CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Roundtable on Indigenous Feminisms in North America
In her introduction to the 2020 edited volume, In Good
Relation, Tk’emlúpsemc scholar Sarah Nickel explores the “longevity and
flexibility of Indigenous feminisms” through scholarly genealogies and
conversations between diverse voices of those who “act in good relation” and
are responsible to Indigenous communities. To explore the many ways that
educators can introduce students to the diverse history of Indigenous feminisms
in North America, we invite contributors for a roundtable to be published
within a special issue of Women and
Social Movements on Indigenous women/gender history.
Contributors will share one primary source text* and a
corresponding short essay of 500-1000 words explaining how the source helps to
explore, define, or analyze Indigenous feminism(s) at a particular place and in
a particular time. If applicable, participants may also share specific
questions designed for student discussion of the document and links to
additional resources.
Submit a one paragraph abstract with ideas about a potential
source and themes to be explored in essay by May 6 to Mary Klann at mcklann@ucsd.edu.
Talking Back
Conference
https://talkingbackconference2024.wordpress.com/
Talking Back interdisciplinary conference is an in-person
conference that will be held in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It will bring
together researchers, writers, poets, and activists in order to contribute to
cross-cultural dialogue, collaborative thinking, and ongoing discussions on resistance
and representation. Reflecting on speech as a radical force against the
systemic silencing of marginalised voices (hooks, 1989), we would like to
invite proposals from writers, academics, creatives, and activists alike who
are interested in exploring critical and creative approaches to decolonial
activism, reclamations of culture and identity, and the transformative power of
voice.
Deadline for all submissions: 1st April 2024
Email us at talkingbackconference@gmail.com
if you have any questions.
Timely Reflections
https://southeasternasa.org/sasa2025cfp/
New Orleans, March 6-8, 2025
2025 marks the first quarter century of what we once called
the “new millennium.” As we invite you to reflect on such arbitrary markers of
time as numbered calendar years, we reflect on questions of periodization and
the identification of significant historical moments. As we consider the
relevance of any year ending in “5” we think again of what those years signify
differently depending on which history (political history, sports history,
environmental history, music history, literary history, cinema history, labor
history) and whose history we are considering, and which of these appear most
often in public memorials and commemorations. For our conference to be held in
New Orleans in from March 6-8, 2025 we invite papers, panels and presentations
reflecting on any of these anniversaries and related themes or concepts.
Submit your proposals by August 16, 2024
Contact Email rhill54@kennesaw.edu
We Are All Connected:
Fostering Intersectionality and Solidarity
https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/2024-call-for-papers/
October 24 - October 27, 2024, Niagara, New York
The ideas associated with intersectionality are not
new. That we are all connected is a
fundamental understanding of indigenous worldviews, which see the whole person
(physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual) as interconnected to land
and in relationship to others (family, communities, nations). We are particularly interested in
presentations that focus on the following areas: Exploring connections to guide
our peace research and build solidarity; establishing and supporting
broad-based movements for peace, justice, and liberation, across many different
communities, we need to be present and accountable to people who experience
different forms of oppression and different realities than us; to understand
power we have to understand how multiple oppressed communities are affected
differently by domination systems; recognizing the depth and breadth of the
interdisciplinary peace scholarship and conflict resolution practices reflected
in the PJSA and WIPCS membership.
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 01, 2024
Please direct questions to info@peacejusticestudies.org
Porosity
Oct. 25-26th, 2024, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Looking at the porosity of matter, media, texts, bodies,
borders and time, this conference participates in the ongoing
reconceptualization of Asian and Middle Eastern studies as a trans-disciplinary
and intra-regional field concerning languages, literature, film and media,
history, philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, digital humanities, and
environmental humanities. How does porosity help to navigate the conceptual
constraints in area studies and redefine our understanding of Asian and Middle
Eastern Studies as a field? What social, cultural, political, and ecological
formations are set in motion when we think through the paradigm of porous
futurities? How do these new formations renegotiate the past and the present?
We welcome submissions from independent scholars and
graduate students worldwide at porosityumn@gmail.com by
June 1, 2024
Justice on Trial
The University of Kentucky Gender and Women’s Studies
Graduate Student Organization is excited to announce that we will be hosting
our 5th Gender & Women’s Studies conference on Saturday, August 31st, on
our campus in Lexington, KY.
This year’s theme of the conference is “Justice on Trial.”
As left-wing politicians and activists across the globe work for human rights
and protections, right-wing parties have meanwhile paved the way for
conservative laws that harm the bodily autonomy of women, people of color,
LGBTQ+ people, and other marginalized communities. Anti-abortion laws,
anti-trans laws, and encroachment on academic freedom are just a few examples
of the injustices people are facing at this juncture.
All submissions must be made by the deadline of May 1st
Should you have any questions about the conference, please
feel free to contact us at kygwsconference@gmail.com.
History, Social
Science, and the Humanities: Working in Classrooms and Communities
https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/cfp-2024-teaching-conference_0.pdf
Conference Date: August 19 - 24, 2024, virtual
This year’s theme places an emphasis on community building
of all kinds, from cultivating educational communities within public history
venues to preserving inclusive classrooms in K-16 pedagogy. We welcome
individual, panel, and roundtable proposals, as well as workshops or
charrettes, that focus on the use of library and digital resources, the
influence of career-focused university curriculum on student learning, how
attacks on DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and humanities programs
affect communities, and any other topic that relates to this year’s theme.
Proposal Due: May 24, 2024
Contact Email brothe10@msu.edu
Literature and
Emotion
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19251
We are now accepting paper proposals for the special session
"Literature and Emotion" at the 120th Annual Meeting of the Pacific
Ancient and Modern Language Meeting association (PAMLA), Palm Springs/CA, USA,
Nov. 6-11 2024.
This panel offers an opportunity to examine the manifold
interrelations between literature and emotion and welcomes both exemplary
readings and theoretical approaches to literary "affect studies." In
view of this year’s conference theme, “Translation in Action”, we especially
welcome contributions focusing on the ways in which emotions are involved in
processes of translation between different languages, media and genres.
The deadline for paper proposals is April 30, 2024.
If you have any questions, please send us an email to Carina.Breidenbach@lrz.uni-muenchen.de and katharina.a.simon@gmail.com
Southwest Popular /
American Culture Association Summer Salon
https://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/
June 20-22, 2024, Virtual
Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the SWPACA
Summer Salon. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area
Chairs, please visit https://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/.
The Cultural Heritage Institutions area
solicits proposals from librarians, archivists, curators, graduate students,
faculty, collectors, writers, independent scholars, and other aficionados (yes!
including people who use libraries, archives, and museums!) of popular culture
and cultural heritage settings of all types. We also encourage proposals for
slide shows, video presentations, panels, and roundtables organized around
common themes.
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2024
Contact Email stauffer@lsu.edu
Junior Scholars Workshop
Call for Participants
The Southern Historical Association Professional Development
Committee is excited to announce the continuation of the Junior Scholars
Workshop program. We meet virtually on Zoom each month during the academic
year. Meetings are held at 4 PM ET on the third Thursday of the month. At each
meeting, we discuss the work of an advanced graduate student or early career
professional, with two senior scholars on hand to provide detailed
comments.
Interested presenters should fill out this
Google Form. The deadline is April 15.
Contact Email selena.sanderfer@wku.edu
Graduate Conference
in the Humanities
https://history.unl.edu/2024-Rawley
University of Nebraska-Lincoln | October 3-4, 2024
The Rawley Graduate Conference strives to serve the larger
academic community and looks forward to submissions from those in the
humanities and other related fields, including, but not limited to: history,
classical/modern languages, religious studies, English, philosophy,
anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, ethnic studies,
medieval/Renaissance studies, women and gender studies, and digital humanities.
While all proposals are invited, preference will be given to those which best
address the 2024 theme of 'War & Society.'
