The 2010 AHA meeting will be held January 7-10, in San Diego, CA. Click here for the general cfp. Salon 21 presents a summary from gender/women-specific cfps (noticed at H-WOMEN@H-NET.MSU.EDU):

Summary

1) Society for the Study of Early Modern Women: CfP on topics relating to women and gender in the early modern world, Deadline: January 20

2) Society for the Study of Early Modern Women: CfP for the special Session on the theme of „Women and Entrepreneurship in the early modern World“ (Deadline ?)

3) Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE), Deadline: February 15, 2009

4) Tonia M. Compton, Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: CfP on topics focused on the the allotment of reservation lands to native women under the 1887 Dawes Act and its 1891 revisions, Deadline: February 1, 2009

5) Alison M. Parker, Department of History, SUNY Brockport: CFP: Possibilities and Limits of Biography in Comparative Perspective (Deadline ?)

Descriptions

1 + 2)

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW) regularly co-sponsors a session at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.
Proposals for co-sponsored sessions on topics relating to women and gender in the early modern world are due to Prof. Amy Froide at froide#umbc.edu by Jan. 20, 2009. This year, SSEMW will be organizing a Special Session on the theme of „Women and Entrepreneurship in the early modern World“.

This session will examine female entrepreneurs in business and trade, as well as in less conventional fields including the arts, science, medicine, philanthropy,and religion. Interested participants should contact Amy Froide at froide#umbc.edu by mid-January 2009.

Amy M. Froide
Associate Professor of History
Bearman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
Department of History University of Maryland-Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250

3)

The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) co-sponsors panels with the AHA and the OAH at their annual meetings. It also sponsors independent panels at both meetings. The 2010 AHA meets in San Diego, January 7-10, 2010; the OAH meets in Washington, D.C., April 7-10, 2010. For both the AHA and OAH, the deadline for proposing panels is February 15, 2009.

Those who propose panels to the OAH or AHA program committees may have SHGAPE co-sponsor panels if you send a copy of the complete proposal to the SHGAPE Program Committee by the February 15 deadline. When appropriate, the SHGAPE Program Committee will then request co-sponsorship.

It is also possible to propose independent SHGAPE panels as an affiliated society at the AHA and at the OAH. Our own deadline for proposing panels to both organizations is April 15, 2009. To have your panel considered as part of SHGAPE’s program, send a complete copy of the proposal to the Program Committee at the address below, by e-mail with attachment.

The SHGAPE Program Committee will be happy to assist members in organizing and proposing sessions on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Please contact:
Maureen Flanagan, Chair SHGAPE Program Committee
Department of History
406D Morrill Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
flanaga6#msu.edu

4)

Colleagues, I would like to put together a panel for the 2010 AHA meeting in San Diego. My paper focuses on the the allotment of reservation lands to native women under the 1887 Dawes Act and its 1891 revisions. I argue that under this law native women were given greater property rights than any other category of women had previously been extended under previous federal law. I also consider the impact of allotment on native women by examining Nez Perce women, their interaction with Alice Fletcher during the allotment process, and their selection of land for themselves and their children, and subsequent land use. The theme for the conference is Oceans, Islands, Continents. The panel could develop in many different ways, though I am particularly interested in exploring issues of citizenship and empire during the era of westward expansion in North America. To that end, I would be particularly interested in papers that deal with Canada or Mexico, and that also consider issues of gender and race. The deadline for proposal submissions is February 15. If you are interested in participating in this panel, please email me off-list at tcompton2#unl.edu by February 1.

Tonia M. Compton, Instructor & Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

5)

CFP: Possibilities and Limits of Biography in Comparative Perspective

We are interested in putting together a roundtable discussion or a panel for the January 2010 American Historical Association convention, which is meeting in San Diego, California, on the possibilities and limits of biography (including the limits of sources). We are particularly interested in seeing proposals from African or Chinese historians/biographers.

Kathleen Sheldon will discuss her research on Sylvia Thankful Eddy, a nurse with the Near East Relief in eastern Turkey, based at an American mission hospital at Aintab. Eddy kept a diary during 1919-1920, her first years abroad, when she found herself in the middle of a conflict between Turkish and French forces and witnessed the continuing effects of Turkish persecution of Armenians. Her story illuminates the complicated alliances of an American woman working abroad at the intersection of various national, ethnic, and religious communities who were in conflict with each other. Sheldon will focus on how she learned more about Eddy, and how what she learned countered her initial ideas about Eddy’s life.

Alison Parker will focus on her work on a biography of Mary Church Terrell, the first president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs in 1896 and a founder of the NAACP. While some biographies pose questions about how to reconstruct a life with a relative dearth of sources, Terrell presents the opposite problem. There is almost an overabundance of sources. Parker connects what she has discovered in Terrell’s diaries to her activism and political thought and will discuss how she is making sense of Terrell’s cryptic diaries to reveal more about Terrell’s personal life (which is relatively unknown).

If you would like to participate in this biography panel, please contact
Kathie Sheldon at ksheldon#ucla.edu
or Alison Parker at aparker#brockport.edu

Alison M. Parker
Associate Professor
Department of History
SUNY Brockport
aparker#brockport.edu