Call for Papers

“Gendering the Carceral State: African American Women, History, and Criminal Justice”

The Journal of African American History (JAAH) is planning a Special Issue on the historical experiences of black women in the criminal justice system. Over the last few decades, the U. S. prison system has witnessed unprecedented expansion, with the number of state prisoners moving from 200,000 in the late 20th century to just over two million in the early 21.st African Americans have been disproportionately represented in the prison population, accounting for roughly 40 percent of the total prison and jail population. A growing body of work has begun to examine mass incarceration, currently and historically. However, the focus is often on the experiences of African American men.

This Special Issue of the Journal of African American History, with guest editors Kali N. Gross and Cheryl D. Hicks, seeks scholarly essays documenting the historical experiences of African American women in the carceral state. Essays focusing on a broad cross-section of issues such as crime, violence, policing, poverty, shifting laws, and penal reform in relation to African American women are welcome.

Among the topics to be considered in this Special Issue of the JAAH are: 1) disproportionate arrests and incarceration rates; 2) juvenile justice; 3) gendered and/or sexual violence; 4) regulation of black female sexuality; 5) the impact of poverty, racism, and stereotypes on the policing and incarceration of black women’s bodies; 6) the impact of legislation, especially drug laws, on African American women and their families; and 7) international comparisons of the impact of carceral practices on women in various locations in the African Diaspora and Africa.

Essays should be no more than 35 typed, double-spaced pages (12 pt. font), including endnotes. The JAAH uses the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition (Chicago, IL, 2010) for citations. Guidelines for manuscript submissions are available in The Journal of African American History and on the JAAH website: http://www.jaah.org/. Submitted essays will be peer reviewed. Your cover letter should include the title of your essay, name, postal address, e-mail address, phone number, and fax number. Your essay should begin with the title of the essay and should NOT include your name.

Please send four (4) hard copies of your manuscript to:

Profs. Kali Gross and Cheryl D. Hicks, Guest Editors c/o V. P.
Franklin, Editor
The Journal of African American History
University of California, Riverside
GSOE -1207 Sproul Hall
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521

Email: vpf1019@aol.com; or jaah@jaah.org

Submission Deadline: 15 January 2014

The Fifth Sons of the American Revolution Annual Conference on the American Revolution
Women in the Era of the American Revolution
Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg, Virginia
June 20-22, 2014

The Sons of the American Revolution and Colonial Williamsburg, with support from the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, invite proposals for papers to be presented at a conference that will examine and reconsider our understanding of the lives of women during a time of political and economic upheaval, social change, and armed conflict that we call the “era of the American Revolution.”

Papers may examine any dimension of women’s lives and gender roles at this time. During a period of significant disruptions in daily life and changed expectations of what a woman’s place in a marriage, the household, and the community “ought” to be, they assumed multiple roles. They displayed patriotism by supporting boycotts of British goods and encouraging manufacturing at home; they raised funds to feed and clothe the troops; they supported the family by managing the farm or family business while a husband fought; some followed the armies in supporting roles; and some were soldiers. Others remained loyal to the British crown. Over these years, they wrote poetry, essays, plays, and fiction, exchanged letters with family members and friends, and kept journals. These records, public and private, yield countless stories that allow us to construct a fuller, more complex, narrative of the period.

The papers should explore in the broadest sense the war’s impact on women’s lives. They may focus on individuals or women as a group, and they need not be strictly confined to the years between the Stamp Act and the Treaty of Paris. The topics may reach back into the colonial era or up into the early nineteenth century as long as they demonstrate a connection to the events of the Revolution. We anticipate that the conference will provide an opportunity and a congenial forum in which to recognize and build upon the pioneering scholarship of generations of historians and at the same time we hope that it will stimulate new research by junior scholars. The resulting conversations and debates will contribute to the critical ongoing effort to understand women’s lives and experiences during the era of the American Revolution.

Publication of accepted papers in an edited volume is anticipated. The SAR will cover presenters’ travel and lodging expenses and offer a $500 honorarium.

Proposals should include a 250-word abstract and a short C.V. and must be submitted by December 1, 2013, to Barbara Oberg (boberg@Princeton.edu), Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544.

This conference will be dedicated to Pauline Maier (1938-2013), a leading scholar of the American Revolution and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Re:Humanities is the first national digital humanities conference of, for, and by undergraduates, now in its fourth year. Our theme for Re:Humanities 2014 is “Play. Power. Production.” The Re:Hum Working Group, comprised of students from Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore Colleges, seeks undergraduates who engage with contemporary currents in digital humanities, scholars who both apply digital methodologies in traditional humanities research while posing critical humanities questions about those technologies. We invite undergraduates who will think interdisciplinarily, theorizing relationships between new digital technologies and the webs of power and access that surround them. The Working Group welcomes submissions of criticism and projects at all stages of development, with the understanding that a substantial amount of research will be accumulated to present at the conference at Haverford College, April 3-4, 2014.

