Call for Panelists - SAWH 2015

From H-SAWH:

We are putting together a panel for the 2015 SAWH Conference being held in Charleston, South Carolina next June.

Keeping with the conference themes, our panel focuses on different modes of publicly presenting or commemorating the American struggle for women's right to vote. One paper will examine the circumstances in which woman suffragists wrote autobiographies, biographies, and histories of the movement as a tactic to gain new support before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The second paper will explore efforts to memorialize the suffrage victory on college campuses after 1920, wherein groups of women's rights activists took steps to preserve the legacy of the campaign including funding academic chairs, donating literature, hosting scholarly panels, and creating citizenship training programs to rally more young people to participate in government. 

We are looking for a chair, commentator, and third panelist whose research fits with these themes. Since our papers center on activism in the North, we are especially looking for scholars whose work examines suffrage memory or the commemoration of the women's movement in the South. 

Kelly Marino 

PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Binghamton University

Click here to go to H-Net for contact information.

Categories: call for panelists, call for papers, conferences, suffrage

WCRT Meeting Minutes - August 16, 2013, New Orleans, LA

Society of American Archivists
Women’s Collections Roundtable
August 16, 2013, 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Grand Salon 19/22
New Orleans, LA
MEETING MINUTES

Officers:
Alexandra Krensky | Co-Chair
Elizabeth Novara | Co-Chair
Tali Beesley | Vice Co-Chair
Helice Koffler | Vice Co-Chair (absent)
Stephanie Bayless | Incoming Vice Co-Chair
Leslie Fields | Incoming Vice Co-Chair (absent)

Welcome and Introductions
We began with a welcome and brief introductions, asking everyone to sign in.

Introduction of New Officers
We then introduced our new officers, Stephanie Bayless (present) and Leslie Fields (absent).

Old Business

By-Laws Committee
We thanked our by-laws committee, Alexandra Krensky, Elizabeth Novara, Tali Beesley, Helice Koffler, Bethany Anderson, and Kate Colligan for drafting the by-laws, which were ratified by a unanimous vote before the meeting.

WCRT Bibliography
We reminded members about the WCRT bibliography, which is a selection of published works that discuss archival theory and practice in relation to women’s archives/collections. If anyone has anything to add to the bibliography, please send it to either Tali Beesley (tali.beesley@bep.gov) or Helice Koffler (hkoffler@u.washington.edu).

WCRT Social Media
We discussed the need for creating a LinkedIn group, which Beesley said she would be willing to create. We discussed whether it’s important to not be redundant by placing the same posts in numerous places and there seemed to be a consensus that it was okay to be redundant. There was a discussion about which social media platform is the most conducive for asking questions, as some members have not been getting responses to their questions on the list-serv. The idea was brought up that it may be useful if we see that someone is not getting a response on the list-serv to move the question to one of the other platforms. It was also mentioned that if people are not receiving the list-serv messages, that they may need to check their settings with SAA.

WCRT Blog
The leadership will be reaching out to members in the future and asking that they contribute to the blog during a certain month. Leadership sent around a sign-up sheet asking for volunteers.

New Business

Session proposals – due September 30th – The theme is Ensuring Access
We learned that the next SAA’s council is hoping to promote more innovation in session types, and that they encourage us to be creative in our types of proposals. The session blocks will be a maximum of 75 minutes.
Beth Ann Koelsch (UNC Greensboro) and Sherri Bowser (Virginia Tech) are considering creating a session on challenges and successes in processing/promoting women’s collections in traditionally male fields (e.g. women in the military, women architects). They are open to input and to people who would like to join the proposal.

The co-chairs asked for ideas for speakers for the next meeting.
Invite people from the area. A way to see the place that we're in: someone from the National Women's Museum; reach out to Associations in DC with large women’s membership; Gayle McCormick; DC Metro Library and their local history – also active in LGBT issues .

Report from SAA Council
Each section has an official liaison with the council, ours is Lisa Magiafico
This year, the council: adopted practices for improving the annual meeting; created an advocacy and public policy committee; encourages us to look at draft of the action items that are part of the strategic plan.

