Monthly Archives: Juni 2020

CfP: Behind the Scenes of the City: The Hidden, the Forbidden, the Forgotten (Event, 11/2020, Stockholm); by: 17.08.2020

Project „Gendered Spaces: Multidimensional Walks in Urban History“ (Web)

Time: 18.-19.11.2020
Venue: Stockholm City Museum
Proposals by: 17.08.2020

Heritage institutions are gateways to past eras, lost places and vanished experiences. Yet at the same time they embody power, permeated with the desire to classify the world. Today we stress the democratic dimension of what archives and collections can tell us, and who can access history. Collaboration between academies, archives and museums, along with wide-ranging digitalisation programmes and a growing awareness of lost perspectives, illustrate the opportunities and challenges we face when narrating urban history. How can we reach behind the scenes of the city?

As part of the project Gendered Spaces: Multidimensional Walks in Urban History the organizers invite to a dialogue on hidden and forgotten facets of the urban past, and on the art of uncovering and disseminating aspect of a problematic or proscribed nature.

  • Keynote speaker: Beatriz Colomina (Princeton School of Architecture and Founding Director of the interdisciplinary Media and Modernity Program, Princeton University)

The organizers welcome proposals for papers and sessions that discuss new perspectives on urban spaces and different ways of researching collections and archives:

  • Gender perspectives and the multidimensional layers of urban spaces
  • Collaborations between researchers and cultural heritage institutions
  • Metadata use and digitization as a way to make hidden history visible and searchable
  • New ways to mediate the history of the city
  • Samples of exciting unexplored material from archives and collections

Read more … (Web)

CfP: Arbeitsam arbeits/arm in Geschlechterverhältnissen (ca. 1680-2000) (Event, 11/2020, Wien); bis – neuer Termin: 15.08.2020

14. Workshop des Forschungsschwerpunkts Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte der Hist.-Kulturwiss. Fakultät der Univ. Wien

In Kooperation mit dem Institut für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes (IGLR) (Web) und fernetzt. Junges Forschungsnetzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte (Web); Organisator/innen: Jessica Richter und Tim Rütten

Ort: Universität Wien
Zeit: neuer Termin: 06.11.2020
Einreichfrist – neuer Termin: 15.08.2020, Call for Papers als PDF

Der Workshop fragt nach historischen und aktuellen Ausgestaltungen, Bedingungen und Handlungsweisen in geschlechterhierarchisch strukturierten Arbeitskontexten. Dabei wollen wir vorläufig keine Definition von Arbeit liefern, sondern historische Vorstellungen, Einteilungen, Praktiken und Ausgestaltungen von Arbeit selbst zum Untersuchungsgegenstand machen.

Seit Jahrzehnten kämpfen Feminist*innen gegen Geschlechterungleichheit und -diskriminierung in Arbeit, Beschäftigung und in sozialstaatlichen Sicherungssystemen an. Aber nach wie vor werden Frauen in ihren Erwerbsarbeitsverhältnissen Männern gegenüber benachteiligt. So sind die arbeitsbezogenen Ansprüche, die Frauen an den Staat geltend machen können, geringer als jene von Männern und sie sind häufiger von Armut betroffen. Dazu trägt bei, dass viele ihrer Tätigkeiten bis heute kaum als Arbeit anerkannt werden. Dies äußert sich beispielsweise in den schlecht entlohnten und häufig informellen Beschäftigungsverhältnissen im Haushalt oder in haushaltsnahen Bereichen.

Arbeitsam arbeits/arm verweist daher sowohl auf die Prekarität als auch die vielfache Minderbewertung von ‚weiblich‘ konnotierten Tätigkeitsbereichen, die so arbeitsintensiv wie gesellschaftlich notwendig sind. Diese Bewertungen sind eng mit Geschlechterverhältnissen verschränkt, die sich mit anderen Formen und Verhältnissen sozialer Ungleichheit (z. B. Rassismus, Alter, Körper, Klasse) überkreuzen.

  • Wie wurde bzw. wird Ungleichheit zwischen Männern und Frauen in Arbeitskontexten re/produziert, gefestigt oder verändert?
  • Wie veränderte sich die Bewertung von Tätigkeiten, wenn sie vermehrt von Frauen bzw. von Männern ausgeführt wurden?
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Workshop: Sinnesräume. Sensory Studies and Spatial Concepts: Schall (aus)messen, Grenzen (er)tasten, Gerüche (ein)ordnen, Zeiten (ab)schmecken …, 24.-25.09.2020, Innsbruck

Ellinor Forster, Univ. Innsbruck und Regina Thumser-Wöhs, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz (Web)

