Aletta Research plan 2010-2015
The Research Plan ‘Historicising Boundaries; Dis/organising Gender Relations’ outlines the academic profile and ambitions of Aletta, Institute for Women’s History, for the period between 2010 and 2015.
Over the past few years Aletta has steadily built its academic profile, through a series of in-house, regular research publications and the (co-)organisation of national and international academic conferences. Aletta has built up its contacts with the academic world, through amongst other things appointing professors by special appointment. In order to remain relevant in the current digital era, archives are required to take on the roles of ‘knowledge brokers’ - bringing the knowledge to the people, creating new linkages, bridging the gap between academia and the women’s movement- and, to some extent, of knowledge producers .
Aletta’s research programme has three research themes: history of gender relations, gender/ethnicity and sexuality. The title of this research plan, ‘Historicising Boundaries; Dis/organising Gender Relations’, emphasises the Institute’s interest in and commitment to encouraging research which challenges and destabilises categories and boundaries in relation to the history of gender relations, gender/ethnicity and sexuality. Interdisciplinarity is a critical element for the research department.
The research department of Aletta consists of the Director Saskia Wieringa, the research manager Sara de Jong, the affiliate professors and researchers, and student research interns. They have the following four main tasks:
Aletta’s research programme has three research themes: history of gender relations, gender/ethnicity and sexuality. The title of this research plan, ‘Historicising Boundaries; Dis/organising Gender Relations’, emphasises the Institute’s interest in and commitment to encouraging research which challenges and destabilises categories and boundaries in relation to the history of gender relations, gender/ethnicity and sexuality. Interdisciplinarity is a critical element for the research department.
The research department of Aletta consists of the Director Saskia Wieringa, the research manager Sara de Jong, the affiliate professors and researchers, and student research interns. They have the following four main tasks:
developing an academic infrastructure within the institute
short-term: kitchen table seminars by researchers for staff and friends of Aletta
long term: the continuation of staff-training after needs assessment, intensifying collaboration with affiliate researchers, and the recruitment of additional highly educated staff
supporting and producing research-oriented projects within Aletta
Oral history projects
FRAGEN
DAPHNE III-Neskak Gora
setting up an interdisciplinary platform for gender studies
regular updates to core academic constituency through newsletter
seminars, meetings and conferences organised by the respective women’s studies and gender programmes at Dutch universities and abroad
hosting student research interns
long term: peer-reviewed publications
organising academic master classes for the general public, for instance on oral history.