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Comparative Perspectives on Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Nation in Post-Socialist Societies and the United States

Zagreb and Porec, Croatia  June 1-8, 2003

Sponsored by: The National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women 

in collaboration with The Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, Croatia

PROGRAM

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June 1, 2003

Arrival at the Hotel Dubrovnik

Participants may arrive either on or before June 1, 2003.
8:00 p.m. Reception – Hotel Dubrovnik

 

June 2, 2003

Theme 1:  Feminism and Women’s Studies

9:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Introduction to Women’s Studies in Southeastern Europe

Zeljka Jelavic

at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb

 

4:00 p.m. Depart by bus for Porec at 4:00 PM

 

June 3, 2003

Theme 2:  Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Nation

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

 

Women, War, Nationalism and Peace

Rada Boric

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:00 – 1:00 p.m. Panel Presentation
 

Elif Gozdasoglu Kucukalioglu – Nationalist Discourse and Gender Construction in the Turkish Literature

 

Diane Bell – Violence Against Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective

 

Celia Winkler – Neoliberalism, Nationalism, and Violence  

 

Johanna Valenius – Warfare, Sexual Violence and Masculinity  in the Post-Cold War Balkans  

 

June 4, 2003

Theme 2 continued

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

East West Feminism and Post-Colonial Theory

Biljana Kasic

 

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Coffee break
11:00 – 1:00 p.m. Panel Presentation
 

Veronika Woehrer – Differences and Hierarchies in ‘East’ – ‘West’ Cooperations in Feminist, Women’s and Gender Studies

 

Mary Anne Saunders – Engendering and Internationalizing Curricula in Global Feminism

 

Cynthia Paces – Teaching About Women in Eastern Europe:  A Pedagogical Experiment

 

Kate Gray - Setting the Stage for Student-to-Student Dialogue: A Pedagogy for Identity Negotiation in a Senior-Level General Studies Course

 

June 5, 2003

Theme 2 continued

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

 

Intersections of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Nation

Vesna Kesic

 

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:00 – 1:00 p.m. Panel Presentation
 

Katrina Kivimaa – National Identity, Gender and Representation

 

Natalia Kutova – Gender Identity and the Ukrainian Nation-State Formation:  Clinging to the Past

 

Miglena Todorova - White Racial Formations Across National Boundaries:  Contemporary Communist/Post-Communist Eastern European Migrants in the United States

 

 

June 6, 2003

Theme 3:  Civil Society, Gender and Ethnicity

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

 

Women’s Roles in Civil Initiatives

Aida Bagic

 

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:00 – 1:00 p.m. Panel Presentation
 

Claudia McCollough – The Transnational Nature of Woman, The Communicator, Helper and Healer

 

Aino Saarinen – Building up a Trans-regional East/West Community for Crises Centers in the Barents Region

 

Jill Irvine – Women’s Groups, Civil Society and the 2000 Elections in Croatia  

 

June 7, 2003

Theme 4:  Gender, Ethnicity and Labor/Economy

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

 

Men’s Face of Transitional Economies

Jasna Petrovic

 

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Coffee break
11:00 – 1:00 p.m. Panel Presentation
 

Maria Rosaria Spano – Women, the State and the National Accounting System in Post-Socialist Countries

 

Anne Rankin Mahoney – Gender Equality in Marriage:  Issues in Post Socialist Societies and the United States

 

Elizabeth Rudd – Legitimate Leave?   Family Leave and Inequality in the United States

 

June 8, 2003

Departure

Participants may depart as early as June 7, (after the program ends at 1:00) or can request to stay longer than June 8.