Zeit: 15.-16. Mai 2009
Ort: Université François-Rabelais
Deadline: 05.01.2009

Verbot und Geschlecht. Konstruktionen, Repräsentationen und Praktiken des Weiblichen und des Männlichen.
Internationale Tagung

Die Grundlage jeder Gesellschaft bildet die Aufteilung in geschlechtsspezifische Rollen und Räume, in der sich sowohl die «natürliche» Kraft der Sexualität als auch das soziale Gebot der Reproduktion zum Ausdruck gelangen : An den mannigfachen Überschneidungen der beiden Kräfte ensteht Geschlecht.

Gesetz und Verbot konstituieren die um Sexualität zentrierten Machtverhältnisse und Hierarchien. Verbote bringen die uns bestimmenden Lebens- und Verhaltensweisen hervor und werden in unterschiedlichen Diskursfeldern, Praktiken und Medien ausformuliert : Politik, Recht und Justiz, Familie, Wissen, Wirtschaft, Religion, usw. Verbieten bedeutet gebieten, wobei die Machtverhältnisse historisch und kulturell (Zeit und Raum) jeweils unterschiedlich artikuliert werden und bisweilen sakrale Charakter annehmen können. Continue reading →

The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) and MAMAPALOOZA are hosting the two-day conference MOTHERS GONE MAD: MOTHERHOOD AND MADNESS. OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE

Thursday, May 28 – Friday, May 29, 2009 in New York City, venue TBA

Featuring keynote addresses by Phyllis CHESLER and Paula CAPLAN, Ph.D.: „Who Decides If Mothers Are Crazy? From Freud’s Mother to Today’s“

We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, community agencies, service providers, journalists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical, and comparative work is encouraged. Continue reading →

INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTER
DUBROVNIK, CROATIA
May , 18th – 22rd 2009

The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers (The State University of New Jersey), the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Belgrade, and the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University (Budapest) are pleased to announce the 10th annual postgraduate course in Feminist Critical Analysis entitled, Feminist Border Crossings Between Post-state Socialist and Postcolonial Studies. The course will be held at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik (www.iuc.hr) on May 18th – 22rd, 2009. The course will be co-directed by Dasa Duhacek of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Belgrade, Ethel Brooks of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers University, and Allaine Cerwonka of the Gender Studies Department, Central European University. Continue reading →

S-nodi. Public and Private in Contemporary History, Venedig – Scriptaweb
Deadline: 31.01.2009

This peer reviewed journal is a space which promotes and advertises research in progress concerned with the relationship between «public» and «private», and provides a space for explorations on the nature of these two categories and on the historical sources that document them. We chose the title “S-nodi. Public and private in contemporary history” with the aim of focusing on the dichotomies, the transitions, the junctions and crossroads between public and private. We believe that the boundaries between these two spheres are ephemeral and dynamic, and that they produce, in specific historical, geographical and political contexts, different geometries.

The first issue reflected on Continue reading →

ELEVENTH EDITION – Submissions Due: 31st March 2009

Eras is an online journal edited and produced by postgraduate students from the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. As a fully refereed journal with DEST status, Eras is intended as an international forum for current or recently completed Masters and PhD students to publish original research, comment and reviews in the following fields covered by the School’s teaching and research: History, Archaeology and Ancient History, Religion and Theology and Jewish Civilisation.

We are seeking papers from postgraduate students working in any of the fields listed above. Papers are also strongly encouraged from students in other disciplines, such as Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Sociology and Politics, provided such manuscripts are relevant to the journal’s primary fields of interest. We are also interested in papers relating to the history of women. Continue reading →

The Folger Institute is now accepting applications for a late-spring seminar that will be directed by Phyllis Mack from mid-May to mid- June. The seminar is designed to appeal to scholars in different fields: religion, gender studies, cultural studies, the Enlightenment, popular and high culture, English history and literary studies. Please encourage faculty colleagues and advanced graduate students with relevant projects to apply by 5 January 2009. Forward any questions to institute#folger.edu

Seminar description: Secularization and Selfhood. A Late-Spring Seminar directed by Phyllis Mack

It is a historical commonplace that a process of secularization accompanies the transition from pre-modern to modern societies: a growing indifference to religion among elite and educated classes, a separation of piety and ritual from the worlds of politics and the marketplace, and a gendering of religious practice. This seminar analyzes Continue reading →