Dr. Irina Akimushkina, sem er gestaprófessor við George Washington University, flutti fyrirlestur um sögu rússneskra kvenna í fortíð og nútíð. Að fyrirlestrinum loknum var gefinn kostur á fyrirspurnum og umræðum.
Dr. Akimushkina hefur doktorspróf í alþjóðatengslum frá The Moscow Institute of International Relations. Hún hefur fengist við kennslu og rannsóknir víða um lönd og er sérfæðingur í sögu, menningu og stjórnmálum Suður-Ameríku, Rússlands og fyrrum Sovétlýðvelda. Dr. Akimushkina hefur lagt stund á kvenna- og kynjarannsóknir og hún stofnaði þverfaglega rannsóknastofu kynjafræðum og fjölskyldurannsóknum við Russians People´s Friendship University árið 1991, fyrstu stofnun sinnar tegundar í Rússlandi.

Fyrirlestur dr. Akimushkinu fór fram á ensku og var öllum opinn.

Rannsóknastofa í kvennafræðum:
fem@hi.is
www.hi.is/stofn/fem

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Irina Akimushkina

Current address: 4000 Massachusetts Avenue, #721, NW
Washington DC 20016
Phone, fax: (202) 237-65-56
E-mail: Jsigov@aol.com

Currently- Visiting Professor, Institute for European Russian, Eurasian Studies
George Washington University

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

Teaching and research at a University or College.

SUMMARY:

In-depth knowledge of history, culture, and politics of Latin America, Russia and republics of ex-USSR, Eastern and West European countries.
Over 15 years of teaching experience for American, Latin American, Asian, African, and Russian students in English, Spanish and Russian in the USA, Russia, United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany, Australia and other countries.
Lecturing in more than 20 countries, including Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Malaysia, Dominican Republic, South Africa, Jamaica, Jordan, Qatar, Brazil, and others.

Effective communicator noted for public activity.

Almost 20 years of consultancy experience for the international organizations (Russian Committee of the Young People, Committee of Women, International Peace Committee), the World Bank, OAS, NGO, (including East West Women's network), ACTR, IFES. Field of work: international relations, gender and family issues, environment, civic society, and anthropology.

EDUCATION

1990-1992, Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages,
The United Nations Courses of simultaneous translation from English to Russian
Diploma of interpreter

1989 - PH D in International Relations, The Moscow Institute of International Relations,
Dissertation: "Foreign Policy of Ecuador in 1970's and 1980's"

1983-1986, Postgraduate student, Department of World History,
People's Friendship University, Moscow, research work on dissertation

1981-1983, Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages,
The United Nations Courses of simultaneous translation: English, Spanish and Russian
Diploma of Interpreter

1977-1983, student, the Department of History and Political Science,
People's Friendship University, Moscow
Master Degree in History and Political Sciences, MD teacher of Russian for foreign students, MD as interpreter of English-Spanish

ACADEMIC AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1983-1986, Instructor, teaching basic courses on Ancient, Medieval and Modern History at the Department of World History, Russian People's Friendship University (RPFU);
Postgraduate student at the same department research work on the dissertation.

1986-1989, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations of RPFU, teaching and research on Latin American History and Contemporary situation in Latin American countries.

1989-1993, Associate Professor, Department of History, Political and Social Science, RPFU
Taught courses on Russian-Soviet History and Culture for foreign students in Spanish, English, and Russian: courses on countries of Latin America, Africa, Asia; gender and family issues in the developing countries.

1991, I established the Interdisciplinary Gender and Family Studies Center at RPFU, the first teaching and research center of this kind in Russia. Coordinated and conducted research projects: sociological survey on Russian women in "perestroyka", cross cultural study on Russian and Latin American women, research on student families. Presented the results of these surveys at international seminars and conferences, including the UN conference on family in Malta 1993.

1994-1995, Fulbright Scholar, Women's Studies Department, University of Maryland at College Park. Research on methodological issues of writing Russian women's history. Keynote speaker with this topic at the International Congress of Historical Sciences, Montreal, Canada, 1995.

1996-1997, Visiting Professor, Women's Studies Department, George Washington University. Teaching courses on women and gender.

1998-1999, Visiting Professor, Latin American Studies Department, Georgetown University. Research on women's status in Cuba, lectured on gender, foreign and domestic policy of Russia and Latin American countries.

Since 2000, Visiting Professor, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University. Researched and lectured on women's rights in Eastern Europe, Russia, former Soviet republics, countries of Central and Latin America. Taught courses for senior citizens (OASIS programs) on foreign and domestic policies of Russia, Eastern Europe, China, Central and Latin America.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1994 - 1995, Fulbright Scholar, Women's Studies Department, University of Maryland. Researched on methodological issues of writing women's history, panelist at the 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Montreal, Canada, 1995. Written articles in English and Russian, lectured at various Universities and Schools in the United States in English, as well as Universities of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic in Spanish. Taught courses on women at the Trinity College, and George Washington University in Washington DC.

1992 - Fellow of the Seminar "Gender Studies: Men and Women in American History" for the professors of Women's Studies. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Research and lecturing on women's issues at the University of Southern California and UCLA, Los Angeles.

1991- Fellow, Interdisciplinary International Program on Mexican Woman,
Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Undertaken cross-cultural comparative research on current status of Mexican and Russian women, lectured on women's issues in several Mexican colleges, Universities and women's organizations in Spanish. Published articles on Russian women and comparative studies on Russian and Mexican women in Mexican newspapers and magazines.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS.

AThe Concise History of Russia and the Soviet Union", the text book for students, the Russian People's Friendship University. UDN Editorial House, Moscow, 1993.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

AThe Women's Studies: Commonwealth of Independent States". Chapter in " The Women's Studies Encyclopedia", United Kingdom, Paramount Publishing International Ed., 2000 in English.

AWriting on Russian Women's History: Methodological Issues" in "The Acts and Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences", Montreal, Canada, 1995, in English.

ARussian women through the prism of the national history", and "Reading Women's Letters: the Results of a Sociological Survey": chapters in the book "Russian Women on the Turning Point of History", Mexico, Esperanza Edicion, 1994, in Spanish.

ARussian Women and the Media: Images and Realities". Chapter in the book "New Trends in the Developing Countries", London, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 1994, in English.

AThe Main Doctrines of Ecuadorian Foreign Policy". Chapter in the book "Ecuador", Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 1992, in Russian. .

ARTICLES:

ARussian Women in National History", "The World Speaker" Magazine, Boston: N3, 1996.

ARussia: Women's Movement, Women's Studies and Women's Policy", "Feminist Studies Journal", Frankfurt, Germany, 1993, in German.

AWhy Russia Needs Women's Studies?", "Journal of Sociology", Moscow, 1992, (in Russian) and others.