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

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=211161

New Directions – Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th Century British History

Tuesday 8 April 2014, University College London

With a keynote address by Professor Laura Doan, University of Manchester

This one day workshop brings together scholars, at any stage of their career and working on any aspect of gender, sex and sexuality in 20th century Britain, for the presentation of new work and the beginning of a dialogue about the past, present and future of the field.

The workshop programme includes a keynote address from Professor Laura Doan, followed by four panels of three papers, with time for discussion: ‘Rethinking religion, rethinking conservatism’; ‘Gender, sex and sexuality in space’; ‘Material and public cultures’; ‘National, imperial and transnational frames’.

Registration for this workshop is now open. If you would like to attend please email newdirections2014@gmail.com. There is no registration fee. Please note that due to the size of the venue, space is limited and places will therefore generally be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis. However, we would particularly like to encourage registrations from postgraduate and early career scholars.

Find more details and full programme at the conference site: http://newdirections2014.wordpress.com/

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
2014-2015 Academic Year

The Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy (WPI) will offer a one year doctoral dissertation fellowship of $5,000 for the academic year 2014-2015.  This doctoral dissertation fellowship will be awarded to a scholar whose primary research focus is in the area of women’s philanthropy or gender differences in philanthropic behavior and giving.  The fellowship is intended to support research and dissertation writing.  The fellowship stipend will be paid at the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year.

Eligibility
Applicants for the WPI Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship must:

• be candidates for the Ph.D. degree at an accredited graduate school in the United States
• have completed coursework and defended the dissertation proposal successfully.

In accordance with the regulations of Indiana University, if your research will involve human subjects you will need to notify us of IRB approval or any other IU requirements before we can release the funds.

Application Information
The application process for the 2014-2015 WPI Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship will open February 17, 2014.  Application materials, with the exception of the letter of recommendation, must be emailed to wpiinfo@iupui.edu by April 30, 2014.

Applications must include the following:

• an application form
• a current resume
• a dissertation abstract no longer than 200 words summarizing your topic and its relevance for the understanding of an important question or issue related to women’s philanthropy and/or gender differences in philanthropic behavior
• a summary of the dissertation project not to exceed seven (7) pages including:
  • a brief description of the project;
  • the main research questions to be addressed;
  • a description of how the research will contribute to understanding of women’s philanthropy or gender differences in philanthropic behavior;
  • a description of the conceptual or theoretical framework that will guide the research;
  • a short review of relevant literature indicating how the research will build upon existing work in the field, or how the research will pioneer a neglected area;
  • a selected bibliography no longer than two pages, double spaced;
  • a description and justification of the methodology, data collection and data analysis, and types of organizations or populations targeted by the research;
  • a time frame and schedule for completing the research and dissertation; and
  • a statement indicating how the $2500 award will be used.

Supporting materials

• one letter of recommendation from your dissertation director to be mailed or sent via email to Dr. Mesch at the address below
• a copy of your transcript from the graduate school which will award the Ph.D. degree sent via email or U.S. mail to Dr. Mesch

***All requested materials must be emailed by April 30, 2014 to wpiinfo@iupui.edu.***

Mailing Address

Dr. Debra Mesch
Director
Women’s Philanthropy Institute
Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
550 W. North Street, Suite 301
Indianapolis, IN 46202
dmesch@iupui.edu
317-289-8997

Award notification
The award will be announced June 2, 2014.

For more information, visit http://www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/criteria-for-applying

Registration now open: Education, War and Peace, Institute of Education, London, 23-26 July 2014

Book before 30 April 2014 for early bird and highly discounted student rates!

We are delighted to announce that booking is now open for this major international history conference, timed to coincide with the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. The conference aims at addressing relationships between education and war, and also the role of education in fostering peace. There will be over 550 papers presented from more than 40 countries.

Keynote speakers include Jay Winter, JoAnn McGregor, Zvi Bekerman and Michalinos Zembylas and a keynote panel on teaching the Holocaust featuring Eckhart Fuchs, Simone Schweber, Alice Pettigrew and Stuart Foster.

Your registration fee includes a private tour of the new First World War galleries at the Imperial War Museum and the choice of optional local history walking tours. Delegates are invited to view a specially curated exhibition at IOE entitled  ‘Illuminations: Perspectives on war and peace in the archives’. The conference dinner will be held in the grand surroundings of the Russell Hotel. There are also two special pre-conference events planned for Tuesday 22 July.

You can find more about the programme and how to register www.ische2014.org

A special issue of “Zapruder World: Transnational Journal for the History of Social Conflicts” edited by Sabrina Marchetti, Vincenza Perilli and Elena Petricola. This special issue wants to discuss the kind of politics that feminist and lgbtqi movements have created from the 1960s to the present, in their critical approaches to the private/public dichotomy, embodiment and sexuality, as well as to power relations. In doing so, these movements have transformed the everyday lives of many people, as well as political imaginaries, cultures and practices. Most importantly, in the view of this special issue, these movements have in common the attempt to reinterpret, negotiate, and give expression to the notion of Revolution, in new critical ways.

Yet the contribution brought by feminist and lgbtqi movements to a new understanding of the category of Revolution needs to be further explored. What is the relationship between these movements and the political, ideological and organizational traditions that more firmly refer to the notion of Revolution? How have these movements eventually conceived of an alternative politics, without losing their transformative dimension? How are they positioned within the dialectic of normalization and transformation?

In order to answer to these questions, our issue wants to explore the contradictions, challenges and choices experienced by people and organizations belonging to these kinds of movements.

We invite contributions that especially address the transformations brought about by feminist and/or lgbtqi movements and their relationship with the notion of Revolution, with regard to one or more of the following fields:
– (paid) sexual practices
– reproduction
– family and parenting
– affects, relationships and solidarity
– cities and urban spaces
– science and technology
– labour and economics
– languages
– education

The geographical scope of the issue includes feminist and/or lgbtqi movements that have developed in Western as well as formerly colonized and migratory contexts. Although history is the main focus of this journal, contributions that merge an historical perspective with other disciplines are highly appreciated. Intersectional approaches to gender and sexuality are also particularly welcomed.

Submissions:
Full articles (6,000-9,000 words) shall be sent by 15th of April 2014 to info@zapruderworld.org. All contributors will be informed about the selection by May. Final drafts, after reviews and comments, are expected by the 1st of September 2014 in order to have the issue published in Fall 2014.

The Manifesto of Zapruder World, the first issue of the journal (on the global history of anarchism), and guidelines for authors can be found at: www.zapruderworld.org

A symposium at Corpus Christi, Oxford, on 18th March, organised by
Katherine Angel and Tim Whitmarsh, and hosted by TORCH (The Oxford Research
Centre for the Humanities). More, and booking information, here:
http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/coming-clean

Speakers:

Anna Kemp (Queen Mary, University of London), on Orlan

Helen Hester (Middlesex) on Beatriz Preciado’s Testo Junkie

Shirley Jordan (Queen Mary, University of London) on Christine Angot

Alex Dymock (Reading) on Marie Calloway

Octavia Bright (UCL) on Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin

Alison J Carr (Sheffield) closing remarks

‘Coming Off Clean’ is a phrase from art critic Chris Kraus’s ‘theoretical
fiction’ book, *I Love Dick*. In the book, Kraus is preoccupied with how
the ‘I’ of women writers and artists tends to be pathologised, and cast as
narcissistic, confessional, and at odds with the analytical and
philosophical. Why, she asks, do we distinguish between male artists as
‘poet-men, presenters of ideas’ and ‘actress-women, presenters of
themselves’? Why, she asks, ‘does everybody think that women are debasing
themselves when we expose the conditions of our own debasement? Why do
women always have to come off clean?’

Writing the self, for women in particular, is intensely associated with
questions of cleanliness and dirt, of shame and modesty, of risk and
display. In recent years, some fascinating books have emerged which
intensely confront questions of writing about the bodily, sexual, and
intellectual self; Sheila Heti’s *How Should A Person Be?*; Kate Zambreno’s
*Heroines*; Marie Calloway’s *What Purpose Did I Serve In Your Life*? These
books have been met with a mixture of passionate support and agitated anger
– as has *Girls, *Lena Dunham’s HBO series. Similar dynamics have been
triggered by the work and writings of Sophie Calle, Christine Angot,
Catherine Millet, and Charlotte Roche. The extent to which such writing is
‘truthful’, ‘autobiographical’, or ‘fictional’, is one that preoccupies its
public reception.

What are the ways in which women are required to ‘come off clean’ when they
write about their bodies, their desires, their sexuality? How might we
understand the negotiations of artifice, fiction, and theory when enmeshed
with an intense scrutiny of visceral and bodily states? How do concepts of
the performativity of gender bleed into ideas about femaleness, performance
and artifice? What philosophical conceptions of the body and the self are
assumed by a discomfort with writing about one’s bodily and sexual self?
What such conceptions are opened up and enabled by the commitment to doing
so? In *Coming Off Clean*, scholars and practitioners will reflect upon how
writing by women which explores the self, at varying degrees of artifice or
remoteness, is perceived and experienced by readers, scholars, and critics.

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/.