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Russian and East European Institute 
2005 Indiana Roundtable on Post-Communism:
"Gender and Feminism under Post-Communism"
Co-sponsored
by: Russian and East European Institute, the Polish Studies Center, the
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, the Center for the Study
of Global Change, the East Asian Studies Center, the West European Studies
Center, the Office of International Programs, the Humanities Institute,
and the University Graduate School
On March 31 - April 3, 2005, IU will host an international conference
entitled "Gender and Feminism under Post-Communism." This event is based
on the University's annual "Roundtables on Post-Communism," which in the
past six years have comparatively examined the political left, social
inequalities, nationalism, and cultural dissent in Eastern Europe, Russia,
and China since 1989. The conference will focus on the development of
feminism and the impact of feminist theories on the reshaping of gender
roles in public policies, representations, and social and cultural practices.
The conference will bring to campus ten prominent scholars from around
the world, who will speak on four panels: "Economic and Social Justice
Issues," "Representations," "History and Myth," and "Public and Private
Spheres." In the first three, presenters will give position statements
in response to a question sent out by each panel coordinator. These materials
will be available on this web site electronically two weeks before the
event, enabling the discussion to take a roundtable format. A commentator
will initiate the discussion for each panel.
Faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as the public
at large are encouraged to attend.
View the complete list of conference
papers, descriptions of the panel
topics, and panelist biographies.
Friday, April 1st
Dogwood Room, IMU
| 10:00 am - noon |
Panel 1: "Social and Economic Issues" |
| Chair: |
David Ransel |
(IU) |
| Commentator: |
Jean Robinson |
(IU) |
| Presenters: |
Katalin Fabian |
(Lafayette College) |
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Elena Mezentseva |
(State University-High School of Economics, Russia) |
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Mihaela Miroiu |
(National School of Political Studies and Public Administration,
Romania) |
| This panel will examine how the introduction of a market
economy and a measure of democratic political participation in some
post-socialist countries has changed the conditions of social and
economic justice for women. |
| 1:30 - 3:30 pm |
Panel 2: "Representations" |
| Chair: |
Owen Johnson |
(IU) |
| Commentator: |
Jennifer Maher |
(IU) |
| Presenters: |
Jill Massino |
(IU) |
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Agnieszka Graff |
(Warsaw University, Poland) |
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Joyce Mushaben |
(University of Missouri) |
| The participants in this panel will explore important
themes in cultural depictions of gender, particularly of women, in
post-communist societies. |
| 4:00 - 6:00 pm |
Film screening: Chemistry 001 |
| Sexmission (Polish with English subtitles,
1984) |
| Directed by Juliusz Machulski. Two scientists volunteer
for a hibernation experiment and wake to find themselves in an underground
world inhabited solely by women. |
Saturday, April 2nd
Dogwood Room, IMU
| 10:00 am - noon |
Panel 3: "History and Myth" |
| Chair: |
Maria Bucur |
(IU) |
| Commentator: |
Jeff Wasserstrom |
(IU) |
| Presenters: |
Krassimira Daskalova |
(St. Kliment Ohridski, University of Sofia, Bulgaria) |
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Elena Gapova |
(Centre for Gender Studies, European Humanities University, Belarus) |
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Magdalena Gawin |
(Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) |
| The participants in this panel will consider the challenges
of the transition from communism, both to scholarship concerning women's
lives and gender roles in general. |
| 1:30 - 3:00 pm |
Panel 4: "Private and Public Spheres" |
| Speaker: |
Isabel Marcus |
(SUNY School of Law, Buffalo, New York) |
| This final roundtable will be an open discussion which
will integrate the work presented in the preceding sessions and set
directions and goals for future research. The theme will bring together
many of the issues raised in the other panels and more broadly engage
questions of visibility and the framing of women's/gender problems
in both the realm of discourse and also of policy making and activism. |
| 3:30 - 4:30 pm |
Film screening: Chemistry 001 |
| Diamonds in the Dark (Documentary, Romania,
1999) |
| Directed by Olivia Carrescia. From a traditional village
bordering Ukraine, to the relatively sophisticated city of Bucharest,
this video tells the stories of ten Romanian women living under the
old regime and during the post-communist era. |
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