The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine is pleased to offer fellowships to support research related to the history of women in medicine. Preference will be giving to projects that deal specifically with women physicians or other health workers or medical scientists, but proposals dealing with the history of women?s health issues may also be considered.

The Foundation provides grants to assist in covering the costs of the Resident Research Fellow. In return, the Foundation requests a copy of the final research paper, and the ability to post excerpts from the paper. Research results have found their way into papers, lectures and documentaries, thus preserving the unique perspectives and contributions of women in medicine.

Information on how to apply for a Fellowship or how to Name a Fellowship can be found on our website at www.fhwim.org or by contacting the Foundation office Continue reading →

British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference
Proposals Due: 20 April 2009

Papers are invited to make up one or more „Women and War“ panels to be submitted to the organisers of the annual British International Studies Association (BISA) conference in December 2009. The conference will take place from 14-16 December 2009 at the University of Leicester (UK). Please note that all conference participants will be required to join BISA in order to present their papers to the conference, and that the conference organisers have set limits on the numbers of panels to which each delegate can contribute (three) and the number of papers which each delegate can present (one). Those interested in contributing a paper on some aspect of „Women and War“ are asked to contact Jenny Mathers at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University (email zzk#aber.ac.uk) with a title and abstract no later than 20 April 2009.

More details about the BISA conference are available from the Association’s website: http://www.bisa.ac.uk/

Source: H-WOMEN@H-NET.MSU.EDU

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Why Gender? Conference 2009 University of Jyväskylä 9th-10th of October 2009
Call for Papers, deadline April 15th, 2009
The conference entitled „Why Gender?“ aims to bring together both Finnish and international scholars from a number of different disciplines to participate in intellectual discussion regarding future directions gender theory could take. The conference is conceived as a starting point for future networking on this topic. The continued importance of gender as a social category in the late modern world prompts us to ask the oft-forgotten question: why? As researchers in the
humanities whose studies are firmly grounded in empirical data, we are primarily concerned with how gender is theorized within our disciplines, as well as how gender researchers can both draw upon and contribute to theories in areas outside the humanities, for example social studies. The conference organizers would like to see more theoretical work on gender Continue reading →