Sunday, February 25, 2024

Calls for Papers, Funding Opportunities, and Resources, February 25, 2024

 

CONFERENCES  AND WORKSHOPS

“Critical Perspectives on the University” 2024 Black Studies Conference

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20023377/call-papers-critical-perspectives-university-2024-black-studies

We seek individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions from graduate students, community activists, archivists, and scholars on critical perspectives on the university, past and present. Possible topics include but are not limited to universities’ connections to racism, carcerality, slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism, colonialism, racial capitalism, sexism, homophobia, environmental degradation, labor exploitation, gentrification, and anti-human knowledges. We also seek to center intellectual and social movement traditions that have criticized the university and offer alternatives to learning and study that are not sutured to the institutional logics of the university and the market.

Abstracts are due March 31, 2024, and should be emailed to blackstudies@missouri.edu.

 

AI and IR Research: What Challenges Ahead?

https://www.iai.it/en/news/ai-and-ir-research-what-challenges-ahead

The advent of Artificial Intelligence has transformed numerous sectors, garnering significant attention from scholars and practitioners alike. While discussions surrounding AI's influence on education have been prevalent, the implications for research and scholarly publishing remain comparatively underexplored. This unique event seeks to convene a diverse array of participants including journal editors, IR scholars and AI experts, to delve into the multifaceted challenges and opportunities posed by AI in our field. The round table proposal will then be submitted for consideration to the ISA Virtual Program, aiming to host it online in May 2024.

Proposals: send to to tis@iai.it  by February 23rd

 

State Authoritarianism, Anti-Feminist Movements, and Transnational Feminist Futures

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20023169/cfp-state-authoritarianism-anti-feminist-movements-and-transnational

We invite paper proposals for the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association’s annual conference in Detroit, MI. The papers may focus on any aspect of the transnational relationship between state authoritarianism, anti-feminist movements, and feminist connections.

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2024 to Anat Schwartz (anats@uci.edu) and Iqra Shagufta Cheema (IqraSCheema@gmail.com).

 

Histories of Sexuality in the Time of Crisis Workshop

https://www.queensu.ca/history/news-and-events/news/call-for-proposals-histories-of-sexuality-in-the-time-of-crisis-workshop-november-2024

November 8, 2024 - November 9, 2024

The editors of the Journal of the History of Sexuality invite proposals for a workshop to be held at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. What does the history of sexuality have to offer during a time of crisis and suffering? How will the field respond to a world increasingly scarred by climate change, the rise of the global right, the erosion of gender, trans and queer rights, healthcare inequalities, migrant crises, wealth gaps, racial discrimination, caste violence, political misinformation, and war? We invite presenters to consider how their work is mobilized by and speaks to contemporary issues around us.

Please send 300-word abstracts and a one-page C.V. to jhseditor@queensu.ca with the subject “Sexuality History Workshop” by March 10, 2024

 

Artificial Intelligence and You: The Social and Human Dimensions of AI

https://csts.mst.edu/events/

With the rise of the use of generative AI in most facets of human life, scholars, practitioners, and the general public should pause frequently to ask questions about the technologies that humans are rapidly allowing to have more and more agency over our daily lives.  What is AI? What does it mean to be artificial? How is intelligence created? What are the advantages and disadvantages  when data gathered by artificial intelligence impacts human decision-making in areas such as healthcare, personal security, or consumerism? What do you do when your smart device tells you to breathe or move or sleep and what does this suggest about the future of human agency?

Submit abstracts by end of day, March 1: https://forms.gle/oqhRtjrkbX2n9YCP6

Contact Email  sheppardka@mst.edu

 

Summer Seminar: Disability Histories in the Visual Archive: Redress, Protest, and Justice

https://www.americanantiquarian.org/2024-chavic-summer-seminar

Sunday, June 9 through Friday, June 14, 2024

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA

The 2024 Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) summer seminar will focus on the visual and material cultures of disability in eighteenth and nineteenth-century North America. Participants will hone their skills in visual and material culture analysis, learn key methods and theories in disability studies, including cripping, and gain experience working closely with archives and visual materials that support disability history. Interdisciplinary in approach, the seminar welcomes scholars across multiple fields and areas of expertise that might include art history, Black studies, design history, disability studies, medical humanities, histories of vast early America, Native and Indigenous studies, and visual and material culture studies. Librarians, museum professionals, and public historians are encouraged to apply. No previous experience in disability studies or visual culture is required.

The deadline for applications is April 8, 2024.

Contact Email  ldaen@nd.edu

 

International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference: Recognition, Resistance, Resilience

https://www.uco.edu/academic-affairs/thecenter/conference

Sept. 28–29, 2024

The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma’s Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center in collaboration with the UCO chapter of the National Organization for Women, is calling for submissions for its ninth annual conference. Themed "Recognition, Resistance, Resilience," the conference aims to foster diverse perspectives on these themes. The conference invites students, faculty, staff, scholars, activists and artists to propose presentations or performances in creative disciplines such as literature, theater, music, dance and visual art.

Contact Email  lchurchill@uco.edu

 

Digital Capitalism: Beyond the Neoliberal Paradigm?

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20024866/final-cfp-digital-capitalism-beyond-neoliberal-paradigm

Monday 3 June 2024, 9am-5pm

Digital capitalism is the defining system of the early 21st century. As evidenced by the rise in immaterial labour, digital markets, and widespread surveillance, collection and commodification of personal data, more and more of our daily interactions fall under digital capitalism’s totalising claws. Mainstream critiques of digital capitalism have tended to interpret digital capitalism as an exclusively neoliberal project. This conference challenges these mainstream critiques and asks what it would mean to think about digital capitalism beyond the neoliberal paradigm.

The submission deadline is 1st March 2024.

Contact Email  uolpoltheorygradconfernce2024@gmail.com

 

NWSA Trans Caucus Panels

If you're looking for a panel to join to present your trans studies research at NWSA in 2024 -- we've got you! Just submit your abstract by March 17th via this google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5p6Nd-ju9WAtL5gU6GM4x6PJ5mj621yrXIKVanGMA1xb_eQ/viewform?fbclid=IwAR20jc33lzRfdjSCKwm2NB0Em91jtg6kIbI6qZseu2hTeBAmagOceOlMmYk

Contact Email  blakely.79@osu.edu

 

Multiverse Convention 2024

https://www.multiversecon.org/

October 18-October 20, 2024, Peachtree City, Georgia

Multiverse Convention was formed from our belief that great stories don’t only come from the books and comics we love to read. Each fan is their own universe as well, with their own unique story to tell. Added together, these infinite stories create the Multiverse of modern fandom. We are seeking presentations that approach an academic topic in a way that non-academic audiences will find accessible and entertaining. Ideally, presentations will incorporate a core theme or topic of interest to speculative fiction fans.

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis up until June 30th.

