Die Dubravka-Ugrešić-Vorlesungsreihe ist dem Andenken an die Schriftstellerin und Denkerin Dubravka Ugrešić aus dem ehemaligen Jugoslawien gewidmet, die im Frühjahr 2023 verstorben ist. Sie war eine Intellektuelle und eine Autorin von besonderem Charisma, Mut und Gerechtigkeitssinn, deren literarisches Werk nicht nur als Kunst von Bedeutung ist, sondern auch als Ausdruck kreativen politischen Denkens und als Vorbild für die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Intellektuellen im besten arendtschen Sinne.

Mit der Vorlesungsreihe möchten wir Dubravka und ihr Werk würdigen, indem wir wissenschaftliche und künstlerische Arbeiten von und über Frauen in Ost- und Mitteleuropa sichtbar machen.

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• 11. Oktober 2023, 17:00 Uhr
  Aula am Campus, Altes AKH, Hof 1, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien
  
  Rada Iveković: Radical Togetherness and Non-Binarism for Caring, Sharing and Survival
  
  In this paper, I understand the gender and cold war binaries as one and the same system of binaries. I noticed the erasure of alternatives, projects, narratives, translations and languages through a dichotomy dialectics, especially after 1989. One of the many agents of erasure is universalism: in many cases, what we get through the universalisation of a dichotomic nationalist paradigm relying on misogyny, is only the overinflated provincializing of the said nationalism. Whatever comes as the carrier or a representative of patriarchal hegemony, is the overinflating provincializing of historically dominant masculinity, usually bound to nationalism. This happens in a world where accepted and generalised gender discrimination is constitutive of the general non-egalitarian system of nation states, and is proposed as a pattern sustaining all other inequalities and injustices. This must stop, not only for the sake of women.
  
  Rada Iveković is a philosopher living and working in Paris. She taught philosophy at universities in Yugoslavia and France, and was visiting professor at many other universities round the world and across several continents. She attends conferences and publishes within feminist theory, political philosophy, Asian and western philosophies, on such topics as the nation, citizenship, sex and gender, migrations, and many others. Her latest two books: Politiques de la traduction. Exercices de partage (TERRA-HN, 2019) and Migration, New Nationalisms and Populism. An Epistemological Perspective on the Closure of Rich Countries (Birkbeck Law Press, Routledge 2022).
  
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• 11. April 2024, 17:00 Uhr
  Sky Lounge, University of Vienna, Oskar Morgenstern Platz 1, 1090 Vienna (12th floor)
  
  Lea Ypi: Dignity and Historical Injustice: An Albanian family‘s history
  
  Lea Ypi will be working on her new book project, titled Indignity, which is under contract with Penguin Press. The book will follow the journey of a woman from Ottoman Salonica to a life under surveillance in post-war Communist Albania. The book explores the moral and political meanings of dignity, individual and collective, in connection to questions of truth and reconciliation, historical injustice and the relationship between fact and fiction.
  
  Lea Ypi is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is the author of Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, The Meaning of Partisanship (with Jonathan White), and The Architectonic of Reason, all published by Oxford University Press. Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitled Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, published by Penguin Press in the UK and W.W. Norton & Company in North America, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize and is being translated in thirty languages. Her academic work has been recognised with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and the Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She coedits the journal Political Philosophy and occasionally writes for The Guardian and Financial Times.
  
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• 14. April 2026, 17:30 Uhr
  Marietta-Blau-Saal, University of Vienna, Main Building, 1010 Wien, Universitätsring 1, Stiege (staircase) 10, Hochparterre (HP) Floor
  
  Adriana Zaharijević: Reclaiming Post-Socialist Feminism?
  
  What epistemological and affective tools are available to feminists who were born and live in any part of what was once Eastern Europe during the Cold War? To describe these tools, Adriana Zaharijević will revisit four main debates within Eastern European feminism in her talk: East/West debate, the debate on post-socialism and postcolonialism, the debate on history, and the recognition/redistribution debate. These debates are set within the broader context of Eastern Europe’s return to and subsequent departure from the West, and the assumptions and the stakes involved are delineated. Adriana Zaharijević’s major claim is that our tools are built on erasures. The talk will argue for a self-conscious post-socialist feminism, for the development of conceptual tools to help us better understand where we stand – and even more importantly, where we want to stand.
  
  Adriana Zaharijević is a Principal Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Her work combines political philosophy, feminist theory and social history. She is the author of four monographs (in Serbian) Becoming a Woman (2010), Who Is an Individual? (2014, 2019), Life of Bodies (2020), and Judith Butler and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). She published in East European Politics and Societies, European Journal of Women Studies, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Redescriptions, Signs, Social Politics, and Women’s Studies International Forum. Her texts have been translated into Albanian, Bulgarian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Turkish and Ukrainian. She has actively translated feminist theory and philosophy into Serbian for two decades. She writes short pieces for a wider public, in which she tackles social inequalities, antinationalism and antimilitarism. Adriana is the 2022 Emma Goldman Snowball awardee. 
  
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• 13. Mai 2026, 17:30 Uhr
  Marietta-Blau-Saal, University of Vienna, Main Building, 1010 Wien, Universitätsring 1, Stiege (staircase) 10, Hochparterre (HP) floor
  
  Angéla Kóczé: At the Edge of Europe: Romani Women, Structural Exclusion, and Resistance
  
  This public draws on the forthcoming book, Romani Women at the Edge of Neoliberal Europe: Discursive Emancipation and Structural Violence, to examine the contradictory position of Romani women in post-socialist Europe within the intersecting frameworks of racialized neoliberal capitalism, gendered exclusion, and European governance. Drawing on more than two decades of research and political engagement, it explores how Romani women have been addressed through the languages of empowerment, inclusion, and rights while continuing to experience profound structural violence, dispossession, and marginalization. Focusing on both political activism and everyday life, the lecture traces the emergence of Romani women’s agency across local and transnational contexts. It considers how Romani women have negotiated the tensions between feminist politics, Roma rights advocacy, and development agendas, while confronting the limits of liberal inclusion and the depoliticizing effects of NGO-ization. Particular attention is given to the ways in which discourses of emancipation often coexist with, and sometimes obscure, enduring racialized, gendered, and classed inequalities. By bringing Romani feminist thought into conversation with intersectionality, racial capitalism, and critiques of Europeanization, the lecture argues that Romani women’s experiences provide a crucial lens for understanding the broader contradictions of democracy, social justice, and belonging in contemporary Europe.
  
  Angéla Kóczé is Associate Professor, Chair of Romani Studies, and Academic Director of the Roma Graduate Preparation Program at Central European University in Budapest and Vienna. Her work focuses on gendered and classed racialization, social justice, and civil society. She is the co-editor of The Romani Women’s Movement: Struggles and Debates in Central and Eastern Europe and The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe. Her monograph, Romani Women at the Edge of Neoliberal Europe: Discursive Emancipation and Structural Violence, will be published in July 2026 by Manchester University Press.
  
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