16 and 17 June 2016, King’s College London It is now over forty years since the bold declaration of psychohistorian Lloyd deMause that ‘The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken’. Stirred…
Category: Calls for Papers
Category for all conference listings which are calls for papers
Voluntary Action History Society 25th Anniversary Conference
Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce that the Voluntary Action History Society’s 25th Anniversary Conference will take place at the University of Liverpool, UK, between 13th and 15th July 2016. The theme is THINKING ABOUT THE PAST, THINKING…
Eleanor Rathbone Symposium
From Somerville to Westminster, 1893 – 1946 A one-day Symposium and room-naming ceremony to be held at SOMERVILLE COLLEGE,OXFORD to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the death of Eleanor Rathbone (1872 – 1946), Somerville’s first Member of Parliament. Friday 22 January 2016, 9.30 am – 4.30pm.
Love Letters: Call for Participation
Thursday 21st January – Saturday 23rd January 2016 London, United Kingdom What is and does a love letter? Are there any essential elements, or do the defining characteristics of amorous correspondence change from generation to generation, and from one culture…
Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children from Slavery to Emancipation
Call for Papers: University of Reading 19-21 April 2016 As part of an international research network funded by an AHRC network grant entitled ‘Mothering Slaves: Comparative Perspectives on Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies’ we…
CFP for a Special Edition of Women’s Writing
Women’s Writings of World War I Emma Liggins and Elizabeth Nolan, Manchester Metropolitan University Feminist scholarship has already demonstrated that the experience of the trench soldier should not dominate our understandings of the First World War, recognising that women were…
Girl Studies Inaugural Conference 2016
International Girl Studies Association are seeking submissions for our inaugural conference in 2016. The inaugural conference seeks to bring together researchers and students working on girls and girlhood in any part of the world and in any discipline or interdisciplinary…
CFP: WOMEN, GENDER AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: HOME FRONTS AND WAR FRONTS
One day Conference, University of Portsmouth, Saturday 10th October 2015 Venue: Park Building, 5 minute walk from Portsmouth & Southsea station The Conference organisers welcome proposals for papers on any aspect of the First World War relating to women and…
CFP: First Women Lawyers in England, Wales and the Empire Symposia
First symposium: Wednesday 9th September 2015 Location: St Mary’s University, The Shannon Board Room, Waldegrave Road, Twickenham TW1 4SX Time: 10am (registration and coffee) for 10.30am start Abstract The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 heralded women’s long awaited entry to the legal profession. What…