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Ada Lovelace: An Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating her Achievements and Legacy

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book-stackCollege of Arts and Letters
Stevens Institute of Technology
October 17-18, 2013

The College of Arts and Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology is pleased to invite you to participate in our upcoming conference celebrating the achievements and legacy of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), to be held on our scenic campus 17 and 18 October 2013. Presenters will speak about Lovelace’s many achievements as well as the impact of her life and work, which reverberated through the sciences and humanities since the late nineteenth century. This conference heralds a recent resurgence in Lovelace scholarship thanks to the growth of interdisciplinary thinking and the expanding influence of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Our institute-wide commitment to the development of innovative thinking in a culture of collaboration makes Stevens an ideal venue for sharing ideas about Lovelace, a luminary figure whose life and works connect academics across disciplines and cultures. In addition, this conference reflects our dedication to fulfilling the mission of the College of Arts and Letters, which is, in part, “to advance research and scholarship at the intersection of science, technology, the arts, and the humanities […] through our unique and distinctive programs, centers, conferences and resources.” We anticipate an exciting, intellectually stimulating event attended by scholars, teachers, and students from around the world as we gather to explore this important thinker.
Featured Speakers

Our keynote speaker, Valerie Aurora, is Executive Director and co-founder of of The Ada Initiative, a non-profit collective founded in 2011 to promote women in open technology and culture. Aurora tirelessly helps women to get and stay involved in communities dedicated to changing the future of global society such as open source, open data, open education, and other areas of free and open technology and culture. She was recognized in 2011 as one of Femme-o-nomics Top 5 Women to Watch in Tech and, in 2012, she was cited as one of the 6 Most Influential Information Security Thinkers by SC Magazine. Aurora lives and works in San Francisco, California.

Our plenary speaker, Dr. Tom Misa, is Director of The Charles Babbage Institute. He is a historian specializing in the interactions of technology and modern culture and he has been active in the Society for the History of Technology, the international Tensions of Europe network, and several collaborative research and book projects. Dr. Misa is Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota. His recent publications include: Gender Codes: Why Women are Leaving Computing. Editor (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010), Urban Machinery: Inside Modern European Cities. Co-edited with Mikael Hård (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007), and Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

Learn more and register: http://www.stevens.edu/calconference/

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Call For Papers: Jewish Women Writers – Witnesses to Injustice (NeMLA 2013)

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45th Annual Convention
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Maxine Kumin asserts, “I now feel that we poets have to serve as witnesses at least to the injustices around us.” Echoing the intentions of many Jewish women writers to write about the “underdog,” Kumin writes on topics that include historic persecutions of Jews and contemporary Israeli society. Similarly, other Jewish women writers memorialize past and present iterations of discrimination and persecution by bearing witness. In genres that range from poetry to fiction to memoir, Jewish women writers represent instances of oppression and persecution in the 20th and 21st centuries, such as the Holocaust, as Alicia Ostriker does in “The Eighth and Thirteenth” (1994); the conflict in the Middle East, as Valérie Zenatti does in A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2008); and racial and ethnic persecution in “Israeli” society, as Nehama Pukhachevsky does in “Aphia’s Plight” (1925). Given their own histories of discrimination and repression, as Jews and as women, Jewish women are understandably motivated to bear witness in their writing to the circumstances around them and to memorialize those in the past.

This panel seeks to bring together scholars of Jewish women writers-as-witnesses and hopes to have an array of themes from an array of events in the last century represented to theorize the ways in which Jewish women writers demonstrate sensitivity to the victimization of others.

Please include with your abstract:

– Name
– Affiliation
– Email address
– Postal address
– Telephone number
– A/V Requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

The 2014 NeMLA convention continues the Association’s tradition of sharing innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. This capitol city set on the Susquehanna River is known for its vibrant restaurant scene, historical sites, the National Civil War museum, and nearby Amish Country, antique shops, and Hershey Park. NeMLA has arranged low hotel rates of $104-$124.

