Research Symposium

Call for Papers

May 12 is the International Women in Mathematics Day, which was chosen to mark and celebrate the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman, to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, in 2014. 

In joining these celebrations all over the world, we organize a symposium, which will address amongst others the following questions, but its topics will by no means restricted within them:

¨ How can we think differently about the problem that well into the 21st century women are still marginalized in mathematical sciences?

¨ How can we make sense of women mathematicians’ historical emergence as subjects of scientific knowledge, as well as creators of philosophy and culture?

¨ In what ways can memory work in the archives motivate young women and girls to re-imagine themselves as mathematicians in the future?

This is a call for papers for researchers and graduate students, who are interested in unravelling entanglements between gender, science and culture, excavating the history of women mathematicians, scientists and philosophers, but also, re-imagining the future of gender and science education in general and women in mathematics in particular.

Please send an abstract of around 200 words with a short bio to Maria Tamboukou, at m.tamboukou@uel.ac.uk by June 30, 2024.

Attendance will be free, but places are limited.