International Conference
“Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond, 19th and 20th Centuries”
Central European University, Vienna, 14-16 October 2021
2nd ZARAH Annual International Workshop
Vienna, 12-13 October 2021
External experts: tba
During the Annual International Workshops, the ZARAH Team discusses its approach and findings with external experts on the history of women’s labour activism internationally, in the ZARAH region, and in other countries and regions. ZARAH Team members present elements of their component studies and the ZARAH collaborative work, and (depending on their preferences) the external experts may present their own work.
Book Launch on the occasion of International Women’s Day
Central European University, Department of Gender Studies/Department of History, 8 March 2021, 17.30 (online event)
Two New Books on the History of Women’s Activism
Veronika Helfert (Postdoctoral Fellow, CEU), Women, Stand up! A Women’s and Gender History of the Austrian Revolution and Council Movement, 1916-1924 (in German). Göttingen, Vanden-hoeck & Ruprecht, 2021, 399 pages, ISBN: 978-3-8471-1184-9
Susan Zimmermann (University Professor, CEU), Women’s Politics and Men’s Trade Unionism. International Gender Poli-tics, Female IFTU Trade Unionists and the Workers’ and Women’s Movements of the Interwar Period (in German). Vienna, Löcker Verlag, 2021, 720 pages, ISBN 978 – 3-99098-026-2
1st ZARAH Annual International Workshop
Vienna, 14-17 October 2020
External experts:
Claudia Kraft, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Vienna
Silke Schwandt, Professor of Digital History and Medival History, Bielefeld University
Samita Sen, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge
During the Annual International Workshops, the ZARAH Team discusses its approach and findings with external experts on the history of women’s labour activism internationally, in the ZARAH region, and in other countries and regions. ZARAH Team members present elements of their component studies and the ZARAH collaborative work, and (depending on their preferences) the external experts may present their own work.
ZARAH’s Public Lectures
Samita Sen
Left out of the Left: Gender and Class in Domestic Workers’ Unionisation in India
14 October 2020, 17:30
Claudia Kraft
Spaces of Knowledge and Gender Regimes: From Double Marginalization to a Gendered History of Knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe
15 October 2020, 17:30
ZARAH’s project presentation before the CEU community
