July 2023 Opportunities Roundup
Our monthly Opportunities Roundup features fellowships, grants, job positions, events/conferences and more of potential interest to our communities. Opportunities may be added to the post throughout the month. If you have something you’d like us to publicize here, please email info@bbqplus.org.
Paid Positions + Fellowships
Connecting Communities Digital Initiative: Artist/Scholar in Residence
The Library of Congress’s Connecting Communities Digital Initiative focuses on the ways technology can enable storytelling and expose more people to the Library’s expanding digital collections. The Artist/Scholar in Residence program supports artists or scholars in the creation of new scholarly and/or artistic works that imaginatively study, experiment with, and/or critique the Library’s digital collections, materials, and/or services. Proposed projects should center on one or more of the following groups: Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and/or other communities of color in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, territories and commonwealths (Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands).
The program is open to a broad array of artists and scholars, including (but not limited to): visual artists, conceptual artists, dancers, journalists, cultural critics, independent scholars, academic scholars, and cultural heritage practitioners, including librarians.
For 2023, the Library intends to award two 12-month grants of up to $90,000 each. Applications are open May 17, 2023 through 2:00 PM Eastern Time on August 7, 2023. Learn more.
Assistant Professor in Program in Science, Technology, and Society (MIT)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) invites applications for two tenure-track assistant professor positions, open to all areas of specialization within STS. We welcome applications from scholars whose research and teaching focus on any aspect of the social, cultural, historical, political, or ethical dimensions of science, technology, medicine, or other technical domains. We are especially interested in identifying colleagues who bring new methods and perspectives to understanding science and technology in society, and who extend the methodological, thematic, geographic, and/or chronological reach of our faculty. Scholars whose work considers STS questions related to race, ethnicity, indigeneity, colonialism, and/or gender and sexuality, or whose work centers issues of justice and equity, are encouraged to apply. Learn more and apply by September 1, 2023.
Tenure track position in Queer/Trans Studies at U Mass Boston
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston invites applications for a tenure track assistant position beginning September 1, 2024. This position will support the undergraduate minor in Queer and Transgender Studies. We are seeking a scholar-educator with expertise in Black Feminisms, Black Queer Studies, Black Trans Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Indigenous Studies, and/or Transnational Feminisms. Initial review of applications will begin October 15 and continue until the position is filled. Learn more and apply.
Conferences
Call for papers/proposals: Conference on Queer and Trans Studies in Religion — University of California, Riverside
February 16-18, 2024 at the University of California, Riverside and over Zoom (hybrid)
The program committee of the UCR Conference on Queer and Trans Studies in Religion welcomes proposals for our sixth annual conference.
This year, we are introducing a thematic element to the conference; consequently, we are especially interested in proposals addressing 1) decolonizing practices in and 2) transnational approaches to trans and queer studies in religion. However, we also welcome proposals on all topics relevant to trans and queer studies in religion. In addition, following our tradition, we invite all who are interested in taking part to co-create the conference with us. What do you need from this conference? What would you like to have included? We welcome creative proposals, including performances and exhibits; proposals for workshops and informal discussion spaces; proposals for work-in-progress sessions; conventional paper and panel presentations; and any other possibility you can dream up. Learn more and submit your proposal by September 15, 2023.
Call for papers/proposals: Devil 2024 Conference
May 15-18, 2024 at University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (in person)
The Devil 2024 conference explores the nature, significance, and operation of demonism and demonization across the western tradition. The conference will bring together scholars interested in the social and cultural construction of the devil and the impact of demonism across different chronological periods and from diverse methodological backgrounds. It aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue that addresses challenging questions about how notions of the demonic are shaped by cultural priorities and anxieties, by professional discerners and the media, and by discourses of fear and safety. Devil 2024 will investigate why these images repeat through the ages and why they continue to have still have resonance in the modern world.
The Programme Committee welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers, for panels (generally consisting of three papers), and workshops or round-tables dealing with any aspect of demonism and its manifestation in the western tradition. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by October 15th, 2023. Learn more and submit proposals.