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Forschungsplattform “Neuverortung der Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte im veränderten europäischen Kontext”
Zeit: Donnerstag, 26. November 2009, 15.00 Uhr (s.t.)
Ort: Universität Wien, Lesesaal des Instituts für Geschichte, Hauptgebäude, 2. Stock
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Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of Legacy. A Journal of American Women Writers. Guest Editor: Tamara Harvey
In many ways, the study of women and the early Americas has never been more robust. Work on women throughout the Americas, including European, African, and native omen, both free and enslaved, has profited from decades of ground-breaking scholarly ttention not only to those whose names appeared on the title pages of books, but towomen whose texts were hidden in the works of others, stagnating in untapped manuscript archives, or awaiting interpretive methodologies that could address oral and material texts.
And yet in the metaphors of maps and routes that frequently dominate the emerging fields of Atlantic, transnational, and hemispheric studies, women can seem to be pushed to the margins, left to lounge in the cartouches of mappae mundi or to stand duty as figureheads on the bows of ships. That is to say, while their presence is acknowledged, the way that presence might require these studies to be revised, rethought, and retheorized remains to be fully engaged.
In their introduction to Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World (1600-1800), Read more…
Gender, Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft Issue 03/2010 (Web)
9 November 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the historical starting point of the political and social transformation of the former socialist societies in Eastern and Central Eastern Europe, and the starting point for the German re-unification in 1990.
While in the (early) 1990s, the discussion was still intense on the unification of two patriarchal systems and the alleged lead in gender equality in Eastern and Central European countries vis à vis the Western neighbours, it seems to have become somewhat more quiet in the perspective of women and gender studies regarding state and consequences of transformation and respective gender effects.
By now, from a gender perspective, the historical importance of the rivalry of the systems and the post-socialist constellations in East and West are hardly understood. At the same time Read more…
ERC-Starting Grant-Projekt „The Production of Work” (Web)
November 27 – 28, 2009
Marietta-Blau-Saal, University of Vienna
Questions of labor market and labor intermediation have been a political concern in most European countries as well as the USA and Canada since the late 19th century. In contemporary debates, public labor exchanges were depicted as a tool to cope with the confusing complexity of labor markets and to match the supply and demand of labor more effectively.
Up to now, only a few studies have asked how public labor exchange contributed to the emergence and differentiation of nationalized labor markets. However, public labor exchange did not just coordinate or regulate a given labor market but also contributed to the historical creation of labor and the segregation of labor markets. By defining regular employment, it helped to Read more…
Stiftung Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung (Web)
Deadline: 23.11.2009
Der Lobgesang auf die 1950er und frühen 1960er Jahre - angestimmt von konservativen Feuilletonisten, die diese Jahre als Hochphase ‘traditioneller’, westdeutscher Familienwerte preisen - erweist sich bei genauerer Betrachtung als Abwehrgesang gegen heutige Veränderungen in den Geschlechterverhältnissen. Verschiebungen in der Familienstruktur, eine immer breiter werdenden Akzeptanz neuer Familienformen und das Aufbrechen rigider Männlichkeitsvorstellungen lassen die ‘ruhigen’ und nicht zuletzt deshalb auch beruhigenden Anfangsjahrzehnte der Bundesrepublik im Rückblick als Ausweg aus der heute diagnostizierten Geschlechter-Krise erscheinen.
Noch bis Mitte der 1950er Jahre geisterte das Schreckgespenst vom “Frauenüberschuss” und den “unvollständigen Familien” durch die westdeutschen Medien. Als Gegenmaßnahme wurde Read more…
Last spring, Syracuse University’s Chancellor, Nancy Cantor, announced that she had selected Transnationalizing LGBT Studies as one of the projects that would receive a 2009 Chancellor’s Leadership Project Award. The co-directors of the LGBT Studies Program (http://lgbt-studies.syr.edu/) and Transnationalizing LGBT Studies are Margaret Himley (mrhimley@syr.edu) and Andrew London (anlondon@maxwell.syr.edu).
This three-year award gives us the opportunity and the resources to move our LGBT/Queer courses and scholarship beyond national borders to engage questions of sexual and gender identities, theories, communities, movements, Diasporas, and politics from global and transnational perspectives by collaborating with colleagues in the U.S., Spain, and other parts of the world. We are pursuing significant questions about LGBT/Queer scholarship, pedagogy, and
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Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions (Web)
Datum:01.-03.07.2010
Ort: Berlin
Deadline: 18.01.2010
Although research in emotions gained momentum in the last decade or so across a wide range of disciplines - including psychology, anthropology and neuroscience -, the historiography of emotions is still a widely unexplored terrain. By focussing on the interactions between different emotional styles the workshop aims at enhancing further investigations into this field.
In which ways can the simultaneity of distinct styles help to understand and to explain the dynamics and the changes of emotional patterns and practices? During the workshop participants will explore and discuss ideas and queries revolving around this question.
Is it possible to discern diverging emotional styles, i.e. ways of dealing with and expressing feelings, within one socio-cultural context? Do different (culturally or otherwise defined) communities Read more…