CfP: Handbook of the History of the Alps (Publication); by: 01.08.2024

Jon Mathieu (Luzern) and Luigi Lorenzetti (Mendrisio)

Proposals by: 01.08.2024

The publishing house Routledge will produce a comprehensive Handbook of the History of the Alps by 2026. With this call for chapter proposals the editors would like to invite you to participate in this endeavour.
The handbook is edited by the swiss historians Jon Mathieu and Luigi Lorenzetti and supported by the Laboratorio di Storia delle Alpi at the Univ. della Svizzera italiana and the International Society for Alpine History. It will include approximately thirty chapters of 5000-6000 words each (30-38’000 characters). The Handbook is divided into four major epochs and becomes increasingly detailed as we move closer to the present. There are still a series of open topics, particularly in the contemporary period, for which the editors are looking for authors with this open call.

  • Chapter for the period between the 12 and 18/19th century („Evolving mountain landscapes“): Religion and Politics in the alpine area.
  • Chapter for the period between the 18th century and ca. 1970 („Paths of modernisation“): The Alps in literature and arts.
  • Chapters for the period from ca. 1970 to present („Contemporary tendencies“): Urbanisation in and around the Alps | Energy discussions and solutions | Diversification of sports in the alpine area. | Within this contemporary period, you can also propose new topics for a tendency that you find particularly interesting.

The exact definition and content of the individual chapters are negotiated with the editors. If you are interested in contributing a chapter, please send a proposal together with a short CV by August 1, 2024 at the latest to: jon.mathieu@bluewin.ch and/or luigi.lorenzetti@usi.ch.

Source: Rural History Newsletter 87/2024-98/2024

Generation: The Fourth Annual Critical Femininities Conference, 16.-18.08.2024, virtual space

Centre for Feminist Research at York Univ., Ontario (Web)

Time: 16.-18.08.2024
Venue: virtual space – via Ontario
Registration by: 01.08.2024

The Centre for Feminist Research at York Univ. is hosting scholars, researchers, activists, and artists for the fourth annual Critical Femininities Conference on the theme of ‘Generation.’ This year’s conference will also include a collage workshop by artist stylo starr and Keynote address by Gina Starblanket, Ass. Professor and Graduate Advisor for Indigenous Governance at York Univ. The full schedule is available soon.

To generate is to cause, create, or bring about. A generation may refer to a relation in time or the creation of art, scholarship, solidarity, or power. This conference aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of and attitudes towards femininity across different generations, interrogating how various social, cultural, political, and technological factors intersect with and shape our experiences. In this moment of intergenerational conflicts, climate crisis, and generative AI, the time has come to think critically about our generations and what we generate. Read more … (CfP, Web)

Registration is free for all attendees. Register using this form until 01.08.2024 (Web)

If you have any questions, please contact the organisers at criticalfemininities@yorku.ca. Follow them on Instagram @crit_fem for more updates.

Source: H-Net Notifications (Web)

CfP: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Disability: Intersectional Perspectives on the Holocaust (Publication); by: 31.07.2024 [REMINDERIN]

Monika Baar, European Univ. Institute, Firenze and Kateřina Čapková, Faculty of Arts, Charles Univ., Prague

Proposals by: 31.07.2024

Historical research in general and Holocaust studies in particular tend to cluster around specific contexts and perspectives: genocide of Jews only, or genocide of Roma and Sinti only, the Holocaust from gender and family perspectives, and the history of people with disabilities and the euthanasia program, to name at least a few. However, there is a need to break up these clusters of research from time to time and to combine approaches in novel ways, by acknowledging intersections and their impact on accounts of the past. The linking of perspectives on race and ethnicity on the one hand and disability on the other has been neglected in Holocaust studies and in European history.

When her parents wanted to place two-year-old Irene Tobias in a home for the mentally disabled in 1937, the director of the Protestant charity in Hamburg, Friedrich Lentsch, refused to accept her because she was Jewish. He argued that by taking in a Jewish child, the institution might lose its status as a charitable and non-profit organization because the treatment of Jews might not be exempted from paying tax. Even the state institutions that were supposed to take Irene refused to do so, citing the precedent set by Lentsch.
Rose Steinberg was born in 1917 in Pinsk. At the age of three she became deaf and was later sent to the best Jewish school for the deaf in Berlin, where she met her future husband Max. They moved to Paris, where Max played football in a sports club for the deaf. During the Nazi occupation of France, Max was arrested for being Jewish. During that time, he and Rose and their young child were selflessly supported by their non-Jewish deaf friends whom Max met at the sports club. Max was eventually deported to Auschwitz where he was killed. However, Rose and the baby lived to see the end of the war.
When noma, a rare water cancer, was discovered among Romani children in the so-called G*psy camp at Auschwitz … read more and source (Web)

Klicktipp and Call for Reviewers: Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Online journal and webportal); by: –

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Web)

Proposals by: –

Erica Rhodes Hayden (Trevecca Nazarene Univ.) and Michelle Moravec (Rosemont College) are the new book review editor of the online journal Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. They are looking for individuals interested in reviewing for the journal. The online journal is published twice a year, and the editors are seeking to build a robust network of scholars willing to review books and exhibits/projects for them. If you are interested, email them with your scholarly interests, current position, and contact information. For interested book reviewers, please contact Erica Rhodes Hayden: erhayden@trevecca.edu. For interested exhibit/digital project reviewers, please contact Michelle Moravec: mmoravec@rosemont.edu.

The journal
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 is an online journal devoted to advancing scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history and U.S. women’s history at all levels. Since it’s launch in 1997, more than 2,700 authors have written and curated 200,000+ pages of innovative scholarship, primary documents, books, images, essays, book and website reviews, teaching tools, and more. Since 2004, it has been published biannually, maintaining a steady flow of scholarship and perspectives.

The webportal (Web)
The webportal Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women’s history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history generally and at the same time make those insights accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. Those subscribing to this collection can access the online version of Notable American Women and the database on Commissions on the Status of Women.

Source: H-Net Notifications

CfP: Western Association of Women Historians 2025 Conference (Event, 04/2025, California); by: 30.09.2024

Western Association of Women Historians (Web)

Time: 24.-26.04.2025
Venue: Costa Mesa, California
Proposals by: 30.09.2024

The Program Committee of the Western Association of Women Historians in the US considers these sorts of sessions:

Traditional Panels
themed panels with 3-4 presenters, a chairperson, and commenter
preference will be given to fully formed panels
graduate students are welcome but panels formed entirely of students are discouraged — WAWH encourages interested students to use panel formation as an opportunity to network with and include more advanced scholars.

Roundtables
4-5 participants + chairperson
present, discuss, and interact with the audience on a single topic, theme, or issue

Workshops
an interactive & practical deep-dive into a subject
proposals should include explanation of the topic to be workshopped as well as the interactive component(s)
topics may include but are not limited to: publishing, activist organizing, public history, pedagogy, non-academic careers, social media for writers. Get creative!

Novelties
Do you have an innovative, out-of-the-box idea for a session? Pitch it!

Individual Papers Continue reading →

Tagung: Über den Glauben zur Politik. Religion und politisches Engagement von Frauen, 24.-25.10.2024, Berlin

Stiftung Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus (Web)

Zeit: 24.-25.10.2024
Ort: Hotel Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus, Berlin
Anmeldung bis: 06.10.2024

Die wissenschaftliche Tagung untersucht, inwieweit Religion Frauen zu politischem oder gesellschaftlichem Handeln motivierte. Dabei wird die Rolle unterschiedlicher Religiositäten von der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jhds. bis heute in den Blick genommen.

Sektionen

Verkannte Demokratisierung: Bildung und Soziale Arbeit | Verkannte Demokratisierung: Care-Arbeit | Radikalisierung | Konversionen | Demokratie wagen | Spiritualität und alternative Politik

Programm

Do., 24.10.2024

  • 9.00 Uhr: Begrüßung und Einführung

9.30 Uhr: Sektion I: Verkannte Demokratisierung: Bildung und Soziale Arbeit

  • Walburga Hoff (Vechta): Zwischen moderner Bildungsreligiosität und konfessioneller Zugehörigkeit. Religiosität und Religion als Antriebsfeder sozialpolitischen Engagements im Kontext Sozialer Arbeit
  • Gudrun Kruip (Stuttgart): Bildung – Soziale Arbeit – Politik: Elly Heuss-Knapp

11.30 Uhr: Sektion II: Verkannte Demokratisierung: Care-Arbeit

  • Heike Specht (Zürich): Rahel Straus – Frauenrechtlerin, Zionistin und orthodoxe Jüdin Continue reading →

Buchpräsentation: Andrea Griesebner und Evdoxios Doxiadis: Gender and Divorce in Europe: 1600-1900. A Praxeological Perspective, 18.10.2024, Wien

Andrea Griesebner, Inst. für Geschichte der Univ. Wien und Evdoxios Doxiadis, Department of History at the Simon Fraser Univ., Burnabay

Zeit: Fr., 18.10.2024, 18.00-20.00 Uhr
Ort: Campus der Univ. Wien, Hof 1, Aula

Buchpräsentation mit den Herausgeber:innen Andrea Griesebner und Evdoxios Doxiadis sowie den Autor:innen. Weitere Informationen folgen.

Klappentext: „Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still echoes religious marriage law, which for centuries determined which persons could enter into marriage with each other and how validly contracted marriages could be ended.
Religions and denominations also had different regulations regarding whether a divorce only ended marital obligations or also permitted remarriage during the lifetime of the divorced spouse. This book deals with predominantly handwritten documents of divorce proceedings from the British Isles to Western, Central, and Southeastern Europe, and from 1600 to the 1930s. The praxeological analysis reveals the arguments and strategies put forward to obtain or prevent divorce, as well as the social and, above all, economic conditions and arrangements connected with divorce. The contributions break new ground by combining previously often separate fields of research and regions of investigation. It makes clear that the gender order doesn’t always run along religious lines, as was too often assumed.
This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of economic, social, religious, cultural, legal, and gender history as well as gender and well-being in a broader sense.“

  • Andrea Griesebner and Evdoxios Doxiadis (Eds.): Gender and Divorce in Europe: 1600-1900. A Praxeological Perspective, London 2024 (Web)

CfP: Bibliotheken: demokratisch – divers – nachhaltig (2. Österreichischer Bibliothekskongress, 03/2025, Wien); bis: 31.10.2024

2. Österreichischer Bibliothekskongress (Web)

Zeit: 25.-28.03.2025
Ort: Austria Center Wien
Einreichfrist: 31.10.2024

Aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen verlangen eine umsichtige Auseinandersetzung mit den Themen Nachhaltigkeit in der Lehre, in der Ausbildung wie auch im privaten Umfeld. Diesem Motto folgend soll beim 2. Bibliothekskongress der aktuelle Wandel unserer Welt reflektiert werden. Er wird veranstaltet von der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare (VÖB) (Web) und dem Büchereiverband Österreichs (BVÖ) (Web). Die Veranstalter:innen freuen sich, wieder zahlreiche Gäste aus dem In- und Ausland in Wien begrüßen zu dürfen.

Wissenschaftliche und öffentliche Bibliotheken spielen bei den oben beschriebenen Prozessen eine zentrale Rolle. Sie sind nicht nur Knowledge Hubs, sondern auch aktive Akteure in unserer Gesellschaft. Mit ihrem technischen Know-how, ihrer administrativen Expertise und ihrem breiten Informationsangebot tragen sie dazu bei, Lösungsansätze zu entwickeln und neue Dienstleistungen zu etablieren. Darüber hinaus fördern sie Kooperationen und bieten somit einen wichtigen Mehrwert für die Gesellschaft. Im Rahmen des Bibliothekskongresses werden schwerpunktmäßig folgende Themenbereiche diskutiert:

  • Demokratisch: Demokratisierung von Wissen, Citizen Science, Fake Science und Vertrauen in die Wissenschaft, KI und Ethik, Bildungsauftrag, historische Verantwortung
  • Divers: Communities und Community Building, soziale Verantwortung und Infrastruktur, Veranstaltungen und Inklusion, Barrierefreiheit, Diversität im Arbeitsumfeld
  • Nachhaltig: SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) / Nachhaltigkeitsziele, klimafitte Bibliotheken, digitale Nachhaltigkeit und Langzeitarchivierung, Sustainability Literacy

Im Forum freier Themen freuen sich die Veranstalter:innen auf Beiträge über aktuelle informations- bzw. medienwissenschaftliche und bibliotheksrelevante Fragestellungen, wie beispielsweise zu Continue reading →

Klicktipp: Geschichten aus der Geschichte: Mehr als 450 Folgen online (Podcast)

Geschichten aus der Geschichte; Richard Hemmer und Daniel Meßner (Web)

„Vergessene Ereignisse, überraschende Anekdoten und Zusammenhänge kurz erklärt. Häufig mit ein ganz bisschen Augenzwinkern – aber immer knallhart und quellennah recherchiert“ lautet die Beschreibung des Podcasts, die schon zeigt, dass die beiden Macher mit Vergnügen – und auch mit Humor – bei der Sache sind.
Den ersten Beitrag haben Richard Hemmer und Daniel Meßner (Wien und Hamburg) im September 2015 ausgestrahlt. Inzwischen sind es bereits mehr als 450 Episoden (Web).

Episoden mit einem u.a. geschlechterhistorischem Fokus:

  • GAG447: Christina, Hans und Heinrich oder Wie ein Gemälde entsteht (Link)
  • GAG445: Alexandra David-Néel. Eine Geschichte über ein Leben, das seinen Höhepunkt am Dach der Welt erreicht (Link)
  • GAG442: Eine kurze Geschichte des Fahrrads – über Velozipede, Hochräder und Safetys (Link)
  • GAG441: Jemima Nicholas und die Schlacht von Fishguard (Link)
  • GAG430: Gefangene und Königin – Johanna I. von Kastilien (Link)
  • GAG426: Die erste Regisseurin – Alice Guy – eine vergessene Filmpionierin (Link)
  • GAG422: Eine kleine Geschichte der Parapsychologie (Link)
  • GAG419: Therese von Thurn und Taxis und das Ende der Reichspost (Link)
  • GAG410: Lady Six Sky und eine kurze Geschichte der Maya (Link)
  • GAG400: GAG X Anno Mundi – Anicia Juliana (Link)
  • GAG396: Helene Kottannerin und der Raub der Stephanskrone (Link)
  • GAG395: Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin und die Begründung eines Champagnerimperiums (Link)
  • GAG392: Phosphor und der Streik der Streichholzarbeiterinnen (Link)
  • GAG391: Celia Cooney, die Banditin mit der Kurzhaarfrisur (Link)
  • GAG390: Kleopatra Selene und das Ende der Römischen Republik (Link)
  • GAG388: Marie Tussaud und die Wachsfiguren (Link)
  • GAG375: Sofia Kowalewskaja, „Königin der Wissenschaft“ Continue reading →

Konferenz: Drecksarbeit. Materialitäten, Semantiken und Praktiken seit dem 19. Jhd., 13.-15.11.2024, Dortmund

Dritte Tagung der German Labour History Association (Web)

Zeit: 13.-15.11.2024
Ort: Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund
Anmeldungen bis zum 15.10.2024

German Labour History Association, Fritz-Hüser-Institut für Literatur und Kultur der Arbeitswelt, FernUniv. in Hagen, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung und Fritz Hüser-Gesellschaft

Programm (Web)

Mi., 13.11.2024

Panel I, Moderation: Vanessa Höving (Hagen)

  • 16:00 Uhr: Yasemin Ece Örmeci (Dresden): Senses in Cleaning Practices and the Search for Visibility – A Case Study of Turkish Cleaners in Germany
  • 16:45 Uhr: Aatika Singh (Delhi): Framing Filth. Sudharak Olwe’s Photography of Dalit Manual Scavengers

18:00 Uhr: Podiumsdiskussion: Dirty work. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf ‚Drecksarbeit‘. Mit Andreas Gehrlach (Wien), Heike Geißler (Leipzig), Nicole Mayer-Ahuja (Göttingen) und Sebastian Moser (Tübingen); Moderation: Iuditha Balint (Dortmund), ab 19:30 Uhr: Umtrunk

Do., 14.11.2024

Panel II, Moderation: Anna Strommenger (Bielefeld)

  • 9:00 Uhr: Tim Preuß (Münster): Das deutsche Volk bei seiner Drecksarbeit zeigen. Zur literarischen Darstellung unterbürgerlicher Arbeitsverhältnisse bei Wilhelm Raabe Continue reading →