Category Archives: Topic_Migration

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.

Source: HSozuKult

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 →

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 →

Vortrag: Luise Richter: „Fides. Vincit. Omnia!“ Konfessionelle Identität, Agency und ‚vernetzte‘ Mobilität in den Selbstzeugnissen der Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633-1694), 15.05.2024, Wien und virtueller Raum

Vortragsreihe „Geschichte am Mittwoch“ in Koop. mit der Österr. Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jhds. (ÖGE18) (Web)

Zeit: 15.05.2024, 18.30-20.00 Uhr
Ort: Univ. Wien, Universitätsring 1, Hörsaal 30 – und virtueller Raum

Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633-1694) gilt als bekannteste protestantische Barockdichterin Niederösterreichs. Die aufgrund der Gegenreformation im 17. Jhd. stark forcierten Rekatholisierungsmaßnahmen sowie auch wirtschaftliche und finanzielle Schwierigkeiten veranlassten sie, wie auch viele ihrer Glaubensgefährt*innen, zu einer zunächst temporären und später dauerhaften Emigration ins süddeutsche „Exil“. Die Wahl fiel auf Nürnberg, das durch seine Aufgeschlossenheit gegenüber verschiedenen religiösen Richtungen insbesondere im 17. Jhd. sehr beliebt bei Protestant*innen war.
Anhand von Greiffenbergs Briefverkehr mit dem Nürnberger Literaten Sigmund von Birken in den Jahren zwischen 1662 und 1681 stehen im Rahmen des Vortrages drei Schwerpunkte im Zentrum: 1.) Die Bedeutung des Glaubens für „Konfessionsemigrant*innen“ hinsichtlich frühneuzeitlicher Identitätsbildungsprozesse. 2.) Der Einfluss der „eigenen“ Konfession auf die Lebensbilder glaubenstreuer Akteur*innen. 3.) Der Stellenwert von Religion im Kontext frühneuzeitlicher Mobilitätsprozesse. Diese Aspekte, die sich aus Greiffenbergs Selbstzeugnissen entnehmen lassen, gewähren einen bis dato unterschätzten Einblick in die Darstellungs- und Selbstrepräsentationsformen sowie in die Gedankenwelt, Kommunikationsstrukturen und Mobilitätsprozesse einer der wohl bedeutendsten „schreibenden“ Akteur*innen der Frühen Neuzeit.

Moderation: Sabine Miesgang

Luisa Richter absolvierte von 2015 bis 2023 das Lehramtsstudium für Geschichte, Sozialkunde und Politische Bildung sowie Latein an der Univ. Wien. Ihre Bachelorarbeiten verfasste sie zu „Ovids Heroides III“ und zur „Selbstrepräsentation der Konfessionsmigrantin Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg im süddeutschen Exil“. In ihrer Masterarbeit Continue reading →

Klicktipp und CfP: Open Gender Journal; bis: laufend

Open Gender Journal (Web)

Open Gender Journal erscheint seit 2017. Es veröffentlicht fortlaufend Fachbeiträge aus dem wissenschaftlichen Feld der intersektionalen Geschlechterforschung. Dies umfasst verschiedene methodische und theoretische Ausrichtungen, einschließlich – aber nicht beschränkt auf – Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Diversity Studies, feministische Forschung, Frauenforschung, Disability Studies, Rassismusforschung, Klassismusforschung, Critical Whiteness, Post- und Decolonial Studies.
Die begutachtete Zeitschrift steht für Diamond-Open-Access, also frei zugängliche und nachnutzbare Beiträge für Leser*innen und eine kostenfreie Veröffentlichung für die Autor*innen. Zu den bisherigen Ausgaben … (Web)

Offener CfP – Einreichfrist: laufend

Artikel können jederzeit eingereicht werden und werden fortlaufend veröffentlicht. Alle Beiträge erscheinen unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International. Ab 2024 erscheint das Open Gender Journal bei Berlin Universities Publishing. Open Gender Journal freut sich über die Einreichung von Forschungsartikeln, Debattenbeiträgen und Rezensionen aus dem vielfältigen Feld der intersektionalen Geschlechterforschung. Dies können deutsch und englischsprachige Beiträge aus verschiedenen methodischen und theoretischen Ausrichtungen aus dem oben genannten breiten Themenfeld sein. Aktuelle Rubriken sind „Digital Gender“ und “Debate Feminista x Open Gender Journal: Geschlechtsspezifische und sexuelle Belästigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt im Hochschulkontext”. Mehr Informationen zur Beitragseinreichung finden sich auf der Website (Web).

