Call for Papers

SHAW 2025 Conference

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes
proposals for its annual conference, co-hosted by Leeds Beckett
University and the University of Leeds.

Friday 11^th July 2025

This year’s conference invites papers on any topic relating to histories of
women and gender non-conforming people in the Americas, but encourages
proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that explore the subject of
emotion. How do we reflect on, train and engage the emotional aspects of our
research? How can histories of emotion deepen our understanding of
historical events? And how is the archive or the classroom an emotive space?

The conference welcomes proposals from academics at any stage of their
career, especially graduate students, as well as those active in civil society
groups.

We invite 250 word abstracts for papers of 20 minutes length. For full panels
and roundtable discussions, please include descriptions of all papers
proposed.

Please submit abstracts along with a 100-word biography
of each proposed speaker to shawsociety@gmail.com, by
Friday 6th December 2024.

Financial assistance for this year’s conference will be
limited and priority will be given to PGR presenters
who are without access to funds at their home
institution.