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Tuesday 26 February
   14.15
   16.30
Wednesday 27 February
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Thursday 28 February
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Friday 29 February
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Saturday 1 March
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30

All days


 Tuesday 26 February 14.15 

U-1  -  EDU11: Gender and professionalism in teaching
Room10.2

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Frank Simon
Discussant: Annemieke Van Drenth
Lies Van Rompaey, Marc Depaepe & Frank Simon A different kind of activism: the position of catholic women teachers in their union. Belgium, 1950-1965.
Bart Hellinckx, Marc Depaepe & Frank Simon The educational work of women religious: a historiographical survey
Isabela Cabral Félix De Sousa, Cristiane N. Braga & Cristina A. Ferreira & Telma M. Frutuoso & Diego S. Vargas The female predominance of a vocational and scientific program in Brazil for high school students
Maria Mogarro Social Origins and Teacher Training: Female Students at Teacher Training Schools in the second half of the 19th Century in Portugal

 Tuesday 26 February 14.15 

V-1  -  WOM02: Feminism and Transnationalism I: Transnational Networks and National Contexts
Room 2.10

    Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Julie Carlier
Chair: Francisca De Haan
Discussant: Ulla Wikander
Julie Carlier Shaping Belgian feminism. Transnational transfers and the forging of a national women’s movement (ca.1890-1918)
Carolyn Eichner "The Veil and the Vote: Race, Sexuality, and Feminist Imperialism in Late 19th Century France"
Judith P. Zinsser Gendering Transnational Topics: Benefits and Liabilities
Rochelle Ruthchild Russian Feminists: From Global Sisterhood to Silence
Maria Anastasopoulou The American Influence on Callirrhoe Parren at the turn of the 19th Century Greece

 Tuesday 26 February 14.15 

D-1  -  WOM11: Gender and Modernization in Balkan Societies
Cave D

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Discussant: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Dubravka Stojanovic Misogyny as Modernization? The Case of Belgrade Vaudvilles 1890-1914
Krassimira Daskalova Women within the "communication circuit" in Modern Bulgaria (1878-1944)
Serpil Cakir Women's Movement in Turkey: Historical Process and Changing Paradigms
Polly Thanailaki The role of women's press in the shaping of female model in the 19th century Greek society

 Tuesday 26 February 16.30 

V-2  -  WOM03: Feminism and Transnationalism II: Transnational Feminism and International Politics
Room 2.10

    Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Julie Carlier
Chair: Jose Moya
Discussant: Francisca De Haan
Brigitte Rath Forgotten Networks: Olga Misars Engagement in the Austrian Feminist Peace Movement (transnational and national networks)
Victoria Rowe Women's Transnational Organizing: Feminist and Humanitarian Interventions in the League of Nations' Commission for the Protection of Women and Children in the Near East
Carol Faulkner The World's Anti-Slavery Convention and the Origins of Women's Rights
Ulla Wikander Women over national borders against night work prohibition,

 Tuesday 26 February 16.30 

D-2  -  WOR07: Gender History in Transnational Perspectiv (roundtable)
Cave D

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Judith P. Zinsser
Discussant: Judith P. Zinsser
Ann Allen "Lost in Translation? Gender History in National and Transnational Perspective."
Anne Cova "Women and Associativism in France, Italy, and Portugal, 1900-1945"
Jennifer Morris Father to the World's Children: The United Nations Children's Fund
Swapna Banerjee The Father and the Child : Fatherhood as a Vector of Masculinity in Colonial India

 Wednesday 27 February 8.30 

J-3  -  ECO01: Women and Investment: England, Wales and Canada in the late 19th century
Room 3.1

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Joyce Burnette
Discussant: Kris Inwood
Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford Consols, Home Rails and Foreign Things: women and investment in England and Wales in the early twentieth century
David Green, Alastair Owens Lives in the balance? Women’s financial assets and debts in late nineteenth-century England and Wales
Peter Baskerville Women and Wealth: Urban and Rural Patterns in Late Nineteenth Century Canada

 Wednesday 27 February 8.30 

E-3  -  ORA03: Gender and its influence on remembrance, the oral-history process, the interviewer, and the interviewee
Cave E

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Sally Alexander
Helga Amesberger Doing Gender within Oral History
Terry Brotherstone, Hugo Manson Women in North Sea Oil
Pia Olsson "Only the grove whores whistle." Women's sexuality pictured in questionnaire material
Sónia Ferreira “Women’s voice place” – memory, gender and oral history

