The Graduate Journal of Social Science is seeking book reviews for the upcoming issue (June 2010) on ‘Interdisciplinarity: Methodological approaches’ (Web)

We are very interested in hearing from students and researchers who have a particular area or book they’d like to review on the aforementioned topic.

Beyond books, reviews can also cover current or relevant academic debates, movies, documentaries, etc.

Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:

• discussions  of  methodological issues of interdisciplinary relevance at the theoretical level;
• examples of this type of research in the form of specific case studies;
• a combination of these two aspects, such as a theoretical discussion with reference to research experiences/data or case studies containing a rich discussion of methodological premises and implications. Continue reading →

2011 Berkshire Conference on Women’s History „GENERATIONS: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space“

June 9-12, 2011
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Proposals due March 1, 2010

2011 marks the 15th Berkshire Conference on Women’s History and the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, which was first celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland and is now honored by more than sixty countries around the globe. The choice of „Generations“ reflects this transnational intellectual, political, and organizational heritage as well as a desire to explore related questions such as:

• How have women’s generative experiences–from production and reproduction to creativity and alliance building–varied across time and space? How have these been appropriated and represented by contemporaries and scholars alike?
• What are the politics of „generation“? Who is encouraged? Who is condemned or discouraged? How has this changed over time?
• Is a global perspective compatible with generational (in the genealogical sense) approaches to the past that tend to reinscribe national/regional/racial boundaries?
• What challenges do historians of women, gender, and sexuality face as these fields and their practitioners mature? Continue reading →