MLA 2020 Call for Papers
Sino-French Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century
Call for Papers: Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
10th Biennial Conference, November 5-9, 2019
The College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
The image of Humboldt as a towering genius in the wilderness is largely an invention or fabrication. Humboldt did not invent nature in a flash on the snowy slopes of Chimborazo. Many of the Prussian aristocrat’s central contentions were derivative or experiential, while others were sharply contested if not flatly rejected, often for good reason. Recent scholarship suggests that Humboldt’s itineraries, collections, concepts an
We invite participation in an International Conference (Romania, October 7-11, 2019) being supported by the Transilvania University of Brașov; Romanian--U.S. Fulbright Commission; the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program; Radford University; and distinguished Appalachian Studies scholars from the U.S.A.
I am putting together, alongside Dr. Shahla Hussain, a panel on Global Diasporas for AHA 2020 and we are looking for other scholars who may be interested in joining our panel to present a paper.
We are broadly interested in imaginings of belonging beyond territorial boundaries, post-colonial politics surrounding diasporas, and the importance of transnational frameworks.
If interested, please email me at ly2362@columbia.edu by end of day February 8, 2019.
The World Literature area for the 2019 Northeast Popular/American Culture Association conference is accepting paper proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2018 annual conference will be held from Friday, November 15-Saturday, November 16, 2019 at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, NH.
LHA Travel Awards
The Louisiana Historical Association will offer two short-term travel awards for 2019. Each grant will provide a stipend of $1,500 for research in Louisiana archives and collections. These grants are designed to assist scholars interested in Louisiana history, for whom distance and expense present a substantial obstacle to research in the state's rich archives. Complete applications are due by March 1, 2019, for travel between May 1, 2019 and September 15, 2019.
Eligibility
The Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study is now accepting applications for its 2019 Summer Repository Research Fellowship (SRRF). This program funds a two-week residential fellowship for a community scholar or faculty member from outside Indiana University Bloomington to conduct in-depth research in the collections of one or more of our partner repositories.
Papers on Inner Asia is a refereed occasional paper series focused on the history, language, literature, and culture of Inner Asia. Initially published between 1986 and 2007 (in 40 issues) under the editorship of Yuri Bregel, PIA was known worldwide as a unique and significant publication series in Central Asian, Inner Asian, Tibetan, Mongolian, Turkic, and Iranian Studies.
