Left Feminist Theory and Historiography: Between the Legacy of State-Socialist Emancipation and Today’s Crises

We invite you to
Left Feminist Theory and Historiography: Between the Legacy of State-Socialist Emancipation and Today's Crises
workshop

September 19–20, 2019
Academic Conference Center, Husova 4, Prague

Speakers: Una Blagojević, Selin Çağatay, Ankica Čakardić, Nina Fárová, Ľubica Kobová, Kateřina Kolářová, Zuzana Maďarová, Ewa Majewska, Jan Matonoha, Agnieszka Mrozik , Blanka Nyklová, Libora Oates-Indruchová, Almira Ousmanova, Katarzyna Stanćzak-Wiślicz, Tereza Stejskalová, Veronika Valkovičová

Keynote: Zsófia Lóránd

Organized on the initiative of the COST Action New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent (NEP4DISSENT), in association with the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Department of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague, and Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought, the workshop will explore two broad issues: the current crisis of capitalism and liberal democracy and the legacies of state-socialist emancipation. By connecting feminist political thought, theory, and philosophy with the history of Eastern and Central Europe, this event aims to facilitate an intellectual and political exchange of ideas between theoretical approaches and historical-analytical reassessments of one of the most ambitious projects of women's emancipation in the past.

There will be no registration fee. The workshop site is wheel-chair accessible.

For further information, see here http://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/aktuality#Workshoptwentytwenty or https://www.facebook.com/events/326006881449715/.

Thursday September 19, 2019
9:30 – 10:00 coffee
10:00 – 10:30 welcome, introductory remarks

10:30 – 12:30
chair: Jan Mervart
Jan Matonoha: "Dozens of Plateaux": a Preliminary "Inter-survey of the Nearest Past": Periodizing Works of Czech Female Authors Published between 1948–1989 from a Gender Perspective, with a Special Regard to 1970s and 1980s Dissent and Exile Literature
Agnieszka Mrozik: Female "Architects" of the Polish People's Republic: The Case of Zofia Dembińska as a Critical Contribution to the Feminist Theory and Biographical Writing in Poland
Blanka Nyklová, Nina Fárová: Gender Seen and Unseen

lunch

13:30 – 14:00 Mikołaj Ratajczak: Presentation of the Journal Praktyka Teoretyczna

14:00 – 16:00
chair: Zsófia Lóránd
Una Blagojević: Women Intellectuals—Praxis—the Korčula Summer School: 1963–74
Ľubica Kobová: Socialist Feminist Manifestos and their Subjects

coffee break

16:30 – 18:00
chair: Joseph Grim Feinberg
Ankica Čakardić: Early Social Reproduction Theory and its Contemporary Strands
Tereza Stejskalová: The Emancipated Household in Czechoslovakia: A Resource to Reinvent Domestic Space
Almira Ousmanova: Feminism, Marxism and Love: Rethinking the Ongoing Debates on Sexual Revolution and Socialism

coffee break

18:30- 20:00 keynote
Zsófia Lóránd: The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia

Friday September 20, 2019
9:30 – 10:00 coffee

10:00 – 12:00
chair: Ľubica Kobová
Katarzyna Stanćzak-Wiślicz: "Imagined Genealogy": Legacies of Socialist-State Emancipation, Dissent Discourses and Polish Feminism after 1989
Kateřina Kolářová: Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Disability, Race, Gender and Sexuality and the Limits of National Belonging
Libora Oates-Indruchová: Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism: Gendered, but Gender-Blind

lunch

13:00 – 15:00
chair: Mikołaj Ratajczak
Selin Çağatay: Redefining the Strike, Building (Left-)Feminist Solidarity: Transnational Mobilizations around the International Women's Strike
Zuzana Maďarová, Veronika Valkovičová: Is Feminism Doomed? Contested and Complex Paths of Feminism in Slovakia
Ewa Majewska: The Impossible Complaint as a Symptom of Contemporary Crisis: Feminism, Critical Theory and Academia Today

15:00 – 15:30 concluding remarks