Working group on historical women's and gender studies

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The Working Group on Historical Women and Gender Studies e. V. (AKHFG) was founded in 1990 under the name of the Working Group on Historical Women's Research ; in 1999 it was expanded to its current name. In 2007 the working group was transformed into an association and Hamburg was established as the association's headquarters.

aims

The association promotes historical women and gender research. He wants to anchor this permanently in the scientific and cultural landscape of the Federal Republic of Germany, both at universities and at non-university institutions such as archives. The AKHFG supports the scientific exchange between all those who work on women's and gender history, and pays special attention to the promotion of young scientists. The main scientific concern of the association is to anchor historical research on women and gender in general historical studies .

founding

The initiative came from historians Gisela Bock , Karin Hausen and Heide Wunder , among others , when they founded the Working Group on Historical Women's Research as the German committee of the International Federation for Research in Women's History (IFRWH). The intellectual background was the advent of women's history ( Women's history ) due to the so-called. "Second wave" of the women's movement , first in the US and later in continental Europe.

activities

The AKHFG regularly organizes scientific conferences, workshops, lectures and regional meetings. In addition, the association issues public statements on social and science-political events and in this way seeks an exchange with a broader public about current developments in gender research. In this sense, the AKHFG 2017 takes part in the nationwide Science Day on Gender Studies.

Dissertation Prize

The AKHFG awards a dissertation prize of € 3,000 every three years. The prize honors outstanding work in the field of historical women and gender studies in the subject of history. A jury convened by the board of the AKHFG decides on the award of the prize.

Previous winners are:

  • Eva Kathrin Dade (2009),
  • Katharina Mersch (2012),
  • Leonie Treber (2015),
  • Mareen Heying (2018).

organization

The bodies of the Association are the General Meeting and the Executive Board. The board consists of: Kirsten Heinsohn (chairwoman), Gisela Mettele (deputy chairwoman), Maren Lorenz (treasurer), Jessica Bock (secretary), Hannah Rentschler and Kerstin Wolff (as of 2019). The AKHFG is divided into five regional associations. The working group is a member of the International Federation for Research in Women's History (IFRWH).

Web links

literature

  • Angelika Schaser : The Working Group on Historical Women and Gender Studies 1990 to 2015. Scientific professionalization in the network . Hamburg 2015

Remarks

  1. ↑ See also Angelika Schaser and Falko Schnicke: The long march through into the institution. Establishing women's and gender history at West German universities (1970-1990) . In: Yearbook for University History 16 (2013/2015), pp. 79–110.
  2. ↑ At the Historikertag 2014 in Göttingen, the question of integrating women's and gender history into general history was discussed in detail. Cf. the conference report by Mirjam Höfner: HT 2014: Siege und defeat, errors and findings. 30 years of gender history. A balance sheet, September 23-26, 2014 Göttingen , in: H-Soz-Kult, October 31, 2014.
  3. ↑ For the history of the working group, cf. Angelika Schaser: The Working Group on Historical Women and Gender Studies 1990 to 2015. Scientific professionalization in the network . Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050354-2 , pp. 11-20.
  4. ↑ See: http://www.akgeschlechtgeschichte.de/aktuelles.html
  5. ↑ Information on the five regional associations at: http://www.akgeschlechtgeschichte.de/akhfg/regionale-koordinationszentren.html .