When the war begins, it changes everything for everyone, and especially women. Bigger part of the 20-th century Ukraine have been ravaged by wars. Both world wars, violent russian revolution that later turned into bolsheviks’ war on Ukraine, and later continuous genocide of Ukrainians through Holodomor and political persecutions – all of that undoubtedly affected Ukrainian women. Today, after decades of peace, new generation of women are fighting to protect their homes and families from devastation by war. And we want to look into the past to better understand how we can help and support Ukrainian women today.
We invited Oksana Kis, a feminist historian and anthropologist, to help us learn and understand Ukrainian women in wartime. She explored Ukrainian women’s experiences of survival and resistance under extreme historical circumstances, including in times of the Holodomor (Great Famine 1932-33), in the Ukrainian nationalist anti soviet underground in the mid 20th century and in the Stalin’s Gulag, as well as gender transformations in post-socialist countries. Her recent book Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag was published within the Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies in 2021.
Please join us and invite your friends for an online presentation by Oksana Kis
Militant Femininity: Ukrainian Women in Wartime.
Sunday April 28, 2024 at 4 PM EST
Online via ZOOM https://bit.ly/UAWomenInWartime
Language: English
Oksana Kis is a feminist historian and anthropologist, a Cornerstones Visiting Chair in History at the University of Richmond and a senior research fellow and a head of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in Lviv).
She is the president of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History. She explored Ukrainian women’s experiences of survival and resistance under extreme historical circumstances. Her recent book Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag was published within the Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies in 2021. She was a recipient of several academic awards, research grants and scholarship, including Fulbright research fellowship at Rutgers University (2003-04) and Columbia University (2011-12) and the Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Professorship at the University of Alberta (2013-14).
