Lives & Letters Mailing: January-February 2021
Dear Colleagues,
Happy New Year, and welcome to another Lives & Letters Mailing. This month’s mailing contains information about:
1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
– From the Blog: A presidential inauguration
– From the Blog: Universal Letter Writing Week & children’s letters from the pandemic
– From the Blog: Cards
– From the Blog: Reconfiguring the past
– From the Blog: What is it? Memoir, autobiography, story
2. Nationalist Populism and Postcolonial Responses – webinar 18 Feb, 3-415pm GMT
3. CFP: Fragmented, Evolving, Precious: Scholarly Writing across Life Contexts (2/15/2021) Edited Collection
4. Invite: Economy + Society virtual Lecture series 2021: After-thoughts
5. ISRF Early Career Fellowship Competition (ECF6)
6. MAXQDA textbook and free MAXQDA Webinars
7. ECIE 2021 7th Innovation & Entrepreneurship Teaching Excellence Awards
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A reminder! South African War & other Memorials
A new, WWW-linked website concerned with monuments and memorials, including black counter-memorialisation, is now up and running. Take a look, at https://www.sawarmemorials.ed.ac.uk
1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
From the Blog: A presidential inauguration
What is a presidential inauguration address, in epistolary terms? Listening to Joe Biden making his presidential address following inauguration as President of the United States, and also reading the written text of it later, two things are striking. To read on, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/a-presidential-inauguration/
From the Blog: Universal Letter Writing Week & children’s letters from the pandemic
An interesting project concerned with letter-writing was launched on 13 January in Britain, involving the National Literacy Trust and The Postal Museum working with children’s author PG Bell, creator of the book series ‘The Train to Impossible Places’. It invites children to share their experiences of the pandemic by writing letters about it. To read more about this, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/universal-letter-writing-week/
From the Blog: Cards
It is usual in the academic literature to see greeting cards – birthday cards, Christmas cards, and also postcards – as lacking some of the essential features of letters. This is in particular that they are a one-way form of communication, as the convention is that they do not contain a return address, rather than presuming a response in the way that letters are seen as doing because conventionally they start with the writer’s address. Yes, but also no. For more on this fascinating yet everyday topic, please visit the blog here: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/cards/
From the Blog: Reconfiguring the past
One of the defining images of 2020, alongside that of the ubiquitous COVID-19 virus, has come from news photographs of statues and other memorials commemorating people who were involved in slavery being toppled. It is not just a matter of #RhodesMustFall, but also removing other public statues and memorials that commemorate people whose activities, once seen as praiseworthy and their mercantile or other involvement in slavery and other racially oppressive activities treated as though neutral, are now viewed as abhorrent. You can read more about this issue via the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/reconfiguring-the-past/
From the Blog: What is it? Memoir, autobiography, story
Liz has been reading a book. But what kind of a book? It is being sold as a memoir or autobiography, and is usually described as the author reflecting upon her life. The one thing she does not do, however, is engage in reflection. To read more about this, and discover more about what ‘it’ is, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/memoir-autobiography-story/
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2. Nationalist Populism and Postcolonial Responses – webinar 18 Feb, 3-415pm GMT
Nationalist Populism and Postcolonial Responses
A BSA Postcolonial and Decolonial Transformations Study Group Series
18 February 2021 (3:00-4.15pm GMT)
Online – the event is free, but registration is required.
A postcolonial imagination within the social sciences is more urgent than ever. As the rise of contentious politics disfigures our contemporary landscape – both here in Europe and globally – there is a growing need to address the historical processes that are producing our present. In this webinar, Yasmeen Narayan and Sivamohan Valluvan, drawing on the resources of postcolonial theory, map the relationships between police violence and broader genealogies of the state, nationalism and racism, and their conjunctures with nationalist populisms, including left-populism.
On Histories of Police Violence, Reparation and Decolonising the University
Yasmeen Narayan, Birkbeck University of London
I will consider how histories and cartographies of police violence and thus broader genealogies of state and corporate negligence and violence in Britain are erased by contemporary academic ‘common sense’ modes of thought that are shaped by new populisms. I hope to raise some questions on reparatory academic work and the potential contradictions between decolonising the university and the turn to new nationalisms.
Nationalism and the Postcolonial Archive
Sivamohan Valluvan, University of Warwick
I will consider here the increasingly ubiquitous calls for a left-populism. It will be suggested, through clarifying some of the significant properties of populism as a putatively distinctive political style, that such a politics is always fated to rehearse a nationalist framework and its constitutive racisms. Secondly, the turn to an authoritarian nationalist-populism is of course an immanent conjunctural feature of our era, not simply contained to white majority western settings. I will herein also attempt to draw upon the initial insights of the postcolonial theory archive, revisiting their wider ambivalence and even hostility to the nation-making premise as constituting a key legacy of colonial modernity.
Chaired by Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Sussex
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3. CFP: Fragmented, Evolving, Precious: Scholarly Writing across Life Contexts (2/15/2021) Edited Collection
500-word proposals with 50-word bios due 15 February 2021
Scholarly writing can be a scattered process, with research and composing time eked out in fits and starts as teaching, administrative, and familial responsibilities can overwhelm even the most dedicated scholars’ best intentions for scheduled writing time. Writing and research processes also change over time as circumstances change–as graduate student life morphs into tenure-track or adjunct life; as single life morphs into partnered life, or vice versa; as faculty have children who require different intensities of attention at different stages; as bodies are or become differently dis/abled; and/or as administrative roles replace writing time with back-to-back meetings. This collection seeks to examine, explain, and even exult in how writing processes change over time by exhibiting what is both lost and gained through successive rounds of transformation and adaptation. How do writers, in their own words, respond to significant disruptions of their established processes? How do they develop “writing workflows” (Lockridge and Van Ittersum) to meet new demands, or that are capable of responding to unstable conditions? How do they understand the variables that prompt changes and what resources do they draw on to meet that change?
This kairotic moment finds many scholars newly challenged to develop different writing processes as they wrestle with new ways to teach, administrate, parent, and navigate the world. As various researchers (Boice, Tulley) have demonstrated, scholars successfully produce scholarship even when their focus and time are fragmented. Boice recommends that faculty writers ensure their writing success in part by arranging “external situations to ensure regular writing productivity.” Boice’s advice articulates well with the “environmental-selecting and structuring practices (ESSPs)” Paul Prior and Jody Shipka describe in their study of scholarly writers’ processes. What this collection takes up in part is the current context in which many scholars are, due to pandemic restrictions such as school and library closures, unable now to “arrange external situations to ensure regular writing productivity” as they have in the past. These same pressures also call scholars to respond to the neoliberal demands of limitlessly increasing personal productivity.
Drawing inspiration from Jessica Restaino’s pledge to “determine anew [her] use value” as a scholar (137) after a devastating personal loss, this collection seeks to determine anew the use value of scholarly writing and the processes that produce it, both within and beyond the context of losses, constraints, and adaptations associated with Covid. We want to explore how scholars have navigated various workflow changes throughout various phases of their lives and careers. The pandemic context provides an opportunity to examine how writing processes can be adapted. When the most reasonable “normal” writing advice may be impossible to follow and writing is necessarily slowed and further fragmented, might writing activity be also deepened and made more precious?
We seek both personal and scholarly contributions that examine the advantages and possibilities as well as the frustrations concomitant with evolving scholarly writing processes. We invite proposals for chapters that take up, challenge, or augment questions such as these:
- How have you reinvented your writing process(es) at one or more stages of your scholarly career or for different types of projects?
- What resources or tools have you adopted for that reinvention? What was your affective experience before, during, and after?
- How does your personal engagement with writing processes shape your engagement with process scholarship or writing studies writ large, or vice versa?
- How does your teaching of writing shape your own writing processes?
- How does your scholarly writing occur within your home, work, and community context?
- How is your scholarly writing process affected by gendered, raced, and/or classed work-life expectations?
- What are the possibilities and challenges associated with your scholarly writing process?
- How could past examples of ideal and/or problematic scholarly writing processes speak to the present? How do you relate to your past processes?
- What do you see as the challenges of creating or sticking to a productive process, and/or how do you push back against a culture that over-values speed and “productivity”?
Submit 500-word proposals and 50-word bios no later than 15 February 2021. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 15 March 2021. Full chapter drafts (6000-8000 words including Works Cited) will be due 1 July 2021. Requested revisions will be due 1 October 2021. Please send queries and proposals to: fragmented.writing@gmail.com.
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International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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4. Invite: Economy + Society virtual Lecture series 2021: After-thoughts
You are invited to the Economy + Society 2021 Virtual lecture series: After-thoughts
After-Thoughts: This is a time for reflection and rumination. Each session will present key ideas and paradigms, with speakers asked for their ‘after-thoughts’ on key works and contemplate what’s coming in the approaching ‘after-math’: in markets, work, organisations, welfare, politics, critique, media, migration and much more.
When/Where: Tuesday / Thursday at 10:00 or 16:00 / Feb 16th to May 11th via Zoom.
Organised by Tom Boland (UCC) and Ray Griffin (WIT)
Our website gives all details of speakers and topics: Queries to info.eass@gmail.com
The event is entirely free to attend; to connect visit our page on Eventbrite.
This event is also offered as a Post-Graduate module at UCC SC6001/SC6002,; if you are interested in taking the module for 5/10 credits, contact tom.boland@ucc.ie
This event is kindly supported by the H2020 HECAT grant 870702, UCC, WIT and under the auspices of the Foundations of Economy + Society Research Centre.
Please share this message with your students & networks!
Schedule:
Feb 16th: 10:00. Introductory meeting with core staff.
Feb 23rd: 16:00. Ideas Lying Around: Discussion Nidesh Lawtoo & Lynne Layton:
Mar 4th: 16:00. Work Ethics: Elizabeth Anderson
Mar 9th: 10:00. Economic Theology: Markets: Stefan Schwarzkopf
March 11th: 10:00. Economic Theology and Governance: Mitchell Dea
March 16th: 16:00. Jobseeking & Labour Market: Ilana Gershon
March 23rd: 10:00. Welfare and Reformation: Ray Griffin & Tom Boland
Mar 25th: 10:00. Justifying Welfare: Magnus P. Hansen, Fiona Dukelow, Michael Mcgann
March 30th: 10:00. Datafication of Welfare: Lina Dencik & Ray Griffin & Hecat
April 1st: 10:00 Fairground Capitalism: Arpad Szakolczai
April 13th: 10:00 Precarity: Theresa O’ Keefe & Aline Courtois
April 20th: 16:00 Street level welfare: Evelyn Brodkin, Mary Murphy, Joe Whelan
April 27th: 10:00. Work & Gig Economy: Alex Wood & Ray Griffin
April: 29th: 10:00. Addiction Society: Agnus Bancroft & John O’Brien.
May 6th: 10:00. Migration: Maggie O’Neill Umut Erel, Erene Kaptani,
May 11th: 16:00. The Leviathan of Rationality: Damian O’Doherty
All are welcome!
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5. ISRF Early Career Fellowship Competition (ECF6)
ISRF EARLY CAREER FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION (ECF6)
Deadline: 5pm GMT, 19th February 2021
More Information
The Independent Social Research Foundation wishes to support independent-minded researchers to explore and present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems.
The Foundation intends to make a small number of awards to support original interdisciplinary research, across the range of the social sciences, to be held from a start date no later than the end of December 2022. Scholars from within Europe are eligible to apply.
The award is intended to enable a scholar at the early career stage to pursue their research full-time, for a period of up to 12 months; applications may be made by those whose sole or principal post is a part-time equivalent. The amount will be offered to buy out the costs of replacing all teaching and associated administration in the applicant’s home institution, and will be considered to a maximum of €66,000 or £60,000* per successful applicant. Within that sum, reasonable support for research expenses may be considered on a matched-funding basis with the host institution.
The applicant should normally hold a salaried position at an institution of higher education and research, and be within 10 years of their PhD award**. However, career breaks may be taken into account.
Applicants should consult the Criteria as set out on the ISRF website and show that they meet them. Applicants should follow the Application procedure and should present their Proposal in the format specified there.
*Applicants based in the UK must apply in GBP (£), up to the limit of £60,000. All other applicants must apply in EUR (€), up to the limit of €66,000. These amounts will not be adjusted in the event of GBP/EUR currency fluctuations.
**Newly qualified post-doctoral scholars (as yet unemployed within academia) may apply, with institutional support from a European (including the UK) University which can commit to employing the applicant on (at least) a fixed-term basis for the duration of the award period.
More Info: www.isrf.org/ecf6
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6. MAXQDA textbook and free MAXQDA Webinars
We are very excited to let you know that Prof. Dr. Udo Kuckartz und Dr. Stefan Rädiker published their new book “Focused Analysis of Qualitative Interviews with MAXQDA” which can be downloaded for free via MAXQDA Press: https://www.maxqda-press.com/catalog/books/focused-analysis-of-qualitative-interviews-with-maxqda
There is also a related article on our MAXQDA Research Blog: https://www.maxqda.com/analyzing-qualitative-interviews-in-6-steps
Further, we currently offer 14 free MAXQDA webinars in 4 languages that you can signed up for here: https://www.maxqda.com/training/live-training
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any question about the new book, the blog article, or our free webinars.
VERBI Software – Consult – Sozialforschung GmbH
Invalidenstr. 74
10557 Berlin, Germany
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7. ECIE 2021 7th Innovation & Entrepreneurship Teaching Excellence Awards
Hello
This is the Second call for papers for the 16th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2021) to be held at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE), Portugal on 16-17 September 2021.
The call for papers will close on 24th February 2021.
ECIE 2021 is an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants from around the world who are involved in the study, management and development of innovation and entrepreneurship in business, the public sector and in education to come together and exchange ideas. For more information, please go to: https://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecie/ecie-call-for-papers/
In addition to the main conference topics, the advisory group invites submissions to the following confirmed mini tracks:
- Design Thinking-Driven Innovation in the Context of Corporate Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship Education and Learning
- Family Business in Early Stages
- Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
For further details or to submit a mini-track see: https://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecie/ecie-call-for-papers/ecie-mini-tracks
Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration and payment. The conference proceedings are indexed in a number of places including Scopus and the ISI Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
ECIE 2021 will also host the 7th Innovation & Entrepreneurship Teaching Excellence Awards in Portugal. If you have been involved in an initiative that supports the development of innovation and entrepreneurship we invite you to participate in this competition.
The call for the Competition will close on 7th April 2021.
After a successful Virtual conference for ECIE 2020 we are planning for ECIE 2021 to be a “hybrid” conference. Meaning that there will be physical events with virtual elements built into it to create an experience for both those who can attend in person and those able to attend online.
Please feel free to circulate this message to any colleagues or contacts you think may be interested.
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Last updated: 29 January 2021
