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Women Historians and National Histories in Europe From the 19th to the 21st
Century


A conference on the theme Women Historians and National Histories in Europe
From the 19th to the 21st Century will be convened at the Centre For The
Study Of Human Settlement & Historical Change, NUI, Galway on Saturday,
October 2, 2004 under the auspices of the European Science Foundation and
their scientific programme Representations of the Past: National Histories
in Europe (NHIST).

Scientific Organisers:            Ilaria Porciani & Mary O’Dowd
Local Organiser:                    Nicholas Canny

The ESF languages of discussion are English and French.

PROGRAMME


9.00                 Words of welcome by: Dr Iognaid O Muircheartaigh
(President, NUI, Galway) and
Dr Maurice Bric (Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences)
Introduced by Professor Nicholas Canny (NUI, Galway)

9.15-9.35          Ilaria Porciani (University of Bologna) Introduction to
Conference


SESSION 1
Chair: Stefan Berger (University of Glamorgan, Chair of NHIST project)


09.30-10.00

Jo Tollebeek (University of Leuven)
discussant of the following papers

-  Maria Pia Casalena (University of Bologna)
   The Hidden Place of Women in the Construction of National Histories.
Italy and France (1800-1850).
-  Andreas Boldt  (NUI, Maynooth)
   Life and Work of Clarissa von Ranke, nee Graves, and Her Role in the
Shadow of Leopold von Ranke
-  Isabelle Ernot (IUFM, Lyon)
   Women Historians in France: A Different Kind of National History in the
19th and early 20th Centuries

10.00-11.30 Discussion

11.30-11.45 Coffee


SESSION 2
Chair: Roisin Healy (NUI, Galway)

11.45-12.15

Mary O’Dowd (Queen’s University Belfast) discussant of the following papers:

-  Irene Hermann (University of Geneva)
   Women and the Writing of Swiss National Historiography
-  Nadia Smith,  IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow (St Patrick’s College, Dublin
City University)
   Women Historians in Free State Ireland
-  Maria Wierzbicka* (University of Warsaw)
   Women Historians in 19th Century Poland
-  Gianna Pomata* (University of  Bologna)
   Charlotte Shaw, Professor Higgins and Women Historians at the London
School of Economics

12.15-1.30  Discussion

1.30-2.45   LUNCH


SESSION 3
Chair:  Jan Eivind Myhre (University of Oslo)

3.00-3.30

Ida Blom (University of Bergen) discussant of the following papers:

-  Hannah Villette Dalby (University of Southampton)
   Between Diaspora and Heimat. German-Jewish Women Historians and the
Writing of Post-War German-
   Jewish Historiography.
-  Sigrid Dauks (University of Bremen)
   Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in 19th
and 20th Century Europe
-  Effi Gazi  (University of  Thessaly)
   Engendering the Writing and Teaching of National History in Mid-War
Greece
-  Mervi Kaarninen  (University of Temere) and Tiina Kinnunen (University of
Joensuu)
   Finnish Female Historians from the Early 19th to the 21st Century

3.30-4.45 Discussion

4.45-5:15 Coffee

SESSION 4
Chair: Caitriona Clear (NUI, Galway)

5:15-5:45

Mary Nash (University of Barcelona) discussant of the following papers:

-  Ida Blom (University of Bergen)
   Women Historians in Denmark and Norway
-  Dobrinka Parusheva (Institute of Balkan Studies - Sofia)
   The Balkans, Historical Narratives and Women:From Telling Stories to
Writing History and Back
-  Krassimira Daskalova  (Sofia University)
   The Culture of a Profession: The Politics of a  Discipline Bulgarian
Women Historians, 1944-2004
-  Anna Scattigno (University of Florence)
   Associations for Women Historians: Italy and Spain in a European context

5.45-7:00 Discussion

* Not in attendance.

The conference is open to postgraduate students and interested scholars.
Those wishing to participate should make prior contact with Martha
Shaughnessy, CSHSHC at Tel. 353 91 512232 or by email at
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