CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
History of the Emotions
https://nachemotion.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/tempe-phoenix-az-2026/
22-23 May 2026 at Arizona State University
Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals on the
history of emotions, for single presentations or for panels. The conference is
open to proposals on the history of emotions dealing with any region or time
period; interdisciplinary approaches are welcome.
Due date for proposals is 1 Oct. 2025
Please address questions or proposals to pstearns@gmu.edu.
The Hidden Curriculum: Conversations about the Challenges
and Cultures of Graduate School (Roundtable)
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21653
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual
convention, Pittsburgh, PA, March 5 - 8, 2026
How do we make these hidden rules and expectations explicit,
and how do we actively work against those that are harmful? This roundtable
aims to create a space for structured discussion about topics that are often
deemed illegitimate in academic discourse. We invite scholars representing a
range of positionalities and from different stages in their careers, in
academia and academia adjacent, to engage in a structured dialogue about their
experiences of “hidden” expectations and values they were confronted with in
graduate school, with an aim of identifying and possible strategies to
navigate, expose, and dismantle them.
Deadline: September 30, 2025
co-chairs of this roundtable, Drs. Cynthia D. Porter
(porter.506@osu.edu), Maria S. Grewe (mgrewe@jjay.cuny.edu), and Juana Torralbo
(j.m.torralbohiguera@wustl.edu)
Islamic Feminism and Decolonial Futures: Epistemology,
Ethics and Praxis
November 1" and 2, 2025 (Hybrid)
This conference invites contributions that critically engage
with feminist hermeneutics, ethical reinterpretations of Islamic texts, the
politics of knowledge production, legal reform, literary and lived practices of
Muslim women across diverse contexts. Submissions are encouraged from scholars,
researchers and practitioners who seek to explore the intersections of theory,
faith, activism and justice within the framework of Islamic feminism.
Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted by 1"
October, 2025
for abstract submission islamicfeminism.sncws@gmail.com;
for queries: ahussain1@jmi.ac.in
Image in Science Fiction: The Tenth Annual City Tech
Science Fiction Symposiumb
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/sciencefictionatcitytech/
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 9:00AM-5:00PM EST
Science Fiction (SF) is an image driven genre. Whether
described in text, see the “dull yellow eye” in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(1818)), rendered in the two-dimensional art of magazines like Analog, or
brought to life in film, TV, and video games, SF imagery continually confirms
Gérard Klein's observation that “science fiction does not proceed directly from
science, nor from philosophy, but from the “images (eikons) and representations
(eidons)” that these disciplines “unknowingly” produce (“From the Images of
Science to Science Fiction,” 2000). SF images abound; how those images are
understood and interpreted iterates to infinity.
Please send a 250-word abstract with title, brief
100-150-word professional bio, and contact information to Jason Ellis (jellis@citytech.cuny.edu) by Friday,
October 31, 2025.
Call for Papers: Queer/Trans History Conference 2026
https://lgbtq-ha.org/conferences/queer-and-trans-history-conference-2026-cfp-coming-soon/
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from June 2 to 5, 2026
Scholars working on any aspect of the queer and/or trans
past, in any region of the world, during any period, are encouraged to apply.
This conference highlights historical approaches to queer/trans scholarship,
and while interdisciplinary approaches are welcome, we are soliciting proposals
that explore queer/trans lives in the past. There is no specific theme; rather,
we hope that this gathering will simply showcase the best of current work and
new directions in the fields of queer and/or trans histories, including panels
addressing historiographical debates or states-of-the-field. We encourage
queer/trans scholarship on racial formations and racial capitalism, colonialism
and empire, disability and embodiment, paid and unpaid labor, and practices of
kinship and intimacy. Moreover, we are interested in panels that look beyond
the twentieth-century United States. To promote robust conversations, we
encourage panels organized by theme rather than region.
Please submit all proposals by November 1, 2025 to conference@lgbtq-ha.org.
Looking East, Looking West: Cinematic Depictions of
Cultural Intersections
University of Idaho, April 6-7, 2026
Since Edward Said's Orientalism, scholars have paid close
attention to the ways in which cultural products represent the other and how
that representation, in turn, has been used to support power structures,
particularly those favoring European empire. One result of this economic growth
is that filmmakers operating from the respective national cinemas are able to
do the representing themselves. This is not to say Hollywood and European
cinema have been put aside, but that the playing field has become more, if not
fully, level. As such, while there are ample studies of Western representation
of East Asia, to date there has been little work looking the other way. This
symposium invites presentations on films that emerge from the West or the East
portraying in some manner the other, and/or representing intersections of the
East and West.
250-word abstract and short cv by Sept. 15, 2025 to
idahosymposium@gmail.com
Food and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
Urban Farming, Food Security, and Cultures of Eating
New York City, July 27-28, 2026
How do cities shape food, and how does food shape cities? If
we imagine cities as purely human-built, unnatural places where agricultural
products are never grown and only shipped in and consumed, it suggests that the
central questions of urban food are about food security, transportation and
distribution, and food supply mechanisms. But the place of food and agriculture
in cities is not that straightforward. When we look at food rather than
agriculture, we end up seeing far beyond the questions of what we eat and where
we get it from. For this workshop, we will think across time, regions, and
disciplines to consider critically the relationship of urban people and food
and also think about how these practices have shaped our urban relationships
with food today.
Please submit a short proposal (100-200 words) by 1 December
2025
Contact Email fwilliamson@smu.edu.sg
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
There are nearly 70 Subject Areas that have calls for
proposals. Click on a category here to be taken to the Subject Area list,
and/or click on any Subject Area title for a detailed description and Area
Chair contact info.
Southern Studies Conference
https://www.aum.edu/class/community-resources/southern-studies-conference/
February 20-21, 2026, Auburn University at Montgomery
The Southern Studies Conference is an interdisciplinary
gathering focused on the politics, history, literature, culture, and arts of
the American South. It consists of panels presenting original scholarship or
creative works, artistic and poster exhibits, and keynote lectures.
Proposals submitted by November 15, 2025 will receive full
consideration.
Contact Email bseveran@aum.edu
Navigating Afro-Knowledges Exploring Practices and
Theories in Digital Diaspora Studies
June 17-19, 2026 |
University of Bremen, Germany
African and Afrodiasporic communities mobilize digital
technologies as spaces of memory, resistance, activism and cultural production
(Everett 2009; Angone 2025). However, these knowledges remain marginal /
marginalized in digital diaspora studies. Therefore, there is an urgent need to
foreground African and Afro-diasporic epistemologies, methodologies, and
practices—what we refer to here as ‘Afro-Knowledges’—and to critically examine
how these frameworks shape digital cultures, identities, and imaginaries.
Drawing on this assumption, this international conference aims to bring
together scholars, Afrodiasporic activists and artist around the central notion
of ‘navigation’.
Submission Guidelines: Please submit a 300-word abstract and
a short bio (max. 100 words) in English by October 30, 2025, to afroeuropecyberspace@uni-bremen.de.
Those Who Have Must Turn Around and Give: Celebrating
Forty Years of Preserving Black History and Education
https://avery.charleston.edu/cfp_avery_mellon/
The College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for
African American History and Culture is currently accepting proposals for our
upcoming three day symposium “Those who have must turn and around give:
Celebrating Forty Years of Preserving Black History and Education" June
9-11, 2026 at the College of Charleston in Charleston SC. We are asking for proposals that highlight one
of our tracks of Education or Archives from scholars, organizations, students,
independent researchers, community historians, and activists. Deadline to
submit a proposal December 20.
Contact Email childressd@cofc.edu
Asian Studies in the Digital Age, Old and New
January 23-25, 2026, Georgia Tech
All disciplines focusing on East and Inner Asia, Northeast
Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Asian Diaspora, as well as
comparative, inter-Asian, and global Asia topics are welcome. Faculty, graduate
students, undergraduate students, and independent scholars from all regions are
encouraged to share their work, receive feedback, and network at the
conference. Scholars of disciplines focusing on “digital” may consider this to
include both our digitally connected world and broader conceptions such as
information exchange, data, coding, encoding, media, and technology.
The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2025.
PUBLICATIONS
Series on Travel Writing
Tinta
regada (Spilled Ink) a multilingual
publication, invites submissions for a Series
on Travel Writing (Literatura de viajes).
The editors of the literary magazine of the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes welcome
personal commentaries, essays, poetry, short story and other forms, in any
language, up to 2,500 words.
Send questions and submissions to nuevos.horizontes.uprm@gmail.com.
Climate, arts, and activism
https://files.cargocollective.com/c1748856/ACME_Call-for-Contributions.pdf
ACME:
An International Journal for Critical Geographies
The debate about the socio-ecological crisis has moved to
the center of society. What conditions and practices are needed for art-science
collaborations that will contribute to transforming society towards critical
climate and ecological justice? That is the guiding question for the proposed
special issue.
We welcome contributions from different academic disciplines
(geography, environmental humanities, sustainability studies, transformation
research), artistic research/submissions, design research, and other fields of
practice. Proposals are encouraged from regions, cultures, and people that have
not been previously featured or addressed in these discourses and scholarship.
Deadline for abstracts: 15th of October 2025
Contact Email yvonne.schmidt@hkb.bfh.ch
Queer Postsocialist Environments
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the
dissolution of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the once
socialist countries of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe – but also
central Asia, Africa and Latin America – have undergone a rapid series of
political, economic, and cultural reconfigurations and realignments with
neoliberal forms of capitalism. This has developed in parallel with a reversal
to national and religious paradigms that had preceded the formation of socialist
states, even if under the banner of democracy. With this in mind, we ask: How
are queerness, postsocialism, and environments entangled – when the term
‘environment’ is used broadly to include human-made environments,
more-than-human ecologies, and the multiplicity of entanglements between the
two? How does the very notion of queerness produce disalignments in relation to
the predominantly cis heteropatriarchal environmental practices? And how are
the processes of potential queer disalignment materially entangled both with
built and more-than-human environments?
Please send proposed chapter abstracts (300-500 words)
together with short biographical notes (150-200 words) to
m.jobst@leedsbeckett.ac.uk and andrija.filipovic@fmk.edu.rs by 15th November
2025.
Philosophy: Technology: Rhetoric
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20123754/philosophy-technology-rhetoric
Since technology is a mix of physical tools, social
practices, and moral choices, it demands a framework that recognizes knowledge
as contextual, social, embodied, and action-oriented, where meaning arises
through use, practices shape power and participation, and evaluation requires
both descriptive and normative judgments. Philosophy of technology blends these
perspectives, drawing on pragmatism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical
theory, social constructivism, etc., to account for the complex ways technologies
structure meaning, shape action, and embed values. This collection invites
interdisciplinary work that stages a conversation between rhetoric and the
philosophy of technology, asking how frameworks from the philosophy of
technology can deepen our understanding of (contemporary) technologies and the
cultures they shape in Rhetoric & Writing Studies.
Deadline for Proposals (300–500 words, plus a short bio): 25
October 2025
Please send proposals and questions to the editors at
ssndvall@memphis.edu and mmoh81@unm.edu.
Nerve to Write
Nerve to Write is a space for disabled, chronically ill, and
neurodivergent writers to build the literary community we have long been
denied. Often excluded from literary spaces who have the nerve to insist our
stories do not matter or to require us to adhere to ableist standards in order
to gain acceptance, we face the active erasure of our work. This erasure—which
mimics the daily aggression of an ableist world—strikes a painful nerve that
damages our stories and spirits.
Sometimes the only thing more painful than disabled,
chronically ill, and neurodivergent lives is trying to navigate ableist
expectations, so we invite you to discover the nerve it takes to reject ableist
literary spaces in favor of creating an inclusive space of our own. We invite
you to reject the traditions that make you wonder if it is possible to keep
creating and to find your nerve to write!
We are open for submissions from September 1 to November 1
or until we hit our submission cap
email at nervetowrite@gmail.com
Beauty + Health: Youth Graphic Medicine Challenge
https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=beauty-health-youth-graphic-medicine-challenge
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Disease
Prevention (ODP) is sponsoring the Beauty + Health: Youth Graphic Medicine
Challenge. This Challenge encourages teens (ages 13–17) and young adults (ages
18–25) to share their experiences about ways to reduce health risks from
certain beauty products and behaviors that people use or follow to meet
societal beauty standards. Challenge entries will provide insights into the
perspectives of young people with experience with certain beauty products or behaviors
that may cause health issues. These perspectives can inform future research to
develop and evaluate interventions to prevent or reduce these health risks
across the lifespan.
10/02/25 05:01 AM CDT: Submission Period Opens
02/02/26 10:59 PM CST: Submission Period Closes
Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities - Call
for Projects
https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/mappingbdph/
Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities formally
invites Black Digital and Public Humanities project directors to submit their
projects to our interactive map and searchable database of 650+ international
Black Digital and Public Humanities projects. Fill out this form to submit your
project to be reviewed for inclusion on the map!
Questions or suggestions? Reach us at: mappingbdph@gmail.com
Handbook on Digital Activism
https://paromitapain.com/call-for-chapter-proposals-digitalactivism/
We invite chapter proposals for the forthcoming Handbook on
Digital Activism, a comprehensive collection that examines the theories,
tactics, and transformations of activism in digital contexts. From hashtag
campaigns and hacktivism to algorithmic bias and augmented reality
interventions, this volume aims to capture the breadth and depth of digital
activism across global contexts.
Proposals (600 words) with author details should be
submitted to ppain@unr.edu by December 1, 2025.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship
https://www.aauw.org/resources/programs/american-dissertation-fellowship-program/
American Dissertation Fellowships carry a stipend of
$25,000. Stipends are payable to fellows only and are disbursed in two equal
payments at the beginning and the midpoint of the fellowship term. Applicants
must identify as a woman and be engaged in completing the final year of their
dissertation writing on a full-time basis from July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027.
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2025
Lemelson Center Fellowship Program
https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/lemelson-center-fellowship-program
The Lemelson Center Fellowship Program supports projects
that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in
American society. These include, but are not limited to, historical research
and documentation projects resulting in dissertations, publications,
exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia
products.
The Lemelson Center invites all applications covering the
broad spectrum of research topics in the history of technology, invention, and
innovation. However, the Center especially encourages proposals that align with
one (or more) of its strategic research and programmatic areas, including 1)
projects that illuminate inventors from diverse backgrounds or any inventions
and technologies associated with under-represented groups, such as women,
minorities, LGBTQ, and the disabled.
Applications must be submitted by 15 October 2025 (11:59
p.m. EST).
contact archivist Alison Oswald at oswalda@si.edu
Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture
https://www.nypl.org/about/fellowships-institutes/schomburg-center-scholars-in-residency/application
The Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture offers both long-term and short-term fellowships
designed to support and encourage top-quality research and writing on the
history, politics, literature, and culture of the peoples of Africa and the
African diaspora, as well as to promote and facilitate interdisciplinary
exchange among scholars and writers in residence at the Schomburg Center. Long-term fellowships provide
a $35,000 stipend to support postdoctoral scholars and independent researchers
who work in residence at the Center for a continuous period of six months. Short-term fellowships
are open to postdoctoral scholars, independent researchers, and creative
writers (novelists, playwrights, poets) who work in residence at the Center for
a continuous period of one to three months. Short-term fellows receive a
stipend of $3000 per month.
The application deadline is Dec. 1, 2025. If there are any
questions, please email sir@nypl.org.
Ransom Center Fellowships
https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/#application-instructions
The Ransom Center will award up to 50 research fellowships
for its 2026–2027 program. We offer funding to graduate students, current and
former academic faculty at any level of career, and independent researchers
such as journalists and artists, who require archival research at the Center
for their projects.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 3, 2025, 5:00 PM CST
Danica Obradovic, Fellowship Coordinator: ransomfellowships@utexas.edu
Research Travel Grants--American Heritage Center, Univ.
of Wyoming
http://uwyo.edu/ahc/grants/index.html
The American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of
Wyoming offers annual travel grants of up to $750 each to provide support for
travel, food and lodging to carry out research using AHC collections.
Application due date for the fall cycle is October 31, 2025. Subject areas in
the Center’s collections include Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West and a
select number of national topics: environment and conservation, mining and
petroleum industries, air and rail transportation, popular entertainment
(particularly radio, television, film, and popular music), journalism, and U.S.
military history.
Contact Email mary.brown@uwyo.edu
Research Travel Grants
https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/research/research-grants
The West Virginia & Regional History Center (WVRHC) at
West Virginia University Libraries invites applications for grants to fund
research using WVRHC collections. WVRHC Research Travel Grants are offered to
help defray expenses of scholars who must travel to use the Center’s resources
in the course of their research. Proposals will be evaluated on the relevance
of WVRHC materials to the research question and the contribution of the
research to the body of scholarship on the topic. Applications to conduct research
in any collection(s) held by the WVRHC will be considered. Applicants are
strongly encouraged to review the WVRHC’s collection finding aids.
Deadline: October 31, 2025.
Contact Email lohostuttler@mail.wvu.edu
A Case for Women scholarship
https://www.acaseforwomen.com/scholarships/
At A Case for Women, we are proud to offer the “Not
Accepting the Status Quo – Women Disruptors Scholarship” to help elevate
college students who have a passion for advocating women’s issues.
Award Amount: $5,000
Eligibility: Must be accepted to a US-based accredited
4-year college for any field of study (political science, women’s studies,
pre-law, or something related to social justice preferred).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025
Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships
https://bibsocamer.org/fellowships-and-awards
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) funds more than
a dozen fellowships supporting a broad range of bibliographical pursuits to
promote critical inquiry and research in the field of bibliography in both
traditional and emerging formats. Applicants must be active members of the
Society to be considered for a fellowship award, however this restriction does
not apply to New Scholars Program applicants.
Apply to BSA Fellowships by December 3, 2025
Contact Email bsafellowships@bibsocamer.org
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Assistant Professor of the Study of Women, Gender, and
Sexuality
https://apply.interfolio.com/172309
The Program for the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality
at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank
of Assistant Professor with a specialty
in Feminist Science and Technology Studies. Candidates should demonstrate an
intersectional approach to Feminist Science and Technology Studies and must
have strong foundations in gender studies, Indigenous studies and/or race and
ethnic studies, and their field of specialization in science and technology. Areas of specialization could include but are
not limited to: Indigenous science
studies; environmental racism; the history of science; intersectional
approaches to public health, neuroscience, or data science; interdisciplinary
natural science; or other related fields. A Ph.D. in a relevant field is expected by the time of
appointment. Candidates from groups underrepresented in STEM fields are
encouraged to apply.
Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2025.
Join the H-Grad Editorial Team
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20124853/join-h-grad-editorial-team
H-Grad is a community built and sustained by and for
graduate students, providing information and opportunities for surviving and
succeeding in graduate school. As part of the H-Net Commons, H-Grad is a
community committed to fostering principles of open access and open knowledge
production.
We are currently recruiting new editors and contributors to
join the H-Grad editorial team. If you are looking for opportunities to connect
with fellow graduate students, develop meaningful programming or resource
collections, and gain valuable service experience, send us an email at
editorial-grad@mail.h-net.org, or fill out an application:
https://networks.h-net.org/network-editor-application. Please note that you
must be logged in to your H-Net Commons account in order to access the
application.
Contact Email editorial-grad@mail.h-net.org
Postdoctoral Associate - Study of Women, Gender &
Sexuality
https://emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/5072
The Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (CSWGS) at Rice
University seeks candidates for a postdoctoral associate in the humanities or
social sciences whose research and teaching centers on gender and sexuality.
Research focus on global South site(s) and/or issues of race is a plus. The
Center is particularly interested in applicants who demonstrate a record of
feminist research, innovative teaching, and the potential to contribute to the
Center by offering courses and workshops in engaged research. Ph.D. must be
conferred between June 29th, 2023, and June 30, 2026.
Deadline for online applications is Tuesday, February 10,
2026.
Contact Information
cswgs@rice.edu
Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-2027: Habitat, Emory
University – Georgia
https://apply.interfolio.com/172515
The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry is pleased to open
applications for our one-year postdoctoral research fellowships. We invite
applications from candidates from any humanistic discipline who are eager to be
part of a community of scholars engaged in innovative and interdisciplinary
research and conversations around our 2026-27 theme, habitat.
The concept of habitat connotes both a physical place for
living and the necessary conditions for thriving. Heidegger famously argued
that to be human is to dwell. But what does it mean to dwell amidst
environmental precarity, political displacement, and technological
transformation? We anticipate that our Fellows will approach the concept of
habitat through diverse lenses on the human experience, including, but not
limited to, environmental humanities, science and technology studies,
Indigenous and postcolonial studies, and urban studies. Projects may examine
moments of rupture and reconfiguration, ecological interdependence, forced
migration, multispecies coexistence, or the politics of shelter and space in
industrial and post-industrial environments.
deadline: Dec 08, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
For questions, email: foxcenter@emory.edu
NYC Civic Corps
https://www.nycservice.org/national_service
NYC Service’s Civic Corps is a 10-month, full-time service
program that places members at City agencies and nonprofits — including the NYC
Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) — to manage volunteers,
develop programs, and engage communities across the five boroughs. Members gain
hands-on experience, professional development, career coaching, and 1-on-1
support while making a real impact. DORIS currently has three openings in
Program Development, Community Outreach & Engagement, and Volunteer
Management & Recruitment. Civic Corps members will:
·
Connect New Yorkers with their city’s history
through outreach, curriculum development, and community conversations;
·
Strengthen volunteer and storytelling programs
that preserve neighborhood stories; and
·
Expand access to the City’s archives by
processing, digitizing, and improving records.
Applications will be accepted until September 28th
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Artist Talk and Pop-up Exhibit with Jordan Funk
https://dentonarts.com/event-listings/petal-project-artist-talk-with-jordan-funk
Join The PETAL Project for a pop-up exhibit and artist talk
with Denton-based photographic artist Jordan Funk. Jordan's work explores
themes of identity, memory, and topography, combining Polaroid photography with
landscape sediments. Jordan will talk about her artistic process, aesthetic
philosophy, and share some of her past work and on-going projects. In her
practice, she challenges the habit of taking photographs at face value,
creating space for conversations about our individuality and the ways that making
our way through existence erodes us away into continually new interpretations
of ourselves.
September 25, 2025 , 6:00 PM
8:00 PM
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies – fall series
http://www.blackfreedomstudies.org/events/
Oct 2: Black Arts, Black Spaces, and Black Performance
Nov 6: The Fight for Black Education and Black History
Dec. 4: Reflections on SNCC History: 30 years of Charles
Payne’s I've got the Light of Freedom
Family History Today: Researching Your LGBTQ+ Ancestors –
Live on Zoom
https://programs.cjh.org/tickets/family-history-today-2025-09-30
September 30, 5pm EST
Discover the rich legacy of the LGBTQ+ community through
examples from the centuries-long history of LGBTQ+ people in the United States,
including excerpts from historical court cases and newspapers. Tune in to learn
about these important stories, especially considering the increasing prejudice
against this population today.
Ticket Info: Pay what you wish
Contact Email irosenbluth@cjh.org
Book Talk: See Jane Run
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-see-jane-run-tickets-1582649851309
October 2 · 11:15am - 12:15pm CDT
In this thought-provoking discussion, political scientists
Dr. Christina Wolbrecht and Dr. David Campbell of University of Notre Dame
unpack the research behind their book See Jane Run, examining how the
participation of women political candidates shape civic engagement—especially
among youth—and what this means for the future of democracy. A must-attend for
anyone passionate about civic responsibility, politics, and public leadership.
Documenting Georgia’s Un(der)documented Hispanic
Community: 1986-1988
In 1986, President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and
Control Act (IRCA) which would legalize 2.7 million unauthorized immigrants and
enact employer sanctions making it illegal to hire undocumented laborers.
Scholars have studied IRCA’s effects on income and labor gains, border
enforcement, and undocumented labor flows. They have yet to significantly
examine how legalization and employer sanctions involved, impacted, and
transformed state and local organizations. In filling this gap, my project offers
a regional analysis of the private actors, including the AFL-CIO federation,
Catholic Social Services, and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union,
that exerted considerable influence on IRCA’s implementation and legacy.
Reviewing their work has the potential to illustrate the influence of private
organizations and the government’s reliance on their services for its
advancement of the law and enlargement of the federal immigration apparatus.
Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gLPMLPlqSmiSm8x5Ol2Q1w#/registration
Contact Email evallen@gsu.edu
Ancient Greco-Roman Werewolves: Finding the Hum(an)imal
Transformation tales, like that of the monster we now know
as the werewolf, highlight the very distinct lack of space between humanity and
the wilderness that live outside our cities. When the posthuman arose in the
history of philosophy, we reconsidered the established binaries that informed
our understanding of the human. Anthropocentrism was no longer the framework
through which we viewed ourselves and other beings of the world – the animals,
objects, machines that exist within our sphere. The human/animal binary,
furthered by the works of Descartes and Foucault, began to blur. In returning
to the ancient materials on man-to-wolf transformation, this lecture will
discuss the advent of the posthuman – and prove that it has existed for much
longer than it has been recognised.
Afterbody:
Death, Love, Sex - Poetry in conversation with Medha Singh
September 20th, 11 AM-1 PM Eastern US Time
Afterbody speaks of what survives us. It is suffused with
postmortem intimacy – not only in mourning literal deaths (of your father, of
love, of a past self), but in examining the residues of colonialism, caste,
patriarchy, and ancestry in a woman’s body and psyche.
Contact Email inciteseminarsphila@gmail.com
The Past, Present, and Future of the Human Environment
September 25 & 26; online via Microsoft Teams
Now in its third year, this interdisciplinary conference
series continues to spark timely conversations around global challenges. After
focusing on nation-building in 2023 and human migration in 2024, this year’s
theme centers on the complex relationship between people and the natural
environment. Our presenters will investigate this theme through the lenses of
sustainability, innovation, justice, policy, art and more.
Registration for this virtual conference is free but
required for all presenters and attendees. Meeting links will be provided via
the registration process. Click
here for registration information.
Contact Email pastpresentfuture@snhu.edu
A Conversation with Toby Green
Please join us ONLINE on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2025, 11:00 AM
EST for a conversation with Africanist historian Toby Green, who will be in
dialogue with six historians of global Africa and the African diaspora:
Danielle Terrazas Williams, Hassoum Ceesay, Mariana P. Candido, José Lingna
Nafafé, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, and Ana Lucia Araujo, who draw in his
recent book The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a 17th-Century West
African Port (Allen Lane and University of Chicago Press, 2025) to discuss the
connections of West Africa with Europe, the Americas, and Asia during the era
of the Atlantic slave trade. Using Green’s work as a framework, the panel will
examine the role of West African religions and Catholicism in these exchanges
and their importance in understanding this long and painful history. More than
anything else, the speakers will consider the great variety of oral, material,
and written archival sources, to address the central role of women in West
African and Atlantic economies, as traders, healers, wives, mothers, and
enslaved workers.
Contact Email aaraujo@howard.edu
Food Sustainability
Webinar
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2017545797432/WN_8E30_65vQX-Y7TwX7_DTPw#/registration
Thursday 9th October – 4pm BST | 10am CDT
Dr Helen Traill, lecturer in political economy and
sustainability at the University of Glasgow, will moderate three speakers as
they present on key topics and facilitate a Q&A. Details of speakers and
presentations are as follows:
- Dr
Rebecca Sandover, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Exeter
– Sustainable Food Matters: Place Based Action towards Just and
Sustainable Food Systems
- Dr
Megan Blake, Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography and Planning,
University of Sheffield – Beyond the Plate: Leveraging Food Ladders for
Food Security and Sustainable Communities
- Professor
Molly Anderson, Professor of Food Studies Emerita, Middlebury College –
Why Transdisciplinary Perspectives are Essential for Moving toward
Sustainability
Contact Email abigail.larkin@bloomsbury.com
Book Talk: See Jane Run (virtual)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-see-jane-run-tickets-1582649851309
October 2, 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
In this thought-provoking discussion, political scientists
Dr. Christina Wolbrecht and Dr. David Campbell, of University of Notre Dame,
unpack the research behind their book See Jane Run, examining how the
participation of women political candidates shape civic engagement—especially
among youth—and what this means for the future of democracy.
The Dressed Body: Sex-Workers’ Aesthetics and Artifices
September 25th from 12:10- 2 pm EST
The September edition of Whorestory titled: "The Dressed Body: Sex Workers’
Aesthetics & Artifices” features three speakers grappling with the
meaning(s) between the self and sartorial, aesthetic and essence. The speakers
include current/former sex workers, scholars of sex work, and those who blur
categorization.
Contact Email aino.pihlak@mail.utoronto.ca
Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (A
Book Talk by Don Romesburg)
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/y662ztu/lp/cbf1a52b-fc52-46d0-b2ad-63fbc34d0467
On Friday, October 10, 4:30-6:00pm, please join the American
Social History Project (ASHP) to celebrate the publication of Contested
Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Temple University Press, 2025).
Author Don Romesburg will discuss his account of the history of LGBTQ-inclusive
k-12 history education in the United States, highlighting the battle to pass
California's 2011 FAIR Education Act, the first statewide mandate related to
the inclusion of LGBTQ+ history and a model for other states
Qohelet: Search for a Life Worth Living
https://oxfordinterfaithforum.org/book-launch/qohelet-search-for-a-life-worth-living/
29 September, noon CST
Philosopher Menachem Fisch and visual artist Debra Band
present the first illuminated manuscript of the entire biblical text of the
Book of Ecclesiastes and the first philosophical analysis of the argument.
