CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Inter-Media
https://voices.uchicago.edu/inter-media/
The 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference, April 24-25, 2026, Department of Cinema and
Media Studies, University of Chicago
Digital interfaces; internet sociality; interactivity; forms
of “inter-ness” proliferate metaphorically and discursively across contemporary
media and in scholarly writing on media studies. What does this frequent
recurrence of the prefix “inter-” across media vocabularies reveal about our
habits and modes of engagement in the study of media? While our guiding term,
“inter-media,” has a long history within multi-media creative practices, this
conference interrogates how the term “inter” leads to a deeper understanding of
the complex interactions within and between mediated societies. “Inter-media”
crosses the boundaries of media and media practices. Extending beyond artistic
and technological media, we also invite proposals that consider how the
relations between technology, bodies, and affect constitute a form of
‘inter-media.’ Finally, we welcome creative proposals that engage thematically
with the idea of ‘inter-ness,’ including
artworks that push past the juxtaposition of media and bodies into
uncertain fusions.
Send proposals to inter.media.conference@gmail.com by
January 15, 2026.
(k)no(w) books, (k)no(w) people: Multidisciplinary
Studies of Narrative, Media, and the Anthropocene
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHu-yGs7UvFOOH-ujAJnuR9jKPYeRTAQgZITy6NMgEuYl7gg/viewform
At the forefront of our conference is the power of
narratives. Humans are storytellers by nature, and for thousands of years we
have used stories to remember our pasts and envision our futures. We have used
them to entertain and inspire us, to empower us in the face of oppression, and
to understand the world around us. And, as the Anthropocene makes strikingly
clear, human stories have shaped the world, to an irreversible degree. And yet,
in an era dually defined by technological proliferation and environmental
volatility, it has become increasingly apparent that humans are not the only
authors writing the planet's future. Our objective for this conference is to
create dynamic conversations about the role of narratives in our world, from
the cultural myths that prop up hegemony to the stories librarians have lost
their livelihoods over, from penned literary masterpieces to scenes that
shimmer on screens to the tales whispered by the slow crash of an ocean wave.
Abstract submissions are due no later than January 31st,
2026.
Please contact uienglishgradassociation@gmail.com with
questions.
Unholy Creations: Virtual Queer Horror Conference
https://www.queerhorrorconference.com/call-for-papers
February 6-7, 2026
We take our inspiration for this year’s theme from Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein—a foundational text for the horror and science fiction
genres, a feminist exploration of patriarchal hubris and violence, and a
critical commentary on our technocratic present. We also seek to engage with
the broader questions inherent within Shelley’s text, from the profound to the
playful: What makes a monster? What are the risks (and rewards) in claiming
monstrosity? What does it mean to be an unholy creation–and what does it mean
to be someone who creates something "unholy"? Where are the limits of
technological progress, and what are the consequences for those who overstep?
How does horror continue to engage with and inspire works of self-creation and
transformation? Where are the linkages between horror, DIY practices, crafting
communities, and other forms of reinvention? Guided by these questions and
our commitment to building a collegial
and supportive network of scholars, teachers, and horror enthusiasts, we are
delighted to announce the second virtual Queer Horror Conference.
Proposals should be submitted via our website,
QueerHorrorConference.com, no later than Friday, December 20, 2025.
Please reach out with any questions or accessibility
requests to QueerHorrorConference@gmail.com.
Silence
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133135/silence-mcgill-english-grad-conference
Montréal, March 27-29, 2026
Silence is a word of many meanings. Although it often
escapes notice, silence is ubiquitous in literature. Pauses and gaps, isolation
and incompleteness, and suppressions and secrets not only give meaningful
context to speech and sound but also draw our attention to that which remains
unknown and unexpressed. This conference invites interdisciplinary submissions
that explore the complex dimensions of silence—its poetics, politics, and
possibilities.
The deadline for submissions January 7, 2026.
