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Announcements The Journal has received the following announcements and calls for papers. Requests for inclusion in future issues should be received 9 months before the deadline of the event (to ensure timely publication of posting and allow adequate time for applicants to respond). Send all announcements to: Managing Editor, Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, 106 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17* Avenue, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1367 U.S.A. The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites proposals for panels and single papers on the theme, "Labor, Past and Present," for the meeting to be held 15-17 October 1998, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Comparative and interdisciplinary panels are particularly welcome as are topical sessions that intersect with race, ethnicity, and gender. Roundtable and workshop sessions will be considered, as will panels devoted to historiographical and/or theoretical approaches. Please submit panel and paper proposals (including a 1-2 page paper abstract and c.v. for all participants) by 1 March 1998 to: Elizabeth Faue, Coordinator, North American Labor History Conference, Department of History, CoUege of Liberal Arts, 3094 Faculty/Administration Building, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 48202 U.S.A. Phone: 313-577-3330. The next Biennial Australian Historical Association Conference will be held 5-10 July 1998 at the University of Sydney. The conference wiU incorporate a wide range of themes and subject matter and the conveners are currently seeking offers of papers. We wish to promote discussion, across eras and areas, about the theory and practice of history at the present time. We particularly encourage papers that consider the implications for the profession of recent theoretical developments in related fields, and of history-making in different forms by the wider community. Specialist papers on gender, postcolonialism, and memory are welcomed. Specific themes such as the history of medicine and the role of the historian m the public culture will be developed at a later stage. Please forward offers of papers with 100-word abstracts by 28 November 1997 to: Dr. Penny Russell, AHA Convener, Department of History, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA. Fax: 9351-3918; e-mail: . 248 Journal of Women's History Autumn Submissions are invited for a special issue of Gender & History to be published in 1998 on the theme Feminisms and Internationalism. The editors for the special issue seek essays that address the theme of the history of internationaUsm in feminist theory and praxis, possibly including the foUowing topics: the ways in which "internationalism" has been conceived historically within feminism and women's movements; the nature of and historical shifts within "imperial" feminisms; changes in the meaning of feminist internationalism both preceding and following the end of most formal empires in the twentieth century; the challenges to, and reformulations of, internationalism within countries; the fragmentation of internationalism in response to a growing emphasis on local over global contexts of struggle, as well as on a variety of different feminisms within feminisms and women's movements as a result of the new modes of globalization in the late twentieth century. Essays should be approximately 9,000 words in length. To submit a manuscript, send 3 copies plus an abstract and a separate title page with name, address, and contact information. Other detaUs of form and style for submitted manuscripts may be found in Gender & History. Deadline for submissions is 15 December 1997. Manuscripts may be sent to Mrinalini Sinha, North American Co-Editor, Gender & History, Department of History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4519 U.S.A.; phone: 618-453-4391; fax: 618-453-5440; e-mail: or to Donna J. Guy, Special Issue Guest Co-Editor, Department of History, University of Arizona, Social Science Building, Tucson, AZ 85721 U.S.A; phone: 520-621-1586; fax: 520-293-2635; e-mail: . Researchers on United States national politics, government, or related topics—especially in the 1970s—may apply for travel grants for up to US$2000 to use the Gerald R. Ford Library collections. Deadlines are 15 March and 15 September of each year. For collections advice and grant information contact: Geir Gunderson, Grants Coordinator, 1000 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor...