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Preliminary program

timetables for themesessions

Thursday 11 August 2005
18.00 - Opening program: "Women in politics, culture and science" Paneldiscussion on Finnish and Nordic Women's History (In Finnish and Scandinavian languages)
Place: Åbo Akademi University, Arken, Aud. Armfelt, Tehtaankatu 2
Friday 12 August 2005
8.00-16.00 Registration: Educarium, main hall
Assistentinkatu 5
20014 Turun Yliopisto
10.00-10.30 Opening address by Anu Lahtinen, University of Turku

10.30-12.00

 

 

 

 

Educarium 1

Keynote lecture by Prof. Liz Stanley:
& the Schreiner epistolarium & the Schreiner epistolarium     
                     Archigraphics:
                                      in
the politics, ethics & theoretics of feminist historiography

Every word, every insertion, every deletion, of my title is meant and matters and concerns the complex dynamics and character of archigraphics in feminist scholarship. As the doubts and reassertions in the title will indicate, my presentation will be both abstract and concrete.
12.00-13.30 Lunch, opening of poster exhibition

13.30-14.30

Educarium 1

Keynote lecture by Ph.D Katriina Honkanen, Åbo Akademi University, Finland:
On the importance of historicizing for feminist constructivist thinking.

14.30-14.45 Break

14.45-16.00

 

 

 

 

Educarium 1

Main session I "Gender and knowledge - use, misuse and non-use of history in women's studies" (In English)

Panel discussion on the relationship between feminism, theory and understandings of history. Chair: Prof. Gro Hagemann, University of Oslo, Norway

Panelists: Katriina Honkanen, Finland, Gro Hagemann, Norway, Anu Koivunen, Finland, Hilde Römer Christensen, Denmark, David Tjeder, Sweden

16.00-16.30 Coffee break, opening of book stalls
16.30-18.00
Parallel sessions I
1. Ethics and the role of the researcher in history-writing
2. Nordic zealots - Gender and colonialism in Christian missions and development aid
3. Foucault and the Writing of Feminist History.
4. Free papers

Roundtable:
1. Könade krigsminnen under efterkrigstiden i Norden
Evening program 18.00 Guided City Tour
Evening program 19.30 Welcome Reception at City Hall, (Aurakatu 2)
Evening program 21.30 Chamber music by female composers at Academy Hall (Rothovuksenkatu 2)
Saturday 13 August 2005

9.00-10.30

Educarium 1

Keynote lecture by Prof. Clare Midgley, Metropolitan University, London, UK:
'Bringing the Empire home: Women activists in Imperial Britain'
10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-13.00

 

 

 

Educarium 1

Main session II "Colonialism and Nordic Women's History - Postcolonial Challenges" (in English)

Panelists: Gunlög Fur, Sweden, Anne Trine Larsen, Denmark, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Norway

Panel discussion on the meanings of racism and colonialism for Nordic women's history. Chair: Phil. Lic. Seija Jalagin, University of Oulu, Finland
13.00-14.30 Lunch at Restaurant Macciavelli, Educarium
14.30-16.00

Parallel sessions II
1. Ethics and the role of the researcher in history-writing
2. Postcolonial challenges for women's history
3. Nordic zealots - Gender and colonialism in Christian missions and development aid
4. Women writing history
5. Historical Knowledge and Masculinity

Roundtable:
1. Män, pengar och vänskap - sätt att studera kvinnorörelsens organisering
2. Gymnastics and Dance in Forming Femininities in the Nordic Countries
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.00
Parallel sessions III
1. Ethics and the role of the researcher in history-writing
2. Postcolonial challenges for women's history
3. Nordic zealots - Gender and colonialism in Christian missions and development aid
4. Women Writing History
5. Historical Knowledge and Masculinity
6. Women, Skill and Employment
7. Free papers

Roundtable:
1. At the Margins of Prostitution Control. The Nordic Countries 1880-1940
2. Gymnastics and Dance in Forming Femininities in the Nordic Countries

18.00-19.00 Meeting for members of föreningen SKOGH -
Sveriges kvinno-och genushistoriker. Educarium 1

Evening program 19.00 Conference Banquet at Arken, Tehtaankatu 2.
Sunday 14 August 2005
9.30-11.00
Parallel sessions IV
1. Women Writing History
2. Historical Knowledge and Masculinity
3. Gender and the history of childhood
4. Women, Skill and Employment
5. Gender and the public-sector from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century

Roundtable:
1. The cold war - a gendered conflict?
2. Gender, Narrative and Analysis in the Making of Intellectual Biographies from the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00
Parallel sessions V
1. Historical Knowledge and Masculinity
2. Gender and the history of childhood
3. Women, Skill and Employment
4. Gender and the public-sector from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century
5. Free papers

Roundtable:
1. A matter of style: the surface performers of gender
13.00-14.00 Lunch at Macciavelli, Educarium

14.00-14.45

Educarium 1

Karen Offen, Senior Scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University:
Plucking the Apple from the Tree of Knowledge: European Women and the 'Knowledge Wars'

14.45-16.00

 

 

 

Educarium 1

Main session III "Women's history now - segregation, integration, reproduction" (In Nordic languages).

Panelists: Sigridur Matthiasdottir, Iceland, Eirinn Larsen, Norway, Silke Neunsinger, Sweden, Anne Folke Henningsen, Denmark, Ann-Catrin Östman, Finland

Panel discussion and closing words
Chair: Marianne Liljeström, University of Turku, Finland.
Evening program: 16.00-19.30 Excursion to Naantali