Poznan Conference Programme,

International Federation for Research in Women’s History Affiliate Sessions, CISH, Poznań 2020

27 August-29 August 2020

Preliminary Programme (18 February 2020) 

ifrwh2020@gmail.com

NB. This is subject to change.


All sessions to be held at: Collegium Historicum Wydział Historii UAM

ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7

61-614 Poznań


Thursday, 27 August 2020

14:00-14:15: Welcome by Adele Perry, Francisca de Haan, Local Organizers

 

14:15-15:45: Session 1: Special Plenary: Rediscovering Spaces of Gender History in Poland and Czechoslovakia

  • Monika Rudas-Grodzka, “Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Women’s Archive Project”
  • Dobrochna Kalwa, “Women’s History from Below. Emancipation Comes to the Village.  Women’s Activity and strategies of agency in interwar Poland”
  • Dietlind Huchtker, “Space and Gender. Autobiographical Texts of 1961 in Postwar Poland”
  • Kataryna Stanczak-Wislicz and Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, “Production of Knowledge. Between Biopolitical Discourse and Women’s Experiences of Body and Sexuality in Post- Stalinist Poland”
  • Denia Necasova, “Gender and State Socialism. The Celebration of International Women´s Day in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960”
  • Krassimira Daskalova (Chair)
  • Maria Bucur (comment) 

15:45-17:30: Session 2: Special Roundtable: Women’s and Gender History of East-Central Europe: From Local Perspectives to Global Knowledge

  • Sharon Kowalsky
  • Teresa Kulak
  • Natalia Pushkareva
  • Dubravka Stojanović
  • Dobrochna Kalkulak (Chair)
  • Susan Zimmermann (Discussant)

 

Friday 28 August 2020

9am-10:30: Session 3: Roundtable: Twentieth-Century Socialist Feminisms Around the World

  • Krassimira Daskalova
  • Francisca de Haan
  • Kristen Ghodsee
  • Linda Gordon
  • Magda Grabowska 
10:30-11:00: Break


11:00-12:30: Session 4: Panel: Women in Motion, Contest, and Conflict

  • Leanne Calvert, “Gender and Sexuality in Motion: Ulster Presbyterian Migration to North America, 1717-79”
  • Elaine Farrell, ‘She came ... thinking she could make a better living’: Criminal Irish Women in Boston, 1838-1918 “
  • Leanne McCormick, “Bad Bridget in New York: The New York Women’s Night Court”
  • June Purvis, “Gender Based Violence, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Assault in the Suffragette Movement in Edwardian Britain”
  • Carolyn J. Eichner, “The Gendered Right to Name: Challenging Law and Patriarchal
  • Tradition”
  • Àngels Solà and Mercè Renom, “The Movements of Autonomous Textile Artisan Women of Barcelona:“filempueres” and “tafetaneres” in the Seventeenth century”
  • Asha Islam (Chair) 

12:30—14:00: Special Lunchtime Session:

Session 5: Panel: Global Twentieth-Century Feminisms

  • Nancy Forestell, “Connecting and Disconnecting the Global and the Local: Canadian Feminist Involvement in the Women’s International Democratic Federation, 1945- 1960”
  • Franca Iacovetta and Cynthia Wright,  “An “American” Rebel Icon or Transnational Anarchist?: Reconsidering Emma Goldman’s Toronto Exile”
  • Lara Track, “Beyond the Iron Curtain: Women's Peace Activism across Cold War Borders, 1961-1990”
  • Ciara Meehan, ‘“Whither our emancipation?”: How Women’s Magazines in 1960s Ireland Foreshadowed the Second Wave Feminist Movement”
  • Barbara Molony (Chair)

14:00-15:30: Session 6: Roundtable: Reckoning with Trafficking: Women’s Migration, Intimate

Labor, and the International Border Control Regime

  • Elisa Camiscioli, “Mobility and Emotion: Migrant Letters, ‘Trafficked Women’ and Individual Narratives”
  • Sandy Chang, “Intimate Labor, Nebulous Borders: The Making of the Chinese Protectorate inthe Age of Modern Migration Control, 1877-1939”
  • Anna Dobrowolska, “Operation ‘Harmen’: The Socialist State and the Trafficking of Women. A Case Study of the Polish People’s Republic”
  • Julia Laite, “National Morality and the Politics of Repatriation”
  • Jessica Pilley, “Permanent Banishment: Deportation of Immoral Women from Interwar Detroit and theInternational Regulatory Regime of Prostitution”
  • Christelle Tauraud, “The French Army and Mobile Field Brothels: Algeria, France, Indochina (1939-1962)”
  • Keely Stauter-Halsted (Chair and Discussant) 
15:30-16:00:break


16:00-17:50: Session 7: Panel: The Limits and Possibilities of Cosmopolitan Feminisms on the Cusp of Empire, 1860 – 1950

  • Clare Midgley, “Cosmopolitan Feminisms Within an Inter-faith Network”
  • Margaret Allen, “Female Friendship and Collegiality Across the Missionary Movement in India 1910-30s”
  • Jane Haggis, “Building Cosmopolitan Amity in Imperial Contact Zones: ‘difficult conversations’ Between Indian and British Women”
  • Fiona Paisley, “Humanitarian Cosmopolitanism: Australian Women Internationalists, the British Commonwealth, and India in the Interwar years”
  • Padma Anagol (chair)

18:00: Solidarity Dinner and event, TBC.

 

Saturday, 29 August 2020

9:00-10:30: Session 8: When ‘Do No Harm’ Goes Wrong: Authority and Activism in Twentieth-Century Abortion and Maternity Care

  • Branka Bogdan, ”Making it Legal: Abortion Activism in Yugoslavia, 1952-1974”
  • Paula Michaels, “Activism in the Absence of Civil Society: Birth and Reform in the USSR, 1960s-1980s”
  • Ema Hresanova, “Traumatic Childbirths and Totalitarian Maternity Hospitals: the History of the Natural Childbirth Movement in the Post-socialist Czech Republic”
  • Natalia Mitsyuk, “Right for Abortion and Contraception: Women's Movement for the Reproductive Rights in Russia from the End of the nineteenth century to 1950”
  • Chair TBA 

9:00-10:30: Session 9: Panel: Maids, Markets, and Movements: Women’s Work, Empire, and

the Global Order

  • Asha Islam, “Urban Migration, Unskilled Domestic Labour and the Exploitation of Maids: The Bangladesh Case, 1971-2017”
  • Eileen Boris, Migrating Maids, “Stranded Servants, and Defiant Domestics: Confronting the Employment Agency”
  • Mina Roces, “Buying Power: Filipino Women Migrants as Consumers, 1970s-2017”
  • Agnieszka Sobocinska, ‘Girl Volunteers’ in the Third World: Race and Gender in Early Development Volunteering
  • Francoise Thebaud, “Gendering the Technical Assistance to Economic Development Furnished by the International Labour Organization: the Example of Marguerite Thibert [1950s and 60s]”
  • Adele Perry (Chair)
10:30-11:00: Break

11:00-12:30pm: Session 10: Roundtable: Women, Mobility and Clothing: The Biographies of Women and Clothing

  • Karen Tranberg Hansen
  • Else Skjold
  • Anne Louise Bang
  • Frederick Larsen
  • Sofia Pantouvaki
  • Marie-Louise Nosch (chair) 

11:00-12:30: Session 11: Panel: Mobility of Gendered Labour Traditions Between Britain and Australia  

  • Emma Robertson, “Gender on the Rails: Women and Non-traditional Employment in the Railway Industry in Britain and Australia”
  • Diane Kirkby, “Speaking of Women on Ships”
  • Katie Wood, “The International Transference of Gender Norms in the Metal Trades in Colonial Victoria Australia”
  • Susan Zimmermann (Chair) 

12:30-14:00: lunch and IFRWH business meeting

 

14:00-15:30: Session 12: Roundtable: Anti-choice Revisited - Insights from Catholic Countries (1970s-1990s)

  • Laura Kelly
  • Agata Ignaciuk
  • Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska
  • Jennifer Nelson
  • Christabelle Sethna
  • Barbara Klich (Chair/facilitator) 

14:00-15:30: Session 13: Panel: Crossing Borders: Women, Travel, and Mobility

  • Georgeta Nazarska, “Bulgarian Women Travel Writers (1920s-1940s)”
  • Stephanie Prevost, “British Women's Late 19th/Early 20th-Century Humanitarian Relief in the Balkans: Gender and Mobility Issues”
  • Rui Kohiyama, “Women in the Westerners’ Community in Tokyo and Yokohama in Early Meiji Japan”
  • Audrey Bonvin, “Transatlantic Travellers for Temperance International exchanges and influences among ladies of the early 20th century”
  • Misako Kunihara, “The Inspection Tour During the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05 by Western and Japanese Women”
  • Mylynka Kilgore Cardona, “The Tinne Ladies passed through there with only…handmaidens…’: The RGS and Selective Use of Ascribed Gender Roles in the Search for the Source of the Nile”
  • Franca Iacovetta (Chair)
15:30-16:00:Break


16:00-17:50: Session 14: Panel: A Movement Towards equality? Risks and opportunities of female traveling around 1800

  • Astrid Ackermann, “In Times of Acceleration: Female Travel Practices, Material Conditions and their Perception”
  • Stefanie Freyer, “Job-related traveling? The Problem of Balancing Motherhood and a Successful Career around 1800”
  • Claudia Häfner “A Reflection on Changing Travel Customs. Adele Schopenhauer`s Travel Guides for Women“
  • Gisela Mettel (Chair)
  • Uwe Zagratzki (Discussant) 

16:00-17:50: Session 15: Panel: Practising Feminism Beyond the Movement(s) in Nordic Countries since the 1950s

  • Astrid Elkjær Sørensen, “Practising Feminism in the Danish Labor Movement from the 1950s to the Present”
  • Heidi Kurvinen, “Practising Feminism at Newsrooms in Finland and Sweden from the 1960s to the Present”
  • Liisa Lalu, “Bourgeois Leaven? Feminism and Gender Equality in Radical Communist
  • Movement in 1970s Finland”
  • Sigridur Matthiasdottir and Ann-Catrin Ostman, “The Conscious Emigrant: Feminist Historiography and Biographies of Nordic Migrant Women”
  • Tiina Kinnunen (Chair)
  • Elisabeth Elgán (Discussant)