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Registration via ZOOM<\/a><\/p>\n

Keynote Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>Prof Marianne Kamp <\/span>Indiana University<\/p>\n

Kamp is a social historian of modern Central Asia who uses oral history methods to explore transformations in everyday life during the Soviet period and since the independence of the \u201c-stans\u201d in 1991. She is currently working on a book about the collectivization of agriculture in 1930s Uzbekistan, and developing research projects on history of the family in Central Asia, and on Central Asians who represented the USSR during the Cold War. She is author of The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (University of Washington Press 2006); of an edited translation, with Mariana Markova, Muslim Women of the Russian Empire: Vladimir and Maria Nalivkins\u2019 nineteenth-century Fergana Valley Ethnography (Indiana University Press 2016); and of numerous articles and chapters. She serves as a book review editor for Central Asian Survey.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"\"<\/a>Prof Adrianne Edgar <\/span>University of California, Santa Barbara<\/p>\n

Edgar is an associate professor of modern Russian and Central Asian history at the University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara. Edgar has received research grants and fellowships from IREX, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and has held post-doctoral and visiting scholar appointments at Harvard, McGill, the Humboldt University (Berlin) and the University of Melbourne. Her book, Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan<\/em>, was published by Princeton University Press in 2004. She is currently completing her second monograph on interethnic intimacy in Soviet Central Asia and co-editing a volume on ethnic intermarriage in 20th<\/sup>-century Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Edgar has published articles on nationality politics, ethnicity, and gender in Soviet Central Asia in Slavic Review<\/em>, Russian Review<\/em>, Kritika<\/em>, Ab Imperio<\/em>, and Central Asian Survey<\/em>; one of these won the annual article prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. She serves on the editorial board of Central Asian Survey<\/em> and is an editor of the book series \u201cInvestigations in East European History\u201d (Harrassowitz Publishing House, Germany).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

Programme<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

all times are in CET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Tuesday, 26 October 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

12:30 Opening<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Ivan Simi\u0107<\/span> (Charles University) \u2013 on the project: Communist Gender Policies Towards Muslim Minorities in Eastern Europe<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

13:00\u201314:30 Legal Frameworks, Discourses and Role Models<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Elife Krasniqi<\/span> (University of Graz)<\/p>\n

Dr Ivan Simic<\/span> (Charles University) \u2013 Communist Enfranchisements \u2013 Legal Changes and Empowerment of Muslim women in early socialist Yugoslavia and Bulgaria<\/p>\n

Dr Andreja Mesari\u010d<\/span> (Charles University) \u2013 Muslim reformism: An unexpected influence on Yugoslav communist gender discourses<\/p>\n

Dr Yelena Abdullayeva<\/span> (Oxford University) \u2013 Always Higher, Higher, and Higher: Azerbaijani Female Pilots as Role Models for the Muslim World<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

14:45 \u2013 16:15 Communist Gender Policies in Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Zora Kostadinova<\/span> (University College London)<\/p>\n

Dr Zayra Badillo Castro<\/span> (SOAS, London) \u2013 Women\u2019s councils in the mahallas: The many transformations of a Socialist project in Soviet Uzbekistan<\/p>\n

Dr Brenna Miller<\/span> (Washington State University \u2013 Pullman) \u2013 Muslim Women\u2019s Deveiling in Socialist Bosnia, 1947\u20131950<\/p>\n

Dr Elena Petkova\u2013Antonova<\/span> (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) \u2013 To Make Women Activists. The Case of Modernisation of Bulgarian Muslim Women during Socialism<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

16:30 \u2013 18:00 Prof Marianne Kamp<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Wednesday, 27 October 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

14:00\u201315:30 Post-Communist Transformations and Continuities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Dr Yelena Abdullayeva<\/span> (Oxford University)<\/p>\n

Maryam Bainazar<\/span> (Ohio State University) \u2013 \u201cZuleikha, remove your veil!\u201d: Representing Muslim Women in Soviet and Post\u2013Soviet Space<\/p>\n

Rebecca Daviddi<\/span> (McGill University) \u2013 In between \u201cEast\u201d and \u201cWest\u201d? Bosnian Muslims\u2019 responses to Saudi Arabian influence.<\/p>\n

Dr Gianfranco Bria<\/span> (the University of Roma \u201cLa Sapienza\u201d) \u2013 Gender, sharing and (post)socialism: focusing on Islamic graves in Albania.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

15:45 \u2013 17:15 Islam and Gender in Transnational Contexts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Aleksandar Kosti\u0107<\/span> (Princeton University)<\/p>\n

Dr Slavka Karakusheva<\/span> (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski) \u2013 Gender, ethnicity and dynamics of representations among Turkish women migrants from Bulgaria to Turkey<\/p>\n

Rustam Samadov<\/span> (Humboldt University) \u2013 Marginalized masculinity of Tajik labor migrants: The effects of Russian migration regime and sources of manhood in a discriminatory environment<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

17:30 \u2013 19:00 Prof Adrienne Edgar<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19:00 \u2013 19:30 Concluding remarks<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

Call For Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Conference<\/a><\/p>\n

Conference and Special Issue:
\nTurning Muslims into Comrades: Gendered Transformations of Muslim Lives in Socialist and Post-socialist Contexts<\/strong><\/p>\n

26-27 October 2021<\/p>\n

Convenors: Drs Andreja Mesari\u010d and Ivan Simi\u0107, Charles University, Prague<\/p>\n

CALL FOR PAPERS
\nWe invite conference contributions exploring the interplay between government policies, gender and Muslim populations in socialist and post-socialist contexts. Driven by a commitment to socialist modernity, many state-socialist gender policies created new opportunities and unprecedented social mobility. At the same time, they often led to violence, displacement and marginalisation of minority populations. The study of gender policies aimed at minority Muslim populations opens up numerous multi-disciplinary questions regarding the complexities of gender, masculinity, femininity, heteronormativity, religious identity and practice, social mobility, education, public space, privacy, systemic exclusion, racialisation, violence, resistance, migration and displacement, etc. Post-socialist transformation has brought another reconfiguration of masculinities and femininities often interpreted as a return of repressed traditional gender norms, yet crucially influenced by both the socialist past and contemporary socio-economic, political and religious factors.<\/p>\n

We are seeking articles from a range of disciplines that explore questions of gender on the individual, community and institutional level in the history, culture, and socio-political life of Muslims in socialist and post-socialist countries. The conference will have a particular focus on Muslims living as minorities. However, we are also interested in gendered analyses of Muslim majority state-socialist and post-socialist contexts.<\/p>\n

Topics addressed by the papers might include but are not limited to:
\nState policies and their gender impacts; Muslim responses to state policies and actions at the individual, community, and institutional levels; Comparisons between countries and regions, including between Muslims living in minority and majority settings; Transnational influences on gender policies and practices; Representation and media; Migration and displacement; Education policies; Changing traditions; Violence; Sexuality; Socialist modernity; Alternative modernities; Transformation of state policies and gender norms in post-socialist contexts; Gendered analyses of the resurgence of Islam in late socialism and post-socialism<\/p>\n

We intend to publish the conference contributions in a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal. Several journals are being considered at this stage, aiming for maximum impact.<\/p>\n

Deadlines:
\nAbstracts (250 words max): 1 May 2021
\nPaper Drafts: 1 October 2021
\nConference: 26-27 October 2021
\nEditorial Revisions: 5 November 2021
\nSubmission to the journal: 19 November 2021
\nby e-mail to: Dr Ivan Simi\u0107, i.simic.12@ucl.ac.uk<\/p>\n

There is no conference fee. We expect the conference to be held online due to COVID, but if we organise it in person, we might be able to offer travel grants to graduate students and non-tenured faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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