CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Disability History Association Graduate Writing Workshop
- Spring 2025
https://dishist.org/disability-history-writing-workshop/
The Disability History Association is seeking applications
for our annual Disability
History Graduate Writing Workshop (DHGWW). This workshop series is
designed to support graduate students working on disability history and foster
community in the field. The workshop provides participants with valuable
feedback on their writing while also offering them a glimpse into the future
directions of disability history. This DHGWW will consist of a series of
monthly virtual meetings from February to June 2025. Participants will discuss
pre-circulated papers during our sessions. Submissions may be conference
papers, articles, chapters, or any other work-in-progress by graduate students
in any stage of their MA or PhD. To apply for the workshop, please complete
the form and upload a one
page abstract through the form. Deadline for applications is February
1, 2025.
Questions can be directed to the DHA Director of Graduate
Student Affairs, Ellie Kaplan, ekaplan@ucdavis.edu.
47th Annual Susman Graduate Conference 2025
https://history.sas.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate/susman-graduate-conference
We hope this email finds you well. The graduate students in
the Department of History at Rutgers University invite proposals for the 47th
Annual Warren Susman Graduate Conference, to be held on Friday, March 28, 2025.
We seek papers and panels from graduate students in history and other
disciplines that speak to this year’s theme Repression, Revolution, and Ruckus:
Public Histories of Structural Violence and Resistance. Please see the attached
Call for Papers for additional information. The submission deadline is February
1, 2025. Selected participants will be notified of their acceptance by
mid-February.
Contact Email susmanconf@history.rutgers.edu
Resistant, Resilient,
and Resolute: Social Justice and Comics
https://comicsstudies.org/css-2025-call-for-papers/
Thursday, 10 July 2025 - Saturday, 12 July 2025, Michigan
State University
We invite comics scholars from around the world to submit
proposals for the 8th annual Comics Studies Society that engage in topics
pertaining to the transformative potential of comics. We celebrate the
resistance, resilience, and resolution demonstrated in the comic medium. As we
approach the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, it’s a time to reflect
on the progress made and the work that still lies ahead. We recognize that the
revolution will be drawn and celebrate the artists, scholars, and communities
that embrace the comic medium to do so. We celebrate an expanding literature in
comic studies that highlights how those groups, often framed at the margin,
have moved to the center of the cultural conversation.
Deadline: February 10th, 2025
Contact Email comicsstudiesorg@gmail.com
(Re)Framing American
Studies: Research, Art, & Praxis
https://newenglandasa.org/annual-conference/2025-neasa-conference/
The New England American Studies Association invites proposals for our 2025 Annual Conference titled “(Re)Framing American Studies: Research, Art, & Praxis in New England” held during August 5 and 6, 2025 at the Lunder Institute of American Art at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. With an “energy for the present”, we seek creative and scholarly abstracts that “metabolize” scholarship, history, and creative praxis that consider “tensions within diversity.” We seek papers that (re)frame these tensions within art, history, culture and society, and the US academy that “metabolize” the struggles of the past and present, considering the role of community in activating social, artistic, and political change.
For academic papers, please submit abstracts of approx. 250
words, brief participant bios, and five keywords to this form by Feb. 15, 2025.
Contact Email Hannah.Haynes@mcla.edu
Traces and Places: Climatic Spaces/Changing Environments
https://iasesp.org/conferences/
Traces link place to space, present to past, and
contemporary environments to future ecologies. By definition, traces are small,
but they are not negligible. They house larger contexts, hold what is absent,
and remain through rapid change. Trace, in its active verb form, delineates and
sketches; those in architecture and design professions are well-acquainted with
the many layers of trace paper—and today the many iterations of digital
models—that a project engages. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to
explore a wide range of questions related to this theme of traces and places.
We invite papers from any discipline dealing with this theme.
The deadline for submitting an abstract is January 31, 2025. Please send questions and abstract submittals to Charlie Hailey (CLHAILEY@ufl.edu) and Elizabeth Cronin (EMCRONIN@ufl.edu).
Comparative
Literature and Cultural Studies Graduate Conference
March 7, 2025 - March 8, 2025
We invite graduate students to offer new perspectives on the
interchange between visibility, technology, and power in an increasingly
digital world. We aim to explore the grids of vision and influence produced
through media and technological platforms, and how such networks of technicity
enforce, reinforce, or challenge hegemonic and ideological formations. By
interrogating social responses to and integrations of technology, as well as
its role in perpetuating or disrupting cultural hegemony, we seek to foster a
deeper understanding of the mechanisms of power and collective trauma within
global systems. We welcome papers from the fields of literary, cultural,
cinema, visual, and emergent digital studies. Contributions that come from the
disciplines of Philosophy, Classical Studies, History, Anthropology, and
Political Science are equally welcome.
Submission deadline: 31 January 2025, 11:59PM
Contact Email csconference.unm@unm.edu
Leveraging Legacies
of Peacebuilding in a Precarious Time
https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/2025-conference-call-for-papers/
OCTOBER 9-12, 2025 | Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
This year’s conference focuses on the theme of temporality
and peacebuilding – we are interested in scholarship that traces the
trajectories of peace-oriented social movements in the past and present. We are
also envisioning the future of peacebuilding efforts, both locally and globally
and seeking to illuminate the importance of intergenerational organizing,
faith-based understandings of peace, and interdisciplinary approaches to
studying conflict transformation.
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025
For more information, contact info@peacejusticestudies.org
Frontiers before
borders: Perceptions of boundaries, territory and space in the past and present
Friday, 11 July – Saturday, 12 July 2025, Trinity College,
Dublin (virtual participation possible)
How have people constructed imaginary frontiers, boundaries
or borders demarcating different geographical areas in the absence of formal
political or administrative borders? Can cultural, social, and ethnic frontiers
emerge on a geographical level within in the same political or administrative
territory? Have there been, or are there examples of boundaries being
constructed from below rather than by states? Have there been examples of
cultural, social, political, ethnic and/or religious groups constructing
territorial boundaries between themselves and others? Proposals for individual
twenty-minute papers or for panels of no more than four twenty-minute papers
are invited from disciplines including, but not limited to, geography, history,
anthropology, sociology, political science, law and literature.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words, a biography of no more
than 100 words, and a short bibliography are to be submitted to pduffy1@tcd.ie
no later than 31 March 2025
URL: https://bsky.app/profile/frontiers2025.bsky.social
Disability Research
as Disruptive Research
https://www.icadisability.com/2025/preconference-cfp
Boulder, Colorado, United States (and online) - June 10th,
2025
ICA 2025 invites us to critically review, disrupt, and
consolidate the past, present, and futures of communication studies.
Disability, media, and communication research is, of course, a vibrant field
cutting across the swathe of communication and media studies. At the
preconference, we view disability—a form of generative knowledge and
embodiment—as an avenue for critical, disruptive, and consolidative work as it
guides us ‘to think through, act, resist, relate, communicate, engage with one
another against the hybridized forms of oppression and discrimination that so
often do not speak singularly of disability’.
If interested, please submit a 300-word abstract of your
research and a short statement of interest/biography on what you hope to get
out of the preconference (maximum 200-words) by 15 Feb 2025.
Queries can be directed at icadisability@gmail.com.
PUBLICATIONS
The Future of
Nonbinary
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/the-future-of-nonbinary/
This special issue addresses the emergent field of nonbinary
studies, which currently finds itself at a critical juncture. Next to the more
established and rigorous fields of gender studies and transgender studies,
nonbinary studies remains under-theorised and open-ended. Despite the
increasing visibility of nonbinary identities in media and culture, the term
“nonbinary” risks becoming just another identity category, obscuring its
potential for critical engagement. By bringing together a range of
contributions across gender studies, media studies, and the arts, this special
issue aspires to enrich and expand, not consolidate, the fast-evolving field of
nonbinary studies and provoke fruitful discussions that envision a dynamic
future for nonbinary as identity, informant, and inspiration.
For consideration, please email abstracts (250-300 words)
and author bios (100 words) by 31 January 2025 to CQ Quinan (c.quinan@unimelb.edu.au) and
Claude Kempen (c.kempen@unimelb.edu.au).
The Post/Colonial
Eye: Visual Discourses of Empire'
The first section aims to explore the intersections of
visual culture(s) and colonialism, and visual technologies and colonialism,
analysing the significance of the visual for the British Empire. We invite
contributions that address issues of representation and the self, visual
communication between coloniser and colonised, visual technologies, visual
subjectivities, forms of gazing, ethics of looking etc. The second section will
focus on how these visual discourses have been and are complicated, challenged,
appropriated or potentially reversed in decolonial and postcolonial visual
discourse. We are currently looking for proposals for the second part of our
edited collection that explores postcolonial visualities and visual discourses.
