A Conference in memory of Larissa Zakharova (1977-2019) (Web)

Venue: Moscow
Time: 29.-30.06.2020
Proposals by: 01.12.2019

The history of women in science and technology has witnessed a real renewal of historiography these past few years. Recent studies have notably shown that their presence in these fields, despite growing in strength from the late 19th century onwards, was far from being the result of a continuous and inevitable process: their accession has been difficult and reversible, and important forms of discrimination have been maintained to this day.

This conference aims to contribute to this historiographical trend, but is perhaps less interested in women in science and technology as actresses of situated practices rather than in focusing upon a dimension that is nowadays increasingly under scrutiny: the place and role of women in the government of science and technology, and in government through science and technology.

This conference thus seeks to understand and historicize the various and cumulative mechanisms that determined—that is to say blocked, delayed or promoted—the careers of female scientists and engineers and their access to high levels of responsibility, beginning in the late 19th century when women began to enter the fields of science and technology thanks to the growing education of girls. Paradoxically, although these fields have been crucibles for the ideology of progress and emancipation, women in them have always been subordinates: even today, only … read more and source (Web)

Organizers: Alain Blum (CERCEC / EHESS / INED); Patrice Bret (CAK / CNRS); Valérie Burgos Blondelle (CNRS); Françoise Daucé (CERCEC / EHESS / IUF); Grégory Dufaud (Sciences Po Lyon / CEFR de Moscou / LARHRA); Liliane Hilaire-Pérez (Université Paris-Diderot / EHESS / IUF) and Isabelle Lémonon Waxin (CAK / Cermes3)