Call For Papers: THE LESSONS OF INVISIBLE MAN FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - Deadline Extended

Type: 
Call for Papers
Date: 
June 2, 2023 to June 20, 2023
Location: 
United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Literature

Call for Papers (Deadline Extended):

Seminar: Inequality and expendability in early public health, with Elise A. Mitchell and Mathieu Corteel

Type: 
Seminar
Date: 
May 30, 2023
Subject Fields: 
Black History / Studies, Health and Health Care, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies, Public Health, Modern European History / Studies

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.

Call for Proposals - Southern Food and Beverage Museum Book Series on the Culture of Food and Drink

Type: 
Call for Publications
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Geography, Social History / Studies

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.

"Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle" – A Juneteenth Virtual Discussion with R.J.M. Blackett

Type: 
Event
Date: 
June 19, 2023
Location: 
Massachusetts, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Atlantic History / Studies, Slavery

Join us for a virtual discussion with author R.J. Blackett to celebrate the release of Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle.

Call for Papers - Treinta y tres: Celebrating and Contesting Afro-Latinidad

Type: 
Call for Papers
Date: 
May 22, 2023 to September 15, 2023
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Black History / Studies, Chicana/o History / Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies, Race / Ethnic Studies, Spanish and Portuguese History / Studies

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.

A Conversation with the Sacred Allies

Type: 
Event
Date: 
June 19, 2023
Location: 
Massachusetts, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Black History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology

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.

Textile & Text: The Sacred Ally Quilt Ministry at the Congregational Library & Archives

Type: 
Event
Date: 
June 19, 2023 to June 21, 2023
Location: 
Massachusetts, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Black History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology

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.

Travel Writings and Medical Encounters in the Colonial World

Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Ohio, United States
Subject Fields: 
Black History / Studies, Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Indigenous Studies, Social History / Studies

Call for Papers for an Edited Volume (eds.:Poonam Bala and Russel Viljoen)

Travel Writings and Medical Encounters in the Colonial World

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