Contact Email  learn@multiversecon.org

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association Disability Studies Area

https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/cfpdisability-studiesmpca-2024.pdf

The Disability Studies Subject Area welcomes proposals for the 2024 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference. Proposals are due by May 15, 2024. The submission portal can be found here: https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels. If you have questions about the Disability Studies Subject Area or would like more information, please email Sam Kizer at samkizer@iu.edu or jkizer@outlook.com.  

 

Interdisciplinary Conference on Race

https://www.monmouth.edu/department-of-history-and-anthropology/interdisciplinary-conference-on-race/call-for-papers/

Nov. 7–9, 2024, Monmouth University

In November 2024, the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Race will focus on “Race and the Freedom to Learn” and invites papers from a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, education, gender studies, ethnic studies, sociology, and other disciplines that have grappled with this subject. We welcome individual papers or complete panels from scholars, educators, artists, and activists whose work is related to race, its intersections, and the freedom to learn in history, society, and culture. We also seek papers from international scholars and offer a few travel stipends to scholars traveling from abroad to attend the conference.

Deadline: March 15

email: muraceconference@monmouth.edu

 

THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION: SURROGACY IN LITERATURE, FILM, VISUAL ART, AND SOCIAL MEDIA

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20025204/politics-reproduction-surrogacy-literature-film-visual-art-and-social

Surrogacy has become a crucial and complex controversial issue in today’s society. It is a process fraught with ethical implications and consequences that concern, among many others, reproductive justice, women’s bodies and health, human rights, social class inequality, feminism, motherhood, masculinity, parenthood, and the concept of the family. While surrogacy is currently banned in several countries, its literary, cinematographic, and artistic representation has flourished in the past 20 years, contributing to stimulating debates that concern both the humanities and the medical humanities. This global symposium invites presentations on issues related to all aspects of surrogacy. How do literature, film, and visual art portray and problematize surrogacy?

Proposals due by June 30, 2024 to Giulia Po DeLisle at giulia_delisle@uml.edu & Laura Lazzari at lazzari.laura@gmail.com

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Call to participate: Dear Body of Water

https://dearbodyofwater.poetsforscience.org/

Our project with the University of Arizona Poetry Center and Kent State University's Wick Poetry Center has been welcoming love letters to bodies of water across the globe to cultivate care for watersheds. 

Received postcards are activating a growing map. (Click pins or gallery "grid" to read incoming words across the world.) More plans and partnerships are in the works, co-creating "tributaries" to steward water across communities. You can make a difference by addressing a body of water about whom you care. Every voice, like every drop of water, counts. 

Please spread the word & share the invite (water party kits are available for educators/groups, too). If you are already engaged in water-conscious activities in your community, please share your efforts! We wish to connect. The planet is mostly water. The human body is mostly water. We are all bodies of water. Join the chorus of care to interrelate the lifeblood of our planetary home. 

Contact Email  gretchen.henderson@austin.utexas.edu

 

Teaching While Queer

On the surface, our educational institutions may appear to be more and more welcoming, perhaps

even safe. But this could not be further from the truth. Over my years of teaching in public schools, I  have found there to be a number of unique challenges faced by queer educators; challenges that are  often hidden from view. This is a call to action, to highlight the need for systemic changes and radical rethinking, to bravely share the many ways we encounter systemic oppression in our school communities and to open up a space for discourse that will help to dismantle those systems and continue the work of envisioning a future of queer liberation. This is a call for personal essays, poetry, and interviews, intended for a broad audience, of up to five thousand words. Submission deadline: August 1st, 2023.

email: Todd Bohannon, toddbohannon@hotmail.com

 

Othermothering and Community Mothering

https://demeterpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CFP-for-Othermothers-and-Community-Mothers-Demeter-Press-.pdf

This anthology explores the multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary perspectives on othermothers and mothers who engage in community mothering. This practice links to the complex relationship of maternal figures supporting children through networks of collective communities. It also includes the view of othermothers and community mothering to anyone that cares for children that are not biological family members and supports the experiences of blood mothers. We are seeking seeking feminist contributions of the intersectional practices that influence othermothers and community mothers. We seek insight about the various discourses on othermothers and community mothers and how these relationships take shape and influence children and community members.

Abstracts (400-500 words) with a 50-word biography due by May 31, 2024

Contact Email demeterothermothers@gmail.com

 

EJAS (European Journal of American Studies): Call for book reviews

List of books here: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20024002/ejas-european-journal-american-studies-call-book-reviews

EJAS (European Journal of American Studies) invites reviews of current books on topics relevant to American studies for publication in EJAS’ upcoming issues (vol. 19-20) due in 2024 and 2025. Please send a review proposal (author, title, publisher, publishing date and place, number of pages), and CV (including the list of publications) to book reviews editor, Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska (kornelia@amu.edu.pl). We accept proposals on a rolling basis.

 

 

FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES

2024-25 State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grants for Authors

https://history.iowa.gov/about-us/about/grants/research-grant-authors

The State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI) announces a grant program for 2024/2025. SHSI will award up to ten research stipends of $1,500 each to support original research related to the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest, broadly conceived. Preference will be given to applicants proposing to pursue previously neglected topics or new approaches to or interpretations of previously treated topics. SHSI invites applicants from a variety of backgrounds, including academic and public historians, graduate students, and independent researchers and writers.

Applications are due on April 15, 2024.

Contact Email  andrew.klumpp@iowa.gov

 

Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library Archives Research Center Travel Award

https://forms.gle/k3d5hDRc2QgaSmXr5

The Atlanta University Center (AUC) Archives Research Center is offering a Research Travel Award to educators, graduate students, and independent researchers who would benefit from access to the rich and unique historical and cultural holdings in the Archives Research Center. Available for research are rare books and over 160 collections of manuscripts, photographs, and archival records documenting the African American and African diaspora experience in a broad range of subjects, including civil rights, race relations, education, literature, visual and performing arts, religion, politics, and social work.

The application deadline is Monday, March 4, 2024

Contact Email  travelaward@auctr.edu

 

Sexuality Research Summer Fellowship

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1T_vwiL8Cj3cyfttrCSwp3ouVm1QxSFJhVbqw9JCYAE2GQA/viewform

The Human Sexuality Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies is excited to announce the Sexuality Research Fellowship for the Summer of 2024. The fellowship aims to provide research experience, connections with other sexuality scholars, publication opportunities, and mentorship.

Deadline for applicants: April 1st

For inquiries and questions, contact pharvey@ciis.edu.

 

Moore Research Fellowship

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20023891/moore-research-fellowship

Calling all scholars of Quaker history, peace history, and allied topics!  Swarthmore College Special Collections is now accepting applications for our Moore Research Fellowship for the 2024-2025 cycle.

The Margaret W. Moore and John M. Moore Research Fellowship supports up to four weeks of research during the academic year or summer months using the resources of the Friends Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, providing a stipend of $1,500-$6,000 to promote such research.  Applications are due April 1, 2024.

Contact Email  ccauste1@swarthmore.edu

 

Fellowship - Digital Humanities

https://www.ieg-mainz.de/www.ieg-mainz.de/en/fellowships/funding/dh-fellowship

The fellowship supports international doctoral students or postdocs who wish to carry out their own research project using Digital Humanities methods. There is particular interest in projects that are linked with ongoing research at the IEG as well as current research projects of the Digitality in Historical Research | DH Lab. At the IEG, you will have the chance to closely collaborate with the researchers in this Lab.

The next application deadline is April 15, 2024

For general questions regarding the IEG Fellowship Programme, please address Joke Kabbert:

fellowship@ieg-mainz.de.

 

Texas State Library and Archives Commission Research Fellowship in Texas History

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/arc/researchfellowship

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) is now accepting applications for its 2024 Research Fellowship in Texas History. The fellowship includes a $2,000 stipend and is awarded for the best research proposal utilizing the collections of the State Archives in Austin or the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center in Liberty, Texas. The TSLAC Research Fellowship in Texas History is made possible by the generous support of the Texas Library and Archives Foundation.

Applications must be received by March 31,2024.

Contact Email  statearchives@tsl.texas.gov

 

Distinctive Collections Travel and Access Award

https://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/news-and-events/dcta-award.html

Montana State University offers a $3,000 annual award to facilitate research into collections held by Archives and Special Collections. The award is intended to defray the costs of either travel to Bozeman to conduct research; to facilitate digitization of portions of a collection to allow a researcher to work remotely; or a mix of the two. Recipients may be academics (including graduate students) or independent scholars. We are unable to pay for any costs above the award amount.

Send applications to the Head of Archives and Special Collections, Jodi Allison-Bunnellby April 1, 2024: jodi.allisonbunnell@montana.edu  

 

Journal of Women's History Scholars Research Grant

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20025110/journal-womens-history-scholars-research-grant

Funds will be used to support travel, research, or writing of a significant scholarly contribution in the fields of women’s and gender history, with a preference for transnational topics. Individual grants will not exceed $4000. Recipients are asked to acknowledge the JWH Board in publications that result from research conducted during this award. All historians of women and gender are eligible, including those employed at universities, secondary schools, archives, libraries, museums, and parks.

Applications should be submitted electronically by Friday, April 19, 2024

 

 

JOBS/INTERNSHIPS

Queering STEM Education Postdoctoral Fellowship

https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/157102

Through a thematic of “Queering STEM Education” we propose to bring together a cohort of STEM education and science studies scholars who take seriously critical frameworks of queer, decolonial, transnational, and / or intersectionality. To bring to the center analytics that are historically on the margins of STEM research, is, so to speak, a queering endeavor. Therefore, to queer STEM is truly an interdisciplinary and methodological complex undertaking. That is, to queer is to contend with the norms with how one does research, the modalities of research, the subjects in research, and the research questions asked that further how we come to know what counts as STEM. As fields of STEM seek to diversify, it is ever more pressing through a cohort model of scholars that we also to take seriously how research is done, and how a next generation of scholars are supported and trained to cross disciplines.

Deadline: April 1, 2023

email: ramon.S.Barthelemy@Utah.Edu; Full details on the program and faculty mentors can be found at https://www.queeringstem.com/. 

 

Assistant Professor of Queer and/or Trans Studies with Expertise in Health and Wellness

https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-Professor-of-Queer-and-or-Trans-Studies-with-Expertise-in-Health-and-Wellness/54588

The Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the field of Queer and/or Trans Studies with expertise in the social determinants of health and wellness, for a start date of fall 2024. Historical period and geographical focus of research are open. The candidate’s research and teaching will demonstrate a solid grounding in gender, queer, and/or transgender studies and in the histories, practices, and political, legal, and social determinants surrounding health and wellness for women and LGBTQ people. We especially welcome candidates with specializations in Queer of Color, Queer Indigenous, and/or Trans of Color Critique.

​​Full consideration will be given to applicants who apply by March 1, 2024

 

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition 2024-2025 Fellowship Program (1 month and 4 months)

https://glc.yale.edu/Fellowships/postdoctoral-and-faculty-fellowships

The Center seeks to promote a better understanding of all aspects of the institution of slavery from the earliest times to the present. We welcome proposals that will utilize the special collections of the Yale University Libraries or other research collections of the New England area, and explicitly engage issues of historical slavery, contemporary forced labor, resistance, abolition, and their legacies. Scholars from all disciplines, both established and younger scholars, are encouraged to apply.

Highest priority is given to applications that are fully complete by March 1, 2024

Email: gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu

 

2024–25 Digital Humanities Fellow

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-02/were-hiring-2024-25-digital-humanities-fellow/ 

Words Without Borders seeks applicants for its digital humanities fellowship. The WWB Digital Humanities Fellowship Program is designed to provide training for individuals looking to build a career around the publication and promotion of international literature. The digital humanities fellow will primarily support the Digital Director in furthering the organization’s multimedia initiatives and completing the migration of the magazine archives to its new website. The digital humanities fellow position pays $18 per hour.

deadline: 11:59 pm eastern time (ET) on March 22 to jobs@wordswithoutborders.org

 

2024–25 Editorial Fellow

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-02/were-hiring-2024-25-editorial-fellow/

Words Without Borders seeks applicants for its editorial fellowship, which is designed to provide training for individuals looking to build a career around the publication and promotion of international literature. The editorial fellow will gain hands-on experience with all aspects of the publication of a digital literary magazine—from issue planning to online promotion. The fellow will become familiar with the special considerations and skills required for editing literature in translation and working within the context of a nonprofit organization. The editorial fellow position pays $18 per hour.

DEADLINE: March 22, 2024, at 11:59 pm ET.

 

Hands of Hope AmeriCorps Positions

https://www.casahope.org/americorps

As a Hands of Hope AmeriCorps Member, you will provide direct care and supervision to children birth through six years old who are in foster care because of abuse, neglect, and/or the effects of HIV. You will serve these vulnerable children throughout your 12-month commitment to live and work in community in the Casa Neighborhood. Benefits include a $23,800 annual living allowance, paid bi-weekly; a $6,895 education award upon successful completion.

We cannot accept and process applications after June 30 for the current service year.

If you have questions that are not answered on this FAQ page, we welcome you to reach out to the Human Resources Coordinator, Darean Talmadge, at dtalmadge@casahope.org.

 

Assistant Director of Healthy Relationships and Educational Initiatives

https://jobs.nd.edu/postings/33437

The Assistant Director of Healthy Relationships and Educational Initiatives (ADHREI) promotes the GRC mission by spearheading training and educational initiatives across the campus community in the specific areas related to healthy relationships, authenticity, identity formation, and healthy masculinities. This position reports directly to and assists the Director of the Gender Relations Center (GRC), working closely with the entire staff in developing and supporting an environment at Notre Dame that fosters safe and healthy relationships while promoting the moral formation of undergraduate and graduate students consistent with the University’s Catholic identity, mission, and values.

deadline: 03/17/2024

 

Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities

https://apply.interfolio.com/140322

The purpose of the BNC Postdoctoral Fellowship is to support research in the humanities by providing scholars in the early stages of their careers with the time and resources necessary to advance their work. During their time at the Baker-Nord Center, Fellows will pursue a research and writing project for the full academic year. An essential feature of the program is that Fellows make intellectual contributions to the CWRU community, through their participation in workshops, lectures, and courses. Fellows will be affiliated with one or more of the humanities departments represented by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities: Art History, English, Philosophy.

deadline Mar 01, 2024

 

 

EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES

Curry Goes Global: The Geopolitics of Good Taste

https://www.usfca.edu/event/curry-goes-global-geopolitics-good-taste/11155090

Wednesday, February 28th, 5:00–6:15 pm PT, Online via Zoom

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Krishnendu Ray (New York University) for an online lecture on the history of curry. Curry was a British Indian invention that traveled through the imperial navy to end up as the Japanese curry-rice in the drive towards military modernization at the other end of the Eurasian world. This talk is about the unusual trajectory of an ersatz invention and its entanglement with geopolitical power and the biopolitics of a martial race.

Contact Email  centerasiapacific@usfca.edu


Denton Worker "Know-Your-Rights" Workshop

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denton/comments/1aycr0a/denton_worker_is_hosting_a_free_workshop_on/

6pm-7:30pm St. Andrew Church, 608 Lakey St in Denton 

Participants in this workshop will learn their worker rights, be able to ask questions of representatives of federal agencies tasked with enforcing workplace laws, and be assisted in starting the process of seeking justice.


“A Tale of Three Pipelines: Locking in the Future”

https://ti.to/psn/spring-possibility-studies-lecture-with-caroline-levine/with/attendance

March 13, 2024/ 15 GMT/ Online (Zoom)

It is urgent to stop the building of new gas and oil pipelines now, since these lock us into a future of fossil fuel dependency. But are pipelines only pathways of destruction and injustice? Not necessarily. “A pipe can carry fresh water as well as toxic sludge,” as Winona LaDuke puts it. This talk looks at a range of pipelines designed to shape collective life into the future—and it pushes beyond fossil fuels to focus on water systems organized for collective justice, and on career pipelines intended to work against white supremacy.

Contact Email  info@possibilitystudies.net

 

Talking Back and Speaking Up: Domestic Workers Resisting and Organizing Globally

https://www.facebook.com/events/774738174678045/

Mar 8, 2024 01:00 PM CST

Celebrate International Women’s Day by learning about global domestic worker resistance! Domestic workers have taken back the theft of their time as well as spoken up against burdensome working conditions and soul murdering disrespect. Beginning with what James O. Scott named ‘the weapons of the weak,” Boris suggest that the essential labor of domestic workers in reproducing the household made them indispensable and thus gave them chips in negotiations with both mistresses/masters and employers that never was equal but could be combatted. She explores the International Domestic Workers Federation that emerged out of the struggle for ILO Convention #189, “Decent Work for Domestic Workers” (2011).

 

 

RESOURCES

Exploring the Harlem Renaissance: Free Resources

https://www.abc-clio.com/academic-featured-content/

The following collection of resources from The African American Experience academic database spotlights the Harlem Renaissance and the Black playwrights, poets, dancers, musicians, visual artists, and other creatives who, through art, impressed a new sense of cultural pride and redefined the image and understanding of the African American experience. Examine the art and cultural legacy of the movement through primary sources and exclusive reference articles.

 

MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI Working Paper: Overview of the Issues, Statement of Principles, and Recommendations

https://hcommons.org/app/uploads/sites/1003160/2023/07/MLA-CCCC-Joint-Task-Force-on-Writing-and-AI-Working-Paper-1.pdf

This working paper explains the relevant history, nomenclature, and key concepts to our profession. Under this framework, the paper declares the broad risks and potential benefits of artificial intelligence to language, literary, and writing scholarship and instruction and the ways generative AI will affect all of us in higher education: students, scholars, instructors, administrators, and staff members. The paper then suggests principles and recommendations for creating policies, guidelines, and practices that draw on our strengths as teachers and scholars.

 

A Closer Look at AI Tools for Educators

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/ai-oh-my-a-closer-look-at-ai-tools-for-educators/

 

Black Women in American Politics

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/virtual-special-issues/black-women-in-american-politics

This Politics & Gender virtual special issue highlights scholarship on Black Women in American Politics. This collection brings together articles published throughout the history of the journal to highlight the important contributions this scholarship has had on the field of gender and politics and political science at large. These articles push us to reconsider and deepen our understandings of core concepts in the field from representation to political participation to identity. Please enjoy free access to all articles below until the end of April 2024.

 

Digital Literary Cultures

https://dlcplus.org/home/about-us/

Digital Literary Cultures, known as DLC+, is an open-access research network and resource for scholars exploring digital literary culture broadly defined. Our network is interested in literary engagements with everything from nostalgia for obsolescent media and ephemeral cultural productions to artificial intelligence and computational methods. DLC+ provides research resources for a host of topics related to social media, digital culture, and literature as it adapts to emerging communications technologies and digital environments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, February 5, 2024

Calls for Papers, Funding Opportunities, and Resources, February 5, 2024

 

CONFERENCES  AND WORKSHOPS

Free NEH Institute at Columbia on Digital History

http://history-lab.org/archives-as-data

This NEH-funded program will offer practical training for both historians and archivists in ways to process and analyze textual data. Participants in the Archiving Digital Records workshop, designed for archivists, will learn how to use new technology to improve description and arrangement of digital or digitized records, especially PDFs, and provide users with new ways to access them. Participants in the Text-as-Data workshop, designed for historians, will learn how to organize and analyze large document collections and use new methods to formulate original arguments. All participants will come together in seminar-style discussions with guest speakers on the novel challenges posed by doing archival research in the age of “big data.”

Contact Email  archivesasdata@gmail.com

 

Bodies in Motion: Reassessing Materiality through Space and Time

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20018447/graduate-conference-bodies-motion-reassessing-materiality-through

The 16th annual Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference invites scholars and graduate students to explore the dynamic interplay between bodies, materiality and their transformative journeys across space and time. This interdisciplinary conference offers a platform to engage with the multifaceted nature of these concepts in literature, culture and the arts.

To submit your proposal, please send a 500 word abstract along with a brief biographical statement to csconference.unm@gmail.com by February 2, 2024. 

 

Black and Indigenous Histories: Summer Institute for College and University Teachers

https://www.apeopleslandscapehistory.org

June 12 - July 8, 2024, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond Virginia

Applications are open for Toward a People's History of Landscape, a workshop I am co-leading at Virginia Commonwealth University with Kathryn Howell (University of Maryland), Andrea Roberts (University of Virginia), and Thäisa Way (Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard) for higher education faculty and advanced grad students. We will explore alternative approaches to scholarship and teaching landscape, focused on place-oriented social and cultural histories, centering Black and Indigenous historical narratives. This is a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded workshop that includes a stipend for participants.

Applications close at 11:59 pm (PST) on March 5, 2024

 

Fighting for Freedom Symposium

https://blog.library.gsu.edu/2023/12/05/call-for-proposals-2024-fighting-for-freedom-symposium/

Organizers of this one-day virtual event seek presenters to discuss research related to topics included in Georgia State University and the University of Maryland’s collaborative exhibit “Fighting for Freedom: Labor and Civil Rights in the American South” and inspired by the digitization of thousands of records from the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department’s National Office and Southeast Division, accessible through the Digital Library of Georgia’s Civil Rights Digital Library. This collection of photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, departmental records, audiovisual recordings, speeches, and more, document the story of the labor and civil rights activists who fought together for the freedom of working people in the South. 

Proposal deadline: February 2, 2024

Contact Email  evallen@gsu.edu

 

"Locating Palestine in the Arab Americas" Workshop

https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/43

September 13–16, 2024, Khayrallah Center, North Carolina State University

This workshop seeks to expand on existing conversations and open new ones on the importance of Palestine in the wider American mahjar (land of migration), inviting contributions from scholars, writers, and activists. We particularly encourage applications from those working in Spanish and Portuguese language contexts with the aim of placing Latin America and the Caribbean into closer dialogue with Anglophone North America.

Abstract submissions are due April 1, 2024.

Questions may be directed to the journal’s managing editor at mashriq_mahjar@ncsu.edu.

 

The Scholarly In-Between: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Culture, Literature, and the Humanities

https://carleton.ca/icslac/2023/call-for-papers-the-scholarly-in-between-an-interdisciplinary-exploration-of-culture-literature-and-the-humanities/

This one-day Zoom conference aims to explore the challenges, rewards and necessities of working between fields, and the ways in which such an approach can reinvigorate the humanities for our times. One of the promises of interdisciplinary research is the potential to pull pre-existing but independent fields into productive conversation with one another. How might new research methodologies, such as data science and quantitative analysis tools, produce generative findings in the humanities and established disciplines such as literature and history? The conference will take place on May 2nd, 2024.

The deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2024.

 Please email proposals to icslacinterface2024@gmail.com

 

Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20019756/cfp-literary-alliances-networks-and-solidarities-across-minoritized

Modern Language Association Conference. New Orleans, LA , January 9–12, 2025

This panel series seeks to examine varied, sometimes intersecting forms, forums, and formats for facilitating, expressing, and practicing instances of literary solidarity, alliance-building, and networking as well as negotiation of difference and sometimes disagreement. We are particularly interested in examining the ways in which literary events, publishing formats, and networks formulate possibilities for mutual support, joint action, discursive spaces, opposition, resistance, and anti-racist intervention. We would also like to explore how current practices build on, respond to, or expand earlier conversations and interventions. 

Please submit 300-word abstracts and a short bio to Ela Gezen (egezen[at]umass.edu) by February 29, 2024.

Contact Email  egezen@umass.edu

 

Spaces, Screens, People and Place

https://amps-research.com/conference/society-spaces-screens/

11-13 Dec, 2024, Phoenix, Arizona (+ virtual)

Today, the spaces and societies in which we live are infused with media and technology. Simultaneously, there are places and practices untouched and unaltered by the effects of technology – whether due to a lack of resources or a reactionary response to change. The questions this raises are boundless and interlinked. They are relevant across spaces, times and disciplines: sociology, urban planning, heritage, cultural studies, anthropology, education, politics and more. In response to this scenario, SOCIETY. SPACES. SCREENS asks you to critique contemporary practice in your own discipline. It asks whether it has, or has not, been altered by advances in technologies and medias.

abstracts due 30 June 2024

 

Strategies of Critique and Dissent

https://strategiesofcritique.com/

MAY 18-19, 2024

What are the possibilities for practices of what Fred Moten and Stefano Harney have described as “fugitivity,” extending far beyond the self and beyond the university? How can knowledge be rethought in opposition to the neoliberal university, which as Wendy Brown has argued, is a site of the production of human capital; or according to Dana Olwan and Carol Fadda, a profoundly militarized apparatus in service of global imperialism? Can thinking through the relationship between study and dissent present us with new ways that politics itself can be thought and practiced, beyond what Jacques Rancière calls the “stultification of intelligence”?

Call for Papers: Due March 1st, 2024

Contact Email  strategies.critique@gmail.com

 

revolutionary queerness in/from the global south

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20021408/revolutionary-queerness-infrom-global-south-phd-scholars-colloquium

friday, may 17-19, 2024

the goal of this two day colloquium is to bring together current doctoral students upending the conventions of queer theory by crosspollinating the radical impulses of queer of color critique with the practices of their own academic and creative fields. whether situated on the margins of middle eastern history or environmental politics, indigenous poetics or molecular biology, ethnomusicology or african studies, this colloquium seeks works and participants invested in widening the scope of queer theory beyond the euroamerican framework to address the pressing concerns of the global south. we invite scholars to consider the question: what is the role of queerness in conceptualizing and facilitating revolutionary action, material change, and collective resistance in the global south?

please submit a 250-word proposal and brief biographical info through this google form by february 16, 2024.

Contact Email  vvelez07@mit.edu

 

Digital Capitalism: Beyond the Neoliberal Paradigm?

https://philevents.org/event/show/118041

Digital capitalism is the defining system of the early 21st century. As evidenced by the rise in immaterial labour, digital markets, and widespread surveillance, collection and commodification of personal data, more and more of our daily interactions fall under digital capitalism’s totalising claws. Mainstream critiques of digital capitalism have tended to interpret digital capitalism as an exclusively neoliberal project. This conference challenges these mainstream critiques and asks what it would mean to think about digital capitalism beyond the neoliberal paradigm.

Please submit your 200-300 word abstract prepared for anonymous review to uolpoltheorygradconfernce2024@gmail.com by 1st March 2024.

Paul Geyer: ptpge@leeds.ac.uk

 

Art-Making as Rituals and Rites: Exploring the Transformative Power of Creative Expression

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20022187/art-making-rituals-and-rites-exploring-transformative-power-creative

Art-making and rituals/rites of passage are deeply embedded in human society and have played significant roles in personal, social, and cultural contexts throughout history. This panel aims to explore the inherent connection between art-making and rituals and rites of passage, highlighting how creative expressions can serve as transformative experiences that facilitate personal growth, foster human connections, promote healing, and mark important life transitions.

Deadline for submission: March 1, 2024

Contact Email may.okafor@unn.edu.ng

 

Identity and Politics in the Mid-Atlantic

https://pa-history.org/meeting/2024/call-for-papers/

10-12 October 2024 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Individual and group identity has long played an important role in the region’s political culture. In recognition of the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, notable for its prohibition of discrimination based on specific types of identities, the Program Committee encourages proposals dealing with the broad topics of identity and politics. We invite topics that engage with this theme within a wide range of contexts, including queer and disability history, ethnic, race, class, and gender history, religious and political identities, etc. The Program Committee particularly invites sessions that highlight the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as well as discussion of past and current attempts at historical counter-revisionism in public spaces, K-12 schools, and higher education.

Submit proposals by February 15, 2024

Contact Email  ajdieterichward@ship.edu

 

Annual QGrad Conference, Presented by UCLA's LGBTQIA+ Studies Dept

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebcXFPRegoj0KJEZNJnjPbSuHpBw8Gr-x2PTFOVSa6c4bSeQ/viewform

We invite submissions for UCLA's 27th annual QGrad Conference, which will be hosted by UCLA's LGBTQIA+ Studies Department on Friday, May 17. The theme of this year's conference is "NONSENSE," which invites us to explore what it means to make sense, what is deemed nonsense, and how all of this can help us assess communities, corporealities, aesthetics, and more. This theme invites papers and projects that push boundaries and delight in excess such that we may see ourselves, our field, and our futures anew.

direct questions to qgradconference@gmail.com

 

Oral History: Bridging Past, Present, and Future

https://oralhistory.org/call-for-proposals/

Inspired by past, present and future oral historians and oral history projects, the 2024 Oral History Association Annual Meeting looks to reflect not just on oral history work throughout its nearly 70 year history, but also to explore how that work has had an impact on the work we do today and how the work we do today will influence and benefit practitioners and communities of the future.

Deadline to submit is February 23, 2024

For information about this year’s conference theme or CFP, reach out to Conference Chair Ellen Brooks at ellen.b.brooks@gmail.com

For information about submission deadlines or processes, reach out to OHA’s Program Associate at oha@oralhistory.org

 

Exploring Human-Animal & Multispecies Relations: Risk Taking in Research Methods Symposium

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20020110/call-papers-exploring-human-animal-multispecies-relations-risk-taking

June 6, 2024 - June 7, 2024, Online & in-person event

This symposium encourages contributions from researchers developing and utilising methods that address animal experience in interpersonal, social and cultural settings, both ‘sides’ of human-animal relationships, and/or the messiness of multispecies entanglements. We are particularly keen to encourage contributions from scholars, researchers, and practitioners from exploring theoretical and methodological innovations, and the use of creative, arts-based and visual methods in understanding human-animal and multispecies relations, that bring fresh insights and perspectives on human-animal and multispecies entanglements.

Submit proposal by February 19th 2024 to Georgina L Breuilly at CentreforArtsandWellbeing@brighton.ac.uk

 

Fostering Intersectionality and Solidarity

https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/2024-call-for-papers/

Intersectionality–a term first coined by civil rights advocate and critical race theory scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw–refers to how systems of inequality based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, class, and other forms of discrimination are related and “intersect” to create unique dynamics and effects. To study intersectionality is to anticipate that all forms of inequality are mutually reinforcing and must be analyzed and responded to simultaneously to prevent forms of inequality from reinforcing each other.  By revealing and recognizing overlapping social identities, we can address and overcome related systems of oppression and domination.

Proposal Submission Deadline: May 01, 2024

Contact Email  Info@peacejusticestudies.org

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Empowering First-Generation College Students - Strategies for University Success

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20017981/empowering-first-generation-college-students-strategies-university

The transition to university can be a transformative yet challenging experience, particularly for first-generation college students who may face unique obstacles. This manuscript seeks to address the specific needs of this group, offering guidance on academic, social, personal tools, and emotional aspects crucial to their success. We invite scholars, educators, and practitioners to contribute to a groundbreaking manuscript aimed at providing essential guidance to first-generation college students, navigating the unique challenges they may face and offering strategies for a successful university experience.

Submissions should be sent to redclaypresents@aol.com by April 30, 2024.

 

Freedom in the Journal of Dialogic Ethics: Interfaith and Interhuman Perspectives

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20017946/special-issue-freedom-journal-dialogic-ethics-interfaith-and

This issue will engage the theme of the National Communication Association’s 109th Annual Convention on freedom. The convention’s call recognizes the relationship between human communication and freedom, inquiring into the meaning of freedom and the role of communication in achieving freedom. In response to this theme, the Journal of Dialogic Ethics invites essays that consider connections between and among freedom, dialogue, and ethics, with a special focus on interfaith and interhuman perspectives.

Please submit a full manuscript as a Microsoft Word document to dialogicethics@duq.edu by July 1, 2024.

 

Innovative Teaching and Learning; Learner Centered Emerging Technologies

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/journal-research-innovative-teaching-learning-special-issue-innovative-teaching

As we embrace increasingly frequent waves of digital transformation it is prescient to ask fundamental questions about how these tools will reshape the way we teach and learn. Academia has a unique opportunity to reimagine itself, to place healthy learning at the center of virtual design. In efforts to offer counsel to business drivers and to empower our community with all forms of digital literacy, JRITL would like to offer this special issue with a specific focus; answering the question of how we, as a community, can leverage emerging technologies (AI and the Metaverse as the biggest headliners) as tools for powerfully supported Social Emotional Learning (SEL) experiences.

The deadline for submission is February 28, 2024

Contact Information Dr. Brian Arnold - barnold@nu.edu

 

Call for Reviewers - Journal of Popular Culture

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20019745/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 March 31, 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.

 

Queer Intersectionalities: Understanding South Asia

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20018486/queer-intersectionalities-understanding-south-asia

Critical essays are invited for a book on queer representations in literature from South Asian countries. The local and allied global developments in queer literature in the regions and subregions of South Asia encompass diverse themes which bring to the fore the intricacies of political activism and demand for rights and policies cutting across myriad socio-cultural forums and settings. Emphasizing on how local, 'situated' and specialized knowledge is produced and how they impact operations of power in multi layered South Asian societies, the proposed book would throw light on shared and shifting conversations on/of queer communities across diverse disciplines, fields of knowledge and areas.

Interested scholars may send in 200-250 words abstracts with a title and a brief bio note to queerintersectionality@gmail.com on or before 31 March, 2024.

 

Radical Narratives of Assisted Reproduction

https://www.drgracehalden.com/opportunities

Radical Narratives of Assisted Reproduction is an interdisciplinary special collection on the topic of assisted reproduction covering the interconnected fields of the arts, medical humanities, social sciences, and law. By crossing social, political and clinical domains, this special collection offers scholars the opportunity to explore storytelling strategies, personal experience, and public discourse on new forms of technologically mediated reproduction. Research articles should be approximately 8,000 words in length, including references and a short bibliography.

Deadline for submission is 30 September 2024

email Grace (g.halden@bbk.ac.uk) and Zaina (zaina.mahmoud@liverpool.ac.uk)

 

Discoursing Disability, Race and Masculinity

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20022074/discoursing-disability-race-and-masculinity

This book aims to incorporate chapters and articles that will broaden the critical scholarship and discourses on disability, race and masculinity. The chapters must focus upon a comparative study of works/texts or propose a new body of theory in the relevant field, offering a fresh research and critical approach and not just secondary research on the topic. Each chapter will be a contribution to further understand, interpret and theorize the intersections in race, masculinity and disability after a thorough review of existing scholarship and fill in the gaps or create new thoughtful/ interrogative spaces, wherever required.

Contact Email  sucharita.sharma@iisuniv.ac.in

 

 

FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES

Rubenstein Library Travel Research Grants 2024

https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/grants-and-fellowships

The Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is now accepting applications for travel grants of up to $1500 for researchers whose work would benefit from in-person access to Rubenstein Library collections and collecting areas, including the Human Rights Archive.

Deadline for applications will be Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 6:00pm EST.

Contact Email  patrick.stawski@duke.edu

 

 Research Fellowships | University of Michigan Library

https://www.lib.umich.edu/research-and-scholarship/awards-and-grants/special-collections-research-fellowships

The University of Michigan Library invites applications for fellowships for research in residence.  The Hubert I. Cohen Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to the Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers Collection. The Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our special collections. The William P. Heidrich Visiting Research Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to the Joseph A. Labadie Collection.

Questions? Contact Julie Herrada at jherrada@umich.edu.

 

Special Collections Research Travel Grants

https://libraries.wm.edu/blog/post/scrc-accepting-applications-2024-2025-special-collections-research-travel-grants

The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) of William & Mary Libraries is pleased to announce that it will award travel grants to faculty members, graduate students, and/or independent researchers to support research use of its collections. Writers, creative and performing artists, filmmakers, and journalists are welcome to apply. Strengths of the collections include, but are not limited to, books on dogs, fore-edge painting books, Virginia family papers and libraries, twentieth-century Southern politics, women’s diaries, travel diaries, veterans’ letters, notable alumni, and university history.

Send all application materials by the end of the day on May 31 to spcoll@wm.edu

 

Western History Association – Scholarships, Fellowships, and Honors

https://www.westernhistory.org/awards

The WHA offers ten scholarships, fellowships, and honors, all of which are due in Summer 2024. See the website for descriptions and deadlines.

email: wha@westernhistory.org

 

Visiting Room Research Grants

The Organization of American Historians (OAH) will award two grants of $10,000—one for an advanced Ph.D. student or early-career scholar, and the other for a mid/later-career scholar—to support research in The Visiting Room archive, a collection of over 100 filmed interviews with incarcerated individuals at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Angola who are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. The grants are supported by The Visiting Room Project, a fiscally sponsored project of the Proteus Fund.

Proposal must be emailed to VisitingRoom@oah.org by 11:59pm (PST) on February 15, 2024

 

Colorado State Libraries Research Grant

https://lib.colostate.edu/about/library-grants-and-funding

The Friedman Feminist Press Collection of Colorado State University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections provides original sources in feminist/lesbian literature and second-wave feminism, multi-genre works of fiction, poetry, memoir, and essays by feminist publishers of the 1970s and 1980s that brought women and women’s words out into the world. This rich collection also includes materials related to the study of feminist publishing.

The deadline is February 9, 2024.

Contact Email mark.shelstad@gmail.com

 

Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellowship in Lesbian Studies

https://lgbts.yale.edu/2024-pettit-undisciplining-queer-and-trans-studies

Yale LGBT Studies is pleased to announce that the Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellowship in Lesbian Studies at Yale University is welcoming applications for a biennial dissertation-writing workshop for a cohort of doctoral fellows. We welcome applicants from the humanities, social sciences, performing and fine arts, and beyond, to share their emerging scholarship on queer and trans studies. We are interested in applicants whose work challenges disciplinary constraints, arriving at at new ways to think across, beyond, or betwixt methodological norms. Applicants must be enrolled doctoral candidates who have completed coursework, qualifying exams, and submitted their dissertation prospectus (i.e., ABD status).

Fellowship applications are due February 16, 2024

Contact Email  lgbts@yale.edu

 

Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship, reproductive justice and rights

https://apply.interfolio.com/138588

The School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University seeks applications for a one-year Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship in reproductive justice and rights. The Fellow will be housed in the Gender and Sexuality Studies program in the School of Liberal Arts and will be affiliated with the Newcomb Institute.  The Fellow will play a leading role in organizing, administering, and participating in our Mellon Sawyer Seminar titled, “The New Green Wave: Reproductive Justice in the Gulf South and Beyond.”  We seek a scholar whose research focuses on reproductive rights, health, and justice in the humanities and/or the arts and whose focus addresses heteropatriarchy, slavery, colonialism, imperialism, racism, capitalism, or other oppressive structures and regimes.

The application deadline is February 15, 2024, 11:59 PM (EST).

 

 

JOBS/INTERNSHIPS

Join H-AfrArts Editorial team in 2024

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20018130/join-h-afrarts-editorial-team-2024

H-AfrArts is an international network jointly sponsored by H-Net (Humanities Online) and ACASA (Arts Council of the African Studies Association-USA).  H-AfrArts is currently recruiting a new editorial team and new Advisory Board Members.

The Editor role involves moderating discussion posts and general CfPs. There is also an exciting opportunity (optional) to develop new content based on your interest and initiative, such as developing Teaching and Research Resources, Conference Reports, and Cross-Network Projects. A minimum of one year commitment is required for this role (preferably 2 years). For a full description of the duties of Editors please consult: https://networks.h-net.org/node/905/pages/80264/becoming-editor

We are also looking for new Advisory Board Members to assist with the general development and welfare of the Network and advise Editors in cases in which there are disputes with the members (such as when a post is rejected and a subscriber appeals). A minimum of two years commitment is required for this role. To find out more, please visit: https://networks.h-net.org/h-net-advisory-board-members

Contact Email yenacanta@gmail.com

 

Remote Internship Program--unpaid

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20017728/call-remote-internship-program

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic journal, invites applications for its Remote internship program. If you have an interest in the Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies and a flair for academia and process management, you can now get a first hand experience of learning the workings of an academic journal. Unlike conventional editorial internships, we have designed a rotating internship which introduces our interns to different aspects of publishing an academic journal.

Contact Email editors@ellids.com

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

https://sites.allegheny.edu/hr/job_post/visiting-assistant-professor-womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies/

The Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Allegheny College invites applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor position beginning August 2024 with the possibility of renewal. Specialization is open and we will look favorably on candidates with expertise in trans studies, disability studies, care feminisms, critical madness studies or feminist-queer approaches to mental health, feminist-queer approaches to critical feminist data studies, and/or digital feminisms & technologies. The department emphasizes BIPOC, intersectional and transnational approaches and the person in this position will teach core classes in the WGSS curriculum and a course in their specialization. The standard annual teaching load is six classes and professional development funds are available.

Review of applications will begin February 9, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled.

 

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2024-26: Disability Studies

https://apply.interfolio.com/136660

The Department of American Studies and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Brown University invite applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Disability Studies. This position is to be held jointly at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Department of American Studies, effective July 1, 2024, with an affiliation with STS. We seek a scholar whose work addresses the meanings, histories, experiences, or representations of disability, broadly defined. We welcome applicants who use methodologies from across the humanities and qualitative social sciences in their research and teaching. While the applicant’s scholarship should engage with the United States, we especially encourage applications from scholars who utilize comparative or transnational analyses.

The review of applications will begin on February 1.

 

Writing Program Postdoctoral Teaching Associates

https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Boston-MA-Main-Campus/Postdoctoral-Teaching-Associate_R122172

The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and its nine tenure units are the home of the Experiential Liberal Arts. Through its research, teaching, and engagement missions, the college collaborates across the university, the Northeastern network, and partners around the globe.  Successful faculty in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities will be dynamic and innovative scholars with a record of research and teaching excellence and a commitment to improved equity, diversity, and inclusion. Strong candidates for this position will have the expertise, knowledge, and skills to build their research, pedagogy, and curriculum in ways that reflect and enhance this commitment.

Deadline: March 1

Please address inquiries about the position to Search Committee Chair, Talia Vestri, at t.vestri@northeastern.edu.

 

 

RESOURCES

Changemaking Connections

https://www.bethberila.com/podcast

Listen to inspiring conversations with change leaders about how to support deep transformation in our lives, communities, and organizations. Beth Berila talks with changemakers about the joys, challenges, strategies and possibilities in working for social justice in a variety of contexts.

 

Ms. Magazine Podcasts

https://msmagazine.com/podcast/

Amplifying digital reporting with multimedia programming, including podcasts, virtual and in-person programs, and book talks. Combining in studio and live programming with Ms.’ robust print-based media. At Ms. Studios, we elevate the voices you want to hear in politics, economics, entertainment, policy, international affairs and more by breaking news and barriers. Ms. Studios is spearheaded and led by executive producer Michele Goodwin and a team of brilliant producers: On the Issues with Michele Goodwin; Fifteen Minutes of Feminism; Torn Apart - Ms. Book Club with Dorothy Roberts

 

Freedmen and Southern Society Project

https://freedmen.umd.edu//

Hosted by the University of Maryland, the site includes 250 transcribed and annotated documents drawn from the published volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, as well as information about the project's publications and a convenient chronology of emancipation during the Civil War. Depicting the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants, the site is a widely used resource for teachers and students of slavery and freedom, the U.S. Civil War era, African American history, and Southern history.

Contact Email  sfmiller@umd.edu

 

Holocaust Sources in Context

https://perspectives.ushmm.org/

A digital teaching and learning tool for the college classroom and beyond. Using Experiencing History, instructors and students engage directly with primary sources related to the Holocaust. Instructors can set up customized courses to create customized learning experiences featuring original diaries, letters, oral histories, art, and other materials. These sources were carefully selected, translated, and contextualized by Holocaust scholars.

 

Teach Disability History Using Court Cases

https://emergingamerica.org/blog/teach-disability-history-using-court-cases

Many secondary school teachers teach students to read and analyze famous court cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona. Landmark cases of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) are compelling because they draw students into tangible arguments and details of major turning points in history. Now, thanks to the American Bar Association (ABA) and Reform to Equal Rights, civics and history students can add major cases on disability to the menu of possible investigations.

 

 

EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES

Delivery Exception: Supply Chain Justice & Reconciliation Speaker Series

https://supplystudies.com/delivery-exception/

The logistics revolution has demanded the extraction of value at any cost. The government it assembled has left the world fragmented and fragile—an endless ocean of cargo containers stretching from factory to fulfillment center. How many have been exploited, displaced, and enslaved—with not just countries, but entire cultures bought, sold, and thrown away? Supply chains stand amid the greatest period of environmental degradation in the history of the world, with landscapes torn asunder, skies and seas polluted. What does justice mean in an age of supply chain capitalism? What reconciliation can we hope for, and when will it arrive?

 

SNCC and Grassroots Organizing: Building a More Perfect Union discussion series

https://sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-grassroots-organizing/

This spring 2024 discussion series focuses on SNCC’s grassroots community organizing and its relevance to ongoing efforts to build a more just, inclusive, and sustainable society. At its core, SNCC helped community members feel empowered to make choices and act on the issues that most impacted their lives and their communities. The series is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

 

Healing Community: Black Women on The Arts and Liberation Pedagogy

https://cals.la.psu.edu/events/healing-community-black-women-on-the-arts-and-liberation-pedagogy/

Friday, February 16, 12:00-1:00 PM EST via Zoom

In her timeless Black feminist novel The Salt Eaters (1980), author, educator, and organizer Toni Cade Bambara wrote, “Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?” For Bambara and other activist-writers, the ideas of wellness and freedom are taken up as dynamic issues for both are interrelated—individual health and the health of one’s community. Over forty years later, the question of wellness remains a significant yet inconspicuous conversation among Black women. Drawn together by their extensive and impactful experiences as creatives and educators, this panel offers a public discussion about the wellness and humanity of Black women engaging in Black arts and liberation pedagogy.

 

In Love with... The Art of Being Posthuman

https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ocOypqTwuHNIkfulVGDA_Mor_jWr4i1-i#/registration

Feb 14, 2024, 11am CST

What is Love? As a celebration of Valentine's Day in post-anthropocentric ways, this book presentation of The Art of Being Posthuman: Who are We in the 21st Century? (Polity), will focus on the notion of posthuman love approached as love for existence. This posthuman journey of self-inquiry will engage with a wide range of knowledge and wisdom: from the Paleolithic times to the futures of radical life extension, from multi-species evolutions to the rights of Nature, the Anthropocene and the rise of Artificial Intelligence. Knowing who we are means loving the Self as the others within. We are one and many: Infinite, Love.

Contact Email  cetaps@letras.up.pt

 

Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture | Spring 2024 program

https://www.space-talks.com/

NYU Space Talks is a lecture series convened by Alexander C.T. Geppert at NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and NYU Shanghai with the Department of History in New York City. Once a month, established and upcoming scholars present the latest research on the history and politics of outer space, extraterrestrial life and astroculture, both in Europe and around the planet.

Contact Email  alexander.geppert@nyu.edu

 

Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series 2024

https://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/The-Ecological-Anthropology-Seminar-Series-2024/

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20020442/ecological-anthropology-seminar-series-2024

The Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series offers lectures by distinguished scholars focusing on the human-nature nexus, including topics such as climate change, conservation politics, multispecies methods, grieving in the Anthropocene, and environmental activism. The talk will be streamed online via Microsoft Teams.