Friday, October 25, 2013
2:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Pembroke Hall 305

Brown University

“Material Encounters in the Archive” frames a dialogue between four interdisciplinary feminist scholars whose research addresses the potential, as well as the limits, of the archive as a theoretical and physical site of knowledge production. Our speakers will reflect on how engaging with archival objects — as collectors, curators, and researchers — has shaped their understanding of the archive, not only as repository for extant documents but as a productive apparatus that shapes the contours of what is valued as legitimate information and scholarship. The presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion and Q&A open to the audience.

For more information see http://www.brown.edu/research/pembroke-center/material-encounters-archive-symposium

WOMEN’S LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTER FOUNDATION
AND YEDİTEPE UNIVERSITY

CALL FOR PAPERS
SYMPOSIUM
WRITING WOMEN’S LIVES: AUTO/BIOGRAPHY, LIFE NARRATIVES, MYTHS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

APRIL 19 – 20, 2014 / ISTANBUL – YEDİTEPE UNIVERSITY

Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 30, 2013

The Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation (WLICF) and Yeditepe University  invites submission of abstracts of papers to be presented at its international symposium “Writing Women’s Lives: Auto/Biography, Life Narratives, Myths and Historiography” which will be held in Istanbul (Yeditepe University), Turkey, April 19–20, 2014.

The symposium calls for papers from a broad, interdisciplinary field of women’s life writing including biography and autobiography, letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories and other ways in which women’s lives have been recorded. The call is open to various genres and national, regional and global cultural traditions of women’s life writings as well as to papers on the related areas of women’s oral traditions, oral history research, testimonies, and the representation of women’s lives in all possible verbal and non-verbal art forms, such as documentaries, video, art, etc.
WLICF was founded in Istanbul in 1989 and the library was opened to the public on April 14, 1990. It was the first and is still the only library in Turkey dedicated to assisting research on the history of women. The principle mission of the library is to acquire, protect and preserve the women-centred intellectual legacy of our world and to make this legacy accessible to researchers.
Yeditepe University is a foundation university situated in İstanbul, Turkey. The University was established in 1996 by the Istanbul Education and Culture Foundation (İstek Vakfı). The university campus consists of 236 thousand square meters of closed area and 125 thousand square meters of open area. It has 319 classrooms, 22 lecture halls, 32 computer labs, 74 professional labs belonging to the Fine Arts, Architecture, Communication, Engineering and Sciences Faculties and 2 professional photographic studios. Yeditepe University comprises eleven faculties, three graduate institutes and one vocational school of higher education. All academic programs are offered in English except for a program of political science and international relations in French, a program of business administration in German and a program of art and design in Italian.

Proposals may include, but are not limited to the following research topics:
-Narration of historical women characters in literary, artistic and scientific texts
-Feminist/women’s auto/biographical literature
-Theory and methodology in narrations of women’s history
-Ethical and moral concerns in historiography and life narrations
-Global, national and regional scale women-centred mythologies
-Special difficulties and problems of writing life narratives
-Social memory and feminist/women’s auto/biographies
-Gender and feminist/women’s auto/biographies
-Men in feminist/women’s memoires
-Media and representation: the representation of feminists’/women’s lives in media and textbooks
-Arts, everyday life and feminist/women’s auto/biography: film, theatre, music, painting, pop culture, etc.
-Fictive dimension in auto/biographies, intersection of historical characters with fictive elements.
-Women in auto/biographical documentaries
-Feminist pioneers’ and women’s rights activists’ auto/biographies          or life narratives (especially from Turkey, the Balkans, and the Middle East)
Documentary sources:
-Feminist/women’s archives, libraries and their significance in writing women’s lives
-Private archives and their significance in writing women’s lives
-Correspondence
-Memoires/ Diaries
-Oral history documents

Submission details of abstracts and final papers:
We welcome proposals for individual papers, roundtables, workshops, films and other presentations. The abstracts should be sent in English, but the presentations might be either in English or in Turkish. The maximum time allowed for any presentation will be 20 minutes. The organizing committee is working to provide simultaneous translation during the symposium.  Abstracts of papers should be 250-500 words in length (in English only) and must include “the name of the writer and the affiliation”, a “short biodata” and the “contact addresses” (e-mail, postal address, phone and fax number). Please specify one of the following lines of inquiry relevant to your paper and indicate this as well.

The symposium sessions will be organized along the following lines of inquiry:
1- Theory, methodology, feminist history, feminist criticism and women’s life writing
2- Auto/biography, life narratives, myths and historiography
3- Individual women in women’s movements and women’s history (contributions are especially invited from/about the Balkans and the Middle East)
4- Life narratives in cultural traditions and vice versa: women’s folklore and oral traditions.
5- Autobiography and biography in comparison
6- Auto/Biographical fiction and women’s life narration
7- Philosophy in women’s life narration
8- Social memory and feminist/women’s life narratives

Please email abstracts and proposals to the following address with
1.       Name (with your family name in CAPITAL letters).
2.       Affiliation
3.       A short biodata
4.       Email address
5.       Postal address
6.       Phone and fax numbers
7.       Relevant sub-theme
symposium@kadineserleri.org<mailto:symposium@kadineserleri.org>

Symposium Proceedings:
Selected papers will be published in the forthcoming symposium proceedings. For this reason finalized papers should be sent to the following address by June 30, 2014, at the latest:

symposium@kadineserleri.org<mailto:symposium@kadineserleri.org>

Deadline for submission of abstracts:                                                                        November 30, 2013
Notification of acceptance of abstracts and program proposals:                          January 30, 2013
Deadline for the final version:                                                                                      June 30, 2014
Symposium registration fee is 150 Euro.

