664
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention,
Boston, MA | March 7-10, 2024
The intersection of technology and the human body has given
rise to a myriad of possibilities, transforming our perception of self,
relationships, and the world around us. In this panel, we will delve into
representations of corporeal technologies in literature and the impact on
understandings of memory, body, and lived experiences. Panelists are invited to
explore the ways in which corporeal technologies influence the formation,
preservation, and retrieval of memory, ultimately shaping subjective
experiences.
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 30 September 2023
For other questions about this panel, please email noranmo@gmail.com
Reckoning
14th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
(AAAD) Conference, February 7-10, 2024
The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center
at James Madison University invites proposals for its annual interdisciplinary
conference, to be held from Wednesday, February 7 to Saturday, February 10,
2024. The conference brings together
scholars, archivists, and practitioners from a wide variety of overlapping and
intersecting fields. This year’s theme is “Reckoning," a term that evokes
the multitudinous ways responsibility and accountability may be linked to forms
of measurement, methodology, and knowledge-constitution.
Please send 300-word presentation proposals, or 1000-word
panel proposals, to aaadstudies@jmu.edu
by October 15, 2023.
Contact Email babcocdj@jmu.edu
Forty Years of Phish:
An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Band, its Music, and its Fans
https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/phish2024/cfp
Corvallis, Oregon, May 17-19, 2024
Bringing scholars together from diverse academic
disciplines, we welcome a wide range of methodological and theoretical
approaches to the sonic, narrative, performative, theoretical, visual, social,
and cultural worlds of Phish.
We invite artists to celebrate Forty Years of Phish with a
curated exhibition of artwork to be featured in conference venue hallways and
meeting rooms. Selections will be based on originality, interpretation,
quality, demonstration of ability, and its relevance to Phish. Accepted works
will be displayed with the artist’s name, title of work, and website or email
address. Media can include Ceramics,
Drawings, Films, Jewelry, Paintings, Photographs, Prints (including posters),
Sculpture, Textiles, Music, and Videos.
As part of the conference programming, we invite individual
musicians and bands to perform during nightly social events. Performers and
bands do not necessarily have to play the music of Phish, but should have some
relevance and connection to the band or their music. We welcome both Phish
covers, Phish side project covers, and/or originals inspired by or otherwise
connected to the band and their compositional or improvisational ethos.
Abstracts and art are due no later than December 15, 2023.
PUBLICATIONS
Trans* Ecologies
http://femresin.unm.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly/
Eva Hayward (2022) inquires, “Can trans mean anything to ecology? If so, what?” The guest editors of this issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly offer Hayward’s question as an invitation to artists, activists, and scholars to consider the possibilities of combining trans* analytics and undisciplined environmental and ecological thinking. While there is a growing literature in “trans* ecologies,” this relatively new area of inquiry is still in formation. Therefore, the potential perspectives, subjects, and themes of this work are an open question—the list below of topics is meant to be generative rather than prescriptive or confining. However, the guest editors encourage intersectional submissions with an analysis of power that are informed by related fields of Black ecologies, ecofeminism, feminist science and technology studies, queer ecology, decolonial ecologies, abolition ecologies, and crip ecologies.
Deadline extended: Please send complete submissions by Oct. 1
Send any questions about submissions to qtecologies@umn.edu.
Feminist Forms of
Submission
https://feralfeminisms.com/cfps/
As a submissive lesbian and textile artist whose arts
practice and research is rooted in exploring queer BDSM, kink dynamics, queer
identity, and their intersection with feminisms, I consistently come across the
question, “how can people who identify as submissive (or a sub) also be
feminist?” The goal of this special issue is to uplift and represent a true
understanding of submission and create more accurate representations of
submission in the face of current misunderstandings that academia and
mainstream culture have of the queer kink community.
100-word abstract on a Word document due October 15th, 2023
email: Deanna.armenti@torontomu.ca
Entering the
Multiverse
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20001680/reminder-cfp-multiverse-edited-collection
In this volume, I hope to encompass the multiplicity of the
concept of the multiverse through multiple perspectives. This is a story that
can only be told through the edited collection: where each chapter of which
advances a theory of the cultural relevance of the multiverse concept while
retaining its own unique philosophy or theory. 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.
Please submit proposals of 300-500 words with a brief
biographical statement and contact information via email attachment to Paul
Booth at pbooth@depaul.edu no
later than Aug 31, 2023
The Recipes Project,
'Recipes as Literature' series
https://recipes.hypotheses.org/call-for-contributors-spring-2023-issue
The Recipes
Project is currently accepting pitches for our Fall series: Recipes
as Literature. In this series we look at the literary nature of
recipes, analysing why writers choose to capture a dish, treatment, or process
in the form of a recipe, transform practices of making into something textual
and static, and what the tone, narrative, and style of a text reveals about its
author’s preconceptions and desires. We are looking for original research
contributions, as well as those on pedagogy and archival collections.
Please send a brief pitch (2-3 sentences) and abbreviated CV
to the series editors Esme Curtis (esmerosecurtis@gmail.com)
and Jessica Clark (jclark3@brocku.ca)
any time before 15 September 2023.
Trash: Cycles of the
Im_Material
https://www.on-culture.org/cfa17/
With the 17th issue of On_Culture, we seek to address the
question of how trash haunts the different material, societal, and cultural
realms from which it has once been discarded. Trash usually denotes the
material traces of excess and overflow. This is based on the underlying belief
that the material basis for (re)production is no longer an issue. Plastic, for
instance, has become almost synonymous with the pervasiveness of trash. Examining
the relationship between material culture and trash provides new perspectives
on how cultural values and attitudes towards objects change over time. Trash,
in fact, is a historically specific category and by no means an anthropological
constant. Focusing on the cyclic nature of trash, this issue invites
contributions on the material entanglements of trash, the haunting presence of
waste and plastic, and trash’s capacity of re-emerging in the immaterial realms
of culture.
Please submit an abstract to content@on-culture.org (subject line
“Abstract Submission”) no later than October 15, 2023.
Queering the Urban
Space: Perspectives from the Global South and Global North
We are proposing a collected edition on the topic of gender,
the urban space (especially its cis-heteronormativity) and the environment. We
want to study this space from local and global perspectives to examine shared
histories and presents, and reflect on intersections and differences to
challenge and expand the existing conceptualizations of the gendered urban
space. This volume aims to bring together essays concerning this triadic
relation among (the fluid definition of) gender, urban space (a
cis-heteronormative space) and environment focusing on different parts from the
Global South as well as the Global North (also, migrations and movements
between the two) to investigate how the urban public spaces “are places where
embodied meanings and experiences of gender are not necessarily reproduced
according to dominant norms, but can be challenged, reworked and reshaped”
(Bondi, 2006).
Please send us your abstract (300 words) and a short bio
(max. 150 words) until 15 September 2023: Sanchali Sarkar, Passau University (sanchali.27@gmail.com); Jessica A.
Albrecht, University of Heidelberg, (Jessica.Albrecht@ts.uni-heidelberg.de)
Victimhood
https://parisinstitute.org/depictions/cfp-guidelines/
dePICTions volume 4
Victimhood is a common response to trauma. It entails not
only a negative experience or a harmful event, but also the perception that the
suffered harm is undeserved, unjust, immoral, and, moreover, cannot be
prevented by the victim. A sense of victimhood can undermine assumptions about
the world as a just and reasonable place, and can give rise to a need for
empathy, understanding, reconciliation, or redress. We call for contributions
that tackle the issue of victimhood in one of its myriad conceptual, historical,
and geographical contexts. While we are principally interested in perspectives
from the arts, humanities, and social sciences, we are also open to texts from
other academic fields (provided that our pool of reviewers enables a fair
assessment).
Submission deadline: 15 January 2024
Curating Editor: Carlo Salzani, https://parisinstitute.org/carlo-salzani/;
carlo@parisinstitute.org
Public Scholarship on
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment
https://ced.berkeley.edu/news/applications-now-open-for-2023-arcus-places-prize
We are pleased to announce that proposals are now being
accepted for the 2023 Arcus | Places Prize. The prize is open to mid-career and
senior scholars and supports forward-thinking public scholarship on the
relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. We strongly
encourage applicants to browse
the journal and to read our statement
on public scholarship in advance of submitting a proposal.
Contact Email jericho@placesjournal.org
URL: https://placesjournal.org/series/gender-sexuality-environment/
Oxford Handbook of
Global Indigenous Studies
According to the United Nations, approximately 570 million
Indigenous people are spread over 90 countries across the globe. Indigenous
people constitute only 5% of the total world population and represent 5000
different cultures. While most of the global Indigenous population resides in
the global south, 70 percent of Indigenous people live in Asia and the Pacific,
followed by Africa (16.3 percent) and Latin America (11.5 percent). In this
given context, this book will aim to incorporate a critical and extensive
overview of Indigenous studies as an academic discipline. Focusing on the
interdisciplinary array and international scope, this handbook will
deliberately generate an authoritative account of contemporary debates and
provide new directions to Indigenous studies. This handbook will present a
critical and extensive overview of Indigenous studies as an academic
discipline. The fundamental aim of this book is to discuss the Indigenous way
of life and scholarships in order to promote the paradigm of Indigenous
studies.
proposal due September 25th, 2023 to Dr. Koustab Majumdar at
koustabm@ranchi.rkmvu.ac.in (cc
to rajendra.baikady@mail.huji.ac.il)
Queering the Urban
Space: Perspectives from the Global South and Global North
We are proposing a collected edition on the topic of gender,
the urban space (especially its cis- heteronormativity) and the environment. We
want to study this space from local and global perspectives to examine shared
histories and presents, and reflect on intersections and differences to
challenge and expand the existing conceptualizations of the gendered urban
space. Therefore, this volume aims to bring together essays concerning this
triadic relation among (the fluid definition of) gender, urban space (a
cis-heteronormative space) and environment focusing on different parts from the
Global South as well as the Global North (also, migrations and movements
between the two) to investigate how the urban public spaces “are places where
embodied meanings and experiences of gender are not necessarily reproduced
according to dominant norms, but can be challenged, reworked and reshaped”
(Bondi, 2006).
Please send us your abstract (300 words) and a short bio
(max. 150 words) until 15 September 2023.
Editors: Sanchali Sarkar, Passau University (sanchali.27@gmail.com) and Jessica A.
Albrecht, University of Heidelberg, (Jessica.Albrecht@ts.uni-heidelberg.de)
Call for Chapters:
Teaching Humanities with Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/6470
Humanities has within it the very keys for student
proficiency and mastery of the written and spoken language, as well as critical
analysis of literature, art, history, film, and other required subjects in
college programs. This edited volume, titled Teaching Humanities with Cultural
Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs will bring together contributions from faculty
across various regions and institutions, who will present their research and
experiences in teaching and observing the learning process and academic growth
of students who currently attend HBCUs and HSIs. Because these institutions
have long served the educational aspirations of Black and brown college
students in their pursuit of undergraduate and two-year degrees, or
certifications, it is valuable to understand how faculty at these institutions’
"remix" their pedagogies and revise curriculum to provide culturally
responsive materials, learning activities, and thematic focus for students.
Proposal deadline: September 1, 2023
Contact Email dfrazier@coppin.edu
Black
Speculations/Black Futures
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DqaXo_93lkNGq7BG6j7C-89sfK2F5q7_/edit
MELUS Themed Issue
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and the
blockbuster cinematic world of Wakanda, Black futures proliferate—hypervisible
in sci-fi casting, in reading lists for liberal audiences, in political
discourses of anti-racism and their backlash. But imagining Black futures is
not, in fact, a new (pre)occupation in Black literature and expressive culture.
World-building, utopic and prophetic aesthetic strategies, investments in
speculative genres, and fantastic formulations of Black being abound in the
history and present of African American literature. This guest-edited issue
seeks to engage and trouble the contemporary boom in Black futures while also
renarrating the archive of African American literary and cultural expression
through its lens.
Deadline for Abstracts: November 17, 2023
Contact Information Samantha.pinto@utexas.edu
Queering the Urban
Space: Perspectives from the Global South and Global North
We are proposing a collected edition on the topic of gender,
the urban space (especially its cis- heteronormativity) and the environment. We
want to study this space from local and global perspectives to examine shared
histories and presents, and reflect on intersections and differences to
challenge and expand the existing conceptualizations of the gendered urban
space. Therefore, this volume aims to bring together essays concerning this
triadic relation among (the fluid definition of) gender, urban space (a
cis-heteronormative space) and environment focusing on different parts from the
Global South as well as the Global North (also, migrations and movements
between the two) to investigate how the urban public spaces “are places where
embodied meanings and experiences of gender are not necessarily reproduced
according to dominant norms, but can be challenged, reworked and reshaped”
(Bondi, 2006).
Please send us your abstract (300 words) and a short bio
(max. 150 words) until 15 September 2023.
Contact Email jessica.albrecht@ts.uni-heidelberg.de
Resisting Memory:
Towards a Decolonial Approach
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20003289/resisting-memory-towards-decolonial-approach
“Resisting Memory” addresses the intersections,
misencounters, and dialogues between decolonial and memory studies. Despite the
rise of memory studies over the last few decades, amnesia towards colonialism
seems to persist. In the context of the Global North, the so-called “memory
boom” has often elided a serious engagement with the legacy of colonialism.
Memory also continues to be a contentious topic in the Global South. In Latin
America, for instance, indigenous activists have criticized the tendency of
local governments to approach the past superficially. This special issue brings
together studies from a wide variety of fields that decenter Eurocentric
approaches to memory studies, and/or engage with the legacy of Europe’s
colonial past.
By 10 September 2023, abstracts and bios due
Contact Email rsoumare@pugetsound.edu
Submit Stories,
Media, and More to the How We Remember Archive Project
http://howweremember.com/s/homepage/page/submit
Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars are invited to submit
text, photos, and other forms of media via this link here
http://howweremember.com/s/homepage/page/submit. All submissions will be
curated and posted to the Omeka-S site with appropriate credits/etc. Submissions
should focus on Indigenous topics, but can be creative or formal in nature. For
example, a poem about Indigeneity, a research project, a photo of an
experience, etc are all acceptable. There is also the option to remain
anonymous.
Contact Email lavarreda.c@northeastern.edu
URL: http://howweremember.com/s/homepage/page/welcome
Craft: A Special Issue of Journal 18
https://www.journal18.org/future-issues/
This special issue
builds on recent investigations while considering how craft’s ancillary role
within the Anglo-European tradition has limited its capacity to transform the
field. Drawing inspiration from the absence of an art/craft divide in many
cultures, we are interested in exploring craft’s potential to radically
reframe, reconceptualize, and globalize the history of art. By investigating
craft, we also aim to shed new light on related questions of value, skill, and
creativity in the making of different kinds of objects. We are inspired by
recent scholarship that has asked, for example, how the repetitive nature of
American schoolgirl samplers challenges celebrations of the individual maker,
or how the meaningfully protracted time of wampum-making diverges from
industry’s strict calculations of time and labor. Looking at the issue from a
different angle, what would be the implications of discussing academic painting
and sculpture as forms of craft?
To submit a
proposal, send an abstract (250 words) and brief biography to the
following addresses: editor@journal18.org and journal18craft@gmail.com by September 15, 2023.
Afrofuturism in Black
Literature, Film, Media & Culture
The dynamic tradition of Black literature and storytelling
now stands at the crossroads of where historical realities meet with present
day - dreams of Afro futures, to re-make, re-mix, re-store, and re-envision an
ideal and artful world, from diverse points of view with the goal to inspire
and educate current and future generations of scholars and creators.
Submit title, abstract, bio + affiliation to dfrazier@coppin.edu by Sept. 25
Deconstruction in
Action: From Theory to Praxis
Exposing the underlying assumptions and biases in texts,
ideologies, or practises is essential in a society that is rooted in the
meanings that are nurtured by dominant power structures. Though interpretations
and re-interpretations are often found to have their consequences, the
continuous process of contemplation and criticism does not end with censorship,
oppression, or violence. The objective of this edited book is to bring together
a collection of articles that explore the theme of deconstruction and its
diverse applications. The book aims to provide readers with a comprehensive
understanding of the philosophical method of deconstruction and how it has been
used to interpret and analyse various texts and ideas.
Send proposals to cfp.editoroffice@gmail.com
by October 01, 2023
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Toyin Falola Prize
2023
https://lunaris.com.ng/lunaris-review-submission/
The Toyin Falola Prize (TFP) calls for submission for its
4th edition. The theme this year is Sacred, and this is to be interpreted very
broadly: in religious, secular, mysterious, virtuous, cherished terms, etc.
Sacred could be about piety and consecration, or not. Concerned with religion
or religious belief and purposes. I.e., rites, music, texts, belief, and
experience. I.e., consecrated, dedicated, divine, holy, solemn. To be sacred is
to be sanctified, consecrated, cherished, hallowed, solemn, venerated, Worthy
of devotion and preservation. We desire works that show us the sacred in the
(un)profane, where the sacred resides, and the things that deny the sacred its
due.
The writer should not be below the age of 15 or above 35 at
the time of submission.
All submissions should be sent to prize@lunaris.com.ng by October 15, 2023
Clark Art Institute
Fellowships
https://www.clarkart.edu/Research-Academic/Fellowship-Program/About-Clark-Fellows
Fellowships are awarded every year to established and
promising scholars with the aim of fostering a critical commitment to inquiry
in the theory, history, and interpretation of art and visual culture. As part
of our commitment to cultivating diverse engagements with the visual arts, RAP
seeks to elevate constituencies, subjects, and methods that have historically
been underrepresented in the discipline. Furthermore, we are particularly
committed to supporting scholarship that reveals the systemic inequalities of art
history as a discipline and challenges us to address these inequalities as we
move forward differently. All fellowships are intended to nurture a variety of
disciplinary approaches and support new voices in art history.
Applications (for the fellowships in fall 2024–summer 2025)
are due by October 15, 2023.
Mandel Center's
annual competition for fellowships
https://www.ushmm.org/research/opportunities-for-academics/fellowships/annual
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph
and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is pleased to award
fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. We
welcome proposals from scholars in all academic disciplines and award specific
fellowships-in-residence to candidates working on their dissertations (ABD). A
principal focus of the overall fellowship program is to ensure the development
of a new generation of scholars, and those early in their careers are
especially encouraged to apply.
Fellows receive a monthly stipend of $5,000
deadline: 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 15th
Summer Graduate
Student Research Fellowships
https://www.ushmm.org/research/opportunities-for-academics/fellowships/summer-graduate-student
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies is pleased to offer annual Summer Graduate Student Research
Fellowships designed for students accepted to or currently enrolled in a
master’s degree program or in the first year of a PhD program at a college or
university in North America. Students who have completed more than one year of
doctoral work will not be considered.
The deadline for submission is January 15, 2023
email: vscholars@ushmm.org
Research Funding
https://library.uoregon.edu/special-collections/travel-fellowships
Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA)
https://library.uoregon.edu/special-collections at the University of Oregon
Libraries is pleased to offer two fellowships promoting research in the realms
of feminism, science fiction, identity and sexuality. The Le Guin Feminist
Science Fiction Fellowship encourages research within collections of feminist
science fiction: https://library.uoregon.edu/special-collections/le-guin-feminist-science-fiction-fellowship.
