AHRC History Funding
The departments of history at the Universities of Bristol and Essex are currently advertising AHRC – funded PhDs starting in September. For these and other such announcements, visit http://www.jobs.ac.uk.
New Publication – ‘Death in the Shape of a Young Girl’: Feminist Responses to Media Representations of Women Terrorists during the ‘German Autumn’ of 1977
‘Death in the Shape of a Young Girl’: Feminist Responses to Media Representations of Women Terrorists during the ‘German Autumn’ of 1977 Author: Patricia Melzer Journal: International Feminist Journal of Politics
New Article – The Universal Principle of Grace: Feminism and Anti-Calvinism in Two Seventeenth-Century Women Writers
The Universal Principle of Grace: Feminism and Anti-Calvinism in Two Seventeenth-Century Women Writers Sarah Apetrei Abstract Published Online: 13 Mar 2009 Journal: Gender and History
PhD Funding in History – Goldsmiths, University of London
Goldsmiths Department of History is offering fees-only bursaries, on a competitive basis, to home/EU students wishing to undertake doctoral research in one of the following areas: • History of the Early Modern Mediterranean • Intellectual and cultural history of South Asia c.1800 – present • Early…
New resource – Feminist Webs
Feminist Webs- Understanding the past, creating the future, making herstory Feminist Webs is an intergenerational collective of youth workers, young people and academics from across the North West, who have come together to ‘do something’ about work with girls and young women. Since the closure in the mid-1990s of the National Girls’ Work Unit and…
CfP – SECOND ANNUAL TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN’S HISTORY IN THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE
SECOND ANNUAL TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN’S HISTORY IN THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE Brunel University’s Centre for American, Transatlantic and Caribbean History (CATCH) is holding a one-day conference on 30 May 2009 to discuss transnational perspectives on the history of women in the Americas. We welcome scholars of Canadian, US, Mexican, and South American history to apply as individuals…
CfP- ‘The Personal is Political’: The interfaces between Politics and Culture across Europe in the 1970s
Call for papers for the International Conference: ““The personal is political”: The interfaces between Politics and Culture across Europe in the 1970s” Date: 26-27 August 2009 Location: Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Partly funded by Faculty of History Graduate Funds. Organisers: Erato Basea (University of Oxford); Kathrin Fahlenbrach (University of Halle-Wittenberg);Sebastian Gehrig…
London Seminar Group Meeting – Turning faces to the future: writing women’s history and postmodernism,1986-2006
The London Group of the History of Feminism Network will meet on Wednesday 18 March for its fifth seminar of the year in the Activities Room of the The Women’s Library from 5:30 to 7:30. We will be discussing a paper by Angela Grainger of The Women’s Library: Turning faces to the future: writing women’s history and postmodernism,1986-2006…
CfP – Gender and the Politics of Exile in the Latin American Diaspora
Gender and the Politics of Exile in the Latin American Diaspora We are inviting paper proposals for a panel that seeks to contribute to a gendered perspective of the history of Latin American exile, preferably with a focus on the twentieth century. Papers should add new complexity to the understanding of exile, which scholars…
Seminar (London) – The Generations of 1908 and 1968: Fabian Feminism and Women’s Activism on the Left
Women’s History Seminar 20 March 2009 Polly Beals (Southern Connecticut State University) The Generations of 1908 and 1968: Fabian Feminism and Women’s Activism on the Left Full details of location, time, and other papers presented: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihrseminars/seminar.php?series=150
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