CALL FOR PAPERS

WMI – Nordic and International Network for Research, 1999-2001
Funded by NorFA, Nordic Academy for Advanced Study

WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS AND INTERNATIONALISATION:
The "Third Wave"?

Saturday 18 – Monday 20, August 2001, Helsinki

The seminar will present results from meetings and workshops in 1999-2001 by Nordic and international feminist scholars in political science, sociology, history, anthropology, and cultural studies. The debates have revolved around theoretical and methodological issues, comparative research in time and space, key concepts like feminism, women’s movements, "waves"; and around democratic theories, the nation-state and multi-level political orders, modern and post-modern movements. Critical insights rising from inclusion of actors in the Third World and post-socialist transition countries, and in cultural minorities within the Nordic and Western world, have been on the agenda as well. Special attention has been paid to women on the move across the borders, both internationally and transnationally, and in relation to multinational political bodies like the UN. A thesis on an evolving new and vivid phase, a Third Wave, has been explored, too. - For more information on the network, please see our homepage: /ktl/wmi/.

The closing seminar will be based on contributions by the network participants and by scholars joining the debates on these topics and issues.

The invited speakers come from England and the US, and from the Third World and post-socialist transition countries, e.g. Sasha Roseneil, Leeds University, and Naihua Zhang, Florida Atlantic University. The honorary speaker is Helvi Sipilä, Assistant Secretary General at the UN in the International Women’s Year 1975.

The co-ordinators will accept the proposals and write you back by May 1, and send you information on travel, accommodation, registration, cultural programme, and meetings with woman activists. Please, note that a post-seminar tour to St. Petersburg (by train) is being planned.