Contact Email englishgradconferencemcgill@gmail.com
Conference on the Liberal Arts, Humanities, and Social
Sciences
Youngstown State University welcomes proposals from
undergraduate and graduate students for the twelfth annual Valerie
Waksmunski-Starr Memorial Conference on the Liberal Arts, Humanities, and
Social Sciences (LAHSS-Con), to be held April 9-11, 2026, at the Youngstown
Historical Center of Industry and Labor in Youngstown, Ohio. We invite
proposals for individual papers, posters, panels, workshops, and roundtables on
any subject related to the liberal arts, humanities, and social sciences. We
offer opportunities for virtual and in-person presentations. Reports of
in-progress work will be considered. We particularly encourage presentations
that reflect community engagement.
deadline: January 31, 2026
Please direct any questions to Dr. Amy Laurel Fluker, with
subject line LAHSS, at alfluker@ysu.edu
Doing History in Hard Times
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133587/cfp-doing-history-hard-times
The theme for the 2026 DOHGSA Conference is Doing
History in Hard Times. 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 Dr. Michael Bustamante author
of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and
Exile and associate professor of history at the University of Miami.
The proposals deadline is December 20th, 2025
to dohgsaconference@gmail.com.
A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy
https://relcfp.com/2025/11/20/cfp-a-vision-for-liberating-our-democracy/
February 27–28, 2026, Philadelphia, PA
United Lutheran Seminary (ULS) will host A Vision for
Liberating Our Democracy: Examining the Religious and Racialized Roots of
American Democracy on February 27–28, 2026, at its Philadelphia campus. The
interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars, activists,
educators, and faith leaders to examine how religion and race have shaped
democratic life in the United States and to explore liberative visions for the
future. The conference builds on a growing body of research that examines the
theological, cultural, and political intersections of democracy, citizenship,
and power. Participants will investigate how worldviews and faith traditions
have informed concepts of governance, belonging, and personhood from the
founding era to the present.
The submission deadline is January 15, 2025
Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2026 -
Systems and Entanglement
July 16th-17th 2026 University of Liverpool and Online
The 16th Annual CRSF conference on ‘Systems and
Entanglement’ invites scholars and authors to explore the many intricate and
co-constitutive relationships within speculative fiction. Moving beyond
isolated analyses, this conference focuses on the complex networks that form
the bedrock of speculative worlds. We will investigate how these systems
entangle with characters, narratives and readers, and how this entanglement
serves as a critical lens for understanding our own reality. We welcome
interdisciplinary approaches that examine systems of power, agency and
connection within speculative fiction. In embracing the theme of entanglement,
we also encourage you to fully immerse yourselves and to become entangled with
the alien ecosystems, alternate realities, paranormalities and profound
futurities you might encounter out there.
Please submit an abstract (max. 250 words), and
a short biographical note (max. 100 words) through the online
form by March 23rd, 2026: https://forms.gle/iWJpemdELmW68u256
All queries can be directed to crsf.team@gmail.com.
In Her Words: Women Artists and Life Writing
Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College,
Cambridge, 19 June 2026
For centuries, women artists have produced autobiographical
accounts of their lives and careers, using diaries, letters and other types of
writing as a means of resistance, reflection, and self-fashioning. Taking a
broad geographical approach, this symposium will address how women artists,
between 1900 and the present, navigate their artistic identities through
writing. We aim to explore women artists’ life writings not simply as biography
or confession, but as creative and strategic sites of agency, where women
articulate alternative scripts for the artistic life. We welcome artists,
curators, writers and scholars at all stages of their careers to join in
discussions that reflect on the various forms that life writing by women
artists can take, and the uses that we make of these writings. Structured as a
series of short papers and roundtable conversations, the conference aims to
foreground discussion and debate.
Please send proposals (max 200 words) and a brief bio
(50–100 words) for a 15-minute paper to womensart@murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk by 9
January 2026.
PUBLICATIONS
Engendering (Repurposing)
http://intermedialites.com/en/call-for-papers-no-49-engendering-repurposing-genrer-la-reutilisation/
This special issue of Intermediality/Intermédialités builds
on the concept of repurposing from a gender-informed, situated perspective.
Inspired by Claude Lévi-Strauss’s notion of bricolage, repurposing describes
derivative and appropriative practices. Within alternative and counterculture
contexts, it points to critical interventions on mainstream texts, media, and
infrastructures. This issue, then, proposes an interdisciplinary revisitation
of the concept of repurposing from the standpoint of feminist and LGBTQIA+
activism, focusing on the ways in which it may serve the creation,
consolidation, and preservation of collaborative, resistant, and relational
practices and actions across various disciplines, fields, and media. We ask how
“repurposing” can be seen as a generative concept geared at approaching
transhistorical intersections of gender and media from an intermedial
perspective.
Proposals should be sent to the guest editors (caroline.bem@umontreal.ca and rosanna.maule@concordia.ca)
by January 10, 2026.
