Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender Call for Proposals
Deadline for Submission: April 25, 2013

The Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender brings together scholars from a variety of historical fields to share their work in progress. Our focus is on the United States and North America across all time periods; however, we welcome papers on non-American aspects of the history of women and gender. The seminar is open to graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty. To maximize time for discussion, papers are circulated electronically in advance. The seminar will meet on selected Fridays during the academic year, 3:00-5:00pm, at the Newberry Library in Chicago. To propose a paper, please send a one-page proposal, a statement explaining the relationship of the paper to your other work, and a brief c.v. to Carmen Jaramillo, Program Assistant, Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture, The Newberry Library. Please send all materials as a single PDF attachment via email to scholl@newberry.org.
Please go to www.newberry.org/newberry-seminar-women-and-gender for more information.

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Freedom, Rights and Power:
Recasting Women’s Struggles Across the Americas Since 1900.

Conference to be held at St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham on 26 – 27 April 2013. A full programme and registration details can be found on the Freedom, Rights and Power webpage.

This two-day multidisciplinary conference seeks to explore the intersection between gender, revolt and power across the Americas. Women have been central in stretching the definitions of legal rights, challenging old concepts of power, and establishing new parameters of freedom across the Americas throughout the twentieth century. Our conference seeks to create links between historical, regional and current movements for change, and to capitalize on a new momentum that has emerged in relation to discourses of gender and power. We encourage scholars and delegates to think anew about the ways that women have challenged prevailing systems, to examine women’s efforts to renegotiate power paradigms and to consider how the past informs the future as we extend our concepts of freedom within the context of the whole continent.

Dr Sinead McEneaney,St Mary’s University College.

Dr Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Email: sinead.mceneaney@smuc.ac.uk, dawn-marie.gibson@rhul.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://extranet.smuc.ac.uk/events-conferences/freedom-rights-power/Pages/default.aspx

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This is a call for papers for a conference to be held at Lancaster University on 12 and 13 September 2013. The forthcoming seventieth anniversary of the conclusion of the Second World War offers an invitation to gender historians to consider how their approaches to the history of the War have introduced, contributed to, and reshaped understandings of the significance of the War and its impact across space and time, on men and women.

We are pleased to announce that the key note lecture on ‘Gender, Grief and Mourning in Wartime’ will be offered by Dr Lucy Noakes (University of Brighton)
We invite papers on all aspects of wartime gender history, with a particular interest in ensuring wide global and thematic coverage, including such as issues as political representation, employment practices, combat, propaganda, popular culture, sexual activity, legislation, disability and commemoration. A selection of papers will be included in an edited collection to appear in Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘Gender and History’ series. If you unable to attend the conference but would like to be considered for the edited volume, please contact the conference organisers. Proposals from postgraduate, postdoctoral and early career researchers are very welcome.

Abstracts or panel proposals should be sent to both Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird (Lancaster University) (c.peniston-bird@lancaster.ac.uk) and Dr Emma Vickers (Liverpool John Moores University) (E.L.Vickers@ljmu.ac.uk) by Friday 3 May 2013.

ISSUE OF WSQ , SPRING 2014 – DEBT
Guest Editors – Meena Alexander and Rosalind Petchesky

CALL FOR PAPERS

How do we make sense of debt? What does it mean to live in a world of debt – whether you are a college student in the United States, a struggling farmer in India, a homeowner, a country? What does it mean to forgive a debt? How have these meanings shifted over time? Do ancestral debt, ritual sacrifices to the gods, tribal and national vendettas, debts to parents and children, colonial debt, slavery and indenture hover as foreshadowings of the late capitalist turn, when debt becomes a way of life? Whether seeking justice or imposing injustice, debt has its own temporality, compressing and bringing forward pasts, reconfiguring and elongating futures.

As student loans in the US surpass $1 trillion, is student debt becoming a form of training and disciplining bodies, an apprenticeship in “debt enfranchisement”? Has debt become the newly normal way of performing citizenship? Under conditions of neoliberal globalization, green card holders and naturalized citizens find themselves beholden to the nation state; indeed this becomes an unwritten part of assimilation into America. Those without debt (mortgages, loans, credit cards) by definition have no credit—are discredited, literally disenfranchised and placed in a kind of moral and political state of exception at the extreme end of which reside undocumented migrants and refugees. What are the racialized, gendered, sexual, and generational effects, and affects, of these contemporary realities?

Yet debt also makes powerful ethical and historical claims on us that contain seeds of feminist, anti-racist, and progressive transformation. Demands for reparations or redress for the descendants of slavery and victims of apartheid or occupation are based on an assumption that, as Stephen Best and Saidiya Hartman write, “assessing debt and calculating injury [may] itself [be] a formula for justice.” But is the language of debt (“You owe me!”) sufficient to encompass ethical bonds and social justice? And what happens when debt overwhelms moral obligations, de-moralizing both debtor and creditor?

We invite contributions to an issue of WSQ on “Debt” that will probe these contradictions and their reverberations in economics, politics, poetry, visual arts, popular culture, and everyday life. Submissions may address, but need not be limited to, any of the following themes, keeping in mind how they involve relations of gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality:
· Student debt, universities in debt
· Debt as a moral and/or political language
· Mythic, ancestral, psychic dimensions of debt
· Debt across generations (within countries, families)
· Colonial debt
· National and transnational debt and deficits (US, Eurozone, elsewhere)
· Managing debt through micro-credit, micro-lending, structural adjustments
· Household debt and homelessness
· Medical debt
· Securitization of debt; banks as vampires
· Occupy initiatives around debt (StrikeDebt, Rolling Jubilee)
· Reparations and redress (for slavery, occupation, torture)
· Debt as injustice or justice
· Aesthetic dimensions of debt
· Sexual debt
· Trauma and debt
· Gift vs. Debt
· The female or transgender body and debt

If submitting academic work, please send articles by April 15, 2013 to the guest editors, Meena Alexander and Rosalind Petchesky, at WSQDebtIssue@gmail.com. Please send complete articles, not abstracts. Submission should not exceed 20 double spaced, 12-point font pages and should comply with the formatting guidelines at http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/submission-guidelines.

Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ’s poetry editor, Kathleen Ossip, at WSQpoetry@gmail.com by April 15, 2013. Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ’s fiction/nonfiction editor, Nicole Cooley, at WSQCreativeProse@gmail.com by April 15, 2013. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting poems or prose. Note that poetry and prose submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the poetry/prose editor is notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please provide all contact information in the body of the e-mail. If submitting poetry, paste submission into the body of the e-mail along with all contact information.

Art submissions should be sent to Margot Bouman at WSQArt@gmail.com by April 15, 2013. Art that has been reviewed and accepted must of 300 DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or larger. These files should be saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS.

CALL FOR PAPERS West of England and South Wales Women’s History
Network 20th Annual Conference
Women and Protest in Historical Perspective
Bath, Sat 15th June 2013

Key Note Speaker
Sasha Roseneil, Birkbeck College
Remembering Feminism’s Queer ‘80s: emotional and material landscapes of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp

The conference aims to explore women’s collective action to achieve change over a wide variety of issues and contexts; these might include peace; food and the cost of living; suffrage; social questions; industrial action.

Proposals (200 words) for papers should be submitted to June Hannam at June.Hannam@uwe.ac.uk by Friday 5th April 2013.

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A day conference at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge on Friday 12 April. The conference will examine the work of British women novelists who have found their inspiration and subject matter in Greece, as well as novels by Greek women writers who have engaged with British settings and subjects.

The authors to be discussed range from Rose Macaulay and Virginia Woolf to Victoria Hislop and Sofka Zinovieff on the British side; on the Greek side we shall engage with the work of Angela Dimitrakaki and a number of other contemporary authors. We believe there is a rich vein of cultural interactions which have not been specifically examined and this conference will therefore be breaking new ground.

Booking and further information, including the programme, are available here:

http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=629&deptid=260&catid=342

The keynote speaker is:

Vassiliki Kolocotroni (University of Glasgow)

Other speakers include:

Rowena Fowler (Oxford)
Deirdre David (Temple University)
Sofka Zinovieff (Athens/London)
Kelli Daskala (University of Crete)
Laura Vivanco (Edinburgh)
Thodoris Chiotis (University of Oxford)

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Volume 4 of Intersections, a blind peer-reviewed student journal run by the University of Toronto Women and Gender Studies Student Union is now accepting submissions.

The journal encourages its authors to employ transnational feminist theories and welcomes submissions that investigate and/or fall under any of following:

• Gender, sexuality and queer studies
• Political economy and critical development studies
• Feminist studies of technology, science, environment and biomedicine; and
• Feminist cultural studies

Intersections invites conventional essays, creative prose, poetry, visual art and academic reviews. We are always open to new genres and approaches – please contact us if you would like to submit a piece that does not fit readily into any of the above categories. Scholarly articles should range from 3,000 to 5,000 words, while book reviews should generally be between 1,000 and 2,000 words. In the case of visual work please submit a 100-200 word explanation on how your piece engages feminism(s) and/or social justice.

All submissions due April 9th at 11:59 pm.

For information on submission process please visit wgsintersections.wordpress.com