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.
Today we meet for the first time: 33 women from 29 countries are here in Amsterdam for the Fragen training. Many of you represent women’s libraries, archives or information centres, others work for gender studies or other faculties at Universities. Over the next couple of days we will get to know each other, share experiences and learn about the challenges of the Fragen project . A great opportunity to work together. The start of a true European cooperation in this field.
Today we are making history: for the first time core feminist texts which have been influential in the development of feminist movements in Europe will be selected, digitised and brought together in a database. A tremendous challenge lies ahead of us.
Imagine the result in the end: a collection of more than 250 core feminist texts will be brought together and made available for the first time in history! The start of a European Feminist library This project will show that the sum is much more than the activity of each partner separately. Only by our joint efforts we can do this!"
"Again, thank you for the inspiring meeting." Annamaria Tagliavini, director of Biblioteca Italiana delle Donne (Italy)
"I wish to thank you and all the team at Aletta for making the Fragen trip so interesting. The project is wonderful and I am very glad that Malta is included."Lorraine Spiteri, Confederation of Women's Organisations (Malta)
Fragen
European women’s libraries and scholars from all over Europe are working together on the Fragen project which aims to collect the most important texts from the feminist movements of the second part of the 20th Century.Read more
Live webcast Beijing+15 Forum
The NGO Committee on the Status of Women/New York announced that select events of the Global Forum for Women–Beijing Plus 15 will be webcast live on February 27 and 28 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time-US).
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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 ...
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Interview with Wendy Harcourt
Wendy Harcourt is Senior Director and Editor of the journal Development at the Society for International Development. She is a member and immediate past Chair of Women in Development Europe ...
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Project 'Back in a Bite' wins pitch
On September 8, 2009 Aletta won a DOEN Clinic at Mediamatic with the project 'Back in a Bite', pitched by Evelyn de Roos.
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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.
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Human Rights Defenders Tulip for Shadi Sadr
The 9th of November, the Iranian human rights lawyer Shadi Sadr won the 2009 Human Rights Defenders Tulip for her courage in championing the human rights of her fellow citizens. The price was handed over to her by the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Verhagen.
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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'.
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WLIC symposium in Istanbul
Tilly Vriend, information specialist and coordinator of databases at Aletta, was keynote speaker at the Women’s Library and Information Center (WLIC) symposium in Istanbul. She quoted Gloria Wekker, professor Gender & Ethnicty at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) and associated with Aletta ...
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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.
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Annual report 2008
Are you interested in the activities of the IIAV in
2008? Read the annual report.
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IIAV becomes Aletta
The 11th of August, precisely one day after the 80th anniversary of the death of Aletta Jacobs, the International Information Center and Archives for the Women’s Movement (IIAV) has adopted a new name, ‘Aletta, Institute for Women’s History’. At the same time, Aletta launches her revamped www.aletta ...
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Mieke Aerts appointed to the Wilhelmina Drucker Chair
Dr. Mieke Aerts (1952) has been appointed professor of ‘political history of
gender in the Netherlands’ in the Faculty of the Humanities at the University of
Amsterdam (UvA) ...
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International Rosa Manus seminar
The IIAV held the first ever Rosa Manus seminar on October 23 and 24,
2008, honoring the Dutch activist for peace and women's suffrage who died in a
Nazi camp during the Second Wold War ...
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IIAV acquires the online Gerritsen collection
The Gerritsen collection is the largest source in the world for the study of
women’s history. It contains 133 magazines and more than 4,000 books in a
variety of languages, dating from the 16th century through 1945 ...
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IIAV supports research in Victimology
In February 2008, prof. dr. Renée Römkens became holder of the new chair
‘Violence in interpersonal relationships, in particular domestic violence’ at
INTERVICT (International Victimology Institute Tilburg) at the Tilburg
University ...
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Trafficking and migration
Text: Gé MeulmeesterPhotographs: Karin LakemanThe Japanese Yu Kojima recently wrote her dissertation for the Institute of
Social Studies in The Netherlands ...
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Saskia Wieringa Inaugurated as Professor
The IIAV is immensely proud that its director Dr. Saskia Wieringa has
been appointed to hold the chair ’Gender and Women’s Same-Sex Relations
Cross-culturally’ at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences.
Prof. Dr ...
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