*Information regarding travel , accommodation  and the web site of the symposium will be sent to the participants by the end of  September 30, 2013.

Symposium Coordinators:
Dr. Birsen Talay Keşoğlu , Yeditepe University  – History
Assistant Prof. Vehbi Baysan, Yeditepe University  – History.  (Vice )
symposium@kadineserleri.org<mailto:symposium@kadineserleri.org>

Organising Committee
Aslı Davaz: Specialist on Women’s archives and libraries, Researcher and Translator, Founding-Member of the Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation – İstanbul

Ayşe Durakbaşa: Prof. Dr., Marmara University, Department of Sociology – İstanbul

Ayşe Nur Erek: Assistant Prof., Yeditepe University, Department of History – İstanbul

Birsen Talay Keşoğlu: Assistant Prof., Yeditepe University, Department of History – İstanbul.

Tilly Vriend: Senior International Project Manager Atria, Amsterdam; Co-President AtGender</http:/www.atgender.eu/> and Board member WINE<http://winenetworkeurope.wordpress.com/>, Women’s Information Network Europe

Fatma Türe: Assistant Prof., Ankara University, Department of Sociology – Ankara

Leyla Şimşek-Rathke: Dr., Marmara University, Department of Sociology – İstanbul

Nazan Aksoy: Professor, İstanbul Bilgi University-Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of English Language Teacher Education –  İstanbul

Neşe Yıldıran: Assitant Prof., Yeditepe University, Department of History – İstanbul

Diane Belle James: Editor and translator (USA)

Tûba Çavdar Karatepe: Associate Prof., Marmara University, Department of Information and Records Management -İstanbul

Women’s Library and Information Center Foundation, İstanbul, Turkey
Address                                                              :Kadir Has Cad. No:8 Fener Vapur İskelesi Karşısı
Tarihi Bina, Fener / Haliç 34220 Istanbul-Turkey
Telephone                                                        : 0090 212 621 81 34 – 0090 212 534 95 50
Mail Address                                                    :kadineserleri@gmail.com
Collaborating Institution                            :Yeditepe University – History Department /Istanbul – Kayışdağı
Address                                                              : 26 Ağustos Yerleşimi, Kayışdağı cad., Kayışdağı-                                                                               Ataşehir, 34755, Istanbul Turkey
Mail Adress                                                      : www.yeditepe.edu.tr<http://www.yeditepe.edu.tr/>

We look forward to your participation and contribution.
Women’s Library and Information Center Foundation and Yeditepe University

6th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the
Digital Age

November 21-23, 2013

Thinking Outside the Codex

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of
Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Lawrence J.
Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year’s
symposium will encourage participants to “think outside the codex” and turn
the tables on traditional approaches to manuscript study. We will explore
such topics as how format shapes and limits interpretation, use, and
production of manuscripts and how technologies have changed and challenged
traditional methods of scholarship. We are especially considering instances
of and responses to failure in the history of manuscript production and
scholarship. In doing so, we hope to provoke new questions and forge new
approaches to the study of the pre-modern book.

To kick off the event, a reception and the keynote address will be held
Thursday evening, November 21, at the Free Library of Philadelphia. This
year’s keynote speaker will be Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C.
Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English and of
Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Director of the History of
the Material Text Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania.  The symposium
begins Friday morning at the newly renovated Special Collections Center of
the University Pennsylvania Libraries. Speakers include:

*    Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University
*    Christopher Blackwell, Furman University
*    Benjamin Fleming, University of Pennsylvania
*    Martin Foys, King’s College, London
*    Evyn Kropf, University of Michigan
*    David McKnight, University of Pennsylvania
*    Kathryn Rudy, University of St. Andrews
*    Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
*    Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University
*    Elaine Treharne, Stanford University

In addition, four workshops will be held throughout the symposium to offer
hands-on exploration of problems and issues related to the study of
manuscripts in the digital age.

The Handwritten and the Printed:  The limits of format and medium in
Japanese premodern books
Leaders: Julie Davis and Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania

Demo Workshop for T-Pen: Transcription for paleographical and editorial
notation
Leader: James Ginther, Saint Louis University

Scholarship Outside the Codex: Citation-based digital workflows for
integrating objects, images and text without making a mess
Leader: Christopher Blackwell, Furman University

Of Apples and Apple Pie: Exploring the relationship between raw data and
digital scholarship
Leaders: Dot Porter and Doug Emery, University of Pennsylvania

For more information go to:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium6.html

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is an annual, national conference that draws thousands of female computing professionals together to celebrate, support, and discuss women in computing. It is the largest technical conference for women in computing, and this year it is being held in the Minneapolis Convention Center, October 2nd through 5th.

The conference will feature a number of speakers, a career fair, and mentoring workshops, as well as an open source, women’s hackathon Saturday, October 5th. If you wish to participate but can not make it to the whole conference, you can register for just the hackathon.

For more information, see the conference site:
http://gracehopper.org/2013/

Bill Bushey
Seward, Minneapolis
About/contact Bill Bushey:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/3bhIQkrzcnuOYzIql7oe10