Preliminary Programme

Showing: Women and Gender (all days)
Tue 13 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 14 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 15 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 16 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 13 April 2010 8.30
T-1 WOM08 Gendering Combat
M202, Marissal
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maria Sjöberg
Organizers: - Discussant: Jutta Schwarzkopf
Beate Fieseler : Gendering Combat: Soviet Women in the Red Army and in Partisan Units during World War II
M. Michaela Hampf : Sexuality, Combat, and Gender in Great Britain and the United States During World War II
Jutta Schwarzkopf : Gendering Combat: Women in Mixed Heavy Anti-Aircraft Batteries in Second-World-War Britain



Tuesday 13 April 2010 10.45
T-2 WOM10 Women's Peace Movements in the Twentieth Century
M202, Marissal
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussant: Karen Offen
Laurie R. Cohen : “Surprisingly deep and warm feelings.” A Complicated, Transatlantic, and Antimilitarist Feminist Struggle
Brigitte Rath : Austrian Women's Peace Politics (1918-1938)
Maria Grazia Suriano : "Education is better then poison gas".The Wilpf's Path to Peace



Tuesday 13 April 2010 14.15
T-3 WOM11 Gender and Violence in the Twentieth Century
M202, Marissal
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maria Bucur
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Bucur
Tina Bahovec : Constructing the Boundaries of Gender, Nation, State. Women and Yugoslavia’s Border Conflicts after World War I
Sara Valentina Di Palma : Mass Rape as Weapon against Women in Bosnia
Ana Miskovska Kajevska : What's in a name? A lot. Naming, blaming and shaming and the Zagreb feminists in the 1990s



Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
T-4 WOM14 Women and the Military Establishment
M202, Marissal
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Beate Fieseler
Organizers: - Discussant: Simona Slanicka
Maria Sjöberg : Women in Campaigns 1550-1850 Household and Homosociality in the Swedish Army
Carol (Kira) Stevens : Soldiers' Wives in early 18th century Russia
Fia Sundevall : “Please note: No amazons wanted!”. Continuity and change in Swedish women’s military work 1865–1965



Wednesday 14 April 2010 8.30
N-5 MID05 MID05 Queenship in the Middle Ages
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Networks: Middle Ages , Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizer: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Discussant: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Louise Berglund : Queen Philippa of Sweden: A link between England and Scandinavia in the 15th century
Isabel de Pina Baleiras : Leonor Teles, Queen of Portugal (1372-1383): a powerful woman?
Ana Echevarria : Katharine of Lancaster and popular piety in Castile
Manuela Santos Silva : Philippa of Lancaster in the Portuguese Court: queenship performed by a Late Medieval woman
Covadonga Valdaliso : A political analysis of Catalina de Lancaster's Castilian court



Wednesday 14 April 2010 10.45
B-6 WOM15 Meet the Author of Globalizing Feminism before 1945 I
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Karen Offen
Organizers: - Discussants: Anne Cova, Lucy Delap, Natalia B. Gafizova, Nancy Hewitt, Karen Offen


N-6 MID01 Fabric and Gender I
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages , Women and Gender Chair: Shennan Hutton
Organizer: Shennan Hutton Discussant: Barbara Hanawalt
Rui Faria : Sheltering the Body, Storing Clothes and Tidying up the House: Material Culture in Northwest Portugal, 1540-1600
Joana Sequeira, Arnaldo Melo : Women’s role in Portuguese textile production in the Later Middle Ages
Peter Stabel : Dress as a social marker. The material culture of Bruges women in the late Midddle Ages



Wednesday 14 April 2010 14.15
B-7 WOM16 Meet the Author of Globalizing Feminism before 1945 II
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Julie Carlier
Organizers: - Discussants: Mieke Aerts, Marilyn J. Boxer, Olga Shnyrova, Susan Zimmermann


K-7 LAB09 Female labour force participation in the European past, c. 1600-1900
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Jan Lucassen
Organizers: Carmen Sarasua, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Cristina Borderias, Béatrice Craig & Luisa Muñoz : Women's labour force participation in urban industry in Spain and France (19th century)
Ricardo Hernández García, Jane Humpries, Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk & Ariadne Schmidt : Women's labour force participation in urban and rural manufactures and services in the United Kingdom, Castile and the Dutch Republic (17th and 18th centuries)
Carmen Sarasua, Beatrice Moring & Llorenc Ferrer & Arantza Pareja : Women's labour participation in agriculture in Spain, the United Kingdom and the Nordic Countries (17th-18th-19th centuries
Lotta Vikström, Angels Sola : Women's labour participation in services in Sweden, Barcelona and Bilbao (19th century)


L-7 LAT01 Gender and the Politics of Exile in the Latin American Diaspora: From Historical Analysis to Contemporary Agency
Room D14, Pauli
Networks: Latin America , Women and Gender Chair: Barbara Luethi
Organizer: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney Discussant: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney
Lizette Jacinto Montes : Alice Rühle-Gerstel and Feminism as a Praxis: Reflections in Exile in Mexico, 1936-1943
Jeffrey M. Shumway : “To Begin Again to Conquer our Country”: Mariquita Sánchez in Exile


N-7 MID02 Fabric and Gender II
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages , Women and Gender Chair: Laura Van Aert
Organizer: Shennan Hutton Discussant: Walter Prevenier
Valdo D'arienzo, Laura Ibisco : The Sanseverino Court: Fashion Style and Shopping of Nobiliary Class Between XV and XVIth Centuries
Laura Michele Diener : "Sacred Labor: Medieval Nuns and Textile Production"
Shennan Hutton : Organizing Specialized Production: Gender in Medieval Flemish Wool Cloth Industry


S-7 WOM01 How to be a Man. Historical Norms about Masculinity
M101, Marissal
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maria Bucur
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Bucur
Thomas Buerman : Convey Catholic manliness in the nineteenth century
Jacobus A. Du Pisani : A closet is meant for clothes. Afrikaans-speaking gays in the 'new' South Africa
Josephine Hoegaerts : Raising their voices: teaching boys to sing like men in the nineteenth century primary school
Naoko Seriu : Male Military Cleanliness in the Age of the Enlightenment
Simona Slanicka : Calvities – a sign for loss of masculinity, hidden vices or a sign for wisdom and chastity?



Thursday 15 April 2010 8.30
X-9 ELI08 Business Elites I: Women Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Europe
M211, Marissal
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Organizer: Galina Ulyanova Discussants: Andrea Pokludova, Martin Wottle
Polly Thanailaki : Female Illiteracy and Women Domestic Servants in the 19th Century Greek Society
Galina Ulyanova : Female entrepreneurial elite in nineteenth-century Russia: ‘noble’ and ‘merchant’ patterns
Stefanie Van De Kerkhof : Women Entrepreneurs in the Early Industrialization - A Regional Comparison of the Ruhr and Upper Silesia



Thursday 15 April 2010 10.45
Q-10 WOM07 Islamic Headscarves
Atelier R2, Pauli
Network: Women and Gender Chair: June Purvis
Organizers: - Discussant: June Purvis
Kristen Ghodsee : Islamic Headscarves and the imagined Foreign Prince: Secularism and Toleration in the New EU
Araceli González-Vázquez : Beyond the Veil, Beyond the Moudawana: Re-thinking Feminism and Islamic Feminism in Morocco
Mary Neuburger : The Fabric of History: Perspectives on the Headscarf in post-Ottoman Bulgaria
Ayşe Saktanber : Between Subversion and Submission: Headscarf-skepticism and the Changing Meanings of Veiling in Turkey
Maria Eleonora Sanna : In The Name of Gender Equality: Debating and Regulating the Muslim Veil across Postcolonial Europe



Thursday 15 April 2010 14.15
D-11 WOM13 Women's Experiences of Migration
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Kristen Ghodsee
Organizers: - Discussant: Kristen Ghodsee
Kristina Abiala : Longing and Hope- present and future for young Moldovan women
Erka Caro, Leo Van Wissen : Narratives of identity and change among rural-to-urban migrant women in Kamza-Albania



Thursday 15 April 2010 16.30
O-12 ASI08 Historical Perspectives on Women's Lives in South Asia
Auditorium D3, Pauli
Networks: Asia , Women and Gender Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: - Discussant: Sara Valentina Di Palma
Megha Kumar : Sexual Violence, Neighbourhoods and Hindu Nationalism: Gujarat 1969-2002
Mallarika Sinha Roy : Political Violence and Gender in the Age of Globalisation: A Case from India


Q-12 THE09 Theorizing Gender History
Atelier R2, Pauli
Networks: Theory , Women and Gender Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Organizers: - Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
Eva Blomberg, Martin Wottle : Liberal feminisms in Sweden 1980-2005
Ioana Cirstocea : A failed project? The 'Second World feminism' (1990-2000)
Chrysoula Ntaousani : Critical Theory of Gender



Friday 16 April 2010 8.30
R-13 WOM02 Gender on the Move
Atelier R3, Pauli
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Julia Clancy-Smith : The Trial of Giovanna Tellini, 1868, Tunis; Locating Female Migrants in an Imperial World
Judith Degroat : Gender, Empire and Early Socialist Feminism: The Case of Pauline Roland
Carolyn Eichner : ‘They loved me as if I belonged to their tribe’: Cultural Idealization and Gender in Louise Michel’s Anti-Imperialism
Jennifer Sessions : Fathers, Families and Colonials: The Gendered Origins of French Emigration to Algeria, 1830-1850



Friday 16 April 2010 10.45
C-14 WOM05 Biography as Political Project I
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: Christina Florin, Kirsti Niskanen Discussants: -
Gunnel Karlsson : The Making of Political Women – Inga Thorsson and Ulla Lindström in Swedish Politics
Birgitte Possing : An Unspoken Word does not Convince Anyone
Natalia Pushkareva : The oral history of Russian Academy Community 1991-2010
Anneke Ribberink : Margaret Thatcher and Gro Harlem Brundland: Two women Prime Ministers in the West from the spectre of a collective biography


I-14 LAB20 Gender and Labour Practices
Room D1, Pauli
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Fay Lundh Nilsson : Female vocational education and training - rural Sweden 1870-1940 (preliminary title)
Leda Papastefanaki : Division of labour and gender in Greece: the case of mining industry, 1870-1950.
Conchi Villar, Carles Enrech : Women's contribution to the working class families economy (Spain, 1930-1950)


U-14 WOM03 Gender Orders and Socialism
M207, Marissal
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maria Bucur
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Bucur
Ildikó Asztalos Morell : Collectivisation and the new gender order in rural Hungary during the sixties
Leo Goretti : "Red shirts" and "beauties on bicycles": the gendered sport policies of the Italian Communist Party in the 1950s
Hana Havelkova : The Conceptualisation of Gender in the Recommendations of the Czechoslovak Population Committee
Libora Oates-Indruchova : Shifts and Conservations in the State-Socialist Gender Discourse



Friday 16 April 2010 14.15
C-15 WOM06 Biography as Political Project II
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: Christina Florin, Kirsti Niskanen Discussant: Birgitte Possing
Mineke Bosch : Contesting biographical memory in science: two examples
Tiina Kinnunen : Male and Female Historians and the Cultures of Commemoration: The Finnish Case
Kirsti Niskanen, Christina Florin : Female Professors on Scholarship, Life and Power – Reflections from a Book Project


S-15 WOM04 Gender Regimes under Communism
M101, Marissal
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Ildikó Asztalos Morell
Organizers: - Discussant: Ildikó Asztalos Morell
Milica Antić Gaber, Sara Rožman & Irena Selisnik : Gender and everyday life in Socialist Slovenia
Yulia Gradskova : Childcare in Soviet Russia – expert discourses on preschool education and parents’ memories on kindergarten
Georgeta Nazarska : Muslim Women and Women’s Movement in Bulgaria (the 1940s-1970s): Emancipation, Modernization, Assimilation
Stefan Wiederkehr : “… if Jarmila Kratochvilova is the future of women’s sports, I’m not sure I’m ready for it.” Sport, Gender Verification, and the Cold War



Friday 16 April 2010 16.30
A-16 LAB26 Early modern labour market dynamics. Guilds, wage work, gender and migration
Auditorium, muziekcentrum
Networks: Labour , Urban , Women and Gender Chair: Jan Lucassen
Organizers: - Discussant: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Eleonora Canepari : Temporary works. Professional and geographical mobility in XVIIth century Rome
Joern Janssen : Gender Equality in Wage Labour Relations: the example of statutory regulation in late medieval and early Tudor England
Ekaterina Kirillova : Renunciation of the Craft: Reasons & Consequences (Reims, 15th-18th Centuries)
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto : Families under pressure : women work and male work in the household economy in Turin, 18th century


S-16 WOM12 Gender and Citizenship in Post-1945 Europe
M101, Marissal
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Pat Thane
Organizers: - Discussant: Francisca De Haan
Maria Bucur : The Everyday Experience of Women’s Emancipation in Romania in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Elisabeth Elgán : Mothers' right to work. Swedish feminism in the 1970's
Riikka Taavetti : Between Socialism and Feminism: The Case of Marxist-Feministerna in Finland, 1974-1978


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