CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Southern Humanities Conference
https://www.southernhumanities.org/
Knoxville, TN, January 28-31, 2027
For 2027 our conference theme will be “Divergence,
Convergence, Emergence.” Divergent
thinking is a hallmark of creative endeavors ranging from the visual and
performative arts to scientific inquiry. It can also signify a transgression of
a custom or standard, or even a social more or behavioral norm, through
contravention or subversion of what others consider “ordinary” or “natural.” Convergence
can also be considered a precursor to meaningful communal and cooperative
social and cultural interactions. The notion of emergence—a phenomenon in which
novel, unpredictable, and sometimes unexpected outcomes arise from a
constellation of interactions between simpler underlying elements—provides a
way of understanding origins and evolutions of phenomena that interest the
analytical and imaginative mind. Emergence is also often associated with the
concept of synthesis and the idea that the whole can be greater than the sum of
its parts.
Proposals are due by December 1, 2026, but are accepted and
reviewed on a rolling basis.
contact email: southernhumanities@gmail.com
Dallas Area Society of Historians – call for proposals
https://dashhistoryworkshop.wordpress.com/call-for-proposals/
DASH welcomes proposals for presentations on any field of
history and does not give preference based on academic level, welcoming
presenters who are grad students, independent scholars, newly-hired
tenure-track assistant professors, tenured faculty with multiple publications,
and all those in-between. We ask that presentations be based on
works-in-progress rather than those ready for publication and that the
presenters be willing to engage in a free-ranging discussion. We also ask that all presenters
attend at least one DASH workshop before presenting.
To propose a paper, please send a title and short
abstract, and indication of whether you prefer to
pre-circulate a paper or present without such, and a one-page
C.V. (with all items in a single pdf) via email to DASH coordinator,
Mark Petersen, at mpetersen@udallas.edu. Review of
proposals will begin immediately and continue until all 2026-27 slots are
filled.
Black Worldmaking
https://www.aaihs.org/call-for-papers-aaihs-2027-conference/
March 5-6, 2027, Boston, MA
The 2027 AAIHS Planning Committee invites individual and
panel proposals for short presentations (12–15 minutes) that explore how
African-descended peoples across time and space have confronted dehumanizing
systems by imagining and creating alternative possibilities for being in the
world. How have these visions challenged, transformed, or at times drawn upon
dominant structures such as white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy,
heteronormativity, empire, and the Anthropocene? In what ways does the concept
of Black worldmaking reframe our understanding of the intimate, the local, the
global, and the relationships among these scales? Finally, how might dystopian
imaginaries complicate, enrich, or even coexist with the emancipatory
possibilities often associated with Black worldmaking?
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2027
Narrating Eventness: Economy, Ecology, and the Critical
Power of Imagining
Crises and catastrophes, disruptions and disasters, tipping
points and turns: this array of terms ignites both the literary and the
historical imagination. Today, these terms largely cluster around the intertwined
spheres of economy and ecology, capital and carbon, the “Capitalocene” and the
“Anthropocene.” Using these terms to narrate our past and present, as well as
imagine hypothetical futures, shapes collective experiences and the social
imagination while opening (or closing) political possibilities. To think
through these terms is both a cultural and a historical endeavor: cultural in
the attempt to scrutinize concrete practices of sensemaking and representation,
and historical in its attention to the contingent, shifting dynamics of
imaginaries and narrative forms across time and space. Deciphering the
“eventness” of ecological and economic crises serves as a focus point for
understanding their political, social and cultural impact.
Please send a proposed title, an abstract of 500 words, and
a short CV to Nina Huwer(nina.huwer@uni-jena.de)
by September 15
Evolving Possibilities: Futures of Advanced Writing
https://dornsife.usc.edu/the-writing-program/2027-national-advanced-writing-symposium/
Friday, January 29, 2027, Online & free
Please join us and share your work in the Advanced Writing
space. We hope to include a wide variety of topics, from how you theorize modes
of writing beyond first-year composition to how you build your students’
confidence and skills as they prepare to write in a rapidly changing,
professional world beyond college. Our theme invites analyses of the
multifaceted information landscapes that advanced student writers face as they
transition from school writers to life writers.
Deadline to Submit a Proposal: Friday, September 25, 2026
For any questions about developing your proposal, contact
Tamara Black at tamarabl@usc.edu or Elizabeth Durst at edurst@usc.edu with the
subject line “NAWS 2027.”
PUBLICATIONS
SHARP in the Classroom
https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews/sharp-in-the-classroom/
SHARP in the Classroom provides tools for teaching book
history as well as reflections on pedagogical practices. This body of work will
help veterans of and newcomers to book history teach across our field of
knowledge. We welcome submissions across different formats throughout the year:
Pedagogical Tools, Reflections on Pedagogy, and Student Voices.
URL: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2026/06/29/welcome-to-sharp-in-the-classroom/
email: sharpclassroom@sharpweb.org
Infamous Violence and Settler Silence: Indigenous
Struggles Against Centuries of Sexual Violence in the Americas
From early modern European invasions of the Americas
onwards, sexual assault by the invaders has been a well-known and often-hidden
part of the structure of colonialism. Colonizers’ attempts to white out the
horrors of colonialism have often focused first and most on hiding these norms
of sexual violence. Thus, for centuries, Indigenous fights for sovereignty have
included struggles to maintain, defend, or regain bodily autonomy. Using a
variety of evidence from within and beyond archives, the scholars in this
volume demonstrate wide complicity in colonial sexual violence by invaders,
particularly in the form of persistent norms of normalization, erasure, and
minimization. And we show that Indigenous women, and Indigenous communities
more broadly, have for centuries used a range of tools to push back against
sexual violence, and attempted to prevent perpetrators from getting away with
it.
We're hoping for drafts from authors by the end of 2026 with
a publication in either late 2027 or 2028.
Contact Email jahnkejm@uwec.edu
Forms, Limits and Future Directions of Storytelling in
Migration Research
https://www.intellectbooks.com/crossings-journal-of-migration-culture#call-for-papers
Much of migration research in the social sciences and
humanities has been centred on bringing to light the experiences and stories of
individuals and groups who have been marginalized, misrepresented or sometimes
outright ignored in official discourse and dominant narratives. Stories can
both reinforce existing societal discourses as well as function as a
counterforce. That makes stories and storytelling a tool with which to perform
political work in terms of how migration is debated and portrayed. This special
issue offers the opportunity to think further about what defines, restrains and
generates storytelling in migration research in the humanities. Papers are
invited from scholars as widely as possible, encouraging inter- and
multidisciplinary approaches to storytelling in migration research about the
challenges and limits involved with for example textual approaches,
participatory methods and activist research.
Abstracts of 300–500 words with brief author bios should be
sent by 30 September 2026 to lena.englund@uef.fi
and kaiju.harinen@utu.fi.
BLACK ESSAYSM: FORMAL EXPERIMENTATIONS IN BLACK
CREATIVE/CRITICAL PRACTICES”
This issue of liquid blackness explores Black essayism and
the essay’s formal and attitudinal centrality in Black creative/critical
practices. Antithetical to market and institutional forces that obsess over the
finished product, Black essayism is the practice of attempting dynamic, novel
representations or examinations of experience, thought, and art that are
unencumbered by demands of completion, perfection, finality. Whether sampling,
collaging, dancing, building, or map-making, the essayist works adventurously
with the photo array or the playlist, on the page or the screen. Whether
co-authored or not, the essay is a quest never undertaken alone and inspires
lyrical antiphony, creative and critical.
Submissions Due: January 30, 2027
Contact Email journalsubmissions@liquidblackness.com
Rethinking Materiality in an Age of Digital Presence
https://interface.org.tw/index.php/if/pages/view/CallforPapers31
Over the past two decades, the concept of materiality has
undergone a profound transformation across the humanities. Approaches such as
New Materialism, Posthumanism, and Object-Oriented Ontology have challenged
anthropocentric models of thought by emphasizing the vitality, agency, and
relationality of both living and non-living matter. Rather than treating
objects as passive entities defined solely by human perception and use, these
perspectives foreground the active role of material forms in shaping human
experience, cultural practices, and historical processes. This
special issue seeks to explore how materiality has been imagined, experienced,
represented, and transformed across different historical periods and cultural
contexts. We welcome interdisciplinary contributions from literary studies,
history, philosophy, cultural studies, media studies, anthropology, art
history, and related fields. Submissions may address any historical period or
theoretical approach within literary and cultural contexts.
Papers should be submitted online at http://interface.org.tw/ no later than
October 31, 2026
The Wound of the Possible. Art, Futurity, and Non-Human
Agency
https://noemalab.eu/memo/calls/the-wound-of-the-possible-art-futurity-and-non-human-agency/
Art is bound to the new, to the not-yet. It is an essential
instrument for interpreting the world and for navigating the complex dynamics
of human and non-human entanglement — a way of looking into the future in a
time that makes such looking both urgent and difficult. Art is a kind of
philosophy of contemporaneity: one that opens transdisciplinary horizons,
remains attentive to the ethical dimension, and moves with the grain of social
transformation. Not art that speaks only of itself, nor art that laments the
present while facing the past — but art that generates visions of the world,
that activates the future. Art that looks beyond humanism. All of this raises
questions that are not merely technical or philosophical, but profoundly
aesthetic and ethical. What does it mean for the future of artistic practice to
share the field of creation with non-human agents whose capacities in certain
domains exceed our own?
Abstract submission with keywords and short bio: 1
September 2026
Submission email: staff@noemalab.org
Infrastructuring
the Global Commons: High Seas, Antarctica, Outer Space, and Beyond
2026 JOINT INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP (LISBON, 4 December 2026)
The notion of the “global commons” has long designated
spaces that exceed the territorial sovereignty of any single state and whose
use, regulation, and protection raise questions of collective concern: the high
seas, Antarctica, outer space, the deep seabed, the atmosphere, and, more
recently, the electromagnetic spectrum, the dark and quiet sky, and other
planetary environments whose degradation cannot be contained within national
borders. The infrastructuring of the global commons is inseparable from the
rise of corporate networks that reorganise access to shared environments
through proprietary systems, technical standards, and vertically integrated
infrastructures: a layered assemblage of cloud platforms, data centres,
submarine cables, satellite systems, sensing devices, AI models, logistical
networks, and energy infrastructures through which planetary spaces are
increasingly connected and made operational. This workshop asks how global
commons have been – and are being – infrastructured. How have infrastructures
transformed spaces formally imagined as open, shared, or beyond appropriation
into operational environments of communication, extraction, surveillance,
conservation, experimentation, and accumulation?
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Communities In Schools of North Texas – Multiple
Positions
Communities In Schools of North Texas is hiring multiple
full- and part-time positions. This organization helps keep students in school,
eliminate barriers to success, and open doors of opportunity. The mission of
Communities In Schools of North Texas is to surround students with a community
of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Interested
candidates can send their resume and cover letter to careers@cisnt.org.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Assistant Professor
The Michigan Society of Fellows invites
applications to its postdoctoral fellowship program for Ph.D.s in the
humanities, arts, sciences, and professions. These positions at the University
of Michigan are open to recent Ph.D.s who wish to pursue research opportunities
while teaching at a major research university. Fellows are appointed as
Assistant Professors in appropriate departments and as Postdoctoral Scholars in
the Michigan Society of Fellows for three-year terms to begin August 25, 2027.
The annual stipend will be $63,000, though some departments may have the
capacity to provide additional salary support to better align the fellowship
compensation with postdoctoral salary norms in their discipline.
The application opens on August 1 and must be submitted
electronically by Monday, September 14, 2026, 11:59 PM EDT.
Email: society.of.fellows@umich.edu
Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=179499608
The Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley
College invite applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the level
of assistant professor in the fields of Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, and
Trans Studies. In particular we seek a candidate whose work and teaching
centers an intersectional approach. The ideal candidate must be able to teach
introductory courses in Women's and Gender Studies, Queer Studies, and Trans
Studies. They must demonstrate excellence in teaching across a breadth of
interests appropriate to a liberal arts undergraduate institution. This
position involves a four course per year teaching load.
The committee will begin its review on September 1, 2026.
Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies of the Global
South
https://apptrkr.com/get_redirect.php?id=7313652
The program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)
seeks a professor who does research on gender and sexuality from countries or
regions in the Global South. We are seeking candidates with expertise in
feminist and/or queer social sciences, including but not limited to:
anthropology, sociology, geography, political science, and public health.
Interdisciplinary and intersectional research is especially encouraged.
Research might engage but is not limited to: gender and sexual nonconformity,
disability studies, Black feminisms, Indigenous feminisms, transnational
feminisms, and masculinities. Candidates should have a degree in WGSS or a
related field and experience teaching courses in WGSS, or courses that would
readily fit into a WGSS curriculum. Candidates must have experience in or
demonstrated capacity for program leadership, curriculum development, and
mentorship of junior colleagues and students. Preference will be given to
associate or full professors, but candidates with PhDs in hand by July 2027
will be given full consideration.
The application deadline for this position is October 1,
2026
For questions, please contact Mejdulene Shomali (mbs3@williams.edu)
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
TSHA Announces 2026 Fellowships and Awards for Texas History
Research
https://www.tshaonline.org/awards
The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) announces the
opening of the 2026-2027 Awards and Research Fellowships application cycle. The
Association has bestowed more than 700 awards, prizes and fellowships upon
authors, educators and scholars to ensure that Texas history scholarship is
supported, promoted, and disseminated broadly. Applications are due on or
before November 15, 2026. For more information, contact angel.baldree@tshaonline.org.
Study the South Research Fellowship
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20156863/2027-study-south-research-fellowship
Scholars researching the South have an opportunity for
funded research in the collections of the Department of Archives and Special
Collections at the J. D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi.
The Study the South Research Fellowship, sponsored by the
Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Department of Archives and
Special Collections, will provide funding of $1,500 to one qualified scholar,
who will also have an opportunity to publish an essay in Study the
South based on their research.
All scholars, including advanced graduate students, are
eligible for the fellowship. Candidates should send a curriculum vitae and a
description of a research agenda (500 words max.), citing research questions
and specific collections that seem most useful, to James G. Thomas, Jr., editor
of Study the South, at jgthomas@olemiss.edu.
The deadline for application is January 15, 2027
TWU’s Elevator Pitch Competition
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdh1Xd6F8W7jzs0iTQSSttPOkc2Yt4FXLlYa3VJQ7i8BbhX3A/viewform
Participants will submit a video pitch of up to 3 minutes in
one of three tracks. A $500 scholarship for Fall 2026 will be awarded to the
winner in each track:
Pick Me: For students who want to showcase themselves
for employment, internships, leadership opportunities, graduate school, or
professional recommendations.
Support This: For students seeking support, funding,
collaborators, volunteers, customers, or partners for a project, business,
organization, event, research, or initiative.
Use This: For students who want to share research,
innovations, resources, solutions, or ideas that can educate or help others.
Submission Deadline: July 31
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
CONFERENCES
Temporalities
https://www.criticalfemininities.net/program
Friday, August 7-Sunday, August 9
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.
Register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/temporalities-the-6th-annual-critical-femininities-conference-tickets-1993948439458
If you have any questions about registration or other
elements of the conference, please reach out at any time to criticalfemininities@gmail.com
The Great Earth and Its Tiny Creatures
https://buddhism.arts.ubc.ca/keynote-lecture-dr-lina-verchery-the-great-earth-tiny-creatures/
August 06, 2026, 7:00p.m. PST
This event is hybrid, free and open to the public, and can
be attended in person or online via Zoom.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Dharma
Realm Buddhist Association in Taiwan—a Chinese monastic community heavily
steeped in Pure Land practice—this talk explores how Buddhist scriptures,
commentaries, and the everyday practices of monastic life offer conceptual
resources that challenge human-centered ways of knowing. Taking up the specific
case of Buddhist engagement with insects (chong 蟲)—those tiny creatures who so
powerfully defy anthropocentric relatability—I argue that the alterity of
insects has made them an exceptionally productive site for moral reflection
beyond the human, not only within the relatively recent more-than-human turn in
academia but across the vast historical landscape of Chinese religion,
literature, and thought.
Contact Email bcs.program@ubc.ca
Conceptualizing Plastic Pollution through Creative Research with Dr. Maya Weeks
Webinar, Thursday, 13 August 2026 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm NZST; 10 AM AEST // Weds 12 August 5 PM PDT; 8 PM EDT
Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://massey.zoom.us/j/3573384756?omn=81500691939
A vibrant and growing body of social science is engaging with plastic pollution, challenging, and deepening understandings often laid out in the physical sciences. This is especially timely given the manifold grave concerns plastic pollution poses for a habitable Earth. For instance, the production processes to create plastics contribute to carbon emissions that warm the planet, plastics leach toxicants as they circulate in the oceans, and these toxicants cause harmful health effects across the food web among species ranging from plankton to humans. My research works at the intersection of critical social science and artistic research taking up concerns with marine plastic pollution through approaches that engage the senses as well as theory focused on accountability, responsibility, and relationship to place. In this talk, I will both deliver an example of this work—a body of poetry—and discuss the theory behind it, drawing on fields including but not limited to political ecology, science and technology studies, critical Indigenous studies, materialist feminism, and ecotoxicology.
Forum for Innovation
and Creativity – Discussions Online
https://www.shforum.org/attend-virtual-forum
THE SAINT HELENA
FORUM FOR INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY, a 501(c)3 educational non-profit, is
produced entirely by volunteers drawn from a cross section of Napa Valley. The
Forum was greatly affected by the Covid epidemic and the disruption of public
gatherings forcing it to pivot from live events to recorded online interviews
on a wide variety of topics.
Most recent: One of
society's most persistent myths: that immigrants bring crime to their new
countries. Dr. Charis Kubrin in conversation with Journalist David Freed
Oceanic Fiction:
Open-source Literary Archive on Representations of Oceans, Seas, and Other
Bodies of Water
Oceanic Fiction offers
the first-ever-of-its-kind, multilingual, open-access online database of
oceanic fictions from across the world. As an evolving resource, we invite
scholars and researchers to contribute new texts and expand this global
waterscape. We welcome original pieces on Blue Humanities, oceanic and riverine
cultures, coastal communities, maritime histories, sea and river literature,
fieldwork reflections, travel narratives, interviews, photo essays, archival
discoveries, book reviews, conference reports, and personal experiences that
engage with water worlds. If your work explores the cultural, ecological,
historical, or literary dimensions of oceans, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and
other aquatic environments, we would be delighted to feature it.
There are
opportunities to submit contributions and become part of the conversation.
Contact Email oceanicfiction@gmail.com
