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CfP: Exploring the Atlantic and Asian Dutch Empire and its Archives: actor-centered and gender approaches (17th-19th Century)

1 month 1 week ago

Workshop Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies & International In-stitute of Social History Amsterdam
Dates: 20-21 June 2024
Place: Conference room, Niebuhrstr. 5, 53113 Bonn
Organizers: Eva Marie Lehner (BCDSS) and Hanna te Velde (IISH)

In the past years, the lives of colonized people have been studied increasingly. Individual stories of enslaved, freed and other marginalized men and women were documented in colonial ar-chives, often because they stepped out of line at a certain moment. How to find a more balanced approach when trying to unearth the lives of colonized people, while being at the mercy of colonial archives? How to best account for the manifold differences between men and women living in colonial establishments, based among others on gender, race, class, religion, age and social position? This workshop wants to provide a platform for Ph.D. candidates and postdoc-toral researchers to address the above challenges, showcase their individual research projects, obtain comments from experts in gender history, slavery studies, and Dutch colonial history, and stimulate exchanges and discussions.
In this workshop, professor Claudia Jarzebowski (early modern history and dependency studies, BCDSS), and professor Sarah Zimmermann (colonialism and gender, Western Washington University) together with Dutch and German Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers will explore the Atlantic and Asian Dutch Empire and its archives (17th-19th century) from different levels and from various perspectives. First, we aim to encourage a dialogue between researchers who take a global approach to the Dutch Empire, using, for example, sources of the Dutch trading companies, and researchers who use a case-centered approach, concentrating on specific colo-nial outposts and situations, individual actors and including different types of archives and sources. Second, we want to explore different approaches to studying previously underexposed historical actors, such as European women, enslaved individuals, indigenous women, or chil-dren and offspring of mixed marriages and relationships. Consequently, our goal is to develop a comparative framework rooted in a focus on historical actors and gender perspectives rather than top-down abstract entities like colonies or colonial archives. This approach is particularly beneficial for slavery and dependency studies, because it encompasses a wide spectrum of power dynamics and dependencies, instead of emphasizing binaries like colonizers and colo-nized, free and unfree.

Provisional programme

We will start at circa 1.30 pm on Tuesday June 20, and the workshop will be finished Friday June 21 around 15.00 pm.

Assignments and assessment

By exploring the above topics from an actor-/bottom-up approach and gender perspective, the workshop will address the following questions:
1. How were men and women treated differently in the Dutch early modern empire, and what was the role of socio-economic aspects (for example religion, race, status, age, background, marital status, free/unfree status) in the making of these differences?
2. To what extent were various women and other marginalized actors able to have an impact on their direct environments and the broader colonial societies they were a part of?
3. How were differences between the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds reflected in the lives of the people living in Dutch colonial establishments?
4. What can we learn from a global perspective that compares the Dutch Empire with other Empires?
5. How can colonial sources be used to study women, marginalized or so-called “invisible” actors from a bottom-up perspective?
All workshop participants are asked to hand in short papers (3000-5000 words), based on their ongoing research, addressing one or more of the above questions before 1 June 2024. Partici-pants are required to read the papers of all fellow participants. Short presentations at the work-shop and comments prepared by experts in gender history, slavery studies and the Dutch colo-nial empire will facilitate in-depth feedback for each participant and discussions that bridge the different topics, approaches, and results.

Application

Please register before March 23 by contacting Hanna te Velde (hanna.te.velde@iisg.nl) and Eva Marie Lehner (elehner@uni-bonn.de), and include a short abstract of your paper (100-500 words). Do not hesitate to reach out in case of further questions.

CfP: “Crossroads of Resistance”

1 month 1 week ago

Southern Labor Studies Association
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
September 20-21, 2024
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2024

In 2024 SLSA will convene in Chattanooga at a pivotal moment for Southern workers, a
crossroads between rising reaction and potential for radical change. The combination of
Chattanooga’s history as a strategic transportation junction and a locus of Southern labor
resistance inspires our conference theme of “Crossroads of Resistance.”

At this site of convergence and departure, SLSA seeks explorations of geographical,
generational, and organizational exchanges in the lives of Southern working people—past,
present, and future. SLSA’s mission is to bring together a broad, diverse array of scholars,
thinkers, organizers, and other activists working at the crossroads of academic disciplines and
beyond the ivory tower, including dialogues among folks in the labor movement, community
organizing, journalism, and the arts. We welcome scholars whose work engages many Souths–
Black, white, people of color, Indigenous, Queer, and recent migrants.

We invite proposals in a wide range of formats, including traditional paper presentation
sessions, individual papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, skillshares, and other
nontraditional formats. In addition to our customary program, we are excited to announce our
“New Directions” Workshop Series on the morning of Friday, September 20, in which
graduate students and early career scholars can pre-circulate article-length essays and engage
in focused seminar discussions in small groups. Presenters in this category will also be
considered for the SLSA Robert H. Zieger Prize as well as conference travel grants for early
career participants, all of which will be announced at the conference.

Most conference activities will take place on the campus of the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga (UTC), located just blocks from the Tennessee Riverwalk, the Bluff View Art
District, downtown restaurants, and historic MLK Blvd. The Guerry Center, home to UTC’s
Honors College, will host breakout sessions, film screenings, and performances, and attendees
will convene for a plenary and reception at the university’s newly renovated Fine Arts Center.
Discounted hotel accommodations will be available at Chattanooga’s historic Read House,
where we will gather for a buffet dinner and keynote address. Known as the Scenic City,
Chattanooga offers conference attendees opportunities to hike, bike, kayak, and rock climb, as
well as abundant restaurants, breweries, shops, and historic sites.

To submit a full session or individual proposal, visit https://bit.ly/SLSA2024. Questions? Email
SouthernLaborStudies2024@gmail.com or contact a member of the conference committee
listed below.

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2024

 

Special Thanks to our Sponsors!

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
University of New Orleans
Texas A&M University
Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)
University of Georgia
and more - email us to ask how!

SLSA Conference Committee

Thomas J. Adams, University of South Alabama
Thomas Alter II, Texas State University
Shannon C. Eaves, College of Charleston
Sarah Fouts, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Joshua Hollands, University College London
Justin Jolly, Texas Christian University
Robert Korstad, Duke University
Max Krochmal, University of New Orleans
Sarah McNamara, Texas A&M University
Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, Emory University
Jarod Roll, University of Mississippi
Bryant Simon, Temple University
Jermaine Thibodeaux,University of Oklahoma
Michael D. Thompson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Additional Notes on the Conference Theme

We invite participants to riff on our theme of “Crossroads of Resistance,” building upon and
beyond the following dimensions:

● Temporal crossroads (then and now/future)
● The crossroads of disciplines and subfields
● Geographic crossroads within the region and beyond it (transnational, etc.)
● Intergenerational crossroads
● Crossroads in forms of organizing, between formal labor organizations and new models
● The present as a crossroads between fascism and resistance
● Crossroads of scholarship and activism
● Crossroads of labor systems and types of work (from enslavement to the gig economy)
and/or imagining futures of guaranteed incomes or without work
● Crossroads of work, academic freedom, and the donor class in higher education

CfP: Annual Chartism Day

1 month 2 weeks ago

University of Reading 7 September 2024

The annual Chartism Day Conferences were launched at the University of Birmingham in September 1995 by the renowned Chartist historian Dorothy Thompson (1923-2011). Apart from the disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, the conferences, which are endorsed by the Society for the Study of Labour History [SSLH], have been held in a variety of locations in England, Wales, Ireland and France every year since, bringing together established academics, postgraduate researchers and members of the public who all share a common interest in the history of the Chartist movement. As well as a strong contingent of labour historians, Chartism Day brings together a broad spectrum of academics from the diverse fields of arts and humanities. It is this dynamic interchange between scholars working in an interdisciplinary environment that gives the event its distinctively friendly and productive character. 

Our next conference will be held at the University of Reading, hosted by Professor David Stack and themed to commemorate Dorothy Thompson’s impressive scholarship. Although we are inviting proposals on any aspect of Chartism, we would particularly welcome papers which closely engage with Dorothy’s special interests. Proposals might usefully focus on

•​Radicalism and political reform

•​Class and Chartism

•​Gender and women’s participation in Chartism

•​The Irish dimension 

•​Feargus O’Connor /Chartist leadership

•​The Land Plan

Presenters can choose to deliver full length (30-45 mins) or shorter papers (15 mins). Shorter papers could also be a contribution to our regular ‘Chartist Lives’ feature which offers brief biographical sketches of lesser-known Chartists, or be an analysis of a related document or artefact. 

In all instances, we are calling for brief abstracts of no more than around 350 words to be submitted by 19 April 2024. 

Please send abstracts to the co-convenors

Joan Allen joan.allen@ncl.ac.uk &

Richard Allen richard.allen@ncl.ac.uk

Further information: https://sslh.org.uk/2024/02/08/chartism-day-2024/

CfP: Workshop and Special Issue: Cold War Internationalisms of/in the Decolonizing World

1 month 2 weeks ago

Workshop at Geneva Graduate Institute, 5-6 June 2024

The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites submissions for a workshop and an ensuing special thematic issue on Internationalism of the Decolonizing World in the Cold War.

In recent decades, Cold War historiography has paid growing attention to the autonomy and agency of the players beyond the US-Soviet dichotomy. In the wake of Westad’s seminal The Global Cold War (2005), scholars have increasingly explored the episodes, events, and institutions that demonstrate the agency of the Global South. From the Bandung Conference to Pan-African networks, the so-called Third World assumes a pivotal role in the latest historiographies. Newly independent states, among others, are recast as actors in their own right and not mere pawns in a game played by two superpowers.

Cold War Internationalisms of/in the Decolonizing World advances this recentering of the narrative by focusing on decolonizing or newly independent states, along with related actors, as the makers and breakers of the Cold War world order. This special issue thus seeks to reframe the Cold War from the standpoint of Latin American, Middle Eastern, African, or Asian actors – where the US and Soviet Union appear not as the protagonists but as the dependent variables of decolonial world-making.

In addition, we seek contributions to highlight the decolonizing world’s agency in defining and/or shaping various ideologies – including, but not limited to, Communism, Socialism, Social Democracy, Nationalism, or Liberalism. We want to explore how actors from the postcolonial sphere assigned new meanings to the political vocabulary of the Cold War and created their own vocabularies.

Submissions including, but not limited to, the following topics are welcome:

    Anti-imperialist networks

    South-south diplomacies

    Biographical or multi-biographical studies

    Revolutionary organizations linked to post-colonial powers

    Women’s organizations, labor, intellectual, cultural, medical, educational, and humanitarian groups

    Politics of anti-colonial nationalism

    Non-Soviet communisms

 

 International repercussions and transnational afterlives of novel variations of ideologies or stand-alone ideologies emerging from the decolonizing world (Maoism, Nasserism, Juche, Jamahiriyya, Latin American Developmentalism, Nkruhmaism, Nehruvianism, etc.)

 Contributions from all levels, including graduate students and independent scholars, are greatly encouraged.

 

How to Apply

Prospective authors should send a short abstract (300 words) and a short bio (one paragraph) directly to Burak Sayim (burak.sayim@nyu.edu) and Severyan Dyakonov (sd3196@nyu.edu) by March 30, 2024. We will be in touch about the results by April 15.

The workshop will take place on June 5-6, 2024 at Geneva Graduate Institute. Financial support for travel and accommodation is limited.

If you are invited to submit a paper for the envisioned publication afterwards, the submission deadline for a completed manuscript is October 30, 2024.

For submission, style guidelines, or any further information, click here: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rsix21&…

CfP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

1 month 3 weeks ago

University of Vienna, 19-20 September 2024

Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

How did cultural interaction since 1945 unfold outside the realm of Western dominance, shaping omitted global narratives? This workshop will explore cultural interactions between state socialist countries in Europe and those in the Global South, with the aim of challenging and deconstructing traditional Cold War narratives.

Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

How did cultural interaction since 1945 unfold outside the realm of Western dominance, shaping omitted global narratives? While Cold War studies have long acknowledged the role of culture and the arts as instrument of „soft power,“ scholars have traditionally framed this role within a binary East-West narrative. More recent studies have highlighted the necessity of a complex, interconnected, and global view of this conflict, with a particular focus on the decolonization process. This workshop will explore cultural interactions between state socialist countries in Europe and those in the Global South, with the aim of challenging and deconstructing traditional Cold War narratives.

We seek to further analyze the specificities, similarities, and differences in the development of relations between the Global South and state socialist Europe. Although these issues have been increasingly discussed in the context of trade, labor, and education, they have not yet received sufficient attention in the realm of visual arts, material objects, and cultural institutions. We welcome contributions from Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, as well as especially the Global South perspectives. Our goal is to foster critical discussion of theoretical frameworks as well as illustrative case studies that emphasize the historical and contemporary diversity and specificity of these regions by avoiding their objectification and homogenization.

We invite submissions for 20-minute papers from across the fields of museology and cultural heritage studies; art, architecture, cultural, global, oral, and Cold War histories; and political science that focus on:

- Cultural relations, representations, imaginations, and their historical and political contexts;
- Roles and impacts of cultural institutions, programs, exhibitions, and objects in the (un)official cultural diplomacy;
- Mobilities and exchanges of artists, cultural workers, artworks, artifacts, and ideas across regions and continents;
- Networks between official policies, institutions, and individuals in shaping and implementing cultural diplomacy;
- Relationship between art markets, role of collectors in shaping state cultural policy, and surrounding issues of provenance;
- Actors, motivations, and backgrounds of cultural encounters, and their evolution from economic to ideological interests;
- Role of European state socialist states in cultural decolonization and anti-imperialist partnerships;
- Historical transcontinental power dynamics and inequalities in cultural relations and diplomacy;Colonial legacies and challenges in contemporary cultural institutions and curatorial practices.

Keynote Lecture: Prof Beáta Hock (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe; Humboldt University of Berlin)

Please submit an abstract (c. 250 words) and a brief bio to anna-marie.kroupova@univie.ac.at by 31 March 2024. Applicants selected by the scientific committee will be notified by 30 April 2024.

Scientific Committee: Friedrich Cain (University of Vienna), Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna), Beáta Hock (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe; Humboldt University of Berlin), Dietlind Hüchtker (University of Vienna), Anna-Marie Kroupová (University of Vienna)

Workshop Partners: Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies (University of Vienna), FSP Global History (University of Vienna), Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War, New Cold War Studies Research Group (University of Vienna), Research platform "Transformations and Eastern Europe" (University of Vienna)

Kontakt

anna-marie.kroupova@univie.ac.at

Famille, transmission et représentations : sources, méthodes et perspectives de recherches (French)

1 month 3 weeks ago

Hybrid

Cette journée vise à poursuivre la réflexion sur les dynamiques familiales, dans une optique comparative, France-Québec, et dans la longue durée des périodes moderne et contemporaine. Dans le but de faire le point sur l’état de la recherche et de poser les balises en vue d’un colloque international, la journée d’étude propose de focaliser sur les sources, les méthodes et les perspectives qui permettent d’interroger l’individualité des acteurs familiaux, l’évolution dans le temps des rapports entre les différents membres de la famille ainsi que leurs rapports à la transmission familiale, tant au sein des mondes urbains que ruraux.

Présentation

Dans la foulée d'une première journée d'étude portant sur les sorories et la transmission familiale tenue à l'Université de Lorraine (Metz) en octobre 2022, cette journée souhaite relancer la discussion sur l'entité "famille" (stratégies, réseaux), et les enjeux de la transmission (qu'il s'agisse des biens, des valeurs, des pratiques ou des savoirs, de la mémoire enfin), cela dans une perspective comparative France-Québec, et dans la longue durée des périodes moderne et contemporaine. Cette seconde journée vise à poursuivre la réflexion sur les dynamiques familiales, à la fois verticales (parents ou grands-parents/enfants) et horizontales (relations adelphiques ou de germanité) à l'œuvre dans les processus de transmission.

Les travaux sur la reproduction familiale ont donné lieu à de nombreux échanges entre les historiens nord-américains et européens, notamment par l'étroite relation France-Québec illustrée par les collouqes franco-québecois réunis à l'initiative de John A. Dickinson, G. Bouchard et J. Goy (Transmettre, hériter succéder, 1991 ; Les exclus de la terre en France et au Québec, 1997 ; Famille et marché, 2001 ; Familles, terre, marché, 2002). Sans exclure les réflexions spécifiques à la transmission des biens au sein des familles, l'objectif est ici de replacer les acteurs de la famille au centre de l'analyse, afin de réfléchir aux rapports interpersonnels et intergénérationnels lorsqu'il s'agit de penser la transmission.

Nous ferons le point sur l'état de la recherche et poserons les balises en vue d'un colloque international, la journée d'étude focalisera sur les sources, les méthodes et les perspectives qui permettent d'interroger l'individualité des acteurs familiaux, l'évolution dans le temps des rapports entre les membres de la famille ainsi que leurs rapports à la transmission familiale tant au sein des mondes urbains que ruraux.

Programme

Accueil 8h15-8h30 (Canada) / 14h15-14h30 (France)

8h30-8h45 / 14h30 -14h45 : Introduction

8h45-10h15/14h45-16h15 : Table ronde 1. Stratégies, transmissions et réseaux familiaux
  • Pauline Ferrier-Viaud, Université d'Artois. « Protéger et transmettre : une lecture des stratégies conjugales et patrimoniales des premiers administrateurs de la Nouvelle-France »
  • Nicolas Lelièvre, Université de Sherbrooke. « Reconstituer les réseaux familiaux ethnoculturels allemands en Amérique du Nord : sources et méthodes dans l'étude des familles Wurtele, Pozer, Glakmeyer et Globensky (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) »
  • Caroline Bouchier, Université Lyon 2. « Le partage anticipé : moteur et miroir d'une dynamique familiale »

Discussion

10h15 - 10h30 / 16h15-16h30 : Pause

10h30-11h45 / 16h30-17h45 : Table ronde 2. Relations adelphiques, familles et deuils
  • Sophie Doucet, chercheuse indépendante et Peter Gossage, Université Concordia. « Frères et soeurs, rivalités et solidarités : les relations adelphiques devant les tribunaux québecois, 1840-1920 »
  • Louise Lainesse, Université de Montréal. « Pleurer et se souvenir des siens : la famille en tant que communauté d'endeuillés (Québec, fin XIXe siècle) »
  • Karine Pépin, Université de Sherbrroke, Sorbonne-Université. « La transmission de la mémoire familiale jusque dans la mort : l'identification des descendants nobles à leur lignée à travers les notices nécrologiques »

Dicussion

11h45-12h / 17h45-18h : Conclusion de la journée. Magda Fahrni, Université du Québec à Montréal.

Organisation

La Journée d'étude est organisée par le département d'histoire de l'Université de Sherbrooke et par le CRULH (Université de Lorraine), avec le soutien de la société de démographie historique.

CfP: Circulaciones, espacios y lenguajes políticos América latina, siglos XIX-XXI (Spanish)

1 month 3 weeks ago

Para su 6° número la revista Macrohistoria propone una reflexión para reforzar la mirada transnacional y de larga duración, centrada en las circulaciones, espacios y lenguajes políticos en América latina. El objetivo es repensar la variabilidad de conexiones y de escalas de análisis.

Convocatoria abierta para el dossier - Revista Macrohistoria

Coord.

Matias Sanchez Barberan / EHESS-MondesAméricains – mibarberan@hotmail.com

Argumentos

Para su 6° número la revista Macrohistoria propone una reflexión sobre circulaciones, espacios y lenguajes políticos en América latina, desde las independencias hasta nuestros días. Este tema no es un objeto nuevo en la atención de los especialistas. A los intercambios a gran escala durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX se suma la presencia europea o bien las migraciones regionales, que se trate por razones económicas o políticas. Si estos temas confirman el carácter global de las circulaciones, los estudios han tendido a caer en un doble impase. Por un lado, la perspectiva nacional, predominante durante buena parte del periodo de estudio propuesto, tiende a restringir los debates políticos a los marcos jurídicos de los emergentes Estados, sin explicitar los argumentos que dejarían fuera del análisis otras lecturas, que se trate de los valores cosmopolitas del siglo XIX, los debates sobre el derecho de asilo o los conflictos ideológicos durante la Guerra Fría. Numerosos y sugestivos trabajos recientes han demostrado en efecto que la imposición de la nación, aparentada a los contornos de los nuevos Estados, está lejos de ser la única puerta de entrada para apreciar el alcance de la cuestión migratoria y de sus efectos en el juego político. Lejos la idea de la nación como único resultado de la crisis imperial de principios del siglo XIX. Un segundo impase consiste en la adopción de la perspectiva biográfica. La exploración de la trayectoria individual tiende a pensar la migración en términos de influencia y recepción, dejando en las sombras otras formas de pensar el problema. Esta reducción se traduce en un relato que pierde en problematización, para adquirir a ratos contornos panegíricos.

El presente llamado apuesta a poner en relación los diversos tipos de circulación con las diversas formas de construcción de espacios y lenguajes políticos en América latina. La perspectiva invita a reforzar la mirada transnacional y de larga duración, permitiendo plantear en otros términos los debates y los espacios políticos. La propuesta busca ofrecer una alternativa a los marcos nacionales sobre la base de conexiones entre territorios y espacios aparentemente diferenciados.

La atención prestada a las conexiones autoriza además una variación de escalas de análisis,enriqueciendo así la interpretación más allá de la pregunta por la simple recepción. Sería así posible pensar bajo otros términos la relación entre el emergente movimiento estudiantil de principios desiglo y la circulación del pensamiento socialista vehiculado por trabajadores e intelectuales sensibles a la cuestión social. Si los estudios han insistido en el valor transnacional de las izquierdas, fuerza es deconstatar que las derechas se prestan también convenientemente a esta perspectiva. El llamado a contribución pretende en un primer momento dar luces sobre las diversas formas de circulación regional, para explorar desde ahí cómo los actores se dan una palabra o bien se sirven de mediaciones para incidir en los debates públicos. Interesa explorar las representaciones de la circulación y las formas concretas que ella adopta. Que se trate de la circulación de ideas, de migraciones voluntarias, del enganche o bien de las migraciones políticas o económicas, la circulación favorece la creación constante de un espacio de intercambios que debe poco a los contornos jurídicos de los Estados, y que ciertos estudios piensan como un vector de una “cultura política transnacional”. La llamada “crisis migratoria” o los debates en torno a la interculturalidad vienen a dar una actualidad consternante a estos procesos de larga duración

Ejes:

  1. La circulación en tiempos de definición política y económica. Siglo XIX – formas económicas y políticas de migración (enganche, esclavitud, trabajo libre, exilios, proscritos y emigrados). Derecho internacional y derecho de asilo en la construcción institucional de los nuevos Estados.
  2. La emergencia de la cuestión nacional. Segunda mitad del siglo XIX-XX. El giro conservador y la nacionalización de la migración.
  3. América latina en la era de la crisis migratoria. Segunda mitad del siglo XX-XXI. Rupturas, continuidades, escalas y conexiones.
Modalidades de proposiciones de ponencias

Los artículos deben ser enviados al mail revista@macrohistoria.com, con copia a mibarberan@hotmail.com

Fecha límite para el envío de artículos: 12 de abril de 2024

Sobre la revista Marcohistoria

Normas de publicación

Consejo de Redacción
  • Michelle Lacoste Adunka Editora Jefe Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 
  • Andrea Torrealba Torre Editora científica Universidad Autónoma de México 
  • Santiago Forero Bedoya Editor científica Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia 
  • José Sovarzo Editor científico CONICET, Argentina.
Comité Editorial
  • Dra. Antonella Romano Centre Alexandre-Koyré, EHESS, París
  • Dr. Carlos Marichal El Colegio de México
  • Dr. Ottmar Ette Universität Potsdam
  • Dra. Tanya Harmer London School of Economics
  • Dra. Marcela Echeverri Yale University 
  • Dra. Eugenia Palieraki University of Cergy-Pontoise
  • Dr. Bernd Hausberger El Colegio de México 
  • Dr. Rafael Sagredo Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

CfP: (Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge (open)

1 month 3 weeks ago

Proposals (maximum 500 words) must be sent by 30 April 2024 to praticashistoria@gmail.com . Proposals must be accompanied by a short biographical note. The acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be communicated by 15 May 2024. The articles of accepted proposals must be submitted by 31 July 2024. Contributions in both English and Portuguese are welcome.

(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of historical knowledge (open)

https://praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retrospectives-historiography-africa?fbclid=IwAR1NKcVvQOyYGKsWs-M_YJOn5D-7ZNvnJujquBUtVPHlZojy4rSlPWiH5Ss

Guest editors: Noemi Alfieri (CHAM, NOVA FCSH-UAc; Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, U. Bayreuth), Cassandra Mark-Thiesen (Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, U. Bayreuth)

The history of knowledge production in Africa is a rising topic in the backdrop of growing awareness of the uneven globalization of intellectual thought. Focusing on the era of decolonization in Africa, a growing number of scholars are especially exploring historiography as read in periodicals such as pamphlets, magazines, journals or newspapers (Mark-Thiesen, Alfieri, Thioub, Coquerey-Vidrovitch and others). They provide important impetus for understanding the link between media and emancipation,
political democracy, freedom of choice, self-awareness, and selective association.

This special issue of Práticas da História reflects on contemporary epistemological possibilities and constraints in the writing of history. Therefore, it welcomes both contributions that dwell on African journals (scholarly, literary, artistic and ephemeral periodicals) from the 1950s to 1980s, and on the histories behind said periodicals. We look forward to contributions that explore different and contested visions of decolonization and future-making for the African continent and its diaspora. We also invite articles investigating differently situated historiographies from Africa: that use local vernacular by incorporating idiom, local imagery, myth and folklore; that relate to the present or the deep past. We also encourage more nuanced takes on the "nationalist historiography" that when viewed as a monolith was so dominant at the time. For instance, Pan-Africanism and Négritude, while revolutionizing the political assets of the continent, remained contested as intellectual projects. Finally, articles problematizing the current conceptualisations of such historiography as either "colonial", "traditional", "radical", eurocentric", “afrocentric", "Africa-centred", and so forth, are highly welcomed.

Finally, on methodology, and given the current wave of digitisation and digitality, the guest editors encourage reflections on processes of digital preservation and recirculation of historiography from Africa, including their implications for Africa-based and African diasporic knowledge production in the arts, literature, and scholarship. How about their impact on the expansion of the public arena and community empowerment? How are online platforms fostering a re-positioning, re-calibrating and re-thinking of these bodies of knowledge from Africa? And what potentialities lie in the future? In short, we are interested in contributions that dwell on contemporary and future receptions of the above-mentioned publications and journals in the digital sphere.

Proposals (maximum 500 words) must be sent by 30 April 2024 to praticashistoria@gmail.com . Proposals must be accompanied by a short biographical note. The acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be communicated by 15 May 2024. The articles of accepted proposals must be submitted by 31 July 2024. Contributions in both English and Portuguese are welcome.

Kontakt

praticashistoria @ gmail.com

https://praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retrospectives-historiography-africa?fbclid=IwAR1NKcVvQOyYGKsWs-M_YJOn5D-7ZNvnJujquBUtVPHlZojy4rSlPWiH5Ss

CfP: The Social History of Money across the Eastern Bloc and the Global South in the Twentieth Century

1 month 3 weeks ago

27–28 June 2024, Faculty of History Cambridge

We are soliciting papers for a workshop hosted at the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge on the social history of money in the contemporary world on 27–28 June 2024. The workshop will aim to explore money as a social relationship both from national and transnational perspectives in non-Western regions, such as Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, ranging from Far East developmental states to Latin American structuralism and socialist modernisation projects through the twentieth century. The workshop has two objectives. The first is to unravel the ways in which money has shaped and, in turn, has been shaped by social dynamics within national borders, particularly within production, consumption, and exchange, taking into consideration the cultural and social nuances specific to individual countries, societies, and communities, as well as state strategies that aim to regulate these diverse monetary dynamics through public finance techniques. The second objective is to investigate the effects of these domestic processes on peripheral modernisation projects, strategies of ‘alternative globalisation’, and engagement with international markets, as well as broader processes, like the postwar Keynesian revolution, financialisaton, globalisation, decolonisation, global economic crises, and the rise of neoliberalism.

Participants may consider the following questions of and perspectives on money, credit, and debt. However, the list is non-inclusive, and panellists are encouraged to explore other aspects beyond those mentioned below.

States and Governments

What strategies did states and governments on the periphery of the world system employ to influence monetary value and thereby state capacity? What were the outcomes of these efforts? What roles did fiscal and monetary policies, ideological considerations, or the concept of ‘peripherality’ vis-à-vis the West play in shaping these processes? Can we identify cross-regional patterns in these dynamics, and to what extent can money be considered a ‘great equaliser’, converging states towards Western patterns?

Individuals, Society, Producers, Consumers, and Markets

How did cultural, religious, or other community-based lending practices influence individuals’ creditworthiness and the social reproduction of credit and debt? How did individual perceptions and meanings of money evolve over time, and what impact did this evolution have both on society and the state? How did temporality feature in these processes and to what extent could this concept be useful to examine shifts in money’s (time)value?

Domestic and International Financial Institutions, Stock Exchanges, and Financial Markets

What roles did (post)colonial financial institutions play in overseeing credits, investments, and monetary value, particularly in influencing interest rates within developing states? How did religion or culture feature in financial institutions’ credit extension practice? In what ways and to what extent did global shifts such as decolonisation, the rise of neoliberalism, the 1970s oil crises, and the disintegration of the Eastern Bloc impact lending practices and the reproduction of money, credit, and debt?

We are planning with conventional panels, each including up to three panellists, followed by a Q&A session. A keynote will be delivered by Dr Oscar Sanchez-Sibony (University of Hong Kong) on socialist political economy and Soviet financial globalisation in the twentieth century. The workshop will conclude with a roundtable discussion including museologists, focusing on museums and public engagement. Participants will be invited to publish their papers in a special journal issue.

Applications from any of the social and historical sciences, broadly considered, are welcome, provided papers adopt a historical approach. This includes, but is not limited to, disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, international relations, political economy, and political science. Early-career scholars are especially encouraged to apply.

Limited funding will be available to contribute to accommodation expenses for those without institutional support. Please indicate in your application if you request support to attend.

Please send abstracts of up to 300 words together with a short CV to Szinan Radi, sr2103@cam.ac.uk by 18 March 2024.

CfA: Children’s Experiences of Violence and Coercion in Europe since 1945

1 month 3 weeks ago

17 - 19 October 2024, Universität Konstanz (Germany)

The workshop is the first of a series of events within the programme ‘Violence in East and West — Towards an Integrated History of 20th Century Europe’, funded by the VolkswagenStiftung. Its goal is to stimulate a comprehensive, multi-scalar and multi-territorial research and teaching on violence in the 20th century Europe.

Call for abstracts: Children’s Experiences of Violence and Coercion in Europe since 1945

The Chair of East European History at the University of Konstanz welcomes applications for a workshop dedicated to publishing a journal issue/edited volume on the topic of children’s experiences of violence and coercion in Europe since 1945. We plan to develop a multi-scalar approach that includes individual, bottom-up and local, as well as collective, institutional and national/transnational perspectives covering the second half of the 20th century, along with the 21st century.

We particularly welcome historians as well as researchers from other relevant fields (sociology, anthropology, political science, legal studies, gender studies, decolonial studies, pedagogy and psychology). The geographic focus of the workshop is Europe as a whole, both capitalist (Western democracies, Southern authoritarian regimes, Nordic welfare states) and socialist (including the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia) countries. Comparative papers crossing the East-West divide are particularly welcomed. We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented and/or marginalized identities to apply.

We remain open to papers reflecting on any relevant issues, for instance:
- Local, state and transnational policies towards protection of children against violence, particularly in time of transitions and transformations (relief organisations, care institutions, grassroots and formal substitute care)
- Domestic and systemic violence against children
- Children’s experiences of poverty, homelessness, hunger, labour (also as a result of previously experienced violence)
- Exclusion of and violence towards children from marginal groups
- Children born of war and occupation
- Post-war adaptation of child survivors (civilians, prisoners, forced labourers, refugees)
- Forced transfer and trafficking of children
- Trauma and resilience of children who experienced violence

The workshop’s goal is to offer a substantial space to discuss each other’s work, explore new research ideas, and build and extend networks of scholars of all career levels who research children’s post-war experiences of violence. After the workshop, we intend to publish selected papers as a special journal issue or edited volume. The aim of the set-up network would be to develop studies on the long-lasting consequences that World War II in Europe (as well as other later conflicts) had on child survivors, communities, and societies, as well as law, medicine, pedagogy, and welfare.

Accommodation (2 nights) and travel costs (within Europe) for the participants will be covered. The language of the workshop and further publication will be English.

Please send your abstract (max. 300 words) and a short bio to maria.buko@uni-konstanz.de in a message entitled „WORKSHOP” by 29 February 2024. Decisions will be sent out by 31 March 2024.

If you are invited to participate, the deadline for a draft paper (work in progress, around 7000 words, in English), will be 15 September 2024. All paper drafts will be pre-circulated two weeks before the planned workshop, with one person selected as a respondent and the other participants expected to comment during the group discussions. The workshop will take place on 17-19 October 2024 at the University of Konstanz, Germany (Thursday afternoon until Saturday morning).

Organising committee: Maria Buko (Universität Konstanz), Jakub Gałęziowski (University of Warsaw), Pavel Kolář (Universität Konstanz).

Kontakt

Dr. Maria Buko
maria.buko@uni-konstanz.de

https://www.geschichte.uni-konstanz.de/forschung-geschichte/kolar/

ESSHC Theory and Historiography Network

1 month 3 weeks ago

The Theory and Historiography network of the ESSHC is interested in proposals for panels (consisting of three papers and a comment), roundtables (more oriented to discussion than the formal presentation of panels) and ‘meet the author’ sessions (where there is a pathbreaking publication of a monograph, not older than two years) on theoretical and historiographical topics.

ESSHC Theory and Historiography Network

The 15th European Social Science History Conference will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands, from 26 to 29 March 2025. The ESSHC aims to bring together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the past. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. It is organized in a large number of networks that cover a certain topic (e.g. criminal justice, family, social inequality).

The Theory and Historiography network is interested in proposals for panels (consisting of three papers and a comment), roundtables (more oriented to discussion than the formal presentation of panels) and ‘meet the author’ sessions (where there is a pathbreaking publication of a monograph, not older than two years) on theoretical and historiographical topics.

Although reflection on a wide set of theoretical and historiographical issues are welcome, in 2025 we would like to encourage proposals in particular on the topic of ‘Engaged History Writing’. In times of global crises there is an urgency to act on the knowledge that we have as scientists and scholars. Biodiversity loss and climate change, war, conflicts and polarization have turned many academics into activists. Many historians today are likewise engaged in addressing societal needs and concerns, not least by working on societies confronting a traumatic, violent or unwanted past, or by dealing with a growing political instrumentalization of history and an ongoing mobilization around the meanings and uses of the past. Engaged history work, in the sense of putting historical knowledge in the service of societal change, or even, of emancipatory politics, can mean many things; re-writing history on behalf of disadvantaged and repressed groups, engage in public contestations of history or critically contest populist memory governance, act as expert witness in international tribunals or as public intellectuals by actively resisting the demands of specialization. But engaged history writing also has to do with the politics and ethics of historical knowledge production, with academic commitments and epistemic responsibilities, with resisting public demands of useful pasts in the name of historical truth. Overall, we encourage submission of panels that deal with issues related to engaged history writing and the notions of activism and commitment broadly conceived, across time and geographical borders. We also encourage submissions that deal with the responsibilities of historians and with the intersecting roles of professional historians, public intellectuals and academic activists.

The deadline for proposals is April 15, 2024.

The European Social Science History Conference is organized by the International Institute of Social History. For details see: https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en

To submit proposals, please use the Ex Ordo platform, https://esshc2025.exordo.com/

Network chairs:

Professor Stefan Berger
Institut für soziale Bewegungen
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
e-mail: stefan.berger@rub.de

Kenan Van De Mieroop
Leiden University
e-mail: K.J.Van.de.mieroop@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Professor Victoria Fareld
Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Stockholm University
e-mail: victoria.fareld@idehist.su.se

https://esshc2025.exordo.com/

CfP: Oral History and Life Stories Network

1 month 4 weeks ago

The 15th European Social Science History Conference is organized by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam in cooperation with Leiden University.

The conference will take place from 26 to 29 March 2025 in Leiden, Netherlands.

Oral History and Life Stories Network

The Oral History and Life Stories Network is one of the 27 networks of the ESSHC and brings together oral history and life story researchers and practitioners who explore memory, narratives, and history. Broadly, we want to encourage papers that explore methodological questions and challenges as well as the relationship between oral histories and the construction and analysis of life stories, both in terms of processes and outcomes.

This is a thematically open Call for Papers, but we would like to stimulate some topics that may attract broader interest:

- theoretical and methodological challenges of oral history today
- impact of the digitization process on doing oral history and the analysis; challenges of digitization (audio and video), e.g. transcript, keywording, archiving
- reuse of (archived) oral history materials
- reflections on legal issues and ethical questions in oral history
- themes of oral history today, e.g. whose memories are collected, analysed, and archived
- shared authority/sharing authority
- teaching oral history and supervision of oral history projects – experiences, challenges, concepts
- reflections on combining oral history and life story methods
- relations of oral history to other fields (e.g. social sciences, ethnology, memory studies, etc.)

We welcome individual paper proposals as well as proposals for panels. Panel proposals must be international in membership (and from different institutions). Each of their constituent papers must be of a high quality. The over-riding criterion for the selection is strength of the proposed paper, be it an individual paper or a paper in a panel proposal.
Our Network does not favour discussants; if a panel proposal includes a discussant, it should indicate why they wish to follow this format (if so, the panel must comprise a maximum of four speakers plus a discussant). Sessions can have a maximum of five papers.
The DEADLINE for the required pre-registration and upload of a paper or session proposal at the ESSHC website is April 15, 2024. Please refer to the ESSHC-ESSHC website for more information at https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en/guidelines.

Network chairs:
Anne Heimo, University of Turku, Finland, anheimo@utu.fi - Andrea Strutz, LBI for Research on Consequences of War and University of Graz, Austria, andrea.strutz@uni-graz.at - Malin Thor Tureby, Malmö University, Sweden, malin.thor@mau.se

https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en/esshc-conference-2025

Kontakt

conference office: esshc@iisg.nl

https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en

Wie erinnern sich Zwangsarbeiter:innen? Interviews mit polnischen und russischen Zeitzeug:innen (German)

1 month 4 weeks ago

29 February 2024, Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit, Berlin

Polnische und russische Verschleppte machten bei der Zwangsarbeit ähnliche Erfahrungen, erinnern sich jedoch unterschiedlich. Wie lässt sich das erklären?

Wie erinnern sich Zwangsarbeiter:innen? Interviews mit polnischen und russischen Zeitzeug:innen

In einem großangelegten Interviewprojekt wurden 2005/06 ehemalige NS-Zwangsarbeiter:innen in 26 Ländern interviewt, darunter 72 in Polen und 56 in Russland. Die Aufzeichnungen sind auf einem Portal der Freien Universität zugänglich (https://www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de).

Grete Rebstock und Roland Borchers haben die russischen bzw. polnischen Interviews in ihren Dissertationen analysiert. In ihren Büchern, die jüngst erschienen sind, haben sie herausgearbeitet, inwiefern die Erinnerungen der Zeitzeug:innen von der sowjetischen und russischen bzw. polnischen Geschichtspolitik geprägt sind.

Programm

Begrüßung: Dr. Christine Glauning
Leiterin des Dokumentationszentrums NS-Zwangsarbeit

Polnische Zwangsarbeiter:innen: Dr. Roland Borchers
Osteuropa-Historiker, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit

Sowjetische Zwangsarbeiter:innen: Dr. Grete Rebstock
Osteuropa-Historikerin

Moderation: Dr. Cord Pagenstecher
Historiker, Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin, Bereich Digitale Interview-Sammlungen

https://www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/home/

Re-Constructing Perestroika(s): In Search of a New Vocabulary for the Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia

1 month 4 weeks ago

14-15 March 2024, Prague

Perestroika, once synonymous with top-down reforms by Mikhail Gorbachev, was an era of diverse voices, intense emotions, and economic struggles. Beyond political and economic spheres, Perestroika encompassed all facets of society, culture, and even thought. This workshop invites fresh perspectives on Perestroika across Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, aiming to redefine its complex impact.

Re-Constructing Perestroika(s): In Search of a New Vocabulary for the Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia

Perestroika, originally associated with top-down reforms led by Mikhail Gorbachev, unfolded as an era characterised by diverse voices, intense emotions, and economic struggles. Extending beyond the realms of politics and economics, Perestroika permeated every aspect of society, culture, and intellectual thought. This workshop intends to transcend the conventional boundaries—both geographic and temporal—of our typical understanding of Perestroika as well as aspires to bring forth fresh perspectives on the period spanning Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Eurasia.

The workshop is organised by the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Georgetown University, Washington DC; Leibniz Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam.

Programm

Thursday, March 14, 2024

9:00-9:30 Welcome and Introduction

9:30-11:00 Panel 1: Perestroika as a Local and Professional Community Event
Chair: Kelly Smith, Georgetown University

Victoria Musvik (University of Oxford)
De-Centralizing Perestroika: Local Russian Photographic Communities, Alternative Socialism and Unbroken Memory

Margarita Pavlovа (Justus Liebig University Giessen / Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam)
Grassroots Groups and Ambiguities of Perestroika in Leningrad

Karolina Koziura (European University Institute, Florence)
Holodomor Unveiled: The Emergence of Grassroot Memory of Famine in Ukraine under Perestroika

11:30-13:00 Panel 2: Perestroika as an Expression of Artistic Non-Conformism
Chair: Martin Babička, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Ilya Kalinin (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Universal (Non-/Anti-)Soviet Lexicon: Between Deconstruction and Affirmation

Kateryna Yeremieieva (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
Without Words: The Speaking Process in Perestroika Caricatures

Ondřej Daniel (Charles University, Prague)
Black Celebration in Red Prague: Concert of Depeche Mode in March 1988

14:00-15:45 Panel 3: Perestroika as a Moral Debate
Chair: Václav Rameš, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Anna Ivanova (Humboldt University, Berlin)
“If Cooperatives Win – We All Win!”: Discussions of Private Enterprise and Social Justice in the Soviet Union during Perestroika

Matej Ivančík (Comenius University, Bratislava)
Markets in the Name of Morality. Economic Thought and Democracy in Post-Socialist Slovakia

Jogilė Ulinskaitė (Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University)
Negotiated and Justified Stories about the Post-Communist Transformation in Lithuania

Annina Gagyiova (Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Moving from Risk to Risky: Hungary’s Second Economy and its Transition to Market after 1989

16:15-17:15 Keynote Roundtable Discussion “How to Speak About Perestroika Now?”
Chair: Bradley Gorski, Georgetown University

Epp Annus (Tallinn University / Ohio State University)
Juliane Fürst (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam)
Veronika Pehe (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences,Prague)

Friday, March 15, 2024

9:30-11:15 Panel 4: Perestroika as a Transnational Event
Chair: Irina Gordeeva, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

Kirsten Bönker (University of Cologne)
Building a “Common European Home”? Town Twinning between Soviet, West and East German Cities during Perestroika

Emma Friedlander (Harvard University)
The Soviet New Age: A Pop Culture Chronology of Soviet Collapse, 1975-2000

Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds)
Queer Exchanges: Re-Inventing Sexualities during and after Perestroika

Tetiana Perga (Institute of World History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
“External Factor”: The Role of the Diaspora in the Development of the Environmental Movement in Ukraine during the Period of Perestroika

11:45-13:15 Panel 5: Perestroika Outside Time and Place
Chair: Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

Isaac Scarbrough (Leiden University)
Perestroika Did Not End – Perestroika is Ongoing: The Extended Reform and Collapse of the USSR across the Soviet Divide

Tamar Qeburia (Georg-August University Göttingen / Ilia State University)
Pre-Perestroika Dynamics in a Georgian Factory

Isabel Jacobs (Queen Mary University of London) and Katerina Pavlidi (University College Dublin)
Perestroika as Return: Late Soviet Temporalities and the Myth of Stagnation

14:15-15:30 Panel 6: Perestroika in the Mind
Chair: Marie Černá, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Courtney Doucette (State University of New York, Oswego)
Perestroika: The Last Attempt to Create the New Soviet Person

Hubert Guzik (Czech Technical University, Prague)
What Can Historians of Perestroika Learn from Opinion Polls?

Jonáš Jánsky (Central European University, Vienna)
“Islands of Positive Deviation” in Slovakia

Final Discussion

CfP: Traverse 2025/3 "Antiféminismes" (French/German)

1 month 4 weeks ago

La revue Traverse lance un appel à contribution sur le thème des antiféminismes. Revue transpériode et bilingue français-allemand, la revue cherche des contributions qui examinent les antiféminismes sous différentes perspectives pour amener des éclairages variés. Si l’antiféminisme à proprement parler se situe essentiellement dans la période contemporaine (long XIXe siècle – XXIe siècle), les propositions portant sur des manifestations misogynes prenant place dans des périodes antérieures, et pouvant ainsi être considérées comme des mouvements précurseurs de l’antiféminisme, sont également bienvenues. Il en va de même pour les contributions conceptuelles qui s’intéressent aux questions de définition et s’interrogent sur les différences et les points communs entre l’antiféminisme, la misogynie et le sexisme.

Argumentaire

L’antiféminisme est un contre-mouvement dont les idées ont circulé au fur et à mesure que les femmes réclamaient leur émancipation. Dès le milieu du 19e siècle, les antiféministes refusent aux femmes leur droit à l’éducation et au travail, puis à l’autonomie civile et politique, au nom de la différence naturelle des sexes et de la tradition. Prônant une société fondée sur des hiérarchies considérées comme «naturelles», le discours antiféministe est une des composantes clés et continuelle des sociétés organisées sur un modèle patriarcal. L’antiféminisme n’est toutefois pas homogène : il s’agit d’un phénomène global, qui s’adapte aux cadres nationaux et varie d’intensité en fonction des contextes historiques, si bien qu’il est plus juste de parler des antiféminismes pour souligner la diversité de ses protagonistes, organisations et modes d’action et, en fin de compte, questionner la relation complexe entre les positions antiféministes et féministes. Les recherches actuelles soulignent l’adaptation de l’antiféminisme au monde contemporain. Ainsi, à l’antiféminisme centré sur la lutte contre la présence des femmes dans l’espace politique et public, se sont ajoutées de nouvelles formes d’antiféminisme, visant notamment la défense de la famille hétérosexuelle.

Face à cette capacité de changement et à la diversité du phénomène, le numéro cherche des contributions qui examinent les antiféminismes sous différentes perspectives pour amener des éclairages variés. Si l’antiféminisme à proprement parler se situe essentiellement dans la période contemporaine (long 19e siècle – 21e siècle), les propositions portant sur des manifestations misogynes prenant place dans des périodes antérieures, et pouvant ainsi être considérées comme des mouvements précurseurs de l’antiféminisme, sont également bienvenues. Il en va de même pour les contributions conceptuelles qui s'intéressent aux questions de définition et s'interrogent sur les différences et les points communs entre l'antiféminisme, la misogynie et le sexisme.

Les thèmes suivants pourront être abordés:

  • intersectionnalité des haines: convergences entre antiféminisme, antisémitisme et racisme
  • circulation transnationale des idées, protagonistes et pratiques antiféministes
  • la « théorie du genre » comme nouvelle cible de l’antiféminisme
  • lesbophobie et homophobie
  • mouvements de backlash face aux réformes en faveur de l’égalité de genre
  • antiféminisme et nouvelle droite
  • déploiement de l’antiféminisme dans la presse et en ligne
  • mouvements masculinistes
  • antiféminisme et religion
Modalités de soumission

Les contributions sur le thème des «Antiféminismes» seront publiées dans le numéro 3/2025 de traverse. Les textes comporteront au maximum 30’000 signes (espaces compris) et seront évalués par les pairs (double blind). Vous trouverez toutes les informations sur les formalités ainsi que la feuille de style sur le site de traverse. Les chercheurs et chercheuses intéressé·e·s sont priés d’envoyer un abstract (environ 600 mots) et un bref CV à Stéphanie Ginalski (stephanie.ginalski@unil.ch), Pauline Milani (pauline.milani@unifr.ch) ou Matthias Ruoss (matthias.ruoss@unifr.ch).

avant le 15 avril 2024

Les auteur·ice·s seront informé·e·s de la décision des éditeur·ice·s de la revue au plus tard le 15 mai 2024. La date limite pour la soumission des articles est le 15 décembre 2024

Comité scientifique
  • Burghartz Susanna, Prof. Dr.
  • Friboulet Jean-Jacques, Prof. Dr.
  • Guex Sébastien, Prof. Dr.
  • Joris Elisabeth, Dr.
  • Jost Hans Ulrich, Prof. Dr.
  • Leimgruber Matthieu, Prof. Dr.
  • Roche (†) Daniel, Prof. Dr.
  • Schulte Regina, Prof. Dr.
  • Siegrist Hannes, Prof. Dr.
  • Tanner Jakob, Prof. Dr.
  • Wecker Regina, Prof. Dr.

CfP: Conceptualizing Corruption: The “Old Regime” and the New Order in East-Central-South Europe (1750s-1850s)

1 month 4 weeks ago

During the age of revolutions, West European politicians, scholars, and popular writers often characterized South-East-Central Europe as a corrupt political space. Notables from the region routinely echoed these claims. Those in and outside of South-East-Central Europe mobilized commentaries on “corruption” for their own political, professional, and personal gains. They used the idea of corruption to assert, for instance, that they knew to run more honest and efficient administrations, military regimes, and commercial operations. The conference organizers welcome paper proposals that employ a (de)constructivist and/or sematic approach to study the concept corruption and its relationship to the rise of (West European) modernity. Submissions should focus on Central-South-East Europe from the 1750s to the 1850s. Applicants working on regional micro-histories that situate changing notions of “corruption” in a transnational context are especially encouraged to apply.

International Conference Conceptualizing Corruption: The “Old Regime” and the New Order in East-Central-South Europe (1750s-1850s)

New Europe College – Institute for Advanced StudyBucharest, 17-18 June 2024

Argument

During the age of revolutions, West European politicians, scholars, and popular writers often characterized South-East-Central Europe as a corrupt political space. Notables from the region routinely echoed these claims. Those in and outside of South-East-Central Europe mobilized commentaries on “corruption” for their own political, professional, and personal gains. They used the idea of corruption to assert, for instance, that they knew to run more honest and efficient administrations, military regimes, and commercial operations. Political and economic actors on both sides of the continent linked “corruption” to the supposed cultural backwardness and economic underdevelopment of the region. In doing so, public figures naturalized notions of “corruption,” making it appear both widespread and organic, popularizing tropes that have endured right down to the present.

“Corruption,” however, is a historically specific concept not an ahistorical, moral, universal, or essentialist category. It gained currency in West Europe during the age of revolutions when a particular understanding of “corruption” grew increasingly hegemonic in developing liberal-capitalist discourses. It lent itself to liberal critiques of anciens régimes, rival politicians, and societies that they might formally or informally colonize. Public figures agitating for change used accusations of “corruption” to legitimize their political programs and assert (political and/or discursive) power.

This emerging definition of “corruption” drew on novel notions of good government that excluded traditional systems of clientelist relationships — the types of political, economic, and social networks that had heretofore characterized public life in South-East and Central Europe. Leaders in this region gradually adopted and adapted this new view of “corruption.” As such, denouncing “corrupt” acts generated a particular form of political and social capital in an emerging order in South-East and Central Europe.

The conference organizers welcome paper proposals that employ a (de)constructivist and/or sematic approach to study the concept corruption and its relationship to the rise of (West European) modernity. Submissions should focus on Central-South-East Europe from the 1750s to the 1850s. Applicants working on regional micro-histories that situate changing notions of “corruption” in a transnational context are especially encouraged to apply. To explore both the continuities perpetuated and ruptures produced by discourses of “corruption,” the conference organizers invite interested scholars to submit a proposal connected to one or more of the following themes:

  • Redefinition of “corruption.”In West Europe, critiques of anciens régimes as “corrupt” gained purchase between 1750 and 1850. Were actors in South-East-Central Europe aware of these discourses that delegitimized the political and social status quo? If not, how do we account for the simultaneity of similar polemics in the region? What did it mean for the old regime to be “corrupt” and did leaders in East Europe understand “corruption” in the same way their West European counterparts? What did good government mean to actors in different geographic locations and how did “corruption” become a mechanism for asserting their own political legitimacy?
  • The transitions from the old regime to the new regime. How did actors contribute to and/or resist empire- and state-building via accusations of “corruption”? Did they confront or collaborate with new imperial (and later national) agents? Did they encourage or attempt to thwart the rise of a new political/social/economic order? Who were the actors that advocated for a new order and what were the changes they pursued? How did they deploy the concept of “corruption” to achieve their goals?
  • Reframing the Ottoman past. Throughout the period, political elites mobilized tropes like “Turk” and “Phanariot”. Even today these terms still denote notions of “corruption,” clientelism, and favoritism in the region. How can we assess their use at the time as well as the longevity of these ideas in political, public, and historiographical discourses?
  • Codifying deviation, formalizing “corruption.”Debates over “corruption” arose in the context of a broader process of modernization marked above all by the formalization of laws (including property rights, the codification of taxes, the elaboration of various regulatory practices), the creation of an increasingly elaborate and centralized bureaucracy, and a tighter distinction between the public and private spheres. Each of these processes shaped behavioral standards. How can tracking the concept of “corruption” help us analyze these changes over time and understand their impact?
Submission guidelines

The conference organizers welcome proposals of ca. 400 words concerning the above-mentioned themes

until the 1st March 2024. 

The proposals, along with a short CV should be sent to cardeleanu@nec.ro and ardcons@gmail.com.

The final decision on the received proposals will be announced by mid-March 2024.

