This initiative from the European Graduate School should be of interest to
Design History post-graduates.
Incidentally, if anyone makes use of any of the information posted to the
list and attends a conference, presents a paper, or similar, it would be
great if you would send a brief message to the list just to let us know
about your experience and encourage us to keep putting information out
there.
Best wishes,
Lesley Whitworth
List Administrator

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CALL FOR PAPERS:  GENDER, PROPERTY AND ECONOMIC CHANGE



        E S T E R

        European graduate School
        for Training in
        Economic and social historical Research





        SEMINAR 1999.1
        CALL FOR STUDENTS


Title

Gender, property and economic change


Purpose

ESTER is an initiative of the N.W. Posthumus Institute which is a national
graduate school for economic and social history in the Netherlands. The
main purpose of ESTER is to offer high-level research training for advanced
Ph.D. students on a European scale. The training programme comprises annual
series of three one-week seminars on specific themes in the field of social
and economic history. The aim of each seminar is to bring together about 15
Ph.D students from different countries in Europe who are working on
comparable themes to discuss their respective research projects. Leading
senior experts in the field will be invited to co-ordinate the discussion
and comment on the papers presented by the students. ESTER explicitly aims
at developing comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives in the seminar
programme; consequently the seminars are open to students of all relevant
disciplines, not just history.


Subject

This first ESTER seminar of 1999 will focus on the topic of Gender,
property and economic change. At the intersection of economy and law
important questions arise. What formal or informal institutions promote
certain types of economic activity, and what economic activities demand an
adjustment of institutional arrangements? This is the point of departure in
theories such as institutional economics, property rights theories, etc.,
and has put its imprint on research within economic history. But there is
also a more social- historical aspect to the problem. What was the cultural
background of specific institutional solutions, what were the social
consequences of new types of economic activities, and how did groups and/or
individuals use the opportunities inherent in different systems? Here, the
issue of gender becomes of vital importance to raise new questions and to
shed new light on received pictures. As the subthemes illustrate, the
seminar will take a broad view of these questions. Central to the
discussion is the family as a unit of resource pooling and decision-making,
a role which was subject to crucial changes not least in the 19th century.
Suggested sub-themes (subject to change as the topics of the students'
papers become known):
1) Common property - private property - lack of property: did gender matter?
2) Gender, property and capital formation
3) Strategies of property: marriages and inheritances
4) Gender, property rights and political discourse

The seminar will take place at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, from
Saturday 10th of October until Thursday the 14th of October, 1999, (arrival
9/10 - departure 15/10).  The local organiser is professor Maria Ĺgren
(University of Uppsala). Leading international experts in this field of
study will be invited to discuss and comment upon the papers. The
provisional list of experts include the following scholars: Dr. Amy L.
Erickson, professor Jeanette Neeson, and professor Anita Göransson.


Organisation

Participating students are required to prepare a written paper in advance
to be presented at the seminar. They will also be asked to read all papers
before attending the seminar to guarantee fruitful discussions. Papers
should concentrate on specific problems in the field concerned, rather than
presenting a general overview. In addition, the papers should briefly
describe in a separate section the following issues relating to the PhD
dissertation as a whole:
        the central argumentation for the entire PhD dissertation,
        an outline of the whole research,
        some preliminary conclusions about what you want to accomplish in your
dissertation.
Papers should not exceed 20 A4 pages, typed in double space, excluding
notes, tables, or graphs. The working language for papers and discussion is
English. Participants to the seminar should be aware of the fact that
sufficient command of English is an absolute condition to participate
satisfactorily in the seminar

Initial selection of students takes place on the basis of a synopsis of the
proposed paper. However, admission to the seminar will ultimately be
decided by the local organiser on the following points:
        the subject of the paper must fit in with the theme of the seminar,
        the quality of the paper: the paper must be of good academic
quality, and
the quality of the English that is used in the paper must be sufficient,
        the student must meet the dealine for submission of his/her paper.
The local organiser has the right to refuse papers that do not meet the
above requirements. When the number of applications exceeds the number of
available places, students from universities participating in ESTER have
first priority.

The costs for accommodation and meals during the seminar for ESTER
postgraduates will be fully covered.


Proposals

Students wishing to participate are requested to submit a one-page synopsis
or summary of a proposed paper, and a brief curriculum vitae no later than
15th of March, 1999. For this purpose it is necessary to use the form
attached. It is important to note that synopsis and application must be
approved of and signed by the student's supervisor. Deadline for submission
of seminar papers is 19th of July, 1999. Following that date each
participant will be sent copies of all papers as soon as possible.


Addresses

Inquiries concerning this seminar should be addressed to Professor Maria
Ĺgren, Department of History, Uppsala, St. Larsgatan 2, S-753 10 Uppsala,
Sweden, tel: * 46-18-181 548/471 1548, fax: * 46-18-181 528, email:
<[log in to unmask]>. For general inquiries concerning ESTER please
contact the programme director Dr. Angélique Janssens, Department of
History, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9103, 6500 HD NIJMEGEN, The
Netherlands, tel:* 31-24-361 5822, fax: * 31-24-361 1591, e-mail:
[log in to unmask] Further information concerning the ESTER network is
available on our website: http://www.kun.nl/ester.


***************** Dr. Angélique Janssens ******************

Department of History   *   N.W. Posthumus Institute / ESTER School
                   University of Nijmegen
                   P.O. Box 9103
                   6500 HD  NIJMEGEN
                   The Netherlands
                   tel 00-31-24-361 5792 (or 5822)
                   fax 00-31-24-361 1591

Info on the N.W. Posthumus Institute: http://www.kun.nl/posthumus
Info on the ESTER School: http://www.kun.nl/ester


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Ann Ighe                               tel +46 31 773 47 43
Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen     fax +46 31 773 47 39
Göteborgs Universitet                  e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Box 720
S-405 30 Göteborg
Sweden
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