Ort: Universität Innsbruck, Theologische Fakultät
Zeit: 24.-25.09.2020
Der Workshop greift die Idee einer Untersuchung der Sinne in bestimmten Räumen auf, versteht diese Räume allerdings nicht als vordefinierte Containerräume, sondern fragt danach, wie Raum durch die Sinne konstruiert wird. In Anlehnung an Martina Löw wird untersucht, welche Rolle die Sinne sowohl bei der „relationalen (An)Ordnung von Lebewesen und sozialen Gütern“ (Spacing) als auch bei der Syntheseleistung spielen, durch die Menschen über Wahrnehmungs-, Vorstellungs- oder Erinnerungsprozesse Güter und Menschen zu Räumen zusammenfassen.
Die Beiträge beziehen sich auf das Sehen, Hören, Riechen, Schmecken und Tasten im Raum, darauf also, wie Raum durch die Wahrnehmung konstruiert und mit Wissensbeständen verknüpft wird. Dabei spielen sowohl Farben und Symbole wie auch die Klassifizierung von Geräuschen und Gerüchen eine Rolle. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf dem Zusammenspiel mehrerer Sinne. Häufig handelt es sich bei solchen Beschreibungen um Ausnahmesituationen, wie etwa den Beginn einer Revolution, das Erleben einer angstbesetzten oder ungewöhnlichen Situation, doch lassen sich auch „Alltagssituationen“ auf diese Fragen hin untersuchen, wenn etwa alltägliche Geräusche oder monotone Szenerien beschrieben wurden.
Programm
Donnerstag, 24.09.2020

  • 9.00 Uhr: Ankunft und Kaffee
  • 9.15 Uhr: Begrüßung und Einführung: Ellinor Forster und Regina Thumser-Wöhs
  • 9.40 Uhr: Keynote: Der Krieg und die Sinne: Vom Ersten zum Zweiten Weltkrieg: Robert Jütte (Stuttgart)

11.00 Uhr: Panel I: Städtische (Krisen)Wahrnehmung

Klicktipp and A Call to „Cook“: Historians Cooking the Past (Portal)

Historians Cooking the Past in the Time of COVID-19 (Web)

A few weeks ago, feminist historians Stacey Zembrzycki, Cassandra Marsillo, Margo Shea, Erin Jessee and Kate Preissler from Canada, Massachusetts and Scotland called for historical recipes to be collected.

Including a personal narrative, the recipes are presented online on the site „Historians cooking the past“. In the meantime the website has filled up very well. Very often the topic „change of location“ also plays a role (Web).

Description: „COVID-19 has brought so many of us into a new sort of relationship–fraught or otherwise—with cooking and food. We’ve been thinking a lot about how others have faced public and personal catastrophes, distance (social and otherwise), as well as scarcity and all of the anxieties that come with these experiences. We are struck by the way the coronavirus brings us together as a global community even as it separates us into the smallest iteration of „family“ units. At the same time, we have found ourselves cooking and looking to the past for comfort, models, and inspiration to move forward.

In this vein, we have issued a call to cook, asking scholars as well as storytellers throughout the world to share a food memory and a recipe that reflects on these COVID-19 times. By „cooking the past,“ we mean two things. First, we are dedicated to exploring our own compulsion to draw on familiar recipes in these troubled times. Also, „cooking,“ as in „playing with“ or „altering,“ reflects our creative efforts to both rethink and reframe our own engagements with stories of loss, community, family, and food heritages. While some posts will be nostalgic, paying homage to a simpler time, we also welcome those that offer an edgy perspective on the politics of this moment and how it may be viewed as an important break with the past. If re-envisioning how we address homelessness, food insecurity, healthcare, education, and other social issues moving forward, through story and food memories, means not including a recipe, know that our framework is completely flexible.

This improv and temporary project, as well as our call to cook, is available at the website. If you are inspired, please consider making a contribution to the project. Our hope is to understand this pandemic through storytelling, while also documenting the particular challenges we are all facing through varied international perspectives. Regardless, please follow along as we try to understand this evolving situation as a community of storytellers, and perhaps cook and share a recipe to our kitchen.“

Klicktipp: Larissa Borck: John Lind: An Early Drag Icon (Weblogpost)

Larissa Borck via Europeana Common Culture (Web)

„‘Every man can learn the art of being a beautiful woman,’ said John Lind, one of the most successful female impersonators in the early 20th century. He became one of Sweden’s most famous stars in international show business, playing effortlessly with society’s norms about gender and sex.

Coming from a small town in Sweden, John Lind advanced to a regular guest on stages across the world, from the Moulin Rouge in Paris and the Colosseum in London to the Broadway in New York. This career in the performing arts made him – born as John Lindström in Vissefjärda in 1877 – an early 20th century star, touring across Europe, the Americas and Africa. John Lind was attracted by standing on the stage and performing for his audience for his entire life.

