[H-verkko] CFP: Why and How Gender Matters: The Concept(s) of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern World

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Why and How Gender Matters:  The Concept(s) of Gender in Late
Medieval and Early Modern World

Why and How Gender Matters: The Concept(s) of Gender in Late Medieval
and Early Modern World

International Conference
Why and How Gender Matters: The Concept(s) of Gender in Late Medieval
and Early Modern World

February, 4-5, 2011
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/


Call for Proposals

During the latest decades, the questions, problems and
theoretizations of gender history have become more nuanced. It has
become clear that special attention is needed for studying gender
history of medieval and early modern world. 

The central focus of the symposium is to test and verify the
methodology and use the concept of gender specifically applicable to
the period of great change and transition, often failed to be seen by
scholars as an independent item. Late medieval period (14th and 15th
centuries) is often lost in the shadow of humanism and Renaissance
coming while 17th century is observed as something in between
Renaissance and the Age of Reason. 

Geography of change is quite important as well, as in different parts
of the European continent changes happened within distinct cultural,
social and political contexts. It is these contexts the organizers
try to bring together to see whether one universal gender concept
should and might be applied cross boundaries and times.

Understanding the multifaceted aspects of gender, gendered positions
and access to knowledge and power in medieval and early modern times
will ultimately help to see even the present day gender positions as
historically and culturally defined, not universal or monolithic.
However, medieval and early modern period has too often been
neglected by gender historians. 

The aim of the symposium is to help to increase the awareness of the
significance of the field and challenge the still persistent
assumption of medieval and early modern women simply as victims of
misogynist thought. 

The conference aims at dialogue between the scholars and researchers
of different age/era, culture and discipline background. We
especially encourage younger scholars to participate in our
discussion.

The keynote speakers include:

Dr. Sarah Ferber, Head of postgraduate Studies, University of
Queensland and Wolloongong, whose main fields are gender and religion
in Early Modern Europe and contemporary bioethics;

Dr. Natalia Pushkareva, Professor, Leading Researcher, Russian
Academy of Sciences, a prominent and pioneering historian of Russian
women; 

Dr. Anne-Marie Kilday, Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brooks University, an
established gender historian, whose latest book deals with gender and
crime in Scotland (Women and Crime in Enlightenment Scotland (Boydell
and Brewer, 2007).

We invite the proposals within and beyond the following themes:
*	The concept(s) of gender in late Medieval and early Modern Europe;
*	Gender and  religious identity of the medieval/early modern men and
women;
*	Gender in the courtroom: men, women, community and the state
negotiations of justice;
*	Women or Half-Men: rights of (wo)men and the transformation of
political bodies
*	The gendered concepts of the household and family relations; 
*	Gender Violence and reinforcing the gender boundaries in Late
Medieval/Early Modern Europe

Please, send your proposal including contact information, title and
no more that 500 word abstract to: why-gender-2011 at helsinki.fi by
August, 15, 2010. 

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The conference is organized at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced
Studies, in cooperation with The Philosophical Psychology, Morality
and Politics Research Unit (PMP, University of Helsinki), Department
of History, University of Tampere, Norden (Nordisk kulturfond) &
Societas Scientiarum Fennica.


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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Anu Lahtinen
<why-gender-2011REMOVETHIS at helsinki.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 01.09.2010
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