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CfP: Freizeit und die Ambivalenzen sozialer Ordnung in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (04/2027, Hamburg); bis: 20.07.2026

Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (FZH); Professur „Geschichte der Gegenwart“, Historisches Seminars, Univ. Siegen (Web)

Zeit: 22.-23.04.2027
Ort: Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg
Einreichfrist: 20.07.2026

Freizeit ist ein umkämpftes Terrain. Das gilt nicht erst seit den 1990er Jahren als etwa Helmut Kohl forderte, Deutschland dürfe kein „kollektiver Freizeitpark“ werden, oder erst seit der Rede über „Lifestyle-Teilzeit“. Bereits seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jhd. nahmen die Versuche zu, die nach und nach vermehrt freigesetzte Zeit zu reglementieren und zu gestalten. Darin war Freizeit zunächst eng an ihr Komplement – Arbeit – gebunden und blieb auch stets auf dieses Verhältnis bezogen. Im Verlauf des 20. Jhds. stand jedoch die Reproduktion der Arbeitskraft bald nicht mehr allein im Zentrum der ihr zugeschriebenen Funktionen. Vielmehr wurde Freizeit nun verstärkt als eigenständig relevant für kollektive wie individuelle Lebensqualität und als Chance zur Persönlichkeitsentfaltung verstanden. Freizeit, so eine These des Workshops, wurde auf diese Weise zu einem zentralen Ort der Genese, Aushandlung und Transformation der sozialen Ordnung.
In der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jhds. war Freizeit folglich ein zentraler Teil und Gegenstand so divergierender Felder wie etwa der Konsumkultur und Warenästhetik, raum-, städte- und landschaftsplanerischer Prozesse, politischer und wissenschaftlicher Debatten, aber auch sich wandelnder Selbstverhältnisse und Körperpraktiken. Kurzum, Freizeit durchdrang zunehmend alle Lebensbereiche – sogar die Arbeit selbst. Das gilt im Allgemeinen sowohl für die sozialistischen als auch liberal-kapitalistischen Staaten Europas.
Der Workshop nutzt Freizeit in diesem umfassenden Sinne als Sonde, um die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jhds. in der deutschen sowie europäischen Geschichte zu vermessen. Diese Perspektive vermag es, Ambivalenzen und Widersprüche der in der zeithistorischen Forschung ausgemachten Zäsuren der jüngsten Vergangenheit sichtbar zu machen. In den 1950er Jahren war die reale Zunahme der Freizeit sowie ihre Antizipation im Automatisierungsdiskurs sowohl begleitet von einer kulturpessimistischen Kritik als auch einer technoutopischen Hoffnung der Befreiung von Arbeit. Einen derart hohen Zuwachs, wie mitunter erwartet, erfuhr Freizeit indes seit … weiterlesen und Quelle (Web)

Quelle: HSozKult (Web)

CfP: Femi(ni)zid (Publikation); bis: 01.09.2026

Fem*Fém 72 (Web) in Zusammenarbeit mit NADIA BRÜGGER (StopFemizid)

