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Call for Proposals: Conference Support for Graduate Students
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $750 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.
Deadline: January 17th, 2022
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
Call for Proposals: Conference Support for Graduate Students
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $750 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.
Deadline: October 18, 2021
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
SPAN Co-Sponsored Event: “Fighting to Win: The Roles of Lawyering and Law Reform in Liberation Struggles”
CFP: SPAN Fund for Curricular Innovation
We invite you to submit a proposal to the SPAN Fund for Curricular Innovation as part of SPAN’s Curricular Fellowship Program. The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is a multi-pronged, critical, and interdisciplinary initiative to promote research and education on sexuality in social context. We are seeking to expand SPAN’s mission to include a curricular component designed to offer courses across a broad range of disciplines to provide undergraduate students with a solid interdisciplinary foundation in sexuality studies. These courses are meant to complement existing offerings in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program (GSS), as well as to foster links between GSS and departments/programs that have not traditionally co-listed undergraduate courses with GSS.
Each SPAN Curricular Fellow will serve a three-year, non-renewable term. Each year, we select three SPAN Fellows per year, for a total of nine Fellows at any given time.
Deadline: May 17, 2021
Please click here for more information about the SPAN Curricular Fellowship Program.
Call for Proposals: Summer Research Grants
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is pleased to announce that applications for Summer Research Grants for Summer 2021 are now being accepted. Northwestern University doctoral students – at any stage – who have a research project that relates to the topic of sexuality (including health in a social context) are welcome to apply. SPAN Summer Research Grants are designed to cover expenses related to research (within the guidelines outlined below). Projects of all sizes are welcome, up to a maximum of $2,500 per grant.
Deadline May 10, 2021
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
Call for Proposals: SPAN Dissertation Fellowships
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) is pleased to announce that applications for Dissertation Fellowships for the 2021-22 academic year are now being accepted. Northwestern University doctoral students who either have advanced to candidacy or will advance in the current academic year, and whose dissertation relates to sexuality studies from a social science perspective are invited to apply.
Deadline May 10, 2021
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
Call for Proposals: Conference Support for Graduate Students
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $500 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.
Deadline: January 25th, 2021
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
SPAN Co-Sponsored Event: “Imagining Transgender Cultural Production as Revolt”
Traditional cultural industries have long excluded those deemed non-normative, including queer and transgender people of color. These barriers include gatekeeping practices that prevent these groups from having access to traditional modes of cultural production. This conversational roundtable discussion will convene a group of transgender artists, media producers, and activists to discuss how they envision their work as a form of revolt against normative modes of cultural production.
- Cassius Adair, visiting assistant professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
- Erique Zhang, PhD candidate in Media, Technology, and Society, Northwestern University
- Jamie Grace Alexander, artist, activist, and curator of The Gender Museum
- Rahne Alexander, intermedia artist, musician, writer, and MFA Candidate in Intermedia + Digital Arts, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- JB Brager, comics artist and educator
- Julian Kevon Glover, artist, activist, and assistant professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Dance & Choreography, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Alexandria Webb, artist, performer, and activist
Co-sponsored by the Queer Pride Graduate Student Association, Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN), Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Department of Communication Studies.
Call for Applications: SPAN Reading Group (Winter 2021)
We invite faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to participate in a small, focused reading group (15 to 18 people) that will meet during Winter Quarter 2018. The topic for this year is “Applied Transgender Studies.”
We will meet five times during the quarter to discuss short texts (for example, three or four articles or book chapters per meeting) that explore the reading group’s theme. Meetings will be on the following Thursdays from 5:00-6:30 p.m.: January 14, January 28, February 11, February 25, and March 11. It is expected that participants will attend at least four of the five meetings, which will be held online via Zoom.
Application Deadline: Monday, November 23rd, 2020
ALL APPLICANTS must complete a brief online application. More information can be found here.