Lecturer (Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies)

Lecturer in Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies
Australian National University, College of Arts and Social Sciences

Job no: 535130
Classification: Academic Level B
Salary package: $99,809 - $113,165 per annum plus 17% superannuation
Terms: Full Time, Continuing

Advertised: https://jobs.anu.edu.au/en/job/535130/lecturer-sociology-of-islam-and-muslim-societies

Position overview

The Centre is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in the Sociology of Islam and Muslim societies. The appointee’s research profile should be rooted in sociological perspectives or political sociology on the religion and culture of Islam and Muslim societies. Research can focus on aspects of the global and complex majority Muslim societies and/or minority status of Muslims in various socio-political contexts.  It is desirable that the research makes a distinctive contribution to the field of sociology.

The appointee will need to work collegially with staff members within the Centre and the wider College of Arts and Social Sciences at ANU. This position requires active independent contribution to research, undergraduate and graduate teaching and the supervision of research students.   The appointee will contribute to the intellectual life of the Centre, College of Arts and Social Sciences and wider ANU community.

The Centre of Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia), at the Australian National University (ANU) is a leading interdisciplinary research and teaching Centre focusing on the Middle East and Central Asia regions at one of Australia’s premier universities. The appointee will be required to maintain and further the Centre’s research, education, and programs, and will be expected to maintain and further develop their research, disciplinary, policy networks to enhance the Centre’s position both nationally, and globally.

The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) is one of seven Colleges at ANU. The College, which is structured into two main research schools, offers degrees in more than 20 discipline areas and excels in research across the creative arts, humanities and social sciences. The College has a substantial international research presence and is a major source of national policy advice. Our academic staff are internationally recognised for their research, and 57 are members of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia, or both. We also host 13 Australian Research Council Future Fellows and three ARC Laureates. A hub of vibrant activity, we host more than 270 lectures, concerts and exhibitions each year, most of which are open to the public. Our students, staff and graduates come from more than 60 nations, bringing a diversity of perspective to campus life.

For further information please contact Ms Janja Peric,Senior Centre Administrator,  Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies, T: +61 2 6125 1061 E: janja.peric@anu.edu.au

ANU values diversity and inclusion and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to those of all backgrounds and identities. For more information about staff equity at ANU, visit services.anu.edu.au/human-resources/respect-inclusion

Application information

In order to apply for this role please make sure that you upload the following documents:

• A statement addressing the selection criteria.

• A current curriculum vitae (CV) which includes the names and contact details of at least three referees (preferably including a current or previous supervisor). If your CV does not include referees you can complete these online when prompted in the application form.

• A covering letter outlining a three to five-year research plan with intended publications, and a teaching profile including an offer of two new proposed courses to complement the Centre's teaching portfolio.

• Other documents, if required.

Applications which do not provide the covering letter or address the selection criteria may not be considered for the position.

Position Description & Selection Criteria
Advertised: 20 Dec 2019 09:00:00 AM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 02 Mar 2020 11:55:00 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time

CFP: Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India:Cinematic Representations and Nationalist / Fascist Agendas

Call for Proposals
 
Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India:
Cinematic Representations and Nationalist / Fascist Agendas             
 
Editors: Swapna Gopinath and Rutuja Deshmukh
 
Call for papers for a book approved for publication by Routledge, on Bollywood cinema, expected to fall within the interdisciplinary spaces of Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Postcolonial Studies.
The rise and rise of Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism or political Hindu agenda that has engulfed India has also initiated the favorite pursuit of right wing of invoking the ‘glorious past’. This ‘glorious past is primarily being invoked by a surge of historical(s) in Bollywood. 

Indian Popular Cinema has evolved through various genres and has successfully and consistently borrowed plots from History to create classics like Mughal-e-Azam (1960) and Meera (1979). As a technology, able to picture and embody the temporality of the past, cinema has become central to the mediation of collective memory through History. While past in representational terms has been figured in variations of Historical film- the costume drama, heritage picture or historical biopic from early cinema have come to surround the culture of the film.

Bollywood cinema as a popular cultural practice negotiates the socioeconomic and political discourses that define the social structures, the dialectical nature of this relationship creating a political dimension to the cultural processes at any given point in time. Contemporary India, at a critical juncture, opens up spaces for discussions and deliberations on the fast-paced social changes and a study of the politics of representations seems the need of the hour. Cinema responds in manifest ways and one genre, typically representative of the age of re-readings and re-writings of history, is the historical films. Historical films getting released in the last few years have been increasing in numbers and are often accompanied by controversies and debates on the veracity of these representations. Questions asked on the authenticity of these representations urge researchers to probe deeper into these works of art, as well as these questions being asked. The histories chosen, the protagonists selected, the narrative strategies employed, the target audience as well as the critics – all these multifarious aspects demand close reading and the proposed text seeks to explore them.     

The progression of cinema as a political tool and cultural medium is rooted in the wider society; cinema has reacted to and in turn shaped the changing political, social and economic conditions of the times. The projection of past in a popular medium depends on various perceptions of history that has been in circulation in the popular culture. Till date cinema has borrowed representations of historicity from both academic and non-academic association with history. 
Looking at History and its representation as a specific framework, we invite papers for proposed book chapters on Contemporary Cinema and Construction of History.
The book aims to blend academic papers and film screenings providing a platform to discuss cinematic historical interventions and transformations in India. Papers are expected to address but are not limited to:
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• Construction of memory and identity 

• Precision of digital and tactile past 

• Aesthetic conception of propaganda

• Gender and depiction of historical moments

• Egomania and servitude in the depiction of historical battles 

• The politics of reception and production

•  The hero and the protagonist and the public imagination

• Imagining a past and its cinematic representation

The last date for submitting abstracts is March 15, 2020. Please mail your abstract of 500 words to historicalsbollywood@gmail.com

Suggested Reading List
Landy, Marcia (1986) Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema 1930-1943, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Kapur, Geeta (1987) ‘Mythic Material in Indian Cinema’, Journal of Arts and Ideas, vols 14-15, pp. 211-27
Laine, J. W. (2003) Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Jaffrelot, C. (1996) The Hindu Nationalists Movement and Indian Politics: 1925 to the 1990s, New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 
Hobsbawm, E. (1983) ‘Introduction: Inventing Traditions’, in E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger, eds, The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
Sontag, S. (1981) Under the Sign of Saturn, US, Random House, Inc. New York. 
Benjamin, W. (1936) ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, in Marxists.org, https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

 Thank you,
Swapna Gopinath
Research fellow, Dept of Art and Art History
Uty of Rochester, NY

Call for Edited Collection: Mobilities on Screen (Routledge)

Editor: Dr Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University)

This edited collection aims to capture the way human mobility is represented on screen (any type of screen: cinema, television, museum or public displays, tourist information, urban advertising, mobile devices etc). The project is based on the premise that human mobility is a major defining aspect of contemporary life, that mobility has become the paradigm of being and creating in the world, one that affects not just the creative industries and traditional media content and consumption, but also everyday life and banal practices and engagements with screen media.

For the purpose of this collection mobility is conceptualized as both movement and connection/disconnection. Mobility would refer in this instance to the liquidity of contemporary life, migration, media spreadability, communication growth, transmediality, networking, activism, cosmopolitanism, travel and tourism etc. Papers that apply or provide a theoretical update of globalization, post-colonialism, cosmopolitanism, tourism, place-making, network theory, transmedia production and consumption, prosumer theory, and diasporization, are particularly welcome. Equally, innovative methods of capturing mobilities on screen are invited. We expect authors to provide contemporary screen media examples which represent human mobility, but also illuminate creative industry contexts and practices, as well as inform our understanding of prosumer and fandom performance. In particular, the contributions should make it clear how the case study captures various expressions of change, transition, in-betweenness, liquidity, travel, fragmentation, remaking and connecting. Case studies are not limited to any geographical region.

Routledge has expressed a strong interest in publishing this collection.

Please send chapter proposals of approximately 300 words (with a short bio) to Ruxandra Trandafoiu trandar@edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:trandar@edgehill.ac.uk> by 31st of January 2020. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 2nd of March 2020. Full chapter drafts of 6000-7000 words are due by 28 September 2020.

Lecturer in Philosophy - full-time, 2yr fixed-term

Job No.: 593749

Location: Clayton campus

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: 2 year fixed term appointment 

Remuneration: $97,203 - $115,429 pa Level B (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Be inspired, every day

• Drive your own learning at one of the world’s top 80 universities

• Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions

Everyone needs a platform to launch a satisfying career. At Monash, we give you the space and support to take your career in all kinds of exciting new directions. You’ll have access to quality research infrastructure and learning facilities, as well as opportunities to collaborate internationally. We’re a university full of energetic and enthusiastic minds, driven to challenge what’s expected, expand what we know, and learn from other inspiring, empowering thinkers.

The Opportunity

The School of Philosophy wants to equip its students to discuss difficult, profound and Important questions about the world, other people and ourselves. We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer to join our team, to continue our works of excellence across this area.

The successful applicant will contribute to teaching, research, and graduate supervision in the Philosophy Department. The area of research specialisation is Philosophy of Mind, and Metaphysics/Epistemology more broadly. The successful candidate will teach in Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Mind, and Introduction to Philosophy, and experience in these areas will be favourably considered.

The successful candidate will likely have a strong record of accomplishment or potential for high-quality research in philosophy of mind and cognition, and will be contributing to the research activities in the department. The candidate may also contribute to administrative service, commensurate with expertise and experience, within the Department and/or School.

This role is a full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

The successful applicant will start in July 2019 or January 2020. 

At Monash University, we are committed to being a Child Safe organisation. This position at the University will require the incumbent to hold a valid Working with Children Check.   

For instructions on how to apply, please refer to “How to apply for Monash Jobs”.

Enquiries

Professor Jakob Hohwy, Head, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, +61 3 9905 3208, Jakob.Hohwy@monash.edu

Position Description

Lecturer - Philosophy

Closing Date

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 11:55 pm AEST

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Modern History (full-time, continuing)

Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: Continuing appointment
Remuneration: $97,203 - $115,429 pa Level B / $119,072 - $137,298 pa Level C (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Be inspired, every day

• Enjoy the freedom to discover something new

• Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions

There’s a certain feeling you get from working at Monash University. It’s the feeling that you’re a part of something special. Something significant. So if you’re looking for the next chapter in your career, it’s here. You’ll be given the opportunity to challenge yourself, build on your skills, and make a significant contribution to a workplace that’s filled with energetic and inspiring people. Talent thrives here – and so do truly satisfying careers.

The Opportunity

Monash University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Modern History. This ongoing teaching and research position offers an opportunity for an outstanding early career scholar to further their career in an academic department renowned for the quality of its research and teaching.

The Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Modern History will have a scholarly profile in any field of history, although preference may be given to applicants who specialise in global or transnational history, social and cultural history, or the histories of the Indo-Pacific. A demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence and pedagogical innovation, and the capacity to win external funding for research, are essential requirements for the position. Much of the curriculum in the discipline of history at Monash is team-taught, and the Lecturer or Senior Lecturer will be required to teach into established units, and contribute to the process of curriculum development, in both history and international studies.

This role is a full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

At Monash University, we are committed to being a Child Safe organisation. This position at the University will require the incumbent to hold a valid Working with Children Check.   

If you have a passion for research and teaching in history, and believe you can fulfil the requirements of this high-profile role, you are strongly encouraged to apply.

Your application must address the selection criteria. Please refer to "How to apply for Monash Jobs".

Enquiries

Associate Professor Carolyn James, Head of History, +61 3 990 53267, carolyn.james@monash.edu

Position Description

 Lecturer - Modern History

 Senior Lecturer - Modern History

Closing Date

Sunday 11 August 2019, 11:55 pm AEST

Research Fellow, 2yrs - Indigenous People and Epigenetic Science

Research Fellow – ‘Indigenous People and Epigenetic Science'

Job no: 494523
Work type: Full-time
Location: Melbourne - Burwood
Categories: Education

Work in the Faculty of Art and Education, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

The Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation aims to understand complex social issues associated with globalising processes through innovative, mixed method multidisciplinary research. With a focus on disseminating our research through high-impact channels, engaging in partnerships and supporting high-quality researchers and doctoral students, we seek to contribute to knowledge construction and influence research developments, public debates and policy agendas

• Full-time, 24 months Fixed Term

• Level B $97,398 + 17% Superannuation 

• Based at our Melbourne Burwood campus

The Role

This two-year position focuses on the project 'Indigenous people and epigenetic science' led by Prof Emma Kowal (Deakin), Prof Megan Warin (Adelaide) and A/Prof Maurizio Meloni (Deakin). Epigenetics is a rapidly evolving science concerned with how life experiences, such as trauma or stress, can modify DNA and be passed on to negatively affect children's (and possibly grandchildren's) health and development.

Drawing on anthropology, and science and technology studies, the overall study aims to: 1) investigate how epigenetics is being received by Indigenous Australians, and 2) identify the potential risks and opportunities that narratives of biosocial damage entail. The research aims to understand how the interplay of biology, race, and society are unfolding at the intersection of different knowledge systems and at the forefront of technological progress.

The Research Fellow project will be tailored to the skills and interests of the successful applicant, but will broadly involve social social research with Indigenous people and scientists engaged in projects involving epigenetics in Australia.

Your key responsibilities will include

• provide an excellent contribution to the Faculty’s research programs

• exhibit and/or publish high quality research in journals of high repute

• contribute to the achievement of Deakin’s strategic goals in research, engagement and innovation

• contribute to the research achievement of the Faculty

• undertake professional and administrative roles and responsibilities that enhance the discipline and Deakin

• develop relationships with research, community, industry and government for enhanced research outcomes

To be successful, you’ll have

• PhD in a relevant discipline

• emerging research and scholarship through publications, and/or exhibitions as appropriate to the discipline

• ability to make a contribution to communities through research

•  capacity to contribute to research and administration

• excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues

For a copy of the position description, please see below:

 Final PD - Research Fellow.pdf

Applications for this position close on 31st July 2019.

Please ensure to include a cover letter, resume and responses to the Key Selection Criteria in your application.

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, please contact Luke Cuttance Executive Officer, Alfred Deakin Institute Telephone +61 3 9244 6384 luke.cuttance@deakin.edu.au

Research Fellow, lvl A, 12 months, 0.8FTE - Bioethics in the Anthropocene

Research Fellow

Job no: 494524
Work type: Part-time
Location: Geelong - Waurn Ponds
Categories: Education

Project - Bioethics in the Antipodes: A history of Australian bioethics since the 1980s’

• Level A $68,913 + 17% Superannuation 

• Fixed term 12 month, part – time 0.8 FTE

Based at our Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus , this exciting role sits within the Faculty or Arts and Education in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and is Fixed Term 12 month part time role (29.4 hours per week)

As a Research Fellow, you contribute to the coordination and research activities of the Australian Research Council funded Discovery Early Career Research Award project ‘Bioethics in the Antipodes: a history of Australian bioethics since the 1980s’. This project explores how and why bioethics emerged in the 1980s as a discursive and regulatory response to perceived problems with medical research and practice. The Associate Research Fellow will contribute to the collection and analysis of archival materials, primary sources, and oral testimony.

Your key responsibilities will include

• provide an excellent contribution to the Faculty’s research programs

• exhibit and/or publish high quality research in journals of high repute

• contribute to the achievement of Deakin’s strategic goals in research, engagement and innovation

• contribute to the research achievement of the Faculty

• undertake professional and administrative roles and responsibilities that enhance the discipline and Deakin

• develop relationships with research, community, industry and government for enhanced research outcomes

To be successful, you’ll have

• emerging research and scholarship through publications in sociology of health, bioethics, or related areas

• ability to make a contribution to communities through research

• capacity to contribute to research and administration, including organisation of academic events

• excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues

Applications for this position close on 30th June 2019.

Please ensure to include a cover letter, resume and responses to the Key Selection Criteria in your application.

For a copy of the position description, please see below:

 PD - Research Fellow.pdf

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, please contact Luke Cuttance, Executive Officer, ADI on 9244 6384 or Luke.Cuttance@deakin.edu.au

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: ageing, gender, life course and social exclusion

The Division Ageing and Social Change (ASC), Department of Social and Welfare Studies (ISV) at Linköping University, Sweden, is seeking to recruit to the following position:

     Postdoctoral fellow - ageing, gender, life course and social exclusion

The postdoctoral fellow will work within the international comparative research project ‘GENPATH - GENdered PATHways of Social Exclusion in Later Life’ (https://liu.se/en/research/genpath) within an consortium of partners in seven European countries.

The holder of the advertised position will primarily work with research, will contribute to the methodological support of further ongoing research at ASC and may carry out teaching limited to 20 percent of full time.

      The application deadline is April 24, 2019.

Informal enquiries may be made to Andreas Motel-Klingebiel (andreas.motel-klingebiel@liu.se). For further details see ttps://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=10735&rmlang=UK   

AAWP x UWRF17 Emerging Writers Prize (closes 30th June 2017)

Are you an emerging writer based in Australasia? Would you like to travel to the UWRF17 for a once-in-a-lifetime literary experience, plus have the opportunity to see your work published in Meniscus magazine?

In partnership with the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), we are proud to announce the return of the AAWP x UWRF17 Emerging Writers’ Prize. Enter your short story or poem based on this year’s UWRF theme, ‘Origins’, and take advantage of this generous opportunity.

The winner of the 2017 prize will receive a ticket to Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF), accommodation for the duration of the festival and $500 towards economy airfares. In addition, you will receive a one-year annual membership to the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) and fully subsidised conference fees to attend their annual conference, where you will be invited to read from your work. In addition, the editors at Meniscus will consider your work for publication.

Sound good? Browse the ins-and-outs below and get writing!

THE PRIZE

Enter your short story or poem to the ‘AAWP/UWRF Emerging Writers’ Prize’ for your chance to win. 

If you win you will receive — a ticket to the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF), accommodation for the duration of the festival and $500 towards economy airfares. In addition, you will receive a one-year annual membership to the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) and fully subsidised conference fees to attend the annual conference of the AAWP, where you are invited to read from your work. The editors at Meniscus will consider your work for publication. 

Take advantage of this stunning opportunity to celebrate the craft of writing at South East Asia’s largest and most exciting literary festival. Be welcomed in to the thriving community of writers within the AAWP. Enter your short story or poem and take advantage of this generous publication pathway and networking opportunity for emerging writers.  

THE THEME: 'ORIGINS'

The theme – drawn from the Hindu philosophy ‘Sangkan Paraning Dumadi’ – speaks of our eternal connection to where we have come from, and to where we will ultimately return. 

“Last year’s theme of ‘Tat Tvam Asi’, or ‘I am you, you are me’, was a powerful exploration of our connectedness, to each other, as individuals,” explains Founder & Director Janet DeNeefe. 

“At a time of global unrest and political turmoil, ‘Origins’ invites us to consider the biggest picture – to contemplate not just our connections from person to person, but as a collective humanity extending across people, the planet and periods of time.”

Across the Festival’s five-day program, the theme will unfold the powerful movements which have influenced and continue to shape the world – from the political to the technological, environmental to spiritual – and their cyclical manifestations throughout our existence. It will challenge audiences to consider the origins of the elements that shape us, the things we carry with us through life, and the things that draw us back. 

“By cultivating a universal perspective and shifting away from the cult of the individual, we instil in our Festival audiences the possibility of truly affirmative action,” continued DeNeefe. “If we are no longer constrained by our individual perspectives, what are our responsibilities, and what is within our power to achieve together?”

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

1. This competition is open to emerging writers across Australasia. Emerging writers will not have a full-length, single-authored, commercially published, print publication in any genre. Emerging writers who have published in electronic format only, or who have published work in collections showcasing multiple authors, are eligible.
2. The Prize opens on the 15 February 2017 and closes at midnight on 30th June 2017. Late submissions will not be accepted. The winner will be announced on the UWRF website and the AAWP website no later than 30th August 2017.
3. Entries should not exceed 30 lines (poetry) or 3000 words (prose).
4. Entries should respond to the UWRF theme. The 2017 theme is ‘Origins’.
5. The entry should be formatted as follows — line spacing: 1.5, font size: 12 point, font: Times New Roman.
6. You may enter as many times as you wish. Subsequent entries incur a separate fee.
7. Any entries that do not follow the rules will be disqualified. If an entry is disqualified no refund will be given.
8. Entries may not be altered after they have been submitted.
9. The UWRF/AAWP reserves the right to disqualify any entry that breaches the rules.
10. The judges’ verdict is final. No correspondence or discussion.
11. The award is for unpublished writing, including online publication.

HOW TO ENTER

Entry is via: https://meniscusliteraryjournal.submittable.com/submit/58621

Please go to the aawp.org.au for further information: available under News (Opportunities) or Journals (Meniscus).

The entry fee is $20.

CFP: Feminist Politics and Activism in Reactionary Eras

CFP: Journal Articles

'Feminist Politics and Activism in Reactionary Eras'

The Dutch Journal of Feminist Studies seeks submissions for a special issue on feminist politics and activism for Spring 2018. In this issue, we want to consider the historical and contemporary effects of feminism as a global force. Is feminism past its time, or is it rising from the ashes as a unifying discourse amidst the rise of reactionary forces across the globe? Are feminisms infused within State governance, or marginal to it? What can we learn from the contemporary moment by looking to the political scenarios of previous decades?  We invite papers that provide different evaluations on the state of feminist movements cross nationally, including theoretical essays, empirical or archival research. Themes may include:

1.     The place of feminist movements amid the growth of right-wing movements – are feminist movements unifying forces across divides of race, class, caste, nationality or religion, or do they prioritize gender as the primary problem? Will they be rejuvenated, or transformed, by the fierce opposition they encounter?

2.     Feminism in the era of neoliberalism: can feminist movements thrive within neoliberal regimes? To what extent is neoliberalism contributing to the institutionalization and cooptation of feminism How do feminisms respond to the growing inequalities of class, region, race and indigeneity generated by neoliberal governance? What kinds of alternatives to neo-liberalism have feminist movements imagined?

3.     What is the relationship between global, national and local feminisms?  How do we map the connections and contradictions between global, national and local issues? To what extent have local feminist campaigns called upon global norms and engaged in transnational advocacy?

4.     What forms of women’s movements are excluded by using the term feminism? What are alternate discourses through which notions of gender equality are expressed, and what is their relationship to feminist politics?

5.     What is feminist movements’ relationships to the category women, and to the category gender? What are the contradictions in mobilizing around these two terms?

Papers should be 8000 to 9000 words in length, and are due by June 30 2017. 

Please direct inquiries to the Special Issue Editors, Srimati Basu (srimati.basu@uky.edu) and Akiko Takenaka (akiko.takenaka@uky.edu)

Call for Applications: Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship

Description: Media@McGill is a hub of interdisciplinary research, scholarship and public outreach on issues in media, technology and culture, located in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. To see the list of former postdoctoral fellowships, click here.

Media@McGill’s residential postdoctoral fellowships are awarded to scholars from the humanities and social sciences, working on any historical period. The 2017-2018 fellowship is dedicated to the theme of “Migrant Media.”

Fellows are provided with a workspace, and are expected to take an active role in the research activities and academic life of Media@McGill (participation in conferences, seminars, etc.). They may also have the possibility of teaching a course within the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill.

Eligibility: The Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship is open to both national and international scholars who have completed their doctoraldegree in a university other than McGill no earlier than June 1, 2013. Candidates must have defended their dissertation and received their PhD by May 1, 2017. Fluency in English is essential; working knowledge of French is an asset.

Value and Duration: The stipend for the Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship is $45,000 CAD for 12 months (this includes a travel research stipend) beginning in September 2017.

Application Process Deadlines: Media@McGill will be offering one Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2017-2018.

1. In a cover letter, applicants must stipulate how their research is related to Media@McGill’s mission statement and Media@McGill’s 2017-18 theme: Migrant Media. Applicants should also identify a potential faculty supervisor from the McGill Department of Art History and Communication Studies, who is a member of Media@McGill and whose research is closely tied to that of the applicant. Please do not contact the potential supervisor at this stage.

The following should be included in all statements of interest and be sent in a single pdf (the application will not be accepted otherwise). The documents’ order follows the list below:

1. a cover letter; 
2. a research proposal (750 words);
3. a Curriculum Vitae (maximum 5 pages).

Deadline: Completed statements of interest should be sent to mediaatmcgill.ahcs@mcgill.ca by Friday, February 3, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T.

2. Statements of interest will be reviewed by the Media@McGill potential supervisor, and candidates will be notified of results shortly after. If successful, the short-listed applicants will be asked to provide the following additional documents:

1. official copies of transcripts during graduate studies;
2. three letters of recommendation (one of which is by the potential Media@McGill faculty supervisor);
3. a writing sample (maximum 20 pages).

Deadline: Completed statements of interest should be sent to mediaatmcgill.ahcs@mcgill.ca by Friday, March 24, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. E.D.T.Applications will be reviewed by Media@McGill’s Steering Committee, and candidates will be notified of results in early May 2017.

For additional information, please contact mediaatmcgill.ahcs@mcgill.ca.

Northedge Prize

2017 Call for Submissions:

Established in 1986 to commemorate the invaluable contribution of the late Professor F.S. Northedge to the creation of Millennium: Journal of International Studies, the annual Northedge Essay Competition furthers a Millennium tradition of publishing exceptional student scholarship in a leading IR journal. The winning essay will be published in the first issue of the next volume.

The essay may be on any topic within International Relations or related areas of study, but critical papers that engage with progressive issues, innovative approaches, and philosophical arguments, are especially welcomed. The essay must be doubled-spaced and of approximately 7,000 to 9,000 words in length.

The Northedge Essay Competition is open to any student who is currently pursuing or has recently completed a degree in International Relations or a related field.  The essay may be part of a doctoral research project, an essay or dissertation submitted as part of an undergraduate or Masters’ degree course, a seminar paper, or similar work. Essays must not have been previously published, or simultaneously submitted for consideration elsewhere. For undergraduate or Masters’ degree candidates whose essays form part of the requirements for a degree awarded by examination, essays must be submitted to the competition after the examination process has been concluded. Selected essays will be peer-reviewed and judged by the Editors on the basis of the essay’s contribution to the advancement of the field, originality of the argument, and scholarly presentation.

The deadline for consideration in the 2017 Northedge Competition is 15 January, 2017. Submissions can be made via email to millennium@lse.ac.uk .

CFP: Intersectional Inquiries and Collaborative Action: Gender and Race Conference, University of Notre Dame, March 2-4, 2017

The University of Notre Dame’s Gender Studies Program is happy to announce its fourth biennial international conference: Intersectional Inquiries and Collaborative Action: Gender and Race

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana USA
March 2-4, 2017

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, October 1, 2016

Questions of race and gender continue to undergird broad sections of inquiry in the academy and beyond. The ongoing legacies and current manifestations of racism and sexism continue to demand intellectual analysis, institutional recognition, and collective intervention. Reaching a critical crescendo during the political upheavals of the 1960s’ civil rights/anti-colonial era and the responding cultural turn in the humanities, Black feminists have discussed the ways in which both race and gender are co-constitutive and rely on intersecting paradigms of power and constructions of difference. Indeed, the concept of “intersectionality,” coined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, has become a key mode of framing how identities and sites of contestation around identity are multiple and complex. Furthermore, critics and activists from a myriad of socio-political milieus have underscored the importance of intersectional approaches in struggles for social justice and in the making of inclusive public spaces. From feminist scholarship to human rights policy to commentary via Twitter memes, intersectionality as a theoretical concept, method of analysis, and mode of collaborative action circulates in both grassroots and intellectual discourse.

The Intersectional Inquiries conference will offer a platform for scholars from various fields to interrogate the intersections of race and gender--as manifested materially and discursively--from a broad range of historical, global, and contemporary contexts. We call on scholars, activists, and students to attend rigorously to the ways that race structures gender, sexualities, class, and dis/ability and the dominating matrices of biopolitical violence and imperialism, as well as to trace how racialized subjectivities and non-normative embodiments challenge and radically fracture hierarchy. With this conference, our hope is to inspire impactful intellectual dialogue and assist in building ties that might lead to scholarly- and social justice-focused collaborations.

Our confirmed keynote speaker is Professor Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.  Professor Collins recently co-authored Intersectionality (Polity 2016) with Sirma Bilge.  Her first book, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge 1990), won the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association for significant scholarship in gender, and the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.  Professor Collins is also the author and editor of several books dealing with race, gender, education, and politics, including On Intellectual Activism (Temple 2012); Another Kind of Public Education: Race, the Media, Schools, and Democratic Possibilities (Beacon 2009); and From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (Temple 2006).  

Topics

The Organizing Committee invites proposals for individual papers, pre-constituted panels, pre-constituted roundtables, and creative works that address one or more of the following topics, or other topics aligned with the conference theme:

• immigration
• globalism
• coloniality and imperialism
• violence, terror, and war
• social movements and activism
• electoral politics
• neoliberalism
• sexualities
• disability
• religion and spirituality
• education
• environment, climate change, and sustainability
• space, place, and geography
• labor and economics
• family and marriage
• literature, visual culture, and performance
• popular culture (social media, film, television, music, sports, gaming, etc.)
• digitization and technicity
• theory and/or methodology
• feminist jurisprudence.

Submission Guidelines

The deadline for submissions is 11:59 PM (US Eastern Daylight Time) on Saturday, October 1, 2016.

Please submit your proposal here:

NDIntersectional.submittable.com/submissions You will first need to become a member of Submittable (which is easy and free).

To allow for as many voices as possible at the conference, proposers may apply for only two of the following roles: paper presenter, creative works presenter, panel chair, roundtable coordinator, or roundtable participant.  

We welcome submissions from scholars, activists, artists, and students, including those at the undergraduate level.Open Call Papers

Individuals submitting paper proposals should provide an abstract of 250 words, a short bio, and contact information. Co-authored papers are acceptable.

Pre-constituted Panels

Panel chairs should submit a 250-word rationale for the pre-constituted panel as a whole.  For each participant, chairs should submit a 250-word presentation abstract, a short bio, and contact information. Panels should include 3-4 papers. Co-authored papers are acceptable.  Panels that include a diversity of panelist affiliations and experience levels are strongly encouraged.

Pre-constituted Roundtables

Roundtable coordinators should submit a 250-word rationale for the pre-constituted roundtable as a whole.  For each participant, coordinators should submit a 250-word abstract of planned comments, a short bio, and contact information. Roundtables should include no more than 6 participants (inclusive of coordinator).  Roundtables that include a diversity of panelist affiliations and experience levels are strongly encouraged. Roundtable participants’ remarks at the conference should be brief in order to create substantive discussion with attendees.

Open Call Creative Works

Proposals for audiovisual and other creative works should consist of a 250-word abstract (including the length and format of the work), a short bio of the producer/director, contact information, and requirements for exhibition. Co-authored work is acceptable.  If the work is viewable online, please submit a URL.

More Information

Please direct any questions about the conference and the submission process to: NDIntersectional@gmail.com.

Updates about the conference schedule, events, travel and lodging, and more will be posted here.

Conference Organizers: Tara Hudson, Z'étoile Imma, Mary Celeste Kearney, and Christine Venter, University of Notre Dame.

University of Notre Dame Co-Sponsors: Center for Civil and Human Rights, Center for Social Movements, Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, College of Engineering, Department of Africana Studies, Department of American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Art, Art History, & Design, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of English, Department of Film, Television, & Theatre, Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Theology, Gender Studies Program, Graduate School, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Institute for Latino Studies, Kroc Institute for Peace Studies, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Program of Liberal Studies, and Undergraduate Studies, College of Arts & Letters.

PhD Scholarship: Technology and Domestic Violence

The Melbourne Networked Society Institute, in conjunction with the Melbourne Research Alliance to End Violence against women and their children (MAEVe), is looking for a talented student to undertake a PhD focusing on technology and domestic violence.

The Institute has available one scholarship for an appropriately qualified student to commence research in 2016 in this exciting area. (For original advertisement click here). 

Technology and Domestic Violence

Domestic and family violence is a common hidden problem with major social and health effects on women, their children, young people and men. Technology can be harnessed to abuse others but also as an innovative way to respond to and connect people effected by domestic and family violence to services.  The research will focus on new opportunities in under resourced areas i.e. responding to children and young people in families where abuse is happening, men who use violence in their relationships, family and friends of people affected by family violence. The testing of new models using technology for these populations will address conceptual and practical challenges concerning safety issues, data utilisation and privacy.

About you

You will have an education background in social work, health, psychology, cultural studies, sociology; law; computer science or informatics.

You should have obtained a first class Honours or Masters Degree and you will need to be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or an Australian permanent resident.

Applicants are required to meet the University of Melbourne’s requirements for a Research Higher Degree candidature and the award of an Australian Postgraduate Award.

About the Scholarship

The Institute is offering one scholarship for a student to undertake research on technology and domestic violence. You will receive an Australian Postgraduate Award, which provides a fortnightly stipend. In addition, MNSI will support the successful applicant with a further $3,000 top-up payment and $2,000 for travel expenses each year.

As a scholarship holder, you will also be a member of the Institute’s Doctoral Academy.

Project Supervision

Depending on the background of the candidate, project supervision could be undertaken across the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Melbourne School of Engineering, the Melbourne School of Arts or Melbourne Law School.

About MNSI

The Melbourne Networked Society Institute (MNSI) is an interdisciplinary research Institute that seeks to examine the challenges and opportunities arising from the increased connectivity between people, places and things. The Institute supports a wide range of innovative research projects that aim to further understanding and utilisation of the networked society.

About MAEVe

MAEVe strives to make a difference to the lives of women, families and communities by addressing and preventing the problem of violence against women through interdisciplinary and intra-institutional collaboration. Preventing and responding to violence against women and children is not the domain or responsibility of any one discipline. MAEVe believes that by working together we can be more effective and innovative in our ongoing efforts to end violence against women and their children.

Further information: http://maeve.unimelb.edu.au/

How to Apply

Please complete the expression of interest form (below) and send a completed copy, along with a letter describing your relevant background and experience, your CV, writing sample (thesis chapter or publication), academic transcript and academic references as a single pdf document to Fiorella Chiodo: fmchiodo@unimelb.edu.au by 5:00pm Friday 2 September 2016.  

MNSI Technology and Domestic Violence PhD Expression of Interest Form

Please note that, if successful, you are also required to submit an application for a University of Melbourne Graduate Research Degree and Scholarship. http://futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/admissions/applications/research

Assistant Professor: International Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Assistant Professor of International Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Full Time, Tenure Track, Close Date: 15 October 2016

Position Summary

The International Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Programs at Trinity College announce a joint tenure-track position at the assistant professor level for an innovative scholar of transnationalism whose work focuses on gender and sexuality, is informed by feminist and queer theory, and is rigorously interdisciplinary in its approach to the world. We particularly encourage applications from candidates whose work focuses on peoples, institutions, discourses, and practices outside North America and Europe. The successful applicant will be expected to teach courses in his/her specialty as well as core courses in both programs, including an introductory course in gender and sexuality studies with a transnational focus and an upper level course in feminist and queer theory. INTS and WMGS are interdisciplinary programs, and we welcome applicants from any discipline. Teaching load is 2/2 for the first two years (and 3/2 thereafter) with a one-semester leave every fourth year. The successful candidate will be housed jointly in the International Studies Program and the Women, Gender and Sexuality Program.

Qualifications

Ph.D. in hand or expected by July 1, 2017.

Special Instructions to Applicants

Applicants should submit a letter of application, CV, writing sample, a sample syllabus, and contact information (email addresses) for three individuals who will provide letters of reference. All application materials are due by October 15, 2016.

Once a completed dossier is submitted, automatic emails will be generated to each reference provider, directing each referee to a unique URL where he or she must go to upload a letter of recommendation. Applicants using Interfolio (or other dossier service) should provide the appropriate unique Interfolio email address for each reference letter writer.

Posting NumberF00064

Posting Specific Questions

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

Applicant Documents

Required Documents

1. Letter of Application
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Sample of Scholarly Writing
4. Sample syllabi

Fellowship: Research Fellowship, Centre on the Future of War, Arizona

Deadline: Open until filled (published on 18 July, 2016)

Position: Fellowship, full-time

Where: Arizona State University, Arizona

The Center on the Future of War is seeking a full-time Research Fellow. This position links strategic design and planning for the Center with support for individual fellow research, collaborative projects, course design, teaching and programming. We are looking for someone who is highly motivated, has an interdisciplinary orientation, and is an excellent researcher and writer significantly engaged in issues of war, conflict, human rights and international politics.

Responsibilities include: designing and implementing individual and collaborative research projects on a variety of issues (human rights, law of war, non-state actors, conflict and international development, regional issues, refugees, drones, gender and conflict, etc.); designing and teaching courses; supporting the development of a new online MA in Global Security; supervising students; publishing op-eds, essays and articles in academic and popular journals; developing ideas for new research; developing grant proposals; and generally supporting the work of the Center at ASU, in DC and elsewhere. The Research Fellow will work under the center co-directors and with a group of over 100 ASU affiliated faculty and two dozen DC-based experts (top journalists, former military, former government officials, academics, etc.). 

Minimum qualifications:
o   Ph.D., JD, LLM, MD or other terminal academic or professional degree
o   High level analytic and writing skills
o   Experience working on global politics, conflict, human rights and related issues

Preferred qualifications:
o   Ph.D., JD, LLM, MD or other terminal academic or professional degree
o   Relevant publications on global politics, conflict, human rights and related issue
o   5 years’ experience working in the field or conducting relevant research
o   Proven ability to write for academic, policy and popular audiences

This is an exciting position for the right candidate which offers significant opportunities to pursue academic and policy research and writing while also contributing to a new interdisciplinary institution linking one of the most innovative public research universities with one of the most dynamic and influential think tanks. The position is for one year, renewable based on performance.

Applications will be reviewed beginning August 15th, 2016; if not filled reviews will occur every 2 weeks thereafter until the search is closed.

Please submit your application to sbecushing@asu.edu.

- See more at: https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000323268-01#sthash.Tc6ufaAL.dpuf

CFP: The International Feminist Journal of Politics announces the 6th Annual IFjP Conference

April 10-11, 2017

Pre-conference Workshop: April 9, 2017

South Asian University, New Delhi, India
Venue: India International Centre, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi (TBC)

WALKING THE TALK: FEMINIST REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES

We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels on any topic pertaining to the conference theme and sub-themes. We also welcome papers and panels that consider any other feminist IR-related questions. For more information, see the conference website at IFjPConference.net or email ifjp@ufl.edu. The submission deadline is Tuesday August 9, 2016.

Theme Call for Papers

Feminist International Relations (IR) scholarship has persuasively represented global politics as a masculinist domain. The dominance of hegemonic masculinities over femininities and subordinate masculinities is evident across a broad spectrum of international practices, from treaty negotiations to the work of ‘progressive’ civil society groups that may well be complicit in the reproduction of gendered hierarchies in their everyday work. Even as gender issues gain recognition in the political arena and more women join public deliberations, the conduct of international relations continues to be defined by such powerful binaries. Stereotypical assumptions about race, sexuality and economic privilege – and relations of power therein – further ascribe the dominant ways of ‘doing’ global politics.

The conference organizers invite feminist reflections on diverse international practices such as diplomacy and statecraft, bureaucratic politics, activism and advocacy, and indeed research and other forms of knowledge production. We encourage submissions that seek not only to build on existing (re)formulations of international relations, but also to identify and propose specific feminist ethics, strategies and methods in/for the everyday conduct of international practices.

Potential contributors may wish to consider the following questions:

• What makes an international practice, organization or institution feminist?
• What difference do ‘diverse’ bodies, including those of women, make to

  international practices?

• Are particular ‘levels of analysis’ or spheres of activity better suited to

  feminist practices?

• What are the ethical anchors for feminist practices?
• What is the significance of concepts such as accountability, democracy,

  empathy, solidarity and transparency in feminist practices?

• What is the role of culture, broadly understood, in defining, understanding

  and advocating for feminist practices?

• In light of the employment of ‘strategic essentialisms’ in advocacy and

  policymaking, to what extent do ends justify means?

• What is the scope of resistance and resilience in contemporary international

  practices? How are these gendered?

• How do neoliberal logic and funding imperatives factor into gender-related

  work?

• In what ways does attention to practices challenge existing feminist IR

  theories and methodologies?

  Papers and panel proposals focusing on practices of specific international (or regional) organizations such as the United Nations are also welcome.

  Inquiries should be addressed to the journal’s email address, ifjp@ufl.edu.

Fellowship: KCC-JEE Fellowship for Research in Japan

Research Fellowship in Japan

$30,000

KCC Japan Education Exchange will award a Graduate Fellowship to a Ph.D. level student in Asian Studies for the purposes of doing research in Japan for one year. There are no restrictions as to place of study in Japan, field of study, or age of the applicant. Preference will go to candidates who have a record of teaching effectively about Japan or show promise of doing so in the future, and to candidates who have not yet conducted dissertation research in Japan.

Applicants must have completed Ph.D. qualifying exams, been advanced to candidacy, and demonstrate research level Japanese language competency. Applicants will be asked to provide written confirmation of their research or study site in Japan. US citizenship is required at the time of application.

The Fellowship amount is US$30,000 for one academic year beginning July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017. The Fellowship is nonrenewable and intended to cover all travel and living expenses.

Application deadline is January 11, 2016.

Completed applications and all supporting materials must be submitted to the KCC Japan Education Exchange email address: kccjee@comcast.net

For full details and application materials please go to: www.kccjee.org

Contact Info: 

KCC Japan Education Exchange

Please contact Ms. Kanae Takenaka for direct inquiries.  kccjee@comcast.net

Contact Email: kccjee@comcast.net
URL: http://www.kccjee.org/#!graduate-fellowship-program/chod

CFP: Theatre and Statelessness in Europe

CFP: special issue of Critical Stages on the theme of  “Theatre and Statelessness in Europe”

Editors: Azadeh Sharifi and S. E. Wilmer

Topic of Special Section:

With the number of refugees from the Middle East and Africa rising rapidly and demonstrations for and against refugees and immigrants taking place in many cities, migration has become a major issue in Europe. Despite the large number of deaths in sea crossings, the member states of the European Union have thus far failed to agree to share the responsibility for housing new immigrants and asylum seekers. While a few EU states have been welcoming them, most have been constructing new barriers to keep them out, such as Spain’s heightened security border fence in Melilla, Bulgaria’s 150 kilometre fence with Turkey, Hungary’s new 175 kilometre fence with Serbia, and Britain’s enhanced Channel Tunnel defenses.

In reaction to the crisis, Critical Stages is hosting a special section on “Theatre and Statelessness”. We are interested in publishing articles (of about 4500 words) about how theatre makers (such as Ariane Mnouchkine, Christoph Schlingensief, Elfriede Jelinek, Donal O’Kelly, David Edgar, etc.) and/or theatre institutions (such as the Ruhr Triennale, the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, the Maxim Gorki Theatre and the Theatertreffen in Berlin) have responded to this issue. 

Application procedure: 

Abstracts of approximately 250 words (and a brief biog) in Microsoft Word should be submitted to Dr. Azadeh Sharifi (azadeh_sharifi@web.de) and Prof. S E Wilmer (swilmer@tcd.ie)

Schedule:

• Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2015
• Deadline for confirmation: 15 January 2016
• Deadline for first drafts: 15 May 2016
• Feedback: 15 June 2016
• Final drafts: 15 September 2016
• Publication: December 2016

Contact Info: 

Prf. Savas Patsalidis, School of English, Faculty of Philosophy

Aristotle University

Greece

Also: Editor-in-Chief of Critical Stages

Contact Email:  spats@enl.auth.gr
URL: http://savaspatsalidis.blogspot.gr 

CFP: Feminist Ghosts: The New Cultural Life of Feminism

CFP: Diffractions: Graduate Journal for the Study of Culture
Issue 6 | Feminist Ghosts: The New Cultural Life of Feminism

Deadline for articles: November 30

Over the last two decades, feminist scholarship has consistently drawn
attention to the “post-feminist sensibility” (Gill, 2007) overtaking
cultural imagination, wherein feminism is only alluded to “in order that in
can be understood as having passed away” (McRobbie, 2011). Deemed
responsible for disavowing feminist politics and for encouraging a
disidentification with feminist struggles on the part of (younger) women,
this postfeminist turn shifted attention to individual success, financial
satisfaction and heterosexual realization, ousting the plurality of feminist
subjectivities.

Recently, however, feminism seems to have reentered the sphere of public
awareness, both in political discourse and popular culture. As McRobbie put
it, “in endless conjuring up a demon that must be extinguished (in this
case feminism), that demon demonstrates something of its lingering
alfterlife and its ghostly power” (2011: 183). Phenomena such as Beyoncé’s
appropriation of Chimamanda Adichie’s talk “We Should All be Feminists”;
Emma Watson’s speech at the UN Women HeforShe campaign launch, in which she urged men to stand up for women’s rights; several Hollywood actresses coming forward to denounce the gender pay gap and other inequalities in the film business; Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg’s bestseller Lean In on the
work-family balance; the controversial success of Lena Dunham’s Girls on HBO, among many other instances, have not only contributed to a renewed visibility of feminism in social life, but also to bring forth the new contradictions and challenges (radical) feminism is facing today.

Within this framework, some authors propose to rethink postfeminism as one
word “for a productive irritation that helps keep feminist discourse alive
in contemporary popular culture” (Driscoll, 2015). Others, however, argue
that this reappearance of feminism in contemporary cultural life is
concomitant with “an amplification of control of women” (McRobbie, 2015),
in line with Catherine Rottberg’s diagnosis of a “rise of neoliberal
feminism” (2013), where classical feminist foundations, such as gender
equality and emancipation, are made compatible with neoliberal ideas of
competition, leadership, profit, and accomplishment, while other feminist
claims and geographies are marginalized and denied visibility. Moreover,
the very history of feminist thought is being rewritten along these lines,
and “hijacked” (to borrow Rottberg’s expression) by new interpretations
unaware of the plurality of feminist subjects and devoid of concerns with
social justice.

At a time when a new visibility of feminist imagination seems to be making
“old” struggles relevant again, but also to coexist or even to contribute
to new forms of capture and exclusion, how can cultural change be
envisioned and what kind of practices can bring it into existence?

This issue aims to reflect on the new cultural life of feminism through
topics that may include but are not restricted to the following:

• The representation of women and feminism in the media and the arts
• Feminism and popular culture
• Feminism, capitalism and neoliberalism
• Feminism and social media
• The history of feminist thought and the subject(s) of feminism
• Feminist knowledge politics
• Transnational feminisms and feminist geographies
• Intersectionality, collectivity and solidarity
• Feminism and sexuality (sex tourism; sexual trafficking; gendered
• violence)
• Feminist pedagogies
• Activism, political participation and performativity
• The body politic.

We look forward to receiving full articles of no more than 7000 words (not
including bibliography) by November 30, 2015 at the following address:
info.diffractions@gmail.com.

Diffractions welcomes articles written in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Please follow the journal’s house style and submission guidelines at
http://www.diffractions.net/submission-guidelines

Diffractions also accepts book reviews that may not be related to the
issue’s topic. If you wish to write a book review, please contact us at
info.diffractions@gmail.com.

About Diffractions

DIFFRACTIONS is an online, peer reviewed and open access graduate journal
for the study of culture, published bi-annually under the editorial
direction of graduate students in the doctoral program in Culture Studies
at the Lisbon Consortium - Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Find us online at www.diffractions.net