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CfP: Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges (Event, 06/2025, Exeter); by: 29.11.2024

The Cultures of Philosophy project at the Univ. of Exeter (Web)

Time: 02.-04.06.2025
Venue: Exeter
Proposals by: 29.11.2024

The history of philosophy is experiencing a major paradigm shift, with the work of early modern women philosophers in the spotlight (for e.g. Detlefsen and Shapiro 2023): this conference builds on that momentum to produce a more inclusive account of “science” in the long seventeenth century. The conference aims to recover women’s contributions to early modern natural philosophy, looking beyond the treatise and dialogue to other genres both in manuscript and print; and to examine women’s roles in transnational communities of scientific exchange.
In particular, the conference will foreground women’s textual engagement with natural philosophy and investigate transnational institutions, communities, and collaborations. How are philosophical concepts conveyed by diverse literary forms that cannot be categorised as scholarship? How did European women draw on global perspectives and philosophical cultures outside Europe? How can we trace women’s engagement with philosophical networks and institutions? How might including different genres, figures, and communities shift our understanding of natural philosophy in this period?
Taking a comparative, relational, and transnational approach, the conference seeks to investigate women’s collaborations, exchanges, and roles in networks both within or at the margins of academies, institutions, and other official sites of scientific knowledge exchange; and their involvement in informal salons, manuscript circles, and other spaces of encounter. The CultPhil project examines the European context, but we welcome papers that engage with non-European cultures and philosophical traditions, with attention to different languages, international networks, and contexts. We encourage proposals from scholars in disciplines including (but not limited to): history of science, environmental humanities, literary history, intellectual history, book history, and the history of philosophy.

Proposals could include, but are not limited to:
– Women’s participation in (and exclusion from) academies, salons, manuscript circles, institutions, and other spaces of learning
– Women and transnational and national manuscript and epistolary networks … read more and source (Web)

CfP: Left-Wing Women’s Organizing and Activism in the Twentieth Century (Event, 02/2025, Rome); by: 01.11.2024 [REMINDERIN]

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy; Daria Dyakonova and Minja Bujakovic (European University Institute – EUI, Florence) (Web)

Time: 20.-21.02.2025
Venue: Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
Proposals by: 01.11.2024

This conference seeks to bring together scholars from different disciplines working on various aspects of the history of women’s activism and organizing. It aims to explore how women across the spectrum of left-wing politics shaped and influenced the twentieth century’s political, social, and cultural landscapes. The conference aspires to assess the contribution of left-wing women’s activists to the general struggle for women’s emancipation using intersectional, postcolonial, and critical-feminist approaches, acknowledging the pluralities in forms and methods of organizing.
The twentieth century witnessed a surge of diverse forms of women’s activism and the proliferation of women’s organizations on both national and international levels. Consequently, women fought against multiple forms of oppression and for various, yet interconnected, causes across different contexts. Influenced by significant historical moments such as WWI, the fall of empires, the emergence of nation-states, and the success of the October Revolution, women relied on the frameworks of fast-developing left-wing politics to fight for different forms of emancipation. This same framework allowed them to organize within anticolonial and anti-imperial movements and to engage in black liberation struggles later in the century. In this way, they moved across the political spectrum of left-wing politics, which we hope to explore during this conference.
Despite the notable engagement of women activists across the globe, the historiography of twentieth-century left-wing politics has been notably androcentric, often neglecting the significant contributions women made. Read more … (Web)

Key-Note Speakers
– Chiara Bonfiglioli, Ca‘ Foscari Univ. of Venice, Italy
– Zsófia Lóránd, Univ. of Vienna, Austria

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CfP: Gender-Based Violence: Structural Roots and Transformative Responses (Publication); by: 31.10.2024 [REMINDERIN]

AG About Gender. International Journal of Gender History (Web); Alessia Donà (Trento), Bailey Gerrits (Nova Scotia), Sveva Magaraggia (Milano), and Giovanna Vingelli (Rende)

Proposals by: 31.10.2024

Scientific literature and the Istanbul Convention attest the fact that gender-based violence (GBV) is a widespread structural phenomenon with deep roots in a shared culture. Therefore, as GBV is the result of an entrenched and stereotyped gendered culture, we consider it as a socio-cultural and structural problem (Manuh & Biney, 2021; Muluneh et al., 2020), rather than the mere result of a „personal or individual disorder“ (Magaraggia, Cherubini 2013).
The editors understand gender-based violence to include any form of violence targeted at an individual or group based on their gender, gender identity, or gender expression. It also refers to categories of violence disproportionately experienced by women (Manuh & Biney, 2021) and gender-queer individuals and groups. It also includes sexual violence, intimate partner violence, online harms, transphobic violence, homophobic violence, etc. The editors assume that men’s violence against women and gender-based violence have a standard matrix structured in the patriarchal system and in the unequal/asymmetrical gender order. Violence, discriminatory behaviour and stigmatisation of differences arenot simply ‚deviant‘ behaviour but contribute to reproducing and supporting the gender order (Wirtz et al., 2020; Ward & Brewer, 2004).
Focusing on the social construction of masculinity – and not just on male „perpetrators“ of violence – allows us to see the transversal nature of different forms of violence, online or offline: violence against women and homophobic or transphobic violence. Gender-based violence can be understood as a means of regulating and reinscribing relationships between men, between women, and between men and women. Confronting men’s violence against women means engaging with a complex discourse about masculinity, men’s roles in society and the patriarchal system. To fully understand the structural and cultural dynamics of gender-based violence, one must consider how systems of inequality and oppression, such as racism, colonialism, disablism, class, etc., interlock to produce and reproduce the conditions for violence. Read more … (PDF in Italian and English)

Source: Gender Campus

CfP: Aesthetic interventions to gender-based violence and sexual violence (Publication); by: 31.10.2024 [REMINDERIN]

European Journal of Women’s Studies (Web); Júlia Garraio (Univ. of Coimbra) and Hülya Adak (FU Berlin)

Proposals by: 31.10.2024

Aesthetic interventions – including art, literature and film – have the potential to challenge, renegotiate and reconceptualise understandings of gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence. This Special Issue seeks to address the critical potential of aesthetics to (re)create the interconnections between gender, violence and sexuality, and to incite feminist + activism and transformation (Altınay and Petö, 2022). The question of who speaks and under which conditions, what is said and how, and who listens, hears and actively engages remains as crucial as ever. The Special Issue will focus on how artists, playwrights, writers, poets and filmmakers have engaged with gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence. It will also examine how audiences, activists and the public at large appropriate, interact with and respond to the aesthetics of works and narratives that deal with these forms of violence.
The articles of the Special Issue can address one or more of the following questions:

  • What are the ethical implications of aesthetically representing gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence? How is ethics relevant to reading and responding to aesthetic narratives and depictions of gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence?
  • How can aesthetic representations of gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence be pivotal in instigating social change? How do works of art, film and literature operate together with emotions and shared imaginaries to generate interest about the topic?
  • In what ways can the arts potentially render legal and academic language and tools accessible and legible to survivors, activists and the broader public? How can artistic productions be used to foster debate about the meaning of justice for survivors and their communities? How can the arts, literature, fiction and film be appropriated by different audiences and activists with their variegated agendas? Read more … (Web)

Source: Gender Campus

CfP: The Sexual Politics of Liberal Internationalism, 1990s to the Present (Event, 05/2025, Cambridge); by: 31.10.2024 [REMINDERIN]

Celia Donert, Cambridge (Web); Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Berkeley (Web); and Michal Kopeček, Prague (Web)

