Conferences, Calls for Papers and Events Listings
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Current listings ordered by date of event. Updated 24/08/2010
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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: 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
Conference: The British Society of Sports History 28th Annual Conference, 10-11 September 2010, Wellcome Collection, Euston, London.
The conference will be open themed. The Richard W Cox Postgraduate Prize will be awarded for the best paper presented by a postgraduate student. The conference will receive the Sir Derek Birley Annual Memorial Lecture and a special lecture from the most recent winner of the Lord Aberdare Book Prize.
For further information please contact the Conference Committee at bsshconference@googlemail.com
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.
Conference: Women's History Scotland 2010 Annual Conference, Women In/On the Landscape: Gender, Space and Environment in History, 15-16 October 2010, UHI Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands, Dornoch, Scotland.
This conference will consider women's relationship with the landscape. Papers are not limited to Scottish themes and will include comparative and non-Scottish topics.
Please visit www.womenshistoryscotland.org for updates, or contact Karly Kehoe, karly.kehoe@thurso.uhi.ac.uk.
Women's History Walk: Radical Manchester, HerStoria Magazine/Michael Herbert, Sunday 26 September at 10.45 am.
An approximately 2-hour walk around the City of Manchester. Meet at 10.45 am outside the Co-op Bank on Corporation Street. £6 or £3 concessions or anyone who arrives with a copy of HerStoria Magazine ( www.herstoria.com )
Just turn up, or for further information email Michael: mossley@phonecoop.coop
Call for papers: Memories of War: New Narratives and Untold Stories Conference, Saturday 9 October 2010, University of Greenwich, 30 Park row, London SE10 9LS
This one-day conference forms part of a wider social history project which has examined alternative narratives and previously untold stories of war. The project has encompassed a series of public seminars and the ongoing collection of more than 250 written and oral testimonies from London and south East England residents who lived through the Second World War. This has created a valluable record of local, social history which will form part of an exhiobition to be hosted at the University of Greenwich from 17 September to 15 October 2010. This conference will complete the initial phase of the 'Other Narratives' project and will serve as a platform for new and established academics interested in this area. Although our project's focus is on WW2, conference papers can address any alternative or new narrative on war from the 20th or 21st century. We especially look forward to receiving proposals oon the following themes: Women and war; Reminiscence, remembrance and comradeship; Oral testimony and popular memory; Animals and war; Family history and war; Archives, public/private records and war and Writers and war. We particularly welcome submissions from postgraduate students.
Abstracts of 300 words for a 20-minute paper should be emailed to Dr June Balshaw at memoriesofwar@greenwich.ac.uk Please ensure that submissions include full contact details and institutional affiliation. Deadline for abstracts is Monday 6 September. General enquiries should be addressed to the conference Coordinator, Malin Lundin, at memoriesofwar@gre.ac.uk
Conference: Politics and Practices: The History of Post-War Women's Health, 22-23 October 2010, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
This two-day conference will bring together researchers interested in the history of post-war women's health. In contrast to most histories of women's health which focus on nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this conference aims to showcase research on the politics, policy and practice of women's health after 1945, a much less studied yet dynamic era for women as patients, providers, caregivers, policy-makers and activists. Papers of 20 minutes in length will be offered on the following themes are invited: Women's formal provision on health care; Women as makers and objects of health policy; Women's everyday health practices; Sexual health/health and sexuality; Reproductive health and mothering; Mental health; Women's health activism; The gendering of self-help and the consumer health movement; Women and biomedical research;'Female' diseases; Women and post-war epidemics/AIDS and cancer; Ageing; and Intersections of biomedical and cultural narratives about femininity and womanhood.
For information contact Dr Emma Jones, emma.l.jones@manchester.ac.uk or Dr Elizabeth Toon, elizabeth.toon@manchester.ac.uk.
