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International Federation for Research in Women's History

Welcome to the website of the International Federation for Research in Women's History/Federation Internationale Pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes. 


New Book Prize Announced by Federation


The International Federation for Research in Women's History has issued a call for applications for the Ida Blom-Karen Offen Book Prize in in Transnational Women's and Gender History.

The deadline for submission is 15 January 2020. For more details click here.


The IFRWH Expresses Its Support for the Central European University

On behalf of the Federation, President Eileen Boris has written to the Hungarian government to protest against the proposed changes to the legal status of the CEU and in support of academic freedom in Hungary. For more on the current situation in CEU see https://www.ceu.edu/category/istandwithceu?page=1

 

Condemnation of Attack on Gender Studies Programmes in Hungarian Universities

  • The Central European university Condemns the Attack on Gender studies in Hungary
  • Petition of the Network of University Teachers Against the Ban on Gender Studies Programmes

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Office-holders and Board Members (Adele Perry, Asha Islam, Eileen Boris, June Purvis, Tiina Kinnunen, Carolyn Eichner, Vera Mackie)

The Office-holders and Board members of the Federation serve for five years. The current members were elected at the Federation's conference in Jinan, China in August 2015.

For short biographies of the office-holders and board members click here.


Publications

The proceedings of many of the Federation’s conferences have been published. The latest publications include two volumes of papers from the 2015 CISH/IFRWH Conference held in Jinan, China.

  •  A special issue of the Women's History Review, 27:1 (January 2018) edited by Karen Offen and Chen Yan presents papers from the IFRWH/CISH roundtables on women's history.

  • The essays in Mary O'Dowd and June Purvis (eds), History of the Girl.. Formation, Education and Identity (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) are based on the papers presented at the Special Theme session on the History of the Girl at the CISH Conference.

For more details and other conference proceedings see our Publications pages



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