Monday, the 17th of June, Tel Aviv University (Gilman Building hall 496)
17:00 Registration
17:30 Opening session
Greetings and Opening Remarks:
Leo Corry, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University
Nurit Kirsh, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee and Director of the Biological Thought program, The Open University of Israel
Shaul Katzir, Director, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
Presidential Address
Maria Rentetzi, Commission on Women and Gender Studies in History of Science, Technology and Medicine
"Science and Diplomacy between War and Peace: A Male Domain"
18:45 Welcome Reception
Tuesday, the 18th of June, Tel Aviv University (Gilman Building hall 496)
Tuesday, 09:30-11:20 Session no. 2
Terms and conditions: wars as opportunities for women scientists
| Željko Oset University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia |
Opportunities for Female Scientists in Ljubljana (Slovenia) after World War I and World War II |
| Anne Sophie Godfroy University Paris Est Créteil,Centre Cavaillès - République des Saviors, Paris, France |
The Ecole Normale Superieure de Jeunes Filles during WWII: Facing Contingencies and Preparing the Post-War Period |
| Annette B. Vogt Max Planck Institue for the history of science Berlin, Germany |
Female Scientists and their Resistance against the Nazi Regime |
| Pnina Abir-Am Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA |
From the Science Corp in the 1948 War to the Weizmann Institute of Science: The Careers of two Israeli Women Scientists in War and Peace. |
Tuesday, 11:50-13:20 Session no. 3
Scientific narratives: Biographies of women scientists
| Maria J. Santesmases Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain |
Bacteria and Gender in War and Peace: the Transitions of Emmy Klieneberger |
| Tuvaal Klein Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
Changing Narratives of Marie Curie: between War and Peace |
| Marcela Starcová Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic |
Libuše Jansová - the First Professional Woman Archaeologist in the Czechoslovakia |
13:20-14:45 Lunch
Tuesday, 14:45-16:15 Session no. 4
Gender and Emotion: Between Life and Death
| Annette Mülberger Centre for History of Science, Barcelona, Spain |
Gender and War in Early Psychological Testing |
| L. Joanne Green University of Cambridge, UK |
‘We the Tormentors, the Destroyers’: Death, Emotions, and Gender in Entomology |
| Pnina Rosenberg Technion of Haifa, Israel |
Women-Prisoners in the Service of Kazakh Dandelion Research in Rajsko Auschwitz Sub-Camp's Plant Breeding Detail |
Tuesday, 16:45-18:15 Session no. 5
Women as Healers, Doctors and Care-givers during War and Interwar Times
| Adela Junova Mackova Masaryk Inst. and Archives of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic |
Vlasta Kálalová Di-Lotti and her Plan to Bbuild a Hospital in Jerusalem |
| Hagit Krik The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
Medicine, Gender and Race: Colonial Nursing in Interwar Palestine |
| Benjamin Palmer University of Leicester, UK |
War and Welfare: British Women Biochemists in the Second World War |
Wednesday, the 19th of June, The Open University, Ra’anana (Canbar Hall)
Wednesday, 10:15-11:45 Session no. 6
Men to the front, women to the lab
| Donald L. Opitz DePaul University, Illinois, USA |
Gardening for Victory: Gender and Horticultural Science during World War I |
| Ivana Ebelová, Milada Sekyrková, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
Gender in Medical Education and Practice in Central Europe around WWI and WWII |
| Sally Horrocks University of Leicester, UK |
The Cold War, Domesticity and Women’s Employment in Science and Engineering, 1940s- c 1970 |
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Concert
Wednesday, 14:30-16:00 Session no. 7
The gendered aspect of technology
| Julia Gül Erdogan University of Stuttgart, Germany |
Challenging the Image of the Male Computer Hacker in the Federal Republic of Germany. Technology, Communication Networks and Female Activism in the transition to the 1990s. |
| Ari Barell, Ben-Gurion University, Israel |
Glass Ceilings and Iron Domes: Gender, Military Technology and New Wars in Israel |
| Chava Brownfield-Stein Beit Berl College, Israel |
Gender, Advanced Technological Apparatuses, and “Warfare Without Risk”: the Case of Israel’s Border with Gaza Strip |
16:15-19:00 Guided tour to the Historic Site of Apollonia.
Thursday, the 20th of June, Tel Aviv University (Gilman Building hall 496)
Thursday, 09:30-11:00 Session no. 8
Science & Technology, masculinity & femininity
| Kamlesh Mohan Panjab University, India |
Patriarchy, Medicine and Women Medical Missionaries: Partial Catalytic Agents |
| Maya Roman, Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
Men-Made Physics: Examining Masculinity as a Strategy for Creating Feminist Critiques of Physics |
| Zohar Sapir Dvir Tel Aviv University, Israel |
Citroën and Renault Cross the Sahara: Technology and Masculinity in French Automotive Expeditions (1922-1925) |
Thursday, 11:30-13:00 Session no. 9
Women’s bodies
| Laurens Schlicht Humboldt University, Berlin, Gemrnay |
Female Criminal Police, Germany, 1942–1944 |
| Pavel Vasilyev Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel |
Re/Production Cycles: Affective Economies of Soviet Menstruation |
| Erela Teharlev Ben-Shachar Biological Thought, Open University, Israel |
The War over the Feminine Body – Israel’s Women Conscription and the Female Physiology |