The history of Aletta (deel 2)
The IIAV since 2000
The new millennium got off to a good
start. In 2000, the IIAV received the Joke Smit Prize, the award that
is given out every two years by the Dutch government in recognition of
a fundamental contribution to improving the position of women in
society. State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science Rick van der
Ploeg commended the IIAV for recognizing early on the importance of
implementing developments from the IT field.
2002: IIAV University Chair Gender & Ethnicity
The
IIAV took the initiative to create a university chair in 2002. The goal
of this chair was to conduct research into the roles of gender and
ethnicity and to analyze social and cultural barriers to achieving
diversity. Dr. Gloria Wekker was appointed to the chair. There are
currently four professors and several affiliated researchers associated
with the IIAV.More about scholarship and Aletta
2003: The stolen archives are returned from Moscow
A
portion of the IAV’s archives that had been lost during the Second
World War were discovered in Moscow in 1992. After a period of ten
years of negotiations, the IIAV finally got the stolen archives back.2005: Jubilee with the IISH
The
IIAV celebrated its 70th birthday together with the IISH in 2005. The
IISH had been founded in 1935, along with the IIAV’s forerunner, the
IAV. They organized a joint anniversary conference – Traveling
Heritages – that dealt with the newest developments in the field of
cultural heritage preservation. Traveling Heritages
2009: Name change and a new website
The
nearly 75-year-old IIAV received a thorough makeover in 2009. The IIAV
has been rebranded with a new name, a new house style, and a new
website with improved search and order functions. From now on, the
former IIAV will be known as Aletta, Institute for women’s history.The future
In
the jubilee year of 2005, the IIAV and the IISH made plans to
cohabitate once again. Both institutes, which shared the same building
from the time that they were founded in 1935 until the 1980s, agreed
that they would again share space, beginning around 2011.Researching history
Professor
Francisca de Haan, PhD, has researched the history of the IIAV and
wrote an article ‘A “Truly International” Archive for the Women’s
Movement (IAV, now IIAV)’. This article was published in the Journal of
Women’s History 16 (2004) no. 4 and is now available online. (© Journal
of Women’s History)Read the article (pdf)
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