News and Updates from the group
Pacifica Radio Archives – digitizing recordings related to the women's movement, 1963-1982 Interviews with women who are leaders in the women's movement such as Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, as well as recordings of consciousness raising groups, authors, women's music/festivals, lesbian separatists, radical feminists, women in film, movies about women, documentaries about the suffragettes. Digitized folio collections; in touch with some historians; creating a long-term preservation plan; should get in contact with Tom Dublin @ Berkeley

Greensboro, November 9th – Annual Women's Veteran Event

Questions that came out of Women's Archive Symposium
How to encourage more women to submit proposals for technology sessions? Some attendees said when they saw the proposal they didn't know what the session would be about, or felt intimidated –especially by the word “innovative.” Attendees reflected that after they went to the symposium they realized they are doing work worth talking about, and that it’s nice to have a history of sessions to be able to look at to see if your idea would fall in line with the history of the symposium.
There seemed to be general consensus that attendees would be interested in going to and presenting at another symposium either in the coming year or in the following year. The leaders of the symposium were impressed with the turnout, and felt it was largely due to the fact that they didn’t charge.
For a future symposium, it would be helpful to have an institution willing to host in their space and provide funding. Some folks brought up the possibilities of corporate sponsorship and its benefits. If people who presented at the conference want to publicize their work, the WCRT is willing to post the materials to the blog and/or Facebook. Possible topics for another symposium include focusing on who the users of women’s collections are.

WCRT and WAR
We discussed the similarities and differences in mission between WCRT and WAR and whether there are ways to promote synergies between the two groups. Some attendees felt WAR should morph into more of an advocacy group. Some attendees felt that the two should remain distinct groups but that they should hold meetings together so as to not make attendees choose between meetings.

We also had a break where beignets were served and attendees were given a chance to network and discuss ideas for future proposals.

Attendees: Visit the Roundtable page for a full list of attendees.

Categories: conferences, meeting minutes, SAA 2013

Women's Archives/Women's Collections: What does the Future Hold? - Women's Archives Symposium

Register now for a Women's Archives Symposium - Tuesday, August 13, 2013 (during the SAA Annual Conference)

Symposium Overview: Perspectives on Women's Archives: A Reader (ed. Tanya Zanish-Belcher with Anke Voss) will be hot off the press when SAA convenes in August.  Join us to celebrate its publication and ponder some of the issues it raises in a one-day symposium just the day before the opening of the conference.  Panelists will offer remarks to generate discussion on several topics:  the continuing relevance of separate women's archives, the impact of the digital world on record creation and use, and the role of the citizen archivist.  We look forward to a lively conversation among archivists, scholars, and the Reader's authors about the future of women's archives.

For more information and to register visit the symposium website:
http://tulane.edu/newcomb/womens-archives-womens-collections-what-does-the-future-hold.cfm

Categories: conferences, SAA 2013, symposia, Women

WCRT Meeting Minutes - August 8, 2012, San Diego, CA

Women’s Collections Roundtable Annual Meeting 2012 

Meeting Minutes – August 8, 2012, San Diego, CA

Chair: Kathy Hertel-Baker (facilitator)

Vice Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Novara (notetaker), Alexandra Krensky (unable to attend)

1.    Presentation by Anne Hoiberg – President of the President of the Women’s Museum of California and the International Museum of Human Rights at San Diego

2.    Installation of New Officers

a.    New Co-Chairs - Liz Novara and Alex Krensky.

b.    July election results: Helice Koffler and Tali Beasley are the new co-vice chairs.

3.    By-laws for the WCRT

a.    SAA is requiring all roundtables to have formal bylaws, primarily so that there is more transparency and clarity, especially with the election of roundtable leadership.

b.    WCRT needs volunteers to form a by-laws committee to review the by-laws of sections and other roundtables to determine what would be most appropriate for the WCRT.

c.    There was some discussion about why this was necessary, since roundtables were originally determined to be very informal groups.

d.    A call for volunteers will be made after the annual conference is over.

4.     Women’s Collections Mini-conference, Pre-Conference in New Orleans

a.    Susan Tucker, Curator at Tulane University, requested that we discuss the possibility of having a mini-conference or a pre-conference at the next annual meeting in New Orleans that focused on women’s collections.   

b.    Members discussed this idea.  Some possible questions for the conference to focus on: What progress has been made in documenting women?  What changes in the way researchers conduct research have occurred?  Where do women’s collections currently fit in the archives profession?  What about in other professions, such as history and labor?  Could we focus on a timely issue within collections such as women’s reproductive rights, domestic violence, privacy concerns?  Finding women’s collections within institutions that aren’t necessarily focused on collecting materials related to women?

c.    What is the impact of the economy on women’s collections? Are there difficulties in bringing in collections especially without funding?  Are we not soliciting as strongly because we have too many other responsibilities?  Much of the funding for women’s archives come from second wave women’s movement and we need to interest other people in addition to this group of women.  We are starting to run out of storage space and electronic records are a new challenge since many women’s collections were established.

d.    Another idea was to focus on the new Women Archives Reader which will be published next year.  (A flyer with information about the reader was distributed.)

e.    The Big Berks conference was mentioned – could WCRT do something in collaboration with this conference?

f.      Honoring our foremothers in SAA.  Next year will be the 24^th year of the founding of the WCRT (1989).  Should we celebrate the 24^th or the 25^th year?

g.    There was agreement that it might be difficult for attendees to acquire funding to attend a day early if WCRT held a pre-conference.  It might make more sense to just extend the time of the regular WCRT meeting.  We should also extend invitations and information to other constituencies who may be interested, i.e. women’s religious communities, graduate students at local universities in Louisiana.

h.    Perhaps a morning session could focus on nuts and bolts and an afternoon session could have scholarly presentations??

i.      Mention of desire to update Andrea Hinding’s 1979 guide to archival and manuscript sources on women.   

5.    WCRT Bibliography

a.    Liz will be posting a bibliography of sources relating to women’s collections on the website.  This bibliography will focus primarily on archival. Manuscript, and special collections and will consist of scholarly research on the topic of these women’s collections (i.e. not necessarily research completed using women’s collections as sources.) 

b.    Links can be included to online resources such as LibGuides or other guides to finding women’s collections.  Also, sample instruction assignments on how to use women’s collections will be included. 

c.    A call will go out on the WCRT listserv to review the bibliography and to suggest additions to the bibliography. 

6.    Blog

a.    WCRT leadership will make a greater effort this year to keep the blog up-to-date. 

b.    Members are also encouraged to submit posts for the blog.  This would greatly assist in keeping the blog interesting and informative!

c.    WCRT will send out a once a month reminder to submit posts. 

7.    Session Proposals for the 2012 Conference

a.    Possibly a session on the new Women’s Archives Readers (if not used for the mini-conference)

b.    Topic ideas: Women religious archives? Material culture? 40^th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade anniversary? ERA? Public policy?  Planned Parenthood archives?  Women’s political collections?

8.    SAA Council – no questions to bring up

9.    News and Updates from the Group

a.    Make Your Own History: Documenting Feminist and Queer Activism in the 21st Century – Kelly Wooten has just published a new book!

b.    Women’s archives at Perdue University recently endowed by the outgoing president, who was the first woman president of the university (a possible blog entry?) 

Attendees:

Kathy Hertel-Baker, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth

Elizabeth Novara, University of Maryland

Lucinda Manning

Janice Ruth, Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Jessica Sedgwick, Harvard Medical School

Kelly Wooten, Duke University

Jolene Beiser, Pacifica Radio Archives

Kathleen Feeney, University of Chicago

Morna Gerrard, Georgia State University

Deborah Rice, Wayne State University

Anne Hoiberg, Women’s Museum of California

Fernanda Perone, Rutgers University

Sammie Morris, Purdue University

Danelle Moon, San Jose State University

Karen Mason, University of Iowa

Debbie Richards, Smith College

           

Categories: conferences, meeting minutes, SAA 2012

Agenda - WCRT Annual Meeting, August 8, 2012, San Diego, CA

The agenda for our joint annual meeting with the Human Rights Roundtable is as follows.  We're looking forward to a great meeting in San Diego!

Society of American Archivists

Joint Meeting of the Human Rights Roundtable and the Women’s Collections Roundtable

August 8, 2012, 3:15pm – 5:15pm
Hilton San Diego Bayfront (Aqua 308)
San Diego, California

AGENDA

3:15-3:25 - Welcome and Brief Introductions:  HRRT and WCRT Chairs and Co-Chairs

3:25-3:30 - Introduction of Speaker

3:30-4:15 - Speaker:  Anne Hoiberg

President of the Women’s Museum of California and the International Museum of Human Rights at San Diego.

4:15-4:30 - Questions and Discussion

4:30-5:15 - HRRT and WCRT Business Meetings (Break off into 2 groups)

Agenda for HRRT Business Meeting:

• Introductions (all members)
• Introduction of Terry Baxter(council rep)
• SAA business
• Survey responses
• HRART webinars: planning, funding, etc.
• Collaboration with other groups? (ICA HRWG, Archivists without Borders)
• Newsletter update (Chris)
• Website update (Beatrice)
• Other business
• Member announcements

Agenda for WCRT Business Meeting

• Introductions (all members)
• Installation of New Officers
• Old Business
• New Business
• By-Laws Committee
• Susan Tucker – Pre-Conference or Mini-Conference on Women’s Collections
• Liz Novara – WCRT Bibliography
• Session proposals for 2013 Conference
• Questions, Concerns, Comments for the SAA Council
• News and Updates from the group

Categories: conferences, SAA 2012

Chicago 2011: Women and Progressive Area Collections at UIC

Check out some of the great collections relating to Chicago women at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Collections highlight women's activism during the progressive era.

Categories: conferences, repositories, SAA 2011

Chicago 2011: 75 Years of International Women's Collecting: Legacies, Successes, Obstacles, and New Directions

Don't forget to check out the WCRT sponsored session!

75 Years of International Women's Collecting: Legacies, Successes, Obstacles, and New Directions
Saturday, August 27, 2011, 8:00am-9:00am
Room: Columbus C/D

A retrospective analysis of three international women's collecting projects across 75 years illuminates the projects' successes and obstacles, which speak to the historical, national, professional, and interpersonal contexts of their founding. Panelists also chart out the projects' legacies and their transmutations into the digital realm. Under examination are the World Center for Women's Archives in New York, Aletta Institute for Women's History in Amsterdam, and International Museum of Women in San Francisco.

Danelle Moon (Chair)
Director, Special Collections & Archives
San Jose State University
From Paper to Bytes: Creation of the International Museum of Women (IMOW)

Anke Voss, MSLS , MA
Director
The Urbana Free Library
Salvaging Their History: Initiatives and Challenges in the Early Development of Women's Archives and Documentation

Rachel Miller, MLIS
Processing Archivist
Center for Jewish History
Kick Her in the Shin for Me: The International Women's Archives Projects of Two Warring Suffragists in the 1930s and Their Digital Footprints in the 2010s


Big thanks to Rachel for organizing and proposing this panel!

Categories: conferences, SAA 2011

Chicago 2011: Leather Archives and Museum

The Leather Archives & Museum is a library, museum and archives pertaining to Leather, fetishism, sadomasochism, and alternative sexual practices. The geographic collection scope is worldwide and includes all sexual orientations and genders. The library collection contains published books, magazines, scholarly publications, films and electronic resources related to the subject matter. The museum collection contains original erotic art and artifacts from alternative sex organizations and individuals. The archival collection contains unpublished papers and records from notable activists, artists, businesses and organizations related to the subject matter.

SAA has a scheduled tour on Wednesday, August 24. See more information here (including directions!)

Categories: conferences, repositories, SAA 2011

Chicago 2011: Jane Addams Hull House Museum

Headed to Chicago and have some spare time on your hands? Consider a trip to the Jane Addams Hull House Museum. From the Museum's website:

"Hull-House, Chicago's first social settlement was not only the private home of Jane Addams and other Hull-House residents, but also a place where immigrants of diverse communities gathered to learn, to eat, to debate, and to acquire the tools necessary to put down roots in their new country. The Museum is comprised of two of the settlement complex's original thirteen buildings, the Hull-Home and the Residents' Dining Hall. These spaces were used variously over the years, including as a nursery school, a library, and a salon for social and political dialogue.

When Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr first opened Hull-House in 1889, they had very modest goals. They imagined a place to offer art and literary education to their less fortunate neighbors. The role of Hull-House, however, quickly grew beyond what either Gates or Addams could have imagined and continuously evolved to meet the needs of their neighbors. The residents of Hull-House, at the request of the surrounding community, began to offer practical classes that might help the new immigrants become more integrated into American society, such as English language, cooking, sewing and technical skills, and American government. The residents were the women and men who chose to live at Hull-House; they paid rent and contributed to the activities and services that the Settlement was committed to providing to their neighbors. These services included, but were not limited to, a nursery and a kindergarten, a public kitchen, and access to public baths and a playground. Hull-House became not only a cultural center with music, art, and theater offerings, but also a safe haven and a place where the immigrants living on Chicago's Near West Side could find companionship and support and the assistance they needed for coping with the modern city."

To get there, jump on the Blue Line west (toward Forest Park) to the UIC/Halsted stop. Walk two blocks south to 800 S Halsted street.

Museum is open Tuesday - Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
Closed Mondays and Saturdays

Categories: conferences, repositories, SAA 2011

CPF: Women in the Archives: Organizing Knowledge

Women in the Archives: Organizing Knowledge

April 15-16, 2011
Brown University

Papers are now being invited for Women in the Archives, a two-day conference co-sponsored by the Women Writers Project and the Sarah Doyle Women's Center at Brown University.

Women in the Archives explores the use of archival materials in the study of women's writing, and the construction of disciplinary practices in archival research and pedagogy. This year our theme is "Organizing Knowledge", focusing on systems of knowledge representation in relation to different kinds of archival practice. Papers might address themes such as the following:

* how do knowledge representation/management systems operate in the archive, and how do they instantiate or intervene in the legibility of archival materials?
* how can we read the gender politics of knowledge organization systems in the archive?
* how do pedagogical practices shape our interaction with such systems?
* what would it mean to read against the grain of archival systems of organization?
* how does discipline shape our understanding and use of the archive?

The larger concerns of the Women in the Archives series as a whole include:
* pedagogy and interdisciplinary pedagogies
* issues of gender in the construction of archival spaces
* material modes of textuality across disciplines
* technologies of research and teaching, and the impact of digital media on the archive
* new directions in archival research
* editing archival materials

This year, in addition to regular paper sessions, we are experimenting with
two new kinds of presentations:

1. A pecha-kucha-style session of short, fast-paced presentations that will
let participants present work in progress in a vivid and memorable form. The
session promises to be both entertaining and provocative.

2. Poster presentations, which will be mounted in the conference space for
attention during breaks

For more information about these formats please see
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/about/activities/wia/formats.html.

To submit a pecha-kucha proposal, please send a one-page statement which
includes:
--one question your research is trying to answer
--two people whose work stimulated your current project
--three people whose work you hope your project will influence
--four questions you think your project raises that you'd like to pose to the audience
--the five most interesting sources you're consulting (archival or critical) with a brief quote from each
--a brief paragraph in which you supply any other detail you think will be helpful to us

To submit a paper or poster proposal, please send an abstract of not more
than 300 words.

Please send all proposals to WWP@brown.edu by January 15, 2011.

Categories: conferences

Student proposals for MAC Spring Meeting

Call for Student Paper and Poster Presentations

The 2011 Student Program Subcommittee is accepting proposals for two special sessions dedicated to student scholarship during the Midwest Archives Conference's (MAC) Annual Meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota from April 28 – 30, 2011. Work from both master's and doctoral students will be considered. Students must be currently enrolled or have graduated no earlier than December 2010. Proposals must be received no later than February 11, 2011.

Graduate Student Paper Session

The work of three archives students will be selected for presentation during a traditional session format. Each speaker will be allotted 15 minutes to present a paper. Thirty minutes will be reserved for audience questions and discussion. Proposals may relate to the student's research interests as well as research pertinent to the profession. Participant selection will be based on the quality of proposals submitted.

Graduate Student Poster Session

The Graduate Student Poster Session will showcase the work of both individual students and student chapters.

Individual posters may describe applied or theoretical research that is completed or underway; discuss interesting collections with which students have worked; or report on archives and records projects in which students have participated (e.g., development of finding aids, public outreach, database construction, etc.). Submissions should focus on research or activities conducted recently.

Student Chapter posters may describe chapter activities, events, and/or other involvement with the archives and records professions. One person should coordinate the submission of each student chapter proposal.

Submission Form and Deadlines

Submit a proposal

Proposals must be received no later than February 11, 2011. The form will ask for the following information:

• Name
• School/Degree Program (MA, MILS, PhD, etc.)
• E-mail
• Address
• Phone Number
• Type of proposal (Paper/Individual Poster/Chapter Poster)
• Poster or Paper Abstract (200 words or less)
• Affirmation of Attendance (a sentence indicating your commitment to attend MAC 2011 and present your paper/poster in person if selected)\

See: http://www.midwestarchives.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117&Itemid=152

Categories: conferences

Northwest Archivists Call for Presentations

Call for Presentations!

Tradition and Innovation: New Ideas for Old Stuff
Northwest Archivists Conference
Helena, Montana
April 20-23, 2011

The Northwest Archivists are pleased to announce their 2011 Conference in Helena, Montana.

This year’s theme highlights our professional paradox of caring for archival collections representing our collective memory and actions, while navigating and interacting with contemporary audiences, expectations and technology. In order to fulfill our mission, we cannot embrace one without the other. So how do we walk the line between tradition and innovation? How do we interact with an ever changing present when we are representing the past? Not only does this dichotomy effect our interactions with researchers, it also directs our dealings with the media, policy makers, donors and the general population.

