Utopías cotidianas. Revoluciones domésticas y vida en comunidad
La Casa Encendida
Encuentro con Kristen R. Ghodsee sobre experimentos relacionados con formas alternativas de convivencia, compartir nuestras propiedades o criar a la infancia.
Online via Zoom
Brooklyn College - Kristen Ghodsee in conversation with Liza Featherstone
More information to come
How the Light Gets In Festival - London
Join me in London for 2 debates and 1 stand alone event on September 23rd.
How To Academy - Kristen Ghodsee meets Angela Saini
Everyday Utopia – Radical Experiments in the Good Life
How To Academy presents... Everyday Utopia – Radical Experiments in the Good Life | Angela Saini Meets Kristen Ghodsee
Socialist Feminist Book Club with Dr. Kristen Ghodsee
Join the Socialist Feminist Working Group on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023, as they host the Socialist Feminist Book Club with special guest Dr. Krsiten Ghodsee, author of Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women.
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism Book Talk
Join us for a book talk with Kristen Ghodsee on her book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism. In her book, Ghodsee argues that socialism creates a fairer and better society for women – economic independence, better labor conditions, better work-life balances, and even better sex!
"Rozkvět nebo úpadek? Sociální bilance postkomunistických transformací"
"Rozkvět nebo úpadek? Sociální bilance postkomunistických transformací"
A book talk on Taking Stock of Shock. Event in English and Czech with simultaneous translation. 18.30 CET
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women
My first lecture on the new Verso book dropping in July 2022.
An AWP off-site reading from Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
An AWP off-site reading from Choice Words: Writers on Abortion , hosted by editor Annie Finch, in support of the Abortion Liberation Fund of PA.
A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays from Mary Wollstonecraft to Lucille Clifton, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights. These essays, poems, and prose are a testament to the profound political power of defying shame.
This event will take place at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, 128 N. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19102.
Russian History and Culture Workshop
Feb. 21: Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein (REES, UPenn): Presentation on their book Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions
Kristen Ghodsee: Measuring the Social Consequences of the End of Communism: An Overview of the Evidence from Economics, Demography, Sociology, and Anthropology
Alumni Talk at the Aleksanteri Institute in Helsinki, Finland
P&P Live! Lea Ypi — Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History - in conversation with Kristen Ghodsee
Sunday, January 23, 2022 - 3:00pm
CLICK HERE to register for this Virtual event!
A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans.
Book Talk: Taking Stock of Shock
Book Talk with Mitchell A. Orenstein for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde e.V.,
Virtual ASN Book Panel: Shock Therapy in Historical Perspective
Virtual ASN is pleased to announce its upcoming book panel, Shock Therapy in Historical Perspective. The panel will be held via Zoom on Thursday, November 11th from 1:00-2:30 PM ET (Eastern Time) / 7:00-8:30 PM CET (Central European Time).
In their new book Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions(Oxford University Press, 2021) Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein examine the results of the transition to capitalism and democracy in post-socialist Europe. They look at the impact of the transition for the inhabitants of the region in all its dimensions: political, economic, social and demographic. Was it, they ask, a “Qualified Success or Utter Catastrophe?”
In this panel they will discuss the findings of their book with Janet Johnson and Peter Rutland. Audience members will also be able to pose questions and comments.
Second World, Second Sex. Socialist Women’s Global Solidarity in the Cold War
Lecture
Wednesday, Oct 20, 2021, 7:00 PM
Kristen R. Ghodsee, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Second World, Second Sex. Socialist Women’s Global Solidarity in the Cold War
Chair: Juliane Fürst, Potsdam
Women from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe—what used to be called the Second World—once dominated women’s activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely forgotten or deemed insignificant in comparison with those of Western feminists. In this talk, Kristen Ghodsee will seek to rescue some of this lost history by tracing the activism of Eastern European and African women during the 1975 United Nations International Year of Women and the subsequent Decade for Women (1976-1985). Focusing on case studies of state socialist Bulgaria and nonaligned but socialist-leaning Zambia, she will examine the feminist networks that developed between the Second and Third Worlds and show how alliances between socialist women challenged American women’s leadership of the global women’s movement. Drawing on interviews and archival research across three continents, Ghodsee will argue that international ideological competition between capitalism and socialism profoundly shaped the world women inhabit today.
Limited seats. Registration is required: einsteinforum@einsteinforum.de