Call For Papers: Analize – Journal of gender and Feminist Studies

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Call for Papers

The editorial board of “Analize – Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies”
is pleased to welcome submissions for the 2013 issue of the journal.

Motivation
After decades of conceptualization and refinements, reflection on gender
deserves “a place of its own” wherefrom it can be critically explored,
assessed and creatively developed further. In Romania, but also in the SEE
and CEE Region, such an editorial space is still limited although there is
an increasing mass of gender experts and scholars in need for dialogue,
for enlarging their possibilities to share ideas, findings, doubts,
dilemmas and directions of research in the field of gender and feminist
studies.

About the Journal
“Analize – Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies”
(http://www.analize-journal.ro/) is an on-line, open access, peer-reviewed
international journal that aims to bring into the public arena new ideas
and findings in the field of gender and feminist studies and to contribute
to the gendering of the social, economic, cultural and political
discourses and practices about today’s local, national, regional and
international realities.

Edited by The Romanian Society for Feminist Analyses
AnA, the journal intends to open
conversations among eastern and non-eastern feminist researchers on the
situated nature of their feminism(s) and to encourage creative and
critical feminist debates across multiple axes of signification such as
gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ethnicity, religion, etc.

The journal publishes studies, position papers, case studies, viewpoints,
book reviews from practitioners of all grades and professions, academics
and other specialists on the broad spectrum of gender and feminist
studies.

Regarding submissions, papers that fall outside the issue’s main topic
launched for each number are also to be accepted. In addition to a
thematic issue the journal also includes a “Lab” of ideas, images, tools
for investigating the gendered world, a storytelling section (AnAStories)
for sharing lived experiences and life (his/her)stories together with
“News” and a “Press review”.

CALL FOR PAPERS
The topic for the upcoming issue is:  What kind of feminism(s) for today?

We invite authors, scholars and researchers to critically reflect on forms
of feminism(s) in practice today and how/if they serve the interests of
women in the 21st century.

Feminist thought and movements, as we have come to know them, are going
through permanent metamorphoses, adapting to the times. Like all
traditions, the feminist ones also change over time responding to various
criticisms. Feminism was “accused”, among other things, for being rooted
in western terminology, hard to adapt to other cultures, adopting an “us
against the world” identity politics, being sometimes “more” an academic
than a social justice tradition, excluding more than including lives and
contributions of “others”- women and men alike, etc.

How feminism(s) reacted to such critiques? Which are the ways feminism
adapted to the new social, economic and techno-cultural environment of the
21 century? What is nowadays the relation between the academic and
activist feminism? What kind of feminist movement is most efficient today
in the technologized and virtual society we live in? Is gender
mainstreaming or the intersectionality paradigm the “inclusion solution”?
Is the ontological turn of feminist thought (human/non-human embodiment,
post-humanities, biopolitics, material feminism, etc.) a way out from
certain research pitfalls? How are we to assess the postmodern proposals
to “undo gender”? What approaches to gender are better from a
methodological and practical perspective? What/how feminism(s) should be
delivered in academia – what is more needed: Women’s Studies, Gender
Studies and Feminist Studies? What type of relationship exists between
gender and feminist studies? Do we speak of (strategic) cooperation,
latent tension or something else? Is feminism requiring a particular
political commitment?

Information for Authors
1. The manuscript should be original and has not been published
previously. Do not submit material that is currently being considered by
another journal.
Submitted manuscripts should be written in academic English of
international standard in order to be considered for review.
2. Manuscripts may be of 3000-10000 words or longer if approved by the
editor. They must include abstract (maximum 300 words), summary in English
(maximum 500 words), keywords (maximum 5) and the author’s short biography
and current affiliation.
3. The manuscript should be in MS Word format, submitted as an email
attachment to our email address. The document must be set at the A4 paper
size standard. The document (including the notes and bibliography) will be
1.5-spaced with 2.5 cm margins on all sides. A 12-point standard font such
as Times New Roman should be used for all text, including headings, notes
and bibliography.
Submissions should conform to the notes and bibliography version of The
Chicago Manual of Style.
4. The journal is committed to a double blind reviewing policy according
to which the identity of both the reviewer and author is always unknown
for both parties.

Manuscripts should be sent to:
contact@analize-journal.ro<mailto:contact@analize-journal.ro>
<mailto:Safana.ro@gmail.com>
Submission deadline is 08.03.2013

Representing the British and American Nations in Contemporary Photography of Women and Women Photographers’ Works

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Workshop, 22nd March 2013
Centre de Recherche sur les Identités Nationales et l’Interculturalité (CRINI)
Faculté des Langues et Cultures Etrangères
Université de Nantes

“Representing the British and American Nations
in Contemporary Photography of Women and Women Photographers’ Works”

This one-day conference is an opportunity to take part in an interdisciplinary event gathering researchers engaged in the study of photography, women, gender, cultural and visual studies, art theory and history. Photography of women and women photographers’ works will be considered in their various uses – whether it is to document, to record historical events, social changes, anthropological features; to depict landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, crime scenes; as contemporary art or as a marketing tool, etc. – picturing and voicing out Americanness and Britishness and exploring the potentialities of photography to define or reframe the nation.

In accepting Benedict Anderson’s postulate that “communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined,” (Imagined Communities, 1983), the visual representation of the nation in photography is critical in the understanding of belonging. This first conference will be interested in observing the interrelationship between national identity and representations of women as well as the role of women image-makers engaging in understanding/perceiving/formulating the nation. How may photography build/modify/deconstruct the nation and a related sense of belonging? How can feminine/feminist photography contribute to/deconstruct this sense of belonging? How is the nation represented in these pictures of/by women (iconicity, resonances, women as over- or de- aesthecized subjects/objects/models/muses, etc.) and for whom (the other, the world, the citizen, the self)?

Assumptions of photographic truth and the very (im)possibility of representation are often questioned, as photographic representation is partial, fragmented, and perhaps illusory. The focus of this conference will be on the very ambiguity of the photograph itself, the medium/environment within which it is located, the image-maker’s conscious/unconscious intent and the various contexts which lead to multiple readings as photography is constantly open to experimentation. It is a creative and technological mode of representation that male or female pioneering photographers in the US and the UK have mastered, raising vibrant issues such as the formation of gender and its intersections with sexuality, race, class, nationality.

Every photograph that confronts us is a polysemous, dynamic image and has its own integrity but it can also be re-interpreted through new connections and juxtapositions related to the viewer’s experience, to his memory and sense of national identification/gender belonging, which serves as a filter through which visual information is understood (viewer response approach).

The social, political and historical contexts participate in the constructing and reading of the nation as articulated through representations of women. With the evolution of women’s role in the public sphere, is women’s embodiment of domesticity and the female body as allegory of the nation still prevalent and defining? Have other images of the nation through the embodiment of women emerged during specific moments and under certain conditions: the counter culture of the 60s, the conservative years of Reagan and Thatcher, “Cool Britannia” or post 9/11 and the “War on Terror”, etc.?

The orientations suggested here are non-exhaustive and should only be starting points. Proposals may be diachronic (charting short or long term trends), synchronic (focusing on case studies whether they are serial photography or single-image photography to illustrate wider concepts in various disciplinary fields), or comparative (especially to emphasize shared features which characterise UK and US photography).

We welcome 300-word abstracts in English to be sent together with a short biographical note via email to jane.bayly@univ-nantes.fr and julie.morere@univ-nantes.fr.
Deadline for submission: 30th December 2012

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=199361

Call for Papers and Panels: Gendered Citizenship: History, Politics and Democracy: The Ida Blom Conference, October 2013, Norway

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Call for Papers and Panels

*Gendered Citizenship: History, Politics and Democracy*

The Ida Blom Conference, 14-15 October 2013, Norway

*Introduction: *

Norway was a pioneer state in Europe introducing the general vote for both
men and women in 1913. As part of the 100-year celebration, The University of Bergen
and Uni Rokkan Centre will organize aninternational conference on gendered citizenship

The conference is named after Professor Emerita IdaBlom from the University of Bergen.
We want to ask how gender issues both influence and challenge the meaning of citizenship. The notion of citizenship evokes questions of belonging, language, identity and the body, calling for a thorough rethinking of what it means to be a human being and a member of society in the world today. The conference embraces an interdisciplinary and broadly framed approach to historical and contemporary questions concerning gender equality and democracy, both in the political and in the cultural sphere.

The conference webpage:**http://www.uib.no/idablom2013/en***
*Call for panels and papers: *
In accordance with the broad scope of the conference we welcome panels and papers on topics that include and exceed those that are ultimately tied to participation in the formal political system. The panel sessions are divided into three thematic strands:

  • Representation, Democracy and Freedom
  • Sexual Citizenship
  • Gender and the Public Sphere.

*Call for papers:http://www.uib.no/idablom2013/en/call-for-papers/call-for-papers*

*Call for panels: http://www.uib.no/idablom2013/en/call-for-papers/call-for-panels*

*Deadline for papers and panels: _1 March 2013_*

*Conference email: gencit2012@uib.no <mailto:gencit2012@uib.no>*

Scholar’s Dashboard: Digital Humanities Workshop in Ohio, Feb.7-8 2013

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The Scholar’s Dashboard project is a series of workshops teaming humanities scholars, librarians, and technologists in discussions to consider major challenges in the digital humanities: how can we best work across multiple digitized or born-digital collections? What tools, interface, and features would best help humanists explore digital collections? Our theme for the February 7 and 8, 2013 workshop is “time.” How can we best analyze and visualize the chronological distribution and dimensions of the objects in our collections, of their creators, and their content?

We’re not looking only for humanists and librarians who have extensive experience in the digital humanities, but also for those curious and willing to talk through the challenges that we face in making Ohio’s digital resources accessible and useful to humanities scholars of all levels of expertise.

This workshop will be held at Ohio Supercomputer Center’s Bale Conference Room and Theater on February 7 and 8. Participants will be provided with a parking pass and up to $100 in travel reimbursement. Participants must be either Ohio residents or be affiliated with an Ohio college, university, or library.

To participate, please send the following information to Andy Schocket, project manager, at aschock@bgsu.edu: name, C.V., and a brief statement of interest. Should there be more applicants than is availability, applicants will be chosen so as to provide a range of interests and experience. Please also direct any questions to Andy Schocket.

The Scholar’s Dashboard is funded through a grant from the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed as a result of this workshop do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=199475

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Education Harlem: Histories of Learning and Schooling in an American Community

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Education Harlem: Histories of Learning and Schooling in an American
Community

Scholarly Conference Series
Teachers College
Columbia University

Sponsored by the Teachers College Program in History and Education,
Institute for Urban and Minority Education, and Center on History and
Education

Fall 2013 and Fall 2014

We seek to establish a scholarly community focused on investigating the history of education, broadly defined, in 20th century Harlem. We invite proposals for papers to be presented at two conferences at Teachers College, for which travel expenses will be paid. The first conference, October 10-11, 2013, will offer authors an opportunity to present works-in-progress for discussion with fellow contributors and selected senior scholars participating as discussants. Revised and completed papers will be presented at a larger public conference in October 2014.  Most or all of the finalized papers will be published as an edited volume or journal special issue. We welcome submissions from graduate students as well as junior and senior scholars, and from historians as well as those undertaking historical analysis in other social science and humanities fields.

*Conference Focus*

All of the forces that shaped education in the 20th century U.S. ran
through Harlem, often in amplified form because of the particular
confluence of people, ideas, and institutions in this community.
Nonetheless, Harlem remains understudied in the history of education.

By investigating the historical forms and meanings of education – in
schools and beyond – in Harlem, we hope to support and provoke a rich
vision of the place of education in communities and the reciprocal
relationships between communities and schools. We will help explain why and
how education has taken the forms that it has, by considering the roles of
communities, students, teachers, policy makers, local and national leaders,
and political and economic trends in shaping learning and schooling in
local context.

Contributions may include studies sited in Harlem that explore, but are not
limited to:

·      Community and youth advocacy for education broadly defined

·      The city as educator: formal and informal education in non-school
settings

·      Contested notions of educational equality

·      Curricular innovation and experimentation

·      College and university interaction with urban schools and districts

·      Education within social movements and organizing traditions

·      Teacher organizing and professionalism

·      School governance and leadership

·      Advocacy for, and the influence of, higher education

·      The urban built environment as it relates to schooling and learning

·      Schools and the production of racial, ethnic, linguistic, and gender
identity

·      Cultural and artistic production and education

·      Schooling and the carceral state

We are particularly interested in studies sited in Harlem that:

·      Link historical narratives of urban history (in housing, employment,
health, and other aspects of urban life) with narratives of learning and
schooling

·      Integrate knowledge of local activism and organizing with attention
to the policy choices and structural forces against which local activists
and organizers struggled

·      Examine historical developments in politics and economics that help
contextualize and explain contemporary school reform efforts

·      Introduce new ways of researching stories of learning and schooling

*Opportunities in Digital History*

Contributors to the conference also will have the opportunity to explore
how their research could relate to a digital archive on the history of
education in Harlem, now under development at Teachers College. Inspired in
part by the model of University of Sydney’s *Digital Harlem*
http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/harlem/ ,
the digital archive will use a spatial interface to present both existing
archival material and new contributions. Scholars who have ideas for how
their research might contribute to or benefit from such a digital resource
are welcome to describe these ideas in an addendum to their submission.

