PUBLICATIONS
New
Voices Prize in Home Front Studies
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20152911/cfp-new-voices-prize-home-front-studies
Home
Front Studies invites submissions for the inaugural New Voices Prize in Home Front Studies, an
annual essay competition recognizing innovative scholarship on civilian life
and communities during times of conflict. The New Voices Prize seeks to support
and promote emerging scholars whose work advances the interdisciplinary and
global study of the home front. In keeping with the mission of Home Front
Studies, the competition welcomes submissions examining civilian experiences
during war and conflict from 1850-1989, across all geographic regions.
Submission
Deadline: October 1, 2026
Contact
Email jan13@psu.edu
Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial Intelligence
Deathbots, griefbots or thanabots are chatbots based on the
digital footprint of the deceased that offer mourners the possibility to ‘talk’
to their loved ones after their death. This Artificial Intelligence–based
thanatechnology raises several philosophical and psychological questions as
well as technological ones. The rapid adoption of AI tools has coincided with a
rise in AI-based resources for death mediation and grief consolation, and the
questioning of mortality’s limitations fosters an emphasis on existential
questions that do not have a ready precedent. Approaching the intersection of
death and the adoption of technologies that effectively supplant human
connection with disembodied technological surrogates, this collection seeks to
examine philosophical and technological issues pertaining to deathbot tech and
the humanistic concerns explored in traditional death studies.
Please submit chapter proposals (300–500 words), CVs and brief
author bios (50–80 words) to the editorial team by August 31, 2026.
Contact Email
Rspinelli@ncis.org
Dictionary of Gender in Translation - Call for Contributions
The Dictionary
of Gender in Translation –a project of the International
Research Network-IRN World Gender– is open to new
contributions. The goal is to shed light on the ways in which these
notions are understood in different linguistic, social, political and cultural
contexts, and on how gender studies have developed in these diverse contexts.
It proposes an open and non-definitive cartography of the transnational
circulations of ideas in the field of gender studies. The format of the entries
is open: it can be an article (between 5 000 and 14 000 characters including
spaces), a podcast, or a video.
Please send your proposals before September 15, 2026 to:
umr8238.dictionnairegenre@services.cnrs.fr
Strange Tales of Latin(x) America and the Caribbean
This edited collection invites contributions that examine the
cultural and political work of the “strange,” the fantastic, the monstrous, and
the uncanny in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx cultural production. We
are particularly interested in how writers, filmmakers, artists, performers,
and cultural producers reappropriate discourses of alterity to confront and
unsettle the enduring legacies of colonialism, racial capitalism, imperialism,
patriarchy, and the transatlantic slave trade. Drawing from interdisciplinary
perspectives—including literary studies, cultural studies, folklore, religious
studies, ethnic studies, performance studies, media studies, gender and
sexuality studies, anthropology, and history—the collection explores how
“strangeness” operates not simply as a mode of exoticization, but also as a
terrain of refusal, survival, haunting, and futures otherwise.
abstracts due by December 31, 2026, at strangetalescollection@gmail.com
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Charles Silverstein and William Bory Fellowship
https://www.nypl.org/about/fellowships-institutes/charles-silverstein-and-william-bory-fellowship
The New York Public Library is pleased to announce the Charles
Silverstein and William Bory Fellowship to support scholars researching any
LGBTQ+ topic using the collections and resources of the Library. The fellowship
is open to emerging and established scholars; however, preference will be given
to academics and independent scholars that do not have permanent academic
appointments, focusing on doctoral candidates and early career scholars working
toward their first publications.
Questions about this fellowship may be directed to fellowships@nypl.org.
Deadline: July 6, 2026
Laura Bassi Scholarship
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline. All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years of full-time employment.
Deadline: 12 July 2026
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Project Director, Roots of Reproductive Justice
https://collectivepowerrj.org/about/careers/project-director-roots-of-reproductive-justice/
Remote with travel to Northampton, MA and other locations
The Project Director leads Collective Power’s Roots of
Reproductive Justice Project. The Project, which bridges academia and activism,
is a living, interactive, online toolkit that places the long history of
organizing for reproductive and sexual justice in the US in the hands of
activists for use in strategy development and movement building. Roots of
Reproductive Justice: 500 Years of Movement Stories centers the experiences of
BIPOC, low income, and queer communities; contextualizes our realities within the
big picture of US history; and traces our legacies of continuous resistance to
racial, sexual, and economic forces that undermine bodily autonomy.
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES
Beyond Enmity: An Introduction to Political Ontology
http://inciteseminars.com/beyond-enmity/
Mondays, 8 PM Eastern US Time Zone, July 6 – August 17, 2026
(break August 10)
This seminar begins from the premise that every political theory
rests on an ontology(an account of what beings are and how they relate) and
that the dominant ontology of Western political thought is organized around
enmity, self-preservation, and what Roberto Esposito calls immunitas: the
exemption of theself from the obligatory gift (munus) that binds and exposes us
to one another. Across six weeks, we trace this immunitary logic from its
founding myth in Hobbes through its political-theological (Schmitt),
political-economic (Polanyi), and biopolitical (Esposito) registers, and then
construct an alternative through the philosophies of Jean-Luc Nancy and
Nishitani Keiji.
There is a small fee ($90), but a sliding scale is possible.
The Higher
Ed Advocate
https://substack.com/@thehigheredadvocate
A collective of faculty, staff, students, and community members documenting attacks on higher education and advocating for every student’s freedom to learn.
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