[ecrea] CfP Abstinence from Inventing Tradition and from Preserving Memories? ­­­­­­ Narratives of the European Women’s Movements

CfP:

*Abstinence from Inventing Tradition and from Preserving Memories? 
­­­­­­ Narratives of the European Women’s Movements during the 19th and 
20th Centuries*

/Conference 19. - 21. March 2018, Stuttgart-Hohenheim**/

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When the second wave of European women’s movements made their voices 
heard on the political stage during the 1970ies, these movements 
appeared as having no history and no predecessors. Apparently, the first 
women’s movement of the 19th and the beginning 20th century did not 
succeed sufficiently in embedding its goals, actions and achievements 
into the collective cultural memory. Moreover, the German example shows 
that, in the first wave, writing on the history of the women’s movement 
was limited to very few representatives. They established the 
interpretation of a women’s movement which did not essentially shake the 
bourgeois gender order and they presented their own agency as an 
all-party and interdenominational activity which supported the state and 
the nation. This self-perception may also be responsible for the 
concealment of the ties and links between the first and second wave of 
women’s movements.

Against this background we suggest the following key questions for the 
upcoming conference:

-How did the activists of the first European women’s movements work on 
their own history and the creation of their tradition?

-Did transnational efforts exist to establish historiography and 
tradition of the women’s movements?

-Which parts of the respective European movements were especially active 
and successful in creating traditions and embedding them into public memory?

-Which images of women’s movements activity were conveyed, which areas 
were marginalized or even tabooed?

-Which breaks with traditions can be observed in the respective European 
women’s movements and how can they be explained?

-How did the second wave of European women’s movements perceive and 
recognize the history and the historiography of their predecessors?**

We invite submission of abstracts for papers to be presented at our 
upcoming conference on 15 March 2017. We intend this conference to 
provide an opportunity to highlight contemporary research on women’s 
movements, and to bring together early career researchers, established 
scholars, and students to share their ideas. We welcome abstracts on any 
European region, and hope to explore a wide range of topics and approaches.

Please send abstracts of up to 500 words (in Word format) to 
(angelika.schaser /at/ uni-hamburg.de) 
<mailto:(angelika.schaser /at/ uni-hamburg.de)>and (sylvia.schraut /at/ unibw.de) 
<mailto:(sylvia.schraut /at/ unibw.de)>.Applicants will receive feedback by 1 
Mai 2017.
Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger
Akademischer Rat a. Z.
Institut für Medien, Wissen und Kommunikation (imwk)
Öffentliche Kommunikation
Universitätsstraße 10, 86159 Augsburg
Telefon +49 (0)821-598-5769
(christian.schwarzenegger /at/ phil.uni-augsburg.de) 
<mailto:(christian.schwarzenegger /at/ phil.uni-augsburg.de)>
www.imwk.de <http://www.imwk.de>

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