Conference: Women’s Bodies, Women’s Rights. Health Feminism, Reproductive Knowledge and Women’s Activism Across Europe in the long 20th Century, 19.-21.10.2023, Konstanz

Anne Kwaschik (Univ. of Konstanz) (Web), Isabel Heinemann (Univ. of Bayreuth), Emeline Fourment (Univ. of Rouen), and Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder Institute Marburg)

Time: 19.-21.10.2023
Venue: Konstanz
Registration by: 01.10.2023

The conference aims at exploring health feminism and women’s activism from the perspective of the history of knowledge. It intends to interrogate the homogeneity of the existing Western European narratives focusing on the 1970s and on the argument that North America was the hub of knowledge transfer to the rest of the world. Against this background, this conference focuses on other transnational transfers, from Europe to the US, or within Europe and asks participants to reconsider periodization.

Sections: Health knowledge as a source of women’s empowerment | Knowledge transfer across borders and times | Transnational encounters as sites of knowledge transfer | Women’s health activism between grassroot movements and the state | Women’s health activism and technologies of reproductive control

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Ausstellungseröffnung: Protest! … in Graz von 1945 bis heute, 04.10.2023, Graz

Graz Museum (Web)

Zeit: 04.10.2023, 18.00 Uhr
Ort: Graz Museum Sackstraße
Laufzeit: 05.10.2023-14.04.2024

Fridays for Future, Corona, „Klimakleber“ – ein Blick in die Medien zeigt, dass Proteste, in welcher Form auch immer, die Schlagzeilen füllen. Graz ist hier keine Ausnahme. Einerseits zeigen sich internationale Protestbewegungen und Protestformen auch in der steirischen Landeshauptstadt, andererseits gibt es wiederum lokale Anliegen, die zu Graz-spezifischen Protesten führen.
Die Ausstellung „Protest!“ geht der Vielfältigkeit und Kreativität nach, mit der sich Menschen Gehör verschafften und verschaffen. Der historische Fokus liegt dabei auf der Zeit nach 1945 und zieht sich bis in die Gegenwart: Welche Themen haben Proteste in Graz hervorgebracht und was haben sie bewirkt? Gibt es eine Grazer Protestkultur und wie ist diese mit der zeitgenössischen Kunst verbunden? Welche Formen des Protests finden sich früher und heute? Und wie könnte zukünftiger Protest aussehen?

Die Ausstellung folgt der neuen Ausrichtung des Graz Museums: Sie bietet Möglichkeiten zur Partizipation mit Mitmachstationen für die Besucher*innen. Und es gibt Raum für das Einbringen von eigenen (Protest-)Erfahrungen.

Idee: Sibylle Dienesch | Kurator*innen: Bernhard Bachinger und Annette Rainer | Projektleitung: Vanessa Bednarek | Kuratorische Assistenz: Martin Hammer | Kulturvermittlung: Karoline Boehm | Einfache Sprache: Angela Fink | Ausstellungsgestaltung und -grafik: Benedikt Haid, Lena Michalik und Michael Moser

Lecture: Christina Lutter: Gendering Late Medieval Habsburg Dynastic Politics: Maximilian I and His Social Networks, 22.09.2023, virtual space

University of Minnesota: Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture (Web)

Time: 22.09.2023, 19:15 (MEZ)
Venue: virtual space

The Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota established the Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture in 1984. It is their most prestigious public lecture and is delivered by a renowned scholar with an international reputation. Kann Lectures are open to the University community and the general public. The Center for Austrian Studies publishs an expanded version of each Kann Lecture in the Austrian History Yearbook. Read more … (Web)

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Source: veranstaltungen-geschichte@lists.univie.ac.at

Ringvorlesung: Kulturelle Pluralität in Feminismus sichtbar machen, WiSe 2023/24, Wien und virtueller Raum

Referat Genderforschung an der Universität Wien – RGF; Tomi Adeaga (Web)

Zeit: Wintersemester 2023/24, dienstags, 18.30 Uhr
Ort: Univ. Wien und virtueller Raum

Programm

  • 24.10.2023: Magdalena Kraus: Feministische Perspektiven aus Lateinamerika
  • 07.11.2023: Liselotte Abid: Islamischer Feminismus: Die Quadratur des Kreises?
  • 21.11.2023: Martina Kopf: Wangari Maathai und ökofeministisches Denken in Kenia
  • 09.01.2024: Denise Berghold-Caldwell: Sorge und Care als schwarzfeministische Konzepte des (Über-)Lebens
  • 23.01.2024: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí: Who is Not Afraid of Gender?

Abstracts (Web)

Ein langjähriger Streitpunkt zwischen Feminist*innen des sogenannten globalen Südens und europäischen/westlichen Feministinnen war die Tatsache, dass der westliche Feminismus die reiche Geschichte von Frauen in Afrika, Asien, Lateinamerika und dem Pazifik, die in die Vergangenheit zurückreicht, ignoriert hat. In ähnlicher Weise wird die Pluralität von Feminismen auf der ganzen Welt kaum anerkannt. Folglich sind die kulturell und historisch reichen afrikanischen, arabischen, karibischen, lateinamerikanischen, asiatisch-pazifischen und andere Feminismen in europäischen Gender-Lehrplänen immer noch unterrepräsentiert. Zudem haben viele dieser nicht-westlichen Feminismen starke kulturelle und sozio-politische Traditionen, die sie definieren und voneinander unterscheiden.
Die Ringvorlesung konzentriert sich auf die Präsenz von Feminismen in Afrika und einigen nichteuropäischen/nichtwestlichen Regionen in den Gender Studies. Somit zielt sie auf ein “feminist reimagining of communality affiliations and cultural practices, articulated not in isolation but rather in relations. It does not exalt one political concern (feminism) over another (multiculturalism); rather, it highlights and reinforces the mutual embeddedness between the two. (Shohat, 2001: 1). Wie Shohat weiter postulierte, Continue reading →

CfP: Radical Europe: Violence, Emancipation and Reaction (Event, 07/2024, Lyon); by: 20.10.2023

30th International Conference of Europeanists: Council for European Studies – CES (Web)

Time: 03.-05.07.2024
Venue: Lyon, France
Proposals by: 20.10.2023

Europe is a zone of heightened conflict. The year 2022 showed the most violent version of it, with the return of war following the Russian invasion of Ukraine justified as an extreme means of protecting Russia’s geopolitical interests. Moving to a different scale of conflict, innovations in the protest repertoire of climate activism (actions targeting artworks in museums to protest against gas and oil extraction projects) have sparked a debate about „radical“ forms of action. In countries such as France and Israel, the use of constitutional tools to enact unpopular laws has unleashed massive protests and undermined the legitimacy of governments’ determination to implement reforms at “any cost”.
In light of this, the Council for European Studies would like the participants of its 30th International Conference of Europeanists to reflect on what «radicalité» means in Europe today. Who defines radicality and in relation to what kind of social, political, cultural and economic project? To what extent can radicality inform political action, and have a casting impact on democracy in Europe? How is radicality constructed, treated, denounced or claimed in contemporary public spaces? How do the media, political actors, activists, and non-governmental organisations deal with issues of radicality?
The Council for European Studies welcomes proposals for panels, roundtables, book discussions and individual papers on the study of Europe broadly defined. The organizers encourage proposals in the widest range of disciplines and timeframes. They welcome panels that combine disciplines, genders, races, nationalities and ages.

The conference program co-chairs are Isabelle Garcin-Marrou (Sciences Po Lyon), Simon Gadras and Montserrat Emperador Badimon (Univ. Lumière Lyon 2), and Anne Verjus (CNRS).

Source: H-Net Notifications

Conference: Negotiating Modern Ways of Life: Life-Reform Movements in Central and Eastern Europe since 1900, 18.-19.09.2023, Marburg

Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn Univ., Stockholm (Web)

Time: 18.-19.09.2023
Venue: Herder Institute, Marburg, Germany

Sections: Crossing Borders: Circulation of Life Reform Ideas | Ethics and Human Health | Educating Minds, Reforming Bodies | Modern Life(styles) in Modern Cities

Lectures with a focus on women’s and gender history:

  • Ivanna Cherchovych (Lviv): Life Reform through Education: Ukrainian Elites and their Emancipated Daughters in Habsburg Galicia
  • Marion Keller (Frankfurt): Morality Campaigns, Education, Rescue and Protection Work: Jewish Feminists‘ Struggle against Trafficking in Girls and Women in Galicia, 1900-1938
  • Marcin Wilk (Warsaw): Girls/Women Emancipations and Animal Welfare in Interwar Krakow

Since the late 19th century, a wave of issue-oriented life-reform movements has developed across Europe and America, particularly in the areas of nutrition, clothing, consumption, housing, healthcare and moral reform. Such movements became a corollary and a critique of industrialisation, urbanisation, mass communication, and societal change. The dynamically emerging modern ways of life, particularly in big cities, were frequently perceived as misdevelopments, so life reform movements aimed to construct alternative responses to these modern lifestyle trends. Animal welfare and temperance movements, tobacco abstention and vegetarianism, had counter-cultural ambitions and a social reformist spirit. Abolitionist movements criticised bourgeois double standards and human trafficking and prostitution as the outcomes of poverty and social ills. As a reaction to the environmental problems associated with industrialisation, life reform movements searched for answers in the return to nature. Read more … (Web)

Source: HSozuKult

Tagung: Widerstand von Frauen gegen den NS in Europa. Aktuelle Forschungen, Vermittlungsformate und Debatten im internationalen Vergleich, 27.-29.09.2023, Bonn

Haus der Frauengeschichte, Bonn; Christina Schröer und Alma Hannig (Web)

Zeit: 27.-29.09.2023
Ort: Bonn

Programm (PDF)

Sektionen: Erinnerung | Motive | Formen und Methoden | Aktionsräume | Vermittlung

Das von der Europäischen Union geförderte deutsch-französische Projekt „Weiblicher Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland und Frankreich“ wählt eine vergleichende Perspektive und befasst sich einerseits mit der Geschichte, insbesondere den unterschiedlichen Formen des weiblichen Widerstands gegen den Nationalsozialismus und andererseits mit den Erinnerungskulturen in Deutschland und Frankreich. Ziel ist es, eine Ausstellung zu diesem Thema zu erarbeiten sowie geeignete Formate und didaktische Materialien zu entwickeln. Das Projekt möchte zudem zumindest punktuell internationale Vergleichsperspektiven und aktuelle Entwicklungen berücksichtigen.
Auf der internationalen Tagung sollen die bisherigen Forschungserkenntnisse auch jenseits der bekannten Gesichter des weiblichen Widerstandes gegen den Nationalsozialismus diskutiert sowie Perspektiven für künftige Forschungsfragen und Desiderata aufgezeigt werden. Weiterlesen und Quelle … (Web)

[Anmerkung: Die Ankündigung auf HSozuKult war zwischenzeitlich offline.]

CfP: Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century (Event, 12/2023, Leuven); by: 15.10.2023

Department of Literary Studies, KU Leuven; Carolin Loyens (Web)

Time: 14.-15.12.2023
Venue: Leuven, Belgium
Proposals by: 15.10.2023

Decades of scholarship on the mechanisms of knowledge formation have generated a wide awareness that the transhistorical nature of knowledge and authoritative statements of truth need to be approached critically. It has become a truism that scientific knowledge is never outside of historical contingencies, that range from large-scale dynamics to institutional idiosyncrasies. For every epistemic poetics that gained wider currency, non-poetic modes of knowledge foundered due to undercurrents that are not mapped and of which we are often unaware today. A closer examination of the processes of knowledge formation in the long 19th century reveals alternative, unsystematic ways of collecting and structuring knowledge: queer modes of thinking, one could call them, that stand outside of normative and institutional forms of knowledge acquisition and dissemination. Such peculiar modes of thinking can be discerned in the dense writings of the early 19th century German-Jewish author Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) or in the work of early 20th century art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929). Both offer examples of non-taxonomical, eccentric modes of knowledge accumulation, though the latter is widely more canonized today than the former.
This two-day conference wants to address unconventional forms of knowledge and their eclipse in the 19th and early 20th century, the period that lays the institutional foundations of scholarly and scientific knowledge as we still know today. The aim of the conference is not to build a cabinet of curiosities, but to gain insight into different dynamics and forms of knowledge that existed, possibly proliferated and/or disappeared from the realm of standard expertises. These forms of knowledge may vary in terms of media and genre: they can be constituted as letters, diary entries, essayistic writings, unpublished manuscripts, imagery, …
The organizers are interested in stories of knowledge from diverse scientific fields that developed next to or outside dominant templates and invite papers that investigate alternative discourses of Continue reading →

