Congreso Internacional "Hybrid Workshop Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)."

Fri, 27-02-2026; 09:00 hasta Fri, 27-02-2026; 17:00
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El investigador Manuel Ramírez Chicharro (IH-CSIC) presentará el próximo 27 de febrero de 2026 la ponencia titulada “The emergence of radical feminism in Cuba: the Third National Women's Congress (1939) and the Constituent Convention (1940)” en este congreso internacional.

Coordinadora: Daria Dyakonova  

Organizado por: Daria Dyakonova (Univ. de La  Sapienza, Roma) y Maud Anne Bracke (Universidad de Glasgow).  

Contacto: daria.dyakonova@uniroma1.it

Programa

9:00-9:30:    Welcome & coffee

9:30-10:00:  Opening remarks

10: 00 - 11:30:  Panel 1: Motherhood, Labor, and Mobility in the Late Colonial World (1918–1939)

Chair and discussant: Dr. Christine Whyte, University of Glasgow

  • Dr. Delzar Sadiq, Salahaddin University-Erbil: Gendered Foundations of a Proto-State: Motherhood, Poverty, and Women's Labor in Southern Kurdistan (1918-1939)

  • Dr. Henry Dee, Northumbria University: Trade unions, women workers and the politics of migration in urban South Africa, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, 1919-1939

  • Sara Shabab Arab, Geneva Graduate Institute: Mothers on the Move: Mahar Women, Caste Discrimination and City Life in Late Colonial India

11:30-13:00 Lunch

13:00- 14:30 : Panel 2: Communism, Motherhood, and Reproductive Rights

Chair and discussant: Prof. Maud Bracke, University of Glasgow

  • Dr. Anne McShane, independent: Abortion and a right to choose in 1920s Soviet Union

  • Dr. Daria Dyakonova: "Fight for humane care of mothers and children!": Communist Women and Reproductive Autonomy, 1920-1936

  • Minja Bujankovich, EUI: Motherhood and Anti-Fascist Struggles: The Communist Women’s Movement’s Analysis and Opposition to Fascist Reproductive Politics

14:30-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00- 16: 45 Panel 3: Feminism, Women’s Rights, and Social Motherhood

Chair and discussant: Dr. Henry Dee

  • Dr. Anna Krylova, Duke University: Alexandra Kollontai, Social Motherhood, and the Long Bolshevik Revolution 

  • Christine Taylor, Indiana University: Setting Out Her Own Shingle: Catharine Waugh McCulloch and the Fight for Women’s Rights in the Public and Private Spheres of Chicago, 1890-1920

  • Dr. Alexa Rae Burk, Geneva Graduate Institute: Mexicanista Feminism: Proto Welfare Political Organizing in Texas Before the Welfare State, 1910-1930

  • Dr. Manuel Ramírez Chicharro, Institute of History - Spanish National Research Council: “The emergence of radical feminism in Cuba: the Third National Women's Congress (1939) and the Constituent Convention (1940).”

17:00 Keynote : Prof. Eileen Boris, University of California Santa Barbara, “Regulating Women’s Labors: Cultures of Protection, Womanly Duties, and the Wages of Care.”

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Estudios Comparados del Caribe y Mundo Atlántico