The June Alcide De Gasperi Seminar Series event will be an occasion to discuss two different research projects.
Dr Simon Godard from Sciences Po Grenoble will present ongoing research on the actors, methods and topics involved in the introduction of gender reflection in EEC policy between 1959 and 1974.
During the long 1960s, between the signature of the Treaty of Rome and the International Women’s Year in 1975, we witness an awakening of the European Economic Community (EEC) to the ways in which its institutions and policies impacted on questions of gender. While historian have begun to analyse the affirmative action initiatives undertaken by the EEC, the Commission, the European Parliament, and the Court of Justice since the mid-1970s, and political scientists are examining the introduction of gender mainstreaming in contemporary EU-public policies, the impetus for framing gender in the EEC’s work prior to the mid-1970s is less understood. Focusing on Europeanist female networks and their organisations, as well as on how gender was introduced into the discussion of European labour policies in the 1960s, Simon Godard will lead a discussion on the economisation of the woman question in the early stages of the European Economic Community.
In the second hour of the seminar, Paul-Antoine Tugayé, PhD candidate at the Sorbonne and Strasbourg University, will examine the relative expansion of the European Commission’s competencies in the light of three policy initiatives. Based on a comparative study of proposals in the fields of research, aid to neighbouring countries, and energy, it proposes an analysis of sectoral integration in policy making and the conditions under which it is possible.
The Alcide De Gasperi Centre supports researchers working in areas related to the history of European integration and cooperation broadly conceived. It coordinates networks of historians, facilitates the use of primary sources and increases public interest in the history of European integration.