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DEADLINE: THIS FRIDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2012Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effortA workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchersUniversity of Huddersfield, 9 March 2012&#160;From medieval and early modern elite understandings of charitable virtue to industrial cultures of mutual aid or contemporary understandings of community engagement, gender has been critically implicated in the history of voluntary action whether through the lens of experience, performance or social systems.&#160;This one day workshop for postgraduates and early career researchers is the first of the VAHS New Researchers workshops in 2012 and is supported by funding from the Economic History Society. The workshop will explore how gender was figured in voluntary activity at the levels of individual men’s and women’s lives and senses of self, the social structures and cultural means through which it was sustained, and its cultural legacies. We welcome papers which address these themes across all historical periods and places, and in terms of both men’s and women’s histories. We particularly encourage paper proposals that consider methodological and conceptual issues.&#160;Possible themes could include, but are no means limited to:&#160;The role of family and social networks in building voluntary projects and genealogiesGendered spaces and politics of voluntary actionStrategies of self- and public-framing in voluntary effortCultural and gendered legacies of charitable and philanthropic engagementGender, the body and charityRace, class and gender in charitable and voluntary projects&#160;The workshop will end with an open discussion led by Daniel Weinbren (Open University) and Jo Laycock (University of Manchester) at which all attendees are invited to share and discuss issues raisedthroughout the day and within their own research.&#160;Download the Call for Papers fromhttp://www.vahs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/VAHS-CFP-Huddersfield-Final.pdf