A Lecture by Olga Brednikova and Olga Tkach “A Home for the Nomad”
Tuesday, 25 October, 18.30
The focus of sociologists Olga Bredinkova and Olga Tkach’s lecture is the women who have come to St. Petersburg from post-Soviet states in search of work. By changing their place of residence, these women are reshaping their life space, expanding the bounds of their daily routine, changing and modifying their identities, and bettering their degree of freedom. Migrant women’s assimilation and appropriation of new places, their founding of a new place of residence, a new home, is especially interesting, since it is precisely women who traditionally have been ascribed to having an attachment to the home, which is significantly problematized by the very situation created by migration itself. This lecture will cover the changing concept of “home” for migrant women as well as how migration experiences change women’s subjectivity, feminizing and even radicalizing their perception of the world and of themselves.

The lecture is a part of a project about the culture of migration “Meeting the other” which is organized by the Dutch Institute in St. Petersburg and the Creative Association of Curators. 

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