UMR SIRICE, the Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels; Laurence Badel, Peter Hallama, and Sophie Jacquot (Web)
Time: 19.-20.06.2025
Venue: Paris – Aubervilliers
Proposals by: 15.12.2024
The workshop focuses on the intersections between the history of international relations, the history of European integration, women’s and gender history, European studies, and gender studies. Since the early 21st century, historiography on international relations and European integration has undergone profound transformations, enabling the integration of a gender perspective. At the same time, women’s and gender history increasingly adopts a transnational, even global, perspective. The redefinition of concepts such as “international relations” and “diplomacy,” the diversification of actors – both male and female – and a new understanding of the spaces of international interaction have allowed scholars to move beyond a traditional political history and write a social and cultural history of diplomatic actors and practices.
These historiographical shifts have facilitated the writing of a history of international relations and, to a lesser extent, European integration that incorporates both the presence of women and a gender perspective. Research has focused on the entry of women into diplomacy, their access to positions within European institutions and international organizations, and the role of feminists and their transnational networks in international relations. This research has highlighted women’s participation in international relations and organizations, in formal and informal negotiations, in abolitionist, humanitarian, pacifist, and feminist movements as well as in the circulation of ideas and transnational social networks. It is now well established that women were more visible in the history of international relations and European integration than they appear in mainstream historiography and analyses of these integration processes.
Despite significant transformations in these fields of research since the late 20th century, incorporating a gender perspective into these scientific domains remains a challenge. Therefore, Continue reading
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