CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
New Perspectives in Environmental History
https://environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/conferences
Yale Environmental History invites graduate students and
early career scholars in History and related fields to propose papers for our
Spring 2026 “New Perspectives in Environmental History” conference, to be held
on Saturday, February 28, 2026. We invite papers that address environmental
history in its broadest sense, whether dealing with political economy, society
and culture, intellectual debates, science and technology, microorganisms and
disease, or policy and planning, to name a few topics. Paper proposals from any
region or time period are welcome. We are particularly eager to include
comparative and non-U.S. perspectives on environmental history.
Submissions must be emailed to environmentalhistory@yale.edu
by November 21, 2025.
Indigenous Studies in Relation
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20126453/indigenous-studies-relation-symposium-cfp
Whether we acknowledge it or not, the academy exists in
profound relation to Indigenous people, indigeneity, and structures of settler
colonial power. Yet, for many disciplines across the humanities, Indigenous
Studies remains marginalized and under-theorized. This symposium invites work
that engages the relationality between Indigenous Studies – a discipline
grounded in the knowledges, practices, politics, and lives of Indigenous
peoples – and other fields, crafts, and disciplines that might see themselves
as independent of the concerns of Indigenous peoples and histories. We welcome
Indigenous Studies scholars as well as scholars working in connection with any
of the historical concerns of Indigenous Studies.
Please submit abstracts here
before 11/15/25.
Contact Email markmallory@tamu.edu
Combahee River Collective: Race, Space, and Feminist
Activism
Conference sponsored by the African & African Diaspora
Studies Program (AADS), Boston College
Saturday, 14 March 2026
The Collective, active in Boston from 1974 to 1980, has
become an international symbol of Black feminist theory and praxis. The
Collective’s international influence is undeniable, yet this renown has largely
overwhelmed its Boston origins. This conference aims to return the Collective
to its geographical and liberatory roots.
All proposal materials must be submitted by Friday, November
14, 2025, 11:59 pm EST via INTERFOLIO at http://apply.interfolio.com/170158
Contact Email aads@bc.edu
Feminist and Queer Ecologies –Thinking Gender Conference
https://csw.ucla.edu/2025/10/26/call-for-proposals-thinking-gender-2026/
April 16 and 17, 2026
Thinking Gender is an annual UCLA interdisciplinary graduate
conference that features work by emerging scholars. The 2026 conference theme
is "Feminist and Queer Ecologies," exploring how ecologies and
environments are shaped, understood, and struggled for in relation to sex,
gender, and sexuality. As we continuously see, we are living in unprecedented
times with extreme weather and climate that impacts everyone with lasting
effects. This is a moment where scholarship is not only necessary but
responsible for actively engaging in discussion, conversations, and thought.
Deadline: Nov. 2
Contact Email rgrant@women.ucla.edu
Under the Surface: Visibility and Politics
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20128706/cfp-under-surface-visibility-and-politics
February 21st, 2026, Saturday, University of Texas at Dallas
The 2026 RAW Conference seeks to explore the tension between
surface and depth and invites scholars to consider what the surface reveals and
what remains hidden beneath it. Since this is an interdisciplinary conference,
the term “surface” can have multiple meanings in relation to different
disciplines. For example, it could refer to literal surfaces or textures, it
could mean our conscious understandings, or it could refer to those elements
that are more obviously present in a text. We welcome submissions from all
disciplines and strongly encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the surface
and what lies beneath it, such as: cultural representation; space and affect;
mobility and borders; bodies and concepts; patterns and textures; linguistic
and visual analysis; nonhuman agency; (de)materialization; and postcolonial and
transnational thinking.
Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a short bio
(max. 100 words) here: https://forms.gle/2CEnWSH4NkF2cpcv9 no later than Friday, December 5th, 2025,
11:59 pm.
Contact Email rawconference@utdallas.edu
Alternate Histories of the Body
Symposium takes place online 30 January 2026
In recent years, diverse fields related to literature and
science studies, such as the medical humanities, critical neurodiversity
studies, and the study of the haptic, have been re-evaluating the human body,
its histories, and the impact of those histories today. At the same time,
fields such as feminist theory, critical race theory, trans studies, and
disability studies have deployed embodied perspectives to re-evaluate how we
understand history and historical narratives. This one-day symposium invites abstracts
for twenty-minute papers on these alternate histories of the body, broadly
construed, from scholars working in literary studies and adjacent fields such
as the medical humanities, history, and philosophy. We welcome proposed
contributions that explore forms and formats beyond the conventional conference
paper and that incorporate elements of creative practice, autoethnography, and
embodied meaning-making.
Please send 250-word abstracts to adele.guyton@uclouvain.be
and lh819@cam.ac.uk by November 21, 2025
Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
(AAAD) Interdisciplinary Conference - Sanctuary: Sites of Survival and
Spontaneity
The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center
at James Madison University invites proposals for its annual interdisciplinary
conference, to be held from Wednesday, February 11 to Friday, February 13,
2026. The conference brings together
scholars, archivists, and practitioners from a wide variety of overlapping and
intersecting fields. This year’s theme is Sanctuary: Sites of Survival and
Spontaneity.
The word “sanctuary” contains an invocation of the
sacred—that which is set apart, inviolable—yet we live in a moment where the
sanctity of sanctuaries is especially tenuous. Because sanctuaries are actual,
existing spaces, they are inherently violable, vulnerable to the application of
force in ways that abstract beliefs are not. In emphasizing both the
vulnerability and the potentiality of the “site,” we seek to explore the ways
space and place coalesce in practices of worldbuilding, as well as how survival
and spontaneity are intertwined in such sites. Aspiring to widen the concept’s
purview, we welcome creative and unexpected re-definitions of “the site,”
including sites of movement and mobility.
Please send 300-word presentation proposals, or 1000-word
panel proposals, to aaadstudies@jmu.edu by November 1, 2025.
Open by Design: Creating and Using OER and OA Resources
H-Teach invites proposals for our upcoming 2026 Webinar
Series focused on the use and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER) and
Open Access (OA) materials in teaching and learning. This series will highlight
practical strategies, innovative projects, and critical conversations about how
openness can enhance accessibility, collaboration, and equity in
education. This series seeks to bring
together educators, librarians, scholars, and instructional designers who are
engaging with OER and OA in creative and impactful ways. Webinars will be
hosted virtually via Zoom and recorded for asynchronous viewing on the H-Teach
platform. Sessions will be scheduled from January through May with some
flexibility in dates and times to accommodate presenters' availability.
Sessions will run for approximately 60 minutes, with time allocated for
Q&A. We welcome proposals on a wide range of topics for both online and
face-to-face teaching environments.
Please send any questions and proposals to
bjcartwright@utep.edu.
PUBLICATIONS
Colonial Afterlives: Public Art and the Trans-Pacific
World
This special issue of Public Art Dialogue invites
scholarly contributions (research articles, short essays, and artists’
projects) that examine the enduring visual, spatial, and ideological legacies
of colonialism in public spaces across the Pacific world. It seeks to explore
how imperial legacies forged transoceanic connections that continue to shape
the public sphere through means including but not limited to monuments,
architecture, civic rituals, theater, dance, street art, and performative acts.
Please submit one
400-word abstract and a brief CV with the subject line “Public Art
Dialogue Special Issue” to contact@globalperiphies.com by December 1, 2025.
Essay Competition: "Mind / Machine / Market: The
Humanities in the Age of AI"
We invite original, unpublished essays in English (maximum
10,000 words plus endnotes) that explore the relationship between the
humanities and artificial intelligence. Submissions may engage historical,
philosophical, or cultural questions related to AI and should address at least
one of the central concerns of this year’s lecture series:
- How
can machines and markets benefit from human insight?
- How
can the humanities actively help shape a world increasingly driven by
technological innovation and market performance?
Deadline for submissions: January 5, 2026
Contact Email babiracki@uta.edu
Promises at the End of the World: Political Theory and
Cultural Studies
When Francis Fukuyama declared an end to history, we knew
better. We responded critically and
hoped for more than “a global peace” defined by the dreams of finance
capital and the circulation of commodities. Our work, informed by critical
theory, cultural studies, anti-colonial thought, contemporary studies of race
and racism, and feminist, gender and sexuality approaches; in its most emphatic
iterations, it promised to change the world alongside both political and social
movements and the broken promises of neoliberalism.
Where are we now in cultural studies? How might political
theory help us address the situation? What are the crucial topics? This book
gathers authors across the international arena to engage with two broad, yet
novel, intersecting frameworks . Contributors may discuss how, from a cultural
studies perspective, the field can be marshaled to shed light on key political
issues
Interested authors should submit a 500 word
proposal/abstract to carley@tamu.edu
Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Lands:
Transcorporeality in Eco-narratives
https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_ILS.html
In an era of escalating ecological crises, from industrial
pollution to global pandemics, the boundaries of the human body feel more
permeable than ever. The history of environmental disasters makes this porosity
undeniable. The concept of “transcorporeality,” pioneered by Stacy Alaimo
(2010), offers a crucial framework for understanding this condition. It posits
that human bodies are not discrete, sealed entities but fundamentally porous
systems, continuously co-constituted through material interchange with the
more-than-human world.
This interdisciplinary special issue of Interdisciplinary
Literary Studies. A Journal of Criticism and Theory seeks to explore how
eco-narratives articulate the entanglement of contaminated bodies and
contaminated lands. We invite contributions that explore literary, cultural,
intermedial, cinematic and testimonial responses to contamination through the
lens of transcorporeality and allied theories.
Please send your topic’s title, abstract of 200-300 words to
pwieczorek@wsiz.edu.pl and nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr by 30 November 2025.
Join the Active History Project
Activehistory.ca welcomes proposals for individual blog
posts, thematic blog series, and other contributions that explore fresh
research, creative historical approaches, and history with contemporary
relevance. We encourage submissions from historians and scholars in related
fields who work with historical questions and seek to connect with the broader
historical community in an accessible and reader-friendly format. Whether
you're a graduate student, early-career researcher, or someone working beyond traditional
academic settings, we value interdisciplinary perspectives and community-based
research.
We are particularly interested in the following roles:
Contributing Editors, Series Editors, Regular Contributors
Contact Email activehistoryinfo@gmail.com
Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing
Prize
https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/awards
The SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student
Writing Prize, co-sponsored by Feminist Media Histories, recognizes outstanding
scholarship in the field of feminist media history. A $500 cash prize will be
awarded annually to the winner and the winning essay will be published (subject
to revision) in Feminist Media Histories. Entrants must be enrolled in a
recognized program of graduate study at the time they enter the contest. They
must also be current members of SCMS and its Gender and Feminisms Caucus.
To be considered for the award, the essay, along with a
cover page, must be submitted to bcoldw@uw.edu no later than November 1, 2025.
Book Reviewers for Women and Social Movements in the
United States
The online journal, Women and Social Movements in the United
States, published by Alexander Street Press, is seeking to add to the list of
potential book reviewers! The journal
publishes twice a year and features 8-10 book reviews in each issue. If you are interested in being added to the
list of potential reviewers, please contact book review editor, Erica Hayden,
at erhayden@trevecca.edu. Please provide
contact information as well as areas of expertise. Graduate students and scholars at all career
stages are welcome!
Contact Email erhayden@trevecca.edu
A Global History of Collecting: Objects, Institutions,
and Knowledge Practices across Cultures
https://agya.info/publications/calls/a-global-history-of-collecting
This interdisciplinary book project seeks to examine
collecting not merely as a cultural or aesthetic activity, but as
epistemological practices – a powerful epistemic mechanism through which
institutions and individuals across the globe have shaped systems of value,
identity, memory, and authority. By focusing on the “social lives of objects”
and their role in the production, circulation, and contestation of knowledge,
this volume interrogates collecting practices from antiquity to the digital
age, encompassing contexts as diverse as African royal courts, East Asian
philosophical traditions, indigenous American rituals, Islamic manuscript
culture, and contemporary digital heritage.
Abstracts due: 31 January 2026
Abstracts should be sent to the editorial team at:
grimberg@grimberg.eu and gh_mohamed55@cu.edu.eg
Streamculture: The Aesthetics and Politics of
Platformized Viewing
Streaming media has fundamentally altered the ways in which
stories are told, consumed, and circulated, moving beyond the temporal,
spatial, and material constraints of traditional broadcast and cable
television. Platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and
regional/global equivalents are not merely distributors of content; they are
active producers of culture, shaping narrative structures, viewer engagement,
creative labor practices, and cultural representation across diverse contexts.
This volume, Streamculture, examines these developments through the lens of new
media and cyberculture, foregrounding the interplay of algorithmic curation,
interface design, global content flows, and audience practices.
Abstract Deadline: November 08, 2025
Submit to: streamculture.volume@gmail.com
Blue Humanities
This special issue of The Apollonian seeks to act
both as a primer for readers new to the Blue Humanities and as a platform for
advancing future directions in the field. Contributors are invited to consider
the oceans, rivers, and waterbodies as an archive, a medium, a stage of
ecological devastation, and a horizon for cultural and political imaginaries.
Essays may take the form of critical overviews of specific strands of oceanic
thought, close readings of texts, films, and other cultural media, or
explorations of methodological innovations at the intersection of the Blue
Humanities and other disciplines. The journal welcomes Academic Essays (within
5000 words), Personal Essays (within 2500 words), Translations (within 3000
words), Book Reviews (within 2000 words), as well as Photo Essays, Poetry,
Short Stories, Interviews, and Personal Essays submissions.
Submit your work by 15th November, 2025.
Lives Remembered: Trans Narratives of Memory
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/03/lives-remembered-trans-narratives-of-memory
Lives Remembered: Trans Narratives of Memory examines how
trans lives are remembered, represented, and transmitted across personal,
community, and global contexts. Memory, far from being a passive archive,
emerges as an act of survival, resistance, and futurity. In many contexts,
trans histories remain undocumented or are actively erased. Remembering becomes
both a deeply personal practice of survival and a communal act of cultural
preservation.
Abstract submission deadline: 18 November 2025
Please send abstracts and queries to: transmemory.bloomsbury@gmail.com
Cyber-Intimacies: Queer and Feminist Interventions in
Global Cyber Politics
We invite abstracts for an upcoming edited volume,
Cyber-Intimacies: Queer and Feminist Interventions in Global Cyber Politics,
which seeks to critically explore the concept of cyber-intimacies as an
intervention in the field of global cyber politics. This volume foregrounds
queer and trans perspectives to theorize cyber-intimacies as a site of global
political struggle, resistance, and reimagination. Moving beyond frameworks
that reduce cyber politics to security, surveillance, or risk, we conceptualize
cyber-intimacies as the multiple and messy ways that bodies, affect, desire,
memory, and power circulate across digital spaces. We call for contributions
that embrace queer, trans, and feminist worldviews to analyze how cyberspace
becomes a site of state regulation, sex, sexualities, racialized and gendered
control, but also radical relationality, care, and refusal.
Please submit abstracts and bios via this link: https://forms.office.com/r/wi57rF5Ja8
For questions or expressions of interest, feel free to reach
out in advance to Prateek Srivastava, srivaspe@mail.uc.edu, Stephen Bryant,
bryansh@mail.uc.edu, and/or Amy Lind, lindac@mail.uc.edu.
Hip-Hop Across Educational Contexts
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-popular-music-education#call-for-papers
If we are serious about equity in music education, we must
embrace pedagogical approaches that honor the cultural wealth students bring to
our classrooms, and Hip-Hop education offers a powerful model for doing so.
This special edition seeks to illuminate the diverse ways Hip-Hop is being
utilized in music educational contexts—from K-12 classrooms and community
centers to higher education and informal learning spaces. We invite submissions
that examine Hip-Hop education through multiple lenses and across varied
contexts
We invite submission of full papers between 6000 and 8000
words by 2 March 2026.
Prospective authors are welcome to contact guest editors
Kelly Allen (kallen8@augusta.edu) and Edmund Adjapong (edmund.adjapong@shu.edu)
with any questions or inspirations.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
APS Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
Fellowships
https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/fellowships#paragraph-9
The American Philosophical Society (APS)’s Indigenous
Community Research Fund supports research by Indigenous community members,
elders, teachers, knowledge keepers, tribal officials, traditional leaders,
museum and archive professionals, scholars, and others, regardless of academic
background, seeking to examine materials at the APS's Library & Museum in
support of Indigenous community-based priorities.
Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI)
Summer Undergraduate Internships
These 8-week paid summer internships provide opportunities
for undergraduates to conduct research, to explore career possibilities in
archives and special collections, and to learn about advanced training in
Native American and Indigenous Studies and related fields.
Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI)
Digital Knowledge Sharing Fellowships
These short-term fellowships support university- and
community-based scholars working on digital projects that connect archives and
Indigenous communities.
Deadlines March 2,
2026
NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship
https://www.nacbs.org/fellowships/nacbs-huntington-library-fellowship
The NACBS, in collaboration with the Huntington Library,
offers annually the NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship to aid in dissertation
research in British Studies using the collections of the library. The amount of the fellowship is $4000. A requirement for holding the fellowship is
that the time of tenure be spent in residence at the Huntington Library.
Deadline: November 15, 2025
Smith College Special Collections Travel Fellowships
https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/visit/research-fellowships
Smith College Special Collections (SCSC) invites
applications for the Travel to Collections Fellowships for the 2026-2027 cycle.
- All topics of research
using the SCSC collections may apply.
- Applicants do not need to
have an institutional affiliation.
- Creative projects,
subject-specific works, digital humanities projects, and more, are all
welcome.
Deadline for application: Monday, January 5, 2026 by 11:59pm
EST
Contact Email specialcollections@smith.edu
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for
Sexual Diversity Studies
The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at
the University of Toronto invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral
Fellowship during the 2026-27 academic year, with the possibility of an
additional one-year renewal, to support emerging scholars pursuing research in
queer, trans, and LGBTQ2+ studies. Applicants from all fields of the humanities
and the social sciences are encouraged to apply. The fellowship is open to
non-Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and international scholars.
All application materials should be submitted via email in a
single PDF by January 5, 2026 to The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
at the following address: qtrl.sds@utoronto.ca.
URL: https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Bonham-Centre-Postdoctoral-Fellowship-2026-27v1.pdf
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Assistant Professor (Gender, Embodiment, Health and/or
Science)
The Women and Gender Studies Department invites applications
for an assistant professor position in Gender, Embodiment, Health, and Science
to begin in Fall 2026. We seek a scholar whose work critically engages with the
intersections of gender, sex, race, health, medicine and/or science. We welcome
applicants from a range of interdisciplinary and disciplinary backgrounds,
including but not limited to feminist science studies, public health,
healthcare, Black feminist theory, Indigenous studies, embodiment, trans
studies, disability studies, environmental justice, or medical humanities. We
are particularly interested in scholars who focus on midwifery, reproductive
health and sexuality.
The committee will begin reviewing complete
applications on Nov. 15, 2025.