Since we already have quite a few contributions focusing on the Indian
subcontinent, we'd welcome a different geographical focus.
Please send an abstract of 250-300 words as well as a short
biographical note of 100 words by 31 January 2025 to visualdiscoursesofempire@gmail.com.
Call for Guest
Editors
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20055659/call-guest-editors-rejoinder
The Institute for Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers
University is seeking guest editors for the Spring 2026 issue of its online
journal, Rejoinder (https://irw.rutgers.edu/rejoinder).
Rejoinder features work at the intersection of scholarship and activism that
reflects feminist/queer and social justice perspectives and is currently
published once a year. Guest editors will be responsible for the overall shape
of the issue, and Rejoinder staff will advise on the process. To be considered,
please contact the editor-in-chief, Sarah Tobias, at stobias@rutgers.edu with a 2-page
proposal that includes a draft theme for your issue (and your rationale for
selecting it) and a draft call for submissions. Please also include a CV or
short bio that describes prior editorial experience. Deadline: April 21, 2025.
Crimson Historical
Review – undergraduate journal
The Crimson Historical Review at the University of Alabama
is a nationally-acclaimed, highly selective, undergraduate historical research
journal that is now accepting submissions for its fourteenth issue. Publishing
with the CHR offers bright researchers a great opportunity to experience the
rigors of the publication process in a supportive environment. If you have
students who are doing original historical research that should be considered
for publication, please consider sending them to the CHR at http://crimsonhistorical.ua.edu.
The deadline for submissions for the Spring 2025 issue is
February 14, 2025.
Contact Email mhlockwood@ua.edu
Feminist Art Practices
and Research
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfar20/about-this-journal
The journal Feminist Art Practices and Research. COSMOS is
born out of a shared desire for other ways of seeing-feeling-thinking-making
and attends to the potentials of entanglements with/in regenerative feminist
art in its polivocal and capacious possible configurations. It imagines
cosmologies interfacing multitudes of positions, alliances, and
positionalities,interrupting the logics of hetero-patriarchy, (neo)colonialism
and coloniality, and racialised capitalism. The journal is a work of
speculation, re-casting and re-situating spaces, chronologies and
subjectivities through the lens of transformative
and activist feminist politics. It aims to generate transnational and
intersectional dialogues and chronicle present cultural urgencies while
attending to and caring for historical amnesias, unexpressed voices, and
entangled dispossessions.
Each contribution is due by 30 March 2025
Contact Email
bsliwinska@fcsh.unl.pt
Migrant Sensoria
Migrant Sensoria aims to make space for research that
explores the generative and underexamined intersections between sensory studies
and critical migration studies. We seek scholarship that thinks about migration
beyond regimes of visibility and is attuned to sensory modes of perception and
meaning making. By this, we mean works that conjure touch, smell, sound,
proprioception, thermoception, and other forms of embodied knowledge to
interpret transnational migration flows and subjectivities. This special issue
brings together humanities and social science approaches to Migrant Sensoria as
an interdisciplinary disruption of how migrants and migration are
conventionally imagined.
Abstracts of 150-250 words and brief bios should be sent to
Ruben Zecena (rzecena@ucdavis.edu) and Hsuan L. Hsu (hsuanLhsu@gmail.com) by
March 1, 2025.
Susan Stryker and
Trans Studies
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/afs_susan-stryker-trans-studies/
This issue invites contributions that reflect on Stryker’s
legacy and the vital role she played in choreographing the field of transgender
studies. Grounded in historical studies of trans communities, social movements,
and cultural production, her writing has always been on the forefront of
contemporary debates in trans thought and politics. Not only has she worked
alongside many important trans studies scholars in the formation of the
interdisciplinary field, but inaugurated a political and epistemological shift
in the way we think about bi-gender culture. Stryker’s work invites us to
question presumptions about gender foundational to feminism, queer theory,
medicine, modernity, governmentality, colonialisms, etc. New questions are
being asked about subjectivity, embodiment, desire, technology, power, affect
and fantasy.
Please send a proposal to Sheila Cavanagh (Sociology, Gender
and Sexuality Studies, York University) Sheila@yorku.ca and Toby Anne Finlay
(Sociology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, York University) tfinlay@yorku.ca by
February 16, 2025.
Food and War: Recipes
of Survival, Resistance, and Power
Wartime cooking transforms under conditions of scarcity,
such as the creative adaptations to rationing in World War II Europe or the
ingenious survival strategies of Latin American communities during civil
conflicts and independence wars. In other contexts, food figured in resisting
oppression, from recipes secretly shared
in concentration camps to the use of cooking as an act of cultural
preservation in exile. A focus on gender and race further highlights how women and
marginalized groups used food to navigate the traumas of war while asserting
agency. Additionally, food’s symbolic weight figures in commemorating or
contesting wartime narratives, revealing how recipes sustain memory and
identity amidst loss. For the upcoming Spring issue, guest edited by Vanesa
Miseres, the Recipes Project team is soliciting proposals for 500-850 word
posts related to food and war featuring original research as well as pieces on
commemoration, pedagogy, and museum and archival collections.
Please send a brief pitch (2 or 3-sentences) as well as an
abbreviated CV to editors Vanesa Miseres (Vanesa.A.Miseres.1@nd.edu) and Jess
Clark (jclark3@brocku.ca) any time before 21 February 2025.
Digital Humanities:
Theories, Practices and Methodologies
The field of Digital Humanities (DH) continues to evolve as
an interdisciplinary nexus of inquiry, embracing innovative theories,
methodologies, and practices which transcend traditional disciplinary
boundaries and fostering collaborations across the humanities, computational
sciences, and the creative industries. The increasing digitization of cultural
artifacts, the proliferation of data-driven methodologies, and the rise of
virtual and networked cyberspaces demand innovative theoretical frameworks,
robust methodological approaches, and critical reflections. Digital Humanities:
Theories, Practices and Methodologies seeks to bring together critical insights
and diverse methodologies to examine the ways in which digital environments
shape and are shaped by cultural, social, and technological developments.
Deadline for Abstracts: 1. March 2025
Inquiries ought to be sent to Dr. Maria Grajdian, Grajdian@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Call for Reviewers - Journal of Popular Culture
The Journal of Popular Culture is looking for those who are
interested in reviewing books. These reviews will be due on March 10,
2025. If you have a completed Master's
degree or higher, one of these books is in your field of study, and you are
interested in writing a review for us, please contact me at kiuchiyu@msu.edu, noting
your preferred title and your mailing address. Please also send a short
explanation to state what makes you a good reviewer of the book (or you may
send me your CV). The reviews need to be between 500 and 1,000 words and
documented in MLA style. Physical books may only be sent to an address in the
U.S. International reviewers will receive an e-copy of the book.
Available Books
- Reginald Wiebe and Doothy Woodman, The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel's Moral Universe, Alberta
- Mark Hibbett, Data and Doctor Doom: An Emperical Approach to Transmedia Characters, Palgrave
- Daniel Worden, Petro-Chemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics, Ohio State U
- Ed Gruver, The Wee Ice Mon Cometh: Ben Hogan's 1053 Triple Slam and One of Golf's Greatest Summers, Nebraska
- Marie-Pier Luneau, Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les Romans d'Amour, Baraka Books
- Aditya Misra, Theorizing the Superhero: Performativity and Politics, Palgrave (e-book only)
- David Walton, The Ambiguities of European Comic Books, Lexington
- Paul Thomas, The Informatoin Behavior of Wikipedia Fan Editors: A Digital Auto Ethnography, Lexington
- Kevin Chabot, Poetics of the Paranormal, McGill-Queen
- Sheng-Mei Ma, China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups, Ohio State
- Mary Grace Lao, et al., Diverging the Popular, Gender and Trauma aka the Jessica Jones Anthology, Calgary
- Tim Hanley, Never a Sidekick: Exploring the Dynamic History of Batgirl, Rowman & Littlefield
- Karry Fine, et al., Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western, Nebraska
Sensory History
https://www.processhistory.org/calls-for-submissions/
Process: A Blog for American History invites proposals and
submissions for an upcoming series on sensory history. We are open to a variety
of themes relating to sensory history as both a methodology and a field and its
intersections with various subfields of U.S. history, including histories of
law, age, gender, disability studies, sport, and the environment. Articles
might be centered on just one sense or could take a multisensory approach. We
accept submissions from anyone engaged in the practice of U.S. history,
including researchers, teachers, graduate students, archivists, curators, public
historians, digital scholars, and others.
Proposals and drafts may be sent to blog@oah.org.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Grant Opportunities at GINGKO
GINGKO provides grants to support academic research into the
history, art history and religions of MENA. GINGKO also offers grants for
people organising transformative interfaith and intercultural encounters
between people from MENA and the West. We are open for applications until 6
April 2025. You can read more about the GINGKO Grants Programme and find
information on how to apply by visiting: gingko.org.uk/how-to-apply
Contact Email grants@gingko.org.uk
Barnard Library Research Awards
https://library.barnard.edu/grants-and-awards
The Barnard Library Research Award supports research using
collections at the Barnard Library, Barnard Zine Library, and Barnard Archives,
resulting in any final format. Undergraduate and graduate students, non-Barnard
faculty (including adjuncts and term faculty), journalists, and independent
scholars, artists, and organizers are encouraged to apply. Additionally, we may
prioritize projects that lack traditional institutional resources for research.
Applications are open for the 2025-26 award cycle are due by February 2, 2025.
Women Doing Fieldwork
| Photo Contest
https://filmfreeway.com/WAU2025CongressPhoto
For decades, a limited vision of who "should" be
doing fieldwork has erased and made invisible women anthropologists and social
scientists. This limited vision has resulted in a lack of recognition for the
photographic record of women doing fieldwork, and their image has not become a
common symbol in the public understanding of social science disciplines. The
WAU 2025 Congress Photo Contest seeks to highlight the importance of women in
fieldwork, to reverse decades of invisibility in photographic repositories, and
to provide images that show the diversity of scientific work by women social
scientists, especially anthropologists.
Deadline: May 31, 2025
If you have any questions about our use of your information
or privacy practices, please contact us at org@waucongress.org
Postdoctoral
Fellowship in Textile and Dress History
https://www.pasold.co.uk/neaverson-pasold-postdoctoral-fellowship
The Pasold Research Fund is offering a limited series of
short-term Postdoctoral Fellowships. These fellowships will be offered
biennially between 2025 and 2029 to support postdoctoral research and the start
of new research projects in the fields of textile and dress history.
Application Deadline: 1 April 2025
questions? e-mail the Pasold Research Fund's Director, Dr
Bethan Bide at histart-pasold@york.ac.uk or bethan.bide@york.ac.uk
Research &
Creative Fellowships: Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the
Upper Gulf Coast
The Center supports the production, curation, and
transmission of knowledge about Southeast Texas and the greater Gulf regions
with a commitment to interdisciplinary, collaborative, and community-focused
projects. To achieve these goals, the Center supports the work of scholars,
authors, artists, community leaders, and others who represent varied
specializations and backgrounds. Fellowships are open to scholars, creatives,
advance graduate students, and community leaders whose work contributes to the
Center's mission. Fellows may receive awards up to $5,000.
Send PDF applications to Center director Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.
(jlbryan@lamar.edu) by March 15, 2025.
State Library and Archives of Florida Research Stipend Program
https://dos.fl.gov/library-archives/archives/research/stipend/
The Division of Library and Information Services is pleased
to announce a competitive stipend program for qualified researchers, sponsored
by the Friends of the State Library and Archives of Florida. The program is
intended to support exceptional projects utilizing the collections of the State
Archives and State Library of Florida that can only be accessed on-site. Who is
Eligible to Apply? Academic historians, graduate students and undergraduate
students conducting research for a thesis, dissertation, article, book,
documentary or other publicly-disseminated product.
Application deadline is March 31, 2025.
Contact Email thomas.robinson@dos.fl.gov
Research Fellowship
with the BPL’s Special Collections Department
https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/apply-for-a-research-fellowship-with-the-bpls-special-collections-department/
The Boston Public Library is proud to announce two new
research fellowships to support the use of special collections:
The Telling Boston's Stories Fellowships is a four-week
fellowship, intended to support research projects whose focus is on the people
and communities of Boston that are commonly left out of the historical
narrative.
The Surfacing Overlooked Stories Fellowship is an
eight-to-ten-week fellowship intended to highlight often overlooked voices and
narratives in our collections. The theme for the 2025-2026 Surfacing Overlooked
Stories fellowship will be looking into Black life and culture from Boston’s
founding in 1630 through Boston’s incorporation as a city in 1822.
applications are due on Monday, March 3, 2025.
Research Fellowships | University of Michigan Library
The University of Michigan Library invites applications for
fellowships for research in residence. Three fellowship opportunities are
available to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our
special collections.
The current application cycle is open from 1 November 2024
through 31 January 2025
Contact Email moconway@umich.edu
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Center for Humanistic
Inquiry (CHI) Fellowship
https://apply.interfolio.com/161531
The Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College invites
applications for four post-doctoral scholars whose work considers the theme of
tools and the role they have played in defining the human and the humanities.
The theme is to be understood broadly—open to studies of tools from the most
rudimentary to the most technologically advanced, from the manual to the
digital, the silex axe to the silicon chip. The theme encompasses such
functional synonyms of tools as devices, gadgets, apparatuses, and prostheses,
etc.—in short, the equipment that figures centrally to narratives regarding the
making and unmaking of the human and of the world.
Review of applications will begin on February 1, 2025
Assistant Teaching
Professor
https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/107954
The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Syracuse
University invites applications for a renewable non-tenure track 3-year
position of Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS),
appointment to begin August 2025. We seek an interdisciplinary feminist scholar
with a strong record of teaching and research in WGS. Candidates with
interdisciplinary doctoral training and experience in teaching introductory WGS
classes preferred. Candidates are expected to teach eight courses per year.
Service to the department, college, or university is also expected.
deadline: March 1, 2025
For more information contact: Dana Olwan (dmolwan@syr.edu)
Teaching Assistant
Professor - Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=179033844
We seek a colleague who will be a dedicated teacher with the
ability to teach introductory General Education classes in Race, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies. This position involves teaching five three-credit courses
each semester, or, depending on department needs, four three-credit courses
plus a departmental service work assignment. Preferred areas of specialization
include 1) Indigenous, 2) Queer or LGBTQI+ or, 3) Latine studies. Teaching
instructional academic staff will not be evaluated based on research
productivity.
First Review Date: 02/22/2025
Position Contact Email: tlilley@uwlax.edu
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Roundtable Discussion
of Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment
https://www.paris-iea.fr/en/events/risk-on-the-table-food-production-health-and-the-environment-2
27 January 2025, 12-1:30PM EST
Online Round-table discussion marking the paperback launch
of Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment, edited by
Angela Creager. Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and
processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for
much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other
technological innovations intended to improve the food supply’s productivity
and safety have generated new, often poorly understood risks for consumers and
the environment. This panel will use Risk on the Table, which was just
published in paperback, as a starting point for a multidisciplinary discussion
of the costs and consequences of the reliance on chemical technologies in
contemporary food production.
Contact Email frohlich@auburn.edu
First Day Magic?
Effective Teaching Practices for Faculty to Start Strong
https://acue.org/start-strong-webinar/
Thursday, February 6th, 3:00 - 4:00 PM, EDT
In this focused session, faculty certified in ACUE’s
Framework share their approach to the start of the semester and how it has
evolved over time—including what’s worked and what hasn’t. Plus, take a deep
dive with ACUE’s Chief Academic Officer, Penny MacCormack, PhD, into how ACUE’s
new course Effective Teaching 101.
Decolonizing
the Mind: A Journey through
Feb 9th, Feb 17th, 2025
Scholars and students are invited to engage in a series of
thought-provoking dialogues that examine the process of decolonizing the mind.
This series aims to critically explore and challenge the pervasive influences
of colonialism on knowledge, culture, and society. Through interactive
discussions, we will delve into the complexities of colonial and postcolonial
studies and the significance of decolonial theories and engage directly with an
influential author in the field., Dr. Mohammad Bagher Shabanpour.
Black Diversities Virtual Seminar 2025
You are invited to join our third Black Diversities virtual
seminar on January 31, 2025 starting at 9:00 am (EST). This theme for this
year's seminar is racial and ethnic mixing and in-betweenness. The seminar will
consider how these and other concepts of mixing and in-betweenness complicate
notions of rigid racial, linguistic, religious, and ethnic classifications. The
event is free but attendees must use this link to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-CrqD4qHNQhxFJohSIj8QIUejKC8AnM
Contact Email amcletch@scsu.edu
God Bless the Pill: Contraception and
Sexuality in American Religion
March 9, 2025, 6pm
In the middle of the 20th century, Protestants, Jews, and
even some Catholics were in an alliance to expand birth control access to
American women. Religious leaders joined medical authorities to make birth
control respectable. Yet these efforts to expand access sometimes found these
same leaders distancing themselves from the birth control movement’s feminist
underpinnings. In this talk, Professor Mehta shows how the mainstreaming of
birth control in the middle of the 20th century has more in common than one
might expect with the family values rhetoric that would limit reproductive
rights in the late 20th and early 21st century.
See all spring online lectures here: https://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/events/index.html
