Conference: GENDER IN REVOLUTION WAR AND PEACEMAKING

Location of all sessions: South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University,
26 Staroportofrankovskaya St., Odessa.
Conference to held in English, Ukrainian and Russian, (with translation)
(country in brackets indicates where speakers are presently based)

Day 1, October 6th:
Theme of the day: WOMEN, WAR, AND REVOLUTION IN UKRAINE TODAY

MORNING
8:30 A.M.: registration, coffee at the lobby of the Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University,
26 Staroportofrankovskaya St., Odessa

9.15: Opening remarks:
– Maxim Stepanov, head of Odessa Oblast Administration
– Alexei Techebikin, rector of the Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University,
– Carol Mann, Women in War (Paris)
– Ella Lamakh, Democracy Development Centre (Kyiv):

Representative of French Embassy

10.15: KEYNOTE I – Iryna Gerashenko, first vice-speaker of Ukrainian Parliament

11.00: Coffee Break

11:30 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.:

PANEL 1: Women in War, Revolution and Peace Building Today in Ukraine
Moderator: Larissa Kobelianska, historian.

Maryna Bilynska, NAPA, Kiev (Ukraine): “What Does ‘National Resilience’ Mean? Women’s Role in the War and the Recent Revolutions”

Olena Strelnick, University of Kyiv (Ukraine) Gendered Protest in Contemporary Ukraine: Motherhood and Activism at a Time of War

Oksana Yaros, Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University, Lutsk (Ukraine): Development of the Institutional Mechanisms of Gender Policy in Ukraine Between the Two Revolutions
LUNCH: 12.30-2 PM: Café Yunim, 22 Bld. Tikaspolska

AFTERNOON
2. – 3. PM: PANEL 2:
Female Combatants, the Struggle for Peace
Moderator: Svitlana Rostetska, Professor of Political Science and Law, Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University (Odessa)

Maria Berlinska, Head of “Center Air Reconnaissance” Volunteer Organization Kyiv (Ukraine): Female Volunteers at War

Amina Okueva, (Combatant in Ukraine and Chechnya, Odesa (Ukraine): The Parallel Between the War in Chechnya and Ukraine

Hanna Muzychenko, South Ukrainian Pedagogical University, Odesa (Ukraine): The Social Adaptation of Women in Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Nadine Siegert, Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth (Germany): The Militant Woman in the African Revolutions, 1960-1985

3.0 PM-3:30.PM: Tea Break

3:30.- 5:30 P.M.: PANEL 3:
Living in Troubled Times, Individual Women’s Life Strategies
Moderator: Ella Lamakh, director of Democracy Development Centre (Kyiv)

Olga Bezhuk, Biotechnological Institute, Lviv (Ukraine): Women in Times of Peace, War, and Protest in Ukraine 1917-2017: The Life and Times of Khrystyna Sushko-Dolgorukaya

Laurence Ritter, EHESS, (Armenia): One Woman’s Life in Armenia, Spanning 95 years, From Genocide, Sovietisation of Armenia, to the Fall of the USSR

Yu-hsuan Hsu, Chengchi University, Taipei (Taiwan): A Chinese Revolutionary, Communist Leader, Taiwanese Feminist: Xie Xuehong in the Age of Turbulence

Marianna Baidak, University of Lviv (Ukraine): The Polish-Ukrainian War of 1918-1919 in the Private Writing of Galician Women

7 P.M. – midnight OPENING EVENING PARTY and Art Event in UNDERPUB, Primorskaya 15-17 (near the Steps)
organized by Anna Ten and Natasha Tseluba Qrators
with the participation of the following artists:
Valentina Petrova
Roman Linkov.
Nin Khodorivsko
Ten Anna
Natasha Tzeliuba
Yulia Appen,
Aleksandra Vasina,
Nikita Lyskova
Elianna Renner(Switzeland)

DAY 2
Theme of the Day: MEDITATING ON THE GENDER DIMENSION OF REVOLUTION AND WAR 1917-2017

MORNING
9 A.M.- 10:15 A.M.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Karpa Irena, singer, activist, writer

10:15 A.M.- 11:45 A.M.: Double session:

PANEL 4A:
The Ideals and Promises to Women of 1917 from USSR to China (in the Conference Room)
Moderator: Lilia Goniakova, Professor of Political Science at N.A.D.U Kyiv (Ukraine):

Nona Shahnazarian, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Yerevan (Armenia): Historical Beginnings of Soviet Era State Feminism ¬and the Femina Sovietica: Challenges and Advantages of Armenian Women’s Labor in the Early Soviet Period

Aia Beraia, independent researcher, Tbilisi (Georgia): Georgian feminists in the pre-revolutionary period

Irena Druzhkova, Lomonosov Academy, Odesa (Ukraine): Elected Female Representatives in Odesa’s City Hall in 1917

Irina Petrenko, Ukopilsk University, Poltava (Ukraine): “Women After the 1917 Revolution and Activism Within Soviet ideology”

PANEL 4B:
The Ideals and Promises to Women from USSR to China (in the library)
Moderator: Maria Berlinskaya
Marina Voronina, Lecturer in History) Kharkhiv University, (Ukraine): The “Baba” as a leader of Soviet times

Hasmik Khalapyan, American University of Armenia: Ideological and Economic Construction of Armenian Women’s Labor in the Early Soviet Period

Jean-Louis Margolin, Aix-Marseilles University (France): Women and the Chinese Cultural Revolution

11:45 A.M.- 12:00 P.M. Coffee

12.00-1.30pm PANEL 5:
Broken Promises to the Women of the Revolution
Moderator: Maria Dmitrieva, independent expert on Women’s Rights

Oksana Kis, Director, Women’s History Research, Lviv (Ukraine): Women in the Gulag

Lilia Gonukova, researcher, Kiev (Ukraine): Women in the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917; the Role of Women in Ukraine’s Struggle for Independence During the Civil War, 1917-1921

Margaret Owen, director of Widows for Peace, London (UK): Widows, the Forgotten Victims of the Revolutions

Magda Cardenas, Gender Consultant Tbilisi (Georgia): Women-to-women Diplomacy: From a Peace-building Strategy to a Soft Revolution in Georgia

LUNCH: 1.30-2.30pm
Café,Yunim, 22 Bld. Tikaspolska

AFTERNOON
2.30- 4.00pm PANEL 6:
The View from Outside: how the ideals of the Bolshevik Revolution were considered from abroad.
Moderator: Irena Karpa

Angela Shpolberg, Brandeis University Center for Women and Gender Studies, (USA) (presented by Masha Shpolberg): American Women on the Russian Revolution

Katharina Siebert, University of Siegen (Germany): Revolutionary Spanish Milicianas during Spanish Civil War

Olena Obrezan: University of Zaporizhia (Ukraine): Patriarchal Socialism in the Korean People’s Republic: A Re-examination of the Role of Women”

Carol Mann, Women in War, Université Paris 8 (France): Baby-Boom revolutionaries: R.A.F, Brigade Rosse, Action Directe

4.00 – 4. 30 PM: Coffee break

4.30-6.15pm PANEL 7:
The intersection between Gender, War and Racism in World War 2
Moderator: Evgenia Sadyova, Lecturer at Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University (Odesa)

Marta Havryshko, Institute of Ukrainian Studies in Lviv (Ukraine): Gendered Violence in the Ukrainian Nationalist Underground: Strategies of Women’s Survival

Andriy Usach, researcher, Lviv (Ukraine): Local Culprits for the Holocaust in Occupied Ukraine: Female Experience of Complicity in Extreme Violence

Liudmila Askerova, historian and journalist, Chernihiv (Ukraine): Repressed Volksdeutsche in Chernigov District, An Archival Study

Thomas Chopard, postdoctoral fellow in Jewish Studies, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, (UK): Soviet Feminism, Anti-Semitic Sexual Violence, and Pogroms During the Ukrainian Civil war

Evening: Book signing and discussion: Oksana Kis, Marta Havrishko and Olga Bezhuk, Mariana Baiduk: “Ukrainian women in the throttle of Soviet Modernisation”, Caviarna Bookshop, Katerinska 77

DAY 3: March 8th
Theme for the morning: WOMEN IN WORLD-WIDE REVOLUTIONS

MORNING

9:30 – 10:15 A.M.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Galia Golan , Peace Activist (Israel)

10.15 – 11.45 AM: PANEL 8:
Female Guerillas and Combatants
Moderator: Hanna Muzychenko, Odesa (Ukraine):

Luisa Dietrich: Gender Adviser (Vienna, Austria: Gender Regimes in Latin American Guerrilla Movements and the Construction of Insurgent Femininities and Masculinities

Elodie Gamache, University of Paris 3, (France): FARC revolutionaries in Colombia

Marta Delgado, Complutense University of Madrid: Collectivizing Social Maternity During Peruvian Armed Conflict: The Experience of Women from Shining Path and Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Groups

Svitlana Liuta, University of Zaporizhia: The Gender Status of Members of the “Lotta Sviard” Organization at the Time of the Soviet-Finnish Conflict: Equality or State-sanctioned Segregation

11.45-12.00: Coffee Break

12.00-1.30pm PANEL 9:
Women and Revolution in the Middle-East
Moderator: Carol Mann

Atieh Asgharharzadeh, EHESS, UNESCO, Paris (France): Iranian Revolutions in the 20th Century: Rupture and Continuity in Women’s Rights and Demands

Samina Kabir, SOAS, Sweden: The Place of Women In and Against the “Communist” Regime of Afghanistan

Tebessum Yilmaz, Human Rights activist, Humboldt University (Germany): From the PKK to Jineoloji and the Kurdish Women’s Movement in Bakur and Rojava

Deniz Dilan Arslan, Erasmus Mundus: Media Representations of Women Guerillas in Rojava

WORKING LUNCH

Theme for the afternoon: THE PLACE OF GENDER RIGHTS TODAY, IMAGINING THE FUTURE

1.45 – 3:00 P.M. PANEL 10:
Balkan Gendered Tragedies: Is There a Place for Peace-building?
Moderator: Masha Shpolberg

Nermina Trbonja, University Paris 3 (Bosnia): Representation of Post-Yugoslav Masculinities

Ana Rajkovic, University of Zagreb (Croatia): Metamorphosis of Gender-Conditioned Role of Women in Post-War Croatia

Boroka Paraszka, researcher and journalist, Radio Romania (Romania): A Comparison of (Anti-) Gender Politics Between the So-called ‘Communist’ Era Before 1989 and the Decades After the Revolution in Romania

Karolina Asterud and Ivanka Dodovska, University of Cyril and Methodius, Skopje (Macedonia): The Three Intertwined Revolutions of Women in Macedonia (1941-2017)

3.00 – 3:15 P.M.: Coffee-break

3.15 – 5:00 P.M.: PANEL 11
Where Are Gender Rights After the Fall of Orthodox Communism?
Moderator: Larissa Kobelianskaya (Kiev)

Patrycja Hala Saçan, Izmir University (Turkey): Invisible Women of Solidarity Movement in Poland

David Kurkovskiy, Yale University (USA): Revolution and LGBT Rights: Understanding LGBT Rights Against the Backdrop of the Russian, Orange, and Maidan Revolutions

Jiayin Wang, University of Columbia (China): The “Natural” Women: Gender Equality, or Gender Essentialism? – Reconsidering Sex Revolution in China.

Elliot Dolan-Evans Human, rights activist and Ph.D. student at Monash University, (Australia): The Role of International Actors in Social_Political Transformations for Post-USSR Bosnia and Ukraine: What Has it Meant for Women?

CONCLUDING REMARKS and recommendations
Irina Lutsenko (to be confirmed)
Ella Lamakh
Evgenia Sadykova
Carol Mann

On Monday 11th October for those who have chosen to remain in Odessa, visiting a unique ecological project in and around Odesa to save the coastline called Отчаянные Цветоводы/Відчайдушні Квіткарі Desperate Gardens, desperate flowerpots: we will be planting bulbs of flowers you will have brought with you
(Check the FB page in Ukrainian, no website)

This conference has been sponsored by:
Women in War (Paris)
Ambassade de France en Ukraine
Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris)