Organisation: PD Dr. Sabine R. Huebner; Dr. Ria Berg

Time: 21.-22.11.2013
Venue: Roma, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae („Villa Lante“) Passeggiata del Gianicolo 10, 00165 Roma, Italia
Deadline: 15.07.2013

We propose to study women’s economic role in the domestic sphere focusing on the domestic economy, marriage and family in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine times at a two-day symposium to be held at the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae in Rome, Italy. Themes will include a wide variety of practices that materialize the gendered economies of ancient Mediterranean cultures, from betrothal and dowry practices, material goods in a domestic context, division and maintenance of resources, women’s economic contributions to the household and inheritance and gift giving practices. Read more and Source …

European Association for Urban History (Web)

Time: 03.-06.09.2014
Venue: Lisbon, Nova University
Deadline: 15.10.2013

How do the senses and the public space of the city shape one another? In light of growing scholarly interest in the historical specificities of sensorial experiences in various times and places, this session invites reflection on the ways in which the construction of public space is fundamentally bound up to people’s bodily engagement with the urban environment. Sensing, the action of our eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin is an intimate and personal experience, through which we navigate the world we inhabit. At the same time, sensing is an eminently public phenomenon, the meaning associated with different sights, smells and sounds governed by social and cultural context. Read more …

20. Herbsttagung des Arbeitskreises Historische Demographie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Historischen Institut der FernUniversität in Hagen

Zeit: 01.-02.11.2013
Ort: Hagen
Deadline: 15.07.2013

Die Eheschließung ist ein zentrales Thema der historischen Demographie – aber nicht nur das. Sie spielt eine wichtige Rolle im innerdemographischen Systemzusammenhang von Geburt und Tod, wie ihn die mit dem Modell Louis Henry verbundene „klassische“ Periode der historischen Demographie konzeptualisiert hat. Sie ist aber auch ein zentrales Thema dessen, was Paul-André Rosental als „soziale und politische Bevölkerungsgeschichte“ bezeichnet hat, also eine Geschichte der Bevölkerung, die eben nicht auf einen biologischen, „vitalstatistischen“ Kern reduziert werden kann. Die Eheschließung ist Teil eines Prozesses, der … weiterlesen und Quelle

Dr. Kostis Kornetis, New York University; Dr. Eirini Kotsovili, Simon Fraser University; Dr. Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Humboldt University of Berlin

Deadline: 20.08.2013

We invite scholars to submit abstracts for a proposed volume on the intersection of gender and consumer cultures in Greece, Portugal and Spain from the 1960s to 1980s. The three countries serve as ideal examples for a comparative and, potentially, a transfer analysis, based on similarities with regards to their political and financial conditions as well as to the significant social and cultural changes that occurred in the late period and in the aftermath of the Francoist regime (1936/39–1975), the Estado Novo (1933–1974) and the military dictatorship in Greece (1967–1974). We welcome the contribution of Continue reading →

Area: “They Work Hard for the Money: Gender, Labor, and Livelihood” of multiple panels for the 2013 Film & History Conference on Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen (Web)

Time: November 20-24, 2013
Venue: Madison Concourse Hotel (Madison, WI)
Deadline for abstracts: July 1, 2013

Work and the workplace serve as the context and the focus of countless film and television narratives. In some, who makes money – and how – seems to be taken for granted, while in others it is the central problem. This area seeks submissions that consider the ways in which money, and the work done to earn it, are – or are not – gendered in cinematic and televisual representations.

On television, comic working-class figures such as Continue reading →