The Program in the History of Medicine is hosting a Lunchtime Lecture Series on Monday, December 2 from 12:20-1:10pm in 555 Diehl Hall. Hamilton Cravens will give a lecture entitled "Notions of Gender in American Pediatrics: The Ideas of Luther Emmett Holt, Arnold Lucius Gesell, and Benjamin Spock." Event flyer can be found here: Cravens HMED Lecture Series poster Fall 2013.pdf
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Professor Jennifer Pierce to Speak in Lincoln, Nebraska
Professor Jennifer Pierce will deliver the lecture at the Mid-America American Studies Association's annual meeting held February 28-March 2, 2014 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her lecture is entitled "Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Corporate Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action."
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Crossroads Lecture Series: "A Small Island: African American Encounters with Britain in the Era of Jim Crow"
Jane Rhodes will present "A Small Island: African American Encounters with Britain in the Era of Jim Crow" as part of the Black Studies and American Studies at the Crossroads lecture series. The event will begin at 3:30pm in room 815 Social Science Tower on Monday, December 2nd. The event flyer can be found here: Rhodes-1.pdf
In Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, he rethinks modernity through the history and movement of the African diaspora. Gilroy takes as his focal point the writing and creative production of African American travelers, from Martin Delaney to Richard Wright, and their intellectual engagement with a "global, coalitional politics" that undermined narrow notions of nationality and ethnic particularity. This paper follows Gilroy's observation that numerous African Americans "went to Europe and had their perceptions of America and racial domination shifted as a result of their experiences." I focus on the journalism and memoirs of key African American intellectuals and activists in the early 20th century as they ventured across the Atlantic toward Europe, and in particular Britain. Paradoxically, the Black Atlantic stands as the site of blacks' subjection while also offering the possibility of escape from their abject status. For some these travels were motivated by a desire for knowledge and recognition; others sought to project black American's grievances to the world. Their journeys each began with a modernist vision of Europe as a place of culture and civilization where intellect triumphed over color; a place that might release them from the exigencies of identity. After spending time abroad they emerged personally transformed, though not always enamored. Writers from Ida Wells-Barnett to Roi Otteley were shaped by geopolitical currents and the increasing visibility of black Britons. This paper considers the transformation of black Americans' attitudes toward Britain--from Anglophilia to Anglophobia--as they developed pan-Africanist sensitibilities and a critique of British imperialism.
Dr. Rhodes is Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and Professor and Chair of American Studies at Macalester College. Rhodes specializes in the study of race, gender and mass media; the black press; and media and social movements. Rhodes' is the author of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (Indiana University Press, 1998) and Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon (The New Press, 2007)
In Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, he rethinks modernity through the history and movement of the African diaspora. Gilroy takes as his focal point the writing and creative production of African American travelers, from Martin Delaney to Richard Wright, and their intellectual engagement with a "global, coalitional politics" that undermined narrow notions of nationality and ethnic particularity. This paper follows Gilroy's observation that numerous African Americans "went to Europe and had their perceptions of America and racial domination shifted as a result of their experiences." I focus on the journalism and memoirs of key African American intellectuals and activists in the early 20th century as they ventured across the Atlantic toward Europe, and in particular Britain. Paradoxically, the Black Atlantic stands as the site of blacks' subjection while also offering the possibility of escape from their abject status. For some these travels were motivated by a desire for knowledge and recognition; others sought to project black American's grievances to the world. Their journeys each began with a modernist vision of Europe as a place of culture and civilization where intellect triumphed over color; a place that might release them from the exigencies of identity. After spending time abroad they emerged personally transformed, though not always enamored. Writers from Ida Wells-Barnett to Roi Otteley were shaped by geopolitical currents and the increasing visibility of black Britons. This paper considers the transformation of black Americans' attitudes toward Britain--from Anglophilia to Anglophobia--as they developed pan-Africanist sensitibilities and a critique of British imperialism.
