Karen M. Offen Historian Author Feminism Women France

A listing of other lectures, seminars, conference papers, and other academic and public presentations is available on demand.

2009 Invited speaker, conference on feminist memory and history, University of Lincoln, England. 8-11 September

2009 Invited series speaker, Vassar College. 28 April

2009 Honored speaker, Presidential Plenary session on the state of French History, Society for French Historical Studies annual meeting, Washington University, St. Louis 26-28 March

2009 Invited speaker, Women’s Studies at the Huntington, 25th Annuversary Program, The Huntington Library, San Marino CA. 14 March

2008 Keynote speaker, (power-point), IX Jornadas de Historia de las Mujeres y IV Congreso Iberoamericano de Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. 30 July - 1 August

2008 Invited speaker, Journee d’Etude : “Existe-t-il un vote féminin?” Institut d’Études Politiques, ENS-LSH, Lyon, France. 27 June

2007 Invited speaker, conference on “Gender History in Transnational Perspective,” honoring the retirement of Gisela Bock, Free University of Berlin, Germany. 5-6 October

2007 Invited speaker, conference, “Women’s Participation in Democracies,” Casa de Mateus Conference Center, Portugal, & guest speaker on comparative women’s history, Institute for Political Studies, Lisbon. September

2007 Keynote address (power-point), Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria. 8-12 August

2006 Invited speaker, colloquium “Gender, Religion and Politics: the European networks of Josephine Butler,” The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University. 17-18 November

2006 Invited keynote speaker. “The Adventure of Women’s Suffrage Around the World, 1789-2000” (slide lecture). Conference commemorating “Spanish Women’s Suffrage 75th Anniversary: From Women’s Rights to Vote to Equality,” Instituto Andaluz de la Mujer, Junta de Andalusia, Seville, Spain. 18 October

2006 Invited keynote speaker “The Adventure of Women’s Suffrage Around the World, 1789-2000” (slide lecture), in summer school course on “Clara Campoamor y el voto femenino.” Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Cursos de Verano, at San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. 24-28 July

2005 Invited lecture, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania “Civil Society, Gender Justice, and the History of European Feminisms” (slide lecture). 4 October

2005 Plenary speaker, 8th Nordic Women’s and Gender History Conference, Turku, Finland. 12-14 August

2005 Invited paper, International Congress on Central and East European Studies (ICCEES), Berlin. 25-30 July

2005 Invited speaker, University of York, Conference honoring Jane Rendall’s Retirement. 23 July

2005 Invited paper: Conference on History for the 21st Century, Rotterdam. 16-17 June

2005 Keynote speaker, Conference: Women in a Changing World: The International Women’s Movement, 19th–20th Centuries, Centre d’Archives pour l’Histoire des Femmes (CARHIF), Brussels. 23 May

2005 Invited Lecture, “Eruptions and Flows,” Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. 20 May

2004 Invited slide-lecture on the French women’s suffrage issue, Wellesley College; also taught a class based on an assortment of French feminist texts from the 1890s. 27 October

2004 Invited Keynote Address: “Civil Society, Gender Justice, and the History of European Feminisms,” conference on Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung, Berlin. 9-11 July

2002 Invited speaker (on the early history and accomplishments of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History), annual conference of Mnémosyne, the French Women’s History National Association, Paris, France. 5 October

2002 Invited Speaker, Gosteli Foundation/Archive 20th Anniversary Celebration, Berne, Switzerland. 2 September.

2002 Invited presentations, joint course (televised) on the comparative history of feminisms, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
7-11 April

2001 Keynote Speaker, European Historians’ Luncheon, Southern Historical Association, New Orleans. 18 November

2001 Keynote Speaker, Fourth Conference on Portuguese Women’s History, Porto, Portugal.

2000 Keynote Speaker, Tenth Congress of Swiss Women Historians, Fribourg, Switzerland.

1999 Keynote Speaker, First Conference on Eastern European Women’s History, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus.

1998 Plenary Speaker, Conference on the Revolution of 1848, National Assembly, Paris, France. February

1997 Plenary Speaker, Eleventh Biennial Conference, Australiasian Association of European Historians, Adelaide, Australia. July.

1997 Keynote Speaker, Spanish Association for Women’s History Conference (AIEHM), Cadiz, Spain. June

1993 Plenary Speaker, International Conference on Women's Suffrage, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

1991 Norwegian Research Council/Scandinavian Universities Fall Lecture Tour (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland)

1991 The Grace Martin Lecturer, University of Idaho

1990 The Russell Lecturer, Alfred University

1989 Keynote Speaker, Smithsonian Conference on Women and the Progressive Era, Washington, D. C.

1988 The Dorothy Lambert Whisnant Lecturer in Women's History, Clemson University.