News and Events

News and upcoming events

Book presentation of "The Strongest Link: An Oral History of Wartime Rape Survivors in Kosovo"

19 May 2026

6:30 pm

At the Contemporary History Library of the University of Vienna

CfP: Subverting Hierarchies through Women’s Intellectual History in Eastern Europe in the Long Twentieth Century

For a special journal issue to be submitted to History of European Ideas

Editors: Isidora Grubački (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana),…

Excellence in Science Award 2025 by ARIS

The book "Texts and Context from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights: East Central Europe, the Second Part of the Twentieth Century" (CEU…

Past events

Lecture of the Dubravka Ugrešić Lecture Series

Angéla Kóczé: At the Edge of Europe: Romani Women, Structural Exclusion, and Resistance

13 May 2026, 5:30 p.m.

Venue: Marietta-Blau-Saal, University…

Lecture of the Dubravka Ugrešić Lecture Series

Adriana Zaharijević | Reclaiming Post-Socialist Feminism?

14 April 2026, 17:30 | Venue: Marietta-Blau-Saal, University of Vienna, Main…

HERESSEE at BASEES

Roundtable - Feminist Political Thought and Women's Rights Discourses in East Central Europe in the 20th Century

11. April 2026

University of…

Book presentation: Women's Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond

March 12, 2026, 6:30 PM

Library of the Vienna Chamber of Labour

Prinz-Eugen-Strasse 20–22

1040 Vienna

Book presentation with authors, with a…

Workshop, Book Presentation & Discussion with Editors and Authors of ‘Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women's Rights’

4 December 2025

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Graz University

Universitätsstraße 15

SZ 15.22, Resowi-Zentrum

HERESSEE at ASEEES 2025: Political Thought, Memory, and Biographies from Women’s Intellectual History in East Central Europe

Panel at ASEEES Annual Convention 2025 in Washington D.C.

Saturday, 22 November 2025

12:00–1:45 pm

Conference: "Left-Wing Women's Activism and Organizing in the Twentieth Century"

Sapienza Università di Roma | Rome, Italy | 20 & 21 February 2025

Book Launch "Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights. East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century"

December 5th, 2024

Organizer: RECET | Transformative Salon

Café Merkur

Florianigasse 18, 1080 Vienna

Workshops: Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights. East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century

5th December 2024, Thursday

13.30 – 16.00 Workshop: Women’s History and the History of Feminist Political Thought in East Central Europe – Sources,…