CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
African-American History, Activism, and the Archive
https://www.memphis.edu/history/gaaah/index.php
Our annual conference is scheduled for February 15-16, 2024
at the University of Memphis. This is a terrific opportunity for undergraduate
and graduate students to present research, receive critical feedback, and
network. The theme of the conference is “Jubilee! 25 Years of GAAAH:
African-American History, Activism, and the Archive.” The deadline to send in
proposals is December 31, 2023, and we welcome submissions from undergraduate
and graduate students whose scholarship focuses on topics relating to the art,
life, and culture of Black people throughout the African Diaspora.
Contact Email brhrrsn1@memphis.edu
Open Educational
Practices Virtual Conference
https://twu.edu/cd3/information-for-faculty/open-educational-practices/oep-conference/
The TWU Center for Development, Design, and Delivery is
excited to announce our second Open Educational Practices Conference, scheduled
for virtual delivery on Thursday, April 4, 2024. The conference covers Open
Educational Practices (OEP), including Open Educational Resources (OER) and
other relevant topics. OEPs create learner-driven educational environments
where students can collaborate on course content, exercise agency in course decision-making,
and create renewable assignments.
We are accepting proposal submissions for presentations
until February 25, 2024.
For more information, continue reading or contact alundahl@twu.edu if you have any questions.
Reproductive Justice
and the Humanities in Times of Crisis
Reproductive justice was developed as an international
human-rights framework by activists and scholars in the 1990s and has become a
cornerstone of intersectional feminist theory and practice within social
sciences. Yet, it is only recently that researchers in arts and humanities have
begun to tap the rich interdisciplinary potential this framework offers for
bringing together reproductive rights, social justice, and cultural
representation. We are seeking proposals for 20 minutes papers to be delivered
at a one-day hybrid symposium at the University of York. The symposium will
bring together scholars of all levels working on questions of reproductive
justice in literature, film, media, and other forms of cultural representation.
Please send 250 word abstracts along with a 150 word bio to alice.hall@york.ac.u and melissa.oliver-powell@york.ac.uk
by 15 January 2024.
29th Annual Graduate
History Conference at Temple University, March 22-23, 2024
https://sites.temple.edu/barnesclub/conference/
Proposals from graduate and undergraduate students for
individual papers or panels are welcome on any topic, time period, or approach
to history. We welcome proposals that foreground public history and digital
humanities, and are eager to work with applicants in these fields to facilitate
their participation. The event will feature a keynote address from Dr. Ashley
Jordan, President and CEO of the African American Museum in Philadelphia.
Please submit a 250-word abstract that outlines your
original research or project and a current C.V. via this link no later than Friday,
January 5, 2024.
If you have any questions, please email: jabconf@temple.edu
Sacred Waters: an International and Transdisciplinary
Conference
https://sacredwaters7.wordpress.com/
Buxton, England, June 30-July 3, 2024
Sacred springs and holy wells are found around the globe in
Indigenous spiritual traditions and international faiths. These sites' sacred
topographies often make them nodes of Biocultural Diversity. This conference
invites exchange about how these Sacred Natural Sites are understood across disciplines,
and what their study can teach us for local ecosystem care and socio-ecological
resilience in the climate crisis.
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Jan 2024
Direct inquiries to any of the following: Celeste Ray (cray@sewanee.edu), David Petts (d.a.petts@durham.ac.uk) or Peter
Hewitt (peter-hewitt@folkloremuseumsnetwork.org.uk)
Sex, Scandal, and Sensation Conference
https://darkeconomies.co.uk/sex-scandal-and-sensation/
Tuesday 2 July 2024
to Thursday 4 July 2024, Falmouth University, UK
Sex, Scandal, and
Sensation is an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact
of the sensational, the scandalous, and the sexual in literature, film,
television, gaming, and other forms of cultural production. The conference is
dedicated to the discussion of a broad range of genres and sub-genres,
including Sensation Fiction and the Sensational Press; Crime Fiction and True
Crime narratives; Shilling Shockers, Penny Dreadfuls and the Pulps; Romance,
Erotica, and Pornographies; the Gothic in both traditional and modern forms;
Thrillers on both page and screen; Bestsellers, Blockbusters, and Bonkbusters;
Horror novels and films; Soap Operas and Shocking Theatre; RPG and Digital
storytelling; and other genres and forms that both rely on the scandal,
sensation, and sex for their effects, and explore its effects on us.
Please submit your
proposals to sensationconference@gmail.com by 14th February
2024. https://darkeconomies.co.uk/sex-scandal-and-sensation/
The Dimensions of Being and Belonging
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/04/23/belonging-postgraduate-symposium
The Jewish Studies
Graduate Students Association at Indiana University invites graduate students
and independent scholars to submit presentation proposals for our 12th annual
conference, entitled The Dimensions of Being and Belonging. We aim to offer a
platform to examine the nuanced aspects of Jewishness within everyday life and
encourage participants to explore how the field of Jewish Studies can engage
with the realms of embodied knowledge and vernacular practices that shape daily
experiences. This conference will be held February 29 and March 1st, 2024,
in-person at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University, with limited
opportunities for online presentations.
Please send an
abstract to jsgsacon@indiana.edu by December 1st.
Online Conference of Possibility Studies
https://www.possibilitystudies.net/2024-online-cfp
January 15-16, 2024
This online event
welcomes anyone interested in contributing to or finding more about possibility
studies. We welcome submissions on all aspects of the possible (psychological,
material, technological, social, cultural and political) and from many
possibility-related disciplines (creativity, imagination, humanities,
literature, futures studies, utopias/dystopias, memory studies, education,
psychology, arts and design, etc). Possible topics might include but not
limited to:
Submission Deadline:
23:59 (GMT) November 24th 2023
Mobilities, Aspirations and Affective Futures
https://www.mobilityhumanities.net/
24 ~ 26 October 2024
(hybrid), Konkuk University, Seoul
Aspiration has
recently entered the lexicon of various branches of mobilities studies. At the
individual scale, scholars have examined the ways in which the term has become
an important subjective frame for (especially young) migrants to understand
their personal mobility projects. Aspiration is, in this sense, a productive
currency that can radically shape mobilities. More than that, it does so on an
exceptionally broad, if sometimes indeterminable, time horizon and loop,
invoking different temporalities that necessarily span the present (hope), past
(contrast) and future (expectation). Concomitantly, aspiration is also a highly
affective idea and concept. It entrains a series of evocative values revolving
around dreams, desires, longing, yearning, breakthroughs, redemption and
emancipation. In this context, it is no surprise that the language of
development – especially with regards to infrastructure building – is often
laced with expressive tropes of triumphant arrivals, new identities and ‘mythologies
of the future.’
3 March 2024 - Deadline
for the submission of sessions proposals
For any questions,
send an email to: 2024GMHC@gmail.com
Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion
What happens when
literature–and even language–is used for subversion? When authors write in
response to political action, literature functions as a tool. When authors
represent their times and their worlds, literature functions symbolically. When
authors write in pointed languages within or outside of their nations,
literature is itself an action. Modernist and Postmodernist subversive works
show that rebellious literature is predicated upon a world post-Enlightenment,
post-Intellectualism, post-realism, as the new ways toward life also navigate
society towards a new way to die. As the new political regime of the
nation-state decentralizes power and the individual, the authors respond
through a variety of media to let rebellion take root. Although this is a
conference based in and out of Comparative Literature, we welcome and encourage
submissions from all disciplines.
Abstracts are due February
15, 2024 at 11:59pm PST to slerner@ucdavis.edu.
Representation of Diversity in Mediated Popular Culture
in the Twenty First Century
June 10th and 11th
2024 in Rotterdam
Mediated popular
culture consists of shared images, ideas, and objects, which emerge through a
process of mass production aimed at a wide audience (Kidd et al, 2017). Today,
digitalization paves the way for innovative models of visual creation,
challenging both the elitist notions of “great art” and the “populist”
conceptions of popular art (Laugier, 2023). In conjunction with globalization,
digitalization has led to an increase in the circulation of transnational
cultural products—such as TV series, films, video games, social media content,
etc.—and in the diversity of their countries of origin, while also broadening
their target audiences. At the heart of popular culture lie the characters
depicted on screen—whose lives, feelings, opinions, physical features, and actions
are observed, analyzed, and discussed amongst audiences. Representation of
diversity in contemporary popular culture has its contradictions.
Proposals should be
received by 5 January 2024 at diversityrotterdam@gmail.com.
