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Applications are open for Bvlbancha Rising: Louisiana Coastal Landmarks Imperiled by Climate Change, a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture program hosted by Tulane University, New Orleans, to be held in June 2025.

Co-organized by art history professors Adrian Anagnost and Leslie Geddes, the program offers higher education and humanities professionals an immersive exploration of Louisiana’s cultural history through its coastal landmarks. Participants will engage with a program of site visits, workshops, and discussions, exploring place-based approaches to historical interpretation and preservation led by artists, culture bearers, and scholars.

Topics will include:

-The displacement riverside Fazendeville community and the history of the War of 1812 Chalmette Battlefield site

-Colonial histories partially submerged at the mouth of the Mississippi River

-Craft traditions in changing ecological contexts

-Language revitalization and traditional foodways

-The effects of industrial development on historic burial grounds near New Orleans

-Contemporary artistic responses to regional histories

The program will consider approaches to overlooked, hidden, and unofficial sites, as well as strategies for integrating digital mapping and place-based inquiry in humanities research and teaching. Guest speakers will include artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners who bring fresh perspectives on interpreting and protecting sites of historical importance.

Funded by the NEH, the institute will take place twice: June 2–6 and June 9–13, 2025.

Participants will receive stipends to cover travel and living expenses. Applications are open until March 5, 2025. Higher education faculty, advanced graduate students, and humanities professionals—including museum and historic site staff and preservationists—are encouraged to apply.

For more details and application information, visit Sites of Memory NOLA NEH.

“Hybridity”: In-Between People, Texts & Objects Across the Early Global World

Saturday, April 26, 2025 | In-Person | Royce Hall 306, UCLA

The UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association, in collaboration with the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, is pleased to announce a call for papers for our upcoming 5th Annual Conference: “Hybridity”: In-Between People, Texts, and Objects Across the Early Global World.

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to highlight the innovative work of graduate students and early career scholars on the manifold ways people, texts, and objects “in-between” shaped the early global world, from the early medieval to the late early modern periods.

We invite submissions from all fields of medieval and early modern studies—including but not limited to history, gender and sexuality studies, history of art and architecture, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, and literature—that engage with the so-called “hybrid”. What does it mean to label something as in-between, mixed, syncretic, blended, amalgamated, or composite? T o what end might something be constituted as “hybrid”? Does “hybridity” as a term still carry meaning when encompassing so much?

Does the contact and exchange of people, things, and ideas inevitably result in “hybridity”? We seek to problematize the term and its synonyms, thinking about “hybridity” as a threshold of negotiation, contestation, in(ter)vention, interpretation, translation, and debate. Discussions of “hybridity” might reflect on language, culture, ethnicity, genre, media, materiality, or mobility.

Please email an abstract of your proposed presentation (250 words) to the officers of MEMSA at memsa.ucla@gmail.com by March 14, 2025. Acceptances will be sent out on March 28, 2025.