Gendering EU; European integration history; Social rights; Women's rights; Feminism; International relations; Diplomacy; Methodologies; Oral history; Interdisciplinarity; Epistemic communities; Public history; Women in East-West dialogue
Résumé :
[en] The history of European integration and Europeanisation has developed into a varied field that has moved on from an initial focus on the vision and achievements of the founding fathers. However, even though women played a vital part in the European project launched after the Second World War, their role has yet to be fully explored. Women tended to remain in the background until they began to be more readily accepted, from the mid-1970 onwards, as political leaders, particularly following the first European elections by direct universal suffrage (1979) and the appointment of the first female European Commissioner (1989). By adopting an interdisciplinary approach and divers methodological backgrounds, the conference aims to analyse the topic of women from a variety of perspectives including specific historiographical traditions and theories related to the history of women, biographical narratives in the development of the European project, the “female lobby” in favour and against Europe, gendered entanglements related to European democracy, rights, policies, institutions and actors, digital storytelling and oral history in developing new knowledge of the past. This interdisciplinary conference - which has been focused on the period after World War Two - has at is objective to spark discussion on topics that can inform the following issues: specific historiographical traditions, theories, methodologies and approaches related to the history of women in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries; biographical perspectives of outstanding women; the “female lobby; women in East-West dialogue; women and Euroscepticism; gendered perspectives of democracy; norms and practices in gathering, preserving, sharing and disseminating the memory of women who have played an active role on the European stage (oral history, text mining, network analysis, etc.)
The conference is organised in connection with the project “The role of women in European and international relations in Luxembourg” (2021-2025), developed by the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg (ED-UNILU).
Centre de recherche :
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Contemporary European History (EHI)
The role of women in European and international relations in Luxembourg (2021-2025) Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg (2021-2025)
Organisme subsidiant :
EU - European Union Unilu - University of Luxembourg
N° du Fonds :
Ares (2021-2025) 5501634
Subventionnement (détails) :
Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg (ED-UNILU) is a competitive public history project co-funded by the European Union - Ares (2021-2025) 5501634, which the is geared towards a broad multicultural and multilingual audience, with the aim of informing citizens about the past, present and future of the European Union and contributing to the development of teaching and research on European integration in Luxembourg. The ED-UNILU is coordinated by the Luxembourg interdisciplinary Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and managed by Dr Elena Danescu, Research Scientist at the C²DH.
On 20 and 21 April 2023 the University of Luxembourg has hosted the conference entitled “Women’s narratives and European integration history”. Organised by the Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg (ED-UNILU) and the Luxembourg Centre for contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) in the framework of the oral history research project entitled “The role of women in European and international relations of Luxembourg” (led by Dr Elena Danescu, Research Scientist at the C2DH), this conference gathered outstanding interdisciplinary researchers from universities and interdisciplinary research centers in Germany, France, Norway, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Poland, UK, Luxembourg, as well as the European University Institute (EUI) and the Historical Archives of the EU (Florence). This conference, which has been focused on the period after World War Two, has at is objective to spark discussion on topics that can inform the following issues: specific historiographical traditions, theories, methodologies and approaches related to the history of women in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries; biographical perspectives of outstanding women; the “female lobby; women in East-West dialogue; women and Euroscepticism; gendered perspectives of democracy; norms and practices in gathering, preserving, sharing and disseminating the memory of women who have played an active role on the European stage (oral history, text mining, network analysis, etc.)
Commentaire :
The conference was opened with an address by Prof.Dr Simone Niclou, Vice-Rector for Research who emphasized the research priorities at the University of Luxembourg and highlighted in this context the importance of projects devoted to women in the implementation of the European project, as well as to a gendered perspectives and issues related to European democracy, rights, policies. Another address has been given by Prof.Dr Valérie Schafer, Head of the department “Contemporary history of Europe” at the C2DH, who underlined the significance of new methods and tools, and of the digital storytelling in developing new knowledge of the past, including the topic related to women in a broad interdisciplinary perspective. The conference had also two invited speakers: Dr Martine Reicherts, President of the National Research Fund in Luxembourg, and Prof.Dr Mauve Carbonell, Jean Monnet Chair at Aix-Marseille University, and President of the Tethys Consortium of Euro- Mediterranean Universities.
