Conference: Gender Equality and Gender Studies at Universities: War, Peace and Development

Warmly welcome to join the final conference of the project Gender Studies and War Challenges in Resilience of Universities in Ukraine: Networking for Excellence in Teaching and Institutional Development. During two full days, May 16-17, gender studies scholars from Ukraine, Lithuania, Georgia and Sweden will meet at Lund University to present their research and discuss gender studies during war and peace times. 

The project “Gender Studies and War Challenges in Resilience of Universities in Ukraine” (Swedish Institute 01116/2022) aims to support Ukrainian universities and scholars in developing and maintaining an international gender studies academic network. Furthermore, the aim has been to facilitate the exchange of resources for teaching and research; implement gender-sensitive approaches in teaching, research, and management of the universities and strengthen the integration of Ukrainian gender scholars into the international research community. 

The project and the conference are a collaboration between:

• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
• V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
• Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
• European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
• Lund University, Sweden

Together the five partner universities have developed and given the online course “Rethinking Gender, War, and Peace in XXIst century, Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective”.

The conference will open with two distinguished keynote speakers whose talks will be open to the public.

• Andrea Petö, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
• Olena Strelnyk, Munich Technical University, Germany; Institute of Sociology National Academy of Science of Ukraine

The conference is free of charge and open for all interested. Please register in the registration form. 
 

Conference program

Thursday May 16

• 9.30-10 Coffee
• 10-10.30 Welcome speech
• 10.30 -12 Session 1: Feminist solidarity and gender equality during war 
  (Chair: Tamar Tskhadadze) 
• 13.30 -15.00 Keynote 1: Andrea Petö Illiberal memory politics of war and violence 
  (Chair: Svitlana Babenko) Edens hörsal
• 15.30 -17.00 Session 2: Gender studies during war and postwar times 
  (Chair: Almira Ousmanova) 

Friday May 17

• 9.00 -10.30 Session 3: Anti-discrimination work and gender equality at universities 
  (Chair: Svitlana Babenko) 
• 11.00 - 12.30 Keynote 2: Olena Strelnyk ’Either fight or pay taxes’: Constructing citizenship in the context of war and its gender implications. 
  (Chair: Terese Anving) Room R236
• 13.30 -15.30 Session 4: Further support for gender studies in Ukraine: Discussion of future collaborations. 
  (Chair: Andrei Vazyanau) 
• 15.30 -16.00 Summing up and moving forward.