5 December, 13:00–15:00, in Þjóðarbókhlaða
The Christmas meeting of the Women’s History Archives and Kvenréttindafélag Íslands (the Icelandic Women’s Rights Association) is dedicated to the memory of Anna Sigurðardóttir and the group Úurnar.
The Women’s History Archives celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. It was founded by Anna Sigurðardóttir, who was active in the work of the Women’s Rights Association for many years. In the 1960s Anna encouraged young women to form a group of their own; they called themselves Úurnar and made their mark on the equality debate at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s.
Programme
1. Svava Bernharðsdóttir, viola, and Kristín Valsdóttir, accordion, welcome the guests beside the wide entrance to the hall
2. Auður Styrkársdóttir, Director of the Women’s History Archives, opens the programme
3. The historian Þórunn María Örnólfsdóttir talks about the life of Anna Sigurðardóttir and considers what shaped her as a campaigner for women’s rights
- The director Ásdís Skúladóttir, the journalist Gullveig Sæmundsdóttir and the literary scholar Silja Aðalsteinsdóttir talk about Úurnar
- Brynhildur Heiðar- og Ómarsdóttir, managing director of the Icelandic Women’s Rights Association, closes the meeting
Everyone is very welcome!
You can read about Úurnar here: http://kvennasogusafn.is/index.php?page=uur (in Icelandic)