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Anosova on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in UkraineFriday April 25, 2025 2pm to 3pm (New York time) In-person and on Zoom Dr. Iuliia Anosova Human Rights Centre, Ghent University (In)visible crime: Exploring the changing landscape of policy and justice approaches to conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine Since the escalation of the Russian war against Ukraine in 2022 the issue of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) gained much more attention compared to initial stages of the war in 2014. The most notable changes include a more active public discourse on CRSV, multiple civil society initiatives, as well as the adoption of an array of laws and policies on CRSV incorporating the cutting edge international standards and introducing gender-sensitive and victim-oriented approaches into Ukrainian criminal justice system. With all this visibility, in practice CRSV remains hugely underreported and with quite a low prosecution level (as of July 2024 in 304 CRSV cases only 5 perpetrators were convicted, mostly in absentia).The paper is aimed at the exploration, through the gender perspective, of the changing approaches to regulation and prosecution of CRSV crimes in Ukraine. It will rely on the analysis of the domestic laws and policies regulating the issue, as well as interviews with judges, prosecutors and civil society experts working in the field. As a result, it will be shown how the approaches to CRSV evolve under the conditions of the ongoing war, as well as how public (in)visibility of this crime affects gender equality in Ukraine. Register for Zoom Here Or join us in person at the CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016 5th floor, Room 5203 Workshop format: We ask that participants read the paper in advance. Please email mara.lazda[at]bcc.cuny.edu for the paper. At the workshop, Dr. Anosova will give a brief presentation, after which participants are invited to ask questions […] “Anosova on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Ukraine”

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Anti-Gender Politics in Contemporary Poland and Beyond with Professor Elżbieta Korolczuk Södertörn University & American Studies Center, Warsaw University Tuesday, November 19, 2024 11am to 12:15pm Please join us for a special session of the Gender & Transformation workshop, sponsored by Brooklyn College, Gender & Women’s Studies Program series, Feminist Futures: Studying Eastern Europe. On Zoom, Registration Required, Here In recent years patriarchal gender norms and ideologies have become an integral part of the right-wing populist parties programs. Right-wing leaders, including Jarosław Kaczyński, Victor Orban and Giorgia Melloni have invested in creating their image as defenders of traditional family and the nation against the excesses of what they call “gender ideology.” Such a stance have helped them to gain and sustain public support: in a 2019 opinion poll researchers asked about the biggest threats for Poland in the 21st century, and the majority of young men and older people declared that their biggest fear is the threat of the “gender ideology and LGBT movement.” In the Polish context, fighting against “gender ideology” has become a central objective of the right-wing coalition which came to power in2016. Anti-gender campaigns in the country have involved efforts to impose a total ban on abortion, assaults on LGBTQ rights, the demonization of ethnic minorities, and interventions in education and knowledge production. Warszawa 15.07.2021 r. Agnieszka Graff i Elzbieta Korolczuk. fot.Krzysztof Zuczkowski Elżbieta Korolczuk is an Associate professor in sociology, working at Södertörn University in Stockholm and at the American Studies Center, Warsaw University. Her research interests involve social movements, civil society and gender. She is currently engaged in a projectfunded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, which focuses on grassroots activism in the context of multiple crises in Central and Eastern Europe and Sweden (SUSTAIN ACTION), and studies feminist responses to anti-gender and anti-democratic forces in Horizon Europe project (CCINDLE). Her most recent publications include a co-authored volume co-edited Women’s Rebellion. Black Protests and Women’s Strikes, published by European Solidarity Centre in 2019 (with Beata Kowalska, Jennifer Ramme and Claudia Snochowska- Gonzalez) and a monograph co-authored with Agnieszka Graff Anti-gender Politics in the Populist Moment (Routledge 2021). Korolczuk is also longtime women’s and human rights activist and a commentator. Sponsored also by Brooklyn College’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences; Departments of Anthropology, History, Judaic Studies, Modern Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology;  and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn Phi Beta Kappa Chapter, the Women’s Cente […] “Anti-Gender Politics in Contemporary Poland and Beyond”