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first conference of the Federation was held in 1989 at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy. The papers presented
at this conference were edited by Karen Offen, Ruth Roach Pierson and Jane Rendall in Writing Women's History.
International Perspectives (Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1991) In 1990 the Federation sponsored a two-day program
on the theme 'Changes in Women's Life cycles in a Socio-Economic and Political Perspective' at the 17th International
Congress of Historical Sciences in Madrid, Spain In 1993, the Federation organised a small conference on 'Women and the State'
at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Bielefeld, Germany In 1995 the Federation's two-day program at the l8th International Congress of the Historical Sciences in Montreal, Canada was devoted to the theme: 'Women, Colonialisms, Imperialisms and Nationalisms Through the Ages/Femmes, colonialismes, imperialismes et nationalismes a travers les ages' . Papers from this conference were edited by Ruth Roach Pierson and Nupur Chaudhuri for Indiana University Press under the title: Nation, Empire, Colony: Categories of Gender and Race Analysis In 1998 the Federation's conference was in Melbourne on the theme Women and Human Rights, Social Justice and Citizenship: International Historical Perspectives. The proceedings have been edited by Patricia Grimshaw and Marilyn Lake and were published by Palmer Press in 2000. In 2000 the Federation organised a conference at the 19th Congress of Historical Sciences at Oslo, Norway,
on the theme of Conflict and Co- operation in Sites of Cultural Co-Existence: Perspectives from Women's History. The
Conference was organised by Nancy Hewitt. The 2003 conference of the Federation was held in Queen's University Belfast, Northern
Ireland from 11-14 August 2003. The Conference was organised by Mary O'Dowd. A small selection of the papers presented
at the conference were published in a special issue of Women's History Review (Autumn, 2006) edited by Mary O'Dowd
and Bernadette Whelan. In 2005, Professor Pirjo Markkola organised the Federation's conference at the 20th Congress of
Historical Sciences held in Sydney.
The most recent conference of the Federation was held in Sofia, Bulgaria on the theme, Women, Gender and the Cultural Production of Knowledge in August 2007. It was organised by the President of the Federation, Professor Krassimira Daskalova. The proceedings of the conference are being edited by Krassimira Daskalova, Daniela Koleva and Mary O'Dowd. For images of the Sofia conference click here.
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