International
Federation For Research in Women's History
Federation Internationale Pour La Recherche En Histoire Des Femmes
IFRWH/FIRHF Program for the CISH/ICHS Conference in Oslo, Norway
10-12 August 2000
CONFLICT AND CO-OPERATION IN SITES OF CULTURAL COEXISTENCE: PERSPECTIVES FROM
WOMEN'S HISTORY
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Thursday, August 10
17:00-18:30 IFRWH/FIRHF Business Meeting
18:30-20:00 OPENING SESSION
CHAIR: Frances Gouda (The Netherlands)
Berteke Waaldijk and Maria Grever (The Netherlands), "Multi-media Presentation, Visualizing and Digitalizing Women's History: The 1898 Dutch National Exhibition on Women's Labour"
Commentator: Kumari Jaywardena (Sri Lanka)
Friday August 11
9:00 AM WELCOME: Pat Grimshaw, President IFRWH/FIRHF and Ida Blom, Past
President IFRWH/FIRHF
9:30-10:15 Session I:
Keynote Speaker: Rhoda Reddock (Trinidad-Tobago),
TITLE TBA
10:30-12:30 Session II: Colonial Encounters
Chair: Ann McGrath, Australia
Gunlog Fur (Sweden) "Women on the Margins: Colonial encounters in Sapmi and Lenapehoking in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva (Brazil), "Indian, Black and White Women in Colonial Brazil: Cooperation through Witchery"
Tanja Christiansen (England), "Friends and Foes: Relations among Women in 19th c Cajamarca, Peru"
Ann Paronson (New Zealand), "Community Relations: Maori and Pakeha (western) Women in 19th-century Aotearoa-New Zealand
Joy Lintelman and Barbara Bergland (USA), "Scandinavian Immigrants and Indigenous Peoples: Interethnic Relations in the Midwestern U.S., 1850-1903"
Shen Jie and Noriyo Hayakawa (Japan) , Contesting Women's Identities in Imperial Japan and Colonised Manchuria
Rapporteur: Sylvia Van Kirk, Canada
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-15:30 Session III: Women's Missions: Home, School, and Church
Chair: Lynn Abrams, Scotland
Bharati Ray (India), "The Education of Women: Conflict and Cooperation in Two Colleges in Colonial Bengal"
Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Australia), "Women's Sites of Fire and Water: Feminising and Racialising History in the Australian Borderlands"
Monica Tetzlaff (USA), "Between Black and White: Women's Interaction on the Sea Islands of South Carolina, 1915-1939"
Deborah Gaitskell (Eng), "Othering and Mothering: Christian Women Crossing South Africa's Racial Divide in the 20th Century"
Helen Harper (Canada) "Lessons North of the 60th: Aboriginal and White Women Teaching in the Canadian Arctic"
Rapporteur: Jane Haggis, Australia
15:45-17:45 Session IV: War, Refugees and Exile
Chair: Franca Iacovetta, Canada
Leslie Schwalm (USA), "Confronting Freedom: Gender, Race and the Politics of Emancipation in the American Civil War"
Brigetta Studer and Berthold Unfried (Switzerland), "Western European Communist Exiles and Emigrants in Stalinist Russia: Competing Cultures in the Multinational Milieu of the 1930s"
Marlene Epps (Canada), "Negotiating Gender and Ethnic Identities: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War"
Margaret L. Myers (USA), "Sexuality, Mothering and Motherhood after Auschwitz: Jewish Women as Displaced Persons in Occupied Germany, 1945-48"
Shirin Akhtar and Shanaara Husaain (Bangladesh), "Rohingya Women Refugees' Experience in Bangladesh/Bangladesh Women Refugees' Experience in India"
Jane Kani Edwards (Sudan/Canada), "Southern Sudanese Refugee Women: Questioning the Past, Imagining the Future"
Rapporteur: Nighat Said Khan (Pakistan)
Saturday August 12
9:00 A.M. Welcome: Nancy Hewitt, IFRWH/FIRHF Vice- President
9:15-11:15 Session V: Creating and Contesting Nationalism and National Identities
Chair: Mary O'Dowd (Ireland)
Rebecca McCoy (USA), Women and National Identity in France: Protestant and Catholic Women in 19th-century Alsace"
Ann-Catrin Ostman (Finland), "Finnish Citizens on Swedish Soil: Yeomanry, Gender, and the Position of a Minority in a New State"
Kassimira Daskalova (Bulgaria), "Woman and Nationalism, Old and New, in Bulgaria"
Anne Cova and Antonia Costa Pinto (Portugal), "Women and Fascism in Salazarist Portugal"
Elena Gapova (Belarus), "One Nation, Two Ideologies: Engineering Women in Soviet and Western Belarus"
Inger Marie Okkenhaug (Norway) "'To Nourish a sense of common Palestinian Citizenship': Jerusalem and East Mission, Women's Education and the Arab-Jewish Conflict, 1918-48'
Rapporteur: Barbara Bush, England
11.30-13.30 Session VI: Sisterhood and Sibling Rivalry: Women's Movements and Feminist
Movements
Chair: Francisca De Haan, The Netherlands
Susan Zimmerman (Hungary), "Conflict in Feminist Social Policy: The Hungarian Women's Movement in National and International Settings, 1890-1918"
Gabriela Cano (Mexico), "A Story of Love and Hate: Mexican Women Intellectuals and Activists look at American Women Activists, 1920s and 1930s"
Aparna Basu and Karin Deutsch (India and England), "Cooperation and Conflict between Hindu and Moslem Women in the Indian Women's Movement, 1927-1947"
Naziema Jappie (South Africa), "Women Building the New South Africa: Conflict and Cooperation"
Judith Zinsser (USA) "Programmes of Action: The Official and Unofficial Results of the United Nations' Decade for Women, 1975- 1985"
ADDITIONAL PAPER: TBA
Rapporteur: Birgitta Bader-Zaar, Austria
We hope to announce the final programme in the next edition of the Newsletter along with details of how to register for the Oslo conference, accommodation etc.
Congress Registration will begin in September 1999 - details on the Congress website: