Gender, Race and Religion in Modern Eastern Europe - AVES01143

• Title: Gender, Race and Religion in Modern Eastern Europe
• Guaranteed by: Institute of East European Studies (21-UVES)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (30)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: yes
• Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / 30
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: distance
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Ivan Simic, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Ivan Simic, Ph.D.

Annotation

Title : Gender, Race and Religion in Modern Eastern Europe
• Faculty, department : UVES
• Language of instruction : English
• Flagship and/or transversal skills : Flagship 2, Europe in a changing world: understanding and engaging societies, economies, cultures, and languages; skills Critical thinking and social engagement
• Capacity : 30 students
• Examination : final paper
• Virtual mobility : yes, fully online via ZOOM+Moodle
• How the course will be taught (weekly, every second week…) and the starting date : Tuesday, 1 October



Full description and link to moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=16524



Course description:

Throughout the course, students will critically examine sources and literature on some of the crucial issues that marked the gender history of Eastern Europe in the 20th century. We will observe gender history from a transnational perspective, analyzing it through its intersections with race and religion. We will bring together different regions and explore topics such as interwar feminist movements, the Second World War and its impacts, communist revolutions and gender policies, queer cultures, the collapse of socialism, and post-socialist gender policies. The focus will be on the movement of ideas and people, asking questions about how gender informed broader policies and social interventions, and how understandings of gender and sexuality changed during the 20th century. By investigating these far-reaching questions, we will aim to uncover the lives of ordinary people, discussing their agency and the shared gendered experiences across the region.

Students will be marked by their participation, presentation, book review and final essay.

Class Participation and discussion questions: 20%
Presentation: 10%
Book Review: 20%
Final Paper (2000 words +-10%): 50%


Students will engage with primary sources translated into English, watch films, analyse posters and other visual materials, and discuss the most relevant academic literature. All readings are in English and uploaded to the moodle page.


Tentative lecture and seminar subjects:

1. Introduction to Gender History
2. The Bolshevik Revolution and Early Soviet Period
3. The Interwar Feminisms in Eastern Europe
4. Stalinist Gender Policies – The Great Retreat?
5. Race and Gender in The Soviet Union
6. The Second World War – Race, Gender and New Women Politicians
7. New Family Policies
8. Gender and Religion
9. Socialist State and the Romani Populations
10. Gender, Race, Religion and Muslim Populations
11. Gender and Choice in Poland and Czechoslovakia
12. Postsocialism and Anti-genderism

Last update: Simic Ivan, Ph.D. (11.09.2024)

Requisites for virtual mobility

Knowledge of English and access to the link for online courses.

Last update: Štoll Pavel, Mgr., Ph.D. (07.09.2024)