Sign Journal of Women in Culture and Society’s most recent issue includes the winner of the 2013 Catharine Stimpson Prize, Anna Hájková’s “Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Negotiating the Sexual Economy of the Theresienstadt Ghetto.” Hájková’s article relates a remarkable story about gender power in a transit camp operated by the Nazi SS, in which female sexual and social favors were traded for food, protection, and symbolic capital among inmates. The issue also includes a series of articles on women in contemporary Russia and concludes with a number of explorations of gender in popular culture, from present-date representations of Emma Bovary to burgeoning expressions in hip-hop feminism. Read more about the issue contents here or view the issue on JSTOR.
Category: Presentations
March 8, 2013.
New York University
Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop
Penelopa Gjurchilova, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University; Co-founder, Macedonian Women’s Lobby; Member, National Council of Women in Macedonia.
“The Role of Women in Democratization and Decision-Making in Macedonia: A decade and more since the Ohrid Framework Agreement.”
Penelopa Gjurchilova holds a Ph.D. in EU Law (European University Institute, Florence, 2004), a Master in Public Administration (Harvard School of Government , 2007), a LL.M. (, University of Connecticut Law School,1995) and Cyril and Methodius University (Skopje, Macedonia, 1993). She is presently a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University.
She has written extensively on Macedonia, the SEE Region and more widely on international relations, international and EU law, human rights including gender, diplomacy, law-making, rule of law and institutional development. She has been active on projects on regional cooperation in South Eastern Europe, democratization, non-proliferation, institution building, NGOs and is a UN expert on the Security Council, Second, Fourth and Fifth Committees.
She is a co-founder and member of the Executive Board of the Macedonian Women’s Lobby since 2000, in the European Women’s Lobby and the National Council of Women in Macedonia.
She has worked as a lawyer in New York and Macedonia, as a diplomat in the Macedonian Foreign Service, including as counselor to the Permanent Mission of Macedonia to the UN in New York, as consultant for UNIFEM, WYG International, EuroFund, European Commission, OSCE and ODIHR.
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)
February 15
New York University
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
and the Network of East-West Women
present the
Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop
Judith Szapor, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classical
Studies, McGill University
“Between Democracy and Dictatorship:
Hungarian Gender Politics in the 1920s and Today”
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)
The Gender of Institutionalized Corruption in Russia
Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 12:15pm
Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 IAB) , Columbia University
Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Janet E. Johnson (Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute and Associate Professor, Brooklyn College).
Anticorruption experts accuse Russia of being one of the most corrupt countries in the world, but their definition of corruption focuses attention on transactions between individuals, such as bribery or embezzlement, rather than on the systemic problems. My project, part of a larger book manuscript on gender and corruption, recasts corruption as a question of institutions, building on Richard Sakwa’s (2011) dual state framework and theories of post-Soviet neopatrimonialism. Whereas Sakwa describes Putin’s Russia (at least through 2008) as torn between a power-hungry administrative regime and some limited commitments to a constitutionalism, my project spotlights how many of the illustrative institutions and the justifying ideologies of the administrative regime are gendered, even as more women have entered into formal power under Putin than under Yeltsin and even Gorbachev. Putin, the siloviki, and the oligarchs are a male-dominated cabal, who institutionalized heteronormative, often violent masculinities that counter the imagined subordination of the homo Sovieticus. In other words, corruption and violent masculinity are the scaffolding that held the dual state together, and this perspective helps explain why gender and sexuality–most notably in the guise of Pussy Riot and the condom–have been so prominent in the protests that began after the 2011 Duma elections and why the regime has been so coercive in its crackdown.
Janet Elise Johnson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and, this year, a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute. Her most recent articles are published or forthcoming in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Politics & Gender, and Signs: Journals of Women in Culture and Society. Her last book, Gender Violence in Russia: The Politics of Feminist Intervention (Indiana University Press, 2009), analyzes the development of the women’s crisis center movement in Russia. Her current research explores the role of gender in corruption in places such as Russia and Iceland.
For more information, see http://www.harrimaninstitute.org/events/monthly_calendar.html.
New York University Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Network for East-West Women
Present
January 18, 2013
Marta Kichorowska Kebalo, Ph.D.Anthropology, CUNY; Lecturer, Anthropology, Sociology and Linguistics,
“Ethnicity, gender, and class in Interwar Galicia: The Ukrainian women’s movement of the 1920s-30s and beyond.”
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)
ATTENTION: CSW PARTICIPANTS
CALL FOR PAPERS
for
PANEL March 8 or 15, 2013
Priority date for submission of Proposals: January 15, 2013.
The GENDER and TRANSFORMATION in EUROPE Workshop at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University invites those from the region of east, south and central Europe and the former Soviet Union, including the Baltic countries and Central Asia, who will be in New York attending the CSW meetings March 4 – 15,2013 to submit a proposal to speak on a panel that will be held on either Friday, March 8 or 15, 2013 at 4:30-6:30 PM. We will have three or four speakers. The topic can be on either 1- your assessment of what is and is not useful in the UN or EU programs, practices and/or structures for gender and women’s issues in your country and what changes you would propose or 2- any issue on gender in relation to your country but should not be on a general topic.
The workshop is a small, informal, and friendly group of about 20 feminist scholars, activists, and journalists that has been meeting for more than 15 years. We have a feminist approach and have been closely affiliated with the Network of East/West Women. We have general background information, so general talks are not relevant for this group.
Your proposal should cover some specific area of empirical or theoretical gender research, activism, or expertise, for example : women, gender and women’s rights and the UN or EU in relation to your country; your country’s relation to the European Women’s Lobby and problems or benefits from it; women’s activism in your country; gender and NGOs and/or transnational alliances in relation to your country; gender policy; gender in relation to current political and economic developments and crises in your country; feminist political theory or historical debates in your country in relation to gender; questions of gender and justice, legitimacy and/or democratization; gender and immigration in relation to your country; gender and right wing developments in your country; gender in relation to some other current issue in your country.
You should be prepared to speak for about 15 minutes. The meeting will take place at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
We offer a small honorarium; however, we regret that we cannot cover transportation expenses to New York City.
Please include the following in your proposal:
- a title for your talk
- an abstract of less than 200 words describing your proposed talk, explaining how your talk relates to gender, women’s activism, gender policy, or feminist political theory, and discussing your expertise as a scholar or activist
- a one-page curriculum vitae or resume.
- Which dates you are available- March 8 or 15 or either.
Nanette Funk, Professor Emerita, Department of Philosophy, City University of New York
Co-Coordinator Workshop on Gender and Transformation in Europe
Please e-mail [email protected]
For more information about the Workshop see http://gendertransformationeurope.wordpress.com/.
New York University
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
and the Network of East-West Women
present the
Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop
Jane Gary Harris, Professor of Russian Literature and Culture, University of Pittsburgh
“We are not all Buronovskie Babushki: Gender, aging, and social policy in Russia Today”
Friday, Dec.7, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
New York University
285 Mercer Street, 7th floor
Categories
On sexual barter in Terezin
New York University
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
and the Network of East-West Women
present the
Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop
November 9, 2012
Anna Hájková, PhD candidate, History Department, University of Toronto
(winner of the 2013 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship)
“Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Negotiating Sexual Economy of the Theresienstadt Ghetto”
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)
Anna Hájková is a PhD candidate in modern European history at the University of Toronto, finishing her dissertation “The Inmate Society of Theresienstadt: A Laboratory of the Middle Class. A History of the Theresienstadt Transit Ghetto, 1941-1945.” She received her MA in history from Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2006 to 2009, she was coeditor of Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente. She has published on various aspects of Theresienstadt, the Holocaust in the Netherlands, and the Czechoslovak association of concentration camp survivors. She is a recipient of the 2013 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship for the article on which this lecture is based, forthcoming in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society in the spring 2013.
2013-14 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellowships
In 2013-14, the Pembroke Center is awarding one-year residential postdoctoral fellowships to scholars from any field whose research relates to the theme of “Socialism and Post-Socialism.” Fellows are required to participate in a weekly research seminar and teach one undergraduate course.
Candidates are selected on the basis of their scholarly potential and the relevance of their work to the research theme. Recipients must have a PhD and may not hold a tenured position. Fellowships are awarded to postdoctoral scholars who received their degrees from institutions other than Brown University. Brown University is an EEO/AA employer. The Center strongly encourages underrepresented minority scholars to apply.
The term of appointment is July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014. The stipend is $50,000, plus a supplement for health insurance.
For a full description of the postdoctoral fellowship see http://www.pembrokecenter.org/.
Apply online at https://secure.inter8folio.com/apply/14921. The deadline for receipt of applications is December 7, 2012. Selections will be announced in March.
New York University
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
and the Network of East-West Women
present the
Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop
October 12
Ana Lukatela, PhD Candidate in Political Science at University of British Columbia,
Programme Specialist in Peace and Security Cluster at UN Women
“Women’s Mobilization in Tajikistan: Navigating between the State and Religion”
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)
Ana Lukatela is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada in the Political Science department. Since 2006 she has worked in different capacities for UN Women and former UNIFEM both in the western Balkans and at UN headquarters. Her work at HQ includes travel to support UN country offices, Member State governments and women’s civil society around the world. She has authored policy papers, book chapters and articles on issues related to gender, inclusion, governance, peace and security. She has two children, Aina and Maks.
See http://politics-legacy.arts.ubc.ca/index.php?id=7384 for more information.
