Politics and Education in the Very Long

Eighteenth Century, 1660-1860

A one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held on Saturday 9 March 2013

at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

Changing legal frameworks altered the education of Roman Catholics, Protestants, and dissenters across Europe. Young women, as well as young men, used their education to become familiar with political rhetoric. Eighteenth-century ethics teaching was closely connected to early modern politics and natural law theory. Children’s literature contained explicit, implicit and concealed political messages, while educational texts were subject to the politics of production and exchange.

Call for Papers:

This one-day interdisciplinary conference will examine the ways in which education influenced politics, and the means by which politics affected educational provision in the long eighteenth century. To this end, we shall employ a broad definition of the term ‘education’, to include (for example) apprenticeships, family tutors, and educational conversation. Our definition of ‘politics’ will extend to political and moral thought, as well as political events, people, and texts. We encourage submissions for 20-minute papers from all branches of political, literary, social, and intellectual history. The conference follows our successful one-day workshop on ‘Education in the Very Long Eighteenth Century’ (2010) and marks the fifth anniversary of the ‘Education in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar Series’ at the Institute of Historical Research, London. Possible subjects for panel papers might include:

• parliamentary debates on education
• the education of political figures
• the political opinions of university tutors across Europe
• political dimensions of the Grand Tour
• the politics of charity schools
• schools, academies and the law
• political poetry by or for young people
• education and class politics
• political messages in children’s literature
• the politics of educational publishing
• education and gender politics
• prosecutions of schoolmasters and tutors
• the politics of science
• the education of Roman Catholics, Protestants, and dissenters
• the politics of language learning
• the study of politics and natural law
• the political opinions of young people
• schoolboy rebellions
• party political views on education
• educating the labour force
• political education in the home
• the funding and cost of education

Proposals of 300-500 words should be sent to the three workshop convenors, Professor Michele Cohen (cohenm@richmond.ac.uk), Dr Mary Clare Martin (m.c.h.martin@greenwich.co.uk) and Dr Mark Burden (m_k_burden@yahoo.co.uk), by 15 November 2012. We are happy to consider interdisciplinary studies, proposals from postgraduate students, and progress reports from new projects. Further information about the ‘Education in the Long Eighteenth Century’ seminar series may be found on the ELEC blog: http://dissentingreader.wordpress.com/, and the Institute of Historical Research website: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/252. Queries relating to the conference, or to the seminar series, may be emailed to Professor Cohen, Dr Martin, or Dr Burden at one of the above addresses.

Acknowledgements:

We are grateful to the Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation, School of Education, University of Greenwich, for sponsoring the conference.

 International Conference on Narrative 2013

Manchester Metropolitan University 27^th-29^th June

Plenary Speakers

Catherine Belsey – Swansea University

Diane Negra – University College Dublin

Nicholas Royle – University of Sussex

 Sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Narrative and hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University, the International Conference on Narrative is an interdisciplinary forum addressing all dimensions of narrative theory and practice. We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of narrative in any genre, period, discipline, language, and medium.

Proposals for Individual Papers

Please provide the title and a 300-word abstract of the paper you are proposing; your name, institutional affiliation, and email address; and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about your work and your publications.

Proposals for Panels

Please provide a 700-word (maximum) description of the topic of the panel and of each panellist’s contribution; the title of the panel and the titles of the individual papers; and for each participant the name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about the person’s work and publications.

Please send proposals by email as a PDF, Word or RTF document to narrative@mmu.ac.uk

Deadline for receipt of proposals: Monday January 14 2013

Conference Coordinators: Ginette Carpenter and Paul Wake (MMU)

Please address any enquiries to narrative@mmu.ac.uk

Website: www.narrative2013.org

All participants must join the International Society for the Study of Narrative. For more information on ISSN, visit http://narrative.georgetown.edu

The College of Charleston in South Carolina is pleased to host the Southern History of Education Society (SHOES) annual meeting. The 2013 SHOES meeting will be held at the College of Charleston on Friday & Saturday, March 15 & 16, 2013.

Dr. Jon Hale will be the lead organizer from the College of Charleston. Dr. Katherine Chaddock of the University of South Carolina will provide important support as well. The 2012 meeting at Florida State University was a great success thanks to the hard work of Dr. Robert Schwartz, Kathleen Callahan, and the graduate students at FSU.

We hope to continue the strong SHOES tradition here in Charleston through programming and meaningful dialogue. We are fortunate enough to have secured space at the historic Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture to hold our annual meeting. As always, there is no SHOES conference registration fee.

Call for Proposals for the March 2013 Meeting

Annual SHOES meetings provide opportunities for historians to share research
(from emerging to completed) in a variety of formats. SHOES encourages
participation by graduate students and colleagues who have not previously
attended as well as those that are regulars. Papers for this year’s SHOES
program should connect broadly to the theme of equity, access, and
opportunity in the history of education.

The lengths of all sessions and time allotted for presentations will depend
on the number of proposals submitted. We encourage you to forward this call
for proposals to colleagues and anyone who might be interested at your
institution or elsewhere.

You are invited to submit a proposal (two pages maximum) in one of the
following categories:

1. Papers. The proposal should include the title, name and affiliation of
the author, and a brief (200-word) description or abstract. The program
committee will group several papers into a single session that includes
presentation and discussion time.

2. Panels. A panel of three to five members may be proposed to explore a
topic from a variety of perspectives. Please submit the title, a brief
(200-word) descriptive rationale and/or summary of the individual
presentations, and the names, titles, and institutional affiliations of the
participants.

3. Works in Progress. This type of presentation may include research
efforts at a stage prior to completion. Scholarly discussion with members
of SHOES may enhance the research project. Graduate students seeking advice
regarding their research are especially encouraged to submit a proposal.
Provide a description or rationale (200 words) for the presentation and your
institutional affiliation.

Proposal Submissions and Meeting Inquiries

Submit proposals to arrive no later than January 11, 2013, to:

SHOES Conference c/o Jon Hale Assistant Professor of Educational
Foundations College of Charleston 86 Wentworth St., Room 235 Charleston, SC
29424

Electronic submissions are preferred. Email your attachment (in Microsoft
Word, please) with “SHOES Proposal” in the subject line to: halejn@cofc.edu
< mailto:kc11b@my.fsu.edu>

Accommodations and Meeting Logistics:

Charleston is a wonderful place to visit especially in March! The program
committee will send the final SHOES program in January 2013. Specific
information about campus meeting rooms will be included in the program.

We will meet on Friday morning and afternoon, with precise starting times to
be determined when the paper and other proposals are all in. A reception
will be held on Friday night. We will end on Saturday around mid-day with a
brief business meeting.

We have blocked rooms at the Days Inn, the Francis Marion Hotel, and the
Kings Courtyard Inn, all of which are located downtown and within a 15 to 20
minute walking distance of our meeting location. Limited parking is also
available at the Avery Research Center. You can call to book a room at a
reduced rate ­ just mention you are with the SHOES conference being held at
the College of Charleston.
Days Inn: 877.361.2506 (group rate available until February 14, 2013)
Francis Marion Hotel: 877.756.2121 (group rate available until January 14,
2013)
Kings Courtyard Inn: 843.723.7000  (group rate available until February 14,
2013)
Additional Helpful links include:
College of Charleston: http://cofc.edu/ <http://cofc.edu/>
Avery Research Center: http://avery.cofc.edu/ <http://avery.cofc.edu/>
City of Charleston: http://www.charlestoncvb.com/
<http://www.charlestoncvb.com/

Call for Contributors—

 Special Thematic issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies on WHITE PRIVILEGE

The Journal of Lesbian Studies will be devoting a thematic journal issue to the topic of WHITE PRIVILEGE.  There is little scholarship that focuses specifically on whiteness and white privilege in lesbian studies.   Possible topics to be considered include an examination of white privilege in:

•           lesbian relationships
•           lesbian communities
•           intersections of white racial identities and lesbian identities
•           representations of lesbians
•           lesbian health
•           feminist theory
•           fiction
•           poetry

Please send a one-page abstract of your proposed contribution to me at
adottolo@brandeis.edu by November 30, 2012.    Proposals will be
evaluated for originality and writing style, as well as how all the
contributions fit together.  Potential authors will be invited to
write full articles in the range of 10-15 double-spaced pages.

Please let your colleagues and students know about this project, and
feel free to post on relevant listservs.

In Sisterhood,

Andrea L. Dottolo, Ph.D.
Women’s Studies Research Center
Brandeis University

An Agenda for Digital Humanities  and Digital Culture
First Meeting of the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture

Florence, 13-14 December 2012
Via dell’Arte della Lana, 1, 50123 Florence

The Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture is passing through a crucial moment. After the important works and results reached by the first researchers in this field, there is now in Italy a wide and lively community who shares methods, theories and practices, both on a national and an international level. One year ago this community has organized itself and it is represented by a national Association. The aim of this first meeting is to present Digital Humanities and Digital Cultures as a fundamental component for the development of humanities research in Italy.

Goals
During the meeting the discussion will focus on some fundamental issues so to define an agenda of the priority activities.

The questions which will foster the discussion will be:

– What are the infrastructure requirements? What are the current research centers, libraries, archives and other services supporting research and teaching in digital humanities?
– What are the standards for the evaluation of digital publications in the humanities? And what about the evaluation of research in digital humanities?
– How to stimulate multidisciplinary research experiences? How to create synergies with other academic communities, starting with the computer science one?

Attendance to the meeting is free, but registration by 10 December 2012 at http://aiucd.eventbrite.it/ is mandatory.

