Maren Lorenz (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), Christoph Irmscher (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)

Zeit: 25.-27.09.2008
Ort: German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
Deadline: 15.01.2008

Proposals are invited for an international multi-disciplinary workshop on the emergence of eugenic thinking and planning.

Human breeding has become a socially acceptable subject again. While historians of science have vigorously responded to the new challenges posed by prenatal diagnostics, the human genome project, and cloning – scholars in other disciplines, especially in the German-speaking countries, have been more restrained or have limited themselves to discussing German racial politics and the practice of euthanasia under National Socialism. Continue reading →

* MAPMES* is a *_highly competitive_* Master’s program in Middle East studies taught in English by *_internationally recognized faculty_* at the forefront of their fields.
*_MAPMES _*_offers its students _:
* An intensive */one-year program/* which allows for an immersion into the politics, history, society and culture of the Middle East Continue reading →

How to write a scholarly article for a feminist journal?
Date: April 21-23, 2008
Venue: Linköping University, Sweden
Teachers: Dr. Kathy Davis, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Dr. Andrea Petö, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary; Prof. Nina Lykke, Linköping University, Sweden.
The course will provide a forum for reflection and discussion of the ways in which different kinds of feminist theorists (from Hélène Cixous to Donna Haraway) have been writing in boundary spaces between theory and literature and deconstructed traditional borders between academic and creative writing. Continue reading →

Following on from the publication in April 2007 of the volume A. S. Fell and I. E. Sharp (eds.) The Women’s Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-19, Palgrave Macmillan, which deals with the responses of the international women’s movement to the First World War, the focus of this conference will be on the response, experience and representation of the organised women’s movement and individual activists to the aftermath of the war in the years 1918 and 1923. The approach is broadly historical, but we would welcome proposals from a range of different disciplines, such as Cultural and Gender/Women’s Studies, English, Sociology, Modern Languages and of course History. By bringing together scholars working on organised women and individual activists in national and transnational contexts, we hope to make a distinctive and worthwhile contribution to this area of studies. Continue reading →

LOVA (Netherlands Association for Gender and Feminist Anthropology) International Conference

Zeit: 3-4 July 2008
Ort: Amsterdam

Globalization is the result of the rapid exchange of ideas, peoples, goods, capital, information and technologies, and the general compression of distances and time. Globalization processes have a large impact on people’s everyday lives. Even in the most remote parts of the world, people and locations are being connected to each other. This interconnectedness can be seen as the core feature of globalization. In turn, people respond to new challenges and opportunities offered by globalization. Their daily actions produce, transform and determine the specific directions that globalization processes may take. Continue reading →