The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) at the New School for Social Research is pleased to announce that we are now accepting fellowship applications for our 2023 Summer Seminars (June 11-17, 2023). Advanced graduate students and faculty are eligible to apply. Applications are due December 15, 2022. For seminar descriptions and more information, please see our website.

2023 SEMINARS

The Resistance to Critical Race Theory:

Reading the CRT Culture Wars

Kendall Thomas (Columbia Law)

Transsexual Exceptions:

Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality

McKenzie Wark (New School)

Forensis

Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths)

Apply here!

Feminist Studies Call For Papers:

Autotheory/Autoethnography

“The history of feminism is, in a sense, a history of autotheory,” writes Lauren Fournier, author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism. Broadly defined, autotheory—sometimes called autoethnography, creative nonfiction, or lyric essay—interweaves theoretical reflection with reflection on autobiographical and embodied experience. In the United States, autotheory has recently sparked a great deal of popular and academic interest, but as Fournier suggests, feminist writers such as Audre Lorde, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, bell hooks, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and many contributors to This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color were publishing autotheoretical writing long before the term “autotheory” came into use.

The current prominence of autotheoretical writing and art invites further intersectional and transnational feminist exploration. In addition to questions about the still contested terms of autobiography and theory, autotheory generates pressing questions about the production and reception of knowledge in specific historical and contemporary contexts: questions about power and authority, access and legibility, embodiment and affect, and the relationships among the subjective, the structural, and the social. In our contemporary moment, the popularity of autotheoretical work warrants investigation in relation to the resurgence of standpoint theory, decolonization efforts, and efforts to dismantle structural racism. The interdisciplinary, multimodal, and formally innovative dimensions of much autotheory also call for exploration: at the level of method, form, and craft, how do various autotheoretical texts and artworks model—and invent—new ways of thinking, knowing, and being?

For a special issue of Feminist Studies, we invite you to send an essay (up to 10,500 words) or art (with accompanying text) that engages with autotheory as feminist practice. We welcome a range of possible submissions: 1) essays and art that perform autotheory, 2) reflections on the history, politics, theories, methods, and/or craft of autotheoretical writing and art; 3) essays that critically engage with autotheoretical texts; and 4) essays that reflect on uses of autotheory in pedagogical spaces. The due date for submissions is December 31, 2022. Please send your submission to submit@feministstudies.org. We invite you to consult our submission guidelines for details and to also access recent issues to get a sense of our typical content.

CFP Due Date: December 31, 2022

CSW|STREISAND CENTER NEWS

THINKING GENDER 2023 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 23, 2022

TRANSFORMING RESEARCH:

FEMINIST METHODS FOR TIMES OF CRISIS AND POSSIBILITY

Thursday, February 23, 2023 (Virtual) and

Friday, February 24, 2023 (In Person)

The UCLA Center for the Study of Women invites graduate student scholars and artists to submit abstracts or synopses of in-progress scholarly papers, dissertation or thesis chapters, article drafts, or in-progress film/mixed media works to workshop at our 33rd annual and first hybrid Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference. We also invite undergraduate students to submit proposals for in person poster presentations.

This year’s conference theme, “Transforming Research: Feminist Methods for Times of Crisis and Possibility,” seeks to open conversations about feminist methods and research across fields and disciplines.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

We welcome a range of submission formats from graduate students, including scholarly papers, works in hybrid critical/creative genres (e.g., multimedia projects, performance, experimental forms of academic writing), and film/mixed media. While submissions are not limited to these, some media formats that might work particularly well for this year’s call include short films and videos, soundscapes, digital and alternative archives or cartographies, and interactive works. We also invite poster proposals from undergraduate students.

This conference is interdisciplinary, and we encourage submissions from all fields of study. Successful submissions will center feminist research methods and practice, and ideally, engage substantively with power relations concerning race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, Blackness, gender, transness, queerness, and/or forms of colonialism and settler colonialism.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Submission deadline: October 23, 2022, at 11:59PM PDT

APPLY ONLINE

Questions?

Contact Zizi Li, Thinking Gender Coordinator at thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu.

Hello Undergrad Students!

Spring is in full swing, which means it's time for the Department of Literature’s annual Stewart Prize in Poetry and Milton Saier Award in Fiction writing competitions, open to all UCSD undergraduates.

You may submit up to 5 poems for the Stewart Prize and one piece of fiction (15 pages max) for the Saier Award. More detailed information is included on the contest pages of the Literature website:

Stewart Prize in Poetry: https://literature.ucsd.edu/ugrad/awards/stewart-prize.html

Dr. Milton H. Saier, Sr. Memorial Award in Fiction: https://literature.ucsd.edu/ugrad/awards/saier-award.html

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS NOON ON MONDAY, MAY 3RD.

The winners will be notified later in Spring Quarter.