Arbeitskreis Historische Demographie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie; in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Geschichte der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Zeit: 29.-30.10.2010
Ort: Halle an der Saale
Deadline: 15.05.2010

Verwandtschaft war im deutschsprachigen Raum vergleichsweise lange und trotz des Erfolges der Historischen Familienforschung nicht wirklich ein Thema der Sozialgeschichte und der Historischen Demographie. Stärker im Zentrum des Interesses standen Familie und Haushalt. Dies war nicht zuletzt bedingt durch den Fokus auf Haushaltslisten als das in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren in diesem Bereich favorisierte Quellenmaterial, reflektierte aber zugleich die Vorstellung, dass für die Moderne gerade die scharfe Trennung zwischen kleinfamiliärem Privatraum und die durch anonyme Verfahren und Märkte gekennzeichneten Sphären von „eigentlicher“ Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft kennzeichnend sei.

Verwandtschaft galt damit als allenfalls für Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit relevantes, mit Verflechtungs- und Korruptionsfragen assoziiertes Nischenthema. Diese Perspektive ist in jüngerer Zeit datentechnisch, historiografisch und gesellschaftstheoretisch aufgebrochen worden Continue reading →

Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism; GEXcel Conference of Workshops

Place: Örebro University, Sweden
Dates: December 2–4, 2010
Application Deadline: May 10, 2010

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council Centre, Örebro University and Linköpings University launched a project to establish a European Center of Gender Excellence based in Sweden – Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment. During 2010, one of the research themes sponsored by GEXcel is “Love in Our Time – a Question for Feminism” directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University. (For a full description of the theme, see here).

We invite applications for this conference of workshops from  junior and senior scholars whose research directly addresses one or more of the topics presented in the two main parts of the theme description: I. Love Studies – mapping the field; or II. Love Studies – remaking the field. For the latter Continue reading →

Organized in co-operation with Monash University, Australia and GREP (Graduate Research and Education Programme in Gender, Culture and Identity), University College Dublin and University of Limerick, Ireland.

Place: Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy  (Web)
Dates: Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th May 2010
DL: 19.03.2010

Conveners: Steven Angelides (Monash University, Australia), Deirdre Daly (University College Dublin, Ireland), Anne Mulhall (University College Dublin, Ireland), and Michael O’Rourke (Independent Colleges, Dublin).

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr Steven Angelides (Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research & Sociology, Monash University, Australia)

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Call for Panels

2011 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (Web)

• CfPanelists: Secularism, Religion, and Women’s Rights; DL: –
• CF Panelists: Popular Culture and Sexuality; DL: –

American Historical Association (AH) Conference (Web)

• CfPanelists: „Reconsidering Futurism“; DL: 15.03.2010

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CfPanelists: Secularism, Religion, and Women’s Rights

We would like to propose a panel on the interplay of secularism, religion, and women’s rights for the 2011 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women.  We seek an additional 1-2 panelists. Postcolonial scholarship has underscored Continue reading →

Nineteenth Annual World History Association Conference

Place: San Diego Marriott Mission Valley
Time: 24-27.06.2010
Deadline: 28.02.2010

This year’s dual themes are: „Gender in World History“ and „The Pacific in World History.“

The World History Association invites proposals from scholars and teachers around the world for panels (up to 3 panelists, one chair, and one discussant), single papers, and roundtables (between 4 to 5 participants) on topics related to the scholarly and/or pedagogical aspects of the conference’s themes, „Gender in World History“ and „The Pacific in World History.“

The Program Committee encourages mixed panels composed of K-12 teachers, university professors, and independent scholars in which cutting-edge scholarship is presented and then discussed as to how it might Continue reading →

IV. Annual Conference

Time: April 26-28, 2010
Place: Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Philosophy, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
Deadline: Feb. 26, 2010

The Mexican Academy for Men’s Studies (AMEGH, AC) and the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon invite researchers, educators and community-based leaders to submit papers to this annual conference. The purpose of AMEGH s Conferences is to provide a space in which experts on gender and men s studies from all scientific disciplines can share their research results and their educative program experiences with the scientific community and communitarian leaders.

Traditionally, this conference brings together distinguished researchers, professors, activists, students and community-based educators in the field of gender and men s studies world-wide. Continue reading →