Präsentation des Weblogs Alltags|Ökonomien, hg. von Sebastian Felten, Li Gerhalter und Verena Halsmayer, 23.01.2026, Wien

24. „Tea Hour“ der Sammlung Frauennachlässe am Institut für Geschichte der Univ. Wien (Web)

Zeit: Fr., 23.01.2026, 15.00-17.00 Uhr
Ort: Univ. Wien, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Hörsaal 1, Erdgeschoss (linker Gebäudetrakt, via Hof 1)

Programm
Vorstellung des Weblogs durch die Herausgeber:innen
Vorstellung der Beiträge von Matthias Donabaum, Sophie Gerber (angefragt), Sophie Hopfner und Anton Tantner

Der neue Blog Alltags|Ökonomien erscheint im Jänner 2026 auf hypotheses.org. Er hat das Ziel, Haushaltsbücher als Material und Quelle einer breiteren Forschungscommunity bekannt zu machen und sie als Schnittstellen zwischen Disziplinen aufzuschlüsseln. Zunächst werden Beiträge veröffentlicht, die aus einem Workshop an der Sammlung Frauennachlässe (SFN) entstanden sind. Die SFN verwahrt aktuell ca. 400 Bände von Haushaltsbüchern, d.h. Aufzeichnungen über private Haushaltsführung in sehr heterogenem Format. In Quellen dieser Art kreuzen sich Forschungsdiskussionen verschiedener Disziplinen wie z.B. Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Auto/Biographieforschung, Wirtschaftsanthropologie, Wissenschafts-, Technik- und Geschlechtergeschichte, sie stehen aber nirgendwo im Zentrum des Interesses.
Alltags|Ökonomien führt Forschungen zu Haushaltsbüchern und ähnlichem Material aus den Beständen der SFN sowie internationalen Archivbeständen zusammen, um eine interdisziplinäre Diskussion über Methode und Erkenntnisinteresse anzustoßen. Grundlegend und explorativ wird gefragt, wie unterschiedliche Verhältnisse von Alltag und Ökonomie sichtbar machen: Auf welche Weise werden Haushaltsbücher als Quellen wovon gelesen? Welche Annahmen und Kategorisierungen über „den Haushalt“ bringen sie mit sich und wie verhalten sie sich zu Problematisierungen in verschiedenen Forschungsfeldern?

  • Beiträge von Peter-Paul Bänziger (Zürich), Matthias Donabaum (Wien), Sophie Gerber (Wien), Martin Herrnstadt (Bremen), Sophie Hopfner (Wien), Harro Maas und Gabrielle Soudan (Lausanne), Matthias Ruoss (Fribourg), Andreas Streinzer (Wien), Anton Tantner (Wien) und Matthias Van Laer De Gezelle (Antwerpen)
  • Herausgeber:innen: Sebastian Felten, Li Gerhalter und Verena Halsmayer | Redaktion: Dolores Šurlina

Alltags|Ökonomien wurde finanziert durch die Professur für Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der Univ. Wien (Anna Echterhölter), die Professur für Wissenschaftsforschung an der Univ. Luzern (Christoph Hoffmann) und die Sammlung Frauennachlässe.

Sebastian Felten ist Tenure Track Professor für Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit | Li Gerhalter ist Senior Scientist für Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte und wissenschaftliche Leiterin der Sammlung Frauennachlässe | Verena Halsmayer ist Universitätsassistentin Postdoc für Wissenschaftsgeschichte | alle am Institut für Geschichte der Univ. Wien.

Die „Tea Hour“ ist die Veranstaltungsreihe der Sammlung Frauennachlässe. Dabei werden neue Forschungsprojekte oder Präsentationsformen vorgestellt, die (hauptsächlich) auf Quellen aus der Sammlung Frauennachlässe aufgebaut sind – oder die in einem Zusammenhang damit stehen (Web).

CfP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 (06/2026, Univ. of Oxford); by: 28.02.2026

Clio Reframed (Web)

Time: 18.-19.06.2026
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Univ. of Oxford
Proposals by: 28.02.2026

Plenary speakers: Danielle Clarke (Univ. College Dublin), Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille (Univ. de Rouen Normandie), Emilie Murphy (Univ. of York), Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck, Univ. of London)

Early modern historical writing encompasses a wide range of subjects, approaches, and forms, including, to name a few, chronicle histories, verse narratives, drama, pamphlets, and biographical lives. While recent scholarship has paid attention to this variety and generic hybridity by looking beyond major chronicle and humanist histories, the contributions that women made to historical culture have often been overlooked. Women were, however, actively engaged in historical writing, producing a diverse range of texts that have not been adequately incorporated within our understanding of ‘history’ as a genre or mode of writing about the past.
Clio Reframed aims to explore historical writing and historiography produced by women between the sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, asking why, when and to what purpose and effect women chose different historical subjects as their focus; to situate these texts within their social, religious, political, and textual production contexts, with the aim of expanding our critical understanding of historical writing that often elides the participation of women; and to challenge narratives that homogenize women’s interests in history and their writing strategies. It proposes that women’s historical writing is not an essentially gendered or isolated space in which individual contributions and agendas are uniform. Rather, women’s historical writing is diverse, prevalent, and characterized by relational frameworks and networks, involving other writers, patrons, stationers, and readers.
The conference defines historical writing broadly to include any text, in print or manuscript, that purports to offer some account of a historical past or what was once thought to be a historical past. These parameters include political and military histories (what has been conventionally thought of as ‘mainstream’ history), but also biblical and religious histories, legendary histories, such as those linked to a nation’s narrative of origin, and individual histories about specific lives, including memoirs. The conference welcomes global perspectives and Continue reading →

Conference: Masculinities, Militaries, and Mass Violence in Transition, 21.-23.01.2026, Potsdam [REMINDERIN]

Research Network Military, War and Gender/Diversity (MKGD) (Web)

Ort: Potsdam
Zeit: 21.-23.01.2026
Anmeldung bis: 05.01.2026

The second international conference of the Research Network on Military, War and Gender/Diversity (MKGD), organised in cooperation with the Bundeswehr Centre for Military History and Social Sciences (ZMSBw), explores the interconnected themes of masculinities, armed forces and violence in transition. Our focus is on comparisons across time and space that highlight continuities/ruptures and similarities/differences. The regional focus is on Europe broadly defined in its global context. The temporal framework ranges from the early modern period to the present, including the aftermath and memories of World War II.

Programme (Web)

Keynotes:

  • Aaron Belkin (San Francisco State Univ.): Gender Identity and Violence in Authoritarian Times: Reflections on Transgender Military Service
  • Thomas Kühne (Clark Univ., Worcester, MA): Masculinity, War, and Genocide: State and Perspectives of Historical Inquiries

Panels: The Development of Early Modern Constructions of Military Masculinity | Competing Concepts and Practices of Military Masculinities in the long Nineteenth Century | Conflicted Military Masculinities in the Time of World War I | Masculinities and the Military in the Interwar Period | Variants of Masculinity and Politics in the Age of World War II | Military Masculinities, Violence and Sexuality during and after the World Wars

Source: HSozKult

CfP: Female Sexual Desire in Women’s Writing (pre-1940) (09/2026, Nova Gorica); by: 31.01.2026

1st international conference of the DARIAH Working Group Women Writers in History (Web)

Time: 23.-25.09.2026
Venue: Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Proposals by: 31.01.2026

Articulations of female sexual desire and eroticism were rare before the advent of modern feminism, largely due to the historically restricted social roles and positions of women. When such articulations did emerge, they were often encoded and veiled in metaphor, reflecting their transgressive nature. Women writers frequently had to invent the language of eroticism and desire anew, often without access to earlier female expressions of similar experiences.
In Catholic contexts in particular, femininity was caught between two extremes: the glorification of Marian virginity and the condemnation of eroticism embodied in Eve. As a result, female sexuality was typically considered sinful unless contained within the heterosexual matrix of marriage. Yet many women writers boldly transgressed social, moral, and aesthetic boundaries in their exploration and expression of desire; whether directed toward men, other women, or the self through narcissistic love.
This conference seeks to explore representations of female desire and its intersections with other emotions, especially pride, joy, and shame, in women’s writing. We invite papers that build on existing scholarship as well as new readings, analyses, and interpretations of women’s writing, particularly from so-called peripheral literatures. The aim is to shed light on how women writers contributed to the discourse on sexual desire up to the interwar period, and how their work shaped cultural understandings of female eroticism and emotion.
As a key point of departure, we draw on the SHE WROTE database (shewrote.rich.ru.nl), which enables users to collect, share, and analyze historical data documenting the international reception of works by women writers before c. 1940. This resource provides evidence of book ownership, readership, re-editions, translations, intertextual references, and commentary on women’s writing. Since representations of sexual desire have historically provoked particularly strong reactions from readers and cultural gatekeepers, we are very interested in the reception of this topic in women’s writing.
We especially welcome contributions that approach women’s writing from comparative, transnational, or digital humanities perspectives. Continue reading →

CfP: Trans Political Visibilities: Innovations from Latin America (Publication); by: 31.01.2026

Alternautas (Web); Helton Levy (London Metropolitan Univ., UK), Flora Rondón (Univ. Del Rosario, Colombia), and Bru Pereira (Federal Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil) 

Proposals by: 31.01.2026

Latin America has had a unique importance for recent trans scholarship, from classic ethnographies of travestidades to contemporary analyses of transfeminism, decoloniality, and policy change. Foundational works (e.g., Kulick, 1998; Ochoa, 2020) foreground embodiment, labour, beauty regimes, and national modernities as terrains where visibility is negotiated. Brazilian and Southern Cone scholarship has advanced trans feminist and decolonial critiques that problematize cisnormativity, medicalisation, and epistemic erasure (Bento, 2006; Pelucio, 2005; Vergueiro, 2019; de Jesus, 2019). These debates situate trans visibility within racialised, classed, territorial, and colonial relations – key to any regional account of “development.”
Legal and policy shifts have also reconfigured the landscape of visibility and recognition—most prominently Argentina’s Gender Identity Law (Law 26.743, 2012), Brazil’s 2018 Supreme Court ruling allowing administrative name/sex marker change without medical/surgical requirements, Colombia’s Constitutional Court jurisprudence since 1993 recognizing name-change rights, protection from gender identity–based discrimination, and access to gender-affirming healthcare; complemented by a 2015 executive decree allowing sex marker correction without medical or judicial requirements, Uruguay’s 2018 Comprehensive Trans Law, and Mexico City’s 2024 typification of transfemicide—each producing new archives of rights, bureaucratic traces, and media discourse to be studied critically. At the same time, violence and precarity remain urgent: regional monitoring and recent reports document disproportionate killings of trans people and LGBTQIA+ communities, demanding analyses that connect visibility to neoliberal “development” agendas with gendered/racialized disposability (TGEU, 2024). Read more … (Web) 

Alternautas, a journal of multi-disciplinary Latin American studies, invites submissions for a special collection on Trans Political Visibilities: Innovations in/from Latin America. We seek critical, empirically grounded, and theoretically informed work that examines how trans, travesti, and transformista lives are made visible—and rendered (in)visible—across media, law, health, urban space, development policy, labour, activism, and everyday life with varying impacts. (Web)

Source: Qstudy-l Digest

Conference: Between Past and Present. Continuities of Right-Wing Extremist Images of Womanhood, 15.01.2026, Potsdam [REMINDERIN]

Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien (MMZ) and Centre for Promotion of Tolerance and Holocaust Remembrance in Zagreb (Web)

Venue: Potsdam
Time: 15.01.2026
Registration by: 06.01.2026

At this international conference, experts will discuss their latest research findings about the historical and current role of fascist and nationalistic-oriented women from the interwar period to the present day. In light of the shift to the right in many European countries and elsewhere, it will be shown how antifeminist politics, traditional images of womanhood and right-wing ideologies have shaped society until today. The conference is part of the international EU project “Teaching about Race and Gender Exclusion Timelines.”

Programme

11:00 Welcome speeches: Werner Treß (MMZ) and Nataša Popović (Centre for Promotion of Tolerance and Holocaust Remembrance)

Keynote: Ljiljana Radonić (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Female Perpetrators and their Antisemitic, Racist and Antiziganist Authoritarian Projections | Moderation: Martina Bitunjac (MMZ)

12:15 Panel I | Moderation: Olaf Glöckner (MMZ)

  • Esther Lehnert (Alice Salomon Univ. of Applied Sciences Berlin): Women in the Far Right: Fighting for Women’s Rights?
  • Perry Willson (Univ. of Dundee): The Political Mobilisation of Women in Fascist Italy: 1922–1943

14:30 Panel II | Moderation: Roy Knocke (Lepsiushaus Potsdam)

  • Anca Diana Axinia (Independent Scholar): Women, Gender, and Politics in the Romanian Legionary Movement Continue reading →

CfP: Taming War and Postwar Violence (Publication); by: 31.01.2026

Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Studia Territorialia; Ota Konrád (Web)

Proposals by: 31.01.2026

Violence and the experiences of violence associated with war are among the central concerns of modern social science and historical research. Since the First World War—with its new forms of mass industrialized violence and the blurring of the boundaries between front lines and home fronts—and the emergence of modern societies marked by conscription and the militarization of everyday life, war-related violence has become a shared experience for a broad spectrum of social groups, and not merely professional soldiers. It has decisively shaped individual lives, social structures, and the collective memories of war in postwar societies, with long-term consequences that have essentially shaped the political development and political culture of those societies.
As numerous studies demonstrate, widespread violence in wartime cannot be regarded as merely an aberration or excess. Instead, it has often been an integral part of military tactics, a tool for enforcing political objectives, and a kind of behavior that is acceptable to—or at least tolerated by—political and military elites, as well as large segments of the civilian population. Violence is internalized and normalized by otherwise “ordinary” men and soldiers. Scholarship on sexual violence as a weapon of war, on genocides occurring in wartime contexts, on occupation regimes, on the treatment of prisoners of war, on the specific dynamics of radicalization of the perpetrators of war crimes, and on postwar conflicts that often surpass the brutality of the preceding war illustrates how embedded indiscriminate violence has become in modern warfare.
At the same time, the qualitative and quantitative transformations of wartime violence have been accompanied by attempts to control and regulate the violence of war, or even eliminate it altogether, which have met with varying degrees of success. These efforts range from distinguishing “legitimate” forms of wartime violence from war crimes, through the establishment of legal norms to govern the treatment of prisoners of war and the conduct of occupying powers, to broader international initiatives aimed at delegitimizing war as a means of state interaction entirely. Regulation of wartime violence also encompasses strategies adopted by groups and individuals confronted with violence at the regional or local level, whether motivated by ethical principles or by pragmatic considerations. Equally important are strategies for coping with the consequences of violence that address or ignore the traces it leaves in bodies, minds, and communities. Continue reading →

Buchpräsentation: Irene Messinger und Zoe Doye: Verfolgung und Widerstand von Fürsorgerinnen in Wien 1934-45, 15.01.2026, Wien

Institut für Historische Sozialforschung, Arbeiterkammer Wien (Web)

Zeit: 15.01.2026, 18:30 Uhr
Ort: Bibliothek der AK Wien, Prinz-Eugen-Str. 20-22, 1040 Wien
Anmeldung (Web)

Die Mehrheit der Wiener Fürsorgerinnen passte sich im Austrofaschismus und Nationalsozialismus den Vorgaben der Regime an, während zahlreiche Kolleginnen entrechtet, entlassen, in die Flucht gedrängt oder ermordet wurden. Nur eine kleine Gruppe beteiligte sich aktiv am Widerstand. Die Studie untersucht anhand von 80 Biografien politisch und rassistisch verfolgter Fürsorgerinnen deren berufliche und private Netzwerke, die Mechanismen institutioneller Ausgrenzung sowie den Transfer von Wissen ins Exil und erweitert damit die Berufsgeschichte der Sozialen Arbeit um marginalisierte und bislang vernachlässigte Akteurinnen.
Die Recherche wurde durch Familienangehörige bereichert. Zoe Doye, Enkelin der Fürsorgerin Hedy Schwarz und 1934 entlassene Leiterin des Kindergartens im Goethehof, die 1938 nach London fliehen konnte, berichtet über deren Leben im Exil.

  • Irene Messinger: Verfolgung und Widerstand von Fürsorgerinnen in Wien 1934–1945. Kollektivbiografische Studie zur Geschichte Sozialer Arbeit, Baden-Baden (Nomos) 2025 (Web)

Irene Messinger ist Professorin für Soziale Arbeit an der Hochschule Campus Wien. Die promovierte Politikwissenschaftlerin habilitierte sich mit dem vorliegenden Werk am Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Univ. Wien.

Der Vortrag und die Diskussion finden auf Deutsch statt. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos.

CfP: Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι 1. Tagung des Frauen*Netzwerks in der Alten Geschichte (11/2026, Potsdam); by: 16.01.2026

1. Tagung des Frauen*Netzwerks in der Alten Geschichte; Bettina Reese, Nicole Diersen, Victoria Macura und Lea Fürst (Web)

Zeit: 05.-07.11.2026
Ort: Univ. Potsdam
Einreichfrist: 16.01.2026

Der Initiative unserer Kolleginnen* aus der Klassischen Philologie folgend, möchten wir ab 2026 auch im Bereich der Alten Geschichte ein Frauen*Netzwerk in Kooperation zwischen der Univ. Potsdam und Osnabrück ins Leben rufen. Ziel ist eine stärkere Vernetzung von Frauen* in der Alten Geschichte und ihren Nachbarwissenschaften. Mit der geplanten Tagung reagieren wir zugleich auf den immer noch deutlich geringeren Frauen*anteil in allen Qualifikationsstufen in den Geisteswissenschaften und möchten einen Raum für wissenschaftlichen Austausch, Kooperation und gegenseitige Unterstützung schaffen. Der Call for Papers richtet sich an Wissenschaftlerinnen* aller Karrierephasen. Willkommen sind selbstverständlich auch Kolleginnen* aus Nachbardisziplinen wie der Klassischen Philologie oder der Archäologie.

Zur Wahl stehen zwei verschiedene Präsentationsformate:
– Vorträge (wahlweise zwischen 20 und 30 Min. Vortrag mit anschließender Diskussion)
– Projekt-Pitches (10 Min. Vorstellung des Projekts + 15 Min. Diskussion), geeignet insbesondere für neue Projekte oder einzelne Aspekte laufender Forschungsvorhaben

Besonders willkommen sind Themen der Frauen- und Genderforschung, insbesondere – aber nicht ausschließlich – zu folgenden Aspekten:
– Mutterschaft und Familie
– politische, wirtschaftliche und juristische Stellung von Frauen
– Darstellung von Frauen in antiken Quellen
– rezeptionsgeschichtliche Ansätze
Darüber hinaus können didaktische Ansätze in Form von geplanten oder bereits erfolgreich durchgeführten Lehrveranstaltungen mit ähnlichem Schwerpunkt vorgestellt werden. Grundsätzlich freuen wir uns über alle althistorischen Themen. Continue reading →

CfP: False Freedoms? Reassessing East German Feminisms Before and After the Wende (Publication); by: 31.01.2026

Journal of Women’s History (Web); Alexandria Ruble and Yanara Schmacks (Web)

Proposals by: 31.01.2026

After German reunification in 1990, a popular narrative emerged: in terms of the politics of gender and sexuality, the Wende had been a disappointment for East Germans. Indeed, East German women were dubbed as the ‘losers’ of the reunification process. The absorption of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) by the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) had led to the end of many rights that East Germans had taken for granted: generous maternity leave, state-subsidized all-day childcare, and reproductive rights such as abortion, to name just a few examples. West German feminists often dismissed these gains as a result of state socialism, rather than a struggle by autonomous feminists to achieve their own liberation. More recently, scholars have challenged this narrative, arguing for a more nuanced approach to women’s rights activism in the GDR and during the early 1990s. Likewise, a fresh wave of scholarship on queer lives in the GDR has explored gay rights activism and homoerotic spaces in East Germany, challenging long-standing assumptions about a total repression of non-heterosexual experiences. Emerging research on the post-socialist landscape of the 1990s–2000s also highlights the diverse ways East German activists reacted to reunification, contesting West German frameworks while reshaping their own political practices in a rapidly shifting landscape.
This special issue takes up this call to complicate our understanding of the history of feminisms, queer activism, and sexuality during and after the GDR. Contributions will engage with broader themes regarding the relationship between state socialist and liberal-democratic contexts, with issues of gender and sexuality.

We welcome papers exploring a variety of questions and themes across the 1989 caesura, including but not limited to:
– What counts as feminist/queer activism? How were/are women’s, gay, and reproductive rights achieved?
– Feminist, queer, and trans subjectivities under socialism
– Transnational connections of East German women’s and gay rights activism Continue reading →