The emergence of Japanese style buildings on the Bryn Mawr campus illustrates the reciprocal flows of educational ideas and practice in the transnational cultural encounters between Japan and the USA. In this keynote lecture I use the example of the Phebe Anna Thorne School to raise some theoretical and methodological questions about the movement of
International Women’s Organisations and the Politics of Knowledge: Organisational Positioning and Encounters across an “East/West” Divide
The paper problematises mechanisms of internationalism through which knowledge was configured in ways that positioned some international women’s organisations as politically neutral and others as politicised through processes that also mapped onto views about “East/West” organisational locations (de Haan 2010). It draws on Herren’s (2014) spatial view of international organisations as “a self-declared form of
Looking to the Future, Looking to the Past: Shaping GWI Peacebuilding and GWIs Future with IFUW’s History
This plenary lecture looks towards GWI’s future by honouring the contribution to the IFUW of the Brussels-based teacher Dr Germaine Hannevart (1887-1977). It asks what questions Hannevart’s IFUW engagements raise about the nature of peace and about the peacebuilding activities of international women’s organisations, including as they work through supra-international organisations like the UN and
Temporalities and Texts: Abstracting as Practice of Synchronisation
This paper uses examples from two comparative education texts published by the International Bureau (IBE) at Geneva, The Status of the Married Woman Teacher (Gampert 1933) and The Organisation of Public Education (Jackiel and Schatzmann 1933), to explore how processes of abstraction and comparison constitute practices that synchronise multiple temporalities of past, present and future
Working For Displaced Persons and Refugees
Edith Morley was appointed Professor of English Language at Reading University in 1908 after a considerable struggle over her status. She was also a badge-wearing member of the Women’s Social and Political Union. As she charts in her memoir, Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life, she was also heavily involved in initiatives to support refugees
‘Though We Have the Vote We Still Have to Fight Every Point of Equal Opportunity and Equal Status’:
Alys Russell, Suffrage Campaigning and Work for Graduate Women, 1888-1930. Campaigning during the 1918 election for her niece, Ray Strachey, Alys Russell wrote to her cousin, M.Carey Thomas, Dean of Bryn Mawr College, USA, ‘it is absolutely bliss to have a Vote, even better than I expected. All the political parties and Agents are so
Suzanne Karpelès and Multiple Femininities
Encountering Suzanne Karpelès: Multiple Femininities, Buddhism and the French “Civilising Mission” draws on published material, correspondence and visual sources to discuss diverse configurations of femininities and their relation to a range of educative contexts in which Suzanne Karpelès engaged internationally during the 1930s as the only French woman to attain her degree of status in
Suzanne Karpelès: Entangling the Human and the Non-human
Suzanne Karpelès (1890-1969): Entangling the Human and the Non-human in Temporalities of Stasis and Change analyses intra-actions between objects, bodies, discourses and materials in the work of Suzanne Karpelès, the first woman graduate of the Ècole des langues orientales of the Ècole pratique des Haute Études in Paris and the first female member of the
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