Dr. Rhodes is Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and Professor and Chair of American Studies at Macalester College. Rhodes specializes in the study of race, gender and mass media; the black press; and media and social movements. Rhodes' is the author of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (Indiana University Press, 1998) and Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon (The New Press, 2007)
Call for Papers for the Mid-America American Studies Association Annual Meeting
There is a call for papers for the Mid-America American Studies Association's annual meeting. The announced theme is All Deliberate Speed: Politics of Equality and Discourses of Difference. Proposals are due on or before December 1, 2013.
The Mid-America American Studies Association's annual meeting, will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska February 28-March 2, 2014.
"Equality" has been a central concept in US life. Long before the nation's founding documents invoked the phrase "all men are created equal," settlers imagined the colonies as a refuge from hierarchical political and social orders of Europe, and as a laboratory for new experiments in equality and meritocracy. However, the US has been the site of innovation of another sort -- developing and adapting conceptions of difference. These discourses of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and religion (to name a few) would set explicit and implicit limits on equality.
2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. These landmarks of the modern Civil Rights Movement have not ended debate about the meaning of equality and difference. Recent controversies regarding racial profiling, the mass incarceration of black and brown youth, violent crime, educational access, and the financial crisis, as well as contentious Supreme Court decisions about sexual discrimination in the workplace, affirmative action, the prerogatives of religious organizations, gay marriage, and racial discrimination in voting practices suggest these arguments are far from settled. We ask conference presenters to consider how American Studies scholarship can intervene in these debates.
They invite scholars to consider the following and related questions from a variety of inter-disciplinary and anti-disciplinary approaches: How have ideas about equality and difference circulated in the past? What formations are shaping contemporary struggles? How has difference been articulated and challenged, and how have those struggles influenced U.S. culture? What have these struggles looked like in Mid-America, and how have they shaped the U.S. in a global context? What does it mean to imagine a future where difference is respected and equality is a reality?
Proposals are due on or before December 1, 2013. Proposals for complete panels/discussions are preferred over individual submissions. Panel proposals should include 1) session title, 2) session abstract (250 words or less), 3) titles of individual papers, 4) abstracts of individual papers (250 words or less), and 5) information for each participant (name, contact information, affiliation, 1-page CV). Proposals for roundtable discussions, creative presentations, or projects in the digital humanities should include 1) session title, 2) session abstract (500 words or less), and 3) information for each participant (name, contact information, affiliation, 1-page CV). Proposals should be submitted electronically as a single Word document to emailmaasa@gmail.com.
The Mid-America American Studies Association's annual meeting, will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska February 28-March 2, 2014.
"Equality" has been a central concept in US life. Long before the nation's founding documents invoked the phrase "all men are created equal," settlers imagined the colonies as a refuge from hierarchical political and social orders of Europe, and as a laboratory for new experiments in equality and meritocracy. However, the US has been the site of innovation of another sort -- developing and adapting conceptions of difference. These discourses of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and religion (to name a few) would set explicit and implicit limits on equality.
2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. These landmarks of the modern Civil Rights Movement have not ended debate about the meaning of equality and difference. Recent controversies regarding racial profiling, the mass incarceration of black and brown youth, violent crime, educational access, and the financial crisis, as well as contentious Supreme Court decisions about sexual discrimination in the workplace, affirmative action, the prerogatives of religious organizations, gay marriage, and racial discrimination in voting practices suggest these arguments are far from settled. We ask conference presenters to consider how American Studies scholarship can intervene in these debates.
They invite scholars to consider the following and related questions from a variety of inter-disciplinary and anti-disciplinary approaches: How have ideas about equality and difference circulated in the past? What formations are shaping contemporary struggles? How has difference been articulated and challenged, and how have those struggles influenced U.S. culture? What have these struggles looked like in Mid-America, and how have they shaped the U.S. in a global context? What does it mean to imagine a future where difference is respected and equality is a reality?
Proposals are due on or before December 1, 2013. Proposals for complete panels/discussions are preferred over individual submissions. Panel proposals should include 1) session title, 2) session abstract (250 words or less), 3) titles of individual papers, 4) abstracts of individual papers (250 words or less), and 5) information for each participant (name, contact information, affiliation, 1-page CV). Proposals for roundtable discussions, creative presentations, or projects in the digital humanities should include 1) session title, 2) session abstract (500 words or less), and 3) information for each participant (name, contact information, affiliation, 1-page CV). Proposals should be submitted electronically as a single Word document to emailmaasa@gmail.com.
