Thursday, October 19, 2023
(University of Konstanz, Building K, Conference Room Level K7)

03:00 p.m.
Arrival

03:00–03:15 p.m.
Conference registration and welcome coffee on level K07

03:30–04:00 p.m.
Welcome and conference introduction
Anne Kwaschik (University of Konstanz): Welcome
All conveners: Introductory remarks

04:00–06:00 p.m.
Health knowledge as a source of women’s empowerment
Chair: Emeline Fourment (University of Rouen, University of Konstanz, Sciences Po Paris)
Comment: Sylvie Chaperon (University of Toulouse)

Lucile Ruault (CNRS, Cermes3): Beyond the weakness of French self-help: MLAC groups as sources of feminist health knowledge across Western Europe in the 1970s

Ieva Balčiūnė (Lithuanian Institute of History): Visiting sisters: women's medical care in the provinces of Soviet Lithuania

Agata Ignaciuk (University of Granada): Gender, activism and healthcare: abortion providers in Spain (1980s–2000s)

Lucile Queré (HES-SO Valais): From women’s health to lesbians’ health activism? The transformation of health feminism in the 1980s in Western Europe

06:00–06:15 p.m.
Coffee Break

06:15–07:30 p.m.
Roundtable: Creating a network for the study of transnational health feminism – Perspectives, challenges, funding options
Chair: Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe)

07:30–09:00 p.m.
Dinner

Friday, October 20, 2023

09:00–10:30 a.m.
Keynote
Chair: Isabel Heinemann (University of Bayreuth)
Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow) Contesting global sisterhood: the global women's health movement of the 1970s–1990s and the blind spots of Western feminism

10:30–10:45 a.m.
Coffee break

10:45 am–12:30 p.m.
Knowledge transfer across borders and times
Chair: Abena A. Yalley (University of Konstanz)
Comment: Jane Freeland (Queen Mary College London)

Kena Henrietta Stüwe (Humboldt University): Anarchist perspectives on women’s health and reproductive rights in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic

Isabel Heinemann (Bayreuth University): Challenging patriarchy and the state: health feminism in the two Germanies, 1970s–1990s

Alissa Belotti (University of Haifa): „Failure to Graft”: breast cancer and the limits of American women’s health activism in Germany

12:30–02:00 p.m.
Lunch

02:00–03:45 p.m.
Transnational encounters as sites of knowledge transfer
Chair: Anne Kwaschik (University of Konstanz)
Comment: Imke Schmincke (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

Emeline Fourment (University Rouen Normandie, University of Konstanz, Sciences Po Paris), Bibia Pavard (University Paris 2, Carism): “Towards an international network of information”. The 1974 International Women’s Conference in Francfort and the circulation of feminist self-help knowledge

Carolina Topini (University College London): Forging an intersectional movement. Feminist Health Conferences and the transnational transfer of reproductive knowledge (late 1970s–first half of the 1980s)

Kassandra Hammel (University of Tübingen): „Die Frauen reisen viel herum [...]“ Exchanging feminist health knowledge beyond borders

03:45–04:00 p.m.
Coffee break

04:00–05:45 p.m.
Women’s health activism between grassroot movements and the state
Chair: Claudia Roesch (University of Konstanz)
Comment: Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe)

Peirou Chu (ENS Lyon): Marriage and sexual counselling centres: the space of sexual reform

Agnieszka Kościańska (University of Warsaw): Modern catholic women? Polish religious activism of the 1960s

Tamta Melashvili (Tbilisi State University): Zhenotdels and peasant women: contested health feminisms in early Soviet Georgia

07:00 p.m.
Dinner

Saturday, October 21, 2023

09:30–11:15 a.m.
Women’s health activism and technologies of reproductive control
Chair: Bibia Pavard (University Paris 2, Carism)
Comment: Claudia Roesch (University of Konstanz)

Veronika Lacinová Najmanová (University of Pardubice): Women's health as an (un)important motive in the promotion of contraception in Czechoslovakia

Nadezhda Beliakova (University of Bielefeld), Nataliya Shok (W. Wilson International Center for Scholars): Rights / Duties / „Traditions“? Controversial women’s health policies in the late soviet republics

María Mundi López (EHESS, University of Granada): RU486: social controversies provoked by a new technology (1980–1990)

11:15–11:30 a.m.
Coffee break

11:30–12:15 a.m.
Final discussion and ideas for further cooperation
Chairs: Anne Kwaschik (University of Konstanz), Isabel Heinemann (University of Bayreuth), Emeline Fourment (Rouen Normandie University, University of Konstanz, Sciences Po Paris), Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe)