The History of Feminism Network is delighted to announce the successful completion by Marc Calvini-Lefebvre, one of our founding members, of his doctoral thesis at Goldsmiths, University of London, on ‘Feminism and the Challenge of War: responses of the British Women’s Suffrage Movement to the Great War’.

Congratulations Marc!

CALL FOR PAPERS
BEYOND CITIZENSHIP:  FEMINISM AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF BELONGING
An international, interdisciplinary conference

30 June – 2 July 2010; Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Confirmed Speakers

Sara Ahmed
Davina Cooper
Krassimira Daskalova
Antke Engel
Katherine Gibson
Rebecca Gomperts
Gail Lewis
Lynne Segal
Margrit Shildrick
Birte Siim
Gloria Wekker
Anna Yeatman

The language of citizenship has, in recent years, been mobilized by
feminists to articulate a wide range of claims and demands. The notions
of economic, political, social, cultural, sexual/ bodily, and intimate
citizenship, for example, have all been developed and explored in terms
of their normative potential and their actual realization. In Europe, in
particular, there has been a strong steer from research funders and
policy makers towards research agendas which address the question of
citizenship in the context of increasingly diverse and multicultural
societies.

But, can the concept of citizenship encompass the transformations that
feminist politics seek? What are the restrictions and exclusions of
contemporary forms and practices of citizenship? How does the concept of
citizenship deal with power, inequality, and difference? What are the
problems with framing our desires and visions for the future in terms of
citizenship in a globalizing world of migration, mobility, armed
conflict, economic crisis and climate change? Does the concept of
citizenship restrict our imaginations and limit our horizons within
nation-state formations? Can it ever really grasp the complexity of our
real and longed-for attachments to communities, networks, friends and
loved ones? Is it able to embrace the politics of embodiment and of our
relationships with the non-human world? How have feminists historically
and cross-culturally imagined and prefigured a world beyond citizenship?
Is a feminist, queer or global citizenship thinkable, or should we find
a new language for new forms of belonging?

We invite proposals for papers that address these questions and the
broad theme of the conference. We particularly welcome papers which
explore the interface between the feminist academy and feminist
activism, and which are interdisciplinary and innovative in method and
approach.

Individual paper proposals (max. 200 words) or proposals for panels of
three or four related papers (max. 300 words) should be submitted by 1st
December 2009 to: abstracts.beyondcitizenship@bbk.ac.uk

The conference will take place in central London. A limited number of
bursaries will be available. For further information about the
conference, visit:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bisr/beyondcitizenship/

Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging is
organised by FEMCIT, an EU FP6 integrated research project on “Gendered
citizenship in multicultural Europe: the impact of contemporary women’s
movements”, in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for Social
Research, at Birkbeck, University of London, Rokkansenteret, at the
University of Bergen, and is sponsored by the Norwegian Research
Council.

Organizing Committee
Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Ana Cristina Santos and Mariya
Stoilova
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
Birkbeck, University of London

Margaret Fuller: Transnational Exchanges

An International Conference to be held at Bangor University, Wales.

Keynote Speakers: Professor Brigitte Bailey (University of New Hampshire)
and Professor Susan Manning (University of Edinburgh)

To mark the bicentenary of Margaret Fuller’s birth, we are organising a
symposium on transnational exchanges in Fuller’s writing, editing and
context. A unique thinker, influential journalist, engaging critic and
women’s rights advocate, Fuller was one of the most significant
international intellectuals of the nineteenth-century: her editorship of
the transcendentalist journal the Dial and her book Woman in the
Nineteenth Century (1845) pushed the boundaries of knowledge, philosophy
and political thought. In 1846 she also travelled to Italy as a foreign
correspondent for the New York Tribune to cover the nascent revolutions,
pursuing the transnational ideals fuelled by her classical education in
European languages and a fascination with cultures, traditions, and
identities. Her translations, travel writing and dialogues offer
intriguing insights into transatlantic connections and transnational
cultural exchanges. Some of the topics might include (but are not limited
to) Margaret Fuller and,

*       Transnational Movements of Culture
*       Travelling Ideas
*       Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism
*       US, Europe and Global Economies
*       Revolutions and International Politics
*       Transatlantic Romanticisms
*       American Empire and European Imperialisms
*       Transnational Women’s Writing
*       Sexuality, Gender, Androgyny
*       Translation and Cultural Exchange
*       Travel Writing, Writing Travel
*       Comparative Approaches
*       Dialogues and Experimental Writing

The symposium will be held at Bangor University, Wales on September 11-12,
2010 . Please send a 300 word abstract and a brief biographical
description by February 26, 2010 to Carol Tully (c.tully@bangor.ac.uk) and
Justin D. Edwards (justin.edwards@bangor.ac.uk).

The FWSA is now accepting entries for its 2009-10 Student Essay
Competition. To encourage a new generation of feminist scholars, the
association sponsors this annual competition for student work (at
undergraduate or postgraduate level) which is innovative,
interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. The prize
for the best essay is £200 and a year’s FWSA membership. The top six
entries are published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies.
Pieces must be between 5,000 and 7,000 words long (including footnotes,
excluding bibliography) and have to be submitted electronically to
admin@fwsa.org.uk along with the coversheet and a short biographical note.
For further submission requirements and details see the poster attached.
The deadline for submissions is 1st November 2009.

For more
information please visit www.fwsa.org.uk or
email admin@fwsa.org.uk. If you would like to display a hardcopy of the
poster, please send your request to n.muller@2009.hull.ac.uk.

The BBC have put a fantastic new archive of materials on the British suffrage movement online:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/suffragettes/index.shtml

The Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2009
Raphael Samuel (1934-1996)

6.30pm, Friday 27th November 2009
Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH (near Liverpool Street Station)

Jeffrey Weeks
Making the Human Gesture: History, Sexuality and Social Justice.

The 1970s saw the rise of new social movements engaged with issues of sexuality. Historians inspired by these movements began writing histories of sexual life. This talk traces the development of sexual history since the 1970s, and shows the impact of changing sexual mores on modern attitudes to human rights and social justice.

Jeffrey Weeks is a leading historian and sociologist of sexuality. His 1977 book Coming Out  was hugely influential, and he has since published many other landmark works, including Sexuality and Its Discontents (1985), Making Sexual History (2001), and The World We Have Won: the Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life (2007) . Jeffrey Weeks is now Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University.

The lecture is free of charge and open to all, and will be followed by a wine reception.

Dr Lucy Bland has obtained AHRC research leave from January and needs someone to coverage for the teaching of an 11 week 1st year u/grad module:  Introduction to Women’s History, starting in Feb 2010.  If you are interested, please contact her directly at: l.bland@londonmet.ac.uk

History of Feminism Network presents a seminar series in postcolonial approaches to feminism.

Over the last 3 decades, post-colonial studies have had a profound impact upon the study and practice of feminism. Historians have had increasingly to look to a multiplicity of ‘feminisms’ that emerged globally in the last two centuries. Meanwhile, study of what was traditionally labelled ‘first wave feminism’ (Anglo-American women’s movements of the nineteenth-century) has been transformed through the recognition of the extent to which western women’s claims for emancipation were bound up with imperialist and oppressive conceptions of citizenship. Postcolonial critiques have also been one of the most important factors in challenging and re-shaping feminist activism since at least 1980, with many assumptions about our ability to call for ‘universal’ liberation and to support women’s rights across the globe having been overturned.

This seminar series seeks to take account of these developments, and to ask where they leave us today – for both the theory and practice of feminism. We will re-visit classic texts of postcolonial histories of feminism, as well as hearing from new scholars working in this field. We will ask to what extent post-colonialism has succeeded in re-formulating historians’ periodisation and definitions of ‘feminism’. We also want to re-visit key feminist concepts such as ‘agency’, ‘difference’, ‘representation’ and ‘citizenship’ and to ask, in the light of post-colonial critiques, whether they continue to be of use to us as both historical concepts and political tools. Can a post-colonial analysis of inequities of power between women become the beginning rather than the end of a conversation about the possibility of transnational feminism and the building of solidarity across borders?

The seminars are designed to be for both academics and activists. We want to provide a space that encourages us to both approach ‘academic’ research in a politicised frame and to theoretically ground our ‘political’ activism. We will be reading both historical and theoretical texts, and although our discussions will always seek to take a historical view of the questions we address, we also welcome feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines.

This semester the seminars will take the form of a reading group. Please read the texts in advance and come along ready to discuss them.

16^th Oct.  Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Imperial Context (Introduction and chapter 1).

13^th Nov. Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 & Sara Ahmed, ‘A Phenomenology of Whiteness’, Feminist Theory, 8 (2) (2007), 149-68; Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: orientations, objects, others (Durham, 2006).

18^th Dec. Gayatri Chackravorty Spivak, ‘Can the Subultern Speak?’, in Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg,  Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture and Mrinilini Sinha, ‘Introduction’, to Katherine Mayo, Selections from Mother India ed. Mrinilini Sinha (Michigan, 2000) pp 1-63.

All seminars take place in from 5.30-7.00pm in the Tillotson Room, 502, 30 Russell Square. Please contact Dr Naomi Hetherington n.hetherington@bbk.ac.uk or Dr Laura Schwartz laura.schwartz@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk for further details.

Call for Articles—Special Issue of Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research—Topic: The Legacy of Jane Addams

Peace & Change, the journal of the Peace History Society (PHS) and the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) is planning a special issue in early 2011 to celebrate the 150^th anniversary of Jane Addams’s birth and the 10^th anniversary of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, gender equality, and peace. We are interested in publishing pieces pertinent to Addams’s legacy of women’s rights, nonviolence, citizenship responsibility, human rights, and activism against the use of violence against women in militarized societies or during war. Articles which address the work of women’s organizations, human rights efforts, and individual people’s work on behalf of women are welcome. Also of interest are first-hand accounts from activists currently working on these issues. Acceptance for publication will be based on originality, scholarship, and attention to women’s issues. We particularly welcome materials addressing regional or global perspectives through a historical lens.

Deadline for submission: January 15, 2010. Contributors will be notified by late February of acceptance of papers. All revisons will be due back to the editors by June 15, 2010.

Guidelines for submission: All submissions should be sent as Microsoft Word documents, use Times New Roman, and be double-spaced throughout, including the abstract, block quotes, and notes. Articles should not exceed 25 pages, excluding endnotes. Shorter pieces and very short anecdotes are welcome. All notes should be placed at the end of the manuscript and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15^th ed. A 50-word biographical statement and an abstract of 100-150 words must accompany the manuscript. The editors are the final arbiters of length, grammar, and usage. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to use copyrighted material. Please note that Word 2007 is not yet compatible with journal and production systems. Unfortunately, the journal cannot accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents. Refer to http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/PECH for more information on this matter and for the submission of artwork, photographs, etc.

Submit materials electronically to each of the following:

Harriet Alonso, halonso@ccny.cuny.edu

Robbie Lieberman, robl@siu.edu

You may also mail hard copies and a CD to Professor Harriet Alonso, c/o The City College of New York, Department of History (NAC 5/144), 138^th Street and Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031 and to Professor Robbie Lieberman, Department of History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4519

Herstoria_Issue_3_web.jpg <http://www.herstoria.com/> HerStoria is a new
independent magazine launched to bring women’s history to a wider audience

In Autumn’s issue – England’s most provocative queen, the history of women
football fans, the first woman civil servant (who was also a
pre-Raphaelite model), early-modern witches, the shocking case of women
doctors, and an interview with the costume designer on the BBC’s new
adaptation of Austen’s Emma.  We also start a regular column on the
history of dress with a look at golfing hemlines and handicaps, and begin
a series on ‘Radical Lives’ with Sylvia Pankhurst.  Much more too,
including a walk with suffrage, reviews, listings and news.

To find out more or subscribe please visit www.herstoria.com
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