[Athena] Symposium Women and Gender Where Do We Stand - Paris - ENS - 14 au 17 septembre 2011

[Anne-Sophie GODFROY <anne-sophie.godfroy AT u-pec.fr>]

Dear Colleagues,

The symposium is organised at the Ecole Normale Supérieure by the Commission 
on "Women in Science, Technology, and Medicine”, Division of History of 
Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy 
of Science (DHST/IUHPS).

Programme Committee :
        • Pnina Abir-Am (Brandeis University, USA) 
        • Dominique Fougeyrollas (CNRS-IRISSO, Université Paris Dauphine) 
        • Anne-Sophie Godfroy (University of Paris-Est-Créteil and Ecole 
Normale Supérieure de Cachan) 
        • Annette Lykknes (Trondheim Norwegian University of Science and 
Technology) 
        • Maria Rentetzi (National Technical University of Athens) 
        • Annette Vogt (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)

Research on women in science has long been viewed as interchangeable with 
studies on gender and science, while covering a wide range of disciplinary 
fields such as natural, medical, and engineering sciences, as well as social 
and human sciences. The aim of this biennial Symposium is to compare the 
different methodological, historiographical, as well as sociopolitical 
perspectives that have been developed so far; to unravel creative tensions 
among the different perspectives; and to suggest innovative ways for better 
understanding science, technology, and medicine through the gender 
perspective. 

During the symposium we expect that historians of science, technology, and 
medicine on the one hand, and scholars of gender in science and technology 
studies scholars will exchange ideas on key issues related to gender and 
women in science and technology. In addition, a special session will be 
dedicated to the legacy of Mme Curie for women in science per the declaration 
of 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry (IYC-2011) in honor of the 
100th anniversary of Mme Curie’s 2nd Nobel Prize in chemistry (1911). 

Programme: 

September 14

15:00-17:00
Session "The Centennial of Mme Curie’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry: (2011, 
1911) Where Science, Gender, Politics, and Public Memory Meet"

17:30-19:00    
Interview with distinguished women scientists:
- Hélène Langevin
- Claudine Hermann
The interview is followed by a guided tour to Marie Curie's places at Ecole 
de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris by Prof. Michel 
Lagües. 

Thursday September 15

09:00-11:00    
Session "The Impact of New Archival Projects: U.S. Archives for Women in 
Science and Engineering in the Late 20th and Early 21st centuries"

11:30-13:00    
New Sources: correspondance
Chair: Geneviève Fraisse (CNRS, France)

15:00-17:00    
History of Women in Genetics

17:30-19:00    
Session "Power, Politics and Women’s Activism in Engineering & Technology: 
Lessons for Feminist Historians” 

Friday September 16

09:00-11:00    
Multimodal approaches to biographies of women in science

11:30-13:00    
Women and Gender in Colonial Science

15:00-17:00    
Methodological & Historiographical Challenges

17:30-19:00    
Round Table: Burning Issues in the History of Women and Gender in Science
Moderators: Anne-Sophie Godfroy and Maria Rentetzi
With the participation of Margaret Rossiter, Ruth Schwartz Cowan and Mineke 
Bosch 

Saturday September 17

09:00-11:00    
New Sources : manuscripts, diaries, poetry

Detailed programme and practical information are online: 
https://sites.google.com/site/parissymposium2011/programme

Registration is free but compulsory: 
https://sites.google.com/site/parissymposium2011/registration

Best regards,
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Anne-Sophie Godfroy
Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques
UMR8590 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne - Ecole Normale Supérieure - 
CNRS
13, rue du Four
75006 Paris
http://www-ihpst.univ-paris1.fr/
anne-sophie.godfroy AT univ-paris1.fr