The 2014 event will include guest speakers, literary readings, professional events, and workshops. A reading by George Saunders will open the Convention. His 2013 collection of short fiction, The Tenth of December, has been acclaimed by the New York Times as “the best book you’ll read this year.” The Keynote speaker will be David Staller of Project Shaw.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

Lois Rubin
Pennsylvania State University

Rachel Leah Jablon
University of Maryland
Email: lxr5@psu.edu and rjablon@umd.edu
Visit the website at http://www.nemla.org/convention/2014/cfp.htm

Call For Papers: War, Memory, and Gender – An Interdisciplinary Conference

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book-stackCFP: War, Memory, and Gender: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Conference Date: March 27-29, 2014
Deadline for Proposals: October 15, 2013

The past several decades have seen an explosion of scholarly interest in the subject of war and gender. At the same time, the study of collective or cultural memory, especially in connection with armed conflict, has become a veritable cottage industry. This conference seeks to bring these two areas of intensive study into dialogue with each other, exploring the complex ways in which gender shapes war memory and war memory shapes gender. Comprised of a select number of presentations (so that all participants will be able to hear every paper), together with a keynote address by Professor Jennifer Haytock (SUNY-Brockport) and a panel discussion featuring women military veterans, the conference will address multiple conflicts and nationalities from the perspectives of multiple disciplines.

Hosted by the Center for the Study of War and Memory and the Gender Studies Program at the University of South Alabama, “War, Memory, and Gender” will be held in the History Museum of Mobile, a beautiful structure located in the heart of the city’s scenic and historic downtown. Restaurants in the downtown area will host receptions for conference registrants, and a downtown hotel (to be announced) will offer a block of rooms at a reduced rate. Local attractions include Alabama Gulf-Coast beaches, the U.S.S. Alabama Memorial Park on Mobile Bay, the African-American Heritage Trail, the Bellingrath mansion and gardens, the Blakeley Civil War battlefield, the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, and the charming nearby towns of Daphne and Fairhope.

Interested scholars should email a 350-word proposal, along with a CV, to conference co-directors Martha Jane Brazy (mjbrazy@southalabama.edu) and Steven Trout (strout@southalabama.edu) before October 15, 2013.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Remembering male and/or female bodies at war
War propaganda and gender
Women and forgotten conflicts
Gender, Race, and War
Women of color and war memory
Sexuality and War
Restoring women to the so-called Greatest Generation
Women and veterans’ organizations
The Vietnam War and the crisis of American masculinity
Remembering women combatants
Women as custodians of war memory
War, gender, and grief
Gender, war, and modernism(s)
Male and female war films
Women writers, male war stories
Medicine, war, and gender
LGBTQ memories of war
Trauma and gendered memory
Women artists/architects and public war memorials
Gender and military video games
Gender and historical writing about war
Gender and war reenactment

Early Entrance Exams, part 2: Bryn Mawr and the Ivy Leagues

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UPenn HeaderIt’s the start of the new academic year, and the Greenfield Digital Center is looking forward to greeting returning students and giving a special welcome to those of you who are on campus for the first time. We know it took a lot to get here. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to apply to college 120 years ago? Last year we published a series of early entrance examinations from the Seven Sisters, the schools (including Bryn Mawr College) that defined prestigious women’s education in the late nineteenth century. Though the institutions were all founded with slightly varying visions, they were set apart as a group from earlier models of women’s education by their mission to provide academically rigorous schooling that led to a degree. For the first time, women were being offered an academic experience that was comparable to that enjoyed by men.1

The difficulty of getting into a good college is a constant source of discussion in the twenty-first century, with admissions departments seeing incredibly high numbers of qualified applicants every year. Shouldn’t it have been easier to get into college 150 years ago, when there were fewer people applying? Not so, as we learned in the last post: even if there were only a handful of girls around the country whose parents were interested in making sure they had access to a college education, getting in was hardly a piece of cake. As our readers noticed, the entrance exams were hard—hard enough so that few of us could pass today, perhaps even after the four-year education that the exam would have qualified us to receive!

Last time we looked at how Bryn Mawr compared to the other Seven Sisters. But how would the test measure up against similar examples from the Ivy Leagues themselves? It is well documented that M. Carey Thomas, the first Dean and second President of Bryn Mawr College, aimed to make the education offered by Bryn Mawr equal in rigor to the standard American male education. Shaped by her vision, the College pursued this objective more deliberately than any of the other contemporary women’s colleges. While digging through the archives recently we came across a document describing the entrance examination for the University of Pennsylvania, as given in 1893, as well as a copy of the Harvard Examination for Women,2 also from 1893. Comparing these three documents gives us a window into how Bryn Mawr3 would have appeared alongside the schools it was designed to emulate.

The Harvard examinaBrynMawrHistoryHarvardExamHistorytion and the Bryn Mawr examination have similar sections in algebra (though Harvard’s has only one section, while Penn and Bryn Mawr both feature two) and geometry. All three have a heavy focus on classical studies, which were considered to be an essential area of study in history, philosophy, literature, and languages for all serious students in the nineteenth century. The first deviation that I noticed is that a scan of Harvard’s history essay questions and Bryn Mawr’s reveal a stylistic difference: while Harvard’s requires definitions of terms and summaries of events, Bryn Mawr’s essay questions tend to be more in-depth, as you can see from the pages shown above. (The Bryn Mawr exam shown to the left, Harvard on the right. Click for an enlarged view.) The subjects covered by the different exams (as far as we can tell from the documents we have access to) are as follows:

Bryn Mawr

  • Mathematics (Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry, Trigonometry)
  • Latin (Grammar and Composition, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Sight Reading)
  • (though the Greek requirement is mentioned in the exam summary, that portion of the examination appears to be missing)
  • English History
  • American History
  • Grecian History
  • Roman History
  • English (Composition, Grammatical Correction)
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Botany
  • Physiology
  • Physical geography
 University of Pennsylvania:

  • Mathematics (Arithmetic, Plane Geometry, and Algebra)
  • History of the United States
  • Ancient History
  • English (Grammar, Composition and Reading)
  • Greek (Prose Composition, Grammar, Homer, and Xenophon)
  • Latin (Prose Composition, Grammar, Virgil, and Cicero)
  • German
  • French

 

 Harvard:

  • History of Greece and Rome
  • History of the United States and of England
  • Mathematics (Algebra, Plane Geometry)
  • -rest of the document is omitted

 

It is difficult to make direct comparisons between the Bryn Mawr examination and the other two, considering that there are portions missing from the Harvard examination, and we only have a summary and description of the University of Pennsylvania examination. The University of Pennsylvania also had different requirements based on the division of their General Course in Science from the Course in Arts, options for specialization that the other schools did not incorporate into their exams. However, given the variances, the Bryn Mawr exam appears to require a broader command of subject matter from each candidate. For example, Bryn Mawr considered language study to be of the utmost importance, and required all candidates to be tested in Latin and two languages from Greek, German, and French. If she was not examined in all four, the candidate would be required to study a fourth language as part of her college curriculum. The University of Pennsylvania requirements, however, were narrower: candidates for the Course in Arts were examined in Latin and Greek only; candidates for the General Course in Science could elect to be tested in two 1892_035_Botanylanguages from Latin, French, and German, and candidates for the course in engineering were only required to know one language, either German or French. By gearing the test towards specialization in either humanities or sciences, the University of Pennsylvania thus required a narrower range of material for each candidate depending on his future area of study. Even candidates not applying to a specialized course at Bryn Mawr were required to have broad knowledge of both humanities and sciences—it appears to be the only one of the three schools that included a full section on botany. Would you have passed the section on botany based on your high school education?

