Research events
from June 18, 2026 to June 19, 2026
Published on May 27, 2026– Updated on June 5, 2026
Militant women: transatlantic networks, knowledge, and activism (19th–21st centuries)
Venue: MR SHS Cergy
Workshop organised by Maria Elvira Alvarez, Claudia Jareno, Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga from AGORA Research center and Milène Le Goff from the University of Lille
This workshop, co-organized by the organizers of the seminar “Transnational History of Women in the Transatlantic Space” (CY Cergy Paris University) and of the seminar "The Gender of Activism " (University of Lille - Georgetown University - IdA), will focus on transatlantic circulations, which have been key drivers of women's and feminist movements between the 19th and 21st centuries. It aims to explore these circulations and dynamics from a resolutely transdisciplinary perspective, while encouraging intergenerational dialogues between young researchers and established specialists.
Circulations between the Americas and within the transatlantic space have always been significant; and although this space has been extensively studied in terms of Europe-North America relations and exchanges, we also want to highlight North America-Latin America exchanges, North America-Latin America-Europe triangular exchanges, and Latin America-Europe exchanges, which have been less studied but are often just as important for the history of women in these spaces.
This workshop will be organized around three themes:
Theme 1: Circulation: knowledge, practices, objects - will examine what actually circulates in the transatlantic space: ideas, theories, texts, material supports, activist or medical practices, organizational or mobilization strategies.
Theme 2: Women's and feminist networks in the Atlantic space – will study the construction, structuring, and logic of inclusion or exclusion in women's and feminist networks on a transatlantic scale.
Theme 3: Solidarity, tensions, appropriations – will interrogate the tensions that run through feminist internationalism in its transatlantic expressions.
This workshop, co-organized by the organizers of the seminar “Transnational History of Women in the Transatlantic Space” (CY Cergy Paris University) and of the seminar "The Gender of Activism " (University of Lille - Georgetown University - IdA), will focus on transatlantic circulations, which have been key drivers of women's and feminist movements between the 19th and 21st centuries. It aims to explore these circulations and dynamics from a resolutely transdisciplinary perspective, while encouraging intergenerational dialogues between young researchers and established specialists.
Circulations between the Americas and within the transatlantic space have always been significant; and although this space has been extensively studied in terms of Europe-North America relations and exchanges, we also want to highlight North America-Latin America exchanges, North America-Latin America-Europe triangular exchanges, and Latin America-Europe exchanges, which have been less studied but are often just as important for the history of women in these spaces.
This workshop will be organized around three themes:
Theme 1: Circulation: knowledge, practices, objects - will examine what actually circulates in the transatlantic space: ideas, theories, texts, material supports, activist or medical practices, organizational or mobilization strategies.
Theme 2: Women's and feminist networks in the Atlantic space – will study the construction, structuring, and logic of inclusion or exclusion in women's and feminist networks on a transatlantic scale.
Theme 3: Solidarity, tensions, appropriations – will interrogate the tensions that run through feminist internationalism in its transatlantic expressions.
