CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis
https://research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fables/call-for-papers/ May 22-24, 2025, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Fables have emerged as a key theoretical apparatus in multispecies ethnology, animal studies and environmental humanities. Leading animal studies scholars such as Erica Fudge, Jane Spencer, Donna Landry, and Matthew Chrulew are paying close attention to the role of fables and speculative fabulation to explore the human-animal relationship and our relationship with environmental forces, such as water, ocean, land and wind. It is as if recent climate change and other global environmental crises are amplifying the need for us to listen to the voices of nonhuman agencies. ‘Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis’ is an AHRC-funded networking project that explores innovative approaches to the fable genre.
Please send a short abstract of 200-300 words for a 20-minute presentation, along with your bio, to K.Nagai@kent.ac.uk by December 15, 2024.
Making Work Matter: Solidarity and Action across Space and Time
https://lawcha.org/biannual-conference/2025-conference/
Labor and Working-Class History Association conference, June 12-14, 2025, University of Chicago
While proposals on any labor related topic may be submitted, the program committee encourages the submission of comparative, global, and transnational panels; sessions on “front line” or “essential “workers; workers and technology; immigration and migration; gender, sexuality and work; forced labor in different eras; public health, medical care, and care work; marginalized workers including Black, Brown, Indigenous, Latinx, and people with disabilities; working-class and labor movements for justice and democracy. We encourage presentations on the United States, across the Americas and beyond, in all time periods; on teaching and public history; race, ethnicity, gender, disability, colonialism, citizenship status, and sexuality; working class communities and social movements. Proposals on other labor and working-class topics are also welcome.
Submission deadline: November 15, 2024
Conference email: LAWCHA2025@gmail.com
The 20th Berkshire Conference on the Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities
https://berksconference.org/2026-big-berks/
Thursday-Sunday, June 18 - 21, 2026, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
What does a well society – or wellness in a socially just society – look like? These are profound questions of great magnitude and consequence whether we are examining the past or abiding in the present. And they are quite definitely weighty matters as we consider and construct, right here and now, our individual and collective human- and eco-futures. We invite historical, intellectual, artistic, activist, and world-building contributions that define and explore wellness, well-being, and care in relationship to the personal, interpersonal, societal, human-centric, and eco-centric. We welcome submissions that explore the prompts above while also paying attention to what we are calling “cross-category meta-themes” such as race and imperialism; gender and sexuality; class, poverty, and economic systems; geography and place; compassion and courage; and accessibility and disabilities.
Submissions for the 2026 conference will open on Friday, 27 September 2024 and end on Friday, 31 January 2025. For more information, please email: execadmin@berksconference.org
Vegan Intersections: Literature, History, Theory
https://www.unige.ch/vls/events/vls-conference-2025-vegan-intersections
31 March-4 April 2025, Online via Zoom
Vegan Studies has emerged in the past two decades as a discipline of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the intersection of Eco-criticism, Eco-feminism, Posthumanism, Critical Animal Studies, and Critical Race Studies. Across a variety of areas – history, society, cultural production, philosophy, ecology and environmentalism, food production, capitalism and labor, and religion – Vegan Studies engages the ethical refusal of carnism as a paradigmatic rejection of human exploitation of, and discrimination against, all other beings. The conference engages the widest definition of veganism in order to discuss intersections among a diversity of social justice issues from animal welfare to the abolition of chattel slavery, women's rights to vivisection, fashion reform to Temperance, pacifism to land reform, and from Utopian forms of communal living to religious doctrines. We welcome interventions that engage all historical periods.
DEADLINE: 15 November 2024
email: deborah.madsen@unige.ch
Gender Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association
The Gender Studies area is now considering proposals for papers, panels, and/or roundtables for the 2025 annual conference. Visit https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines for submission instructions. The conference will be April 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Topics could include, but are not limited to, the representation of gender identity and gender expression within popular culture; advertising appeals that go beyond the gender binary; the potential of popular culture to educate audiences about diversity, equity, and inclusion; the role of gender in the Olympics and/or athletics in general; and popular culture responses to recently passed or proposed legislation related to reproductive rights, drag performances, and teaching about gender identity. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods are welcome from disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches.
Deadline for proposals is November 30, 2024.
Contact Email joreilly@heidelberg.edu
The Built Ocean conference
https://www.thebuiltocean.com/
Porto, 10–13 September 2025
The oceans that shape our planet are the focus of this conference. Its goal is to frame the current state of architectural research in relation to these bodies of salt water, to broaden horizons, and to unpack ongoing projects that emphasize a fundamental shift in our perception of both the oceans and architecture. Climate change has publicly exposed the fundamental role of the oceans in balancing the planet’s ecosystems, a fragile equilibrium that is under threat: there is a relationship between the ongoing environmental destruction that is taking place and the increasing exploitation of water bodies. Such dynamics might be understood as a recent phenomenon, yet their conceptual roots are imbued with historical depth and architectural reasoning.
