Conferences
Call for papers: Gender Religion and Power Conference
Interdisciplinary conference
The Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender
‘Gender, Religion and Power’
Saturday 21 September at Senate House, London
We invite academics at all levels to propose a paper to this one-day conference, and we especially encourage postgraduate researchers to submit abstracts. This is to be a multidisciplinary conference which analyses the historical links between gender and religion, gender and power, or all three. We welcome submissions from all historical periods and all geographical regions, and encourage those interested to tailor their submissions to their own research.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited …
CfP: WOMEN’S HISTORY SCOTLAND, GENDER TRANSGRESSIONS
WOMEN’S HISTORY SCOTLAND CONFERENCE
Edinburgh, 16th November 2019
GENDER TRANSGRESSIONS
Historical perspectives
Call for Papers
This conference will explore the idea of transgressing gender norms (including those relating to masculinity and femininity) and the consequences of this for individuals or groups. We welcome proposals relating to all historical periods (ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary) and all geographical places including Scotland.
We understand ‘gender transgression’ to refer to sets of ideas and practices that encompass (but are not restricted to) the following areas:
- Legal, moral, ethical and religious frameworks
- Wrongdoing, reformation and reconciliation
- Borders and boundary crossing
- Resistance and rebellion
- Medicine,
CfP: Architectures of Power: buildings of politics and governance, 1750-2000.
Historians have long recognised the importance of architecture within the exercising of political power. Yet the interaction between power and place, between human actor and physical location, is a difficult one to quantify. This conference brings together political, social, cultural, and architectural historians to explore this relationship. Architecture could be mobilised to exhibit and to legitimise political power, but it could also have a profound influence on decision-makers at crucial moments of governance. Architecture has played a fundamental role in performances of statecraft. Accounting for this architectural agency, without
‘Breaking Bounds’, an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference on 19th-century women
Registration is now open for ‘Breaking Bounds’, an interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate and early careers researchers, to be held at the University of Portsmouth on Saturday 11th May 2019. A draft programme and a link to the registration website can be found at https://breakingbounds2019.wordpress.com/
Social media movements such as #MeToo and #WhyIDidntReport have created spaces for women to share their experiences of sexual violence, harassment and objectification, as well as condemning the seeming acceptability of men abusing their positions of power. Going beyond individual stories, these discussions have rejected notions of female victimhood and have attempted to shift the focus …
CFP: Gender in Modern Welsh History Symposium
CALL FOR PAPERS
Date: 11 September 2019
Location: Cardiff University
This one-day symposium aims to bring together early career researchers and established scholars who work on any aspect of the history of gender in nineteenth and twentieth-century Wales. It will seek to interrogate gender as a concept which encompasses both femininity and masculinity, to provide fresh perspectives on familiar themes, and to encourage delegates to consider how gender can transform broader narratives in histories of Wales. Significant advances have been made in the field of Welsh women’s history since Deirdre Beddoe’s eminently quotable claim in 1981 that if ‘a creature …