Travel costs and accommodation

Invited speakers will have their travel costs reimbursed. Accommodation will be provided.

This international conference is organized within the framework of “Transnational histories of ‘corruption’ in Central-South-East Europe (1750-1850)”, European Research Council Advanced Grant (ERC-2022-AdG no. 101098095). It is hosted by the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest (2023-2028) (https://nec.ro/programs/erc-grants/).

Organizers and scientific selection committee
  • Constantin Ardeleanu (New Europe College / Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucharest)
  • Ana Buculei (New Europe College)
  • Silvia Marton (New Europe College / University of Bucharest)
  • Alex R. Tipei (New Europe College / Université de Montréal)

CfP: Pan-Africanisms, (Post-)Slavery and Race

1 month 4 weeks ago

This issue of Slaveries & Post-Slaveries examines the repercussions of the transatlantic matrix of race on post-slavery societies. Particular attention will be paid to societies on the African continent, as the racial logics operating within them have rarely been studied. We understand racial logics as the assumption that supposed physical and cultural differences between groups are “inherited” from one generation to the next.

Scientific editors

Sakiko Nakao, Chuo University

Argument

The African diaspora originated from the mass deportation of captive people transported from the African continent to the Americas and territories in the Indian Ocean and Asia. Accompanying this movement of forced migration was a process of racialization of these enslaved people (Cottias 2007). Certain physical and cultural characteristics supposedly shared by the enslaved were systematically associated with their “African” ancestry and subaltern status. Viewed as an anti-racist resistance movement, pan-Africanism, which overturns stigma, is underpinned by bonds of racial solidarity. In structuring post-slavery societies, including on the African continent, blackness and Africanity developed interdependently (Pierre 2013). Over time, some pan-African struggles have attempted to transcend racialized belongings to envisage a transnational anti-colonial and anti-neo-colonial solidarity, while others have emphasized culturalist solidarity and revived its racial basis (Apter 2016). How have the various political and cultural actors of Pan-Africanism explicitly or implicitly positioned themselves with regard to the history of racialization?

This issue of Slaveries & Post-Slaveries examines the repercussions of the transatlantic matrix of race on post-slavery societies. Particular attention will be paid to societies on the African continent, as the racial logics operating within them have rarely been studied. We understand racial logics as the assumption that supposed physical and cultural differences between groups are “inherited” from one generation to the next (Takezawa 2005). While these logics may have existed in a great many societies before the European invention of “scientific racism,” the social, political and economic structures that exploit these differences were transformed when the latter was introduced, and became part of global racialization processes (Takezawa & Schaub 2022; Clarke & Thomas 2006; Pierre 2013). We will question the ways in which racial logics are mobilized within pan-African movements from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. What are the resulting impacts on the vision of “Africa” as a community of belonging and on the process of identification and self-identification of being African?

The aim herein is to study the circulation and transformation of racial thought within African communities on the continent and in the diaspora, as well as the strengths and limits of their mobilization within the pan-African movement. The political mobilization of racial ideologies can be a tool of resistance, but can also generate conflicts within and between African societies. Is there convergence in the anti-racist and/or pan-African resistance strategies adopted in different post-slavery societies? Or, on the contrary, have the various interpretations of chromatic cultural and political concepts such as négritude and blackness been sources of divergence within pan-Africanism? How have national and international political powers instrumentalized these affinities or divergences (Apter 2016; Pierre 2013)?

Contributions may focus on the following themes, among others:

  • The symbolic dimension of the slave trade and slavery within pan-African movements from their origins to the present day.
  • The politics of remembrance of the slave trade and slavery pursued by African governments and/or international bodies (OAU/AU, UNESCO, etc.) and their impact on racialized conceptions of belonging among Africans on the continent and in the diaspora.
  • The issue of citizenship and nationality for people from the diaspora community.
  • Pan-African cultural events (FESMAN in Dakar, 1966 and 2010; PANAF in Algiers 1969; FESTAC in Lagos, 1977; FESPACO in Ouagadougou since 1969; PANAFEST in Ghana since 1992, etc.).
  • Racial logics as part of social, cultural and political discourses and practices within African societies or the diaspora.
  • The role of racial logics in discourses and practices that define social relations, particularly with regard to social statuses linked to slavery within African societies.
  • How “lineage identification” within African communities sustains ideology, Afrocentrism, and militant protest movements.
  • Contributions focusing on regions often sidelined in pan-Africanist discourses are welcome, including North Africa, the Indian Ocean, or the African diaspora in Asia.
  • Finally, special attention may be given to the study of counter-discourses to chromatic identifications of Africa, such as the concepts of multiculturalism, creolité or Afropolitanism.
Submission Procedures

Proposals for articles (between 500 and 800 words) must be sent to ciresc.redaction@cnrs.fr

by June 1, 2024.

Decisions on manuscripts will be announced on July 1, 2024.

Accepted papers (45,000 characters maximum, spaces included, bibliography included) must be submitted in French, English, Spanish or Portuguese, before November 1, 2024. They must be accompanied by an abstract or résumé of no more than 3,600 signs. The full list of recommendations to authors is available here.

Final versions must be ready by July 1, 2025.

Schedule
  • Deadline for the submission of summaries: June 1, 2024
  • Deadline for the submission of articles: before November 1, 2024
  • Deadline for final version of articles: July 1, 2025
Selected References

Apter Andrew, 2016. “Beyond Négritude: Black Cultural Citizenship and the Arab Question in FESTAC 77,” Journal of African Cultural Studies, no. 28/3, pp. 313–326.

Clarke Kamari Maxine & Deborah A. Thomas (eds.), 2006. Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness, Durham, Duke University Press.

Cottias Myriam, 2007. La Question noire. Histoire d’une construction coloniale, Paris, Bayard.

Diagne Souleymane Bachir, 2001. “Africanity as an Open Question,” in Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Amina Mama, Henning Melber & Francis B. Nyamnjoh (eds.), Identity and Beyond: Rethinking Africanity, Uppsala, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, pp. 19–24.

Glissant Édouard, 1990. Poétique de la Relation, Paris, Gallimard.

Mbembe Achille, 2006. “Afropolitanisme,” Africultures, no. 66/1, pp. 9–15.

Pierre Jemima, 2013. The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race, Chicago/London, The University of Chicago Press.

Takezawa Yasuko, 2005. Jinshu gainen no fuhensei wo tou, Kyoto, Jimbun Shoin.

Takezawa Yasuko & Jean-Frédéric Schaub (eds.), 2022. Jinshushugi to Han jinshushugi: Ekkyo to Tenkan, Kyoto, Kyoto University Press.

Thioub Ibrahima, 2012. Stigmates et mémoires de l’esclavage en Afrique de l’Ouest : le sang et la couleur de peau comme lignes de fracture, FMSH-WP-2012-23. Available online: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00743503 [last accessed, December 2023].

"What is your take on violence?" On a crucial question of the international Left in its historical-political contex

1 month 4 weeks ago

International Conference at IHSF Vienna, International Rosa Luxemburg Society, Nord University (20–22 June 2024)

"What is your take on violence?" On a crucial question of the international Left in its historical-political context

In the years leading up to the First World War, the international labor movement made considerable efforts to counteract an escalation in international politics. In fact, however, in the respective historical-political context of their time, numerous influential left-wing theorists, who, for example, strictly opposed an armed conflict of the European powers, had to take the position that violence was “[the] means of the offensive [...] where the legal terrain of the class struggle has yet to be conquered.” (Rosa Luxemburg, 1902). Against the background of this apparent contradiction, the conference in Vienna will examine left-wing positions on violence in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Programm

Thursday, 20 June 2024

Check-in / Welcoming remarks

Keynote & Discussion
Mark Jones (Berlin/Dublin): Making the atrocities go away: reflections on violence in the German Revolution of 1918-19.

Friday, 21 June 2024

Panel 1: Linke Intellektuelle und die Gewaltfrage/ Left lntellectuals and the Question of Violence

David Bernardini (Milan): "All the Violence Necessary to Win; but Nothing More": Errico Malatesta and the matter of violence

Ari Ofengenden (New Orleans): Kautsky and Trotsky on Terrorism and Communism

Ben Lewis (Leeds): Dictatorship, Terror and Sacrifice in Rosa Luxemburg's Thought

Panel 2: Linke Gewaltpraxen / Violent Practices of the Left

Christina Diac (Bucharest): Far-Left Terrorism? The Bomb Attack at the Romanian Senate in December 1920

André Pina (Porto): The Red Legion: radical-left terrorism in the Portuguese 1st Republic (1919-1925)

Monica Quirico (Stockholm/Turin): Between Strategy of Tension and Second-Wave Feminism: Lotta Continua and the lssue of Violence (1969-1976)

Panel 3: Zur linken Organisation von Gewalt/ On Left Organization of Violence

Paul Dvorak (Wien): Vom Bellizismus zum Pazifismus? Die französische Linke, der Krieg und die Armee im langen 19. Jahrhundert

Chris Ealham (Madrid): "All power to the unions": The genealogy of Spanish "Anarcho-Bolshevism" and the Anarcho-Syndicalist Revolutionary Armed Struggle (1917-36)

Sebastian Engelmann (Karlsruhe): Wie lernt die Klasse kämpfen? Gewalt in der proletarischen Pädagogik zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts

Panel 4: Gewaltrezeptionen / Perceptions of Violence

Ottavia Dal Maso (Genova): Women leading Turinese Bread Riots: Between Violence and Spontaneity, August 1917

Kostas Paloukis (Thessaloniki): The Views of the lnterwar Communist Party of Greece (KKE) on Revolutionary and Labour Violence

Judith Tauber (lthaka, New York): The Cause of the People: Gauche proletarienne on Violence and Consensus

Saturday, 22 June 2024

Panel 5: Zwischen Gewalterfahrung und Gewaltwahrnehmung/ Between Experience and Reception of Violence

Mari-Leen Tammela (Tallinn): Use(fulness) of violence in political struggle: views on the use of violence in Estonian left-wing newspapers' editorial offices from 1906 to 1914

Vojtěch Šimák (Prag): From Militant Vanguard to Neutral Observer: The lntellectual Evolution of the lrish Citizen Army from Militancy to Neutrality

David Mayer (Wien): Fokus und Ambivalenz: Die Guerilladebatten in den langen 1960er Jahren in Südamerika und ihre differenzierte Anverwandlung der Maximen des bewaffneten Kampfes

Panel 6: Erinnerungen an Gewalt/ Memories of Violence

Kyra Schmied (Wien): Auseinandersetzung mit der Erinnerung an Gewalt im Rahmen bzw. im Anschluss an die Pariser Commune (1871)

Linh Vu (Tempe, Arizona): Laboring and Sacrificing Life: Narratives of Brutality in Worker Movements in Early Twentieth Century China

Kumru Toktamis (Brooklyn, New York): Lessons from Historical Praxis of Violently Defeated Left Movements in Chile and Turkey

Nicholas Bujalski (Oberlin, Ohio): 'Knight of the Proletariat': Feliks Dzierżyński and the Antinomies of Russian Revolutionary Violence

Panel 7: Strategische und taktische Beurteilungen von Gewalt/ Strategie and Tactical Assessments of Violence

Daniel Egon (Lowell, Massachusetts): ls There a Socialist Mode of Warfare?

Mario Kikaš (Bodø): Cultural Front on the Semi-Periphery: lntellectuals and the International Labor Movement in the 1930s

Sean Scalmer (Melbourne): Sabotage and Violence: Historical Transformations

Antonio J. Pinto (Malaga): Postcolonialism in Africa and ... in Europe? The Algerian Experience and lts lnfluence on Eta (Spain) and IRA (Ulster) in the 1960s

Kontakt

Florian Wenninger/Charlotte Rönchen, IHSF Vienna: office@ihsf.at
Frank Jacob, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway: frank.jacob@nord.no

Gender Attributions of (Ir-)Reconciliation

1 month 4 weeks ago

University of Bonn, 22-23 February 2024

The conference aims to shed light on the significance of the category "gender" in conflict resolution and reconciliation processes from the 19th to the 21st century from a historical perspective. It does not concentrate solely on the women's peace movement, which has already been relatively well studied by historians, but brings together research that asks about gender attributions in various forms of reconciliation efforts in different constellations of conflict, taking a global history perspective.

Prospective participants are warmly invited to register for free by 21.02.23 via e-mail to nng@uni-bonn.de.

Programm

Donnerstag / Thursday, 22.02.24

13:30 - 13:45 Begrüßungsworte / welcome address - Christine Krüger (Bonn)

Macht / Power

13:45 - 14:30Frauenbewegte Berufe als Orte der Unversöhnlichkeit um 1900 - Mette Bartels (AddF Kassel)

14:30 - 15:15„Rollentausch der Geschlechter an der Terrorfront“. Debatten über Frauen und Gewalt im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert und in den 1970er Jahren - Amerigo Caruso (Bonn)

15:15 -15:45Kaffeepause / coffee break

Kommunikation / Communication

15:45 - 16:30"Weil die Männer eine starke Neigung haben sich zu zanken". Frauen als versöhnende Kraft in der politischen Kultur der frühen BRD - Anna Leyrer (Basel)

16:30 - 17:15Fremde Weiblichkeit und Mütterlichkeit im Eigenen: Debatten um die Rolle der Frau in binationalen Paarbeziehungen in Deutschland und darüber hinaus (1870er-1930er) - Christoph Lorke (LWL Münster)

17:15 - 17:30Kaffeepause / coffee break

17:30 - 18:15Women's Transnational Networks at the End of the 19th Century: Tracing the Roots of a ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ - Victoria Fischer (Bonn)

18:15 - 19:00Interpretations. Communication, Conflict and Translation in the Contact Zones of Transnational Women's Movements - Johanna Gehmacher (Wien)

19:00gemeinsames Abendessen / conference dinner

Freitag / Friday, 23.02.24

Gewalt / Violence

09:00 - 09:45Women's International Organisations' Intervention in Conflict Situations: The Chilean Case - María Fernanda Lanfranco (Valparaíso)

09:45 - 10:30Krieg, Weiblichkeit und Öffentlichkeit: Weibliches Pflegepersonal als britische Problemlösungsstrategie im Krimkrieg - Yvonne Blomann (Bonn)

10:30 - 11:15"...je n'ai envie que de les mitrailler!" Versöhnlichkeit und Unversöhnlichkeit in Zeugnissen von überlebenden Frauen und Mädchen des Tutsizids in Ruanda - Anne Peiter (La Réunion)

11:15 - 11:45Kaffeepause / coffee break

Repräsentation und Erinnerung / Representation and Remembrance

11:45 - 12:30Die Versöhnung der fragilen ‚Volksgemeinschaft‘ im Krieg. Heroisch-männliches Totengedenken und die deeskalierende Inszenierung von Weiblichkeit von 1939 bis 1945 - Kay Schmücking (Halle)

12:30 - 13:15Leah Grundigs 'Deutsche Mütter' und der 'Orient' (1942-1943)? - Esther Gardei (BZV Bonn)

13:15 - 13:30abschließende Bemerkungen / closing remarks

Kontakt

nng@uni-bonn.de

Reminder CfP: Participation and Representation – A Democratic Lovestory?

1 month 4 weeks ago
Conference in Bonn, 13-14 June 2024 Participation and Representation – A Democratic Lovestory?

Modern democracies are characterised by a fundamental tension: on the one hand, they promise to realise the rule of »the people«, that is the exercise of power by the many, through the widest possible political and social participation, and base their legitimacy on this. On the other hand, even if they are committed to a participatory understanding of democracy, they cannot avoid delegating the rule of the many to representatives who stand for a group or a party: the many then only have the power to vote for their representatives in elections or on specific political issues in referendums. The representative system has therefore been repeatedly criticised, if not condemned, for its lack of participation. The experimentation with (consultative) citizens’ councils currently underway in several countries, including at subnational and supranational levels, is a response to the current demand for additional forms of participation in representative democracy. In addition, extra-parliamentary actors have for some time been asking who is actually represented, what the »representation« of certain groups looks like. This is not a new question in the history of democracy, but it has been discussed with increasing intensity over the last 20 years – including, for example, in relation to the prospect of a loss of trust.

Against the backdrop of the 75th anniversary of the Basic Law and the Federal Republic of Germany, we would like to take this stocktaking as an opportunity to take a systematic look at the (tense) relationship between and complementarity of representation and participation. What role have social or political protests, that is non-representative practices of participation, played in the emergence of modern democratic forms of representation? How specific are the problems of legitimation of political representation for democratic systems and their promise of participation compared to dictatorships that developed authoritarian, plebiscitary forms of political participation of the many? How can the quality of representational relations in democratically organised republics be described in concrete terms and distinguished from those in (constitutional) monarchies, for example? How did democratic relations of representation differ according to time, region, ideological orientation and institutional framework, and what specific or universal understandings and problems of participation were associated with them? Which social classes participated to what extent, who was excluded, and what role did gender roles and ethnicity play in the development of democratic forms of participation? How exactly did participation (symbolic, consultative, decisive) work and how was it represented? How was and is participation specifically limited and restricted by representation; what processes of change can be identified in this respect? And finally: which notions – in the cultural-sociological sense – of participation and political representation, of »people« or party base, of representatives and political leaders characterise the history of modernity? These questions aim not least to shed light on the historicity of terms, concepts and practices in modern democratic societies.

For the 65th volume of the Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, we are looking for contributions that address these questions, focusing on the relationship between participation and representation in modernity and discussing them comparatively or on the basis of a specific case. Of interest is the period from the late eighteenth century to the present, with European and global historical as well as interdisciplinary perspectives explicitly encouraged.

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation will host a conference in Bonn on 13 and 14 June 2024 to develop ideas, topics and questions for contributions on the subject of Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 65 (2025) as outlined above. We invite all those interested to submit proposals to afs@fes.de by 10 February 2024. The proposals should not exceed 3,000 characters and, like the papers and subsequent texts, may be submitted in German or English. The articles subsequently selected by the editors for inclusion in the volume should be approximately 60,000 characters (including footnotes) and should be completed by 31 December 2024.

Kontakt

Philipp Kufferath
afs@fes.de

https://www.fes.de/afs/cfp