CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Queer-Class Relations Conference
https://queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
April 17-18, 2026, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
This conference invites participants to explore the
connections between queer lives and the class experiences that are also shaped
by race, caste, disability, and gender. Premised on the idea that queer and
class are inevitably intertwined, the conference asks what the construction
“queer-class” illuminates, obfuscates, disrupts, and structures. How can we
understand erotic, economic, personal, and social relations in ways that help
us build queer-class solidarities, for example within university-based queer
and trans studies, across activist sites in the Global South, or amidst the
wreckage of the current U.S. political landscape?
Proposals should be no longer than 300 words and submitted by
September 1, 2025
(Re)Imagining Trans: Mappings, Crossings, and Tracings
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21779
57th NeMLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 5-8, 2026
This seminar seeks to reimagine Trans Studies through the
lens of a prefixial turn, where trans signifies a movement across, as well as a
digression away from an unchosen starting point. Presenters are urged to
negotiate the limits such given points of departure pose to our horizons of
thought and emotion. uilding upon the emergence of Trans Studies from Gender
and Sexuality Studies, while also pushing its scope further and differently, we
shall look at how trans unsettles and reshapes notions of gender, sex, genre
(literary-cultural and affective), discipline, nation, and what counts as
‘human’ through its prefixial encounters with these categories.
Please send abstracts of 250-300 words by 30 September 2025
Non-Western Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and
Representation
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21847
57th NeMLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 5-8, 2026
We invite submissions for a paper panel themed “Non-Western
Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Representation” – an exploration of
aesthetics from diverse cultural perspectives, non-Western rhetorical
traditions, and globalized literary theory. Our aim is to examine non-Western,
non-hegemonic discourses from non-White nations that incorporate indigenous
critical approaches and local theories within artistic and literary practices.
We are particularly interested in South and Southeast Asian literary and cultural
studies.
Please reach out to us for pre-submission inquiries: Dr.
Shreelina Ghosh ghosh002@gannon.edu and Dr. Kaustav Mukherjee mukherje001@gannon.edu.
The Hidden Curriculum: Conversations about the Challenges
and Cultures of Graduate School
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21653
57th NeMLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 5-8, 2026
During the course of one’s graduate school career, unwritten
rules and unspoken expectations inform implicit academic, social, and cultural
messages that are transmitted to graduate students. While some of these
messages are seemingly benign, others can be toxic and potentially derail a
student’s career, and they can have a significant impact on mental and physical
wellbeing. How do we make these hidden rules and expectations explicit, and how
do we actively work against those that are harmful? This roundtable aims to
create a space for structured discussion about topics that are often deemed
illegitimate in academic discourse. We invite scholars representing a range of
positionalities and from different stages in their careers, in academia and
academia adjacent, to engage in a structured dialogue about their experiences
of “hidden” expectations and values they were confronted with in graduate
school, with an aim of identifying and possible strategies to navigate, expose,
and dismantle them.
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
If you have any questions, please get in touch with any of
us: Cynthia D. Porter (porter.506@osu.edu), Maria S. Grewe
(mgrewe@jjay.cuny.edu), or Juana Torralbo (j.m.torralbohiguera@wustl.edu).
Neuroqueering Aesthetics - Comparative Approaches
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22032
57th NeMLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 5-8, 2026
As Neurodiversity Studies and Critical Disability Studies
gain traction in studies of literature and culture, we aim to create a space in
which to transcend disciplinary boundaries by bringing into conversation
neurodiverse (inclusive of all neurotypes) scholars from a range of philologies
and disciplines who are interested in neurodiversity and neuroqueering (Walker,
Yergeau), both as object and methodology of study, in studies of literature and
culture. By exchanging work in advance, and engaging in substantive discussion
in real time, both person and remotely, we aim to shed new light on the ways in
which conceptions of neurodiversity are constructed, mediated or translated
across different linguistic and cultural contexts. We especially encourage
submissions from BIPOC scholars.
(Re)generative Storytelling: Embodied Narratives for
Resilience and Social Renewal
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21583
57th NeMLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 5-8, 2026
In the spirit of (Re)generation, this session invites
explorations into how storytelling and performance act as forces of cultural
renewal, social resilience, and imaginative transformation. Performance-based
storytelling, particularly from marginalized and historically silenced
communities, allows us to envision futures rooted in justice, equity, and
collective empowerment. Social renewal, at its core, is about healing,
evolving, and reimagining society to better reflect our shared humanity and
collective needs. Drawing inspiration from autoethnographic and archival
methods such as newspapers, journals, personal archives, reflective writing,
and self-interviews, this session highlights artistic expression as a
regenerative act. It becomes an evolving conversation with the self, the
community, and the world. Please note: this is a VIRTUAL only panel.
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
email: Dr. Claire Ross (claire.ross@uri.edu)
40 years of Sister Vision: A Radical Legacy of Black
Women and Women of Colour Publishing
September 25, 2025, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
The founding of Sister Vision was a radical intervention in
Canadian publishing. Writings by and about Black women, Indigenous women and
women of colour were significantly underrepresented and there existed numerous
institutional roadblocks to publishing these works. Sister Vision would also
become an important space for publishing lesbian and queer writing. It offered
a nexus for works articulating intersectional social concerns. Sister Vision
Press folded in 2001, however its legacy is enduring. While they were located
in Canada, the reach and influence of the Press was transnational. They
published writers and writing from the Caribbean, the US, South America and the
Pacific. This symposium will mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of
Sister Vision Press. We will bring together writers and scholars to reflect on
the books, conversations and interventions that Sister Vision made possible as
well as commemorate the trailblazing work of Canada’s first Black women and
women of color Press.
Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2025
Contact us at sistervisionpressat40@gmail.com if you have
any questions about submissions or about the symposium.
Expanding the Archive:
Thinking Creatively Within and Beyond Historical Methodology
October 24 and 25, 2025
The conference aims to provide a space for history graduate
students and those in related fields to engage in critical conversations on
methodology. Rather than organizing panels based solely on historical themes or
geographic focus, this conference will be structured around historical
methods—particularly the practice of historical research—and how we critically
engage with both traditional archives and the creative processes that exist
outside of them.
Please
use this link to apply via our Google Form by SEPTEMBER 1,
2025.
If you have any questions, feel free to email hgsa@brown.edu.
2026 Gods and Monsters Conference
March 26 – 29, 2026, Texas State University
The conference seeks to gather graduate students,
established and emerging scholars, and independent researchers to explore the
intersection of monstrosity and the sacred––both broadly defined. The theme of
this year’s conference is “Communities and their Monsters.” Our plenary speakers will examine how
monsters have been deployed in such media as folklore and horror movies to tell
stories that reflect the experiences of diverse ethnic, cultural, racial, and
geographic communities; however, these same media may also serve to
“monsterize” subaltern communities.
The deadline for submissions is October 15th
Please direct all questions and paper proposals to Joseph
Laycock jlaycock@txstate.edu or Natasha L. Mikles n.mikles@txstate.edu
Preserving Histories and Legacies in the 21st Century
https://www.aaihs.org/call-for-papers-aaihs-2026-conference/
African American Intellectual History Society’s Eleventh
Annual Conference
March 27-28, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA
Where in this altered terrain of historical discourse does
the scholar of Black histories belong? The theme for the 2026 AAIHS conference
opens an opportunity to consider this question collectively. Together, we hope
to address a range of questions such as: How might contemporary difficulties
facing us today parallel or diverge from earlier efforts to keep account of
Black histories? How different, if at all, are the stakes in preserving
histories and legacies in the current century? Through the theme, “Preserving
Histories and Legacies in the 21st Century,” AAIHS encourages conference
participants to reflect on how we have historicized African and
African-descended peoples from slavery to the present and how we might do so
still. We hope this invitation prompts scholars, activists, artists, curators,
archivists, and other intellectuals to interrogate notions of change;
continuity; and progress–all key elements of historical inquiry. As always, we
are eager to engage these questions through multiple research fields, methods,
and methodologies.
