Season’s greetings from the director

The Christmas season is upon us, and the New Year just around the corner. It is a fit moment for reflection. 2009 was an eventful and inspiring year for Aletta, Institute for Women’s History. It was a year of change. We said farewell to the name IIAV, embraced a new name and built a new website.

Aletta as a bridge

Since August 11, our new name is Aletta, Institute for Women’s History. This name fits well with the multifaceted roles that we are playing in the fields of heritage preservation, academic study, and empowerment. Our goal in 2009 is to appeal to new groups of women and oth...

European Feminist Forum publishes ‘A Herstory’

Over the past several years, feminist women and men throughout Europe came together to meet as part of the European Feminist Forum. In the European Feminist Forum, they exchanged ideas about issues that face women in Europe today, with the goal of creating a new European feminist agenda. The discussions are now collected in the publication “A Herstory (2004-2008)”.

The monography

Aletta has published 'A Herstory (2004-2008)', a monography of information gathered through the European Feminist Forum. The publication is a compilation of articles on the most important issues facing feminists in the new Europe, including: migration, employment, ne...

Why IIAV became Aletta

Aletta, Institute for Women's History manages a truly magnificent collection. Unfortunately, too few people are aware of it. The goal of achieving greater name recognition was difficult with our former name (IIAV). The old name did not communicate a vivid and forceful sense of who we are, and the IIAV was not well known to a broad audience.

Increased visibility

We aspire to create greater visibility in order to reach a younger and more diverse audience. Moreover, in a challenging economic climate, it is crucial that we develop new sources of income – especially in view of the fact that our funding from the Dutch government has ...

Book review Traveling Heritages

This summer, the magazine Feminist Collections, Quarterly of Women Studies (Women's Studies Librarian, Univeristy of Wisconsin) published a favourable book review of 'Traveling Heritages: New Perspectives on collecting, preserving and sharing women's history'.

Collecting cultural heritages

In the book 'Traveling Heritages. New Perspectives on Collecting, Preserving and Sharing Women’s History', cultural heritage specialists discuss the newest methods of collecting cultural heritage. They pose important questions, such as: whose history i...

No EU funding for ATHENA 3

The year of dissemination for ATHENA3, an initiative of the Athena Network, will not receive funding from the EU. However, Athena will be able to continue its work within ATGENDER.

The EU report

Despite the disappointing news, the EU report about the application was quite positive: “… the proposal fully corresponds to the gender issues addressed by the priorities of the call and it corresponds as well to the overall and specific objectives of the programme.” Athena mad...

Aletta travels Europe

Over the last year Tilly Vriend, Coordinator databases and Senior project manager represented Aletta, at several occasions in Europe to talk about (her work at) Aletta, Institute for Women’s History.

WLIC symposium in Istanbul

Tilly Vriend was keynote speaker at the Women’s Library and Information Center (WLIC) symposium ‘The problem of sources from the Ottoman Era to the present’ in Istanbul, held from the 17^th to the 19^th of April. She quoted Gloria Wekker, profes...

Report Fragen training at Aletta

From the 19th till the 21th November 33 women from 29 countries attended the Fragen training. Tilly Vriend, Project manager of the Fragen project, welcomed the participants at Aletta, Institute for Women’s History.

"When Prof. Dr. Mieke Verloo invited us to manage the Fragen project, we did not have to think very long. Our institute is proud to be leading this ambitious project, which focuses on the selection and digitisation of core feminist texts within Europe + Turkey and Croatia. As you know Fragen is...

Call for papers

From the 25th till the 29th of August 2010, a conference on "Women's Political Thought in Europe 1700-1800" is held in Prato, Italy. Offers of papers are invited on the contribution of women to the history of political thought in Europe during the Enlightenment period.

Women’s Political Thought in Europe 1700-1800

The conference will discuss the political ideas of individual European women during the Enlightenment period and their contribution the history of political thought in Europe. Women such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Emilie du Châtelet, Madame Dupin...