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Transition Dialogue – Что дальше? / Wie geht’s weiter?

Article, Cooperation partners, Media, News, Thinking about transition

Transition Dialogue – Что дальше? В прошлом году наш диалог о трансформации брал паузу, однако сейчас активно происходит его  следующий этап. Вопрос о дальнейшем развитии диалога мы обсуждаем прямо сейчас. 24 сентября в библиотеке Луизенбад в Берлине состоялся воркшоп под названием «Поколение Трансформации в Восточной Европе: Поколение неопределенности – Поколение недоверия». Данное мероприятие прошло в …

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What Women got from Change: Interview with Mihaela Miroiu

Article, News, Romania, Video

Mihaela Miroiu (born in 1955), Professor at the National University of Political and Administrative Studies Bucharest, is one of the most important feminist scholars in the Eastern Europe. She initiated the first courses of Gender Studies in Romania, contributed to the feminism activism movement and published noumerous volumes on feminist ethics and philosophy. In the …

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Contested Memories – or Where does Nostalgia Lead us?

Article, Article, Media, News, Stories of change, Thinking about transition, Ukraine

The transition dialogues are about experiences and memories about the very recent  history. For Ukraine, the communist past is a taboo issue, only fragments appear on the surface, but trigger conflicts in families and entire regions. Clashing beliefs about the past are not new and and have become an obstacle to mutual understanding within society …

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Stories of Change from Kyiv

News, Stories of change, Ukraine, Video, Video

For many in the Ukraine, the Chernobyl-disaster marked the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. Olena Pravilo from Congress of Cultural Activists talked to people, who were children back then, about the moment when they realised that everything started to change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbEQZyKghGk&feature=youtu.be

Transformation als Lebensschule

Article, Germany, News

Ostdeutsche Frauen-Biographien als Reibungspunkte der Generationen „In meinen Gesprächen habe ich immer wieder gemerkt: Da ist etwas, was es bei den Frauen im Westen Deutschlands noch nicht und im Osten Deutschlands noch immer gibt: das tief verinnerlichte Wissen, dass Arbeit Selbständigkeit verleiht, dass Kinder zum Leben dazugehören, dass es keine Schande ist, seine Kinder in …

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Remembering the 90’s in Russia: Values and Attitudes of the Transition Generation

Article, Media, News, Russia, Thinking about transition

Results of an interview study conducted by the Sakharov Center Moscow as part of the international project „Transition Dialogue: Mapping a Generation“. by Oksana Bocharova and Vlada Gekhtman “We are, in a sense, some of the most fortunate. We saw the heyday of that time. Now we are witnessing the decline of an epoch. But …

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