The Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna invites to its regular Transformative Salon on March 5, 2026 at 7 PM, this time with Yulia Gradskova (Södertörn University).
Venue: Café Merkur, Florianigasse 18, 1080 Vienna.
Was it possible for women positioned at the peripheries of the Cold War to influence it? Could they engage in international politics and further the interests of women at large? This Transformative Salon is an attempt of explore mainly forgotten women's gatherings in cities like Tashkent or Havana during 1960s-1980s. While the "togetherness" of those women who were coming to international conferences, seminars or courses in these cities can be seen as unproblematic, women's gatherings partially succeeded in transforming both these places and women involved in this transnational connectivity.
The talk will be followed by a public discussion.
Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor in History, Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research interests include postsocialist gender history, transnational history and women’s internationalism during the Cold War as well as decolonial perspective on Soviet politics of emancipation of “woman of the East”.
The event will be recorded and uploaded to RECET's YouTube channel
FREE ENTRY! No registration required!
This event is organized in cooperation with the ERC Project HERESSEE.
