Category Archives: Topic_Pflege/Care

CfP: Gender in Jewish Studies: Re-Evaluations of Jewish Everyday History and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe (Event: 06/2024, Warsaw); by: 15.01.2024

Global Educational Outreach Program; Taube Philanthropies, the William K. Bowes Jr. Foundation, the Association of the Jewish Historical Inst. of Poland, the World Union of Jewish Studies, and the Austrian Science Fund ESPIRT project ESP120

Time: 25.-26.06.2024
Venue: POLIN Museum Warsaw
Proposals by: 15.01.2024

For the past few decades, flourishing gender studies have provided new heuristic tools, theoretical reflections, and methodological approaches that have also brought fruitful results in historical research. Cross- and intercategorial angles based on concepts such as intersectionality expanded conventional historiographical narratives and, thus, not least, contributed significantly to new findings in Jewish studies. Perspectives on Jewish history and culture drifted towards more open, mutual, and sensitive understandings of categorizing individuals and groups. The inclusion of gender helped to reflect on how encounters, exchanges, and diverse forms of togetherness unfolded in different historical pasts. This has particularly fostered microhistorical case studies that contributed to a more nuanced understanding of the everyday life of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe.
During the workshop, the organizers seek to discuss encounters between Jewish and non-Jewish men and women; perspectives on queerness, masculinity or femininity; sexualities; and aspects of distinct gendered Jewish history. Questions the organizers want to address include: In which perspectives on everyday life does gender prove to be a relevant category of analysis? Which intersectional aspects are relevant in interpreting frequent encounters between Jews and non-Jews? Which theoretical frames help us to sharpen our research on agency in daily working patterns? How did gendered affiliations frame daily encounters? How were diverse sexual identifications articulated, lived, and shared?
Moreover, with this workshop gathering scholars specializing in Jewish and non-Jewish history in Europe, the organizers seek to stimulate the discussion on the place of Jewish studies in the gendered history of the region and situate Jewish Studies in the broader academic landscape transformed by the gendered turn.
This workshop is the second in the envisioned series of meetings Continue reading →

CfP: The art of love – in ancient sources (Event, 05/2024, Gdańsk); by: 31.01.2024

Melammu Project. The Heritage of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East; Krzysztof Ulanowski, Zozan Tarhan, and Sebastian Fink (Web)

Time: 24.-25.05.2024
Venue: Gdańsk
Proposals by: 31.01.2024

Seduction, love, and the founding of a family are elemental phenomena of all human cultures. While social reality and ideas changed over time, wise men and women of all times seem to have been eager to give advice to the young how they should move in this dangerous field. In myths, epics, songs, law codes, legal documents, proverbs, and even formal handbooks like Ovid’s Ars Amatoria role models were presented and advice was given. The organizers want to have a detailed look into this and study how the relationship between lovers was conceptualized. How was the whole complex of seduction and love interpreted? How did ancient people perceive the matter of adultery? Which deities were responsible for all questions of love and seduction? Which stories were told to explain love? While most ancient sources focus on how to seduce women and how to create a strong bond with them, the female seducer also appears in ancient sources, as for example Inanna/Ištar or Aphrodite.
Desire and love challenge human beings to use a huge array of tools to reach their goals. In order to strengthen certain ideological persuasions, people of power even created the concept of sacred marriage. Love can inspire poets to write fantastic pieces of literature, it can motivate people to accomplish something extraordinary. The proverb “All is fair in love and war” reminds us that war and love are not unrelated and that ruses and stratagems are used in both fields alike. Sometimes shortcuts are taken with magic – love potions, the use of magical tools and the bewitching of other lovers is frequently found in literature. While Plato conceptualizes love as something metaphysical, Ovid’s approach is more focused on practical advice and like in a battle he advises to use stratagems and deception in order to reach one’s aim. Read more … (PDF)

Source: HSozuKult

Ausstellung: BLITZBLANK! Vom Putzen – innen, außen, überall, bis 27.10.2024, Hittisau und Lech am Arlberg

Frauenmuseum Hittisau (Web) und Lechmuseum (Web)

Laufzeit: bis 27.10.2024
Orte: Frauenmuseum Hittisau, Hittisau im Bregenzerwald und Lechmuseum, Lech am Arlberg