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
Contact Email conference@aaihs.org
Queer History South 2026
https://invisiblehistory.org/qhs2026/
February 20-22, 2026, fully virtual
Queer History South (QHS) is a network and conference for
those interested in the preservation, research, and education of LGBTQ history
in the US South. While QHS is centered on Southerners, those outside the region
may find the conference informative. We will prioritize those working in and
about the South, we may accept proposals about other regions.
Submissions are due now by August 31, 2025 at 11:59pm CST.
Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries
Emerging from the interdisciplinary breadth of the medical
humanities, Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries explores
how historical actors have imagined, theorized, and represented the womb across
periods, disciplines, and sociocultural contexts. This workshop brings together
graduate students from across the humanities to present their work; we invite critical
reflection on the symbolic, religious, medical, and cultural-political meanings
ascribed to the womb and the womb-like — from ancient cosmologies and early
medical treatises to psychoanalytical theories, feminist philosophies, artistic
representations, and contemporary scholarly turns. Rather than limiting inquiry
to any single tradition, the workshop fosters interdisciplinary dialogue on how
the womb shapes and is shaped by broad transcultural and transhistorical
understandings of reproduction and embodiment.
We invite graduate students to submit proposals for either:
(1) a 15-20 minute presentation or (2) a short
pre-circulated text for one of the roundtables by August 15,
2025 to mljames@princeton.edu or epassoni@princeton.edu.
Rethinking Gender in Inter- and Transimperial Contexts
Recent scholarship has moved beyond the metropole–periphery
nexus to examine developments between and across individual empires. Inter- and
transimperial histories highlight the logics, interactions, and knowledge
transfers that produced shared or contested notions of imperial identity across
regions and cultures. These dynamics contributed to global negotiations over
what it meant to be—or to have—an empire, and how imperial actors understood
and performed their roles accordingly. This two-day workshop brings together
approaches that move beyond the metropole–periphery framework to examine how
gender functioned in inter- and transimperial contexts.
submit proposals by August 31, 2025 to
maximilian.klose@geschichte.uni-freiburg.de
Materialities of Empire
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120021/materialities-empire
We seek contributors to
participate in a collaborative workshop in spring 2026, leading to an edited
publication.
Attention to material has become
almost ubiquitous in recent architectural history, both extending and revising
a modernist tradition of interest in material innovation and expression.
Whether through the lens of an ethics of representation, building technology,
environmental concerns, supply-chain tracing, the expansion of historical
agency to more-than-human beings, or developments within historical
materialism, attention to materials has both reproduced received disciplinary
formations and opened up new extra-disciplinary frames. We shift our attention
from the materialities of architecture to the materialities of empire in order
to bring critical, theoretical, historical, and historiographic questions to
the fore in explorations of architecture’s contingent and contested material
dimensions. More specifically, we aim to assess how historiographic turns to
materiality and to imperial and postcolonial formations can inform one another.
Please submit a 300 word proposal and short (1 to 2-page) CV
to materialitiesofempire@gmail.com by September 15, 2025. Selected authors will
take part in a virtual workshop in spring 2026, which will include the
submission and discussion of a draft of your chapter.
Archiving the Self: Stardom, Social Media, and Feminist
Interventions in Film History
Call for Panelists for the 2026 Society of Cinema and Media
Studies Conference in Chicago, IL, March 26 - 29, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois,
USA.
This panel explores how women across generations—both
historical figures and contemporary public personalities—have shaped, extended,
and challenged the cinematic archive through personal, domestic, and digital
forms of self-representation. From early film pioneers like Alice Guy-Blaché
who crafted public identities through letters, to daughters of contemporary
directors and actors using Instagram to reframe their family legacies, this
panel investigates how stardom and authorship are constructed at the intersection
of celebrity, domestic archives, and digital media.
Please submit a 250–400 word abstract and a 100–150 word bio
to Dr. Christina Hodel at hodel@bridgew.edu by August 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT.
RADIATION: Material Connection Across Distance
In this conference, we are less concerned with radiation as
emission of energy from a source, or a palpable effect of the past on the
present. Our foci, instead, are the invisible existing and potential future
radial arrangements – as forms of agencement – of actual or virtual objects and
un-objects; spaces and negative spaces; organisms, pre- and post-organic
matter; proto-techniques and technologies that can be assimilated into what is
often called ‘third nature’. We invite contributions from Art-Science, Media
Studies, Philosophy (including Philosophy of Science), Architecture, Heritage
Studies, Environmental Studies and Engineering in the form of individual panel
presentations (theoretical or practice-based) or curated panels.
Please send 250 w proposals for individual papers or
artistic interventions to ENERGYPhilosophyofPractice@dundee.ac.uk by 23:59 GMT
on 20 August 2025. Proposals for panels of no more than 1500 w in length
(including abstracts and bios) should be sent by 23:59 GMT on 15 August 2025.
PUBLICATIONS
Biophilia: The Shape of the Future
https://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/submissions/
Why is it that, despite better knowledge, we have not been
able to make the behavioral and political changes needed to avoid the unfolding
ecological disaster? What in our personal and collective psyches makes us
unable or even unwilling to do so? How do emotions weave into these questions? In
this issue we invite papers and essays that explore the shape of the future and
the psycho-emotional paradoxes as described above. We invite papers on the
topics of interdependence, mutual aid, ecological activism, and what Erich
Fromm called “biophilia” long before eco-psychology was coined.
email: coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com
Coming of Age, Coming Undone: Abortion, Adolescence, and
Reproductive Justice in Global Popular Culture
In many national contexts, abortion access for young
people—especially minors—is contingent on class, geography, gender identity,
and access to accurate information and healthcare infrastructure. Despite this,
popular culture consistently foregrounds the issue. Films, streaming series, YA
novels, comics, TikToks, podcasts, and music have offered nuanced, bold, and
globally diverse representations of teens navigating abortion. In many
international contexts, these narratives push beyond stigma, positioning youth
not only as subjects of reproductive oppression but also as powerful agents of
choice, resistance, and transformation. This edited volume seeks to examine how
*abortion and adolescent
reproductive justice* are represented in *popular culture
globally*, with a focus on young people’s experiences. We invite scholars,
critics, activists, and media practitioners from around the world to contribute
essays exploring how abortion and reproductive decision-making are depicted in
youth-centered popular culture.
Please submit a proposal (300–500 words) and a brief author
bio (100–150 words) by *August 1st* to: Brenda Boudreau:
bboudreaustl@gmail.com, Shara Crookston: sharalcrookston@gmail.com
In the Time of War
https://www.electricmarronage.com/
Electric Marronage now invites submissions pertaining to the
key theme: “In the Time of War”. EM invites contributors from a variety of
fields across the humanities and social sciences to submit explorations ranging
from 750- 1000 words for publication on the Electric Blog. We will pay $75 per
submission selected for the digital publication. The submission deadline is
July 31st, with submissions to be published in August. Please include up to 2
images to accompany your reflection.
Toxicity in Contemporary Global Fiction: Perspectives
from the Environmental Humanities
https://vernonpress.com/proposal/363/de0aabd1be5ff165a9d0f211a04b471c
A growing body of fiction across the globe—from novels and
films to plays, graphic narratives, and experimental forms—has begun to
seriously grapple with the human and environmental toll of industrial
agriculture, chemical contamination, and extractive development. In the wake of
decades of toxic agrochemical use and the growing presence of microplastics and
heavy metals in soils, waters, and bodies, contemporary works of fiction bring
increasing focus to the toxic legacies and uneven distribution of environmental
harm. While scholars have approached many “toxic fictions” from within their
respective national or regional contexts, these works have been less frequently
studied as part of a larger global and transdisciplinary context. This volume thus proposes to bring together
chapters on representations of chemical toxicity in contemporary global
fiction, with a particular focus on environmental humanities perspectives.
