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Environment Health & History: Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Dates: 12-15th September 2007 Conference Location: Brunei Gallery, Bloomsbury, London. Keynote Speakers: Professor Chris Hamlin, Notre Dame University, Indiana. Professor Dieter Schott, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Professor Chris Sellers, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Increasingly historians of medicine and of science have begun to seek common ground with environmental historians and with geographers studying the material, cultural and social relations embedded in place. A lively dialogue between different methodologies and approaches is under way. This conference seeks papers on a wide range of topics across all time periods and disciplines, with national, cross national and international dimensions. It is hoped through such exchange to discuss and develop ways of approaching the interface between environment and health in ways which are sensitive to the past but also speak to present day concerns. Title and abstract to be received by the end of November 2006. Call for papers: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/history/EAHMcallforpapers.html Contact details for further information: Ingrid James, Centre for History in Public Health, LSHTM, Keppel St. London, WC1E 7HT. Email: Ingrid.james@lshtm.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0) 207 927 2434 Conference hosted by the Centre for History in Public Health, LSHTM. Sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, SSHM and LSHTM.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN BRITISH HISTORY
Call for PapersIrish Feminist Thought13-14 April 2007Women’s Studies Centre, Centre for Irish Studies,Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical ChangeNational University of Ireland, GalwayGuest Speakers: Patricia Coughlan, UCC ; Myrtle Hill, Queen’s University BelfastAccording to Margaret Ward, ‘For women in Ireland, the Act of Union of 1800 not only defined the constitutional relationship between Britain and Ireland, it also largely determined the nature of feminism within Ireland and ensured a differentiation of Irish from British feminism’. In the last fifteen to twenty years, Irish historians, sociologists, and literary critics have recovered figures and events previously lost to history, but central to Irish feminism and women’s history. This conference seeks to build on and extend this vital work, and invites proposals that argue for (or against!) a body of specifically Irish feminist thought which has developed over the course of the last two centuries following the Act of Union, though contributions siting Irish feminism prior to 1800 will also be welcome. While twentieth-century Irish feminist issues and debates have received detailed critical attention, some less known contributions to contemporary Irish feminism include Owenite socialist and west Cork landlord William Thompson’s 1824 treatise on feminism, the most significant to appear between Wollstonecraft and Mill; nationalist historian Alice Stopford Green’s participation in the increasingly gendered debate about the professionalization of her discipline; influential suffragist and animal advocate Frances Power Cobbe’s conservative radicalism, shaped by Ireland’s sectarian tensions; and New Woman writer George Egerton’s ecocritical fiction which drew on Irish folklore and is frequently situated in an Irish landscape. Suggested topics: feminism’s role in the distinctively Irish experience of social reform including the cooperative movement and the development of socialist thought the difficulty―or impossibility―of mapping of the gendered spheres onto Irish space feminism’s relationship with Ireland’s Celtic revivals the political and religious tensions and overlaps among feminisms as imagined and advanced under such rubrics as Unionism, Republicanism, Quakerism, Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism the nation as feminine, eroticized landscape, its implications for representing ‘Irishness’ and feminism’s recasting of the ‘natural’, among other considerations science and feminism, from race and eugenics in the nineteenth century, to reproductive rights and the female cyborg in the twenty-first century the interaction between agitation for women’s rights and animal advocacy in an Irish context the Irish New Woman writer, and the figure of the rural New Woman urban and rural working class women and political expression literary explorations and expressions of feminist thought, including journalism; the deployment of ‘feminine’ genres, the unique crisis of mimesis in Irish letters Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words (electronic submissions preferred) by 15 January 2007 to: Dr Maureen O’Connor, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Moore Institute (formerly CSHSHC)National University of Ireland, Galway, Irelandmaureen.oconnor@nuigalway.ie
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