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Call for Papers: Roundtable on The Subject and Critical Feminist Biography.—For a special issue of the Journal of Women's History on "Critical Feminist Biography," we invite short submissions (approximately 1,000 words) for a roundtable on "The Subject and Critical Feminist Biography." In this roundtable, we ask scholars from various fields who have been engaged in biographical projects to reflect on how the subjects of feminist biography get consolidated. What sorts of "filters" operate through the process of biographical work, from a scholar's choice of subject to the pressures publishers may exert that result in highlighting some subjects and not others. Equally important, how are life histories written, in what forms do they emerge given scholarly commitments to issues of representation and silencing that feminist theory and praxis foregrounds? Given that women, children, people of color, people of the global South, and other subjects deemed marginal to dominant historical narratives continue to have a vexed relationship to conventional archives-and given that such archives may continue to be constituted in ways that exclude such subjects-how do we write biographies of social actors whose "marginal" energies we want to highlight and interrogate? This question may become especially apposite when such subjects move across local, regional, and national borders, and/or if they do not appear to embody an autonomous, discrete subjectivity. When, as subjects of oral histories or interviews, they are actively co-producers of accounts of their own lives, what kinds of differences does this make in the production of biography and, as feminist scholars, what kinds of investments do we make in such co-productions and how do we (or ought we) to foreground the processes by which these life narratives come into being? Another question that might be asked is: what nodes of reception surround (or haunt) biography written as a kind of feminist praxis? How do historians receive-and use-biography as a source? For historians who foreground gender and women, does biography continue to offer a useful arena for feminist historical scholarship, or does it as a genre risk overemphasizing the recuperative and celebratory aspects of earlier women's history? This question links back to that of the pressures on the biographer as a result of the multinational capitalist configuration of the publishing industry. What kinds of compromises must be made-if any-to move feminist biography outside of the academy? Can we articulate a feminist politics to a broader audience through biography? Our due date for submissions to this roundtable is July 15, 2008. Editors for this special issue are Marilyn Booth and Antoinette Burton. Please send queries to womenshistory@uiuc.edu.
Deadline: July 15, 2008
Contact e-mail: womenshistory@uiuc.edu
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Call for Papers: Where Minds and Matters Meet: Technology in California and the West—The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West invites proposals for a scholarly workshop examining the history of technology in California and the American West. "Minds and Matters" will bring together a small group of scholars on April 24-25, 2009, to explore new themes in the history of technology, and to discuss new perspectives on technology as an analytical category. Topics or themes might include, but are not limited to agriculture, the extractive industries, urbanization, energy and water, computers, military, popular culture, media, de-industrialization, etc. Participants will submit and share drafts, which may be included in a collected essays volume. Some funding will be available for travel and lodging. Please submit a letter, a c.v., a 400 word abstract, two references by August 15, 2008. Send to Volker Janssen Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, The Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino, CA 91108. E-mail: vjanssen@fullerton.edu.
Deadline: August 15, 2008
Contact e-mail: vjanssen@fullerton.edu
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Call for Papers: Reproduction, Sex, and Power Special Issue—This special issue seeks to spotlight the centrality of reproduction, sex, and power to women's history. Histories of nations, empires, foreign policy, law, religion, and popular culture are not free of these seemingly private experiences. The issue will illuminate the points of similarity, divergence, and convergence, the moments when these areas of personal experience become politically powerful and sites of collective action. The range of possible topics is broad: obstetrics and gynecology, midwifery, technologies, practitioners, birth control, adoption, sexual practices, sexual identity and parenting, health and sex education. Research essays from all time periods, geographical regions, and methodological and theoretical stances on the themes of this issue are welcomed. Address submissions to Leslie J. Reagan, Editor, Reproduction, Sex, and Power Special Issue, Journal of Women's History, c/o Dept. of History, University of Illinois, 810 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801.
Deadline: September 1, 2008
Web page: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/guidelines.html
Contact e-mail: womenshistory@uiuc.edu
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Advanced German and European Studies—The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to one-year of research support at the Freie Universität Berlin. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on modern and contemporary German and European history. The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students who have achieved ABD status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian PhDs who have received their doctorates within the past two calendar years. The Berlin Program is based at, funded and administered by the Freie Universität Berlin. The program's publicity and selection process is organized in cooperation with the German Studies Association (GSA). Deadline of December 1, 2008. For more complete information and an application form, visit our web site at http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/ or send an e-mail to bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de.
Deadline: December 1, 2008
Call for Papers for Hulili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being—Hulili is an annual peer-reviewed journal managed by the Research and Evaluation division of Kamehameha Schools and published by Kamehameha Publishing. Hulili highlights theory, practice, and research on Native Hawaiian issues from diverse disciplines. We are currently accepting papers for Vol. 5 (to be published in winter 2008). We will accept papers throughout the year, although papers that are submitted later in the year will be considered for Vol. 6. Previous volumes of Hulili are online at www.hawaiidigitallibrary.org. If interested, please contact Brandon Ledward at (808) 541-5325 or spire@ksbe.edu.
Deadline: December 31, 2008
Web page: http://www.ksbe.edu/spi
Contact e-mail: spire@ksbe.edu
Polish American Historical Association—The editorial board of "Polish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia," to be published by McFarland Publishers, seeks contributors to author biographical (250-500 words) and topical (500-1,250 words) entries. Interested persons should e-mail the editor, James S. Pula, at jpula@pnc.edu with an expression of interest and an indication of the general fields of expertise or specific entries of interest. Contributors will be encouraged to undertake multiple entries. Those who express an interest in being contributors will receive a list of available entries, contributor guidelines, and deadlines. Compensation is available for acceptable entries.
Deadline: December 31, 2008
Web page: http://www.polishamericanstudies.org
Contact e-mail: jpula@pnc.edu
Survey of History Educators—Notice to educators of history undergraduates, particularly non-majors: the following link will take you to a short survey about how we teach our students the value of historical methodologies as academic and practical skills ("Why History?" skills). Your participation is greatly appreciated. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=5BlWd9_2bGzBc5o1jTHvJ9_2bw_3d_3d.
Deadline: December 31, 2008
Web page: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=5BlWd9_2bGzBc5o1jTHvJ9_2bw_3d_3d
Contact e-mail: kleesj@baycollege.edu
Call for Authors: First Men, America's Presidents—No deadline specified. Nova Science Publishers is publishing a book series tiled First Men, America's Presidents and several additional authors are needed to complete this ongoing project. AHA professors are encouraged to contribute a brief biographical book on remaining presidents (200 to 250 manuscript pages). If you are interested in being assigned a book contract to write a book length biography on one of the remaining presidents, please contact Dr. Barbara Bennett Peterson Series editor at fandbpeterson@aol.com
Deadline: December 31, 2008
Conference Group for Study of Religion in World History—No Deadline Specified. At the annual meeting of the World History Association, a group of participants resolved to form a Conference Group for the Study of Religion in World History. This arose out of a perceived need to integrate the study of religion into the mainstream of world history scholarship, given its obvious importance as a transregional and globalizing force. The purposes of the group are: 1) to establish and maintain a presence at meetings which address world history topics through the organization of panels and contributions of papers to panels on related themes, structured to reach a wide audience; 2) provide a network for the exchange of information and ideas such as research projects and bibliographies. This can lead to a regular newsletter, depending on participant interest. Interested persons should contact David Lindenfeld, Department of History, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, e-mail: hylind@lsu.edu for a membership form.
Deadline: December 31, 2008
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Call to Edit Journal of Women's History—The Journal of Women's History, founded in 1989 as the first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women's history, invites proposals for a new editorial home for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2010. Interested parties should contact the Journal office as soon as possible at the Department of History, University of Illinois, womenshistory@uiuc.edu, to request a prospectus that outlines the current organization and funding of the Journal. Proposals to edit the Journal should include: 1) a statement of editorial policy; 2) an organizational plan for the editorial and administrative functions of the Journal; 3) a statement of commitment of institutional support; and 4) copies of c.v. for the editor or editors. Proposals are due to Eileen Boris, President, Board of Trustees, Journal of Women's History, Women's Studies Program, South Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 by February 27th, 2009.
Deadline: February 27, 2009
Contact e-mail: womenshistory@uiuc.edu
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