Events
1. Teach-in: Iran Sanctions-- War in another Name (02.28)
2. Wellbeing Series Lecture featuring Rhonda Magee (03.24)
3. 2020 Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development (IDPD) Workshop (02.28)
4. This Free North: Black History at the University of Minnesota (02.18)
5. The Economies of the Sea: Race, Labor, Migration, and Visual Culture (03.19)
6. Radical Roots: Indigenous Women and Women of Color Symposium (03.28)
7. Justice for the Dead of Detroit's '67 Rebellion (02.27)
Events
1. Teach-in: Iran Sanctions-- War in another Name (02.28)
2. Wellbeing Series Lecture featuring Rhonda Magee (03.24) 3. 2020 Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development (IDPD) Workshop (02.28) 4. This Free North: Black History at the University of Minnesota (02.18) 5. The Economies of the Sea: Race, Labor, Migration, and Visual Culture (03.19) 6. Radical Roots: Indigenous Women and Women of Color Symposium (03.28) 7. Justice for the Dead of Detroit's '67 Rebellion (02.27) |
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
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1. UC Santa Barbra Assistant Professor in Queer Migrations Department of Feminist Studies
2. Steven J. Schochet Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies 2020-2021
3. Macalester Visiting Assistant Professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
4. Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program
5. Two tenure-track positions in GWS
6. 2020 Dan David Prize Scholarships
7. Workshop Opportunity: AGITATE! Editorial Collective
Call for Papers/Proposals
1. UC Santa Barbra Assistant Professor in Queer Migrations Department of Feminist Studies
2. Steven J. Schochet Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies 2020-2021
3. Macalester Visiting Assistant Professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
4. Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program
5. Two tenure-track positions in GWS
6. 2020 Dan David Prize Scholarships
7. Workshop Opportunity: AGITATE! Editorial Collective
Call for Papers/Proposals
2. Steven J. Schochet Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies 2020-2021
3. Macalester Visiting Assistant Professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
4. Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program
5. Two tenure-track positions in GWS
6. 2020 Dan David Prize Scholarships
7. Workshop Opportunity: AGITATE! Editorial Collective
Call for Papers/Proposals
1. Futures of Sexual Difference: Rethinking Femininity and Queerness with Psychoanalysis
2. #2020NWSA Conference Proposals
3. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF FEMINIST ENCOUNTERS
4. MAPS: Methods/Affects/Practices/Sensibilities Society for the Study of Affect Conference - UKY
5. Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Conference on "Democracy Under Threat in Times of Populism and Radical Nationalism
1. Futures of Sexual Difference: Rethinking Femininity and Queerness with Psychoanalysis
2. #2020NWSA Conference Proposals
3. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF FEMINIST ENCOUNTERS
4. MAPS: Methods/Affects/Practices/Sensibilities Society for the Study of Affect Conference - UKY
5. Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Conference on "Democracy Under Threat in Times of Populism and Radical Nationalism
2. #2020NWSA Conference Proposals
3. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF FEMINIST ENCOUNTERS
4. MAPS: Methods/Affects/Practices/
5. Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Conference on "Democracy Under Threat in Times of Populism and Radical Nationalism
Recognitions/Awards/Publications
1. SeungGyeong Ji awarded the 2020-21 IDF
2. Sara and Tankut won Thesis Research Travel Grants this semester!
Recognitions/Awards/Publications
2. Sara and Tankut won Thesis Research Travel Grants this semester!
Miscellaneous
1. YOGA & STORYTELLING FOR INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND WOMEN OF COLOR
Miscellaneous
1. YOGA & STORYTELLING FOR INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND WOMEN OF COLOR
Events
Events
1. Teach-in: Iran Sanctions-- War in another Name
Please join us on Friday, February 28th, 12-2 PM, for a discussion about the Iran sanctions. The panelists will discuss how sanctions, as an extension of war, affect the most vulnerable segments of the Iranian population. We will also address sanctions in relation to healthcare, environment, education, arts, social movements, protests, diasporas, refugees, gender, and sexuality.
This event is organized by an anti-war collective of Iranian scholars, educators, artists, and students in MN, and cosponsored by the Weisman Museum, RIGS, ICGC's Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle, and the colloquium committee of the Department of Gender, Women & Sexualities Studies.
2. Wellbeing Series Lecture featuring Rhonda Magee
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 | 3:30 p.m. | Memorial Hall,
McNamara Alumni Center
In this interactive session, lawyer, author, mindfulness teacher and storyteller Rhonda V. Magee will discuss the links between embodied mindfulness and compassion practices and working to disrupt bias and bring about anti-oppressive social change. She will show how awareness practices may be the hidden keys to effectiveness in the work of healing, peacemaking and doing justice. Rhonda will offer discussion and practices based on her new book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness.
3. 2020 Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development
(IDPD) Workshop
Successful applicants will receive $3,000 (and 3 graduate credits) for summer research, travel, and living expenses, and must participate during all workshop dates, late spring and early fall 2020. Application, eligibility, and workshop details are now available. (z.umn.edu/idpdstudentapp) Applications are due February 28, 2020.
WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY TO THE IDPD WORKSHOP? The purposes exceed the financial support. The Workshop should appeal to students who want help shaping a dissertation prospectus that will speak to funders and who want to understand how review panels do their work. During the workshop, students will learn how to use common components of dissertation prospectuses to better communicate their research; how the summer research experience can be used to improve the dissertation; and how to translate their research into fundable proposals.
WHAT DOES THE WORK CONSIST OF? Before the Workshop begins every student completes a workbook providing details about the current status of their research. The Workshop itself consists of info sessions and roundtables of students and faculty, discussing and revising the workbooks, whose components form the basis of a research proposal. Students from different disciplinary backgrounds engage intensively with each other and each student meets individually with the faculty facilitators as well. To accomplish these ends the Workshop is divided into late spring and early fall components, with a period of summer research between.
QUESTIONS? Contact IDPD@umn.edu
4. This Free North: Black History at the University of Minnesota
A documentary produced by TPT (Twin Cities PBS) and the University of Minnesota in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the African American & African Studies Department
5–7:30 pm, Northrop
(5 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. premiere, followed by discussion)
This Free North explores achievements and obstacles that shaped Black history on the University’s Twin Cities campus and within the community, and it offers reflections on the people and events that led to the creation of the University of Minnesota’s African American & African Studies Department on the Twin Cities campus.
The premiere will be immediately followed by a panel discussion, with panelists looking from the perspective of this history to what’s next for the UMN Twin Cities campus, as we continue our efforts to create and sustain an inclusive, welcoming campus.
The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required; please register here or call 612-624-2345.
This event is cosponsored by the Office for Student Affairs, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, Office of the President, Multicultural Student Engagement, University of Minnesota Alumni Association, Office for Equity and Diversity, Department of African American & African Studies, and College of Liberal Arts.
5. The Economies of the Sea: Race, Labor, Migration, and
Visual Culture
March 19th - 4:00pm
Blegen 10
Roderick A. Ferguson is professor and chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and professor of American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of One-Dimensional Queer (Polity, 2019), We Demand: The University and Student Protests (University of California, 2017), The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (University of Minnesota, 2012), and Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota, 2004). He is the co-editor with Grace Hong of the anthology Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University, 2011). He is also co-editor with Erica Edwards and Jeffrey Ogbar of Keywords of African American Studies (NYU, 2018). He is currently working on two monographs—The Arts of Black Studies and The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora. Ferguson's teaching interests include the politics of culture, women of
color feminism, the study of race, critical university studies, queer social movements, and social theory.
1. Teach-in: Iran Sanctions-- War in another Name
Please join us on Friday, February 28th, 12-2 PM, for a discussion about the Iran sanctions. The panelists will discuss how sanctions, as an extension of war, affect the most vulnerable segments of the Iranian population. We will also address sanctions in relation to healthcare, environment, education, arts, social movements, protests, diasporas, refugees, gender, and sexuality.
This event is organized by an anti-war collective of Iranian scholars, educators, artists, and students in MN, and cosponsored by the Weisman Museum, RIGS, ICGC's Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle, and the colloquium committee of the Department of Gender, Women & Sexualities Studies.
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2. Wellbeing Series Lecture featuring Rhonda Magee
McNamara Alumni Center In this interactive session, lawyer, author, mindfulness teacher and storyteller Rhonda V. Magee will discuss the links between embodied mindfulness and compassion practices and working to disrupt bias and bring about anti-oppressive social change. She will show how awareness practices may be the hidden keys to effectiveness in the work of healing, peacemaking and doing justice. Rhonda will offer discussion and practices based on her new book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness. 3. 2020 Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development (IDPD) Workshop
Successful applicants will receive $3,000 (and 3 graduate credits) for summer research, travel, and living expenses, and must participate during all workshop dates, late spring and early fall 2020. Application, eligibility, and workshop details are now available. (z.umn.edu/idpdstudentapp) Applications are due February 28, 2020.
WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY TO THE IDPD WORKSHOP? The purposes exceed the financial support. The Workshop should appeal to students who want help shaping a dissertation prospectus that will speak to funders and who want to understand how review panels do their work. During the workshop, students will learn how to use common components of dissertation prospectuses to better communicate their research; how the summer research experience can be used to improve the dissertation; and how to translate their research into fundable proposals.
WHAT DOES THE WORK CONSIST OF? Before the Workshop begins every student completes a workbook providing details about the current status of their research. The Workshop itself consists of info sessions and roundtables of students and faculty, discussing and revising the workbooks, whose components form the basis of a research proposal. Students from different disciplinary backgrounds engage intensively with each other and each student meets individually with the faculty facilitators as well. To accomplish these ends the Workshop is divided into late spring and early fall components, with a period of summer research between.
QUESTIONS? Contact IDPD@umn.edu
4. This Free North: Black History at the University of Minnesota
A documentary produced by TPT (Twin Cities PBS) and the University of Minnesota in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the African American & African Studies Department
5–7:30 pm, Northrop
(5 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. premiere, followed by discussion)
This Free North explores achievements and obstacles that shaped Black history on the University’s Twin Cities campus and within the community, and it offers reflections on the people and events that led to the creation of the University of Minnesota’s African American & African Studies Department on the Twin Cities campus.
The premiere will be immediately followed by a panel discussion, with panelists looking from the perspective of this history to what’s next for the UMN Twin Cities campus, as we continue our efforts to create and sustain an inclusive, welcoming campus.
The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required; please register here or call 612-624-2345.
This event is cosponsored by the Office for Student Affairs, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, Office of the President, Multicultural Student Engagement, University of Minnesota Alumni Association, Office for Equity and Diversity, Department of African American & African Studies, and College of Liberal Arts.
5. The Economies of the Sea: Race, Labor, Migration, and
Visual Culture
March 19th - 4:00pm
Blegen 10
color feminism, the study of race, critical university studies, queer social movements, and social theory. |
6. Radical Roots: Indigenous Women and Women of Color
Symposium
The Indigenous Women & Women of Color Student Symposium: Radical Roots is taking place on Saturday, March 28, at the University of Minnesota! Co-hosted by the Women's Center and the Carlson School of Management, the Symposium includes keynote talks by Jessika Greendeer, Seed Keeper at Dream of Wild Health, community organizers Camille Mitchell and Kandace Montgomery, as well as breakout sessions. The Symposium prioritizes and centers the voices and experiences of indigenous women and women color students.
Register here! Student prices are $10-$15; a limited number of UMN student scholarships available as well.
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Access information: The symposium will be taking place in the Carlson School of Management and Herbert M. Hanson Hall, on the University of Minnesota West Bank. Both buildings are wheelchair accessible, equipped with power doors and elevators, and have gender neutral restrooms available. The buildings are connected by an indoor skyway. For access requests and disability accommodations, please contact the Women’s Center at women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837 with two weeks’ advance notice when possible.
7. Justice for the Dead of Detroit's '67 Rebellion
Thursday February 27
4-6 p.m.
Heller Hall, Room 1210
On July 23, 1967, a police raid of an unlicensed Detroit after-hours spot ignited one
of the largest instances of civil unrest in U.S. history. A week later, thousands of
Detroiters were arrested, hundreds of homes and businesses had been destroyed,
and 43 people were dead.
Nearly 50 years later, Dr. Lisa Biggs began researching and devising a new theatre
piece about the rebellion, called After/Life. Developed in collaboration with
undergraduates at Michigan State University and Detroit residents, After/Life
interwove music, poetry and dance with personal narratives authored by women
and girls who had witnessed the unrest to create a powerful, black feminist,
performance work about the rebellion. In this talk, Dr. Biggs shares some of her
approaches to devising performance and community-engagement, and reflects upon
the role of theatre to address historic and contemporary injustices.
Lisa Biggs, Ph.D., is an actress, playwright, and performance studies scholar. She
serves as an assistant professor at Brown University in the Department of Africana
Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre. Her research investigates the role of the arts in
movements for social justice, in particular the impact of theatre and dance programs
for women incarcerated in the U.S. and in South Africa.
6. Radical Roots: Indigenous Women and Women of Color
Symposium
The Indigenous Women & Women of Color Student Symposium: Radical Roots is taking place on Saturday, March 28, at the University of Minnesota! Co-hosted by the Women's Center and the Carlson School of Management, the Symposium includes keynote talks by Jessika Greendeer, Seed Keeper at Dream of Wild Health, community organizers Camille Mitchell and Kandace Montgomery, as well as breakout sessions. The Symposium prioritizes and centers the voices and experiences of indigenous women and women color students.
Register here! Student prices are $10-$15; a limited number of UMN student scholarships available as well.
You can spread the word by sharing information about the Symposium via social media or by passing along this email.
Attached is a PDF of the event flyer in case you want to share that as well.
Access information: The symposium will be taking place in the Carlson School of Management and Herbert M. Hanson Hall, on the University of Minnesota West Bank. Both buildings are wheelchair accessible, equipped with power doors and elevators, and have gender neutral restrooms available. The buildings are connected by an indoor skyway. For access requests and disability accommodations, please contact the Women’s Center at women@umn.edu or 612-625-9837 with two weeks’ advance notice when possible.
7. Justice for the Dead of Detroit's '67 Rebellion
Thursday February 27
4-6 p.m.
Heller Hall, Room 1210
On July 23, 1967, a police raid of an unlicensed Detroit after-hours spot ignited one
of the largest instances of civil unrest in U.S. history. A week later, thousands of
Detroiters were arrested, hundreds of homes and businesses had been destroyed,
and 43 people were dead.
Nearly 50 years later, Dr. Lisa Biggs began researching and devising a new theatre
piece about the rebellion, called After/Life. Developed in collaboration with
undergraduates at Michigan State University and Detroit residents, After/Life
interwove music, poetry and dance with personal narratives authored by women
and girls who had witnessed the unrest to create a powerful, black feminist,
performance work about the rebellion. In this talk, Dr. Biggs shares some of her
approaches to devising performance and community-engagement, and reflects upon
the role of theatre to address historic and contemporary injustices.
Lisa Biggs, Ph.D., is an actress, playwright, and performance studies scholar. She
serves as an assistant professor at Brown University in the Department of Africana
Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre. Her research investigates the role of the arts in
movements for social justice, in particular the impact of theatre and dance programs
for women incarcerated in the U.S. and in South Africa.
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Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
1. UC Santa Barbra Assistant Professor in Queer Migrations Department of Feminist Studies
The Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in queer migrations. Research may focus on trans/queer geographies, immigration and migration, racialization, decoloniality, and flows of people, ideas, and objects across borders. Of special interest to us are innovative methodological approaches to gender and sexual citizenship, discourses of belonging, and
human rights in the context of state and social violence against LGBTQ communities in historical or contemporary national and transnational frames. This position is part of a campus-wide cluster hire in migration/immigration, with the expectation of continuing collaboration among faculty hires.
Applicants must have completed all requirements for the PhD, except the dissertation, in feminist/women's/gender studies or a related interdisciplinary field at the time of application. Additionally, the candidate must have a fully conferred PhD by the anticipated appointment start date of July 1, 2020. The Department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the
diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, service, and mentoring. The position entails participation in the LGBTQ Studies minor and teaching core and specialized courses. We have a thriving major, minor, and PhD program with a focus on new sexualities and social justice from intersectional and transnational perspectives.
Apply by February 9, 2020 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) for primary consideration; position will remain open until filled. Applicants should submit a letter of application, c.v., publication or writing sample of no more than 25 pages, and arrange for three letters of recommendation be uploaded on their behalf via UCSB’s Recruit website at https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF01681. Submitting
a Diversity Statement that outlines your past, present, and future aspirations and contributions to promoting equity, inclusion, and diversity in your professional career is highly recommended.
Please direct any questions to Sonya Baker, Business Officer: sbaker@femst.ucsb.edu.
human rights in the context of state and social violence against LGBTQ communities in historical or contemporary national and transnational frames. This position is part of a campus-wide cluster hire in migration/immigration, with the expectation of continuing collaboration among faculty hires.
Applicants must have completed all requirements for the PhD, except the dissertation, in feminist/women's/gender studies or a related interdisciplinary field at the time of application. Additionally, the candidate must have a fully conferred PhD by the anticipated appointment start date of July 1, 2020. The Department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the
diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, service, and mentoring. The position entails participation in the LGBTQ Studies minor and teaching core and specialized courses. We have a thriving major, minor, and PhD program with a focus on new sexualities and social justice from intersectional and transnational perspectives.
Apply by February 9, 2020 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) for primary consideration; position will remain open until filled. Applicants should submit a letter of application, c.v., publication or writing sample of no more than 25 pages, and arrange for three letters of recommendation be uploaded on their behalf via UCSB’s Recruit website at https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF01681. Submitting
a Diversity Statement that outlines your past, present, and future aspirations and contributions to promoting equity, inclusion, and diversity in your professional career is highly recommended.
Please direct any questions to Sonya Baker, Business Officer: sbaker@femst.ucsb.edu.