In keeping with this year’s theme, the conference will consist of two tracks: a traditional panel session track and a track devoted to non-traditional sessions. We’re all familiar with the usual chaired sessions with two or more presenters, but what makes a non-traditional session? The Program Committee is open to any session format idea that you may come up with, and here are some examples to spark your imagination:

• Open themed sessions: these are sessions focused on a theme but the audience drives the discussion. Facilitators will guide and encourage the audience, but this is an opportunity for us to talk to each other about specific topics.
• “Lightning Talks” or Pecha Kucha: Last year’s Pecha Kucha session was well-attended and involved a selection of diverse topics presented in short time frames.
• Other formats that encourage participation or look at innovative ways to convey information and engage the membership.

If you’ve ever sat in a session and thought that you’d like to share information in another way, this is your chance!

The Program Committee for the 2011 meeting in Helena, Montana, invites you to submit proposals for sessions and individual presentations that explore our grounding in the traditions of our profession and collections and the necessity of bridging the gap to a contemporary world. If you have a great idea for a topic but can’t find co-presenters, please submit a proposal anyway; there may be opportunities to match presenters or to work topics together in some of the non-traditional sessions. Sessions that engage the membership in non-traditional ways are particularly encouraged.

Submission Guidelines: Submissions can involve an entire session or an individual presentation. All proposals must include: title, description (no more than 250 words), A/V requirements (laptop, projector, screen, etc), presenter name, professional affiliation, address, email, phone number and a brief resume.

Session proposals must include all of the above for each presenter, plus: session title, session description (250 words maximum), contact information for the panel organizer, including email address and phone number. Submissions should also include a description of the type of session proposed (panel discussion, paper, non-traditional). We assume that everyone listed in a session proposal has agreed to participate. Electronic submissions only, please. Attach proposals as a Word or PDF file.

All submissions must be received no later than December 31, 2010.

Click Here for the submission form

Submit proposals to:
Diana Banning, Program Committee Chair, 2011 NWA Conference
City of Portland Archives and Records Center
Diana.Banning@portlandoregon.gov
503-865-4110

Categories: conferences

Women and Social Movements at the AHA & online

The new digital archive, “Women and Social Movements International-- 1840 to Present,” will be available for library subscription from Alexander Street Press in December or January. The first 25,000 pages of the archive will appear at that time and the entire archive of 150,000 pages will be online in late 2011. Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin are co-editing the resource with support from an international editorial advisory board.

At the AHA (American Historical Association) the archive will be considered as a research tool in a session, “New Research in the History of Women’s Transnational and International Social Movements.” That session will take place on Friday, Jan. 7, 9:30-11:30 in the Arlington Room of the Boston Marriot Copley Place and will have screen shots of the Beta version of the archive. Participants will include Francisca de Haan of Central European University, Tiffany Ruby Patterson of Vanderbilt University, Megan Threlkeld of Denison University, Barbara Reeves Ellington of Siena College and Kitty Sklar.

There will also be a luncheon on Friday, Jan. 7 at 12:15 in the Vineyard Room of the Boston Marriot Copley Place to unveil WASM International. There we will describe the archive in a slide presentation. Please contact tdublin[at]binghamton[dot]edu to reserve a place. The luncheon is free, but seats are limited.

We hope to see you at the AHA.
Kitty Sklar & Tom Dublin

Thomas Dublin
Distinguished Professor of History
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
607-777-2854
FAX: 717-214-4415

Categories: conferences, digital content

WCRT Endorsements for SAA 2011

The deadline for submitting proposals to the SAA Program Committee for next year's conference was Oct. 1. Now that we have had time to review the submissions, we are pleased to announce the WCRT endorsements! We are backing 2 proposals this year:

1. Activists, Nuns, and Heiresses: Breaking Stereotypes of Women's Historical Collections, chaired by Beth Myers of the Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University.

2. 75 Years of International Women's Collecting: Legacies, Successes, Obstacles, and New Directions, chaired by Danelle Moon of the Special Collections and Archives, San Jose State University.

We will update the membership on the status of these proposals as soon as we hear ourselves. Thank you to everyone for organizing such strong entries for SAA 2011.

Categories: conferences, SAA 2011

ALMS Call for Papers

Hello all --

Consider submitting to this call for papers for the next ALMS (Archives, Libraries, Museums, Special Collections) Conference in 2011.