Call for Proposals For an International, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
There is a call for proposals for an international, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference entitled "Undergoing Health: States of Body and Mind." It aims to bring together the resonant fields of illness and disability studies, medical humanities, public health, posthumanisms, and biopolitical theory to further an understanding of what we consider "healthy" and "unhealthy." Abstracts of no more than 250 words are due by December 16.
The conference will be held at Indiana University - Bloomington, March 27-29, 2014. Dr. Rachel Adams (Columbia University) will be the keynote speaker.
"Undoing Health" aims to bring together the resonant fields of illness and disability studies, medical humanities, public health, posthumanisms, and biopolitical theory to further an understanding of what we consider "healthy" and "unhealthy." How can we responsibly challenge static conceptions of health, wellness, and able-bodiedness? How do we come to "care" for vulnerable populations? What are the forms through which we understand our minds and bodies in states of wellness and disorder? How do we resist pathologies without reifying them? Can we engage the fleshliness of the material body in light of the disappearing subject? What are the life and death politics of sovereignty and governmentality and the ethics of how we understand animal and inanimate forms of life?
As an interdisciplinary conference, "Undoing Health" hopes to host a lively and collegial forum where these strands of thought can share methodologies, ethical concerns, and disciplinary priorities across time periods. They invite proposals for individual papers as well as panels organized by topic. They also welcome the interaction of scholarly and creative work within papers or panels.
Please submit (both as an attachment AND in the body of the email) an abstract of no more than 250 words along with a few personal details (name, institutional affiliation, degree level, email, and phone number) by December 16th, 2013, to iugradconference@gmail.com. Below are some suggestions for possible topics. While this list is by no means exhaustive, they hope these ideas might inspire some exciting new thoughts related to the conference theme:
· Illness and Disability Studies
o States of disability / disabled states
o Against Health
o Crip Theory
o Failed health / uncontrollable bodies
o Anti-Psychiatry Movement
o Psychology / psychiatry and mental disorder/illness
o Neurodiversity / neurodivergence
o Race and disability
o Chronic illness / trauma / pain
· Biopolitics and biopower
o State of exception / sovereignty
o Health in the age of neoliberal capital
o Population studies and statistics
o States or boundaries of life and death (Capital punishment/ Capital violence / Assisted suicide / Necropolitics)
o Barely alive ("bare life")
o (Post)Colonizing health / health in times of slavery and/or genoicide
o Comparative health studies / studies across regions and locales
o Immunization, inoculation, epidemic
o Vulnerable populations
o Economics of healthcare and class "illness," both today and historically
· Politics of Public Health both Now and Then
o Histories of health, hospitals
o Medical humanities
o Public health and insurance
o Pathology and its critics
o Privatization
o Pharmacy, Apothecary, Medicine
o Prescription
o Addiction and rehabilitation
o Figures of the doctor (or quack)/patient
o Scientific racism
o HIV/AIDS (and other STD) prevention rhetoric/discourse
o Natural disaster response and relief
· Posthumanisms
o Animate matter
o Boundaries between animal life and human life/animal studies
o Ecocriticism
o Technology and the human body/cyborg theory
· Ethics of Care
o Reproductive technologies and rights
o Relationships - in sickness and health (marriage, childcare, domestic relations, counseling, etc)
o The (medical) gaze
o Gender and the body
o Queer studies
· Sensations
o Union of body and spirit - dual construction of body and soul
o Phenomenology
o Dulled and keen senses / sensory experience
· Forms of health
o The symptom and symptomatic readings- philosophically and literally speaking
o Literary and cultural forms
o Fleshliness
o Fat studies / health at every size
o Personal diaries, illness memoirs, disability memoirs
o Performances of bodies in health and unhealth
o Dietetics and representations of food, food studies, eating disorders, politics of food, "slow death," diabetes
Their website (http://iugradconference.wordpress.com) will feature more information soon!
The conference will be held at Indiana University - Bloomington, March 27-29, 2014. Dr. Rachel Adams (Columbia University) will be the keynote speaker.
"Undoing Health" aims to bring together the resonant fields of illness and disability studies, medical humanities, public health, posthumanisms, and biopolitical theory to further an understanding of what we consider "healthy" and "unhealthy." How can we responsibly challenge static conceptions of health, wellness, and able-bodiedness? How do we come to "care" for vulnerable populations? What are the forms through which we understand our minds and bodies in states of wellness and disorder? How do we resist pathologies without reifying them? Can we engage the fleshliness of the material body in light of the disappearing subject? What are the life and death politics of sovereignty and governmentality and the ethics of how we understand animal and inanimate forms of life?
As an interdisciplinary conference, "Undoing Health" hopes to host a lively and collegial forum where these strands of thought can share methodologies, ethical concerns, and disciplinary priorities across time periods. They invite proposals for individual papers as well as panels organized by topic. They also welcome the interaction of scholarly and creative work within papers or panels.
Please submit (both as an attachment AND in the body of the email) an abstract of no more than 250 words along with a few personal details (name, institutional affiliation, degree level, email, and phone number) by December 16th, 2013, to iugradconference@gmail.com. Below are some suggestions for possible topics. While this list is by no means exhaustive, they hope these ideas might inspire some exciting new thoughts related to the conference theme:
· Illness and Disability Studies
o States of disability / disabled states
o Against Health
o Crip Theory
o Failed health / uncontrollable bodies
o Anti-Psychiatry Movement
o Psychology / psychiatry and mental disorder/illness
o Neurodiversity / neurodivergence
o Race and disability
o Chronic illness / trauma / pain
· Biopolitics and biopower
o State of exception / sovereignty
o Health in the age of neoliberal capital
o Population studies and statistics
o States or boundaries of life and death (Capital punishment/ Capital violence / Assisted suicide / Necropolitics)
o Barely alive ("bare life")
o (Post)Colonizing health / health in times of slavery and/or genoicide
o Comparative health studies / studies across regions and locales
o Immunization, inoculation, epidemic
o Vulnerable populations
o Economics of healthcare and class "illness," both today and historically
· Politics of Public Health both Now and Then
o Histories of health, hospitals
o Medical humanities
o Public health and insurance
o Pathology and its critics
o Privatization
o Pharmacy, Apothecary, Medicine
o Prescription
o Addiction and rehabilitation
o Figures of the doctor (or quack)/patient
o Scientific racism
o HIV/AIDS (and other STD) prevention rhetoric/discourse
o Natural disaster response and relief
· Posthumanisms
o Animate matter
o Boundaries between animal life and human life/animal studies
o Ecocriticism
o Technology and the human body/cyborg theory
· Ethics of Care
o Reproductive technologies and rights
o Relationships - in sickness and health (marriage, childcare, domestic relations, counseling, etc)
o The (medical) gaze
o Gender and the body
o Queer studies
· Sensations
o Union of body and spirit - dual construction of body and soul
o Phenomenology
o Dulled and keen senses / sensory experience
· Forms of health
o The symptom and symptomatic readings- philosophically and literally speaking
o Literary and cultural forms
o Fleshliness
o Fat studies / health at every size
o Personal diaries, illness memoirs, disability memoirs
o Performances of bodies in health and unhealth
o Dietetics and representations of food, food studies, eating disorders, politics of food, "slow death," diabetes
Their website (http://iugradconference.wordpress.com) will feature more information soon!
Legal History Workshop on Monday, November 25
The Program in Law and History is hosting the Legal History Workshop on Monday, November 25 from 2:00-3:25pm in room 15 of Mondale Hall. Barbara Welke will be presenting her play "Owning Hazard: Genre, Law, and History."
Abstract: What is the difference between a "historical argument" and the"journey" in a play? How does voice, genre, and audience shape the stories we tell about law and history? The two pieces you have here - one a forthcoming article in the Journal of American History, and the other a play written for the 2010 conference "'Law As . . .': Theory and Method in Legal History" and published in the UC Irvine Law Review -both begin with a series of tragic incidents between 1942 and 1954, in which an unknown number of children were severely burned when the cowboy suits they were wearing caught fire turning them into human torches. Dozens of the children died; others were crippled and scarred for life. With this episode "flammable fabrics" came to public attention in the United States. The two pieces, drawn from my ongoing research, are very different attempts to deal with what I call "owning hazard" in the goods of everyday life. My hope is that in addition to the substance they address, that our discussion can focus on the question of genre, and also that you may have suggestions for me as I work to revise the play for an actual theatre production.
Abstract: What is the difference between a "historical argument" and the"journey" in a play? How does voice, genre, and audience shape the stories we tell about law and history? The two pieces you have here - one a forthcoming article in the Journal of American History, and the other a play written for the 2010 conference "'Law As . . .': Theory and Method in Legal History" and published in the UC Irvine Law Review -both begin with a series of tragic incidents between 1942 and 1954, in which an unknown number of children were severely burned when the cowboy suits they were wearing caught fire turning them into human torches. Dozens of the children died; others were crippled and scarred for life. With this episode "flammable fabrics" came to public attention in the United States. The two pieces, drawn from my ongoing research, are very different attempts to deal with what I call "owning hazard" in the goods of everyday life. My hope is that in addition to the substance they address, that our discussion can focus on the question of genre, and also that you may have suggestions for me as I work to revise the play for an actual theatre production.
Tenure-track Position at Syracuse University
The Department of Women's & Gender Studies at Syracuse University invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Women's & Gender Studies. They invite applications from candidates who specialize in Latina, Chicana, Latin American, and/or indigenous scholarship. Application deadline is November 25.
They seek an interdisciplinary Feminist scholar with a strong record of research and teaching in women's and gender studies consistent with a tenure track appointment at a research university. Candidates with expertise in feminist, decolonial, queer methods and theories will be given top consideration. Interdisciplinary doctoral training training required; Women's Studies or Interdisciplinary Ph.D. preferred.
The candidate's work should complement the mission, goals, and strengths of the WGS Department at SU. The candidate will be expected to contribute to our core undergraduate curriculum and to build a future graduate degree program. Their department (http://wgs.syr.edu/) is distinguished by its commitment to intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches, and an emphasis on issues of race, class, disability, sexuality, and ethnicity as an inherent part of our signature focus on transnational feminist analyses of gender and gender justice.
Candidates must attach a letter of interest, curriculum vita, and one publication or writing sample of no more than fifty pages. Three letters of recommendation are required and will be requested directly from your references through our employment system at the time your application is certified and submitted. Please have an accurate email for each of your references available to enter at the time of your application.
Contact search co-chairs, Dr. Chandra Talpade Mohanty (ctmohant@syr.edu) or Dr. Robin Riley (rlriley@syr.edu) with any questions.
They will begin screening applications on November 25, 2013. The position will remain open until filled.
They seek an interdisciplinary Feminist scholar with a strong record of research and teaching in women's and gender studies consistent with a tenure track appointment at a research university. Candidates with expertise in feminist, decolonial, queer methods and theories will be given top consideration. Interdisciplinary doctoral training training required; Women's Studies or Interdisciplinary Ph.D. preferred.
The candidate's work should complement the mission, goals, and strengths of the WGS Department at SU. The candidate will be expected to contribute to our core undergraduate curriculum and to build a future graduate degree program. Their department (http://wgs.syr.edu/) is distinguished by its commitment to intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches, and an emphasis on issues of race, class, disability, sexuality, and ethnicity as an inherent part of our signature focus on transnational feminist analyses of gender and gender justice.
Candidates must attach a letter of interest, curriculum vita, and one publication or writing sample of no more than fifty pages. Three letters of recommendation are required and will be requested directly from your references through our employment system at the time your application is certified and submitted. Please have an accurate email for each of your references available to enter at the time of your application.
Contact search co-chairs, Dr. Chandra Talpade Mohanty (ctmohant@syr.edu) or Dr. Robin Riley (rlriley@syr.edu) with any questions.
They will begin screening applications on November 25, 2013. The position will remain open until filled.
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