The 2008 WIFIS conference will take place on Saturday 18 October, very likely in the Mitchell Library and will be organised by Elisabeth Campbell, Joy Charnley and Caroline Verdier.
The 2009 event will be held at the University of Aberdeen and will be organised by Elizabeth Macknight and Clemence O’Connor.
The sixth annual meeting of Women in French in Scotland (WIFIS) took place on 13 October 2007 at the Glasgow Women’s Library (www.womenslibrary.org.uk), the only women’s library in Scotland. The conference, organized by Joy Charnley and Caroline Verdier (Strathclyde), welcomed participants from throughout Britain as well as from the universities of Ottawa and British Columbia. Conference panels took up the Québécois writer Hélène Monette, chick media, and women’s letter writing, including as yet unpublished letters written to Lucie Dreyfus at the height of the Dreyfus Affair, the letters of nineteenth-century aristocratic girls, and the letters of Flora Tristan. At the WIFIS round table, Professors Lorna Milne (St Andrews), Siân Reynolds (Stirling), and Mary Orr (Southampton) discussed career strategies and pitfalls specific to the experience of women in higher education. The WIFIS plenary was given by Thérèse Moreau (Lausanne), who asked, ‘Les femmes sont-elles solubles dans la démocratie française?’ The organizers remain grateful for financial support to the University of
Strathclyde and the Alliance Française de Glasgow. Next year’s meeting, broadly themed around ‘Women’s History/ L’Histoire des femmes’ will take place in Glasgow on 18 October and will welcome historians from Marseilles as part of the Glasgow/Marseilles Twin Towns Programme. For more information, please visit the WIFIS blog at http://wifis.edublogs.org. (Report by Amy Wygant, Glasgow).
Click on the following link to access general information about the forthcoming conference: General info 
The registration form for the 2007 conference is available to download from the following link: wifis-2007-registration-form.doc
Here is the link to the poster for the 2007 conference: wifis-poster.jpg. It has been designed especially for the occasion by Kathryn Pender. You can view more of her great work at www.kpender.com
The 2007 WIFIS conference will be held at the Glasgow Women’s Library, 2nd floor, 81 Parnie Street, Glasgow.
Information on how to get there are available from the Glasgow Women’s Library site. Click on the link on the right to access the website directly.
If you want to add anything to the WIFIS blog (CFP, publications, coming events…) please send details to Caroline at caroline.verdier@strath.ac.uk
Women In French In Scotland is an informal network of Scottish-based academics at all levels from postgraduates to professors. Working within the broadly defined field of French studies - although not always within French departments - all share common interests in the contributions that women have made to the history, society, language, politics, cinema, film or literature of France and Francophone countries; or else in the representation and treatment of women and issues of gender in these domains. Activities include an annual conference, which provides a forum for the supportive discussion of papers presented, and is open to UK and overseas academics alike.
For more information on the activities of WIFIS, contact the co-founder, Dr Amy Wygant at the University of Glasgow - A.Wygant@french.arts.gla.ac.uk