Priscilla Yamin pyamin@hunter.cuny.edu
Black Feminist Postdoc
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at
Duke University seeks a postdoctoral fellow with an interdisciplinary training
in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Black Studies, American Studies,
Ethnic Studies, and/or related fields, with expertise in Black feminist
studies. The fellow will have two primary responsibilities: to help
conceptualize, plan, and organize the annual Black Feminist Theory Summer
Institute (BFTSI) at Duke University, and
to build and implement enduring networks and scholarly
programming to keep BFTSI cohorts connected (e.g. newsletters, conference
roundtables and panels, co-edited publications, etc).
Application due date is November 1, 2025.
email Amanda
Archambeau at aa133@duke.edu
HASTAC Scholars 2026-2027
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16Ms6Ke9xyr6HkTRGjwTSymo4-tZ8b1kWBb9knTKHpEA/viewform
HASTAC Scholars brings together dynamic graduate and
undergraduate students pushing boundaries in the arts, humanities, sciences,
and technology. As a HASTAC Scholar, you
will:
- Connect with scholars globally to exchange ideas,
collaborate on projects, and form new networks
- Showcase your research through blog posts, videos,
interviews, and spotlight features
- Organize and lead discussions on academic texts, tools,
and critical issues in your field
- Help shape programming that fits your needs and interests
as an emerging scholar
- Gain access to resources and opportunities available
exclusively to HASTAC Scholars
The 2025-2026 cohort application deadline is November 15,
2025.
If you have any questions about the process, feel free to
reach out to hastacscholars@gmail.com.
Assistant Professor
The University of Maryland, College Park, invites
applications for a tenure-track/tenured appointment as assistant or associate
professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies. We seek a colleague with a
well-established record of research and pedagogy that focuses on Black
Feminisms and/or Black Queer and Sexuality Studies and/or Black Women’s
Studies.
Best Consideration Date: December 1, 2025
Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship
The program is for scholars in the final stages of their
doctoral work who need only to finish the dissertation to complete requirements
for the Ph.D. We hope the experience of living and working for a year at Kenyon
will encourage these fellows to consider a liberal arts college as a place to
begin their careers as teachers and scholars. In the past, fellowships have
been awarded in: African and African American studies, American studies,
anthropology, art history, Asian and Middle East studies, biology, Classics,
English, history, math, modern languages and literatures (Spanish), music,
political science, religious studies, sociology, gender and sexuality studies. The
fellow is expected to write the dissertation and to teach one course each
semester, usually in the fellow's general research area.
The MYDF search will accept application through Dec. 31.
Amy Quinlivana - quinlivana@kenyon.edu
Fellowship in the Humanities
https://apply.interfolio.com/176179
Case Western Reserve University, Baker-Nord Institute for
the Humanities, is seeking a qualified candidate to fill a postdoctoral fellow
position. This is a one-year appointment with the possibility of renewing for
an additional year. The purpose of the BNC Postdoctoral Fellowship is to
support research in the humanities by providing scholars in the early stages of
their careers with the time and resources necessary to advance their work. Fellows will be affiliated with one or more
of the humanities departments represented by the Baker-Nord Institute for the
Humanities including but not limited to: Classics, Religious Studies, Modern
Languages and Literatures, and Art and Art History. We are particularly
interested in Fellows whose scholarly and/or creative inquiry engage the
following areas of speculation and the speculative, global Afrofuturism(s),
and/or decolonial methods and approaches.
Deadline: Dec 01, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s
Studies
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) invites
applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor or
recently tenured associate professor who works at the intersection of gender or
sexuality and aging. GWS envisions that the successful candidate focuses their
research and teaching on health and aging at the intersection of sex, gender,
and sexuality and on the long-term health effects of social and economic
marginalization.
The deadline for assuring full consideration is November 11,
2025
Questions or inquiries can be directed to: Nicholas Syrett,
Department and Search Chair, nsyrett@wisc.edu
Breaking Culture Live
https://www.youtube.com/@BreakingCultureLive
Breaking Culture Live is a Cultural Studies Association
affiliated program hosted by Past President Sean Johnson Andrews and current
CSA President Rob Carley. Each week on Wednesday we will spend half-an-hour
breaking down the breaking news with cultural studies scholars and activists,
discussing their work and how it helps us understand a contemporary event or
emergent trend and intervene in making the world a better place.
Register to join the live broadcast: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GJUAncE0TqC7AWpqbEHiwA#/registration
Any questions, write us at: breakingculturelive@gmail.com
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
CONFERENCES
Public Memory: The AIDS Memorial Quilt Interactive
Project
Thursday, December 4, 2025 12pm to 1pm, UT Dallas, Edith
O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building
The AIDS Quilt Touch is 25-year project of digital cultural
heritage to ensure future access and record of the cultural history of a
fragile historical monument. This
presentation shows work from the Narrative Threads exhibition, and a real-time
demonstration of the Virtual Quilt Browser.
How to Build a Homosexual
https://givebutter.com/howhomo2025
October 30, 2025 at 6pm Central
Have you ever wondered how we became the community that we
are today? Did we just appear as a full grown group of Gays in cities in the
20th Century? The answer to this question is complicated and involves radical
activists, medical professionals, scientists, and people who volunteered to
help define and build a framework for what would become the LGBTQ community. Join
us this LGBTQ History month for “How to Build a Homosexual.” Our archivist,
Josh Burford, will look at the medical and scientific establishments' role in
creating both definitions and space for a growing community of Queer and Trans
people to find themselves and each other.
Homo Eco-politicus in Literary and Cultural Studies
https://journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/announcement/view/30
you are welcome to attend our online colloquium titled Homo
Eco-politicus in Literary and Cultural Studies that will be done on
15th of November 2025 on Zoom. The registration link is seen here.
Handmaking a Heritage: The Visual and Material Cultures
of Second-Wave Feminism
https://events.colostate.edu/en/8XFV416/friedman-feminist-press-presentation-2025-3a8VVHR6f/overview
October 29 at 3 pm MST on Zoom
In this presentation, Sophie Yates explores the role of DIY
and craft aesthetics in the proliferation of printed pamphlets, circulars,
bibliographies, newsletters, and small-press publications that accompanied
feminist and queer activist movements in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing from her
research at Colorado State University’s Friedman Feminist Press Collection this
summer, Yates highlights the deeply personal relationships that fuelled the
hand-drawn, hand-compiled design techniques of late-century feminist
publication. Focusing this craft ethos within more expansive traditions of
queer publication, this presentation centers the freedoms and limitations of
do-it-yourself print production as a tool for connection, communication, and
revolution.
Contact Email clarissa.trapp@colostate.edu
Roundtable for Black Feminist and Womanist Theory
The 6th Annual Roundtable for Black Feminist and Womanist
Theory is just under two weeks away, and registration is still open! This
year’s Roundtable will take place November 6–8, 2025, hosted at the University
of Rhode Island’s Gender and Sexuality Center, with full hybrid access via
Zoom. The event is open to the public—registration is required for both
in-person and virtual attendance.
Contact Email bailey.thomas@uri.edu
Interspecies Communicator Symposium: Re-Normalising
Interspecies Communication
Wednesday 12th November 2025 14:00 - 21:00 UK (GMT)
Tickets £10 (free for those needing it)
Communicating with plants, landscapes and majority-animals*
is a rich, joyous, multi-layered component of multispecies belonging. This
symposium is about re-normalising interspecies communication in societies who
have abandoned or hidden it. Through artistic practice, including music,
sculpture, installation, performance, activism and art-jewellery, we invite you
to join us and explore the respectful, reciprocal, creative steps that can be
taken towards repairing broken relationships with all species and landscapes.
The symposium does not seek to prove the lived-experience of interspecies
communication in its many forms, but to highlight it as a vital element of
creativity to be re-embraced.
Contact Email inga.hamilton@research.sunderland.ac.uk
