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CfP: Gender and Empire (Publication); by: 15.03.2025

Routledge Companion to Gender and Empire; Co-edited by Vrushali Patil (Web) and Tanya Saunders (Web) (Univ. of Maryland)

Proposals by: 15.03.2025

The goal of this Companion is to advance an expansive and interdisciplinary approach to both ‚gender‘ and ‚empire,‘ which includes troubling many of the ways in which gender, empire and their interrelationship are often theorized.
Most work in these fields focuses on gendered experiences, identities and politics within European and US-based empires from the eighteenth century and on. In this volume, the editors aim to expand our focus both historically and geographically, from ancient empires in Africa and the Americas to contemporary imperial projects in China, Russia, and so on. The editors are also interested in inter-imperial connections and relationships across time and over space. By expanding the approach to empires historically and geographically, they are also inviting epistemic challenges to received approaches to gender as a conceptual category for understanding power in connection to empire.
This query includes the important questions of 1) how gendered processes may vary across empires and 2) whether the concept of gender is always meaningful or helpful for exploring imperial processes across time and space. The editors believe the Companion will be an invaluable and innovative tool for researchers and students.

The editors are asking for abstracts of proposed chapters by March 15th, 2025. All chapters will be peer reviewed to ensure the quality of the volume. Abstracts length: 250-500 words. Article Submission details: Between 6,000 and 7,000 words and contain preferably new and original research. The deadline for submitting the first draft is August 1st, 2025. Chicago Manual of Style, seventeenth edition, please use endnotes instead of footnotes.

Please submit abstracts to: routledgecompanion2025@gmail.com

Source: qstudy-l@mailman.rice.edu

CfP: Minne, Mystik und Moral. Sexualität und Erotik zwischen Körper und Geist in der Kunst des Mittelalters (03/2025, Mainz); bis: 15.02.2025

Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft (IKM), Jennifer Jasmin Konrad (Web)

Zeit: 26.-27.03.2025
Ort: Univ. Mainz
Einreichfrist: 15.02.2025

Mit der Entwicklung von höfisch-profaner Literatur und einer Etablierung von Skriptorien fernab der Klöster, ist ein Anstieg erotischer bis sexuell konnotierter Darstellungen in der Kunst allgemein und speziell in der Buchmalerei des Mittelalters feststellbar. Während im 12. und 13. Jhd. profane Bildthemen ikonografisch aus der christlichen Kunst hervorgehen, findet man im fortschreitenden 14. und 15. Jhd. eine freiere Entwicklung von zwischenmenschlichen Darstellungsweisen vor, wobei „frei“ sowohl im Sinne von künstlerischer Freiheit als auch Anzüglichkeit verstanden werden kann. Die Darstellung von Sexualität und Erotik in der Kunst im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter unterliegt damit einem faszinierenden Wandel, der transmedial bis in die frühe Neuzeit reicht und darüber hinaus wirkt. Dieser Veränderungsprozess ist geprägt durch komplexe Wechselwirkungen sozialer, gesellschaftlicher und religiöser Art: Neben dem Etablieren einer moraltheologischen Leitlinie für das Führen einer Ehe im decrretum gratiani, der ersten Liebeslyrik und Entwicklung von Liebestraktaten wie de amore von Andreas Capellanus, definiert sich darüber hinaus ein eigenes Ideal der höfischen Liebe, das sich in Helden- und Minneromanen ausdrückt. Faszinierend sind die Widersprüche bzw. Nachbarschaften unterschiedlicher Auffassungen von Liebe, Erotik und sexuellem Begehren: von der Ehe als ökonomisches Arrangement, der göttlichen Liebe als die einzige wahre Liebesform und der Sehnsucht nach körperlich-seelischer Annäherung, die sich gleichermaßen, wenn auch unterschiedlich ausgerichtet, in der profanen Literatur sowie sakralen Mystik wiederfinden lässt. Die daraus definierten Geschlechterrollen können jedoch in den Text- und Kunstwerken nicht minder widersprüchlich und subversiv unterwandert werden. Mit den fließenden Grenzen von Zeig- und den immer explizit werdenden Motiven wird deutlich, dass die in der Kunstgeschichte vielfach behandelten erotischen Darstellungen noch weit vor dem 16. Jhd. auf eine ikonografische Tradition blicken können, vielmehr noch die erotischen Darstellungen der sog. Renaissance auf einer ikonografischen Tradition des Mittelalters beruhen müssen, die sich mit der Profanisierung von Literatur und Kunst wenige Jahrhunderte davor entwickelt. Es bleibt zu hinterfragen, inwiefern ein Bruch mit der Kunst des sogenannten „Mittelalters“ vorliegt, wenn nicht vielmehr Verbindungslinien und Reflexionen zu antiken und mythologischen Themen nachweisbar sind, die weit über eine einseitige ikonografische Umwandlung einer antiken Venus in „Frau Minne“ reichen. Weiterlesen und Quelle … | English version (Web)

