CALL FOR PAPERS
“They Work Hard for the Money: Gender, Labor, and Livelihood”

An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film & History Conference on
Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen November 20-24, 2013
Madison Concourse Hotel (Madison, WI)
www.filmandhistory.org/The2013FilmHistoryConference.php
DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2013

AREA: “They Work Hard for the Money: Gender, Labor, and Livelihood”

Work and the workplace serve as the context and the focus of countless film and television narratives.  In some, who makes money – and how – seems to be taken for granted, while in others it is the central problem.  This area seeks submissions that consider the ways in which money, and the work done to earn it, are – or are not – gendered in cinematic and televisual representations.

On television, comic working-class figures such as Laverne and Shirley, complex crime fighters such as Mary Shannon (In Plain Sight) and Grace Hanadarko (Saving Grace), and post-divorce professionals such as Alicia Florrick (The Good Wife) or Dani Santino (Necessary Roughness) create a robust definition of “working girl.” Those images are reinforced and amplified on the silver screen in Cinderella stories such as Maid in America, family dramas such as Baby Boom, and even action films such as Salt and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.  Do these characters, as wage earners and career women, face challenges and concerns that are different or similar from those of generations past? In what ways does their status as women inform their orientation to work and money?

Similarly, what are the taken-for-granted norms for male workers on the big and small screen?  Do Don Draper of Mad Men and Harvey Spector of Suits respond differently to the pressures to succeed than did their television predecessors in series such as The Dick Van Dyke Show or L.A. Law?  Has the era of the land/oil/big money patriarch passed (Dallas), or is it experiencing a revival?  Is the disaffected working class in television (Movin’ On) and film (Swing Shift) portrayed as predominantly male?  How do cinematic and televisual narratives portray those who earn no money at all (Mr. Mom)?
This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes proposals on the subject of gender, class, and wealth in films and television programs. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

•        Rags to Riches (Maid in Manhattan; The Pursuit of Happyness)
•        It’s a Man’s World (Mad Men, Suits,)
•        (Un)equal Partnerships (Mr. and Mrs. Smith; Moonlighting)
•        Patriarchs and Powerbrokers (Dynasty; Dallas; Citizen Kane)
•        The Glass Ceiling (9-to-5, Remington Steele)
•        Gender and the Dissatisfied Worker (Working Girl; Norma Rae; Tootsie)
•        Just Another (Doctor, Executive, Cop, Lawyer) Looking for Love (The Proposal; Saving Grace; Necessary Roughness)
•        She’s Such a B—-: Women On Top (The Devil Wears Prada; Network; Mildred Pierce)

Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the Area Chair by July 1, 2013:

Dr. Laura Mattoon D’Amore, Area Chair
They Work Hard for the Money: Gender, Class and Wealth
Roger Williams University
Email: ldamore@rwu.edu

Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).

*Only nine days left to book!*

Places for this year’s Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School
are filling up already, so book your place soon! Visit
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ for more information.

If you are awaiting the results of local funding and want to to
see whether your chosen workshop is almost full, email
courses@it.ox.ac.uk to find out!

====
The Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is an
annual event for anyone working in the Digital Humanities. This
year’s Summer School will be held on 8 – 12 July, at the
University of Oxford. If you are a researcher, project manager,
research assistant, or student of the Humanities, this is an
opportunity for you to learn about the tools and methodology of
digital humanities, and to make contact with others in your
field. You will be introduced to topics spanning from creating,
managing, analysing, modelling, visualizing, to publication of
digital data for the Humanities. Visit
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ for more information.

With the DHOxSS’s customisable schedule, you book on one of our
five-day workshops, and supplement this by booking several guest
lectures from experts in their fields.

The main five-day training workshops this year are:

1. Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening
participation in the Humanities
2. How to do Digital Humanities: Discovery, Analysis and
Collaboration
3. A Humanities Web of Data: publishing, linking and querying on
the semantic web.
4. An Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative
5. An Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists

There are a variety of evening events including a peer-reviewed
poster session to give delegates a chance to demonstrate their
work to the other delegates and speakers. The Thursday evening
sees an elegant drinks reception and three-course banquet at
historic Queen’s College, Oxford! (Well worth it!)

DHOxSS is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities @ Oxford between
the University of Oxford’s IT Services, the Oxford e-Research
Centre (OeRC), the Bodleian Libraries, and The Oxford Research
Centre in the Humanities.

If you have questions, then email us at courses@it.ox.ac.uk for
answers.
More details at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/

A Revolutionary Moment:
Women’s Liberation in the late 1960s and early 1970s

March 28-29, 2014 Boston University

Despite its immense achievements, the women’s liberation movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s has been minimally documented in print or on film. In recent years, however, celebrations of the movement’s accomplishments have proliferated and new films have revived interest in this revolutionary period. It seems timely therefore to bring together activists, scholars, artists, writers, and filmmakers to reflect on the movement: its accomplishments in so many domains, its unfinished business, and its relevance to contemporary work that is advancing women. The conference will engage with political, intellectual, artistic, literary, legal, and personal elements of the movement, and especially with the ways in which these elements intertwined and often reinforced each other. Films of and about the movement will be screened and a signature play of the period will be performed. Linda Gordon, University Professor of the Humanities and Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University, will deliver the conference keynote address.

The organizers invite proposals for individual papers, pre-constituted panels, and non-traditional presentations. Applications from junior scholars and activists are particularly encouraged. Travel allowances will be available to bring to Boston those who could not otherwise participate.

Topics for conference presentations include but are not limited to the following:
• What groups and individuals created the women’s movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s? What were the contributions of radical, working class, rural, African American, and Latina women? Of lesbian and heterosexual women? Of men? At what moments did women work together across boundaries of class, ethnicity, generation, and sexuality and at what moments did they pursue their goals independently?
• What have been the impacts of the movement on the lives of women and men? On the arts and literary work? On political organizing? To what extent were intellectual disciplines transformed by feminist insights, and to what extent have these changes been sustained? How did developments in different disciplines affect and reinforce each other?
• What are the reigning narratives today about the women’s liberation movement, and to what extent do these narratives obscure or illuminate what has been important about the movement? How is the women’s movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s depicted in contemporary scholarly work? In popular culture? By different generations? Which elements of the movement and which movement figures have received the most attention, and which have been overlooked?
• How has more recent theorizing complicated our understandings of the women’s liberation movement and the goals for which it fought? What impact has gender theory, queer theory, and other post-structuralist theory had on the cause of women’s liberation?
• What of the tools and methods of the women’s liberation movement? Is there a role for consciousness-raising groups today?

Proposal deadline: July 1, 2013

For individual 15-minute presentations, please submit an abstract of 500 words. Include a 2-3 sentence biographical statement that includes your institutional or professional affiliation, if any, and your research/artistic/activist interests. For complete panels, please submit a 200-word proposal along with individual paper abstracts with biographical statements for each panelist.

We also welcome alternative presentations by activists, artists, and non-academics, including art installations, performances, workshops, film screenings, and more. Please submit a 500-word proposal providing an explanation of your presentation and a 5-sentence biographical sketch. Include a description of your space and A/V needs.

If you would be unable to travel to Boston without some assistance with travel costs, please note what a necessary travel award would be.

All materials should be sent to conference organizer Deborah Belle, Director of Boston University’s Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program, at debbelle@bu.edu. Use “Women’s Liberation Movement Conference” as the subject line in your email. All submissions will be acknowledged by email. For more information, please contact wgs@bu.edu or debbelle@bu.edu.

Deborah Belle
Director of Boston University’s Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Email: debbelle@bu.edu

Digital Humanities Luxembourg (DHLU) 2013 – Reading historical sources in the digital age

The Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), together with the Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration (University of Luxembourg, FLSHASE) and its research programme ‘Digital Humanities Luxembourg’ — DIHULUX (research unit Identités-Politiques-Sociétés-Espaces (IPSE)) — and the University of Luxembourg’s Master’s in Contemporary European History, are pleased to organise the DHLU Symposium 2013.

After the inaugural DHLU Symposium in 2009 that focused on ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’ and a second edition which tackled the methodological and theoretical implications of considering websites as primary sources (March 2012), this third edition will focus on the use of online thematic research corpora.
Given that more and more sources for contemporary history are being made available online as digital research corpora — as on the CVCE’s site — and following on from the first two editions which examined the methods used to develop these sources, this third edition of Digital Humanities Luxembourg will focus on the various ways in which this material is used by humanities researchers, particularly contemporary historians and more specifically specialists in European integration.
The Symposium will be structured around the following research clusters, but may also include other related approaches:

Distant/close reading — Data retrieval, analysis and visualisation As increasing quantities of historical data are published on the web, the prospect of making simple use of these data — i.e. reading PDFs on screen or printing them out to read on paper — is becoming increasingly less realistic and methodologically sustainable. What options are open to researchers, and what are the concomitant methodological issues? This cluster will cover various themes, including: (big) data, text mining and semantic analysis, quantitative data approaches, network analysis, data visualisation (including GIS), and more generally the links between distant and close readings.

Community reading
Several online digital thematic collections, and more generally many online services available for research, offer users the possibility of registering, and sometimes of working together with other researchers, either directly or indirectly. This can lead to a collaborative and interactive reading of historical sources. Moreover, given the proliferation of these collections, what challenges and opportunities exist for cooperation and interoperability between communities? What consequences will this have on the way we currently conduct research in the humanities?
Writing history & Assessing scholarship
Once researchers begin to use digital thematic collections, will it change the way they write history? This cluster will include practical papers (e.g. on how to cite digital resources) as well as more theoretical ones. It will also embrace issues relating to the validity and quality of data and research outputs based on digital thematic collections, as well as the evaluation of those collections as a new kind of online scholarly publication.

We welcome papers focusing on digital humanities and social sciences from researchers and scholars at all stages of their careers. Papers examining cases related to European integration studies (EIS) are especially encouraged. Abstracts (max. 500 words), submitted together with a short CV (max. 250 words) and a list of publications, can be written in English or French and should be sent to the following contact email address, which can also be used for any enquiries: frederic [point] clavert [at] cvce [point] eu

The authors of the selected proposals will be invited to present their contributions in French or English at the DHLU Symposium 2013, to be held in Luxembourg, and their papers will be published in the Symposium proceedings (only English versions of the revised full papers will be accepted for publication). Participation costs will be covered up to a set limit.

Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2013

Scientific committee
* Claire Clivaz (University of Lausanne)
* René Leboutte (University of Luxembourg)
* Claudine Moulin (Trier University)
* Serge Noiret (European University Institute, Florence)
* Stéfan Sinclair (McGill University)
* Frédéric Clavert (CVCE)

Frédéric Clavert
Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe
Château de Sanem
Luxembourg
Email: frederic.clavert@cvce.eu
Visit the website at http://www.cvce.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=9442e254-4547-4c27-b4af-d5a4742eef78&groupId=10136

Annual Conference of the Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Contexts in cooperation with the Professorship for Contemporary European History since 1945 at the University Siegen on the 12th and 13th of December, 2013 Venue: The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association, Gisonenweg 5-7, 35037 Marburg
Organisation: Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft, Prof. Dr. Peter Haslinger, Ina Alber, M.A., Stanislava Kolková, M.A., Kinga Kuligowska, M.A. Deadline: 17 June 2013

Gender history, as well as history of knowledge and science, has been part of the established repertoire of the wide array of historical and cultural research studies in recent years. Yet primarily national perspectives and the focus on either gender or knowledge/science remains predominant. At its annual meeting, the Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Context invites academics to discuss the different aspects of knowledge, science and gender in the perspective of historical research, sociology of knowledge and gender theory. It seems to be especially promising to integrate East Central Europe into the ongoing debates about gender and knowledge production.
According to this approach, our concern is to analyze the process-based production of the categories knowledge and gender, their performative aspects, as well as the relations between them. One must bear in mind that the category of gender must always be seen as an interplay between power and knowledge, and at the same time the category of knowledge must be understood as an interplay between power and gender. This is necessary in order to not only introduce the “women question” into the history of knowledge/science, but also to analyze the complex interdependencies of the categories of knowledge, gender and power, and to think critically about science as well as two-gender hegemony. The institution of science has an important role in this as the production of knowledge about gender manifests itself differently in this institution according to changes in historical context. It is clear that in this process several expert- and knowledge-cultures, known as traveling concepts as well as methods of knowledge transfer within East Central Europe can be reconstructed. The annual conference provides a forum to explore these interdependencies of knowledge and gender creation in historical perspective and to discuss them on the basis of different empirical, methodological and theoretical contributions. The emphasis is on the period between the 18th century and the present day, but contributions from other time periods are also welcome. The geographical focus is on East-Central Europe, comparative perspectives from other geo-political contexts are very welcome.

The invited keynote speakers are:
Prof. Dr. Theresa Wobbe (University of Potsdam)
Prof. Dr. Bożena Chołuj (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)

Speakers interested in further thematic sections are invited to submit proposals for a 20-minutes presentation. Possible thematic questions are:
Gender specific cultures of knowledge and knowledge production: o What are the consequences of gender spaces and practices? o How are different kinds of knowledge (professional knowledge, medical knowledge, general knowledge) in different time periods gender-coded and in which ways?
o What role do the categories gender and emotion play in the production of knowledge?
o Through which media and in which ways was knowledge about gender produced in specific historical contexts?
Academic careers and gender:
o How have enrollment restrictions to universities and other centers of knowledge production changed?
o Which gender-specific differences become apparent between natural and social sciences?
o What role does the category gender play in the transfer of knowledge within expert cultures?
o What is the importance of gender-specific migration in the transfer of knowledge and concepts?

Intersectionality of the categories gender, ethnicity, class, religion and knowledge orders in East Central Europe: o How can political movements (emancipation movements, national movements) in East-Central Europe be analyzed from a gender/knowledge specific perspective?
o What connections arise between the categories of gender, knowledge and nation in East-Central Europe?
o What role does religion and denomination play?
o How has the political and labor market status of women and men in different time periods changed, and in doing so what role did the knowledge about gender play?

Papers may be submitted either in English or German; the conference will be bilingual; there will be no simultaneous translation. The organizers suppose that the participants are able to follow the papers in both languages. Travel and accommodation costs for the speakers will be covered. Please send your abstract (maximum of 4,000 characters) as well as a short CV with details of your current research interests and recent publications by the 17th of June, 2013 to Ina Alber (ina.alber@herder-institut.de). A reply message will reach you by the 31st of August, 2013. The selected abstracts will be distributed among the participants.
For further inquiries, please contact the managing director of the Leibniz Graduate School, Ina Alber.

Ina Alber M.A.
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe –
Institute of the Leibniz Association
Gisonenweg 5-7, 35037 Marburg, Germany
Tel: +49 6421 184-122
Fax: +49 6421 184-194
www.facebook.com/HerderInstitut

Email: ina.alber@herder-institut.de
Visit the website at http://www.herder-institut.de

CONFERENCE REMINDER

History of Women Religious Conference being held at St Catherine University from June 23-26, 2013.

Scholars from the US, Canada, Australia and Europe will be presenting their latest work.
Scheduled keynote speaker Sr. Florence Deacon, osf, current president of the LCWR.
Registration Form and Complete Program may be found at www.chwr.org For further information please contact, Elizabeth McGahan, program chair at:
emcgahan@nbnet.nb.ca

Elizabeth McGahan
University of New Brunswick – Saint John
PO Box 5050
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
506 633 – 2997
Email: emcgahan@nbnet.nb.ca
Visit the website at http://www.chwr.org

Courtesy pbey 4103-ICT, http://wanzhafirah.wordpress.com/

Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI
Brown University, August 21-23, 2013
Application deadline: June 5, 2013

**Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant, up to $1000 for graduate student participants.**

As digital humanities increasingly gains profile in traditional humanities departments, teaching (with) text encoding is becoming of greater interest in graduate and even undergraduate teaching. For faculty with TEI projects of their own, or with a strong research interest in the TEI, the challenge is to design a digital humanities syllabus that is rigorously and usefully digital, and yet still focused on humanities content. To what extent can text encoding be a useful pedagogical instrument, and what kinds of concepts does it help to teach? What kinds of practical infrastructure and prior preparation are needed to support a course of this type? What broader critical ideas in digital humanities and in traditional humanities domains would form a strong context? How can we effectively assess student work of this kind? In this seminar, participants will each work on a course of their own, with opportunities for the group to workshop each syllabus and discuss the course narrative and design.

These seminars are part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are aimed at people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one, and are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific challenges in using TEI data effectively. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants’ projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and solutions, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create sample materials (such as syllabi, docmentation, etc., as appropriate to the event). We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed.

To apply, please visit
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/neh_advanced_application.html

Chicana Feminisms, Activism, and Leadership in the Chicano Movement

Edited by Maylei Blackwell, Maria Cotera, Dionne Espinoza, and Linda Garcia-Merchant

We are soliciting new essays on Chicana feminist organizing, writing, activism, and leadership in the 1960s and 1970s for a co-edited volume. The volume will feature new scholarly essays on Chicana feminist praxis in its early years, as well as personal essays by some of the women her were active in social justice work during the period covered by the volume.

Abstracts must be submitted by June 15, 2013 to: bronzewomanhood@gmail.com

Maria Cotera
University of Michigan
3666 Haven Hall
734-834-7306

Email: mcotera@umich.edu

Travelling Narratives: Modernity and the Spatial Imaginary
International Symposium at the University of Zurich,
29 November -1 December 2013

Cultures have always been in contact with as well as imagined spaces other
than their own. Ever since the age of discovery, however, the relations, links
and ruptures between different spaces have played an increasingly significant
role in the cultural imaginary, taking on new urgency in today’s world of ever
increasing mobility and global networks.

This three-day symposium hosted by the English Department at the University
of Zurich will focus on spaces in relation, addressing the importance of issues
such as borders and crossings, utopia, travel and exile in the sphere of
cultural production. It aims to explore ways in which spaces are represented
and textually produced, as well as how boundaries between different spaces
are traversed.

The conference is primarily aimed at scholars working in the field of literary
and cultural studies. However, as we believe issues of spatiality can be
fruitfully examined in an interdisciplinary framework we invite contributions
from different segments of the academic community.

Call for papers
We welcome submissions for 20-minute
papers in English that may address, but
need not be limited to, the following areas:
• Space and displacement
• Travel narratives
• Home and exile
• Islands and maritime spaces
• Narrative space
• Liminal spaces and border zones
• Border crossings
• Utopia, heterotopia, dystopia
• Space and vision
• Space and the writing self, space
and autobiography
• Spaces of exchange
• Theories of space and place

Conference fee
The conference fee will be 80 Swiss Francs.

Conference website
http://www.es.uzh.ch/teaching/PhD/phdlit/TravellingNarratives.html

Keynote speakers
Prof. Dr. Tom Conley (Harvard, USA)
Prof. Dr. Andrew Thacker (Leicester, UK)
Dr. Robert T. Tally Jr. (San Marcos, USA)

The conference will be held in cooperation with the international Border Aesthetics group based at the University of Tromsø (Norway) and the research group Spaces of Language and Literature from the University of Tampere (Finland).

Please send an abstract of 200-300 words and a short biographical note to Johannes Riquet (johannes.riquet@es.uzh.ch<mailto:johannes.riquet@es.uzh.ch>) and Elizabeth Kollmann
(elizabeth.kollmann@access.uzh.ch<mailto:elizabeth.kollmann@access.uzh.ch>).

Deadline for proposals: 10 July 2013
Johannes Riquet
Elizabeth Kollmann
English Department, University of Zurich