CfP: Difficult Conversations: Thinking and Talking About Women, Genders, and Sexualities Inside and Outside the Academy: 17th Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (New York, 06/2017), DL: 15.01.2016

Berkshire Conference on the History of WomenThe 2017 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (Web)

Venue: Hofstra University, Hempstead NY
Time: June 1-4, 2017
Proposals due: January 15, 2016

The organizers interpret the conference’s overarching theme broadly, inviting submissions for an array of engaging and interactive presentations intended to generate conversations across time, fields, methodologies, and geographic borders; across races, classes, sexualities and gender identities; between academic and public historians, activists, artists and performers. They are especially keen to attract participants from around the globe. Read more … (Web)

Themed Tracks

  • Gender and the State: Majorities and Minorities
  • Social Justice, Migration and the City
  • Globalized Labor
  • Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labor
  • Women, Gender and Capitalism

  • Sexualities, Gender Identities and Expressions
  • Women, Gender and Science
  • Pedagogy and Work Culture, K-12
  • Women, Gender and War
  • Refugees, Asylum and Gender
  • Women, Gender and Religion
  • Performance Studies and Visual Culture
  • Politics and Popular Culture
  • Work Cultures/Work Realities: The Academy and Beyond. Read more … (Web)