Announcements

Announcements The Journal has received the foUowing announcements and caUs for papers. Requests for inclusion in future issues should be limited to 100 words and sent to: Managing Editor, JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY , c/o Department of History, Ballantine HaU 742, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. Such announcements wül appear in only two issues. Barbara Gates and Ann B. Shteir are seeking essays about European or EngUsh-speaking women popularizers of science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for possible indusion in a forthcoming volume. The essays should address questions of authorship and readership. Completed essays should foUow MLA style. Send inquiries or completed essays and a vita to either: Barbara T. Gates, Dept. of EngUsh, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 (BGATES@BRAHMS.UDEL.EDU); or Ann B. Shteir, Dept. of Humanities, York University, 4700 Keele St., North York, Ontario, Canada M3J1P3 (RSHTEIR@VM2.YORKU.CA). Deadline is Dec. 31,1992. The University of Waterloo wül host a conference on "Women and Texts in Pre-Revolutionary France", May 7-9,1993, focusing on questions related to the subject of French women as producers of texts in pre-Revolutionary France. Papers are invited on women as producers of texts, the reception of texts by women, problems in the retrieval and editing of early texts, canon and genre as problematic to women writers, and "écriture férninine" in early works. Send one-page abstracts by Sept. 15 to: Hannah Founder or Jean-Phitippe BeauUeu, MARGOT Project, Dept. of French, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3Gl. Phone: (519) 885-1211 ext. 2249 or 3554. The seventh annual Midwest Feminist Graduate Student Conference wül take place Feb. 12-14,1993, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. This interdiscipUnary, cross-cultural conference is by and for graduate students. Sessions are designed for African-American, Euro-American, and ThirdWorld feminists. Suggested topics include cyborgian identity, issues of the subaltern, post-coloniaUsm, and feminist theories indusive of cross-cultural issues. Send one-page absträds or queries to: MFGSC, c/o Women's Studies Program, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43402. Telephone: (419) 372-8261. Deadline is Oct. 15,1992. The Center for the Study of the American South announces a new quarterly pubUcation, Southern Cultures, to be pubUshed by Duke University Press. 250 JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY FALL The journal wül include folk, popular, and high culture of the South, emphasizing both commonaUties and conflict between dominant and alternative cultures in the South. For information or to submit a manuscript , contact: Aleda Holand, Managing Editor, Southern Cultures, IRSS, University of North Carolina, Chapel HUl, NC 27599-3355. Plans are underway for a second Women's Forum, "From Problems to Strategy," Dec. 11-13,1992, in the former Soviet Union. The participation of Western feminists willing to work as consultants, trainers, and mediators is welcome. Location to be announced. Contact: Second Women's Forum Coordinating Committee, 117218, Moscow, Kraisikova 27, Institute of Socioeconomic Population Studies, Center for Gender Studies. Ask for Lena Kochkina, Lena Dmitrieva, Zoya Khotkina, Tatyana Klemenkova, or Anastasia Posadskya. Telephone: (095) 124 61 85. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission is initiating a scholars-in-residence program, beginning in May 1993, to promote the interpretation of Pennsylvania history, to encourage research drawing on the commission's documentary and material resources, and to develop relationships between scholars and commission staff. Awards wül be for a period of four to twelve consecutive weeks, between May 1993 and April 1994, at the rate of $1200 per month. For further information, contact: Division of History, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Box 1026, Harrisburg, PA 17108. Telephone: (717) 787-3034. AppUcation deadline is Jan. 23,1993. Announcing a caU for papers for a coUection entitled Nexus: Writings on Location, an interdisdplinary anthology drawing on the "new subjectivity" or personal, narrative, or autobiographical critidsm across a range of disdplines. Each critical/theoretical/autobiographical essay is to focus on the relation of the writer's "location" or nexus of identities to specific texts or current theoretical issues in one's disdpUne. Contad: OUvia Frey, Dept. of EngUsh, St. Olaf CoUege, Northfield, MN 55057. Deadline is Feb. 15, 1993...