Felix Brahm, Colonial and Global History, German Historical Institute London
Thursday, 12 December 2019
13:30-14:00 Welcome: Christina von Hodenberg (GHI London) and Piers Ludlow (London School of Economics)
Welcome and introduction: Johanna Gehmacher (University of Vienna) and Elizabeth Harvey (University of Nottingham)
14:00-15:30 Strategies and Practices in Transnational Feminisms I
Chair: Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics)
Francisca de Haan (Central European University): Gendered Practices in Transnational Political Networks: The Case of Rosa Manus (1881-1942)
Meritxell Simon-Martin (University of Roehampton): Barbara Bodichon’s Nomadic Self: Translating mid-Victorian English Feminism into the Female ‘Other’
16:00-17:30 Strategies and Practices in Transnational Feminisms II
Chair: Indra Sengupta (German Historical Institute London)
Elisa Heinrich (University of Vienna): Travelling, Hosting, Writing Letters. Intimacy and Belonging in Transnational Women’s Networks around 1900
Sarah Hellawell (University of Sunderland): Forging a Transnational Network: the British Women’s International League during the Interwar Years
18:00-19:30 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Elizabeth Harvey (University of Nottingham)
Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam University): Cosmopolitan Feminists: A Transnational Interfaith Network in the Age of Empire
Friday, 13 December 2019
09:30-11:00 Jewish Women’s Transnationalism
Chair: Fiammetta Balestracci (German Historical Institute London)
Ruth Nattermann (Bundeswehr University Munich): Transnational Mediators. Italian-Jewish Women as Catalysts of Feminist Practices in Early 20th Century Europe
Jaclyn Granick (Cardiff University): Gendered Practices in Jewish Transnational Politics in the Age of the Great War
11:30-13:00 Gendered Practices in Communist Networks
Chair: Christina von Hodenberg (German Historical Institute London)
Karen Hunt (Keele University): What a Difference a War Makes: Sustaining Transnational Practices as a Communist Woman
Kiera Wilkins (Central European University): Helen Crawfurd (1877-1854): The Transnational Experiences of an International Communist
14:00-15:30 Women of the Political Elite and their Networks
Chair: Dietlind Hüchtker (GWZO Leipzig)
Julie Gottlieb (University of Sheffield): Conservative Women and Nationalist Internationalism in Britain: A Case Study of Edith Lady Londonderry
Victoria Phillips (Columbia University, New York): The Other Dulles: Eleanor’s Wars in Divided Europe, 1917–1961
16:00-18:00 Translating and Transferring Christian Values
Chair: Georgina Brewis (University College London)
Deepra Dandekar (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
Translating the Mission into Vernacular in Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra
Jennifer Bond (University College Dublin): ‘Our country’s future leaders’: The YWCA within Mission Schools for Girls in Republican Era East China, 1918–1949
Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University): University Students, Internationalism and the Politics of Gender
Saturday, 14 December 2019
09:30-11:00 Cross-border Ultra-Nationalism and Fascism
Chair: Anna Hajkova (University of Warwick)
Toni y Morant (University of València): “We want a great country, like yours”. Spanish Fascist Women in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936–1945
Flavia Citrignio (University of Potsdam): The Duce’s Cheerleaders and the Führer’s Spies. Reconstructing and Comparing the Dynamics of a Developing Fascist Network of Girls’ Organizations
11:00-12:30 Exiles, Migrations: Working Couples and their Networks
Chair: Meritxell Simon-Martin (University of Roehampton)
Susanna Erlandsson (Uppsala University): Gendered Practices and Influence in Diplomats’ Networks in the 1940s and 1950s
Katharina Prager (University of Vienna): Networking Hollywood and Central Europe in the 1930s and 1940s – Salka Viertel’s Network between Salon and Popular Front
12:30-14:00 Concluding Roundtable Discussion: Towards a Practice Turn in Transnational Gender History
Chair: Johanna Gehmacher (University of Vienna)
Participants: Lynn Abrams (University of Glasgow), Maud Anne Bracke (University of Glasgow), Anna Hajkova (University of Warwick), Dietlind Hüchtker (GZWO Leipzig)