Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) 12th Annual Conference with embedded Motherhood Movement Conference

October 23-26, 2008
York University, Toronto, Canada
Deadline: 20.08.08

We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, NGOs, community agencies, service providers, journalists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical, and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts, and other alternative formats.

Topics can include (but are not limited to): Nationalism, militarism, and motherhood; violence against mothers and children; mothers and war across history and culture Continue reading →

Liminalis 2009: Intersex and Transgender in Movement!

In the early 1990s two New Social Movements arose in the USA. These movements rapidly became international movements under the umbrella names „transgender“ and „intersex“.
Both movements have similar starting points: the diverse forms of societal discrimination on the basis of the pathologization and normalization of bodies, identities and performativities. In academic literature they are subsumed under the term „New Gender Movements“. However, this term obscures the activists‘ different experiences, strategies and goals and the inherent conflicts and misunderstandings between as well as within the two movements. Potentially shared goals such as the critique of a heternormative society are often portrayed undifferentiatedly, the politics of the movements hereby become limited to minority politics and their vigor is undermined.
Since its foundation Liminalis, a „journal for sex/gender emancipation“, tries to focus attention on Continue reading →

Interface is a new journal launched by activists and academics around the world in response to the development and increased visibility of social movements in the last few years — and the immense amount of knowledge generated in this process. This knowledge is created across the globe, and in many contexts and a variety of ways, and it constitutes an incredibly valuable resource for the further development of social movements. Interface responds to this need, as a tool to help our movements learn from each other’s struggles.

Interface is a forum bringing together activists from different movements and different countries, researchers working with movements, and progressive academics from various countries to contribute to the production of knowledge that can help us gain insights across movements and issues, across continents and cultures, and across theoretical and disciplinary traditions. To this end, Interface seeks to Continue reading →

5th European Symposium on Gender: ICT & Digital Cultures: Participation – Empowerment – Diversity

University of Bremen, Germany
March 5 – 7, 2009

Information Society with its variety of new information and communication media offers many new options to participate in today’s social, cultural, political, and economic activities. However, chances are unequally distributed, e.g. by class, ethnicity, age – and by gender.

The 5th European Gender and ICT Symposium will take a closer look at the complex interdependences between gender and ICT. Analyses of current ICT use and education on a global level and under various local conditions will be presented and new constructive approaches to gender-aware software design will be identified at the conference. Innovative solutions to overcome the barriers, to encourage participation, and to equally empower women and men by means of Information Technology will be discussed. Continue reading →

La revue ASPECTS, soutenue par le Programme «Aspects de l’Etat de droit et démocratie» de l’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie prépare son numéro 3 qui portera sur le thème du genre et des égalités.

La multiplicité des sources normatives crée certaines conditions de leur instrumentalisation pour maintenir et renforcer les inégalités homme-femme en de nombreuses sociétés. Dans cette perspective, le comité de lecture de la revue ASPECTS réunit des contributions pour un dossier qui s’attache à répondre aux questions suivantes:

1. Peut-on identifier et préciser dans leur registre les différents champs dans lesquels les normes de l’égalité apparaissent (d’un côté, le champ des traditions, des coutumes, des expériences sociales, politiques, religieuses, morales, etc.; d’un autre côté, les constitutions et les institutions juridiques qui formulent et formalisent l’égalité)? Continue reading →

The editors of a proposed book, Feminist Legal History: New Perspectives on Law seek submissions for contributing chapters to the book. This book is an edited collection of essays by leading scholars in law and history that offers new historical and feminist perspectives on law and applies these insights to the legal and social policy issues of today. The collection takes as its primary goal an exploration of women’s historical use of the law to advocate and achieve equality. Contributing authors employ this core theme in a variety of historical contexts to reframe and illuminate such topics as women’s rights in the area of family law, women’s participation in the U.S. military, women’s legal activism and participation in social justice movements, judicial roles played by women, and women’s status in constitutional law. Feminist Legal History was inspired by a symposium held in October 2007 sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Law at The University of Akron School of Law, one of four such national centers established by Congress. Continue reading →

Das Institut für Zeitgeschichte/Schwerpunkt Visuelle Zeit- und Kulturgeschichte an der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien und die Internationale Feuchtwanger Gesellschaft laden ein:

4. Konferenz der Internationalen Feuchtwanger Gesellschaft: Exil – Glaube und Kultur. 1933 – 1945
„Der Tag wird kommen“ (Lion Feuchtwanger)

Deadline: 1. Oktober 2008

Vom 7.-9. Mai 2009 findet am Institut für Zeitgeschichte/Schwerpunkt Visuelle Zeit- und Kulturgeschichte an der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien die 4. Konferenz der International Feuchtwanger Society (IFS) mit Sitz in Los Angeles statt. Kooperationspartner der Konferenz sind die Stadt Wien sowie Institutionen, die sich in Forschung, Publikationen und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit mit dem Exil in den Jahren 1933-1945 und den Nachwirkungen der Vertreibung durch Nationalsozialismus und Faschismus beschäftigen.

Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 2001 organisiert die IFS Continue reading →

Datum: June 4-6, 2009
Ort: University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
The deadline for submitting proposals is August 1st, 2008.

The Southern Association for Women Historians invites proposals for the Seventh Southern Conference on Women’s History, to be held June 4-6, 2009, on the campus of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. The conference provides a stimulating and congenial forum for the discussion of all aspects of women’s history. Its program seeks to reflect the best in recent scholarship, especially by young scholars and graduate students. The program also wishes to reflect the diversity of women’s historical experiences and to explore the histories of women from a wide range of racial, class, and ethnic backgrounds. Proposals in Public History are especially welcome.

The Program Committee solicits proposals for complete panels and individual papers, as well as roundtable sessions. Continue reading →