Sept 9

Katherine Gregory, PhD, MS, MA, author of The Everyday Lives of Sex Workers in the Netherlands

“The Everyday Lives of Transgendered Sex Workers in the Netherlands”

Oct. 14

Ann Snitow, Associate Professor of Literature and Gender Studies, Director of the Gender Studies Program at the New School, co-founder of the Network of East-West Women in 1991

Malgorzata Tarasiewicz, Director of the Network of East-West Women

Reflections on twenty years of East-West collaboration

(followed by 20^th birthday party for the Network East-West Women at Ann Snitow’s, 167 Spring St. Bell #11, between West Broadway and Thompson St)

Nov. 4

Anna Louie Sussman, freelance journalist, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

“Sex and the State: The Disappearance of Turkey’s Legal Sex Trade”

Dec. 2

Katerina Liskova, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Program, Masaryk University

“Beyond Belief?  Religious Conservatives and Sex Education in the Czech Republic”

Fridays 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)

Twentieth Anniversary of the founding of the Network East-West Women

The GENDER and TRANSFORMATION in EUROPE Workshop invites speakers to submit proposals for Friday afternoon talks for Fall 2011 at the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.

We are looking for speakers to discuss gender, sexuality, or women in Europe or Eurasia, especially talks that consider the impact of broader cultural, political, or economic transformations.  Historically, we have focused on the postcommunist countries of East and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, including the Baltic countries and Central Asia, but we are also interested in explorations of gender in Western Europe or comparisons with gender in other parts of the world.

The workshop is an informal and friendly group of about 20 feminist scholars, activists, and journalists who have been meeting for more than 15 years and are knowledgeable about the region. This is the perfect space to present recent field research or scholarly reflections on your activism.

We offer an honorarium; however, we regret that we cannot cover transportation expenses to New York City.

For more information–and details about how to propose a talk–see http://gendertransformationeurope.wordpress.com/.

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

Friday, June 4:30-6:30pm

Dr. Mirjana Dedaic, Visiting Assistant Professor, Culture and Technology Program,  Georgetown University “What Language Can Tell Us About Print Media Positioning of  Female Politicians in Croatia”  

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

Mirjana Dedaic is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Communication, Culture & Technology Program (CCT). Previously, she taught at Fairfield University, Southern Connecticut State University, University of Virginia, and the University of Split (Croatia). She has also served as an International Broadcaster and Editor of Croatian Programs at Voice of America. She received a B.A. in South Slavic Languages and World Literatures from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, an M.A. in Philology from the same University, a second M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Virginia and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University.

Professor Dedaic has an interdisciplinary background that includes theoretical, cognitive and sociocultural linguistics, communication theories, literature, semiotics, positioning theory, critical discourse studies, and identity studies.

Professor Dedaic published papers in leading linguistic journals, including Journal of Pragmatics and Journal of Sociolinguistics, and several book chapters. Her newest book is South Slavic Discourse Particles theory (2010), a pioneering volume in the field. Previously, she co-edited a volume At War with Words (2003) that explores the link between language and conflict through comparative and case study analyses in various regions of the world.

Among Dr. Dedaic’s current projects are a book on the discursive construction of the stepmother, an edited volume offering a new view of national identity construction through the lens of Bourdieu’s habitus (this book includes 12 chapters authored by CCT students and alumni), and articles on conceptual metaphor blending in media discourse on female politicians, positioning of prisoner bloggers, and the language of ICTY.

Dedaic joined CCT in 2006, where she has taught Language and Politics, Intercultural Communication, Constructing National Identity through Communication, Netspeak: Language, Discourse, and Identity on the Internet, and Ethnography of Communication. She also mentors projects with the Georgetown University Women Leadership Initiative (GUWLI). She takes pride in her collaborations with CCT students, with whom she organized, and/or presented at, eight conference panels. Students in Professor Dedaic’s Netspeak class maintain and develop the Netaphor Wiki – a wiki dedicated to the Internet related metaphors.

A native of Croatia, Professor Dedaic came to the United States on a Fulbright grant in 1990, just months before the war erupted in the former Yugoslavia. Her creative writing includes poetry published in both Croatian and English, and translations of Croatian and American poets. She recently completed the English translation of a Croatian novel, Pristajanje (No Landfall in Sight), written by the cult writer Slobodan Novak.

For more information, see http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/dedaicm/?PageTemplateID=129.

