“GENERATIONS:  Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space”

June 9-12, 2011, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Proposals due March 1, 2010

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is holding its next
conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on June 9-12,
2011. 2011 marks the 15th Berkshire Conference on Women’s History and
the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, which was first
celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland and is now
honored by more than sixty countries around the globe. The choice of
“Generations” reflects this transnational intellectual, political, and
organizational heritage as well as a desire to explore related
questions such as:

• How have women’s generative experiences – from production and reproduction to creativity and alliance building – varied across time and space? How have these been appropriated and represented by contemporaries and scholars alike?
• What are the politics of “generation”? Who is encouraged? Who is condemned or discouraged? How has this changed over time?
• Is a global perspective compatible with generational (in the genealogical sense) approaches to the past that tend to reinscribe national/regional/racial boundaries?
• What challenges do historians of women, gender, and sexuality face as these fields and their practitioners mature?

To engender further, open-ended engagement with these and other
issues, the 2011 conference will include workshops dedicated to
discussing precirculated papers on questions and problems
(epistemological, methodological, substantive) provoked by the notion
of “Generations.”

The process for submitting and vetting papers and panels has changed
substantially from previous years, so please read the instructions
carefully.  To encourage transnational discussions, panels will be
principally organized along thematic rather than national lines and
therefore proposals will be vetted by a transnational group of
scholars with expertise in a particular thematic, rather than
geographic, field.  All proposals must be directed to ONE of the
following subcommittees and should be submitted electronically.
Please list a second choice for the subcommittee to vet your proposal
but do not submit to more than one subcommittee.  Instructions for
submission will be posted on the Berkshire Conference website (www.berksconference.org) by November 1, 2009.

Preference will be given to discussions of any
topic across national boundaries and to work that addresses sexuality,
race, and labor in any context, with special consideration for pre-
modern (ancient, medieval, early modern) periods.  However, unattached
papers and proposals that fall within a single nation/region will also
be given full consideration.  As a forum dedicated to encouraging
innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship and transnational
conversation, the Berkshire conference continues to encourage
submissions from graduate students, international scholars,
independent scholars, filmmakers, and to welcome a variety of
disciplinary perspectives.  Paper abstracts should be no longer than
250 words; panel (2-3 papers and a comment), roundtable (3 or more
short papers) and workshop (1-2 precirculated papers) proposals should
also include a summary abstract of no more than 500 words.  Each
submission must include the cover form and a short cv for each
presenter. If you have questions about the most appropriate
subcommittee for your proposal or problems with electronic submission,
please direct them to Jennifer Spear (jms25@sfu.ca).

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 1, 2010.

*Beauty and the Body, Stephanie Camp

*Migrations : race, gender and activism, Annelise Orleck

*Economies, Labors, and Consumption, Tracey Deutsch

War, Violence, and Terror, Madhavi Kale

Youth and Aging, Jennifer Spear

*Race in Global Perspective, Marilyn Lake

*Health and Medicine, Julie Livingston

*Sexuality, Kathy Brown

Religion: belief, practice, communities, Madhavi Kale

Politics and the State, Margot Canaday

Bubble wrap, sanitizer, helmets, knee pads, H1N1 vaccines, mammograms,
protective goggles, preemptive strikes, the Patriot Act,
car/fire/health/home/laptop/life/renters’/travel insurance, condoms,
sunscreen, car seats, airbags, pensions, life vests, organic food, safe
drinking water, safe streets… Our lives are filled with devices,
organizations, and agreements to keep our bodies, loved ones, and belongings
“safe.” These practices appease our fears, but what does it mean to be or to
feel safe? Is safety synonymous with security, stability or stasis? Is it a
condition, or the negation of threat, risk and danger? Can we ever be truly
safe? If not, why does it endure as an ideal?

For some, safety is a condition of living, as in “better safe than sorry”;
for others, safe signals the refusal of life itself, as in the Nietzschean
revision of the Socratic ideal of examined life, “an unexplored life is not
worth living.” What are the aesthetics, metaphysics and metaphorics of the
dynamic multivalency of safe? Is safe a place (“safe house,” “safe box”), a
moment (“safe and sound”), a practice/norm (“safe sex”), a feeling, a
cognitive state, a number/figure (“savings”), a status (“sauf”: “save” as in
“exception”) or a visible logos (“saved document”)? What sort of politics
does the ambition to be safe entail? In what ways is safe imbricated with
class, race, sexuality and gender? Can we feel safe without restricting
ourselves to a prophylactic existence?

This special issue of WSQ invites work that will contribute to an
exploration of safety and security, broadly conceived. We welcome academic
papers from a variety of disciplinary approaches including theory, empirical
research, literary and cultural studies, as well as creative prose, poetry,
artwork, memoir and biography.  Suggested topics may include but are not
limited to:

- Bioethics, biopolitics
- Children, childhood, family and safety
- Crisis and resolution, memory
- Discipline; docility; drill; habit-formation
- Domestic space, domestic violence, haven, home, shelter, retreat,
refugees
- The politics of food safety
- Geography and mapping, enclosures/prisons, harbors and asylums
- Security state, homeland security, environmental security, job security
- Illnesses, epidemics, preventions, screenings, health risks, health
care
- Otherness, ethnicized and marginalized populations, borders and
enclosures
- Risk society, theories of risk, technology, prediction
- Sex, pain, pleasure and risk
- Terror and/of terrorism, war & trauma, treaty and alliance, recovery

If submitting academic work, please send articles by March 15, 2010 to the
guest editors, Alyson M. Cole and Kyoo Lee at WSQSafeIssue@gmail.com.
Submission should not exceed 20 double spaced, 12 point font pages.

Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ’s poetry editor, Kathleen Ossip, at
WSQpoetry@gmail.com by March 15, 2010.  Please review previous issues of WSQ
to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting poems. Please
note that poetry submissions may be held for six months or longer.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the poetry editor is notified
immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been
previously published. Please paste poetry submissions into the body of the
e-mail along with all contact information.

Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ’s
fiction/nonfiction editor, Jocelyn Lieu, at WSQCreativeProse@gmail.com by
March 15, 2010. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of
submissions we prefer before submitting prose. Please note that prose
submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions
are acceptable if the prose editor is notified immediately of acceptance
elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please
provide all contact information in the body of the e-mail.

Art submissions should be sent to the guest editors, Alyson M. Cole and Kyoo
Lee, at WSQSafeIssue@gmail.com by March 15, 2010. After art is reviewed and
accepted, accepted art must be sent to the journal’s managing editor on a CD
that includes all artwork of 300 DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide
or larger. These files should be saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS.

–
Zoe Meleo-Erwin
Administrative Associate
WSQ
at the Feminist Press
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY  10016
212.817.7926
www.feministpress.org/wsq

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Dear colleagues,

This is the annual call for submissions for SHOT’s IEEE Life Member’s
Prize in Electrical History.

If you or someone you know has published a deserving article in 2008 dealing
with any aspect of the history of electricity, electronics,
telecommunications, or any other electrically-related field, please
consider nominating it for the IEEE Prize.

THE IEEE LIFE MEMBERS’ PRIZE IN ELECTRICAL HISTORY

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Life
Members’ Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life
Members’ Fund and administered by the Society for the History of
Technology (SHOT), is awarded annually to the best paper in the
history of electrotechnology­–power, electronics, telecommunications,
and computer science­–published during the preceding year. Any
article published in a learned periodical is eligible if it treats the
art or engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners.
The article must be written in English, although the journal or
periodical in which it appears may be a foreign language publication.
The prize consists of a cash award of $500 and a certificate. To
nominate an article, please send a copy (paper or electronic) of the
article to each member of the prize committee. Deadline for the 2008
prize is April 15, 2009.

For more information, please contact the committee chair.

Robert MacDougall (committee chair)
Department of History
University of Western Ontario
Social Science Centre 4328
London, Ontario N6A 5C2
CANADA
rmacdou@uwo.ca

Susan Schmidt Horning
Department of History
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
schmidts@stjohns.edu

Andrew J. Butrica
P.O. Box 30223
Bethesda, MD 20824-0223
abutrica@earthlink.net

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This appears on the SHOT website, but I wanted to send a reminder to the WITH list:

The IEEE Life Members’ Prize in Electrical History, supported by the IEEE Life Members’ Fund and administered by the Society for the History of Technology, is awarded annually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology—power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science—published during the preceding year. Any article published in a learned periodical is eligible if it treats the art or engineering aspects of electrotechnology and its practitioners. The article must be written in English, although the journal or periodical in which it appears may be a foreign language publication. The prize consists of a cash award of $500 and a certificate. To nominate an article, please send a copy of the paper to each member of the prize committee. DEADLINE IS APRIL 15.

Susan Schmidt Horning (chair)
Department of History
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
schmidts@stjohns.edu

Andrew J. Butrica
Defense Acquisition History Project
U.S. Army Center of Military History
103 Third Ave., Bldg. 35
Fort Mcnair D.C. 20319-5058
abutrica@earthlink.net

Robert MacDougall
Department of History
University of Western Ontario
Social Science Centre, Room 4328
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2
rmacdou@uwo.ca

We welcome proposals that recognize the common experiences and contexts of American and European cities for understanding relationships among cities, manufacturing and commercial activities, and environmental consequences, responses, and challenges. We are particularly interested in research situated in the long nineteenth century. While case studies of cities or of industries in specific urban contexts are welcome, comparative studies and research that crosses geographies are especially encouraged. We also seek papers that explore ways that technological innovation, urban ideals, markets, and environmental conceptualizations linked cities across space. How, for example, did professional and informal networks of communication and knowledge in science, engineering, business, labor, law, politics, and medicine shape responses to environmental consequences of industrial and urban growth? How did responses by community members, reformers, and workers engage these groups in discourses across class, cultural, or political boundaries?

We aim to bring both established and younger scholars together to share their ongoing research as well as broader perspectives on themes and opportunities in urban environmental history. The conference will have a workshop format with a limited number of participants. Participants will give 10-15 minute presentations followed by discussion. We expect to be able to contribute to the cost of travel, lodging and meals for workshop participants.

The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2003. Proposals should be 250-500 words and accompanied by a short c.v. and an email contact address. Senior scholars who would like to participate as discussants are warmly encouraged to send a c.v. and statement of interest. Materials may be submitted electronically or by mail to the address below. Notification of accepted proposals will be made on or about December 31, 2003. Invited scholars will be asked to confirm participation by mid January 2004.

Please feel free to contact Donna Rilling, Chemical Heritage Foundation, with any questions.

Donna J. Rilling

Associate Professor, SUNY, Stony Brook and Gordon Cain Fellow in Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Policy, 2003-04

Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-2702
(215) 925-2222
(215) 925-2178 x317 (direct)
DonnaR@chemheritage.org