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The History Lab Seminar is now inviting papers for the 2013-14 academic year. These seminars are a great opportunity to present your on-going work or research conclusions to fellow postgraduates and early career historians in a relaxed and convivial atmosphere, and to obtain valuable feedback from peers.

Papers can be on any aspect or time period of historical study, broadly defined to include interdisciplinary topics from related disciplines. They should be around 45 minutes long, or, alternatively, we also welcome the submission of joint seminars with two papers of 20 to 25 minutes duration (even if the two topics are loosely related). All seminars are followed by a discussion session lasting around 15 minutes. If you would like to give a paper, but would rather it were the shorter length, do let us know and we will try to match you up with someone else in a similar situation in a related field.

The seminars are a great way to socialise with historians and postgraduates who are at similar stages in their careers, and as such the seminars always finish with drinks (and there are frequent post-seminar pub visits).

If you are interested, please send an abstract of between 250 and 350 words outlining your proposed paper to the seminar convenors at postgraduateearlycareerseminar@gmail.com. Please include some brief information about the stage you are at in your studies, your academic background, and your research interests. Seminars will all take place at the Institute of Historical Research (Senate House, London). We are able to podcast the seminars on our website – which is a great opportunity for public engagement. Therefore, please indicate in your submission whether you are willing to have your paper recorded.
The deadline for submission is Friday the 31st of May 2013.

Simon Parsons, Seminar Convenor for History Lab, History Lab, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU. Email: postgraduateearlycareerseminar@gmail.com Visit the website at http://www.flickr.com/photos/65984877@N03/8695998820/in/photostream

The Gendered Knowledges project is holding a Gender and Sexuality(ies) Interdisciplinary Workshop on 12th June 2013 at the University of Warwick. Gendered Knowledges is a newly launched research project that aims to explore radical interdisciplinary pedagogies in relation to Gender and Sexuality. The project, funded by the Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL), will ultimately result in creating an interdisciplinary MA module on Gender and Sexuality at the University of Warwick.

The workshop aims to bring together staff, research students, and post-doctoral researchers from different faculties and departments across the university who are engaged in research on gender and sexuality. It will bring together scholars from all disciplines and all faculties to discuss how gender and sexuality studies are understood and used in and across different disciplines, how we can conceptualize interdisciplinary approach(es) to gender and sexuality, and how can we promote an interdisciplinary community of researchers at Warwick, and beyond.

We are pleased to have Dr Rahul Rao (Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS) as the keynote speaker, who will discuss the topic: is there a Queer Question? If so, what does it look like? Who is asking it? And what does posing the Queer Question do to the very notion of questioning the place of troublesome groups in relation to a putatively common humanity?

We encourage staff, research students and post-doctoral researchers from all discipline across all faculties, whose research interests are related to issues of gender and/or sexualities, to present their research. This includes work in progress. We are looking for presentations that will stimulate a vibrant discussion around the themes of gender, sexuality and interdisciplinarity.

Each panel will be composed of a number of short presentations, followed by a facilitated session designed to stimulate roundtable discussion. We are looking for 5-7 minute presentations that relate to the following themes:

·         Interdisciplinarity

·         Bodies

·         Power

·         Queer

Please send an abstract of no more than 150 words to gendered.knowledges@warwick.ac.uk by 18^th of May 2013.

The aim of the workshop, starting from participants’ own research interests, is to provide an open space for participants to develop a meaningful conversation on the future and possibility of interdisciplinary research in gender and sexuality studies. If you would like to be part of the discussions but would not like to present a paper, please email us at gendered.knowledges@warwick.ac.uk , as places are limited.

Gender, the Refugee and Displacement (1900-1950)

Newcastle University, Friday 5^th July 2013

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Professor Peter Gatrell (Manchester University)

Call For Papers: This interdisciplinary one-day symposium will interrogate the links between gender and displacement from the turn of the twentieth century, through both World Wars and into the post-war period. Addressing a crucial gap in scholarship surrounding displacement and gender within the critical canon of war studies, it asks how gender influences or impacts displacement during the two world wars and how, in particular, men and women experience and represent displacement differently?  It interrogates the historic association of the refugee with the female, existing outside the symbolic order and beyond the nation, particularly at times of war (Plain, 1994). It addresses the embodied experience of displacement, such as the tendency for refugees and Internally Displaced People to experience rape, torture and physical violence as well as other forms of emotional or physical hardship, as well as the representation of displacement in literary, biographical and historical works with relation to ideas around gender and empowerment during this period. In particular, this conference brings together academics working across the disciplines, looking at the intersections between gender and displacement in a range of discourses legal and historical, literary and political, artistic and geographical in and around the two world wars. It welcomes abstracts from across the humanities and social sciences.

Papers are invited on any aspect of gender and displacement during this period, including but not exclusive to:

·         Male/female experiences of displacement;

·         Male/female descriptions or representations of displacement;

·         Childhood and displacement;

·         The politics of displacement/ power and displacement;

·         The experiences of IDPs and refugees;

·         Race and displacement;

·         Histories/geographies of displacement;

·         Theories of displacement;

·         The UN Convention on Refugees and the legal aspects of displacement.

Please send 300 word abstracts to Katherine Cooper (Katherine.cooper@ncl.ac.uk) before 17 May 2013.

For more information: http://genderanddisplacementconf.wordpress.com/

This conference is supported by a generous grant from Newcastle University’s Gender Research Group.

Organised by: Katherine Cooper

 Katherine Cooper

PhD Candidate

School of English Language, Literature and Linguistics,

Newcastle University

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/study/postgraduate/students/KatherineCooper.htm

Gender, The Refugee and Displacement, 1900-1950 Conference

5th July 2013, Newcastle University

http://genderanddisplacementconf.wordpress.com/

Recognising Diversity?: Gender and Sexual Equalities In Principle and Practice

20th & 21st June: Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds

Recognising Diversity?: Gender and Sexual Equalities In Principle and Practice marks the end of the research project ‘Recognising Diversity?: Equalities In Principle and Practice’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (PI. Dr. Sally Hines, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS), University of Leeds). The project was designed to provide knowledge transfer of Sally Hines’ previous research which explored understandings, meanings and significance of the UK Gender Recognition Act (GRA). Set within the context of an increasing legal, policy and political focus on ‘equality’ and ‘diversity,’ and a raft of other legal and policy shifts around gender and sexuality, the GRA promised increased rights and recognition for trans people. Yet, the project found that whilst some trans people were afforded increased levels of citizenship, others were further marginalised. Fuelled by ‘rights based’ claims for inclusion founded on notions of ‘sameness’, findings from the project suggested that equality and diversity agendas fail to account for ‘difference’. This 2 Day Conference explores these issues in relation to UK gender and sexualities equalities and diversities more broadly. In keeping with the aims of the knowledge transfer award, it seeks to bring academics working around equalities and diversities together with policy makers, activists, journalists, artists, and campaigning/support organisations to explore the significance of recent UK cultural, social, political, legal, and policy shifts which address gender and sexuality. The conference will centre the importance of dialogue both across academic disciplines and between academic and non-academic members and user group communities.

Invited speakers will speak to the following themes across the 2 days:

*Community Organising *Policy Change and Resistance
*Intimate Diversities *Intersecting Inequalities
*Cultural Politics *Queer(y)ing Theory and Activism
*Resisting Liberation Narratives *Policies and Practices of Care

Serge Nicholson and Laura Bridgeman will present a reading from There Is No Word For It: Trans MANgina Monologues (Hot Pencil Press) following the Conference Dinner on the first evening. Serge will also introduce his film Trans Guys Are., which will be screened on day two of the conference. LGBT Youth Theatre Group Side By Side will perform on the second day of the conference. The conference will close with a screening of Jason Elvis Barker’s film Millennium Man and a talk/Q & A with Jason.

For full details of speakers and conference timetable see the Conference Programme at: http://www.gender-studies.leeds.ac.uk/

Registration: Please follow the link below for online registration: http://store.leeds.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=78&modid=1&compid=1

The deadline for registration is Friday 7th June.

Travel, Conference Venue, Conference Dinner, and Accommodation
The conference will be held in The Carriage Works, which is located at No. 3 Millennium Square in the centre of Leeds. The postcode is LS2 3AD
See: carriageworkstheatre.org.uk

The venue is a few minutes’ walk from the train station and there are city center car parking facilities. There is a wide range of nearby accommodation to suit different budgets
The conference dinner will be held in the nearby University of Leeds Refectory and delegates will be guided to the dinner venue from the conference.

Conference Contacts:
Sally Hines: Email: s.hines@leeds.ac.uk; Stefanie Boulila: Email: s.c.boulila@leeds.ac.uk

Conference Fees
2 Day Waged: £150 (including conference dinner) 2 Day Unwaged/Student: £50 (including conference dinner)
Thursday 1 Day Waged: £100 (including conference dinner) Thursday 1 Day Unwaged/Student: £30 (including conference dinner)
Friday 1 Day Waged: £80 Friday 1 Day Unwaged: £25

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Call for Papers — Due May 31, 2013

The Wayne State University Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research is an interdisciplinary conference inviting new perspectives on current practices in the editing and presentation of literary texts in all media.  The symposium will take place at Wayne State University at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center on Thursday, September 26, 2013. All events are free and open to the public.

In what ways do opportunities made possible by digital environments inform editorial choices for both screen and page?  How has archival research been affected by digital tools? What new literary, hermeneutic, and scholarly projects are now possible?  To what degree do new approaches and methods of editing texts challenge existing narratives of criticism and literary history? We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words on these subjects as well as the following broad topics:

• Literary publishing and branding

• Digital archives
• Archival research
• Scholarly editing
• Canons and canonicity
• Literary reception
• Textual aesthetics
• Digital poetics

Please send your abstract, contact information, and a brief c.v. by May 31st to:

Caroline Maun, Associate Professor
Department of English
Wayne State University

caroline.maun@wayne.edu

Or, use the form below to send in your materials.  Be sure to indicate any audio visual needs you anticipate.

All events are free and open to the public. We request registration of all attendees, available at the link above.

The Wayne State University Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research is supported by a Research Enhancement in the Arts and Humanities Grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research, the WSU Humanities Center Working Group on the History of the Book, and the Department of English at Wayne State University.

CONCEPTA: International Research School in Conceptual History

Offered in cooperation with the Dept. of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, the Dept. of History, University of Southern Denmark, and the Graduate School of Arts, Aarhus University

In the summer of 2013, Concepta, International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought, and partner institutions will organize the eight Introduction to Conceptual History course (the course have been located at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in the previous years). An international team of distinguished scholars and visiting lecturers will help participants critically examine the chief concepts in the humanities and social sciences from new perspectives. The goal of conceptual history is to illuminate the concepts and ideas that are central to the operation of political and social life through the study of their migration, reception, translation, and diffusion through time and space. Conceptual analysis involves looking at larger semantic, discursive, ideological and rhetorical settings in which concepts are given meaning. Doing conceptual history, therefore, demands familiarity with a variety of linguistically oriented approaches to discourse and ideology, as well as to rhetoric. The course has two main objectives. First, it introduces students to the fundamental aspects of the theory and methodology of conceptual history (scholars such as Reinhart Koselleck, Quentin Skinner, John Pocock, and Michel Foucault), which they can then use as tools in their own research. Second, it explores contemporary trends in conceptual history through case studies. The course includes a series of lectures, a seminar and workshops. It is designed for Danish and international PhD and advanced Master’s degree students from various academic fields.

TEACHERS AND LECTURERS

• Professor Martin Burke, CUNY, New York
• Senior Researcher Margrit Pernau, , Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
• Professor Helge Jordheim, University of Oslo
• Postdoc Jani Marjanen, CENS, Helsinki University
• Professor Michael Freeden, University of Nottingham
• Emeritus Senior Research Fellow Hans Erich Bödeker, The Max Planck Institute, Göttingen.
• Professor Joao Feres Junior, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Assistant Professor Niklas Olsen, SAXO, KU
• Associate Professor Jeppe Nevers, History, SDU
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Culture and Global Studies Poul Duedahl, AAU
• Vice-Dean Jan Ifversen, ARTS, AU
• Associate professor Bertel Nygaard, Dept. of Culture and Society, AU
• Associate Professor Christoffer Kølvraa, Dept. of Culture and Society, AU
• Assistant professor Christian Olaf Christensen, Dept. of Culture and Society, AU

TIME, PLACE, DURATION, ECTS

Time: 12-23. August 2013

Place: University of Aarhus

Duration: 60 contact hours

ECTS: 6

Find detailed programme here.

Admission requirements:

In order to be admitted you have to document:
- your PhD relation to your home university (educational background)
- the relevance of your course application related to your PhD programme (pre-approval)
- motivation letter (max 200 words) and an overview of current research and interests (max 200 words)

Application deadline: April 15th 2013

NOTICE NEW DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: MAY 7, 2013

Doctoral students registered at the following institutions will not have to pay the tuition fee

• The PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities, Copenhagen University
• The doctoral programme SPIRIT, Aalborg University
• The Graduate School, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark
• The Graduate School of Arts, Aarhus University

Apply by sending en email and attach the requested documentation to: Jan Ifversen jif@adm.au.dk

Tuition fee (including accommodation) is 350 EUR. Once you have been accepted into the course you receive information on the payment details.

Call for Proposals
13th ANNUAL RED RIVER WOMEN’S STUDIES CONFERENCE
R/EVOLUTION: Creating Women and Gender Studies
October 4, 2013
University of North Dakota Memorial Union, Grand Forks, North Dakota

The 13th Annual Red River Women’s Studies Conference will focus on the
theme R/EVOLUTION: Creating Women and Gender Studies.  This
interdisciplinary conference will examine and celebrate the creation and
evolution of the fields of Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, and Queer
Studies, as well as the changing roles of women and men in society.  We
invite proposals for panels, individual papers, workshops, posters, and
creative presentations for this year’s conference.  Possible topics for
presentations include but are not limited to:

• The creation and growth of Women’s, Gender, and Queer Studies
• History of Women and Gender Studies in the Red River Valley
• Changing social roles of women and men
• Representations of women in popular culture
• Feminist activism
• Women in politics
• Gender in the classroom
• Women in science and technology
• Cyber-feminism
• Global feminism
• Rural gender and sexuality
• Reproductive health

The University of North Dakota’s Women and Gender Studies Program invites
students, faculty and community activists to submit proposals for panels,
papers, and workshops that address any of the key areas above.
Submissions addressing other themes relevant to the fields of Women and
Gender Studies are also welcome.   Panel proposals should include a
250-word description of the panel topic, as well as 250-word abstracts of
each paper/presentation.  Proposals for individual presentations or
posters should provide a 250-word abstract of that presentation/poster.
Electronic proposals are preferred, and may be emailed to
RRWSC2013@gmail.com.  Hard copies of proposals may be mailed to: Women and
Gender Studies, University of North Dakota, 221 Centennial Dr., Stop 7113,
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7113.
Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2013.