All materials should
be emailed to the 2024 Rawley Planning Committee at rawleyunl@gmail.com no later than
Monday, May 20, 2024
Engaging Global
Cinema Cultures: Discourses and Disruptions
https://ahtfilmstudies.wixsite.com/globalcinema
Nov. 1-2, 2024, In-person at the University of Texas at
Dallas
We are excited to invite papers for the inaugural biannual
international symposium on Global Cinema, titled Engaging Global Cinema
Cultures: Discourses and Disruptions. The driving questions of the symposium
are: How can we explore the possibilities of studying alternative cartographies
and epistemologies in global cinema? How do we understand contemporary
spectatorship as interconnected global film cultures? Acknowledging the blurred
geopolitical and economical boundaries in global cinema, where do we place the
study of national cinemas?
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2024
Contact email: ahtfilmstudies@utdallas.edu
The Society for the
History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) Annual Conference
https://shawsociety.net/2024-annual-conference/
The University of Oxford, Friday 5th July 2024
This year’s conference will focus on the theme of history
from the margins. We encourage proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that
engage with the researching, writing, archiving and teaching of untold
histories of women and gender non-conforming people in the Americas. We are
keen to explore how historians can challenge dominant narratives and
periodisation, diversify sources and debates, and profile the voices and
experiences of historically marginalised people.
Please submit abstracts along with a 100-word biography of
each proposed speaker to shawsociety@gmail.com
by Friday 10th May 2024.
Conference on Global
Indigenous Studies
https://indigenous.indiana.edu/conference/call-for-proposals/index.html
November 15-17, 2024, Indiana Memorial Union
The First Conference on Global Indigenous Studies (CGIS
2024) is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary event
that will bring together national and international scholars, educators,
practitioners, students, policy makers, activists, academic institutions,
Indigenous organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations. The
participants in this conference will be involved in a local and global dialogue
and exchange of ideas, research, and experiences on the themes of the event.
Deadline: June 15, 2024
For questions about accessibility, please contact IUCONFS@iu.edu.
Attention in Animal
Ethics and Aesthetics
https://eikones.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/friederike-zenker/call-for-applications/
Call for Applications: We invite M.A. students and doctoral
candidates from a wide range of disciplines (art history, philosophy, literary
studies, media studies, film studies, among others) to participate in the
eikones summer school program, taking place from September 4 to 6, 2024, at the
University of Basel. In this edition of the eikones summer school, we will
focus on attention as a pivotal concept in rethinking human relations to other
animals .
Please submit your application in English as a single pdf
via email to eikones@unibas.ch, by
April 15, 2024.
Race & Ethnicity
in Popular Culture
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/03/18/race-ethnicity-in-popular-culture
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) 2024 Hybrid
Conference
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - Saturday, October 5, 2024.
We invite submissions that critically examine the
intersections of race and ethnicity within popular culture. From film and
television to literature and social media, this CFP seeks to interrogate the
ways in which racial identities are constructed, represented, and contested in
contemporary media landscapes. We welcome diverse theoretical perspectives and
interdisciplinary approaches that shed light on the myriad approaches to race
and ethnicity within the realm of popular culture.
The call will be open until June 15, 2024
contact email: ijackso2@ramapo.edu
Indigenous History
and Heritage Gathering
June 2-4, Ottawa, Ontario
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) and
the First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres (FNCCEC) are proud
to host the Indigenous History and Heritage Gathering (IHHG). The gathering
will welcome members of Indigenous Nations as well as cultural professionals,
academics, media, government employees, and anyone involved in researching
Indigenous histories and presenting an inclusive story. Guided by addresses
from Indigenous changemakers and visionaries, the conference is a space to
examine the many ways that history has been used as a tool of colonialism and
to envision a better path forward.
Contact Email info@ihhg.ca
PUBLICATIONS
Celebrating
Combahee at Fifty: Black Feminism, Socialism, Race, and Sexuality
To
mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Combahee River
Collective, Process calls for proposals and submissions on a
wide variety of themes surrounding feminism, socialism, race, and sexuality. We
are open to a wide range of topics and approaches, directly or indirectly
related to the Combahee River Collective. This could include pieces about Black
lesbian feminism, second-wave feminism more broadly, gender and sexuality, or
socialist movements, organizations, and politics in the 1970s beyond the
Collective. We are also interested in articles that explore the development and
application of theories of intersectionality and identity politics or histories
of critical race theory. We accept submissions from anyone engaged in the
practice of U.S. history, including researchers, teachers, graduate students,
archivists, curators, public historians, digital scholars, and others.
We
will aim to publish pieces throughout spring 2024, but are open to submissions
past that point. Proposals and drafts may be sent to blog@oah.org.
"MaricónX:
Stories de Mi Tierra" Exhibition
Opening
Reception on May 30, 2024
Arttitude
is thrilled to announce an open call for art submissions for our upcoming
exhibition, "MaricónX: Stories de Mi Tierra." This exhibition
celebrates LGBTQ+ identity, culture, and the resilience that comes from the
rich tapestry of our lands. We seek LGBTQ+ artists from diverse backgrounds to
share their stories through art, reflecting the beauty, challenges, and victories
intertwined with their heritage and queerness.
Submit
your artwork by April 15, 2024
Black
Feminist Truth Telling
https://www.aaihs.org/call-for-papers-black-feminist-truth-telling/
Global Black Thought, the official journal of
the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is now
accepting submissions for a special issue that traces the changes
and continuity of truth telling in Black feminist thought. In this
special issue, authors will explore truth telling as a practice of Black
feminism in the US and across the Black Diaspora. Specifically, this volume
allows an interdisciplinary community to consider what it means to present
information that is, as Bell-Scott identifies, “straightforward, unshakable,
and unembellished.”
Deadline:
July 1, 2024
For
questions about this special issue, please contact Guest Editor, Dr. Stephanie
Y. Evans (professorsevans@gmail.com).
Black
Creators of Legacy and Digital Media
https://asalh.org/call-for-papers-edited-collection-on-black-creators-of-legacy-and-digital-media/
A
notable potential of digital media is the opportunity for diverse and inclusive
representation. For example, streaming services, social media influencers, and
video-sharing websites have contributed to visibility for under- and
misrepresented identities in media. Black creators, especially, have tapped
into this potential by producing and consuming content representing Black
people and their intersecting identities. The project aims to feature an
interdisciplinary collection of research and creative works from academic
scholars, professional media practitioners, and public figures. Chapters in the
collection will explore Black creators in film, TV, and digital media from 2000
to the present, including their professional journeys, creative projects, and
cultural influence.
Interested
parties are invited to submit an extended abstract (up to 1500 words) and
author bio (50 words) as one Microsoft Word document to bmcproject24@gmail.com by May
15th.
The Rest
is Political: Radical Histories of Repose
Rest
is everywhere part of quotidian human experience, and the human body’s need for
intermittent periods of restorative unconsciousness is a universal feature of
our shared biology. Yet how societies, communities and individuals have
segmented sleep in time, sequestered it in space and fought over access to it
are matters of historical study. Inspired by the contemporary urgency of
ensuring the right to restorative time away from labor, with this issue the
editors hope to highlight the radical potential for the historical study of
sleep and rest, and the opportunities this area of study provides for
historians to connect with scholars in the natural sciences, architects and
planners, and policymakers and activists.
Abstract
Deadline: May 15, 2024
Contact:
contactrhr@gmail.com
Colors in
Econarratives about the Human and More-than-Human World
https://nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu/calls-for-papers/
Storyworlds:
A Journal of Narrative Studies, Call for Papers for Special Issue
In
this special issue, econarratives of colors explore the complexities of pairing
material environments with their representations with narrative forms of
environmental understanding and ‘propose’ a change in how we interact with the
environment today. This endeavor could be effectively executed while exploring
storytelling of coloring imaginaries and sustainable futures as ‘narrative
rehabilitation’ to draw attention to values and responsibilities and envision
strategies to avoid possible ‘disastrous narrative endings’. Econarratives of
colors could also be a new approach to overcoming the traditional dichotomies
of how we see the world around us, including ourselves, laying the ground to
think beyond colors in a more-than-human world.
Please
send an abstract of up to 300 words and further queries to Professor
Karpouzou’s e-mail at pkarpouzou@phil.uoa.gr and Dr.
Zampaki’s e-mail at nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr
until the 31st of August 2024.
Neurodiverse
Narratives in the 21st Century
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20027432/cfp-neurodiverse-narratives-21st-century
A
movement from the pathological paradigm to a neurodiversity paradigm
necessitates an understanding of ‘normal’ as socioculturally constructed, and
neurodivergence as neurological difference (as opposed to deviance). As such,
literature and media have an important role to play. Latent depictions of
neurodivergence have existed for a long time, while explicit representations of
neurocognitive diversity in literature and media are becoming increasingly
prevalent. Neurodiverse Narratives in the 21st Century aims to explore both,
showcasing the vibrancy of the contemporary neurodiversity discourse within and
outside of academia.
Please
send proposals and a short biographical note (up to 100 words) to neurodivergentnarratives@gmail.com
by Friday, 31st May 2024.
Queer
Celebrities: Fashion, Style and Influence in Popular Culture
https://www.intellectbooks.com/fashion-style-popular-culture#call-for-papers
Fashion,
Style & Popular Culture invites scholars, critics and artists to submit
papers for a Special Issue exploring the intersection of queerness, celebrity
culture, fashion and style. How are queer celebrities influencing, shaping and
transforming popular culture through their fashion and stylistic choices? We
are interested in contributions that critically engage with the roles of queer
celebrities in fashion as agents of change, as symbols of resistance, and as
architects of a more inclusive and diverse cultural landscape.
The
deadline for manuscripts of 5000–7000 words (using Intellect House Style) is 1
July 2025.
Contact
Email dirk_reynders@hotmail.com
Playing
to Learn; Learning from Play: Pedagogy and the Promise of Games
http://www.digra.org/cfp-edited-collection-on-games-play-and-education/
Much
has been made recently of the connections between games and play, and the
potential for generating positive learning environments. This edited collection, provisionally titled,
“Playing to Learn, Learning from Play: Pedagogy and the Promise of Games” is
designed for a broad academic audience and will feature essays and empirical
research that either examine specific games or consider the function of play
relative to pedagogical practice.
For
consideration, please send an abstract to jcall@grandview.edu by Oct 15th,
2013
Questions
can be directed to the editors at Josh Call- jcall@grandview.edu
Queering
the Environment
For
queer theorists, queerness is about more than sex and gender. Queerness
challenges normativity itself. It disrupts cis-heteronormative expectations
(yes: male whales get it on!) but it also resists the structures of the settler
nation-state and the systems of white supremacy, transmisogyny, capitalism,
policing and incarceration that sustain it. Seen in this way, the orcas who
spent their summer sinking yachts are queer, too. For this series, we invite
submissions that take up ideas of queer rebellion as interruption and
resistance.
Proposal
deadline: April 5
Contact
Email jessicamariedewitt@gmail.com
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Journal
of Women's History Best Graduate Student Paper Prize
The
Board of Trustees of the Journal of Women’s History is seeking submissions for
the prize for the Best Doctoral Student Research Paper in the history of women,
gender, and sexualities, along with the opportunity to revise for possible
publication in the Journal of Women’s History. The prize will be awarded at the
AHA Conference, January 3 - 6, 2025, New York City, United States.
Papers should be submitted electronically by Friday, April 26, 2024, to Jennifer Nelson, committee chair: jennifer_nelson@redlands.edu.
Coordinating
Council for Women in History Annual Awards 2024
Awards
are open only to CCWH members. To join, visit https://theccwh.org/membership.
Applicants may apply for one CCWH award per year. Please contact Elizabeth Everton (execdir@theccwh.org) with any questions.
The
Catherine Prelinger Memorial Award is a $20,000 award given to a scholar who
has not followed a traditional academic path of uninterrupted study. The award
is open to applicants with a PhD and graduate students advanced to candidacy.
The
CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to a graduate student
completing a dissertation in history.
The
Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to a graduate student
completing a historical dissertation, not necessarily in a history department,
that interrogates race and gender.
The
Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize is a $1000 award that recognizes a
superlative first article published in any field of history.
