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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
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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

CfP: Morality, Conduct and Etiquette in the Long Eighteenth Century (Event, 01/2024, New Delhi and virtual space); by: 30.11.2023

India International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IISECS) (Web)

Time: 18.-19.01.2024
Venue: New Delhi and virtual space
Proposals by: 30.11.2023

The IISECS invites papers for the Annual Conference to be held in hybrid mode at the Centre for English Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. The theme for the conference is „Morality, Conduct and Etiquette in the Long Eighteenth Century“. IISECS invites abstracts that may be aligned to (but not limited to) the following themes pertaining to the long 18th century across India and beyond:

  1. Political and philosophical genealogies of morality
  2. Textual and cultural artefacts: conduct books, memoirs, household manuals, periodical press, political-treatises, scriptures, folk literatures, and others
  3. Sensory registers of morality: the visual, oral and tactile
  4. Formation of Self and Other: identity-formation, and social-hierarchies (gender, class, caste, race, etc.)
  5. Cultural-mannerisms, expressions of courtesy, manners and conduct
  6. Institutional formations: Marriage, regulation of sexuality and code of family honour
  7. Ethico-legal structures, constitution and disciplining of civil society
  8. Educational and religious institutions of moral conduct
  9. Professional etiquettes, commercial conduct and ethics of exchange
  10. The Empire and its civilizing regimes
  11. Memory and memorialization of morality
  12. Deviant paradigms: resistance, critique and emergent immoralities

Keynote: Geraldine Forbes, Professor Emeritus at State Univ. of New York at Oswego

Selected papers will be published. Continue reading

CfP: Verkörperte Medien & mediatisierte Körper | Embodied Media & Mediatized Bodies (ZS medien & zeit); bis: 30.11.2023

medien & zeit; Diotima Bertel, Julia Himmelsbach, Christina Krakovsky und Krisztina Rozgonyi (Web)

Einreichfrist: 30.11.2023

CfP deutsch (PDF) | english (PDF)

Über unseren Körper erfahren und erleben wir das Leben – und werden von anderen wahrgenommen, erfahren und eingeordnet. Unsere Körper sind Kommunikationsinstrumente, mit denen wir uns ausdrücken können. In Anlehnung an Merleau-Ponty können wir Körper als „lived media“ verstehen: Unsere subjektiven Erfahrungen – die durch unser Geschlecht, Sexualität, Alter, race, ethnische Zugehörigkeit, Klasse usw. geprägt sind – sind in unsere Körper eingeschrieben und werden durch sie ausgedrückt. Durch ihre Situiertheit (Haraway 1988) bringen unsere Körper zum Ausdruck, was als normal verstanden wird, doch können sie auch Normen durchbrechen und durch die Art und Weise, wie wir sie präsentieren, (ent-)formen, kommunizieren und aufführen, Alternativen aufzeigen. In der Koproduktion von Technologie und Gesellschaft (z.B. Singer 2003) prägen Genetik und Biotechnologien unsere Vorstellung von gesunden und fähigen Körpern sowie von Geschlechterbeziehungen und Sexualität. Und diese Vorstellungen von Körper werden in medialen Darstellungen ständig begleitet, bewertet, diskutiert und präsentiert. Damit sind Körper immer auch mit Handlungsmacht verbunden.
Dualistische Vorstellungen über Geist und Körper, Rationalität und Emotionen, Natur und Kultur, männlich und weiblich durchdringen das westliche Denken. Die feministische Theorie erforscht die Verflechtung zwischen unseren Körpern, Körpererfahrungen, Subjektivität und Formen des Wissens. Wir erfahren und kreieren Wissen mit und durch unsere Körper im Zusammenspiel mit medialen Darstellungen von Körpern im öffentlichen Diskurs. Die Öffentlichkeit wird durch Körper (z.B. im Kontext von public history, Sub- und Popkultur, Kunst, Klassenzugehörigkeit, Klassifizierung usw.) mitproduziert und gleichzeitig durch Mediendarstellungen und damit verbundene Vorstellungen von Geschlecht, kulturellen und gegenkulturellen Ausdrucksnormen geprägt.
In der Ausgabe sollen damit zusammenhängende Narrative und Ideen ergründet werden. Im Zentrum stehen 3 sich überschneidende Themenbereiche: (1) der Körper als Medium, (2) der Körper in den Medien und (3) Medien im und auf dem Körper. Continue reading

Lecture: Renée Winter: Working on the Self: Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Uses of Video, 21.11.2023, virtual space

Useful Television Standing Seminar; Markus Stauff (ASCA) and Anne-Katrin Weber (Univ. of Lausanne)

Time: Tue, 21.11.2023, 5pm CET
Venue: virtual space

Since the 1960s methods and practices based on TV and video technology have been developed in psychotherapy and psychiatry, which were directed at getting to know, documenting, observing, confronting, diagnosing, or empowering the self. Whereas self-confrontational methods had also used film and photography, video with its immediate playback function has been viewed as particularly appropriate to be used in this respect.
In this talk Renée Winter will focus on the IAAPP (Internationaler Arbeitskreis für Audiovision in Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie / International Working Group for Audiovision in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy), which was founded in West Berlin in 1977. The primarily German-speaking working group was concerned with the exchange of know-how and research regarding audio-visual methods in documentation, diagnostics, teaching, research, and therapy. Although the name of the working group did not mention a specific medium, a major part of the actors dealt with the medium of video on magnetic tape.
Renée Winter is going to situate the activities of the IAAPP in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy and within the historical framework of video’s utilization for working on the self.

For a link please register here (Web)

Renée Winter ist Senior Postdoc am Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien mit den Forschungsschwerpunkten Mediengeschichte und -theorie, Nachgeschichte des NS, Wissenskulturen und Audio/Visualität, Geschlechtergeschichte und Migration/Postkolonialismus nach/in Österreich. Weiterlesen … (Web)

Source: Newsletter des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte

Klicktipp: Frauenbewegungen und Feminismen im kulturellen Gedächtnis (ZS GENDER 3/23): Open Access

GENDER. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft 3/23; Anne Schlüter und Uta C. Schmidt (Web)

Inhalt (PDF)
Beiträge im Open Access auf der Website Budrich-Journals (Web)

Schwerpunkt
Wiederholt wurde festgestellt, dass kaum Erinnerungen an vergangene Frauenbewegungen und Feminismen in der hegemonialen Geschichtskultur existieren. Dabei haben die Akteurinnen der Bewegungen Dokumente hinterlassen. Der Heftschwerpunkt präsentiert Beispiele, wie feministische Erinnerungskultur und ihre Erforschung aussehen können. Der Blick geht in die ehemalige DDR und nach Bosnien-Herzegowina, richtet sich auf internationale Künstlerinnen in Berlin und vertieft sich in feministische Archivarbeit.
Autorinnen der Beiträge sind Constanze Stutz, Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović, Marie van Bömmel, Barbara Schnalzger sowie Katharina Hugo und Rita Kronauer

Offener Teil
Der Offene Teil erinnert konkret an Lebens- und Werkgeschichte der panafrikanischen Aktivistin Unokanma Okonjo und gleich drei Beiträge kreisen um das Thema Männlichkeit und Care: Es geht um die Transmission von Fürsorglichkeit zwischen Vätern und Söhnen, Fürsorglichkeit von Männern in Pflegeberufen und eine theoretische Auseinandersetzung zum Verhältnis von Caring Masculinities und hybrider Männlichkeit.
Autorinnen dieser Beiträge sind Hanna Hacker, Luisa Streckenbach, Lena Weber und Johanna M. Pangritz

Tagung: Geschlechterdimensionen in Geschichte und Geschichtsforschung (zu) Sozialer Arbeit, 22.-24.02.2024, Wiesbaden

Tagung der AG Historische Sozialpädagogik/Soziale Arbeit (Web)

Zeit: 22.-24.02.2024
Ort: Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden
Anmeldung bis: 01.02.2024

Programm (PDF)

Sektionen

  • Kontroversen und Ermächtigung: Protagonistinnen der frühen Sozialen Arbeit
  • Sexualisierungen, Akteur*innen und Adressat*innen Sozialer Arbeit von der Weimarer Republik bis in die frühe BRD
  • Nächstenliebe als Transformationskraft. Religiöse Verortungen geschlechtsbezogenen Handelns in Sozialer Arbeit und Gemeinwesenarbeit
  • „Sand and Stars“ – Social Work, Gender and Jewish History as reflected in Siddy Wronsky’s hidden novel
  • (Un)Writing gender: Geschlechterdimensionen in historischen Zeitschriftenquellen der (frühen) Sozialen Arbeit
  • Institutionen und Programmatik der Ausbildung von „Volkspflegerinnen“ im NS
  • Frühe Professionalisierung der Sozialen Arbeit – Sozialpolitische und pädagogische Perspektiven
  • Geschlechtergeschichte Sozialer Arbeit im Spiegel unterschiedlicher Quellen und Forschungszugänge
  • Aspekte jüdischen Kulturerbes: Jüdische Sozialarbeit unter dem Blickwinkel der Geschlechterfrage
  • Sozialpädagoginnen im Exil
  • Komplexe Verstrickungen und das Ringen um Agency: Akteur*innen in der (Ausbildungs-)Geschichte Sozialer Arbeit quer zu den Zeiten
  • Vergeschlechtlichte Jugendhilfe – Erkenntnisse aus Forschungen zur DDR und der Fürsorgeerziehung in Österreich Continue reading