CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Modern Language
Association (PAMLA) Convention in Palm Springs California (Nov. 7-10, 2024)
proposal deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2024.
Teaching Against the Anthropocene
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19097
"Teaching Against the Anthropocene" will explore
how we translate environmental media into our teaching practices and how we can
encourage our students to reflect critically about environmental concepts like
the Anthropocene. This panel welcomes
presentations on texts, documents, philosophies, activities, assignments,
syllabi, and other media that panelists have effectively used in the classroom
to teach about and against the Anthropocene. The goal of this session is not
only to share successful pedagogical approaches but also to spark a dialogue on
how the humanities can act in an age of planetary crisis.
Robert Decker (University of Southern California), deckerr@usc.edu; Chloé Vettier (Scripps College) cvettier@scrippscollege.edu
Science Fiction
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19192
We invite proposals that engage with some aspect of Science
Fiction in media and/or literature, including closely related fields such as
Alternative History and Speculative Fiction. Special consideration will be
given to proposals that center around the conference theme “Translation in
Action,” but proposals not connecting to the conference theme are likewise
welcome.
Intellectual History
Conference Thoughts of the Future
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdK7oNZTQLJyjAEJIEOUe6uhUmuuOd9nKpF7NFSQ3y0xHNaew/viewform
November 1, 2024
This conference serves as a platform to dissect, among other
topics, the intricacies of futurology, dystopias, utopias, apocalypse, and
paradise. Historians and scholars working beyond the historical field will
reflect on the diverse social imaginaries and narratives that shape our
understanding of the future.
The deadline to submit an abstract is May 31, 2024.
Queens of the Future:
A Century of Women in Speculative Fiction Media
October 17–19 2024 in Los Angeles
2024 marks the 40th anniversary of THE TERMINATOR (1984).
Legendary producer Gale Anne Hurd co-wrote THE TERMINATOR, a film that launched
a multi-media franchise. Through her long and distinguished career as a writer
and producer, Hurd brought many iconic Women heroes, Sarah Connor, Ellen Ripley
(ALIENS, 1986), Aeon Flux (AEON FLUX, 2005), and Michonne (THE WALKING DEAD,
2010–2022) to the screen. This year’s Speculative Fiction Across Media (SFAM)
conference celebrates the groundbreaking achievements of Gale Anne Hurd and all
the women creators of speculative fiction in the long history of sf film,
television, literature, comics, radio, video games, fandom, and any other
media.
Please e-mail us your 300–500-word abstract, accompanied by
a short CV, to associatedirector@sfamla.org by May 1.
Art Speaks (Back)
https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-symposia/symposia/Art-Speaks-Back-2025-04-03.html
Boston, MA, April 3-5, 2025
Today, as they have in the past, new technologies and new media are bringing about radical changes in art and society. Reflecting on both the current political moment and new technologies of knowledge and artistic production such as AI, we are calling for paper, panel, and round table discussion proposals with the theme “Art Speaks (Back).” The capacity or incapacity of art (and artists) to “speak” may be a useful heuristic/analytical tool to examine both contemporary and historical artistic production. By examining the social and political roles art and artists have played in the past, we may be able to assay the dangers and opportunities presented by new media and technologies. We envision the theme “Art Speaks (Back)” to be explored through attention to technologies of production, to patronage and collecting, to the role of art and artists in society, to art created in times of crisis or change.
Please email all submissions to: HIAA.2025.Boston@gmail.com by
April 15, 2024
Blockbuster Futures Conference
https://cinema.indiana.edu/academics/Blockbuster%20Futures%202024.html
October 28–30, 2024 | Indiana
University
Blockbuster films have been instrumental to the evolution of
the art and economics of the film industry for decades. What Charles Acland
(2020) calls the “blockbuster strategy”— “the rationale that embraces the
big-budget cross-media production at the expense of other industrial and
artistic approaches” (8)—underpins contemporary industrial, technological, and
aesthetic models of global blockbuster filmmaking. Yet, blockbusters are on the
precipice of change, and in the U.S., they are showing their first signs of
sustained destabilization.
Conference submissions are due by MAY 1, 2024 11:59pm EDT.
Questions? Email: bfconf24@iu.edu
Creativity, Care, and
Communities: Making Visible Connections
https://www.dress-body-association.org/conferences
The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the
organization’s fourth annual conference, which will be held on November 2-3,
2024. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability,
all activities will be 100% online, including keynote speaker(s), research
presentations, and opportunities for virtual networking.
The body is an intensely personal site for creativity and
self-expression, yet even the most unique styles of dress reflect larger
communities—people, places, and legacies that we care about and draw
inspiration from. Whether we understand them as ‘imagined communities’
(Anderson 1989), ‘communities of practice’ (Wegner 1998), or something else, we
as artists, designers, activists, educators, and scholars give to and take from
communities. We often make our connections visible through material culture
such as (but not limited to) clothing, jewelry, headwear, footwear, and body
modifications. Proposals on any topic related to dress and the body will be
considered, but those related to this year’s theme are most likely to be
accepted. Individual and collaborative presentations are welcome, as are
suggestions for roundtable discussions.
Please submit your abstract by July 1, 2024
Contact Email dress.body.assoc@gmail.com
Popular Culture
Association in the South and the American Culture Association
Greenville, SC, October 17th – 19th
The Popular Culture Association in the South and the
American Culture Association in the South meet every year to present and
discuss ideas about popular culture, American and world-wide. We also encourage
individual submissions and panels of creative writing. We invite panels
organized around one issue or theme.
Submission Deadline:
June 15th
Contact Email pcasacasorg@gmail.com
History of Women
Religious
https://cushwa.nd.edu/news/call-for-papers-conference-on-the-history-of-women-religious/
University of Notre Dame · June 22–25, 2025
The committee for the Conference on the History of Women
Religious (CHWR) invites proposals for papers and panels that address the
conference theme, “Lives and Archives,” from scholars in the fields of history,
theology, sociology, literature, anthropology, gender studies, visual and
creative arts, material culture, religious studies, and communications.
Proposals are due August 15, 2024
Inclusive Pedagogy
https://amps-research.com/conference/schools-of-thought/
Oftentimes, “inclusive pedagogy” is used to refer to ways in
which educators consider issues of diversity and accessibility in the
classroom. True enough, educators do need to consider, support, and engage
wider swathes of student backgrounds and needs—but what does it truly mean to
“include” students in the learning process? This track focuses on alternative
teaching methods that shift and challenge the power dynamics of the classroom
to provide students more agency in their education and re-examine the role of
“educator.” Examples include, but are not limited to: various methods of
“ungrading” or alternative assessment that provide students different pathways
for success; collaborative syllabus creation, in which students work with
faculty to determine the structure, rules, and even content of the course; and
“flipped classrooms,” where the time in class is used to provide students
opportunities to examine, discuss, and assimilate knowledge rather than
passively receive information.
Abstracts due 01 July
2024
The
Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions
Conference Date: 12–14 February 2025; Conference Venue:
University of Copenhagen
The declaration of “counter-universities” has been part of
activists’ repertoires for many decades. The practice became known primarily
through the student movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Since the mid-1960s,
numerous “free” universities have emerged in the USA in the context of protests
for “free speech” and against the Vietnam War. This conference invites scholars
interested in the history and present of the counter-university to share their
ideas on this significant yet under-researched transnational phenomenon.
Despite the wide spread and centrality of the counter-university, research so far
has hesitated to approach the phenomenon and its diverse manifestations as
spatially as well as temporally connected. Therefore, this conference is
dedicated to open a discussion about counter-universities’ pasts and presents
and to assess their role in world-wide struggles for social and educational
reforms.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 May 2024
Contact Email susanneschregel@hum.ku.dk
PUBLICATIONS
Designing Our Future:
Humanities-Centered Teaching, Learning, and Thinking in the 21st Century
Call for Proposals for Special Issue, Interdisciplinary
Humanities
The disciplined university has traditionally organized the
humanities within majors, minors, certificates, and general education courses.
This structure creates silos where subjects are taught within a particular
discipline with an occasional slippage into other disciplines. To push against
this rigid structure, some colleges and universities are being creative and
innovative with the humanities. Some are trying to infuse the humanities in
places where traditionally they have been absent, and some are
reconceptualizing and repackaging them. For example, how do the humanities give
us a roadmap to determine the ethical boundaries of the non-human, cyborgian
networks of knowledge generated by artificial intelligence?
Submit essay proposals to futureofthehumanities@gmail.com
by Friday, April 26, 2024
Friction
https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/tba/announcement/view/219
tba: Journal
of Art, Media, and Visual Culture, is pleased to announce that we are
accepting submissions for our upcoming issue, FRICTION. The
static of friction is palpable, it shocks us daily. Below us, the lithosphere
steadily pushes against itself in a process of subduction, and above ground a
multiplicity of narratives and truths electrifies the air through various
frictions. By acknowledging the power relations that are (de)constructing these
sites of frictional dialogue, conceptions of decolonization, the politics of
knowledge production, and placemaking seek to render the relational experiences
of people visible. For our upcoming issue tba encourages contributors to think
through convergence and divergence of bodies, concepts, and ideologies as they
explore friction.
We invite you to submit your work by June 1st, 2024.
For inquiries, please write tbawestern@gmail.com
Call for Chapters for
Book on Indigenous Women by Indigenous Women
We seek chapter proposals on the topic of Indigenous Women’s
Research. The book positions our voices as central to engagements with
Indigenous community life and to dismantling the research paradigms and
practices that have not served us as Indigenous women. We see questions of “voice”
as vital issues of political articulation, creatively and wisely expressed in
personal, collective and symbolic terms. We write for and with the Indigenous
women we work alongside in the diverse fields we occupy. We believe in making
our positions and perspectives – across gender, race, ethnicity, class,
cultural, social, religious and relational contexts – more nuanced, accessible
and expressive to the wider community of Indigenous women in the Global South.
We dream of a defining moment when we can speak about who we are in the world
for ourselves and with the Indigenous women around the world who inspire,
challenge and move us.
1 June 2024: Send your 300-word abstract with a brief
profile
Email: IndigenousRematriation@gmail.com
Idleness
https://thresholdsjournal.com/Submissions
Thresholds, the annual peer-reviewed journal produced
by the MIT Department of Architecture and published by the MIT Press, is now
accepting submissions for Thresholds 53: Idle. In a world that
prioritizes activity and circulation, idleness has become untenable, even
criminal. The significance of “idleness” has over time oscillated between a
neutral state of “not doing work” to the negatively charged notion of
“laziness.” Evoking waste, Victorian moral values and Lockean concepts of
property come to mind. Yet if positioned as leisure, the privilege of being
idle can take on many architectural forms from the pavilion to the shopping
mall. Interpreted as rest, it can situate resistance against the subordination
of the laboring–and often racialized–body.
Submission deadline
May 26, 2024
email: Joshua Tan (josh_tan@mit.edu)
and Mingjia Chen (mingjia@mit.edu)
Cambridge History of
Black Women in the United States
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20030367/cambridge-history-black-women-united-states
Contributors are being solicited for the newly commissioned
Cambridge History of Black Women in the United States. The Cambridge History of Black Women in the
United States (CHBW) is a five-volume history that will appeal to students, lay
readers, and specialists. These volumes will be a landmark opportunity to
reflect seriously on the state of scholarship on Black women in the United
States, as well as reshape our thinking about their impact on American society.
We see this as a scholarly project that aims to lead the field, and to educate
and engage a broad audience of non-professionals.
Interested persons should submit an abstract and two page CV
to the General Editor, Dr. Karen Cook Bell at kcookbell@bowiestate.edu with
the subject line “Cambridge History of Black Women.”
