Lecture announcement poster: "Ukrainian women's creative activities as everyday resistance in the Gulag" by Oksana Kis on March 17, 2026, 14:00-16:00 at Landshuter Str. 4, R. 017, Regensburg. Features a historical photograph of two Ukrainian women prisoners of the Gulag from the 1940-1950s.
Event description explaining that Oksana Kis will lecture on women from western Ukraine imprisoned in the Gulag in the 1940s-50s for alleged collaboration with the anti-Soviet Ukrainian national underground. Despite prohibitions, they engaged in unsanctioned cultural activities including folk singing, embroidery, and celebrating Christian feasts. Shows a photograph of colorful embroidery made by Ukrainian female prisoners in the Gulag, 1940-1950s.
Speaker biography: Oksana Kis is a feminist historian and anthropologist, PhD in history/ethnology, senior scholar and Head of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine, and president of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women's History.
How did Ukrainian women in the Gulag turn singing, embroidery and poetry into acts of resistance against a system of total control? Oksana Kis will discuss this on March 17 in Regensburg. The event is co-organized by Think Space Ukraine and #LeibnizIOS.
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