» Conferences http://women-in-technological-history.net Fri, 07 May 2010 18:07:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 CFP: Berkshire Conference on Women’s History http://women-in-technological-history.net/2009/12/cfp-berkshire-conference-on-women%e2%80%99s-history/ http://women-in-technological-history.net/2009/12/cfp-berkshire-conference-on-women%e2%80%99s-history/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:28:48 +0000 admin1 http://women-in-technological-history.net/?p=226 CALL FOR PAPERS

“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

]]> http://women-in-technological-history.net/2009/12/cfp-berkshire-conference-on-women%e2%80%99s-history/feed/ 0 “Gender and Career Perspectives in the History of Technology:” a WITH panel discussion http://women-in-technological-history.net/2009/11/gender-and-career-perspectives-in-the-history-of-technology-a-with-panel-discussion/ http://women-in-technological-history.net/2009/11/gender-and-career-perspectives-in-the-history-of-technology-a-with-panel-discussion/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:04:42 +0000 admin1 http://women-in-technological-history.net/?p=217 WITH PANEL DISCUSSION, PITTSBURGH SHOT MEETING 2009 “Gender and Career Perspectives in the History of Technology” MODERATOR: Molly Berger, Case Western Reserve University PARTICIPANTS: Ruth Cowan, University of Pennsylvania Rebecca Herzig, Bates College Amy Slaton, Drexel University Min Suh Son, Johns Hopkins University Nina Wormbs, Royal Institute of Stockholm This panel addresses what it means to be a woman in the history of technology. It invites especially students and young scholars to raise questions about the past and present role of gender in our profession, such as: What experiences have women and men had in our field? Have they been able to mobilize their gender to their advantage, and how? Or have they seen dangers of being pigeonholed, for example when choosing gendered research topics? What role does gender play for historians of technology working in different institutional contexts today? Are there certain niches in which being a woman or working on gender is of advantage, particularly in the current economic environment? The panel seeks to open an inter-generational dialogue to explore career perspectives in the history of technology. Ruth noted that there are times in academia and in the history of technology when she doesn’t see gender any more. Amy suggested that we can still use gender as a lens on other categories of difference, such as race, and that it remains important to think about how we bring our own identity into our work. Nina added that it may be different at different times, whether we bring women in as our primary identity, reflecting factors such as career path. Min Suh also noted other factors such as racial stereotypes affecting identity and others’ perceptions. Rebecca commented that historians of technology confronting the issue of technological determinism may have interesting angles as parallel to scholars of women’s studies confronting the issue of biological determinism. The panel went on to discuss issues of age, disability, class, and race, and ways that WITH might adapt its identity and activities in future to reflect a broader inclusiveness (identity, diversity) and remain intellectually and socially relevant for a wide range of SHOT members. Specific enthusiasm was expressed for some kind of future WITH sponsored panel on biological determinism and its parallels with technological determinism. Rebecca and Nina agreed to lead some work on writing a WITH mission statement. yours, amy bix ]]> http://women-in-technological-history.net/2009/11/gender-and-career-perspectives-in-the-history-of-technology-a-with-panel-discussion/feed/ 0