Social Science History Association (Nov 21-24 2013, Chicago) (Website)

CfP from Dominique Grisard: “We are looking for two authors for a panel on the „SEXUALIZATION OF THE SOCIAL“ for the Social Science History Association. The panel focuses on the various ways that, historically and today, different aspects and areas of the social are being sexualized.

We have one sociology paper that examines the sexualization of ‚old‘ age, analyzing sexual life courses in relation to discourses of the aging body in Western societies. A second paper historicizes and complicates the sexualized, commodified figure of the (girl) child in Euro-American discourses.

We are seeking two more panelists, preferably someone who focuses on Continue reading →

American Historical Association’s 2014 annual meeting in Washington, DC to be held from January 2-5. (Website)

“We are looking for a third panelist and a chair ar a commentator interested in presenting at the next AHA Annual Conference in Washington, DC in January 2014.

Our panel concerns gender and modernity in Turkey (or possibly the larger Middle East). Of particular interest would be papers concerning post-Ottoman Empire, especially the post-World War II era.

Currently, one paper looks at American YWCA workers and their role in bringing „modernity“ to the emerging Turkish nation in the 1920s and 1930s; the second paper examines post-World War II consumption and advertisements using the veil and/or its concepts.” Continue reading →

Oral History and Life Stories Network at the 10th European Social Science History Conference (Web)

Veneu: Vienna, Austria
Time: 23-26 April 2014
Deadline: 15 May 2013

The Oral History and Life Stories Network has become the major regular international forum for European oral history and life story researchers. The European Social Science History Conference has been held biannually since 1996 and the Oral History and Life Stories network has met at each conference since 1998. Oral History and Life Stories is currently one of the largest, friendliest and most popular networks of the European Social Science Conference.

We invite proposals for the Vienna ESSHC-conference on 23-26 April 2014 both for individual papers and for sessions. Sessions can have various formats: panels, round table discussions, presentations in other media followed by discussion. Read more and source

10th European Social Science History Conference (Web)

Veneu: Vienna, Austria
Time: 23-26 April 2014
Deadline: 15 May 2013

The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions.

The Conference welcomes papers and sessions on any topic and any historical period. It is organized in a large number of networks:

• Africa – Antiquity – Asia – Criminal Justice – Culture – Economics – Education and Childhood – Elites and Forerunners – Ethnicity and Migration – Family and Demography – Health – History and Computing – Labour – Latin America – Material and Consumer Culture – Middle Ages – Oral History – Politics, Citizenship and Nations – Religion – Rural – Sexuality – Social Inequality – Spatial and digital History Technology – Theory – Urban – Women and Gender – World History Continue reading →