DISPLACEMENT 2018 An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Friday, 2 November 2018 The Graduate Center – City University of New York CALL FOR PAPERS In 1952, in his essay on the Goethian idea of Weltliteratur, Erich Auerbach stated that “our philological home is the earth: it can no longer be the nation. The most priceless and… Read More

Please circulate this call for papers: The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY Students on Race and Social Justice from the Autoethnographies of Public Education and Racial (In)Justice research group from the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY, who is seeking writing from CUNY students, alumni, faculty or staff.… Read More

CALL FOR PROPOSALS CUNY’s 17th Annual IT Conference Thursday and Friday, November 29 and 30, 2018 Technology and Education: Challenges and Opportunities CUNY’s 17th Annual IT Conference will explore the complicated balance between the challenges and opportunities of using technology in higher education. There is no doubt that technology connects our lives and underlies many… Read More

NEVER SUBMIT, CONTRIBUTE! The Advocate invites everyone to contribute to the conversations on Revolution and Sovereignty that we have sustaining since last semester. Building on our recent double issue on the question of sovereignty (http://gcadvocate.com[gcadvocate.com]), we are now accepting contributions that expand these conversations to a wide array of social and political fields. It is time we accept that… Read More

Call for Papers for: “Community College and the Future of the Humanities” #humsCC A National Conference Convened by LaGuardia Community College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York October 18 and 19, 2018 Community colleges are redefining the importance and centrality of the humanities to the lives of the “new majority” of students, both during their academic careers and after… Read More

Call For Papers: Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture, Issue 11 BLOOD AND EARTH AND SOIL Oppositional claims to land, heritage, and state have rapidly crescendoed in the last year of the Trumpian order. White supremacist overtures emerged last summer in Charlottesville with chants of “Blood and Soil,” the infamous Nazi slogan advocating racial… Read More

NEVER SUBMIT, CONTRIBUTE! This spring, the Advocate invites everyone to build on the conversations on Revolution and Sovereignty that we have sustaining since the fall semester. Adding to our first issue on the idea of revolution and the second on its resonances in artistic and cultural practices, we now accepting contributions that expand these conversations… Read More

The Art Glass Forum, a New York-based nonprofit founded in 1999, invites young decorative arts students to submit proposals for its annual “Emerging Scholars” event on May 1. AGF supports scholarship about glass, from ancient shards to contemporary experiments. Each spring, AGF brings in two emerging scholars to each give a 20-minute presentation to an AGF… Read More

The 2018 French PhD Program’s Annual Conference at the Graduate Center, City University of New York March 23, 2018 https://gc2018conference.wordpress.com[gc2018conference.wordpress.com] Call for papers: Haunted History in France and America: When the Ghosts of Slavery Resurface          As seen in Charleston, South Carolina and more recently in Charlottesville, Virginia, monuments that celebrate slave-owning heritage such as confederate… Read More

Breaking Through: Textures & Aesthetics of Rupture English Student Association Conference The Graduate Center, CUNY March 23rd, 2018 breakingthrough.commons.gc.cuny.edu // esa2018@gmail.com CFP for ESA Conference 2018 – Breaking Through (printable) Call For Proposals: “The degree is in disruption,” announces the homepage of the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of… Read More