Gender, Class, and Peace in the Nordic Countries and Beyond in the 1980s

A two-day workshop on gender, class and peace in the Nordic countries and beyond in the 1980s. With the financial support of Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

The workshop is open to all, but all non-presenting participants need to register no later than the 22nd of January, by sending an email to yulia.gradskova@sh.se and hannah.k.yken@jyu.fi

Programme

Please note that this is a preliminary programme and changes are possible.
 

FEBRUARY 5

10.00-10.30 Registration & Introduction

10.30-12.00 Session 1: Women’s Organisations and Transnationalism in A Divided World: Challenges, Achievements and Implications

Sanela Bajramovic (Örebro University): TBA

Monica Quirico: Peace as anachronism? Italian women against nuclear arms race in the 1980s

Rosa Campbell (King’s College London): ’Like You We Sit on the Doorstep of the World’s End’
 

12.00-13.00 Lunch
 

13.00-15.00 Session 2: Nordic Perspectives on Gender and Peace: Time, Place and ldentity

Hannah Kaarina Yoken (University of Jyväskylä) Gender and Glass in the Finnish Peace Committee, 1979-1988

Rachel Pierce (Kvinnsamm, University of Gothenburg) The Long Shadow of 1968: Peace, Gender, and Violence in 1980s Sweden

Arja Turunen (University of Jyväskylä) Feminist Lamenting: Women for Peace and the Finnish ltkijänaiset

Heidi Kurvinen (University of Bergen) Women’s Organising for Peace in the Norwegian Print Media, 1980-1984

15.00-15.15 Coffee

15.15-16.00 Excursion: Introduction to material focused on gender, class and/or peace housed in ARBARK’s archives and collections

16.00-17.30 Session 3: Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Glass and Peace in the Nordic Countries

Rósa Magnusdóttir (University of lceland) ”That woul’d ask no one about gender, only about being human”: Gender, Class and Transnational Networks in lcelandic Women Peace Activism in the 1980s

Vilja Mylyviita (Tampere University) Socialist Feminism and Peace in the 1980s: Insights from Mirjam Vire-Tuominen’s Transnational Work

Valger∂ur Palmadóttir (University of Akureyri) The ”new international peace movement” in pub/ic discourse in lceland in the 1980s, and the strategy of organising for peace as professional groups
 
FEBRUARY 6

9.30-11.00 Session 4: Transnational Grassroots Women’s Organising Across and Behind the Iron Curtain

Yulia Gradskava (Södertörn University) Nordic Women and Women’s Peace Marches of the early 1980s – representations and conflicts in Sweden

Libora Oates-lndruchova (University of Graz) online Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in the Czech Media: Between lnstrumentalization and Resistance

lrina Gordeeva (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, ZZF Potsdam) The Family as the ”Basic Unit” of the Soviet Independent Peace Movement of the 1980s

11.00-11.15 Coffee

11.11-12.15 Session 5: Roundtable Discussion on Transnational Activism, Gendered Organising & the Cold War – In Search of Methodological Best Practices

Hannah Kaarina Yoken (University of Jyväskylä), Heidi Kurvinen (University of Bergen), Sanela Bajramovic (Örebro University), Valger∂ur Palmadóttir (University of Akureyri), Yulia Gradskava (Södertörn University)

We encourage all workshop participants (presenters and audience members) to partake in this this discussion, in which we will share experiences and ideas regarding how to effectively, yet thoughtfully carry out research on transnational movements, organisations, groups and individuals.

12.15-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.30 Session 6: Studying the Past, Planning the Future – The Network’s Next Steps

During this session, we will gather together to plan our emerging network’s next steps, including future events and joint publications.

End of the workshop