Royal Holloway, University of London; Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing at Brunel University; Brunel Interdisciplinary Network on Gender and Sexuality, West London

Time: 28 – 29 October 2011
Venue: Senate House, University of London
Deadline for proposals: May 1st, 2011

Please send single abstracts of 250-300 words or panel proposals of no more than 1000 words as well as brief biographies to the convenors, Mark Mathuray, Lucienne Loh, and Wendy Knepper by . The time-limit for each paper is approx. 20 minutes. Please email your proposals to Denise Odell at denise.odell@brunel.ac.uk. For more details, visit the Institute of English Studies, University of London at http://ies.sas.ac.uk.

For the most part, postcolonial studies, quite understandably, has privileged the political. Historical and economic processes, forms of identification (race and, to lesser extent, gender) and categories of difference have been refracted through this particular lens. The affective, however, has received scant critical attention. Love, sex and desire are usually allegorized, often standing in as sites of political conflict. This mode of analysis was initiated by the critic who has most carefully attended to the dynamics of desire within colonial contact zones, Frantz Fanon. Continue reading →

Lehrstuhl für Geschlechtergeschichte, Historisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena

Zeit: 04.07.2011
Ort: Universität Jena
Einreichfrist: 20.04.2011

Die Überlegungen zu einer „neuen Biographik“ (Bödeker) verliefen parallel zur programmatischen Entwicklung der Geschlechtergeschichte. Dabei haben auch die theoretischen Überlegungen zur Frauenbiographik dazu beigetragen, dass „historische Größe“ nicht länger das entscheidende Kriterium für Biographiewürdigkeit ist. In dem Maße, in dem sich traditionelle am Heros interessierte biographische Darstellungsformen als nur eingeschränkt brauchbar für die Erzählung weiblicher Lebensgeschichten erwiesen, rückte Exemplarität an die Stelle von Exzentrizität und ein Gespür für die soziale Konstruktion von (Geschlechter-)Identitäten an die Stelle einer Überzeugung von der Möglichkeit autonomer Lebensentwürfe. Damit eröffnete die Geschlechtergeschichte auch eine neue Perspektive auf die Lebensgeschichten von Männern. Continue reading →

„Aspasia. The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History“ (Web)

Deadline: September 15, 2011
Submissions of up to 8,000 words (including notes) can be sent to Melissa Feinberg (Acting Editor-in-Chief for „Aspasia“ 7) at mfeinberg@history.rutgers.edu or to Francisca de Haan at dehaanf@ceu.hu.

For more information, please write to one of the editors or visit http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/asp/ where you can also download the „Aspasia Guidelines for Authors“.

In the past two decades, many societies in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe have experienced an increase in the writing, publication, and scholarly analysis of autobiographical works by women. But these works have not been available to a broad international audience. Volume 7 of „Aspasia“ will focus on the autobiographical writings of women in CESEE, including their diaries, memoirs and correspondence. We seek original research based on such sources, analyzed in the context of the social, political and cultural histories of the region. Continue reading →

Doctoral College European Historical Dictatorship and Transformation Research, University of Vienna, Department of Contemporary History

Time: November 24th-25th 2011
Venue: University of Vienna
Deadline for CfP: April 30th 2011
CfP als PDF

The conference Public Sphere, Ideology, Transformation of Power represents the second part of the conference organized by the Doctoral College European Historical Dictatorship and Transformation Research located at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna. The key words of the conference title correspond to crucial aspects for the formation, functioning, and fighting for political hegemony of authoritarian regimes while being under pressure of adjusting to constantly changing external and internal factors in a fast-paced 20th century Europe.

The conference aims to address the field of ‘public sphere’, the category ‘ideology’ and the process ‘transformation of power’ in a twofold approach: Read more …

Doctoral College European Historical Dictatorship and Transformation Research, University of Vienna, Department of Contemporary History

Time: November 7th-8th 2011
Venue: University of Vienna
Deadline for CfP: April 30th 2011
CfP als PDF

The conference Images of Power / Representations of the Past is organized by the Doctoral College European Historical Dictatorship and Transformation Research at the University of Vienna as the first part of a bigger conference (the second part, with the title Public sphere, ideology, transformation of power, will be organized by the Doctoral College as well and will take place two weeks later).

It aims to explore different aspects and correlations between images and political power. The focus of the conference lies on the social, political and ideological utilization and function of images in dictatorial regimes and societies in transformation. Read more …