Gender studies departments / centers / programs of the 5 partner universities cooperate to support Ukrainian universities and Ukrainian scholars in developing and maintaining an international academic network of Gender Studies scholars, in order to:
- facilitate the exchange of resources for teaching and research;
- implement gender-sensitive approaches in teaching, research, and management of the universities;
- strengthen the integration of Ukrainian gender scholars into the international community.
The project also envisions supporting Ukrainian universities in developing gender equality strategies and action plans – through the exchange and discussion of best practices.
Partner Universities
- Lund University (LU), Lund, Sweden
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK), Kyiv, Ukraine
- Ilia State University (ISU), Tbilisi, Georgia
- V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (KhNU), Kharkiv, Ukraine
- European Humanities University (EHU), Vilnius, Lithuania
with the support from the Swedish Institute.
The project partners are developing an online course to be offered to students of all partner universities: Rethinking Gender, War, and Peace in XXIst Century: Ukraine in Comparative Perspective;
Over the period from November 2023 to March 2024, an international team of about 15 scholars will deliver lectures on topics such as gender and war, militarism, nationalism, violence, forced migration, feminist solidarity in times of war, Europeanization and geopolitics practices of resilience and resistance, etc.
Registration for the online course is available here.
Course participants will receive certificates from Lund University (top 100 universities in the world according to QS).
The lectures will be recorded and posted on the project website, to be available to all interested persons after the completion of the project.
This project is a component of the implementation of the gender strategy of the Karazin University and is aimed at ensuring equal rights and opportunities for all, preventing and countering any discrimination, which is the basis for overcoming the consequences of military actions and the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.