The Rise of Techno-Authoritarianism
This special issue of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies will
explore the intersection of technology, politics, power, and space in the
twenty-first century. We aim to better understand the contemporary
resurgence of the (far) right via its connections with
cyberlibertarianism, venture-capital extremism, secessionism, and
techno-authoritarianism. We ask how the internet’s early promises of
leftist counterculture, democratization, and utopian freedom were absorbed by Silicon Valley capitalist development and
refashioned into a right-libertarian ethos. And we question why some tech
venture capitalists—with roots in Silicon Valley’s “build fast and
break things” culture—now see democracy as an outdated technology to be
replaced with algorithmic decision-making and private technological
governance.
Interested authors are invited to send an abstract of 250 to
500 words and their CV by January 15, 2026, to jrws.techright@gmail.com.
the Posthuman in Literature and Culture
We are seeking chapter proposals for The Routledge Companion
to the Posthuman in Literature and Culture. This new interdisciplinary volume
seeks to foreground the representation of the posthuman: as a figure that often
appears within certain genres (eg New Weird Fiction, Solarpunk, Autofiction),
as an image deployed by specific authors and filmmakers (eg Nnedi Okorafor,
Kazuo Ishiguro, Alex Garland), as a discourse that supports the proliferation
of “studies” within academia (eg Animal Studies, Surveillance Studies, Affect
Studies), and as a growing presence in college classrooms around the world.
This approach highlights the breadth and depth of posthuman/ist thought as it
has been thoroughly integrated and metabolized across a variety of literary and
cultural domains.
Proposals should be submitted to justin.johnston@stonybrok.edu and sara.santos@stonybrook.edu by
March 30, 2026
The Handbook of Ecofeminism
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136032/cfp-handbook-ecofeminism
The Handbook of Ecofeminism (hereafter The Handbook), edited
by Douglas Vakoch and Nicole C. Dittmer, seeks to honor and advance this
dynamic movement through a collection of original essays on leading ecofeminist
thinkers and practitioners from six continents. The volume opens with
foundational ecofeminists and environmental activists such as Vandana Shiva,
Wangari Maathai, and Dolores Huerta, and concludes with posthumanist theorists
including Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, and Stacy Alaimo. Additional chapter
proposals are invited to complement more than 40 confirmed chapters for The
Handbook of Ecofeminism, scheduled for publication in 2027. Interested authors
should submit a 300-word abstract outlining the proposed influential figure,
their impact on the field of ecofeminism, and their primary areas of
specialization.
Materials should be sent by February 13, 2026 to Nicole C.
Dittmer at ncdittmer@gmail.com.
Translating
Ruins: Mutable Grounds, Mediated Encounters, and Mobile Precarities (edited
collection)
In an era of climate crisis, extractivism, war, forced
displacement, migration, and rapid urban change, ruins have become pervasive.
Contemporary ruin scholarship has moved beyond the aesthetic of Ruinenlust
(‘ruin lust’) to recognise ruins as critical thresholds that illuminate
entanglements of pasts, presents, and futures (López Galviz et al., 2017). This
edited volume examines how translational practices – broadly conceived as
complex semiotic practices that are materially grounded and embedded in sociohistorical,
ethical and creative relations – engage with historical and contemporary ruins,
and how such practices shape the reconstruction, reinterpretation, remembrance
and governance of contested ruin-sites, wider processes of ruination, and forms
of ruin-related heritage.
The deadline for abstract submission is 23 February 2026
Contact Email translatingruins@gmail.com
Labor Pains: The Art and Politics of Reproductive and
Domestic Work
Birth, care, and maintenance have long been framed as
“women’s work,” often rendered invisible, undervalued, and sanitized in visual
and cultural representation. Yet they are also profound sites of creativity,
power, and resistance. Labor Pains: The Art and Politics of
Reproductive and Domestic Work invites essays that examine the visual
cultures surrounding pregnancy, childbirth, parenting, and domestic or
reproductive labor, from the sacred to the taboo, the everyday to the
spectacular. This edited volume seeks contributions that trace how artists,
designers, filmmakers, and activists in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries have represented, contested, and reimagined the labor of making and
sustaining life. We welcome work grounded in art history, visual and material
culture, media studies, design history, performance, and feminist or queer
theory.
