CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Narratives of Resilience: Stories of Survival and
Transformation
Scholars in psychology (Gramezy 1991, Werner 2005) have used
the term to describe the capacity of individuals and communities to withstand,
adapt to, and transform in the face of adversity. Yet resilience goes beyond
biological or structural responses. Resilience also manifests in narratives, in
collective imaginaries, and in myriad literary, mediatic, and artistic
representations. Stories of resilience reveal how societies cope with trauma,
and chart paths ahead for recovery and survival. This conference seeks to
explore narratives of resilience in literature, cultural practices, the arts,
philosophy, history, and the humanities. We welcome proposals from scholars at
all career stages, in literature, cultural studies, history, philosophy,
anthropology, art history, performance studies, language pedagogy, and related
disciplines.
Please, submit your proposals at the application url
provided below by November 15.
If you have questions, you can contact the committee at wllconf@auburn.edu
Under the Surface: Visibility and Politics
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20131122/raw-cfp
Research, Art, Writing Conference, February 21st, 2026,
Saturday, University of Texas at Dallas
The 2026 RAW Conference seeks to explore the tension between
surface and depth and invites scholars
to consider what the surface reveals and what remains hidden beneath it. Since
this is an interdisciplinary conference, the term “surface” can have multiple
meanings in relation to different disciplines: for example, it could refer to
literal surfaces or textures, it could mean our conscious understandings, or it
could refer to those elements that are more obviously present in a text. We
welcome submissions from all disciplines and strongly encourage
interdisciplinary approaches to the surface and what lies beneath it, such as:
cultural representation; space and affect; mobility and borders; bodies and
concepts; patterns and textures; linguistic and visual analysis; nonhuman
agency; (de)materialization; and postcolonial and transnational thinking.
Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a short bio
(max. 100 words) here: https://forms.gle/2CEnWSH4NkF2cpcv9 no later than Friday, December 5th, 2025,
11:59 pm.
Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance
The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at
Tufts University invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for the
2026 Graduate Symposium titled Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance,
which will be held on March 27, 2026, in Medford, MA. In the interest of tracing a broad spectrum of
activist stories, we encourage diverse perspectives on art and defiance
throughout art history, spanning time, place, and media. Examples could range
from marginalia in medieval manuscripts that deride members of the clergy, to
Impressionist painters who counter conventional gender norms in their work, and
from Cuban artists who subvert propaganda using the principles and visual
language of Pop Art.
For consideration, please submit a title and abstract of no
more than 250 words, along with a brief biography, to
tufts.grad.symposium@gmail.com by December 21, 2025.
Communities of Imagination and Theoretical Futures
Baltimore, Maryland- July 22-26, 2026The Theory and
Criticism focus group seeks proposals to present in our annual curated
roundtable series. These roundtables will feature brief (5-6 minute)
presentations, provocations, manifestos, etc, followed by a discussion amongst
all the participants. Please submit abstracts of 250 words or less to the form
below. Submissions for the roundtable series are due Monday, December 8.
Roundtable Sessions: Activating the Dramatic Imagination:
Performance, Magic, and Memory; Communities of Scholarship: Collaboration in
Creating Dramatic Theory; Imagining Utopia: 25 Years of Jill Dolan’s “Utopian
Performative”
If you have questions about how your abstract may or may not
fit into one of the curated roundtable panels, please email an abstract to the
conference planner (David.coley@usm.edu) by December 8th
Chronically Online - Fandom Across Media
https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/chronically-online-cfp.pdf
The San Francisco State University CINE Colloquium is proud
to announce the call for papers for Chronically Online, the 27th Annual
Graduate Research Conference, hosted by the San Francisco State University CINE
Colloquium. Submit your work and join us April 24th and 25th, 2026 in person
and online for a multidisciplinary deep-dive into all things nerd.
To submit your proposal, please email
sfsuconference@gmail.com by January 5th, 2026
Oppositions
https://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/conference.html
2026 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference
May 28 - 30, 2026, Fully Online
As its root, opposition signals both a placement and an
antagonism, a “setting against” something: in thought, identity, space,
movement. Opposition, then, represents more than being against something: it
also signifies being an opponent, placing oneself against something perhaps,
even, holding one’s ground. Today, when we think of oppositions mobilizing
(placing and moving) in and through a space, images of social movements and
social protest have given way to the mobilization of Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
the National Guard, and federal agents. Through this year’s theme, we encourage
submissions that explore oppositions in political, cultural, and discursive
practices–as well as how a logic of oppositionality maps out the field of cultural studies while
at the same time imposing conceptual and structural limits on its scope of
inquiry.
