For a couple of years now, scholars have taken a pastime in analyzing the socialist try to transform old-fashioned gender arrangements and revolutionize your family. In contrasting the perfect of women’s emancipation with everyday experience under socialism, studies have demonstrated the restrictions of the socialist “solution” to “the woman concern.” But, present debates in regards to the really notion, meaning, and existence of feminism(s) under socialist guideline show the ongoing relevance associated with topic. Central and Eastern European gender history is a powerful industry and current efforts include overcoming the continuing Cold War stereotypes and paradigms and composing a nonlinear history of socialist feminism.
Another present challenge is to consider critical men’s studies plus the reputation for masculinities, also to make these approaches fruitful for Eastern European gender studies together with sex reputation for socialism. The understanding of masculinities—like femininities—as a social and cultural construct that necessarily underlies historic change, additionally the performative and multifaceted take on male domination (over females and over other guys), offer important avenues to create a certainly relational, interactive, and gender history that is dynamic. Applying men’s that are critical as well as the reputation for masculinities to your reputation for state-socialist Eastern Europe opens new opportunities for further research. What impact did the making of “new” women—better educated, economically independent, and enjoying more rights that are legal regarding the constructions of masculinity and fatherhood in state-socialist societies? Just How did males respond to gender that is socialist? What did socialism suggest for men, and just what did masculinity mean for socialists?
Currently many studies of masculinity in this area concentrate on artistic representations of masculinities or post-socialist transformations, while many scholars have actually analyzed homosexualities that are asian dates socialist. Geographically, nearly all scientific studies are carried out in Soviet and Russian history.
This workshop aims, consequently, to stimulate paths that are new composing the histories of masculinities under socialism, focusing particularly on examining the meanings of masculinities in every day life. In specific, it seeks to deal with work while the workplace, household and fatherhood, (domestic) physical violence, the military, religion, health insurance and medicine, sport and voluntary associations, and sexualities and homosexualities. It pays attention that is particular the methodological challenges of writing a brief history of masculinities and promises to play a role in the theoretical and methodological debates on the go by proposing original techniques to explore issues of sex and masculinity in past times. Therefore, it encourages research predicated on unexplored or sources that are newly accessible such as for example company, military, and church archives; court public records; the archives of various associations; individual narratives; an such like. The entire goal of this workshop is always to take part in the ongoing debates in regards to the gender reputation for socialism, to strengthen the annals of masculinities in state-socialist Central and Eastern Europe, and to hence come into an interdisciplinary conversation with historians, sociologists, anthropologists, demographers, and scholars from neighboring fields of research.
Papers emerging through the workshop will soon be considered for book in a themed dilemma of the journal Aspasia: The Global Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and southeastern women’s that are european Gender History. Hence, the workshop will be organized across the conversation of pre-circulated article drafts. Scholars submitting a proposal when it comes to workshop should agree to delivering their article drafts by 15 March 2020, should their proposal be accepted. Workshop participants will likely be anticipated to read all the other papers ahead of time. Participation within the workshop does not automatically guarantee that the articles is supposed to be published. Finalversions should be approved during Aspasia’sinternal peer-review process.
We invite those enthusiastic about taking part in the workshop to submit abstracts of no more than 800 words, along side a brief CV that is academicno further than one page) to Peter Hallama: peter.hallama@hist.unibe.ch by 30 2019 september. Abstracts must consist of bibliographic information (main sources) plus the author’s methodological approach. The proposals should be evaluated by an international committee that is academic. The workshop shall be conducted in English. We particularly encourage advanced doctoral students and junior scholars from an array of procedures using a perspective that is historical use (history, sex studies, sociology, anthropology, demography, etc.). Seminar participants will receive accommodation and a stipend to protect travel expenses.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Jьrgen Martschukat (Professor of North American History, University of Erfurt, Germany)
Erica L. Fraser (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carleton University, Canada)
Krassimira Daskalova (Aspasia / St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia), Erica L. Fraser (Carleton University), Fabio Giomi (CNRS, Paris), Pavel Kolбr (University of Konstanz), Maike Lehmann (University of Cologne), Thomas Lindenberger (TU Dresden), Marianna Muravyeva (Aspasia / University of Helsinki), Julia Richers (University of Bern), Rйgis Schlagdenhauffen (EHESS, Paris), Brigitte Studer (University of Bern)
30 September 2019: deadline for proposals
Late 2019: notification of acceptance and invitation to work on the articles october
15 March 2020: deadline for draft articles
14–15 May 2020: workshop at the University of Bern, Switzerland
July 2020: deadline for revised articles to be submitted to Aspasia
With regards to the quantity and quality of texts, they’ll be published as you or two themed s that are section( in Aspasia’svol. 15 (2021) and vol. 16 (2022)