Graduate Student Symposium

Time: Saturday, March 2, 2013
Venue: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Deadline: January 7, 2013

The belle époque, the long summer garden party of the Edwardian afternoon, when there was a lightness in the air, when „the fruit was ripe and we were eating it“; all that was a class-based, wishful misremembering across the chasm of 1914-18 (Lisa Tickner, The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-14).

In retrospect it may seem a belle époque, but no époque is altogether belle to those who are living through it, and the Edwardian period shares our century’s right to appropriate Auden’s phrase, „The Age of Anxiety“ (Samuel Hynes, The Edwardian Turn of Mind).

This one-day graduate student symposium considers the visual arts in Britain and its empire, America, and Continental Europe between 1901 and 1910 Continue reading →

5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5) (Web)

Venue: Lisbon, Portugal
Time : June 26 to 28, 2013
Deadline: 16th January 2013

The organizers invite paper proposals for a panel (P128) entitled „African women’s commitment to internationalisation and transnational movements“. This panel aims to explore international/transnational dimensions of African militancy and mobilizations through women’s experiences. We welcome papers offering an in-depth historiographic, ethnographical or theoretical analysis from all social sciences‘ traditions, dealing with Sub-Saharan or North Africa. Proposals can be in English or in French. Read more (Web)

Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Toronto, Canada, May 22-25, 2014, Website

Call for panelists from Einav Rabinovitch-Fox: We are looking for a third panelist for our panel session in the upcoming Berkshires Conference. We want to propose a panel around the theme of: Liminal Performances: Transnational Histories of Flappers, Dancing Girls and Leisure Culture in the Interwar Period.

The first papers looks at the American flapper and the ways in which she used fashion and leisure to construct and redefine the image of the feminist in the 1920s, outside of traditional organized feminism and politics.

The second paper looks at the mythology that arose around the Russian cabaret dancers Continue reading →

Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Toronto, Canada, May 22-25, 2014, Website

Call for panelists from Kitty Sklar and Tom Dublin: They seek participants in a transnational session at the Berks in Toronto. We seek papers that draw on materials in the online archive and database Women and Social Movement International, 1840-2010 (WASM-I). WASM-I includes 500 proceedings of women’s international conferences and other materials that we hope will foster new research on women’s transnational activism.

Possible topics include:

• Encuentros Feministas conferences in Latin America Continue reading →

Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Toronto, Canada, May 22-25, 2014, Website

Call for panelists from Justin Bengry: I would like to propose a panel for the upcoming Berkshire Conference to examine the intertwined histories of homosexuality and consumer capitalism. This may include work on queer consumers and consumer practices, scholarship on business enterprise and its relationship with homosexuality, or the queer uses and meanings of consumer goods/acts/services etc. among others. These may focus on either/both underground economies and mainstream consumer activities/business practices or the relationship between the two. Continue reading →

Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Toronto, Canada, May 22-25, 2014, Website

Call for panelists from Laura Walikainen: I am interested in proposing a three scholar panel for the upcoming Berkshires Conference. The panel could be organized around the theme of „Bodies on the Edge: Between the Public and the Private“ in which we explore the the relationship between gender, bodies, and space in various eras and contexts. My own work examines the bodily experience of privacy in public spaces in the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. If you are interested, please Continue reading →

Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Toronto, Canada, May 22-25, 2014, Website

Call for panelists from Laura Micheletti Puaca: I am hoping to put together a panel for the 2014 Berks on gender and disability history. I am looking for papers that will complement my own, which examines disability and domesticity in post-World War II America, focusing specifically on rehabilitation programs and devices for disabled homemakers. The overall theme of the conference is “Histories on the Edge” and I envision submitting the proposal to the subcommittee on “Bodies, Health, Medical Technologies, and Science.” Other papers on technologies of the body are especially welcome Continue reading →