CfP: Everyday Questions. Gender, Economic, and Cultural Practices in Maritime Early Modern and Modern Everyday Life (17th–20th centuries) (Event, 12/2025, Naples and online); by: 15.09.2024

NextGenerationEU Project ‚Ondine‘ (Dep. History, Humanities and Society – Tor Vergata Univ. of Rome) and Inst. of History of Mediterranean Europe of the Italian National Research Council (ISEM-CNR)

Time: 05.-06.12.2024
Venue: Naples – and online
Proposals by: 15.09.2024

The workshop aims to highlight the multifaced and dynamic nature of gendered, economic, and cultural practices in everyday life in maritime contexts in Early Modern and Modern times (17th–20th centuries). The analytical tools for studying everyday life are manifold. What all approaches and methodologies have in common is that they operate as critiques of everyday life. In other words, all possible approaches have to analyse the ‘structures of the everyday’ (Braudel 1967, 1979) and/or how it was experienced and produced over time more than the everyday itself (Olson 2011).
The first to introduce the concept of everyday – precisely the notions of routine and repetition – into historiography was Braudel (1967, 1979), who through his ‘historical imagination’ emphasised what he called ‘material civilisation’, i.e. the ways that women and men had of producing, exchanging, eating, living, and reproducing at the dawn of capitalism. Braudel’s approach found inspiration in Lefebvre’s Critique de la vie quotidienne, vol. I (1947) and Matérialisme dialectique (1949), the works in which the French philosopher recognised daily life as the place par excellence of production – of a material, social and cultural nature – and appropriation. In this sense, everyday life becomes the battleground – or mediation ground – among nature, capitalism and human beings. It is also where individuals articulate (i.e. appropriate) themselves (Lefebvre 1947, 1949, 1961).
During the 1980s in West Germany, the historiographical investigation of everyday life experienced a new impetus. The Alltagsgeschichte (Lüdtke, Medick) sprouted from the will to analyse the lives and survival strategies of the ‘nameless’ multitudes, the aspirations and everyday struggles of the kleine Leute (little/ordinary people) (Lüdtke 1989), the ‘peoples without history’ (Wolf 1982) or those ‘left behind’. This specific approach of ‘history from below’ … weiterlesen (PDF)

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CfP: Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts (Publication); by: 01.09.2024

Social Sciences (Web); Suzanne Clisby (Univ. of Lincoln) and Mark Johnson (Univ. of London)

Proposals by: 01.09.2024

In this Special Issue of Social Sciences the editors invite papers that investigate different knowledges and understandings of gender and equalities, explore peoples everyday embodied experiences of in/equalities and foreground the diverse cultural practices developed in different parts of the world to address, enable or enhance equalities. Here they adopt a critical feminist and decolonial perspective that contests assumptions that cultures of equality originate in and flow from specifically historically dominant spaces and seek to highlight the creative practices that challenge social injustice and enhance gender equalities in diverse cultural contexts. By „gender“ the editors mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnic ity, nationality, class, dis/ability and age. The editors see equality, especially gender equality, as a culturally contingent product and seek to bring together interdisciplinary work to investigate the production and meanings of cultures of equality across a range of sites, events, practices and objects.
The editors view culture not only as a process of communication and contested arena of meaning making practices, but also as a process of invention and innovation. Here we ask how equalities are produced, embodied, objectified and visualised in and through a variety of cultural practices and sites. Investigating cultures of gender equality also requires us to examine the relations of inequality that are its corollary: this includes attending to how authorised versions of equality and inclusivity may produce new divisions and/or reproduce and reinforce existing inequalities. Read more and source … (Web)

Social Sciences is a Q1 open access journal published through MDPI Publishers. There is a open access publication fee indicated in the call above. (Web)

CfP: Normierungen – Grenzziehungen – Verkörperungen. Erkundung der Gemeinsamkeiten, Unterschiede, Schnittstellen und Wechselwirkungen rassistischer und ableistischer Ordnungen (Publikation); bis: 15.08.2024

Robel Afeworki Abay, Iman Attia und Swantje Köbsell (Alice Salomon Hochschule in Berlin) und Paul Mecheril (Univ. Bielefeld)

Einreichfrist: 15.08.2024

Gesellschaftliche Unterscheidungen entlang von Körper, Kultur, Fähigkeit und Zugehörigkeit betreffen Menschen, die im Rahmen von behindernden oder rassifizierenden Ordnungen als behindert, Taub, verrückt, jüdisch, muslimisch, romani oder Schwarz adressiert werden. Sie/Wir machen Erfahrungen, die damit zusammenhängen, dass sie/wir in vorherrschenden gesellschaftlichen Ordnungen als Abweichung oder Bedrohung, als besonders, zurückgeblieben oder weniger (lebens)wert gelten. Diese Erfahrungen verbinden uns und die Menschen, die sie machen, trennen sie/uns aber auch. Die hier angedeuteten Gewalt-, Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnisse werden häufig unter den Begriffen Rassismus und Ableismus analysiert und kritisiert. In dem Buchprojekt soll es darum gehen, die wechselseitigen Beziehungen von Ableismus und Rassismus in der akademischen, künstlerischen, pädagogischen und politischen Praxis zusammenzuführen. Dabei sollen die vielfältigen Verbindungen zwischen Ableismus und Rassismus sowie die damit einhergehenden, miteinander verwobenen strukturellen Ausgrenzungs-, Ausbeutungs- und Otheringmechanismen wie auch die Subjektivierungsweisen, Widerstandspraktiken und Handlungsstrategien der betroffenen Personen und/oder Communities in einem intersektionalen interdependenten Kontext herausgearbeitet werden.

Mögliche Themen der Beiträge können etwa sein:
– Eurozentrische Wissensproduktion und die Pluralisierung von Formen, Orten und Inhalten der Hervorbringung und Verbreitung von subversivem, eigensinnigem und widerständigem Wissen
– Kapitalistische Verwertungslogik sowie biopolitische Körper- und Gesundheitsregime und die Produktion/Zurückdrängung des behinderten und/oder rassifizierten Menschen (etwa reproduktive Gerechtigkeit, un-zumutbare/un-erwünschte Leben). Weiterlesen … (PDF)

Quelle: Gender Campus

Ausstellung: „Das Familienleben ist ein Eingriff in das Privatleben“. Die Familie des Satirikers Karl Kraus, bis 18.10.2024, Wien

Wienbibliothek im Rathaus; Katharina Prager (Web)

Laufzeit: bis 18.10.2024
Ort: Foyer der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
Eintritt frei

Der Wiener Satiriker Karl Kraus (1874-1936) legte sich bereits in jungen Jahren mit der Wiener Literaturszene, der österreichischen Gesellschaft und der deutschsprachigen Presse an. Es gelang ihm mit seiner Zeitschrift »Die Fackel« sowie durch öffentliche Kampagnen und Auftritte zu einer ebenso gefeierten wie gefürchteten kritischen Instanz seiner Zeit zu werden.
Über sein Privatleben wurde dabei kaum etwas bekannt, denn Kraus hielt sowohl seine Herkunftsfamilie wie auch seine Lieb- und Freundschaften sehr bewusst aus der Öffentlichkeit heraus. Weder wollte er durch Verwandte angreifbar werden noch ihm nahestehende Menschen durch seine radikalen Positionen angreifbar machen. In diesem Sinne postulierte er etwa: »Das Wort ›Familienbande‹ hat einen Beigeschmack von Wahrheit.«
Die mondäne und progressive Kraus-Dynastie, die sich vom böhmischen Jičín aus in der Welt des mitteleuropäischen Großbürgertums etablierte, blieb so bis heute großteils im Verborgenen. Zahlreiche Briefe, Postkarten, Familienfotos und andere Memorabilien im Kraus-Archiv der Wienbibliothek belegen, dass Karl Kraus zeitlebens Teil des Lebens einer faszinierenden jüdischen Großfamilie war, über der heute der Schatten der Shoah liegt. Von den sechs Geschwistern, die 1938 noch lebten, gelang nur einer Schwester die Flucht ins Exil. Eine reiche und lebendige Familiengeschichte wurde so fast völlig ausgelöscht.
Ausgehend von den Spuren, die sie im Leben ihres berühmten Sohnes, Bruders und Onkels hinterließen, werden in dieser Ausstellung die Geschichten der Eltern, Geschwister, Nichten und Neffen erzählt. Es ist eine ebenso liebevolle wie schwierige Familie, von der sich Momentaufnahmen erhalten haben – von den Geburten und Todesstunden ihrer Mitglieder, vom Umgang mit dem Familienvermögen, von gemeinsamen Sommerfrischen in der Bad Ischler Familienvilla, von Reisen bis nach Konstantinopel und Kairo und auch vom alltäglicheren Aufeinandertreffen beim Abendessen, in Telefonaten oder nach der Fackel-Lektüre. Continue reading →

CfP: Feminisms and Politics in Interwar Balkans and East-Central Europe (Event, 11/2024, Crete); by: 31.07.2024

Katerina Dalacoura, Vaia V. Geragori, Maria Paitaki, Vasiliki Papadopoulou, and Kostas Tsampouras (Crete), Krassimira Daskalowa and Valentina Mitkova (Sofia), Giorgos Manios (Athens), and Ivana Pantelić (Belgrade) (Web)