CfP: Men and Masculinities in Transition (Nordic conference on masculinity research, 06/2025, Stockholm); by: 31.01.2025 [REMINDERIN]

Nordic conference on masculinity; Stockholm Univ. (Web)

Time: 11.-13.06.2025
Venue: Stockholm Univ.
Proposals by: 31.01.2025

The conference theme is Men and Masculinities in Transition. The conference focuses on men, masculinity and transitions in a wide sense, including but not limited to: transitions across the life course, climate change and green transitions, transitions to more caring and inclusive masculinities, transitions across gender identities, theoretical and methodological transitions in research men and masculinities, as well as other social, political and personal transitions relevant to masculinity studies. The organisers also welcome other contributions to contemporary masculinity research. Read more … (Web)

The conference is hosted by The Department of Child and Youth Studies and the Gender Academy at Stockholm Univ., in collaboration with Nordic Association for Research on Men and Masculinity (NORMAS). The aim is to create a space for Nordic and international dialogue on contemporary masculinity research.

Keynote speakers: Susanna Areschoug, Postdoctoral researcher, Stockholm Univ., Sweden; Maria Eriksson Baaz, Professor, Swedish Defence Univ., Sweden; Martin Hultman, Senior Researcher, Chalmers Univ.of Technology, Sweden; Jonathan Leer, Professor, Örebro Univ., Sweden; Ulf Mellström, Professor, Karlstad Univ., Sweden; Todd Reeser, Professor, Univ.of Pittsburgh, USA; Steven Roberts, Professor, Monash Univ., Australia; and Valerie Sperling, Professor, Clark Univ., USA

Source: genus-request@listserv.gu.se

CfP: Workers and Worldmaking: Labor in the Era of Decolonization (International Conference of Labour and Social History, 09/2025, Linz); by: 31.01.2025

60th Conference of the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) (PDF)

Time: 25.-27.09.2025
Venue: Linz
Proposals by: 31.01.2025

The 60th Conference of the ITH will look at labor movements in the Global North and South and analyse exchanges, cooperation and connections between working classes, labour movements and trade unions. The success of decolonization in the post-World War Two Global South depended greatly on the ability of national(ist) political leaders to rally local labor movements behind their cause. Similarly, solidarity with anticolonial movements, or the lack thereof, showed by the labor organizations and workers’ political parties in the Global North, played an important role in the “battle for the hearts and minds” inside the metropoles. Labor movements in the center and periphery were not isolated, with rich exchanges taking place via political events, international conferences, delegation visits, and material aid. Parallel to the struggle to assert their geopolitical importance, governments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean sought to establish social contracts with their working classes and control trade unions domestically, while using connections with organized labor and political actors in more developed countries to attract development cooperation.
The global turn in the historiographies of decolonization and the Cold War helped move studies of labor in the Global South beyond their old focus on the formation of national working classes. Recent research on competing labor internationalisms, communist support for decolonization, transnational developmental entanglements, and South-South solidarities opened new vistas for thinking about the working classes of the emerging Third World as constitutive makers of global modernity. Popularized by authors such as Łukasz Stanek (2020) and Adom Getachew (2019), the concept of ‘worldmaking’ has proven particularly fruitful in encompassing the wealth of simultaneous and often competing practices of transnational collaboration in the peripheries during the Cold War. This conference aims to look at the role of workers and workers’ movements situated in the Cold War ‘South’, ‘North’, ‘East’, ‘West’, and ‘in-between’, in these practices of worldmaking triggered by decolonization between the 1950s and the 1990s. Read more … (PDF)

Preparatory group
Goran Musić, Immanuel Harisch, and David Mayer (Univ. of Vienna), Shivangi Jaiswal (Ca‘ Foscari Univ. of Venice), Saima Nakuti Ashipala (Univ. of the Free State, Bloemfontein), Marcel van der Linden (International Institute of Social History), Therese Garstenauer and Laurin Blecha (ITH)

CfP: Arbeitstreffen Netzwerk Feministische Rechtsgeschichte (02.-03/2025, Leipzig); bis: 30.01.2025 [REMINDERIN]

Netzwerk Feministische Rechtsgeschichte (Web)

Zeit: 28.02.-01.03.2025
Ort: Univ. Leipzig, Villa Tillmanns
Einreichfrist: 30.01.2025

Einladung (PDF)

Neues Netzwerk gegründet
Das Netzwerk Feministische Rechtsgeschichte ist eine Austauschplattform für junge Wissenscahfter*innen. Es richtet sich besonders an Rechtswissenschafter*innen und Historiker*innen. Es nimmt die Geschlechterdimensionen von Rechtsgeschichte in den Blick und dient der Erforschung von rechtlichen und rechtspolitischen Maßnahmen. Dabei werden einzelne Protagonist*innen besonders hervorgehoben.
Beim Arbeitstreffen können Forschungsansätze, Ideen, oder Projekte mit Bezug zum Thema des Netzwerks vorgestellt und diskutiert werden. Für jeden Vortrag ist inklusive Diskussion ein Zeitfenster von einer Stunde vorgesehen. Es oll möglichst viel Zeit für die Diskussion sein. Bei Interesse ist eine Anmeldung per Mail bis zum 30.01.2025 unter Nennung des Vortragsthemas möglich. Eine Teilnahme ohne Vortrag ist ebenfalls möglich. Die Teilnehmendenzahl ist begrenzt. Reise- und Verpflegungskosten können leider nicht übernommen werden. Das Arbeitstreffen ist offen für Menschen jeden Geschlechts. Weitere Informationen … (Web)

Kontakt: Johanna Mittrop, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Professur für Öffentliches Recht und das Recht der Politik an der Univ. Leipzig: johanna.mittrop@uni-leipzig.de

Quelle: HSozKult

CfP: Queer Theater against the State (Event, 06/2025, Regensburg); by: 29.01.2025

Project „Light On! Queer Literatures and Cultures under Socialism“, Univ. of Regensburg, Tatiana Klepikova (Web)

Time: 05.-06.06.2025
Venue: Univ. of Regensburg
Proposals by: 29.01.2025

Queer theater has always been the site of utopia, hope, and community-building (Dolan 2005; Muñoz 2009), where queer desire and non-normative imaginaries are celebrated. That said, it has never come without a struggle. In 2024-25, there are many places around the world where queer theater seems impossible but still exists; where it thrives in the open but had to take a long road to do so; or where the futures may seem uncertain.
This conference seeks to explore the paths that queer theater companies, directors, and playwrights across the world have taken throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries to speak queerness to power against normative orders of gender and sexuality. The latter have undergone massive transformations since the early modern era and have come to constitute a core element of the biopolitics of power from the Americas to Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and Oceania. Darkened theater rooms across the planet have been one site of many, where queerness has come to be negotiated vis-à-vis authoritarian regimes, conservative governments, and religious ideologies. This conference sets out to map such theater spaces across the globe, historicize and contextualize them, while also examining their generative potential for critical theory.
The organisers invite academic and artistic contributions from Gender and Queer Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, History, and other disciplines. We welcome abstracts that explore state-funded theaters, underground theaters, and independent theater collectives, as well as directing, drama, and playwriting in the context of global and regional shifts in thinking about non-normative gender and sexuality throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.
The organisers start the conversation with the following questions in mind but do not limit the inquiry to them:
– What counts as queer theater and gets censored in different contexts?
– What are the modalities of such censorship?
– How does queer theater articulate itself as such vis-à-vis hegemonic norms of gender and sexuality? What is the role of identity, desire, gender subversion?
– What role do other aspects of identity, such as race, class, age, ethnicity, ability, and beyond, play in negotiating the place of queer theater in the state and society? Continue reading →

CfP: 90 Years since „Black Reconstruction in America“ (Publication); by: 01.07.2025

Global Black Thought (Web)

Proposals by: 01.07.2025

Few works in American history are as groundbreaking as W.E.B. Du Bois’s „Black Reconstruction in America“, first published in 1935 (Web). In the 90 years since its publication, the book changed the mainstream interpretation of the Reconstruction era in American history (Web) – first slowly, as most historians were still wedded to the Dunning School (named after William Archibald Dunning of Columbia Univ.), and then rapidly in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, as the triumphs of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements forced a reckoning with how American historians wrote and researched Reconstruction. In the 21st century, „Black Reconstruction in America“ has become a tome cited widely by academics and activists alike.
But what does „Black Reconstruction in America“ mean for the historical profession in the 2020s? Du Bois’s interpretation of Reconstruction as an effort at genuine reform that was thwarted by the American government is well understood. But the question remains: how might we continue to engage – and perhaps even extend – Du Bois’s analysis today? The recent works of Kidada Williams, Manisha Sinha, Don H. Doyle and others have challenged us to think more critically about this period of American history. Building on this scholarship, the editors encourage scholars to pose new questions – or revisit older ones with a new lens – to tease out the intricacies of the Reconstruction era.
The editors also encourage writers to consider how „Black Reconstruction in America“ can inform a myriad of contemporary issues – including the ongoing efforts to keep Black history and the perspectives of Black writers out of the classroom. Du Bois’s pioneering book, published against the backdrop of the Great Depression, was a direct refutation of the false narratives emerging from leading white scholars of the Dunning School. In their portrayal of Reconstruction, the Dunning School scholars had portrayed the South as victims and the North as having committed a “grievous wrong.” Their writings on the subject treated the free and enslaved Black population with “ridicule, contempt or silence,” as Du Bois explained. „Black Reconstruction in America“ boldly confronted racial stereotypes and mischaracterizations of Black intellectual ability. The work stood as an example of how Black historians have taken an active role in confronting political abuses of the past. How might it inform the research and writing of Black intellectual history in the United States and across the globe?
On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the book, the editors encourage scholars to grapple with the significance and continued relevance of „Black Reconstruction in America“. The editors especially welcome submissions that grapple with the intersections of race, gender, class and nationality. Continue reading →

CFP: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth; by: Rolling call

Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (JHCY) (Web)

Proposals by: Rolling call

The JHCY is the official journal of the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY). It is an international, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that explores the development of childhood and youth cultures, as well as the experiences of young people across diverse times and places.
Early career authors, first-time authors, and those new to the history of childhood and youth who are interested in examining youth, childhood, and age as analytical categories should consider submitting materials that fit submission guidelines. Those working on topics of intersectionality and childhood including (but not limited to) race, gender, sexuality, sexual identity, class, (dis)ability, and other identity categories are strongly encouraged to submit their work.
Additionally, those who have presented at recent SHCY conferences are especially encouraged to submit articles on their pathbreaking research. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, with issues published each winter, spring, and summer.

Contact Information: Julia Gossard and Holly White, Editors, Journal of the History of Childhood & Youth: JHCYEditors@gmail.com.

For additional information and to submit your work, visit the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth website (Web).

Source: H-Net Notifications

CfP: Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media (01/2026, Brussel); 20.03.2025

Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings; Vrije Univ. Brussel (Web)

Time: 29.-30.01.2026
Venue: Vrije Univ. Brussel
Proposals by: 20.03.2025

This conference aims to expand the boundaries of life writing studies by focusing on the often overlooked domain of audio life narratives. As Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson highlight in the preface of Reading Autobiography, “[l]ife narrative studies has become an expansive, transnational, multimedia field” (xi), going far beyond the written word. In the latest edition of this seminal work, they touch upon the concept of mediated voice and the aural qualities of social media messages, indicating the varied manifestations of auto/biographical acts (129).
Building on the exciting new work being done in studies of life writing, auto/biography, literary studies, sound studies, and media studies, this conference seeks to explore the multifaceted realm of sonic life narratives, with a particular emphasis on their literary and artistic features, as well as listeners’ individual and collective experiences. More specifically, it seeks to examine how audio life writing represents, mediates, and (re)constitutes lives; what aesthetic strategies are used and what effects they generate; how audio life narratives are received and remediated; as well as their inherent politics.

The following keynote speakers have confirmed: Julia Lajta-Novak (Univ. of Vienna), Jarmila Mildorf (Univ. of Paderborn), Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary Univ. of London).

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
– Theoretical/methodological reflections on audio life writing
– Audio life writing in specific genres and media (radio drama, podcasts, rap and spoken word poetry, …)
– Voice, sound and music in audio life writing
– Audio life writing and cultural memory
– Audio life writing and identity (individual and collective)
– Audio life writing and politics Continue reading →

Klicktipp: FemInfo (Zeitschrift, online frei verfügbar)

FemInfo und FemWiss – Verein feministische Wissenschaft Schweiz

FemInfo (Web)
FemInfo erscheint dreimal jährlich und zweisprachig. Es enthält Beiträge von Autor*innen aus unterschiedlichen akademischen und nicht-akademischen Kontexten zu gesellschaftspolitischen und historischen Themen sowie Literaturhinweise. FemInfo erscheint gedruckt, die Ausgaben seit 2005 sind zudem auf der Website online frei verfügbar.
Themen der letzten Ausgaben: Sammeln | Gender.Raum.Klima | Hat Sport ein Geschlecht? | Feministische Medienpolitik | Statistik und Sichtbarkeit | Körper | Medizin und Geschlechterbinarität | Sexuelle Belästigung im Kontext der Wissenschaft | Frauenstimm- und Wahlrecht | Institutionalisierungen | Beziehungspraktiken | Popfeminismus | Notstand | Feministische Wissenschaft | Arbeitskämpfe | Utopie | Ökofeminismus [Die aktuelle Ausgabe wird jeweils einige Monate nach dem Erscheinen online gestellt.] Weiterlesen … (Web)

FemWiss (Web)
FemInfo ist das Vereinsmagazin von FemWiss – Verein feministische Wissenschaft Schweiz. Der Verein hat den Sitz in Bern, setzt sich als unabhängige Akteurin auf nationaler Ebene für Gleichstellungs- und Wissenschaftspolitik ein und sensibilisiert die Öffentlichkeit für feministische Perspektiven. FemWiss versteht sich als solidarisches Netzwerk und offenes Forum für alle Feminist*innen und Sympathisant*innen.

Aktueller CfP: Geschlecht, Feminismus, Behinderungen und Ableismus in der Schweiz | Einreichfrist: 15.03.2025
Die Diskriminierung aufgrund von Behinderungen (Ableismus) basiert auf einer Hierarchisierung von Differenz, die sich auf eine körperliche oder mentale Norm stützt. Vorurteile und gesellschaftliche Strukturen durchkreuzen den Alltag von als behindert geltenden Menschen. Die Unterordnung unter anti-solidarische kapitalistische Strukturen resultiert für behinderte Menschen in Formen der Fremdbestimmung, Gewalt und Existenzangst. Strukturelle Behinderung überkreuzt und potenziert sich mit anderen Diskriminierungsachsen, etwa aufgrund von Geschlecht, Sexualität, Ethnie oder Klasse.
Wie werden Differenzen wahrgenommen, aber auch reproduziert – und kann darin jenseits von Essenzialisierung etwas Ermächtigendes stecken? Wie gestaltet die Beschäftigung mit Behinderungen oder Neurodiversität das feministische Denken und Handeln umfassender – und umgekehrt? Welche Rolle spielt in feministischen wie auch anti-ableistischen Perspektiven die Frage der Repräsentation und Aneignung? Welche Zusammenhänge gibt es zwischen feminisierter Care-Arbeit, Behinderungen und Prekariat, zwischen Ableismus und Patriarchat? Continue reading →