Call for paper 2024
− Participation in a thematic, international peer review publication
The thematic focus of the planned volume is on the place and role of women in the production of knowledge in the Habsburg Monarchy from the 16th to the 19th centuries in various areas of everyday life (as healers, maids, craftswomen, educators, collectors of books and art treasures, etc.). In reconstructing the inner entanglement between specific women’s activities and the production of knowledge, in addition to the use of conventional textual sources, we place particular emphasis on visual and material sources, whose social, concrete and symbolic function and meaning, their identity-forming character, are decisive for the processes of appropriation and social embedding of certain forms of female knowledge. The volume, based on a common research question and the use of text-image-subject focussed sources, can lead to an important methodological innovation and at the same time to the exploration of new, hitherto unknown or little known contexts in the field of female knowledge cultures and the place and role of women’s activities in knowledge production.
Registration
Please send a short summary (10−15 lines) in Hungarian, English or German to the e-mail address womenkult@gmail.com Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 January 2025 Deadline for submission of completed manuscripts of 40−50,000 characters (including spaces): 1 September 2025 The papers can be submitted in German or English. (The editors will take care of the nativelanguage proofreading of the texts).