Migrating Feminisms

Migrating Feminisms International conference organized by The Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest, in conjunction with the Department’s celebration of its 10th anniversary, and The European Journal of Women’s Studies

Thursday, January 26th, 6:30 p.m. Mary Evans and Kathy Davis European Journal of Women’s Studies and Its European Legacies, Presentation of the European Journal of Women’s Studies Location: Gellner Room, CEU, Nador u. 9, 1051 Budapest

Friday, January 27, 2006 Location: Tóth István György Room, CEU, Nador ut. 9, 1051 Budapest. 9:30 – 10:00 Coffee and informal discussion 10:00 – 10:15 Welcome: Allaine Cerwonka, Head of the Department of Gender Studies Mary Evans, co-Editor of European Journal of Women’s Studies 10:20 – 10:40 Kornelia Slavova (Sofia University) “After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postcommunism and Postfeminism” 10:40 – 11:00 Barbara Einhorn (University of Sussex), “Citizenship in an Enlarging Europe: Contested Strategies” 11:00 – 11:30 Discussion 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break 12:00 – 12:20 Andrea Pető (CEU) “Reproductive Rights and ‘New Feminism’. Neo-Conservative Women Politicians in Eastern Europe” 12:20 – 12:40 Nadežda Čačinović (University of Zagreb) “Traditional Structures: Short-Term Gender Role Reversal in the Nineties, Some Case Studies from Croatia“ 12:40 – 13:10 Discussion 13:10 – 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 – 15:20 Marina Blagojević (Institute for Sociological and Criminological Research, Belgrade) “Migrating Gender Scholar: Epistemic and Other Consequences” 15:20 – 15:40 Allaine Cerwonka (CEU) “Border Troubles for Traveling Feminist Thought” 15:40 – 16:00 Linda Fisher (CEU) “Knowledge and Lived Experience: Do Theories Have Nationalities?” 16:00 – 16: 40 Discussion 16:40 – 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 – 18:00 Francisca de Haan (CEU) Krassimira Daskalova (St.Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia) Anna Loutfi (CEU) “Their Lives - Our Frameworks. Historical and Theoretical Questions Raised by a New Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries.” Presentation of A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries, ed. by De Haan, Daskalova and Loutfi, CEU Press 2006. 18:00 – 18:30 Final discussion The conference has been organized with the help of SAGE Publications and CEU Special and Extension Programs.