Conferences, Calls for Papers and Events Listings
To publicise your event or conference on this page please send details to Dr Claire Jones at web@womenshistorynetwork.org
Current listings ordered by date of event. Updated 27/02/2010
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Event: The 2010 Ursula Masson Memorial Lecture and Book Launch, Monday 8 March 2010, 6.00 pm, Glamorgan Conference Centre, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd
Professor June Hannam of the University of the West of England will give the second Ursula Masson Memorial Lecture. Her topic will be 'Writing to History: Autobiographies of the first Labour Women MPs'. We will also be launching Dr Masson's book: 'For Women, For Wales and for Liberalism': Women in Liberal Politics in Wales 1880-1914 (University of Wales Press). This lecture is open to the general public as well as members of the University, Llafur, the Women's History Network and the Welsh Women's Archive. Refreshments will be served from 5.30 pm and a buffet will be served after the lecture.
This event is free of charge (but donations to the Ursula Masson Memorial fund will be gratefully accepted: please make cheques payable to the University of Glamorgan). RSVP to Jane Aaron: jaaron@glam.ac.uk
Event: 'The Voice of Women in Wales': International Women's Day Anthology, Wednesday 10 March 6pm-8pm, Country Hall, Cardiff
Featuring Julie Lydon, Vice Chancellor of the University of Glamorgan, Gillian Clarke, National Poet for Wales, and judging panel Dr Jeni Williams, Shelagh Weeks, Jo Verity and Sarah Edmonds. Includes Refreshments.
To book a place please email suzy-barrett@wwnc.org.uk
Call for papers: Women, War and Remembrance, Saturday 13 March 2010, National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire
This conference is organised by the National Memorial Arboretum, Midlands Women's History Network and Staffordhire University. Confirmed speakers include Dorothy sheridan, Lucy Noakes, Janis Lomas and Debra Marshall. Although women have not necessarily been central to official forms of remembrance, their lives have been shaped directly and indirectly by war and the memory of war, and representations of women's wartime experiences, women's personal memories and writing, have contributed to public perceptions of war and war iconography.
Submissions for proposals for papers which address any aspect of women, war and remembrance are invited. Please send a c 250 word abstract to Dr Maggie Andrews via email: m.r.andrews@staffs.ac.uk by 15 January 2010.
Call for papers: 40th anniversary of the first UK Women's Liberation Conference, 12-13 March 2010, Ruskin College, Oxford.
Are you doing feminist work? Research, activism, support services, teaching or something else? A broad range of papers, panels and workshop sessions, as well as creative sessions. for two days.
For more information and booking please visit www.wlm40conference.org.uk
Conference: Space, Place and Environment: Historical Approaches, Day Conference, March 2010, Gender History Group, University of Southern Denmark.
A range of papers relating to historical approaches on the theme of 'Space, Place and Environment' will be presented, including: City and country; domestic and public space; using/abusing the environment; gendered spaces; individual and collective identities and public history and the use of space. This day conference has been organised to coincide with International Women's Week in March 2010.
For more information please contact Theresa Jepsen: thjep04@student.sdu.dk
Conference: Religion and Modern British History Symposium, Saturday 27 March 2010, Abden House, University of Edinburgh
Keynote speakers Professor Stewart J. Brown ('The Broad Church Movement and National Culture in Great Britain') and Dr Martin Spence ('Premillennialism, Society and Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain'. Papers of no longer than 25 minutes will be presented on topics related to the influence of religion in Britain from c 1750-2000, covering national or local developments.
Charge £25 to include lunch and refreshments; postgraduates £15. For more information visit www.mbhn.org.uk or email Cullen Clark at c.t.clark@stir.ac.uk.
Conference: Social History Annual Conference, 30 March- 1 April 2010, University of Glasgow
A wide range of papers will be presented grouped under the following themes: Deviance, Inclusion and Exclusion; Global Markets and Social Orders; Life-cycles and Life-styles; Political Cultures, Policy and citezenship; Narratives, Emotions and the Self; and Spaces and Places. Keynote speaker Frank Mort, Professor of cultural histories, University of Manchester.
