Carola Bebermeier, Dr. Gesa Finke

Zeit: 04.-05.04.2014, Köln
Ort: Hochschule für Musik & Tanz Köln
Deadline: 16.12.2013

Die Entwicklungen in der Biographieforschung verliefen parallel zur programmatischen Entwicklung der Geschlechtergeschichte. Ihre Perspektiven sind ähnlich, nämlich vor allem „über den Aspekt der Konstruktion verknüpft“, wie Anita Runge konstatiert. Biographien stellen Interpretationen eines gelebten Lebens dar, und sind ähnlich wie Geschlechtermodelle und -identitäten das „Ergebnis sozialer und diskursiver Praxis“ (Runge). Trotz ähnlicher Ansätze in Biographie- und Geschlechterforschung gibt es bisher wenig reflektierte konzeptionelle Ansätze und theoretische Konzepte zum Thema „Biographie und Geschlecht“. Aus diesem Grund fand 2011 … weiterlesen und Quelle

Imre József Balázs, Tamás Scheibner (Web)

Time: 13.-14.06.2014
Venue: Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Horea 31
Deadline: 20.12.2013

Central to the Soviet experiment was the refashioning of man into what had often been referred to as the Homo Sovieticus. In the past decades, a growing body of new scholarship has focused on this very concept, tracking its origins in Russian political thought, cultural history, and aesthetics. Studies of comparative scope have generally confined themselves to considering the parallels and differences between the Soviet and Nazi/Fascist human engineering practices within the realms of Totalitarianism Studies, or the relation of the Soviet case to the Chinese and Cuban cases. Little attention has been paid yet in this context to the Eastern and Central European countries which were closely integrated into the Soviet sphere of interest after the Second World War. This interdisciplinary conference aims to fill this gap of scholarship. Read more and Source (Web)

IFRWH – International Federation for Research in Women’s History (Web)

Time: August 27-29, 2015
Location: Jinan, China
Deadline: 1 March 2014

The next IFRWH conference will be held alongside the CISH conference (Web)

Topics of the IFRWH–panel:

• main theme ‚Women and Modernity
• sub-theme ‚Retrieving women’s histories from small archives / recently uncovered collections‘
• sub-theme ‚Resistant subjectivities‘

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Workshop at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC

Venue: Washington DC
Time: April 25-26, 2014
Convener: Reinhild Kreis (GHI)
Deadline: December 20, 2013

Do-it-yourself-activities as they emerged by the turn of the 20th century both connect and blur the categories of production and consumption, work and leisure, experts and amateurs. Instead of hiring professionals or buying ready-made items, parts of society engaged in the maintenance, improvement, make-over, and design of their homes, cars, clothing, or radios during their free time, increasingly supported by an ever-growing do-it-yourself-industry. The workshop takes this phenomenon as a starting point for investigating preferences in the employment of time, money, and material resources as they reflect changing living conditions, lifestyles, Continue reading →