CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Stories of Climate
Transformation
https://www.scienceandfiction.fiu.edu/nc-25-cfp
40th Annual International Conference on Narrative, April
2—6, 2025 | Miami, FL
We invite paper, panel, and roundtable proposals on all
aspects of narrative in any genre, period, discipline, language, and medium. The theme is neither prescriptive nor binding.
Rather, it will be a thread in the program, indicative of a handful of special
sessions we’ll hold to spark interdisciplinary collaboration.
Deadline: December 1, 2024.
Organizing committee:
sciandfi@fiu.edu
Conference coordinator: Rhona Trauvitch, rhona.trauvitch@fiu.edu
BAIT, PROMPTS, and AID: The Power and Poetics of
Engagement in Art, Technology, History, and Human Nature/Nurture
https://rawconference2025.wixstudio.io/baitaid
The 16th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference, March 1,
2025, University of Texas at Dallas
RAW 2025 presents
bait and aid as complementary concepts providing a compelling framework for
addressing both the risks and opportunities posed by emerging technological
tools. These dynamics, particularly in relation to the "risk of bait"
in digital media, challenge existing norms. Bait and aid influence how we
engage with these forces playing a critical role in shaping cultural identity,
particularly within the contexts of migration, colonial legacy, and the
preservation of cultural heritage. Notions of bait and aid extend beyond
disembodied clickbait, online advertising, and social media to embodied human
and interspecies interaction within history, literature, art, where
anticipatory expressions create both suspense and curiosity. From the internet
to analogue, bait and aid engage organisms as teleological forces and nuanced
communicators. RAW 2025 queries, what are the qualities of an intelligence,
whether organic or artificial, when engaging the dialect of bait and aid?
deadline: Friday, December 6, 2024, at 11:59 pm
email rawconference@utdallas.edu
Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference
https://lawculturehumanities.com/event/2025-twenty-seventh-annual-conference/
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the
Humanities is excited to announce that we are now accepting submissions for our
Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference. The conference will be held in person (with
some online components) on June 17-18, 2025 at Georgetown Law in Washington,
D.C. This year's theme is "Speech Matters."
We are also accepting applications for our annual Graduate
Student Workshop, which will take place at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C.
on June 16, 2025 (the day before the conference).
The application deadline for both events is January 31,
2025.
Please contact us at lch@lawculturehumanities.com with any
queries.
Democratizing Human Rights: Towards an Inclusive and
Participatory Human Rights Agenda
July 2025 | Venue: Hamilton, Canada | Format:
In-Person/Hybrid
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the
United Nations in 1948, set forth fundamental rights and freedoms to which all
individuals are entitled. However, the implementation and protection of these
rights have often been uneven, as international human rights laws are frequently
shaped by geopolitical dynamics and interests, questions of national
sovereignty, and assertions of cultural particularities. Over 75 years later,
the universality of human rights remains both a foundational ideal and a source
of ongoing tension, as the practical application of these rights often reflects
imbalances in power and privilege. This workshop will explore how participatory
processes can address the tensions between majority rule and minority rights,
and between the universality of human rights and the particularities of local
contexts. Proposals should draw connections between democracy and human rights.
Proposals are due on January 15, 2025
email participediahumanrightscluster@gmail.com
Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/10/28/eaton-conference-on-speculative-fiction
We warmly invite established and emerging scholars to
participate in the Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, which will be held
in-person at the University of California, Riverside from April 4-5, 2025. All
scholars, especially graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to
submit abstracts for a two-day conference on speculative fiction and the
archive to share and engage in conversation about their work, foster community
and collegiality, and gain conference experience. This event will be free and
open to the public.
deadline: November 30
Please send any inquiries regarding the symposium to eatonconference@gmail.com.
Conference for
Interdisciplinary Research
https://www.utrgv.edu/interdisciplinaryconference/call-for-proposals/guidelines/index.htm
The School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community
Engagement (SIPCE) in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas
Rio Grande Valley invites proposals for its Fourth Annual Conference for
Interdisciplinary Research, which will take place on April 24-25, 2025. The conference will focus on identifying and
addressing ethical issues, questions, and dilemmas encountered in
interdisciplinary environments. Additionally, it will provide a platform to
discuss how interdisciplinary research can offer solutions to today’s complex
challenges and problems.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, December 30, 2024
(11:59 PM).
Contact Email friederike.bruehoefener@utrgv.edu
Queer History South 2026
https://invisiblehistory.org/qhs2026/
February 20-22, Fully Virtual Conference
Queer History South (QHS) is a network and conference for
those interested in the preservation, research, and education of LGBTQ history
in the US South. While QHS is centered on Southerners, those outside the region
may find the conference informative. We will prioritize those working in and
about the South, we may accept proposals about other regions.
Queer History South is open to proposals and sessions of all
kinds, however we will give priority to the following topics:
Telling Our Histories: presentations on historical research
for example, an overview of a local drag bar
Saving History: presentations that cover threats and
potential solutions to LGBTQ archives in the South and elsewhere
Out of the Institution: presentations that address ways in
which you are outreaching to the public, connecting with local communities, and
working across generations (exhibits, social media, digital outreach, community
archives, community education, tours, and so on)
State of the Field: presentations that explore the ways in
which we conduct LGBTQ historical research, archives, and education and how to
be successful doing so
Submissions open December 2, 2024 and close at midnight on
March 16, 2025
Politics & Gender Conference
https://www.pagconference.org/
MAY 28-29, 2025, Rutgers University
The conference aims to represent the full range of
questions, issues, and approaches on gender and women across the major
subfields of political science, including comparative politics, international
relations, political theory, and U.S. politics. We welcome research addressing
fundamental questions in politics and political science from a gender
perspective, as well as those that interrogate and challenge standard
analytical categories and conventional methodologies. The organizers are open
to submissions on all topics related to women, gender, and politics. We are
particularly interested, however, in receiving submissions taking stock of the
current political moment and/or addressing new and emerging questions in
gendered political analysis.
January 15: Paper proposals due
Email: pag@apsanet.org
Conference on the Liberal Arts, Humanities, and Social
Sciences
https://sites.google.com/view/lahsscon/about?authuser=0
Youngstown State University welcomes proposals from
undergraduate and graduate students for the eleventh annual Valerie
Waksmunski-Starr Memorial Conference on the Liberal Arts, Humanities, and
Social Sciences (LAHSS-Con), to be held April 16-18, 2025, at the Youngstown
Historical Center of Industry and Labor.
We invite proposals for individual papers, posters, panels,
workshops, and roundtables on any subject related to the liberal arts,
humanities, and social sciences, including from the disciplines of
anthropology, archaeology, education, English, geography, gender studies,
history, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and
sociology.
We are pleased to offer prizes to the best graduate and
undergraduate presentations.
To apply, please submit an abstract of no more than 250
words to https://sites.google.com/view/lahsscon/submit-proposal?authuser=0 by January
17, 2025.
Please direct any questions to Dr. Amy Laurel Fluker, with subject line LAHSS, at alfluker@ysu.edu.
Worlding Beyond
the End of the World
https://www.uwo.ca/theory/events/conferences.html
We are pleased to announce the in-person 2025 Theory &
Criticism conference at Western University from April 25th-26th. This
conference aims to look beyond visions of the future that are confined to the
utopian-dystopian binary. To do so, it will feature theoretically rich work
from decolonial, queer, trans, and crip-futurism(s) and their intersections. Questions
this conference will address include: How do decolonial, queer, trans, and
crip-futurism(s) offer visions of the future that challenge dominant
imaginations? What might those worlds look like at the level of affective life,
political procedure, techno-economic structure, and ecology? How does homo
economicus or the white, abled, heteropatriarchal ‘Man’ contribute to current
crises, and how can we move beyond him? What role does SF and experimental
writing play in bridging the gap between theory and practice in envisioning
alternative futures? What kind of art, performance, poetry, and fiction open
new futures and horizons?
Contact Email cstc-conference@uwo.ca
Conference on the Liberal Arts, Humanities, and Social
Sciences
https://sites.google.com/view/lahsscon?usp=sharing
Youngstown State University welcomes proposals from
undergraduate and graduate students for the eleventh annual Valerie
Waksmunski-Starr Memorial Conference on the Liberal Arts, Humanities, and
Social Sciences (LAHSS-Con), to be held April 16-18, 2025, at the Youngstown
Historical Center of Industry and Labor in Youngstown, Ohio. We invite
proposals for individual papers, posters, panels, workshops, and roundtables on
any subject related to the liberal arts, humanities, and social sciences,
including from the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, education,
English, geography, gender studies, history, philosophy, political science,
psychology, religion, and sociology.
To apply, please submit an abstract of no more than 250
words at the “Submit Proposal” link above by January 17, 2025.
Please direct any questions to Dr. Amy Laurel Fluker, with
subject line LAHSS, at alfluker@ysu.edu.
Humanities Education
and Research Association Conference
https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/hera/conference/
HERA’s 2025 conference theme focuses on the questions,
challenges, and opportunities presented by the growth of newer technologies
alongside traditional approaches and methodologies associated with humanistic
inquiry. To what extent can technology enhance or overshadow the Humanities?
Are advances in technology affecting the culture of the Humanities? Whether
your research is grounded in classical studies, explores more contemporary
approaches, or falls somewhere in the middle, we welcome you to join us in at
the University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX, March 12-15, 2025, to delve
into discussion, discover new insights, and respectfully debate how traditions
and technology will shape the future of our field.
Deadline for submission: no later than 12 February
2025.
Questions may be directed to the conference organizer,
Marcia Green (mgreen@sfsu.edu).