 Wednesday 27 February 8.30 

Y-3  -  WOM04: Feminism and Transnationalism III: Transnational Feminism in Latin America
Room 2.14

    Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Julie Carlier
Chair: Teresa Meade
Discussant: Teresa Meade
Jadwiga Pieper Mooney Women’s Coalition-building and Collective Empowerment: Transnational Feminism Under Military Rule in Chile, 1973-1990
Jose Moya Dangerous Women in the Land of the Tango: Anarchist Feminism in Buenos Aires, 1890-1914
Isabela Campoi Brazilian first wave feminism and transnationalism

 Wednesday 27 February 10.45 

J-4  -  ECO02: The Material Well-Being of Women: Studies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 3.1

    Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Peter Baskerville
Chair: Peter Baskerville
Discussant: Anne Mccants
Bernard Harris Anthropometric history, gender and the measurement of well-being
Stephan Klasen, Parvati Truebswetter Emigration and Gender Bias in Mortality in Ireland, 1850-1930.
Kris Inwood The Changing Physical Standard of Living for British and Canadian Women, 1850-1950.

 Wednesday 27 February 14.15 

Y-5  -  WOM16: Gender in the Early Modern World
Room 2.14

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Krassimira Daskalova
Discussant: Krassimira Daskalova
Janine Lanza Family wealth and marriage settlements of siblings in early modern Paris
Maritere Lopez The Art of Courtship in Early Modern Conduct Manuals
Daniel Murphree Conquistadores, Huguenots, and Sexuality: Constructing Gender in the Florida Borderlands, 1513-1573
Gabriele Pieri "Competent boys" and "obedient girls": Female Role Models in Catechisms and School Bibles in early modern Germany (16th to early 19th century)
Ulrike Gleixner Gender as a Medium of “expanding Piety”. The Protestant Mission to India in the 18th Century.

 Wednesday 27 February 16.30 

N-6  -  WOM14: Women and Medical Care in Modern Europe
Room 6.1

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Maria Bucur
Discussant: Maria Bucur
Sabine Veits-Falk Migration of Women Doctors (19th and early 20th century)
Lynn Lubamersky The Advantage of being “A Polish Woman, and a foreigner in their country”: the Life of Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa
Michelle Denbeste Cleanliness and Virtuousness: Women Physicians and the Hygiene Movement in Late Imperial Russia

 Thursday 28 February 8.30 

X-7  -  WOM07: Engendering Socialism. A Roundtable
Room 2.13

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Mihaela Miroiu
Discussant: Mihaela Miroiu
Shana Penn Third Space: Gender Dynamics in Opposition Movements in Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia
Donna Harsch Women and the Domestication of State Policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
Lynne Haney Reading the Past from the Politics of the Present
Wendy Goldman Family Networks in the Great Terror in the Soviet Union
Jill Massino Experience as Evidence: Women, Gender, and Everyday Life in Socialist Romania

 Thursday 28 February 10.45 

Y-8  -  REL01: Competing Identities: Gender and Religion
Room 2.14

    Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Ariadne Schmidt
Organiser: Karin Hofmeester
Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
Silvia Evangelisti Failed Jesuitesses: Gender, Religion, and Politics in Early Modern Europe
Ji Li Letters from Manchuria: Gender, Writing and Confession in Nineteenth-century Rural China
Cecilia Winterhalter St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the 19th. Century
Bojan Aleksov Women in Religious Movements in Yugoslavia

 Thursday 28 February 14.15 

M-9  -  ETH06: VEIL. Debates about headscarfes in Europe
Room 5.2

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Birte Siim
Discussant: Birte Siim
Discussant: Sieglinde Rosenberger
Rikke Andreassen VEIL. Debates about headscarves in Europe. The Danish case
Petra Rostock, Sabine Berghahn VEIL Germany: The hegemonic use of the headscarf as a symbol of subordination
Sawitri Saharso, Doutje Lettinga Moral conflicts and practical solutions: policies and debates about Muslim women’s head and body covering in the Netherlands
Leila Hadj-Abdou, Nora Gresch & Sieglinde Rosenberger Unveiling the Austrian headscarf debate

 Thursday 28 February 14.15 

V-9  -  WOM01: Women, Armies, and the Nation
Room 2.10

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Melissa Bokovoy
Discussant: Melissa Bokovoy
Petra Goedde Military Conquest as Sexual Conquest: the Gendering of Warfare during the Second World War
Holly Mayer Revolutionary Roles and Role Models: Perceptions of Women's Actions in the American War for Independence
Fia Sundevall Swedish women’s military work in the post-war period of 1945-1969
Zeynep Kutluata Gender and War during the late Ottoman and Early Republican Periods: The Case of Black Fatma(s)

 Thursday 28 February 14.15 

P-9  -  WOM15: Translating Gender: Historical Change Through a Gender Perspective
Room 8.1

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Natali Stegmann
Clare Midgley Making national heroines in imperial and post-imperial Britain: the divergent and shifting commemorative fortunes of two heroines of the Crimean War
Alison Oram Love between Women in Historic Houses: Sexual Dissidence and the Uses of the Past
Dietlind Hüchtker Gender Order as a Medium of Conceptualizing Reform Movements in the 19th Century (Zionism, Socialism, Feminism and Nationalism in East Central Europe)
Claudia Kraft Communicating processes of Social Change by the Multiple Shifting of Gender Concepts in Central and Eastern Europe Since World War II
Mohamed Malchouch Moroccan Masculinity in Literary and Historical Perspectives

 Thursday 28 February 16.30 

Y-10  -  Network meeting: Women and Gender
Room 2.14

    Network: Women and Gender

 Friday 29 February 8.30 

N-11  -  ETH21: Male Domestic Workers: Past and Present in Comparative Perspective
Room 6.1

    Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Francesca Scrinzi
Organiser: Raffaella Sarti
Chair: Leonore Davidoff
Discussant: Megan Doolittle
Francesca Scrinzi Male migrant domestic workers and the management of de-gendered racialized identities
Raffaella Sarti Fighting for masculinity. Male Domestic Workers in Italy (19th-20th century)
Maria Rita Bartolomei Migration processes and gender relation. Focusing on male domestic workers
Majella Kilkey Engendering the relationship between globalisation, migration and social reproduction: the migrant handyman phenomenon
Raka Ray, Seemin Qayum Male servants and the failure of patriarchy in Kolkata (Calcutta)

 Friday 29 February 10.45 

K-12  -  ETH13: Gender and Migration I
Room 4

    Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Marlou Schrover
Chair: Tanja Bastia
Discussant: Tanja Bastia
Marlou Schrover Migration policy, gender and (dual) citizenship
Suzanne Sinke Gendered Policies and Practices of Immigration: A U.S. Example
Deirdre Moloney Women, Prostitution, and the Differential Regulation of U.S. Borders
Maja Cederberg “Narratives of female migrants: Processes of gender, ethnicity and class, and the impact of policy”

 Friday 29 February 10.45 

F-12  -  WOM05: Relationships of care and authority across gender and generation in nineteenth and twentieth century British families
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Ann Allen
Discussant: Ann Allen
Leonore Davidoff Siblings as Carers in the long nineteenth century
Megan Doolittle Working class fathers, domestic authority and the poor law in England 1870-1910
Katherine Holden Not the mothering kind? Single women and child-care in mid twentieth century England
Brigitte Schnegg The Home of the Poor, the Poor Man’s Wife and Her Housekeeping Skills: Issues of Public Interest

 Friday 29 February 10.45 

T-12  -  WOM24: The Rhetoric of Work and Gender
Room 9

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Leda Papastefanaki
Discussant: Leda Papastefanaki
Yannis Yannitsiotis The idiom of work and the making of a local bourgeois identity in 19th century-early 20th century Piraeus society
Catherine Mcclenahan "Endless Their Labour"; Women in Blake's Illuminated Works and the British Workforce
Conchi Villar Engendering metal- work in nineteenth century Spain (1900-1930)
Dimitra Lampropoulou Proud men with suffering bodies: construction workers narrate male identities in post-war Greece

 Friday 29 February 14.15 

K-13  -  ETH14: Gender and Migration II
Room 4

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Mary Odem
Discussant: Mary Odem
Leslie Page Moch Bécassine and the Bretons: Ethnic Caricature and Community Reaction
Bihter Carhoglu The Changing Self Perception of Turkish Migrants in Europe
Erka Caro Gender and Migration Interaction. The Case of Albania
Tanja Bastia Mobilites and Vulnarabilities: Towards a Gender-aware Trafficking Framework
Derya Demirler Gender Dimensions of the Internal Displacement Problem in Turkey

 Friday 29 February 14.15 

U-13  -  SEX14: Perceptions of Women's Sexuality
Room10.2

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Klara Arnberg
Discussant: Klara Arnberg
Elisabeta Zelinka Trafficking of women in Eastern Europe. Its influences upon the concept of the ‘family’.
Claire Langhamer Prostitution in the golden age of marriage: England 1930-1970
Lena Lennerhed Finkbine and other abortion travellers
Steve Hewitt, Christabelle Sethna Gender Subversion: Abortion, Canadian State Security and Women’s Groups in the early 1970s

 Friday 29 February 14.15 

P-13  -  WOM06: Gender, race and 'liberation' in the Postwar Era
Room 8.1

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Jane Slaughter
Discussant: Jane Slaughter
Todd Shepard France, Muslim Women, and the Gendering of the Algerian Revolution
Beth Bailey "If you like Ms., you'll love pvt": Women, Recruiting, and the All-Volunteer Army in the United States
William Hitchcock Race, Sex and Power on the Normandy “Frontier”: France, 1944
Eveline Buchheim Rebuilding family life after internment. Negotiating limits of femininity and masculinity.'

 Friday 29 February 16.30 

Y-14  -  WOM13: Understanding the Aging Female Body: 1500-1900
Room 2.14

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Pat Thane
Discussant: Pat Thane
Elizabeth Hurren 'Aged, Female and Poor in an English World-Without-Welfare, c. 1870-1900'.
Lynn Botelho ‘Cough, Creaks, and Shuffling Feet: The Gender-Neutral Nature of Old Age in English Household Medicine, 1500-1700’.
Anne Kugler “Vigor and Virtue: Women, Aging, Body, and Mind”
Kathryn de Medeiros From Reproduction to New Production: The Shift in Focus on Older Women’s Bodies in Gerontological Discourse After World War Two

 Friday 29 February 16.30 

D-14  -  WOM17: Gender, Migration and Work
Cave D

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Pat Ayers
Arab Chadia Harragas in the feminine
Anne Winter Domestic servants as mediators of migration change, Antwerp c. 1760-1880
Christa Matthys Sisters, servants and fertility control in nineteenth century Flanders. Some preliminary results.
Christine Muller Luxemburg's women in Paris at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century

 Saturday 1 March 8.30 

X-15  -  CRI19: Gender Story Violence
Room 2.13

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Judith Rowbotham
Discussant: Judith Rowbotham
Elena Barbulescu Violence and Gender in a Romanian Village
Efi Avdela Stories of Blood and Gender: Cultural scenarios of honour crimes in post-war Greece
Marie Eriksson The Politics of "Marital Dissonance" - Political Discourses about Men's violence against Women in Marriage in 19th Century Sweden

 Saturday 1 March 8.30 

H-15  -  WOM09: Gendering and Memory in Interwar Europe
Room 1.1

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Discussant: Berteke M.L. Waaldijk
Melissa Bokovoy Gendering Wartime Allies: Interwar Commemoration of Ithe Entente in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Eliza Ablovatski The Deluge: Gender Danger and Fear of Revolution in 1919 Central Europe
Tiina Lintunen The Representations of Women in War Propoganda during the First Half of the 20th century
Gabriela Dudeková Women in- and after the Great War. Habsburg monarchy and succesor states.
Andrea Peto Rhetoric of Work Women's Mobilisation in interwar Hungary: Work of Mourning and Knitting

 Saturday 1 March 8.30 

Q-15  -  WOM22: Controlling prostitution
Amphitheatre 3

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Michelle Denbeste
Discussant: Michelle Denbeste
Victoria Harris The invisible whore? Germany’s failed attempt at the societal marginalisation of prostitute women, 1871-1945.
Natalia Gerodetti Female Sexuality and Mobility between Public and Private
Christine Machiels Prostitution and Women’s Rights. National Council of French Women and National Council of Belgian Women in front of abolitionist question (20th century)

 Saturday 1 March 10.45 

D-16  -  SEX07: Lesbianisms in different contexts
Cave D

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Alison Redick
Discussant: Alison Redick
Elise Chenier “Freak Wedding!”: Lesbian Marriage as a Pleasure Practice in Post-WWII Toronto
Chiara Beccalossi Female Sexual Inversion: Italian and British Sexology Compared c. 1870-1915
Florence Binard Perception and construction of lesbian sexuality during the inter-war period in Great Britain
Karen Krahulik Progressive in Provincetown: A new understanding of lesbian migration

 Saturday 1 March 10.45 

U-16  -  WOM23: Social Marginality and the Construction of Gender Roles
Room10.2

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Maria Bucur
Discussant: Maria Bucur
Sabrina Marchetti, Domenica Ghidei Asmara-Roma: A Journey of Imaginary. (Post)colonial legacies and women’s migration during the 70’s.
Jane Slaughter "Stepford Wives, Black Widows and Fanatical Females: Women Terrorists in a Comparative, Transnational Perspective"
Sonja Matter “The client’s private sphere has to be esteemed”. The discussion about the rightfulness of unannounced home visits in social work in Post-War Switzerland
Andrae Marak, Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan Better Morals Make Better Maids: Tohono O’odham Women between Worlds

 Saturday 1 March 10.45 

Y-16  -  WOM25: Round Table: Female Labour Market Participation and Economic Growth
Room 2.14

    Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Danielle van den Heuvel
Organiser: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Chair: Danielle van den Heuvel
Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Discussant: Ariadne Schmidt
Discussant: Carmen Sarasua
Discussant: Tine De Moor
Discussant: Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Discussant: Joyce Burnette
Discussant: Marjatta Rahikainen

 Saturday 1 March 14.15 

M-17  -  WOM12: Breaking Down the East-West Divide
Room 5.2

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Borbala Juhasz
Dorottya Szikra, Eszter Varsa Inclusion and Exclusion in the Building of the Hungarian Welfare State: An Intersectional Analysis of Productive Social Policy and the Settlement Movement in Interwar Hungary
Roxana Cheschebec Gender, Race and Class in Definitions of Modern Social Work in Interwar Romania
Jacqueline Heinen Breaking sown the East-West Divide through the Case Study of Polish Child care 1945-1989

 Saturday 1 March 14.15 

P-17  -  WOM21: Work and Household in Early Modern and Modern Europe
Room 8.1

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Danielle van den Heuvel
Discussant: Danielle van den Heuvel
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira Locating the maritime and the gender in an early modern Portuguese town
Amélia Polónia Women’s Labour and Households in Maritime Communities in Early Modern Portugal
Jutta Schwarzkopf Work and the Household in circum-1900 Lancashire
Valerie Burton Ten-Shillings A Week’: How Did Women Manage [Households] in English Industrial Ports?
Thijs Lambrecht Female servants in husbandry and saving strategies in the Southern Low Countries (1650-1850)

 Saturday 1 March 16.30 

E-18  -  LAB04: Gender Wage Gaps Revisited: Social, Institutional and Market Processes
Cave E

    Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Cristina Borderías
Organiser: Peter Scholliers
Chair: Cristina Borderías
Discussant: Jane Humphries
Joyce Burnette Testing for Wage Discrimination in US Manufacturing in 1832
Lars Svensson Institutions, market forces – or both? Determinants of gender wage equalisation in Sweden
Carmen Sarasua Gender gap in agricultural wages, Spain 1750-1900
Michael Huberman The gender wage gap during the first great wave of globalizaton, 1870-1900
Montserrat Llonch Gender wage gaps during the Second Industrial Revolution. A Catalan case.

 Saturday 1 March 16.30 

P-18  -  WOM10: Challenging Gender in Method, Theory and Medium
Room 8.1

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Anna Tijsseling
Discussant: Anna Tijsseling
Georgeta Nazarska Women in the University of Zurich Digital (Web) Alumni Archive: (In)visibility
Lydia Jammernegg, Natascha Vittorelli Women's Movements - "Women in Motion". Digital Archive and Historiography. Habsburg Monarchy / Austria 1848 - 1938.
Therese Garstenauer 'East' and 'West' in Research Collaboration – The Case of Feminist, Women's and Gender Studies (FWGS)
Maria Martinez Gonzalez Feminist destabilization: toward a feminism of "subversion"?

 Saturday 1 March 16.30 

B-18  -  WOM19: State Gender Policies in Comparative Perpective
Cave B

    Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Eliza Ablovatski
Discussant: Eliza Ablovatski
Anders Ahlbäck War Heroes as War Teachers: The "Jaeger" Officers, Conscript Soldiers and Military Masculinities in Finland, 1918-1939
Jessica Davidson “Women, Fascism, and Work in Francoist Spain: The Law for Political, Professional, and Labor Rights”
Tuba Demirci Regulating Marriage, Regulating Conflict: Ottoman State, The Emergence of Ottoman “Marriage Proper” and Its Discontents
Carlota Coronado Ruiz The education of female daughters: Fascism education in the Luce cinematographic news programs.