While exploring the landscape of the unknown womanhood of women under socialism, she discovered numerous interesting women personalities who developed diverse gendered survival and subversive strategies. One of them, is the remarkable Eva Svankmajerova, the godmother of Czech surrealism, painter, and filmmaker, and a self-made feminist (though many deny the existence of feminism in former “socialist paradise”), who has been recently recognized as a prolific artist, though hardly recognized at the Czech Republic due to the stagnant gendered discourse and low recognition of women.

Brenda Flanagan is a writer, poet, performer, scholar and U.S. cultural ambassador to many world places. Born in Trinidad, and having strong transnational consciousness, she conducts her research on women under socialism.

This talk is sponsored by Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Czech Program, and the Komensky Club.