CANADIAN WOMEN’S STUDIES ASSOCIATION/L’ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES ÉTUDES SUR LES FEMMES (CWSA/ACEF)

Date: May 24-26, 2009
Location: Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
CfP-PDF

The CWSA/ACEF is now seeking proposals, in either French or English, for its annual conference, held in conjunction with the Congress of the CFHSS/FCSH. Submissions for papers and panels can be made by individuals or groups, and as joint sessions with other associations. The conference will be structured around two embedded themes in addition to an open call:

Theme 1: Roots, Territories, and Territorial Struggles in Women’s Studies

This theme honours a tradition of self-reflexivity within Women’s Studies Continue reading →

At: InterGender: Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
Time: Feb 10-12, 2009
Web: www.intergender.webbhuset.com

InterGender: Swedish-International Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies is a collaboration between major Swedish PhD programmes in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, located at the universities of Blekinge, Gothenburg, Linköping, Luleå, Lund, Stockholm, Uppsala, Umeå and Örebro, and three major European Gender Studies PhD programmes (the national dutch and the national Finnish Research School in Gender Studies as well as the PhD programme for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin) and finally, the Nordic Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies.

Course coordinators
Prof. Lena Trojer, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Senior Lecturer Pirjo Elovaara, Blekinge Institute of Technology
PhD Student Rebecka Molin, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Dr. Bettina Bock v. Wulfingen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany – in collaboration with InterGender Research School Director Prof. Nina Lykke, Linköping University, Sweden Continue reading →

Vom 3. bis 8. April 09 (Anfang der Osterferien) findet die FrauenFrühlingsUni 2009 statt. Diesmal an der Technischen Universität Graz.

CfP für Workshops zu den folgenden Themenachsen der FFU 09

• Achse 1: Let’s stop sexism: meine Rechte gegen Diskriminierung
• Achse 2: Frauen in Bewegung: Aktion und Aktionismus
• Achse 3: Frauen in der Technik – Frauen in den Medien: verkehrte Welt(en)?
• „Dauerbrenner“ (Themen, die aktuell sind und immer diskutiert werden können, aber zu keiner der oben genannten Achsen passen): Körper, Alter, Frauengesundheit

Beschreibungen siehe weiter unten.

1) Was ist ein Workshop?

Erkenntnisse über die gesellschaftliche Strukturen, innerhalb deren wir uns bewegen, erlangt man aus unserer Sicht am besten im Rahmen eines Workshops. Angeleitet von Inputs der Workshopgestalterin sollen Diskussionen geführt werden rund um Continue reading →

The journal Social Justice invites contributions for the December 2009 issue, which will be devoted to the theme of Criminalization and Sexuality.

Over the past three decades, the U.S. has increasingly relied on criminalization as a strategy for managing social problems. As a result, over 2.3 million people are presently incarcerated, or 1 in every 100 adults, excluding those held in immigration detention, juvenile justice, or military facilities. Additionally, in the post-9/11 political context, new technologies of surveillance and detention have emerged, resulting in the criminalization and deportation of thousands of immigrants from the U.S., and the indefinite detention and abuse of prisoners of war around the globe. For this issue, we define criminalization to include de jure and de facto processes, so as to address law as it exists “on the books” and as it manifests in everyday life.

We approach sexuality with a particular focus on Continue reading →

The 2010 AHA meeting will be held January 7-10, in San Diego, CA. Click here for the general cfp. Salon 21 presents a summary from gender/women-specific cfps (noticed at H-WOMEN@H-NET.MSU.EDU):

Summary

1) Society for the Study of Early Modern Women: CfP on topics relating to women and gender in the early modern world, Deadline: January 20

2) Society for the Study of Early Modern Women: CfP for the special Session on the theme of „Women and Entrepreneurship in the early modern World“ (Deadline ?)

3) Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE), Deadline: February 15, 2009

4) Tonia M. Compton, Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: CfP on topics focused on the the allotment of reservation lands to native women under the 1887 Dawes Act and its 1891 revisions, Deadline: February 1, 2009

5) Alison M. Parker, Department of History, SUNY Brockport: CFP: Possibilities and Limits of Biography in Comparative Perspective (Deadline ?)

Descriptions

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The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW) regularly co-sponsors a session at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.
Proposals for Continue reading →