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Diversity and Law in European History (Graduate Conference in European History – GRACEH 2025), 07.-09.04.2025, Vienna [REMINDERIN]

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

Zeit: 07.-09.04.2025
Ort: Univ. Wien

Programm (Web)

Keynotes

  • Dagmar Herzog (New York): Changing Laws, Changing Hearts: Battles over Disability-Inclusive Schooling in Post-„Euthanasia“ Germany
  • Elisabeth Holzleithner (Wien): Law and Diversity: From Oppression to Emancipation – and Back?

Panels

  • COLONIALISM: Cornelia Tscheppe, Sára Lafferton, Elisa Ludwig mit Claudia Kraft
  • DIVERSITY: Kaiyue Zhang, Anna Breidenbach, Noa Krief mit Martina Steer
  • PLACES OF „LAWLESSNESS“: Bethany McNamara-Dale, Elena Russo, Brian O’Connor mit Benno Gammerl
  • SOCIAL (IN)EQUALITY: Gabriele Ciaravolo, Laurenz Döring, Viola Lászlófi mit Lauren Kassell
  • ADMINISTERING THE LAW AND ITS INSTITUTIONS: Petr Vilem Koluch, Alexander Teutsch, Emilie Duranceau-Lapointe mit Peter Becker
  • WOMEN’S ACTIVISM: Paula Lange, Louisa Hattendorff, Alleiah Kall mit Zsófia Lóránd
  • CONTROLLING BODIES: SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE: Chiara-Marie Hauser, Stephanie Rieder-Zagkla, Aliesia Soloviova mit Andrea Griesebner
  • IN COURT: DIVERSITY AND LEGAL THEORY: Gabriel Farrugia, Paweł Porębny, Fangfang Tian mit László Kontler
  • MIGRATION: Conor Muller, Ziyi Wang, Rosa-Maria Mayerl mit Elena Bacchin
  • RELIGION AND/OR FREEDOM? FROM PROTECTION TO REPRESSION: Olha Stasiuk, Aleksandr Orlov, Margarita Lerman mit Philipp Ther

Organisatorinnen: Natascha Bobrowsky and Magdalena Irnstötter

Buchpräsentation: Dagmar Herzog: Eugenische Phantasmen. Eine deutsche Geschichte, 09.04.2025, Wien

*at the Library: FB Zeitgeschichte, UB Wien sowie Forschungsschwerpunkt Frauen* und Geschlechtergeschichte (FGG) der Univ. Wien; Natascha Bobrowsky, Marc Drews und Paula Lange (Web)

Zeit: Mi., 09.04.2025, 18:30 Uhr
Ort: Fachbereichsbibliothek Zeitgeschichte, Spitalg. 2-4, 1090 Wien

Programm (PDF)

  • Begrüßung: Marc Drews (FB Zeitgeschichte)
  • Einleitende Worte: Dietlind Hüchtker (Forschungsschwerpunkt FGG)
  • Zum Buch: Dagmar Herzog (City Univ. New York) im Gespräch mit Vanessa Tautter (Haus der Geschichte Österreich)
  • Brot und Wein

Dieses Buch ist ein Experiment. Es unternimmt den Versuch, eine Geistesgeschichte der geistigen Beeinträchtigung zu schreiben, indem es die Debatten über den Wert behinderten Lebens nachzeichnet, wie sie in den letzten 150 Jahren geführt wurden. Abgrund dieser Epoche war ein schier unvorstellbares Massenmordprojekt, das eine komplexe Vorgeschichte hat und eine erstaunlich lange Nachgeschichte. Die Eugenik zu verlernen, hat sich in Deutschland als ein außerordentlich zäher Prozess erwiesen, der bis heute nicht abgeschlossen ist.
Dagmar Herzog schildert die immer wiederkehrenden Konflikte über die Deutung von Fakten und die daraus zu ziehenden praktischen Konsequenzen. In diesen sowohl politisch als auch emotional hoch aufgeladenen Auseinandersetzungen vermischten sich Konzepte aus Medizin und Pädagogik mit religiös-theologischen Vorstellungen, aber auch mit solchen über Arbeit und Sexualität, menschliche Verwundbarkeit und wechselseitige Abhängigkeit. Wie soll man über die Mitbürger*innen mit den unterschiedlichsten kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen und psychiatrischen Diagnosen denken und fühlen? Wie mit ihnen umgehen? Indem die Deutschen über diese Fragen stritten, rangen sie stets auch um ihr Selbstverständnis als Nation.

Dagmar Herzog ist Distinguished Professor of History am Graduate Center der City Univ. New York.

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CfP: Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between (Publication); by: 01.04.2025

Journal „The Space Between: Literature & Culture 1914-1945“; Layne Craig and Alexandra Edwards (Web)

Proposals by: 01.04.2025

It has become a cliché in academic spaces to acknowledge the increasing precarity of work in our field. University and government austerity, state censorship of LGBTQ+ and DEI-related learning, and the increasing ubiquity of AI replacements for intellectual labor produce interlocking crises that motivate us to hand-wringing commentary, but also to active response. Working in an environment of economic and existential uncertainty about our jobs and our fields, academic laborers have exited their roles, made do within limitations, adapted creatively, rebelled, and found new modes of solidarity—and sometimes all of these within the span of an academic year.
This special issue calls for a response to our own precarity that draws out the lineages, theoretical structures, and persistent historical inequities that tie our experiences to those of laborers in „the space between.“ Not unlike our era, the years from 1918-1940 were marked by shifts in technology, changes in understandings of gender, racist rhetoric and violence, and the rise of fascist movements, all of which impacted workspaces in the home, the factory, the farm, and the office. The editors hope that this issue will illuminate the ways in which the uncertainties and dangers of labor under capitalism shift and persist, unite and divide workers, pressure identities differentially, and self-perpetuate over time.
The editors welcome papers across disciplines that expand our ideas of labor, question the value of labor, point to alternate economic systems, and commemorate laborers who resisted and who succumbed to labor’s precarities. Essays on artistic work and the artist as laborer in the modern period are appreciated, but they hope to publish these alongside essays that call attention to the domestic, industrial, academic, and agricultural labor that made art possible. While Marxist engagements with the conditions of labor are part of this conversation, the frameworks we envision may move far beyond Marx in their theoretical orientations.
Accordingly, the editors seek to make space in this issue for contingent and/or precarious academic laborers to theorize contingently. As la paperson writes in A Third University is Possible, „A recognition of impossibility means to theorize contingently—that is, my thinking is temporary; my right to think aloud is contingent on the apparatus of legitimated colonial knowledge production that ought to be abolished.“ Continue reading →

CfP: Masculinities, Militaries, and Mass Violence in Transition (Second International MKGD-ZMSBw Conference, 01/2026, Potsdam); by – extended: 15.04.2025 [REMINDERIN]

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

Time: 22.-23.01.2026
Venue: Potsdam
Proposals by – extended: 15.04.2025

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. Read more … (PDF).

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

Vortrag: Daniel Gunz: Das unantastbare Geschlecht? Männlichkeit und gleichgeschlechtliche Sexualität in den Streitkräften der Habsburgermonarchie (1855–1918), 20.03.2025, Graz und virtueller Raum

Arbeitsbereich Kultur- und Geschlechtergeschichte am Institut für Geschichte der Univ. Graz: Geschlechterhistorischenr Salon und Reihe History of Masculinities, in Koop. mit dem Arbeitsbereich Geschichte des Mittelalters (PDF)

Zeit: Do., 20.03.2025, 13:30 Uhr
Ort: Univ. Graz, Heinrichstr. 26, UR 09.34, 3. Stock – und virtueller Raum

