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

Klicktipp: Helene Maimann: Käthe Leichter – Eine Frau wie diese (Film 2016, 53 Min.)

Dokumentation von Helene Maimann (A, 2016, 53 Min.): Käthe Leichter – Eine Frau wie diese (Web)

Der Film wurde ausgestrahlt unter dem Titel „Käthe Leichter – eine Frau im Widerstand“ in der Reihe „Kreuz und Queer“ auf ORF 2 am 16.07.2024 und ist in frei verfügbar in der Meditathek „Joyn“ (Web)

Beschreibung: „1895 geboren als Tochter einer großbürgerlichen jüdischen Familie rebelliert Marianne Katharina Pick schon früh gegen die Konventionen der Zeit: Sie schließt sich der bürgerlichen Jugendbewegung an und studiert als eine der ersten Frauen Staatswissenschaften und Nationalökonomie. Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Nachkriegsrevolutionen radikalisieren die junge Wissenschaftlerin. Käthe Leichter wirft sich mit Herz und Seele in die Arbeiterbewegung. Sie glaubt fest an den Sozialismus und daran, die Befreiung des Menschen und damit auch die  der Frauen selbst noch erleben zu können.
Mit ihren umfangreichen Untersuchungen über das Leben von arbeitenden Frauen versucht Käthe Leichter, die Frauen zu ermutigen, um ihre Gleichstellung in Beruf und Familie zu kämpfen. Bis zuletzt gibt sie die Hoffnung auf den Sieg ihrer Überzeugungen nicht auf. Sie geht nach dem Bürgerkrieg vom Februar 1934 zusammen mit ihrem Ehemann, dem Journalisten Otto Leichter, und den beiden Söhnen ins Schweizer Exil, um wenig später zurückzukehren und eine führende Rolle im Widerstand gegen den autoritären Ständestaat einzunehmen. Nach dem ‚Anschluss‘ Österreichs an das Deutsche Reich im März 1938 verkennt Käthe Leichter ihre gefährliche Lage als jüdische Frau, widerständige Sozialdemokratin und Intellektuelle und bleibt, um legal auszuwandern. Ende Mai 1938 verhaftet sie die Gestapo. Nach eineinhalb Jahren Haft wird sie zu einer mehrmonatigen Gefängnisstrafe verurteilt und danach sofort wieder der Gestapo übergeben. In dieser Zeit schreibt sie ihre ‚Kindheitserinnerungen‘, ein bewegendes Zeugnis über die untergegangene Welt des Wiener jüdischen Bürgertums, gewidmet ihren beiden Söhnen Heinz und Franz, die wie ihr Vater das rettende Ausland erreichen konnten. Internationale Interventionen und Visas, die auf dem britischen und amerikanischen Konsulat auf sie warten, nützen nichts: Sie wird Ende 1939 in das KZ Ravensbrück deportiert und im März 1942 ermordet.
In Helene Maimanns Porträt erzählen neben ihrem Sohn Franz Leichter, dem späteren langjährigen State Senator von New York die Historikerinnen Jill Lewis, Gabriella Hauch, Veronika Duma, Linda Erker, Elisabeth Klamper und Sabine Plakolm sowie der Soziologe Christan Fleck aus dem Leben einer der großen Pionierinnen Österreichs.“

CfP: Rural History (09/2025, Coimbra); by: 30.09.2024

Seventh biennial conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO) (Web)

Time: 09.-12.09.2025
Venue: Coimbra, Portugal
Proposals by: 30.09.2024

The 7th Biennial Conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO) continues the tradition of the EURHO conferences, held before in Bern (2013), Girona (2015), Leuven (2017), Paris (2019), Uppsala (2021/22) and Cluj (2023).
The EURHO Rural History Conferences have provided a welcoming atmosphere to present the results of already consolidated projects or to test exploratory ideas. The study of rural and agrarian past has involved researchers and students from different disciplines. Historical perspectives have usually been shared with anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, economists, geographers, linguists, sociologists and, recently, biologists, geneticists and chemists. Following the trends of previous conferences, Rural History 2025 in Coimbra would like to receive proposals for sessions and papers that cross analytical perspectives, interdisciplinary methodologies and new scientific objects. The current challenges facing science and society call for new contributions from scholars working on different perspectives of our rural and agrarian past. The Organising Committee encourages the submission of proposals that promote in-depth and pluralistic analyses, dealing with any chronology or territory.
Sessions will be led by a chair or by a chair and a discussant, and will have at least three papers. Each session organisers can decide the maximum number of papers in their panels, although the organising committee recommend no more than 5 proposals for each session, as it will take up two hours. If necessary, the possibility of double sessions could be considered, at the request of those interested, if the space availability allows it. Read more and source … (Web)

Organisers: Univ. of Coimbra, Dulce Freire (Center for Inderdisciplinary Studies & Faculty of Economics) and Carlos Manuel Faísca (Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Researcher, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies) as Chairs of the International Scientific Committee and the Portuguese Organising Committee

CfP: New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (Event, 03/2025, Hamburg); bis: 07.10.2024

Sandra Dinter; Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Univ. Hamburg

Time: 28.-29.03.2025
Venue: Warburg-Haus, Hamburg
Proposals by: 07.10.2024

Although women have always walked and written about their manifold experiences as pedestrians, they were largely neglected in the historiography of walking of the twentieth century. As Deirdre Heddon and Cathy Turner noted in 2012, it had been common practice in cultural and literary histories of walking to present women “as an ‘exception’ to an unstated norm, represented by a single chapter in a book or even a footnote” (225). Following the publication of Lauren Elkin’s Flâneuse: Women Walk the Streets of Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London (2016), research on walking women has expanded and diversified significantly in recent years. Kerri Andrews’s Wanderers: A History of Women Walking (2020) and Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing about Walking (2023) and Annabel Abbs’s Windswept: Why Women Walk (2022), for example, focus exclusively on the writings and representations of women walkers. Critics have begun to develop new approaches to reading, documenting, and theorising women’s pedestrian mobilities, employing practice-based approaches (e.g. Heddon and Myers 2020) and taking into account archival material (e.g. Bredar 2022) and perspectives from material ecocriticism (e.g. Hamilton 2018). Rather than examining representations of women’s walking according to masculine paradigms like Romantic wandering, flânerie, or psychogeography, critics now increasingly examine woman walkers on their own terms.
This conference brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences (e.g. from literary studies, cultural studies, film, TV and theatre studies, art, history, sociology, anthropology, geography etc.) who are working on roles and representations of walking women in Anglophone literatures and cultures from the early modern period to the immediate present. The aim of the conference is to assess current trends in scholarship on walking women, to identify its blind spots, and to develop new perspectives on women walkers by deliberately looking at forms, contexts, media, and periods that have received less or no attention so far. Read more and source … (Web)

CfP: Feminist Perspectives on Social Policy – Global Conversations (Publication); by: 31.08.2024

socialpolicy.ch. The Open-Access-Journal for Social Policy Research in Switzerland; Ingela Naumann and Laura Meier, Univ. of Fribourg (Web)

Proposals by: 31.08.2024

Despite internationally diverse lived experiences within different socio-political and economic contexts, the Covid-19 pandemic – once more – put a spotlight on one common denominator around the world: the persistence of gender inequalities. It revealed intensified gender inequalities with respect to health and access to health care, the distribution of care work, gainful employment and income, and the risks of being subjected to gender-based violence, just to mention a few. An international body of evidence is expanding on the negative impact of gender inequalities on the wellbeing and prosperity of individuals and societies. At the same time, we observe how long fought-for women rights such as the right to abortion (see e.g. USA) or the right to education (see e.g. Afghanistan) are put into question by deepening ideological and political rifts and with anti-gender rhetoric gaining popularity. Showcasing and discussing feminist perspectives on social policy and women’s social welfare worldwide is thus more topical than ever.
This Special Issue brings together diverse feminist approaches to social policy, highlighting theoretical debate, policy and practice examples from around the world. Feminisms, in their aim to address gender inequalities, fight against oppression and improve the lives of women, has taken different paths, forms and orientations in different cultural, religious, political and legal contexts. This Special Issues aims to critically examine the normative underpinnings and social, economic and political dynamics that lead to gendered inequalities, while encouraging international dialogue between multiple gender-sensitive perspectives aimed at improving social welfare and wellbeing in theory, policy and practice.
The editors welcome theoretical, empirical (qualitative as well as quantitative) or action-oriented contributions that bring different feminist perspectives on social policy and social welfare in conversation to each other to encourage ongoing feminist debate: e.g. between liberal feminist theory and relational ethic of care theory; across different policy fields (reproductive health, work/family balance, poverty and social security, social and ecological sustainability and so forth), and between feminist practice and activism in different countries and world regions (e.g. reproductive rights campaigns in the US, Southeastern Europe and Latin America). They particularly welcome contributions that bridge Global North/Global South/Global East divides … read more (PDF).

Source: GenderCampus

CfP: Rural Studies #5 – Kolloquium (Event, 09/2024, Bamberg); bis: 09.08.2024

Rural Studies #5 – Kolloquium (Web)

Zeit: 25.–27.09.2024
Ort: Univ. Bamberg
Einreichfrist: 09.08.2024

Die Herausforderungen der sozial-ökologischen Transformation haben die Bedeutungen und Funktionen ländlicher Räume in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten erheblich verändert, was sich auch in einer zunehmenden Heterogenität von Lebens- und Arbeitsweisen der Bewohner:innen zeigt. Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungsperspektiven auf ländliche Räume sind dabei äußerst facettenreich, aber häufig unterrepräsentiert. Das Kolloquium bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen mit aktuellen Forschungsvorhaben im Kontext ländlicher Räume ein Forum für interdisziplinären Austausch. Ziele dabei sind eine gegenseitige Unterstützung im Forschungsprozess und der Aufbau bzw. die Erweiterung des sozialwissenschaftlichen Netzwerks.
Rural Studies #5 bietet eine Plattform für den wissenschaftlichen Austausch und Diskussionen zum Thema ländliche Räume. Vorgestellte Arbeiten können sich sowohl in der Konzeptions- als auch in der Erhebungs- oder abschließenden Auswertungs- und Analysephase befinden. Die Präsentation der eigenen Forschungsarbeit bildet die Grundlage für den Austausch. Wir möchten dazu einladen, sich qualitativ mit ländlichen Räumen zu beschäftigen, sich wissenschaftlich weiterzuentwickeln und Freude an einem interdisziplinären Austausch zu haben. Beiträge folgender (und angrenzender) Fachdisziplinen sind herzlich willkommen: Anthropologie, Geografie, Ethnologie, Soziale Arbeit, Soziologie, Kultur-, Politik- und Planungswissenschaften. Weiterlesen und Quelle … (Web)

Organisator:innen: Magdalena Riedl (Soziologie, Univ. Jena), Christian Fritsch, Erik Sacha und Friederike Berlinski (Geographie, Univ. Bamberg) sowie Alena Mathis (Europäische Ethnologie, Univ. Bamberg)

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

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)

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