International Federation For Research in Women's History
Federation Internationale Pour La Recherche En Histoire Des Femmes

Newsletter No 30  June 2000

Oslo 2000

We hope to be seeing many of you in Oslo.

General information about the conference including the full conference programme, is available on the conference website www.hf.uio.no/oslo2000

how to get to the conference venue
From the airport
Oslo's airport, Gardermoen, is located approximately 45 kilometres from downtown Oslo. An Oslo 2000 information booth will be located at the airport. We recommend that participants take the airport-express train (20 minutes) or airport bus from Gardermoen to Oslo central station.

In Oslo
Oslo is served by subway, tram and buses (Pdf format map). It is recommended that participants purchase a 7-day card which offers unlimited use of public transportation within the town boundary. From downtown Oslo, take subway line 4 or 5 to Blindern station, or tram line 17 or 18 to the Universitetet Blindern station.

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

All IFRWH/FIRHF Sessions will take place in Auditorium B1 in the main building of the Oslo University campus. A campus map can be found on the conference website www.hf.uio.no/oslo2000

Thursday, August 10
18.30-20.00 (6.30-8.00 PM) IFRWH/FIRHF Business Meeting - All Welcome

20.00-21.30 (8.00-9.30PM) A MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATION
CHAIR: Frances Gouda (The Netherlands)
Berteke Waaldijk and Maria Grever (The Netherlands), "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
Patricia Grimshaw, President IFRWH/FIRHF and Ida Blom, Past President IFRWH/FIRHF

9:30-10:15 Session I: Keynote Address

Rhoda Reddock (Trinidad-Tobago),
"Historicising the Present: Feminist History and the Women's Movement - Reflections from the South"

10:30-12:30 Session II: Colonial Encounters

Chair: Ann McGrath, Australia
Gunlog Für (Sweden) "Women on the Margins: Colonial encounters in Sami 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"
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 (England), "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: to be announced

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"
Brigitta Studer and Berthold Unfried (Switzerland), "Western European Communist Exiles and Emigrants in Stalinist Russia: Competing Cultures in the Multinational Milieu of the 1930s"
Marlene Epp (Canada), "Negotiating Gender and Ethnic Identities: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War"
Margarete Myers Feinstein (USA), "Sexuality, Mothering and Motherhood after Auschwitz: Jewish Women as Displaced Persons in Occupied Germany, 1945-48"
Shirin Akhtar and Shahanara Husain (Bangladesh), "Rohingya Women Refugees' Experience in Bangladesh/Bangladesh Women Refugees' Experience in India"
Jane Kani Edward (Sudan/Canada), "Southern Sudanese Refugee Women: Questioning the Past, Imagining the Future"
Rapporteur:Christiane Harzig, Germany

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"
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'
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"
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 Karleker (India and USA), "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"
Sacha Roseneil (England), "Differences, debates and Conflicts: The Politics of Women at greenham Common"

Judith Zinsser (USA) "Programmes of Action: The Official and Unofficial Results of the United Nations' Decade for Women, 1975-1985"
Rapporteur: Birgitta Bader-Zaar, Austria

13.30-14.30 LUNCH

14.30-16.30 Discussion of Development of International Museum of Women's History led by Karen Offen (USA)

If you are attending the Oslo conference you may also wish to be aware that a number of the main conference sessions and round tables as well as those conferences organised by affiliated organisations have women/gender as their main or subsidiary focus.

The Full programme can be obtained from the Oslo 2000 website but here are some of those sessions.

Specialised Themes/Thèmes Spécialisés

Organisers:Phyllis Mack, USA, Marian Schwegman, The Netherlands

Discussant:J.-L. Nelson, United Kingdom

Papers:

Daniel Boyarin and Carlin Barton, USA
Killing the Kids: Fathers, Mothers, and Child Sacrifice in Romano-Semitic Culture

Elizabeth Castelli, USA
Gender and Sacrifice in Early Christian Martyrological Literature

Kate Cooper, United Kingdom
Religion, Gender and the Construction of Subjectivity: The Female Reader in Early Medieval Christianity

Carol Delaney, USA
Abraham, Sacrifice, and the Establishment of Patriarchy

Pamela Klassen, Canada
Sacrifice, Agency, and Women's Medical Negotiations

Fran Markowitz, Israel
Millenarian Motherhood II: Sacrificing for Salvation

Regina Schulte, Italy
Sacrifice as Guilt

Bjørg Seland, Norway
Men and Women of the Norwegian Missonary Movement – Formal and Informal Empowerment

Specialised Themes
Thèmes Spécialisés

11. Masculinity as practice and representation/11. La masculinité: réalités et représentations

Monday, 7 August, 9:00-12:00/ Lundi 7 Août de 9h à 12h Building A, Auditorium 3

Organizer:Karen Hagemann, Germany Co-Organizer:Stefan Dudink, Netherlands

Discussants:John Horne, Ireland, John Tosh, United Kingdom

Papers:

Caroll Smith-Rosenberg, USA
The Republican Gentleman: Ideological Conflict/Subjective Uncertainty in the Anglo-American Past

Stefan Dudink, the Netherlands
Manly Moderation: Masculinity and the Invention of a Dutch Political Tradition

Thomas Welskopp, Germany
Defining Masculinity Politically: The Construction of Masculinity in German Social Democracy, 1848-1878

Marilyn Lake, Australia
The Masculinity of Political Discourse: The Representation of 'Needs' as 'Rights' in the Forging of the Australian Welfare State

Jacobus A. Du Pisani, South Africa
Mythmaking and Hegemonic Masculinity in Afrikaner Nationalist Mobilisation, 1934-1948

Sonya O. Rose, USA
Temperate Heroes: Masculinity in Second World War Britain

Michael Roper, United Kingdom
Re-Remembering the Soldier Hero: The Composure and Re-Composure of Masculinity in Narratives of the Great War

8. Gay and lesbian history/8. L'histoire de l'homosexualité

Monday, 7 August, 14:00-17:00 / Lundi 7 août de 14h à 17h Building D, Auditorium 5

Organiser:Leila J. Rupp, USA

Discussant:John Howard, United Kingdom

Participants:

Kanchana Natrajan, India
Reading Lesbian Histories from the Ancient Indian Texts

Dirk Jaap Noordam, the Netherlands
The Impact of the Enlightenment on Attitudes Toward Sodomites

Norma Mogrovejo, Mexico
The Lesbian Movement in Latin America, 25 Years of Herstory

Jens Rydström, Sweden
Beasts and Beauties: Bestiality and Male Homosexuality in Rural Sweden, 1880-1950

Marie-Jo Bonnet, France
Les Deux Amies: Representations of Love between Women in Art Since the Renaissance

12. Sport and gender through the centuries: comparative approaches
12. Sport et genre à travers les siècles: approches comparatives

Wednesday, 9 August, 9:00-12:00/ Mercredi 9 août de 9h à 12h Building A, Auditorium 3

Organizer: Gerdtrud Pfister, Germany

Discussant:Alan Guttmann, USA

Moderator:Michael Salter, Canada

Participants:

Gerdtrud Pfister, Germany
Setting the Scene – Sport and Gender: Theoretical Approach and Historical Examples

Thierry Terret, France
Rugby, the Bourgeois Society, and Masculinity at the Beginning of the 20th Century

Gigliola Gori, Italy
Womens Physcial Education in Schools and Universities during Fascicm

Fan Hong, China
Seeking Full Equality: From Cripples to Champions

Nancy Struna, USA
The Economic and Ideological Grounds for the Gendering of Sport in Early America

 

13. Gender, race, xenophobia and nationalism/ 13. Sexe, race, xénophobie, nationalisme

Tuesday, 8 August, 9:00-12:00/ Mardi 8 août de 9h à 12h

Building A, Auditorium 3

Organiser:Ida Blom, Norway

Discussant:Catherine Hall, United Kingdom

Participants:

Helen Bradford, South Africa
Competing Versions of an African Nation: South Africa c. 1920-1930

Geoff Eley, USA
Gender, Nationalism and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Germany, 1890-1920

Keith Jeffery, Northern Ireland
Nationalisms and Gender – Ireland in the Time of the Great War 1914-1918

Marilyn Lake, USA
The Ambiguities of Nationalism for Feminism in a Settler Society: the Issue of Complicity

Mrinilina Sinha, USA
The Happy Marriage of Feminism and Nationalism: Gender and National Indian Modernity in Late Colonial India

Allison Wilke, United Kingdom
Women and National Identity. Representations of Arab Women in the Arab and Zionist Palestinian Presses, 1929-1939

International Commission on the History of Universities

Thursday, 10 August

To be held at the Old Festivity Hall, Karl Johans gate (see city map)

14:00-17:00 Parallel groups Building A, Auditoriums 4, 5, 6, 7

Women at the Universities

Sheldon Rothblatt, USA (The Founding of Women's Colleges in Britain and the US in the Second Half of the 19th Century)

Joyce Senders Pedersen, Denmark (Inventing Tradition/Containing Change: The Women's Colleges in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cambridge)

Marta Ronne, Sweden (Intellectual Outsiders. Women's University Novels Published 1900-1940 and Their Historical Background)

Inger Hammar, Sweden (Gender Trouble in Universities in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden)

Inge de Wilde, the Netherlands (The History of Women Students at the Groningen University 1871-1919)

Anne J. MacLachlan, USA (The Inclusion of Women in American Higher Education-Institutional Adaption and Resistance