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Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI
Brown University, August 21-23, 2013
Application deadline: June 5, 2013

**Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant, up to $1000 for graduate student participants.**

As digital humanities increasingly gains profile in traditional humanities departments, teaching (with) text encoding is becoming of greater interest in graduate and even undergraduate teaching. For faculty with TEI projects of their own, or with a strong research interest in the TEI, the challenge is to design a digital humanities syllabus that is rigorously and usefully digital, and yet still focused on humanities content. To what extent can text encoding be a useful pedagogical instrument, and what kinds of concepts does it help to teach? What kinds of practical infrastructure and prior preparation are needed to support a course of this type? What broader critical ideas in digital humanities and in traditional humanities domains would form a strong context? How can we effectively assess student work of this kind? In this seminar, participants will each work on a course of their own, with opportunities for the group to workshop each syllabus and discuss the course narrative and design.

These seminars are part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are aimed at people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one, and are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific challenges in using TEI data effectively. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants’ projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and solutions, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create sample materials (such as syllabi, docmentation, etc., as appropriate to the event). We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed.

To apply, please visit
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/neh_advanced_application.html

Travelling Narratives: Modernity and the Spatial Imaginary
International Symposium at the University of Zurich,
29 November -1 December 2013

Cultures have always been in contact with as well as imagined spaces other
than their own. Ever since the age of discovery, however, the relations, links
and ruptures between different spaces have played an increasingly significant
role in the cultural imaginary, taking on new urgency in today’s world of ever
increasing mobility and global networks.

This three-day symposium hosted by the English Department at the University
of Zurich will focus on spaces in relation, addressing the importance of issues
such as borders and crossings, utopia, travel and exile in the sphere of
cultural production. It aims to explore ways in which spaces are represented
and textually produced, as well as how boundaries between different spaces
are traversed.

The conference is primarily aimed at scholars working in the field of literary
and cultural studies. However, as we believe issues of spatiality can be
fruitfully examined in an interdisciplinary framework we invite contributions
from different segments of the academic community.

Call for papers
We welcome submissions for 20-minute
papers in English that may address, but
need not be limited to, the following areas:
• Space and displacement
• Travel narratives
• Home and exile
• Islands and maritime spaces
• Narrative space
• Liminal spaces and border zones
• Border crossings
• Utopia, heterotopia, dystopia
• Space and vision
• Space and the writing self, space
and autobiography
• Spaces of exchange
• Theories of space and place

Conference fee
The conference fee will be 80 Swiss Francs.

Conference website
http://www.es.uzh.ch/teaching/PhD/phdlit/TravellingNarratives.html

Keynote speakers
Prof. Dr. Tom Conley (Harvard, USA)
Prof. Dr. Andrew Thacker (Leicester, UK)
Dr. Robert T. Tally Jr. (San Marcos, USA)

The conference will be held in cooperation with the international Border Aesthetics group based at the University of Tromsø (Norway) and the research group Spaces of Language and Literature from the University of Tampere (Finland).

Please send an abstract of 200-300 words and a short biographical note to Johannes Riquet (johannes.riquet@es.uzh.ch<mailto:johannes.riquet@es.uzh.ch>) and Elizabeth Kollmann
(elizabeth.kollmann@access.uzh.ch<mailto:elizabeth.kollmann@access.uzh.ch>).

Deadline for proposals: 10 July 2013
Johannes Riquet
Elizabeth Kollmann
English Department, University of Zurich

Global Outlook Digital Humanities, The University of Lethbridge, and
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations is pleased to announce
the first Global Digital Humanities Essay Competition.
http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/global-outlookdigital-humanities-global-digital-humanities-essay-prize/

This is an open competition for research papers on the national,
regional, or international practice of the Digital Humanities–a broad
topic that has been designed to give authors the greatest possible
scope. Authors may write on individual projects or problems or broader
philosophical, geographical, sociological, political, or other aspects
of the practice of Digital Humanities in a global context. Papers
discussing the practice of DH by or with marginalised communities or in
areas that are currently less well represented by ADHO are particularly
welcome.

The competition is open to any interested party including students,
graduate students, junior faculty, and researchers unaffiliated with a
university or research institution. We would like to especially
encourage submissions from students, junior and unaffiliated
researchers, and authors belonging to marginalised communities or
communities currently less well represented by ADHO.

The competition is offering a minimum of 4 prizes of $500 (CAD) each.
Initial selection (for a prize of $200) is by abstract/proposal. A
further $300 will be awarded to the authors of the winning abstracts
upon satisfactory completion of a full-length paper based on their
original proposal. All submissions will be eligible for review and
publication in the ADHO journal, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique
(http://digitalstudies.org/).

For further information about the competition, please see the
competition web page:
http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/global-outlookdigital-humanities-global-digital-humanities-essay-prize/.
The competition organisers can also be contacted by email at
prizes@globaloutlookdh.org

The initial deadline (abstracts/proposals) is June 30, 2013.

-Daniel Paul O’Donnell
—
Daniel Paul O’Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada

+1 403 393-2539

Special issue on equality, diversity and fairness in Medical Education: Critical and International perspectives

Timeline: proposals due 1st September 2013; submissions due 2013

Guest authors: Dr Maria Tsouroufli and Dr Irene Malcolm, Centre for Medical Education, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

The journal Medical Education is seeking proposals for papers for a forthcoming issue focused on international perspectives on equality, diversity and fairness to add to this important, area in medical education research. Migration, demographic and socio-economic changes across the world’s population are challenging homogeneity.  For example, in 2008 in the UK:

• 56 per cent of all entrants to medical school (UK domiciled students) were women

• over a quarter (28%) of UK domiciled students offered a place at medical school were from ethnic minority backgrounds. Students from Asian backgrounds made up over two-thirds (69%) of all accepted ethnic minority student.

However, in some countries, persistent exclusions relate, for example, to social class with only 2 per cent of accepted students in the UK from socio-economic class VII, which represents students whose families have manual occupations (Equality and Diversity in Medical Schools, 2009).

Current debates in medical education research that has investigated access, participation and outcomes, highlight ingrained inequalities.  These shed light on the complex nature of professional identities in relation, for example, to doctors’ cultural competences (Dogra and Karnik, 2004), gender differences in academic achievement, (Chaput de Saintonge & Dunn, 2001), discourses of (under)performance among international doctors and ethnic minority groups (Humphrey et al. 2009), and gender discrimination in medical training (Babaria et al. 2011). A key challenge that this issue seeks to address is the need to increase the conceptual sophistication of our accounts of equality and diversity in medical education.   To this end, we seek to introduce new perspectives to the field by bridging the gap between social sciences and medical education research on equality and diversity. We aim to bring to the fore cutting edge research on equality, diversity and fairness in medical education, informed by current theoretical debates and conceptual innovations.  We welcome submissions which will raise critical consciousness (Kumagai and Lypson, 2009) of equality, diversity and fairness in international contexts of medical education and set new research agendas in the field.

We invite theoretically informed papers empirical papers (quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods research papers) and critical perspectives on any aspect of Equality, Diversity and Fairness in medical education (undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD in medicine) from any country. We particularly welcome submissions which move beyond existing evidence outlining the under-representation and exclusion of particular groups.  Papers which examine any strand of diversity, and, in particular, their intersections in relation to  gender including (masculinities), ethnicity (including whiteness), disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, class and religious belief are welcomed. Themes which authors may seek to address include but are not limited to:

Intersection of diversities, Problematization of essentialist concepts of gender in medical education, Critiques of existing research in equality, diversity and fairness in medical education , Marginalisation, belonging and otherness in medical education and the implications for retention and success, Comparative perspectives on inequalities and discrimination in medical education,  Equality and diversities in medical curricula,  Innovative approaches to inclusive medical pedagogies, Diversities, progression and fairness in medical education/training.

Brief proposals (i.e. up to 500 words and up to 4 references) are required and should be sent to med@mededuc.com

Dr Kate Sang

Lecturer in Management

School of Management and Languages

Heriot Watt University

0131 451 4208

k.sang@hw.ac.uk

Executive committee member and Acting Chair of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association

Founding member of Feminist Academics International

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Luce Irigaray International Seminar Symposium

Friday 14 June 2013

5-7pm
Institute for Advanced Studies, Verdon-Smith Room
University of Bristol
Royal Fort House, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1UJ

The symposium is an opportunity for researchers participating in the Luce Irigaray International Seminar to share their work with the public. Discussion will include commentary by Luce Irigaray, one of the world’s leading Continental philosophers, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor to the University of Bristol, 2013-2014.

This is a free event, but places are limited. To attend, contact Martisse Foster at martisse.foster@bristol.ac.uk.

For more information about events related to Professor Irigaray’s visit to Bristol, please contact Dr Maria Fannin (m.fannin@bristol.ac.uk; 0117 92 88928)

Support for this event has been generously provided by The Leverhulme Trust, Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA), the School of Geographical Sciences, and the Faculty of Science at the University of Bristol.

Courtesy Digital Trends, www.digitaltrends.com

The Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Göttingen, Germany, is pleased to host the 2013 DARIAH-DE International Digital Humanities Summer School.  This summer school will be a one-week crash course in using the scripting language Python and its Natural Language Toolkit to perform in-depth computational analysis of digital texts.  The summer school will take place between August 19-23, 2013.  The instructors will be Mike Kestemont from the University of Antwerp and Lars Wieneke from the CVCE.  The summer school is aimed primarily at Ph.D. and post-doctoral researchers and others with advanced knowledge of humanities research.  The language of instruction and discussion will be English.

More information on the summer school and information on how to apply can be found here: http://www.gcdh.de/en/events/calendar-view/2013-dariah-de-international-digital-humanities-summer-school/.

Changing Feminist Paradigms and Cultural Encounters: Women’s Experiences
in Eastern Mediterranean History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

June 7-9, 2013, İstanbul

June 7, Friday:
Cultural Heritage Museum Seminar Room, Boğaziçi University

9:30-10:30 Opening Speeches
Jean Quataert (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of Women’s History)

Leigh Ann Wheeler (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of Women’s
History)

Arzu Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University, Journal of Women’s History)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Women Pioneers, Agency, and Activism
Chair: Leigh Ann Wheeler (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of
Women’s History)

Ana Stjelja (Independent Scholar), Historical Patterns of Women’s Activism
in the Region: The Case of Serbian Writer Jelena J. Dimitrijevic
(1862-1945)

Nevila Pahumi (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Visions of a Petite
Diplomate: Paraskevi Kyrias and “Albania” at the Paris Peace Conference,
1919

Umut Azak (Okan University)/Henk de Smaele (University of Antwerp),
National and Transnational Dynamics of Women’s Activism in Turkey in the
1950s and 1960s: The Story of the IWC Branch in Ankara

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:30 Can We Speak of “Women”? Different Agendas, Different Feminisms

Chair: Benita Roth (Binghamton University, Associate Editor, Journal of
Women’s History)

Amany Soliman (Alexandria University), Non-Muslim Feminists in Egypt’s
Early 20th Century: A Double Challenge

Başak Tuğ (İstanbul Bilgi University), The Alternative Modernity of Sabiha
Sertel’s Cicianne

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Education, Agency and Nationalism

Chair: Arzu Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University, Journal of Women’s History)

Ellen Fleishmann (University of Dayton), Education and Agency in Early
Twentieth-Century Lebanon: Women Educated “Under an American Roof”

Nadya Sbaiti (Five College), Separate in our Togetherness? Education for
Women and Nation in Interwar Lebanon

June 8, Saturday
Santral Residence, “Board of Trustees Meeting Room”, İstanbul Bilgi
University

9:30-11:00 Reconstructing the Untold Experiences

Chair: Jean Quataert (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of Women’s
History)

Ebru Aykut (Mimar Sinan University), Home-Rebels in the Late Ottoman
Empire: Murderous Wives and Female Arsonists

Nadezhda Alexandrova (Sofia University), Bulgarian Women in Istanbul in
the 1860s and 1880s

Yavuz Selim Karakışla (Boğaziçi University), Nursing in the Ottoman
Empire, 1854-1923

11:00-11.30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Gendered Experiences of Inclusion and Exclusion

Chair: Elisa Camiscioli (Binghamton University, Book Review Editor,
Journal of Women’s History)

Gülhan Balsoy (Işık University), The Women of the Haseki Women’s Hospital
and Being a Poor and Lonely Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century Istanbul

Kent Schull (Binghamton University), State Patriarchy and Gendered
Incarceration: Women, Children, and Prison Reform in the Late Ottoman
Empire

Liat Kozma (Hebrew University), The Traffic in Women and Children in the
Middle East in the Interwar Period

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:00 Challenging the Nationalist Historiographies

Chair: Yeşim Arat (Boğaziçi University, Journal of Women’s History)

Zeynep Türkyılmaz (Dartmouth College), Being the Mother for Others’
Daughters: Maternal Colonialism and the Female Nation-Builders of the
Turkish Republic

Rezzan Karaman (University of California, Los Angeles), The Formation of
Gender Roles within the Context of Kurdish National Discourse in the Late
19th and Early 20th Centuries

Selda Tuncer (Middle East Technical University), Going Public: Women’s
Everyday Experiences of Public Space in Modern Turkey

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Roundtable Discussion

Moderator: Nükhet Sirman (Boğaziçi University)

Feminist Publishing in Turkey and the US: Comparative Histories and
Experiences

June 9 , Sunday

Cultural Heritage Museum Seminar Room, Boğaziçi University

9:00-11:30 Discourses on Women

Chair: Suraiya Faroqhi (İstanbul Bilgi University)

Ceyda Karamürsel (University of Pennsylvania), Re-reading the Second
Constitutional Era through Women and Slavery

Eftymia Kanner (University of Athens), Communal Interaction, Discourses on
Women’s Rights and Feminist Interventions from the Ottoman Reform Era to
the Early Turkish Republic

Katerina Dalakoura (University of Crete), Discourses on Women’s
Emancipation in Greek Women’s Journals (1880-1911): “Feminisms” in Ottoman
context

11:30-12.00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:30 Closing Remarks

14:00-18:00 Visit to Topkapı Palace and Harem

http://journalofwomenshistory.org/?p=983

Whose Beloved Community?: Black Civil and LGBT Rights Movements
An international conference at Emory University, March 27-29, 2014
Call for Proposals: Review of proposals begins June 17, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be no later than September 15, 2013.

The role of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in both race-based and sexuality-based civil rights movements is frequently rendered invisible as a result of prevailing national narratives that present (presumed white) LGBT communities and (presumed straight) Black communities as opposing forces.  In recent years, however, an increasing number of scholars and activists have produced work seeking to make visible the vital points of intersection and contention among the U.S. Civil Rights movement, the LGBT equality movement, and Black LGBT communities.  This work is shaped by questions related to identity formation, intersectionality, tokenism, marriage equality, the role of religion and “respectability” in African American communities, the emergence of the South as a center of Black LGBT life in the U.S., HIV/AIDS and its continuing effect on African American communities, the proliferation of a prison-industrial complex unprepared for its LGBT population, and the appropriation of the civil rights movement by the right.  This conference seeks to make visible and critically engage the points of convergence and divergence between these two historic, overlapping, yet distinct social movements that continue to transform civil society, law, and the academy.

We encourage paper and panel proposals on a wide range of topics including, but not exclusively encompassing, the following:

•      The legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
•      Identifications and disidentifications with “movements”
•      Black LGBT leaders and popular figures, historical and contemporary
•      Literary, artistic and popular culture engagements with Black LGBT identities
•      Inclusion and marginalization of transgender and bisexual identities in Black LGBT communities/politics
•      Intersections with other post-1960s civil rights movements (other racial groups, people with disabilities, women, etc.)
•      Black LGBT activism in relation to work in other LGBT communities of color
•      Racial diversity in White-led LGBT organizations
•      Law and politics
•      Black queer politics of space
•      Public health
•      Memory, mourning, trauma, and resilience
•      Black LGBT families
•      Marriage equality movements
•      Sexuality and respectability
•      Class and elitism
•      Sexism, classism, and other “isms” in the Black LGBT movement
•      Black masculinity in LGBT communities
•      Black feminism in LGBT communities
•      Intergenerational issues
•      Intersections between public advocacy/policy and academia
•      Intersections of U.S. Civil Rights with Black queer Atlantic political movements
•      The future of Black queer studies
•      Teaching Black LGBT history, Black queer studies, etc.
•      Black LGBT university populations
•      LGBT issues and Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Each submission must include a cover page with paper titles, presenters, their affiliations, and a current email contact, along with a maximum two-page c.v. of each presenter.  For individual papers, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words. For panels, submit an overall abstract of no more than 500 words and individual paper descriptions of no more than 250 words each. Please submit materials via email to Whose.beloved.community@emory.edu<mailto:Whose.beloved.community@emory.edu>.

This conference is generously supported by the Arcus Foundation and Emory University.

Whose Beloved Community [whose.beloved.community@emory.edu]