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WOMEN’S HISTORY SCOTLAND NEWSLETTER
(February 2013)
Please send items for inclusion in the next newsletter to Elizabeth Ewan at eewan@uoguelph.ca
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News from WHS
Seminar and Lecture Series
Conferences, Events
Calls for Papers
Publications
News from Archives, Websites
Requests
And Finally
February is LGBT Month – see events under Conferences/Events
1.NEWS FROM WHS
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. AMY MURPHY
For the successsful defence of her doctoral thesis ‘Reading the Lives between the Lines:
Lesbian Oral History and Lesbian Literature in Post-War Britain’.
WHS ANNUAL CONFERENCE: 3-5 May 2013
Centre for Nordic Studies, UHI, Kirkwall, Orkney
Making, Creating, Producing:
Historical Perspectives on Women, Gender & Production
This year’s annual conference will take place in Orkney and our theme explores the historical
experience of women's relationship with production of things, of services and ideas - in the
workplace and in the home, unpaid and paid. The conference will be hosted by Orkney College,
part of the University of the Highlands and Islands. WHS is keen to extend its activities outwith
the central belt and to engage with scholars and those with a keen interest in women's history in
the community
Travel to Orkney: by air: direct flights from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness to Kirkwall; by
sea: ferries from Scrabster and John O'Groats. Full details at
http://www.visitorkney.com/gettinghere.asp
Accommodation: details of accommodation options will be provided closer to the conference.
2. SEMINAR SERIES
Gender History Network, University of Edinburgh 2012-13
All seminars take place 5:00-6:00
Thurs 7 March 2013 Work in progress
Harriet Cornell (University of Edinburgh): ‘The Politics of Social Control: Gender and the East
Lothian Courts 1610-1640’.
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Katherine Woods (University of Edinburgh): ‘The Fair Sex: skin colour and Gender in
Eighteenth-Century Britain’.
Venue: Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Medical School, Doorway 1, Teviot Place
Thursday 21 March 2013 ‘Gender and archaeology’ seminar John Robb (University of
Cambridge): ‘Does size matter? Scale, generalisation and the body in gender history (and
prehistory)’Venue: Meadows Lecture Theatre, Wm Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Teviot Place
For further information about the Gender History Network (Edinburgh) see:
http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/Research/networks/gender_history/
Edinburgh History of Medicine Group seminar series, 2012-13.
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, at 4pm (refreshments) for
4.30pm.Abstracts and a leaflet of the series are available at
http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/library/emhg/emhg-prog-2012.pdf All are warmly welcome
13th February - Dr Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh) ** 'The female malady? The troubled
relationship between madness, psychiatry and gender'
13th March - Dr Maureen Park (University of Glasgow) ** 'Hungry lions, kangaroos and bruised
reeds: Patient art at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum in the nineteenth century'
For further details on any of the above, contact the seminar series organiser: Dr Gayle Davis,
University of Edinburgh Gayle.Davis@ed.ac.uk
Gender and History in the Americas
London, 17.30 on the first Monday of the month from October 2012,
For further information, contact Rachel Ritchie (Rachel.Ritchie@brunel.ac.uk
4th February 2013Beverley Duguid (RHUL): A Jamaican Odyssey: Nancy Prince’s Travels to
Jamaica in 1840 Stewart House STB5
4th March 2013 Imaobong Umoren (Postgraduate student): ‘No more must we be regarded as
toys- but women of foresight, strength and skill’: Black Women,
Intellectual Connections and Travel across Europe and the Americas
1920s-1940s Stewart House STB5
Scottish Oral History Workshops 2013
Our workshops aim to explore all aspects of oral history theory and practice, and seek to provide
a friendly, supportive and informal atmosphere in which to engage with, discuss and seek advice
on all areas of oral history. These workshops are free and open to everyone, whatever your
knowledge (if any) of oral history.
Mondays @ 5.30pm, Scottish Oral History Centre, Curran Building (Level 6), Univ Strathclyde
February 4 Andrea Thomson (Glasgow) Unravelling the Ties that Bind: Marriage and marriage
breakdown in late twentieth-century Scotland
March 4 Laura Paterson (Dundee) “I’d a’ liked tae been a Teacher, But I never got the chance”:
Women working in Dundee between 1945 and 1970
Nicola Graham (Strathclyde) Gender and Risk at Work in Second World War Scottish Industry
University of Edinburgh, Scottish History seminar
Thurs 5:15, Rm G.15, Wm Robertson Wing, Doorway 4 Old Medical School Quad, Teviot Place
7 Feb Dr Laura Stewart, Birkbeck College, University of London '”We never sought the help of
the people”: or, the problem of being popular in Covenanting Scotland’
14 Feb Dr Jenny Wormald, University of Edinburgh ‘What Happens When a King gets Wet?’
28 Feb Dr Anna Groundwater, University of Edinburgh "'Here we drancke hard and were made
Burgesses": the entertainment of travellers in early modern Scotland'
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7 March Norah Carlin ‘"The Tyranny of Lord and Laird"? Teinds, patronage and
conflict in Midlothian parishes 1560-1660'
The Public History Discussion Group 2012-3
Bishopsgate Institute in London at 230 Bishopsgate, EC2M 4QH. http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/
This year all six sessions are in the courtyard room. Sessions begin promptly at 11 and will finish
before 1. Please bring your own coffee – lots of places nearby
Saturday 9th February 10.30 for 11 In Search of Florence Hancock: How to put a museum
exhibition together when Wikipedia lets you down
Paul Connell, Assistant Curator, Chippenham Museum & Heritage Centre
To mark the centenary of the event which launched her career in the trade union movement, the
formation of a branch of the Workers Union and then a strike at the local Nestles & Anglo-Swiss
Milk Factory, Chippenham Museum & Heritage Centre is putting together an exhibition on the
life and work of Dame Florence Hancock for January 1913. Florence’s life story, one of a family
of 14, leaving school at 12 to work in a café for 5s a week, to starting a union branch then
progressing up through that union (through two World Wars) has been described as a ‘microcosm
of the union movement in the 20th century’. You might expect that researching the life of second
female president of the TUC, a dame of the British Empire, National Women’s Officer for the
TGWU would be easy, but it has proved to be anything but – and also a lesson in not believing
everything you read and checking facts.
Sat 9th March 10.30 for 11 The Public History Reader,Dr Paul Martin and Dr Hilda Kean
The session will launch the Public History Reader published by Routledge in 2013 which
explores public history as an everyday practice. It is embedded in the idea that historical
knowledge is discovered and accrued from everyday encounters people have with their
environments and points to the continuing dialogue that the present has with the past, exploring
why this has burgeoned on a popular level in recent years.
Centenary of Chair of Scottish History and Literature, University of Glasgow
All lectures held on a Thursday at 6pm in the Jeffrey Lecture Theatre, Mitchell Library.
28 Feb: Dr Steven Reid, 'Everyday Life in Reformation Glasgow'
28 Mar: Professor Alan Riach, 'Glasgow Poets and Modern Scotland'
Centre for the History of Health and Healthcare, Glasgow.
Wednesday 6 February, Professor Rima Apple, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Negotiating
professional roles: Nursing and the development of public health services."
Wednesday 27 February, Dr George Gosling, University of Liverpool, “Middle-class medicine:
English private hospital provision before the NHS.”
Wednesday 13 March, Dr Romola Davenport, Cambridge Group for the History of Population
and Social Structure, "Infant mortality by social status in Georgian London".
Venues to be confirmed. 4.30pm (refreshments), 5.00pm start. Contact: r.blincow@gcu.ac.uk
Website: www.gcu.ac.uk/cshhh
3. CONFERENCES
February is LGBT History Month, an opportunity to celebrate LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender) life and culture. This year LGBT History Month Scotland has a packed national
programme of events which we hope will offer something for everyone. The events guide will be
available at venues throughout Scotland and also at www.lgbthistory.org.uk
On 4 Feb (6pm) join Bob Cant. Jaime Valentine (Ourstory Scotland), Ellen Galford (Rainbow
City) and Amy Murphy (LGBT History Month Scotland) at the National Library of Scotland
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for a debate on developments in Scottish LGBT history to mark the 20th anniversary of Footsteps
and Witnesses. Lesbian and gay lifestories from Scotland. This ground-breaking publication was
the first occasion when lesbian and gay people in Scotland had had the opportunity to tell their
own stories from a historical perspective on their own terms. As the Scotsman said: "this book
does not claim to be 'the' history of lesbian and gay communities in Scotland - rather the
beginning of showing that lesbian and gay communities in Scotland have any histories at all."
Since then there have been several developments - Ourstory Scotland, LGBT History Month, the
Rainbow City project in Edinburgh and a second edition of Footsteps and Witnesses - as well as
several doctoral theses. The historical mainstream, however, has sadly remained impervious to all
this innovative work.
6th Feb, 6pm: Love Out of Bounds, storytelling evening
University of Edinburgh, Teviot (Dining Room), Bristo Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9AJ Free
In collaboration with OurStory Scotland and LGBT History Month Scotland, Edinburgh
Feminists would love to welcome you to an evening of listening and sharing. We invite you to
speak about love 'outside the box' in every sense. We welcome funny and sad stories, open-ended
stories, stories you've written down beforehand, and stories spontaneously shared. Contributions
will be recorded and archived by OurStory Scotland, and the session will be facilitated as a safe
space. The building is wheelchair-accessible; though if you have any queries, please do not
hesitate to get in touch. Refreshments provided by Barefoot Wines to help to fuel your
storytelling, and there will be time for a chat and a pint after the recording as well. Come one,
come all! edinburghfeminists@gmail.com<mailto:edinburghfeminists@gmail.com>
9th and 16th Feb: Kin: Short Stories for LGBT History Month
Eight Scottish-based writers, including novelists Zoë Strachan, Roy Gill and Ronald Frame, have
created short stories on the theme of 'family', which will be published online at lgbthistory.org.uk
through History Month - starting on Monday 4 February with Ronald Frame's 'Bill & Coo'.
Writers will also perform their work at a pair of free events at Edinburgh's Summerhall venue on
Saturday 9 & Saturday 16 Feb at 3pm, where they will answer questions about their stories,
related LGBT issues and creative writing in general. Refreshments provided by Barefoot Wines.
See www.summerhall.co.uk<http://www.summerhall.co.uk>
13th Feb, 6.30pm: Queer Writers in Conversation
Word Power Books, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DB Free
Join writers Zoe Strachan, Hal Duncan and Kirsty Logan and for an intimate, informal event at
Word Power, Edinburgh's leading independent bookshop. The authors will be sharing extracts of
their work and discussing with the audience issues of identity, sexuality, and whether genre
fiction provides the ideal platform for LGBT writers. Refreshments provided by Barefoot Wines.
19th Feb, 1.30-4.30pm: Human Library
Kelvingrove Museum, Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AG Free
Don't judge a book by its cover! Human Library is a concept that is used throughout the world as
a tool to challenge prejudice. It works like a normal library, except the books are people and the
'reading' is a conversation between 'books' and 'readers'. Come along to the Kelvingrove Museum
to browse the shelves! In partnership with LGBT History Month Scotland, the LGBT Domestic
Abuse Project and the Curious Project. To find out more about Human Library visit
www.humanlibraryuk.org<http://www.humanlibraryuk.org>
21st Feb, 6pm: Fanny and Stella: Book Reading and Q&A
Waterstone's, 128 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4AD Free
Neil McKenna, award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed Secret Life of Oscar Wilde,
will read from his sensational new book, Fanny and Stella: the Young Men Who Shocked
Victorian England. With a cast of peers, politicians and prostitutes, drag queens, doctors and
detectives, Fanny and Stella is a Victorian peepshow, exposing the hidden sexual underbelly of
nineteenth-century London. By turns tragic and comic, meticulously researched and dazzlingly
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written, Fanny and Stella is an enthralling tour-de-force.
More information available from Amy Murphy: amy.murphy@lgbtyouth.org.uk
20th Lesbian Lives Conference: The Modern Lesbian
Brighton University 15-16 February 3013 - registration now open
This year’s keynote speakers and guests include: Sarah Schulman, Professor Lisa Downing,
Robyn Pierce, Professor Laura Doan launching her new book and a special screening/panel from
the BBC. There will be over 30 panels, workshops and performances over the two days as well as
a film-screening strand featuring recent documentaries, feature films and shorts.
Please follow this link to the on-line registration:
http://lesbianlives2013.eventbrite.com/#<http://lesbianlives2013.eventbrite.com/%23>
For further details and updates see:
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/projects/lgbt/events/events/lesbian-lives-conference-2012
The Lesbian Lives conference is hosted by the University of Brighton LGBT and Queer Life
Research Hub in collaboration with the Women’s Studies Centre, University College Dublin.
SALT, SUN AND SHIVERING: Scots at the Seaside 1750-2000. SCOTTISH LOCAL
HISTORY FORUM Spring Conference, Friday 26 April 2013, 9.45-16.30, Bay Hotel, Kinghorn,
Fife. Cost £25 members; £29 non-members (includes morning tea/coffee & sandwich lunch).
Professor John Walton introduces the theme with an overview of ‘British seaside tourism:
histories and opportunities?’ Eric Simpson takes care of the ‘shivering’ as he surveys ‘Safe
places for dooking - the lido craze in Scotland’. Alastair Durie takes us to the sunny east coast
as he considers ‘Sea, sand and shivers: the East Coast experience, Elie to North Berwick 17502000’.Eric Graham explores ‘Ardrossan – the Earl of Eglinton’s planned seaside town’.
Allan Brodie of English Heritage on ‘Heading south for the sun? The Scots, Scarborough and
Blackpool’. Liam Paterson, Scottish Screen Archive film - ‘The Scottish seaside on screen’.
‘Remember when’, a reminiscence session led by Alastair Durie. If you would like to share your
old photographs or old postcards, do send a digital image to Diana Webster (dcfw42@gmail.com)
for display at the conference.The full programme and booking form are available on the website
www.slhf.org or from SLHF, Box 103, 12 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1DD.
Gender in the European Town: Medieval to Modern,
22-25th May 2013, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
Registration now open! Programme now available. For more information visit:
www.sdu.dk/geneton
As places which fostered and disseminated key social, economic, political and cultural
developments, historically towns have been central to the creation of gendered identities and the
transmission of ideas across local, national and transnational boundaries. This Conference draws
upon the extensive conversations engendered within the Gender in the European Network,
opening these conversations to international scholars working in this field. Participants will
explore not only the changing dynamics of gender and towns over time, but also about the
challenges posed in writing a comparative European history that extends beyond the AngloFranco-German axis to incorporate explicitly the Nordic and Southern regions, thus raising
questions both about the complexities of pan-European gendered ideals, and about the nature of
the European town itself. The keynote speakers are renown historians in the field who will not
only share their reflections on the themes but will also help to stimulate conversations throughout
the conference.
Keynote speakers:
Elizabeth Cohen, York University, Toronto, Canada: ‘Women in a "Male City": From Sex Ratios
to Social Relations in Rome circa 1600.’
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Rachel Fuchs, Arizona State University, USA: ‘Exploring Citizenship in Creative Ways: Gender,
the Family and the Courts in Modern Paris.’
Hannu Salmi, University of Turku, Finland: ‘Catastrophe, Emotions and Guilt: The Great Fire of
Turku 1827.’
Pamela Sharpe, Hobart University, Tasmania, Australia: ‘Gender in Place: Early Modern
Economic and Social Perspectives.’
Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark: ‘”to merit the countenance of the
Magistrates”: Gender and civic identity in eighteenth-century Aberdeen.’
The Women's History Network (West of England & South Wales) is holding a study day on
the theme of 'Making Spaces, Finding Voices: Women's Words and Worlds'.
Venue 1.77, Council Chamber, Main Building, Cardiff University, on 23rd February, 10am-1pm.
The speakers and titles are:
Beth Jenkins, "Women's Sphere Extends Beyond Cake and Dusters": Women, Gender and
Public Space in Civic Cardiff, 1870-1914
Siobhan McGurk, "...Full of Graceless Mutinies: Rethinking Claude Cahun and the Female
Bodies of Interwar France
Kate Mahoney, "The Personal is Political"? The Women's Liberation Movement and
Contemporary Psychologies in Britain, 1960-1986 - An Oral History Project
The speakers are presenting research based on their postgraduate studies, and this event may be of
particular interest to postgraduates. The event is free and open to all. If further information is
required, please contact Tracey Loughran at LoughranTL@cardiff.ac.uk. There is a map at:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/locations/maps/index.html
Institute of Historical Research Winter Conference: History & Biography
8 March 2013, Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, London
Biography remains one of the most popular forms of non-fiction,and historical biography has
often been the genre in which professional historians have written for a wider audience. But what
happens when it is the historian who becomes the subject of the biographer? In recent years
several major biographies of historians have been published,and others are on their way. Our
forthcoming conference showcases the phenomenon of biographies by and about historians,and
also looks across the humanities at current research on life-writing. Biography may well be
"history without theory", but that is no reason not to explore why it remains one of the most
compelling and challenging ways of understanding the past in relation to the present.
Speakers include: Adam Sisman, Hermione Lee, June Purvis, Michael Bentley and Antonia
Fraser.
Registrations are now open. Please visit http://www.history.ac.uk/history-biography for further
details.
UK Association for the History of Nursing Colloquium
4th July 2013, History Faculty, University of Oxford
This year’s theme will explore the ‘History of Colonial and post-Colonial Nursing’. The
history of nursing presents a unique perspective from which to interrogate colonialism and postcolonialism. Simultaneously, viewing nursing’s development under colonial and post-colonial
rule can reveal the different faces of what, on the surface may appear to be a profession that is
consistent and coherent yet in reality has many different faces and is constantly in the process of
reinventing itself. Considering such areas as transnational relationships, class, gender, race, and
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politics this colloquium aims to present current work in progress within this field to better
understand the complex entanglements in the development of nursing as it was imagined and
practised in local imperial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. The colloquium will be led by Dr
Helen Sweet and will be opened with a keynote paper on the colloquium’s theme by Professor
Anne Marie Rafferty.
N.B. As this promises to be a particularly popular colloquium and the audience capacity is strictly
limited to max. 60 people, places will be allocated on a strictly ‘first come, first served’ basis so
you are strongly advised to book early! Price: £10 for students and £15 for non-students.
There will also be a workshop for PhD students and their supervisors on Wednesday, 3 July, to be
held at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford.
All enquiries to: Christine.Hallett@manchester.ac.uk
4. CALLS FOR PAPERS
Gender and Transgression
St Andrews University, 2-4 May 2013
A reminder that the abstract submission deadline for the fifth annual Gender and Transgression in
the Middle Ages postgraduate conference is the 11th February 2013. For more information
please see December 2012 newsletter.
International Federation for Research in Women’s History Conference
incorporating the 22nd annual conference of the Women’s History Network, UK
29th August-1st September 2013 at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline 15 April 2013
Women’s Histories: the Local and the Global
In 2013 the Women’s History Network is combining its 22nd Annual Conference with the
international conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History. This
will be a wonderful opportunity for us to make connections with scholars of women’s history
from around the world. Over 200 proposals have been received following the first call for papers.
Our conference will explore the history of women worldwide, from archaic to contemporary
periods. Engaging with the recent global and transnational turns in historical scholarship, it will
examine the ways in which histories of women can draw on and reshape these approaches to
understanding the past. It will explore the interplay between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ in
histories of women, and discuss the relationship between nation-based traditions of women’s
history writing and transnational approaches which highlight connections and comparisons
between women’s lives in different localities.
Key questions the conference will address are: How can women’s histories reshape our
understanding of the relationship between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’? What implications does a
transnational framework of analysis have for nation-based traditions of writing women’s history?
Please note that your own research does not have to be transnational in approach: we have
included a comparative history strand to enable us to group together papers on similar themes
relating to different localities. For details of strand themes and online submission of paper
proposals see the conference website: http://www.ifrwh2013conf.org.uk
Panel for Women and Enlightenment, Science and Culture in the East Midlands, c17001900. 22nd June 2013, University of Derby.
Abstract Deadline 28 Feb 250 words
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The University of Derby seeks papers for a panel under the heading of Women and
Enlightenment, Science and Culture in the East Midlands, c1700-1900. The conference examines
the impact of scientific and intellectual cultures in the English East Midlands counties of
Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland
between 1700 and 1900. The panel will consider specifically women’s engagement with various
manifestations of science, intellect and culture in the region, including interconnections between
literature, art, heritage and the built environment. Keynote speakers include Professor Ruth Watts,
Emeritus Professor of the History of Education at the University of Birmingham.
Potential topics and themes may include Literature, Art, Science, Class, Gender, Religion,
Ethnicity, Heritage, Historiography. We invite you to submit an abstract of 250 words with a
short biography to: Dr Teresa Barnard, t.barnard@derby.ac.uk
To register, visit:
http://unishop.derby.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?modid=1&prodid=0&deptid=70&catid=71&pr
odvarid=104
II European Geographies of Sexualities Conference
5, 6, 7 September 2013 | FCSH, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal | http://egsc2013.pt.to
Abstract deadlines: 28 Feb 2013 sessions/panels (500 words); 31 Mar papers (300 words)
Sexualities have become a legitimate and significant area of geographical research, across
diverse areas ranging from cultural, social and feminist geographies, to political and economic
domains. One of the main characteristics of studies on sexualities has been its critical and
reflexive perspective, namely questioning hegemonies and modes of sexualised power relations.
Although this work has brought some significant changes and developments, still, many of the
contemporary modes of knowledge production reflect inequalities and hegemonies that need to
be challenged. The II European Geographies of Sexualities Conference wants to create a space of
debate, discussion and questioning to explore how we might attempt to move beyond such
normative domains and practices. Conference sessions and papers will contribute to the
questioning and debating the following topics:
The hegemony of heteronormativity in social relations and everyday environments, and across
various other spaces; The hegemony of the 'Western' views, the relative invisibility, and lesser
significance of research on sexualities in other social and cultural contexts, as constraints in
exploring cross-cultural variations on sexual diversity and complexity; The hegemony of English
in academic publishing and wider modes of knowledge production systems; work on sexualities
in diverse languages has become obscured and thus devalued, as reflected in invisible citation
records and general knowledge about its very existence; The hegemony of large publishing
companies which although profit- rather than ethos-driven do influence and control the academic
knowledge, decide on its relevance, influence academic career and funding prospects; The
hegemony of globalisation discourses; 'sexual citizenship' and its relation to the key sites of
contemporary sexual politics and theoretical debates on sexuality in relation to consumption,
space and globalization; The hegemony of whiteness and how it mediates other social categories
such as gender, sexuality, religion, social class and so forth; The male hegemony in the 'power
positions' in academia, and as valued knowledge producers; intersections of gender and
sexualities research; Knowledge production through quantitative methods, measuring sexualities.
We encourage contributions in a diverse range of formats. Alongside traditional academic
conference papers, we welcome panel discussions, open space discussions, film screenings,
installations and other contributions. We seek to foster networking, debate and discussions across
national borders, across language communities, and across
academic disciplines.
Language: we currently do not have funding for the translation at the conference. We plan a
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multilingual conference, and encourage participants to present in the language they feel most
comfortable in using.
Interested contributors should send a max. 300-word abstract of a paper, or a max 500 word
proposal of a session/panel discussion/other activity/format via online submissions
Contact: geosexualities@gmail.com
The conference is organised by: Centre for Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and
Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon (CEG-UL) e-GEO, Research Centre for Geography and
Regional Planning, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute
of British Geographers)
Migrations and diasporas: new conceptualizations, sources and methods
17-18 August 2013, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Abstract deadline: 28 Feb 2013
The Historical Data Unit at the University of Guelph invites paper proposals for a workshop
August 17-18 2013 on the topic of migrations and diaspora. Our goal is to explore new
conceptualizations, method and sources. We are interested in papers that advance knowledge
about (a) differences among nationalities and ethnicities; (b) the ways in which family size,
marriage, fertility and economic circumstance shaped both the decision to migrate and
consequences for the migrants; (c) reconstituting family and life course of migrants within and
across borders, both mobile and static, in and out of nations; (d) the role of slavery, penal
transportation, indentured service and contract labour in the development of nations and empire;
(e) the role of military service to facilitate and document migration; and (f) strategies to
operationalize concepts such as diaspora, homeland and return migration.
We invite anyone who might like to offer a paper for discussion at the workshop, or simply to
participate in the discussions, to contact us by February 28.
Contact: Kris Inwood: kinwood@uoguelph.ca Graeme Morton: gmorton@uoguelph.ca
Historical Data Unit University of Guelph
Organising Committee: K. Inwood, G. Morton, Rebecca Lenihan, Andrew Ross, Luiza Antonie
World Congress of Scottish Literatures
Glasgow University, 2-5 July 2014
Abstract Deadline 0 April 2013 (100 words)
Please follow the link below to find the Congress website, which also gives details of our Call for
Papers. If you'd like to be on our mailing list, please contact Dr Rhona Brown on
scottishliteraturecongress2014@glasgow.ac.uk. See our site here:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/arts/research/scottishstudiesglobal/worldcongressofscottishliteratur
es/.
Dr. Rhona Brown, Scottish Literature, School of Critical Studies
University of Glasgow, 7 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
Tel: 0141 330 8529 E-mail: Rhona.Brown@glasgow.ac.uk
'Dangerous Women and Women in Danger' (email sent to members in January)
2013 First Mondays Women's History Conference
8th - 9th March 2013, Queen's University Belfast
Abstracts, 200-300 words for a 20 minute paper, should be submitted by 8th February 2013
along with the proposed title, a short biography (100 words max.) and contact details to Ruth
Cahir- rcahir01@qub.ac.uk.
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Gender and Political Culture, 1400-1800
A Joint Conference organised by History and the Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing
Arts (HuMPA) at Plymouth University and Umeå Group for Pre-modern Studies
To be held at Plymouth University, 29-31 August 2013
Abstract Deadline 1 March 2013 papers or workshops (300 words)
Keynote Speakers: Professor Barbara J. Harris (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and
Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
This conference investigates gender and political culture during the period 1400 to 1800, and the
organizers welcome proposals for papers on topics related to the conference theme. The
conference aims to create possibilities for comparative research and is therefore looking to attract
a broad variety of studies across periods, disciplines and geographical regions. We also wish to
attract both senior scholars and doctoral students. During the conference there will be sessions
where participants present papers, and a workshop where participants may present work in
progress or project ideas.
Proposals are invited for papers that treat the following indicative areas: * the relationship
between gender, power and political authority * gendered aspects of monarchy; representations
of power and authority * gender, office-holding, policy-making and counsel * courts,
patronage and political influence * elite culture and political networks * gender, the public
sphere and political participation * popular politics, protest and petitioning * manuscript, print,
oral, material and visual cultures * news, intelligence and the spread of information * political
ideas, ideologies and language * conceptualizations of ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres and what
constituted ‘power’ and ‘politics’ * the family as a ‘political unit’ * the politicization of social
activities: marriage-arranging, placing children in other households, gift-giving, hospitality and
letter-writing
Proposals for papers or workshops, including titles and abstracts and a brief author biography
should be sent to Professor James Daybell (james.daybell@plymouth.ac.uk), Plymouth
University or Professor Svante Norrhem (svante.norrhem@historia.umu.se), Umeå University
before 1 March 2013. There are also a small number of conference bursaries available for junior
scholars, which will cover conference fee and accommodation for three nights. If you are
interested in being considered for one of the bursaries, please send a CV, brief covering letter and
letter of recommendation along with your title and abstract. Conference website:
http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/research/humpa/news/Pages/Gender-and-Political-Culture-14001800-Conference.aspx
Call for Papers 11th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
19-21 June 2013, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, 19-21 June.
Abstract Deadline: 7 Feb 2013
The conference provides a space for dialogue and publication of new knowledge which builds on
the past traditions of the humanities whilst setting a renewed agenda for their future. Proposals for
paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, roundtables, or colloquia are invited, addressing
the humanities through one of the following themes: Critical Cultural Studies * Communications
and Linguistics Studies *Literary Humanities *Civic, Political, and Community Studies
*Humanities Education
Please visit our website for more information on submitting your proposal, future deadlines, and
registering for the conference.
Presenters have the option to submit completed papers to one of our Humanities collection of
journals. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations include the
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option to submit a video presentation, and/or submission to one of the journals for peer review
and possible publication, as well as subscriber access to the Humanities Journals.
We hope you will be able to join us in Budapest for this important discussion, and we look
forward to receiving your proposal!
Networks and Neighbours, an online Journal for Early Medieval History.
Submission deadline: 17 March 2013
Networks and Neighbours is a refereed and peer-reviewed open-access, online journal concerned
with varying types of inter-connectivity in the Early Middle Ages. Published biannually, the
journal collects exceptional pieces of work by both established academics and postgraduate
students with an aim to promote the study of how people and communities interacted within and
without their own world and localities in the Early Middle Ages. We also welcome reviews of
monographs published or re-released within the last five years related to the over-arching theme
of ‘Networks and Neighbours’. More information about the Networks and Neighbours project can
be found at our website, http://www.networksandneighbours.org.
The inaugural volume will be published in June 2013, and will seek to address some of the
following questions: where, how and under what conditions did networks meet and
communicate? Where and what were the spaces that defined the uniqueness of such connections
and how did such negated contours mediate identity, knowledge, awareness and related concepts?
Are we approaching a materialist universalism for the early Middle Ages, a way of understanding
former existences informed by the constant dialectics between epistemological finitude and
infinity, that is, the moments of tangible, neighbourly interaction made sensible against perceived
networks?
We invite full-length contributions which consider these questions or related ones, and we
particularly encourage those which take an interdisciplinary or theoretical approach, or which
consider new or previously neglected aspects of these issues.Contributions may be in English,
French, German, Spanish or Portuguese and roughly 7,000-10,000 words in length, including all
documentation, footnoting and bibliography: book reviews should be 500-1,000, but not more
than 2,000, words. Please send submissions to the editorial board at
networksandneighbours@gmail.com, to which other queries and general questions about the
journal may also be sent. Submission guidelines can be found on our website.
