From October 2020 to June 2021, the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History, together with the Center for Urban History and with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Ukraine, carried out a project of recording a series of online lectures and discussions GENDER DIMENSIONS OF MODERNITY SPACES, devoted to diverse gendered experiences of the long 20th century. The project is part of the conference on women’s history “Women’s Dimensions of the Past: Ideas, Experiences, Representations,” (лінк на англ оголошення про конференцію) originally scheduled for October 2020 but postponed to June 2021 due to the pandemic.
Our lecturers are emerging and established Ukrainian researchers in the fields of history, cultural studies, and literary studies, whose work offers vivid examples of applying a gender approach to analyzing historical experiences and cultural representations of women and men in the context of modernization processes in Ukraine. Their lectures served as a springboard for open online discussions about the gendered dimensions of the past, about the advantages and limitations of various types of sources for studying and interpreting complex gender-inflected experiences. The discussions aimed to demonstrate the heuristic potential of the gender approach to studying the recent past by revealing the gendered particularities of the modernization experience across different historical contexts in urban space.
Ivanna Cherchovych, “The Poor and the Pregnant in Lviv in the Late 19th Century: Survival Experiences”
Mariana Baidak, “Divided by the War: Transformation of Family Relations During the Great War”
Halyna Bodnar, “Unfinished War: Biographical Narratives in Letters to Lviv Authorities, 1944–1945”
Lada Moskalets, “Passageways, Coffee Places, and Bazaars: Women and Spaces of Consumption in Early 20th-Century Lviv”
Vasyl Kosiv, “Male Images of Ukrainians in the Posters of Soviet Ukraine, 1945–1989”
Bohdan Shumylovych, “Feminine and Masculine in Visual Voyages Between Urban and Rural in Soviet Ukraine“
Olena Stiazhkina, “Eating à la Soviet in the Film Texts of the 1960s – Mid-1980s”
Iryna Starovoit, “A Journey into the Whirlwind with Stops in Lviv: Dagny Juel, Debora Vogel, Yevgenia Ginsburg“
Marta Havryshko, “Women in Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Summer 1941 in Eastern Galicia: Victims, Perpetrators, and Rescuers“
Lecture premieres and discussions took place online via ZOOM from December 2020 through June 2021. The livestream was also available on the Center for Urban History’s YouTube channel.
Detailed information about each lecturer and all materials are available on the Center for Urban History website.