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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 and undergraduate students; recognizing outstanding work in the field withawards. 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, Katherine McIver. 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 mciver(at)uab.edu or via surface mail to Department of Art History, University of Alabama Birmingahm, 113 Humanities, 900 13th St. South, Birmingham, AL 35294.
  • 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 2008, SSEMW holds its annual business meeting at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Applications for this award are available here. Evaluation criteria are available here. For best consideration, submit your request by April 30, 2008.
  • The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women requests nominations for its 2008 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 2008 to the chair of the EMW Awards Committee, to be announced shortly.
  • The Society now sponsors prizes each year for best undergraduate and best graduate essays. Information about the "Other Voice" Prize for an Outstanding Paper by an Undergraduate is available here; information about the Ashgate Prize for an Outstanding Paper by a Graduate Student is available here.
  • Journal Call for Papers, posted 21 January 2008 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 2007 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. 2007 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>

Comprehensive lists of calls for papers are maintained by
  • College Art, http://ww w.collegeart.org
  • http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/, a literary-based list sorted into categories including medieval and Renaissance
  • eserver.org, which allows you to browse by field
  • H-net, http://www2.h-net.ms u.edu/, Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line, a searchable database
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