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Call For Papers: “Women, Religion, and Empowerment”

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PHI Spring 2013 Conference: “Women, Religion, and Empowerment”
April 12 and 13 – Regis College, Weston, MA.

Religion provides individuals with not only spiritual guidance, but also serves a source of strength and empowerment. While both men and women embrace religion, their roles are often different; whether in regard to religious history, philosophy, rituals, or leadership opportunities, women are often forced to find their own way and redefine the religious experience.

The Sisters of St. Joseph, founders of Regis College are the source of inspiration for this conference. They have been a source of empowerment for women, both academically and spiritually, and exemplify this theme. Our keynote speaker will be Kathleen Kautzer. Author of The Underground Church: Nonviolent Resistance to the Vatican Empire, Dr. Kautzer has written extensively on women and feminism in the Catholic Church.

Paper, panel, and performance proposals from every discipline are welcome. Please send abstracts (250 words maximum) and a one page CV to katina.fontes@regiscollege.edu by March 15, 2013. For more information on the conference, proposal submissions, or registration, please visit the conference website: http://publicheritage.wordpress.com/

Women and Social Movements Luncheon

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Upcoming at the OAH Meeting in San Francisco

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The Women and Social Movements websites are sponsoring a luncheon and
slide talk at the upcoming annual meeting of the Organization of American
Historians in San Francisco.  Co-editors Kitty Sklar and Tom Dublin will
discuss new developments in the two databases—scholarly essays recently
posted on Women and Social Movements, International and the upcoming
launching of the Black Suffragists database as part of Women and Social
Movements in the United States.

The luncheon will be held at noon on Saturday, April 13 in the Mason Room
in the Hilton San Francisco hotel. The luncheon is free, but those
planning to attend need to make a reservation as space is limited.  Email
tdublin@binghamton.edu to reserve a place. If you are not attending the
San Francisco meeting but would like information on new developments with
the two databases, send an email requesting to be added to our email
newsletter mailing list and you’ll receive periodic updates.

Kitty Sklar & Tom Dublin
Co-Editors, Women and Social Movements

Mary Lily Research Grants from The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture

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The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, part of the
Rubenstein Library at Duke University, announces the availability of Mary
Lily Research Grants for research travel to use our collections:
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/grants/index.html

The Sallie Bingham Center documents the public and private lives of women through a wide variety of published and unpublished sources. Collections of personal papers, family papers, and organizational records complement print sources such as books and periodicals. Particular strengths of the Sallie Bingham Center are feminism in the U.S., women’s prescriptive literature from the 19th & 20th centuries, girls’ literature, zines, artist’s books by women, gender & sexuality, and the history & culture of women in the South.

Mary Lily Research grants are available to any faculty member, graduate or undergraduate student, or independent scholar with a research project
requiring the use of women’s history materials held by the Sallie Bingham
Center. Grant money may be used for travel and living expenses while
pursuing research at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript
Library. Applicants must live outside of a 100-mile radius from Durham,
NC. The maximum award per applicant is $1,000.

The deadline for application is March 29, 2013 by 5:00 PM EST. Recipients will be announced in April 2013. Grants must be used between May 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014.

For more information and to download a copy of the application form,
please visit: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/grants/index.html

Kelly Wooten
Research Services and Collection Development Librarian
Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture
library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham
kelly.wooten@duke.edu

Habits of Living Conference

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The Habits of Living Conference is coming up this March 21-3.  As well as a fabulous group of speakers on formal panels (please see the bottom of this message) + a keynote by RAQS on “The Taste of Nowhere,” there will be three FEMTECH sponsored “Dialogues on
Feminism and Technology,” featuring:

Sexuality (Kara Keeling, Faith Wilding): Friday, 1-2:20
Machines (Wendy Chun, Kelly Dobson): Saturday, 12-1:15
Race (Maria Fernandez, Lisa Nakamura): Saturday, 1:15-2:30

–all facilitated by the fabulouse Anne Balsamo and videotaped for
presentation as part of the learning experiment called: DOCC 2013
(Distributed Open Collaborative Course).

Please come join us!  We’ll also be taping these to use as part of the
course next fall. I know Radhika Gajjala (my inspiration)—who is
teaching the pilot course right now—will be there.

