On December 5 and December 6, 2024, the University of Vienna hosted two workshops around the recently published volume Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights: East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century (edited by Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, CEU Press, 2024, open access). The volume is a collection of over 100 sources from the region, translated into English for the first time, with short biographies of the authors and contextualizations of the texts.
The first workshop explored, together with invited speakers Dietlind Hüchtker and Jasmina Lukić the ways in which the volume contributes to women’s history and the history of feminist political thought in East Central Europe. It touched on a number of ways in which research, teaching, and methodological and theoretical approaches can draw on the material as well as the editorial experience of Texts and Contexts.
The second workshop, with Johanna Gehmacher and Balázs Trencsényi, asked how Texts and Contexts can be used in teaching, not just in formal education but also beyond academia.