Chair of European Studies, the Viadrina Institute for European Studies (IFES), and WIDE+ (Web)
Time: Mondays, 4-6 // 6-8 p.m.
Venue: European University Viadrina and virtual space
Upcoming Lectures (PDF – with Abstracts)
- 09.01.2023 (6-8 p.m.): Agnieszka Mrozik (Polish Acad. of Sciences): Polish Communist Women in the Long Sixties: What Is Left of Their Experience for Leftist Feminism in Today’s Poland?; Commentary: Natali Stegmann (Univ. Regensburg)
- 16.01.2023 (4-6 p.m.): Angelika Richter (Kunsthochschule Weißensee): The Disturbing Factor. Women artists between emancipation and patriarchy in the GDR; Commentary: Jessica Bock (Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv)
- 23.01.2023 (6-8 p.m.): Libora Oates-Indruchová (Univ. of Graz): Continuities and Discontinuities of Feminist Thought and the “East/West Divide”: The case of Czech Society and Culture // Věra Sokolová (Charles Univ.): Queer Encounters with Communist Power: Non-Heterosexual Lives and the State in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989
The link to the Zoom-events will be announced at the IFES Website a 1-3 days head the event.
This interdisciplinary lecture series brings together historical and contemporary research perspectives and engages with the question how gender and sexuality are negotiated in the (former) state socialist countries of Europe. It is striking that gender and sexuality are repeatedly used to draw a line between a supposed „West“ or „East,“ with reference often being made to state socialism. Historians, sociologists, cultural scholars and activists will Continue reading