Einreichfrist: 01.09.2026

129 Femi(ni)zide. So viele patriarchale Morde hat das Rechercheprojekt StopFemizid in der Schweiz seit 2020 erfasst (Stand: 25.2.2026). In der Schweiz gibt es nach wie vor keine offizielle Stelle, die Femizide aufzeichnet und analysiert. Die massive alltägliche Gewalt, welcher Frauen und queere Menschen ausgesetzt sind, ist in den vergangenen Jahren dank feministischer Grundlagenarbeit erneut verstärkt zum Thema gemacht worden. Die Begriffe «Femizid» und «Feminizid» werden innerhalb aktivistischer wie wissenschaftlicher Kreise verwendet, um Tötungsdelikte an Frauen insbesondere im Kontext von Gewalt in heterosexuellen Paarbeziehungen präzise zu benennen und auf deren politische Dimension hinzuweisen. Femi(ni)zide sind dabei nur die «Spitze des Eisbergs» der geschlechtsspezifischen Gewalt. Tötungen von Frauen geschehen in einer gesellschaftlichen Atmosphäre, die patriarchale Gewalt ermöglicht und befördert. Dem binären Geschlechterverhältnis nach, das Weiblichkeit abgrenzt und abwertet, ist Männergewalt an Frauen kein Fehler im System, sondern einer der zentralen Pfeiler des kapitalistischen Patriarchats.
Die feministische Bewegung Ni Una Menos (dt. «Nicht eine weniger») kämpft gegen Femi(ni)zide und formuliert gleichzeitig eine Utopie der Gewaltfreiheit für alle Menschen. Dafür braucht es eine grundlegende Veränderung unserer Wirtschafts-, Lebens- und Beziehungsweisen und eine feministische Antwort auf den Umgang mit Körpern, Kapital und Boden. Wir wollen folgende und weitere Forschungsfragen anregen: Welche (queer-)feministischen und intersektionalen Analysen braucht es heute, um Femi(ni)zide in ihrer Tragweite für die Gesellschaft zu verstehen? Welche Methoden und Ansätze halten explizit antirassistische, abolitionistische und transfeministische Analysen bereit, an die wir anschliessen können? Welche Begrifflichkeiten bieten sich für die präzise Analyse von Femi(ni)ziden besonders an? Welche Strategien sind zu wählen, um dem «Krieg gegen Frauen» (Verónica Gago) auch und gerade in Zeiten antifeministischer Backlashs und faschistischer Tendenzen entschlossen und kollektiv entgegenzutreten? Weiterlesen … (PDF)

Quelle: GenderCampus (Web)

CfP: Music, Sound, and Domestic Spaces (Publication); by: 01.08.2026

Emily Eubanks (Univ. of Texas at Arlington) and Sarah Koval (Univ. of Mississippi)

Proposals by: 01.08.2026

In this volume, we hope to explore music-making within the spatial and sonic context of the home. We aim to deepen our understanding of the domestic space by researching the musical and aural nature of these sites. We invite contributions that explore domestic music-making from any geographical region and any time period. The vast range of domestic sites across these contexts offers a rich avenue for considering the spatial and sonic properties of homes, and how these contexts influence behavior, agency, creativity, and the private/public characteristics of at-home music-making. Furthermore, we are interested in contributions that position music and sound in dialogue with one another within the domestic space.
In this edited volume, we seek to better understand how the physical and aural properties of homes shape individuals‘ musical experiences and activities therein by engaging an interdisciplinary array of scholars in discussion. Themes include but are not limited to:
– music and domestic soundscapes or acoustics,
– architecture, decor, and material culture (furniture, musical instruments, lighting, etc.),
– agency or access through sound/music (and correlations to gender, class, religion, etc.),
– intimacy, isolation, and/or community though domestic music,
– visual, musical, and literary representations of domestic spaces, and
– displacement or migration and domestic music/sounds.

We aim to publish this volume through Indiana University Press. Please send chapter proposals (300–500 words) and a biography (150 words) to Emily Eubanks (emily.eubanks@uta.edu) by August 1, 2026. Notification of acceptance will be given in November 2026. The language of the publication is English.

Provisional schedule:
– August 2026 – submission of chapter proposals
– November 2026 – notification of acceptance and initial feedback Continue reading

CfP: Journal of Avant-Garde Studies; by: 31.08.2026

Journal of Avant-Garde Studies (JAGS, Brill), Open Issue; Éva Forgács, Benedikt Hjartarson, Cecilia Novero, and Sami Sjöberg (Web)

Proposals by: 31.08.2026

The Journal of Avant-Garde Studies is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the critical exploration of the experimental, the provocative, and the unclassifiable in the arts and literature. With a global outlook and a wide range of theoretical approaches, the journal examines avant-garde practices from the historical avant-gardes through the neo-avant-gardes and into the present, engaging both canonical figures and those marginalized or overlooked by existing histories. The journal seeks to broaden and enrich our understanding of the vanguard by fostering dialogue across disciplines, geographies, and methodologies.
For this open issue, the editors invite finished, original research articles on any avant-garde artist, movement, theory or practice, from any geographical or cultural context. Contributions are not limited to Europe and are especially welcome if from underrepresented regions, traditions, and perspectives. The journal approaches the avant-garde not as a loose label, but as a historically and conceptually defined field shaped by practices, discourses, and institutions committed to rupture, experimentation, antagonism, and the rethinking of art’s social, political, and epistemic roles. Within this framework, the scope of the issue includes:

– Historical avant-garde movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
– Neo-avant-garde formations of the 1960s-1980s
– Post-1970s and contemporary practices that explicitly engage with, reactivate, critique or transform avant-garde paradigms.

Possible Topics (Indicative, not Exhaustive):
– Reconsiderations of avant-garde movements, groups, manifestos, and networks
– Global, transnational, and decolonial perspectives on the avant-garde
– Avant-garde practices beyond the visual arts and literature (performance, sound, film, media, architecture, design, fashion, etc.)
– Theories and philosophies of the avant-garde
– Gender, sexuality, race, class, and the avant-garde Continue reading

CfP: Health Feminism and Anti-Gender Politics: Knowledge, Body Politics and Reactions in a Historical Perspective (Publication); by: 15.05.2026

CA23149 „Democratisaton at Stake? Comparing Anti-Gender Politics in CEE and NME“ (Web); Ewelina Wozniak-Wrzesinska (Web), Heidi Hein-Kircher (Web), and Isabel Heinemann (Web)

Proposals by: 15.05.2026

Within the frame of Cost Action CA23149 “Democratization at Stake? Comparing Anti-Gender Politics in Central East Europe and the Near and Middle East”, we aim at compiling a special issue on Health Feminism and Anti-Gender Politics: Knowledge, Body Politics and Reactions in a Historical Perspective.
Starting in the late 1960s, health books and other publications written ‘by women for women’, the practice of self-examination and the concept of women’s health centres stimulated demands for better and women-centred health care. This new focus on women’s health emerged as a transnational phenomenon from “Western” women’s movements to socialist feminism beyond the Iron Curtain, Hence, health issues stand at the core of feminist mobilization as well as they stand at the core of anti-gender mobilizations as the current refusals of gender-related medicine by antiliberal actors show. This issue wants to historicize and discuss these observations from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Contributions may address questions such as:
– The role of the state, medical experts, and clergy as gatekeepers
– Which aspects have played a role in these discourses, and why and when?
– Target groups and audiences of both feminist and anti-gender mobilizations
– Health knowledge and expertise: How was knowledge about the body, reproduction, contraception and sexuality produced, mediated and legitimized? Which counterreactions did this knowledge provoke?
– Which persons were considered experts? Who was mobilized and allowed to become a broker of such knowledge and broker of related anti-gender moblizations?
– The counter-reactions, for example anti-abortion movements.

The special issue will be submitted to an internationally renowned journal with a Continue reading

CfP: Historical Perspectives on Childhood, Children and Their Rights in 20th Century East Central Europe (Publication); by: 31.05.2026

Heidi Hein-Kircher, Martin Opitz Library, Herne (Web) and Ieva Balciune, Institute for Lithuanian History, Vilnius (Web)

Proposals by: 31.05.2026

In 1924, the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child addressed for the first time all the nations of the world to affirm the duty of States and individuals to systemic care for children. The Declaration set out 5 points covering aspects of: children’s physical and mental health, safety, support, and the development and fulfillment of their talents and abilities. 100 years after the Declaration, the editors of a planned publication invite to explore the development and implementation of the law of children and childhood protection, everyday practices, issues and challenges from the perspective of social history with a focus on East Central Europe.
Since the demographic revolution of the late 19th century, the view of the relation between families children and states had changed dramatically. Children were seen as a crucial element of the state’s power, and their position in their families became a topic of public interest. Children were topics of family politics and of social engineering and nationalizing projects as well as of ideologization. These aspects have become of research interest lately. So, children’s and childhood history has become a recent trend in historiography, combining family, social and political history. Nevertheless, Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region seem to be under-researched in this respect.
Acknowledging the 100 years anniversary of the Declaration in 2024 seems to be a great incentive for stimulating further research, we aim at taking an interdisciplinary and retrospective look at the theoretical and practical dynamics of these processes and the resulting development of children’s rights policies in a comparative perspectivies in the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe.

We expect proposals discussing e.g.
– national experiences
– ethnic, gender and other minorities’experiences
– war experiences and occupation experiences
– socialist experiences
– times of disptures and transitions Continue reading

CfP: The history of Romani women’s activisms in Eastern Europe, 1945-1990s (10/2026, Praha); by: 21.06.2026

Department of Romani Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles Univ., Prague; Romani Studies Program, Central European Univ., Vienna; Prague Center for Romani Histories, Faculty of Arts, Charles Univ., Prague

Time: 29.-30.10.2026
Venue: Praha
Proposals by: 21.06.2026

The aftermath of the Holocaust brought about a new phase in Romani civil rights activism in both the Western and Eastern parts of a newly divided Europe. In the West activist/intellectuals were often confronted with the fact that while their governments acknowledged the crimes committed during National Socialism, the suffering of Roma remained unaddressed and legislation and institutional structures leading to the social exclusion of Roma remained for a long time unchanged. In Eastern Europe, the new People’s Republics established in the late 1940s, officially committed to antiracism and class and gender equality, and placed the enhancement of the situation of the Roma on their national agendas. Their central policy documents often called specifically for the inclusion of Roma in the process of “building socialism” and “solving the Gypsy question”. Still, anti-Roma racism continued to influence both state politics and authorities’ action as well as local sentiments.
The workshop traces how Romani women in Eastern Europe, committed to the improvement of the living and working conditions of their communities, engaged with the new state-provided opportunities for participation and social mobility as both Roma and women and how they maneuvered hindrances in their local and national contexts. On a transnational scale, the project follows Eastern European Romani women’s engagement with the international Romani civil rights movement in Western Europe on the rise from the 1970s. It aims to address Romani women’s diverse engagements from a long-term, comparative, transnational perspective and from an intersectional approach, paying attention to how gender-, sexuality-, class-, and race/ethnicity-based difference shaped the positionality of Romani women actors and their agendas and repertoires.
The workshop aims to contribute to the global histories of social movements, including the histories of gender and women’s activisms, by placing the so far under-researched endeavors of Romani women at the center of attention. By exploring their diverse public and community roles, it will contribute substantially to the current research on post-war Romani movements that has often overlooked especially the issues of gender and intersectionality. Read more and source … (Web)

Source: HSozKult (Web)

CfP: Consent and sexual transactions, 18th century to present (11/2026, Rennes); by: 15.05.2026

Journée d’études de l’ANR ConSent – Consentement, éthique sexuelle et sensibilités érotiques; Romain Jaouen (ENS Lyon) et Caroline Muller (Rennes 2/Tempora/IUF) (Web)

Time: 02.-03.11.2026
Venue: Univ. Rennes 2
Proposals by: 15.05.2026

Since 2017, media coverage of the MeToo movement has prompted a resurgence of research on sexual consent in the humanities and social sciences. Whether by tracing the history of consent as a norm (Théry 2022), examining its application in the judicial arena (Pérona 2022; Mornington et al. eds. 2023; Le Meur 2025), or analyzing its place in everyday sexuality (Boucherie 2019; Lévy-Guillain 2024), researchers have tackled the question from multiple angles. However, little attention has been paid to a long-standing subject of debate in feminist theory: sexual transactions. In the 1980s, the question sex workers’ consent – specifically, female sex workers – was hotly debated during the North American sex wars (Rubin 1984; Dworkin 1993; Möser 2022). Since then, prostitution has remained a central topic in feminist political theory, particularly in relation to consent (Fraisse 2007; Serra 2024). However, the modalities and specificity of (non)consent in transactional practices, on a micro-analytical scale, remain largely unexplored.
This conference aims to revisit this topic by examining the role of consent in sexual transactions beyond the sole case of prostitution. Shifting the focus away from theoretical debates on this issue, the purpose of this conference is to describe, document, and analyze the way consent and transactions intersect through historically situated sexual practices. Organized by the ANR ConSent team, it aims to contribute to a study “from below” of the norm of consent from the 18th century to the present day. The call is open to researchers from all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences working in France, Europe, and beyond. Presentations (20 minutes), in French or English, should situate their subject in its specific historical context, regardless of the period and materials used (archives, publications, images, narratives, cinematographic works, testimonies, interviews, observations, etc.). A publication project in the form of a journal issue will be proposed to participants. Read more … (PDF)

Source: GenderCampus (Web)

CfP: Gender and Violence in Historical Perspective: Social Practices and Discourses (12/2026, Kraków); by: 15.06.2026

Institute of History, Jagiellonian Univ.; Institute of History and Archival Studies, Univ. of the National Education Commission, Krakow; Commission for the History of Women and Gender, the Committee on Historical Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (Web)

Time: 03.-05.12.2026
Ort: Kraków
Proposals by: 15.06.2026

Natalie Zemon Davis was among the first to conceptualize violence as a distinct historical phenomenon. Her 1973 study on religious violence in sixteenth-century France remains a seminal contribution to the field. As Philip Dwyer observed: “Davis was able to throw light on behaviours which historians until then had dismissed as irrational acts of barbarism or savagery, by interpreting seemingly random acts of violence in terms of their social-symbolic significance. She created a paradigm for a great deal of the cultural analysis of violence that was to follow.” It is no coincidence that in pioneering the cultural analysis of violence—focused on meaning and symbolism—Davis inextricably linked it to the context of gender. In her view, the violence experienced or performed by historical protagonists during rituals was deeply enmeshed in the negotiation of gender roles.
Today, the histories of violence and gender have matured significantly, boasting advanced research into the public and private spheres, lethal and non-lethal acts, and both physical and psychological dimensions. Nevertheless, the fifty-year tradition of this scholarly intersection serves as an invitation to rethink the challenges currently facing the field. This is particularly vital given contemporary debates regarding violence as a „useful category of historical analysis“ and the occasional criticism that historians lack sufficient methodological rigor or rely too heavily on outdated sociological frameworks. However, it is not only „violence“ that demands critical re-evaluation. The field of gender history itself is shifting away from rigid concepts of collective identity toward subjectivity, agency, and emotion. This shift necessitates a closer examination of individual experiences and the emotional drivers of actions that often circumvented or shattered cultural norms. A prominent manifestation of this trend is the surge in research on sexual violence during armed conflicts, where the primary objective—sources permitting—is to restore agency to victims through the recovery of their lived experiences. Furthermore, it is essential to contextualize categories such as „marital rape“ or „physical punishment“ as socially and culturally constructed phenomena. Our perspective can Continue reading

CfP: Trans Geschichten der Schweiz (10/2026, Fribourg); bis: 15.07.2026

Frédéric Mader & Matthias Ruoss, Univ. Fribourg (Web)

Zeit: 02.10.2026
Ort: Univ. Fribourg
Einreichfrist: 15.07.2026

Trans Geschichte hat sich in den letzten Jahren als innovatives Forschungsfeld etabliert, das historiografische Narrative herausfordert. Trotz des Booms liegen für die Schweiz bislang nur wenige Studien vor. Ziel unseres Workshops ist es, Forschungsarbeiten zur trans Geschlechtlichkeit zu bündeln und zugleich methodische Voraussetzungen historischer trans Forschung zu diskutieren.
Der Call richtet sich an Historiker:innen, die trans als historisch spezifische Form der Subjektivierung begreifen und die damit verbundenen Ambivalenzen verstehen wollen, statt klare universelle Kategorisierungen anzustreben. Wir interessieren uns für Prozesse, in denen trans geschlechtliche Selbstverhältnisse hervorgebracht, stabilisiert, reguliert oder infrage gestellt wurden – in sozialen Milieus (Familie, Subkulturen, Bewegungen), institutionellen Settings (Kliniken, Verwaltung, Militär, Kirchen, Fürsorge, Polizei, Gerichten) oder epistemischen Regimen (Medizin, Psychiatrie, Sexualwissenschaften).
Willkommen sind quellenbasierte Beiträge aus allen Epochen, von der Vormoderne bis in die Gegenwart, die Prozesse der Subjektbildung historisch-kritisch analysieren. Erwünscht sind sowohl Fallstudien als auch konzeptionelle und methodische Beiträge, die zur Weiterentwicklung einer historisch informierten trans Forschung beitragen. Von besonderem Interesse sind Arbeiten, welche die Bedingungen der Quellenproduktion, Archivzugänge und methodische Herausforderungen historischer trans Forschung reflektieren.

Mögliche Themenfelder umfassen:
– Biografien und Alltagsgeschichten
– Körpergeschichten
– Subkulturen und trans Aktivismus
– Genealogie und transnationale Zirkulation von Begriffen, Diagnosen und Klassifikationen
– Transphobie
– Regime der Sichtbarkeit und Unsichtbarkeit
– Politiken der Anerkennung, Pathologisierung oder Kriminalisierung Continue reading