Deadline:
May 15
Louisiana
State University Special Collections Research Grants
https://lib.lsu.edu/special#specialcollectionresearchgrants
Louisiana
State University Libraries Special Collections invites applications to our
research grant program for 2024-2025. Grants are available to support either
travel expenses for a research visit to Baton Rouge, LA, or the costs of
digitizing select materials from LSU Libraries Special Collections. Collection
strengths include the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections
(LLMVC), comprised of over 10 million manuscript items, 50,000 published
materials, and 250,000 photographs documenting the region's social, economic,
political, cultural, literary, environmental, and military
history. Additional collection strengths can be found online: https://liblegacy.lsu.edu/special/CC.
Applications
are due May 1, 2024.
Contact
Email special@lsu.edu
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Archives,
History and Heritage Advanced (Paid) Internship Program
AHHA
offers undergraduate juniors and seniors, graduate and doctoral students
insights into the Library of Congress collections. Interns will work under the
supervision and guidance of a senior specialist and learn the standards and
techniques to properly arrange and provide descriptions for archival collection
materials. The program focuses on building awareness of how unique historical
records are analyzed, organized, and described in order to make them available
for research and educational use. Interns will have the opportunity to explore
historical documents representing rich cultural, creative, and intellectual
resources, while working under the direction of library specialists in various
divisions. The program targets Black, Hispanic or Latino, Indigenous, and
communities of color historically underrepresented in the United States and in
the Library’s collections.
Applications
for AHHA 2024 are open now through Monday, April 22, 2024
Program
Contact: AHHA@loc.gov
Communities
of Care
https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/48989
The
University at Buffalo Mellon Foundation
funded Communities of Care project is seeking two Postdoctoral Associates,
researchers whose specialization foregrounds an intersectional approach to
disability studies. In this project we will build upon the innovative
interdisciplinary concept of communities of care, using Buffalo, NY as a
nucleus of study of the everyday ways in which poor, racialized, and disabled
people navigate and negotiate living, working, and accessing vital healthcare
needs in urban and suburban spaces that are lacking in critical healthcare and
other infrastructure.
Applications
will be considered as they are received.
Contact's
Email jfreuden@buffa.edu
Institute
for Common Power Scholar-in-Residence
https://instituteforcommonpower.org/scholarinresidence-program
The
Institute for Common Power is a 501(c)3 educational branch of Common
Power. We catalyze people to action
through workshops, lectures, courses, learning tours, national educational
events and more designed to foster, sustain, and expand what should be the most
common power in American democracy-the right to vote. The Institute for Common
Power Scholar-in-Residence Program is designed to provide scholars with the
funds, lodging, proximity to research facilities, and more necessary to conduct
scholarly research on topics related to Alabama and the surrounding areas. Scholars engaging in research on topics
related to the histories and cultures of underrepresented groups are encouraged
to apply.
Please
send all materials directly to Dr. Terry Anne
Scott, Director of the Institute for Common Power, at terry@commonpurposenow.org.
Applications
are due by June 15, 2024
Visiting
Assistant Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/143328
The
Department of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies (SWAGS) at Amherst College
invites applications for a one-year full-time visiting appointment at the rank
of visiting assistant professor, starting on July 1, 2024. The successful
candidate must have teaching experience and a Ph.D. by the start of the
appointment. The teaching load is two courses per semester. We welcome
candidates in a broad range of fields attuned to the study of gender and sexuality,
including but not limited to gender, science and technology studies; race,
gender and sexuality studies; ethnic studies; post-colonial studies; and Asian
American and diaspora studies. The position may include supervising senior
theses and participating in other service work for the department.
Review
of applications will begin on April 15, 2024
Questions
may be directed to Professor Polk, Department Chair (kpolk@amherst.edu).
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Eating
and Cooking Words: African American Literature and Transformative Practices
presented by Dr. Patricia Clark
The
rich language and culture of the Gullah in Shange’s, Sassafrass, Cypress &
Indigo, provide an entryway into understanding cooking and eating words beyond
metaphor, inviting an engagement of speech acts in the very recipes included in
the novel. In terms of Black food, Shange’s work complicates this history for
those who think all Black food is “simply” soul food. Clark has taught Shange’s
novel for several semesters, using her work in courses that are not centrally
about food, but in ways that one might experiment with a mix of condiments,
spices, and seasonings. The results of this long experiment have been noted
anecdotally—with students from all parts of the Americas reporting a greater
awareness of their connections to Africa through food.
