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

Abstracts due: September 15, 2014

In the early decades of women’s and gender history as an academic discipline, feminist historians devoted a lot of time and effort to finding historical sources by and about women and making those sources available to a wider audience. It turned out that women’s absence in the historiography was not primarily due to a lack of sources but was rather a consequence of (mostly male) historians’ conceptual frameworks and assumptions about what counted as “history.”There is currently a strong interest in rethinking archives, both as official institutions and repositories of documents and in the broader sense of collections holding “traces of the past,” sometimes put together with the help of new technologies.[1] Recent publications challenge the older assumption that archives are neutral and fixed repositories of Continue reading →

Hannah-Marie Chidwick, Faculty of Arts, Bristol University: Workshop 2: ‘The Value of Women’s Work: Between the Subjective and the Economic’

Time: 24.-25.10.2014
Venue: Firenze, European University Institute
Abstracts due: 15.07.2014

Women and men attach all kinds of values to the range of activities which they refer to as work. Such subjective evaluations of work are shaped by and exist in tension with cultural representations of work, and the value of work as defined in economic terms and academic and public debate. This workshop focuses on the tensions between individual and public valuations of work, and explores the ways in which the gendered construction of work sheds light on these tensions.

We particularly welcome papers which reach beyond the usual distinctions between economic, social and cultural history. Read more and source …

Organiser: Laura Michele Diener (Department of History, Marshall University)

Time: 10-11 April 2015
Venue: Marshall University in Huntington, WV, USA
Abstracts due: 1 January 2015

This conference addresses, from a multi-disciplinary perspective, the roles, experiences, struggles, and triumphs of women in rural contexts across the world. Our theme is founded in the critique, introduced by feminist scholar Sherry Ortner (1974), of the pervasive view that women are inherently and irrevocably connected to nature. This idea’s corollary is that culture – read as progress, development, technology – is men’s work. But research has increasingly shown that women play a central role, not only in sustaining rural life, but also in the development and economic stability of ever changing rural communities. By examining perspectives on rurality throughout history as well as in the contemporary world — in which it is arguably a declining state — this conference will explore the gendered aspects of rurality and its vicissitudes within the neoliberal, global landscape. Read more and source …

Workshop-Reihe „Junge Perspektiven“ der Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e.V.

Ort: Berlin
Zeit: 10.-11.10. 2014
Einreichfrist: 15.07.2014

Wissenschaft, Technik und Medizin sind wesentlich von der Kategorie Geschlecht durchdrungen und formen umgekehrt auch Geschlecht. Dass Gender als Perspektive und Analysekategorie zur historischen Untersuchung von Wissenschaft, Technik und Medizin unabdingbar dazugehört, ist nach einer ausgeprägten feministischen Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung der 1980er und 1990er Jahre Konsens. Die einschlägigen Werke etwa von Sandra Harding, Londa Schiebinger oder Donna Haraway zählen seitdem zu Klassikern. Zugleich jedoch lässt sich feststellen, dass Gender derzeit nur in wenigen Forschungsarbeiten der … weiterlesen und Quelle