This recording of the event features Dr. Ghodsee's talk followed by an audience Q&A moderated by Dr. Megan Williams (she/her), Deputy Director of the Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity genres.
Kristen R. Ghodsee is Professor of Russian and East European Studies and a member of the Anthropology Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania. Her articles and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages and have appeared in publications such as The New Republic, The Lancet, Ms. Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She is also the author of nine books, including most recently: Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War (Duke University Press, 2019) and Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence. (Bold Type Books, 2018 and 2020), which already has thirteen international editions. His latest book is Taking Stock of the Shock: Social Impacts of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, co-authored with Mitchell A. Orenstein and forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Ghodsee has held visiting fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki in Finland and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Freiburg in Germany. She also received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in anthropology and cultural studies. Additionally, she hosts /"AK 47/", a podcast based on the work of socialist activist Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952).
To follow Dr. Ghodsee’s work, please visit: https://kristenghodsee.com/
This event was co-sponsored by KU Students United for Reproduction and Gender Equity and the International Association of Women.
For more information about the KU Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, please visit: http://crees.ku.edu/
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