This conference, which will be held at the Heyman Center at Columbia University on Feb. 8-9, 2013, examines the flourishing of women’s history in Britain in the 1970s, and the changing place of women’s and gender history within the academy. What have successive generations taken from earlier generations’ work, and how have they transformed it? What happened to those early theories and networks? What has been gained and lost through the process of institutionalization? What has happened both to the ‘place’ of the feminist imperative within history, and to the relatively privileged place of Britain within that scholarship?

Speakers include: Sally Alexander, Hazel Carby, Arianne Chernock, Anna Clark, Deborah Cohen, Leonore Davidoff, Lucy Delap, April Gallwey, Durba Ghosh, Katherine Gleadle, Susan Grayzel, Catherine Hall, Mary Hartman, Saidiya Hartman, Karen Hunt, Seth Koven, Tom Laqueur, Sharon Marcus, Penny Summerfield, Bonnie Smith, Pat Thane, Selina Todd, Deborah Valenze, Judith Walkowitz, and Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska.

To register, please contact Jonah Cardillo at jgc92@columbia.edu.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=199626

Session CFP:  Gender and Sexuality in the Construction of Knowledge
[working title],
German Studies Association Denver,  USA, October 2013

We seek papers from scholars working on gender and sexuality, including
the appearance of bodies, as a component of disciplinary formation;
contests over what is defined as knowledge or method; the use of gendered
ascriptions in defining the proper characteristics of researchers and
objects of study; and other similar topics linking gender or sexuality,
power, and the construction of knowledge. Those of us organizing the
session will provide perspectives from the histories of German economics,
historiography, and philosophy  in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The GSA considers papers in the areas of German history, literature,
culture, politics and any other discipline with a focus on German-speaking
Europe in any time period.  The deadline for submissions is 15 February
2013.

If you are interested in joining us, please provide a short description of
your proposed topic to  Marynel Ryan Van Zee ( mkryan@umn.edu) and Falko
Schnicke (falko.schnicke@gmx.de) by 11 January 2013.

CALL FOR PAPERS – INVITATION

15th International Symposium on School Life and School History Museums
& Collections

Creating links in education. Teachers and their associations as
promoters of pedagogic development (historical and museum aspects)
Povezovanje v šolstvu / Vernetzung im Bereich Bildung / Conexiones en
la Educación

Organised by Slovenian School Museum, Historical Association of
Slovenia and ICOM- Slovenia
Ljubljana (Slovenia), 26th – 29th June 2013
Deadline for the proposal of abstacts submission:  20th January 2013
Symposium web-site http://www.ssolski-muzej.si/slo/symposium2013.php

– The aim of the symposium, which connects school museums and
researchers into the history of education, is to present and explore
the professional historical contribution of male and women teachers
and particularly their associations to the development of schools and
pedagogy, as well as to cultural and general development. Teacher
associations united the teaching profession in the establishment of
their (trade union) interests, had a significant influence on the
development of teacher education (including their adult and continuing
education) and, through teaching and educational publications of
different ideological orientations, helped to shape the development of
education. Teachers’ gatherings, publishing activities and the
appearance of school museums were among the most important forms of
activity.

– Teacher associations and their regional, national (ethnic), state
and international connections went beyond the local importance of
frequently very diverse activities. They were marked in particular by
individual teachers who were important for a particular village, town
or wider region. Through changes that took place over time, we can
also discern the differing importance attributed to the teaching
profession, which is why we also encourage comparative analyses of the
role of teachers and their associations. Contributions offering an
overview of a wider region or even a whole country are particularly
welcome, as are presentations and analyses of archive and museum
material and, above all, insights into our museums through an analysis
of exhibitions on this subject.

– The theme of teachers, teacher associations and their work and other
connections in education is directed at specialists working in museums
both large and small and in other collections related to school and
education, as well as at researchers and lecturers who are involved in
the history of education at universities, institutes and in archives.

-The presentation of museological news of the family of education /
school museums and successful museum projects regards to the history
of education are welcome.

– The working language of the conference is English. Paper
presentations should last between 15-20 minutes, including 3-5 minutes
discussions after presentation atplenary sessions and 90-minute
parallel sections.

– The “Babel Section”: Only one 90-minute session of the parallel
sections (each with a maximum of 4 to 5 presentations) will take place
in three groups for participants from the Germanic, Romance and Slavic
language areas in one of these languages.

Please note that the ‘Babel Section’ is designed first of all for the
colleagues who work at small school museums without earlier
experiences with English, the lingua franca of the modern era.

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Symposium:

Programme: Wednesday, 26  June 2013   Opening at 16:00 hrs.

Thursday,  27  June  and Friday, 28  June 2013 full day programme with
lectures and workshops.

Saturday,  29 June lectures and workshops, in the early afternoon
official conclusion of the symposium,  optional excursion.

For all details (conference fee, accomodation, venue, scientific
committee, post symposium publication) see: detailed Call for papers
(in English) –http://www.ssolski-muzej.si/slo/symposium2013.php

The proposals of abstracts (in English!) should be sent to the following
e-mail

by 20th January 2013:  2013symposium15@gmail.com

Notification of acceptance by Programme & Scientific Committee : 20th
February 2013

Responsible coordinator:

Dr. Branko Šuštar (Slovenian School Museum, Ljubljana)
branko.sustar@guest.arnes.si
Contact  post-address: 15th Symposium 2013, Slovenski šolski muzej /
Slovenian School Museum, Plečnikov trg 1, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;
www.ssolski-muzej.si
Contact e-mail: 2013symposium15@gmail.com

LOOKING FORWARD TO WELCOME YOU IN LJUBLJANA

Organising Committee of 15th Symposium 2013

CFP: E-reading Between the Lines:
21st century literature, digital platforms and literacies
The Higher Education Academy Discipline Workshop and Seminar Series, 2012-13

Cost: FREE (registration required)
Date: 5 July 2013
Location/venue: Checkland Building, Falmer Campus,
University of Brighton, UK

This unique one day event will reflect on the teaching of post-millennial literature in HE and FE and interrogate the use of digital and social technologies in teaching, assessment and creative writing to offer this emerging field as a new and directional source of understanding and inspiration for contemporary students, scholars, publishers and authors.

E-readers and e-books enjoy an increasing influence over the ways we consume literature in the twenty-first century. Whether we turn to new digital platforms to disguise our secret Mills and Boon habit or to display our technological skills, these new forms have already changed the ways in which we consume and experience literature. In dialogue with the printed book, the e-book has been instrumental in generating debate, new writings and innovative content and has enriched our literary experience in the twenty-first century. At present the two co-exist, but how long until the e coup?

Uniting for the first time scholars, students, writers, readers and publishers, this symposium will reflect on uses and impact of digital platforms on the production, consumption and uses of literature in HE and FE to offer the emerging field of twenty-first century writings as a new and directional source of understanding and creative inspiration.

Papers may address English Literature and interactions with new technologies and social networking developments, teaching and learning, open access, creative writing, publishing and marketing Literature.

Deadline for abstracts (250 words): 1st Feb 2013 to k.shaw@brighton.ac.uk

For those wishing to attend, this FREE event has strictly limited spaces. Registration will open in early 2013. To express interest in registration please email k.shaw@brighton.ac.uk asap.

For those presenting papers, there is a HEA fund to cover speaker travel and expenses.

Dr Katy Shaw
Subject Leader, English Literature
Faculty of Arts
E350 Checkland Building
University of Brighton
Falmer Campus
BN1 9PH
(01273) 643314
http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/shaw

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=199372

Workshop, 22nd March 2013
Centre de Recherche sur les Identités Nationales et l’Interculturalité (CRINI)
Faculté des Langues et Cultures Etrangères
Université de Nantes

“Representing the British and American Nations
in Contemporary Photography of Women and Women Photographers’ Works”

This one-day conference is an opportunity to take part in an interdisciplinary event gathering researchers engaged in the study of photography, women, gender, cultural and visual studies, art theory and history. Photography of women and women photographers’ works will be considered in their various uses – whether it is to document, to record historical events, social changes, anthropological features; to depict landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, crime scenes; as contemporary art or as a marketing tool, etc. – picturing and voicing out Americanness and Britishness and exploring the potentialities of photography to define or reframe the nation.

In accepting Benedict Anderson’s postulate that “communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined,” (Imagined Communities, 1983), the visual representation of the nation in photography is critical in the understanding of belonging. This first conference will be interested in observing the interrelationship between national identity and representations of women as well as the role of women image-makers engaging in understanding/perceiving/formulating the nation. How may photography build/modify/deconstruct the nation and a related sense of belonging? How can feminine/feminist photography contribute to/deconstruct this sense of belonging? How is the nation represented in these pictures of/by women (iconicity, resonances, women as over- or de- aesthecized subjects/objects/models/muses, etc.) and for whom (the other, the world, the citizen, the self)?

Assumptions of photographic truth and the very (im)possibility of representation are often questioned, as photographic representation is partial, fragmented, and perhaps illusory. The focus of this conference will be on the very ambiguity of the photograph itself, the medium/environment within which it is located, the image-maker’s conscious/unconscious intent and the various contexts which lead to multiple readings as photography is constantly open to experimentation. It is a creative and technological mode of representation that male or female pioneering photographers in the US and the UK have mastered, raising vibrant issues such as the formation of gender and its intersections with sexuality, race, class, nationality.

Every photograph that confronts us is a polysemous, dynamic image and has its own integrity but it can also be re-interpreted through new connections and juxtapositions related to the viewer’s experience, to his memory and sense of national identification/gender belonging, which serves as a filter through which visual information is understood (viewer response approach).

The social, political and historical contexts participate in the constructing and reading of the nation as articulated through representations of women. With the evolution of women’s role in the public sphere, is women’s embodiment of domesticity and the female body as allegory of the nation still prevalent and defining? Have other images of the nation through the embodiment of women emerged during specific moments and under certain conditions: the counter culture of the 60s, the conservative years of Reagan and Thatcher, “Cool Britannia” or post 9/11 and the “War on Terror”, etc.?

The orientations suggested here are non-exhaustive and should only be starting points. Proposals may be diachronic (charting short or long term trends), synchronic (focusing on case studies whether they are serial photography or single-image photography to illustrate wider concepts in various disciplinary fields), or comparative (especially to emphasize shared features which characterise UK and US photography).

We welcome 300-word abstracts in English to be sent together with a short biographical note via email to jane.bayly@univ-nantes.fr and julie.morere@univ-nantes.fr.
Deadline for submission: 30th December 2012

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=199361

The Scholar’s Dashboard project is a series of workshops teaming humanities scholars, librarians, and technologists in discussions to consider major challenges in the digital humanities: how can we best work across multiple digitized or born-digital collections? What tools, interface, and features would best help humanists explore digital collections? Our theme for the February 7 and 8, 2013 workshop is “time.” How can we best analyze and visualize the chronological distribution and dimensions of the objects in our collections, of their creators, and their content?

We’re not looking only for humanists and librarians who have extensive experience in the digital humanities, but also for those curious and willing to talk through the challenges that we face in making Ohio’s digital resources accessible and useful to humanities scholars of all levels of expertise.

This workshop will be held at Ohio Supercomputer Center’s Bale Conference Room and Theater on February 7 and 8. Participants will be provided with a parking pass and up to $100 in travel reimbursement. Participants must be either Ohio residents or be affiliated with an Ohio college, university, or library.

To participate, please send the following information to Andy Schocket, project manager, at aschock@bgsu.edu: name, C.V., and a brief statement of interest. Should there be more applicants than is availability, applicants will be chosen so as to provide a range of interests and experience. Please also direct any questions to Andy Schocket.

The Scholar’s Dashboard is funded through a grant from the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed as a result of this workshop do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=199475

Conference title: Whose history is it anyway? ‘Public’ history in perspective

Date: 5-6 September 2013, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

Keynote address: Hilda Kean

This is a multi-disciplinary conference aimed at a wide range of history and heritage practitioners making no distinction between professionals and non-professionals. Papers are thus invited from academic historians, those working or volunteering in the museum, heritage and archives sectors, those working in the media, film makers, funding bodies, policy makers, publishers, along with family, local and community historians.

This conference will explore issues of public engagement in history, the role of professionals in mediating knowledge of history, the role of institutions in interpreting and communicating knowledge and perspectives, and the role that society and the public have in preserving, mediating, creating and communicating their own histories. It is also concerned to explore issues of policy and funding for history research, education, conservation and dissemination.

Proposals are invited for single papers or panels. For a single paper please submit up to 250 words along with a short biographical note, your organisation (if any) and contact details. Prospective panel organisers should submit up to 500 words along with a short biographical note and contact details for each speaker. Work may subsequently be considered for publication.

The deadline for the submission of proposals is 31st January, 2013. Proposals, or enquiries relating to these, should be sent to the following email address: publichistory@uclan.ac.uk

Abstracts are invited for papers about “Women and Maps in Early Modernity,” for a possible SSEMW Co-Sponsored Session at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in Washington DC in January 2014.

We seek papers from a range of disciplines — including, but not limited to, history, art history, literary studies, and historical geography — which address the nexus between early modern women and maps/cartography in any geographical region or culture, during the time period c. 1400-1700. Paper topics might consider women as:

• Explorers contributing data from which maps are made
• map illustrators
• printers/publishers/sellers of maps
• navigators/users of maps
• writers on the topic of cartography

Abstracts (400-500 words) for papers 20 minutes in length should be submitted by January 10, 2013, by email, to Allyson Poska (aposka@umw.edu) and Erika Gaffney (egaffney@ashgate.com).