The Women, Gender and Sexuality Network of the Social Science History Association calls for papers and panels for the 50th annual meeting in Toronto, CA from Oct. 31 -Nov. 3, 2024.
This year's theme is "Trust and Distrust of Historical Sources in the Digital Age" but all Social Science History themes from a gender and sexuality perspective welcome.
50th SSHA in Toronto 2024
31 October – 3 November 2024
Submission Deadline: 23 February 2024
Official CfP “Trust and Distrust of Historical Sources in the Digital Age”: https://ssha.org/files/2024_SSHA_CFP.pdf
Call for WGS panels and critics:
Halloween: creepy, scary, sexy?
Evil clowns can be creepy, witches can be scary, but Halloween can also be sexy. In this panel we are looking for papers with sex/gender/queer perspectives on Halloween. Your contribution can be about nearly anything - costumes, histories, data, media representation, fantasies and more - as long as the audience is getting goosebumps.
Possible panel themes:
- 50 years of SSHA: Looking back at how Women Gender and Sexuality Studies evolved at SSHA and beyond, and at how WGS scholarship has been repeatedly challenged from within.
- Perceptions of women in seminal literary works (current to 50 years ago, with focus on different geographical areas).
- Revisiting digital humanities (e.g. born digital histories of women in the Red Power movement).
- Halloween related themes, e.g. histories of witchcraft, witches in popular culture, burning witches’ tropes, Walpurgis Night, Baba Yaga, The Little Witch by Otfried Preussler, esoterisms; gender and queer histories of costumes and dressing up and/as gender, etc.).
- Gender relations in visual and performing arts institutions (e.g. gender relations behind and on the stage of the theater).
- Cultural & science histories of the body or body parts: breast? vulva? hymen?
- Sexualities
Possible roundtable themes:
- Trust and distrust in digital sources in Women, Gender and Sexuality studies.
- Similarities and Differences of “Anti-Intellectual”, “Ani-Gender”, “Anti-Critical-Race”, “Anti-Postcolonial”, “Anti-Woke” and “Cancel Culture”-debates and movements in Europe, North America and beyond.
How to submit:
- We encourage you to organize a full panel (3-4 papers, optional discussant), but individual papers will be accepted as well. You may also submit “Author meets Critics”-sessions or roundtables.
- Send paper abstracts to network representatives or submit directly to conference. If you submit a panel, we need a panel title, names, affiliation and email of authors, abstracts of each planned paper as well as the names of discussants and chairs.
- We are happy to help you find/contact scholars as authors, discussants and chairs.
Please reach out to the WGS network chairs:
Jadwiga, Martin, and Dominique
dominique.grisard@unibas.ch
jadwiga@u.arizona.edu
martin.goessl@fh-joanneum.at