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.

November 2022

CfP: The third International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies
Location: University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)
Abstract Deadline: November 21, 2022
Conference Dates: July 4-7, 2023

CfP: American Historical Review Special Issue: Histories of Resilience
Deadline: November 21, 2022

CfP: International Conference “European Jews Facing the Imminence of the Holocaust” at the POLIN Museum 2023; Application form >>
Conference Dates: April 23-25, 2023
Deadline: November 27, 2022

December 2022

CfA: Middle East Initiative Fellowships
Location: Harvard Kennedy School
Deadline: December 1, 2022

CfA: Long-term Visiting Fellowships at the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI)
Location: Washington, DC
Deadline: December 1, 2022

CfA: Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy
Location: Harvard University
Deadline: December 1, 2022

CfA: Part-time Lecturer in Civilization Studies – Colonizations
Location: The University of Chicago: The College
Deadline: December 3, 2022

CfA: Lecturer in Discipline, Human Rights
Location: Columbia University
Deadline: December 12, 2022

CfA: Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought
Location: Amherst College
Deadline: December 15, 2022

CfA: Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate – Colonial Latin American History
Location: University of Illinois, Chicago
Deadline: December 15, 2022

CfA: Sixteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Conference Dates: 18-20 September 2023
Deadline: December 18, 2022

CfA: Memories of the Shoah: Narrative Forms and Cultural Discourse in East-Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe 
Location: Padua/Venice
Conference Dates: May 11 – 12, 2023
Deadline: December 18, 2022

CfA: Research Scholar, Department of African American Studies
Location: Princeton University
Deadline: December 23, 2022

CfP: Symposium: Status quo and quo vadis? New Research on the Recognition and Compensation of Nazi Injustice in Comparative Perspective
Location: Heidelberg University
Deadline: December 31, 2022

January 2023

CfA: Assistant Professor: Latinx and Latin American history with a focus on Central America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and/or the U.S.-Mexico border
Location: UC San Diego
Deadline: January 1, 2023

CfA: Rosenwald Postdoctoral Fellowship in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security 
Location: Dartmouth College
Deadline: January 2, 2023

CfA: Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor – Slavery and Emancipation in the Atlantic World 
Location: Wayne State University
Deadline: January 3, 2023

CfA: Lecturers on History and Literature
Location: Harvard University
Deadline: January 3, 2023

CfA: Postdoctoral Research Associates in Religion and Politics
Location: Washington University in Saint Louis
Deadline: January 5, 2023

CfA: Inclusive History Project / ARC-NCID Postdoctoral Fellowship
Location: University of Michigan
Deadline: January 5, 2023

CfA: Human Rights & the Arts Fellowships for 2023-2023
Location: Bard College
Deadline: January 5, 2023

CfA: Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian History
Location: Vanderbilt University
Deadline: January 6, 2023

CfA: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED) Postdoctoral Fellowship
Location: University of Michigan
Deadline: January 15, 2023

CfA: YIVO fellowships 2023-2024
Deadline: January 15, 2023

CfA: Postdoctoral fellowship, The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED)
Location: University of Michigan
Deadline: January 15, 2023

CfA: Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP)
Location: Columbia University
Deadline: January 17, 2023

CfA: Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) project grants
Deadline: January 18, 2023

CfA: JDC Archives Fellowship Application Form
Deadline: January 23, 2023

CfA: Research Fellowships
Location: The White House Historical Association
Deadline: January 31, 2023

CfP: Towards a materialist theory of the monument
(for more information about proposal requirements, e-mail: josemaria.duranmedrano@lba.hfm-berlin.de)
Location: NECROPOL: Más allá del subtierro. Del giro forense a la necropolítica en las exhumaciones de fosas comunes de la Guerra Civil, Universitat de Barcelona
Deadline: January 31, 2023

CfP: Ethics and Expressions of Third-Generation Holocaust Storytelling, Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics
Deadline: February 1, 2023

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.