Newsletter September 2017

 Calls For Papers (In order of abstract deadline)

• Global Status of Women and Girls: Women, Social Change and Activism: Then and Now
  • 22-24 March 2018
  • 300 to 500-word abstracts
  • Deadline: 3 September 2017
  • http://www.iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/view/854/922

• Gender and Material Culture
  • 10-13 May 2018, Kalamazoo
  • Deadline: 5 September 2017 (GMCulture18@gmail.com)
  • https://mobile.twitter.com/MMLaidlaw/status/891712362289483779/photo/1
• Decorating Dissidence: Modernism, Feminism & the Arts
  • 3-4 November 2017
  • 300 to 500-word abstracts and short bio (decoratingdissidence@gmail.com)
  • Deadline: 8 September 2017
  • https://bams.ac.uk/2017/08/05/the-call-for-papers-is-now-live-for-decorating-dissidence-modernism-feminism-the-arts-nov-2017/
• Remembering, Reminding, Forgetting: Legal Memory in European Writing
  • 2-5 July 2018
  • Leeds, England
  • Title and description to Adata Zielinksa (agata.zielinska.12@ucl.ac.uk) or Arendse Lund (arendse.lund.15@ucl.ac.uk)
  • Deadline: 10 September 2017
  • https://twitter.com/AIZielinska/status/898466593453355008
• Alcohol & Addiction in Medieval Society & Culture
  • 2-5 July 2018
  • Leeds, England
  • 250-word abstract (medievalalchohol@gmail.com)
  • Deadline: 15 September 2017
  • https://twitter.com/MMLaidlaw/status/896761591462596608
• Working Mothers Medieval/Modern
  • Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Sponsored Roundtable
  • 10-13 May 2018
  • Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
  • Proposals and participant information forms to Meghan Nestel (mnestel@asu.edu)
  • Deadline: 15 September 2017
  • https://twitter.com/MeghanNestel/status/897559257423298560
• Diana and all her sect: remembering women warriors
  • 2-5 July 2018
  • Leeds, England
  • 300-word abstracts to Roberta Magnani (R.Magnani@swansea.ac.uk)
  • Deadline: 20 September 2017
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lp2tAOpWxgBWn1Ll8fNE_9ItPKPm2IFcCm8BM7Vx-Jc/edit
• Bridging the Gender Gap Through Time: how women philosophers of the past contributed to today’s though
  • 23 February 2018, King’s College, London
  • 300 to 500-word abstracts (BTGLondon2018@gmail.com)
  • Deadline: 30 September 2017
  • http://www.sandrineberges.com/bridging-the-gender-gap-through-time.html
• Curiosity and Desire in Fin de-Siècle Art and Literature
  • 11-12 May 2018
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • 300-Word abstracts (IWPSClark2018@gmail.com)
  • Deadline: 1 October 2017
  • https://twitter.com/JosephBristow/status/835201193672507392/photo/1
• SGSAH Poster Workshop
  • 24 October 2017
  • University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • A brief bio and overview of your research (humanitiesposters@gmail.com)
  • Deadline: 5pm 6 October 2017
• Male Bonds in Nineteenth-Century Art
  • 15-16 May 2018
  • Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium
  • 300-word abstract (malebonds@ugent.be)
  • Deadline: 15 October 2017
  • http://www.navsa.org/2017/07/17/cfp-male-bonds-in-nineteenth-century-art-10152017-515-162018/
• Conference on Gender and IT
  • 14-15 May 2018
  • Heilbronn, Germany
  • Deadline: 31 October 2017
  • http://www.iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/view/854/922

• Care After the First World War
  • 9-11 April 2018
  • University of Leeds, England
  • 300-word abstract and short bio to Alexia Moncrieff and Michael Robinson (CareConference@leeds.ac.uk)
  • Deadline: 15 November 2017
  • http://menwomenandcare.leeds.ac.uk/events/care-after-the-first-world-war/call-for-papers/
• Sex: Sexuality & Reproduction, Historical Perspectives
  • 32nd Irish Conference of Historians
  • 26-28 April 2018
  • University College Cork, Republic of Ireland
  • 200 to 300-word abstract (irishch32@gmail.com)
  • https://twitter.com/WHAIreland/status/900400995687174146
• Fifteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
  • 5 -7 July 2017
  • Imperial College London
  • Deadline: Rolling
  • http://thehumanities.com/2017-conference/call-for-papers

