11.-13.3.04)
Date: 08 Oct 2003

The Programming Committee for the Fifth Annual Graduate Symposium on
Women's and Gender History, a multi-disciplinary conference at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, announces a Call for Papers.

To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and
gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any
institution or discipline on any topic in women's or gender history. The
Symposium, which is part of activities on campus in recognition of
Women's History Month, is scheduled for March 11-13, 2004. We are
pleased to announce that Thomas Laqueur, Professor of History at the
University of California, Berkeley, will give the keynote address
entitled "Solitary Sex and the Question of Gender." We are also thrilled
to announce that the journal Gender & History will again be sponsoring a
prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the WGHS. The
Gender & History Graduate Student Essay Prize of 2004 will be awarded on
March 11th, after the keynote address.

We welcome papers on any historical subject that might grow out of a
variety of disciplines and engage an equal diversity of methodologies
and topics. We also welcome panel submissions, which should include
three papers united by a common theme or geographical/chronological
focus, although each of the three papers will be judged on its
individual merit. In addition, we encourage panels analyzing the state
of the field in women's and gender history and panels that deal with the
intersections of gender, race, and class. Presenters at the conference
will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line
proceedings volume. Preference will be given to scholars who did not
present a paper at last year's Fourth Annual Graduate Symposium on
Women's and Gender History. We also invite graduate students to serve as
commentators and professors to act as chairs for panels.

Please send 5 copies of a two-page abstract, together with a one-page
curriculum vitae, to the Programming Committee mailbox at the address
below. All submissions must be postmarked by November 10, 2003. We
regret that we cannot accept any submissions over e-mail at this time.
For information about the symposium, please visit our website at
www.history.uiuc.edu/wghs, or contact Christine Varga-Harris at
gendersympuiuc.edu. If you are interested in being a chair or a
commentator, you may also contact Christine Varga-Harris at
gendersympuiuc.edu.

We encourage a broad representation from diverse communities in our
participants.

Please send submissions to:

Programming Committee
Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
309 Gregory Hall, MC-466
810 South Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801