Apply now to take part in a new summer institute for mid-career American
historians, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities,Office
of Digital Humanities, run by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History in New
Media, George Mason University from August 4-15, 2014.

Doing Digital History is designed to fill a much-needed gap for 25 established historians who need instruction and a professional learning community to engage with new media methods and tools.

We seek applications from faculty, public historians, archivists, librarians, museum professionals, and independent scholars specializing in US history, who have had very limited or no training in using digital
methods and tools, or in computing, and who lack a supportive digital community at their home institutions.

Take a peek at the proposed schedule, and apply today at
http://history2014.doingdh.org/

Applications will be open until March 15, 2014.

Call for papers CIT:
Female bodies, Image and Time. An Interdisciplinary History of Looking
University of Granada, 26-28th of June 2014

We welcome you at the University of Granada you from 26 to 28 June 2014 to the CIT (Female bodies, Image and Time. An Interdisciplinary History of Looking) International Congress. This conference will focus on works that tackle the looking at the female body from an interdisciplinary perspective as suggested by the following examples:

• Female bodies and literature: the body as a text or a literary theme The translated body and the linguistic body: the female body as linguistic, ideological, cultural-national unity
• Female bodies and translations
• Female bodies: culture and anthropology: rituals, rites, customs, mode, popular culture, diseases
• Female bodies and social culture: theology, socio-political sciences, gender studies looks and vision
• Female bodies and norm. Deviance from the regulated body: transsexualism, transgenderism, the limited body, monstrosity
• Female bodies and technology: recovering corporal perfection; nutrition, corporal artificiality, construction of the body (bodybuilding, cyberbody, cosmetic surgery)
• Female bodies in East European countries.
• The female bodies and visual arts
• The female bodies in Medicine

CONGRESS LANGUAGES: Spanish, Romanian, English, French
PARRALEL AREAS: Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Antropology
SCHEDULE AND IMPORTANT DATES :
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 20, 2014
Deadline for the evaluation of abstracts: March 25, 2014
Publication of the accepted abstracts: March 28, 2014
Registration deadline for the selected authors: April 30, 2014

For any further information please read carefully the congress description or contact the secretary of the congress to the following e-mail address:
cuerpo.imagen.tiempo@gmail.com

2014 National Underground Railroad Conference
July 16-20
Detroit, Michigan
Call for Presentations

The National Park Service, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (NTF) Program and friends, will host its annual 2014 National Underground Railroad Conference in Detroit, Michigan, July 16-20, 2014. The NTF program was organizationally linked with the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Monument in 2013. While Tubman has been the dominant image of women and the Underground Railroad, her involvement is part of a larger story of women’s participation in the movement. The theme for this year’s conference is “I Resolved Never to Be Conquered”: Women and the Underground Railroad. This sentiment penned by Harriet Jacobs, shows her determination, “though one of God’s most powerless creatures,” to retain control over herself and her body despite her enslaved status.

Studies of the Underground Railroad traditionally overlook the involvement of women, both as freedom seekers and as operatives. However, as Harriet Jacobs wrote, “Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.” Enslaved women bore the extra burden of sexual exploitation. Attachments to their children complicated their response and resistance to enslavement. Potential or actual separation from a child could provide motivation for escaping. Escaping with children, however, made the journey more perilous.

White and free black women played an important role in the abolitionist movement, as the “great army of silent workers.” They provided direct assistance to freedom seekers by sewing clothes, making food, and raising funds. The anti-slavery cause was one of the few platforms through which women could step into the public sphere by forming abolition societies and speaking at anti-slavery meetings. Women missionaries and educators took up the cause in the Civil War, providing assistance to freedmen in the contraband camps. Mid-nineteenth century reformers often linked racial and gender struggles for freedom, conceiving of the causes of abolitionism and women’s rights as intertwined; as a result, a number of women, and some men for that matter, were active in both movements.

The Conference Program Committee welcomes proposals from a wide variety of scholars, community researchers, site stewards, educators and others interested in Underground Railroad history. Presentation topics can include, but are not limited to:
– Women’s Rights and Anti-Slavery Activism
– Women as Freedom Seekers/Women Escaping Slavery
– Comparative Analysis of Female and Male Freedom Seekers
– The Relationship between Motherhood and Freedom Seeking
– Female Slave Narratives and the Underground Railroad
– Women as Underground Railroad Activists
– Balancing Family and Activism
– The Male Response to Women’s Involvement with the Underground Railroad and Abolitionism
– Women’s Organizations and the Underground Railroad
– Women and the Freedman’s Relief Association
– Women and Contraband Camps
– Women and the Reverse Underground Railroad

Submission Procedure—MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE*
Proposals can be submitted for (1) panels up to three individuals and a moderator on a particular theme or topic and (2) individual 20 minute presentations. Individual submissions that are accepted will be placed on a panel by the Program Committee. Conference applications will be reviewed by the 2014 Conference Program Committee.
To submit a proposal, please visit: http://proposals.oah.org/nurc/
Deadline for receipt of proposals: March 1, 2014

All proposals should include:

A complete mailing address, email, phone number and affiliations (if any) for each participant;
A 500 word abstract for the complete session and 250 word abstract for individual submissions; and
A 125 word biographical sketch for each participant.

Registration fee for presenters will be waived. Presenters are responsible for their own conference travel, lodging, transportation, and meals.

Accepted presenters can expect to receive notification by March 28, 2014

For more information, please visit our website: www.nps.gov/ugrr
or contact Diane Miller, National Program Manager, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, 402.661.1588/diane_miller@nps.gov
or Déanda Johnson, Midwest Regional Coordinator 402.661.1590/deanda_johnson@nps.gov.

2014 Call for Nominations ***Deadline March 14, 2014***

Two prizes shall be awarded:

FRENCH LANGUAGE PRIZE: Any French-language academic article published in a Canadian or international journal or book during the period 2011-2013 and
deemed to make an original and scholarly contribution to the field of
women’s and gender history as it relates to women is eligible for
nomination for the 2014 Neatby Prize.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRIZE:  Any English-language academic article published in
Canada during 2013 and deemed to make an original and scholarly
contribution to the field of women’s and gender history as it relates to
women is eligible for nomination for the 2014 Hilda Neatby Prize.

Send nominations, with 1 copy of the nominated article, before *March
14,2014* to Dr. Christabelle Sethna, Chair, Hilda Neatby Prize Committee.
Nominations can be sent by either email or mail.  Email:
neatbyprize.ccwh.cchf@gmail.com

Mail:  Dr. Christabelle Sethna
*Faculty of Social Sciences*
*120 University*
*Social Sciences Building*
*Room 11002*
*Ottawa, Ontario, Canada*
*K1N 6N5*

The purpose of the Hilda Neatby Prize in Women’s and Gender History,
awarded since 1982 by the Canadian Committee in Women’s History at the
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, is to encourage the
publication of scholarly articles on women’s and gender history in Canadian
journals and books.

Two prizes are awarded, one for the best article in English, the other for
the best article in French.  Any academic article published in Canada and
deemed to make an original and scholarly contribution to the field of
women’s history is eligible.

For further information contact  Dr. Christabelle Sethna
(csethna@uottawa.ca) or
visit the CCWH on the web:
http://www.chashcacommittees-comitesa.ca/ccwh-cchf/en/.

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (http://www.ssemw.org)
seeks nominations for awards for scholarly work published/completed in
2013. Any work on women and gender in the early modern period (ca.
1450-1750) is eligible.

Awards Categories:

*   Book Award
*   Essay or Article Award
*   Josephine Roberts Award for a Scholarly Edition
*   Scholarly Edition in Translation Award
*   Teaching Edition Award
*   Graduate Student Conference Presentation Award
*   Collaborative Project Award (Edited Collections of Essays, etc.)
*   Digital Scholarship, New Media, & Art Award (Web-based projects, exhibitions, concerts, productions of plays, etc.  Note: Since such projects often do not have a single date of publication, nominations are accepted for
projects operating in 2013.)

To nominate a work from 2013 for an award to be presented in 2014, please
send three (3) copies of books or a PDF of articles, essays, or papers by
MARCH 15, 2014, to

Eleanor Hubbard
129 Dickinson Hall
Department of History
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
ehubbard@princeton.edu

Extended deadline to February 28 for proposals for the Feminisms Workshop at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

The Feminisms Workshop is a full-day event that offers opportunities for all scholars at all levels to come together and discuss issues concerning feminism and the field of Composition and Rhetoric. It will take place Wednesday, March 19, 2014. The workshop features invited speakers who will cover a variety of topics with the goal of contextualizing and historicizing the way we think about gender in CompRhet. In addition, the workshop is a venue for receiving feedback on work-in-progress that uses feminist theories or methodologies during breakout sessions. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their work with other feminist scholars; so please come prepared with any questions or concerns you may have! We encourage graduate students and scholars at all stages of their careers to join us.

If you are interested in being a work-in-progress presenter, please submit a 250-word proposal to guarantee a place at the roundtables. Plan for a 5-8 minute presentation that includes scholarship you wish to share and and get feedback on and questions for the group. Roundtable participants will be listed on the workshop program (separate from the official CCCC’s program). Participants in the Feminisms Workshop who do not submit a proposals ahead of time may have an opportunity to participate in the roundtable discussions if time permits.

The revised deadline for proposals is February 28. Submit proposals to: 4c2014feminismsworkshop@gmail.com

Since World War II, the West has positioned Turkey as a role model for the Islamic world and a gateway to the Middle East.  A secular nation with a parliamentary system, Turkey, which occupies the eastern-most corner of Europe, and the western-most corner of Asia, is the only Muslim nation with European Union candidacy status.  However, despite its EU status and membership in NATO, it is a country that is still caught between its Eastern heritage and the “modernity” of the West. Thus, it is a nation that eludes categorization: part of Europe and Asia, but somehow not comfortable with the socially-constructed label “Eurasian”; bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, but somehow not “Mediterranean”; contiguous with the Middle East, but not “Middle Eastern.”

While ninety plus percent of Turkey’s over seventy million inhabitants
identify themselves as followers of one of the branches of Islam (the
majority being Sunnis), there is a strict separation between religion and
state—or secularism— that is enforced by the Turkish military.[1] This
secular-religious divide that serves as the backbone of the Republic of
Turkey was established by its first President, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in
1923, and includes a series of political, social, and cultural reforms,
such as the institution of a public dress code, that deconstructed the
patriarchal hierarchy of the Ottoman Empire and increased women’s rights.

This anthology seeks to explore Kemalist feminism in modern Turkey.
Some papers discuss the rise of the Turkish Republic, specifically with
Atatürk’s reforms aimed at women.  These reforms instituted state dress
codes (1924), which forbade the wearing of headscarves in public buildings.
Of course, this law stood until 2012 when students at religious school
were permitted to wear them.  Yet, throughout this more modern-day
controversy concerning the headscarf, Turkish women have been continuously
engaged in feminist politics.  The myth that Turkey stands ahead of the
West in regards to gender equality will be examined here, in terms of
women’s activism and demands for expanded rights within the public sphere,
international community and organizing, and the use of fashion as a
political tool and marker of discourse.

In the late 1960s gender emerged as a category for analysis, and the
studies from this movement act as texts of women’s lives.  These juxtapose
nicely alongside the letters and accounts of YWCA workers seeking to
develop a Christian community and global connection of women in the early
twentieth century.  Of course, media forces, advertisements, and a sense of
global social pressure structured the Turkish women’s front.  Just as these
women were fighting for a place within their own nation—a land on the
metaphorical and literal border of modernity and western—their acts for
rights and social and political acceptance forced personal and political
debates to color their lives and actions.

We are seeking proposals for articles (4000-7000 words in length) that
address questions of Turkish feminism during the twentieth century.
Please send your proposal (250 words) and a cv to:
turkishfeminism@gmail.com by March 1, 2014.  For those whose proposals are
accepted, completed articles will be due by July 15, 2014.  Any questions
can be directed to: turkishfeminism@gmail.com.

Boston, Massachusetts
March 6-8, 2014

Conference Chair:
Nichole Pinkard (DePaul University)
Conference Committee:
Elizabeth C. Babcock (California Academy of Sciences)
Angela Booker (University of California, Davis)
Eric Gordon (Emerson College/ Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University)
Philipp Schmidt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology/P2PU)

Today’s networked and digital media demand that we reimagine the where, when and how of educational practice. In an era of online affinity groups, Q&A forums, Wikipedia, and MOOCs of different sizes and shapes, learners are encountering an abundance of choice, and learning is unshackled from conventional institutional bases, credentials, pathways, and players. Educators and learning institutions are facing a new landscape of challenges and opportunities. Researchers are struggling to define new objects of study and connect to an evolving set of practices and design challenges.

It is more important than ever that the DML community finds shared educational and societal values to rally around. How do we build new alliances and coalitions that will break down the walls between formal and informal learning, between diverse communities, and between research and practice? We need to reach beyond the roles we occupy as teachers, librarians, mentors, designers, researchers, and organizers to pursue a common purpose. We can’t default to given disciplinary identities, institutional roles, and well-worn forms of educational practice; we need to challenge each other to reconsider and reposition the contributions we can make to educational reform that will serve the needs of all learners. This year’s conference calls on all of us to build shared agendas and goals to reach across the boundaries that separate our disciplines, fields, institutions, and sectors.

Register by February 19th to take advantage of Early Bird Registration Rates. See the conference website (http://dml2014.dmlhub.net/) for more details, full schedule, and registration information.

2014 National Underground Railroad Conference

July 16-20

Detroit Michigan

Due to popular demand, the National Underground Railroad Conference is
back! The National Park Service, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (NTF) Program and friends, will host its annual 2014 National
Underground Railroad Conference in Detroit, Michigan, July 16-20, 2014. The
theme for this year’s conference is “*I Resolved Never to Be Conquered”:
Women and the Underground Railroad.* This sentiment penned by freedom
seeker Harriet Jacobs, shows her determination, “though one of God’s most
powerless creatures,” to retain control over herself and her body despite
her enslaved status. The conference’s focus on women recognizes NTF
program’s new organizational link with the Harriet Tubman Underground
Railroad Monument (HATU), and will explore that while Tubman has been the
dominant image of women and the Underground Railroad, her involvement is
part of a larger story of women’s participation in the movement, as freedom
seekers and as operatives.

During the conference, we will also take advantage of Detroit’s proximity
to travel on a tour to Canada, a final destination for many freedom
seekers. So be sure to have your passports ready!

Click here<http://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/upload/2014-call-for-presentations.pdf>
for the Call for Proposals. *Deadline March 1st. *

Call for Contributions
Women, Gender and Information and Communication Technologies
(Europe, 19^th-21^st centuries)
International Symposium
Paris
15-16 May 2014 

Organized by LabEx EHNE (Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe – Writing a New History of Europe), research strands 1 and 6 (http://www.labex-ehne.fr), in partnership with the CNRS Institute for Communication Sciences (ISCC)

Although pioneering studies have contributed in the last few years to highlighting numerous aspects of the gendered construction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), via analyses concerning women telephone operators, female radio listeners, or even the ENIAC Girls, the place of women and of gender in the history of information and communication technologies remains to be reflected upon and written, whether it is the role and the representation of the two sexes regarding research, conception, utilisation or consumption.

It is hoped that these two days will compare European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies, since the telegraph. The study days invite transnational and interdisciplinary analyses across the long term, drawing as much upon the history of computer science and ICT as upon the history of work, organisations, consumption, education, media, and gender studies.

In touching upon imaginations, values, figures, models and practices that cut across the history of the telegraph, the telephone, the radio, the TV, the internet and digital devices, we hope to explore in particular the manner in which the history of information and communication technologies can enrich gender studies, and conversely the way in which the latter can shed light on studies related to ITC.  The aim is to do so via numerous angles of approach (not exclusive of other approaches):

–       Female actors of ICT: individual and collective historical figures, inventors, programmers, researchers, professional users, consumers etc.

–       The gendered representations of the public actors of ICT and their evolution (discourses, advertising, teaching and education, imagination etc).

–       The stakeholders implicated at the heart of ICT, affected by the problematic of gender (European associations, national or transnational collectives etc).

–       ITCs as producers of new spaces for the expression of gender.

–       The specificity or not of European research in the gendered approach of ITCs in relation to the work carried out in North America.

Papers should be twenty minutes in length and can be delivered in French or English.  The organising committee would be particularly interested in proposals integrating a diachronic dimension and those explicitly touching upon a European dimension. Proposals of post-graduate students or early-career researchers are welcome.

Submission

Proposals should be sent to fgtic@iscc.cnrs.fr

They should be one page long, contain a bibliography and if possible a proposed plan.  Authors can include a summary of their publications/research and a brief biography in their initial e-mail.

• Deadline for submission of proposals: March 1^st 2014
• Notification of acceptance: March 15^th 2014
• International Symposium: May 15^th and 16^th 2014

This information is available on http://genreurope.hypotheses.org/

Organizers

• Delphine Diaz (IRICE, Université Paris-Sorbonne, LabEx EHNE)
• Valérie Schafer (ISCC, CNRS)
• Régis Schlagdenhauffen (LISE, CNAM/CNRS, LabEx EHNE)
• Benjamin Thierry  (IRICE, Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Program Committee

• Gerard Alberts (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
• Alec Badenoch (Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University)
• Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffmann (LISE, CNAM/CNRS)
• Niels Brügger (The Centre for Internet Studies, Aarhus University)
• Frédéric Clavert (Université Paris-Sorbonne, IRICE, LabEx EHNE)
• Delphine Gardey (Faculté des Sciences de la Société, Université de Genève)
• Pascal Griset (Université Paris-Sorbonne, CRHI-IRICE/ISCC, LabEx EHNE)
• Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, IUF)
• Christophe Lécuyer (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
• Ilana Löwy (Cermes, CNRS, EHESS, Inserm, Paris 5)
• Cécile Méadel (CSI, MINES Paris Tech)
• Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology, Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, Munich)
• Jean-Claude Ruano-Borbalan (HT2S, CNAM)
• Fabrice Virgili (IRICE, CNRS, LabEx EHNE)

Conference Secretary
Arielle Haakenstad (Université Paris-Sorbonne, IRICE/ISCC, LabEx EHNE)