I would like to put together a panel entitled "Sex without Borders" for the
2005 Berkshire Conference. My own paper focuses on the possibility of a
feminist history that includes transsexual women, but different
interpretations of "Sex without Borders" are welcome! The conference CFP is
included below.
Please send a one-page abstract to gebhartm@msu.edu by November 24, 2003.
Thank you!
Mary Gebhart
2005 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Call for Papers
The 13th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, "Sin
Fronteras: Women's Histories, Global Conversations," will be held
June 2-5, 2005 at Scripps College, Claremont, California, USA. The
Program Committee welcomes proposals that cross geographical,
cultural, and disciplinary borders, and especially those which
address the plurality of histories of transnational encounters and
empires. What does it mean to engage in women's and gender history
without borders? What purchase does the nation-state have for
women's and gender history, and what are the stakes -- for research
and teaching -- of interrogating the nation?How do asymmetries
between Euro-American ideas about the global and non-western or
indigenous knowledges influence the writing of feminist histories?
Whose voices count and who decides? We are interested in the ways
in which women have been agents in the creation of global
communities, identities, and political movements. What impact has
the circulation of populations, goods, and ideas had on personal
lives as well as state formations? How has transnationalism
affected the meanings of sexuality? We particularly encourage
submissions in earlier periods and those that address sources and
methodology. Funding may be available for some international
panelists.
We prefer complete panels, normally three papers, a comment, and a
chair; one person should not assume the task of chair and comment.
The Committee also seeks workshops, roundtables, teaching sessions
(both college and K-12), and presentations that depart from the
traditional conference format. Individual papers will also be
considered. The Committee may rearrange submissions to shape the
program; submission of a proposal will indicate agreement with this
proviso. No one may appear on the program more than once in any
capacity.
Please submit three (3) copies of your proposal, postmarked by
December 15, 2003 to one of the addresses listed below. Each paper
must include a cover sheet, downloadable from our website, listing
panel title or roundtable theme and full contact information
(address, phone, fax, and e-mail) for panel organizer and all
participants. It must also include a title, and one-page abstract
for each paper or presentation; a one-page curriculum vitae/résumé
for each participant (including chair and comment); and a
self-addressed, stamped postcard. Mark packet: “ATTN: Berkshire
Conference.”
Send proposals on African, Latin American, Asian, Pacific, and all
comparative topics to Donna Guy, Department of History, Ohio State
University, 210 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210,
USA; to European topics Antoinette Burton, Department of History,
University of Illinois, 309 Gregory Hall 810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Canadian and United States topics to Eileen
Boris, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Santa
Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. For more information, please
visit our website at { HYPERLINK "http://www.berksconference.org"
}www.berksconference.org
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