CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Conference on Women and Gender
Christopher Newport University's College of Arts and Humanities interdisciplinary conference on Women and Gender is organized around women’s stories. Our definition of “story” is deliberately vast and inclusive, and may refer to a personal account, historical or contemporary representation, or any form of expression that illustrates the breadth of women's experiences. Historically, many women’s stories have been silenced, overlooked, or filtered through outside perspectives. This conference offers an opportunity to recover, share, and pass them on. In the spirit of the theme, we envision a conference that brings together a variety of voices from multiple disciplines, organizations, and communities. As such, the format will feature a diverse selection of panels, roundtables, workshops, and creative sessions.
Please submit a 350-500-word abstract or description by October 1, 2024
Please direct inquiries about the conference to cwg@cnu.edu.
Expanding the Practice of Research: Transdisciplinarity in Art and Art History
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Session14911.html
College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City, February 12–15, 2025.
The academic study and practice of art is an ever-evolving landscape that includes a diverse constellation of stakeholders and institutional roles, including artists, art historians, curators, critics, archivists, librarians, and others. These different roles have practices, aptitudes and affordances that contribute to our field in complex ways. They respond to and are shaped by the shifts within an expanding definition of art and the methodologies we employ. This panel aims to explore projects that utilize a wide range of research methodologies and scholarly praxes from those who represent different roles in art scholarship or identify in hybrid capacities. How can we expand our understanding of research and scholarship beyond the academic journal article or scholarly publication? In what ways is research conducted in our field that manifests itself in methods and outcomes that are unique to our field?
Religious Co-existence: Embodied Interactions in Sacred Spaces and Faith Practices
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/events/item/religious-coexistence/
13th - 15th January 2025, Newcastle University
Religious place-making is about coexistence through faith practices, emerging as a “corporeal reality” when a profound “space between” opens between different individuals seeking an embodied interaction with the divine. This conference seeks to explore religious landscapes from a vibrant, experiential perspective, acknowledging these spaces as places of co-existence where people from varied backgrounds can find common ground through faith. Sacred places, particularly those shared by diverse communities, can foster various forms of interaction. These can range from peaceful coexistence, with the potential for dialogue between different individuals and groups, to arenas of conflict, where resilience may be tested, depending on geopolitical and historical contexts.
Proposals for papers should be sent by email to religious.coexistence@ncl.ac.uk by Monday 7 October 2024
Disinformation, Miseducation, and Epistemic Violence
https://kasc.ku.edu/maaas-2024-conference
The Mid-America Alliance for African Studies (MAAAS) will hold its 29th annual meeting virtually and in person at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, KS from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM CDT (14:00 to 22:00 UTC) on Thursday, 31 OCT and Friday, 01 NOV. MAAAS invites all scholars who conduct research on Africa and its diaspora to submit an abstract for virtual or in-person presentation. Although MAAAS welcomes presentations on any topic, we especially welcome abstracts for presentations on the conference theme of Disinformation, Miseducation, and Epistemic Violence.
Interested participants should submit proposal to kasc@ku.edu by the deadline of Sunday, September 15, 2024.
“I’ve known rivers”: The Ecologies of Black Life and Resistance
https://www.aswadiaspora.org/aswad-2025-12th-biennial-conference
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora - 25TH ANNIVERSARY and 12th Biennial Conference, October 29 - November 2, 2025
ASWAD’s 2025 Conference theme takes as its inspiration the river, and waterways, as an analytical framework for Black lives past and present. In addition to Langston Hughes’s poem, Vincent Harding’s book, There is a River suggests the river as a metaphor for Black freedom struggle. Rivers are “powerful, tumultuous, and roiling with life; at other times meandering and turgid, covered with the ice and snow of seemingly endless winters.” At its best, the Black freedom struggle “has moved consistently to the ocean of humankind’s most courageous hopes for freedom and integrity.”
Review of proposals will begin September 3, 2024
If you have any questions, please contact aswadconference@aswadiaspora.org.
2024 Roundtable for Black Feminist and Womanist Theory / 2024 FEAST Conference on Audre Lorde
The 2024 Roundtable for Black Feminist & Womanist Theory will be held in connection with the 2024 conference of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) on Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, 2024 as a hybrid conference, with in-person events taking place at the University of Rhode Island.
The Roundtable is a venue for scholars, activists, and artists across disciplines and professional trajectories to share work highlighting intellectual contributions of Black women, femmes, and non-men throughout the African diaspora. The aim of the conference is to create a working space for participants of various backgrounds to receive feedback on their projects that will enrich Black feminist and womanist traditions. There is no required theme for those who would like to present under the Roundtable for Black Feminist and Womanist Theory program; however, all projects must focus on/utilize at least one aspect of Black feminist theory or womanist thought.
FEAST will hold its 2024 meeting on Audre Lorde's thought and philosophical legacy. FEAST welcomes all work that builds on Lordean themes, including questions of emotion and affect, coalitional politics and movement building, political and epistemic powers of sensuality and spirituality, multiplicitous selfhood and self-definition, revolutionary self-care and care of others, Black feminist and queer socialism and internationalism, disability and biopolitics, ecological crisis and survival, pedagogy and parenting, poetry, and the project of “giving name to the nameless.”
FEAST's deadline is 8/1 and BFWT's is 8/15
Please direct questions to either Caleb Ward at caleb.ward@uni-hamburg.de (FEAST) or to K. Bailey Thomas at bfwroundtable@gmail.com (Roundtable for BFWT).
Unspeakable Challenges
https://thesawh.org/sawh-conferences/sawh-triennial-conference/
June 19-22, 2025,
The Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH) invites proposals for its thirteenth triennial conference, to be held June 19-22, 2025, at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. The conference provides a stimulating and congenial forum for discussing all aspects of southern women’s history and gender history. This year’s theme, “Unspeakable Challenges,” is inspired by yet another taxing moment in history. The Bethune Institute is an artfully crafted resource for intentional research, programming, and support for issues paramount to the survival and success of women and girls. Of particular note are gender equity topics such as women’s leadership, food and housing security, body image, physical and sexual health and safety, LGBTQ+ challenges, mental health and emotional wellness, maternal health, and healthy relationships. In this spirit, we want to address the front lines of the battle to ensure a bright future for all in this state and nation.
The submission deadline is September 1, 2024.
Contact Information sawhsubmission@gmail.com
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Climate and Biodiversity Crises: Representations, narratives and imaginaries of crisis and the socio-ecological transformation
7-10 April 2025 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris
Over the past two and a half centuries, living beings and their environments have been increasingly impacted by the industrialization of Western societies. In recent decades these developments have globalized and vastly accelerated. As a consequence, inter-related devastating environmental problems are now multiplying: biodiversity disappears faster and faster, and global warming is escalating and causing unprecedented damage to the biosphere, affecting different parts of the world in very different and unjust ways. The second edition of this summer/spring school will focus in particular on representations, narratives and imaginaries of the abovementioned crises and of the socio-ecological transformations our societies require in order to face these challenges: How are they represented in our various academic disciplines, by different societal groups and between diverse countries and regions of the world.
Applications must be submitted as a single pdf file by September 20, 2024 to: summerschool_ens_cmb@protonmail.com
Up in Arms: Aesthetics of Resistance and Solidarity in Contemporary Art
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Session14663.html
CAA Annual Conference (February 12–15, 2025, New York)
The contemporary art world is up in arms. Against the backdrop of global crises, socio-political upheavals, and widening socio-economic disparities, artists have increasingly turned to their craft as a means of critique, protest, and resistance to grapple with the complexities of our times. This panel investigates how these sentiments are translated into artistic forms, examining the strategies employed by artists to articulate dissent, express solidarity, and mobilize action.
Please submit your abstract (250 words) and CV (two pages) through the CAA submission portal by August 29, 2024
Maximilian Langefeld, University of Oxford, maximilian.langefeld@history.ox.ac.uk
NeMLA conference in Philadelphia, PA, on March 6-9, 2025
The Creative (R)Evolution of the Body
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21034
Can we have a Revolution in how we talk about women’s and femme-identifying bodies and minds? Can we write about disability, mental health, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause, transitioning, chronic pain, and other health concerns in ways that build us up and unite us? Submit your creative pieces that navigate embodied and evolving womanhood at all stages of life. Poets, prose writers, and hybridists welcome.
Contact Email ebbolton@alaska.edu
Storytelling in and about the Humanities: (R)evolving Disciplinary Discourses
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21261
Language and literature scholars are well-versed in the power of storytelling for professional sustenance. As colleges and universities face a declining birthrate and shrinking state funding, widespread public skepticism about the value of higher education, a FAFSA debacle that hinders access to financial aid, and politically-motivated legal challenges, language and literature professionals have internal and external work to do. Storytelling offers a productive frame for that work. This roundtable therefore explores the functions and uses of storytelling in and about our discipline(s): What do we tell our students, their families, and our publics at this critical moment? What stories are told about us? What stories do we tell ourselves to keep going?
Contact Email jmrose@psu.edu
Literature of Impact- Literary (R)evolutions of the Oppressed
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21294
Literature, in its many forms, has impacted the evolution of social movements, historical events, and other transformative phenomena. The present panel is specifically interested in receiving papers, projects, and creative works that delve into the transformative power of literature. We welcome submissions that focus on the impact of literature in revolutionizing pre-established systems of oppression and colonized spaces, as well as those that explore literature that revindicates the power of the silenced, displaced, and colonized. We encourage contributors to consider questions such as how literature has influenced war, morality, political ideologies, colonial structures, liberation movements, and other historical turning points, and how it can restore memory.
For more information you may contact panel organizer Mamen Rodriguez at: mrodri89@binghamton.edu
All abstract Proposals Due: September 30, 2024
Real, Artificial, and Superficial: Southern Humanities Conference
https://www.southernhumanities.org/call-for-papers
Greenville, SC, January 30- February 2, 2025
Human relationships in the twenty-first century are often marked by moments of genuine honesty and vulnerability as people seek ‘real’ connection as opposed to something ‘superficial.’ This desire to parse things real, artificial, and superficial—and to see the interstices between them—are central to experiences in the humanities, and perhaps, to the human experience. Furthermore, one of the most important recent technological developments is artificial intelligence, where generative engines have raised questions about the nature of information and communication, as well as about how educators and researchers might engage with the artificial. In fact, what are the boundaries between the artificial and the real? How intelligent is the artificial? And how superficial or real is artificial intelligence?
Please submit proposals of 300-500 words through our website at www.southernhumanities.org (preferred), or by email sent to Brett Bebber at southernhumanities@gmail.com by December 1, 2024
SLCC Asia Conference 2025
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20041020/slcc-asia-conference-2025
The History Department at SLCC will host the fourth annual Asia Conference at Salt Lake Community College on 27 March 2025. The conference will explore historical topics connected to Asia, with a keynote address by the University of Utah's Dr. Shawnakim Blake Lowey-Ball. We invite faculty and students across the humanities and social sciences to submit proposals for papers or panels that adopt an Asian focus, whether pan-continental or more localized. All submissions must be based on original research. Faculty and student conference sessions/panels will be organized by theme.
Send abstract (~300 words) and CV to William.Jackson@slcc.edu. Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2025.
Disability and Emerging Technologies
https://pacrim.coe.hawaii.edu/
We are thrilled to announce the 40th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity taking place in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, on April 15-16, 2025. We have introduced an exciting new strand on disability and emerging technologies and warmly invite scholars, researchers, educators, service providers, and community members who are exploring innovation, inclusion, and equity to join us. Together, we will examine generative artificial intelligence, robotics, mixed reality, and other technologies, focusing on emerging innovations' impact on disability.
Priority Submission Deadline: September 15, 2024
Gender & Sexual Identities Colloquium
Texas Tech University’s 2024 Women’s and Gender Studies Fall Colloquium, to be held in person in Lubbock, Texas, on Thursday, October 17, invites research proposals for individual papers or panels on topics relevant to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies in contemporary society. The colloquium is interdisciplinary. Perspectives from anthropology, art, business, communication, education, economics, film, history, journalism, languages, law, linguistics, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, and other humanities and social science disciplines are welcome
Please submit a 300-word abstract describing the original unpublished research that you would like to present at the colloquium. Abstracts should be submitted to https://forms.office.com/r/1iPtUs0Mnm. The deadline for submissions by 5 p.m. CDT on Friday, September 13.
email: womens.studies@ttu.edu
Asian Sound Cultures Conference
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asian-sound-cultures-conference-tickets-939463389287
17-19 September 2024, University of Sheffield, UK (fully hybrid)
Asia’s sounds are dynamic, influenced by historical, social, and technological factors, as well as historical processes of transformation that are both global and local. The study of sound is multi-disciplinary and evolving, incorporating musicology, linguistics, anthropology, cultural studies, technology, history, media, and more. This conference seeks to expand the horizons of our knowledge, reflecting upon contemporary challenges and opportunities and the importance of embracing the sensory turn in all of our research. We feature panels and discussions on a wide range of topics, including sonic urbanism, technological transformations in sound, language and identity, cultural heritage preservation, sonic nationalisms, globalization, and the sensory turn in sound studies.
Contact Email asiansoundcultures@gmail.com
Ecohumanisms Out of Sync
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20546
Northeast MLA Convention, March 6-9, 2025 | Philadelphia, PA
Revolve comes from the Latin revolvō, meaning “to turn back, reflect upon, roll back; to return, recur, restore.” In this roundtable, we consider how ecocritical thought and ecologically-minded figures, movements, and collectivities enliven us to the radical potential of retrospection and restoration. We seek presentations that consider how artists, writers, and activists have refused the hegemonic ideologies and metanarratives of their times—the Industrial Revolution, Manifest Destiny, the Anthropocene, the Great Acceleration, the AI Revolution—deviating from normative epochal understandings to imagine more radical temporalities and utopian counter-tendencies. What can we take from these figures who argued for falling out of sync with all-too-human historical trends in order to live in communion with the more-than-human world?
Contact Email anna.hill@vanderbilt.edu
Natality: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Birth as Existential Experience
https://www.ssprb.org/symposia.html
This symposium is a virtual event that will take place online across two half day sessions on April 3rd and April 4th, 2025 (to facilitate participation across time zones).
In the academic sphere, death has historically been treated as the most fundamental existential experience, if not the foundation of our existential condition. Over the past few decades, however, a rise in philosophical, critical, and empirical perspectives have emerged to challenge this idea, pointing to birth as an equally profound existential experience. The event of birth, like that of death, is deeply implicated in our sense of what it is to exist, to be alive and to live. What happens, some ask, if we replace the idea of humans as ‘mortals’ – creatures who die – with the idea of humans as ‘natals’ – creatures who are born? This symposium takes natality as its own beginning and seeks to bring together people across fields who are engaging with the significance of the concept of natality, as well as with what it means to give birth, to be born, to create, to be created, or to be natal.
We invite abstracts to be submitted by Tuesday 15 October 2024 to ssprbpapers@gmail.com
Southern Association for Women Historians 2025 Triennial Conference: Unspeakable Challenges
https://thesawh.org/2025-triennial-call-for-proposals/
This year’s theme, “Unspeakable Challenges,” is inspired by yet another taxing moment in history. The Bethune Institute is an artfully crafted resource for intentional research, programming, and support for issues paramount to the survival and success of women and girls. Of particular note are gender equity topics such as women’s leadership, food and housing security, body image, physical and sexual health and safety, LGBTQ+ challenges, mental health and emotional wellness, maternal health, and healthy relationships. In this spirit, we want to address the front lines of the battle to ensure a bright future for all in this state and nation.
The submission deadline is October 1, 2024.
Contact Email sawhsubmission@gmail.com
PUBLICATIONS
Race/Gender/Class/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers
https://yul1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e2HRa2fM2QjETfn?Q_JFE=qdg
We seek proposals for the 6th edition of Race/Gender/Class/Media (Routledge). This reader contains upwards of 50 relatively short, tightly-written, good-quality research reports. We're looking for the same wide range of content as in prior editions, preferably focusing on contemporary media content. Proposals from scholars representing all disciplines and using all methods are welcome. This reader is designed primarily to introduce undergraduates to considerations of race, class, and gender in the media. It generally presents original research rather than adaptations or reprints. Readings examine the consequences, implications, or opportunities associated with issues of diversity in media. Final manuscripts will be between 3250-3750 words, including 3 pedagogical activities, and must be written in an accessible fashion.
Priority deadline for proposals: September 23, 2024
Contact Email rebecca@uic.edu
Queer Natures
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for an upcoming edited volume focused on the intersection of LGBTQIA+ experiences and environmental history. Designed as an accessible volume, "Queer Natures" will break new ground in environmental history by delving into the rich and complex intersection of environmental history and queer history. This volume seeks to illuminate how LGBTQ+ people have always been part of environmental history and sheds light on the intersections of sexuality, identity, and the environment.
Please submit your contributions by November 15, 2024 to queer.environmental.histories@gmail.com.
Reviewing Diaspora: Dispersal, Dislocation, Diversities
https://postcolonialinterventions.com/call-for-papers/
The domain of diaspora has long been one of the major sites of postcolonial investigations. Scores of theorists and scholars have profusely written on the literary and cultural representations emanating out of the domain of diaspora and the various ramifications associated with it. However, in recent times, the domain of diaspora has undergone several shocks and convulsions owing to global socio-political phenomena which have often made the lives of migrants and diasporans particularly precarious, especially in the post 9-11 era. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions (January 2025) will focus on such issues and more, beyond the subcontinental confines, and examine the ways in which recent literary and cultural representations take such fissures and frictions into account.
Please send your submissions to postcolonialinterventions@gmail.com by 30 November, 2024.
Science Fictional Ecologies in Contemporary Art
In response to (and also co-forming) the crises and the critical debates surrounding the planet’s well-being, visual, performance, and media artists are increasingly in dialogue with scholars and researchers within environmental sciences, humanities, and social sciences interrogating the geo-physical and the socio-ecological dimensions of contemporaneity. This proposed special issue aims to understand how contemporary artists utilize and transform science fiction elements to address concerns about the present, envision alternate realities, and critique current socio-ecological, technological, and political issues. It will explore the intersection of science fiction with visual arts, examining how this confluence shapes our understanding of the Anthropocene epoch and its associated challenges.
Abstract deadline: November 1st 2024
Alison Sperling, Florida State University, USA: asperling@fsu.edu
Trans Voices on Suicide
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20041068/42-percent-project-trans-voices-suicide
I propose a collection of personal essays, autoethnographies, poems, calls to action, manifestos, testimonios, short stories, and other original written works by transgender people personally affected by suicide. Let’s give voice to the oft-cited statistics about the epidemic of suicidality within trans communities, particularly two-spirit, trans, non-binary, intersex, and genderfluid youth and Indigenous and multiracial trans folx. This collection is neither a naïve promise that “It Gets Better” (without revolutionary social change) nor a space for “trauma porn” to glorify our suicide, death, and suffering.
As this is a bit of an experiment, this is an open call in terms of topics and format. I would like to offer several prompts that may serve as inspiration, if desired: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JC8kkw8KXiLFmVeB7v92AWaBF0lxcf44UmmywWQMkzU/edit?usp=sharing.
Deadline for abstracts: Monday, September 30, 2024
Contact Email denise@thehouseofdenise.com
Call for Reviewers - Journal of Popular Culture
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20041534/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 October 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. Please also send a short explanation to state what makes you a good reviewer of the book (or you may send me your CV).
Available Books
Reginald Wiebe and Doothy Woodman, The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel's Moral Universe, Alberta
Jon Langmead, Ballyhood: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling, Missouri
Kitty Ledbetter and Scott Foster Siman, Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Cross Roads, Arkansas
Darl Larsen, Moving Pictures: A History of American Animatio from Gertie to Pizar and Beyond, Rowman and Littlefield
James Scorer, Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame, Texas
Frank Garcia, Clicas: Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latino/a/x Gang Literature and Film, Texas
Camilles Alexander, Black Witches and Queer Ghosts: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials, Lexington
Patrick McKelvey, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation, NYU
Megan Amber Condis and Mike Sell, Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames, LSU
Matt Foy and Christopher Olson, Mystery Science Tehater 3000: A Cultural History, Rowman and Littlefield
Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse, Lexington
Erin Lee Mock, CHanged Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II, Virginia
Vicki Valosik, Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water, Liveright
Glenn Gerstner, Andy Varipapa: Bowling's First Superstar, McFarland (Only available as PDF)
Sangjoon Lee, Dal Young Jin, and Junhyoung Cho, The South Korean Film Industry, University of Michigan (Only available as PDF)
Global Black Thought: Call for Book Reviewers
https://www.aaihs.org/global-black-thought-call-for-book-reviewers/
Global Black Thought, the official journal of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is looking for book reviewers for volumes 3 and 4. We are seeking expert reviewers willing to evaluate key works on the field between 1,500 to 2,500 words. We are seeking reviewers representing various ranks, including ABD graduate students and independent scholars, who work on various aspects of African American history, Africana Studies, and African Diaspora Studies. Those who would like to be considered for writing a review for future issues, should send a brief email (gbtjournal@aaihs.org) with their name, biography or brief CV, and a description of their research interests and areas of expertise.
Feminist and Intersectional Ecologies in Literature and Visual Culture
https://profession.mla.org/opportunity/de-genere/
This issue intends to map and investigate (in an inevitably partial way) old and new entanglements (as well as future horizons) between intersectional feminist theories and practices and the environmental humanities in literature and visual culture in a variety of national contexts or with a comparative approach. In both literature and visual culture, the linkage of ecofeminist theories, the transversality of struggles, and the many complexities brought by intersectionality remains indeed to be thoroughly scrutinized. We are especially interested in inviting submissions that engage with cultural representations of such intersections by focusing on a range of topics (such as feminism and the posthuman, ecofeminism and intersectionality, gender and climate change, queer ecologies, animal issues) through different perspectives of analysis (including post- and decolonial studies, critical race theory, queer theory, indigenous epistemologies, disability studies).
Please send your proposals for articles, interviews, or creative interventions (max. 500 words, in English or Italian), along with a short biography, by 30 September 2024 to degenere.journal@gmail.com, giulia.fabbri@uniroma1.it, and chiara.xausa2@unibo.it.
Gender Equity for Women in STEM
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20040849/gender-equity-women-stem-call-chapters
This book offers an analysis of the global gender gap in STEM. The volume also focuses on the advancement of women in STEM fields and the importance of managing the gender gap and training more women in STEM, including the rapidly increasing data science field, to “tackle the gender gap that might arise in the future.” (Patterson, Damodharan & Beena, 2021) Although more women than men are represented in college, women often remain excluded from STEM jobs. Although Black women comprise 14.1% of the female workforce and have historically maintained the highest level of female workforce participation since 1996, they account for only 2% of the STEM workforce (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2019; 2020; Women’s Bureau, 2020).
Please send your abstract and CV to the editors Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochkin@fas.harvard.edu Dr. Elena Shabliy eshabliy@g.harvard.edu by August 30th, 2024.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Travel Grants Offered by the University of Wyoming
https://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/grants/index.html
The American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming is now accepting applications for its Travel Grant Program for the academic year 2025-2026. The AHC offers a total of ten travel grants annually, with five grants each in the spring and fall application cycles. Each grant provides $750 to support research projects that utilize the Center’s extensive collections. We welcome applications from a diverse range of scholars at all stages of their academic careers, from graduate students to established scholars. Applications are due by October 31, 2024 (fall cycle) and March 31, 2025 (spring cycle).
Leslie Waggener: lwaggen2@uwyo.edu
Research travel grant: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library
https://www.library.illinois.edu/hpnl/blog/call-for-applications-2024-2025-research-travel-grant/
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library and the Department of History are pleased to announce a Research Travel Grant to support scholars conducting research in any of the Library’s collections. The University Library is one of the largest research libraries in the U.S., holding more than 14 million volumes and 24 million other items and materials in all formats, languages, and subjects.
Applications will be accepted until October 1, 2024
Contact Email hpnl@library.illinois.edu
Travel Grants for Scholars: Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
https://www.library.wisc.edu/friends/friends-grants/grants-in-aid/
Grants to Scholars offers funding to offset travel expenses for visiting scholars with specific research needs in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Through a competitive process, the Friends award grants to scholars for research in the humanities, sciences, and related fields appropriate to the libraries’ collection strengths. Awards are made up to $2,000 for recipients from North America, and $3,000 for those from elsewhere in the world. The purpose is to foster the high-level use of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries’ rich holdings, and to make them better known and more accessible to a wider circle of scholars.
Please contact our office with any questions, we can be reached at (608) 265-2505, or via email, friends@library.wisc.edu
Filson Historical Society Scholarly Research Fellowships
https://filsonhistorical.org/about-us/fellowships/#researchfellow
The Filson Historical Society’s fellowships encourage the scholarly use of the Filson’s nationally significant collections by providing financial support for traveling scholars who wish to conduct research during a continuous residence at the Filson. The Filson is Kentucky’s largest privately supported historical society with research collections documenting the history and culture of Kentucky, the Ohio Valley, and the Upper South. The collections include rare books, maps, and 2.1 million manuscripts in addition to extensive collections for the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The upcoming application deadline is October 15, 2024. Contact Jennie Cole, Director of Collections Access, for more information at jcole@filsonhistorical.org or 502-635-5083.
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Position in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27966
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Macalester College invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position, rank open. We invite applications from scholars of transnational feminisms, broadly understood, at all academic ranks. This broad conception of transnational feminisms troubles divisions between international and national, global and local, and could include a wide range of foci approached from a similarly wide range of interdisciplinary and methodological perspectives, including, but not limited to: post-colonial, Indigenous, and Black diasporic feminisms as well as scholars of climate, disability, migration, globalization, labor, militarism, global health, political economy, science and technology studies, cultural studies or other foci. We are particularly interested in scholars with a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies or related interdisciplinary humanities fields. New PhDs and candidates from all academic ranks are encouraged to apply. The teaching load is five courses per year.