PUBLICATIONS
Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation
https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/call-for-papers/
For this special issue of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender
Studies (BATS), we invite proposals that investigate dynamics of transphobic
content and disinformation in digital media: how they originate, how they
spread, how they influence public opinion and policy, how people come to adopt
misinformed beliefs, and/or the cultures of online spaces that proliferate
anti-trans misinformation.
Authors should submit an extended abstract to
bulletin@appliedtransstudies.org with the email subject line “Transphobic
Disinformation Special Issue” no later than 1 December 2023
Contact Email bulletin@appliedtransstudies.org
LGBTIQ+ Representations and Media in US Popular Culture
https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/reden/announcement/view/28
In the ever-evolving landscape of US popular culture, the
representation of LGBTIQ+ individuals has undergone profound transformations,
reflecting broader societal shifts in attitudes, norms, and activism. Over the
years, LGBTIQ+ representation has moved beyond the binary and traditional
confines, paving the way for an array of diverse narratives and identities. This
double special dossier aims to examine, critique, and celebrate these
representations seeking to foster a comprehensive and interdisciplinary
exploration of LGBTIQ+ representations and media in US popular culture.
We encourage contributions from scholars across various
disciplines, including media studies, cultural studies, sociology, literature,
and beyond aiming to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the evolving
landscape of queer representation in US popular culture.
Deadline for submission (full paper): April 15, 2024
Email: revista.reden@uah.es
Oral History and Disability
https://oralhistory.org/2023/11/09/ohr-call-for-papers-oral-history-and-disability/
Oral historians often write and talk about inclusion, even
radical inclusion. What does this mean in practice? What contributions have
oral historians made – or can they make – to Disability Studies? What are the
cultural representations of disability and how can oral historians add to a
view of disability beyond the traditional, mostly medical, and socially
constructed ones? For this issue, we especially want to encourage multimedia
submissions and to push thinking around new technologies for both interviewing
and oral history project outcomes.
If you have questions, book and media review ideas, or would
like to discuss your proposal in advance, please contact the OHR editor, Holly
Werner-Thomas, at moc.yrotsihlarosamohtylloh@ylloh
by December 31, 2023. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2024.
Resourcing Love: Land Management in North American
Literature and Culture
What does it mean to manage public lands, environmental
resources, waterways, and marine environments? How does the language of
management situate people in relation to the ecosystems upon which they depend?
What technologies, affects, aesthetics, environments, individuals, power
dynamics, poetics, or practices come to mind when we think about land and water
management? Resourcing Love: Land Management in North American Literature and
Culture seeks to explore the ongoing histories of human-centered ecosystem
management in the lands and waters that comprise what is now known as North
America by tracking the divergent ways in which human-environmental relations
have been articulated, experienced, understood, represented, and/or regulated.
Please submit an abstract (300-500 words) and bio (100-200
words) to Kristen Brown (kristen.brown@northern.edu)
and Jada Ach (jada.ach@asu.edu) by April
1, 2024. Accepted essays will be due September 30, 2024.
Radical Histories of
Decolonization
https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-histories-of-decolonization-due-january-8-2024/
This issue of the Radical History Review seeks to explore
the genealogy of decolonization as a category of analysis and how people have
dreamed and enacted decolonization in past and present. We are interested in
work that reconsiders how decolonization has occurred—as both success and failure—throughout history, including in
geographic areas that fall outside of the twentieth-century paradigm including
Haiti and many parts of Latin America that press into the twenty-first century.
We are interested in questions of how the colonized in overseas colonies,
settler colonies, and informal colonies understood decolonization across
different times and spaces.
Abstract Deadline: January 8, 2024
Contact: contactrhr@gmail.com
Call for Reviewers -
Journal of Popular Culture
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20007367/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 January 20,
2024. 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.