Deadline for Submissions: Friday, December 19, 2025
Further information regarding various session formats can be
found below. If you have any questions, please address them to Michelle
Fehsenfeld at: admin@culturalstudiesassociation.org
2027 OAH Conference on American History--Call for
Proposals
https://www.oah.org/conferences/cfp/
April 1 – April 4, 2027, Hilton San Francisco Union Square
We welcome proposals for the 2027 OAH conference in San
Francisco and encourage submissions addressing all aspects of American history.
We hope to feature panels and presentations that engage a wide range of
periods, places, peoples, methods, and subjects, and that examine historical
topics on multiple scales and through multiple lenses. We also encourage
proposals that address diverse historical sources. These may include art,
dance, film, literature, music, radio, television, and theater, as well as more
traditional archival materials and oral histories. We are interested in
proposals that present citizenship, colonialism, disability, ethnicity, gender,
migration/immigration, Indigeneity, race, religion, and/or sexuality as
important categories of historical analysis. We also would like to see sessions
that allocate substantial time for audience participation and showcase diverse
ways of presenting history to broad audiences.
Environment, Science, and Society
East Lansing, Michigan, March 27th-28th 2026
Academic interest in the confluence of the environment,
science, and society has proliferated since the latter 20th century. We seek to
bring together philosophical, humanistic, and interdisciplinary perspectives on
the interplay of science, technology, and society, as well as the environment,
wilderness, and food. We construe ‘environment’ in an encompassing sense,
involving both the human and nonhuman world, multiple senses of Nature/nature,
and various disciplinary approaches to questions including, but not limited to,
wilderness, environmental justice, ecofeminism, or environmental history.
Crucially, we are interested in contributions that explore the relation of the
environment and science to society, such as through food ethics, philosophy of
agriculture, conservationism, etc.
Abstracts of 300-500 words may be submitted via Google Forms
by January 9th, 2026.
Contact Email msuphilosophyconferences@gmail.com
Environments and Societies at the Crossroads:
Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries
Nov 16, 2026 - Nov 17, 2026
The workshop “Environments and Societies at the Crossroads”
seeks to bring graduate students, postdocs, and senior scholars working on the
history of social and environmental justice into conversation. By examining the
historical connections between environments and social justice in nineteenth
and twentieth-century Europe and the Americas, our workshop will explore the
rise of modern environmentalism and the environmental justice movement
including crucial topics and developments prior to the 1970s. Understanding
social injustice and ecological decline as twin crises in the age of
extractivism and industrialization, we invite historical contributions that
explore the intricate relationship between societies and environments including
topics such as debates on industrial pollution, labor rights or the
distribution of wealth to projects of nature conservation, wildlife protection,
and decolonization.
Proposals due January 16 , 2026
Contact Email richter@ghi-dc.org
Artificiality | Surfaciality
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20131556/artificiality-surfaciality
Rutgers University (NJ) and Aix-Marseille Université
(France), April 9-10, 2026
We draw attention to the significance of the surface––the
perceptible plane of representation––and to how it has become a hotbed of
representations surpassing whatever hopes Aristotle had in mind when defining
mimesis in his Poetics. AI models are a highly topical case-in-point: to the
collective mind, their intricate computational architectures are often
overshadowed by their spectacular outputs, which are intelligible, visible, and
tangible, and thus far easier to comprehend than the underlying mechanisms that
generate them. Much like the android agent Ash becoming an antagonist in Ridley
Scott’s 1979 Alien, contemporary works across literature, cinema, and the
visual arts highlight the superficial dimension of automated models by
depicting machines whose alluring appearances fascinate and deceive. In such
narratives, the interiority of the machine appears fictitious, a vision created
by the users and projected onto the model, thereby challenging the canonical
dichotomy between essence and appearance.
Proposals, to be sent to amd508@rutgers.edu by January 20,
2026,
Contact Email se356@rutgers.edu
Emerging Scholars Book Proposal Workshop
https://thebhc.org/index.php/early-career-scholars-book-proposal-workshop
The BHC’s Emerging Scholars Committee is once again
organizing an in-person book proposal workshop during the 2026 conference in
London. To be held on Thursday, March 26th, this is an exciting opportunity for
up to five emerging scholars to improve their first-book proposals under the
guidance of senior faculty. This initiative aspires to support a new generation
of historians working on topics related to business history in innovative ways.
We invite applications from those working in business history broadly defined
and welcome proposals on a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to
political economy, labor history, consumption studies, financial history, and
the history of science and technology, among others.
Apply for a place in the book proposal workshop by December
15th, 2025
2026 Attention and Flourishing Conference
Thursday, June 11-Saturday, June 13, 2026
Bringing together artists, scholars, psychotherapists, and
practitioners from around the world, the 2026 Attention and Flourishing
Conference at the University of Navarra seeks to examine the undertheorized
relationship between the virtue of attention, mental health, and the
flourishing of individuals and communities. Hosted in the University’s
beautiful Museum, the Conference is intent on exploring the modes of attention
at play in artistic practices and the spaces dedicated to them, and how such
approaches can foster richer notions of mental health, wellbeing, and the life
well-lived.
Our submission portal is officially open and we will be
reviewing proposals until our deadline of Friday, January 9th, 2026 at 11:59pm
ET.
Submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmbUzCR27xyU3BOVQ72p1WBkFUqBNnOGoIMNUJzOJSx9D96Q/viewform
Contact Email semanaatencion@unav.es
The 2026 First Book Institute
https://cals.la.psu.edu/programs-series/first-book-institute/
Pennsylvania State University, May 31-June 6, 2026
The First Book Institute—now in its fourteenth year—features
workshops and presentations led by institute faculty aimed at assisting
participants in transforming their book projects into ones that promise to make
a significant impact on the field and thus land them a publishing contract with
a top university press. Eight successful applicants will be awarded stipends to
defray the costs of travel and lodging for the institute, which is scheduled to
be held in person at Penn State.
Applications to the First Book Institute are invited from
scholars working in any area or time period of American literary studies who
hold a PhD and are in the process of writing their first book (whether a
revised and expanded dissertation or other project). Applicants should not have
negotiated a formal agreement of any kind with a press to publish their
manuscript.
Electronic applications due February 9, 2026
Please send all application materials in a single PDF file
(and any queries) to cals@psu.edu.
PUBLICATIONS
[Re]Frame Academia
https://reframe-academia.com/open-call/
[re]frame is an online academic space that aims to
amplify and foster early career scholarship as well as provide space for
academic dialogue in postcolonial studies and related fields of study. Our
academic blog is committed to investigating and problematising the complexities
of forms of colonial, anticolonial, and decolonial patterns, phenomena, and
infrastructures, as well as how they manifest in literary and cultural studies.
[re]frame encourages investigations of academia and academic
practices, such as the colonial legacies of universities and the
coloniality of knowledge systems that inform epistemologies. We envision [re]frame
as an inter-disciplinary space that will function as part field diary, part
methodology notebook while also sparking new ways of seeing.
For our inauguration, we warmly invite postgraduate and
early career scholars to send in original contributions on the subjects of
literary and cultural studies with a focus on
postcolonial/anticolonial/decolonial inquiry as well as related fields and approaches.
email: reframe@g-a-p-s.net
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The editors of STTCL invite submissions of articles of
6,000-8,000 words in English from early-career scholars (graduate students and
recent PhD graduates within three years of completing the PhD) in 20th or 21st
century literature, film, media, and/or theory originally written or produced
in French, German, or Spanish. Comparative and collaborative articles are
encouraged, as are those that make innovative use of the journal’s online
platform.
Deadline for this special section: February 1, 2026.
For all inquiries, contact Kathleen Antonioli, Editor of
STTCL (kantonioli@ksu.edu).
Reimagining Care: Narratives of Gender and Healthcare
This volume seeks to interrogate how illness narratives
expose the entanglement of care with systemic harm, and how these texts imagine
possibilities for healing and care otherwise. We invite chapter proposals for
an edited volume that explores the intersections of gender, healthcare, and
narrative across various contexts, periods, genres, and media, with an emphasis
on its applications in medical training. We also seek contributions about
narrative practices in care environments or institutions, whether these be
informal groups or actions involved in medical training, which highlight how
narratives can challenge and subvert cultural narratives and practices of
medicine and care.
Please send 300–400 words abstracts, together with a brief
biographical note (100 words) by January 15, 2026 to the
editors, at lauraparrafernandez@ucm.es and david.yague.gonzalez@gmail.com
Ongoing extraction and exploitation of Indigenous lands
and Knowledges
https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/tijih/announcement/view/1019
Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health (TIJIH) is
accepting submissions for the fifth issue, focused on how the ongoing
extraction and exploitation of Indigenous lands and Knowledges continues to
affect Indigenous Peoples, Communities, and Nations worldwide. This call is
inspired by the recent passing of Bill C-5, the “Building Canada Act,” which
has opened pathways for accelerated approval of major infrastructure and
resource projects without ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ right to free, prior,
and informed consent over project that affect their territories. We welcome a
diverse range of submissions including arts-based work (visual arts, digital
storytelling, etc.), primary research, literature reviews, histories, and more.
We also invite opinion pieces, community perspectives, and conversations
between people reflecting on extraction from Indigenous lands and Knowledges,
and how these dialogues can open pathways toward healing, accountability, and
resurgence.
