L’HOMME Conference 2008
Department of Gender Studies | School of Humanities, Charles University Prague | U křıže 10, 158 00 Praha 5
Friday, May 30, 9-20
Only recently, research has developed an international and transnational perspective on 1968, the most symbolic societal year, going beyond the East-West bloc divide which had been in force then. Hence the contemporaneity of the social awakenings in Berkeley, Berlin, Paris, Prague etc. come in the field of attention of the public as well as of research.
To mark the fortieth jubilee of the eventful year 1968 – on both sides of the ‘iron curtain’ – we place the gender dimensions of the activisms, the protest movements and the political oppositions in the centre of academic exchange. Doing so, we focus on a field still rather underexposed concerning collective memory and research. Asking for gender relations in the 1968 protest history, asking for specific interventions of women in the dynamics of protest, as well as for the beginnings of the ‘new’ women’s movements, at the same time puts the meaning of the gender category up for discussion – the meaning for the democratisation of European societies in the wake of 1968.
The conference will be accompanied by two programme items open to a wider public: A round table discussion of female academics belonging to the generation ‘68, and the screening of “Semikrásky” (1966) by Věra Chytilová – a film which concerning its topic and picture language is especially relevant for the issue 1968.
Programm
9.30–9.45
Hana Havelková (Prague, CZ)
Welcome
Ingrid Bauer (Salzburg, A)
Introductory Remarks
9.45–13.00
Inputs + discussion
Hana Havelková
1968 – a year of radical change concerning the gender relations in Czechoslovakia?
Marie Cerná (Prague, CZ)
Search for the political partnership: Czech Union of Women and its position in the process of democratisation in the late sixties
Presentation Krassimira Daskalova (Sofia, BG)
Coffee break
Claudia Kraft (Erfurt, GER)
The contemporary of the non-contemporary – gender in the concepts of democratisation since 1968 in Eastern and Western Europe
Kristina Schulz (Lausanne, SUI)
“Without women there is no revolution“ – 1968 and the Women’s Movement in Germany, France and Switzerland
Presentation Erna Appelt (Innsbruck, A)
Break, buffet lunch
14.00–15.00
Round table: Experiences of representatives of the generation ’68 from ‘East’ and ‘West’
Ute Gerhard (Frankfurt, GERM)
Zuzana Kiczková (Bratislava, SK)
Blanka Knotková-Čapková (Prague, CZ)
Regina Schulte (Bochum, GERM) and Gerlinda Šmaus (Olomouc, CZ + Saarbr., GERM)
Presentation Kateřina Kolářová (Prague, CZ)
From 15.00
Presentations
Christa Hämmerle
The Erasmus 1 Curriculum Development Project “MATILDA: European Master in Women’s and Gender History” (Joint Degree)
New views on Gender and 1968 in the CSSR
MA and PhD students of the Prague University working on this deficit field of research present their results
Moderation Petr Pavlík (Prague, CZ)
Coffee break
Movie screening: “Sedmikrásky“ (Daisies) – Věra Chytilová, 1966, 76 min.
Marie I and Marie II, two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well. From this moment on, they do just what they like to… This feminist experimental movie was banned soon after the abolition of the ‚Prague Spring‘.
Presentation Věra Sokolová (Prague, CZ)
End 20.00
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