February newsletter

NEWSLETTER, 26 February 2018

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Please send notices of other announcements, calls for papers, prizes and competitions, and details of recent relevant publications to shawsociety@gmail.com.

GENDER AND HISTORY IN THE AMERICAS SEMINAR SERIES

Thank you to Chris Olewicz (Sheffield) who delivered a really interesting paper on the New Left intellectual Eleanor Hakim earlier this month.

Because of ongoing strike action at the University of London and elsewhere, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone the seminar that was scheduled for Monday 12 March.

We will, however, reschedule this seminar, which will be a special "Three Minute Thesis" postgraduate forum. If you would like to take part, or encourage your PhD students to take part, please get in touch with us at shawsociety@gmail.com. We'll send around a reminder in March, along with the rescheduled date.

The "Three Minute Thesis" model was first developed in the University of Queensland, and challenges graduate students to explain their thesis in three minutes. For more information about the 3MT format, visit the website here: https://www.vitae.ac.uk/events/three-minute-thesis-competition

CALL FOR PAPERS

CFP:

Society for the History of Women in the Americas Annual Conference
Friday 6th July 2018
The Women’s Library, London School of Economics

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, co-organised with The Women’s Library at the London School of Economics.

We invite 250 word abstracts for 20-minute presentations on any topic, geographical period, chronological time, or theme related to the history of women in the Americas. We also welcome comparative papers between two countries in the Americas or one in the Americas and a country outside the region.
The conference welcomes papers from scholars at any stage of their career, especially graduate students.

The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr Kate Dossett (University of Leeds).

Please submit abstracts along with a 100-word biography to shawsociety@gmail.com by the 20^th March 2018. Papers chosen for the conference may be selected for inclusion in a special issue of History of Women in the Americas Journal subject to peer-review.

CALL FOR REVIEWERS

If you would like to become a book reviewer for the Society's journal, History of Women in the Americas, please e-mail us at shawsociety@gmail.com. In your e-mail, briefly outline your area of expertise/research interest so that we can match reviewers with suitable books.

Currently, we have the following titles available for review:

Brian Titley. Into Silence and Servitude: How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2017. 296pp.