Speaker Bio
Tilly Vriend is International Project Manager at Atria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has been actively involved in the field of Women’s/Gender information since 1982. Vriend manages many national and international projects concerning the accessibility and visibility of women’s information, among which the implementation of the Dutch Women’s Thesaurus and the European Women’s Thesaurus; the management/development of the FRAGEN database of core feminist texts (www.Fragen.nu); development of a portal on Gender Based Violence in cooperation with EIGE, European Institute for Gender Equality (Lithuania).
Vriend is board member of AtGender, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation, a professional organization in the field of international gender studies and board member of WINE, the Women’s Information Network in Europe. She is a speaker at many conferences and was actively involved in the organization of several conferences concerning Gender Information in Amsterdam (1998) and in Kampala (2002) and in Mexico, (2006), Gothenburg (2012) She was a trainer within the project Building women’s information centers in Eastern Europe. Vriend did Library and Information Studies at the Frederik Müller Academy in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
Abstract
With these papers we wish to present the FRAGEN database as an important step in documenting and making available the legacy of European feminism in the digital age. At the same time we are also hoping to press important questions about the writing of European feminist history, the formation of a feminist canon and its implications for the feminisms of the future.
Over the last three years (2008-2011) European women's libraries and scholars from all over Europe have been working together on the FRAGEN project, which is part of the European research project QUING funded by the EC. FRAGEN has compiled a digital database of the most significant European texts from the women's movements in 27 EU countries + Turkey and Croatia. Since the launch of the database in Spring 2011 this information is available for comparative research into the legacy of feminist ideas in different European countries. This paper will provide a general outline of the project, the background and focus of the FRAGEN project.
Writing European Feminisms: FRAGEN and Answers
With these papers we wish to present the FRAGEN database as an important step in documenting and making available the legacy of European feminism in the digital age. At the same time we are also hoping to press important questions about the writing of European feminist history, the formation of a feminist canon and its implications for the feminisms of the future.
Over the last three years (2008-2011) European women's libraries and scholars from all over Europe have been working together on the FRAGEN project, which is part of the European research project QUING funded by the EC. FRAGEN has compiled a digital database of the most significant European texts from the women's movements in 27 EU countries + Turkey and Croatia. Since the launch of the database in Spring 2011 this information is available for comparative research into the legacy of feminist ideas in different European countries. This paper will provide a general outline of the project, the background and focus of the FRAGEN project.