From: Margaret Hunt
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Subject: Call for Papers - Berkshire Conference on the History of
Women
CALL FOR PAPERS
2002 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Deadline: December 15, 2000
The 12th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, "Local
Knowledge
<--> Global Knowledge," will be held June 6-9, 2002 at the University
of
Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, USA. The Program Committee
welcomes
proposals that explore the relationship between local knowledge,
global
knowledge, the history of women, and the emergence of notions of
gender
across time and culture. How have people reconfigured their ideas and
representations to take account of expanding -- or contracting --
worlds, changing economic conditions, and new demands for labor? What
are the specific challenges to historians of women posed by
indigeneity,
nationalism, imperialism and ethnicity? What is the relation between
what we can know about women in any local situation and what we can
know
about women broadly and comparatively? The Committee particularly
encourages submissions in earlier periods, those which address sources
and methodology, and panels that break down the divide between "the
west" (North America and Western Europe) and other regions of the
world.
Funding for travel costs will be available for some international
panelists.
We prefer complete panels, normally three papers, a comment and a
chair;
one person should not assume the task of chair and comment. The
Committee also seeks workshops, roundtables, teaching sessions, and
presentations that depart from the traditional conference format.
Individual papers will also be considered. The Committee may rearrange
submissions to shape the program; submission of a proposal will
indicate
agreement with this proviso. No one may appear on the program more
than
once in any capacity.
Please submit three (3) copies of the full proposal, postmarked by
December 15, 2000 to one of the addresses listed below. Each proposal
must include a standard
<http://www.berksconference.org/coversheet.htm>
cover sheet (which can be printed off from our website), listing panel
title or roundtable theme and full contact information (address,
phone,
fax and e-mail) for panel organizer and all participants. It must also
include a title and one-page abstract for each paper or presentation;
a
one-page curriculum vitae/resume for each participant (including the
chair and comment); and a self-addressed, stamped postcard.
Mark packet "ATTN: Berkshire Conference" and send it to one of the
following: for European topics to <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Ruth Mazo
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Karras <mailto:[log in to unmask]> , Department
of
History, University of Minnesota, 614 Social Sciences Building,
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; for Africa, Latin America, Asia, the
Pacific, and all comparative topics to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Barbara
Molony <mailto:[log in to unmask]> , Department of History, Santa Clara
University, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA; for Canada and the United
States
to <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Claire Potter, Center for the
Americas, 255 High Street, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06457,
USA.
For further information please visit our website at http
<http://www.berksconference.org/> :// www.berksconference.org
<http://www.berksconference.org/>
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