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). She holds the Wilhelmina Drucker Chair, which has been established by the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women’s Movement (IIAV).

European Women’s Thesaurus online in new layout

Looking for information on Amazons, Anorexia nervosa, Black feminism, Child abuse, Feminist media or Images of women? These are just a few terms from the European Women’s Thesaurus, a tool for indexing and retrieving women’s information in databases, on internet and in the collections of libraries ... Read on

Aletta Annual report 2009

Are you interested in the projects and activities of Aletta in the past year? Read the annual report 2009. Read on

Aletta 75 years!

Aletta, institute for women’s history exists 75 years this year! The memorandum of association of Aletta’s predecessor, International Archive of the Women’s Movement, was signed on the 3rd of December 1935. Read on

Newsletter June

The Newsletter June is out. Read on

Historian Davis wins prestigious price

Natalie Zemon Davis, Professor at University of Toronto, is awarded Holberg International Memorial Prize 2010. Read on

Update Fragen project

The Fragen project is in full swing. Project coordinator Tilly Vriend gives an update on the European project. Read on

Alice Salomon Archiv celebrates 10th anniversary

On the occasion of their 10th anniversary, the Archive and Documentation Centre for Women’s Social and Pedagogical Work of the Alice Salomon University organized a colloquium on 7th May in Berlin. The focus of the event was: 'How can the learning of social values be fostered?' Read on

Directors blog: 'Italian women's Library in Bologna'

Aletta director Saskia Wieringa visited the Italian women's library in Bologna. Read her blog and learn about the history, the fresco's and the atmosphere of the library. Read on

DAPHNE III Neskak Gora

Since December 2009 Aletta is participating in the Integrated Initiative for Preventing Violence, Abuse and Discrimination against Migrant Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Europe. Read on

Saskia Wieringa at Queer Film Festival

John Badalu, director of the Indonesian Q! Film Festival was being interviewed by Professor and Indonesia expert Saskia Wieringa about the current trends in LGBT rights and movements in Indonesia, at the Cinema Asia Film Festival in Amsterdam. Read on

New: Aletta Scholarly 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. Read on

The African Gender and Development Index (AGDI)

In 2002 Saskia Wieringa, director of Aletta, was asked to reflect on a new gender index, by members of the Economic Commission of Africa, which is a commission of the United Nations that resides in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ... Read on

Doing Gender Lecture Series Utrecht University

In the Spring of 2010 the Graduate Gender Programme - GGeP - at Utrecht University organises a sixth round of the series of lectures entitled DOING GENDER. Read on

Adjusted opening hours due to holidays

Due to the upcoming holidays the opening hours of the library are adjusted. Read on

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). Read on

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 ... Read on

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 ... Read on

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. Read on

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. Read on

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. Read on

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'. Read on

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 ... Read on

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. Read on

Annual report 2008

Are you interested in the activities of the IIAV in 2008? Read the annual report. Read on

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 ... Read on

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) ... Read on

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 ... Read on

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 ... Read on

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 ... Read on

Trafficking and migration

Text: Gé MeulmeesterPhotographs: Karin LakemanThe Japanese Yu Kojima recently wrote her dissertation for the Institute of Social Studies in The Netherlands ... Read on

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 ... Read on

New website www.aletta.nu

Aletta launched a completely revamped website on August 11. All the information about women’s history and the position of women in society is now even easier to find. Read on