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[Katalin Fabian]

 New Scholarly Discussion List - FNG-L: Gender and Nations/Nationalisms

As a project of the Center for Interdisziplinary 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" <fng-l>. In what follows we would like to
introduce the planned contents of the closed list and inform you about
how to use it. Should you be interested in subscribing to the list,
please send a message with informations about your researches in this
field (subscription formular) to the list's email address:
fng-l at zrz.tu-berlin.de

Karen Hagemann and Dietlind Huechtker
_________________________________________________________________
Dr. Karen Hagemann
Center for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZIFG)
at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Email: hagemann at kgw.tu-berlin.de

Dr. Dietlind Huechtker
Graduiertenkolleg Identitaetsforschung
Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Email: diehblfg at sp.zrz.TU-Berlin.de

1. AIMS OF THE LIST

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, not least in order to overcome the
usual emphasis in nationalism scholarship on the period around 1800 as
a caesura. 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.

One of the chief objectives of the list is to increase communication
among scholars in the various disciplines who treat issues of "Gender
and Nations/Nationalism" in order to facilitate discussion across
disciplinary borders. A common point of departure could be an
understanding of "gender" and "nation" as constructed and contested
relational systems of cultural and social meanings. Together, the two
systems not only shape the political national culture in historically
specific ways, but also legitimate and limit the access of (groups of)
people - women and men - to national movements as well as to the
resources of nation-states.

Our other main objective is to intensify exchange among scholars
working in this field in the various European regions, not least in the
hope of inspiring more comparative projects in the years to come. A
comparative view, the perception of the nation from inside and outside
perspectives is, after all, extraordinarily productive. The central
phenomenon of inclusion in and exclusion from the socially and
culturally constructed nation did not function solely via the drawing
of internal boundaries (of class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and
culture in the broadest sense), but also decisively via the drawing of
external boundaries - to neighboring peoples or states and to 'alien
peoples' in the conquered colonies. In short, the image of one's 'own
nation' was formed with respect to inside and outside by means of
counter-images  or negative images of the 'Other' and the 'Alien'.

For more information:

Email: fng-l at zrz.tu-berlin.de
Internet: http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/ZIFG
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Date:     Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:24:41 -0500
From:     Sharon Abbey <sabbey at ED.BROCKU.CA>
Subject:  Call for Papers - Mothers & Education

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) presents

The Third Annual International Conference
Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario Canada L2S 3A1

Mothers and Education: Issues and Directions for Maternal Pedagogy

October 1st - 3rd, 1999

~ Featured Speakers / Authors ~

Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life and Peripheral Visions
Jane Roland Martin, The Schoolhome: Schools for Changing Families
Valerie Polakow, Single Mothers and Children in the Other America
Shireen Dodson, The Mother Daughter Book Club
Miriam David, Gender Equity and Schooling
Jane Gaskell, Gender Matters from School to Work
Lisa Goldstein, Teaching with Love:  Feminist Early Childhood Education
Katherine Arnup, Lesbian Parenting and Education for Motherhood
Judith Arcana, Every Mothers Son and Our Mothers Daughters
Babette Smith, Mothers and Sons
Jacqueline Haessly, Practical Peacemaking for Families
Dorothy Smith, The Everyday World as Problematic

Proposals are now being accepted for papers, workshops, roundtables,
panels, performances and media displays examining interdisciplinary issues
related to mothers and education. Participants are invited to explore the
challenges women face today as they seek more empowering images of
motherhood and active roles as change agents related to schooling,
learning and pedagogy and with particular emphasis on differences of
culture, race, class, ability or sexuality.

Educators, theorists, teachers, administrators, politicians and community
members working in areas of child-care, teaching, humanities, sociology,
psychology, history, law and policy, culture and media, arts and
literature, health and care-giving might consider the following topics:
coping with multiple roles of career, mothers and schooling; mothering
special needs children; intergenerational connections; home-schooling;
mothers as mentors; educating teen mothers; mothers roles in schools;
school violence and peace education; home/school barriers; body image and
health related curriculum; and rage, guilt and silence.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS    is MARCH 22, 1999.  Please send two copies of a
proposal (3 page maximum) along with complete mailing address, phone, fax,
e-mail and type of session to Dr. Sharon Abbey, Mothers and Education
Conference, Faculty of Education, Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Canada L2S 3A1. For more information please phone (905) 688-5550 ext.
3349, fax (905) 684-4638, or email mothers at ed.brocku.ca

REGISTRATION FORMS will be sent with acceptance (by April 30, 1999) or
upon request.  Full conference fee (Canadian dollars) includes Friday
night reception, $25.00 ARM membership and annual ARM journal subscription
as well as admission to all sessions.  A limited number of one-day passes
and speakers luncheon tickets are also available.  Graduate students,
local school board teachers, other interested community members and
seniors are eligible for a special discount rate.

Full conference member $125.00  non-member $150.00  Discount $70.00
Earlybird (by May 30)   110.00              135.00             55.00
Saturday only             45.00             55.00             25.00
Speakers Lunch          30.00                 30.00             30.00

* All conference presenters must be members of ARM.  For ARM membership
information only contact Andrea OReilly at  Ph.(416)736-2100, Fax (416)
736-5416, or e-mail arm at yorku.ca   * Hotel reservations can be made by
calling Embassy Suites-Niagara at (905) 984-8484.  * Airport pick-up will
be arranged to and from Toronto and Buffalo.
* Direct all other conference inquiries to Dr. Sharon Abbey at (905)
688-5550 ext. 3349.

Sharon M. Abbey
Faculty of Education,
Brock University,
St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1.
(905) 688-5550 ext. 3349
sabbey at ed.brocku.ca

"Take the time to 'be' who you have become!"
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