[Bilimsel Haber] Call For Papers: THE BERKSHIRE CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF WOMEN, June 9-12, 2011, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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CALL FOR PAPERS

THE BERKSHIRE CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF WOMEN
June 9-12, 2011, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

“GENERATIONS:
Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space”

Proposals due March 1, 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 and the 
100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, which was first 
celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland and is now 
honored by more than sixty countries around the globe. The choice of 
“Generations” reflects this transnational intellectual, political, and 
organizational heritage as well as a desire to explore related questions 
such as:
• How have women’s generative experiences – from production and 
reproduction to creativity and alliance building – varied across time 
and space? How have these been appropriated and represented by 
contemporaries and scholars alike?
• What are the politics of “generation”? Who is encouraged? Who is 
condemned or discouraged? How has this changed over time?
• Is a global perspective compatible with generational (in the 
genealogical sense) approaches to the past that tend to re-inscribe 
national/regional/racial boundaries?
• What challenges do historians of women, gender, and sexuality face as 
these fields and their practitioners mature?

To encourage transnational discussions, panels will be principally 
organized along thematic rather than national lines and therefore 
proposals will be vetted by a transnational group of scholars with 
expertise in a particular thematic, rather than geographic, field.

For more information about the procedure for submitting proposals visit 
the Berkshire Conference web page, www.berksconference.org. The process 
for submitting and vetting papers and panels has changed substantially 
from previous years, so please read the instructions carefully.

	Laura Lovett
History Department
University of Massachusetts
161 President's Drive
Amherst, MA
USA

(416)545-6778
Email: lovett at history.umass.edu <mailto:lovett at history.umass.edu>
Visit the website at http://www.berksconference.org