CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Women's and Gender History Symposium 2024
https://wghistory.web.illinois.edu/
February 29 – March 2, 2024, Hybrid (Zoom and in-person at UIUC)
The 22nd annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks graduate student paper presentations of 15-20 minutes that foreground the social, cultural, and political implications of space and place in histories of women, gender, sexuality, and/or queerness. Alternative presentations (e.g. film, poetry, art) are welcome so long as they fit within the symposium’s format.
Please submit proposals (200-300 words in length) together with a CV to wghs.uiuc@gmail.com by November 30, 2023 at 5pm CST.
Women in Academia's Support Network online bi-annual conference 'Rebel LeadHER: A new hope for Higher Education, Research, and Innovation Leadership'
https://sites.google.com/view/wiasnconference2024/home?authuser=0
Conference: Wednesday 24th April 2024 (online)
Women in Academia Support Network Conference (WIASN) exists to promote gender equity both withinin Higher Education as well as across the wider, Research and Innovation sector. Within a climate in which women leaders are calling for authenticity and values-led leadership, we are calling participants to collectively re-imagine leadership, focusing on how gender (both on its own and at its intersections with other characteristics) can shape and re-shape leadership theory and practice.
Submissions close: Wednesday 6th December 2023.
14th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD) Conference: "Reckoning"
https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/aaadjmu/
February 7-10, 2024, James Madison University
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. We invite proposals for both virtual and in-person presentations.
Please send 300-word presentation proposals, or 1000-word panel proposals, to aaadstudies@jmu.edu by November 1, 2023.
Filiations and Affiliations: Bonds, Entanglements and Social Networks in African Literatures and Cultures
https://conference.africanlit.org/2024-theme
University of Louisville, KY, USA ⎻ May 23-25, 2024
Drawing its inspiration from Edward Said’s discussion of the ways in which texts become ‘worldly’ through a series of filiations and affiliations, the ALA invites papers and panels that address such relations in all their forms. What are the filial structures that a text brings to its readers? What kind of affiliative readings might a critic bring to the text to disrupt the filial ties? What are the stakes in engaging in the traffic between filiative and affiliative readings? Beyond considerations of (a)ffiliated critical practice, how do literary and other cultural texts represent filiations and affiliations and in what ways do they constitute such relations? How do the practices of writing, reciting and performing in a variety of expressive forms help consolidate or disrupt filiative or affiliative ties? We invite papers and panels on all aspects of social relationships – filial and affilial as they manifest themselves in African literary and cultural texts.
Proposal deadline: November 15th, 2023
For inquiries: ALAConf2024@gmail.com
Tanner Symposium on Women and America's Vietnam War
https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/bringing-war-home/symposium
March 1 - 2, 2024 - Utah State University
In connection with Utah State University’s ongoing Bringing War Home Project that is digitally collecting objects and stories from veterans and military families about modern war, we invite students, scholars, creative artists, and community members to share perspectives, especially from local history, in order to open conversations about the experiences of women who participated on multiple sides and sites of this conflict. We encourage interdisciplinary submissions from a broad range of fields, including but not restricted to: history, anthropology, material culture studies, archival studies, communications, literature, and the creative arts.
Deadline: November 30, 2023
Email Molly Cannon and Susan Grayzel at bringingwarhome@gmail.com
Women’s and Gender History Symposium
https://wghistory.web.illinois.edu/call-for-proposals/
February 29 – March 2, 2024, Hybrid (Zoom and in-person at UIUC)
The 22nd annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks graduate student paper presentations of 15-20 minutes that foreground the social, cultural, and political implications of space and place in histories of women, gender, sexuality, and/or queerness. Alternative presentations (e.g. film, poetry, art) are welcome so long as they fit within the symposium’s format. Over the course of history, gender and place have been mutually constitutive. Spatial, material, and environmental conditions shape and are shaped by gendered social practices. This symposium invites interdisciplinary research which interrogates the spatial and social situatedness of gender.
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2023 at 5pm CST
email: wghs.uiuc@gmail.com
Post45 Graduate Symposium
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20008019/ninth-annual-post45-graduate-symposium
Concordia University and McGill University, March 22nd-23rd, 2024
Post45 seeks graduate-level works-in-progress related to post-1945 literature, media, and culture. We welcome submissions that expand our conception of post-1945 literary and cultural histories, boundaries, and future trajectories, or place them in a comparative, transnational, or hemispheric frame. We also welcome contributions that generate traction on the urgency of intersections of race, gender, sexuality to post-45 studies, especially any engagements and conceptualizations with futurity (e.g. future of the fields, alternative futures, dystopia, utopia, gender abolitionism, afro-futurism, anxieties of the future, queer futures, digital futures, climate crisis, altered states of consciousness).
Those interested should submit 250- to 300-word abstracts by December 1st, 2023
contact email: ansar060@umn.edu
Physical Cultures of the Body- A Hybrid Conference
The University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, January 11, 2024: Virtual Conference on Zoom; Friday, January 12, 2024: In-Person at Stark Center
We welcome papers on historical and other humanities-based approaches to the study of exercise, strength, sport training, strength athletes, competitive lifting, the healthful benefits of exercise, and all other aspects of what we call “physical culture” across the millennia. Our hope is that many of you will choose to present in person this year and perhaps also make time to use the Stark’s resources during a visit to Austin. By meeting together we can, hopefully, learn more about each other, discuss our work, create new collaborations, and help the field of Physical Culture Studies continue to grow.
Please submit abstracts as a WORD DOC via email to kim@starkcenter.org by NOVEMBER 19, 2023
Histories of Political Protest in the United States
https://www.processhistory.org/calls-for-submissions/
Process, a blog for american history invites proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on protests in U.S. history. We are open to a variety of themes relating to the histories of political protest in the United States. This could include a wide-range of protest movements, from the marches and picket lines for women’s suffrage to protests over military drafts, the “sip-ins” in Greenwich Village to the Stonewall Uprising in the summer of 1969. Articles could be centered around boycotts and sit-ins during the Civil Rights movement, protests over the Vietnam War, or more recent protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter.
Submissions should be written for a public readership and should not exceed 1500 words. We will look to publish pieces in late 2023, but are open to submissions past that point. Send proposals and drafts to blog@oah.org.
Caring Futures: Contradictions, Transformation, and Revolutionary Possibilities
May 27th-30th, 2024, The American University of Paris, France (hybrid)
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. Care is an emerging and contentious focus across the disciplines emphasizing historical and contemporary contradictions and exclusions in care realities–such as the lack of economic and social support for some care relations, the denial of care, the weaponizing of care, the exploitative conditions of care work, and the privileging of normative hierarchies across the globe. But activist, artistic, and intellectual formations also point to transformative possibilities in the dismantling and rebuilding of care infrastructures and caring relations.
Send submissions and inquiries to caringfutures2024@gmail.com by November 1, 2023.
The Challenges of Defining Diversity in a Globalized World
https://kflc.as.uky.edu/call-for-papers
April 18th-20th, 2024, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference has a tradition of attracting scholars from a broad range of languages and specializations. This year we particularly encourage submissions related to our theme - The Challenges of Defining Diversity in a Globalized World - but, as always, we welcome all scholarly submissions relevant to our Global Asias track.
Submit abstracts and panel proposals BY NOVEMBER 15th, 2023
Contact Email llu222@uky.edu
Revitalizing Ecofeminism: The Intersection of Gender and Nature
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.
Please submit a 350-500 word abstract through our portal at http://cnu.edu/gcwg by November 15, 2023.
Contact Email gcwg@cnu.edu
Approaching Academia: A Conference on Class and Culture
March 15th and 16th, Bowling Green State University, Jerome Library (and online)
Inspired by Ray Browne, the founder of Popular Culture Studies at BGSU, this conference seeks to give “education a broader base and greater richness” through the exploration of why and how popular culture and class are interconnected. A scholar and teacher who saw popular culture as a tool to bring together the working-class students and the elitism of academia to create a new curriculum, Browne’s legacy of inclusion and effecting change is at the heart of this year’s Class Con.
Deadline To Submit December 1st
Contact Email classcon@bgsu.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Intersectionality in Interpretative Social Research: A Methodological Approach
This special issue aims to reflect on the potential of incorporating an intersectional approach in the research design of interpretative methods such as the documentary method, discourse analysis, ethnography, ethnomethodology, (reflexive) grounded theory, objective hermeneutics, situational analysis, or depth hermeneutics.
Abstracts as well as complete articles can be submitted in English or German. The deadline for the abstract submission is 1st November 2023.
Contact Email Racles@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
Disability, Race, and Masculinity: Disabling and Resisting the Disabling of Black Masculinity
This book proposes to bring into its ambit critical trajectories offered within and beyond the periphery of disability studies that shape the meaning of disability as a product of social injustice, not just medical condition. Disability thus becomes a mark of, a way to understand, and a new venue for critique of the formation of minority identity, interrogating the social construction and existence of identities subject to the politics of social control. Contributors will expand current disability studies and thus serve to initiate new alignments in future race, masculinity, and disability studies. This is a scholarly effort to transgress beyond conventional responses by interrogating the intersections of race, disability, and masculinity.
Deadline for abstracts submission: December 10, 2023
Contact Email sucharita.sharma@iisuniv.ac.in
The representation of marginalized populations in collections and exhibitions of dress
Vernon Press cordially invites scholars to submit book chapter proposals for an upcoming scholarly volume on the representation of marginalized populations in collections and exhibitions of dress, edited by Kenna Libes. For this volume, we seek essays to cover the state of representation in museum collections and exhibits concerning people who are Black, Indigenous, disabled, LGBTQ+, and/or fat. We seek essays on representation in exhibits or collections in terms of fashion designers, wearers, or mannequins and mounting. Are these objects in collections, and are they being used? When they are displayed, how is it done, and where is the line between tokenization and representation?
Please send abstracts of 250-500 words with a bio to book editor, kenna.libes@bgc.bard.edu by December 31, 2023.
Media Values
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20009148/velvet-light-trap-95-media-values
The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 95
The economic and cultural value of media is far more complex than formulas of dollar signs and industry metrics. Where and how institutions, organizations, and intermediaries assign value reflects ideological biases often along the faultlines of race, gender, and class. Practices like rewatching, fansubbing, fan fiction writing, and collecting all express personal value as well as create economic value for media firms. The politics of certain media objects and forms demonstrate the contested terrain of social and ethical values amidst anxieties of industrial transition and technological innovation. This issue of The Velvet Light Trap will explore the varied relations between media and value. We welcome pieces about all media forms and industries, as well as submissions that look beyond these toward audiences, stars, technologies, etc.
Send electronic manuscripts and/or any questions to vltcfp@gmail.com by January 28th, 2024.
RED WORLD LITERATURE: Periphery, Theory, Form, System
The attempt to create a new canon of world literature that could rival the canon of bourgeois literature was central to the cultural project of the Soviet-sponsored Communist International and survived its collapse in 1943. This anthology addresses the aesthetic trends, the cultural institutions, the literary movements, and the literary forms that were particular to this cultural internationalism. We seek contributions that address aspects of this alternative cultural sphere, its networks, institutions, publishing mechanisms, and organization while also calling for chapters that engage with the literary forms that this moment produced and the theoretical discussions of what internationalist or red world literature should be like. The companion seeks to offer an introductory overview of red world literature with a focus on its peripheries, theory, form, and system. The anthology contributes to recent efforts to chart the cultural geography of the internationalist literary field throughout the 20th century, with an emphasis on tracing the various literary worlds that emerged within national and regional contexts.
Titles and Abstracts: November 15, 2023
Contact Email abivens@ucsc.edu
Black Speculations / Black Futures
https://profession.mla.org/opportunity/melus-themed-issue-black-speculations-black-futures/
Special issue of MELUS: 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. We invite pieces that elaborate on Black speculation and futurity in African American expressive culture. We seek essays that elaborate on the speculative and its relationship to the history of Black freedom struggles and political thought.
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words by 17 November 2023 to justin.mann@northwestern.edu and samantha.pinto@utexas.edu.
Trans Literatures
https://www.wcupa.edu/arts-humanities/collegeLit/manuscripts.asp
This special issue of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, titled Trans Literatures, asks the following: What place(s) do trans literatures occupy inside and outside the academy? Alongside the formation and partial institutionalization of trans studies, how have trans literatures challenged the methods and tenets of the academic field? What genealogies and genres of trans literatures proliferate beyond realism and memoir? How is trans writing—from literary fiction to genre fiction, from poetry to memoir and beyond—differently racialized?
Please submit a 500-word abstract (for essays between 8,000–10,000 words) and a CV to both rl goldberg (rlgldbrg@princeton.edu) and Alex Brostoff (brostoff1@kenyon.edu) by 15 December 2023.
Black Fire This Time Volume 2
https://aquariuspress.submittable.com/submit/275325/black-fire-this-time-volume-2
Willow Books is accepting submissions for Black Fire This Time, Volume 2 (2024). The second in a series celebrating the history and legacy of the Black Arts movement, Volume 2 will continue to showcase the works of multiple generations, from the founders of the movement to contemporary writers in the tradition. Genres accepted for Volume 2 include: poetry, fiction, essays and drama. Contributors whose works are accepted will receive $75 and one complimentary copy of the book upon publication.
The deadline for submission is December 15, 2023
Contact Email aquariuspress@gmail.com
Queer Utopia
Scholarly writing on queer utopias and/or queer utopianism has exploded since the publication of Muñoz’s text in 2009. For this issue of Utopian Studies we are particularly interested in contributions that assess the role that Cruising Utopia and other work by Muñoz have played in the theorization of queer possibilities. How has his work–and those who have followed him–shaped the field that is, or could be, called queer utopianism?
Deadline for all manuscripts: April 1, 2024.
Contact Email seeabove_jaw55@psu.edu
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Research Fellowships and Awards for Texas History Research
The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) announces the opening of the 2023-2024 Awards and Research Fellowships application cycle. The Association has bestowed more than 700 awards, prizes and fellowships upon authors, educators and scholars to ensure that Texas history scholarship is supported, promoted, and disseminated broadly.
Applications are due on or before November 15, 2023. For more information, visit www.tshaonline.org/awards or contact angel.baldree@tshaonline.org.
BERNARD BELLUSH PRIZE
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20008253/new-york-labor-history-association
The Bernard Bellush Prize recognizes outstanding unpublished scholarship by graduate students in American labor and work history. Please do not submit published work or a full dissertation. The Bellush Prize honors the contribution to labor history made by Bernie Bellush, as a scholar and as an activist.
The deadline is July 1, 2024.
Email: bgreenbe@monmouth.edu
Schlesinger Library Grants
https://apply-radcliffe-institute.smapply.io/
The library’s special collections document over two centuries of United States history, from abolition to transgender rights. Manuscripts, books, periodicals, audiovisual material, photographs, and other objects make up the collections. These materials illuminate the lives of ordinary women as well as American icons such as suffragist Alice Paul, Harlem renaissance writer Dorothy West, civil rights activist Pauli Murray, feminist Betty Friedan, the Republican Party activist Anna Chennault, poet June Jordan, chef Zarela Martinez, and zine author Cindy Crabb, among many more.
Dissertation Grants -- Application Deadline: Sunday, January 28, 2024
Research Support Grants -- Application Deadline: Sunday, January 28, 2024
Teacher Support Grants -- Application Deadline: Sunday, January 28, 2024
Questions? Contact slgrants@radcliffe.harvard.edu
Organization of American Historians Huggins-Quarles Award
https://www.oah.org/awards/awards-for-graduate-students-and-recent-graduates/huggins-quarles-award/
This award is geared towards ABD students who require travel funds to finish their dissertation. It is overseen by the OAH's Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) scholars and ALANA histories. Applicants must: 1) be advanced ABD, defined as at minimum a graduate student with ABD designation in their 5th year in a PhD program, and 2) be an African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and/or Native American (ALANA) scholar. The applicant’s dissertation must focus on US history.
Deadline is November 1, 2023
Contact Email prof.erikaperez@gmail.com
The Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities
https://www.hnoc.org/research/prizes-and-fellowships
The Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities supports scholarly research on the history and culture of Louisiana and the Gulf South. While THNOC resources should play a central role in the proposed research agenda, fellows are also encouraged to explore other research facilities in the Greater New Orleans area. The Woest Fellowship is open to graduate students, academic and museum professionals, and independent scholars.
Deadline: Applications for the 2024–25 Woest Fellowship will be due on November 15th, 2023.
questions: Rebecca Smith at rebecca.smith@hnoc.org
Laura Bassi Scholarship
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines.
Deadline: 30 November 2023
email: scholarships@editing.press
Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship Opportunities
https://www.newberry.org/research/fellowships/short-term-fellowships
Short-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, and those who hold other terminal degrees. Short-Term Fellowships are generally awarded for 1 to 2 months; unless otherwise noted the stipend is $3,000 per month. These fellowships support individual scholarly research for those who have a specific need for the Newberry's collection. The deadline for short-term opportunities is December 15.
Questions? Email research@newberry.org.
URL: https://www.newberry.org/research/fellowships/how-to-apply
Colorado State University Libraries Research Grant Announcement
https://lib.colostate.edu/about/library-grants-and-funding/
https://lib.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/FFP-ResearchFundApplication2024.pdf
The Friedman Feminist Press Collection of Colorado State University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections provides original sources in feminist/lesbian literature and second-wave feminism, multi-genre works of fiction, poetry, memoir, and essays by feminist publishers of the 1970s and 1980s that brought women and women’s words out into the world. This rich collection also includes materials related to the study of feminist publishing.
The deadline is February 9, 2024.
Contact Email mark.shelstad@colostate.edu
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship during the 2024-25 academic year, with the possibility of an additional one-year renewal, to support emerging scholars pursuing research in queer, trans, and LGBTQ2+ studies. Our search committee welcomes proposals that span disciplinary boundaries. Applicants from all fields of the humanities and the social sciences are encouraged to apply.
All application materials should be submitted via email in a single PDF by January 5, 2024 to qtrl.sds@utoronto.ca.
Postdoctoral Scholar
https://u.osu.edu/osupac/postdocs-2/current-postdocs/funding/ppsp/nominate-a-researcher-for-ppsd/
The Ohio State University President’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program (PPSP), supports highly-qualified postdoctoral trainees, who have a strong interest in pursuing academic (faculty) positions upon completion of their training. This program supports the scholarly efforts and training of terminal degree holders (PhD, MFA, and others), who wish to pursue careers in research and creative inquiry, and also provides professional development and networking opportunities. PPSP includes two years of salary support and full benefits (health insurance, tuition assistance, and paid leave) provided by the Office of the President and the scholar’s faculty mentor/sponsor college. PPSP scholars also receive dedicated funds to support research, creative expression, and professional development-related expenses.
Multiple deadlines before the final deadline—read instructions!
Invisible Histories Project Spring 2024 Internships
The Invisible Histories Project (IHP) is 501(c)3 nonprofit located in Birmingham, AL that locates, collects, preserves, researches and creates educational events around LGBTQ history in the Deep South. IHP is actively collecting in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and the Florida panhandle. You can learn more about IHP at www.invisiblehistory.org. IHP offers semester based internships for graduate students to earn course credit or practicum experience. Questions, please email contact@invisiblehistory.org.
Submissions are due by November 17, 2023.
Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Disability Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/134120
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (SHArCS) in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University’s West campus is seeking a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies in tandem with an emphasis in Disability Studies. We seek candidates whose research engages a critical feminist perspective along with interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ability and disability. We are also open to well-qualified candidates with Ph.D. degrees in other fields as long as they have a track record of specializing in women and gender studies, sexuality studies, and disability studies. Candidates should also have a record of working collaboratively across fields, and in conducting socially embedded research in relevant communities. Candidates whose work displays attention to intersections between the social identities of race, gender, class, ability, and sexuality are strongly encouraged to apply.
The initial application deadline is Monday, November 27, 2023, at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time.
For assistance with your application, or for position-related questions, contact tracy.deberge@asu.edu.
USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities
The USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities invites applications for our 2024-2026 cohort of postdoctoral fellows. Each year the Society admits roughly five postdoctoral fellows, who are appointed for two-year terms. The fellows pursue research and teach three courses over four semesters, with one semester for full-time research. They are expected to reside in the Los Angeles area during the academic year and to participate in the scholarly life of the Society, the host department, and the university.
The application for the 2024–2026 fellowship closes at 5pm PST on Monday, November 27, 2023.
email: societyoffellows@dornsife.usc.edu
Assistant Professor, Black Feminisms or Black Feminist Theory
The Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor with a specialization in Black feminisms and/or Black feminist theory. The department welcomes applicants in a broad range of fields, with a strong preference for scholars whose work takes a transnational or global approach to the Black diaspora. We especially encourage applications from those whose work crosses traditional academic boundaries.
To be sure of full consideration, application materials must be received by November 1, 2023.
Questions about this search should be directed to the search committee chair, Laura Briggs (ljbriggs@umass.edu).
Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship, Humanities and the Arts
https://apply.interfolio.com/134255
Valparaiso University invites applications for the position of Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow, in the Christ College Honors College. We offer up to two two-year residential postdoctoral teaching fellowships in all areas of the Humanities and the Arts for 2024-2026 for scholars seriously considering academic careers in church‑related institutions. Ph.D., D.M.A., D.F.A., M.F.A., or equivalent terminal degree must have been received no earlier than December 2022.
Application deadline: January 17, 2024.
Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship
One of the most significant challenges confronting small liberal arts colleges in the United States today is increasing the number of members of underrepresented groups teaching at such institutions. A diverse faculty benefits students, faculty, and administrators alike by enriching the nature of the education experience for all. We recognize, though, that young scholars who are members of underrepresented groups frequently choose to pursue their careers as teachers and scholars at research universities rather than at small liberal arts colleges. In order to encourage such scholars to consider college rather than university teaching, Kenyon College offers the Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship. The program is for scholars in the final stages of their doctoral work who need only to finish the dissertation to complete the requirements for the Ph.D.