Putzen ist Schwerarbeit, ist Ritual, ist gesellschaftliche Vorgabe, ist ein Ordnungssystem für ein dualistisches Denken zwischen rein und unrein, schön und hässlich, hell und dunkel, weiblich und männlich, moralisch und amoralisch, sicher und unsicher, zivilisiert und wild, inklusiv und exklusiv.
Putzen ist eine häufig ungeliebte, zeitraubende Kulturtechnik getragen von einer Ordnungssymbolik, die viele Bereiche unseres Lebens durchdringt. Wer, wann, wie und womit putzt, bedient und nährt gleichermaßen diesen von breitem Konsens getragenen Dualismus. Rollenbilder und Machtverhältnisse werden sichtbar – wie ein Großteil der unbezahlten Care-Arbeit wird auch die Haushaltsreinigung immer noch hauptsächlich von Frauen*, People of Color, Armen erledigt. Dies bildet einen zentralen Bereich der Ausstellung.
Was aber ist Schmutz? Wo kommt er her? Welche Sicht auf die Welt verbinden wir damit? Beschränkt sich das Putzen auf den Haushalt? Mit Fragen wie diesen geht die Ausstellung unterschiedlichen Aspekten des Putzens, der Reinigung und der Reinheit nach. Dabei werden Themen aus Ökonomie, Migration, Ökologie und Nachhaltigkeit, Religion und Spiritualität erörtert.

CfP: MenschenRechtsMagazin (Publikation); bis: –

MenschenRechtsMagazin (MRM); Univ. Podstam (Web)

Einreichfrist: –

Anlässlich des 30-jährigen Bestehens des MenschenRechtsZentrums an der Univ. Podstam wird das MenschenRechtsMagazins (MRM) auf Open Journals umgestellt und weiterentwickelt (Web).

Für die kommenden Ausgaben suchen die Herausgeber:innen laufend Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache, die direkt über die neue Website (Web) eingereicht werden können. Seit der aktuellen Ausgabe enthält das MenschenRechtsMagazin diese Textformate:

  1. Zum einen werden in der Rubrik „Abhandlung“ Aufsätze veröffentlicht. Diese durchlaufen ein „double-blind“ Peer-Review-Verfahren.
  2. Zum anderen werden in der allgemeinen Rubrik „Beiträge“ Kommentare, Kontroversen, Kurzbeiträge oder anlassbezogene Erörterungen sowie Besprechungen von Entscheidungen und Büchern veröffentlicht. Einreichungen in der Rubrik „Beiträge“ sowie Entscheidungs- und Buchbesprechungen durchlaufen ein Redigat durch die Redaktion des MRM. Maßgebliche Kriterien für die Entscheidung sind die inhaltliche Qualität, die Aktualität und der innovative Charakter des Beitrags.

Weitere Informationen zu den Rubriken und den Autor:innen-Richtlinien sind auf der Website unter dem Punkt „Beitrag einreichen“ zu finden. Beiträge, die im nächsten Heft 29/2024/1 des MRM zum 30jährigen Jubiläum des Zentrums berücksichtigt werden sollen, müssen bis zum 15.12.2023 eingereicht werden.
Bei Fragen stehen die Herausgeber:innen gerne unter redaktion-mrm@uni-potsdam.de zur Verfügung.

Quelle: HSozuKult

CfP: Families in the Alps. Households and relatives, neighbours and friends – social and economic relationship networks (Event, 08/2024, Ljublijana); by: 31.01.2024

Margareth Lanzinger and Aleksander Panjek; Associazione Internaz. per la Storia delle Alpi (Web)

Time: 29.–31.08.2024
Venue: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Proposals by: 31.01.2024

The Alps have been an almost classic research area for social anthropological, especially American, studies on villages and families, dealing with property and inheritance, etc. since the 1960s, some of which were already quantifying. Previously, population-geographical demographic studies – such as the “Innsbruck School” – had also been carried out on some Alpine valleys. Intense and controversial discussions in the Alpine context revolved around, among other things, homeostatic concepts. These questioned about a possible connection between population and available resources in the sense of a demographic-economic balance or the limits of population growth, based on marriages and births as essential factors. More open and broader approaches rejected environmental deterministic perspectives and referred to options for agency, pluri-activity and integrated economies.
With the international boom in research on family history since the 1970s, questions from historians have also focused on household composition and work organization, on differences and implications of inheritance laws and practices, on specific migration and marriage patterns and also historical-anthropological topics. Here and there, mountain regions stood out due to specific household constellations: for example, the presence of stem families in the narrower sense, in which fathers continued to hold the power, authority and economic position in their hands, even after a son or daughter had married into the house; or shared fraternal inheritance and complex households with several married brothers; or household-heading women and absent men due to gender-specific seasonal mobility. Overall, studies have been able to illustrate the diversity and complexity of families and households.
From the 1990s onwards, approaches further expanded: the “household” was virtually dissolved and differentiating perspectives were introduced: the focus was now more on individual positions (as wives and husbands, sons and daughters, siblings, grandparents, etc.), on genders and generations, based on contractual arrangements linked to … read more and source (Web).