Please send chapter proposals of no more than 500 words as a
Word attachment to the editor, David Vivian, at dvivian@soka.edu, no later than
5 p.m., Monday, October 6, 2025.
Teaching Baldwin / Baldwin as Teacher
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20119773/teaching-baldwin-baldwin-teacher
At a time when teaching is threatened and learning itself is
perceived and portrayed by some as threatening, James Baldwin Review
(JBR), an annual peer-reviewed journal, seeks submissions for a special
issue entitled “Teaching Baldwin, Baldwin as Teacher.” In Baldwin’s
terms, “to become educated (as all tyrants have always known) is to become
inaccessibly independent, it is to acquire a dangerous way of assessing danger,
and it is to hold in one’s hands a means of changing reality.” For this
special issue, JBR is especially interested in essays from a
range of international perspectives and from contexts within and outside
academic institutions.
Please send submission to Justin Joyce (j.a.joyce@wustl.edu) and Prentiss Clark (Prentiss.Clark@usd.edu). Submissions
received before May 1, 2026 will receive fullest consideration.
Reframing Resistance
Resistance presses forward: it leans into conflict, into
refusal, into struggle. To resist is to be seen and situated, to become
legible, often on terms not of one’s choosing. Resistance troubles power, but
it also moves through it, shaped by those who see, name, fear, and locate hope
in it. This issue of Colloquy invites contributors to trace
the complexities of resistance. “Reframing Resistance” is not a call to dismiss
or undo resistance but an invitation to hold it differently. We encourage
contributors to dwell in its forms, failures, contradictions, and quiet
ruptures. We welcome work that finds resistance where it is least expected—in
the minor, the everyday, the embodied, the messy.
Submit your work to: arts-colloquy@monash.edu by July 31,
2025.
Freedom: A Journal of Research in Africana Studies Volume
III Call for Papers
Freedom: A Journal of Research in Africana Studies is
a digital peer-reviewed periodical published annually by the W.E.B.
Du Bois Center for the Study of the Black Experience (CSBE) at Bowie
State University. This journal specializes in interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary research focusing on the lived experiences of the Black
Diaspora. Our editorial board invites you to submit 250 to 300-word
abstracts for research articles, book reviews, poetry, and original
multimedia-based submissions. The deadline for abstract submissions is October
3, 2025.
Contact Email kcookbell@bowiestate.edu
The Love of Machines
https://digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com/
December 3 to 5, 2025, hybrid
In the contemporary intimacy landscape, machines have
emerged not merely as mediators but as potential objects of desire. From
sophisticated dating apps that claim to decode compatibility, to conversational
agents scripting our seductions, to synthetic lovers rendering human connection
obsolete—machines don’t just shape digital intimacies; they reconfigure the
terrain upon which intimacy itself is constructed. For Digital Intimacies 11, we invoke Alan
Turing’s seminal question: “Can machines think?” — but with a crucial
reimagining for our era: “Can machines love? Or, how can machines love?”
Deadline: 29 August 2025
Enquiries: digitalintimacies.sydneyu@gmail.com
Anthropocene Anxiety in Graphic Narratives
We inhabit an era defined by the Anthropocene—a geological
epoch marked by humanity’s irreversible planetary impact. This reality has
precipitated a distinct psychological condition: "Anthropocene Anxiety.” Unlike
conventional eco-concern, this anxiety embodies an existential crisis rooted in
temporal dissonance: the collision between human experiential timescales and
the vast, often imperceptible, geological timescales of environmental
consequence. Graphic narratives (comics, graphic novels, manga, bandes dessinées)
have emerged as uniquely potent media for exploring this condition. Their
visual-textual hybridity enables simultaneous depiction of microscopic damage
(e.g., microplastics) and macroscopic shifts (e.g., glacial melt), creating an
"aesthetic of scale" that mirrors the cognitive challenge of grasping
planetary crisis. This edited collection on representation of “Anthropocene
Anxiety” in comics and other graphic narratives, seeks to establish comics as
indispensable sites for analysing contemporary environmental consciousness. It
aims to bridge Comics Studies, Environmental Humanities, Climate Psychology,
and Environmental Justice scholarship, offering innovative frameworks for
academics and actionable insights for educators, therapists, artists, and
activists.