Please visit the website for further details: www.socialhistory.org.uk
Conference: Women's History Network Midlands Region, Bad Women, 24 April 2010, 9.30am-1.30pm, University of Worcester.
Throughout history women have often been labelled as deviant, deranged, difficult, or even daring when their behaviour did not conform to contemporary notions of how femininity should be represented. Whether or not they were really 'bad' is debatable. Papers of 30 minutes are invited for this event which explore any of these themes.
For information contact Sue Johnson at s.johnson@worc.ac.uk Sue Johnson, IHCA, University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ.
Conference: Tenth York Cultural History Conference, Femininities, 22-24 April 2010, University of York
This three-day international conference, organised by the Department of History, focuses on the theme of 'femininities'. It brings together leading international scholars to examine the state of the field in women's history, gender history and the history of sexuality and to consider the past, present and future of the category of 'femininities' as a category of historical analysis. Speakers include Judith Halberstam, Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Barbara Taylor. Postgraduate attendance is particularly encouraged and there is a reduced registration fee for all postgraduate student delegates.
For further information please visit www.york.ac.uk/depts/hist/research/conf/femininities/ or email femininities@events.york.ac.uk Conference organisers: Henrice Altink, Jeremy Goldberg, Hannah Greig and Joanna de Groot.
Conference: More than a Spa Resort? The urban experience in Bath since the Reformation, 24 April 2010, Bath Spa University
Bath is a city in need of historical reappraisal. Much historiography focuses on the city as a spa resort and the personalities involved in its developmet, but little has been written on the residential population and links between then and the visitors. The City could be seen as a centre for entrepreneurs, employment and education beyond London and as a focus for conversation and opinion. How did these and other social networks develop and how were they maintained? To explore these issues, Bath Spa is hosting this international symposium on 24 April, with a view to holding a conference later in the year placing Bath within the European context. Themes include urbanisation, space, class, gender, philanthropy, education, religion, political culture and any other subject relating to the urban milieu.
For information and programme please visit: http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/humanities-and-cultural-industries/history/symposium.asp or email
Conference: New Perspectives on Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Scotland, The Economic and Social History Society of Scotland, 7-8 May 2010, Apex Hotel, Dundee
This conference brings together scholars offering new perspectives on seventeenth and eighteenth-century Scotland. The conference will be organised under seven themes: social, economic, gender, cultural, religious, political and diaspora history. For further information please contact Iain Hutchinson, School of Law & Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA. Email: iain@keapub.fsnet.co.uk
Conference: Women and the Writing of History in Early Modern Britain and France, Women as Witnesses to History, Friday 14 May 2010, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
The contribution of women to the dominant historical genres, such as chronicles, official historiography, religious and political history, was isolated and sporadic. Yet, even if women write differently to men, their presence on the historical stage and their contacts with those who made history allowed them to provide precise accounts of the immediate past. These dedicated female spectators are the authors of important testimonies on which this conference will focus. A comparison between Britain and France will shed light on national differences.
Venue: Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Nouvelle, 4 rue des Irlandais. 75005. For further information email: claire.gheeraert@univ-rouen.fr or dubois-nayt@iut-velizy.uvsq.fr
Conference: 'Inventing and Reinventing the Irish woman, 1760-2000', 21-22 May 2010, University of Limerick, Ireland
This forms part of an interdisciplinary conference, 'Inventing the Gendered Consumer from the early modern to post modern period'. Topics include the relationship between gender and the growth of consumerism and the role of class, race, identity and age.
For information please contact Bernadette Whelan, Bernadette.whelan@ul.ie, Department of History, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Conference: The 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Conference, Life Writing and Intimate Politics, 28 June - 2 July 2010, University of Sussex, Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research.
Keynote speakers include Nancy K. Miller, Sidonie Smith, Jenny Diski, Liz Stanley and Alessandro Portelli. Papers are welcomed connected to the following themes: How do life writings construct citizenship, civic relations and/or counter-publics? What intimacies are facilitated by life writings and life stories? How does life writing relate to life story, life history and oral history? How has life writing and life story participated in care contests such asparenting, social work, health and education? What engagements do/should life writing and life history have with therapeutic cultures? How does the economy of life story production and consumption relate to the construction of intimate publics and who are its consumers and producers? In what ways can we compare ethical codes for life writing, oral history and life history? How do life writing and life history contribute to public and private archives and to public history/heritage? How does life writing construct or obstruct cross-cultural or cross-linguistic relationships? As we understand more about the work of life writing, how is life writing making us work? What relationships persist between life writing as asthetic and as social act?
