Previous Conferences of the Federation
The 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.
