CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Engaging Research Across the Humanities (ERAH) Conference
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20149864/smus-erah-graduate-conference
October 10-October 11, 2026, Southern Methodist University
ERAH 2026 will prioritize the development of
interdisciplinary connections and aims to foster a supportive environment for
both graduate students and advanced undergraduates engaged in strong research.
There will be special emphasis placed on creating opportunities for
participants with limited or no prior conference experience. The theme for ERAH
2026 is Movement & Borderlands. If you have any questions, please email arundhatig@smu.edu.
Submission Deadline: August 28, 2026
Surveilling Movement and Regulating Identity
https://history.unl.edu/2026-rawley/
University of Nebraska-Lincoln | November 5-6, 2026
The Rawley Conference strives to enhance our collective
understanding of the humanities. We welcome submissions from those studying the
humanities and related fields, including but not limited to: History, Classical
and Modern Languages, Classics and Religious Studies, English, Philosophy,
Anthropology, Sociology, Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies, Great Plains
Studies, Latin American Studies, Medieval/Renaissance Studies, Women’s and
Gender Studies, and Digital Humanities. This year, we are looking for papers
that cover issues relating to movement or where free expression of identity is
limited.
Please submit proposals by September 15th, 2026.
Telling the truth? Authorship, audiences and authenticity
across discourse, texts and narratives
https://telling-truth.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
Thursday 5th- Friday 6th November, 2026, Online - The Open
University, UK
What constitutes “the truth” underpins contemporary debates
and is increasingly contested and politicised. This conference steps back to
reflect on the role played by “telling the truth” in literary works and
non-literary discourses across historical periods, languages and cultures, with
the aim of bringing a wide range of perspectives to bear on a concept of
enduring importance and throwing new light on present-day tensions.
Drawing on a range of analytical approaches from across
linguistics, literature, creative writing and translation studies,
contributions to the conference will focus not only on truth as epistemic
accuracy but as a relational function, a premise for action, an ideological
tool, an ethical act, a self- and other-positioning resource, an organisational
device, and a mechanism of persuasion and control.
Abstracts should be submitted via https://telling-truth.sciencesconf.org/user/submit by Monday
1st June 2026. The language of the conference is English, and attendance is
free. We especially encourage submission of abstracts from early-career
researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral
researchers.
Submission deadline: Monday 1st June 2026, 11:59 PM (GMT)
If you have any questions, please contact the local
organising committee at OU-Truth-Conference@open.ac.uk.
Mapping Post-Truth across Disciplines
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20150816/mapping-post-truth-across-disciplines
October 29th-30th, 2026, University of Memphis
“Post-truth,” broadly understood, denotes a general erosion
of mutually shared reality, resulting in what some term an “epistemic crisis.”
Such an ostensible epistemic crisis ranges in degree from the outright negation
of commonly understood truth to a shift in how we categorically define,
measure, or use truth. “Post-truth” as conceptual problematic has thus also
been instantiated and reflected in various practical applications:
mis-/dis-information; “fake news”; the rise of conspiracy theorization; artificial
intelligence; censorship, suppression/repression, and manipulation; etc.
We are particularly interested in proposals that produce
generative solutions to the “post-truth” problematic, rather than critical,
analytic diagnostics and descriptions of what it is. The goal of this
conference is to seek trans- and inter-disciplinary collaboration on potential
resolutions, (re)appropriations, and productive rethinking of (post-)truth,
especially in the service of common good well-being.
Please submit all conference proposals, as well as any
questions or concerns, to Dr. Scott Sundvall: posttruthconference@gmail.com by
June 30th, 2026.
Ephemera Marks the Day: Holidays & Celebrations
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20151827/ephemera-marks-day-holidays-and-celebrations
Ephemera 47, the Ephemera Society of America (ESA) annual
conference, will take place at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, Connecticut,
March 2027. Each speaker will address a topic related to celebrations or
holidays, relying heavily on tangible ephemera — posters, die-cut scraps,
tickets, brochures, deck plans, official travel documents, menus, trade cards,
broadsides, receipts, souvenirs, correspondence, itineraries, photographs,
postcards, maps, diaries — to illustrate their subject. Keep in mind that our
focus is not just the images of your chosen subject but the story of your
subject – how it evolved over time, why it deserves a special day or
celebration, how it is celebrated, etc. And of course you will use the ephemera
to illustrate your story.
