Category Archives: Topic_1. Weltkrieg

CfP: Gender and Education in the Public Eye: Transnational Histories in Print (Publication); by: 30.09.2025

Special issue of the Nordic Journal of Educational History; Badegül Eren-Aydınlık, Charlott Wikström, and Emma Vikström, Umeå Univ. (Web)

Proposals by: 30.09.2025

Since the 1800s, print media has been an important vehicle for disseminating knowledge and promoting civic engagement. This special issue examines the role of magazines, journals, and books that have served as educational platforms. These publications, often curated by educators, not only gave voice to marginalised groups across social classes but also challenged dominant gender norms and power relations.
Rather than focusing on traditional educational institutions such as girls‘ and boys‘ schools, teacher training programmes, or women’s entry into higher education (Nygaard & de Coninck-Smith, 2024; Carter, 2023; Martin, 2022; Marklund, 2021; Albisetti, Goodman & Rogers, 2010), this special issue centres on how gender and education was constructed and negotiated in the public eye in various international contexts. The growing research field on education in print has opened new perspectives from both educational history and gender history (Eren-Aydınlık, 2025; Rodriguez, 2025; Wikström, 2025; Sanz Simón & Ramos Zamora, 2023; Baker & Chung, 2020; Rosoff & Spencer, 2019; Kolaric, 2017). By stepping beyond the boundaries of formal schooling, these approaches offer broader insights into how various media shaped public knowledge and contributed to educational processes.
For this special issue, we invite papers that explore the mid-nineteenth to twentieth centuries as a period of increased participation of educators in public debates, and a growing awareness of political and social norms regarding gender. Submissions should focus on the intersections of gender and education in print media. Drawing on the metaphor of ‚printscapes‘ (Noonan, 2020), we are interested in the dimensions of place and movement in print, and how transnational and comparative perspectives can enrich our understanding of educational history. Our intention is to spark dialogue about the theoretical, empirical, and methodological challenges and opportunities that arise when engaging with transnational histories of gender and education in print. The special issue will thus contribute to the intersecting fields of print history, gender history, and the history of education.

Although the Nordic Journal of Educational History focuses primarily on Northern Europe, this special issue welcomes contributions from all geographical contexts. Submissions may address Continue reading →

Conference: Rethinking Concepts, Terms and Topics (of Military Welfare History), 09.-11.07.2025, Graz

4th International Conference of the Military Welfare History Network (MWHN) 2025 (Web)

Time: 09.-11.07.2025
Venue: Univ. of Graz

Programme (PDF)

Keynotes

  • Maren Lorenz (Bochum): Beyond the Messiness of War – Conceptional and Terminological Challenges to Historicising Military-Civil Entanglements
  • Ruth Nattermann (Munich/Leipzig): Rethinking Humanitarianism and Gender

Approaches to Military History and the History of War Welfare have changed fundamentally in recent decades. They shifted from a focus on event history, the depiction of predominantly operational levels, the monopolisation of military meanings or discourses of legitimation to innovative approaches to a cultural history of armed conflicts, which is particularly influenced by Social History, the History of Mentalities, Body or Gender History. This also applies in particular to the analysis of military welfare and care practices from a historical and social science perspective, which has undergone a fundamental reorientation in recent years, not least as a result of current care ethics debates. The conference aims to explicitly focus on the theoretical, conceptual and research-practical dynamics associated with this reorientation. It seeks to reflect about these changes in studies of care and welfare practices in military contexts and to discuss older and new concepts and their implementation in research. Referring to a problem-orientated approach, an explicitly interdisciplinary and trans-epochal orientation will be taken.

The Univ. of Graz MWHN Conference Team: Heidrun Zettelbauer and Viktoria Wind (Graz/Cultural and Gender History at the Department of History), Sabine Haring-Mosbacher (Graz/Sociology – Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria), and Sabine Jesner (Vienna/Military History Museum Vienna)

Source: fernetzt@lists.univie.ac.at

Workshop: Intimacy on the Move. Bodies, Economies & Desires Across the Long 20th Century, 07.-08.07.2025, Flensburg

Benno Gammerl (European Univ. Institute, Italy), Nikolaos Papadogiannis (Univ. of Stirling, UK), Christiane Reinecke (Europa-Univ. Flensburg, Germany) und Ulrike Schaper (Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany) (Web)

Time: 07.-08.07.2025
Venue: Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany
Registration by: 30.06.2025

In recent years, historians and other scholars have become increasingly interested in exploring the multi-fold ways in which histories of sexualities, and mobilities intersect. Our workshop aims to contribute to this emergent research on the interplays between intimacies and mobilities by shining a light on the various ways in which economies influence the intimate practices of people on the move. Our primary objective is to delve into how broader economic structures, like the various manifestations of capitalism, including racial capitalism and state socialism, as well as economic practices and the material conditions of historical actors on the move have influenced their bodily and affective practices and vice versa. In order to cover a wide range of national, imperial and postcolonial contexts, the workshop brings together international scholars working on different regions and different types of mobilities, like tourism and labour migration. In their papers, they attend to the various ways in which historical subjects navigated, were shaped by and, in turn, influenced different sexual and mobility regimes.

