CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Archives as Data - Summer Institute 2025
https://lab.history.columbia.edu/content/workshops
June 2 to June 13 2025, Columbia University
This NEH-funded program will offer practical training for historians and archivists in processing and analyzing textual data. Participants in the Archiving Digital Records workshop, designed for archivists, will learn how to use new technology to improve the description and arrangement of digital or digitized records, especially PDFs, and provide users with new ways to access them. Participants will receive training in using metadata tools such as PDF Processing, OCR Processing, and Named Entity Recognition (NER) analysis.
Review of applications will begin in March.
email: archivesasdata@gmail.com
Navigating Anti-Black Racism and Nativism: Black Immigrants and the Right to the Nation
https://blackstudies.missouri.edu/news/call-papers-2025-annual-black-studies-conference
The 2025 Annual Black Studies Conference, University of Missouri, October 15 - 16, 2025
Immigration history is vibrantly attuned to race and ethnicity. Scholars have given in depth attention to the myriad ways in which race and ethnicity have shaped both migrant experiences and immigration policy. And yet, within this rich field, Black immigrants are nearly absent. Black immigrants are largely left out of popular understandings of the American immigrant experience. This lacuna distorts our understanding of the immigrant past; under closer examination, Black migration was an integral part of the construction of the United States. Overall, this conference will address how Black immigrant communities have navigated stringent immigration policies influenced by anti-Black racism and nativism, advocated for their right to the city, and organized alongside domestic social justice movements.
Titles and abstracts are due March 31, 2025, and should be emailed to blackstudies@missouri.edu
Network Ecologies Reimagined: Internets, Environments, and Cultures
The Digital Humanities Exchange in UCI’s School of Humanities invites media scholars, critical data scholars, digital humanists, science and technology scholars, and interdisciplinarians of all kinds working at the intersections of internets and environments to submit an abstract for our upcoming spring conference “Network Ecologies Reimagined: Internets, Environments, and Cultures,” to be held in-person in Irvine, CA, USA on May 16–17, 2025. We hope to attract a wide range of scholars working across, between, at the fringes of, or adjacent to humanities disciplines as they chart the planetary limits of computation and interrogate the complex environmental entanglements of everyday life in an age of constant digital connection. To apply, please submit a 300–500-word abstract by 3/2/2025.
The Lesbian International: Creating Networks of Knowledge Across Space and Time
https://www.sinisterwisdom.org/lesbianlives2025
October 24 and 25 at the Graduate Center CUNY, New York City
For the first time since its inception in 1993, the Lesbian Lives Conference is crossing the Atlantic to New York City. Our aim is to foster international and interdisciplinary conversations on critical issues in lesbian studies today. By engaging with global scholars, activists, and artists, we seek to deepen understanding of the lesbian erotic and generate new knowledge, artistic imaginations, and activist strategies to sustain lesbian lives and resistance.
Proposals should be no longer than 300 words and must be submitted via our online form by 31 March 2025.
For any questions, reach out to sinisterwisdom@gmail.com.
Blue Utopias: Utopian Dreams on Sea and Shore
https://utopian-studies.org/conference2025/
October 30 to November 1, 2025
The organizers of this conference invite scholars to critically consider utopian visions of the oceans and shores of our planet and beyond. These “Blue Utopias” include the myth of Atlantis, to tales of castaways, to the sea as a garden, to modern proposals for undersea living, to current plans for floating cities of capitalist freedom and more. Since the work of Thomas More, whose utopia is an island, the sea and the shore have provided a canvas for new spaces, new places and new people. Oceans are highways of purposeful movement that bring dreamers to those new places and new peoples. Of course, historically these dreams have often been dystopian for indigenous peoples, who have their own visions of blue utopias whether in Oceania, the Arctic, or elsewhere. Space, once called the “final frontier,” provides an unlimited ocean and limitless shores on which to project utopian dreams.
