Gender â?- Power â?- Eastern Europe

International Conference at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität, to Address Changing Concepts of Gender and Power Relations, June 21 to 23. â?- 152/2017 from Jun 06, 2017 Changing concepts of gender and power relations in Eastern Europe are the focus of an international conference to be held by the Institute of East European Studies at Freie Universität from June 21 to 23, 2017. Prominent Eastern European scholars and social scientists as well as activists will take recent social developments in Eastern Europe as a starting point to address gender issues. By looking at both history and the present, they aim to investigate how the link between gender and power is being (re)organized. The political relevance of the gender issue will be discussed by the gender researcher Prof. Agnieszka Graff (University of Warsaw) and the women's rights activist and politician Wanda Nowicka (Warsaw) among others. In addition to Poland, they will examine the (power) political situation in Hungary, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. The rise of right-wing populist parties and conservative movements in many countries of Eastern Europe has, according to the organizers of the conference (Prof. Gertrud Pickhan, Prof. Katharina Bluhm, Dr. Justyna Stypi'ska, Anja Locascio, and Agnieszka Wierzcholska), had a direct impact on gender relations.