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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fyi below and attached. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thomas A. Foster<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Associate Professor and Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Department of History, SAC 422<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>DePaul University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>2320 N. Kenmore Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Chicago IL 60614<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>http://las.depaul.edu/history/People/Faculty/Foster.asp<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>office: 773 325-4169<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>fax: 773 325-4764<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>To receive updates about department courses and events click here: http://eepurl.com/ij8Sg <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Twitter @DePaulHistory <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.facebook.com/depaulhistory<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> history <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> Foster, Tom<br><b>Subject:</b> FW: Northwestern Call for Papers--Histories of the Family: Intersections Between Public and Private Life<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> terichettiar@gmail.com [mailto:terichettiar@gmail.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Teri Chettiar<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 27, 2012 10:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> history@uchicago.edu; history; jsearing@uic.edu; pclemen@luc.edu; history@marquette.edu; history@nd.edu; historyinfo@lists.wisc.edu; histgrad@lists.uchicago.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Northwestern Call for Papers--Histories of the Family: Intersections Between Public and Private Life<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Good morning, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Could you please circulate this call for papers for an upcoming conference at Northwestern among your graduate students? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Many thanks, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Teri Chettiar, CHS Graduate Fellow, Northwestern University</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'> Nicholas D. Chabraja CENTER FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>at Northwestern University —</span><a href="http://www.historicalstudies.northwestern.edu/index.htm" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.historicalstudies.northwestern.edu/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Call for Papers: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CCHS invites submissions to the graduate student conference</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:center'><a name="1352012bc939d5eb__GoBack"></a><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>“Histories of the Family: Intersections Between Public and Private Life”<br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>to be held<b> <span style='color:blue'>Friday, JUNE 1, 2012</span> </b>from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the <br>Leopold Room (Harris Hall 108), 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston campus</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Keynote speaker Professor <b>Deborah Coen </b>(Columbia University), author of <i>Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism and Private Life</i> (University of Chicago, 2007), with commentary from Professor <b>Durba Ghosh </b>(Cornell University), author of <i>Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire</i> (Cambridge UP, 2006)—convener: <b><span style='color:#222222'>Teri Chettiar</span></b>, CCHS Graduate Fellow</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In recent decades, historical considerations of changes in the nature and constitution of families and family life have opened up new ways of thinking about the relationship between private and public life. Histories of the family bring new perspective to a host of important issues, including the changing social and cultural meaning of parenthood and childhood; the relationship between changes in the constitution of family life and perceptions of national decline; intersections between debates over marginalized sexualities and public anxieties over family “breakdown”; conflict between state services and ideas of family responsibility for the care of vulnerable individuals, such as children, the disabled, and the elderly; the role of the family in bringing legitimacy to colonial rule; as well as the relationship between changes in family life and changing patterns of consumption and expectations about standard of living. It has become increasingly accepted that families, family life, and family practices are intimately connected to a wide array of social, economic, cultural and political fields of inquiry. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This conference serves as forum for investigating the important insights which historical studies of the family bring to a diverse range of historical fields, including, but not limited to: </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>historical intersections between politics, society, and “private life”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>histories of gender and sexuality</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>histories of science, medicine and technology</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>social and cultural histories of religion and processes of secularization</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>urban histories and the development of suburbs</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>historical studies of kinship in non-western contexts</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>histories of global migration</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>histories of modern politics (including the late-twentieth century emergence of political controversies surrounding “family values”)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To what extent have changes in families and family life been motivated by, and in turn impacted, economic, political, social, intellectual and cultural factors seemingly lying far beyond the reach of the private sphere of the family? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Interested applicants should submit a one-page paper proposal and CV by</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <b><span style='color:#C00000;background:white'>Friday, February 10 at 12 noon</span></b><span style='color:#C00000'> </span><span style='background:white'>via email to: </span><a href="mailto:terichettiar2011@u.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">terichettiar2011@u.northwestern.edu</a><span style='background:white'>. A faculty committee will select conference participants.</span><br><br><b><span style='background:white'>Final papers</span></b><span style='background:white'> of 10-12 pages (including notes) will be due <b>Friday, May 18</b> at 12:00 noon.</span><br><span style='background:white'>For further information or questions, please contact</span> <span style='color:#222222'>Teri Chettiar</span><span style='background:white'>, CCHS Graduate Fellow,</span> <a href="mailto:terichettiar2011@u.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">terichettiar2011@u.northwestern.edu</a><span style='background:white'>.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>