SLSA Announcements
SLSA 10/29/26 Executive Meeting Notes
Reports, plans for 2027 DC conference, and call for nominees
Academic Opportunities
Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities – Digital Humanities – San José State University
The position includes teaching in Digital Humanities and other areas of the department, as well as opportunities to develop curriculum, mentor students, pursue research or creative work, and participate in departmental and university collaborations.
Academic Opportunities
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) of Critical Game Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Department of English and Comparative Literature in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is looking for an applicant who engages with Critical Game Studies methods and scholarship in their teaching and research. Candidates should utilize interdisciplinary humanities approaches for analyzing, participating, and creating in games studies.
SLSA Announcements
4S Preliminary Program with SLSA sessions
The Society for Social Studies of Science has published the attached preliminary program for its 2026 conference in Toronto with the participation of SLSA members. The program will undergo further revision, and changes can still be requested through August 15.
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Books to Review for Configurations
If you would like to review one of the books below, please contact Jay Labinger. Current as of August 5, 2026
Member Announcements
Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art: Engaging the Margins
A celebration of Twenty Years of Art in SLSA By Jesse Colin Jackson and Philip Otto with content derived from the anthology Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art: Engaging the Margins edited by Jesse Colin Jackson and Antoinette LaFarge (Brill, 2024)
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SLSA hosting integrated streams with the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Toronto
SLSA is pleased to host a series of integrated streams with the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Toronto from October 8-10, 2026. This partnership with 4S, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in Toronto, is designed to generate new synergies, collaborations, and solidarity. The 4S conference theme is Technopower • Technoscientific Futures.
SLSA Announcements
Updated June 10 Submission Deadline: Ratio Ethica, SLSA Conference 2026
SLSA 2026, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, August 25-29, 2026RATIO ETHICA: Toward Epistemic Justice Venues: University of São Paulo (USP), Butantã Campus (FFLCH–USP, Milton Santos Auditorium, Brasiliana Library, Japanese Culture House, among other places) USP Organizers: Prof. Dr. Paulo Farah, Prof. Dr. Artur Matuck, Profa. Dra. Neusa Maria de Andrade.With the support of the Graduate Program in…
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Comics and Machines
Call for Papers and Talks Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden 22-23 April, 2026 Comics and Machines Steering committee: Jan Baetens, Jaqueline Berndt, Jan von Bonsdorff, Gareth Brookes, Benoît Crucifix, Björn-Olav Dozo, Anna Foka, Isabelle Gribomont, Andre Holzapfel, Per Israelson, Gaëtan Le Coarer, Ilan Manouach, Pedro Moura, Everardo Reyes, Keith Tillford,…
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Configurations special issue Out of the Past: Reconsidering Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Technology
Call for essays for a Configurations special issue Out of the Past: Reconsidering Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Technology Contributions are sought for a Special Issue of Configurations analyzing examples of nineteenth-century literary or visual texts about science and technology that are relevant to our current concerns.[i] The text can come from any literary or artistic…
Call for Papers SLSAeu 2025
Call for Papers SLSAeu 2025 The Lifespan: Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course from the Medical Humanities, the Health Sciences and Age Studies Conference of SLSAeu European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts and The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth 4th–6th June 2025 The Great Hall, King’s College London Dr…
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SLSA 2025 CFP: “Risk”
SLSA 2025 CFP: “Risk”Corvallis, OregonOregon State University August 21-24, 2025 Stream Proposal Deadline: January 10, 2025Proposal and Panel Deadline: February 17, 2025 To think in terms of risk is to imagine the future as a set of foreseeable possibilities and to ameliorate the potentially hazardous ones through action in the present. Distinct from danger, which…