Proposal Deadline: June 13, 2025
Challenging Times
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/events/2025/challenging-times
University of Birmingham and online on May 21, 2025
Climate change, war, rapid technological advancements, and clashing ideologies are reshaping our world, presenting us with profound and multifaceted challenges. Global warming is impacting and shaping lives and societies worldwide; the outbreak and escalation of global conflicts, resulting in profound losses and changes, continue to shape political issues; technological developments such as the rise of AI software have prompted discussions on their ethical implications, as well as questions of authorship and artistic originality; while longstanding discourses on race, cultural diversity, and gender equality retain their importance even as the sociopolitical landscapes evolve around them. What is the role of arts and humanities in relation to these challenges?
Please submit your proposals by Monday 24 March 2025
Contact Email contactviaform@bham.ac.uk
Voces Oral History Summer Institute
https://voces.moody.utexas.edu/summer-institute
June 2-6, 2025, at the University of Texas at Austin
Come to Austin to learn from experts with decades of experience in oral history interviewing, research, teaching, preservation, and dissemination. You’ll be part of a cohort of like-minded individuals ready to learn best practices of oral history. And you’ll get individualized guidance on our own project. This limited-enrollment workshop is for faculty and graduate students wishing to use oral history in research and teaching. Instruction will be helpful to the beginner, intermediate and advanced scholar.
Application Deadline: Friday, March 14, 2025 at noon CST
"The Past as Knowledge," 10th Annual International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference
October 17, 2025 - October 18, 2025, University of Central Oklahoma
Our theme this year is “The Past as Knowledge.” Instead of defining the past as times, events, and modes of knowledge preceding the present moment, the 10th annual International Gender and Sexuality Studies (IGSS) Conference invites the many ways that people have based their future-forward thinking through engaging with and being inspired by the past. The past, in fact, has always been one with—and living among—the present. At a time when cultural amnesia and other forms of forgetting pervade every corner, how should we protect and make good use of archives as defense?
For all submissions, the deadline is April 18th 2025, at 11:59 PM Central Time.
For more questions, please contact thecenteratuco@gmail.com or Shun Kiang at skiang@uco.edu
Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference
3rd-4th July, hosted online or in-person at the University of Liverpool
This year's theme is "Boundaries: Transgression, Subversion, Deconstruction". The conference will take place on 3 and 4 July 2025. We are inviting discussion on boundaries in speculative fiction from the fields of literary studies, creative writing, media studies, philosophy, art, anthropology, sociology, and political theory.
The deadline for submissions is March 24th 2025.
email: crsf.team@gmail.com
ESEH 2025 Summer School in Environmental History
http://eseh.org/call-for-participants-eseh-2025-summer-school-in-environmental-history/
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
August 25-28, 2025
This Summer School is intended for doctoral students in history, STS, philosophy, sociology, and neighboring humanities disciplines working on the history of anthropogenic environmental changes that have impacted Earth processes on a planetary scale without necessarily confining themselves to the geological definitions of the Anthropocene. Together, we will discuss how Anthropocene Histories can and should be written and what are the sources and methods that allow historians to account for the elemental materiality in their writing.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 28, 2025.
For further information, please contact kati.lindstrom@abe.kth.se
Critical Femininities Conference
https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/annual-critical-femininities-conference/
The Critical Femininities Research Cluster at the Centre for Feminist Research at York University invites abstracts from scholars, researchers, activists, and artists for the fifth annual Critical Femininities Conference on the theme of ‘Connection.’ The conference will take place virtually on August 15-17, 2025.
Critical Femininities is a growing field that seeks to develop nuanced critiques of femininity in all its variations beyond its characterization as a patriarchal imposition and where femininity is not synonymous with ‘woman’. Rethinking femininity as a concept opens space for a dialogue on the complex, multidimensional feminine expressions beyond heteronormative relations. Additionally, the field of critical femininities offers alternative frameworks centering connection through community building and a love politics that emphasizes a praxis of care extending beyond the personal and into the building of political communities.
Please send submissions to critfemininities@gmail.com by March 22, 2025.
Contact Email critfemininities@gmail.com
The Past as Knowledge
The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference is presented by the Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center at the University of Central Oklahoma. Instead of defining the past as times, events, and modes of knowledge preceding the present moment, the 10th annual International Gender and Sexuality Studies (IGSS) Conference invites the many ways that people have based their future-forward thinking through engaging with and being inspired by the past.
