CFP: Women from the Parsonage: Pastors’ Daughters as Writers, Salonnières, Translators, and Educators

book-stackCFP: Women from the Parsonage: Pastors’ Daughters as Writers, Salonnières,
Translators, and Educators

Many prominent writers and thinkers, especially from the second half of the seventeenth into the nineteenth century, were the sons of pastors. The advantages of their upbringing and especially the education they received in the parsonage, most often from their pastor-fathers themselves, has been acknowledged and highlighted. However, the upbringing and privileged education of pastor-daughters have rarely been acknowledged and thus have received little attention. A surprising number of women writers from this period, most prominently the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen, were brought up and educated by their pastor-fathers, but little attention has gone to the favored education they received at the hand or direction of their pastor-fathers and how, in turn, their education inspired literary production. There are many less recognized women writers who also emerged from parsonages to become important writers, celebrated salonnières, accomplished translators, or distinguished educators in their time. In the Protestant regions of Europe these women put the privileged education they had received in their fathers’ parsonages to good use, taking part in public literary, intellectual, and pedagogical discourse by publishing in such genres as autobiographies, novels, poetry, treatises on education, travel writing, and translations. Essays for the proposed edited volume investigate individual lives, education, and works of well known as well as lesser known daughters of clergymen from the long eighteenth century who, encouraged by their favored education, took up the pen to contribute to the literary culture of their time.
If you like to contribute to this comparative investigation about pastors’ daughters, e-mail a 300-word proposal to Cindy K. Renker (cindy.renker@utdallas.edu) by June 31st. Please include a brief CV with your submission. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by September 10, 2013. The anticipated submission date for completed articles (6,000 to 6,500 words) is January 15, 2014.

 

Cindy K. Renker
(University of Texas at Dallas)
Email: cindy.renker@utdallas.edu

Call for Papers – Portuguese Journal of Women’s Studies

Call for Papers
ex aequo – Portuguese Journal of Women’s Studies
nr. 29 (2014)

Special Issuebook-and-mouse
Feminist Perspectives on Methodology and Epistemology: Debates, Challenges and Dilemmas

Editors: Maria do Mar Pereira (University of Leeds; Universidade Aberta) and Ana Cristina Santos (Centro de Estudos Sociais – Universidade de Coimbra)

Since its emergence, one of the key missions of feminist research has been to develop an interdisciplinary and critical analysis of the epistemological assumptions and methodological principles and procedures of ‘mainstream’ science. This project has had significant and influential effects: it has not only led to innovation in knowledge production, but also contributed, in many countries and disciplines, to the transformation of mainstream scholarly practice.

However, the feminist project of methodological and epistemological critique is neither linear nor uncontested, and despite its undeniable achievements, remains unfinished. There continues to be intense debate over, for example, the nature of the relation between feminism and methodology (is it possible and desirable to speak of “feminist methodologies”?), the complex methodological dilemmas that feminist researchers grapple with (particularly, in the negotiation of power in the research process), or the strategies we should adopt to expand and deepen the feminist challenge to mainstream scholarship, strengthening the impact of feminist research within and beyond the academy.

With the publication of this special issue, ex aequo – the Portuguese Journal of Women’s Studies hopes to create an international and interdisciplinary space for analysis of these debates, challenges and dilemmas. We welcome pieces that engage with these debates, challenges and dilemmas from a wide range of perspectives. The articles can be exclusively theoretical or offer theoretically-grounded analyses of concrete experiences of empirical work.

Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
– feminist theoretical debates about methodology and epistemology (including the role  of such debates in the development of women’s, gender, feminist and queer studies, and their contribution to the critique of mainstream knowledge production)
– the practice of feminist research: epistemological and methodological dilemmas and paradoxes
– innovation in feminist methodologies: developing new methodological strategies to analyse established or emerging objects and questions
– feminist epistemologies: new proposals, classical proposals revisited, and their impacts on scholarly practice
– the relation between epistemology, methodology and political action in feminist research
– citizen’s responsibility, public social science, and the impacts of feminist epistemology beyond the academy
– conceptualising and doing intersectional feminist research: articulations with queer, postcolonial, black, disability, migration and environmental scholarship

This is not intended to be an exhaustive list, and authors are encouraged to submit proposals on other topics which fit the theme of the special issue. ex aequo accepts submissions in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French.

Deadline and Guidelines:
The articles must be submitted by September 10th, 2013, to apem@netcabo.pt<mailto:apem@netcabo.pt>
All submissions must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines presented here: http://www.apem-estudos.org/novosite/?page_id=490
The articles which do not fulfill the guidelines listed above with regards to length, formatting and referencing will not be accepted.
All articles will undergo a peer review process.

Open Section:
As an inter and multidisciplinary journal, ex eaquo is always open to contributions from the disciplines and different tendencies, in an attempt to reflect the broad scope, the diversity and plurality of the theoretical and epistemological approaches that have characterized women, gender and feminist studies. It also aims to question and discuss the problems that affect social relations between women and men in Portugal.
This panel, composed by essays from several sources, aims at broadening the scientific exchange in the area of women and gender studies.
There is no closing date for the Open Section. Submissions must be sent to the Board of the Journal to apem@netcabo.pt<mailto:apem@netcabo.pt>

Call For Papers: Machines and Mechanization in the History of Education

Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung, Vol. 20 (2014) (Yearbook for History of Education)

(1) Topic: Machines and Mechanization in the History of Education: Devices, Myths, and Processes

Edited by Christian Kassung and Marcelo Caruso

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Machines have a life of their own: They have power units, and they are
programmed to perform certain tasks. The more autonomously they act, the more radically they question the line between nature and culture.
This is why they are so ambivalent: both fascinating and disturbing.
The fascination of machines is closely connected to their growing
sophistication and the extension and transformation of their
applications. At the same time, however,  this also poses a threat to
human autonomy,  for the existence  of machines  always defines man in
technical terms as well.

When Wolfgang Hochheimer, a Professor at the now dissolved Berlin
teachers college, argued for the extensive use of teaching machines in
the 1960s, he referred to a colleague who contended that those
machines helped to achieve democracy,  which was one of the central
ends of education at that time, much better than in the past.
Moreover,  Hochheimer  argued  that  teaching  machines  were
“consistently  patient”  and  “consistently open”  towards   everybody
–  from  “highly   educated”   to  “underdeveloped”   individuals
(W.  Hochheimer, “Erziehung durch Maschinen?”, in: Der Spiegel
30/1963, 24 July 1963). In the context of unconditional
democratization during the post-­-WW II era, the promise and the
threat of machines culminated in the fallibility of the  teacher:
“Every  teacher  who  can  be replaced  by a machine  deserves  to be
replaced,”  Ken  Komoski argued (“Lehrautomaten.  Der Tod des
Paukers”, in: Der Spiegel 29/1961, 12 July 1961). Back then, Komoski
was a  machine  programmer  from  the  circle  around  Burrhus
Frederic  Skinner.  He  later  became  a  professor  at Columbia
University and a UNESCO consultant. Since 1967, he has been running
the Educational Products Information  Exchange,  substantially
supported  by private foundations.  In the heat of these post-­-war
debates one often forgot or ignored the fact that machines  of various
kinds had been used for conveying  knowledge already since antiquity
and that, more broadly, they had already always been used as
“extensions of man.”

As machines have increasingly been permeating modern societies, it is
hardly possible anymore to draw a clear line between  technology  and
nature.  At the same  time,  in the course  of the
institutionalization  of modern education,  a  growing  aversion
against  the  world  of  machines  and  mechanization   has  been
taking  roots. Machines are soulless, the argument goes, when it comes
to pedagogic relationships, for real education begins
where  unpedagogical  drill  always  ends:  with  man.  However,  in
the  21st  century,  “man”  as  such  possibly  does
not  exist  anymore:  Current  communicative  environments  and  the
proliferation  of  “artificial  life”  –  cf.  the socializing
effects  of  tamagotchis  or  Japanese  nursing  homes  replacing
human  beings  with  robots  –  have intensified the question of the
place of machines in education and socialization.

The Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung dedicates its 20th
volume to machines and mechanization in the
history of education. This concerns, on the one hand, “interfaces” of
human beings and increasingly complex networks  of machines,  objects
and media. On the other hand, it also concerns  education  towards
machine-­- adapted  values  and  representations  or socialization
“for  a life  in the  context  of technical  constructing  and
organizing”  (von  Hermann  &  Velminski,  Maschinentheorien  /
Theoriemaschinen.  Frankfurt  am  Main,  2012,  p.
12). Against this backdrop, articles may tackle not only questions of
how to teach the artes mechanicae as well as the evolution of these
teaching modes. Rather, drawing on analyses of machines and
machine-­-inspired ways of thinking,  they may also problematize  the
implicit  knowledge  of things, concepts  of social transformation,
pedagogic semantics, agency in educational processes as well as the
historical materiality of individual devices.

Deadline for proposals: 31 August 2013
Notification of acceptance / rejection of proposals by 30 September
2013 Deadline for articles: 15 March 2014

Please e-­-mail  your proposal to Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso,
Humboldt-­-Universität  zu Berlin: marcelo.caruso@hu-­-
berlin.de.

(2) General contributions: For this section, colleagues are encouraged
to submit articles on any historical topic related to education.
Articles dealing with the time prior to the 18th century are
particularly welcome.

Please  e-­-mail  your proposal  for the section  General
Contributions  to Prof. Dr. Ulrich  Wiegmann,  Deutsches
Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung, Berlin: u.wiegmann@imail.de.

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History of Education Discussion Network
E-Mail: h-education@h-net.msu.edu
WWW:  http://www.h-net.org/~educ
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New Acquisition: The Woman Citizen

For those of you who followed our four part series on the Woman’s Column and checked out the digital exhibit we published about the Column, the Woman’s Journal, and the remarkable family who published it–we have just acquired another exciting and related item: a mammoth volume of the Woman Citizen.

The Woman Citizen

The Woman Citizen in the Special Collections Reading Room at Bryn Mawr College

After the Column folded in 1904, the Journal stuck around for another decade and more, but survival was becoming increasingly difficult for niche papers that specifically focused on suffrage. Ironically, this was a symptom of positive changes: the papers were struggling to attract subscribers because suffrage was receiving more favorable attention and consistent cover in the mainstream media. As the topic took on personal import to an increasing number of citizens in the twentieth century, suffrage was no longer a “niche” issue and the papers dedicated solely to its advancement began to dwindle. In 1917, the Journal moved to New York and consolidated with two other papers to form the Woman Citizen, which was published until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 and subsequently folded.

"SEEKING EDUCATION--THE TROUBLESOME NEW VOTER"

“SEEKING EDUCATION–THE TROUBLESOME NEW VOTER”

The Citizen, subtitled “A Weekly Chronicle of Progress,” features much of the content that made publications like the Column and the Journal popular: it aimed to sum up the state of suffrage across the nation by profiling its progress in various ethnic and geographical demographics, and also provided anecdotes, opinion articles, and information on other movements that would appeal to the suffragette. Like its predecessors, it also catered to a largely white, well-educated and upper- to upper-middle class demographic. This can be inferred not only from the content of the articles, but also from the advertisements, which reveal the affluence of the paper’s audience. The Citizen often featured attention-grabbing cover art with an upbeat tone, especially as political victory was within grasp. The full volume is available to our readers in the Special Collections Reading Room in Canaday Library at Bryn Mawr College. Stop in to have a look!

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Coordinating Council for Women in History Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize

library imageNupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize

The CCWH Nupur Chaudhuri Article Prize 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 article must be published in a refereed journal in one of the two years proceeding the prize year.  An article may only be submitted once.  All fields of history will be considered, and articles must be submitted with full scholarly apparatus.