Vortrag: Barbara Staudinger: Was ist ein Jüdisches Museum? Überlegungen zu einer Positionierung zwischen heute und morgen, 05.10.2023, Wien

Reihe INTERAKTIONEN des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte der Univ. Wien (Web)

Zeit: Do., 05.10.2023, 11:30 Uhr
Ort: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Spitalg. 2-4, Hof 1, 1090 Wien

Nicht nur die neue Museumsdefinition des International Council of Museums (ICOM), sondern auch Identitätspolitik und politische Erwartungshaltungen angesichts eines steigenden Antisemitismus haben Jüdische Museen in den letzten Jahren vermehrt in den Fokus gerückt. Was ist ein Jüdisches Museum, welche gesellschaftliche Aufgaben hat es, was sammelt es und für welche Besucher:innen macht es seine Ausstellungen? Was bedeutet es, als Jüdisches Museum relevant sein zu wollen? Am Beispiel aktueller Ausstellungen und Projekte des Jüdischen Museums Wien sollen Fragen nach Jüdischen Museen in der Zukunft diskutiert werden.

Barbara Staudinger, Studium der Geschichte, Theaterwissenschaften und Judaistik an der Universität Wien, Promotion 2001. 1998–2013 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs (St. Pölten), 2005–2007 Kuratorin am Jüdischen Museum München. 2013–2018 freischaffende Kuratorin in Wien: Mitglied des kuratorischen Teams zur Neugestaltung der österreichischen Ausstellung in der Gedenkstätte Auschwitz-Birkenau. 2018–2022 Direktorin des Jüdischen Museums Augsburg Schwaben, seit Juli 2022 Direktorin des Jüdischen Museums Wien.

Quelle: zeitgeschichte mailing list

CfP: Reflections on Major Issues in Women’s History: Gender equality, gender division of labor, political participation, sexuality, family, and society (IFRWH 2024 Conference, 04/2024, Tokyo); by: 01.10.2023

IFRWH 2024 Conference – The International Federation for Research in Women’s History – IFRWH | Federation Internationale pour des Femmes – FIRHF (Web)

Time: 04.-10.08.2024
Venue: Tsuda University, Tokyo
Proposals by – extended: 01.10.2023

The second decade of the twenty-first century has seen major upheavals that have threatened to reverse much of the progress made in achieving greater gender equality. On the one hand, the global Covid-19 pandemic intensified reactionary trends as the closing of childcare centers and the shift to online classes, put strong pressure on women to stay at home and supervise children. The pandemic exposed the glaring gaps in income in many countries, focusing attention on the precarious working conditions among “essential workers,” many of whom were women engaged in important, but poorly remunerated, “care work.”
At the same time the pandemic was spreading across the globe, new concerns were raised by the outbreak of war with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As the war continued it has not only brought disastrous losses of life and property but also has threatened the institutions that have stabilized the international system since the end of the Cold War. In country after country, governments have begun to give more attention to “national security” issues, military budgets are rising, and with them concerns that we are on the threshold of a new Cold War.
When we consider the current state of study of women’s history, although there has been much interesting new work, we cannot ignore the huge challenges we face, as political movements have mobilized in opposition to the expansion of the rights of women and sexual minorities, have blocked efforts to close gender gaps, and have waged campaigns to take away a woman’s right to control over her own body and reproductive choices. Read more … (Web)