7. F*GG LAB: Geschlecht historisieren. Frauen*- und Geschlechtergeschichte vernetzen: Reihe des Forschungsschwerpunktes F*GG der historisch-kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Univ. Wien (Web)
Time: 11.06.2026, 19.00 Uhr
Venue: RECET festival tent, Campus of the University of Vienna („Altes AKH“), Spitalg. 2-4/Hof 1, 1090 Wien
Alexandra Ghiţ’s book ‚Welfare Work Without Welfare‘ (De Gruyter, 2025) (Web) argues that women activists, workers, and homemakers in the Romanian capital Bucharest ensured others‘ well-being in the interwar period through their „austerity welfare work“. The book offers a novel interpretation of state-society relations after the First World War, showing that unpaid labor and gender relations were crucial in responding to economic crisis in an Eastern European urban setting and beyond. ‚Welfare Work Without Welfare‘ contributes to the historicization of social reproduction work and the rethinking of the history of welfare states.
Programme
– Introduction by Alexandra Ghiţ and a commentary by Manca G. Renko
– Panel discussion with Alexandra Ghiţ and Manca G. Renko moderated by Johanna Gehmacher
– Afterwards: Drinks and snacks at the RECET festival tent
Alexandra Ghiț is a researcher in the „History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001 (HERESSEE)“ project at the Univ. of Vienna (Web)
F*GG LAB: Natascha Bobrowsky and Paula Lange (Organisers F*GG LAB), Johanna Gehmacher and Dietlind Hüchtker (Speakers FSP und Doc-School Cluster F*GG)

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Frauenstudienzirkel
Drittes Forum Geschlechtergeschichte für Dissertant:innen und Forscher:innen in Österreich und angrenzenden Regionen; Organisator:innen: Siglinde Clementi (Brixen), Muriel González Athenas (Innsbruck) und Falko Schnicke (Linz)