Lives & Letters Mailing: November-December 2020
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to another Lives & Letters Mailing. This month’s mailing contains information about:
1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
– Calling Schreiner Letters and Whites Writing Whiteness users!
– New article in Journal of Epistolary Studies
– From the Blog: Letter from a president?
– From the Blog: The author, the writer, the editor and the president
– From the Blog: Olive Schreiner’s ‘sex book’ – news!
2. [FQS] 21(3) online
3. CFP: Simulation and dissimulation
4. Call for Entries–Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly’s Annual Annotated Bibliography of Critical and Theoretical Works (12/4/2020)
5. CFP: Narrative Knowing in Heritage and Travel (12/15/2020-5/27/2021) Plymouth Online Conference
6. New articles added to Vol. IX of the the European Journal of Life Writing
7. Sage Qualitative Research Methods Series (“little blue books”)
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A reminder! South African War & other Memorials
A new, WWW-linked website is now up and running. Go to https://www.sawarmemorials.ed.ac.uk
1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
There are five items of project news to report on:
Calling Schreiner Letters and Whites Writing Whiteness users!
If you have ever been a user of the Schreiner Letters and/or Whites Writing Whiteness websites, please take two minutes to send an email saying what do you most like about either or both of these websites, and what aspects of them you would like more off. Liz can be reached at Liz.Stanley@ed.ac.uk
New article available
A new article by Liz Stanley in the Journal of Epistolary Studies has just been published. This is an open access journal in its second year of publication and as it is electronic-only it specializes in rapid publication. The article is concerned with the letters of Roman troops in Britain that a number of WWW blog have been concerned with. For Liz’s article and others in this current issue, go to https://journals.tdl.org/jes/index.php/jes/issue/current
From the Blog: The author, the writer, the editor and the president
On 19 November, a ring at the doorbell announced the arrival of former President Obama‘s volume of autobiography, which racked up a huge sale of well over 800,000 copies in 24 hours. What to do first with such a very large book? To find out, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/author-writer-editor-president/
From the Blog: Letter from a president?
In the week of the American presidential elections, various news media reported that it has become a convention in recent times that outgoing presidents leave a letter of welcome in the White House for their successor. George W Bush left such a letter for Barack Obama, which has been quoted widely. This practice leads to some interesting thoughts as to whether Mr Trump will be leaving such a letter for Joe Biden and what it might contain. To read on, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/letter-from-a-president/
From the Blog: Olive Schreiner’s ‘sex book’ – news!
The fate of Olive Schreiner’s destroyed ‘sex book’, a fuller earlier exposition of the ideas that later appeared in Woman & Labour of 1911, has puzzled many Schreiner scholars over the years. A small piece of evidence has recently come to attention which throws a bit more light on these tangled matters. As is the usual way with such things, it started with something very mundane. To read more about this, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/for-havelock/
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2. [FQS] 21(3) online
Dear All,
we would like to inform you that FQS 21(3) is available online (see http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/69 for the current issue and http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for former issues). Besides a collection of single contributions, the issue provides articles belonging to FQS Reviews and FQS Conferences. All in all, 37 authors from 6 countries contributed to FQS 21(3).
Enjoy reading!
Ps: FQS is an open-access journal, so all articles are available free of charge. This newsletter is sent to 22,121 registered readers.
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FQS – Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/
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3. Call for Papers: Simulation and dissimulation
Guest editors
Steffen Roth, Full Professor of Management, La Rochelle Business School, France, and Adjunct Professor of Economic Sociology, University of Turku, Finland. Corresponding proponent: roths@excelia-group.com and steffen.roth@utu.fi
Michael Grothe-Hammer, Associate Professor of Sociology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Jari Kaivo-oja, Research Director of Futures Studies, University of Turku, Finland, and Adjunct Professor of Planning and Management Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Kristof van Assche, Full Professor of Planning, Governance, and Development, University of Alberta, Canada
Harry F. Dahms, Full Professor of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States of America
Background
This special issue focuses on the often precarious relationship between evidence and simulation, a topic that has been in need of close examination at least since the early 1970s, when the pioneers of futures studies developed or replicated the first global system dynamics models and computer simulations such as the “World3” model of Meadows et al. (1972).
