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, 5^th 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: Gender-sensitive Considerations from the Transnational Region

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, SRC SASA)

 

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 (University of Vienna, RECET)

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

 

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)