The symposium "Women, Gender & Knowledge : An activist Research?" will take place on March 8 and 9, 2022 at Nantes University, on the occasion of the publication of the dossier "Une histoire genrée des savoirs est-elle possible?" of the Cahiers François Viète (vol. III, n°11, November 2021), coordinated by Valérie Burgos-Blondelle, Juliette Lancel and Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin. The publication of this dossier follows the seminar "Women and Knowledge", organized between 2014 and 2017 at EHESS by the editors of the dossier. This colloquium aims to continue the reflection on the entanglement of gender issues and the construction and circulation of knowledge in modern and contemporary times. It is organized by Juliette Lancel (IHM-CHUV, Lausanne) and Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin (Cermes3, Villejuif), by Jenny Boucard, from the François Viète Center for Epistemology and History of Science and Technology (Nantes University) and Valérie Schafer (C2DH, University of Luxembourg). This conference is supported by the GENDER cluster, which aims to federate research on gender in the humanities and social sciences and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration on this topic within Nantes University. Its organization is also funded by the Centre de recherche médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société and by the Commission on Women and Gender Studies in History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Four phases are planned during the colloquium: the first one is reserved for a targeted student audience as part of a training-through-research project, the other three are open to the public (opening session which is common to two seminars of Nantes University laboratories; conferences interspersed with theatrical readings; round table).
Photo : Jean Jennings, Marlyn Wescoff, & Ruth Lichterman en train de programmer l’ENIAC dans les années 1940. Source : nwmissouri.edu
Organizing committee
Jenny Boucard (Centre François Viète d’épistémologie et d’histoire des sciences et des techniques, Nantes Université)
Juliette Lancel (Institut des humanités en médecine, Lausanne)
Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin (Centre de recherche médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société and Commission on Women and Gender Studies of IUHPST-DHST)
Valérie Schafer (Center for Contemporary and Digital History, Université du Luxembourg)
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