(Re)Placement
https://shiftingtidesanxiousborders.weebly.com/stab-2025.html
The Dept. of English, General Literature and Rhetoric at
Binghamton University invites abstracts for papers for our graduate conference
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders (STAB) scheduled for March 29, 2025.
We invite scholars, artists, and activists to examine the
processes through which spaces are transformed into places and the
consequential impacts of such transformations. Of particular interest are the
ways group identities redefine themselves in response to changes in their
physical and conceptual 'territories', and how places shape our subjectivities
and imaginations in the era of globalization and neoliberalization. We
encourage exploration of the roles that 'places' play in the context of
geopolitics, forced and voluntary migrations, and the rise of digital media.
Additionally, we welcome investigations into how literature and other arts
prompt reflection on our own placements within these negotiations and inspire
reimagining of these positions.
Submission deadline: January 31, 2025
For questions, contact stab.binghamton@gmail.com.
Martin Luther King,
Jr. and the Black Liberal Arts Tradition
The Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers
Collection welcomes submissions for the symposium “Martin Luther King and the
Black Liberal Arts Tradition”, which will be held on October 9-11, 2025, on the
campus of Morehouse College.
We assert King as an exemplar of the Black Liberal Arts
Tradition. Morehouse and other HBCUs placed the mission and vision of the
liberal arts in the service of Black freedom. As a student, King encountered,
in a powerful way, the questions that form the basis of intellectual inquiry –
questions of existence, identity, and place in the world. He explored these and
other questions across disciplines. King was not alone in this experience. His
experiences reflect a larger process that influenced and continues to influence
generations of Black students. The Black Liberal Arts Tradition serves as a
doorway through which to explore the reverberations of this tradition as
manifested in the work of generations of their alumni and the communities in
which they lived and served.
Submit a 300-word abstract to mlksymposium@morehouse.edu by
January 15, 2025
Contact Email mckinneyc@rhodes.edu
Being Human:
Individualism and the Self from the Renaissance to the 21st Century Conference
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/bh/
Sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre at the University
of Warwick, will take place on 22 February, 2025.
This one-day interdisciplinary conference will focus on the
development, conceptualisation, and significance of individualism, human
nature, and the self in the Western world, from the early modern era to the
modern day. It aims to bring together a diverse range of scholars from history
and literature through to philosophy and theology in an attempt to put
disparate theoretical approaches in conversation with one another. In doing so,
we hope to facilitate a nuanced consideration of these concepts’ historicity
and cultural variability in a modern-day West which often assumes their total
universality.
The submission deadline for our CFP is 15 DECEMBER 2024
PUBLICATIONS
Imagining Global Liberation: Antiracism,
Anti-Imperialism, and the US Third World Left since the 1970s
In her 2006 book Soul Power, Cynthia A. Young coined the
term “US Third World Left” to describe Americans of color who, in the age of
decolonization, Black Power, and the Vietnam War, came to see antiracism and
anti-imperialism as interlinked domestic and global imperatives. The US Third
World Left encompassed both political frameworks that cast the domestic fight
for racial justice as one front in a global movement for liberation, and the
use of a shared, ‘Third World’ identity to imagine Americans of color into a
global, resistant community. While a considerable body of scholarship has
explored the ways Americans of color conceptualized the relationship between
antiracism and anti-imperialism before and during the Vietnam War, no existing
collection focuses on these themes in the period since the Vietnam War ended.
To address this lacuna, I am looking for papers that explore
the ways antiracism and anti-imperialism have been understood and practiced as
a transnational or global project by Americans of color since around 1973.
Interested parties can send inquiries and submissions to
ikeda.j@northeastern.edu; submissions will be accepted through 12/15/2024.
Multispecies Intellectual History
https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/collection/18792
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and
Eiko Honda (Aarhus University) call for papers under the theme of ‘Multispecies
Intellectual History,’ to be published in the peer-reviewed, open-access
journal Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History. The CfP aims to create
the new thematic collection of featured articles within the journal on events
in environmental history understood through a multispecies intellectual history
perspective.
Please contact the journal editor Jonatan Palmblad
(jonatan.palmblad@lmu.de) and the collection’s principal curator Eiko Honda
(eiko.honda@cas.au.dk) if you are unsure about the topic and approach you are
considering for your contribution.
Deadline: Jan 31, 2025
Palestine and Campus Movements: Sites of Transnational Feminist
Solidarities
https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/gatherings/news.html
Since October 2023, university and college campuses across
North America and around the world have become sites of increasing protests and
actions in support of the struggle for the liberation of Palestine. They vary
in their form and focus, including teach-ins, walk-outs, and encampments that
spotlight issues such as the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the occupation
of Palestine, the ongoing displacement of Palestinian refugees, Israeli illegal
settlement in the occupied territories, Israeli apartheid, the targeted
decimation of schools and universities in Gaza (“scholasticide”), U.S. support
of the war, and university investments in the state of Israel and businesses
that operate in the occupied territories. Across disciplines and backgrounds,
academics and activists have gathered and mobilized in support of the student
movement and encampments across the globe, demanding their protection and the
broader protection of speech on campus. Scholars, students, and
faculty–especially in women and gender studies programs–have been pushing the
boundaries of public discourse, and we take inspiration from their work to
produce this issue of Gatherings. Gatherings invites scholars, artists, and
activists to reflect on this campus-based transnational activism. We encourage
various modes of discourse, including research articles, memoir, video essays,
digital art, interviews and more.
Please submit a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bio via the
online submission form by November 15, 2024
Call for Reviewers -
Journal of Popular Culture
The Journal of Popular Culture is looking for those who are
interested in reviewing books. These reviews will be due on January 10,
2025. If you have a completed Master's
degree or higher, one of these books is in your field of study, and you are
interested in writing a review for us, please contact me at kiuchiyu@msu.edu,
noting your preferred title and your mailing address. Please also send a short
explanation to state what makes you a good reviewer of the book (or you may
send me your CV). The reviews need to be between 500 and 1,000 words and
documented in MLA style. Physical books may only be sent to an address in the
U.S. International reviewers will receive an e-copy of the book.
Available Books
Reginald Wiebe and Doothy Woodman, The Cancer Plot: Terminal
Immortality in Marvel's Moral Universe, Alberta
Jon Langmead, Ballyhood: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and
Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling, Missouri
Kitty Ledbetter and Scott Foster Siman, Broadcasting the Ozarks:
Si Siman and Country Music at the Cross Roads, Arkansas
Glenn Gerstner, Andy Varipapa: Bowling's First Superstar,
McFarland (Only available as PDF)
James Scorer, Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First
Century: Transgressing the Frame, Texas
Frank Garcia, Clicas: Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in
Latino/a/x Gang Literature and Film, Texas
Megan Amber Condis and Mike Sell, Ready Reader One: The
Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames, LSU
Matt Foy and Christopher Olson, Mystery Science Tehater
3000: A Cultural History, Rowman and Littlefield
Vicki Valosik, Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in
Water, Liveright
Molly Schneider, Gold Dust on the Air: Television, Anthology
Drama and Midcentury American Culture, Texas
Mark Hibbett, Data and Doctor Doom: An Emperical Approach to
Transmedia Characters, Palgrave
Daniel Worden, Petro-Chemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy
of American Comics, Ohio State U
Sam Langsdale, Searching for Feminist: Gender, Sexuality,
and Race in Marvel Comics, Texas
Gary Kuchar, Shakespeare and the World of Slings and Arrows,
McGill
Jordan Carroll, Speculative Whiteness, Forerunners
Mel Stanfill, Fandom is Ugly: Networked Harassment in
Participatory Culture, NYU
Robyn Muir, The Cultural Legacy of Disney: A Century of
Magic, Lexington
Ed Gruver, The Wee Ice Mon Cometh: Ben Hogan's 1053 Triple
Slam and One of Golf's Greatest Summers, Nebraska
Marie-Pier Luneau, Love Stories Now and Then: A History of
Les Romans d'Amour, Baraka Books
Aditya Misra, Theorizing the Superhero: Performativity and
Politics, Palgrave
Patrick Lewis, Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil
War Video Games, LSUP
Reem Hilu, The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing
Domesticity in the 1980s, Minnesota
Krista Noble, One with the Force: 18 Universal Truths in
Star Wars, Rowman & Littlefield
M. Keith Booker, American Noir Film: From the Maltese Falcon
to Gone Girl, Rowman & Littlefield
Ben Robbins, Faulkner's Hollywood Novels: Women Between Page
and Screen, Virginia
Megan Hunt, Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race,
and Civil Rights in Hollywood's Amercan South
Queering Affective
and Social Reproductive Labor in Post-Pandemic Life
Calls for Submissions: Invitation to Contribute to the
Special Issue on "Queering Affective and Social Reproductive Labor in
Post-Pandemic Life" for Women's Studies in Communication (WSIC). Calls for
Submissions: Invitation to Contribute to the Special Issue on "Queering
Affective and Social Reproductive Labor in Post-Pandemic Life" for Women's
Studies in Communication (WSIC). Hence, in this special issue, we invite
submissions from people who engage with overarching research questions such as
but are not limited to - what does social reproductive labor look like, in the
interpersonal and family space in the new normal?
If you are interested in submitting for the special issue
please send us a brief abstract with a note of your interest as soon as
possible. Completed first drafts due:
January 8, 2025
Abstracts can be submitted directly to the special issue
editors at radhik@bgsu.edu
and drahut@bgsu.edu.
Dissenting Feminisms
From campaigns against disenfranchisement to protests
against sexual and gender-based violence, feminism has historically combined
dissent—against exclusion, subordination, and prevailing power structures—with
a focus on the imperative for social and political transformation. This issue
of Rejoinder explores the history of feminist dissent and how it has shifted
through the decades, both for activists and academics. In addition to a
historical focus, we seek to address contemporary manifestations of dissent within
feminism, exploring who successfully forges narratives that challenge
feminism’s dominant iteration(s)—and what accounts for their success. We ask
whose feminist voices are excluded from, or marginalized in, prevailing
feminist discourse and consider what this implies about feminism's future. We
encourage contributions that explore feminism(s) from a wide range of
positionalities, contexts, and geographical regions. Submissions may include
essays, commentary, criticism, fiction, poetry, and artwork. We particularly
welcome contributions at the intersection of scholarship and activism.
Please send completed written work (2,000-2,500 words max --
MS Word), jpegs of artwork, and short bios to irw@sas.rutgers.edu with "Rejoinder Submission"
in the subject line by December 15, 2024
Gendered Life Stories
and the Politics of Imagination
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20049610/cfp-special-issue
Portal: Journal of
Multidisciplinary International Studies, special issue
Why do some personal narratives spark national or global
movements? How do gendered life stories transcend individual experiences to
challenge societal norms and drive social change? This special issue seeks to
open new scholarly conversations by examining how gendered life stories spark
public revolutions and reshape cultural discourses. When amplified through
digital platforms, the potential of gendered life stories to spark change is
magnified, making them critical tools for reimagining social realities and
driving cultural and political shifts. We invite contributions that offer new insights
into how gendered life stories act as agents of social change.
Submit an abstract of up to 300 words outlining your
proposed contribution by 28 February 2025 to portal.scholarly.journal@gmail.com.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
National Council on Public History (NCPH) Diversity
Travel Award
https://ncph.org/about/awards/ncph-diversity-travel-award/
Four $500 travel grants to support attendance at the NCPH
Annual Meeting for representatives of minority-supporting institutions,
including but not limited to universities (including HBCUs, HSIs, etc.),
museums, historic sites, and other organizations that base their primary work
in supporting marginalized communities through public history broadly defined. Applicants
must be members of NCPH and represent a minority-supporting institution and/or
be a member of an underrepresented group, broadly defined, to be eligible for
this award.
Nominations must be received no later than December 1, 2024.
Late submissions will not be considered.
Women's Campaign School
https://lbjwcs.lbj.utexas.edu/how-apply
The Center for Women in Government provides full tuition reimbursement grants to qualified Texas residents to attend this training program specifically for women seeking elected office or work on campaigns. The LBJ WCS sixth cohort will begin in mid-May 2025 with an in-person kick-off in Austin followed by five live, online classes, eight total mentoring and networking sessions, and one media training. Applications are now open and the priority deadline is fast approaching!
Round 1 (priority funding) application deadline: Dec. 16, 2024
Houghton Library Visiting Fellowship Program
https://library.harvard.edu/grants-fellowships/houghton-library-visiting-fellowships
The Visiting Fellowship program offers scholars at all
stages of their careers funding to pursue projects that require in-depth
research on the library’s holdings, as well as opportunities to draw on staff
expertise and participate in intellectual life at Harvard. Houghton Library has
historically focused on collecting the written record of European and
Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse amount of
primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of
indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Fellows in the 2025–2026 cohort will receive a $4,500
stipend and are required to be in residence at Houghton for four weeks within
their fellowship year
Applications are due January 17, 2025
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 open from 1 November 2024
through 31 January 2025.
Pomegranate Writing Fellowship for Jewish Women of Color
A year-long writing Fellowship for Jewish women of color and
racially and ethnically diverse Jewish women* that supports the development of
their talents, provides a platform that amplifies their voices, and builds the
field of Jewish women of color thought leaders. *JWA embraces expansive
understandings of Jewishness and gender. We include Jews from all backgrounds
and those who are non-binary, genderqueer, or gender-questioning.
Applications for the Pomegranate Writing Fellowship close
December 16, 2024.
Center for Southern
Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston research fellowship program
https://jewish-south.charleston.edu/about-research-fellowships/
Charleston Fellows will receive research grants to cover the
cost of travel and residency while conducting archival research in Special
Collections at the College of Charleston. Applicants must be working on
projects of scholarship, public history, or artistic production that would
benefit from research in Special Collections at the College of Charleston.
Preference will be given to candidates coming from out of state and those using
materials from the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College’s Addlestone
Library. Recipients may include scholars at all stages of their career
including graduate students, independent researchers, as well as journalists,
filmmakers, artists, and exhibition curators.
The fellowship committee will begin reviewing applications
on March 1, 2025.
For any inquiries regarding the fellowship, please contact
Ashley Walters at waltersa1@cofc.edu.
Schlesinger Library
Grants
https://apply-radcliffe-institute.smapply.io/
The Schlesinger Library invites predoctoral scholars whose
dissertation research requires use of the Library’s collections to apply for
research support. Grants of $3,000 will be given on a competitive basis.
Applicants must have advanced to candidacy in a doctoral program in a relevant
field and have an approved dissertation topic. Priority will be given to those
whose projects require use of materials available only at the Schlesinger
Library.
Applications must be received by Sunday, January 26, 2025
Questions? Contact slgrants@radcliffe.harvard.edu
Research Fellowship
in Texas History
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC)
offers each year the Research Fellowship in Texas History for the best research
proposal utilizing collections of the State Archives in Austin
or the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center in
Liberty, Texas. Research topics should be significant to Texas history, with
preference given to fresh areas of study and/or under-sourced archival
collections. Applicants may contact ref@tsl.texas.gov for
more information about collections. Apply by January 15, 2025. Find more
information and the application form online here: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/arc/researchfellowship
2025-26 Fellowships,
Linda Hall Library
https://www.lindahall.org/research/linda-hall-library-fellowships/
The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for our
2025-26 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral
researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related
humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding
science and engineering collections. The Library offers residential fellowships
to support on-site research in Kansas City, as well as virtual fellowships for
scholars working remotely using resources from the Library’s digital
collections. Applicants may request up to four months of funding at a rate of
$3,000 per month for doctoral students and $4,200 per month for postdoctoral
researchers.
All application materials are due no later than January 17,
2025
email fellowships@lindahall.org
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Assistant
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Cottey College, a private liberal arts and sciences college
for women, invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in
women, gender, and sexuality studies (WGS), starting August 2025. We are
looking for a motivated candidate who is interested in teaching a broad range
of courses in a student-centered, collaborative environment. The preferred
candidate will have earned a Ph.D. in WGS, Rhetoric & Composition, or
related field; have shown a record of excellence in undergraduate teaching; and
have demonstrated evidence of scholarly work in WGS. Successful candidates will
also be expected to coordinate the WGS program. The WGS program includes
faculty across the disciplines and reflects the College’s three threads:
leadership, social responsibility, and global awareness.
Review of applications will begin December 2, 2024, and
continues until the position is filled.
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Gender Studies
African American Studies Assistant Professor
https://jobs.cofc.edu/postings/16109
The College of Charleston’s African American Studies Program
invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position starting
August 16, 2025. We seek a dynamic and productive scholar with a demonstrated
record of excellence in applying interdisciplinary and intersectional
approaches to scholarship and teaching who works in African American/Black
Studies from across the disciplines. We are particularly interested in scholars
with expertise in African/African American foodways. Candidates must have a
Ph.D. in African American Studies or a discipline within the humanities or
social sciences, with a strong record of effective teaching and active
research. The standard teaching load will be 3/3, and the candidate should be
able to teach Introduction to African American Studies and upper-level courses,
including the Capstone in African American Studies. The candidate must have
completed their Ph.D. by the beginning of the appointment.
For full consideration, applications should be received by
December 31, 2024
Questions about the search can be directed to the Director
of African American Studies/Search Committee Chair, Anthony D. Greene:
greenead@cofc.edu or 843-953-0675.
Assistant or
Associate Professor - Black/Africana/African American Studies
https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=178948524
The Africana and Latinx Studies Department department at the
State University of New York at Oneonta invites applications for an Assistant
or Associate Professor of Black/Africana/African American Studies beginning
Fall 2025. Primary Specialization: Interest in one or more of the following:
Freedom Trail Histories, Emancipation Studies, Race and Ethnicity in Medicine
and Health Care, Race and Ethnicity in Ecologies and Environment, and/or Queer
Studies. Secondary Specialization: Interests in one or more of the following:
Labor Studies, Religion and Liberation Theologies, Food Studies, Urban Studies,
and/or Rural-Urban Migrations.
Postdoc - Feminism
and the Culture Wars
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29141
The Duke University Program in Gender, Sexuality &
Feminist (GSF) Studies invites applications for a residential postdoctoral
associate focused on “Feminism and the Culture Wars” for the 2025-2026 academic
year. Through research, teaching, and service, the associate will contribute to
the overall work of the GSF Program. We seek candidates with training in
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and allied fields with a specific
research focus on the culture wars, broadly construed, and feminism’s historical
and/or contemporary entanglements with moral panic. We welcome a variety of
disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives that situate the culture wars
in a transnational context, from anti-LGBTQ extremism and Islamophobia to the
border “crisis” and climate change denialism. Research may examine the
affective politics of moral panic, as well as liberatory modes of resistance
like decolonization, demilitarization, abolition, and transformative justice.
Scholars with expertise in the following areas are encouraged to apply:
transmisogyny; the policing of sex and sexuality; anti-abortion movements;
purity culture; xenophobia and the refugee crisis; the war on terror; the war
on drugs; and anti-intellectualism.
Please submit applications electronically by January 15,
2025
Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame
https://apply.interfolio.com/157362
The Gender Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame
invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Gender Studies
to begin August 2025. The successful candidate will teach one course per
semester and will be expected to pursue a program of independent research and
participate in the scholarly life of the faculty. The fellow is expected to be in
residence. Applicants must be fluent in feminist and queer theories and
methodologies and prepared to teach both core courses (feminist and gender
theory) and Gender Studies electives in their area of specialization. Evidence
of scholarly achievement and successful teaching experience is essential.
Applicants must submit a cover letter, CV, a short
(one-page) statement of teaching philosophy, and three letters of
recommendation to http://apply.interfolio.com/ by December 10, 2024.
Questions may be addressed to Barbara Green, Director of the
Gender Studies Program, at bgreen@nd.edu.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Black Feminist
Studies
https://hr.wwu.edu/careers?job=501978
The Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at
Western Washington University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track
position at the rank of Assistant Professor specializing in Black Feminist
Studies beginning September 2025. This position is for a scholar who centers
the knowledge production of women of color in ways that challenges historical
inequities, state violence, and/or regimes of incarceration by encouraging
Black Feminist Thought, visions of political and social transformation, and/or
Black feminist collective organizing. Applicants from any discipline in the
Humanities or Social Sciences will be accepted with a preference for candidates
with a Ph.D. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or related
interdisciplinary fields. We seek applicants with a well-established record of
research and teaching that engages Black feminist themes in the field from a
philosophical, racial, queer, trans, and/or comparative perspective.
Application review of complete files begins December 1st,
2024
For questions about the position, application process, or
department, contact Dr. Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre Raelynn.schwartz-dupre@wwu.edu
Assistant Director of LGBTQIA+ Programs
https://jobs.odu.edu/postings/22155
The Assistant Director of LGBTQIA+ Programs plays a pivotal
role in fostering a supportive, inclusive, and thriving environment for
LGBTQIA+ students within the university community. This position is responsible
for the recruitment, training, and selection of staff while designing,
developing, and implementing innovative programs and services that address the
unique needs of LGBTQIA+ students. These efforts aim to promote a sense of
belonging, cultivate personal and professional growth, and empower students to
achieve academic excellence. Central to this role is a strong emphasis on
well-being, ensuring that all initiatives are aligned with principles of
holistic student development inside and outside of the classroom. The Assistant
Director contributes to creating a campus culture where LGBTQIA+ students feel
valued, respected, and equipped to thrive. Key responsibilities include
developing educational programming, Ally Bystander Intervention efforts,
curriculum development, assessment, and outreach to university departments and
community organizations to center intersectional programmatic efforts.
Application Review Date: 11/21/2024 (open until filled)
Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Washington University
in St. Louis
https://apply.interfolio.com/154494
Washington University in St. Louis announces the
twenty-fourth year of Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, a postdoctoral
fellowship program endowed by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and designed to
encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and
interpretive social sciences. We invite applications from recent PhDs, DPhils,
or D.F.A.s (with degree in hand by June 30, 2025, and no earlier than June 30,
2022) who have not previously held a research-oriented postdoctoral fellowship.
This fellowship program is now housed in WashU’s Center for the Humanities.
Submit materials by Thursday, December 19, 2024
Africana Studies
Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
https://apply.interfolio.com/150577
The Africana Studies Department at Stony Brook University
invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Human
Rights, Critical Carceral Studies, and Education at the beginning of Fall
2025. The candidate selected for this
position is expected to work with the faculty to continue to develop and coordinate
a prison/jail education program offered within SUNY Stony Brook and in the Long
Island region, coordinate curriculum, create an interdisciplinary minor within
Africana Studies designed to train students in issues surrounding abolition,
reform, and the prison-industrial complex. In addition to traditional classroom
teaching, the candidate will have opportunities to develop experiential
learning options for students and teach in correctional facilities through
Stony Brook’s developing prison education project.
The position will remain open until filled, with priority
consideration for applications submitted by January 15th.
Collaborative
Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://apply.interfolio.com/159013
We seek recent PhDs in the humanities and the humanistic
social sciences who bring interdisciplinary approaches to crucial issues in
contemporary life. During their time at Vanderbilt, CHPP fellows pursue
research projects, design and teach undergraduate courses, craft professional
skills, and receive active faculty mentoring. Each fellow is placed in a home
academic department or program, and teaching opportunities are determined in
coordination with that unit’s chair/director. The program offers fellows the
opportunity to build research profiles, expand intellectual networks within
Vanderbilt and beyond, and hone their teaching expertise.
All materials should be submitted via Interfolio by Sunday,
February 2, 11:59pm CST.
Humanities Institute Research
Fellowship
https://apply.interfolio.com/156402
The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (UCHI)
invites applications for 2025–26 residential fellowships. During this time of
global change and uncertainty, UCHI seeks to mobilize the humanities as a
revitalizing force for our academic communities, national conversations, and
global commitments. With year-long fellowships offering a $50,000 stipend, an
office, and all the benefits of a R1 university, UCHI equips scholars to engage
in these crucial undertakings and hone their research in a vibrant, interdisciplinary
community of fellows. Fellows are expected to participate in UCHI’s scholarly
events, attend our grant workshops, and are required to give a public talk.