Please send your 300-word abstract and a short bio March
2nd, 2026 5:00pm Eastern Timeto both Natalie Phillips nephillips@bsu.edu and
Cindy Torgesen at cetorgesen@ung.edu
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Library Company of Philadelphia Program in Women's
History fellowships
https://librarycompany.org/academic-programs/fellowships-2-2/
- The
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Short-Term Fellowship in Women’s
History. This fellowship supports four weeks of research
between June 1, 2026, and May 31, 2027, with a stipend of $3,000. Flexible
scheduling is available. Details available here;
apply here.
·
The
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s
History. This
one-semester predoctoral fellowship carries a stipend of $16,000 for either the
fall 2026 or spring 2027 semester. Fellows must reside in the
Philadelphia area for the duration of their fellowship. Details available here; apply here.
Application
deadline: January 16, 2026
Questions?
Email Program Director Amy Sopcak Joseph (asopcakjoseph@librarycompany.org)
and/or Head of Readers Services and Fellowships Max Moeller (fellowships@librarycompany.org)
Schlesinger
Library Grants
https://apply-radcliffe-institute.smapply.io/
The
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
invites applicants for a variety of research grants that require use of its
resources. Applications will be evaluated on the significance of the research
and the project's potential contribution to the advancement of knowledge as
well as its creativity in drawing on the library's holdings.
The
Schlesinger Library invites predoctoral scholars whose dissertation research
requires use of the library's collections to apply for research support. Grants
of $3,000 will be given on a competitive basis.
The
Schlesinger Library invites scholars and other serious researchers at any
career stage beyond graduate school to apply for support for their work in our
collections. Deadline:
Deadline: Jan 25 2026 11:59 PM (EST)
Contact
slgrants@radcliffe.harvard.edu
Smith
College Special Collections Travel Fellowships
https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/visit/research-fellowships
These
fellowships are intended to help offset the travel expenses of researchers
engaged in projects that will benefit from access to the holdings of Smith
College Special Collections, which are the College Archives, Mortimer Rare Book
Collection, and Sophia Smith College of women’s history.
Application
due date for 2026 awards: Monday, January 5th, 2026 by 11:59pm EST
Questions
may be sent to specialcollections@smith.edu
Research
Fellowship
The James
W. Scott Regional Research Fellowships promote awareness and innovative use of archival
collections at Western Washington University (WWU), and seek to forward scholarly
understandings of the Pacific Northwest. Fellowship funds are awarded in honor
of the late Dr. James W. Scott, a founder and first Director of the Center for
Pacific Northwest Studies, and a noted scholar of the Pacific Northwest region.
Up to $1000 funding is offered to support significant research using archival
holdings at WWU’s Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (CPNWS), a unit of Western Libraries Archives & Special
Collections.
Applications
are due by January 31, 2026
Contact
Email Ruth.Steele@wwu.edu
Texas
State Library and Archives Commission Research Fellowship in Texas History 2026
https://www.tsl.texas.gov/arc/researchfellowship
The
Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) is now accepting
applications for its 2026 Research Fellowship in Texas History. The fellowship
includes a $2,000 award for the best research proposal utilizing the
collections of the State Archives at TSLAC headquarters in Austin or its Sam
Houston Regional Library and Research Center in Liberty, Texas. This fellowship
award does not support research conducted at other repositories in Texas or
elsewhere. The application must include the purpose of the proposed research,
collections of interest, a discussion of how this research will contribute to a
greater understanding of Texas history, plans for dissemination, and a
curriculum vitae.
Deadline: January 15, 2026
email:
statearchives@tsl.texas.gov
Autry
Research Fellowship Applications
https://theautry.org/collections/library-and-archives/fellowships
Applications
for the 2026 Autry Research Fellowships are now being accepted. Fellows must be
U.S. citizens and be in-residence only during June, July, August, or September
2026.
DEADLINE:
applications are due Friday, February 27, 2026.
Questions?
Please contact Cheryl Miller, Director, Library and Archives, at cmiller@theautry.org or 323-495-4234
Special
Collections Research Fellowships | University of Michigan Library
Three
fellowship opportunities are available to researchers whose work would benefit
from onsite access to our special collections in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Hubert I. Cohen Fellowship
is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to the Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers Collection. The Ralph C. and Mary Lynn
Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would
benefit from onsite access to our special collections, including those held in
the Special Collections Research Center and the Stephen S. Clark Library. The William P. Heidrich
Visiting Research Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit
from onsite access to the Joseph A. Labadie Collection.