Herausgeber*innen des Open Gender Journals sind die Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien: Käthe von Bose; das Margherita-von-Brentano-Zentrum (FU Berlin): Heike Pantelmann; GeStiK – Gender Studies in Köln (Univ. zu Köln): Susanne Völker; das Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien (HU Berlin): Gabriele Jähnert; und das Referat Genderforschung (Univ. Wien): Sabine Grenz.

Conference: Women and the history of state building in Africa, 06.-07.06.2024, Vienna

HAWPP-Project „A history of African female parliamentary pioneers“; Anaïs Angelo, Inst. für Afrikawissenschaften at the Univ. of Vienna (Web)

Time: 06.-07.06.2024
Venue: Univ. of Vienna

Program (PDF)

As African countries became independent, being represented in state institutions was a political goal for many women, but undoing the legacy of colonial politics and gaining public visibility in the political field was no easy task. Despite serious difficulties and challenges, women vied for offices, campaigned, talked and wrote about politics, voted, and expressed their ideas within various institutions (organizations, political party, unions, local and national assemblies…). They were strategic actors in the processes of postcolonial state building. Yet, their history has remained confined to a separate section of African politics, the “women’s section”. While African political history has long been dominated by male actors, the history of African women in politics has been primarily written from the perspective of grassroots politics and women’s role in social and economic development projects. A new wave of scholarship has recently begun to address this discrepancy in the historiography, with scholars exploring the ways women have challenged established political orders “from the top”, from creative writing to frontal opposition to presidential rule.[1] This literature shows that African women’s politics must be placed at the heart of narratives of state building, party politics, governance and presidential rule, that political narratives need to be complexified, concepts rethought, and that new sources must be sought to acknowledge African women’s complex modes of political imagination, action, and language.
Building on this trend, this conference aims to retrieve histories of African women’s contribution to the postcolonial politics of state building. Who were the women who vied for positions of power, how/why did they campaign (or were appointed), for which ideas? What did they achieve during their political mandates, which challenges did they face? What did they do afterwards, what impact did they have? Which sources are available to document their stories? What are the methodological challenges that emerge when retrieving these sources and/or writing these histories? Read more … (Web)

Lecture: Alyosxa Tudor: The Endurance of the Mare – Violence and Resilience in the Eastern Borderlands of Gender and Europe, 15.05.2024, Vienna

Referat Genderforschung an der Univ. Wien: Gender Talks (Web)

Time: 15.05.2024, 17.00 Uhr
Venue: Univ. Wien, Erika-Weinzierl-Saal, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Stiege 1, 1. Stock

In this paper, Alyosxa Tudor engages with the overlaps of speculative fiction and auto/theory. Through these tools, Tudor aims to explore the intricate dynamics of intergenerational trauma and the travelling of gender, state, and sexual violence across both space and time. The narrative unfolds in the disputed Eastern borderlands of Europe, specifically focusing on the Budjak and the Dobrogea regions, currently part of Ukraine and bordering Romania.
Central to the story Alyosxa Tudor will be telling is the life of Pena, born in 1911 in the Budjak, at the time in the Tsarist Empire. The primary objective of this paper is to unravel Pena’s life story and its interconnection with the histories of the region – the inter-imperial borderlands, Black Sea/Danube Delta hinterlands, and multi-ethnic territories deeply marked by anti-Semitism, ethno-racism, and Islamophobia.

Alyosxa Tudor is Reader in Gender Studies and the Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, Univ. of London. Their work connects trans and queer feminist approaches with transnational feminism and postcolonial studies. Alyosxa Tudor’s main research interest lies in analysing (knowledge productions on) migrations, diasporas and borders in relation to critiques of Eurocentrism and to processes of gendering and racialisation.

CfP: Geschlecht und Gewalt in Kolonialkriegen, Kolonialherrschaft und antikolonialen Befreiungskämpfen (Event, 01/2025, Potsdam); bis: 05.05.2024 [REMINDERIN]

Forschungsverbund „Militär, Krieg und Geschlecht/Diversität|Military, War and Gender/Diversity“ (MKGD) (Web)

Zeit: 30.-31.01.2025
Ort: Potsdam
Einreichfrist: 05.05.2024

Tanja Bührer (Univ. Salzburg), Isabelle Deflers (Univ. der Bundeswehr München) und Karen Hagemann (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) in Koop. mit dem Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw), Potsdam (PDF)

Die extreme Gewalt in Kolonialkriegen und antikolonialen Befreiungskriegen sowie die strukturelle und reale Gewaltpraxis kolonialer Herrschaft haben in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten international verstärkt wissenschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Nach wie vor zu wenig erforscht ist jedoch die Geschlechterdimension des Themas, obwohl die bisherige geschlechterhistorische Forschung zu kolonialen Konflikten zeigt, dass Geschlecht sowohl als theoretischer und methodischer Ansatz als auch als Forschungsgegenstand erhebliche Bedeutung hat.
Intersektional in Verbindung mit sozialen, ethnischen und rassischen Differenzen konstruierte Geschlechterbilder prägten und legitimierten die Handlungsräume von Männern wie Frauen in den gewaltgeprägten Interaktionen kolonialer Konflikte. Sie beeinflussten erheblich die Gewaltpraktiken der kolonialen Invasoren und die Gewalterfahrungen der kolonisierten Bevölkerung. Einheimische Frauen in den Kolonien wurden beispielsweise in besonderem Maße zum Opfer sexueller Gewalt in ihren verschiedenen Formen, von der Zwangsprostitution, erzwungenen Konkubinaten bis hin zu Vergewaltigungen. Einheimische Männer wurden von den Kolonialmächten zur Zwangsarbeit gezwungen und als Kolonialsoldaten rekrutiert.
In Kolonialkriegen und antikolonialen Befreiungskriegen, vor allem wenn sie die Form von Guerillakriegen annahmen, wurde die im internationalen Kriegsrecht – zumindest theoretisch – gemachte Unterscheidung zwischen Soldaten und Zivilbevölkerung in der Regel völlig aufgehoben. Sie wurden schon früh als „totale“ Kriege mit systematischer Massengewalt gegen die gesamte zu kolonialisierende Bevölkerung geführt. Sowohl Kolonialtruppen als auch die Streitkräfte von antikolonialen Befreiungsbewegungen waren bei ihren Feldzügen auf die Unterstützung und die Dienstleistungen der Zivilbevölkerung, einschließlich der Frauen angewiesen. Continue reading →

CfP: Women’s Activism and Mobility in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Successor States 1848-1945 (Event, 11/2024, Vienna); by: 30.04.2024 [REMINDERIN]

Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner (HUN REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Inst. of History) and Iván Bertényi (Inst. für Ungarische Geschichtsforschung in Wien, Collegium Hungaricum Wien)

Time: 11.-12.11.2024
Venue: Collegium Hungaricum Wien
Proposals by: 30.04.2024

This call for papers aims to promote scholarly collaboration, resulting in a large-scale international research project on women’s activism in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the successor states between 1848 and 1945. The primary aim of the planned project is to reconstruct the history and the international network of contacts of Austrian-German, Hungarian, Slovakian, Czech and Moravian, Polish, Italian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Ruthenian, and Romanian women’s associations of different profiles as well as to study the activism of their leaders through a longer period of time and over different political regimes. The territory of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy would be considered as a transnational laboratory. Thus, within the frames of this workshop we aim to provide a forum for conversation and to connect researchers to facilitate closer cooperation and further research in this field.
Contributions, which have to be based on original research with primary and secondary sources, should transgress state borders which historically cut different activists and activisms apart from each other. They have to adopt an interdisciplinary approach with examining the relationship between local, national, and transnational/international dynamics of women’s activism in the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and in its successor states. Proposals might explore questions/subject-matters such as the followings:

– In what terms can the 1840s be interpreted as the genesis of women’s activism in the different regions of the Monarchy? How did the first groups of women accommodate their traditional roles as wives and mothers and became active as organizers and raised their voices for the emancipation of women? How did they connect with each other?
– How did the women of the next generations made efforts to change the existing social relations? Who were exactly these women with progressive and sometimes radical ideas? How were they involved in the women’s movements? Read more … (PDF)