Colloquium: Military, War and Gender/Diversity: State of Research and Research Problems, 21.10.2024-17.02.2025, virtual space

Research network „Military, War, and Gender/Diversity“; Karen Hagemann (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Isabelle Deflers, and Anke Fischer-Kattner (Univ. of the Bundeswehr Munich) (Web)

Time: 21.10.2024-17.02.2025
Venue: virtual space

The international research network „Military, War, and Gender/Diversity“ continues its online research colloquium in the winter semester. A lineup of distinguished speakers will be presenting their work, continuing the overview of „Military, War and Gender/Diversity: State of Research and Research Problems“. The online colloquium of the network is based at the Univ. of the Bundeswehr Munich. It aims to promote the networking of researchers and to create a cross-border virtual space for regular intellectual exchange on this research topic. Advanced doctoral students will be invited as speakers and co-discussants, as well as experienced national and international experts.

Programme and Link (PDF)

Mo., 21.10.2024, 4-6 pm (CET)
Marta Havryshko (Worcester, MA): Gender, World War II in the East, and the Holocaust Revisited (Link)
Moderation: Maren Röger (Leipzig)

Mo., 11.11.2024, 4-6 pm (CET)
Isabel Heinemann (Bayreuth): Nach dem Krieg: Aushandlungsprozesse um Gewalt, Geschlecht und Gesellschaft in BRD und DDR (Link)
Moderation: Claudia Kemper (Münster)

Mo., 02.12.2024, 4-6 pm (CET)
Benno Gammerl (Florence): Queering Military History? (Link)
Moderation: Christa Hämmerle (Vienna) Continue reading →

Workshop: Where is the sex in sex work history? Accessing sexual practices through histories of sex work and prostitution, 10.-11.10.2024, Berlin

Working Group: Sex work history – Adrina Schulz (Zurich), Alisha Edwards (Bochum), Annalisa Martin (Glasgow/Greifswald), Nora Lehner (Vienna/Berlin), Priska Komaromi (Berlin) and Sonja Dolinsek (Magdeburg/Berlin)

Zeit: 10.-11.10.2024
Ort: Freie Univ. Berlin

Programme (Web)

Panels: Ethical and methodological questions: Should we even try? And, if yes, how? | Sex workers’ narratives | Interacting with clients | Sex work and public health: Medical constructions of “sex work” | Pleasure, work, and sexual culture: Fluid boundaries

Keynote: Elisa Camiscioli (Binghampton): Making French Sex: Fantasy, Practice, Desire

In the past decades, the history of commercial sex has become a burgeoning field of research. While early scholarship confined “prostitution” to the fields of social history and women’s history, the past decade has witnessed a broadening of perspectives and methodological approaches – from cultural history to global history and histories of labor, gender, the body, and sexualities. Despite the development of the field and the evident centrality of sex to sex work, it is precisely these sex practices that have received the least analytical attention in historical research. This stems in part from the methodological difficulties involved in accessing past sexual practices and experiences in historical sources. It might also be due to the “respectability” politics that historians engage in when trying to research sex work while avoiding the “prostitution stigma” attached to the topic and to the subjects who performed it. By focusing on governmental perspectives, social and economic factors, and media and social constructions of “prostitution”, historians could attempt to avoid the sex of sex work. Nevertheless, as trends in the fields of the history of sexuality and queer histories have shown, concrete sexual practices are situated in specific times and social environments. Read more and source … (Web)

Workshop: Inscribing Love: The Materialisation of Affects in a Global Perspective, 30.09.-02.10.2024, Hamburg

Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’, Univ. Hamburg (Web)

Time: 30.09.-02.10.2024
Venue: Univ. of Hamburg

Programme (PDF)

Panels: Contexts of Prison and War | Evidence of Love in Space | The Love Letter | Love, Bodies and Communication |

The transmission of love requires a materialisation in the form of a written artefact. Following Niklas Luhmann, love can be understood as a code of communication requiring a medium that he defines as informed material, e.g. an inscribed object. One obvious example is the love letter that might be seen as a handwritten artefact through which a lover expresses his or her affection. Since a letter serves to bridge a physical distance or substitute for an absence, the material quality of the letter is of particular importance. In addition to letters, numerous other forms of materialisation and inscription are used to convey emotions: one might think of love locks, testaments, farewell letters, carvings in bark, dedications, autographs, funerary spaces, poetry albums, friendship books or forms of ostentatious affective expression as in tattoos as inscriptions on the human body.
The workshop will hence focus on written artefacts that are supposed to express love for another person. The organisers deliberately leave the concept of love open, as it encompasses diverse meanings in different cultures and epochs; instead, we focus on practices that are intended to communicate love by inscribing a material object. The organisers want to explore if written artefacts, through their various forms of inscribed materiality, are historically, culturally or gender-specifically bound to certain practices, and represent closeness to a loved person. Rather than deciding whether an emotion expressed in an artefact corresponds to a “real” emotion, we want to analyse to what extent the expression of love is linked to certain practices of material authentication: this raises the question of the originality of the written artefact, which is particularly revealing when compared in a global perspective. Read more … (Web)