Mon,
Apr 15, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
Your
Voice, Your Story: Back-Yard History as Acts of Justice with Dr. Meredith
Abarca
Mon,
May 06, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
Abarca
is finding ways to help students, at the undergraduate and graduate level,
understand, experience, and believe that knowledge is not singular (the Western
academic way) but that it encompasses a multitude of ways of knowing—and of
being—critically engaged with the world. Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies has
helped her articulate and put into practice how power is /should be not to
dis-empower someone else but to empower ourselves through the use of our voice
and our stories. To this end, Abarca will address a number of pedagogical
projects that are grounded in students' stories and shared with an audience
beyond the classroom.
Contact
Email beth.forrest@culinary.edu
Cultures
of the Future Talks
https://www.cetaps.com/cetaps-cultures-of-the-future/
Utopia
has a bad reputation, suggesting a politics of wild impracticality or vast
mechanisms of repressions springing to life to crush dissent. How do we steer
between these two extremes and still keep our eyes on the prospect of a
radically better world? Which historical and contemporary projects should guide
us, which thinkers can enlarge us, which artists inspire us? Zer0’s Utopia series
aims to uncover the Utopian in all its dimensions.
Talks
scheduled weekly through April
Free
Virtual Open Education Conference
Thursday,
April 4 at TWU
Join
us for a virtual conference on Open Educational Practices that includes
speakers with expertise in Open Educational Resources, AI, and Digital Resource
collaboration. This conference is free to attend but registration is required and
space is limited.
Contact
Email alundahl@twu.edu
Facilitating
Self-Efficacy in College Students Learning Remotely
This
presentation provides a description of coursework and activities that build
self-efficacy in students who are learning remotely. Remote learners struggle
with motivation, time management, and engagement, all of which can be improved
by implementing activities that build self-efficacy into the remote learning
experience. This presentation includes theories of self-efficacy, portable
examples of exercises to build students’ self-efficacy, and samples of
students’ reflective writing about how they have increased their self-efficacy
while learning remotely. Attendees receive access to a folder of activities
they can use to help build student self-efficacy.
Contact
Email bjcartwright@utep.edu
Why Bloch
Now? Dreams of a Better Life in an Age of Catastrophe
Wed,
Apr 3, 2024 5 PM UTC+1 (Lisbon)
We
live in an age of catastrophe, and the utopian project is left as either a
naive dream at best or a wilful ignoring of the facts in front of us. The
stakes for the audacious gamble of “socialism or barbarism” have never been
higher and so it is incumbent upon us to find ways of thinking the
possibilities of a better future. For this, we have no better resource than the
colossal archive of work from the German philosopher and militant Ernst Bloch.
This talk, an introduction to Bloch’s work, context, and overall philosophical
project aims to make the case that even here and now, in the midst of ever more
despair, what Bloch termed “the warm stream of Marxism” offers resources for an
agential and politically meaningful philosophy of hope.
Email: cetaps@letras.up.pt OR culturesofthefuture@gmail.com
Free
eBooks from University of Illinois Press
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/full-catalog-neh-grant-backlist-titles/
University
of Illinois Press’s full catalog of backlist titles have been made available as
e-books thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Sustaining the
Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (#SHARP) awards program. These new
e-books will highlight the importance of humanities scholarship in
contextualizing and understanding historical and contemporary struggles for
equity and justice. Drawing from field-defining series in African American
history, women’s history, Asian American studies, working-class history and
other subject areas, this project will bring important stories of resistance,
achievement, community building, and agency to new audiences.
Supporting
Early Career Researchers in Humanities Survey
As
part of my final coursework in Research Administration and Compliance at CUNY,
I am conducting a survey on the support early career researchers and postdocs
in the Humanities field receive from the research and grants administration
perspective. If you are in a Humanities-facing role at your
organization, please take this anonymous online survey about the kinds of support your organization provides early
career researchers (ECRs) in Humanities.
Contact
Email zahrie.ernst@gmail.com
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