May 13, 4:30PM
Nadieszda Kizenko, Associate Professor of Russian History, SUNY Albany

“The Reinvention of Tradition: Russian Women and the Feminization of Orthodoxy”

For more information on Prof. Kizenko, see http://www.albany.edu/history/kizenko/.

CANCELED

Upcoming Lecture

April 15

Regine Dhoquis-Cohen, Associate Professor, Law and Sociology,  Paris VII, Denis Diderot; Professor Emeritus of  Sociology, Paris VII; Co-Author, Chronicles of Small Abuses of Power, (with Anne Zelensky, cofounder of the Women’s Liberation Movement, France)

“Is Feminism an ‘Agent of Civilization?’”

February 11

Mara Lazda, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts

“The Discourse of Military Occupation: Gender in World War II Latvia and Recent Conflicts”

as well as the

Spring 2011 Forthcoming Lectures

March 4 Panel

Lika Nadaraia, Founder, International Foundation, Women’s Political Resource Center,

President, Caucasian Feminist Initiative, Member, Gender Equality Advisory Council under the Speaker of Georgian Parliament

” Gender and Political Development in Georgia”

Other Speakers TBA

April 15

Regine Dhoquis-Cohen, Associate Professor, Law and Sociology,  Paris VII, Denis Diderot; Professor Emeritus of  Sociology, Paris VII; Co-Author, Chronicles of Small Abuses of Power, (with Anne Zelensky, cofounder of the Women’s Liberation Movement, France)

“Is Feminism an ‘Agent of Civilization?’”

May 13

Nadieszda Kizenko, Associate Professor of Russian History, SUNY Albany

“The Reinvention of Tradition:  Russian Women and the Reconstruction of Orthodoxy”

June 3

Dr. Mirjana Dedaic, Visiting Assistant Professor, Culture and Technology Program,  Georgetown University

“What Language Can Tell Us About Print Media Positioning of  Female Politicians in Croatia”

Fridays 4:30-6:30 p.m.

at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies

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

http://www.thenation.com/article/158279/most-feminist-place-world

January 28

Kristen Ghodsee, Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for  Advanced Study, Harvard; The John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College

“The Feminist International: Communist Mass Women’s Organizations and Second World/Third World Alliances during the U.N. Decade for Women, 1975-1985”

February 11

Mara Lazda, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts

“The Discourse of Military Occupation: Gender in World War II Latvia and Recent Conflicts”

March TBD

Sonja Lokar, CEE Network for Gender Issues, Ljubljana Office

“Transforming Improved Representation of Women into Effective Parliamentary Action” 
        

April 15

Regine Dhoquis-Cohen, Associate Professor, Law and Sociology,  Paris VII, Denis Diderot; Professor Emeritus of  Sociology, Paris VII; Co-Author, Chronicles of Small Abuses of Power, (with Anne Zelensky, cofounder of the Women’s Liberation Movement, France)

“Is Feminism an “Agent of Civilization?’”

May 13

Nadieszda Kizenko, Associate Professor of Russian History, SUNY Albany                                             

 “The Reinvention of Tradition:  Russian Women and the of Orthodoxy”

June 3

Dr. Mirjana Dedaic, Visiting Assistant Professor, Culture and Technology Program,  Georgetown University

“What Language Can Tell Us About Print Media Positioning Of  Female Politicians in Croatia”

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

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

      The Gender and Transition Workshop at the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies invites speakers to submit proposals for talks for  Spring  2011. The topic can be about any issue on gender in relation to east and central Europe and the former Soviet Union, including the Baltic countries and Central Asia or in relation to other parts of Europe. It should not be a general topic; it should cover some specific area of research, activism, or expertise, for example (but not excluding related topics) on gender and NGOs in the region, on gender policy in the region, on feminist political theory and the region, on current political and economic developments and the region, etc.

       We CANNOT cover transportation expenses to New York City, so the speaker should be someone who is or expects to be in the New York area. We can, however, offer an honorarium for the talk.

       All proposals are welcome, both by women from the region and experts from the U.S. or elsewhere. We invite activists as well as scholars and researchers.

       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 general background information, so general talks are not relevant for this group.

       If you would like to present a talk for this workshop, please e-mail one of the following two workshop moderators:
Nanette Funk, nanfunk@earthlink.net
and Janet Johnson, Johnson@brooklyn.cuny.edu