The English Student Association (ESA) announces a call for papers to showcase and celebrate diverse, interdisciplinary scholarship by graduate students who deploy a range of methodological approaches in and beyond the humanities. This year’s theme is “Shattering Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence.” We welcome submissions from graduate students across all stages of their academic journey,… Read More


Repression, Revolution, and Ruckus: Public Histories of Structural Violence and Resistance Forty-Seventh Annual Susman Conference March 28, 2025 Rutgers University-New Brunswick Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025 In association with the Rutgers University, New Brunswick Department of History, we invite abstracts for a conference on “Repression, Revolution, and Ruckus: Public Histories of Structural Violence and Resistance.”… Read More


The twenty-second HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 24-28, 2025. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects. In order to… Read More


Yale Graduate Music Symposium Call for Papers February 23-24, 2024 Yale University – New Haven, CT Keynote Lecture: Dr. Diane Oliva, U. Michigan The Yale Graduate Music Symposium (YGMS) is a biennial event hosted by the Yale Department of Music that provides an opportunity for graduate students engaged in various fields of sonic research to… Read More


American Quarterly 2024 Special Issue “We Are Not American” Still   Maile Arvin (University of Utah) Hiʻilei Julia Hobart (Yale University) Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada (University of Hawaiʻi) Brandy Nālani McDougall (University of Hawaiʻi) Lani Teves (University of Hawaiʻi) On the night of July 3, 2021, a small group of activists made their way to the… Read More


In Hamlet’s soliloquy, the phrase “undiscovered country” refers to “death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveler returns.” In this light, the phrase speaks to the urgency of global climate change as the earth passes benchmarks on the way to “irreversible” transformation, making significant parts of the globe uninhabitable by humans and other species.… Read More


The Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize will be awarded to an outstanding dissertation completed at the CUNY Graduate Center in the given academic year. The prize is meant to recognize a dissertation that is in the interest of the humanities with the broad intellectual aims of Carolyn Heilbrun’s work. To be considered for the prize,… Read More