Dear Colleagues,

We are writing to you as the representatives of the Women, Gender & Sexuality (WGS) network of the Social Science History Association. As you may know, the SSHA organizes an annual conference in which each of the networks that make up the SSHA puts together a series of conference panels. This very grassroots system of conference organizing means that scholars put together complete panels (consisting of 4-5 papers, a discussant, and a chair, with panellists preferably from different disciplines). These proposed panels are then vetted by the network representatives and put on the program by the program committee. In addition, scholars propose individual papers, which network representatives turn into panels. The outcome is a terrific, stimulating conference.

This year’s general theme is “Pluralism and Community: Social Science History Perspectives”. In addition, network participants put together a list of potential panel topics that you can find at the bottom of this email.

Conference date and location: Baltimore, MD November 12-15, 2015

Submission Deadline: February 14, 2015

Submissions should be made here: http://www.ssha.org/

Reminder: a full panel should have a chair and discussant and four presenters (four papers, though five presenters/papers is okay as well). The presenters should come from more than one discipline and ideally the members of the panel should be at different stages of their careers.

We very much look forward to your submissions. Please don’t hesitate to ask for our help. Best wishes!

Dominique Grisard dominique.grisard@unibas.ch

Anna Korteweg anna.korteweg@utoronto.ca

Jadwiga Pieper Mooney jadwiga@email.arizona.edu

Specific Women, Gender and Sexuality themes:

- Trans issues – the state, surveillance
- Technology, trans issues, pluralism and community
- Monogamy, polygamy, polyamory
- Pluralization of family forms and functions (e.g. “rainbow” families, “patchwork” families, single-parent families, three-parent-families, nuclear families etc.)
- Feminism and multiculturalism revisited
- Feminist/queer/intersectional theories of difference
- Performativity and pluralism (of gender expression, etc.)
- The challenges of transnational gender history
- From single issue politics via intersectionality to post-intersectionality and multidimensionality?
- Pluralism and the state
- The new biopolitics of race and gender
- Biopolitics and necropolitics
- Feminism, pluralism and politics of affect
- Populism, gender and the politics of affect
- Intimacy between public and private (commodified intimacies; commercial intimacies; public intimacies; “girlfriend experiences”)
- Feminist approaches to harm reduction programs in public health (please contact Benita Roth directly at broth@binghamton.edu)
- Gender and sexuality and the British Empire; Imperial Women and Health; Indigenous Healthcare in Colonial British Caribbean; Imperial Health and Maternalism in British Caribbean (please contact Sandria Green-Stewart at greenssl@mcmaster.ca)