Training for Research on Postcolonialism and Creolization

NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: TRAINING FOR RESEARCH ON POSTCOLONIALISM AND CREOLIZATION

The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Program of the Social Science Research Council, in conjunction with the University of Warwick, is pleased to announce the following research and training opportunity for early to mid-stage doctoral students within the U.S. and United Kingdom:


Postcolonial Identities and Decolonial Struggles: Creolization and Colored Cosmopolitanism

DPDF Student Fellowship Competition 2013


This workshop addresses the production of contestatory cultures from the age of enslavement and colonization to that of decolonization. It is concerned with the continuing resonance across social, cultural and political fields of the emancipatory struggles of those times. We will focus, in particular, on the historical and contemporary dimensions of creolization and colored cosmopolitanism. Creolization refers to the mutually constituting processes of identity construction, such as cultural syncretism, hybridity, or mestisaje that oppressed peoples create in their struggles against injustice, most usually in contexts of colonialism, settlement, and enslavement. It is a frame through which researchers can recognize these difficult histories, not to diminish the inhumane conditions of the time, but rather to acknowledge the creative capacity of human endeavour to cope with and overcome such conditions. The idea of ‘colored cosmopolitanism’ is one such product that points to movements of socio-cultural engagement and solidarity across racial and national lines

Selected fellows will work with faculty research directors Professor Gurminder Bhambra (Sociology, University of Warwick) and Professor Nico Slate (History, Carnegie Mellon University) to enhance their dissertation research plans within the context of this multidisciplinary research field.

The Spring Workshop will be held May 28-June 2, 2013 in Coventry, England on the campus of the University of Warwick and the Fall Workshop will be held September 18-22, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

APPLY BY JANUARY 31, 2013 5PM ET.


Fellows attend workshops in the spring and fall of the fellowship cycle, which provide a framework for pre-dissertation research and guide dissertation research plans. In the summer months between workshops, DPDF fellows carry out exploratory field research on their topics to evaluate issues of feasibility and methods of investigation. The DPDF program covers necessary costs for workshop participation and up to $5,000 for summer research.

ELIGIBILITY

The “Postcolonial Identities and Decolonial Struggles” research field is open to second and third year doctoral students in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled full time in PhD programs at accredited universities in the United States, as well as 1st year doctoral students based at universities within the United Kingdom.

PROGRAM CONTACTS

For further information regarding the program and how to apply, please visit our website at www.ssrc.org/programs/dpdf/
Program staff are available at dpdf@ssrc.org to answer additional questions.

Warwick Transatlantic Fellowships

Warwick Transatlantic Fellowships launched


The University of Warwick's Humanities Research Centre has launched a new scheme aiming to deepen and broaden research links between Warwick and universities in the US and the Caribbean.

Five Warwick Transatlantic Fellowships worth $2,000 will be available for US and Caribbean-based post-doctoral fellows who wish to spend a short period at the University of Warwick, working with a Warwick-based academic.

One Fellowship is reserved for Caribbean-based scholars and applications from the region are strongly encouraged.

The Fellowships are jointly funded by the Humanities Research Centre, the Institute of Advanced Study, the EPSRC, and the Yesu Persuad Cantre for Caribbean Studies.

The deadline for applications is 15 January 2013.

For further information: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/events/wtf

Newly listed Namibian archive collection

A detailed handlist is now available for a collection of material largely on Namibia donated to the Library by journalist, Sue Cullinan, ICS153.

The collection includes unpublished reports, papers, speeches and articles on Namibia including the National Union of Mineworkers 1986 Wage Negotiation; a report from the Detainee’s Parents Support Committee April 1986; the Keynote Address National Education Crisis Committee, Second National Consultative Conference 1986; South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) Combatants – various papers, including reports of activities made by combatants and copies of The Combatant; the Memorandum of the SWA Bar Council Acting on Behalf of the Society of Advocates in Regard to the Commission of Enquiry into Security Legislation; unpublished speeches and conference papers produced by SWAPO; reports and conferences from bodies including: UN Council for Namibia, UN Institute for Namibia, United Nations, World Council of Churches, South African Institute of International Affairs, Worldwatch, Christian Resistance Group of South Africa, Fund for Free Expression and International Defence & Aid Fund for Southern Africa; and reports into the Windhoek Observer (Afrikaans) and into mining in South West Africa.

The collection is described on the Senate House Libraries archives catalogue which includes a link to the PDF list.

Call for applications: Bridget Jones Travel Award

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

 

 

Arts researchers or practitioners living and working in the Caribbean are eligible to apply for the Bridget Jones Travel Award, the deadline for which is the 14th January 2013. The winner of the award will present their work at the 37th Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, which is scheduled to be held at the University of Warwick from the 3rd - 5th July 2013.

 

Eligibility

 

If you are an arts practitioner living and working in any region of the Anglophone, Hispanic, Francophone or Dutch speaking Caribbean, you may apply for the Award. The successful recipient will receive £650 towards travel expenses and, in addition, a full bursary to cover conference fees and accommodation. Applications are especially welcome from individuals with no institutional affiliations. We encourage applications from across the arts: from visual artists, performers, creative writers, film-makers, folklorists, playwrights etc.

 

How To Apply

 

To apply for the Award you must submit the following:

• A covering letter
• Curriculum vitae (no more than 4 sides of A4)
• Statements from 2 referees who are able to comment on your work 

AND either

  

(a) A proposal for a presentation of your work in the areas of film, literature, visual or performing arts.

or

(b) A proposal for a reading of original creative work.

 

Presentations normally last for up to one hour, including time for questions from the audience. The most important part of your application will therefore be a full description of the proposed presentation detailing the themes and rationale behind the presentation, as well as how the presentation will be organised and any props required (e.g. if intending to screen clips of films; show slides of artwork; incorporate live performance etc).

 

Applications and enquiries should be sent by e-mail to Eva Sansavior Eva.Sansavior@ul.ie

  

Completed applications must be received by 14th January 2013. A decision will be made by the committee in late January.

 

For more information on the Bridget Jones Travel Award and the Society for Caribbean Studies, visit the Society website on www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk

Prizes - Canadian Studies

Prix du Québec 2013


The Prix du Québec consists of two awards of £1,000 (each) offered by the Québec Government Office in London and administered by BACS.

It is designed to assist researchers who are permanent UK residents to carry out research related to Québec by facilitating a research visit to Québec. Projects that incorporate Québec in a comparative approach (at least 50% of the focus must be on Québec) are also eligible.

One award will be given in each of the following categories:

• Masters and doctoral students
• Researchers and academic staff

Applications should be made by email to arrive by 1 February 2013. Full details are on the BACS website.



The Michael J. Hellyer Prize

This prize is awarded annually by the British Association for Canadian Studies at its annual conference for the best paper by an early career scholar. The prize will be judged on the written version of the paper submitted, which may not necessarily be the delivery version. Entries should be submitted no later than 15 March, preceding the annual conference in April. The full version of the paper must be submitted by this date and late entries will not be accepted. The delivery of the paper will not form part of the assessment but candidates for the award must attend and deliver the paper at the conference.

The prize for the best paper will be awarded at the conference dinner. In addition, the paper will automatically be considered for publication in the British Journal of Canadian Studies providing that it has not been submitted elsewhere.

The prize will consist of £100 in book tokens

Early career scholar is defined as: a PhD student; anyone within 3 years of having been awarded a PhD; anyone who has a full-time appointment at a recognised higher education institution, but has not held the post for more than 3 years and does not fall into the doctoral category.


Papers should be submitted to BACS by 15 March 2013 for the annual conference on 3-5 April 2013. bacs@canadian-studies.org

Christmas Opening Hours

With the end of term and Christmas holidays approaching some advance notice of changes to opening hours in the next few weeks:

For Monday 17th December to Friday 21st December, Vacation hours, opening hours: 09.00 - 18.00

CLOSED from 22nd December to 1st January, inclusive

From 2nd January - 5th January 2013, Vacation hours, opening hours: Wed to Fri: 09.00 - 18.00 Sat: 09.45 - 17.30

Normal term hours start on 7th January 2013

CFP: Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World: Historical Perspectives

Call for Papers: Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World: Historical Perspectives
Friday 19 July 2013 at King's College London

Hosted by Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and Department of History, King's College London

Convenors: Dr Shirleene Robinson and Dr Simon Sleight

Symposium Aims and Themes

Although it is a comparatively recent field of study, the history of young people is a burgeoning field of inquiry, with the potential to illuminate many social and cultural aspects of the past. Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World will provide a scholarly forum for discussion of the lived experiences of children and the construction of modes of childhood in the context of the British World. We are particularly interested in locating children, childhood and youth in a broader social context and in acknowledging young people as active historical agents.

Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World takes place on 19 July 2013. The symposium's London location provides an ideal site to reflect on the historical reach and limitations of the British World and to place young people's experiences into transnational context. It is hoped the symposium will establish research networks and a basis for further investigation and discussion. The conference organisers will aim to publish a selection of conference papers in 2014.

While other submissions are welcome, papers might potentially address themes such as:

* Regulation and childhood
* Children's spaces
* Ego histoire and archives of childhood
* Interdisciplinary approaches to the history of young people
* Images of children
* Literary childhoods
* Violence and childhood
* Urban and rural childhoods
* Intersections between race and childhood
* Indigenous childhoods
* Gender and childhood
* Childhood and trauma
* Narratives of childhood
* Parent-child relations

Submission Guidelines

Proposals should include:
- Paper title
- 250-word abstract
- Biography of 50-100 words
- 2-page CV

Deadline: 31 December 2012; notification of acceptance: 14 January 2013

Submissions should be sent to:

shirleene.robinson@mq.edu.au and simon.sleight@kcl.ac.uk