2. Steven J. Schochet Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies 2020-2021
About the Steven J. Schochet Endowment:
Steven J. Schochet was an alumnus of the University of Minnesota. Due to negative experiences as a student, Steven J. Schochet decided to leave a bequest to the university in 1996 to forward the education, awareness, and acceptance of all LGBTQIA identities. The Endowment, managed by the Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life, exists with Schochet’s mission towards
advancement of LGBTQIA academics & research.
About the Fellowship:
The Schochet Interdisciplinary Dissertation Fellowship in Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies provides $22,000 to a PhD Candidate who is pursuing research in the areas of queer, trans, and sexuality studies. This dissertation fellowship is for one ABD student during the 2020-2021 academic year (September-May). Applications for this fellowship are sought from persons of diverse backgrounds, particularly those from underrepresented and marginalized communities.
Eligibility:
Applicants are eligible for the Schochet Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Queer, Trans and Sexuality
Studies if they:
- Are enrolled at a University of Minnesota campus during the 2020–2021 academic year as a graduate student.
- Pursuing research in the areas of queer, trans, and/or sexuality studies.
- Will have passed the written and oral preliminary examinations and will have completed all program coursework including thesis credits by the end of spring semester 2020. Preference will be given to applicants who have passed written and oral preliminary exams by March 15, 2020. (Nominee may be registered for program coursework in spring 2020, but may not have any incompletes in program coursework at the time of nomination).
- Are making timely progress towards the completion of their degree.
Application Deadline:
A completed application form and supporting documentation must be received in a single PDF document by March 27, 2020. The applicant’s Director of Graduate Studies should submit the application via email to: Qui Alexander, Schochet Endowment Associate, Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life, alexa696@umn.edu. For more information or to request this information in an alternate format, contact Qui Alexander at alexa696@umn.edu.
3. Macalester Visiting Assistant Professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
The Macalester College Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) invites
applications for a full-time visiting assistant professor position to begin in the fall of 2020. The
initial appointment will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal for the 2021-2022
academic year.
We seek candidates with specialized training in LGBTQIA+ studies, with a strong basis in
theories and praxes in women’s, feminist, queer, and trans studies. A particular attention to
epistemologies of racially and economically minoritized practitioners, historical or
contemporary, is required. While foci, fields and disciplines in the social, natural, math,
computational sciences and media studies are preferred, an interdisciplinary approach, based in
feminist methodologies, is essential. Indigenous, national, or international or transnational
comparative frameworks are highly desirable. Experience in digital scholarship is a plus.
The teaching load is five courses for the academic year for the full-time position. The successful
candidate should be prepared to teach an introductory sexuality studies course, and an
intermediate theories and methodologies course as well as three other courses (electives) across
the levels, from introductory to advanced. Candidates with a Ph.D. in the field of
feminist/sexuality studies or a related field with an emphasis in feminist/sexuality studies are
preferred and ABD will be considered. The successful candidate will have demonstrated
excellence in teaching.
The Department is particularly interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and
excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service, especially those
who demonstrate an ability to work collegially and effectively with students, faculty from
diverse departments, staff, and administration. More information about the department can be
found at https://www.macalester.edu/wgss/
In order to apply, submit a cover letter describing your interest in the position, a teaching
statement including evidence of commitment to diversity, teaching evaluations, a current CV,
two sample syllabi, and three confidential letters of recommendation to
http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/15955/ . Questions regarding this position may be
directed to Lin Aanonsen, Acting Chair, Department of WGSS, Macalester College, 1600 Grand
Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55105 (email: aanonsen@macalester.edu). Applications received by
February 21, 2020 will receive full consideration.
4. Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program
We at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) are pleased to announce the tenth annual competition of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program. The program promotes the visibility and value of the humanities PhD beyond the academy by offering opportunities for PhDs to contribute to the public good through two-year fellowship placements in the fields of policy, community development, arts and culture, media, and international affairs. One position that might be of interest for your students is at Twin Cities Public Television in St Paul!
The deadline for applications is Wednesday, March 18, 2020, by 9pm EDT. Fellows receive stipends of $70,000 per year and have access to employer-based health insurance through the host organizations. In addition, ACLS provides funds for relocation and professional development. This initiative is made possible through the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In 2020, ACLS will place up to 21 PhDs as Public Fellows in the following organizations and roles:
• Alliance for Higher Education in Prison (Denver, CO) – Community Engagement Director
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (Washington, DC) – Government Relations Project Manager
• American Civil Liberties Union (New York, NY) – Research Associate
• Asian Cultural Council (New York, NY) – Manager of Strategic Research
• Children’s Defense Fund (Washington, DC) – Senior Research Associate
• City of Seattle Innovation & Performance Team (Seattle, WA) – Outreach & Engagement Research Analyst
• Humanities Action Lab (Newark, NJ) – Public Programming and Exhibitions Manager
• Institute for Study Abroad (Indianapolis, IN) – Assistant Director of Global Learning and Assessment
• National Book Foundation (New York, NY) – Education Programs Manager
• New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (Newark, NJ) – Policy Analyst
• One Archives Foundation (Los Angeles, CA) – Communications Manager
• Oxfam America (Washington, DC) – Research and Policy Advisor
• Partnership for Public Service (Washington, DC) – Writer and Editor, Communications Team
• Partnership for Working Families (Oakland, CA) – Public Goods Policy Strategist
• Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (Pittsburgh, PA) – Government Relations Specialist
• Refugees International (Washington, DC) – Program Manager
• San Francisco Arts Commission (San Francisco, CA) – Community Impact Analyst
• Solutions Journalism Network (New York, NY) – Higher Education Program Specialist
• Twin Cities Public Television (St Paul, MN) – Audience Development Project Manager
• University Settlement Society of New York (New York, NY) – Advocacy Director
• Washington Center for Equitable Growth (Washington, DC) – Engagement Project Manager
Applicants must have a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between September 1, 2016, and June 19, 2020, and must have defended and deposited their dissertations no later than April 6, 2020. Applicants must be authorized to work legally in the United States.
Applications will be accepted only through the ACLS online application system and must be submitted by March 18, 2020 at 9pm EDT. Applicants should not contact any of the organizations directly. Please visit www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/ for complete position descriptions, eligibility criteria, and application information. This program is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
5. Two tenure-track positions in GWS
The Gender, Women, and Sexualities (GWS) Studies Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver invites candidates to apply for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin Fall 2020. The successful candidate will teach a 24 hour credit load both online and face-to-face with substantial service responsibilities to the department. The courses to be taught include core courses such as Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies, Multicultural Study of Sexualities and Genders, Women of Color, Feminist and Queer Research methods, and upper division courses in the candidate’s area of expertise. Of special interest are GWS scholars with an expertise in queer indigenous studies, critical race and/or migration studies, and/or transnational feminisms.
The department is housed in the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy (GITA), a unique office on the Auraria campus. GITA offers both academics (one major and two minors), and direct support services to students targeted by sexism and other intersecting oppressions.
Assistant Professor responsibilities include:
• Teaching 12 credit hours a semester. Teaching involves the activities that impart knowledge and critical thinking skills to students. It includes preparing for courses assigned, assessing student progress, conducting curricular review, holding office hours, communicating with students in a timely fashion, and integrating technology as appropriate. Teaching may include classroom, online, online/hybrid instruction.
• Advising students. This involves staying informed of University and College policies while assisting students in assessing career options, choosing a degree program, successfully completing their senior thesis and degree, and obtaining employment or graduate school placement. Moreover, it involves
• Engaging in service to the department, college, profession, and/or community.
• Pursuing and maintaining an active research agenda, publishing per the departmental guidelines, and presenting at professional conferences.
Required Qualifications:
• Ph.D. in Gender, Women, and Sexualities/Feminist Studies or a relevant field completed no later than May 31, 2019.
• Teaching experience in Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies.
To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 11:59pm (MT) 02/17/2020
Apply at: https://www.msudenverjobs.com/postings/13489
6. 2020 Dan David Prize Scholarships
General Information
- The Dan David Prize awards scholarships to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, carrying out research in one of the selected fields for the current year. Registered doctoral and post-doctoral researchers who study at recognized universities throughout the world, and whose research has been approved, are eligible to apply.
- The Dan David Prize laureates annually donate twenty scholarships of US$15,000 each to outstanding doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers of exceptional promise in the selected fields for the current year. Ten scholarships are awarded to students at universities throughout the world and ten scholarships to students at Tel Aviv University.
- The Dan David Prize scholarships are granted according to merit, without discrimination based on gender, race, religion, nationality or political affiliation.
- In order to ensure that your research is relevant to one of this year's chosen fields, please read the field descriptions on our website before filling out the form.
- Applicants who have received a scholarship from the Dan David Prize may not apply again for their same area of research.
- Due March 10th, 2020
More information here.
7. Workshop Opportunity: AGITATE! Editorial Collective
The University of Minnesota--Twin Cities is built within the traditional homelands of the Daḳota people. Minnesota comes from the Daḳota name for this region, Mni Sota Maḳoce--the land where the waters reflect the skies. Each day students, faculty, staff and community members who use our services look out our windows to the Ḣaḣa Wakpa, the River of the Waterfalls.
-Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, Bdewakaƞtuƞwaƞ Daḳota, for the UMN Circle of Indigenous Nations
The AGITATE! Editorial Collective is excited to host an on-campus workshop: May 1-6, 2020.
The Editorial Collective is seeking workshop participants who will bring their own living connections, relationships, and commitments to place: multiple homes where they come from, where they currently live, where their ongoing work (broadly defined) is, and the relationships between and across these. Central to the project of AGITATE! is the labor of tracing connections between the pasts, presents, and futures of these places as sites of slave trade, colonialism, settler colonialism, and imperialism, and therefore, as terrains for struggle and resistance. This work must begin by embedding our scholarship, art, and activism in particular places and their textures, struggles, and languages, without the violence of collapsing one context into another. The members of the Editorial Collective are scattered across various locations, yet our institutional home and the place where our collective journey began remains the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, the home of the Dakota people, and where the largest per capita number of refugees in the US live. As such, we center our general commitment to grounded political work, in and through particular places, while simultaneously recognizing our specific responsibility to defend both Indigenous sovereignty on ancestral Dakota homelands and the right of refugees to live without xenophobic violence.
During this workshop we will be joined by two inspiring scholars-poets-activists-public intellectuals who serve on our editorial advisory board, Professor Celina Su (CUNY) and Professor Mona Bhan (Syracuse University). With support from the Office for Research and Graduate Programs in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA), up to four CLA graduate students will be invited to join the current AGITATE! Editorial Collective for two days of close engagement with Professor Su and Professor Bhan, followed by three days of collective work on the future of the journal and building a vision for upcoming volumes. Selected student participants will receive an honorarium of $500. There will be a possibility of continuing collaboration at different levels with the AGITATE! Editorial Collective beyond the workshop.
To apply, send an email to agitatejournal@umn.edu by midnight of Tuesday, February 25, 2020, with
responses to the following prompts in no more than 500-750 words:
1. How does AGITATE! resonate with your scholarship, activism, and/or artistic practices?
2. What is your experience with collective work? What other experiences, perspectives, and
background would you bring to this workshop that you feel would enrich the work of AGITATE!?
3. How did you learn about AGITATE!?
4. Are you interested in joining the AGITATE! Editorial Collective after the workshop?
5. Please indicate your program of study.
If you have questions, please contact agitatejournal@umn.edu.
2. Steven J. Schochet Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies 2020-2021
About the Steven J. Schochet Endowment:
Steven J. Schochet was an alumnus of the University of Minnesota. Due to negative experiences as a student, Steven J. Schochet decided to leave a bequest to the university in 1996 to forward the education, awareness, and acceptance of all LGBTQIA identities. The Endowment, managed by the Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life, exists with Schochet’s mission towards
advancement of LGBTQIA academics & research.
About the Fellowship:
The Schochet Interdisciplinary Dissertation Fellowship in Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies provides $22,000 to a PhD Candidate who is pursuing research in the areas of queer, trans, and sexuality studies. This dissertation fellowship is for one ABD student during the 2020-2021 academic year (September-May). Applications for this fellowship are sought from persons of diverse backgrounds, particularly those from underrepresented and marginalized communities.
Eligibility:
Applicants are eligible for the Schochet Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Queer, Trans and Sexuality
Studies if they:
- Are enrolled at a University of Minnesota campus during the 2020–2021 academic year as a graduate student.
- Pursuing research in the areas of queer, trans, and/or sexuality studies.
- Will have passed the written and oral preliminary examinations and will have completed all program coursework including thesis credits by the end of spring semester 2020. Preference will be given to applicants who have passed written and oral preliminary exams by March 15, 2020. (Nominee may be registered for program coursework in spring 2020, but may not have any incompletes in program coursework at the time of nomination).
- Are making timely progress towards the completion of their degree.
Application Deadline:
A completed application form and supporting documentation must be received in a single PDF document by March 27, 2020. The applicant’s Director of Graduate Studies should submit the application via email to: Qui Alexander, Schochet Endowment Associate, Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life, alexa696@umn.edu. For more information or to request this information in an alternate format, contact Qui Alexander at alexa696@umn.edu.
3. Macalester Visiting Assistant Professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
The Macalester College Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) invites
applications for a full-time visiting assistant professor position to begin in the fall of 2020. The
initial appointment will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal for the 2021-2022
academic year.
We seek candidates with specialized training in LGBTQIA+ studies, with a strong basis in
theories and praxes in women’s, feminist, queer, and trans studies. A particular attention to
epistemologies of racially and economically minoritized practitioners, historical or
contemporary, is required. While foci, fields and disciplines in the social, natural, math,
computational sciences and media studies are preferred, an interdisciplinary approach, based in
feminist methodologies, is essential. Indigenous, national, or international or transnational
comparative frameworks are highly desirable. Experience in digital scholarship is a plus.
The teaching load is five courses for the academic year for the full-time position. The successful
candidate should be prepared to teach an introductory sexuality studies course, and an
intermediate theories and methodologies course as well as three other courses (electives) across
the levels, from introductory to advanced. Candidates with a Ph.D. in the field of
feminist/sexuality studies or a related field with an emphasis in feminist/sexuality studies are
preferred and ABD will be considered. The successful candidate will have demonstrated
excellence in teaching.
The Department is particularly interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and
excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service, especially those
who demonstrate an ability to work collegially and effectively with students, faculty from
diverse departments, staff, and administration. More information about the department can be
found at https://www.macalester.edu/wgss/
In order to apply, submit a cover letter describing your interest in the position, a teaching
statement including evidence of commitment to diversity, teaching evaluations, a current CV,
two sample syllabi, and three confidential letters of recommendation to
http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/15955/ . Questions regarding this position may be
directed to Lin Aanonsen, Acting Chair, Department of WGSS, Macalester College, 1600 Grand
Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55105 (email: aanonsen@macalester.edu). Applications received by
February 21, 2020 will receive full consideration.
4. Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program
We at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) are pleased to announce the tenth annual competition of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program. The program promotes the visibility and value of the humanities PhD beyond the academy by offering opportunities for PhDs to contribute to the public good through two-year fellowship placements in the fields of policy, community development, arts and culture, media, and international affairs. One position that might be of interest for your students is at Twin Cities Public Television in St Paul!
The deadline for applications is Wednesday, March 18, 2020, by 9pm EDT. Fellows receive stipends of $70,000 per year and have access to employer-based health insurance through the host organizations. In addition, ACLS provides funds for relocation and professional development. This initiative is made possible through the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In 2020, ACLS will place up to 21 PhDs as Public Fellows in the following organizations and roles:
• Alliance for Higher Education in Prison (Denver, CO) – Community Engagement Director
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (Washington, DC) – Government Relations Project Manager
• American Civil Liberties Union (New York, NY) – Research Associate
• Asian Cultural Council (New York, NY) – Manager of Strategic Research
• Children’s Defense Fund (Washington, DC) – Senior Research Associate
• City of Seattle Innovation & Performance Team (Seattle, WA) – Outreach & Engagement Research Analyst
• Humanities Action Lab (Newark, NJ) – Public Programming and Exhibitions Manager
• Institute for Study Abroad (Indianapolis, IN) – Assistant Director of Global Learning and Assessment
• National Book Foundation (New York, NY) – Education Programs Manager
• New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (Newark, NJ) – Policy Analyst
• One Archives Foundation (Los Angeles, CA) – Communications Manager
• Oxfam America (Washington, DC) – Research and Policy Advisor
• Partnership for Public Service (Washington, DC) – Writer and Editor, Communications Team
• Partnership for Working Families (Oakland, CA) – Public Goods Policy Strategist
• Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (Pittsburgh, PA) – Government Relations Specialist
• Refugees International (Washington, DC) – Program Manager
• San Francisco Arts Commission (San Francisco, CA) – Community Impact Analyst
• Solutions Journalism Network (New York, NY) – Higher Education Program Specialist
• Twin Cities Public Television (St Paul, MN) – Audience Development Project Manager
• University Settlement Society of New York (New York, NY) – Advocacy Director
• Washington Center for Equitable Growth (Washington, DC) – Engagement Project Manager
Applicants must have a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between September 1, 2016, and June 19, 2020, and must have defended and deposited their dissertations no later than April 6, 2020. Applicants must be authorized to work legally in the United States.
Applications will be accepted only through the ACLS online application system and must be submitted by March 18, 2020 at 9pm EDT. Applicants should not contact any of the organizations directly. Please visit www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/ for complete position descriptions, eligibility criteria, and application information. This program is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
5. Two tenure-track positions in GWS
The Gender, Women, and Sexualities (GWS) Studies Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver invites candidates to apply for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin Fall 2020. The successful candidate will teach a 24 hour credit load both online and face-to-face with substantial service responsibilities to the department. The courses to be taught include core courses such as Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies, Multicultural Study of Sexualities and Genders, Women of Color, Feminist and Queer Research methods, and upper division courses in the candidate’s area of expertise. Of special interest are GWS scholars with an expertise in queer indigenous studies, critical race and/or migration studies, and/or transnational feminisms.
The department is housed in the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy (GITA), a unique office on the Auraria campus. GITA offers both academics (one major and two minors), and direct support services to students targeted by sexism and other intersecting oppressions.
Assistant Professor responsibilities include:
• Teaching 12 credit hours a semester. Teaching involves the activities that impart knowledge and critical thinking skills to students. It includes preparing for courses assigned, assessing student progress, conducting curricular review, holding office hours, communicating with students in a timely fashion, and integrating technology as appropriate. Teaching may include classroom, online, online/hybrid instruction.
• Advising students. This involves staying informed of University and College policies while assisting students in assessing career options, choosing a degree program, successfully completing their senior thesis and degree, and obtaining employment or graduate school placement. Moreover, it involves
• Engaging in service to the department, college, profession, and/or community.
• Pursuing and maintaining an active research agenda, publishing per the departmental guidelines, and presenting at professional conferences.
Required Qualifications:
• Ph.D. in Gender, Women, and Sexualities/Feminist Studies or a relevant field completed no later than May 31, 2019.
• Teaching experience in Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies.
To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 11:59pm (MT) 02/17/2020
Apply at: https://www.msudenverjobs.com/postings/13489
Assistant Professor responsibilities include:
• Teaching 12 credit hours a semester. Teaching involves the activities that impart knowledge and critical thinking skills to students. It includes preparing for courses assigned, assessing student progress, conducting curricular review, holding office hours, communicating with students in a timely fashion, and integrating technology as appropriate. Teaching may include classroom, online, online/hybrid instruction.
• Advising students. This involves staying informed of University and College policies while assisting students in assessing career options, choosing a degree program, successfully completing their senior thesis and degree, and obtaining employment or graduate school placement. Moreover, it involves
• Engaging in service to the department, college, profession, and/or community.
• Pursuing and maintaining an active research agenda, publishing per the departmental guidelines, and presenting at professional conferences.
Required Qualifications:
• Ph.D. in Gender, Women, and Sexualities/Feminist Studies or a relevant field completed no later than May 31, 2019.
• Teaching experience in Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies.
To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 11:59pm (MT) 02/17/2020
Apply at: https://www.msudenverjobs.com/
6. 2020 Dan David Prize Scholarships
General Information
- The Dan David Prize awards scholarships to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, carrying out research in one of the selected fields for the current year. Registered doctoral and post-doctoral researchers who study at recognized universities throughout the world, and whose research has been approved, are eligible to apply.
- The Dan David Prize laureates annually donate twenty scholarships of US$15,000 each to outstanding doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers of exceptional promise in the selected fields for the current year. Ten scholarships are awarded to students at universities throughout the world and ten scholarships to students at Tel Aviv University.
- The Dan David Prize scholarships are granted according to merit, without discrimination based on gender, race, religion, nationality or political affiliation.
- In order to ensure that your research is relevant to one of this year's chosen fields, please read the field descriptions on our website before filling out the form.
- Applicants who have received a scholarship from the Dan David Prize may not apply again for their same area of research.
- Due March 10th, 2020
More information here.
7. Workshop Opportunity: AGITATE! Editorial Collective
The University of Minnesota--Twin Cities is built within the traditional homelands of the Daḳota people. Minnesota comes from the Daḳota name for this region, Mni Sota Maḳoce--the land where the waters reflect the skies. Each day students, faculty, staff and community members who use our services look out our windows to the Ḣaḣa Wakpa, the River of the Waterfalls.
-Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, Bdewakaƞtuƞwaƞ Daḳota, for the UMN Circle of Indigenous Nations
The AGITATE! Editorial Collective is excited to host an on-campus workshop: May 1-6, 2020.
The Editorial Collective is seeking workshop participants who will bring their own living connections, relationships, and commitments to place: multiple homes where they come from, where they currently live, where their ongoing work (broadly defined) is, and the relationships between and across these. Central to the project of AGITATE! is the labor of tracing connections between the pasts, presents, and futures of these places as sites of slave trade, colonialism, settler colonialism, and imperialism, and therefore, as terrains for struggle and resistance. This work must begin by embedding our scholarship, art, and activism in particular places and their textures, struggles, and languages, without the violence of collapsing one context into another. The members of the Editorial Collective are scattered across various locations, yet our institutional home and the place where our collective journey began remains the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, the home of the Dakota people, and where the largest per capita number of refugees in the US live. As such, we center our general commitment to grounded political work, in and through particular places, while simultaneously recognizing our specific responsibility to defend both Indigenous sovereignty on ancestral Dakota homelands and the right of refugees to live without xenophobic violence.
During this workshop we will be joined by two inspiring scholars-poets-activists-public intellectuals who serve on our editorial advisory board, Professor Celina Su (CUNY) and Professor Mona Bhan (Syracuse University). With support from the Office for Research and Graduate Programs in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA), up to four CLA graduate students will be invited to join the current AGITATE! Editorial Collective for two days of close engagement with Professor Su and Professor Bhan, followed by three days of collective work on the future of the journal and building a vision for upcoming volumes. Selected student participants will receive an honorarium of $500. There will be a possibility of continuing collaboration at different levels with the AGITATE! Editorial Collective beyond the workshop.
To apply, send an email to agitatejournal@umn.edu by midnight of Tuesday, February 25, 2020, with
responses to the following prompts in no more than 500-750 words:
1. How does AGITATE! resonate with your scholarship, activism, and/or artistic practices?
2. What is your experience with collective work? What other experiences, perspectives, and
background would you bring to this workshop that you feel would enrich the work of AGITATE!?
3. How did you learn about AGITATE!?
4. Are you interested in joining the AGITATE! Editorial Collective after the workshop?
5. Please indicate your program of study.
If you have questions, please contact agitatejournal@umn.edu.
Call for Papers/Proposals
1. Futures of Sexual Difference: Rethinking Femininity and Queerness with Psychoanalysis
In recent years, the widely-discussed “bathroom bill” has served as a nexus for conversations surrounding the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals and communities. Although some states, including North Carolina, have ruled in favor of allowing transgender persons to access bathrooms based on their chosen gender identities, it has become increasingly clear that the issue is pointing to an aspect of sexuality that cannot simply be resolved by prohibition, as conservatives would have it, or by the claiming of one gender pronoun instead of another, which liberal discourse would consider an answer to the dilemma of sexual difference.
What can psychoanalysis contribute to this evidently socially and politically polarizing question of sexuality? Is there anything it can contribute to the discussion of sexual difference amongst feminist and queer theorists/activists? After all, many of them have criticized psychoanalysis for reproducing normative social/power structures in its phallocentric and oedipal agendas. A number of scholars and clinicians working on the intersections of psychoananlysis and feminist/queer theory, such as Joan Copjec, Patricia Gherovici and Parveen Adams, have addressed these criticisms, noting that sexual difference is determined “neither by sex (anatomy) nor by gender (social construction)”; it is rather “a subjective, unconscious choice” that has to do with one’s specific position vis-à-vis language (Gherovichi). Jacques Lacan, in his later work, suggested that femininity is the position that marks a certain excess that is “not-all” limited by the signifier and by phallic function.
The repression of femininity, somewhat analogous to the repression of queerness, has to do with the repression of difference. We consider femininity a radical position insofar as it points to an irreducible rupture at the heart of subjectivity. Therefore, it is continually repressed to ensure the stability of individual, social and political identities. We wonder: how can we think of femininity as a political force? How does femininity problematize the liberal and conservative reliance upon identity politics? How can its rethinking of subjectivity and language help reconsider current political and social stakes? Can we think of femininity and queerness as being in some sort of productive tension with one another? Further, can we posit a conversation between psychoanalysis and feminist/queer theories in order to address the stakes and impasses of identity politics, especially if, in the psychoanalytic clinic, “the subject emerges exactly there where identity fails” (Gherovichi)?
Submissions are open to not only academics, but also clinicians, social workers and activists. We welcome papers from the following areas, but not limited to those:
Disability Studies
Feminist Studies
Critical Race Theory
Queer Theory
Gender Studies
Environmental Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Psychoanalysis
Literary Theory
Film and Media Studies
We welcome you to participate in our Annual Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, Buffalo (27th March 2020). To read a paper at this conference, please email a 250-300 word abstract and a 100-word bio to both meganhir@buffalo.edu and martaale@buffalo.edu by 12th February 20220.
2. #2020NWSA Conference Proposals
About the 2020 Theme:
The 2020 NWSA conference theme, “The Poetics, Politics, and Praxis of Transnational Feminisms,” seeks to open up conversation about the evolution of transnational feminisms. Rooted in the pioneering scholarship of Jacqui Alexander, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, among others, transnational feminism has been a subject of feminist study, theorizing, and discourse for decades. It has contributed immensely to decentering Western, especially US, scholarship and generated new forms of anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and decolonial feminist praxis and epistemologies that cross national boundaries.
Click here for full CFP and directions for submitting a conference proposal
2020 Pre-Conference Information:
Each year, NWSA hosts multiple pre-conference sessions including the Program Administration and Development (PAD) Pre-Conference, the Women’s Centers Committee (WCC) Pre-Conference, and the Women of Color Leadership Project (WoCLP). For the past 2 years, NWSA has piloted teach-ins and institutes for NWSA attendees. NWSA is broadening the pre-conference session offerings for the 2020 NWSA Annual Conference.
Please submit proposals to preconference@nwsa.org. (NOTE: this is a different proposal submission process than the one used for the general conference).
Program Administration and Development (PA&D) Pre-Conference
The PA&D Pre-Conference organizers invite the submission of proposals for both workshops and panels on a broad range of topics related to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies program administration and development (individual papers will not be accepted for the PA&D Pre-Conference). The 2020 NWSA conference theme is “The Poetics, Politics, and Praxis of Transnational Feminisms.” We encourage submissions that engage with this theme, as well as those aimed at offering innovations in program administration and development. Sessions that encourage anti-racist and anti-imperialist approaches to programming, administration, and curriculum, are especially welcome. (PLEASE NOTE: Proposals that are not specifically related to program administration and development should be submitted to the general conference using the general conference login system. Proposals to be considered for PA&D’s “Sponsored Session” in the general conference program should also be submitted to the general conference submission portal.)
Women’s Centers Committee (WCC) Pre-Conference
The NWSA’s Women’s Centers Committee (WCC) advances the vital role that women’s and gender equity centers play in the field of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGSS). Women’s and gender equity centers support the scholarship and best practices of both the centers themselves, and of academic programs—developing research, documenting resources, building network alliances, serving as support and advocacy centers addressing equity and inclusion, and designing projects that support feminist theory and practice.
The expressed need of the Women’s Centers Committee (WCC) to have more flexibility with regard to the pre-conference format has been a topic of conversation between WCC leadership and NWSA leadership for several years. Based on discussions spearheaded by the outgoing WCC Co-Chairs and NWSA leadership, we are delighted to announce that we have support to pilot a more “un-conference” feel this next year. The format of the WCC pre-conference in 2020 will reflect more flexibility and have space for both traditional break-out sessions and elements of the Summit, such as large group workshops and less structured conversations on topics of pressing importance. An additional component of a more flexible pre-conference is extending the submission due-date for pre-conference proposals, as a later date provides additional time to select topics of immediate relevance to the community and ensures that a greater diversity of WCC content is present in both the pre-conference and the main conference. We are still currently having conversations regarding the timeline for WCC pre-conference planning and will release when we will begin accepting proposal submissions as well as the deadline as soon as we have this information. Recognizing the value of WCC contribution to the field of Women’s and Gender Studies, we strongly encourage Center professionals to continue to propose sessions for the general conference. We will have more information forthcoming.
Pre-Conference Institutes
A Pre-Conference Institute provides conference attendees a chance to engage with concepts, materials, and other attendees in a half-day format. Organized around certain themes connected to the general conference theme, Pre-Conference Institutes take a deeper dive into pedagogical issues and questions of interest to a variety of NWSA members including scholars, activists, administrators. More detailed instructions are in the conference CFP.
Click here for more information on the pre-conference proposals in the full CFP.
Women of Color Leadership Project (WoCLP)
The Women of Color Leadership Project (WoCLP) is committed to increasing the number of students, staff, and faculty members of color working within the field of women’s studies, related disciplines, and interdisciplinary fields; working at women’s centers; and assuming positions of power and leadership in NWSA, including the Program Administration and Development Committee (PAD) and Women’s Centers Committee (WCC).
The WoCLP is also designed to support women of color in their professional goals and leadership development. Women of color in women’s studies, ethnic studies, or related fields may apply if they aspire to leadership within women’s studies or NWSA. Applicants may include advanced graduate students, faculty, and current program administrators who wish to be more involved in program or NWSA leadership. The application process for the 2020 WoCLP cohort will take place February 7 - March 31, 2020.
If you have questions about proposal submissions for the general or pre-conferences, please contact nwsaoffice@nwsa.org
3. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF FEMINIST ENCOUNTERS:
GENDER AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
The planet is currently witnessing unprecedented levels of human influence. This is felt in accelerating technological advancement; the spread of certain forms of governance – both progressive and regressive; seemingly unrestricted cultures of consumption; mass migration and mass urbanisation. The term ‘Anthropocene’, coined by chemist Paul Crutzen and limnologist Eugene Stoermer, is now commonly used to describe these changes and how they have come to define the current geological epoch. Noteworthy about the concept is its reference to human interference in the geomorphology of the earth and the possibility of a sixth extinction implied by it.
The Anthropocene is characterized by the acceleration, since the mid-20th century, of carbon dioxide emissions and rising sea levels, the global mass extinction of species, and the transformation of land by deforestation, as well as diseases that cross the human/animal barrier. Increasingly visible effects of climate change, pollution and environmental degradation force us to question the ecological costs of notions of human ‘progress’ and ‘prosperity’. If nothing else, we have to ask about progress and prosperity for whom, as neoliberal capitalism is deeply implicated in the Anthropocene and relies at its core on exploitation of humans, animals and the environment alike.
This relationship between humankind and the environment is deeply bound up with the politics and construction of gender and race. The gendered nature of continued processes of exploitation of countries that were previous colonies has brought scholarship on decoloniality to the centre of our understanding of current social relationships. Wars fought with the latest technology like drones have contributed to targeted killing in which civilians become collateral damage. Protracted wars and populist rhetoric deeply embedded in misogynistic politics have made the world a more politically unstable and unsafe place, especially for women and LGBTIQ communities. New materialist feminists, especially, have taken up thinking about what agency means in a world where global ecological and other more-than-human forces intersect and calamities take place on a planetary scale.
There is therefore an urgent need for Feminist Studies to interrogate the relationship between our natural environment and the intersectional histories of gendered, sexual and racialised bodies. Questions of agency and gendered power at this point in human history require critical reflection, as does the hierarchical relationship between human and more-than-human, as these have serious consequences for the relationship between development, social justice and sustainability.
For this special issue of Feminist Encounters, abstracts may be submitted on any topic related to this theme that directly includes an analysis of gender relations. These topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Gender and the environment (including agriculture, sustainability, and water security)
- Gender, socio-economic transformation and issues of land
- Critical geography
- Masculinities, militarisation, and drone warfare
- Gender and decoloniality
- Ecocriticism and ecofeminism
- Gender and global migration
- Gender and the future of cities
- The shifting boundaries of sexual identities and sexuality
- The gendered politics of pollution by fast fashion
- Decoloniality and indigenous knowledge systems
- Queering the Anthropocene
- Post-humanism and new materialist perspectives, especially in their questioning of human/non-human binaries
- Gender, artificial intelligence and digital media
- Gender and climate change
- Populist politics and gender based violence
- Gender, neo-liberal capitalism and the politics of greed
Guest Editors: Prof Amanda Gouws (SARChI Chair in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Prof Deirdre Byrne (Department of English, University of South Africa) and Dr Azille Coetzee, (Post –Doc Fellow to the SARChI Chair in Gender Politics)
Abstracts of 250 words and a short biographical note (not more than 100 words) should be sent to byrnedc@unisa.ac.za, ag1@sun.ac.za and azille@sun.ac.za no later than 1 March 2020 in order to be considered.
We will notify you if your abstract is accepted, by April 1st 2020.
Full articles will be due 1 June 2020. Expected word length of full manuscript (including references) is 8,000 words, different word lengths to be negotiated with the editors. Images are welcome but must include relevant copyright permissions.
All articles must be submitted in the journal’s house style, details of which are to be found on the Feminist Encounters website.
Chief Editor of Feminist Encounters: Professor Sally R Munt, University of Sussex UK
Managing Editor of Feminist Encounters: Dr Rose Richards, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
4. MAPS: Methods/Affects/Practices/Sensibilities Society for the Study of Affect Conference - UKY
MAPS: Methods/Affects/Practices/Sensibilities
Society for the Study of Affect Conference
September 24-26, 2020
University of Kentucky
#affectMAPS
This year’s MAPS theme—Methods/Affects/Practices/Sensibilities—is intended to provoke conversations about the widely (and often wildly) divergent modes of affect inquiry. What kinds of maps guide your approaches to research in & through affect? Where and when do the architectures and atmospheres of affect guide and/or disturb the disciplinary formations that generate research trajectories within (and perhaps beyond or outside) your field of specialization? Even more directly, does affect study have a method or methods?
The plenary speakers for #affectMAPS—Mel Chen, Keller Easterling, Jennifer Gabrys, Derek McCormack, and Greg Seigworth—have each addressed these kinds of questions in their work. They’ll bring a few answers and probably a whole host of new troublings.
We encourage direct participation in the creation of our conference’s conversations through the submission of STREAM PROPOSALS.
A stream proposal surfaces a theme within the conference. It identifies and riffs on specific questions raised around our conference theme of methods / affects / practices / sensibilities. Streams can be proposed by individuals or duos. Successful stream proposers will take an active role as ‘stream organizers,’ working with the conference committee to promote panel submissions to their stream and helping to give shape to the ultimate make-up of their panels.
The issues and engagements that serve as a stream’s central concerns should be clearly framed and conceived in a way that encourages – as much as possible – participation from different disciplines. The stream proposal should include a list of possible topics and sub-topics that would fit within its overall framework. For examples of past streams, please visit the official conference website at affect.uky.edu.
- Deadline for submission of Conference Stream Proposals: March 01, 2020
- Conference Streams decided and CFP for Individual Paper Submissions posted: March 15, 2020
For any questions or inquiries, drop a line to affect@uky.edu.
5. Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Conference on "Democracy Under Threat in Times of Populism and Radical Nationalism
April 10th-11th, 2020
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Workshops for undergraduate and graduate students from Howard, Morehouse, Spelman, and the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Submit title, affiliation, and a 200 word abstract of the paper explaining its connection to the conference themes. Papers will be pre-circulated by March 27th and receive feedback from participants, senior scholars, and activists through a 90-minute round table workshop discussion. This format is well suited for works in progress and offers an opportunity to meet and engage with the broader community of scholars and activists working on questions of populism, nationalism, and democracy.
March 6th: Deadline for abstracts
March 27th: Deadline for final papers
Paper length: 10-20 pages for undergraduate students. 20--30 pages for graduate students. Double spaced.
Conference themes include but are not limited to the following topics: Historical and Contemporary Roots of Populism; Racial Nationalism and Democracy, Racism, Anti-semitism, and xenophobia; Global and Comparative Perspectives on Populism, Nationalism, and Democracy; Immigration, Populism and Racial Nationalism; Responses to Extremism and Authoritarianism; Media Reinforcing and Resisting Threats to Democracy; Gender, Toxic Masculinity, and Populism; Public Policy and Right-Wing Populism; Religious and Political Dimensions of Populism and Racial Nationalism; Education, Citizenship, and belonging; Scholarship Engaging with Public Interests; Public Institutions, Community Organizations, and the Question of Democracy.
Submit Materials to ICWDemocracy@umn.edu or visit this website for more information.
Call for Papers/Proposals
1. Futures of Sexual Difference: Rethinking Femininity and Queerness with Psychoanalysis
In recent years, the widely-discussed “bathroom bill” has served as a nexus for conversations surrounding the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals and communities. Although some states, including North Carolina, have ruled in favor of allowing transgender persons to access bathrooms based on their chosen gender identities, it has become increasingly clear that the issue is pointing to an aspect of sexuality that cannot simply be resolved by prohibition, as conservatives would have it, or by the claiming of one gender pronoun instead of another, which liberal discourse would consider an answer to the dilemma of sexual difference.
What can psychoanalysis contribute to this evidently socially and politically polarizing question of sexuality? Is there anything it can contribute to the discussion of sexual difference amongst feminist and queer theorists/activists? After all, many of them have criticized psychoanalysis for reproducing normative social/power structures in its phallocentric and oedipal agendas. A number of scholars and clinicians working on the intersections of psychoananlysis and feminist/queer theory, such as Joan Copjec, Patricia Gherovici and Parveen Adams, have addressed these criticisms, noting that sexual difference is determined “neither by sex (anatomy) nor by gender (social construction)”; it is rather “a subjective, unconscious choice” that has to do with one’s specific position vis-à-vis language (Gherovichi). Jacques Lacan, in his later work, suggested that femininity is the position that marks a certain excess that is “not-all” limited by the signifier and by phallic function.
The repression of femininity, somewhat analogous to the repression of queerness, has to do with the repression of difference. We consider femininity a radical position insofar as it points to an irreducible rupture at the heart of subjectivity. Therefore, it is continually repressed to ensure the stability of individual, social and political identities. We wonder: how can we think of femininity as a political force? How does femininity problematize the liberal and conservative reliance upon identity politics? How can its rethinking of subjectivity and language help reconsider current political and social stakes? Can we think of femininity and queerness as being in some sort of productive tension with one another? Further, can we posit a conversation between psychoanalysis and feminist/queer theories in order to address the stakes and impasses of identity politics, especially if, in the psychoanalytic clinic, “the subject emerges exactly there where identity fails” (Gherovichi)?
Submissions are open to not only academics, but also clinicians, social workers and activists. We welcome papers from the following areas, but not limited to those:
Disability Studies
Feminist Studies
Critical Race Theory
Queer Theory
Gender Studies
Environmental Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Psychoanalysis
Literary Theory
Film and Media Studies
We welcome you to participate in our Annual Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, Buffalo (27th March 2020). To read a paper at this conference, please email a 250-300 word abstract and a 100-word bio to both meganhir@buffalo.edu and martaale@buffalo.edu by 12th February 20220.
2. #2020NWSA Conference Proposals
About the 2020 Theme:
The 2020 NWSA conference theme, “The Poetics, Politics, and Praxis of Transnational Feminisms,” seeks to open up conversation about the evolution of transnational feminisms. Rooted in the pioneering scholarship of Jacqui Alexander, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, among others, transnational feminism has been a subject of feminist study, theorizing, and discourse for decades. It has contributed immensely to decentering Western, especially US, scholarship and generated new forms of anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and decolonial feminist praxis and epistemologies that cross national boundaries.
Click here for full CFP and directions for submitting a conference proposal
2020 Pre-Conference Information:
Each year, NWSA hosts multiple pre-conference sessions including the Program Administration and Development (PAD) Pre-Conference, the Women’s Centers Committee (WCC) Pre-Conference, and the Women of Color Leadership Project (WoCLP). For the past 2 years, NWSA has piloted teach-ins and institutes for NWSA attendees. NWSA is broadening the pre-conference session offerings for the 2020 NWSA Annual Conference.
Please submit proposals to preconference@nwsa.org. (NOTE: this is a different proposal submission process than the one used for the general conference).
Program Administration and Development (PA&D) Pre-Conference
The PA&D Pre-Conference organizers invite the submission of proposals for both workshops and panels on a broad range of topics related to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies program administration and development (individual papers will not be accepted for the PA&D Pre-Conference). The 2020 NWSA conference theme is “The Poetics, Politics, and Praxis of Transnational Feminisms.” We encourage submissions that engage with this theme, as well as those aimed at offering innovations in program administration and development. Sessions that encourage anti-racist and anti-imperialist approaches to programming, administration, and curriculum, are especially welcome. (PLEASE NOTE: Proposals that are not specifically related to program administration and development should be submitted to the general conference using the general conference login system. Proposals to be considered for PA&D’s “Sponsored Session” in the general conference program should also be submitted to the general conference submission portal.)
Women’s Centers Committee (WCC) Pre-Conference
The NWSA’s Women’s Centers Committee (WCC) advances the vital role that women’s and gender equity centers play in the field of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGSS). Women’s and gender equity centers support the scholarship and best practices of both the centers themselves, and of academic programs—developing research, documenting resources, building network alliances, serving as support and advocacy centers addressing equity and inclusion, and designing projects that support feminist theory and practice.
The expressed need of the Women’s Centers Committee (WCC) to have more flexibility with regard to the pre-conference format has been a topic of conversation between WCC leadership and NWSA leadership for several years. Based on discussions spearheaded by the outgoing WCC Co-Chairs and NWSA leadership, we are delighted to announce that we have support to pilot a more “un-conference” feel this next year. The format of the WCC pre-conference in 2020 will reflect more flexibility and have space for both traditional break-out sessions and elements of the Summit, such as large group workshops and less structured conversations on topics of pressing importance. An additional component of a more flexible pre-conference is extending the submission due-date for pre-conference proposals, as a later date provides additional time to select topics of immediate relevance to the community and ensures that a greater diversity of WCC content is present in both the pre-conference and the main conference. We are still currently having conversations regarding the timeline for WCC pre-conference planning and will release when we will begin accepting proposal submissions as well as the deadline as soon as we have this information. Recognizing the value of WCC contribution to the field of Women’s and Gender Studies, we strongly encourage Center professionals to continue to propose sessions for the general conference. We will have more information forthcoming.
Pre-Conference Institutes
A Pre-Conference Institute provides conference attendees a chance to engage with concepts, materials, and other attendees in a half-day format. Organized around certain themes connected to the general conference theme, Pre-Conference Institutes take a deeper dive into pedagogical issues and questions of interest to a variety of NWSA members including scholars, activists, administrators. More detailed instructions are in the conference CFP.
Click here for more information on the pre-conference proposals in the full CFP.
Women of Color Leadership Project (WoCLP)
The Women of Color Leadership Project (WoCLP) is committed to increasing the number of students, staff, and faculty members of color working within the field of women’s studies, related disciplines, and interdisciplinary fields; working at women’s centers; and assuming positions of power and leadership in NWSA, including the Program Administration and Development Committee (PAD) and Women’s Centers Committee (WCC).