Calls for Contributors

• (Re)Defining Gender in Early Modern British Drama (1550-1700)
  • Essay Collection
  • 500-word Abstract Deadline: 15 September 2017
  • 6000 to 8000-word Draft Chapter Deadline: February 2018
  • http://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2017-07-09/#gender
• Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies
  • Special Issue: Reimaging Breasts
  • Multiple submission formats
  • 250-word abstract (reimaginingbreasts@gmail.com)
  • Abstract Deadline: 15 September 2017
  • Final Deadline: 30 January 2018
  • http://imaginations.csj.ualberta.ca/?p=9892
•  Signs
  • Special Issue: Gender and the Rise of the Global Right
  • Transdisciplinary and Transnational Essays
  • Deadline: 15 September 2017
  • http://signsjournal.org/for-authors/calls-for-papers/
• Lilith: A Feminist History Journal
  • 2018 edition: research articles, short historiographical and methodological pieces, book reviews (lilithjournal@gmail.com)
  • Manuscript Deadline: 30 September 2017
  • https://twitter.com/LilithJournal/status/889993615400775680
• Australian Feminist Studies
  • Special Issue: Fashion
  • 500-word abstract (afs@newcastle.edu.au)
  • Abstract Deadline: 1 October 2017
  • Manuscript Deadline: 1 March 2018
  • http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/australian-feminist-studies-cfp-special-issue-fashion
• Gender & Society
  • Special Issue: Gender, Disability and Intersectionality
  • Seeking submissions for special issue – all papers must make both a theoretical and empirical contribution
  • Manuscript Deadline: 1 October 2017
  • https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/call-for-submissions-special-issue-of-gender-society-gender-disability-and-intersectionality-2/amp/
• Gender and Education Association
  • Special Issue: Picturing Care
  • 350-word abstract (vrestler@gradcenter.cuny.edu or wluttrell@gc.cuny.ed)
  • Abstract Deadline: 1 October 2017
  • Manuscript Deadline: 15 January 2018
  • http://www.genderandeducation.com/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-for-a-special-issue-of-gender-and-education-picturing-care/
• Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
  • Special Issue: Making Masculinity: Craft, Gender, and Material Production in the Long Nineteenth-Century
  • Deadline: 30 October 2017
  • https://twitter.com/katierosemary12/status/854385058718855168/photo/1
• Special Issue of Auto Biography Studies
  • Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas
  • Original articles of 6,000-8,000 words (to Eva C. Karpinski evakarp@yorku.ca and Ricia Anne Chansky ricia.chansky@upr.edu)
  • Manuscript Deadline: 31 October 2017
  • https://auto-biography.org/2017/08/07/cfp-lives-outside-the-lines-gender-and-genre-in-the-americas-31-oct-2017/
• Special Issue of History of the Family: An International Quarterly
  • Disabilities, partnership and family across time and space
  • Word count for abstract: 500
  • E-mail vikstrom@umu.se
  • Deadline: 31 October 2017
  • https://twitter.com/owenbarden/status/859787379443458048/photo/1
• Gender in Management
  • Special Issue: Women, Work and Management in the Middle East
  • Discuss ideas with the guest editors: jenny.rodriguez@manchester.ac.uk; maranda.ridgway@ntu.ac.uk; lkemp@aus.edu
  • Manuscript Deadline: 30 November 2017
  • http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=7347
• Victorians Journal
  • Special Issues: Emily Brontë
  • 7500-word, MLA formatted manuscript (deborah.logan@wku.edu)
  • Manuscript Deadline: 1 January 2018
  • http://www.navsa.org/2017/07/17/cfp-special-issue-of-victorians-journal-on-emily-bronte-112018/
• European Management Review
  • Special Issue: Leveraging Cooperation for Gender Equality in Management
  • Manuscript Deadline: 31 January 2018
  • http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/(ISSN)1740-4762/asset/homepages/EMR_CfP_gender_equality_in_Management_final.pdf?v=1&s=9ac8b0d7cad88778d8c46ee810a3e95af3f00219
• Journal of Modern LiteratureSpecial Issue: Embodiment in 20th and 21st-century Literature and Literary Culture
  • Manuscript Deadline: 1 February 2018 (jml.editorial@gmail.com)
  • https://mobile.twitter.com/ShawnaRoss/status/890583251814887426/photo/1

• Gender Forum
  • Call for Reviews: How to extend the visible and the sayable?
  • 1000 to 1500-word critical reviews of (audio-)visual media
  • Deadline: 1 October 2018
  • http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/07/04/gender-forum-call-for-reviews
• Journal of Modern Literature
  • Embodiment in 20th and 21st-century literature and literary culture
  • 9,000-word submission as Word or RTF attachment (jml.editorial@gmail.com)
  • Manuscript Deadline: 1 February 2018
  • https://bams.ac.uk/2017/08/05/call-for-essays-on-embodiment-at-the-journal-of-modern-literature/
• The Trafalgar Chronicle 2018
  • Nelson’s Other Women
  • 3,000 to 5,000-word articles
  • Proposals to the editor (tc.editor@1805club.org)
  • Manuscript Deadline: 1 May 2018
  • http://royalhistsoc.org/trafalgar-chronicle-2018-nelsons-women-call-papers/
• Women, Gender, and Families of Color

• • Seeking submissions for upcoming issues
  • E-mail: wgfc@ku.edu
  • Deadline: Rolling
  • https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/181538/cfp-women-gender-and-families-color

