The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies organises the DOING GENDER Lecture Series in cooperation with her partners. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice of gender theory and research. The concept of DOING GENDER supports a hands-on approach to gender issues in the sense of social and political engagement with the new forms of gender inequalities that are taking shape in the world today. The lecture series wants to give space to the new generations of gender theorists and practitioners and to perspectives that innovate the field and do gender in new ways. Key is the notion of doing gender: what is the state of the art definition of gender? How do contemporary scholars and activists utilise this definition?
The Doing Gender Lecture series for 2024-205 will be framed around the theme of Feminist Solidarity in Times of War.
On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, Dr. Tereza Hendl (University of Augsburg) will give the Doing Gender Lecture entitled Challenging Campism: Solidarity With and Beyond Ukraine.
Lecture: Challenging Campism: Solidarity With and Beyond Ukraine
This talk will interrogate the ongoing legacy of Russian imperialism that has affected a large part of the world, from Europe’s East to Central and Northern Asia. The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been followed by an intensified solidarity among societies affected by the ongoing legacy of Russian imperial aggression. Simultaneously, many dominant academic and activist debates have been shaped by epistemic imperialism, looking at Europe’s East from the outside: through Western-centric and dominating perspectives and in relation to Russia, through Russia-centric frameworks. These patterns have also been replicated in feminist and global de/anticolonial debates, which have commonly spoken over the voices, historical experiences and agency of societies directly affected by Russian imperialism and colonialism. Too often, such debates have reinforced campist politics, widening ruptures and divides shaped by double standards and different approaches to Western and non-Western legacies of imperial and colonial violence. Is it possible to stand against multiple forms of imperial oppression at the same time? Together, we will explore how.
Biography:
Tereza Hendl is a philosopher and bioethicist, currently working as a Co2libri Visiting Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin and Associated Researcher at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research investigates concerns of vulnerability, refusal, empowerment, justice and solidarity, and the ethics and epistemology of health technologies and interventions. Some of her latest work explores European East-West inequalities and their impact on health, also accounting for the impact of German and Russian imperialism. She is the founder of the Central and Eastern European Feminist Research Network and co-founder of the RUTA Association for Central, South, and Eastern Europe, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation.
Doing Gender Lecture by Dr. Tereza Hendl
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Lecture: Challenging Campism: Solidarity With and Beyond Ukraine.
Time: 17.15 – 18.45 hrs.
Location: Drift 25, Room 002, Utrecht University (this room is wheelchair accessible. Please contact NOG@uu.nl to make further arrangements.)
Chair: Dr. Gianmaria Colpani.
Registration: nog@uu.nl
Reading: Hendl, Tereza. “Towards Accounting for Russian Imperialism and Building Meaningful Transnational Feminist Solidarity with Ukraine”. Gender Studies 26, May 2022, pp. 62-95.
