Event Host: The Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
The Center for Slavic and East European Studies will be hosting a lecture for scholars and Feminist Critique editor-in-chiefs Maria Mayerchyk and Olga Plakhotnik, titled "Feminist Protest in Post-Maidan Ukraine: Between 'Nation Time' and 'Feminist Time'."
Dr. Maria Mayerchyk is a senior researcher at from the Institute of Ethnology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. With a Ph.D in History, Dr. Mayerchyk's main interests are in anthropology and the history of sexuality, history of ideas, ethnology, and modern feminist and LGBTIC movements in Ukraine. She teaches author training courses throughout the year on feminist theory and constructivist theories of sexuality and gender. She has also published several academic articles, such as "The invention of 'sexuality': capitalism, nationalism and the production of ethnographic knowledge at the end of the XIX - early XX century" and Ukrainian Feminism at the Crossroad of National, Postcolonial, and (Post) Soviet: Theorizing the Maidan Events."
Olga Plakhotnik is a doctoral research student of Psychology from The Open University. Her primary research interests include feminist studies and queer theorizing. Olga studies narratives of LGBT+ communities in Ukraine through concepts of citizenship, epistemologies and knowledge economies, and feminist and LGBT+ activism in Ukraine and in general post-socialist socities. She has authored several reviews and articles, including "Gender Policy and Education in Contemporary Ukraine" and "Non-heterosexual families in Ukraine: to keep silence- to talk- to hope?"
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