[H-verkko] Konferenssi Why & How Gender sekä Nordic Medieval Gender Network

[Anu Lahtinen]

Tervehdys vanhojen aikojen ystäville,

Kesäsydännä muistuttelen muutamasta ohjelmanumerosta.

1) Pohjoismaisiin teemoihin keskittyvä tutkimusverkosto
"Medieval gender history - a Nordic research network" on avannut sivunsa 
os.
http://www.medeltid.su.se/Forskning/Medieval_gender_history.htm

2) Why and How Gender Matters -symposiumin call for papers jatkuu 
syyskuun 10. päivään, alla tarkemmat tiedot.

yst.terv. & yst.pah.rist.post. Anu Lahtinen

--------------------------------------

Call for papers

International Conference
Why and How Gender Matters:
The Concept(s) of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern World
February, 4-5, 2011
Helsinki
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 no later 
than September, 10, 2010.