The Tee A. Corinne Memorial Travel Fellowship encourages research within the
Oregon lesbian intentional community collections, the Tee A. Corinne Papers,
the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project Collection, and other collections
relating to lesbian sexuality: https://library.uoregon.edu/special-collections/tee-corinne-memorial-travel-fellowship.
email: mlemoore@uoregon.edu
Applications due by 5 p.m. PST Friday, January 5, 2024
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Assistant Professor,
Gender and Women’s Studies Program
https://jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/496654/assistant-professor-gender-and-womens-studies-program
The Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of
Denver invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor, beginning
Fall 2024. Applicants should have a demonstrated research specialization in
critical race feminisms/womanisms and/or queer of color critiques. DU’s GWST
program is dedicated to helping students understand how gender interacts with
other identities; we have long been committed to teaching our students how
systems of power, privilege, and oppression intersect, including how they
intersect with structural and systemic racism.
For best consideration, please submit your application
materials by 4:00 p.m. (MST) November 15, 2023.
email: lindsey.feitz@du.edu
African American Art
Archives Research Fellowship Program
https://driskellcenter.umd.edu/news/david-c-driskell-center-archives-research-fellowship-program
The Driskell Center Archives Research Fellowship program,
supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, invites 4-5 early
career professionals or graduate students to undertake original research with
previously undiscovered, partially processed collections within the David C.
Driskell Center Archives. Research Fellows will participate in meetings and
research trips in College Park, MD and the surrounding D.C. metro area
throughout the academic year, resulting in a paper as well as a presentation to
be given during a conference at the David C. Driskell Center in Spring of 2024.
Research Fellowships will take place between September 1,
2023 and June 30, 2024; with research trips and meetings to be conducted in
October and February, as well as a conference in April. The awardee will
receive a stipend of $3,000, in addition to travel expenses for required
meetings and research trips.
Applications due to driskellcenter@umd.edu by September 1,
2023.
Harvard University,
Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12619
The Committee on Degrees in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at
Harvard University seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in
Women, Gender, and Sexuality whose research focuses on gender in the global
south. We seek scholars who will engage in interdisciplinary research,
teaching, and advising, and who will contribute to the intellectual and
administrative life of the Program. The appointment is expected to begin on
July 1, 2024.
Candidates are encouraged to apply by September 15, 2023
Contact Email joeymfk@fas.harvard.edu
Experimental
Humanities & Social Engagement - Faculty Fellow
http://apply.interfolio.com/129772
XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement, an
interdisciplinary master’s program in the Graduate School of Arts and Science
at New York University, invites applications for a Faculty Fellow position in
the social sciences. The initial appointment will be for one year beginning
September 1, 2024, renewable annually for a maximum of three years, pending
administrative and budgetary approval. We seek outstanding interdisciplinary
scholars of the social sciences whose work engages intersectional social
justice. The successful candidate will be committed to cutting-edge
interdisciplinary inquiry and their fields will include, span, or exceed:
anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, politics, or urban
studies, addressing urgent topics such as displacement and migration,
indigenous rights, anti-racism, decolonization, incarceration, health, or
environmental justice, among others.
While PhDs are required, we welcome candidates who have a
public-facing critical or artistic practice in their field/s. Candidates should
have completed their Ph.D. no earlier than 2020 and no later than by August 1,
2024.
The search committee will begin reviewing applications on
January 5, 2024
Latinx Sexualities
Postdoctoral Fellow
https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/151846
The University of Utah's School for Cultural and Social
Transformation (Transform) in partnership with the College of Humanities and
the College of Social and Behavioral Science (CSBS ), seeks applicants for a
two-year postdoctoral research/teaching position. The Fellow's research
interests will engage with interdisciplinary scholarship that may include, but
is not limited to trans studies, disability studies, environmental studies,
migration and immigration, decolonial and feminist theories, Indigeneity, Afro-Latinidades,
and social justice activism.
Review of applications will begin October 10, 2023 and
continue until the position is filled.
If you have any questions about the position, contact Dr.
