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Please find the press release for the opening of Georgia State University’s new exhibit, “Fighting for Freedom: Labor and Civil Rights in the American South,”  and launching the digital collection “AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records.”

Freedom on the Move (FOTM) will hold a symposium at Cornell University on March 15-16, 2024 to gather scholars (including early career and graduate students), librarians, archivists, and teachers to discuss the future of fugitivity studies and the impact of FOTM in scholarship, pedagogy, and the digital humanities. We invite scholars to propose papers that are based on Freedom on the Move or related topics of fugitivity. Accepted papers will be pre-circulated among confirmed conference attendees.

The Department of History at Barnard College, Columbia University, seeks to appoint a tenure- track assistant professor in the Medieval World, any region, with a focus that may include, but is not limited to, Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Europe, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, or the Middle East. Preference for candidates who explore the interactions between different cultures, polities, economies, religions, and/or ethnicities, and for those who can teach the Global Middle Ages. Appointment to begin fall 2024. Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, and writing sample.

The Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor for a specialist in Islam in any geographical area in the early modern or modern periods, broadly defined. Successful candidates will combine their research interests with questions of theory and method in the study of religion and contribute to the undergraduate and graduate programs of the Religious Studies department. Review of applications will begin on Nov. 1, 2023, and continue until the position is filled.

The Department of History at Wichita State University invites applicants for a tenure-track position as Geography Program Director to be hired at the assistant professor level. The selected candidate will have a 3/3 teaching load and will teach World Geography, Human Geography, and Regional Geographies (Asia, Latin America, Europe) as part of the general education curriculum and certificate programs and will network with other faculty using GIS as part of the GIS certificate program. Additional courses can be created based on one’s area of specialization.

The Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University works to fulfill Princeton's institutional vision - in the nation's service and the service of humanity - by offering curricula, supporting research and hosting discussion on the evolving experiences and identities of the peoples of the territories known as America.

The Department of History in the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in South Asian History. Specialists of any time period are encouraged to apply.  Successful candidates will unite excellence in research and teaching. Candidates should be prepared to teach introductory and upper-division courses in South Asian history as well as graduate courses in their thematic specialty. The annual teaching load is 2-2.

Ninth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies.

Founded in 2015, the Communication & Media Studies Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of the role of the media and communications in society. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

Call for Paper

International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) in collaboration with Gautam Buddha University Greater Noida is celebrating the International Abhidhamma Divas onthe full moon day of Śharada Pūrṇimā on 28th October, 2023. This is the third Flagship program of the IBC.

Special Issue Call for Papers: Studies in South Asian Film & Media

‘Marathi Cinema and Media’