10.45 am to 12.00 pm

Opening and Introduction: “Gender Discrimination in Modern Greece”

Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Michail Raftakis, University of Sassari

Vasilis Gavalas, University of Aegean and Pavlos Baltas, National Centre for Social Research (EKKE)

 “Gender inequalities and sex-differential mortality in pre-war Greece: a regional perspective.”

12.00 pm to 12.15 pm

Break

12.15 pm to 1.45 pm

Hülya Canbakal and Alpay Filiztekin, Sabanci University

 “Preliminary thoughts on gender inequality in eighteenth-century Iraklion (Kandiye)”

Eftychia Kalaitzidou, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

“Gender discrimination practices against girls in Modern Greece, data from three census reports (1879, 1907 and 1920)”

1.45 pm to 2.45 pm

Lunch break: beverages and lunch will be offered on the premises of the Norwegian Institute.

2.45 pm to 4.15 pm

Marina Tsirtsikou, University of Ioannina

 “Work and gender through the example of the Military Clothing-Footwear Factory (700 MF) at Piraeus (1909-1951)”

Eftychia Kalaitzidou, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

“Abandoning Girls: Data from the Foundling Hospital of Athens, 1920-1934”

4.15 pm to 4.30 pm

Break

4.30 pm to 6.00 pm

Gonda Van Steen, King’s College London

“Five Years of Feeding amidst Gender Discrimination: An Unpublished Source on the Living Conditions of the Children of late 1940s Northern Greece”

Nia Georges, Rice University

“A Story of Selective Neglect:  Dealing with Intractable Dilemmas in Rural Rhodes.”