Prosopography of Participants in the UN World Conferences on Women (1975–1995)
1st workshop of the CNRS-supported international research network Architectes de l’égalité de genre par-delà et en-deçà de la géopolitique. Prosopographie des participantes aux conférences mondiales sur les femmes (ONU, 1975-1995) – ProCoMF (2026-2030).
Date: May 21, 2026
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English
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The ProCoMF project brings together 23 researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds to study the social profiles, professional and activist careers, practical and symbolic resources, as well as strategies and political alliances of participants in four UN-organized world conferences on women scheduled from 1975 to 1995.
Partner institutions
- CEFRES (Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales, Prague)
- SIRICE (Sorbonne – Identités, relations internationales et civilisations de l’Europe, UMR 8138, CNRS-Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University)
- Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici (DSU), Ca’Foscari University, Venice, ERC program “Wo-NAM”
Coordination:
Ioana CÎRSTOCEA (CNRS / CEFRES)
Program
9.00–9.20 Welcome coffee and institutional opening
9.20–9.40 Presentation of the international research network
9.40–11.25 Session 1
chair: Peter HALLAMA
Francisca DE HAAN (Central European University, Vienna / International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
Rethinking ‘1975’ from a Global Perspective
Yulia GRADSKOVA (Södertörn University)
The WIDF, the Cold War and East-South Women’s Internationalism
Chiara BONFIGLIOLI (Ca’Foscari University, Venice, ERC “Wo-NAM”)
Non-Aligned Conferences on Women in Preparation for Nairobi
11.25–11.45 Coffee break
11.45–13.00 Session 2
chair Chiara BONFIGLIOLI
Sarah G. AHMED (Central European University, Vienna)
Yemeni Women’s Peace Activism before UNSCR 1325: The Case of Anti-colonial Feminist Yemeni–Soviet Solidarities during the Cold War (online)
Sercan CINAR (TED University, Ankara)
Sisters in Struggle, Worlds Apart: Mapping the Biographies of Turkish Women at the UN Decade Conferences. From Official Missions to Migrant Feminism
Sarah NAGATY (Ca’Foscari University, Venice, ERC “Wo-NAM”)
Egyptian Women on (Anti)Zionism in Nairobi 1985
Shivangi JAISWAL (Ca’Foscari University, Venice, ERC “Wo-NAM”) Ways of Being a ‘Women’s Representative’: Indian Participation at the Nairobi Conference, 1985
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-16.15: Session 3
chair Virginie DUTOYA
Peter HALLAMA (Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University)
Communist Propagandists or Feminist Actors? Female Delegates from Czechoslovakia and the GDR at the World Conferences on Women (1975-1995)
Jocelyn OLCOTT (Duke University)
The Disruptors: Activist intellectuals and the Third-World Roots of Feminist Economics
Ioana CÎRSTOCEA (CNRS / CEFRES)
Mapping the Making of ‘Global Feminism’ (1975-1995):
A Sociographic Attempt
16.15-16.35 Coffee break
16.35-18.00: Session 4
chair Yulia GRADSKOVA
Virginie DUTOYA (CNRS / CESAH)
South Asian Participants in the Women’s Conferences: Sources and Methodologies
Célia ENACHE (Sciences Po Bordeaux)
Controversies Surrounding the Beijing Conference within the French Feminist Academic Sphere: The Positions of Christine Delphy and the Journal “Nouvelles Questions Féministes”
Marie FERRI (Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University)
Violence Against Women and Children at Beijing (1995): What Place?
Lucile DAVID (Lumière Lyon 2 University)
Understanding Ecofeminism in the World Conferences on Women Based on the Biography of Edith Rubinstein (1932-2018)
19.00 Dinner