The
International Federation for Research in Women’s History
Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche en
Histoire des Femmes
Women’s History Revisited: Historiographical Reflections
on Women and Gender in a Global Context
20th International Congress of Historical
Sciences
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia, 8-9 July, 2005
FINAL PROGRAMME
Friday, 8 July 2005
Part one, 9.00-10.45 am (plenum), MatB
9.00 Welcome, Pirjo Markkola (Finland)
9.15 – 10.45 am
Women and World History: Ancient and Modern Perspectives
Tom Hillard (Australia), Marnie
Hughes-Warrington (Australia), Mary Spongberg (Australia), Judith P. Zinsser
(USA)
Chair: Mary O’Dowd (Ireland)
Part two, 11.15 am - 12.45 pm (three
parallel sessions)
National historiographies 1, MatB
Barbara Caine (Australia), Women and the
History of the New South Africa
Joanna de Groot (UK), Writing ‘Iranian’
Women’s pasts: Intersections of Gender and Historical Practices
Ann-Catrin Östman (Finland), Gender and Finnish
Traditions of Agrarian Historiography
Chair: Susanna Hedenborg (Sweden)
National historiographies 2, Mat 107
Jane McDermid, (UK), No longer curiously rare but
only just with bounds: women in Scottish history
Hiroko Nagano (Japan), The Unique Relationship
between Women’s History and Gender History in Japan – A search for a direction
for the future
Margarita M. Birriel-Salcedo (Spain), Women, Family
and Spanish Historiography
Chair: Penny Russell (Australia)
American Perspectives, Mat 102
Jadwiga E. Pieper (USA), Past and Present Perspectives: Writing the
History of Women’s Rights, Political Participation, and Gender Equality in the
Latin American Southern Cone
Eugenia Rodriguez Saenz (Costa
Rica), Women’s History and Gender History in Central America: an Introductory
Balance
Jessica Millward (USA), Mapping the Margins: US History as African
American Women’s History
Margaret D. Jacobs (USA), Gender and Colonialism in
the American West
Chair: Patricia Grimshaw (Australia)
Lunch break, 12.45 pm - 2.15 pm
Part three, 2.15-3.45 pm (two parallel sessions)
(Re-)writing the History of Central and Eastern European
Feminism: a 2005 Perspective, MatB
Francisca de Haan (Hungary) & Krassimira Daskalova (Bulgaria), Some
Reflections on A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms in
Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, 19th and 20th
centuries
Natalia Novikova (Russia), The History of
the Women’s Movement in Russia: a
Historiographical Analysis
Anna Loufti (UK/Lebanon),
Poverty or Possibility? Eastern Europe and the Development of a Global
Historiography for Women’s History
Commentator: Karen Offen (USA)
Feminism and History, Mat 102
Marilyn J. Boxer (USA), On the Construction and Career
of the Concept “Bourgeois Feminism”
Karin Lützen (Denmark), Historiography
of the Cult of Domesticity
Elizabeth Pleck (USA), How were various popular
tendencies in feminist thought reflected in U.S. women’s history writing?
Joyce
Senders Pedersen (Denmark), Understanding Mary/Understanding Women’s History:
Anglo-American interpretations of the life of Mary Wollstonecraft from
1798-present
Chair: Tiina Kinnunen (Finland)
Part four, 4.15-5.45 pm (two parallel
sessions)
Feminism and Feminist Theory, MatB
Marja Jalava (Finland),
Meanings as Corporal Acts: Women’s History beyond Sex and Gender
Penny Russell (Australia), Affecting Women:
or, On Weeping in Archives
Katie Pickles (New Zealand), Thinking Beyond
Celebration: Woman Icons, Feminism and History
Raisa Maria Toivo (Finland), Women at
Stake. Interpretations of Women’s Role in Witchcraft and Witch-Hunts since the
early C20 to the present
Chair: Ann-Catrin Östman (Finland)
Gender, Collective Memory, and (De-)Canonization, Mat 102
Maria
Grever (The Netherlands), Re-appropriation and the Re-Shaping of
Canonized Collective Memories
Karen Offen (USA), Adventures in Gender,
Memory, and De-Canonization: Conceptualizing Exhibits for the International Museum of Women
Suzanne Maurer & Sylvia Schraut (Germany), Gender and the
Creation of European Lieux de Mémoire on the Internet
Commentator: Kees Ribbens (The Netherlands), Framing and Communicating the Past(s) – General Comments
Chair: Mary O’Dowd (Ireland)
Saturday, 9 July 2005
Part one, 9.00-10.30 am (two parallel
sessions)
Labour history, BioA
Susanna Hedenborg & Inger Jonsson (Sweden),
Women and Work in Swedish Historical Research
Kalpana
Hiralal (South Africa), Women and Work in South Africa: A Historiographical Perspective
Rebecca Rogers (France), Questioning national
models: the history of women teachers in a comparative perspective
June Hannam
(UK), Isabella Ford Revisited: Reflections on gender, labour history and
feminist biography
Commentator: Eileen Boris (USA)
Histories of Women’s Movements, BioB
Victoria Rowe (Canada), Women’s World Conferences,
NGOs and the Writing of Women’s History in the Republic of Armenia
Yuthika Mishra (India), The Indian
Women’s Movement: A Historiographical Perspective
Martha Vicinus (USA), Current Trends
in Lesbian Historiography
Christabelle Sethna (Canada), Second Wave
Feminism and Student Activism in Canada
Chair: Margaret McFadden (USA)
Part two, 11.00 am - 12.30 pm (two
parallel sessions)
Power and Gender, BioA
Akiko Yoshie (Japan), When Antiquity Meets the
Modern: Presenting the Female Rulers in Making of the Japanese History
Maria Wolf (Austria), Organic Capital,
Masculinity and Reproduction. Eugenically legitimized fathering in the medical
discourse in Austria, 1900-1933
Robyn
Hamilton (New Zealand), Dutiful Daughters: Views of Chinese women descended
from the famous Zeng clan
Jawad Syed (Australia/Pakistan),
A Historical Perspective on the Islamic concept of Modesty and Its Implications
for Pakistani Women at Work
Chair: Alison Mackinnon (Australia)
Citizenship and Modernity, BioB
Hilda L. Smith
(USA), The Gendered Nature of Early Modern Citizenship: Forming Men in Newly
Forming Nations
Magda
Fahrni (Canada), Gender, Modernity and Citizenship in
Urban Contexts: Historiographical Reflections on Women and the City
June Purvis (UK), The writing of British suffrage history: debates and
controversies
Chair and commentator: Christina Florin (Sweden)