Newsletter Announcements – Spring 2025

Interested or available in serving as an Editor or Co-Editor of the Culture Section Newsletter for the 2025/2026 academic year? Please send an initial inquiry email to the Newsletter team at asaculturenews@gmail.com Culture Section Award Winners John Mohr Dissertation Improvement GrantWinner: Şeyma ÖzdemirUCSB Honorable Mention:Kristen MillerCUNY Honorable Mention:Yucheng LiuUCSB Stuart Hall Award for Advancing the Study of Racial or Ethnic InequalityPatricia A. BanksMount Holyoke College Mary … Continue reading Newsletter Announcements – Spring 2025

Newsletter Announcements – Winter 2025

Announcements Publications Brittany Friedman. 2025. Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Brittany Friedman, Gabriela Kirk-Werner, and April D. Fernandes. 2024. “Reforming the Shadow Carceral State.” Theoretical Criminology 28(4): 437-458. Mueller, Jason C. 2024. “The (Im)Possibility of Anti-Systemic Politics: Uprisings, Exilic Spaces, and Alain Badiou,” Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis 3(2) 1-38. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55533/2765-8414.1079. Mueller, Jason C. 2024. … Continue reading Newsletter Announcements – Winter 2025

Newsletter Announcements

New Books Presser, Lois. 2022. Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences. University of California Press.This book advances a methodological approach for determining what is not said within texts. Researchers and laypersons alike suspect that some text is “coded” – that it contains some “subtext.” They are keen to identify that subtext, to make out what a text is taking for granted or communicating surreptitiously, for left implicit, … Continue reading Newsletter Announcements

Newsletter Announcements

Calls for Papers and Participants From Kristóf Nagy: Call-for-Proposal: Infrastructures of Trading and Transferring Art since 1900 Workshop Organized by: Gregor M. Langfeld (University of Amsterdam/Open University, Netherlands)Kristóf Nagy (KEMKI – Central European Research Institute for Art History, Hungary)Lynn Rother (Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany) Deadline: 31 January 2024. Speakers will be informed by 11 February 2024.Dates of the Workshop: June 26–28, 2024.Location of the Workshop: … Continue reading Newsletter Announcements

Announcements – January 2024

Dear Members of the Culture Section,  in this edition of announcements, I am re-sending the call for contributions from the editors of our newsletter, Yao Man, Clara Cirdan and Manning Zhang, which asks for your submissions by January 15th.  Don’t hesitate to send news of your publications to asaculturenews@gmail.com. In my role, I sometimes look at an excel sheet with the names of section members and I would … Continue reading Announcements – January 2024

Submit Your Work for ASA 2024!

Dear Section Members,  Chair-Elect Clayton Childress has put together a terrific set of sessions for open submission, which you’ll find outlined below.  Thanks to everyone who has contributed on the programme committee and as organizers.  We look forward to your submissions.   The deadline is February 26, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. Before the session info, I include below a call for graduate student participants … Continue reading Submit Your Work for ASA 2024!