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Conference Announcement and Call for Papers: Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States Paris, France, October 17-18, 2025 Conference Organizers: Dr. Alice de Galzain (Sorbonne Université) and Dr. habil. Johanna Pitetti-Heil (Universität zu Köln) Submission deadline: 10 February 2025 Email: criticalhealthconference@gmail.com Website: www.criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com

The Instituto Franklin-UAH awards two grants, valued at €3,500, for the publication of works in the Colección Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, published by the Editorial Universidad de Alcalá

The Audrey Flack Short-Term Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum supports a one-month residency for a predoctoral, postdoctoral, or senior scholar who is researching a topic in American art and who resides, works, or attends school outside of commuting distance from Washington, D.C. Researchers whose personal circumstances (i.e., financial constraints, employment conditions, care-giving responsibilities, or other limitations) preclude them from participating in longer-term residencies are encouraged to apply. Application deadline: February 1, 2025.

We have PhD fellowships available in Area Studies at the University of Oslo. (American Studies comes under this umbrella.) In Norway, these fellowships are treated as jobs with benefits: healthcare, pensions, maternity/paternity leave, ample research funding, and paid vacations. Yearly salary: (NOK 532,200-575,400, or approx. £37.4k-£40.4k). Deadline: February 28, 2025. Start date: September 1, 2025. See more here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/271067/doctoral-research-fellowship-in-area-studies

"Through rich historical detail and theoretical sophistication, this book shows how queer struggles have engaged the question of the national and the transnational as a major site of disagreement, contestation, and emergence. Attending to the histories of gay liberation, black lesbian feminism, and HIV/AIDS activism, Stoffel argues that we cannot fully appreciate those movements without understanding their deep engagements with radical internationalism. The argument is one that should never be retired." —Roderick Ferguson, Yale University

An ambitious study, deftly grounded in a generous sampling of popular culture, influential figures of the era, historical scholarship, and his own experience, Henry Jenkins' magisterial Were the Wild Things Were invites us on a journey through the many permutations of the permissive imagination. What are you waiting for? Accept his invitation! ~Philip Nel, author of Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books