Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies - Call for Proposals

THE STEVEN J. SCHOCHET ENDOWMENT for GLBT studies is pleased to announce its call for proposals for the creation of new courses in queer, gender, and sexuality studies, or for significant enhancement of existing courses in these fields. Applications are due by Tuesday, May 7. For more information, click here.

Afro Infinity: Creative Resistance in Black Student Life

THE AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES is pleased to announce its call for presentations for the student symposium entitled Afro Infinity: Creative Resistance in Black Student Life on Friday, September 27 from 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM at the University of Minnesota. This symposium is part of the 50^th anniversary celebration. Submissions are due by Monday, July 1. For more information, click here.

3rd Annual Dakhóta Omníčiye - Keep Moving Foward

"On May 4th of 1863, Dakhóta people who had been imprisoned at a concentration camp below Fort Snelling at Bdóte were taken by steamboat and exiled from Mnísota Makhóčhe. To mark our return & assert our continued presence on this sacred land where the rivers meet, we invite all Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Oyáte to return home, unify in peace, and share community knowledge, teachings, and stories with one another."

Phidáuŋyayapi ye/do!

All are welcome to the

3rd annual Dakhóta Omníčiye

May 2nd-4th, 2019

Flyer by Marlena Myles

FAQ's

Why am I being contacted? To mark your calendar! If you wish to present fill out the call for presenters by April 5th, 2019. Please share this with your contacts and listservs.

Cost? Free

Where? Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote: 200 Tower Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55111

Who can participate? Anyone and everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. 

When will the daily itinerary be available? ASAP-forthcoming

How can I help? If you would like to volunteer please contact me. 

Who is sponsoring this? Minnesota State Historical Society

Are meals provided? Yes on a first come first serve basis

Thank you for all the work you do, and I look forward to seeing you and yours on May 2nd - 5th. I hope you can return this year or come for the first time to support amazing Indigenous people to reflect upon what 'keep moving onward' means to you along with the communities they serve. 

University of Michigan 2019 U.S. History Graduate Student Conference

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN is pleased to announce their call for papers for their 2019 U.S. History Graduate Student Conference, “Making History Public(s): Presenting the Collective,” on May 10-11, 2019. Scholars working in all periods of American history are welcome. Submissions are due by Sunday, January 28, 2019. For more information, click here.

University of Michigan - 23rd Annual CLIFF Conference

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN is pleased to announce their call for papers for their 23^rd Annual CLIFF Conference, Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers, on March 15-16, 2019. They invite graduate students in Comparative Literature and across the humanities to submit proposals to cliff.complit@umich.edu by Friday, December 7. For more information, click here.

University of Michigan's Black Research Roundtable

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN’S BLACK RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE is pleased to announce its call for submissions for its first annual graduate student conference on Feminist, Queer, and Trans Perspectives on the Future of Black Studieson May 10-11, 2019 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Submissions are due by Friday, December 14. For more information, see below. 

The University of Michigan’s Black Research Roundtable invites submissions for its first annual graduate student conference on Feminist, Queer, and Trans Perspectives on the Future of Black Studies.

This conference asks: where are we and where are we going? Black Studies is 50 years out from its scholar activist-origins. In that time, the study of Blackness has been taken up across disciplines and institutions. Over the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of theoretical and political interventions within the (inter)discipline--of which, Black queer studies, Black trans studies, and Black women’s history have been central. Among these fields, Black gender has arguably emerged as the central object of analysis. As graduate students who will contribute to the future of the (inter)discipline, this context means we must re-engage the theories, methods, and practices that undergird Black Studies in general, and Black gender studies in particular.

Looking simultaneously backwards and forwards, the Black Research Roundtable hopes to reconsider the perennial questions for any (inter)disciple forged in struggle: How is our theory engaging with both the institutionalized reality of the (inter)discipline and the material concerns of Black people in the world? What can the debates and contributions of Black feminist, queer, and trans theory offer in this moment? As graduate students trying to find our grounding as scholars and professionals, we hope to use this conference as an opportunity to  re-engage the space between abstraction and the practice of situating our scholarship.

The Black Research Roundtable invites papers, and workshop proposals. We anticipate and encourage a wide range of topics, but seek work in particular that grapples with: Black feminist, queer, and trans theory, futures, lived experiences, archival fragments, and the aesthetic objects etc. that ground our work. We welcome work that addresses but is not limited to the following questions:

Context

· What role does Black Studies play in our current political moment?

· How is the current structure of the university shaping the conditions of the production of Black thought?

· What are the political futures suggested by Black queer, trans, and feminist studies? How do they converge? How might they be in tension?

· What are the unspoken realities of our discipline? How do the class dynamics of Black Studies academics affect Black studies scholarship?

· What theoretical gaps are produced by divergent geographies of Black analytics?

· Black thought is produced all over the world. However, much emerging work on Black gender seems to be fairly U.S. centric, with some key exceptions. How does this U.S. centric nature shape the questions we ask about the nature of Black gender?

Relating theory, method, and practice

· What topics and who have we overlooked in Black gender and queer studies?

· How can queer and trans analytics be used to understand social transformation?

· How do we grapple with the relationship between ontologies of Blackness and the lived realities of Black people?

· How do we continue to do the work of connecting the theoretical interventions of Black queer studies, Black trans studies, and Black gender studies more broadly to the political needs of Black people?

· How does the U.S. centric nature of most Black Studies scholarship shape the questions we ask about the nature of Black gender?

Theory

· What dominant theoretical trends are shaping Black Studies today?

· What is the relationship between  Black feminism and Black queer studies?

The conference will be held from May 10-11, 2018 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We hope to cultivate a space with a focus on rigorous, collegial feedback and lively conversation on graduate students’ current scholarship. In lieu of the traditional keynote, we’ll be having a faculty roundtable on a recent publication thinking about gender and Blackness.  

Proposals must contain a 250 word abstract and an abbreviated C.V. of no more than 2 pages.  Materials must be submitted no later than December 14th, 2018. BRR will notify selected authors whether their abstract has been accepted by January 18th 2019. Please submit abstracts via this form and contact Eshe Sherley (esherley@umich.edu) or Reuben Riggs-Bookman (reubenr@umich.edu) with any questions. 

Arts Patronage in Modern America Conference

THE ARTS PATRONAGE IN MODERN AMERICA CONFERENCE is pleased to announce its call for papers. The conference will be held on June 26-28, 2019 at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Submissions are due by Friday, January 4. For more information, click here.

Princeton University - "Conspiracy"

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY’S PROGRAM IN AMERICAN STUDIES is pleased to announce its call for papers for its Spring 2019 graduate student conference, “Conspiracy,” that will be held on Friday, April 12, 2019. Submissions are due by December 20. For more information, click here.

Oceti Sakowin Treaty Conference

THE SICANGU LAKOTA TREATY COUNCIL is hosting the Oceti Sakowin Treaty Conference on December 11-13, 2018 at the Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn Rapid City, SD. Pre-registration is due by Friday, November 30, and the room reservation deadline is Friday, November 9. For more information, click here.

Berklee College of Music 50th Anniversary of Woodstock Call for Papers

BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC’S Liberal Arts Department is pleased to announce its call for papers for the 50^th anniversary of Woodstock. Submissions are due by Thursday, November 15. For more information, click here. 

16th Annual Spring Academy Conference Call for Papers - Heidelberg Germany

THE HEIDELBERG CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES is pleased to announce its call for papers its 16^thAnnual Spring Academy Conference on March 18-22, 2019 in Heidelberg Germany. Applications are due by Thursday, November 15 and selections will be made by January 2019. For more information, click here.

American Literature in the World Graduate Conference Call for Papers

YALE UNIVERSITY is pleased to announce its call for papers for the American Literature in the World Graduate Conference on Friday, April 5, 2019. The conference hopes to broaden the scope of American literature, opening it to more complex geographies, and to a variety of genres and media. One-page abstracts (250-650 words) are due to americanliteratureintheworld@gmail.comby Saturday, December 15. For more information, see below.

American Literature in the World Graduate Conference
Yale University
April 5, 2019

The conference hopes to broaden the scope of American literature, opening it to more complex geographies, and to a variety of genres and media. The impetus comes partly from a survey of what is currently in the field: it is impossible to read the work of Toni Morrison and Teju Cole, Bei Dao and Rita Dove, Tony Kushner and Lynn Nottage, Joan Didion and Ta-Nehisi Coates without seeing that, for all these authors, the reference frame is no longer simply the United States, but a larger, looser, more contextually varied set of coordinates, populated by laboring bodies, migrating faiths, generational sagas, memories of war, as well as the accents of unforgotten tongues, the taste and smell of beloved foods and spices.

The twenty-first century is a good century to think about American literature in the world. But other centuries are equally fertile ground, as the writings of Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Sui Sin Far, Gertrude Stein, Zitkála-Šá, William Carlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldúa make abundantly clear. To study these and countless other authors is to see that the United States and the world are neither separate nor antithetical, but part of the same analytic fabric. Our conference explores these extended networks through many channels: from the cultural archives circulating across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans as well as the Caribbean Sea; to the dynamic interactions between indigenous populations and those newly arrived; from the institutions of print, to the tangled ecologies of literature, art, theater, music, and film, to the digital globalism of the present moment.

The conference is supported by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; the Creative Writing Program; the English Department; the American Studies Department; and the African American Studies Department.

Please send a 1-page abstract (250-650 words) to americanliteratureintheworld@gmail.com by December 15.

Harvard Kennedy School - 2019 Public Policy Leadership Conference

HARVARD’S KENNEDY SCHOOL is pleased to announce that applications for the 2019 Public Policy and Leadership Conference (PPLC) are now available. PPLC is designed for first- and second-year undergraduate students. Applications are due by Friday, November 2. The conference will be held on February 21 – 24, 2019. For more information, click here.

Migration in Comics and Graphic Narratives

THE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES AND THE CENTER FOR GERMAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES is hosting Migration in Comics and Graphic Narratives on October 4 – October 6 in the Regis Center for the Art-East Room 110 and the Humphrey School of Public Affairs Room 50B. For more information, click here. 

Octavia Butler's Afrofuturistic Visions: Reframing Identity, Culture, and History

THE NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION is pleased to announce its call for papers for the 50^th Anniversary Convention, Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturistic Visions: Reframing Identity, Culture, and History, in Washington, DC, March 21-24, 2019. Submissions are due by Sunday, September 30. For more information and to submit, click here.

Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence Conference

THE MOVING IMAGE & MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE GROUP WITH CULTURAL STUDIES & COMPARATIVE LITERATURE are pleased to announce their Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence conference on October 12 – 13. For more information, click here.

Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference

THE 2019 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE is pleased to announce its call for proposals for its conference Community, Conflict, and “the Meaning of America”on July 14 – 16, 2019. They welcome proposals for individual papers or panel sessions on the conference theme. The deadline for proposals is Tuesday, January 15, 2019. For more information, click here.

Muxeres Magicxs/Magic Womxn Exhibit

CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA AND INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA are pleased to announce their call for submissions for their Muxeres Magicxs/Magic Womxn exhibit. The artwork will be centered around womxn and their labor. The exhibit will take place on Saturday, April 28 from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM in the CTLU building at 3715 S Chicago Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55407. For more information, click here.

4th Annual Upper Midwest Queer Trans Indigenous People of Color Conference - Rediscovering Our Magic

THE GENDER AND SEXUALITY CENTER FOR QUEER & TRANS LIFE is pleased to announce the 4^th Annual Upper Midwest Queer Trans Indigenous People of Color Conference, Rediscovering Our Magic, on April 13 – 15 at the University of Minnesota. For more information, click here. To register, click here.