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Bloomsbury Seeking Authors for the Understanding Modern Nations Series [Announcement]
My name is Maxine Taylor and I’m a senior acquisitions editor at ABC-CLIO, now part of Bloomsbury Publishing. We are a premier reference publisher in the areas of history and the social sciences, and I acquire specifically in the areas of food, anthropology/world cultures, and health.
I’m currently seeking authors for our ongoing Understanding Moden Nations series. Each book focuses on a specific country and explores both the structure and functioning of the country as a whole and the daily lived experiences of the individuals who reside there. Coverage includes everything from a country’s politics, economy, and recent history to food, sport and leisure, and pop culture. These books are meant to be broad introductions to a country, offering readers a general and accessible overview. Each book is approximately 140,000–160,000 words in length and follows a standardized chapter structure.
We’re looking for authors who are natives of the particular country they’d like to write about and/or consider that country to be one of their academic areas of expertise. Authors can choose to write the entire manuscript themselves or co-author with up to two other individuals. Please note that because of the length of these books and the time commitment required (approximately 18 months for development), this opportunity is not suitable for individuals in the process of earning their doctoral degree.
If interested, please contact me at mta...@abc-clio.com for additional information, including more about the type of publishing we do, series guidelines and examples, and compensation information. Please be sure to include your CV and specify which country you’re interested in writing about. I look forward to hearing from you and hope we get the chance to work together!
Best,
Maxine
CfP: Engineering the Planet – Ethnographies of Experiment – Panel Proposal for the AES Spring Conference at University of British Columbia (May1-3, 2026) [Announcement]
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CfP: Engineering the Planet – Ethnographies of Experiment – Panel Proposal for the AES Spring Conference at University of British Columbia (May1-3, 2026)
Ethnographies of geoengineering have recently looked at discourse (Bellamy and Lezaun 2015, Whyte 2019, Paudel 2024), public perception (Merk 2019, Raimi 2021, Baum 2024), and relations of geoengineering with various ontologies (Hulme 2015, Bellamy and Palmer 2018, Bulk 2019), but rarely at practice and the role of experiment (Stillgoe 2015) in a field of science that is deeply critiqued for its relationship with experimenting.
How can ethnographers of geoengineering fill this gap? Because ethnography is often co-created with our interlocutors, the panel seeks to explore two sister questions: First, how do scientists involved in geoengineering think with experiment? Second, how must ethnographers experiment with their own practice in order to properly capture the everyday lives of geoengineering?
The Call for Panels closes Jan 15, 2026, so please send your proposal (paper title, 150-word abstracts, name, contact, and affiliation) to alexandra...@gmail.com by Jan 10, 2026.
One Month Left to Appy: USHMM Summer Fellowship [Announcement]
Summer Graduate Student Research Fellowships
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is pleased to offer annual Summer Graduate Student Research Fellowships designed for students accepted to or currently enrolled in a master’s degree program or in the first year of a PhD program at a college or university in North America.
Summer Graduate Student Research Fellowships support early-career graduate students in three-month residencies at the Mandel Center to provide them the opportunity to test ideas, share research findings, explore methodological processes, and develop frameworks for their projects. Each fellow works with a staff mentor who advises them on their project goals and helps guide their research in the Museum's collections. Fellows take part in training seminars that introduce key subjects, essential tools, and useful methods and approaches in Holocaust research. They also attend the Museum's scholarly and publicly available educational programs.
Awards are granted on a competitive basis. The Mandel Center welcomes applications from graduate students of all relevant academic disciplines, including, but not limited to, history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, psychology, sociology, film, memory studies, geography, anthropology, arts, music, and religious studies. Students working in other disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Residency Requirements
Summer Graduate Student Research Fellows are required to be in residence for three consecutive months, from early June through late August. Specific fellowship start and end dates vary depending on the year. The Mandel Center will provide a stipend of $5,000 per month, as well as an allowance to offset the cost of direct, economy-class travel to and from Washington, DC. Local awardees will not receive a travel allowance. The funds provided through this award may be subject to US federal and/or state tax. The Mandel Center cannot provide individual tax advice and is unable to provide visa assistance for non-US citizens.
Application Materials
The competition for 2026 Summer Graduate Student Research Fellowships opens on November 15, 2025. The deadline for submission is January 15, 2026, and applicants will be notified of the outcome by March 2026.
Applications must be submitted in English via our online application and consist of the following:
- An online application form
- A project proposal (in PDF format, not to exceed 1,000 words), which addresses the applicant's research topic as developed with a faculty member at their home institution, and should include:
- A curriculum vitae (in PDF format, not to exceed five single-spaced pages)
- A personal statement (in PDF format, not to exceed two single-spaced pages) that explains the applicant’s interest in the Holocaust and World War II, as well as how the fellowship will further their studies in this area
- One letter of recommendation from a faculty member or dean at the applicant’s institution
Visiting Scholar Programs
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
[Deadline extended] CFP: Digitalisation and (Un)Sustainability: Assessing Digital Waste and Material Pollution in the City (Abstracts: 31 December 2025) [Announcement]
Digitalisation and (Un)Sustainability: Assessing Digital Waste and Material Pollution in the City
Letizia Chiappini (University of Twente / NIAS-KNAW), Valeria Ferrari (University of Bologna), and Athanasios Votsis (University of Twente)
Deadline for Abstracts: 31 December 2025 | Deadline for Full Papers: 15-30 April 2026
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Dear colleagues,
Urban Planning, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Web of Science (Impact Factor: 1.7) and Scopus (CiteScore: 3.8), welcomes articles for the thematic issue "Digitalisation and (Un)Sustainability: Assessing Digital Waste and Material Pollution in the City", edited by Letizia Chiappini (University of Twente / NIAS-KNAW), Valeria Ferrari (University of Bologna), and Athanasios Votsis (University of Twente). Authors interested in contributing an article to this thematic issue are asked to read the full call for papers at https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/issue/futureissues#i531
Abstract submission until 31 December 2025.
If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us. Happy holiday season!
Best wishes,
Tiago
Tiago Cardoso
Urban Planning
Cogitatio Press
www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning
Tiago Cardoso
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