For additional queries, please send an email to fish@arq.up.pt
Call for papers’ deadline: 18 January 2025
Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture. Interdisciplinary symposium
https://www.not-so-ordinary.us/symposium2025
University of Chicago, May 9-10, 2025
Minority groups are often underrepresented in official archives, which has resulted in their continuing marginalization in historiography. Critical archive scholars argue for empowering such groups by developing and investigating archival collections. This symposium intends to expand this approach by demonstrating how the visual practices of underrepresented groups can be studied through underutilized data sources. The symposium aims to map the uses and meanings of vernacular visual practices in relation to minority identities, with a particular focus on indigenous, black, and diaspora communities. We invite scholars working on different media and genres to address the question of the role and meaning of vernacular visual culture with minorities’ identities.
Deadline for proposals: December 10, 2024
email Agata Zborowska (azborowska@uchicago.edu)
Virtual Queer Horror Conference
https://www.queerhorrorconference.com/
From Gothic monstrosity in the 18th century to “kill your queers” in the 21st; from repression to the legacies of violence, rage, and trauma; from creating safe, often beautiful spaces to discuss fear and dread to the “death perception” that comes with a close, long, and personal knowledge of decay, destruction and the impact of time…queerness has been intimately associated with horror from the earliest iteration of the genre. Within and a part of this understanding, the Horror Studies Working Group at the University of Pittsburgh is proud to extend our work on Queer Horror by announcing the first Queer Horror Conference. We envision this event to showcase research and creation, as well as a specific vehicle for learning about some of the resources advocating for queer communities and their legacy and for building a supportive community of scholars.
Deadline for proposals: December 8, 2024
Please reach out with any questions or requests of accommodations to QueerHorrorConference@gmail.com.
2025 Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
Lexington, KY, on January 24-26, 2025
We cordially invite conference participants to evaluate the dynamic concepts and methodologies that are paramount to our understanding of Global Asias at this pivotal moment. These encompass, though are not confined to, overarching themes such as “Global,” “Asia(s),” “Asian/ness,” “Asian American,” “Asian Diaspora,” “Asia-Pacific,” and “Transpacific.” Of particular interest are submissions that focus on understudied areas, notably South and Southeast Asia, and that offer innovative and unconventional perspectives.
The deadline for submission is October 31, 2024.
email: Dr. Charlie Yi Zhang (charlie.zhang@uky.edu) and Dr. Liang Luo (llu222@uky.edu).
Private and Intimate Spaces of Spirituality
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/IR/announcement/view/385
Implicit Religion invites submissions for a special issue titled "Private and Intimate Spaces of Spirituality," which seeks to explore the dynamic and intimate interconnections between physical spaces, religious creativity, and spiritual experience. This issue aims to broaden the discourse on spiritual spaces and practices and their impact on individual and collective spirituality. We encourage contributors to critically engage with notions like private (as opposed to public) and categories like spirituality and religion in their contributions as part of the journal's focus on interrogating the boundaries between categories and the assumptions underlying the distinctions they produce. We also encourage contributors to situate these notions and categories against their particular cultural, social and geographical contexts.
The submission deadline for abstracts is 15th of January 2025.
email: k.nawratek@sheffield.ac.uk
Traces and Places: Climatic Spaces / Changing Environments
https://iasesp.org/conferences/
Jacksonville, Florida, USA April 25-27, 2025
Traces link place to space, present to past, and contemporary environments to future ecologies. By definition, traces are small, but they are not negligible. They house larger contexts, hold what is absent, and remain through rapid change. Trace, in its active verb form, delineates and sketches; those in architecture and design professions are well-acquainted with the many layers of trace paper—and today the many iterations of digital models—that a project engages. Further back, trace was a path or trail, a way of getting from one place to the next but also a lived experience of passing through. And Latin tractus is a pulling or drawing out and, by extension, the continuous structure of liturgy or, further afield, an extended region—a tract—where events occur.
The deadline for submitting an abstract is January 31, 2025
Please send questions and abstract submittals to Charlie Hailey (CLHAILEY@ufl.edu) and Elizabeth Cronin (EMCRONIN@ufl.edu).
How Do Historians Innovate?: Methods, Audiences, Topics, and Beyond
The theme for the 2025 DOHGSA Conference is How Do Historians Innovate?: Methods, Audiences, Topics, and Beyond. The Conference will take place in-person at Florida International University on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus in Miami, FL. The keynote speaker will be Jessica Marie Johnson from the John Hopkins University, author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World and an Associate Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. Proposals are welcome from graduate students at any point in their studies. They should consist of an abstract of no more than 300 words that includes a title as well as a description of the topic and argument. Conference papers should be based on original research.
The Proposals deadline is December 15th, 2024.
email dohgsaconference@gmail.com
Gender, Law, and Politics
https://wghistory.web.illinois.edu/
February 20-22, 2025, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and online
“Gender, Law, and Politics” and will explore the ways in which gender and sexuality have shaped and been produced by legal and political frameworks. This symposium invites interdisciplinary research which interrogates the intersectionality of gender, law, and politics, including (but not limited to) topics of: law, rhetoric, and legal frameworks, medicine and public health, politics, policy, and political culture, migration, mobility, and borders, crime and the justice system, war, protest, and activism, political science and sociology.
Submission Deadline: December 4, 2024 at 5pm CST
email wghs.uiuc@gmail.com
PUBLICATIONS
Reconceptualizing Sustainability Literacies
In recent decades, ecological crises have intensified, environmental protections have been rolled back, and “sustainable futures” have been co-opted by a politics of economic security that sacrifices the wellness of all life – human and more than human. Bridging biological and sociocultural realms in rhetorical inquiry, questions that center sustainability, community interests, and collective eco-consciousness in response to heightened environmental exigencies carry paradigmatic shifts in knowledge production and a “sense of urgency.” Our special issue asks community literacy practitioners to consider how we might reconceptualize sustainability collaboratively and across disciplines via frameworks committed to powerful intersections, reciprocity, reclamation, healing, and community connections. We invite essays and other genres from climate justice collaborators who re-imagine sustainability through community literacy.
Proposals due: Oct. 23, 2024
Contact Email lydnixon@iu.edu
Book Reviews in Invisible Culture
https://www.invisibleculturejournal.com/contribute
InVisible Culture seeks writers for 750 – 1,000 word book, film, and exhibition reviews. For books of interest, consult our list of reviewable books. Only original, previously unpublished submissions will be considered. Book, film, and exhibition reviews submissions are published on a rolling basis within the concurrent IVC issue. IVC welcomes substantive and insightful film reviews from emerging and established scholars that address aesthetic and/or sociocultural content of a particular film, a filmmaker’s oeuvre, or series of films. The journal accepts both contemporary and historical works of film criticism, and submissions should be between 750 – 1,000 words. IVC welcomes critical assessments of museum and gallery exhibitions from emerging and established scholars that address the organization, presentation and curatorial rationale of a particular exhibition. Exhibition reviews should also consider how viewers engage with the exhibition, focusing on specific artworks and themes within the exhibition.
Contact Email invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu
Decolonizing the Campus: Campus Activism, Public History, and the Struggle for Educational Justice since 1870
This volume makes a contribution to the developing literature on critical university studies, a new subfield that brings together interdisciplinary research from the fields of Indigenous, Black, gender, and other critical area studies. Academic authors from any discipline, including faculty, graduate students, public historians, and independent scholars, are encouraged to submit. The collection of essays will focus on how student groups, faculty, and public interest organizations have confronted systemic racial and nativist exclusion and fought for representation and inclusion across diverse educational spaces, including boarding schools, internment camps, universities, and other sites of higher learning. Chapters should explore how groups have used protests, academic scholarship, and public history to advance their causes, influence institutional policies, and drive broader societal change. Authors are encouraged to critically examine the role of public history in preserving and interpreting the legacies of these movements.
If interested, please send a 500 word abstract and short biographical statement to the editors, John R. Legg (johnlegghistory@gmail.com) and Lauren Lassabe Shepherd (llassabe@uno.edu). The submission deadline is November 30, 2024.
Dissenting Feminisms
From campaigns against disenfranchisement to protests against sexual and gender-based violence, feminism has historically combined dissent—against exclusion, subordination, and prevailing power structures—with a focus on the imperative for social and political transformation. This issue of Rejoinder explores the history of feminist dissent and how it has shifted through the decades, both for activists and academics. We encourage contributions that explore feminism(s) from a wide range of positionalities, contexts, and geographical regions. Submissions may include essays, commentary, criticism, fiction, poetry, and artwork. We particularly welcome contributions at the intersection of scholarship and activism.
email: irw@sas.rutgers.edu
Culture Wars: LatinX Artists and the AIDs Crisis
https://vernonpress.com/proposal/339/7d7a39bfffbe8152a19c11e433857dc5
Vernon Press invites submissions for the upcoming publication titled Culture Wars: LatinX Artists and the AIDs Crisis. The publication will examine the devastating effect of the AIDs crisis on the LatinX community in the United States during the 1980s, 1990s, early 2000s, and more recently. Art, performance, music, and theater will be considered as will the ways that the crisis influenced various generations of LatinX individuals within the creative community. Essays may either be monographic (focused on one particular artist) or survey a range of artists or artworks. Essays will be organized both thematically and chronologically, with emphasis placed on the 1980s, the rise of AIDs-related illnesses and deaths, as well as the growing influence of the LatinX community in the U.S. and the legacy of the Chicano Rights Movement.
Please submit to an abstract of 500 words or less to Dr. Elizabeth Frasco by Nov. 1, 2024 at the following email address: emf348@nyu.edu.
Infrastructural Poetics
https://www.wcupa.edu/arts-humanities/collegeLit/manuscripts.asp
This special issue proposes to literalize the "poetics" in anthropologist Brian Larkin's conception of the "poetics of infrastructure" by centering on the undertheorized relationship between infrastructure and poetic form (2013). We argue that poetry and poetics scholarship is particularly well-suited for thinking about infrastructure due to, on the one hand, the robust body of criticism on poetic form across history which offers an analogical relationship to the forming properties of infrastructural projects. Through a focus on poetic stagings of infrastructure as well as the varied infrastructures which underwrite poetic production, this special issue aims to extend the purchase of infrastructuralism as a critical method while reinvigorating the framework through the specifically infrastructural capacities of poetry as a form which in turn forms and deforms language and representation.