Proposals must be submitted via e-mail or post by September
15, 2026
e-mail: bjloe@earthlink.net
Gendered Narratives / Narratives of Gender
https://engender-academia.com/conference-2026/
This year’s En-Gender conference invites contributions that
engage with gender through the lens of narrative. We are interested in the ways
gender is produced, stabilized, and contested through stories: in academic
writing, in media, in institutions, in everyday life, and in embodied
experience. Rather than treating narratives as mere representations, we
approach them as constitutive: narratives shape what can be known, felt, and
lived as gender. They organize knowledge, structure experience, and are always
embedded in power relations. We understand storytelling here not as anecdotal
or supplementary, but as a critical feminist method—one that makes visible how
knowledge is situated, how categories are lived, and how dominant narratives
form us but can also be interrupted.
Please send in your abstract by filling out this form until 31
May 2026.
Contact Email engenderingthepast@gmail.com
PUBLICATIONS
Religion, Transhumanism, and Posthumanism
We invite contributions to an edited academic volume
offering a critical theological reflection on transhumanism and posthumanism
from an interfaith perspective. Transhumanism raises questions concerning human
enhancement and the transformation of human capacities, while posthumanism
challenges established understandings of the human by rethinking
anthropocentrism, embodiment, and the boundaries between human and non-human
life. In response, religious thinkers have begun to articulate a range of
positions across different traditions. This volume aims to provide a
second-stage reflection: not only engaging transhumanism and posthumanism
themselves but also evaluating how theology has thus far responded to them.
Deadline for abstracts: June 14th, 2026
Contact Email nils.schuetz@ts.uni-heidelberg.de
Unsettling Homelands: Radical Histories of the
(Ethno)Nation-State
The homeland is not a place. It is a problem. It is the
central problem of modern politics: the violent, enduring, and unsettling
question of who belongs, and who gets to decide. This question animates the
nostalgic longing of diasporas, the exclusionary fervor of ethnonationalists,
the economic strategies of developing states, and the relentless resistance of
Indigenous peoples for whom the homeland was never a question, but an answer,
an answer that settler colonialism has spent centuries trying to erase. This
issue seeks submissions that critically examine the politics of the “homeland”
in its various geopolitical, infrastructural, and affective forms. We seek
submissions that elucidate the relationship between these formations. At what
point, for example, does a diasporic longing for a homeland abroad
inadvertently align with the settler colonial logics that continue to
dispossess Indigenous peoples of their homelands here?
By June 15, 2026, please submit a 1-2 page abstract
Contact: contactrhr@gmail.com
Visual Propaganda in an Era of Instability
This is a call for papers for an international edited volume
tentatively titled ‘Visual Propaganda in an Era of Instability’. Based on
distinct case studies explored in a wide range of book chapters, the main
objective of the volume is to analyse the role of the image in driving public
opinion and perception. The main historical period under investigation is from
2020 onwards: a time that is marked by significant social, cultural, political
and ideological tensions. Book chapters should critically examine the role of
the image in driving, challenging or at times agitating public opinion for a
clear cultural, political or ideological purpose.
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
September 2026.
Aesthetics, Performance, Discourse and Spectacle in the
Age of Trumpism
https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/reden/announcement/view/73
The special dossier is meant to delve into the evolution of
(discursive, cultural, visual, and digital) aesthetics and performance that
characterize Trumpism specifically, and/or cultural artifacts produced and
“consumed” in the so-called Trump era.
Deadline for submission of full papers: November 1, 2026
Contact Email
annamarta.marini@fu-berlin.de
Hip-Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology and the Politics of
Electric Infrastructure
https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies#call-for-papers
This Special Issue examines hip hop diaspora (HHD) in what
Asante and others have identified as a ‘post-hip hop’ moment, one where
Afrobeats, Amapiano and other sonic formations – from French, Latin and Polish
trap to Korean hip hop to Indigenous Australian rap – challenge hip hop’s
centrality in global musical expression and its assumed relationship to
singular racial or cultural origins. This Special Issue examines, rather than
assumes, how hip hop’s evolution relates to technological and infrastructural conditions,
questioning teleological narratives of inevitable progression from analogue to
digital, from local to global, from underground to platform.
Abstract submissions due: 1 August 2026 (sent to
hiphopdiasporaghhs@gmail.com)
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Tenure Track Position in American Studies
https://www.scrippscollege.edu/hr/faculty/tenure-track-position-in-american-studies
Scripps College, a women’s liberal arts college with a
strong interdisciplinary tradition, invites applications for a tenure track
assistant professor in American Studies to begin July 1, 2027. The area of
specialization is open but candidates with a background in comparative ethnic
studies are especially encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to
candidates whose research and teaching complements or adds new areas to the
existing curriculum, including through Native American Studies, indigenous studies,
queer studies, and ethnographic approaches. Applicants should submit the
following materials online at https://apply.interfolio.com/186652.
Review of applications will begin Friday, September 11,
2026, and continue until the position is filled.
For matters other than the submission of materials, contact
Vanessa Chavira at vchavira@scrippscollege.edu.
Postdoctoral Associate, Humanities Leadership
https://apply.interfolio.com/185526
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale (WHC) seeks to appoint
one Postdoctoral Associate in Humanities Leadership. We seek an
interdisciplinary scholar with a demonstrated interest in humanities leadership
and administration. Competitive applicants will have a record of service in
higher education and prior experience in program building and innovative
humanities work. This is a bridge position, intended as a career-building
opportunity for a recent Ph.D. interested in exploring the evolving landscape
of the humanities within universities today. Ph.D. in a humanities discipline,
conferred no earlier than December 2023, or ABD with dissertation defense
anticipated prior to the start of the appointment.
Application deadline: June 12, 2026. Questions? Contact
Deputy Director Diane Berrett Brown, diane.b.brown@yale.edu
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Coordinating Council for Women in History Awards
Carol Gold article award
A $500 prize given to the best article published
in a peer-reviewed journal in the year of the award or the two prior years.
Catherine Prelinger Award
To a scholar whose career has not followed a traditional
path through secondary and higher education and whose work has contributed to
women in the historical profession ($20,000).
Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship
To a graduate student working on a historical dissertation
that interrogates race and gender, not necessarily in a history department.
Applicants must be current members of the CCWH at the time
of application.
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
JUNE 30, 2026
Research Travel Grant Program at William & Mary
Special Collections
https://libraries.wm.edu/scrc/research/scrc-research-travel-grants-program
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) of William
& Mary Libraries is pleased to announce that it will award travel grants to
faculty members, graduate students, and/or independent researchers to support
research use of its collections. Writers, creative and performing artists,
filmmakers, and journalists are welcome to apply. Strengths of the collections
include, but are not limited to, books on dogs, fore-edge painting books,
Virginia family papers and libraries, twentieth-century Southern politics,
women’s diaries, travel diaries, veterans’ letters, notable alumni, and
university history.
June 12, 2026: All application materials are due.
Contact Email spcoll@wm.edu
Archives Travel Grants
https://www.bgsu.edu/library/cac/events-and-programs/access-to-the-archives-travel-grants.html
The Center for Archival Collections (CAC), one of the
Special Collections units in the University Libraries at Bowling Green State
University (BGSU), offers annually up to three competitive Research Travel
Grants to support researchers who plan to spend at least five full working days
using collections held by the CAC. The award is intended to promote and support
original scholarly or creative work and to defray the costs of travel to and
residence in Bowling Green, not to exceed $1,500 per award. Anyone - including
but not limited to faculty, students, public historians, visual and performing
artists, and independent researchers - who wishes to pursue a Research Travel
Grant may apply.
