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IFRWH / FIRHF Conference in Amsterdam,
25-27 August 2010
In conjunction with the 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences, 22-28 August
2010
Location: Aletta – Institute for Women’s History,
Obiplein 4, 1094 RB Amsterdam See www.aletta.nu
Main Theme
Unequal Sisters: Women, Gender, and Global Inequalities in Historical Perspective / La
sororité à l’épreuve. Femmes, genre et inégalités mondiales: perspectives historiques
Program Committee:
Chair: Francisca de Haan (Central European University, Hungary/Aletta,
Institute for Women’s History, Amsterdam).
Members: Margaret Allen (University of Adelaide, Australia), Avital Bloch (University
of Colima, Mexico), Carolyn Eichner (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States), Jacqueline Van Gent (University of
Western Australia), and Rumi Yasutake (Konan University, Japan).
Program: Keynote and Panels
Key Note Speech:
Barbara Caine, Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia:
“The
Trials and Tribulations of a Black Woman Leader: Lillian Ngoyi and the South African Liberation Struggle,
c1950-1980”
Panel 1: Unequal
Motherhood: Transnational Perspectives
Panel Organizer: Patricia Grimshaw
Chair:
Eileen Yeo University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Bettina Bradbury,
York University, Toronto, Canada, “White Widows’ Wishes in 19th-Century British Colonies”
Ida
Blom, University of Bergen, Norway, “Marginalized Motherhood: Unmarried and Widowed Mothers in Norway c. 1900-c. 1970”
Barbara
Brookes, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, “Lesser Motherhood? Mothers of Disabled Children in New Zealand
in the Mid-20th Century”
Shurlee Swain, Australian Catholic University and University of Melbourne, “Unequal
Access: Australian Women and Child Care, 1950-2000”
Commentator: Patricia Grimshaw, University of
Melbourne, Australia
Panel 2: Exploring Women’s Relationships
Across Racialized HierarchiesP
Panel Organizer: Margaret Allen
Chair: Rumi Yasutake, Konan
University, Kobe, Japan
Jane Haggis, Flinders University of South
Australia, Adelaide, “The Mission of Sisterhood and the Politics of Whiteness: British
and Indian Women Reformers in the British Missionary Movement, 1875-1940”
Victoria Haskins, University
of Newcastle, Australia, “‘The Privilege of Employing Natives’: Aboriginal Domestic Service
and Asian-Australian Women in the early 20th Century”
Karen
Hughes, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, “Federation’s
Children – Re-conceived from Women’s Lives: Other Possibilities for the Australian Nation 1901-1939”
Margaret Allen, University of Adelaide, Australia,
“‘A Breach of Confidence by Their Greatly Beloved Principal’: A
Furore at Women’s Christian College, Chennai, India, 1940”
Commentator: Jacqueline van
Gent, University of Western Australia
Panel 3: Shifting Comparisons: Feminists
and Slaves in India and the West Panel
Organizer: Bonnie Anderson
Chair: Judith
P. Zinsser, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA
Bonnie Anderson, City University of New York, USA, “From Equality to Superiority: Early Radical Feminists
and Non-Western Women”
Gunja SenGupta, City University of New York, USA, “Enslaved Women and Kinship
in the United States and India: Comparative Perspectives”
Julie Laut, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, “Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya:
An Indian Feminist in America, 1939-1941”
Commentator: Judith P. Zinsser, Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio, USA
Panel 4:
Women’s Journals in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans (19th
and Early20th Centuries): Social Inequalities and Feminisms
Panel Organizer: Katerina Dalakoura
Chair:
Eleni Fournaraki, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece
Katerina Dalakoura, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece, “Challenging Education in the Ottoman Greek Female Journals, 1845-1907: A Declining ‘Feminist’
Discourse”
Anastassia Falierou, EHESS
/ School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris, France, “Debating
