Category Archives: Category_Calls for Papers

Klicktipp und CfP: Lilith: A Feminist History Journal; by: 28.02.2025

Lilith: A Feminist History Journal (Web)

Proposals by: 28.02.2025

Lilith remains the only Australian journal solely dedicated to the publication of feminist history. The editors are excited to announce that Lilith has completed 40 years since its first publication in 1984 and invite submissions for the 2025 issue. They are looking for thought-provoking and insightful contributions from new and established scholars in the field. Lilith publishes articles (peer-reviewed) and reviews in all areas of women’s, feminist and gender history dealing with topics both in Australia and internationally. The journal is based in Australia, but welcomes reviewers from outside of Australia, as well as reviews of books engaging with local and global histories of gender. As a platform that values diverse voices and visibilities, Lilith particularly encourages submissions from Australian and international postgraduate students and early career researchers.

Lilith is available open access here (Web)

The edotirs welcome research articles (6000-8000 words including footnotes) that align with the journal’s interest in historical research on gender. Please note that Lilith only publishes articles that constitute an original piece of research. Thus, the editors will only accept articles that are not under review or scheduled for publication by other journals, and that are substantially different from other published work. All articles are peer reviewed, and only those that pass the review process are published. Referencing should be done using the Chicago Manual of Style and footnotes. All submissions should be double-spaced, use Australian-British spelling (see Macquarie Dictionary) and include an abstract of no more than 200 words.

Original article submissions should be emailed to lilithjournal@gmail.com and conform to the Submission Guidelines (PDF).

Source: H-Net Notifications

CfP: Geschlechtergerechtigkeit [und soziale Arbeit] (Zeitschrift soziales_kapital); bis: 01.03.2025

Zeitschrift soziales_kapital (Web)

Einreichfrist: 01.03.2025

Das Schwerpunktthema der 31. Ausgabe der Zeitschrift soziales_kapital fragt nach Beiträgen rund um Fragen der Geschlechtergerechtigkeit. In den vergangenen 16 Jahren wurden in soziales_kapital vielfältige Facetten dieses Themas aufgegriffen. Der Suchbegriff „Geschlecht*“ führt beispielsweise zu 192 Treffern in 28 Ausgaben. Besonders häufig standen geschlechtersensible Ansätze der Sozialen Arbeit im Mittelpunkt, die sich mit der Arbeit mit spezifischen Zielgruppen und deren Reflexion beschäftigten.
Gesellschaftliche Kämpfe um Gleichstellung und Geschlechterverhältnisse sind dabei aktueller denn je: ob politisch-konservativer Rückbau errungener Diversität oder traditionalistischer Backlash in digitalen Jugendkulturen – die Erfolge feministischer Bewegungen sind keine gesellschaftlichen Sicherheiten, sondern müssen Jahr um Jahr verteidigt, aber auch überprüft werden. Während auf der einen Seite deutlich ist, dass Geschlecht und Gerechtigkeit relevante Bezugsgrößen Sozialer Arbeit sind, so gibt es bis in die Gegenwart zahlreiche Aspekte, die theoretisch und vor allem empirisch wenig ausgearbeitet sind.

Mögliche Fragen mit denen sich Beiträge für den Schwerpunkt auseinandersetzen können sind:

  • Welchen Zusammenhang gibt es noch heute zwischen der traditionellen Wahrnehmung des Arbeitsfeldes als sorgende, und damit weiblich konnotierte Tätigkeit, mit der gesellschaftlichen Bewertung und auch der faktisch unterdurchschnittlichen Entlohnung des Berufs Soziale Arbeit? (Mader 2024)
  • Welche Spuren zeigen sich von der historischen Zurichtung autonomer weiblicher Lebensentwürfe durch die Fürsorge bis in die Gegenwart? (Amesberger & Halbmayr 2020)
  • Wie kann das Engagement für sich vervielfältigende Lebensweisen und Geschlechteridentitäten im fachlichen Handeln Einzug finden?
  • Welche Rolle spielen intersektionale Perspektiven für die Diskussion um Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in der Sozialen Arbeit?
  • Welchen Beitrag können männliche Sozialarbeiter für geschlechtergerechte Praxis leisten? Und anders herum: Auf welcher theoretischen Basis werden geschlechtsbezogene Fallzuweisung in der Umsetzung passgenauer Hilfen argumentiert? Continue reading

CfP: Jugendbewegungsforschung (05/2025, Witzenhausen); bis: 10.03.2025

Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung; Jugendbildungsstätte Ludwigstein: Julia Bartels und Helmut-Schmidt-Univ., Hamburg: Halyna Roshchyna (Web)

Zeit: 09.-11.05.2025
Ort: Burg Ludwigstein, Witzenhausen
Einreichfrist: 10.03.2025

Im Mai 2025 findet auf der Burg Ludwigstein der 12. Workshop zur Jugendbewegungsforschung statt. Im Mittelpunkt der Diskussionen und Projektvorstellungen stehen Themen zur jugendlichen Praxis, Organisationen und ihren historischen Kontexten seit Ende des 19. Jhds. bis in die Gegenwart. Auch verwandte Themen können in dem gemeinsamen Forum junger Wissenschafter*innen vorgestellt und besprochen werden.
Als Forum für fortgeschrittene Studierende und Nachwuchswissenschafter:innen bietet der interdisziplinär angelegte Workshop die Möglichkeit, Abschlussarbeiten und Forschungsprojekte über Jugendbewegungen und -kulturen, sowie verwandte Themen, etwa die Reformbewegungen des 19. und 20. Jhds., ihre Kontexte, Kontinuitäten und Brüche, und methodische oder theoretische Fragen zur Forschung jugendbewegter Praxis und ihren Ideen vorzustellen und gemeinsam zu diskutieren. Dabei können vergleichbare Jugendbewegungen außerhalb des deutschsprachigen Raums, sowie andere Formen jugendlicher Praxis der Zeitgeschichte berücksichtigt werden.

Die Organisatorinnen bitten um Anmeldung als Referent*in oder Gasthörer*in bis zum 10. März 2025 per E-Mail. Referent*innen senden bitte ein Abstract (ca. zwei Seiten) zu ihrem Forschungsthema und eine kurze Angabe zur Person. Englischsprachige Einreichungen und Vorträge sind möglich, die Tagungssprache ist Deutsch. Die Teilnahmekosten, inklusive Verpflegung und Übernachtung, werden für die Referent:innen übernommen. Auch um eine Anmeldung als Gasthörer*in über die E-Mailadresse wird gebeten.

Kontaktpersonen: Julia Bartels, Asya Kurtuldu und Halyna Roshchyna. Email: jugendbewegungsforschung@gmail.com

Der Workshop zur Jugendbewegungsforschung wird von der Jugendbildungsstätte Ludwigstein, sowie der Stiftung Dokumentation der Jugendbewegung getragen und vom Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung, wie dessen wissenschaftlichem Beirat unterstützt.

Quelle: HSozKult

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: Workers and Worldmaking: Labor in the Era of Decolonization (International Conference of Labour and Social History – ITH, 09/2025, Linz); by – extended: 16.03.2025

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

Time: 25.-27.09.2025
Venue: Linz
Proposals by – extended: 16.03.2025

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: 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