Provisional programme
13 December
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Infrastructures

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Research, evaluation and dissemination of results in digital humanities

14 December
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Italian projects and experiences of multidisciplinary convergence

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Members meeting

The definitive programme will be published on the Association website (http://www.umanisticadigitale.it) and on related mailing lists as soon as it will be available.

Call for Papers
The organizing committee is proposing a Call for Papers for the third session “Italian projects and experiences of multidisciplinary convergence”.

Abstract proposals (maximum of 500 words) should be sent by email by 15 November 2012 to cunsolo@rinascimento-digitale.it.

The authors of the selected proposals will receive the acceptance communication by the end of November 2012.

Papers presentation should have a maximum length of 20 minutes, including Q&A. Papers will be published as conference proceedings.

Emerging Perspectives on Race and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century United
States: A Workshop for Junior Faculty, Post-Doctoral Fellows, and Advanced
Graduate Students

March 15-16, 2013: The Pennsylvania
State University (University Park Campus)

The past two decades have seen an explosion of exciting new perspectives
on the subjects of race and gender in nineteenth-century US history.
Scholars have demonstrated the integral role of these categories in many
of the century’s major developments: from the emergence of a global
capitalist economy and the origins of American empire to the making of new
regimes of health, medicine, and body care. Along the way, scholars have
reinvigorated old conversations and engendered new ones. Historians and
other scholars have enriched and enlivened a venerable literature on free
and enslaved African-Americans while bringing histories of Latino/a and
indigenous Americans into the mainstream. They’ve uncovered previously
unknown aspects of women’s lives while exploring the stories of trans- and
ambiguously-gendered persons. And they’ve subjected the ‘unmarked,’
taken-for-granted categories of manhood and whiteness to extensive
critical scrutiny. In the process, this community of thinkers has
shattered the binaries – black/white, woman/man – that have traditionally
structured work on
race and gender, and provided ample evidence of the benefits to be gained by
interdisciplinary and theoretical engagements. Many have embraced the
‘spatial turn’ or employed the human body as a site of scholarly
investigation. Others have incorporated theories of performativity or
intersectionality into their work, emphasizing the ‘constructed-ness’ of
race and gender and the way in which the meanings of these categories
inform one another. Taken together, the result of these developments has
been a simultaneous expansion and redefinition of what scholarship on race
and gender entails.

Some of the best work on these topics is being done by advanced graduate
students and scholars in the early stages of their careers. To highlight
and encourage this work, the Richards Civil War Era Center at the
Pennsylvania State University, in conjunction with the Africana Research
Center and the Department of Women’s Studies, invites proposals from early
career scholars within three years of receiving their PhD and advanced
graduate students who are writing their dissertations for the first annual
emerging scholars workshop. Taking place March 15-16, 2013 at the
University Park campus
of the Pennsylvania State University, the workshop will provide a forum for
innovative young scholars to discuss new projects involving race and gender
with faculty and graduate students from the departments of history, Women’s
Studies, and African and African-American Studies. Papers should be no more
than ten pages in length and pertain to works-in-progress rather than
dissertation projects or book manuscripts nearing completion. Submissions
will be pre-circulated to registered attendees and Penn State faculty,
including select scholars chosen to provide detailed commentary on papers.
Presenters will therefore have the benefit, not only of expert faculty
feedback, but informed audience commentary and questions – extending from
the immediate context of their papers to broader conversations around race
and gender.  Presenters can and should assume that commenters and audience
members will have a basic familiarity and comfort with feminist and
critical race theory and historical literature on race and gender. The
workshop will feature a keynote address on the state of the field from an
invited scholar.

Potential Paper Topics Include:

– Africa, empire, and the Atlantic World: imagining unconventional Atlantic
(and hemispheric) narratives for the nineteenth century.

– Black politics and white allies: the long African-American freedom struggle
and its complex links to white political and social organizations.

– Masculinity, femininity, and gender performativity: incorporating
performative perspectives on gender (and race) into nineteenth-century
historical scholarship.

– Sex, slavery, and intimate relations: enslaved women, desire, and sexual
labor beyond the ‘production/reproduction’ binary.

– Youth, children, and elders: the role of age difference and life-cycle
position in shaping the meaning and experience of race and gender.

– Labor, bodies, and objects: scholarship on race and gender and its links
to the ‘producerist turn’ and the ‘new materialism.’

– Medicine, science, and technology: the construction of ‘raced’ and
‘gendered’ bodies of knowledge and practice and their relation to
configurations of power.

Interested parties should submit a complete CV and a proposal of no more
than 500 words to Kelly Knight (<mailto:kmk404@psu.edu>) or Sean Trainor
(<mailto:sxt261@psu.edu>) by December 15, 2012. Travel funding is
available, courtesy of the Richards Civil War Era Center. Questions or
inquiries should be directed to Matthew Isham, Richards Center managing
director at <mailto:mri113@psu.edu>.