Conference Opportunities

 As we approach our 110th ASALH conference, we seek to showcase versatile and innovative historical research that reaches beyond our theme of African American labor or highlights its significance to the Black experience. Black labor has been central to political, economic, social, cultural, and technological transformations across centuries of global society. Therefore, our capacity to work equates to our capacity to struggle, build, critique, and transform. Scholarship across the wide spectrum of the sociohistorical experience of African Americans will help the 110th annual conference ascend to become our greatest gathering.

 Our 110th annual conference will also preserve and strengthen African American history in these stressful times. Black history continues to be assaulted on multiple political fronts, and we require scholars committed to studying the African American experience across many fields, topics, and interests. We especially call on emerging scholars and graduate students to submit research from their subfields. ASALH grows stronger each year as new scholars introduce their work at our annual conference.

Coinciding with momentous events like the 2024 election and historical anniversaries such as the 100th anniversary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, and the 40th anniversary of the 1985 bombing of MOVE, our 2025 conference will again boast cutting-edge analysis, debate, and critique that align with Carter G. Woodson’s vision of Black history. We call on all scholars, organizations, students, independent researchers, and others interested in the African American experience to convene in Atlanta, Georgia, for the continued reshaping of African American history and thought.

General Proposals of Black Life, History, and Culture
To be included on the program, your panel proposal need not be centered on the Annual Theme. The academic program committee will also accept panels and individual submissions that explore all aspects of Black life, history, and culture.

Proposal Types
Proposals should be detailed, comprehensive, and descriptive that outline the theme, scope, and aim of the session. Proposals that incorporate the annual theme are preferred, but submissions can be on a variety of temporal, geographical, thematic, and topical areas in Black history, life, and culture. Details on each can be found on the ASALH and All Academic website.

For individuals who are interested in collaborating on a panel, workshop, or roundtable, please use the Google spreadsheet, which is an informal tool to connect individuals who are seeking ideas and/or collaboration. The spreadsheet is not monitored by ASALH or the Academic Program Committee and is not part of the official submission process.

Individual Submissions
Paper Submissions: Individual(s) can submit papers. These papers will be put together with other papers on the same theme/topic by the Academic Program Committee. Papers will ONLY be accepted by non-academics, undergraduate, and graduate students on the 2025 Annual Black History Theme: African Americans and Labor. Paper submissions are not guaranteed audiovisual during the conference. There will be limited slots for paper sessions at the ASALH annual meeting. Submissions that are performances or plays will not be accepted.

Woodson Lightning Round/Pop-Ups: Individual(s) can submit lightning round papers/presentations. These proposals will be put together with other lightning-round proposals by the Academic Program Committee.

Poster Submissions: Individual(s) and ASALH Branches can submit posters. The posters will be put together in a single or multiple session by the Academic Program Committee. Posters have both a virtual/pre-recording and in-person component.

Session Submissions
Proposals will be accepted by all affiliations and academic status. Access to audiovisuals is not guaranteed during the conference. Panels: Are sessions composed of individuals presenting different papers/presentations on a specific concept/topic/idea.

Roundtables: These are sessions that are composed of individuals presenting a single idea/concept/theme.

Workshops: These are sessions that are hands-on and work to teach attendees about a particular tool, project, idea, and theme. Sessions that are performances or plays will not be accepted.

Media: These are sessions that are comprised of an individual film or a film panel where a moderated or group discussion of a film is conducted following the screening.

Posted 02/27/25

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Social Choice: Theory and Computation The Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, in collaboration with Wellesley College Wagner Centers, invites you to an interdisciplinary conference exploring the mathematics of voting, representation, and districting. The event features a keynote dinner and panel on October 15, followed by two days of talks and a graduate student poster session. Speakers include Ariel Procaccia (Harvard), Alma Steingart (Columbia), and Edith Elkind (Northwestern), among many others. Registration is open through September 1, with a July 1 deadline for poster submissions and financial aid requests. For more information and to register, visit the official conference page.

🗓️ Event Dates: October 15–17, 2025 at Wellesley College

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NEW Call for Papers byRussell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: Gender Inequality Beyond Categories: Femininity, Masculinity, and Gender Expression, due by Oct 15, 2025

Gender categories are not homogenous; they have inequalities and hierarchies both within and between them. Within any gender identity category, people enact varying levels of femininity and masculinity, from traditional bipolar or “opposite” conceptions of gender, to various forms of androgyny and nonconformity, to feeling little attachment to gender at all. Contemporary gender theory highlights the importance of understanding these dominant, subordinate and mixed positions within gender categories as key to the overall maintenance of gender inequality. However, outside of social psychology, most quantitative research to date has been ill-equipped to operationalize concepts of femininity, masculinity, and gender expression.

Supported in part by funding from the Russell Sage Foundation, the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) included two pairs of femininity and masculinity scales: one asking how respondents see themselves and another asking how “most people” see them. These measures not only capture within-category gender diversity they also recognize that gender is interactionally negotiated and distinguish whose determination of gender is being measured. Collectively, these improvements bring the empirical operationalization of gender more in line with contemporary social science theory and help quantitative researchers engage more directly with existing qualitative research on the nature of contemporary gender inequality.

With the 2024 GSS data’s initial release now publicly available, we seek contributions that draw on gradational measures such as these to advance research on gender inequality beyond categories in the contemporary United States. We encourage submissions from many disciplines and perspectives, including but not limited to sociology, psychology, political science, economics, education, geography, and urban studies. We welcome papers that feature the 2024 GSS data alone, in combination with other data, or using similar gender measures in other surveys. We also welcome papers that adopt multiple methods, and combine analyses of the 2024 GSS with experiments, in-depth interviews, oral histories, ethnography, or content analysis. For example, the GSS can be the primary or sole data, it can play an important role in setting context and motivation, it can be used to validate or challenge findings from other data sources, and it can be used as illustrative evidence to support theory development. If other data on their own can address the questions posed below, they are also eligible for inclusion in this issue.

🗓️ Application Deadline: Prospective contributors should submit a CV and an abstract (up to two pages in length, single or double spaced) of their study along with up to three pages of supporting material (e.g., tables, figures, pictures, etc.) no later than 5 PM EST on October 15, 2025, to: https://rsf.fluxx.io

Posted 07/14/25