Programme

Monday, 7th of July

  • 10:00 to 10:45 Welcome and Introduction: Benno Gammerl, Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Christiane Reinecke and Ulrike Schaper

11:15 to 13:30 Panel I: Working Bodies and Labour Relations, Chair: Nikolaos Papadogiannis

  • Poorva Rajaram (New Delhi, India): Bodily Efficiency and the New Indian Employee in Late Nineteenth Century Colonial India Continue reading →

Newsletter of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) (2024/2) | The first Newsletter ‘Women’s and Gender History in Austria’ (# 01 2024) (Compilations)

The International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) | Federation Internationale pour des Femmes (FIRHF) (Web)

The IFRWH Newsletter Issue 2024/2 is online now. From the editoral: „This issue provides the latest updates from our global community. We are currently trialling a new, streamlined version of the newsletter. While we have asked our national affiliates to publicise important events and publications in their area, we are encouraging reports to emphasise the key trends and state of the discipline in their part of the world. Across the globe, research and teaching in women’s and gender history is hot on the political agenda. In this edition of the newsletter you will read how the discipline is surviving and thriving against this tense political backdrop.“ (PDF).
The IFRWH Newsletter is published semi-annually. It provides an overview of new international publications on women’s and gender history: It presents research projects, announces conferences and places calls for papers. The newsletter thus gives a valuable overview of the relevant research being done worldwide. A list of the all previous newsletters can be found on the website (Web).

The first Newsletter ‘Women’s and Gender History in Austria’ (# 01 2024)
As mentioned in the editorial, as of this new issue of the IFRWH Newsletter the information is only a coordinated selection of additional reports. Previously, the contributors were free to decide what and how much they wanted to report. Due to the now limited documentation in the IFRWH Newsletter, the first separate newsletter ‘Women’s and Gender History in Austria’ was compiled in February 2025 (Web).
The coordinator of (both of) the contributions from Austria is Birgitta Bader-Zaar (Univ. of Vienna).

The International Federation for Research in Women’s History
The IFRWH was founded in April 1987. The first meeting of national committee representatives was held in 1989, in Bellagio, Italy, with the assistance of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Aim of IFRWH is to encourage and coordinate research in all aspects of women’s history at the international level, by promoting exchange of information and publication and by arranging and assisting in arranging large-scale international conferences as well as more restricted and specialized meetings. National Committees serve as liaison between communities of researchers and the Federation. Find more information on the website (Web).
Selected papers presented at the Federation’s confrences have been published in several volumes (Web).

Symposium: GENDERFORSCHUNG@UniGraz, 26.06.2025, Graz

Univ. Graz: Koordinationsstelle für Geschlechterstudien und Gleichstellung in Kooperation mit dem Cluster Gender des Forschungsnetzwerks Heterogenität und Kohäsion sowie dem Doktoratsprogramm Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien (Web)

Zeit: Do., 26.06.2025, 13:30-18:00 Uhr
Ort: Univ. Graz, ReSoWi
Anmeldung bis 08.06.2025 (Web)

Die Idee der Symposien “GENDERFORSCHUNG@UniGraz” ist es, dass Personen, die zu einschlägigen Themen arbeiten und noch nicht (so) lange an der Univ. Graz sind, sich und ihre Arbeit in kurzen Vorträgen vorstellen und in angenehmer Atmosphäre in Austausch mit Personen kommen, die schon länger im interdisziplinären Feld der Genderforschung bzw. angrenzenden Forschungsfeldern an der Univ. Graz tätig sind.

Programm

13:30 Uhr | Begrüßung: Mireille van Poppel (Vizerektorin für Internationalisierung und Gleichstellung), Sarah Zapusek (Koordinationsstelle für Geschlechterstudien und Gleichstellung) und Heidrun Zettelbauer (Inst. für Geschichte/Kultur- & Geschlechtergeschichte)

14:00 Uhr | Panel “Kollektive Anrufungen – biographische Aushandlungen” | Moderation: Sarah Zapusek

  • Martina Bär: Aktueller christlicher Nationalismus in Österreich und seine misogyne Politik. Ein theologischer Weckruf
  • Anna Kainradl: „Jede Falte hat was zum Erzählen“ Aushandlungen von Gerechtigkeit bei älteren Menschen mit Migrationsbiographie aus der Perspektive Epistemischer Ungerechtigkeit

15:00 Uhr | Posterausstellung & Pause *)

15:30 Uhr | Panel “Physische Räume – soziale Beziehungen” Continue reading →

Vortrag: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger: Der König und 80.000 Mätressen: Zur Biographie Friedrich Wilhelms I. in geschlechtergeschichtlicher Perspektive, 16.06.2025, virtueller Raum

The international research network on „Military, War, and Gender/Diversity“ (MKGD): MKGD Online Research Colloquium (Web)

Time: Mo., 16.06.2025, 4:00-6:00 pm (CET)
Venue: virtual space (Web)

The monthly colloquium of the research network „Military, War, and Gender/Diversity“ (known by its German acronym MKGD) continues in the this summer semester. The recently enlarged team of organizers is very much looking forward to welcoming you online! (Web)

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger: Der König und 80.000 Mätressen: Zur Biographie Friedrich Wilhelms I. in geschlechtergeschichtlicher Perspektive
Frederick William I’s relationship with his army was considered bizarre by his contemporaries. His wife sarcastically called his soldiers his “mistresses”. It was the masculine, woman-despising habit of violence of a sergeant that the king made into the new hegemonic ideal of masculinity, albeit paired with pious moral strictness. Both – his relationship to women and to the army – represented a radical break with what was customary at the European courts. Yet, it was precisely these obsessions, which his contemporaries noted with extreme astonishment, that were credited to him as virtues by later historians. The lecture explores the question of what a biography of this royal outsider can contribute to the history of the military, physicality and gender relations. (Presentation in German.)

Moderation: Marian Füssel (Georg August Univ. Göttingen)

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger has been Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin since 2018 and previously taught early modern history at the Univ. of Münster. Her main areas of research are the cultural history of the political, early modern rituals and symbols, practices and procedures. Her most recent publications are: Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time (Princeton UP, 2022); Tyrannen: Eine Geschichte von Caligula bis Putin, ed. with André Krischer (C.H. Beck, 2022).

Full programme of the colloquium (Web)

Diskussion: Gabriella Hauch und Veronika Helfert: Der Kampf um Frauenrechte im 19. Jahrhundert, 27.05.2025, Wien und virtueller Raum

„1848, die Frauen und weiter“: Neue Reihe des Radiokulturhauses (Web)

Zeit: Di., 27.05.2025, 19.00 Uhr
Ort: RadioCafe, Argentinierstr. 30A, 1040 Wien – und virtueller Raum

1848 gründete sich der Erste Wiener demokratische Frauenverein als Reaktion auf die blutige Niederschlagung einer Demonstration gegen Lohnkürzungen von Baustellenarbeiterinnen. Der Verein forderte unter anderem gleiche politische Rechte und gleichen Zugang zu Bildung. Doch bis zum Ende der Monarchie 1918 war es Frauen verboten, sich in politischen Vereinen zu engagieren.

Wie sie sich dennoch organisierten, diskutieren die Historikerinnen Gabriella Hauch (Univ. Wien, emeritiert) und Veronika Helfert (Univ. Wien und Central European Univ.) bei den ORF-Journalistinnen Irene Suchy und Katharina Gruber.

Online verfügbare Aufnahmen zum Nachhören

  • Bericht auf orf.at inklusive Videoaufnahme der Diskussion (Web).
  • Als Folge des Podcasts „Science Arena“ (Web)

In Kooperation mit ORF Topos und Ö1 | Eintritt: Frei | Anmeldung notwendig – via Email an das ORF RadioKulturhaus Kartenbüro: radiokulturhaus@orf.at

Colloquium: Forgotten Journalists. Lived experiences and professional identities in the past, 05.-07.06.2025, Ghent

Liberas, Ghent Univ., the Laboratoire des pratiques et des identités journalistiques (ReSIC-Univ. Libre de Bruxelles) and CAMille (ULB/KBR); Christoph De Spiegeleer (Web)

Time: 05.-07.06.2025
Venue: Ghent

Programme (PDF)

Panels: Journalism and other -isms | Women journalists (I) – individual experiences | Women journalists (II) – Collective experiences | Journalists at war | In the margins of journalism | Colonialism & postcolonialism | Women journalists (III) – Crossing borders

The history of journalism has often focused on a limited number of famous individuals. Behind these big names are many journalists whose names and work have not made it into the canon. But to capture the full diversity of the journalistic field, these careers and lives need to be recovered. Three particular groups of forgotten media professionals stand out: women journalists, journalists who made an important mark on the media landscape of their colonial and post-colonial societies during periods of (de)colonization, and those who worked in sectors and areas of journalism that are often considered less prestigious. The third category includes forgotten war photographers, for example, as well as invisible news workers such as telegraph and linotype operators.
Both young researchers and established scholars, including several authors with extensive experience in professional journalism, will present new research on the experiences of forgotten journalists in very different geographical and historical contexts from biographical or prosopographical perspectives. Three panels will focus on the individual and collective experiences of women journalists and the international reporting of French journalist Élisabeth Sauvy and American journalist Charlotte Ebener. Several papers will also highlight the activities of women war correspondents during World War I.

The program includes three keynote lectures from Marie-Eve Thérenty (Univ. de Montpellier III), Will Mary (Louisiana State Univ.), and Noah Amir Arjomand (Univ. of California): Continue reading →

Workshop: Making a living, making art: Wage labour, class, and the female avant-garde, 1920–1948, 15.-16.05.2025, Bremen

Constructor Univ. Bremen: Julia Secklehner & Isabel Wünsche (Web)

Time: 15.-16.05.2025
Venue: Constructor Univ. Bremen

Modernist movements in the twentieth century have widely been accepted as middle-class phenomena, driven by figures with the education, time, and financial resources to devote themselves to creative production. Yet, as the First World War shook up the social and economic stability of many, comfortable backgrounds no longer guaranteed support. Women, in particular, found themselves in a new situation, not only gaining new liberties in the post-imperial successor states but often also facing the need to make a living. How did this affect their creativity and access to artistic education and production?
From privately sold goods made in the home to administrative work and wage labour, women artists in the 1920s and 30s followed various professions to support themselves, their (artist) partners, and their dependents. While some of this work was to make ends meet, other activities, such as journalism and editorial work, craftwork, teaching and photography, also played an essential role in developing their artistic practice. Taking this as a point of departure, this workshop addresses the invisible (wage) labour of modernist women artists and how it affected their creative work in different fields. It seeks to examine the ambivalences of paid and creative work faced and negotiated by individuals and their impact on our understanding of modernist artistic production.

Panels: Making A Living: Commercial Ventures as Possibility and Hinderance | Social Ambitions and Care Work | Art at the Margins? Making a Living Elsewhere | Modernism, Class and Wage Labour

Programme

Thursday, May 15, 2025

14.00 Introductory remarks: Julia Secklehner & Isabel Wünsche Continue reading →

Tagung: Frauenemanzipation und Geschlechtergeschichte im Baltikum vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg, 14.-15.06.2025, Göttingen

77. Jahrestagung der Baltischen Historischen Kommission (Web)

Zeit: 14.-15.06.2025
Ort: Göttingen

Die diesjährige Jahrestagung der Baltischen Historischen Kommission beschäftigt sich schwerpunktmäßig mit den Themen Frauenemanzipation und Geschlechtergeschichte im Baltikum vom 19. Jhd. bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg.

Vorträge zum Schwerpunkt (PDF)

  • Katja Wezel (Göttingen) und Ineta Lipša (Riga): Einführung: 100 Jahre Frauen als organisierte politische Akteure in den baltischen Staaten 1925-2025
  • Sirje Kivimäe (Tallinn): Nationale Bewegung und Frauenemanzipation in Estland
  • Anja Wilhelmi (Lüneburg): Deutschbaltinnen auf dem Weg zur politischen Partizipation. Das Beispiel der Baltischen Frauenzeitschrift
  • Katja Wezel (Göttingen): Von der Tabakfabrik Popow, über die Gummifabrik Provodnik, zur Ersten Rigaer Konservenfabrik. Unternehmerinnen und Arbeiterinnen in Riga, 1867-1914
  • Virginija Jurėnienė (Vilnius): The Lithuanian Women’s Movement and Political Rights
  • Aiga Bērziņa-Kite (Riga): Women’s Involvement in the Fight for Latvian Freedom during the War of Independence
  • Ineta Lipša (Riga): Female Political Activism in Lat-via in the late 1920s-early 1930s. The Failure to Unite Women of Different Ethnicities in the Latvian Council of Women’s Organizations
  • Janet Laidla (Tartu): Home Economics and Academia in Estonia before World War II
  • Zane Rozīte (Riga): Female Students as a Challenge to Masculinity: The Case of Technical Faculties at the University of Latvia, 1919-1940
  • Sigita Černevičiute (Helsinki): Violence against Women in Interwar Lithuania: Legal and Social Contexts of Femicide (1918-1940)

Quelle: HSozKult