CALL FOR PAPERS. Berkshire Conference on Women’s History.
“GENERATIONS: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space”
June 9-12, 2011, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Proposals due March 1, 2010.The Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians
is holding its next conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
on
2011 marks the 15th Berkshire Conference on Women’s History 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:
The process for submitting and vetting papers and panels has changed
substantially from previous years, so please read the instructions
carefully. 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. All
proposals must be directed to ONE of the following subcommittees and should
be submitted electronically. Please list a second choice for the
subcommittee to vet your proposal but do not submit to more than one
subcommittee. Instructions for submission will be posted on the Berkshire
Conference website
by November 1, 2009. Preference will be given to discussions of any topic
across national boundaries and to work that addresses sexuality, race, and
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by November 1, 2009. Preference will be given to discussions of any topic
across national boundaries and to work that addresses sexuality, race, and
labor in any context, with special consideration for pre-modern (ancient,
medieval, early modern) periods. However, unattached papers and proposals