Please also pass along this email to anyone you know who may be interested.

Thank you!

Heidi Marshall & Franklin Robinson

LAGAR co-chairs

________________________________

I am the Associate University Librarian for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication at the UCLA Library and I wanted to share with you the Call for Proposals and Announcement for the 2011 ALMS Conference which will be hosted by the June L Mazer Lesbian Archive in Los Angeles. The UCLA Library, Center for the Study of Women and are co-hosting. The conference will be held on May 13-15, 2011 in Los Angeles. The afternoon of May 13 will be held at UCLA.

We would appreciate any help you can provide to forward the Call for Papers and announcement of the conference to your members and anyone else you think might be interested. You may have heard that UCLA as a relationship with the Mazer Archive and we are thrilled to support this conference and collecting initiative. For information on the Mazer collections at UCLA see http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/mazer/ and http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/mazer-partnership-112038.aspx.

Thanks in advance for your help getting the word out. Any questions please let me know.

Best regards,

Sharon Farb

Categories: conferences

Girls' Studies Conference; Call for Proposals

Reimagining Girlhood: Communities, Identities, Self-Portrayals
State University of New York College at Cortland
Submission Deadline 03/01/2010

CONFERENCE DATES: OCTOBER 22-24, 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. SHARON R. MAZZERELLA
Director School of Communication at James Madison University.
Author of Growing Up Girls, and Girl Wide Web: Girls and the Negotiation of Identity

In an attempt to interact with and to advance the continuum of girls’ culture, the Women’s Studies Program and the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies at the State University of New York College at Cortland will host a two-day conference in Fall 2010 titled “Reimagining Girlhood: Communities, Identities, Self-Portrayals.” Regional, national, and international scholars, activists, and experts will discuss the (r)evolution of Girls’ Studies and Girls’ Culture. The conference committee invites individuals, groups, scholars, teachers, feminists, activists, and girls of all ages to submit proposals on interdisciplinary scholarly and creative work that address all aspects of girlhood.

Proposal formats include: Individual papers, Digital Media and Films, Panel Proposals, Roundtables, Poster Sessions, Performance Art, Audio Recordings, Zine Exhibitions, Photographic Submissions, Radical Crafting

For individual papers, please submit an abstract limited to 250 words. For complete panels, please submit an abstract for each presentation and include the affiliation of each panel member. For poster sessions and art, please submit an overview of 250 words. All proposals must include speakers’ name(s), affiliation(s) and contact information (address, e-mail and telephone number). Please also indicate preference for Friday afternoon, Saturday morning or Saturday afternoon. Sunday will be available to visit the Women’s Rights National Park in Seneca Falls, New York.

Send your 250 word proposals, abstracts, or poster sessions to: gender@cortland.edu; or caroline.kaltefleiter@cortland.edu by March 1, 2010.

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"We Demand": History/Sex/Activism Conference

"We Demand": History/Sex/Activism In Canada Vancouver, British Columbia
August 25-28, 2011

On August 28, 1971 over two hundred lesbian and gay activists gathered on Parliament Hill to demand the federal government bring an end to laws and practices that criminalized, marginalized, and stigmatized lesbians and gays. Acting in solidarity with their central Canadian allies, Vancouver activists staged the same action on the steps of their city's Court House. It was the first recorded national political action undertaken by gay liberationists and lesbian feminist activists in Canada.

"We Demand" marks the fortieth anniversary of the 1971 action. The conference seeks to showcase current work on all aspects of the history of sexuality in Canada, from pre-contact to present times.

Keynote speaker: Ann Cvetcovitch, author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures

Other confirmed speakers include Mary Louise Adams, Karen Dubinsky, Gary Kinsman, and Steven Maynard.

We are currently accepting proposals for panels, individual papers, roundtable discussions, poster sessions, and other means of communicating ideas and generating discussion. We welcome submissions from scholars, archivists, educators, public historians, and past and present political activists from all sexual fronts.

Panel and round table submissions should include a session title, a brief description of the panel or round table, abstracts for each paper of no more than 250 words, and a brief biography or one-page c.v./resume for each presenter and for the session chair. Individuals should submit a 250-word abstract plus a brief biography or one-page c.v./resume. Those submitting proposals for other types of presentations should contact the organizers for further instruction.

The deadline for submission is 1 June 2010.

Please send queries and submissions to: wedemand2011@gmail.com

Conference organizers:
Elise Chenier
Department of History, Simon Fraser University
echenier@gmail.com

Patrizia Gentile
Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies Carleton University
patrizia_gentile@carleton.ca

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CFP 2011 Big Berks Conference

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is holding its next conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on June 9-12, 2011.

2011 marks the 15th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women and the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, which was first celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland and is now honored by more than sixty countries around the globe. The choice of “Generations” reflects this transnational intellectual, political, and organizational heritage as well as a desire to explore related questions such as:

• How have women’s generative experiences – from production and reproduction to creativity and alliance building – varied across time and space? How have these been appropriated and represented by contemporaries and scholars alike?
• What are the politics of “generation”? Who is encouraged? Who is condemned or discouraged? How has this changed over time?
• Is a global perspective compatible with generational (in the genealogical sense) approaches to the past that tend to reinscribe national/regional/racial boundaries?
• What challenges do historians of women, gender, and sexuality face as these fields and their practitioners mature?

To engender further, open-ended engagement with these and other issues, the 2011 conference will include workshops dedicated to discussing precirculated papers on questions and problems (epistemological, methodological, substantive) provoked by the notion of "Generations."

The process for submitting and vetting papers and panels has changed substantially from previous years, so please read the instructions carefully. To encourage transnational discussions, panels will be principally organized along thematic rather than national lines and therefore proposals will be vetted by a transnational group of scholars with expertise in a particular thematic, rather than geographic, field. Preference will be given to discussions of any topic across national boundaries and to work that addresses sexuality, race, and labor in any context, with special consideration for pre-modern (ancient, medieval, early modern) periods. However, unattached papers and proposals that fall within a single nation/region or the modern period will also be given full consideration. As a forum dedicated to encouraging innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship and transnational conversation, the Berkshire conference continues to encourage submissions from graduate students, international scholars, independent scholars, filmmakers, and to welcome a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Berkshire Conference website: http://www.berksconference.org. If you have questions about the most appropriate subcommittee for your proposal, please direct them to Madhavi Kale (mkale@brynmawr.edu). For problems with the electronic submission, please contact Zain Lakhani (zlakhani@sas.upenn.edu).

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 1, 2010.

Thematic Subcommittees & Chairs

• Beauty and the Body, Stephanie Camp
• Economies, Labors, and Consumption, Tracey Deutsch
• Health and Medicine, Julie Livingston
• Migrations: Race, Gender and Activism, Annelise Orleck
• Politics and the State, Margot Canaday
• Race in Global Perspective, Marilyn Lake
• Religion: Belief, Practice, Communities, Marion Katz and Anthea Butler
• Sexuality, Leisa Meyer and Anjali Aarondaker
• War, Violence, and Terror, Anupama Rao
• Youth and Aging, Margaret Jacobs

Individual Papers: Although we prefer proposals to be submitted for complete panels, roundtables or workshops, we always accept some single paper proposals. The submission file should include your name, paper title, and a 250-word abstract. Please also submit a short c.v.

Alternative Session Proposals: Proposals for presentations in formats other than that of conventional conference papers (films, performances, poster sessions, for example) are welcome (and subject to/contingent on the availability of facilities at the conference site). Such proposals should clearly indicate the specific requirements for their exhibition/performance/display (audio/visual setup or auditorium/studio space, for example).

Panels: Two or three papers of no more than 20 minutes each, chair, and a separate discussant. The submission file should include the author, title, and a 250-word abstract for each paper as well as a panel title, the organizer's name, and a 500-word summary abstract. Please submit a short c.v. for each participant.

Roundtables: Four to seven participants, brief presentations, with a focus on collegial discussion within the group and between the group and the audience. The submission file should include the roundtable's title, the organizer's name, a 500-word summary abstract, and a list of the participants with a brief description of their contribution to the roundtable. Please submit a short c.v. for each participant.

Workshops: Six to eight pre-circulated papers, with a chair and a separate discussant. Papers will be due April 30, 2011, and will be pre-circulated by posting on a website accessible to all Berkshire Conference registrants. Rather than presenting the papers themselves in the session, participants and audience members will spend the time discussing papers they have already read. Workshops are intended to provide time and space at the Berks for scholars working on similar ideas and themes to share pre-circulated papers and have a conversation. The workshops might be particularly useful for scholars who wish to share and exchange contributions that could be published as an edited collection. The submission file should include the author, title, and a 250-word abstract for each paper as well as a panel title, the organizer's name, and a 500-word summary abstract. Please submit a short c.v. for each participant.

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