Styles of Dress in the Ottoman Turkish Women’s Periodicals, 1908-1923”
Biljana Dojcinovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia, “Feminism and
the Emancipation of Women in Serbian Printed Culture, 1870-1914”
Commentator: Nadelja Alexandrova, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Panel 5: Rethinking Clara Zetkin’s
Legacy
Panel Organizer: Marilyn J. Boxer
Chair: Saskia Wieringa, Aletta, Institute for Women’s History, and Amsterdam University, The
Netherlands
John S. Partington,
Independent Researcher, UK, “The International Women’s Secretary in Wartime: Clara
Zetkin and Britain, 1912-1918” Marilyn J. Boxer, San Francisco State
University, USA, “Clara Zetkin and France: Eight-Year Exile,
Eighty-Year Influence”
Susan Zimmermann,
Central European University, Budapest, “Klara
Zetkin Goes International: How the ‘Female International’ of Socialist Women Related to Power and
Inequality in the Inter-state and Domestic Order”
Commentator:
Rochelle Ruthchild, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Panel 6: Jewishness into Feminism: Questions of Transnational Intersection
Panel Organizers: Mieke
Aerts, Myriam Everard, and Ulla Janzs Chair: Mieke Aerts,
Aletta, Institute for Women’s History, and Amsterdam University, The Netherlands
Cécile Formaglio, University of Angers, France,
“France: Cécile Brunschvicg, Defender of a Neutral Feminism, 1877-1946”
Elizabeth
Loentz, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA, “Germany: Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936), Author and Activist”
Elisabeth Malleier, University of Vienna, Austria, “Austria: Jewish Women in Viennese Feminism,
1890-1938”
Ulla Jansz, University for Humanistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands, and Myriam
Everard, Independent Scholar, Leiden, The Netherlands, “The Netherlands: Jewish Women in Dutch Feminism, 1880-1940”
Commentator: Judith Frishman, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Panel 7: Inequalities in the History of Science
and Academia
Panel Organizer: Program Committee
Chair:
Elisabeth Elgan, Södertörn University, Sweden
Mathilde Schmitt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Heide Inhetveen, University
of Goettingen, Germany, and Ira Spieker, Technical University Dresden, Germany, “The Unequal
Sisters of Organic Farming, Early 20th Century”
Carolina Rodríguez López, Complutense Unversity of Madrid, Spain, “From
the Desk to the Podium: The First Women Professors at the Spanish Universities, 1930-1939”
Enikő Jakab, Central European
University, Budapest, Hungary, “The Impact of Stalinist Higher Education Policies on Gender Equality in Hungary, 1948–1953”
Natalia Pushkareva, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Moscow, “Unequal Sisters in Russian Sciences: The Transformation of Discriminatory Practices of
Female Academics in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia”
Commentator: Ruth Oldenziel,
Eindhoven University of Technology and Amsterdam University, The Netherlands
Panel 8: Rethinking and Contextualizing Sisterhood,
Gender, and Politics Panel Organizer: Program Committee
Chair:
Rebecca Rogers, Paris Descartes University, France
Bérengère
Kolly, University of Paris 1, France, “Les femmes ‘sœurs’
à l’aube du féminisme: Sororité et subversion des inégalités chez les saint-simoniennes
en France dans les années 1830” / “Women as ‘Sisters’ in the Awakening of Feminism:
Sisterhood and the Subversion of Inequalities among French Saint-Simonian Women in the 1830s”
Nora Natchkova, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and EHESS / School for Advanced Studies
in the Social Sciences, Paris, France, “What if…? Taking
Gender into Account in the History of Social Movements in West Europe at the End of the First World War: Socialists in Switzerland
in Comparison with France and Sweden”
Oksana Kis, National Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, “Femininity Used and Contested: Women’s Experiences in the National
Liberation Guerilla in Western Ukraine, 1940-1950s”
Commentator:
Margaret McFadden, Professor Emerita at Appalachian State University
in Boone, NC.
Panel
9: Racism, Nationalism and Imperialism Intersecting with Women’s Rights
Panel Organizer: Program Committee Chair: Mary O’Dowd, Queen’s University,
Belfast, Northern Ireland Padma
Anagol, Cardiff University, UK, “Feminism and Anti-Feminism: Race, Nation, Community and Gender
in the Writings of 19th-Century Indian women”
Shobna Nijhawan, York
University, Toronto, Canada, “Wither Colonial Hierarchies? Indian Women Writers and Global Modernity in the Early 20th
Century”
Laura R. Prieto, Simmons College, Boston, USA, “‘A Delicate Subject’:
Clemencia López’s Anti-Imperialist Errand, 1901-1903” June Purvis,
University of Portsmouth, UK, “Fighting the Double Moral Standard in Edwardian
Britain: Suffragette Militancy, Sexuality and the Nation in the Writings of the Early 20th-Century British Feminist, Christabel
Pankhurst” Shirin Akhtar, Jahangirnagar
University, Bangladesh, “Towards
a Gendered Phenomenology of Reading, Writing and Cultural and Collective Action: ‘The Weekly Begum’ (since 1947),
A Case Study of Bengal”
Commentator: Fiona
Paisley, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Panel 10: The Challenges of Inter/Transnational Women’s
Movements
Panel Organizer: Program Committee
Chair:
Petra de Vries, Amsterdam University
Karen Offen, Stanford University, California,
USA, “Overcoming Hierarchies through Internationalism: May Wright Sewall’s Presidency of the International Council
of Women, 1899-1904”
Anne Cova, University
of Lisbon, Portugal, “Feminisms in France,
Italy and Portugal: A Comparative Approach, 1888-1939”
Julie
Carlier, Ghent University, Belgium, “Challenging the North-American Model of Women’s International Organizing?
The Forgotten Transnational Networks of the Women’s Progressive Society (1890) and the International Women’s Union
(1893-1898)”
Megan Threlkeld, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, USA, “Unspoken but Undeniable:
The Impact of Race on Inter-American Cooperation Among Women Between the World Wars”
Commentator: Charlotte
Macdonald, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Panel 11: Women Across Liminal Spaces: Religion, Health,
Work and Gender
Panel Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Catherine Carstairs, University
of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Xin Chen, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, “Female
Protestant Missionaries in Modern China and Japan (1880s-1940s)”
Catherine Bishop, Macquarie University, Sydney,
Australia, “Women Settlers and Colonial Economies: Re-examining the Public/Private Sphere Dichotomy in Mid-19th-Century
New South Wales and New Zealand”
Irene Maffi, University
of Lausanne, Switzerland, “The Medicalization of Birth in a Patriarchal Society: The Case
of Post-Colonial Jordan”
Mina Roces, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, “Women’s Movements
in Liminal Spaces: Abortion as a Reproductive Right in Catholic Philippines, 1986-2006” Commentator: Noriyo
Hayakawa, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
Panel
12: The Global Struggle for Women’s Citizenship
Panel Organizer: Program Committee Chair: Anneke Ribberink,
VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Henrice Altink, University of York, UK, “‘We Are Equal to Men in Ability
to Do Anything’: African Jamaican Women and Citizenship in the Interwar Years” Patricia van der Spuy, Castleton State College, Vermont, USA, and
Lindsay Clowes, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, “Cissie Gool and the Politics of Women’s Leadership
in South Africa” Ellen
DuBois, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, “The League of Nations as Testing Ground for Women’s Rights
in the UN” Glenda Sluga, University
of Sydney, Australia, “Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and the Right to Self-Determination
in the International Sphere, San Francisco 1945” Commentator: Judith
Smart, RMIT University and University of Melbourne, Australia
Panel 13: Gender
and Imperialism
Panel Organizer: Program Committee Chair: Frances Gouda, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands Elisa Miller, Rhode Island College, Providence,
USA, “Domesticating Women, Domesticating Empire: Domesticity, Women, and American Education in the Philippines”
Fiona Paisley, Griffith
University, Brisbane, Australia, “Safari Bride: Osa Johnson’s Feminist Journey into the World of Women”
Linda L. Clark, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
USA, “Assigned to Algeria: French Women Educators under the Pre-1914 Third Republic”
Jennifer
S. Duncan, Montana State University Billings, USA, “Confronting Race: French Feminism becomes Global, 1970s-1990s”
Commentator: Angela Woollacott,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Panel 14: Varieties
of Post-1945 Feminisms
Panel Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Brigitta Bader-Zaar, University of Vienna, Austria
Chiara Bonfiglioli, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, “Negotiating
with the Gendered Borders of Cold War Utopias: Cultural Memories of Women’s Political Networks between Italy and SFR
Yugoslavia, 1945-1989”
Kiyoko Yamaguchi, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, “Housewife-Lib
and Co-op Activism in post-1970s Japan”
Ms. Mir Zahida Naznin, Jahangirnagar
University, Bangladesh, “Interconnecting Activities between Women and Women’s Organizations (1947-1995): A Bangladesh
Perspective”
Commentator: Francisca
de Haan, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, and Aletta,
Institute for Women’s History, Amsterdam
Panel 15: ‘Colored Citizens’: Women’s
Freedom, Citizenship, and Civil Rights in the African Diaspora Panel Organizer:
Leslie A. Schwalm Chair: Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University, the Aletta Chair on Gender and Ethnicity.
