XII: The Women’s Movement/Feminist Activism   Worldwide
Monday June 21 
Auditorium B 1005, Faculty of Social Sciences / Faculty of
Humanities. Capacity: 140
 
Room B 1004, Faculty of Social Sciences / Faculty of
Humanities. Capacity: 40
 
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker  

 
 2nd. Session
Women’s Studies Around the World
Chair/Coordinator: Tao Jie (China)
Alison Laurie (New Zealand): Queering Women’s Studies – 
Teaching Lesbian Studies/Queer Studies in the Academy
Tao Jie (China): New Developments at the Women's Studies 
Centre of Peking University
 
Unfinished Educational Issues for Women's Studies 
Chair/Coordinator: Florence Howe (USA)
Mariam Chamberlain (USA): What the Curriculum Needs to Teach about Economic Inequalities
Florence Howe (USA): Agenda for the Next 30 Years
Betty Dooley (USA): Reflections: Twenty Years of Experience
Mona Elisassen (Sweden): Teaching About Violence Against Women in a 'Gender Equal’ Society
 
 3rd Session
Gender in Transition 
Chair/Coordinator: Liliana Pagu (Romania)
Kira Mouravieva (Russia) Are They Still Strong Enough? The 
Russian Feminist Movement in a New Socio-Economic Situation
Nighat Said Khan (Pakistan): Whatever Happened to the Women’s Movement?
Liliana Pagu (Romania): Equal Status for Women and Men in 
Central and Eastern Europe’s Countries: Coalitions for 
Regional Action
 
Sociologists for Women in Society: The Women's Movement within a Discipline (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Hannah Wartenberg (USA)
Participants:
Marcia Texler Segal (USA)
Berit Ås (Norway)
Patricia Ulbrich (USA)
 4th. Session
Gender in Transition (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Rose Shayo (Tanzania)
Dahlia Moore (Israel): Barriers to Women’s Rebellion
Afaf Gadalla (Egypt): The Role of Women in Social Reform in Egypt
Rose Shayo (Tanzania): Making Gender Part of the Transformation
 
 
 5th. Session
Developing Graduate Programs in Women's, Gender and Feminist Studies: Issues, Controversies and Experiences (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Electa Arenal (USA)
Participants:
Dafna Izraeli (Israel)
Miglena Nikolchina (Hungary)
Anneth Eliawony Meena (Tanzania)
 



 
 
 XII: The Women’s Movement/Feminist Activism   Worldwide
Tuesday June 22 
Auditorium B 1005, Faculty of Social Sciences / Faculty of
Humanities. Capacity: 140
 
Room B 1004, Faculty of Social Sciences / Faculty of
Humanities. Capacity: 40
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker  

 
 2nd. Session
The '”New” Women’s Movement in the Nordic Countries (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Beatrice Halsaa (Norway)
Participants:
Sigridur Duna Kristmundsdottir (Iceland)
Maria Grönroos (Finland)
Solveig Bergman (Finland)
Gunvor Ngarambe (Sweden): Nordic Women Work Together ? Women in the Forefront of the Welfare State
 
Women's Grassroots Movements' Contribution to Democratization (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Jill Bystydziensky (USA)
Irene Tong (Hong Kong): Re-inheriting Women in Decolonizing Hong Kong
Alicja Muszynski (Canada): Struggling with Diversity: Women, Sexual Assault and the Canadian State
Olga Tsepilova (Russia): Feminist Activism in the Regions of Ecological Disasters (Kirishi Case Study)
Jill Bystydziensky (USA): Democratization and Women's Grassroots Movements
 
 3rd Session
Women's Movements and Internationalization in the 20th Century (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Line Nyhagen Predelli (Norway)
Commentator: Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (Sweden) 
Hilda Rømer Christensen (Denmark): Aspirations for Social 
Justice and Peace in the Interwar Period: The World's YWCA 
Compared with Other Intern. Women's Associations untill 1940
Irene Andersson (Sweden): Women’s Unarmed Revolt against 
War – A Political Protest in Connection with the Women’s 
League for Peace and Freedom
Diana Mulinari (Sweden) 
Drude Dahlerup (Denmark) 
 
Are Women Destroying Our Own History? The First Wave of the Second Wave, Or Remembrance of Things Past (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Pauline B.Bart (USA)
Participants:
Ailbhe Smyth (Ireland)
Amy Elman (USA)
Berit Ås (Norway) 
 4th Session
Linking the Chinese and the International Women’s Movement
Chair/Coordinator: Youli Ge (China)
Youli Ge (China): Translating International Feminism and Raising Gender Awareness
Liu Bohong (China): Women's Studies in China: The Influence of 
the '95 Women's Conference ? Influence and Inspiration
Yihong Jin (China): Revolution of the Mind? International 
Feminism Influencing Chinese Women’s Ideology
 
Developing an Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Program and Core Curriculum
Chair/Coordinator: Margaret Madden
Margaret Madden (USA): No-man’s Land: Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Gender Studies
Teresa Langle de Paz (USA): Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Program at Lawrence.
 5th Session
Linking the Chinese and the International Women’s Movement (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Yuen Ling Wong (China)
Yuen Ling Wong (China): Video Presentation as Part of the Workshop 
Cecilia Milwertz (UK): The Women's Movement in Beijing ? Ideology, Values and Practice
 



 
 
 XII: The Women’s Movement/Feminist Activism   Worldwide
Wednesday June 23
Auditorium B 1005, Faculty of Social Sciences / Faculty of
Humanities. Capacity: 140
 
Room B 1004, Faculty of Social Sciences / Faculty of
Humanities. Capacity: 40
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker
B 1005, Faculty of Social Sciences 
Solveig Bergman (Finland): Feminist Resistance – A Nordic Perspective 
 
 2nd. Session
The Femina Baltica Network: Presentation of Activities of the Network
Chair/Coordinator: Carita Peltonen (Finland) 
Participants:
Johanna Ulrika Söderholm (Finland)
Solvita Vevere (Latvia) 
Zydrone Morkunaite (Lithuania)
Women’s Issues around the World
Chair/Coordinator: Helen Lawrence (USA) 
Voula Lambropoulou (Greece): Greek Minorities Women in Southern Italy 
Helen Lawrence (USA): Women’s Issues in Latin America
Anne Søyland (Norway): Women Across ? New Ways of Developing Strategies, Knowledge and Activities Concerning the Economy of Women and Women in the Economy
Claudia M. G. Hasanbegovic (UK): The Politics Evolved on the Disciplining of the Female Bodies in Argentina
 
 3rd Session
An Analysis of Good Practices in ODL 
(Open and Distance Learning) for Women’s Studies 
Chair/Coordinator: Sara Goodman (Sweden)
Participants:
Annamaria Tagliavini (Italy)
Magda Michielsens (Netherlands)
Women’s Issues around the World (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Dorothy Rai Brown McCutcheon (Canada)
Habiba Zaman (Canada): Paid Work, Multiple Roles, and Socio-Political Consciousness of Women Workers: Reshaping Bangladesh's Future Women's Movement
Felicitas Klimpel-Weger (Chile): The Other Side of the Medal 
Dorothy Rai Brown McCutcheon (Canada): The Feminist Movement in Mumbai, India. How Women in India Organize against Gender Violence
 
 4th Session
Research Methodologies and Gender Studies: 
Chair/Coordinator: Hesti R. Wijaya (Indonesia) 
Karin Widerberg (Norway): Doing Body/Texts: An Explorative 
and Interdisciplinary Approach
Iris Rittenhofer (Denmark): Gendering the Scientist 
Hesti R. Wijaya (Indonesia): Engendering Development Agents: Introducing Time-Effort Theory for Development with a Gender 
Equity, Research Methodology in Gender Studies 
 
Academic Journals: the Challenge of Interdisciplinary Academic Journals in Women’s and Gender Studies (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Hilda Rømer Christensen
 5th Session
Research Methodologies and Gender Studies: (Continued)
Andrea O’Reilly (Canada): Motherhood and Feminism in Women’s Studies: 1976-2001
Sharzad Mojab: Doing Fieldwork in Totalitarian State: The Politics of Research on Muslim Women
 



 
 
 XII: The Women’s Movement/Feminist Activism   Worldwide
Thursday June 24 
Auditorium B 1005, Faculty of Social Sciences / Faculty of
Humanities. Capacity: 140
 
Room B 1004, Faculty of Social Sciences / Faculty of
Humanities. Capacity: 40
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker
B 1005, Faculty of Social Sciences 
Berit Ås (Norway)
 
 2nd. Session
The Women’s Movement Worldwide 
Chair/Coordinator: Liabov Shtyleva (Russia)
Alena Heitlinger (Canada) and Hana Havelkova (Czech Republic) 
(Joint Paper): Mediating Czech Women’s Attitudes towards 
Western Feminism
Liabov Shtyleva (Russia): The History of the New Women’s 
Movement on the Kola Peninsula 1991-1997
Shree Venkatram (India): The Unnati Experience ? Marking Space 
for Women in the Popular Print Media and using it for Change
 
Potential Cross-National Research Collaborations (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Janice Monk (USA) 
Participants:
Linda Basch (USA)
Mariam Chamberlain (USA)
Ruth Meena (Tanzania)
 3rd. Session: Keynote Speaker
B 1005, Faculty of Social Sciences 
Annette Kolodny (USA): Women and Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Some Feminist and International Perspectives
 4th.Session
The Women’s Movement Worldwide (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Ailbhe Smyth (Ireland)
Lise Tørnby (Norway): The Women’s Movement
Ailbhe Smyth (Ireland): A Momentary View on the Edge of a New Millennium Considering Feminism in Contemporary Ireland
Geraldine Moane (Ireland): Liberation Psychology and the 
Women’s Liberation Movement: The Case of Ireland 
How-To: Preparing Research Proposals for European Funding (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Gabriele Griffin (UK)
Participants:
Jalna Hanmer (UK)
Rosi Braidotti (Netherlands)
Nina Lykke  (Denmark)
Margarita Birriel Salcedo (Spain)
 
 5th. Session
Empowerment and Women’s Global Action 
Chair/Coordinator: Hilkka Pietilä (Finland)
Vathsala Aithal (Germany): Empowerment and Global Action of Women: Theory and Practice 
Lizzie Longshaw (Zimbabwe): Women with Disabilities in Business
Hilkka Pietilä (Finland): Engendering the Global Agenda: A Success Story of Women and the United Nations
Issues in Conducting Collaborative International Research (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Linda Basch (USA)
Janice Monk (USA)
Norma Ojeda (Mexico)
Ruth Ndesanjo Meena (Tanzania)
Rose Shayo (Tanzania)
Pnina Mlama (Tanzania)
Peggy Antrobus (Grenada)
Biljana Kasic (Croatia)
Linda Christiansen-Ruffman (Canada
 



 
 
 XII: The Women’s Movement/Feminist Activism   Worldwide 
Friday June 25 
Auditorium B 1005, Faculty of Social Sciences / Faculty of
Humanities. Capacity: 140
 
Room B 1004, Faculty of Social Sciences / Faculty of
Humanities. Capacity: 40
 1st.Session: Keynote Speaker  

 
 2nd. Session
On Organizing International Women’s Conferences (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Dinah Cohen (Australia)
Participants:
Geraldine Moane (Ireland)
Marilyn Safir (Israel)
Gerd Bjørhovde (Norway)
 
 3rd. Session
The Women’s Movement in the Universities/Feminist
Researchers and the Women's Movement (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Linda Christiansen-Ruffman (Canada)
Carmen Lambert (Canada)
Marilyn Porter (Canada)
Keith Louise Fulton (Canada)
Francine Descarries (Canada)
Pauline Dooley (UK)
Paola Melchiori (Italy)
Peggy Antrobus (Grenada)
Berit Ås (Norway)
Angela Miles (Canada)
 
 4th. Session
The Women’s Movement in the Universities/Feminist
Researchers and the Women's Movement (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Linda Christiansen-Ruffman (Canada)
 
 5th. Session