Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (Web)

Time: June 9-12 2011
Place: University of Massachusetts in Amherst
Source: H-WOMEN@H-NET.MSU.EDU

Calls for Panels

• Second Wave Feminism Panel; DL: –
• Same-Sex Relationships in 20th Century; DL: –
• Women and Corporate Culture; DL: –

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CfPanalists: Second Wave Feminism Panel

Hi All: We are seeking a third panelist for a panel on second wave feminism to be proposed for the Berks. We have one paper on tensions among generations of feminists in second wave English Canadian feminism Continue reading →

NORA. Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. Special Issue: Writing Change? Challenges for Feminist and Gender Studies

The Editors of NORA, Cecilia Åsberg and Malin Rönnblom, are pleased to welcome Mona Livholts and Annelie Bränström-Öhman as guest editors for this Special Issue.

Academic writing as a strategy for creating change and manifesting resistance – both inside and outside the academic context is one of the foremost challenges for contemporary feminist and gender studies. In this light the emergence of critical, creative, performative and reflective writing can be seen as an integrated part of the ongoing debate on methodological and theoretical issues. Indeed, it is possible to say that the field of feminist- and gender studies demonstrates how relations between power and privilege, marginalized and subjugated knowledge, ethics and change are tied to praxis of style and representation where form and content is intimately intertwined. Contributions from Continue reading →

Call for Papers for The Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender

The Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender invites proposals for sessions in its 2010-2011 series. Programs take place alternately at the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute and at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The Seminar’s steering committee welcomes suggestions for papers dealing with all aspects of the history of women and/or gender in the United States and will also consider projects comparing the American experience with that in other parts of the world.

Each session focuses on the discussion of a pre-circulated paper. The essayist and an assigned commentator will each have an opportunity for remarks before the discussion is opened to the floor. Papers must be available for circulation at least a month before the seminar date. Continue reading →

Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam (Web)

Zeit: 01.-02.10.2010
Ort: Potsdam
Deadline: 15.04.2010
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Keynote lecture: Professor Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University

Organisers: Celia Donert (ZZF Potsdam) and Janou Vorderwülbecke (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

Call for Proposals: This workshop aims to explore the gendered dimension of international politics, norms and institutions, as well as ideologies, perceptions and critiques of internationalism, in eastern and western Europe from 1945 to the mid-1960s. We aim to bring together historians working on the history of women’s transnational organising, the gendering of international projects and processes of integration, the connections and transfers between ideologies and practices of gender equality and difference across Continue reading →

La SIEFAR (Société Internationale pour l’Étude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime) et l’Université de Columbia à Paris organisent, à l’automne 2010, le troisième colloque international consacré aux discours sur l’égalité/inégalité des femmes et des hommes sous l’Ancien Régime.

Datum: 18.-20.11.2010
Ort: Paris
Deadline: 31.03.2010
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Ce colloque s’inscrit dans un programme scientifique pluriannuel et pluridisciplinaire visant à faire progresser nos connaissances sur l’abondante production de discours sur les femmes, les hommes et leurs relations, depuis la Renaissance jusqu’aux lendemains de la Révolution française.

Le premier colloque, organisé avec la collaboration de l’IHMC-CNRS/ENS (Paris), tenu en novembre 2008, était consacré à la période 1750-1810. Le second colloque était consacré à la période 1600-1750. Continue reading →