MATILDA Intensive Programme Summer School LYON, France, 2-14 July 2009

Transnational Approaches to European

Women's and Gender History: Institutions and Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries

• Intensive 12-day summer school programme of lectures, workshops and an excursion

• Held at Universite Lyon 2

• Open to masters and PhD students with interests in women's and gender history

• An opportunity to study with leading scholars of women's and gender history from five European universities along with a group of students from around Europe and the world

• Free tuition and free accommodation in student residences and meals provided for masters and PhD students registered at the Sofia University and at other universities in the MATILDA consortium

• 75% of travel costs reimbursed for masters and PhD students registered at the University of Sofia and other universities in the MATILDA consortium*

• Tuition predominantly in English; some sessions in French with accompanying materials translated into English

*75% reimbursed from a maximum total travel expenditure of 280 Euros

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 15 MARCH 2009

Download application form from the MATILDA webpage on the Sofia University Faculty of Philosophy website and send by email to Prof. Krassimira Daskalova: krasi@sclg.uni-sofia.bg

PROGRAMME:

Morning lectures will be followed by a workshop developing themes from the lecture: to assist preparation, students will be sent readings beforehand. Afternoon workshops will be for students to present and discuss work in progress with fellow-students and staff. Lectures and workshops will be predominantly in English; two of the lectures will be held in French, with lecture texts and learning materials available in English. Participants will find a basic command of French helpful. Students completing the programme will receive a certificate of attendance. For graduate students at the University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski" seeking credit points for participaftotvthe Intensive Programme Summer School is a credit-bearina course = 10 ECTS.

3 July Prof. Francisca de Haan, CEU Budapest International feminist movements

4 July Prof. Carola Sachse, University of Vienna:

Ladies in the laboratory: gender and science from the 18th to the 20th centuries

6 July Prof. Michele Riot-Sarcey, Universite Paris 8:

The gender of citizenship: redefining the public and the private, 1789-1848

7 July Prof. Sylvie Schweitzer, Universite Lyon 2:

Similarities and simultaneities: the timing of women's breakthroughs into higher education in western Europe 1860s-1960s

7 July Dr. Anna Loutfi, CEU Budapest Afternoon workshop; Transnational approaches to women's and gender history: goals, methods, problems

8 July Prof. Christine Bard, Universite d'Angers:

The archives of feminism: traditional techniques and new technologies

9 July Prof. Elizabeth Harvey, University of Nottingham:

Mobilizing gender on the extreme Right: women and men in fascist movements in Europe, 1919-1945

10 July Excursion: Finding women and gender in the archives: from research interest to working with the sources

Hands-on workshop at major regional archive at Bourg-en-Bresse

11 July Prof. Krassimira Daskalova, University of Sofia: Border-crossing and nation-building: gender and citizenship in South-Eastern Europe, 1860s-1940s

12 July Prof. Marianne Thivend, Universite Lyon 2 Training girls for work: representations and realities in western European industrial societies from the late 19th century to the 1930s

13 July Morning workshop, afternoon discussion and evaluation

14 July Fete nationale/ French national holiday - Departure