Ab der Mitte des 19. Jhds. intensivierte sich die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit nicht-normativen Sexualitäten. Den Hauptuntersuchungsgegenstand bildeten in diesen Arbeiten gleichgeschlechtlich begehrende Männer. Das effeminierte Verhalten vieler von ihnen war aus Sicht der Sexologen ein Hauptcharakteristikum homosexueller Männer. Im selben Zeitraum etablierte die 1868 eingeführte allgemeine Wehrpflicht in der Habsburgermonarchie zusehends militärische Männlichkeit als hegemoniales Männlichkeitskonzept. Gleichgeschlechtliche sexuelle Handlungen wurden durch das Militärstrafgesetz sanktioniert und waren nicht kompatibel mit militärischen Männlichkeitsvorstellungen. Anhand von Militärgerichtsakten zeigt der Vortrag, wie die Militärbehörden den Aspekt Geschlecht bei Soldaten jedoch auszublenden versuchten, die Sex mit Männern hatten. Dies sollte, so die Hypothese, Vorstellungen militärischer Männlichkeit nicht gefährden. Solche Stabilisierungsstrategien zeigen sich in psychiatrischen Gutachten, der Praxis sexueller Dienstleistungen und in sexuellen Identitätsentwürfen genauso wie in der Beurteilungspraxis von zivilen Gerichten und Ärzten.

Daniel Gunz ist ÖAW DOC-Stipendiat und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Geschichte an der Univ. Wien. Er verfasst seine Dissertation über gleichgeschlechtliche Sexualität in den Streitkräften der Habsburgermonarchie zwischen 1855 und 1918. Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen die Militär-, Sexualitäts- und Gewaltgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jhds. mit besonderem Fokus auf Österreich.

Kontakt: genderhistory@uni-graz.at | Link zur Online-Teilnahme: https://unimeet.uni-graz.at/b/sar-rty-nva-wiw

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Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte in Österreich – Newsletter #01 für 2024

Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte in Österreich – Newsletter #01 für 2024

Soeben wurde der erste Newsletter Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte in Österreich (2024) zusammengestellt und als PDF verfügbar gemacht: (PDF).

Enthalten sind darin:
– Berichte
– Ankündigungen und Calls for Papers
– Forschungsprojekte
– Angaben von Publikationen und abgeschlossenen Dissertationen

Zumeldungen zum Newsletter wurden von Birgitta Bader-Zaar (Institut für Geschichte der Univ. Wien) auf der Basis von Aussendungen über einschlägige Verteiler an den Universitäten Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg und Wien sowie der Central European University zusammengestellt. Der Newsletter Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte in Österreich ergänzt in erweiterter und lockererer Form den Bericht für den Newsletter der International Federation of Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) (Web), der neuerdings nur noch in komprimierter Form veröffentlicht wird.

Wer gerne den nächsten Call für Zumeldungen zum Newsletter erhalten möchte und bisher nicht von bestehenden Verteilern erfasst wurde, melde sich bitte (bis auf Weiteres) bei birgitta.bader-zaar@univie.ac.at.

CfP: Wartime work (19th-20th century): Working in war and post-war context (11/2025, Tours), by: 31.03.2025

Damien Accoulon, CeTHiS, Univ. de Tours; Clément Collard, CHSP, Sciences Po Paris; Candice Grelaud, LER, Univ. Lumière Lyon 2; Gwendal Piégais, CWS, Univ. College Dublin

Time: 27.-28.11.2025
Venue: Univ. de Tours
Proposals by: 31.03.2025

The industrialization has profoundly transformed the world of labor and the nature of war. Wars themselves have become industrialized and have gradually increased in scale since the mid-nineteenth century. The Crimean War (1853-1856) and the American Civil War (1861-1865) were the first conflicts involving mechanized armies: more powerful gunboats, larger caliber artillery pieces and more efficient locomotives were all industrial products that made this change in scale possible.
Against this backdrop of industrialization of societies, economies and conflicts, we need to understand how wars disrupted the world of labor. The workers’ mobilization has always been central in the historiography of contemporary conflicts, especially of the First and the Second World War. Over the last few decades, the historiography has moved away from the simple story of mobilization of the industry for the war effort, and since the 1980s and 1990s has given way to a social and political history that pays more attention to trade union movements, work in the rear or in occupied territories, and the societal transformations that followed the conflict.
Under the influence of transnational histories, works on colonial empires and gender studies, new perspectives opened in this field of study. New attention has been paid to actors (female labor, but also racialized workers on the European fronts, the contribution of colonial workers to the global war economy, etc.) and their agency, exploring both individual and collective strategies of behavior and survival. While the study of forced labor has been central to the approach to Nazi and Soviet regimes at war (Bonwetsch, 1993; Plato, Leh & Thonfeld, 2010; Westerhoff, 2012), highlights of forced labor in colonial empires have effectively demonstrated links between European front and the French and British colonial empires, thus moving beyond the Western framework (Tiquet, 2019; Stanziani, 2020). This approach could be applied to other spaces and conflicts, as outlined out by work on the American Civil War (Lause, 2015; Zonderman, 2021) or the Vietnam War (Foner, 1989; Sears, 2010). Read more and source … (Web)

