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Autore: Tommaso Vitale
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Oggetto: [movimenti.bicocca] Labouring feminism and feminist working-class
> Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in Europe and
> Beyond International Conference 28-31 August 2008 in Stockholm
>
> In September 2005 the first ‘Labouring feminism conference’ was held
> at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto. We have the great
> pleasure to
> invite everyone to participate in continuing this initiative to
> focus on labour and gender from a historical perspective in
> Stockholm in August
> 2008. The aim of the conference is to bring together a wide variety
> of feminist scholars working on various aspects of labour history,
> broadly
> defined, to share their research, to carry on a dialogue across
> generational, theoretical, national and disciplinary boundaries and to
> continue the debate on how to re-conceptualize working-class history
> in more inclusive ways.
>
> The conference is structured around five overlapping and inter-
> related themes:
> • Gendering working-class history
> • Labour feminism and female activism
> • Women and work – paid and unpaid
> • Bodies - trade and consumption – local, regional and international
> perspectives
> • Cultural and ideological representations of gender related to the
> above topics
>
> Call for Papers
> Please note that the deadline for a paper or session proposal has
> passed.
>
> *Registration*
>
> All conference participants are required to register at the conference
> website www.arbark.se/labfem2/ When you have registered we will send
> you
> information on the final registration, payment, and accommodation.
> Conference registration for listeners will be available from *April 1
> 2008 until May 15*.
> *The conference fee is 1900 SEK for listeners*. The conference fee
> includes coffee and lunches and the conference dinner. Furthermore you
> have an option for an excursion on Sunday August 31 when registering
>
> Planning committee
> Perihan Aydin (Labour Movement Archives and Library, Stockholm)
> Dr. Silke Neunsinger (Labour Movement Archives and Library, Stockholm)
> Dr. Yvonne Svanström (Department of Economic History, University of
> Stockholm)
> Dr. Anna Thoursie (Agora, Stockholm)
> Prof. Ulla Wikander (Department of Economic History, University of
> Stockholm)
> Prof. Ebba Witt Brattström (Comparative Literature, University College
> of Södertörn)
>
> International advisory committee
>
> Professor Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara;
> Professor Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers university; Professor Dorothy
> Driver, University of Adelaide¸ Professor Miriam Glucksmann,
> University
> of Essex; Professor Gro Hagemann, Oslo university; Professor Karen
> Hunt,
> Keele University; Professor Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto;
> Professor Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University; Nathalie Le
> Bouteillec, Université Picardie-Jules Verne, Dr Gisela Notz,
> Friedrich-Ebert Foundation Bonn; Professor Bente Rosenbeck, university
> of Copenhagen; Associate Professor Kimberly L. Phillips, William and
> Mary, Williamsburg
>
> www.arbark.se/labfem2/
>
>
> --
> Silke Neunsinger
> Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek
> Labour movement archives and library
> Box 1124
> S-11181 Stockholm
> tel +46-8-4123927




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Tommaso Vitale
Dipartimento di Sociologia e della Ricerca Sociale
Università di Milano Bicocca
via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8
20126 Milano
tel: ++39.02 6448 7477
fax: ++39.02 6448 7561
skype: tomvita

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