{"id":9303,"date":"2023-03-27T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T09:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/womens-narratives-and-european-integration-history\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T09:03:29","slug":"womens-narratives-and-european-integration-history","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/womens-narratives-and-european-integration-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s narratives and European integration history"},"content":{"rendered":"

This conference explores women’s role in the European project launched after the Second World War.<\/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, their role has yet to be fully explored. Women tended to remain in the background until they began to be more readily accepted, from the mid-1970 onwards, as political leaders, particularly following the first European elections by direct universal suffrage (1979) and the appointment of the first female European Commissioner (1989). By adopting an interdisciplinary approach and divers methodological backgrounds, the conference aims to analyse the topic of women from a variety of perspectives including specific historiographical traditions and theories related to the history of women, biographical narratives in the development of the European project, the \u201cfemale lobby\u201d in favour and against Europe, gendered entanglements related to European democracy, rights, policies, institutions and actors, digital storytelling and oral history in developing new knowledge of the past.<\/p>

The conference is organised in connection with the project \u201cThe role of women in European and international relations in Luxembourg\u201d (2021-2025)<\/a>, developed by the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C\u00b2DH) and Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg (ED-UNILU).<\/p>

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\nProgramme<\/h3>\n\n

\nThursday 20 April 2023<\/h4>\n

13.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Welcome and light lunch<\/p>

14.00<\/p>

Opening session<\/strong><\/p>

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Opening address \u2013 Simone Niclou<\/strong>, Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Luxembourg<\/p>

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Welcome address \u2013\u00a0Val\u00e9rie Schafer<\/strong>, Head of the Contemporary European History (EHI) research area at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C\u00b2DH)<\/p>

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Introduction \u2013 Elena Danescu<\/strong>, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History<\/p>

14.20<\/p>

Women who have shaped Europe: a dialogue with Martine Reicherts<\/strong>, former Director General of the Publications Office of the European Union, former European Commissioner for Justice and current President of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)<\/p>

15.00<\/p>

Coffee break<\/p>

15.15<\/p>

Panel I, Chair: Sonja Kmec (University of Luxembourg)<\/strong><\/p>

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Gender and career inside the High Authority of the ECSC and the European Commission administration (1952-1995)<\/i><\/p>

Aude Foucoin<\/strong> (European University Institute)<\/p>

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Presence and influence? A study of female representation in the European Parliament during the European Economic Community years<\/i><\/p>

Winona Kamphausen<\/strong> (Maastricht University)<\/p>

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Agriculture is a man\u2019s world, but is it? Female MEPs in the Committee on Agriculture (1958-1994)<\/i><\/p>

Carine Germond<\/strong> (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)<\/p>

16.50<\/p>

Coffee break<\/p>

17.00<\/p>

Panel II, Chair: Katja Seidel (University of Westminster) <\/strong><\/p>

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Capturing women\u2019s history through documentary multimedia collections at the Historical Archives of the European Union: challenges and issues<\/i><\/p>

Dieter Schlenker<\/strong> (Historical Archives of the European Union, European University Institute)<\/p>

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No more undocumented: On the first twelve women of the European Chamber<\/i><\/p>

Simona Guerra<\/strong> (University of Surrey)<\/p>

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Women in international relations in Luxembourg: Pioneers and their memories<\/i><\/p>

Elena Danescu<\/strong> and Fran\u00e7ois Klein<\/strong> (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History)<\/p>

19.00<\/p>

Conference dinner<\/p>\n

\nFriday 21 April 2023<\/h4>\n

08.45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Welcome<\/p>

09.00<\/p>

Panel III, Chair: Fran\u00e7ois Klein (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History)<\/strong><\/p>

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Madame Europe: Katharina Focke, the German Social Democrats and European integration<\/i><\/p>

Bastian Matteo Scianna<\/strong> (University of Potsdam)<\/p>

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Formal and informal diplomacy: Miriam Camps and European Integration<\/i><\/p>

Katja Seidel<\/strong> (University of Westminster)<\/p>

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Eliane Vogel Polsky \u2013 A biographical digital story<\/i><\/p>

Film<\/a> by Agn\u00e8s Hubert<\/strong> \u00a0(Foundation for European Progressive Studies)<\/p>

10.30<\/p>

Coffee break<\/p>

10.45<\/p>

Keynote address:\u00a0A world of men in three-piece suits? In search of women in the history of European integration<\/strong><\/p>

Mauve Carbonell\u00a0<\/strong>(Jean Monnet Chair, Lecturer in History, Aix-Marseille Unviersity)<\/p>

11.45<\/p>

Panel IV, Chair: Elena Danescu (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History)<\/strong><\/p>

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The price of \u201ctrue story\u201d: The history of European integration in the autobiographical prose of Agnieszka Osiecka<\/i><\/p>

Katarzyna Hanik<\/strong> (University of Silesia in Katowice)<\/p>

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Aspects of the participation of Greek women in the European Women\u2019s Lobby: Three narratives<\/i><\/p>

Marina Bantiou<\/strong> (University of Thessaly)<\/p>

Rethinking of European women\u2019s effort for gender equality<\/i><\/p>

Meliha Nur \u00c7er\u00e7inli<\/strong> (Republic of Turkey Presidential State Archives)<\/p>

13.15<\/p>

Closing remarks<\/p>

Elena Danescu<\/strong>, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History<\/p>

13.30<\/p>

Brown bag lunch<\/p>\n

\nKeynote Speakers<\/h3>\n
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Mauve Carbonell<\/strong>, Jean Monnet Chair, is a lecturer in history at Aix-Marseille University, president of the Tethys Consortium of Euro-Mediterranean Universities,\u00a0director of\u00a0the European and International Studies master’s degree, researcher at the UMR TELEMMe. She is also, for Aix-Marseille, coordinator of the international Erasmus Mundus master’s degree \u00ab\u00a0South European Studies\u00a0\u00bb EUROSUD. Her work focuses on the European Communities in their early days as well as on the industrial and environmental history of Europe and the Mediterranean in the 20th century.<\/p>

Main publications:<\/p>