Dear Colleagues,
As we all know, granting historical agency to marginalized people was one of the driving forces behind the origins and evolution of the field of oral history. Oral history makes space in the archive for otherwise silenced voices. Oral history also makes space for divergent accounts of who drives historical change. Agency is at the heart of the oral history interview and analysis of it.
ComFor 2020 Goes Online | Verlängerte Deadline
Die 15. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor) möchte versuchen, über den Begriff der medialen ‚Handlungsmacht‘ bzw. ‚Handlungsinitiative‘ (Agency) einen Dialog zwischen den verschiedenen disziplinären Zugängen zum Medium Comic und verwandten populären narrativen Bildern (etwa Mangas, Graphic Novels oder Cartoons) herzustellen. Zu diesem Zweck sollen bspw.
Call for abstracts for a special issue of China Perspectives/Perspectives chinoises "Agency in an Era of Multiplication of Labour Regimes in 21st-Century China" (Chris K.C. Chan, CUHK; Eric Florence, The University of Liege; and Jack Linchuan Qiu , CUHK), feel free to circulate widely. Deadline for abstracts:15 February 2020.
We invite proposals for papers for the international conference ‘The Drama of Obedience, 1700-1900’, to be held at the University of Calgary on April 3-4, 2020 (keynote speakers: Norbert Bachleitner and Romana Weiershausen).
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Enlightenment
Editor: Adriana Benzaquén
Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History
Jahrgang/Volume 15 (2018)
Heft 3: Flucht als Handlungszusammenhang
Issue 3: Flight and Migration: Actors, Actions, Contexts
https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/3-2018
Herausgeberinnen dieses Hefts/Editors of this issue:
Bettina Severin-Barboutie/Nikola Tietze
CFP: Genres of Obedience
Special Issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies
Edited by Martin Wagner (University of Calgary) and Elystan Griffiths (University of Birmingham)
