Conference Program

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM: Opening Remarks by the Organizing Committee

9:15 AM - 11:10 AM: Radical Ties: Women’s Organizing Across Empires, Ideologies, and Movements 

Chair: Eleanor Careless

• • Poorvi Bellur: Futurity in Sisterhood - Indian and Egyptian Women’s Anticolonial Solidarities and Landscapes of International Feminist Organizing in the Early Twentieth Century

  • Maha Ali: Radical Voices of Defiance: Asian Women Weaving Revolution and Rights

  • Kirsten Kamphuis: Communist Women’s Networks and Postcolonial Solidarities Between the Netherlands and Indonesia, 1950s–1960s

  • Madeline Adams: Lesbian Feminist Information Networks in the German Democratic Republic, 1983–1990

  • Short Video Screening: Astrid Reza and Stefanie Wuschitz: Coded Feminisms in Indonesia

11:10 AM - 11:25 AM: Coffee Break

11:25 AM - 12:55 PM: Women’s Activism and Women’s Rights Discourses in Central and South Eastern Europe

Chair: Minja Bujaković

The panel is organized by the ERC-Project HERESSEE. 

• Manca Grgić Renko: The Wives, Secretaries, and Lovers - The Invisible Work of Socialist and Communist Women in Interwar Yugoslavia

• Stefan Gužvica: Communism and the National Question in Bessarabia - The Political Views of Ecaterina Arbore-Ralli (1875–1937)

• Isidora Grubački: The “Peasant Woman Question” in Socialist Yugoslavia - Antifascist Women’s Front and Women Activists’ Discourses on Peasant Women in the Late 1940s and 1950s

• Libora Oates-Indruchova: Discourses and Contexts of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in the Czech Republic

12:55 PM - 1:45 PM: Lunch Break for the Conference Participants

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Break

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Radicalizing Reproduction: Women’s Economic Thought and Political Activism Across Borders 

Chair:  Alexa-Rae Burk

• Tania Shew: The Spectre of the Birth Strike - A Contribution to the History of Socialist Women’s Economic Thought in the Early Twentieth Century

• Velia Luparello: Reproductive Work in the Spotlight - Clara Zetkin and the Communist Women's Movement, An Analysis from Social Reproduction Theory (Online)

• Nicole Bourbonnais: Making Economics Political - Intersectional Marxist Feminists in the Late 20th Century Development Sector

• Nivedita Joon: In the Courts of Women - Public Tribunals and the Making of the International Women’s Movement (1976–1995)

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM: Coffee Break

4:45 PM - 6:15 PM: From Factories to Frontlines: Violence, Resistance, and Radical Activism 

Chair: Stefan Gužvica

• Katerina Acheimastou: Knitting the Web - The Collective and Conflicted Worlds of Women Detainees in Postwar Greece

• Juliana Marques do Nascimento: Radical Wives - Women Between Political Action and Reproductive Work in the Armed Struggle Against the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship

• Annie Grey Fischer: Stopping Power - Armed Feminists in the U.S. Movement for Women’s Liberation

• Aynur Ozugurlu and Burcu Saka: Unruly and Unnamed - Revolutionary Women's Activism from Factories to Working-Class Neighbourhoods in Turkey's 1970s

20:00 Dinner for the Conference Participants: CIACCO - Restaurant Bistrò: Via dei Ramni 13, Roma.

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: From Local Struggles to Global Solidarity: Women’s Transnational Organising 

Chair: Daria Dyakonova

• Ottavia dal Masso: Bridging Borders - Italian Socialist and Communist Women in the Second and Third Internationals

• Gabriele Mastrolillo:  Slovenian antifascist women in the Julian March: Danica Tomažič and the Vuk sisters

•  Alexa Burk and Bram Barnes: Women at the Forefront of the Margin - Mexican American Leftist Organizing in 20th Century San Antonio, Texas

• Irina Gordeeva: The Soviet Official Peace Movement and the Transnational Women’s Anti-War Activism of the 1980s

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Women in Revolutionary Movements: Regional Perspectives on Leftist Activism

Chair: Severyan Dyakonov

• Paolo Capuzzo: “Women of the East” as a Political Category - The Debate Within the International Communist Movement in the Early 1920s

• Delzar Salih Sadiq: Women’s Left-Wing Activity in Iran (1941–1953)

• Emma Flanagan: Mothers, Muslims, Communists - North African Women and the ‘French’ Communist Movement in Post-War Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia (1945–1954)

• Hashim Ali: Mobilising the Ba’athist-Feminist Periphery

12:15 PM - 1:05 PM: Lunch Break for the Conference Participants

2:05 PM - 2:15 PM: Break

2:15 PM - 3:55 PM: Biographies and Trajectories of Left-wing Militants in the Latin American Southern Cone (Online)

Chair: Victor Strazzeri

• Ludmila Scheinkman: Intimate Writings of the Political-Activist Trajectories of Anarchist and Communist Women in 20th-Century Argentina Through Their Autobiographies

• Ivanna Margarucci: Chola and Anarchist Women in Andean Bolivia - An Approach Through the Lives of Two Leaders

• Andrea Andújar: Women on Board - Politics, Culture, and Female Emancipation in a Red Key (1920–1940)

• Cielo Zaidenwerg: On the Margins, but Not Marginalized - Political Commitment and Agency of Communist Women in Northern Patagonia, Argentina (1930s–1940s)

• Carla Peñaloza: Personal and Political Trajectories of the Communist Parliamentarians in the Popular Unity Government in Chile (1970-1973)

• 3:55 PM - 04:10 PM: Coffee Break

4:10 PM - 5:40 PM: Intersectional Frictions: Women’s Agency within Left-Wing Movements in India, Cuba, Egypt, and the United States (1940s-1980s) 

Chair: Giulio Fugazzotto

• Shivangi Jaiswal: Intersecting Trajectories - Women’s Organisations and Debates on the Labour Question in 1940s India (Online)

• Albert Manke: Left-Wing Women’s Agency in the Cuban Revolution - An Intersectional and Gendered Perspective

• Sarah Nagaty: Arwa Salih’s Memoirs - The Intimate History of the Egyptian Students’ Movement

• Bruno Walter Renato Toscano: Black (Women) Marxism - Leftist African American Women, Intersectionality, and the Global Cold War (Online)

5:40 PM - 18:00 PM: Closing Remarks by the Organizing Committee & Participants' Feedback