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The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab, in collaboration with the Postgraduate Program in Human Rights and Migration Studies, as part of the lecture series “Our Distant Neighbors” and the course “Comparative Issues in Gender and Cultural Diversity,” invites you to the lecture by Rumena Bužarovska, Associate Professor of American Literature, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia,

on the topic: “The Feminist Movement in North Macedonia”

The online event will take place on Monday, March 22, 2021, at 18:30, at the link https://zoom.us/my/bsas2

The session will be moderated by Fotini Tsibiridou, Professor of Social Anthropology, Chair of the BSO Department at the University of Macedonia, and Director of the Laboratory.

Abstract
This lecture aims to provide an overview of the general feminist movement in North Macedonia, focusing on the 1991 period, after independence from Yugoslavia. It focuses on the following questions: how have policies regarding gender equality changed during this time, and to what extent were they affected by feminist organizations? What role did the government play in reducing or promoting the rights of women on a state level? What effect did the local equivalent of the #metoo movement (#segakazhuvam) have on raising awareness and changing policies? 

Bio
Rumena Bužarovska (1981, Skopje, North Macedonia) has authored four short story collections and a study on humor in contemporary American and Macedonian short fiction. Her short story collections have been published in the USA, Germany, Hungary, Italy and all the countries of the former Yugoslavia, and her stories have appeared in magazines such as The Southern Review, Electric Literature and Wespennest. She is also a literary translator from English into Macedonian (Lewis Carroll, Truman Capote, J.M. Coetzee, Flannery O’Connor, Iain Reid). In 2016 she was selected as one of the Ten New Voices of Europe by Literary Europe Live platform within Literature Across Frontiers, she is the 2017 winner of the regional Edo Budiša prize awarded by the Istria County in Croatia, and is the recipient of the 2018 Fall Residency at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She is co-initiator and co-organizer of the PeachPreach women’s storytelling event in Macedonia and associate professor of American literature at the State University in Skopje.  

The Language and Literature Study Club, in collaboration with the Borders Study Club and the Ethnography Club of the Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab, presents the lecture series “Our Distant Neighbors.”

They are hosting Gazmend Kapllani, Director of the Albanian Program Hidai “Eddie” Bregu at DePaul University in Chicago, who will give a lecture on his writing experience.

The online event will take place on Friday, March 12, 2021, at 6:30 PM, via the link https://zoom.us/my/bsas9

Dimitris Kargiotis, Professor of Comparative Philology (University of Ioannina), and Elina Kapetanaki, Social Anthropologist, Postdoctoral Researcher (Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia), will discuss Kapllani’s work.

The event will be moderated by Alexandra Ioannidou, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Slavic Literatures and Slavic Culture (University of Macedonia).

Language of the event: Greek

The Language and Literature Study Club of the Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab, as part of the lecture series “Our Distant Neighbors” and in collaboration with the Decolonize Hellas initiative,
invites you on Monday, March 1, 2021, at 19:00, at the link https://zoom.us/my/bsas9 to the presentation and discussion of Dimitris Psarras’ book, Πώς συλλογάται ο Ρήγας; Επιστροφή στις πηγές.

Τhe author will be in conversation with historians: Nikos Sigalas and Tasos Kostopoulos.

The session will be moderated by Alexandra Ioannidou, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Slavic Literatures and Slavic Culture (Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia).

From the Decolonize Hellas initiative, Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Relations (American University of Beirut), and Fotini Tsibiridou, Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory (Chair of the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia), will also contribute.

Language of the event: Greek