Women, Post-War Violence and Politics
THE FINAL EIRENE CONFERENCE
Women, Post-War Violence and Politics in the 20th Century
The central theme of the ERC funded project EIRENE, hosted by the University of Ljubljana, was to shed light on the post-war transition periods through transnational and comparative research on women’s experiences in the North-Eastern Adriatic region. The final EIRENE conference will focus on two significant thematic areas, particularly on issues related to the continuity and discontinuity of gendered political practices and processes, and the consequences of war violence and trauma among the female population.
Zoom link: https://uni-lj-si.zoom.us/j/98054991394?pwd=aG42eUwvTEl3WDRwdmQ0bng2TGwwUT09
Meeting ID: 980 5499 1394
Passcode: 275455
TUESDAY, 14 November – Modra soba (526), Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Aškerčeva 2, 5th floor)
15:00 – Zoom activation
15:10 – Welcome speeches
15: 30 – About the Project EIRENE: Findings and Results: Marta Verginella (EIRENE)
16:00 – 18:00 GENDERED FACES OF VIOLENCE: HORIZONTAL VIEWS
Discussant: Natka Badurina (University of Udine)
Marta Verginella (EIRENE): War Violence and Post-War Trauma in The North-Eastern Adriatic in the 20th Century
Urška Strle (EIRENE): On Volatile Borders and Fleeing Peoples in the NE Adriatic: Gendered Transnational Considerations
Manca G. Renko (EIRENE): Narrating Trauma: Unveiling the Writings of Traumatic Experiences During and After WW2
Dagmar Wernitznig (EIRENE): Of Swastika Sisters and Chocolate Girls: Gender, Politics, and Violence in Southern Austria during the Short Twentieth Century
Dinner: 19:30
WEDNESDAY, November 15 – Edvard, Igriška 5, 1000 Ljubljana (https://www.edvard.si/)
10:00 – 11:30 GENDERED FACES OF VIOLENCE: VERTICAL VIEWS
Discussant: Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU)
Jelena Seferović (EIRENE): The Risks of Growing Up: Croatian Village Girls in the First Half of the 20th Century
Francesco Toncich (Marie Curie Fellowship, University of Ljubljana): Traumas and Displacement Among Women of the Province of Gorizia During and After WWI (1920–1933)
Gorazd Bajc (EIRENE): Violence Was Also Caused by Women. Their Role in Secret and Security Services and Paramilitary Circles in the Northern Adriatic During the Second World War and the First Post-War Period
Coffee break
12:00 – 16:00 GENDERED SPACES OF POLITICS
Discussant: Zsófia Lóránd (Department of Contemporary History | RECET – Research Center for the History of Transformations University of Vienna)
Susan Zimmermann (Central European University): Women’s Trade Unionism and the Women-friendly Welfare State in State-socialist Europe and Internationally in the 1950s
Eva D. Bahovec (University of Ljubljana): After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: European Women Between Participation and Complicity
Ana Cergol Paradiž (EIRENE): Gender and citizenship in postwar transition
Lunch break: 13:30-14:30
Zoom link
https://uni-lj-si.zoom.us/j/98054991394?pwd=aG42eUwvTEl3WDRwdmQ0bng2TGwwUT09
Meeting ID: 980 5499 1394
Passcode: 275455
Discussant: Manca G. Renko (EIRENE)
Isidora Grubački (Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana): Women and Postwar Conceptualizations of Yugoslavism: The Case of the 1919 Founding Congress of the National Council of Women
Matteo Perissinotto (EIRENE): Ida De Vecchia: A Woman in the Transitions Between Fascism, Nazism, AMG and Italian Republic
Ana Ljubojević (EIRENE): (S)he Walks: Gendered Audiences, Memory and Representation in Post-Yugoslav Space
16:00 Concluding remarks: Susan Zimmermann (Central European University)