Workshop: Soziale und ökonomische Aspekte des transalpinen Gütertransports. Multiperspektivische Zugänge (Frühe Neuzeit bis 19. Jahrhundert), 07.-09.09.2026, Chur

Institut für Kulturforschung Graubünden (ikg); Forschungsgruppe ALPINNKONNECT, ERC AdG, Univ. Wien (Web)

Zeit: 07.-09.09.2026
Ort: Chur

Im Zentrum des Workshops steht der transalpine Gütertransport. Dieser stellte in der Frühen Neuzeit und bis ins 19. Jhd. eine zentrale soziale und ökonomische Praxis in alpinen und angrenzenden Räumen dar. Infrastrukturen (Wege, Brücken, Saum- und Fuhrwege, Lager- und Umschlagplätze, Zollstationen, Wirtshäuser, Pferdeställe und Hospize) waren dabei ebenso wichtig wie die Praktiken und Aushandlungen der beteiligten Akteur:innen – von lokalen Transportgenossenschaften und Versorgungsdiensten bis zu überregionalen Handels- und Verwaltungszusammenhängen.
Die Referent:innen präsentieren und diskutieren Infrastruktur und Logistik aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven: Wirtschafts- und sozialgeschichtliche Analysen werden mit Zugängen der Umweltgeschichte, der materiellen Kulturforschung sowie mit archivwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven verschränkt. Der geografische Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Schweizer Alpen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Graubünden – im Dialog mit dem ERC-Advanced-Grant-Projekt ALPINNKONNECT.
Ein besonderes Augenmerk gilt methodischen Zugängen, Quellen, Sammlungen und Archiven.

Programm (Web)

Referent:innen und Moderator:innen: Rachele Delucchi (ikg), Simon Teuscher (ikg/Zürich), Florian Andretsch (Wien), Margareth Lanzinger (Wien), Magdalena Gärtner, Sophie Prein und Verena Radner (Wien), Erwin Dirnberger (Andeer) und Senta Herkle (Wien), Riccardo Rossi (Wien), Florian Hitz (Chur), Christof Jeggle (Wien), Jon Mathieu (Luzern/Burgdorf), Joschka Meier (Bern), Sebastian Leitner (Wien), Conradin von Planta (Chur), Dorothea M. Hutterer (München), Maya Zellweger (Winterthur), Alberto Azzi (Tremona), Nicole Stadelmann (St. Gallen), Kurt Gritsch (Zuoz), Matilde Bontognali (Poschiavo), Stefania Bianchi (Mendrisio) und Miriam Nicoli (Chur), Carmen Mair (Innsbruck), Séveric Yersin (Basel)

Quelle: HSozKult (Web)

CfP: A Golden Age? Global Historical Fictions and Political Nostalgia (11/2026, virtual space); by: 01.10.2026

Historical Fictions Research Network (HFRN): Series Editors Global Historical Fictions (Brill), Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir, Jerome de Groot, Dorothea Flothow, Siobhan O’Connor, and Stephanie Russo (Web)

Time: 28.11.2026
Venue: Virtual space
Proposals by: 01.10.2026

Globally, the last years have been dominated by a wide-spread feeling of nostalgia, “a bittersweet longing for former times” (Niemeyer 2014: 1), in which the world still seemed to be ‘better’, safer and more colourful than our tumultuous and fast-changing present (see e.g. Bauman 2017; Gaston & Hilhorst 2018; Jacobsen 2020). This feeling has been traced back to ever-faster technological changes and the accompanying feeling of insecurity, as well as to international developments which have severely affected and undermined the existing world order and international co-operation. The emerging feeling of nostalgia is often connected to a very specific period in the respective national past, a “‘prelapsarian’” Golden Age, a mythic, glorious time when the nation was still great (see Henneböhl 2023: 50). Thus, the US-American MAGA movement repeatedly conjures up images of the post-WWII era, when the US had just won a major war and experienced a period of economic well-being (see Krieg 2016). On the other side of the former East-West divide, in the countries of the former Soviet block, there is also a wide-spread longing for the years of Communism, when the world was presumed safer and more just (see Jeffery & Váradi 2026). In the former GDR, this often takes the form of ‘Ostalgie’; while in Russian politics, cherished memories of the Soviet Union are utilised to justify the war against Ukraine. A third international example can be found in India where President Modi’s policy of Hindu nationalism channels ideas of a glorious period of Hindu rule that preceded conquests by first Muslim and then European invaders (see Jaffrelot & Schoch 2021: ch 1).
These examples highlight problems intrinsic to notions of a national ‘Golden Age’: they can be easily manipulated to political ends as demonstrated by the strategies of contemporary populists, who conflate mythic pasts with conservative or nationalist agendas. This evocation of such imagined pasts often consciously excludes those absent from their perceived flourishings – for example, immigrants, people of colour, women, or men not fitting the martial stereotype often associated with the idea of a Golden Age. Read more … (PDF)

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CfP: The Making of Solidarity: A Conference on Eastern and Central European Dissidents, 1945-1991 (11/2026, Berlin); by: 31.08.2026

Pilecki Institute Berlin; Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe in Wrocław (KEW); Stus Center (Стус Центр) (Web)

Zeit: 16.-17.11.2026
Ort: Pilecki Institute Berlin
Einreichfrist: 31.08.2026

A close reading of Ivan Dziuba’s classic 1965 essay Internationalism or Russification? offers a useful lens through which to understand a distinctive feature of Russian colonialism: its operation not only through discrimination and coercion, but also through the language of brotherhood. Written from within the Soviet system, this insight anticipated questions that postcolonial theory would not fully engage with for decades. It also serves to remind that Eastern and Central European intellectuals were thinking rigorously about imperial power long before postcolonial frameworks entered broader academic discussions of the region. The Making of Solidarity takes this intellectual tradition as its point of departure — not merely as historical background, but as a body of thought that continues to illuminate the present. To do so demands a particular approach to history: one that treats dissident thinking as a form of knowledge production in its own right, and that attends carefully to how the memory of dissidence has itself been shaped — which figures have been canonized, which forgotten, and by what institutional, political, and cultural processes those selections have been made.
The conference challenges the dominant understanding of Eastern European dissidence that took shape in international academia during the Cold War and became further entrenched in the years following 1989. This understanding tended to privilege figures who had already established networks in Paris or London, while overlooking workers and labor activists, as well as religious, national, and cultural communities whose resistance took different, less readily translatable forms. It elevated Russian voices, at times even those inflected with imperial nostalgia, while failing to fully recognize the anti-imperial thought of Ukrainian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, and other dissidents. The Making of Solidarity proposes a reorientation: toward those whose resistance has been harder to recover, and toward what Václav Havel famously described as “the power of the powerless”—the refusal of ordinary people across the full breadth of Eastern and Central Europe to live within a lie.
The conference also marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Polish Workers’ Defense Committee (KOR) in 1976—one of the most consequential initiatives to Continue reading →

CfP: Männlichkeiten, Weiblichkeiten und die Zeitgeschichte der politischen Rechten (02/2027, Bielefeld); bis: 15.10.2026

DFG-Forschungsprojekt „Die bundesdeutsche Rechte und die ‚sexuelle Revolution‘“, Arbeitsbereich Zeitgeschichte an der Univ. Bielefeld, Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin, VW-Forschungsprojekt „Die radikale Rechte in Deutschland, 1945-2000“, Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum und Zeithistorischer Arbeitskreis Extreme Rechte (Web)

Zeit: 24.-26.02.2027
Ort: Bielefeld
Einreichfrist: 15.10.2026

1986 erschien im American Historical Review Joan W. Scotts wegweisender Aufsatz Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis. Seither hat es nicht an programmatischen Aufrufen gefehlt, Geschlecht, seine (Un-)Ordnungen sowie die Spezifika von Weiblichkeiten, Männlichkeiten sowie Sexualitäten und Identitäten auch jenseits des Binären als analytische Kategorien in der zeithistorischen Forschung in den Blick zu nehmen. Zahlreiche innovative Studien und Forschungsprojekte sind daraus hervorgegangen. Zugleich fällt auf, dass die Berücksichtigung von Geschlecht oft additiv verbleibt, den Status einer Zusatzkategorie behält, auf deren Relevanz zu insistieren allzu häufig Aufgabe engagierter Wissenschaftlerinnen bleibt. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich die Frage, wie die Untersuchung von Männlichkeits- und Weiblichkeitskonzeptionen in der Geschichtswissenschaft über eine bloß ergänzende Berücksichtigung hinausgehen kann. Dabei gilt es, Vorstellungen und Konstruktionen von Geschlecht als Strukturprinzip historischer Prozesse, Katalysator politischer Deutungs- und Machtkämpfe sowie als wesentlichen Treiber gesamtgesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen zu analysieren.
Auch wenn diese Fragen die Geschichtswissenschaft insgesamt betreffen, drängt sich ein geschlechteranalytischer Zugriff insbesondere für die zeithistorische Untersuchung der politischen Rechten von konservativen bis hin zu radikalnationalistischen und völkischen Strömungen auf. Denn deren Diskurse sind in hohem Maße durch geschlechterpolitische Semantiken strukturiert. Narrative der radikalen Rechten wie „Gender-Gaga“ oder „Großer Austausch“ sowie pronatalistische Ideologien fungieren nicht nur als zentrale ideologische Bezugspunkte, sondern entfalten eine beeindruckende Anschlussfähigkeit bis in liberale politische Strömungen. Weiterlesen … (PDF)

Quelle: HSozKult (Web)

CfP: Communities of Bodily Care in the Middle Ages (07/2027, Leeds); by: 15.09.2026

Sessions on the International Medieval Congress; Rosalie Gabay Bernheim (London/Jerusalem) and Kerstin Mayerhofer (Vienna) (Web)

Time: 05.-08.07.2027
Venue: Leeds
Proposals by: 15.09.2026

Rosalie Gabay Bernheim (London/Jerusalem) and Kerstin Mayerhofer (Vienna) invite proposals for “Communities of Bodily Care in the Middle Ages,” a series of sessions at the International Medieval Congress.
The sessions will examine bodily care as a collective practice through which medieval communities defined responsibility, belonging, and exclusion. We welcome papers on the social networks surrounding illness, injury, pregnancy, childbirth, disability, ageing, and death, as well as on the circulation of medical and embodied knowledge. Contributions may also consider how care was shaped by gender, religion, status, kinship, or professional authority, and how practices intended to sustain vulnerable bodies could also entail discipline, coercion, surveillance, or control. Comparative, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed approaches are particularly encouraged, including work on under-represented regions, traditions, languages, and communities.

If you are interested in participating in our session(s), please submit a title, an abstract of up to 250 words, a short biography, and your preference for presenting in person or online to mayerhk2[at]univie.ac.at or rosalie.bernheim[at]gmail.com by 15 September 2026.

Source: HSozKult (Web)

CfP: Life Cycles under Socialist Regimes: Managing Gender Relations, Aging, and Health (02/2027, Ljublijana); by: 15.09.2026

Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana; Project „Socialist Management in a Global Context: Technocratic Developments in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, 1955-1991“; Ivan Sablin (Web)

Time: 16.02.2027
Venue: Ljubljana
Proposals by: 15.09.2026

State socialism, as a political and economic system, was one of the major innovations of the twentieth century and became a global phenomenon in its latter half, with socialist regimes emerging across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. State socialism can be understood as a political regime characterized by single-party government, directed modernization under systemic governmentality, and the predominance of state property. From the 1950s onward, socialist governance increasingly embraced the notion that political, economic, and social lives could be organized and governed as closed systems. With the “scientific and technological revolution” integrated into the ideology as a new stage on the path to communism, the accumulation and application of knowledge became a central function of state socialist regimes, while holistic, systemic governmentality turned into a key feature of the ideology. The workshop will explore how socialist states sought to manage human life cycles through scientific knowledge, administrative practices, and institutional interventions. Focusing on gender relations, aging, and health, it will examine these fields as central dimensions of socialist biopolitics and as sites where broader models of governance and technocratic management were developed. Bringing together perspectives from conceptual, institutional, and political history as well as the social sciences, the workshop will investigate how socialist regimes attempted to organize social reproduction, welfare, health, and individual life trajectories between the 1950s and 1991. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the development and implementation of official policies concerning family, gender, demographic change, health, and aging; group and individual responses to official policies; the role of scientific research and expert communities in shaping socialist governance; international cooperation and the circulation of knowledge, expertise, and technologies; and the communication of scientific knowledge to broader publics. We are particularly interested in approaches that examine how scientific and technological visions influenced understandings of the human body, social reproduction, and socialist futures, including the Continue reading →

CfP: Researching Egodocuments in the Twenty-First Century: Opportunities and Challenges (04/2026, Paris); by: 15.10.2026

2nd International Egodocumental Network Conference (Web); Sorbonne Univ., Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. in Toruń, Univ. of Lodz, and Vilnius Univ.; Anna Brzezińska, Hadrian Ciechowski, Michaël Green, Arvydas Pacevičius, and François-Joseph Ruggiu

Time: 07.-09.04.2027
Venue: Sorbonne Univ., Paris
Proposals by: 15.10.2026

Confirmed keynote speakers: James Daybell (Univ. of Plymouth), Paweł Rodak (Univ. of Warsaw/IABA), and Leonieke Vermeer (Univ. of Groningen)

The International Egodocumental Network was created in December 2023 by Hadrian Ciechanowski and Michaël Green, with the goal to promote research into egodocuments and to unite scholars working on and with these kind of texts. It currently unites over one-hundred-and-thirty scholars from Europe, Asia and the Americas, while aiming at serving as a bridge between researchers of different periods and disciplines.
Egodocuments as a research term appeared in the late 1950s, coined by Jacob Presser to denote historical sources which are written by oneself about oneself and containing the particle „I“. Over the years, sources of personal nature once again became more and more prominent in historically oriented research, and became part of the standard choice of sources for other disciplines, such as sociology, literary studies, psychology etc. Competitive and complementary approaches have been developed, such as life-writing (literature), egodocumentality, and then national takes such as écrits du for privé and Selbstzeugnisse, all popularising the research into personal narratives of various kinds.
In 2025 the first International Egodocumental Network Conference, which took place in Vilnius, the main topic was the development of the egodocuments from Medieval codex to modern media (Web). In 2027, for the second IEN conference, we are following in the footsteps of Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, who initiated a discussion on the digitisation of egodocuments in light of the development of the internet in Montpellier in 2002, we are mindful of the implications on historical sources that technological advancements have for researchers. As one of the key elements of the debate at the Paris conference, we would like to discuss research opportunities arising from the emergence of new forms of egodocuments, such as blogs and Continue reading →

CfP: Performing Communities. Regular Canons Between History, Art, and Liturgy (11th-15th Centuries) (07/2027, Leeds); by: 14.09.2026

Sessions on the International Medieval Congress; Cristina Andenna (Univ. des Saarlandes) and Fabio Massaccesi (Univ. of Bologna) (Web)

Time: 05.-08.07.2027
Venue: Leeds
Proposals by: 14.09.2026

Regular canons played a central, yet still insufficiently recognised, role in the religious and institutional history of the Latin Middle Ages. They did not constitute a homogeneous body, but a constellation of communities, networks, and congregations, — from the Mortarians and Portuensians to the canons of the Great St Bernard, the Premonstratensians, and the later Congregations of the Lateran Canons and Windesheim, — united by the common life but distinguished by their customs, institutional structures, pastoral vocations, and patterns of settlement. In connection with “Communities,” the special thematic focus of the 2027 International Medieval Congress, these sessions will explore how communities of regular canons constructed, negotiated, performed, and transmitted their identities between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. Particular attention will be paid to the circulation of rules, ordines, customs, individuals, liturgical practices, architectural models, and works of art across networks of affiliation extending beyond individual foundations.
Bringing together history, liturgical studies, anthropology, art history, and musicology, the sessions will examine canonical life in its historical, social, and material dimensions. They will consider institutions and relationships with wider society alongside the liturgical, spatial, architectural, and artistic forms through which canonical communities organised themselves and made their identities visible. Proposals may address Italy or any other area of the medieval West between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. Comparative studies and contributions combining documentary, normative, and liturgical sources with the analysis of buildings, spaces, and works of art will be especially welcome.
Proposals addressing the following themes will be particularly welcome: … read more (PDF)

Sichtbarkeiten, Zugänge, Netzwerke. Perspektiven feministischer und queerer Wissensorganisation, 01.10.2026, Wien und virtueller Raum

Logo. Aufschrift "thesaurA revisited"frida. Verein zur Förderung und Vernetzung frauenspezifischer Informations- und Dokumentationseinrichtungen in Österreich (Web)

Zeit: 01.10.2026
Ort: Wien und virtueller Raum

1996 präsentierte frida mit der thesaurA den österreichischen Frauenthesaurus (Web). Die Veranstaltung „Sichtbarkeiten, Zugänge, Netzwerke“ knüpft hier an: Am Vormittag stehen feministische und queere Fachvokabulare, Normdaten und Fragen gendergerechter Erschließung im Mittelpunkt. Am Nachmittag stellen sich feministische Archiv- und Bibliotheksnetzwerke sowie Wissensprojekte vor. Am Abend wird gefeiert:

Programm (PDF)

Workshop: Begriffe in Bewegung. Fachvokabulare, Normdaten und gendergerechte Erschließung (Web)
Zeit: 9:30-12:45 Uhr | Ort: virtueller Raum (Link folgt auf der Website)

  • Gerrit Weßel (Homosaurus AG QueerSearch): Der Homosaurus spricht jetzt deutsch. Einblicke in das Übersetzen eines queeren Thesaurus
  • Andrea Gruber (Ariadne, ÖNB): thesaurA vernetzt: Von feministischen Fachvokabularen bis zur Gemeinsamen Normdatei (GND)
  • Judith Coffey (Fachinformationsdienst Gender, UB der HU Berlin): Herausforderungen und Herangehensweisen an eine Weiterentwicklung des GND-Vokabulars aus Sicht der Geschlechterforschung
  • Anke Spille (Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv): Initiativen und Herausforderungen feministischer und queerer Begriffsarbeit

Roundtables: Feminismus sichtbar machen – feministisch sichtbar machen. Netzwerke und Wissensprojekte (Web)
Zeit: 16:00-18:00 Uhr | Ort: C3-Bibliothek für Entwicklungspolitik, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Wien

Feminismus sichtbar machen: Netzwerke

  • Margit Hauser (i.d.a., STICHWORT): i.d.a. Dachverband deutschsprachiger Lesben-/Frauenarchive, -bibliotheken und -dokumentationsstellen
  • Susanne Rettenwander (Literaturarchiv der ÖNB): Netzwerk Archiv und Gender (NAG)
  • Hanna Birnbaum und Sarah Themel (Büchereien Wien): Gendernetzwerk der Büchereien Wien

Feministisch sichtbar machen: Datenbanken und Online-Ressourcen Continue reading →

CfP: GENDER. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft: Offener Teil/free section; by: –

GENDER. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft (Web)

Proposals by: –

Für den Offenen Teil der GENDER. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft laden wir Autor_innen ein, Beiträge aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen einzureichen, in denen sie sich aus theoretischer oder empirischer Perspektive mit den Geschlechterverhältnissen in verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Bereichen auseinandersetzen.
GENDER ist ein interdisziplinäres Forum für die deutschsprachige Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung mit Schwerpunkten in den sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen. Erwünscht sind daher Beiträge aus Politikwissenschaft, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Soziologie, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft, Geschichtswissenschaft, Erziehungswissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte, Psychologie, Religionswissenschaft u. v. m. Zugleich sind auch Fragestellungen aus dem naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Bereich, z. B. aus der Medizin, der Gesundheitswissenschaft, der Ökologie, der Umweltforschung und den Ingenieurwissenschaften, sehr willkommen. Weiterlesen … (PDF)

Version in English
We invite authors from various disciplines to submit contributions that deal with gender relations in various social and cultural areas from a theoretical or empirical perspective to be published in the free section of GENDER. Journal for Gender, Culture and Society.
GENDER is an interdisciplinary forum for German-speaking women‘s and gender studies with a special focus on social and cultural science disciplines. We therefore welcome contributions from political science, film and media studies, sociology, communication science, literary science, history, pedagogics, art history, psychology, religious studies and many more. Furthermore, analyses from natural sciences, technologies, medicine, health studies, ecology and environmental studies as well as engineering are of interest and very welcome.
GENDER is a journal with a focus on a German-speaking audience (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Contributions discuss relevant questions of gender relations in various countries, in part from an international comparative perspective. Non-German speakers are welcome to submit their articles in English. Read more … (PDF)