The 2013 Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History:

The Importance of Learning:
Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective

Princeton University, 5-7 June 2013

Keynote Speakers: William Clark (UCLA), Anthony Grafton (Princeton), and Howard Hotson (Oxford)

It is an inescapable fact of contemporary life that the idea of a liberal
education, an education that aims primarily at the cultivation of the
intellect and sensibility rather than at preparation for a particular
vocation, is widely under attack all over the world. In country after
country, the idea of learning for its own sake is being swept aside, as
institutions of higher education are pressured to devote themselves
primarily to preparing students for careers in practical areas. The global
membership of the International Society for Intellectual History is in a
unique position to illuminate these questions from a genuinely historical
and cosmopolitan perspective.

This conference has been made possible thanks to the support of the
Department of Philosophy, the Department of History, the Humanities
Council, the University Center for Human Values, the Shelby Cullom Davis
Center for Historical Studies, and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty,
whose sponsorship we gratefully acknowledge.

Registration is free. For the programme and information relating to
registration, please see the conference website:
http://isih.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=595

Please feel free to contact James Lancaster
(james.lancaster@postgrad.sas.ac.uk) for more information.

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The History Lab Seminar is now inviting papers for the 2013-14 academic year. These seminars are a great opportunity to present your on-going work or research conclusions to fellow postgraduates and early career historians in a relaxed and convivial atmosphere, and to obtain valuable feedback from peers.

Papers can be on any aspect or time period of historical study, broadly defined to include interdisciplinary topics from related disciplines. They should be around 45 minutes long, or, alternatively, we also welcome the submission of joint seminars with two papers of 20 to 25 minutes duration (even if the two topics are loosely related). All seminars are followed by a discussion session lasting around 15 minutes. If you would like to give a paper, but would rather it were the shorter length, do let us know and we will try to match you up with someone else in a similar situation in a related field.

The seminars are a great way to socialise with historians and postgraduates who are at similar stages in their careers, and as such the seminars always finish with drinks (and there are frequent post-seminar pub visits).

If you are interested, please send an abstract of between 250 and 350 words outlining your proposed paper to the seminar convenors at postgraduateearlycareerseminar@gmail.com. Please include some brief information about the stage you are at in your studies, your academic background, and your research interests. Seminars will all take place at the Institute of Historical Research (Senate House, London). We are able to podcast the seminars on our website – which is a great opportunity for public engagement. Therefore, please indicate in your submission whether you are willing to have your paper recorded.
The deadline for submission is Friday the 31st of May 2013.

Simon Parsons, Seminar Convenor for History Lab, History Lab, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU. Email: postgraduateearlycareerseminar@gmail.com Visit the website at http://www.flickr.com/photos/65984877@N03/8695998820/in/photostream

PhillyDH@Penn is a one day digital humanities conference held in the new Special Collections Center on the sixth floor of Penn’s Van Pelt-Dietrich Library on June 4.  A mixture of lightning talks, unconference sessions and workshops given by experts, the day is designed to bring the humanities and cultural communities in Philly into the heart of Penn, for a day of information exchange, learning, and creative play.

It is a conference for everybody.  Absolute beginners can turn up early, and find angels ready to help with the most basic questions, from the locations of the restrooms to logging onto the WIFI.

The theme of the conference, solidly grounded in a culture of open access, is “Projects for Anybody, Tools For Everybody.”  We have the most basic workshops and more advanced sessions.  Perhaps most importantly we have lots of spaces, and lots of time on the calendar for you to help others, get help yourself, and present your projects as you change your corner of the world. Because that’s the goal of the conference: to empower you to make a difference.

Our featured Speaker is Mike Edson, Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian. Our Exhibition “A Legacy Inscribed: The Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg” will be on view also.

William Noel
Director, Special Collections Center
Director, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Tel: 215 898 9767
Mob: 267 800 6471
wgnoel@upenn.edu

Call for Chapters
(Proposals due June 1, 2013)
Representations of Women’s Intellect in Film and Television
Scarecrow Press
(History and Film book Series)

Since the Second Wave Feminist Movement during the 1970s, Hollywood has
slowly begun to give prominent and leading roles to women.  However, the
intellectual representations of women are out of line with reality, in many
cases failing to reflect the successes and struggles that women have faced
in a resistant social and political environment.  This book considers the
portrayals of traditional myths about women’s intellect across film
history, as well as new myths and/or myth-busters that may have arisen
since the Second Wave.

When women are given space as “smart” in the media, they often find
themselves simultaneously undermined by stigmatizing qualities; finding it
difficult to gain and maintain a romantic connection, for example, or
watching her less intelligent friend/sister/colleague get all of the
attentions of others.  Some smart women are coded as nerds, and in many
other cases, intellect is conflated with madness, monstrosity, or
witchcraft, harkening back to the healer and the hag.

In what ways does Hollywood control expectations about the brains of women
by foiling their intellect with their own bodies? How are smart women cast
as threats to the social order? What do we make of cinematic strategies
that cast women as the counter-intellectual to men of superior intellect?
And what of those whom we don’t allow to display any characteristics of
the intellectual at all?

Women earn 77 percent of the salaries of all American men—and that is not
because fewer women than men are working. The reality of the American
workforce is that women cluster in poorly paid occupations. This stems from
the pervasive cultural maintenance of male privilege, something that is
still communicated to girls and young women through peer groups, the media,
and even the historical structure of education that educated women
differently than men.

Contemporary media exploits this hypocrisy.  More women go to college, but
they end up in overwhelmingly lower-paid jobs.  Women who choose more elite
career paths in medicine, science, or crime fighting are made less
threatening by an over-accentuation of their “womanliness,” thus
exceptionalizing their intellectual position.  If she is attractive, the
viewer can ignore her brain in favor of gazing at her body; if she is
average looking, or nerdy, viewers are offered ways to desexualize her in
order to accept her as an intellectual.

This Call for Chapters looks for scholarship that focuses on women’s brainy
roles in film and television since WWII.  Questions for consideration may
include, but are not limited to:

·      In what ways are women in film imprisoned by their intelligence?
·      In what way are women ostracized for it?
·      Are there cases in which women in film are set free, or live better,
as a result of intellectual growth?
·      How do female roles in film reinforce standards of beauty,
submissiveness, and silence, over intellect, problem solving, or leadership?
·      In what ways are smart women infantilized, or commodified, by their
intelligence in film (i.e.: chicks, babes, and honeys who are, despite
their appearance or place in society, intelligent)?
·      How does an actress’s personal standards of intellect in her real
life affect the way she is given roles, or seen on screen?
·      Are there successes (i.e. women in film and television who are
intelligent without also being objectified or villified)

2-5 page chapter proposals should be e-mailed to the book editor, Laura
Mattoon D’Amore: ldamore@rwu.edu<mailto:ldamore@rwu.edu>. Please include a
CV or brief biography with your proposal. The deadline for proposals is
June 1, 2013.  Contributors will be notified by June 30, 2013.  Final
drafts (5,000-7,000 words) will be due to the book editor by October 15,
2013.

Laura Mattoon D’Amore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of American Studies
Roger Williams University
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, RI 02809
401-254-3171
ldamore@rwu.edu

The Gendered Knowledges project is holding a Gender and Sexuality(ies) Interdisciplinary Workshop on 12th June 2013 at the University of Warwick. Gendered Knowledges is a newly launched research project that aims to explore radical interdisciplinary pedagogies in relation to Gender and Sexuality. The project, funded by the Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL), will ultimately result in creating an interdisciplinary MA module on Gender and Sexuality at the University of Warwick.

The workshop aims to bring together staff, research students, and post-doctoral researchers from different faculties and departments across the university who are engaged in research on gender and sexuality. It will bring together scholars from all disciplines and all faculties to discuss how gender and sexuality studies are understood and used in and across different disciplines, how we can conceptualize interdisciplinary approach(es) to gender and sexuality, and how can we promote an interdisciplinary community of researchers at Warwick, and beyond.

We are pleased to have Dr Rahul Rao (Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS) as the keynote speaker, who will discuss the topic: is there a Queer Question? If so, what does it look like? Who is asking it? And what does posing the Queer Question do to the very notion of questioning the place of troublesome groups in relation to a putatively common humanity?

We encourage staff, research students and post-doctoral researchers from all discipline across all faculties, whose research interests are related to issues of gender and/or sexualities, to present their research. This includes work in progress. We are looking for presentations that will stimulate a vibrant discussion around the themes of gender, sexuality and interdisciplinarity.

Each panel will be composed of a number of short presentations, followed by a facilitated session designed to stimulate roundtable discussion. We are looking for 5-7 minute presentations that relate to the following themes:

·         Interdisciplinarity

·         Bodies

·         Power

·         Queer

Please send an abstract of no more than 150 words to gendered.knowledges@warwick.ac.uk by 18^th of May 2013.

The aim of the workshop, starting from participants’ own research interests, is to provide an open space for participants to develop a meaningful conversation on the future and possibility of interdisciplinary research in gender and sexuality studies. If you would like to be part of the discussions but would not like to present a paper, please email us at gendered.knowledges@warwick.ac.uk , as places are limited.

Gender, the Refugee and Displacement (1900-1950)

Newcastle University, Friday 5^th July 2013

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Professor Peter Gatrell (Manchester University)

Call For Papers: This interdisciplinary one-day symposium will interrogate the links between gender and displacement from the turn of the twentieth century, through both World Wars and into the post-war period. Addressing a crucial gap in scholarship surrounding displacement and gender within the critical canon of war studies, it asks how gender influences or impacts displacement during the two world wars and how, in particular, men and women experience and represent displacement differently?  It interrogates the historic association of the refugee with the female, existing outside the symbolic order and beyond the nation, particularly at times of war (Plain, 1994). It addresses the embodied experience of displacement, such as the tendency for refugees and Internally Displaced People to experience rape, torture and physical violence as well as other forms of emotional or physical hardship, as well as the representation of displacement in literary, biographical and historical works with relation to ideas around gender and empowerment during this period. In particular, this conference brings together academics working across the disciplines, looking at the intersections between gender and displacement in a range of discourses legal and historical, literary and political, artistic and geographical in and around the two world wars. It welcomes abstracts from across the humanities and social sciences.

Papers are invited on any aspect of gender and displacement during this period, including but not exclusive to:

·         Male/female experiences of displacement;

·         Male/female descriptions or representations of displacement;

·         Childhood and displacement;

·         The politics of displacement/ power and displacement;

·         The experiences of IDPs and refugees;

·         Race and displacement;

·         Histories/geographies of displacement;

·         Theories of displacement;

·         The UN Convention on Refugees and the legal aspects of displacement.

Please send 300 word abstracts to Katherine Cooper (Katherine.cooper@ncl.ac.uk) before 17 May 2013.

For more information: http://genderanddisplacementconf.wordpress.com/

This conference is supported by a generous grant from Newcastle University’s Gender Research Group.

Organised by: Katherine Cooper

 Katherine Cooper

PhD Candidate

School of English Language, Literature and Linguistics,

Newcastle University

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/study/postgraduate/students/KatherineCooper.htm

Gender, The Refugee and Displacement, 1900-1950 Conference

5th July 2013, Newcastle University

http://genderanddisplacementconf.wordpress.com/

History of Education Society

The History of Education Society is accepting submissions for the Claude A. Eggertsen Prize for the dissertation judged to be most outstanding in the field of history of education. This includes work on schooling and educational institutions more broadly, and the dissertation may have a domestic or international focus. The next award will be presented at the 2013 meeting of the History of Education Society. The prize carries an award of $1,000 for the winner. Self-nominations are welcome. Qualified applicants must have completed the dissertation and graduated during the calendar year 2012. The deadline for entries is May 24, 2013. Entrants should send an electronic copy of the complete dissertation to each of the three prize committee members:

Ann Marie Ryan, Loyola University Chicago
aryan3@luc.edu

Laura Munoz, Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi
laura.munoz@tamucc.edu

Louis Ray, Fairleigh Dickinson University
louray5@fdu.edu

If you have questions or need more information, please write to the chair of the committee, Ann Marie Ryan at aryan3@luc.edu.

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Call for Papers — Due May 31, 2013

The Wayne State University Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research is an interdisciplinary conference inviting new perspectives on current practices in the editing and presentation of literary texts in all media.  The symposium will take place at Wayne State University at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center on Thursday, September 26, 2013. All events are free and open to the public.

In what ways do opportunities made possible by digital environments inform editorial choices for both screen and page?  How has archival research been affected by digital tools? What new literary, hermeneutic, and scholarly projects are now possible?  To what degree do new approaches and methods of editing texts challenge existing narratives of criticism and literary history? We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words on these subjects as well as the following broad topics:

• Literary publishing and branding

• Digital archives
• Archival research
• Scholarly editing
• Canons and canonicity
• Literary reception
• Textual aesthetics
• Digital poetics

Please send your abstract, contact information, and a brief c.v. by May 31st to:

Caroline Maun, Associate Professor
Department of English
Wayne State University

caroline.maun@wayne.edu

Or, use the form below to send in your materials.  Be sure to indicate any audio visual needs you anticipate.

All events are free and open to the public. We request registration of all attendees, available at the link above.

The Wayne State University Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research is supported by a Research Enhancement in the Arts and Humanities Grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research, the WSU Humanities Center Working Group on the History of the Book, and the Department of English at Wayne State University.