Silke Antje Kropf, Beáta Márkus und Martina Medolago; Doktoratskolleg für Mitteleuropäische Geschichte (Web)

Zeit: 06.–07.04.2017
Ort: Andrássy Universität Budapest
Einreichfrist: 31.01.2017

Menschen im Mittelpunkt der Forschung – seit den Anfängen der Geschichtsschreibung ist die Figur des Menschen ins Zentrum wissenschaftlichen Interesses gestellt worden. Dies ermöglicht, gesellschaftliche und politische Entwicklungen, kulturelle und ideologische Strömungen sowie Wirtschaftsprozesse anhand von individuellen und kollektiven Biografien zu verstehen. Dieser Prozess ist ableitbar durch die Einbettung des Menschen und damit
seines Lebenslaufes in die Gesellschaft.

Lange galt die biografische Forschung als eine Art „Lai/innenforschung“, doch sie konnte sich schrittweise professionalisieren und schließlich wissenschaftlich etablieren. Heute sind ihre vielzähligen methodischen Ansätze ein wesentlicher Bestandteil sozial- und geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung. Wenn auch der Moment der Zufäll igkeit noch immer für Kritik sorgen mag, so sind doch die Erkenntnisse, die aus der Biografieforschung gewonnen werden, für die … weiterlesen (PDF)

Genre & Histoire 22 (Fall 2018) (Web); Editors: Charles-François Mathis and Florence Tamagne

Proposals by: 15 January 2017

Although environmental history and gender history have both revitalized historical studies, they have for a long time followed different paths, that only crossed at the end of the 1980s, particularly in the work of Carolyn Merchant. Two decades later, the assessment made by Nancy Unger is mitigated: even though researches combining the two approaches have been more numerous, gender still remains quite marginal to the historiography of environmental history; when it is taken into consideration, the approach is often essentialist, the limits of which have been demonstrated by Melissa Leach and Cathy Green in a seminal article. Moreover, this dual approach is mostly due to an Anglo-Saxon, or even American, historiography, whereas European studies remain relatively scarce, at least in history – they tend on the contrary to multiply in sociology, psychology or philosophy. Genesis has been one of the first journals to publish a special issue in 2013 on “Women and men in environmental history”, dealing with the role of women in nature preservation, with a gender representation of the land, with … read more and source (Web).

Rural History 2017 Conference, Panel-Organiser: Juri Auderset, Archiv für Agrargeschichte, Bern, Switzerland

Time: 11-14 September 2017
Venue: Leuven, Belgium
Proposals by: 15 January 2017

The “Alcohol Question” as it came to be called in the second half of the 19th century had multiple ramifications in the culture and society of rural spaces throughout the European continent and beyond. Alcohol was closely linked to agricultural production since the bulk of the overall fabrication of spirits derived from agricultural products such as grain, potatoes, fruits and wood. Moreover, the “symbolic crusade” (J.R. Gusfield) against excessive drinking emerging in temperance movements in the mid-19th century not only focused on the drinking cultures of the industrial proletariat, but also the modes of consumption in the rural population. While the regulatory interventions of states and civil societies took on a great variety of forms – from taxation over monopolies to policies of prohibition and the support of the use of non-distilled agricultural products (e.g. apple juice) – at different times in different surroundings, the alcohol policies at all times had to consider the various interrelations between the agricultural production and the drinking cultures in rural societies. Read more and source … (Web)

Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Centre d’étude des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (CERCEC) (PDF)

Venue: Paris
Time: 15-16 September 2017
Proposals by: 31 January 2017

The organizers are inviting papers for this international workshop that aims to gather scholars working on socialist masculinities in Central and Eastern Europe. The main objectives are to reconsider the state of the art and discuss new ways for writing a history of masculinities under socialism. The organizers wish to engage in a transdisciplinary discussion, involving historians, sociologists, anthropologists, demographers, art historians, political scientists, and scholars from neighbouring fields of research. The central questions of the workshop are:

• Which role were men and fathers to play in the construction of a „new“ socialist family?
• How where masculinities transformed in socialist movements and state-socialist countries?

The workshop is interested, on the one hand, in the ideologies and the utopian reflexions of the place of men in a future communist society. On the other hand, it aims at questioning the everyday life of socialist men and fathers, as well as the everyday life of men and fathers living under socialism. Read more … (PDF)

The European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) (Web)

Venue: ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest
Time: 30.-02.09.2017
Proposals by: 31.01.2017

The state, as we have come to know it, is very much a 19th-century creation. After poverty, ill health was the dominant social issue targeted by the interventions of emerging -states. Following the principle of the fair allocation of resources to meet basic social and economic needs, many countries introduced collective funding of health care in the 19th century. National healthcare systems came to epitomise the principle that all citizens have an equal right to health and that costs should be shared equitably. At the end of WWII, the WHO defined health as a universal human right. In the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), it was proclaimed that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including medical care”. Over the course of the 20th century, health and disease have become a matter of direct concern for the state. As an aspect of democratic citizenship, the provision of medical care is not considered a favour, but a civil right guaranteed by the state. Read more and source … (Web)

Zentrum Moderner Orient (Web)

Ort: Zentrum Moderner Orient, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin
Time: 27.–29.09.2017
Einreichfrist: 15.01.2017

The ‘New Man’, here, is understood to encompass a plethora of theoretical constructs as well as social projects closely linked to aspirations of ‘progress’, modernity and so-cial utopias (or dystopias) that were characteristic of the end of the 19th and the earlier part of the 20th centuries. It was, however, not a ‘Western’ idea but can be said to have evolved simultaneously in different regions of the world where people were grappling with their own visions of possible futures. The ‘New Man’ was the idealized type of personality that could be created by way of a deliberate and planned social process.

The (historically overloaded) term ‘New Man’ was not always explicitly used and had certainly fallen out of fashion by the second half of the 20th century. We have nevertheless opted to use it for this later period as well since the need for large-scale social engineering and the creation of the right type of citizen remained, and occupied a prominent position in late colonial and post-colonial nation-building projects. The methods, goals and relevant categories were transformed but also exhibit continuities that make a comparative exploration worthwhile. Read more … (PDF)