Time: 08.-09.05.2025
Venue: University of Cambridge
Proposals by: 31.10.2024

Liberal internationalism, with its emphasis on individual rights and freedoms, civil society, democracy and good governance, open markets and the rule of law, has been criticised for the complex sexual politics which underpin these universalist principles. This workshop aims to start a conversation between historians and scholars from other disciplines about the sexual politics of liberal internationalism since the 1990s in a longer historical perspective.
That the ‘universal subject’ of political liberalism is implicitly gendered male is a feminist argument as old as liberalism itself; feminist scholars of international law have made similar arguments about liberal concepts of human rights or humanitarian law. Feminist theorists of twentieth-century international relations have suggested that sexual and international orders of masculinism and militarism are mutually constitutive, whether in the boardrooms of foreign policy establishments, on military bases, or in other local sites of intervention in the name of liberal internationalism. Postcolonial, gender and queer theorists continue to challenge the western, masculine and heteronormative bias of the latest iteration of liberal internationalism, which since the Cold War places greater emphasis on the universal rights of women and minorities, while limiting their application by resurrecting discourses of cultural relativism, humanitarian suffering and moral value.
This workshop aims to start a conversation about the sexual politics of liberal internationalism after 1989 in Central Europe and beyond. The focus on Central Europe is driven by a desire to explore the rise and fall of liberal internationalism in the late twentieth century outside the Anglo-American world. Central Europe became a laboratory for experiments in international economic or political order during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the collapse of multinational empires, the rise and fall of democratic, fascist and state-socialist regimes, until the political and economic transformation that followed the 1989 revolutions. The conjunction between liberal internationalism and neoliberalism adds another dimension to the question of sexual politics in post-Cold War Central Europe, opening up space for comparisons with other parts of the world. Read more and source … (Web)

CfP: Bibliotheken: demokratisch – divers – nachhaltig (2. Österreichischer Bibliothekskongress, 03/2025, Wien); bis: 31.10.2024 [REMINDERIN]

2. Österreichischer Bibliothekskongress (Web)

Zeit: 25.-28.03.2025
Ort: Austria Center Wien
Einreichfrist: 31.10.2024

Aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen verlangen eine umsichtige Auseinandersetzung mit den Themen Nachhaltigkeit in der Lehre, in der Ausbildung wie auch im privaten Umfeld. Diesem Motto folgend soll beim 2. Bibliothekskongress der aktuelle Wandel unserer Welt reflektiert werden. Er wird veranstaltet von der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare (VÖB) (Web) und dem Büchereiverband Österreichs (BVÖ) (Web). Die Veranstalter:innen freuen sich, wieder zahlreiche Gäste aus dem In- und Ausland in Wien begrüßen zu dürfen.

Wissenschaftliche und öffentliche Bibliotheken spielen bei den oben beschriebenen Prozessen eine zentrale Rolle. Sie sind nicht nur Knowledge Hubs, sondern auch aktive Akteure in unserer Gesellschaft. Mit ihrem technischen Know-how, ihrer administrativen Expertise und ihrem breiten Informationsangebot tragen sie dazu bei, Lösungsansätze zu entwickeln und neue Dienstleistungen zu etablieren. Darüber hinaus fördern sie Kooperationen und bieten somit einen wichtigen Mehrwert für die Gesellschaft. Im Rahmen des Bibliothekskongresses werden schwerpunktmäßig folgende Themenbereiche diskutiert:

  • Demokratisch: Demokratisierung von Wissen, Citizen Science, Fake Science und Vertrauen in die Wissenschaft, KI und Ethik, Bildungsauftrag, historische Verantwortung
  • Divers: Communities und Community Building, soziale Verantwortung und Infrastruktur, Veranstaltungen und Inklusion, Barrierefreiheit, Diversität im Arbeitsumfeld
  • Nachhaltig: SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) / Nachhaltigkeitsziele, klimafitte Bibliotheken, digitale Nachhaltigkeit und Langzeitarchivierung, Sustainability Literacy

Im Forum freier Themen freuen sich die Veranstalter:innen auf Beiträge über aktuelle informations- bzw. medienwissenschaftliche und bibliotheksrelevante Fragestellungen, wie beispielsweise zu Continue reading

CfP: Frauen in der spätmittelalterlichen Stadt an Mittel- und Oberrhein. Soziale, ökonomische und rechtliche Perspektiven (Event, 04/2026, Bingen); bis: 30.11.2024

Gerold Bönnen (Stadtarchiv Worms) (Web), Nina Gallion und Regina Schäfer (Historisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz) (Web) und Matthias Schmandt (Historisches Museum am Strom – Hildegard von Bingen, Bingen) (Web)

Zeit: 08.-10.04.2026
Ort: Historisches Museum am Strom – Hildegard von Bingen, Bingen am Rhein
Einreichfrist: 30.11.2024

„Frau in der Stadt“ erweckt als Titel Erinnerungen an deutschsprachige Studien, die in den 1980er-Jahren erschienen. Genannt seien hier nur die Veröffentlichungen von Erika Uitz und Edith Ennen oder die Quellensammlung von Peter Ketsch und Anette Kuhn. Oft verbanden diese Werke, denen man zahlreiche weitere zur Seite stellen könnte, Frauenforschung mit einer sozial- oder alltagsgeschichtlichen Fragestellung. Es ging um Lebensformen und Alltagswelten.
Seitdem wich nicht nur die Historische Frauenforschung weitgehend der Geschlechterforschung. Methodisch ging auch die Geschichtswissenschaft zahlreiche neue Wege – zur Lokalisierung wurden Geoinformationssysteme genutzt, die Netzwerkanalyse half beim neuen Erschließen von Personenbeziehungen, die Kulturgeschichte fragte nach symbolischen Elementen und trieb den material turn voran, universalgeschichtliche Ansätze wurden entwickelt, diskursgeschichtliche Zugänge auch für die Vormoderne ausgetestet – um nur einige der dominierenden Zugänge in der Geschichtswissenschaft der letzten Jahrzehnte zu nennen.
Die weiter blühende stadthistorische Forschung nahm immer auch Frauen in der Stadt mit in den Blick. Doch erfuhren die weltlichen Frauen weit weniger Beachtung als die geistlichen, die Bürgerinnen weniger als die Adeligen, verheiratete Frauen weniger als Witwen. Selbst wenn Frauen in der Stadt angesprochen wurden, wie bei der Tagung, die 2019 im Mainzer Landesmuseum stattfand und nach Rollenvorbildern von jüdischen und christlichen Frauen im Hochmittelalter fragte, blickte man vor allem auf Beginen und Nonnen. Der Komplex „Frau und Stadt“ blieb eher auf Arbeiten lokalen Zuschnitts beschränkt. Weiterlesen und Quelle … (Web)

Aspekte der Analyse könnten sein: Die Berufstätigkeit von Frauen | Die Wohnsituation von Frauen | Die Rechtsfähigkeit von Frauen und ihre Präsenz bei Gericht | Die Sichtbarkeit von Frauen in der Stadt | Die Benennungen von Frauen

CfP: Rethinking Concepts, Terms and Topics (of Military Welfare History) (Event, 07/2025, Graz), by: 30.11.2024

4th International Conference of the Military Welfare History Network (MWHN) 2025 (Web)

Time: 09.-11.07.2025
Venue: Univ. of Graz
Proposals by: 30.11.2024

Organisers: Heidrun Zettelbauer and Viktoria Wind (History – Cultural and Gender History, Graz), Sabine Haring-Mosbacher (Sociology – Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria, Graz), Sabine Jesner (Military History Institute – Military History Museum, Vienna) and Paul Huddie (MWHN Co-ordinator)

Approaches to military history and the history of war welfare have changed fundamentally in recent decades. They shifted from a focus on event history, the depiction of predominantly operational levels, the monopolisation of military meanings or discourses of legitimation to innovative approaches to a cultural history of armed conflicts, which are particularly influenced by Social History, the History of Mentalities, Body or Gender history. This also applies in particular to the analysis of military welfare and care practices from a historical and social science perspective, which has undergone a fundamental reorientation in recent years, not least as a result of current care ethics debates.