Growing up and going to school in Karlskrona, he organised and took part in theatre plays. His group soon earned some money with entrance fees. When a theatre director travelled through Karlskrona, she saw him perform and recommended him to the Tivoli in Stockholm. When he left Karlskrona, at the age of 17, the local newspaper wrote: ‘Already as a young boy, L. has shown great attraction to the theatre and has performed successfully with several performances. […] Lindström is now planning to travel to the capital to become a stage artist, a career for which he seems to have a natural talent and invincible passion.’“ Read more … (Web)

Klicktipp: The James Gardiner Collection: Victorian Dragqueens (Portal and Weblogpost)

Europeana (Web)

Two years ago writer and journalist Neil McKenna introduced an album of Victorian-era photographs in a short weblog entry on Europeana (Web).

This extraordinary album is part of the James Gardiner Collection. On Europeana you can see all leaves of the album – they are completely available online here. The release  took place on the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the highlight of LGBT+’s 2018 proud month (Web).

The James Gardiner Collectionis part of the rich queer heritage of the Wellcome Collection (Web).

James Gardiner is a researcher and author who specializes in collecting historical photographs depicting what he calls ‘gay life’.

In an interview – already in 1997 – for „Intependend“ he said the following: „Seeing is believing. Written history can document and argue, fiction can evoke and describe, artists can give us vivid re-interpretations; but only the camera can provide us with proof. More than 150 years of proof that, whatever the official history books may say, whatever your mother told you, whatever the tabloids pedalled as the truth either in 1895 or 1995, we were there. Flirting, posing, kissing, dragging up, stripping off, holding hands, getting caught and (more often) getting away with it.

What makes a photograph gay? How can you have a photographic history of something that was, until very recently, something to hide, not photograph? …“ Read more (Web).

 

CfP: Exclude to Include. Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools, their Participants and Processes during the 19th and 20th Centuries (Event: 11/2020, Münster); by: 15.07.2020

Felicity Jensz, Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics and Daniel Gerster, Department of History, The University of Münster, Germany

Venue: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Time: 05.-06.11.2020
Proposals by: 15.07.2020

Since the 19th century, many countries have striven for universal education as a means to ’shape‘ people into loyal and obedient citizens; a process which can be seen as part of ’social engineering‘. One particular form of education is the boarding school. Various forms of boarding schools existed: from ‚elite‘ institutes providing the offspring of high-class people an education and consolidating the social status of the pupil, to boarding schools for indigenous children in (former) settler colonies in which an European episteme was forced upon the pupils. A commonality within the broad spectrum of boarding schools was the assumption that through the isolation from some aspects of society, such as parents or peers, pupils would be molded into subjects that would easily be assimilated into a section of society that their education ‚prepared‘ them for.

This conference (and resulting publication) aims to understand the mechanisms and outcomes of boarding and residential schools in the socialization of children and youth during the 19th and 20th centuries from different backgrounds, social status, age, gender, nationality, religiosity, and ethnicity within a global perspective.

The primary focus of the conference will be on the participants of boarding and residential schools, and the social and/or pedagogical processes resulting in inclusion and/or exclusion. The organizers are particularly interested in analyzing processes such as those: which led to the participation of teachers and pupils in schooling; or, the shaping of instruction by headmasters, politicians, or parents; or, the manipulation of educational environments to suit participants’ needs; as well as those processes that facilitated the resisting of the imposed episteme and/or material constructs. Building from the focus upon individuals, the organizers will examine through historical examples to what extent the processes of exclusive inclusion succeeded/failed in practice. In this regard, thea are particularly interested in how daily practices and personal experiences corresponded with or differed from normative concepts of … read more and source (Web).

Klicktipp: BOLSA – Die Bonner Längsschnittstudie des Alterns (Portal) // Webinar zur Eröffnung des Webportals: „Alte Liebe rostet nicht …“, 07.07.2020, virtueller Raum

BOLSA: Die Bonner Längsschnittstudie des Alterns. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg  (Web): Katrin Moeller, Historisches Datenzentrum Sachsen-Anhalt und Christina von Hodenberg, DHI London

Zeit: 07.07.2020, ab 11:00 Uhr
Ort: Virtueller Raum (via Halle) (Link)

Bei ihrer Suche nach historischen Quellen zur Altersforschung stieß die Historikerin Christina von Hodenberg im Jahr 2014 auf zahlreiche Akten und Tonbänder der Bonner Längsschnittstudie des Alterns (BOLSA).

Fast zwanzig Jahre lang, von 1965 bis 1984, erforschte ein Team um Hans Thomae und Ursula Lehr Fragen des Alterns und von Alternsprozessen durch individuelle Befragungen. Ihr Ansatz war 1964/65 sehr innovativ: Längsschnittstudien wurden vornehmlich mit jungen Menschen durchgeführt. Thomae und Lehr übertrugen das Modell jedoch in die Altersforschung und initiierten damit eine der bedeutendsten Längsschnittstudien überhaupt.