The MYDF search will accept applications from mid-Oct. through Dec. 31.
Questions? Contact Amy Quinlivan at quinlivana@kenyon.edu.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
http://apply.interfolio.com/134899
The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Washington University in St. Louis seeks to fill a two-year post-doctoral appointment to begin in the 2024-2025 academic year in the area of feminist and queer approaches to space and place. We are particularly interested in scholars whose work intersects with one or more of the following: indigenous feminisms, feminist ecocriticism, migration and refugee studies, and transnational studies.
The committee will review applications until the search is closed, but priority will be given to those received by December 15, 2023.
Further inquiries can be made to wgss@wustl.edu.
Diverse Career Pathways: Getting from a Humanities PhD to Careers outside Academia
Whether you are just beginning work toward a humanities PhD, you have recently completed your doctoral studies, or you are somewhere in between, you’re probably considering what your career opportunities will be. You might feel conflicted about whether to pursue a job in or outside academia, and you might be overwhelmed with how and where to begin exploring the many career possibilities and pathways in front of you.
MLA Career Resources
https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/Career-Resources
On this page you will find a range of career resources for PhDs in the humanities who are seeking jobs in and outside the academy, as well as guidelines and tools for faculty members and hiring departments. Although resources have been organized by audience, we recommend browsing all of them. It is useful for job seekers to understand what they can expect from hiring departments and for hiring departments to know what guidelines job seekers have been given.
Checklist for Job Seekers: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/Career-Resources/Checklist-for-Job-Seekers
Articles: https://joblist.mla.org/articles/
Diversity Scholars Network (DSN), National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) @ the University of Michigan.
NCID's goal is to create a more equitable and inclusive society by producing, catalyzing, and elevating diversity research and scholarship. The DSN seeks to foster academic, educational, and social connections and environments that facilitate the professional success of diversity scholars. As a member of the DSN, you gain access to an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional community of scholars committed to advancing understandings of historical and contemporary social issues related to identity, difference, culture, representation, power, oppression, and inequality — as they occur and affect individuals, groups, communities, and institutions.
Our priority deadline is December 31, 2023.
Contact Email kcolquit@umich.edu
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Portraiture in a Pandemic: Art and AIDS
November 6 | 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Art has both reflected and shaped societal and policy responses to epidemics. Michael Hussey, director of history and research at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, will moderate a conversation with Ben Gillespie and Jennifer Snyder, the team behind the Archives of American Art's "Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic" oral history program. This program exploring art created during the AIDS crisis will examine the lives and stories of figures including Keith Haring, Frederick Weston, and Nan Goldin.
Zoom registration is required: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lenOG5zpRdibXnqLBhc-gA
Contact Email depabloc@si.edu
Public Discussion on Landback Strategies
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fwlum60MzZQ9_T5ZOtBFe9kl4Ive5FTcu0ffmgw3ezE/edit
The Landback Universities project (landbackuniversities.org) is pleased to announce five public convenings. Centering the principles of LANDBACK, a movement that locates liberation for Indigenous people and people of color in “putting Indigenous Lands back into Indigenous hands,” Landback Universities seeks to collaboratively develop a vision of higher education rooted in collective stewardship of the lands on which colleges and universities sit through humanistic inquiry.
Our five public discussions over October and November will feature a brief case study presentation on Landback practices at a US university followed by an open discussion of strategies being used to meaningfully decolonize university campuses and their operations. Advanced registration for the event is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. You are welcome to register for multiple discussions.
Contact Email guiliano@iupui.edu
Online lecture series: Innovative Approaches to Gender and Genre: Literature and Women Studies
https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/en/institut/events/series/epistemologies.html
In a transitional age, globalization, digitalization, and new ways of communication have led to a range of new genres, media, and fields of research in contemporary Chinese Studies. At the same time, mainstream political, cultural, and academic discourse continues to resist efforts to decenter its master narratives in favor of minor histories, discourses, and genres. For researchers in the field of Chinese Studies, the literary and visual articulations of underrepresented social groups and communities can serve as productive epistemic positions from where to uncover alternative subjectivities and world views, which can bring about new possibilities of social, political, and cultural formation. This online lecture series will focus on alternative approaches to genre, media, cultural activism, and research methodologies, thereby probing into the hitherto hidden spaces of knowledge production.
