Kim Singletary

CFP: Crossroads – The Future of Graduate History Education

The historical profession, like many academic disciplines, finds itself at a crossroads in training its future practitioners. The intellectual revolutions of the 21st century and transformations in higher education have changed how historians practice their craft as well as career opportunities available to them. How should graduate history education adapt to these developments? Some argue the answer […]

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CFP: Waging Peace: A Conference Studying the Challenges of Postwar Peace

“Waging Peace: A Conference Studying the Challenges of Postwar Peace” Hosted by the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 8-10, 2016 University of Southern Mississippi When wars end, the communities, veterans, and governments that waged them begin the processes of peace. From the reconstruction of national identities to

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CFP for Edited Collection – Seeing Animals: Derrida, Visuality, and Exposures of the Human

If the animal image enacts a form of rupture in the field of representation, as Jonathan Burt argues, then what might be the possibilities, and impossibilities, of seeing animals? The ocularcentrism and predominating visuality of our contemporary moment ineluctably shapes our encounters with nonhuman animals, which have been characterized by the ubiquitous presence of the

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CFP: Anthology Collection focusing on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”

A decade after counterculture’s end, the Watergate scandal and American “malaise,” and now in the waning days of the Reagan Administration, the crew of the Enterprise 1701-D addressed the “next generation” of social, political, and cultural shifts in American society. The television show’s phenomenal success not only spawned four feature films and several television spin-offs,

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