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ArgumentThe Historical Institute of the University of Wroclaw hereby invites scholars and PhD students to join us for the international conference: Against Conventions. Uncommon Social Roles of Women and Men from Early Modern Times to 1945 to be held in Wroclaw, November 30th &#8211; December 1st, 2017. The organizers propose to use tools which the category of gender gives in humanistic and social studies. However, we would like to overcome present tendencies to separate studies related to women or men. We hope that during the meeting it will be possible to capture mechanisms occurred while undertaking tasks which were contrary to social norms from both &#8222;feminine&#8221;, and &#8222;masculine&#8221; perspectives. We are aware that definitely more women &#160;struggled with social boundaries. Nevertheless, we consider the reflection on men&#8217;s experience, who also faced such challenges, as equally important.We encourage experienced researchers, young scholars, as well as PhD students to focus on the following issues:A) Methodology-current state of research-perspectives :methodology of gender studiesdifficulties and obstacles in studies on social rolescurrent state of research regarding social rolesnew themes and research perspectivesB) Actions and motivationsuncommon actions taken by women/mencircumstances under which one might/was forced to play &#160;an untypical role traditionally assigned to the opposite sexmotivation to act against the formulaic schemesstrategies for actionfactors determining success/defeatC) Concequencesbehavior and emotions of people who were undertaking activities characteristic for the opposite sex&#8220;import&#8221; of attitudes resulted from traditional tasks in family and society to &#8220;new&#8221; rolesreproducing models of behavior characteristic for the opposite sexattitudes of people performing typical roles towards these women or men who were &#160;taking actions against the conventionsmechanisms&#160; related to crossing the boundaries from comparative perspective (in different countries and cultures)D) Beliefs and perceptionsdivision into &#8222;feminine&#8221; and &#8222;masculine&#8221; roles and changes in their perceptionattitudes towards women/men acting differently to adopted standards; consequences of the progressive emancipation of womencharacteristic of groups and individuals who tried to combat stereotypical thinking about roles of women and men in society: their strategies, motivation and results of actionswho, for what purpose, by what methods and with what result tried to retain status quo &#160;in division into &#8222;feminine&#8221; and &#8222;masculine&#8221; social roles.The aforementioned issues indicate the main directions of discussion, nonetheless we encourage to submit other proposals related to the main theme of the conference.Organization CommitteeProf. Leszek ZiątkowskiDorota WiśniewskaMagdalena GibiecConference languages: English, PolishSubmission guidelinesWe kindly ask You to submit your abstractby August 30th, 2017via the registration form below:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdy6Z3Ny5jBuVLrMXbAEcfGvfZ2TahgmobFTjM-DFETW5a8BQ/viewformApplicants will receive a response as to whether their proposal has been accepted by mid-September. &#160;We do not cover costs of transport, however there is no conference fee and the conference materials, meals (lunches, coffee breaks, official dinner on the first day of the conference), as well as accommodation (2 nights) are provided.The organizers are going to publish a monograph. The deadline for articles based on conference papers is February 28th,&#160; 2018.Selection committeeProf. Olena Arkusza (National Academy of Science in Lviv, Ukraine)Prof. Teresa Kulak&#160; (University of Wroclaw, Poland)Dr Iwona Dadej (Fraie Universit&#228;t Berlin, Germany)Dr Małgorzata Ewa Kowalczyk (University of Wroclaw, Poland)