10th European Social Science History Conference
Vienna, Austria, 23-26 April 2014
Deadline: 15 May 2013
The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical
phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by
a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. The
Conference welcomes papers and sessions on any topic and any historical period. It is
organized in a large number of networks: Africa Antiquity Asia Criminal Justice
Culture Economics Education and Childhood – Elites and Forerunners Ethnicity and
Migration Family and Demography – Health and Environment - Labour Latin America
– Material and Consumer Culture - Middle Ages Oral History – Politics, Citizenship
and Nations - Religion Rural Sexuality - Social Inequality – Spatial and Digital History
- Technology Theory - Urban Women and Gender - World History
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The deadline for pre-registration on our website is 15 may 2013. The 10th European
Social Science History Conference is organized by the International Institute of Social
History in co-operation with Vienna University Further information and the online preregistration form please go to the new Conference website at esshc.socialhistory.org or
contact the conference secretariat:
European Social Science History Conference 2014 , c/o International Institute of Social
History PO Box 2169 1000 CD Amsterdam The Netherlands Telephone: +31.20.66 858
66 E mail: esshc@iisg.nl
Els Hiemstra, IISH, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam
The Netherlands +31 20 6685866
Email: ehi@iisg.nl Visit the website at http://esshc.socialhistory.org
Feminist Theory and Music 12: FTM 20 to 21—New Voices in the New Millennium
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA 31 July-4 August 2013
Deadline for abstracts of papers, panels, and performances: 1 March 2013
The twelfth meeting of the international, biennial conference Feminist Theory and Music will
include scholarly papers, lecture-recitals, and evening concert performances.The conference
theme, New Voices in the New Millennium, is in conversation with the 2011 theme, “Looking
Backward, Forward, and Sideways” as it welcomes new voices with planned panels addressing
gender and the music of diverse communities. Planned panels include those focusing on the role
of women in contemporary gospel and feminism and expressions of funk.
We welcome proposals for scholarly papers from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective
addressing music in relation to feminism, gender, or sexuality. The organizers especially
encourage proposals addressing questions related to African American, Latin American, and
Native American music. The committee also invites proposals related to gender, feminism, and
ethnographic research; music and the body of the Other; music and prisons; poetry/spoken word,
gender, and music; and immigration, transnationalism and musical diasporas. Proposals focusing
on current social issues and any area of music and gender are also encouraged. Proposals for
panels of three or four papers are also welcome.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words for scholarly papers of 20 minutes’ duration.
Proposals for panels should include the overall theme of the panel and individual abstracts of
each paper (paper abstracts should be 250 words maximum).Please specify any audio-visual or
other equipment requests. E-mail your abstracts to Gayle
Murchison, FemTheoryMus@wm.edu with “FTM2013 Proposal” in the subject line.
We also invite proposals for musical performances and lecture-recitals. Proposals for lecturerecitals not to exceed 35 minutes’ duration should take the form of an abstract no longer than 250
words. Please specify any equipment requests and the length of the lecture- recital, and identify
works you will perform. E-mail your proposals to Gayle Murchison, as above. Performances may
be of varying lengths. Please provide the following in your proposal: 1) an abstract no longer than
250 words; 2) requests for equipment or other needs; 3) length of the work or program; 4)
requests for Hamilton College performers (?); 5) brief biographies for any performers you will
supply; 6) name(s) of work(s) to be performed; 7) if possible, email or links to mp3 samples of
works. E-mail proposals to Gayle Murchison, FemTheoryMus@wm.edu. Proposals are
due March 1, 2013. When requested, follow up by sending a score and, if possible, a recording
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(CD) via regular mail to Gayle Murchison, Department of Music, Ewell Hall, PO Box 8795,
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795. Please provide postage-paid, self-addressed envelope if you
would like your score returned. Please note that no funds are available to remunerate
performers.Please direct questions about the conference program to Gayle
Murchison, FemTheoryMus@wm.edu.
Politics and the Public in Scotland, c.1300-2000
Thursday 13 – Friday 14 June 2013, Parliament Hall, University of St Andrews
Abstract deadline 1 Mar 3013 (250 words )
One of the facets of the current debate surrounding Scotland’s future within the United Kingdom
has been a renewed interest (both in the media and contemporary political discourse) in Scottish
political history. Recent speeches by politicians are replete with appeals to the “commonweal”,
“the community of the realm”, and “the people of Scotland”, references which resonate through
our history from the medieval period to the present day. This conference aims to engage with this
significant contemporary interest and to shift historical enquiry on to the changing role and
conceptualisation of the “public” throughout Scottish political history, from the late medieval
period through to the present day. Up to the late 17th century there has been limited discussion of
the role of the “public”, or the extent of any “public sphere” within Scottish historiography.Even
in post-1707 discussion there remains much potential for new perspectives to be offered on the
participation of ordinary Scots in the political process, and likewise for modern historians to
engage with their early modern and medieval peers in examining how the involvement and
conceptualisation of the “public” in Scotland has changed and developed since the fourteenth
century. Moreover, the conference will aim to explore how different approaches to the past –
whether interdisciplinary, theoretical or comparative - can offer new perspective and insight to
our understanding of the “public”, and its changing role in Scotland’s political history. We are
pleased to announce that the following historians are confirmed as keynote speakers at the event:
Dr. Steve Boardman (University of Edinburgh); Dr. Karin Bowie (University of Glasgow)
Professor Richard Finlay (University of Strathclyde)Please submit abstracts for papers to
polpub@st-andrews.ac.ukFor further information, please contact the conference organisers,
Wayne Cuthbertson, Claire Hawes, and Malcolm Petrie (polpub@st-andrews.ac.uk)
5. PUBLICATIONS
Amsterdam Conference Papers
Selected papers from the IFRWH Conference in Amsterdam, 2010 have
been published as Francisca. de Haan, Margaret Allen, Krassimira
Daskalova and June Purvis (eds), Women’s Activism: Global Perspectives
from the 1890s to the present (Routledge, London, 2012).
.For more information see:
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415535762/
Collection of Essays on Clara Zetkin
A collection of essays on Clara Zetkin that originated in presentations at the Amsterdam
conference has been published. It is edited by Marilyn J. Boxer and John S. Partington and is
entitled Clara Zetkin: National and International Contexts. The volume is published in the UK by
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the Socialist History Society, Occasional Publications Series, No. 31, 2013. It includes essays by
Boxer, Partington, Natalia Novikova, Florence Hervé, and Susan Zimmermann. ISBN 978-09555138-7-9. Price: £7 sterling. It can be ordered through the publisher at
www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk.
6.NEWS FROM ARCHIVES,WEBSITES, SOCIETIES
Valuation Rolls 1905
Financial records covering more than two million Scots at the start of the 20th Century are now
available online. The Valuation Rolls for 1905 detail every property in Scotland with a rateable
value. They are searchable by name and address, detail the names of owners, tenants and
occupiers of each property They can be found on the government family history website
ScotlandsPeople
The Medical History of British India veterinary collection
reveals how British veterinarians used new research to expand their empire and aid the
indigenous. It demonstrates how colonial veterinary policies were shaped by military, financial,
political and scientific factors. It is available at digital.nls.uk
Craig Dunain Hospital, Inverness
Archives from the nineteenth-century mental asylum, The Northern Counties District Lunatic
Asylum, later Craig Dunain Hospital, in Inverness, have been placed in the city's new Highland
Archive Centre. They include details of hundreds of patients, and their causes of admission.
Feminist History Society, Canada
The Feminist History Society is a book-of-the year non-profit organization that I helped to
founded by Professor Constance Backhouse in 2010. Its most recent book is an all-English
language history of feminism in Quebec. If you are interested, you can learn more from the
website www.FeministHistories.ca or better still, by ordering our books.
Constance Backhouse, Professor of Law and University Research Chair, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa K1N 6N5 Constance.Backhouse@uOttawa.ca
7. REQUESTS
Freelance Journalist Lucy Mayhew has forwarded the following request to us. If you can be of
any assistance please contact her directly at lucy.mayhew@btinternet.com
WOMEN OF NOTE: Woman’s Hour are currently compiling a ‘Power List’ aimed at profiling
women who are “movers and shakers who shape the way we live today” – they are asking for
ideas of “which women have the greatest impact on British politics, society and the economy?”
The inspiration behind this piece is a question asked to potential new members joining a club –
the question posed is if the interviewee could come back as a well-known person who would it
be? Apparently the most common answers for women are Delia Smith, Emmeline Pankhurst,
Madonna or Audrey Hepburn. One can draw an array of depressing conclusions from such
pedestrian responses to this frivolous question. But leaving aside the issue of massive
disenfranchisement and invisibility of women throughout most of Western modern history, one is
still left depressed by such answers. Women like Marie Curie, Marie Stopes, Florence
Nightingale and bigwigs of literature from Austen to Woolf to even to Enid Blighton or Murdoch
and even lesser known figures like Mrs Charlotte Norton whose contribution to divorce law
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whose tragic story has been popularly relayed in Dr Diane Atkinson’s recent book The Criminal
Conversation may now be thought of. However, if happy personal lives/those not blighted by
suffering, or stormy relationships with children or partners are added to the goal of ‘who one
might like to come back as,’ the search becomes harder still!
'SOCIETAL CONTRIBUTORS who also enjoyed some personal happiness
I am looking for perhaps the most elsuvie female figures of history. Those who may have
endured personal tragedies/illness/hardship but who achieved that golden combination of a life of
valuable contribution across the whole gamut of fields falling under umbrella terms of science,
philanthropy, arts and culture, law and education; but who ultimately did have some private
happiness in terms of love whether through marriage and/or their children.
Thankfully the ‘have it all’ slogan seems to be on the out but essentially women who have
enjoyed meangingful societal contribution in varied spheres combined with familial happiness are
the gold-dust I’m searching for.
I’m primarily looking for figures from the past, though the answers to the question did give living
women too! I believe Baronness Margaret Warnock, though still alive could be a contender!
8. AND FINALLY
Gerder Lerner (1920-2013)
The death has taken place of Gerda Lerner who was one of the pioneers of the academic study of
women's history in the United States. Dr Lerner was a keynote speaker along with Gisela Bock at
the first IFRWH/CISH conference in Madrid in 1990. There was an excellent obituary of Gerda
Lerner published in the New York Times on 3 January: http://nyti.ms/UJb6Hn