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SUMMARY:Book Talk “Under Authoritarian Eyes: Feminist Solidarity and Resistance in Russia and Serbia” 
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk “Under Authoritarian Eyes: Feminist Solidarity and Resistance in Russia and Serbia” \nAbstract\nLeandra will present and discuss her recent book “Under Authoritarian Eyes”. Theories of transnational feminism often frame feminist knowledge as a project of Western hegemony to move ideas unilaterally from the “emancipated” West to other parts of the world. How does this framework resonate with feminists in times of authoritarianism? \nIn Under Authoritarian Eyes\, Leandra revisits long-held assumptions of West-East power to understand how power relations influence feminists’ lived reality in authoritarian times. She argues that the focus on transnational power relations within critical feminist scholarship has overshadowed another emerging aspect of power: the rise of authoritarianism in post-communist Europe\, the gender backlash on which it thrives\, and\, consequently\, the risk of co-optability that accompanies it. With a focus on Russia and Serbia\, Leandra finds that in authoritarian contexts\, feminists often reject the view of transnational feminism as merely an extension of Western dominance. In fact\, they argue that this view mirrors the rhetoric of their regimes\, which claim feminism and “gender ideology” are Western strategies to destroy “traditional values” and undermine national sovereignty. In highlighting these dynamics\, Leandra centers domestic over transnational power dynamics to illustrate how arguments that were formulated with an emancipatory aim can contribute to the subjugation of feminists across different political contexts. \nDrawing on over seventy interviews with four generations of feminist activists and scholars in Russia and Serbia\, Leandra offers a nuanced perspective on feminist agency\, revealing how feminists innovate resistance and subversive approaches without reinforcing authoritarian narratives. By emphasizing the importance of solidarity\, shared experience\, and mutual support across borders and regimes\, Under Authoritarian Eyes fundamentally reshapes the discourse on transnational feminism with important implications for democracy and human rights more broadly.  \nBio\nLeandra Bias is a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellow at the University of Fribourg. Her research studies how gender\, (de-)democratization\, and political violence interact with each other. Regionally\, Leandra specialises in former communist Europe. She is the recipient of the European Consortium for Political Research 2023 Joni Lovenduski PhD Prize\, and her active engagement in science communication was recognised with the 2022 Young Scholar Award by the Walter Benjamin Kolleg. 
URL:https://brias.be/index.php/event/research-seminar-with-leandra-bias/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:BrIAS Seminars – Naomi Oreskes
DESCRIPTION:Register here\nOrganising resistance in Science or: how present politics work to prefigure the collapse of western civilization\nAbstract\nOreskes – historian of (climate and environmental) science – speculated in a 2014 essay (with Erik Conway) (“The collapse of western civilization. A view from Future” Columbia University Press) how scientists in the far future (in 2393) could look at our collective failure to act against climate and ecological crises\, and how our elites provoked the Great Collapse. During the seminar\, Oreskes will look at the current dynamics in the US around climate science\, helping us to gain insights how a science-based priority policy objective became a source of strong political interference\, how science funding and wording were deliberately collapsed\, how scientific missions\, data series and careers were interrupted. She will allow us to get a climpse at the way Science is resisting\, or preparing for the aftermaths. Her contribution is to be seen in line with the public lectures given the last 3 months at the ULB by Salomé Saqué (“Extrême-Droite\, écocide et résistances!”) and Prof. Mark Bray (“Fascism and Anti-fashism in Trump’s US”).\nBio\nHenry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science\nAffiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences\nHarvard University (https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/naomi-oreskes)\nDoctor Honoris Causa ULB (2023) (https://sciences.ulb.be/portraits/scientific-woman-of-the-week-naomi-oreskes)\nVolvo Environment Prize (2025)
URL:https://brias.be/index.php/event/brias-seminars-naomi-oreskes/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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