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The Oslo 2000 Conference is beginning to take shape with the preliminary program set and the proposals still arriving weekly for the IFRWH/FIRHF sessions on "Conflict and Cooperation in Sites of Cultural Co-Existence: Perspectives from Women's History." See the call for papers on next page.
We have already received well over a hundred proposals, and Mrinalini Sinha and I met in October to begin the process of setting out themes for individual panels. We are particularly interested in receiving additional proposals on the lives of refugee women in various areas of the world and various time periods to complete a panel with two excellent papers already received on Bangladesh. We have received fewer papers addressing religious differences and class differences among women than anticipated as well. We are also eager to include a paper on Ireland in a panel on nationalist movements and papers on relations between indigenous and settler women in Australia, New Zealand and similar areas of the world. We appreciate the efforts of all of you who have sent proposals, and we will have final decisions made on the Oslo IFRWH/FIRHF panels by late spring 1999.
The registration materials for the conference will be available in September 1999 and the deadline for normal registration fees (1200 Norwegian Kroner/$160 US for faculty registrants; 600 NOK/$80 US for students and guests) will be April 1, 2000. For updated information, you can check the conference website at http://www.hf.uio.no/oslo2000 or write for registration materials to 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1008, Blindern, N-0315 Oslo,Norway. The fax # is +47 22 85 47 00.
We are looking forward to a lively program and a wonderful opportunity to meet together with our far-flung members in Oslo in August 2000.
Nancy Hewitt
Conflict and Co-operation in Sites of Cultural Co-existence:
Perspectives from Women's History
The International Federation for Research in Women’s History will be holding its next international conference at the meeting of the International Congress of the Historical Sciences in Oslo 2000.
We are still seeking papers that focus on gendered histories of conflict and co-operation in sites where women, and men, of competing cultures shared geographical or geo-political spaces. The sessions will range widely across time and space, and may include analyses of women's responses to and experiences of historical situations.
Proposals should be sent by March 15 1999 to Prof. Nancy Hewitt, Dept of History, Rutgers University, Van Dyck Hall, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA.
They can be faxed to Prof. Hewitt at 732 932 6763 or emailed to nhewitt@rci.rutgers.edu.
Please send proposals in triplicate