Submissions close on January 9th at 11:59 pm EST.
tijih.dlsph@utoronto.ca – Editor
Care Aesthetics and Everyday Resistance
In a time shaped by overlapping global crises, climate
collapse, racialised violence, rising authoritarianism, recurring pandemics,
and the slow erosion of public infrastructures, care has emerged as a vital
site of resistance, relationality, and worldmaking. For artists, grassroots
activists, and scholars alike, care has become not just a response, but a
political method, a shared vocabulary. However, even within this turn to care
as radical and revolutionary, our attention has gravitated toward its most visible
and grand expressions, the overtly ‘political’ and spectacular gestures: the
mass assemblies of bodies gathered in defiance, the collective chants that fill
public squares, the raised fists and flags that circulate as icons of
resistance, the occupations and marches that make rupture ‘visible’ through
scale. If care is a political category, we advance care
aesthetics as a framework that reorients political perception,
shifting attention to the sensory and relational practices that sustain it.
Please email an abstract (300 words) and short biography to
both of us: reka.polonyi@manchester.ac.uk; alisha.ibkar@manchester.ac.uk by December 18, 2025
Utterings and Echoes: ‘The page lures the voice’
https://www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal-of-art-writing#call-for-papers
This issue of JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing is
grounded in Sara Ahmed’s idea of citation as feminist practice and is concerned
with how we work with and through the voices of others. Through close
interrogation of citational tactics – broadly understood – in art and
writing, this issue explores how utterings, echoes, references, and source
materials form the vocal foundations that determine, facilitate and/or suppress
what is and can be said. We want to consider how citation and voice relate to
language’s social function, such as in the chorus or in conversation, and to
reflect on the vocalisations that underpin strategies for thinking and making
with and alongside others.
Deadline for complete submissions is 16 January 2026.
For any queries please email info@jawseditors.co.uk with the
title ‘Submission: JAWS 12.1’.
Figures of Fatigue
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20131139/figures-fatigue
Figures of Fatigue will bring together a collection of
original essays presented in a variety of formats (including the written word),
that examine the multifaceted ways tiredness, exhaustion, and fatigue are
figured in the contemporary moment. The book is currently in the proposal stage
and here we invite abstracts for essays that engage with this theme. The
collection is intended for an interdisciplinary audience with a particular
focus on academics working in the social sciences and humanities.
Please send 250-300 word chapter proposal/idea no later than
16 January.
Contact Email
hbickis@lancashire.ac.uk
Radical Histories of Palestine and Palestinians
This special issue is an invitation to study the places and
spaces, communities and movements that have transformed Palestine across
millennia. It is a call for papers to break from the constraints of
conventional periodization. Why should Palestinian history begin in 1917, 1948,
or 1967. Or, for that matter, in 636, 1099, 1260 or 1516 CE? How could
histories of Palestine unfold differently when we tell stories less often told?
We ask you to consider the histories of those unregistered, of the countrysides,
alleys, of the camps and encampments, of the exiled; the conquerors and
conquered; monks and merchants; and sweepers, scholars, sharecroppers, and
smugglers. We seek histories of religious endowments, patronage networks,
festivals, pilgrimages, shrines, and disappeared spiritual worlds.
Abstract Deadline: November 30, 2025
Contact: contactrhr@gmail.com
Slow Mode Journal
Slow Mode Journal (SMJ) is a newly formed open-access,
peer-reviewed journal that welcomes interdisciplinary research from scholars
and practitioners whose work addresses the acceleration of global systems
related to textiles–from fashion and product design to computing and digital
communication. As our name suggests, Slow Mode Journal foregrounds deliberative
research on textiles, art, and technology.
The inaugural issue of Slow Mode Journal, to be published in
summer 2026, requests articles and reviews that address questions concerning
the pace of change in an era of disposability. Through a textile lens that
emphasizes renewable and recycled materials, how can we downshift the gears of
industry and discourse toward slower, more sustainable modes? How do we
encourage designers and consumers to adopt different attitudes toward novelty?
How might collaborations with Indigenous textile producers provide culturally
and environmentally informed solutions? The journal welcomes a diversity of
perspectives and methodological approaches, and seeks to include work that
expands upon, but is not limited to, the language and practices of slowness.
Please send completed papers of between 6,000 to 8,000 words
to: slowmode.journal@ubc.ca by February 13th, 2026.
Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US
American Culture
https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/reden/announcement/view/66
The dossier will focus on US American imaginaries related to
digital and screened narratives that highlight the medial aspect of the screen
as intermediary and/or work to construct identities. In an era when screens
dominate and mediate virtually every aspect of our lives, the construction and
performance of digital identities have become key to understand contemporary
popular culture. Papers should look at texts across popular culture media,
including film, graphic narratives, TV series, genre literature, music, games,
social media, podcasts, and mocku/documentary.