Time: 28.-30.11.2024
Venue: Univ. of Crete, Greece
Proposals by: 31.07.2024

The First World War was followed by an increased and intensive political movement aiming to eliminate likelihood of new wars and consolidate peace on a global scale. This movement is reflected in the foundation of international peace and diplomacy organizations, with the League of Nations prevailing among them, the signing of a series of treaties between states securing the new border status quo, minority treaties and amity and cooperation agreements, as well as in elaborated visions of forming „state federations“ across Europe. In this context, the Balkan states with a long history of competing nationalisms, wars, and rallying to rival war camps, gradually shifted towards pursuing political rapprochement and mitigating national-political differences, while the new Central European states that had arisen from the dissolution of the central empires and the redrawing of national borders sought alliances to enhance security against presumptive revisionist attempts by neighboring countries. At the same time, the unsolved national-transnational political issues and the new ones created by the post-war treaties, most notably that of ethnic minorities, the rivalries of the victorious Great Powers in the region, the gradual dominance of totalitarian and bellicose politics and the risk of a new great war that began to loom on the horizon, prioritized national security and acted as centrifugal forces from ‚the transnational and international‘ to ‚the national‘, while the revisionist and anti-revisionist camps and politics began to form distinct.
In this context, feminist movement, reconstituted and increased in density and massiveness, found a fertile ground for linking its activity to international politics and diplomacy. International women’s organizations (feminist, professional, peace organizations), national affiliated organizations, as well as regional associations emerged at the time, recognizing that progress towards full political and social rights and security for women depends on a peaceful and stabilized world, declared it „their duty“ to work for international relations and … read more (Web).

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CfP: Towards Intersectional Feminist Singlehood Studies (Publication); by: 10.08.2024

Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (Web); Ea Høg Utoft (Nijmegen), Mante Vertelyte (Copenhagen), and Lonneke van den Berg (Den Haag)

Porposals by: 10.08.2024

Alongside the growing share of single people globally (Kislev, 2019; Adamczyk & Trepanowski, 2023), the need for scholarly attention to singlehood as an identity, an experience, and a socio-cultural phenomenon is increasingly recognized. Historically, research has tended to take singlehood as a byproduct of coupledom, implying that single lives are viewed as empty, meaningless and marked by failure (Cobb, 2012; Lahad, 2017; Pickens & Braun, 2018). Moreover, scientific accounts of singlehood often simplistically draw associations with wellbeing and happiness, assuming that coupled individuals are better off on both variables (see critiques of these approaches, e.g. DePaulo, 2023a; Lahad, 2023). In response, leading singlehood scholar Bella DePaulo (2017, 2023a) argues that research must take singlehood as an object of study in its own right. This means that we need to approach singlehood as a process of subjectivation and, rather than uncritically reproducing assumptions and stereotypes about single people as (only) lonely and miserable, we must openly explore the multiplex configurations of singlehood and singles’ varied life experiences.
By mobilizing their activist traditions of questioning mainstream knowledge-production paradigms as well as social hegemonies and injustices, gender studies and related critical fields (such as queer studies, critical disability (or crip) studies, and critical race studies) are ideally positioned to take on the study of singlehood. These fields of study are already undertaking research on singles, with scholars from various (other) fields also engaging with feminist and other critical epistemologies in their studies of singlehood. This special issue therefore constitutes a concerted effort to bring together such fairly scattered research, with the ambition of showing, echoing Kinneret Lahad, how intersectional feminist and related epistemologies are central to advancing the field of singlehood studies. Read more … (PDF)

Source: Gender Campus

CfP: Roundtable for Black Feminist & Womanist Theory: Audre Lorde’s thought and philosophical legacy (Event, 10-11/2024, Rhode Island and virtual space); by: 09.08.2024

2024 Roundtable for Black Feminist & Womanist Theory (Web)

Time: 31.10.-02.11.2024
Venue: Univ. of Rhode Island, USA and virtual space
Proposals by: 09.08.2024

The aim of the Roundtable is to create a working space for participants of various backgrounds to receive feedback on their projects that will enrich Black feminist and womanist traditions. Concurrent with the Roundtable, FEAST will hold its 2024 meeting on Audre Lorde’s thought and philosophical legacy. The 2024 Roundtable for Black Feminist & Womanist Theory (BFWT) will be held in connection with the 2024 conference of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). Read more … (Web)

About BFWT
The Roundtable for Black Feminist & Womanist Theory was founded in 2019 as a working space for scholars, artists, activists, and theorists across disciplines and professional trajectories to share work highlighting intellectual contributions of Black women, femmes, and non-men throughout the African diaspora. This will be its 5th annual conference.

About FEAST
Founded in 1999, the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory is a professional organization dedicated to promoting feminist ethical perspectives on philosophy, moral and political life, and public policy that centers decolonized, intersectional, and interdisciplinary approaches. Its aim is to further the development and clarification of new understandings of ethical and political concepts and concerns, especially as they arise out of feminist concerns regarding underrepresented and marginalized women . including BIPOC, Third World, disabled, and LGBTQIA – as well as those arising from marginalized identities and marginalized issues. The organization seeks to create spaces to interrogate and address the philosophical and practical underpinnings of white privilege and racist violence in its many forms, including in feminist theory and practice.

