CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Remote Coworking Group for Policing and Carceral Studies
https://uny-prc.org/coworking-group/
Fall sessions: Sept 14-Dec 10
Join the UNY-PRC Coworking Grooctup for folks working in
policing, carceral studies, or related fields. We are a welcoming group of
folks across disciplines united by a commitment to show up, set goals, and
cheer one another on. Each session begins by setting a goal, then we co-work
independently for 90 minutes before returning to share our progress with the
group.
Contact Email unyprc@gmail.com
Reconstructing and Reclaiming Environments, Spaces, and
Places
International Association for the Study of Environment,
Space, and Place (IASESP) Annual Conference, April 23-25,
2027, Southern Connecticut State University
After a conference focusing on disaster and unprecedented
possibilities that can accompany disasters, this year’s conference theme is
reconstructing and reclaiming environments, spaces, and places. Reconstruction
and reclamation can take many forms—environmental, architectural,
philosophical, psychological, literary, digital, and historical, to name a few.
Reconstruction can try to mend something that was broken whether it was a
building or a country. Reclamation can restore what has been neglected or fallen
into disrepair whether it is wetlands, a monument, a manuscript, or a
reputation. Any sort of human activity that seeks to reconstruct or reclaim
faces a host of challenges, among the most difficult is that of authenticity. This
interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore a wide range of questions related
to the theme of reconstructing, reclaiming, or revitalizing environments,
spaces, and places.
Please submit any questions and proposals to Troy
Paddock paddockt1@southernct.edu
by February 5, 2027.
Pop Culture Conference
https://popcultureconference.com/
The DePaul Pop Culture Conference is an annual fan/academic
event at DePaul University. We host thoughtful discussions from fans, scholars,
and media makers from around the world to engage in conversation about popular
culture and cult media. Each year's event is themed for an important pop
culture moment.
Deadline: Jan 11, 2027
email: popcultureconference@gmail.com
Power & Struggle Historical Conference
February 19-21, 2027, University of Alabama
We will accept submissions featuring the themes of power
and/or struggle from any geographic or temporal framework, including work
conducted from an interdisciplinary perspective. We welcome any graduate-level
scholar whose work has a historical component and whose work engages with this
topic to submit their original research.
Submission Deadline: December 7, 2026
All submissions should be emailed to: wcrichmond@crimson.ua.edu
Confronting the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
https://www.scranton.edu/academics/wml/ai/index.shtml
The University of Scranton, a Catholic and Jesuit University
with a strong liberal arts tradition, invites scholars, practitioners,
students, and professionals to participate in the Second Annual International
Interdisciplinary Conference on Confronting the Ethics of Artificial
Intelligence, scheduled for April 29, 30, and May 1, 2027. This conference
seeks to bring together diverse voices to explore, critique, and reimagine AI
through the lens of ethics, understood broadly to include philosophical,
religious, cultural, legal, medical, environmental, artistic, and social
perspectives.
Submission Deadline: November 6, 2026
Please use AI-Ethics@Scranton.edu to reach both conference
co-planners.
Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital
Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and
Diaspora Studies
We invite proposals for a virtual symposium on February
19–20, 2027, focused on archival preservation, digital publication, and
community collaboration in projects that relate to African, African American,
and Diaspora studies. We seek proposals for individual 15-minute presentations
or panels consisting of 3–4 presentations (15 minutes each) that focus on ways
that researchers, archivists, students, community members, and others are using
digital tools and methodologies to recover archival materials and make them
available and accessible to expand our understanding of the past and reclaim
and promote histories that have been overlooked, suppressed, or erased.
All proposals should be submitted by November 20,
2026, by completing this survey.
Contact Email clayton.mccarl@unf.edu
Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Annual Conference:
Thresholds
https://culturalstudiesassociation.org/conference/2027-cfp/
June 3-5, 2027, Fully Online
In more ways than one, we exist at the threshold: the
resurgence of fascist governance; the potential elimination of Black studies,
Ethnic studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies from the University;
the tipping point of runaway climate change; mounting violations of privacy via
AI and other technology. Yet, scholars push back against presentist conceptions
of the threshold. Thus, scholars raise the question, who and what histories are
left out by certain framings of the threshold? At the same time, this threshold
does not only gesture to an impending doom, but possibilities for imagining
otherwise: How might we detour away from the destinies prescribed by Western
colonial regimes? How might we re-conceptualize our understanding of
difference?
November 20, 2026: Final Deadline for Submissions
If you have any questions, please address them to Michelle
Fehsenfeld at: admin@culturalstudiesassociation.org.
Contours of Pain: Perspectives from the Humanities
https://revaluingcare.org/call-for-papers-contours-of-pain-perspectives-from-the-humanities/
The Reevaluating Care in the Global Economy Humanities
Working Group at the University of South Carolina invites proposals for an
interdisciplinary workshop, “Contours of Pain,” to be held at the University of
South Carolina (Columbia, SC) on February 18 and 19, 2027. The workshop aims to
foster critical reflection on pain scholarship and interdisciplinary
collaboration. There will be multiple workshop sessions running simultaneously
organized around themes in common. Sessions will include two participants and
at least one commentator. All participants will be expected to circulate
complete paper drafts (ca. 6,000-8,000 words) several weeks ahead of the
workshop.
Please submit your workshop proposals by October 26, 2026 to
the three organizers’ emails: Drs. Alexandria Herrera, ah290@mailbox.sc.edu;
Thomas Lekan, LEKAN@mailbox.sc.edu; Cara Delay, CDELAY@mailbox.sc.edu.
Deus et Machina: Technology, Politics, and Theology in
the Age of AI
https://www.telosinstitute.net/conference2027/
March 19–20, 2027, Queens College/CUNY
OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in November 2022 ushered in a
new era of “artificial intelligence,” represented by large language models, the
effects of which remain tenebrous and contested. This new technology has been
rapidly adopted throughout society, impacting many areas of everyday life and
triggering an investment boom that has come to dominate U.S. economic activity,
yet it remains quite unclear what this portends. We propose to turn our
critical attention to this extraordinary conjuncture and revisit the question
of the relationship of technology to politics and theology. What becomes of
politics in an age of apparent subordination of humanity?
Those interested in speaking at the conference should submit
a short c.v. and an abstract of up to 250 words by October 30, 2026,
to telos2027@telosinstitute.net
with “The 2027 Telos Conference” in the email’s subject line.
PUBLICATIONS
Restorative Geographies: Remembering as Collective Action
in the 21st Century
Communities across the globe are experiencing environmental
devastations, political violence and upheaval, mass displacement and migration,
ongoing efforts of colonial dispossession and extraction, racism, and erasure.
In times of crisis in the 21st Century, memory work becomes a form of public
health and reshapes geography. Communities build memorials, document oral
histories, preserve landscapes, occupy threatened places, perform rituals,
create archives, plant gardens, stage performances, organize mutual aid, and
tell stories that insist on remembrance. These acts do more than commemorate
experiences; they create unique geographies for collective survival, belonging,
accountability, restoration, resistance, and joy. This volume is interested in
memory work and geography construction that challenge/resist during times of
crisis.
Please submit proposals no later than January 1st, 2027, to
Dr. Jacob E. Robinson at jrob1855@vt.edu.
Eros Across Antiquity, Ecology and Posthumanism
https://olh.openlibhums.org/news/1019/
This special collection explores a simple but powerful
concept: that love, or eros, as the ancient Greeks called it—is not just
a personal emotion but a fundamental force that binds the universe together.
From the cosmic particles of ancient philosophy to the algorithms of AI, eros
appears again and again as a principle of connection, attraction, and
transformation. The collection asks: What happens when we take eros not as
romance or desire in the narrow sense, but as the very stuff of relationship,
interdependence, and change? How might this ancient concept help us think
differently about our ecological crisis, our relationships with technology, and
what it means to be human in an age of AI? The collection also breaks new
ground by bringing Western and non-Western frameworks of desire into direct
dialogue, and by connecting the ethics of ecological care with the ethics of
digital intimacy. In doing so, it speaks to scholars across multiple disciplines
while remaining accessible to readers approaching the topic from other fields.
Please contact the guest editors with your expression of
interest by 31 October 2026: Dr Nikoleta
Zampaki via nzampaki@wsiz.edu.pl
What Did Get Out Get Us?
https://www.intellectbooks.com/horror-studies#call-for-papers
When Get Out was released in 2017, Jordan Peele’s
landmark debut feature signified a major inflection point in the history of
horror. Not only did the film garner a rare blend of blockbuster commercial
success and critical reputability. While it seems difficult to dispute that Get
Out helped to spark new interest in Black horror, a brief survey of some
films released in its wake paints a more complex picture about what getting out
has gotten us. With this in mind, entries in this special issue should aim to
better understand what kinds of representational, thematic and/or industrial
spaces that Get Out helped to open. Where and how can Get Out’s
legacy be most readily felt in the horror films that came after it? What films
would likely have not been greenlit without its success?
Please send abstracts of around 500 words and a short bio to
Mikal Gaines at mikal.gaines@mcphs.edu and Ashley R. Smith-Campbell at
ashleyrsmith@ithaca.edu by 31 October 2026.
Bloomsbury Handbook of Transecology
Trans embodiment reorganizes our sense of time and scale —
through hormonal transition time, community time, and geological time — and
this clustering is reflected in the Handbook itself. To preview the Handbook’s
overarching structure, a short Foundations section comes first, gathering
topics that examine transecology's own genealogy and disciplinary boundaries.
Chapters in this section stand outside any single scale — they are about the
field's history and self-definition, not about a body, a community, or a
planet. The three-part structure of the rest of the Handbook then begins. Part
I opens at the molecular and individual scale: chemistry, sensation, the single
body. Part III closes at the planetary and deep-time scale: the atmosphere, the
ocean, the epoch. Part II is the connective tissue between them: community, region,
law, and culture, the scale at which intimate experience becomes shared
knowledge and shared knowledge becomes political. By spanning scales ranging
from the body to the planet, with the mediating communal scale between these
extremes, the Handbook emphasizes that transecology's center of gravity is not
the isolated body or the abstract planet, but the connecting community.
Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a
200-word biography, 5 key scholarly references, and a sample of a previously
published chapter or article to https://bit.ly/Handbook_of_Transecology
no later than November 15, 2026.
Roots & Resettlement: A call for Latine voices
The Center
for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies at Virginia Tech is
excited to share a call for submissions for the 6th volume
of Roots & Resettlement,
a mixed-media digital collection. For this volume, we invite creative
submissions by Latine voices from across the world for a collection exploring
migration, place, and belonging. We welcome work engaging with experiences of
Latine immigrants and children of immigrants; migration to the U.S. or
elsewhere; the meaning of home; inherited or reimagined roots; and creating,
finding, or refusing belonging. We are especially interested in pieces that
consider how roots are carried, lost, remade, or reimagined through movement,
memory, language, and community. Submissions can be from across genres such as
poetry, visual art, music, short prose, creative nonfiction, and scholarly
reflection. Work may be multilingual, and contributors may choose to publish
anonymously.
Deadline: November 15, 2026
To submit: Email your work to dhand08@vt.edu
Visual Propaganda in an Era of Instability
The volume adopts a global perspective and welcomes
contributions from all geographical regions, including case studies that
challenge dominant understandings of propaganda. For the purpose of this
volume, instability may refer to geopolitical conflict, political polarisation,
technological disruption, public health emergencies, or broader cultural
disruptions in society today. Book chapters should centre on a case study that
critically examines the role of the image in driving, challenging or at times
agitating public opinion for a clear cultural, political or ideological
purpose. Often in combination with text or other contextual information, images
therefore become powerful devices that have the capacity to seriously impact as
well as disrupt public discourse. Whilst in the past images have been linked to
notions of truth (photographic evidence in a court of law for instance), this
volume recognizes the power of the image to distort or outright lie by
omission.
A 250-word abstract and a 50-word short bio should be sent
to the editor of the volume Marco Bohr at marco.bohr@ntu.ac.uk by the
1st of November 2026.
Education and Americana Music
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20165870/cfp-education-and-americana-music
We are looking for chapter proposals for an edited
collection on the educational opportunities found in Americana music. We encourage submissions that consider
education widely: pedagogically, andragogically, and/or systemically. The
editors believe the teaching opportunities found within the genre are
expansive: we encourage contributors to describe successful teaching through
Americana or brainstorm opportunities for teachers and scholars to engage
students through the genre.
Submission of abstracts to editors: May 31, 2027
Contact Email: edward.janak@utoledo.edu,
Lsourdot@mail.twu.edu
Animals and More-than-Human Worlds
https://springs-rcc.org/about/
Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review is an
open-access online publication for peer-reviewed articles, creative nonfiction,
and artistic contributions that survey the interrelationship between
environmental and social changes from a wealth of disciplines and perspectives.
We are now inviting submissions for a thematic issue on nonhuman animals and
more-than-human worlds. The issue will
combine various formats: We seek (a) accessible writing that communicates
current research on animals, human–animal relations, and multispecies worlds to
a wider public, as well as (b) artistic contributions that portray and
critically examine human–animal relations and the place of more-than-humans in
today’s world.
Submissions must be sent to the Springs editorial team
(editors@rcc.lmu.de) by 31 December 2026.
Teaching Marginalised and Contested Histories: Pedagogy,
Curriculum, and Historical Knowledge
Teaching Marginalised and Contested Histories: Pedagogy,
Curriculum, and Historical Knowledge seeks to explore the relationship
between marginalisation, historical knowledge, and pedagogical practice. We
invite contributions that examine not only histories that have been excluded or
subordinated, but also the structures through which historical knowledge is
produced, organised, selected, and taught. We are particularly interested
in the relationship between these different forms of marginalisation. A history
that is difficult to recover from the archive may also be difficult to
incorporate into an established curriculum; a history that has been
historiographically marginalised may be taught as supplementary rather than
foundational knowledge; while the disciplinary structures of the university may
themselves shape which histories can readily be taught.
Abstract submission deadline: Monday 11th January
2027
Ruptured Spaces, Contested Selfhoods: Generational
Narratives of Bodies and Belonging
This edited book aims to bring visibility to the variety of
ways that individuals and their intergenerational families cultivate a sense of
belonging as they respond to legacies of colonization, trauma, and violence.
Whether facing community-level barriers, crossing borders, or state-sanctioned
violence, individuals and their families respond with resilience in creative
ways. Social science and humanities scholars have increasingly taken an
intersectional approach in these areas, recognizing that much of the previous
research on generational belonging focuses on one or two generations (or in
other words, more recent experiences). Ruptured Spaces, Contested Selfhoods
seeks to expand this view, offering nuanced conceptualizations of materiality,
mobility, dynamic encounters, and multi-sited spaces where agency and
meaning-making occur.
proposal deadline: November 15, 2026
Contact Email rupturedspaces@gmail.com
Call for Book Reviewers - Journal of Popular Culture
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20164945/call-book-reviewers-journal-popular-culture
The Journal of Popular Culture is looking for those who are
interested in reviewing books. These reviews will be due on December 15,
2026. If you have a completed Master's
degree or higher, one of these books is in your field of study, and you are
interested in writing a review for us, please contact me at kiuchiyu@msu.edu,
noting your preferred title and your mailing address. Please also send a short
explanation to state what makes you a good reviewer of the book (or you may
send me your CV).
Available Books
- Rainey-Smithback, Crip Love on Screen
- Tennenbaum, Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the 20th Century Ballpark
- Bohr, Visual Counterculture in Japan: Political Shifts and the Dynamics of Resistance
- Eujeong, Brother is a Street Musician: Vewing the Landscape of Modernity through Korean Popular Culture
- Alvarez et al., Suicide in Popular Media and Culture: Studies in Framing a Social Catasrophe
- Wayne State, Lankton, Motor City Boomer: The Car Culture that Defined a Generation
- Stricklin, Brother Al Stricklin Now: Memories of a Texas Playboy
- Wilson, The Auto/biographies of Philip K. Dick: Infinite Regressions
- Gwenffrewi, J.K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic
- Adams, The Cheer Reader: Inside an American Institution
- Kennedy, Cops and Robbers: What Pop Culture Teaches Kids about Crime and Punishment
- Haldipur and Smiley, Prison Hashtags: Incarceration, Reentry, and Digital Identity
- Kennedy, Anthony Bourdain: Filmmaker
Contact Email kiuchiyu@msu.edu
Collectivities
https://escholarship.org/uc/refract/CFP
For Volume 6 of Refract, Collectivities, we invite
contributions that critically examine the spaces, labors, and affects that
mediate collective, or otherwise collaborative, practices. We are interested
not only in what collectivities produce, but also in the infrastructures and
relationships that sustain them. These might include: the shared attachments
that animate collective forms of research and preservation; the visible and
less visible labors of skill-sharing and consciousness-raising that enable materials
and knowledges to circulate, and artists to mobilize; and the spaces—official,
provisional, or clandestine—that serve as both backdrop to and object of
collective artistic and political intervention.
All submissions and proposals are due November 15, 2026. For
selected proposals, contributions must be completed by January 11, 2027.
email: efractjournal@ucsc.edu
The Courage to Care: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Across the
Disciplines
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the shocks to
higher-education that have reverberated ever since, there has been increased
interest in trauma-informed teaching. Some fields such as nursing and social
work have been pioneers in trauma-informed pedagogy—in large part because of
the situations their students will encounter after graduation. In other fields,
educators have developed trauma-informed strategies to teach difficult and
potentially triggering material to their students, or they have pedagogical
practices that respond to the potential traumas that students may experience on
campus or in their own lives. We recognize that as educators we have a lot to
learn from each other when it comes to trauma-informed pedagogy.
Deadline for abstracts: Oct. 30, 2026
email: Ashley Valanzola, avalanzola@clarku.edu
Affirmative Action, DEI, and the Future of Racial Justice
in Higher Education
https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/dubois-review
The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race invites
submissions for a special issue examining the seismic shifts in American higher
education following the Supreme Court’s landmark June 2023 rulings in Students
for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) v. President and Fellows of Harvard
College and SFFA v. University of North Carolina. We seek rigorous,
multidisciplinary scholarship that interrogates the sociopolitical, legal, and
institutional consequences of these rulings.
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2026
email: dmickeyp@fas.harvard.edu,
parkjj@umd.edu
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Faculty of Arts
https://jobs.hku.hk/en/job/537376/fellowship-in-the-society-of-fellows-in-the-humanities
The Society of Fellows in the Humanities aims to attract
exceptional early-career postdoctoral scholars from around the world to Asia's
global university. Located in one of the world's most dynamic cities and on
Mainland China's doorstep, the University of Hong Kong offers unique
opportunities to engage in cutting-edge research through its commitment to
innovation and interdisciplinarity. The Society aims to establish a vibrant
research community where Fellows interact with each other and other members of
the Faculty. Fellows will be expected to
teach two courses during the term of their appointment and are required to
submit a brief annual summary of their activities and accomplishments.
The application process closes on December 15, 2026.
Center for Cultural Analysis Postdoctoral Fellowship: Nostalgia
https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/280720
The Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University-New
Brunswick seeks to appoint two external Postdoctoral Associates for a year-long
residential fellowship during academic year 2027-28. Successful candidates may
come from any relevant discipline and focus on the theme of Nostalgia. Scholars
have understood nostalgia alternately as a pathology (both individual and
collective), as an emotion with positive or negative effects, and as a societal
phenomenon shaping political and cultural movements. Our seminar aims to
approach these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. Our goal is to
develop a broader heuristic framework to identify and critically account for a
protean concept with a powerful history and a key role in contemporary society.
Posting Close Date: 01/01/2027
Contact Information admin@cca.rutgers.edu
Teaching Professor (Assistant or Associate) in Women's
and Gender Studies and Political Science
The successful candidate will have a specialization in
gender and politics, broadly construed, and will teach a complement of mostly
in-person classes for Women's and Gender Studies and Political Science. It is
an asset to have: the ability to teach courses in some of the following areas:
feminist theory, feminist research methods, gender and social justice, and
international approaches to peace and conflict for Women's and Gender Studies
and the Gender and Social Justice Masters. There is no research component
associated with this position, although the successful candidate is expected to
remain current with the relevant literature in their fields as it applies to
their teaching assignments.
Apply Before 11/14/2026
Inquiries: Talia Welsh, Chair of Women's and Gender Studies
(using “Teaching Professor Position 2027” as the email's subject) at
twelsh1@ualberta.ca and copy wgsea@ualberta.ca
Assistant Professor in Women's and Gender Studies
The Department of Women's and Gender Studies invites
applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in
Women's and Gender Studies with an anticipated starting date of July 1, 2027. We
welcome candidates with demonstrable experience in research in one or more of
the following areas broadly construed: Gender-Based Violence, Feminist Legal
Theory, or Global Social Justice Studies. We especially seek candidates who
apply decolonial, Indigenous, transnational, and/or queer approaches to these
topics. The successful candidate will demonstrate the capability to teach,
advise, and support undergraduate students as well as graduate students in our
Gender and Social Justice M.A.
Applications by candidates must be received by November 16,
2026 to be considered
Inquiries: Talia Welsh, Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies
(using “Assistant Professor Position 2027” as the email’s subject) at
twelsh1@ualberta.ca and copying wgsea@ualberta.ca
Lecturer/Instructional Professor
https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/541681/lecturerinstructional-professor
The University of Florida Department of Gender, Sexuality,
and Women’s Studies invites applications for a nine-month, full-time
Lecturer/Instructional Professor, to begin August 16, 2027. While this is a
non-tenure accruing position, appointments are typically renewed annually, and
there are opportunities for promotion within the Lecturer series. We seek a
candidate with a strong record of teaching health and health disparities
courses in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. In addition, the successful
candidate will have experience in teaching effectively in face-to-face and
fully online modalities, teaching larger enrollment courses (60 to 100 seats),
and mentoring graduate students as teaching assistants in such courses.
Applicants should be prepared to teach three undergraduate courses per
semester, including Introduction to Health Disparities and other courses based
on Department needs.
Review of applications will begin on November 2, 2026
Questions may be directed to directed to Dr. Jillian
Hernandez (jillianhernandez@ufl.edu)
or Dr. Maddy Coy (m.coy@ufl.edu)
Library of Congress Internships and Fellowships
https://www.loc.gov/internships-and-fellowships/
Internship and Fellowship Programs (IFP) coordinates a
portfolio of over 80 programs throughout the Library of Congress. Search this
page to find volunteer opportunities and a wide range of applied learning and
career development placements that advance the academic and professional
pursuits of secondary school students, and emerging or established scholars
from the higher education community.
Email: IFP@loc.gov
At Risk U: The Past, Present, and Future of Academic
Freedom
https://sawyer.illinois.edu/funding-opportunities/ay26-27-postdoctoral-fellowship/
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, “At Risk U:
The Past, Present, and Future of Academic Freedom,” at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, invites applications for a one-year Sawyer
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the areas of US Higher Education and
Democracy, Critical University Studies, or Higher Education and Risk. We seek
scholars whose research focuses on the economic, political, or technological
challenges confronting US universities in the past and present. Scholars in any
discipline or interdiscipline in the humanities and interpretive social
sciences are invited to apply.
The application deadline is November 6, 2026, 5:00pm (CDT).
Mail application materials to sawyerseminar@illinois.edu with
the subject heading “Sawyer Postdoc Application.”
Assistant Professor, Gender & Women's Studies
https://apply.interfolio.com/193953
The Saint Mary's College Department of Gender & Women’s
Studies invites applications for an Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2027. We
are particularly interested in applicants who demonstrate expertise in
transnational or global perspectives. Candidates with potential to contribute
to interdisciplinary programs such as Global Studies; Environmental Studies;
the Latine Studies Interdisciplinary Pathway; First Year Seminars; and/or the
Writing Proficiency programs are preferred.
All materials should be submitted through Interfolio by
November 8
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Funded Research Opportunities at the Clements Library
https://clements.umich.edu/call-for-applications/
The William L. Clements Library at the University of
Michigan welcomes applications for 2027-2028 research fellowships available to
researchers, scholars, artists, creatives, journalists, and musicians. The
Clements’ holdings–books, manuscripts, pamphlets, maps, prints and views,
newspapers, and ephemera– are among the best in the world on almost any aspect
of the American experience from 1492 through 1900, and support a diverse array
of research projects. There are rich resources in the collections for projects
with topics relating to the United States , Caribbean and/or Atlantic World in
the 18th-20th centuries. Other strengths of the collections include: Native
American history and culture, ephemera, African American history and culture,
the history of science, health, technology and medicine, material culture, the
history of cartography, graphics and visual art, disability studies, and more.
Applications are due by January 15, 2027 for research
to be undertaken between June 1, 2027 – May 31, 2028.
Please email clements-fellowships@umich.edu
for more information.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Posthumanities Hub reading group
https://posthumanitieshub.net/event/the-october-posthumanities-hub-reading-group/
14.00-15.30 CET on Friday 23 October.
We’ll be reading two short essays from Silvia
Federici’s Re-enchanting the World. The book explores the idea of the
commons in different ways, but we’ll be focusing specifically on “The
University: A Knowledge Common?” and “Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
in an Era of Primitive Accumulation”. You
can download the pdf here.
We’ll meet here on Zoom: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/61719459030?pwd=FeCWbLwrIaa4TPgaosKaJ6sIeCXO8j.1
Journal of Transcultural Studies online symposium
Friday 30 October, 2:30–5:30pm (Central European Time)
The Journal of Transcultural Studies invites you to a
virtual symposium, celebrating fifteen years since its inauguration. Four
scholars will bring together wide-ranging case studies and disciplinary
approaches to reflect critically on the process of transculturation: the
constitution and transformation of cultural, social, and regional formations
through extensive contacts with other regions and cultures.
URL to join: https://heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/y9rd-777j-ddfm-f74q
Contact Email jts-editors@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de
Rethinking Resilience: Care, Grief, and Accountability in
Higher Education
October 28, 2026 1:00 pm ET
Universities are increasingly asking their communities to be
resilient in the face of budget cuts, growing workloads, institutional change,
and loss. But when does resilience stop being a capacity that helps us navigate
adversity and become an institutional expectation that allows harmful
conditions to continue? Drawing on her writing on student care, grief, and
institutional resilience, Rachelle McKay considers how the language of
resilience can shift responsibility from institutions to individuals, framing
overwork, exhaustion, precarity, and emotional labour as problems to be managed
rather than consequences of structural choices. Grounded in Indigenous and
relational perspectives, this session invites participants to reconsider
resilience as an institutional question rather than an individual one.
Crosscurrents: Indigenous Women’s Archives
https://studyamericanwomenwriters.org/virtual-event/event-crosscurrents-indigenous-womens-archives/
November 13th, from 12PM – 1 PM CDT
Society for the Study of American Women Writers Crosscurrents
Series creates a space for intellectual exchange by exploring innovative
directions in specific fields of literary and cultural studies. Designed to
foster interdisciplinary dialogue, the series examines how critical frameworks
respond to pressing social, political, environmental, technological, and
ethical questions related to the study of women and sexuality. This installment
of the series features scholars working in Indigenous studies who recover and
foreground Native women’s cultural productions.
Rematriation and Territory: Puerto Rican Feminisms and
Sovereignty in Borikén
Oct 29, 2026, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CDT
This virtual panel will explore recent trends and
motivations surrounding return migration and circular migration to and from
Puerto Rico. Panelists will reflect on the challenges and rewards associated
with processes of rematriation, including the personal, political, and material
dimensions of returning and rebuilding connections to place. The conversation
will also consider how migration and rematriation reshape relationships to
land, both in Puerto Rico and in participants’ previous places of residence.
More broadly, the panel will engage feminist, decolonial, and diasporic
frameworks that help us understand these movements as more than geographic relocation,
situating them within larger questions of belonging, displacement, colonialism,
community, and the making of home.
email: NationalOffice@nwsa.org
Progress Denied in Quakertown: A Virtual Visit from
Author Hollie Teague
https://denton.bibliocommons.com/events/6aa985262f069c092b986c41
October 24, 2026, 10:00AM – 11:00AM, Emily Fowler Library
Join us for a virtual presentation from TWU alumna Hollie
Teague, PhD, on her new book Progress Denied: Quakertown, White Supremacy, and
the Illusion of Democracy in Denton, Texas, 1850–1925. No registration
required.
Visualizing Latinx
October 26 6.30pm ET
Professor Arlene Dávila and Professor Deborah Paredez
discuss Dávila's new book Visualizing Latinx: Creative Practices in Fashion,
Film and Beyond.
Register here! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd37LSylceIqtq1c-FjSUbDyW0kVjft5NvXLeZIL2Wc6Yl2pw/viewform
Pedagogies of Care… for Whom? Myths and Misunderstandings
about Teaching and Instructor Well-Being
4 November at 13:10–13:40 PT
Faculty well-being has become a crisis hiding in plain
sight—and too often, campus efforts meant to help end up adding more burden,
especially for diverse and contingent faculty already stretched thin. Join
sociologist Chavella Pittman and psychologist Sarah Rose Cavanagh for a
conversation that challenges common assumptions about teaching and well-being. This
webinar will be recorded. If you're unable to attend the live session, please
register anyway to ensure you receive access to the recording afterward.
Wesley Phelps on Uncovering LGBTQ History in Texas
https://events.uconn.edu/event/2251674-fellows-talk-wesley-phelps-on-uncovering-lgbtq-histo
Oct. 21, 3:30pm - 4:45pm EST
Queering the Lone Star State is a research-based,
narrative-driven, documentary-style podcast series tracing LGBTQ history in
Texas. Pairing traditional archival materials with oral history interviews,
historical audio, and a compelling narrative structure, the podcast series
broadens the boundaries of digital history and chronicles a neglected history
that is at risk of suppression and erasure.
Abortion, the Press, and Originalism’s Missing Step -
History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar
https://www.masshist.org/events/abortion-in-us-history
October 28, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM CDT
From the 1820s to the 1860s, some two-thirds of the states
passed laws criminalizing abortion in all stages of pregnancy. In what ways, if
any, did those laws intersect with public behavior? We have assembled a
database of newspaper accounts describing close to 500 abortion events which
entered the legal systems of the states.
Our findings reveal a very large disconnect between what legislatures
decreed and what the public accepted and indeed allowed.
If you have any questions about the program or accessibility
needs, please contact Cassie Cloutier at ccloutier@masshist.org.
Webinar, “Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia” with Dr Marina
Cano & Dr Theodora Jean
22 October 4-5pm (BST) (1pm CST)
Talk inspired by the recent OA publication Women, 'Failure'
and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University
(Bloomsbury 26) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-failure-and-academia-9781350528666/
Zoom: https://fau.zoom-x.de/j/68507308188?pwd=UxX6b2H6xBFNUg8i3T2GL73z7DGqIr.1
Hosted by En-Gender, https://engender-academia.com/
How Stories Shape Justice Movements
https://act.sojo.net/page/103260/survey/1
November 11, 2026, 1:00 PM ET
Join Sojourners for a special conversation
with Margaret Atwood and Sojourners president Adam Russell Taylor
about how stories can challenge injustice, inspire courage, and sustain hope
during difficult times.
Note: Space on the live stream is limited.
