Conferința Internațională "Gender and Politics under Communism – New Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe"

În zilele de 24 și 25 mai 2012, Institutul de Investigare a Crimelor Comunismului și Memoria Exilului Românesc, în parteneriat cu Fundația Konrad Adenauer, organizează la Bucureşti Conferința Internațională Gender and Politics under Communism – New Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe. 

Inițiativa oferă posibilitatea prezentării și cunoașterii noilor direcții și proiecte de cercetare care se opresc asupra funcționării regimurilor comuniste din perspectiva studiilor de gen. Se poate vorbi despre un feminism de tip marxist specific țărilor socialiste: care era natura politicilor de « promovare a femeilor » și care au fost rezultatele concrete în timpul regimurilor comuniste. Cum poate fi apreciată din punct de vedere cantitativ și calitativ reprezentarea politică feminină în comunism? Care sunt consecințele în țările post-socialiste? Abordarea va fi una pluri și transdisciplinară, consolidând colaborarea academică la nivel regional. 

PROGRAM

Gender and Politics under Communism – New Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe

International Conference, 24-25 May 2012, Bucharest, IICCMER

ICCMER, Alecu Russo, 13-19, ap. 11, et. 5, sect. 2, Bucuresti

Day 1, Thursday, 24 May 2012

09.00 Opening remarks

09.15 Keynote speaker, Maria Bucur, Indiana University – Women Empowered? Reflections on Women's Conception of Autonomy in Communist Romania

10.00-10.15 Coffee Break 

10.15-11.45 Panel 1. Feminist communism or communist feminism

Chair: Mihaela Miroiu

• Libora Oates-Indruchova, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres – The Tradition of Gender-Conscious Thought in Czech Society and Culture
• Zsófia Lóránd, Central European University – New Feminism in Yugoslavia between Anglo-Saxon Marxist Feminism, French Post-Structuralism and Self-Management
• Valentin Nicolescu, Nicolae Titulescu University – Mind the Gap: Gender in Theory and Practice in Communist Romania

11.45-12.00 Coffee break

12.00-13.30 Panel 2. What profile for Women in politics

Chair: Maria Bucur

• Krassimira Daskalova, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia – Biography as history: Tsola Dragoicheva (1898-1993) and her emancipatory ideas
• Luciana Jinga, IICCMER – Appearance and Power: Women in the RCP’s Central Committee
• Ioana Vrăbiescu, SNSPA – Women empowering in the Romanian communist cinema.

13.30-15.00 Lunch 

15.00-17.00 Panel 3. Women mass organisations

Chair: Krassimira Daskalova 

• Kristen Ghodsee, Bowdoin College – The Women in Red: The Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement and Progressive Women in Africa and Asia, 1968-1990
• Chiara Bonfiglioli, Utrecht University – Women’s internationalism and Cold War geopolitics: the Union of Italian Women, the Antifascist Women’s Front of Yugoslavia and the WIDF (1945-1957)
• Ivana Pantelic, Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrade – Women's International Democratic Federation and Women's Antifascist front of Yugoslavia - from cooperation to exclusion
• Ștefan Bosomitu, IICCMER – “Insular Existences”. Communist Women's Activism during World War II in Romania”

17.00-17.15 Coffee break

17.15-18.30 Panel 4. Gender and Society 

Chair: Marius Stan

• Milica Antić Gaber, Sara Rozman, University of Ljubljana – Abortion and Reproductive Rights under State Socialism: The Case of Yugoslavia
• Theodora Văcărescu, Facultatea de Jurnalism şi Ştiinţele Comunicării, Universitatea din Bucureşti – Repression with a Gendered Face. Personal and State Uses of Gender Arrangements in “Political” Inquests and Trials: Romania, 1948-1964
• Eszter Varsa, Central European University – The solution of the “Gypsy-question?” Intersections of gender and “race”/ethnicity in child protection in early state socialist Hungary

19.00 Dinner 

Day 2, Friday, 25 May 2012

09.00 -11.00: Panel 5. The Private is political

Chair: Kristen Ghodsee

• Diana Elena Neaga, Nicolae Titulescu University – The everyday citizenship of women in communist Romania – a reevaluation after two decades of capitalism and democracy
• Piotr Perkowski, University of Gdansk – Women and welfare state in post-war Poland
• Jill M. Massino, University of North Carolina-Charlotte – State Welfare, Citizenship, and Women’s Everyday Lives in Socialist Romania
• Irina Ilisei, SNSPA – State’s Propaganda in Women’s Magazine. The celebration of International Woman’s Day in the first years of communism (between 1948 and 1953) in Romania

11.00-11.15 Coffee break 

11.15-12.00 Keynote speaker, Mihaela Miroiu, SNSPA – Reflection on Moral and Political Relevance of East European Communist and Post-communist Experience 

12.00-12.30 Conclusions 

12.30 Lunch