Job Opportunity
Assistant Professor - Feminist & African Studies - 0800817 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Job Field: Tenure Stream
Faculty / Division: Faculty of Arts and Science
Department: Women and Gender Studies Institute
Campus: St. George (downtown Toronto)
Closing Date: 01/Nov/08
Description
The Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) and the Program in African Studies at New College, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto, invite applications for a tenure-stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July 1, 2009.
The successful candidate will have a research program and teaching experience in feminist studies with a focus on Africa. We especially encourage applications from scholars in any discipline who will enhance WGSI's strengths in transnational feminist studies and the existing African Studies Program at New College. We would welcome expertise in the following areas, but not limited to: postcolonial studies or literature; cultural production and media; migration and diasporas; economics, geography, and the politics of the region.
The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. completed or near completion in Women and Gender Studies, African Studies, or any relevant area, demonstrated potential for excellence in research and in teaching. We anticipate a teaching load equivalent to two full-year courses. The majority of the teaching and administrative responsibilities will lie in WGSI (70%), with one half course and light administrative responsibilities in the African Studies program (30%). Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Applications will be accepted online until November 1, 2008. Please go to the University of Toronto jobs pages to apply online.
We encourage you to submit your application online by clicking on the link below. Please ensure that you include a covering letter with a curriculum vitae, a writing sample, an outline of your research program, and a teaching portfolio including evaluations.
Please arrange for three letters of reference to be sent directly by the referees to the mailing address below.
If you are unable to apply online (or alternatively have large documents to send), please submit your application and other materials to:
Prof Bonnie McElhinny,
Director, Women and Gender Studies Institute, 40 Willcocks Street, New College, University ot Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1C6 CANADA
Please visit our home pages for more information about the Women and Gender Studies Institute and the New College African Studies Program.
Participants needed
Brenda Mae Woodhill, a PhD student at the University of Sydney, requires participants for her global research project on gendered behaviour. The online survey examines the topic of gender identity and takes about 20 minutes to complete. If you would like to participate please go to www.genderality.org.
Calls for Papers
Appel à communications au Colloque International - Femmes et stratégies transnationales XVIIIème-XXIème siècles, les 18, 19, 20 septembre 2008, à l'Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
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‘Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923’
Conference dates: Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 September 2008 at Hinsley Hall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Organisers: Ms Ingrid Sharp, Department of German, University of Leeds i.e.sharp@leeds.ac.uk and Dr Matthew Stibbe, Department of History, Sheffield Hallam University m.stibbe@shu.ac.uk
Following on from the publication in April 2007 of the volume A. S. Fell and I. E. Sharp (eds.) The Women’s Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-19, Palgrave Macmillan, which deals with the responses of the international women’s movement to the First World War, the focus of this conference will be on the response, experience and representation of the organised women’s movement and individual activists to the aftermath of the war in the years 1918 and 1923. The approach is broadly historical, but we would welcome proposals from a range of different disciplines, such as Cultural and Gender/Women’s Studies, English, Sociology, Modern Languages and of course History. By bringing together scholars working on organised women and individual activists in national and transnational contexts, we hope to make a distinctive and worthwhile contribution to this area of studies.
Questions considered could include:
Can we identify commonalities in the experience, representation of and response to organised women in the aftermath of war? What was the contribution of the organised women’s movement or individual activists to cultural demobilisation and social (re)integration as well as international reconciliation? What was their role in rebuilding nations in the context of the mass displacement of populations and redrawn national boundaries? How was women’s war work viewed in the aftermath of war? Were the reactions similar in ‘victorious’ nations such as France and the United Kingdom and in ‘defeated’ nations such as Germany, Austria and Hungary? Did women experience – or were women expected to accept – responsibility for men’s wartime suffering? How were gender relations renegotiated in the context of some of the unresolved conflicts during the immediate aftermath of war?
We invite contributions from scholars working on all European nations caught up in the war, either as combatants or as neutrals, and are especially keen to include chapters on nations and individual activists less widely represented in the current literature in this area. We hope that the study of the Eastern European experience and the experience within non-combatant nations will impact on our understanding of the experience of Western countries such as France, Germany and the UK. We would therefore particularly welcome proposals dealing with organised women in Russia, the Baltic States and the successor states to the Habsburg Empire, as well as in the Netherlands, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries, Italy, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey.
A key element of this project is the planned publication of a selection of papers in an edited volume (projected publication date 2010). To enhance the coherence of the volume and to ensure that authors engage with the ideas of other contributors in their chapters, a follow-up workshop is envisaged for Easter 2009 at which draft chapters will be presented and at which thematic strands will be further developed.
Contributors should seek funding from their own institution in the first instance, but it is anticipated that some support will be available for attendance at both the conference and workshop.
Please send us proposals, including working title and brief description of your paper (max. 500 words), by 15 January 2008.
Briefing Note for WUN US Partners on European Research Funding available for USA Universities. Produced by the University of Leeds European Office.
(http://europeanfeministforum.org/spip.php?article102)
ESRC/SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowships
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) are pleased to announce a fellowship for scholars from the Americas to visit and engage in collaborative activities with members of ESRC-supported projects in Britain, or for British scholars at ESRC-supported projects to visit collaborators in the Americas, between June 2007 and September 2008. Approximately eighteen research fellowships of up to $9,500 (approx. C2=A35000) will be awarded. Visit http://fellowships.ssrc.org/esrc/
