CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
We Have Always Been Here: Queer Art History for the
Twenty-First Century
We know that queer and transgender people have always been
here. In 2025, amid increasing legislation against queer and transgender
people, especially young people, telling our histories is necessary for queer
survival and liberation. Queer and transgender people have been artists,
curators, educators, gallerists, organizers, performers, advocates, and more.
In this panel, we invite papers that consider how queer and trans art histories
might inform our teaching, curatorship, and justice practices of today. Papers
may be methodological or theoretical in nature, may use queer and transgender
frameworks to offer new approaches to the past, or discuss queer and
transgender figures.
Submit a 200 word abstract here: https://secac.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/28/home.
About this CFP – contact Toni Armstrong at armstro@bu.edu
About the conference – visit https://secacart.org/ for more
information
Pedagogy in an Age of Uncertainty: AI, Inclusive
Teaching, and the Politics of Knowledg
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20063173/2025-h-net-teaching-conference-cfp
The conference will be held in a virtual format during the
week of Monday, August 18th, 2025
H-Net is pleased to announce that “Pedagogy in an Age of
Uncertainty: AI, Inclusive Teaching, and the Politics of Knowledge” will be our
theme for the fourth annual Teaching Conference. This year’s theme invites
presenters to explore the challenges of teaching and learning amid rapidly
evolving technologies, the complexities of knowledge production in an era of
misinformation and censorship, and ongoing debates over diversity and inclusion
at all levels of education. We welcome individual, panel, and roundtable
proposals, and encourage interactive sessions such as digital posters,
assignment charrettes, and other innovative formats that foster engagement and
discussion.
Email submissions to brothe10@msu.edu by Friday, May 23,
2025.
Contact Email bjcartwright@utep.edu
Flux / Flow
https://secacart.org/page/Cincinnati2025
Cincinnati, OH, October 22 -25, 2025
Hosted in the vibrant art community of downtown Cincinnati,
Ohio, SECAC 2025 will be organized around the theme of Flux / Flow. Though
related terms, the concept of flux connotes a constant state of potential
change and transformation, whereas flow can evoke the continuity and sequence
of a river or the march of time. Recognizing that art has flourished in periods
of change, the 2025 conference will elevate the fluidity of artistic journeys
both past and present and consider how art reflects and responds to an
ever-shifting cultural landscape. SECAC 2025 promises a dynamic mix of
presentations, discussions, and exhibitions, all situated in the center of a
city with both a long and storied history in the visual arts and a resilient
and dynamic contemporary art scene.
Our Call for Papers is now open through April 1, 2025,
11:59PM EST.
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American
Culture Association Conference
https://www.mpcaaca.org/2024-mpca-aca-annual-conference
3–5, October 2025 The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the
title of the presentation) with the appropriate keywords (formerly areas) on
the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels Individuals
may only submit one paper. Deadline for receipt of proposals is May 15, 2025.
Please include your name, affiliation, and e-mail address of each
author/participant.
Virtual Panels will be running concurrently with in-person
panels. No in-person panels will be offered virtually, but all who register
will have access to the virtual panels
Contact Email neumance@miamioh.edu
Funk Music in
Popular Culture Conference-Call for Presentations/Papers
April 25 & 26,
2025, Bowling Green State University
Indie Lens Pop-Up, WBGU-PBS, the Department of Popular
Culture and the School of Culture and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State
University in Bowling Green, Ohio are proud to announce the Funk Music in
Popular Culture Conference to be held on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April
26, 2025. The Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference will serve as a
celebration and screening of the Independent Lens film We Want the Funk. This
conference will also be a space for academics, graduate students, musicians,
music industry professionals, music/sound recording retailers, fans and the
public to engage in dialogue about topics related to funk music and its
cultural influence in popular music, popular culture and beyond. The scope of
the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference is deliberately broad, with the
intention of highlighting the interdisciplinary nature and the many different
avenues of research and creativity related to funk music in popular culture.
Contact Email funkmusic@bgsu.edu
Disability and Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of
Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism
13th-14th June 2025,
While fundamental rights were enumerated in the 1948
Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR), rights instruments have
proliferated since the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights
and on Economic (ICCPR), Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) entered into force
in 1976. Disability-specific rights and their legal representation have been
notably late to the conversation, with the UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities appearing only in 2006. This and other legislative
initiatives and social movements have seen some notable wins for disabled
communities, with improvements to access and inclusion in both the built and
social environments. We seek contributions which explore legal, moral,
political, human, economic, social and cultural rights at all levels (domestic,
international, transnational), and engage with potential transformative roles
that rights may or may not play in the lives of disabled people
For questions and enquiries please contact us at: marxismdisability@gmail.com
Please submit the abstract by Friday, 11th April, 5pm BST
(UK Time)
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 2025
Virtual Summer Salon
https://swpaca.org/summer-salon/
June 26-28, 2025
Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the SWPACA
Summer Salon. SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas in a variety of categories
encompassing the following: Film, Television, Music, & Visual Media;
Historic & Contemporary Cultures; Identities & Cultures; Language &
Literature; Science Fiction & Fantasy; and Pedagogy & Popular Culture.
For a full list of subject areas and area descriptions please visit https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/.
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
Disappearance Studies
Conference
The Journal of Disappearance Studies, in collaboration with
the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Kroc Institute for
International Peace Studies, invites contributions for its inaugural
conference, scheduled to take place from September 29 to October 1, 2025, at
the University of Notre Dame.
This landmark event marks the official launch of the Journal
of Disappearance Studies, edited by scholars affiliated with the University of
Bristol, Durham University, and the University of Tampere, which offers an
interdisciplinary platform to examine the phenomenon of disappearance
worldwide. The conference will convene scholars, practitioners, policymakers,
artists, families of the disappeared, and advocacy organizations to explore the
socio-political, cultural, and economic dimensions of disappearance.
Submission Deadline: April 3, 2025
Contact Email sharon.harris@bristol.ac.uk
En-Gender Conference
https://engender-academia.com/conference-2024/
Annual Online Conference, 21-23 August
Following up from last year’s theme, this time we switch the
focus to resistances, their development and projections. This includes
understandings of communities formed and involved in their creations,
international connections, as well as projections into possible resisting
futures. This conference promotes an intersectional approach that involves the
understanding of complex interactions across multiple relations and contexts.
At En-Gender, we maintain the commitment to be a space of respectful and safe
conversations and community building across regions and academic areas.
Deadline: 4/30
Contact Email engenderingthepast@gmail.com
Queer Ecology and the
Temporal Imagination
http://uni-tuebingen.de/de/279039
26 – 27 February 2026, University of Tübingen
In recent political discourse, there has been a striking
correlation between questions relating to the environment, the climate crisis,
and environmental justice on the one hand and gender and sexuality on the
other. At the same time, the climate crisis (and its denial) has been
increasingly framed in terms of a new sense of temporal urgency: it is ‘high
time’ that we reduce carbon emissions; it is already ‘too late’ to keep the
rise in global temperatures within the boundaries of the Paris Agreement; and
while some cling nostalgically to a past of carbon prosperity, some fight over
how to best project, prepare for, or imagine a (better) future, while others
turn away from future horizons to attend to the urgencies of the present.
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 April 2025
email gero.bauer@uni-tuebingen.de, davina.hoell@uni-tuebingen.de
PUBLICATIONS
Queer Cripping, Art, and Resistance
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20062387/queer-cripping-art-and-resistance
We are seeking
submissions for a special issue (titled: Queer Cripping, Art, and Resistance)
for the peer-reviewed journal, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
Queerness and
disability have long intersected, from the medicalization of queerness, institutionalization,
and the HIV/AIDS epidemic to contemporary subjects, such as the ongoing
suppression of Trans* healthcare rights. Queer/crip refusals of closure offer
radical alternatives to assimilationist or reformist politics, reflected in
alternative modes of making and exhibition. Deviance, chosen or intrinsic,
reflects a form of resistance that affirms multiplicity – of experiences, of
bodies.
With an interest in
asking questions rather than in finding answers, we invite essays, creative
works, or opinion editorial pieces from contemporary and historical
perspectives, exploring art objects, practices, and/or institutions that
produce, perform, and/or promote radical queer/crip art and methodologies. For
any questions, email Dr. Ira Kazi (ira.kazi@gmail.com) and Ana Moyer
(amoyer9@uwo.ca). Submission deadline: April 25, 2025.
The Censorship Issue
https://www.feministspacesjournal.org/submissions
Censorship as a tool of oppression and violation not only
restricts freedom of thought, but it also restricts the dissemination of the
knowledge and theory that is necessary to understand in order to challenge and
deconstruct oppressive structures; this is no coincidence. These interconnected
power structures—capitalism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, white privilege,
etc.—benefit only the elite. White men in positions of power seek to maintain
said power by crafting a false reality, one built upon DISUNDERSTANDING,
erasing history and excusing ignorance, one in which women are the Other. When
they cannot deny the truth, they suffocate it. But we seek to share this truth,
our truth. The truth that abortion is healthcare, that gender-affirming care
saves trans lives, that women’s bodies are treated as sex objects, that
systemic racism continues to negatively impact Black individuals in the U.S. to
this day.
Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2025
For questions regarding the journal or submissions, email us
at feministspacesjournal@gmail.com.
Teaching about Women’s Suffrage in Secondary and
Collegiate Classroom
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CpfS7MZJLQvdyeb-eQaUVMBXlqJd-rIu/edit?tab=t.0
Much has been
written about the history of the American women’s suffrage movement. Scholars
have analyzed the campaign from varied perspectives, including race, class,
age, region, ethnicity, and religion, and have written many academic
assessments. There have, however, been no large-scale works to date focused on
teaching about women’s suffrage from a pedagogical vantage point. This book
aims to be a guide for educators at the secondary and collegiate levels for
teaching about the long history of women’s suffrage activism in the U.S.
(1800-1920) and in many ways, women in politics in America.
At this stage, we
ask for interested contributors to send a CV and a 300-word abstract.
Submissions can be sent to: kellylynnmarino@gmail.com by April 1.
Indigenous
Borderlands
https://www.americanquarterly.org/submit/cfp.html
This special issue
in American Quarterly on the Indigenous Borderlands aims to bring
together a range of interdisciplinary scholars who consider borders and
borderlands from the perspective of Indigenous peoples. The emergent field of
Indigenous border studies broadly considers the containment and extraction of
peoples, lands, and waters and the Indigenous relations and movements that
resist the violence of colonial separation. The borders that partition
Indigenous peoples and homelands are not just at the frontiers of settler
states but also are imposed anywhere settler occupations reside and where false
hierarchical binaries of being, movement, and belonging are imposed. A growing
interest into the history and analytics of anticolonial fugitivity, refusal,
and evasion is also putting Indigenous border critiques in conversation with a
wide array of fields not historically in conversation with Indigenous Studies.
Please submit a 150
word abstract and optional working draft by April 15, 2025 directly to the
guest editors at indigenousborderlands@gmail.com.
Oh, the (Digital) Humanity!: Building a
Collaborative Future
Since the early days
of computational text analysis in the 1940s, the digital humanities has been a
space designed for cross and interdisciplinary work. From using digital tools
and software to enhance research across the humanities, to using them to create
new kinds of research in those same fields, the digital humanities has long
been at the forefront of new and exciting research. This call for papers seeks
articles that take a strong stance for the digital humanities and advocates for
their role in the academy. We seek papers that present research using or
analysis of DH tools that enable new kinds of research and new ways of doing
humanities research. Though critical analysis of these tools is always welcome
and indeed necessary, in particular we seek articles that present hopeful and
exciting ways that the digital humanities can be used to enhance research.
Please email
proposals of approximately 300-500 words to scaffoldjournal@gmail.com,
including a brief author bio, by May 5th 2025.
Trans-national Indigenous Displacement
https://journalofinternaldisplacement.org/index.php/JID/announcement/view/15
The Journal of
Internal Displacement is calling for papers to be published as a Special Issue
in its July 2025 volume. The Journal of Internal Displacement (JID) is the only
scholarly and interdisciplinary platform for raising the profile of displaced
populations through discussions, critical dialogue, emerging themes,
reflections and explorations on a wide range of topics and geographical
regions.
Deadline for
submission is 13 April 2025.
Contact Email veronica.fynnbruey@journalofinternaldisplacement.org
Sensing Environmental Crises through Visual Culture
Chapter
contributions are invited for the edited collection Sensing Environmental
Crises through Visual Culture. The book seeks to explore how environmental
crises are represented and perceived via visual culture. It focuses
particularly on the role of sensory perception and emotional response in
shaping understandings of environmental crises. The book welcomes contributions
from scholars working in the environmental humanities, sensory studies, visual
culture studies, affect studies, cultural studies, and other related
disciplines. Authors are encouraged to engage with feminist, queer, BIPOC,
postcolonial, decolonial, and disability studies approaches. Contributions that
draw on perspectives from the Global South are particularly welcome.
Please email your
abstract of 300 words and short biographical statement of no more than 250
words by March 31, 2025, to tatiana.konrad@univie.ac.at.
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Summer 2025 Internships at LGBTQ Religious Archives
Network
https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/internships
The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBTQ-RAN) is offering
three thirteen-week (May 19- August 15, 2025), part-time (10 hours a week),
online internships for students or graduates seeking to develop skills and gain
experience in researching, teaching, and preserving LGBTQ religious history. Interns
will participate in LGBTQ-RAN team meetings via videoconference every three
weeks. Interns will provide their own office and equipment needed to carry out
their work. Each intern receives a stipend of $1,500.
To apply for an internship, please send cover letter and
resume indicating which intern position is of interest and detailing relevant
education and experience by April 11, 2025 to: Ellen Huffman at ellen@lgbtqreligiousarchives.org.
Instructional Assistant Professor
https://careers.msu.edu/jobs/inst-ast-prof-fixed-term-east-lansing-michigan-united-states
The Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts &
Humanities (CISAH) at Michigan State University seeks to fill up to three
one-year, fixed-term teaching positions with the possibility of renewal at the
rank of instructor or Assistant Professor. CISAH faculty are responsible for
designing and delivering innovative courses in MSU’s Integrative Arts and
Humanities (IAH) curriculum, which is required of all undergraduate students
and aims to demonstrate the essential role that the arts and humanities play in
the lives of all students, regardless of major. The candidate will work with
the Department of Religious Studies to develop and teach two 5-week online and
asynchronous courses including 1. Nonprofits and the Legal Environment and 2.
Nonprofit Governance.
Review of Applications Begins 04/03/2023
Sharing Stories Fellows
Sharing Stories from 1977, a nationally recognized digital
humanities project, is pleased to announce we are forming an editorial board
for our peer-reviewed, open-access website. Sharing Stories from 1977: Putting
the National Women’s Conference on the Map is the central hub for documenting
and interpreting the 1977 National Women’s Conference (NWC). We are seeking
twelve graduate student Sharing Stories Fellows who will be competitively
selected in a national search to serve as an inaugural class of editors in
2025-2026. Fellows will conduct editorial review of biographies drafted
primarily by undergraduate researchers to be published on the Sharing Stories
site. This program will especially suit graduate students interested in
developing experience in the peer-review publication process and using digital
tools. An interest in contemporary US history, women’s, gender, and sexuality
studies, public history, and/or digital humanities is a bonus.
Applications are DUE APRIL 15, 2025
Academic Relations and Outreach Officer
https://usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angeles/program-specialist/1209/77294248208
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research is
seeking a Program Specialist to serve as the Center’s Charles E. Scheidt
Academic Relations and Outreach Officer. This position will report to the CAGR
Associate Director and will provide support for the planning, coordination, and
execution of research, program and outreach activities of the Center. The
specific focus will be on developing programs geared towards reaching faculty
and students within and beyond USC, broadening and deepening the awareness,
integration, and use of USC's unique Holocaust and genocide-related research
resources in teaching and research.
No deadline listed
email: cagr@usc.edu
Postdoctoral Associate in Humanitites Leadership
https://emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/4577
The Humanities Research Center (HRC) at Rice University
seeks to appoint one Postdoctoral Associate in Humanities Leadership. We seek
emergent interdisciplinary scholars with a demonstrated interest in humanities
leadership who aspire to careers in administration, management, and public
service by choice rather than circumstance. Competitive applicants will have
been successful in both academic and extra-academic experiences, such as
service at higher education and/or affiliated institutions, prior experience in
program building, and publicly engaged humanities work. We encourage applicants
with an interest in questions at the intersection of interdisciplinary
humanities graduate education; critical university studies and the future of
higher education; and alternative careers, professional development, and
capacity building for the next generation of humanities PhDs.
Deadline: April 7, 2025
If you have any questions, please email us at jobs@rice.edu.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Scholar, Artist or Writer-in-Residence
https://www.adelphi.edu/bhise/academics/scholar-in-residence/
The Bhisé Center for Global Understanding (BCGU) invites
applications for its newly created Scholar, Artist or Writer-in-Residence
program. The program is designed to support the innovative scholarly, creative
arts or writing projects of new talents and emerging mid-career professionals,
including scientists, creative artists and writers—showing extraordinary
promise or accomplishments.
Applications must be submitted via email to bcgu@adelphi.edu
by April 21, 2025
email bcgu@adelphi.edu
Archives Travel Grants
https://www.bgsu.edu/library/cac/events-and-programs/access-to-the-archives-travel-grants.html
The Center for Archival Collections (CAC) at Bowling Green
State University is pleased to announce that we will once again be offering an
Access to the Archives Travel Grant. The grant program offers up to three
competitive Research Travel Grants to support researchers who plan to spend at
least five full working days using collections held by the CAC. The award is
intended to promote and support original scholarly or creative work and to
defray the costs of travel to and residence in Bowling Green, not to exceed
$1,500 per award. Full details about the grant program, information on
applications, and more can be found on our website.
Applications are due May 31, 2025. Questions and
applications should be emailed to Michelle Sweetser msweets@bgsu.edu.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Institutional Processes of Silencing - Social Inclusion
Webinar
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6317398037196/WN_r0oCA3bEQRWGIaUwhD5zUw#/registration
Mar 24, 2025 10:00 AM
Silencing has long been recognized as a tool of power, but
how do institutions actively mobilize it to maintain control? From governments to
universities, defining what can and cannot be said shapes political and social
discourse—often suppressing critical voices. Analyzing Institutional Processes
of Silencing", where our expert speakers will explore how silencing
operates in different contexts, its tangible effects, and what it reveals about
authority and resistance going forward.
Contact Email communication@cogitatiopress.com
Fantasies Identity Can't Hold: Leathersex and Trans
Experiences
https://events.humanitix.com/pol-fantasies-trans-experiences
Mar 27, 6:30pm - 8pm EDT, in person and virtual
Starting with a screening of one of Ignacio Rivera’s films
on trans experiences and kink, this dialogue explores Susan Stryker’s
observation that trans sadomasochism creates the possibilities for new
assemblages of bodies, new selves, new genders. We ask how the dungeon becomes
a laboratory for gender and sexual experimentation, and what we can learn about
trans experiences from leathersex. RSVP
is required for in-person and virtual attendance.
Out of Paper:
Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America
Friday, March 28th, 1:30-2:30 CST
Anania’s book shows how paper became an environmental medium
in the postwar United States, showing how artists from the continental U.S. and
Puerto Rico used drawing, erasing, cutting, shredding, and recording to reckon
with the shifting conditions of their surroundings. In the conversation, Anania
and Hamrogue consider drawing’s ability to capture spaces and bodies in the
contemporary moment. How might drawings reveal the varied and intense
sensations held within the body during a time of intensifying ecological damage
and degradation? Using feminist materialist methods from the book’s first two
sections, Anania and Hamrogue will consider paper and drawing as models for
connecting bodies with worlds.
Rethinking Fables in
the Age of the Environmental Crisis
https://research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fables/final-conference/
May 22-24, 2025,
some online access
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Vinciane Despret,
the philosopher of science and author of What Would Animals Say If We Asked the
Right Questions (2016) and Prof. Susan McHugh, the author of Love in a Time of
Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Extinction and Genocide (2019) will be
joining us in Canterbury as our keynote speakers. The conference will also
feature many leading animal studies scholars, including Erica Fudge, Robert
McKay, Chris Danta, Matthew Chrulew and Boria Sax.
Book Talk - Desire to
Serve: The Autobiography of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson with Cheryl B.
Wattley
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-desire-to-serve-tickets-1242800091529?aff=oddtdtcreator
March 26, 7:00
p.m. - 8:30 p.m., TWU, Blagg-Huey Library
Join us for a discussion of the autobiography of former
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson. The talk will be led by Cheryl Brown
Wattley, who transcribed the words spoken by Eddie Bernice Johnson to create
the written autobiography. The first 10 people to register and arrive to the
book talk will receive a FREE copy of the autobiography. Books will also be
available for purchase at the event.
Unpacking: U.S. v.
Rahimi's effect on Texas Domestic Abuse Survivors (virtual)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unpacking-united-states-v-rahimi-2024-tickets-1200255770319
April 7, 12:25 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Rahimi allowed limits on
firearms and ammunition for people with restraining orders due to qualifying domestic
abuse charges. Join us as Kimberly Piechowiak, the Domestic Violence Training
Attorney for the State of Texas, discusses the case’s effect on domestic abuse
cases and victims here in Texas.
Our Shared Future:
Creating Better Outcomes for Ice and Us (in-person)
We will be joined by leading climate scientists Dr. Twila
Moon and Dr. Heidi Sevestre on Wed, Apr
16, 2025 at 11:00 AM at the ASSC Anne Stuart Science Complex, room 259.
Let's come together to discuss how we can work towards a sustainable future for
both the environment and humanity. Don't miss out on this chance to be a part
of the conversation on shaping a better future for all of us.
League of Women Voters of Denton for a forum with Denton
City Council candidates
https://www.facebook.com/events/929390542354458/
April 17, 7pm at the Denton City Council Chambers
Join the League of Women Voters of Denton for a forum with
Denton City Council candidates for the upcoming elections on May 3. We'll be taking
questions from the audience about your concerns for the future of Denton.
In-person early voting for Denton City Council Candidates for Districts 1, 2,
3, & 4 runs from Tuesday, April 22, through Tuesday, April 29.
The last day to register to vote is April 3. The last day to
get an application for a ballot by mail is April 22.
Free and open to everyone
Denton Art Exhibit Opening
https://www.discoverdenton.com/event/the-9th-annual-eggsibition/9374/
March 30, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, 400 E. Hickory
St.. Denton, TX 76201
We invite you to the in-person exhibition at GDAC on March
30, 3-6 PM. Come enjoy an afternoon with live music, drinks, and the chance to
see all the stunning eggs up close. Bid on your favorites until the auction
closes at 5:30 PM. This event is free to attend and open to all ages. All funds
raised will benefit Artists Enclave and the Greater Denton Arts Council,
helping to continue their mission of fostering and supporting the arts in our
community.
Virtual Conference: Black Scholars in Podcasting
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-scholars-in-podcasting-conference-tickets-1225061214069
March 29, 2025 at 2pm EST/1pm CST
This conference will inspire and
elevate your current focus on podcasting for scholarship, student engagement
with podcasts, digital creation, community and arts activism, podcast themes,
networking and more! Keynote Speaker Dr. DuEwa Frazier (NERDACITY PODCAST and AFROFUTURES POD) with
presentations by scholars and podcasters, Erika Brown (BROKE-ISH PODCAST), Alexandria
Miller (STRICTLY FACTS: A GUIDE TO CARIBBEAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
PODCAST), Dr. Margaret
Cox(CONVERSATIONS IN LITERATURE & CULTURE PODCAST), Dr. Sheretta Butler-Barnes(RAISING JOYFUL AND RESILIENT BLACK CHILDREN PODCAST) Dr. Valerie N. Adams-Bass (RAISING JOYFUL AND RESILIENT BLACK CHILDREN PODCAST), and Dr. Jacqueline Douge (RAISING JOYFUL AND RESILIENT BLACK CHILDREN PODCAST).
Contact Email
blackscholarspodcasting@gmail.com
Webinar: Leading with
Kindness
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20061308/h-teach-webinar-leading-kindness
April 1, 2025, 7:00
PM EST
This webinar will
focus on providing the foundation for creating a kind classroom environment.
Teaching with kindness can help professors form stronger bonds and
relationships with our students. This can help students be more honest and open
with faculty about their needs and problems, which can improve student
engagement, while helping to reduce plagiarism and cheating. This webinar will
address why kindness is important in the classroom. It will offer some specific
pedagogical tips for users. This will include creating a kind syllabus and
policies that benefit student learning.
Contact Email bjcartwright@utep.edu
March 28, UNT: Willis Library 250H and online
Large Language Models, branded as artificial intelligence, are everywhere. While there are good humanistic reasons to resist this trend, it behooves us as scholars and educators to develop an understanding of AI technology that moves beyond plagiarism enforcement and student surveillance. In his freshman level English class “Literary Monstrosities” themed around Barbara Creed’s theory of the monstrous feminine, Dr. Keralis strove to model an ethical and constructive engagement with AI for his students. Through a critical making assignment in which students asked AI to design female monsters, they were able to reflect on some of the big questions around using AI for creative works. In this talk Dr. Keralis will describe some of what is at stake for the humanities during the AI boom, share the process of creating his AI assignment and students’ responses to it, and demonstrate a few AI tools that may be helpful for teaching humanities topics.
Email: john.martin@unt.edu
Dear Colleagues: Navigating Policy Shifts and Advancing
Inclusion with Purpose—An Opportunity for Real Change
https://www.magnapubs.com/product/online-seminars/live/dear-colleagues-magna-online-seminar/
April 1, 2025, Time:
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
This free, one-hour
live panel discussion brings together leading experts in DEI, higher-ed policy,
legislation, and student affairs to engage in an honest and solution-focused
dialogue. Panelists will explore the tangible impact of current political
shifts on faculty, staff, and students, offering nuanced perspectives on how
institutions can reframe DEI efforts and enact meaningful, lasting change.
This webinar is free, but you have to “uncheck” paid
items that seem to be automatically added to your cart.
Roundtable Teaching Audre Lorde’s ‘Notes on a Trip to Russia'
https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-sexuality-studies/news-and-events/bookclub.aspx (scroll down for info)
April 11, 2025, 12:00–2:00PM EST, via Teams
This roundtable will explore Audre Lorde’s essay from Sister Outsider, focusing on its relevance to Black-Indigenous Eurasian solidarities and the insights it offers for today’s classrooms. In 1976, the renowned Black feminist writer and activist Audre Lorde traveled to Soviet Eurasia, yet her essay on this journey has received surprisingly little attention. Why has this essay been largely overlooked, and what value does it hold for the contemporary moment? Should we teach this essay, and if so, how? Join us as we delve into these questions and consider the significance of Lorde’s reflections for fostering dialogue and understanding in our interconnected world.
Applying an Entrepreneurial Mindset for Scholarly and Career Success
March 27, 2025, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST(I think?)
