Imagining America invites faculty, students, and community partners to participate in our October 2008 conference in Los Angeles, hosted by the University of Southern California. The theme of 2008 is “Layers of Place, Movements of People: Public Engagement in a Diverse America.” A particular focus will be the diverse layers of people, places, and disciplinary intersections that shape the work of public engagement. The conference will be held October 2-4, 2008. Details

The 2nd Annual Graduate Cultural Studies Conference at George Mason University will explore the ways in which violence is manifest in political, social and economic realms, and the various roles violence plays in the relation between these realms in any specific juncture, past or present. It will examine the ways in which violence is theorized, enacted, represented and obscured, and how we come to understand the role of historic violence in the construction of the contemporary cultural conjuncture, as well as how various histories influence the ways in which we relate to and theorize violence today. The 2008 Graduate Cultural Studies Conference seeks to cultivate a conversation, among emerging scholars in Cultural Studies and related fields, about the centrality and ubiquity of violence. Details

The goal of the annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium (to be held November 1-3, 2008) is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is “Making Sense” ? an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition of the digital and the analog. Details

The workshop “Mobility, the City and STS” will be held at the Technical University Denmark on November 20-22, 2008. The aim of this workshop is to bring together social scientists and other researchers to present and discuss empirical or theoretical work about the relationships between mobility and society from one particular perspective: Science and Technology Studies (STS). In the last two decades STS has grown from being a discipline mainly focused on scientific practice and places to develop a general interest in the interconnections between science, technology and society in an increasing number of highly diverse places. Especially through the development of constructivist and Actor-Network approaches, STS offers a very sophisticated array of theoretical concepts and methodological tools to study contemporary societies. In this workshop the general idea is to present work that apply these concepts and tools to the analysis of the role of mobility in contemporary societies through the presentation of specific case-studies. The papers presented are planned to be compiled, edited and published as a book or a special issue of a relevant, peer-reviewed, journal.

The Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the aftermath of Violence at Concordia University is pleased to announce its first international conference, co-sponsored by the Canada Research Chairs in Post-Conflict Studies and Latin American History, April 16-18, 2009. The organizers invite 250 word abstracts for 15- or 30-minute presentations that will explore the conference themes outlined above. Since a central goal is to foster conversation among participants, please request the shortest time-slot in which you can communicate your key points in your chosen medium (i.e. a spoken conference paper should fit in 15 minutes. Photographs, sound/video clips and other digital media are also welcome). Please send abstracts, along with a current CV and a 100-word description of your current area of research/practice to: cerev@alcor.concordia.ca. Details

Literacy Studies is a recent construct. At the same time, it addresses long-standing questions and concerns within and across disciplines. But what is literacy? Who is studying it? And how is it being studied? Addressing the need for an expanded conversation about literacy that exceeds disciplinary boundaries, this conference is a space for graduate and professional students from all fields to ask questions, consider directions, examine representations, make connections, and share investigations of literacy, broadly defined. This conference aims to expand the dialogue and explore the landscape and intersections of literacy studies as a framework of critical investigation. The conference will be held at the Ohio State University on April 3-5, 2009. Proposals are now being accepted. Details

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Seventh Annual Meeting from all areas and on all topics of relevance to Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, performance and visual arts studies. Details

Literature, Geography, Translation: The New Comparative Horizons is a conference that will be held at Uppsala University on June 11-13, 2009. Comparative literature is currently undergoing critical changes. Transnational and global paradigms of study are emerging to supplant the discipline’s earlier Eurocentric framework; circulation, translation, postcolonialism and “world literature” have become the focus of overlapping debates which expand the horizon of literary studies. Conference conveners welcome presentation proposals that address, mutatis mutandis, each of the terms “literature,” “geography” and “translation” within a transnational frame. Details

The Journal of Folklore Research invites papers on any aspect of the folklore of conflict zones and conflict resolution. Topics may be current or not-so-current. “Conflict” for the purposes of the issue should be understood to involve the group use or serious threat of coercive physical force. Theories and comparative treatments of vernacular discursive tactics and interventions, based on field observation and/or analysis of archived or published texts, are welcome. Please send an article proposal in the form of a 200-300 word abstract to mills.186@osu.edu. If accepted, we will solicit a finished paper for external review. Papers (total 20-35 pp. double-spaced) will be needed by February 28, 2009. Details

ACLS invites applicants for its annual competition for the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars. These fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant that will take the form of a monograph or other equally substantial form of scholarship. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects. Burkhardt Fellowships are intended to support an academic year (normally nine months) of residence at any one of the national residential research centers participating in the program. Such an environment, beyond providing free time, encourages exchanges across disciplinary lines that can be especially helpful to deepening and expanding the significance of projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $75,000. Details

ACLS invites applications for the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships, which support advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors in the humanities and related social sciences whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well-designed and carefully developed plans for new research. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $64,000, and a fund of $2,500 for research and travel with possible summer support. Details

ACLS invites applications for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating further such works. Fellowship stipends are awarded in amounts up to $55,000 and project cost amounts up to $25,000. Details

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences welcomes fellowship applications from untenured junior faculty and postdoctoral students who are interested in pursuing research related to one of the Academy’s four core program areas: Science and Global Security, Social Policy and American Institutions, Humanities and Culture, and Education. Established in 1780 and located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Academy is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States and an independent policy research center, conducting multidisciplinary studies of scholarly and public policy issues. Details

In cooperation with the Stockholm and Uppsala universities, Södertörn University College (Sweden) is inviting applications for 10 doctoral student positions within the Baltic and East European Graduate School. The language of instruction is English and fluency in English is required. Areas include Ethnology, History, Literature and Rhetoric. Details