CFP: The Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 8-10, 2007

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006

NOTE: Some of us in EALC would like to organize a few EA themed panels. If you are interested and know at least two other students who you want to work with, please form your own panel and follow the directions on their site for submitting it. (If you need help with abstract writing, please ask one of your many senpai who have presented before.)

If you would like to be on a panel, but don't know with whom, please contact James ASAP and he'll try to help organize panels.

And of course you can submit an individual paper not as part of a panel.


The Executive Committee of the Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 8-10, 2007. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome papers on any historical topic in the field of women’s and gender history, including those engaging diverse methodologies. We also invite panel submissions consisting of two to four presenters, although each paper will be judged on its individual merit. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year’s Symposium.

We welcome paper or panel submissions that address diverse geographical regions of the world and encourage submissions engaging such themes as queer theory, sexuality, borders and boundaries, religion and belief, race, embodiment, and transnationalism. In addition, we welcome submissions that analyze the state of the field in women’s and gender history.

We are delighted to announce two plenary speakers for this year’s Symposium:

Tze-lan Deborah Sang, Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon, author of The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China (2003), will speak on Thursday, March 8.
Joan Wallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, author of Gender and the Politics of History (1988) and Parité!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (2005), will speak on Friday, March 9.
The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume.

We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters’ proposals and the availability of funds.

All submissions must be received by November 1, 2006. To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format (preferred method), please send five (5) copies of a 250-word abstract AND a one-page curriculum vitae for EACH paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to:

Programming Committee
Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
309 Gregory Hall, MC 466
810 South Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801

To submit a paper or panel by email, please send ONLY ONE attachment in Word format containing all abstracts and curriculum vitae. The subject line of the email must read "Attn: Programming Committee" and should be sent to gendersymp@uiuc.edu. We cannot be responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.

For more information: Please contact Programming Committee Chairs, Brian Ingrassia or Emily Skidmore at gendersymp@uiuc.edu.

Or visit http://www.history.uiuc.edu/hist%20grad%20orgs/WGHS/index.htm