•  March 23, 2012
  

                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)

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies

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

 Born in 1974 in Slovakia, Anabela Zigova now lives in New York.  She has a MFA from the l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris and an M.A. from the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava.  Her films have been previously shown at  the Tribeca Film Festival(official exhibition), Berlinale Talent Campus in Germany, Museum Quarter21 in Vienna, Lausanne Underground Film Festival in Switzerland, Philafilm 2007(SILVER AWARD IN SHORT FILM SUBJECT), Chicks With Flicks Film Festival (BEST EDITING PRIZE), Anthology Film Archives in New York, Nuit Blanche, Cinema Accatone in Paris; film festivals Azyl, IFF, Cinematik and Artfilm in Slovakia.
Her artwork has been shown at numerous shows in the US and Europe, including Germany, France, Italy and in Prague, the Slovak National Gallery, Gallery Open in Bratislava and  others.

• February 17

Katalin Fabian,  Associate Professor, Government and Law, Lafayette College

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

Katalin Fabian teaches at Lafayette College, and has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University in political science. She has held research positions at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center in Amherst, MA and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Economics in Budapest, Hungary. While there she was active in movements opposing the communist regime.  She has published Contemporary Women’s Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality ( Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press. November 2009), edited Domestic Violence in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia: Local Activism, National Policies, and Global Forces  (Indiana University Press.  2010) and Globalization – Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe ( Elsevier Publishing. 2007) . She has written widely women’s NGO activism in Hungary on domestic violence and  welfare-related public policies.

Fridays 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies

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

 

• 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.

 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)

Kateřina Lišková, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Program, Masaryk University

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

Kateřina Lišková is Assistant Professor in the Gender Studies program at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University, in the Czech Republic. Her research is focused on gender, sexuality, and the social organization of intimacy. She was affiliated with the New School for Social Research as a Fulbright Scholar,  and as a Visiting Scholar with New York University. She has lectured at various U.S. universities and her papers have appeared in several monographs published by Routledge, SAGE and Blackwell. Her book Good Girls Look the Other Way, Feminism and Pornography (in Czech) was published by Sociological Publishing House (2009).

For more info, see http://www.muni.cz/people/10222/cv.

 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)

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

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

Anna Louie Sussman is a New York-based investigative reporter covering local and international human rights and social justice issues, politics and policy, gender, culture, and the odd crime story. Contact her with story ideas, tips, comments and criticism: annasussman[at]gmail[dot]com, and follow her on Twitter: @annalouiesuss.

For Anna’s blog, see http://annalouiesussman.com/.  For related readings,see

• http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/06/why-turkey-is-backsliding-on-womens-rights/240547/
• http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/dimming-the-red-lights-in-turkey.html

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)

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

Isabel Marcus, Professor and Director of International and Graduate Programs, University at Buffalo Law School, long-term NEWW  board member

Reflections on twenty years of East-West collaboration

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)

All friends and members of NEWW are invited to the party afterwards at the loft (167 Spring St. Bell #3, between Thompson St. and West Broadway), starting around 7pm.

WE WILL CELEBRATE TOGETHER THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF NEWW.

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

      (Cosponsored with the CNRS NYU Center for International Research in the Humanities & Social Sciences / UMI 3199 Transitions )

Monday, October 17 

7:00-8:30PM   

       

    (Note: Note the different time and place than our regular meetings.)   

Listening to the Women of Bosnia:
A Screening and Book  presentation

Book: Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak(Indiana University Press, 2001)

Speaker: Professor Selma Leydesdorff, University of  Amsterdam                                            

Film Screening: I came to testify

Director & Executive Producer: Pamela HOGAN.  Coproduction: Thirteen and Fork Films, WNET & ITVS. 52 minutes.

 

Commentators:

Peggy Kuo, Former Prosecutor at the International Criminal  Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia                                                

Mohamed Sacerby, Former Minister and Ambassador of Bosnia-Herzegovina  

Professor Gregory Stanton, George Mason University, President of Genocide Watch               

 Pamela Hogan,  Producer, PBS.

In the presence of  Margaret WAHLSTROM, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict at the UN & Mirsada COLAKOVIC, Deputy Representative, Permanent Mission of Bosnia-Herzegovina at the UN.                          

Place: NYU Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

*******  Please   RSVP : valerie.dubois@nyu.edu ***

More info: http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2011/09/22/nyu-to-host-listening-to-the-women-of-bosniaa-screening-and-book-presentationoct-17.html

Film also screened on PBS as part of a series on Women, War, and Peace, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/

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

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)

All friends and members of NEWW are invited to the party afterwards at the loft (167 Spring St. Bell #3, between Thompson St. and West Broadway), starting around 7pm.

WE WILL CELEBRATE TOGETHER THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF NEWW.