Introduction

Welcome to our new academic newsletter! The Scholarly Newsletter, which will appear three times a year, is intended to enhance the communication with researchers who are interested in Aletta's collections.

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We aim to strengthen our links with the academic community in a number of ways. We seek to better familiarize our staff members with academic processe...

Academic Project in the Picture

Aletta is coordinating the EU project FRAGEN in which women’s libraries and academic researchers throughout Europe are selecting important feminist texts that were influential in the development of feminist ideas.

FRAGEN is a subproject of the EU project QUING, led by Prof. Dr. Mieke Verloo, which compares gender equality processes within Europe. The objective o...

Recent archival acquisitions/processed archives

As a result of all the activities and publicity around Dolle Mina (Dutch feminist activist group), archival material of Dolle Mina groups from Utrecht and Nijmegen was sent to the Institute: a good example of the synergy between users and collectors of archives! Desirée Vreke worked almost 1.5 years on processing 26 linear meters of documents that we received from TransAct (Dutch Centre for Gender Issues in Health care and the Prevention of Domestic and Sexual violence).

Recent archival acquisitions: The Secretaresse Netwerk (Network of Administrative staff) stopped its activities in August 2009 after 25 years a...

Building an Academic Infrastructure

Starting January 2010, Aletta-Institute for Women’s History, organizes a series of ‘kitchen table seminars’ for its own staff. The goal of the seminars is to increase awareness about the process of doing academic research.

Every month, one researcher is asked to speak about about their research methodologies, their experiences, dilemmas, and trajectories. The seminar ser...

IFRWH Conference at Aletta, 25-27 Aug 2010

The International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) was established in 1987, with the aim to encourage and promote research in all aspects of women's and gender history at the international level.

It organizes regular conferences and publishes a biannual newsletter, and is an affiliated organization of the International Committee of Historical S...

News from Aletta's affiliated professors

Prof. Dr. Saskia Wieringa designed the African Gender and Development Index (AGDI);

Prof. Dr. Mieke Aerts gave an interesting, inspiring and entertaining inaugural lecture on the 22nd of January 2010;

Prof. Dr. Renée Römkens is currently working on 'Realising Rights', a European research project; mapping the legislation on violence against women and studying best practices' in the application of this legislation. She also conducts a 'Feasibility Study on Standardization EU legislation on violence against women, children and sexual identity based violence' (both financed by the EC).

Prof. Dr. Gloria Wekker published, among other things, 'The Arena of Disciplines: Gloria Anzaldúa and Interdisciplinarity'. In: Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture. New York: Routledge; 'Another Dream of a Common Language. Imagining Black Europe'. In: Black Europe and the African Diaspora. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press; and 'You May Be Able to Hide Your Grandmother, But You Cannot Hide Her Coughing... Reflections on Gender and Race in Higher Education in the Netherlands'. In: Gender Delight. Science, Knowledge, Culture and Writing… for Nina Lykke. Linkoping University, 99-113.

PROFESSORS

Aletta wants to promote and be a resource for academic study and research in the area of women’s and gender studies. Aletta current...