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CONFERENCES
This year the Dutch Utrecht University organizes an English-spoken Summer school
Women's Studies in cooperation with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Held
in Antwerp from September 8 - l9, participants will bury themselves in aspects
of the central theme of the summer school: 'New European Identities and Mediated
cultures: revisiting the politics of location'. The participation fee is 450
Euros, excluding (cheap) housing in Antwerp. Information and registration: http://www.let.uu.nl/womens_studies/summerschool12003
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In January 2004 the Dutch Association for Women's Studies (Nederlands Genootschap Vrouwenstudies or NGV) celebrates its 15th anniversary together with the European Journal of Women's Studies (which will exist for 10 years then) and the Belle van Zuylen Institute by means of a symposium. Theme of the conference is 'Passing on Feminism': the alleged generation gap within European feminism is at the forefront of the discussion. For information call the NGV (0031-(0)30-2531881) or visit its website at www.fss.uu.nl/ngv .
From March 24-27 2004 the 5th European Social Science History Conference will be held at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin. The purpose of the ESSHC is to assemble scientists who are interested in using methods of the social sciences while explaining historical phenomena. During the conferences presentation will be given in small sessions about numerous subjects like family and demography, rearing, education and children, elites, ethnicity and migration, labor, religion, oral history, social inequality, nationalism, sexuality etc. Papers on all periods and places of the world are welcome. For information visit the web page at http://www/iisg.nl/esshc or mail the ESSHC at esshc@iisg.nl .
The Yearbook for Women's History 24 (2004), an annual in Dutch, will focus on the theme of death. The editors urge historians and researchers from related sciences like art history, archeology, sociology and anthropology to contribute. Aspects of the theme that might be discussed are gender differences in mourning, burial rituals, representation of women and death in art and literature and women as the victim or inflictor of murder. Proposals for articles can be mailed to Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk at enm@iisg.nl .
The Biographical Dictionary of Socialism and the Labor Movement in the Netherlands is available online at www.iisg.nl/bwsa/index.html. This dictionary consists of almost 400 biographies - in Dutch - of women and men who played a part in the Dutch labor movement prior to 1940. The biographies can be searched via an alphabetical index and are published as a book as well: the ninth and last part of the series is just out.
The 'Women's compartment', a successful online effort to draw attention to female writers of the former Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), has expanded with a website (in Dutch) on Mina Kruseman. Her debut novel can be downloaded from the site, as well as the novels of several other writers. The internet address is: www.damescompartiment.nl .
EXHIBITIONS
The museum 'Huis Bergh' in 's-Heerenberg exhibits a collection historical clothes
and underwear of Jacoba de Jonge, who collected dresses from the 18th and 19th
centuries. The exhibition on this 'different view on 18th and 19th century fashion'
is due until June 15. For information call the museum 0031-(0)314-661281.
Until September 15 the Museum in the city of Leeuwarden exhibits every Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoon the history of so-called 'kantklossen' (make bobbin lace), an way of making lace with which women earned their money for centuries. For information call the Museum 0031-(0)58-2151664.
At the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, the national museum for cultural anthropology in the city of Leiden, an exhibition is dedicated to Hedy d'Ancona, former member of the Dutch parliament and currently member of the European parliament. The exhibition pays attention to d'Ancona's activities for the feminist movement and the attention of the present mass media for the person of the politician rather than focusing on her political aims. The exhibition runs up to October 5. For information call the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde 0031-(0)71-5168800 or visit the website at www.rmv.nl .
The museum 'Het Domein' in the city of Sittard presents an exhibition on Barbie and the development of the Barbie doll since it was introduced on the Dutch market in 1964. The exhibition runs up to August 24. For information call the museum 0031-(0)46-4513460 or email them at info@hetdomein.nl .
PUBLICATIONS
Marga Altena et al (ed.), Muzen aan het werk. Vrouwenlevens in de kunsten. Jaarboek
voor Vrouwengeschiedenis 23 (Amsterdam: Aksant 2003).
Anneke van Baalen, Brusterschap. Memoires, Artikelen, De Bonte Was, 1971-1997 (Amsterdam 2003) Informatie: marijke.ekelschot@tiscali.nl .
Marjan Berk, Memoires van een dame uit de goot van het amusement (Amsterdam: Atlas 2003)
Mineke Bosch and Marieke Hellevoort, De ijkpunten geijkt (Hilversum: Verloren 2003)
Geertje Boschma, The rise of mental health nursing. A history of psychiatric care in Dutsch asylums, 1890-1920 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2003)
Margreet van der Burg and Marian Bos-Boers, Vrouwen, Wageningen en de wereld. Wetenschap, studie en loopbaan, 1918-2003 (Hilversum: Verloren 2003)
Suzanne Hautvast, Wegwijzer in de wetenschap. Prof.dr. Jacoba Hol, fysisch-geografe (Nijmegen: Vantilt 2002)
Annelies van Heijst, Liefdewerk. Een herwaardering van de caritas bij de Arme Zusters van het Goddelijk Kind sinds 1852 (Hilversum: Verloren 2003)
Renske van der Linde-Beins, Klaas Roodenburg and Onno Maurer, Jo Koster, 1868-1944. Een zwervend bestaan (Zwolle: Waanders 2003)
Guido Knopp, Hiltlers vrouwen (Amsterdam: Maarten Muntinga 2003)
Kees Kooman, Een koningin met mannenbenen. Fanny Blankers-Koen, atlete van de eeuw (Amsterdam: L.J. Veen 2003)
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2 (Amsterdam: Atlas 2003)
Loura Soutendijk, Lotti van der Gaag (Zwolle: Waanders 2003)
Ursula den Tex, Anna baronesse Bentinck, 1902-1989. Een vrouw van stand (Amsterdam: Balans 2003)
Hannelore Vandebroek, Het geslacht van de arbeid. Opvattingen over vrouwenarbeid in Belgische katholieke intellectuele kringen (1945-1960) (Leuven: Universitaire Pers Leuven 2002)
Compiled by Marloes Schoonheim