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.

October 2021

CfA: Postdoc position, Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”
Location: University of Münster, Germany
Deadline: October 22, 2021

Reckoning and Reconciliation on the Great Plains
Location: University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Proposal Deadline: October 25, 2021
Conference Dates: April 6-8, 2022

Council on Foreign Relations | International Affairs Fellowship (IAF)
Deadline: October 31, 2021

CfA: 70 Years of Holocaust Compensation and Restitution
Location: Tel Aviv University
Proposal Deadline: October 31, 2021
Conference Dates:  November 14–16, 2022

Civil Society Innovation Project Internship
Location: RightsCoLab (online)
Deadline: rolling until filled

November 2021

CfP: Exhibiting the Holocaust in the Immediate Postwar Period: Histories, Practices and Politics
Location: Special Issue of The Journal of Holocaust Research / perryrub@bezeqint.net
Deadline: November 1, 2021

CfA: Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies
Colgate University
Deadline: November 1, 2021

American Association of University Women | Applications for American Fellowships
Deadline: November 1, 2021

Director of the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies
Location: University of South Carolina
Deadline: November 5, 2021

Frankel Institute Fellowship: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity
Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Deadline: November 8, 2021

Fifth International Conference on Israel and Judaism Studies in Turkey
Location: Online (hosted by Israiliyat: Journal of Israeli and Judaic Studies)
Conference Dates: December 6-10, 2021
Deadline: November 15, 2021

CfA: Annual Fellowship Program
Location: USHMM, Washington, DC
Deadline: November 15, 2021

CfA: New York Historical Society, Library
Center for Women’s History
Fellowships at New York Historical Society, 2022-2023
Deadline: November 15, 2021

CfP: Bridging Divides: Rupture and Continuity in Polish Jewish History
Location: Yale University
Deadline: November 30, 2021

CfA: Call for African American Redress Network (AARN) Members
Location: The is a collaboration between ISHR, SIPA and Howard Univerisity’s Thurgood Marshall Center/School of Law.
Deadline: November 30, 2021

December 2021

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Research Fellowship
Location: Harvard Kennedy School
Deadline: December 1, 2021

Dwelling
Location: Cultural Literacy Everywhere, University of Lausanne (online)
Conference Dates: May 12-13, 2022
Proposal Deadline: December 5, 2021

Doctoral Fellowships in German
Location: Stanford University
Deadline: December 6, 2021

Stanford University, Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Dr. Eli Reinhard Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: December 10, 2021

CfA: Professor of International Affairs
Location: Brown University
Deadline: December 15, 2021

CfA: The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow
Location: Leibniz, Germany
Deadline: December 15, 2021

Cultural Memory of Past Dictatorships: Narratives of Implication in a Global Perspective
Location: University College Cork, Ireland (online)
Proposal Deadline: December 17, 2021
Conference Date: May 20, 2022

January 2022

CfA: New York Historical Society, Library
Center for Women’s History
2022-23 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Awards in Women’s History
Fellowships at New York Historical Society, 2022-2023
Deadline: January 7, 2022

Memory and Imagination
Location: Tunisian Association for English Language Studies (TAELS), Tunisia
Conference Dates: March 7-8, 2022
Abstract deadline: January 9, 2022

Duke University, Duke Center for Jewish Studies
Perilman Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Deadline: January 15, 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: 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

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.