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August 8-11 the 7th Nordic Women's History meeting was held at Nordiska Folkhögskolan in Sweden. About 100 participants from Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland and Denmark took part in the conference. The main theme was Gender, Power and Violence but also included sessions on Sexuality, Economy, Citizenship, Marriage, Fashion, and Elites. The next meeting will be held in 2005 in Finland, the last one in 1999 was held in Denmark.
October 4th a symposium on Private Life was held at the University of Copenhagen as a collaboration between the Center for gender Studies at the University of Lund and the Danish Coordination for Gender studies. Ten historians from Sweden, Finland and Denmark talked about their research on help to mothers, illegitimacy, and marriage. About 25 historians participated. June 21st Hanne died from cancer at the age of 49. She was one of the most
outstanding Danish historians of her generation and her death is a great loss
to all of us.
In her Ph.D. dissertation from 1990 she wrote about women teachers in Denmark
and in the following years she devoted her time to research on several aspects
of Danish women's history. In the mid 90'ies she was appointed editor of the
three volume Danish Women's Biographical Dictionary. Thanks to her this work
has become a reliable source for everybody interested in Danish women's history.
Apart from being a very concientious researcher Hanne was also ready to introduce
all of us to hot topics in the international women's history debate. In the
journal Den jyske Historiker she as a member of the editorial board published
several presentations of discussions on postmodern history.
One of the two senior lecturers at the Center for gender studies at the University of Copenhagen has been appointed professor at the Center for gender studies at the University of Lund, Sweden. (Since we now have a bridge between Copenhagen and Sweden it means that you can live in Copenhagen and go to work in Sweden without too much trouble). For us in Denmark it is annoying that talented women historians have to go abroad to be sure to get better positions. Nonetheless we still manage to keep in contact with Bente and in this way she can also initiate a closer contact to our Swedish colleagues.
-compiled by Karin Lützen