7 marca zapraszamy na wystąpienie prof. Małgorzaty Radkiewicz pt. Polish Modernists and Emancipators: Women on Film oraz referaty innych uczestników seminarium Against Vulnerability: 100 Years of Women's Rights in Europe, które odbędzie się w Institute of Advanced Studies University College London.
Eastern European lessons on women’s right to vote and women’s right to choose, celebrating International Women’s Day on 8 March.
During Communism, 8 March was celebrated as International Women’s Day, taking its origins from
the history of the socialist movement. At the time, it was compulsory to
celebrate full equality between the sexes, which had allegedly been reached:
marches, school galas, and bosses’ speeches in the workplace commemorated the
achievement. After the fall of Communism, the day was re-appropriated by the Polish
feminist movement, which has organised yearly countrywide manifestations called
Manifas, expressing concerns about women’s life and equality which appeared to
be lacking after all.
Similar to
many countries across Europe, Poland granted women political rights on 28
November 1918. The eve of 8 March 2018 provides a special opportunity to mark
the centenary of women’s suffrage in Central and Eastern Europe, including
Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Russia, as well as the Representations
of the People Act in the UK. Joining symbolically the tradition of Manifa
demonstrations, this one-day seminar is devoted to discussions covering a range
of issues that women face a hundred years on: the life-changing impact of
political rights, legal and symbolic representation in the face of economic and
social change, and women’s place (or the lack thereof) in fora and frameworks
of power in the European tradition. This seminar adopts a comparative areal
perspective on these themes, focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on Poland
and Hungary.
Program, rejestracja i więcej informacji o wydarzeniu dostępne są pod linkiem.
