The Education, Knowledge Production and Science Studies Network invites you
to submit a paper, panel, or poster proposal for the 38th annual meeting of
the Social Science History Association. The meeting will take place November
21-24, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois. For more information on the meeting as
well as the call for proposals, please refer to the SSHA website:
http://www.ssha.org.

The deadline for paper and/or panel submissions is February 15, 2013.

The members of the Social Science History Association share a
common interest in interdisciplinary and systematic approaches to
historical research, and many of us find the SSHA one of the most
interesting and varied conferences that we attend. The thematic topic of
the 2013 annual meeting is “Organizing Powers.”

We welcome panels and papers on any topic of interest to scholars of
education, knowledge production, and science studies. We are also
interested in paper sessions that relate the larger theme of the conference
to these topics, and encourage the submission of complete book panels.
Possible topics might include, but are certainly not limited to:

– education and unionization,
– proprietary or for-profit schooling,
– the state and knowledge production,
– science and power,
– social movements and educational institutions,
– power and educational reform,
– knowledge construction in economics,
– the role of experts in policy-making,
– the current crisis in higher education in historical context,
– education and the disempowered

Paper titles, brief abstracts, and contact information should be submitted
at http://www.ssha.org/conference-submission. While complete panel
proposals are preferred, we will do our best to place high-quality
individual paper submissions. Please list any other networks with which
your paper or panel submission overlaps, as the EKPSS network can also
co-sponsor panels with other networks.

If you have any questions, please contact one of the EKPSS network
representatives:

Mary Ann Dzuback: madzubac@wustl.edu
Beth Berman: epberman@albany.edu
Adrea Lawrence: alawrenc@american.edu

Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration is seeking submissions for its upcoming issue on Women, Water and Migration.

Women and girls are disproportionately and uniquely impacted by Africa’s shifting physical and social environment. Across the continent freshwater resources are depleting at an alarming rate. From the ongoing ecological crisis in Lake Chad to the decline in biodiversity along the Nile River, these environmental changes are placing a great strain on the health, security and economic wellbeing of the populations that are sustained by them. The chronic water shortages and concomitant environmental shifts have contributed to the ongoing phenomenon of environmental migration, which has its own socio-ecological consequences for Africa’s women.

The upcoming Women, Water and Migration issue of Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration will explore a gender-based analysis of the impact of water shortages and environmentally induced migration throughout the continent by exploring the complex relationship between water resources, population movement, and women.

We seek submissions of articles, book and film reviews, and creative pieces that critically explore these and other questions:
• What impact do these environmental shifts have on population movement?
• How does the migration-climate nexus affect women and gender relations?
• How has the declining water supply affected the movement of African women locally, nationally and globally? What impact does this have on the environment?
• What community resources exist to allow people to cope with the changing environment?
• In what ways have women responded to climate change and how might a women’s rights agenda address global warming and water scarcity?

Articles must be original and should not be under consideration by another publication at the time of submission. All submissions should be emailed to mojubaolu@gmail.com by Friday, March 22, 2013. Articles should be between 20-25 pages long. They should be accessible and jargon-free. All submissions will be independently refereed. Accepted articles must conform to Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration style requirements. Please see submission guidelines: http://www.africamigration.com/

A brief reminder that proposals for “Beyond the Binaries: Critical Approaches to Sex and Gender in Early America,” a special issue of Early American Studies, are coming due on January 31, 2013.

In a 1993 article in Sciences, biologist and historian Anne Fausto-Sterling
provocatively argued that human sex could not be neatly divided into two
simple categories, men and women. Instead, she recommended a five-part
system of categorization, including men, women, merms, ferms, and herms. At
the time of publication, Fausto-Sterling’s tongue-in-cheek proposal
provoked more criticism than applause, but in the past two decades scholars
in a wide range of disciplines, from neuroscience to gender studies, have
added evidence to her assertion that binary sex categories are not a
biological rule. With a few exceptions, however, historians of early
America have been slow to question the binary of man and woman. In the
uproar provoked by her proposal, few recall that Fausto-Sterling began her
article not with a headline grabbed from the daily papers, but with an
historical example dating to 1840s Connecticut.

Now, recent work by historians including Elizabeth Reis, Clare Sears, and
Peter Boag, indicates a growing attention to the instability of sex in
early America. Their studies illuminate the existence and social knowledge
of individuals whose bodies, gender identities, and desires defied neat
divisions. Moreover, these works provoke questions about the coherence of
the binary sex categories that historians assume as foundational. What did
it mean to be a woman or a man in early America, if, as Reis points out, in
1764 a thirty-two year old woman named Deborah Lewis could change sex,
becoming a man named Francis Lewis, and live for another six decades as an
accepted patriarch within his community? How fixed were sex identities in
early America? What possibilities existed for the expression of gender
identities that stood at variance with embodied sex? What social practices
created opportunities for the blending and rearrangement of sex identities?
How did hierarchies of race and class destabilize or re-stabilize sex
binaries? Should “men” and “women” be understood as variable rather than
unitary categories?

To encourage these questions, and others like them, Early American Studies
invites proposals for essay submissions on the theme of “Beyond the
Binaries: Critical Approaches to Sex and Gender in Early America” for a
special issue to be published in fall 2014. Early American Studies is an
interdisciplinary journal that welcomes contributions from the fields of
history, art history, literary studies, religious studies, music,
philosophy, and material culture studies among others. Possible topics
might include (but are not limited to) bodies in doubt, female masculinity,
racialized constructions of sex, religious gender crossing, and
transgenderism in North America before 1860.

Proposals of 300 words are due by January 31, 2013, and should be emailed
to rcleves@uvic.ca Authors whose proposals are
accepted will submit completed drafts of their essays by July 15, 2013.

26th-27th April 2013

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 31 January 2013

We invite papers for this exciting multidisciplinary conference on the intersection between gender, revolt and power across the Americas in the twentieth
century.

Potential themes for papers include but are not limited to: labour activism, civil
rights, suffrage, environmental activism, approaches to feminism, developments in feminist theory, women in government and foreign policy, women in protest organizations, environmental activism, legal rights, LGBTQ activism, religious and
spiritual interests, reproductive rights, anti-war activity or pacifism, and the
development of gendered strategies against sexualized and racialized violence.

We encourage papers from established academics, early career scholars, postgraduates, and activists.

Proposals for papers should not exceed 500 words and must be accompanied by a
working title and CV. Abstracts should be submitted to the organizers by Thursday 31 January 2013.

Submissions should be emailed to the organizers at: freedomrightspower2013@gmail.com

We can provide early confirmation for delegates travelling from outside Europe.

For more information, please visit the conference website:
http://extranet.smuc.ac.uk/events-conferences/freedom-rights-power/Pages/default.aspx

Dawn-Marie Gibson, (Royal Holloway)
Althea Legal-Miller (Arcadia)
Imaobong Umoren (Oxford)

Friday 15 February, 2 Pm – 6 Pm
New Art Exchange
39 – 41 Gregory Boulevard
Nottingham
NG7 6BE

A half-day symposium exploring the ways in which women working across the Middle East, and across various creative practices (art, literature, film, journalism, blogging, curating), have sought to tell their, and others’, stories. Reflecting on issues such as the politics of self-representation, and the challenges and possibilities afforded by their identities as women.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=199736

This conference, which will be held at the Heyman Center at Columbia University on Feb. 8-9, 2013, examines the flourishing of women’s history in Britain in the 1970s, and the changing place of women’s and gender history within the academy. What have successive generations taken from earlier generations’ work, and how have they transformed it? What happened to those early theories and networks? What has been gained and lost through the process of institutionalization? What has happened both to the ‘place’ of the feminist imperative within history, and to the relatively privileged place of Britain within that scholarship?

Speakers include: Sally Alexander, Hazel Carby, Arianne Chernock, Anna Clark, Deborah Cohen, Leonore Davidoff, Lucy Delap, April Gallwey, Durba Ghosh, Katherine Gleadle, Susan Grayzel, Catherine Hall, Mary Hartman, Saidiya Hartman, Karen Hunt, Seth Koven, Tom Laqueur, Sharon Marcus, Penny Summerfield, Bonnie Smith, Pat Thane, Selina Todd, Deborah Valenze, Judith Walkowitz, and Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska.

To register, please contact Jonah Cardillo at jgc92@columbia.edu.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=199626

Session CFP:  Gender and Sexuality in the Construction of Knowledge
[working title],
German Studies Association Denver,  USA, October 2013

We seek papers from scholars working on gender and sexuality, including
the appearance of bodies, as a component of disciplinary formation;
contests over what is defined as knowledge or method; the use of gendered
ascriptions in defining the proper characteristics of researchers and
objects of study; and other similar topics linking gender or sexuality,
power, and the construction of knowledge. Those of us organizing the
session will provide perspectives from the histories of German economics,
historiography, and philosophy  in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The GSA considers papers in the areas of German history, literature,
culture, politics and any other discipline with a focus on German-speaking
Europe in any time period.  The deadline for submissions is 15 February
2013.

If you are interested in joining us, please provide a short description of
your proposed topic to  Marynel Ryan Van Zee ( mkryan@umn.edu) and Falko
Schnicke (falko.schnicke@gmx.de) by 11 January 2013.

CALL FOR PAPERS – INVITATION

15th International Symposium on School Life and School History Museums
& Collections

Creating links in education. Teachers and their associations as
promoters of pedagogic development (historical and museum aspects)
Povezovanje v šolstvu / Vernetzung im Bereich Bildung / Conexiones en
la Educación

Organised by Slovenian School Museum, Historical Association of
Slovenia and ICOM- Slovenia
Ljubljana (Slovenia), 26th – 29th June 2013
Deadline for the proposal of abstacts submission:  20th January 2013
Symposium web-site http://www.ssolski-muzej.si/slo/symposium2013.php

– The aim of the symposium, which connects school museums and
researchers into the history of education, is to present and explore
the professional historical contribution of male and women teachers
and particularly their associations to the development of schools and
pedagogy, as well as to cultural and general development. Teacher
associations united the teaching profession in the establishment of
their (trade union) interests, had a significant influence on the
development of teacher education (including their adult and continuing
education) and, through teaching and educational publications of
different ideological orientations, helped to shape the development of
education. Teachers’ gatherings, publishing activities and the
appearance of school museums were among the most important forms of
activity.

– Teacher associations and their regional, national (ethnic), state
and international connections went beyond the local importance of
frequently very diverse activities. They were marked in particular by
individual teachers who were important for a particular village, town
or wider region. Through changes that took place over time, we can
also discern the differing importance attributed to the teaching
profession, which is why we also encourage comparative analyses of the
role of teachers and their associations. Contributions offering an
overview of a wider region or even a whole country are particularly
welcome, as are presentations and analyses of archive and museum
material and, above all, insights into our museums through an analysis
of exhibitions on this subject.

– The theme of teachers, teacher associations and their work and other
connections in education is directed at specialists working in museums
both large and small and in other collections related to school and
education, as well as at researchers and lecturers who are involved in
the history of education at universities, institutes and in archives.

-The presentation of museological news of the family of education /
school museums and successful museum projects regards to the history
of education are welcome.

– The working language of the conference is English. Paper
presentations should last between 15-20 minutes, including 3-5 minutes
discussions after presentation atplenary sessions and 90-minute
parallel sections.

– The “Babel Section”: Only one 90-minute session of the parallel
sections (each with a maximum of 4 to 5 presentations) will take place
in three groups for participants from the Germanic, Romance and Slavic
language areas in one of these languages.

Please note that the ‘Babel Section’ is designed first of all for the
colleagues who work at small school museums without earlier
experiences with English, the lingua franca of the modern era.

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Symposium:

Programme: Wednesday, 26  June 2013   Opening at 16:00 hrs.

Thursday,  27  June  and Friday, 28  June 2013 full day programme with
lectures and workshops.

Saturday,  29 June lectures and workshops, in the early afternoon
official conclusion of the symposium,  optional excursion.

For all details (conference fee, accomodation, venue, scientific
committee, post symposium publication) see: detailed Call for papers
(in English) –http://www.ssolski-muzej.si/slo/symposium2013.php

The proposals of abstracts (in English!) should be sent to the following
e-mail

by 20th January 2013:  2013symposium15@gmail.com

Notification of acceptance by Programme & Scientific Committee : 20th
February 2013

Responsible coordinator:

Dr. Branko Šuštar (Slovenian School Museum, Ljubljana)
branko.sustar@guest.arnes.si
Contact  post-address: 15th Symposium 2013, Slovenski šolski muzej /
Slovenian School Museum, Plečnikov trg 1, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;
www.ssolski-muzej.si
Contact e-mail: 2013symposium15@gmail.com

LOOKING FORWARD TO WELCOME YOU IN LJUBLJANA

Organising Committee of 15th Symposium 2013

CFP: E-reading Between the Lines:
21st century literature, digital platforms and literacies
The Higher Education Academy Discipline Workshop and Seminar Series, 2012-13

Cost: FREE (registration required)
Date: 5 July 2013
Location/venue: Checkland Building, Falmer Campus,
University of Brighton, UK

This unique one day event will reflect on the teaching of post-millennial literature in HE and FE and interrogate the use of digital and social technologies in teaching, assessment and creative writing to offer this emerging field as a new and directional source of understanding and inspiration for contemporary students, scholars, publishers and authors.

E-readers and e-books enjoy an increasing influence over the ways we consume literature in the twenty-first century. Whether we turn to new digital platforms to disguise our secret Mills and Boon habit or to display our technological skills, these new forms have already changed the ways in which we consume and experience literature. In dialogue with the printed book, the e-book has been instrumental in generating debate, new writings and innovative content and has enriched our literary experience in the twenty-first century. At present the two co-exist, but how long until the e coup?

Uniting for the first time scholars, students, writers, readers and publishers, this symposium will reflect on uses and impact of digital platforms on the production, consumption and uses of literature in HE and FE to offer the emerging field of twenty-first century writings as a new and directional source of understanding and creative inspiration.

Papers may address English Literature and interactions with new technologies and social networking developments, teaching and learning, open access, creative writing, publishing and marketing Literature.

Deadline for abstracts (250 words): 1st Feb 2013 to k.shaw@brighton.ac.uk

For those wishing to attend, this FREE event has strictly limited spaces. Registration will open in early 2013. To express interest in registration please email k.shaw@brighton.ac.uk asap.

For those presenting papers, there is a HEA fund to cover speaker travel and expenses.

Dr Katy Shaw
Subject Leader, English Literature
Faculty of Arts
E350 Checkland Building
University of Brighton
Falmer Campus
BN1 9PH
(01273) 643314
http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/shaw

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