Priority consideration will be given to complete applications received by October 1, 2024
Questions can be directed to Myrl Beam, Chair of WGSS: mbeam@macalester.edu.
Assistant Professor
of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
https://careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/14323
Bowdoin College’s Program of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s
Studies invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment
at the assistant professor level in the field of transnational/global feminism
broadly defined. The position will begin July 1, 2025. We seek an
interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of gender, race, and
social justice and focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, or Asia or
who incorporate transnational or diasporic approaches to these regions. We
especially invite applicants who can contribute to both gender and sexuality
aspects of the curriculum and address student interests in social movements,
law, health/medicine, climate justice, environmental studies, government and
political science, technology, or science in society.
Review of applications will begin September 3, 2024 and
continue until the position is filled.
email: k.ervin@bowdoin.edu
Teaching Faculty I, 12 Month Salaried - Honors Program
The Florida State University Honors Program seeks two dynamic educators to join our Core Faculty with an anticipated start date of the Spring 2025 semester. The successful candidates for these positions will have the opportunity to design and teach Honors Signature Courses which are small, interactive courses which introduce students to topics that push thematic and disciplinary boundaries. These courses, available exclusively to students in the University Honors Program, and the dedicated faculty who teach them, are critical to the continuing growth and success of the program. Successful candidates will spend the Spring 2025 semester on course release, designing Signature Courses to be taught in subsequent semesters. The teaching load is 4-4-2 over a 12-month contract and all courses in the University Honors Program are capped at 24 students.
Application review will begin September 9th, 2024
Dr. Michael Furman, Associate Director - University Honors Program, mfurman@fsu.edu
Fellows for Studies in Race and Ethnicity
https://facultydevelopment.stanford.edu/ideal-provostial-fellows/about-program
The Stanford IDEAL initiative aims to support the work of early-career researchers, who will lead the next generation of scholarship in race and ethnicity and whose work will point the way forward for reshaping race relations in America. Stanford University is seeking to hire early career fellows who study topics related to race and ethnicity. The fellowships may be in any of the seven schools in the University: Business, Doerr School of Sustainability, Education, Engineering, Humanities & Sciences, Law, and Medicine. The selected Fellows will work with a dedicated faculty mentor in their home department to advance their research agenda. Additionally, fellows are encouraged to participate in the intellectual programming offered by the Department of African and African-American Studies, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute, and the Institute for Advancing Just Societies. The fellows will teach a course individually or with a faculty member once a year within their home department each year.
Applications are submitted via Academic Jobs Online by November 1st of each year
Inquiries about this program can be directed to facultydevelopment@stanford.edu
Society for the Humanities Fellowships, Focal Theme "Scale"
https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/society-fellowships
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University invites applications for residential fellowships from scholars and artists whose projects reflect on the 2025-26 theme of Scale. The nature of this fellowship year is social and communal—fellows forge connections outside the classroom and the lecture hall by sharing meals following the weekly seminar and attending post-lecture receptions and other casual events throughout the year.
Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree before January 1, 2024
The following application materials on or before September 20, 2024
Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships
https://as.cornell.edu/research/klarman-fellowships
Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences invites applications from early-career scholars of exceptional talent and initiative for up to ten Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships. Klarman Fellows may pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-cutting fields that transcend traditional boundaries.
The full application must be completed, submitted, and received by the final deadline of Friday 11 October 2024, 11:59 pm EDT.
If you have questions about the program or the application process, please contact the Klarman Fellows Office at: KlarmanFellows@cornell.edu.
Assistant Professor of Feminist and Gender Studies
The Feminist and Gender Studies Department at Colorado College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level to begin August 2025. We seek a dynamic teacher/scholar/leader whose work is critically situated in intersectional and/or transnational frameworks with a focus on Environmental Racism, Critical Science and Technology Studies, Labor Studies, Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies, and/or (Dis)ability Studies. We are especially interested in applicants who can further strengthen our interdisciplinarity by broadening the epistemological and methodological orientations of our curriculum. In addition, we are looking for applicants who are committed to fostering equitable learning environments and who take a critical approach to all aspects of their work by centering subjugated and oppressed peoples, knowledges, and methodologies.
Applications will be accepted until December 1st, 2024
Questions about the position may be directed to Professor Nadia Guessous (nguessous@coloradocollege.edu)
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of LGBTQ+ Studies
The Department of English at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic university, invites applications for a tenure track position (full-time) in LGBTQ+ studies in the areas of professional writing and/or literature and cultural studies. We particularly encourage candidates who bridge these areas and candidates with expertise in queer rhetorics to apply.
This position is slated for inclusion in a College of Arts & Sciences cluster hire in the area of LGBTQ+/Queer Studies that also includes the Departments of Women & Gender Studies, and Public Health.
Applications must be received by 10/01/2024.
Inquiries may be sent by email to jgopp@scu.edu
Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/147097
The Program in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies (GSFS) invites applications for a tenure-track position to begin in Fall 2025. We are seeking advanced scholars who could be considered for tenure at Middlebury College within 1-3 years to help lead our vibrant and exciting program. We are seeking someone with an interest in program building at a small liberal arts college. Field of study is open, but the candidate will have the training and experience to teach at least two of our core courses. We are particularly interested in scholars with a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies or another interdisciplinary field, such as Black Studies, Chicana Studies, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies or Performance Studies.
