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The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women supports and sustains scholarship via a variety of venues: sponsoring sessions at a number of professional meetings; offering grants for graduate travel and prizes for best essays authored by graduate students; recognizing outstanding work in the field with awards. Other professional opportunities for scholars in the field--calls for submissions to volume series and tojournals, and links to calls for papers--are included here as well.

Members are invited to organize sponsored sessions in consultation with the current vice president, Anne J. Cruz. Deadlines listed are for submission to the vice president; these deadlines generally precede those indicated by the professional organizations by two weeks, to allow the vice president to complete the paperwork that accompanies these submissions. Send proposals via email to ajcruz(at)miami.edu.

• American Historical Association January 7-10, 2010 (deadline: January 20, 2009; also contact Amy Froide, froide(at)umbc.edu. SSEMW AHA cfp)
• College Art Association February 2010 (deadline: 15 June 2009; also contact Allison Levy, alevy(at)wheatonma.edu)
• International Congress on Medieval Studies May 2011 (deadline: 1 September 2010; also contact Margaret Hannay)
• North American Conference on British Studies November 2009 (deadline: 30 January 2009; also contact Amy Froide, froide(at)umbc.edu)
• Modern Language Association December 2009 (deadline: 1 March 2009. MLA cfp)
• Renaissance Society of America April 2010 (deadline: 20 April 2009)
• Sixteenth Century Studies May 2009 (deadline: November 15, 2008)
• South Central Renaissance Conference March 2010 (deadline: November 1, 2009; also contact Carole Levin)

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women has a limited number of travel grants available for graduate students wishing to attend its annual business meeting. In 2009, SSEMW holds its annual business meeting at the Attending to Early Modern Women symposium. Applications for this award are available here. Evaluation criteria are available here. For best consideration, submit your request by May 1, 2009.

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women requests nominations for its 2009 Awards. Any work that focuses on women and gender in the early modern period (1450-1750) is eligible. To nominate a work published in 2007 for the 2008 awards, please submit 3 copies of the work by 1 May 2009 to the chair of the EMW Awards Committee, to be announced shortly.

The Society now sponsors a prize each year for best graduate essay. Information about the Ashgate Prize for an Outstanding Paper by a Graduate Student is available here.

Ashgate makes its publications available to to SSEMW members at a discounted rate of 20%. Additional details along with a list of publications are available here. Ashgate authors, editors, and contributors are reminded that they are eligible for a discount of 35%. Posted May 2009 by E. Gaffney.

Journal Call for Papers, posted 5 March 2009, by J. Donawerth, A. Seeff, and D. Wolfthal. The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, invite the submission of essays related to women and gender covering the years 1400 to 1700, and encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary boundaries. For additional information, see the journal's website: www.emwjournal.umd.edu

Call for Volumes for Two Series from Ashgate, posted September 2008 by E. Gaffney. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Series Editor: Alison Levy. Seeks innovative investigations of western and non-western visual culture produced between 1400 and 1800. For additional information, click here. Transculturalisms, 1400-1800. Series Editors: Ann Rosalind Jones, Jyotsna G. Singh, Mihoko Suzuki. This series will present studies of the early modern contacts and exchanges among the states, polities and entrepreneurial organizations of Europe; Asia, including the Levant and East India/Indies; Africa; and the Americas.For additional information, click here.

Journal Call for Papers, posted 16 Oct. 2008 by M. Suzuki
Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, seeks article submissions of interdisciplinary research in literatures
of any nation or historical period with a special emphasis on literature as informed by historical understandings and historical writing considered as literature. Please see Clio's website (http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/clio.html) for submission guidelines.

Journal Call for Papers, posted 15 Oct. 2007 by N. Guttierez.
Quidditas, the journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, invites submissions of scholarly articles written in English on all matters pertaining to medieval and Renaissance subjects for our twenty-fourth volume. Scholars should send an original, unpublished typescript and four copies of their article to: Professor Sharon A. Beehler, Editor, Quidditas, Department of English, Wilson Hall 2-176, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717-2300. Address email inquiries to Sharon Beehler at <sbeehler@english.montana.edu>

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