CONCEPTA: International Research School in Conceptual History

Offered in cooperation with the Dept. of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, the Dept. of History, University of Southern Denmark, and the Graduate School of Arts, Aarhus University

In the summer of 2013, Concepta, International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought, and partner institutions will organize the eight Introduction to Conceptual History course (the course have been located at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in the previous years). An international team of distinguished scholars and visiting lecturers will help participants critically examine the chief concepts in the humanities and social sciences from new perspectives. The goal of conceptual history is to illuminate the concepts and ideas that are central to the operation of political and social life through the study of their migration, reception, translation, and diffusion through time and space. Conceptual analysis involves looking at larger semantic, discursive, ideological and rhetorical settings in which concepts are given meaning. Doing conceptual history, therefore, demands familiarity with a variety of linguistically oriented approaches to discourse and ideology, as well as to rhetoric. The course has two main objectives. First, it introduces students to the fundamental aspects of the theory and methodology of conceptual history (scholars such as Reinhart Koselleck, Quentin Skinner, John Pocock, and Michel Foucault), which they can then use as tools in their own research. Second, it explores contemporary trends in conceptual history through case studies. The course includes a series of lectures, a seminar and workshops. It is designed for Danish and international PhD and advanced Master’s degree students from various academic fields.

TEACHERS AND LECTURERS

• Professor Martin Burke, CUNY, New York
• Senior Researcher Margrit Pernau, , Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
• Professor Helge Jordheim, University of Oslo
• Postdoc Jani Marjanen, CENS, Helsinki University
• Professor Michael Freeden, University of Nottingham
• Emeritus Senior Research Fellow Hans Erich Bödeker, The Max Planck Institute, Göttingen.
• Professor Joao Feres Junior, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Assistant Professor Niklas Olsen, SAXO, KU
• Associate Professor Jeppe Nevers, History, SDU
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Culture and Global Studies Poul Duedahl, AAU
• Vice-Dean Jan Ifversen, ARTS, AU
• Associate professor Bertel Nygaard, Dept. of Culture and Society, AU
• Associate Professor Christoffer Kølvraa, Dept. of Culture and Society, AU
• Assistant professor Christian Olaf Christensen, Dept. of Culture and Society, AU

TIME, PLACE, DURATION, ECTS

Time: 12-23. August 2013

Place: University of Aarhus

Duration: 60 contact hours

ECTS: 6

Find detailed programme here.

Admission requirements:

In order to be admitted you have to document:
– your PhD relation to your home university (educational background)
– the relevance of your course application related to your PhD programme (pre-approval)
– motivation letter (max 200 words) and an overview of current research and interests (max 200 words)

Application deadline: April 15th 2013

NOTICE NEW DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: MAY 7, 2013

Doctoral students registered at the following institutions will not have to pay the tuition fee

• The PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities, Copenhagen University
• The doctoral programme SPIRIT, Aalborg University
• The Graduate School, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark
• The Graduate School of Arts, Aarhus University

Apply by sending en email and attach the requested documentation to: Jan Ifversen jif@adm.au.dk

Tuition fee (including accommodation) is 350 EUR. Once you have been accepted into the course you receive information on the payment details.

Baker Library Historical Collections is pleased to join in the celebration
of the 50th anniversary of women’s admission into the full MBA program at Harvard Business School (HBS) with Building the Foundation: Business Education for Women at Harvard University, 1937-1970.
The exhibition will run until September 22, 2013 in the North Lobby, Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Harvard Business School.

Building the Foundation traces the early history of business education for
women at Harvard University from the founding of the one-year certificate
program at Radcliffe College in 1937 to the HBS faculty vote to admit
women into the two year MBA program and finally to the complete
integration of women into the HBS campus life by 1970. Illustrating the
evolution of this formative period are photographs, interviews, reports,
and correspondence from Baker Library Historical Collections at Harvard
Business School and from the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
in America at the Radcliffe Institute.

The telling documents reveal how program directors, administrators, and
faculty shaped business education for women at the University, preparing
students to take their places in the business world. The pioneering
graduates of these programs would go on to help open doors to formerly
unattainable opportunities for generations of women who followed.
Visit http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wbe to learn more about the
exhibition, to find materials that could support further research, and to
view some of the items featured in the exhibition.

Visit http://www.hbs.edu/women50/ to learn more about the HBS celebration
of 50 Years of Women in the MBA Program.

Please contact Baker Library Historical Collections at
histcollref@hbs.edu if you would like to
request a copy of the exhibition catalog.

For more information about Baker Library Historical Collections visit
www.library.hbs.edu/hc/<file:///C:\Users\llinard\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\Content.Outlook\2B0AGTLA\www.library.hbs.edu\hc\>.

