Friday
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09.15 – 10.30 |
Welcome and first plenary event |
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10.30 – 11.30 |
Introductory meeting: Introduction of session proposals |
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11.30 – 12.15 |
Coffee break and voting |
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12.15 – 13.30 |
Lunch break |
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13.30 – 13.45 |
Presentation of the program and rooms |
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14.00 – 15.00 |
Block 1 (Sessions 1-4) |
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15.00 – 15.30 |
Coffee break |
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15.30 – 16.30 |
Block 2 (Sessions 5-8) |
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16.30 – 17.30 |
Joint conclusion session |
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18.00 |
Apéro |
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20.00 |
Evening program |
Saturday
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08.45 – 10.30 |
Welcome and second plenary event |
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10.30 – 10.45 |
Coffee break |
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10.45 – 11.45 |
Block 3 (Sessions 9-12) |
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11.45 – 12.15 |
Brownbag lunch |
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12.15 – 13.15 |
Block 4 (Sessions 13-16) |
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13.15 – 14.00 |
Joint conclusion session |
Plenary event “Inputs to kick it off: From the Swiss Historians’ Conferences to the Historians’ Unconference” (Friday 7 June, 9.15-10.30)
Voluntary work, networking, feminist history writing, abuse of power, precarious working conditions, activism – these are some of the keywords that the first plenary event will use to address issues that have preoccupied historians in various professional fields for many years. The same topics were already discussed at the “Schweizerische Historikerinnentagungen” (Swiss Historians’ Conferences) in the 1980s and 1990s. With the Unconference, the Swiss Network of Female Historians is inviting historians to revisit such issues together. Noemi Steuerwald (doctoral student at the University of Bern), Béatrice Ziegler (professor emeritus and participant in the first “Schweizerische Historikerinnentagungen” in 1983), Pauline Milani (co-editor of the lexicon on the history of women in Switzerland and lecturer at the University of Fribourg) and Barbara Rettenmund (theatre-creating historian, teacher and co-organiser of the 7th “Schweizerische Historikerinnentagungen” in 1993) will talk about progress, stagnation, groundbreaking shifts, new phenomena and visions for the future in the everyday professional life of historians in Switzerland. The talk will be moderated by Anna de Quervain (member of the Grand Council of the canton of Bern and former board member of the Swiss Network of Female Historians). The plenary session will open the Historians’ Unconference and provide input for the rest of the event.
Gosteli Talks 2024 happening as part of the Historians’ Unconference 2024
The Gosteli Foundation – Archive for the History of the Swiss Women’s Movement is holding its annual Gosteli Talks in partnership with the Swiss Network of Female Historians this year. As part of the Historians’ Unconference 2024, the Gosteli Foundation organises two sessions and the plenary event on Saturday morning.
Session “Feminist Archival Practice” (Friday, 7 June 2024, 14.00-15.00)
The session “Feminist Archival Practice” aims to unite archival practitioners with researchers. We will focus on the collaboration between archives and research and the challenges as well as occasional misunderstandings that may arise in this process. We will discuss questions relating to the process of archiving (collection profiles, cataloguing, evaluation, mediation, etc.) and the significance of women’s archives. We will also ask about the relationship between archivist and record creator, identify differences between the workings of state and private archives and share stories about ego documents, audiovisual archival records and objects of memory. What, we ask, changes when conducting feminist historical research and when working in and with women’s archives?
Session “Pioneers, friends, collectives: How to tell women’s (hi)stories?” (Friday, 7 June 2024, 15.30-16.30)
Conventional, male-dominated historical scholarship has long been characterised by hero narratives, and to some extent continues to be to this day. Feminist historical scholarship seeks to develop other narratives and approaches, for example by pursuing everyday history and oral history or by focussing on relationships and collectives instead of significant personalities. That is what we will explore in the session “Pioneers, friends, collectives: How to tell women’s (hi)stories?”. Do we write stories of pioneers and heroines or of women in friendships, family relationships and political relationships? Are these two perspectives mutually exclusive? How and with which sources can biographies about women be written? What even are the possibilities when there are no archival estates and private, intimate realms can barely be examined? Even when there are comprehensive estates available, questions emerge: What kinds of women actually keep their records and arrange for them to be archived? And which estates (or which parts of an estate) do archivists consider worthy of archiving?
Plenary event “Feminist archiving – feminist storytelling” (Saturday, 8 June 2024, 8.45-10.30)
The plenary event will focus on the topics of feminist archival practice and the narration of women’s history. The discussion will feature an invited panel of experts consisting of Judith Grosse (Head of the Archive for Women’s, Gender and Social History in Eastern Switzerland), Sonja Matter (Director of the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland), Matthias Ruoss (Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics and Human Rights, University of Fribourg) and Bettina Stehli (Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, University of Bern) and will be moderated by a member of the Gosteli Foundation.
More information about the second plenary event and the evening program coming soon.