The conference will include presentations that address issues of women, gender, and sexuality studies across various disciplines, including, but not limited to, the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, activism, and STEM fields. We invite students, faculty, staff, scholars, and activists to propose papers, panels, roundtable discussions, and workshop presentations. Please submit abstracts through the link listed here: https://forms.gle/uHvrebEayuwERnhJ8.
For all submissions, the deadline is April 18th 2025, at 11:59 PM Central Time.
For more questions, please contact thecenteratuco@gmail.com or Shun Kiang at skiang@uco.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Objects of Contagion
The idea of “strategic proximity” is a curatorial or creative technique whereby audiences are placed in close proximity to substances they might otherwise avoid, such as biological materials or contaminants, in order to generate a productive tension between welcome and threat in the gallery space. The Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities (JOSAH) now invites submissions for a special issue exploring the presence—real or perceived—of biohazards, toxicity, and disease in modern and contemporary art in Asia and its diasporas, with a focus on the politics of hygiene and biosecurity; cultural discourses that examine the entanglements of the body with race, sex, gender, and the more-than-human; colonialism and postcoloniality; and the aesthetics of the biohazard generally. We welcome contributions by scholars, critics, curators, and artists.
Deadline for Submission: April 30, 2025
Please send submissions and enquiries to ari.heinrich@anu.edu.au and Sophie.guo@courtauld.ac.uk
Alternative Realities and Potential Worlds
We invite submissions for an interdisciplinary edited volume dedicated to exploring the concept of Alternative Realities and Potential Worlds. The concept of “alternative realities” transcends its association with speculative fiction and psychological anomalies, revealing itself as a crucial lens for interpreting the complexities of human existence. The term “alternative” is interpreted broadly, embracing its etymological roots of “different in parallel,” while “reality” is approached as both a “concrete existence in the here and now” and a mutable construct shaped by perception and interpretation. Our goal is to debunk the notion of “alternative realities” as confined to science fiction or dysregulated psyches, instead showcasing their pervasive influence in everyday life, intellectual exploration, and artistic expression. Contributions are welcome from established academics, early-career/emerging researchers as well as independent scholars, interdisciplinary thinkers and professionals who engage with the interplay of unconventional realities across disciplines. Submissions should align with the central theme of the volume and provide innovative perspectives grounded in theoretical, empirical, or creative methodologies.
Deadline for Abstracts: 15. March 2025
Inquiries ought to be sent to Dr. Maria Grajdian, grajdian@hiroshima-u.ac.jp¸and/or Dr. Raluca Nicolae, raluca.nicolae@rei.ase.ro.
Chronic: living with
chronic illness
https://www.feministpress.org/current-call-for-papers
This special issue of WSQ takes this contemporary phenomenon
as our point of departure to consider the social, affective, and political
consequences of living with chronic illness. We are soliciting essays, personal
and researched, that reflect this variety and that map the critical and
scholarly intersections of chronic illness with disability and critical race
studies, notably in relation to lupus, but also related to health and
healthcare issues. These might include, for example, issues primarily affecting
Black women, including access to diagnosis and treatment of various cancers,
notably gynecological ones. Questions about chronic illness align as well with
care, affect, and feminist eco-theory, which help illuminate the literary,
social, and philosophical implications of what it means to be living one’s life
in an ill body.
Priority Deadline for full pieces: March 14, 2025
For questions, email the guest issue editors at WSQEditorial@gmail.com.
Female and queer bodies in speculative fiction and visual culture
This edited volume aims to explore different representations and interpretations of female bodies and queer bodies presented in speculative fiction and visual culture. Through a diverse and transnational perspective, this publication aims to illustrate how these bodies are constructed, contested, and reimagined within non-realist cultural frameworks. We invite contributions that critically engage with a broad range of media and artistic forms, including but not limited to film and television, literature, comics and graphic novels, drama, fanfiction and fan creations, radio and podcasts, video games, contemporary art, drag performance, photography, and plastic arts. While submissions grounded in close readings of single texts or artworks are welcome, we particularly encourage chapters that adopt a comparative approach—examining two or more texts, creators, or artistic movements—or that situate their analysis within broader cultural, theoretical, or historical frameworks.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words before April 20th, along with a brief bio, to gilmaria@uniovi.es and dmadridb@ull.edu.es
Writing Human: Post-Chatbot Approaches to College Writing
We are seeking short, first-person narratives (2,000-3,000 words) from college instructors in any discipline who use writing activities and assignments in ways that foster engagement, enhance learning, and stimulate creativity. We are compiling a book of stories that affirm the educational value of human writing at a time when more of our writing is being done for us by generative AI. Thoughtfully designed writing activities leverage the power of writing to help students do the self-transformative work of learning and thinking, and they can also empower students to find their own voices and carve out their own places in the cultural conversations they are inheriting. This book will provide contributors with an opportunity to share their stories about how they use writing in their classrooms. Preference will be given to narratives that model practical, creative strategies for developing meaningful writing activities and assignments.
Please send 500-word chapter proposals to Dr. Randy Laist (rlaist@bridgeport.edu) and Dr. Nicole Brewer (nbrewer@ccsu.edu) by April 1, 2025.
All Worn Out in the Academy: Dreaming for Spirit-Healing Education
https://feralfeminisms.com/cfps/
Many of us interested in anti-oppressive education, activism, and advocacy are worn out. Our journeys to learn, pursue graduate education, and seek employment in academia, might have been propelled by a belief that theory might help us make sense of the pain we see around us (hooks 1994). However, our realities of post-secondary education have produced a type of cognitive dissonance—of learning about forms of resistance while embodying ways of knowing, being, and valuing that are not liberating at all. Universities often reproduce carceral logics like hierarchical thinking and promote white colonial ableist conceptions of excellence. If you are feeling worn out, like us, we invite you to dream. Animate your ancestral and kin-ful feminist, trans, queer, cuir (Pierce, Viteri, Trávez, Vidal-Ortiz, and MartĂnez-Eschazábal 2021), quare (Johnson 2001), queer of colour (Ferguson 2003), anti-racist, anti-colonial/decolonial, anti-imperial, Indigenous, Black, Brown, im/migrant, Disabled, Crip, Mad community intelligences—to dream a different academia.
CPF for abstract closes: March 15, 2025
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 April 20, 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.
Jon Langmead, Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen, Missouri
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
David Walton, The Ambiguities of European Comic Books, 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
Nghana Tamu Lwis, Black Women's Health in the Age of Hip Hop & HIV/AIDS, Ohio
URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15405931
Bodies in Process
https://www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal-of-arts-writing-by-students#call-for-papers
JAWS is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes new art and writing from early- to mid-career researchers and practitioners working across creative disciplines. For Volume 11.1, JAWS: Journal of Art and Writing invites work that contemplates bodies in process, whether that means material bodies doing the work of processing – absorption, digestion, excretion – or bodies of work between starting and finishing and everything in between. We welcome practice-based research, visual essays, book reviews and interviews by emergent practitioners and researchers, and we're particularly interested to receive academic submissions that respond to the theme (up to 6000 words).
please submit a 300-word abstract by 31 March 2025.
Contact Email editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com
Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University
https://www.feministformations.org/submit/calls-for-papers
Feminist Formations invites submissions for the special issue "Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University". This issue aims to stitch together a practical and theoretical foundation from which to imagine and facilitate feminist futures for higher education. We seek papers that critically engage with grading practices from a range of intersectional feminist perspectives. We are particularly interested in how a feminist pedagogical lens can draw attention to the social and institutional structures that grades function within, including but not limited to the colonial origins of the education system; racism and ableism in assessment; and the gendered care work of feminist education. We invite contributions that not only confront grading as a material and institutional framework inimical to feminist pedagogy, but also imagine the converse: alternative forms of assessment capable of structuring feminist institutions of higher education.
Please submit a 500-word abstract as a Word .doc (NOT .docx or .rtf) file by March 31, 2025.
Questions about the review process may be sent to the guest editors at feminismwithoutgrades@gmail.com.
Narratives of persistence and survival: At the intersection of neurodivergence, academic identity, and systemic ableist structures
Despite growing awareness of neurodiversity, faculty experiences with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) remain critically underexplored in academic discourse. This is especially true for those who exist outside the dominant cultural image of ADHD: white, cisgender, heterosexual men and boys. Women—of all ages—remain underdiagnosed and underserved, and are much more likely to be diagnosed later in life as well as high-masking. Through examining the intersections of neurodivergence, academic identity, and systemic ableist structures, this collection works to center the largely invisible lived experiences of those members of academia who exist outside the dominant medical and popular narratives of ADHD diagnosis.
This edited collection invites contributions from scholars working across all disciplines and fields of academia. Gendered experiences of ADHD (including LGBTQIA2S+) and layered intersectional perspectives (socioeconomic class, age, ethnicity, race, religion, etc.) are welcomed and encouraged.
Proposals Due: May 15, 2025
email: Whitney Hardin (hardinwn@gmail.com) and Julia Kiernan (jkiernan@ltu.edu)
Seeking digital media reviews for American Journalism: A Journal of Media History
Are you interested in writing a digital media review for American Journalism: A Journal of Media History? The Digital Media Reviews section of the journal showcases digital archives, websites, social media accounts, and film resources that would be useful to media historians or media history educators. Past submissions have highlighted digital archives authors consulted in their own research or that are housed at their own institutions, while others have explored popular media (social media, film, or television series) that engage with relevant historical topics or issues.
Suggested review length: 700 to 800 words long
Contact me at cteresa@niagara.edu for further information about submission
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Rubenstein Library Travel Grants, Duke University
https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/grants-and-fellowships
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Research Travel Grant Program. Research travel grants of up to $1500 are offered by the a range of Centers, subject areas, and collection holdings.
Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025 at 6:00 pm ET
Direct all questions to AskRL@duke.edu with the subject line “Travel Grants.”
Short Term Research Fellowships
https://apply.interfolio.com/159625
The Helmerich Center for American Research will offer five short-term fellowships for the 2025-26 academic year. Fellowships are available for pre-and post-doctoral research or independent research with a stipend of $2,500 for United States residents and $3,000 for international residents from July 2025-June 2026. The length of the research visits are between two weeks and one month. Individuals who live within 70 miles of the center and who are not employed by The University of Tulsa are eligible to apply for one-month fellowships, with a stipend of $1,000.
deadline: Mar 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
email: hcarlibrary@utulsa.edu.
Autry Museum Research Fellowships
https://theautry.org/research-collections/library-and-archives/fellowships
Applications for the 2025 Autry Research Fellowships are now being accepted. Research Fellows must be U.S. citizens and in-residence only during June, July, August, or September 2025. The Autry works to preserve and provide access to collections through proper and ethical stewardship. We provide a wide range of access in order to promote scholarship and study. As stewards, we have also taken an active role in consulting with different Native nations and indigenous communities on how to best describe and manage holdings that may contain culturally sensitive information or restricted tribal knowledge. Please understand, any requests to access collections associated with Native nations or Indigenous communities may be delayed by these concerns. Also, we strongly encourage researchers to foster similar relationships and practices.
applications are due Friday, February 28, 2025
Questions? Please contact Cheryl Miller, Director, Library and Archives, at cmiller@theautry.org or 747-201-8441.
University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies is sponsoring Library Travel Research Grants
https://www.latam.ufl.edu/outreach/library-travel-grants/
The grants are to enable faculty from qualified U.S. colleges and universities to access the extensive resources of the Latin American and Caribbean Collection. The UF Libraries’ Latin American and Caribbean Collection (LACC) is one of the leading research collections of its kind. It consists of over 500,000 volumes, and includes all disciplines, although literature, the humanities, and the social sciences are best represented. Application Deadline: March 10, 2025
email: info@latam.ufl.edu
Northwestern University Libraries - Travel Grants
https://www.library.northwestern.edu/research/library-grants.html
Applications are open for the Northwestern Libraries Travel Grants to fund research visits scheduled between September 1, 2025 and August 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is April 1, 2025. We invite applications from researchers unaffiliated with Northwestern to pursue projects that require substantial onsite use of our collections and draw upon the expertise of our curators, librarians and staff.
There are 2 travel grant offerings for the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections & University Archives:
- John Cage Collection
- Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives
Additional travel grants are available to fund research visits at the
Contact Email librarygrants@northwestern.edu
Annaley Naegle Redd Student Award in Women's History
The Annaley Naegle Redd Student Award in Women's History will be given each year to one undergraduate or graduate student doing research on women in the American West (west of the Mississippi River). Applicants not receiving the Annaley Naegle Redd Award will be considered for the Redd Center's other student grants ($1,500 maximum) if the study area is in the intermountain regions of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, or Wyoming. Proposals in all areas of the humanities, arts, and social sciences are welcomed. Applications for 2025 are due by 11:59 p.m. MST on March 15, and awardees will be notified by May 1.
URL: https://reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-center-blog/Post/2025-awards-and-funding-announcement
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
The Clemente Course in the Humanities Full Time Outreach Manager
https://www.clementecourse.org/staff#Opportunities
The Clemente Course in the Humanities seeks a skilled, enthusiastic, and collaborative Outreach Manager (OM) to join its national leadership team. Clemente is a national nonprofit, which provides free, transformative college courses to underserved communities. The OM will play a key role in developing connections within and between three crucial constituencies: 1) students/alumni; 2) faculty/staff; and 3) donors. They will have an opportunity to work closely and collaboratively with each member of CCH’s leadership team and will have a valued seat at the table as the organization charts the next stage in its development. Please note that this position is mostly remote, with occasional travel for gatherings and events.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis from Feb. 1, 2025 onwards. Application window will close on March 14, 2025.
Visiting Scholar - Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
The Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS) at the University of Houston invites applications for a non-tenure track Visiting Scholar position in WGSS, to begin in the Fall Semester 2025. Applicants may be working in any discipline, on a topic concerning women, sexuality and/or gender. Some engagement with Queer Studies is preferred. The recipient will teach one course per term, assist with some WGSS programming, and devote the rest of the time to research and publication. The ideal candidate would be open to teaching “Introduction to WGSS,” “Sexuality and Queer Theory,” or “Gender and Society” along with courses of their own design.
Please submit a letter of application together with CV and writing sample of up to 30 pages to the Visiting Scholar Search Committee through the application portal on or before March 15th, 2025, 11:59pm CST.
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Women's and Gender Studies
https://workforum.memphis.edu/postings/43030
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program (WGST) at the University of Memphis seeks to hire an Assistant Professor of Teaching. This is a 9-month, full-time faculty position with a promotion pathway and support for innovative teaching. The program seeks a dedicated educator who is passionate about teaching and mentoring undergraduate students. The teaching load for this position is four courses per semester; at least three assigned courses per semester will be WMST 2100: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies.
Initial review of applications will begin on February 28th, 2025, and may continue until the position is filled.
Please contact search committee chair, Chrystal Goudsouzian with any questions – cdykes@memphis.edu
Data Fellows for Freedom on the Move Project
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68486
Freedom on the Move, a digital history project based in Cornell University’s Department of History, is hiring five data fellows for the summer of 2025. In this eight-week program, data fellows will work with scholars of slavery, resistance, marronage, and emancipation to help deepen the data of freedomonthemove.org. This database is working to make all extant “runaway slave ads” from North American history free and accessible to researchers, students, and the public. Any graduate student in history or another relevant discipline, whether enrolled in a PhD or MA program, is eligible to apply. Data fellows must be in residence in Ithaca for the duration of the summer program (June 2-July 25, 2025). They will be appointed as Cornell interns, will receive on-campus housing and a meal plan, and will receive an additional stipend of $5,500. Participants must provide proof of health insurance before beginning their appointments.
