RESEARCH OF HERITAGE AND IMPORTANCE OF WOMEN SCHOLARS IN SERBIA: METHODS AND APPROACHES

Webinar with the title “Research of heritage and importance of women scholars in Serbia: methods and approaches” is going to be held during October, November and December 2021, in the frame of the project “Heritage and Importance of Women Scholars in Serbia” (Institute of Ethnography SASA /UNESCO Participation Program).  This webinar is primarily aimed at the students of graduate studies. 

Previous research has shown the following: that in the past there were differences in the career paths of men and women scholars and scientists; that men were noticeably better represented and predominant in academia, and thus they received more public attention and more favorable emphasis was placed on their achievements. These are the specific conditions in which the academic path of women and their careers developed. This gap is especially pronounced in certain social and political periods. Some of these problems are still present today, and the attitude towards historical heritage affects the modern understanding of the position of women scholars and scientists in society, as well as the visibility and perception of their contributions. This is why it is necessary to present the historical heritage and endeavors of women scholars and scientists and promote them as much as possible through educational programs, thereby expanding knowledge and encouraging interest in the scholarly and scientific work of women in society.

The Webinar is going to offer insight into different methodologies for the research of the contributions of women scholars in the past, as well as the methods for collecting information about contemporary women scholars. Although, above all the perspective is historical, the approach is going to be interdisciplinary, with the aim to offer not only methodological tools, but also to present personal experiences of the women researchers, as well as their dilemmas.  Practically, it means that the webinar is meant to be used as a help to students of the PhD studies to do researches related to saving from oblivion those women who gave contribution to science and humanities, in spite of all the obstacles that they were facing during their careers. The aim of the webinar is the invention of  strategies to keep achieved knowledge and impetus to join similar researches. 

Webinar is held via zoom application. 

PROGRAM:

WEDENSDAY  20th October

 9.30 – 10. 15 Lada Stevanović, Miroslava Lukić Krstanović, Mladena Prelić: Introdcution 

10. 15. –  11.00 Ljubinka Trgovčević: How to Gain Profession – Experiences of Women Scholars from the Country and from Abroad 

11.15 – 12.00  Dragana Popović: Gender Conquering of Physics – Children of Socialism

WEDENSDAY 3rd November

10.00 – 10. 45 Teodora Jovanović: On Research Ethics 

11.00 – 11.45  Ivana Pantelić: How to Reconstruct Biographies of Women Scholars Using Primary and Secondary Sources                                

12.00 – 12.45 Margareta Bašaragin and Svenka Savić: Women Scholars from Serbia in Diaspora 

WEDENSDAY 17th November

10.00 – 10. 45  Ljiljana Vuletić: About own Researches and Writing Books about Anica Savić Rebac and Ksenija Atanasijević 

11.00 – 11.45  Ana Stolić: Web- portal for Gender and Women History – Contribution to Widening of Feminist Knowledge                

WEDENSDAY 1st December

10.00 – 10.45  Žarka Svirčev: Archives and Imagination – Strategies to Form Innovative Literary and Historiographical Narratives 

10. 50 – 11.35 Stanislava Barać: Until the Last Archive: Methods of the Unselective Reading 

11.45– 12.30 Jelena Milinković: Research of the Cultural History of Women in the Digital Surroundings

12.35-13.20 Ana Kolarić: How to Research (Women/Feminist) Journals?

WEDENSDAY 15th December

10.00 – 10. 45  Sonja Radivojević:  Ethnography of Internet and New Media 

10.50 – 11.35 Dubravka Đurić:  Historicization of Contemporariness 

11.45 – 12.30 Lidija Radulović: Women Scholars about Women and for Women: Feminism and Activism 

12.30  Concluding discussion, moderating Mladena Prelić and Biljana Anđelković