Deadline for submission of full papers: April 15, 2026
For any inquiry or doubts about the call’s topics, refer to revista.reden@uah.es.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Feminist Press Collection Grant
https://libguides.colostate.edu/special-collections/friedman-research-grant
In recognition of the legacy of CSU graduate June Friedman,
the Friedman Feminist Press Collection at Colorado State University Libraries'
Archives & Special Collections provides research grants of up to $1,700 for
researchers whose work would benefit from access to the collection. These
grants are intended to help offset the expenses of researchers engaged in
studies that will benefit from access to the holdings of the Friedman Feminist
Press Collection.
Application deadline is February 9, 2026.
Contact Email clarissa.trapp@colostate.edu
Princeton University Library Special Collections Research
Grants Program
https://library.princeton.edu/services/special-collections/fpul-research-grants
Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library
offer short-term Library Research Grants to 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).
T he application period for 2026-2027 opens on October 13,
2025 and closes on January 14, 2026 at 12pm (NOON) ET.
email pulgrant@princeton.edu
Mollenkott Award for Ourstanding LGBTQ Faith History
Research
https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/vrm-award
To encourage and support original research and study of
LGBTQ religious history, LGBTQ-RAN offers an annual award for papers, the
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award. Initiated in 2005, this award honors
outstanding scholarship in LGBTQ religious history from among an array of
academic papers submitted.
Submissions must be sent electronically by December 1, 2025
Contact Email mark@lgbtqreligiousarchives.org
Writers and Artists Grant
https://glreview.org/the-gay-lesbian-review-writers-and-artists-grant
The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide has created a
writers and artists grant program to cultivate a diverse pool of writers for
The G&LR to bring new perspectives, ideas, and voices to the magazine and
to encourage and support emerging and unpublished LGBTQ+ writers, thinkers, scholars, and
artists. We are currently accepting proposals from emerging scholars, writers,
and artists across disciplines and fields that aim to make a contribution to
LGBTQ+ scholarship or the arts.
Deadline: 11:59 PM EST on February 15, 2026
MSU Libraries Visiting Scholars program
https://lib.msu.edu/murray-hong-spc/research/visiting-scholar-grants
Michigan State University Libraries is now accepting
applications for visiting scholars for the summer of 2026. Our Visiting
Scholars program welcomes researchers at all levels (projects can be academic,
journalistic, or creative) to make use of our world-class collections related
to (but not limited to) popular culture, comics, rare books, Africana, LGBTQ
activism, Michigan writers, cookery and foodways, as well as both the radical
left and right.
Complete applications are due by 11:59 PM Eastern Time,
February 1, 2026.
email: lib.dl.spcgrants@msu.edu
Red Natural History Fellowship
https://thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/open-call-2026-28-red-natural-history-fellowship/
The Natural History Museum is inviting applications for the
2026–2028 Red Natural History Fellowship, a two-year program dedicated to
co-creating a “natural history for a world in crisis”—one that confronts the
systems that reproduce colonial and ecological harm, supports communities
leading struggles for justice, and honors life in all its forms. The program
brings together researchers, practitioners, and campaigners advancing
Indigenous knowledge, public history, geography, cultural and ecological
stewardship, water protection, land defense, and other liberatory forms of
inquiry and practice. Each Fellow receives a $2000 stipend, production and
communications support, and entry into a growing community of practice for
insurgent scholar-activists working to make change in their fields,
institutions, and the world we share in common.
Applications are due by December 5, 2025.
Contact: fellows@thenaturalhistorymuseum.org
HASTAC Scholars 2026-2027—deadline extended to Dec. 5
HASTAC Scholars brings together dynamic graduate and
undergraduate students pushing boundaries in the arts, humanities, sciences,
and technology. Emerging HASTAC Scholars will actively contribute to the
development of a vibrant collective that operates at the convergence of
technology, arts, humanities, and sciences. Through a plethora of engagements,
they will foster this vibrant community – hosting online dialogues,
coordinating collaborative book reviews, crafting insightful blog entries,
showcasing their research and passions via the HASTAC Scholar Spotlight,
participating in Digital Fridays, and undertaking a myriad of other enriching
activities.
Call for Applications: 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 offers Dissertation Support Grants
of $3000 for predoctoral scholars whose dissertation research requires use of
the library's collections to apply for research support. Applicants must have
advanced to candidacy in a doctoral program in a relevant field and have an
approved dissertation topic. Priority will be given to those whose projects
require use of materials available only at the Schlesinger Library.
Application deadline is December 5, 2025.
Questions? Contact
slgrants@radcliffe.harvard.edu
Jay I. Kislak Research Fellowship and Artist-in-Residence
https://www.library.miami.edu/kislak-collection/research-fellowship-artist-in-residence.html
Research Fellowship will support doctoral candidates and
faculty who wish to use the Kislak Collection at the University Libraries as a
primary resource for a dissertation or scholarly work. Fellowships of $4,000
per month will be granted for periods of one to two consecutive months,
depending on the range of materials the applicant wishes to consult and the
centrality of Kislak materials to their research.
Residencies of up to two months will support those who wish
to use the Kislak Collection to advance their artistic practice. The artist can
be at any stage of their career and in any discipline, such as literary,
visual, and performing arts. The artist-in-residence will collaborate with the
Kislak Collection and Special Collections to create works inspired by our
collection materials.
Applications will be accepted in English or Spanish through
Saturday, January 31, 2026.
Questions about the fellowship program or application
instructions should be directed to danielarbino@miami.edu with a subject
heading that includes “Jay I. Kislak Fellowships”.
Research Fellowships
and Travel Grants Available at UConn Archives & Special Collections
https://library.uconn.edu/location/asc/research-and-teaching/research-grants-and-fellowships/
Archives and Special
Collections at the University of Connecticut is now accepting applications for
our research fellowships and travel-to-collections grants. These awards support
scholarship, creative projects, and other work that relies on on-site research
with our archival holdings. The program
is open to all researchers, regardless of institutional affiliation, academic
rank, or educational background. Three research fellowships — Rose and Sigmund Strochlitz Fellowship, Billie M. Levy Fellowship, and James Marshall Fellowship — each provide $4,000.
Applications are due
January 30
Contact Email archives@uconn.edu
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Modeling Interdisciplinary
Inquiry
https://apply.interfolio.com/175887
Washington University in St. Louis announces the
twenty-fifth year of Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, a postdoctoral
fellowship program endowed by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and designed to
encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and
interpretive social sciences. We invite applications from recent PhDs, DPhils,
or D.F.A.s (with degree in hand by June 30, 2026, and no earlier than June 30,
2023) who have not previously held a research-oriented postdoctoral fellowship. In
mid-August 2026 the newly selected Fellow will join the interdisciplinary
community at the Center for the Humanities. Each fellowship is anticipated to
run for two academic years. Postdoctoral Fellows pursue their own continuing
research in association with a senior faculty mentor at WU. During the two
years of their fellowship, they will teach two courses. Fellows are expected to
remain in residence during all semesters of their appointment.
deadline: Dec 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://apply.interfolio.com/176104
The postdoctoral fellow will be based at the Humanities
Center, where they will pursue their individual research and contribute to the
Center’s and the University of Rochester’s intellectual life. They will take
part in the bi-weekly Humanities Center seminar as well as other workshops,
conferences, and programs. The fellow is expected to reside in Rochester and
engage actively with the Center’s community of faculty, graduate students, and
undergraduates. The fellow will present their research at least once during
their tenure and organize at least one event per year—such as a workshop,
conference, symposium, or talk series. There are no teaching requirements
associated with this fellowship.
Deadline: Jan 10, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships
https://apptrkr.com/get_redirect.php?id=6716055
The Syracuse University Humanities Center
[humcenter.syr.edu], in partnership with the Engaged Humanities Network, or EHN
[https://artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/engaged-humanities/], which facilitates
publicly engaged projects and coursework in partnership with community arts,
education, civic, and cultural organizations, invites applications for two
Postdoctoral Fellowships. Preference will be given to applicants who:
- Demonstrate scholarly
excellence in the humanities, broadly conceived;
- Have experience fostering
reciprocal campus-community partnerships to advance the humanities as a
public good (e.g., with a library, community organization, archive,
gallery, social justice project, or school setting);
- Engage in work (research,
pedagogy, programming) that attends to social differences and structural
disparities.
Applications preferred by December 10, 2025 (positions will
remain open until filled).
Questions may be submitted to the Humanities Center at
humcenter@syr.edu
Postdoctoral Fellowship in African and African American
Studies (AFAS) and Center for Humanities
https://apply.interfolio.com/177073
The Department of African and African American Studies and
the Center for Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis invites
applications a one-year postdoctoral fellowship to support the activities of
the year-long Seminar, “Black Studies, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the
American University.” The fellow will play a key role in shaping the Seminar by
organizing, administering, and actively participating in its activities, such
as helping with guest speakers, compiling readings, archiving proceedings, and
facilitating sessions. This fellowship offers an opportunity for an emerging
scholar in Black Studies or a related humanities field to contribute to the
intellectual development of the project while advancing their own research and
engaged scholarship on the Seminar themes.
Applications will be reviewed beginning February 1, 2026
For further inquiries, please e-mail the Center for
Humanities at cenhumapp@wustl.edu.
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Postdoctoral
Fellowship
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31104
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist (GSF)
Studies at Duke University invites applications for a two-year residential
postdoctoral fellow. We seek a scholar whose research agenda is committed to
feminist intellectual history with a focus on the 1980s as a distinct era of
feminist theoretical innovation. Responding to the recent outpouring of
scholarship on the feminist 1970s and the queer 1990s, this focus seeks to
highlight the explosion of major intellectual work of the 1980s (by Hortense
Spillers, Toni Morrison, Barbara Christian, Hazel Carby, Chandra Mohanty,
Teresa de Lauretis, Gloria Anzaldúa, Luce Irigaray, Joan Scott, Kimberlé
Crenshaw, among others). We welcome candidates whose research excavates the
theoretical vibrancy of this period, its historical contexts, and its
consequences for contemporary feminist debates. We are especially interested in
applicants who have a strong record of feminist research and teaching, and the
potential to contribute to GSF by offering courses and workshops.
Application due date is December 15, 2025.
email: Amanda Archambeauaa133@duke.edu
African and African Diaspora Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/176774
Boston College’s African & African Diaspora Studies
Program (AADS) announces its dissertation fellowship competition. Scholars working in any discipline in the
Social Sciences or Humanities, with projects focusing on any topic within
African and/or African Diaspora Studies, are eligible to apply. We seek applicants pursuing innovative,
preferably interdisciplinary, projects in dialogue with critical issues and
trends within the field. Eligible applicants must be currently enrolled in a
PhD Program and be ABD by the start of the fellowship year. US Citizens,
Permanent Residents and International Students are encouraged to apply.
Submit all application materials – including letters of
recommendation – by Friday, 12 January 2026 at 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time
(EST) via Interfolio.
Deadline: Jan 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
email: aads@bc.edu
Jamison Internship Program
https://twu.edu/political-science/internship-career-resources/
The Jamison Internship Program provides internship
opportunities in government and nonprofit organizations for both undergraduate
and graduate students. Students accepted into the program will receive a
stipend to assist them with expenses including, but not limited to travel
to/from internship housing, and meals.
Graduate students may apply after completing a minimum of 15
semester credit hours while maintaining a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.25.
Undergraduate students may apply after completing a minimum of 60 semester
credit hours, while maintaining a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0. We encourage
all majors and disciplinary backgrounds to apply. Applicants must have strong
oral and written communications skills.
Application deadline: June 1
email: jolsen1@twu.edu
“Translation” Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/261293
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 2026-27. Successful candidates may
come from any relevant discipline.
Theme for 2026-27: Translation
In this seminar, we plan to build on this exciting
intellectual entry point by focusing on the role that translation has played
across academic, artistic, and everyday spaces. How does translation function
in each of these environments? How do different disciplinary engagements with
translation relate to and inform one another? How do daily practices of
translation shape literary, visual, and political culture?
Contact Information admin@cca.rutgers.edu
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
CONFERENCES
A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early
America - A Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Edward Andrews
https://congregationallibrary.org/events/newport-gardners-anthem
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
| 1-2 pm EST |
Virtual
Join us for a virtual book talk with Dr. Edward E. Andrews
to learn more about his new book that explores the remarkable life of Occramer
Marycoo, an enslaved African who went on to become one of early America's most
important Black leaders. In the mid-eighteenth century, Marycoo was taken from
West Africa to Newport, Rhode Island, where he was forced into racial bondage
and given a name that symbolized the power that his new city and new enslaver
held over him: Newport Gardner. In this powerful book, Edward E. Andrews pieces
together newspaper articles, church records, letters, and Gardner's own
writings to tell the story of his life.
Email any questions to programs@14beacon.org.
Entangled Histories: Borders and Cultural Encounters from the Medieval to the Contemporary Era Seminar Series (November 2025-April 2026)
This seminar series, hosted under the patronage of the Faculty of Communication and the Master’s Programme in Media and Cultural Studies at Üsküdar University, aims to foster interdisciplinary discussion on the concept of borders—physical, political, cultural, and epistemological among others—and their representation, negotiation, and transformation from the medieval period to the present. Particular attention is devoted to the role of cartographic practices and maps, not only as tools for defining and visualising borders, but also as instruments that reflect and shape cultural encounters and epistemic frameworks. The series invites reflection on how mapping, both literal and metaphorical, informs the construction, perception, and experience of boundaries in diverse historical and cultural contexts.
