Jessica Zychowicz from the University of Alberta, will present a lecture entitled "The Unknown, Uncut Story of Your Feminist Friends You Haven't Met,"  at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, in JBHT 216. The lecture is being hosted by the Gender Studies Program and the Russian Program. It is free and open to the public.

Zychowicz is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta in the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Most recently, she was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar (2017-2018) based at Kyiv (Kiev)-Mohyla University teaching visual culture while researching the cultural history of computing technology in Kyiv (Kiev).

Her  ongoing research seeks a better understanding of the development of oppositional movements in the framework of revolution, theories of democracy, and the linkages and shifts between feminism, nationalism, and globalism. She believes creative outpourings by feminist artists of Kyiv's emerging generation can offer us a rare glimpse into the everyday realities of women's lives in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Putin and Trump eras. Audiences are invited to engage vocabularies for human rights in the context of over a decade of Zychowicz's firsthand observations, interviews, and participatory collaborations with feminist activists and art collectives in Kyiv.  

She also draws on literature, film, dissident manifestos, performances, art exhibits, news media, and official documents,seeking better understanding of the development of oppositional movements in the framework of revolution, theories of democracy, and the linkages and shifts between feminism, nationalism, and globalism. 

Zychowicz is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta in the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Most recently, she was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar (2017-2018) based at Kiev-Mohyla University teaching visual culture while researching the cultural history of computing technology in Kiev.

Her first monograph, Superfluous Women: Feminism, Art, and Revolution in 21st Century Ukraine is in progress at the University of Toronto Press. She is co-editing a series at the academic journal Krytyka on questions of race and postcolonialism. 

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