BLACK STUDIES PROJECT @ UCSD ANNOUNCES:

CALL FOR 2020-21 DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS (DEADLINE EXTENDED- DUE MAY 22^nd, 2020)

We are pleased to announce that UC San Diego’s Black Studies Project is soliciting applications for its 2020-21 Dissertation Fellowships. BSP Dissertation Fellowships are intended to provide one summer and/or one academic quarter of support to students in the dissertation research or writing stages of their doctoral program. Each award includes fees, benefits, and a $2,434.61 monthly stipend for one academic quarter of the awardee’s choice. Fellowship recipients are expected to participate in all meetings of the 2020-21 BSP graduate student seminar, which meets approximately twice per quarter. Eligible applicants may be in any discipline, but supported research should be situated within African American, African, and/or African Diaspora Studies. Preference will be given to projects that engage the critical themes and key questions of the Black Studies Project (see below), as well as to students without other sources of funding.

Black Studies Project @ UCSD

Black Studies Project (BSP) is an interdisciplinary, cross-divisional formation for collaborative and innovative research, intellectual exchange, and student engagement in the field of Black Studies. By convening faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from across campus and throughout the UC system, BSP creates opportunities for expansive and trenchant conversations at the intersections of Black feminist and queer studies, transnational and Diasporic studies, and the study of Black social movements. Through our programming, research funding, and sponsored intellectual collaborations, BSP explores how contemporary social, political, cultural, and economic shifts in the US and globally require scholars, community activists, and campus leaders to collectively reimagine the field of Black Studies.

Eligible Recipients must be:

1) Registered UCSD graduate students, enrolled for the 2020-21 academic year

2) Doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy by the application deadline

Application Materials:

1. Application form (attached)

2. Project description (no more than 1200 words), including timetable for completion

3. Curriculum vitae

4. UCSD transcript (unofficial)

5. 1 faculty letter of recommendation from committee member, preferably from the applicant's committee chair

All applicants must send items 1-4 as one single PDF to Katia Todorova ([bsp@ucsd.edu]bsp@ucsd.edu). Letters of recommendation should be sent to Ms. Todorova directly.

Notification and Acceptance: Fellowship recipients will be notified the week of June 8^th, 2020, by email.

APPLICATIONS AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS ARE DUE BY May 22^nd, 2020.

Please address questions to:

Katia Todorova, Staff Coordinator Black Studies Project, [bsp@ucsd.edu]bsp@ucsd.edu

The Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University and GEXcel – International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies are now inviting applications for two research stipends. The objective of the stipend is to develop a research application for a future project to be hosted by the Centre for Gender Studies. The application deadline is the 1^st of June 2019. You can find more information about the stipend and the application process on the centre’s homepage: https://www.kau.se/centrum-genusforskning/mer-om-cgf/gexcel-international-collegium

The aim is to articulate the elusive idea of a materiality that is itself heterogeneous, itself a differential of intensities, itself a life. In this strange vital materialism, there is no point of pure stillness, no indivisible atom that is not itself aquiver with virtual force.

J Bennett, Vibrant Matter (2009)

The "here" of the body does not simply refer to the body, but to "where" the body dwells. The "here" of bodily dwelling is thus what takes the body outside of itself, as it is affected by its surroundings: the skin that seems to contain the body is also where the atmosphere creates an impression: just think of goosebumps, textures on the skin surface, as body traces of the coldness of the air.

S Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology (2006)

This symposium hopes to bring to the foreground new theories of politics in relation to space, temporality and voice. Looking towards contemporary politics and theory, we are interested in how society has been shaped by ideas of space, temporality, and voice. Drawing from past examples and issues, the goal is to bring to the foreground issues which have long been invisible, masked as a framing device. To bring forward invisibilities and make them visible, we would like to give voice to those unheard, to disrupt the status quo. We hope to create conversations and ideas around the characteristics of properties in society, and visual culture hitherto considered unchangeable, unmoving and undefinable.

We welcome scholars of all backgrounds with non-traditional, creative projects from a range of disciplines to submit presentations in the format of individual papers.

Presentation topics might include but are not limited to:

Alternative temporalities

Embodiment: skin, blood, and breath

Politics of space

Role of ephemerality in objects and space

Speculative space

Feminisms

Notions of home

New materialism

Orientation vs. disorientation

Cross-media practices

Queer space/movement

Spectacle and entertainment

Film and media scholarship

Visual culture and anthropology

Critical theory and philosophy

Race, gender, colonial and ethnic studies

In addition to the panel presentations, we will have a keynote speaker and a UCSD Visual Arts professor moderating each panel.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words along with relevant images and working title, for consideration for a 20-minute presentation, along with a short bio and CV to ucsdsymposium2019@gmail.com by January 7th, 2019. Applicants will be notified of a decision by January 21st. Please direct any inquiries to ucsdsymposium2019@gmail.com.

