The Seventh Annual Graduate Symposium
on Women's and Gender History

" M O B I L I T Y "

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 9-11, 2006

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2005

The Executive Committee of the Seventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and
Gender History at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announces a call for papers. The
Symposium, which is
part of activities on campus in recognition of Women's History Month, is
scheduled for March 9-11,
2006. 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
topics in women's and
gender history that address the theme of "Mobility." Papers or panels may
address, but should not be
limited to the following:

- Performativity and the Body
- Cosmopolitanisms
- Boundaries and Restraints: Material and Imagined
- Intra- and Trans-national flows of goods and ideas
- Social Mobility
- The Construction and Experience of Public and Private Spaces
- Globalization and Feminist Theory

We welcome papers on any historical subject that might grow out of a variety of
disciplines and
engage diverse methodologies. We also invite panel submissions consisting of
three papers, although
each of the three papers will be judged on its individual merit. In addition,
we encourage papers
and panels analyzing the state of the field in women's and gender history.
Preference will be given
to scholars who did not present a paper at last year's Sixth Annual Graduate
Symposium on Women's
and Gender History.

We are pleased to announce that Jennifer L. Morgan, Associate Professor of
History and Women's and
Gender Studies at Rutgers and author of Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender
in New World Slavery
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) will deliver the keynote address on
Thursday, March 9th.

Presenters at the conference will have the opportunity to publish their work in
the on-line
proceedings volume. We have limited funds available to assist with the cost of
travel for presenters
who have limited conference experience. These funds will be allocated based on
the quality of the
proposal and the distance to be traveled.

All submissions must be received by November 1, 2005.

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies
of a 250-word abstract
AND a one-page curriculum vitae for EACH paper presenter, commentator, or panel
chair to:

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

To submit a paper or panel by email, please send ONLY ONE attachment in Word
format containing all
abstracts and curriculum vitae. The subject line of the email must read "Attn:
Programming
Committee" and should be sent to gendersympuiuc.edu. We cannot be responsible
for submissions that
do not meet these conditions.

Panel submissions are highly encouraged to find chairs and commentators best
suited to comment on
the work presented and should include a one-paragraph description of the panel
as well as curriculum
vitae for all participants including the commentator and/or chair.

We also invite graduate students to serve as commentators and professors to
serve as chairs for
panels. These individuals should submit curriculum vitae to gendersympuiuc.edu
with the subject
line: Attn: Programming Committee.

For more information:

Please contact Programming Committee Chair James Warren at
gendersympuiuc.edu
Visit our website at http://www.history.uiuc.edu/hist%20grad%
20orgs/WGHS/index.htm