CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Climate, Environment, Psyche and History
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20063735/climate-environment-psyche-and-history
This conference aims to foster interdisciplinary conversations between the
humanities (history, literature, philosophy), social sciences, geography,
culture studies, health sciences and other fields dealing with a variety of
themes related to human encounters with natural and human-made catastrophes. We
want to explore the different ways in which scholars approach how individuals
and societies experience environmental trauma, as well as the varieties of
traumatic experiences with material environments. This can include the effects of
climate-induced stress on human health, the impact of pathogens (pandemics and
other medical disasters), the consequences of environmental degradation
(pollution, destruction of resources) for humans and communities, the myriad
effects of militarized and technological violence, and other related events.
Please send an abstract (up to 500 words) and CV to Jason
Crouthamel (crouthaj@gvsu.edu) by June
15, 2025.
Women of Photography Conference-a-Thon, 2026
In celebration of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2026,
and building on the success of our 2025 conference-a-thon, we invite scholars,
practitioners, and enthusiasts to submit abstracts for participation in a free,
online, global, 24-hour symposium dedicated to celebrating the contributions of
women to the medium of photography from photography’s announcement in 1839 to
now. This unique event aims to highlight the diverse and impactful work of
women and female-identifying photographers, and those working with photography,
across all cultures and time zones. We seek 15-minute papers or proposed
30-minute panel discussions (with 3-4 participants listed who consent to
participating) that explore a broad range of topics related to women’s
contributions to photography.
Please submit a 300-word (maximum) abstract outlining your
proposed paper or 3-4-person panel proposal HERE https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeybp1Z7Ewb3dk9sTrB...by
1 August 2025
Website: www.womenofphoto.com
Contact Email kkbelden@olemiss.edu
The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar at
the Massachusetts Historical Society
https://www.masshist.org/seminars/history-women-gender-sexuality-seminar
The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality seminar
invites proposals for sessions in its 2025-2026 series. The Seminar involves
discussion of pre-circulated works in progress, especially article or
chapter-length papers (20-30 pages). Topics address all aspects of the history
of women, gender, and sexuality in the United States. Cross-disciplinary
projects and projects comparing the American experience with that in other
parts of the world are also welcomed.
Please submit your proposals by 1 May 2025 to seminars@masshist.org.
CFP: https://www.masshist.org/admin/uploads/WGS_CFP_2025_2026_d308b4b044.pdf
Horror Studies Special Issue: Women and Horror
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/07/horror-studies-special-issue-women-and-horror
This special issue of Horror Studies aims to address female
empowerment (cis- and transgender women) in literary and cinematic horror from
2010 to the present. The issue will showcase horror media (literature, films,
television, and gaming) created by women. An intersectional approach should be
applied to analyses, stressing categories of race, gender, sexuality, class
and/or age in submissions. While we are interested in submissions focused on
various forms of horror media, we are eager to receive submissions that
foreground literary texts.
deadline for submissions: August 1, 2025
contact email: mamarotta@wm.edu
Monster Fest
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20066011/monster-fest
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers/presentations
addressing any aspect of monsters and monstrosity, with a particular focus on
religion and monstrosity; gender, sexuality, and monstrosity; monster theory;
monstrous bodies, and analyses of contemporary horror. Papers from all
disciplines and lenses are welcome. We
will accept proposals
until August 31, 2025.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 28-31, 2025
Contact Email lindsay.macumber@smu.ca
Queerly Platformed: LGBTQ Realities, Resistance, and
Algorithmic Life in the Age of Social Media
Over the past two decades, social media has transformed from
a space of connection to a critical site of identity negotiation, resistance,
surveillance, and survival—particularly for LGBTQ individuals and communities.
While prior scholarship, including the volumes like LGBTQ Digital Cultures: A
Global Perspective and Global LGBTQ Activism: Social Media, Digital
Technologies, and Protest Mechanisms, has explored LGBTQ advocacy and protest
through digital media, this new collection proposes a shift in focus toward the
algorithmic, economic, and socio-technical undercurrents that increasingly
shape queer lives online. Rather than revisiting social media purely as a tool
for mobilization or community building, this volume centers on how the
architecture of these platforms themselves construct, mediate, and sometimes
threaten queer existence. This collection will prioritize contributors from the
Global South and marginalized communities who can speak to the differentiated
experiences of LGBTQ users across geographies.
Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2025
Email: paromita.pain@gmail.com
PUBLICATIONS
Histories of Bodily Autonomy
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20063787/histories-bodily-autonomy
Special Issue of Women’s History Review
At this critical moment when the right to control fertility,
pregnancy, and gender identity are under attack globally, the relevance of
women’s participation in historic struggles to define bodily autonomy and to
secure their own corporal wellbeing seems worthy of greater attention. We thus
invite scholars from postgraduate students to senior researchers to share their
research and insights for a special issue that seeks to look at struggles for
bodily autonomy in a global perspective.
Please submit your materials by June 15, 2025, to both Nicoletta.Gullace@unh.edu &
Susan Grayzel whrspecialissue@protonmail.com.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to write to Nicoletta.Gullace@unh.edu and
I will do my best to answer your questions.
Portals
https://www.feministpress.org/current-call-for-papers
In the 2020 essay “The Pandemic is a Portal,” novelist and
activist Arundhati Roy invites her readers to consider how the COVID-19 global
pandemic, in all of its devastation—both immediate and lingering in impact—has
operated as a portal through which we may discover and enter into new and
different modes of relationality, for good and ill. Pandemics, Roy reflects,
force “humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew.” Responding
to Roy’s appeal, this special issue represents a continued and collaborative
effort—a portal in itself—to think, dream, agitate, and “con-spire” (we are
interested in the practices of
“breathing together” and gathering that are often misconstrued as
malicious planning instead of defending our literal ability to breathe) to name
the kinds of worlds we wish, and indeed need, to see come into being. We refuse
to cede the future to those whose vision of it consists of ruin and
annihilation, which is essentially no future at all. Like Arundhati Roy, we
believe “another world is not only possible, she is on her way. . . . On a
quiet day, if [we] listen very carefully, [we] can hear her breathing.”
Submission Deadline: July 30, 2025
For questions, email the guest issue editors at
WSQEditorial@gmail.com.
Queering the Tensions
of Empire
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20064102/call-papers-queering-tensions-empire
We invite
contributions to an edited collection titled Queering the Tensions of
Empire, which seeks to explore the intersections of imperialism,
colonialism, and sexuality across modern imperial spaces (post-1700). This
collection asks how we might queer imperial and colonial processes and how
those processes have shaped—and been shaped by—sexual identities, practices,
and discourses across different historical contexts. Rooted in the intersection
of queer studies and imperial history, this collection aims to queer understandings
of how empire was experienced and resisted, illustrating that sex and sexuality
were not peripheral but integral to the workings of the British empire.
We invite abstracts
of 500 words and a brief CV (2 pages, single-spaced) to be submitted by 31 May
2025.
- Jarett Henderson, jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu
- T.J. Tallie, ttallie@sandiego.edu
- Kristen Thomas-McGill, thomaskr@wfu.edu.
This is the New Normal
https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/announcement/view/14
Fast Capitalism is seeking critical essays for
possible inclusion in a special section about the changing dynamics of US
politics during the current Trump administration. The goal is to gather both
scholarly essays and political commentaries in time to present careful critical
studies of the changing political realities in the United States under the
leadership President Trump and his new administrative team.
We seek then papers that address Trump’s impact on
governance, discourse, and democracy. We are in interested in reviewing
submissions in a number of forms including: scholarly research essays,
commentaries, polemics, policy proposals, biographies, etc. Please submit
them to Timothy Luke twluke@vt.edu or online by May
15, 2025, for publication during Fall 2025.
Feminist Resistance to Fascism, Past and Present
For this special issue of Women’s Studies, we invite you to
contribute to our understanding of what it means to enact feminist resistance
against fascist forms of power–be that fascist ideology, fascist institutions,
or fascist aesthetics. We are particularly eager to read proposals that draw
off of interdisciplinary methods to spark dialogue on this timely issue.
Please submit abstract proposals and/or articles to hender.m.j@wustl by May 25, 2025
Call for Reviewers -
Journal of Popular Culture
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20063866/call-reviewers-journal-popular-culture
The Journal of Popular Culture is looking for those who are
interested in reviewing books. These reviews will be due on May 31, 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).
Available Books
- Glenn Gerstner, Andy Varipapa: Bowling's First Superstar, McFarland (e-copy only)
- 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
- Tim Hanley, Never a Sidekick: Exploring the Dynamic History of Batgirl, Rowman & Littlefield
- Elizabeth Allyn Woock, Medieval Spaces in Comics, Palgrave (e-copy only)
- Harlan Wilson, Strangelove Country: Science Fictio, Filmosophy, and the Kubrickian Consciousness (e-copy only)
- Katherine Anderson Howell, Disability and Fandom, Iowa
- Henry Jenkins, Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America, NYU
- David Krell, 1978: Baseball & America in the Disco Era, Nebraska
- Joshua Gooch, Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film, Minnesota
- Michael Arthur Soares, Superhero Rhetoric from Exceptionalism to Globalization, Lexington
- David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game, Nebraska
- Jennifer Kokai and Tom Robson. Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, and Anxiety, Lexington
- David Wright, Conveying Lived Experience through Rock and Pop Music Lyrics, Lexngton
- Alyson R. Buckman, Intersectional Humanism and Star Trek: Discovery, Lexington
- Robert Mann, You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song, Louisanna
- Doug Feldmann, One More for the White Rat: The 1987 St. Louis Cardinals Chase the Pennant, Nebraska
- Cornelia Kecker and Sascha Pohlmann, Flyover Fictions: Polarization in US-American Culture, Media, and Politics, Nebraska
- Rob King, Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger, Columbia
- Bo Ruberg, How to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding through Video Games, NYU
- Katie Rose Hejtmanek, The Cult of Crossfit: Chritianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon, NYU
Contact Email kiuchiyu@msu.edu
Voices of the River Journal Submissions
https://www.confluenceproject.org/confluence-library-submissions/
The fourth volume calls for submissions that consider how we
come together for Indigenous futurities. Our 2025 Lead Editor, Rachel L.
Cushman (Chinook Indian Nation) asserts, “Indigenous futurities are shaped by
the past and take form in the present through the continuation and resurgence
of Indigenous knowledge, philosophies, value systems, and practices, giving
life to dreams and possibilities for futures not shaped by colonial
imaginings.” We invite contributors to consider what your insights, research,
and creative work tell you about collective efforts promoting Indigenous
futurities.
Deadline: April 15, 2025
Contact Email lily@confluenceproject.org
Racial Gaslighting
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20065665/call-chapter-proposals-racial-gaslighting
Nearly a decade after publication, Angelique M. Davis and
Rose Ernst’s award-winning article “Racial Gaslighting” (2017) in Politics,
Groups, and Identities continues to be cited worldwide. Defined “as the
political, social, economic and cultural process that perpetuates and
normalizes a white supremacist reality through pathologizing those who resist,”
it offers a framework for understanding the perpetuation of global white
supremacy. Tragically, racial retrenchment in the wake of social justice gains
made during the last 25 years amplifies the salience of racial gaslighting.
Thus, for those committed to dismantling racism, the ability to recognize and
develop strategies to respond to racial gaslighting becomes more critical with
each passing day. This edited volume aims to build collective language and
strategies to challenge racial gaslighting in the twenty-first century.
Send a 250 to 300-word abstract and short bio (250-word bio
outlining experiences and positionality) as attached Word documents to
racialgaslighting@gmail.com no later than Friday, September 5, 2025
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Dissertation Travel Grant in transnational women’s and
gender history
The Journal of Women’s History annually offers the Jean
Quataert Dissertation Travel Grant in transnational women’s and gender
history. Funds will be used to support
travel to archives and libraries for dissertation research. One grant will be
awarded each year. Individual grants will not exceed $4000. Recipients are
asked to acknowledge the JWH Board in their dissertation, and in any resulting
publications. Who is Eligible: Ph.D. students in History or related fields,
conducting research on a significant topic in transnational women’s and gender
history.
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2025
Contact Email nmilanesio@uh.edu
Fellowship Opportunity, Special Collections &
University Archives, University of Oregon
https://library.uoregon.edu/special-collections/fellowships
Special Collections & University Archives at the
University of Oregon is pleased to offer a new fellowship to research the
archival collection of photojournalist, filmmaker, and artist Brian Lanker: https://scua.uoregon.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/667943.
Lanker was a prolific photographer who covered everything from athletics and
pop culture, to politics and the environmental movement. His artistic bodies of
work include I Dream A World, a project focusing on 75 of the most significant
Black Women in American History, including unpublished interviews; They Drew
Fire, a film about Combat Artists of World War 2, and Shall We Dance, which
documents the many types of international dance. The fellowship offers $4000 of support that
can cover (but is not limited to) travel costs, research expenses, childcare,
etc. Application deadline is April 30, 2025, and one fellowship is offered
annually.
Contact Email dmericle@uoregon.edu
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Academic Fellowship by the Center for Black, Brown, and
Queer Studies
https://www.bbqplus.org/fellowship/apply
The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+) is
pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2025-26 academic
year. Applications submitted by May 18, 2025, will receive full consideration.
The Fellowship is for undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral
fellows and junior faculty. BBQ+ an independent Center dedicated to
interdisciplinary research, pedagogy, and mentorship in critical race,
Indigenous, postcolonial, and queer studies. Our fellowship, supported by the Mellon
Foundation, brings together a diverse group of scholars from undergraduates to
postgraduates working across these fields in a collaborative and supportive
environment.
Applications submitted by May 18, 2025, will receive full
consideration
Please contact fellowships@bbqplus.org with any questions.
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
The Summer Research & Writing Kickoff
https://www.emilyfrazierrath.com/the-summer-research-writing-kickoff
Part 1: Friday, May 16, 2025 3-5pm EDT, Zoom
Part 2: Friday, May
23, 2025 3-5pm EDT, Zoom
This interactive workshop will help you get your research
and writing organized, avoid or embrace the (sometimes inevitable) summer
crash, and establish a clear, concrete plan of action for completing what you
want and need to get done over the next few months. Join me, a former academic
turned developmental editor and writing consultant, as I guide you through the
process of setting up your summer writing and research practice. At the end of
this workshop, you will have a concrete, manageable, attainable, and followable
personalized plan of action.
My name is Emily Frazier-Rath and I’m freelance editor and
writing consultant at Frazier-Rath Editing. I have a Ph.D. in German Studies,
an M.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and 15 years of editing,
writing, and mentoring experience in academia and beyond.
Visit www.emilyfrazierrath.com for
more information about me and my services, and please don’t hesitate to contact
me at ejr021@gmail.com.
Southern Association for Women Historians
When: June 19-22, 2025
Where: Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL
We at the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH)
are thrilled to be partnering with the Mary McLeod Bethune Institute for the
Study of Women and Girls and its director, Dr. Crystal deGregory for SAWH's
13th Triennial Conference. Dr. deGregory and Linwood Hawkins, Jr., have created
a terrific website for the conference, and while updates are still being made,
we wanted to get the registration link - https://form.jotform.com/250917491193058 -
out. Please note that after May 23, there will be a late registration fee of
$25.
Navigating Uncertainty in Higher Ed: Building Resilience
https://web.ncfdd.org/uncertaintyreflections25
April 30, 2025; Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
** This webinar is designed for faculty, but I think it
could be useful for students to attend, giving folks more insight into the
broader context of higher ed. right now.
This session will explore key insights and recurring themes
we’ve heard from faculty and academic leaders this year—especially around
navigating uncertainty, sustaining motivation, and supporting others. In this
closing session, we’ll bring together key takeaways from the series and dive
deeper into:
- Proven strategies for navigating institutional uncertainty
- Adapting to shifts in research funding and priorities
- The evolving role of academic leadership
- Supporting faculty well-being in uncertain times
Conversation with Artist and Ralph Lemon
May 7, 2025 01:00 PM
https://pewcenterarts-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FngRAADTQtK1zJrvMlr_sw
Please join us for an online conversation with artist and
Pew Fellow Ralph Lemon and curator Thomas Lax when they will discuss the making
of the exhibition Ceremonies
Out of the Air—a survey of Ralph’s work made over the last decade, recently
on view at MoMA PS1.
Academic Freedom Webinar
29 April 2025 | 17:00-18:30 (CEST) | 8 a.m. (Pacific), 11
a.m. (Eastern)
100 days into the second Trump administration, a panel of
scholars based in the US and Germany will shed light on the assault on higher
education and what this means for students, professors and the public alike.
Contact Email campus@europeamerica.de
Beyond the First 100 days: Centering Racial Justice and
Black History in Our Fight for Democracy
April 30 · 6 - 8:30pm
CDT
This urgent Under the Blacklight conversation, hosted by the
Freedom to Learn in partnership with the Association for the Study of African
American Life and History, will provide an assessment of what the first 100
days has meant for the fight for racial justice, the preservation of Black
history and the defense of a multiracial democracy. This episode will feature Kimberlé Crenshaw,
Kaye Wise Whitehead, Marc Morial and Shavon Arline-Bradley.
Campus Repression, Scholasticide, and Solidarity: Voices from Gaza
Apr 30, 2025 03:30 PM
Join us for the second of a series of conversations in which we learn from academic workers, administrators, students, and staff in Gaza who will give first-hand testimonies about the destruction of their own education system. The panelists will discuss how the elimination of universities, schools, libraries, and heritage sites have impacted their lives, and how they have mobilized to continue higher education under unimaginable circumstances. Come learn about the situation on the ground in Gaza and how you can support efforts to rebuild its educational infrastructure.
A History of Domestic Work and Worker Organizing
https://www.dwherstories.com/timeline
This timeline is the central tool for the National Domestic
Workers Alliance (NDWA) “We Make History” political education curriculum.
History helps us to understand current conditions, learn from the courage and
resilience of our movement ancestors, and continue to build a powerful,
multiracial alliance grounded in a shared commitment to combating all forms of
oppression. Our hope is that this can serve as a resource for domestic workers,
activists, and allies, working towards implementing and advancing what the
domestic workers’ movement has set out to achieve.
Dirt in a Cog: Small Ways to Resist Fascism that Make a
Big Difference
https://invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides-research/#flipbook-df_102985/1/
Dirt in a cog refers to the way machinery cogs (gears) will
slow, jam up, go crooked, and otherwise not work right if they’re dirty. It may
not totally shut down the machine, but it will make it a hell of a lot harder
to run. That’s what this zine is. Of course protests, community organizing, and
large acts of resistance are critical to fight against fascist and
authoritarian regimes. This is not a way to avoid that. We must engage in
those. BUT there are also ways we can resist in our everyday lives. This zine
provides some practical ways you can push back and help create a better world
for us all in your day-to-day life.
The Tattooed Historian Show
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/thetattooedhistorian
Tired of being lectured when it comes to history? Then
you've come to the right place! Here is where history is for everyone,
regardless of your background or education level. History which is accessible,
edgy, and fun!
Intersectionality Matters!
Intersectionality
Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights
advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.
For Educators –
Workload Estimator
https://cat.wfu.edu/resources/workload2/
The Center for the
Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest University developed a workload
estimator that allows you to enter the reading load, assignment details, and
number of exams to estimate how many hours per week students will need to
complete the course.
The Year in Review: Reflecting on Best Teaching Practices
Tuesday, May 6th at 12:00pm EST.
The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA) Graduate Caucus welcomes you to attend our next Scholars in Progress (SiP) session. In this session, we will reflect on the last teaching year with coursework and balancing instruction alongside making progress on personal projects. Our panelists will share their experiences with class sessions, syllabi crafting, and beginning preparation for Fall courses over the summer. There will be informal discussion in the latter part of our hour-long session, so please bring questions for Q&A!
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