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Diversity and Law in European History (Graduate Conference in European History – GRACEH 2025), 07.-09.04.2025, Wien

Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH 2025): Diversity and Law in European History (Web)

Zeit: 07.-09.04.2025
Ort: Univ. Wien

Programm (Web)

Panels: COLONIALISM | DIVERSITY OF LAW | PLACES OF „LAWLESSNESS“ | SOCIAL (IN)EQUALITY | ADMINISTERING THE LAW IN ITS INSTITUTIONS | WOMEN’S ACTIVISM | CONTROLLING BODIES: SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE | IN COURT: DIVERSITY AND LEGAL THEORY | MIGRATION | RELIGION AND/OR FREEDOM? FROM PROTECTION TO REPRESSION

Keynotes

  • Dagmar Herzog (New York) zum Thema „DisAbility Studies im Zusammenhang mit Recht“
  • Elisabeth Holzleithner (Wien) zum Thema „Das emanzipatorische Potenzial von Recht“

Weitere Informationen findne Sie auf der Website (Web).

Organisatorinnen: Natascha Bobrowsky and Magdalena Irnstötter

CfP: Connection: The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference (08/2025, virtual space); by: 22.03.2025

The Critical Femininities Research Cluster at the Centre for Feminist Research at York Univ. (Web)

Time: 15.-17.08.2025
Venue: virtual space – via York
Proposals by: 22.03.2025

Connection: joining, uniting, fastening, bringing together. Audre Lorde highlighted how when we “make connection with our similarities and our differences” (53), we remind ourselves of our own and others’ affective capacity. Femininity can be a rich and creative site of connectivity that expands beyond colonial imaginaries of womanhood and gender. Critical femininities is a site where we can connect, disconnect, and reconnect with the world, each other, and our own gendered selves. Connections can be tangible and intangible, with these boundaries being increasingly blurred as technologically mediated communication methods saturate our lives.
Critical Femininities is a growing field that seeks to develop nuanced critiques of femininity in all its variations beyond its characterization as a patriarchal imposition and where femininity is not synonymous with ‘woman’ (Dahl 2012, Taylor & Hoskin 2023, 79). Rethinking femininity as a concept opens space for a dialogue on the complex, multidimensional feminine expressions beyond heteronormative relations. Additionally, the field of critical femininities offers alternative frameworks centering connection through community building and a love politics that emphasizes a praxis of care extending beyond the personal and into the building of political communities (Nash, 2019).
This conference marks half a decade of cultivating digital community dialogue around critical femininities, opening up intentional digital space for expanding normative definitions of connection. There are also possibilities in the ways we disconnect. As Alyson K. Spurgas (2021) writes, “there is promise in embracing a fracturing, in falling apart—as antidote to the normative and neoliberal logic of keeping it together.” There is value in interrogating the connective void left when white supremacy, colonization, ableism, transphobia, misogyny, and other violent structures disconnect us from our femininities. The potential inherent in diving into disconnection also leaves room for exploring unexpected or idiosyncratic instances of re-connection to femininity.
The organisers invite you to connect with us through submissions that reflect diverse critical connections for the fifth annual Critical Femininities Conference. Possible themes may include (but are not limited to): Read more … (Web)

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CfP: Masculinities, Militaries, and Mass Violence in Transition (Second International MKGD-ZMSBw Conference, 01/2026, Potsdam); by: 31.03.2025

Research Network on Military, War and Gender/Diversity | Militär, Krieg und Geschlecht/Diversität” (MKGD) (Web) 

Time: 22.-23.01.2026
Venue: Potsdam
Proposals by: 31.03.2025

The military and war were among the first subjects of the history of masculinity, when it developed as a subfield of the emerging discipline of gender history in the 1980s. Until then, most military historians had regarded military service and warfare as exclusively masculine activities. Even today, for many scholars studying armed forces and conflicts the maleness of their research subject seems so self-evident as to require no critical scrutiny.
Historians of masculinity challenge this gender blindness, arguing that “gender” is crucial for understanding past and present armed forces and military conflicts around the globe. They use “gender” as a research subject and methodological approach, conceptualizing it as an analytical category, which works in intersection with class, race, ethnicity, age, sexuality etc. For them, “gender” as a social, historically specific construct of perceived differences between the sexes, shapes discourses on and representations of armed forces in peace and war, informs military laws and regulations, permeates the organisation and culture of regular and irregular armed forces, and frames individual as well as collective identities, experiences and memories.
Important areas of research in the history of masculinity, the military and war include the link between the supposedly “natural” male duty to serve as soldiers protecting home and family as well as male citizenship rights, which has long been used to deny women their rights as citizens; the resistance against an inclusion of women in the military in general and in combat positions in particular; the importance of male heterosexuality for the construction of a virile concept of military masculinity, which went hand in hand with the persecution of homosexuality; and sexual harassment within the armed forces and against women and men of the enemy.
The second conference of the international Research Network on Military, War and Gender/Diversity (MKGD), founded in March 2023, aims to take a comparative look at the current state of the history of masculinity in military, violence and war, exploring the diverse approaches and themes addressed by innovative scholarship in these fields. The organisers will consider both early modern and modern armed forces and conflicts in Europe, North America and beyond up to the present day, … read more and source (Web).

Vortrag: Lilly Maier: Jüdische Frauen als Retterinnen, 14.03.2025, Wien und virtueller Raum

Frauenhetz und Verband feministischer Wissenschafteri*nnen (VfW): Reihe feminismen diskutieren (Web)

Zeit: Fr., 14.03.2025, 18:00 Uhr
Ort: Frauenhetz, Untere Weißgerberstr. 41, 1030 Wien – und virtueller Raum

Ein lange vernachlässigtes Thema in der Holocaust-Forschung ist die Rettung von Jüdinnen und Juden durch jüdische Frauen. Die absolute Mehrzahl an Rettungsaktionen etwa in Frankreich wurde von jüdischen Frauen durchgeführt. Dazu gehörten Sozialarbeiterinnen, Pfadfinderinnen und Mitglieder der zionistischen Frauenorganisation genauso wie reiche Baroninnen, die ihr Geld und ihren Einfluss für Hilfsaktionen verwendeten. Gefährlicher war es für Jüdinnen, die sich freiwillig in französische Lager einsperren ließen, um Rettung von innen heraus zu organisieren, sowie für Grenzschmugglerinnen.

Moderation: Marlene Eichinger (VfW)

Lilly Maier ist Historikerin und Autorin in München, wo sie an der LMU promoviert (Web).

Für Teilnahme per Zoom Anmeldung bis Fr., 14.03.2025, 12:00 Uhr an pr@frauenhetz.at

Die Veranstaltung ist offen für alle.

Quelle: Frauenhetz Newsletter März 2025

Ringvorlesung: Current Gender Research in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Postsocialism, Semiperiphery, Coloniality, 03.-06.2025, Vienna

Referat Genderforschung | Studienservicestelle Gender Studies der Univ. Wien; Bojan Bilic (Web)

Ort: Univ. Wien, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Hörsaal 41/Gerda-Lerner-Hörsaal, Stiege 8, 1.Stock
Zeit: dienstags, 18:30 Uhr

Programm

18.03.2025
Aleksa Milanović: The Movement Whose Time Has Come: Trans activism in the Post-Yugoslav Space (Web)

08.04.2025
Martin Gramc: Visibilising Intersex Persons in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia (Web)

06.05.2025
Danijela Majstorović: Peripheral Intersections: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Coloniality in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (Web)

27.05.2025
YugoslaWomen+ Collective: The Post-Yugoslav Sace in IR and Collective (Un)learning (Web)

10.06.2025
Roundtable: Maja Pan and Clara Lhullier (Web)

Abstracts der Vorträge (Web)

Alle Vorträge sind öffentlich zugänglich.

Klicktipp: European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics (6/2024): Nursing and Economics (Publication)

European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics: Vol. 6 (2024): Nursing and Economics (Web)

Economic contexts have shaped the working conditions of nurses in various ways throughout history. Increasing marketisation in the healthcare sector has been noted and discussed since the 1960s, in particular in terms of the social and human costs for both nurses and patients. The articles in this special issue situate the marketisation of nursing in different social contexts, differentiate it from the principle of sound financial management in nursing, and thus contribute to the historicisation of the currently politically charged concept of marketisation. The articles focus on the transformation of nursing care in the second half of the 20th century and examine both the opportunities for nurses and the consequences that resulted from the adoption of market-oriented practices in the field of nursing.

Table of content (Web)

  • Susanne Kreutzer and Karen Nolte: Nursing and Economics
  • Susanne Kreutzer: The Economics of Christian Nursing. How the Cost of Nursing Care was Recalculated during West Germany’s Secularisation Process
  • Giordano Cotichelli: Nursing Leadership during Italy’s Economic Miracle (1950–1970)
  • Nicole Kramer: At the Heart of Neoliberalism. The Privatisation of Long-term Care for Older People and the Everyday History of Economic Policy Ideas in the Federal Republic of Germany and Great Britain
  • Carol Helmstadter: Spreading Nigthingale Nursing. A Slow and Tortuous Process
  • Christine E. Hallett: Enigmas of Imperial Nursing. Florence Nigthingale, Catherine Grace Loch and the Indian Army Nursing Service
  • Mia Vrijens: Diaries of District Nurses in the Netherlands of the 1970s

CfP: Women and Health in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic World (12/2025, Funchal); by: 31.03.2025

Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network; Inês Tadeu, Univ. of Madeira and Julia Nitz, Martin Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg (Web) 

Time: 04.-06.12.2025
Venue: Univ. of Madeira, Madeira Island, Portugal
Proposals by: 31.03.2025

Notions of women’s health in the long 19th century were part and parcel of transatlantic societies‘ gender politics. Therefore, it doesn’t come as a surprise that foundational twentieth-century feminist scholars turned to questions of women’s health in their critique of patriarchal power structures. In the 1970s and 1980s, researchers such as Caroll Smith-Rosenberg, in their so-called “feminist reconstruction of history,” argued that we should study nineteenth-century health discourse in order to make apparent how the social role of women was constructed. This argument was based on the assumption that changes in social and cultural attitudes are made “evident in the language of health” (7). They believed that models of health and sickness showcased a plurality of notions of womanhood, i.e., they indicated what was considered personal shortcomings in women, what was construed as social problems, appropriate moral behaviour, women’s citizenship roles, etc. Scholars started to dissect health concepts and their cultural environment to see what judgements and expectations ideas of health have conveyed (see Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America; 1986, 6-7). After a two-decade-long interest in issues of women and health, interest ebbed until more recently when the Covid-19 pandemic starkly highlighted the gendered and racialised norms and prejudices tied to notions of health. This global health crisis generated renewed interest in questions of women and health across many disciplines, including medicine, history, social science, cultural and literary studies, as well as queer and gender studies.
This interdisciplinary conference contributes to the conversation by focusing on comparative transatlantic perspectives on women and health in the long nineteenth century. The organisers invite scholars and professionals from diverse fields to explore the intricate relationship between health discourses and concepts of womanhood, as well as the experiences and realities that women encountered, engaged in, resisted, or helped create.
The organisers encourage cross-disciplinary studies and comparative transnational perspectives. Thus, the conference will address a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Read more and source … (Web)

CfP: Nursing History and Humanities book series; by: Rolling call

Manchester University Press: The Nursing History and Humanities book series (Web)

Proposals by: Rolling call

The Nursing History and Humanities series is devoted both to historical approaches and humanities perspectives: work that explores nursing and health care cultures over time and place, in moments of pandemic and public health crisis and in creative and critical contexts. The series aims to capture the current challenges facing nurses and health care workers in local and global spaces, even as our books continue to document the long historical trajectories of the profession in structural and organisational terms.
The only book series devoted exclusively to nursing pursuits in the world, the editors welcome scholarly manuscripts within and across the fields of nursing history, nationally and internationally, the medical humanities and health studies of nursing practice, and the social histories of race, gender, and sexuality as they pertain to the nursing profession. Nursing is considered in a broad sense, and includes health care workers‘ and nurses‘ roles in midwifery, occupational health, physiotherapy, palliative care, among other areas. At the intersection of practice-based clinical nursing and rigorous cultural examinations of nursing, the series provides a forum for nurses, medical practitioners, historians, philosophers, and cultural critics to present new research.
The editors welcome approaches from established and emerging scholars. They look forward to reading fully formed submissions, providing preliminary advice on putting together a coherent edited volume or developing and framing a book based on PhD research, or generally to discuss ideas arising from a research project. The series takes a hands-on approach providing feedback at each stage, from the initial idea or dissertation through to the draft of the book manuscript. Further details, including a full list of published titles, can be found at the website (Web).

The series editors are: Christine Hallett, Univ. of Liverpool | Jane E. Schultz, Indiana Univ. | Kylie Smith, Emory Univ. | Alannah Tomkins, Keele Univ.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Meredith Carroll, MUP Senior Commissioning Editor for Modern History (Web): meredith.carroll@manchester.ac.uk.

Source: H-Net Notifications

Klicktipp and CfP: Home Front Studies (Publication); by: Rolling call

University of Nebraska Press: Home Front Studies (Web)

Proposals by: Rolling call

„Home Front Studies“ is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed new journal. It explores the concept of the home front, broadly considered, in times of war, civil war, and similar conflicts from the late 19th century to the present day. Its interests include the roles of art, discrimination, finance, gender, identity, literature, music, morale, propaganda, race, and/or sexuality as experienced by civilians on home fronts in locations around the world.
The journal is published by the University of Nebraska Press. Since the first issue in 2021, three further issues have already been published. The first of these is freely accessible online via the Muse project (Web).

Home Front Studies is calling for article submissions. The interdisciplinary editorial board is open to submissions from across the humanities. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere. The editors welcome manuscripts of up to 9,000 words, inclusive of endnotes. Prepare contributions in accordance with the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, using humanities-style endnote citations. Home Front Studies uses Editorial Manager to process submissions at the website (Web).

The journal’s editor is James J. Kimble (Seton Hall Univ.) (Web). Please direct any questions about manuscripts in development to him: james.kimble@shu.edu.

Source: H-Net Notifications

2. Treffen des „F*GG LAB“: Geschlecht historisieren. Frauen*- und Geschlechtergeschichte vernetzen – Cäcilia Wosnitzka: Diasporische (Handlungs-)Räume polnischer Emigrantinnen in der westdeutschen Demokratiegeschichte (1966-1993), 27.03.2025, Wien

Neues Veranstaltungsformat des Forschungsschwerpunktes Frauen*- und Geschlechtergeschichte der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Univ. Wien (Web)

Zeit: Do., 27.03.2025, 18.30 Uhr
Ort: Fakultätszentrum für transdisziplinäre historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Studien, Koling. 14-16, 1090 Wien, Seminarraum 12, 1. Stock
Anschließend: Café Stein, Währinger Str. 6-8, 1090 Wien

Cäcilia Wosnitzka: Work in Progress Bericht und Diskussion des Dissertationsprojektes (Web)
Das Dissertationsprojekt folgt Exil- und Emigrationsbiografien von Aktivistinnen und Intellektuellen aus der Volksrepublik Polen, die ab den späten 1960er Jahren und 1980er Jahren in Westdeutschland lebten. Zwar divergieren die Migrationserfahrungen und -umstände der Akteurinnen deutlich, jedoch verbindet sie die Tatsache, dass sie in der BRD aktivistisch aktiv waren und sich gesellschaftspolitisch engagierten. Der transnationale Aktivismus und die zivilgesellschaftliche Vernetzung der Akteurinnen dienen im Projekt als mikrohistorischer Ansatzpunkt für demokratiegeschichtliche Überlegungen in Bezug auf die (west-)deutsche Migrationsgesellschaft. Der Work in Progress Bericht stellt einige dieser inhaltlichen und methodischen Überlegungen vor, die anhand von Quellenbeispielen gemeinsam diskutiert werden. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf den ambivalenten Entwicklungen der 1980er Jahre, für die in Westdeutschland einerseits eine intellektuelle Öffnung gegenüber ostmitteleuropäischen Einflüssen feststellbar ist und andererseits migrationspolitisch eine zunehmende Schließung in Bezug auf Emigrant*innen aus dem Ostblock (insbesondere Polen).

Cäcilia Wosnitzka ist Praedoc am Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Univ. Wien.

Eingeladen zum „F*GG LAB“ sind alle, die Interesse an einer Historisierung von Geschlecht haben und das fachlich diskutieren wollen: Studierende, Kolleg*innen aller universitären Karrierestufen, Projektmitarbeiter*innen und freie Forscher*innen. Die Initiative wurde gestartet von Natascha Bobrowsky und Paula Lange – als Organisatorinnen des F*GG LAB – sowie Johanna Gehmacher und Dietlind Hüchtker – als Sprecherinnen FSP und Doc-School Cluster F*GG.
Im F*GG LAB sollen historische Forschung zu Frauen*, Geschlechterverhältnissen und Continue reading →