Calls for Papers
Instructions for Submitting to the 2014 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and New Deadline – January 21st
We are pleased that you intend to submit a proposal to the 2014 Big Berks! Here is an overview to remind you of the major theme and the 11 different subthemes (in this system called “tracks”). In submitting a proposal, you must submit to one subtheme/track, but you can note a second choice in your [...]
Your New Year’s Resolution? Submit A Proposal to the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 2014. Deadline January 15 2013.
Update: Proposals should be entered into the system today, January 15 2012. What if you are having trouble with the website, or difficulty having your co-panelists get their stuff to you? Anonymous Program Fairies report that the submission site will not actually close until January 22nd. On the 21st, the program chairs may decide to extend the [...]
CFP: Beyond the Binaries: Critical Approaches to Sex and Gender in Early America. Deadline: January 31 2013
A special issue of Early American Studies: In a 1993 article in Sciences, biologist and historian Anne Fausto-Sterling provocatively argued that human sex could not be neatly divided into two simple categories, men and women. Instead, she recommended a five-part system of categorization, including men, women, merms, ferms, and herms. At the time of publication, [...]
Queer London Conference: Call for Papers. Deadline November 30 2012.
Saturday 23rd March, 2013, Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Westminster Keynote Speaker: Dr. Matt Cook (Birkbeck College, University of London) This one-day conference is dedicated to a consideration of London and its role in creating, housing, reflecting and facilitating queer life. It aims to bring together scholars from a variety of different [...]
REMINDER AND SUBMISSION SITE FOR 2014 BIG BERKS IS UP AND RUNNING!!!
Call for Papers, Berkshire Conference on Women’s History Histories on the Edge/Histoires sur la brèche Toronto: May 22-25, 2014 Proposals due: January 15, 2013 The sixteenth Berkshire Conference on Women’s History will be held in Toronto on May 22-25, 2014. The University of Toronto will host the first Canadian “Big Berks” in collaboration with co-sponsoring [...]
CFP: Radical History Review, “Queering Archives” (Due February 1 2013)
Editors: Daniel Marshall, Zeb Tortorici, and Kevin Murphy This issue of Radical History Review reflects on the notion of the “archive” that has been radically opened up by activists, archivists, and scholars. Beginning with feminist and postcolonial critiques of institutional and bureaucratic consolidations of power, what has come to be called the “queer archive” has emerged from [...]
Frequently Asked Questions About Submitting A Conference Proposal
Q. How do I submit a proposal? Can I submit my proposal electronically? You can only submit a proposal electronically. Please click here to access the Berks Submission site. You will be asked to submit to ONE of the thematic subcommittees, and indicate a second choice as well. If you are having difficulties with the [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS: Berkshire Conference on Women’s History
CALL FOR PAPERS Berkshire Conference on Women’s History Histories on the Edge/Histoires sur la brèche Toronto: May 22-25, 2014 Proposals due January 15, 2013 The sixteenth Berkshire Conference on Women’s History will be held in Toronto on May 22-25, 2014. The University of Toronto will host the first Canadian “Big Berks” in collaboration with co-sponsoring [...]
Initial Announcement: 2014 Berkshire Conference on Women’s History Themes
Histories on the Edge/Histoires sur la brèche University of Toronto: May 22-25, 2014 Proposals due Jan 15, 2013 For the first time in its history, the Berkshire Conference on Women’s History (also known as the “Big Berks”) will be held outside of the United States, at the University of Toronto, on May 22-25, 2014. The [...]
Call for Papers: A Special Issue of Frontiers on Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice
Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies invites submissions for a special issue on reproductive technologies and reproductive justice. In commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the legacies of that decision, we welcome scholarly and creative works that analyze the contested terrains of reproduction in local, national, or transnational contexts. We are [...]
Call for Papers – Women in Early America
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS This project, Women in Early America, is an anthology on women in America from contact through the Revolutionary era. Proposals for essays that employ a transnational approach and that rewrite master narratives are especially encouraged. As the volume is largely intended for use in undergraduate courses, essays that are written for that [...]
2011 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
“GENERATIONS: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space” June 9-12, 2011, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Proposals due March 19, 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 the History of Women [...]
Conferences and Calls for Papers
The Virtual Library of Women’s History features an extensive list of upcoming and past conferences and calls for papers in women’s history worldwide, including submission information for numerous journals in the field at http://www.iisg.nl/w3vlwomenshistory/conferences.html