*Submission guidelines:*

Please describe your proposed contribution in an abstract of no more than
1,000 words, including the paper’s sources, historiographical context, and
key contributions. Please also include a one- to two-page C.V. Submissions
will be accepted electronically, via an online submission system accessed
via http://www.tc.edu/a&h/history-ed/ until February 1, 2013.

If you need additional information or have questions, please contact Ansley
Erickson, erickson@tc.columbia.edu

The Educating Harlem project is made possible by support from the Teachers
College Provost’s Investment Fund, Thomas James, Provost and Dean of the
College.

Ansley T. Erickson, Assistant Professor, History and Education, Teachers
College, Columbia University

Ernest Morrell, Director, Institute for Urban and Minority Education and
Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University

Cally Waite, Associate Professor, History and Education, Teachers College,
Columbia University

—
Ansley T. Erickson
Assistant Professor, History and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
www.tc.edu/faculty/ate11

New Exhibition: Taking Her Place

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Opening January 28 until June 2nd 2013

Class of 1912 Rare Book Room,
Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College

Exhibition hours daily 11 am – 4:30 pm

Open Wednesdays until 7.30pm during term time

Free

Taking Her Place is an exhibition dedicated to showcasing the history of women’s education through the treasures of Bryn Mawr’s collections of rare books, manuscript material, photographs, textiles, oral histories and art and artifacts. It opens on January 28th 2013 with a talk by renowned historian and biographer of M. Carey Thomas, Professor Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Professor Emerita at Smith College and a member of our Advisory Board. Her talk will be on ‘Reading, Writing, Arithmetic … and Power: Education as Entry to the World”. This will take place in Carpenter Library B21 at 5.30pm and all are welcome to attend. A reception at the Rare Book Room Gallery will follow.

Taking Her Place illuminates the story of women’s access to the public world of employment and civic engagement through education, the key way in which women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries expanded their sphere beyond the confines of their homes. We trace the early origins of educational debates, feature the histories of famous alums, and show how Bryn Mawr grew into the diverse environment for women’s education that it is today. This is an interactive exhibition and you will be able to link to further content online using smart phones or tablets.

There will be other events throughout the time the exhibition is showing, including a talk by Professor Elaine Showalter, Bryn Mawr College class of ’62 and Avalon Foundation Professor Emerita, Princeton University, on Thursday April 18th 2013 at 5.30pm, also in Carpenter Library B21.

We are offering three guided tours by the co-curators as part of Alumnae Reunion Weekend where we will tell you more about our choice of objects, the themes of the exhibition, and can answer any questions you have. Please see the official calendar of events for further details. Further updates will also be provided on our site.

Call For Papers: Whose History is it Anyway? ‘Public’ History in Perspective

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Conference title: Whose history is it anyway? ‘Public’ history in perspective

Date: 5-6 September 2013, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

Keynote address: Hilda Kean

This is a multi-disciplinary conference aimed at a wide range of history and heritage practitioners making no distinction between professionals and non-professionals. Papers are thus invited from academic historians, those working or volunteering in the museum, heritage and archives sectors, those working in the media, film makers, funding bodies, policy makers, publishers, along with family, local and community historians.

This conference will explore issues of public engagement in history, the role of professionals in mediating knowledge of history, the role of institutions in interpreting and communicating knowledge and perspectives, and the role that society and the public have in preserving, mediating, creating and communicating their own histories. It is also concerned to explore issues of policy and funding for history research, education, conservation and dissemination.

Proposals are invited for single papers or panels. For a single paper please submit up to 250 words along with a short biographical note, your organisation (if any) and contact details. Prospective panel organisers should submit up to 500 words along with a short biographical note and contact details for each speaker. Work may subsequently be considered for publication.

