Newsletter settimanale del Queer Caucus dell’American Association of Italian Studies (21 Ottobre 2023)
Queer Caucus
Buongiorno/Pomeriggio,
Qui di seguito troverete una serie di informazioni riguardanti: eventi, pubblicazioni, CfP/bandi, opportunità di lavoro e formazione.
*** Ricordiamo a tutt* iscritt* all’American Association of Italian Studies di donare al Queer Caucus quando rinnoveranno la propria membership ***
Eventi
· Torna Inquiete Festival di scrittrici a Roma. L’ingresso agli eventi è gratuito e non è necessaria prenotazione. Qui il programma completo.
· FLORENCE QUEER FESTIVAL presso il Cinema La Compagnia di Firenze, dal 18 al 22 Ottobre 2023. Per maggiori info visitate questo sito.
· On October 23, 2023, 2 pm (Eastern Time Zone) Jennifer V. Evans will launch her book The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism. She will be in conversation with Christopher Ewing and Sébastien Tremblay. You can register here.
· Il 23 ottobre 2023, a partire dalle ore 18.30, Lorenzo Bernini parlerà presso la sede Arcigay di Padova (Corso Garibaldi 41) di Eterosessualità obbligatoria ed esistenza intersex.
· Il 27 ottobre 2023, presso Emit Feltrinelli ETS, Piazzale Antonio Cantone 10 (Milano), avra’ luogo, a partire dalle ore 10.00, un incontro dal titolo Intersex Awareness Day. Cosa significa essere intersex oggi in Italia ed Europa? Per maggior info potete contattare: interse...@gmail.com
· Il 27 ottobre 2023, presso la Biblioteca Marconi di Roma, a partire dalle ore 17.30 verrà presentato il volume In disgrazia del cielo e della terra. L’amore omosessuale nella letteratura italiana. Saranno presenti gli autori Daniele Coluzzi e Francesco Gnerre. modera Andrea Pini.
· Il 30 ottobre 2023, dalle 9 alle 13, presso la Sala della Protomoteca in Campidoglio (Roma), si terra’ un incontro dal titolo Identita’ LGBTQIA+ e servizio sociale. Potete iscrivervi qui. Per maggior info visitate questo sito.
· Il MIT ha bisogno di aiuto -> crowdfunding.
Pubblicazioni
· Anni di rivolta. Nuovi sguardi sui femminismi degli anni Settanta e Ottanta, a cura di Paola Stelliferi e Stefania Voli (Viella, 2023)
· Alessandra Gissi e Paola Stelliferi, L’aborto. Una storia (Carocci, 2023)
· The co-editors of the Graduate History Review announce the release of the special issue, “Trans Histories by Trans Historians”
CFP/Bandi
The Romance Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced a Call for Papers for our Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference: Esse Humani: The (Non)Human Question. The conference will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 5th-6th, 2024.
You will find the official Call for Papers following this link: https://ccrs.unc.edu/call-for-papers/.
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words using the submission form via the CCRS website (ccrs.unc.edu) by December 15th, 2023.
Please address any questions to cc...@unc.edu
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AAIS 2024-Call for Conference Sessions
The American Association for Italian Studies invites members to help shape the intellectual trajectory of the next annual conference by proposing panels and roundtables for AAIS 2024.
The conference will take place in person at the Istituto Sant’Anna in Sorrento, Italy Thursday through Sunday, June 6-9.
In consultation with the Conference Subcommittee, which includes representatives from the Association’s three Caucuses, we have taken some measures that we hope will allow us to engage with issues and currents in North America, where the Association is located, and which intersect, refract, and illuminate currents in Italian Studies that are not limited to a contemporary frame or context.
The Call to Conference for AAIS 2024 maintains the Association’s historical practice of accepting pre-constituted panels and proposals from members and, at the same time, proposes several themes that also engage with our Sorrento geo-location.
AAIS 2024
Keynote Theme: “Diasporic Italies, Diasporic Italians”.
Keynote co-presenters in dialogue with this theme and each other: author Claudia Durastanti (Un giorno verrò a lanciare sassi alla tua finestra, A Chloe, per le ragioni sbagliate, Cleopatra va in prigione, La straniera) and Professor Edvige Giunta (New Jersey City University).
Suggested topics for panels and roundtables.
In addition to the AAIS practice of inviting proposals for panels and roundtables, members are especially encouraged to consider proposing panels (either fully constituted or by way of a call) that address the following, transhistorical themes:
- Diasporic Italies, Italians in Diaspora
- Migratory mobilities: human and posthuman
- Mediterranean Intersections and Iterations
- Biopolitics and Body Politics 2024: Surrogacy
- Coastal Contingencies: Peninsulas, Archipelagos, Islands, Chains
- The Southern Question in a Transhistoric Frame
- Disabled, enabled: abilities in Italian Cultural Studies
- Environmental and Ecological Interactions
A broad conference call to disciplines within IS
Aligned with the mission of the AAIS, conference organizers invite members to propose panels that approach Italian Studies through interdisciplinary and intersectional lenses representing a broad array of approaches and historical contexts.
We encourage participation from colleagues working in, but not limited to, fields such as
African and African American Studies. Geography
Anthropology History and Intellectual History
Art, Art History & Visual Arts Literary Theory
Architecture Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Classics Music
Comparative Studies Performance and Theater
Critical Race Studies Philosophy
Digital Humanities Political Science
Environmental Studies Queer Studies
Gender Studies Women’s Studies
Film and Media
Conference Awards
- The Graduate Student Travel Award is open to all graduate students. Six awards of $500 will be awarded via an application process that will be advertised. Deadline: March 1, 2024.
- The 2024 AAIS Book Prize is already open for submissions. Categories: Literary and Cultural Studies; Visual Studies (including Art History, Film and Media); History Society, and Politics (including Intellectual History and Philosophy); and First Book. Submission deadline: January 15, 2024. Awards announced at the banquet, June 8, 2024. For information, contact Nicoletta Marini-Maio (mar...@dickinson.edu).
Please note: any author submitting a book for prize consideration must be a member in 2023 (the year in which the book was published) and 2024 (the year in which the award will be made). No book will be submitted to the jury by an author who does not meet these criteria.
- The Women’s Studies Caucus (WSC) Award is open to ABD doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and adjunct faculty members who will present their research on any aspect of women’s and gender studies at the annual AAIS conference.
Continued Innovations, AAIS 2024
- Executive Council Conference Series III: “Critical Conversations in Transnational Italian Studies”
AAIS 2024 will feature, for the third time, a series, proposed, organized, and sponsored by the Executive Council that seeks to highlight expanded canonical parameters of research unfolding across myriad inter-related subfields in the humanities, the arts, cultural studies, and the social sciences. A specific objective of the ECCS is to contribute to field-wide initiatives increasing the representations of voices and viewpoints that have historically been under-represented in the Association, its events, and membership.
ECCS IIIis co-curated by Serena Bassi (Yale University), Loredana Polezzi (SUNY-Stony Brook), and Giulia Riccò (University of Michigan).
The Series will begin with an online Giornata di Studio available to all members and scheduled for Friday, March 29 which links to panels at our in-person June conference.
2. Conference App for the Program
As part of continued efforts to trim our carbon footprint, AAIS 2024 will continue using a web platform that manages the registration, and a Web/Phone App for the Program.
3. AAIS 2024 “State of Affairs”
The program will feature a “round-up” panel on the last day (Sunday, June 9) meant to take the pulse of what is heard, noticed, and perceived of the conference proceedings.
4.The 2024 AAIS Business Meeting will take place online Tuesday, June 17, 2024. All members are invited to attend. Action items are anticipated.
5. AAIS 2024 continues with the new practice, part of the Association’s efforts toward greater inclusion, of inviting graduate students at the PhD level (not only ABD) to participate. No supporting letter from the dissertation director is required.
MEMBERSHIP AND REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
PLEASE NOTE CHANGES
For panels, roundtable and individual proposals to be considered, your AAIS 2023 membership must be current and active.
- You will then be required to renew your AAIS membership by February 1, 2024 for the coming year.
- When you renew in 2024, your Association membership will be valid until January 31, 2025.
- Panels with participants who are not active members will not be accepted.
- All conference participants must register for the conference, and pay registration fees (different from membership dues).
Registration fees will be announced shortly.
Please note: Payments for both membership and conference registration fees will be processed online-only.
Please note: All correspondence must be addressed and submitted via the AAIS website LINK. Please do not write to the officers.
AAIS 2024: Deadlines at a glance
REVISED PRACTICE FOR CfP CIRCULATION
PLEASE READ:
- CfPs (for proposed panels and roundtable) will not be submitted to the conference committee for approval.
- CfPs must be posted directly to the dedicated page on the AAIS website: please go to the Member Center and click on the Listings tab to start posting.
- A weekly reminder about available CfPs will be sent to all members.
- January 21, 2024: All proposed abstracts due to panel and roundtable organizers with title, brief abstract (150-200 words), and short bio.
- February 1, 2024: All completed panels and roundtables due (please see below for proper formatting - to be submitted via the Member Center).
-February 1, 2024: All proposed Conference participants must have renewed and current, active membership (with paid membership dues).
-February 23, 2024: Organizers will receive notification of panel acceptances.
-April 5, 2024: Early Bird Conference Registration closes.
-May 3, 2024: All AAIS 2024 participants must have paid conference registration fees.
Please consult the LINK FOR GUIDELINES for complete norms for organizers, chairs, and speakers.
Use the following for each proposed panel or roundtable:
TITLE OF SESSION OF ROUNDTABLE
(IN CAPS)
Organizer: Name, Affiliation, email address
Chair (if different from Organizer): Name, Affiliation
Name, Affiliation, Title of presentation in quotation
marks for each session participant
Name, Affiliation for each roundtable participant
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Reporting Honor Killings in Italian Media—panel for IV edition of Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies conference
The American University of Rome, Italy, 13-15 June 2024
Organizer: Flavia Laviosa (Wellesley College, USA)
Over the past twenty-five years, honor killings, perpetrated predominantly against women, have surfaced strongly within the human rights framework alerting artists, journalists, and political activists. The dramatic confluence of social and cultural events that make these killings a phenomenon, crossing socio-economic classes and education boundaries, is poignantly portrayed in documentaries, feature films, TV series, and news in Europe. In Italy 6 cases of honor killings have been widely reported by the media.
The goals of this panel are:
- To analyze TV crime news and talk shows (e.g. Crash Files, Il punto, La vita in diretta, Ultim’ora. Storie Italiane, Quarto grado, Chi l’ha visto? Prisma Cusano Italia TV) reporting these cases; and RAI archives for earlier cases.
- To examine the work conducted by Jacopo Della Porta and Elisa Pederzoli, journalists of Gazzetta di Reggio Emilia and authors of the book Saman, Vita e morte di una ragazza italiana (Compagnia Editoriale Aliberti, 2023); and of Martina Castigliani, journalist of Il Fatto Quotidiano and author of the book Libere. Il nostro NO ai matrimoni forzati (PaperFIRST, 2022).
- To explore the impact of human rights activists like Tiziana Dal Pra, founder and president of the organization Trama di Terre (Imola).
- To understand the critical work of intercultural mediators.
- To reflect on how the Italian legislation defines and regulates cases of honor killings.
The discussion of honor killings would be informed by social and cultural anthropology theories which problematize the unresolved coexistence of culturally diverse and parallel worlds, and offer critical lenses to study the complex picture of psychological and sociological forms of marginalization as experienced by immigrants in Italy. The purpose of this panel is to reflect on how the media contribute to the inter-cultural and legal debate.
Media scholars, journalists, human rights activists, anthropologists, psychologists, lawyers and intercultural mediators are invited to contribute to this panel.
Interested contributors should send a 250-word abstract and a 150-word biographical note (word.doc only, no pdf) to: Flavia Laviosa at flav...@wellesley.edu by 5 December 2023
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2 panel CfPs for JICMS International Conference, 13-15 June 2024 in Rome
Panel 1: Reshaping History: Exploring Representations of the Past in Italian Cinema, Television, and New Media"
The representation of history and the evocation of historical memory through Italian cinema, television, and new media have played a pivotal role in shaping cultural consciousness, fostering national identity, and engaging with Italy's rich historical tapestry complexities. This panel invites scholars to delve into the multifaceted landscape of how Italian visual media engages with history and its collective memory.
Organizer: Annachiara Mariani
Chair: Flavia Brizio-Skov
Interested contributors should send a 250-word abstract and a 150-word biographical note (word.doc only, no pdf) to Annachiara Mariani amar...@utk.edu by 5 December 2023.
Panel 2: Immigration cinema: race, ethnicity, and discrimination today.
Can films provide an answer that might help viewers favor integration? Can they provide community cohesion in society? Italian cinema has indeed in the last two decades advocated for marginalized groups, including the victims of discriminatory behavior perpetrated by underground organizations, by extremist groups, and by governments that issued punitive laws. Italian cinema has tried to make audiences aware of injustices and abuses, but often the effort has gone unnoticed.
Organizer: Flavia Brizio-Skov
Chair: Annachiara Mariani
Interested contributors should send a 250-word abstract and a 150-word biographical note (word.doc only, no pdf) to: Dr. Flavia Brizio fbr...@utk.edu by 5 December 2023.
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Università degli Studi dell’Aquila-Dipartimento di Scienze Umane
GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2023-L’Aquila, 12-13 dicembre 2023
FORME ED ESTETICHE
DEL DISGUSTO
Un’emozione
primaria (Tomkins 1962-1963; Plutchik 1980; Ekman, Friesen 2007), un sentimento
politico (Nussbaum 2004), il margine da cui osservare ciò che temiamo ci
rappresenti: il disgusto s’infiltra tra le pieghe delle teorie estetiche e
artistiche, originando nodi problematici dalle implicazioni transdisciplinari.
Che risieda nella ricezione dell’audience, nel processo creativo dell’artista o
che sia una forma universale o culturalmente connotata, questa modalità
percettiva ha avuto il proprio spazio analitico all’interno di innumerevoli
filoni di studi, anche con approcci comparati e inter/transmediali.
Tradizionalmente associato alla sfera della naturalità, il disgusto ha subìto una denaturalizzazione operata, a partire dal XX secolo, da correnti strutturaliste, post-strutturaliste e decostruttive (Douglas 2014; Halberstam 1995). Il suo statuto essenzialista è stato discusso in funzione della fortificazione degli squilibri di potere che attua e ha attuato: pensiamo al giudice Patrick Devlin che, nel Regno Unito degli anni Cinquanta, sostenne la possibilità di ritenere illegale ciò che provocava disgusto in «un membro medio della società». Non è un caso se successivamente la nozione di disgusto è stata discussa e rielaborata dagli studi queer, transfemministi e decoloniali.
Il potere del disgusto, emozione tesa a prevenire la contaminazione, la cui analisi si muove da una prospettiva psicologica, si dirama in una contemporaneità postmoderna: dal punto di vista socioculturale, come notiamo dalla retorica contro omosessualità, migrazioni e povertà, è legato al misconoscimento della soggettività altrui e all’edificazione di una norma cui contrapporre un’alterità sessuale, razziale e di classe. La letteratura, le arti figurative e i media audiovisivi hanno fotografato la dinamica identitaria sottesa alla presenza del disgusto attraverso lenti molteplici; confluito nell’abiezione all’interno di rappresentazioni legate alla mostruosità, realizzato nel perturbante o nell’esagerazione in opere dall’estetica camp, il disgusto in ambito artistico ha esplorato i confini evanescenti tra vita e morte, animali umani e non, identità e alterità.
La Graduate Conference Forme ed estetiche del disgusto vuole indagare la complessità di un sentire polimorfo, già di per sé in via di decostruzione, contaminando i discorsi teorici con le pratiche e le performance.
La call è aperta ad approcci interculturali e interdisciplinari e accoglie la presentazione di proposte sia per relazioni che adottino prospettive prettamente teoriche, sia per relazioni che illustrino case studies esemplificativi di natura pratica o sperimentale.
Le linee di ricerca includono (ma non sono limitate a):
- Strategie estetiche del disgusto in letteratura, nelle arti audiovisive, figurative e performative;
- Metamorfosi storiche della nozione di disgusto, dall’antichità classica alla contemporaneità;
- Il disgusto nelle arti in prospettiva transnazionale e comparata;
- Le declinazioni del disgusto nelle arti (camp, gore, splatter, trash, mostruoso, orrorifico, osceno, macabro);
- Il disgusto all’interno degli studi queer e transfemministi;
- Pratiche di rimediazione del disgusto negli adattamenti tra letteratura, cinema e altri media;
- Il disgusto come strategia di rappresentazione in prospettiva decoloniale;
- Fenomenologia dell’alterità attraverso il disgusto: mostruosità, soprannaturale e occulto;
- Il disgusto all’interno degli studi della ricezione e dell’audience.
Gli abstract, della lunghezza massima di 2.000 caratteri (spazi inclusi), potranno essere inviati all’indirizzo graduate2...@gmail.com entro il 15 ottobre 2023, preferibilmente in formato .pdf. Insieme all’abstract, lə candidatə interessatə a partecipare dovrà presentare, in un file separato, un breve profilo bio-bibliografico (massimo 10 righe).
Il Comitato Organizzativo valuterà le proposte pervenute, e comunicherà a tutt3 l3 candidat3 l’esito della selezione degli abstract entro il 31 ottobre 2023.
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The Estelle Freedman Award is a research travel award given out by the CLGBTH for scholars applying feminist analysis to LBGTQ history, from any historical time period or region. The award is named in honor of Estelle Freedman, a pathbreaking historian in US women’s history and feminist studies. Professor Freedman taught at Stanford since 1976, where she cofounded the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her prolific scholarship includes prison reform, lesbian history, and the politics of sexuality. Applications for the research travel award should be sent as one PDF file via email by 11:59pm (Pacific time), November 1, 2023 to all members of the award committee. Questions can be addressed to award committee chair, Annelise Heinz (hei...@uoregon.edu). For info visit http://clgbthistory.org/estelle-freedman-award
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Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS)-Call for Papers: 2024 Conference, Orvieto, June 13-16, 2024
This year, the first two days of the conference sessions (Thursday June 13th and Friday June 14th) will be held online while on Saturday, June 15th and Sunday June 16th sessions will be held fully in person.
If your session is to be delivered online, ALL speakers will need to be online and all audience members will also access the session online.
If your session is to be delivered in person, ALL speakers will need to be in person. Audience members may access the session in person or remotely as we will reserve rooms with appropriate technology.
Moreover, no request to swap in-person sessions or presentations for online presentations or sessions will be accepted once the program is published.
Opening and Closing Remarks, Keynotes and the AGM will take place in hybrid format.
This year, while there is no conference theme per se, papers are welcome on all aspects of Italian Studies. In addition, on our website (https://canadianassociationforitalianstudies.org), you will find special sessions organized by the CAIS Executive.
The deadline for session proposals is March 3, 2024. To propose a session, please fill out the session proposal form and submit it to the conference organizers at the official CAIS email address: italian.stu...@gmail.com. Session proposals will be published on the CAIS website in the order in which they are received.
Proposals for individual papers should be sent directly to the session organizers using the paper proposal form. If you would like to propose a paper that cannot be housed in any of the planned panels, please submit the form directly to the conference organizers at this email address: italian.stu...@gmail.com.
Session organizers must consider all the paper proposals received up to the deadline of March 20, 2024. The announcement that a panel is closed can only be made after that date. Once the deadline has passed, all session organizers will submit the complete session proposal form for their session (or sessions). Please use one form for each completed session.
Members can present only one paper at the annual conference. Papers must be presented synchronously (live), and not be recorded. Moreover, no papers will be read in absentia. In addition, members can participate in one round table.
Session organizers are allowed to chair the session they organized. Members are allowed to chair and organize more than one session.
Please be reminded that if you submit a paper proposal to more than one session, you should notify all the organizers to whom you have made a submission.
If you fail to notify the session organizers, they will have the right to decide between themselves in which session the paper will be presented or if the paper will be excluded.
All participants must be members in good standing of CAIS. Membership must be current by April 24, 2024 in order for the member’s name to appear in the program and for the member to be allowed to present his/her work at the 2024 CAIS conference.
Conference Registration will open in March 2024. The deadline to register for the conference is April 14, 2024. In order to ensure proper planning and for purposes of catering and classroom/meeting reservations, no late registrations will be accepted.
Papers in sessions with four speakers should be no more than 15 minutes long to allow for discussion among session participants.
Papers in sessions with three speakers should be no longer than 20 minutes long to allow for discussion among session participants.
More details will follow about conference fees and logistics.
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Queer History Conference 2024: Call for Papers
The Committee on LGBT History is pleased to announce a call for papers for its third conference, Queer History Conference 2024 (or QHC 24, #QHC24), to be held at California State University, Fullerton from June 10 to 13, 2024. Dorm rooms and on-campus hotel rooms will be available to make this conference as affordable as possible and registration fees will be minimal. Scholars working on any aspect of the queer past, in any region of the world, during any period, are encouraged to apply. We use the word “queer” to include both same-sex sexuality and histories of trans identity and gender non-conformity. We encourage interdisciplinary scholarship but we also stress that this conference is meant to interrogate the queer past. There is no specific theme; rather, we hope that this gathering will simply showcase the best of current work and new directions in the field of queer history, including panels addressing historiographical debates or states-of-the-field. For QHC24, panels related to teaching queer history at the K-12 level should also be submitted via this process.
