The Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies presents: |
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A Conversation on the
Feminist Anti-War Resistance
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Monday, April 24, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Virtual Event:
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The Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAR), a non-hierarchical network of Russian speakers opposing Russia’s war on Ukraine, was founded on February 25, 2022, the day after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. FAR quickly grew to become one of the most visible organizations opposing Russia’s war. At this event, Valerie Sperling (Clark University) will interview Ella Rossman (University College London), one of the co-founders of FAR, about FAR’s anti-war activism. Topics will include the network's efforts to amplify Ukrainian voices and educate the Russian public about the realities of Russia’s war on Ukraine, and the challenges that FAR faces as an activist organization operating in Russia’s authoritarian political environment. |
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Ella Rossman is a doctoral student at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and a feminist activist who co-organized the Feminist Anti-War Resistance group, protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ella participated in Russian independent education and gender studies initiatives, like Free University Moscow and AntiUniversity Moscow. Her research is now focused on late-Soviet girlhood; she is also interested in the history of gender studies and feminism in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Ella's articles have been published in academic journals Ab Imperio, History of Science and Humanities and New Perspectives. As a columnist, she has written for openDemocracy, Meduza, Novaya Gazeta, Riddle and others.
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Dr. Valerie Sperling is Professor of Political Science at Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts). Her research interests lie mainly at the intersection of Russian politics and gender studies. She is the author of Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and the award-winning Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia (Oxford University Press, 2015). She and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom (with Melike Sayoglu) are co-authors of Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019). Her most recent book, co-authored with her Clark colleague, Robert Boatright, is Trumping Politics as Usual: Masculinity, Misogyny, and the 2016 Elections (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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Moderator
Dr. Marlene Laruelle is a Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES). At IERES, she is also Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program, Co-Director of PONARS (Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia), and Director of GW's Central Asia Program. She teaches courses in Populism & Illiberalism, the Rise of the Far Right, Politics of the Post-Soviet Space, Nationalism and Nationbuilding in Eurasia, and Central Asian Politics, and leads the Democracy Studies specialization of the MA in International Affairs. Dr. Laruelle received her Ph.D. in history at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures and her habilitation in political science at Sciences-Po in Paris. She is Senior Associate Scholar at the French Institute for International Relations.
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This event is on record and open to the media. |
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The Russia Program at GW condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine and calls for the restoration of Ukraine's sovereignty. |
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The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW / Suite 412 / Washington, DC 20052
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