CfP: Radical Mothering in Europe: Everyday Forms of Resistance (Event, 04/2024, Warwick); by: 15.12.2023

Sarah Werner Boada (Univ. of Warwick) and Patricia Hamilton (Univ. of York); Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (Univ. of Warwick)  (Web)

Time: 26.04.2024
Veneu: University of Warwick, UK
Proposals by: 15.12.2023

European nation-building and colonial expansion has always relied on the regulation of reproductive labour and the hierarchical categorisation of bodies and forms of family-making. The stigmatisation of mothers was and remains a central strategy to govern minoritised groups under the modern European ideological framework. Yet, the research agendas that seek to address this (e.g. SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective 1997; Gumbs et al. 2016; Ross and Solinger 2017) are disproportionately focused on North America and to a lesser extent the Global South. There is a dire need for research spaces interrogating the European roots of antinatalist policies and giving visibility to minority mothers’ everyday forms of resistance in the region.
The Radical Mothering Research Collective is one attempt to redress this imbalance. The Collective:

  • draws inspiration from scholarship that focuses on mothering (diverse and fluctuating everyday praxis, performed by a diversity of people regardless of reproductive role or gender identity) rather than motherhood (an oppressive, cisheteropatriarchal institution);
  • defines as ‘radical’ those everyday acts of mothering which occur in unexpected sites (on the streets, across borders, in and around carceral facilities), take unexpected forms (queer, community, non-biological), or defy antinatalist policies in their very existence;
  • rejects an individualist and neoliberal framework for understanding and undermining colonial logics.

Read more and source … (Web)

CfP: Children and Armed Conflicts: Fates, Consequences, and Reflections (Publication); by: 20.01.2024

Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Studia Territorialia (Web)

Proposals by: 20.01.2024

From the 20th century to the present day, armed conflicts have increasingly affected children and influenced their fates. Children have been forced to become direct participants in wars and other forms of violent conflict. The plight of children in armed conflicts mirrors that of the adult population in many respects. Children have been killed as the result of genocidal policies and forced to become killers themselves. Between these two extremes, armed conflicts and violence have had a wide range of impacts on children’s physical and mental health, education, and upbringing. Forced migration during or subsequent to such conflicts exacerbates children’s suffering, as it delays, complicates, or even makes it impossible to relieve their suffering. Migration transfers both the children themselves and the social issues associated with them to countries that may or may not be directly involved in war. Such countries are often ill-equipped to deal with the problems of child refugees materially, institutionally, or conceptually.
This call for papers solicits contributions covering a broad, heterogeneous number of topics connected with children and armed conflicts, in the context of North America, Europe, and post-Soviet Eurasia in the 20th and 21th centuries.

Proposed subtopics may focus upon, but are not limited to:
– forms of abuse of children in particular conflicts
– war propaganda and children
– children in the military and other armed groups
– social impacts of wars and other armed violence on children
– the life of children in war zones
– orphans produced by war
– migration, child displacement, and refugee issues connected with wars
– state-organized forced deportation and “re-education” of children
– the psychopathology of war-related trauma
– international humanitarian law, child protection, and armed conflicts
– Read more and source … (Web)

CfP: Licit Couples: Social experiences, sexuality, and affection (from the late Middle Ages to the present day) (Publication); by: 15.12.2023

Annales de démographie historique; Aline Johner, Loraine Chappuis, and Arno Haldemann (Web)

Proposals by: 15.12.2023

Since the 1970s scholarly works have studied the history of the family, firstly focusing on its structures, and on material as well as symbolic transmissions (Burguiere et al.: 1986; Levi: 1985; Laslett/Wall: 1972; Delille: 1985; Dionigi: 2016; Shorter: 1977; Stone: 1977). More recently the focus has been shifted to familial figures such as fathers (Delumeau/Roche: 2000; Doyon: 2005, 2009; Grace: 2015), mothers (Berthiaud: 2012/2013/2014; Brouard-Arends: 1991; Knibiehler/Fouquet: 1980), children (Becchi/Julia: 1998; Cunningham: 1995; Morel: 2009/2020), or grandparents (Gourdon: 2001) and to the relationships within the family and kinship (Atkins: 2001; Alfani et al.: 2015; Lemercier: 2005; Lett: 2004; Sabean et al.: 2007; Trévisi: 2008). In comparison, couples have drawn less attention. Yet they really are the foundations upon which the family is built: they determine its formation, its reproduction, its domestic politics, and all the transmissions that occur within familial bonds, may they be material, symbolical or cultural.
To be true, many scholars did study couples or rather the theological, moral, legal, philosophical, and political discourses led upon them and more generally on marriage (Gaudement: 1987; Lanzinger: 2015; Melchior-Bonnet: 2009. See foremost the synthesis Burguière: 2011). However, few scholars have studied the social history of the couples themselves. The couples that have been observed share the particularity to have been entangled with illegitimacy: they were easier to grasp historically because of the many problems stemming from such situations that were often complex and, therefore, prone to come to the attention of institutions (see the recent works of Chappuis: 2022; Evans: 2004; Kamp/Schmidt: 2018; Philip: 2023; Vermeesch: 2018). Similarly, very interesting works have been led on couples that experienced conjugal violence and rape (Foyster: 2005; Frost: 2008; Murphy: 2019; Philip: 2020; Regina: 2015). To some noticeable exceptions (for instance Daumas: 1996/2004; Ruggiu: 2007), thus, one is left to deduce the norm from the margins, the illicit, or from failures.
To the contrary, this call suggests focusing the attention on the social experience of couples deemed licit. Incidentally, the licitness must be discussed and carefully defined, as it is … read more (PDF).

