Programme – VIII Women’s Congress

3 December 2022 · K1 KANAL – Centre Pompidou · Avenue du Port 1, Brussels

Feminist Ukraine – a new geopolitical sisterhood

9:30 Doors open

10:00 Opening · hosted by Emilia Janisz · Women’s Congress anthem · welcome: Nawal Ben Hamou, Secretary of State of the Brussels Region · opening: Kasia Redzisz, Agata Araszkiewicz, Agnieszka Matusiak

10:30–12:00 · War and gender. Feminist militarisation and defence in herstory

Participants: Olena Apchel, Agata Czarnacka, Alexandra Hrycak, Alisa Kovalenko, Anna Nowakowska-Wierzchoś, Iryna Slavinska.
Hosted by Agata Araszkiewicz and Katarzyna Szkuta.

12:15–13:45 · Ukraine on its way towards decolonial transformation: literature, culture and art

Key note: Kasia Redzisz – presentation of Weronika Hapczenko’s mural in dialogue with the artist.
Participants: Olena Bondareva, Larysa Briuchovetska, Tamara Gundorova (video), Neda Nezhdana, Iryna Tyshko, Oksana Zabuzhko.
Hosted by Agnieszka Matusiak and Anna Kiejna.

13:45–15:00 Lunch break

15:00–16:45 · Our bodies, their battlefield. Armed conflict and sexual violence in Ukraine in a global perspective

Key note: June Kathryn Minix, Women for Ukraine.
Participants: Leesa Gazi, Iryna Dovgan (SEMA Ukraine), Espoir-Kalambi Bisimwa Bulangalire, Monika Płatek, Viola Rębecka-Davie.
Hosted by Natalia Waloch and Katarzyna Ważyńska-Finck. Segment hosted by Alexandra Suhodolska.

17:00–18:30 · Which Ukraine after the war?

How to reinforce feminist leadership in Central and Eastern Europe and create a feminist policy for all?
Participants: Barbara Godlewska-Bujok, Hrystyna Kit, Kseniia Smyrnova, Olena Shyngarova.
Hosted by Inga Czerny and Magdalena Kula.

18:30 Closing remarks: Ewa Rumińska-Zimny (Polish Congress of Women) and Iryna Drobovych (Ukrainian Congress of Women)

19:00–20:30 Cocktail in Cafe Forum

19:15 Performance by Silent Queen’s Robes: “Heads you lose, tails you lose”