Call for Papers (Deadline Extended):
Dear colleagues,
All welcome to this seminar, online and in person in London.
Elise A Mitchell will discuss part of her forthcoming book, Morbid Geographies, focusing on quarantines and the Caribbean slave trade. Mathieu Corteel will scrutinise the normativity of public hygiene statistics on poverty in 19th century Paris.
LSU Press’s new Southern Food and Beverage Museum Series on the Culture of Food and Drink is currently inviting proposals for book projects on the study of the food and drink of the American South, broadly defined. This new book series will publish books for general readers that explore the techniques, traditions, and histories of southern food, along with the people who create and perpetuate them.
Join us for a virtual discussion with author R.J. Blackett to celebrate the release of Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle.
The Center for Latino and Latin American Studies at Northern Illinois University invites you to submit proposals for its fifth annual interdisciplinary conference, Treinta y tres, to be held on Friday, November 17, 2023. This year’s theme is “Celebrating and Contesting Afro-Latinidad.” We are interested in individual and panel proposals that examine historical or contemporary representations of Afro-Latinidad. Proposals might also explore the role of race, racism, and blackness in shaping (Afro-)Latin American and (Afro-)Latinx history, culture, and experiences.
Join us for a conversation with the visionary creators behind the Sacred Ally Quilt Ministry, and hear them discuss the history and future of the project at the Congregational Library & Archives at 14 Beacon Street in Boston on Monday, June 19th, from 2-4 pm.
The Sacred Ally Quilt Ministry uses the narrative art of quilting as both a healing balm and a catalyst for transformation, and at the heart of the ministry are its coordinators, the Sacred Allies.
When faced with criticism for publicizing her voice, Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet once lamented, “[they] say my hand a needle better fits.” Whether employing the pen, the needle, or the lectern, generations of Black and white Congregational women and men have developed rich ways of challenging the status quo.
Call for Papers for an Edited Volume (eds.:Poonam Bala and Russel Viljoen)
Travel Writings and Medical Encounters in the Colonial World