Source: HSozuKult

CfP: Affective Bonds, Intimate Exchanges: Family, Kinship, and Gender in Business History (Event, 05/2024, Portland); by: 15.12.2023

5th Biennial Richard Robinson Workshop on Business History (Web)

Time: 23.-25.05.2024
Venue: Portland State University
Proposals by: 15.12.2023

The modern economy is often conceived as a realm of anonymity, where strangers, motivated by rational and individual objectives, exchange goods and services with „no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous ‚cash payment'“ (as famously described in The Communist Manifesto). Yet actual business practices, in both the past and present, reveal the „embeddedness“ of economic actions in social relations (as Granovetter and others have shown), most glaringly, in the affective and familial ties that are inextricable from economic strategies. This conference will explore the enduring imbrication of commercial practices with family, kinship, gender (which structures family and household bonds), and women (whose appearance as a social category troubled the notion of the autonomous, genderless, individual). It seeks to bring together scholars working on a broad array of topics related to the intimate and familial aspects of economic life from various regions across the globe and various historical periods (modern, pre-modern, & others). Questions this conference will investigate include, but are not limited to: How have family and kinship networks fostered trust, provided for credit and investment, shielded economic actors from uncertainty, and been leveraged as collateral? How have intimate relations, both legal and extra-legal, acted to forge commercial alliances, transfer and create capital, and facilitate the circulation of commercial information? How have kinship, marriage, and intimate relations permitted business exchanges in colonial and diasporic contexts? How have kinship and marital ties allowed for long-term investment and long-distance (e.g. transoceanic and transcontinental) trades? How have gender roles and gender performances in the familial context enabled or undermined business activities? For instance, how have economic actors mobilized masculinity and femininity in their business practices? And how have women, as key actors in intimate economies, leveraged their position to participate in commercial affairs?
In envisioning this workshop, the organizers take a broad view of the notion of family and kinship, defining both as an association of people who Continue reading →

CfP: Where Have All the Business Women Gone? Female Entrepreneurship in the long 20th Century (Journal Business History); by: 30.11.2023

Business History; Selin Dilli (Utrecht Univ.), Carry van Lieshout (Open Univ.), Jennifer Aston (Northumbria Univ.), and Robert Bennett (Cambridge Univ.) (Web)

Proposals by: 30.11.2023

The editorial team invites scholars to contribute to the special issue that will examine changes in female entrepreneurship over the 20th century and the factors explaining these shifts. In the special issue, they define entrepreneurship deliberately broadly to capture the different manifestations of female entrepreneurship in the past. The editors define female entrepreneurs as women who were taking the risk and making business decisions on their own account to create new goods, services and ideas in the market under uncertainty, either as co-workers in family businesses, solo self-employed, employers, or innovators (Aston and Bishop 2020).
Despite this growing body of literature, there are two major gaps in our knowledge about female entrepreneurship, which this special issue aims to address. First, in the absence of systematic time-series data, it remains inconclusive if and how women’s engagement in business changed over the turbulent times of the long 20th century across geographic contexts. Second, in the absence of a systematic approach to the 20th century and a comparison across country contexts, we cannot identify the valid explanations that answer the question of why women’s engagement in business (did not) change(d). For instance, it is hard to determine how the larger cultural, political and societal shifts around women’s position during the 20th century influenced women’s participation in business life.
This special issue therefore calls for scholarly research that focuses on the vibrant nature of business women in the long 20th century, and the explanations behind the challenges and solutions women faced when they started and ran their business during this period. The editorial team is interested in contributions working on the following exemplary research questions:

  • Was there a universal decline in women’s entrepreneurship across the world regions?
  • Which factors influenced this decline, and when and how did female entrepreneurship recover?
  • What forms of entrepreneurship did women engage in over the 20th century?
  • Which opportunities and challenges did different female entrepreneurs have in common and how did they differ from one another? Continue reading →