Camillia Cowling, Cândido Mendes
University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Defining Freedom: Women of Color and the Ending of Slavery in Havana and Rio de
Janeiro, 1870-1888” Leslie
A. Schwalm, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, “What Are the Rights of Citizens? U.S. African American
Women and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation North”
Emily R. West, University of Reading, UK, “Free Women of Color, Expulsion and Enslavement
in the Antebellum South”
Commentator: Rachel Jean-Baptiste, University of Chicago,
USA.
Panel 16: Overriding Inequality: Transnational Networks
of Women Scientists and Academics in the First Half of the 20th Century Panel
Organizers: Mineke Bosch and Christine von Oertzen Chair: Mineke Bosch, Groningen University, The Netherlands
Christina Florin, Stockholm University, “Challenging the State: The Struggle
for Professional Citizenship among Swedish University Women, 1900-1925”
Christine
von Oertzen, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, “Networks in the Making:
The International Federation of University Women (IFUW) and its Impact on Germany, 1917-1945”
Georgeta Nazarska, State University of Library Studies and Information
Technology, Sofia, Bulgaria, “The Bulgarian
Association of University Women, 1924-1950”
Commentator: Krassimira
Daskalova, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Panel 17: Rethinking Class and Gender Norms, Marriage and the Family
Panel Organizer: Program Committee Chair:
Ida Blom, University of Bergen, Norway
Tamara M. Zwick, University of South Florida,
Tampa, USA, “The Invisible Circle: An Exchange of Letters between Caspar Voght and Germaine de Staël during the
Era of Revolution”
Carolyn
Eichner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, “The Power of Naming: Women, Radicalism,
and Naming in Comparative Historical Perspective. The Cases of Europe and the U.S., 19th and 20th Centuries”
Yuthika Mishra, Vivekananda College, Delhi, India, “The
Family in Colonial India: Equalizing Forces - Unequal Consequences”
Avital
Bloch, University of Colima,
Mexico, “Unequal Sisters and the U.S. Family: Class Differences in
the Post-War Liberal Ideal and the Feminist Critique of the Sixties”
Commentator: Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Panel 18: Women's
Collective Action and Creativity in Cultural Industries in the 20th Century
Panel Organizer: Program Committee Chair: Berteke Waaldijk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Kennan Ferguson, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, “Creating Community, Creating
Cookery: Women, Exclusion, and U.S. Community Cookbooks in the 20th Century”
Ansev Demirhan, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA, “Double
Entendre: The Liberation or Subjugation of Turkish Women in the 1920s and 1930s”
Ioana Cîrstocea, CNRS / National Center for Scientific Research (PRISME-GSPE),
Strasbourg, France, “The Misfits: Forms and Spaces of Feminine Collective Action in
1990s’ Romania”
Commentator: Berteke Waaldijk, Utrecht
University, The Netherlands.
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