CALL FOR PAPERS: MELBOURNE FEMINIST HISTORY GROUP WORKSHOP
Friday 4 October 2024, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne + online.
This workshop will bring together feminist historians from across Melbourne and further afield to facilitate research engagement, theoretical learning, and network building. It is designed to locate our collective scholarship in its various local and global contexts and to consider the present concerns of feministhistory. The workshop will include addresses by Professor Joy Damousi and Dr Mary Tomsic and two sessions for participants to share and develop their ideas. The organisers welcome short 15-minute papers that provoke discussion and interrogate current issues in feminist and gender history or respond to current social, political, environmental, or other problems. They encourage unfinished, challenging, or speculative papers that will generate and benefit from extended discussion by attendees. The workshop will accommodate virtual presentations and attendance and is open to participants from all backgrounds and at all stages of research.
Please send abstracts to melbfeminist@gmail.com by Monday 2 September.
Papers will be grouped in two different sessions:
Blue Sky Feminist Possibilities: What or whose history would you tell if there were no restrictions on your time? What new theories or methodologies (perhaps from other disciplines) would you like to see applied to feminist/gender history? This session is intended to showcase, test the waters, and incubate ideas that might have been put to the side, seem overly ambitious, or too far out of left field. We encourage sharing ideas that are intended to engage with the impact of feminist history outside of the discipline or university.
Current Issues in Feminist History: What theoretical or methodological barriers are you facing in your research? This session will provide a collaborative forum to brainstorm problems and find solutions to critical issues. Papers may raise problems specific to a current project, blocks that continue to arise in your research, or issues more broadly faced by the field. Issues may also relate to the ethics or impact of research in relation to current world events.