The deadline for the submission of proposals is 31st January, 2013. Proposals, or enquiries relating to these, should be sent to the following email address: publichistory@uclan.ac.uk

Call For Papers: The Imperial Court in China, Japan, and Korea: Women, Servants, and the Emperor’s Household

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The University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim is pleased to announce the call for papers for “The Imperial Court in China, Japan, and Korea: Women, Servants, and the Emperor’s Household (1600 – early 1900s)” a symposium to be held at the University of San Francisco on Thursday and Friday, April 18-19, 2013.

The symposium will provide a forum for the examination and comparison of the imperial courts/houses and court life of China, Japan, and Korea through the lens of women, servants, and those who managed the Emperor and Empress’ households from the 1600s through early 1900s. Proposed themes include but are not limited to: imperial women, servants, and household managers with a particular focus on aspects of court life, relations of power, issues of gender, cultural identity, modernity, education, literature, and household economics and management. Papers which address border crossing themes or comparisons of the above mentioned imperial courts or those that explore relations between the different groups are particularly encouraged.

The deadline for proposals is Monday, January 7, 2013. Please e-mail your 250 word (maximum) abstract and Curriculum Vitae to mdale3@usfca.edu subject line “Imperial Court Proposal.”

The Center for the Pacific Rim will provide grants to assist presenters with travel (as per USF travel policies).

‘Primary sources have the potential to help teachers in the classroom’: Temple student Adrian Wieszczyk on her experiences at Bryn Mawr

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This blog post has been written by Adrian Wieszczyk, a student at Temple University who is currently completing her training to become a high school teacher. Adrian is one of three students this year who used our collections as part of the National History Day Philly Cultural Collaboration Initiative. As with our other participants, we thank Adrian for her hard work and wish her all the best with completing her studies!

My name is Adrian Wieszczyk and I am a student at Temple University. I have had the pleasure to work with Bryn Mawr College this semester through a field work internship. Through my experience I have felt very welcomed and aware of the resources and tools that Bryn Mawr provides, due to the helpful staff. As a result, I have discovered primary documents within the special collections that have potential to help teachers use primary documents within their classroom. The intended outcome of this internship through Temple was to introduce me to working with museums or archives as a future teacher and become more aware of resources provided. As for Bryn Mawr, my project was to create a lesson plan for their website using documents within their special collections. I believe that this project is very helpful for teachers, considering many teachers are unable to look through the rich resources and documents that institutions carry.

My particular focus was the female culture and role in the Prohibition era. I chose this topic because I found a few interesting documents that were published in Bryn Mawr’s Lantern of 1922-24 that discussed different perspectives and beliefs about the Prohibition. Unfortunately, I was unable to discover all of the documents and resources on the prohibition because of the time restraint but I was still able to take advantage of the documents I did find. My finalized project is a lesson plan called women in the prohibition. This lesson teaches the different organizations and cultures of females during the prohibition. For instance, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, Women’s Organization for Prohibition Reform, and the cultural perspective of a “Flapper“. I really enjoyed researching these organizations as well as creating a lesson plan to further student’s knowledge of the female role in the prohibition.

Overall this experience has furthered my knowledge and skills as a student and as a future teacher. I have enjoyed developing relationships with the staff at Bryn Mawr as they have been extremely welcoming and helpful. I have learned a great deal about Bryn Mawr and other institutions in regards to getting involved as a future teacher. This knowledge will help me as I create lesson plans for my classroom and use the resources and primary documents that institutions, like Bryn Mawr College, carry and provide. I look forward to keeping in contact with Bryn Mawr College and using their digital archives to improve my upcoming lessons.

 

 

Call For Papers: Women and Maps in Early Modernity

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Abstracts are invited for papers about “Women and Maps in Early Modernity,” for a possible SSEMW Co-Sponsored Session at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in Washington DC in January 2014.

We seek papers from a range of disciplines — including, but not limited to, history, art history, literary studies, and historical geography — which address the nexus between early modern women and maps/cartography in any geographical region or culture, during the time period c. 1400-1700. Paper topics might consider women as:

  • Explorers contributing data from which maps are made
  • map illustrators
  • printers/publishers/sellers of maps
  • navigators/users of maps
  • writers on the topic of cartography

Abstracts (400-500 words) for papers 20 minutes in length should be submitted by January 10, 2013, by email, to Allyson Poska (aposka@umw.edu) and Erika Gaffney (egaffney@ashgate.com).