Conference: 'Marxist perspectives on Irish Society, 22-23 October 2010, University of Limerick
The Marxist Reading Group is to hold its first annual confererence at the University of Limerick. Papers will offer Marxist perspectives on any aspect of modern Ireland, particularly those dealing with: Ireland and the World system; Partition, Religious Sectarianism, the Peace Process; The Labour Movement; The Capitalist State; Community Activism; Racism; Church and State; Publicly-funded Education; National and International Capital; Civil Disobedience and Social control; The Capitalist media; Cultural Politics; Private/Public Partnerships; Children in State and Religious Institutions; Unemployment, Poverty, Inequality; Ecology, Environmentalist Movements; Gender Inequality; Ireland's experience of Boom and Bust; Emigation, Immigration; Rights of LGBT Community; Ideological Change; Language and Literature; Socialist and Left Currents; Minority Rights. Please note that it is intended to publish selected conference proceedings in some form.
Further details available at http://limerickmarxistreadinggroup.webs.com or limerickmarxistreadinggroup@live.ie
Conference: Economic History Society, Women's Committee 21st Annual Workshop, Technology and Gender, 6 November 2010, Institute of Historical Research, London
Papers include Julie Anderson, 'The Queen Mother vs the Bionic Man: older women and medical technology; Francesca Bray, 'What is significant technology?'; Wendy Gamber, 'Gender technologies revisited'; Graeme Gooday, 'The married lives of the engineers: gender issues in domesticating electricity'; Janet Hunter, 'Technology and Gender: some perspectives from Japan'; Chris MacLeod, 'Museums of machinery: how technology and science took masculine shape in 19C Europe' and Maggie Walsh, 'Making the car domestic technology: American women at the wheel'.
Worshop fees £25 non-members, £20 members, £15 unwaged. Ten free places available for postgraduates on a first come first served basis. To book, by the deadline of 1 November, please email Dr Francesca Carnevali, School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT: f.carnevali@bham.ac.uk
Call for papers: Twentieth Century Women: Culture, Media and Leisure, Midlands Women's History Network, Saturday 20 November 2010, 10am-3pm, University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent
In the twentieth century women's lives have been affected by the significant changes in culture and media which have offered a range of new working and leisure opportunities. This conference aims to stimulate debate about these changes and discussion on the representations and consumption of culture, media and leisure in the twentieth century. Submissions are invited for proposals for papers which address any aspect of women's relationship with culture, media or leisure in the twentieth century.
An abstract of approximately 250 words should be sent via email to Dr Maggie Andrews at m.r.andrews@staffs.ac.uk. Deadline: 1 September 2010.
Call for Papers: Public Health and Voluntary Action, a workshop of postgraduates and early career researchers, 20 November 2010, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The workshop will reflect on how historians might research and write histories relating to public health and voluntary action. We welcome papers that emphasise the methodological, thematic or evidential problems, issues, or challenges speakers have encountered in their research. Submissions are invited from all periods and locations; paers might address, but are not limited to, issues as to how charity and voluntary action have targeted public health: philanthropic sector movements or public health campaigns; the running of voluntary institutions; influence over sanitary reform and government legislation.
Proposals of up to 300 words should be emailed to workshops@vahs.org.uk by 24 September 2010. Informal enquiries should also be sent to this address.
Call for papers: History of Education Society Conference 2010, 'Citzenship, Religion and Education', 26-28 November 2010, Garden Halls, 19-26 Cartwright Gardens, London WC1H 9EF
The place of citzenship and religion in education is complex and contested and the relationship between the two is open to debate. This conference will engage with these issues; proposals for papers and presentations are welcomed and should connect to one of the sub-themes:
- Concepts and theories: citizenship, national identity, morality, character, spirituality, religion and faith, thinkers and theorists
- Individuals and groups: educationalists, organisations, pressure groups, networks, religious/faith communities, biographies and autobiographies
- Educational institutions: private and public sectors, different phases (primary, secondary, further, higher) curriculum activities, experiments, ethos, teachers, pupils
- Community and society: families, neighbourhoods, informal education, educational spaces
- Historiographical issues: methodological approaches an sources for studying religion, citizenship and education
Proposals (around 250 words) for papers should be sent as a Microsoft Word attachment to Dr Rob Freathy at r.j.k.freathy@ex.ac.uk by the deadline of 4 September 2010. (There will be a panel for postgraduate students; papers for this will be accepted that do not necessarily address the conference themes. For further information please contact Sarah Winfield, email sjw91@cam.ac.uk). For further information please visit www.historyofeducation.org.uk
Call for papers: Labour History, Class, Cultures and Communities in Action, 27 November 2010, University of Huddersfield, School of Music, Humanities and Media.