Proposals should be sent to framingclimatecrisis@gmail.com
by September 14th, 2025. Direct queries to mitra.arpan2023@gmail.com.
American Spaces of Resistance
US culture has mobilized diverse material and symbolic
spaces to give expression to a multitude of forms of resistance throughout
history, often also transcending direct political action. Literature and the
arts have served as creative vessels for the voicing of disagreement (e.g. in
utopian/dystopian imaginations), and popular and folk culture have given
visibility to vernacular forms of defiance through polysemy and ambivalence. For
its nineteenth issue, aspeers dedicates its topical section to “American Spaces
of Resistance” and invites European graduate students to critically and
analytically explore US literature, (popular) culture, history, politics,
society, and media through the lens of ‘resistance.’ We welcome papers from all
disciplines, methodologies, and approaches comprising American studies and
related fields.
Contributions due October 19, 2025
Contact Email
info@aspeers.com
Coming of Age, Coming Undone: Abortion, Young Women, and
Reproductive Justice in Global Popular Culture
Films, streaming series, YA novels, comics, TikToks,
podcasts, and music have offered nuanced, bold, and globally diverse
representations of teens navigating abortion. In many international contexts,
these narratives push beyond stigma, positioning youth not only as subjects of
reproductive oppression but also as powerful agents of choice, resistance, and
transformation. This edited volume seeks to examine how abortion and adolescent
reproductive justice are represented in popular culture globally, with a focus
on young people’s experiences. We invite scholars, critics, activists, and
media practitioners from around the world to contribute essays exploring how
abortion and reproductive decision-making are depicted in youth-centered
popular culture.
Please submit a proposal (300–500 words) and a brief author
bio (100–150 words) by August 1st
Contact Email bboudreaustl@gmail.com
Art and Spirituality in the Black Diaspora
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120663/axe-art-and-spirituality-black-diaspora
Vienna, 22 to 24 April, 2026
Focusing on the diasporas which resulted from the
transatlantic slave trade, we examine diaspora identities are a “matter of
becoming and being” (S. Hall) through the material and artistic expressions and
practices of these newly formed identities. Exploring themes of translocation,
continuities and local histories in transnational contexts, we are looking at
cultural and aesthetic self-redefinitions and how communities created spiritual
and artistic alternative spaces of varied forms of black identities in
Central/South America and the Caribbean. We invite researchers, artists, and
religious leaders and practitioners as specialists on these subjects to present
their work. This conference prioritises the often overlooked perspectives and
relationships of the diasporas of South/Central America and the Caribbean with
continental Africa. We understand this as an ongoing dialogue between the
diasporas and the continent.
Please send your 250-word abstract proposals for 15 minute
presentations to Mariama.de.Brito.Henn@univie.ac.at and luisakarman@gmail.com till
the 15.09.2025
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Travel Grants for Scholars
https://www.library.wisc.edu/friends/friends-grants/grants-in-aid/
The Friends award several grants annually, bringing scholars
to Madison campus libraries to conduct research in the humanities, sciences,
and related fields appropriate to the libraries’ collection strengths. The
purpose of this program is to foster high-level use of the University of
Wisconsin–Madison Libraries’ rich holdings, and to make them better known and
more accessible to a wider circle of scholars. Awards are made up to $2,000 for
recipients from North America and up to $3,000 for those from elsewhere in the
world.
The annual application deadline is December 31 of any year,
with decisions made in February.
email: friends@library.wisc.edu
Willison Foundation Charitable Trust Fellowships
https://willisoncharitabletrust.org/applications/guidance-for-applicants/
Applications are invited from anyone pursuing advanced
research in the History of the Book, irrespective of nationality, discipline,
or profession. ‘Advanced research’ is taken to mean work towards a doctorate,
post-doctoral research, and work of an equivalent level regardless of the
applicant’s formal qualifications.
Application must be received by 5 pm GMT on 30 September
2024.
email: secretary@willisoncharitabletrust.org
Fellowships on Digital Transformation
https://www.cais-research.de/en/cais-college/fellowships/
Are you researching the societal impact of digital
transformation? Do you need time to focus on your own project and want to
exchange ideas with experts from diverse disciplines? A fellowship at CAIS
offers you the freedom to dedicate yourself to your research – and the
opportunity to become part of a vibrant interdisciplinary community. Step away
from daily work routines to gain new perspectives and build lasting
connections. As a fellow, you can spend either six or three months in Bochum,
Germany. During this time, we will cover your sabbatical leave from work
through financial compensation (e.g. for a teaching substitute) or provide
grants of up to 2.000 € per month. In addition, we will provide a fully
furnished apartment free of charge. You can invite guests for collaboration and
receive financial support for research expenses. Private offices and meeting
rooms with modern facilities offer optimal working conditions.
The application deadline is 31 July 2025.
Contact Email esther.laufer@cais-research.de
Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship
https://www.pem.org/phillips-library/phillips-library-fellowships
The Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship is awarded to one
recipient each year to perform independent scholarly research at the Phillips
Library. Fellowships awarded may be taken in the calendar year following an
accepted application. The recipient receives a $5,500 award.
To be considered for this fellowship, please have your
application submitted by Sunday, October 26, 2025.
Contact Email research@pem.org
St. Louis Catholic Archives Visiting Research Grant
https://stlouiscatholicarchivescollective.com/research-funding-2/
The Center for Research on Global Catholicism (CRGC)
supports scholarship on the ways and means by which Catholicism migrated across
time and space to become a global religion, entangled with imperial ambitions,
in excess of official intentions, mobilized by material objects, affective
relationships, politics, theologies, epidemics and more. The CRGC has partnered
with local Catholic archives in St. Louis to form the St. Louis Catholic
Archives Collective (SCAC). This collaboration is dedicated to increasing the
visibility and accessibility of participating archival institutions,
particularly those collections that illuminate the histories of women
religious.
Submission Deadline: Sept. 15 by 11:59pm
Lilly Library Fellowships
https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library/fellowships
The Lilly Library is accepting applications for fellowships
to support travel during the 2026 calendar year. For all types of funding, the
collections of the Lilly Library must be integral to your research. There are different
types of funding available:
The Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships: Funds research on any
topic.
The Mendel Visiting Fellowship: Funds projects limited to
specific subject areas, see website.
The Pantzer Visiting Scholar in Descriptive Bibliography:
Funds bibliographic research projects, see below for details.
Application deadline: September 30, 2025
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Trans Studies-WGSS
https://apply.interfolio.com/169698
The Program in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
(WGSS) at Williams College seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Trans
Studies for a position beginning Fall 2026. The ideal candidate will do
interdisciplinary and intersectional work in trans studies, with research on
expressive cultures based in the United States. This research can include but
is not limited to: performance, film, media, art, and/or narrative studies.
Candidates must have experience teaching or demonstrate the capacity to teach
courses in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies though their PhD may come
from WGSS or a related field. The teaching load is 2 courses in the spring and
2 courses in the fall. Each academic year the hire will be expected to offer
two core courses (e.g. Intro to WGSS or Foundations in Sexuality Studies) and
two electives in their field of expertise. It is expected that the hire will
participate meaningfully in the Winter Study curriculum, which is during
January. We seek a candidate who can contribute to program building and the
vibrant intellectual life of the college.
Review of applications will begin on October 15 2025
For questions, please contact the search committee chair,
Prof. Mejdulene Shomali (mbs3@williams.edu).
Assistant or Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s
Studies
https://www.hollins.edu/about-hollins/jobs/faculty-positions/
Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia invites applications
for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s
Studies. The successful candidate for this tenure-track position will be
broadly trained in gender, women’s, sexuality, or feminist studies or a closely
related field. A scholar-teacher familiar with feminist theoretical frameworks
is needed for exploring the complexities of identity, discourse, corporeality,
and embodiment within pluralistic cultural, social, and political contexts, as
well as with research and teaching methods that center identifying and
understanding historically underrepresented or marginalized voices. Candidates
for this position must hold either a Ph.D. in Gender, Women’s, Sexuality, or
Feminist Studies (GWSFS) or a Ph.D. in a closely related field. This position
carries a teaching load of six courses per academic year or equivalent, and the
new faculty member must be prepared to teach introductory and advanced courses
within GWS.
ABD candidates are welcome to apply, but the Ph.D. must be
in hand by July 1, 2026
Screening of candidates will begin on September 15, 2025 and
will continue until the position is filled.
For questions about the position, please contact chairperson
of the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, Lindsey Breitwieser, at
breitwieserln@hollins.edu.
Love in a F*cked Up World, the podcast
https://www.deanspade.net/podcast/
The first episode — a conversation with adrienne maree brown
— was released on June 11, 2025, with new episodes every two weeks for the next
few months. Look out for conversations with Tourmaline, Mariame Kaba, Weyam
Ghadbian, Prentis Hemphill, and Shira Hassan. And Morgan Bassichis and I
recorded six mini-episodes focusing on tools for addressing specific problems
and tangles, like long distance dating, deciding whether to stay or leave a
relationship, dealing with hard feelings like jealousy and possessiveness, and
how to de-escalate a crush when you want to.
Ungendering Menstruation – open access book
https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/ungendering-menstruation
Ungendering Menstruation examines menstrual
suppression, toxicity, and the cooptation of menstrual positivity rhetoric.
Drawing on their own experiences as a toxic shock survivor and a menstrual pain
and period dysphoria sufferer, Ela Przybyło presents a vision for menstrual
justice that refuses the womaning of bleeding and the further erasure,
dismissal, and denial of menstrual pain as real pain.
Excess: Mad, Queer, Femme Abundance, special issue of Feral
Feminisms
https://feralfeminisms.com/issue1/issue-14-2-excess/
“Excess” is the grammar of camp style; the signifier of
capitalism; the name of inequality; and a warning of environmental collapse.
“Excess” is the abject and the affective—those feelings, affects and
embodiments that “spill over,” which exceed white supremacist,
heteropatriarchal, ableist, sanist, and cissexist frameworks of recognition or
normative logics of acceptability. We insist that Mad, disabled, and femme
knowledge and ways of knowing are vital to include within traditional spaces of
knowledge production like academia; indeed, much of our work as feminist
scholars and educators involves re-imagining and rebuilding syllabi and
bibliographies to reflect this inclusion. At the same time, we insist that Mad,
disabled, and femme knowledge and ways of knowing are necessary to transform
these traditional spaces and practices of knowledge production.
Volume of The Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching
Conference
https://journals.h-net.org/phtc/issue/view/vol_3_classrooms_communities
H-Net Journals is pleased to announce that a new volume of
The Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference has just been published,
entitled “History, Social Science, and the Humanities: Working in Classrooms
and Communities.”. It’s a must read for anyone interested in inclusive teaching
or integrating art or the digital humanities into their pedagogy. The
Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference is an open-access journal,
published by H-Net Journals through Open Journals System. All contents are
completely free to authors and readers.
Contact Email ellio252@mail.h-net.org
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain,
Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/UH0Pb0smRBGS99fscHpLgQ#/registration
August 23 (SATURDAY) at 2:00 PM EST
Join us to discuss Transatlantic Bondage (SUNY Press, 2024)
edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel. This groundbreaking volume addresses the
enslavement and experiences of Black Africans in Spain and the Spanish
Caribbean, particularly La Española (or Hispaniola) and Puerto Rico, two of the
earliest colonies. Spanning nearly four hundred years and rooted in extensive
archival research, Transatlantic Bondage sheds light on a number of relatively
underexamined topics in these locales, including the development and
application of slavery laws, disobedience and its consequences, migration,
gender, family, lifestyle, and community building among the free Black
population and white allies.
Contact Email analucia.araujo@gmail.com
