Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz und Dr. Daniel Schönpflug, Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas
Datum: 05.-06.10.2007
Ort: Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
The concept of „transnational history“ has achieved remarkable success among historians. It includes comparative approaches, a renewed interest in international relations, and research inspired by postcolonial studies and global history. Transnational history has opened up new perspectives for women´s and gender studies. Thus, national histories of women´s rights or welfare institutions are being compared and presented in their interrelations with each other. Scholarship on international women´s movements and on women in international organizations – such as the League of Nations or the International Workers Movement – is confronted with new questions. It now needs to be explored to what degree these movements and organisations transcended national boundaries and how debates on gender issues evolved in transnational networks of communication.Moreover, transnational history confronts the historian with regions outside of Western Europe and the United States. Recent scholarship has discovered the diversity of gender relations in imperial and colonial contexts. Accordingly, it has tested the hypothesis that a transformation of gender roles, sexuality, and racism occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century. The manifold attitudes and activities of women in the colonies, including collaboration, resistance, and the quest for new images and roles, are being discussed. On the theoretical level, research on gender and colonialism raises the question of eurocentrism in feminist movements and of „female imperialism“.
The conference is held in honour of Gisela Bock, who will retire from her position as Professor of History at the Freie Universität.
For registration please contact Kristina Schäfer (kristina.Schaefer[at]fu-berlin.de)
Programm
Friday, October 5, 2007
9.30 am
Oliver Janz/Daniel Schönpflug:
Welcome and Introduction
10.00 am
Section I:
Transnational Networks and Organisations
Chair: Ida Blom (Bergen; to be confirmed)
Karen Offen (Stanford):
Understanding Feminisms as „Transnational“ – an Anachronism?
Jane Rendall (York):
The Transnational Politics of Republican and Utopian Women in the 1790´s-1830´s
Anne Cova (Lisbon):
The National Councils of Women in France, Italy and Portugal – Comparisons and Entanglements (1890-1940)
2 pm
Section II:
Transnational Lives / Female Cosmopolitism
Chair: Marianne Braig (Berlin)
Gunilla Budde (Oldenburg):
Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitism: Female Opera Singers in Britain and Germany in the First Half of the 19th Century
Ilaria Porciani (Bologna):
Female Historians in Europe in the 19th and 20th century
Françoise Thébaud (Avignon):
Marguerite Thibert´s Career in the International Labour Organisation:
International Functionary or Citizen of the World?
Iris Schroeder (Berlin):
Female Cosmopolitanism and Social Reform: German Women Social
Reformers‘ Travels to England
Saturday, October 6, 2007
10 am
Section III:
Gender Orders in Colonial and Imperial Contexts
Chair: Francisca de Haan (Budapest)
Ida Blom (Bergen):
Gender, Class, Race and Sexuality: a Transnational Approach to Legislation on Venereal Diseases, 1880’s-1940’s
Sheryl Kroen (Florida):
Non-Consumption: Gender and Economic Recovery in the Postwar Era
Pat Thane (London):
Women and Politics in Britain and the British Empire c. 1900-2000
2 pm
Section III:
Gender Orders in Colonial and Imperial Contexts, continued
Chair: Pat Thane (London)
Birthe Kundrus (Hamburg/Oldenburg)
Transgressing the Colour-Line: European Debates on Colonial „Miscegenation“
Ulrike Schaper (Berlin)
Polygamy, Bride Price, Adultery: Indigenous Gender Relations as a Problem of Legal Discussion and Practice in Germany´s colonies
Susan Zimmerman (Budapest):
Organized Feminist Internationalism and the Transformation of Global Inequality
Final Discussion
We sincerly thank our sponsors, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur.
URL des Beitrages: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=7876