Source: H-Soz-Kult

Tagung: Frauen in Gesundheitsberufen, 01.10.2024, Halle an der Saale

12. Mitteldeutsche Konferenz für Medizin- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Florian Bruns and Christian König

Zeit: 01.10.2024
Ort: Medizin-Campus Steintor, Halle an der Saale

Veranstalter:innen: Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin der Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg und Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der TU Dresden

Programm (Web)

  • 10:00 Uhr: Uhr Christian König (Halle): Begrüßung | Florian Bruns (Dresden): Einführung in das Thema
  • 10:30 Uhr: Sandra Klos (Wien): Frauen als Pionierinnen der Nuklearmedizin in Deutschland und Österreich. Eine biographische Annäherung
  • 11:10 Uhr: Melanie Foik (Münster): Der Gesundheitsdienst als „feminisierter Sektor“. Krankenschwestern und Ärztinnen im sozialistischen Polen
  • 12:40 Uhr: Arne Thomsen (Bochum): Die Schwesternkongregationen in katholischen Krankenhäusern des Ruhrreviers
  • 13:20 Uhr: Pierre Pfütsch (Stuttgart): Frauen im bundesdeutschen Rettungswesen (1950–2000)
  • 14:30 Uhr: Marina Lienert (Dresden): Medizinische Laienpraktikerinnen im Deutschen Kaiserreich
  • 15:10 Uhr: Christoph Hanzig (Dresden): „Mir war natürlich bekannt, dass man niemanden töten darf.“ – Zur Beteiligung von Ärztinnen und Krankenschwestern an den NS-Krankenmorden in Sachsen
  • 15:50 Uhr: Abschlussdiskussion, Moderation: Florian Bruns und Christian König

Kontakt: florian.bruns@tu-dresden.de und christian.koenig@medizin.uni-halle.de

Quelle: H-Soz-Kult

CfP: The Resisting Force of Social Work: Current Reflections in Critical and Historical Perspective, International Symposium (Event, 11/2025, Ljubljana); by: 30.09.2024

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of social work (Web)

Time: 07.08.11.2025
Venue: Ljubljana
Proposals by: 30.09.2024

The International Symposium of Social Work will mark 70 years of education, professionalisation and academisation of social work in Slovenia and at the Faculty of Social Work, the only educational and academic institution for social work studies in the country. The organisers invite friends, colleagues, and the academic community to celebrate this important anniversary together. The International Symposium aims to highlight the wide range of social work topics that are currently particularly relevant, especially from a critical and historical perspective.
At a time when crises due to neo-liberal policies, ecological disasters, wars, and the militarization of Europe and the world are multiplying, we seem to be in the midst of an era very similar to the historical period that gave rise to social work over a century ago. At a time of accelerating poverty, impoverished communities, the erosion of the common good, the rise of structural and interpersonal violence, the emergence of scapegoating ideologies, and the mushrooming of migration, social work, and its resisting force are all the more important.
But in such a world, social work itself is not embraced with open arms by neoliberal policies and populists. As social problems increase, so do the discourses that emphasize the inefficiency of the public sector and the need for its disappearance, the discourse of social work as a ‚cost‘ and a ‚burden‘, and the individualization and pathologization of people’s economic and social problems. Societies appear to be a collection of individuals responsible for their well-being rather than a society in which people are interconnected and can only exist in mutual interdependence and awareness of global interconnectedness. Systemically marginalized, social workers are also perceived, at least in Slovenia, as incapable of solving people’s complex problems.
In such a difficult context, we are interested in the resilience of social work as well as in its critical reflection of these current processes and its ability to understand phenomena from a historical perspective. Read more … (PDF)

Quelle: Irene Messinger: Newsletter Verfolgung/Widerstand von Fürsorgerinnen aus Wien 14

Workshop: Geschlechtergeschichte/n: Aktuelle Debatten, Fragestellungen, Perspektiven, 24.-25.10.2024, Innsbruck

Erstes Forum für Dissertant:innen und Forscher:innen in Österreich und angrenzenden Regionen an der Univ. Innsbruck (Web)

Zeit: 24.-25.10.2024
Ort: Haus der Begegnung, Innsbruck
Anmeldungen bis 15.10.2024

Organisatorinnen: Levke Harders, Muriel González Athenas und Elisa Heinrich, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie der Univ. Innsbruck

Programm (PDF)

Do, 24.10.2024

12:30 Uhr: Welcome! Begrüßung und Einführung: Levke Harders (Innsbruck) und Heidrun Zettelbauer (Graz)

13:00 Uhr: Panel 1: Text discussion (in English) | Chair: Levke Harders (Innsbruck)

  • Giada Noto (Bozen/Bolzano): An Intersectional Analysis of the Optants of Kanaltal | Comment: Viktoria Wind (Graz)
  • Franziska Maria Lamp (Vienna): “To recruit single girls of spotless moral character…” Gender Hierarchies in the Resettlement Programs for Displaced Women (1945-1960) | Comment: Franziska Völlner (Innsbruck)
  • Jessica Nogueira Varela (Vienna): Gendering Blackness, Migration, Coloniality: Una Marson, Claudia Jones, and Audre Lorde in the UK and Germany | Comment: Lisa Kirchner (Vienna and Brixen/Bressanone)

15:00 Uhr: Panel 2: Diskussion von Kurzvorträgen | Moderation: Waltraud Schütz (Wien)

  • Anna Maria Petutschnig (Münster und Möllbrücke): Vorstellungen von Vaterschaft im spätmittelalterlichen Hochadel |Kommentar: Ruth Isser (Salzburg) Continue reading →

CfP: Artikulationen der Demokratiebildung (Event, 05/2025, Wien); bis: 04.12.2024

Arbeitsbereiche Didaktik der Politischen Bildung, Sprachlehr- und -lernforschung sowie Geschichtsdidaktik und Zentrum für Lehrer*innenbildung der Univ. Wien, Demokratiezentrum Wien, Verband der Ö. Volkshochschulen und VHS Wiener Urania (Web)

Zeit: 15.-16.05.2025
Ort: VHS Wiener Urania
Einreichfrist: 04.12.2024

Ziel der Tagung ist es, das Verhältnis von Sprache, Demokratie und Bildung zu beleuchten. Es sollen theoretische, empirische und didaktische Perspektiven in Dialog gebracht werden. Abstracts können zu einer der folgenden – gerne aber auch weiteren – Fragestellungen eingereicht werden, gender-fokussierte Beiträge explizit erwünscht:

  • Wie kann das Verhältnis von Sprache, Demokratie und Bildung analysiert werden?
  • Welches Potenzial hat eine demokratische Bildung aus fachspezifischer und transdisziplinärer Perspektive?
  • Unter welchen Bedingungen können Artikulationen von Demokratie in der Bildung hergestellt werden?
  • Welche Rolle spiel(t)en sprachliche und politische Bildung, um eine Kultur der Demokratie zu fördern?
  • Wie beeinfluss(t)en sich Sprache und subjektive Vorstellungen von Demokratie gegenseitig?
  • Welche Formen von Inklusion und Exklusion durch Sprache gibt/gab es im Kontext demokratischer Bildung und welche Auswirkungen haben/hatten diese?

Organisator:innen: Johanna Taufner, Denis Weger, Eva Vetter, Dirk Lange, Thomas Hellmuth und Stefanie Fridrik

Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Website (Web)

Quelle: female-l@jku.at

CfP: „Leid“ und „Rettung“ visualisieren: (Un)Sichtbarmachen von Kindern in Not (Event, 07/2025, Luzern); bis: 30.09.2024

7. Schweizerischen Geschichtstage „(Un)sichtbarkeit | (In)visibilité“ (Web); Susanne Quitmann (München) (Web) und Lena Jur (Marburg) (Web)

Zeit: 08.-11.07.2025
Ort: Luzern
Einreichfrist: 30.09.2024

Das Panel „‚Leid‘ und ‚Rettung‘ visualisieren: (Un)Sichtbarmachen von Kindern in Not“ greift vor dem Hintergrund der Kindheitsgeschichte die zentralen Fragen der Konferenz auf: Welche Bilder und welche sprachlichen Visualisierungen gibt es in Quellen zu Fürsorge oder humanitärer Hilfe für Kinder und wie können diese analysiert werden? Was und wen machen Praktiken der Visualisierung in diesem historischen Kontext sichtbar bzw. unsichtbar und zu welchem Zweck? Wie kann die Geschichtswissenschaft mit diesen Sichtbarkeiten und Unsichtbarkeiten umgehen? Welche Rolle spielen Historiker:innen im sichtbar oder unsichtbar Machen dieser Kinder? Welche disziplininhärenten, praktischen oder kulturellen Hürden oder Möglichkeiten haben Historiker:innen?
Die Kindheitsgeschichte im Allgemeinen und die Geschichte von Fürsorge und humanitärer Hilfe für Kinder im Besonderen sind boomende Felder und haben in den letzten Jahren maßgeblich zur kritischen Reflexion von Axiomen und Methoden der Geschichtswissenschaft beigetragen. Auch die Visual History ist ein Bereich, in dem die Kindheitsgeschichte mit ihrem Blick auf marginalisierte Figuren, das Private ebenso wie zentrale gesellschaftspolitische Diskurse, helfen kann, neue Perspektiven zu eröffnen. Aufbauend auf der bisherigen Forschung zu Visual History in der Kindheitsgeschichte, soll dieses Panel Anstoß zu weiterer kritischer Reflexion mit Blick auf Praktiken des (Un)Sichtbar Machens geben.
Für das Panel sind drei Präsentationen vorgesehen. Zwei sind bereits festgelegt, die dritte wird anlässlich des Call for Papers der Schweizerischen Geschichtstage (Web) ausgeschrieben. Interessierte können sich bis zum 30. September 2024 unter Angabe eines Titels und eines Abstracts (max. 1500 Zeichen) auf Deutsch oder Englisch bei den Panelverantwortlichen bewerben.

Kontakt: Susanne Quitmann – susanne.quitmann@lmu.de und Lena Jur – lena.jur@uni-marburg.de

Quelle: H-Soz-Kult

CfP: Women Makers of the Global Early Modern World: Art, Patronage, Collecting, and the Courts (Publication); by: 01.10.2024

Tanja L. Jones (Web) and Doris Sung (Web) (Univ. of Alabama)

Proposals by: 01.10.2024

The editors seek proposals for chapters in a proposed edited volume dedicated to the topic „Women Makers of the Global Early Modern World: Art, Patronage, Collecting, and the Courts“.
The volume is intended to extend and expand knowledge of visual material production by and for early modern women – particularly those associated with the courts – on a global scale. While numerous conferences, symposia, and resulting publications in the past several decades have addressed women as producers, consumers, and subjects of European art during the early modern period (c. 1400-1800), less consideration has been given to women’s roles in the courts – particularly as informed by the steadily increasing cross-cultural interactions (i.e. between Europe and Asia, the Americas, Africa, etc.) that characterized the period. This volume aims to address this lacuna whilst simultaneously de-canonizing the traditional Euro-centric model of study in analyses of women’s cultural production, presentation, and consumption surrounding courts and empires (broadly defined as institutions associated with ruling power). The goal is to encourage a more equitable view of early modern women’s experiences of and with art globally, across traditionally held national and continental boundaries.
The editors are particularly interested in paper submissions that address early modern (court) women’s roles in the movement, collecting, or production of visual and material culture. Especially those that consider manifestations of cross-cultural connections and/or invite comparative perspectives within/between Africa, the Americas, and Asia – be those with Europeans or not – c. 1400-1800.

By October 1 2024, please submit (in a single PDF): paper title, 250-word (maximum) abstract, 5 keywords, and a C.V. (including name, institutional affiliation – if applicable, title, and email) to Tanja Jones (tljones10@ua.edu) and Doris Sung (dhsung@ua.edu).

Source: H-Net Notifications

CfP: Cultivating Resilience, Centering Joy: Queer Studies Conference 2025 (Event, 03/2025, Asheville/NC); by: 15.11.2024

The 2025 Queer Studies Conference (Web)

Time: 28.-30.03.2025
Venue: Univ. of North Carolina Asheville
Proposals by: 15.11.2024

The UNC Asheville Queer Studies Conference (established in 1998) attracts a diverse audience of activists, academics, community members, and artists who showcase a range of creative and scholarly pursuits related to the study of sexuality, gender, and/or queer and trans identities. The organizers especially welcome presenters from historically marginalized populations, including but not limited to, LGBTQIA+, Black, Brown, Indigenous, disabled, poor, and/or immigrant communities.
The 2025 conference theme is “Cultivating Resilience, Centering Joy.” While queer life can be marked by oppression, it can also be defined by the joy that endures through community. The work of resisting academic and political attacks on queer lives can become daunting, isolating, and draining, which makes it all the more important to turn inward and to our allies for sustenance and renewed energy. When the world feels turbulent and impossible, what is it that brings us hope and possibility? How do we sustain momentum in the face of apathy and counter-resistance? What can we do to prepare a new generation for thriving in the work that is not easy, but must be done? Elaborations on the theme might include (but are not limited to):

  • What connections between mind and body will help us sustain ourselves and our work?
  • How do we learn to have difficult, transformative conversations that effectively challenge oppressive narratives and behaviors?
  • In what ways can art be a means of joy and resistance?
  • What mentorship possibilities can we develop for our queer and trans youth?
  • What can educators do to cultivate inclusive classrooms while operating under increasing surveillance, scrutiny, and censorship?
  • What tools can we add to our emotional toolboxes to withstand the onslaught of attacks on trans and queer lives? Read more … (Web)

Source: Qstudy-l mailing list