Join us for a lively conversation led by Ilana Horwitz and Erica Machulak on how entrepreneurial principles are transforming the PhD experience. As authors of two upcoming books—The Entrepreneurial Scholar and Hustles for Humanists—we’ll share how we’ve applied entrepreneurial thinking to succeed as scholars, consultants, and storytellers. We’ll discuss how the PhD journey is about more than mastering a discipline—it’s about making executive decisions, testing new ideas, and creating impact inside and outside academia. Attendees will walk away with actionable strategies to apply an entrepreneurial mindset to their own careers.
Kings for our Time: Revisiting Martin and Coretta Scott
King
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 6:30 - 8 PM
This discussion
will also be streamed on our YouTube channel
In 1986, at the first big conference of King scholars,
Coretta Scott King called for more women scholars the next time a conference
was held on her husband's work. Nearly 40 years later, this panel will answer.
Leading scholars of Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, and the Black
freedom movement come together to see both Martin and Coretta Scott King anew.
Jeanne Theoharis will discuss her new book King of the North: Martin Luther
King's Life of Struggle Outside the South, which details the Kings' experiences
coming of age in graduate school in the segregated North and their lifelong
challenge to Northern racism, the limits of Northern racism and colonialism at
home and abroad. Beverly Guy- Sheftall will share new work on Coretta Scott
King's support of LGBTQI+ communities, and renowned activist and author Barbara
Smith will discuss the Kings in history and context in the Black feminist
movement.
April 4-5th 2025, Zoom options
This year’s theme for the Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable is
Desorden Aesthetics: Translocal Art and Communities. It engages with Latina/x,
Latin American and Caribbean feminist theories, practices, and creative works
on this theme and explores the messy, queer, chaotic, and radically playful
aspects of Latina/x creative worlds.
If you have any questions, email conference co-organizers at latinaxfeminismsroundtable2025@gmail.com
Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery)
program
https://latinonewspapers.uh.edu/s/eng/page/home
Periodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region is a bilingual
research portal that provides access to 200+ digitized periodicals from Arte
Público Press, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery) Digital
Archive in collaboration with the US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH)
located at the University of Houston.
This project, funded in part by the Council on Library
Information Resources (CLIR) Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and
Archives, is an effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of
border publications with descriptive information, digital humanities tools and
educational resources.
Witchcraft Accusations and Women’s Rights: An
International Women’s Day Special
https://witchhuntshow.com/category/womens-day/
Join us for an informative International Women’s Day 2025
episode where we explore this year’s theme: “Accelerate Action.” We’re shining
a light on a global crisis often hidden from headlines – women and girls being
accused of witchcraft, subjected to violence, exiled from their communities,
and even killed. This episode provides essential information to help you
connect and amplify your voice for change. Join us to discover the power of
collective action and how International Women’s Day is still accelerating
progress for vulnerable women across the globe.
Feminism, Fascism,
and the Future – podcast
https://sites.middlebury.edu/feminismfascismfuture/
This podcast was born out of fear of the future and out of a
deep and abiding belief that feminism can save us. We are hoping these episodes
will motivate you to organize and fight back as feminists for all marginalized
bodies, which is to say, the bodies targeted by fascism. By connecting the dots
and seeing how this fascism operates by making us the enemy, but also by trying
to get us to fight one another, we hope to change the future – One feminist
episode at a time.
Women’s History Month Sale
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/womens-history-month-sale/
Save 50% off books at the University of Nebraska Press
during Women’s History Month! Enter the code 6WHM25 in the discount code field
of your shopping cart and click “Apply.” Offer expires March 31, 2025 and is
good on U.S. and Canadian shipments only.
Teaching Resources for Women’s History Month
https://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2025/03/teaching-resources-for-womens-history-month/
Looking for resources and teaching ideas for Women’s History
Month? Check out these blog posts, classroom materials, and resources from the
Library. You’ll find ideas that can support teaching and learning in different
subjects (Science/STEM, Social Studies, English Language Arts) and across grade
levels.
En-Gender
Conversations Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/2hkjSFjOIeUbgr2LJKCGlg
In this podcast we will launch various seasons highlighting
scholars, research areas and projects related to gender research.
