VII: Gendering the Past
Monday June 21 
Auditorium, Geology Building
Capacity: 90
      
U 302 Geology Building
Capacity: 40
 
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker
NB! B 302, Math Sciences Building 
Griselda Pollock (UK)
     
 2nd. Session
Literature/Literary History 
Chair/Coordinator: Maria Proitsaki (Sweden)
Terry DeHay (USA): Assia Djebar’s “Fantasia” as Redemptive 
History
Maria Proitsaki (Sweden): Glorious Men and Bathing Women 
in Rita Dove’s ‘Nestor’s Bathing’ 
Tiina Aunin (Estonia): Estonian Women as Reflected in 
Folklore and Fiction
 
 
Revisioning the Past
Chair/Coordinator: Ericka Engelstad (Norway), Charlotte Damm (Norway), Brit Solli (Norway) 
Bozena Werbart (Sweden): Archaeology Yesterday and Today: a Paradigm Change?
Eva-Marie Göransson, (Sweden): Weaving Time: Archaeology and Feminist Writing
Kajsa Willemark (Sweden): The Contest of Stones. A Feminist Perspective on Technology as Social Communication
   
 3rd Session
Literature/Literary History (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Fahmida Riaz (Pakistan)
Fahmida Riaz (Pakistan): Subcontinental Muslim Women: 
Reflections in Literature
Pratibha Ray (India): The Changing Face of a Woman: In Indian Literature
Carol Gold (USA): Cookbooks, History and National Identity
 
Revisioning the Past (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Ericka Engelstad (Norway), Charlotte Damm (Norway), Brit Solli (Norway) 
Paloma Gonzalez (Spain), Sandra Monton Subias (Spain), Solsona Marcen (Spain) and Subia Gurina (Spain): The Practice of Relation in the Creation of Life: The Archaeology of Maintenance Activities 
Helena Victor (Sweden): The Symbol of the House and the Women: Re-reading Scandinavian Bronze-Age Society
Susanne Axelsson (Sweden): Re-Visioning the Iron Age Farm: Revisiting the Farm as a Petty Chief
   
 4th. Session
Literature/Literary History (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Nina Työlahti (Finland)
Florence Widmer-Schnyder (UK): Writing Her Story Through 
Their Stories: Nineteenth-Century Women Travelers’ 
Renegotiations of Class and Gender in the Exotic realm
Nina Työlahti (Finland): Encountering the New Woman
Abby Arthur Johnson (USA) and Ron Johnson (USA): 
Women in Death: Images and Texts from Congressional 
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Marilyn Hoder-Salmon (USA): Remaking Literary Reputation: 
The Case of Phyllis Bottome
     
 5th. Session

 



 
 
 VII: Gendering the Past
Tuesday June 22 
Auditorium, Geology Building
Capacity: 90
    
U 302 Geology Building
Capacity: 40
 
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker  

 
 2nd. Session
Health 
Chair/Coordinator: Ingunn Elstad (Norway)
Jen-der Lee (Taiwan): Women and Reproduction in Traditional 
China
Ingunn Elstad (Norway) and Torunn Hamran (Norway): 
Nurses in Norway, Early This Century
 
 
 

 

Revisioning the Past
Chair/Coordinator: Ericka Engelstad (Norway), Charlotte Damm (Norway), Brit Solli (Norway) 
Nancy L. Wicker (USA): Women and Agency: A Gendered Re-visioning of Early Medieval Scandinavian Bracteate Jewellery
Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh (Sweden): Differences within: Pluralities in Female Gender Construction in Scandinavian Viking Age
Anneli Sundkvist (Sweden): A Man’s Job? A Gendered Approach to Horses in Archaeology
   
 3rd Session
Women’s Rituals
Chair/Coordinator: Sweet Medicine Nations (USA)
Sweet Medicine Nations (USA): Women’s Rituals ? Past to Present
Gomang Seratwa Ntloedibe-Kuswani (Botswana): Women, Healing 
and Witchcraft
Revisioning the Past (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Ericka Engelstad (Norway), Charlotte Damm (Norway), Brit Solli (Norway)
Anna-Carin Andersson (Sweden): Archaeology and the Material Culture of Sexual Dimorphism
Stig Welinder (Sweden): A Gendered Vision of a Stone-Age Life Cycle
Anne Sofie Gräslund (Sweden): What Do the Rich Late Iron Age Female Graves Reflect?
     
 4th Session

 
Revisioning the Past (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Ericka Engelstad (Norway), Charlotte Damm (Norway), Brit Solli (Norway)
Helena Knutsson (Sweden): From Ethnography to Archaeological Interpretation ? A Stone-Age Example
Cecilia Lidström Holmberg (Sweden): The Gendered Grinding Tool. Feminist Inquiries into Archaeological Value and Human Intentionality
Gunilla Eriksson (Sweden): Gender and Diet during the Stone Age
   
 5th Session

 



 
 
 VII: Gendering the Past
Wednesday June 23
Auditorium, Geology Building
Capacity: 90
     
U 302 Geology Building
Capacity: 40
 
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker       

 
 2nd. Session
Women’s Magazines/Periodicals
Chair/Coordinator: Kirsti Salmi-Niklander (Finland)
Lotte Jensen (Netherlands): Instruments of Domesticity 
and Liberation: Women’s Magazines in the Nineteenth Century
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander (Finland): Handwritten Newspapers: 
Literary Cross Dressing in Popular Movements
   

