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Related lecture by Workshop co-coordinator Janet Elise Johnson at Columbia, Feb. 12

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.

ImageJanet 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.

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First talk of 2013. JANUARY 18, Gender and Nationalism in Galicia

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

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                                                                                                                                                                               January 18, 2013

MKebalo 2011                                       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)

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Call for Papers to CSW 2013 Participants

        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   nanfunk@earthlink.net

For more information about the Workshop see http://gendertransformationeurope.wordpress.com/ 

 

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Dec 7: We are not all Buronvoskie Babushki

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

 
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 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

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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.

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Postdoc for those who study gender and postsocialism

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.

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On women, religion, politics in Tajikistan

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.

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First talk of 2012-3: on Roma women

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

September  28
Natasha Lamoreux, MSc, Center for Global Affairs, New York University; 

Independent human rights consultant
“The Hated Poor in Crisis: Roma Women as Reproducers of a Despised Class”

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)

Follow Natasha on Twitter at https://twitter.com/NatashaLamoreux!

Natasha LamoreuxNatasha is a graduate of New York University’s Center for Global Affairs (CGA) where she earned a Master’s of Science in the Human Rights concentration, with focus on women’s human rights, gender equality, and empowerment and engagement of women and other marginalized communities. She completed her graduate thesis on linkages between the Roma Women’s Movement and Western Liberal Feminist movements as a means to dismantle endemic ethnic discrimination in Europe. Natasha spent three months serving as the Human Rights Education intern with the European Roma Rights Centre in Budapest, Hungary while researching this subject.  Additionally, Natasha served as Human Rights concentration leader for Lysistrata, the Gender Working Group at the CGA.  Natasha writes and contributes to various sites including the Atlantic Community and Feminist.com, and currently works as a Human Rights and Gender consultant for various organizations including UNICEF and Feminist.com.  Natasha currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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Fall 2012 schedule

September 28

Natasha Lamoreux, MSc, Center for Global Affairs, New York University, Independent human rights consultant
“Hated Poor (in Crisis): Roma Women as Reproducers of a Despised Class”

 

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”

 

November 9

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”

 

Dec 7

Jane Gary Harris, Professor or Russian Literature and Culture, University of Pittsburgh
“We are not all Buranovskie Babushki: Gender, aging, and social policy in Russia Today”

 

  Fridays, 4:30-6PM
at NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies

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Fall 2012 Call for Speakers

Gender and Crisis across Europe
Priority deadline for proposals: July 1, 2012

The GENDER and TRANSFORMATION in EUROPE Workshop—a joint project from New York University and the Network East-West Women–invites speakers to submit proposals for Friday afternoon talks for Fall 2012 at the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.

The current economic and political crises facing the European Union–and the austerity programs being proposed as solutions–have brought the notion crisis to the forefront of European studies.  Yet, postcommunist societies in Europe and Eurasia have been experiencing crises in various forms for more than two decades of political and economic liberalization, globalization, and Europeanization.

As is our usual practice, 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.  For this Fall, we are particularly (but not only) interested in speakers that consider these various notions of crisis and the efforts that women have made in response, including in NGOs, European-level networks such as the European Women’s Lobby, and radical bursts of activism such as Pussy Riot, the Feminist Offensive in Ukraine, and the Occupy movements.  We are curious about how the current crises may be shaping the missions and activities of women’s and feminist groups and their ability to organize and advocate.  We would enjoy hearing gender perspectives on the Euro crisis, the global financial crisis, austerity programs, and other crises facing women.  Generally, 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/.

MODERATORS:

Janet Elise Johnson, Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Visiting Fellow, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU

Nanette Funk, Professor Emerita, Philosophy, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Visiting Fellow, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU