[Grad_history_students] FW: Northwestern Call for Papers--Histories of the Family: Intersections Between Public and Private Life

[Foster, Tom]

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Subject: FW: Northwestern Call for Papers--Histories of the Family:
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From: terichettiar at gmail.com [mailto:terichettiar at gmail.com] On Behalf
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Subject: Northwestern Call for Papers--Histories of the Family:
Intersections Between Public and Private Life

 

Good morning, 

 

Could you please circulate this call for papers for an upcoming
conference at Northwestern among your graduate students? 

 

Many thanks, 

Teri Chettiar, CHS Graduate Fellow, Northwestern University

                   

 

                           Nicholas D. Chabraja CENTER FOR HISTORICAL
STUDIES

at Northwestern University -
http://www.historicalstudies.northwestern.edu/
<http://www.historicalstudies.northwestern.edu/index.htm> 

 

Call for Papers: CCHS invites submissions to the graduate student
conference

  "Histories of the Family: Intersections Between Public and Private
Life"
to be held Friday, JUNE 1, 2012 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the 
Leopold Room (Harris Hall 108), 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston campus

Keynote speaker Professor Deborah Coen (Columbia University), author of
Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism and Private Life
(University of Chicago, 2007), with commentary from Professor Durba
Ghosh (Cornell University), author of Sex and the Family in Colonial
India: The Making of Empire (Cambridge UP, 2006)-convener: Teri
Chettiar, CCHS Graduate Fellow

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. 

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: 

*       historical intersections between politics, society, and "private
life"

*       histories of gender and sexuality

*       histories of science, medicine and technology

*       social and cultural histories of religion and processes of
secularization

*       urban histories and the development of suburbs

*       historical studies of kinship in non-western contexts

*       histories of global migration

*       histories of modern politics (including the late-twentieth
century emergence of political controversies surrounding "family
values")

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?  

Interested applicants should submit a one-page paper proposal and CV by
Friday, February 10 at 12 noon via email to: 
terichettiar2011 at u.northwestern.edu. A faculty committee will select
conference participants.

Final papers of 10-12 pages (including notes) will be due Friday, May 18
at 12:00 noon.
For further information or questions, please contact Teri Chettiar, CCHS
Graduate Fellow, terichettiar2011 at u.northwestern.edu.

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