Please submit a 500-word abstract (for essays between 8,000–10,000 words) and a CV to Marty Cain, Claire Farley, and Michael Martin Shea at poeticsofinfrastructure@gmail.com by December 15th, 2024.
Behind Enemy Lines: Advancing the Work of Inclusion, Equity, and Justice in Precarious Times and Places
The ADVANCE Journal is accepting submissions for a special issue Behind Enemy Lines: Advancing the Work of Inclusion, Equity, and Justice in Precarious Times and Places. We are interested in receiving scholarly narratives and other manuscript types that disrupt dominant-culture policies and center the needs of those who have been historically excluded from STEM-based equity initiatives, including women, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, individuals with disabilities, at-will faculty, and others. Professors and researchers in STEM may be particularly at risk because STEM disciplines were in many ways already precarious places for IEJ (Inclusion, Equity, and Justice) work in many universities. The threat of running afoul of the law, being denied tenure or subject to tenure review, or losing out on other opportunities may drive IEJ efforts almost completely out of STEM spaces in universities located in states with conservative governments.
Please submit on or before Tuesday, 7th January, 2025
For more information or queries, contact the ADVANCE Journal editorial team at ADVANCE@oregonstate.edu
Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development
The special issue aims to focus on ‘Indigenous ways of living’ and ‘ways of being,’ as articulated in literary narratives, highlighting their ecological, place-based, localised, oral, and ancestral practices and knowledge that can act as catalysts for enhancing constructive interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives, thus creating a framework for an ethical environment that promotes the flourishing of an ecology of knowledge. This special issue aims to foster a psychological connection to the natural world through indigenous worldviews, highlighting how literary narratives can motivate pro-environmental behaviour, help make choices for environmental sustainability, increase participation in conservation and community service, and contribute to awareness and engagement in environmental issues.
Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2025
Advancing Gender Equity and Public Policy
Gender equality and equity are critical research issues that demand comprehensive, cross-cultural analysis. Promoting gender equity is essential not only for advancing political development but also for fostering balanced societal progress worldwide. To bridge the existing gender gap and enhance women’s roles in global economies, thoughtful social and public policies are required. This volume seeks to explore the multifaceted dynamics of women’s political and economic participation, leadership, and decision-making opportunities, alongside the broader implications of AI on gender equity. We invite analyses that critically assess how current political structures influence gender equity, as well as how these structures shape women’s involvement in the economy and policymaking.
Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and your CV to Drs. Dmitry Kurochkin & Elena Shabliy, the editors, at dkurochkin@fas.harvard.edu and eshabliy@g.harvard.edu by November 4, 2024.
Self-Determination and Sovereignty
https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/self-determination-and-sovereignty-due-november-30-2024/
Radical History Review seeks submissions for a forthcoming issue that engages with histories and concepts of self-determination and sovereignty, the limitations of such concepts, and the manners in which notions of independence have been dissected and atomized. The scope of the issue is global, and we welcome submissions from across geographical, conceptual, and temporal ranges. Independence clearly matters. What this means, however – self-determination, sovereignty – has not always been historically clear. These concepts have been claimed, denied, applied, and blocked in myriad ways throughout the past and in the present. How independence has been pruned and manipulated, sleight-handed and trimmed, illuminates much about the imbalanced and unequal ways in which legitimacy is and has been recognized and weaponized.
Contact: contactrhr@gmail.com
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship Opportunities
https://www.newberry.org/research/fellowships/short-term-fellowships
Short-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, and those who hold other terminal degrees. Short-Term Fellowships are generally awarded for 1 to 2 months; unless otherwise noted the stipend is $3,000 per month. These fellowships support individual scholarly research for those who have a specific need for the Newberry's collection. The deadline for short-term opportunities is January 3, 2025.
Questions? Email research@newberry.org.
Newberry Library Fellowships
https://www.newberry.org/research/fellowships
Newberry fellowships give researchers the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking projects. Fellows advance scholarship in various fields, develop new interpretations, and expand our understanding of the past.
Researchers with long-term fellowships spend four to nine months immersed in the Newberry collection and in our community of learning. While pursuing significant works of scholarship, they make discoveries, present works in progress, and take their projects to the next level.
Researchers with short-term fellowships spend one to two months investigating specific collection items that are essential to their scholarship. These fellowship opportunities are open to scholars at the ABD stage and beyond.
Long-term fellowship applications are due by 11:59 pm (CT) on November 15. Short-term fellowship applications are due by 11:59 pm (CT) on January 3, 2025.
The Language(s) of Freedom(s) - Visegrad Scholarship at OSA
https://archivum.org/academics/visegrad-scholarship-at-osa
The criticism about infringements of academic freedom, or about the radicalization of autocratic powers cannot do without an understanding of the loaded vocabularies of freedoms in the past and present, for both societies and their elites. A complex rethinking and recontextualization of the thinkers of liberties, including from the Cold War era, must also be undertaken, together with the truth-seeking adventures and projects from the past. We invite historians, researchers, political scientists, sociologists and socially engaged artists to reflect on the past uses of the languages of (attaining) freedoms by taking cues from the Blinken OSA collections.
Submission deadlines for the 2024/25 academic year - November 15, 2024
email to Katalin Gadoros at gadoros@ceu.edu
Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grants
https://library.princeton.edu/services/special-collections/fpul-research-grants
Short-term Library Research Grants promote scholarly use of the Princeton University Library special and distinct collections. Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings in Special Collections, including Mudd Library; as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection). These grants, which have a value of up to $6,000 plus transportation costs, are meant to help defray expenses incurred in traveling to and residing in Princeton during the tenure of the grant.
Applications for 2025-2026 will be accepted from October 7, 2024 through January 15, 2025 at 12pm (NOON) EST.
Questions can be directed to pulgrant@princeton.edu.
Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2025-2026
https://www.masshist.org/research/fellowships
The Massachusetts Historical Society now offers multiple awards to scholars who need to use its library and archival collections. The research projects that the MHS supports through its fellowship programs produce cutting-edge historical scholarship. In addition, the MHS facilitates the visits of scholars in residence at the MHS through the support of other funding agencies. Awards are open to all applicants, including but not limited to graduate students, senior scholars, adjunct faculty, and independent researchers (please note that long-term grants are only awarded to those already holding a PhD).
Applicants are encouraged to contact the Assistant Director of Research, Cassie Cloutier (ccloutier@masshist.org), with any questions or concerns.
Grants for Projects on Black Religious Histories, Communities, and Cultures
https://crossroads.princeton.edu/grant-program/request-proposals
With the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, the Crossroads Project invites proposals from scholars, artists, community and religious leaders for innovative work examining the diversity of Black religious communities and cultures, past and present. Materials from the projects that result from this funding will be featured on SPIRIT HOUSE, a Crossroads Project website, and will provide tools for students, scholars, and interested members of the public to explore this rich story.
DEADLINE: December 9, 2024
Smith College Special Collections Travel Fellowships, 2025-2026
https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/visit/research-fellowships
Smith College Special Collections, which includes the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Archives, and the Mortimer Rare Book Collection, is pleased to offer a research support program of fellowships and awards. Grants and awards are available to both Smith College students as well as outside researchers wishing to visit Smith College Special Collections for their research.
Application due date for 2025 awards: Friday, January 3rd, 2025 by midnight EST
Questions may be sent to specialcollections@smith.edu
Summer Research Grants Program - Oberlin College Archives
https://libraries.oberlin.edu/archives/services-amenities/frederick-b-artz-summer-research-grants
The Oberlin College Archives welcomes applications for the 2025 Frederick B. Artz Summer Research Grants Program. This research program, which is made possible by a grant from the Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, is intended to encourage and facilitate the use of the archival holdings and library resources at Oberlin College for research projects, with special emphasis on the history of the institution, Oberlin Community and liberal arts education.
The deadline for applications is January 15, 2025.
email: ken.grossi@oberlin.edu
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in American Studies
https://jobs.dickinson.edu/postings/7750
The American Studies Department at Dickinson College is excited to welcome applications for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of American Studies commencing July 1, 2025. We seek a dedicated candidate with a Ph.D. in American Studies (or closely related field), emphasizing African/African Diaspora cultural studies as their primary area of expertise and teaching interest. Ability to teach courses in film and media studies is required.
Review of applications will begin November 15, 2024,
For inquiries regarding the position please contact Professor Amy Farrell, American Studies Department, at farrell@dickinson.edu.
Research Fellowships, University of Michigan
https://apply.interfolio.com/156501
The Wallenberg Institute fosters the values embodied by Raoul Wallenberg—empathy, tolerance, and leadership—by studying hatred directed against religious and ethnic communities, fostering cross-cultural understanding, and elevating civic discourse. Through teaching, research, and public engagement, the institute will develop strategies to combat antisemitism, divisiveness, and discrimination. The Wallenberg fellowships will support original research, scholarship, and public-facing or community-based projects that support the mission of the Institute. Fellows will have the time and resources to work on their own projects while contributing to the university community. Research fellowships are renewable on an annual basis for up to a total of three years, contingent on satisfactorily meeting the terms of the fellowship.
Applicants must have successfully defended their PhD by August 1, 2025. Questions about the fellowship program may be directed to Dr. Miriam Mor: memora@umich.edu
Deadline for applications for the 2025-2026 academic year is December 8.
Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship
Kenyon College, a highly selective, nationally ranked liberal arts college in central Ohio, invites applications for the Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship beginning in July 2025. The program is for scholars in the final stages of their doctoral work who need only to finish the dissertation to complete the requirements for the Ph.D. We hope the experience of teaching, researching, and living for a year at Kenyon will encourage these Fellows to consider a liberal arts college as a place to begin their careers as teachers and scholars.
Review of applications will begin January 6, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled
email: Amy Quinlivan, quinlivana@kenyon.edu
Tenure-Track Faculty in Women's & Gender Studies
https://jobs.nwsa.org/job/tenure-track-faculty-in-women-s-gender-studies-new-haven-connecticut-0881
The Department of Women's & Gender Studies (WGS) at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning in Fall 2025. We seek a scholar to develop innovative and exciting new courses to expand the WGS graduate and undergraduate offerings, while serving as the Graduate Coordinator and comentoring graduate students across WGS programs. We welcome applicants with a PhD in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or Feminist Studies. Applicants with a PhD in other fields employing an intersectional lens on gender, sex/uality, race, class, power, indigeneity, ethnicity, and ability will be considered.
Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2024.
email: Dr. Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, WGSsearch1@southernct.edu
Assistant Professor in Transgender Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/156167
The Susan B. Anthony Institute for the program in Sexuality, Women, and Gender Studies (SWAG) at the University of Rochester seeks to hire a full time, tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level in Transgender Studies, beginning July 1, 2025. We especially encourage applications from scholars with additional preference for foci in Indigenous studies, and/or other critical interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary emphasis in disciplines of race and ethnicity, disability studies, Queer theory, nationalism, and the Global South. Successful candidates will teach classes in the program for Sexuality, Women, and Gender studies and their home department. In addition to teaching, faculty members are expected to advise undergraduate and graduate students, to be research active, and to participate in service for the University. The candidate’s primary tenure home will be in one of the following departments: English, History, Black Studies, Anthropology or another Humanities related field. Review of applications will begin November 10th, 2024.
Junior Fellows Program
https://www.loc.gov/item/internships/junior-fellows-program/
The Library of Congress Junior Fellows Program (JFP) is a paid, 10-week annual summer internship program that enables undergraduate, graduate students, and recent graduates to gain career experience by working with analog and digital collections and supporting the services of the world's largest, all-inclusive library. Working with curators and specialists in various divisions, Junior Fellows explore collections, resources, and initiatives and produce products that position the Library of Congress as a dynamic center for fostering innovation, sparking creativity, and building lifelong connections. No previous experience is necessary, but internships are competitive and special skills or knowledge are usually desired. Selections are based on narrative responses to vacancy announcement questions, reference calls, and an interview with a selection official.
Qualifications: Must be currently enrolled at time of application at the undergraduate or graduate level, AND/OR have graduated or will graduate between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024.
Information sessions: Thursday, November 7, 2024: 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm (ET); Thursday, November 14, 2024: 6:00 pm (ET)
11:59 pm Eastern Time deadline on Monday, November 18, 2024
Open Rank: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Women Gender & Sexuality
https://apply.interfolio.com/152892
The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the ranks of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor working in the areas of gender and sexuality studies with specific expertise in Global Souths, Diasporas, Transnationalism, or Migration studies. For instance, we welcome scholars whose work is invested in the geographies, histories, and intellectual traditions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and/or the Pacific. We especially encourage applications from scholars who take a critical approach to the domains of health and law broadly conceived.
For priority consideration, applications must be received by November 1
For questions about the position, please contact Professor Tiffany King at wgsuva@virginia.edu.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor/Tenured Associate Professor
https://apply.interfolio.com/155861
The Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured early Associate Professor. This position is part of the Fannie Gaston-Johansson Faculty of Excellence Program, a cluster hire initiative through the Provost’s Office that will bring new faculty to the JHU campus. Faculty hired into this program are known as Fannie Gaston-Johansson Professors. This program has the following benefits: opportunities to participate in community-building and networking, leadership development, and strong mentoring support. The Center for Africana Studies seeks candidates who work in Black Studies from across the disciplines and deploy diverse methodological approaches to the study of the African diaspora, including the African continent, with particular interest in scholars working in black feminism, black sexualities, and/or black queer studies.
Review of applications will begin November 1, 2024
For further information, contact the chair of the search committee, Minkah Makalani (mmakala1@jhu.edu).
Rutgers University, Center for Cultural Analysis Postdoctoral Associates
https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/236261
The Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University-New Brunswick seeks to appoint two external Postdoctoral Associates for a year-long residential fellowship during academic year 2025-26. Successful candidates may come from any relevant discipline. All requirements for the PhD or other terminal degree in the relevant field must be completed by August 1, 2025. A record of publication and scholarly engagement relevant to the seminar’s topic, “Hunger,” is required.
URL: https://cca.rutgers.edu/people/become-a-fellow
Posting Close Date: 01/10/2025
Please direct all inquiries about this search to admin@cca.rutgers.edu.
American Studies President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The Department of American Studies postdoctoral fellowship is open to scholars with diverse interests and sub-fields within American studies. The department seeks a scholar whose work is aligned with advancing American Studies as a field through their interests and whose research encourages critical, comparative and relational analyses and substantively engages with race, gender, class, sexuality, and/or disability. Areas of particular interest for this position include race and empire; new media studies, including digital humanities; and intersectional approaches to the environment, nature, and technology, including medical humanities.
deadline is November 1, 2024
Questions? Contact ppfp@umn.edu
Bonham Centre For Sexual Diversity Studies Postdoctoral Fellow
The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship during the 2025-26 academic year, with the possibility of an additional one-year renewal, to support emerging scholars pursuing research in queer, trans, and LGBTQ2+ studies. Our search committee welcomes proposals that span disciplinary boundaries. Applicants from all fields of the humanities and the social sciences are encouraged to apply. The successful applicant is expected to be in residence in the Greater Toronto Area during the period of their award and will join the faculty and students who make up our intellectual community and participate in the Centre’s day-to-day activities.
All application materials should be submitted via email in a single PDF by January 3, 2025 to The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the following address: qtrl.sds@utoronto.ca.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67930
USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities
https://sofh.usc.edu/eligibility/
The topic for the 2025–2027 cycle will be Sites of Inquiry. We invite applications from scholars whose research focuses on places and spaces of investigation, examination, and exploration, such as the archive, the museum, the library, the university, the field, the laboratory, the clinic, the book, or the body, as well as questions of the politics and geography of knowledge production, transmission, and translation. Approaches to the topic might involve case studies investigating specific places or spaces of inquiry as well as theoretical frameworks.
The application portal for 2025–2027 will close at 5pm PST on Wednesday, November 27, 2024.
email: societyoffellows@dornsife.usc.edu
Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
We welcome applications from teacher-scholars in the humanities and/or social sciences who are actively pursuing an interdisciplinary research or creative agenda and who will expand the current areas of expertise represented by IDS faculty. Candidates must hold a terminal degree by the date of appointment and should have experience teaching interdisciplinary courses at the university level. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to teach and mentor students in a broad range of methodologies and to support interdisciplinary research projects at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Special consideration will be given to candidates who can contribute to our growing minor in Social Media.
Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2024 and continue until the posting is filled.
Assistant Professor in Feminist Media
https://apply.interfolio.com/156049
The Department of Communication at Tulane University invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor rank for a scholar in feminist media or communication. We seek applicants whose teaching and research center on gender and/or sexuality and their intersections, and engage people-centered research methods, such as critical ethnography, interviews, oral histories, focus groups, and digital methods. We are especially interested in applicants whose research engages the lived experience of BIPOC and/or Global South communities and explores the relationship between media and social justice. Regional specialization and specific topics of research are open.
Questions can be directed to Dr. Laura-Zoë Humphreys (lhumphreys@tulane.edu)
Review of applications will begin November 1 and will continue until the position is filled.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Colonization and the Wampanoag Story – A Virtual Book Talk with Linda Coombs
https://congregationallibrary.org/events/colonization-wampanoag-story
Oct 29, 2024 05:00 PM CST
When you think about the beginning of the American story, what comes to mind? Three ships in 1492, or perhaps buckled hats and shoes stepping off the Mayflower, ready to start a new country? But the truth is, Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the colonists didn’t arrive to a vast, empty land ready to be developed. They arrived to find people and communities living in harmony with the land they had inhabited for thousands of years, and they quickly disrupted everything they saw. Join us for a virtual book talk with Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) about her new book in the Race to the Truth series, a book line for young adults that aims to correct common falsehoods and celebrate underrepresented heroes and achievements.
For more information, please email programs@14beacon.org.
Third Party Reproduction: Governance, Relatedness, and Globalization
https://sites.google.com/view/thirdpartyrepro2024/about?authuser=0
Hybrid conference, held both online and in person at National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) from October 19-20 (Taipei Standard Time)
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have decoupled 'sex' from 'reproduction,' enabling infertile couples, single women, and same-sex couples to have children using donated gametes or surrogacy. As third-party reproduction through sperm and egg donation and surrogacy has expanded significantly worldwide, important questions arise: What are the latest developments in these ART networks that are transforming how families are created? What new social relationships are emerging as a result? And how should these practices be governed to improve the well-being of all involved?
The 1948 Palestine war: from the local to the global
https://bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/decentering-the-1948-palestine-war-from-the-local-to-the-global/
30th October, 2024, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm (London time), online
In this talk, Professor Derek Penslar links the Palestine Question with the formation of a new global political order after the Second World War. Between 1947 and 1949, debates about Palestine within the United Nations pulled dozens of countries directly into the determination of the land’s fate. A complex mixture of national interests and transnational sympathies shaped attitudes towards the partition of Palestine and the ensuing Arab-Israeli war. A comparison of governmental documents and the popular press shows that in most of the world high diplomacy was in sync with public opinion. The war riveted the attention of the world – for reasons that still apply in our own day.
Fear, Faith, and Praxis: Artificial Intelligence, Humanities, and Social Sciences
https://networks.h-net.org/2025-ai-symposium
We are delighted to invite you and your colleagues to our inaugural symposium on A.I. and the Humanities and Social Sciences. This two-day event will be held February 20-21 (2025) at Michigan State University and will be available via live stream on the H-Net Commons. This year’s theme, “Fear, Faith, and Praxis: Artificial Intelligence, Humanities, and Social Sciences,” focuses on student-centered approaches to the use of AI in pedagogical practice and reassessing previous assumptions about AI as scholars develop new frameworks for AI literacy and humanist engagement in the development of research tools.
Please register by 5 p.m. EST on December 13th.
Contact Email ai-symposium-msu-2025@mail.h-net.org
‘women are creating new rules!’: Separatist Strategies and Collective Living
Please join us for Colorado State University Libraries' Friedman Feminist Press Research Grant Presentation, “‘women are creating new rules!’: Separatist Strategies and Collective Living,” by Dr. Sarah Cooper on Tuesday, November 12 at 3 p.m. MST on Zoom.
In 1974 land in Grant’s Pass, Oregon, was purchased to start WomanShare, the first women’s land in southern Oregon. To understand how land stewards enacted political ideologies in their living practices Dr. Cooper turns to the 1976 publication Country Lesbians, a nonfiction text authored by the five women who founded the collective. She reads Country Lesbians, as part handbook and part memoir to address the question: what did a separatist politic historically and at present afford land stewards?
The virtual event is free but registration is required.
Contact Email clarissa.trapp@colostate.edu
Spotlight: SB 1717 (2023) Relating to the prosecution of the offense of stalking
November 7, 12:25 to 12:50 p.m., online
In their last session, the Texas Legislature amended Code of Criminal Procedure to update the situations where stalking can be charged. The new language includes “whether a reasonable person in the same situation would feel fear,” and other updates. How will this change protect stalking victims and their families? Amanda Aubrey, Legal Policy Manager for the Texas Council on Family Violence, will be speaking on the amendments and how they will help victims. To read the bill, please visit: https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB1717/2023
emBOLDenHER: Nonpartisan Office
Saturday, November 16 · 9:30am - 3pm CST, Jane Nelson Institute at TWU
Toying with a run for city council or school board? We’ve got a program for you! Join us for a day and learn how to create a message, design social media that supports your message, and plan your canvassing.
ChatGPT as a Shortcut for Integrating Digital Humanities into the History Classroom
November 13, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
Based on ChatGPT-themed pedagogical experiments in history courses at the University at Buffalo, this workshop demonstrates how to use the innovative technology in integrating digital humanities (DH) into the history classroom. When teaching the course “China and the World” in the summer of 2023, I assigned students to take distant readings of China-related documents in The Foreign Relations of the United States series with the aid of ChatGPT. The introduction of Word2vec. and other popular Natural Language Processing (NPL) algorithms generated by ChatGPT enables students without strong coding skills to analyze the documents quantitatively. The advancement of Generative AI facilitates the integration of DH into traditional history classrooms.
The Life Story in Oral History Practice
https://www.ohs.org.uk/oral-history-online/
A new special online issue of the leading journal Oral History, entitled 'The Life Story in Practice', presents for the first time a comprehensive volume of articles interrogating the life story methodology with numerous embedded links to audio files. This edition is an open-access (free to all).
Contact Email mary.stewart@bl.uk
Gender Inequality - Issues, Challenges and New Perspectives / Open access book
https://www.intechopen.com/books/12864
Gender Inequality - Issues, Challenges and New Perspectives brings together advancements and empirical studies on gender studies from different parts of the world. Focusing on issues, challenges, and new perspectives on gender (in)equalities in multiple spheres and multiple countries, the book is an interdisciplinary and international compilation of studies on gender that also offers insight into future directions for the field. The book will appeal to those interested in empirical and practical advancements in gender studies, particularly students, teachers, and researchers across disciplines, as well as professionals, employers, and practitioners who are working towards addressing gender inequalities across the world.
Retracing the Bell Route: An Archive of Cherokee Removal
https://cherokee-bell-route.org/s/Cherokee_Bell-Route/page/home
In commemoration of Indigenous Peoples' Day (October 14th), "Retracing the Bell Route: An Archive of Cherokee Removal," is now available to the public at https://cherokee-bell-route.org/. This database offers a unique study of the Trail of Tears by focusing on one group: the emigration detachment led by John Adair Bell, a signer of the infamous Treaty of New Echota. This digital archive is a project developed in Sewanee classrooms to better understand our local history of Cherokee Removal. This collaboration between faculty, students, and the community supports Sewanee’s Indigenous Engagement Initiative.
A premiere and demonstration of the database will be held at Sewanee's Convocation Hall on Friday, October 25th, 3:30 p.m. (CST). If interested in joining us remotely, please RSVP for a Zoom link by sending an email to shmarsha@sewanee.edu.
Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History
https://www.whobuiltamerica.org/
Who Built America? is an open access resource that surveys the nation’s past to show the role that working people played in the making of modern America and the transformations wrought by the changing nature and forms of work. Explore more than 2000 historical documents in the History Matters Repository, read Historians Disagree essays written by prominent scholars, watch documentary films, and take A Closer Look at select topics.
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