The Beatrice Bain Research Group (BBRG) is the University of California at Berkeley’s center for research on gender and women. This announcement concerns two of its programs:

I. THE BBRG SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Each year the BBRG hosts a group of approximately fifteen competitively selected Scholars In Residence as fellows for the duration of the academic year. The Scholars In Residence Program is open to faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from any country, whose research is centrally on gender and women. Continue reading →

MATILDA is the first Joint European Master Degree programme in Women’s and Gender History. It is being set up by a consortium of five European universities and links these institutions in an exciting, innovative and unique venture. The partner universities are the University of Vienna (coordinating institution), the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the Université Lumière Lyon 2, the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and the University of Nottingham.

The programme supports integrative perspectives which go beyond local, regional and national histories. It intends to situate these histories, as well as European history as a whole, in broader contexts. With its focus on comparative, entangled and transnational history, it aims at exploring the history of gender differences and similarities in European cultures and societies, and the role of gender in shaping European history.

The MATILDA curriculum includes Continue reading →

Editors: Marzena Lizurej, Dominika Ferens, Tomasz Basiuk, Tomasz Sikora, and Rafał Majka

Deadline for paper submissions: 30 April 2008

The second issue of the InterAlia e-journal has just been launched, and it is available at: www.interalia.org.pl

InterAlia, a peer-edited scholarly journal for queer theory, is open to submissions from a wide range of fields, written either in Polish or in English. Among the issues we hope our contributors will address is the translatability of queer concepts across cultural and linguistic borders; the relationship between queer theory and activism; the possibility of reconciling the different positionings within the queer community that are related to such factors as gender, race, class, age, sexual practices, and geographical location; the relevance of queer studies for understanding the discourses, cultural practices, and institutions that surround us; and the potential of queer as a counterdiscourse or counterpractice. Continue reading →

LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik, Hagen

Zeit: 14.11.2008
Ort: Hagen
Deadline: 15.02.2008

Die historische Forschung hat die Erwerbsarbeit von Frauen in der Moderne bisher vielfach am Beispiel von Dienstleistungsberufen und Tätigkeiten in der Industrie thematisiert. Weitgehend unbeachtet blieb dagegen das Handwerk, das aber ein lohnendes Forschungsfeld für die Frage nach dem vielschichtigen Verhältnis von Frauen zu Formen der Erwerbstätigkeit und damit für die Analyse ihrer Teilhabe an gesellschaftlichen Prozessen darstellt. Zugleich bieten handwerklich strukturierte Berufe einen ertragversprechenden Untersuchungsgegenstand, wenn es gilt, Continue reading →