CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar
https://www.masshist.org/seminars/history-women-gender-sexuality-seminar
https://www.masshist.org/admin/uploads/WGS_Seminar_2026_2027_23a41fd2ec.pdf
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. Sessions
may take place virtually or in a hybrid format as conditions allow.
Please submit your proposals by 15 April 2026 to seminars@masshist.org.
OEP@TWU Virtual Conference
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141276/oeptwu-virtual-conference-cfp
The conference covers Open Educational Practices (OEP),
including Open Educational Resources (OER) and other relevant topics. OEPs
create learner-driven educational environments where students can collaborate
on course content, exercise agency in course decision-making, and create
renewable assignments. Open Educational Resources (OER) refer to publicly
available educational resources free of charge or at a low cost. By
incorporating OER, instructors often experience the pedagogical shift to focus
on inclusive materials with culturally and contextually responsive texts.
Proposal Deadline: Thursday, March 3, 2026, by 11:59 pm CST
For more information, continue reading or contact
alundahl@twu.edu with questions.
SHA Grad Council's Southern Exchanges 2026
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 @ 9:00am PST/12:00pm EST/17:00 BST
The Southern Historical Association's Graduate Council
invites all grad students working on projects relating to the South to share
your research in 5-minutes or less! Developing the ability to succinctly convey
your research and its significance is a key networking skill. This is your
chance to practice your “elevator pitch” in front of a supportive audience of
fellow graduate students—and enhance your CV in the process.
To accommodate as many participants as possible, sign-ups
will remain open until Friday, April 3, 2026. Spots will be allocated on a
first-come, first-serve basis, so don’t wait to sign up! Please register here: https://forms.gle/9v3jAsdwrn4QWxQc9.
Contact Email shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com
Temporalities: The Sixth Annual Critical Femininities
Conference
https://www.criticalfemininities.net/conference
The conference will take place virtually on August 7-9,
2026.
Temporalities refers to the state of existing within or
having some relationship to time. In what might be referred to as unprecedented
times, uncertain times, or even the worst possible timeline, femininity has the
potential to expand our temporal horizons and offer new possibilities. Critical
conceptions of femininity can help us reach to the temporal fringes to
de-centre patriarchal, colonial, white supremacist, cisheteronormative,
capitalist, anti-fat, ableist, and other oppressive temporal frameworks. Together,
we aim to spend time exploring the possibilities that emerge when we resist the
timelines set by white supremacy, colonization, ableism, transphobia, misogyny,
and the other violent structures that devalue our femininities.
Please send submissions to critfemininities@gmail.com by
March 13, 2026
Backlash? Gender-Inclusive Language in a Time of
Resistance
Registration is still open for the international conference
"Backlash? Gender-Inclusive Language in a Time of Resistance", taking
place online on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 March 2026. You can find all relevant
information, including details on how to register as an attending-only
participant (i.e. without presenting, but still able to take part in
discussions, etc.), here:
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguistics/research/gender-inclusive-language/backlash-conference/
(Make sure you press the "reload" button if you have visited the
website before.)
Contact Email f.pfalzgraf@qmul.ac.uk
Trans Caucus CFP
The trans caucus is organizing panels for this year's
National Women's Studies Association annual conference (Nov 5-8; Atlanta, GA).
The Trans/Gender-Variant Caucus of NWSA welcomes papers and proposals for
panels, roundtables, lightning sessions, workshops, or any other creative
format for the 2026 annual conference. We are seeking to organize a sponsored
panel, roundtable, or workshop, as well as additional sessions that address the
themes of this year’s conference with orientation toward the field of trans and
gender-variant research. (The full NWSA 2026 CFP can be found here.)
If you are interested in being a part of the 2026
Trans/Gender-Variant Caucus submission cycle for NWSA, please fill
out this form by
February 20, 2026.
Please email nwsatranscaucus@gmail.com with any questions.
Missing and Murdered: A Transdisciplinary Conference on
Black Women and Girls in Missouri and Beyond
https://blackstudies.missouri.edu/black-studies-conference
October 15 - 16, 2026
cross the U.S. and beyond, Black women and girls experience
disproportionately high rates of disappearance and lethal violence, yet their
cases are consistently minimized, delayed, or rendered invisible within public
discourses and institutional responses. In response to this urgent moment, the
Department of Black Studies at the University of Missouri is organizing a
conference to bring together scholars, advocates, practitioners, policymakers,
and community stakeholders for a critical dialogue on missing and murdered
Black women and girls in Missouri and beyond. As such, we invite local and
international contributions for individual papers and panel presentations,
performance pieces, visual art, and poster boards, which interrogate questions
centered on missing and murdered Black women and girls in Missouri, across the
U.S., and other regions and territories around the world.
Proposal should be submitted to: https://missouri.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e5wjtq9a271Mn4i
by March 31, 2026
email: datuhura@missouri.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Black Girl Digital Literacies and Media Production
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqYj_NJm7CMCn98eZ1fvyjPjmIaiOLdjCkPmTkd1tFzBqRqA/viewform
Against the backdrop of rampant digital misogynoir,
algorithmic bias, platform surveillance, and harassment, Black girls and women
have long been architects of digital worlds, using online spaces in ways that
display all of their brilliance, power, glory, and technomagic. Their digital
contributions span multitudes, having used hashtags to create digital movements
(e.g. #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackGirlsCode), instigating good trouble on
Instagram by keepin’ it both Black and brief (shoutout to Lynae), and turning
to TikTok to create both viral dances that influence pop culture writ large and
online universities that offer the public access to college-level courses and
professors (word to Dr. Leah Barlow and #HillmanTok). Yet, in spite of their
immense contributions, their work remains under-recognized as legitimate sites
of knowledge production and theorizing within literacy and media scholarship. Thus,
this themed issue of JAAWGE invites work that honors Black girls’ digital
literacies and media production as sites of brilliance, care, joy, and
possibility.
February 27, 2026: Abstracts Due
For additional information, please contact the corresponding
guest editor, Dr. Autumn Griffin, at agrif112@charlotte.edu.
Reproductive Justice & Lesbianism
https://sinisterwisdom.org/ReproductiveJustice
Sinister Wisdom is excited to announce a special issue dedicated to reproductive justice (RJ) and lesbianism1/queerness. This issue seeks to answer: what is the role of lesbians in the RJ movement? We want to explore the ways in which RJ matters to our community. RJ encompasses not only reproductive rights like in vitro fertilization, abortion and contraception, but also intersections between healthcare access, family-building options, the ability to make informed choices about our reproductive health and bodily autonomy. We invite contributors to this issue to explore diverse topics within the umbrella of reproductive justice. This issue embraces a non-essentialized understanding of lesbianism.
Submissions are accepted from September 15, 2025 through March 31, 2026
Direct any questions to Leonne Tanis at: otherwisecnm@gmail.com
Global Reader on Documenting Women's Lives in the
Historical Record
Our specific focus will be women, gender, sexualities, and
human rights in the broadest sense, as reflected in the documentation provided
by personal, institutional, and organizational records. We seek contributions
that critically examine how women’s lives and experiences are recorded, erased,
contested, or reclaimed across diverse cultural, political, and geographic
contexts.
Proposals due: March
16, 2026
Please submit proposals or any questions to womensglobalreader@gmail.com
Interdisciplinary Arts Activism
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140464/interdisciplinary-arts-activism
Impact, the journal for the Center for
Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning at Boston University, invites
submissions for a special issue on arts activism. We ask: Who are the leaders
of arts activism today? How has arts activism responded to our current political
moment? How can an understanding of past movements help us navigate the
present? How does arts activism interact with or transcend other forms of
protest? How are students and educators embracing the “artivism” movement in
creative, educational, and social ways? We seek scholarly, experimental, and/or
experiential work on all forms of arts activism, including: street
art/community installations; music and composing; public performance; use of
architecture and design/space to support movements, philosophies, and community
engagement; somatic activism; comedy and activism; digital/social media; recent
resurgence of zines/pamphlets; comics; and more.
Submissions through Scholastica here: https://impact.scholasticahq.com/for-authors.
Deadline to submit is March 15, 2026.
Religiosity and Religions between Queer and Feminist
Perspectives: Beyond Borders
The call “Religiosity and Religions between Queer and
Feminist Perspectives: Beyond Borders” aims to reflect on overcoming
epistemological boundaries (between disciplines and fields of research),
geographical boundaries (specific practices, representations, and identities),
religious boundaries (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.),
and distinctions (man/woman, masculine/feminine, binary/non-binary, etc.). Starting
from these premises, the aim of the editorial team is to explore the ramifications
and applications of queer and feminist theory within the broad field of social
sciences, with a specific focus on emerging theoretical and methodological
challenges.
Please submit a title, 250 word abstract and academic
affiliation information to bjgilley@iu.edu
Transnational Black Feminist Thought
https://www.aaihs.org/call-for-papers-transnational-black-feminist-thought/
This special issue asks us to consider transnational
black/Black feminist theory* as a way of knowing that draws on the embodied
knowledge of Black people throughout the African diaspora. Black feminists have
long been in conversation with scholars and activists across national borders
and utilizing various languages. Transnational Black Feminist Thought is as
evident in the social construction of Blackness in the Caribbean as in Harlem,
New York, or South Side Chicago, and this has been the case for centuries. This
special issue asks us to consider the diverse ways that Black women’s creative
work is shaped by their transnational worldviews and lives beyond the US.
Deadline: January 1, 2027
Paulo Freire and His Legacy at Times of Educational
Crises: Intercultural Insights
Paulo Freire’s work on education has received global
recognition and influence on critical pedagogy, from which his ideas have been
expanded and adapted to various educational contexts. It is also known that his
work has received criticism for being utopic among some groups and subversive
among others in reference to pedagogical theories, practices and didactics.
This tendency has led to a dichotomy or binary perspective, carving a silent
space in between. To fill in this gap, this Special Issue on Paulo Freire’s
work and legacy attempts to invite collaborations that can offer nuanced
approaches based on theoretical, empirical, and practical teaching and learning
experiences by uniting scholars, educators, and activists from diverse
perspectives that can lead to new ideas, paths, and approaches that are
congruent with present and future needs, demands, and desires of the 21st
century.
Abstract Deadline: 30 May 2026
Dr Andrea C. Valente valentac@yorku.ca
Invoking History: Power, Bodies, BDSM
Invoking History: Power, Bodies, BDSM explores
BDSM (Bondage and Discipline/Domination and Submission/Sadism and Masochism) as
both a set of erotic practices and a critical, hermeneutical lens through which
to interrogate the historical entanglements of power, bodies, and sexuality. It
examines how BDSM operates as a site of queer temporality, resisting linear
narratives of repression and liberation and contributing to a historical
framework of dissidence. Drawing on queer theory, feminist discourses, and
historical analyses, the book highlights BDSM’s potential to subvert normative
power structures and shape alternative forms of subjectivity and relationality.
Through a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates historical analysis,
queer and gender theory, and cultural analysis, the book critically engages
with the evolution of BDSM from pathologized deviance to a politically charged
site of resistance.
Abstract submission deadline: 31st March, 2026
Abstracts and enquiries should be sent to: annachiara.corradino1@gmail.com;
serena.guarracino@gmail.com; virginia.niri@gmail.com
Transnational Black Feminist Thought
https://www.aaihs.org/call-for-papers-transnational-black-feminist-thought/
Global
Black Thought, the official journal of the African American
Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is now accepting
submissions for a special issue on Transnational Black
Feminist Thought. This special issue asks us to consider transnational
black/Black feminist theory* as a way of knowing that draws on the embodied
knowledge of Black people throughout the African diaspora. Black feminists have
long been in conversation with scholars and activists across national borders
and utilizing various languages. Transnational Black Feminist Thought is as
evident in the social construction of Blackness in the Caribbean as in Harlem,
New York, or South Side Chicago, and this has been the case for centuries. This
special issue asks us to consider the diverse ways that Black women’s creative
work is shaped by their transnational worldviews and lives beyond the US.
Deadline: January 1, 2027
Contact Email gbtjournal@aaihs.org
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund
https://oralhistory.org/award/
The Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund provides
funding annually for one oral historian or project to undertake oral history
research in situations of crisis in the United States and internationally. Such
crisis situations include but are not limited to wars, natural disasters,
political and or economic/ethnic repression, or other currently emerging events
of crisis proportions.
Deadline: April 15, 11:59 p.m.
email: oha@oralhistory.org
Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowships, Gilder Lehrman Center
for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
https://apply.interfolio.com/180039
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,
Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International
and Area Studies at Yale University, invites applications for its 2026-2027
Fellowship Program. The Center seeks to promote a better understanding of all
aspects of the institution of slavery from the earliest times to the present.
We especially welcome proposals that will utilize the special collections of
the Yale University Libraries or other research collections of the New England
area, and explicitly engage issues of slavery, resistance, abolition, and their
legacies. Scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Highest priority is given to applications that are fully
complete by Thursday, March 5, 2026.
Email: gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu
Short-Term Fellowships and Travel to Collection Grants,
University of Tulsa/Gilcrease Museum – Oklahoma
The University of Tulsa’s Helmerich Center for American
Research at Gilcrease Museum offers funding opportunities to support
in-residence research projects within the Gilcrease Museum Library and Archives
housed at the center. The collections contain roughly
100,000 rare books, documents, maps, manuscripts, photographs, and more.
Spanning from the 15th through the 21st centuries, the collection documents the
broad histories of the Americas, with particular strengths in the
experiences of America’s Indigenous peoples, Native language materials,
European colonization, Mexican Inquisition records, and the American
West.
Short-Term Research Fellowships (Due: March 31, 2026)
Travel to Collections Grants (Applications will be
considered all year until funds are exhausted)
https://gilcrease.org/helmerich-center/travel-collections-grants/
Questions may
be submitted to: hcarlibrary@utulsa.edu.
Short-Term Research Fellowships
at the Massachusetts Historical Society
https://www.masshist.org/research/fellowships/short-term-research-fellowships
The
Massachusetts Historical Society will offer more than 20
short-term fellowships to support research using our extensive collections.
Most grants will provide a stipend of $3,000 for four weeks of research at the
MHS between 1 July 2026 and 30 June 2027. We offer both general awards and
topic-specific fellowships, including histories of African Americans, religion,
women, the environment, New England, the military, graphic materials, and more!
Applicants need only submit one application to be considered for all short-term
opportunities.
Applications must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on 1 March
2026.
e-mail fellowships@masshist.org
Research Fellowships &
Travel Grants--American Heritage Center, Univ. of Wyoming
https://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/grants/index.html
The American Heritage Center (AHC)
at the University of Wyoming offers annual travel grants and research
fellowships. The travel grant awards recipients up to $750 each to provide
support in carrying out research using AHC collections. Research fellowships
for focused groups are available for several different subject areas. Subject
areas in the Center’s collections include Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West
and a select number of national topics: environment and conservation, mining
and petroleum industries, air and rail transportation, popular entertainment
(particularly radio, television, film, and popular music), journalism, and U.S.
military history.
Applications are due no later than
March 31, 2026.
email Dr. Mary Beth Brown at mary.brown@uwyo.edu
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
City University of New York, the Graduate Center -
Research Associate (Postdoctoral Fellow)
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the GC has an
open position for a Research Associate (Postdoctoral Fellow) for academic year
2026–2027, with the possibility of renewal for a second year. The Center seeks
applicants who work on issues related to the theme of “Radical Imagination:
Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle.” We invite candidates from any
disciplinary or interdisciplinary training. Please visit
https://pcp.gc.cuny.edu for details on the Center and theme.
Closing Date March 5, 2026
Postdoctoral Associate in the History of Sexuality in the
U.S.
https://apply.interfolio.com/181203
The Yale University Department of History invites
applications for a Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Associate in the History
of Sexuality in the U.S. The fellow will be affiliated with the Yale Research
Initiative on the History of Sexualities and is expected to participate in
their activities and to teach one course during the fellowship.
Please contact Mrs. Denise Scott, Senior Administrative
Assistant at denise.scott@yale.edu with questions.
Review of applications will begin 02/25/2026
EVENTS:
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
The Dark Side of Women’s History: How Female Serial
Killers Defy the Narrative
https://allevents.in/lancaster/the-dark-side-of-women%E2%80%99s-history/200029401868012
Feb 27, 2026 11:00 AM
Women account for one in six serial killers in the United
States, yet their presence in history is often minimized or misunderstood.
While Aileen Wuornos is frequently cited as the first female serial killer, she
stands near the end of a lineage that stretches all the way back to Agrippina
the Younger of ancient Rome — a lineage scholars argue women may be uniquely
equipped to conceal. Because society struggles to imagine men to be capable of
such evil, let alone women, female serial killers have operated in ways that
defy expectations and evade detection for centuries.
Contact Email lowrimoa@mailbox.sc.edu
SOULMATE AS A VERB: Kelsey L. Smoot in conversation with abeo chimeka-tisdale
Feb. 27, 7:30pm - 8:30pm EST
Charis welcomes Kelsey L. Smoot in conversation with abeo chimeka-tisdale in celebration of SOULMATE AS A VERB, poems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment.
“No Trouble from the Women”: Black Women, the UNIA, and a Global Movement
March 11, 1 PM – 2 PM EST
On Wednesday, March 11th, Dr. Natanya Duncan, author of the award-winning book An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, will delve into the distinct activist strategies employed by UNIA women. Bringing to light how the women scripted their own understanding of Pan-Africanism, Black Nationalism, and constructions of Diasporic Blackness.
Sara Ahmed presents NO!: The Art and Activism of
Complaining with Roxane Gay
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/ncjfcx5/lp/62c6bf33-6ea3-457f-8707-8a2e7c22aa18
Apr 07, 2026 06:30pm EST
Join us for the launch of Sara Ahmed’s new book, No! The Art
and Activism of Complaining, published by Feminist Press. Sara will be joined
by Roxane Gay for their first ever public conversation. Speaking as bad
feminists and feminist killjoys, Sara and Roxane will share reflections on how
we can refuse compliance with power, and on why we need to say no as boldly,
creatively and collectively as we can.
“No Fetus Can Beat Us”: Abortion Activism on Boston-Area
Campuses before Roe v. Wade
https://www.masshist.org/events/seminar-rosch-reumann
February 24, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM CST, The event is hybrid
and free of charge
This paper focuses on abortion activism by college women in
the Boston area in a moment of contradictions—the societal Sexual Revolution of
the 1960s and restrictive birth control and abortion laws in Massachusetts;
increased numbers of women enrolling in higher education and pervasive sexism
within student life and campus activism. I aim recapture the experiences of
these young women by using their own words about abortion, ranging from senior
theses and opinion pieces in campus newspapers to oral histories to the records
of women-led abortion action groups and radical feminist publications.
If you have any questions about the program or accessibility
needs, please contact Cassie Cloutier at ccloutier@masshist.org.
The Dark Side of Women’s History: How Female Serial
Killers Defy the Narrative
https://nativeamericanstudies.org/upcoming-events
Feb 27, 2026 11:00 AM
Women account for one in six serial killers in the United
States, yet their presence in history is often minimized or misunderstood.
While Aileen Wuornos is frequently cited as the first female serial killer, she
stands near the end of a lineage that stretches all the way back to Agrippina
the Younger of ancient Rome — a lineage scholars argue women may be uniquely
equipped to conceal. Because society struggles to imagine men to be capable of
such evil, let alone women, female serial killers have operated in ways that
defy expectations and evade detection for centuries.
Ashley Lowrimore: lowrimoa@mailbox.sc.edu
Ethics of Empathy
https://journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/announcement/view/39;
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140903/professor-roberto-marchesinis-online-lecture
28th of March 2026
Time: 16:00 p.m. CET (Central Europe Time zone)
Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History 1850-1950
Wednesday 25 February 2026, 12:30 GMT
As trans communities experience unprecedented targeting in
the US and Europe, Eli Erlick's new book, Before Gender, thoughtfully
challenges the myths surrounding trans history. She explores the vibrant,
never-before-heard stories of trans people before the term gender entered our
vocabulary. For this year’s LGBT+ History Month Lecture, Erlick joins Dr.
Melissa Oliver-Powell in a conversation that will answer your questions about
transgender people, past and present.
Liberated Voices: Gender and the Decolonial Turn
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/liberated-voices-gender-and-the-decolonial-turn-tickets-1982557102663
March 3 at 12pm EST
"Liberated Voices: Gender and the Decolonial Turn"
examines gender as a critical site of resistance in postcolonial thought and
decolonial practice. In the context of Russia's war against Ukraine, this
discussion explores how feminist and queer perspectives function as epistemic
liberation. The scope of the discussion spans both the present and the recent
past, focusing on women’s and men’s everyday lives during the war in Ukraine,
including caregiving, displacement, survival strategies, and political agency,
while addressing how gender and sexuality influence lived experiences of
violence and how these experiences are translated into knowledge. This includes
feminist re-examinations of Soviet repression and the Gulag, which have
traditionally been framed by patriarchal, Russia-centered narratives and have
prioritized male experiences. The panel also extends to queer literary and
cultural practices that challenge heteronormative, nationalist, and imperial
structures.
Contact Email ukraine.decolonial@gmail.com