The application deadline is October 1, 2024.
Assistant Professor of Transgender Studies
https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/533947/assistant-professor-of-transgender-studies
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at the University of Oregon invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Transgender Studies to start Fall 2025. We are interested in scholars whose research and praxis foreground interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, comparative, and intersectional voices, challenges, and lived experiences of trans communities as they intersect with issues of race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, health, and nationality, among others.
Application Deadline October 1, 2024
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
https://joblist.mla.org/job-details/8953/assistant-professor-of-environmental-studies/
Bates College’s Program in Environmental Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position in environmental arts or humanities, to begin August 1, 2025. We seek a scholar in cultural studies, literature, or the visual arts who is attentive to hierarchies of power and privilege and can offer cross-cultural and/or transnational perspectives on environmental traditions. Fields and research approaches are open, but could include: critical race theory, ecocriticism and nature writing, ecofeminism/feminist environmentalism, energy humanities, blue humanities, Indigenous and post-/de-/anti-colonial environmentalisms, posthumanism and animal studies, and queer ecologies.
Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2024
Assistant Professor in Gender and Feminist Studies
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27961
Pitzer College, a member of the Claremont Colleges, invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Gender and Feminist Studies. We seek a gender-feminist studies scholar and teacher who works primarily in North American contexts, inclusive of Mexico and the circum-Caribbean. We are interested in scholars whose interests emerge from the intersection of those fields with interdisciplinary or disciplinary work in the social sciences and/or humanities, especially in relation to capitalocene-produced environmental crises. Some areas of interest might be but are not limited to: BIPOC queer and feminist theory, science and technology studies (including data science), transgender studies, disability studies, affect theory, ethnographic practice, community engaged scholarship, and activism.
The deadline for applications is 10/15/2024
Klarman Fellowships in Arts & Sciences
https://as.cornell.edu/research/klarman-fellowships
Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences invites applications from early-career scholars of exceptional talent and initiative for up to ten Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships. Klarman Fellows may pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-cutting fields that transcend traditional boundaries. Applicants must have earned a doctoral degree no earlier than 1 May 2023 and identify a faculty member with a primary appointment in the College of Arts & Sciences to serve as their faculty host.
Application deadline: 11 October 2024
American Council of Learned Societies 2024-25 Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
https://www.acls.org/fellowship-grant-programs/
ACLS offers programs that promote research across all fields of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Our application, peer review, and award processes aim to promote inclusive excellence, and we welcome applicants from groups that are underrepresented in the academic humanities and from across the diverse landscape of higher education. Learn about application information and eligibility criteria for all programs.
email: fellowships@acls.org.
Assistant Professor of Trans Studies
The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas seeks an Assistant Professor of trans studies for Fall 2025. This position is a full-time, tenure-track, academic-year (9-month) appointment. The successful candidate must have research and teaching expertise in trans studies. Applications from all trans studies scholars are invited, however we have identified the following areas that would complement the work of our current faculty: critical race theory, disability studies, and decolonial analysis.
Application Review Begins 08-Oct-2024
email: Katie Batza, batza@ku.edu
Assistant Professor - African American Women/Gender Post 1850
https://uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/174166
The faculty of the Department of History at the University of South Carolina, Columbia campus, invite applications for a 9-month, full time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Post 1850 History of African American Women, Gender and/or Sexuality to begin August 16, 2025. Candidates must have a PhD by the time of appointment. Evidence of a well-defined research and teaching agenda as well as a strong scholarly record are required. Research field is open.
Reviewing of complete applications will begin on October 21, 2024.
email: LoriCarey@sc.edu
Assistant or Associate Professor with Specialization in Sexuality Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/152310
The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for an assistant or associate professor in the field of sexuality studies. We seek an interdisciplinary scholar and are particularly interested in scholars who employ mixed methods and work in one or more of the following areas: indigeneity, sexuality and the state, legal studies, science studies, or countries outside of the United States.
For full consideration applications should be submitted by October 15th, 2024.
Supports and facilitates the operation of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center. Typical hiring range for this position is $46,000 to $50,000 commensurate with qualifications and experience. The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center advances teaching, research and public knowledge of the humanities. At UMaine we support humanities scholarship and interdisciplinary collaborations by students and faculty, we encourage collaborations between UMaine and Maine's K-12 teachers and students, we establish partnerships with arts and humanities institutions in Maine, and we share UMaine's humanities resources with the people of Maine. By developing and supporting programs that engage art, literature, history, philosophy, politics, and diverse cultures, the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center aims to enrich the lives of all Maine citizens.
For full consideration, materials must be submitted by September 3, 2024.
Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://crres.indiana.edu/programs/postdoctoral-fellowships/index.html
The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship provides support to scholars studying race and ethnicity from a broad range of fields in the social sciences and humanities. We are particularly interested in candidates with disciplinary homes in Sociology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Geography. The CRRES postdoctoral fellowship program aims to create a legacy of scholars who will be positioned to address issues related to race and ethnicity using a multidisciplinary lens. We welcome candidates whose research intersects with African American and African Diaspora Studies, Native and Indigenous Studies, Latine Studies, and/or Asian American Studies. The Fellow is expected to pursue research activities associated with their primary area of work, as demonstrated by conference presentations and published works.
Applications received by October 4, 2024 at 12:00 pm EST will receive full consideration
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Texas PRIDE Health Collaborative Events
https://sites.google.com/texaspridehealthcollaborative.org/home/events
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm Central—Issues in LGBTQ+ Policy & Advocacy
Please join us for a facilitated discussion about issues in policy and advocacy as it relates to LGBTQ+ populations. The purpose of this community forum is to generate ideas to improve SGM health, that can be turned into research questions and then developed into future research projects. These projects will provide evidence for best practices in engaging LGBTQ+ communities in Texas.
Resisting the Far Right and Neoliberal Agenda in Education
https://stargc2024.kusoed.edu.np/speakers/
December 9, 2024, at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
We cordially invite you to join us for an enlightening keynote address on "Resisting the Far Right and Neoliberal Agenda in Education" by Dr. Henry Giroux. Dr. Giroux is a distinguished American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic, renowned as one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States. His pioneering work spans public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. This event promises to offer profound insights into contemporary challenges in education.
Contact Email contact@starscholars.org
TWU Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership Fall Events
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/twu-jane-nelson-institute-for-womens-leadership-85242025353
The Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership at Texas
Woman’s University is dedicated to preparing more women to take on successful
business and public service roles. Its three specialized centers—Center for
Student Leadership, Center for Women Entrepreneurs and Center for Women in
Government—ensure women have the education to establish careers as successful
executives, the skills for building entrepreneurial businesses and the
framework needed to run for public office. Fall events are:
Behind the Campaign, Sept. 23
Spotlight on SB2120: family protection representation program, Oct. 8
Leading the Lone Star State: Texas Women in Public Service Summit, Oct. 17 ($75 fee)
Unpacking: O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier, Oct. 24
SB 1717: Stalking, Nov. 7
Nonpartisan Office, Nov. 16
Capturing the Spoken Word: A Virtual Oral History Workshop
https://coph.fullerton.edu/services/workshops.php
September 21, 2024, 10 am – 1 pm, PST on ZOOM
The Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History will lead a virtual workshop on oral history methodology on Saturday, September 21. This workshop will introduce participants to the preparation, recording, transcription, and archival organization of oral histories, and will include time for discussion and Q & A.
For any inquiries, please contact us at coph@fullerton.edu or 657-278-3580
Why The Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins
September 11, 2024, noon-1:00 CST
Professor Jacob L. Wright’s conversation with Revd Prof John Barton, FBA, on Why The Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins. The book celebrates the Hebrew Bible as an unparalleled achievement in human history. Forged after Babylon’s devastation of Jerusalem, it makes not victory but defeat the foundation of a new idea of belonging. At the heart of this corpus is not a creed but a question: What does it mean to be a people? More than just religious scripture, the Bible began, according to Wright, as a trailblazing blueprint for a new form of political community. Its response to catastrophe offered a powerful message of hope that was unique in the Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman worlds.
Contact Email oxfordfaiths@gmail.com
Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives
https://www.roomofonesown.com/event/asexualities-feminist-and-queer-perspectives-panel-discussion
Monday, September 9, 2024 - 6:00pm, online
As one of the first book-length collections of critical essays on the topic of asexuality, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives became a foundational text in the burgeoning field of asexuality studies. This event is a full panel of authors for a discussion on the freshly revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition of Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Join us for an engaging conversation with featured editors and contributors KJ Cerankowski, Megan Milks, Yo-Ling Chen, Ela Przybyło, Joe Jukes, Anna Kurowicka, and Canton Winer.
Feminist Keywords Podcast
https://dornsife.usc.edu/consortium/podcasts/keywords/
Feminist Keywords brings the words and concepts that currently energize feminist and queer studies to your kitchen table, classroom, discussion group, or anywhere you want to engage in these conversations. Feminist Keywords is a companion to the 2021 book Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, where 77 leading thinkers were asked to write on 70 terms ranging from hashtag to intersectionality, reproduction to woman, terms that are hot topics in the news and in our communities. In each episode, a member of the editorial collective interviews an author from the book talking about the significance of their keyword.
GET: The Project Curriculum (Gender Equality Training)
https://therepproject.org/get-the-project-curriculum-gender-equity-training/
GET: The Project Curriculum (Gender Equality Training) is a bold, new eight-module curriculum designed for high school and college students and encourages students to have unflinching conversations about the most pressing problems they face today, weaving together leadership development, mental health interventions, media literacy, social-emotional learning, and gender-based violence prevention. Each of The Representation Project’s films are woven throughout the curriculum, and include clips from Miss Representation, The Mask You Live In, and Fair Play. The curriculum is FREE and available to students, educators, parents, coaches, and mentors
Visions of Education podcast
Visions of Education is an education podcast where education professor Dan Krutka and high school teacher Michael Milton have conversations with educators to discuss their big ideas in education. For example, the most recent episode (#128) is “An Anticolonial Approach to Civic Education with Leilani Sabzalian.”
Institute for Historical Study
https://instituteforhistoricalstudy.org/about-us/
The Institute for Historical Study is an active, independent community of researchers, writers, and artists. Our common bond is a devotion to history in its many forms. Through wide-ranging programs, we share research, ideas, and practical advice and provide a public forum for the discussion of history. We encourage both independent scholars and historians in academic and other institutions to join, and we offer numerous membership benefits.
