{"id":57,"date":"2023-02-06T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/website.prod.unilu.spikeseed.cloud\/c2dh-fr\/news\/cfp-womens-narratives-and-european-integration-history\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:23:23","slug":"cfp-womens-narratives-and-european-integration-history","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-fr\/news\/cfp-womens-narratives-and-european-integration-history\/","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Women\u2019s narratives and European integration history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conference on 20-21 April 2023 at the University of Luxembourg. Deadline: 1 March.<\/p>

The question of women\u2019s role in international relations has given rise to a growing body of research since the mid-1970s. Topics have included pacifist activism during World War Two (Gottlieb & Johnson, 2022; Goedde, 2019; Bell 2015), the feminist movement, human rights issues (Briatte, 2020; Kaplan, 2014; Offen, 2000) and gender issues in international relations theory, as well as other subjects within the fields of gender studies and intersectionality studies (Carver & Lyddon, 2022; Hancock, 2016; Steans, 2013). Female leadership in international relations and post-war diplomacy has also been explored (M\u00fcller & T\u00f6mmel, 2022; Owens & Rietzler, 2021; Aggestam & Towns, 2018; Sluga & James, 2016).<\/p>

At European level, too, there has been increasing interest in this area. In policy terms, however, although the Treaty of Rome introduced a European gender equality policy in 1957, it was only from 1975 that a common policy on women\u2019s economic and social rights began to be developed. Research has ranged from parity issues (Bereni & Reveillard, 2007; Deshormes, 1991) to women\u2019s participation in the exercise of political power (Woodward, 2004; Union interparlementaire, 1995), the concept of gender mainstreaming as a cross-sector approach (Abels & Mushaben, 2012; Lascoumes & Le Gales, 2004) and female networks and gender issues in European integration (Hertner, 2021; Briatte, Gubin & Th\u00e9baud, 2019). But notwithstanding these efforts, in general the presence and influence of women, whether formal or informal, in power relations (Gaspard 2009), institutions (Carbonell, 2019; D\u00e9n\u00e9ch\u00e8re, 2016), international relations and diplomacy (Badel, 2021; Dor\u00e9-Audibert, 2002; Seidel, 2023) has received scant attention.<\/p>

The history of European integration and Europeanisation has developed into a varied field that has moved on from an initial focus on the vision and achievements of the founding fathers. However, even though women played a vital part in the European project launched after the Second World War (intellectuals, experts and technocrats, those with menial but essential jobs, parliamentarians, trade unionists, diplomats, activists for the European cause, etc.), their role has yet to be fully explored. Women tended to remain in the background until they began to be more readily accepted as political leaders, particularly following the first European elections by direct universal suffrage in 1979 and the appointment of the first female European Commissioner in 1989. Against this backdrop, \u201cadding a gender perspective to European memory\u201d and history (Milosevic, 2018) seems essential.<\/p>

This conference, which focuses on the period after World War Two, aims to spark discussion on topics that can inform the following issues:<\/p>