Announcements

Authors needed: online encyclopedia of women’s suffrage in the us

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, is compiling a state-by-state database of women involved in the National American Woman Suffrage Association for its Online Encyclopedia of Women’s Suffrage in the U.S. So far, the encyclopedia includes National Woman’s Party activists and Black women activists. WASM hopes to add NAWSA members by mid-2018.

In Pennsylvania, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania is organizing this effort. We seek graduate students, independent scholars, and academics to research and write 500-word biographical sketches of seventy-five Pennsylvania activists. We are particularly interested in college and university instructors who wish to assign biographical sketches to classes of advanced undergraduate students. HSP’s collections include information on almost all of the women involved, and we are happy to direct authors to these resources. However, additional research will be required in many cases.

For questions or to volunteer, please contact Pennsylvania co-coordinators Christina Larocco, editor and scholarly programs manager (clarocco@hsp.org or 215-732-6200 x208), or Alicia Parks, education manager (aparks@hsp.org or 215-732-6200 x269).

New publication: river chronicles

The Waterfront Heritage and Archaeology Museum has launched an annual publication, River Chronicles: The Journal of Philadelphia Waterfront Heritage and Archaeology. Content relates to the history of the Philadelphia waterfront. The Museum came about as a direct result of ongoing I-95 corridor excavations. The journal is available in print and online at http://www.riverchronicles.com.

Society of architectural historians 2017 annual international conference

The Society of Architectural Historians will host its 70th Annual International Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, June 7–11, 2017. Meeting in Glasgow reflects the increasingly international focus of the Society and its conference, and we hope SAH members from all over the world will join us in Scotland’s largest city, world renowned for its outstanding architectural heritage. This is the first time that SAH has met outside North America since 1973, when it planned a joint meeting in Cambridge with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. The Glasgow conference will include thirty-seven sessions and draw architectural historians, art historians, architects, museum professionals, and preservationists from around the world together to present new research on the history of the built environment. More info: http://www.sah.org/2017.

The feminine mystic: american prophetesses and the politics of religious experience june 9-11, 2017, bard college and the shaker museum mount lebanon

Marking the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State in 1917, The Feminine Mystic is an interdisciplinary conference exploring the significance of women’s religious authority in American political and cultural contexts from the early republic through the long nineteenth century. Special consideration will be given to the Shakers’ celibacy and gender separation in relation to their efforts to establish women’s authority from their landing in New York from Manchester in 1774. The Shaker experience illuminates the troubled, contingent, and fundamentally disunified idea of an American union in contour and counterpoint, and in prologue to the nineteenth-century heterodoxies of Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen White, Helena Blavatsky, and other women whose political agency took forms of ecstatic prophecy, alternative theology, and visionary epistemology. Diverse in doctrine, these women align in their similar relation to structures of power and strategies for critiquing those structures. For more information contact kboswell@ simons-rock.edu.

Ongoing call for papers: journal of homosexuality

Now in its 63rd volume year, the Journal of Homosexuality (JH), a landmark international peer-reviewed scholarly journal in sexuality studies, welcomes submissions from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. While the majority of articles published in the JH have traditionally focused on empirically based social scientific topics, JH welcomes on an ongoing basis submissions from such fields as art, art history, performing arts, visual arts, classics, cultural studies, education, ethnic studies, geography, history, international relations, journalism, language and literature, philosophy, political science, queer studies, and women and gender studies. For more information contact caitlin.sheeder-borrelli@taylorandfrancis.com.

Battle of homestead foundation

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