Women and post-war transitions – Politics

ERC Advanced Grant project is hosting our first workshop titled “Women and post-war transitions: Politics”. We have prepared several presentations covering the periods after both world wars and touching upon the transitional years in the 1990s.

FRIDAY, 9th November 2018

9.00–9.30 | Welcome reception

9.30 | Marta Verginella: Welcome speech and introduction

9.45–10.45 | Glenda Sluga: Humanitarianism and Human Rights in the Shaping of International Orders, 1814-1974

11.00–12.00 | Elda Guerra: The redefinition of gender relationships in Italian post-war period (1945-1948)

12.00–13.00 | Andrea Feldman: New Women in a New State: Women and Political representation in Transition

13.00–14.00 | Lunch break

14.00–15.00 | Matthew Stibbe: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration: Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914–1921

15.15–16.15 | Birgitta Bader-Zaar: Agents of emancipation and the ›moral uplift‹ of Austria? Democratization and Women’s Political Participation, 1918/19–1933

16.30–17.30 | Julie V. Gottlieb: Suffrage Afterlives (and Deaths) in Britain after the Vote was Won

18.00 | Dinner

SATURDAY, 10th November 2018

9.30–10.30 | Ivan Kosnica: Women’s Citizenship Status in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia (1918-1941)

10.45–11.45 | Chiara Bonfiglioli: The Antifascist Women’s Front (AFŽ) and the reconfiguration of women’s citizenship rights in early socialist Yugoslavia (1945–1953)

11.45–12.15 | Short break

12.15–13.15| Lea  Vrečko: Women and politics in transitions – Slovenia, 1945 and 1990

13.30–14.00| Dagmar Wernitznig: ‘In the antechambers of power’: gender and post-war politics – a synopsis

14.00 | Lunch

Location of the workshop
Atrij ZRC, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana