The Research Network on „Military, War and Gender/Diversity“ (MKGD) Online Research Colloquium (Web)

Time: 23.11.2026, 4:00-6:00 pm CET (10:00 am-12:00 pm EST)
Venue: Virtual space – via Neubiberg

Since 1991, Ukraine has made considerable progress toward gender equality across various spheres of society, including the military. Since adopting the first National Action Plan, the Ukrainian security and defense sector has undergone several significant systemic changes. Data from five extensive sociological studies called “Invisible Battalion” demonstrate the successes and challenges of gender equality implementation in the Ukrainian armed forces, the status of female veterans, and the problem of sexual harassment in the military. The “Invisible Battalion” advocacy campaign, which began in 2015, initiated positive changes in the security and defense sector and helped shift public perception of women defenders.

Moderation: Maren Röger (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe)

Tamara Martsenyuk holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Univ. of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Her research interests relate to gender and social structure, women’s participation in protests, and the Russo-Ukrainian war. Since 2015, together with a research team she has conducted five sociological studies titled “Invisible Battalion”. In 2023, she received the Emma Goldman Award for outstanding research on feminist and inequality issues.

Zoom URL: https://d9jao.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/OycZvHuFo1eQtrXW9HtW5WKd/ZHG1_HtFgLmY

Organisers: Anne-Laure Briatte (Sorbonne Univ.); Tanja Bührer (Univ. of Salzburg); Isabelle Deflers and Anke Fischer-Kattner (Univ. of the Bundeswehr Munich); Karen Hagemann (Univ. of North Carolina); Isabel Heinemann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Munich); Jasper Heinzen (Univ. of York)

Source: HSozKult (Web)

Institut für Geschichte der Univ. Wien: Reihe „Geschichte am Mittwoch“ in Koop. mit dem Institut für die Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit (Web)

Zeit: 18.11.2026, 18.30 s.t.-20.00 Uhr
Ort: Univ. Wien, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Hörsaal 30

Modernity was not created only by entrepreneurs, inventors and their machines. It also rested on the labour of many people who left the traditional communities and wage labour became the centre of their lives. These people are usually not considered part of the urban middle classes; on the contrary, they were often at risk of falling into precarity. Still, they have articulated and defended their interests. The aim of the project is to explore how they conceptualised their situation, even if they expressed themselves through action rather than writing. We pursue the hypothesis that the rioters and their actions formed a specific non-elite public sphere as an alternative to the emerging bourgeois society. To prove this hypothesis, the project focuses on social interactions and conflicts of various dimensions in selected cities, involving journeymen, factory workers, and ,the mobʻ. By analysing the mass protests in 1793 in Prague, the hunger riots in Vienna in 1805, the journeymen’s unrests in the 1820s, or the workers’ strikes and machine demolitions in the 1840s the project examines not only the logics and justifications behind these action, but it asks to what extent these logics fit into either a traditional or a modernist interpretive framework of social protests.

Moderation: Anton Tantner

– Pavel Himl, professor of (early) modern history at the Charles Univ., Praha
– Jakub Raška, junior reseacher at the Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciencies, Praha
– Josef Řičář, postdoc researcher at the Charles Univ., Praha
– Edmund Trubáček, Ph.D. student at the Charles Univ., Praha