University of Marmara, Istanbul, May 11-13, 2013

International Conference on Gender and Migration: Critical Issues and
Policy Implications

This international conference invites expert contributions on the
following areas: Transnationalism, diasporas and gender; Gender and labour
migration; Gender-based violence and forced migration; Migration and
gender in the media; Healthcare and migrant women; Gender and migrant
family relations; Gendered experiences in Turkish migration.

The Conference will take place at Marmara University, Istanbul, on
11-13th May 2013. Abstract submission deadline is 22nd February.

Beyza Ataci
London Centre for Social Studies
227/228 Strand, WC2R 1BE, UK
Email: b.ataci@socialstudies.org.uk
Visit the website at http://www.socialstudies.org.uk

Domestic dissidents: a re-examination of the lives, exchanges and everyday
experiences of radical religious women, 1500-1800

Registration for the upcoming ‘Domestic Dissidents’ conference to be held at the University of Warwick on 10 June 2013 is now open, deadline April 8th. The registration page can be accessed through the conference webpage:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/emforum/events/domesticdissidents/.

A provisional programme for the day is also available on the conference
page, as well as details and links about accommodation and travel
information.

Keynote speaker:

Professor Karin Wulf, William and Mary College, Virginia, USA

Conference details:

This one-day interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars
of all levels whose research touches upon the everyday lives and networks
of dissident women in early modern England, America and Europe.
Traditional histories of sectarian and non-conformist women in the early
modern period have attested to the prominent role women had in the spread
of religious sectarianism and the survival of individual movements such as
the Methodists, Baptists, Quakers and Catholic recusants. However, very
little has been discussed about the non-religious elements of these
women’s lives and experiences and how their religious affiliation affected
their position as wives and mothers and as members of communities. Through a
comparative framework, the conference aims to draw out key debates in the
study of women and radical religion and seeks to explore the less familiar
aspects of their lives as religious dissidents in the period 1500-1800.

If you have any questions, or need more information about travel,
accommodation or details about the day, feel free to contact me at the
email address below.

Naomi Wood
Doctoral Candidate
Department of History
University of Warwick
N.R.Wood@warwick.ac.uk

The Public Heritage Institute (PHI) at Regis College invites proposals for papers and panels that address the topic of “Women, Religion, and Empowerment.” The conference will be held on the campus of Regis College in Weston, MA on April 12 and 13, 2013.

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.

Presenters might consider, but are not limited to, the following questions:

•How have religious institutions reacted to feminist calls for change?

•How do religious institutions with a male dominated hierarchy incorporate the female perspective?

•In what ways has history forgotten the role of women in religion?
•What are the ways in which art, music, or literature play a role in connecting the three (women, religion, and empowerment)?

Paper and panel proposals from every discipline are welcome. Please send abstracts (250 words maximum) and a one page CV to katina.fontes@regiscollege.edu by March 1, 2013.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=200973

The University of North Texas Digital Scholarship Co-Operative and UNT Libraries invite proposals for Digital Frontiers 2013, a conference that brings together the users and builders of digital resources for research and education.

Digital libraries provide unprecedented access to materials, and this has
dramatically expanded the possibilities of primary source research in the
humanities and related fields.

We seek submissions of individual papers, fully-constituted panels,
birds-of-a-feather discussions, hands-on tutorials, or posters–all based
on the use of digital archives, social media, and digital tools for
humanities research.

We encourage contributions from anyone who creates or uses digital
collections, including scholars, educators, genealogists, archivists,
technologists, librarians, and students. The goals of this conference are
to bring a broad community of users together to share their work across
disciplinary and administrative boundaries, and to explore the value and
impact that digital resources have on education and research.

Possible Topics:

• Specific ways digital libraries have changed the state
  of research
• Digital tools and methods for conducting research
• Using digital collections in the classroom
• Using digital libraries for research on any humanities
• topic

Digital Frontiers is accepting proposals for:

• Individual papers
• Panels or Roundtables
• Birds-of-a-Feather Discussions
• Hands-on Tutorials & Workshops
• Academic Posters

For specific guidelines and further details, please visit:
http://digitalfrontiers.unt.edu/

Deadline: April 30, 2013

Women and the Silent Screen VII: Performance and the Emotions
The University of Melbourne, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2013

***NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR CFP: 1 March 2013***

Previously held in Utrecht, Santa Cruz, Montréal, Guadalajara, Stockholm
and Bologna, this is the first time the conference has been brought to the
Australia-Pacific region. We are inviting participants to submit abstracts
(200-300 words, headed by a paper title) as well as a short biographical
statement by 20/01/2013. Those who would like to propose panels or
workshops should submit a panel title, as well as the individual paper
proposal. We hope that the nature of the industry itself can become a
starting point for questions about women’s collaborative endeavor. Topics
may include but are not limited to:

*   Performance and the emotions
*   Women making films
*   Film and the archive
*   Transnational collaborations
*   Indigeneity and Indigenous Peoples
*   Set design and fashion
*   Monstrosity and the silent screen
*   Queer theory
*   Historiography
*   Studies in National cinemas (especially Australian, East & South East
Asian film)
*   The New Woman
*   The Sound of the Silents

Those whose work does not fall within these categories are still encouraged
to submit a proposal. We will make every effort to represent the breadth of
scholarship being undertaken in film history.

The conference welcomes participation from scholars, archivists, students
and cinephiles. It is supported by a program of screenings at ACMI
(Australia Centre for the Moving Image), which will run from 26 September
to 30 September, 2013. This program will be developed in collaboration with
the National Film and Sound Archive.

The conference is convened by Victoria Duckett and Jeanette Hoorn. Keynote
speakers include Richard Abel, Weihong Bao, Pam Cook, Barbara Creed, Mary
Ann Doane and Shelley Stamp.

Please send your abstracts, or any questions you might have to the
organizers at wssconference2013@gmail.com

A Joint Conference organised by History and the Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts (HuMPA) at Plymouth University and Umeå Group for Pre-modern Studies To be held at Plymouth University, 29-31 August 2013

Keynote Speakers: Professor Barbara J. Harris (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

This conference investigates gender and political culture during the period 1400 to 1800, and the organizers welcome proposals for papers on topics related to the conference theme. The conference aims to create possibilities for comparative research and is therefore looking to attract a broad variety of studies across periods, disciplines and geographical regions. We also wish to attract both senior scholars and doctoral students. During the conference there will be sessions where participants present papers, and a workshop where participants may present work in progress or project ideas.

Proposals are invited for papers that treat the following indicative areas:
• the relationship between gender, power and political authority
• gendered aspects of monarchy; representations of power and authority
• gender, office-holding, policy-making and counsel
• courts, patronage and political influence
• elite culture and political networks
• gender, the public sphere and political participation
• popular politics, protest and petitioning
• manuscript, print, oral, material and visual cultures
• news, intelligence and the spread of information
• political ideas, ideologies and language
• conceptualizations of ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres and what constituted ‘power’ and ‘politics’
• the family as a ‘political unit’
• the politicization of social activities: marriage-arranging, placing children in other households, gift-giving, hospitality and letter-writing

Proposals for papers or workshops, including titles and abstracts (of no more than 300 words) and a brief author biography should be sent to Professor James Daybell (james.daybell@plymouth.ac.uk), Plymouth University or Professor Svante Norrhem (svante.norrhem@historia.umu.se), Umeå University before 1 March 2013. There are also a small number of conference bursaries available for junior scholars, which will cover conference fee and accommodation for three nights. If you are interested in being considered for one of the bursaries, please send a CV, brief covering letter and letter of recommendation along with your title and abstract. Conference website: http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/research/humpa/news/Pages/Gender-and-Political-Culture-1400-1800-Conference.aspx

Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner

March 1-2, 2013
Free and Open to the Public

Featuring: The keynote Address by Women’s Historian Alice Kessler Harris, distinguished professor at Columbia University and Author of Difficult Women The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman

Round table discussion about the life and work of Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner moderated by Blanch Weisen Cooke, author of The Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt Volumes 1 and 2.

We still face unending war, economic injustice, potential environmental catastrophe, militarism, institutionalized racism, hunger, homophobia and sexism among other issues. By taking a multi-disciplinary approach, we will explore issues of global peace and justice from a variety of perspectives. We seek to understand the ways in which activists have organized around these issues now and in the past and ask the following questions: What are the issues activists have faced in the past and how might we learn from previous movements? How do current issues intersect and interact and how can activists combine forces to confront these problems and work for social change? With the spirit of Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner as our legacy, can we find the energy and focus to move forward together?

Panel Discussions Include:

Uses of Space: Women’s Global and Local Resistance

Women’s Educational Activism

Transnational Peace Activism

Women’s Efforts for Peace in the U.S. and Great Britain

Women’s LGBT Activism

Women Power for Peace: Linkages in Domestic and International Anti-War and Anti-Imperialist Activism During the Vietnam Era

Register for free at: http://www.slc.edu/graduate/programs/womens-history/conference/registration.html

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=200543

Call for Papers, Deadline March 15th, 2013

The Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
The Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender invites proposals for
sessions in its 2013-2014 series.  Programs take place alternately at the
Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute and at the Massachusetts
Historical Society.  The Seminar’s steering committee welcomes suggestions
for papers dealing with all aspects of the history of women and/or gender
in the United States and will also consider projects comparing the American
experience with that in other parts of the world.

Each session focuses on the discussion of a pre-circulated paper.  The
essayist and an assigned commentator will each have an opportunity for
remarks before the discussion is opened to the floor.  Papers must be
available for circulation at least a month before the seminar date.

In developing its 2013-2014 series, the Seminar’s steering committee will
fill some sessions through invitations and others through this call for
papers.  If you would like to be considered for a slot, please send your CV
and a one-page précis of your paper by March 15 to Conrad E. Wright,
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215,
or to cwright@masshist.org<mailto:cwright@masshist.org>.

In your proposal, please indicate when your paper will be available for
distribution.  If there are special scheduling conditions, such as a
planned trip to Boston or an extended period when you cannot make a
presentation, please so indicate in your proposal.

For more information on the Boston Seminar on the History of Women and
Gender visit the series webpage at
http://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/women-and-gender.

—
Kate Viens, Research Coordinator
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617-646-0568, Fax: 617-859-0074
www.masshist.org – America’s Oldest Historical Society – Founded 1791