Pls see below for details of an upcoming workshop at the University of Sheffield:
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Women & Communism
Wednesday 3rd December 2014 14:30-17:30
Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Seminar Room
The University of Sheffield
A joint project between the History Department and SLC, 'Women and Communism' will be a workshop of six short, informal papers on the historical role of women in the political far left. Topics will include women in the Soviet Union, women responding to Fascism, and women under Communism in Turkic cultures.
Refreshments will be provided.
More information will be forthcoming, but for expressions of interest or further details, please contact Alun Thomas: [log in to unmask]
Women and Communism
Wednesday 3rd December 2014
Venue: Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Seminar room
14:30 - Session One
15:15 - Ten minute coffee break
15:25 - Session Two
16:10 - Ten minute coffee break
16:20 - Session Three
17:05 - Final discussions
Session One: Women in the Soviet Union
Chair: TBC
Miriam Dobson: Protestant Women in the Late Soviet Period
Hannah Parker: Female Emancipation under Stalin, 1920-1941
15 minutes of questions
Session Two: Women and Communism in Turkic Cultures
Chair: TBC
Alun Thomas - Educating Nomadic Women in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1920-1930
Michael Erdman- Women in the Writings of the Turkish Far Left
15 minutes of questions
Session Three: Women Responding to the Far-Right
Chair: Mary Vincent
Ruth Littlewood - Female Political Prisoners under Franco, 1939-1960
Julie Gottlieb - British Women's War on Fascism in the 1930s
15 minutes of questions
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