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June 19, 2006

CAPITALISM AND/OR PATRIARCHY?

CAPITALISM AND/OR PATRIARCHY?

CONFERENCE ON GENDER IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE

CENTRE FOR GENDER STUDIES,

EUROPEAN HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY
June 22-24, 2006

Vilnius, Lithuania; Baltpark Hotel

PROGRAM

JUNE 22: 09:30 – 17:00

Registration of the participants: 9:00 – 09:30

09:30 – 10:10:

Opening of the Conference: Elena Gapova, Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at EHU

Welcome Statement by the EHU Rector Аnatoly Mikhailov

Gill Vickers and Judith Fabian, Carleton University, Canada

“Gender and Nation” Research Project. (The project is presented by Judith Fabian)

PANEL 1 (10: 15 – 12: 00): POLITICAL BUSINESS
Chair: Irina Tartakovskaya

Marina Malysheva, Institute of social and economic problems of population, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow

Politics as Entrepreneurship

Ludmila Popkova, Samara State University, Samara, Russia

In the Search of “Care” or Freedom? Ideological Basis of Women’s Activism in Russia

Irmina Matonyte, Aurelija Novelskaite. Institute for Social Research, Vilnius

Shaping Post-communist Citizenship and Political System: Testing Change by the Gender Quotas

Lunch break: 12:00 – 13:30

Parallel sessions 2, 3: 13:30 – 15: 00

PANEL 2 (13:30 – 15: 00): STRATEGIC ESSENTIALISM AND ITS LIMITS
Chair: Nadezhda Gusakovskaya

Natalia Kulinka, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus

Beauty Contests vs. Parliamental Elections: Mass-media as a Mechanism of Political Exclusion

Olga Plakhotnik, National N.Zhukovsky Aerospace University, Kharkov, Ukraine

Berehinya and/or a Feminist: (co) Existence of Nationalist and Feminist Discourses in the Ukrainian Women’s Movement

Katarzyna Pabijanek, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Women, Feminists, and Citizens. The Comparative Study of Pro-natalist Discourse in Poland and Hungary

PANEL 3 (13:30 – 15:00): SELLING IMAGES GENDER, NATION, POSTCOMMUNISM
Chair: Olga Zoubkovskaya

Elena Chikadze, Centre for Independent Social Research, Saint-Petersburg

Gender Ideology in the Traditions of Meskhetin Turks

Audrone Zukauskaite, Research Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art, Vilnius

Vanishing Identities in Contemporary Lithuanian Art.

Anke Höhne, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Akvile Motiejunaite, Baltic and East European Graduate School Södertörns University College, Stockholm, Sweden

Change in Gender Roles in East/West Germany and the Baltic States.

Coffee break: 15:00 – 15:15

PANEL 4 (15:15 – 17:00): NATION, WORDS AND POWER
Chair: Elena Gapova

Elena Zdravomuslova, Anna Temkina. European University in Saint-Petersburg

Patriarchy and "Women's Power": Russian Discourse

Oksana Kis. The Institute of Ethnology, Lviv, Ukraine

“The Beauty Will Save the World”: Normative Femininity as a Women’s Strategy in Ukrainian

Politics (the case of Yulia Tymoshenko)

Heidi Kurvinen, University of Oulu, Finland

Producing Traditional Womanhood. Ideals of Nationalism in Nõukogude/Eesti Naine –

magazine During New National Awakening
“GENDER MONTAGE-2” Documentary Film Festival:
Cinema center Skalvija, 19:00 – 20: 30

19:00 Opening Ceremony

Film screening: «Kristina and Christ» (Lithuania))

Round-table discussion (in English) with the main “actor” Kristina and expert

Margarita Jankauskaite

Reception

JUNE 23: 9:30- 18:00

PANEL 5 (9:30 – 11:00): SPEAKING FEMINISM

Chair: Ludmila Popkova

Nanette Funk, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

The Roots of Women's Organizations in the 1990s in East, South and Central Europe

Olga Zubkovskaya, Central European University, Budapest

East/West Divide, (Inter)national Identities and Feminist Agendas: Comparing Belarus and Kazakhstan

Nadezhda Gusakovskaya, European Humanities University, Belarus

Marxism, Feminism, and Political Speech, or Tell Me Who Your Enemy Is and I Will Tell You Who You Are

Coffee break: 11:00 – 11:20

Parallel Sessions 6,7: 11:20 – 12:50

PANEL 6 (11:20 – 12:50): DIVIDE AND CONQUER

Chair: Benjamin Cope

Anastasia Denischik, European Humanities University, Belarus

«Children of the Underground» in Contemporary Russian Cinema

Justyna Beinek, Indiana University-Bloomington, USA
A Diva, Four Tankmen, and a Dog: the Westernization Anxiety in Polish Pop Music

Dorothea Olkowski(a), University of Colorado, USA

Under Western Eyes: Asian Sex Tourism and Western Morality

PANEL 7 (11:20 – 12:50): DEMOGRAPHY AS POLITICS

Chair: Ekaterina Chueva

Anastasia Beganovich, European University in Saint-Petersburg

A Child is Not a Luxury

Małgorzata Kotowska. Warsaw University, Poland; University of Antwerp, Belgium

Maternity as a political issue in Poland. The case study.