An in-depth look at all three examinations suggests that the Bryn Mawr examination was the most challenging, mostly because of the incredible range of the subject matter in which the candidate was expected to demonstrate competence. This was directly connected to M. Carey Thomas’s vision for the type of education the school was to provide: in a published address given in 1900, entitled “College Entrance Requirements”, Thomas firmly stated her belief that “certain studies should be taken by everyone if we have in view the creation of intellectual power.” And it was the powerful intellect, not just career preparedness, that she was interested in cultivating for her students. Another reason that she advocated breadth as well as depth of study, especially in the pre-college and early college years, was that she did not believe that intellectual proclivities would necessarily arise immediately—the student needed time to explore different options and develop her abilities. In a memorable passage from the address, she refutes a statement by President Charles Eliot of Harvard University, first quoting him in his claim that “by the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth year almost every peculiar mental or physical gift which by training can be made of value is already revealed to its possessor and to any observant friend” and responding that “I believe it is very rare—and as a rule profoundly unfortunate—for a decided aptitude or bent to manifest itself before a boy or girl has been two or three years in college, and usually the consciousness of it comes much later than this.” Thomas considered a broad education to be essential for the intellectual development of her students, no matter what they specialized in. However, it is also easy to imagine that the examination was crafted to be challenging in order to prove her point that women were as capable academically as men, and that Bryn Mawr College would be the school to prove that women could be educated at a level on par or even better than that of the equivalent elite male schools.

There is one item on the examination that distinguishes Bryn Mawr from its Ivy League counterparts and provides a hint as to what kind of school the candidate was applying to. In the grammatical correction section, candidates were required to fix the wording of the following passage:
1892_028_CorrectionsLarge_1Could it have been selected at random, or was it perhaps a nod of acknowledgment between the examiner and the candidates, aligned by a common conviction?

Would you have passed the Bryn Mawr examination as given in 1893? Would you have preferred to take the more focused University of Pennsylvania exam, or the Harvard Examination for Women? Do you think interdisciplinary study and late specialization is an important component of the college experience? Let us know in the comments section!

To view the examinations in full, click on the following links:

 

Footnotes

1 Furthermore, institutions like Bryn Mawr were offering access to graduate level education to women in the US, opening up the possibility of graduate study for American women without traveling to Europe for doctoral work as M. Carey Thomas had done.

2 The Harvard Examination for Women was a special case, as it was the only one that did not lead to admittance to the university issuing the test. At the time that Harvard began to give the examination, it did not admit women: the test was a way for young women to seek a certificate of academic achievement—a mark of accomplishment, rather than a ticket to the next phase of study. Though the University began offering classes to women through the Harvard Annex in 1879, it did not grant degrees to female scholars until the opening of Radcliffe College in 1894. Passage of the test was considered very prestigious, and the Bryn Mawr College entrance exam specifies that the Bryn Mawr entrance exam must be taken by all “except those who have passed in the corresponding divisions of the Harvard University Examination for Women, or who present a certificate for honorable dismissal from some college or university of acknowledged standing.”

3 We were unable to locate a Bryn Mawr College entrance examination from 1893, and will therefore be using an 1892 test for comparison.

Call For Papers: (In)Security, (In)Visibility and Gender in Historical Perspective

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Conference at the Universität der Bundeswehr München, July 3-4, 2014 Organisation: Chair in German and European History of the 19th and 20th Century, Felix de Taillez M.A., Prof. Dr. Sylvia Schraut

pages-flipSecurity issues take a prominent place in the public perception as well as in the field of Security Studies. Historical science however, was not much concerned with security issues so far. This is all the more astonishing as “security” is a key word in policy and in legitimization of nation-building processes since early modern times.

The conference focuses on historical security issues in connection with their (in)visibility – above all from the perspective of cultural, media and gender history.

We expect contributions across successive historical periods from national, transnational, international and/or gender points of view, taking into consideration the following questions:
How is (in)security represented in the media?

How are measures to establish security or rather the negligence to install them legitimized?
Which patterns of argumentations can be found in the context of security issues in public debates and/or discourses?

Which (in)visibilities take security measures in public and private space (concerning also the physical presence)?

How is the relationship between (in)visible security measures and (in)security arranged?

Confronted with threat scenarios how were mutually influenced security issues, social norms and political systems?

We request a short exposé (3000 characters max) and a short CV by October 15, 2013 via email to Taillez@unibw.de or Sylvia.Schraut@unibw.de.

Call For Papers: Queering the Quotidian

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book-and-mouseQueering the Quotidian: Differential and Contested Spaces Within Neoliberalism

The Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life invites submissions for our annual symposium to be held March 07, 2014 at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. This year’s theme is “Queering the Quotidian: Differential and Contested Spaces Within Neoliberalism,” and our keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking of the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative at Bowdoin College. Gieseking’s work examines the everyday co-productions of space and identity that support or inhibit social, spatial, and economic justice in urban and digital environments, with a special focus on sexuality and gender.

While many critical interrogations of neoliberalism understandably consider it ubiquitous in its ability to permeate and restructure individual experience and everyday life, this symposium seeks to highlight its moments of instability, incongruence, and unexpected contradiction. This year’s symposium invites research that rethinks theories of the everyday; of particular interest is work that engages queer possibility and impossibility in the production of space and everyday practice within neoliberalism.

In addition to our theme, we will gladly consider abstracts that are more broadly concerned with the following areas of inquiry:

Spatial practices/everyday life

Feminist and queer geographies

Heterotopias, subtopias, and differential space

Phenomenology and sensory experiences of space

Non-places and/or abject space

Geological intersections with geography

Ecologies of space

The right to the city

We are open to receiving proposals for non-traditional presentations and from individuals at various stages in their research. All participants will be allotted the same amount of time to use however they see fit. Participants may choose to present a conference paper, a project overview, or even a set of research questions tailored to stimulate dialogue between the presenter and attendees. This symposium is committed to producing sustained conversations and a collaborative environment for scholars whose work engages our society’s specific interests in radical geography, spatial theory, and everyday life.

Those interested may submit proposals of no more than 500 words to symposium co-organizers Tahereh Aghdasifar and Andrea Miller at radicalspaces@gmail.com by November 01, 2013. Presenters will be notified of their acceptance by December 01, 2013. For more information on the symposium and the Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life, see our website at http://radicalspacesblog.wordpress.com/ and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/radicalspaces.

Call for Professional Awards Nominations & Presentation Proposals for the 2013 Western Society for the Physical Education of College Women Annual Conference!

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pages-flipProfessionals from a variety of academic disciplines examining issues and concerns relevant to physical education and kinesiology are encouraged to share their expertise and interests at the 2013 WSPECW Conference at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA (November 21-24). You may do so by submitting a proposal for a presentation. Proposals may include original data-based research, scholarly inquiries, theoretical examinations, teaching strategies, or other creative contributions. Completed projects or works-in-progress are acceptable.

Professional Awards nominations are being sought for: 1) Emerging Professional Award; President’s Educational Equity Scholarship;
Professional Development Award.

For further details, please visit our website: www.wspecw.org, or email cmw9@stmarys-ca.edu.

Dates: November 21-24, 2013
Location: Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California

Claire Williams
Department of Kinesiology
St. Mary’s College of California
PO Box 4500, Moraga, CA 94575
Phone: (925) 631-4812
Email: cmw9@stmarys-ca.edu
Visit the website at http://www.wspecw.org/index.php

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Call For Papers: Women and Performance

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book-stackSpecial Issue: Call for Submissions

Issue Guest Editor: Rizvana Bradley (Assistant Professor, WGSS, Emory University)

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2013

Women and Performance invites submissions for a special issue, “The Haptic: Thinking Through Texture.” We welcome scholarly articles and performative texts that directly take up and theorize the ways in which haptic negotiations like touching, folding, fingering, or tracing the texture of an object, offer themselves as feminist techniques of knowing in art and performance. We seek articles, texts and projects that are directly concerned with thinking about the texturized quality of performances which touch upon the specific feel and consistency of cultural practices, as well as the production and reproduction of daily life, broadly speaking.

Critical scholarship within media and film studies has stressed the ways in which the haptic denotes the tactile as a category of experience that provokes the sensorial conventions and conjunctions of touch, taste, smell and sight. This issue seeks to develop and expand the critical parameters as well as the lexicon of the haptic further. By de-instrumentalizing the haptic and its association with media and visual consumption, this special issue opens a discussion of the haptic to alternative archives of aesthetic and cultural production, including but not limited to art, poetry, and literature, in relation to Black studies, feminist, queer, and gender studies, disability studies, food studies, and sound studies. We are interested in artistic and intellectual projects that highlight performative experiments with objects, media, narratives and poetics that may be mapped and felt in excess of a phenomenology of experience, which maintains a certain equipoise between the object of perception and the subject of experience.

Some questions contributors might consider: How do the objects, sounds and substances we engage with, and/or the surfaces that both appear or do not appear to us, push back on us, and compel us to take on their particular texture or feel? How do these objects, sounds and substances ultimately provoke the limits of our engagements with them? How do these texturized, haptic dimensions challenge our physical comportment, as well as our conscious or unconscious interaction with objects and substances? Does haptic contact mark our vulnerability to a material world we presumably locate outside ourselves? Are these haptic intervals pursued as spaces of fugitivity or fugitive discovery for what some have called black study? Are the tentative avenues of sensing, touching and feeling opened up by the haptic intensified by an experimental black ontology that moves through and includes other bodies, forms and formations? Does starting from the haptic, produce alternative ways of knowing race, sex, and materiality, potentially enabling us to remap and relocate power and agency in something other than subjectivity?

We welcome essays, experimental writings, poetry or performances that mark haptic life as an avenue of discovery for black, feminist, queer, trans, or other epistemologies. Contributions that explore the haptic through forms of relational, non-normative, black, feminine and/or queer sense are especially of interest. We ask for work that explores the production and reproduction of historically specific somatic imaginations that make possible forms of knowledge and desire that were and perhaps still are inadmissible, impossible or illegible under the rubric of neoliberal subjectivity.

Potential topics/possible intersections including but not limited to:

Haptic Bodies: Queer, Black, Trans, Feminine and Disabled Bodies in Performance, Experimental Theater, Live Art and Dance
The Haptic as a means of theorizing Resistance, Fugitivity and Anti-Normativity
The Haptic in Black Aesthetics and Performance
Texture in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture
Food Studies
Sound Studies
Queer Sound
Poetry and Performance
Sound and Poetry
Disability Studies and the Haptic
Affect Studies
Theories of Touch
Theories of Embodiment
Non-Cognitive Modes of Expression
Surface and Surface Readings
New Materialisms and Object-Oriented Ontology
Post-Identity Subjectivity
Marxism and Materiality/Haptic Consumption, Production, Reproduction and Labor
Haptic Temporalities, Duration, Endurance, Exhaustion
Article submissions should be 6-8,000 words in length and adhere to the current Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), author-date format. Performative texts should be 2-3,000 words and in any style the author chooses (same CMS style as above if using citations). Photo essays are welcome. Questions and abstracts for review are welcome before the final deadline.

Complete essays and texts for consideration must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST, December 1, 2013.

Please send all work to the editor via email (MSWord attachment): hapticissue@gmail.com. AND Please submit manuscripts electronically, as Microsoft Word attachments, to Managing Editor Summer Kim Lee at managingeditor@womenandperformance.org.

Further submission guidelines may be found below. Women and Performance is a peer reviewed journal published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

General Submission Guidelines

The Editorial Collective of Women & Performance invites submissions of scholarly essays on performance, visual and sound art, theater, dance, ritual, political manifestations, film, new media, and the performance of everyday life from interdisciplinary feminist perspectives. We also welcome performative texts; interviews; book, performance and film reviews; and photo essays and images that advance critical dialogues on gender and performance. Women & Performance accepts proposals for themed issues from guest editors. We publish scholarship that is interdisciplinary and provocative in method and form.

Please submit manuscripts electronically, as Microsoft Word attachments, to Managing Editor Summer Kim Lee at managingeditor@womenandperformance.org.

All work should be double spaced, with 1-inch margins, in 12-point Times font.
Scholarly essays should not exceed 10,000 words; reviews should be approximately 1,000 words.
Writers should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. All manuscripts must be submitted with a cover document – including author’s name, address, email, phone number; a brief bio, indicating affiliation, recent publications; a 200 word abstract; and a word count of the manuscript. To protect the anonymity of the submission process, please avoid listing your name anywhere in the body of the manuscript.
Please title your attachment with your last name, for example: title the manuscript as YourLastName.doc, and any images as YourLastNameImage1.pdf and YourLastNameImage2.pfd and so on. You are welcome to submit images along with your manuscript; however, please ensure that you have (or will) secure copyright protection for all images. Women and Performance cannot aid in, or financially contribute to, the procuring of copyright.
We will send you an acknowledgment of receipt once your submission is processed. The Editorial Collective vets all submissions before they are sent out for external, anonymous peer review. We provide reader comments, and may ask you to revise and resubmit your work. The journal makes very effort to respond to submissions within three to six months.

Book reviews of no more than 1,500 words may be sent to managingeditor@womenandperformance.org.

Performance reviews of current exhibitions, films, parades, performance art, dance and theatre may be sent to managingeditor@womenandperformance.org.

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Reminder: Sept 15th Deadline for Prizes from the Coordinating Council for Women in History

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library imageEach year, the Coordinating Council for Women in History is pleased to offer four prizes.  They are:

CCWH Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Award 2013
The Coordinating Council for Women in History Nupur Chaudhuri First
Article Award is an annual $1000 prize that recognizes the best first
article published in the field of history by a CCWH member. Named to honor
long-time CCWH board member and former executive director and co-president
from 1995-1998 Nupur Chaudhuri, the winning article for 2013 must be
published in a refereed journal in either 2011 or 2012. An article may
only be submitted once.  All fields of history will be considered, and
articles must be submitted with full scholarly apparatus. The deadline for
the award is 15 September 2013. Please go to www.theccwh.org for
membership and application details.

CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship 2013
The Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Berkshire Conference
of Women’s History Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to a
graduate student completing a dissertation in a history department. The
award is intended to support either a crucial stage of research or the
final year of writing. The applicant must be a CCWH member; must be a
graduate student in a history department in a U.S. institution; must have
passed to A.B.D. status by the time of application; may specialize in any
field of history; may hold this award and others simultaneously; and need
not attend the award ceremony to receive the award. The deadline for the
award is 15 September 2013. Please go to www.theccwh.org for membership
and application details.

CCWH Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship 2013
The Coordinating Council for Women in History Ida B. Wells Graduate
Student Fellowship is an annual award of $1000 given to a graduate student
working on a historical dissertation that interrogates race and gender,
not necessarily in a history department. The award is intended to support
either a crucial stage of research or the final year of writing. The
applicant must be a CCWH member; must be a graduate student in any
department of a U.S. institution; must have passed to A.B.D. status by the
time of application; may hold this award and others simultaneously; and
need not attend the award ceremony to receive the award. The deadline for
the award is 15 September 2013. Please go to www.theccwh.org for
membership and application details.

Catharine Prelinger Memorial Award 2013
The CCWH will award $20,000 to a scholar, with a Ph.D. or A.B.D., who has
not followed a traditional academic path of uninterrupted and completed
secondary, undergraduate, and graduate degrees leading to a tenure-track
faculty position. Although the recipient’s degrees do not have to be in
history, the recipient’s work should clearly be historical in nature. In
accordance with the general goals of CCWH, the award is intended to
recognize or to enhance the ability of the recipient to contribute
significantly to women in history, whether in the profession in the
present or in the study of women in the past. It is not intended that
there be any significant restrictions placed on how a given recipient
shall spend the award as long as it advances the recipient’s scholarship
goals and purposes. All recipients will be required to submit a final
paper to CCWH on how the award was expended and summarizing the scholarly
work completed. The deadline for the award is 15 September 2013. Please go
to www.theccwh.org for membership and application details.

Call For Papers: Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference

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call-for-papersCall for Papers, Chairs, and Commentators for the Annual Conference of the Western Association of Women Historians to be held in Pomona, California, May 1-3, 2014.

The Program Committee invites proposals for panels or single papers in all fields, periods, and regions of history. We also welcome roundtables on issues of interest to the historical profession. To foster discussions across national boundaries and historical periods, we particularly encourage panels along thematic lines. All proposals will be vetted by a group of scholars. Please find submission forms and guidelines for paper presenters, chairs, and commentators on the WAWH website. Deadline for submissions is Monday, September 16, 2013.