Proposals for papers of 15 minutes from postgraduate researchers interested in history in its widest sense, in terms of class, culture and community, are welcomed. In addition, proposals are welcome from potential panel members to debate 'Politics or people - the true history of labout identities?'. Panel members should be prepared to take a particular theoretical perspective such as gender, nationalism, regional identities, biography, class, leisure and so on.
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to Professor Keith Laybourn (postgraduate researchers) at k.laybourne@hud.ac.uk or Neil Pye (panel proposals) at neil.pye@hud.ac.uk. Deadline: 31 July 2010.
Call for papers: 'Gender, Time and Memory', Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, 6-8 January 2011, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research, Swansea University
This conference will examine how issues of gender impact on the ways in which time and memory were conceptualised in the Middle Ages, and will consider how memories were generated, recorded and stored for posterity. In the Middle Ages there existed a multitude of time-frames; religious time was regarded as more important than secular time, and the life cycle was prioritised over the linear passage of time. Monastic time differed greatly from time within the aristocratic household, and time was often measured with reference not to the Julian calendar, but to saints’ days and religious festivals. Men have traditionally been regarded as the recorders of history, with women cast as preservers of familial and communal knowledge, often allied to folklore, orality, and the ‘natural’ world. This conference will explore these issues in terms of gender, considering the complex relationship between memory, culture, and gendered attitudes and practices. The conference will also identify how the past was remembered and framed within a gendered context, and will point to how potentially misguided attitudes to time and memory can lead to erroneous assumptions about the past. We hope to welcome scholars from a range of disciplines, including history, literature, art history and archaeology.
A travel fund exists to which applications can be made to support attendance for postgraduate students who wish to present a paper. Prosposals for 20 minute papers should include name, research area, institution and level of study if applicable. It is hoped an edited volume arising from Conference proceedings will be published after the event. Proposals of no more than 300 words should be emailed to gms.swansea.2011@gmail.com by the deadline 1 September 2010.
Call for papers: Women and Civil Society Study Day, Southern WHN, 12 February 2011, University of Kent, Medway Campus
Papers are invited on any theme of 'Women and Civil Society'. 'Civil Society' can be defined as the institutions, organisations and individuals which stand apart from, but in relations to, the market, the family and government. Papers can deal with historical and/or contemporary issues, within the UK and internationally, including women in social movements and pressure groups; gender and global civil society and voluntarism, philanthropy and the 'third sector'. We welcome papers from all researchers, including postgraduate students and independent scholars, in history, social science, law and related disciplines. Papers should be suitable for an audience including undergraduates.
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to Dr Anne Logan at A.F.Logan@kent.ac.uk by 1 November 2010.
Call for papers: Leisure, Pleasure and the urban spectacle, Urban History Group, 31 March -1 April 2011, Robinson college, University of Cambridge
The conference theme explores broadly the pursuit of 'pleasure' in the context of the history of towns and cities, with a special interest in investigating the significance of specifically urban forms of pleasure and leisure (both licit and illicit) for understanding the historical dynamics of social, economic and cultural relationships.
For further information pleae contact s.ewen@leedsmet.ac.uk. Abstract deadline (500 words) 29 October 2010.
Conference: Fabricating the Body: Textiles and human health in historical perspective, Pasold Research Fund conference, 6-8 April 2011, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
This conference aims to bring together historians of textiles and clothing, and of health, with scholars of social, medical, cultural, and economic history to examine the rich connections between textiles, human health and welfare, environmental issues, and self expression (including ‘sunlight seekers’ and ‘body culture’ movements of the past 150 years). The conference welcomes papers that will address four main themes: Early modern and modern textiles manufacturing and the association of benign and malign influences in the growth of industry and the impact on the labour force, land and water use; The modern environmental costs of textiles production, from soil utilisation (and erosion) to the chemical manufacture of man-made fibres and the consequences of toxic minerals and chemicals for both workers and the wider community; The animal world and the costs of textile and skin production: hunting, farming, and human-animal health concerns. The rise of a new politics of health around animal utilisation; The textile sector in relation to future environmental degradation, bio-health and sustainability.