Source: Gender Campus

Menschen – Maschinen – Umwelten | Humans – Machines – Environments: 10. Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung, 18.-20.09.2024, Graz

Österreichische Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung (ÖGGF) (Web)

Zeit: 18.-20.09.2024
Orte: Univ. Graz & Technischen Univ. Graz
Anmeldung (Web)

Programm (PDF)

(Nachwuchs-)Wissenschafter:innen aller Disziplinen und auch Künstler:innen setzen sich mit der hochaktuellen Frage auseinander, inwiefern die weitreichenden bio- und informationstechnologischen Entwicklungen der vergangenen Jahrzehnte Transformationen gesellschaftlicher Arbeitsteilung und der Geschlechterhierarchie(n) zur Folge haben. Behandelt werden dabei Themen wie die Rolle von Geschlecht in der Technik, die Interaktion zwischen Mensch und Maschine sowie Vorurteile in der künstlichen Intelligenz.

Keynotes
– Kylie Jarrett (Maynooth): Work Beyond Work: Reproduction in the Platform Economy
– Claude Draude (Kassel): Response-ability in Sociotechnical Systems Design
– Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (Berlin): Uncertain Intelligences: Moving Beyond AI Generated Myths of Accuracy & Certainty

Panels
– Mediale Techniken des Sich-Erzählens
– Glitch-/Xeno-/Cyber-/Netz. Technomaterialistische Körperkonzepte in den neuen Feminismen
– Narratives of Environmental Entanglements, Eco-Linguistics, and Digital Storytelling
– Algorithmisch vermitteltes Arbeiten & Lernen
– Trans* Studies Now?
– Performativität im Digitalen
– Reproductive Justice and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
– Mobile Körper – Radfahren Continue reading →

Klicktipp: Gender Campus. Informations-, Kommunikations- und Vernetzungsplattform für Gender Studies und Chancengleichheit in der Schweiz

Gender Campus (Web)

Die gesamt-schweizerische Informations-, Kommunikations- und Vernetzungs-Plattform Gender Campus ist ein Pionier:innen-Projekt in der Schweizer Hochschul-Landschaft. Akteur:innen aus den Bereichen Gender Studies und Chancengleichheit an Hochschulen pflegen hier auf institutionen- und hochschul-übergreifender virtueller Ebene  den nationalen und internationalen Austausch.

Gender Campus wurde im Jahr 2001 von Vertreter:innen der Universitäten (UH) und Fachhochschulen (FH) initiiert und ist seit seinem Beginn am Interdisziplinären Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung der Universität Bern angesiedelt. Weiterlesen … (Web)

Unter der Rubrik „Aktuelles“ (Web) informieren die Macher:innen des Gender Campus über aktuelle fachspezifische Ereignisse. Hier finden Sie unter anderem Hinweise zu Veranstaltungen und Reihen, Tagungen, offenen Stellen und Stipendien sowie Call for Papers (Web).

CfP: Transnational Queer Histories (Series); by: open

de Gruyter (Web)

Proposals by: open

The series Transnational Queer Histories aims at encouraging queer historical studies, defined at their broadest, to forge new cross-disciplinary paths and pioneer innovative intersectional approaches. The series is intended to platform and support scholarship from academics at all levels of their careers, and to give voice to researchers and topics that have until now been unrepresented or underrepresented in academic publishing circles. As such, it is the editor’s intention to open the doorways for innovative, new research, highlighting non-traditional approaches and subject matter. TQH’s title is its programme; the editors seek work that is

  • transnational and/or comparative in scope, not (strictly) limited to one geographic locality;
  • queer in the broadest sense, encompassing not just homo- and cis-normative experiences but also a variety of gender and sexual identities, including (but not limited to) bisexuality, pansexuality, asexuality, transgender and intersex lives; and
  • historical, with work drawing principally from modern and early-modern history, in whichever way the contributor defines these.

In this way, the editors seek to encourage the creation of a body of new scholarship that moves away from the confines of (generally) white, male, homonormative, cisgender queer history that has tended to characterise the subdiscipline. While these narratives remain important to queer history, the editors encourage innovative approaches to them through new and hitherto-underutilised avenues of inquiry. Thus, they seek to foreground the broad and vibrant diversity of queer experiences throughout history.
TQH accepts proposals for both monographs and edited collections; work may be submitted in English or German. As noted, the editors seek work from scholars at all career levels. If you are unsure whether the work you have in mind would be a good fit under the TQH banner, please do not hesitate to contact the editors with an informal inquiry. They will do their best to advise you whether we would welcome a more formal proposal from you, as above. Continue reading →