Application materials must be received by 11:59 pm (EST) on
February 1, 2025.
ALE’s Free
"AI Tools Boot Camp for Researchers: Core Essentials" Course
https://www.aclang.com/ai-bootcamp.php
Jan. 20 and 27, 2025
As AI continues to reshape the academic landscape, staying one
step ahead is essential. Join us for Academic Language Experts’ upcoming
(free!) AI Tools Boot Camp for Researchers: Core Essentials course. This course offers practical, hands-on
training with essential AI tools to streamline your literature review search,
conduct research more efficiently write and edit your papers.
Contact Email elana@aclang.com
Trans Legal Aid Clinic of Texas December 2024 Express
Clinic Intake Form
https://translegalaidtx.com/clinic-info/
Trans and non-binary Texans we know you have questions about
the process to correct your name and gender marker on your ID documents and
need help now. TLACT is offering ten opportunities for you to meet with
volunteer attorneys for free and ask questions. We will provide written and
video resources to explain the process, as well as fillable forms for you to
get the court orders you need or get existing combined orders split into two
separate, usable orders. Sign
up is required to attend and space is limited. Clinic dates are Dec. 1, 2,
4, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17.
Open Access Journal: Aspasia: The International Yearbook
of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/aspasia/aspasia-overview.xml
Aspasia is the international peer-reviewed annual of
women’s and gender history of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe
(CESEE). It aims to transform European women’s and gender history by expanding
comparative research on women and gender to all parts of Europe, creating a
European history of women and gender that encompasses more than the traditional
Western European perspective. Aspasia particularly emphasizes research that
examines the ways in which gender intersects with other categories of social
organization and advances work that explores transnational aspects of women’s
and gender histories within, to, and from CESEE. The journal also provides an
important outlet for the publication of articles by scholars working in CESEE
itself. Its contributions cover a rich variety of topics and historical eras,
as well as a wide range of methodologies and approaches to the history of women
and gender.
Contact: info@berghahnjournals.com
Open access book: Abortion Pills: US History and Politics
by Carrie Baker
https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/m900nx46q
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive history of
abortion pills in the United States. Public intellectual and lawyer Carrie N.
Baker shows how courageous activists waged a decades-long campaign to
establish, expand, and maintain access to abortion pills. Weaving their voices
throughout her book, Baker recounts both dramatic and everyday acts of their
resistance. These activists battled anti-abortion forces, overly cautious
policymakers, medical gatekeepers, and fearful allies in their four-decade-long
fight to free abortion pills. In post-Roe America, abortion pills are currently
playing a critically important role in providing safe abortion access to tens
of thousands of people living in states that now ban and restrict abortion.
Understanding this struggle will help to ensure continued access into the
future.
This zine serves as a basic introduction to saving your archival records as a transgender, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, and gender diverse person in the US South. While the zine is specifically tailored toward people living in the South, it may be helpful for others both inside and outside the US. This zine is a companion document to the Southern Trans Collection Guide (STCG) developed by Invisible Histories and a group of LGBTQ and supportive archivists, researchers, historians, and educators. The STCG is intended for archivists who want to expand their trans and gender diverse collections. This zine is meant for you, the donor!
Resources and tools
to enhance teaching and learning
https://about.jstor.org/educators/
As educators, you’re navigating a challenging landscape:
balancing increasing workloads, sparking and sustaining student engagement,
developing innovative curricula, and adapting to the rapid pace of change in
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EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
How Do I Take Action Where I Am? A Workshop Series for
Grounding Ourselves in the Fight Ahead
https://prisonculture.substack.com/p/how-do-i-take-action-where-i-am
These five 90-minute sessions happening in December &
January are intended to provide concrete ideas and steps that anyone can take.
Each session is facilitated by long-time activists and organizers. The sessions
will be offered as Zoom webinars, but we will not record them. Importantly,
these workshops are appropriate for people who are new to activism and
organizing. They will not be useful if you are a long-time activist and
organizer because you’re already taking action.
Please DO NOT register if you know you cannot attend.
This is important. Space is limited. So please don’t register as a placeholder.
Gaiagraphies: Inside the Critical Zones
November 29, 14:30 pm–15:15 pm,
Alexandra Arènes will discuss fieldwork in the critical zones
observatories where scientists measure environmental disturbances across the
Earth in specific places. Through ethno-cartographies, the
"Gaiagraphies" research project, aims to create alternative
cartographies of the critical zone, as new cosmograms for thinking the Earth,
architecture and science together. Thanks to the mapping of scientists'
sensors, the Gaiagraphies and Terra Forma maps make visible the elements, agents
and entities that compose landscapes, thereby increasing knowledge and
improving ecological practices in the field of architecture.
Please register via panel@planet.uni-giessen.de by November 25th, 2024
