Intimate Internationalism: Women Transforming the Political in Postwar Europe

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Intimate Internationalism: Women Transforming the Political in Postwar Europe

Organizer
Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF); Dr. Celia Donert (ZZF); Dr. Janou Vorderwülbecke (Leibniz University Hannover); With the generous support of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.
Venue
ZZF, Am Neuen Markt 9d, Großer Seminarraum, 14467 Potsdam
Location
Potsdam
Country
Germany
From - Until
01.10.2010 - 02.10.2010
Website
http://www.zzf-pdm.de
By
Janou Vorderwülbecke

This workshop aims to explore the gendered dimension of international politics, norms and institutions, as well as ideologies, perceptions and critiques of internationalism, in eastern and western Europe from 1945 to the mid-1960s. We aim to bring together historians working on the history of women's transnational organising, the gendering of international projects and processes of integration, the connections and transfers between ideologies and practices of gender equality and difference across geographic and political divides, and transnational approaches to gendered histories of post-war Europe that move beyond the conventional focus on the western part of the continent.

Topics of discussion include, amongst others, the gender relations of post-war reconstruction and rehabilitation; the gendering of political and economic integration in western and eastern Europe; the traditionally ‘feminine’ yet increasingly complex and controversial fields of peace, philanthropic, humanitarian and development work; and the responses and contributions of social actors to international legal norms and institutions (eg UN, ILO, EEC) that either promised or limited equality between the sexes.

We seek to discover who was speaking in the name of 'women' and defining gender at the international level, and to explore the social, cultural and political processes that contributed to the gendering of international politics and projects. By inserting gender as a category into historical studies of international norms, organisations and processes of integration, we hope to trace the connections between intimacy and internationalism in a deeply divided post-war Europe.

Programm

Friday, 1 October

15:00-15:15
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (ZZF Potsdam): Welcome

15:15-15:30
Celia Donert (ZZF) / Janou Vorderwülbecke (Leibniz University Hannover): Introduction

15:30-18:30
Women and Internationalism: The Impact of a New World Order

Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck College, London): ‘Flutter-brained women’ or ‘Queens of distressed Ruritarians’? UNRRA’s army of women and the international relief project

Megan Doherty (Columbia University, New York): Woman and the PEN

Comment: Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva)

16:30-16:45: Coffee Break

Nora Natchkova / Céline Schoeni (University of Lausanne): ILO politics and feminist organizations during the Cold War: Organizing or disorganizing equality model?

Kristin Reichel (University of Erfurt): Bringing gender in – the gendered dimension of the social policy of the EEC in the 1960s

Comment: Malgorzata Mazurek (ZZF)

Saturday, 2 October

09:00-12:00
Gender in State Socialism: (Inter)national Agendas, Multiple Agencies and Transnational Organizing

Adéla Gjuricová (Institute for Contemporary History, Prague): Intimate “inter-partyism”: Czechoslovak women’s organizations 1945-1948

Chiara Bonfiglioli (University of Utrecht): Cold War internationalisms, nationalisms and the Tito-Stalin split: the Union of Italian Women and the Antifascist Women’s Front of Yugoslavia before and after 1948

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

Hana Havelková (Charles University, Prague): Gender contract in state socialism: Multiple agencies

Raluca Popa (Central European University, Budapest): International activism of state socialist women’s organizations: Shaping the UN women’s agenda

Comment: Claudia Kraft (University of Erfurt)

12:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-16:00
Women and the early Cold War: New Perspectives on the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF)

Margarite Poulos (University of Sydney): International activism during the Greek Civil War: The Greek Communist Party and the WIDF

Francisca De Haan (Central European University, Budapest): Politics and friendship in the early decades of the WIDF – an exploration based on letters and other personal documents

Melanie Ilic (University of Gloucestershire): Soviet women, cultural exchange and the Women’s International Democratic Federation

Comment: Helen Laville (University of Birmingham)

16:00-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:00
Conclusion: Theresa Wobbe (University of Potsdam) and Katja Naumann (University of Leipzig)

17:00-17:30 Break

17:30 – 19:00 Lecture and Discussion: Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University, New York)

The workshop is open to the public, but seats are limited. For further information and registration, please contact:
Dr. Celia Donert (donert@zzf-potsdam.de) or
Dr. Janou Vorderwülbecke (janou.vorderwuelbecke@phil.uni-hannover.de)

Contact (announcement)

Dr. Celia Donert
ZZF; Center of Contemporary History Potsdam
Am Neuen Markt 9d, D-14467 Potsdam

+49 (0) 331 74510-122
donert@zzf-pdm.de

http://www.zzf-pdm.de
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