WIDE+ cordially invites you to these hybrid lecture series that are part of: Gender and Sexuality in (Post)Socialist Europe and the Validity of “East/West Divides”. Diverging Perceptions from Difference to Entanglement.” The series is organized by the Chair of European Studies in cooperation with WIDE+ and IFES. And with the kind support of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences of the European University Viadrina.
The events can be accessed live at the European University Viadrina in FrankFurt, Germany, and on zoom. See for information on all the events: https://www.europa-uni.de/de/forschung/institut/institut_europastudien/veranstaltungen-ws-22-23/index.html
Webinar: “Polish Communist Women in the Long Sixties: What Is Left of Their Experience for Leftist Feminism in Today’s Poland?”, 6.15-8.00 PM, 9 January, Monday, 2023, in ENG/ESP
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qukXPAzhQK-NqitcQcYVig
Programme
Stalinism, despite its authoritarian or even totalitarian practices, brought radical social, economic and cultural changes to post-war Poland. In this lecture – contrary to the popular thesis of a post-Stalinist backlash – Agnieszka Mrozik highlights that Polish communist women politicians, intellectuals and activists, who after the war pursued a program of socialist modernization, one of the main pillars of which was the emancipation of women, did not give up the struggle to realize their ideals in the years between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s.
This lecture will lead to reflecting on questions like: ‘Do contemporary leftist feminists want to remember the activism of political radicals of the not so distant past – their achievements and failures?’, ‘What lessons do they draw from the experiences of their predecessors? Does the promise of equality for all people have a chance to continue in our current reality?’. Natali Stegmann will help deepen the reflection on the present condition and future of the left and leftist feminism.
Speakers
LECTURER Mrozik, Agnieszka
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Webinar: Webinar: “Feminist and LGBTQ Movements in the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia”, with Libora Oates-Indruchová and Věra Sokolová, 6.15-8.00 PM, Monday 23 January 2023, ENG
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IYiy0LksTYmDqgkKgfj88A
Programme
In this event, two lectures will be held with ample room for discussion:
• Věra Sokolová will talk about: ‘Queer Encounters with Communist Power: Non-Heterosexual Lives and the State in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989′.
• Libora Oates-Indruchová will talk about: ‘Continuities and Discontinuities of Feminist Thought and the “East/West Divide”: the case of Czech Society and Culture’.
See her full bio at: https://soziologie.uni-graz.at/de/geschlechtersoziologie-gender-studies/team/prof.-dr.-libora-oates-indruchova/
Webinar: “LGBTQ and Queer lives and struggles in the Ukraine”, 5.15-8.00 PM, Monday 30 January 2023, ENG/ESP
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hrFZsH7HSu-jIIlZ55-1pQ
Programme
• “The Wonderful Years”: Research and Film Exploration of Heterodoom in Late Soviet Ukraine. Short lecture by Galina Yarmanova (PhD) followed by film screening (English subtitles) with discussion.
• After break from 6.00-6.15: Lecture by Maria Mayerchyk, titled: ‘Pride Contested: Geopolitics of Liberation at the Buffer Periphery of Europe’.
• Commentary by Vanya Solovey
The lectures, movie and discussions will be translated from English into Spanish.
Speakers:
SPEAKER Maria Mayerchyk, PhD, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine/ currently Fellow at the University of Greifswald
DISCUSSANT Vanya Solovey, PhD, EECA Officer at TGEU