Preliminary Programme

Showing: Women and Gender (all days)
Wed 11 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 12 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 18.30

Fri 13 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 14 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 11 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
M-1 WOM05 Gender, Political Thought and the Shaping of Early Modern Politics
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Theory , Women and Gender Chair: Silvia Evangelisti
Organizers: - Discussant: Lynn Botelho
Anna K. Becker : Machiavelli and the Early Modern Conception of Politics: Rethinking the Relationship of Public and Private in Renaissance Political Thought
Sari Nauman : Gender, Power and the Oath – The Early Modern State and the Oaths of Allegiance
Claudia Opitz-Belakhal : Jean Bodin, Gender, and the Origins of the Modern State


Y-1 WOM01 Brothers of the Sisterhood? Men and Masculinities in 19th and 20th Century Feminisms
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussant: Gunnel Karlsson
Katherine Hubler : “Shall men’s strengths therefore be doomed to idleness?” Feminist and Pro-feminist Masculinities in the First Wave of German Feminism
Hélène Quanquin : “With feebler voices?” Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) and Men’s Contribution to 19th-century American Feminism
Cristina Scheibe Wolff : The “New Man”: Discourses on Masculinity and the Feminism in Left-wing Movements of the Southern Cone in the 1970s



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
Y-2 WOM02 A Unified Terrorist Body? Hunger Strike, 1970s Leftist Terrorism and Gender
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Criminal Justice , Women and Gender Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Organizers: Irene Bandhauer-Schoeffmann, Dominique Grisard Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
Irene Bandhauer-Schoeffmann : Silenced Bodies. Hunger Strikes of the Radical Left in Austria during the 1970s
Clare Bielby : (Re-)Performing the Hunger-striking Body
Dominique Grisard : Gender, Nation and Performance. Leftist Terrorists' Hunger Strikes in 1970s and 1980s Switzerland
Patricia Melzer : Collective Action and the Feminized Body as Catalyst of Political Subjectivity in the RAF Hunger Strikes



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
F-3 WOM20 Roundtable Women's Movements I
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Olga Shnyrova
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Maud Bracke : 'Our First Discovery was our Housework': Debates on Women and Work in Italian and British Feminism (1960s-70s)
Natalia B. Gafizova : Patriotism and Internationalism in Self-conception of Russian Women's Movements: Rational and Transnational Levels
Valentina Greco, Maria Grazia Suriano & Paola Zappaterra : A Dictionary of Italian Feminism (70s-90s)
Maria Grazia Suriano, Valentina Greco & Paola Zappaterra : A Dictionary of Italian Feminism (70s-90s)
Paola Zappaterra, Maria Grazia Suriano & Valentina Greco : A Dictionary of Italian Feminism (70s-90s)


H-3 LAB25 Women's and Children's Work
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: - Discussant: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Jordi Ibarz : The Women and Children’s Labour in the Mechanization of the Glass Industry in Spain, 1900-1936
Malin Nilsson, Tobias Karlsson : In Homes and Factories: Employment Patterns among Women during the Second Industrial Revolution
Johanna Overud : Breaking Way – Making Difference? Gendering Labour Activating Programs from Social Democracy to Identity Policy, Sweden after 1960


Y-3 WOM03 Domestic Disturbances: Political Implications of Domestic Violence in Early Modern Europe
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Family and Demography , Women and Gender Chair: Satu Lidman
Organizer: Marianna Muravyeva Discussant: Michelle Marrese
Lynn Lubamersky : Vigilante Justice vs. the Noblewoman's Freedom of Choice in Marriage and Love: The Foray/Zajazd in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 18th Century
Marianna Muravyeva : "A King in his Own Household": Domestic Discipline and Family Violence in Early Modern Europe Reconsidered
Raisa Maria Toivo : Violence between parents and Children in early modern Finland: Cultures of authority and taboo.
Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu : The Sexuality between Sin and Shame along the Ecclesiastical Courts in the 18th Romanian Society



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
Y-4 WOM17 Gender, Nationalism and Politics
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Fia Sundevall
Organizers: - Discussant: Patricia Grimshaw
Sara Valentina Di Palma : Mass Rape in Bosnia and Rwanda. Violence, Silencing and Feminist Answers
Jaswandi Wamburkar : Issues of Gender,Identity and Nationalism in India: A Case Study of Vibhavari Shirurkar



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
L-5 WOM13 Gender(ed) Identities: Images and Experiences
Main Building: Room 355
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Maren Tribukait
Organizers: - Discussant: Ilona Kemppainen
Linda Braun : Rethinking Embodiment and Gender: Modern Dancing and the Transformation of Gender Relations in European Metropolises (1900-1933)
Thomas Bryant : “No Smoking, No Drinking, No Make-up!” – Prohibitive Rules for Women in Propaganda Campaigns and Daily Practices in Nazi Germany
Eilidh Macrae : ‘Age Need Not Deter Anyone from Enjoying the Privileges of Keeping Fit’: Physical Recreation Throughout the Female Life-cycle in Scotland 1930-1960
Luis Felipe Sobral : The Kiss of Spade. Gender, Narrative, Cognition


T-5 WOM18 Gender, Sexuality and the Body Politic I
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Lessie Jo Frazier
Organizers: - Discussant: Lessie Jo Frazier
Greet De Bock : Foreign Affairs. Gender, International Politics and the Public Sphere in Early Nineteenth-century London and Vienna
Sonja Dolinsek : Conceptions of Prostitute Women‘s Agency in West-Germany from the 1950s to the 1980s
Norman Domeier : The Sexualisation of German Politics before the First World War
Lucia Pozzi : The Italian Case: Catholic Church and Fascist State Shaped Women’s Role


Y-5 WOM04 Early Modern Legal Culture and Discrimination
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Criminal Justice , Culture , Women and Gender Chair: Martin Ingram
Organizers: - Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva
Satu Lidman : Women, Chastity and Violence in Early Seventeenth-century Sweden. The Protocols of Stockholm’s Magistrates’ Court
Rose-Marie Peake : Nourished Bodies, Enlightened Souls - The Ethics of Poor Relief in Seventeenth-century France
Charlotte Vainio : The Weaker Sex - Juridical Strategies of Married Women in Early 16th Century Swedish Charters



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
F-6 WOM21 Roundtable Women's Movements II
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Yulia Gradskova
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Carolyn Eichner : ‘The Jews Made My Trip Intolerable’: French Feminists, Imperialism, and the ‘Jewish Question’
Steve Hewitt : "Spotted Throughout with Red": Canadian State Surveillance and Second-wave Feminism
Natalia Novikova : Women’s Actions, Men’s Responses: Gender Order and Political Discourse in Time of Russian Early 20th Century Revolutions


T-6 SEX12 Gender, Sexuality and the Body Politic II
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Richard Wetzell
Organizers: - Discussant: Ruben Marc Hackler
Gayle Davis : Test Tubes and Turpitude: Infertility, Artificial Insemination and the Medical Profession in Mid-twentieth-century Scotland
Rosemary Elliot : Abortion, Miscarriage or ‘Criminal Feticide’?: Discourses around early Pregnancy Loss in Britain, 1900 – 1960s
Matleena Frisk : The Formation of a Respectable Sexually Active Adolescent Female in 1960s and early 1970s Finland



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
B-7 ELI09 Early Professional Women in Scandinavia, c. 1700-1900
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: Deborah Simonton
Organizers: Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen Discussant: Deborah Simonton
Johanna Ilmakunnas : Career at Court: Noble Ladies in the Service of Scandinavian Royals
Åsa Karlsson Sjögren : Early Swedish Female Teachers: Good-tempered and Modest Mistresses – or?
Marjatta Rahikainen : Headmistresses of Elite Girls’ Schools: Turning Cultural Capital into a Livelihood
Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen : Bold and Unbashed - Educated Urban Midwives in the 18th Century Scandinavia


Z-7 WOM06 Feminist Labour Militancy
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Verity Burgmann
Organizer: Silke Neunsinger Discussant: Silke Neunsinger
Karin Dupinay-Bedford : Women and Militancy in French Republican Reconstruction: Attitudes and Actions through Specific Examples (1945-1965)
Eva Schmitz : Female Labor Militancy in the Height of Class Struggle in the 1920´s and the Second Wave of Women´s Movement in Sweden
Mercedes Steedman : The Transformation of Women’s Role in Mining Strikes: An Examination of Three Nickel Mining Strikes in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 1958-2010.
Patricia Tropia : Militant Women in Contemporary Brazil



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
H-9 LAB24 Women's Participation in Labour Organizations
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Silke Neunsinger
Organizers: - Discussant: Eileen Boris
Kirsti Niskanen : Generation, Gender and Union Women
Margaret Ritchie : 'Contract Workers and Strategic Players': The Political Will and Actions of Female Crews of the Scottish Herring Industry in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Rosemary Webb : 'Loyalty to their Sex and their Class': Women's Networks and Mobilisation in Sydney's Interwar Labour Movement.


V-9 WOM07 Noblewomen Between Public and Private Affairs in Early Modern Europe: Informal Power and (In)Visibility
Maths Building: 416
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: Stefan Amirell
Organizer: Carolina Blutrach-Jelín Discussant: Silvia Evangelisti
Carolina Blutrach-Jelín : Making the Informal Visible: Early Modern Noblewomen and Memory in Castile
Nicola Clark : Katherine, Countess of Bridgwater, and Welsh Rebellion, 1529-32
Vanessa de Cruz Medina : Taking the Quill to be Visible: Female Aristocracy and Letter-writing in Spain during the Golden Age
Isabel dos Guimarães Sá : Portuguese Aristocratic Women (15th-16th Centuries): Wealth, Authority and Power
Dries Raeymaekers : Women and the Politics of Access at the Court of Brussels. The 'Camareras Mayores' of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia (1598-1633)



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
N-10 POL01 Gender and Citizenship: a Roundtable
Main Building: Senate
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Judit Acsády
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anne Epstein : Connecting Conversations about Gender Injustice and Citizenship: “Transnational Feminism” in the Revue de morale sociale (1899-1903)
Rachel Fuchs : "Exploring Citizenship in Creative Ways: Women, their Bodies, and the Courts in Modern France"
Maria Kyriakidou : "Party Politics before the Right to Vote: Interwar Greek Feminists and the Individual vs. Collective Citizen Issue"
Irina Novichenko : Age, Gender and Civil Society: Soviet Informal Associations in 1960s-1970s
Irma Sulkunen : Religion, Gender and Civil Society


V-10 WOM09 Renegotiating Marriage, Motherhood, and Womenly Duties
Maths Building: 416
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Fia Sundevall
Organizers: - Discussant: Helene Carlbäck
Zara Bersbo : Same Economical rights - Different Economic Citizenship. Swedish politics and legislation 1921-1971
Andrea Thomson : 'A More Precarious Institution'?: Marriage and Marital Breakdown in Late Twentieth-century Scotland through a Gendered Lens
Pinar Melis Yelsali Parmaksiz : Constituted Identities of Motherhood, Fatherhood, Childhood and the Family Relations in Turkish Modernization (1908–1945)



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
F-11 WOM22 Roundtable: Women's Movements III
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Åsa Bengtsson : The White Ribbon - Temperate Women on Public Scenes.
Marie Hammond-Callaghan : “Gender and International Peace Politics during the Cold War: Anticommunism and Surveillance of the Voice of Women, Canada, 1960-1964.”
Irena Selisnik, Marta Verginella : Social Networks of Publicly Active Women
Lorna Zukas : Gender and Revolutionary Change: Zimbabwean Women’s Engagement for Freedom, Equality and Autonomy



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
M-12 WOM08 Gender and the Sciences of the State
Main Building: Melville
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Helene Carlbäck
Organizers: - Discussant: Tine De Moor
Simone Diender : Governing the Family Home: Social Science and the Education of American Citizens in the Early Cold War
Elizabeth Jones : Gender and the 'Sciences of the State' in Rural Germany: The Social and Environmental Reclamation of Farm Households, 1866-1914
Marynel Ryan Van Zee : A Gendered Ordering of Self-Interest: Family and State in Nineteenth-Century German Economics


S-12 WOM12 Women and Power
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Bettina Brandt
Organizers: - Discussant: Mary Nagata
Stefan Amirell : The Trading Queens Indian Ocean World, c. 1350–1850
Gunnel Karlsson : Political power, femininity and gender clashes
Sabine Schmolinsky : Gendering Visibility in the Middle Ages. Power, Agency, and the Sexes in Nobility



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
G-13 LAB09 Working with Kin: Unpaid Work, Apprenticeship and Kin's Labour in Family Business
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Amy Erickson
Organizers: Anna Bellavitis, Manuela Martini Discussants: Raffaella Sarti, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Maria Ågren : Managing the State in a Local Context: Lower Civil Servants in Early Modern Sweden
Anna Bellavitis : Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe and the Case of 16th Century Venice
Céline Bessiere : Gender in Wine-Growing Family Businesses (Cognac, France) : The Problematic Place of the Conjugal Partner
Claire Lemercier : Apprenticeship, Wages and Contracts during the Industrial Revolution. Lessons from the Parisian Case
Manuela Martini : When Unpaid Workers Need a Legal Status. Trade Associations, Family Workers and the Changing of Labour Rights in 20th Century France


U-13 WOM10 Gendered Memories and Historiographies
Maths Building: 326
Networks: Culture , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Elisabeth Elgán
Organizers: - Discussant: Bettina Brandt
Krassimira Daskalova : History Wars: Gender Representations in Textbooks
Ute Lischke : Whose Memories? Whose History? Addressing Nostalgia and Trauma in the Films of Sibylle Schönemann
Falko Schnicke : The Bodies of History. Genderization and Sexualization in 19th-century German Historiography


X-13 ETH20 Gender, Migration and Ethnicity
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 1
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Women and Gender Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizers: - Discussant: Manuela Martini
Anneke Comello : Connecting stories: contemporary letters and retrospective oral accounts of Dutch immigrants in New Zealand
Anna-Maria Eurenius : Movers and Stayers. Household Context and Emigration from Western Sweden to America in the 1890s
Margaretha van Es : Representations of Muslim Women’s Gender Identities by Minority Organisations in Norway as a Response to the Norwegian Public Discourse about the Emancipation and Integration of Muslim Women (1975-2010)


Y-13 SEX08 Women and Sexualities
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 2
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Wannes Dupont
Organizers: - Discussant: Hera Cook
Lucy Bland : Researching Women’s Sexual Narratives in 1920s Britain
Anne-Marie Sohn : Youth, Pre-marital Sex and Radio Archives in 1960s France
Cornelie Usborne : Discovering Desire: Researching Female Sexuality in Everyday Life in Nazi Germany



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
B-14 WOM16 Gender Equality and Civil Society
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Dominique Grisard
Organizers: - Discussant: Natalia Novikova
Yulia Gradskova : International Visions and Local Practices of Gender Equality: Challenges, Problems and Activism in the North-West Region of Russia
Ethan Levine : Gender Variance and Civil Society
Fia Sundevall : Discriminating Men in the Name of Equality? Paradoxes and Contradictions in Debates and Policy on Gender and Military Work, Sweden 1970-2010.
Emma Sundkvist : Women’s Rights Work in Cairo: Imbrications of Religious and Secular Frameworks


F-14 WOM19 Meet the Author: Aftermath of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists 1918-1923
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Matthew Stibbe
Organizers: - Discussants: Alexandra Kolesnikova, Nikolai Vukov
Judit Acsády : Feminist Social Networks: Density of Connections, Innovation, Pluralism of Ideas.
Olga Shnyrova : After the Vote has been Won. The Fate of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Russia: Persons, Ideas and Deeds after the Revolution


T-14 LAT03 Gender and Sexuality in Latin American History
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Latin America , Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney
Organizers: Kim Clark, Paulo Drinot Discussant: Jadwiga Pieper Mooney
Kim Clark : Negotiating Prostitution: Gender, Sexuality and the Public Health
Laurent Corbeil : "Se conocían carnalmente": Sexual Criminality and Violence among Amerindians of early San Luis Potosí, New Spain (1592-1630)
Lessie Jo Frazier : Desiring the Working Class: A Spanish Anti-Clerical Feminist, a Catholic Bishop, a Negligent Patriarchal State, and Working-Class Sex
Cynthia Milton : Gendered Memories of Peru’s ‘Internal War’ as Recounted through Art



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
M-15 WOM11 Women Entering Institutional Politics
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Women and Gender Chair: Gunnel Karlsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Natalia Novikova
Isabela Campoi : Women Access at the Institutional Politics in Brazil: A Long Term Analysis until the First Female President
Ramona Mihaila, George Lazaroiu : Power and Public Stage: Political Involvement of 19th Century Romanian Women Writers
Pamela Schievenin : Women’s Way of Doing Politics? Women Politicians and the Reform of Italy’s Maternal and Infant Welfare in a Comparative Perspective (1960s – 1970s)


S-15 RUR19 Kinship and Gender Dynamics of Farm Households in Rural Society Past and Present
Maths Building: 204
Networks: Rural , Women and Gender Chair: Hannes Grandits
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Martin Dackling : From family to spouses? Property rights transformation in Sweden, 1850-1950
Patrick Heady : Close Marriages and Distinct Lives: Kinship and Gender in the European Countryside
Nancy Konvalinka : Embodied Inheritance. The Clash between Gender-Equal Inheritance and a Gender-Differentiated Division of Work in a Spanish Village Today
Ira Spieker : Foreign Territory. “Resettlers” and their Impact on the Emerging Socialist Society in East Germany (after 1945)
Laura Stark : Early Debates on Farm Women's Inheritance and Property Rights in the Finnish-language Press 1850-1870



Saturday 14 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
B-16 ELI15 Elite Masculinities and Chivalries
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Women and Gender Chair: My Hellsing
Organizers: - Discussant: My Hellsing
Pål Brunnström : The Making of Masculinity and Class among Swedish Industrialists 1918 to 1939
Benjamin Deruelle : To Behave « comme le requeroit leur devoir et profession»: The Chivalric Ideal in the French King Figure beyond All Religious Disputes in the 16th Century
Henry French, Mark Rothery : Reproducing Masculine Values among the English Landed Elite, 1700-1900


E-16 WOM15 Women, Work and Economy
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Economics , Women and Gender Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ziynet Seldag Ceylan : The Changing Position of Turkish Women by the 20th Century
Patricia Grimshaw : The Long Trail of Women in the Academic Profession in Australia, 1920- 2010
Irina Mukhina : Gender in History Through the Prism of Social Sciences: Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Historical Developments in the Context of Soviet Studies
Yvonne Svanström : From Maid to Household Services - Conceptual Changes with the Swedish Political Economy 1900-2010
Anna-Carolina Vogel : Women and long-term credit in 19th century Germany


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