Violent German Women – Rebels, Revolutionaries, Perpetrators, Abusive Mothers and Violent Lovers

We invite papers that critically examine the portrayal of violent German
women and what motivates their actions. Is violence a uniquely gendered
act? Have women become more violent? We are particularly interested in a
genealogy or trajectory, and the aesthicization of feminine violence.
Rather than looking at women as merely members of the fairer sex, we are
eager to construct a dialogue that illustrates the agency of women in
perpetuating violence, and complicating preconceived notions of gender and
its relationship to violent acts. Some examples might include depictions of
women as rebels, revolutionaries, terrorists, those who seek revenge,
violent mothers, abusive lovers, sado-masochists, and militarists. Of
particular interest is how these women have been portrayed in different
media such as literature, film, drama and art, and how these representations have changed over time. How their feminine violence can be
tied directly to the history of German-speaking lands, experiences, and
national spaces will be the central focus of this panel.

* *

Please submit a 250 word abstract by February 15, to Imke Brust and Nicole
McInteer (GSAWiG2013@gmail.com). The abstract should include your name,
institutional affiliation, and email address, as well as any audio-visual
requirements for the presentation.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=200819

Registration is open for THATcamp Feminisms East, to be hosted by The Barnard Center for Research on Women on Saturday, March 16th, at Barnard College.

What is a THATCamp?

Here are the key characteristics of a THATCamp:

• It’s collaborative: there are no spectators at a THATCamp. Everyone participates, including in the task of setting an agenda or program.
• It’s informal: there are no lengthy proposals, papers, presentations, or product demos. The emphasis is on productive, collegial work or free-form discussion.
• It’s spontaneous and timely, with the agenda / schedule / program being mostly or entirely created by all the participants during the first session of the first day, rather than weeks or months beforehand by a program committee.
• It’s productive: participants are encouraged to use session time to create, build, write, hack, and solve problems.
• It’s lightweight and inexpensive to organize: we generally estimate that a THATCamp takes about 100 hours over the course of six months and about $3000 to organize.
• It’s not-for-profit and either free or inexpensive (under $30) to attend: it’s funded by small sponsorships, donations of space and labor, and by passing the hat around to the participants.
• It’s small, having anywhere from 25 or 50 to about 150 participants: most THATCamps aim for about 75 participants.
• It’s non-hierarchical and non-disciplinary and inter-professional: THATCamps welcome graduate students, scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, developers and programmers, K-12 teachers, administrators, managers, and funders as well as people from the non-profit sector, people from the for-profit sector, and interested amateurs. The topic “the humanities and technology” contains multitudes.
• It’s open and online: participants make sure to share their notes, documents, pictures, and other materials from THATCamp discussions before and after the event on the web and via social media.
• It’s fun, intellectually engaging, and a little exhausting.

See the website to register: http://feminismseast2013.thatcamp.org/01/05/registration-is-officially-open/

Global Gender Equality Politics

Since the 1960’s

2013 Stockholm Conference on Global Gender Equality Politics

Stockholm University: 10-11th September 2013

The theme of the conference addresses ongoing gender equality politics as
well as legislation against gender discrimination as part of transnational
transformations. The concepts of human rights, gender equality and
anti-discrimination legislation have gradually become more and more
accepted on a comprehensive global level and have been given a prominent
position in the official rhetoric. In most Western states, gender equality
politics and “state feminism” have become a self-evident part of political
development, including legislation, gender equality reforms, measures and
institutions such as gender equality ombudsmen. However, the criticisms of
the concepts of human rights, gender equality and anti-discrimination as
colonial, racial and Western concepts expose the complexities and
ambivalences that are embedded in gender equality politics and give rise to
some serious questions: How are we going to interpret the success of gender
equality politics? Do the politics in this field maintain or challenge
existing power relations and structures? Or, is the problem the concept of
gender equality itself? What political ideologies and interests have
interfered with the development of this concept? What lines of conflict are
evident? Are gender equality politics and anti-discrimination legislation
to be seen as the outcome of a socialist/social democratic ideology or as a
result of a neo-liberal influenced political agenda?

This conference is meant to be a moment for critical
investigation as well as for understanding historical contexts of gender
politics in different countries. Our intention is to examine the origins,
genealogy, evolution, historical contexts and what might be seen as a
backlash for the feminism and gender equality politics of today. We also
wish to examine the concept of gender equality politics and the political
institution of gender equality ombudsmen. Above all we want to highlight
gender equality politics, strategies and anti-discrimination legislation as
a component in, or an idea of, transnational movements, both historically
and today. We also welcome contributions that examine gender equality
politics from an intersectional point of view.

We invite all modes of work, papers and critical thinking on gender
equality politics and gender discrimination in a globalized world. We
especially invite papers on non-Western and post-authoritarian gender
equality politics and legislation.

Our main questions are: How is gender equality interpreted, and what are
the political consequences of these interpretation processes? How do ideas
of gender equality politics and anti-discrimination legislation spread
globally? How is the concept of gender equality politics approached in
politics and legislation? How are the politics of gender equality situated
in national politics of human rights? How does gender discrimination
intersect with other types of discrimination?

Abstracts, *max*. *one page*, due by March 1st 2013 to
Yulia.Gradskova@historia.su.se

We cannot take more than 60 papers.

*Participants are expected to cover their own costs for travel and hotel,
but a conference dinner, two lunches, and coffee will be provided free of
charge.*

*Deadlines:*

Website opens by March 1st

Abstracts by March 1st

Answers by March 20th 2013

Papers by June 1st 2013 are to be sent to the conference website

Registration for paper participant by June 1st 2013

Registration for listeners by August 15th 2013

Organizing committee:

Eva Blomberg, Professor in History, Stockholm University

Yulia Gradskova, PhD in History, Stockholm University

Alina Zvinkliene, PhD in Sociology, Södertörn University/Vilnius University

Ylva Waldemarson, Assistant Professor in History, Södertörn University

Referee committee:

Christina Florin, Professor in History, Stockholm University

Helen Carlbäck, Ass. Professor in History, Södertörn University

Silke Neunsinger, Ass. Professor in History, Labour Movement Archives and
Library

International conference: 24-26 October, 2013, Cluj-Napoca, Romania,
Sapientia University
deadline for applications: 20 May, 2013.

In the past decades “intermediality” has proved to be one of the most
productive terms in the domain of humanities. Although the ideas regarding
media connections may be traced back to the poetics of the Romantics or
even further back in time, it was the accelerated multiplication of media
themselves becoming our daily experience in the second half of the
twentieth century that propelled the term to a wide attention in a great
number of fields (communication and cultural studies, philosophy, theories
of literature and music, art history, cinema studies, etc.) where it
generated an impressive number of analyses and theoretical discussions.
“Intermediality is in” („Intermedialität ist in”), declared one of its
pioneering theorists, Joachim Paech, at the end of the 1990s. However, we
may also note, that since then other theoretical approaches introduced even
newer perspectives that have not only revitalized the study of media
phenomena in general but have specifically targeted the emerging new
problematics raised by the new electronic media. Facing the challenge of
the daily experiences of the digital age, discussions of media differences
or ‘dialogues’ highlighting the ‘inter,’ the ‘gap,’ the ‘in-between,’ the
‘incommensurability’ between media are currently being replaced by
discourses of the ‘enter’ or ‘immersion,’ and the ‘network logic’ of a
‘convergence culture’ in which we have a “free flow of content over
different media platforms” (Henry Jenkins). At the same time the turn
towards the corporeality of perception in all aspects of communication has
also shifted the attention from the ‘interaction of media’ towards the
‘interaction with media,’ from the idea of ‘media borders’ towards the
analysis of the blurring of perception between media and reality, of humans
and machines – media being perceived more and more not as a form of
representation but as an environment and as a means to ‘augment’ reality.
Nowadays media continuously mutate, relocate and expand, while connections
between ‘old’ and ‘new’ media are being established with incredible
fluidity. Accordingly, we may ask: what are the new perspectives for
intermedial research in the digital age? While media are continuously
changing and expanding, how can we relocate the “in-between”? If we
consider ‘intermediality’ first and foremost – as suggested by Jürgen E.
Müller – as a “research concept” (Suchbegriff), how can this concept be
effectively applied to the media we see around us today? And if we believe
that the “ecosystem” of contemporary media can be understood not as a
unified digital environment that nullifies differences, but as a thriving
and highly diversified, “multisensory milieu” (Jacques Rancière) that poses
new challenges both for the consumer/producer and the theorist, how can we
address these challenges? How do media differences persist and how do these
differences still matter despite voices advocating the so called
“post-medium condition”?

As the former Nordic Society for Intermedial Studies launches its own
expanded, international format (International Society for Intermedial
Studies / ISIS), we think it is timely to address once more the major
issues for which this society exists, and to invite participants to examine
new forms of ‘intermedialities.’ In doing so participants may address a
broad range of questions relating to ‘old media’ and ‘new media,’ and their
possible interactions, focusing on the wide array of intermedia phenomena
and new type of relationships that new media have produced, but also on how
pre-digital media relations can be re-evaluated, and how historical
paradigms of intermediality may already be distinguishable viewed from the
standpoint of the contemporary media landscape.

Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the following questions
either from a theoretical point of view or through concrete analyses:

* Media on the move? Media relations produced by expansions and relocations
of media (e.g. “the virtual life of film,” the expansions of the
“photographic” and of the “cinematic” over other media, e-literature,
etc.), the emergence of mobile screens, the fact that media use is more and
more related to moving in the literal sense of the word: mobility and
navigation.

* Relocating the ‘in-between’: intermediality, inter-sensuality,
multimodality and interactivity, assessing the contribution of cognitive
theories (and neuroscience), phenomenology and post-phenomenology to the
study of understanding interactions of media and interactions with multiple
media.

* Performing in (new) intermedial spaces: intermedial performance in art
and society. Being ‘in touch’ with reality – being ‘in touch with media:’
researching new (trans)media practices.

* Intermediality and new forms of digital storytelling: new perspectives in
transmedial narratology, new media and narratology (e.g. narrativity and
e-platforms, games versus “old” media etc.), the aesthetics of the
intermedia flow, of complex, network narratives generated by the
experiences of the new media age.

* Modelling and mapping intermedialities: historical paradigms of
intermedial relations (pre-modern, modern, post-modern intermediality); the
aesthetics and ‘politics’ of intermediality before and after the digital
age; historical research on intermediality related to media migration,
cultural heritage and changing relationships between production,
distribution, and perception.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

* HENRY JENKINS, University of Southern California (USA), author of
Convergence Culture: where Old and New Media Collide (2007), currently
co-authoring a book on “spreadable media.”

* JOACHIM PAECH, University of Konstanz (Germany), author of Menschen im
Kino. Film und Literatur erzählen (2000), Literatur und Film (1997),
PASSION oder Die EinBILDungen des Jean-Luc Godard (1989), as well as
several seminal articles on the theory of intermediality in film,
literature, and new media.

* MARIE-LAURE RYAN, independent scholar, Colorado (USA), co-editor of
Intermediality and Storytelling (2010), author of Avatars of Story
(Electronic Mediations) (2006), Narrative across Media: The Languages of
Storytelling (2004), Narrative as Virtual Reality. Immersion and
Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (2001), etc.

Deadline for the submission of proposals: 20 May 2013.
We will notify you about the acceptance of your proposals by: 1 June 2013.

Submission of proposals: please complete the submission form that you can
download from the conference website:
http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/rethinking-intermediality-in-the-digital-ageand
send it as an attachment to the following address:
2013.rethinking.intermediality@gmail.com

More information at the website:
http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/rethinking-intermediality-in-the-digital-age

The 2013 Susie Pryor Award Competition

The Arkansas Women’s History Institute announces its call for the 2013 Susie Pryor Award submissions. The award is named in honor of Susie Hampton Newton Pryor – mother, community leader, local historian and writer from Camden, Arkansas.

The Susie Pryor Award in Arkansas Women’s History offers a $1,000 prize annually for the best unpublished essay on topics in Arkansas women’s history.

Manuscripts are judged on their contributions to knowledge of women in Arkansas’s history, use of primary and secondary materials, and analytical and stylistic excellence. The winning paper may be published.

Deadline for submission is March 1, 2013.

The winner will be announced at the Awards Banquet of the 2013 Arkansas Historical Association in Helena, Arkansas on Friday, April 12, 2013.

For guidelines, submission forms, and more information about the Susie Pryor Award, visit the Arkansas Women’s History Institute website at www.arkansaswomen.org or contact:

Dr. Kristin Dutcher Mann
Susie Pryor Award Competition
History Department
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2801 S. University Ave.
Little Rock, AR 72204
501.569.8152
kdmann@ualr.edu

Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities

Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Co-editor: Carol Smallwood Co-ed., Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising,
Publishing and Teaching (McFarland, 2012) on Poets & Writers Magazine “List
of Best Books for Writers.” Writing After Retirement: Tips by Successful
Retired Writers forthcoming from Scarecrow Press.

Co-editor: Joan Gelfand, Development Chair for the Women’s National Book
Association, member of the National Book Critics Circle, Joan blogs
regularly for the Huffington Post, teaches writing, and is an award winning
author.

Seeking chapters of unpublished work from writers in the United States and
Canada for an anthology. We are interested in such topics as: Women
Founding Companies Existing Only on the Web; Women Working on the Web With
Young Children or Physical Disabilities; Woman’s Studies Resources and
Curriculum Development Webmasters; Women as Founding Editors of Webzines
and Blogs; Surveys/Interviews of Women on the Web.

Chapters of 3,000-4,000 words (up to 3 co-authors) on how the Internet has
opened doors, leveled the playing field and provided new opportunities for
women, are all welcome. Practical, how-to-do-it, anecdotal and innovative
writing based on experience. We are interested in communicating how women
make money on the Web, further their careers and the status of women. One
complimentary copy per chapter, discount on additional orders.

