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January 27, 2012 Meeting

 

  • January 27

 OKSANA KIS, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, President of the Ukrainian                                                   Association for  Research in Women’s History.              

      “Reclaiming the Political: The Meaning of Women’s Day. Feminist Activism in Ukraine Today.”

Dr. Oksana Kis is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) in Lviv, Ukraine. She received her Ph.D. in History from Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies NASU in 2002. Her academic interests cover women´s history, feminist anthropology, oral history, and gender transformations in post-socialist countries. She has published numerous articles on these subjects and has authored the book Women in the Traditional Ukrainian Culture, second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries (Lviv: Institute of Ethnology NASU, 2008). Dr. Kis is Director of the Lviv Resarch Center `Woman and Society´ (NGO) and President of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History. She had a Fulbright Research Scholarship (2003), a Eugene and Dymel Shklar Research Fellowship (2007) and a Petro Jacyk Visiting Professorship (2010). Currently, she is working on her research project “Invisible Agency: Representations of Gendered Historical Experiences and Identities in the Ukrainian Women´s Personal Narratives” as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University.

Currently, in the  Spring 2012 semester, Dr. Kis is teaching a course entitled “Women In Post-Socialist Transformation: Ukraine, Russia, and Poland In Focus” (Wednesdays, 11AM-12:50PM). In this course, she gives special attention to the problems of women migrant workers abroad and those subject to trafficking. On March 8th, International Woman’s Day Dr. Kis will also deliver a lecture, open to the public, at Columbia University.


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Spring 2012 Schedule

 Spring 2012 Schedule

New York University
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
and the Network of East-West Women

                                                                                                           present the

     Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe

  • January 27

 OKSANA KIS, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, President of the Ukrainian                                                   Association for  Research in Women’s History.              

      “Reclaiming the Political: The Meaning of Women’s Day. Feminist Activism in Ukraine Today.” 

  •   February 17

              KATALIN FABIAN, Associate Professor, Government and Law, Lafayette College

                    “Overcoming Disempowerment: The Home-Birth Movement in Hungary”

  •  March 23

                ANABELA ZIGOVA,  Artist and Filmmaker,                                               
                  Film:  Salto Mortale . On confronting  the communist past, the “legacy of silence

                              and young Slovaks

                (This meeting will be from 4:30-6:30 PM)

  • April 6.

               ANDREA KRISZAN, Research Fellow, Center for Policy Studies,  Central  European  University

            “Institutionalizing Intersectionality? Changing European Equality Policies: A Comparison of   

                    Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia.”

  • May 18.

              DELINA FICO, Director for Civil Society Programs, East West Management Institute, New  York, NY; Board Chair, Albanian Women’s Empowerment Network;

                                   Women’s rights activist, Albania.                   

              “On Mainstreaming Gender in Political Activism in Kosova and Albania. 

                How Women’s Groups Contribute to Political Debate and Activism.” 

  • June 1    

TBA

 Friday 4:30-6:00 p.m.

at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies

New York University
285 Mercer Street, 7th floor
(between Waverly and Washington Place)