Here’s more on the conference:

What:           HABITS OF LIVING KEYNOTE: “The Taste of Nowhere”
Where:  Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center
When:   Thurs, March 21, 7:30-9:15 pm (reception to follow)
Who:    Raqs Media Collective—one of the most important collectives
working in the fields of contemporary art + new media (based in New
Delhi)

What:           SCRAPYARD CHALLENGE: How to Build Circuits from Trash
Where:  RISD CIT BUILDING, 169 WEYBOSSET ST.
When:   Thurs, March 21, 1-5 pm
Limited to 15 participants.  Please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/a/brown.edu/document/d/1x4_LPL9bc9jEo2etgeQo-BkAzweM2Qhppi_t-pW35zc/edit#heading=h.oewmsq3qn5o

What:           AFFECT + DEBT: THE ONTOLOGY OF NETWORKS?
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Friday, March 22, 9-10:20 am
Who:    Nishant Shah (Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore) and
Nicholas Mirzoeff (MCC, NYU),

What:           SEX + CAPITALISM + HUMANITARIANISM = DO NO EVIL?
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Friday, March 22, 10:30-11:50 am
Who:    Elizabeth Bernstein (Sociology, Columbia) and Didier Fassin
(School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton),
moderator: Sherine Hamdy (Anthropology, Brown)

***UNCONFERENCES—IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU: 1-2:20***

What:           BEWARE OF CARE
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Friday, March 22, 2:30-3:50 pm
Who:    Kalindi Vora (Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego) and Kelly Dobson
(D+M, RISD), moderator: Deborah Weinstein (Gender and Sexuality
Studies, Brown)

What:           ARCHIVING THE REVOLUTION
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Friday, March 22, 4-5:20 pm
Who:    Ariella Azoualy (MCM, Comparative Literature, Brown) and Elias
Muhanna (Comparative Literature, Brown), moderator: Lynne Joyrich
(MCM, Brown)

What:           LIKING / FEAR, AFTER NEW MEDIA
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Saturday, March 23, 9-10:20 am
Who:    Tiziana Terranova (Sociology of Communications, Università degli
Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’) and Ravi Sundaram (SARAI), moderator:
Joshua Neves (MCM, Brown)

What:           MAPPING INCARCERATION, IMAGINING ANOTHER FUTURE
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Saturday, March 23, 10:30-11:50 am
Who:    Kara Keeling (Critical Studies and African American Studies,
University of Southern California) and Laura Kurgan (Architecture,
Columbia), moderator: Rebecca Schneider (TAPS, Brown)

***UNCONFERENCES—IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU: 1-2:20***

What:           THINKING INFRASTRUCTURE
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Saturday, March 23, 2:30-3:50 pm
Who:    Lisa Parks (Film and Media, UC Santa Barbara) and Ganaele
Langlois (Communication, University of Ontario Institute of
Technology), moderator: Warren Sack (Film and Media, UC Santa Cruz)

What:           APHORISMS AND SCI FI REALISM: ANONYMOUS + NANOTECH
Where:  Studio 1, Granoff Center
When:   Saturday, March 23, 4-5:20 pm
Who:    Gabriella Coleman (Art History and Communciations, McGill) and
Colin Milburn (English, UC Davis), moderator: Andrew Lison (MCM,
Brown)

—
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Professor and Chair, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

Fellowship: History of Women in Medicine

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The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine will provide one $5000 grant to support travel, lodging, and incidental expenses for a flexible research period between July 1st 2013 – June 30th 2014.  Foundation Fellowships are offered for research related to the history of women to be conducted at the Center for the History of Medicine at the
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Preference will be given to projects that deal specifically with women physicians or other health workers or medical scientists, but proposals dealing with the history of women’s health issues may also be considered.

Manuscript collections which may be of special interest include the recently-opened Mary Ellen Avery Papers, the Leona Baumgartner Papers, and the Grete Bibring Papers (find out more about our collections at www.countway.harvard.edu/awm).

Preference will be given to those who are using collections from the Center’s Archives for Women in Medicine, but research on the topic of women in medicine using other material from the Countway Library will be considered. Preference will also be given to applicants who live beyond commuting distance of the Countway, but all are encouraged to apply, including graduate students.

In return, the Foundation requests a one page report on the Fellow’s research experience, a copy of the final product (with the ability to post excerpts from the paper/project), and a photo and bio of the Fellow for web and newsletter announcements.

Application requirements

Applicants should submit a proposal (no more than two pages) outlining the subject and objectives of the research project, historical materials to be used, and length of residence, along with a project budget (including travel, lodging, and research expenses), a curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendation by March 15th, 2013.  The fellowship proposal should demonstrate that the Countway Library has resources central to the research topic. The appointment will be announced by April 2013. Applications should be sent to: Women in Medicine Fellowships, Archives for Women in Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115. Electronic submissions of applications and supporting materials and any questions may be directed to jessica_sedgwick@hms.harvard.edu.

For more information, visit:
https://www.countway.harvard.edu/menuNavigation/chom/fellowships/about.html#3

The Woman’s Column: Tracking Women’s Education in a Pro-Suffrage Publication

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Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of the Woman’s Journal and Woman’s Column

As part of our celebration of Women’s History Month, The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education will be showcasing content from March issues of The Woman’s Column, a very exciting recent acquisition of Bryn Mawr Special Collections. Published between 1887 and 1905 and edited by Alice Stone Blackwell, The Woman’s Column was a weekly newsletter focused on developments in suffrage and other related women’s rights issues. Its better-known sister publication, The Woman’s Journal (1870 – 1931), is more widely available, but thus far we have been unable to locate a print collection of the Column that is as complete and well-preserved as the one we have acquired. We are currently taking steps to have the entire collection digitized and made available for free on Internet Archive.

The original purpose of the Column was to serve newspapers with a regular source of copy on women’s suffrage, but private subscribers soon became numerous as well: at only 25 cents per year, it was an easy and relatively inexpensive way to keep a finger on the pulse of the women’s rights movement. A quick glance through its collected pages shows that it kept its readers apprised of a wide variety of happenings: in addition to regular updates on the various regional, national, and international legislative battles over women’s rights, the Column also published concise rebuttals to common anti-suffrage arguments, profiles of influential women and career success stories, and opinion articles regarding women’s role in society.

Content about the availability of education to women, especially higher education, was a regular feature of The Woman’s Column. Articles appeared nearly weekly detailing developments in the policies of specific schools, changes in legislation, updates on women’s education in specific regions or abroad, and profiles of notable college women. Occasionally the magazine would publish a piece collecting tidbits from many different institutions, such as the one featured here.

Click on the image above to view the article “In Schools and Colleges”–transcription attached

This article serves as a very broad account of the happenings of various American institutions, ranging from fund-raising updates and a notification of new fellowships to be offered by Bryn Mawr, to the lighter recounting of the Women’s Medical College of Chicago’s first celebration of “University Day” since becoming a department of Northwestern University. The Column describes the festivities as lively indeed, “characterized by college songs, college yells, college pranks and college jollity,” but also assures the mindful reader that “as it was conducted on the co-educational plan, nothing discreditable occurred.”

What does this article tell us about the publication, about the way women’s education was approached in the late 19th century, and about the culture of the women’s rights movement? It is notable that the article does not contain any direct mentions or links to suffrage, which was seen as the key motivating issue of the publication. The frequency and scope of the education-related content in this issue and others speaks to the degree to which women’s higher education was considered to be germane to the women’s rights movement, since education-related content did not need to directly reference suffrage to be considered worthy of inclusion in the pages of The Woman’s Column. Both suffrage and education were important sites of leverage for increasing women’s role in the public sphere, and for giving them greater capacity to shape their own lives.  It also suggests that the readers of the magazine, and women interested in suffrage in general, would be invested in the cause of women’s education perhaps because they were largely college graduates themselves. If The Woman’s Column audience did not have a personal background that included college culture, it seems doubtful that the items focused less on legislation and more on social events, such as the account of the “University Day” celebrations, would have been featured.

We will be featuring a different excerpt from The Woman’s Column every week throughout March to celebrate this important new acquisition and to mark Women’s History Month. For further reading on the history of the publication, or on Alice Stone Blackwell and her mother, Lucy Stone’s influential role in shaping the voice of the women’s rights movement, the following sources are recommended:

Women’s Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues, edited by Kathleen L. Endres, Therese L. Lueck

Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman’s Rights, by Alice Stone Blackwell

Call For Papers: Women In Motion

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WOMEN IN MOTION: Australian Women’s History Network Symposium 2013

University of Wollongong
Wednesday 10 July 2013

Keynote Speaker
Professor Francisca de Haan
Central European University

The Australian Women’s History Network Symposium this year will focus on
‘Women in Motion’, in association with the Australian Historical
Association (AHA) conference theme of ‘Mobilities and Mobilisations’, and
with the support of the Institute for Social Transformation Research at the
University of Wollongong. We invite paper and panel proposals which
consider the theme of ‘mobility’ from a gendered perspective.

Papers and panels may address (but are not limited to) the themes of
women’s participation in and gendered perspectives on:

•       Political mobilisation
•       National mobilisation
•       Migration
•       Transnational lives
•       Boundary crossing
•       Regional mobilities
•       Social mobility
•       Emotion

Please submit abstracts of 200 words by 15 March 2013 via the AHA
conference website, selecting the ‘Women in Motion’ stream:
www.theaha.org.au/Mobilities

For further information, please contact Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
sharoncd@uow.edu.au and Vera Mackie vera@uow.edu.au.

