The new AFS Gerald L. Davis Grant creates new pathways for engagement in the field to better support new and returning BIPOC members.
Calls for Submissions
Columbia University’s Global Center in Istanbul invites proposals for the Voices of Emerging Scholars Program, a virtual, international webinar series, with papers published in the Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies. Proposals are due August 31.
Editor Kathryn Burrows is calling for manuscripts for an edited volume with the working title Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology Is Impacting Social Relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about What Is Normal (Lexington Books).
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 44th annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) conference. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2022.
The editors of On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture are calling for abstracts for Issue 15 (Autumn 2023) on "Present Futures" to engage with debates and interventions (both past and present) related to present futures across disciplines.
The University of Exeter’s Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) working group invites current and prospective students who care about animals and are interested in studying human encounters with other species to participate in their second annual online conference, "Anthrozoology as International Practice: A Student Conference in Animal Studies (AIP2022)."
The Tennessee Folklore Society is accepting proposals for its 2022 annual meeting, scheduled for Saturday, November 12, 2022, at the new Tennessee State Library and Archive adjoining Bicentennial Mall in Nashville. Submissions are due by Saturday, September 17, 2022.
The organizers of a conference in Aachen, Germany in May of 2023 are calling for paper proposals on the topic of the preconditions of individual narratives of commemoration (sociology of literature, media sociology) and their implications for theories of memory. Submissions are due by October 1, 2022.
The journal of Western Folklore welcomes essay proposals for a special issue on “Vernacular Islam(s)," guest-edited by Dr. Afsane Rezaei and Dr. Ehsan Estiri. Submissions are due by September 30, 2022.
The editors of a forthcoming volume that aims to critically interrogate and broaden understanding of how the COVID-19 crisis has impacted women and girls around the world seek contributions addressing this topic. Submissions are due by August 15, 2022.