CfP: Intercultural Encounters between Masculinities in the Pre-modern World: Emotions and Religion (Event, 07/2024, Melbourne and virtual space); by: 03.06.2024

Gender and Women’s History Research Centre (ACU), Melbourne (Web)

Time: 15.-16.07.2024
Venue: Melbourne – and virtual space
Proposals by: 03.06.2024

This workshop aims to further the study of intercultural encounters in the pre-modern world through the lens of gender. More specifically, the organizers mean to foster a discussion on how masculinities could affect the processes of cultural encounter and their outcomes, but also how masculinities emerged changed in turn from such processes. Past scholarship on masculinity has demonstrated that masculinity, understood as a system of practices and far from being a monolith, is subjected to both historical change and to culturally dependent expressions (Connell 2015, 2016). The study of masculinities has successfully investigated previously unexplored aspects of specific cultures and contexts (Hadley 1999, Neal 2008, Song 2004) and how they changed in time (Asikainen 2018, Holt 2010, McNamara 1994).
This workshop aims to build on previous research on masculinities during intercultural contacts and in colonial contexts (Broomhall 2023, Strasser 2020, Alter 2004, Teltscher 2000, Beckles 1996, Sinha 1995), to engage with encounters between different masculinities. The organizers look forward to receiving contributions on any region of the pre-modern world, from all disciplines and fields of Humanities and Social Sciences. They particularly welcome papers on the religious and/or the emotional and affective dimensions of encounter.
Possible topics of discussion include:
– how did men understand masculinities that were embodied by other cultures?
– how did masculinities produced by different cultural contexts engage with each other?
– how could contrasting ideas of masculinity influence one another?
– what kind of hybrid masculinities could emerge from intercultural contacts?

Please send an abstract of 200 words and a short bio in English, by 3rd June 2024, to Linda Zampol D’Ortia (Web): linda.zampoldortia@acu.edu.au. The organizers aim to publish selected papers in the conference proceedings.

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CfP: Global Dress and Migration in History (Event, 11/2024, Leichester and virtual space); by: 21.06.2024

Svenja Bethke (Univ. of Leicester) and Eliza McKee (New York Univ.) (Web)

Time: 29.-30.11.2024
Venue: Leicester – and virtual space
Proposals by: 21.06.2024

This online workshop will explore the history of migration through the lens of dress in a global dimension. At the functional and intimate level, dress allows for the protection of the body from changing climate conditions as well as from the gaze of others. At the societal level, dress allows one to express feelings of belonging and identities. What is deemed ‘fashionable’ or ‘suitable’ to wear, depends on the geographical, social, political and cultural context and is subject to change. During and following migration, significant changes occur. Migrants are confronted with previously unknown climate conditions that require them to dress differently from what they are used to. With dress habits and norms differing between the countries of origin and the new ‘homeland’, dynamics of inclusion and exclusion are often expressed, felt and perceived in the sphere of dress and appearance.
Throughout history and up to contemporary times, people have migrated for a variety of reasons, to seek economic stability, educational and professional opportunities, to accompany their spouses and families, or to flee natural disasters, discrimination, persecution and violent conflicts. Experiences are as diverse as the migrants’ backgrounds and motivations but always marked by hierarchies between the Global North and the Global South, rural and urban spaces, and according to social class, gender, and definitions of race and ethnicity. The migrants’ experiences upon their arrival marked by dynamics of inclusion, exclusion, integration and adaptation are equally diverse and differ along the criteria mentioned.
With this workshop, the organizers aim to explore these themes and dynamics through the lens of dress in historical and global perspective. They invite proposals for paper presentations with a broad geographical and chronological focus on the following themes (but not limited to these):
– Skills and knowledge: How have migrants’ skills and knowledge in the making of dress influenced the design and production of dress? Continue reading →

Lecture: Jack Halberstam: Unworlding: Trans* Architectures, 16.05.2024, Vienna

Univ. für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (mdw): Fachbereich Gender Studies (IKM) – Internat. Research Center Gender and Performativity (Web)

Time: 16.05.2024, 5 pm
Venue: mdw, Großer Seminarraum E0101, Anton-von-Webern-Pl. 1, 1030 Wien

Jack Halberstam is going to lay out some ideas that build on many different aesthetic performances and practices involving trans bodies and that search for and produce new vocabularies for discussing transness and new deployments of transness for the project of dismantling world and worldedness as concepts that hold current political realities in place. Halberstam will look at trans anarchitectures alongside performances like Faye Driscoll’s incredible event, „Weathering,“ to delineate what is meant by unworlding, what practices and aesthetic gestures it implies and what im/possible futures it imagines. Unworlding is a philosophy and an anti-anti-utopian idea that breaks with world-building projects (such as those found in early queer theory), and charts a course for queer and trans art that skews towards violence, acts of undoing and dismantling and the embrace of entropic unraveling. What might this look like in terms of a politics of representation, particularly one oriented around trans and queer bodies?

Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia Univ. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse.

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CfP: Frauen im Sozialismus (Event, 09/2024, Berlin); bis: 16.06.2024

Berliner Beauftragter zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Andrea Bahr; Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen: Elise Catrain und Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Geschichte der Neuesten Zeit der Univ. Greifswald: Stefanie Eisenhuth (Web)

Zeit: 12.-13.09.2024
Ort: Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen in Berlin
Einreichfrist: 16.06.2024

Seit 1990 haben zahlreiche Studien die Kluft zwischen dem Anspruch der Frauenpolitik sozialistischer Regime und der Lebenswirklichkeit vieler Frauen benannt. Die Gleichberechtigung zwischen Männern und Frauen war zwar gesetzlich verankert und viele Frauen waren aufgrund ihrer Erwerbstätigkeit ökonomisch unabhängig, dennoch blieben tradierte Geschlechterrollen persistent: für Haushalt und Kinder waren weiterhin mehrheitlich die Frauen zuständig. Jenseits der Frage nach Anspruch und Wirklichkeit mangelt es jedoch vor allem im deutschsprachigen Raum an gendergeschichtlichen Fragestellungen mit Blick auf die Geschichte sozialistischer Staaten.
Die Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen, die Univ. Greifswald (Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Geschichte der Neuesten Zeit) und der Berliner Beauftragte zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur laden Forschende dazu ein, aktuelle Projekte zum Thema vorzustellen. Die Organisatorinnen sind offen für Beiträge, die unterschiedliche Ansätze verfolgen (z. B. kultur-, gesellschafts-, sozial- oder wirtschaftsgeschichtlich), und freuen sich auch über Projekte aus benachbarten Disziplinen (z. B. Gender Studies, Soziologie, Kulturanthropologie).
Der Fokus liegt auf der DDR-Geschichte, sie möchten jedoch dem vergleichenden Blick auf andere sozialistische Regime Raum geben. Welche neuen Perspektiven eröffnen geschlechter- und frauengeschichtliche Ansätze bei der Untersuchung sozialistischer Gesellschaften und ihrer Funktionsweise? Neben der Projektvorstellung bietet die Tagung die Möglichkeit, theoretische, methodische und forschungspraktische Herausforderungen gendergeschichtlicher Fragestellungen zu besprechen. Dafür ist am Nachmittag ein Workshop geplant, der den Austausch unter den Teilnehmenden in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Dabei wollen die Veranstalterinnen z. B. diskutieren, wie die Analysekategorie „gender“ kritisch reflektiert werden kann. Continue reading →

Vortrag: Lucie Antošíková und Marie Brunová: Gelebt, gemerkt, geschrieben. Ego-Dokumente von Autorinnen aus der Tschechoslowakei, 02.05.2024, Wien

Institut für Slawistik der Univ. Wien (Web)

Zeit: Do., 02.05.2024, 13:15-14:45 Uhr
Ort: Institut für Slawistik, Seminarraum 7, Spitalg. 2-4, Hof 3, 1090 Wien

Lucie Antošíková und Marie Brunová sind Literaturwissenschafterinnen an der Ústav české literatury Akademie věd České republiky in Brno/Brünn, der größten nicht-universitären Forschungseinrichtung in der Tschechischen Republik.

Lucie Antošíková war von 2008 bis 2013 als Lektorin u.a. an der Univ. Wien und der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn tätig. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Tschechische Literatur nach 1945, Literatur und Erinnerung, Literatur und Trauma und Literatur in der Emigration. (Web)

Marie Brunová hat ihre Dissertation zum Thema „Faktualität und Fiktionalität im Werk von Jiří Weil“ 2020 an der Paris Lodron Univ. Salzburg abgeschlossen. (Web)

Der Vortrag findet in deutscher Sprache statt. Keine Anmeldung erforderlich, Eintritt frei. Organisation & Information: Gertraude Zand: gertraude.zand@univie.ac.at

Lesung und Gespräch: Katharina Lux: Kritik und Konflikt: Die Zeitschrift ‚Die Schwarze Botin‘ in der autonomen Frauenbewegung, 07.05.2024, Wien

Frauenbildungsstätte Frauenhetz (Web)

Zeit: 07.05.2024, 18.00 Uhr
Ort: Frauenbildungsstätte Frauenhetz, Untere Weißgerberstr. 41, 1030 Wien

Das feministische Denken der autonomen Frauenbewegung der 1970er Jahre entsteht durch Dissens und Konflikt. Das zeigt sich an der Zeitschrift ‚Die Schwarze Botin‘ (1976–1986/87), die „aus der Frauenbewegung die Kritik der Frauenbewegung“ leisten wollte. Das gleichnamige Buch von Katharina Lux (Mandelbaum Verlag 2022) widmet sich den Auseinandersetzungen um feministische Theoriebildung in der autonomen Frauenbewegung. Im Mittelpunkt der Lesung stehen der historische Entstehungszusammenhang der Zeitschrift, ihr Konflikt mit der feministischen Zeitschrift ‚Courage‘ sowie Motive ihrer Ideologiekritik.

Moderation: Birge Krondorfer

Katharina Lux ist feministische Autorin u.a. outside the box, translib Leipzig; Erziehungswissenschaft Humboldt-Univ. Berlin.

Die Veranstaltung ist für Frauen.

  • Katharina Lux: Kritik und Konflikt. Die Zeitschrift »Die Schwarze Botin« in der autonomen Frauenbewegung, Wien (Mandelbaum Verlag) 2022 (Web)

Quelle: Frauenhetz Newsletter Mai 2024 via female

CfP: Women and Ports. Re-evaluating a Gendered Space (Publication); by: 01.06.2024

Jaarboek Vrouwengeschiedenis | Yearbook of Women’s History; guest editor Irene Jacobs (Web)

Proposals by: 01.06.2024

Ports have played an important role in history as spaces of transit and transitions, of encounters and exchanges, of comings and goings. As nodes in trading networks and hubs of economic activity, ports serve as dynamic meeting spaces for peoples and cultures throughout time. Ports were also zones of conflict, spaces where wars and battles were fought, and where interests and convictions clashed. For some, ports signified freedom and possibilities; for others – such as enslaved people – captivity and extraction.
Despite its dynamic and multifaceted character, the port is often presented as a masculine place where men worked, sought entertainment and traveled from and to. In the 43rd edition of the Yearbook of Women’s History, with guest editor Irene Jacobs (Maritiem Museum Rotterdam), the new volume wants to question this stereotypical image by focusing on women who worked and lived in the port, who arrived or sailed from there, and the gendered constructions that shaped this environment. The volume wants to emphasize that women were and are active participants in all sections of the maritime industry on shore. From the repairing of nets, the selling of fish, making navigational instruments, housing sailors or keeping inns, to the maintaining of communities while the men were away at sea: women were key players in maritime societies. This new volume aims to travel to many ports around the world to investigate the role women have played in ports from economic, political, social, and cultural perspectives. In doing so, the volume will help scholars gain the broadest possible insight into the actions and influences of women in the port areas and the influence of the port on women from ancient times to the present.
In doing so, the volume focuses on the following questions: How were ports considered as a gendered space? Which forms of cultural expression did ports produce, and which role did gender play in them? Why do we know so little about women working, living, and staying in ports? Continue reading →

CfP: Where is the Sex in Sex Work History? Accessing sexual practices through histories of sex work and prostitution (Event: 10/2024, Berlin); by: 05.07.2024

Working Group: Sex work history: Adrina Schulz (Zurich), Alisha Edwards (Bochum), Annalisa Martin (Greifswald), Nora Lehner (Vienna/FU Berlin), Priska Komaromi (HU Berlin), and Sonja Dolinsek (Magdeburg)

Time: 10.-11.10.2024
Venue: FU Berlin
Proposals by: 05.07.2024

In the past decades, the history of commercial sex has become a burgeoning field of research. While early scholarship confined “prostitution” to the fields of social history and women’s history, the past decade has witnessed a broadening of perspectives and methodological approaches – from cultural history to global history and histories of labor, gender, the body, and sexualities. Despite the development of the field and the evident centrality of sex to sex work, it is precisely these sex practices that have received the least analytical attention in historical research. This stems in part from the methodological difficulties involved in accessing past sexual practices and experiences in historical sources. It might also be due to the “respectability” politics that historians engage in when trying to research sex work while avoiding the “prostitution stigma” attached to the topic and to the subjects who performed it. By focusing on governmental perspectives, social and economic factors, and media and social constructions of “prostitution”, historians could attempt to avoid the sex of sex work. Nevertheless, as trends in the fields of the history of sexuality and queer histories have shown, concrete sexual practices are situated in specific times and social environments.
Histories of sexuality have increasingly moved away from a focus on discourse and policing and towards a study of sexual practices and experiences. We propose using the sources and methodologies used by historians of sex work/prostitution to give us an insight into the sexual practices and the subjectivities of historical actors more generally. In doing so, we can also fight back against the stigma surrounding this topic, and against “respectability” politics, by openly and analytically discussing the still-taboo topic of sex practices in the history of sex work and prostitution. The goal of this workshop is to bring the sex of sex work into the centre of historical analysis and to thus truly integrate histories of sex work into histories of sexuality. The organizers also hope to bring the history of sex work closer to queer history, where commercial sex so far had a problematic status since the sex of sex work was and is not Continue reading →

CfP: Transnational Queer Histories (Series); by: open

de Gruyter (Web)

Proposals by: open

The series Transnational Queer Histories aims at encouraging queer historical studies, defined at their broadest, to forge new cross-disciplinary paths and pioneer innovative intersectional approaches. The series is intended to platform and support scholarship from academics at all levels of their careers, and to give voice to researchers and topics that have until now been unrepresented or underrepresented in academic publishing circles. As such, it is the editor’s intention to open the doorways for innovative, new research, highlighting non-traditional approaches and subject matter. TQH’s title is its programme; the editors seek work that is

  • transnational and/or comparative in scope, not (strictly) limited to one geographic locality;
  • queer in the broadest sense, encompassing not just homo- and cis-normative experiences but also a variety of gender and sexual identities, including (but not limited to) bisexuality, pansexuality, asexuality, transgender and intersex lives; and
  • historical, with work drawing principally from modern and early-modern history, in whichever way the contributor defines these.

In this way, the editors seek to encourage the creation of a body of new scholarship that moves away from the confines of (generally) white, male, homonormative, cisgender queer history that has tended to characterise the subdiscipline. While these narratives remain important to queer history, the editors encourage innovative approaches to them through new and hitherto-underutilised avenues of inquiry. Thus, they seek to foreground the broad and vibrant diversity of queer experiences throughout history.
TQH accepts proposals for both monographs and edited collections; work may be submitted in English or German. As noted, the editors seek work from scholars at all career levels. If you are unsure whether the work you have in mind would be a good fit under the TQH banner, please do not hesitate to contact the editors with an informal inquiry. They will do their best to advise you whether we would welcome a more formal proposal from you, as above. Continue reading →

Lecture: Marco Molteni: The effect of the abolition of the ruota (baby hatch) in 19th century Italy, 23.04.2024, Vienna and virtual space

The Socioeconomics Research Seminar & the first WU Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Time: Tue., 23.04.2024, 17h
Venue: WU Wien, Room D4.3.106 – and virtual space

Marco Molteni will present his joint work with Guiliana Freschi (Sant’Anna Pisa) on the effect of the abolition of the ruota (baby hatch) in 19th century Italy. The paper examines the effects of abolishing the ruota system on reproductive decision-making in post-unitary Italy (1863-1883). Baby hatches offered a means for anonymous infant abandonment, often used in Catholic Southern Europe due to social stigma and poverty. As infant abandonment rates and foundling mortality soared in the 19th century, countries began dismantling these systems. Italy mirrored this trend, with provinces abolishing the ruota at different times.
Marco Molteni and Guiliana Freschi investigate the specific impacts of the ruota abolition on infant abandonment, infant mortality, new births, and gender discrimination. Drawing on Becker’s quality-quantity trade-off model, they hypothesize that ending anonymous abandonment would lead to fewer births and improved care for retained children. Using a novel longitudinal dataset of Italian provinces and a staggered difference-in-difference strategy, they confirm these predictions. This research offers historical insights into 19th-century Italy’s social and economic dynamics surrounding child abandonment. It also contributes to the economic understanding of fertility decisions, demographic transitions, and societal responses to poverty.

Marco Molteni is Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID) and Associate Member of the History Faculty at Univ. of Oxford. Prior to this he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the ERC-funded Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 project, and a DPhil student at Pembroke College Oxford, where he wrote his thesis on banking failures and crisis management policies in Fascist Italy (1922-1943) using the banking supervision archives at the Bank of Italy. He also studied at Univ. of Milan (BA in History) and at Warwick Univ. (PG Diploma in Economics). He also worked (with Wilfried Kisling) on the importance of the London Money Market for the first globalization, here a link to their 2024 paper on the topic. Read more (Web) and (Web)

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