Karolina Krzystek, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

‘New Fathers’ or Old Patriarchs? The Culture and Conduct of Fatherhood in Poland Sixteen

Years After the Transformation
Lunch break: 12:50 – 14:20

PANEL 8 (14:20 – 15:50) : IDENTITY POLITICS
Chair: Alina Zvinkliene

Nadezhda Nartova, Centre for Independent Social Research, Saint-Petersburg

Identity Politics in the Making and Cultural Entrepreneurs: Production of Lesbianism in Contemporary Russia

Judit Acsády, Sociology Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

Emancipation and Identity. Case Studies Among Women in Public Life in Hungary

Oksana Kravchuk, North-Osetia State University, Vladikavkaz, Russia

Transforming the Cannon: Women’s “Slash” Novels

Break 15:50 – 16:00

PANEL 9 (16:00 – 17: 30): BODIES AND POWER

Chair: Nadezhda Nartova

Marianna Muravieva, Russian State Pedagogical University, Saint-Petersburg

Sexual Abuse in Contemporary Russia: Everyday Practices of Local Patriarchy.

Elena Minchenia, Evgenia Ivanova, European Humanities University, Belarus

On Belly-rusian dance

Liutauras Kraniauskas. Klaipeda University, Klaipeda, Lithuania

‘Just look, who I am!’ A Case Study of Visual Representations of Masculinity

JUNE 24 (9:30 – 17:00)

Parallel sessions 10, 11: 9:30 – 11:30

PANEL 10 (9:30 – 11:30): NEW CLASSES AND CLASSIFICATIONS
Chair: Oksana Kis

Irina Tartakovskaya, Center for Gender Studies, Samara state university, Social and Gender Policy Institute, Russia

Social Networks and Their Influence on Labour Market Participation

Ekaterina Chueva, Saratov State Technical University, Saratov, Russia

Gender Stratification in a Small Private Company: Case Study.

Aliona Makarova, Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, Russia

Social Politics and Specificity of gender stratification in Poland, 1989-2000

Ana Luleva. National Ethnographic Institute and Museum – BAS, Sophia, Bulgaria

Gender Arrangements in Post-socialist Bulgaria

PANEL 11 (9:30 – 11:30): UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE?
Chair: Marina Malysheva

Alina Zvinkliene, Institute for Social Research, Vilnius

Legacy of Socialism: Women-scientists in the New EU Countries

Natalia Pushkareva, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

The Oral History of the Academic Community in Post-Soviet Russia: Transformations of Gender-discrimination Practices

Alexei Krivolap, European Humanities University, Belarus

Media Industry: the Insider View

Irina Solomatina, Belarusian State University, Minsk

Maria Arbatova and Elena Popova: Dramaturgy of Success.

Coffee break: 11:30 – 11:45

PANEL 12 (11:45 – 13:30): CAPITALISM AND DESIRE
Chair: Justyna Beinek

Benjamin Cope, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland

Menia Zovut Liubov...?: Work and Desire in Post-communist Capitalism

Olga Zaytseva, San Francisco State University, San Francisco

Discussion of Female Sex-Tourism in Russian Periodicals and Internet Forums

Elina Kazakova, European Humanities University, Belarus

«The Myth of the Woman’s Body»: Constructing Beauty Ideals in Post-Soviet Media

Lunch break: 13:15 – 14:45

PANEL 13 (14:45 – 16:15): GENDERED NATIONS: SUBJECTHOOD AND CITIZENSHIP
Chair: Marianna Muravieva

Elzbieta Matynia, New School for Social Research, New York

EnGendering Democracy: Women Artists and Deliberative Art in a Transitional Society

Lina Abirafeh, London School of Economics, London

Afghanistan and Post-Soviet Patriarchy (the paper is presented in the text format)

Elena Gapova, European Humanities University, Belarus

The Paradox of Female Citizenship

Judith Fabian, Carleton University, Canada

Gender and National Relations: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe.

CLOSING SESSION: 16:15-17:00

General discussion

Farewell dinner: 19:30 till infinity

June 27, 2006

blusturgis

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