Call for Submissions -- Me Too

The “me too” movement, founded in 2006 by activist Tarana Burke to help young American women of color heal from sexual assault, has gone global. Survivors around the world are giving unprecedented voice to stories of violence and abuse. The next issue of Rejoinder will explore the history, present, and future of me too as it relates to contemporary feminist mobilization and theorizing. We welcome contributions that explore any aspects of me too, such as how the movement travels across different contexts (such as the home, the academy, the workplace), through different forms of media and face-to-face interactions. What are the most pronounced effects of me too? And what difference does adding the hashtag make? Submissions (including essays, commentary, criticism, fiction, poetry, and artwork) should address this theme from feminist, queer, social and racial justice-inspired perspectives. We particularly welcome contributions at the intersection of scholarship and activism. For manuscript preparation details, please see our website at: http://irw.rutgers.edu/about-rejoinder. Rejoinder is published by the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University in partnership with the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities. Please send completed written work (2,000-2,500 words max), jpegs of artwork, and short bios to the editor, Sarah Tobias (stobias@rutgers.edu) by December 19, 2018.

Community Scholars Invitation for Proposals!

Dear faculty,

The UCSD Community and Labor Project is looking for proposals for a community scholars course next academic year. The community scholars program was developed by UCLA Labor Center and has been successfully adapted by faculty at UC Irvine as well. UCLA Labor Center is working to bring this program to other UC campuses and would like to know if there is interest in our department at UCSD to run a pilot of this exciting program.

Sponsored by the UCLA Labor Center and Department of Urban Planning, Community Scholars was launched in 1991 to provide students with an opportunity to work together with leaders from key community and labor organizations across Los Angeles on dynamic research projects. For twenty five years, Community Scholars has inspired new generations of social justice leaders and provided groundbreaking reports in support of economic and social justice.

Through Community Scholars, hundreds of students and community leaders have come together to tackle pressing issues facing Los Angeles. One class' research on "green jobs" led the city of Los Angeles to pass an ordinance that created the Los Angeles Green Retrofit and Workforce program to retrofit buildings across the city while creating good jobs. Another class led to a multi-union organizing effort on Los Angeles manufacturing. Last year students looked at how black liberation has shaped the structural landscape of Los Angeles, (see course website below) through the rubrics of work, land, and politics:

http://blackliberation.aulacourses.com/

This year's theme for UCLA and UCI is "Sanctuary", exploring the historical sanctuary movement that connects liberation theology with migrant rights and racial justice. The course will also be an opportunity to critically interrogate the current migrant and sanctuary movement as it manifests locally and to develop a final course product that can be of both theoretical and strategic use in movement building.

Previous courses have created publicly accessible reports and resource guides such as this link below, but any type of digital humanities outcome or publication would be a welcome product for the course:

https://www.labor.ucla.edu/publication/central-american-resource-guide-3/

Course structure:

The course is usually a two-quarter class project, that brings together a team of students and a team of community leaders. We will be teaching the course at UCLA in Winter and Spring 2019, so UCSD faculty would have an opportunity to collaborate with faculty at UCLA and UCI in the summer and fall quarter to adapt the program to UCSD.

UCLA Labor Center and the Community and Labor Project will provide support for course / syllabus design, engagement with community organizations and activists, and will work with UC extension to create opportunities for non-UCSD community members to engage or enroll in the course. UCLA Labor Center can also support in strategizing for funding a course TA.

If you would like to apply for this opportunity please provide a brief response to the following questions and send to Amrah Salomón J. at ansalomo@ucsd.edu by 5pm, June 24, 2018. Responses will be reviewed by the Community Scholars team at UCLA Labor Center, with final decisions by early July.

*name, title, department

*brief description of your ideas for a Community Scholars course topic, assignments, and course projects, including whether you are envisioning a one or two quarter project.

*describe how you would incorporate the concept of research justice in the course? see link here for definitions:

http://www.datacenter.org/services-offered/research-justice/

*how would you recruit and work with both UCSD students and non-UCSD students, such as community members and activists, in this course?

Prison, Power, and Protest in Black History

Date: October 3, 2018 to October 7, 2018

Location: Missouri, United States

Subject Fields: African American History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Humanities, Law and Legal History, Social History / Studies

This call for papers is for a proposed panel for the upcoming 103rd meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) in Indianapolis, IN between OCT 3-7 2018. (The panel has not yet been submitted to ASALH and I am currently collecting abstracts for the submission.) Once assembled, the panel will focus on themes of black legal confinement across the 20th century, and attempts to resist, protest, and dismantle unfair systems of incarceration. Papers on convict labor, imprisonment, parole, and execution are welcomed including work on broader themes such as mass incarceration, the war on drugs, and sentencing disparities. More specifically, papers that explore the depth of the experience of convicts, resistance to the impact of incarceration, and movements, ideologies, or cultures of opposition, are most fitting. Individual presentations will be 15-20 minutes in length with a question and answer period at the end of the panel.

To apply as a panelist, please submit a CV and a short (500 word or less) abstract of the paper you would like to present by MARCH 10 to (dflowe@wustl.edu). Submission of the full panel proposal to ASALH is due APRIL 1, so papers will be selected before that date. Further details about the exact time and date of the panel will be determined after the panel is accepted by ASALH. However, it will certainly take place during the time of the conference between OCT 3-7 2018.

To discuss your submission, or if you have any queries, please contact the panel organizer and panelist:

Dr. Douglas Flowe: dflowe@wustl.edu

Assistant Professor of History

Washington University in St. Louis