Available Books
Russ Crawford, Women's American Football: Breaking Barriers
on and off the Gridiron, Nebraska
Jeff Karnicky, The New Nancy: Flexible and Relatable Daily
Comics in the 21st Century, Nebraska
Claire Sisco King, Mapping the Stars: Celebrtiy, Metonymy,
and the Networked Politics of Identity, Ohio
Paul Thomas, Exploring the Land of Ooo: An Official Overview
and Production History of Cartoon Networks's Adventure Time, Mississippi
Kathleen Lubey, What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social
Protext since the 18th Century, Stanford
Amy Osatinski, 20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st
Century, Routledge
J. Andrew Deman, The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the
X-Men, Texas
Joshua Heter and Richard Greene, The Godfather and
Philosophy: An Argument You Can't Refute, Open Universe
Robert Burgoyne, The New American War Film, Minnesota
Timothy Shary, Teen Movies: A Century of American Youth,
Wallflower
Clint Wesley Jones, Contemporary Cowboys: Reimaging an
American Archetype in Popular Culture, Lexington
Karen Tongson, Norm Porn: Queer Viewers and the TV That
Soothes Us, NYU
Justin Russell Greene, The Performative Representations of
the Masculinity in Quein Tarantino's Cinema, Lexington
Nate Patrin, The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies
from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave, Minnesota
Aaron X. Smith, Arocentricity in Afrofurism: Toward
Afrocentric Futurism, Mississippi
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Center for LGBTQ
Studies fellowships
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/clags-center-lgbtq-studies/fellowships-awards
The Center for LGBTQ Studies offers fellowships for graduate
and undergraduate students.
Duberman-Zal Fellowship: awarded to a graduate student, an
independent scholar, or an adjunct from any country doing scholarly research on
the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ) experience.
CLAGS Fellowship Award: An award to be given annually for a
graduate student, an academic, or an independent scholar for work on a
dissertation, a first book manuscript, or a second book manuscript.
Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies: This award,
which honors the memory of Rivera, a transgender activist, will be given for
the best book or article to appear in transgender studies this past year
(2020-2021).
Special Collections Research Fellowships | University of
Michigan Library
The University of Michigan Library invites applications for
fellowships for research in residence. Three fellowship opportunities are
available to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our
special collections.
The current application cycle is now open. Applications are
due by Thursday, February 1, 2024.
Research Fellowships
at the Massachusetts Historical Society
https://www.masshist.org/research/fellowships
The
Massachusetts Historical Society will sponsor dozens of
research fellowships for the 2024-2025 academic year, ranging from
short-term support to long-term residency. The MHS collections primarily
consist of manuscripts, as well as books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers,
graphics, photographs, works of art, and historical artifacts.
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, Deadline:
February 1, 2024
Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship, Deadline: February 15,
2024
MHS Short-Term Fellowships, Deadline March 1, 2024
Questions? See our FAQ or
e-mail fellowships@masshist.org.
Hagley Library/Oral History Project Grant
https://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships/oral-history-project-grant
The Oral History Office of the Hagley Library invites
applications for oral history project support. These grants of up to $5,000 are
awarded twice annually. Project grant funds may be used to reimburse costs
associated with travel to interviewees. Funds may also be for equipment
purchases but not stipends. Reimbursement of costs will take place promptly
after submission of the interview sound file, metadata, release forms, and
receipts. Graduate students conducting
research for their thesis or dissertation, and more advanced scholars for books
or other scholarly projects may apply for this grant. Our objective is to
expand our oral history collections on business and its relationship to society
by supporting serious research that uses oral history as a principal source,
and to encourage use of oral interviews more generally.
Deadline: Dec. 1
For questions, and to make sure their projects fall within
Hagley’s collecting scope, applicants are encouraged to reach out to Hagley
Oral History Program Manager Ben Spohn, bspohn@hagley.org.
Library Research
Grants
Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library
offers short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the
Princeton University Library special and distinct collections. Applications
will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and
other rare and unique holdings in Special Collections, including Mudd Library;
as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the
East Asian Library (Gest Collection).
Deadline: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 at 12pm EST.
William L. Clements
Library Fellowships
https://clements.umich.edu/research/fellowships/
The William L. Clements Library offers fellowships to help
scholars access the Library’s rich primary source collections for research. The
four broad categories are Long-term, Short-term, Week-long, and Digital
fellowships. The application requires a selection of which type of fellowship
you would like to be considered for and the duration you expect your research
visit to take.
Applications are due by January 15, 2024
For further information, contact clements-fellowships@umich.edu.
Research Development
Grants for BIPOC Scholars
https://sharpweb.org/grants-prizes/bipoc-grants/
SHARP is committed to enhancing the presence of Black,
Indigenous, and People of Color in its community and to supporting the
progression of BIPOC scholars in their academic and research careers. In order
to support training and career development, and in a desire to respond actively
to the issues of racism and under-representation, SHARP offers 5 grants of
US$1,000 each year to support projects by BIPOC scholars.
The deadline for all applications is February 26, 2024.
Questions? Email Director of Awards (awards@ sharpweb.org)
Research Fellowships in
United States Law & Race
https://uslawandrace.unl.edu/programs/graduate-fellowship/
Funded by the Mellon Foundation, this three-week residential
fellowship program supports four (4) graduate students in Summer 2024 at the
University of Nebraska’s U.S. Law and Race Initiative with the Digital Legal
Research Lab. The Mellon Graduate Fellows will have the opportunity to advance
their own research and writing projects, contribute to an Open Educational
Resource, and engage with faculty mentors. We seek proposals addressing race
and racialization in U.S. law and history broadly, aiming to understand
racialized people’s use of the law to advance personhood, citizenship, rights,
and sovereignty throughout American history. Applications are due February 1,
2024 and the program runs June 10-28, 2024.
Contact Email kjagodinsky@unl.edu
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
The Mary & Eliza Freeman Center for History and
Community - Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs (Start Date: January 2,
2024)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66475
Founded in 2009, The
Mary & Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community, Inc. owns the Mary
& Eliza Freeman Houses (circa 1848) in Bridgeport, CT’s South End. The
homes, under restoration (with support from the CT Department of Economic and
Community Development, the National Park Service, HUD, the City of Bridgeport,
the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, the National Trust for
Historic Preservation, Preservation CT and donations) are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places for significance to African Americans and
women. Little Liberia (known as Ethiope then Liberia in the 1800s), a seafaring
community of free people of color, boasted a luxurious seaside resort hotel for
wealthy Blacks (cited in a letter to Frederick Douglass), Bridgeport’s first
free lending library, a school for colored children, businesses, fraternal
organizations, and churches.
The Curator of
Exhibitions and Public Programs will collaboratively develop public
programming/content that supports interpretation goals and aligns with the
Center’s mission and strategic priorities. A candidate with an MA in Public
Humanities is preferred. Five (5) years of project management and two (2) years
in a supervisory role at an interdisciplinary, cultural
institution/organization or museum (with extensive community engagement) are
required.
Cover letters and
resumes and/or CVs can be emailed to maisa@freemancenterbpt.org
Academic Coordinator – Center for Feminist Futures
Rising Scholars
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
https://graduate.as.virginia.edu/rising-scholars
The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at
the University of Virginia established the Rising
Scholars Postdoctoral Fellows Program in 2021. It is part of the university’s
ongoing commitment to diversify UVA programs, the professoriate, and the
academic workforce in general. Postdoctoral Fellows selected under this program
will carry out transformative, cross-disciplinary research, develop a strong
teaching portfolio, contribute to the understanding of the legacy of
racial inequity using place-based methodologies for research or artistic
expression, and strengthen existing initiatives that address RJE issues. In
addition to mentoring within departments, Fellows will join a university-wide
cohort for additional career development programs and opportunities.
Review of applications will begin January 15, 2024.
Visiting Assistant
Professor in Black Feminisms
https://jobs.uri.edu/postings/12480
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) at the
University of Rhode Island invites applications for the Eleanor M. Carlson
Two-Year Visiting Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2024 with an expertise in
Black Feminisms. Successful candidates will have both an active research agenda
and a strong record of teaching experience in the field of Black Feminisms. We
seek a scholar whose teaching and research are located in the interdisciplinary
field of Gender and Women’s Studies who specializes in Black Feminisms in the
United States and/or African diaspora and/or Global Black Feminisms with a
focus on one or more of the following: Black feminist theory;
AfroLatinx/Afrolatine diaspora; or Afrolatine Studies.
First consideration will be given to applications received
by December 11, 2023.
Assistant Professor,
Native American and Indigenous Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/135454
The Department of American Studies at Brown University
invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position as Assistant
Professor of American Studies, with a focus on Native American and Indigenous
Studies. We seek a scholar with expertise in Native American expressive
culture, conceived broadly to include literature, visual and material culture,
and/or performing arts, in any historical period. We particularly encourage
applications from scholars with research and teaching expertise in publicly
engaged scholarship and/or digital humanities methods, as well as an interest
in developing introductory courses that contribute to the American Studies
undergraduate curriculum.
For full consideration, candidates should submit application
materials by December 15, 2023
American Indian Experience Database
https://www.abc-clio.com/nahm-2023/
In honor of National Native American Heritage Month, please
enjoy full and open access to The American Indian Experience database,
including more than 2,000 primary sources, historical inquiry activities, and
explorations of historical and contemporary issues.