Questions?
Contact Julie Herrada at jherrada@umich.edu.
Applications
are due by Friday, January 30, 2026
Research
Funding
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research-institute-collections/activities/fellowships
The
Research Institute for Collections (RIC) offers opportunities to visit
University College Londonto conduct research on topics using the UCL holdings
of archives, rare books, records and museum collections. The deadline is 23:59 Monday
12th January 2026. Please see our Museum
Collections pages
and Special Collections pages for information on
our collections, catalogues and how to arrange a visit.
email:
rebekah.seymour@ucl.ac.uk
Library
Research Grants
https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/travel-awards
Kenneth
Spencer Research Library is pleased to announce the availability of three
competitive travel grants to facilitate research and use of the library’s
collections. The amount available for each award is $1,500. Travel grants will
be awarded to faculty, undergraduates, graduate students, or independent
researchers living outside a 100 mile radius from Lawrence, Kansas. All three
grants are open to U.S. and international researchers. Applicants must document
a research agenda requiring the need for in-person access to materials held by
Kenneth Spencer Research Library. Grant money may be used for travel, lodging,
and other expenses while pursuing research at the library.
Applications
must be submitted by January 4, 2026
Platzman
Memorial Fellowships
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/applications-open-2026-platzman-memorial-fellowships/
The
University of Chicago Library invites applications for short-term research fellowships for the summer of
2026. The program provides up to $3,500 for visiting researchers working
on projects that require on-site consultation of University of Chicago Library
collections, primarily archives, manuscripts or printed materials in the Hanna
Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center. The funds can be used for
travel, living and research expenses. Support for beginning
scholars is a priority of the program. Applications to work with collections or
materials from underrepresented groups are encouraged. Applications in the
fields of late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century physics or physical
chemistry, or nineteenth-century classical opera, will receive special
consideration.
The
deadline for applications is February 27, 2026
Scholars
of Sexology Fellowship
https://kinseyinstitute.org/collections/scholars-sexology-fellowship.html
This
fellowship supports academic, creative, and curatorial research using library
and archival materials at the Kinsey Institute. From film studies to health
sciences, it is designed to support graduate scholars from a wide range of
academic disciplines. Research may be for a thesis or dissertation.
Application
deadline: February 13, 2006
email:
libknsy@iu.edu
National
Woman’s Party (NWP) Research Fellowship
Applications
are currently being accepted for the National Woman’s Party (NWP) Research
Fellowship at the Library of Congress. The National Woman’s Party (NWP) Research Fellowship is made
possible by a generous donation of the National Woman’s Party in 2020, during
the centennial year of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. The
purpose of the fellowship award is to ensure long-term support for research
within the National Woman’s Party collection and other unparalleled women’s
history collections at the Library of Congress.
Completed
applications are due on February 1, 2026
Fellowship
in Printing History
https://printinghistory.org/programs/fellowship/
The
Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History is an annual award of up to
$2,000 for research in any area of the history of printing in all its forms,
including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts,
and letterforms. There are no geographical or chronological limitations on the
subject: it may be national or regional in scope, biographical, analytical,
technical, or bibliographical in nature. Printing history-related study with a
recognized printer or book artist may also be supported. The fellowship can be
used to pay for travel, living, and other expenses.
All
materials must be received by Friday, January 9, 2026
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Library of Congress Junior Fellows Program – Paid
Internship
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 library. 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.
Applications are open now through Friday, January 2, 2026.
For information about the Junior Fellow program, contact juniorfellows@loc.gov.
Assistant Professor in Modern Culture and Media
https://apply.interfolio.com/176341
The Department of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) at Brown
University is hiring. We are committed to the study of media in the context of
the broader examination of modern cultural and social formations. In research
and teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate level, MCM combines the
analysis of diverse texts — visual and verbal, literary and historical,
theoretical and popular, imaginative and archival — with the study of
contemporary theories of representation and cultural production and creative practice
in a range of media. Filmmaking, video, photography, and multi-media art
practice and critique are fundamental strengths of the MCM Department. We are
particularly interested in those who focus on the Global South, the African
diaspora, Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latinx Studies, Environmental
Studies, Political Critique, Decolonization, Feminist Theory and Practice, and
/ or LGBTQ and Queer Theory.
Consideration of applications will begin on January 6, 2026.
Somos
Líderes Fellowship/Internship
Somos Líderes offers a
Fellowship Program offers a fellowship/internship: a transformative experience
for enthusiastic young adults located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area who are
passionate about civic engagement, leadership, and empowering the BIPOC
community. This paid fellowship equips participants with essential tools and
training to become agents of change within their communities. Deadline: Jan. 4,
2026
Contact us at admin@somostejas.org if you have any
additional questions
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender &
Sexuality Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/179401
The Lafayette College Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Program invites applications for a one year visiting assistant professor
position in the area of intersectional feminist activism (broadly defined)
and/or feminist research methods to begin in July 2026. Candidates should be
able to teach the WGSS introductory course, as well as in the areas of feminist
activism and/or interdisciplinary feminist research design. Lafayette WGSS is
committed to intersectional perspectives and expertise in women of color
feminisms is highly desirable. Academic responsibilities include teaching six
courses per year. The successful candidate will have training in Women's and
Gender and Sexuality Studies, a commitment to pedagogical excellence, and
interest in working in a collaborative, interdisciplinary setting.
Review of applications will begin on January 20, 2026, and
will continue until the position is filled.
Inquiries may be sent to Professor Mary Armstrong, Chair of
the Search Committee, at armstrom@lafayette.edu.
Abortion Onscreen in 2025
https://www.ansirh.org/research/research/abortion-onscreen-2025
Report tracking 65 abortion plotlines across cable,
broadcast, and streaming channels.
Resources on Higher ed.
Academe, the quarterly magazine of the American
Association of University Professors, explores critical issues facing higher
education. The winter, spring, and fall issues of the magazine include feature
articles, book reviews, opinion columns, and news about the national AAUP and
AAUP chapters. The Bulletin of
the American Association of University Professors, published as the
summer issue, collects AAUP reports and policy documents from the previous
academic year. Academe Blog provides
commentary on higher education news and other timely issues throughout the
year.
Email: academe@aaup.org
Research Paper Collective
A fresh college graduate who now works as a machine learning
engineer recently launched a website designed to make reading and sharing
research more fun and accessible. Anuja Uppuluri developed Paper Trails, which
she described as “Goodreads for academic papers” in an X post announcing
the website’s launch last week. “I built it because I wanted a place
where engaging with research felt fun, beautiful, and personal to you.”
Breaking Culture Live
In our last episode of Breaking Culture Live, we
spoke with Reed Van Schenck and Daniella Gáti to discuss their work on
reactionary memes and how queer theory helps us understand AI. It was a very
generative conversation, highlighting some of the main concerns of scholars in
the New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group (which Reed Co-Chairs) of the
Cultural Studies Association. Here’s the recording
of their episode on our YouTube channel. In our next episode - this
Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 11:00 am Chicago time - we will be talking with Elizabeth
Bernstein and Janet Jakobsen, who will contextualize the Epstein scandal in the
broader milieu of our culture’s "Sex Obsession" and the failures of
the hegemonic approach to tackling what is called sex-trafficking, situating
both in the broader transformations and structures of what they call The
Paradoxes of Neoliberalism.
email: breakingculturelive@gmail.com
Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found
(open-access)
The collected essays do not view vulnerability solely as a
means to elevate ethnography. Rather, the intimate portrayals underscore the
precarious basis of anthropological knowledge production. The authors highlight
moments of injury, violence, confusion, and doubt. At times, these hardships
lead to theoretical clarity. At other times, there is no clear resolution.
Taken together, they consider: What does it mean to pursue heartbreak as an
anthropological method? What does ethnographic labor require? Who does that
pursuit implicate? And, perhaps most importantly, is this work worth it after
all? Like Cicéri’s eerie set designs, included here, the essays pull back the
curtain on fieldwork and writing. They draw our attention to the affective
scenery that sets the stage for ethnography, yet often fades into the
background.
Recording of the panel discussion AI is Not Inevitable: A conversation with educators, education unions and Collaborative Research Center for Resilience. The password is for the recording is: edtech2025 and will expire at the end of Jan 2026.
Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction
https://sfonline.barnard.edu/abolition-feminism-and-the-politics-of-reproduction/
Special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online
The new issue of S&F Online brings together timely contributions within the emergent intersection of abolition feminism and social reproduction at a moment when carcerality continues to proliferate under new guises. This framework makes visible the carceral state’s imbrication in the maintenance of everyday life while insisting on the long genealogy of feminist struggles that have always understood abolition as a reproductive question.