Further information available from Professor Jo Melling, email: j.l.melling@exeter.ac.uk
Call for papers: Social History Society Annual Conference 2011, 12-14 April 2011, University of Manchester
The Society's conference has no single theme. It is organised in 6 strands: Deviance, inclusion and exclusion; Life-cycles and Life-styles; Markets, culture and society; Political cultures, policy and citizenship; Narratives, emotions and the self; Spaces and places.We encourage sumissions of panels of up to 4 speakers and indiviual papers of up to 20 minutes. Postgraduate students are encouraged to offer papers. Papers presented can be submitted to the Society's journal, Cultural and Social History, to be onsidered for publication.
For further details, and to submit proposals, please visit the conference web at www.socialhistory.gellius.net/annualconference.php General enquiries should be addressed to Mrs Linda Persson, l.persson@lancaster.ac.uk. Deadline for proposals is 4 October 2010.
Call for papers: Childhoods Conference: Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood, 5-7 May 2011, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
This multidisciplinary conference will engage scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of academic disciplines (including the sciences, arts, humanities, social sciences, policy studies, and education) in a consideration of the state of child studies, which has changed significantly in recent decades. Various disciplines consider childhood as an experience, as a biological fact, as a social category, as an artistic and literary construct, as a category for historical and demographic analysis, as a category of personhood, and as a locus for human rights and policy interventions. Participating scholars will examine childhoods of the past, present, and future from around the world, and will present research results, policy approaches, and theoretical paradigms that are emergent in this re-engagement with the child and childhood. Bringing together divergent networks of expertise, this conference offers the opportunity for new research collaborations and the scholarly dissemination of innovative research.
For presentations (20 minutes)and posters please submit a 300-500 word abstract via the conference website: www.uleth.ca/conreg/childhoods/. Deadline: 1 October 2010.
Conference: 'Women of the world': women's international activism in national contexts from the 19th to the mid-20th century, Friday 13 May 2011, Lille, France
This workshop is organised by the Voix et voies de femmes component of the CECILLE (Centre d'Etudes en civilisations, Langues et Lettres Etrangeres) laboratory at Lille 3 University. It is to be held prior to an international conference on 'The cross-border roles played by women in European construction from the Renaissance to the 21st century' due to take place in Lille in June 2011. (We plain to organise a second workshop focused upon the post-1945 period at a later date in 2011.) Topics of interest willinclude: anti-slavery, pacifist, feminist, imperialist, suffragist groups; professional organisations; 'regional' bodies; political organisations;and other national or local body involved in this process of internationalisation including trade unions, single-issue pressure groups, political movements, whether female-only or mixed. Papers may cover one or more national spaces, as long as the analysis focuses on the articulation between trans- or international mobilisations and national political and institutional con texts. A selection of papers is to be published in an edited volume.
For information please contact (Magali.DellaSudda@EUI.eu), Fatma Ramdani (fatma.ramdani@univ-paris13.fr) or Philippe Vervaecke (philippe.veraecke@univ-lille3.fr).
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
Call for papers: Disability and the Victorians, Confronting Legacies, 30 July - 1 August 2012, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Leeds Trinity University College
The 19C was the period during which disability was conceptualised, categorised and defined. The industrial revolution, advances in medicine, the emergence of philanthropy and the growth of asylums all played their part in creating what today's society describes as the medical model of disability. Disability can be traced through many forms: in material culture and literary genres; scientific, medical and official enquiries; art, architecture; the history of disabled charities; disabled people's experiences; the legacies of phrenology and physiognomy; events such as the 1880 Milan conference, and the taxonomies of disability; the intersection of disability, theories of evolution and anthropology, gender and degeneration. How can we draw disabled voices and testimonies together to consturct 'the long view'? What are the advantages and challenges of teaching about disability and the disabled in the Victorian period?
Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, posters and other forms of presentation (eg creative writing) that open up new lines of research. Those with an involvement in disability, and papers that adopt a comparative frame and cross normal disciplinary boundaries are especially sought, but studies with a narrower focus seeking to challenge Victorian legacies are also welcome The deadline for proposals (for panels no longer than 500 words; for papers and presentations no longer than 250 words) is 4 October 2010. At this stage your proposal may be exploratory. Please send to/contact Karen Sayer, k.sayer@leedstrinity.ac.uk (a fuller call is also available).