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*CALL FOR PAPERS **:  Gender in Revolution*





*Women and men experiencing revolutionary change 1917-2017*

*Conference organised by Women in War (Paris)*

*in partnership with the Democratic Development Centre (Kyiv)*

*and Southern Ukrainian National Pedagogical University (Odessa)*



*30th September - 1-2nd October 2017 **­** Odessa, Ukraine*






After Sarajevo in 2014, Beirut in 2015, Yerevan in 2016, the next annual
international Women in War conference, to be held in Odessa in autumn of
2017, will explore *different aspects of the social and political
transformations in gender relations, especially the life of women,
resulting from one century of revolutions.* These will include uprising and
revolts where women have played exceptional roles with major social
consequences.



We have chosen to situate our next conference in Ukraine, a country which
has historically challenged both the imposition and the legacy of Soviet
rule, and today represents the most positive and advanced society for
women's rights in the post-Soviet bloc.



In this unique conference, we shall focus on women's revolutionary
experiences worldwide as influenced by the Soviet revolution of 1917, in
order to establish commonalities and differences in terms of women's
participation and influence.



*We are targeting four major areas of study:*



1) *States that have actually experienced a Communist regime*, including
the USSR, the entire East European bloc, China, Afghanistan, Cuba, People's
Republic of Mozambique, People's Republic of Congo, South Yemen, North
Vietnam, and Cambodia and others.



2) *Revolutionary Marxist militarized movements* in non-Communist countries
such as Mujeres Libres in 1930s' Spain, anti-Nazi uprisings, PKK, Nepalese,
Kashmiri, African, Sri Lankan and South American movements (FARC, Sendero
Luminoso and others), up until today's Mexican Chiapas and the Kurdish
Rojava.



3) The place of women and sexual minorities in *uprisings against Communist
regimes* in the entire Eastern bloc and Asia, as well as those following
the fall of the USSR: the Orange and Euromaidan (Ukraine), Rose (Georgia),
Jeans (Belarus), Tulip (Kyrgyztan), and Abkhazian revolutions.



4) *World youth movements influenced by Communist ideology *; the role of
women and LGBTI participation in civil rights ; students and revolutionary
movements of the 1960s-70s- 80s (including Black Panthers, R.A.F., Brigade
Rosse and others).



In all these revolutionary configurations, we shall attempt to evaluate
women's long-term gains and losses in personal and collective empowerment,
as well as their influence on gender relations.

The place of women and sexual minorities in hyper-masculinist military
structures will also be examined, be they regular, paramilitary, combat or
terrorist. Does the increasing presence of women in armies, in war or
peacetime constitute revolutionary change? Does the growing military ethic
contribute to or reduce the structural violence against women in these
countries ?



This is where achievements in gender rights in recent, post-communist
revolutions, in particular the whole of the Eastern bloc up till Central
Asia, can be measured in relation to conventions penned by international
organisations such as the UN (Resolution 1325, CEDAW and others) NATO,
OSCE. Have these been effective in changing legislation, public service,
popular and local culture? How do they compare with competing ideologies,
especially the fast growing influence of religion, be it Orthodox,
Catholic, or Muslim, especially in the context of globalization?



*Aims and expected outcomes:*

-  to establish links between academia, NGOs, and public administration,
resulting from the meeting of different specialists, researchers,
militants, combatants, civil servants during this conference in view of
charting practice-based future policies in post-revolutionary countries

- to bring together international scholars, politicians, and activists with
feminist writers, artists and musicians working on these themes.

- to explore differences and commonalities in all fields under discussion,
through panels organized on themes and methodology rather than geographic
areas

- to establish the place of gender rights within revolutions over the
course of the past century and to measure the real progress in women's
lives in countries which have experienced revolutions in terms of
legislation, rights, public administration (national and local),
reproductive health, and sexual violence

-   -to evaluate the place of women in revolutionary military and
paramilitary

-to measure the influence of women's place in revolutions and uprisings in
official and unofficial culture, school texts, books, and the media

-to evaluate set-backs and disappointments following revolutionary processes



*Who can apply*

 Academics, including both faculty and graduate students

Activists concentrating on gender issues

 Female combatants and members of military organizations

 Artists, writers, musicians





*Proposals should be sent in English, Russian, or Ukrainian by April 2nd,
2017.*

Length: not more than 300 words  Please include a short bio of no more than
50 words

Please indicate your name, affiliation if relevant, and the title of your
paper

Please include your name in the subject line of your email together with
the area concerned by proposal

You will hear back from us latest on May 15th.





*Send proposals and all questions to: infoATwomeninwar.org*





*The selection committee is made up of academics from Yale University
(U.S.), University of Paris 8 (France), Hagazian University (Lebanon),
Pedagogical Institute of Odessa and NAPA, Kyiv (Ukraine).*





 Dr. Carol Mann director of Women in War (Paris)

Ella Lamakh, Democratic Development Centre (Kyiv)

Dr. Evgenia Sadykova, Pedagogical Institute (Odessa)

Carol Mann Ph.D
UMR 8238 LEGS* (*Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité), Université
Paris 8
Women In War
Think Tank for Gender and Armed Conflict
www.womeninwar.org
Facebook: Women in War
cmann@ <[log in to unmask]>womeninwar.org
blog:cmann.net

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