Gaytan (mailto:marie.gaytan@soc.utah.edu).
Assistant Professor
of Black Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65777
The Department of Black Studies at the University of
Missouri, Columbia, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor.
While all
specializations are welcome, we are particularly interested
in applicants whose work focuses on Black gender and sexuality studies,
including Black women in work, sport, media, business, academia, religion,
healthcare, or migration. The ideal candidate would be able to teach various
interdisciplinary courses on aspects of Black history, politics, and culture.
Disciplinary areas include Arts and Humanities and Social and Behavioral
Sciences. The candidate we hire will have a 2/2 teaching load in addition to
research and service requirements.
Review of applications will begin October 1, 2023
Applicants may contact Dr. Linda S. Reeder (ReederLS@missouri.edu), chair of the
Search Committee, or Dr. Daive Dunkley (dunkleyd@missouri.edu),
chair of Black Studies, with any questions about the job duties.
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Sex in Contemporary
Media: An Interdisciplinary Conference
https://www.sexincontemporarymedia.com/
Sex in
Contemporary Media brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on
both emerging and ongoing issues surrounding sex and media. The conference will
be a free 3-day hybrid event, taking place from the 4 - 6 October 2023.
The first two days of the conference will be held on Zoom. The final day will
be held as a hybrid event at the University of Warwick, with the opportunity to
also join via Zoom. We are thrilled to announce that the programme for the Sex
in Contemporary Media Conference is now live and can be accessed here.
Contact Email scmccommittee@gmail.com
Zoom Talk Invitation:
queer legacies of the queerqueen
https://gendersexualitycluster.wordpress.com/upcoming-events/
September 7, 2023, 2-3:30pm (GMT +8)
The voice of the queerqueen has been recorded, transcribed,
edited and written into popular Japanese culture in visually complex multimodal
texts that recontextexutalise and resemiotize image and language. Practices of
"language labour" (re)trace the queerqueen style and manufacture it
as linguistic excess. This presentation will consider how the legacies of
(re)cycled queerqueen styles which are staged as "in excess" of
respectable norms impact on discourses of rights for LGBTIQA+ individuals in
contemporary Japan.
email: michelle.ho@nus.edu.sg
Gender and Joy in
History hybrid symposium
‘Gender and Joy in History’ is a symposium aimed at
counterposing the common scholarly focus on catastrophe and crisis of recent
years. The hybrid symposium will be held at the Australian Catholic University
Melbourne campus in Fitzroy over Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 September 2023,
with online and in-person attendance options available.
Please direct any inquiries to lilithjournal@gmail.com or Saskia.Roberts@anu.edu.au.
Space Talks: History,
Politics, Astroculture
Now in its sixth season, NYU Space Talks is a lecture series
convened by Alexander C.T. Geppert at NYU's Center for European and
Mediterranean Studies and NYU Shanghai with the Department of History in New
York City. Once a month, established and upcoming scholars present the latest
research on the history and politics of outer space, extraterrestrial life and
astroculture, both in Europe and around the planet.
1. Mexico in Orbit: Modernity, Nationality and Satellite
Fetishism
2. Woman/Astronaut: Sally Ride, Work and Gender in Space
3. Politics, Personalities and Space Programs: The Case of
Japan
4. The LDEF: How a Returned Satellite Changed the Perception
of Near-Earth Space
All NYU Space Talks are held on Zoom. Everybody is welcome
but advance registration is required. For details and to RSVP, please visit www.space-talks.com.
Contact Email alexander.geppert@nyu.edu
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51098
This Special Issue began as an examination of Black feminisms as a way to resist oppression, be it colonialism, racism, or misogyny. But in the review and writing process, the focus shifted, becoming a collection of articles seeking to understand why in the Global South, or in marginalized communities of the Global North, words like “déter” or “debout” are so prevalent when women describe their social, political, and cultural movements, or their engagement with the world. These articles showcase women who stood and moved to create spaces in which they could better exist, at times even thrive, and from which they could keep moving forward.