We encourage proposals that are concerned with but not limited to:

* Postcolonial Studies, Queer Studies and New Media Studies.
* Criticism of New Media Technologies.
* Collaboration and Solidarity in the Digital Humanities.
* Game Analysis, Design and Play.
* Digital Production and “Maker” Culture.
* Performance and Affect in Participatory Media
* Appropriation Culture: Theory and Practice.
* Global and Transnational Perspectives on the Digital Humanities.

Students selected to present will receive a small award to defray travel costs. Lodging will be arranged at no cost to participants.

The submission deadline is December 1, 2013 (Midnight GMT) and decisions will be announced before the new year.

All submissions must include your name, institution, a short biography of 2-3 sentences, and a titled description of your project (maximum 700 words). Send a .doc/.docx, .pdf or .jpg file to rehumanities@gmail.com. (We are happy to accommodate you if your submission requires a different format. In this case, please contact us at least seven days in advance of the due date).

We look forward to your participation!

The Re:Humanities 2014 Working Group

Queer Feminine Affinities

Edited by Alexa Athelstan & Vikki Chalklin
Extended Call for Submissions
Deadline Friday 17th January 2014
queerfeminineaffinities@gmail.com

For more information about Queer Feminine Affinities, and the original call for submissions, please see www.queerfeminineaffinities.wordpress.com

We were delighted to receive an overwhelming and exciting response to our initial call for submissions to Queer Feminine Affinities. However, we are still seeking additional submissions on a number of as yet underrepresented topics. With this extended call we specifically welcome work that engages with the following themes:

Intersectional femininities

Contributions addressing intersections of femininity/femme with other aspects of embodied experience. We particularly encourage submissions pertaining to femininities of colour and questions of “race,” ethnicity, racism and anti-racism, as well as those attending to dis/abilities, (mental) health and ableism, and intersecting with issues of class, religion, and cultural differences of various kinds.

Trans* and non-binary fem(me)ininities

Submissions exploring various crossovers and relationships between femininity/femme and masculinity, femaleness/maleness, queer, or a combination of these. We are especially keen to solicit contributions examining trans*, non-binary, intersex, and/or genderqueer fem(me)ininities including transgender and transsexual women and men who identify as femme or feminine.

Critical hetero-femininities

Does queer or alternative femininity have to mean LBG? What space is there in gay, straight, or queer cultures/communities for critical, radical, or queer heterosexual/straight femininities or femmes?

(Non-)Geographically Located femininities

What is at stake in femme/femininities that are located either geographically or within other (virtual/affective/ephemeral) communities? In particular towns or cities, regions, or countries? What are the specificities of a Scottish/Welsh/Northern Irish queer feminine identity or what is the experience of femininities in the north, south, east or west of England? How does this relate to experience of feminine/femme embodiment outside of the UK? What are the roots and routes of femininities embodied and enacted through and across diasporas and other transnational communities and relationships?

This is not a purely academic project. Creative and personal reflections on femme/femininity are just as valuable for this project as academic essays, and all styles of written and visual contributions that can feasibly be reproduced in a printed book format are welcome. These may include but are not limited to the personal, autobiographical, creative, political, passionate, fictional, collaborative, humorous, lighthearted, and fanciful.

The editors are willing to negotiate the precise length of any submission within the remit of our overall book length, up to a maximum length of 5,000 words for all written contributions.

Please send a 300 word proposal and a short biography to Alexa and Vikki at queerfeminineaffinities@gmail.com by Friday 17th January 2014.

Archive/Image. New Archival Epistemes in the Digital Landscape

March 7-8, 2014 Open Society Archives, Central European University (Budapest)

This conference aims to bridge the gap between contemporary digital archival practices and academic theory regarding the image of and the image in the archive. It is only through studying the historicity of visual practices and the historical imagination that we can understand the potential of new technologies. Until now, it is only the history of science that has investigated the role of the image as an epistemic tool.

Given the growing role of visual material in both researching and presenting historical data, and leading on from recent research endeavors in arts, media, film and literary studies to explore changes in the notion of the archive in the digital era, we invite dialogue between theorists and practitioners on the following questions: What are the images and concepts that frame our understanding of both traditional and digital archives today? What new approaches are developed when working with visual imagery in the archives? How do visual representations of historical data shape users’ expectations and influence the identity of archival institutions? How might scholars influence the forms that knowledge takes in digital environments?

Prospective participants are invited to envisage their intervention at one of the proposed panels:

1. The evolution of historical/scientific imagination and archival practices

2. Audio-visual collections and new archival epistemes in the digital era

3. Digital humanities potential in archival practices

4. Performing the archive

5. Displaying evidence

Scholars and specialists in the fields of history, archival science, media studies, film studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and other related areas of the humanities are invited to apply and to explore the new challenges in conceptualizing, exhibiting, and working in the archives. Organized on the premises of an archival laboratory, the event seeks to establish a new scholarly network of archival and research institutions, to examine the nature and function of the archives both in historical and contemporary contexts.

Please email an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short CV to visualizing.archives@gmail.com by December 5, 2013. The conference will take place on March 7-8, 2014 at OSA Archivum (www.osaarchivum.org)

Partial travel grants can be provided to the participants from the region on a competitive basis. Please submit a brief justification for your travel grant request along with the conference abstract.

Dr. Ioana Macrea-Toma
Dr. Oksana Sarkisova
visualizing.archives@gmail.com
www.osaarchivum.org

Email: visualizing.archives@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.osaarchivum.org/press-room/announcements/ArchiveImage-Conference-Call-Papers

The Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages welcomes submissions for its annual awards.

The 2013 Florence Howe Award
Each year, the Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship recognizes two outstanding essays by feminist scholars, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language. Each recipient receives $250 and is honored at an event hosted by the Women’s Caucus at the annual MLA meeting.
To be eligible for consideration, essays of 6250-7500 words, written from a feminist perspective, must have been published in English between June 2012 and September 2013. Applicants must also be members of the Women’s Caucus.
Please send submissions and inquiries to: Kirsten Christensen, Associate Professor of German, Department of Languages and Literatures, Pacific Lutheran University at kmc@plu.edu. Deadline for submission: November 30, 2013.

The 2013 Annette Kolodny Award
The Annette Kolodny Award is presented annually to a graduate student member of the Women’s Caucus who is scheduled to give a paper at the MLA. The recipient receives $400 and is honored at an event hosted by the Women’s Caucus at the annual MLA meeting. To apply, please send electronic copies of your CV and abstract, as well as information on the MLA session in which you are scheduled to present, to: Kirsten Christensen, Associate Professor of German, Department of Languages and Literatures, Pacific Lutheran University at kmc@plu.edu.
Please note that applicants must be members of the Women’s Caucus. Deadline: November 30, 2013.

For further information about these awards and about the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, including membership, go to: http://www.wcml.org/

The Society for Women and the Civil War is seeking proposals for presentations for its 2014 Conference on Women and the Civil War.
The Conference will be held in Nashville, TN, July 25 – 27, 2014.

As part of our Sesquicentennial Remembrance of the women of the Civil War era, our 2014 Conference will highlight the women of 1864 especially those associated with having the war brought to their homes with the theme “War at Her Doorstep.”   We invite proposals examining all the women of the homefront and in the field, of the North or the South.

The Society for Women and the Civil War is dedicated to recognizing the lives and efforts of women from 1861-1865, both Union and Confederate, showcasing original and innovative research in its conferences.

Potential presenters should submit:

1.  A synopsis of the presentation, not more than 3 pages. The synopsis must include a description of visual aids used to
illustrate and highlight the presentation.

2.  A bibliography of the sources used, with an emphasis on the primary sources.

3. A personal vitae or biography, not more than 1 page, including contact information.

Submissions will be evaluated principally on the following criteria:

1. Originality of the topic.
2. Relevance of the topic to the lives and efforts of women in the Civil War era.
3. Quality of research, highlighting the use of primary sources.
4. Quality of the presentation, including use of visual aids.
5. Anticipated interest-level in the topic.

We encourage submissions from graduate students and are particularly interested in student subjects examined from a micro-history perspective. Only presentations based on original research will be considered for selection.

Send your submission, and any questions or inquiries to: Meg Galante-DeAngelis at
athomeandinthefield@yahoo.com or Mary.Galante-DeAngelis@uconn.edu

Deadline: All submissions must be RECEIVED by November 15, 2013. The Society will contact all submitters in December 2013. Presentation submission indicates acceptance to speak if selected by the Conference Committee.

For submission tips, contact

Meg Galante-DeAngelis
University of Connecticut
athomeandinthefield@yahoo.com
Mary.Galante-DeAngelis@uconn.edu

Call for Papers

Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives

Edited by:

Olga Castro, Aston University, Birmingham, UK – o.castro@aston.ac.uk
Emek Ergun, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US – emekergun@gmail.com

Rationale:

Research and scholarship on the dyad “gender and translation” has been experiencing a remarkable growth in the last few years, with many publications and conferences devoted to exploring the multifaceted nature of translation theory and practice as approached from a gender perspective. The forthcoming collection of essays, tentatively entitled Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives, eds. Olga Castro (Aston) and Emek Ergun (UMBC), seeks to put the “F” word (i.e. feminism) back in debates on gender and translation; and more specifically, to generate innovative approaches to the studying of translation in the contemporary era of transnational feminism. By doing so, the volume purports to emphasize the critical role of translation in the formation and transformation of feminist movements and politics at local and transnational stages.

Although feminist translation began as a Western-dominated praxis and remained so for decades, we are recently observing an increasing interest in the subject across different cultures and disciplines. However, some significant literature gaps can still be identified at the dialogic interplay between translation studies and feminist studies:

§ The centrality of feminist politics appears to be missing in the recently produced theories and studies on gender and translation.
§ Most of the existing volumes on the topic fail to reflect the geographical (especially non-Western) and disciplinary diversity within the field.

§ The greater focus on literary translation at times disregards the contributions of non-literary translation to local and transnational production and circulation of feminist knowledges.
§ There seems to be a lack of exploration of the links between feminist translation and other disciplines, despite the fact that translation studies is an interdisciplinary field.

By addressing these four main gaps, Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives aims to play a catalytic role in the growth of the field. The goal of our proposed volume is to bring together original essays on contemporary developments and innovations in the theorizing and practicing of feminist translation from different disciplinary perspectives and across diverse sociocultural, geopolitical and historical contexts. In this regard, we seek not only to provide a comprehensive survey of the ever-changing field of feminist translation studies – expanding its epistemological, theoretical, methodological, practical, geopolitical, and pedagogical dimensions – but also to revitalize feminist scholarship in translation studies, therefore making an impact on the development of the discipline of translation studies in general.

Possible Topics:

Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives pursues a balance between theoretical/methodological and empirical chapters. In order to ensure such a balance, the chapters will be grouped in two main thematic categories:

1) Possible theoretical/methodological themes about Feminist Theories in/and/of Translation might include, but are not restricted to, the following:

· The central role of translation as an enabler (or disabler) of cross-border contact,

· Trans/formation of local and transnational feminist movements and discourses via translation,

· Local and global feminist knowledge production, dissemination and reception via translation,

· Transnational feminism in translation,

· Traveling feminist theories and their situated receptions,

· Traveling feminist writers (feminist/women writers in translation),

· Traveling feminist translators (the activist work of translators),

· Traveling languages (the challenges of translating feminist concepts and discourses across differently situated and equipped languages),

· New approaches to translation from the perspectives of queer studies and masculinity studies.

2) Scholars are also encouraged to propose articles on empirical aspects related to Feminist Translation as Political Activism, which might include themes such as:

· Hetero/sexist practices in translations and translation studies,

· Strategies to overcome the prevalent hetero/sexism in translation,

· Feminist translation practices in the context of local and global feminist movements,

· Gendered metaphors of translation,

· Women translators’ theoretical thinking (excluded from mainstream accounts and canons in translation studies),

· Gaps in feminist literature due to a lack of circulation through translation,

· Pedagogies of feminist translation in translation studies and other disciplines.

Submitting a Proposal
All potential contributors are requested to send in a detailed summary of their proposed paper by the end of November 2013 (as indicated below) to the editors Olga Castro (o.castro@aston.ac.uk) and Emek Ergun (emekergun@gmail.com).

Format:

· Title of the article

· Author’s name, affiliation, e-mail

· Proposal of 600-900 words, including the description of the proposed article, its theoretical and methodological framework, its rationale and its relevance for the field of Feminist Translation Studies.

· Keywords

· Times New Roman, 12 pt, single space

Timeline:

· Deadline for submitting proposals: 30 November 2013
· Notifications of provisional acceptance will be sent by: 31 January 2014

· Deadline for submitting full articles: 1 September 2014
Contact:

Please email inquiries and proposals to the editors. See above for contact details.

The Australian Homosexual Histories Conference brings together members of the GLBTIQ community, academics, professional and independent scholars, researchers and students within the broad field of sexuality and gender studies. It has been running annually since about 2000 and has generated some pioneering and innovative work on the histories of GLBTIQ life, politics and culture in Australia. Some of that work has been published in the Gay and Lesbian Perspectives volumes.

In 2013 the Conference is being held at the 1888 Building, University of Melbourne, on 15–16 November.

The program includes more than 30 papers ranging across Australia’s very queer past – from the letters of a 19C sodomite, figures such as Alice Anderson, Donald Friend and John Bray, AIDS, law reform, websites and magazines, the gay life of communities such as Canberra and Elliott, homosexual Melbourne in the 1920s and the 1970s and much, much, much more.

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be Shane Carmody, formerly of the State Library of Victoria, now of Melbourne University; and Professor Raewyn Connell of the University of Sydney.

Registration is $80 ($40 low and unwaged) for the two days, which includes morning and afternoon teas on both days. (There is a daily rate as well ($50/$20). You can register online at: http://alga.org.au/2013/2728

For more information, please contact the organisers, Graham Willett (gwillett@unimelb.edu.au) or Yorick Smaal (y.smaal@griffith.edu.au).