WCSA24 Call for Presentations!

Come join us for the WCSA24 Conference at SUNY Old Westbury, Long Island, New York and on Zoom, June 6-8, 2024. Read the call, get info on the “Young Scholars and Activist Award,” Travel support, and find out how to submit here: WCSA Conferences. Deadline? December 15, 2023. Don’t miss it!

Colleges & Communities CFP: April deadline!

Colleges and Their Communities is accepting chapters.

From the Editors: “This edited volume will explore myriad ways in which colleges/universities have worked with and against their communities, covering such issues as neighborhood gentrification, town-gown conflicts, innovation alliances, local food programs, and the existence (or lack of) access pipelines for local students.”

Click here for the full details!

MELUS 2023 Call for Presentations

The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) is looking for presenters for the 2023, 50th-anniversary conference in Indiana!

The deadline for proposals is January 10.

Click here for more details: https://www.melus2023.org/cfp.html

Revised Call for Submissions

***Revised call for submissions for the forthcoming issue of Radichal Teacher on Teaching About Socialism***

Deadline: December 12, 2022

The editors of this issue are interested in articles on teaching (in or out of school and college) that try to dispel the ignorance in the U.S. about socialism domestically and internationally, renewing its vital presence in political vision and resistance. For instance:

—How have you and your students and colleagues explored current understandings and misunderstandings of socialism? Hostile misrepresentations?

—What texts—treatises, analyses, stories, poems, dramas—have you found most engaging for students?  What do you do with them?  

—How have you or would you structure a class in Socialism 101?

—How have you connected ideas of socialism now to past ideas and practices of socialism? To “actually existing socialism” in other societies? 

—Have you found ways to put students in touch with socialist organizing? With young people who have worked in the Sanders or AOC campaigns, for instance? With anti-capitalist organizers in Black Lives Matter? 

—How might teaching about socialism connect to movements grounded in race or gender? To the ongoing concern with intersectionality? To environmental activism and the political analysis that climate change cannot be adequately addressed within the confines of capitalism?

 —Can teaching about socialism be disinterested and neutral? Should it be? Or should radicals teach as advocates of socialism? 

 —In the current political atmosphere, will openly socialist teachers put their careers at risk?  How can leftists who do have job security defend those who do not against repression? Can they turn repressive attacks by administrators, trustees, and politicians into political lessons? 

 —Does teaching socialism call for progressive pedagogies? Democratic classrooms? Student-initiated learning projects? Ways of moving from individual to collaborative forms of learning?

 —What kinds of resistance from students have you encountered in teaching (about) socialism?  How, whether successfully or unsuccessfully, have you tried to deal with them?

Calls for Papers

Teaching about Socialism

See the call out for papers on “Teaching about Socialism” in Radical Teacher, an open-access (free to readers) academic Journal. Deadline: Dec. 12, 2022.

Popular Music & the Working-Class

And don’t forget the call out for papers on “Popular Music and the Working-Class!” For the next issue of our open-access Journal for Working-Class Studies. Deadline: Aug. 31, 2022.

Photo of musical instruments, Creative Commons, Chris Hawes. Photo of pencil, Lucas Santos, Unsplash.