 
 3rd Session
Russian Periodicals of the Second Half of the 19th to the 
Beginning of the 20th Century ? About the Women’s Movement 
and Feminism in Russia and Abroad (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Olga Shnyrova (Russia)
Participants:
Olga Shnyrova (Russia)
Natalia Gafizova (Russia) 
Igor Shkolnikov (Russia) 
Irina Yukina (Russia)
      
 4th Session
     
             

 
 5th Session



 
 
 VII: Gendering the Past
Thursday June 24 
Auditorium, Geology Building
Capacity: 90
    
U 302 Geology Building
Capacity: 40
 
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker
 NB! B 302, Math Sciences Building 
Elisabeth Møller-Jensen (Denmark): Writing a Women’s Literary History: The Nordic Experience 
     
 2nd. Session
Women’s History
Chair/Coordinator: Selve Ringmaa (Estonia)
Gretchen Poiner (Australia): Rural Memories: Sexing History, 
Sexing Space
Elena Lourie (Israel): Ancient Custom in Written Law: Matrilineal Descent of the Nobility in Medieval Spain
Selve Ringmaa (Estonia): Women Sculptors and the Status of 
Artists in Estonia in 1970s-80s
Jo-Ann Shelton (USA): The Sexual Assault of Women as a 
Spectacle in Ancient Roman Arenas
    
Women in the Holocaust (Workshop) 
Chair/Coordinator: Myrna Goldenberg (USA) 
Participants:
Elisabeth Baer (USA): Ravensbruck Memoir: Testimony of Imprisoned Catholic Resistance Work
Rochelle Saidel (Brazil): Ravensbruck Women’s Concentration Camp: The Brazil Connection 
Also participating:
Myrna Goldenberg (USA)
Susan Benedict (USA) 
 3rd. Session
Women’s History (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Teresa Langle De Paz (USA)
Julia Tunon Pablos (Mexico): La Representacion del Feminismo 
en las Películas Mexicanas de la Edead de Oro
Teresa Langle De Paz (USA): Between the Lines. Did Women 
and Feminism Really Exist in Early Modern Spain?
Christine Delhaye (Netherlands): Individualization: 
A Re-Construction from a Gender Perspective
     
Sources of Life/Sources of Strength: A Workshop Based on Creating a Quilt on This Theme
Chair/Coordinator: Jerri Frantzve (USA) and Theresa Lewis (USA) 
 4th.Session
Women’s History (Continued) 
Chair/Coordinator: Susan Magarey (Australia)
Margaret McFadden (USA): Golden Cables of Sympathy: 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Women’s Rights Work and the Finland Connection
Susan Magarey (Australia): Sex and the Women’s Movement: Australia, 1880-1914 
Monika Zagar (USA): Taming of the Shrew? An Investigation of 
How Knut Hamsun Gendered His Protagonists in Some of His Plays
Christin Waldum (Norway): Life-Stories of Women Seven Women Married to Veterans from the World War II
    
Creating an Quilt (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Jerri Frantzve (USA) and Theresa Lewis (USA) 
 
 5th. Session
Creating an Quilt (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Jerri Frantzve (USA) and Theresa Lewis (USA)
     



 
 
 VII: Gendering the Past
Friday June 25 
Auditorium, Geology Building
Capacity: 90
     
U 302 Geology Building
Capacity: 40
 
 1st.Session: Keynote Speaker
 NB! B 1005, Faculty of Social Sciences 
Randi Rønning Balsvik (Norway): People, Economy and Work in the Northernmost Region of Norway in a Historical and Gender Perspective
      
 2nd. Session
Women and/in Politics: Historical Perspectives 
Chair/Coordinator: Jeanne Dina (Madagascar)
E. Kristi Poerwandari (Indonesia): The Other Side of History: 
Women’s Issues During Indonesia’s National Struggle 1928-1965
Jeanne Dina (Madagascar): About Malagasy Women and Political Power in History
Johanne Craig (Canada): Gender and Politics in Spenser’s View 
of the Present State of Ireland 
Women Pioneers and Activists
Chair/Coordinator: Maria Sofia Corciulo (Italy)
Niza Yanay (Israel): Personal Lives and Social Change: The Histography of Women Pioneers in Israel
Maria Sofia Corciulo (Italy): A Woman Fighting for Freedom and Unity of Italy: Antonietta de Pace in South Italy
Betty Bergland (USA): Norwegian Immigrants and Indigenous Peoples: Gendered Perspectives on Interethnic Relations in 19th Century Midwestern U.S.
Ingrid Muenstermann (Australia): German Women in South Australia: Their Lives as Immigrants Since 1945.
       
 3rd. Session
Women and/in Science 
Chair/Coordinator: Susan Davies (Australia)
Anne-Marie W. Kubanek (Canada): The Norwegian Nuclear 
Chemist Ellen Gleditsch: Mentor, Role Model and Inspiration
Susan Davies (Australia): Kathleen Fitzpark (1905-1990), 
University Historian in Australia and Old-Style Feminist
Louise Gouëffic (Canada): The Question of Mind is Changing 
2=2 to 2=1 Using Sex as Division of Mind
     
The Nordic Model of Marriage (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Kari Melby (Norway)
Participants:
Kari Melby (Norway)
Bente Rosenbeck (Denmark)
 4th. Session
       
         

 
 5th. Session