Climate Fiction and
the Limits of Representation
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/27702030/homepage/call-for-papers-climate-fiction
This call invites submissions that engage with these and
other critiques, examining how contemporary climate fiction navigates the
complex terrain of representing climate change while also exploring alternative
narratives, perspectives, and modes of storytelling that offer more inclusive
and nuanced portrayals of ecological crises and human responses. We are
specifically interested in perspectives presented through a variety of media,
including fiction, creative nonfiction, film, visual art, digital platforms,
street art, and artivism (artistic activism). Contributions should be drawn
from interdisciplinary perspectives, including literary studies, cultural
studies, environmental humanities, indigenous knowledge systems, anthropology,
ethnography, economics and beyond, to deepen our understanding of the genre's
potential to inspire action and foster environmental awareness and advocacy.
Please submit an abstract of 400-500 words and a short bio
(100 words) by 31st May 2024.
email caleb.ferrari@uwe.ac.uk
and lenka.filipova@fu-berlin.de
Skin
https://tidsskrift.dk/passepartout/announcement/view/1167
Skin – human or other-than-human – is a frontier between
outside and inside, surface and depth, visibility and invisibility. As matter
and metaphor, skin offers an opportunity to investigate negotiations between
the visual and the sensory from various historical and cross-cultural
perspectives. In this theme issue of Passepartout,
we will explore the problem of skin and its intersections with art and visual
culture. How are the material properties and metaphorical potentialities of
skin incorporated in art and visual culture? How does skin connect such
disciplines as language, literature, philosophy, art, medicine, and science? We
seek articles from all humanities fields that probe skin as a material,
conceptual, metaphorical, bodily, and artistic interface. For example, skin as
a multisensory organ, architectural skin, the materiality of skin or the skin
of matter, skin and identity, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: June 1, 2024.
Contact Email edward.payne@cc.au.dk
Still Cruising
Utopia: A Utopian Studies Special Issue on Queer Utopia and the Legacy of José
Esteban Muñoz
https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_utopian_studies.html
To acknowledge and celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the
publication of Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009) by
José Esteban Muñoz (1967-2013), Utopian Studies seeks contributions for a
special issue on Queer. 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? How has this work been
reshaping the very field we call “utopian studies”? We encourage contributions
from queer, BIPOC, Latinx, and social and gender minorities, as well as
contributions from the Global South.
Contact Email jaw55@psu.edu
Boarding School
Survivance: The Land, Indigenous Students, and Settler Colonialism in North
America and Sápmi
With the recent uncovering of burial sites, Indigenous
boarding schools have increasingly made headlines around the world. There is
also a growing awareness of ways in which the schools’ impact has affected
Indigenous communities and their lived environments. This edited volume
examines the dynamic connections of boarding schools, Indigenous peoples, and
the environment by stressing the perspectives of Indigenous survivance. Here
survivance connotates complex nodes of active culture work and thinking combining
surviving with resisting, the revitalization of Indigenous communities,
lifeways, and knowledge. Identifying spaces and practices of survivance among
Native American and Sámi communities, the articles look at different
manifestations of survivance as forms of entanglement, linking Indigenous
peoples to pasts and futures, to the land, and to each other across community,
national, and imperial borders.
Send your abstracts (one page max) alongside a short cv to
the editors at janne.lahti@lnu.se and lindsay.doran@uef.fi
by May 6, 2024.
Campus Climates of
Hostility
https://profession.mla.org/about-profession/
Brought to you by the Modern Language Association,
Profession offers articles, news, and resources to support the work you do—in a
classroom, a library, a writing center, or an office for study abroad. he MLA
Executive Council is calling for submissions for a special issue of Profession
on fighting back against the current climate of hostility on so many of our
campuses. Articles could address questions like these: How can we in our
teaching and campus work engage deeply with the political and cultural
complexities with which our students are wrestling, challenges that are
interrelated and overlapping?
Deadline for submissions of 1,000 to 4,000 words: 15 June
2024
“Do This in
Remembrance of Me”: Religion, Memory, and Art
Religion and the Arts seeks innovative explorations of the
relationships among memory, the arts of all kinds, and religion understood both
traditionally and counterintuitively. Digital memory and creation, photography
and videography, secularism reconceived through material culture, and new
rituals for remembrance will be considered. Public and private, ordained and
vernacular, means of memory are within this scope. We solicit articles and
reviews comparative and particular; on Western and non-Western topics; and
engaging various subjects such as gender, sexuality, collective/individual,
institutional/innovative, and ritual.
Essays should be 5,000–10,000 words in length and must be
submitted by 1 June 2024
email: frederick.roden@uconn.edu
environ|mental urbanities
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20031334/environmental-urbanities
We want to focus on ethnographic studies approaching
dwellers attempting to render their habitats inhabitable, making emerge a wide
variety of ecological relations between the mental and the environmental. This
is the research arena we wish to address as environ|mental urbanities, a
denomination hopefully guiding us to grasp the sometimes elusive or ungraspable
aspects of both mental and environmental practices and experiences in urban
arenas. We invite contributions from anthropology, geography, sociology and
adjacent disciplines which provide inspiring ethnographic case studies,
tinkering and experimenting with methods and collaborative fieldwork and/or aim
for situated concept work that allow to problematize ‘the environ|mental’ while
simultaneously enriching our conceptualisation of ‘the urban’ beyond mere
material or geographic locality and stage for cultural practices.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 200 words, plus your
institutional affiliation(s) and a short biography (a few lines) to patrick.bieler@tum.de, milena.bister@hu-berlin.de, and tomcriado@uoc.edu by April 29, 2024
The Copy
https://www.invisibleculturejournal.com/calls-for-papers
As a practical and conceptual device, the copy has remained
important to many disciplines. Imitation, as Paul Duro describes, has a long
global history as it appears in art and visual culture. Matters of authenticity,
resemblance, and repetition carry multiplicities of meaning across time period
and cultural context. The central importance of imitation and/or copying in
artistic forms/traditions is only further reflected in contemporary discourse
on AI-generated art and theft. For Issue 39, InVisible Culture asks: What is
there to say about the copy today? How do we account for the copy in visual
culture, specifically in a contemporary moment where technologies such as AI
and digital fabrication have taken such a prominent role in society?
Submissions due June 30, 2024 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
Liberal Democracy and
Environment
In this edited volume, we aim to address critical topics
such as sustainable development and liberal democracies and their
interrelation. Countries that embrace the principles of liberal democracy also
emphasize the sustainable pathway, including France, Germany, Great Britain,
Japan, New Zealand, Norway, the USA, and many others. This book presents a regional
approach, discussing sustainable development, climate change, and the role of
liberal democracies, and how liberal democratic systems or principles relate to
or impact sustainability efforts. Liberal democracies provide a favorable
environment for addressing sustainability challenges through accountability,
public engagement, and long-term planning. However, the actual implementation
of sustainable policies and practices depends on the priorities and actions of
specific democratic institutions and leadership.
Please send your abstracts and CV to the co-editors:
Professor Cynthia Boyer cynthia.boyer@univ-jfc.fr
and/or Dr. Elena Shabliy eshabliy@g.harvard.edu
by May 15th, 2024.
Handbook of
Humanities Podcasting
We’re excited to announce a Call for Contributors to the
Handbook of Humanities Podcasting, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.
Contributors will explore how the present-day humanities look different from
the perspectives of people who create podcasts and teach podcasting, and what
futures for the humanities and its disciplines podcasting can open up.
Contributions will consist of a short essay (3000 words) and participation in a
podcast recording.
We’re committed to assembling a diverse range of
contributors, including in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality,
ability, nationality, geographical location, academic discipline, career
stage/job title and institutional affiliation (including in particular people
who identify with the humanities but don’t work/study at a university).
Whatever your connection and experience with podcasting is, we’re interested in
your ideas!
If you’re interested complete the form
by Sunday May 5th.
Contact Email humanitiespodnetwork@gmail.com
Call for Reviewers -
Journal of Popular Culture
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20031631/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 June 30, 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.
noting your preferred title and your mailing address.
Branden Buehler, Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of
Managerial Sports Media, Illinois
Olga Gershenson, New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global
Genre, Rutgars
Charles L. Crow, California Gothic: The Dark Side of the
Dream, Anthem
Kent Worcester, A Cultural History of the Punisher,
Intellect
Reginald Wiebe and Doothy Woodman, The Cancer Plot: Terminal
Immortality in Marvel's Moral Universe, Alberta
Margarat Flinn, Drawing in the Feminine: Bande Dessinee and
Women, Ohio
Christopher Campbell, Race, Representation, and Satire,
Lexington
Jinying Li, Geek-Otaku-Zhai: Anime's Knowledge Cultures,
Minnesota
Steen Ledet Christiansen, Storytelling in Kabuki: An
Exploration of Spatial Poetics of Comics, Nebraska
Justin Wyatt, Creating the Viewer: Market Research and the
Evolving Media Ecosystem, Texas
Derek Long, Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution
Made the Hollywood Studio System, Texas
Sandra Annett, The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in
Film and Digital Media, Minnesota
Cindy Mediavilla and Kelsey Knox, The Women Who Made Early
Disneyland: Artists, Entertainers and Guest Relations, Lexington
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Francis G. Summersell
Center for the Study of the South Short-Term Research Fellowship Program
https://summersell.ua.edu/short-term-research-fellowship-program/
To support the study of southern history and promote the use
of the manuscript collections housed at The University of Alabama, the Frances
S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, the Charles G. Summersell
Chair of Southern History, and the U.A. Library will offer a total of eight
research fellowships in the amount of $750 each for the 2024-2025 academic
year. Eligible researchers will have projects that entail work to be conducted in
southern history or southern studies at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections
Library, the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection, or any other University of
Alabama collections.
The deadline for applications is May 1, 2024.
Email: jmgiggie@ua.edu
Disability History
Association Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award
https://dishist.org/?page_id=291
As part of the Association’s 2024 Award Series, the DHA is
pleased to invite entries for its thirteenth annual Outstanding Article or Book
Chapter Award competition. The winning article or book chapter, as well the
article or book chapter receiving honorable mention, will be announced in
September 2024.
Please send one electronic (.pdf or .doc) copy of the
article or book chapter to Dr. Jenifer Barclay (barclay7@buffalo.edu) no later than May
15, 2024.
Archives Travel
Grants
https://www.bgsu.edu/library/cac/events-and-programs/access-to-the-archives-travel-grants.html
The Center
for Archival Collections (CAC) at Bowling Green State University is
pleased to announce our newly established Access
to the Archives Travel Grant. The grant program offers up to three
competitive Research Travel Grants to support researchers who plan to spend at
least five full working days using collections held by the CAC. Anyone -
including but not limited to faculty, students, public historians, visual and
performing artists, and independent researchers - who wishes to pursue a
Research Travel Grant may apply, regardless of academic status or affiliation. Applications are
due May 31, 2024.
Contact Email msweets@bgsu.edu
Reynolds-Finley
Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Libraries
https://library.uab.edu/special-collections/fellowship
The Reynolds-Finley Associates, in conjunction with the
Historical Collections (HC) unit of UAB Libraries, University of Alabama at
Birmingham (UAB), are pleased to announce the availability of short-term awards
of up to $2,500 to individual researchers. Intended to support research using
the HC unit as a historical resource, the fellowship requires the on-site use
of at least one of the unit’s three components, which are the Alabama Museum of
the Health Sciences, Reynolds-Finley Historical Library, and UAB Archives.
There is no deadline to apply, as applications are reviewed
on a rolling basis.
email jbbyrd@uab.edu
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Tenure Track Position
- Diversity and Social Justice Studies Program
https://www.upei.ca/hr/competition/11a24
The Diversity and Social Justice Studies Program (DSJS) at
the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) is seeking a tenure track faculty
member at the level of Assistant Professor, with a specialization in technology
and social justice, for a new position in the program. Candidates’ scholarship
and activities should critically address the ways in which technology(ies) are
presented as the solutions to current pressing social issues: e.g., climate
change, energy use, viruses and pandemics, reproductive justice, food
insecurity—and their implications for understandings of identity categories
such as gender, sexuality, race, disability, etc.
More information about the program can be found at https://www.upei.ca/programs/diversity-social-justice-studies or
by contacting Ann Braithwaite, Ph.D., at abraithwaite@upei.ca. In
accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, all qualified candidates are
encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be
given priority.
