Appropriating international spaces and professions
S’approprier les espaces et les métiers de l’international
European women and feminists in the 20th century
Femmes et féministes européennes au XXe siècle
Published on Thursday, June 12, 2025
Abstract
The workshop focuses on the intersections between the history of international relations, European studies and women's and gender history. Since the early 21st century, historiography on international relations and European integration has undergone profound transformations, enabling the integration of a gender perspective. However, writing a history of European and international relations from a female perspective and integrating a gender perspective into these scientific fields remains a challenge. Therefore, the aim of this workshop is to take stock of approaches at the crossroads of the study of international relations, European integration, gender and feminism. It will provide a forum for debate on recent empirical work and work in progress.
Announcement
Presentation
The workshop focuses on the intersections between the history of international relations, European studies and women's and gender history. Since the early 21st century, historiography on international relations and European integration has undergone profound transformations, enabling the integration of a gender perspective. However, writing a history of European and international relations from a female perspective and integrating a gender perspective into these scientific fields remains a challenge. Therefore, the aim of this workshop is to take stock of approaches at the crossroads of the study of international relations, European integration, gender and feminism. It will provide a forum for debate on recent empirical work and work in progress.
The workshop will focus on three areas of research: (1) Tools, Concepts and Approaches; (2) International Spaces; and (3) International Women's Professions. This interdisciplinary workshop invites historians, political scientists, sociologists and researchers from other disciplines whose work focuses on women and feminists as actors in European and international relations in the 20th century.
The event is organized by the Junior Professor Chair "Civil Society, Institutions and European Cooperation (19th - 21st centuries)", UMR SIRICE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Jean Monnet EUGENDERING Chair (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels).
Programm
9:30 AM : Welcome
Laurence Badel (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / SIRICE), Peter Hallama (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / SIRICE), Sophie Jacquot /UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles / Chaire Jean Monnet EUGENDERING)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM : WOMEN AND FEMINISTS IN THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN RELATIONS : NEW PERSPECTIVES
Chair : Pascale Barthélémy (EHESS / IMAF)
- Peter Hallama (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / SIRICE) : Introduction. Histoire du genre, histoire des relations internationales & coopérations européennes
- Yulia Gradskova (Södertörn University) : « Exploring women’s gatherings at the Cold War periphery to review history of women’s internationalism »
11:30 AM -1:00 PM : WOMEN'S ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONS
Chair : Anne-Laure Briatte (Sorbonne Université / SIRICE)
- Camille Meyre (CICR, Genève), « Une femme qui sait conduire » : l’incorporation des premières déléguées du Comité International de la Croix-Rouge
- Amelie Herzog (University of Vienna) : « New Actors in International Law? Margarethe Lenore Selenka and the Women’s Peace Demonstrations in The Hague 1899 »
- Florys Castan-Vicente (Université Paris-Saclay) : « Occuper l’espace du sport : les dirigeantes du sport international dans l’entre-deux-guerres (France et Grande-Bretagne) »
Lunch break
3.00 AM - 4:00 PM : EUROPEAN WOMEN AND FEMINISTS IN THE COLD WAR
Chair : tba
- Ana Marija Koželnik (University of Vienna) : « Practices of Negotiating a Collective Subject: Case Study of the United Nations International Women’s Year Programs in Socialist Slovenia, 1975 »
- Zsófia Anna Veszely (European University Institute) : « We Demand More Contraceptives: Family Planning and the Transnational Activism of the National Council of Hungarian Women »
4:30 AM - 6:00 PM : WOMEN AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE : NEW PERSPECTIVES
Chair : Laurent Warlouzet (Sorbonne Université / SIRICE)
- Carine Germond (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) : « The Invisible Ones? Farm Women’s transnational networking, activism, and engagement with the European Community’s Common Agricultural Policy »
- Pamela Ohene-Nyako (Université de Genève / Fonds national suisse) : « La décennie onusienne des femmes comme facteur d’européanisation des activistes et lobbyistes noires, 1980-1995 »
- Claire Lafon (Chaire Jean Monnet EUGENDERING / Université des femmes) : « D’un lobby féminin pour la construction européenne à un lobby européen pour la cause des femmes : étudier les origines du LEF par une analyse multiscalaire des trajectoires »
Subjects
- History (Main category)
- Periods > Modern > Twentieth century
- Society > Sociology > Gender studies
- Society > Political studies > International relations
- Zones and regions > Europe
- Society > Political studies > Political and social movements
- Society > History > Women's history
- Society > History > Labour history
Places
- Bâtiment Recherche Sud, salle 0.015 - Campus Condorcet
Aubervilliers, France (93)
Event attendance modalities
Full on-site event
Date(s)
- Thursday, June 19, 2025
Attached files
Keywords
- relations internationales, métiers de l'international, genre, féminisme, construction européenne
Reference Urls
Information source
- Peter Hallama
courriel : peter [dot] hallama [at] univ-paris1 [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Appropriating international spaces and professions », Study days, Calenda, Published on Thursday, June 12, 2025, https://doi.org/10.58079/1446a
