The Department of History, the Gender Studies Group and the Doctoral Academy in Theory and Methods at the Univ. of Vienna in collaboration with the International Doctoral Network in Women’s and Gender History and with the Gender History Research Center at the Univ. of Naples l’Orientale (PDF)

Venue: Drosendorf (Lower Austria)
Time: July 17-20, 2016
Submission by March 30, 2016 (extended Deadline)

The aim of the conference is to bring together graduate students of history who use gender theories as an important tool of their historical investigations. The category of gender is no longer confined to women’s and gender studies, but has started to influence research and writing in a broad variety of fields: from international relations to envirnmental questions, from body politics to the governance of technology. Depending on the theoretical framework and the field of research, gender as an analytical category is used in very different ways, conceived as performative, as relational, or as intersectional, and, increasingly, as non-binary.

In this workshop we would like to explore the analytical potential of gender in historical research projects which are not mainly concerned with gender theory. We therefore especially invite applications from graduate students who use the concept of gender in one way or another to explore the history of power and institutions … read more (PDF)