‘Where Are We At?’
Call for Papers
Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conversations in Women’s, Gender and Queer Histories
University of Oxford, June 18 and 19th 2026
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1a S Parks Rd, OX1 3UB
Convened by the Centre for Women’s, Gender and Queer Histories (WGQ), this special symposium for Oxford Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers is an opportunity to share ‘where you are at’ in your research with our vibrant community of women’s, gender, and queer historians. It is, more broadly, an event to think about the state of play in these subdisciplines and their relationship with each other. With a flourishing Masters programme and developing cohort of DPhil students, a regular seminar and growing roster of events, a new LGBTQ+ creative fellowship and new teaching fellow in gender and queer history, a multi-disciplinary discussion series on ‘Care’, a workshop series on magazines, graduate-led networks and groups, and Chairs in the History of Sexuality and in Women’s History recently in post, this is a good moment to ask: ‘where are we at’ in our collective intellectual project?
Submissions: We invite short (200-word max) proposals and abstracts from Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers in history and cognate disciplines for: 10- or 15-minute papers; in conversation sessions between two or three delegates; roundtables of up to six participants on what’s new on a particular topic; poster presentations; or any other session format you’d like to suggest.
These proposals can be about your own research or about the subdisciplines and their interconnections. Proposals involving more than one person should include a 200-word overview plus 2-3 sentences on the contribution or vantage point of each participant.
Speakers should also submit a 1-page CV with their abstracts/proposals.
Please send these to Eszter D Kovacs wgq@history.ox.ac.uk by April 13th, 10am.
