The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar at the Massachusetts Historical Society
Call for Proposals
Extended Deadline: 22 April 2024
Hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society
H-Women's purpose is to enable historians more easily to discuss research interests, teaching methods, and the state of the field and historiography of women's studies. H-Women is especially interested in methods of teaching history to graduate and undergraduate students in diverse settings.
The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar at the Massachusetts Historical Society
Call for Proposals
Extended Deadline: 22 April 2024
Hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society
The 59th annual Northern Great Plains History Conference will take place in Sioux Falls, South Dakota from September 25 - 28, 2024.
Proposals for individual papers and complete sessions in all fields of history – around the globe and across time – are welcome!
Fandom | Cultures | Research is the first international journal based in Germany for scholarship in the fields of Fan, Audience, Media, and Cultural (Data) Studies. With its different formats – ranging from full papers to reviews, conference reports, and data papers – the journal fosters academic discussion across these disciplines, especially regarding methodological questions: Each issue will consist of double-blind peer-reviewed full papers, alongside with an editorially reviewed section consisting of data papers (data sets and complementary text
The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar at the Massachusetts Historical Society
Call for Proposals
Extended Deadline: 22 April 2024
Hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society
The following book review from H-Disability may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Encarnación Juárez Almendros
Reviewer:
Kristy Wilson Bowers
Encarnación Juárez Almendros. Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints. Cambridge: Liverpool University Press, 2018. 216 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78694-078-0.
Reviewed by Kristy Wilson Bowers (University of Missouri) Published on H-Disability (July, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53613
The
The following book review from H-Japan may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Laura Miller, Rebecca L. Copeland, eds.
Reviewer:
E. T. Atkins
Laura Miller, Rebecca L. Copeland, eds. Diva Nation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. xvii + 242 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29773-9.
Reviewed by E. T. Atkins (Northern Illinois University) Published on H-Japan (July, 2019) Commissioned by Jessica Starling (Lewis & Clark College)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54284
If you’re going to write about divas, write like a diva. This was
The following book review from H-Poland may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Sophie Hodorowicz Knab
Reviewer:
Daniel Logemann
Sophie Hodorowicz Knab. Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2016. ix + 293 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7818-1359-4.
Reviewed by Daniel Logemann (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation) Published on H-Poland (July, 2019) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53652
Sophie Hodorowicz
The following book review from H-Socialisms may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Reviewer:
Jack A W Bowman
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley. Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia. South Asia in Motion Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 296 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0651-7; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0480-3.
Reviewed by Jack A W Bowman (University of Warwick) Published on H-Socialisms (July, 2019) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews
Dear History of Women List.
Here is a new paper that may be of interest to those studying women in Medieval Europe.
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a verbatim translation of a page from the Manuscript MS 408, sometimes called the Voynich Manuscript or the Ischia Manuscript. Due to the geography and history of Ischia in 1444, the languages was a unique hybrid of Iberian Romance (from the Crown of Aragon) with Latin and Greek (from Ischia Monastery). The writing system uses an alphabet with the letters derived from Ancient Greek, Phoenician and Arabic symbols, also from Ischia
The editors of Southern Cultures announce the publication of the Spring 2024 issue, The Vote, available online via Project MUSE.
Introduction
Meeting the Moment for Democracy
by Errin Haines, Guest Editor
“I loved the idea that on Election Day everyone is equal.”
The Voting Rights Act beyond the Headlines
by Emilye Crosby and Judy Richardson
“It is tempting to think of universal voting rights as one of the fundamental pillars of our country, but access to the vote has been hard fought and remains under attack.”
“Blocks for Freedom”: Sewing for Voting in Post–Jim Crow Mississippi
by William Sturkey
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware is pleased to announce the recipients of grants and fellowships awarded December 2023. Please note that the next deadline for applications for the exploratory grants and Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship is March 31st. The H. B. du Pont Dissertation Fellowship deadline is November 15th. Here is the link on Hagley Museum and Library’s website for further info and to apply…. https://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships.
Exploratory
Graham Clure
Visiting Researcher
Norwegian
“CREATING THE INTERN: PHILANTHROPY, UNIVERSITIES, AND THE NEW DEAL”
Virtual Event
April 24, 2024
Time 12 PM EST
Registration for this event is via Eventbrite.
Paper will be circulated to registrants two weeks prior to the seminar
Proximity to power, access to professional networks, and acquisition of insider knowledge has come to define the “intangible things” unpaid internships claim to offer students—whether in the public service or in proliferating private internship programs. This paper locates the origins of the modern, private white-collar internship in the growth of the New Deal