Summer Break

This will be the last post in this Blog for a few weeks as I will be away on annual leave for a short break. On my return I will be updating the range of blogs and online services offered by the Refugee Archives service here at UEL ahead of a re-launch towards the middle of September, to coincide with the start of the new academic term.

Please feel free to add any comments to this post with recommendations for anything you would like to see added to our online resources.

Best Wishes for now and enjoy the summer!

Paul Dudman
Archivist

Conference: Theoretical, Methodological and Political implications on Doing Research Among Refugees

The Identity, Performance and Social Action (IPSA) Research Project, an ESRC funded project here located here at the University of East London, have just announced a conference entitled "Theoretical, Methodological and Political implications on Doing Research Among Refugees." Prof Nira Yuval-Davis and Erene Kaptani invite you to a two day conference to celebrate the conclusion of the three year research Project Identity, Performance and Social Action: Community Theatre Among Refugees.

Day 1 – 7 March 2008
A discussion of the theoretical, methodological and political issues emanating from the research.
This will be followed by a performance by Playback South and a reception in the evening.
Venue: Oxford House, Derbyshire St, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG

Day 2 – 8 March 2008
Playback and Forum Theatre workshops in which the conference participants will be able to try out the theatre techniques used by the research project.
Venue: Room UH304 Stratford Campus, University House.

Keynote speakers will include Don Flynn, Prof Paul Heritage, Dr Phil Marfleet and Prof Margie Wetherell as well as members from the refugee organisations that the Research Project worked with. Admission is free, but places are limited.

For more information please see www.uel.ac.uk/ipsa or to book a place contact: Catherine Donaldson c.donaldson@uel.ac.uk or Tel: 020 8223 7085

Posted in: Conferences and Meetings and Gender, Sexualities & Ethnic Studies Blog.

Gender & History

Gender & History 19:3 (November 2007) is now available online. Below is the table of contents for the latest issue of Gender & History, which is now available at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/gend/19/3?ai=2ja&ui=ho4lc&af=H

Articles

The Gendered Identities of the ‘Lieutenant Nun’: Rethinking the Story of a Female Warrior in Early Modern Spain Nerea Aresti pages 401–418

Epitomising the Modern Spanish Nation through Popular Music: Coplas from La Caramba to Concha Piquer, 17501990 Mercedes Carbayo Abengózar pages 419–440

Citizenship and Female Catholic Militancy in 1920s Spain Inmaculada Blasco Herranz pages 441–466

‘Bound from Either Side’: The Limits of Power in Carolingian Marriage Disputes, 840870 Rachel Stone pages 467–482

The New Militia: War, Politics and Gender in 1750s Britain Matthew McCormack pages 483–500

Gender, Work and Fears of a ‘Hybrid Race’ in 1920s New Zealand Barbara Brookes pages 501–518

Not a Soldier, Not a Slacker: Conscientious Objectors and Male Citizenship in the United States during the Second World War Timothy Stewart-Winter pages 519–542

‘They Finally Found Out that We Really Are Men’: Violence, Non-Violence and Black Manhood in the Civil Rights Era Simon Wendt pages 543–564

Establishing Connections, Restoring Relationships: Exploring the Historiography of Nursing in Britain Helen Sweet pages 565–580

Foremothers

‘To Women in the Year 2000’: Norwegian Historians of Women, c.1900c.1960 Ida Blom pages 581–597

Book Reviews

A Companion to The Book of Margery Kempe edited by John H. Arnold and Katherine J. Lewis RAYMOND A. POWELL pages 598–599

Disease of Virgins: Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty by Helen King MARY FISSELL pages 599–600

Musical Voices of Early Modern Women: Many-Headed Melodies edited by Thomasin LaMay TIM REINKE-WILLIAMS pages 600–602

Queenship in Europe, 16601815: The Role of the Consort edited by Clarissa Campbell Orr KATHLEEN WELLMAN pages 602–604

The Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain edited by Isabelle Baudino, Jacques Carré and Cécile Révauger SHERYLLYNNE HAGGERTY pages 604–605

Famine and Fashion: Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century edited by Beth Harris ROSY AINDOW pages 605–606

Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace by Heidi J. Nast PRISCILLA E. STARRATT pages 606–607

Gender and Empire edited by Philippa Levine MYRA RUTHERDALE pages 607–609

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism by Tani E. Barlow KATRINA GULLIVER pages 609–610

Gender, Justice and Welfare: Bad Girls in Britain, 19001950 by Pamela Cox SELINA TODD pages 610–611

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson K. A. CUORDILEONE pages 611–613

Women Police: Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century by Louise Jackson JULIA ANN LAITE pages 613–614

Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain 19181960 by Kate Fisher ALYSA LEVENE pages 614–615

Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Jocelyn Olcott ANN S. BLUM pages 616–617

How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present by Alison Booth . The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography edited by Maggy Hendry and Jenny Uglow BARBARA EVANS CLEMENTS pages 617–618

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS pages 619–620

New Blog

This Blog has been designed to help support the Gender, Sexualities and Ethnic Studies Archive held at the University of East London Docklands Campus. This Blog will be developed and maintained by the Archivist, Paul Dudman, and will additionally help support the UEL postgraduate Masters Course (MA) in Gender, Sexualities & Ethnic Studies when the course is in operation.

Further details on the MA course can be found on the UEL web site at:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/programmes/ssmcs/postgraduate/gendersexualityethnic.htm