agnès films is an online community of women filmmakers, scholars, and film lovers. Although our focus is to support and bring light to the work of women filmmakers, we welcome male members interested in women’s moving-image work.

We are proud to announce our new venture in supporting women filmmakers. We will be featuring reviews of films, videos, and television shows. We will review moving images that are long, short, and of any genre. The unifying characteristic is that the work will be made by women. Occasionally, we will review work made by men that features particularly strong female characters. Although we will mostly review newer work, we will also review older films, videos, and television shows in our aim to develop a resource that provides critical responses to the moving images women have been making for many decades. We will also review film festivals with a focus on assessing how festivals feature and portray the work of women filmmakers.

As agnès films member, Martha Lauzen, explains in a Hollywood Reporter article, 70% of film critics are men, who, not surprisingly, tend to write about male-driven films. As a result, stories by and about women receive less attention. As a way to reverse that cycle and to bring critical light to moving images made by women, we have assembled a group of seven filmmakers, scholars, and critics to review for agnès films:

• Bahareh Alaei, an experimental video composer and graduate student at California State University, Long Beach, where she studies digital rhetoric and composition.
• Tammy Fortin, the Curatorial Program Manager at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, where she curates and produces public programs that range from film screenings to concerts and everything in between.
• Casey Miles, a documentary filmmaker and PhD student in Rhetoric & Writing at Michigan State University.
• Ruth Novaczek, an experimental/avant-garde filmmaker who teaches video production at the University of Westminster and film appreciation, world cinema, and film noir at Regents American College London.
• Sue Salinger, a social documentarian and alternative news and information producer, who develops and creates participatory media content and collaborative media capabilities in groups working for change.
• Jennifer June Strawn a screenwriter, filmmaker, and photographer, whose feature drama, A Sea Like Glass, was a quarter-finalist for the 2010 Nicholls Fellowship.
• Moira Sullivan, a scholar, lecturer, film critic, promoter, and experimental filmmaker who is a member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) and served on the 2012 Queer Palm Jury at Cannes.

If you want to know more about these fantastic women, please visit our About page.

As an example of the kinds of reviews you can expect to read on agnès films, here are three inaugural reviews. Please click on the links below to read them:

• Margarethe Von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt reviewed by Ruth Novaczek
• Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Vie d’Adèle (Blue is the Warmest Color) reviewed by Moira Jean Sullivan
• Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell reviewed by Alexandra Hidalgo

We hope you enjoy them and that you’ll share them with others.

If you are a filmmaker and would like us to review your work, please contact us at contributions@agnesfilms.com. If there is a moving-image work made by women that you would like us to review, email us at the same address.

To meet other members of our community and be part of our discussions, join our Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/152307141458448/). You can also become a member of the site (it’s free).

We look forward to sharing our thoughts on moving images made by women with you!

The agnès films editors:

Alexandra Hidalgo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Michigan State University

Denah Johnston, Ph.D. Instructor of film, Academy of Art University, San Francisco

Visit the website at http://agnesfilms.com/news/announcing-agnes-filmss-new-review-feature/

We seek proposals for the Poster Session to be held at the 2014 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women at the University of Toronto. Submissions are welcome on any topic, from any discipline, following the broader theme of the conference, Histories on the Edge/Histoires sur la
brèche.

The Poster Session aims to connect scholars from across fields and
disciplines and provide them with a space to share and discuss current
research as well as other presentations that cannot be easily accommodated
in a regular panel session, such as work-in-progress, technology-bound
projects, and table-sized exhibitions. Undergraduate students, graduate
students, non-affiliated scholars, and those not already on the Conference
program, are strongly encouraged to apply.

Presenters will be required to format and print their own poster, which
should not exceed the limit of 36” x 48”. Further guidelines and
information will be provided upon selection.

Submissions for the Poster Session should include the following:
– A completed application form (see below)
– A 250 word abstract
– A one-page CV that includes your name, affiliation, and contact
information
– A simple mock-up of the display

Please send your submission and any questions to
bcwhposter@utsc.utoronto.ca as one pdf document by November 29, 2013.
Information is also available at http://berksconference.org/.

Please send this form, along with a 250-word abstract, CV, and poster
mock-up to bcwhposter@utsc.utoronto.ca by November 29, 2013.

Name: _____________________________________________

Please indicate the following professional status:

___ Undergraduate student
___ Graduate student
___ Post-Doctoral fellow
___ Non-affiliated scholar (adjunct instructor, sessional lecturer etc.)
___ Professor (assistant, associate, or full)

Are you presenting on a panel, roundtable or workshop at the 2014
Berkshire Conference?
___ Yes
___ No

The Poster Session follows the same themes as the Big Berks Conference.
Please indicate which theme your proposal best fits:

___ Borders, Encounters, Borderlands, Conflict Zones, and Memory
___ Empires, Nations, and the Commons
___ Law, Family Entanglements, Courts, Criminality, and Prisons
___ Bodies, Health, Medical Technologies, and Science
___ Indigenous Histories and Indigenous Worlds
___ Caribbean, Latin America, and Afro/Francophone Worlds
___ Asia, Transnational Circuits, and Global Diasporas
___ Economies, Environments, Labour, and Consumption
___ Sexualities, Genders/LGBTIQ2, and Intimacies
___ Politics, Religions/Beliefs, and Feminisms
___ Visual, Material, Media Cultures: Print, Image, Object, Sound,
Performance

Note: the themes are designed to be broad and your proposal does not have
to fit each keyword within the thematic track. Your choice of theme has no
bearing on acceptance; it is for organizational purposes only.

—
Poster Session Organizing Committee
2014 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
University of Toronto

The Philadelphia General Hospital photo collection is a collaboration between the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing and the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI). Featuring over a thousand images which cover the full history of the PGH nursing school, this site will serve as an invaluable research resource that highlights ​the evolution of the City of Philadelphia and the growth of the nursing profession in general. The photos also provide a visual narrative to issues of class, race, and the inequity found in healthcare access during the 19th and 20th centuries.​
The photo collection of the Alumnae Association of the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing totals over 1500 images spanning the years 1880 to the 1970s. The collection features not only the School of Nursing, but also the wards and campus of the Philadelphia Almshouse and the Philadelphia General Hospital. The photos were preserved in pristine condition through the years and offer an exceptional glimpse into the broad spectrum of activities engaged in by nurses and other health care providers; the buildings and settings used for health care delivery; and the patients cared for within the institution.
Perhaps the most compelling images contained in the collection are those of the individuals who were the recipients of services within the almshouse and hospital. By featuring almshouse residents and hospitalized patients, the collection contributes to a deeper understanding of the evolution of health care practices through the framework of historical inquiry.

The uniqueness of this photo collection lies in its impressive portrayal of life in a tax supported municipal institution as it transitioned from an almshouse to a fully fledged hospital. Its focus on nurses and nursing as an integral professional component in the life of the hospital highlights the significant contributions made by the profession to the American health care system. The breadth, depth, and scope of this collection, illuminating the daily life and work of a hospital community are vast, making it a historically important collection in the field of health care and nursing history.

You can view the collection at the Penn Nursing website.

Email: nhhc@nursing.upenn.edu
Visit the website at http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/pgh

Central European University is an English-language, graduate university located in Budapest, Hungary. With students from some 100 countries and faculty from more than 40, CEU offers an extraordinary student/faculty ratio of 8:1. CEU is accredited in the U.S. and Hungary.

CEU’s Department of Gender Studies attracts students from a range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, and focuses on integrative and comparative approaches to gender studies. Programs aim to critically examine past and present developments related to gender in culture and society. The curriculum in the department emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship, such as gender and post-socialist studies, nationalism, queer theory, cultural studies, transnationalism, and international political movements.

Programs Offered
• Master of Arts in Gender Studies (One Year)
• Master of Arts in Critical Gender Studies (Two Years)
• Master of Arts in Gender Studies: Women’s and Gender Specialization (GEMMA) (Two Years)
• Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Gender Studies

Selected Areas of Research
• Globalization and postcolonialism
• Gender, nation, and state
• Gender and science
• Feminist theories and epistemology
• Women’s history
• Gender, socialism, and postsocialism
• Queer theory
• Labor market gender inequalities
• Bioethics, biopolitics, and posthumanism
• Cultural studies
• Women’s literature
• Science studies

Scholarships and Fellowships
CEU is committed to attracting talented students from around the world—a commitment backed by generous financial aid. The University provides a variety of scholarships and research grants for which applicants from any country are eligible to apply.
CEU Master’s Degree Fellowships (full or partial) include a full tuition scholarship (with a value of €11,000 to €12,000), housing in the CEU Residence Center, health insurance, and a monthly stipend to cover living expenses.
CEU Master’s Degree Tuition Scholarships (full or partial) cover between 50 and 100 percent of tuition expenses up to €12,000 per year.
CEU Doctoral Fellowships cover full tuition, health insurance, and a generous stipend for housing and living expenses. Over 90 percent of PhD students receive the full doctoral fellowship.
Direct Student Loans and Canada Student Loans are available for eligible U.S. and Canadian students.
External Scholarships and Financial Aid Programs administered through CEU include Erasmus Mundus scholarships, Erasmus research grants, and other private and public fellowships and scholarships.

Application Deadline | January 23, 2014. For GEMMA and MATILDA

Visit the website at http://www.ceu.hu/scholarships/gender_studies?utm_source=ScholarshipPositions&utm_medium=CFA&utm_content=gender&utm_campaign=REC1314-FreeListserves_Dpt_CFA

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The Coordinating Council for Women in History is seeking news and
announcements from historians and organizations of women’s history for
inclusion in the upcoming newsletter of the International Federation for
Research in Women’s History. The IFRWH is an international association
that publishes news about events, publications, conferences and obituaries
each year from women’s history scholars and organizations
throughout the world. The CCWH submits a report for the items related to
women’s history scholars and organization situated within the United States
only (scholars in the United States, but geographic fields of
women’s history are open). Please send any news, announcements, or
publication information you wish to be included to Camesha Scruggs, the
CCWH Outreach Coordinator, at outreach@theccwh.org. Deadline is
November 20. Please limit submission to 250 words to avoid editing. For
more information about the Coordinating Council for Women in History please
go to http://www.theccwh.org.

Best,

Camesha Scruggs
Outreach Coordinator
Coordinating Council for Women in History
outreach@theccwh.org

Gender & History announces $1000 prize for best paper given by a
graduate student at the 2014 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

The editors of Gender & History and Wiley-Blackwell invite graduate
student presenters at the 2014 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
to submit their papers in advance to be considered for the Gender &
History Graduate Student Paper Prize to be awarded at the conference.
The winning author(s) will receive a cash prize as well as an invitation
to submit an article-length version of their paper for consideration for
publication in Gender & History. Papers should be sent electronically as
Word or PDF documents to Emily Bruce at gendhist@umn.edu by April 7,
with name and other identifying information removed from the document.
Applicants should indicate departmental and institutional affiliation in
the accompanying e-mail.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Early Modern Women, Religion, and the Body
22-23 July 2014, Loughborough University

Plenary speakers: Professor Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins) and Dr Katharine Hodgkin (University of East London)

With public lecture by Alison Weir (evening of 22 July, Martin Hall Theatre): ‘”The Prince expected in due season”: The Queen’s First Duty’

This two-day conference will explore the response of early modern texts to the relationship between religion and female bodily health. Scholars have long observed that understandings of the flesh and the spirit were inextricably intertwined in the early modern period, and that women’s writings or writings about women often explored this complex relationship. For instance, how did early modern women understand pain, illness, and health in a religious framework, and was this different to the understanding of those around them? Did women believe that their bodies were sinful? And were male and female religious experiences different because they took place in different bodies?

We invite proposals that address the relationship between religion and health, and the spirit and flesh, with a focus on female experience in any genre in print or manuscript. Genres might include medical, literary, religious, autobiographical, instructive, and rhetorical writings.

Topics might include, but are not limited toL

• Methods of recording or maintaining bodily and spiritual health
• The function of religion/faith in physiological changes (e.g. pregnancy/childbirth/nursing/menstruation)
• Illness, providence, and interpretation
• Suffering as part of religious experience and conversion
• Spiritual melancholy, madness, demonic possession, or witchcraft
• The physical effects of prophesising/preaching
• Chastity and religious life
• Spiritual and physical births/reproductive tropes
• Ensoulment and pregnancy
• The miraculous or martyred female body
• The body and sin
• Uses of the Bible in medical treatises

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers, complete panels, or roundtable discussions. Suggestions for discussions on pedagogical approaches to teaching the above topics are also welcome.

Please send abstracts of 300 words for 20-minute papers, or longer proposals for panels or roundtables, to Rachel Adcock, Sara Read, and Anna Warzycha at emwomen@lboro.ac.uk by 31st January 2014.

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Women’s History is proud to
announce the second biennial prize for the best article manuscript in
the field of women’s history authored by a graduate student.  Article
manuscripts in any chronological and geographical area are welcome.

Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words, including endnotes, and
should follow the University of Chicago *Manual of Style*, 16th edition.
Please also submit an abstract of no more than 150 words that summarizes the
argument and significance of the work.  We seek work that has broad
significance for the field of women’s history in general by addressing
issues that transcend the particulars of the case or by breaking new
ground methodologically.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, along with a cover
letter specifying the author’s graduate advisor, program, and status (i.e.,
year in program, ABD, etc.), by January 1, 2014 to each member of the
committee: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, chair <wu.287@osu.edu>, Vera Mackie <vera@uow.edu.au>, and Lora Wildenthal <wildenth@rice.edu>.

The winning author will receive $3000, and the article, after the normal
process of revision, will be published in the Journal of Women’s
History.

The prize will be awarded in May at the Berkshire Conference in Toronto.