The WoCLP is also designed to support women of color in their professional goals and leadership development. Women of color in women’s studies, ethnic studies, or related fields may apply if they aspire to leadership within women’s studies or NWSA. Applicants may include advanced graduate students, faculty, and current program administrators who wish to be more involved in program or NWSA leadership. The application process for the 2020 WoCLP cohort will take place February 7 - March 31, 2020.
If you have questions about proposal submissions for the general or pre-conferences, please contact nwsaoffice@nwsa.org
3. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF FEMINIST ENCOUNTERS:
GENDER AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
The planet is currently witnessing unprecedented levels of human influence. This is felt in accelerating technological advancement; the spread of certain forms of governance – both progressive and regressive; seemingly unrestricted cultures of consumption; mass migration and mass urbanisation. The term ‘Anthropocene’, coined by chemist Paul Crutzen and limnologist Eugene Stoermer, is now commonly used to describe these changes and how they have come to define the current geological epoch. Noteworthy about the concept is its reference to human interference in the geomorphology of the earth and the possibility of a sixth extinction implied by it.
The Anthropocene is characterized by the acceleration, since the mid-20th century, of carbon dioxide emissions and rising sea levels, the global mass extinction of species, and the transformation of land by deforestation, as well as diseases that cross the human/animal barrier. Increasingly visible effects of climate change, pollution and environmental degradation force us to question the ecological costs of notions of human ‘progress’ and ‘prosperity’. If nothing else, we have to ask about progress and prosperity for whom, as neoliberal capitalism is deeply implicated in the Anthropocene and relies at its core on exploitation of humans, animals and the environment alike.
This relationship between humankind and the environment is deeply bound up with the politics and construction of gender and race. The gendered nature of continued processes of exploitation of countries that were previous colonies has brought scholarship on decoloniality to the centre of our understanding of current social relationships. Wars fought with the latest technology like drones have contributed to targeted killing in which civilians become collateral damage. Protracted wars and populist rhetoric deeply embedded in misogynistic politics have made the world a more politically unstable and unsafe place, especially for women and LGBTIQ communities. New materialist feminists, especially, have taken up thinking about what agency means in a world where global ecological and other more-than-human forces intersect and calamities take place on a planetary scale.
There is therefore an urgent need for Feminist Studies to interrogate the relationship between our natural environment and the intersectional histories of gendered, sexual and racialised bodies. Questions of agency and gendered power at this point in human history require critical reflection, as does the hierarchical relationship between human and more-than-human, as these have serious consequences for the relationship between development, social justice and sustainability.
For this special issue of Feminist Encounters, abstracts may be submitted on any topic related to this theme that directly includes an analysis of gender relations. These topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Gender and the environment (including agriculture, sustainability, and water security)
- Gender, socio-economic transformation and issues of land
- Critical geography
- Masculinities, militarisation, and drone warfare
- Gender and decoloniality
- Ecocriticism and ecofeminism
- Gender and global migration
- Gender and the future of cities
- The shifting boundaries of sexual identities and sexuality
- The gendered politics of pollution by fast fashion
- Decoloniality and indigenous knowledge systems
- Queering the Anthropocene
- Post-humanism and new materialist perspectives, especially in their questioning of human/non-human binaries
- Gender, artificial intelligence and digital media
- Gender and climate change
- Populist politics and gender based violence
- Gender, neo-liberal capitalism and the politics of greed
Guest Editors: Prof Amanda Gouws (SARChI Chair in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Prof Deirdre Byrne (Department of English, University of South Africa) and Dr Azille Coetzee, (Post –Doc Fellow to the SARChI Chair in Gender Politics)
Abstracts of 250 words and a short biographical note (not more than 100 words) should be sent to byrnedc@unisa.ac.za, ag1@sun.ac.za and azille@sun.ac.za no later than 1 March 2020 in order to be considered.
We will notify you if your abstract is accepted, by April 1st 2020.
Full articles will be due 1 June 2020. Expected word length of full manuscript (including references) is 8,000 words, different word lengths to be negotiated with the editors. Images are welcome but must include relevant copyright permissions.
All articles must be submitted in the journal’s house style, details of which are to be found on the Feminist Encounters website.
Chief Editor of Feminist Encounters: Professor Sally R Munt, University of Sussex UK
Managing Editor of Feminist Encounters: Dr Rose Richards, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
4. MAPS: Methods/Affects/Practices/
MAPS: Methods/Affects/Practices/Sensibilities
Society for the Study of Affect Conference
September 24-26, 2020
University of Kentucky
#affectMAPS
This year’s MAPS theme—Methods/Affects/Practices/Sensibilities—is intended to provoke conversations about the widely (and often wildly) divergent modes of affect inquiry. What kinds of maps guide your approaches to research in & through affect? Where and when do the architectures and atmospheres of affect guide and/or disturb the disciplinary formations that generate research trajectories within (and perhaps beyond or outside) your field of specialization? Even more directly, does affect study have a method or methods?
The plenary speakers for #affectMAPS—Mel Chen, Keller Easterling, Jennifer Gabrys, Derek McCormack, and Greg Seigworth—have each addressed these kinds of questions in their work. They’ll bring a few answers and probably a whole host of new troublings.
We encourage direct participation in the creation of our conference’s conversations through the submission of STREAM PROPOSALS.
A stream proposal surfaces a theme within the conference. It identifies and riffs on specific questions raised around our conference theme of methods / affects / practices / sensibilities. Streams can be proposed by individuals or duos. Successful stream proposers will take an active role as ‘stream organizers,’ working with the conference committee to promote panel submissions to their stream and helping to give shape to the ultimate make-up of their panels.
The issues and engagements that serve as a stream’s central concerns should be clearly framed and conceived in a way that encourages – as much as possible – participation from different disciplines. The stream proposal should include a list of possible topics and sub-topics that would fit within its overall framework. For examples of past streams, please visit the official conference website at affect.uky.edu.
- Deadline for submission of Conference Stream Proposals: March 01, 2020
- Conference Streams decided and CFP for Individual Paper Submissions posted: March 15, 2020
For any questions or inquiries, drop a line to affect@uky.edu.
5. Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Conference on "Democracy Under Threat in Times of Populism and Radical Nationalism
April 10th-11th, 2020
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Workshops for undergraduate and graduate students from Howard, Morehouse, Spelman, and the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Submit title, affiliation, and a 200 word abstract of the paper explaining its connection to the conference themes. Papers will be pre-circulated by March 27th and receive feedback from participants, senior scholars, and activists through a 90-minute round table workshop discussion. This format is well suited for works in progress and offers an opportunity to meet and engage with the broader community of scholars and activists working on questions of populism, nationalism, and democracy.
March 6th: Deadline for abstracts
March 27th: Deadline for final papers
Paper length: 10-20 pages for undergraduate students. 20--30 pages for graduate students. Double spaced.
Conference themes include but are not limited to the following topics: Historical and Contemporary Roots of Populism; Racial Nationalism and Democracy, Racism, Anti-semitism, and xenophobia; Global and Comparative Perspectives on Populism, Nationalism, and Democracy; Immigration, Populism and Racial Nationalism; Responses to Extremism and Authoritarianism; Media Reinforcing and Resisting Threats to Democracy; Gender, Toxic Masculinity, and Populism; Public Policy and Right-Wing Populism; Religious and Political Dimensions of Populism and Racial Nationalism; Education, Citizenship, and belonging; Scholarship Engaging with Public Interests; Public Institutions, Community Organizations, and the Question of Democracy.
Submit Materials to ICWDemocracy@umn.edu or visit this website for more information.
Recognitions/Awards/Publications
1. SeungGyeong Ji awarded the 2020-21 IDF
We would like to congratulate SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji on being awarded the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for 2020-21. Many congratulations and very well done!
2. Sara and Tankut won Thesis Research Travel Grants this semester!
Congratulations to both of you!
Recognitions/Awards/Publications
1. SeungGyeong Ji awarded the 2020-21 IDF
We would like to congratulate SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji on being awarded the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for 2020-21. Many congratulations and very well done!
2. Sara and Tankut won Thesis Research Travel Grants this semester!
Congratulations to both of you!
1. SeungGyeong Ji awarded the 2020-21 IDF
We would like to congratulate SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji on being awarded the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for 2020-21. Many congratulations and very well done!
2. Sara and Tankut won Thesis Research Travel Grants this semester!
Congratulations to both of you!
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
1. YOGA & STORYTELLING FOR INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND WOMEN OF COLOR
This series is made possible in part by generous support from the Campus Climate Grant, Office for Equity & Diversity Faculty-Driven Grant, and the Department of Communication Studies' Hawkins Professorship.
Sessions take place every Wednesday from 5:15-6:30pm
Location: Ford Hall 115
This series is made possible in part by generous support from the Campus Climate Grant, Office for Equity & Diversity Faculty-Driven Grant, and the Department of Communication Studies' Hawkins Professorship.
Sessions take place every Wednesday from 5:15-6:30pm
Location: Ford Hall 115
Have a great week!
