Join us for our first workshop of the semester:

“The Neighbours can Hear: Engaging Citizens in Domestic Violence Intervention and Divided German State-Making”

 Jane Freeland, Carleton University, Ottawa

Jane Freeland is a PhD candidate at Carleton University.  She is the winner of numerous awards, including from the Central European History Society and the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam.  Her publications include “Creating Good Socialist Women: Continuities, Desire and Degeneration in Slatan Dudow’s The Destinies of Women,” Journal of Women’s History (forthcoming); “Morals on Trial: State-Making and Domestic Violence in the East German Courtroom,” Perspectives on Europe, Vol. 44(1) (2014): 55-60, and “What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Domestic Violence? State-Making and Gender Violence in a Divided Berlin, 1969-1990” Perspectives on Europe, Vol. 43(1) (2013): 96-100.

In her current work, Freeland compares the history of domestic violence in East and West Germany to consider what makes approaches to domestic violence distinct, both temporally and with respect to political/ideological differences. In this paper, Freeland examines approaches to domestic abuse in East Germany following the 1971 leadership change to Erich Honecker.

Colleagues and Friends,

Henry Shapiro is playing some gorgeous classical, piano music at 167 Spring St., Bell #11, 7:30 tonight, September 1. He’s decided to donate the proceeds (admission $15) to the Network East-West Women.  Refreshments served.

Please come help us keep renewing the Network!
Ann Snitow

We have an exciting program planned for this fall! Come join us beginning September 11!

Fall Schedule

September 11: Jane Freeland, Ph.D. Candidate, Carleton University

“Engaging Citizens in Domestic Violence Intervention and German-German State-Making”

October 30: Dubravka Ugrešić, a freelance writer based in Amsterdam

“Women, Gender Image Building and Failures of Feminist Movements in Post-Yugoslav States”

November 13: Mariya P. Ivancheva, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Equality Studies Center, University College Dublin

“The Spirit of the Law: Mobilizing and/or Professionalizing the Women’s Movement in Bulgaria”

December 11: Emily Channell-Justice, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

“‘These aren’t your values’: Feminism, Nationalism, and Conceptualizations of Europe in Ukraine”

GENDER AND TRANSFORMATION: WOMEN IN EUROPE WORKSHOP
NYU CENTER FOR EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES
CALL FOR PAPERS 2015-2016

“Theorizing Gender, Class, Race, and Religion in Europe”

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JUNE 26, 2015

The GENDER and TRANSFORMATION: WOMEN in EUROPE Workshop—a joint project from New York University and the Network of East-West Women—invites speakers to submit proposals for Friday afternoon talks for the academic year 2015-2016 at the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.

As is our usual practice, we are looking for speakers to discuss gender, sexuality, or women in Europe or Eurasia. For the academic year 2015-2016 we are particularly (but not only) interested in speakers addressing theoretically and/or empirically the intersection of gender with class, race, and religion or with the reimagining of Europe.

The workshop’s focus is on the postcommunist countries of East and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, including the Baltic countries and Central Asia, and in Europe and the European Union more widely. Recent workshop topics have included: post-1990 Albanian women’s migration strategies; Hungarian women’s Holocaust writing, Romani women and theater in the Soviet Union, Russian intersexuality, and rural women in Tajik film.

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

We offer a small honorarium. We regret that we cannot cover transportation expenses to New York City or offer assistance for visas or accommodations.

To propose a talk for 2015-6, please email the following to Janet Elise Johnson ([email protected]) and Mara Lazda ([email protected]):
1. a title for your talk
2. an abstract of less than 200 words describing your proposed talk
3. a one-page curriculum vitae or resume.
4. your schedule clarifying which weeks or months you plan to be in or near New York City and would like to present (proposals for the Spring semester will be passed onto Nanette Funk and Sonia Jaffe Robbins)
All proposals are welcome, by women and men, from the region and experts from the U.S. or elsewhere, activists or scholars. We will get back to you as soon as possible. For more information, see the recent speakers and call for papers tabs.

Ermira Danaj,
Ph.D. candidate,
Center for the Understanding of Social Processes,
University of Neuchatel, Switzerland,
and women’s rights activist

“Exploring Practices and Strategies of Women
in the Post-1990 Albanian Migration”

Ermira Danaj , currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for the Understanding of Social Processes at the University of Neuchatel, writes on gender and migration in Albania. Since 2002 she has worked on projects concerning gender, poverty, and migration in Albania with international and national organizations. From 2009 to 2012 she was a lecturer on feminist theory at the European University of Tirana, Albania. She has participated widely in the Albanian print and TV media to promote women’s rights and denounce gender inequalities, and is the coauthor of reports and publications about gender issues in Albania. She was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Transregional Center for Demoracy Studies and Department of Gender Studies at the New School, New York (February-May 2013), and a visiting researcher at the CIES, ISCTE-IUL (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology at the University Institute of Lisbon), in Portugal (2013-2014).

4:30 – 6 p.m.
at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
New York University
285 Mercer Street, 7th floor
(between Waverly and Washington Place)
for more information, contact the center at 212-998-3838 or [email protected]

Aslihan Aykac,
Department of International Relations, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, and Visiting Scholar, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University

“Ideological Roots of Gender Inequality in Turkey”

Aslihan Aykac is a Turkish sociologist, whose work focuses mainly on contemporary work and labor relations. She works at the Department of International Relations at Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, and is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University, School of Management and Labor Relations. Her interest on gender issues is mainly from a labor perspective, focusing on women’s labor force particiation and the way political approaches affect women’s work experiences. Her previous work on “The Impact of Social Security Reform on Women’s Labor Force Participation in Turkey” was supported by the Middle East Research Competition, which will be part of a book project on gender politics in Turkey.

at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
4:30 – 6 p.m.
New York University
285 Mercer Street, 7th floor
(between Waverly and Washington Place)