Meetings are held every Wednesday at 5 pm (Central European Time) via Zoom:
Contemporary Transnational Feminist Visual Activism and
GBV
https://www.facebook.com/events/2308853669561476/
Wednesday 26th November 8-9:30pm Lisbon/ London time
Please join us at Roundtable Dialogues 1&2 launching the
edited book Contemporary Transnational Feminist Visual Activism and
Gender-Based Violence. These online events coincide with the annual UN
campaign 16 Days of Activism Against GBV (25 November – 10 December). They
bring scholars, artists, curators and activists together to explore the five
thematic foci of the book: violations of bodily integrity and autonomy,
reproductive violence, domestic violence, sexual violence and femicide and
feminicide.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84911378452
Meeting ID: 849 1137 845
Contact Email bsliwinska@fcsh.unl.pt
Queer History South Conference 2026
https://invisiblehistory.org/qhs2026/
The 2026 Queer History South Conference will be 100% virtual
on February 20-21, 2026. Queer History
South (QHS) is a network and conference that connects people working to
preserve, research, and make accessible the rich and diverse histories of the
LGBTQ US South. The primary purpose of QHS is to provide networking,
professional development, and best practices for those directly working
(formally or informally, professionally or communally) in the fields of
Southern LGBTQ Histories, Archives, Exhibits, Historical Research, and
Historical Education. QHS meets for a conference every two years at a different
location across the South. QHS also offers opportunities for collaboration,
research, and educational professional development opportunities throughout the
year.
Oct 20 - Dec 31, 2025, early registration; $50 for students
If you have questions or need accommodations, please email contact@invisiblehistory.org.
Backlash? Gender-Inclusive Language in a Time of
Resistance
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguistics/research/gender-inclusive-language/backlash-conference/
We are excited to announce the opening of registration and
the preliminary programme for the international conference "Backlash?
Gender-Inclusive Language in a Time of Resistance", taking place online on
Friday 27 and Saturday 28 March 2026. To ensure fair access, the conference
will be held online and free of charge.
Contact Email f.pfalzgraf@qmul.ac.uk
Faith Deconstruction for Dummies: Mashaun D. Simon in
Conversation with Duncan E. Teague
Mon, 12/8/2025 | 7:30pm - 8:30pm EST
Charis welcomes Mashaun Simon in conversation with Duncan E.
Teague for a discussion of Faith Deconstruction for Dummies, a supportive guide
for readers from all walks of life who are sitting with complicated questions
regarding what they have been taught versus what they have begun to believe.
email: info@chariscircle.org
This Unruly Witness: June Jordan's Legacy -- Becky
Thompson in Conversation with Maya Marshall
Fri, 12/12/2025 | 7:30pm - 8:30pm EST
Charis welcomes Becky Thompson in conversation with
Maya Marshall for a discussion of This
Unruly Witness: June Jordan's Legacy, a collection of bold
and tender writing on June Jordan's multidimensional legacy as a poet, healer,
and activist. This Unruly Witness was curated for people who see
love as a life force, who seek a community that can sustain us, who know that
"we are the ones we have been waiting for." Celebrating the life and
legacy of the poet activist June Jordan, this collection illuminates why we
need Jordan more than ever.
email: info@chariscircle.org
Opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers
https://hyperallergic.com/category/opportunities/
Hyperallergenic offers monthly updates with residencies,
fellowships, grants, and open calls for artists, writers, and art workers.
New academic journal 'Feminist Art Practices and
Research: Cosmos
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfar20/current
The first issue of a new Taylor&Francis academic
journal 'Feminist Art Practices and
Research: Cosmos' has been published. The issue is free to read for one year.
It includes 11 contributions across diverse formats. We hope you will consider
submitting your own work. We accept submissions on an ongoing basis.
Contact Email bsliwinska@fcsh.unl.pt
Our Dyke Histories - podcast
https://rss.com/podcasts/ourdykehistories/
Our Dyke Histories dives deep into the living, breathing
past and present of lesbian, queer, bisexual, trans, & nonbinary
communities. Each season traces how we made space for ourselves—sometimes in
bars, bookstores, and protests; sometimes in basements, alleyways, and prisons;
& always against the odds. Our Dyke Histories is hosted by historian,
geographer, and environmental psychologist Dr. Jack Jen Gieseking, and produced
in collaboration with Sinister Wisdom, the oldest lesbian multicultural
literary and art journal.
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 – open access
collection!
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2016
Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces
drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as
commissioned interviews and position statements, Debates in the Digital
Humanities 2016 reveals a dynamic view of a field in negotiation with its
identity, methods, and reach.
A Queer Guide to Personal Digital Archiving
https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/a-queer-guide-to-personal-digital-archiving/
A resource from the Lesbian Herstory Archives!
