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The Prague Branch of the German Historical Institute Warsaw (part of the Max Weber Foundation), together with Collegium Carolinum and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), in cooperation with the Czech Academy of Sciences through the joint Czech-German Research and Mediation Platform (GWZOPragueFLÚ) at its Institute of Philosophy, invites you to a public lecture hosted by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.The lecture is part of the Prague Histories Forum, a public lecture series bringing international scholars into dialogue with students, researchers, and the wider public. The winter semester 2026/27 program explores Gender & Queer in East Central Europe.
FEMINIST POLITICAL THOUGHT IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: FEMINISM AND MARXISM IN SOCIALIST HUNGARY AND SELF-MANAGING YUGOSLAVIA
Zsófia Lóránd (University of Vienna)
How did feminist thinkers engage with Marxism and challenge the persistence of patriarchal relations within socialist societies? Zsófia Lóránd examines the often adversarial yet mutually transformative exchanges between feminism and socialism in East Central Europe.
Focusing on socialist Hungary and self-managing Yugoslavia, the lecture traces the connections between Marxist revisionism and emerging feminist critiques from the 1970s onwards. It considers Yugoslav interpretations of Ágnes Heller’s work alongside the writings of Nada Ler Sofronić, Blaženka Despot, and Nadežda Čačinovič. These intellectual exchanges offer new perspectives on the relationship between class and gender, the limits of state-sponsored emancipation, and Heller’s early thinking on women and the family.
Zsófia Lóránd is an Associate Professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and is affiliated with the Research Center for the History of Political Transformations (RECET). She is the author of The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia and Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project HERESSEE on feminist political thought and women’s rights in East Central Europe.
Tuesday, 10 November 2026 | 15:50–17:20 CET
Špork Palace, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Hybernská 3, Prague 1 | Room 303, attic floor
The lecture will be held in English. Students, researchers, and members of the public are welcome to attend in person or online.
For information on online participation, please visit the Prague Histories Forum webpage: https://www.dhi.waw.pl/en/news/detail/prague-histories-forum-gender-and-queer-history-in-east-central-europe/
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