Program | 9th Nordic Women and Gender Historians Conference

Program

Program: IX Women’s and Gender History Conference:
Gender, Space and Borders
Reykjavík August 11-13 2008

Monday 11 August

08:30 - 10:00    Registration

10:00 - 12:00    Opening - KEYNOTE: Ida Blom - Aula (Aðalbygging - Main Building)
                       Finding a new past - from national women´s history to transnational gender
history

12:00 - 13:00    LUNCH

13:00 - 15:00    Plenary discussion - Aula
                       Integrating gender and history

15:00 - 18:00    Parallel sessions - Aðalbygging (Main Building):
                       Session 2.1     A-207
                       Session 5.1     A-313
                       Session 5.a (Gender and work) A-050
                       Session 6.1     A-052
                       Session 7.1     A-222
                       Session 12.1   A-229
                       Roundtable 5   A-218
                       Roundtable 7   A-231

18:15               Extra: Guided women’s history walk in the centre of Reykjavik.
                       Departure from Reykjavik City Hall.*

Tuesday 12 August

09:00 - 10:30     KEYNOTE: Judith Bennett - Aula
                        Women, History and Feminism

11:00 - 12:30     Parallel sessions - Aðalbygging (Main Building):
                        Session 2.2     A-207
                        Session 5.2     A-313
                        Session 7.2     A-222
                        Session 9.1     A-050
                        Session 12.2  A-229
                        Roundtable 2 A-051
                        Roundtable 6 A-218

12:30 - 13:30     LUNCH

13:30 - 16:30     Parallel sessions - Aðalbygging (Main Building):
                        Session 1        A-051
                        Session 2.2     A-207
                        Session 3.1    A-218
                        Session 5.3     A-313
                        Session 6.2     A-231
                        Session 7.3     A-222
                        Session 9.2     A-050
                        Session 12.3 A-229

17:00 - 22:00     Extra: Excursion to the historical site Þingvellir.
                         Departure from the University (Main Building)**

Wednesday 13 August

09:00 - 10:30     KEYNOTE: Ellen DuBois  - Aula
                                Henni and Bodil Ride the Waves: The League of Nations, the United
                        Nations and the early history of international women‘s rights.

11:00 - 12:30      Plenary discussion: International relations and the women’s movement
                        - Aula

12:30 - 14:00     LUNCH

14:00 - 17:30     Parallel sessions - Aðalbygging (Main Building):
                        Session 3.2      A-218
                        Session 5.4     A-313
                        Session 6.3     A-231
                        Session 8       A-051
                        Session 10     A-050
                        Session 13     A-222
                        Roundtable 1 A-229
                        Free lectures A-207

17:30 - 18:30     Network meetings and other meetings

19:00                Reception by the Minister for foreign affairs, Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir

20:00                Festive Dinner - close of conference

*18:15. Guided tour with Auður Styrkársdóttir, director of Women’s History Archives.
Women’s historical sites visited.

**Charged separetly. Guided tour – women’s history emphasised. Ceremony or cultural program at
the ‘drowning pool’