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

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                                       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)

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

• May 25, 2012.

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

MAY 25

  NOTE CHANGED DATE! There is NO meeting May 18. THIS WILL BE THE LAST MEETING FOR THE SEMESTER.

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 Kosovo and Albania: How Women’s Groups Contribute to Political Debate and Activism.”

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)

DELINA FICO,  (MA in Political Science and MS in Nonprofit Management, The New School) and BA from Tirana University. She is a  feminist and civil society activist in the region since the early 1990s, particularly in Albania  and Kosovo and a long time member and board member of NEWW and NGOs and NGO networks in Albania, Kosovo, and the U.S.,  including the Open Society Foundation for Albania and Kosovo, women’s association “Refleksione”,  the Kosova Women’s Network and  the Women’s Center in Tirana (now the Gender Alliance for Development Center)..  She is co-founder of several leading organizations that work on women’s political and economic empowerment in Albania. She has  also worked with the Network Women’s Program of the Open Society Institute (NY), UNIFEM, the Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, as well as at academic institutions, and other intra-governmental agencies in the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe. She has taught  at Tirana University and NYU.  She has published on gender issues and civil society development, especially  on Albania and Kosovo.