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).