International Society for Cultural History

Venue: Trieste, Italy
Time: 18 to 22 July 2016
Proposals due: 15.01.2016

The conference will be open to host papers and panels designed to address general questions of cultural history, particularly if meant to engage with methodological issues of wide interest and/or discuss the state and future of this area of research.

The perspective of gender studies and the study of generations developed in remarkably different cultural and historiographical contexts. However, in the current state of cultural studies, which is characterized by a marked interdisciplinary profile, they share the function of drawing attention to the fact that every subject is positioned, in a relationship that represents his/her ‘status’ and social and historical ‘quality’.

By focusing on the terms gender and generations (as distinct categories and reference fields or else as a particularly complex binomial) the conference invites to investigate, from a cultural history perspective, specific factors in the development and processing of identities. Read more and source … (Web)