Not, I think, one for me - I am large, I contain multitudes, I contradict myself
Call for Papers: Feminism, Blogging, and the Historical Profession
Journal of Women’s History
The Journal of Women’s History invites submissions for a roundtable on the
emergence of blogging as a location for critical thought among women in
the historical profession; historians of women, gender, and sexuality; and
feminist scholars who may, or may not be, historians. Participants may
wish to address one or more of the following questions in an abstract of
no more than 250 words: What role does self-publishing on the internet
play in a profession where merit is defined by scholarly review and a
rigorous editorial process? What are the intellectual benefits, and/or
costs, of blogging? What are the ethics and consequences of blogging
under a pseudonym? What kinds of electronic acknowledgement already
correlate with established scholarly practices; which can be discarded;
and which need to be attended to, perhaps more rigorously than in printed
publications? If many scholarly publications and organizations have
already adopted blogs as a way of spreading news and inviting
conversation, is blogging itself developing rules and practices that will
inevitably produce intellectual and scholarly hierarchies similar to those
that blogging seeks to dismantle? Does feminist blogging offer particular
opportunities for enhanced conversation about race, sexuality, class, and
national paradigms, or does it tend to reproduce existing scholarly
paradigms and silences within feminist scholarship? Finally, are new
forms of colleagueship and scholarship emerging in the blogosphere?
The roundtable will consist of a short introduction, several essays of
2,000 to 3,000 words, and a concluding comment/response. Abstracts should
arrive no later than July 15, 2009, and can be submitted electronically to
Claire Potter at tenured.radical@gmail.com. Final submissions are due
October 1, 2009. Pseudonymous bloggers may publish under their
pseudonyms, but must be willing to reveal their identities to the editor
of the roundtable and the commenter. Bloggers based outside the United
States are particularly encouraged to contribute.
I feel that this is another of those attempts to grasp blogging that puts 'bloggers' into neat categories and their blogs ditto, just like the whole 'where are the feminist bloggers' thing.
Me, personally, myself, I feel that I am a blogger who happens to be a historian and scholar, rather than a historian or scholarly blogger. This may be a particularly LJ thing, but is surely far from unique and idiosyncratic.
I post about history and about research, but that's just part of what I write about here, and I don't feel any particular urge to hive off MI SRS HISTORIKL THORTS LET ME SHOW U THEM somewhere else (because anything of that nature is probably going to end up as a conference paper or article or chapter anyway, or if not, stuck on my website, the last refuge of stuff that doesn't readily fit into a publishable category).
But there maybe are people for whom this roundtable might be a useful and interesting venue
Journal of Women’s History
The Journal of Women’s History invites submissions for a roundtable on the
emergence of blogging as a location for critical thought among women in
the historical profession; historians of women, gender, and sexuality; and
feminist scholars who may, or may not be, historians. Participants may
wish to address one or more of the following questions in an abstract of
no more than 250 words: What role does self-publishing on the internet
play in a profession where merit is defined by scholarly review and a
rigorous editorial process? What are the intellectual benefits, and/or
costs, of blogging? What are the ethics and consequences of blogging
under a pseudonym? What kinds of electronic acknowledgement already
correlate with established scholarly practices; which can be discarded;
and which need to be attended to, perhaps more rigorously than in printed
publications? If many scholarly publications and organizations have
already adopted blogs as a way of spreading news and inviting
conversation, is blogging itself developing rules and practices that will
inevitably produce intellectual and scholarly hierarchies similar to those
that blogging seeks to dismantle? Does feminist blogging offer particular
opportunities for enhanced conversation about race, sexuality, class, and
national paradigms, or does it tend to reproduce existing scholarly
paradigms and silences within feminist scholarship? Finally, are new
forms of colleagueship and scholarship emerging in the blogosphere?
The roundtable will consist of a short introduction, several essays of
2,000 to 3,000 words, and a concluding comment/response. Abstracts should
arrive no later than July 15, 2009, and can be submitted electronically to
Claire Potter at tenured.radical@gmail.com. Final submissions are due
October 1, 2009. Pseudonymous bloggers may publish under their
pseudonyms, but must be willing to reveal their identities to the editor
of the roundtable and the commenter. Bloggers based outside the United
States are particularly encouraged to contribute.
I feel that this is another of those attempts to grasp blogging that puts 'bloggers' into neat categories and their blogs ditto, just like the whole 'where are the feminist bloggers' thing.
Me, personally, myself, I feel that I am a blogger who happens to be a historian and scholar, rather than a historian or scholarly blogger. This may be a particularly LJ thing, but is surely far from unique and idiosyncratic.
I post about history and about research, but that's just part of what I write about here, and I don't feel any particular urge to hive off MI SRS HISTORIKL THORTS LET ME SHOW U THEM somewhere else (because anything of that nature is probably going to end up as a conference paper or article or chapter anyway, or if not, stuck on my website, the last refuge of stuff that doesn't readily fit into a publishable category).
But there maybe are people for whom this roundtable might be a useful and interesting venue