Gender Dimensions of Modernity Spaces

This course is about how to study the late modern period through a gender-based lens. The series of lectures offered here invites you to look at various topics and manifestations of modernity, accounting for the tool of gender, a lens that enables qualitatively new readings of male and female experiences of the past. The late nineteenth and twentieth centuries entered history with rapid changes, such as political, economic, demographic, social, ideological, and cultural. The course makes an attempt to look at how modernization has changed men and women and their gender roles and responsibilities, and what new meanings it gave to the once-established norms. It also tackles the question of how modernity’s enshrined approaches affect our present. The topics presented in this course refer to different humanitarian disciplines (women’s history, cultural studies, sociology, literary studies, art studies) and to different historical contexts. They rely on a variety of sources and methods focusing on people in their gender-based roles and interdependencies. The course will present the heuristic potential of the gender approach to the study of the recent past, revealing the peculiarities of women’s experience of modernization in different historical contexts in an urban space.

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Introduction

1.The view on modernity thought gender lens. Oksana Kis

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2. The Poor and the Pregnant in Lviv in the late 19th century: Survival Experiences. Ivanna Cherchovych

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3. Divided by the War: Transformation of Family Relations During the Great War. Mariana Baidak.

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4.Passageways, Coffee Places, and Bazaars: Women and Spaces of Consumption in the Early 20th Century Lviv. Vladyslava Moskalets

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5. Unfinished War: Biographical Narratives in Letters to Lviv Authorities Dated 1944‒1945. Halyna Bodnar.

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6. Male Images of Ukrainians in the Posters of Soviet Ukraine, 1945–1989. Vasyl Kosiv.

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7. Feminine and Masculine in Visual Voyages Between Urban and Rural in Soviet Ukraine. Bohdan Shumylovych.

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8. Eating à la Soviet in the Film Texts of the 1960s – mid-1980s. Olena Stiazhkina.

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9. A Journey into the Whirlwind with Stops in Lviv: Dagny Juel, Debora Vogel, Yevgenia Ginsburg. Iryna Starovoyt.

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10. Women in Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Summer 1941 in East Halychyna: Victims, Perpetrators, and Rescuers. Marta Havryshko.

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Lecturers:

Prof. Oksana Kis

Historian and Anthropologist, Doctor of History, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, President of the Ukrainian Association of Women's History Researchers.

Dr. Ivanna Cherchovych

historian, Research fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnography of the NAS of Ukraine, a member of the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Women’s History.

Dr. Mariana Baidak

Research fellow at the Social Anthropology Department, at the Institute of Ethnography of the NAS of Ukraine, member of the Ukrainian Association of Female Researchers of Women’s History, author of the book “War as a Challenge and an Opportunity: Ukrainians in the First World War” (2021).

Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets

Ph.D. in Humanities, a senior lecturer at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of Ukraine at the Ukrainian Catholic University, a coordinator of the Jewish Studies Programme at UCU.

Dr. Halyna Bodnar

Associate Professor at the Hrushevskyi Department of Recent History at the Ivan Franko Lviv National University, author of a book about Lviv. Everyday life of the city through the eyes of migrants from villages (1950/80s) (Lviv: Publishing House of Ivan Franko Lviv National University, 2010).

Dr. Vasyl Kosiv

Doctor of Art History, Associate Professor at the Department for Graphic Design, Lviv National Academy of Arts, author of the book Ukrainian Identity in Graphic Design in 1945–1989 (Kyiv: Rodovid, 2019).

Dr. Bohdan Shumylovych

Ph.D. in History, art historian, coordinator of public history programs at the Center for Urban History; in 2020, he presented his Ph.D. thesis on Mediating the Land, Landing the Media: Soviet Ukrainian Television and Popular Media Culture, 1957-1989 in the European University Institute in Florence.

Prof. Olena Stiazhkina

Doctor of History, Professor, Research fellow at the Department of the History of Ukraine in the second half of the 20th century, at the NASU Institute of History, member of the Ukrainian Association of Female Researchers of Women’s History.

Dr. Iryna Starovoyt

PhD in Philology, an associate professor at Culturology Department of UCU, a member of the Executive Council of Ukrainian PEN.

Dr. Marta Havryshko

Historian, Research fellow at the Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, guest researcher in The Vienna Wizenthal Institute of Holocaust Studies.