Ever since, simulations have been applied to a broad spectrum of areas and topics, ranging from business strategy development, to aerospace and aviation engineering, traffic management.
On the one hand, simulations clearly help explore alternatives scenarios (Booth et al., 2009), theorise long waves (Forrester, 1976), anticipate or avoid undesirable short-, medium- or even long-term developments, or replace tests and experiments that would otherwise be unfeasible or dangerous. For example, simulations of nuclear weapons have been deemed sufficiently strong, reliable, and predictive to replace the testing of those weapons.
On the other hand, the 2007-2008 financial crisis had already underscored the tremendous impact and risks of economic models and financial simulations, and simulations also have played a key-role in the 2020 coronavirus crisis, with the results of model or simulation applications often having been confused with, or deliberately presented as evidence. More concretely, in the current crisis, simulations have been or are being used to
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- Detect, define, and assess the risk/extent of the COVID-19 pandemic,
- Guide and justify the selection and implementation of the risk mitigation strategies, and
- Assess the efficiency of the risk mitigation strategies.
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In situations where problem definition, method choice, and success measurement are all based on simulations, however, we are confronted with the question of how we can at all distinguish between a simulated and an actual crisis …
Read the full CFP at http://derroth.com/2020/09/15/cfp-simulation-and-dissimulation/
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4. Call for Entries–Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly’s Annual Annotated Bibliography of Critical and Theoretical Works (12/4/2020)
Dear IABA List Members,
We are working on Biography’s annual annotated bibliography of critical and theoretical works on life writing, the most extensive reference of its kind, and before finalizing it, we want to make sure it is as timely, inclusive, and extensive as possible.
So if during the last year (from December 2019 to December 2020) you have published, edited, or co-edited a book, written an article for a journal or an essay for an edited collection, or completed your doctoral dissertation, we would appreciate having that information, so that we can incorporate it into the list. (There is of course a very good chance that we have already included it—we work on this all year!— but this will make sure your work is noted.)
We would request the following information:
– Full bibliographic information for each text, formatted as per MLA 8 style
– A one-sentence annotation per text
We are especially committed to noting publications in languages other than English. If you could provide an annotation in English, however, that would be helpful.
We would appreciate getting the information by Friday, December 4. Please send your information to Zoë Sprott (gabiog@hawaii.edu).
Thanks in advance. This bibliography usually has between 1,400 and 1,500 entries, and represents the most extensive annual critical survey of the field. We want to make sure your work appears within it.
International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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5. CFP: Narrative Knowing in Heritage and Travel (12/15/2020-5/27/2021) Plymouth Online Conference
Call for Papers: Virtual Conference
HIDDEN HISTORIES: WOMEN AND SCIENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Organizers: Dr Amelia Bonea (University of Heidelberg) & Dr Irina Nastasă-Matei (University of Bucharest)
7-8 May 2021
Submission deadline: 15 January 2021
The twentieth century has often been hailed as a period when women became important in science, but their participation in scientific inquiry and practice often remains buried, quite literally, in the footnotes of specialist publications and studies of the history of science. Even today, national statistics about women in science are not always easily available. The data that does exist suggests there is significant regional and cultural variation in how women engage with science globally. Recent UNESCO surveys, for example, point to a contrast between the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, where almost half of the researchers employed in science are female, and East, South and West Asia, where that proportion drops significantly to 23 percent or less. Similarly, in Eastern European countries female researchers tend to be better represented in science fields than their Western European counterparts. Perhaps ironically, that relationship is reversed when we turn our attention to studies of the history of science in the twentieth century: the scientific pursuits of women in Western contexts have consistently enjoyed more visibility than those in regions like Africa, Asia or Eastern Europe. The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science (2000) is emblematic of these trends, listing as it does a mere 17 scientists from India, China and Japan, as opposed to more than 500 from Great Britain, and featuring entries up to the 1950s, a period that roughly overlaps with decolonization in Asia.
This two-day virtual conference, accompanied by a roundtable discussion, brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to address two main, interrelated questions:
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- How did women contribute to the making and communication of scientific knowledge in the twentieth century?
- How do we study the history of women in science during this period?
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We begin from the premise that encounters with science happened in a multitude of settings and that statistical data, while essential, provides only a superficial insight into the myriad experiences of women in science and, indeed, what science itself meant in different regional and cultural contexts. Our aim is to move beyond the popular ‘heroine’ model to investigate the many hidden figures who worked not only as professional scientists, but also at the periphery and even outside of scientific communities as lab technicians, amateur scientists, school teachers, librarians, journalists or science writers. In so doing, we hope to raise new questions and formulate new methods for writing the history of women in science. What, for example, do textbooks, forgotten footnotes in scientific papers, conversations about female colleagues in male scientists’ correspondence or photographs of Indian women toiling at archaeological sites teach us about the history of women in science?
Possible topics include:
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- Gender and the historiography of science: theories, methods and archives
- Pedagogy of science: government policies around science and education, women in tertiary education, science clubs, science in the home, science education in religious institutions
- Cultures of scientific practice: laboratories, fieldwork, secondary school teaching, scientific instruments, relationship between professional and amateur science
- Scientific communication: scientific periodicals, mass media and science journalism, museum work, popular science writing, photography, the arts
- Representations of women and gender in science
- Women and scientific networks: personal and professional networks, associational culture
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Keynote speakers: Prof Mariko Ogawa (Mie University) & Prof Andrea Pető (CEU)
We welcome contributions from both experienced and early career scholars. We encourage especially scholars working in/on countries and regions that are less represented to apply, in order to promote a global dialogue on this matter. Please send your proposals for 20-minute papers (abstracts of max. 300 words), along with a brief biographical note, to womeninscience2021@gmail.com by the deadline of 15 January 2021. Successful applicants will be notified by 15 February 2021. The conference will be held virtually via Zoom or heiCONF and participants will have the option of presenting their papers live or in pre-recorded format. For queries please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at the above email address.
Contact Info:
Dr Amelia Bonea (University of Heidelberg) & Dr Irina Nastasă-Matei (University of Bucharest)
womeninscience2021@gmail.com
Contact Email:
womeninscience2021@gmail.com
International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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6. New articles added to Vol. IX of the the European Journal of Life Writing
Dear Reader,
Four new articles have been added to Volume IX of the European Journal of Life Writing:
Gábor Csikós: “Remaining an Ousider: An Eighteen-Century Diary of a
Hungarian Nobleman”
Rachel Robertson: “Buttons: Life Writing from a Small Collection”
* Chantal Zabus: review of Souhir Zakri Masson’s Mapping
Metabiographical Heartlands in Marina Warnerʻs Fiction
* Helen van Duijn: review of Helen Southworthʻs Fresca. A Life in
Making. A Biographerʻs Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath
See: https://ejlw.eu/
European Journal of Life Writing
The European Journal of Life Writing is an open access e-journal, but
editing and type setting do cost money.
Your financial support can help us to publish a wide array of valuable
articles about life writing: <https://ejlw.eu/donations>
https://ejlw.eu/donations.
International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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7. Sage Qualitative Research Methods Series (“little blue books”)
We are pleased to announce four new volumes in Sage’s Qualitative Research Methods Series:
Qualitative Data Collection Tools by Felice Billups.
Reflexive Narrative: Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance by Christopher Johns
How to Write a Phenomenological Dissertation by Katarzyna Peoples.
Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between by Liz Przybylski.
If you are interested in learning more about the Qualitative Research Methods Series, please visit the website listed below. Note also that this website includes a link to “Proposal Guidelines” for those who want to consider writing a new book for the series.
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/qrms
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Last updated: 27 November 2020
