Dubravka Ugrešić Lecture Series (Web) as part of the Days of Attention in support of the Serbian student protests (Web) | (PDF)
Time: 14.04.2026, 17:30
Venue: Univ. of Vienna, Marietta-Blau-Saal, Universitätsring 1, Stiege 10, Hochparterre/Staircase 10, HP floor, 1010 Vienna
What epistemological and affective tools are available to feminists who were born and live in any part of what was once Eastern Europe during the Cold War? To describe these tools, Adriana Zaharijević will revisit four main debates within Eastern European feminism in her talk: East/West debate, the debate on post-socialism and postcolonialism, the debate on history, and the recognition/redistribution debate. These debates are set within the broader context of Eastern Europe’s return to and subsequent departure from the West, and the assumptions and the stakes involved are delineated. Adriana Zaharijević’s major claim is that our tools are built on erasures. The talk will argue for a self-conscious post-socialist feminism, for the development of conceptual tools to help us better understand where we stand – and even more importantly, where we want to stand.
Adriana Zaharijević is a Principal Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Univ. of Belgrade. Her work combines political philosophy, feminist theory and social history. She is the author of four monographs (in Serbian) Becoming a Woman (2010), Who Is an Individual? (2014, 2019), Life of Bodies (2020), and Judith Butler and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). She published in East European Politics and Societies, Europe- an Journal of Women Studies, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Redescriptions, Signs, Social Politics, and Women’s Studies Inter- national Forum. Her texts have been translated into Albanian, Bulgarian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Turkish and Ukrainian. She has actively translated feminist theory and philosophy into Serbian for two decades. She writes short pieces for a wider public, in which she tackles social inequalities, antinationalism and antimilitarism. Adriana Zaharijević is the 2022 Emma Goldman Snowball awardee.
Source: Newsletter des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte

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