The Executive Committee of the Seventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has extended the call for papers to the 21st of November 2005. The Symposium, which is part of activities on campus in recognition of Women’s History Month, is scheduled for March 9-11, 2006. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline on topics in women’s and gender history. We welcome papers on any historical subject that might grow out of a variety of disciplines and engage diverse methodologies, especially those that address the theme of “Mobility.” Papers or panels may address, but should not be limited to the following:

• Performativity and the Body
• Cosmopolitanisms
• Boundaries and Restraints: Material and Imagined
• Intra- and Trans-national flows of goods and ideas
• Social Mobility
• The Construction and Experience of Public and Private Spaces
• Globalization and Feminist Theory

We are pleased to announce that Jennifer L. Morgan, Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and author of Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) will deliver the keynote address, “Accounting for the Women in Slavery: Demography and Epistemology in Early African American History” on Thursday, March 9th.

We are also thrilled to announce that the journal Gender & History will again be sponsoring a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Presenters at the conference will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume.

We have limited funds available to assist with the cost of travel for presenters who have limited conference experience. These funds will be allocated based on the quality of the proposal and the distance to be traveled.

All submissions must be received by November 21, 2005.

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of a 250-word abstract AND a one-page curriculum vitae for EACH paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to:
Programming Committee
Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History
309 Gregory Hall, MC 466
810 South Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801

To submit a paper or panel by email, please send ONLY ONE attachment in Word format containing all abstracts and curriculum vitae. The subject line of the email must read “Attn: Programming Committee” and should be sent to gendersymp@uiuc.edu. We cannot be responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.

We also invite graduate students to serve as commentators and professors to serve as chairs for panels. These individuals should submit curriculum vitae to gendersymp@uiuc.edu with the subject line: Attn: Programming Committee.

For more information:
Please contact Programming Committee Chair James Warren at
gendersymp@uiuc.edu
Visit our website at http://www.history.uiuc.edu/hist%20grad%20orgs/WGHS/index.htm