A series of meetings on the history of the institutionalization of gender studies and feminism in the post-Soviet space with the "participants" of these events. We talk about the experience of participation in the institutionalization of gender organizations, professional and friendly transnational ties, relations between gender studies and feminism, (utopian) ideas then and now.

- The first meeting on May 22 was attended by Almira Usmanova (European Humanities University, Lithuania) and Elena Gapova (Western Michigan University, USA) - the founder of the Center for Gender Studies at YSU, compiler of the Anthology of Gender Theory (Minsk, 2000).
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- On May 29 we talked with Elena Zdravomyslova, a sociologist, head of gender studies at the European University at St. Petersburg, and compiler (together with Anna Temkina) of the "Reader of Feminist Texts" (St. Petersburg, 2000).
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- On June 5 Olga Shnyrova, the founder of the Ivanovo Center for Gender Studies (1996), was with us.
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- On June 12 we talked with Olga Lipovskaya, poet, editor of the samizdat “Women's Reading” (1989-1991), head of the St. Petersburg Center for Gender Issues (1992).
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- On June 19, we met with Tatiana Isaeva, the creator of the magazine about gender and feminism "I" (2003) and the founder of the Center for Gender Culture in Kharkov.
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- On June 26, Olga Voronina was with us. Olga has been involved in feminist and gender studies since the early 1980s. She participated in the feminist group LOTUS (1988-1991). Head of the Moscow Center for Gender Studies (1995-2012). Currently, she is a leading researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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- On July 4 there was a meeting with Olgerta Kharitonova, the creator and editor of the "Ostrov" samizdat-magazine created in 1999. The magazine's materials consisted of "texts written by lesbians themselves, texts for lesbians and texts covering the life of the LGBT community as a whole." Also known as a prose writer and publicist under the pseudonym Olga Gert.
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- On July 10 we talked with Valentina Uspenskaya, a gender historian, co-director of the First Russian Summer School for Women and Gender Studies (1996, Valdai), director of the Center for Women's History and Gender Studies at Tver State University (1999).
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- On July 17 a meeting was held with Irina Tartakovskaya, a senior researcher at the Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, candidate of sociological sciences. Irina has been engaged in gender studies since the mid-90s. She took part in the organization of about 10 summer schools on gender issues.
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- On July 24, Alla Mitrofanova, a philosopher, one of the founders of the Cyberfeminist Club (1995, St. Petersburg) and the Cyberfeminist International (1997), gave a lecture on post-Soviet gender studies in the 1990s and today.
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