Euro-Balkan University (Skopje, Macedonia) in cooperation with Faculty for
Media and Communications at Singidunum University (Belgrade, Serbia) Announces
the CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for the OHRID SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2013 SUMMER
INSTITUTE FOR SEXUALITIES, CULTURES, AND POLITICS (August 15-21 2013, Ohrid, Macedonia)

CONFIRMED LECTURERS
– Didier Eribon (School of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the University
of Amiens, Paris, France)
– Antke Engel (Institute for Queer Theory, Hamburg/Berlin, Germany)
– Tomasz Sikora (Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland)

COURSES OFFERED
– Title TBC (Lecturer: Didier Eribon)
– Desire, Power and Fantasy (Lecturer: Antke Engel)
– The Violence of Inclusion and the Ethics of Betrayal (Lecturer: Tomasz
Sikora)

For detailed information for the Summer Institute programme please visit
our website
http://euba.edu.mk/details-ohrid-summer-university/items/158.html>, or see
detailed document
http://euba.edu.mk/tl_files/OSU%20aplikacii%202013/SISPC%20Call%202013.pdf

ELIGIBILITY
– Participants should be postgraduate students (preferably MA, PhD student
or young researchers) interested in exploring the issues of Gender, Queer,
Cultural Studies, Visual Arts and Humanities and related Studies.
– Participants from all countries are eligible to participate.
– All applicants should send Application form including paper abstract (appr.
200 words max.). Please download the application form on our website.

TUITION FEE: 300 EUR
-Note that we offer 20% discount if the participant apply in the first
application deadline and pays the total fee to 15th of May and 10% discount if the
participant pay the total fee to 15th of June.
-Applicants from the partner universities are offered 30% tuition fee
discount

Discounts: university partners, alumni and university groups (see more on
this in the detailed document
http://euba.edu.mk/tl_files/OSU%20aplikacii%202013/SISPC%20Call%202013.pd<http://euba.edu.mk/tl_files/OSU%20aplikacii%202013/SISPC%20Call%202013.pdf>
or on our website
http://euba.edu.mk/details-ohrid-summer-university/items/158.html
MOBILITY & GRANTS: CEEPUS Freemover Mobility Grants (see instructions here
http://euba.edu.mk/tl_files/OSU%20aplikacii%202013/CEEPUS%20Freemover%20Mobility%20Grants.pdf

APPLICATION DEADLINES
– Deadline 1 for early applications (20% discount): April 20th/selection
results by April 30th / payment due May 15th
– Deadline 2 for early applications (10% discount): May 20th/selection
results by May 30th / payment due June 15th

Please send all applications to Slavco Dimitrov and Stanimir Panayotov:
slavco.euba@gmail.com, spanayotov@gmail.com

Intercontinental Cross-Currents:
Women’s (Net-)Works across Europe and the Americas (1789-1939)
Dec. 5-7, 2013, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Germany.

We invite abstracts from literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives focusing on the literal and metaphorical networks created and navigated by women from the American Revolution to the onset of the Second World War. We are interested in papers on a wide range of transatlantic themes, including the history of ideas, the migration of texts, identity formation, literary production and reception, feminism and emancipation, immigration, and social reform. How and in what forms did ideas, bodies, and texts travel across oceans and continents? How did women’s lives adapt and change as a result of such networks? What were the consequences of such intellectual and social engagements on the literary and socio-political milieus of these women? Which cooperative strategies enabled and emanated from such relationships? We especially invite participants whose projects focus on relations between women in the Americas and Scandinavia, and in eastern and southern Europe. In addition to examining the historical networks of our nineteenth- and twentieth-century predecessors, we anticipate establishing a global web of contemporary researchers engaged in transatlantic studies. At the conference, we will discuss future events and other venues for continued collaboration.

Organized by Dr. Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Dr. Sandra H. Petrulionis (Penn State University, Altoona), and Theresa Schön (MLU Halle-Wittenberg) and hosted by the Center for US Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, the conference will be held at the Leucorea in Wittenberg, a 1-hour train ride from central Berlin. Lodging will be available at the Leucorea Foundation building. Confirmed guest speakers include Dr. Thavolia Glymph, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina USA), and Dr. Jutta Gsoels-Lorensen, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University (Altoona, Pennsylvania USA). We expect to publish selected conference proceedings; participants whose proposals are accepted will be eligible to apply for a travel grant.

Please send 300-word abstracts and a brief biographical sketch by June 15, 2013, to Dr. Julia Nitz at julia.nitz@zusas.uni-halle.de.

Courtesy Digital Trends, www.digitaltrends.com

Women’s Studies University College Cork

Irish Feminist Activism and the Arts Conference 15th June, 2013

Call for Papers and short performances

Women’s Studies in University College Cork will host a conference on Irish Feminist
Activism and the Arts on Saturday 15th June.

(Venue will be Room G06 in the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College Road, Cork.)

Theme
We want to look at the radical and creative ways in which feminist activists used the arts in the past and continue to use them today to raise consciousness of issues, provide information in accessible forms, challenge patriarchy, bring about legal change, and provide platforms for groups and individual women to contribute to feminist debates.

We would like the conference programme to include a mix of academic papers and feminist performance.

Proposals

We welcome proposals for papers and short performances (up to 20 minutes each). We are interested in all areas of the arts including but without the list being confined to:

• Irish feminist publishing and writing for any medium, including poetry and plays;
• performance, including theatre, street performance and story-telling;
• visual representation including film and other representational arts;
• feminist activism and the newer media, including blogs, Twitter, and inventive/radical ways of using the internet.

Proposals should be sent to Dr Sandra McAvoy at sandra.mcavoy@ucc.ie (or at Women’s Studies, c/o the History Department, University College Cork) by Friday 10th May 2013.

Selection process

The subject is one to which we could devote several days. As we will only have one day this time, there will be a selection process for papers/performances. It may be possible to return to this theme at a future date if we have a sense that there is
lots of material out there for which we could provide a further platform.

More information will be posted on the conference website as it becomes available:

http://www.ucc.ie/en/academic/womensstudies/conferences/

The Coalition for Western Women’s History announces the 15th Annual Irene Ledesma Prize, 2013 for Ph.D. graduate student research in western women’s history.

Deadline for submission: May 15, 2013.

The $1,000 prize supports travel to collections or other research expenses related to the histories of women and gender in the American West. Applicants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program and be members of the Coalition of Western Women’s History (CWWH) at the time of application. The prize honors the memory of Irene Ledesma, whose contributions to Chicana and working-class history were ended by her untimely death in 1997.

The CWWH will award the prize at the CWWH Breakfast during the 53rd Annual Western History Association conference at Tucson, Arizona, October 9-12, 2013.

Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
• How well the applicant stated her or his research question and the significance of the overall project.
• How well the applicant demonstrated her or his knowledge of the primary source materials related to the proposal.
• How well the applicant framed her or his project in terms of the broader theoretical and historiographic issues significant to the topic.
• How well the proposal addressed issues of gender and/or women’s history in the U.S. West.
• How well the proposed budget dovetails with the applicant’s stated research agenda.

To apply, submit one copy of each of the following (as a PDF file) to committee chair Cynthia Prescott at :
• A CV
• A brief description of the research project and an explanation of how the prize funds would support the research (not exceeding three pages, double spaced, addressing the criteria)
• A line-item budget
• A letter of support from the student’s major advisor

Cynthia Culver Prescott
University of North Dakota
cynthia.culver@gmail.com

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=202618

The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and the Southern Foodways Alliance, two University of Mississippi institutes, announce a graduate student symposium, focused on the theme of Women, Work, and Food. The conference will take place September 12th – 13th, 2013, on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Mississippi.

Dr. Kimberly Wallace-Sanders of Emory University will present the symposium’s keynote lecture. Her publications include Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory. Dr. Wallace-Sanders’s is also the editor of the anthology Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture.

The symposium will function as an important bridge to the 16th Southern Foodways Symposium, scheduled for October 4-6 at the University of Mississippi and focused on the same theme.

We welcome innovative proposals from graduate students that interrogate the conference’s theme through lenses such as economics, health and nutrition, history, labor, race, sexuality, ethnicity, the marketplace, identity construction, representations of the body in popular culture, and notions of space and place in both transnational and regional contexts.

Individuals from the fields of Anthropology, American Studies, History, Southern Studies, Visual Culture, Cinema Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Literary Studies, Food Studies including Health and Nutrition, Economics, Hospitality, Labor Studies and Cultural Studies are encouraged to respond to the call. All disciplines are welcome to submit.

Submissions sent to sfa.isom.gradconf@gmail.com should include a working paper title, an abstract limited to 300 words, a current one-page CV and contact information. Panel proposals should include a one-page summary for the panel.

Please indicate technology needs, such as PowerPoint or DVD. Proposals are due by May 31, 2013. Acceptance notifications will be sent out on July 1, 2013.

Roopika Risam and Adeline Koh announce a Global Women Wikipedia Write-In session on April 26, as part of a working group within the organization Global Outlook on the Digital Humanities. The write-in will take place from 1-3 pm, EST.

For more information, see the link below. Please spread the news and think about joining in/organizing some in-person sessions where you are! http://dhpoco.org/2013/03/21/the-global-women-wikipedia-write-in-gwwi-2/