BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.3//EN TZID:Europe/Berlin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1-3403@forumdialog.eu DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240321T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240321T200000 DTSTAMP:20240320T110242Z URL:https://forumdialog.eu/veranstaltungen/herstories-trends-and-developme nts-in-womens-and-gender-history-in-poland/ SUMMARY:Herstories: Trends and Developments in Women's and Gender History i n Poland DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\nProfessor Agnieszka Mrozik and Pro fessor Joanna Szewczyk reflect on the importance and perspectives of Women ’s and Gender History in Poland.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n21.03\, 18. 00 | Pariser Platz 4A\, 10117 Berlin | Registration: https://forms.gle/V DsMQk2mXrYE9nMg9\n\nIn recent years\, a noticeable shift has occurred in Poland towards narratives told from the perspectives of women and other h istorically marginalized communities. Various authors of publications\, bo oks\, or podcasts that incorporate micro-perspectives into their narrative s and focus on social issues thus shed light on forgotten heroines and he roes. However\, these interests extend beyond academic research.\n\nDuring the first event of a new lecture series accompanying the “Liberated Twice” exhibition Professor Agnieszka Mrozik and Professor Joanna Szewcz yk will reflect on the importance and perspectives of Women’s and Gende r History in Poland.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThrough an anthropological-cultural and literary lens Joanna Szewczyk´s presentation “The Herstorical Turn in Poland – Perspectives\, Tasks and Challenges” will explore the ex pansion of herstorical narratives and the relationship between memory and space as well as touch upon the promotion of women's history in various spheres.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnother lecture taking place during this event\, ent itled “Calling out of silence: Let's talk about women who designed and i mplemented emancipation policies in post-World War II Poland” and deli vered by Agnieszka Mrozik\, will talk about the women - leftist politici ans\, intellectuals and activists of women's organizations - who were comm itted to shaping and implementing the goal of women's emancipation in Pol and after the Second World War. She will discuss both their activities on the domestic stage and in international institutions\, offering a fair assessment of their achievements but also - despite best efforts - failure s.\n\nPhotos:Grzegorz Karkoszka\n\n\n\n\n\nOur exhibition\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ nBoth lectures will be followed and enhanced by an open discussion in whic h we will reflect together not only on various available methods of restor ing women´s past and collective memory of women but also the role that t he study of their history can play in contemporary Poland. \n\n\n\nAgnie szka Mrozik is an associate professor of literary studies at the Institu te of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is affilia ted with two research units: The Center for Cultural and Literary Studies of Communism\, and the Women's Archive. She has held fellowships from th e Imre Kerész Kolleg in Jena (2017)\, the Institute for Advanced Study CEU (2018-2019) and the DAAD program at the University of Hamburg (2019) . She is the author of Architektki PRL-u: Komunistki\, literatura i ema ncypacja kobiet w powojennej Polsce [Female architects of the Polish Pe ople’s Republic: Communist women\, literature\, and women’s emancipati on in postwar Poland] (Wydawnictwo IBL PAN\, 2022) and Akuszerki transfor macji: Kobiety\, literatura i władza w Polsce po 1989 roku [Midwives of the transformation: Women\, literature\, and power in post-1989 Poland ] (Wydawnictwo IBL PAN\, 2012). She has co-authored and co-edited several collective volumes\, including Reassessing Communism: Concepts\, Culture\ , and Society in Poland\, 1944–1989 (CEU Press\, 2021)\, Gender\, Gene rations\, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond (Routled ge\, 2020)\, and Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism  (Routledge\, 2018).\n\n \;\n\nJoanna Szewczyk- assistant professor i n the Department of Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Studies. She works on literary anthropology\, feminist literary criticism\, 20th-centur y historical novel\, women's history\, 20th and 21st century literature. W inner of the “Monographs” program of the Foundation for Polish Scien ce\, she is the author of Historiography and the Mythology of Womanhood . The Novelism of Theodor Parnicki (2017). She has published in "Ruch Lit eracki"\, "Wielogłos"\, "Autobiografia"\, "Nowa Dekada Krakowska"\, among others.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://forumdialog.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/0 3/herstories.jpg CATEGORIES:Veranstaltungskalender END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR