CFP – Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History Trieste, Italy, 18-22 July 2016 Gender and Generations: Spaces, times and relationships in cultural-historical perspective

Annual Conference of the

International Society for Cultural History

Trieste, Italy, 18-22 July 2016

Gender and Generations:

Spaces, times and relationships

in cultural-historical perspective

The next annual conference of the International Society for Cultural History will be held in Trieste, Italy, from 18 to 22 July 2016.

The conference will be open to host papers and panels designed to address general questions of cultural history, particularly if meant to engage with methodological issues of wide interest and/or discuss the state and future of this area of research.

The proposed yearly special topic is ‘Gender and Generations’.

The perspective of gender studies and the study of generations developed in remarkably different cultural and historiographical contexts. However, in the current state of cultural studies, which is characterized by a marked interdisciplinary profile, they share the function of drawing attention to the fact that every subject is positioned, in a relationship that represents his/her ‘status’ and social and historical ‘quality’.

By focusing on the terms gender and generations (as distinct categories and reference fields or else as a particularly complex binomial) the conference invites to investigate, from a cultural history perspective, specific factors in the development and processing of identities.

It will explore how in different places and times the anthropologically unavoidable variables gender and generation<