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Newsletter No 27

Conference Notices and Calls for Papers

Engendering Material Culture: Fifth Women in Archaeology Conference,

University of New South Wales: Date 2-4 July 1999

This interdisciplinary conference will examine how material culture can render the intangibilities of the past concrete and 'real' in the present. Physical evidence has long been used as a resource to construct a gendered sensibility in both the past and the present. The ways in which material culture is used to negotiate gender politics, and how disciplinary attitudes and definitions of 'gender' influence and define studies of the past, will be a focus of the conference. This conference will be of interest to scholars in history and archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, visual representations, sociology, museum studies, educationalists and anyone with an interest in feminism.

For further information, or offers of papers and/or sessions contact:

Laurajane Smith lj.smith@unsw.edu.au

Ann McGrath ann.mcgrath@anu.edu.au

Engendering Material Culture Conference

Centre for Cross-Cultural Research

Australian National University

Canberra ACT 0200 Australia

Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History to be held June 15-17, 2000, at the University of Richmond and the Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.

The Southern Association for Women Historians invites proposals. The conference provides a stimulating and congenial forum for the discussion of all aspects of women's history. Its program seeks to reflect the diversity of women's experiences in the United States and elsewhere and to feature the history of women from a wide range of racial, class, and ethnic backgrounds.

Please consult the website: www.h-net.msu.edu/~sawh/ for announcements and conference updates.

Prospective participants should send all materials to Professor Cynthia A. Kierner, SAWH Program

Committee Chair, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University

City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223. The deadline for submission of proposals is 30 June 1999.

MISCELLANEOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS

CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY

Program on Gender & Culture

Call for Fellowship Applications

Application Deadline January 15, 1999

The Program on Gender & Culture at the Central European University is now accepting applications for full fellowships for nationals of the CEE/fSU to participate in a one year master's program in gender studies, or doctoral support fellowships in Budapest, Hungary for the 1999/2000 academic year. Up to 38 fellowships covering tuition and living expenses are available to individuals from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. A wide variety of other financial aid programs are available to all students on a competitive basis.

For application materials, please visit the CEU web site at http://www.ceu.hu or write the CEU Admissions Office: Nador u. 9, 1051 Budapest, Hungary. Tel: (36-1) 327-3009, Fax: (36-1) 327-3211, Email: external@ceu.hu.please, or contact your local Soros Foundation.

For more information about academic programs in Gender Studies, please contact the Program on Gender & Culture <gender@ceu.hu>, Tel: +36-1-327-3034, Fax: +36-1-327-3001.

Gender Studies Small Grant Program (GSGP) 1999

Call for CEE/fSU Applications

Application Deadline January 15

Grants of up to 2,000 USD are available to NGOs and academic departments based in Central East Europe and the former Soviet Union promoting women's studies and gender studies within the region. The program is sponsored by the Program on Gender and Culture at the Central European University, the Network Women's Program and the Open Society Institute.

Applications will be accepted for:

1. Gender Studies Development Projects

2. Library Development Projects

Available Grants: In 1999, institutes, centers, programs and academic departments actively involved in teaching, research or policy activities directly involving gender or women's studies are welcome to apply for one of two types of grants of up to $2,000.

For Further Information

All enquiries should be directed to:

The Program on Gender & Culture Tel: +36-1-327-3034

Gender Studies Small Grant Program (GSGP) Fax: +36-1-327-3001

Central European University E-mail: <gender@ceu.hu>

1051 Budapest Nador u. 9 Hungary

NEW DISCUSSION LIST: GENDER AND NATIONS/NATIONALISMS

As a project of the Center for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the Technical University Berlin we are pleased to be able to present the new scholarly discussion list "Gender and Nations/Nationalisms". Should you be interested in subscribing to the list, please send a message with information about your researches in this field (subscription formular) to the list's email address:

fng-l@zrz.tu-berlin.de

The purpose of the interdisciplinary list is to connect researchers in the various disciplines who have work in the area of "Gender and Nations/Nationalisms". The temporal emphasis will be on the modern period. The list will encompass the early modern period and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Regionally, the list will focus on Europe. This emphasis is by no means intended to foster 'eurocentrism', since the advent and development of most European nations cannot be understood without colonialism and imperialism. Research on colonies, colonial policy and anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist liberation movements must thus be integrated.

The list is connected with the: Center for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZIFG) at the Technical University of Berlin, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, Secretariat TEL 20-1, D-10587 Berlin,

Telephone: +49-30-3142-6947, Fax: +49-30-3142-6988

Email: zifg@kgw.tu-berlin.de

Internet: http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/ZIFG

The list will be administered and edited by:

Dr. Dietlind Huechtker Email: fng-l-owner@zrz.tu-berlin.de

HOW TO SUBCRIBE

Those interested in subscribing should send a brief message to the following email address requesting membership: fng-l-owner@zrz.tu-berlin.de

Requests for membership can also be sent directly to the list address: fng-l@zrz.tu-berlin.de

Karen Hagemann and Dietlind Huechtker