Documents must be received by March 31, 2025 for full consideration.
email Ed Baptist at FOTM@cornell.edu
Closed & At-Risk DEIA Offices
Invisible Histories (https://invisiblehistory.org/) is an independent nonprofit preserving LGBTQ history in the US South. Due to the rising alt right threats to all marginalized history, we have extended our collecting efforts to include any DEIA related offices, programs, and centers. This project is to create a list of closed, closing, and at-risk of closure DEIA offices, programs, and centers across the US. This list will be kept internal as we try to locate potential collections.
Please complete the Google Survey by February 28th so that we have time to pull images from social media before they are erased.
Opportunities for Youth: Resources, Internships, Jobs
https://opportunitiesforyouth.org/
Invisible Histories Program - Spring Internships
Invisible Histories is a community-based archive in Birmingham, AL, that locates, collects, preserves, researches and creates educational events around LGBTQ history in the Deep South. Applications are due by Sunday, March 23, 2025, at 11:59pm CST. We will be reviewing applications the week following the deadline to submit, and we will notify candidates that week if they were selected for an interview. In order to participate in an internship, we require that students receive course credit, practicum credit, independent study credit, or have an official intern position through their institution.
Read about the specific opportunities.
A Professor Put Her Class on TikTok. Thousands Enrolled in a Digital H.B.C.U.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/style/hillmantok-tiktok-hbcu.html
A video welcoming students to Leah Barlow’s African American studies course inspired Hillmantok, a virtual university of free TikTok lectures from Black academics and experts.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Feminist Theory Workshop
March 21-22, 2025, Duke University; In-person and virtual options.
One of the goals of the Feminist Theory Workshop is to promote a more diverse dialogue among scholars of feminist theory and to foster a vibrant international community of scholarship. To that end, we bring together internationally recognized keynote speakers and emerging young scholars to engage in lively and focused debate.
Please register by March, 1 2025
Global Digital Humanities Symposium
The Global Digital Humanities Symposium Planning Committee is pleased to announce the program and to open free registration for the 10th annual Symposium, which will take place as a virtual event, April 2-4, 2025. During the Virtual Symposium, we will support live interpretation of presentations from English into Spanish and from Spanish into English, as well as live captions for presentations in English.
Contact Email kmapes@msu.edu
Immigration and Ethnic History Society Virtual Mentoring Event
https://iehs.org/event/mentorship_2025/
Thursday, February 27, 2025 from 4:00PM to 5:15PM EST
The event is open to graduate students and early career historians working on immigration and ethnicity in North America. It will include small-group discussions to give participants the chance to ask mid-career or senior professionals their most pressing academic and career questions and meet peers with similar interests.
Please note that registration ends on February 15, 2025 and will be limited to forty people.
Contact alison.efford@marquette.edu if you have any questions.
Planned Parenthood Lobby Day 2025
https://www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/a/lobby-day2025
Join your fellow Planned Parenthood advocates on March 20, at the State Capitol to rally for reproductive rights and talk to our legislators about the top issues impacting reproductive health care. All attendees will receive a t-shirt, training, swag items, lunch and travel if needed. We will have buses departing from San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth, and Dallas with a stop at Waco. Transportation will be provided for Lubbock & El Paso. We're excited to offer scholarships to cover general admission. For those traveling from the RGV area to Austin, we are offering a gas card to assist with travel costs.
email: Alex.Strawn@ppgt.org
Cultural Destruction: Placing Gaza in Wider Context
https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/sjc-kareem.pdf
February 26th, 2025 Time: 12;00 PM (EST)
In this lecture, Mr. Kareem Rosshandler will examine the process of cultural destruction in Gaza since October 2023. Through analysis of historical case studies, including the British Mandate's transformation of the Ottoman-era Palestine Archeological Museum and Israeli forces' involvement in looting West Jerusalem's book collections during the 1948 Nakba, Mr. Rosshandler will demonstrate the systemic patterns of cultural violence in the region. Drawing from evidence of widespread damage to cultural institutions- including the destruction of all twelve Gaza universities, numerous religious and archeological sites, and the tragic loss of cultural figures such as poets, novelists, and professors- the discussion will highlight the irreversible impact on Palestinian cultural heritage and explore ongoing contentions surrounding heritage sites in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Black Femme Fugitivity: Rebellion and Resistance in these Critical Times - virtual lecture with Dr. Kaila Story
Thu, Mar 27, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CDT
The History Department and the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of Memphis present our annual Women's History Month lecture for 2025. Dr. Story is the Audre Lorde Endowed Chair in Race, Gender, Class & Sexuality Studies & Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & Pan African Studies, University of Louisville. A Q&A will follow her lecture.