Contact Email msweets@bgsu.edu
GDAC Artist Micro-Grants
GDAC’S ARTIST MICRO-GRANT program will award individual
artists of various disciplines up to $500 per grant to complete a creative
project. Designed to encourage the many musicians, actors, poets, visual
artists, writers, and designers of our community, artists of all backgrounds
and practices are encouraged to apply. Grants are made possible thanks to the
support of the City of Denton.
Applications are due by 5pm on June 12, 2026
Oral History Project Grant
https://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships/oral-history-project-grant
The Oral History Office of the Hagley Library invites
applications for oral history project support. These grants of up to $5,000 are
awarded twice annually. Project grant funds may be used to reimburse costs
associated with travel to interviewees. Funds may also be for equipment
purchases but not stipends. Reimbursement of costs will take place promptly
after submission of the interview sound file, metadata, release forms, and
receipts. Interviews must be conducted in English and in accordance with the
standards of the Oral History Association and the Hagley Library’s own
technical requirements (available upon request). Oral history projects must fit
within Hagley’s collecting scope; broadly the interconnected histories of
American business, technology, and society.
Deadline: June 1
email: bspohn@hagley.org
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Aro/Ace Online Talk Series
https://www.aroaceresearch.com/events
Every week on Friday at 3 pm (UK time, exception noted in
schedule), we will be joined by researchers, academics, and activists who will
give us insight into their projects and current topics in aro/ace research. The
talks will take place online on zoom and there is no registration required!
They are free and open for everyone to attend.
5 June - Space, Place, and Asexuality: Introducing Asexual
Geographies, Rachel Bayer and Joe Jukes
12 June - Aromantic
Sense of Belonging to Queer and Aromantic Communities, Alex Jacquemot-Krupp
19 June - "If only there was more": Aceness in
Online Fandom – A Case Study of Baldur's Gate 3, Polina Smirnova
26 June - Panel on Asexual Activism, Pragati Singh, Yasmin
Benoit, Sally Ogongo and Sofía from Aces Uruguay
3 July - The Queerly Platonic: Studying Love, Friendship,
and Pleasure, Theressa N Kenney
10 July - Asexual SI*t: A Reading & Discussion About the
So-Called Contradiction, Sophie Gusenko,
17 July - TBD, KJ
Cerankowski
24 July - Between
Erasure and Agency: Disabled Asexual Lives in India , Malavika and Bibhuti M.
Kachhap
31 July (1pm) -
Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms: Scholar-Activist Reflections on the
Erotics of Editing, Ela Przybyło and Yo-Ling Chen
7 August – TBD, lanna Hawkins Owen
Lunch & Learn: Unleashing Black Power
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-learn-unleashing-black-power-tickets-1984979011658
June 9 • 12 PM - 1 PM CDT
Dr. Peter D. Blackmer will examine the methods, uses, and
impact of state repression using the Municipal Archives’ NYPD Bureau of Special
Services & Investigation (BOSSI) Collection. The author of Unleashing
Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot
Summers, Dr. Blackmer, will also explore how archival records can help us
understand, analyze, and write more complete and compelling histories of the
Black Freedom Movement in New York and beyond.
Research talk on the history and legacy of maroon
communities in the Americas
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/libraries-kislak-fellows-in-review-with-jamie-mcghee-june-16-2026
Tuesday, June 16, 1 p.m. (EDT)
During her month-long residency, Jamie McGhee worked
extensively with the Kislak Collection to advance her research on the history
and legacy of maroon communities in the Americas—societies formed by people who
escaped enslavement and established independent settlements across the
Caribbean, Central America, and South America—to strengthen a novel she is
writing set in 1760 Jamaica. McGhee will share her recent findings and discuss
how the collection has supported her creative endeavors.
QUESTIONS? Please contact the University of Miami Libraries
at library.events@miami.edu.
Black Magic art exhibition and artist talk
https://www.facebook.com/events/1027181213315432/
