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CfP: Migration in der Frühen Neuzeit (Event, 10/2024, Stuttgart); bis: 15.04.2024

AK Geschlechtergeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit und Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgar; Claudia Opitz und Monika Mommertz (Web)

Ort: 24.-26.10.2024
Zeit: Stuttgart
Einreichfrist: 15.04.2024

Das Thema der Tagung ist ebenso breit angelegt wie aktuell: Es geht um Migration in der Frühen Neuzeit aus geschlechtergeschichtlicher Sicht. Gefragt wird nach den durch Geschlecht geprägten Prozessen des Aus- und Einwanderns, nach Wanderungsbewegungen von Einzelnen, familiären oder anderen Personenverbänden, die sich, ob zeitweilig oder endgültig, ob freiwillig, aus Not, unter Gewaltandrohung oder unter Zwangsregimen erfolgend, auf unterschiedlich markierte Menschen je anders auswirkten und Handlungsmöglichkeiten wie Diskurse prägte.
Versteht man unter Migration zunächst das Aus- und Einwandern von Menschen im weitesten Sinn, so fallen darunter alle solchen Wanderungsbewegungen von Einzelnen, familiären oder anderen Personenverbänden, die sich teils zeitweilig (etwa während der „Lehr- und Wanderjahre“), vor allem aber längerfristig oder gar endgültig „in die Fremde“ begaben. Junge Männer, die sich als Söldner in „Fremde Dienste“ begaben – und dort ggf. auf dem Schlachtfeld umkamen , zählen dazu ebenso wie junge Frauen, die sich aus ihren Dörfern in die Städte aufmachten, um dort Arbeit und Auskommen zu finden. Noch endgültiger war die Migration (hoch-)adliger junger Damen, wenn sie im Rahmen dynastischer Ehepolitik an geographisch oft weit entfernte Höfe verheiratet wurden und damit weit gespannte Beziehungsnetze ausbauten.
Auch die zahlreichen ganz anders gelagerten und oft noch weiträumigeren Wanderungsbewegungen, nicht zuletzt die sog. „europäische Expansion“ seit dem 16. Jhd. insbesondere in die beiden Amerikas, betrafen nicht nur erobernde Männerhorden und Söldnertrupps auf der Jagd nach reicher Beute, sondern vielfach auch Frauen (und Kinder), die jenen Truppen folgten oder die, etwa als Angehörige der „Pilgrim Fathers“, dabei halfen, ein „neues Jerusalem“ in der Neuen Welt zu schaffen. Viele waren Flüchtende – Religionsflüchtlinge, wie wir sie zu vielen tausenden in den drei Jahrhunderten zwischen Reformation und Aufklärung in Europa finden, seien dies Jüdinnen und Juden, Protestant:innen oder auch Angehörige anderer verfolgter Konfessionen; viele flohen vor Krieg, Zerstörung oder der Pest. Dazu kommt die Zwangsmigration jener Millionen aus Afrika verschleppten Frauen, Männer und Kinder, die … weiterlesen und Quelle (Web).

CfP: Queer Kinship: Affects, Families, Bonds (Event, 04/204, Siena); by: 28.02.2024

Queer Kinship: Affects, Families, Bonds (Web)

Time: 09.-10.04.2024
Venue: Univ. for Foreigners of Siena
Proposals by: 28.02.2024

This international conference aims to open up a space for critical debate on these issues and to develop interdisciplinary scholarly networks. It is the first of three conferences on this theme that will be held in 2024-2025, in Siena (Italy), Birmingham (UK) and Toronto (CA).
In recent decades, critical, cultural, political and legal discourses on the family have undergone significant shifts leading to new perspectives on the ways in which societies conceive of, recognise and experience affective bonds. New legislation, such as civil partnerships, same-sex marriages and increased access to technologies of reproduction, have enabled new family forms to be established and legitimised. Cultural representation of these new families has increased their visibility and shone new light on “alternative” affective forms of co-existence. However, the queer family is not a new phenomenon, and many modalities of queer kinship, beyond legal family structures, or the pervasive norm of the ‘couple’, have existed for a considerable time: these include, for example, socalled romantic friendships, Boston marriages, polyamorous communities, queer kinship groups, fillus de anima and many other different forms of affective ties
that may change across the life course. Due to discrepancies in law and problematic socio-cultural attitudes, certain forms of queer kinship, or kinships between certain individuals, are more culturally accepted and officially recognised than others, resulting in intersectional discrimination.
While there is a significant body of academic work that explores some of these questions from a sociological, anthropological and legal perspective, as yet there is little sustained analysis of the developing cultural discourses and representation both in individual contexts and across national linguistic and social contexts. The transcultural and transnational circulation of discourses on queer families and kinship has yet to be fully assessed and investigated. A deeper understanding of these cultural discourses, in relation to their … read more (PDF).

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CfP: Fluchtlinien, Möglichkeitsräume, Perspektiven – Queere Menschen und die Kirchen (Event, 11/2024, Stuttgart); bis: 03.04.2024

Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart; Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll; Studienzentrum der EKD für Genderfragen; Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg; Tagungszentrum Stuttgart-Hohenheim (Web)

Zeit: 21.-23.11.2024
Ort: Stuttgart
Einreichfrist: 03.04.2024

Lange haben die katholische und die evangelische Kirche alle Lebensformen jenseits der Heteronormativität verurteilt und LGBTQI⁎ in christlicher Lehre wie kirchlicher Praxis marginalisiert und diskriminiert. Momentan vollzieht sich jedoch ein vorsichtiger Umbruch: Auf unterschiedliche Weisen und in verschiedenen Geschwindigkeiten öffnen sich die Kirchen zunehmend für queere Menschen. In dieser Situation will die Tagung durch historische und theologische Rückschau und Bestandsaufnahme einen Beitrag zu den Diskussionen um eine weitere Öffnung leisten.
Im Zentrum soll die Frage nach dem Verhältnis zwischen queeren Menschen und den beiden großen christlichen Kirchen, zwischen „Homosexualität“, „Geschlechterdiversität“ und Theologie stehen. Der Schwerpunkt soll dabei auf Deutschland im 20. Jhd. liegen; als Beginn des Untersuchungszeitraums wird die Gründung des Wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees im Jahr 1897 als weltweit erster Homosexuellenorganisation angesetzt, die unmittelbar Gegenreaktionen der Kirchen und Sittlichkeitsvereine hervorrief und das Thema damit öffentlich sichtbarer machte.
Durch ihre politische und gesellschaftliche Wirkmächtigkeit hatten die Kirchen restriktiven Einfluss auf die Lebenswelten homo- und bisexueller Männer wie Frauen, trans⁎ Menschen und selbst die Lebenswelten Heterosexueller, die kein der kirchlichen Norm entsprechendes Beziehungs- und Liebesleben führten. In den 1950er Jahren etwa war es die katholische Kirche und hier insbesondere der „Volkswartbund“, der in seinen Streitschriften in heute kaum noch vorstellbarer Art und Weise gegen Angehörige sexueller Minderheiten und nicht-heteronormative Lebensweisen – speziell homosexuelle Männer – hetzte. Doch die Kirchen waren es auch, die über Moraltheologie, Seelsorge oder im Zuge der Debatte um die Reform des Sexualstrafrechts Themen wie andere Lebensmodelle oder Homosexualität aufgreifen konnten. Kirchliche Institutionen und Akteur:innen stießen Liberalisierungsdebatten Continue reading

CfP: Generation: The Fourth Annual Critical Femininities Conference (Event, 08/2024, Toronto); by: 22.03.2024

Centre for Feminist Research at York Univ., Toronto (Web)

Time: 16.-18.08.2024
Venue: Toronto
Proposals by: 22.03.2024

The Centre for Feminist Research at York Univ. invites abstracts from scholars, researchers, activists, and artists for the fourth annual Critical Femininities Conference on the theme of Generation. To generate is to cause, create, or bring about. A generation may refer to a relation in time or the creation of art, scholarship, solidarity, or power. This conference aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of and attitudes towards femininity across different generations, interrogating how various social, cultural, political, and technological factors intersect with and shape our experiences. In this moment of intergenerational conflicts, climate crisis, and generative AI, the time has come to think critically about our generations and what we generate.
Critical femininities as a discipline and praxis rethinks feminine embodiment under heteropatriarchy and provides an entry point to reclaiming femmeness as an intersectional, complex and generative subjectivity (McCann 2018; Hoskin and Blair 2022; Taylor and Hoskin 2023). The generative aspect of femininity reveals the multidimensional modes of resistance and power that arise in taking up femme identity. Femme and femininity hold generative potentials that are not restrained to regulatory discourses of lack, shame, or failure. In rethinking femininities and generation, we harken the affective aspects of femme-becomings, accounting for the creative energy that comes with „what a femme body does,“ rather than the notion of „what a femme body can do“ we have adhered to under systems of oppression (McCann 2018, 118). An affective perspective on femme embodiment and generations offers radical possibilities for femme to be experienced and lived through messy, artful and bodily practices (Athelstan 2015; Kafai 2021; Schwartz 2018).
Feminism has often been chronicled throughout history as a series of generational waves, each with its own distinct approach to gendered issues and its own understanding of femininity (Hemmings 2011; Rampton 2015). While this wave framing has been critiqued as exclusionary of Black feminists and other marginalized groups Continue reading

CfP: Queer Experiences in the Holocaust (Event, 04/2024, Leeds); by: 25.02.2024

Centre for Jewish Studies, Univ. of Leeds: Roseanna Ramsden and Helen Finch (Web)

Time: 16.04.2024
Venue:  Leeds
Proposals by: 25.02.2024

How can we trace queer experiences during the Nazi genocide of European Jewry, 1933-1945, the Porajmos and the persecution of other minoritized subjects by the Nazis? In what form were persecuted subjects able to testify to their queer experiences, and how can we approach these sources? How can we account for the diversity of the way that queer experiences were expressed during and after the time of persecution, including the way that ethnicity, class, gender, religion and religiosity, nationality and language affected the recording of queer experiences? What silences have been produced by stigma, shame and homophobia, and how can we trace queer experiences despite these silences? What are the ethical implications of giving voice to silences in the historical record? What inclusive and non-hierarchical methods can scholars use to trace these experiences and to co-produce materials on queer experiences with wider communities outside academia, particularly queer communities and activist scholars? What might studies of queer experiences in the Holocaust reveal – about same-sex intimacy, queer desire, agency, experience, the intersections of queerness, gender, race, class, ethnicity, age, etc. – that can allow for a deeper understanding of the Holocaust to be realised?

This workshop seeks to explore the ways in which victims of Nazi persecution have testified to and have left traces of queer experience. This might include, but not be limited to:
– Queer experiences in video testimony
– Queer readings of Holocaust testimony, such as the interventions made by Amy Elman and Cheryl Hann about Anne Frank’s diary.
– Queer experiences in archival material
– Queer memoir and life writing
– Queer artworks

Recent years have seen a transnational growth of interest in researching queer experiences of the Holocaust. Read more and source … (Web)

CfP: State Authoritarianism, Anti-Feminist Movements, and Transnational Feminist Futures (Event, 11/2024, Detroit); by: 15.03.2024

National Women’s Studies Association; Anat Schwartz (California State Univ.) and Iqra Shagufta Cheema (Graceland Univ.) (Web)

Time: 14.-17.11.2024
Venue: Detroit
Proposals by: 15.03.2024

2023-2024 has become the testing ground for digital transnational and intersectional feminist solidarities. The rise of state authoritarianism, mass anti-feminist movements, the unabashed mainstreaming of white feminism, and valorization of imperial feminism have put into question the many possibilities of transnational solidarities that emerged during and after the #MeToo movement in 2019. While mass anti-feminist movements have gained momentum globally, the local specificities of transnational state authoritarianism cannot be overlooked.
This panel seeks to bring together interdisciplinary transnational feminist scholars to share and build knowledge on transnational forms of state authoritarianism and anti-feminist movements as they impact feminist activism, solidarities, and advocacy. The papers may focus on any aspect of the transnational relationship between state authoritarianism, anti-feminist movements, and feminist connections. The panel seeks to examine the following questions:

  • What are the transnational connections between state authoritarianism and anti-feminist movements?
  • During/after #MeToo and other transnational digital connections, what has incentivized the support for white feminism and transnational anti-feminist movements broadly conceived ?
  • What does the valorization of Euro-American imperial feminisms mean for transnational feminist futures / solidarities?

The organizers invite 150-word abstracts, along with a short bio and affiliation, that seek to examine these questions and their attendant broad themes. They welcome academics at all career stages and employment statuses to submit abstracts. Please email your abstract by Friday, March 15, 2024. All submissions should be emailed to Anat Schwartz: anats@uci.edu and Iqra Shagufta Cheema: IqraSCheema@gmail.com.

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CfP: Histories of Sexuality in the Time of Crisis (Event, 11/2024, Kingston); by: 10.03.2024

Journal of the History of Sexuality (Web)

Time: 08.-09.11.2024
Venue: Queen’s Univ., Kingston, Canada
Proposals by: 10.03.2024

The editors of the Journal of the History of Sexuality (Web) invite proposals for a workshop to be held at Queen’s Univ. in Kingston. The History Department at Queen’s Univ. is currently the home of the journal, and participants will have the opportunity to discuss their submissions as well as the publication process with the editorial team Ishita Pande, Nick Syrett, Steven Maynard, and Margaret Ross, and to have their work considered for publication in the journal. What does the history of sexuality have to offer during a time of crisis and suffering? How will the field respond to a world increasingly scarred by climate change, the rise of the global right, the erosion of gender, trans and queer rights, healthcare inequalities, migrant crises, wealth gaps, racial discrimination, caste violence, political misinformation, and war? Can our methodologies and tools be deployed to reimagine calamities, obstructions, and setbacks as sites of resistance and opportunity?
Can the history of sexuality speak to the challenges we face today, from climate change to the reverberations of colonialism? Elizabeth Povinelli reformulates M. Foucault’s four figures of sexuality in theorizing the Anthropocene, demonstrating both the salience and limitations of biopolitics for understanding climate and liberalism. Anjali Arondekar challenges a historiographical stalemate between loss and recovery in calling us to reapproach subaltern sexual pasts through abundance, in the process „unravel[ling] a set of archives that are fertile ground for producing and contesting attachments to history-writing.“ Following these innovations and others, how might we write sexuality’s history against the backdrop of crisis? Can our histories cut through deep pessimism to illuminate a diverse future?
The organizers invite presenters to consider how their work is mobilized by and speaks to contemporary issues around us. Topics may include, but are not limited to, historiographies of sexuality, critical methodological interventions and reassessments, trans and gender-nonconforming histories, colonial and postcolonial violence, reproductive histories, sex work and labour, migration and borderlands, the sexual sciences, environmental histories, and more. Continue reading

CfP: 20th-Century Housing Heritage in Europe: Conserving, Participating, and Adapting (Event, 11/2024, Vienna); by: 28.03.2024

Technische Univ. Wien and Bauhaus-Univ. Weimar (Web)

