Global Outlook Digital Humanities, The University of Lethbridge, and
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations is pleased to announce
the first Global Digital Humanities Essay Competition.
http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/global-outlookdigital-humanities-global-digital-humanities-essay-prize/

This is an open competition for research papers on the national,
regional, or international practice of the Digital Humanities–a broad
topic that has been designed to give authors the greatest possible
scope. Authors may write on individual projects or problems or broader
philosophical, geographical, sociological, political, or other aspects
of the practice of Digital Humanities in a global context. Papers
discussing the practice of DH by or with marginalised communities or in
areas that are currently less well represented by ADHO are particularly
welcome.

The competition is open to any interested party including students,
graduate students, junior faculty, and researchers unaffiliated with a
university or research institution. We would like to especially
encourage submissions from students, junior and unaffiliated
researchers, and authors belonging to marginalised communities or
communities currently less well represented by ADHO.

The competition is offering a minimum of 4 prizes of $500 (CAD) each.
Initial selection (for a prize of $200) is by abstract/proposal. A
further $300 will be awarded to the authors of the winning abstracts
upon satisfactory completion of a full-length paper based on their
original proposal. All submissions will be eligible for review and
publication in the ADHO journal, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique
(http://digitalstudies.org/).

For further information about the competition, please see the
competition web page:
http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/global-outlookdigital-humanities-global-digital-humanities-essay-prize/.
The competition organisers can also be contacted by email at
prizes@globaloutlookdh.org

The initial deadline (abstracts/proposals) is June 30, 2013.

-Daniel Paul O’Donnell
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Daniel Paul O’Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada

+1 403 393-2539

Special issue on equality, diversity and fairness in Medical Education: Critical and International perspectives

Timeline: proposals due 1st September 2013; submissions due 2013

Guest authors: Dr Maria Tsouroufli and Dr Irene Malcolm, Centre for Medical Education, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

The journal Medical Education is seeking proposals for papers for a forthcoming issue focused on international perspectives on equality, diversity and fairness to add to this important, area in medical education research. Migration, demographic and socio-economic changes across the world’s population are challenging homogeneity.  For example, in 2008 in the UK:

• 56 per cent of all entrants to medical school (UK domiciled students) were women

• over a quarter (28%) of UK domiciled students offered a place at medical school were from ethnic minority backgrounds. Students from Asian backgrounds made up over two-thirds (69%) of all accepted ethnic minority student.

However, in some countries, persistent exclusions relate, for example, to social class with only 2 per cent of accepted students in the UK from socio-economic class VII, which represents students whose families have manual occupations (Equality and Diversity in Medical Schools, 2009).

Current debates in medical education research that has investigated access, participation and outcomes, highlight ingrained inequalities.  These shed light on the complex nature of professional identities in relation, for example, to doctors’ cultural competences (Dogra and Karnik, 2004), gender differences in academic achievement, (Chaput de Saintonge & Dunn, 2001), discourses of (under)performance among international doctors and ethnic minority groups (Humphrey et al. 2009), and gender discrimination in medical training (Babaria et al. 2011). A key challenge that this issue seeks to address is the need to increase the conceptual sophistication of our accounts of equality and diversity in medical education.   To this end, we seek to introduce new perspectives to the field by bridging the gap between social sciences and medical education research on equality and diversity. We aim to bring to the fore cutting edge research on equality, diversity and fairness in medical education, informed by current theoretical debates and conceptual innovations.  We welcome submissions which will raise critical consciousness (Kumagai and Lypson, 2009) of equality, diversity and fairness in international contexts of medical education and set new research agendas in the field.

We invite theoretically informed papers empirical papers (quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods research papers) and critical perspectives on any aspect of Equality, Diversity and Fairness in medical education (undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD in medicine) from any country. We particularly welcome submissions which move beyond existing evidence outlining the under-representation and exclusion of particular groups.  Papers which examine any strand of diversity, and, in particular, their intersections in relation to  gender including (masculinities), ethnicity (including whiteness), disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, class and religious belief are welcomed. Themes which authors may seek to address include but are not limited to:

Intersection of diversities, Problematization of essentialist concepts of gender in medical education, Critiques of existing research in equality, diversity and fairness in medical education , Marginalisation, belonging and otherness in medical education and the implications for retention and success, Comparative perspectives on inequalities and discrimination in medical education,  Equality and diversities in medical curricula,  Innovative approaches to inclusive medical pedagogies, Diversities, progression and fairness in medical education/training.

Brief proposals (i.e. up to 500 words and up to 4 references) are required and should be sent to med@mededuc.com

Dr Kate Sang

Lecturer in Management

School of Management and Languages

Heriot Watt University

0131 451 4208

k.sang@hw.ac.uk

Executive committee member and Acting Chair of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association

Founding member of Feminist Academics International

Courtesy Co.Design, http://www.fastcodesign.com/

Luce Irigaray International Seminar Symposium

Friday 14 June 2013

5-7pm
Institute for Advanced Studies, Verdon-Smith Room
University of Bristol
Royal Fort House, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1UJ

The symposium is an opportunity for researchers participating in the Luce Irigaray International Seminar to share their work with the public. Discussion will include commentary by Luce Irigaray, one of the world’s leading Continental philosophers, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor to the University of Bristol, 2013-2014.

This is a free event, but places are limited. To attend, contact Martisse Foster at martisse.foster@bristol.ac.uk.

For more information about events related to Professor Irigaray’s visit to Bristol, please contact Dr Maria Fannin (m.fannin@bristol.ac.uk; 0117 92 88928)

Support for this event has been generously provided by The Leverhulme Trust, Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA), the School of Geographical Sciences, and the Faculty of Science at the University of Bristol.

Courtesy Digital Trends, www.digitaltrends.com

The Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Göttingen, Germany, is pleased to host the 2013 DARIAH-DE International Digital Humanities Summer School.  This summer school will be a one-week crash course in using the scripting language Python and its Natural Language Toolkit to perform in-depth computational analysis of digital texts.  The summer school will take place between August 19-23, 2013.  The instructors will be Mike Kestemont from the University of Antwerp and Lars Wieneke from the CVCE.  The summer school is aimed primarily at Ph.D. and post-doctoral researchers and others with advanced knowledge of humanities research.  The language of instruction and discussion will be English.

More information on the summer school and information on how to apply can be found here: http://www.gcdh.de/en/events/calendar-view/2013-dariah-de-international-digital-humanities-summer-school/.

Changing Feminist Paradigms and Cultural Encounters: Women’s Experiences
in Eastern Mediterranean History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

June 7-9, 2013, İstanbul

June 7, Friday:
Cultural Heritage Museum Seminar Room, Boğaziçi University

9:30-10:30 Opening Speeches
Jean Quataert (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of Women’s History)

Leigh Ann Wheeler (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of Women’s
History)

Arzu Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University, Journal of Women’s History)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Women Pioneers, Agency, and Activism
Chair: Leigh Ann Wheeler (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of
Women’s History)

Ana Stjelja (Independent Scholar), Historical Patterns of Women’s Activism
in the Region: The Case of Serbian Writer Jelena J. Dimitrijevic
(1862-1945)

Nevila Pahumi (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Visions of a Petite
Diplomate: Paraskevi Kyrias and “Albania” at the Paris Peace Conference,
1919

Umut Azak (Okan University)/Henk de Smaele (University of Antwerp),
National and Transnational Dynamics of Women’s Activism in Turkey in the
1950s and 1960s: The Story of the IWC Branch in Ankara

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:30 Can We Speak of “Women”? Different Agendas, Different Feminisms

Chair: Benita Roth (Binghamton University, Associate Editor, Journal of
Women’s History)

Amany Soliman (Alexandria University), Non-Muslim Feminists in Egypt’s
Early 20th Century: A Double Challenge

Başak Tuğ (İstanbul Bilgi University), The Alternative Modernity of Sabiha
Sertel’s Cicianne

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Education, Agency and Nationalism

Chair: Arzu Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University, Journal of Women’s History)

Ellen Fleishmann (University of Dayton), Education and Agency in Early
Twentieth-Century Lebanon: Women Educated “Under an American Roof”

Nadya Sbaiti (Five College), Separate in our Togetherness? Education for
Women and Nation in Interwar Lebanon

June 8, Saturday
Santral Residence, “Board of Trustees Meeting Room”, İstanbul Bilgi
University

9:30-11:00 Reconstructing the Untold Experiences

Chair: Jean Quataert (Binghamton University, Co-editor, Journal of Women’s
History)

Ebru Aykut (Mimar Sinan University), Home-Rebels in the Late Ottoman
Empire: Murderous Wives and Female Arsonists

Nadezhda Alexandrova (Sofia University), Bulgarian Women in Istanbul in
the 1860s and 1880s

Yavuz Selim Karakışla (Boğaziçi University), Nursing in the Ottoman
Empire, 1854-1923

11:00-11.30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Gendered Experiences of Inclusion and Exclusion

Chair: Elisa Camiscioli (Binghamton University, Book Review Editor,
Journal of Women’s History)

Gülhan Balsoy (Işık University), The Women of the Haseki Women’s Hospital
and Being a Poor and Lonely Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century Istanbul

Kent Schull (Binghamton University), State Patriarchy and Gendered
Incarceration: Women, Children, and Prison Reform in the Late Ottoman
Empire

Liat Kozma (Hebrew University), The Traffic in Women and Children in the
Middle East in the Interwar Period

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:00 Challenging the Nationalist Historiographies

Chair: Yeşim Arat (Boğaziçi University, Journal of Women’s History)

Zeynep Türkyılmaz (Dartmouth College), Being the Mother for Others’
Daughters: Maternal Colonialism and the Female Nation-Builders of the
Turkish Republic

Rezzan Karaman (University of California, Los Angeles), The Formation of
Gender Roles within the Context of Kurdish National Discourse in the Late
19th and Early 20th Centuries

Selda Tuncer (Middle East Technical University), Going Public: Women’s
Everyday Experiences of Public Space in Modern Turkey

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Roundtable Discussion

Moderator: Nükhet Sirman (Boğaziçi University)

Feminist Publishing in Turkey and the US: Comparative Histories and
Experiences

June 9 , Sunday

Cultural Heritage Museum Seminar Room, Boğaziçi University

9:00-11:30 Discourses on Women

Chair: Suraiya Faroqhi (İstanbul Bilgi University)

Ceyda Karamürsel (University of Pennsylvania), Re-reading the Second
Constitutional Era through Women and Slavery

Eftymia Kanner (University of Athens), Communal Interaction, Discourses on
Women’s Rights and Feminist Interventions from the Ottoman Reform Era to
the Early Turkish Republic

Katerina Dalakoura (University of Crete), Discourses on Women’s
Emancipation in Greek Women’s Journals (1880-1911): “Feminisms” in Ottoman
context

11:30-12.00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:30 Closing Remarks

14:00-18:00 Visit to Topkapı Palace and Harem

http://journalofwomenshistory.org/?p=983

Feminisms and Marxisms: Connecting Struggles, Rethinking Limits

Call for Papers within the framework of the 10th Historical Materialism
Conference, Making the World Working Class.
7-10 November 2013, London, SOAS.

Extended Deadline: June 7

Abstracts for papers and panels should uploaded to:
http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/annual10/submit

(Visit http://feminismsandmarxisms.wordpress.com/)

Our present poses enormous political and analytical challenges to those
committed to the struggle against the oppression and exploitation of
women. It demands the creation of spaces for the development of an
oppositional culture able to confront new forms of domination, rethink
its own assumptions and foster serious political responses. One year ago
Historical Materialism launched a call for papers on Feminisms and
Marxisms with the aim to provide a space for a dialogue between Feminist
and Marxist critiques of capitalism in their various articulations. The
response to the call went beyond our most optimistic expectations,
demonstrating the vitality and wealth of new research inspired by
Marxist-Feminist approaches. This call aims to build on last year’s
discussions, giving voice to a new generation of anti-capitalist
feminists and continuing a collective reflection about how Feminisms and
Marxisms can together contribute to criticising and transforming the
present. At this year’s conference, we aim to think beyond the issue of
the compatibilities or tensions between Feminism and Marxism as separate
traditions, and explore the way in which they provide the tools to
intervene in contemporary debates about labour, oppression and power. We
also hope to foster new approaches to old debates, from social
reproduction to patriarchy, and advance the understanding of the
historic limits and contemporary potentials of Marxist-Feminist
theorisations of capitalism.

We welcome papers that address (but are not confined to) the following
themes:

Marxist-Feminism in the 21st century
Social Reproduction Feminism and Intersectionality Theory
The Political Economy of Sex Work and Sex Workers’ Struggles
Class/Gender Intersections: Masculinities, LGBTQ, Queer Studies and
Trans Politics.
Homophobia and Heteronormativity
Gendered Labour Exploitation
Feminist and Marxist critiques of Racism and Islamophobia
Marxist Feminism and Materialist Feminism
Securitization and Carceral Detention
Theories of Sexuality, Bodies, Embodiment
Feminisms, Marxisms and Art Theory
Gender, International Migration and the Political Economy of Care
Feminist-Marxist Critique of Sexual Violence
Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Solidarity in Marxisms and Feminisms
Inclusive Theories of Class and Resistance
Marxist-Feminist critiques of historical and 21st-century fascism
Feminism and Autonomist Marxism: Understanding the legacy
Marxism and Feminist economics

We welcome and encourage people to submit panel proposals. When you do
so, please send an abstract of the general theme of the panel together
with the abstracts of the individual papers in the panel. For individual
paper proposals, it is helpful, although it is not necessary, to
indicate the theme (above) to which your paper could contribute. This
will help us to compose the panels.

Whose Beloved Community?: Black Civil and LGBT Rights Movements
An international conference at Emory University, March 27-29, 2014
Call for Proposals: Review of proposals begins June 17, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be no later than September 15, 2013.

The role of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in both race-based and sexuality-based civil rights movements is frequently rendered invisible as a result of prevailing national narratives that present (presumed white) LGBT communities and (presumed straight) Black communities as opposing forces.  In recent years, however, an increasing number of scholars and activists have produced work seeking to make visible the vital points of intersection and contention among the U.S. Civil Rights movement, the LGBT equality movement, and Black LGBT communities.  This work is shaped by questions related to identity formation, intersectionality, tokenism, marriage equality, the role of religion and “respectability” in African American communities, the emergence of the South as a center of Black LGBT life in the U.S., HIV/AIDS and its continuing effect on African American communities, the proliferation of a prison-industrial complex unprepared for its LGBT population, and the appropriation of the civil rights movement by the right.  This conference seeks to make visible and critically engage the points of convergence and divergence between these two historic, overlapping, yet distinct social movements that continue to transform civil society, law, and the academy.

We encourage paper and panel proposals on a wide range of topics including, but not exclusively encompassing, the following:

•      The legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
•      Identifications and disidentifications with “movements”
•      Black LGBT leaders and popular figures, historical and contemporary
•      Literary, artistic and popular culture engagements with Black LGBT identities
•      Inclusion and marginalization of transgender and bisexual identities in Black LGBT communities/politics
•      Intersections with other post-1960s civil rights movements (other racial groups, people with disabilities, women, etc.)
•      Black LGBT activism in relation to work in other LGBT communities of color
•      Racial diversity in White-led LGBT organizations
•      Law and politics
•      Black queer politics of space
•      Public health
•      Memory, mourning, trauma, and resilience
•      Black LGBT families
•      Marriage equality movements
•      Sexuality and respectability
•      Class and elitism
•      Sexism, classism, and other “isms” in the Black LGBT movement
•      Black masculinity in LGBT communities
•      Black feminism in LGBT communities
•      Intergenerational issues
•      Intersections between public advocacy/policy and academia
•      Intersections of U.S. Civil Rights with Black queer Atlantic political movements
•      The future of Black queer studies
•      Teaching Black LGBT history, Black queer studies, etc.
•      Black LGBT university populations
•      LGBT issues and Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Each submission must include a cover page with paper titles, presenters, their affiliations, and a current email contact, along with a maximum two-page c.v. of each presenter.  For individual papers, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words. For panels, submit an overall abstract of no more than 500 words and individual paper descriptions of no more than 250 words each. Please submit materials via email to Whose.beloved.community@emory.edu<mailto:Whose.beloved.community@emory.edu>.

This conference is generously supported by the Arcus Foundation and Emory University.

Whose Beloved Community [whose.beloved.community@emory.edu]

CFP: Media Spaces of Gender and Sexuality
Media Fields Journal
University of California, Santa Barbara

This issue of Media Fields investigates the connections between media, space, gender, and sexuality, seeking conversations that center on these interrelations and negotiations. We invite papers that raise questions of how media spaces construct gender, and how gender, in turn, constructs media spaces; how spaces condition and are conditioned by gender performances and sexual practices; and how gender legibility limits (or allows) access to various media spaces.

Film and media scholarship historically came of age through its study of the relationship between gender, sexuality, and media. Much has been written about the status of women as objects of the cinematic gaze, as well as about the status of female and queer-identified subjects as media producers. Yet in more recent times, issues of gender and sexuality have once again become marginalized in academic discourse, revealing the need for new explorations that coincide with the impact of the ?spatial turn.? In this age of conflict, dissent, surveillance, and migration?when the study of media is often also the study of the precariousness and dynamism of the spatial?it is particularly important to trace the interconnections between space, media, and gender.

We are inspired by the work of those film and media scholars who have explored such interconnections. Lynn Spigel?s seminal book on the gendered discourse surrounding domestic television viewing provides us with one useful example, as does Lucas Hilderbrand?s forthcoming work on the culture of gay bars after Stonewall. While some scholars like Spigel and Hilderbrand have studied the connections between gender, space, and media in their own work, fewer media studies journals have made this topic a primary focus. As a result, we seek scholarship that deals with space in a range of ways: essays might discuss online spaces that allow for specific negotiations of gender or sexuality, or with gender embodiment in physical spaces of various scales, from the very local (the living room, for example) to the global.

Essays might also draw upon feminist interventions into Marxist/historical materialist theories of space, as well as engaging the intersections between gender, race, and class. These important intersections exceed the label, ?identity politics??a label that we feel is now often deployed in order to debunk the continued relevance of gender and sexuality to any scholarly conversation. While we do indeed call for political approaches to gender and space?essays informed by the agendas of feminist and queer activism?we stress that gender and sexuality are not merely areas of special interest, but are instead structuring principles of discrimination that permeate our lives on a number of registers.

Thus, our approach is multivalent. We invite submissions that consider this complexity, possibly addressing the following topics:

–Transnational Queer and Feminist Media: How are flows of bodies, labor, capital, and images gendered and sexualized?

–Queering Questions of Scale: How does heterosexism delimit notions of nation, state, and the transnational?

–Gendered Spaces of Conflict and Dissent: How do media contribute to the gendering of the different spaces of war and dissent as well as of the subjects who are involved?

–Gender, Sexuality, and Online Spaces: How are social media practices and spaces gendered and sexualized?

–Queer/Feminist Gaming: representations of gendered and sexualized spaces in mainstream video games, gendered geographies of video game production,  gendered spaces of gaming culture

–Spaces of Surveillance: How is surveillance fundamentally gendered, sexualized, and spatialized? How does voyeurism continue to bolster certain experiences of space and place?

–Gendered Infrastructures: How are media infrastructures gendered, and why does this matter?

–Gender, Sexuality and Access: How do gender and its legibility (e.g., normativity) result in certain types of access to particular spaces?

We are looking for essays of 1500-2500 words, digital art projects, and audio or video interviews exploring the relationship between gender, sexuality, and space. We encourage approaches to this topic from scholars in cinema and media studies, anthropology, architecture, art and art history, communication, ecology, geography, literature, musicology, sociology, and other relevant fields.

Feel free to contact issue co-editors, Hannah Goodwin and Lindsay Palmer, with proposals and inquiries.

Email submissions to submissions@mediafieldsjournal.org by May 30th, 2013.
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Conference Call for Papers (deadline extended: August 1, 2013)

“The Equal Rights Amendment in the 21st Century: Where have we come from, and where will we go?”

Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
November 15-16, 2013

This conference will bring together scholars from areas of history, law, gender studies, literature, political science, and other disciplines that consider the cultural, political, and legal ramifications of the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment which demanded that “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

We invite scholars to explore the American cultural, legal, political, and intellectual heritage that prevented the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment since 1923. As well, we encourage the consideration of women’s rights as emblematic of ideas about equality throughout American history, and into the future as we imagine what may come next.  While the Equal Rights Amendment is a topic touched upon in college courses, it has been forgotten and/or ignored by generations of Americans who believe that the Fourteenth Amendment sufficiently addresses the rights of women, and that court precedent and federal policies such as Title VII and Title IX protect their rights.  As such, we also encourage the critical examination of the ways that the ERA is taught, and how the issues that it recalls—equality of rights under the law—are invoked through education, popular culture, media, and the law.

This conference invites proposals for conference papers that examine issues of equality in the United States of America.  While the Equal Rights Amendment will serve as a conduit through which to open dialogues across academic, legal, and public spheres, papers do not need to deal directly with the amendment itself.

Some ideas for topics may include (but are by no means limited to):

·      What does the failure of the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment indicate about the (de)valuation of females in the United States?

·      In what ways do people continue to engage with the Equal Rights Amendment?

·      How is the Equal Rights Amendment taught in classrooms?

·      What are the historical relationships between the Equal Rights Amendment and cultural and/or political history since 1923?

·      What is the relationship between the Equal Rights Amendment and feminism?

·      Does feminism harm the Equal Rights Amendment?

·      In what ways has the Equal Rights Amendment historically been used as a counterpoint to family values?

·      How do equal rights for women transcend time and space?

·      Does the United States need an Equal Rights Amendment?

·      Could the Equal Rights Amendment have an impact on gender identity discrimination in the United States?

·      Should the Equal Rights Amendment be revised to more clearly include transgender identity?

·      What repercussions does the legacy of failure for the Equal Rights Amendment have on the LGBTQ community?

·      Does the Equal Rights Amendment hurt males?
To submit your conference paper proposal, please e-mail a 250-500 word abstract and a CV or brief bio to eraconference2013@gmail.com<