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Thursday, December 19, 2024
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HAVE A SAFE AND RESTFUL HOLIDAY BREAK!!
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1783 - William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest ever British Prime Minister at age 24.
1843 - Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is published, selling 6,000 copies.
1955 - Carl Perkins records “Blue Suede Shoes” for Sun Records at Memphis Recording Studio.
1980 - “9 to 5” is released starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin.
2001 - “The Fellowship of the Ring”, the first Lord of the Rings film is released, making $871 million worldwide.
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Current PhD Candidate Joe Baez Challenges Prevailing Narratives around Body Image, Stigma, and Self-Love |
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For our last newsletter of 2024, we highlight current Ph.D. candidate Joe Baez, who is nearing the completion of her dissertation, “‘Blessed Are the Hot, Fat Girls’: The Art of Stigma Refiguration.” The work challenges prevailing narratives around body image, stigma, and self-love, particularly for fat women and femmes of color who face intersecting stigmas of racism, misogyny, and fatphobia.
Baez argues against conventional self-love discourse and the pressures to lose weight, instead exploring how artists can teach us to navigate and transform these stigmas. Her dissertation highlights several influential figures, including TikToker Jools LeBron, photographer Laura Aguilar, blogger and multimedia artist Mark Aguhar, poet Yesika Salgado, social media influencer TS Madison Hinton, and musician Lizzo. Baez describes her dissertation as a love letter to these figures who inspired her to love and accept her fat, femme, Dominican body and have provided strategies for working through shame and stigma.
To complement her dissertation, Joe is working on a creative project titled "The Interludes." The project incorporates audio, photography, and video to discuss topics outside of the focus of each chapter of the dissertation. Topics include reflections while engaging the archive, life during and after writing each chapter, and the inspiration for writing about each artist. “The Interludes” is an endeavor to illustrate just how much representation matters, and that these stories can be a part of the process of knowledge production.
Baez's first peer-reviewed publication is scheduled to appear in Spring 2025. Based on the first chapter of her dissertation, Joe’s essay, “Neither “Before,” Nor “After”: Fat Ambivalence in Laura Aguilar’s Body (of Work),” will be published in Hemisphere: Visual Culture of the Americas for their sixteenth volume on “Science, Medicine, and the Visual Arts in Dialogue.”
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| John Lewis: A Life
Discussion with author David Greenberg
Join David Greenberg in conversation with Associate Professor of Journalism and Investigative Correspondent/Sr. Editor for Member Station Investigations, NPR Cheryl W. Thompson as they discuss his new biography, John Lewis: A Life, a New York Times Notable Book of 2024.
The book is a comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.
When: Thursday, January 23, 2025; 12:00 PM EST
Where: Burns Moot Court Room, L101, GW Law School
Register here!
Sponsored by the GW History Department, GW American Studies Department, School of Law, School of Media and Public Affairs, and the Graduate School of Political Management“
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Call for Applications: The Folger Shakespeare Library is seeking a part-time Research and Project Assistant. Click here to learn more.
Call for Applications: Washington History: Magazine of the DC History Center seeks an experienced managing editor (short-term, part-time) to take spring issue to print. Immediate start through April, average 10-15 hours/week. The magazine is a lively hybrid of scholarship and general interest. Copy edit, assign volunteer writers, write captions, proofread, coordinate graphic design, and more. Contact editor Jane F. Levey for details: jflevey@dchistory.org
Call for Applications: The Massachusetts Historical Society will sponsor dozens of research fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year, ranging from short-term support to long-term residency. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Varies by Fellowship Type
Call for Papers: UVA's English Department Graduate Symposium is currently seeking abstracts for their upcoming symposium themed "Space and Place." Click here to learn more // Deadline: Jan. 3, 2025
Call for Abstracts: The 2025 Media & Civil Rights History Symposium is currently accepting abstracts for their upcoming conference which will be held Friday, March 28, 2025 in Columbia S.C. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Jan. 6, 2025
Call for Papers: The University of Maryland Graduate English Organization is currently accepting papers for their 18th Annual Graduate Student Conference. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Jan. 10, 2025
Call for Papers: The Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics is acception submissions for their annual Dr. Shoshana Trachtenberg Frackman Essay Competition in Biomedical Ethics. The theme is Disability Ethics. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Jan. 17, 2025
Call for Papers: The Twentieth Annual Yale University American Art Graduate Symposium is seeking papers for their upcoming conference. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Jan. 31, 2024
Call for Applications: The Swann Foundation seeks to award one fellowship annually (with a stipend of up to $5,000) to assist the fellow in their ongoing scholarly research and writing projects in the field of caricature and cartoon. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Feb. 16, 2025
Call for Proposals: ASAP/16 is currently accepting proposals for their 2025 conference, which will be held in Houston, TX. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Mar. 28, 2025
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