The University of North Texas Digital Scholarship Co-Operative and UNT Libraries invite proposals for Digital Frontiers 2013, a conference that brings together the users and builders of digital resources for research and education.

Digital libraries provide unprecedented access to materials, and this has
dramatically expanded the possibilities of primary source research in the
humanities and related fields.

We seek submissions of individual papers, fully-constituted panels,
birds-of-a-feather discussions, hands-on tutorials, or posters–all based
on the use of digital archives, social media, and digital tools for
humanities research.

We encourage contributions from anyone who creates or uses digital
collections, including scholars, educators, genealogists, archivists,
technologists, librarians, and students. The goals of this conference are
to bring a broad community of users together to share their work across
disciplinary and administrative boundaries, and to explore the value and
impact that digital resources have on education and research.

Possible Topics:

• Specific ways digital libraries have changed the state
  of research
• Digital tools and methods for conducting research
• Using digital collections in the classroom
• Using digital libraries for research on any humanities
• topic

Digital Frontiers is accepting proposals for:

• Individual papers
• Panels or Roundtables
• Birds-of-a-Feather Discussions
• Hands-on Tutorials & Workshops
• Academic Posters

For specific guidelines and further details, please visit:
http://digitalfrontiers.unt.edu/

Deadline: April 30, 2013

Women and the Silent Screen VII: Performance and the Emotions
The University of Melbourne, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2013

***NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR CFP: 1 March 2013***

Previously held in Utrecht, Santa Cruz, Montréal, Guadalajara, Stockholm
and Bologna, this is the first time the conference has been brought to the
Australia-Pacific region. We are inviting participants to submit abstracts
(200-300 words, headed by a paper title) as well as a short biographical
statement by 20/01/2013. Those who would like to propose panels or
workshops should submit a panel title, as well as the individual paper
proposal. We hope that the nature of the industry itself can become a
starting point for questions about women’s collaborative endeavor. Topics
may include but are not limited to:

*   Performance and the emotions
*   Women making films
*   Film and the archive
*   Transnational collaborations
*   Indigeneity and Indigenous Peoples
*   Set design and fashion
*   Monstrosity and the silent screen
*   Queer theory
*   Historiography
*   Studies in National cinemas (especially Australian, East & South East
Asian film)
*   The New Woman
*   The Sound of the Silents

Those whose work does not fall within these categories are still encouraged
to submit a proposal. We will make every effort to represent the breadth of
scholarship being undertaken in film history.

The conference welcomes participation from scholars, archivists, students
and cinephiles. It is supported by a program of screenings at ACMI
(Australia Centre for the Moving Image), which will run from 26 September
to 30 September, 2013. This program will be developed in collaboration with
the National Film and Sound Archive.

The conference is convened by Victoria Duckett and Jeanette Hoorn. Keynote
speakers include Richard Abel, Weihong Bao, Pam Cook, Barbara Creed, Mary
Ann Doane and Shelley Stamp.

Please send your abstracts, or any questions you might have to the
organizers at wssconference2013@gmail.com

A Joint Conference organised by History and the Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts (HuMPA) at Plymouth University and Umeå Group for Pre-modern Studies To be held at Plymouth University, 29-31 August 2013

Keynote Speakers: Professor Barbara J. Harris (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

This conference investigates gender and political culture during the period 1400 to 1800, and the organizers welcome proposals for papers on topics related to the conference theme. The conference aims to create possibilities for comparative research and is therefore looking to attract a broad variety of studies across periods, disciplines and geographical regions. We also wish to attract both senior scholars and doctoral students. During the conference there will be sessions where participants present papers, and a workshop where participants may present work in progress or project ideas.

Proposals are invited for papers that treat the following indicative areas:
• the relationship between gender, power and political authority
• gendered aspects of monarchy; representations of power and authority
• gender, office-holding, policy-making and counsel
• courts, patronage and political influence
• elite culture and political networks
• gender, the public sphere and political participation
• popular politics, protest and petitioning
• manuscript, print, oral, material and visual cultures
• news, intelligence and the spread of information
• political ideas, ideologies and language
• conceptualizations of ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres and what constituted ‘power’ and ‘politics’
• the family as a ‘political unit’
• the politicization of social activities: marriage-arranging, placing children in other households, gift-giving, hospitality and letter-writing

Proposals for papers or workshops, including titles and abstracts (of no more than 300 words) and a brief author biography should be sent to Professor James Daybell (james.daybell@plymouth.ac.uk), Plymouth University or Professor Svante Norrhem (svante.norrhem@historia.umu.se), Umeå University before 1 March 2013. There are also a small number of conference bursaries available for junior scholars, which will cover conference fee and accommodation for three nights. If you are interested in being considered for one of the bursaries, please send a CV, brief covering letter and letter of recommendation along with your title and abstract. Conference website: http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/research/humpa/news/Pages/Gender-and-Political-Culture-1400-1800-Conference.aspx

Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner

March 1-2, 2013
Free and Open to the Public

Featuring: The keynote Address by Women’s Historian Alice Kessler Harris, distinguished professor at Columbia University and Author of Difficult Women The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman

Round table discussion about the life and work of Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner moderated by Blanch Weisen Cooke, author of The Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt Volumes 1 and 2.

We still face unending war, economic injustice, potential environmental catastrophe, militarism, institutionalized racism, hunger, homophobia and sexism among other issues. By taking a multi-disciplinary approach, we will explore issues of global peace and justice from a variety of perspectives. We seek to understand the ways in which activists have organized around these issues now and in the past and ask the following questions: What are the issues activists have faced in the past and how might we learn from previous movements? How do current issues intersect and interact and how can activists combine forces to confront these problems and work for social change? With the spirit of Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner as our legacy, can we find the energy and focus to move forward together?

Panel Discussions Include:

Uses of Space: Women’s Global and Local Resistance

Women’s Educational Activism

Transnational Peace Activism

Women’s Efforts for Peace in the U.S. and Great Britain

Women’s LGBT Activism

Women Power for Peace: Linkages in Domestic and International Anti-War and Anti-Imperialist Activism During the Vietnam Era

Register for free at: http://www.slc.edu/graduate/programs/womens-history/conference/registration.html

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=200543

Call for Papers, Deadline March 15th, 2013

The Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
The Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender invites proposals for
sessions in its 2013-2014 series.  Programs take place alternately at the
Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute and at the Massachusetts
Historical Society.  The Seminar’s steering committee welcomes suggestions
for papers dealing with all aspects of the history of women and/or gender
in the United States and will also consider projects comparing the American
experience with that in other parts of the world.

Each session focuses on the discussion of a pre-circulated paper.  The
essayist and an assigned commentator will each have an opportunity for
remarks before the discussion is opened to the floor.  Papers must be
available for circulation at least a month before the seminar date.

In developing its 2013-2014 series, the Seminar’s steering committee will
fill some sessions through invitations and others through this call for
papers.  If you would like to be considered for a slot, please send your CV
and a one-page précis of your paper by March 15 to Conrad E. Wright,
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215,
or to cwright@masshist.org<mailto:cwright@masshist.org>.

In your proposal, please indicate when your paper will be available for
distribution.  If there are special scheduling conditions, such as a
planned trip to Boston or an extended period when you cannot make a
presentation, please so indicate in your proposal.

For more information on the Boston Seminar on the History of Women and
Gender visit the series webpage at
http://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/women-and-gender.

—
Kate Viens, Research Coordinator
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617-646-0568, Fax: 617-859-0074
www.masshist.org – America’s Oldest Historical Society – Founded 1791

Violent German Women – Rebels, Revolutionaries, Perpetrators, Abusive Mothers and Violent Lovers

We invite papers that critically examine the portrayal of violent German
women and what motivates their actions. Is violence a uniquely gendered
act? Have women become more violent? We are particularly interested in a
genealogy or trajectory, and the aesthicization of feminine violence.
Rather than looking at women as merely members of the fairer sex, we are
eager to construct a dialogue that illustrates the agency of women in
perpetuating violence, and complicating preconceived notions of gender and
its relationship to violent acts. Some examples might include depictions of
women as rebels, revolutionaries, terrorists, those who seek revenge,
violent mothers, abusive lovers, sado-masochists, and militarists. Of
particular interest is how these women have been portrayed in different
media such as literature, film, drama and art, and how these representations have changed over time. How their feminine violence can be
tied directly to the history of German-speaking lands, experiences, and
national spaces will be the central focus of this panel.

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Please submit a 250 word abstract by February 15, to Imke Brust and Nicole
McInteer (GSAWiG2013@gmail.com). The abstract should include your name,
institutional affiliation, and email address, as well as any audio-visual
requirements for the presentation.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=200819