Four questions will be explored during this symposium: Optimizing manpower in wartime | Work in transitions from peace to war and from war to peace | Social mobilization, work and conflict | Gender and work during conflict

Führung: Die Unzufriedenen: Frauengeschichte(n) im Vorwärts-Haus, 31.03.2025, Wien

Verein für Geschichte der ArbeiterInnenbewegung (VGA) (Web)

Zeit: 31.03.2025, 18:00–19:30 Uhr
Ort: VGA, Rechte Wienzeile 97, 1050 Wien
Anmeldung: office@vga.at​

Im März setzt der VGA einen feministischen Schwerpunkt und begibt sich auf die Suche nach Frauengeschichte(n) im Vorwärts-Haus: von den Anfängen der proletarischen Frauenbewegung im 19. Jhd., über Ideal und Realität der „Neuen Frau“ im Roten Wien, bis zur Frauenpolitik in der Zweiten Republik. Bei einer Führung durch den Victor Adler-Gedenkraum, den historischen Parteivorstandssitzungssaal und auf den Dachboden des Gebäudes wird ein Einblick in die vielfältigen Bestände des VGA gegeben – darunter historische Publikationen, Plakate, Tagebücher, Briefe und Fotografien – die die Geschichte von Frauen in der Arbeiter:innenbewegung sichtbar und erforschbar machen.

Max. Teilnehmer:innenzahl: 20 Personen, Eintritt: 5€ (mit Kulturpass kostenlos).

Zum Veranstaltungsort: Der Eingang zum Vorwärtshaus ist wegen aktueller U-Bahn Bauarbeiten etwas versteckt. Das Haus ist von der Gerüstpassage auf der Rechten Wienzeile aus durch eine Baustellentür zugänglich.

CfP: Masculinities, Militaries, and Mass Violence in Transition (Second International MKGD-ZMSBw Conference, 01/2026, Potsdam); by – extended: 15.04.2025

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

Time: 22.-23.01.2026
Venue: Potsdam
Proposals by – extended: 15.04.2025

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. Read more … (PDF).

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

CfP: Crisis, Addiction, and Disability in German and English Literature, Culture, and Media (Publication); by: 15.03.2025

Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik (Web)

Proposals by: 15.03.2025

The intersection of crisis, addiction, and disability in German and English narratives remains an underexplored yet highly relevant field within literary, translation, and cultural studies. While literary representations of addiction often engage with individual and societal crises, questions of identity, social exclusion, and medical pathologization, the intersectional aspect of addiction and disability is frequently overlooked. At the same time, the translation of such narratives plays a crucial role in shaping their reception and interpretation across different linguistic and cultural contexts. Translation studies can make a significant contribution by examining how addiction and disability are interpreted, adapted, or even transformed in intercultural transmission.
This interdisciplinary edited volume invites contributions from literary, cultural, and translation studies that explore the representation of crisis, addiction, and disability in German and English narratives. Submissions may focus on literary works from various periods and genres, as well as intermedial and transmedial adaptations. Additionally, the editors welcome contributions that examine the representation of these themes in translation practice and the challenges of transferring culturally specific concepts into different linguistic and cultural spaces. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • Literary and cinematic representations of crisis, addiction, and disability in German and English cultural history
  • Intersectional perspectives on crisis, addiction, and disability: interactions between social, cultural, and bodily factors
  • Pathologization and social marginalization: narratives of crisis, addiction, and disability in German and English literature
  • Transcultural challenges in the reception and adaptation of crisis, addiction, and disability narratives Continue reading →