The fourth international conference of the Military Welfare History Network, which will take place for the first time at the Univ. of Graz (Austria) in 2025, aims to explicitly focus on the theoretical, conceptual and research-practical dynamics associated with this reorientation. The conference aims to reflect about these changes in studies of care and welfare practices in military contexts and to discuss older and new concepts and their implementation in research. Referring to a problem-orientated approach, an explicitly interdisciplinary and trans-epochal orientation will be taken. The aim of the MWHN conference is therefore to critically examine the effects of theoretical and conceptual perspectives as well as the productive applicability of (new) methods and concepts on different dimensions:

  • the macro-level (state-national, transnational or global relations and networks, civil society and corresponding symbols, norms and orders etc.)
  • the meso-level (such as the history of institutions and organisations as well as interdependencies between economic, political, societal, cultural and military issues)
  • the micro-historical relationships (self-testimonies, personal identities, biographies etc.) in war care and welfare practices

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CfP: Gender, Power, and Politics in Character Assassination (Event, 03/2025, Washington); by: 10.10.2024

Lab for Character Assassination and Reputation Politics (CARP) 2025 Conference (Web)

Time: 20.-22.03.2025
Venue:: George Mason Univ.’s Arlington Campus
Proposals by: 10.10.2024

Character assassination is the deliberate destruction of an individual’s reputation. This timeless phenomenon appears in many shapes and forms in every cultural, political, and technological era. Various character assassination practices such as lies, insinuations and ridicule have been effective means of persuasion and influence in power struggles for centuries. As a field of scholarship, the study of character assassination has been experiencing a remarkable academic renaissance. Given that character assassination appears in struggles for power, it should not surprise us that character assassins grab any tools at their disposal to gain the upper hand over opponents. Gender often provides an angle for character assassination. Gendered character attacks typically accuse a target of acting in a way that is inappropriate for their gendered identity. This may involve accusing a male politician of being “wimpy” or suggesting that a female politician is acting in a masculine or aggressive manner when she takes decisive action. Of course, what counts as appropriate gendered behavior is culturally and historically specific. It is also intersected by class, sexuality, and race.
The organisers invite scholars and practitioners to submit research and works in progress which will discuss character assassination, gender, power, and politics from a variety of disciplinary and cultural angles. They welcome both theoretical work and case studies that explore this phenomenon across the globe and throughout history.

Possible Topics:
– Current cases of character attacks on female politicians
– Historical cases of gender-based attacks in politics
– The role of gender in negative political campaigns
– Political incivility and gender-based political ads
– Media coverage of gender in political campaigns
– The role of gender in political scandals
– Gender-based practices of ridicule in comedy shows
– Memes, caricatures, and visual misinformation
– The rhetoric of social media canceling
– Gender in international relations and diplomacy
– Responding to gendered character attacks
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CfP: Historicizing Experiences (Event, 03/2025, Tampere); by: 29.11.2024 

Seventh Annual HEX Conference 2025 (Web)

Time: 10.-12.03.2025
Venue: Tampere Univ., Finland
Proposals by: 29.11.2024

The history of experiences is a burgeoning, interdisciplinary field of study that sets out to comprehend the manifold roles and meanings of experience in history. It charts the dynamic interplay between the individual, community, and society at large. The history of experiences reconsiders how experience is defined and used as a key element of historiographical practice. Historians of experience highlight the generative role of experience in shaping history and its vital importance to any comprehensive historical analysis. Rather than as an isolated, extraneous facet of historical study, experience is most fruitfully studied as situated within social structures and institutions, with which it is in constant interaction. Experience is deeply intertwined with the fabric of culture, and understanding cultural change requires examining experience within its context.Historians of experience constantly develop the approaches and concepts central to their field. They interrogate the specificities of their domain and self-reflectively ask how it is situated in the wider historiographical context. New sources help unravel the multilayered historicity of experience.
Within this framework, the seventh annual HEX Conference will reassess the premises on which this field rests and consider what historicizing experience entails. How is experience produced, and why is it crucial to understand it as a historical process?

The organisers invite proposals for papers and panels that span a range of periods, methodologies, and disciplines with only one, all-encompassing methodical goal in mind: historicizing experiences. By encouraging diverse contributions, they aim to create a forum that engages in discussion about the state of the field through conceptual case studies and more theoretically oriented reflections. Read more and source … (Web)

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