Guidelines for Submission
Panels will be 1.5 hours. We strongly encourage the submission of full panels, which should include three or four papers, a chair, and a comment (chair and comment roles can be fulfilled by the same person). We will also consider roundtables, which should be comprised of three or four speakers and a chair. You do need to include someone to perform the chair and/or comment role. (And you may reach out to conference or CLGBTH co-chairs for help in locating a chair; email QHC...@gmail.com or clgbth....@gmail.com). In order to assemble panels, feel free to use the CLGBTH listserv to connect with others working on similar topics (clg...@groups.io; if you are not already a member, you can register here: https://groups.io/g/clgbth) or use the hashtag #qhc24 on Twitter or Facebook.
Panels related to K-12 teaching may take the form of workshops, roundtables, traditional paper presentations, or another format spelled out in the submission. For K-12 educators, we would encourage you to submit topics in groups of 2 or 3 people which could be a paper, LGBTQ lessons to share, strategies for teaching, etc. around a common theme. Please indicate the intended grade level for your panel/workshop.
In the academic track, we encourage all full panel submissions to include at least one graduate student where possible and all panels should include a diversity of scholars in terms of institution, rank, and identity. Please only apply as part of one panel or paper submission. (The exception to this rule is for the role of chair or commentator, which may be performed by someone who is also giving a paper or appearing on a roundtable.)
We will also consider individual paper submissions, out of which the program committee will assemble a very limited number of panels. See above for ways to connect with others working in your field.
We especially encourage panels on subjects beyond the twentieth-century United States and those that are organized by theme rather than region.
Finally, while we will consider all-Zoom panels, due to technical constraints we are unable to accept hybrid virtual/in-person panels. If your panel is interested in presenting virtually, please indicate that as part of your submission.
Please make all submissions by November 1, 2023 to QHC...@gmail.com. The QHC 24 program committee will make decisions and send notifications in December. All presenters are expected to be (or become) members of the Committee on LGBT History by the time of the conference. Membership information is here.
Full Panels should include, in one Word document:
- Title of panel
- Panel abstract (300 words max.)
- Title and abstract for each paper (300 words max.)
- One-page CV or biographical statement with contact information for each participant
Roundtables and Workshops should include, in one Word document:
- Title of panel
- Panel abstract (300 words max.)
- Abstract for each contribution (300 words max.)
- One-page CV or biographical statement with contact information for each participant
Single paper submissions should include, in one Word document:
- Title of paper
- Paper abstract (300 words max.)
- One-page CV or biographical statement with contact information
K-12 panels should include, in one Word document:
- Title of panel
- Panel abstract (300 words max, including description of format and grade level)
- One-page CV or biographical statement with contact information for each participant
Questions should be
addressed to QHC 24 organizers Eric Gonzaba and Nick Syrett at QHC...@gmail.com
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Call for
papers del XII Convegno Internazionale di Storia della Cultura Scritta (XII
CIHCE)
I «senza storia». L’uso pubblico delle scritture dei
subalterni in età moderna e contemporanea
Il convegno e' organizzato dal gruppo di ricerca LEA-SIECE dell’Universidad de Alcalá in collaborazione con l’ALSP (Archivio Ligure della Scrittura Popolare) dell’Università di Genova.
Il convegno avra' luogo a Genova il 13-14 maggio 2024.
Le proposte (massimo 300 parole + nota biobliografica di 100 parole) dovranno pervenire entro il 17 novembre del 2023 all’indirizzo isenza...@gmail.com. Saranno accolte proposte in italiano, spagnolo, inglese, francese e portoghese.
Per qualsiasi informazione rivolgersi a isenza...@gmail.com
Job and MA/PhD
Postings
University of Notre Dame accepting applications to M.A. &
Ph.D. The Graduate Program in Italian is internationally renowned, with
particular strengths in medieval literature; Renaissance studies; twentieth-
and twenty-first-century literature and culture; and Italian cinema
Award-winning faculty are considered leaders in their respective
fields. The Italian Graduate Program provides unique opportunities for
funded research and specialized graduate experiences, in collaboration with the
Center for Italian Studies, the Devers Program in Dante Studies, Notre Dame’s
Rome Global Gateway, and other research centers and institutes at Notre Dame,
such as the Center for the Study of Languages & Cultures, the Institute for
Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Medieval Institute, the Nanovic Institute
for European Studies, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. The
University’s Hesburgh Libraries offer rich and growing collections in all areas
of Italian Studies, especially Dante Studies, early modern Italian literature,
and modern and contemporary Italian literature and film.
Italian Studies at Notre Dame offers competitive financial support packages,
with all admitted graduate students receiving a monthly stipend, full-tuition
scholarships that include all fees except for a small student activity fee, as
well as health insurance coverage and additional benefits. The Center for
Italian Studies offers substantial additional funding for travel and research
by subsidizing a number of grants and fellowships for graduate students.
Please visit website (https://romancelanguages.nd.edu/graduate/italian-studies/)
to learn more about the academic program. For additional resources, including
information about the requirements for application, please visit the pages for
the Ph.D. and M.A. programs.
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The Department of Italian Studies
at the University of Toronto, one of the largest and oldest in North America,
is now accepting applications to its graduate programmes (MA and PhD) for the
2024-25 academic year. Accepted students are awarded competitive funding
packages.
With engaging undergraduate and graduate
programming, events, and extensive research initiatives, scholars affiliated
with the Department are surrounded by a vibrant academic community that
includes our award-winning faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate
students.
For more information, please contact the
Associate Chair Graduate at italia...@utoronto.ca
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The application deadline for the 2024-2025 Frankel Institute Fellowship, "Jewish/Queer/Trans," is right around the corner on November 6, 2023. To apply, please click here, or share with friends and colleagues who may be interested!
More about the Jewish/Queer/Trans Theme Year:
In this theme year, we aim to explore in the broadest possible ways how queer/trans studies intersect with studies of Jews, Jewishness, Judaism, and indeed Jewish Studies itself, from the full range of humanistic, artistic, activist, and social science perspectives. We thus intend to assemble a group of scholars, writers, and artists that will allow us to explore this set of fundamental issues across the temporal gamut of ancient to the present and in Middle Eastern, African, Asian, European, and American societal contexts.
We invite applicants to consider how Jewish Studies might thicken queer and trans studies. At the same time, we wish to inquire into how queer and trans studies might aid the interrogation of foundational categories deployed in Jewish Studies. In doing so, we seek to challenge social hierarchies, notions of sacred/profane, religious conceptions, political movements and structures, knowledge paradigms, and communal boundaries: all key elements in the history of studies of Jews and Judaism. That is, how can insights from queer and trans studies enrich and complicate our understanding of the dispersed, diverse, and shifting histories of Jewish sexual cultures and gender systems, as well as social, cultural, and racialized formations of Jewishness more broadly. We are particularly interested in approaches that create dialogue among the sub-fields of Jewish Studies, queer and trans studies that go beyond merely applying theoretical models to Jewish Studies.
The “Jewish/Queer/Trans” fellowship year will promote a tighter integration of queer/trans perspectives and methodologies into Jewish Studies, and contribute to the ongoing softening of boundaries between analyses focused on racial, sexual, or gendered differences.
What forms of analysis might queer and trans theory enable in the study of Jewish texts, cultures, and history?
How might non-Ashkenazi or non-contemporary forms of Jewish ritual, theology, textuality, domesticity, kinship, or musical arts decenter Eurocentric defaults in queer and trans studies?
How might queering and trans-ing our understandings of key concepts like “archive,” temporality, historiography, and data allow for expanded inquiries within Social Science-based and Humanities-attuned subfields within Jewish studies?
What happens to Jewish Studies methods and archives when Queer of Color critiques are deployed to its sources and subjects?
The cohort will emphasize collaborative projects and outputs; building support and mentoring networks; and public-facing scholarship.
Please share this opportunity with friends and colleagues who may be interested.
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The Department of French and Italian in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Transnational Italian Studies whose scholarship engages multiethnic Italy, Italy’s colonial past, and/or African diasporas in Italy. We seek a scholar with a research agenda in both screen studies and literature. Preference will be given to candidates with proven interdisciplinary interests in fields such as Mediterranean studies; human rights and critical refugee studies; race/racialization theory; de-colonization and empire studies; and/or gender studies.
We seek a colleague who will: develop General Education courses in English that appeal to a diverse student body; teach joint French-Italian graduate seminars (in English); advise our graduate students; and connect and collaborate with students and colleagues from departments and centers across our campus, such as Comparative Studies; African American and African Studies; Film Studies; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and The Mershon Center for International Security Studies.
Education and Experience Requirements
Required: Native or near-native proficiency in Italian and English; PhD in Italian studies or a related field required at time of appointment which is August 15, 2024. ABDs welcome to apply. Applicants should demonstrate achievement or strong promise of scholarly success.
Desired: Candidates should demonstrate attentiveness to building a diverse intellectual community in alignment with Ohio State’s shared values.
How to Apply
Apply to the Careers at Ohio State website at
https://osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/.../Assistant-Professor.... A competitive application consists of the following required elements: a cover letter, curriculum vitae, separate research and teaching statements, a writing sample (in English or Italian), and three letters of reference.
Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled. Inquiries may be directed to Prof. Jonathan Combs-Schilling at combs-sc...@osu.edu.
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The Cinema Studies Institute and the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Trans Cinema and Media Studies.
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Women's and Gender Studies -
Assistant/Associate Professor (Hope College)
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Hope
College invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of
Assistant or Associate Professor to begin August 2024. The candidate’s
specialization is open; however, we are particularly interested in applicants
whose teaching and/or research expertise includes indigenous, Womanist, or U.S.
women of color feminisms, queer feminisms, and/or faith and feminism. Qualified
candidates will have the ability to teach core classes within the WGS
curriculum, including Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS 130),
Feminist Theory and Methodology (WGS 350), and an integrative Senior Capstone
(WGS 494), as well as elective courses in their area of specialization. The
ability to teach courses in the area of feminist activism and/or social
movements is also of interest.
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Associate Professor/Full Professor -
Women Gender & Sexuality (University of Virginia)
The Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia
invites applications for a tenure track appointment as Associate or Full
Professor working in gender and sexuality studies of the Global South. We
especially welcome humanities scholars whose work extends the existing
strengths of the department. In addition to pursuing an outstanding research
program, the successful candidate will be expected to provide excellent
instruction and advising to a diverse population of students. The ideal
candidate will be committed to interdisciplinarity and able to effectively work
with colleagues across various disciplines, subfields, and backgrounds.
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Assistant professor with a focus on critical race feminisms/womanisms and/or queer of color critiques (University of Denver)
The Gender and Women's Studies program at the University of Denver has received approval to hire a tenure-track assistant professor beginning in the fall of 2024.
The field of specialization is open, but we’re seeking applicants who specialize in the intersections of gender/sexuality and critical race/ethnic studies. The application deadline is November 15.
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Associate/Full Professor in Race and Transnational Gender & Sexuality Studies (UC Davis)
The Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Davis seeks a full-time advanced associate or full professor with research and teaching interests in critical ethnic, race, gender and sexuality studies from a transnational/global context. The successful candidate will further engage in transdisciplinary feminist approaches in one or more of the following areas: Black genders and sexualities, racial geographies, infrastructures, critical disability studies, environmental humanities, reproductive justice, and/or labor and migration studies. Applicants must be exceptional scholars and teachers and have a strong commitment and proven track record of departmental service. The successful candidate will be expected to participate fully in the research, teaching, and service of the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, to deliver our undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and to sustain cross-disciplinary, cross-departmental connections with other units on campus.
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Assistant professor of Trans* Studies
The Gender & Sexuality Studies (GSS) Program at Northwestern University seeks a full-time, tenure-line Assistant Professor with research and teaching interests strongly rooted in transgender studies, to begin September 1, 2024.
We conceive this field broadly so as to encompass a
range of identities, concepts, politics, and lived experiences that apply to
trans*, nonbinary, genderqueer, and otherwise gender-nonconforming people and communities.
We invite compelling applications that reflect principally historical or
largely present-focused approaches to transgender or gender nonconformity.
Likewise, the work may be centered in any national or cultural contexts and may
employ whatever trans* or trans-adjacent vocabularies (two-spirit, hijra,
kathoey, etc.) are most apt to its subjects, environments, and findings.
Candidates may engage the field through humanistic or social scientific methods
or through some melding of the two, though the successful candidate must be
able to articulate and teach the theoretical claims that inform their research
and their understanding of “trans” to a broad, multi-disciplinary range of
students and colleagues. This position will be structured as a permanent joint
appointment across the GSS Program and a tenure-granting department within the
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences that best reflects the new colleague’s
scholarly training and ongoing investments.
In addition to maintaining an active research agenda, the successful applicant
should demonstrate excellence in teaching and a willingness to mentor
undergraduate majors and minors as well as doctoral students. The applicant
should be prepared to teach core undergraduate courses, including a gateway lecture
course that introduces students to broad concepts and diverse lineages in the
study of gender and sexuality over time, in addition to offering graduate
seminars as part of our robust Certificate program. Our thriving
multidisciplinary culture values overlaps, interconnections, and productive
frictions among feminist studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies.
This appointment will begin on September 1, 2024, by which date the applicant
must have completed all requirements for their Ph.D. and have the degree in
hand.
Applications and supporting documents will be
accepted only by online submission via this link. Application materials should include a cover
letter, curriculum vitae, article-length writing sample of no more than 25
pages, and three letters of recommendation (submitted separately). In order to
ensure full consideration, applications must be received by October 23, 2023.
Inquiries about the search may be sent to Nick Davis at gss-di...@northwestern.edu or
to the GSS program administrator Carter Caldwell at gen...@northwestern.edu.
Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of
all protected classes, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and
veterans are encouraged to apply.
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Assistant Professor, Disability, Intersectionality and Gender - Global Gender & Sexuality Studies
The Department of Global Gender and
Sexuality Studies (GGSS) at the University at Buffalo invites applications for a
tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning August
2024. We seek a dynamic teacher and researcher whose specialization foregrounds
an intersectional approach to disability studies. This position is part of a
collaborative team that includes the Center for Disability Studies, the Gender Institute, and GGSS on a project on
"Communities of Care" which focuses on networks and relations of care
and the pursuit of disability justice, especially within marginalized
communities. The Communities of Care project will build connections between the
University at Buffalo and the broader Western New York area.
Candidates should hold a Ph.D. preferably in Women's, Gender and Sexuality
Studies or in a related field and be grounded in disability studies. We
especially welcome candidates whose work is interdisciplinary and focused in
Africana, Latina/o/x, Native American/Indigenous, and/or Asian cultures and
methodologies. Candidates need a background in the humanities or humanistic social
sciences and demonstrated ability to teach courses in disability studies and
women's, gender, and sexuality studies. The department values the ability to
mentor students who are broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity,
socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, and
religion. The teaching load is two classes per term and all faculty are
expected to maintain a robust research agenda.
Please submit a cover letter, CV, statement of research interests, and the
names of 3 professional references. Additional materials will be requested by
the committee for candidates who make a second round of review. These include a
writing sample, a statement of teaching philosophy that addresses teaching and
mentoring a diverse student body, a syllabus, and teaching evaluations. Review
of applications will begin November 13, 2023 and continue until the position is
filled.
Special
Instructions Summary
All application materials should be submitted via UB Jobs. Application
materials submitted directly to the posting contact will not be acknowledged
and cannot be considered.
Please submit a cover letter, CV, statement of research interests, and the
names of 3 professional references. Additional materials will be requested by
the committee for candidates who make a second round of review. These include a
writing sample, a statement of teaching philosophy that addresses teaching and
mentoring a diverse student body, a syllabus, and teaching evaluations.
Contact's
Name: Dr. Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Contact's
Title: Professor and Committee Co-Chair
Contact's
Email: kwa...@buffalo.edu Contact's Phone: 716-645-2929
Deadline
for Applicants: Open Until Filled Date to be
filled: 08/19/2024
Number
of References Required 3
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Assistant Professor of Italian: Transnational Italian Studies, University of Pittsburgh, PA
The Department of French and Italian invites applications for a tenure-stream assistant professor working at the intersection of transnational Italian studies and one (or more) of our department’s four curricular and research networks: environment; gender & sexuality; film & media; and nation/translation
Candidates should be able to conduct research and teach courses in at least one of these areas (and ideally more than one): African Studies, Asian Studies, European Studies, Global Studies, Latin American Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Migration Studies, or Post-colonial Studies. Applicants may work in national, transnational, or global contexts; and they may work on any time period, across periods, or in multiple periods, though candidates working principally after 1700 are particularly welcome to apply. They may work in areas such as ethnicity studies; translation studies; visual studies; the circulation of media forms and products from and around Italian spaces; critical geography; the history of industry, design, and innovation; ecocriticism; and intellectual history. We welcome interests in the digital humanities and public humanities. The ability to run a Humanities research “lab” with undergraduates is also desirable, as is the ability to integrate creative initiatives such as theatre, performance, and creative writing into teaching and experiential projects. The teaching load is four courses per year at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Pending budgetary approval, the position will begin in the fall of 2024.
For the first round of consideration, please send a cover letter, article-length writing sample, diversity statement, and curriculum vitae to Prof. John Walsh, Interim Chair, Department of French and Italian, online at www.join.pitt.edu by October 27, 2023.
Applicants who advance to the second round of consideration will be invited to submit additional documents by November 17, 2023.
Please direct position questions to Prof. Walsh at jp...@pitt.edu.
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Assistant Professor of Italian, University of Richmond, VA
The Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Italian Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in August 2024
We seek a teacher-scholar with research and teaching interests in the 20th and/or 21st centuries. The department welcomes expertise in at least two of the following areas: Italian Literature, Cinema, and Culture; Mediterranean and Transcultural Studies; Ethnic and/or Minority studies; Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; Italian-American Culture and Literature; Translation Studies; Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism; Gender and Sexuality studies; Medical Humanities. Native or near-native fluency in Italian and English and a strong commitment to teaching at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum are required. We are particularly interested in applicants willing to engage in collaboration with the University’s programs in Film Studies, Global Studies, History, Art History, Classical Studies, WGSS (Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), and/or PPEL (Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law). Experience in language teaching and instructional technologies is preferred. The regular teaching load will be five courses per academic year.
Applicants should apply online at http://jobs.richmond.edu. Review of applications will commence on November 1, 2023, and continue until the position is filled. Please direct all inquiries about this position to Anthony Russell (arus...@richmond.edu), chair of the search committee and Coordinator of the Italian Studies Section.
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Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, University of Illinios, Urbana-Champaign
The Department of French and Italian Studies invites applications for a full-time tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of migration, diaspora, and minority Italian Studies
Possible fields of research specialization include but are not limited to: Minority Studies, Cultural Studies, Diaspora and Migration Studies, Gender Studies,
Race and Ethnicity Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Global Early Modern Studies. Applicants with an expertise in Sociolinguistics within the designated fields are strongly encouraged to apply. The candidate's research should focus on the question of Italian identity and diasporic and migrant communities. Both Italian as a minority in the Americas and minority groups in Italy are possible fields of specialization. Candidates with an expertise on Italian historical minorities (Jews, Roma), their racialization (the birth of the Ghetto in 15th century Venice and Rome); on new minorities; on the Italian migrant experience as minorities in the US are equally welcome to apply.
We welcome applications from scholars whose work expands beyond the canonical study of Italian culture and brings a variety of transversal, interdisciplinary and ethically informed perspectives to the field. Demonstrated familiarity with both online and in-person pedagogical practices is required. Successful candidates should be prepared to engage with diverse students across the liberal arts and actively attract them to the study of humanities.
The target starting date of appointment is August 16, 2024. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Questions about the position may be directed to the Chair of the Search Committee, Professor Eleonora Stoppino (stop...@illinois.edu).
To apply, create your candidate profile through https://jobs.illinois.edu and submit application materials by November 14, 2023.
For questions regarding the application process, please contact Illinois Human Resources at 217-333-2137.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Bard College, New York
The Division of Languages & Literature is looking for a candidate to occupy a full-time position for three semesters at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor beginning Spring 2024
Requirements: Ph.D./ABD in Italian Studies; native/near-native speakers of Italian and English, instructional technology and post-secondary teaching experience. Workload: the applicant is expected to teach three courses for each semester. The selected candidate will teach at least two courses each semester in the Italian Program (Italian language: Intermediate and Advanced Review Level; 200-level content course taught in Italian). They will also contribute to the First Year Seminar Program (taught in English, information here) and will teach language courses for the graduate music programs.
Candidates should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, writing sample of no more than 20 pages, and indicate two recommenders. Apply through Interfolio.
All applications must be received by November 1st, 2023. For information, please contact: Karen Raizen (kra...@bard.edu)
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Visiting Fellowship, Charles and Joan Alberto Institute
Seton Hall University, spring semester of 2023-24 academic year
This fellowship aims at providing young scholars in Italian Studies with the opportunity to live and do research for a period up to one month in the New York/New Jersey area and to be part of the Italian Studies community at Seton Hall University. We welcome candidates from any countries and specializing in any area of Italian Studies.
The fellowship will cover travel, health insurance, and lodging expenses (flight or train transportation from the city/country of origin and housing for one month) and will provide office space in the Walsh library, which is the home of the Valente Collection, the second largest Italian Studies book collection in New Jersey.
For more information, please visit the Institute's website.
Applications should be sent to Gabriella Romani, Ph.D., director of the Alberto Italian Studies Institute, at gabriell...@shu.edu by Friday, November 17, 2023. A selection of finalists will be contacted for an informal interview (by phone or Zoom) by the beginning of December 2023. Final candidates will be announced by the beginning of January 2024.