Ukrainian Women at War: Historical Legacies and Present-Day Challenges

Special Guest Talk co-hosted by UNET at ZOiS, Forum Transregionale Studien, KIU and Prisma Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS) Mohrenstraße 60 10117 Berlin Oksana Kis is a feminist historian and anthropologist. She is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Social Anthropology Department at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in Lviv). She is also President of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women's History. Her most recent book, Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag, was published by Harvard University Press in 2021. She is the recipient of several academic awards, research grants, and fellowships. Her research interests include women’s lives in traditional Ukrainian peasant culture and society, women’s experiences of the Holodomor (Great Famine of 1932-33), women’s participation in the Ukrainian nationalist anti-Soviet underground in the 1940 and 1950s, as well as gender transformations in post-socialist countries. Moderated by Viktoria Sereda The presentation and discussion will begin at 11.30 am. We cordially invite you to a light lunch and an informal Q&A at 12:45pm.

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