Calls for Papers and Applications

This page provides information on calls for papers on issues of historical dialogue, historical and transitional justice, and public and social memory. It is regularly updated.

January 2022

CfP: Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory network conference
“Beyond Nuremberg: the Global Search for Accountability.”
Deadline: January 20, 2022
Conference date:  June 9-11, 2022

CfA: Senior Preceptor in Digital History
Location: Harvard University
Deadline: January 21, 2022

CfA: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies
Location: Harvard University
Deadline: January 24, 2022

CfA: Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity 2022
Location: Varied
Deadline: January 28, 2022

CfA: Interdisciplinary Scholar and/or Artist of South Asian Studies with an Emphasis on Issues of Economic and/or Social Justice
Location: University of California – Santa Cruz
Deadline: January 24, 2022

CfA: International Peace Research Association Peace Research Grants
Cycle 1: Applications open January 1 – Deadline February 28 or 29
Cycle 2: Applications open July 1 – Deadline August 31

CfP: The Post-War Period as Reflected Through Art
Location: Yad Vashem, Israel
Submission deadline: January 30, 2022
Conference dates: October 25-26, 2022

CfA: Assistant Teaching Professor in Museology
Location: University of Washington
Deadline: January 30, 2022

CfA: Director, American Indian Center
Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Deadline: January 30, 2022

CfA: Development in times of conflict: ethical pathways towards peace and justice
Location: Medellin, Colombia
Conference dates: July 13-15, 2022
Deadline: January 30, 2022

CfP: Cultural Encounters between Israel and Germany: Literary Cross-Cultural Relations 1918-2022 
Location: University of Basel
conference dates: May 30 – 2 June 2, 2022
Submission deadline: January 31, 2022

CfA: Humanities Policy Fellowship
Location: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA (remote)
Deadline: January 31, 2022

CfA: Summer Institute for Israel Studies 2022 (faculty fellowship program)
Location: Brandeis University
Deadline: January 31, 2022

CfA: Social Divisions and Questions of Identity in Germany and the United States, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
Location: United States and Germany
Deadline: January 31, 2022

CfA: Global Human Rights Fellow
Location: Pepsico, Chicago, IL or Purchase, NY
Deadline: Rolling

CfA: Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy (JRCD)
Description: a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal focused on the intersection of religion and civil society
Submission deadline: Rolling

February 2022

CfA: Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme
Location: Leo Baeck Institute London
Deadline: February 1, 2022

CfA: PhD and MA Scholarships in Comparative History
Location: Central European University (Vienna)
Deadline: February 1, 2022

CfA: Postdoctoral Research Associate, African American Studies
Location: Princeton University
Deadline: February 1, 2022

CfA: Assistant Professor, Middle East History
Location: Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington
Deadline: February 1, 2022

CfA: UCL Special Collections Visiting Fellowship
Location: University College London
Deadline: February 6, 2022

CfP: Political Uses of the Past: Public Memory of Slavery and Colonialism
Deadline: February 15, 2022

CfA: Postdoctoral Fellow in Holocaust Studies
Location: American University
Deadline: February 15, 2022

CfA: Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy
Location: Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Deadline: February 15, 2022

CfA: Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Award
Location: Columbia University
Deadline: February 15, 2022

March 2022

CfA: American Enterprise Institute, Summer Honors Program
Location: Washington, DC,
Deadline: March 1, 2022

CfA: Phillips Fund for Native American Research
Deadline: March 1, 2022

CfA: Digital Humanities Associate Fellowship (DHAF) 
Location: USHMM, Washington, DC
Deadline: March 1, 2022

CfA: Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Associate, Public Humanities
Location: Yale University
Deadline: March 4, 2022

CfA: Interrogating the Sacred: Holocaust Objects and their Care
Location: USHMM, Washington, DC
Program Dates: July 25, 2022 – August 5, 2022
Application Deadline: March 25, 2022

April 2022

CfA: John Lewis Award for Public Service to the Discipline of History
Deadline: April 1, 2022

CfP: Understanding the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Violence in the Public Imagination
Location: Metropolitan State University of Denver
Conference Dates: September 21-23, 2022
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2022

October 2022

CfA: Senesh Fellowship application
Deadline: October 1, 2022

Rolling or Unspecified

Online Seminar Series
Beginning in 2021, the Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network will host a live and interactive online seminar series. Conducted through Zoom, these hour-long seminars enable researchers and authors to present new and developing work to a global audience. Seminars are free and open to anyone and include a 25 minute discussion period.

The Dialogues invites prospective presenters to contact a member of the Organising Committee. If you are interested in presenting a seminar, please send an abstract (or the paper/book or other work from which the seminar will draw) to one of the seminar organisers along with a CV or short bio. Please note that presentations should be within the Dialogues’ broad ambit.

Information about upcoming seminars is available LINK. If you want to receive notifications for future online seminars, join the Dialogues’ biweekly newsletter at dialogues@columbia.edu.

Online Seminar Organisation Committee:
Alexander Karn: akarn@colgate.edu ǀ https://www.colgate.edu/about/directory/akarn

Ariella Lang: al223@columbia.edu ǀ https://www.humanrightscolumbia.org/profile/faculty/ariella-lang%20 

Stephen Winter: s.winter@auckland.ac.nz ǀ https://stephenwintertheory.wordpress.com/

CfA: Berghof Foundation
CfA: Project Manager Local Dialogue Processes (div/f/m) for Latin America Programme
Location: Berlin, Germany

Memory Studies Portal Now Online
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new memory database! The Memory Studies Portal (MSP) is a bibliography and virtual repository for the growing community of memory scholars. It is a collaborative project of the Memory in the Disciplines initiative at Stony Brook University and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights’ Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability at Columbia University. The MSP responds to two trends, the ongoing consolidation of a field of memory studies and the ongoing debate as to whether memory studies is or should be “interdisciplinary” (involving contributions from scholars from various disciplines within a shared framework), “transdisciplinary” (involving a generative synthesis of disciplinary approaches), or merely “multidisciplinary” (characterized by several parallel, largely independent specialized conversations). This debate provides the opportunity to investigate the relations between disciplines. The MSP bridges disciplinary divides between (and among) the social sciences and the humanities Accordingly, our initiative will allow scholars from disciplines as diverse as sociology, literature, history, psychology, philosophy, political sciences, performance studies and art history to engage in a sustained conversation – and, ideally, to enrich one anothers’ understanding of memory.  Since the MSP is a work in progress its growth also partly depends on your input. We thus encourage scholars/users of the MSP to alert us to bibliographic entries or any other suggestion as to how we can improve and expand the MSP. Please send an email with your thoughts, concerns, and missing/additional items you would like us to upload into the MSP.

Invitation to Participate in the Mapping Historical Dialogue Project
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia University invites you, as an expert in your field, to participate in the development of the Mapping Historical Dialogue Project (MHDP). The goal of the MHDP is to establish an online interactive geographical map that addresses mechanisms of contested memory in post conflict countries. The mapping process will document projects addressing the memory of historical violence. Building on a crowdsourcing model, the project will rely on incremental contributions to connect a diverse network of individuals who often do not have access or knowledge of one another’s work. The project is open access, and its scholarship and resources and will be available to a wide community of users. More information about the map can be found here. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at mapping.historical.dialogue@gmail.com.

Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network Working Paper (WP) Series
Contact: Working Paper co-editors Tim Wyman-McCarthy and Sigrun Schaumburg-Müller at dialogues@columbia.edu.