Information from The Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QQ, UK. Email: Iaba2010@sussex.ac.uk
Conference: West of England and South Wales WHN, 16th Annual Conference, Women as producers and consumers in history, Saturday 10 July 2010, Sarum College, Salisbury
This conference will consider women on both sides of commerce in all historical periods. The keynote speaker will be Rachel Worth, Professor of Fashion History at the Arts University College, Bournemouth. Orofessor Worth is the author of Fashion for the People: A History of Clothing at Marks & Spencer, which will be the subject of her lecture. Papers will be presented covering the possessions and activities of women in manufacturing, crafts and trades, shops and markets. Academic historians and others working with historical topics, postgraduates and independent researchers are all most welcome.
Please visit http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/swhisnet/swhisnet.htm For information contact Jane Howells, email jane@sarum-editorial.co.uk
Conference: Voluntary Action History Society International Conference, 14-16 July 2010, University of Kent at Canturbury, UK
Papers will cover any aspect of charity and voluntary action, in any historical period. The VAHS conference is organised in association with the Centre for Philanthropy, Humanitarianism and Social Justice at the University of Kent.
For further information please contact Dr Pat Starkey at p.m.starkey@liverpool.ac.uk
Conference: Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS), Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles, 16-18 July 2010, University of Cambridge
This symosium will comprise keynote addresses, panel discussions, a tour of Cambridge college libraries, formal conference dinner, publications fair and wine recetion. Papers will be presented by scholars working in a range of disciplines including English, History, Literature, Philosophy and Religious Studies. Please visit the website, www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/diary/cics for further details or email CambridgeICS@gmail.com
Conference: Engendering Gender: Production, Transmission and Change, 1450-1950, Tuesday 20 July 2010, University of Exeter
This interdisciplinary conference will explore concepts of genered identities. Breaking free of the traditional constraints of periodisation, we will consider how far gender identities are modified by religious, political. medical and social and cultural shifts, or are punctuated only by sudden, limited, periods of change. In particualr, 'Engendering Gender' aims to explore key sites of gender construction and the transmission of gendered norms, both public and private. Keynote speakers: Professor Anthony Fletcher and Dr Michael Roper.
For further information please email Dr Henry French, H.French@exeter.ac.uk or Dr Jennie Jordan, J.Jordan@exeter.ac.uk
Conference, The International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH), Amsterdam, August 2010 (in conjunction with the 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences, 22-28 August 2010) Unequal Sisters: Women, Gender, and Global Inequalities in Historical Perspective.
The general theme of our 2010 conference will be: “Unequal Sisters: Women, Gender, and Global Inequalities in Historical Perspective.” The aim of this theme is to focus on and further explore women’s history from a global and non-Western perspective. Within that frame we are looking for papers that deal with a variety of material and nonmaterial inequalities and hierarchies – such as those related to class, gender, “race,” caste, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, education, age, or health – that have affected women’s lives in and across all parts of the world and in different historical periods. We also hope to explore the many ways in which women have challenged or fought these inequalities and hierarchies, i.e., through different kinds of politics and activism, as well as individual actions and forms of resistance in the so-called “private sphere.”
We welcome papers that rethink relations and interconnections between women and women’s organizations in different regions and parts of the world and encourage panels with an international composition that explore topics, concepts, historical events, and/or the role of organizations and individuals from a variety of locations and perspectives. How, for instance, are Clara Zetkin, Paulina Luisi, or Sarojini Naidu remembered in different locations and political contexts? Were there other local, national, regional, or transnational leaders or “heroines” that inspired women in their various struggles? What forms did patriarchy take in different historical and geographical contexts, and how did it interact with capitalism? How did “race” shape women’s lives and women’s movements in differing temporal and spatial contexts? What was the impact of the imposition of Western gender categories in places where “woman” as a social category did not exist? In what ways did women in varied times and places challenge particular and intersecting hierarchies?
Registering: The IFRWH is an affiliated organization with the ICHS (or CISH, in French). Therefore participants in the IFRWH Congress must register centrally for the ICHS 2010 Congress. The online registration form for the ICHS 2010 congress in now operational. All participants need to register through this online form but payment can be made at a later date. For information on how to register and the online form, see the website: http://www.ichs2010.org/
If you have any questions about registration, please write to info@ichs2010.org For other questions and suggestions, please write to Francisca de Haan, Vice President, IFRWH, on behalf of the Program Committee, at dehaanf@ceu.hu, or visit the website of the IFRWH at http://www.ifrwh.com/
Conference: Urban perspectives on nursing and midwifery, 1700-2000 (A special session at the European Association of Urban Historians: 10th International Conference on Urban history) 1-4 September 2010 at Ghent, Belgium.
For further information please visit www.eauh2010.ughent.be or email Anne Borsay: a.borsay@swan.ac.uk.
Conference: H-WRBI Annual Conference, Female religious on the British Isles: Interactions with the Continent, 1-4 September 2010, Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe.
Interactions between convents and female religious on the British Isles and continent were intense and diverse throughout the medieval, early modern and modern period. This conference will address the many unanswered questions concerning medieval interactions, the early modern exile of English religious and convents and the flow of women religious and religious institutes from the continent to Britain and Ireland.
Programme and booking forms will be found on our website after 2 April 2010. For information visit www.rhul.ac.uk/Bedford-Centre/history-women-religious or email kristien.suenens@kadoc.kuleuven.be
Conference: In the Loop 2: Knitting, origins and evolutions, 1-4 September 2010, Shetland Museum and Archives, Lerwick, Shetland
This second interdisciplinary conference proposes an exploration of knitting from a broad range of practical and theoretical perspectives within the theme of tradition and renewal. Papers will cross geographical or chronological boundaries in the following areas: Knitting, traditions and their renewal in the 21st century; knitting narratives, film, literature, music, poetry and the internet; knitting, fashion knitwear including the industry; knitting cultures from across the world; and knitting, artists and designers crossing boundaries.
For information please contact J.A.Horgan@soton.ac.uk
Call for Papers: The British Society of Sports History 28th Annual Conference, 10-11 September 2010, Wellcome Collection, Euston, London.
The conference will be open themed. Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes in length with 10 minutes for questions. The Richard W Cox Postgraduate Prize will be awarded for the best paper presented by a postgraduate student. Please indicate when you submit your abstract if you wish to be considered for this award. Theconference will receive the Sir Derek Birley Annual Memorial Lecture and a special lecture from the most recent winner of the Lord Aberdare Book Prize.
Abstracts of no longer than 200 words, and ideas for specialist panels, should be sent to the Conference Committee at bsshconference@googlemail.com
Deadline: Friday 9 April 2010.
Conference: International Perspectives on Nursing History, 14-16 September 2010, Royal Holloway, University of London.
For information please visit www.nursesvoices.org.uk/conference/index.html.
Call for Papers: Women's History Scotland 2010 Annual Conference, Women In/On the Landscape: Gender, Space and Environment in History, 15-16 October 2010, Dornoch
This conference will consider women's relationship with the landscape. We wil be looking for proposals for 20 minute papers which engage with this theme over historical time and place. Please visit www.womenshistoryscotland.org for updates.
Conference: Gossip, Gospel and Governance: Orality in Europe 1400-1700, 14-16 July 2011, British Academy, London
An international conference on orality in early modern Europe, organised by the Medieval and Early Modern Research Group at Northumbria University. The aim is to explore the spoken word in a range of contexts: indoors and outside; from the pulpit, stage or lectern; in political discourse and as a method of instruction. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches ranging from literature and art history to musicology and the history of language, the conference will bring together scholars from an international field, working in different languages and cultures. The language of the conference will be English.
For information plese contact Dr Alex Cowan, a.cowan@northumbria.ac.uk or Dr Lesley Twomey, lesley.twomey@northumbria.ac.uk