Im Mittelpunkt standen psychologische Forschungsthemen zur Analyse erfolgreicher Formen des Alterns und von Faktoren der Langlebigkeit. Ursprünglich integrierte die Studie insgesamt 222 Teilnehmer/innen. Ausgewählt wurden zu fast gleichen Teilen Frauen und Männer aus zwei Alterskohorten der zwischen 1890-1895 sowie 1900-1905 Geborenen.

Während sich die erste Alterskohorte zu Beginn der Studie bereits im Ruhestand befand, stand die zweite kurz vor dem Eintritt in das Rentenalter. Beide Gruppen hatten entweder als Kinder oder junge Erwachsene den Ersten Weltkrieg und als handelnde Generation den zweiten Weltkrieg erlebt. Gezielt wurden nicht nur auch Frauen in die Stichprobe einbezogen – 1964 gehörte dies noch nicht überall zum Standard – sondern vor allem Menschen aus den unteren Mittelschichten gefunden.

Die Resultate des großen, interdisziplinär angelegten Forschungsteams überzeugten nicht nur die Wissenschaft, sondern … weiterlesen (Web)

CfP: Simone de Beauvoir Studies (Journal); by: 31.12.2020

Simone de Beauvoir Studies (SdBS) (Web)

Proposals by: 31.12.2020

Simone de Beauvoir Studies is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing scholarship relevant to the writings, thinking, and legacy of Simone de Beauvoir. Founded in 1983, the journal aims to cultivate outstanding scholarship within and across relevant disciplines and promote international and cross-cultural exchange.

SdBS places particular emphasis on recognizing diverse social, cultural, and disciplinary receptions of Beauvoir’s thought and on featuring cutting-edge approaches to the investigation of her oeuvre. SdBS is published by Brill on behalf of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society. Articles are published in English or French.

SdBS seeks submissions of scholarly articles as well as submissions of creative, journalistic, experimental, and autobiographical writing that bring new and underexplored disciplines, discourses, cultures, and ideas into conversation with Beauvoir’s legacy.

Submissions need not treat Beauvoir’s writings directly as long as they speak to a central theme in her work such as gender studies, global politics, existentialism, and literary theory.

„Question: What do all of these writers have in common: Annie Ernaux, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Yvette Roudy, Julia Kristeva, Sylvie Chaperon, Margaret A. Simons, Michèle Le Doeuff, Ingrid Galster, Sonia Kruks, Danièle Fleury, Debra Bergoffen, Ursula Tidd, Susan Bainbrigge, Claudine Monteil, Eva Lundgren-Gothlin, Éliane Lecarme-Tabone, Gail Weiss, Deirdre Bair, Alice Caffarel-Cayron, Dominique Desanti, Françoise d’Eaubonne, Tove Pettersen, Annlaug Bjørsnøs, Hazel Rowley, Denis Charbit, Germaine Brée, and Hazel E. Barnes?

Answer: They have all published in Simone de Beauvoir Studies. Join the list! Enlarge the list!“ Continue reading →

CfP: Women on the Move: Gender and Migration in the Early Modern Period (Event, 04/2021, Dublin); by: 01.08.2020

67th Annual Renaissance Society of America Meeting, 2021 (Web)

Venue: Dublin, Ireland
Time: 07.-10.04.2021
Proposals by: 01.08.2020

Although globalization is thought to be a recent phenomenon, the early modern period saw an intense uptick in global migration, specifically within the European continent and throughout the Atlantic World. This panel seeks to explore the ways in which women navigated this newly global system through structures of voluntary and forced migration for a variety of religious, social, and economic reasons. Women migrated as wives, laborers, missionaries, indentured servants, and enslaved persons. This panel especially seeks proposals that are committed to interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches that are historically sensitive and theoretically innovative. In analyzing the specific ways early modern women’s gender affected their experience of migration in the Atlantic world, this panel broadens the conversation of early modern globalization.

Paper topics might include but are not limited to:

  • Women’s travel writings
  • The intersection of religion, gender, and migration
  • Gender, travel and migration in the early modern imagination
  • The limits of women’s travel or migration
  • Conceptions of travelling, gender, and „the Other“ in the early modern world
  • Migration and gender in the context of emerging settler colonial systems
  • Migration as a mode of increased globalization
  • Migration, colonialization, and the early modern economy

Please send a CV, a presentation title, and a 150-word abstract to the session organizer Kelly Douma Kaelin (ked17@psu.edu). In addition, please detail any A/V requirements that you expect to have. Continue reading →