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A Two Day Symposium in Tver
Gender Equality and Gender Research in Sweden
and Russia:
16-17 June 2006
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Russian organizer:
Centre for Women's History & Gender Studies, Tver State University (Dr.Valentina Uspenskaya)
Swedish organizers:
Södertorns Högskola, BEEGS (Dr. Helene Carlbäck);
Lund University, Dept. of East and Central European Studies (Dr. Karin Sarsenov);
Swedish Institute in Stockholm (Birgitta Tennander, Cecilia Reimers)
PROGRAM:
Friday,16 June:
Scientific Library, Tver State University (Volodarskogo, 44A)
9.00 Greetings and introductory remarks by the organizers (Cecilia Reimers, Valentina Uspenskaya)
9.30-12.30
Our common roots: Russian and Swedish women's activism in the 20th century
Natalia Kozlova, moderator, Helene Carlbäck , moderator
9.30-10.15 Christina Carlsson Wetterberg: Equal or different? - That's not the question. Women's political strategies in historical perspective
(discussant: Natalia Pushkareva)
10.15-10.45 Vera Kulik: Women's Question and political parties in Russia in the early 20th century
(discussant: Kjell Östberg)
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.10 Ingrid Pincus: Men, Power and Non-implementation of Gender Equality Policy
(discussant: Ànna Temkina)
12.00-12.30 Antastasia Pavlova: Women to women. Soviet women's committee and Swedish women's left association (SKV)
(discussant: Helene Carlbäck)
12.300-14.0 Lunch
14.00-17.0
Migration between Russia and Sweden: "Women's Strategies"
Anna Borodina, moderator, Karin Sarsenov, moderator
14.00-14.30 Anna Borodina: "I just want to be out of here!" : Reflections on Women's Marital Migration Strategies
(discussant: Karin Sarsenov)
14.30-15.15 Kerstin Söderlund: It Takes Two to Tango: a study about marital migration from east to west
15.15-15.45 Coffee break
16.30-17.00 Olga Granlöf: Galina, Anna Ivanovna and Luda - Some True examples of Ongoing Migration of Women
(discussant: Anna Borodina)
18.00 Dinner
19.00-21.00
Screening of a Swedish film "Intermezzo" (1936, by Gustaf Molander)
Introduction by Tutti Soila, Stockholm University
Saturday, 17 June
Scientific Library, Tver State University (Volodarskogo, 44A)
9.30-12.30
Gender studies in the curriculum: Challenge and success
Organizer: Kristina Abiala & Valentina Uspenskaya
Anna Jonasdottir, discussant
Irina Yukina, discussant
9.30 - 9.55 Christina Carlsson Wetterberg: The Centre for Gender Studies at Lund University - teaching and research
Anna Temkina: Gender Studies in Russia: Ghetto or Integration?
Discussion
10.10 - 10.35 Kristina Abiala: Gender Studies in the local academic environment
Natalia Pushkareva: Why Departments of History Hesitate to Integrate Gender Studies?
Discussion
10.50 - 11.15 Sofia Strid: You're just saying that because you're a feminist" 1st Gen(d)eration. About Being a Gender Graduate
Olga Shnyrova: Role of Gender Education in the Process of Gender Socialization of Students: the Experience of Ivanovo Centre for Gender Studies
Discussion
11.30 -11.50 - coffee break
11.50 - 12.15 Larisa Bojchenko: Using Swedish-Karelian Project Cooperation Experience for Promotion of the Gender Equality Questions and Institutionalization of Gender Studies.
Elena Trofimova: Gender Enlighenment: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward?
Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.30
Debate: Swedish and Russian feminism - pros and cons. Ebba Witt-Brattström and Maria Arbatova
17.00-18.00 Dinner
18.00-21.00
Women resisting/assisting cultural politics Discussion and readings by female writers and critics (the Volga boat trip)
Karin Sarsenov, moderator, Nadezhda Azhgihina, moderator
Points to discuss
1. What is it like to be a female writer in Russia and Sweden? How fruitful is "female writer" identity for an author?
2. What are the strategies taken by female writers in their relations with the market economy and the state?
3. What are the most urgent issues for the female writers nowadays?
Participate : Ebba Witt-Brattström (Södertorns Högskola) , Svetlana Vasilenko (Moscow) ,
Svetlana Alexievich (Minsk), Galina Shchekina (Vologda) , Galina Umyvakina (Voronezh) ,
Elena Kareva (Toliatti) , Nina Gorlanova (Perm)
, Alla Bolshakova (Moscow), Lidia Grigorjeva (Moscow), Yuri Poliakov (Moscow) .
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There will be two literary exhibitions on display at Tver State University's Scientific Library
during the Symposium.
One is entitled "The Present Day Sweden" and the other -
"Women's Emancipation Movement in the Early 20th century
A Collection of the Rarity Department".
(Volodarsky Street 44A, 2nd floor)
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