Time: 28.-30.11.2024
Venue: Vienna
Proposals by: 28.03.2024

The conference focusses on housing concepts and built settlements of the 20th century, which often explicitly addressed hygienical, ecological, communal, and social issues and necessities. The organizers ask how these heritage values can be conserved for the sake of sustainable futures. Forms of use, social interaction, and participation might contribute to the care and careful adaptation of such sites, but also create conflicts. Various actors—from business, politics, conservation, and civil society—define, appropriate, and manage this housing heritage and need to be involved. The conference also examines housing and climate policies, development pressure, and vacancy as powerful contexts.
The organizers aim for an exchange of theories, reflections, and approaches in practice within the European context of conservation and planning; and specifically address those settlements that have gained listed status due to their artistic and architectural values, their planning ideas and urban design, and their social concepts. How do different actors value and manage these settlements today?
The conference is organised along five sub-themes:
– Heritage Values, Diverse Actors, and Built Settlements
– Ownership, Tenure, and the Appropriation of Heritage
– Accessibility, Uses, and Forms of Living
– Participation, Diversity, and Sense of Belonging
– Best Practices

More detailed information about the call for papers and the conference and its sub-themes can be found on the conference website/within the following document (PDF)

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CfP: Over the Global Counter: Selling Health, Hygiene and Beauty in the Long Twentieth Century (Event, 06/2024, Nottingham); by: 28.03.2024

Univ. of Nottingham, AHRC project „‚Chemists to the Nation, Pharmacy to the World‘: Exploring the Global Dimensions of British Healthcare and Beauty with Boots The Chemists, 1919-1980“ (Web)

Time: 14.06.2024
Venue: Univ. of Nottingham
Proposals by: 28.03.2024

Over the 20th century, health, hygiene, and beauty have become progressively commodified all around the world. From hot water bottles to toothbrushes, aspirin to vitamins, customers navigated an increasingly crowded marketplace crammed with products claiming to help them look and feel better. Consumer demand also prompted changes to store designs and staff expertise, as well to the advertising and packaging of products and services. Certain products became international sensations, others transformed into domestic staples, and some flopped entirely, remaining only today in archives as historical curiosities. These interwoven and global histories of retailing offer valuable insights into twentieth century business, customer behaviours and practices of well-being.
This one-day in-person workshop at the Univ. of Nottingham will bring together scholars from across disciplines and at all career stages to discuss the marketing, advertising, retailing, and consumption of health and beauty products in any country in the world. The organizers hope to foster opportunities for open, equitable discussion as well as collective reflection as the day unfolds. Proposals supporting work-in-progress are welcomed.
Areas for exploration might include, but are not limited to:
– Retail spaces, their design, adaptation, and utility
– The marketing and advertising of health, hygiene and beauty products and services
– The ‚hidden‘ backstories of products and pharmaceuticals
– The working lives of retail and pharmaceutical staff and changing professional standards
– The influence of gender, race, class, and age on sales and selling
– The cultural impact of multiple/chain store retailers
– Selling to international audiences, associated challenges, and opportunities
– Bringing/introducing international products and services to the UK Continue reading

CfP: Gender Studies and The Precarious Labour of Making a Difference: (Un)paid Jobs, Internships, and Volunteering in the Worlds of Activism, Profit, and Non-profit (Event, 09/2024, Utrecht); by: 22.02.2024

2024 AtGender Conference (Web)

Time: 27.-29.09.2024
Venue: Utrecht, Netherlands
Proposals by: 22.02.2024

The 2024 ATGENDER conference aims to explore the theme of Gender Studies and the Precarious Labour of Making a Difference: (Un)paid Jobs, Internships, and Volunteering in the Worlds of Activism, Profit, and Non-profit. The conference provides a platform for scholars, researchers, and activists to share their insights and knowledge, and engage in meaningful discussions on issues related to gender, labour, and activism. Join the event to learn from experts in the field and connect with like-minded individuals who share your passion for making a difference. Submission deadline is 22 February, 2024. For more information, see the conference website (Web)

Stream themes
1 / Labour of feminist activism in the digital era
2 / Making a feminist difference within institutions
3 / Unequal power relations within gender studies
4 / Risks, dangers and prices paid in feminist and queer activism
5 / Precarity of paid/unpaid care work
6 / Affective, cultural and more than human relations

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