2013 Application (Word & PDF) – deadline September 15, 2013

Call For Papers: “Fighting Women” during and after the Second World War in Asia and Europe

“Fighting Women” during and after the Second World War in Asia and Europe

library imageThis is a call for papers for the above conference, to be held on June 12-13, 2014, at the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in close cooperation with Kwansei Gakuin University (KGU), Japan. This conference seeks to go beyond the static “passive/pacifist” portrayal of women in the Second World War. We are interested in recovering the history of women who transgressed normative, peacetime gender boundaries by choosing to be masters of their own fate in abetting and perpetrating violence, in collaborating with or resisting aggression, or in actively furthering or frustrating the war goals of their own side. We aim to examine the actions and image of “strong,” “active,” and/or “violent” women in the various theaters of the Second World War, contrasting European, East Asian, and Southeast Asian cases for greater insights into the relations between gender, culture, and the Second World War. Please submit a 300-word abstract and a 100-word biographical note to the conference coordinators (NIOD: Eveline Buchheim, Ralf Futselaar; KGU: Timothy Tsu,) at info@niod.knaw.nl and indicating ‘Fighting Women’ as subject matter by September 1, 2013. Authors will be notified by November 1, 2013. Please direct your inquiries to the coordinators at the same e-mail address.

NIOD: Eveline Buchheim, Ralf Futselaar
KGU: Timothy Tsu

Email: info@niod.knaw.nl

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Call For Papers: Comically Queer: NeMLA 2014

book-stackCall for Papers:

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

Two decades ago, Judith Butler’s “Critically Queer” asked what it might mean to make “queer” an object of critical inquiry and, equally, what it might mean for the queer to become critical of her identification as queer. “Comically Queer” echoes Butler’s formulation in order to ask how the comic might be deployed to do queer work and how the queer can be located in relation to the comic. This panel welcomes papers that draw from queer theory as well as disability, post-colonial, and critical race studies in order to query normative regimes that determine what it means to be (and which bodies are) taken seriously. In particular, this panel aims to ask how laughter and the comic might work to disrupt or (re)configure the category of, to borrow another phrase from Butler, the “recognizably human.” Please send 250-word abstracts to James Mulder at jamie.mulder@tufts.edu by September 30, 2013.

Deadline: September 30, 2013
Please include with your abstract:
Name and affiliation
Email address
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. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2014/cfp.html

James Mulder
English Department
Tufts University
Email: jamie.mulder@tufts.edu

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Call For Papers: Religion, Spirituality, and Inequality in Communities of Color

call-for-papersCALL FOR PAPERS

Religion, Spirituality, and Inequality in Communities of Color

A Special issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color

Guest Editors
Assata Zerai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sandra Weissinger, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

Recent public discourse on women’s reproductive rights and abortion, full-time homemakers and working mothers, and LGBTQ partnership and marriage, has highlighted the pervasive role and power of organized religion and spirituality in daily life, as well as related issues of oppression and resistance. For this special issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color (WGFC), we seek historical, and social science manuscripts that explore the intersectionalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other socioeconomic categories in U.S. religious and spiritual settings. Topics may address, but are not limited to, the following:

Spheres of social inequality, such as race, class, gender, and sexuality and their reproduction and/or practice in U.S. religious/spiritual organizations or spaces;

The use of resources (e.g. human and financial) to impede or promote the reproduction of inequalities;

The meaning of relationships, and the practice of religion/spirituality, in these organizations and spaces for women, men, and LGBTQ communities;

The practice of social and/or economic privilege among groups in U.S. religious/spiritual organizations and spaces;

U.S. religious/spiritual structures as intransigent sites from which to challenge persisting inequalities;

U.S. transnational comparisons on any of the above.

Please send queries and electronic versions of manuscripts (Microsoft Word) to:

Assata Zerai
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign E-Mail: azerai@illinois.edu

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 16, 2013

Manuscripts should be a maximum of 30 pages, inclusive of title page, abstract (150 words or less), main body of text, figures, tables, and Chicago Style, 16th edition references. Only title pages should contain authors’ names, affiliation, phone & FAX numbers, in addition to the email address of the corresponding author.

WGFC is a multidisciplinary journal that centers the study of Black, Latina/o, Indigenous, and Asian American women, gender, and families. In addition to special issues, WGFC welcomes general submissions on a rolling submission policy.

Please visit www.womengenderandfamilies.ku.edu for more information.

WGBH Media Library and Archives Opportunity for Digital Humanities Scholars

WGBH has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to bring the hidden treasures in WGBH’s Media Library and Archives to light. We hope to increase public awareness of the vast collections that digital repositories like WGBH hold by publishing our entire archival catalog online, for open access and use, by late Summer 2013. To see some of the content already curated by WGBH’s Media Library and Archives staff, please visit our website: http://openvault.wgbh.org

Placing the catalog online is only the first step, as records may be incomplete or misleading. To help enhance the quality of our records, we are inviting scholars, teachers and students to research our catalog and contribute their own discoveries and findings back to us. Participants may contribute a lot or a little- it’s up to you! We will have three ways that you can participate.

Fill out a Survey
If you have used the online catalog, let us know about your experience by filling out a quick survey and describing the items you utilized.

Share your expertise
If you have accessed the online catalog and viewed items in our physical collection, then please share your expertise! Contribute full descriptions of the items you examined and receive credit for your contributions in the catalog record.

**Curate a collection**
For those doing in depth research with the online catalog and our physical assets, there are limited opportunities to catalog and curate an online collection specific to your field of research as part of Open Vault. Final products could include essays on your topic, streaming public access to one selection of media in your collection, supplying metadata for the items in your collection and/or presenting your findings at a conference.

We hope you will join us on this exciting project!

**Limited funding may be available to those who choose to participate**

Allison Pekel
Project Coordinator
WGBH Media Library and Archive
One Guest St.
Boston, MA 02135
Phone: (617)300-2678

Email: allison_pekel@wgbh.org
Visit the website at http://openvault.wgbh.org/

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Women in Technological History a SHOT Special Interest Group Travel Award 2013

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Women in Technological History
a SHOT Special Interest Group

WITH TRAVEL AWARD – A Call for “New Voices” in Technological History
The SHOT Special Interest Group Women in Technological History [WITH] announces its travel award for 2013. The purpose of the award is to encourage participation of “new voices” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. WITH invites applications from scholars presenting topics or perspectives underrepresented in SHOT as well as from individuals who can contribute to the annual meeting’s geographic and cultural diversity.

The SHOT 2013 meeting will be held in Portland, Maine, October 10-13, 2013. For meeting details, see http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html.

Eligibility for the WITH Travel Award is open to individuals whose papers have been formally accepted for presentation at the SHOT annual meeting. Applicants should include a copy of the message received from the SHOT Program Committee confirming the acceptance of their paper proposal. Priorities for the WITH award will go to: (1) a scholar or graduate student new to SHOT belonging to a group underrepresented in SHOT, whose paper addresses issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and/or difference in the history of technology; (2) a non-US, non-Western graduate student or scholar new to SHOT presenting on any topic.

The Travel Award is designed to help defray some of the costs associated attending the SHOT annual meeting. Up to two awards may be offered. Awardees will receive a check for $250, with the possibility of a small amount of additional funds depending on the awardee’s stated need and WITH’s resources. The winner(s) will also be honoured as our guest(s) at the annual WITH breakfast or lunch.

Application deadline for the WITH Travel Award is July 5, 2013. A completed application consists of a brief covering message outlining travel budget and anticipated sources of funding, along with the following:
1) A ONE-PAGE CURRICULUM VITAE;
2) THE ABSTRACT OF YOUR PAPER; AND,
3) CONFIRMATION OF THE ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR PAPER, as e-mail attachments (PDF or Word). Be sure to include your last name in the file attachment (ex: Jones WITH Travel Award.doc). Application materials should be sent to Aaron Alcorn, chair of the award committee, at aalcorn1@gmail.com.

Aaron Alcorn, Ph.D.
Chair, WITH Travel Award CommitteeEmail: aalcorn1@gmail.com