November 2017 – Early Modern Intersectionalities and Activisms

Merry Wiesner-Hanks for the SSEMW Blog In January of this year, a group of us from Milwaukee joined the hundreds of thousands at the Women’s March in Washington, an experience that even those among us who were veterans of many protests will never forget. (You can see our group as the banner on my Facebook home page, as I can’t bear to change the picture.) As was true for many others, our experience began in the airplane on the way there, when we realized that almost everyone on the plane, even those women in pearls and heels, was going to…
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CFP, essay collection Feminist Perspectives on Netherlandish Art, 1400-1800

This essay collection will feature innovative scholarship and historiography of women artists working in and around the Netherlands, c. 1400-1800. Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words explaining the subject and approach of the proposed essay. Submit proposals no later than December 31, 2017. Completed essays of approximately 6,000-8,000 words will be due in early 2018. Submit proposal along with a current CV by December 31, 2017 to elizabeth.sutton@uni.edu
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Call for Submissions: Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World

We are seeking submissions for an interdisciplinary collection of essays tentatively titled Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective. This edited volume seeks to put into conversation a range of historical, literary, and cultural texts and objects related to the theory, practice, and experience of health and healing from an Iberian-Global and gendered perspective, between 1500-1700. We invite papers that broadly interrogate the concepts of “health” and “healing” from all geographical areas within early modern Iberia and its global kingdoms. We encourage innovative responses to the topics that include but are not limited to: interactions…
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