Event *today* on research tools for graduate students
plus a seminar/concert hybrid next week on history, music and diaspora and a bevy of fellowships and calls for papers
Join us today at 2:30pm for a research tools talks by two current graduate students. This is the only seminar this term which will be exclusively in-person (in the Gateway Boardroom in St Antony’s College).
Next week, Tuesday, November 1, we are privileged to host two scholars, Pete Yelding (PhD candidate at the Universities of Bath Spa and Exeter) and John Pfumojena (Oxford Humanities Cultural Programme Visiting Fellow) who will speak about history, music and diaspora as well as give short performances. We will be announcing our venue shortly, so keep an eye on our website.
1. resource of the week
Managing your Mental Health during your PhD: A Survival Guide by Zoë J. Ayres.
2. funding & fellowships
The Blavatnik Archive Research Fellowships. Master’s and PhD students or degree-holders, Postdocs, Faculty, and Independent Investigators from any discipline are invited to apply. Deadline November 30, 2022.
Sassoon Fellowship in Diasporic South Asian and Black History (and other Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections). Deadline December 2, 2022.
Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship Program at the New York Public Library is open for applications. Deadline January 3, 2023.
"Guarding the Library" from NYPL's Picture Collection. Folger Institute short-term and virtual fellowships are open for applications. Deadline January 15, 2023.
Friends of the Princeton University Library short-term Library Research Grant call for applications to promote scholarly use of the Princeton University Library special collections. Deadline January 17, 2023.
Antipode Foundation call for applications to their “Right to the Discipline” grants, which are intended to facilitate creative intellectual and political interventions, inventive forms of collaboration, and tears in the fabric of extant orthodoxies in our discipline. Deadline February 28, 2023.
3. events
“Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Labour, 1793-1815” by Sara Caputo. October 25, 2022. 16:15 GMT.
“On Queer Intimacies” hosted by Queer Intersections. October 27, 2022. 18:00 GMT.
“The Uses of a Radical Past: Frank Tannenbaum, Anarchist, Social Critic, and Historian of Latin America” E. P. Thompson Lecture by Barbara Weinstein. November 3, 2022. 17:00 EST.
4. calls for papers
CfP “Witnessing the Now: Challenges of Emergency Documenting and Archiving in a Comparative Perspective.” Deadline November 13, 2022.
CfP “The Color of Slavery: Construction and Deconstruction of a Colonial System” (including proposals that address any aspect of French colonial history) for the 47th annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society. Deadline November 15, 2022.
CfP “Rethinking Print Culture, Media, Digital and Oral History as Archive, Evidence, and Method: From Africa to the World.” Deadline November 15, 2022.
CfP “New Generation Nation Building: Religious and Political Perspectives from Africa and the Diaspora” for the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race. November 25, 2022.
CfP “Inter-island Connections in the Lesser Antilles: Family, Friends, and Institutions across the Sea.” Abstracts deadline November 25, 2022.
CfP “Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War: History, Memory, and Forgetting” Abstracts deadline November 30, 2022.
CfP “Colonial Letters and the Contact of Knowledges.” Abstracts deadline December 15, 2022.
CfP “Violent Turns: Sources, Interpretations, Responses.” Abstracts deadline December 15, 2022.
5. other opportunities
MANIFEST is looking for artists that are motivated to contribute with new artistic perspectives to re-imagine Europe’s collective memory of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people. Applications open October 26 - November 27, 2022.
6. jobs
The African Humanities Colloquium at Princeton University invites applications for a postdoctoral or more senior research position for the 2023-2024 academic year. Consideration will be given to scholars working in any field of the humanities dealing with Africa or the African diaspora. (link)