We welcome manuscripts on teaching any historical subject, time period, or region. Here are some questions that may be addressed… other questions as well as proposals from diverse perspectives are encouraged.

1. What pedagogical or andragogical approaches should be used in teaching an undergraduate or graduate history class?
2. As our understanding of history and historical development changes, how should we adjust our teaching and learning facilitation methods to reflect these changes?
3. What types of methods work best at each level–high school, community college, undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate?
4. How appropriate or effective are currently broadly popular methods, such as cooperative learning (i.e. group work), service learning, and educational games, for the history classroom?
5. How much should we adapt old methods or move to completely new approaches? In other words, how and how far should we teach beyond the textbook?
6. How can we assess the relative effectiveness of new methods for teaching history?
7. What do we teach and/or should we teach in a secondary school history class: memory, heritage, traditional indigenous histories, counterfactual history, or reading and writing? How much history should be required in a school curriculum?
8. What educational technology is useful for teaching history?
9. How can we effectively use educational technology to promote historical understanding?
10. What is the effect of computer-based technology on historical scholarship and teaching?

Who May Submit:
Manuscripts are sought from those whose experiences and methods in the college or high school classroom have produced meaningful ways to teach history, whether in the traditional classroom, through on-line courses, or a combination of class meetings and web-based work. Submissions may be in the form of research reports, case studies, research in progress, or theoretical papers. Please identify your submission with keyword: HISTORY

Submission deadline: Thursday, 28th February 2013.
Submission Procedure: http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=200013

FEMINIST SYMPOSIUM: “Boundaries, Bodies, and Dissidence”: Negotiating New Spaces of Feminist Knowledge on March 29, 2013

Florida Atlantic University’s Women’s Studies Graduate Student Association in collaboration with the Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies proudly presents FAU’s 15th Annual Women’s Studies Graduate Student Association Symposium.

We welcome scholarly work by graduate students from all disciplines. We hope to encourage lively debate about issues of common interest and encourage further work in the fields of gender and women’s studies issues. This symposium is an opportunity for graduate students to present their ongoing work, thesis proposals or research papers.

Graduate students in the Visual and Performing Arts are invited to submit proposals for exhibits or creative performances. To apply, please submit a one-page abstract which includes:
(1) A brief description of the proposed topic
(2) An explanation of how the topic relates to Women’s Studies scholarship or issues of feminist analysis
(3) A thesis statement

Individual or collective submissions are welcome. Please include your name, address, telephone number, e-mail, institutional affiliation and the title of your paper at the top of the page. Final decisions on the submitted abstracts will be sent no later than February 22, 2013.

All abstracts must be received by Friday, February 1, 2013. Abstract submissions should be sent via email to: fau.wsgsa@gmail.com

For more information, contact Renata Bozzetto at rrodri68@fau.edu

The conference is open to the public. Arrangements concerning refreshments and guest speakers are pending.

We welcome papers on the following topics including, but not limited to:

Gender Justice
Global Feminist Issues,
Diaspora and Politics of Exile
Feminist Philosophy
Women’s Studies and Feminist Pedagogy
Sexual Politics
Queer Studies
Feminist Cultural Studies
Media and Popular
Culture
Disability Studies
Feminist Critical Race
Studies
Environmental Justice
Feminist Approaches to
Science, Spirituality, Militarism,
Families, Reproduction, Labor,
Health or Violence

Renata BozzettoEmail: rrodri68@fau.edu http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=200236

Social Science History Association annual conference
Chicago, Nov. 21-24 2013

The SSHA organizes an annual conference in which each of the networks
that make up the SSHA put together a series of conference panels. This very
grassroots system of conference organizing means that scholars put together
complete panels (consisting of 4-5 papers, a discussant, and a chair),
which are then vetted by the network representatives and put on the program
by the program committee. In addition, scholars propose individual papers,
which network representatives turn into panels. The outcome is a terrific,
stimulating conference.

The 2013 conference will be in Chicago on Nov. 21-24 and we hope you will
consider proposing panels that fit under the broad umbrella of our network
women, gender & sexuality.  If you like more specific guidance, the general
topic of the conference is “organizing powers” (see http://www.ssha.org/pdfs/SSHA_2013_CFP.pdf).

In addition, topics raised at this year’s network meeting included:

Re-evaluating the sexual revolution from women, gender and sexuality
perspectives; The organizing power of affect; The organizing power of
color; The organizing powers of feminisms; Re-evaluating the socio-cultural
effects of feminisms; Gendering and sexualization as structuring
instruments of power; The relationship between feminism and revolution;
Gender and labor organizing; Women and consumer activism; The Men’s
movement; Re-organizing power relations; Gender organizing prison; LGBT,
marriage: re-organizing power? Gender-segregation as organizing power; The
relationship between household and state.

These are suggestions only — we are happy to consider all themes that fit
within our network.

The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2013!  For instructions on how
to upload panel and individual paper proposals please go to:
http://www.ssha.org/conference-submission

If you have ideas for panels and need advice on bringing in more scholars,
please do not hesitate to contact us. We might be able to put you in
contact with others.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions:

Dominique Grisard:
dominique.grisard@unibas.ch

Anna Korteweg:
anna.korteweg@utoronto.ca

The open source journal Future Internet is currently looking for papers for an issue on inequality in the online or digital environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for younger scholars and also for those with research that may not fit in other journals.

This special issue of Future Internet is dedicated to exploring inequalities between groups in the digital environment. The “digital environment” here refers to the social space produced through devices that allow users to go online (mobile phones, desktop computers, tablet computers, etc).

Papers should explore inequalities in this digital environment between economic classes, racial groups, communities, and other types of groups and categories.

All submissions due March 15, 2013.

Please refer to the issue’s webpage for more information as well as papers already planned for the journal: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/digital-inequality

Contact Rod Graham (rgraham@ric.edu) with an idea or abstract if you have a paper that fits the theme of the special issue.

Focus:
We welcome manuscripts on teaching any historical subject, time period, or region. Here are some questions that may be addressed… other questions as
well as proposals from diverse perspectives are encouraged.

1.  What pedagogical or andragogical approaches should be used in
teaching an undergraduate or graduate history class?
2.  As our understanding of history and historical development changes,
how should we adjust our teaching and learning facilitation methods to
reflect these changes?
3.  What types of methods work best at each level–high school, community
college, undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate?
4.  How appropriate or effective are currently broadly popular methods,
such as cooperative learning (i.e. group work), service learning, and
educational games, for the history classroom?
5.  How much should we adapt old methods or move to completely new
approaches? In other words, how and how far should we teach beyond the
textbook?
6.  How can we assess the relative effectiveness of new methods for
teaching history?
7.  What do we teach and/or should we teach in a secondary school history
class: memory, heritage, traditional indigenous histories, counterfactual
history, or reading and writing? How much history should be required in a
school curriculum?
8.  What educational technology is useful for teaching history?
9.  How can we effectively use educational technology to promote
historical understanding?
10. What is the effect of computer-based technology on historical
scholarship and teaching?

Who May Submit:
Manuscripts are sought from those whose experiences and methods in the
college or high school classroom have produced meaningful ways to teach
history, whether in the traditional classroom, through on-line courses, or
a combination of class meetings and web-based work. Submissions may be in
the form of research reports, case studies, research in progress, or
theoretical papers. Please identify your submission with keyword: HISTORY

Submission deadline:
Thursday, 28th February 2013.
Submission Procedure:
http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm

The Education, Knowledge Production and Science Studies Network invites you
to submit a paper, panel, or poster proposal for the 38th annual meeting of
the Social Science History Association. The meeting will take place November
21-24, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois. For more information on the meeting as
well as the call for proposals, please refer to the SSHA website:
http://www.ssha.org.

The deadline for paper and/or panel submissions is February 15, 2013.

The members of the Social Science History Association share a
common interest in interdisciplinary and systematic approaches to
historical research, and many of us find the SSHA one of the most
interesting and varied conferences that we attend. The thematic topic of
the 2013 annual meeting is “Organizing Powers.”

We welcome panels and papers on any topic of interest to scholars of
education, knowledge production, and science studies. We are also
interested in paper sessions that relate the larger theme of the conference
to these topics, and encourage the submission of complete book panels.
Possible topics might include, but are certainly not limited to:

– education and unionization,
– proprietary or for-profit schooling,
– the state and knowledge production,
– science and power,
– social movements and educational institutions,
– power and educational reform,
– knowledge construction in economics,
– the role of experts in policy-making,
– the current crisis in higher education in historical context,
– education and the disempowered

Paper titles, brief abstracts, and contact information should be submitted
at http://www.ssha.org/conference-submission. While complete panel
proposals are preferred, we will do our best to place high-quality
individual paper submissions. Please list any other networks with which
your paper or panel submission overlaps, as the EKPSS network can also
co-sponsor panels with other networks.

If you have any questions, please contact one of the EKPSS network
representatives:

Mary Ann Dzuback: madzubac@wustl.edu
Beth Berman: epberman@albany.edu
Adrea Lawrence: alawrenc@american.edu

Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration is seeking submissions for its upcoming issue on Women, Water and Migration.

Women and girls are disproportionately and uniquely impacted by Africa’s shifting physical and social environment. Across the continent freshwater resources are depleting at an alarming rate. From the ongoing ecological crisis in Lake Chad to the decline in biodiversity along the Nile River, these environmental changes are placing a great strain on the health, security and economic wellbeing of the populations that are sustained by them. The chronic water shortages and concomitant environmental shifts have contributed to the ongoing phenomenon of environmental migration, which has its own socio-ecological consequences for Africa’s women.

The upcoming Women, Water and Migration issue of Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration will explore a gender-based analysis of the impact of water shortages and environmentally induced migration throughout the continent by exploring the complex relationship between water resources, population movement, and women.

We seek submissions of articles, book and film reviews, and creative pieces that critically explore these and other questions:
• What impact do these environmental shifts have on population movement?
• How does the migration-climate nexus affect women and gender relations?
• How has the declining water supply affected the movement of African women locally, nationally and globally? What impact does this have on the environment?
• What community resources exist to allow people to cope with the changing environment?
• In what ways have women responded to climate change and how might a women’s rights agenda address global warming and water scarcity?

Articles must be original and should not be under consideration by another publication at the time of submission. All submissions should be emailed to mojubaolu@gmail.com by Friday, March 22, 2013. Articles should be between 20-25 pages long. They should be accessible and jargon-free. All submissions will be independently refereed. Accepted articles must conform to Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration style requirements. Please see submission guidelines: http://www.africamigration.com/

A brief reminder that proposals for “Beyond the Binaries: Critical Approaches to Sex and Gender in Early America,” a special issue of Early American Studies, are coming due on January 31, 2013.

In a 1993 article in Sciences, biologist and historian Anne Fausto-Sterling
provocatively argued that human sex could not be neatly divided into two
simple categories, men and women. Instead, she recommended a five-part
system of categorization, including men, women, merms, ferms, and herms. At
the time of publication, Fausto-Sterling’s tongue-in-cheek proposal
provoked more criticism than applause, but in the past two decades scholars
in a wide range of disciplines, from neuroscience to gender studies, have
added evidence to her assertion that binary sex categories are not a
biological rule. With a few exceptions, however, historians of early
America have been slow to question the binary of man and woman. In the
uproar provoked by her proposal, few recall that Fausto-Sterling began her
article not with a headline grabbed from the daily papers, but with an
historical example dating to 1840s Connecticut.

Now, recent work by historians including Elizabeth Reis, Clare Sears, and
Peter Boag, indicates a growing attention to the instability of sex in
early America. Their studies illuminate the existence and social knowledge
of individuals whose bodies, gender identities, and desires defied neat
divisions. Moreover, these works provoke questions about the coherence of
the binary sex categories that historians assume as foundational. What did
it mean to be a woman or a man in early America, if, as Reis points out, in
1764 a thirty-two year old woman named Deborah Lewis could change sex,
becoming a man named Francis Lewis, and live for another six decades as an
accepted patriarch within his community? How fixed were sex identities in
early America? What possibilities existed for the expression of gender
identities that stood at variance with embodied sex? What social practices
created opportunities for the blending and rearrangement of sex identities?
How did hierarchies of race and class destabilize or re-stabilize sex
binaries? Should “men” and “women” be understood as variable rather than
unitary categories?

To encourage these questions, and others like them, Early American Studies
invites proposals for essay submissions on the theme of “Beyond the
Binaries: Critical Approaches to Sex and Gender in Early America” for a
special issue to be published in fall 2014. Early American Studies is an
interdisciplinary journal that welcomes contributions from the fields of
history, art history, literary studies, religious studies, music,
philosophy, and material culture studies among others. Possible topics
might include (but are not limited to) bodies in doubt, female masculinity,
racialized constructions of sex, religious gender crossing, and
transgenderism in North America before 1860.

Proposals of 300 words are due by January 31, 2013, and should be emailed
to rcleves@uvic.ca Authors whose proposals are
accepted will submit completed drafts of their essays by July 15, 2013.

26th-27th April 2013

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 31 January 2013

We invite papers for this exciting multidisciplinary conference on the intersection between gender, revolt and power across the Americas in the twentieth
century.

Potential themes for papers include but are not limited to: labour activism, civil
rights, suffrage, environmental activism, approaches to feminism, developments in feminist theory, women in government and foreign policy, women in protest organizations, environmental activism, legal rights, LGBTQ activism, religious and
spiritual interests, reproductive rights, anti-war activity or pacifism, and the
development of gendered strategies against sexualized and racialized violence.

We encourage papers from established academics, early career scholars, postgraduates, and activists.

Proposals for papers should not exceed 500 words and must be accompanied by a
working title and CV. Abstracts should be submitted to the organizers by Thursday 31 January 2013.

Submissions should be emailed to the organizers at: freedomrightspower2013@gmail.com

We can provide early confirmation for delegates travelling from outside Europe.

For more information, please visit the conference website:
http://extranet.smuc.ac.uk/events-conferences/freedom-rights-power/Pages/default.aspx

Dawn-Marie Gibson, (Royal Holloway)
Althea Legal-Miller (Arcadia)
Imaobong Umoren (Oxford)

Friday 15 February, 2 Pm – 6 Pm
New Art Exchange
39 – 41 Gregory Boulevard
Nottingham
NG7 6BE

A half-day symposium exploring the ways in which women working across the Middle East, and across various creative practices (art, literature, film, journalism, blogging, curating), have sought to tell their, and others’, stories. Reflecting on issues such as the politics of self-representation, and the challenges and possibilities afforded by their identities as women.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=199736