CFP: Inter-American Studies Conference, UC Santa Barbara

THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION of INTER-AMERICAN STUDIES is pleased to announce their call for papers for their Biennial Conference at UC Santa Barbara (Oct. 4^th-6^th, 2016). The conference is titled Human Rights in the Americas and submissions are due December 15^th. Click here for more information.

UofDelaware American Material Culture Studies Positions

THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE is pleased to announce multiple tenure-track assistant or associate professor positions in American Material Culture Studies for the 2016-17 school year. Click here to learn more about the positions and to apply.

CFP: UC English Graduate Conference

UNIVERSITY of CHICAO’S English Graduate Conference, Words Unofficial: Gossip, Circulation, and Mediation, is still accepting papers for their conference on November 19^th and 20^th, 2015. Abstracts are due August 15^th. See below for more information.

University of Chicago English Graduate Conference

November 19-20, 2015

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Susan Phillips, Northwestern University

Associate Professor of English and Alumnae of Northwestern Teaching Professor

Faculty Roundtable:

Prof. Natasha Barnes, University of Illinois at Chicago

Associate Professor of African American Studies and English

Prof. Peter Coviello, University of Illinois at Chicago

Professor of English

Prof. Patrick Jagoda, University of Chicago

Assistant Professor of English

Prof. Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University

Frances Willard Professor of Screen Cultures

Moderator: Prof. Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago

Assistant Professor of English

From Chaucer's House of Fame to Gossip Girl, the distortive 

power of rumor and gossip has long generated both fascination and anxiety across media, genres, and periods. In the digital age, unofficial discourse has acquired the potential for frenzied transmission, often substantiating established fears surrounding the nebulous nature of the intermediary. The fascination and paranoia attached to the spread and (mis)handling of information speaks to a deeply-rooted unease around origins, third-parties, and modes of exchange. To label gossip as solely nefarious, however, ignores its positive manifestations as participatory, subversive, and empowering, as well as its potential role in anti-hegemonic discourse or storytelling.

The University of Chicago Department of English Language and Literature seeks proposals for its 2015 Graduate Conference, “Words Unofficial: Gossip, Circulation, Mediation.” This conference will explore how various forms and modes, both literary and otherwise, have 

treated information misplaced and in motion. We are interested in fostering a cross-disciplinary and cross-temporal conversation, reflecting on various interpretations of unrecognized or cryptic modes of communication.

 

We invite papers including but not limited to the following:

• Chatter, babble, and nonsense
• Oral tradition
• Authorship, authority, and ownership
• Editorial intervention and print culture
• Misprints, typos, and misinterpretations
• Translation and intertextuality
• Spaces/structures of transmission
• Social media and global consciousness
• Tabloids, scandal, and celebrity culture
• Privacy and publicity
• Libel and slander
• Surveillance and ethics
• Social network theory

We welcome scholars from a variety of disciplines. Please submit an abstract of 200—250 words to words.unofficial.uchicago@gmail.com by August 15, 2015.

Young Scholars Showcase

AFRICAN AMERICAN & AFRICAN STUDIES is cosponsoring the Young Scholars Showcase which highlights 8 youth/young scholars of African descent. The event will take place Saturday, August 15^th from 11:00am – 1:00pm at the Eastside Freedom Library (1105 Greenbrier Street) in Saint Paul.

CFP Critical Ethnic Studies Association Journal

CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION has put out a call for papers for their upcoming special issue titled “What Justice Wants.” Submissions are due on September 30^th, 2015. See below to find out more about the issue, submission guidelines, and to apply. 

[Subject] CFP - Critical Ethnic Studies Journal Special Issue, "What
Justice Wants," due 9/30!

What Justice Wants -- CESA Journal Special Issue!

This special issue will bring together compelling discussions of
corresponding and sometimes competing definitions of justice in
critical ethnic studies. Each paper will respond to a set of questions
designed to reveal the salient points of convergence and difference
between intellectual/political traditions and approaches (e.g.
Indigenous sovereignty, Black radical traditions, queer of color
critique, Native feminisms, third world feminisms, Afropessimism,
disability/crip studies, trans* and multigender theories, border and
migration studies, critical refugee studies).

The submission deadline for this Fall 2016 special issue is September 30, 2015.
Please email submissions and inquiries to justice@criticalethnicstudies.org

This Special Issue's Co-Editors are: Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang.

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Special Issue Details
Perhaps because it is a term not always treated with respect in the
academy, “justice” is used frequently but rarely defined. Much goes
unsaid about what is meant by justice, but when considered from the
perspectives of different communities and their concerns, justice
takes on varying and sometimes contradictory meanings. Justice for one
group may mean greater integration and mobility within a nation-state
whereas for another group that definition may be regarded as
problematic.
This special issue considers possibilities for contingent
collaborations and highlights important departures which emerge when
we theorize deeply what justice wants. Authors will consider the
imperatives and aims of justice by attending to the roots of
injustice, the contours of theory and knowing, and pathways to justice
within their intellectual traditions.
Prior to publication, authors will share abstracts/outlines and be
encouraged to identify points of saliency and divergence in ideas and
aims. Questions pertaining to the roles of the state, citizenship,
representation, voice, sovereignty, recognition, reconciliation, and
futurity might thread through each of the papers, as authors theorize
what justice wants.
Consider the following questions (but please don’t necessarily use
them to organize your paper)
1. Please say a few words about the intellectual/political
tradition/approach that you will engage in the paper. Of course, you
are invited to address one or several.
2. (Considering the history and radical futurities of these
intellectual traditions) What does justice want? What are the
imperatives and aims of justice?
3. What are the roots of injustice?
4. What contours of theory and knowing are relevant?
5. What are the salient pathways to justice?
6. What are the roles of (select whichever apply/appeal) the state,
citizenship, representation, voice, sovereignty, recognition,
reconciliation, theories of the future?
7. What are some of the incommensurabilities between these desires of
justice, and the desires of justice from other standpoints,
traditions/approaches?
8. What questions do you have for other authors who will write for
this special issue?

 

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Essay Submission Guidelines
Essays (between 6,000 and 10,000 words) should be prepared according
to the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style using
endnotes and submitted electronically to justice@criticalethnicstudies.org.
Author’s names should not appear on manuscripts. Instead, please
include a separate document with the author’s name, email, work
address, the title of the article, and abstract (150 words) with your
electronic submission. Authors should eliminate any self-identifying
information (such as notes or credits). References to the author’s
work should be in third person.

 

KSU Visiting Instructor in American Ethnic Studies

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY is pleased to announce they are accepting applications for a visiting instructor in American Ethnic Studies with an emphasis in African American, and/or American Indian and/or Indigenous Chican@ Studies. Click here for more information and to apply.

Post-doc Fellowships in the Humanities in Germany

ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION and the VOLKWAGEN FOUNDATION are happy to announce a call for applications to their Post-doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at Universities and Research Institutes in Germany for the 2016/17 academic year. The fellowships are granted for 9-12 months to do post-doc work in the humanities at an academic institution in Germany. Applications are due October 8^th, 2015. Click here for more information and to apply.