Conference: Weaving Our Wisdom

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2nd Annual South Bay Womyn’s Conference, Weaving Our Wisdom: from Roots to Wings

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San José, CA – We are proud to announce the 2nd Annual South Bay Womyn’s Conference, Weaving our Wisdom: from Roots to Wings on Saturday, March 9th from 8:30am to 6:00pm inside the San José State University Student Union. This event is open to male, female, and transgender identified students and community members. General admission will be $13.00 and $15.00 at the door. To register visit http://www.southbaywc.org/registration/.

Weaving Our Wisdom seeks to celebrate, learn, and reflect upon the herstory of womyn warriors working in our community, while engaging the concerns faced by today’s generation of womyn. Throughout the day there will be artists, vendors, presenters, and panelists encouraging inclusivity and empowerment using various forms of expression.

Panels- The conference will host two panels featuring: Olga Talamante, Executive Director of the Chicana/Latina Foundation; Steeda McGruder, Founder of Sisters That Been There; Founder and Co-Chair of the Regional Coalition for Equal Pay Joan Goddard; Associate Vice President of Instruction at De Anza College, Rowena Tomaneng; Deepa Sharma, Campaign Manager of the Jim Beall for State Senate race; ‘Mother of South Bay Hip Hop,’ Aiko Shirakawa; Conservation and Development Manager of the Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter, Megan Fluke Medeiros; and Shahin Gerami, Director of the San José State University Women’s Studies Department.

Workshops- There will be three workshop sessions throughout the conference. Session I Honoring Herstory (10:50am ) seeks to look at past and current social justice movements within our community. Session II Health, Wellness & Healing (1:25pm) explores the practice of self-care, spiritually and physically. Session III Facing Forward (2:50pm) will be centered on learning from the past and facing our futures. Attendees will have the freedom to choose which workshops they take part in.

The South Bay Womyn’s Conference strives to create a safe space and environment that promotes learning, expression, and education. By focusing on local womyn’s intersections and commonalities, the SBWC hopes to unite individuals of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds. This event is wheelchair accessible and we strongly encourage those with mobility, visual, or hearing impairment to email info@southbaywc.org for reserved seating.

Contact: Samantha Pedrosa
Phone: (408) 320-5569

email: info@southbaywc.org
Visit the website at http://www.southbaywc.org

NEH Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute

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NEH Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Humanities Heritage 3D Visualization: Theory and Practice June 17-July 6, 2013
Location: ASU and UAF
Application Deadline: March 15, 2013

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This summer institute brings together twenty scholars working in the humanities who have research or teaching projects that would benefit from real-time visualization in a game engine, published as standalone applications, web players, or on mobile devices. In a three-week institute, participants will be provided with a conceptual roadmap to the difficult but intellectually productive issues that surround the academic use of game engines, including the balance of immersion with accuracy, strategies for storytelling and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in “serious” games, and questions of power and appropriateness in using video game conventions to represent non-contemporary or non-Western cultures. Participants will also receive hands-on training in the digital toolbox for creating game engine content, a basic workflow that they would be able to use in their own projects and bring back to their home institutions. Training will include VSim, Unity 3D, online multi-user virtual environments, Google SketchUp, 3D Studio Max, Cinema 4D, as well as a broad range of open-source programs. No prior knowledge or experience in 3D modeling will be assumed.

A unique feature of the institute is the breadth of cultural heritage content it incorporates. This includes travel to ASU Heritage sites modeled by the CDI including the Lakeport Plantation in Lake Village, the boyhood home of Johnny Cash in Dyess, the Hemingway-Pfeiffer house and studio in Piggott, and the Japanese-American internment camp in Rohwer. At UAF participants will also participate in a Unity tutorial focused on the House of the Ara Massima in Pompeii. In bringing together an impressive group of lecturers who specialize in the use of 3D visualization and game engines as research tools in the digital humanities, the institute creates an important resource in the form of a community of scholars—which allows for future collaborations between individuals and universities.

All teachers selected to participate in the institute will be awarded a stipend of $2700 dollars to help cover travel costs, books and other research expenses, and living expenses.

Alyson A. Gill
Director, Center for Digital Initiatives
Associate Professor, Art History
Phone: 870-680-8282

Email: agill@astate.edu
Visit the website at http://www.humanitiesheritage.com

Conference: Gender Matters

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Registration continues for the 3rd annual Gender Matters interdisciplinary conference. Early registration ends Friday, February 1st. Regular registration goes through March 15th. The conference will be April 12-13, 2013 in downtown Chicago at DePaul University.

More information, including a preliminary draft of the program is available at http://www.govst.edu/gendermatters Featuring Jack Halberstam (Keynote Address); Heather Carver (Featured Performer); and Laurens Grant (dir., Featured Film).

Register at: http://www.govst.edu/gmc

Connect on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gendermattersconference