Please e-mail two chapter topics each described in two sentences by
February 28, 2013, along with a brief bio to smallwood@tm.net.  Please place
INTERNET/Last Name on the subject line; if co-authored, paste bio sketches
for each author.

2013 HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE  October 31- November 3, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Program Committee invites proposals on all topics relevant to the
history of education in any time period or nation, and especially papers or
panels that cross cultures, time periods or national boundaries.  The
Committee defines “education” broadly, to include all institutions of
socialization—mass media, voluntary organizations, and so on—as well as
schools and universities.  Proposals may be submitted for an individual
paper, a complete paper session, or a panel discussion.  A proposal for an
individual paper spells out the paper’s focus and rationale; if accepted,
this paper and others related to it will be combined into a paper session.
A proposal for a complete paper session provides a prospectus for a
coherent collection of three or four papers, including a title for the
session, a title for each paper, names of all authors, a chair, and a
discussant. A panel discussion is a session in which a group of qualified
panelists present a series of thought pieces that discuss important issues,
research or books in the field.

For the 2013 meeting, the Program Committee asks members to consider
proposing sessions, which may take the format of panel discussions or
workshops, organized around themes including:

1.     Teaching of the History of Education (including higher education,
the use of primary sources, teaching in a multiracial democracy, and
technology) and the place of the Foundations of Education in university
programs

2.     Historians as Public Intellectuals—The place of History in policy,
politics, and public opinion

3.     The state of the field—emerging issues or issues that should be
emerging in HES

Note:  There will be no preference given to papers and panels that fit, or
do not fit, these themes, but we will avoid scheduling conflicts among
panels that fall under any one theme.

Please include affiliations and email addresses for all participants.

Proposals are due on or before March 1, 2013 (no later than 9:00 p.m., PT).

Your proposal should either be no more than a two-page proposal,
single-spaced, describing an individual paper (references may be in
addition to the two pages), or no more than a four-page proposal
single-spaced, describing a complete paper session or panel discussion
(again, references may be in addition to the four pages). The proposal
should include the following elements: the topic, the theme, and an
overview of the study or discussion; the findings or conclusions; the
significance and how the work relates to other scholarship in the field;
and the sources. Whole panel proposals should also include individual paper
titles and a brief abstract in addition to the proposal for the panel as a
whole.  Please eliminate any identifying information from your proposal
before uploading it but include the affiliations and email addresses for
all participants elsewhere as instructed on the website.

To submit a proposal, please go to our proposal submission website.  It is
the same website used for the 2011 and 2012 Annual Meeting (with a change
of year in the address): https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/HES2013.

You will be asked to log into, or create, an account.  (Note:  It is
essential to use https.  Using simply http will not get you access.)  The
simple prompts will then guide you in entering your proposal information,
uploading your proposal, and providing some additional information,
including an abstract of your paper or session.

The History of Education Society requires all presenters at the 2013
conference to be members of the society. Invitations for membership will be
sent to authors of accepted proposals along with details about the
conference.

For questions about proposals, please contact James Fraser, program chair,
email jwf3@nyu.edu; telephone 212-998-5413, or mail New York University,
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, East
Building, Suite 600, 239 Greene Street, New York, NY  10003.

For questions about technical issues related to submitting proposals,
please contact Noah Kippley-Ogman, email nko207@nyu.edu.

For questions about payments and registration, please contact Ralph Kidder,
email rkidder@marymount.edu.

The Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship welcomes submissions of scholarly articles between 5,000 – 8,000 words in length. Well researched and appropriately referenced positional papers will also be considered. Shorter 2,000 – 4000 word articles with a focus on methodologies, experimentation, development, digital project description or review, as well as other more technical subject matters, are eligible for consideration. Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis.

http://jdces.org/Submissions.html

Articles should be relevant to the humanities, arts and social sciences.

Topics of interest to this journal include, but are not limited to:

Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing
Digital Arts
Social Computing
Media Studies
New and Interactive Media
Digital Histories / History and Computing
Electronic Textual Analysis
Computational Linguistics and Stylistics
Electronic Resources and Publishing
Computational, Humanistic and Social Theory
Applied Psychology and Cyberpsychology
Humanist Computer Applications
Human Computer Interaction
Information Modelling and Data Analysis
Game Studies and Web-based Communities
Digital Archives and Databases
Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies

http://jdces.org/Submissions.html

About the Journal:

Welcome to the Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship, an international peer reviewed interdisciplinary publication with a focus on technology in the humanities, arts and social sciences. It is offered in both print and electronic formats, the latter as open access. Submissions to this journal are subject to a strict blind review process, facilitated by our expert panel of reviewers, all of which are respected academics within their respective fields.

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