Closing date is May 11, 2024
Department of Women,
Gender & Sexuality Studies Non-tenure Track Faculty
Western Washington University’s (Bellingham, WA) Department
of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies is hiring a Non-tenure Track (M.A.) or
Visiting Assistant Professor (Ph.D.) starting Fall 2024. In anticipation of
possible openings throughout the academic year and summer sessions,
applications are accepted continuously for temporary, part-time,
non-tenure-track positions at the instructor level. Although most
non-tenure-track faculty receive their course assignments for the upcoming
academic year by July 15, positions may become available at any time and are
filled on a quarterly basis.
A cover letter and curriculum vitae are required and should
address your experience related to the position responsibilities and the
required and preferred qualifications.
Refer any questions to the chair, Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre (Raelynn.schwartz-dupre@wwu.edu).
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Teaching Israel: A
Conversation with Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold
https://www.brandeis.edu/mandel/events/index.html
May 30, 2024, 12-1:15pm ET via Zoom
How do educators from differing pedagogical orientations
learn, undertake, and ultimately improve the work of teaching Israel? In this
conversation, Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field editors Sivan
Zakai and Matt Reingold will discuss the complex issues facing those who teach
about Israel, along with respondents Lisa Grant (Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion) and Alex Pomson (Rosov Consulting), and moderator Sharon
Feiman-Nemser (Brandeis University).
Mandel Center online events are free and open to the public.
Registration is required. Videos and podcasts of past events can be found
at https://www.brandeis.edu/mandel/events/videos.html.
Contact Email mandelcenter@brandeis.edu
New perspectives on
displaced colonial archives (online
workshop)
Recent years have seen a proliferation of research about
displaced colonial archives. Thanks to pioneering work by archive studies
specialists, historians, and others, we have a deepening knowledge of the ways
that declining empires sorted, destroyed, and removed archives during the
twentieth century. This research has addressed profound concerns about how colonial
– and decolonial – projects have shaped the world we live in. The interest in
displaced colonial archives extends well beyond academia, and is being
addressed as well in journalism, novels, and other media.
This online workshop, to be held on 11-12 September 2024,
seeks to facilitate inclusive discussion of new perspectives on displaced
colonial archives.
To contribute,
please submit an abstract of up to 500 words plus a short CV (2 pages maximum)
to displacedcolonialarchives@gmail.com by Friday 24th May 2024
Renegade Rhymes with
Meredith Schweig
https://uwtaiwanstudies.ticketleap.com/renegade-rhymes-with-meredith-schweig/details
May 15, 3:30-5pm PDT
The UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome associate
professor of ethnomusicology at Emory University, Meredith Schweig, to discuss
her book Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music,
Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan, which invites readers into Taiwan’s
vibrant underground hip-hop scene to explore the social, cultural, and
political dynamics of life in a post-authoritarian democracy.
Decolonising Higher
Education: A Virtual Book Launch
https://isarn.org/2024/04/09/decolonizing-higher-education-a-virtual-book-launch/
April 24th (9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT)
Please join the International Solidarity Action Research
Network (ISARN) as we launch new books by three of the networks’ participants.
All welcome to this Zoom event, but please register in advance for the link.
2024 Disability
Research Mentorship Program for Black Graduate Students
The Council on Quality and Leadership (CQL), an
international not-for-profit, is seeking candidates for our Disability
Research Mentorship Program for Black Graduate Students. CQL created
the Mentorship Program in 2020 in recognition that academic/research job
candidates are judged on their history of publications and presentations, yet,
anti-Black racism impacts who gets research and other opportunities in grad
school.
For this reason, CQL’s research Mentorship Program aims to
provide Black students with opportunities to build up their CVs by co-writing
and publishing a journal article about disabled people with CQL. During this
Mentorship Program, students will work with CQL’s Director of Research, Carli
Friedman, PhD, to learn about publication and navigating the peer-review
process. Students will be given a stipend for their participation in this
mentorship program.
Contact Email cfriedman@thecouncil.org
