2020 CFP<\/a>)<\/p>\nThe theme for the 2020 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities will be\u00a0Gendered Environments: Exploring Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities in Social, Political, and\u00a0\u201cNatural\u201d Worlds. The conference will be held May 21-23, 2020 at Johns Hopkins University in\u00a0Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n
The 2020 \u201cBig Berks\u201d focuses on the histories of women, genders, and sexualities, and this year devotes\u00a0special attention to a pressing theme of our current moment: the role of environment(s), ecologies, and\u00a0natural systems broadly defined in the histories of women, genders, and sexualities. As we plan our\u00a0meeting at the edge of the Chesapeake Bay, a profoundly vibrant ecosystem where humans have\u00a0gathered for millennia, we are reminded of the many ways in which the natural world has shaped\u00a0human society. Its history also highlights the local and global connections of all places. This place is the\u00a0homeland of the Piscataway Conoy Tribe, and was home to Henrietta Lacks; it is the site of the\u00a0Baltimore Fish market and a part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, a node in the Atlantic Flyway, and\u00a0at the edge of the Atlantic World.<\/p>\n
Our aim is to hold conversations that think through the intricate interplays among gender and sexuality,\u00a0social and legal systems of power and political representation, and the material realities of an\u00a0interconnected world continually shaped by physical nature, the human and nonhuman animals, plants,\u00a0and other beings that inhabit that nature. If Earth\u2019s history has indeed entered a new geological epoch\u00a0termed the Anthropocene, where do the historical knowledges and experiences of women, people of\u00a0diverse genders and sexualities, and people of color, along with environmental justice efforts in the\u00a0historical past, enter into our efforts to understand, theorize, contextualize, and meet these existential\u00a0problems?<\/p>\n
While the notion of environments invokes important thinking about Earth, our theme extends to a\u00a0capacious definition of social, cultural, and political surrounds. The histories of women\u2019s lives,\u00a0intellectualism, and activism unfold across a range of environmental contexts that are simultaneously\u00a0material, political, economic, and cultural. We interpret this overarching theme broadly, inviting\u00a0submissions for an array of engaging and interactive presentations intended to generate conversations\u00a0across time, fields, methodologies, and geographic borders; across races, classes, sexualities and gender \u00a0identities; among academic and public historians, activists, artists and performers. We are especially\u00a0keen to attract participants from around the globe and scholars of time periods and geographic fields\u00a0that typically have been underrepresented at the Berkshire Conference.<\/p>\n
We hope these conversations will highlight fresh perspectives and create new networks for intellectual\u00a0collaboration and activism among scholars, public historians, artists, activists, teachers, and those\u00a0interested in history, the environment, climate change, social movements, and social justice. Such\u00a0interaction has dynamic potential to move the history of women, genders, and sexualities in particularly\u00a0innovative directions that generate new theories and methodologies, bringing these histories into new\u00a0spaces \u2013 not only in our universities and liberal arts colleges but also in community colleges,\u00a0neighborhood centers, K-12 schools, prisons, NGOs and other activist groups in the United States and\u00a0abroad. Such an approach is critical as we are experiencing the effects of pressing environmental issues,\u00a0even as the value of research from climate science to the humanities is being questioned.<\/p>\n
Reviving connections between communities and institutions, historians are increasingly joining forces \u2014\u00a0inside and outside the academy \u2013 with an eye toward affecting social change and social justice. New\u00a0forms of cooperation have raised important historical questions: What can we learn from\u00a0internationalizing the discussion of women, communities, and the environment? How can we use multi-sited\u00a0histories of human and non-human animals as well as the relationships of communities to local\u00a0and distant ecologies to rewrite gendered histories from long distance trade and exchange to the rise of\u00a0global capitalism? How can scholars and activists collaborate to transform the pedagogical landscape in\u00a0our \u2018classrooms\u2019 around environmental issues in the past and present? This conference is a call for\u00a0collaboration and cooperation across many lines of difference.<\/p>\n
The 2020 Berkshire Conference will be a venue for difficult conversations about these and other crucial\u00a0questions. In the hope of promoting a greater range of conversations and interactions, this \u201cBig Berks\u201d\u00a0seeks to intentionally diversify the way we present and discuss history. In addition to traditional\u00a0modes of presentation, we encourage the submission of conference presentations that feature different\u00a0kinds of voices. We strongly encourage submissions that include scholars, public historians and\/or\u00a0activists, artists, and\/or performers. We also encourage submissions that include multiple styles \u2014 such\u00a0as digital technologies, formal papers, performance, and\/or the arts \u2014 along with varied formats from e-posters,\u00a0pop-up talks to lightning sessions.<\/p>\n
We invite submissions broadly themed on the histories of women, genders, and sexualities, including\u00a0but not limited to those with a special interest in environment(s), ecologies, and natural systems.<\/p>\n
The deadline for all submissions is March 17, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2020 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities Baltimore, Maryland Deadline: Sunday, March 17, 2019 Gendered Environments:\u00a0Exploring Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities\u00a0in Social, Political and \u201cNatural\u201d Worlds Program Chairs: Cathleen Cahill (Penn State) and Martha Few (Penn State) Call for Papers: the 18th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"categorie_personnage":[],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appels-contribution"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"gb","enabled_languages":["fr","gb"],"languages":{"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"gb":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"categorie_personnage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie_personnage?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}