Executive Disorder: Resisting the War on Equal Opportunity
Feb 26, 2025 6:00PM CST
The Trump administration’s flurry of chaotic and far-reaching Executive Orders are the culmination of a relentless campaign to demonize civil rights, equity initiatives, knowledge frameworks and, ultimately, minority communities. Join African American Policy Forum for a conversation in which KimberlĂ© Crenshaw and speakers Damon Hewitt, David J. Johns, Nina Turner, and Russell Robinson will offer their analysis of the executive orders, the consequences they will have for racial justice, the historical resonance of this moment and also a path forward to protect us in the bullseye of backlash.
For any questions or concerns, please email programs@aapf.org. This event can also be viewed live on AAPF's YouTube Channel.
Legislative Encroachment on Higher Ed
https://webinars.mla.org/webinar/legislative-encroachment-on-higher-ed/
Monday, 24 March 2025, at 2:00 pm EDT
Threats to higher education are rapidly increasing, at the federal and the state level. This webinar features experts on the current challenges in three different areas, and they invite your questions about organizing, legal issues, and strategies for holding on to what we have and pushing for more, for our students, our communities, and ourselves as teachers and researchers. Kaleb Briscoe writes and speaks on the campus racial climate, the experiences of DEI professionals on campus in the face of anti-DEI efforts, and more. Ken Falk is legal director of the ACLU in Indiana, where he has defended Indiana University students’ right to protest, challenged “intellectual diversity” legislation, and defended the right of trans schoolchildren to use the bathroom of their choice. Most recently he has filed suit against Indiana State University for blocking the campus Pride Center from scheduling a pride festival this summer. And Amy Reid, senior manager of PEN America’s Freedom to Learn Network, is the former director of the Gender Studies Program at New College in Florida and a professor of French.
"Aesthetics of Solidarity by Arab American and Arab/SWANA Diaspora Artists in the US, 1948–Present"
https://amcainternational.org/category/conferences/
April 9–12, 2025, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI + Virtual
How do Arab American and Arab diaspora artists in the United States use their artistic practice to show solidarity with those facing socio-political injustices in the US and around the world? Join the MSU Broad Art Museum, the MSU Muslim Studies Program, and the Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey (AMCA) to learn more about solidarity and Arab American art histories at this symposium featuring presentations by artists, art historians, and scholars from around the world.
This event is free and open to all, so please consider joining us virtually or in person!
Contact Email winterr6@msu.edu
Archive(s) of Style
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/events/1652240/archives-of-style
February 27, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
In honor of Audre Lorde’s birthday (February 18) and Black History Month, celebrate an intergenerational lineage of "glocal" (global + local) Black queer feminist poets. Cheryl Clarke visits Chicago with a retrospective collection Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems and reads alongside Harmony Holiday, Natalia Molebatsi, and Nikki Patin. Through memory and across time, these four poets render dynamic and radical archives of desire, music, lineage, and style.
Hannah Altman, As It Were, Suspended in Midair
https://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/artist-program/index.html
March 20, 6:30 pm, online access
Join artist Hannah Altman for this artist talk and book launch celebrating her solo exhibition and the March 2025 release of her book, We Will Return to You (Saint Lucy Books).
In As It Were, Suspended in Midair, Hannah Altman’s photographs examine how Jewish myths are shared, inherited, and reshaped across the diaspora. Altman draws from Yiddish literature and Jewish mystical texts as she situates her female protagonists in lush landscapes and fraught interiors. Animated by sunlight, their postures, gestures, environments, and ritual objects foreshadow abundance and danger. Their mere presence threatens dominant narratives grounded in patriarchal tradition.
