Invasion of Ukraine and the Geopolitics of Gender
- October 19, 2023
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 CST
- Damen Student Center, Sister Jean MPR North
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College of Arts and Sciences
Tony Pena, apena6@luc.edu - Free
- Open to the public.
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Join the Women's Studies and Gender Studies program for *The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Geopolitics of Gender,* the October edition of the College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Lecture Series 2023 - 2024: Understanding Violence from an Interdisciplinary Perspective.
Cinzia Solari, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts Boston will explore how Russia seeks to redefine itself in opposition to its former Soviet state policies that supported women¿s liberation by creating an oppositional idea of modernity, placing the focus on men and re-masculinization. Within the past decade, other nations across the world have followed suit in embracing this oppositional view of gender identity and sexuality: Belarus, Brazil, India, the Philippines, Turkey, and even factions within the United States. The invasion of Ukraine and its subsequent violence has allowed Putin to position Russia as the leader of this transnational modernity of manliness ideal by forcefully keeping Ukraine out of Europe and within its repressive control.