• Were you at the Women’s March?
  • History Workshop Online
  • Share your experience in a few sentences or a few paragraphs
  • Preserving history
  • Deadline: Rolling
  • http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/call-for-contributions-were-you-at-the-womens-march/
• Women are Boring
  • Blog featuring research carried out by women in all fields and all disciplines.
  • Word limit approximately 1,000-2,000
  • Intended for a general audience with informal style and minimal jargon
  • Submit to womenareboring@gmail.com
  • Deadline: Rolling
  • https://womenareboring.wordpress.com/write-for-us/
• Whores of Yore – new website looking for content
  • Topics related to sex workers, sexuality, history of sex
  • Word limit 1500 (flexible)
  • Submit to whoresofyore@gmail.com
  • Deadline: Rolling
• Postgraduate Gender Research Network of Scotland
  • Blog posts sought on any subject of gender research
  • https://pgrnscotland.wordpress.com/
  • Deadline: Rolling

Events/Getting Involved

• Feminist & Women’s Studies Association Biennial Conference 2017
  • 6-8 September 2017
  • Register here
• Funding for LGBT+ History Projects: Advice and Networking Evening
  • Free, but registration is required
  • 14 September 2017
  • Reading Museum, Reading, England
  • Register here
• Understanding Violence Against Women: Myths and Realities
  • Free Online Course (Paid option available)
  • https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/understanding-violence-against-women
• Women’s Studies Group, 1558-1837
  • Seminar Series
  • Foundling Museum, London
  • https://womensstudiesgroup.org

Funding Opportunities/Fellowships/PhDs/Essay Prizes

• PhD Studentship: A Historical Perspective on Sexual Science, Medicine and Healthy Ageing
  • The University of Exeter, England and The University of Queensland, Australia
  • Deadline: 11 September 2017
  • Interviews: 26 September 2017
  • Start Date: January 2018
  • http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=2672
• The Write to End Violence Against Women Awards
  • Categories will be confirmed in the coming months
  • Submit any piece you believe deserves attention, either your own or an article that was written by someone else
  • Style: News – print, digital
    Broadcast News – TV, radio
    Features – print, digital (includes photo journalism)
    Documentary – audio / TV / digital platforms
    Opinion/comment – print, digital, broadcast, blog
  • Must be published between 01/09/16 and 30/09/17
  • Must be written in Scotland or primarily reaching a Scottish Audience
  • Deadline 30 September 2017
  • https://writetoendvaw.com/how-to-enter/
• The Gaskell Journal Joan Leach Memorial Graduate Student Essay Prize 2018
  • Winning author will receive £200, and the essay will be published in the next Gaskell Journal
  • Deadline: 1 February 2018
  • https://victorianist.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/the-gaskell-journal-joan-leach-memorial-graduate-student-essay-prize-2018/
• Centre for Legal History, The University of Edinburgh: PhD Candidate Sought
  • Open to suggestions of proposals
  • Deadline: ASAP
  • http://www.elhblog.law.ed.ac.uk/2017/03/28/phd-candidates-sought/
• Global Justice Academy: Innovative Initiative Fund
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Funding for projects on many topics including Gender Justice, Rights and Development
  • Awards up to £500
  • Deadline: Rolling
  • http://www.globaljusticeacademy.ed.ac.uk/resources/iif_information
• Foundation Scotland Fran Trust
  • Funds scholarly activity in the fields of feminism, gender or women’s studies
  • Funding for students at UK universities to help cover conference travel costs
  • Deadline: Rolling
  • https://www.foundationscotland.org.uk/programmes/fran-trust/

In The News This Month

• Dreph, aka Neequaye Dreph Dsane, fills London with murals of extraordinary black women
• Check out @ScottishFemJP on Twitter for the new Scottish Feminist Judgements Project
• Adele Patrick and the rich history of Glasgow Women’s Library

Network News

• WE’RE HAVING A SOCIAL! Please come join us on October 10th for a catch-up and a drag show! We’re meeting at The Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh at 7:30 pm, then heading to the Rabbit Hole (CC Blooms) for DRAG! See the full details and register your interest here.
• If you missed the announcement of our new committee members then check out the blog post here.
• We’re always looking for more blog posts so why not check out some of the recent posts and if inspiration strikes, please get in touch at PGRNScot@gmail.com.

To Get Involved and Stay in Touch

• Follow us on Twitter @PGRNScotland
• Email us at PGRNScot@gmail.comto join the mailing list or Facebook group, tell us about an event or CFP, suggest a project, organise a pub night etc.
• Join our Facebook group: Post-graduate Gender Research Network of Scotland – it is a semi-private group so you must email us if you want to join.
• Subscribe to our Blog https://pgrnscotland.wordpress.com/blog/

Best Wishes,

The PGRNS Organising Committee

Casey Lynn Bevens, Maja Brandt Andreasen, Lois Burke, Rachel Davis, Jenn Glinski, Alison McNaughton, Ashley Paton, Lauren Riley, Rebecca Smyth, Rian Sutton, and Karen Watt