Hidden or Unknown Histories? The changing status of women in science in the maelstrom of politics, wars and emigration from late 19th and 20th century (not only) in Central and Eastern Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11610%2F25%3A10508618" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11610/25:10508618 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.ichst2025.org/" target="_blank" >https://www.ichst2025.org/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

—

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Hidden or Unknown Histories? The changing status of women in science in the maelstrom of politics, wars and emigration from late 19th and 20th century (not only) in Central and Eastern Europe

Original language description

The symposium was focusing on the research of women&apos;s opportunities in science, in various social science fields. It deals with the comparing this phenomenon in the sphere of state institutes, institutes of the Academies of Sciences across Europe, as well as in universities during the last years of the 19th and 20th century. The research is focusing on the various positions behind which female scholars were hidden, often as late as the first half of the 20th century. It deals with period where, often in one scientific team or one household in Europe, coexistence, and cooperation of people of different ethnic groups, nations, races, and different geographical origins was quite common, which was significantly changed by the WWII.The papers target families of scholars, the wives, the daughters who often participated in the scientific work of the male scholars. The symposium analyses the influence, caused by the political and war turbulences, on the academic community. More specifically, the change of role of female from hidden family assistants to scientists at universities and other academic institutions has been examined. It was following the changes, that presented more academic opportunities for women, as well as influence of the transformation of the scientific politics and the impact of emigration on the status and academic position of female researchers.Symposium presented continuity of the important research on the role of women in science and it is held on behalf of a Commission on Women and Gender in Science, Technology and Medicine.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

M - Conference organization

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

—

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

University of Otago, Dunedin

Event country

NZ - NEW ZEALAND

Event starting date

—

Event ending date

—

Total number of attendees

1000

Foreign attendee count

950

Type of event by attendee nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce